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What if a lost horror franchise made during the peak of the slasher genre was unearthed today, but only two of the films could be restored? Filmmaker Jay Burleson imagined just that with The Third Saturday In October: Part V and The Third Saturday in October: Part 1, out this May. A double feature of terror, The Third Saturday In October Part V, sees unstoppable killer Jakkariah Harding once again stalking and butchering the football-loving residents of a small Alabama town, this time finding a treasure trove of victims after he chances upon a football watch party. And then get ready to see how the horror began in The Third Saturday in October: Part 1 tells the story of Harding’s death row escape, and ensuing slaughter as two survivors of his initial attack hunt him down. Aiming to recreate the bygone video store days when horror fans might have had to watch a franchise out of order, the filmmakers intended
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Huskins Horror Studios has just announced that Clarence Adams will star as Freddy Krueger in the upcoming fan-made sequel to Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, titled Freedy VS. Jason: Dreamscape. Adams, whose horror film The Grind is currently in post-production and features Cody Huskins, will star in Dreamscape as Leatherface. On the first day of filming, Adams took over as director of Dreamscape after a twist of fat left the original director left original director stranded on the other side of the country. Adams and Huskins worked closely together to complete the film, including a marathon 24-hour day. “Clarence had one donut the whole day” Huskins said as he and Adams talked about that day on the Huskins Horror Live Stream. Adams added “we were all into it, and worked so hard to make sure we were going to get it finished”. The Grind Trailer will premiere at Carolina Fear Fest in Raleigh at the end of May.
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Today, we have a new exclusive clip from the upcoming horror-mystery-thriller from Terror Films and director Julio Maria Martino. Country of Hotels tells the stories of the desperate souls who pass through the doors of 508, a room on the fifth floor of an anonymous, decaying hotel. “We are taken on a surreal and blackly comic journey down its lonely corridors and behind its outdated furnishings and stained surfaces. The story plunges us into the ever-turning carousel of haunted lives who check in and out of this sinister establishment.” Director Julio Maria Martino had this to say about the film: “When we were making Country of Hotels, we worked hard to create an environment which was relentlessly oppressive and claustrophobic, occasionally punctuated by moments of dark humor. An enclosed world in which an unseen, unnamed and mutable threat lurked behind hotel room doors and down long lonely corridors. A threat which might manifest itself suddenly and at any moment. In
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Maya (Hannah John-Kamen, whom you may remember from 2018’s superhero romp Ant-Man and the Wasp, but she’s been in an ass-load of other cool stuff) and Jamie (Douglas Booth) are more than ready to get the fuck out of Dodge after being accosted by thugs, so off they trot to the safety and serenity of the Irish countryside where absolutely nothing can ever go wrong. Once there they move into the home bequeathed to J-Dawg by his recently croaked aunt… but the country home comes with a warning; honor the old ways and pay tribute to the mysterious Redcaps rumored to haunt the land every day, or there will be unspecified static heading their way! Of course our heroes forget that shit Day fuckin’ One, and the town drunk is spirited away by those creepy Caps… but of course the body-count doesn’t stop there and before you can say “Guinness” our protagonists are up to their asses in goblins, psychotic
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Sink your teeth in the red band and green band trailers for TomCat Films’ biting new horror Fangs Out, coming this May. In the film “A Group of college students heads to Mexico for some cheap plastic surgery. There they meet Dr. Pavor, a creepy surgeon who is actually a vampire, harvesting victims for his blood cartel. Aided by his bloodthirsty nurses, he systematically carries out his evil plan. When a detective looking for his missing daughter arrives – all hell breaks loose in a bloody combustible conclusion. Randy Oppenheimer (Rottentail), Veronica Ricci (Bloody Mary), Samuel Code (Run! Die! Kill!), and Angel Juarez (Celest) head up a cast of genre staples.\ Directed by Dennis Devine (The Haunting of La Llorona), Fangs Out sinks its teeth into digital platforms on May 23, 2023, from Stadium Media and Summer Hill Films.
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The film adaptation of the blockbuster indie horror novel How to Sell a Haunted House has found its producer, none other than Sam Raimi, who was behind Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness and Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi. The news came via a social media post by the author of the book, Grady Hendrix. Hendrix is writing the script for the adaptation that will be directed by James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark). “Pupkin goes to Hollywood,” the author said in the post. Pupkin, of course, is a “red-and-yellow glove puppet with two stumpy fabric legs dangling down from his front and two little nubbin arms” and a “leering clown face,” New York Times describes the villain. The Times said. “Pupkin represents the losses of growing up. He’s the vehicle of an unfulfilled mother’s pain, regrets, and loneliness. He’s childhood trauma incarnate, delivered from one generation to
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The new twist-fuelled supernatural horror film Hell’s Half Acre, directed by John Patrick Tomasek (“Time Will Never Tell”), will be unleashed this week from Terror Films. Hells Half Acre centers on “Marcus as he leads his group of young urban explorers, Jessie, Dan, Jose, and Cassie, to abandoned locations for their popular YouTube channel “Strange and Abandoned Places” with the goal of gaining ratings and paid sponsors. However, they quickly discover that the abandoned Rockland Heights Prison is unlike any other location they’ve ever been to, as strange things occur almost immediately after their arrival. They discover they’re not alone as it becomes a fight for their survival against terrifying and dangerous demonic entities.” Quinn Nehr, Brynn Beveridge, and Omar Vegga Jr star in this Distant Star Films production, featuring an original score composed and produced by Ramesh Kumar Kannan and original songs and title score by VORE. . Hell’s Half Acre is set to haunt Digital on April 28,
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This May, Uncork’d Entertainment will unleash The Curse of Wolf Mountain, starring genre veterans Danny Trejo (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Tobin Bell. In the film, “Aj begins having dreams of his parents’ death. He returns to the spot where they were killed, accompanied by his brother and his brother’s family. But legend has it there is something mysterious roaming these woods.” David Lipper (Death Link) directs the film, written by and starring Keli Price, who Lipper appeared alongside in Just Swipe. Eddie McClintock, Karissa Lee Staples, Malu Trevejo, Matt Rife, and Fernando Romero co-star. David Lipper also directed the recently released survival horror Hunt Club, featuring an all-star cast. You can learn more about it here. The Curse of Wolf Mountain (aka Wolf Mountain) is set to be released on DVD and Digital on May 9, 2023.
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The indie horror game Iron Lung is getting a feature film adaptation from YouTube’s content creator Markiplier, whose real name is Mark Fischbach. He penned the script and will direct as well as star in the film alongside Caroline Rose Kaplan (The Plot Against America, “Orange is the New Black”). David Szymanski created the game released in 2022 in which the player controls an unnamed convict who explores an ocean of blood on a desolate moon in a rusty submarine nicknamed the “Iron Lung.” The YouTube star is also producing the film alongside Will Hyde and Jeff Guerrero. The first teaser trailer has now debuted (below) for the film adaptation of Iron Lung, which is currently in production.
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Back in 2015, the found footage indie horror Hell House LLC took the genre by storm. Two sequels followed, Hell House LLC: The Abaddon Hotel and Hell House LLC: Lake of Fire. Fans of the franchise will be excited to learn that now a prequel is on the way, Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor. Stephen Cognetti, who wrote and directed every film of the franchise, has now taken to social media to announce that the prequel has now begun filming, posting a picture and the caption “Day 1.” Day 1 pic.twitter.com/M44IK9sIm3 — Stephen Cognetti (@sajc05) April 15, 2023 Terror Films describes Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor as “the first chapter of what will become known as the Hell House LLC Origin Films,” so it sounds like we’ll have multiple Hell House LLC prequels to look forward to. This one will show what happens when a group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, the
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What if a lost horror franchise made during the peak of the slasher genre was unearthed today, but only two of the films could be restored? Filmmaker Jay Burleson imagined just that with The Third Saturday In October: Part V and The Third Saturday in October: Part 1, out this May. A double feature of terror, The Third Saturday In October Part V, sees unstoppable killer Jakkariah Harding once again stalking and butchering the football-loving residents of a small Alabama town, this time finding a treasure trove of victims after he chances upon a football watch party. And then get ready to see how the horror began in The Third Saturday in October: Part 1 tells the story of Harding’s death row escape, and ensuing slaughter as two survivors of his initial attack hunt him down. Aiming to recreate the bygone video store days when horror fans might have had to watch a franchise out of order, the filmmakers intended
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Huskins Horror Studios has just announced that Clarence Adams will star as Freddy Krueger in the upcoming fan-made sequel to Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, titled Freedy VS. Jason: Dreamscape. Adams, whose horror film The Grind is currently in post-production and features Cody Huskins, will star in Dreamscape as Leatherface. On the first day of filming, Adams took over as director of Dreamscape after a twist of fat left the original director left original director stranded on the other side of the country. Adams and Huskins worked closely together to complete the film, including a marathon 24-hour day. “Clarence had one donut the whole day” Huskins said as he and Adams talked about that day on the Huskins Horror Live Stream. Adams added “we were all into it, and worked so hard to make sure we were going to get it finished”. The Grind Trailer will premiere at Carolina Fear Fest in Raleigh at the end of May.
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Today, we have a new exclusive clip from the upcoming horror-mystery-thriller from Terror Films and director Julio Maria Martino. Country of Hotels tells the stories of the desperate souls who pass through the doors of 508, a room on the fifth floor of an anonymous, decaying hotel. “We are taken on a surreal and blackly comic journey down its lonely corridors and behind its outdated furnishings and stained surfaces. The story plunges us into the ever-turning carousel of haunted lives who check in and out of this sinister establishment.” Director Julio Maria Martino had this to say about the film: “When we were making Country of Hotels, we worked hard to create an environment which was relentlessly oppressive and claustrophobic, occasionally punctuated by moments of dark humor. An enclosed world in which an unseen, unnamed and mutable threat lurked behind hotel room doors and down long lonely corridors. A threat which might manifest itself suddenly and at any moment. In
Continue reading →
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Maya (Hannah John-Kamen, whom you may remember from 2018’s superhero romp Ant-Man and the Wasp, but she’s been in an ass-load of other cool stuff) and Jamie (Douglas Booth) are more than ready to get the fuck out of Dodge after being accosted by thugs, so off they trot to the safety and serenity of the Irish countryside where absolutely nothing can ever go wrong. Once there they move into the home bequeathed to J-Dawg by his recently croaked aunt… but the country home comes with a warning; honor the old ways and pay tribute to the mysterious Redcaps rumored to haunt the land every day, or there will be unspecified static heading their way! Of course our heroes forget that shit Day fuckin’ One, and the town drunk is spirited away by those creepy Caps… but of course the body-count doesn’t stop there and before you can say “Guinness” our protagonists are up to their asses in goblins, psychotic
Continue reading →
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Sink your teeth in the red band and green band trailers for TomCat Films’ biting new horror Fangs Out, coming this May. In the film “A Group of college students heads to Mexico for some cheap plastic surgery. There they meet Dr. Pavor, a creepy surgeon who is actually a vampire, harvesting victims for his blood cartel. Aided by his bloodthirsty nurses, he systematically carries out his evil plan. When a detective looking for his missing daughter arrives – all hell breaks loose in a bloody combustible conclusion. Randy Oppenheimer (Rottentail), Veronica Ricci (Bloody Mary), Samuel Code (Run! Die! Kill!), and Angel Juarez (Celest) head up a cast of genre staples.\ Directed by Dennis Devine (The Haunting of La Llorona), Fangs Out sinks its teeth into digital platforms on May 23, 2023, from Stadium Media and Summer Hill Films.
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The film adaptation of the blockbuster indie horror novel How to Sell a Haunted House has found its producer, none other than Sam Raimi, who was behind Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness and Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi. The news came via a social media post by the author of the book, Grady Hendrix. Hendrix is writing the script for the adaptation that will be directed by James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark). “Pupkin goes to Hollywood,” the author said in the post. Pupkin, of course, is a “red-and-yellow glove puppet with two stumpy fabric legs dangling down from his front and two little nubbin arms” and a “leering clown face,” New York Times describes the villain. The Times said. “Pupkin represents the losses of growing up. He’s the vehicle of an unfulfilled mother’s pain, regrets, and loneliness. He’s childhood trauma incarnate, delivered from one generation to
Continue reading →
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The new twist-fuelled supernatural horror film Hell’s Half Acre, directed by John Patrick Tomasek (“Time Will Never Tell”), will be unleashed this week from Terror Films. Hells Half Acre centers on “Marcus as he leads his group of young urban explorers, Jessie, Dan, Jose, and Cassie, to abandoned locations for their popular YouTube channel “Strange and Abandoned Places” with the goal of gaining ratings and paid sponsors. However, they quickly discover that the abandoned Rockland Heights Prison is unlike any other location they’ve ever been to, as strange things occur almost immediately after their arrival. They discover they’re not alone as it becomes a fight for their survival against terrifying and dangerous demonic entities.” Quinn Nehr, Brynn Beveridge, and Omar Vegga Jr star in this Distant Star Films production, featuring an original score composed and produced by Ramesh Kumar Kannan and original songs and title score by VORE. . Hell’s Half Acre is set to haunt Digital on April 28,
Continue reading →
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This May, Uncork’d Entertainment will unleash The Curse of Wolf Mountain, starring genre veterans Danny Trejo (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Tobin Bell. In the film, “Aj begins having dreams of his parents’ death. He returns to the spot where they were killed, accompanied by his brother and his brother’s family. But legend has it there is something mysterious roaming these woods.” David Lipper (Death Link) directs the film, written by and starring Keli Price, who Lipper appeared alongside in Just Swipe. Eddie McClintock, Karissa Lee Staples, Malu Trevejo, Matt Rife, and Fernando Romero co-star. David Lipper also directed the recently released survival horror Hunt Club, featuring an all-star cast. You can learn more about it here. The Curse of Wolf Mountain (aka Wolf Mountain) is set to be released on DVD and Digital on May 9, 2023.
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The indie horror game Iron Lung is getting a feature film adaptation from YouTube’s content creator Markiplier, whose real name is Mark Fischbach. He penned the script and will direct as well as star in the film alongside Caroline Rose Kaplan (The Plot Against America, “Orange is the New Black”). David Szymanski created the game released in 2022 in which the player controls an unnamed convict who explores an ocean of blood on a desolate moon in a rusty submarine nicknamed the “Iron Lung.” The YouTube star is also producing the film alongside Will Hyde and Jeff Guerrero. The first teaser trailer has now debuted (below) for the film adaptation of Iron Lung, which is currently in production.
Continue reading →
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Back in 2015, the found footage indie horror Hell House LLC took the genre by storm. Two sequels followed, Hell House LLC: The Abaddon Hotel and Hell House LLC: Lake of Fire. Fans of the franchise will be excited to learn that now a prequel is on the way, Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor. Stephen Cognetti, who wrote and directed every film of the franchise, has now taken to social media to announce that the prequel has now begun filming, posting a picture and the caption “Day 1.” Day 1 pic.twitter.com/M44IK9sIm3 — Stephen Cognetti (@sajc05) April 15, 2023 Terror Films describes Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor as “the first chapter of what will become known as the Hell House LLC Origin Films,” so it sounds like we’ll have multiple Hell House LLC prequels to look forward to. This one will show what happens when a group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, the
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