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Movie Review: Black Site (2018)

In order to rid our world of eldritch nasties, the Artemis Black Site was created; an underground military base that contains and deports all the evil demons and deities the universe has thrown at us. Enter Erebus (Kris Johnson) a particularly nasty mother fucker inhabiting a human form that has no great desire to be the latest prisoner of the Black Site and is going to make sure he doesn’t stay there long. Soon it falls on the shoulders of tough but inexperienced Danforth (Sophia Del Pizzo) to battle the machinations of this devious devil…but will she be up to the task? Let’s talk about all that is oh so very right about Black Site, shall we? First of all this baby is a serious love letter to the film’s of John Carpenter. You get the down and dirty fights of flicks like Escape From New York or They Live, along with all of those heavy Lovecraftian influences that informed

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Apr 5, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) is teachin’ down China way when he finds himself books deep in the machinations of a cult of ass-ugly vampires adorned in golden half-masks and their army of zombie slaves…all under the control of a disguised count Dracula. Thankfully he joins forces with some face smashing martial artists/weapons experts and soon the battle to wrest control of the region from the legions of the night is on, but will the knowledge and strength of our heroes be enough to win the war? The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is flat out fright flick brilliance, and contains a putrid plethora of astoundingly entertaining elements that’ll have fang bang lovers grinnin’ from ear to eerie ear! Let’s start with the gorgeous lurid colors on display; of which the beginning sequence where the Priest, Kah (Shen Chan), visits Dracula (John Forbes-Robertson…standing in for the noticeably absent Christopher Lee) in his castle in Transylvania to beg his help

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Apr 5, 2019
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Chaos Reigns In A Town Free Of Adults In Netflix’s “The Society” Trailer

All hell breaks loose in the first trailer for Netflix‘s “The Society“, their new 10-episode series that follows a group of teenagers who are mysteriously transported to a copy of their New England town without any trace of any adults. As they struggle to discover what has happened and search for a way to get back home, they must establish order and build alliances to survive. The cast includes: Rachel Keller (Cassandra), Alex Fitzalan (Harry), Kathryn Newton (Allie), Kristine Froseth (Kelly), Sean Berdy (Sam), Toby Wallace (Campbell), , Jacques Colimon (Will), Gideon Adlon (Becca), Olivia DeJonge (Elle), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Helena), Jose Julian (Gordie), Alex MacNicoll (Luke), Salena Qureshi (Bean), , Grace Victoria Cox (Lexie), and Jack Mulhern (Grizz). Discover “The Society” on Netflix May 10th.

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First Footage Of Alexandre Aja’s Horror Film ‘Crawl’ Shown At CinemaCon

News continues to fly out of CinemaCon. This time, the subject is Alexandre Aja‘s upcoming horror film Crawl whose first footage was revealed today at the Con. In Crawl, Kaya Scodelario plays a young woman who, while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators, the alligator. Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, and Anson Boon are co-starring in the movie that is part creature feature, part horror, and part disaster movie. CinemaCon attendees can’t stop talking about the footage, calling it “bloody and chaotic.” But what else would you expect from the director of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D, High Tension, and Mirrors? This is going to be bloody good! Produced by Sam Raimi‘s (Evil Dead) Ghost House Pictures, Crawl swims into theaters on July 12th, 2019. Switching gears from the dazzling to the deathly, never before seen

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Folk Horror Tale ‘Midsommar’ Gets An Early Release Date

Originally set to be released in August, news has come out of CinemaCon that Ari Aster‘s (Hereditary) folk horror film Midsommar has been moved up by a month. Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, Florence Pugh, Vilhem Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, William Jackson Harper, and Archie Madekwe star in Midsommar about a” couple that travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.” A24 will release Midsommar in theaters on the new date, July 3, 2019.

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IFC Midnight Gifts Horror Fans With The ‘I Trapped The Devil’ Trailer

IFC Midnight is giving horror fans an early Christmas present, the trailer for their holiday-themed supernatural horror movie I Trapped the Devil, the debut film from writer-director Josh Lobo. “Christmas is supposed to be a time for peace and joyful family reunions. But when Matt (AJ Bowen) and his wife Karen (Susan Burke) show up unannounced at the home of his estranged brother Steve (Scott Poythress) to celebrate the holidays, they are instead greeted with a horrifying surprise: trapped in the basement is a man. But not just any man. Steve believes that his hostage is none other than the devil himself. As shock and skepticism turn to fear and paranoia, Matt and Karen find themselves facing a terrifying quandary: is Steve dangerously unhinged? Or could the mysterious stranger really be evil incarnate? Either way, the stage is set for a true Christmas from hell.” I Trapped the Devil is set to arrive in select theaters an On Demand on

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Horror Comedy ‘Rottentail’ Hops Into Theaters This April

From Award-winning filmmaker Brian Skiba (Slaughter Creek, Running Away, Blood Moon Rising) comes the Easter-themed nightmare Rottentail hopping into Los Angeles theaters this April. The horror comedy inspired by the comic book from the twisted minds of David C. Hayes, Kevin Moyers, Kurt Belcher, and Henrik Horvath stars Corin Nemec (Stargate SG-1, Supernatural), William McNamara (Copycat, Stealing Home), Dominique Swain (Lolita, Face/Off), Laurie Love (.357, Beverly Hills Christmas) and Byron Browne (Who Else To Blame?, Periphery). “Rottentail tells the bizarre tale of young Peter Cotton, who grew up in the town of Easter Falls and loves rabbits. Peter’s Science project on rabbit breeding is ruined when the school bullies beat up and actually kill his rabbit. Years later, the kind but still shy Dr. Cotton works steadily and gently with his rabbits to cure human infertility. Unbeknownst to Peter, the military is perverting his work, developing fierce soldiers with strength far exceeding a human of their size, and with Peter’s

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This June Cross The ‘Threshold’ For An Intense Sci-Fi Horror Film

An otherworldly intruder makes their way into a couple’s home in writer-director Jason Eric Perlman‘s sci-fi horror film Threshold, coming to VOD and digital this June. Trilby Glover (TV’s “Scream Queens”), Randy Wayne (Escape Room), Nicholas Oteri (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Graham Sibley (Sully), and “True Blood’s” Leslie Stevens star in this intense film. “During a night of apocalyptic world events, a young couple grieving from the loss of their adopted son is visited by an otherworldly intruder. The terrifying woman can’t explain how she got into their home, only that she’s come with hauntingly accurate details about their lives and the death of their son. Is she from a spiritual realm or are her motives far more mortal, even deadly?” The film is being distributed by Distribution Solutions, Alliance Entertainment, and Archstone Distribution. William Clevinger, Elliott Michael Smith, and Jason Eric Perlman are producing. Threshold will arrive on Digital June 11, 2019. https://vimeo.com/317371540

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Airships And Reality TV: Game Review ‘Bow To Blood: Last Captain Standing’ Xbox One

What do you get when you cross reality TV and Airships? Well, the folks over at Tribetoy came up with a really good idea what it would be like in Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing. The game came out in 2018 exclusively for PlayStation VR but because of its high acclaim it has been ported for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch and will come out April 3rd. The awesome folks at Tribetoy gave me to the opportunity to play the Xbox One version of the game and all I can say is hold onto your air-pirate hats! You take on the role of Freelancer, an airship captain who, along with your two crew members, has entered a reality show where you compete against other airship crews and be the last captain standing. Each level is an “episode” in which you can warp to a level and fight against drone ships while completing objectives depending on the

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Apr 3, 2019
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Bring Home ‘Glass’ On Blu-ray And DVD This April

Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense) completes his trilogy that began nearly twenty years ago with Glass, the sequel to Unbreakable and Split. Glass is a grounded-in-reality, comic book thriller featuring heroes and villains are people first. The thrilling culmination to the trilogy stars James McAvoy (Split, Atonement), Samuel L. Jackson (Hitman’s Bodyguard, Avengers Franchise), Bruce Willis (Unbreakable, Die Hard), Sarah Paulson (Ocean’s Eight, “American Horror Story”) and Anya-Taylor Joy (Split, The Witch). Glass finds David Dunn pursuing “The Beast” in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men. Go inside the mind of master of suspense M. Night Shyamalan to uncover the connections and references that bring the three films together in one universe with the film’s special features. Experience more than sixty minutes of never-before-seen features elaborating on his process and artistic vision including an in-depth look at the making of the film,

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Movie Review: Black Site (2018)

In order to rid our world of eldritch nasties, the Artemis Black Site was created; an underground military base that contains and deports all the evil demons and deities the universe has thrown at us. Enter Erebus (Kris Johnson) a particularly nasty mother fucker inhabiting a human form that has no great desire to be the latest prisoner of the Black Site and is going to make sure he doesn’t stay there long. Soon it falls on the shoulders of tough but inexperienced Danforth (Sophia Del Pizzo) to battle the machinations of this devious devil…but will she be up to the task? Let’s talk about all that is oh so very right about Black Site, shall we? First of all this baby is a serious love letter to the film’s of John Carpenter. You get the down and dirty fights of flicks like Escape From New York or They Live, along with all of those heavy Lovecraftian influences that informed

Continue reading →
Apr 5, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) is teachin’ down China way when he finds himself books deep in the machinations of a cult of ass-ugly vampires adorned in golden half-masks and their army of zombie slaves…all under the control of a disguised count Dracula. Thankfully he joins forces with some face smashing martial artists/weapons experts and soon the battle to wrest control of the region from the legions of the night is on, but will the knowledge and strength of our heroes be enough to win the war? The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is flat out fright flick brilliance, and contains a putrid plethora of astoundingly entertaining elements that’ll have fang bang lovers grinnin’ from ear to eerie ear! Let’s start with the gorgeous lurid colors on display; of which the beginning sequence where the Priest, Kah (Shen Chan), visits Dracula (John Forbes-Robertson…standing in for the noticeably absent Christopher Lee) in his castle in Transylvania to beg his help

Continue reading →
Apr 5, 2019
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Chaos Reigns In A Town Free Of Adults In Netflix’s “The Society” Trailer

All hell breaks loose in the first trailer for Netflix‘s “The Society“, their new 10-episode series that follows a group of teenagers who are mysteriously transported to a copy of their New England town without any trace of any adults. As they struggle to discover what has happened and search for a way to get back home, they must establish order and build alliances to survive. The cast includes: Rachel Keller (Cassandra), Alex Fitzalan (Harry), Kathryn Newton (Allie), Kristine Froseth (Kelly), Sean Berdy (Sam), Toby Wallace (Campbell), , Jacques Colimon (Will), Gideon Adlon (Becca), Olivia DeJonge (Elle), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Helena), Jose Julian (Gordie), Alex MacNicoll (Luke), Salena Qureshi (Bean), , Grace Victoria Cox (Lexie), and Jack Mulhern (Grizz). Discover “The Society” on Netflix May 10th.

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First Footage Of Alexandre Aja’s Horror Film ‘Crawl’ Shown At CinemaCon

News continues to fly out of CinemaCon. This time, the subject is Alexandre Aja‘s upcoming horror film Crawl whose first footage was revealed today at the Con. In Crawl, Kaya Scodelario plays a young woman who, while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators, the alligator. Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, and Anson Boon are co-starring in the movie that is part creature feature, part horror, and part disaster movie. CinemaCon attendees can’t stop talking about the footage, calling it “bloody and chaotic.” But what else would you expect from the director of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D, High Tension, and Mirrors? This is going to be bloody good! Produced by Sam Raimi‘s (Evil Dead) Ghost House Pictures, Crawl swims into theaters on July 12th, 2019. Switching gears from the dazzling to the deathly, never before seen

Continue reading →
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Folk Horror Tale ‘Midsommar’ Gets An Early Release Date

Originally set to be released in August, news has come out of CinemaCon that Ari Aster‘s (Hereditary) folk horror film Midsommar has been moved up by a month. Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, Florence Pugh, Vilhem Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, William Jackson Harper, and Archie Madekwe star in Midsommar about a” couple that travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.” A24 will release Midsommar in theaters on the new date, July 3, 2019.

Continue reading →
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IFC Midnight Gifts Horror Fans With The ‘I Trapped The Devil’ Trailer

IFC Midnight is giving horror fans an early Christmas present, the trailer for their holiday-themed supernatural horror movie I Trapped the Devil, the debut film from writer-director Josh Lobo. “Christmas is supposed to be a time for peace and joyful family reunions. But when Matt (AJ Bowen) and his wife Karen (Susan Burke) show up unannounced at the home of his estranged brother Steve (Scott Poythress) to celebrate the holidays, they are instead greeted with a horrifying surprise: trapped in the basement is a man. But not just any man. Steve believes that his hostage is none other than the devil himself. As shock and skepticism turn to fear and paranoia, Matt and Karen find themselves facing a terrifying quandary: is Steve dangerously unhinged? Or could the mysterious stranger really be evil incarnate? Either way, the stage is set for a true Christmas from hell.” I Trapped the Devil is set to arrive in select theaters an On Demand on

Continue reading →
Horror Fuel

Horror Comedy ‘Rottentail’ Hops Into Theaters This April

From Award-winning filmmaker Brian Skiba (Slaughter Creek, Running Away, Blood Moon Rising) comes the Easter-themed nightmare Rottentail hopping into Los Angeles theaters this April. The horror comedy inspired by the comic book from the twisted minds of David C. Hayes, Kevin Moyers, Kurt Belcher, and Henrik Horvath stars Corin Nemec (Stargate SG-1, Supernatural), William McNamara (Copycat, Stealing Home), Dominique Swain (Lolita, Face/Off), Laurie Love (.357, Beverly Hills Christmas) and Byron Browne (Who Else To Blame?, Periphery). “Rottentail tells the bizarre tale of young Peter Cotton, who grew up in the town of Easter Falls and loves rabbits. Peter’s Science project on rabbit breeding is ruined when the school bullies beat up and actually kill his rabbit. Years later, the kind but still shy Dr. Cotton works steadily and gently with his rabbits to cure human infertility. Unbeknownst to Peter, the military is perverting his work, developing fierce soldiers with strength far exceeding a human of their size, and with Peter’s

Continue reading →
Horror Fuel

This June Cross The ‘Threshold’ For An Intense Sci-Fi Horror Film

An otherworldly intruder makes their way into a couple’s home in writer-director Jason Eric Perlman‘s sci-fi horror film Threshold, coming to VOD and digital this June. Trilby Glover (TV’s “Scream Queens”), Randy Wayne (Escape Room), Nicholas Oteri (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Graham Sibley (Sully), and “True Blood’s” Leslie Stevens star in this intense film. “During a night of apocalyptic world events, a young couple grieving from the loss of their adopted son is visited by an otherworldly intruder. The terrifying woman can’t explain how she got into their home, only that she’s come with hauntingly accurate details about their lives and the death of their son. Is she from a spiritual realm or are her motives far more mortal, even deadly?” The film is being distributed by Distribution Solutions, Alliance Entertainment, and Archstone Distribution. William Clevinger, Elliott Michael Smith, and Jason Eric Perlman are producing. Threshold will arrive on Digital June 11, 2019. https://vimeo.com/317371540

Continue reading →
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Airships And Reality TV: Game Review ‘Bow To Blood: Last Captain Standing’ Xbox One

What do you get when you cross reality TV and Airships? Well, the folks over at Tribetoy came up with a really good idea what it would be like in Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing. The game came out in 2018 exclusively for PlayStation VR but because of its high acclaim it has been ported for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch and will come out April 3rd. The awesome folks at Tribetoy gave me to the opportunity to play the Xbox One version of the game and all I can say is hold onto your air-pirate hats! You take on the role of Freelancer, an airship captain who, along with your two crew members, has entered a reality show where you compete against other airship crews and be the last captain standing. Each level is an “episode” in which you can warp to a level and fight against drone ships while completing objectives depending on the

Continue reading →
Apr 3, 2019
Horror Fuel

Bring Home ‘Glass’ On Blu-ray And DVD This April

Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense) completes his trilogy that began nearly twenty years ago with Glass, the sequel to Unbreakable and Split. Glass is a grounded-in-reality, comic book thriller featuring heroes and villains are people first. The thrilling culmination to the trilogy stars James McAvoy (Split, Atonement), Samuel L. Jackson (Hitman’s Bodyguard, Avengers Franchise), Bruce Willis (Unbreakable, Die Hard), Sarah Paulson (Ocean’s Eight, “American Horror Story”) and Anya-Taylor Joy (Split, The Witch). Glass finds David Dunn pursuing “The Beast” in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men. Go inside the mind of master of suspense M. Night Shyamalan to uncover the connections and references that bring the three films together in one universe with the film’s special features. Experience more than sixty minutes of never-before-seen features elaborating on his process and artistic vision including an in-depth look at the making of the film,

Continue reading →