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Bernard (Peter Baldwin), a sad sack novelist, decides to use that classic cure-all, namely horniness, and sets off to rekindle a relationship with his ex-lover Tilda (Virna Lisi); who works as a maid at a remote hotel located next to a lake. Everything seems hunky-goddammned-dory with the hotel’s owner, Enrico (Salvo Randone) and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese)…but it seems Tilda has pulled a David Copperfield and vanished. Having fuck-all to do, Bernard begins investigating the disappearance and ends up spiraling farther down a rabbit hole of perversion, insanity, and murder! The Possessed, comprised of it’s heavily art house influenced style and dark and deadly themes definitely stands as a strong and stylish fore-runner of the beloved murder heavy giallo genre. Directors Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini present the material with gobs of style and chiaroscuro visuals, but there are definitely moments where the concentration on aesthetics definitely hamper the clarity of the film’s storytelling (a problem also present in a
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An ex soldier named Ariel (played by genre legend Bill Oberst Jr.) strolls through a forest, unaware he is about to enter hell…or a very close approximation of it. You see, those trees hide one bad motherfucker that is cultivating a garden of magical mandrakes, and he needs killer kum to make those wicked weeds grow strong and tall! While the above sinister synopsis may seem a tad light (and with a film that runs sixty minutes light plot can be expected) I can promise you that you are in for one hell of a fucked up ride with Dis. Let’s start off with the more refined side of things and offer praise for leading man Oberst Jr.; this dude is an acting powerhouse and always brings a sense of weight and realism to any role he plays, and this is no exception…hell he brings a ton of gravitas to the first twenty minutes of the film and he doesn’t
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Anthropologist Harry Beckmeyer (Barry Otto) witnesses some old-ass footage that purportedly shows a werewolf, and hears of a lycanthrope on the prowl in Siberia, so does what any rational human being would do; contacts the President of the United States and warns him of a worldwide werewolf epidemic. Spoiler: Prez blows that shit off. Wonder why? Meanwhile, comely marsupial werewolf Jerboa (Imogen Annesley) has fled from her abusive home and has been discovered living on the streets by Donny Martin (Leigh Biolos) who gets her a gig starring in the fright flick ‘Shape Shifters Part 8′. Jerboa reveals she is a real life werewolf, but Donny being the typical red-blooded male fucks her anyway…I mean, it’s only half bestiality, so it’s all good, right bro? (shudder) Soon Jerboa’s estranged family come a-lookin’ for her, and Beckmeyer crosses their path…and falls in love with a werewolf ballerina…and then ancient phantom werewolves are summoned…and there’s an award show…and a baby werewolf…and…and…ME FUCKIN’
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After five years fans are finally getting a sequel to Marc Forster’s World War Z, based on Max Brooks’ novel of the same name. Fight Club director David Fincher’s World War Z 2 is now going into production early. In fact, it’s set to begin in just a couple of weeks and will film in Spain and Thailand with production expected to stretch into 2020. Brad Pitt is returning to reprise his role as Gerry Lane, former United Nations employee who discovered the “zombie camouflage” in the first film after investigating the origin of the zombie outbreak.
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A new image has landed from James Gunn-produced superhero-horror film Brightburn giving us a closer look at the young alien who seems to be a mashup of Superman and a horror villain. Directed by David Yarovesky (The Hive), Brightburn stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner. Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn penned the script for the film produced by Gunn and Kenneth Huang. Executive producers include Mark Gunn, Brian Gunn, Dan Clifton, Simon Hatt, and Nic Crawley. Brightburn arrives in theaters on May 24, 2019.
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Amblin has snatched up the rights to The White Room, which is being described as Don’t Breathe meets Hereditary. Deadline is reporting that the film is written by Bryce McGuire (Unfollowed) with Rod Blackhurst (Tribeca Fest’s winner Here Alone, Amanda Knox) in the director’s chair. The duo has teamed up before on New Line’s Night Swim. A female-driven thriller, The White Room unfolds over one night in the remote Adirondack Mountains when a mysterious young woman goes missing. It’s up to a hardened local widow to uncover the truth behind the disappearance which may have been caused by something inhuman. Evan Hayes of The Picture Company will co-produce with Alex Heineman as well as Andrew Rona. Noah Lang will produce with ACE founder Justin Barocas executive producing.
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Picture it, it’s 17th century in Lithuania, there is an outbreak of a deadly plague and foreign invaders. A woman desperate to protect her village conjures an ancient entity. The Paz brothers, who brought us the supernatural film JeruZalem (review), have announced the February release of their latest film The Golem. The film centers on, Hanna (Hani Furstenberg), the wife of a rabbi (Ishai Golen), Hanna (Hani Furstenberg). Hanna conjures a dangerous entity to protect her Jewish community from foreign invaders. But the creature is far more dangerous than she knows. During our interview with Yoav Paz, he went into detail about the film as well explaining the history of the golem. He also revealed that the ritual in the film is very real. It features a dark Jewish mythology about a creature. The legends say that when Jews were in danger a Rabi could make a Golem out of clay and mud to protect them. Golems were the basis
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This February Horror director Michael David Pate’s (Gefällt mir, Potato Salad) social media horror flick Haunted Hospital: Heilstätten takes along for an investigation into the haunted past of a famous hospital. The film tells the story of a group of vloggers who travel to Berlin to film a viral social media challenge by illegally accessing the abandoned, derelict military hospital Beelitz Heilstätten that once housed a recuperating Adolph Hitler, and documenting their experience spending the night in the ominous surgery block in the hopes that the video will go viral. They soon experience many strange events which terrorize them both physically and mentally. Nilam Farooq (“SOKO Leipzig”), Farina Flebbe (Alone in Berlin), Sonja Gerhardt (Jack the Ripper), Maxine Kazis, Emilio Sakraya (4 Blocks), and Tim Oliver Schultz (“The Red Band Society”) star in this found footage film. Synopsis: A group of vloggers illegally access a condemned asylum for a “Will you Survive the Night” viral social media challenge. Equipped with
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Writer-director Matthew Holness‘ chilling horror film Possum, given a five skull review from our DanXIII, is set to arrive on DVD this February. In the film, “Philip (Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible –Fallout & Rogue Nation, Deliver Us From Evil), a disgraced children’s puppeteer, returns to his dilapidated childhood home and lecherous stepfather, Maurice (Alun Armstrong, Braveheart). Philip is intent on destroying “Possum,” a hideously malformed spider-puppet he carries with him in a brown leather case. Unfortunately, and horrifically, Possum refuses to be abandoned. Philip’s mind is flooded with painful half-memories and nightmarish visions, and when he finds himself embroiled in a local investigation surrounding a missing boy, he grows progressively unsure of what’s real and what’s not. All the while Possum seems to mock his suffering at every turn.” A hallucinatory venture into a truly damaged psyche, Matthew Holness’(Garth Marenghi‘s Darkplace) Possum is a twisted trip of terror where both nothing and everything is exactly as it seems. Adding to
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Final Destination fans have been begging for a new installment for years and they’re finally getting their wish, sort of. THR is reporting that Final Destination is getting a “re-imagining”. New Line Cinema has hired horror writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to pen the script. The duo is most recognized for writing four of the Saw films as well as Piranha 3DD. Dunstan is also working on the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark film. The first Final Destination debuted in 2000 and was hit, bringing in $122 million. That’s not bad for a film made on a $23 million dollar budget. With non-stop thrills and seriously epic kills, I’m not surprised it made fans happy. There is still a question as to whether or not Tony Todd will be reprising his role, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed. Hopefully, we’ll know more soon. In the meantime, here’s the original’s trailer.
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Bernard (Peter Baldwin), a sad sack novelist, decides to use that classic cure-all, namely horniness, and sets off to rekindle a relationship with his ex-lover Tilda (Virna Lisi); who works as a maid at a remote hotel located next to a lake. Everything seems hunky-goddammned-dory with the hotel’s owner, Enrico (Salvo Randone) and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese)…but it seems Tilda has pulled a David Copperfield and vanished. Having fuck-all to do, Bernard begins investigating the disappearance and ends up spiraling farther down a rabbit hole of perversion, insanity, and murder! The Possessed, comprised of it’s heavily art house influenced style and dark and deadly themes definitely stands as a strong and stylish fore-runner of the beloved murder heavy giallo genre. Directors Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini present the material with gobs of style and chiaroscuro visuals, but there are definitely moments where the concentration on aesthetics definitely hamper the clarity of the film’s storytelling (a problem also present in a
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
An ex soldier named Ariel (played by genre legend Bill Oberst Jr.) strolls through a forest, unaware he is about to enter hell…or a very close approximation of it. You see, those trees hide one bad motherfucker that is cultivating a garden of magical mandrakes, and he needs killer kum to make those wicked weeds grow strong and tall! While the above sinister synopsis may seem a tad light (and with a film that runs sixty minutes light plot can be expected) I can promise you that you are in for one hell of a fucked up ride with Dis. Let’s start off with the more refined side of things and offer praise for leading man Oberst Jr.; this dude is an acting powerhouse and always brings a sense of weight and realism to any role he plays, and this is no exception…hell he brings a ton of gravitas to the first twenty minutes of the film and he doesn’t
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
Anthropologist Harry Beckmeyer (Barry Otto) witnesses some old-ass footage that purportedly shows a werewolf, and hears of a lycanthrope on the prowl in Siberia, so does what any rational human being would do; contacts the President of the United States and warns him of a worldwide werewolf epidemic. Spoiler: Prez blows that shit off. Wonder why? Meanwhile, comely marsupial werewolf Jerboa (Imogen Annesley) has fled from her abusive home and has been discovered living on the streets by Donny Martin (Leigh Biolos) who gets her a gig starring in the fright flick ‘Shape Shifters Part 8′. Jerboa reveals she is a real life werewolf, but Donny being the typical red-blooded male fucks her anyway…I mean, it’s only half bestiality, so it’s all good, right bro? (shudder) Soon Jerboa’s estranged family come a-lookin’ for her, and Beckmeyer crosses their path…and falls in love with a werewolf ballerina…and then ancient phantom werewolves are summoned…and there’s an award show…and a baby werewolf…and…and…ME FUCKIN’
Continue reading →
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After five years fans are finally getting a sequel to Marc Forster’s World War Z, based on Max Brooks’ novel of the same name. Fight Club director David Fincher’s World War Z 2 is now going into production early. In fact, it’s set to begin in just a couple of weeks and will film in Spain and Thailand with production expected to stretch into 2020. Brad Pitt is returning to reprise his role as Gerry Lane, former United Nations employee who discovered the “zombie camouflage” in the first film after investigating the origin of the zombie outbreak.
Continue reading →
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A new image has landed from James Gunn-produced superhero-horror film Brightburn giving us a closer look at the young alien who seems to be a mashup of Superman and a horror villain. Directed by David Yarovesky (The Hive), Brightburn stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner. Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn penned the script for the film produced by Gunn and Kenneth Huang. Executive producers include Mark Gunn, Brian Gunn, Dan Clifton, Simon Hatt, and Nic Crawley. Brightburn arrives in theaters on May 24, 2019.
Continue reading →
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Amblin has snatched up the rights to The White Room, which is being described as Don’t Breathe meets Hereditary. Deadline is reporting that the film is written by Bryce McGuire (Unfollowed) with Rod Blackhurst (Tribeca Fest’s winner Here Alone, Amanda Knox) in the director’s chair. The duo has teamed up before on New Line’s Night Swim. A female-driven thriller, The White Room unfolds over one night in the remote Adirondack Mountains when a mysterious young woman goes missing. It’s up to a hardened local widow to uncover the truth behind the disappearance which may have been caused by something inhuman. Evan Hayes of The Picture Company will co-produce with Alex Heineman as well as Andrew Rona. Noah Lang will produce with ACE founder Justin Barocas executive producing.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
Picture it, it’s 17th century in Lithuania, there is an outbreak of a deadly plague and foreign invaders. A woman desperate to protect her village conjures an ancient entity. The Paz brothers, who brought us the supernatural film JeruZalem (review), have announced the February release of their latest film The Golem. The film centers on, Hanna (Hani Furstenberg), the wife of a rabbi (Ishai Golen), Hanna (Hani Furstenberg). Hanna conjures a dangerous entity to protect her Jewish community from foreign invaders. But the creature is far more dangerous than she knows. During our interview with Yoav Paz, he went into detail about the film as well explaining the history of the golem. He also revealed that the ritual in the film is very real. It features a dark Jewish mythology about a creature. The legends say that when Jews were in danger a Rabi could make a Golem out of clay and mud to protect them. Golems were the basis
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsParanormalTrailers
This February Horror director Michael David Pate’s (Gefällt mir, Potato Salad) social media horror flick Haunted Hospital: Heilstätten takes along for an investigation into the haunted past of a famous hospital. The film tells the story of a group of vloggers who travel to Berlin to film a viral social media challenge by illegally accessing the abandoned, derelict military hospital Beelitz Heilstätten that once housed a recuperating Adolph Hitler, and documenting their experience spending the night in the ominous surgery block in the hopes that the video will go viral. They soon experience many strange events which terrorize them both physically and mentally. Nilam Farooq (“SOKO Leipzig”), Farina Flebbe (Alone in Berlin), Sonja Gerhardt (Jack the Ripper), Maxine Kazis, Emilio Sakraya (4 Blocks), and Tim Oliver Schultz (“The Red Band Society”) star in this found footage film. Synopsis: A group of vloggers illegally access a condemned asylum for a “Will you Survive the Night” viral social media challenge. Equipped with
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
Writer-director Matthew Holness‘ chilling horror film Possum, given a five skull review from our DanXIII, is set to arrive on DVD this February. In the film, “Philip (Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible –Fallout & Rogue Nation, Deliver Us From Evil), a disgraced children’s puppeteer, returns to his dilapidated childhood home and lecherous stepfather, Maurice (Alun Armstrong, Braveheart). Philip is intent on destroying “Possum,” a hideously malformed spider-puppet he carries with him in a brown leather case. Unfortunately, and horrifically, Possum refuses to be abandoned. Philip’s mind is flooded with painful half-memories and nightmarish visions, and when he finds himself embroiled in a local investigation surrounding a missing boy, he grows progressively unsure of what’s real and what’s not. All the while Possum seems to mock his suffering at every turn.” A hallucinatory venture into a truly damaged psyche, Matthew Holness’(Garth Marenghi‘s Darkplace) Possum is a twisted trip of terror where both nothing and everything is exactly as it seems. Adding to
Continue reading →
MoviesNews
Final Destination fans have been begging for a new installment for years and they’re finally getting their wish, sort of. THR is reporting that Final Destination is getting a “re-imagining”. New Line Cinema has hired horror writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to pen the script. The duo is most recognized for writing four of the Saw films as well as Piranha 3DD. Dunstan is also working on the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark film. The first Final Destination debuted in 2000 and was hit, bringing in $122 million. That’s not bad for a film made on a $23 million dollar budget. With non-stop thrills and seriously epic kills, I’m not surprised it made fans happy. There is still a question as to whether or not Tony Todd will be reprising his role, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed. Hopefully, we’ll know more soon. In the meantime, here’s the original’s trailer.
Continue reading →
