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Director Shinzô Katayama’s Japanese horror film, Missing (Sagasu/さがす) is now playing in select theaters and is heading to VOD this month. The film centers on “depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer “No Name” (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda (Aoi Ito) cannot take her aloof father seriously. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts to fear the worst—and must begin looking for him.” Starring Aoi Ito, Hiroya Shimizu, Misato Morita, and Jirô Satô, Missing is out on VOD and cable on November 18, 2022, followed by its Blu-ray release on December 6th, from Dark Star Pictures.
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The crime-filled streets of Hollywood come alive as you’ve never seen them before in a groundbreaking, one-take thriller Dash that follows a rideshare driver who leads a double life. Today, the trailer has premiered. The film “follows Milly, your average everyday rideshare driver preparing himself for a night shift behind the wheel… by purchasing a massive amount of cocaine from a prostitute. On the perilous Hollywood streets, he attempts to sell the drugs to his unassuming passengers including a homosexual thruple, some phone-obsessed gen Z’ers, and even an off-duty police officer. His attempt to illegally fund his sinful actions takes a literal turn for the worse when he picks up a drug addict going through severe withdrawal. Desperately trying to take his nefarious, double-life to the grave, he continues, only to keep digging a deeper grave for himself.” Written and Directed by Sean Perry (The Homebodies, Saturday Night Live), the film stars Alexander Molina (Evil, Afternooner), Shah Granville (upcoming Dark
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While The Conjuring Universe continues to expand with The Conjuring 4 and The Nun 2 on the way, there’s one long-awaited spin-off that is now dead in the water, The Crooked Man. Director James Wan recently took to social media to share photos of the character, played by Javier Botet, from The Conjuring 2. Before he could be swamped by questions about the spin-off, he told fans that the character won’t be getting his own movie any time soon, if ever. Wan stated in his post, “And no, unfortunately, the spinoff movie with this character isn’t happening. Outside of my control. But maybe one day.” The Crooked Man, born out of a classic nursery rhyme, made his debut in The Conjuring 2, terrifying both the children in the movie and us. Soon after The Conjuring 2 premiered Wan shared that he had an exciting story in mind for the creepy character. But who knows? Maybe we’ll see The Crooked Man
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On November 11, 2022, director Scooter Corkle‘s new horror movie ‘The Friendship Game‘ will be released both On Demand and on Digital. Ahead of its premiere, we talked with Scooter about the film that stars Peyton List (“Cobra-Kai”, “Bunk’d”). The horror film follows a group of teens as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other and has increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go. Kelli: “I was looking through your IMDb page and you really are a “jack of all trades,” writer, director, producer, actor.” Scooter: “I have been known to be, yeah.” Kelli: “What is that? Just being able to do everything?” Scooter: “Well, I wanted to be an actor when I first started, I was 18 and I moved to the big city for my tiny town. And then, yeah, I didn’t really love the actor life, all the auditioning and the judgment, which is totally part of the
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Shudder has just announced it has acquired the Malaysian horror Blood Flower (Harum Malam) from director Dain Said (Interchange, Bunohan, Dukun). The film, an official selection of Fantastic Fest and the Sitges Film Festival, will be available exclusively on Shudder in 2023. “Blood Flower (Harum Malam) tells the story of Iqbal, a 16-year-old apprentice faith healer, and exorcist, tormented by visions of the dead and spirits from other dimensions. When a malicious spirit begins to wreak havoc around him, Iqbal is forced to harness his supernatural gifts to save his family and friends.” Written by Said, Nandita Solomon and Ben Omar, Blood Flower (Harum Malam) stars Idan Aedan, Bront Palarae, and Remy Ishak and is produced by Apparat in collaboration with Skop Productions and D’Ayu Pictures. The film was also produced with support from the Malaysian National Film Development Board (Finas). Reel Suspects is handling sales for the rest of the world. “One of next year’s most frightening films, Blood
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Focus Entertainment and THE PARASITE released the new gamplay trailer for the upcoming first-person dark fairy tale Blacktail as the game’s release will be next month. Blacktail is the retelling of the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga where players take on the role of Yaga, a girl accused of witchcraft and forced to fend for herself but then memories of her past returned in the form of walking spirits, Yaga is then forced to hunt them down with the hopes by doing so she’ll be uncovering her own mystery. Players will be armed with a bow and be able to use magical powers to fight enemies, and gather resources to craft potions and arrows. Players will determine the fate of the land by making moral choices along the way that will determine if Yaga will become a good, or evil witch. Blacktail will be coming out on December 15th for PC, Playstation 5, and Xbox Series X/S
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Elizabeth Hurley (Austin Powers, Passenger 57) faces off against an evil, child-stealing being of folklore in the upcoming supernatural horror film Piper, Today, THR shared the first look at the film. Piper is a darker and contemporary twist on the medieval tale of the “Pied Piper,” a vindictive spirit who seeks revenge on those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children. “Piper follows Émigré Liz (Hurley), who moves to a quaint German town with her daughter Amy (Mia Jenkins) but ends up in Piper’s crosshairs when it is revealed she’s hiding a dark secret from her past that puts Amy’s life in jeopardy. The girl’s only hope for salvation comes when she falls for a young and mysterious street magician, Luca. Can he save her from the Piper’s clutches?” The cast also includes Mia Jenkins, Jack Stewart, Robert Daws who plays the Piper, Luca Shandor, and Ieva Aleksandrova-Eklone. The film comes from
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The highly-anticipated and critically acclaimed suspense thriller Where the Crawdads Sing is coming to Netflix following a successful theatrical run. Outcasts are always the first to have suspicions cast upon them. That’s the case in Where the Crawdads Sing. The highly-anticipated adaptation of Delia Owens‘ New York Time Best Selling novel, which spent 32 weeks at the top of the “Best Sellers” list, tells the story of “Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within
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In a week, Netflix’s new upcoming dark series “1899” premieres and sees a ship full of unsuspecting passengers seized by terror and mysteries as they sail closer to the Bermuda Triangle. The series comes from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the creators of “Dark” and stars Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Anton Lesser, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Mathilde Ollivier, and Andreas Pietschmann. Netflix describes “1899” as “A visually stunning odyssey where nothing is as it seems. The makers of the internationally acclaimed series “Dark” takes us back to the year “1899” aboard the Kerberos.” Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.” Set sail with “1899” on November 17, 2022, exclusively on Netflix.
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Writer-director Gary Dauberman‘s new adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is currently in production. Star Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick, Strangers: Prey At Night) has now said that this adaptation is much closer to the book than the mini-series that debuted back in 1979. “Gary Dauberman, the director, is really keen on doing justice to the book. But also, the previous adaptation was a two-parter, because it’s such a hefty book and there are so many different moving parts and so many characters.” Pullman told ComicBook.com. “So there are some parts where Gary had to press and find what was really at the heart of the movie to keep in, but for the most part, he’s really true to the book and keeping a lot of the original dialogue in there. He’s a Stephen King hound dog so he doesn’t wanna do Stephen dirty. So I think it’s in good hands, Gary’s a really smart guy who has a keen
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Director Shinzô Katayama’s Japanese horror film, Missing (Sagasu/さがす) is now playing in select theaters and is heading to VOD this month. The film centers on “depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer “No Name” (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda (Aoi Ito) cannot take her aloof father seriously. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts to fear the worst—and must begin looking for him.” Starring Aoi Ito, Hiroya Shimizu, Misato Morita, and Jirô Satô, Missing is out on VOD and cable on November 18, 2022, followed by its Blu-ray release on December 6th, from Dark Star Pictures.
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The crime-filled streets of Hollywood come alive as you’ve never seen them before in a groundbreaking, one-take thriller Dash that follows a rideshare driver who leads a double life. Today, the trailer has premiered. The film “follows Milly, your average everyday rideshare driver preparing himself for a night shift behind the wheel… by purchasing a massive amount of cocaine from a prostitute. On the perilous Hollywood streets, he attempts to sell the drugs to his unassuming passengers including a homosexual thruple, some phone-obsessed gen Z’ers, and even an off-duty police officer. His attempt to illegally fund his sinful actions takes a literal turn for the worse when he picks up a drug addict going through severe withdrawal. Desperately trying to take his nefarious, double-life to the grave, he continues, only to keep digging a deeper grave for himself.” Written and Directed by Sean Perry (The Homebodies, Saturday Night Live), the film stars Alexander Molina (Evil, Afternooner), Shah Granville (upcoming Dark
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While The Conjuring Universe continues to expand with The Conjuring 4 and The Nun 2 on the way, there’s one long-awaited spin-off that is now dead in the water, The Crooked Man. Director James Wan recently took to social media to share photos of the character, played by Javier Botet, from The Conjuring 2. Before he could be swamped by questions about the spin-off, he told fans that the character won’t be getting his own movie any time soon, if ever. Wan stated in his post, “And no, unfortunately, the spinoff movie with this character isn’t happening. Outside of my control. But maybe one day.” The Crooked Man, born out of a classic nursery rhyme, made his debut in The Conjuring 2, terrifying both the children in the movie and us. Soon after The Conjuring 2 premiered Wan shared that he had an exciting story in mind for the creepy character. But who knows? Maybe we’ll see The Crooked Man
Continue reading →
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On November 11, 2022, director Scooter Corkle‘s new horror movie ‘The Friendship Game‘ will be released both On Demand and on Digital. Ahead of its premiere, we talked with Scooter about the film that stars Peyton List (“Cobra-Kai”, “Bunk’d”). The horror film follows a group of teens as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other and has increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go. Kelli: “I was looking through your IMDb page and you really are a “jack of all trades,” writer, director, producer, actor.” Scooter: “I have been known to be, yeah.” Kelli: “What is that? Just being able to do everything?” Scooter: “Well, I wanted to be an actor when I first started, I was 18 and I moved to the big city for my tiny town. And then, yeah, I didn’t really love the actor life, all the auditioning and the judgment, which is totally part of the
Continue reading →
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Shudder has just announced it has acquired the Malaysian horror Blood Flower (Harum Malam) from director Dain Said (Interchange, Bunohan, Dukun). The film, an official selection of Fantastic Fest and the Sitges Film Festival, will be available exclusively on Shudder in 2023. “Blood Flower (Harum Malam) tells the story of Iqbal, a 16-year-old apprentice faith healer, and exorcist, tormented by visions of the dead and spirits from other dimensions. When a malicious spirit begins to wreak havoc around him, Iqbal is forced to harness his supernatural gifts to save his family and friends.” Written by Said, Nandita Solomon and Ben Omar, Blood Flower (Harum Malam) stars Idan Aedan, Bront Palarae, and Remy Ishak and is produced by Apparat in collaboration with Skop Productions and D’Ayu Pictures. The film was also produced with support from the Malaysian National Film Development Board (Finas). Reel Suspects is handling sales for the rest of the world. “One of next year’s most frightening films, Blood
Continue reading →
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Focus Entertainment and THE PARASITE released the new gamplay trailer for the upcoming first-person dark fairy tale Blacktail as the game’s release will be next month. Blacktail is the retelling of the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga where players take on the role of Yaga, a girl accused of witchcraft and forced to fend for herself but then memories of her past returned in the form of walking spirits, Yaga is then forced to hunt them down with the hopes by doing so she’ll be uncovering her own mystery. Players will be armed with a bow and be able to use magical powers to fight enemies, and gather resources to craft potions and arrows. Players will determine the fate of the land by making moral choices along the way that will determine if Yaga will become a good, or evil witch. Blacktail will be coming out on December 15th for PC, Playstation 5, and Xbox Series X/S
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Elizabeth Hurley (Austin Powers, Passenger 57) faces off against an evil, child-stealing being of folklore in the upcoming supernatural horror film Piper, Today, THR shared the first look at the film. Piper is a darker and contemporary twist on the medieval tale of the “Pied Piper,” a vindictive spirit who seeks revenge on those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children. “Piper follows Émigré Liz (Hurley), who moves to a quaint German town with her daughter Amy (Mia Jenkins) but ends up in Piper’s crosshairs when it is revealed she’s hiding a dark secret from her past that puts Amy’s life in jeopardy. The girl’s only hope for salvation comes when she falls for a young and mysterious street magician, Luca. Can he save her from the Piper’s clutches?” The cast also includes Mia Jenkins, Jack Stewart, Robert Daws who plays the Piper, Luca Shandor, and Ieva Aleksandrova-Eklone. The film comes from
Continue reading →
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The highly-anticipated and critically acclaimed suspense thriller Where the Crawdads Sing is coming to Netflix following a successful theatrical run. Outcasts are always the first to have suspicions cast upon them. That’s the case in Where the Crawdads Sing. The highly-anticipated adaptation of Delia Owens‘ New York Time Best Selling novel, which spent 32 weeks at the top of the “Best Sellers” list, tells the story of “Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within
Continue reading →
NetflixNewsStreaming TVTrailers
In a week, Netflix’s new upcoming dark series “1899” premieres and sees a ship full of unsuspecting passengers seized by terror and mysteries as they sail closer to the Bermuda Triangle. The series comes from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the creators of “Dark” and stars Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Anton Lesser, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Mathilde Ollivier, and Andreas Pietschmann. Netflix describes “1899” as “A visually stunning odyssey where nothing is as it seems. The makers of the internationally acclaimed series “Dark” takes us back to the year “1899” aboard the Kerberos.” Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.” Set sail with “1899” on November 17, 2022, exclusively on Netflix.
Continue reading →
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Writer-director Gary Dauberman‘s new adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is currently in production. Star Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick, Strangers: Prey At Night) has now said that this adaptation is much closer to the book than the mini-series that debuted back in 1979. “Gary Dauberman, the director, is really keen on doing justice to the book. But also, the previous adaptation was a two-parter, because it’s such a hefty book and there are so many different moving parts and so many characters.” Pullman told ComicBook.com. “So there are some parts where Gary had to press and find what was really at the heart of the movie to keep in, but for the most part, he’s really true to the book and keeping a lot of the original dialogue in there. He’s a Stephen King hound dog so he doesn’t wanna do Stephen dirty. So I think it’s in good hands, Gary’s a really smart guy who has a keen
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