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Dark Star Pictures announced today that the home invasion thriller Human Factors, that screened at Sundance, is set to be released late this May. Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, and Wanja Valentin Kube star in the German-Italian-Danish production from director Ronny Trocker, The film centers on couple Nina and Jan who have signed a new politically-charged client, forcing them to confront their clashing priorities. To escape mounting tensions at work, they whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their seaside vacation home. But what’s meant to be an idyllic off-season retreat turns sinister when a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. Though at first, the aftermath brings the family closer, as they try to put the incident into perspective, their accounts of what took place begin to unravel alongside the couple’s faith in each other. Human Factors lands on Digital on May 24, 2022.
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Narcotics Anonymous said in 1981 “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” before it was famously misquoted saying that it’s “doing the same thing over and over”, either way, the point is repeating things with the hope of a different outcome is insane. The subject of this review is a perfect example of that thanks to Thunderful & Carry Castle’s Lovecraftian game Source of Madness. Source of Madness is a side-scrolling action RPG that takes players into a world being twisted by cosmic horrors from beyond the stars. Players take on the role(s) of an acolyte of a cult venturing into the twisted landscapes of different biomes to find the source of the growing madness taking over your world. Now onto the game itself! the controls for Source of Madness are straightforward and thankfully limited allowing you to master it quickly and respond very well. The game’s sound design is amazing with the roars of the monsters,
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks announced today that they are teaming up for the newest Shudder Original horror-comedy, Destroy All Neighbors. The film is from music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes (Contracted: Phase II) and stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000, pictured) and Alex Winter (Bill and Ted franchise) who also produces, Destroy All Neighbors will have a day-and-date release in theaters and on Shudder in 2023. The film, which is also produced by Russell Sanzgiri (Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special), is from an original script written by Mike Benner, Jared Logan, and Charles Pieper. In Destroy All Neighbors, struggling prog-rock musician William Brown (Rodrigues) finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad (Winter), the neighbor from hell. Vlad’s disembodied corpse delights in tormenting William, sending him further into madness and impending doom. Casting for the film has
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Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take
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Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.
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Director Rick Dugdale‘s sci-fi thriller Zero Contact is set to be released this May. In the trailer, we are introduced to the film’s incredible cast which includes Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins, star of The Silence of the Lambs franchise. Written by Cam Cannon, “this high-tech thriller chillingly reimagines our isolated, virtual world. Hopkins plays Finley Hart, the eccentric genius behind a global data-mining program. Upon his death, five remote agents — including Finley’s son — are contacted by a mysterious A.I. entity to reactivate the initiative, which may enable time travel. As sinister events occur at each of the agents’ homes, they must decide whether entering their passwords will save the world…or destroy it.” Chris Brochu (Recon) and Aleks Paunovic (This Means War) also star in Zero Contact, whose two sequels have already entered production, according to IMDb. Watch Zero Contact in select theaters, on Digital, or On Demand on May 27, 2022.
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired the North American rights and set a release date for the horror film, The Reef: Stalked, sequel to the 2010 movie. Written and directed by Andrew Traucki (Black Water) as a follow up to his 2010 film, The Reef, the movie stars Teressa Liane (“The Vampire Diaries”), Ann Truong (“Cowboy Bebop”), Saskia Archer (Boshack), Kate Lister (Clickbait), and Tim Ross (Wonderland). In The Reef: Stalked, Nic, in an effort to heal after witnessing her sister’s horrific murder, travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and diving adventure. Only hours into their expedition, the women are stalked and then attacked by a great white shark. To survive they will need to band together and Nic will have to overcome her post-traumatic stress, face her fears and slay the monster. “Audiences have an insatiable appetite for
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Following a successful run on the genre festival circuit, 123 Go Films has announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin’s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, “telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” Night Caller stars Susan Priver, Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Bai Ling (The Crow), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Christine Nguyen, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), and Robert Miano, as well as Robert “Corpsy” Rhine. The
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The dead communicate in Giorgio Bruno’s Italian horror-thriller They Talk, out today Digital and DVD, from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, sound engineer Alex accidentally records sinister voices while shooting a documentary. The voices do not sound human, and they appear to be trying to warn him about someone, or something. His search for their meaning will bring back mysterious people and events from his past. A threatening, black, and gloomy wave starts to haunt him. Written by Vinicio Canton, Stefano Ceccarelli, and Chiara Barbo, They Talk also stars Rocío Muñoz, Sydney White, and Margaux Billard.
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The award-winning documentary Rondo and Bob, centering on Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) art director Robert Burns and his obsession with cult actor Rondo Hatton, will be released on streaming platforms this June. Robert A. “Bob” Burns is a significant name in horror, known for his work on Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Re-Animator, The Howling, and Poltergeist. From a young age he showed signs of being a genius and could create complex designs all in his head, draw detailed cartoons and create outrageous puns. In high school and college he studied drama, which he later utilized in films including Confessions of a Serial Killer. While attending the University of Texas he edited the “Texas Ranger” humor magazine and discovered Rondo Hatton, a former Tampa, Florida, sports reporter, who contracted acromegaly, a condition that caused his face, hands and feet to grow out of proportion to the rest of his body. It caused the former athlete and
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Dark Star Pictures announced today that the home invasion thriller Human Factors, that screened at Sundance, is set to be released late this May. Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, and Wanja Valentin Kube star in the German-Italian-Danish production from director Ronny Trocker, The film centers on couple Nina and Jan who have signed a new politically-charged client, forcing them to confront their clashing priorities. To escape mounting tensions at work, they whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their seaside vacation home. But what’s meant to be an idyllic off-season retreat turns sinister when a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. Though at first, the aftermath brings the family closer, as they try to put the incident into perspective, their accounts of what took place begin to unravel alongside the couple’s faith in each other. Human Factors lands on Digital on May 24, 2022.
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Narcotics Anonymous said in 1981 “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” before it was famously misquoted saying that it’s “doing the same thing over and over”, either way, the point is repeating things with the hope of a different outcome is insane. The subject of this review is a perfect example of that thanks to Thunderful & Carry Castle’s Lovecraftian game Source of Madness. Source of Madness is a side-scrolling action RPG that takes players into a world being twisted by cosmic horrors from beyond the stars. Players take on the role(s) of an acolyte of a cult venturing into the twisted landscapes of different biomes to find the source of the growing madness taking over your world. Now onto the game itself! the controls for Source of Madness are straightforward and thankfully limited allowing you to master it quickly and respond very well. The game’s sound design is amazing with the roars of the monsters,
Continue reading →
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks announced today that they are teaming up for the newest Shudder Original horror-comedy, Destroy All Neighbors. The film is from music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes (Contracted: Phase II) and stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000, pictured) and Alex Winter (Bill and Ted franchise) who also produces, Destroy All Neighbors will have a day-and-date release in theaters and on Shudder in 2023. The film, which is also produced by Russell Sanzgiri (Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special), is from an original script written by Mike Benner, Jared Logan, and Charles Pieper. In Destroy All Neighbors, struggling prog-rock musician William Brown (Rodrigues) finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad (Winter), the neighbor from hell. Vlad’s disembodied corpse delights in tormenting William, sending him further into madness and impending doom. Casting for the film has
Continue reading →
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Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take
Continue reading →
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Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.
Continue reading →
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Director Rick Dugdale‘s sci-fi thriller Zero Contact is set to be released this May. In the trailer, we are introduced to the film’s incredible cast which includes Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins, star of The Silence of the Lambs franchise. Written by Cam Cannon, “this high-tech thriller chillingly reimagines our isolated, virtual world. Hopkins plays Finley Hart, the eccentric genius behind a global data-mining program. Upon his death, five remote agents — including Finley’s son — are contacted by a mysterious A.I. entity to reactivate the initiative, which may enable time travel. As sinister events occur at each of the agents’ homes, they must decide whether entering their passwords will save the world…or destroy it.” Chris Brochu (Recon) and Aleks Paunovic (This Means War) also star in Zero Contact, whose two sequels have already entered production, according to IMDb. Watch Zero Contact in select theaters, on Digital, or On Demand on May 27, 2022.
Continue reading →
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired the North American rights and set a release date for the horror film, The Reef: Stalked, sequel to the 2010 movie. Written and directed by Andrew Traucki (Black Water) as a follow up to his 2010 film, The Reef, the movie stars Teressa Liane (“The Vampire Diaries”), Ann Truong (“Cowboy Bebop”), Saskia Archer (Boshack), Kate Lister (Clickbait), and Tim Ross (Wonderland). In The Reef: Stalked, Nic, in an effort to heal after witnessing her sister’s horrific murder, travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and diving adventure. Only hours into their expedition, the women are stalked and then attacked by a great white shark. To survive they will need to band together and Nic will have to overcome her post-traumatic stress, face her fears and slay the monster. “Audiences have an insatiable appetite for
Continue reading →
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Following a successful run on the genre festival circuit, 123 Go Films has announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin’s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, “telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” Night Caller stars Susan Priver, Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Bai Ling (The Crow), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Christine Nguyen, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), and Robert Miano, as well as Robert “Corpsy” Rhine. The
Continue reading →
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The dead communicate in Giorgio Bruno’s Italian horror-thriller They Talk, out today Digital and DVD, from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, sound engineer Alex accidentally records sinister voices while shooting a documentary. The voices do not sound human, and they appear to be trying to warn him about someone, or something. His search for their meaning will bring back mysterious people and events from his past. A threatening, black, and gloomy wave starts to haunt him. Written by Vinicio Canton, Stefano Ceccarelli, and Chiara Barbo, They Talk also stars Rocío Muñoz, Sydney White, and Margaux Billard.
Continue reading →
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The award-winning documentary Rondo and Bob, centering on Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) art director Robert Burns and his obsession with cult actor Rondo Hatton, will be released on streaming platforms this June. Robert A. “Bob” Burns is a significant name in horror, known for his work on Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Re-Animator, The Howling, and Poltergeist. From a young age he showed signs of being a genius and could create complex designs all in his head, draw detailed cartoons and create outrageous puns. In high school and college he studied drama, which he later utilized in films including Confessions of a Serial Killer. While attending the University of Texas he edited the “Texas Ranger” humor magazine and discovered Rondo Hatton, a former Tampa, Florida, sports reporter, who contracted acromegaly, a condition that caused his face, hands and feet to grow out of proportion to the rest of his body. It caused the former athlete and
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