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“Haunting of Hill House” director Mike Flanagan‘s upcoming Netflix horror series “Midnight Mass,” has now officially announced its full cast. The seven-episode series follows an isolated island community experiencing miraculous events, and frightening omens, after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest. Deadline reports that Kate Siegel (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Zach Gilford (The Purge: Anarchy), and Hamish Linklater (“Legion”) star along with Annabeth Gish (The Haunting of Hill House). Michael Trucco (Hunter Killer), Samantha Sloyan (Grey’s Anatomy), Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Hill House), Rahul Abburi (Killer Ransom), Matt Biedel (Altered Carbon), Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep), Rahul Kohli (Supergirl), Kristin Lehman (The Chronicles of Riddick), Crystal Balint (The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco), Robert Longstreet (Doctor Sleep), Igby Rigney (Blue Bloods) and Annarah Shephard round out the cast. Interesting fact: “Midnight Mass” has ties to two other of Flanagan’s films. Midnight Mass is the title of the book written by the character Maddie Young in Hush. The title
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Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
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Hot off the heels of his role in Color Out of Space Nicolas Cage will next star in the animatronic horror Wally’s Wonderland from director Kevin Lewis (The Drop). he film’s cast continues to build with the latest addition being actress Emily Tosta (“Party of Five”, “Mayans M.C.”). Tosta’s character Liv joins Cage’s character “The Janitor”, in their bid to survive a hellish night trapped inside an abandoned family entertainment center populated by possessed animatronics. Rounding out the cast are Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men), Ric Reitz (The Resident), and Chris Warner (Machete). I’m so excited to be working with Nicolas Cage, who has always been one of my favorite actors, in this totally fun and unique feature film,” said Tosta. When I first saw Emily in Mayans M.C., I was struck by her unique combination of toughness and sensitivity and knew immediately we found our perfect Liv,” said Lewis. We are thrilled to be working with Nicolas,
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Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) has returned to the Saw franchise to direct Spiral: From the Book of Saw. The first teaser trailer is here and it looks badass AF. Chris Rock executive produced and stars as a police detective on the hunt for a killer following a series of gruesome murders. Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella also star. The question is, will Tobin Bell make a cameo? In Spiral, a sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game. Marl Burg and Oren Kohls return to
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Today CBE Software has announced an update about their upcoming story-driven psychological horror game Someday You’ll Return, its release date for PC! Console players don’t have to worry; the game will be coming later in 2020. Along with the release date comes a new trailer showing more of what players will be expecting as they play as Daniel, a father looking for his missing daughter Stela who ran away from home. Daniel’s search soon brings him to the Moravian forests, a place from his past where he swore he would never return to. In Someday You’ll Return, players will experience all sorts of game mechanics such as crafting, herbalism, stealth, tracking, climbing, interacting with an in-game Smartphone, and a karmic system that will affect the game’s ending. The game’s setting is unique as it takes place in the Czech Republic and features references to 9th-century tales and locations. Someday You’ll Return will be coming to PC April 14th, 2020 and
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We’ve got the first images from director Steven Kostanski‘s (The Void, Leprechaun) new horror-comedy Psycho Goreman (via Bloody Disgusting). Set in small-town suburbia, the movie follows two kids, Mimi and Luke as they discover the tomb of a sleeping alien warlord whose only goal is to destroy the entire universe. The children find the magical gemstone allowing them to control the creature and embark on a crazy adventure full of cosmic action and comedy. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks star in this flick that somehow carries a PG rating and an 80s feel. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks, the programmer of the Toronto film festival’s Midnight Madness section, produced Psycho Goreman along with Stuart F. Andrews, Shannon Hanmer, and Steve Kostanski. Jesse Kristensen, and Peter Kuplowsky executive produce. Take a look at some of the first images.
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MidWest WeirdFest— a cinematic celebration of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird — has announced its first programming wave for 2020. The fourth annual installment of the festival takes place March 6–8, 2020 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. “MidWest WeirdFest is back with the type of cutting edge genre, paranormal, and underground cinema that our regular attendees have come to expect, and that first-time fest-goers are going to adore,” said festival founder and programming director Dean Bertram. “We are delighted to announce this year’s first wave of feature programming. From murderous puppets and ghostly encounters, through legendary beasties and UFOs, to Lovecraftian nightmares and serial killers, the festival’s 2020 program is loaded with weirdness — some of it real, some of it imagined, and much of it from that mysterious twilight territory that lays in between.” The first seven feature films announced follow. I saw Puppet Killer as part of Canada’s Blood in
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This February grab your sweetheart, cuddle up on the couch and tune in for Into the Dark: My Valentine. Not only do we have the trailer, but we also have the new original music video “Treasure Me” from the episode’s star Trezzure. Check it out. Influenced by some of the biggest pop scandals over the past decade, My Valentine follows Valentine, whose songs and artistic identity have been stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager – and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé, Trezzure. Writer-director Maggie Levin reveals what happens when the two worlds collide and find themselves face-to-face. Locked together in a small concert venue after hours, the three of them confront the scars of the past…until they take things into their own hands. Britt Baron (GLOW), Anna Lore (Doom Patrol), Benedict Samuel (Gotham), and Anna Akana (Let It Snow) star. Into the Dark: My Valentine debuts on Hulu on February 7th.
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A woman’s panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spirals out of control in Blood on Her Name, the 100% certified fresh feature debut from Atlanta-based filmmaker Matthew Pope. The new trailer has been released ahead of its theatrical debut later this month and it is intense. In Blood on Her Name, “the dead body lies at her feet, its blood still draining onto the floor. It was an accident, borne of self-defense, but its discovery could have devastating consequences for local garage owner Leigh Tiller and her son. In a panic, Leigh decides to conceal the crime, cleaning the bloody scene and scrambling to dispose of the body. But can she actually disappear a man from the earth—from his family—leaving them forever wondering? As Leigh is torn between her primal instincts and tortured conscience she struggles to keep her sins hidden from her estranged father–a cop with a long history of moral compromise –and from the keen-eyed girlfriend
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Osgood Perkins has become a heavy hitter in the horror genre, delivering films like The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and Gretel & Hansel, which just arrived in theaters. So, you may be wondering what’s next for Perkins. According to Bloody Disgusting, he’s next doing a loose adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay‘s A Head Full of Ghosts which won the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Stephen King said the novel, “Sacred the living hell out of me and I’m pretty hard to scare.” The plot of the novel involves an American family under strain when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Marjorie Barrett, exhibits signs of mental illness. The story is told from the point of view of Marjorie’s eight-year-old sister, Merry. The novel includes elements of Catholic exorcism and reality television exploitation. It’s certainly a script that I’m happy about. Whether or not that becomes a movie, you know how
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“Haunting of Hill House” director Mike Flanagan‘s upcoming Netflix horror series “Midnight Mass,” has now officially announced its full cast. The seven-episode series follows an isolated island community experiencing miraculous events, and frightening omens, after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest. Deadline reports that Kate Siegel (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Zach Gilford (The Purge: Anarchy), and Hamish Linklater (“Legion”) star along with Annabeth Gish (The Haunting of Hill House). Michael Trucco (Hunter Killer), Samantha Sloyan (Grey’s Anatomy), Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Hill House), Rahul Abburi (Killer Ransom), Matt Biedel (Altered Carbon), Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep), Rahul Kohli (Supergirl), Kristin Lehman (The Chronicles of Riddick), Crystal Balint (The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco), Robert Longstreet (Doctor Sleep), Igby Rigney (Blue Bloods) and Annarah Shephard round out the cast. Interesting fact: “Midnight Mass” has ties to two other of Flanagan’s films. Midnight Mass is the title of the book written by the character Maddie Young in Hush. The title
Continue reading →
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Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
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Hot off the heels of his role in Color Out of Space Nicolas Cage will next star in the animatronic horror Wally’s Wonderland from director Kevin Lewis (The Drop). he film’s cast continues to build with the latest addition being actress Emily Tosta (“Party of Five”, “Mayans M.C.”). Tosta’s character Liv joins Cage’s character “The Janitor”, in their bid to survive a hellish night trapped inside an abandoned family entertainment center populated by possessed animatronics. Rounding out the cast are Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men), Ric Reitz (The Resident), and Chris Warner (Machete). I’m so excited to be working with Nicolas Cage, who has always been one of my favorite actors, in this totally fun and unique feature film,” said Tosta. When I first saw Emily in Mayans M.C., I was struck by her unique combination of toughness and sensitivity and knew immediately we found our perfect Liv,” said Lewis. We are thrilled to be working with Nicolas,
Continue reading →
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Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) has returned to the Saw franchise to direct Spiral: From the Book of Saw. The first teaser trailer is here and it looks badass AF. Chris Rock executive produced and stars as a police detective on the hunt for a killer following a series of gruesome murders. Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella also star. The question is, will Tobin Bell make a cameo? In Spiral, a sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game. Marl Burg and Oren Kohls return to
Continue reading →
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Today CBE Software has announced an update about their upcoming story-driven psychological horror game Someday You’ll Return, its release date for PC! Console players don’t have to worry; the game will be coming later in 2020. Along with the release date comes a new trailer showing more of what players will be expecting as they play as Daniel, a father looking for his missing daughter Stela who ran away from home. Daniel’s search soon brings him to the Moravian forests, a place from his past where he swore he would never return to. In Someday You’ll Return, players will experience all sorts of game mechanics such as crafting, herbalism, stealth, tracking, climbing, interacting with an in-game Smartphone, and a karmic system that will affect the game’s ending. The game’s setting is unique as it takes place in the Czech Republic and features references to 9th-century tales and locations. Someday You’ll Return will be coming to PC April 14th, 2020 and
Continue reading →
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We’ve got the first images from director Steven Kostanski‘s (The Void, Leprechaun) new horror-comedy Psycho Goreman (via Bloody Disgusting). Set in small-town suburbia, the movie follows two kids, Mimi and Luke as they discover the tomb of a sleeping alien warlord whose only goal is to destroy the entire universe. The children find the magical gemstone allowing them to control the creature and embark on a crazy adventure full of cosmic action and comedy. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks star in this flick that somehow carries a PG rating and an 80s feel. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks, the programmer of the Toronto film festival’s Midnight Madness section, produced Psycho Goreman along with Stuart F. Andrews, Shannon Hanmer, and Steve Kostanski. Jesse Kristensen, and Peter Kuplowsky executive produce. Take a look at some of the first images.
Continue reading →
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MidWest WeirdFest— a cinematic celebration of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird — has announced its first programming wave for 2020. The fourth annual installment of the festival takes place March 6–8, 2020 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. “MidWest WeirdFest is back with the type of cutting edge genre, paranormal, and underground cinema that our regular attendees have come to expect, and that first-time fest-goers are going to adore,” said festival founder and programming director Dean Bertram. “We are delighted to announce this year’s first wave of feature programming. From murderous puppets and ghostly encounters, through legendary beasties and UFOs, to Lovecraftian nightmares and serial killers, the festival’s 2020 program is loaded with weirdness — some of it real, some of it imagined, and much of it from that mysterious twilight territory that lays in between.” The first seven feature films announced follow. I saw Puppet Killer as part of Canada’s Blood in
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorHuluMoviesMusicNewsShowStreaming TVTrailers
This February grab your sweetheart, cuddle up on the couch and tune in for Into the Dark: My Valentine. Not only do we have the trailer, but we also have the new original music video “Treasure Me” from the episode’s star Trezzure. Check it out. Influenced by some of the biggest pop scandals over the past decade, My Valentine follows Valentine, whose songs and artistic identity have been stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager – and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé, Trezzure. Writer-director Maggie Levin reveals what happens when the two worlds collide and find themselves face-to-face. Locked together in a small concert venue after hours, the three of them confront the scars of the past…until they take things into their own hands. Britt Baron (GLOW), Anna Lore (Doom Patrol), Benedict Samuel (Gotham), and Anna Akana (Let It Snow) star. Into the Dark: My Valentine debuts on Hulu on February 7th.
Continue reading →
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A woman’s panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spirals out of control in Blood on Her Name, the 100% certified fresh feature debut from Atlanta-based filmmaker Matthew Pope. The new trailer has been released ahead of its theatrical debut later this month and it is intense. In Blood on Her Name, “the dead body lies at her feet, its blood still draining onto the floor. It was an accident, borne of self-defense, but its discovery could have devastating consequences for local garage owner Leigh Tiller and her son. In a panic, Leigh decides to conceal the crime, cleaning the bloody scene and scrambling to dispose of the body. But can she actually disappear a man from the earth—from his family—leaving them forever wondering? As Leigh is torn between her primal instincts and tortured conscience she struggles to keep her sins hidden from her estranged father–a cop with a long history of moral compromise –and from the keen-eyed girlfriend
Continue reading →
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Osgood Perkins has become a heavy hitter in the horror genre, delivering films like The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and Gretel & Hansel, which just arrived in theaters. So, you may be wondering what’s next for Perkins. According to Bloody Disgusting, he’s next doing a loose adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay‘s A Head Full of Ghosts which won the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Stephen King said the novel, “Sacred the living hell out of me and I’m pretty hard to scare.” The plot of the novel involves an American family under strain when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Marjorie Barrett, exhibits signs of mental illness. The story is told from the point of view of Marjorie’s eight-year-old sister, Merry. The novel includes elements of Catholic exorcism and reality television exploitation. It’s certainly a script that I’m happy about. Whether or not that becomes a movie, you know how
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