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Dark Secrets Come To Light In ‘The Darkness’

This June discover writer-director Tharun Mohan‘s (Baby, Purgatory State of Mind) haunting horror thriller The Darkness. On a country retreat, to write her new novel, Lisa feels another presence in the house, feeling as if a spirit is taking her over, sending her on a road to madness. Can she discover the truth behind the spirit in the house or will she be lost forever? Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor) stars as Lisa. The cast also includes Cyril Blake (The Waiting Game, Z-List), Katherine Hartshorne (Happiest Day, Chaos In The Spectrum), Jo Hart, and Adam Bond. Tharun Mohan and Honey Subin produce along with Tharun Productions. The Darkness will be unleashed on VOD and Digital on June 15, 2021, by Trinity Creative Partnership.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 9, 2021
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V.C. Andrews’ Landry Family 4-Movie Series Takes Us To The Bayou This July

Return to the Louisana Bayou this July for the V.C. Andrews’ Landry Family 4-Movie Series on DVD, from Lionsgate. Inspired by the best-selling novels from author V.C. Andrews comes a dark, twisted tale of family, jealousy, mystery, and magic. The films follow the story of Ruby Landry as she digs deeper into the roots of her mysterious family tree. Raised by her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, Ruby gets caught up in a web of dark secrets and betrayal over the course of four Lifetime® Original movies — Ruby, Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters, and Hidden Jewel — starring Raechelle Banno, Karina Banno, Naomi Judd, Gil Bellows, Lauralee Bell, and Ty Wood. The cast of the collection includes Raechelle Banno (TV’s “Pandora,” “Home and Away,” “In Your Dreams”), Crystal Fox (TV’s “Big Little Lies,” “The Haves and the Have Nots,” “In the Heat of the Night”), Primetime Emmy® winner Gil Bellows (2010, Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie, Temple Grandin), Grammy®

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2021
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“American Gods: Season Three” Coming To Blu-ray

Based on the massively popular novel by Neil Gaiman, one of the most-talked-about fantasy drama series “American Gods”: Season Three arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital) and DVD this July from Lionsgate. Starring Ricky Whittle (TV’s “The 100,” “Hollyoaks,” “Single Ladies”), Golden Globe® Award winner and Primetime Emmy® Award nominee Ian McShane (Golden Globe®: 2005, Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama, TV’s “Deadwood”; Primetime Emmy® Award: 2005, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, TV’s “Deadwood”), Emily Browning (Sucker Punch, Sleeping Beauty, TV’s “The Affair”), Pablo Schreiber (TV’s “Orange Is the New Black,” “Law & Order: SVU,” 13 Hours), and Crispin Glover (Back to the Future, Alice in Wonderland, Willard). “American Gods”: Season Three Blu-ray and DVD will be available for a price of $34.97 and $34.98, respectively. In Season three of this fantastic series, “dangerous secrets intensify the inevitable war building between the Old Gods of mythology and the New Gods of technology. When Shadow Moon discovers that

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2021
Go Deep Into The Forest To Witness A Fight For Survival In 'Gaia'

Go Deep Into The Forest To Witness A Fight For Survival In ‘Gaia’

This June, director Jaco Bouwer takes us deep into the forest for the terrifying and thrilling film Gaia. In the film, “An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When a strange being attacks their cabin, it’s clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness.” The film was written by Tertius Kapp, Gaia stars Monique Rockman, Cael Nel, Alex van Dyk, and Anthony Oseyemi. Jaco Bouwer, Tertius Kapp, and Jorrie van der Walt produce. This unnerving, award-winning film opens in theaters on June 18, 2021, followed by its release On Demand on June 25.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2021
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Scout Taylor-Compton And Kane Hodder Check Into ‘Room 9’ This July

Lionsgate’s Room 9, starring Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, The Evil Within), and Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Parts 7-10) is headed your way this July. “Long ago, Room 9 of the Johnson/Bedford Inn, located in a remote small town, was the site of a gruesome double murder. Decades later, with the town terrorized once again by a string of bloody ritual killings, a mysterious woman named Star arrives to investigate and suffers bizarre flashbacks related to the inn’s slayings. Is she connected to the killings…or the inn’s next victim?” The film was both written and directed by Thomas Walton and also stars Brian Anthony Wilson, Tony Devon, Michael Emery, and David Raine. Walton produces alongside Jared Safier, Phillip B. Goldfine, and Navid Sanati, withNick Peetros serving as associate producer and Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb, Mary Jane Bulseco, and Thomas Walton executive producing. Room 9 is out on DVD and Digital

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 5, 2021
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‘Nobody’ Hits 4K Ultra, Blu-ray and DVD This June

Emmy Award-winner Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) stars as an unlikely badass in the action-thriller Nobody, which was hit theaters earlier this year. Now, this balls to the walls movie is coming to 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, and DVD this month. Odenkirk stars as Hutch Masell, an underestimated husband and father who tolerates all the shit he’s given without ever pushing back. He’s a nobody in the eyes of those around him. When two thieves break into his home he doesn’t fight back, leaving his son Blake (Gage Munroe) and his wife Becca (Connie Nielsen) disappointed in and him, becoming more distant than ever. After the break-in, Hutch’s long-simmering rage ignites sending him on the warpath. His dark secrets and lethal skills come to light in a surge of brutal action. He must now save his family from a dangerous enemy played by Alexey Serebryakov, but he’ll never be seen as a “nobody” again. Christopher Lloyd, RZA, and Paisley Cadorath also

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 2, 2021
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Cult Horror ‘Son’ Premiering On Shudder

Writer-director Ivan Kavanagh‘s (Never Grow Old) unique supernatural horror Son is set to stream exclusively on Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Starring Andi Matichak (Halloween franchise, Assimilate), Emile Hirsch (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), and Luke David Blumm (The King of Staten Island), the film centers on Laura and her eight-year-old son David flee after a mysterious group breaks into her home in an attempt to kidnap David. Soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasing psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Son, which we called “a bloody good, emotional film,” in our review, debuts on Shudder on July 8, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 2, 2021
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Pledge To Watch ‘Initiation’ This June On Blu-ray Or DVD

A murder during Hell Week sends a college campus into panic as police race to discover the meaning of a single symbol, the key to the murder, and the school’s dark secret in Initiation. Jon Huertas, Isabella Gomez, Lindsay Lavanchy, Froy Gutierrez, Gattlin Griffith, Patrick Walker, Bart Johnson, Shireen Lai, Kent Faulcon, Yancy Butler, and Lochlyn Munro star in the horror movie directed by John Berardo, who co-wrote the film alongside Brian Frager, Lindsay Lavanchy. “During a university’s pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school’s dark secrets…and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.” Pledge to watch Initiation on Blu-ray or DVD on July 20, 2021, from Lionsgate. BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Hidden Secrets: Surviving Initiation The Final

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2021
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True Crime Movie ‘American Boogeyman’ Receives A Summer Release Date

Voltage Pictures has scored the rights to American Boogeyman, the untold story of the detective and rookie FBI profiler that hunted Ted Bundy. Daniel Farrands (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) both wrote and directs American Boogeyman starring Chad Michael Murray (House of Wax) as the infamous serial killer. “Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase “serial killer.” Ted Bundy is such a fascinatedly divisive character and is the true personification of evil,” said Voltage Pictures president and COO Jonathan Deckter.“Murray is so talented and expertly captures Bundy’s charm and seductive nature, traits that the notorious killer exploited to win the trust of his victims as well as society. It’s fantastic to continue working with the very gifted Lucas and Dan on this feature and bring engaging narratives to the screen.” Lin

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2021
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The Line Between A Writer’s Novel And Real Life Are Blurred In The Thriller ‘Deadly Illusions’

“Awkward” actress Greer Grammer stars alongside “Sex and the City” actress Kristen Davis in the psychological thriller Deadly Illusions. From writer-director Anna Elizabeth James, the film centers on a best-selling novelist (Davis) who is suffering from writer’s block. When she hires a young woman (Grammer) to watch over her twins. She appears to be a sweet innocent young woman, but looks can be deceiving. As the novelist finally begins to write again, the line between the life’s she’s been writing about and her own begins to blur. Dermot Mulroney, who recently appeared in the series “Hanna” and “Prodigal Son” also stars along with Shanola Hampton of “Shameless.” Director Anna Elizabeth James is known as a pioneer in the industry for her iPhone filmmaking and distribution methods and has been featured in Wired and The New York Times and has spoken at TEDx conferences. Davis and Grammer produce Deadly Illusions which premiered on Netflix in March and arrives on iTunes, Amazon,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2021

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Dark Secrets Come To Light In ‘The Darkness’

This June discover writer-director Tharun Mohan‘s (Baby, Purgatory State of Mind) haunting horror thriller The Darkness. On a country retreat, to write her new novel, Lisa feels another presence in the house, feeling as if a spirit is taking her over, sending her on a road to madness. Can she discover the truth behind the spirit in the house or will she be lost forever? Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor) stars as Lisa. The cast also includes Cyril Blake (The Waiting Game, Z-List), Katherine Hartshorne (Happiest Day, Chaos In The Spectrum), Jo Hart, and Adam Bond. Tharun Mohan and Honey Subin produce along with Tharun Productions. The Darkness will be unleashed on VOD and Digital on June 15, 2021, by Trinity Creative Partnership.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 9, 2021
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V.C. Andrews’ Landry Family 4-Movie Series Takes Us To The Bayou This July

Return to the Louisana Bayou this July for the V.C. Andrews’ Landry Family 4-Movie Series on DVD, from Lionsgate. Inspired by the best-selling novels from author V.C. Andrews comes a dark, twisted tale of family, jealousy, mystery, and magic. The films follow the story of Ruby Landry as she digs deeper into the roots of her mysterious family tree. Raised by her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, Ruby gets caught up in a web of dark secrets and betrayal over the course of four Lifetime® Original movies — Ruby, Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters, and Hidden Jewel — starring Raechelle Banno, Karina Banno, Naomi Judd, Gil Bellows, Lauralee Bell, and Ty Wood. The cast of the collection includes Raechelle Banno (TV’s “Pandora,” “Home and Away,” “In Your Dreams”), Crystal Fox (TV’s “Big Little Lies,” “The Haves and the Have Nots,” “In the Heat of the Night”), Primetime Emmy® winner Gil Bellows (2010, Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie, Temple Grandin), Grammy®

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2021
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“American Gods: Season Three” Coming To Blu-ray

Based on the massively popular novel by Neil Gaiman, one of the most-talked-about fantasy drama series “American Gods”: Season Three arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital) and DVD this July from Lionsgate. Starring Ricky Whittle (TV’s “The 100,” “Hollyoaks,” “Single Ladies”), Golden Globe® Award winner and Primetime Emmy® Award nominee Ian McShane (Golden Globe®: 2005, Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama, TV’s “Deadwood”; Primetime Emmy® Award: 2005, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, TV’s “Deadwood”), Emily Browning (Sucker Punch, Sleeping Beauty, TV’s “The Affair”), Pablo Schreiber (TV’s “Orange Is the New Black,” “Law & Order: SVU,” 13 Hours), and Crispin Glover (Back to the Future, Alice in Wonderland, Willard). “American Gods”: Season Three Blu-ray and DVD will be available for a price of $34.97 and $34.98, respectively. In Season three of this fantastic series, “dangerous secrets intensify the inevitable war building between the Old Gods of mythology and the New Gods of technology. When Shadow Moon discovers that

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2021
Go Deep Into The Forest To Witness A Fight For Survival In 'Gaia'

Go Deep Into The Forest To Witness A Fight For Survival In ‘Gaia’

This June, director Jaco Bouwer takes us deep into the forest for the terrifying and thrilling film Gaia. In the film, “An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When a strange being attacks their cabin, it’s clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness.” The film was written by Tertius Kapp, Gaia stars Monique Rockman, Cael Nel, Alex van Dyk, and Anthony Oseyemi. Jaco Bouwer, Tertius Kapp, and Jorrie van der Walt produce. This unnerving, award-winning film opens in theaters on June 18, 2021, followed by its release On Demand on June 25.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2021
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Scout Taylor-Compton And Kane Hodder Check Into ‘Room 9’ This July

Lionsgate’s Room 9, starring Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, The Evil Within), and Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Parts 7-10) is headed your way this July. “Long ago, Room 9 of the Johnson/Bedford Inn, located in a remote small town, was the site of a gruesome double murder. Decades later, with the town terrorized once again by a string of bloody ritual killings, a mysterious woman named Star arrives to investigate and suffers bizarre flashbacks related to the inn’s slayings. Is she connected to the killings…or the inn’s next victim?” The film was both written and directed by Thomas Walton and also stars Brian Anthony Wilson, Tony Devon, Michael Emery, and David Raine. Walton produces alongside Jared Safier, Phillip B. Goldfine, and Navid Sanati, withNick Peetros serving as associate producer and Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb, Mary Jane Bulseco, and Thomas Walton executive producing. Room 9 is out on DVD and Digital

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 5, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Nobody’ Hits 4K Ultra, Blu-ray and DVD This June

Emmy Award-winner Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) stars as an unlikely badass in the action-thriller Nobody, which was hit theaters earlier this year. Now, this balls to the walls movie is coming to 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, and DVD this month. Odenkirk stars as Hutch Masell, an underestimated husband and father who tolerates all the shit he’s given without ever pushing back. He’s a nobody in the eyes of those around him. When two thieves break into his home he doesn’t fight back, leaving his son Blake (Gage Munroe) and his wife Becca (Connie Nielsen) disappointed in and him, becoming more distant than ever. After the break-in, Hutch’s long-simmering rage ignites sending him on the warpath. His dark secrets and lethal skills come to light in a surge of brutal action. He must now save his family from a dangerous enemy played by Alexey Serebryakov, but he’ll never be seen as a “nobody” again. Christopher Lloyd, RZA, and Paisley Cadorath also

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 2, 2021
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Cult Horror ‘Son’ Premiering On Shudder

Writer-director Ivan Kavanagh‘s (Never Grow Old) unique supernatural horror Son is set to stream exclusively on Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Starring Andi Matichak (Halloween franchise, Assimilate), Emile Hirsch (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), and Luke David Blumm (The King of Staten Island), the film centers on Laura and her eight-year-old son David flee after a mysterious group breaks into her home in an attempt to kidnap David. Soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasing psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Son, which we called “a bloody good, emotional film,” in our review, debuts on Shudder on July 8, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 2, 2021
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Pledge To Watch ‘Initiation’ This June On Blu-ray Or DVD

A murder during Hell Week sends a college campus into panic as police race to discover the meaning of a single symbol, the key to the murder, and the school’s dark secret in Initiation. Jon Huertas, Isabella Gomez, Lindsay Lavanchy, Froy Gutierrez, Gattlin Griffith, Patrick Walker, Bart Johnson, Shireen Lai, Kent Faulcon, Yancy Butler, and Lochlyn Munro star in the horror movie directed by John Berardo, who co-wrote the film alongside Brian Frager, Lindsay Lavanchy. “During a university’s pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school’s dark secrets…and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.” Pledge to watch Initiation on Blu-ray or DVD on July 20, 2021, from Lionsgate. BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Hidden Secrets: Surviving Initiation The Final

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2021
Horror Fuel

True Crime Movie ‘American Boogeyman’ Receives A Summer Release Date

Voltage Pictures has scored the rights to American Boogeyman, the untold story of the detective and rookie FBI profiler that hunted Ted Bundy. Daniel Farrands (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) both wrote and directs American Boogeyman starring Chad Michael Murray (House of Wax) as the infamous serial killer. “Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase “serial killer.” Ted Bundy is such a fascinatedly divisive character and is the true personification of evil,” said Voltage Pictures president and COO Jonathan Deckter.“Murray is so talented and expertly captures Bundy’s charm and seductive nature, traits that the notorious killer exploited to win the trust of his victims as well as society. It’s fantastic to continue working with the very gifted Lucas and Dan on this feature and bring engaging narratives to the screen.” Lin

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2021
Horror Fuel

The Line Between A Writer’s Novel And Real Life Are Blurred In The Thriller ‘Deadly Illusions’

“Awkward” actress Greer Grammer stars alongside “Sex and the City” actress Kristen Davis in the psychological thriller Deadly Illusions. From writer-director Anna Elizabeth James, the film centers on a best-selling novelist (Davis) who is suffering from writer’s block. When she hires a young woman (Grammer) to watch over her twins. She appears to be a sweet innocent young woman, but looks can be deceiving. As the novelist finally begins to write again, the line between the life’s she’s been writing about and her own begins to blur. Dermot Mulroney, who recently appeared in the series “Hanna” and “Prodigal Son” also stars along with Shanola Hampton of “Shameless.” Director Anna Elizabeth James is known as a pioneer in the industry for her iPhone filmmaking and distribution methods and has been featured in Wired and The New York Times and has spoken at TEDx conferences. Davis and Grammer produce Deadly Illusions which premiered on Netflix in March and arrives on iTunes, Amazon,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2021
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