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The Queen Mary Sets Sail For New Horror Trilogy

Alice Eve (Belgravia, Star Trek) has signed onto star in The Queen Mary, the first film of a trilogy of highly anticipated feature horror films inspired by the hauntings on-board the infamous ocean liner. Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) will direct from the screenplay he co-wrote with Stephen Oliver, Tom Vaughan. Developed and produced by Brett Tomberlin of Imagination Design Works, along with Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall of White Horse Pictures (The Woman in Black, Let Me In, End of Watch), Thorsten Schumacher and Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science (Resistance), and Jason Newmark and Laurie Cook of Newscope. Docked in Long Beach, California, the multi-storied ocean liner, named Time Magazine’s most haunted place in the world, receives over two million visitors each year, drawn by its amazing history, legend, tours, and events. We were immediately obsessed with Gary’s intelligent and twisted multi-film take on a great American legend and could not be more excited working with an extremely gifted actor

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 1, 2021

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Exorcism Horror ‘The Seventh Day’ Starring Guy Pearce & Stephen Lang Premieres This March

Writer-director Justin P. Lange (The Dark) blurs the line between good and evil in the supernatural thriller The Seventh Day. Starring Guy Pearce, Vadhir Derbez, Stephen Lang, Brady Jenness, Robin Bartlett, and Keith David, the film centers on renowned “exorcist Father Peter (Guy Pearce) who teams up with a rookie apprentice for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.” Dallas Sonnier, Amanda Presmyk, Chelsea Davenport, and Kimberly Hwang produce The Seventh Day, coming to select theaters and arriving On Demand on March 26, 2021, from Vertical Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 1, 2021

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Werewolf Movie ‘Bloodthirsty’ Sinks Its Teeth Into A New Clip & Release Date

The werewolf horror Bloodthirsty has scored a release date from Brainstorm Media following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. Check out the new clip below. The female-driven film centers on vegan singer-songwriter Grey (Lauren Beatty) who goes to work on her second album with the notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels (Greg Bryk). As the album progresses, Grey starts to transform into a powerful beast with a thirst for blood, meat, and the hunt. Directed by Amelia Moses (Bleed with Me), the film was written by the mother-daughter duo Wendy Hill-Tout and Lowell, a singer-songwriter whose music is also featured on the film’s soundtrack. Horror veteran Michael Ironside (Scanners, Total Recall) stars alongside Lauren Beatty (Bleed for Me, Jigsaw), Katherine King So (“Transplant”), Judith Buchan (Let Him Go), Greg Bryk (Saw V), and Jayce McKenzie (The Hive). Wendy Hill-Tout and Michael Peterson produced with David Bond and Alan Bacchus executive producing. Brainstorm Media will unleash Bloodthirsty in limited theaters and on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 28, 2021

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Scott Cooper Reunites With Christian Bale For Edgar Allen Poe Movie ‘The Pale Blue Eye’

Louis Bayard‘s 2003 novel The Pale Blue Eye is being adapted for the big screen by Antlers director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers) who also penned the screenplay, according to Deadline. But that’s not all, Cooper will be reuniting with Oscar-winning American Psycho and The Dark Knight actor Christian Bale who is set to star. The two previously worked together on both Out of the Furnace and Hostiles. Deadline reports that “The thriller revolves around the attempt to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the US Military Academy at West Point. Bale will play a veteran detective who investigates the murders, helped by a detail-oriented young cadet who will later become a world-famous author, Edgar Allan Poe.” Even though Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston and died, delirious, in Baltimore, the majority of his life was spent in Virginia, my home state,” Scott Cooper said in a statement. “So I grew up with his

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 27, 2021

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A Trip To Turns Deadly In The ‘Shark Island’ Trailer

Shark season is here! Michael Paré and country music star Erin Alvey jump into the waters of Thailand in Shark Island. In the film, directed by Stephen “Scruffy” Edgewood, several beautiful models are invited to an exotic location for a photoshoot. There they model a rare $10 million dollar necklace for a wealthy investor. Unbeknownst to them, the island’s waters are infested with sharks. But, perhaps it’s not the sharks in the water they need to worry about. Alan Collett and Erin Alvey star with Russell Geoffrey Banks, Zara Dragon, Poi Haywood, Alexandra Merle, Jude S. Walko, and Selina Weismann rounding out the cast. Dustin Alexander penned the script based on the story by Daniel Zirilli. Paul Collett executive produced with Dante del Mare and Pranom Thumcha, Victory of the People, Blue Falcon Productions LLC, Pop Art Film Factory, and Oscuro Films producing. Lee Gibson and Andrew Reyes co-produced. The film’s soundtrack features songs by Ho’ Aikane, Erin Alvey, Evol

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 25, 2021

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Robbers Pick The Wrong House To Break Into In The ‘Hostage’ Trailer

Genre specialist Devilworks is gearing up to debut their new horror title Hostage, at this year’s EFM. Ahead of its debut, we’ve got the brand new trailer. Directed by Eddie Augustin, who co-wrote the film with Laura Ashley Pokisena, Hostage follows young cheerleader Ashley, who was adopted by her parent’s killers. Years later, during a home robbery, her crazed family reveals what they are really capable of and Ashley must decide who’s side she is on. Starring Nicole Hendersen, Mike Cannz, Daryl Marks, and Tina Trineer, the film was produced by ‘Anxious Eddy Inc’ – producers on the project includeTony Manolikakis, Katiuscia Pierre and Laura Ashley Polisena, and Giuseppe Monticciolo, who also executive produced. Devilworks will put the film up for sale at EFM (March 1st-5th).

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 24, 2021

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Dive Into The True Story Inspired Aquatic Horror ‘Buoyancy’

From Dutch filmmaker, Roel Leijten is making his feature writing and directing debut with the true-story-inspired aquatic horror-thriller Buoyancy, starring “The Flash” actress Rebecca Finch. In the film, “when an overly ambitious student gets invited for a submarine journey by an eccentric entrepreneur, she comes to realize that deep-down inside people are not who they pretend to be.” Michael Wagner (“Rosamunde Pilcher”), Eline Havenaar and Portia Booroff also star. In 2018, Leijten wrote and directed the short film Never Mind about the MeToo-era, which was selected at several international festivals and premiered at the 32nd edition of the Braunschweig International Film Festival. Dive into Buoyancy when it arrives on VOD and Digital on March 2, 2021, from High Octane Pictures.

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Feb 19, 2021

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RJLE & Shudder Will Introduce You To ‘Jakob’s Wife’ This April

RLJE Films and Shudder have acquired the rights to the horror film Jakob’s Wife ahead of its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. In the film, Anne is married to a small-town minister and feels like her life and marriage have been shrinking over the past 30 years. After a chance encounter with “The Master,” she discovers a new sense of power and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than before. As Anne is increasingly torn between her enticing new existence and her life before, the body count grows and Jakob realizes he will have to fight for the wife he took for granted. Travis Stevens (Girl on the Third Floor) directs from the script he co-wrote with Mark Steensland (The Special) and Kathy Charles (Castle Freak). Jakob’s Wife stars Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You’re Next), Larry Fessenden (Habit, Stake Land), Nyisha Bell (Coming 2 America), Mark Kelly (The Hot Zone), Sarah Lind (Wolfcop), Robert Rusler (A Nightmare

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 19, 2021

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A Group Of Women Fight To Survive A Cult In The New ‘Sacrilege’ Trailer

Devilworks has set a March release date for Sacrilege, the pagan cult horror film from writer-director David Creed. The film follows a group of young women during celebrations for the Summer solstice, as they are offered up as a sacrifice to a mysterious pagan goddess, who has the ability to sense their greatest fears. Using this power against them, she turns their nightmares into a horrifying reality. The cast includes Tamaryn Payne (Stalled, Vendetta), Emily Wyatt (Mission of Honor, Rise of the foot soldier: The Heist), Naomi Willow (NSR: The Jade, Bonded by Blood 2), Emma Spurgin Hussey (The Curse of Hobbes House, A Werewolf in England), Rory Wilton (An English Haunting, Fisherman’s Friends), and Sian Abrahams (Listen, Complete Strangers). Mark Kenna produced for the British production company Bad Blood Films. Executive producers include both Creed and Kenna, alongside Robin Holder and Layan Nourouz. Sacrilege will be released on March 16, 2021, on DVD and premium TVOD, followed by its

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 18, 2021

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Movie Review: Death Trip (2021)

Kelly (Kelly Kay) has two things on her mind; nightmares and a pending party at a secluded locale owned by her pal Garrett’s (Garrett Johnson). I’ll bet demons to diamonds those two ingredients will be mixed together right quick! Ridin’ shotgun for the affair are Tatyana (Tatyana Olal) and Melina (Melina Trimarchi), and soon the whole gaggle o’ girls are downing Molson (this flick was created in the Great White North, eh?), smokin’ weed, and bitching about who’ll have to sleep in the room that served as Garett’s grand-pappy’s deathbed. Speaking of “death”, our heroes also encounter Megan (Zoe Slobodzian), the underwear enthusiast next-door neighbor who’s father may have put the murder biz on her mommy dearest back in the day. With all that talk of goin’ tits up does it come as any surprise that the arcane abode they find themselves in appears to be haunted… but is it, is it really? With Death Trip, director James Watts and

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Feb 16, 2021

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