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Following the success of Netflix’s The Irishman Al Pacino is back in action in Amazon’s “Hunters,” the new action-packed, thrilling series executive produced by Jordan Peele. The new series follows a team of Nazi Hunters on a quest for revenge in New York City in 1977. We are introduced to the team in the new trailer. Inspired by true events, “Hunters follows a diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S.” Greg Austin, Logan Lerma, Dylan Baker, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Jeannie Berlin, Tiffany Berlin, and Carol Kane round out the cast. Produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions along with Sonar Entertainment, the series was created by David Weil (Moonfall), who is also writing and executive producing the series. “Hunters” premieres on Amazon Prime on February 21, 2020.
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The long and the short of Bloodhound is rather simple: Private dick Abel Walker (Ed Ackerman) is looking for a dame that has pulled a disappearing act, and he’s brought along his cameraman, Jim (David Foy), to document the whole sordid affair. As the plot sickens, our dudes find themselves balls deep in a swirling miasma of twists, turns, and murder. While that plot sounds straightforward, the actual picture is anything but. Writer/director Jason Richard Miller has created a unique animal in our ol’ horror biz; a heady mix of film noir (including the omnipresent narration the genre utilizes), found footage, and faux documentary. These techniques make the audience feel that we are actually a part of Walker’s high stakes investigation, and it all works pretty damn well. Adding to that is Ackerman’s dependable “everyman” performance that really gets us invested in our hero’s plight… one which may be way beyond his scope to contend with. Another element I enjoyed
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José Luis Montesinos’ Spanish-language thriller Ropes has been acquired Strand Releasing following its world premiere as Sitges Film Festival, Variety reports. Ropes centers on Elena, a young quadriplegic who is mourning the recent death of her sister and has moved to a country house with her father. While there, she has the help of Athos, a Belgian pastoral dog specially trained to help her. But the creature turns into her worst enemy after contracting a strange disease. Ropes written by Montesinos and Yako Blesa stars Paula del Río (“Retribution”) and Miguel Ángel Jenner. Arturo Mendiz produced under the Bastian Films banners with Carles Pastor producing as well. The film will be presented at the European Film Market during the Berlin Film Festival.
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The Ring Acadamy Award-nominated actress Naomi Watts returns to the horror genre in writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin‘s dark agoraphobic thriller The Wolf Hour. Watts stars as June, “a woman who was once a celebrated counter-culture figure now lives alone in her Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world during the notorious “Summer of Sam” in 1977. As she retreats further into isolation, an unseen tormentor begins exploiting her weaknesses.” Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Jeremy Bobb co-star. The Wolf Hour made its World Premiere at Sundance in 2019. As soon as a release date is announced we’ll let you know. In the meantime check out the intense trailer from Universal Pictures.
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All across jolly ol’ London-towne a masked bloke is offing people named Ben Lyk. this causes a ton of static for Ben Lyk (Eugene Simon), a wannabe social media gadfly who is a likable, if not very entertaining to watch, online presence. Soon, our hero finds himself in a safe-house, along with an ass-load of other Ben Lyks (of which there are a surprising number of) as the constabulary have gotten wise to the Lyk related homicides and rounded-up all potential victims. That of course is a right shit idea, and soon our Terminator stand in makes the scene, and our main man Ben is balls deep in trouble as he tries to deduce just why these Ben Lyk eliminations are going down in the first place! Running a scant 77 minutes, Kill Ben Lyk is consistently funny, suspenseful, and at times completely pitch black. It’s also rather timely as one of the Ben Lyk’s is a male-to-female transitioned former
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The Steven Spielberg-produced horror thriller The Turning is approaching its release date and judging by the trailer it’s going to be creepy AF. Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Davis, and Brooklynn Prince lead the cast for the film that follows a young woman hired as the nanny to two orphans who are convinced that the country mansion they live in is haunted. Floria Sigismondi directed the film with Jade Bartlett penning the latest version of the script by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring 2). Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee are producing. Stephen Spielberg is serving as executive producer for The Turning, based on The Turning, an adaptation of The Turning of the Screw by Henry James,will open in theaters on January 24th, from Universal Pictures.
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Netflix has ordered the new South Korean original series “The Silent Sea,” a sci-fi mystery thriller set in a future where Earth is running out of water, Variety reports. Based on Choi Hang-Yong’s 2014 short film who will be directing, the Netflix original will star Jung Woo-sung (“The King”, pictured) who will serve as executive producer. Woo-Sung and his management agency Artist Company developed the series that will begin production in the first half of 2020. The series follows a story of a group of Korean scientists who set off for the moon to retrieve unknown samples from an abandoned research station. “The Silent Sea” will be scripted by Park Eun-Kyo, who also penned the script for 2009’s Mother which won the Best Screenplay prize at the Asian Film Awards in 2010. Jung also stars in thriller Beasts Clawing at Straws premiering in February 2020.
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Amy Addams (Arrival) stars as a mentally ill woman in danger in the first trailer for director Joe Wright‘s The Woman in the Window. Written by Tracy Letts the film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by A.J. Finn and features an all-star cast that includes Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore. This suspense thriller centers on Anna Fox (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic child psychologist living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence that puts her own life in danger. The Woman in the Window is set to be released on May 15, 2020, from Fox.
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The first teaser trailer for the sequel to John Krasinski’s fantastic film A Quiet Place is currently playing exclusively with Black Christmas in theaters now. While we can’t share the teaser itself at the moment, we can share the first image from the film, simply titled A Quiet Place: Part II. The image reveals that Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe are all back to reprise their roles from the 2018 original directed by Krasinski who wrote the screenplay along with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck. Cillian Murphy, Djimon Housou, Lauren-Ashley Cristiano, Okieriete Onaodowan, Blake DeLong, and Wayne Duvall round out the cast. Word is Part II will pick up right after the events of the first film with Evelynn Abbott (Blunt), her two children, and the newborn still fighting for their lives and continuing to live in silence while the horrific, super hearing monsters continue to prowl and kill anything that makes the slightest sound. In the theater
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Sonata: “A composition for an instrumental soloist, often with piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.” Director Andrew Desmond‘s new supernatural thriller The Sonata will strike a chord with viewers this January when it arrives in theaters. Today, we have the dark and beautiful trailer to share with you. Starring Freya Tingley, Rutger Hauer, Simon Abkarian, and James Faulkner, the film centers on a young virtuoso violinist Rose (Freya Tingley) who after being informed of the sudden death of her long lost composer father (Rutger Hauer), inherits an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles (Simon Abkarian), her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, little by little starts to unlock secrets concerning her father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a somber plan imagined since the very day she was
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Following the success of Netflix’s The Irishman Al Pacino is back in action in Amazon’s “Hunters,” the new action-packed, thrilling series executive produced by Jordan Peele. The new series follows a team of Nazi Hunters on a quest for revenge in New York City in 1977. We are introduced to the team in the new trailer. Inspired by true events, “Hunters follows a diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S.” Greg Austin, Logan Lerma, Dylan Baker, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Jeannie Berlin, Tiffany Berlin, and Carol Kane round out the cast. Produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions along with Sonar Entertainment, the series was created by David Weil (Moonfall), who is also writing and executive producing the series. “Hunters” premieres on Amazon Prime on February 21, 2020.
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The long and the short of Bloodhound is rather simple: Private dick Abel Walker (Ed Ackerman) is looking for a dame that has pulled a disappearing act, and he’s brought along his cameraman, Jim (David Foy), to document the whole sordid affair. As the plot sickens, our dudes find themselves balls deep in a swirling miasma of twists, turns, and murder. While that plot sounds straightforward, the actual picture is anything but. Writer/director Jason Richard Miller has created a unique animal in our ol’ horror biz; a heady mix of film noir (including the omnipresent narration the genre utilizes), found footage, and faux documentary. These techniques make the audience feel that we are actually a part of Walker’s high stakes investigation, and it all works pretty damn well. Adding to that is Ackerman’s dependable “everyman” performance that really gets us invested in our hero’s plight… one which may be way beyond his scope to contend with. Another element I enjoyed
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José Luis Montesinos’ Spanish-language thriller Ropes has been acquired Strand Releasing following its world premiere as Sitges Film Festival, Variety reports. Ropes centers on Elena, a young quadriplegic who is mourning the recent death of her sister and has moved to a country house with her father. While there, she has the help of Athos, a Belgian pastoral dog specially trained to help her. But the creature turns into her worst enemy after contracting a strange disease. Ropes written by Montesinos and Yako Blesa stars Paula del Río (“Retribution”) and Miguel Ángel Jenner. Arturo Mendiz produced under the Bastian Films banners with Carles Pastor producing as well. The film will be presented at the European Film Market during the Berlin Film Festival.
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The Ring Acadamy Award-nominated actress Naomi Watts returns to the horror genre in writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin‘s dark agoraphobic thriller The Wolf Hour. Watts stars as June, “a woman who was once a celebrated counter-culture figure now lives alone in her Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world during the notorious “Summer of Sam” in 1977. As she retreats further into isolation, an unseen tormentor begins exploiting her weaknesses.” Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Jeremy Bobb co-star. The Wolf Hour made its World Premiere at Sundance in 2019. As soon as a release date is announced we’ll let you know. In the meantime check out the intense trailer from Universal Pictures.
Continue reading →
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All across jolly ol’ London-towne a masked bloke is offing people named Ben Lyk. this causes a ton of static for Ben Lyk (Eugene Simon), a wannabe social media gadfly who is a likable, if not very entertaining to watch, online presence. Soon, our hero finds himself in a safe-house, along with an ass-load of other Ben Lyks (of which there are a surprising number of) as the constabulary have gotten wise to the Lyk related homicides and rounded-up all potential victims. That of course is a right shit idea, and soon our Terminator stand in makes the scene, and our main man Ben is balls deep in trouble as he tries to deduce just why these Ben Lyk eliminations are going down in the first place! Running a scant 77 minutes, Kill Ben Lyk is consistently funny, suspenseful, and at times completely pitch black. It’s also rather timely as one of the Ben Lyk’s is a male-to-female transitioned former
Continue reading →
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The Steven Spielberg-produced horror thriller The Turning is approaching its release date and judging by the trailer it’s going to be creepy AF. Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Davis, and Brooklynn Prince lead the cast for the film that follows a young woman hired as the nanny to two orphans who are convinced that the country mansion they live in is haunted. Floria Sigismondi directed the film with Jade Bartlett penning the latest version of the script by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring 2). Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee are producing. Stephen Spielberg is serving as executive producer for The Turning, based on The Turning, an adaptation of The Turning of the Screw by Henry James,will open in theaters on January 24th, from Universal Pictures.
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Netflix has ordered the new South Korean original series “The Silent Sea,” a sci-fi mystery thriller set in a future where Earth is running out of water, Variety reports. Based on Choi Hang-Yong’s 2014 short film who will be directing, the Netflix original will star Jung Woo-sung (“The King”, pictured) who will serve as executive producer. Woo-Sung and his management agency Artist Company developed the series that will begin production in the first half of 2020. The series follows a story of a group of Korean scientists who set off for the moon to retrieve unknown samples from an abandoned research station. “The Silent Sea” will be scripted by Park Eun-Kyo, who also penned the script for 2009’s Mother which won the Best Screenplay prize at the Asian Film Awards in 2010. Jung also stars in thriller Beasts Clawing at Straws premiering in February 2020.
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Amy Addams (Arrival) stars as a mentally ill woman in danger in the first trailer for director Joe Wright‘s The Woman in the Window. Written by Tracy Letts the film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by A.J. Finn and features an all-star cast that includes Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore. This suspense thriller centers on Anna Fox (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic child psychologist living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence that puts her own life in danger. The Woman in the Window is set to be released on May 15, 2020, from Fox.
Continue reading →
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The first teaser trailer for the sequel to John Krasinski’s fantastic film A Quiet Place is currently playing exclusively with Black Christmas in theaters now. While we can’t share the teaser itself at the moment, we can share the first image from the film, simply titled A Quiet Place: Part II. The image reveals that Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe are all back to reprise their roles from the 2018 original directed by Krasinski who wrote the screenplay along with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck. Cillian Murphy, Djimon Housou, Lauren-Ashley Cristiano, Okieriete Onaodowan, Blake DeLong, and Wayne Duvall round out the cast. Word is Part II will pick up right after the events of the first film with Evelynn Abbott (Blunt), her two children, and the newborn still fighting for their lives and continuing to live in silence while the horrific, super hearing monsters continue to prowl and kill anything that makes the slightest sound. In the theater
Continue reading →
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Sonata: “A composition for an instrumental soloist, often with piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.” Director Andrew Desmond‘s new supernatural thriller The Sonata will strike a chord with viewers this January when it arrives in theaters. Today, we have the dark and beautiful trailer to share with you. Starring Freya Tingley, Rutger Hauer, Simon Abkarian, and James Faulkner, the film centers on a young virtuoso violinist Rose (Freya Tingley) who after being informed of the sudden death of her long lost composer father (Rutger Hauer), inherits an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles (Simon Abkarian), her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, little by little starts to unlock secrets concerning her father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a somber plan imagined since the very day she was
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