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Darren (Buck Braithwaite), Lou (Nadia Lamin), Jo (Abbey Gillett) and Mas (Omari Lake-Pottinger) are scratchin’ and survivin’ in an environment of poverty. Trying to get over, they become indebted to ye olde local crime lord; a totally reasonable and not at all violence prone individual…just fuckin’ with you; this dude makes them worried about their continued existence 24/7. Meanwhile, richie-rich sumbitch Marcus (Toby Wynn-Davies) and his disabled bro Clive (Gregory A. Smith) get even richer when they win the lottery. Hearing this bit o’ news, our troubled heroes decide to get their steal on to improve their shitty lives…this of course doesn’t go as planned. Violence ensues! Now of course home invasion thrillers are nothing new, and at it’s core Nefarious isn’t either…it has all the tropes of the genre, but I don’t think re-inventing the wicked wheel was the goal here. Co-Writer (along with Matthew Davies)/Director Richard Rowntree instead decides to concentrate on a slick visual style (aided and
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While it’s still early in the development phase, production Weekly is reporting that a new sequel for the Deep Blue Sea franchise is swimming our way, this time from Netflix. Unfortunately, no other details have been revealed. The franchise made a splash back in 1999 with the Renny Harlin-directed feature starring Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, L.L. Cool J, and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie centered on a group of scientists at an isolated research facility where they have been creating intelligent sharks. Last year Warner Bros. unleashed a sequel about scientists experimenting on bull sharks, of course, the sharks get out causing death and destruction. Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, and Michael Beach starred.
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From Deon Taylor, the director behind The Intruder comes Fatale, which has now been acquired Lionsgate, Deadline reports. “Fatale centers on a married man who finds himself living a nightmare as he is relentlessly compromised, out-witted and morally manipulated by a mysterious woman with whom he had a wild one night stand. How far will he go to save his marriage from his mistake?” Written and produced by David Loughery (The Intruder, Lakeview Terrace, Obsessed) this thriller stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank along with Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, and Tyrin Turner. Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group partnered with Roxanne Taylor to produce and is executive produced by partner Robert F. Smith.
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Painted Creek Productions (“Painted Creek) and Vision Films Inc. (“Vision) have announced the release of Harley Wallen’s action-thriller feature film Eternal Code. Eternal Code stars Richard Tyson (Black Hawk Down), Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 & 2), Billy Wirth (The Lost Boys), Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs), Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s Game of Death), Erika Hoveland (Injustice For All), Damien Chinappi (Betrayed), Kaiti Wallen (Moving Parts), Angelina Danielle Cama (Abstruse), Vida Ghaffari (The Mindy Project), Shane Hagedorn (Wild Faith), Harley Wallen (Bennett’s Song) and Calhoun Koenig (Law & Order SVU). “Breaking all moral and ethical codes, a genetic research company has developed a miracle device to sustain human life for the rich and powerful. When the company’s CEO (Erika Hoveland) refuses to approve these illegal methods, she and her husband (Billy Wirth) are kidnapped by a team of mercenaries (Scout Taylor-Compton, Harley Wallen) hired by Oliver (Richard Tyson) to keep them out of the way.
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The Debunkers; amateur detectives, video game enthusiasts, eternal virgins… okay, I made that last bit up, but it can be inferred with a large probability of being true… wait, where was I? Oh yeah, The Debunkers; Link (Josh Pinkowski), Snake (Izzy Pollak) and Dr. Mario (Blake Kevin Dwyer)… along with new recruit, Canadian foreign exchange student Shiek (Nicole DuBois) are the premier mystery debunking business in their town, a town that doesn’t exactly seem like it would be a hotbed of mysteries which makes their profit margin rather low I’d wager. Of course that all changes when two desperate girls, Heather and Joyce by name, come a-knocking with a real puzzler… figuring out who put the murder biz on their gal pal Nina. With a murderer around, The Debunkers will surely die… the end… okay, maybe they will prevail and become true heroes… but my money is on their demise. Look, I’ll lay it on the line here, Debunkers Inc.
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Poor Joel (Zack Robidas) has lost his job, but all is not food stamps, pot noodles, and The Price is Right for our hero as an old friend invites him to invest in a new company Empathy, Inc. What exactly does this operation provide to it’s customers? Why the ability for it’s rich-ass customers to experience life as someone that has nothing by inhabiting their body through VR technology and therefore appreciate what they have in life more. Absolutely nothing will go awry here. Now honestly, unemployed Joel could just wait a bit and experience this for real minus all the technology and doo-dads, but I digress… So, what does Empathy, Inc have going for it? First of all; director Yedidya Gorsetman and screenwriter Mark Leidner have delivered a hell of a tight sci-fi thriller with a nice undercurrent of mystery that keeps your putrid peepers locked on the screen throughout, and the truth behind the VR experiment pays off
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This October RJLE Fils will release Trick just in time for Halloween. From My Bloody Valentine director, Patrick Lussier who co-wrote the film with Todd Framer (Drive Angry) comes this frightening film starring Omar Epps (“House”) When a small town is visited every Halloween by a masked madman, Detective Mike Denver (Epps) will stop at nothing to discover who he is and how to stop him. Kristina Reyes (“Blindspot”), Jamie Kennedy (Scream) and Tom Atkins (Escape From New York) also star. We’re excited to release TRICK just in time for Halloween,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer at RLJE Films. “With thrilling plot twists and turns, TRICK will have audiences grasping the edge of their seats and will be the start of a terrifying new franchise.” Trick is a production of Durango Pictures and was produced by Ita Kennedy (“Ghost Hunters”) and Ellen Wander (Spinning Man). Ward and Jess De Leo from RLJE Films and negotiated the deal with Ellen
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Michael Jason Allen‘s intense new serial killer thriller Emulator has arrived on Amazon Prime in the US and the UK, as well as on Video On Demand worldwide from Reel Nightmare Films. In the film, “After serving 50 years in prison, a reformed high-profile serial killer is recruited by a homicide detective to catch his own sadistic copycat.” In the tradition of high-octane thrillers like Se7en & Kiss the Girls, Emulator is a gripping 90-minute film with lots of suspense, strong lead performances, and an emotional twist ending. A can’t miss for fans of true crime stories.” Says Armand Petri of Reel Nightmare Films. Known for The Twilight Zone-inspired horror film An Idle Mind is the Devil’s Playground, Michael Jason Allen stars and direct in Emulator, alongside frequent collaborators Kip Rosser and Rhett Crosby.
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Stephen King adaptations just keep coming, not that we’re complaining. The latest edition to the list is an adaptation of King’s Roadwork which is now in the works from Andy and Barbara Muschietti (IT, IT: Chapter Two), who will be producing. Pablo Trapero (The Clan) is directing. Production is set to begin next year. In the book, “It’s all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city’s Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart’s existence—whether it’s about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life. But as a result, something’s been happening inside Bart’s head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn’t prepared for—a complete and irrevocable burnout of the mental circuit breaker that keeps a mild-mannered person from turning to violent means. As the wheels of progress and a demolition
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The tech horror film A.M.I. (Artificial Machine Intelligence) is now out on all major platforms from Viva Pictures in the U. S. and IndustryWorks Studios in Canada. Coping with the loss of her mother, 17-year-old Cassie develops a mother-daughter bond with technology’s latest intelligent personal assistant. Their relationship takes a twisted turn when the Artificial Machine Intelligence begins to manipulate Cassie into committing heinous acts of murder. The young, talented cast of A.M.I. also includes Debs Howard (“Sonic The Hedgehog”), Sam Robert Muik (CW’s “Riverdale”), Havana Guppy (Hulu’s “Shut Eye”), and Phil Granger (Syfy’s “Ghost Wars”). Bonnie Hay (TV’s “A Million Little Things”) lends her voice to A.M.I., which is eerily soothing, yet creepy. Rusty Nixon directed from the script penned by James Clayton. In the USA, you can find A.M.I. on DIRECTV, Amazon, iTunes, and more. If you’re in Canada, check it out on iTunes, Google Play, and the Microsoft Store. But here’s a warning, you will never look
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Darren (Buck Braithwaite), Lou (Nadia Lamin), Jo (Abbey Gillett) and Mas (Omari Lake-Pottinger) are scratchin’ and survivin’ in an environment of poverty. Trying to get over, they become indebted to ye olde local crime lord; a totally reasonable and not at all violence prone individual…just fuckin’ with you; this dude makes them worried about their continued existence 24/7. Meanwhile, richie-rich sumbitch Marcus (Toby Wynn-Davies) and his disabled bro Clive (Gregory A. Smith) get even richer when they win the lottery. Hearing this bit o’ news, our troubled heroes decide to get their steal on to improve their shitty lives…this of course doesn’t go as planned. Violence ensues! Now of course home invasion thrillers are nothing new, and at it’s core Nefarious isn’t either…it has all the tropes of the genre, but I don’t think re-inventing the wicked wheel was the goal here. Co-Writer (along with Matthew Davies)/Director Richard Rowntree instead decides to concentrate on a slick visual style (aided and
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While it’s still early in the development phase, production Weekly is reporting that a new sequel for the Deep Blue Sea franchise is swimming our way, this time from Netflix. Unfortunately, no other details have been revealed. The franchise made a splash back in 1999 with the Renny Harlin-directed feature starring Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, L.L. Cool J, and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie centered on a group of scientists at an isolated research facility where they have been creating intelligent sharks. Last year Warner Bros. unleashed a sequel about scientists experimenting on bull sharks, of course, the sharks get out causing death and destruction. Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, and Michael Beach starred.
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From Deon Taylor, the director behind The Intruder comes Fatale, which has now been acquired Lionsgate, Deadline reports. “Fatale centers on a married man who finds himself living a nightmare as he is relentlessly compromised, out-witted and morally manipulated by a mysterious woman with whom he had a wild one night stand. How far will he go to save his marriage from his mistake?” Written and produced by David Loughery (The Intruder, Lakeview Terrace, Obsessed) this thriller stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank along with Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, and Tyrin Turner. Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group partnered with Roxanne Taylor to produce and is executive produced by partner Robert F. Smith.
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Painted Creek Productions (“Painted Creek) and Vision Films Inc. (“Vision) have announced the release of Harley Wallen’s action-thriller feature film Eternal Code. Eternal Code stars Richard Tyson (Black Hawk Down), Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 & 2), Billy Wirth (The Lost Boys), Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs), Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s Game of Death), Erika Hoveland (Injustice For All), Damien Chinappi (Betrayed), Kaiti Wallen (Moving Parts), Angelina Danielle Cama (Abstruse), Vida Ghaffari (The Mindy Project), Shane Hagedorn (Wild Faith), Harley Wallen (Bennett’s Song) and Calhoun Koenig (Law & Order SVU). “Breaking all moral and ethical codes, a genetic research company has developed a miracle device to sustain human life for the rich and powerful. When the company’s CEO (Erika Hoveland) refuses to approve these illegal methods, she and her husband (Billy Wirth) are kidnapped by a team of mercenaries (Scout Taylor-Compton, Harley Wallen) hired by Oliver (Richard Tyson) to keep them out of the way.
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The Debunkers; amateur detectives, video game enthusiasts, eternal virgins… okay, I made that last bit up, but it can be inferred with a large probability of being true… wait, where was I? Oh yeah, The Debunkers; Link (Josh Pinkowski), Snake (Izzy Pollak) and Dr. Mario (Blake Kevin Dwyer)… along with new recruit, Canadian foreign exchange student Shiek (Nicole DuBois) are the premier mystery debunking business in their town, a town that doesn’t exactly seem like it would be a hotbed of mysteries which makes their profit margin rather low I’d wager. Of course that all changes when two desperate girls, Heather and Joyce by name, come a-knocking with a real puzzler… figuring out who put the murder biz on their gal pal Nina. With a murderer around, The Debunkers will surely die… the end… okay, maybe they will prevail and become true heroes… but my money is on their demise. Look, I’ll lay it on the line here, Debunkers Inc.
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Poor Joel (Zack Robidas) has lost his job, but all is not food stamps, pot noodles, and The Price is Right for our hero as an old friend invites him to invest in a new company Empathy, Inc. What exactly does this operation provide to it’s customers? Why the ability for it’s rich-ass customers to experience life as someone that has nothing by inhabiting their body through VR technology and therefore appreciate what they have in life more. Absolutely nothing will go awry here. Now honestly, unemployed Joel could just wait a bit and experience this for real minus all the technology and doo-dads, but I digress… So, what does Empathy, Inc have going for it? First of all; director Yedidya Gorsetman and screenwriter Mark Leidner have delivered a hell of a tight sci-fi thriller with a nice undercurrent of mystery that keeps your putrid peepers locked on the screen throughout, and the truth behind the VR experiment pays off
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This October RJLE Fils will release Trick just in time for Halloween. From My Bloody Valentine director, Patrick Lussier who co-wrote the film with Todd Framer (Drive Angry) comes this frightening film starring Omar Epps (“House”) When a small town is visited every Halloween by a masked madman, Detective Mike Denver (Epps) will stop at nothing to discover who he is and how to stop him. Kristina Reyes (“Blindspot”), Jamie Kennedy (Scream) and Tom Atkins (Escape From New York) also star. We’re excited to release TRICK just in time for Halloween,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer at RLJE Films. “With thrilling plot twists and turns, TRICK will have audiences grasping the edge of their seats and will be the start of a terrifying new franchise.” Trick is a production of Durango Pictures and was produced by Ita Kennedy (“Ghost Hunters”) and Ellen Wander (Spinning Man). Ward and Jess De Leo from RLJE Films and negotiated the deal with Ellen
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Michael Jason Allen‘s intense new serial killer thriller Emulator has arrived on Amazon Prime in the US and the UK, as well as on Video On Demand worldwide from Reel Nightmare Films. In the film, “After serving 50 years in prison, a reformed high-profile serial killer is recruited by a homicide detective to catch his own sadistic copycat.” In the tradition of high-octane thrillers like Se7en & Kiss the Girls, Emulator is a gripping 90-minute film with lots of suspense, strong lead performances, and an emotional twist ending. A can’t miss for fans of true crime stories.” Says Armand Petri of Reel Nightmare Films. Known for The Twilight Zone-inspired horror film An Idle Mind is the Devil’s Playground, Michael Jason Allen stars and direct in Emulator, alongside frequent collaborators Kip Rosser and Rhett Crosby.
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Stephen King adaptations just keep coming, not that we’re complaining. The latest edition to the list is an adaptation of King’s Roadwork which is now in the works from Andy and Barbara Muschietti (IT, IT: Chapter Two), who will be producing. Pablo Trapero (The Clan) is directing. Production is set to begin next year. In the book, “It’s all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city’s Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart’s existence—whether it’s about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life. But as a result, something’s been happening inside Bart’s head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn’t prepared for—a complete and irrevocable burnout of the mental circuit breaker that keeps a mild-mannered person from turning to violent means. As the wheels of progress and a demolition
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The tech horror film A.M.I. (Artificial Machine Intelligence) is now out on all major platforms from Viva Pictures in the U. S. and IndustryWorks Studios in Canada. Coping with the loss of her mother, 17-year-old Cassie develops a mother-daughter bond with technology’s latest intelligent personal assistant. Their relationship takes a twisted turn when the Artificial Machine Intelligence begins to manipulate Cassie into committing heinous acts of murder. The young, talented cast of A.M.I. also includes Debs Howard (“Sonic The Hedgehog”), Sam Robert Muik (CW’s “Riverdale”), Havana Guppy (Hulu’s “Shut Eye”), and Phil Granger (Syfy’s “Ghost Wars”). Bonnie Hay (TV’s “A Million Little Things”) lends her voice to A.M.I., which is eerily soothing, yet creepy. Rusty Nixon directed from the script penned by James Clayton. In the USA, you can find A.M.I. on DIRECTV, Amazon, iTunes, and more. If you’re in Canada, check it out on iTunes, Google Play, and the Microsoft Store. But here’s a warning, you will never look
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