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Bill Skarsgård And Maika Monroe Are Ready To Fight In The First ‘Villians’ Image

IT actor Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe (It Follows), Jeffrey Donovan (“Shut Eye”), and Kyra Sedgwick (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) star in Villians. In the first image, we see Skarsgård and Monroe looking like they’re ready for a fight. Written and directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, Villians follows Mickey and Jules, lovers on the run, headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State. When their car dies after a gas station robbery, they break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out. Villians, co-produced by BRON Studios, Star Thrower Entertainment, Creative Wealth Media Finance, and The Realm Films, will be released nationwide on September 20, 2019, from ALTER, Gunpowder & Sky’s horror brand.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 9, 2019

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A Missing Girl Leads To An Extreme Haunt In The ‘HELLmington’ Trailer

The frightening film HELLmington, from writer-directors Justin Hewitt-Drakulic and Alex Lee Williams premieres on DVD and Digital this September. Genre icon Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Top Gun, Turbo Kid) and “Shadowhunters” actor Nicola Correia-Damude stars in this year’s Blair Witch Project, an effectively frightening and chilling look inside the walls of an asylum and the young blogger who disappeared within it. In 1999, outside the sleepy town of Hellmington, troubled high school senior Katie Owens mysteriously vanished. Nine years later, Detective Samantha Woodhouse, a former classmate of Katie’s, returns to Hellmington for the first time since graduation to deal with the unexpected death of her father. His passing just another tragedy in an already devastating year for Sam: her own daughter was murdered, resulting in a downward spiral of anguish and guilt that has slowly destroyed her marriage and career. Sam soon discovers that her father’s demise is one in a series of suspicious deaths over the last several years,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 8, 2019

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Suspense Thriller ‘A Dark Place’ On Blu-ray And Digital This August

Luke Baines (“Shadowhunters”, The Girl in the Photographs) stars in the captivating suspense drama A Dark Place, written, produced and directed by Christopher Piñero (Once Upon a Night, Leaving) in his feature-length directorial debut. arriving on Digital, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand August 13. Named Best Thriller at the Manhattan Film Festival (2018), A Dark Place follows Alex, a twenty-something struggling to put his life back together after mistakes and a reckless past render his job search hopeless. Just when things are looking up, Alex discovers a secret that sends him into a self-destructive downward spiral, bringing his two best friends down with him. The feature also stars Jazlyn Yoder (“Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Justice”), Jay Eftimoski (Anatomy of Violence, Suburban Cowboy), Mike Miller (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Christopher Donnellon (Criminal Intention, Drama Class), and Veronica Diaz Carranza (Dark Was the Night, Taco Shop). A Dark Place arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, and On Demand August 13th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 5, 2019

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Game Review: ‘The Church In The Darkness’

Fellow Traveler and Paranoid Productions indoctrinated me into the Collective Justice Mission and have sent me down to South America to join my fellow members of the congregation in Freedom Town… Well, they were just cool enough to let me try out their game The Church in the Darkness. The game takes place in the 1970s where you take on the role of an ex-cop named Vic who infiltrates the Collective Justice Mission cult’s paradise Freedom Town in what seems to be an eerie parody of Jonestown. Vic’s mission is to find his nephew Alex to see if he’s alright but soon after you arrive, you realize not everything is well. The game is a top view game where you can zoom in a little bit to see more details but other than that, this is the only angle you will see. This actually does help as when you couch you can see the guard’s field of view (depending on

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Capt McNeely

Aug 2, 2019

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‘Freaks’ Gets A New Stunning Poster And A Friday The 13th Release Date

From writer-directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky comes the award-winning science-fiction thriller Freaks whose trailer and stunning poster (by Chris Shy of Studio Ronin) have just arrived. In the film, a disturbed father (Emile Hirsch) locks his bold 7-year-old daughter (Lexy Kolker) in a house, warning her of grave dangers outside. But the mysterious Mr. Snowcone (Bruce Dern) convinces the girl to escape and join him on a quest for family, freedom, and revenge. Grace Park, Amanda Crew, and Lexy Kolker round out the cast for Freaks that took the Jury Prize at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Vancouver International Fantastic Film Festival and winner of the Best Film (Audience Award) at the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival. The film is produced by Adam Stein, p.g.a., Zach Lipovsky, p.g.a, Jordan Barber, and Mitchell Waxman. M. Alan Stein, Rick Alyea, Philip Kim, and Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard serve as executive producers. Freaks lands in theaters

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 1, 2019

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A Dark Secret Is Discovered In The Thriller ‘Them That Follow’ – In Theaters This August

A young woman discovers a dangerous secret in the thriller Them That Follow, opening in theaters this August. From directors, Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage comes the film set deep in Appalachia, where Pastor Lemuel Childs (Walton Goggins) presides over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who willingly take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his devoted daughter, Mara (Alice Englert) prepares for her wedding day, under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Olivia Colman), a dangerous secret is unearthed and she is forced to confront the deadly tradition of her father’s church. Written by Brittany Poulton and Dan Madison Savage Them That Follows opens in select theaters on August 2, 2019, from 1091 (formerly known as The Orchard).

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 29, 2019

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Movie Review: American Killing (2019)

A dude named Jeb just so happens to be a director for a children’s television program…and that program just so happens to be tanking faster than Andrew Dice Clay at a feminist rally (I’ve been saving that one since 1988…I think you’ll agree it’s aged like a fine wine whose grapes were fermented in pure mirth). Anyway, ol’ Jeb has the 1000Watt idea to take a bunch of writers to a secluded lodge (the journey to which will bring to mind a certain Kubrick lensed fright flick…or the ending of the theatrical cut of Blade Runner…but what’s the difference really) to try and create some creative zeitgeist. Seems reasonable…oh, and Jeb decides to film everything with hidden cameras because he is coming unglued and is preparing a major case of the “goin’ ape-shits” that will leave the group all murdered like (but not before he uses their deepest secrets against them). I have to admit, ol’ American Killing shocked the

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Jul 28, 2019

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Movie Review: 3 Lives (2019)

Ol’ Emma (Mhairi Calvey) is well and truly in the sinister soup! She’s been kidnapped and chucked into an abandoned bunker with a dude named Ben (Tyron Ricketts), a real shit-heel who sexually assaulted our heroine 15 years prior… along with her old school chum Jamie (Martin Kaps). Soon this gaggle finds themselves b.d. in the stalk n’ slay bag as they strive to keep alive when the psychos that abducted them begin chasing them through the wicked woods. 3 Lives has it’s ups and downs. Co-Writer (along with Wolf-Peter Arand)/Director Juliane Block presents Emma as a character shattered by the damage Ben inflicted on her, and Calvey certainly has the acting chops to make that believable…but unfortunately the situation she finds herself in is cliche and predictable for anyone that is a fan of the slasher genre. Fortunately the tension is kept relatively high and effective so the goings-on remain mostly watchable throughout. See how I said “mostly” up

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Jul 28, 2019

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Pre-Order Your Copy Of The Sexy Supernatural Thriller ‘Perception’

From director Ilana Rein comes the sexy supernatural thriller Perception, arriving on VOD and Digital this August. Starring Wes Ramsey (General Hospital, Charmed), Meera Rohit Kumbhani (This Is Us, Dave Made a Maze), Caitlin Mehner (Best of Enemies, Ocean’s 8), and Max Jenkins (High Maintenance, Dead to Me). The film was written by Rein and Brian Smith. “When Daniel, a successful real estate developer, must evict Nina, a mysterious small-time psychic struggling to provide for her young son, the last thing he expects in return is a free reading. But when Nina senses the spirit of Daniel’s dead wife, a once-promising artist, his desire to reconnect with her quickly becomes an obsession. Haunted by memories, Daniel is determined to reunite with his wife—who may have designs of her own. Soon, Daniel and Nina must each decide how far they’ll go to get what they want in this supernatural, psychological thriller.” Perception will be available on VOD August 6th and digital

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 27, 2019

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The ‘Gwen’ Trailer Teases An Intense, Dark Folk Horror Tale

Ahead of its August release, the trailer has been unveiled for writer-director William McGregor’s dark folk horror, Gwen, teasing a family in peril. The film centers on Gwen, a young girl desperately trying to hold her home together – struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. As a growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, the local community grows suspicious and turns on Gwen and her family. Starring Maxine Peake and Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Gwen will be unleashed on Digital HD and On Demand August 16, 2019, from Shudder and RLJE Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 26, 2019

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