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Divergent actress Shailene Woodley is set to star in the upcoming serial killer movie Misanthrope, which will begin filming in Atlanta this year, Variety reports. Directed by Damián Szifron, who was behind the Oscar-nominated Wild Tales, the film centers on a talented but troubled cop who is recruited by the FBI to help profile and track down a killer. FilmNation will present the film, written by Szifron and Jonathan Wakeham, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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William (Aidan Devine) is a simple farmer with a cushy side hustle; he makes the dead bodies generated by ye olde crime lord and his ilk vanish all nice and neat like, ya dig? Now ol’ Billiam ain’t fond of the gig, but it pays large, and with the dough he’s saving he plans on starting a better life for himself and his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston). Speaking of G-dawg; she’s convinced she sees the spirits of some of them stiffs haunting their humble abode! Things continue on until one day the corpse of a woman, Jackie (Jess Salgueiro) is dumped off…but she isn’t as dead as previously established. Our heroes nurse her back to health, and keep her captive until they can figure out just what in he hell to do with her…but the decision might not be their’s as those vile villains that left her for dead catch wind of their error and aim to rectify it post
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Principal production has begun on the scenic psychological thriller Paradise Cove. The Martin Guigui-helmed feature is now filming in Los Angeles. Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”, pictured) and Todd Grinnell (Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” and “Grace and Frankie”) and “True Blood” and “Once Upon a Time” alum Kristin Bauer van Straten star. In the film, “A contractor and his wife (Grinnell, Suvari) head to Malibu to flip his late mother’s beach house and are terrorized by the deranged homeless woman (Bauer van Straten) living underneath.” Paradise Cove is the latest feature for director Martin Guigui, who has enjoyed a long career as both a feature director and Grammy-nominated music producer. The script was penned by executive producer Sherry Klein, making her first foray into the thriller genre after starting her career on TV’s “Star Trek: Voyager” and recently working on the animated fantasy film franchise Ever After High. Mena Suvari is repped by APA
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Writer-director Neil Burger (Divergent) is headed to outer space for his next film, a sci-fi horror picture titled Voyagers, described as “Lord of the Flies in space.” The first casting news has come and it reveals some impressive names. Deadline is reporting that Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them), Lily-Rose Depp (The King), Tye Sheridan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) and Keean Johnson (Alita: Battle Angel) have already signed on to star. Isaac Hempstead Wright (Game Of Thrones), Kelvin Harrison (Mudbound), Chanté Adams (Roxanne Roxanne) and Madison Hu (Bizaardvark) are currently in negotiation to join the cast. In the film, “30 children are sent on a multi-generational mission to populate a new planet. After the captain of the mission is killed in mysterious circumstances, the young crew descends into chaos, aligning themselves into tribes as they surrender to their most feral impulses.” AGC Studios are producing along with Thunder Road.
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The star-packed psychological thriller I Saw a Man with Yellow Eyes began shooting this week in the Tampa and St. Petersburg Florida area. The incredible cast for this film includes Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up, 27 Dresses), musician turned actor Harry Connick Jr. (Hope Floats, Independence Day), and Madison Iseman who will face pure evil in Annabelle Comes Home this summer. Written and directed by Castille Landon (Sex Ed), I Saw a Man with Yellow Eyes follows a schizophrenic teenager who may or may not be imagining that her neighbor has kidnapped a child. She tells her skeptical parents about her visions, but they may be hiding an even more sinister secret themselves. Eugenie Bondurant, Enuk Okuma, Julia Vasi, Brian Yang, and Ashley Abrams co-star.
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Writer-director Tommy Stovall‘s (Hate Crime, Aaron’s Blood, Sedona) new film Room For Rent, starring horror icon Lin Shaye, will soon be released. Ahead of its arrival, I sat down with Stovall to discuss the horror thriller, his previous work, and what he’s doing now. Room for Rent centers on a lonely widow Joyce (Shaye) who rents out a room to make ends meet. She meets mysterious drifter Bob and takes him in as a tenant, but soon becomes obsessed with her much younger guest, making him the object of her deepest romantic fantasies. When a friend’s betrayal derails Joyce’s fantasy world, she seizes control of her own destiny with a deadly mission. Horror Fuel: “Your award-winning film Aaron’s Blood is a unique twist on the vampire genre, how did that idea come to you?” Tommy: “Well, the idea actually, my son played the child vampire in the film. When he was a lot younger, maybe five years old or so,
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When a young couple buys their dream home it quickly turns into a nightmare in The Intruder, starring Michael Ealy (Barber Shop), Meagan Good (The Unborn), and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow). Directed by Deon Taylor (Meet the Blacks), the thriller follows Scott and Annie, a young married couple who buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, thinking it is the ideal place to start a family. When the strangely attached seller (Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale. Joseph Sikora, Alvina August, Lili Sepe, Lee Shorten, and Carolyn Anderson co-star in this intense thriller. Roxanne Avent, Deon Taylor, Mark Burg, Jonathan Schwartz, and Brad Kaplan produced the film written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace). The Intruder opens in theaters on May 3, 2019.
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Years after a childhood prank goes horribly wrong, a clique of South Central LA teens find themselves terrorized during Homecoming weekend by a killer hell-bent on revenge. “What starts out as a cruel but innocent childhood prank turns deadly when introvert target Chauncey Page (Jason Woods) accidentally kills one of his tormentors. With their friend dead and young Chauncey sent to prison, the children at fault swallow their guilt and get on with their lives as best they can. Years later Chauncey is released. A tall, intimidating figure, his return to the neighborhood conjures uncomfortable feelings for the kids, now teenagers, who fear that he may want to confront them about the horrible past. With their high school preparing for Homecoming and parties and romance at the forefront of their minds, everyone is traumatized when members of their crew start turning up murdered in increasingly gruesome ways. It becomes clear that Chauncey wants far more than a simple apology—he wants
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Widow Joyce (Lin Shaye) was left high and dry with her ass in the air after her husband died and left her with nothing except the house they lived in…a house she gets the bright idea to turn into a bed and breakfast joint. This plan seems solid, but Joyce’s personality and quirks manage to piss off each and every guest of her establishment. Enter Bob (Oliver Rayon) a mysterious drifter (do they ever come in any other flavors?), who Joyce quickly becomes absolutely obsessed with…like the psycho-stalker style of obsessed, which goes about as off the rails as you would imagine, especially when a comely ex-guest Joyce has befriended makes the scene… Directed by Tommy Stovall from a screenplay by Stuart Flack, Room For Rent comes off like one of those thrillers you’d find on Lifetime…but is that a bad thing? Kind of. Devoid of mystery and suspense (we know who’s responsible for all of the menace right from
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The legendary Italian filmmaker who brought us Suspiria, Deep Red, Phenomena, and his collaboration with George A. Romero with Dawn of the Dead, Dario Argento, will now add video games to his list of works as the artistic director for the upcoming horror/thriller Dreadful Bond that’s being made by Clod Studio. The indie crowd-funded game is still in the works has a Kickstarter up where you can donate, and depending on how much you donate, can receive items signed by Argento himself! Dreadful Bond is a project that’s very close to my themes, to my films, to my dreams: it has something deep that struck me immediately. I got carried away on this new journey with Clod Studio” says Argento. The game is a supernatural, psychological thriller set in the first-person view of an unknown character who is exploring a mansion that was the site of recent horrors. The more the character explores the mansion, the more secrets they’ll uncover
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Divergent actress Shailene Woodley is set to star in the upcoming serial killer movie Misanthrope, which will begin filming in Atlanta this year, Variety reports. Directed by Damián Szifron, who was behind the Oscar-nominated Wild Tales, the film centers on a talented but troubled cop who is recruited by the FBI to help profile and track down a killer. FilmNation will present the film, written by Szifron and Jonathan Wakeham, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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William (Aidan Devine) is a simple farmer with a cushy side hustle; he makes the dead bodies generated by ye olde crime lord and his ilk vanish all nice and neat like, ya dig? Now ol’ Billiam ain’t fond of the gig, but it pays large, and with the dough he’s saving he plans on starting a better life for himself and his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston). Speaking of G-dawg; she’s convinced she sees the spirits of some of them stiffs haunting their humble abode! Things continue on until one day the corpse of a woman, Jackie (Jess Salgueiro) is dumped off…but she isn’t as dead as previously established. Our heroes nurse her back to health, and keep her captive until they can figure out just what in he hell to do with her…but the decision might not be their’s as those vile villains that left her for dead catch wind of their error and aim to rectify it post
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Principal production has begun on the scenic psychological thriller Paradise Cove. The Martin Guigui-helmed feature is now filming in Los Angeles. Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”, pictured) and Todd Grinnell (Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” and “Grace and Frankie”) and “True Blood” and “Once Upon a Time” alum Kristin Bauer van Straten star. In the film, “A contractor and his wife (Grinnell, Suvari) head to Malibu to flip his late mother’s beach house and are terrorized by the deranged homeless woman (Bauer van Straten) living underneath.” Paradise Cove is the latest feature for director Martin Guigui, who has enjoyed a long career as both a feature director and Grammy-nominated music producer. The script was penned by executive producer Sherry Klein, making her first foray into the thriller genre after starting her career on TV’s “Star Trek: Voyager” and recently working on the animated fantasy film franchise Ever After High. Mena Suvari is repped by APA
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Writer-director Neil Burger (Divergent) is headed to outer space for his next film, a sci-fi horror picture titled Voyagers, described as “Lord of the Flies in space.” The first casting news has come and it reveals some impressive names. Deadline is reporting that Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them), Lily-Rose Depp (The King), Tye Sheridan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) and Keean Johnson (Alita: Battle Angel) have already signed on to star. Isaac Hempstead Wright (Game Of Thrones), Kelvin Harrison (Mudbound), Chanté Adams (Roxanne Roxanne) and Madison Hu (Bizaardvark) are currently in negotiation to join the cast. In the film, “30 children are sent on a multi-generational mission to populate a new planet. After the captain of the mission is killed in mysterious circumstances, the young crew descends into chaos, aligning themselves into tribes as they surrender to their most feral impulses.” AGC Studios are producing along with Thunder Road.
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The star-packed psychological thriller I Saw a Man with Yellow Eyes began shooting this week in the Tampa and St. Petersburg Florida area. The incredible cast for this film includes Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up, 27 Dresses), musician turned actor Harry Connick Jr. (Hope Floats, Independence Day), and Madison Iseman who will face pure evil in Annabelle Comes Home this summer. Written and directed by Castille Landon (Sex Ed), I Saw a Man with Yellow Eyes follows a schizophrenic teenager who may or may not be imagining that her neighbor has kidnapped a child. She tells her skeptical parents about her visions, but they may be hiding an even more sinister secret themselves. Eugenie Bondurant, Enuk Okuma, Julia Vasi, Brian Yang, and Ashley Abrams co-star.
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Writer-director Tommy Stovall‘s (Hate Crime, Aaron’s Blood, Sedona) new film Room For Rent, starring horror icon Lin Shaye, will soon be released. Ahead of its arrival, I sat down with Stovall to discuss the horror thriller, his previous work, and what he’s doing now. Room for Rent centers on a lonely widow Joyce (Shaye) who rents out a room to make ends meet. She meets mysterious drifter Bob and takes him in as a tenant, but soon becomes obsessed with her much younger guest, making him the object of her deepest romantic fantasies. When a friend’s betrayal derails Joyce’s fantasy world, she seizes control of her own destiny with a deadly mission. Horror Fuel: “Your award-winning film Aaron’s Blood is a unique twist on the vampire genre, how did that idea come to you?” Tommy: “Well, the idea actually, my son played the child vampire in the film. When he was a lot younger, maybe five years old or so,
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When a young couple buys their dream home it quickly turns into a nightmare in The Intruder, starring Michael Ealy (Barber Shop), Meagan Good (The Unborn), and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow). Directed by Deon Taylor (Meet the Blacks), the thriller follows Scott and Annie, a young married couple who buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, thinking it is the ideal place to start a family. When the strangely attached seller (Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale. Joseph Sikora, Alvina August, Lili Sepe, Lee Shorten, and Carolyn Anderson co-star in this intense thriller. Roxanne Avent, Deon Taylor, Mark Burg, Jonathan Schwartz, and Brad Kaplan produced the film written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace). The Intruder opens in theaters on May 3, 2019.
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Years after a childhood prank goes horribly wrong, a clique of South Central LA teens find themselves terrorized during Homecoming weekend by a killer hell-bent on revenge. “What starts out as a cruel but innocent childhood prank turns deadly when introvert target Chauncey Page (Jason Woods) accidentally kills one of his tormentors. With their friend dead and young Chauncey sent to prison, the children at fault swallow their guilt and get on with their lives as best they can. Years later Chauncey is released. A tall, intimidating figure, his return to the neighborhood conjures uncomfortable feelings for the kids, now teenagers, who fear that he may want to confront them about the horrible past. With their high school preparing for Homecoming and parties and romance at the forefront of their minds, everyone is traumatized when members of their crew start turning up murdered in increasingly gruesome ways. It becomes clear that Chauncey wants far more than a simple apology—he wants
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Widow Joyce (Lin Shaye) was left high and dry with her ass in the air after her husband died and left her with nothing except the house they lived in…a house she gets the bright idea to turn into a bed and breakfast joint. This plan seems solid, but Joyce’s personality and quirks manage to piss off each and every guest of her establishment. Enter Bob (Oliver Rayon) a mysterious drifter (do they ever come in any other flavors?), who Joyce quickly becomes absolutely obsessed with…like the psycho-stalker style of obsessed, which goes about as off the rails as you would imagine, especially when a comely ex-guest Joyce has befriended makes the scene… Directed by Tommy Stovall from a screenplay by Stuart Flack, Room For Rent comes off like one of those thrillers you’d find on Lifetime…but is that a bad thing? Kind of. Devoid of mystery and suspense (we know who’s responsible for all of the menace right from
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The legendary Italian filmmaker who brought us Suspiria, Deep Red, Phenomena, and his collaboration with George A. Romero with Dawn of the Dead, Dario Argento, will now add video games to his list of works as the artistic director for the upcoming horror/thriller Dreadful Bond that’s being made by Clod Studio. The indie crowd-funded game is still in the works has a Kickstarter up where you can donate, and depending on how much you donate, can receive items signed by Argento himself! Dreadful Bond is a project that’s very close to my themes, to my films, to my dreams: it has something deep that struck me immediately. I got carried away on this new journey with Clod Studio” says Argento. The game is a supernatural, psychological thriller set in the first-person view of an unknown character who is exploring a mansion that was the site of recent horrors. The more the character explores the mansion, the more secrets they’ll uncover
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