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Zach Gilford Joins The Cast Of The "Criminal Minds" Revival "Evolution"

Zach Gilford Joins The Cast Of The “Criminal Minds” Revival “Evolution”

The Paramount+ revival of “Criminal Minds,” titled “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” continues to add to its cast. The latest addition is Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass,” The Purge: Anarchy) who will play the reoccurring role of Elias Volt. The character is described as “an operations analyst for a global cyber-security firm who has a dark side and an obsession with death.” The original series, which premiered back in 2005 on CBS, came to an end in 2020 after 15 seasons. Now, “Evolution” will once again center on “the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers,” who will “come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers.” Unlike the original series that followed a story per episode format, “Evolution” will feature one story per season. This season, “As the world opens back up and the network goes operational, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time.” Along with

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022
'Project Wolf Hunting' Sailing Towards Its World Premiere At TIFF

‘Project Wolf Hunting’ Sailing Towards Its World Premiere At TIFF

Bloody bedlam breaks out on the high seas in writer-director Kim Hongsun’s gnarly action-horror that pits cops versus cons aboard a cargo ship with a sinister secret in its hold in Project Wolf Hunting, from Well Go USA, who brought you Train To Busan. “When efforts to extradite notorious convicts from the Philippines to South Korea are stymied by a deadly airport bombing, the Korean authorities commandeer the cargo freighter, Frontier Wolf, for their next transfer. As a rogues’ gallery of lowlifes, including a callous heir to a criminal empire (Seo In-guk), board the titanic vessel, they are escorted by two dozen hardened detectives and the vigilant oversight of a hot-headed Coast Guard captain (Sung Dong-il). Despite the heavy security, a plot to seize control of the ship percolates among the prisoners and soon boils over, but what neither cop nor crook appears to be privy to is that they are not the freighter’s only cargo. What starts as a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022
4K UHD Review: Blow Out (1981)

4K UHD Review: Blow Out (1981)

After his boss sends him out to record better sound effects for the upcoming slasher-epic Co-ed Frenzy, sound technician Jack Terry (John Travolta) heads to a local park to record where he witnesses a car careen off the road into a nearby body of water. Being a stand-up kinda guy, Jack dives in and rescues Sally (Robocop‘s Nancy Allen) whom he quickly learns was an escort out on a fling with prominent politician Governor George McRyan, who died in the accident by the by, and the powers that be are none to happy that anyone knows about Sally and the Gov’s sexcipades. Even though he vows to never mention Sally in public after being semi-strong armed, Jack begins investigating the incident via the audio he recorded that fateful night… audio that contains a distinct gunshot before the Governor’s tire blows out leading to the accident. Believing an assassination attempt took place, Jack edits together stills taken from a recording filmed

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DanXIII
Sep 10, 2022
The F*cking Fantastic, Action-Packed Film 'SISU' Is Out Today!

Movie Reviews: “Sisu” and “Baby Ruby” (Toronto International Film Festival)

Sisu I’m not big on war films and I’m rather picky about action movies, so when I tell you that Finnish war/action film Sisu provided one of the most fun times I have had watching a genre film this year, that statement should not be taken lightly. Light on dialogue but chock full of practically non-stop excitement and sporting more practical gore and make-up effects than many horror movies, Sisu is a cinematic rollercoaster ride from writer/director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports [2010]; Big Game [2014]) that will have audiences cheering out loud. In 1944 northern Denmark’s Lapland Plains, Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) is a prospector who discovers gold, only to be confronted by a band of Nazi soldiers as he walks with his dog to turn the gold into cash. Seeing the gold as their way of escaping punishment by death when the war ends, the Nazis, led by their commander (Aksel Hennie) aim to get their hands on the

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Joseph Perry
Sep 10, 2022
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'Final X: The Final Experiment' Premiering At The Silicon Beach Film Festival

‘Final X: The Final Experiment’ Premiering At The Silicon Beach Film Festival

Actor-director Thomas Haley’s newest film, Final X: The Final Experiment, is set to premiere at the iconic Chinese Theater for the 7th annual Silicon Beach Film Festival, today! “Everyone needs closure from something, Erik Crowe (Thomas Haley) has signed up for what he thinks is a social experiment for other people’s pain, but it just might be The Final Experiment for him, at the hands of three scientists (Jessica Cameron, Konstantin Lavysh, and James Duval) with seemingly unclear motives.” Final X stars James Duval (Donnie Darko, Independence Day, May), Konstantin Lavysh (Ice, The Americans), Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare, Song of Solomon, Red Eye), Robert Donovan (The Black Room, Art of the Dead, Sunset Society), Dani Inks ( Hornet, My Uncle John is a Zombie, Maskhead), and Hadiyyah Noelle (Intrusion, Boo Bitch). Final X: Final Experiment is produced by H2 Crew Productions. Final X: Final Experiment will have its world premiere at the Silicon Beach Film Festival on Saturday, September

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 10, 2022
Psychological & Body Horror Combine To Create The Shocking Film 'Masking Threshold' (Trailer)

Psychological & Body Horror Combine To Create The Shocking Film ‘Masking Threshold’ (Trailer)

Draft House Films is on the verge of releasing a film, unlike anything you have ever seen, Masking Threshold in which psychological horror meets body horror to create an unnerving film. In the film, “Frustrated by a constant ringing in his ears, a paranoid data analyst documents his obsessive attempts to cure his own debilitating tinnitus through a series of home experiments conducted in a make-shift lab. But as his research becomes increasingly dark and macabre, a horrifying secret behind his maddening condition is revealed with a potential cure more sinister than he could have ever imagined.” Inspired by Lovecraftian weird fiction and cosmicism, “experimental filmmaker Johannes Grenzfurthner takes us on an unsettling journey into the paranoia of the human mind to reveal the disastrous consequences of the relentless pursuit of knowledge.” Written by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Samantha Lienhard, Ethan Haslam stars as the voice of the protagonist, Katharina Rose also stars. The film is produced by Günther Friesinger, Julianne

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 10, 2022
True Crime Inspired Thriller 'The Good Nurse' Coming Netflix (Trailer)

Trailer Debuts For Netflix’s True-Crime Inspired Thriller ‘The Good Nurse’

While its title may be The Good Nurse, Netflix’s upcoming thriller is about someone who is anything but good. Set to premiere this October, the film is based on a real-life serial killer, Charles Cullen, and is an adaptation of Charles Graeber’s 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. The film is from BAFTA-nominated director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter, The Hunt) and Oscar-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917). It stars Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two) and Fantastic Beast’s Eddie Redmayne. In The Good Nurse, an infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients. In reality, Charles Cullen has been implicated in around 300 -yes, you read that right, 300 – deaths and earned himself the title of “Angel of Death.” Born in 1960, after leaving the Navy, the real Charles Cullen spent sixteen years killing while working as a nurse. He confessed to police that in 1988 he took his first victim

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 9, 2022
New Clips Unveiled To Celebrate Release Of The Smart House Horror 'Margaux'

New Clips Unveiled To Celebrate Release Of The Smart House Horror ‘Margaux’

We’ve gotten our claws on new clips released to celebrate today’s release of the thriller Margaux, starring Madison Pettis and Vanessa Morgan. “What Margaux wants, she gets. As a group of seniors celebrates their final college days at a smart house, the house’s highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux’s plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.” Directed by Steven C. Miller, Margaux also stars Richard Harmon, Lochlyn Munro, Jedidiah Goodacre, Phoebe Miu, Jordan Buhat, Brittany Mitchell, and Louis Lay. Maqeux is out today (9/9) on digital, from Paramount.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 9, 2022
Trapped, A Father And Daughter Struggle To Survive In The Chilling Thriller 'Frost' (Trailer)

Trapped, A Father And Daughter Struggle To Survive In The Chilling Thriller ‘Frost’ (Trailer)

Cleopatra Entertainment has announced the release of the chilling thriller Frost, directed by Brandon Slagle (Battle of Saipan) and based on James Cullen Bressack’s story and adapted by Robert Thompson. Starring Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2) and Devanny Pinn (House of Manson) as father and daughter who must fight for survival after being stranded on a remote mountainside during a storm. A full motion picture soundtrack for FROST is scheduled for both the CD and VINYL LP formats to accompany the film’s release and features contributions by Rick Wakeman (YES), Geoff Downes (YES/A,SIA), and Terry Reid – amongst others – courtesy of Cleopatra Records. Frost is set to be released on October 11, 2022, on Digital and Blu-ray.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 8, 2022
Stephen Lang Stars In 'Old Man' - Premiering This October

Lucy McKee’s ‘Old Man’ Gets A Chilling New Trailer

Buried secrets from the past surface in Lucky McKee’s highly-anticipated film Old Man, whose trailer has just arrived ahead of its October release. In the action-packed film, “When a lost hiker stumbles upon an erratic old man living in the woods, he could never have imagined the nightmare that awaits.” Starring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe), Marc Senter, Liana Wright-Mark, and Patch Darragh, and written by Joel Veach, Old Man lands in theaters and on VOD and Digital on October 14, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 7, 2022

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Zach Gilford Joins The Cast Of The "Criminal Minds" Revival "Evolution"

Zach Gilford Joins The Cast Of The “Criminal Minds” Revival “Evolution”

The Paramount+ revival of “Criminal Minds,” titled “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” continues to add to its cast. The latest addition is Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass,” The Purge: Anarchy) who will play the reoccurring role of Elias Volt. The character is described as “an operations analyst for a global cyber-security firm who has a dark side and an obsession with death.” The original series, which premiered back in 2005 on CBS, came to an end in 2020 after 15 seasons. Now, “Evolution” will once again center on “the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers,” who will “come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers.” Unlike the original series that followed a story per episode format, “Evolution” will feature one story per season. This season, “As the world opens back up and the network goes operational, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time.” Along with

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022
'Project Wolf Hunting' Sailing Towards Its World Premiere At TIFF

‘Project Wolf Hunting’ Sailing Towards Its World Premiere At TIFF

Bloody bedlam breaks out on the high seas in writer-director Kim Hongsun’s gnarly action-horror that pits cops versus cons aboard a cargo ship with a sinister secret in its hold in Project Wolf Hunting, from Well Go USA, who brought you Train To Busan. “When efforts to extradite notorious convicts from the Philippines to South Korea are stymied by a deadly airport bombing, the Korean authorities commandeer the cargo freighter, Frontier Wolf, for their next transfer. As a rogues’ gallery of lowlifes, including a callous heir to a criminal empire (Seo In-guk), board the titanic vessel, they are escorted by two dozen hardened detectives and the vigilant oversight of a hot-headed Coast Guard captain (Sung Dong-il). Despite the heavy security, a plot to seize control of the ship percolates among the prisoners and soon boils over, but what neither cop nor crook appears to be privy to is that they are not the freighter’s only cargo. What starts as a

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022
4K UHD Review: Blow Out (1981)

4K UHD Review: Blow Out (1981)

After his boss sends him out to record better sound effects for the upcoming slasher-epic Co-ed Frenzy, sound technician Jack Terry (John Travolta) heads to a local park to record where he witnesses a car careen off the road into a nearby body of water. Being a stand-up kinda guy, Jack dives in and rescues Sally (Robocop‘s Nancy Allen) whom he quickly learns was an escort out on a fling with prominent politician Governor George McRyan, who died in the accident by the by, and the powers that be are none to happy that anyone knows about Sally and the Gov’s sexcipades. Even though he vows to never mention Sally in public after being semi-strong armed, Jack begins investigating the incident via the audio he recorded that fateful night… audio that contains a distinct gunshot before the Governor’s tire blows out leading to the accident. Believing an assassination attempt took place, Jack edits together stills taken from a recording filmed

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 10, 2022
The F*cking Fantastic, Action-Packed Film 'SISU' Is Out Today!

Movie Reviews: “Sisu” and “Baby Ruby” (Toronto International Film Festival)

Sisu I’m not big on war films and I’m rather picky about action movies, so when I tell you that Finnish war/action film Sisu provided one of the most fun times I have had watching a genre film this year, that statement should not be taken lightly. Light on dialogue but chock full of practically non-stop excitement and sporting more practical gore and make-up effects than many horror movies, Sisu is a cinematic rollercoaster ride from writer/director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports [2010]; Big Game [2014]) that will have audiences cheering out loud. In 1944 northern Denmark’s Lapland Plains, Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) is a prospector who discovers gold, only to be confronted by a band of Nazi soldiers as he walks with his dog to turn the gold into cash. Seeing the gold as their way of escaping punishment by death when the war ends, the Nazis, led by their commander (Aksel Hennie) aim to get their hands on the

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Sep 10, 2022
'Final X: The Final Experiment' Premiering At The Silicon Beach Film Festival

‘Final X: The Final Experiment’ Premiering At The Silicon Beach Film Festival

Actor-director Thomas Haley’s newest film, Final X: The Final Experiment, is set to premiere at the iconic Chinese Theater for the 7th annual Silicon Beach Film Festival, today! “Everyone needs closure from something, Erik Crowe (Thomas Haley) has signed up for what he thinks is a social experiment for other people’s pain, but it just might be The Final Experiment for him, at the hands of three scientists (Jessica Cameron, Konstantin Lavysh, and James Duval) with seemingly unclear motives.” Final X stars James Duval (Donnie Darko, Independence Day, May), Konstantin Lavysh (Ice, The Americans), Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare, Song of Solomon, Red Eye), Robert Donovan (The Black Room, Art of the Dead, Sunset Society), Dani Inks ( Hornet, My Uncle John is a Zombie, Maskhead), and Hadiyyah Noelle (Intrusion, Boo Bitch). Final X: Final Experiment is produced by H2 Crew Productions. Final X: Final Experiment will have its world premiere at the Silicon Beach Film Festival on Saturday, September

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 10, 2022
Psychological & Body Horror Combine To Create The Shocking Film 'Masking Threshold' (Trailer)

Psychological & Body Horror Combine To Create The Shocking Film ‘Masking Threshold’ (Trailer)

Draft House Films is on the verge of releasing a film, unlike anything you have ever seen, Masking Threshold in which psychological horror meets body horror to create an unnerving film. In the film, “Frustrated by a constant ringing in his ears, a paranoid data analyst documents his obsessive attempts to cure his own debilitating tinnitus through a series of home experiments conducted in a make-shift lab. But as his research becomes increasingly dark and macabre, a horrifying secret behind his maddening condition is revealed with a potential cure more sinister than he could have ever imagined.” Inspired by Lovecraftian weird fiction and cosmicism, “experimental filmmaker Johannes Grenzfurthner takes us on an unsettling journey into the paranoia of the human mind to reveal the disastrous consequences of the relentless pursuit of knowledge.” Written by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Samantha Lienhard, Ethan Haslam stars as the voice of the protagonist, Katharina Rose also stars. The film is produced by Günther Friesinger, Julianne

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 10, 2022
True Crime Inspired Thriller 'The Good Nurse' Coming Netflix (Trailer)

Trailer Debuts For Netflix’s True-Crime Inspired Thriller ‘The Good Nurse’

While its title may be The Good Nurse, Netflix’s upcoming thriller is about someone who is anything but good. Set to premiere this October, the film is based on a real-life serial killer, Charles Cullen, and is an adaptation of Charles Graeber’s 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. The film is from BAFTA-nominated director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter, The Hunt) and Oscar-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917). It stars Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two) and Fantastic Beast’s Eddie Redmayne. In The Good Nurse, an infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients. In reality, Charles Cullen has been implicated in around 300 -yes, you read that right, 300 – deaths and earned himself the title of “Angel of Death.” Born in 1960, after leaving the Navy, the real Charles Cullen spent sixteen years killing while working as a nurse. He confessed to police that in 1988 he took his first victim

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 9, 2022
New Clips Unveiled To Celebrate Release Of The Smart House Horror 'Margaux'

New Clips Unveiled To Celebrate Release Of The Smart House Horror ‘Margaux’

We’ve gotten our claws on new clips released to celebrate today’s release of the thriller Margaux, starring Madison Pettis and Vanessa Morgan. “What Margaux wants, she gets. As a group of seniors celebrates their final college days at a smart house, the house’s highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux’s plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.” Directed by Steven C. Miller, Margaux also stars Richard Harmon, Lochlyn Munro, Jedidiah Goodacre, Phoebe Miu, Jordan Buhat, Brittany Mitchell, and Louis Lay. Maqeux is out today (9/9) on digital, from Paramount.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 9, 2022
Trapped, A Father And Daughter Struggle To Survive In The Chilling Thriller 'Frost' (Trailer)

Trapped, A Father And Daughter Struggle To Survive In The Chilling Thriller ‘Frost’ (Trailer)

Cleopatra Entertainment has announced the release of the chilling thriller Frost, directed by Brandon Slagle (Battle of Saipan) and based on James Cullen Bressack’s story and adapted by Robert Thompson. Starring Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2) and Devanny Pinn (House of Manson) as father and daughter who must fight for survival after being stranded on a remote mountainside during a storm. A full motion picture soundtrack for FROST is scheduled for both the CD and VINYL LP formats to accompany the film’s release and features contributions by Rick Wakeman (YES), Geoff Downes (YES/A,SIA), and Terry Reid – amongst others – courtesy of Cleopatra Records. Frost is set to be released on October 11, 2022, on Digital and Blu-ray.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 8, 2022
Stephen Lang Stars In 'Old Man' - Premiering This October

Lucy McKee’s ‘Old Man’ Gets A Chilling New Trailer

Buried secrets from the past surface in Lucky McKee’s highly-anticipated film Old Man, whose trailer has just arrived ahead of its October release. In the action-packed film, “When a lost hiker stumbles upon an erratic old man living in the woods, he could never have imagined the nightmare that awaits.” Starring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe), Marc Senter, Liana Wright-Mark, and Patch Darragh, and written by Joel Veach, Old Man lands in theaters and on VOD and Digital on October 14, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 7, 2022
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