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Artsploitation has announced the release of Adolfo Kolmerer‘s award-winning film Snowflake flowing its festival tour where it won Best Film and Best Director. In the film, while hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic near-future Berlin, two outlaws find themselves trapped in the wicked fairy tale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge – apparently, all written by a clueless dentist. In their quest for vengeance, they must contend with a myriad of wicked fairy tale assassins, madmen, a blood-covered angel, and an electric-powered superhero. Reza Brojerdi, Erkan Acar, Xenia Assenza, David Masterson, Alexander Schubert, Adran Topol, and Gedeon Burkhard star in Snowflake arriving on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD on December 4, 2018.
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Anthony Peterson has 24 hours of air. A cell phone. And no way out. In the tradition of Saw and Buried, Cargo is set to arrive this week on home entertainment and follows a man who wakes to find he is trapped inside a cargo container with only a cell phone and is given 24 hours by his kidnappers to raise ten million dollars in ransom or die. Ron Thompson (American Me), Corbin Timbrook (The Glass Shield), Jose Rosete (”The Walking Dead: Red Machete”) and Danika Fields (”The Doctors”) star in the James Dylan film. Cargo arrives on VOD and DVD on November 13th from Wild Eye Releasing.
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This January, IFC Midnight’s frat house flick Pledge is ready to put you through hell week. The award-winning thriller, from director Daniel Robbins, is fresh off its festival tour and ready shock viewers. Pledge follows three nerdy college freshmen, Ethan, David, and Justin, are having a tough time adjusting to college life. Rejected and ridiculed by just about every fraternity on campus, they are prepared to give up all hope. That is until a girl invites them off campus to a party at a secluded mansion. They are not only invited in but also treated like princes by the resident brothers. The party is everything they dreamed college would be—beautiful women, drinking, and most importantly, a cool group of guys willing to accept them as one of their own. When the friends are presented with an opportunity to pledge the elite social club, they accept without hesitation. However, as the gruesome, dehumanizing hazing progresses, a more sinister picture of the
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The cast of James Wan’s DC series “Swamp Thing” continues to grow. Today, Kevin Durand has joined the cast that already includes Candyman’s Virginia Madsen, along with Crystal Reed, Jeryl Prescott, Jennifer Beals, Maria Sten, and Crystal Reed, with Friday the 13th‘s Derek Mears playing the title character based on the comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Durand has been cast as Jason Woodtrue, who is described as a brilliant but prickly “genius who is a biogeneticist without equal and he knows it. Brought in to study the unique properties of a small-town Louisiana swamp, Woodrue becomes fixated on unlocking the potential contained within — leading to tragic and monstrous consequences.” Woodtrue is also known as the super-villain Floronic Man aka Floro aka the Seeder, part human, part plant. Also referred to as “Plant Master” the character made his first appearance in The Atom #1 back in 1962. Written by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, the series follows
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While Child’s Play franchise creator Don Mancini and Universal are hard at work on their new franchise series, Orion and MGM have teamed up for the Child’s Play remake whose release date has just been announced. With Polaroid director Lars Klevberg in the director’s chair, Chucky will make his return to theaters next June. But that’s not all, Chucky’s getting a makeover. In the film’s first poster we get a glimpse at the new “Buddi” doll. ‘ The movie follows “(Aubrey Plaza) who gives her son (Gabrial Bateman) a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.” Beatrice Kitsos (“The Exorcist”), Brian Tyree Henry (“Atlanta”), and Ty Consiglio also star in the film written by Tyler Burton Smith (Kung Fury). Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg are producing under their KatzSmith Productions banner. Aaron Schmidt and Chris Ferguson are executive producing. Child’s Play will open in theaters on June 21, 2019.
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The Second season of Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” is currently in production and is expected to premiere next year on the streaming giant. The good news is, we won’t have to wait until then for another taste of the series that has cast a spell on fans. Netflix is releasing a Sabrina holiday special next month. In the special, “The Church of Night, like all covens, celebrates the Winter Solstice—the longest night of the year—when families gather together around the Yule Fire to sing pagan carols, tell ghost stories and huddle against the supernatural creatures that come out to cause mischief. Since the Winter Solstice is when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, it’s the perfect time to conduct a séance—which Sabrina convenes, to try and contact her mother. But the holidays are also a time for guests and visitors—both welcome and unwelcome—and you never know what might come down the chimney.” Titled
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Canadian stage and screen actor Douglas Rain who is known for his voiceover work has passed away Sunday evening of natural causes, he was 90. Douglas Rain studied theatre in both Canada and England resulting in him performing in a variety of stage shows (mainly Shakespearian) as well as appearing on numerous television shows and TV movie adaptations of stage productions. Douglas Rain is best known for his role of the self-aware shipboard A.I. HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and reprised the role in the 1984 sequel “2010: The year we make Contact”. He’s also played the voice of an evil computer character in the sci-fi comedy “Sleeper”. His portrayal of HAL disturbed many as he does horrible things and says things that are troubling but as he does his voice is eerily calm.
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Back in 1985, ABC aired 13 episodes of “The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo“, featuring the voice of horror icon Vincent Price as the character Vincent Van Ghoul. Next year, the story will continue in the form of a direct sequel whose brand new trailer arrived today via Collider. After the Mystery Inc. gang goofed up a case and nabbed an innocent man, they’re forced into early retirement from crime solving. It’s not long, however, before their old friend Vincent Van Ghoul needs help and pulls the team right back into action. The gang has unfinished business they must tend to, which involves catching a ghost that previously got away. It all happened one summer while Velma and Freddy were away at camp. Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Daphne secretly hunted down 12 of the world’s spookiest ghosts but failed to catch the evilest one of them all…the 13th ghost. Now the elusive spook is wreaking havoc. Vincent needs help having him captured
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John Goodman and Vera Farmiga star in Rupert Wyatt’s sci-fi/horror flick Captive State, set in Chicago a decade after and extratesterrial force has taken over. Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) both directed and co-wrote the screenplay along with Erica Beeney. Ashton Sanders (Moonlight) and Jonathan Majors also star. David Crockett and Wyatt produced with Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King executive producing. Captive State will open in theaters on March 29, 2019 via Focus Features.
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Back in 1973, George A. Romero made a film for TV, but it never aired and has gone nearly unseen. Titled The Amusement Park, the film made news on Twitter this weekend when best-selling author Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, The Living Dead) announced he was watching the “virtually unseen” Romero movie. During the thread, Kraus called the film “a revelation,” and “Romero’s most overtly horrifying film.” The people who funded it wouldn’t allow it. And no wonder. It’s hellish. In Romero’s long career of criticizing American institutions, never was he so merciless,” Kraus stated. “Where can you see this savage masterwork? You can’t. But I’m dedicating myself to changing that. Can you help? Yes, probably. Give me some time to figure out what’s what.” He continued. “This is truly one of those magical (cursed?) objects that I cannot believe has fallen through the cinematic cracks. We’ll drag it back.” Romeo’s widow, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, has already told fans that
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Artsploitation has announced the release of Adolfo Kolmerer‘s award-winning film Snowflake flowing its festival tour where it won Best Film and Best Director. In the film, while hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic near-future Berlin, two outlaws find themselves trapped in the wicked fairy tale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge – apparently, all written by a clueless dentist. In their quest for vengeance, they must contend with a myriad of wicked fairy tale assassins, madmen, a blood-covered angel, and an electric-powered superhero. Reza Brojerdi, Erkan Acar, Xenia Assenza, David Masterson, Alexander Schubert, Adran Topol, and Gedeon Burkhard star in Snowflake arriving on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD on December 4, 2018.
Continue reading →
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Anthony Peterson has 24 hours of air. A cell phone. And no way out. In the tradition of Saw and Buried, Cargo is set to arrive this week on home entertainment and follows a man who wakes to find he is trapped inside a cargo container with only a cell phone and is given 24 hours by his kidnappers to raise ten million dollars in ransom or die. Ron Thompson (American Me), Corbin Timbrook (The Glass Shield), Jose Rosete (”The Walking Dead: Red Machete”) and Danika Fields (”The Doctors”) star in the James Dylan film. Cargo arrives on VOD and DVD on November 13th from Wild Eye Releasing.
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This January, IFC Midnight’s frat house flick Pledge is ready to put you through hell week. The award-winning thriller, from director Daniel Robbins, is fresh off its festival tour and ready shock viewers. Pledge follows three nerdy college freshmen, Ethan, David, and Justin, are having a tough time adjusting to college life. Rejected and ridiculed by just about every fraternity on campus, they are prepared to give up all hope. That is until a girl invites them off campus to a party at a secluded mansion. They are not only invited in but also treated like princes by the resident brothers. The party is everything they dreamed college would be—beautiful women, drinking, and most importantly, a cool group of guys willing to accept them as one of their own. When the friends are presented with an opportunity to pledge the elite social club, they accept without hesitation. However, as the gruesome, dehumanizing hazing progresses, a more sinister picture of the
Continue reading →
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The cast of James Wan’s DC series “Swamp Thing” continues to grow. Today, Kevin Durand has joined the cast that already includes Candyman’s Virginia Madsen, along with Crystal Reed, Jeryl Prescott, Jennifer Beals, Maria Sten, and Crystal Reed, with Friday the 13th‘s Derek Mears playing the title character based on the comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Durand has been cast as Jason Woodtrue, who is described as a brilliant but prickly “genius who is a biogeneticist without equal and he knows it. Brought in to study the unique properties of a small-town Louisiana swamp, Woodrue becomes fixated on unlocking the potential contained within — leading to tragic and monstrous consequences.” Woodtrue is also known as the super-villain Floronic Man aka Floro aka the Seeder, part human, part plant. Also referred to as “Plant Master” the character made his first appearance in The Atom #1 back in 1962. Written by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, the series follows
Continue reading →
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While Child’s Play franchise creator Don Mancini and Universal are hard at work on their new franchise series, Orion and MGM have teamed up for the Child’s Play remake whose release date has just been announced. With Polaroid director Lars Klevberg in the director’s chair, Chucky will make his return to theaters next June. But that’s not all, Chucky’s getting a makeover. In the film’s first poster we get a glimpse at the new “Buddi” doll. ‘ The movie follows “(Aubrey Plaza) who gives her son (Gabrial Bateman) a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.” Beatrice Kitsos (“The Exorcist”), Brian Tyree Henry (“Atlanta”), and Ty Consiglio also star in the film written by Tyler Burton Smith (Kung Fury). Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg are producing under their KatzSmith Productions banner. Aaron Schmidt and Chris Ferguson are executive producing. Child’s Play will open in theaters on June 21, 2019.
Continue reading →
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The Second season of Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” is currently in production and is expected to premiere next year on the streaming giant. The good news is, we won’t have to wait until then for another taste of the series that has cast a spell on fans. Netflix is releasing a Sabrina holiday special next month. In the special, “The Church of Night, like all covens, celebrates the Winter Solstice—the longest night of the year—when families gather together around the Yule Fire to sing pagan carols, tell ghost stories and huddle against the supernatural creatures that come out to cause mischief. Since the Winter Solstice is when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, it’s the perfect time to conduct a séance—which Sabrina convenes, to try and contact her mother. But the holidays are also a time for guests and visitors—both welcome and unwelcome—and you never know what might come down the chimney.” Titled
Continue reading →
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Canadian stage and screen actor Douglas Rain who is known for his voiceover work has passed away Sunday evening of natural causes, he was 90. Douglas Rain studied theatre in both Canada and England resulting in him performing in a variety of stage shows (mainly Shakespearian) as well as appearing on numerous television shows and TV movie adaptations of stage productions. Douglas Rain is best known for his role of the self-aware shipboard A.I. HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and reprised the role in the 1984 sequel “2010: The year we make Contact”. He’s also played the voice of an evil computer character in the sci-fi comedy “Sleeper”. His portrayal of HAL disturbed many as he does horrible things and says things that are troubling but as he does his voice is eerily calm.
Continue reading →
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Back in 1985, ABC aired 13 episodes of “The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo“, featuring the voice of horror icon Vincent Price as the character Vincent Van Ghoul. Next year, the story will continue in the form of a direct sequel whose brand new trailer arrived today via Collider. After the Mystery Inc. gang goofed up a case and nabbed an innocent man, they’re forced into early retirement from crime solving. It’s not long, however, before their old friend Vincent Van Ghoul needs help and pulls the team right back into action. The gang has unfinished business they must tend to, which involves catching a ghost that previously got away. It all happened one summer while Velma and Freddy were away at camp. Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Daphne secretly hunted down 12 of the world’s spookiest ghosts but failed to catch the evilest one of them all…the 13th ghost. Now the elusive spook is wreaking havoc. Vincent needs help having him captured
Continue reading →
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John Goodman and Vera Farmiga star in Rupert Wyatt’s sci-fi/horror flick Captive State, set in Chicago a decade after and extratesterrial force has taken over. Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) both directed and co-wrote the screenplay along with Erica Beeney. Ashton Sanders (Moonlight) and Jonathan Majors also star. David Crockett and Wyatt produced with Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King executive producing. Captive State will open in theaters on March 29, 2019 via Focus Features.
Continue reading →
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Back in 1973, George A. Romero made a film for TV, but it never aired and has gone nearly unseen. Titled The Amusement Park, the film made news on Twitter this weekend when best-selling author Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, The Living Dead) announced he was watching the “virtually unseen” Romero movie. During the thread, Kraus called the film “a revelation,” and “Romero’s most overtly horrifying film.” The people who funded it wouldn’t allow it. And no wonder. It’s hellish. In Romero’s long career of criticizing American institutions, never was he so merciless,” Kraus stated. “Where can you see this savage masterwork? You can’t. But I’m dedicating myself to changing that. Can you help? Yes, probably. Give me some time to figure out what’s what.” He continued. “This is truly one of those magical (cursed?) objects that I cannot believe has fallen through the cinematic cracks. We’ll drag it back.” Romeo’s widow, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, has already told fans that
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