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Cerrito Production has just released the blood-soaked trailer for writer-director Mario Cerrito III‘s cannibalistic horror flick Human Hibachi, which we called “A bloody tasty treat.” In the found footage style film, a Japanese man documents his girlfriends 35th birthday from the moment she wakes up to the moment everything goes wrong. Elizabeth Gaynor, Carmine Giordano, Wataru Nishida, Carley Harper, Sopheaktra Theng, Andrew Hunsicker, John Campanile, and Stafford Chavis star in Human Hibachi which is currently in post-production and looking to premiere in 2019. During our interview with Mario Cerrito III, we discussed the film and cannibalism in general. Be sure to check it out. Cerrito’s first film Deadly Gamble was signed to worldwide release. His second film The Listing will also is headed to Marche Du Film at Cannes film festival.
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Netflix’s series adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel “The Haunting of Hill House” has just premiered, and we’re going to share our review with you. Thinking they will make a quick profit, the Crain family moves into a grand house to make repairs and flip for a profit, but nothing is as easy as it sounds. Between the aging home’s repairs and the sudden troubles that quickly begin, their lives will forever be changed. The family is left to confront the haunting events of the home’s past along with the ghosts that still walk its halls as we jump between the past and the present, slowly revealing what terrifying events have set the family down their paths. The family’s eldest son, Steven (Michael Huisman/Paxton Singleton), is a writer of the paranormal sort. He finds himself in a troubled marriage thanks to secrets he’s long hidden from his wife. For some reason, even though he was 15 while the family lived
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Terror Films is set to release the award-winning film What the Waters Left Behind exclusively on Amazon Prime later this month. The film made its World Premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival, where the brother directing duo of Luciano and Nicolas Onetti took home the award for Best Promising Directors. The film also scored numerous other awards during its festival tour. The film centers on “Epecuén, one of the most important touristic villages of Argentina. Here, thousands of people would visit, attracted by the healing properties of its thermal waters. On November 10th, 1985, a huge volume of water broke the protecting embankment and the village was submerged under ten meters of salt water. Thirty years later, the waters have receded exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned. However, a group of young filmmakers embark upon the ruins in order to film a documentary. Ignoring the warnings, they find themselves stranded in the abandoned village. Contrary
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for thriller, suspense, and horror has just launched of Video Palace, its first scripted podcast created exclusively for Shudder by Nick Braccia and The Blair Witch Project producer Michael Monello. The series is co-written and directed by Ben Rock (20 Seconds to Live, Alien Raiders) and co-written by Bob DeRosa (Killers, White Collar). The 10-part series chronicles a young couple’s investigation into the origins of a mysterious VHS tape and the infamous video store from which it came. All episodes of Video Palace, along with 5 extended interview scenes, are available now on Shudder exclusively for its members. Episode 1 of Video Palace is also available to non-members on Apple Podcasts and other platforms, where subsequent episodes will be released weekly. Shudder is the preeminent destination for fans of horror and suspense, and we’re thrilled to launch our first scripted podcast for our members,” said Craig Engler, General Manager of Shudder. “With Video Palace,
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See Pauly Shore in a role like never before, as a psychotic serial killer in his new short psychological thriller Sin City Psycho which he also wrote, directed, and produced as a proof of concept. Known for his roles in films like Encino Man, Bio-Dome, and Son in Law, Shore stars as an unhinged killer, toying with his next victim played by Sharon Gardner. I’ve always wanted to play a psychopath, what actor doesn’t? I’ve been known for comedy my entire life, so it was really fun to dig in and do something unexpected. I came up with this premise a while ago; I’ve always loved Dexter, American Psycho, and Silence of the Lambs,” Shore stated. I thought filming something in Las Vegas regarding an unfaithful spouse made sense because people go to Vegas all the time and always say when they do bad things, ‘whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,’ that’s not the case for my character Donovan,
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Hulu is bringing Anne Rice‘s “Vampire Chronicles” to life in new original series. The book series was co-written by Rice’s son Christopher. Bryan Fuller, the showrunner for both “Star Trek: Discovery” and “American Gods” was attached earlier this year to write the script but has since stepped away, THR reports. The book series, which includes “Interview with the Vampire” follows an 18th-century French Nobleman Lestat de Lioncourt who becomes a vampire, travels the world, and even becoming a rock star. The 12th book in the series, “Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat” will be out later this year.
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MrCiastku and Fat Dog Games know how to make an entrance with a game release! Coming to Steam on Halloween (October 31st) 2018 is the first-person horror game “Apparition” where players are on a ghost hunt all the while being hunted themselves! Players will find themselves in the middle of a haunted forest with an Ouija board and the intention to contact the spirits that haunt the woods and gather evidence. The objective of the story is simple, gather evidence of the hauntings, and leave the forest alive-wait what? That’s right, there’s no Caspers in these woods! The ghosts are not alone as there are also demons’ wandering around and there’s no way to protect you from them, besides not being found in the first place! Players will have to decide when and if they want to wrap up their investigations because the more evidence you collect and clues you find, the more ghost hunting equipment you can unlock and
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Sony has moved up the theatrical release of Grudge, from The Eyes of My Mother director Nicolas Pesce, will now open 2 months ahead of its original release date. The cast has some serious horror cred including Insidious actress Lin Shaye, The Nun‘s Demian Bichir, and John Cho who led season 2 of “The Exorcist.” Andrea Riseborough, Betty Gilpin (“Glow”), William Sadler (The Mist), Jacki Weaver, and Frankie Faison also star. The script, penned by Jeff Buhler who is also behind Pet Sematary and Midnight Meat Train, is a new take on the 2004 American remake of Japan’s Ju-on (2002). The new film is the twelfth for the franchise that also includes two short films, several graphic novels, and a video game. Evil Dead‘s Sami Raimi and Robert Tapert are producing with Roy Lee (IT) executive producing. Grudge has already begun filming and its first images have been released. The film will open in theaters nationwide on June 21, 2019.
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Just because the Halloween season ends on October 31st, doesn’t mean the end of pulse-pounding programming on Travel Channel! We’ve got the action-packed, haunting highlights you don’t want to miss this November. In the season finale of “Haunted Live,” the Tennessee Wraith Chasers (interview) investigate one of America’s most haunted locations. Viewers not only get to watch the action live, but they can also participate in real time through Travel Channel’s Facebook Live! The animal world can not only be terrifying, but deadly. Watch as wildlife expert Casey Anderson hunts down man-eating tigers and a killer crocodile that is terrorizing local villages on all-new episodes of ‘Monster Encounters’ NEW EPISODES MONSTER ENCOUNTERS Wildlife expert Casey Anderson is not afraid to get dangerously close to the largest and fiercest creatures on the planet. In Travel Channel’s new series “Monster Encounters,” his mission is to track down and document evidence of animals so large, or unusual, that they defy belief. Employing the
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They came. They shopped. They saved the world! The next horror remake is coming from Roxanne Benjamin, who was one of the directors the fantastic 2015 indie horror film Southbound, is remaking 1984’s horror-comedy Night of the Comet for Orion Pictures. She will also be writing the script, Deadline reports. According to the site, the new version will be more horror than comedy this time around. The original was written and directed by Thom Eberhardt and centered on two sisters fighting zombies after a comet wipes out most of the life on Earth. Kelli Maroney, Catherine Mary Stewart, and Robert Beltran starred.
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Cerrito Production has just released the blood-soaked trailer for writer-director Mario Cerrito III‘s cannibalistic horror flick Human Hibachi, which we called “A bloody tasty treat.” In the found footage style film, a Japanese man documents his girlfriends 35th birthday from the moment she wakes up to the moment everything goes wrong. Elizabeth Gaynor, Carmine Giordano, Wataru Nishida, Carley Harper, Sopheaktra Theng, Andrew Hunsicker, John Campanile, and Stafford Chavis star in Human Hibachi which is currently in post-production and looking to premiere in 2019. During our interview with Mario Cerrito III, we discussed the film and cannibalism in general. Be sure to check it out. Cerrito’s first film Deadly Gamble was signed to worldwide release. His second film The Listing will also is headed to Marche Du Film at Cannes film festival.
Continue reading →
NetflixNewsReviews
Netflix’s series adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel “The Haunting of Hill House” has just premiered, and we’re going to share our review with you. Thinking they will make a quick profit, the Crain family moves into a grand house to make repairs and flip for a profit, but nothing is as easy as it sounds. Between the aging home’s repairs and the sudden troubles that quickly begin, their lives will forever be changed. The family is left to confront the haunting events of the home’s past along with the ghosts that still walk its halls as we jump between the past and the present, slowly revealing what terrifying events have set the family down their paths. The family’s eldest son, Steven (Michael Huisman/Paxton Singleton), is a writer of the paranormal sort. He finds himself in a troubled marriage thanks to secrets he’s long hidden from his wife. For some reason, even though he was 15 while the family lived
Continue reading →
Amazon Prime VideoMoviesNewsStreaming TVTrailers
Terror Films is set to release the award-winning film What the Waters Left Behind exclusively on Amazon Prime later this month. The film made its World Premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival, where the brother directing duo of Luciano and Nicolas Onetti took home the award for Best Promising Directors. The film also scored numerous other awards during its festival tour. The film centers on “Epecuén, one of the most important touristic villages of Argentina. Here, thousands of people would visit, attracted by the healing properties of its thermal waters. On November 10th, 1985, a huge volume of water broke the protecting embankment and the village was submerged under ten meters of salt water. Thirty years later, the waters have receded exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned. However, a group of young filmmakers embark upon the ruins in order to film a documentary. Ignoring the warnings, they find themselves stranded in the abandoned village. Contrary
Continue reading →
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for thriller, suspense, and horror has just launched of Video Palace, its first scripted podcast created exclusively for Shudder by Nick Braccia and The Blair Witch Project producer Michael Monello. The series is co-written and directed by Ben Rock (20 Seconds to Live, Alien Raiders) and co-written by Bob DeRosa (Killers, White Collar). The 10-part series chronicles a young couple’s investigation into the origins of a mysterious VHS tape and the infamous video store from which it came. All episodes of Video Palace, along with 5 extended interview scenes, are available now on Shudder exclusively for its members. Episode 1 of Video Palace is also available to non-members on Apple Podcasts and other platforms, where subsequent episodes will be released weekly. Shudder is the preeminent destination for fans of horror and suspense, and we’re thrilled to launch our first scripted podcast for our members,” said Craig Engler, General Manager of Shudder. “With Video Palace,
Continue reading →
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See Pauly Shore in a role like never before, as a psychotic serial killer in his new short psychological thriller Sin City Psycho which he also wrote, directed, and produced as a proof of concept. Known for his roles in films like Encino Man, Bio-Dome, and Son in Law, Shore stars as an unhinged killer, toying with his next victim played by Sharon Gardner. I’ve always wanted to play a psychopath, what actor doesn’t? I’ve been known for comedy my entire life, so it was really fun to dig in and do something unexpected. I came up with this premise a while ago; I’ve always loved Dexter, American Psycho, and Silence of the Lambs,” Shore stated. I thought filming something in Las Vegas regarding an unfaithful spouse made sense because people go to Vegas all the time and always say when they do bad things, ‘whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,’ that’s not the case for my character Donovan,
Continue reading →
HuluNewsStreaming TV
Hulu is bringing Anne Rice‘s “Vampire Chronicles” to life in new original series. The book series was co-written by Rice’s son Christopher. Bryan Fuller, the showrunner for both “Star Trek: Discovery” and “American Gods” was attached earlier this year to write the script but has since stepped away, THR reports. The book series, which includes “Interview with the Vampire” follows an 18th-century French Nobleman Lestat de Lioncourt who becomes a vampire, travels the world, and even becoming a rock star. The 12th book in the series, “Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat” will be out later this year.
Continue reading →
GamingIndieNewsParanormalProductTrailers
MrCiastku and Fat Dog Games know how to make an entrance with a game release! Coming to Steam on Halloween (October 31st) 2018 is the first-person horror game “Apparition” where players are on a ghost hunt all the while being hunted themselves! Players will find themselves in the middle of a haunted forest with an Ouija board and the intention to contact the spirits that haunt the woods and gather evidence. The objective of the story is simple, gather evidence of the hauntings, and leave the forest alive-wait what? That’s right, there’s no Caspers in these woods! The ghosts are not alone as there are also demons’ wandering around and there’s no way to protect you from them, besides not being found in the first place! Players will have to decide when and if they want to wrap up their investigations because the more evidence you collect and clues you find, the more ghost hunting equipment you can unlock and
Continue reading →
MoviesNews
Sony has moved up the theatrical release of Grudge, from The Eyes of My Mother director Nicolas Pesce, will now open 2 months ahead of its original release date. The cast has some serious horror cred including Insidious actress Lin Shaye, The Nun‘s Demian Bichir, and John Cho who led season 2 of “The Exorcist.” Andrea Riseborough, Betty Gilpin (“Glow”), William Sadler (The Mist), Jacki Weaver, and Frankie Faison also star. The script, penned by Jeff Buhler who is also behind Pet Sematary and Midnight Meat Train, is a new take on the 2004 American remake of Japan’s Ju-on (2002). The new film is the twelfth for the franchise that also includes two short films, several graphic novels, and a video game. Evil Dead‘s Sami Raimi and Robert Tapert are producing with Roy Lee (IT) executive producing. Grudge has already begun filming and its first images have been released. The film will open in theaters nationwide on June 21, 2019.
Continue reading →
NewsShowStreaming TV
Just because the Halloween season ends on October 31st, doesn’t mean the end of pulse-pounding programming on Travel Channel! We’ve got the action-packed, haunting highlights you don’t want to miss this November. In the season finale of “Haunted Live,” the Tennessee Wraith Chasers (interview) investigate one of America’s most haunted locations. Viewers not only get to watch the action live, but they can also participate in real time through Travel Channel’s Facebook Live! The animal world can not only be terrifying, but deadly. Watch as wildlife expert Casey Anderson hunts down man-eating tigers and a killer crocodile that is terrorizing local villages on all-new episodes of ‘Monster Encounters’ NEW EPISODES MONSTER ENCOUNTERS Wildlife expert Casey Anderson is not afraid to get dangerously close to the largest and fiercest creatures on the planet. In Travel Channel’s new series “Monster Encounters,” his mission is to track down and document evidence of animals so large, or unusual, that they defy belief. Employing the
Continue reading →
MoviesNews
They came. They shopped. They saved the world! The next horror remake is coming from Roxanne Benjamin, who was one of the directors the fantastic 2015 indie horror film Southbound, is remaking 1984’s horror-comedy Night of the Comet for Orion Pictures. She will also be writing the script, Deadline reports. According to the site, the new version will be more horror than comedy this time around. The original was written and directed by Thom Eberhardt and centered on two sisters fighting zombies after a comet wipes out most of the life on Earth. Kelli Maroney, Catherine Mary Stewart, and Robert Beltran starred.
Continue reading →
