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The hidden antagonist, Black Phillip, will soon be hitting the selves as a Funko Pop! Black Phillip was from, The Witch, the 2015 film that was either loved or hated by audiences (Me personally, I was disappointed in it). WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD! The story follows a Puritan family that left a “sinful” society to make a new homestead out in the wilderness. Their joy soon turns to terror as unusual incidents occur surrounding the eldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), causing increase paranoia amongst the family members. It’s reviled earlier in the film that the “witch” really existed and that there was a coven of them living nearby the new homestead and that the family goat named Black Phillip was their leader and the devil in disguise the whole time. END OF SPOILERS The POP! vinyl of Black Phillip (see below) is a happy looking black goat with yellow eyes, blood-spattered horns rearing up on its hind legs. He’ll also come
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Hulu has unveiled new details about their genre series “Into the Dark” from Blumhouse Television, including the premiere date, the cast, and plot. Starring Dermot Mulroney (Insidious 3), the series, which will run year-round, will release a new feature-length episode on the first Friday of every month. Every episode is inspired by a holiday from that month. For example, the October episode will be Halloween themed. The first episode of “Into the Dark”, titled “The Body”, will premiere on October 5, 2018. The episode, ” follows a sophisticated, overconfident hitman who always carries out his work in style. He decides to take things even further one day by transporting his latest victim in plain sight, correctly assuming that self-absorbed LA partiers will simply be enamored with his elaborate “costume”. Eventually, as his window of opportunity to dispose of the body begins to close, Wilkes’ true colors reveal themselves to some groupies that have latched on to him. It becomes a
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Paramount has tapped Alexandre Aja to direct the creature thriller Crawl. Aja is known for having an impressive track record with horror films including The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Pirahna 3D, Maniac, and The Other Side of the Door. THR reports that the film centers on, “a young woman, who while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house, fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators (an alligator).” The script for Crawl was originally written by brothers Shawn and Michael Rasmussen (The Ward) and re-written by Aja. Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi will produce along with Craig Flores (300: Rise of an Empire). Crawl follows up Paramount’s’ highly-successful film A Quiet Place, which has grossed over $236 at box offices so far. Its sequel has just been announced.
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Making its way around film festival circuits is an Argentinean film that’s making a big impact, Aterrados (Terrified). The movie overall, is a mix of a cop drama and horror. Aterrados (Terrified) is about a cop who’s heading towards retirement and he’s also known for having a big interest in paranormal investigating and because of his interest, he’s called in to investigate a series of strange deaths. The deaths are occurring in houses doors down from one another. The cop meets a well known paranormal investigator who’s handling a missing person case in the same area. The pair, along with other paranormal investigators, team up as they soon learn that the cases are all linked.
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Undead Labs was credited with making the most realistic zombie survival game, State of Decay back in 2013. Now, fans of the game will be excited to know that State of Decay 2 is coming soon to Xbox One. The story takes place 18 months after the events of the first game; a young woman is taken into the ranks of other survivors who are building a community for survivors. Each character is playable and each has an important set of skills necessary to ensure the survival of the community. You can choose between solo or co-op (up to three players) campaigns in this third-person shooter in an open world environment where you must face both zombies and human enemies all the while trying to find supplies and friendly survivors for your community. The game will be out on May 22 on Xbox One and Microsoft Windows.
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The trailer has been unveiled for sci-fi thriller Astro, set to premiere at Cannes this May before landing on home entertainment this July. Directed by Asif Akbar, who co-wrote the script with Bernard Selling, the film tells of a billionaire’s private space exploration program returning to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet. Gary Daniels (The Expendables) and Dominique Swain (Boone: The Bounty Hunter) lead the cast with Louis Mandylor, Max Wasa, Omi Vaidya, Luke G. Crosby, Orson Chaplin, Gianni Capaldi, Spice Williams-Crosby, Courtney Akbar, Christopher Showerman and Michael Pare also starring. Marshal Hilton filled us in on his role in Astro during an interview with the Bunnyman 2/Primal Rage actor. Check it out. Astro is a Film Life Factory, LLC and XVIII Entertainment, LLC production. ITN Distribution is handling sales in all domestic and certain parts of the European territories with Avail Films and XVIII Entertainment handling the rest of the worldwide sales at the
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Ghost fans will be happy to hear that the three original Papas will be on Ghost’s new tour and VIPs will get to meet them…there’s only a catch…they’re dead. In the latest video put out by Ghost (see below) it shows the three original Papas (playing Uno) before being told that they’re being reinstated and will be going on tour and will be immortalized. Soon afterward you see on of the Nameless Ghouls come up behind Papa Emeritus III and jabbing a syringe in his neck. Next, there’s a sort of music video where you see the Papas being embalmed and dressed up, implying that the three Papas were euthanized to make way for the new frontman Cardinal Copia. It’s been implied in past videos that the three Papas were brothers, part of a “pure” bloodline in which Copia is not. I feel this is setting the stage for a bigger story that will unravel towards the end of Copia’s
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Earlier this week, J.J. Abrams released footage from his new flick Overlord during CinemaCon and it proved that the movie all horror! Abrams also made it clear that the film, Bad Robot’s first R-Rated film, is NOT part of the Cloverfield franchise. But don’t worry, he did confirm that a sequel to the Cloverfield franchise is in the works. The folks over at Joblo got the scoop, saying: The footage we saw featured Wyatt Russell, Bokeem Woodbine and a cast of relative unknowns in traditional WW2 paratrooper gear jumping in as planes blow up around them, before finally getting to the ground, linking up and heading out. We see them discover the heavily-guarded facility and infiltrate it, which is when everything gets a little crazy.” They continue: “We see a bunch of bloody, zombie-like creatures, obviously, people that have been experimented on, vials of a red substance (which is injected into one of the soldiers and seems to give him
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Polish game developer Jujubee will take gamers on a tale of survival and adventure out of the pages of history in KURSK, a first-person survival game. Players will take on the role of a sailor and see life onboard a doomed sub from his perspective. The game will be heavily story driven but the gameplay is still a factor. You will witness firsthand the tragic events of the Kursk submarine disaster that claimed the lives of all 118 men onboard the sub. On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine, the Kursk, was in the middle of a training exercise. The sub was in the process of loading and firing a dummy torpedo at a flagship, at the moment the sub was to fire the torpedo, a Norwegian seismic center picked up a seismic event of 1.5 on the Richter scale. A short time later the second event of 4.5 took place and was detected as far as Alaska, all events
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While fans were excited about seeing Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward reunited for the first time since 1990 for Syfy’s “Tremors” series, which filmed its pilot last year in New Mexico. But that won’t be happening, at least not with Syfy. The network has passed on ordering the series. Bacon himself broke the news on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/BiFu8b9FHk8/?hl=en&taken-by=kevinbacon Set 25 years after the Graboid attack on the remote town of Perfection, Nevada, the creatures have once again surfaced, but before he can deal with the monsters, Val would have to deal with the fact that he has a problem with alcohol and a delusional hero complex. The series would have ignored every one of the film’s sequels including the latest movie Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell.
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The hidden antagonist, Black Phillip, will soon be hitting the selves as a Funko Pop! Black Phillip was from, The Witch, the 2015 film that was either loved or hated by audiences (Me personally, I was disappointed in it). WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD! The story follows a Puritan family that left a “sinful” society to make a new homestead out in the wilderness. Their joy soon turns to terror as unusual incidents occur surrounding the eldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), causing increase paranoia amongst the family members. It’s reviled earlier in the film that the “witch” really existed and that there was a coven of them living nearby the new homestead and that the family goat named Black Phillip was their leader and the devil in disguise the whole time. END OF SPOILERS The POP! vinyl of Black Phillip (see below) is a happy looking black goat with yellow eyes, blood-spattered horns rearing up on its hind legs. He’ll also come
Continue reading →
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Hulu has unveiled new details about their genre series “Into the Dark” from Blumhouse Television, including the premiere date, the cast, and plot. Starring Dermot Mulroney (Insidious 3), the series, which will run year-round, will release a new feature-length episode on the first Friday of every month. Every episode is inspired by a holiday from that month. For example, the October episode will be Halloween themed. The first episode of “Into the Dark”, titled “The Body”, will premiere on October 5, 2018. The episode, ” follows a sophisticated, overconfident hitman who always carries out his work in style. He decides to take things even further one day by transporting his latest victim in plain sight, correctly assuming that self-absorbed LA partiers will simply be enamored with his elaborate “costume”. Eventually, as his window of opportunity to dispose of the body begins to close, Wilkes’ true colors reveal themselves to some groupies that have latched on to him. It becomes a
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Paramount has tapped Alexandre Aja to direct the creature thriller Crawl. Aja is known for having an impressive track record with horror films including The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Pirahna 3D, Maniac, and The Other Side of the Door. THR reports that the film centers on, “a young woman, who while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house, fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators (an alligator).” The script for Crawl was originally written by brothers Shawn and Michael Rasmussen (The Ward) and re-written by Aja. Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi will produce along with Craig Flores (300: Rise of an Empire). Crawl follows up Paramount’s’ highly-successful film A Quiet Place, which has grossed over $236 at box offices so far. Its sequel has just been announced.
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignNewsParanormalTrailers
Making its way around film festival circuits is an Argentinean film that’s making a big impact, Aterrados (Terrified). The movie overall, is a mix of a cop drama and horror. Aterrados (Terrified) is about a cop who’s heading towards retirement and he’s also known for having a big interest in paranormal investigating and because of his interest, he’s called in to investigate a series of strange deaths. The deaths are occurring in houses doors down from one another. The cop meets a well known paranormal investigator who’s handling a missing person case in the same area. The pair, along with other paranormal investigators, team up as they soon learn that the cases are all linked.
Continue reading →
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Undead Labs was credited with making the most realistic zombie survival game, State of Decay back in 2013. Now, fans of the game will be excited to know that State of Decay 2 is coming soon to Xbox One. The story takes place 18 months after the events of the first game; a young woman is taken into the ranks of other survivors who are building a community for survivors. Each character is playable and each has an important set of skills necessary to ensure the survival of the community. You can choose between solo or co-op (up to three players) campaigns in this third-person shooter in an open world environment where you must face both zombies and human enemies all the while trying to find supplies and friendly survivors for your community. The game will be out on May 22 on Xbox One and Microsoft Windows.
Continue reading →
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The trailer has been unveiled for sci-fi thriller Astro, set to premiere at Cannes this May before landing on home entertainment this July. Directed by Asif Akbar, who co-wrote the script with Bernard Selling, the film tells of a billionaire’s private space exploration program returning to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet. Gary Daniels (The Expendables) and Dominique Swain (Boone: The Bounty Hunter) lead the cast with Louis Mandylor, Max Wasa, Omi Vaidya, Luke G. Crosby, Orson Chaplin, Gianni Capaldi, Spice Williams-Crosby, Courtney Akbar, Christopher Showerman and Michael Pare also starring. Marshal Hilton filled us in on his role in Astro during an interview with the Bunnyman 2/Primal Rage actor. Check it out. Astro is a Film Life Factory, LLC and XVIII Entertainment, LLC production. ITN Distribution is handling sales in all domestic and certain parts of the European territories with Avail Films and XVIII Entertainment handling the rest of the worldwide sales at the
Continue reading →
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Ghost fans will be happy to hear that the three original Papas will be on Ghost’s new tour and VIPs will get to meet them…there’s only a catch…they’re dead. In the latest video put out by Ghost (see below) it shows the three original Papas (playing Uno) before being told that they’re being reinstated and will be going on tour and will be immortalized. Soon afterward you see on of the Nameless Ghouls come up behind Papa Emeritus III and jabbing a syringe in his neck. Next, there’s a sort of music video where you see the Papas being embalmed and dressed up, implying that the three Papas were euthanized to make way for the new frontman Cardinal Copia. It’s been implied in past videos that the three Papas were brothers, part of a “pure” bloodline in which Copia is not. I feel this is setting the stage for a bigger story that will unravel towards the end of Copia’s
Continue reading →
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Earlier this week, J.J. Abrams released footage from his new flick Overlord during CinemaCon and it proved that the movie all horror! Abrams also made it clear that the film, Bad Robot’s first R-Rated film, is NOT part of the Cloverfield franchise. But don’t worry, he did confirm that a sequel to the Cloverfield franchise is in the works. The folks over at Joblo got the scoop, saying: The footage we saw featured Wyatt Russell, Bokeem Woodbine and a cast of relative unknowns in traditional WW2 paratrooper gear jumping in as planes blow up around them, before finally getting to the ground, linking up and heading out. We see them discover the heavily-guarded facility and infiltrate it, which is when everything gets a little crazy.” They continue: “We see a bunch of bloody, zombie-like creatures, obviously, people that have been experimented on, vials of a red substance (which is injected into one of the soldiers and seems to give him
Continue reading →
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Polish game developer Jujubee will take gamers on a tale of survival and adventure out of the pages of history in KURSK, a first-person survival game. Players will take on the role of a sailor and see life onboard a doomed sub from his perspective. The game will be heavily story driven but the gameplay is still a factor. You will witness firsthand the tragic events of the Kursk submarine disaster that claimed the lives of all 118 men onboard the sub. On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine, the Kursk, was in the middle of a training exercise. The sub was in the process of loading and firing a dummy torpedo at a flagship, at the moment the sub was to fire the torpedo, a Norwegian seismic center picked up a seismic event of 1.5 on the Richter scale. A short time later the second event of 4.5 took place and was detected as far as Alaska, all events
Continue reading →
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While fans were excited about seeing Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward reunited for the first time since 1990 for Syfy’s “Tremors” series, which filmed its pilot last year in New Mexico. But that won’t be happening, at least not with Syfy. The network has passed on ordering the series. Bacon himself broke the news on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/BiFu8b9FHk8/?hl=en&taken-by=kevinbacon Set 25 years after the Graboid attack on the remote town of Perfection, Nevada, the creatures have once again surfaced, but before he can deal with the monsters, Val would have to deal with the fact that he has a problem with alcohol and a delusional hero complex. The series would have ignored every one of the film’s sequels including the latest movie Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell.
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