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Hell Town hosted by Horror Icon Debby Rochon, wasn’t a disappointment. In fact it made me laugh from the very beginning. Our sexy, gothic host most certainly rung in the bewitching season which is soon approaching (sort of soon) with her announcement that the screening, which was a brief series of episodes, was in fact dug up from a cemetery. Following the story line of a jealous sister, a town flewsy, a conflicted homosexual man, the troubling truth a comatose mother wouldn’t awake from her coma and a rising body count. The series brought laughs, bloodshed and drama in the most spook-tastic way. Combining a cast of willing and talented actors, with a decent script by Michael Balderson (who also serves as director), Michael Page, Chris Pudlo and Elizabeth Spear, the horror-soap managed to not only be a classic whodunnit but also, a major F-U to your fav daytime soaps. Hell Town will be available on the below platforms on
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New on DVD in the UK is Bastard, starring Tonya Kay (Get Him To The Creek) alongside Rebekah Kennedy (Season Of The Witch) Burt Culver (The Paper Boat), Ellis Greer (A Small Death)” Dan Creed (Dinner Party) and Will Tranfo (The Creation Of Aspen). “Five strangers – newlywed serial killers, a suicidal cop, and two runaways – become suspect and victim when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town” The film which has been described as a “Truimpth for independent horror” was written by Patrick Robert Young and was directed by Powell Robinson. Both of which are [according to IMDB] a relatively unknown bunch and I frankly applaud them for bringing forth such a critically acclaimed piece. Look for it on iTunes, Amazon or in stores on DVD in the UK. Follow @HMZHorror
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley has joined the cast of the film adaption of Chaos Walking, the novel trilogy by Patrick Ness, THR is reporting. Doug Liman (The Borne Identity) is in the director’s chair for the film, produced by Allison Shearmur and Doug Davison. Chaos Walking, “…takes places in a world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear one another’s thoughts in a stream of images, words and sounds called Noise.” The trilogy was published over a three year period, with the last book, “Monsters of Men” arriving in 2010. The film was adapted by Charlie Kaufman, with a script written by Jamie Linden.
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WARNING SPOILERS ! With the season 7 premiere two months away, the cast of The Walking Dead have returned to Georgia to begin filming the second half of the season. But they may not be staying in Alexandria for long. It looks they’re going to the beach. Local new stations (in Georgia) have been reporting that several episodes in the second half of the season will be filmed on Driftwood beach and the marsh area of Jekyll Island, Georgia. Back in July, Stalwart Films, the production company behind The Walking Dead, applied to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to film on Jekyll Island and have been granted permission. Driftwood Beach We do know that the scenes will involve four cast members. The characters discover two bodies on the beach, one who is still alive. And the marsh scene will feature one character. We do not know at this time which characters will be featured. The Marsh While all of
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Filming for Netflix’s live-action adaption of Death Note, based on the well known Japanese manga from Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, is now under way and is being directed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next). Today we received news that film star Willem Defoe (The Great Wall, John Wick, Boondock Saints) has joined the film’s cast. Defoe will lend his voice to the character Ryuk the Shinigami (God of Death). Defoe will co-star alongside Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Keith Stanfield, Shea Whigham and Paul Nakauchi. The film, centers on a high school teen who finds a supernatural notebook that holds great power, anyone whose name is written in it will die. The young man begins to kill those he believes is unworthy of life. Death Note is produced by Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Masi Oka and Jason Hoffs. Johnathan Eirich, Mirir Yoon Branden Ferguson, and John Powers Middleton are serving as executive producers. We can expect to see the new adaption
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Another 80’s horror flick is being rebooted. This time it’s 1988’s supernatural film Pumpkinhead. EW is reporting that Peter Block, the executive producer of the Saw franchise, has picked up the rights to Pumpkinhead and has a script penned by Nate Atkins. Block is currently searching for a director for the reboot, which he will produce. And hopes to begin filming early next year, using practical effects like in the original. Pumpkinhead is one of my favorite horror films of the late ’80s, early ’90s,” Block said. “Stan Winston sits on that Mount Rushmore of iconic filmmakers because of his creature designs, and that was his first directing effort. The creature’s great but the emotional story is wonderful as well. I got the rights to Pumpkinhead, and hooked up with a great young writer called Nate Atkins, and we developed our script, which is really solid. The original film starred Lance Henricksen (Aliens) as a man, living deep in the
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If you Google “80’s Horror”, one of the first movies that’s going to pop up is Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, along with it’s multiple (and extremely varying) sequels. Hellraiser is a Horror Film’s Horror Film. It’s a movie that any horror aficionado worth his or her salt knows and appreciates. Personally, it’s my favorite horror film (well- it’s really a three way tie between Hellraiser, Evil Dead 2, and Reanimator, but there’s time for that later.) so I couldn’t think of a better way to kick of this #Odeto80sHorror than by exploring Kirsty Cotton and her Cenobite counterparts. WHERE IT CAME FROM: The original 1987 Hellraiser film was an adapted from noted horror author Clive Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart (it’s a quick read; I highly recommend it.) Barker would also direct the 1987 film. The screenplay adapts a romantic relationship into a father/daughter relationship, and our heroine, the young and scrappy Kirsty Cotton (played by a young Ashley Lawrence) ,
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Have you ever wanted to own a piece of TV history? Are you a huge Walking Dead Fan? Do you live in the Atlanta area? If you answered yes to any of those questions, we have great news. You can own a piece of one of the most important pieces of television history, Rick Grimes’ (Andrew Lincoln) original home on the mega successful series The Walking Dead. The house appeared in the series first episode after Rick flees the hospital and returns home in search of Lauri and Carl. The three-bedroom, two-bath Victorian style home sits at 817 Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood, Fox 5 News reports. It can be yours for only $629,900. The real estate agency in charge of selling the home is Virgent Realty, who you can contact if you’re interested.
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We first told you about Jay Lender and Micah Wright’s film They’re Watching back in March. The film has made it Netflix and I got a chance to watch it this weekend. They’re Watching follows a home improvement show as they travel to a remote Eastern European village. When the crew returns six months after a couple buys a fixer-upper to film an update, they discover that the town is a very strange place and the superstitious villagers seem to follow them where ever they go. After two of the crew accidentally interrupt and record a funeral things get even more tense. Not everything is as it seems. The film stars Mia Faith, Kris Lemche, David Alpay, Carrie Genzel, Dimitri Diatchenko, Christian Balint, and Alin Popa, among others. The film started out great. There was a real story there, but as the film continues problems arise. First, one of the main characters, Alex, turns annoying quick. Then when the show’s
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An adaption of Robert Huszar and Ken Landfraf’s comic New York City Outlaws’ is in production with Canadian filmaker Jason Eisener directing, according to EW. “The movie concerns a group of vigilantes who join forces to rescue NYC from total anarchy during a prolonged police strike.” New York City Outlaws is written by Bryan Connolly and Zack Carlson, host of Vice’s cult film show, Outsider. The movie is produced by Rhombus Media, whose credits include the just-released Ellen Page-starring Into the Forest and director Brandon Cronenberg’s 2012 film Antiviral. (Rhombus also announced this week that it will produce Cronenberg’s second film, Possessor, about a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.) Eisener street cred became known with his indie film Hobo With A Shotgun. The film mogul is also know to have worked on a V/H/S2 segment, “Alien Abduction Slumber Party/Abduction, Southbound and Netflix’s Death Note. Follow
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Hell Town hosted by Horror Icon Debby Rochon, wasn’t a disappointment. In fact it made me laugh from the very beginning. Our sexy, gothic host most certainly rung in the bewitching season which is soon approaching (sort of soon) with her announcement that the screening, which was a brief series of episodes, was in fact dug up from a cemetery. Following the story line of a jealous sister, a town flewsy, a conflicted homosexual man, the troubling truth a comatose mother wouldn’t awake from her coma and a rising body count. The series brought laughs, bloodshed and drama in the most spook-tastic way. Combining a cast of willing and talented actors, with a decent script by Michael Balderson (who also serves as director), Michael Page, Chris Pudlo and Elizabeth Spear, the horror-soap managed to not only be a classic whodunnit but also, a major F-U to your fav daytime soaps. Hell Town will be available on the below platforms on
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New on DVD in the UK is Bastard, starring Tonya Kay (Get Him To The Creek) alongside Rebekah Kennedy (Season Of The Witch) Burt Culver (The Paper Boat), Ellis Greer (A Small Death)” Dan Creed (Dinner Party) and Will Tranfo (The Creation Of Aspen). “Five strangers – newlywed serial killers, a suicidal cop, and two runaways – become suspect and victim when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town” The film which has been described as a “Truimpth for independent horror” was written by Patrick Robert Young and was directed by Powell Robinson. Both of which are [according to IMDB] a relatively unknown bunch and I frankly applaud them for bringing forth such a critically acclaimed piece. Look for it on iTunes, Amazon or in stores on DVD in the UK. Follow @HMZHorror
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley has joined the cast of the film adaption of Chaos Walking, the novel trilogy by Patrick Ness, THR is reporting. Doug Liman (The Borne Identity) is in the director’s chair for the film, produced by Allison Shearmur and Doug Davison. Chaos Walking, “…takes places in a world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear one another’s thoughts in a stream of images, words and sounds called Noise.” The trilogy was published over a three year period, with the last book, “Monsters of Men” arriving in 2010. The film was adapted by Charlie Kaufman, with a script written by Jamie Linden.
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WARNING SPOILERS ! With the season 7 premiere two months away, the cast of The Walking Dead have returned to Georgia to begin filming the second half of the season. But they may not be staying in Alexandria for long. It looks they’re going to the beach. Local new stations (in Georgia) have been reporting that several episodes in the second half of the season will be filmed on Driftwood beach and the marsh area of Jekyll Island, Georgia. Back in July, Stalwart Films, the production company behind The Walking Dead, applied to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to film on Jekyll Island and have been granted permission. Driftwood Beach We do know that the scenes will involve four cast members. The characters discover two bodies on the beach, one who is still alive. And the marsh scene will feature one character. We do not know at this time which characters will be featured. The Marsh While all of
Continue reading →
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Filming for Netflix’s live-action adaption of Death Note, based on the well known Japanese manga from Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, is now under way and is being directed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next). Today we received news that film star Willem Defoe (The Great Wall, John Wick, Boondock Saints) has joined the film’s cast. Defoe will lend his voice to the character Ryuk the Shinigami (God of Death). Defoe will co-star alongside Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Keith Stanfield, Shea Whigham and Paul Nakauchi. The film, centers on a high school teen who finds a supernatural notebook that holds great power, anyone whose name is written in it will die. The young man begins to kill those he believes is unworthy of life. Death Note is produced by Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Masi Oka and Jason Hoffs. Johnathan Eirich, Mirir Yoon Branden Ferguson, and John Powers Middleton are serving as executive producers. We can expect to see the new adaption
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Another 80’s horror flick is being rebooted. This time it’s 1988’s supernatural film Pumpkinhead. EW is reporting that Peter Block, the executive producer of the Saw franchise, has picked up the rights to Pumpkinhead and has a script penned by Nate Atkins. Block is currently searching for a director for the reboot, which he will produce. And hopes to begin filming early next year, using practical effects like in the original. Pumpkinhead is one of my favorite horror films of the late ’80s, early ’90s,” Block said. “Stan Winston sits on that Mount Rushmore of iconic filmmakers because of his creature designs, and that was his first directing effort. The creature’s great but the emotional story is wonderful as well. I got the rights to Pumpkinhead, and hooked up with a great young writer called Nate Atkins, and we developed our script, which is really solid. The original film starred Lance Henricksen (Aliens) as a man, living deep in the
Continue reading →
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If you Google “80’s Horror”, one of the first movies that’s going to pop up is Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, along with it’s multiple (and extremely varying) sequels. Hellraiser is a Horror Film’s Horror Film. It’s a movie that any horror aficionado worth his or her salt knows and appreciates. Personally, it’s my favorite horror film (well- it’s really a three way tie between Hellraiser, Evil Dead 2, and Reanimator, but there’s time for that later.) so I couldn’t think of a better way to kick of this #Odeto80sHorror than by exploring Kirsty Cotton and her Cenobite counterparts. WHERE IT CAME FROM: The original 1987 Hellraiser film was an adapted from noted horror author Clive Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart (it’s a quick read; I highly recommend it.) Barker would also direct the 1987 film. The screenplay adapts a romantic relationship into a father/daughter relationship, and our heroine, the young and scrappy Kirsty Cotton (played by a young Ashley Lawrence) ,
Continue reading →
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Have you ever wanted to own a piece of TV history? Are you a huge Walking Dead Fan? Do you live in the Atlanta area? If you answered yes to any of those questions, we have great news. You can own a piece of one of the most important pieces of television history, Rick Grimes’ (Andrew Lincoln) original home on the mega successful series The Walking Dead. The house appeared in the series first episode after Rick flees the hospital and returns home in search of Lauri and Carl. The three-bedroom, two-bath Victorian style home sits at 817 Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood, Fox 5 News reports. It can be yours for only $629,900. The real estate agency in charge of selling the home is Virgent Realty, who you can contact if you’re interested.
Continue reading →
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We first told you about Jay Lender and Micah Wright’s film They’re Watching back in March. The film has made it Netflix and I got a chance to watch it this weekend. They’re Watching follows a home improvement show as they travel to a remote Eastern European village. When the crew returns six months after a couple buys a fixer-upper to film an update, they discover that the town is a very strange place and the superstitious villagers seem to follow them where ever they go. After two of the crew accidentally interrupt and record a funeral things get even more tense. Not everything is as it seems. The film stars Mia Faith, Kris Lemche, David Alpay, Carrie Genzel, Dimitri Diatchenko, Christian Balint, and Alin Popa, among others. The film started out great. There was a real story there, but as the film continues problems arise. First, one of the main characters, Alex, turns annoying quick. Then when the show’s
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An adaption of Robert Huszar and Ken Landfraf’s comic New York City Outlaws’ is in production with Canadian filmaker Jason Eisener directing, according to EW. “The movie concerns a group of vigilantes who join forces to rescue NYC from total anarchy during a prolonged police strike.” New York City Outlaws is written by Bryan Connolly and Zack Carlson, host of Vice’s cult film show, Outsider. The movie is produced by Rhombus Media, whose credits include the just-released Ellen Page-starring Into the Forest and director Brandon Cronenberg’s 2012 film Antiviral. (Rhombus also announced this week that it will produce Cronenberg’s second film, Possessor, about a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.) Eisener street cred became known with his indie film Hobo With A Shotgun. The film mogul is also know to have worked on a V/H/S2 segment, “Alien Abduction Slumber Party/Abduction, Southbound and Netflix’s Death Note. Follow
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