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Director and co-screenwriter Anthony Brownigg is continuing the story-line his father, S.F. Brownigg, began. Brownigg’s Don’t Look in the Basement 2 is set forty years after his father’s film, The Forgotten, originally titled Don’t Look in the Basement, ended. Don’t Look in the Basement 2 follows the only known survivor of a mass murder returns to the institution where the brutal killings took place. The survivor’s presence triggers a series of increasingly disturbing events. Anthony Brownigg made the following statement: As a young boy watching my father direct Don’t Look in the Basement, I couldn’t have known that it would define his career as a director. He always wanted to produce a sequel, and as I grew older we talked about the storyline, but sadly he was lost to us before he could complete it. I spent 20 years looking for the right opportunity to film a sequel, but I wasn’t the only one. Because my father’s film is now
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The theatrical and VOD release date Mickey Keating’s survival-thriller Carnage Park has been set as July 1st, according to Entertainment Weekly. Carnage Park follows two bank robbers fleeing to the desert after a robbery goes wrong. The duo stumble across Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness that a psychotic ex-military sniper prowls. Carnage Park is my total love letter to Peckinpah, and Deliverance, and 70’s survival movies,” Keating said. “It’s set in 1978 and it’s a crime story [which] turns into a fight for survival. It’s hard to categorize in a way, because it’s an energetic crime movie that goes horribly horribly awry. I think it’s going to be something different for people. “The year is 1978. After botching an ill-conceived bank robbery in a desolate California town, two wannabe crooks named Scorpion Joe (James Landry Hébert) and Lenny (Michael Villar) flee the scene with a hostage, Vivian (Ashley Bell), and lead the local lawmen on a dangerous high-speed
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The first trailer and poster has arrived for the indie horror film The Fortunate. What starts out as a fun bacherlorette party is about to turn deadly for a group of unsuspecting women. Directed by Glenn Graves and written by Shane Wangman, this survival thriller stars Kate Greer, Kristen Condon, Albert Gokhman and Richard Anastasios. Synopsis: A group of girls traveling on a hens night are kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of violent shotgun-wielding masked thugs. The girls fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.
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Maybe it was all just bad acid?! I screened recently Bad Acid a short for HF and boy was I entertained! Bad Acid follows the tale of a bad illusionist trying to make a living. When he fights with a heckler, he runs to his friend for a loan. The loan his friend gives him is that of a box belonging to a dead heavy metal artist. The box contained a genie’s lamp which inside held an acid tablet . When the illusionist put the tablet to work, his reality became twisted and wildest dreams were revealed. The price? His soul! Per Press Pack “David Chaudoir, writer/director, has worked for 25 years in UK Broadcast Television and as- sociated crafts. He has directed award winning promotions for The Walking Dead and The Wire and music videos for bands such as Athlete and Starsailor. Sukey Richardson, producer, has produced / production-managed a range of features, documentaries, commercials and short films including
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One of the most iconic scenes in the history of horror is the shower scene featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho. The scene features the character Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) being stabbed to death by Norman Bates, dressed as his mother. We will see the character Marion Crane check in to the Bates Motel next season, which will be the series’ fifth and final season. Executive Producer Carlton Cuse has revealed that not only will meet the character, but that she will be featured in several episodes. “We wanted the final season to allow us to do our version of the Psycho lore,” Cuse stated. “We will be colliding with certain events in the narrative of the film, but it would be boring to just recreate Psycho.” There is no word you to who has been cast as Marion Crane. But we let you know as soon we learn the actress’ identity.
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With Seth Rogan and Zac Efron’s Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising now in theaters, the duo has already turned their attention to Neighbors 3. Rogan and Efron have jumped on the zombie bandwagon and delivered a fake trailer for the upcoming sequel, titled Neighbors 3: Zombies Rising. The Fear The Walking Dead parody features the duo in a warehouse with a zombie tied to a chair debating how to deal with him. In Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising Mac and Kelly’s new neighbors turn out to be a sorority out to be even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there. Mac and Kelly team up with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down. Directed by Nicholas Stoller, the sequel stars Rogan,and Efron alongside Rose Byrne, Chloe Grace Mortez and Ike Barinholtz.
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Fans of foreign horror should keep an eye out for South Korea’s new action film Train to Busan, which debuted at Cannes earlier this month. The film, being compared to WWZ, serves a live-action sequel for the animated film Seoul Station, according to Dread Central. Directed by Sang-ho Yeon, Train to Busan is set in the bustling city of Busan, which is plagued by a zombie outbreak. A group of survivors band together and board a train in hopes of escaping, but discover their differences may prove more dangerous than the zombies that they are facing. Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Yu-mi Jeong, Ahn So-hee, Kim Soo-ahn, and Jung Yu-mi star in this action-packed flick. Train to Busan will debut in South Korea theaters later this summer with a wider release to follow.
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Filming is underway for director Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant in Sydney, Australia. Michael Fassbender, one of the stars of the film, spoke with Australian newspaper Herald Sun about the project, Dread Central has pointed out. During the conversation with the paper he teased that Covenant’s style is close to that of the original Star Wars. Fassbender is in Sydney, where he’s filming Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, the sci-fi sequel to Pormetheus,” the paper wrote. “He’s a big wrap for Scott’s huge physical sets, which he describes as mixing cutting-edge NASA-like technology with an old-school element where things look battered, like the original Star Wars.” Fassbender also teased that his character David, an android, will be even creepier than before. The film’s plot is still being closely guarded, but it has been reported that Covenant follows the crew of a ship, bound for a remote planet believed to be a paradise, but instead is a dark, dangerous world, whose only inhabitant
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He came at her with the knife, she stabbed him in defense. His recent supposed victim stands up. “It was all a prank” she exclaims The first 7 minutes of MTV’s Scream The TV Series season 2 has been released and it. Is. Awesome! The mask change does pretty much suck. I know. But the way MTV worked around it, you barely notice it’s not Ghostface. The first 7 mins. takes place in a movie theater which Audry works at. As she stands in the back while an audience watches a homage to Scream Movies’ Stab franchise, she gets a series of texts from an unknown number….what’d you think I was going to spoil it for you?! Watch the first 7 minutes! Also while you’re at it, instead of watching JUST 7 minutes why don’t you check out the live periscope hosted by Tom Madden [formally know as Jake Fitzgerald from SCREAM] which pays homage to Scream 3’. MTV’s Scream
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Fiona Dourif stars alongside Jake Busey and Kevin Ryan in the horror-thriller Enclosure. Directed by Patrick Rae and co-written by Michelle Davidson, Enclosure follows a couple on a camping trip attempting to reconnect. But when a creature wipes out a group of hunters nearby the couple is forced to fight to survive. Secrets and supernatural forces force the couple to ask if the threat is already inside their enclosure. You might recognize the name Dourif, you should. Fiona’s father, Brad Dourif, is the voice of legendary horror character Chucky. Brad Dourif starred in many other films like The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2007’s Halloween, Holloween II, and starred alongside his daughter in Deadwood and Curse of Chucky. Fiona has already had a built quite the name for herself in the horror genre. She’s started in films such as Fear Clinic, The Master and had a reoccurring role on the series True Blood. Grant Fitch, Cherelle George, Warren
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Director and co-screenwriter Anthony Brownigg is continuing the story-line his father, S.F. Brownigg, began. Brownigg’s Don’t Look in the Basement 2 is set forty years after his father’s film, The Forgotten, originally titled Don’t Look in the Basement, ended. Don’t Look in the Basement 2 follows the only known survivor of a mass murder returns to the institution where the brutal killings took place. The survivor’s presence triggers a series of increasingly disturbing events. Anthony Brownigg made the following statement: As a young boy watching my father direct Don’t Look in the Basement, I couldn’t have known that it would define his career as a director. He always wanted to produce a sequel, and as I grew older we talked about the storyline, but sadly he was lost to us before he could complete it. I spent 20 years looking for the right opportunity to film a sequel, but I wasn’t the only one. Because my father’s film is now
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The theatrical and VOD release date Mickey Keating’s survival-thriller Carnage Park has been set as July 1st, according to Entertainment Weekly. Carnage Park follows two bank robbers fleeing to the desert after a robbery goes wrong. The duo stumble across Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness that a psychotic ex-military sniper prowls. Carnage Park is my total love letter to Peckinpah, and Deliverance, and 70’s survival movies,” Keating said. “It’s set in 1978 and it’s a crime story [which] turns into a fight for survival. It’s hard to categorize in a way, because it’s an energetic crime movie that goes horribly horribly awry. I think it’s going to be something different for people. “The year is 1978. After botching an ill-conceived bank robbery in a desolate California town, two wannabe crooks named Scorpion Joe (James Landry Hébert) and Lenny (Michael Villar) flee the scene with a hostage, Vivian (Ashley Bell), and lead the local lawmen on a dangerous high-speed
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The first trailer and poster has arrived for the indie horror film The Fortunate. What starts out as a fun bacherlorette party is about to turn deadly for a group of unsuspecting women. Directed by Glenn Graves and written by Shane Wangman, this survival thriller stars Kate Greer, Kristen Condon, Albert Gokhman and Richard Anastasios. Synopsis: A group of girls traveling on a hens night are kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of violent shotgun-wielding masked thugs. The girls fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.
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Maybe it was all just bad acid?! I screened recently Bad Acid a short for HF and boy was I entertained! Bad Acid follows the tale of a bad illusionist trying to make a living. When he fights with a heckler, he runs to his friend for a loan. The loan his friend gives him is that of a box belonging to a dead heavy metal artist. The box contained a genie’s lamp which inside held an acid tablet . When the illusionist put the tablet to work, his reality became twisted and wildest dreams were revealed. The price? His soul! Per Press Pack “David Chaudoir, writer/director, has worked for 25 years in UK Broadcast Television and as- sociated crafts. He has directed award winning promotions for The Walking Dead and The Wire and music videos for bands such as Athlete and Starsailor. Sukey Richardson, producer, has produced / production-managed a range of features, documentaries, commercials and short films including
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One of the most iconic scenes in the history of horror is the shower scene featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho. The scene features the character Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) being stabbed to death by Norman Bates, dressed as his mother. We will see the character Marion Crane check in to the Bates Motel next season, which will be the series’ fifth and final season. Executive Producer Carlton Cuse has revealed that not only will meet the character, but that she will be featured in several episodes. “We wanted the final season to allow us to do our version of the Psycho lore,” Cuse stated. “We will be colliding with certain events in the narrative of the film, but it would be boring to just recreate Psycho.” There is no word you to who has been cast as Marion Crane. But we let you know as soon we learn the actress’ identity.
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With Seth Rogan and Zac Efron’s Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising now in theaters, the duo has already turned their attention to Neighbors 3. Rogan and Efron have jumped on the zombie bandwagon and delivered a fake trailer for the upcoming sequel, titled Neighbors 3: Zombies Rising. The Fear The Walking Dead parody features the duo in a warehouse with a zombie tied to a chair debating how to deal with him. In Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising Mac and Kelly’s new neighbors turn out to be a sorority out to be even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there. Mac and Kelly team up with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down. Directed by Nicholas Stoller, the sequel stars Rogan,and Efron alongside Rose Byrne, Chloe Grace Mortez and Ike Barinholtz.
Continue reading →
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Fans of foreign horror should keep an eye out for South Korea’s new action film Train to Busan, which debuted at Cannes earlier this month. The film, being compared to WWZ, serves a live-action sequel for the animated film Seoul Station, according to Dread Central. Directed by Sang-ho Yeon, Train to Busan is set in the bustling city of Busan, which is plagued by a zombie outbreak. A group of survivors band together and board a train in hopes of escaping, but discover their differences may prove more dangerous than the zombies that they are facing. Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Yu-mi Jeong, Ahn So-hee, Kim Soo-ahn, and Jung Yu-mi star in this action-packed flick. Train to Busan will debut in South Korea theaters later this summer with a wider release to follow.
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Filming is underway for director Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant in Sydney, Australia. Michael Fassbender, one of the stars of the film, spoke with Australian newspaper Herald Sun about the project, Dread Central has pointed out. During the conversation with the paper he teased that Covenant’s style is close to that of the original Star Wars. Fassbender is in Sydney, where he’s filming Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, the sci-fi sequel to Pormetheus,” the paper wrote. “He’s a big wrap for Scott’s huge physical sets, which he describes as mixing cutting-edge NASA-like technology with an old-school element where things look battered, like the original Star Wars.” Fassbender also teased that his character David, an android, will be even creepier than before. The film’s plot is still being closely guarded, but it has been reported that Covenant follows the crew of a ship, bound for a remote planet believed to be a paradise, but instead is a dark, dangerous world, whose only inhabitant
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He came at her with the knife, she stabbed him in defense. His recent supposed victim stands up. “It was all a prank” she exclaims The first 7 minutes of MTV’s Scream The TV Series season 2 has been released and it. Is. Awesome! The mask change does pretty much suck. I know. But the way MTV worked around it, you barely notice it’s not Ghostface. The first 7 mins. takes place in a movie theater which Audry works at. As she stands in the back while an audience watches a homage to Scream Movies’ Stab franchise, she gets a series of texts from an unknown number….what’d you think I was going to spoil it for you?! Watch the first 7 minutes! Also while you’re at it, instead of watching JUST 7 minutes why don’t you check out the live periscope hosted by Tom Madden [formally know as Jake Fitzgerald from SCREAM] which pays homage to Scream 3’. MTV’s Scream
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Fiona Dourif stars alongside Jake Busey and Kevin Ryan in the horror-thriller Enclosure. Directed by Patrick Rae and co-written by Michelle Davidson, Enclosure follows a couple on a camping trip attempting to reconnect. But when a creature wipes out a group of hunters nearby the couple is forced to fight to survive. Secrets and supernatural forces force the couple to ask if the threat is already inside their enclosure. You might recognize the name Dourif, you should. Fiona’s father, Brad Dourif, is the voice of legendary horror character Chucky. Brad Dourif starred in many other films like The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2007’s Halloween, Holloween II, and starred alongside his daughter in Deadwood and Curse of Chucky. Fiona has already had a built quite the name for herself in the horror genre. She’s started in films such as Fear Clinic, The Master and had a reoccurring role on the series True Blood. Grant Fitch, Cherelle George, Warren
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