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Crypt TV Gets Great New Look And Logo

Most of you have heard of CryptTV by now. CryptTV specializes in creating short horror films and promoting the mantra “Weird is Good” . Today they announced their rebrand that includes a new look and logo with the same great content and more. CryptTV, born in April 2015, was co-founded by director Eli Roth and CEO Jack Davis. Not only to they create and share short horror films through their website, you can find them on pretty much every form of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Fans can also sign up for their newsletter on their website. Crypt TV prides itself on bringing exciting new stories and characters into the genre world through original video,” Jack Davis Said. “We wanted a new logo with a little more color, style and passion that is indicative of the passion we have for scares and the radically new types of scary stories we want to tell. From the Press Release:

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2016
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A Prequel To The Omen Is In The Works From 20th Century

It’s been almost forty years since The Omen debuted in theaters. The iconic film, directed by Richard Donner, introduced us to Damien, the young Antichrist, meant to bring destruction to the world in his adulthood. But what happened before Damien was brought into this world? According to THR, we will soon find out. It seems 20th Century Fox has a prequel to The Omen in the works as we speak, titled The First Omen. The First Omen, written by Ben Jacoby (Bleed), may have already found its director. Antonio Campos is currently in negotiations the step behind the camera for the film. Campos is behind such films as 2016’s drama Christine, as well as the films Simon Killer, and Afterschool. In The Omen, when Katherine (Lee Remick), the wife of American Diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck), gave birth Robert was told the baby had passed and that an abandoned baby could take its place. Without Katherine’s knowledge, the babies were

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2016
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Zombieland 2 Filming This Summer In Atlanta

After years of waiting Zombieland 2 is finally moving forward. Earlier this month we reported that Sony revealed the logo for Zombieland 2 at CinemaCon. Now, news comes that not only is Zombieland 2 still happening, it starts filming this summer in Atlanta. Project Casting has announced the casting process will soon begin for the sequel to the 2009 horror-comedy hit. The original director, Ruben Fleischer, will be returning for part 2. The script will be penned by Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese (Zombieland, Deadpool) and Dave Callahan from The Expendables. Not only is the director returning, some of the original cast will be starring in the sequel. Who it will be has not been revealed at this time. We will give an update when we know more. embed

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2016
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Accidental Exorcist Possesses A New Trailer And Release Date

The trailer for Daniel Falicki’s Accidental Exorcist has just arrived. Written by Warren Croyle and Sheri Beth Dusek, Falicki stars along side Sherryl Depres, Patrick Hendren, Chris Kotcher, and Jason Roth in this supernatural thriller. Synopsis: Richard Vanuck is a natural born exorcist; in fact, he’s the best there ever was, and with possessions on the rise across the city, he’s booked solid. Reluctantly, he faces the fact that performing exorcisms is the only thing he’s truly good at even though it’s wearing him down and making his life utterly miserable. Accidental Exorcist now possesses a release date, March 11, 2016.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2016
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Official Trailer And Poster Arrive For The Film Adaption Of Stephen King’s Cell

We’ve shared several updates on the film adaption of Stephen King’s Cell over the past several months. Today, the first full trailer and official poster have finally arrived. The film, directed by Tod Williams penned by King and Adam Alleca, stars Samuel L. Jackson, John Cussack, Isabelle Fuhrman, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Kaufman, Owen Teague, and Catherine Dyer. Stephen King’s best-selling novel begins at the Boston airport where Clay (Cusack) witnesses chaos when an electronic signal cast over cellphones suddenly turns the crowd into a mob of bloodthirsty killers. Clay, desperate to find his estranged wife and son, teams up with a train driver (Jackson) together they battle their way past hordes of murderous “phoners” as they city falls into destruction. Cell opens in theaters and arrives on VOD on July 8th via Saban Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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New Trailer And Stills Arrive For Australian Creature Feature Red Billabong

Sparke Films has just released a new trailer and a series of images for Red Billabong. After over a decade working on film sets around the world, Luke Sparke is making his directorial debut with this ambitious action-packed Australian creature feature. From the Press Release: Combining a legendary monster of the Outback with the intricate web of a family secret, Red Billabong will debut in Australian cinemas this July from Sparke, Pinnacle Films and Darclight Films. Nick Marshal and his estranged brother Tristan are drawn into a world of secrets and lies when their grandfather’s enormous outback property passes into their hands. Old wounds are reopened as friends arrive to visit and strange things begin to occur around the river’s billabong water hole. After visits from an old aboriginal family friend and an unscrupulous property developer, the brothers wonder just who is on their side. Night falls, tensions rise, friends go missing, and past misgivings come to a head. Tristan

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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Watch The Season 3 Premiere Of Penny Dreadful (Here Now) Before Its May 1st Debut

Showtime has released the first episode of Penny Dreadful ahead of its May 1st season 3 premiere . You can watch the premiere now on YouTube (below), Facebook . iTunes, Hulu, Roku and on Showtime.com. Season 3 both welcomes back original cast and introduces new stars. Eva Green returns as Vanessa, a woman plagued with possession and evil, but who fights against it with all of her heart . Ethan, played by Josh Hartnett, will continue to struggle with the beast he becomes. Timothy Dalton’s character Sir Malcolm must continue the hunt. Dorian and Lily (Reeve Carney and Billie Piper), continue to celebrate their semi-immortal status. Both Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creature, played by Rory Kinnear, seek peace, but will it continue to be just beyond their grasp? Patti LuPone will be returning as a different character, Dr. Seward. The new cast members include: Wes Studi (Hell on Wheels) as a Native American with a connections to Ethan, Shazad

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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80s Style Slasher Most Likely To Die Gets New Trailer

Anthony DiBlasi’s (Last Shift, Dread) latest film, Most Likely to Die, will be opening in select theaters and On-Demand Friday, May 13th. The 80’s style slasher, penned by Laura Brennan, stars Jake Busey, Perez Hilton, Chad Addison, Tess Christiansen, Marci Miller, Tatum Miranda, Johnny Ramey, Jason Tobias, Skyler Vallo, and Heather Morris as Gab. Gaby, a professional poker player, has been dreading her high school reunion for months. She’s come along way since she was named “Most Likely To Play The Hand She Was Dealt”. Suddenly one by one, Gaby’s friends are being picked off, each in a way that pays tribute to their yearbook superlatives. As the body count rises she’s forced to face the fact that one of her friends is a psychotic killer. But who is it, The Class Clown? Maybe it’s The Jock?

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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Horror Anthology Volumes Of Blood Coming To Blu-ray And DVD

The horror anthology Volumes of Blood, directed by Jakob Bilinski, Nathan Thomas Miller, John Kenneth Muir, Lee Vervoort and P.J. Starks, who also serves as producer, is preparing for its release on Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday (April 26). The film centers on a group of four college students gathered in the library on Halloween night. For their last school project the group has decided to create a series of new urban legends. We go around the table as they one by one invent new legends. In the first segment of the anthology features a women, studying late in the library, struggling to stay awake and focus. Suddenly a man appears, offering her a brand new energy drink. What she expects to be a pick-me-up ends up blowing her mind. The second segment is a ghostly tale. In black and white, a librarian keeps stumbling upon a book on ghosts in the strangest places. Quickly it becomes obvious that he

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2016
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Twin Peaks’ Massive Cast Announced By Showtime

Back in December the first teaser trailer emerged for David Lynch’s upcoming Twin Peaks revival, but the cast list has been kept relatively hush-hush, till now. Today, Showtime dropped the full cast list and it’s huge. In all, the massive cast includes 217 new and returning actors and actresses. This list boasts names such as Josh McDermitt, Ernie Hudson, Ashley Judd, Naomi Watts, Tom Sizemore, Laura Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, musicians Eddie Vedder and Trent Reznor, and David Duchovny reprising his role as Agent Dennis. Many others will also be returning to their characters from the series that ran from 1990 to 1991. If you have a few minutes, check out the cast list (below). In the original series Agent Dale Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of Laura Palmer, the local homecoming queen. Cooper soon realized that the mystery went much deeper than just Laura Palmer’s murder and that there was another force at play. The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2016

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Crypt TV Gets Great New Look And Logo

Most of you have heard of CryptTV by now. CryptTV specializes in creating short horror films and promoting the mantra “Weird is Good” . Today they announced their rebrand that includes a new look and logo with the same great content and more. CryptTV, born in April 2015, was co-founded by director Eli Roth and CEO Jack Davis. Not only to they create and share short horror films through their website, you can find them on pretty much every form of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Fans can also sign up for their newsletter on their website. Crypt TV prides itself on bringing exciting new stories and characters into the genre world through original video,” Jack Davis Said. “We wanted a new logo with a little more color, style and passion that is indicative of the passion we have for scares and the radically new types of scary stories we want to tell. From the Press Release:

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2016
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A Prequel To The Omen Is In The Works From 20th Century

It’s been almost forty years since The Omen debuted in theaters. The iconic film, directed by Richard Donner, introduced us to Damien, the young Antichrist, meant to bring destruction to the world in his adulthood. But what happened before Damien was brought into this world? According to THR, we will soon find out. It seems 20th Century Fox has a prequel to The Omen in the works as we speak, titled The First Omen. The First Omen, written by Ben Jacoby (Bleed), may have already found its director. Antonio Campos is currently in negotiations the step behind the camera for the film. Campos is behind such films as 2016’s drama Christine, as well as the films Simon Killer, and Afterschool. In The Omen, when Katherine (Lee Remick), the wife of American Diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck), gave birth Robert was told the baby had passed and that an abandoned baby could take its place. Without Katherine’s knowledge, the babies were

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2016
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Zombieland 2 Filming This Summer In Atlanta

After years of waiting Zombieland 2 is finally moving forward. Earlier this month we reported that Sony revealed the logo for Zombieland 2 at CinemaCon. Now, news comes that not only is Zombieland 2 still happening, it starts filming this summer in Atlanta. Project Casting has announced the casting process will soon begin for the sequel to the 2009 horror-comedy hit. The original director, Ruben Fleischer, will be returning for part 2. The script will be penned by Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese (Zombieland, Deadpool) and Dave Callahan from The Expendables. Not only is the director returning, some of the original cast will be starring in the sequel. Who it will be has not been revealed at this time. We will give an update when we know more. embed

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2016
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Accidental Exorcist Possesses A New Trailer And Release Date

The trailer for Daniel Falicki’s Accidental Exorcist has just arrived. Written by Warren Croyle and Sheri Beth Dusek, Falicki stars along side Sherryl Depres, Patrick Hendren, Chris Kotcher, and Jason Roth in this supernatural thriller. Synopsis: Richard Vanuck is a natural born exorcist; in fact, he’s the best there ever was, and with possessions on the rise across the city, he’s booked solid. Reluctantly, he faces the fact that performing exorcisms is the only thing he’s truly good at even though it’s wearing him down and making his life utterly miserable. Accidental Exorcist now possesses a release date, March 11, 2016.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2016
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Official Trailer And Poster Arrive For The Film Adaption Of Stephen King’s Cell

We’ve shared several updates on the film adaption of Stephen King’s Cell over the past several months. Today, the first full trailer and official poster have finally arrived. The film, directed by Tod Williams penned by King and Adam Alleca, stars Samuel L. Jackson, John Cussack, Isabelle Fuhrman, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Kaufman, Owen Teague, and Catherine Dyer. Stephen King’s best-selling novel begins at the Boston airport where Clay (Cusack) witnesses chaos when an electronic signal cast over cellphones suddenly turns the crowd into a mob of bloodthirsty killers. Clay, desperate to find his estranged wife and son, teams up with a train driver (Jackson) together they battle their way past hordes of murderous “phoners” as they city falls into destruction. Cell opens in theaters and arrives on VOD on July 8th via Saban Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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New Trailer And Stills Arrive For Australian Creature Feature Red Billabong

Sparke Films has just released a new trailer and a series of images for Red Billabong. After over a decade working on film sets around the world, Luke Sparke is making his directorial debut with this ambitious action-packed Australian creature feature. From the Press Release: Combining a legendary monster of the Outback with the intricate web of a family secret, Red Billabong will debut in Australian cinemas this July from Sparke, Pinnacle Films and Darclight Films. Nick Marshal and his estranged brother Tristan are drawn into a world of secrets and lies when their grandfather’s enormous outback property passes into their hands. Old wounds are reopened as friends arrive to visit and strange things begin to occur around the river’s billabong water hole. After visits from an old aboriginal family friend and an unscrupulous property developer, the brothers wonder just who is on their side. Night falls, tensions rise, friends go missing, and past misgivings come to a head. Tristan

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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Watch The Season 3 Premiere Of Penny Dreadful (Here Now) Before Its May 1st Debut

Showtime has released the first episode of Penny Dreadful ahead of its May 1st season 3 premiere . You can watch the premiere now on YouTube (below), Facebook . iTunes, Hulu, Roku and on Showtime.com. Season 3 both welcomes back original cast and introduces new stars. Eva Green returns as Vanessa, a woman plagued with possession and evil, but who fights against it with all of her heart . Ethan, played by Josh Hartnett, will continue to struggle with the beast he becomes. Timothy Dalton’s character Sir Malcolm must continue the hunt. Dorian and Lily (Reeve Carney and Billie Piper), continue to celebrate their semi-immortal status. Both Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creature, played by Rory Kinnear, seek peace, but will it continue to be just beyond their grasp? Patti LuPone will be returning as a different character, Dr. Seward. The new cast members include: Wes Studi (Hell on Wheels) as a Native American with a connections to Ethan, Shazad

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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80s Style Slasher Most Likely To Die Gets New Trailer

Anthony DiBlasi’s (Last Shift, Dread) latest film, Most Likely to Die, will be opening in select theaters and On-Demand Friday, May 13th. The 80’s style slasher, penned by Laura Brennan, stars Jake Busey, Perez Hilton, Chad Addison, Tess Christiansen, Marci Miller, Tatum Miranda, Johnny Ramey, Jason Tobias, Skyler Vallo, and Heather Morris as Gab. Gaby, a professional poker player, has been dreading her high school reunion for months. She’s come along way since she was named “Most Likely To Play The Hand She Was Dealt”. Suddenly one by one, Gaby’s friends are being picked off, each in a way that pays tribute to their yearbook superlatives. As the body count rises she’s forced to face the fact that one of her friends is a psychotic killer. But who is it, The Class Clown? Maybe it’s The Jock?

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2016
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Horror Anthology Volumes Of Blood Coming To Blu-ray And DVD

The horror anthology Volumes of Blood, directed by Jakob Bilinski, Nathan Thomas Miller, John Kenneth Muir, Lee Vervoort and P.J. Starks, who also serves as producer, is preparing for its release on Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday (April 26). The film centers on a group of four college students gathered in the library on Halloween night. For their last school project the group has decided to create a series of new urban legends. We go around the table as they one by one invent new legends. In the first segment of the anthology features a women, studying late in the library, struggling to stay awake and focus. Suddenly a man appears, offering her a brand new energy drink. What she expects to be a pick-me-up ends up blowing her mind. The second segment is a ghostly tale. In black and white, a librarian keeps stumbling upon a book on ghosts in the strangest places. Quickly it becomes obvious that he

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2016
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Twin Peaks’ Massive Cast Announced By Showtime

Back in December the first teaser trailer emerged for David Lynch’s upcoming Twin Peaks revival, but the cast list has been kept relatively hush-hush, till now. Today, Showtime dropped the full cast list and it’s huge. In all, the massive cast includes 217 new and returning actors and actresses. This list boasts names such as Josh McDermitt, Ernie Hudson, Ashley Judd, Naomi Watts, Tom Sizemore, Laura Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, musicians Eddie Vedder and Trent Reznor, and David Duchovny reprising his role as Agent Dennis. Many others will also be returning to their characters from the series that ran from 1990 to 1991. If you have a few minutes, check out the cast list (below). In the original series Agent Dale Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of Laura Palmer, the local homecoming queen. Cooper soon realized that the mystery went much deeper than just Laura Palmer’s murder and that there was another force at play. The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2016
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