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The television adaption of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion’s graphic novel Preacher premiered this weekend at the SXSW Film Festival and is set to air on May 22nd. Preacher follows Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), an unconventional preacher from a small Texas town, who was pushed into his profession by his effing insane family. Jesse, after being possessed by Genesis, an entity that is half angel and half demon, develops a neat power, what he commands you must do. He sets out to find God, accompanied by his ex girlfriend Tulip O’Hare (Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun). In the world of Preacher Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy will encounter regular people, and characters from Heaven, Hell, and everywhere in between. Dominic Cooper – Jesse Custer Ruth Negga – Tulip O’Hare Joseph Gilgun – Cassidy We reported back in February that Jackie Earle Hailey had been cast in the role of Haley Odin, a local KKK member and
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The Bye Bye Man, based on Robert Damon Schneck’s short story “The Bridge to Body Island”, is set to arrive in theaters on June 3rd, 2016 from STX Entertainment. The film, set in Wisconsin in the 1990s, follows three collage students who have moved into an old house off-campus. There they find themselves preyed on by a supernatural entity called “The Bye Bye Man”. The friends must find a way to save themselves while keeping the haunting secret, to protect anyone else from becoming the entity’s next victim. The Bye Bye Man stars Doug Jones, Michael Trucco, Douglas Smith, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount, Carrie Ann Moss and Faye Dunaway. Stacy Title directed the film, which just wrapped filming in Cleveland. The script was penned by Jonathan Penner. Trevor Macy produced for Intrepid. Jeffery Soros and Simon Horsman produced for the Los Angeles Media Fund. Doug Jones, cast as “The Bye Bye Man” is a legendary actor who has transformed himself
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, best known for his breakout film 28 Weeks Later, has signed on to direct Haunted, a film inspired by 1898’s gothic ghost story Turn of the Screw, according to Deadline. The script for the film was penned by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring). Film legend Steven Spielberg will be serving as Producer for the film. Turn of the Screw, written by Henry James, follows a young governess and her two young charges. There are dark entities lurking in the estate the children call home. The spirits want to possess the children and claim their souls. We can expect to see the premiere of Haunted, which serves as both an adaption of the novel and a reboot of the 1992 film Turn of the Screw, some time in 2017. Fresnadillo is also set to direct the upcoming reboot 1989 of the classic horror film Pet Sematary,
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The Walking Dead‘s Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, a nanny, hired to care for a couple’s son in The Boy. After being hired she learns that she will actually be caring for a life-sized doll that the couple is using to cope with the loss of their eight-year-old son who has passed away. After Greta violates several of the rules the couple has issued, she discovers that the doll is unlike any other, it may actually be alive. Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Rupert Evans, Ben Robson, Javier Botet and James Russell co-star along side Cohan. This creepy film was directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) and was written by Stacey Menear. The Boy arrives on Digital HD April 26th and is now out on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD.
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Horror icons Robert Englund (A Nightmare of Elm Street) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) will be starring in the indie horror thriller The Midnight Man, from director Travis Z. (Cabin Fever). The Midnight Man is being produced by Gussi Fims and Zeal Media and has already begun filming. The Midnight Man is based on a on an old Pagan ritual known as “The Midnight Game”. The film also serves as a remake of the low budget film by Rob Kennedy. by the same name, released in 2013. The Midnight Man co-stars Grayson Gabriel (Stan Helsing), Keenan Lehmana (Silent Night), Summer Howell (Curse of Chucky), Meredith Rose (Jurassic World), Kyle Strauts (The Cabin in the Woods), Gabrielle Haugh (Headlock) and Michael Sirow (Darkroom). In the film a girl plays a game with her friends that summons a creature known as “The Midnight Man” . The entity uses the friends’ worst fears against them. This is not the first time Englund and Shaye
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Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) are set to star in the sci-fi thriller Life. The film is in the hands of director Daniel Espinosa, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis serving as producers. Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese penned the script for Life, according to Variety. Life follows the crew of an International Space Station. After retrieving a sample from Mars, the crew discovers that it not only shows signs of life, it proves to be intelligent,
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In a few days the television adaption of Robert Kirkman’s Outcast will be premiering at the SXSW Film Festival. The Cinemax series stars Patrick Fugit as the main character Kyle Barnes, a young man in search of answers to why he has suffered from demonic possessions all of his life. During his quest to understand what happened to him, he comes in contact with others suffering from the same affliction. Pete Burris (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2) co-stars along side Lacy Camp (Red Band Society), Julia Crockett (The Absence), Philip Glenister (Demons) Melinda McGraw (Mad Men), David Denman (13 Hours), Grace Zabriskie (The Killing), Cathrine Dent (The Shield), Brent Spiner (Independence Day) and ‘The Americans’ actor Lee Tergesen. The series will be directed by Adam Wingard, the director of ‘You’re Next’, and Julius Ramsey, who directed several episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’. Robert Kirkman will be serving as a writer for the 10 episode series, as well as an
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Alberto Marini’s first full length feature, Summer Camp, is approaching its world wide release. Marini co-wrote the script for Summer Camp along with Danielle Schleif. The fast-paced outbreak thriller was directed by Juame Balaguero. In the film a group of American counselors arrive at a European summer camp and are faced with an outbreak of a rage virus unlike anything any seen before. Summer Camp stars Scream Queens’ actor Diego Boneta, Maiara Walsh (Zombieland series), Andres Velencoso (The End) and Jocelin Donahue of Insidious: Chapter 2. It opens in theaters world wide on March 18th. The brand new trailer kicks off with an infected dog attacking one of the counselors. We then get a glimpse of the fast-spreading virus as a young woman, trying to escape, is infected though an air-born contagion.
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Wild Eye Releasing has teamed up with legendary scream queen Debbie Rochon for her directorial debut, Model Hunger. After appearing in over 250 films, Rocho (Return to Nuke ‘Em High, Phobia, The Theater Bizarre, Killer Rack) steps behind the camera for her blood-curdling take on an actress’ response to forced retirement. B-movie stars Lynn Lowry (The Crazies, Shivers) and Tiffany Shepis (Tales of Halloween, Sharknado 2) headline as two women on a deadly collision course. Brian Fortune (Game of Thrones), Suzi Lorraine (Wrath of Crows), and Carmine Capobianco (I Spill Your Guts) also star in Model Hunger out this summer. From the Press Release: “Former pinup model Ginny (Lowry) has been cast aside by the heartless and exploitative modeling industry. Ginny didn’t take the rejection well and grew into a revenge-seeking, bloodthirsty, broken woman. When her new neighbors Debbie (Shepis) and Sal (Capobianco) move in, Debbie begins to notice strange things going on. Sal believes she is mentally unstable, but
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Zak Bagans, host of Ghost Adventures and documentary filmmaker, is set to debut his new supernatural series, Deadly Possessions. From the Press Release: Zak Bagans is fulfilling a lifelong dream of opening a museum in downtown Las Vegas, full of the haunted, cursed objects he has been collecting through the years. Each episode of “Deadly Possessions” features three haunted, iconic items and their owners. They share stories of how these objects have terrorized them and, in some cases, even killed people. Bagans interviews the owners and works with them to get to the root of their “attachment,” so they can free themselves…or at least escape harm these “deadly possessions.” Items featured in the series include the Dibbuk box, the most haunted object in the world; Robert, the killer doll that inspired the “Chucky” films; a secret possession implicated in the death of actress Natalie Wood; and more. Deadly Possessions will premiere on Saturday, April 2nd at 9 p.m. ET/PT on
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The television adaption of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion’s graphic novel Preacher premiered this weekend at the SXSW Film Festival and is set to air on May 22nd. Preacher follows Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), an unconventional preacher from a small Texas town, who was pushed into his profession by his effing insane family. Jesse, after being possessed by Genesis, an entity that is half angel and half demon, develops a neat power, what he commands you must do. He sets out to find God, accompanied by his ex girlfriend Tulip O’Hare (Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun). In the world of Preacher Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy will encounter regular people, and characters from Heaven, Hell, and everywhere in between. Dominic Cooper – Jesse Custer Ruth Negga – Tulip O’Hare Joseph Gilgun – Cassidy We reported back in February that Jackie Earle Hailey had been cast in the role of Haley Odin, a local KKK member and
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The Bye Bye Man, based on Robert Damon Schneck’s short story “The Bridge to Body Island”, is set to arrive in theaters on June 3rd, 2016 from STX Entertainment. The film, set in Wisconsin in the 1990s, follows three collage students who have moved into an old house off-campus. There they find themselves preyed on by a supernatural entity called “The Bye Bye Man”. The friends must find a way to save themselves while keeping the haunting secret, to protect anyone else from becoming the entity’s next victim. The Bye Bye Man stars Doug Jones, Michael Trucco, Douglas Smith, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount, Carrie Ann Moss and Faye Dunaway. Stacy Title directed the film, which just wrapped filming in Cleveland. The script was penned by Jonathan Penner. Trevor Macy produced for Intrepid. Jeffery Soros and Simon Horsman produced for the Los Angeles Media Fund. Doug Jones, cast as “The Bye Bye Man” is a legendary actor who has transformed himself
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, best known for his breakout film 28 Weeks Later, has signed on to direct Haunted, a film inspired by 1898’s gothic ghost story Turn of the Screw, according to Deadline. The script for the film was penned by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring). Film legend Steven Spielberg will be serving as Producer for the film. Turn of the Screw, written by Henry James, follows a young governess and her two young charges. There are dark entities lurking in the estate the children call home. The spirits want to possess the children and claim their souls. We can expect to see the premiere of Haunted, which serves as both an adaption of the novel and a reboot of the 1992 film Turn of the Screw, some time in 2017. Fresnadillo is also set to direct the upcoming reboot 1989 of the classic horror film Pet Sematary,
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The Walking Dead‘s Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, a nanny, hired to care for a couple’s son in The Boy. After being hired she learns that she will actually be caring for a life-sized doll that the couple is using to cope with the loss of their eight-year-old son who has passed away. After Greta violates several of the rules the couple has issued, she discovers that the doll is unlike any other, it may actually be alive. Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Rupert Evans, Ben Robson, Javier Botet and James Russell co-star along side Cohan. This creepy film was directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) and was written by Stacey Menear. The Boy arrives on Digital HD April 26th and is now out on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD.
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Horror icons Robert Englund (A Nightmare of Elm Street) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) will be starring in the indie horror thriller The Midnight Man, from director Travis Z. (Cabin Fever). The Midnight Man is being produced by Gussi Fims and Zeal Media and has already begun filming. The Midnight Man is based on a on an old Pagan ritual known as “The Midnight Game”. The film also serves as a remake of the low budget film by Rob Kennedy. by the same name, released in 2013. The Midnight Man co-stars Grayson Gabriel (Stan Helsing), Keenan Lehmana (Silent Night), Summer Howell (Curse of Chucky), Meredith Rose (Jurassic World), Kyle Strauts (The Cabin in the Woods), Gabrielle Haugh (Headlock) and Michael Sirow (Darkroom). In the film a girl plays a game with her friends that summons a creature known as “The Midnight Man” . The entity uses the friends’ worst fears against them. This is not the first time Englund and Shaye
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Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) are set to star in the sci-fi thriller Life. The film is in the hands of director Daniel Espinosa, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis serving as producers. Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese penned the script for Life, according to Variety. Life follows the crew of an International Space Station. After retrieving a sample from Mars, the crew discovers that it not only shows signs of life, it proves to be intelligent,
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In a few days the television adaption of Robert Kirkman’s Outcast will be premiering at the SXSW Film Festival. The Cinemax series stars Patrick Fugit as the main character Kyle Barnes, a young man in search of answers to why he has suffered from demonic possessions all of his life. During his quest to understand what happened to him, he comes in contact with others suffering from the same affliction. Pete Burris (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2) co-stars along side Lacy Camp (Red Band Society), Julia Crockett (The Absence), Philip Glenister (Demons) Melinda McGraw (Mad Men), David Denman (13 Hours), Grace Zabriskie (The Killing), Cathrine Dent (The Shield), Brent Spiner (Independence Day) and ‘The Americans’ actor Lee Tergesen. The series will be directed by Adam Wingard, the director of ‘You’re Next’, and Julius Ramsey, who directed several episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’. Robert Kirkman will be serving as a writer for the 10 episode series, as well as an
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Alberto Marini’s first full length feature, Summer Camp, is approaching its world wide release. Marini co-wrote the script for Summer Camp along with Danielle Schleif. The fast-paced outbreak thriller was directed by Juame Balaguero. In the film a group of American counselors arrive at a European summer camp and are faced with an outbreak of a rage virus unlike anything any seen before. Summer Camp stars Scream Queens’ actor Diego Boneta, Maiara Walsh (Zombieland series), Andres Velencoso (The End) and Jocelin Donahue of Insidious: Chapter 2. It opens in theaters world wide on March 18th. The brand new trailer kicks off with an infected dog attacking one of the counselors. We then get a glimpse of the fast-spreading virus as a young woman, trying to escape, is infected though an air-born contagion.
Continue reading →
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Wild Eye Releasing has teamed up with legendary scream queen Debbie Rochon for her directorial debut, Model Hunger. After appearing in over 250 films, Rocho (Return to Nuke ‘Em High, Phobia, The Theater Bizarre, Killer Rack) steps behind the camera for her blood-curdling take on an actress’ response to forced retirement. B-movie stars Lynn Lowry (The Crazies, Shivers) and Tiffany Shepis (Tales of Halloween, Sharknado 2) headline as two women on a deadly collision course. Brian Fortune (Game of Thrones), Suzi Lorraine (Wrath of Crows), and Carmine Capobianco (I Spill Your Guts) also star in Model Hunger out this summer. From the Press Release: “Former pinup model Ginny (Lowry) has been cast aside by the heartless and exploitative modeling industry. Ginny didn’t take the rejection well and grew into a revenge-seeking, bloodthirsty, broken woman. When her new neighbors Debbie (Shepis) and Sal (Capobianco) move in, Debbie begins to notice strange things going on. Sal believes she is mentally unstable, but
Continue reading →
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Zak Bagans, host of Ghost Adventures and documentary filmmaker, is set to debut his new supernatural series, Deadly Possessions. From the Press Release: Zak Bagans is fulfilling a lifelong dream of opening a museum in downtown Las Vegas, full of the haunted, cursed objects he has been collecting through the years. Each episode of “Deadly Possessions” features three haunted, iconic items and their owners. They share stories of how these objects have terrorized them and, in some cases, even killed people. Bagans interviews the owners and works with them to get to the root of their “attachment,” so they can free themselves…or at least escape harm these “deadly possessions.” Items featured in the series include the Dibbuk box, the most haunted object in the world; Robert, the killer doll that inspired the “Chucky” films; a secret possession implicated in the death of actress Natalie Wood; and more. Deadly Possessions will premiere on Saturday, April 2nd at 9 p.m. ET/PT on
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