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A Murder Mystery: Trailer For Animated Thriller 'Inspector Sun And The Curse Of The Black Widow'

A Murder Mystery: Trailer For Animated Thriller ‘Inspector Sun And The Curse Of The Black Widow’

A murder mystery unfolds in Viva’s animated feature Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow, opening in theaters this October. With shades of Murder on the Orient Express, the animated mystery features the voice of Ronny Chieng (M3gan, Crazy Rich Asians) as the titular inspector. The film follows a spider detective who boards a seaplane to San Francisco when a murder on his flight draws him into a plot that threatens both the human and bug worlds. The cast also includes Andrea Villaverde as Janey, Catherina Martinez as Arabella, Txema Moscoso as Sr. Escarabeo, Fernando Cabrera as Skeleton, Pedro Tena as Langosta, Ana Jiménez as Reina, and Vicente Gil voices Bugsy. The PG-rated film was directed by Julio Soto Gúrpide (Deep) from a screenplay by Rocco Pucillo, who won the 2013 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for the script. Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow is currently screening at the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 21, 2023
Maryam D'Abo Returns To Horror In 'The Baby In The Basket'

Maryam D’Abo Returns To Horror In ‘The Baby In The Basket’

“Bond Girl,” Maryam d’Abo is set to make her return to British horror, having joined the cast of the upcoming gothic horror film The Baby in the Basket. The Baby in the Basket also stars Paul Barber (The Full Monty, Only Fools and Horses), Amber Doig-Thorne (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Return of Krampus), Annabelle Lanyon (Legend, Dream Demon), Michaela Longden (Jack in the Box: Awakening, The Ghost Within), Elle O’Hara (When Darkness Falls, Memories of Another), and Alexandra Faye Sadeghian (Guns of Eden, Notice Me). “Set in the 1940s, the nuns of a remote Scottish island convent prepare for an impending storm, but when a baby is left on their doorstep, Sister Agnes becomes convinced he is the Devil and wants to kill the child. After Agnes is locked away, a grim series of events ensue as the storm rages, and as her Sisters begin to question faith and reality, Sister Eleanor must try to repent and survive

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 21, 2023
Trailer Lands For Anthology 'Tales From The Apocalypse' Ahead Of Release

Trailer Lands For Anthology ‘Tales From The Apocalypse’ Ahead Of Release

The science-fiction anthology Tales from the Apocalypse, featuring segments directed by the likes of Thomas Wilson Brown, Damon Duncan, and Gabriel Kalim Mucci, is coming home this July. Tales from the Apocalypse includes five terrifying tales, including stories about “an engineer circling a black hole in a pod, a 14-year-old girl and her father on the return journey to Earth when an explosion cripples their aircraft, and a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence goes to the 4th dimension to fix humans future.” The cast includes Rachel House, Jacqueline Joe, Jiao Xu, Arthur Roberts, Katie Simmons, Levi Payne, Steph Barkley, and Thomas Wilson Brown. Tales from the Apocalypse lands on Digital and DVD on July 4, 2023, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 21, 2023
Take A Terrifying Peek At 'Lunacy: Saint Rhodes' Public Demo

Take A Terrifying Peek At ‘Lunacy: Saint Rhodes’ Public Demo

Publisher Iceberg Interactive and Developer Stormling Studios are excited to announce the release of Lunacy: Saint Rhodes – a gut-wrenching first-person survival horror game, on July 27th, 2023 on PC. For the Brave souls who can’t wait to experience the horrors lurking in the dark with the public demo during the Steam Next Fest from June 19th to 26th. Lunacy: Saint Rhodes is a first-person survival puzzle game with the feel of being trapped inside a horror movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat, eager to discover what really happened to your family. They say that in the town of Saint Rhodes, you will never feel alone… or safe, as you try to figure out your family’s dark history and your inner demons.

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jun 20, 2023
Sink Into The Survival Thriller 'Quicksand' This Week On Shudder

Sink Into The Survival Thriller ‘Quicksand’ This Week On Shudder

This June, sink into the survival-thriller Quicksand, directed by Andrés Beltrán (Malyerba) and written by Matt Pitts (“Westworld”). The English-language film shot entirely in Bogota, Colombia, follows an American couple on the brink of divorce who travels to Colombia for a work conference. While hiking through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake in order to escape. Carolina Gaitán (Encanto, “Narcos”) and Allan Hawco (Jack Ryan, Republic of Doyle) star. Quicksand was produced by Sangre Films, which is a joint venture between Colombian outfit Elemental Stories and U.S. companies 222 Pictures and Dawn’s Light Movies, produced by Jason Cherubini, Nicolás Reyes, Sean Patrick Burke and executive produced by Richard Switzer, Martin Ramos, John Harris, and Kris Meyer. Quicksand makes its premiere on Shudder on July 14, 2023. The film will also stream

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
Season Two Of "The UnXplained With William Shatner" Comes To Netflix

Season Two Of “The UnXplained With William Shatner” Comes To Netflix

The second season of “The UnXplained With William Shatner” makes its premiere this week on Netflix, exploring the dark and mysterious world we call home. The investigative docuseries, which first premiered on the History Channel, sees scientists and historians delve into strange and mysterious phenomena that have intrigued humanity for centuries. The first season, streaming now, features episodes such as “Mysterious Structures,” “Strange Creatures,” “Bizare Rituals,” “Life Beyond Death,” “Incredible Survivors,” “Dark Prophecies,” and more, with the premiere episode exploring “Evil Places.” The trailer for the second season promises to “turn your life upside down,” explores a chilling tale of a mysterious forest where hundreds of bodies are discovered annually, as well as supernatural events and many more chilling topics, such as “The Mystery of Plagues,” “Serial Killers,” “The Truth About Big Foot,” The Search for Atlantis,” “Mysteries of The Bible,” “Mysterious Mummies,” and more. Tune in for the season two premiere on Netflix on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. If

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
Movie Review: Does '65' Crash And Burn?

Movie Review: Does ’65’ Crash And Burn?

Here’s a little-known fact about me, I am a total dinosaur nerd, so I was super excited when I first saw the trailer for writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ movie 65. I finally got a chance to see it this weekend, and needless to say, I have some thoughts. Warning Spoilers Ahead! The trailer gave viewers the impression that it was nonstop action, which is false. We were lied to. Instead of an action film, we get a drama that happens to have a few dinosaurs in it. The major plot twist, which was a pretty good one, was that the planet they landed on was Earth 65 million years ago, only a few days before the asteroid hit Earth that wiped out the dinosaurs. There’s a character problem. Adam Driver’s character is disconnected and aloof in 99% of the movie, in which he plays the transport ship, Captain Mills. It makes it hard to connect with him. If

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
Trailer For Horror-Comedy 'Employee Of The Month' Teases Workplace Revenge

Trailer For Horror-Comedy ‘Employee Of The Month’ Teases Workplace Revenge

As if going to your job every day wasn’t bad enough, a model employee finds herself with blood on her hands – literally- in the dark horror-comedy Employee of the Month. In the film, “After working for EcoClean — an industrial cleaning supplies company — for nearly 17 years, model employee Inès believes it’s time for a raise. Despite daily jibes from her incompetent and misogynistic co-workers (including Patrick, EcoClean’s ineffectual owner), she remains professional and dedicated to the company’s brand. When Inès confronts Patrick about her salary, he not only disparages her request but makes a lecherous pass at her. New intern Mélody witnesses this and jumps in to help, but in the process, both women accidentally find themselves with blood on their hands. Spiraling more out of control by the minute, Inès and Mélody must conjure up increasingly maniacal solutions to cover their tracks — and clean up their mess.” Led by Jasmina Douieb (Inès) and Laetitia Mampaka

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
The Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Horrors We Can’t Wait to See at Fantasia 

The Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Horrors We Can’t Wait to See at Fantasia 

The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America’s largest genre-focused film fest, celebrates its 27th edition from July 20 through August 9, 2023 in Montreal, Canada at the Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. I’ll be covering the festival for Horror Fuel, and here are six of the fear-fare features that I find highly intriguing, with more information available at https://fantasiafestival.com/en/. Following are official press descriptions, followed by my thoughts in italics. OPENING THE FESTIVAL, PASCAL PLANTE WILL BRING US INTO RED ROOMS Coming to christen Fantasia’s 27th edition days after its Karlovy-Vary competition debut, RED ROOMS (Les chambres rouges) is the haunting third feature from celebrated Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante (FAKE TATTOOS, NADIA, BUTTERFLY). The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, STANLEYVILLE) has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy, BOOST) is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek

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Joseph Perry
Jun 20, 2023
Move Over King Kong, 'Mega Ape' Is Coming To Town (Trailer)

Move Over King Kong, ‘Mega Ape’ Is Coming To Town (Trailer)

From the studio that brought you Amityville in Space, The Amazing Bulk, Sharkenstein, Jurassic Shark, and Sharkula comes Mega Ape, pounding the pavement this September! In the movie, “A team of animal rights activists unknowingly release a genetically engineered ape from a top secret research facility, who soon grows to enormous size and embarks on a rampage of total destruction in Hollywood.” This fun flick stars Jonathan Nation (Circus Kane, Apex Predators), The Crow’s Bai Ling, legendary movie heavy Mel Novak (Game of Death, Samurai Cop 2), and the late Tom Sizemore (Heat, “Twin Peaks”) in one of his final roles. The movie is directed by Dustin Ferguson (Apex Predators), whose remake of Spider Baby is also on the way. Move over King Kong, Mega Ape is coming to DVD and Digital on September 12, 2023, from Wild Eye Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023

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A Murder Mystery: Trailer For Animated Thriller 'Inspector Sun And The Curse Of The Black Widow'

A Murder Mystery: Trailer For Animated Thriller ‘Inspector Sun And The Curse Of The Black Widow’

A murder mystery unfolds in Viva’s animated feature Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow, opening in theaters this October. With shades of Murder on the Orient Express, the animated mystery features the voice of Ronny Chieng (M3gan, Crazy Rich Asians) as the titular inspector. The film follows a spider detective who boards a seaplane to San Francisco when a murder on his flight draws him into a plot that threatens both the human and bug worlds. The cast also includes Andrea Villaverde as Janey, Catherina Martinez as Arabella, Txema Moscoso as Sr. Escarabeo, Fernando Cabrera as Skeleton, Pedro Tena as Langosta, Ana Jiménez as Reina, and Vicente Gil voices Bugsy. The PG-rated film was directed by Julio Soto Gúrpide (Deep) from a screenplay by Rocco Pucillo, who won the 2013 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for the script. Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow is currently screening at the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 21, 2023
Maryam D'Abo Returns To Horror In 'The Baby In The Basket'

Maryam D’Abo Returns To Horror In ‘The Baby In The Basket’

“Bond Girl,” Maryam d’Abo is set to make her return to British horror, having joined the cast of the upcoming gothic horror film The Baby in the Basket. The Baby in the Basket also stars Paul Barber (The Full Monty, Only Fools and Horses), Amber Doig-Thorne (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Return of Krampus), Annabelle Lanyon (Legend, Dream Demon), Michaela Longden (Jack in the Box: Awakening, The Ghost Within), Elle O’Hara (When Darkness Falls, Memories of Another), and Alexandra Faye Sadeghian (Guns of Eden, Notice Me). “Set in the 1940s, the nuns of a remote Scottish island convent prepare for an impending storm, but when a baby is left on their doorstep, Sister Agnes becomes convinced he is the Devil and wants to kill the child. After Agnes is locked away, a grim series of events ensue as the storm rages, and as her Sisters begin to question faith and reality, Sister Eleanor must try to repent and survive

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 21, 2023
Trailer Lands For Anthology 'Tales From The Apocalypse' Ahead Of Release

Trailer Lands For Anthology ‘Tales From The Apocalypse’ Ahead Of Release

The science-fiction anthology Tales from the Apocalypse, featuring segments directed by the likes of Thomas Wilson Brown, Damon Duncan, and Gabriel Kalim Mucci, is coming home this July. Tales from the Apocalypse includes five terrifying tales, including stories about “an engineer circling a black hole in a pod, a 14-year-old girl and her father on the return journey to Earth when an explosion cripples their aircraft, and a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence goes to the 4th dimension to fix humans future.” The cast includes Rachel House, Jacqueline Joe, Jiao Xu, Arthur Roberts, Katie Simmons, Levi Payne, Steph Barkley, and Thomas Wilson Brown. Tales from the Apocalypse lands on Digital and DVD on July 4, 2023, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 21, 2023
Take A Terrifying Peek At 'Lunacy: Saint Rhodes' Public Demo

Take A Terrifying Peek At ‘Lunacy: Saint Rhodes’ Public Demo

Publisher Iceberg Interactive and Developer Stormling Studios are excited to announce the release of Lunacy: Saint Rhodes – a gut-wrenching first-person survival horror game, on July 27th, 2023 on PC. For the Brave souls who can’t wait to experience the horrors lurking in the dark with the public demo during the Steam Next Fest from June 19th to 26th. Lunacy: Saint Rhodes is a first-person survival puzzle game with the feel of being trapped inside a horror movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat, eager to discover what really happened to your family. They say that in the town of Saint Rhodes, you will never feel alone… or safe, as you try to figure out your family’s dark history and your inner demons.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jun 20, 2023
Sink Into The Survival Thriller 'Quicksand' This Week On Shudder

Sink Into The Survival Thriller ‘Quicksand’ This Week On Shudder

This June, sink into the survival-thriller Quicksand, directed by Andrés Beltrán (Malyerba) and written by Matt Pitts (“Westworld”). The English-language film shot entirely in Bogota, Colombia, follows an American couple on the brink of divorce who travels to Colombia for a work conference. While hiking through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake in order to escape. Carolina Gaitán (Encanto, “Narcos”) and Allan Hawco (Jack Ryan, Republic of Doyle) star. Quicksand was produced by Sangre Films, which is a joint venture between Colombian outfit Elemental Stories and U.S. companies 222 Pictures and Dawn’s Light Movies, produced by Jason Cherubini, Nicolás Reyes, Sean Patrick Burke and executive produced by Richard Switzer, Martin Ramos, John Harris, and Kris Meyer. Quicksand makes its premiere on Shudder on July 14, 2023. The film will also stream

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
Season Two Of "The UnXplained With William Shatner" Comes To Netflix

Season Two Of “The UnXplained With William Shatner” Comes To Netflix

The second season of “The UnXplained With William Shatner” makes its premiere this week on Netflix, exploring the dark and mysterious world we call home. The investigative docuseries, which first premiered on the History Channel, sees scientists and historians delve into strange and mysterious phenomena that have intrigued humanity for centuries. The first season, streaming now, features episodes such as “Mysterious Structures,” “Strange Creatures,” “Bizare Rituals,” “Life Beyond Death,” “Incredible Survivors,” “Dark Prophecies,” and more, with the premiere episode exploring “Evil Places.” The trailer for the second season promises to “turn your life upside down,” explores a chilling tale of a mysterious forest where hundreds of bodies are discovered annually, as well as supernatural events and many more chilling topics, such as “The Mystery of Plagues,” “Serial Killers,” “The Truth About Big Foot,” The Search for Atlantis,” “Mysteries of The Bible,” “Mysterious Mummies,” and more. Tune in for the season two premiere on Netflix on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. If

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
Movie Review: Does '65' Crash And Burn?

Movie Review: Does ’65’ Crash And Burn?

Here’s a little-known fact about me, I am a total dinosaur nerd, so I was super excited when I first saw the trailer for writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ movie 65. I finally got a chance to see it this weekend, and needless to say, I have some thoughts. Warning Spoilers Ahead! The trailer gave viewers the impression that it was nonstop action, which is false. We were lied to. Instead of an action film, we get a drama that happens to have a few dinosaurs in it. The major plot twist, which was a pretty good one, was that the planet they landed on was Earth 65 million years ago, only a few days before the asteroid hit Earth that wiped out the dinosaurs. There’s a character problem. Adam Driver’s character is disconnected and aloof in 99% of the movie, in which he plays the transport ship, Captain Mills. It makes it hard to connect with him. If

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
Trailer For Horror-Comedy 'Employee Of The Month' Teases Workplace Revenge

Trailer For Horror-Comedy ‘Employee Of The Month’ Teases Workplace Revenge

As if going to your job every day wasn’t bad enough, a model employee finds herself with blood on her hands – literally- in the dark horror-comedy Employee of the Month. In the film, “After working for EcoClean — an industrial cleaning supplies company — for nearly 17 years, model employee Inès believes it’s time for a raise. Despite daily jibes from her incompetent and misogynistic co-workers (including Patrick, EcoClean’s ineffectual owner), she remains professional and dedicated to the company’s brand. When Inès confronts Patrick about her salary, he not only disparages her request but makes a lecherous pass at her. New intern Mélody witnesses this and jumps in to help, but in the process, both women accidentally find themselves with blood on their hands. Spiraling more out of control by the minute, Inès and Mélody must conjure up increasingly maniacal solutions to cover their tracks — and clean up their mess.” Led by Jasmina Douieb (Inès) and Laetitia Mampaka

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
The Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Horrors We Can’t Wait to See at Fantasia 

The Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Horrors We Can’t Wait to See at Fantasia 

The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America’s largest genre-focused film fest, celebrates its 27th edition from July 20 through August 9, 2023 in Montreal, Canada at the Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. I’ll be covering the festival for Horror Fuel, and here are six of the fear-fare features that I find highly intriguing, with more information available at https://fantasiafestival.com/en/. Following are official press descriptions, followed by my thoughts in italics. OPENING THE FESTIVAL, PASCAL PLANTE WILL BRING US INTO RED ROOMS Coming to christen Fantasia’s 27th edition days after its Karlovy-Vary competition debut, RED ROOMS (Les chambres rouges) is the haunting third feature from celebrated Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante (FAKE TATTOOS, NADIA, BUTTERFLY). The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, STANLEYVILLE) has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy, BOOST) is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Jun 20, 2023
Move Over King Kong, 'Mega Ape' Is Coming To Town (Trailer)

Move Over King Kong, ‘Mega Ape’ Is Coming To Town (Trailer)

From the studio that brought you Amityville in Space, The Amazing Bulk, Sharkenstein, Jurassic Shark, and Sharkula comes Mega Ape, pounding the pavement this September! In the movie, “A team of animal rights activists unknowingly release a genetically engineered ape from a top secret research facility, who soon grows to enormous size and embarks on a rampage of total destruction in Hollywood.” This fun flick stars Jonathan Nation (Circus Kane, Apex Predators), The Crow’s Bai Ling, legendary movie heavy Mel Novak (Game of Death, Samurai Cop 2), and the late Tom Sizemore (Heat, “Twin Peaks”) in one of his final roles. The movie is directed by Dustin Ferguson (Apex Predators), whose remake of Spider Baby is also on the way. Move over King Kong, Mega Ape is coming to DVD and Digital on September 12, 2023, from Wild Eye Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2023
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