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Movie Review: 'Fall' Keeps You On The Edge Of Your Seat

Movie Review: ‘Fall’ Keeps You On The Edge Of Your Seat

Lionsgate will soon release Fall, from director Scott Mann. I got a chance to check it out early and of course, I have some thoughts. The movie centers on Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), best friends whose lives are all about conquering fears and pushing limits. Their next conquest is a radio tower, that reaches a height of 2,000 feet. What could go wrong? The majority of the movie takes place at the top of the tower where the two women find themselves stuck with no way down and time running short. You would think that a movie set in one spot would be boring, but with tons of drama, twists, and action, Fall manages to stay engaging from beginning to end. Both stars, Grace Caroline Currey and Virginia Gardner played their roles well and were easy to empathize with. I can’t help but wonder how much of the stunts they did themselves. They were rather impressive.

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Oct 10, 2022
Movie Review: Hellraiser (2022) Offers More Pain Than Pleasure

Movie Review: Hellraiser (2022) Offers More Pain Than Pleasure

The horror genre is abuzz about Hulu’s new Hellraiser, directed by David Bruckner, so, does it live up to the hype? In the beginning, we meet Riley, a young woman who is struggling with addiction while living with her intensely judgemental brother, his partner, and another roommate. After stealing a puzzle box with her boyfriend all hell breaks loose and the cenobites are unleashed, but she’s got a plan. First thing’s first, the movie has a character problem. While the character of Riley is fleshed out, the other’s aren’t. They are cardboard cut out characters and they are simply there to suffer. One of the biggest sources of debate among fans is the new female Pinhead. I have to say, I was rather impressed by Jamie Clayton’s portrayal of “The Preist.” She features a similar look and her voice, only slightly feminine, was a great choice. As for the story, it held classical elements of the franchise, cenobites, chains, suffering,

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Uncle Fester Makes His First Appearance In New "Wednesday" Trailer

Uncle Fester Makes His First Appearance In New “Wednesday” Trailer

Tim Burton brings The Addams Family to Netflix with “Wednesday.”Today, a new trailer has arrived, giving us our first look at Uncle Fester, played by “Saturday Night Live” veteran Fred Armisen, as well as more of the story surrounding Wednesday’s life at her new school, Nevermore Academy. Jenna Ortega stars as the infamous Wednesday Addams with Luis Guzman playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia. “Game of Thrones” actress Gwendoline Christie will play the role of “Larissa Weems,” the principal of Nevermore Academy. The cast also includes Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, Percy Hynes White, Jamie McShane, Thora Birch, and Riki Lindhome. The series also sees the return of “Addams Family” star Christina Ricci as a yet-to-be-named character. “Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has

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A Woman's American Dream Becomes A Nightmare In 'Nanny' - Out Now

Trailer For Psychological Horror ‘Nanny” Reveals a Woman In Danger

A woman’s “American Dream” is threatened in Prime Video’s new horror film, Nanny, written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu. “In this psychological horror fable of displacement, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal, is hired to care for the daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York City. Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S., but she becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. As his arrival approaches, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening the “American Dream” she is painstakingly piecing together.” Starring Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, and Leslie Uggams, the film is produced By Nikkia Moultrie and Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Executive produced by Maria Zuckerman, Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom, Jason Blum, Rebecca Cammarata, Bill

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Press Play On 'V/H/S/99' This Week On Shudder (Trailer)

The Horror Filled Official Trailer For ‘V/H/S/99’ Is Here

The hit found footage horror anthology franchise, V/H/S, is back with an all-new installment, V/H/S/99. The official trailer is here, teasing the horror that awaits you when it premieres this Halloween. Featuring renowned genre filmmakers Maggie Levin (Into The Dark: My Valentine), Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City), Flying Lotus (Kuso), Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls), and Joseph & Vanessa Winter (Deadstream). V/H/S/99 takes us back to the final punk rock analog days of the VHS while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium. In the film, a video leads to a series of horrifying revelations. “V/H/S/94 set a new bar for what is already a fantastic film franchise, featuring some of the best horror anthology segments in recent memory by an incredible lineup of filmmakers,” said Craig Engler, GM of Shudder. We’re confident this is the biggest, baddest, and most wildly savage V/H/S yet!” Producer Josh Goldbloom had this to say about

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Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of  New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman's 'Violent Cases'

Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Violent Cases’

35 years after publishing Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s first-ever graphic novel, today Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions and Foton Pictures have now announced that development on Violent Cases is well underway with Academy Award®-winning actor Ben Kingsley attached in the lead role of the Osteopath led by the creative team behind the BAFTA-nominated The Girl With All The Gifts, director Colm McCarthy, writer Mike Carey, and producer Camille Gatin. At only 50 pages, “Violent Cases” features a narrator, who tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath ( a licensed physician who uses both conventional treatments and osteopathic manipulative medicine) who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator’s relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator’s imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.

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'Beast' Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

‘Beast’ Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

A rouge lion hunts Idris Elba (Hobbs & Shaw, The Suicide Squad) in the pulse-pounding thriller Beast, out now Digital. Elba stars as Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed father who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a trip with his daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley, “Russian Doll”, Maleficent), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing turns into a fight for survival when a lion begins hunting them. Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, with Leah Sava Jeffries (Real series, Empire series) in the role of his 13-year-old daughter, Norah. The action-packed film is from filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, the director of Everest and Universal Pictures’ 2 Guns and Contraband. Beast is produced by Will Packer (Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, Night School, No Good Deed) and the president of Will Packer

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This October The Director Of 'The Descent' Is Back With 'The Lair' (Trailer)

This October The Director Of ‘The Descent’ Is Back With ‘The Lair’ (Trailer)

From writer-director Neil Marshall, the brilliant filmmaker behind The Descent comes a new tale of terror, The Lair, out this October. In the film, “When Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is shot down over Afghanistan, she finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made biological weapons – half human, half alien – are awakened.” Co-written by Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning), The Lair stars Charlotte Kirk (Ocean’s Eight), Jonathan Howard (Thor: The Dark World), and Jamie Bamber (“Battlestar Galactica”). RLJE Films will unleash The Lair in theaters, On Demand, and on Digital on October 28, 2022, with the film heading to Shudder early next year.

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Witness The Twisted True Crime Series 'A Friend of the Family' Now On Peacock

Witness The Twisted True Crime Series ‘A Friend of the Family’ Now On Peacock

Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to

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Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, 'The Box,' Getting US Release

Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, ‘The Box,’ Getting US Release

MUBI is proud to announce the U.S. theatrical and streaming release of The Box (La Caja) the gut-punching psychological thriller and latest feature film from acclaimed Venezuelan writer-director Lorenzo Vigas, which had its world premiere in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival and is Venezuela’s official Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Film. Set in the harsh landscape of northern Mexico, The Box is Vigas’ third and last installment of his fiction trilogy on the theme of the father figure after the 2004 short film Elephants Never Forget, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, and his 2015 debut feature From Afar, winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, marking a first for a Latin American film. “The Box tells the story of Hatzín (played wonderfully by the non-professional newcomer Hatzín Navarrete), a young teenager from Mexico City who travels to northern Mexico to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in

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Movie Review: 'Fall' Keeps You On The Edge Of Your Seat

Movie Review: ‘Fall’ Keeps You On The Edge Of Your Seat

Lionsgate will soon release Fall, from director Scott Mann. I got a chance to check it out early and of course, I have some thoughts. The movie centers on Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), best friends whose lives are all about conquering fears and pushing limits. Their next conquest is a radio tower, that reaches a height of 2,000 feet. What could go wrong? The majority of the movie takes place at the top of the tower where the two women find themselves stuck with no way down and time running short. You would think that a movie set in one spot would be boring, but with tons of drama, twists, and action, Fall manages to stay engaging from beginning to end. Both stars, Grace Caroline Currey and Virginia Gardner played their roles well and were easy to empathize with. I can’t help but wonder how much of the stunts they did themselves. They were rather impressive.

Continue reading →
Oct 10, 2022
Movie Review: Hellraiser (2022) Offers More Pain Than Pleasure

Movie Review: Hellraiser (2022) Offers More Pain Than Pleasure

The horror genre is abuzz about Hulu’s new Hellraiser, directed by David Bruckner, so, does it live up to the hype? In the beginning, we meet Riley, a young woman who is struggling with addiction while living with her intensely judgemental brother, his partner, and another roommate. After stealing a puzzle box with her boyfriend all hell breaks loose and the cenobites are unleashed, but she’s got a plan. First thing’s first, the movie has a character problem. While the character of Riley is fleshed out, the other’s aren’t. They are cardboard cut out characters and they are simply there to suffer. One of the biggest sources of debate among fans is the new female Pinhead. I have to say, I was rather impressed by Jamie Clayton’s portrayal of “The Preist.” She features a similar look and her voice, only slightly feminine, was a great choice. As for the story, it held classical elements of the franchise, cenobites, chains, suffering,

Continue reading →
Uncle Fester Makes His First Appearance In New "Wednesday" Trailer

Uncle Fester Makes His First Appearance In New “Wednesday” Trailer

Tim Burton brings The Addams Family to Netflix with “Wednesday.”Today, a new trailer has arrived, giving us our first look at Uncle Fester, played by “Saturday Night Live” veteran Fred Armisen, as well as more of the story surrounding Wednesday’s life at her new school, Nevermore Academy. Jenna Ortega stars as the infamous Wednesday Addams with Luis Guzman playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia. “Game of Thrones” actress Gwendoline Christie will play the role of “Larissa Weems,” the principal of Nevermore Academy. The cast also includes Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, Percy Hynes White, Jamie McShane, Thora Birch, and Riki Lindhome. The series also sees the return of “Addams Family” star Christina Ricci as a yet-to-be-named character. “Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has

Continue reading →
A Woman's American Dream Becomes A Nightmare In 'Nanny' - Out Now

Trailer For Psychological Horror ‘Nanny” Reveals a Woman In Danger

A woman’s “American Dream” is threatened in Prime Video’s new horror film, Nanny, written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu. “In this psychological horror fable of displacement, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal, is hired to care for the daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York City. Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S., but she becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. As his arrival approaches, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening the “American Dream” she is painstakingly piecing together.” Starring Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, and Leslie Uggams, the film is produced By Nikkia Moultrie and Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Executive produced by Maria Zuckerman, Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom, Jason Blum, Rebecca Cammarata, Bill

Continue reading →
Press Play On 'V/H/S/99' This Week On Shudder (Trailer)

The Horror Filled Official Trailer For ‘V/H/S/99’ Is Here

The hit found footage horror anthology franchise, V/H/S, is back with an all-new installment, V/H/S/99. The official trailer is here, teasing the horror that awaits you when it premieres this Halloween. Featuring renowned genre filmmakers Maggie Levin (Into The Dark: My Valentine), Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City), Flying Lotus (Kuso), Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls), and Joseph & Vanessa Winter (Deadstream). V/H/S/99 takes us back to the final punk rock analog days of the VHS while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium. In the film, a video leads to a series of horrifying revelations. “V/H/S/94 set a new bar for what is already a fantastic film franchise, featuring some of the best horror anthology segments in recent memory by an incredible lineup of filmmakers,” said Craig Engler, GM of Shudder. We’re confident this is the biggest, baddest, and most wildly savage V/H/S yet!” Producer Josh Goldbloom had this to say about

Continue reading →
Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of  New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman's 'Violent Cases'

Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Violent Cases’

35 years after publishing Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s first-ever graphic novel, today Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions and Foton Pictures have now announced that development on Violent Cases is well underway with Academy Award®-winning actor Ben Kingsley attached in the lead role of the Osteopath led by the creative team behind the BAFTA-nominated The Girl With All The Gifts, director Colm McCarthy, writer Mike Carey, and producer Camille Gatin. At only 50 pages, “Violent Cases” features a narrator, who tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath ( a licensed physician who uses both conventional treatments and osteopathic manipulative medicine) who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator’s relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator’s imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.

Continue reading →
'Beast' Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

‘Beast’ Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

A rouge lion hunts Idris Elba (Hobbs & Shaw, The Suicide Squad) in the pulse-pounding thriller Beast, out now Digital. Elba stars as Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed father who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a trip with his daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley, “Russian Doll”, Maleficent), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing turns into a fight for survival when a lion begins hunting them. Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, with Leah Sava Jeffries (Real series, Empire series) in the role of his 13-year-old daughter, Norah. The action-packed film is from filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, the director of Everest and Universal Pictures’ 2 Guns and Contraband. Beast is produced by Will Packer (Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, Night School, No Good Deed) and the president of Will Packer

Continue reading →
This October The Director Of 'The Descent' Is Back With 'The Lair' (Trailer)

This October The Director Of ‘The Descent’ Is Back With ‘The Lair’ (Trailer)

From writer-director Neil Marshall, the brilliant filmmaker behind The Descent comes a new tale of terror, The Lair, out this October. In the film, “When Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is shot down over Afghanistan, she finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made biological weapons – half human, half alien – are awakened.” Co-written by Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning), The Lair stars Charlotte Kirk (Ocean’s Eight), Jonathan Howard (Thor: The Dark World), and Jamie Bamber (“Battlestar Galactica”). RLJE Films will unleash The Lair in theaters, On Demand, and on Digital on October 28, 2022, with the film heading to Shudder early next year.

Continue reading →
Witness The Twisted True Crime Series 'A Friend of the Family' Now On Peacock

Witness The Twisted True Crime Series ‘A Friend of the Family’ Now On Peacock

Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to

Continue reading →
Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, 'The Box,' Getting US Release

Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, ‘The Box,’ Getting US Release

MUBI is proud to announce the U.S. theatrical and streaming release of The Box (La Caja) the gut-punching psychological thriller and latest feature film from acclaimed Venezuelan writer-director Lorenzo Vigas, which had its world premiere in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival and is Venezuela’s official Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Film. Set in the harsh landscape of northern Mexico, The Box is Vigas’ third and last installment of his fiction trilogy on the theme of the father figure after the 2004 short film Elephants Never Forget, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, and his 2015 debut feature From Afar, winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, marking a first for a Latin American film. “The Box tells the story of Hatzín (played wonderfully by the non-professional newcomer Hatzín Navarrete), a young teenager from Mexico City who travels to northern Mexico to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in

Continue reading →