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When a man returns to his childhood home dark family secrets begin to surface in Paramount’s The Visitor, directed by Justin P. Lange. Starring Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Dane Rhodes, and Donna Biscoe, the film was written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes. In The Visitor, “When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’. Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.” Blumhouse and Epix produce with Bradley Pilz, Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, Jeremy Gold, Chris McCumber, David Grove Churchill Viste, and Jason Blum executive produce. The Visitor premieres on Digital and On Demand on October 7, 2022, followed by its arrival on Epix this December.
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Luca Guadagnino‘s (Suspiria) next horror film, Bones and All, stars Timothée Chalamet (Dune) and Taylor Russell (Escape Room) in what is being described as a cannibal horror love story. Reportedly the film centers on “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” David Kajganich, who also wrote Guadagnino’s Suspiria, penned the script based on the novel penned by Camille DeAngelis. Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese, and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast. Bones and All has been acquired by MGM, and will debut in theaters on November 23, 2022.
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AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,
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“Chucky” star Fiona Dourif (Tenet, The Blacklist) leads the cast of director Brando Lee‘s intense new horror film Don’t Look at the Demon, out this Halloween season. In the film, “A troubled medium Jules (Dourif) and an American team of paranormal TV investigators, played by Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing, Triangle of Sadness, The King’s Man), Jordon Belfi (Entourage), and Randy Wayne (Dukes of Hazard: The Beginning), go to the home of a couple who claim to have experienced inexplicable, threatening disturbances. Delving into the mystery, they encounter possessions and apparitions more terrifying than any they’d witnessed before – actual contact with the other side. As the cameras roll and bodies are possessed, they’re inevitably overwhelmed by this violent supernatural force. Their only hope? Jules. She refuses to face what really happened when her first supernatural encounter left her sister dead. But her dark past, if she can unlock it, maybe their only hope of stopping the demon before
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What started out as a fun newsletter between friends in the 80s, became a magazine in the 1990s. Now, Weird NJ is being adapted for TV series. The live-action horror-comedy series is from Vertigo, “Little Demon” co-creator Kieran Valla, and filmmaker David Kaufmann, who happens to be an NJ native. First published in 1993, Weird NJ, which has just released its 58th issue, is a beloved travel guide to places you won’t find on any map and features locations and stories of weird or unique spots, folklore, and facts. The series will center on an estranged family that is forced by destiny to protect New Jersey from evil, they must temper their resentments and battle a supernatural adversary, who plans to destroy the Garden State and then the world. “Vertigo Entertainment brought the project to the studio alongside a unique story developed by Valla and Kaufmann. The show will utilize the true-life mythology and legends of Weird NJ paired with
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Cannibal serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer will be all over your TV in the upcoming months. Not only is Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “Dahmer,” starring Evan Peters, headed your way, but so is Joe Berlinger‘s hit three-part true crime series “Conversations With A Killer” which is returning for its third season and will spotlight the killer. The official synopsis for “Conversations With A Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes” goes like this: “When Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they uncovered the grisly personal museum of a serial killer: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones, and other remains in various states of decomposition and display. Dahmer quickly confessed to 16 murders in Wisconsin over the previous four years, plus one more in Ohio in 1978, as well as unimaginable acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. “The discovery shocked the nation and stunned the local community, who were incensed that such a depraved killer had
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From the directing duo of Mike Clarke and Paul Gerrard comes The Stranger in which family dysfunction and horror combine to produce a thrilling, award-winning film. In the film, “After the murder of her husband, Amanda relocates with her daughter, Karli, and purchases a hotel in the countryside. Their fresh start is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious man who pleads for shelter, fleeing an unknown threat.” Filmed entirely in the UK, The Stranger features up-and-coming talents Damien Ashley, Jennifer Preston, and Isabella Percival. Discover The Stranger on Digital and VOD on September 6, 2022, from Octane Multimedia.
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Unearthed Films is unleashing Fred Vogel’s August Underground Trilogy, heralded as the most disturbing, intense, and extreme series in horror fandom, on Blu-ray. Unearthed Films will be presenting the Trilogy in fresh, new Blu-Ray releases with rare behind-the-scenes, new commentaries, new video interviews, rare commentaries, and older interviews. “We will be digging through the depths of their depravity and working with everyone involved that helped make The August Underground Trilogy become the most vicious series in the entire horror genre. With copies of previous releases going for hundreds of dollars, we hope these releases bring a whole new audience to the Trilogy and allow them to be available through nationwide retailers for 1st time, ever. I personally know the creators and it will be a pleasure to work with them. We’re planning behind the scenes so who knows what the future may hold.” Said Stephen Biro, CEO of Spreading The Sickness. The controversial trilogy began in 2001. The American Exploitation
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Before Madison Lawson‘s novel, The Registration has even had a chance to hit shelves (September 27), there is already a film adaptation in the works that will star Sydney Sweeney (Nocturne), Deadline reports. Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (The Night House, Super Dark Times, Hellraiser) are writing the script, with Brad Fuller (Friday the 13th, A Quiet Place) serving as producer. The synopsis for the novel goes like this: “Imagine it’s legal to commit one murder in your lifetime? If you Register the victim and accomplish the kill within fourteen days. So when Lynell Mize stands in line to Register the man who abused her as a child, she’s shocked to hear a stranger Register her to be killed. Why would anyone who doesn’t know her squander his one legal murder on her? Desperate to survive the next two weeks, she must find out who wants to kill her… and why. Easier said than done as Lynell soon discovers that
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The horror film The Inhabitant, from director Jarren Lauder (Stay Out of the Attic), has just scored anThe October release date, Gravitas Ventures announced today. The film centers on “Tara (Odessa A’zion) who is like any other teenage girl, just surviving high school yet her father Ben (Dermot Mulroney), and mother Emily (Leslie Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome axe murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry. After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home, Tara realizes she is inextricably tied to the horrifying curse that has plagued her bloodline for almost a century. As victims pile up and the police close in, Tara is left with no choice but to face her own demons.” This dark story was written by Kevin Bachar, produced by Leone Marucci, Petr Jakl, and executive produced by Ara Keshishian, Martin
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When a man returns to his childhood home dark family secrets begin to surface in Paramount’s The Visitor, directed by Justin P. Lange. Starring Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Dane Rhodes, and Donna Biscoe, the film was written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes. In The Visitor, “When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’. Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.” Blumhouse and Epix produce with Bradley Pilz, Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, Jeremy Gold, Chris McCumber, David Grove Churchill Viste, and Jason Blum executive produce. The Visitor premieres on Digital and On Demand on October 7, 2022, followed by its arrival on Epix this December.
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Luca Guadagnino‘s (Suspiria) next horror film, Bones and All, stars Timothée Chalamet (Dune) and Taylor Russell (Escape Room) in what is being described as a cannibal horror love story. Reportedly the film centers on “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” David Kajganich, who also wrote Guadagnino’s Suspiria, penned the script based on the novel penned by Camille DeAngelis. Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese, and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast. Bones and All has been acquired by MGM, and will debut in theaters on November 23, 2022.
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AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,
Continue reading →
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“Chucky” star Fiona Dourif (Tenet, The Blacklist) leads the cast of director Brando Lee‘s intense new horror film Don’t Look at the Demon, out this Halloween season. In the film, “A troubled medium Jules (Dourif) and an American team of paranormal TV investigators, played by Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing, Triangle of Sadness, The King’s Man), Jordon Belfi (Entourage), and Randy Wayne (Dukes of Hazard: The Beginning), go to the home of a couple who claim to have experienced inexplicable, threatening disturbances. Delving into the mystery, they encounter possessions and apparitions more terrifying than any they’d witnessed before – actual contact with the other side. As the cameras roll and bodies are possessed, they’re inevitably overwhelmed by this violent supernatural force. Their only hope? Jules. She refuses to face what really happened when her first supernatural encounter left her sister dead. But her dark past, if she can unlock it, maybe their only hope of stopping the demon before
Continue reading →
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What started out as a fun newsletter between friends in the 80s, became a magazine in the 1990s. Now, Weird NJ is being adapted for TV series. The live-action horror-comedy series is from Vertigo, “Little Demon” co-creator Kieran Valla, and filmmaker David Kaufmann, who happens to be an NJ native. First published in 1993, Weird NJ, which has just released its 58th issue, is a beloved travel guide to places you won’t find on any map and features locations and stories of weird or unique spots, folklore, and facts. The series will center on an estranged family that is forced by destiny to protect New Jersey from evil, they must temper their resentments and battle a supernatural adversary, who plans to destroy the Garden State and then the world. “Vertigo Entertainment brought the project to the studio alongside a unique story developed by Valla and Kaufmann. The show will utilize the true-life mythology and legends of Weird NJ paired with
Continue reading →
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Cannibal serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer will be all over your TV in the upcoming months. Not only is Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “Dahmer,” starring Evan Peters, headed your way, but so is Joe Berlinger‘s hit three-part true crime series “Conversations With A Killer” which is returning for its third season and will spotlight the killer. The official synopsis for “Conversations With A Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes” goes like this: “When Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they uncovered the grisly personal museum of a serial killer: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones, and other remains in various states of decomposition and display. Dahmer quickly confessed to 16 murders in Wisconsin over the previous four years, plus one more in Ohio in 1978, as well as unimaginable acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. “The discovery shocked the nation and stunned the local community, who were incensed that such a depraved killer had
Continue reading →
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From the directing duo of Mike Clarke and Paul Gerrard comes The Stranger in which family dysfunction and horror combine to produce a thrilling, award-winning film. In the film, “After the murder of her husband, Amanda relocates with her daughter, Karli, and purchases a hotel in the countryside. Their fresh start is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious man who pleads for shelter, fleeing an unknown threat.” Filmed entirely in the UK, The Stranger features up-and-coming talents Damien Ashley, Jennifer Preston, and Isabella Percival. Discover The Stranger on Digital and VOD on September 6, 2022, from Octane Multimedia.
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Unearthed Films is unleashing Fred Vogel’s August Underground Trilogy, heralded as the most disturbing, intense, and extreme series in horror fandom, on Blu-ray. Unearthed Films will be presenting the Trilogy in fresh, new Blu-Ray releases with rare behind-the-scenes, new commentaries, new video interviews, rare commentaries, and older interviews. “We will be digging through the depths of their depravity and working with everyone involved that helped make The August Underground Trilogy become the most vicious series in the entire horror genre. With copies of previous releases going for hundreds of dollars, we hope these releases bring a whole new audience to the Trilogy and allow them to be available through nationwide retailers for 1st time, ever. I personally know the creators and it will be a pleasure to work with them. We’re planning behind the scenes so who knows what the future may hold.” Said Stephen Biro, CEO of Spreading The Sickness. The controversial trilogy began in 2001. The American Exploitation
Continue reading →
AdaptationBooksMoviesNews
Before Madison Lawson‘s novel, The Registration has even had a chance to hit shelves (September 27), there is already a film adaptation in the works that will star Sydney Sweeney (Nocturne), Deadline reports. Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (The Night House, Super Dark Times, Hellraiser) are writing the script, with Brad Fuller (Friday the 13th, A Quiet Place) serving as producer. The synopsis for the novel goes like this: “Imagine it’s legal to commit one murder in your lifetime? If you Register the victim and accomplish the kill within fourteen days. So when Lynell Mize stands in line to Register the man who abused her as a child, she’s shocked to hear a stranger Register her to be killed. Why would anyone who doesn’t know her squander his one legal murder on her? Desperate to survive the next two weeks, she must find out who wants to kill her… and why. Easier said than done as Lynell soon discovers that
Continue reading →
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The horror film The Inhabitant, from director Jarren Lauder (Stay Out of the Attic), has just scored anThe October release date, Gravitas Ventures announced today. The film centers on “Tara (Odessa A’zion) who is like any other teenage girl, just surviving high school yet her father Ben (Dermot Mulroney), and mother Emily (Leslie Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome axe murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry. After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home, Tara realizes she is inextricably tied to the horrifying curse that has plagued her bloodline for almost a century. As victims pile up and the police close in, Tara is left with no choice but to face her own demons.” This dark story was written by Kevin Bachar, produced by Leone Marucci, Petr Jakl, and executive produced by Ara Keshishian, Martin
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