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From the brilliant mind of David Cronenberg, best known for making violent body-horror classics like The Fly, comes the new sci-fi horror film Crimes of the Future. Starring Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, and Léa Seydoux, the film is set in the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis, altering their biological makeup. While some embrace the limitless potential of trans-humanism, others attempt to police it. Accelerated Evolution Syndrome’ is spreading fast. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) is a beloved performance artist who has embraced Accelerated Evolution Syndrome, sprouting new and unexpected organs in his body. Along with his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Tenser has turned the removal of these organs into a spectacle for his loyal followers to marvel at. But with both the government and a strange subculture taking note, Tenser is forced to consider what would be his most shocking performance of
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Warner Bros. has now confirmed the release date for their new take on Stephen King‘s vampire tale Salem’s Lot which is coming exclusively to theaters later this September, marking the first time the story has come to the big screen, with the previous adaptations both being “made for TV”. It’s been a year since the news broke that the adaptation was in the works with horror heavy hitter James Wan serving as producer for the movie from Warnes Bros. and New Line, which was written and directed by another horror legend, Gary Dauberman (IT, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will also produce, with Dauberman serving as executive producer. In the film, “Haunted by an incident from his childhood, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover the town is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire and his Loyola servant.” Lewis Pullman,
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Fans are eagerly awaiting the premiere of Orphan: First Kill starring Isabelle Fuhrman. The movie is not the project that Fuhrman will be starring in. Deadline is reporting that the talented actress is also set to star in the upcoming cat-and-mouse thriller Unit 234. In the film, “Laurie Saltair (Fuhrman) discovers the comatose man, Clayton, in Unit 234 of her family’s storage facility, while working the night shift alone. What transpires is a thrill ride of a cat-and-mouse game for Laurie and Clayton to survive the night.” Directed by Andy Tennant, who is making his horror debut, and known for films such as Fool’s Gold, Sweet Home Alabama, and Hitch, the movie was written by Derek Steiner. . Blythe Frank, Hadeel Reda, and Lee Dreyfus are producing with Productivity Media’s William G. Santor and Doug Murray. Colleen Camp serves as executive producer. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, check out Fuhrman in the films The Novice and The Last
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Prime Video will take you on an extraordinary out-of-this-world journey this May with the sci-fi thriller series Night Sky, starring Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons. Spanning space and time, Night Sky follows Irene (Sissy Spacek) and Franklin York (J.K. Simmons), a couple who, years ago, discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet. They’ve carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when an enigmatic young man enters their lives, the Yorks’ quiet existence is quickly upended…and the mystifying chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could ever have imagined. Night Sky is a co-production of Amazon Studios and Legendary Television (Carnival Row, Paper Girls) and is written and co-executive produced by Holden Miller, with Daniel C. Connolly serving as showrunner and executive producer. Mosaic’s Jimmy Miller and Sam Hansen serve as executive producers, along with Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Philip Martin. Ahead of its May
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Ten years ago Patrick Wilson‘s (The Conjuring franchise) Brian Harper, an astronaut, was disgraced after claiming to see something strange in space. Now, Brian, along with Halle Berry’s Jocinda Fowler, and John Bradley’s JC. is the world’s only hope after the moon leaves its orbit, threatening the complete destruction of the earth in Moonfall. Directed by Roland Emmerich, who penned the script along with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen, Moonfall is a part disaster movie and part sci-fi flick and features out-of-this-world special effects including everything from giant waves taking out cities, pieces of the moon pelting the world, and amazing outerspace structures. Here’s where the spoilers start. The reason the moon is out of orbit is that it isn’t made of rock as we believe. Instead, it is a superstructure built by the ancestors of man to find planets where they could resettle after a war with AI gone bad. Now, one of the giant, biomechanical creatures has found
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The streaming service Cinehouse, which has a great library filled with the best in movies and series, has just announced the arrival of several hit true-crime docuseries, “The New Detectives,” “The FBI Files,” and “Interview With A Murder.” Can science solve history’s coldest crimes and strangest mysteries? True stories of crime investigations using forensic science are explored in “The New Detectives,” as part of their newest channel, Crime Hunters. “The FBI Files” reveals the crime-busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to solve the most baffling cases. James Kallstrom, former head of the FBI’s New York Office, hosts these true stories of crime and detection, taking you behind the scenes with re-enactments and interviews with actual participants. Join FBI agents as they work to bring the most notorious criminals to justice. Criminologist Prof David Wilson conducts a series of interviews with convicted murderer Bert Spencer, the man suspected of – yet never charged with – killing paperboy Carl
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Cleopatra Entertainment has announced the May release date for Santiago Fernandez Calvete’s horror film A Taste of Blood which is based on Aleksey Tolstoy’s 1839 short story “The Family Of The Vourdalak.” “The film, hot from an international film festival run, takes place in the uncertain hours after a vampire hunt when it’s unclear if the hunter himself has been turned into a creature of the night. Will his family find out in time, or will their sentiment make them easy prey for the novice nightwalker?” German Palacios, Tomas Carullo Lizzio, Naiara Awada, Lautaro Bettoni and Alfonsina Carrocio star in Taste Of Blood, reeasing May 10, 2022.
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In the tradition of The Punisher, comes the indie superhero vigilante movie, Hunter X, arriving on DVD and VOD this summer from Wild Eye Releasing. In Hunter X, “a masked vigilante named only X must fight for his life against other killers when a mysterious cult discovers his true identity and wants to bring him into their ranks.” Fedor Steer (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Jesse St. Louis (The Sunday Night Slaughter), and Edwin Millheim (Sanctuary) star in a Jared Brock film. Hunter X lands on DVD and VOD on July 19, 2022, from Wild Eye Releasing.
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Indie Rights, in association with Catharsis Films, has now released the trailer for the crime thriller Bluff, the directorial debut of writer-director Sheikh Shahnawaz. Starring Gurj Gill, Jason Adam, Nisaro Karim (24 Little Hours), James Jaysen Bryhan (Shadow and Bone), and Joe Egan (Sherlock Holmes). The film features music by Savfk. In Bluff, Detective Sergeant Daniel Miller is suspended from the London Metropolitan Police so that he can be secretly deployed to a small English town on an undercover assignment to uncover Britain’s major suppliers of heroin and crack cocaine. He poses as a heroin addict and manipulates an unsuspecting junkie into working with him so that he can infiltrate the local drug network and work his way up the supply chain. The line between duty and criminality begins to blur as Miller’s investigation becomes increasingly dangerous the closer he gets to finding the source of a drug trafficker. The truth will get you killed… “My father died 5 days
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The home invasion horror Motherly, which made its World Premiere at FrightFest last year, is finally coming to DVD this May. In the film, when a vengeful couple invades her home, a single mother is forced to do whatever it takes to defend her daughter. Lora Burke (Poor Agnes), Tessa Kozma (Hallmark’s A Christmas Carousel), Kristen MacCulloch (Psycho Goreman), and Nick Smyth (Video on Trial) star in the film directed by Craig David Wallace, who co-wrote the script along with Ian Malone, who were nominated together for a Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award for their fantastic film Todd & The Book of Pure Evil. “I have always been fascinated by the terrible things people are capable of doing to others – but also the length to which people will go to protect and avenge their loved ones,” Wallace states, Produced by Avi Federgreen (Federgreen Entertainment), Laura Tremblay (Lucky Dime Films), and Raven Banner Entertainment, the international rights to the
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From the brilliant mind of David Cronenberg, best known for making violent body-horror classics like The Fly, comes the new sci-fi horror film Crimes of the Future. Starring Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, and Léa Seydoux, the film is set in the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis, altering their biological makeup. While some embrace the limitless potential of trans-humanism, others attempt to police it. Accelerated Evolution Syndrome’ is spreading fast. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) is a beloved performance artist who has embraced Accelerated Evolution Syndrome, sprouting new and unexpected organs in his body. Along with his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Tenser has turned the removal of these organs into a spectacle for his loyal followers to marvel at. But with both the government and a strange subculture taking note, Tenser is forced to consider what would be his most shocking performance of
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Warner Bros. has now confirmed the release date for their new take on Stephen King‘s vampire tale Salem’s Lot which is coming exclusively to theaters later this September, marking the first time the story has come to the big screen, with the previous adaptations both being “made for TV”. It’s been a year since the news broke that the adaptation was in the works with horror heavy hitter James Wan serving as producer for the movie from Warnes Bros. and New Line, which was written and directed by another horror legend, Gary Dauberman (IT, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will also produce, with Dauberman serving as executive producer. In the film, “Haunted by an incident from his childhood, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover the town is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire and his Loyola servant.” Lewis Pullman,
Continue reading →
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Fans are eagerly awaiting the premiere of Orphan: First Kill starring Isabelle Fuhrman. The movie is not the project that Fuhrman will be starring in. Deadline is reporting that the talented actress is also set to star in the upcoming cat-and-mouse thriller Unit 234. In the film, “Laurie Saltair (Fuhrman) discovers the comatose man, Clayton, in Unit 234 of her family’s storage facility, while working the night shift alone. What transpires is a thrill ride of a cat-and-mouse game for Laurie and Clayton to survive the night.” Directed by Andy Tennant, who is making his horror debut, and known for films such as Fool’s Gold, Sweet Home Alabama, and Hitch, the movie was written by Derek Steiner. . Blythe Frank, Hadeel Reda, and Lee Dreyfus are producing with Productivity Media’s William G. Santor and Doug Murray. Colleen Camp serves as executive producer. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, check out Fuhrman in the films The Novice and The Last
Continue reading →
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Prime Video will take you on an extraordinary out-of-this-world journey this May with the sci-fi thriller series Night Sky, starring Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons. Spanning space and time, Night Sky follows Irene (Sissy Spacek) and Franklin York (J.K. Simmons), a couple who, years ago, discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet. They’ve carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when an enigmatic young man enters their lives, the Yorks’ quiet existence is quickly upended…and the mystifying chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could ever have imagined. Night Sky is a co-production of Amazon Studios and Legendary Television (Carnival Row, Paper Girls) and is written and co-executive produced by Holden Miller, with Daniel C. Connolly serving as showrunner and executive producer. Mosaic’s Jimmy Miller and Sam Hansen serve as executive producers, along with Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Philip Martin. Ahead of its May
Continue reading →
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Ten years ago Patrick Wilson‘s (The Conjuring franchise) Brian Harper, an astronaut, was disgraced after claiming to see something strange in space. Now, Brian, along with Halle Berry’s Jocinda Fowler, and John Bradley’s JC. is the world’s only hope after the moon leaves its orbit, threatening the complete destruction of the earth in Moonfall. Directed by Roland Emmerich, who penned the script along with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen, Moonfall is a part disaster movie and part sci-fi flick and features out-of-this-world special effects including everything from giant waves taking out cities, pieces of the moon pelting the world, and amazing outerspace structures. Here’s where the spoilers start. The reason the moon is out of orbit is that it isn’t made of rock as we believe. Instead, it is a superstructure built by the ancestors of man to find planets where they could resettle after a war with AI gone bad. Now, one of the giant, biomechanical creatures has found
Continue reading →
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The streaming service Cinehouse, which has a great library filled with the best in movies and series, has just announced the arrival of several hit true-crime docuseries, “The New Detectives,” “The FBI Files,” and “Interview With A Murder.” Can science solve history’s coldest crimes and strangest mysteries? True stories of crime investigations using forensic science are explored in “The New Detectives,” as part of their newest channel, Crime Hunters. “The FBI Files” reveals the crime-busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to solve the most baffling cases. James Kallstrom, former head of the FBI’s New York Office, hosts these true stories of crime and detection, taking you behind the scenes with re-enactments and interviews with actual participants. Join FBI agents as they work to bring the most notorious criminals to justice. Criminologist Prof David Wilson conducts a series of interviews with convicted murderer Bert Spencer, the man suspected of – yet never charged with – killing paperboy Carl
Continue reading →
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Cleopatra Entertainment has announced the May release date for Santiago Fernandez Calvete’s horror film A Taste of Blood which is based on Aleksey Tolstoy’s 1839 short story “The Family Of The Vourdalak.” “The film, hot from an international film festival run, takes place in the uncertain hours after a vampire hunt when it’s unclear if the hunter himself has been turned into a creature of the night. Will his family find out in time, or will their sentiment make them easy prey for the novice nightwalker?” German Palacios, Tomas Carullo Lizzio, Naiara Awada, Lautaro Bettoni and Alfonsina Carrocio star in Taste Of Blood, reeasing May 10, 2022.
Continue reading →
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In the tradition of The Punisher, comes the indie superhero vigilante movie, Hunter X, arriving on DVD and VOD this summer from Wild Eye Releasing. In Hunter X, “a masked vigilante named only X must fight for his life against other killers when a mysterious cult discovers his true identity and wants to bring him into their ranks.” Fedor Steer (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Jesse St. Louis (The Sunday Night Slaughter), and Edwin Millheim (Sanctuary) star in a Jared Brock film. Hunter X lands on DVD and VOD on July 19, 2022, from Wild Eye Releasing.
Continue reading →
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Indie Rights, in association with Catharsis Films, has now released the trailer for the crime thriller Bluff, the directorial debut of writer-director Sheikh Shahnawaz. Starring Gurj Gill, Jason Adam, Nisaro Karim (24 Little Hours), James Jaysen Bryhan (Shadow and Bone), and Joe Egan (Sherlock Holmes). The film features music by Savfk. In Bluff, Detective Sergeant Daniel Miller is suspended from the London Metropolitan Police so that he can be secretly deployed to a small English town on an undercover assignment to uncover Britain’s major suppliers of heroin and crack cocaine. He poses as a heroin addict and manipulates an unsuspecting junkie into working with him so that he can infiltrate the local drug network and work his way up the supply chain. The line between duty and criminality begins to blur as Miller’s investigation becomes increasingly dangerous the closer he gets to finding the source of a drug trafficker. The truth will get you killed… “My father died 5 days
Continue reading →
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The home invasion horror Motherly, which made its World Premiere at FrightFest last year, is finally coming to DVD this May. In the film, when a vengeful couple invades her home, a single mother is forced to do whatever it takes to defend her daughter. Lora Burke (Poor Agnes), Tessa Kozma (Hallmark’s A Christmas Carousel), Kristen MacCulloch (Psycho Goreman), and Nick Smyth (Video on Trial) star in the film directed by Craig David Wallace, who co-wrote the script along with Ian Malone, who were nominated together for a Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award for their fantastic film Todd & The Book of Pure Evil. “I have always been fascinated by the terrible things people are capable of doing to others – but also the length to which people will go to protect and avenge their loved ones,” Wallace states, Produced by Avi Federgreen (Federgreen Entertainment), Laura Tremblay (Lucky Dime Films), and Raven Banner Entertainment, the international rights to the
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