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NACON Unveils ‘Hell Is Us’

NACON and Rogue Factor are teaming up to bring gamers the action-adventure game Hell is Us. Development for Hell is Us will be overseen by creative director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête, who has worked on Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and more recently Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Hell is Us is a third-person game taking place in a semi-open world where exploration is key with no quest logs or waypoints which will allow players to use their own instincts to guide them in the world. The game takes place in a country ravaged by civil war with a character who sets out to uncover his past. The landscape is not only showing the scars of war but is also now plagued by the sudden appearance of supernatural creatures that resemble ancient headstones and monuments that people call “The Calamity”. Our protagonist is armed with specialty forged weapons capable of fighting these creatures which he must learn how to

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Apr 12, 2022

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Thriller ‘Human Factors’ Debuts Trailer Ahead Of May Release

Dark Star Pictures has just announced the May release date for Human Factors, which made a successful festival tour earlier this year. Directed by Ronny Trocker, the psychological thriller played Berlin, Cleveland IFF, Sao Paulo IFF, & more after its debut at Sundance in 2021. Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, and Wanja Valentin Kube star in the German-Italian-Danish production which features “intelligent performances and an unnerving, tense mood” (The Guardian). In the film, ” atthe advertising agency they co-own couple Nina and Jan have signed a new politically charged client, forcing them to confront their clashing priorities. To escape mounting tensions at work, they whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their seaside vacation home. But what’s meant to be an idyllic off-season retreat turns sinister when a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. Though at first the aftermath brings the family closer, as they try to put the incident into perspective, their accounts of what took

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 12, 2022

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New Horror Set In A “Spirit Halloween” Store Headed Your Way

Strike Back Studios and Hideout Pictures have just announced they have wrapped principal photography of Spirit Halloween, inspired by the Halloween store franchise. In the film, which marks David Poag‘s feature directorial debut, “when a new Spirit Halloween store appears in a deserted strip mall, three middle school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store on Halloween night. But they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves.” Rachael Leigh Cook (He’s All That, Love, Guaranteed), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future trilogy), and Marla Gibbs (El Camino: A Breaking Bad movie) star alongside up and coming young actors Donavan Colan (Zoe, Getaway), Dylan Martin Frankel (Raven’s Home, Life & Beth), Jaiden Smith (“Blue Bloods,” The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 12, 2022

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New Clip From ‘Escape The Field’ Asks “Where’s Denise?”

A group of six strangers must work together to solve a puzzle in order to survive in writer-director Emerson Moore‘s Escape the Field, set to arrive this May. To celebrate the approaching release, Lionsgate has shared a second clip, titled “Where’s Denise?” (watch the first clip here). Joshua Dobkin, and Sean Wathen wrote the film with Moore. It stars Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, Elena Juatco, and Shane West. Andrew Davies Gans, Michael Philip, Jason Moring, and Emerson Moore serve as producers. “The fear is inescapable and the suspense nonstop in this gripping horror-thriller about six strangers who suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 12, 2022

Lionsgate Celebrates The Release Of Ti West's 'X' By Releasing New Clips (Watch)

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Ti West’s ‘X’ Comes Home Today

After making a splash at theaters, writer-director Ti West‘s sexy horror X, which has a killer soundtrack available now, is coming home On Demand today. In the film, set in 1979, “a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast soon finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.” Jenna Ortega (Scream) and Mia Goth (Suspiria) star along with Scott Mescudi, Kid Cudi (Don’t Look Up, Creepshow), and Brittany Snow (Prom Night, Pitch Perfect) in this nightmare-inducing film. Watch X On Demand on April 12, 2022, and get your copy on Blu-ray (which has some killer bonus features) this May.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 12, 2022

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SLASH ½ Once Again Paints Vienna’s Filmcasino Red

SLASH, Austria’s premiere festival for fantastic film, presents its annual SLASH ½ edition from May 5–7, 2022, at Vienna’s Filmcasino, and the fest has just announced the first wave of feature titles. Check out the fine options so far! Following is the official press announcement. This year’s SLASH ½ features films once again showcasing the dazzling range fantastic cinema has to offer. What these eleven movies share is the core theme of resistance. Already an act of resistance in and of itself—against the mainstream, against good taste, against all that is established and agreeable—fantastic cinema is uniquely suited to illustrate the many facets of revolt in our society. The films of this year’s SLASH ½ often revolve around self-empowerment and protest but also revenge and vigilante justice. After decades of neglect and complacency, nature has also come to collect its dues from us for abusing and exploiting it. Now is its time to strike back with full force, in the

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Joseph Perry

Apr 11, 2022

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Ridley Scott Adapting Icelandic Horror Novel ‘Outside’ For A Feature Film

Before Icelandic author, Ragnar Jónasson‘s new novel Outside hits the shelves on June 28, a movie adaptation is already in the works, Deadline reports. Ridley Scott has already optioned the story under his Scott Free Productions banner which will produce along with Truenorth. Henrik Hansen is currently in talks to direct the film that tells the story of “four friends seeking shelter in a small abandoned hunting lodge during a deadly Icelandic storm. Miles from help, and knowing they will die outside in the cold, they break open the lock and make their way inside, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what they find behind the door.” “Working with Ridley Scott, one of the great visionaries of cinema, is an immense honor,” Jónasson told Deadline. “I am very much looking forward to the adventure of bringing Outside to the screen with the teams at Scott Free and Truenorth.” You can pre-order your

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 11, 2022

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First Look: Director Compares New ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Dino To The Joker

Jurassic World: Dominion is finally headed to the big screen this summer. A new image has surfaced from the movie of a Giganotosaurus, “Giga” for short, standing on top of an overturned SUV. The dino, which makes its franchise debut, is based on a real one. “It just wants to watch the world burn,” according to director Colin Trevorrow, who compares the massive creature to the Joker. “I wanted something that felt like the Joker. It just wants to watch the world burn.” Trevorrow told Empire, who debuted the new image. In real life, the Giganotosaurus lived in what is now Argentina during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period around 97 million years ago and has been described as the largest known terrestrial carnivores, even bigger than a T-Rex, with a massive head measuring over six feet long and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth that averaged eight inches in length. In other words, this dinosaur was

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 11, 2022

Own The Alternative Ending When You Buy 'Firestarter'

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The New ‘Firestarter’ Premieres Exclusively On Peacock This May

In the new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller Firestarter, from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is deployed to hunt down

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 11, 2022

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New Documentary Will Explore The Life And Career Of Horror Icon Robert Englund

For years, there has been a documentary in the works about Nightmare on Elm Street star and horror icon Robert Englund. Deadline is reporting that it is finally wrapped filming and now has a titled, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. . “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story features a centerpiece interview with American actor Robert Englund, as well as interviews with Lance Henriksen, Eli Roth, Tony Todd, Bill Moseley, Lin Shaye, Heather Langenkamp, Nancy Booth (Englund’s wife of many years) and others.” Deadline states “Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one of our generation’s most beloved horror icons. Englund has risen to stand shoulder to shoulder in the pantheon of movie legends alongside such greats as Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. His portrayal of Freddy Krueger is, without doubt, a moment as visceral to the horror genre as Chaney’s werewolf or Karloff’s ground-breaking

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 11, 2022

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