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This May The Foo Fighters Raise Hell In The Horror-Comedy 'Studio 666' (Trailer)

The Foo Fighters Face Off Against Evil In The ‘Studio 666’ Trailer

The rock band Foo Fighters, led by Dave Grohl, is starring in the upcoming horror-comedy, Studio 666, from Hatchet III’s BJ McDonell. The first teaser trailer has arrived and begins with the band in the studio before all hell breaks loose as the band is faced with supernatural horrors. In Studio 666, written by Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes, based on a story by Grohl, the legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band.” Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, Chris Shiflett, Whitney Cummings, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, Leslie Grossman, and Jeff Garlin. Studio 666 unleashes hell in theaters on February 25, 2022, from Open Road Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 5, 2021
The Final 'Scream' Trailer Arrives As Movie Gears Up To Slash Its Way Into Theaters

New ‘Scream’ Featurette Reminds Us That Anyone Could Be Ghostface

This January Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Gail Weathers (Courtney Cox), and Dewey Riley (David Arquette) return to save a new generation of victims in the new sequel to Scream, set twenty-five years after the first film. Back in November, we shared the first trailer, today we have a new featurette that reminds us that anyone could be hiding behind the Ghostface mask. Deputy Judy Hicks (Marley Shelton) from Scream 4 also returns. New cast members include Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jack Quaid, and Dylan Minnette. Scream, the fifth film of the franchise out this January, is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and produced by Chad Villella, the three members of the filmmaking group known as Radio Silence (Ready or Not, V/H/S, Southbound). James Vanderbilt (Murder Mystery, Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man) and Guy Busick (Ready or Not, Castle Rock) penned the script. Kevin Williamson returns as executive producer for Scream, opening in theaters on January 14,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 5, 2021
Netflix Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Brutal But That's About It

‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Sequel Slashes Its Way Onto Netflix This February (Trailer)

Netflix continues to build its genre library. One of the movies coming next year is a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel whose premiere date has just been announced. Alvarez said this about the movie: “It’s basically the same character, who is still alive. Our take on it was this guy probably disappeared after everything he’s done. You know, how do you catch a guy who has a mask? Once he removes the mask and runs away, it’s very easy for him to hide somewhere. This story will pick it up many, many years after the original story. He’s been in hiding for a long, long time, trying to be a good person. “These people arriving in this town are going to awaken the giant.” David Blue Garcia (Tejano) directed the movie for Legendary from the script penned by Chris Thomas Devlin. The movie stars Olwen Fouéré (Mandy), Elsie Fisher (“Castle Rock”), Sarah Yarkin (Happy Death Day 2U), Mark Burnham (Wrong

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
Jordan Peele & Keegan Michael Key Star As Demons In 'Wendell And Wild' (Teaser)

Jordan Peele & Keegan Michael Key Star As Demons In ‘Wendell And Wild’ (Teaser)

In 2009 director Henry Selick brought us the wonderfully dark and twisted movie, Coraline. He’s back with a new film titled Wendell and Wild, which he co-wrote along with Jordan Peele and Clay McLeod Chapman. In the stop-motion movie, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key play two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul. The movie is being produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, Gotham Group, and Principato-Young Entertainment. Wendell and Wild is set to premiere on Nextflix in 2022. Check out the first teaser trailer. https://twitter.com/NetflixFilm/status/1453708160808726528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1453708160808726528%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fscreenrant.com%2Fwendell-wild-movie-trailer-jordan-peele-keegan-michael-key%2F

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
French-Moroccan Horror 'Achoura' Finally Getting A US Release (Trailer)

French-Moroccan Horror ‘Achoura’ Finally Getting A US Release (Trailer)

Three years after its premiere, the French-Moroccan horror film Achoura has a US trailer and is finally set for a US release from Dark Star Pictures. In the film, four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to deal with a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend. They will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature from folklore. It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil,” the director explains. Sofiia Manousha, Younes Bouab, Omar Lotfi, Iván González, Moussa Maaskri, and Mohamed Choubi star in the English subtitled film. Achoura comes home on VOD and DVD in the US on December 14th, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
This January Discover "The Legend Of La Llorona" Starring Danny Trejo (Trailer)

This January Discover “The Legend Of La Llorona” Starring Danny Trejo (Trailer)

Saban Films has just released the new trailer for their new horror film The Legend of La Llorona, set to arrive this January. In the movie, from director Patricia Harris Seeley, “A malevolent spirit bent on vengeance, stalks a young family visiting Mexico. Andrew, Carly, and their son Danny travel to an isolated hacienda in Mexico for a much-needed vacation. As they enter the town, signs showing missing children set an ominous tone. The family learns of the legend of “La Llorona,” the evil spirit of a distraught mother who lurks near the water’s edge and strikes fear in the hearts of all who see her. La Llorona torments the family mercilessly, snatching Danny and trapping him in a netherworld between the living and the dead. Aided by the resourceful taxi driver Jorge (Danny Trejo, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn) the family races to save their only child, navigating the foreboding countryside held by menacing cartel thugs. Gaining strength and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
'The Munsters' Strike A Pose On The Official Poster For Rob Zombie's Movie

Rob Zombie Shares New Image Of Igor From The Set Of “The Munsters”

Filming is now underway on Rob Zombie‘s The Munsters, and fans are excited. Zombie has been teasing fans now for months, sharing images, sketches, and more. A new image from the set has now been shared on his social media accounts giving us our first look at Sylvester McCoy as The Munsters’s “loyal servant,” Igor. I am very excited to bring you all this exclusive shot direct from the set of The Munsters and announce the casting of SYLVESTER McCOY as IGOR, the loyal servant to the Munsters. You may remember Sylvester as the 7th Doctor Who or perhaps as Radagast from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. GET READY FOR IGOR!” Zombie posted. Igor was never featured in the series. However, in the 1981 movie, Munsters’ Revenge there was a character named “Cousin Igor” who served as a caretaker for Dracula, McCoy has teased that he’s playing “Dracula’s butler” in a movie, basically confirming the character’s identity as Cousin Igor. Jeff

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2021
Psychological Thriller 'Aftermath' Coming 2022

Psychological Thriller ‘Aftermath’ Coming 2022

One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 3, 2021
Blu-ray Review: Creepshow Season Two

Blu-ray Review: Creepshow Season Two

Shudder, AMC’s streaming service for horror and thrillers continues to kill it with original movies and shows including their hit anthology series “Creepshow” whose second season is heading to Blu-ray and DVD this December. Season two takes horror to a whole new level with episodes starring some of the biggest names in the genre including Ted Raimi (“Buddy Thunderstruck”, “Ash vs Evil Dead”), Ali Larter (“House of Haunted Hill”), Josh McDermitt (“The Walking Dead”), Ashley Laurence from the Hellraiser franchise, Keifer Sutherland of The Lost Boys. and so many more. Taking a look at the Blu-ray cover, by artists Sanjulián and Rich Hilliard, we see “Creepshow’s” iconic ghoul along with several of the monsters that make an appearance this season. This season we get five terror-filled episodes featuring everything from classic monsters to deadites, with each episode featuring two twisted tales. As always, horror is front and center in the series along with laugh-inducing escapades, and buckets of gore, but

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2021
Rupert Grint Joins Guillermo Del Toro's Anthology Series "Cabinet of Curiosities"

Rupert Grint Joins Guillermo Del Toro’s Anthology Series “Cabinet of Curiosities”

Harry Potter and “Servant” star Rupert Grint has now joined the cast of Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming Netflix horror anthology series “Cabinet of Curiosities.” Grint joins the all-star horror cast that includes Essie Davis, Andrew Lincoln, Luke Roberts, F. Murray Abraham, Glynn Turman, Crispin Glover, Ben Barnes, Peter Weller, Elpidia Carrillo, Demetrius Grosse, Tim Blake Nelson, and David Hewlett. Originally titled “Guillermo del Toro Presents: 10 After Midnight,” the series will feature eight episodes, some written by del Toro and some will be adaptations of short stories by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Emily Carroll, Henry Kuttner, and Michael Shea. Vincenzo Natali (“Hannibal,” “The Stand”), Keith Thomas (The Vigil), and The Babadook’s Jennifer Kent are among the series’ directors.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2021

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This May The Foo Fighters Raise Hell In The Horror-Comedy 'Studio 666' (Trailer)

The Foo Fighters Face Off Against Evil In The ‘Studio 666’ Trailer

The rock band Foo Fighters, led by Dave Grohl, is starring in the upcoming horror-comedy, Studio 666, from Hatchet III’s BJ McDonell. The first teaser trailer has arrived and begins with the band in the studio before all hell breaks loose as the band is faced with supernatural horrors. In Studio 666, written by Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes, based on a story by Grohl, the legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band.” Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, Chris Shiflett, Whitney Cummings, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, Leslie Grossman, and Jeff Garlin. Studio 666 unleashes hell in theaters on February 25, 2022, from Open Road Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 5, 2021
The Final 'Scream' Trailer Arrives As Movie Gears Up To Slash Its Way Into Theaters

New ‘Scream’ Featurette Reminds Us That Anyone Could Be Ghostface

This January Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Gail Weathers (Courtney Cox), and Dewey Riley (David Arquette) return to save a new generation of victims in the new sequel to Scream, set twenty-five years after the first film. Back in November, we shared the first trailer, today we have a new featurette that reminds us that anyone could be hiding behind the Ghostface mask. Deputy Judy Hicks (Marley Shelton) from Scream 4 also returns. New cast members include Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jack Quaid, and Dylan Minnette. Scream, the fifth film of the franchise out this January, is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and produced by Chad Villella, the three members of the filmmaking group known as Radio Silence (Ready or Not, V/H/S, Southbound). James Vanderbilt (Murder Mystery, Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man) and Guy Busick (Ready or Not, Castle Rock) penned the script. Kevin Williamson returns as executive producer for Scream, opening in theaters on January 14,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 5, 2021
Netflix Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Brutal But That's About It

‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Sequel Slashes Its Way Onto Netflix This February (Trailer)

Netflix continues to build its genre library. One of the movies coming next year is a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel whose premiere date has just been announced. Alvarez said this about the movie: “It’s basically the same character, who is still alive. Our take on it was this guy probably disappeared after everything he’s done. You know, how do you catch a guy who has a mask? Once he removes the mask and runs away, it’s very easy for him to hide somewhere. This story will pick it up many, many years after the original story. He’s been in hiding for a long, long time, trying to be a good person. “These people arriving in this town are going to awaken the giant.” David Blue Garcia (Tejano) directed the movie for Legendary from the script penned by Chris Thomas Devlin. The movie stars Olwen Fouéré (Mandy), Elsie Fisher (“Castle Rock”), Sarah Yarkin (Happy Death Day 2U), Mark Burnham (Wrong

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
Jordan Peele & Keegan Michael Key Star As Demons In 'Wendell And Wild' (Teaser)

Jordan Peele & Keegan Michael Key Star As Demons In ‘Wendell And Wild’ (Teaser)

In 2009 director Henry Selick brought us the wonderfully dark and twisted movie, Coraline. He’s back with a new film titled Wendell and Wild, which he co-wrote along with Jordan Peele and Clay McLeod Chapman. In the stop-motion movie, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key play two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul. The movie is being produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, Gotham Group, and Principato-Young Entertainment. Wendell and Wild is set to premiere on Nextflix in 2022. Check out the first teaser trailer. https://twitter.com/NetflixFilm/status/1453708160808726528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1453708160808726528%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fscreenrant.com%2Fwendell-wild-movie-trailer-jordan-peele-keegan-michael-key%2F

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
French-Moroccan Horror 'Achoura' Finally Getting A US Release (Trailer)

French-Moroccan Horror ‘Achoura’ Finally Getting A US Release (Trailer)

Three years after its premiere, the French-Moroccan horror film Achoura has a US trailer and is finally set for a US release from Dark Star Pictures. In the film, four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to deal with a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend. They will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature from folklore. It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil,” the director explains. Sofiia Manousha, Younes Bouab, Omar Lotfi, Iván González, Moussa Maaskri, and Mohamed Choubi star in the English subtitled film. Achoura comes home on VOD and DVD in the US on December 14th, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
This January Discover "The Legend Of La Llorona" Starring Danny Trejo (Trailer)

This January Discover “The Legend Of La Llorona” Starring Danny Trejo (Trailer)

Saban Films has just released the new trailer for their new horror film The Legend of La Llorona, set to arrive this January. In the movie, from director Patricia Harris Seeley, “A malevolent spirit bent on vengeance, stalks a young family visiting Mexico. Andrew, Carly, and their son Danny travel to an isolated hacienda in Mexico for a much-needed vacation. As they enter the town, signs showing missing children set an ominous tone. The family learns of the legend of “La Llorona,” the evil spirit of a distraught mother who lurks near the water’s edge and strikes fear in the hearts of all who see her. La Llorona torments the family mercilessly, snatching Danny and trapping him in a netherworld between the living and the dead. Aided by the resourceful taxi driver Jorge (Danny Trejo, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn) the family races to save their only child, navigating the foreboding countryside held by menacing cartel thugs. Gaining strength and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2021
'The Munsters' Strike A Pose On The Official Poster For Rob Zombie's Movie

Rob Zombie Shares New Image Of Igor From The Set Of “The Munsters”

Filming is now underway on Rob Zombie‘s The Munsters, and fans are excited. Zombie has been teasing fans now for months, sharing images, sketches, and more. A new image from the set has now been shared on his social media accounts giving us our first look at Sylvester McCoy as The Munsters’s “loyal servant,” Igor. I am very excited to bring you all this exclusive shot direct from the set of The Munsters and announce the casting of SYLVESTER McCOY as IGOR, the loyal servant to the Munsters. You may remember Sylvester as the 7th Doctor Who or perhaps as Radagast from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. GET READY FOR IGOR!” Zombie posted. Igor was never featured in the series. However, in the 1981 movie, Munsters’ Revenge there was a character named “Cousin Igor” who served as a caretaker for Dracula, McCoy has teased that he’s playing “Dracula’s butler” in a movie, basically confirming the character’s identity as Cousin Igor. Jeff

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2021
Psychological Thriller 'Aftermath' Coming 2022

Psychological Thriller ‘Aftermath’ Coming 2022

One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 3, 2021
Blu-ray Review: Creepshow Season Two

Blu-ray Review: Creepshow Season Two

Shudder, AMC’s streaming service for horror and thrillers continues to kill it with original movies and shows including their hit anthology series “Creepshow” whose second season is heading to Blu-ray and DVD this December. Season two takes horror to a whole new level with episodes starring some of the biggest names in the genre including Ted Raimi (“Buddy Thunderstruck”, “Ash vs Evil Dead”), Ali Larter (“House of Haunted Hill”), Josh McDermitt (“The Walking Dead”), Ashley Laurence from the Hellraiser franchise, Keifer Sutherland of The Lost Boys. and so many more. Taking a look at the Blu-ray cover, by artists Sanjulián and Rich Hilliard, we see “Creepshow’s” iconic ghoul along with several of the monsters that make an appearance this season. This season we get five terror-filled episodes featuring everything from classic monsters to deadites, with each episode featuring two twisted tales. As always, horror is front and center in the series along with laugh-inducing escapades, and buckets of gore, but

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2021
Rupert Grint Joins Guillermo Del Toro's Anthology Series "Cabinet of Curiosities"

Rupert Grint Joins Guillermo Del Toro’s Anthology Series “Cabinet of Curiosities”

Harry Potter and “Servant” star Rupert Grint has now joined the cast of Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming Netflix horror anthology series “Cabinet of Curiosities.” Grint joins the all-star horror cast that includes Essie Davis, Andrew Lincoln, Luke Roberts, F. Murray Abraham, Glynn Turman, Crispin Glover, Ben Barnes, Peter Weller, Elpidia Carrillo, Demetrius Grosse, Tim Blake Nelson, and David Hewlett. Originally titled “Guillermo del Toro Presents: 10 After Midnight,” the series will feature eight episodes, some written by del Toro and some will be adaptations of short stories by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Emily Carroll, Henry Kuttner, and Michael Shea. Vincenzo Natali (“Hannibal,” “The Stand”), Keith Thomas (The Vigil), and The Babadook’s Jennifer Kent are among the series’ directors.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2021
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