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Shudder Takes Us To 'Death Valley' To Witness An Experiment Gone Wrong

This December A Monster Is On The Loose In Shudder’s ‘Death Valley’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, announced today that it will release the original film Death Valley this December. Written and directed by Matthew Ninaber (Psycho Goreman), who also appears as the frightening monster in the film, the adrenaline-fueled action-horror stars his brother Jeremy Ninaber (Escape the Dark), Ethan Mitchell (Escape the Dark), and Kristen Kaster (If I should Die). “When a secret experiment goes horribly wrong, bioengineer Dr. Chloe (Kaster) becomes trapped inside a secret underground facility. With only 24 hours before a fatal decontamination protocol destroys the entire lab, Chloe deploys an emergency distress signal before a terrifying creature (Matthew Ninaber) of unknown origin can consume what’s left of her. Alerted by the distress beacon, battle-weary guns for hire, Marshall (Mitchell) and Beckett (Jeremy Ninaber) are commissioned to carry out a covert operation to extract the imprisoned scientist. Upon deployment, the team is ambushed by another heavily armed militia hell-bent on finding

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
From The Director Of Train To Busan Comes The Netflix Series 'Hellbound'

From The Director Of Train To Busan Comes The Netflix Series ‘Hellbound’

Over the past few years, Korean horror films and series, such as Bong Joon-Ho’s 2020 Academy Award-winning film Parasite, have been growing in popularity in the states. One of the most highly anticipated Korean horror series, “Hellbound, ” is set to premiere on Netflix this week. The series is based on a Korean webtoon of the same name and depicts a world where angels of death make themselves known before dragging people to hell. Yeon Sang-Ho, best known for his hit zombie film Train to Busan. is in the director’s chair for the series’ whose six-episode first season premieres on Netflix on November 19, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Season Two Ordered For “The Haunted Museum” & “A Ghost Ruined My Life”

Season Two Ordered For “The Haunted Museum” & “A Ghost Ruined My Life”

Travel Channel and discovery+ have just announced that they have greenlit second seasons of two freshman horror anthology series, “The Haunted Museum“ and “Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life“. Both series debuted to much success on discovery+ this past October during the streamer’s big “Ghostober” programming event. “The Haunted Museum“ is a scripted series produced by renowned filmmaker Eli Roth and in conjunction with “Ghost Adventures” star Zak Bagans, and ELI ROTH PRESENTS: A GHOST RUINED MY LIFE, also produced by master of horror Roth, are slated to launch new seasons next year on discovery+. The finales for both shows drop this weekend on the streaming platform. We’re thrilled to announce that Zak Bagans and Eli Roth will be creating more incredible cinematic content for our horror-loving audience,” said Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel & Paranormal Streaming Content. “Viewers are mesmerized by the scripted and real-life haunted horror stories that each of these series delivers. Zak and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Austria’s SLASH Filmfestival 2022 Is Now Accepting Submissions

Austria’s SLASH Filmfestival 2022 Is Now Accepting Submissions

Filmmakers, take note: Austria’s prestigious SLASH Filmfestival is currently accepting submissions for its 13th edition next year. Following is the official press release. SLASH Filmfestival, Austria’s foremost festival for Fantastic Film and the country’s third largest film festival overall, is now accepting submissions for its 13th edition, which will run from September 22 through October 2, 2022. Filmmakers from across the world are invited to send in their work via FilmFreeway. Founded in 2010, SLASH Filmfestival has quickly grown in size and scope, now attracting close to 15.000 visitors over its 11-day run. The festival hosts a Fantastic Shorts competition with a cash prize of 1000 EUR decided by popular vote and also organizes the Méliès d’argent competition for European short films. Additionally, SLASH organizes a feature film competition with a cash prize of 3000 EUR, the winner of which is identified by a professional jury. SLASH celebrates genre films in various shapes and sizes. Both short films (30 min.

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Joseph Perry
Nov 22, 2021
Arrow Announces December Premiere Date For ‘The Last Matinee’

Arrow Announces December Premiere Date For ‘The Last Matinee’

ARROW Video is set to release Maximiliano “Maxi” Contenti‘s stylish neo-Giallo love letter The Last Matinee, available exclusively to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Featuring lavish retro visuals, inventive and unexpected kills, buckets of grisly gore, a throbbing synth-drenched score, and a superb setting in a fleapit cinema, this is a fright-film lover’s dream. the film is a blend of 80s slasher with a black-hooded, eyeball-plucking killer and a cheer-worthy final girl played by Luciana Grasso. A cold, wet day and a declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there, hiding in the dark? When Ana takes over projection duties from her ailing father, she doesn’t expect anything worse than a broken reel or a burned-out bulb. But there’s a sadistic killer in the auditorium, and soon the blood is running in the aisles as he starts picking off the audience

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
A ‘Puppet Killer’ Is On The Loose This November

A ‘Puppet Killer’ Is On The Loose This November

Listen out for slay-bells as Puppet Killer is coming to town. Central City Media has today confirmed that the yuletide horror-comedy will be released on Digital Download this November. Pulling the strings of Puppet Killer is director Lisa Ovies. The film is an Aleks Paunovic (Numb, War For The Planet of the Apes), and stars Lee Majdoub (Sonic The Hedgehog, Dirk Gently), and Lisa Durupt (Love Guaranteed). Guaranteed to knock the stuffing out of you, Puppet Killer will be available on all major digital platforms from 29th November. It’s the classic ‘cabin in the woods‘ tale of teenagers (who are 100% teenage actors despite what IMDb may tell you) being assailed by a menacing pink and fluffy plush toy – that old Chesnut. For seven-year-old Jamie, watching horror movies with his loving parents and his fuzzy pink puppet, Simon, is a beloved Christmas tradition. Unfortunately, that all ends when his mother dies of cancer and his father marries a new

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Disney Announces Predator Prequel ‘Prey’s’ Summer Release

Disney Announces Predator Prequel ‘Prey’s’ Summer Release

Disney Studios announced their summer 2022 release slate. One of the upcoming films is the new Predator prequel, simply titled Prey, set 300 years in the past. The movie pits a female Comanche warrior is pit against a predator. Written by Patrick Aison (Kingdom, Jack Ryan), Prey, is being directed by Dan Trachtenberg (“The Boys,” 10 Cloverfield Lane) and stars indigenous actress Amber Midthunder as the Comanche warrior, Naru who fights to protect her people from a Predator. Prey was inspired by the fan film Warrior Predator, from writer-director Chris Notarile of Blinky Productions. Watch the seven-minute fan film below. Prey debuts in the summer of 2022. We’ll keep you posted.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley Reunite For ‘Hayride To Hell’

Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley Reunite For ‘Hayride To Hell’

Genre legends Kane Hodder and Bill “Chop Top” Moseley who starred in Old 37 together, reunite to headline in the upcoming horror film, Hayride To Hell, which has now begun filming in Southeastern Pennsylvania. An original, darkly comic, gruesome revenge story, the film stars horror stalwarts, Kane Hodder, as Sheriff Jubell (Friday the 13th Part VII) and Bill Moseley as Farmer Sam (The Devil’s Rejects). Written by Bob Lange and Kristina Chadwick, the movie is from director-producer Dan Lantz, whose most recent movie, Alpha Rift, is set to premiere on November 19, 2021. In the film, a farmer (Moseley) takes his revenge in grand fashion on the unscrupulous town folk who try to steal his farm. Other cast members include Graham Wolfe (The Punisher, Mr. Robot, For Life) as Nixler, Amy Rutledge (Rent-A-Pal) as Patty, and Brooke Stacy Mills (Law Abiding Citizen). Tom McCoy serves as Director of Photography. Dan Lantz, Rob Margolies, and Gretel Snyder (Star Trek: Renegades) produce.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Shudder Shares New Clip From 'The Advent Calander' Ahead Of Its Release

Shudder Moves Up Premiere Of French Horror Film ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
This Week, Sink Your Teeth Into The Horror Comedy ‘Ankle Biters’

This Week, Sink Your Teeth Into The Horror Comedy ‘Ankle Biters’

A group of young sisters set out on a campaign of terror against their mom’s new boyfriend in the new horror-comedy Ankle Biters (aka Cherrypicker), being released this week. In the movie, Sean, a pro hockey enforcer, has fallen in love with Laura, a widowed mother of four young daughters. When Laura’s children mistake an act of lovemaking as abuse, they plot to protect their mother at all costs. Directed by Bennet De Brabandere, Ankle Biters stars Zion Forrest Lee, Marianthi Evans, Lily Gail Reid, Violet Reid, Rosalee Reid, and Dahlia Reid. Watch out for Ankle Biters, which we called “as entertaining as it is vicious” in our review, on DVD and On Demand on November 16, 2021, from Dark Star Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

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Shudder Takes Us To 'Death Valley' To Witness An Experiment Gone Wrong

This December A Monster Is On The Loose In Shudder’s ‘Death Valley’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, announced today that it will release the original film Death Valley this December. Written and directed by Matthew Ninaber (Psycho Goreman), who also appears as the frightening monster in the film, the adrenaline-fueled action-horror stars his brother Jeremy Ninaber (Escape the Dark), Ethan Mitchell (Escape the Dark), and Kristen Kaster (If I should Die). “When a secret experiment goes horribly wrong, bioengineer Dr. Chloe (Kaster) becomes trapped inside a secret underground facility. With only 24 hours before a fatal decontamination protocol destroys the entire lab, Chloe deploys an emergency distress signal before a terrifying creature (Matthew Ninaber) of unknown origin can consume what’s left of her. Alerted by the distress beacon, battle-weary guns for hire, Marshall (Mitchell) and Beckett (Jeremy Ninaber) are commissioned to carry out a covert operation to extract the imprisoned scientist. Upon deployment, the team is ambushed by another heavily armed militia hell-bent on finding

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
From The Director Of Train To Busan Comes The Netflix Series 'Hellbound'

From The Director Of Train To Busan Comes The Netflix Series ‘Hellbound’

Over the past few years, Korean horror films and series, such as Bong Joon-Ho’s 2020 Academy Award-winning film Parasite, have been growing in popularity in the states. One of the most highly anticipated Korean horror series, “Hellbound, ” is set to premiere on Netflix this week. The series is based on a Korean webtoon of the same name and depicts a world where angels of death make themselves known before dragging people to hell. Yeon Sang-Ho, best known for his hit zombie film Train to Busan. is in the director’s chair for the series’ whose six-episode first season premieres on Netflix on November 19, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Season Two Ordered For “The Haunted Museum” & “A Ghost Ruined My Life”

Season Two Ordered For “The Haunted Museum” & “A Ghost Ruined My Life”

Travel Channel and discovery+ have just announced that they have greenlit second seasons of two freshman horror anthology series, “The Haunted Museum“ and “Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life“. Both series debuted to much success on discovery+ this past October during the streamer’s big “Ghostober” programming event. “The Haunted Museum“ is a scripted series produced by renowned filmmaker Eli Roth and in conjunction with “Ghost Adventures” star Zak Bagans, and ELI ROTH PRESENTS: A GHOST RUINED MY LIFE, also produced by master of horror Roth, are slated to launch new seasons next year on discovery+. The finales for both shows drop this weekend on the streaming platform. We’re thrilled to announce that Zak Bagans and Eli Roth will be creating more incredible cinematic content for our horror-loving audience,” said Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel & Paranormal Streaming Content. “Viewers are mesmerized by the scripted and real-life haunted horror stories that each of these series delivers. Zak and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Austria’s SLASH Filmfestival 2022 Is Now Accepting Submissions

Austria’s SLASH Filmfestival 2022 Is Now Accepting Submissions

Filmmakers, take note: Austria’s prestigious SLASH Filmfestival is currently accepting submissions for its 13th edition next year. Following is the official press release. SLASH Filmfestival, Austria’s foremost festival for Fantastic Film and the country’s third largest film festival overall, is now accepting submissions for its 13th edition, which will run from September 22 through October 2, 2022. Filmmakers from across the world are invited to send in their work via FilmFreeway. Founded in 2010, SLASH Filmfestival has quickly grown in size and scope, now attracting close to 15.000 visitors over its 11-day run. The festival hosts a Fantastic Shorts competition with a cash prize of 1000 EUR decided by popular vote and also organizes the Méliès d’argent competition for European short films. Additionally, SLASH organizes a feature film competition with a cash prize of 3000 EUR, the winner of which is identified by a professional jury. SLASH celebrates genre films in various shapes and sizes. Both short films (30 min.

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Nov 22, 2021
Arrow Announces December Premiere Date For ‘The Last Matinee’

Arrow Announces December Premiere Date For ‘The Last Matinee’

ARROW Video is set to release Maximiliano “Maxi” Contenti‘s stylish neo-Giallo love letter The Last Matinee, available exclusively to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Featuring lavish retro visuals, inventive and unexpected kills, buckets of grisly gore, a throbbing synth-drenched score, and a superb setting in a fleapit cinema, this is a fright-film lover’s dream. the film is a blend of 80s slasher with a black-hooded, eyeball-plucking killer and a cheer-worthy final girl played by Luciana Grasso. A cold, wet day and a declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there, hiding in the dark? When Ana takes over projection duties from her ailing father, she doesn’t expect anything worse than a broken reel or a burned-out bulb. But there’s a sadistic killer in the auditorium, and soon the blood is running in the aisles as he starts picking off the audience

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
A ‘Puppet Killer’ Is On The Loose This November

A ‘Puppet Killer’ Is On The Loose This November

Listen out for slay-bells as Puppet Killer is coming to town. Central City Media has today confirmed that the yuletide horror-comedy will be released on Digital Download this November. Pulling the strings of Puppet Killer is director Lisa Ovies. The film is an Aleks Paunovic (Numb, War For The Planet of the Apes), and stars Lee Majdoub (Sonic The Hedgehog, Dirk Gently), and Lisa Durupt (Love Guaranteed). Guaranteed to knock the stuffing out of you, Puppet Killer will be available on all major digital platforms from 29th November. It’s the classic ‘cabin in the woods‘ tale of teenagers (who are 100% teenage actors despite what IMDb may tell you) being assailed by a menacing pink and fluffy plush toy – that old Chesnut. For seven-year-old Jamie, watching horror movies with his loving parents and his fuzzy pink puppet, Simon, is a beloved Christmas tradition. Unfortunately, that all ends when his mother dies of cancer and his father marries a new

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Disney Announces Predator Prequel ‘Prey’s’ Summer Release

Disney Announces Predator Prequel ‘Prey’s’ Summer Release

Disney Studios announced their summer 2022 release slate. One of the upcoming films is the new Predator prequel, simply titled Prey, set 300 years in the past. The movie pits a female Comanche warrior is pit against a predator. Written by Patrick Aison (Kingdom, Jack Ryan), Prey, is being directed by Dan Trachtenberg (“The Boys,” 10 Cloverfield Lane) and stars indigenous actress Amber Midthunder as the Comanche warrior, Naru who fights to protect her people from a Predator. Prey was inspired by the fan film Warrior Predator, from writer-director Chris Notarile of Blinky Productions. Watch the seven-minute fan film below. Prey debuts in the summer of 2022. We’ll keep you posted.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley Reunite For ‘Hayride To Hell’

Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley Reunite For ‘Hayride To Hell’

Genre legends Kane Hodder and Bill “Chop Top” Moseley who starred in Old 37 together, reunite to headline in the upcoming horror film, Hayride To Hell, which has now begun filming in Southeastern Pennsylvania. An original, darkly comic, gruesome revenge story, the film stars horror stalwarts, Kane Hodder, as Sheriff Jubell (Friday the 13th Part VII) and Bill Moseley as Farmer Sam (The Devil’s Rejects). Written by Bob Lange and Kristina Chadwick, the movie is from director-producer Dan Lantz, whose most recent movie, Alpha Rift, is set to premiere on November 19, 2021. In the film, a farmer (Moseley) takes his revenge in grand fashion on the unscrupulous town folk who try to steal his farm. Other cast members include Graham Wolfe (The Punisher, Mr. Robot, For Life) as Nixler, Amy Rutledge (Rent-A-Pal) as Patty, and Brooke Stacy Mills (Law Abiding Citizen). Tom McCoy serves as Director of Photography. Dan Lantz, Rob Margolies, and Gretel Snyder (Star Trek: Renegades) produce.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Shudder Shares New Clip From 'The Advent Calander' Ahead Of Its Release

Shudder Moves Up Premiere Of French Horror Film ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
This Week, Sink Your Teeth Into The Horror Comedy ‘Ankle Biters’

This Week, Sink Your Teeth Into The Horror Comedy ‘Ankle Biters’

A group of young sisters set out on a campaign of terror against their mom’s new boyfriend in the new horror-comedy Ankle Biters (aka Cherrypicker), being released this week. In the movie, Sean, a pro hockey enforcer, has fallen in love with Laura, a widowed mother of four young daughters. When Laura’s children mistake an act of lovemaking as abuse, they plot to protect their mother at all costs. Directed by Bennet De Brabandere, Ankle Biters stars Zion Forrest Lee, Marianthi Evans, Lily Gail Reid, Violet Reid, Rosalee Reid, and Dahlia Reid. Watch out for Ankle Biters, which we called “as entertaining as it is vicious” in our review, on DVD and On Demand on November 16, 2021, from Dark Star Pictures.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
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