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Warner Bros. Games and Turtle Rock Studios blew up E3 with the extended trailer for the FPS co-op Back 4 Blood showcasing the story, what horrors await players, and a sneak peek at the PVP “Swarm” mode where players are pitted against one another as they are switched from being humans OR zombies. Also announced today during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Back 4 Blood will be coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch on Oct. 12 via Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One Consoles, as well as Windows 10 PC. For more information, visit Xbox.com/Xbox-Game-Pass. Back 4 Blood will be swarming players on October 12th, 2021 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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This Halloween, Bayview Entertainment will unleash Ben and Stacey Dixon‘s horror anthology Death Breed featuring three tales of terror starring some of horror’s biggest icons. And we’ve got the first trailer. The first tale called “Wolfsbayne”, stars Lloyd Kaufman, (The Toxic Avenger) and owner of Troma Films, Linnea Quigly (Night of the Demons, The Return of the Living Dead, etc.), Debbie Rochon, Jim O’Rear, and more. The second tale, “Shudder” features several of the cast members from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre including Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface), Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker} and John Dugan (Grandpa). The third story, “Old Habits Die Hard” features Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four of the Friday The 13th movies as well as Victor Crowly in the Hatchet franchise, along with Tricia Cast, Stacey Dixon, Roger Hewlett. For upcoming news about Death Breed, follow Bayview Entertainment on Facebook. https://vimeo.com/381346285
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Ex Bloober Team members THE PARASITE have announced their first game they’re working on that brings a whole new look of the Slavic legend The Baba Yaga with her origin story in the game BLACKTAIL. In BLACKTAIL, players will be taken into an open-world first-person shooter where they take on the role of Yaga, a young woman cast out of her village for suspicion of witchcraft. Now armed with a bow and powers, she must journey through the world to find missing pieces of her past and unlock keys to her future. The game will also feature tough decision-making options for Yaga where her choices will lead her to become the guardian of the forest or down a twisted path of nightmares and become evil. The Player’s choices will also affect Yaga’s selection of abilities that will change based on her morality. BLACKTAIL will be released for Steam, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5.
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Thomas Jane (“The Expanse”, The Mist, Deep Blue Sea), and his daughter, Harlow Jane (“Texas Rising” I Love Us) will star in the roles of father and daughter in the thriller Dig, whose international rights have just been acquired by Screen Media Ventures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company. Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) and Liana Liberato (If I Stay) also star in DIG, directed by K. Asher Levin. from the script penned by brothers Banipal Ablakhad and Benhur Ablakhad. Contracted for home demolition, a widowed father (Thomas Jane) and his daughter suffering from major hearing loss (Harlow Jane) arrive at the construction site. They are soon taken hostage by a dangerous couple (Hirsch and Liberato), who will stop at nothing to retrieve what lies beneath the property. The father and daughter must work together to outsmart their captors and survive the grueling night. Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment will launch international
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The long-awaited second season of Netflix’s hit series “The Witcher” is finally headed our way later this year. Netflix has now released a first-look video to whet our appetite during their “Geeked Week” presentation. While scenes are played in rapid prosesion, it does give us a glimpse of what’s to come, but whatever you do don’t blink or you’ll miss it. The series, based on the best-selling books by Andrzej Sapkowski, stars Henry Cavill as the legendary Witcher, Geralt of Rivia. “The Witcher” is a tale of fate and family. In season two, convinced Yennefer’s (Anya Chalotra) life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, Geralt of Rivia brings Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans, and demons fight for supremacy outside its walls, Geralt must protect the girl from something far more dangerous, the mysterious power she possesses inside. The cast of season two
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A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in
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Dazzler Media proudly presents the hilarious hit comedy series “Wellington Paranormal,” from the brilliant duo of Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, with all seasons coming to Blu-ray, DVD & Download-to-Own. The first season arrives this July. “Wellington Paranormal” follows hilariously hapless officers Mark Minogue and Karen O’Leary as they are assigned to the new Paranormal Unit of Wellington’s police force, tasked with tackling the increasing number of local crimes and misdemeanors of a supernatural nature. From Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the visionary creators behind What We Do In The Shadows comes this hit New Zealand comedy series which has taken the US and UK by storm. Dazzler Media Presents “Wellington Paranormal: Season One” on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on July 5, 2021. You can pre-order your copy now. Season Two will be out on September 6th, followed by Season three on October 11th. Season four, now filming, is coming soon.
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An official selection at the Fantasia Film Festival and winner of the “Best Actor Award” (Julian Richings) at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival, the “Certified Fresh” film Anything for Jackson is set to land on VOD and Digital along with DVD and Blu-ray June 15th. We sat down with both director Justin G. Dyck and writer Keith Cooper to discuss the film. In the film, starring “Supernatural’s” Julian Richings and Sheila McCarthy (Die Hard 2) as well as Konstantina Mantelos (A Christmas Crush), Josh Cruddas (Polar), and Yannick Bisson (Another Wolfcop), “after losing their only grandchild in a car accident, an elderly couple kidnaps a pregnant woman to perform a reverse exorcism in order to bring him back to life.” Canadian filmmaker Justin G. Dyck makes his horror debut with Anything for Jackson, after a long career in family-friendly films such as A Christmas Exchange and Witches Ball, which Keith Cooper also wrote. Kelli McNeely: “Keith, how did
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Merge Games and Italian Games Factory just released the new gameplay trailer for their haunting space flight simulator Haunted Space that will take players into the dark cold void of space where fortune and terror await. The new trailer features what combat will look like when players sit in the cockpit of their own spaceship which they can customize and can be viewed in either first OR third-person as players explore parts of the galaxy that’s haunted by the colossal ghosts of a past alien civilization. Haunted Space features: Traverse multiple unique star systems, each filled with danger and intrigue. Play in first-person or third-person perspective as you overcome the challenges of this dangerous backwater of space. Overcome the odds in fierce multi-stage boss battles against ancient God-like creatures composed of organic matter and space debris. Trade and craft new ships and ship equipment using powerful and customizable ship modification tools – create and buy new weapons, shields, cargo containers,
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EPIX® and Blumhouse have just announced the lead cast member of the upcoming horror film Unhuman, including two-time Emmy nominated actress Brianne Tju (Light As a Feather, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Benjamin Wadsworth (Your Honor), Uriah Shelton (Freaky), and Ali Gallo (The Carpool). Unhuman centers on “a group of high school students. After their school bus crashes while on a field trip, relationships are tested amongst the students once they realize they are being stalked by a mysterious attacker who intends to drive them out of their bucolic adolescence and straight into a horrifying fight to survive.” Marcus Dunstan is directing from a script by Paul Soter (Club Dread). Dunstan and Soter previously collaborated with Blumhouse Television on the horror anthology series Into the Dark – Dunstan directed the Thanksgiving episode Pilgrim, while Soter penned the Christmas-themed A Nasty Piece of Work. As a screenwriter, Dunstan’s credits include Saw IV, V, VI, and Saw: The Final Chapter
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Warner Bros. Games and Turtle Rock Studios blew up E3 with the extended trailer for the FPS co-op Back 4 Blood showcasing the story, what horrors await players, and a sneak peek at the PVP “Swarm” mode where players are pitted against one another as they are switched from being humans OR zombies. Also announced today during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Back 4 Blood will be coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch on Oct. 12 via Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One Consoles, as well as Windows 10 PC. For more information, visit Xbox.com/Xbox-Game-Pass. Back 4 Blood will be swarming players on October 12th, 2021 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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This Halloween, Bayview Entertainment will unleash Ben and Stacey Dixon‘s horror anthology Death Breed featuring three tales of terror starring some of horror’s biggest icons. And we’ve got the first trailer. The first tale called “Wolfsbayne”, stars Lloyd Kaufman, (The Toxic Avenger) and owner of Troma Films, Linnea Quigly (Night of the Demons, The Return of the Living Dead, etc.), Debbie Rochon, Jim O’Rear, and more. The second tale, “Shudder” features several of the cast members from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre including Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface), Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker} and John Dugan (Grandpa). The third story, “Old Habits Die Hard” features Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four of the Friday The 13th movies as well as Victor Crowly in the Hatchet franchise, along with Tricia Cast, Stacey Dixon, Roger Hewlett. For upcoming news about Death Breed, follow Bayview Entertainment on Facebook. https://vimeo.com/381346285
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Ex Bloober Team members THE PARASITE have announced their first game they’re working on that brings a whole new look of the Slavic legend The Baba Yaga with her origin story in the game BLACKTAIL. In BLACKTAIL, players will be taken into an open-world first-person shooter where they take on the role of Yaga, a young woman cast out of her village for suspicion of witchcraft. Now armed with a bow and powers, she must journey through the world to find missing pieces of her past and unlock keys to her future. The game will also feature tough decision-making options for Yaga where her choices will lead her to become the guardian of the forest or down a twisted path of nightmares and become evil. The Player’s choices will also affect Yaga’s selection of abilities that will change based on her morality. BLACKTAIL will be released for Steam, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5.
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Thomas Jane (“The Expanse”, The Mist, Deep Blue Sea), and his daughter, Harlow Jane (“Texas Rising” I Love Us) will star in the roles of father and daughter in the thriller Dig, whose international rights have just been acquired by Screen Media Ventures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company. Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) and Liana Liberato (If I Stay) also star in DIG, directed by K. Asher Levin. from the script penned by brothers Banipal Ablakhad and Benhur Ablakhad. Contracted for home demolition, a widowed father (Thomas Jane) and his daughter suffering from major hearing loss (Harlow Jane) arrive at the construction site. They are soon taken hostage by a dangerous couple (Hirsch and Liberato), who will stop at nothing to retrieve what lies beneath the property. The father and daughter must work together to outsmart their captors and survive the grueling night. Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment will launch international
Continue reading →
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The long-awaited second season of Netflix’s hit series “The Witcher” is finally headed our way later this year. Netflix has now released a first-look video to whet our appetite during their “Geeked Week” presentation. While scenes are played in rapid prosesion, it does give us a glimpse of what’s to come, but whatever you do don’t blink or you’ll miss it. The series, based on the best-selling books by Andrzej Sapkowski, stars Henry Cavill as the legendary Witcher, Geralt of Rivia. “The Witcher” is a tale of fate and family. In season two, convinced Yennefer’s (Anya Chalotra) life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, Geralt of Rivia brings Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans, and demons fight for supremacy outside its walls, Geralt must protect the girl from something far more dangerous, the mysterious power she possesses inside. The cast of season two
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A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in
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Dazzler Media proudly presents the hilarious hit comedy series “Wellington Paranormal,” from the brilliant duo of Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, with all seasons coming to Blu-ray, DVD & Download-to-Own. The first season arrives this July. “Wellington Paranormal” follows hilariously hapless officers Mark Minogue and Karen O’Leary as they are assigned to the new Paranormal Unit of Wellington’s police force, tasked with tackling the increasing number of local crimes and misdemeanors of a supernatural nature. From Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the visionary creators behind What We Do In The Shadows comes this hit New Zealand comedy series which has taken the US and UK by storm. Dazzler Media Presents “Wellington Paranormal: Season One” on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on July 5, 2021. You can pre-order your copy now. Season Two will be out on September 6th, followed by Season three on October 11th. Season four, now filming, is coming soon.
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An official selection at the Fantasia Film Festival and winner of the “Best Actor Award” (Julian Richings) at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival, the “Certified Fresh” film Anything for Jackson is set to land on VOD and Digital along with DVD and Blu-ray June 15th. We sat down with both director Justin G. Dyck and writer Keith Cooper to discuss the film. In the film, starring “Supernatural’s” Julian Richings and Sheila McCarthy (Die Hard 2) as well as Konstantina Mantelos (A Christmas Crush), Josh Cruddas (Polar), and Yannick Bisson (Another Wolfcop), “after losing their only grandchild in a car accident, an elderly couple kidnaps a pregnant woman to perform a reverse exorcism in order to bring him back to life.” Canadian filmmaker Justin G. Dyck makes his horror debut with Anything for Jackson, after a long career in family-friendly films such as A Christmas Exchange and Witches Ball, which Keith Cooper also wrote. Kelli McNeely: “Keith, how did
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Merge Games and Italian Games Factory just released the new gameplay trailer for their haunting space flight simulator Haunted Space that will take players into the dark cold void of space where fortune and terror await. The new trailer features what combat will look like when players sit in the cockpit of their own spaceship which they can customize and can be viewed in either first OR third-person as players explore parts of the galaxy that’s haunted by the colossal ghosts of a past alien civilization. Haunted Space features: Traverse multiple unique star systems, each filled with danger and intrigue. Play in first-person or third-person perspective as you overcome the challenges of this dangerous backwater of space. Overcome the odds in fierce multi-stage boss battles against ancient God-like creatures composed of organic matter and space debris. Trade and craft new ships and ship equipment using powerful and customizable ship modification tools – create and buy new weapons, shields, cargo containers,
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EPIX® and Blumhouse have just announced the lead cast member of the upcoming horror film Unhuman, including two-time Emmy nominated actress Brianne Tju (Light As a Feather, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Benjamin Wadsworth (Your Honor), Uriah Shelton (Freaky), and Ali Gallo (The Carpool). Unhuman centers on “a group of high school students. After their school bus crashes while on a field trip, relationships are tested amongst the students once they realize they are being stalked by a mysterious attacker who intends to drive them out of their bucolic adolescence and straight into a horrifying fight to survive.” Marcus Dunstan is directing from a script by Paul Soter (Club Dread). Dunstan and Soter previously collaborated with Blumhouse Television on the horror anthology series Into the Dark – Dunstan directed the Thanksgiving episode Pilgrim, while Soter penned the Christmas-themed A Nasty Piece of Work. As a screenwriter, Dunstan’s credits include Saw IV, V, VI, and Saw: The Final Chapter
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