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A murder during Hell Week sends a college campus into panic as police race to discover the meaning of a single symbol that may be the key to the killing and the school’s dark secret in Initiation. Jon Huertas, Isabella Gomez, Lindsay Lavanchy, Froy Gutierrez, Gattlin Griffith, Patrick Walker, Bart Johnson, Shireen Lai, Kent Faulcon, Yancy Butler, and Lochlyn Munro star in the horror movie directed by John Berardo, who co-wrote the film alongside Brian Frager, Lindsay LaVanchy. “During a university’s pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school’s dark secrets…and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.” Pledge to watch Initiation in theaters, on Digital and On Demand on May 7, 2021, from Saban Films.
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Ahead of its April release, Shudder has shared the trailer for their new Irish horror-comedy Boys from County Hell, a movie that you don’t want to miss! Strange events unfold in Six Mile Hill – a sleepy Irish town that claims to have been traveled by the famed author Bram Stoker – when construction on a new road disrupts the alleged grave of Abhartach, a legendary Irish vampire said to have inspired Dracula. Deadly and sinister forces terrorize the work crew led by Francie Moffat and his son Eugene, a free-spirited young man who prefers pints to pickaxes, and they’re forced to fight to survive the night while exposing the true horror that resides in the town’s local myth. Jack Rowan (Peaky Blinders), Nigel O’Neill (The Bookshop), Louisa Harland (Derry Girls), Fra Fee (Animals, the upcoming Hawkeye series), John Lynch (The Terror, The Banishing), and Michael Hough (the upcoming Chapelwaite series), star in the laugh out loud movie written and
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Writer-director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High-Rise) takes us on a journey deep into the forest where a routine run turns into a terrifying fight for survival in his film In the Earth. Not only do we have the creepy as hell trailer to share with you, with the new batch of character posters! As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them. Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, John Hollingworth, and Mark Monero star in the film opening in theaters on April 23, 2021, from Neon. Check out the trailer!
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From director Bruce Wemple (Monsterous) comes the indie horror Dawn of the Beast. In the new trailer, we get a glimpse of the horrifying legendary monster the Windigo. Starring Adrian Burke, Ariella Mastroianni, Grant Schumacher, and Anna Shields, the film follow a group of students aiming to see Bigfoot. As they venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest? Dawn of the Beast is set to be unleashed on DVD and Digital on April 6, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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The second series spin-off of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement‘s 2014 vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, “Wellington Paranormal” is coming to the CW and HBO Max! “Wellington Paranormal” stars Karen O’Leary and Mike Minogue reprise their roles from the film as two members of the Wellington, New Zealand, constabulary’s paranormal unit. Led by Sargent Maaka (Maaka Pohatu), the unit investigates supernatural occurrences in the city. The premiere date has yet to be announced, but we do know that each episode will first air on the CW then air on HBO Max the next day. The series made its debut in New Zealand back in 2018 where it is currently in its third season. Clement and Waititi created the series and executive produce along with Paul Yates, THR reports. The series is produced by the New Zealand Documentary Board.
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The release date for the highly anticipated horror Spiral: From the Book of Saw has unfortunately been changed several times thanks to the pandemic, including one delay that put the release back nearly a year. Well, it’s changed once again, this time it’s been moved up! Lionsgate has moved the theatrical release from May 21st to Mat 14th! Chris Rock stars alongside Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes on A Plane) and Max Minghella (“The Handmaid’s Tale), as well as executive produces the movie based on his idea. The Saw’s franchise’s Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) returned to direct. In Spiral, a sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of
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GamingNewsProductReviewsTrailers
A big thank you and flailing of tendrils to Asmodee Digital, and Artefacts Studio for the opportunity to take a look at the tabletop RPG turned Video game, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace. The game is based on the popular “Arkham Horror” board game series by Fantasy Flight Games that takes place in the world of H.P. Lovecraft pitting everyday people fighting to protect their sanity while being pulled into the world of cosmic horror. Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace takes place in the 1920s where an acquaintance to an astrology professor from Miskatonic University finds her murdered in her own home by cultists, setting off a chain of otherworldly events tied to a comet she’s been researching. Now the friend along with others ventures out to solve her murder and the strange occurrences surrounding it. Now onto the game itself! When it comes to controls it’s a bit overwhelming at first but quickly you get the hang of it, along with
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A big thank you to All In! Games and PolyAmorous Games for the chance to check out their alternate history Walking-Sim, Paradise Lost. The game runs similarly to Firewatch and The Suicide of Rachel Foster, while Firewatch was a good game and The Suicide of Rachel Foster desperately tried to copy it and failed to live up to its own hype, is there hope for this game or is it doomed to be left out in the cold of nuclear winter? Let’s take a look at Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost takes place in an alternative history where WWII lasted over 20 years and ends with Germany nuking most of Europe after moving all their desired citizens into a massive underground bunker system with the hopes of eventually returning to the surface with a new super army and ending the war in their favor, this never happened as the bunker is invaded by the Polish resistance who then take the bunker
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DocumentariesNewsStreaming TVTrailersTrue Crime
Epix has just released the trailer for the upcoming four-part true crime docuseries “Fall River” which explores a story of sex, satanic cults, and murder. “In 1979 – almost 90 years after infamous, accused murderer Lizzie Borden’s notorious acquittal – Fall River, Massachusetts would become home to another terrifying series of crimes. When three young women were killed in a streak of brutal murders, police alleged a satanic cult was practicing human sacrifice. The cult leader, a man named Carl Drew, was captured and sent to prison for life without parole. Twenty years after the trial, the lead investigator Paul Carey became so haunted by inconsistencies in the stories that he re-investigated his own case after he retired. Evidence surfaced that brought the entire story into question. Now through exclusive interviews, including intimate conversations with Drew, new witnesses, and illuminating evidence, this documentary series will tell the true story of a town caught in the grips of the paranoia and
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Comic Books/Graphic NovelsNews
Renegade Entertainment, co-founded by Courtney Lauren Penn and Thomas Jane, is teaming with AfterShock Comics, the industry’s fastest-growing independent publishing company, to introduce an all-new comic property titled “Lycan,” with a script by comic book legend Mike Carey (Lucifer, The Girl with All the Gifts) and based on a story by David James Kelly (Logan, Robin Hood), and Thomas Jane (The Punisher, The Mist). “Set in the year of Our Lord 1777: A hardened band of international big game hunters returning from Africa are shipwrecked off a small British island. In exchange for new supplies and the repairing of their good ship The Calydonian, Lord Ludgate engages the men for a task they are particularly well suited for: find the Berserking Beast that has been eating his subjects, including a group of young Benedictine Nuns, and destroy it.” Thomas Jane brings a breadth of experience from the comic book world to this new venture in partnership with AfterShock. In addition
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A murder during Hell Week sends a college campus into panic as police race to discover the meaning of a single symbol that may be the key to the killing and the school’s dark secret in Initiation. Jon Huertas, Isabella Gomez, Lindsay Lavanchy, Froy Gutierrez, Gattlin Griffith, Patrick Walker, Bart Johnson, Shireen Lai, Kent Faulcon, Yancy Butler, and Lochlyn Munro star in the horror movie directed by John Berardo, who co-wrote the film alongside Brian Frager, Lindsay LaVanchy. “During a university’s pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school’s dark secrets…and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.” Pledge to watch Initiation in theaters, on Digital and On Demand on May 7, 2021, from Saban Films.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
Ahead of its April release, Shudder has shared the trailer for their new Irish horror-comedy Boys from County Hell, a movie that you don’t want to miss! Strange events unfold in Six Mile Hill – a sleepy Irish town that claims to have been traveled by the famed author Bram Stoker – when construction on a new road disrupts the alleged grave of Abhartach, a legendary Irish vampire said to have inspired Dracula. Deadly and sinister forces terrorize the work crew led by Francie Moffat and his son Eugene, a free-spirited young man who prefers pints to pickaxes, and they’re forced to fight to survive the night while exposing the true horror that resides in the town’s local myth. Jack Rowan (Peaky Blinders), Nigel O’Neill (The Bookshop), Louisa Harland (Derry Girls), Fra Fee (Animals, the upcoming Hawkeye series), John Lynch (The Terror, The Banishing), and Michael Hough (the upcoming Chapelwaite series), star in the laugh out loud movie written and
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
Writer-director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High-Rise) takes us on a journey deep into the forest where a routine run turns into a terrifying fight for survival in his film In the Earth. Not only do we have the creepy as hell trailer to share with you, with the new batch of character posters! As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them. Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, John Hollingworth, and Mark Monero star in the film opening in theaters on April 23, 2021, from Neon. Check out the trailer!
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
From director Bruce Wemple (Monsterous) comes the indie horror Dawn of the Beast. In the new trailer, we get a glimpse of the horrifying legendary monster the Windigo. Starring Adrian Burke, Ariella Mastroianni, Grant Schumacher, and Anna Shields, the film follow a group of students aiming to see Bigfoot. As they venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest? Dawn of the Beast is set to be unleashed on DVD and Digital on April 6, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Continue reading →
HBO MaxMoviesNewsStreaming TVTrailers
The second series spin-off of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement‘s 2014 vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, “Wellington Paranormal” is coming to the CW and HBO Max! “Wellington Paranormal” stars Karen O’Leary and Mike Minogue reprise their roles from the film as two members of the Wellington, New Zealand, constabulary’s paranormal unit. Led by Sargent Maaka (Maaka Pohatu), the unit investigates supernatural occurrences in the city. The premiere date has yet to be announced, but we do know that each episode will first air on the CW then air on HBO Max the next day. The series made its debut in New Zealand back in 2018 where it is currently in its third season. Clement and Waititi created the series and executive produce along with Paul Yates, THR reports. The series is produced by the New Zealand Documentary Board.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
The release date for the highly anticipated horror Spiral: From the Book of Saw has unfortunately been changed several times thanks to the pandemic, including one delay that put the release back nearly a year. Well, it’s changed once again, this time it’s been moved up! Lionsgate has moved the theatrical release from May 21st to Mat 14th! Chris Rock stars alongside Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes on A Plane) and Max Minghella (“The Handmaid’s Tale), as well as executive produces the movie based on his idea. The Saw’s franchise’s Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) returned to direct. In Spiral, a sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of
Continue reading →
GamingNewsProductReviewsTrailers
A big thank you and flailing of tendrils to Asmodee Digital, and Artefacts Studio for the opportunity to take a look at the tabletop RPG turned Video game, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace. The game is based on the popular “Arkham Horror” board game series by Fantasy Flight Games that takes place in the world of H.P. Lovecraft pitting everyday people fighting to protect their sanity while being pulled into the world of cosmic horror. Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace takes place in the 1920s where an acquaintance to an astrology professor from Miskatonic University finds her murdered in her own home by cultists, setting off a chain of otherworldly events tied to a comet she’s been researching. Now the friend along with others ventures out to solve her murder and the strange occurrences surrounding it. Now onto the game itself! When it comes to controls it’s a bit overwhelming at first but quickly you get the hang of it, along with
Continue reading →
GamingNewsProductReviews
A big thank you to All In! Games and PolyAmorous Games for the chance to check out their alternate history Walking-Sim, Paradise Lost. The game runs similarly to Firewatch and The Suicide of Rachel Foster, while Firewatch was a good game and The Suicide of Rachel Foster desperately tried to copy it and failed to live up to its own hype, is there hope for this game or is it doomed to be left out in the cold of nuclear winter? Let’s take a look at Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost takes place in an alternative history where WWII lasted over 20 years and ends with Germany nuking most of Europe after moving all their desired citizens into a massive underground bunker system with the hopes of eventually returning to the surface with a new super army and ending the war in their favor, this never happened as the bunker is invaded by the Polish resistance who then take the bunker
Continue reading →
DocumentariesNewsStreaming TVTrailersTrue Crime
Epix has just released the trailer for the upcoming four-part true crime docuseries “Fall River” which explores a story of sex, satanic cults, and murder. “In 1979 – almost 90 years after infamous, accused murderer Lizzie Borden’s notorious acquittal – Fall River, Massachusetts would become home to another terrifying series of crimes. When three young women were killed in a streak of brutal murders, police alleged a satanic cult was practicing human sacrifice. The cult leader, a man named Carl Drew, was captured and sent to prison for life without parole. Twenty years after the trial, the lead investigator Paul Carey became so haunted by inconsistencies in the stories that he re-investigated his own case after he retired. Evidence surfaced that brought the entire story into question. Now through exclusive interviews, including intimate conversations with Drew, new witnesses, and illuminating evidence, this documentary series will tell the true story of a town caught in the grips of the paranoia and
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsNews
Renegade Entertainment, co-founded by Courtney Lauren Penn and Thomas Jane, is teaming with AfterShock Comics, the industry’s fastest-growing independent publishing company, to introduce an all-new comic property titled “Lycan,” with a script by comic book legend Mike Carey (Lucifer, The Girl with All the Gifts) and based on a story by David James Kelly (Logan, Robin Hood), and Thomas Jane (The Punisher, The Mist). “Set in the year of Our Lord 1777: A hardened band of international big game hunters returning from Africa are shipwrecked off a small British island. In exchange for new supplies and the repairing of their good ship The Calydonian, Lord Ludgate engages the men for a task they are particularly well suited for: find the Berserking Beast that has been eating his subjects, including a group of young Benedictine Nuns, and destroy it.” Thomas Jane brings a breadth of experience from the comic book world to this new venture in partnership with AfterShock. In addition
Continue reading →
