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A man searches a secluded lake for the monster that murdered his husband in the award-winning film The Siren, the new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People). The Siren is an enthralling, seductive and creepy supernatural tale about cursed star-crossed lovers. Tom (Evan Dumouchel, Stephen King‘s Doctor Sleep) is a mute man from a sheltered, religious background who is haunted by the childhood accident that cost him his voice. While on a retreat at a lake house, he meets Al (MacLeod Andrews, Doctor Sleep), whose husband drowned in the lake-one of many mysterious deaths that occurred there. “The area is marked by a local legend of a lovelorn spirit who haunts the surrounding woods and drowns anyone she encounters. The legend proves all too real when Tom encounters the beautiful creature. Drawn to her immediately, Tom knows he has found his soulmate in the seemingly human Nina (Margaret Ying Drake, They Look Like People, 59 Seconds),
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A group of war veterans finds themselves in the biggest battle of their lives against punk mutants is Joe Begos‘ VFW. Written by Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle, the film stars Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Martin Kove, David Patrick Kelly, Sierra McCormick, Tom Williamson, Travis Hammer and Dora Madison with George Wendt and Fred Williamson. In VFW, a typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what’s theirs – at any cost – the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW, in the biggest fight of their lives. This action-packed flick from RLEJ Films and Fangoria opens in theaters and arrives of VOD on February 14, 2020. Check out the trailer.
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Writer-director Rose Glass‘s supernatural thriller Saint Maud is headed towards its 2020 release. In the trailer, we are introduced to a young woman with extreme religious views who is determined to save her patient’s soul. Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle lead the cast that also includes Lily Knight, Lily Frazer, and Turlough Convery. Maud, a reclusive young nurse, pursues a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud’s fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward’s soul from eternal damnation – whatever the cost. Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman produce with Daniel Battsek, Mary Burke, and Sam Lavender executive producing. Saint Maud opens in theaters on March 27, 2020, from A24, the studio that brought us Hereditary and Midsommar.
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Simon Barett, who wrote both You’re Next and The Guest is making his directorial debut with Seance. The film has just wrapped production in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The news was announced via Barett’s Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157699533259687&set=a.84062604686&type=3&theater Haven’t posted in weeks because I had no time, but we wrapped production on Seance on Thursday night, on schedule after 22 shooting days in lovely Winnipeg. Massive gratitude to our amazing cast and crew for making it happen. Can’t wait for you all to see this one when it’s done.” Barrett continues: “This is the only image from our shoot that I’ll post (taken by our great still photographer Eric Zachanowich) because it reveals nothing and I don’t want people to be sick of our film before it comes out, and I asked everyone to do the same. Accordingly, I’ll try to not mention Seance again until it premieres! But I truly hope everyone enjoys it...” Inanna Sarkis stars alongside Suki Waterhouse in the
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After Midnight (formerly known as Something Else) is headed to theaters and VOD this Valentine’s Day, with the fitting tagline “Love will rip your heart out.” In the film, directed by Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella, and written by Gardner, Hank is dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving, but as if that wasn’t tough enough, there’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.” Hank is this small-town, good-old-boy hunter, about 10 years into a long-term relationship,” Gardner recently told EW. “He wakes up one morning and his partner, Abby, has just gone, [leaving] just a very cryptic note. Around the same time she leaves, something starts coming out of the swamp at night and scratching at the door and trying to get in. You don’t know if he’s losing his mind, because he doesn’t know where she is, he doesn’t know what this thing is, people don’t believe him. So it’s kind of a creature-feature
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From writer-director Daniel J. Phillips comes the new trailer for the Austrian supernatural thriller Awoken. “A young medical student attempts to cure her brother of a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to help him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.” Co-written by Alan Grace, the film stars Erik Thomson, Benson Jack Anthony, Sara West, Felicia Tassone, Adam Ovadia, Rob MacPherson, Matt Crook, and Amelia Douglass. A U.S. release date should be announced soon.
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Full Moon’s Puppet Master franchise is a classic. As part of their “Deadly Ten” project, our favorite character, Blade is getting his spinoff, Blade: The Iron Cross, directed by John Lechago. “For decades the fans have been clamoring for it, and now Full Moon delivers with the first standalone feature debut of one of its most beloved (and most frightful) characters: the hook-handed maniac puppet, BLADE! Charles Band’s PUPPET MASTER series continues as an unspeakable evil from Blade’s past emerges in the form of a murderous Nazi scientist named Dr. Hauser. As Hauser’s heinous crimes are discovered, the psychic war journalist, Elisa Ivanov, awakens Blade, and together the bloody journey of revenge begins. It’s Herr Hauser’s reanimated undead army versus a possessed doll and a beautiful vengeance-seeking clairvoyant! Who will win, and how will it affect the Full Moon Universe?” Tania Fox, Roy Abramsohn, Griffin Blazi, Jarrell Hall and Bobby Ree star in the film, premiering on Full Moon’s www.DeadlyTen.com
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The Steven Spielberg-produced horror thriller The Turning is approaching its release date and judging by the trailer it’s going to be creepy AF. Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Davis, and Brooklynn Prince lead the cast for the film that follows a young woman hired as the nanny to two orphans who are convinced that the country mansion they live in is haunted. Floria Sigismondi directed the film with Jade Bartlett penning the latest version of the script by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring 2). Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee are producing. Stephen Spielberg is serving as executive producer for The Turning, based on The Turning, an adaptation of The Turning of the Screw by Henry James,will open in theaters on January 24th, from Universal Pictures.
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Netflix’s new fantasy series “The Witcher,” based on the best-selling book and gaming series, is a binge-worthy hit amongst viewers and the streaming giant knows it, they have already renewed the series for season two. The news comes just three days after its premiere. Henry “Superman” Cavill stars as the title character, The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, a badass monster slayer with a sense of honor. Centering on The Witcher as well as two other main characters, Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), a witch with a rough start and a hunger for power, and Ciri (Freya Allen) a young princess who was forced to flee her homeland. The eight-episode second season is set to begin production in London in early 2020 with its premiere planned for 2021 with Cavill, Chalotra, and Allen all returning. I’m so thrilled that before fans have seen our first season, we are able to confirm that we’ll be returning to The Continent again to continue telling the
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The Tony Award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls, “Assassination Nation,” “Bates Motel”) is set to star in the upcoming horror Limbo from Miramax, Barnyard Projects and Snoot Entertainment, according to Deadline. Directed by Chris Peckover, who co-wrote the film with Matthew Jennison, Limbo follows a young mother whose body becomes possessed by something evil, rendering her a disembodied spirit and a ghost in her own house. As this demonic double takes over her life and threatens to harm her family, she must find a way to protect her loved ones while also finding a way back to her body before it’s too late. “I love it! It’s so exciting to me!” Rose told Deadline about starring in her first genre feature film. She is also appearing in the first season of Amazon’s upcoming horror anthology series “Them: Covenant”. Production will begin this January.
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A man searches a secluded lake for the monster that murdered his husband in the award-winning film The Siren, the new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People). The Siren is an enthralling, seductive and creepy supernatural tale about cursed star-crossed lovers. Tom (Evan Dumouchel, Stephen King‘s Doctor Sleep) is a mute man from a sheltered, religious background who is haunted by the childhood accident that cost him his voice. While on a retreat at a lake house, he meets Al (MacLeod Andrews, Doctor Sleep), whose husband drowned in the lake-one of many mysterious deaths that occurred there. “The area is marked by a local legend of a lovelorn spirit who haunts the surrounding woods and drowns anyone she encounters. The legend proves all too real when Tom encounters the beautiful creature. Drawn to her immediately, Tom knows he has found his soulmate in the seemingly human Nina (Margaret Ying Drake, They Look Like People, 59 Seconds),
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A group of war veterans finds themselves in the biggest battle of their lives against punk mutants is Joe Begos‘ VFW. Written by Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle, the film stars Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Martin Kove, David Patrick Kelly, Sierra McCormick, Tom Williamson, Travis Hammer and Dora Madison with George Wendt and Fred Williamson. In VFW, a typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what’s theirs – at any cost – the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW, in the biggest fight of their lives. This action-packed flick from RLEJ Films and Fangoria opens in theaters and arrives of VOD on February 14, 2020. Check out the trailer.
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Writer-director Rose Glass‘s supernatural thriller Saint Maud is headed towards its 2020 release. In the trailer, we are introduced to a young woman with extreme religious views who is determined to save her patient’s soul. Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle lead the cast that also includes Lily Knight, Lily Frazer, and Turlough Convery. Maud, a reclusive young nurse, pursues a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud’s fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward’s soul from eternal damnation – whatever the cost. Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman produce with Daniel Battsek, Mary Burke, and Sam Lavender executive producing. Saint Maud opens in theaters on March 27, 2020, from A24, the studio that brought us Hereditary and Midsommar.
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Simon Barett, who wrote both You’re Next and The Guest is making his directorial debut with Seance. The film has just wrapped production in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The news was announced via Barett’s Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157699533259687&set=a.84062604686&type=3&theater Haven’t posted in weeks because I had no time, but we wrapped production on Seance on Thursday night, on schedule after 22 shooting days in lovely Winnipeg. Massive gratitude to our amazing cast and crew for making it happen. Can’t wait for you all to see this one when it’s done.” Barrett continues: “This is the only image from our shoot that I’ll post (taken by our great still photographer Eric Zachanowich) because it reveals nothing and I don’t want people to be sick of our film before it comes out, and I asked everyone to do the same. Accordingly, I’ll try to not mention Seance again until it premieres! But I truly hope everyone enjoys it...” Inanna Sarkis stars alongside Suki Waterhouse in the
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After Midnight (formerly known as Something Else) is headed to theaters and VOD this Valentine’s Day, with the fitting tagline “Love will rip your heart out.” In the film, directed by Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella, and written by Gardner, Hank is dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving, but as if that wasn’t tough enough, there’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.” Hank is this small-town, good-old-boy hunter, about 10 years into a long-term relationship,” Gardner recently told EW. “He wakes up one morning and his partner, Abby, has just gone, [leaving] just a very cryptic note. Around the same time she leaves, something starts coming out of the swamp at night and scratching at the door and trying to get in. You don’t know if he’s losing his mind, because he doesn’t know where she is, he doesn’t know what this thing is, people don’t believe him. So it’s kind of a creature-feature
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From writer-director Daniel J. Phillips comes the new trailer for the Austrian supernatural thriller Awoken. “A young medical student attempts to cure her brother of a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to help him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.” Co-written by Alan Grace, the film stars Erik Thomson, Benson Jack Anthony, Sara West, Felicia Tassone, Adam Ovadia, Rob MacPherson, Matt Crook, and Amelia Douglass. A U.S. release date should be announced soon.
Continue reading →
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Full Moon’s Puppet Master franchise is a classic. As part of their “Deadly Ten” project, our favorite character, Blade is getting his spinoff, Blade: The Iron Cross, directed by John Lechago. “For decades the fans have been clamoring for it, and now Full Moon delivers with the first standalone feature debut of one of its most beloved (and most frightful) characters: the hook-handed maniac puppet, BLADE! Charles Band’s PUPPET MASTER series continues as an unspeakable evil from Blade’s past emerges in the form of a murderous Nazi scientist named Dr. Hauser. As Hauser’s heinous crimes are discovered, the psychic war journalist, Elisa Ivanov, awakens Blade, and together the bloody journey of revenge begins. It’s Herr Hauser’s reanimated undead army versus a possessed doll and a beautiful vengeance-seeking clairvoyant! Who will win, and how will it affect the Full Moon Universe?” Tania Fox, Roy Abramsohn, Griffin Blazi, Jarrell Hall and Bobby Ree star in the film, premiering on Full Moon’s www.DeadlyTen.com
Continue reading →
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The Steven Spielberg-produced horror thriller The Turning is approaching its release date and judging by the trailer it’s going to be creepy AF. Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Davis, and Brooklynn Prince lead the cast for the film that follows a young woman hired as the nanny to two orphans who are convinced that the country mansion they live in is haunted. Floria Sigismondi directed the film with Jade Bartlett penning the latest version of the script by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring 2). Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee are producing. Stephen Spielberg is serving as executive producer for The Turning, based on The Turning, an adaptation of The Turning of the Screw by Henry James,will open in theaters on January 24th, from Universal Pictures.
Continue reading →
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Netflix’s new fantasy series “The Witcher,” based on the best-selling book and gaming series, is a binge-worthy hit amongst viewers and the streaming giant knows it, they have already renewed the series for season two. The news comes just three days after its premiere. Henry “Superman” Cavill stars as the title character, The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, a badass monster slayer with a sense of honor. Centering on The Witcher as well as two other main characters, Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), a witch with a rough start and a hunger for power, and Ciri (Freya Allen) a young princess who was forced to flee her homeland. The eight-episode second season is set to begin production in London in early 2020 with its premiere planned for 2021 with Cavill, Chalotra, and Allen all returning. I’m so thrilled that before fans have seen our first season, we are able to confirm that we’ll be returning to The Continent again to continue telling the
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The Tony Award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls, “Assassination Nation,” “Bates Motel”) is set to star in the upcoming horror Limbo from Miramax, Barnyard Projects and Snoot Entertainment, according to Deadline. Directed by Chris Peckover, who co-wrote the film with Matthew Jennison, Limbo follows a young mother whose body becomes possessed by something evil, rendering her a disembodied spirit and a ghost in her own house. As this demonic double takes over her life and threatens to harm her family, she must find a way to protect her loved ones while also finding a way back to her body before it’s too late. “I love it! It’s so exciting to me!” Rose told Deadline about starring in her first genre feature film. She is also appearing in the first season of Amazon’s upcoming horror anthology series “Them: Covenant”. Production will begin this January.
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