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WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS It’s December, and if you’re like me you already miss Halloween and the movies it brought to us. I got a taste of our favorite holiday last night while watching RLJE Films’ Halloween set slasher Trick which will arrive on DVD and Digital on December 17th. In the film, Omar Epps (“House”) stars as Detective Mike Denver, an investigator who is obsessed with bringing down “Trick”, a killer who snuffed out the young lives of his classmates at a costume party on Halloween night in 2015. Every year following the attack “copycats” in other towns carry out their own killings. Did Trick survive 3 bullets and a long fall or are there more killers out there? It appears that director Patrick Lussier and writers Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier aim to create a new genre icon. And I think they’ve created a viable story and killer/killers. I could easily see Trick becoming a new interesting franchise. The
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Raiser Games and Protocol Games have announced that since their flagship survival horror game Song of Horror has been doing well with both players and critics alike, they will be bringing the game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Q2 2020. Along with news of the release comes information about the release date for the third episode of the game coming December 13th (ON A FRIDAY). The devs also would like to remind PC gamers that along with buying the base game, if they buy the Complete Nightmare Pass (season pass) that’s sold separately they don’t have to buy the (5) episodes individually. Also for a limited time, there’s a sale on for the Founder Limited Edition, this includes the base game AND season pass, the sale ends December 31st. The console version will not be episodic like the PC version as it will have all five episodes included. Players experience a call back to older horror games as
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that its new original series “The Dead Lands”, a co-production with New Zealand’s TVNZ, will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, January 23rd, across all of Shudder’s territories (US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland). It will also air on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand immediately after its international debut. Subsequent episodes will premiere on both Shudder and TVNZ OnDemand weekly. “The Dead Lands” tells of a supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The series features a murdered Māori warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka
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From writer-director Jason R.Miller (producer of Hatchet II and Frozen) comes the action-packed thriller Blood Hound, on DVD this January. In the film, private investigator Abel Walker along with his cameraman, Jim, are on the hunt for a missing woman. As they unravel the mystery of her disappearance, they become caught in a sick and violent game that will end in murder. Ed Ackerman (Frozen, 17 Again), David Foy (Hatchet II) , Miles Dougal (Director’s Cut, Detroit Rock City), Jess Allen (Broken Glass), and Silvia Moore (Lords of Salem, Chillerama) star in Blood Hound arriving on DVD and Digital January 7, 2020 from High Octane Pictures.
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Bringing peace to the living by giving voice to the dead is the goal of Amy Bruni, Adam Berry, and Chip Coffey from Travel Channel’s “Kindred Spirits,” returning to the network with 10 new episodes beginning Friday, January 3, 2020, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Paranormal investigators Bruni and Berry, along with psychic medium Coffey, enter America’s darkest locations, demanding answers to the most chilling haunted mysteries. Their multilayered investigations dig deep into the past to identify the restless spirits and analyze the threat. Throughout this season the group investigates America’s most intense paranormal activity which takes them to evil and historic locations, including properties that were used as orphanages and asylums, as well as personal homes inhabited by aggressive entities. Across America, families in fear know that the team of Amy, Adam and Chip will pour their hearts, energy and skills into solving each harrowing case in front of them,” said Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel. “And with the
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Alberta director Brandon Christensen and his film Z claimed the awards for Best Feature and Best Director at Blood in the Snow Film Festival’s 2019 Bloodies Awards ceremony, held with the presenting partnership of Hollywood Suite. The festival ran November 21–26, 2019, at the Royal Cinema in Toronto, Canada. Z tells the story of a young boy and his supposedly imaginary friend, and the havoc that the latter wreaks on the child’s family. Dead Dicks (reviewed here) took three awards including Best Screenplay, Best Actor for lead actor Heston Horwin, and the Montreal-based co-directors Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer were recognized as 2019’s Rising Stars. The 2019 Vanguard award went to Toronto director Audrey Cummings, whose film She Never Died was her third feature to screen at Blood in the Snow. The Vanguard award is presented in recognition of an individual or group who is a trailblazer in the independent Canadian horror industry. She Never Died star Oluniké Adeliyi
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The sequel to 2016’s Korean zombie outbreak hit Train to Busan is finally heading our way in the summer of 2020! The title is up for debate, according to different news sources, it’s either Soompi or Bando. In English it’s Peninsula. The film will mark the return of director Yeon San-ho and this time things will be even “more desperate and fierce” in the fight for survival that picks up four years after the original. Lee Jung Hyun (The Battleship Island) and Gang Dong-Won (The Priest) will star as tough survivors who are leading the peninsula’s military units. Yeon described the sequel as “an extension of Train to Busan after the virus has spread throughout Korea, but the characters are not the same. It shares the same world view and is a zombie action film that deals with the aftermath on the peninsula of what happened in Train to Busan.” Soompi/ Bado/Peninsula is set to be released on August 12,
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After several attempts by several studios, it looks like the adaptation of Stephen King‘s “From a Buick 8” is finally happening with Thomas Jane set to star. Courtney Lauren Penn (Altitude) is producing. Penn is teaming up with LA-based company Renegade Entertainment, according to Deadline. King will also be on board to adapt and produce the film based on the 2002 thriller about a car which is a door to another dimension. The story centers around the rural town of Statler, Pennsylvania where the state police have kept a mysterious 1954 Buick Roadmaster in the shed behind the barracks for more than twenty years. When the town is plagued by strange and supernatural events, it turns out the Buick isn’t what it seems to be. ‘From a Buick 8′ is a thrilling and deeply personal project for us,” Jane and Penn stated, “as we explore a uniquely structured mystery spanning the 70s, 80s, 90s and post 9/11 rea, centered around
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Red Barrels have announced that the long-awaited third installment in their popular first-person horror game franchise “Outlast” is in the works as we speak! The game has two main games and one DLC titled Whistleblower that follows the events of the first game. In the game’s series, players have to run and hide from psychotic individuals and behemoths while at the same time dealing with their inner demons. What sets “Outlast” apart from other horror games is the in your face terror players experience as the games take place in very dark locations and the only way you can see anything is through the viewfinder of a night vision camcorder. Though the first two games and Whistleblower are related, the third installment titled The Outlast Trials is its own story but takes place in the same universe as the other games. The story takes place in the middle of the Cold War era where players take on the role of
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A camping trip goes horribly wrong in writer-director Paul Anthony Rogers‘ creepy creature feature Crypsis, on Demand and DVD this December from Uncork’d Entertainment. Ahead of the release, we have not one, but three new clips! In this indie film, “A group of friends make a bet to survive on an island. Unbeknownst to them, a mysterious old creature begins hunting them throughout the night. What began as an innocent bet quickly turns into a fight for survival. As night falls, this becomes a fight to the death that no one had anticipated.” Rogers co-stars alongside Michael Armata, Anthony Hoang, Jordan Mitchell-Love, and Eddie Nason. Grab your copy of Crypsis on DVD or On Demand on December 17, 2019.
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HalloweenHoliday HorrorMoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS It’s December, and if you’re like me you already miss Halloween and the movies it brought to us. I got a taste of our favorite holiday last night while watching RLJE Films’ Halloween set slasher Trick which will arrive on DVD and Digital on December 17th. In the film, Omar Epps (“House”) stars as Detective Mike Denver, an investigator who is obsessed with bringing down “Trick”, a killer who snuffed out the young lives of his classmates at a costume party on Halloween night in 2015. Every year following the attack “copycats” in other towns carry out their own killings. Did Trick survive 3 bullets and a long fall or are there more killers out there? It appears that director Patrick Lussier and writers Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier aim to create a new genre icon. And I think they’ve created a viable story and killer/killers. I could easily see Trick becoming a new interesting franchise. The
Continue reading →
GamingNewsParanormalProductTrailers
Raiser Games and Protocol Games have announced that since their flagship survival horror game Song of Horror has been doing well with both players and critics alike, they will be bringing the game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Q2 2020. Along with news of the release comes information about the release date for the third episode of the game coming December 13th (ON A FRIDAY). The devs also would like to remind PC gamers that along with buying the base game, if they buy the Complete Nightmare Pass (season pass) that’s sold separately they don’t have to buy the (5) episodes individually. Also for a limited time, there’s a sale on for the Founder Limited Edition, this includes the base game AND season pass, the sale ends December 31st. The console version will not be episodic like the PC version as it will have all five episodes included. Players experience a call back to older horror games as
Continue reading →
NewsShowShudderStreaming TVTrailers
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that its new original series “The Dead Lands”, a co-production with New Zealand’s TVNZ, will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, January 23rd, across all of Shudder’s territories (US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland). It will also air on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand immediately after its international debut. Subsequent episodes will premiere on both Shudder and TVNZ OnDemand weekly. “The Dead Lands” tells of a supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The series features a murdered Māori warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
From writer-director Jason R.Miller (producer of Hatchet II and Frozen) comes the action-packed thriller Blood Hound, on DVD this January. In the film, private investigator Abel Walker along with his cameraman, Jim, are on the hunt for a missing woman. As they unravel the mystery of her disappearance, they become caught in a sick and violent game that will end in murder. Ed Ackerman (Frozen, 17 Again), David Foy (Hatchet II) , Miles Dougal (Director’s Cut, Detroit Rock City), Jess Allen (Broken Glass), and Silvia Moore (Lords of Salem, Chillerama) star in Blood Hound arriving on DVD and Digital January 7, 2020 from High Octane Pictures.
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NewsStreaming TVTrailersTravel Channel
Bringing peace to the living by giving voice to the dead is the goal of Amy Bruni, Adam Berry, and Chip Coffey from Travel Channel’s “Kindred Spirits,” returning to the network with 10 new episodes beginning Friday, January 3, 2020, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Paranormal investigators Bruni and Berry, along with psychic medium Coffey, enter America’s darkest locations, demanding answers to the most chilling haunted mysteries. Their multilayered investigations dig deep into the past to identify the restless spirits and analyze the threat. Throughout this season the group investigates America’s most intense paranormal activity which takes them to evil and historic locations, including properties that were used as orphanages and asylums, as well as personal homes inhabited by aggressive entities. Across America, families in fear know that the team of Amy, Adam and Chip will pour their hearts, energy and skills into solving each harrowing case in front of them,” said Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel. “And with the
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsNews
Alberta director Brandon Christensen and his film Z claimed the awards for Best Feature and Best Director at Blood in the Snow Film Festival’s 2019 Bloodies Awards ceremony, held with the presenting partnership of Hollywood Suite. The festival ran November 21–26, 2019, at the Royal Cinema in Toronto, Canada. Z tells the story of a young boy and his supposedly imaginary friend, and the havoc that the latter wreaks on the child’s family. Dead Dicks (reviewed here) took three awards including Best Screenplay, Best Actor for lead actor Heston Horwin, and the Montreal-based co-directors Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer were recognized as 2019’s Rising Stars. The 2019 Vanguard award went to Toronto director Audrey Cummings, whose film She Never Died was her third feature to screen at Blood in the Snow. The Vanguard award is presented in recognition of an individual or group who is a trailblazer in the independent Canadian horror industry. She Never Died star Oluniké Adeliyi
Continue reading →
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The sequel to 2016’s Korean zombie outbreak hit Train to Busan is finally heading our way in the summer of 2020! The title is up for debate, according to different news sources, it’s either Soompi or Bando. In English it’s Peninsula. The film will mark the return of director Yeon San-ho and this time things will be even “more desperate and fierce” in the fight for survival that picks up four years after the original. Lee Jung Hyun (The Battleship Island) and Gang Dong-Won (The Priest) will star as tough survivors who are leading the peninsula’s military units. Yeon described the sequel as “an extension of Train to Busan after the virus has spread throughout Korea, but the characters are not the same. It shares the same world view and is a zombie action film that deals with the aftermath on the peninsula of what happened in Train to Busan.” Soompi/ Bado/Peninsula is set to be released on August 12,
Continue reading →
MoviesNews
After several attempts by several studios, it looks like the adaptation of Stephen King‘s “From a Buick 8” is finally happening with Thomas Jane set to star. Courtney Lauren Penn (Altitude) is producing. Penn is teaming up with LA-based company Renegade Entertainment, according to Deadline. King will also be on board to adapt and produce the film based on the 2002 thriller about a car which is a door to another dimension. The story centers around the rural town of Statler, Pennsylvania where the state police have kept a mysterious 1954 Buick Roadmaster in the shed behind the barracks for more than twenty years. When the town is plagued by strange and supernatural events, it turns out the Buick isn’t what it seems to be. ‘From a Buick 8′ is a thrilling and deeply personal project for us,” Jane and Penn stated, “as we explore a uniquely structured mystery spanning the 70s, 80s, 90s and post 9/11 rea, centered around
Continue reading →
GamingNewsProduct
Red Barrels have announced that the long-awaited third installment in their popular first-person horror game franchise “Outlast” is in the works as we speak! The game has two main games and one DLC titled Whistleblower that follows the events of the first game. In the game’s series, players have to run and hide from psychotic individuals and behemoths while at the same time dealing with their inner demons. What sets “Outlast” apart from other horror games is the in your face terror players experience as the games take place in very dark locations and the only way you can see anything is through the viewfinder of a night vision camcorder. Though the first two games and Whistleblower are related, the third installment titled The Outlast Trials is its own story but takes place in the same universe as the other games. The story takes place in the middle of the Cold War era where players take on the role of
Continue reading →
ClipsIndieMoviesNewsTrailers
A camping trip goes horribly wrong in writer-director Paul Anthony Rogers‘ creepy creature feature Crypsis, on Demand and DVD this December from Uncork’d Entertainment. Ahead of the release, we have not one, but three new clips! In this indie film, “A group of friends make a bet to survive on an island. Unbeknownst to them, a mysterious old creature begins hunting them throughout the night. What began as an innocent bet quickly turns into a fight for survival. As night falls, this becomes a fight to the death that no one had anticipated.” Rogers co-stars alongside Michael Armata, Anthony Hoang, Jordan Mitchell-Love, and Eddie Nason. Grab your copy of Crypsis on DVD or On Demand on December 17, 2019.
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