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Alexandra Tydings, who you might recognize as Aphrodite from both Hercules and Xena, sat down with me discuss her role as the goddess of love and her most recent role as Doctor Kathleen Brady in the dark thriller What Death Leaves Behind. In What Death Leaves Behind after a kidney transplant, a man experiences reoccurring nightmares he believes to be visions of his donor’s violent murder, sending him on a dark path of vengeance, leading to an unbearable truth. Tydings stars along with Christopher Mann, Vincent Young, and Kelly Dowdle in the film, based on a true story, directed by Scott A. Hamilton. Horror Fuel: “Growing up, we always watched Hercules and Xena. What was it like to play Aphrodite?” Alexandra Tydings: “Oh, that was so fun. I started on Hercules in one episode. I found out it was shooting in New Zealand, which is one of my favorite places on earth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful place. I was in
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The cast has been quickly building for CBS All Access’ reboot of Stephen King‘s “The Stand“. King himself appeared on “The View” today as part of the publicity for the miniseries where he revealed that co-host Whoopi Goldberg will play the role of Mother Abagail. The announcement triggered Collider to do some digging with the goal of learning who will play one of the most important roles, that of Randall Flagg. It turns out that he will be played by “True Blood” and “Big Little Lies” actor Alexander Skarsgård! Flagg made his first appearance in “The Stand” back in 1978 but has since popped up in several of King’s other stories including The Dark Tower and Hearts of Atlantis. Usually when he appears its to do bad things such as to cause chaos and destruction. In The Stand, the demonic figure builds a dark society in the dystopian world after a plague has killed much of mankind. Flagg and his
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During Apple’s event where they announced the subscription costs of their new streaming service, Apple TV+, they also unveiled the first look at one of the series they will launch the service with, “See“. Apple spared no expense on the series which cost $15 million an episode, close to that of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”. Set centuries after a virus has decimated humankind and left its survivors blind, Jason Mamoa (Aquaman) stars as Baba Voss, a warrior, and leader of a small tribe. When his wife gives birth to twins who have the ability to see, Voss’ family and tribe are put in danger. He must protect them from a powerful and desperate queen who believe the babies’ vision is seen as a threat. Momoa stars alongside Christian Camargo, Nesta Cooper, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Hera Hilmar, Sylvia Hoeks, Christian Sloan, and Mojean Aria. Scripted by Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) and directed by Francis Lawrence (Red Sparrow), “See” and Apple TV+ will
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MC Networks’ premiere streaming destination for exclusive and original genre entertainment, announced today it will present the streaming debut of Tigers Are Not Afraid, the highly acclaimed genre-bending film from writer-director Issa López this Thursday, September 12. The film will be available for all Shudder members to stream in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Ireland. A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, Tigers Are Not Afraid follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents. Filmmaker Issa Lopez creates a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magical realism to conjure a wholly unique experience that audiences will not soon forget. The film stars Paulo Lara, Juan Ramón López, Ianis Guerrero, and Hanssel Casillas, and is currently at 96% Fresh with 79 reviews, topping Rotten Tomatoes’ Best
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After nearly a year and a half Hulu has finally announced the premiere date for season two of their anthology series “Castle Rock“. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and horror legend Stephen King, the next chapter of the series inspired by King’s multiverse will premiere just in time for Halloween. Some of the characters and story this season you will recognize from Misery, Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and IT, among others. The conflict this season begins when King’s “nurse from Hell”, Annie Wilkes, is detained in Castle Rock. The 10 episode season will star Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Paul Sparks, Brakhad Abdi, Yusra Warsama, Elsie Fisher, and Matthew Alan. Tune in on October 23rd for the season two premiere of “Castle Rock” on Hulu. Misery arrives October 23, only on @hulu. #CastleRock pic.twitter.com/p2zmqqUrc4 — 𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 (@castlerockhulu) August 29, 2019
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Adam Brody (Shazam!) and Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley) star in Isabelle, coming to UK digital this September. A Wanting Film Inc production, Isabelle is about an all-American couple whose dream of starting a family is shattered after they move into the perfect neighborhood in upstate New York. Once settled, they soon descend into the depths of terror as they struggle to survive a genuine threat from a dark presence that appears to want to end their very lives. Zoë Belkin (Carrie, Kiss & Cry) and Sheila McCarthy (The Umbrella Academy, The Day After Tomorrow) also star in the haunting psychological thriller directed and produced by Rob Heydon (Ecstasy) and written by Donald Martin (Never Too Late, Milton’s Secret). A long-time fan of scary movies, Donald Martin’s screenplay is his homage to Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, two classic films that loomed large in his imagination while he was growing up: “Rosemary’s Baby isn’t a story about Satan. It’s about a
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Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell is set to be unleashed on September 16th. Ahead of the premiere, I had the pleasure of sitting down with horror icon Bill Moseley, who first played the role of the brutal badass Otis Firefly in House of 1,000 Corpses back in 2003. Moseley took on Otis again in the second film of the trilogy, The Devil’s Rejects. Now, Moseley is back in 3 From Hell. Zombie’s bloody trilogy follows the Firefly family, Otis, Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) and Winslow (Richard Brake) as the slash their way out of prison and hit the road on the run. Moseley gave me insight into who Otis really is, how he thinks, and how he became the iconic character with a taste for bloodshed. He also reminded me that while Otis is a bad man he does have a good side, he will do anything to protect his family. Horror Fuel: “I saw 3
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One of the most critically-acclaimed genre films of the past decade and a record-shattering blockbuster in its native Japan, One Cut of the Dead. Scoring a rare “100% Fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes, the film follows a movie crew “while shooting a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse, the crew find themselves caught between actual zombies and a mad director who won’t stop rolling. If you think you know what happens next, think again. Filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda turns the film on its head more than once for one of the wildest, funniest, and most surprising zombie movies of all time.” This hit film is written, directed, and edited by Shinichiro Ueda, and stars Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao, Harumi Shuhama, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, and Manabu Hosoi. During its lengthy festival run, One Cut of the Dead received numerous awards and accolades, including the Audience Award and Best Director at Fantastic Fest, Best Film at Fantasia, Best Film at Bifan Fantastic
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An aspiring horror filmmaker has an insane, ingenious method for producing movies in Incredible Violence, which marks the directorial debut of G. Patrick Condon who penned the script with Ross Moore. M.J. Kehler, Stephen Oates, Michael Worthman, Kimberly Drake, and Erin Mark star in the quasi-biographical flick. ‘ In the film, “G. Patrick Condon is a shitty filmmaker who has taken a loan from a group he shouldn’t have gotten mixed up in. Now he’s drunk the money away and he owes them a horror movie. Grace, who has always dreamed of being a famous actress, is desperately trying to make it in the movie business. She gets her first big break in a horror flick, but there are a few things unusual about this shoot. She and the rest of the cast will have to live in the house for the duration of the shoot, they aren’t allowed to leave and will be recorded everywhere around the clock. Where
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While Sid Haig is currently in the hospital recovering from an accident, the genre icon is front and center in fans’ minds. We are excited to see Haig as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s sequel to The Devil’s Rejects, 3 From Hell. A new teaser has been unleashed that centers on Haig’s foul-mouthed, badass character. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2B7Zv3nMsI/ Written and directed by rocker/filmmaker Rob Zombie (Halloween, Lords of Salem), the film also stars Bill Moseley (Devil’s Rejects), Sheri Moon Zombie (Devil’s Rejects), Richard Brake (31), Kingsman: The Secret Service), Jeff Daniel Phillips (“The Gifted,” The Lords of Salem), Dee Wallace (Cujo, E.T), Emilio Rivera (“Mayans M.C.”), and Danny Trejo (Machete). The film will be released in cinemas nationwide over three nights, September 16-18, featuring the unrated version and unique special content nightly. Night one, moviegoers will see a special video introduction from Rob Zombie with the first 50 attendees at each theater receiving an exclusive poster (while supplies last). Night two, audiences
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Alexandra Tydings, who you might recognize as Aphrodite from both Hercules and Xena, sat down with me discuss her role as the goddess of love and her most recent role as Doctor Kathleen Brady in the dark thriller What Death Leaves Behind. In What Death Leaves Behind after a kidney transplant, a man experiences reoccurring nightmares he believes to be visions of his donor’s violent murder, sending him on a dark path of vengeance, leading to an unbearable truth. Tydings stars along with Christopher Mann, Vincent Young, and Kelly Dowdle in the film, based on a true story, directed by Scott A. Hamilton. Horror Fuel: “Growing up, we always watched Hercules and Xena. What was it like to play Aphrodite?” Alexandra Tydings: “Oh, that was so fun. I started on Hercules in one episode. I found out it was shooting in New Zealand, which is one of my favorite places on earth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful place. I was in
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The cast has been quickly building for CBS All Access’ reboot of Stephen King‘s “The Stand“. King himself appeared on “The View” today as part of the publicity for the miniseries where he revealed that co-host Whoopi Goldberg will play the role of Mother Abagail. The announcement triggered Collider to do some digging with the goal of learning who will play one of the most important roles, that of Randall Flagg. It turns out that he will be played by “True Blood” and “Big Little Lies” actor Alexander Skarsgård! Flagg made his first appearance in “The Stand” back in 1978 but has since popped up in several of King’s other stories including The Dark Tower and Hearts of Atlantis. Usually when he appears its to do bad things such as to cause chaos and destruction. In The Stand, the demonic figure builds a dark society in the dystopian world after a plague has killed much of mankind. Flagg and his
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During Apple’s event where they announced the subscription costs of their new streaming service, Apple TV+, they also unveiled the first look at one of the series they will launch the service with, “See“. Apple spared no expense on the series which cost $15 million an episode, close to that of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”. Set centuries after a virus has decimated humankind and left its survivors blind, Jason Mamoa (Aquaman) stars as Baba Voss, a warrior, and leader of a small tribe. When his wife gives birth to twins who have the ability to see, Voss’ family and tribe are put in danger. He must protect them from a powerful and desperate queen who believe the babies’ vision is seen as a threat. Momoa stars alongside Christian Camargo, Nesta Cooper, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Hera Hilmar, Sylvia Hoeks, Christian Sloan, and Mojean Aria. Scripted by Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) and directed by Francis Lawrence (Red Sparrow), “See” and Apple TV+ will
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MC Networks’ premiere streaming destination for exclusive and original genre entertainment, announced today it will present the streaming debut of Tigers Are Not Afraid, the highly acclaimed genre-bending film from writer-director Issa López this Thursday, September 12. The film will be available for all Shudder members to stream in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Ireland. A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, Tigers Are Not Afraid follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents. Filmmaker Issa Lopez creates a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magical realism to conjure a wholly unique experience that audiences will not soon forget. The film stars Paulo Lara, Juan Ramón López, Ianis Guerrero, and Hanssel Casillas, and is currently at 96% Fresh with 79 reviews, topping Rotten Tomatoes’ Best
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After nearly a year and a half Hulu has finally announced the premiere date for season two of their anthology series “Castle Rock“. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and horror legend Stephen King, the next chapter of the series inspired by King’s multiverse will premiere just in time for Halloween. Some of the characters and story this season you will recognize from Misery, Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and IT, among others. The conflict this season begins when King’s “nurse from Hell”, Annie Wilkes, is detained in Castle Rock. The 10 episode season will star Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Paul Sparks, Brakhad Abdi, Yusra Warsama, Elsie Fisher, and Matthew Alan. Tune in on October 23rd for the season two premiere of “Castle Rock” on Hulu. Misery arrives October 23, only on @hulu. #CastleRock pic.twitter.com/p2zmqqUrc4 — 𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 (@castlerockhulu) August 29, 2019
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Adam Brody (Shazam!) and Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley) star in Isabelle, coming to UK digital this September. A Wanting Film Inc production, Isabelle is about an all-American couple whose dream of starting a family is shattered after they move into the perfect neighborhood in upstate New York. Once settled, they soon descend into the depths of terror as they struggle to survive a genuine threat from a dark presence that appears to want to end their very lives. Zoë Belkin (Carrie, Kiss & Cry) and Sheila McCarthy (The Umbrella Academy, The Day After Tomorrow) also star in the haunting psychological thriller directed and produced by Rob Heydon (Ecstasy) and written by Donald Martin (Never Too Late, Milton’s Secret). A long-time fan of scary movies, Donald Martin’s screenplay is his homage to Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, two classic films that loomed large in his imagination while he was growing up: “Rosemary’s Baby isn’t a story about Satan. It’s about a
Continue reading →
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Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell is set to be unleashed on September 16th. Ahead of the premiere, I had the pleasure of sitting down with horror icon Bill Moseley, who first played the role of the brutal badass Otis Firefly in House of 1,000 Corpses back in 2003. Moseley took on Otis again in the second film of the trilogy, The Devil’s Rejects. Now, Moseley is back in 3 From Hell. Zombie’s bloody trilogy follows the Firefly family, Otis, Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) and Winslow (Richard Brake) as the slash their way out of prison and hit the road on the run. Moseley gave me insight into who Otis really is, how he thinks, and how he became the iconic character with a taste for bloodshed. He also reminded me that while Otis is a bad man he does have a good side, he will do anything to protect his family. Horror Fuel: “I saw 3
Continue reading →
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One of the most critically-acclaimed genre films of the past decade and a record-shattering blockbuster in its native Japan, One Cut of the Dead. Scoring a rare “100% Fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes, the film follows a movie crew “while shooting a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse, the crew find themselves caught between actual zombies and a mad director who won’t stop rolling. If you think you know what happens next, think again. Filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda turns the film on its head more than once for one of the wildest, funniest, and most surprising zombie movies of all time.” This hit film is written, directed, and edited by Shinichiro Ueda, and stars Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao, Harumi Shuhama, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, and Manabu Hosoi. During its lengthy festival run, One Cut of the Dead received numerous awards and accolades, including the Audience Award and Best Director at Fantastic Fest, Best Film at Fantasia, Best Film at Bifan Fantastic
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An aspiring horror filmmaker has an insane, ingenious method for producing movies in Incredible Violence, which marks the directorial debut of G. Patrick Condon who penned the script with Ross Moore. M.J. Kehler, Stephen Oates, Michael Worthman, Kimberly Drake, and Erin Mark star in the quasi-biographical flick. ‘ In the film, “G. Patrick Condon is a shitty filmmaker who has taken a loan from a group he shouldn’t have gotten mixed up in. Now he’s drunk the money away and he owes them a horror movie. Grace, who has always dreamed of being a famous actress, is desperately trying to make it in the movie business. She gets her first big break in a horror flick, but there are a few things unusual about this shoot. She and the rest of the cast will have to live in the house for the duration of the shoot, they aren’t allowed to leave and will be recorded everywhere around the clock. Where
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While Sid Haig is currently in the hospital recovering from an accident, the genre icon is front and center in fans’ minds. We are excited to see Haig as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s sequel to The Devil’s Rejects, 3 From Hell. A new teaser has been unleashed that centers on Haig’s foul-mouthed, badass character. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2B7Zv3nMsI/ Written and directed by rocker/filmmaker Rob Zombie (Halloween, Lords of Salem), the film also stars Bill Moseley (Devil’s Rejects), Sheri Moon Zombie (Devil’s Rejects), Richard Brake (31), Kingsman: The Secret Service), Jeff Daniel Phillips (“The Gifted,” The Lords of Salem), Dee Wallace (Cujo, E.T), Emilio Rivera (“Mayans M.C.”), and Danny Trejo (Machete). The film will be released in cinemas nationwide over three nights, September 16-18, featuring the unrated version and unique special content nightly. Night one, moviegoers will see a special video introduction from Rob Zombie with the first 50 attendees at each theater receiving an exclusive poster (while supplies last). Night two, audiences
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