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‘Gwen’ Takes On A Mysterious Evil This October

Shudder continues to announce releases for this October. The latest to be announced is writer-director William McGregor‘s (“Misfits”), Gwen. Staring Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Maleficent) and Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), the film centers on Gwen, a young girl whose life seems to be collapsing around her. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a group of angry villagers threatening to take her farm, Gwen must find the strength to guide her family through the darkness. But as a malevolent presence begins to take grip of her home, it becomes apparent there is a greater evil that may be too strong to overcome. RLJE Films will release Gwen on October 8th on DVD for an SRP of $27.97 and Blu-ray for an SRP of $28.97. Special Features include: GWEN DVD and Blu-ray include the following bonus features: An interview with Maxine Peake An interview with Eleanor Worthington-Cox

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 6, 2019
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Creepy Comic ‘Keepsakes – A Horror Comic Collection’ is Crawlin’ Your Way!

Seattle based writer/musician Gregg Neville is bringin’ a creepy comic your way called Keepsakes! Now, just what in the unholy hell is Keepsakes about? Allow me to let ol’ Gregg to tell you all about it (using the Wonder of the Science Age: XIII’s CopyPastra Ray!!): “KEEPSAKES is a 24 page Black-and-White comic book, telling the story of two siblings who step into their late father’s basement and find his collection of mysterious and horrifying items. Each of those items comes with their own story- an SD card from a broken camera, a firefighter’s uniform, a box of baseball caps, a folder full of receipts from a restaurant. As they encounter each item, we learn their story, and we get a sense of… what else could possibly be hidden down in their dad’s basement.” Look, I’m not in the biz of blowin’ smoke up your collective asses, but I’ve had the opportunity to lay my eerie eyeballs on Keepsakes, and

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DanXIII
Sep 6, 2019
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Game Review: ‘Blair Witch’ Better Than The Movie?!

Nothing puts you into the autumn mood than a stroll through the woods…creepy woods that is! Bloober Team were really awesome and shared with me their latest psychological horror masterpiece, Blair Witch, a game based on the 1999 cult classic found-footage film The Blair Witch Project that had such an intense marketing campaign that people really thought the film and the legend behind it were real. Without further ado, let’s take a spoiler-free look at Blair Witch It’s 1996 Players take on the role of Ellis, a former cop with a troubled past that seems to be on a mission of redemption to those around him as he voluntarily partakes in a search of a missing 9-year old boy who has gone missing in the Black Hills forest. This is not the first time Ellis was searching for anyone in these woods as a couple of years prior he helped look for three missing college students in the same woods.

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Capt McNeely
Sep 6, 2019
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Sink Your Teeth In ‘Age Of The Living Dead’ Now Streaming On Amazon Prime

Hunting for something to watch? Sink your teeth into the vampire series “Age of the Living Dead“, now streaming on Amazon Prime in the UK and US following its initial premiere on Fox in Asia. In the series, an America quarantined by the rest of the world, humans and vampires co-exist on opposite coasts thanks to a peace treaty, while each side plots to destroy the other. Nicola Posener (Mythica), Eve Mauro (The Oath), Bill Oberst Jr. (Criminal Minds), William McNamara (Copycat), Simon Phillips (No Easy Days), Deji LaRay (Bosch), Julia Farino (Veep), and Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes) star in the series directed by Paul Tanter who co-wrote the series with Simon Phillips, and Christopher Jolley.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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Blumhouse Gifts Fans With The ‘Black Christmas’ Trailer

Ahead of the quickly approaching holidays comes Black Christmas, a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Today, Blumhouse gifts horror fans with the first bloody trailer. “Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue, The CW’s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon, The CW’s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes). Whoever

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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‘Vampyr’ And ‘Call Of Cthulhu’ Coming To Nintendo Switch!

Focus Home Interactive is now making two of their games available for players to take with them on the go by porting them to the Nintendo Switch! Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game will arrive on Switch October 8th! Based on the role-playing board game by Chaosium will take players to the mysterious island of Dark Water as Edward Pierce, a private investigator sent to investigate the mysterious death of the island’s most prominent family. Your investigation does not run smoothly as otherworldly forces are at work and wreak havoc on your psyche. Coming in hot in time to build up the atmosphere for Halloween is Vampyr coming to Switch on October 29th! Set in rainy London during the Spanish Flu Epidemic, players take on the role of Doctor Jonathan Reid, a freshly turned vampire who now must traverse the streets of London at night fighting other vampires and creatures while uncovering the source of the vampire outbreak while

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Capt McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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Norwegian Folk Horror ‘Lake Of Death’ Snagged By Shudder (First Look

TrustNordisk’s psychological Norwegian horror film Lake of Death has been nabbed by Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, for six territories, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, Variety reports. The folk horror film whose first images we have today is an adaptation of André Bjerke’s classic 1942 Norwegian novel “Lake of the Dead”, is from Nini Bull Robsahm (Manhunt, Amnesia). Lake of Death follows a small group of friends who a battle to survive in the middle of the forests and fjords of Norway. The story is based on Norwegian legend thought to be innocent folklore. It stars Iben Akerlie, Jacob Andersen Schoyen, Jonathan Harboe, and Sophia Lie. Thomas Robsahm and Fredrik Pryser for Canopy Film produced in association with Pryserfilm, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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Psychological Thriller ‘Isabelle’ Debuts On Digital This September

Kew Media is set to release the thriller Isabelle on UK digital platforms from 30th September. Starring Adam Brody (The O.C., Shazam!, Sleeping with Other People), Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley, The Age of Adaline), Zoë Belkin (Carrie, Kiss & Cry) and Sheila McCarthy (The Umbrella Academy, The Day After Tomorrow), the haunting psychological thriller is directed and produced by Rob Heydon (Ecstasy) and written by Donald Martin (Never Too Late, Milton’s Secret). A Wanting Film Inc production, Isabelle centers on 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. Sid Ganis (Akeelah and the Bee, Big Daddy), Joni Sighvatsson (Z for Zachariah), Rey Cuerdo (Dim Sum Funeral), Paul Brett (The King’s Speech, Dorian Gray) and Donald

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2019
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‘Investigation 13’ Unleashes New NSFW Clip

Genre icon Meg Foster (“Twin Peaks”, They Live) stars in director Krisstian de Lara’s mesmerizingly unnerving Investigation 13, premiering on digital and DVD this September from Uncork’d Entertainment. Today, we have a new clip to share with you that is NSFW. Incorporating traditional narrative story-telling, as well as numerous forms of pioneering technology, including found footage, hand-held cameras, surveillance cameras, and smart glasses, Investigation 13 is a new-age fright-fest chronicling the tale of a group of college science students investigating the urban legend of The Mole Man, an ex-patient said to still be residing within the walls of the Black Grove Asylum. When members of the group start missing, they soon learn that this myth is more real than they thought, making this 13th investigation one they will come to regret. From Gorilla Studios, Investigation 13 also stars Stephanie Hernandez, Patrick Flanagan, Robert Paget, William Alexander, Giordan Diaz, Jesse Ramos, and Peter Aratari as ‘The Mole Man’. Clay Smith wrote

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2019
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Follow The Crumbs To The New ‘Gretel & Hansel’ Trailer

Follow the crumbs to the new teaser trailer for Gretel & Hansel starring It: Chapter 2 actress Sophia Lillis. “A long time ago in a distant fairytale countryside, a young girl (Sophia Lillis, It) leads her little brother (Sammy Leakey) into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.” From Osgood Perkins, the director of The Blackcoat’s Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, the film also stars Alice Krige (“The OA,” Star Trek: First Contact), Jessica De Gouw (“Underground,” ” Arrow”) and Charles Babalola (“Black Mirror,” The Legend of Tarzan). Written by Rob Hayes (“Chewing Gum”) and produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Upgrade) and Fred Berger (La La Land, Destroyer) on behalf of Automatik, the film is executive produced by Sandra Yee Ling and Macdara Kelleher. Orion Pictures presents Gretel & Hansel, in theaters nationwide on January 31, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2019

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‘Gwen’ Takes On A Mysterious Evil This October

Shudder continues to announce releases for this October. The latest to be announced is writer-director William McGregor‘s (“Misfits”), Gwen. Staring Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Maleficent) and Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), the film centers on Gwen, a young girl whose life seems to be collapsing around her. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a group of angry villagers threatening to take her farm, Gwen must find the strength to guide her family through the darkness. But as a malevolent presence begins to take grip of her home, it becomes apparent there is a greater evil that may be too strong to overcome. RLJE Films will release Gwen on October 8th on DVD for an SRP of $27.97 and Blu-ray for an SRP of $28.97. Special Features include: GWEN DVD and Blu-ray include the following bonus features: An interview with Maxine Peake An interview with Eleanor Worthington-Cox

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 6, 2019
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Creepy Comic ‘Keepsakes – A Horror Comic Collection’ is Crawlin’ Your Way!

Seattle based writer/musician Gregg Neville is bringin’ a creepy comic your way called Keepsakes! Now, just what in the unholy hell is Keepsakes about? Allow me to let ol’ Gregg to tell you all about it (using the Wonder of the Science Age: XIII’s CopyPastra Ray!!): “KEEPSAKES is a 24 page Black-and-White comic book, telling the story of two siblings who step into their late father’s basement and find his collection of mysterious and horrifying items. Each of those items comes with their own story- an SD card from a broken camera, a firefighter’s uniform, a box of baseball caps, a folder full of receipts from a restaurant. As they encounter each item, we learn their story, and we get a sense of… what else could possibly be hidden down in their dad’s basement.” Look, I’m not in the biz of blowin’ smoke up your collective asses, but I’ve had the opportunity to lay my eerie eyeballs on Keepsakes, and

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 6, 2019
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Game Review: ‘Blair Witch’ Better Than The Movie?!

Nothing puts you into the autumn mood than a stroll through the woods…creepy woods that is! Bloober Team were really awesome and shared with me their latest psychological horror masterpiece, Blair Witch, a game based on the 1999 cult classic found-footage film The Blair Witch Project that had such an intense marketing campaign that people really thought the film and the legend behind it were real. Without further ado, let’s take a spoiler-free look at Blair Witch It’s 1996 Players take on the role of Ellis, a former cop with a troubled past that seems to be on a mission of redemption to those around him as he voluntarily partakes in a search of a missing 9-year old boy who has gone missing in the Black Hills forest. This is not the first time Ellis was searching for anyone in these woods as a couple of years prior he helped look for three missing college students in the same woods.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 6, 2019
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Sink Your Teeth In ‘Age Of The Living Dead’ Now Streaming On Amazon Prime

Hunting for something to watch? Sink your teeth into the vampire series “Age of the Living Dead“, now streaming on Amazon Prime in the UK and US following its initial premiere on Fox in Asia. In the series, an America quarantined by the rest of the world, humans and vampires co-exist on opposite coasts thanks to a peace treaty, while each side plots to destroy the other. Nicola Posener (Mythica), Eve Mauro (The Oath), Bill Oberst Jr. (Criminal Minds), William McNamara (Copycat), Simon Phillips (No Easy Days), Deji LaRay (Bosch), Julia Farino (Veep), and Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes) star in the series directed by Paul Tanter who co-wrote the series with Simon Phillips, and Christopher Jolley.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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Blumhouse Gifts Fans With The ‘Black Christmas’ Trailer

Ahead of the quickly approaching holidays comes Black Christmas, a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Today, Blumhouse gifts horror fans with the first bloody trailer. “Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue, The CW’s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon, The CW’s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes). Whoever

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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‘Vampyr’ And ‘Call Of Cthulhu’ Coming To Nintendo Switch!

Focus Home Interactive is now making two of their games available for players to take with them on the go by porting them to the Nintendo Switch! Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game will arrive on Switch October 8th! Based on the role-playing board game by Chaosium will take players to the mysterious island of Dark Water as Edward Pierce, a private investigator sent to investigate the mysterious death of the island’s most prominent family. Your investigation does not run smoothly as otherworldly forces are at work and wreak havoc on your psyche. Coming in hot in time to build up the atmosphere for Halloween is Vampyr coming to Switch on October 29th! Set in rainy London during the Spanish Flu Epidemic, players take on the role of Doctor Jonathan Reid, a freshly turned vampire who now must traverse the streets of London at night fighting other vampires and creatures while uncovering the source of the vampire outbreak while

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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Norwegian Folk Horror ‘Lake Of Death’ Snagged By Shudder (First Look

TrustNordisk’s psychological Norwegian horror film Lake of Death has been nabbed by Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, for six territories, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, Variety reports. The folk horror film whose first images we have today is an adaptation of André Bjerke’s classic 1942 Norwegian novel “Lake of the Dead”, is from Nini Bull Robsahm (Manhunt, Amnesia). Lake of Death follows a small group of friends who a battle to survive in the middle of the forests and fjords of Norway. The story is based on Norwegian legend thought to be innocent folklore. It stars Iben Akerlie, Jacob Andersen Schoyen, Jonathan Harboe, and Sophia Lie. Thomas Robsahm and Fredrik Pryser for Canopy Film produced in association with Pryserfilm, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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Psychological Thriller ‘Isabelle’ Debuts On Digital This September

Kew Media is set to release the thriller Isabelle on UK digital platforms from 30th September. Starring Adam Brody (The O.C., Shazam!, Sleeping with Other People), Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley, The Age of Adaline), Zoë Belkin (Carrie, Kiss & Cry) and Sheila McCarthy (The Umbrella Academy, The Day After Tomorrow), the haunting psychological thriller is directed and produced by Rob Heydon (Ecstasy) and written by Donald Martin (Never Too Late, Milton’s Secret). A Wanting Film Inc production, Isabelle centers on 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. Sid Ganis (Akeelah and the Bee, Big Daddy), Joni Sighvatsson (Z for Zachariah), Rey Cuerdo (Dim Sum Funeral), Paul Brett (The King’s Speech, Dorian Gray) and Donald

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2019
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‘Investigation 13’ Unleashes New NSFW Clip

Genre icon Meg Foster (“Twin Peaks”, They Live) stars in director Krisstian de Lara’s mesmerizingly unnerving Investigation 13, premiering on digital and DVD this September from Uncork’d Entertainment. Today, we have a new clip to share with you that is NSFW. Incorporating traditional narrative story-telling, as well as numerous forms of pioneering technology, including found footage, hand-held cameras, surveillance cameras, and smart glasses, Investigation 13 is a new-age fright-fest chronicling the tale of a group of college science students investigating the urban legend of The Mole Man, an ex-patient said to still be residing within the walls of the Black Grove Asylum. When members of the group start missing, they soon learn that this myth is more real than they thought, making this 13th investigation one they will come to regret. From Gorilla Studios, Investigation 13 also stars Stephanie Hernandez, Patrick Flanagan, Robert Paget, William Alexander, Giordan Diaz, Jesse Ramos, and Peter Aratari as ‘The Mole Man’. Clay Smith wrote

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2019
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Follow The Crumbs To The New ‘Gretel & Hansel’ Trailer

Follow the crumbs to the new teaser trailer for Gretel & Hansel starring It: Chapter 2 actress Sophia Lillis. “A long time ago in a distant fairytale countryside, a young girl (Sophia Lillis, It) leads her little brother (Sammy Leakey) into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.” From Osgood Perkins, the director of The Blackcoat’s Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, the film also stars Alice Krige (“The OA,” Star Trek: First Contact), Jessica De Gouw (“Underground,” ” Arrow”) and Charles Babalola (“Black Mirror,” The Legend of Tarzan). Written by Rob Hayes (“Chewing Gum”) and produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Upgrade) and Fred Berger (La La Land, Destroyer) on behalf of Automatik, the film is executive produced by Sandra Yee Ling and Macdara Kelleher. Orion Pictures presents Gretel & Hansel, in theaters nationwide on January 31, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 4, 2019
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