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Actress Savannah Kennick Talks Do Not Reply And More In An Interview

I sat down with actress Savannah Kennick to talk about acting, life and her roles in the upcoming season of Arrested Development, Bloom, and the horror film Do Not Reply. Do Not Reply, written and directed by Daniel Woltosz and Walter Woltosz, centers on Chelsea (Amanda Arcuri), a high school introvert, is abducted through a social media app and is forced to look like other girls Brad holds captive. Chelsea desperately attempts to persuade them to escape before they all become victims in his virtual reality filmed murders. Horror Fuel: “Your character in Holidays comes to a pretty brutal end.” Savannah Kennick: “In Holidays I played Heidy in the Valentine’s day segment. She’s the school mean girl, but she kind of “gets what she deserves.” But it’s taken to another level.” Horror Fuel: “You currently have a role in the comedy series Arrested Development. I’ll confess, I love that show. What character will you be playing?” Savannah Kennick: “It comes

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The Frog Sisters Cast For The CW’s “Lost Boys” Series

Last week reported that The CW is making big changes in the series reboot of The Lost Boys. The first change, the vampire hunting Frog brothers are being swapped out for the Frog sisters. Today, we can report that the Frog sisters have been cast. Cheyenne Haynes (Camping) and Haley Tju (Bella and the Bulldogs) are set to play two teens working at a Santa Carla comic-book store. Until Sam arrives the girl’s think that they’re the only ones who know something is going in town. The changes don’t stop there. Sarah Hay (Flesh and Bone) has been cast as Mollie who was turned by David. Mollie has now become David’s rival seeking to take over the vampire gang. Mollie travels with a pack that includes her vampire son, Laddie. Tyler Posey, Kiele Sanchez, Medalion Rahimi, and Dakota Shapiro have also joined the cast. Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke will be in the director’s chair for the pilot for the series

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Shudder Announces New Series ‘Critters: A New Binge’

Shudder has just announced their new series “Critters: A New Binge!” The eight-episode series from Warner Bros. Television and Blue Ribbon Content marks the return of everyone’s favorite hairy, insatiable aliens from the horror franchise that began in 1986. In the series, pursued by intergalactic bounty hunters, the Critters return to Earth on a secret mission and encounter lovelorn high-schooler Christopher (Joey Morgan, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), his crush Dana (Stephi Chin-Salvo, iZOMBIE), his best friend Charlie (Bzhaun Rhoden, Van Helsing), and his mom Veronica (Kirsten Robek, The Edge of Seventeen), whose past will come back to bite them—literally. The series also features Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin, Justice League Action) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich). Jordan Rubin directs the series, which is produced by Front Street Pictures Inc. and Abominable Pictures in association with Blue Ribbon Content. Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan, and Al Kaplan, the creative team behind Zombeavers and The Drone, wrote the

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Feb 28, 2019
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New Story Trailer For ‘A Plague Tale: Innocence’ And Pre-Order

Keeping the hype going, Focus Home Interactive and Asobo Studios have announced that their upcoming game, A Plague Tale: Innocence is available for Pre-order now. Along with the announcement comes a new story trailer showing the heartache that’s to come in the game’s story. The trailer shows how tranquil life was for the game’s heroes, the De Rune siblings Amicia and Hugo, before the hell that is the black plague came knocking on their doorstep. This time the trailer has a distinct focus on the Inquisitors than the plague rats. A Plague Tale: Innocence will be coming out May 14th for all gaming platforms. The game combines action, adventure, and stealth as well as using your environment to your advantage as you traverse the plague-ridden landscape in order to escape the outbreak, and solve the mystery of Hugo’s puzzling illness and why the Inquisitors want him.

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Feb 28, 2019
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‘It: Chapter Two’ Features The Most Blood Ever In A Horror Film According To Star

Director Andy Muschietti has teased the It: Chapter Two is going to be bigger and bloodier than the first installment. A comment from actress Jessica Chastain on “The Tonight Show” seems to back that up. While she didn’t share too many details she did tease one graphic scene (watch below). In the movie there’s a scene…someone said on set that it’s the most blood that’s ever been in a horror film. In a scene,” Chastain told host Jimmy Fallon. She continued, “The next day I was pulling blood out of my eyeballs. It’s scary.” In Chapter Two, the adult version of Losers’ Club members who survived the malevolent Pennywise as kids in the 1980’s. Directed by Muschietti from the screenplay written by Gary Dauberman, the film stars Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh, Bill Hader as Richie, James McAvoy as Bill, James Ransone as Eddie, Andy Bean as Stanley, Isaiah Mustafa as Mike and Jay Ryan as Ben. Xavier Dolan is

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Feb 28, 2019
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First Images From ‘Candy Corn’ Give Us A Look At Horror Icons Tony Todd And P.J. Soles

The first images from the indie horror Candy Corn, written, directed, and produced by Josh Hasty (In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn: The Making of Rob Zombie’s 31) are here giving us our first look at horror icons P.J. Soles (Halloween), Tony Todd (Candyman), Courtney Gains (Children of the Corn), and Pancho Moler (Rob Zombie’s 31). Set in Grove Hill, Ohio, on Halloween eve, a traveling carnival is on town for the weekend. Local outcast Jacob Atkins is one of the freaks at the Carnival’s main attraction “Dr. Death’s Side Show Spook House Spectacular”. A group of local bullies are planning their annual public hazing of Jacob, but this year, it’s going to go too far. Sky Elobar, Caleb Thomas, Madison Russ, Cy Creamer, Jimothy Beckholt, Nate Chaney, Patrick Ryan, Justin Mabry, Matt O’Neill, and Jaime Gallagher are also set to star. Justin Mabry (Co-Owner of Trick or Treat Studios), Chris Gallaher (Vice, “Fear the Walking Dead,” Curious Case of Benjamin

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Feb 28, 2019
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Rob Zombie Teases Barry Bostwick Cameo In ‘Three From Hell’

It was only a few days ago that Rob Zombie teased that we can expect “many bizarre cameos” in Three from Hell. Today, the rocker turned director revealed that one cameo features Rocky Horror Picture Show actor Barry Bostwick who recently starred in the holiday-horror film Slay Belles. Here I am with the one and only Barry Bostwick! As a huge fan Rocky Horror it was a blast to have Barry join the cast.” Zombie stated on Instagram. Sherri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, and Sid Haig are reprising their roles from The Devil’s Rejects. The cast also includes Danny Trejo, Kevin Jackson, Wade Williams, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Clint Howard, Pancho Moler, Emilio Rivera, Daniel Roebuck, David Ury, Dee Wallace, Sean Whalen, Austin Stoker, Bill Oberst Jr. (interview), Richard Brake, Richard Riehle, Dot-Marie Jones, and Tom Papa. The release date has yet to be announced, but odds are we will see Three from Hell sometime later this year. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuY6q4HhgX8/

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Feb 28, 2019
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R.L. Stine’s ‘Fear Street’ Saga Being Adapted For A Film Trilogy

Goosebumps is not the only children’s horror book series getting a new feature film franchise, R.L. Stine‘s Fear Street saga is also headed to the big screen for a new trilogy from 20th Century Fox. Word is Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) will be directing two films of the trilogy with Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) directing the other. Collider is reporting that Kiana Madeira (She Never Died) and Olivia Welch (Agent Carter) have signed on to star in all three films of the trilogy. The site states, “Sources say that Madeira and Welch will each be playing gay teenagers trying to navigate their rocky relationship when they’re targeted by the crazy horrors of their small town, Shadyside. Each actress will be playing two different characters — one in the mid-’90s, and one in the 1600s.” Here’s what we know so far about each film: FEAR STREET 1: Set in 1994, in the aftermath of a brutal tragedy in Shadyside, Ohio, a

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Feb 27, 2019
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Something Evil Stalks The Trailer For ‘Echoes Of Fear’

Something evil stalks the new trailer for Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley‘s Echoes of Fear, starring Trista Robinson, Hannah Race, and Paul Chirico. In the film, “After inheriting her grandfather’s home due to his sudden death, Alysa returns to her childhood house to make the necessary repairs in order to sell it. But as she begins packing, her grandfather’s belongings, something inside the house starts spooking her. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. And now, within the secret rooms and hidden crawlspaces beneath the house, Alysa realizes that she must uncover the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear is stilling making its rounds at film festivals. As soon as we have a release date we’ll let you know. In the meantime, check out the trailer.

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Feb 27, 2019
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A Child Haunts Jeff Ayars And Simone Policano In The ‘This Is Our Home’ Trailer

The trailer has arrived for This Is Our Home – a riveting new psychological thriller created on a micro-indie budget – makes its world premiere at the 2019 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, in the event’s Feature Thrills category. “Jeff Ayars (“Cory”), a viral comedy actor and director turned horror lead, and Simone Policano (“Reina”), a New York City-raised, Yale-educated actress. The unsettling arrival of a mysterious boy, gifted newcomer Drew Beckas (“Zeke”), at Reina’s childhood home throws a nightmarish wrench into their plans for an idyllic, romantic retreat. Perhaps best described by Ayars as “Blue Valentine wrapped in a horror.” Director Omri Dorani and his cinematographer, Thomas Taugher, “carefully composed and choreographed the film over the course of a non-stop, eleven-day shoot to showcase the on-screen chemistry of Ayars (a fellow Philadelphia-native) and Policano–a couple off-screen. The exhausting into-the-night schedule pushed the stars’ raw chemistry to the limit and was intensified when Ayars underwent an emergency appendectomy just days

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Feb 27, 2019

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Actress Savannah Kennick Talks Do Not Reply And More In An Interview

I sat down with actress Savannah Kennick to talk about acting, life and her roles in the upcoming season of Arrested Development, Bloom, and the horror film Do Not Reply. Do Not Reply, written and directed by Daniel Woltosz and Walter Woltosz, centers on Chelsea (Amanda Arcuri), a high school introvert, is abducted through a social media app and is forced to look like other girls Brad holds captive. Chelsea desperately attempts to persuade them to escape before they all become victims in his virtual reality filmed murders. Horror Fuel: “Your character in Holidays comes to a pretty brutal end.” Savannah Kennick: “In Holidays I played Heidy in the Valentine’s day segment. She’s the school mean girl, but she kind of “gets what she deserves.” But it’s taken to another level.” Horror Fuel: “You currently have a role in the comedy series Arrested Development. I’ll confess, I love that show. What character will you be playing?” Savannah Kennick: “It comes

Continue reading →
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The Frog Sisters Cast For The CW’s “Lost Boys” Series

Last week reported that The CW is making big changes in the series reboot of The Lost Boys. The first change, the vampire hunting Frog brothers are being swapped out for the Frog sisters. Today, we can report that the Frog sisters have been cast. Cheyenne Haynes (Camping) and Haley Tju (Bella and the Bulldogs) are set to play two teens working at a Santa Carla comic-book store. Until Sam arrives the girl’s think that they’re the only ones who know something is going in town. The changes don’t stop there. Sarah Hay (Flesh and Bone) has been cast as Mollie who was turned by David. Mollie has now become David’s rival seeking to take over the vampire gang. Mollie travels with a pack that includes her vampire son, Laddie. Tyler Posey, Kiele Sanchez, Medalion Rahimi, and Dakota Shapiro have also joined the cast. Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke will be in the director’s chair for the pilot for the series

Continue reading →
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Shudder Announces New Series ‘Critters: A New Binge’

Shudder has just announced their new series “Critters: A New Binge!” The eight-episode series from Warner Bros. Television and Blue Ribbon Content marks the return of everyone’s favorite hairy, insatiable aliens from the horror franchise that began in 1986. In the series, pursued by intergalactic bounty hunters, the Critters return to Earth on a secret mission and encounter lovelorn high-schooler Christopher (Joey Morgan, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), his crush Dana (Stephi Chin-Salvo, iZOMBIE), his best friend Charlie (Bzhaun Rhoden, Van Helsing), and his mom Veronica (Kirsten Robek, The Edge of Seventeen), whose past will come back to bite them—literally. The series also features Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin, Justice League Action) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich). Jordan Rubin directs the series, which is produced by Front Street Pictures Inc. and Abominable Pictures in association with Blue Ribbon Content. Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan, and Al Kaplan, the creative team behind Zombeavers and The Drone, wrote the

Continue reading →
Feb 28, 2019
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New Story Trailer For ‘A Plague Tale: Innocence’ And Pre-Order

Keeping the hype going, Focus Home Interactive and Asobo Studios have announced that their upcoming game, A Plague Tale: Innocence is available for Pre-order now. Along with the announcement comes a new story trailer showing the heartache that’s to come in the game’s story. The trailer shows how tranquil life was for the game’s heroes, the De Rune siblings Amicia and Hugo, before the hell that is the black plague came knocking on their doorstep. This time the trailer has a distinct focus on the Inquisitors than the plague rats. A Plague Tale: Innocence will be coming out May 14th for all gaming platforms. The game combines action, adventure, and stealth as well as using your environment to your advantage as you traverse the plague-ridden landscape in order to escape the outbreak, and solve the mystery of Hugo’s puzzling illness and why the Inquisitors want him.

Continue reading →
Feb 28, 2019
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‘It: Chapter Two’ Features The Most Blood Ever In A Horror Film According To Star

Director Andy Muschietti has teased the It: Chapter Two is going to be bigger and bloodier than the first installment. A comment from actress Jessica Chastain on “The Tonight Show” seems to back that up. While she didn’t share too many details she did tease one graphic scene (watch below). In the movie there’s a scene…someone said on set that it’s the most blood that’s ever been in a horror film. In a scene,” Chastain told host Jimmy Fallon. She continued, “The next day I was pulling blood out of my eyeballs. It’s scary.” In Chapter Two, the adult version of Losers’ Club members who survived the malevolent Pennywise as kids in the 1980’s. Directed by Muschietti from the screenplay written by Gary Dauberman, the film stars Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh, Bill Hader as Richie, James McAvoy as Bill, James Ransone as Eddie, Andy Bean as Stanley, Isaiah Mustafa as Mike and Jay Ryan as Ben. Xavier Dolan is

Continue reading →
Feb 28, 2019
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First Images From ‘Candy Corn’ Give Us A Look At Horror Icons Tony Todd And P.J. Soles

The first images from the indie horror Candy Corn, written, directed, and produced by Josh Hasty (In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn: The Making of Rob Zombie’s 31) are here giving us our first look at horror icons P.J. Soles (Halloween), Tony Todd (Candyman), Courtney Gains (Children of the Corn), and Pancho Moler (Rob Zombie’s 31). Set in Grove Hill, Ohio, on Halloween eve, a traveling carnival is on town for the weekend. Local outcast Jacob Atkins is one of the freaks at the Carnival’s main attraction “Dr. Death’s Side Show Spook House Spectacular”. A group of local bullies are planning their annual public hazing of Jacob, but this year, it’s going to go too far. Sky Elobar, Caleb Thomas, Madison Russ, Cy Creamer, Jimothy Beckholt, Nate Chaney, Patrick Ryan, Justin Mabry, Matt O’Neill, and Jaime Gallagher are also set to star. Justin Mabry (Co-Owner of Trick or Treat Studios), Chris Gallaher (Vice, “Fear the Walking Dead,” Curious Case of Benjamin

Continue reading →
Feb 28, 2019
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Rob Zombie Teases Barry Bostwick Cameo In ‘Three From Hell’

It was only a few days ago that Rob Zombie teased that we can expect “many bizarre cameos” in Three from Hell. Today, the rocker turned director revealed that one cameo features Rocky Horror Picture Show actor Barry Bostwick who recently starred in the holiday-horror film Slay Belles. Here I am with the one and only Barry Bostwick! As a huge fan Rocky Horror it was a blast to have Barry join the cast.” Zombie stated on Instagram. Sherri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, and Sid Haig are reprising their roles from The Devil’s Rejects. The cast also includes Danny Trejo, Kevin Jackson, Wade Williams, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Clint Howard, Pancho Moler, Emilio Rivera, Daniel Roebuck, David Ury, Dee Wallace, Sean Whalen, Austin Stoker, Bill Oberst Jr. (interview), Richard Brake, Richard Riehle, Dot-Marie Jones, and Tom Papa. The release date has yet to be announced, but odds are we will see Three from Hell sometime later this year. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuY6q4HhgX8/

Continue reading →
Feb 28, 2019
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R.L. Stine’s ‘Fear Street’ Saga Being Adapted For A Film Trilogy

Goosebumps is not the only children’s horror book series getting a new feature film franchise, R.L. Stine‘s Fear Street saga is also headed to the big screen for a new trilogy from 20th Century Fox. Word is Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) will be directing two films of the trilogy with Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) directing the other. Collider is reporting that Kiana Madeira (She Never Died) and Olivia Welch (Agent Carter) have signed on to star in all three films of the trilogy. The site states, “Sources say that Madeira and Welch will each be playing gay teenagers trying to navigate their rocky relationship when they’re targeted by the crazy horrors of their small town, Shadyside. Each actress will be playing two different characters — one in the mid-’90s, and one in the 1600s.” Here’s what we know so far about each film: FEAR STREET 1: Set in 1994, in the aftermath of a brutal tragedy in Shadyside, Ohio, a

Continue reading →
Feb 27, 2019
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Something Evil Stalks The Trailer For ‘Echoes Of Fear’

Something evil stalks the new trailer for Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley‘s Echoes of Fear, starring Trista Robinson, Hannah Race, and Paul Chirico. In the film, “After inheriting her grandfather’s home due to his sudden death, Alysa returns to her childhood house to make the necessary repairs in order to sell it. But as she begins packing, her grandfather’s belongings, something inside the house starts spooking her. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. And now, within the secret rooms and hidden crawlspaces beneath the house, Alysa realizes that she must uncover the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear is stilling making its rounds at film festivals. As soon as we have a release date we’ll let you know. In the meantime, check out the trailer.

Continue reading →
Feb 27, 2019
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A Child Haunts Jeff Ayars And Simone Policano In The ‘This Is Our Home’ Trailer

The trailer has arrived for This Is Our Home – a riveting new psychological thriller created on a micro-indie budget – makes its world premiere at the 2019 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, in the event’s Feature Thrills category. “Jeff Ayars (“Cory”), a viral comedy actor and director turned horror lead, and Simone Policano (“Reina”), a New York City-raised, Yale-educated actress. The unsettling arrival of a mysterious boy, gifted newcomer Drew Beckas (“Zeke”), at Reina’s childhood home throws a nightmarish wrench into their plans for an idyllic, romantic retreat. Perhaps best described by Ayars as “Blue Valentine wrapped in a horror.” Director Omri Dorani and his cinematographer, Thomas Taugher, “carefully composed and choreographed the film over the course of a non-stop, eleven-day shoot to showcase the on-screen chemistry of Ayars (a fellow Philadelphia-native) and Policano–a couple off-screen. The exhausting into-the-night schedule pushed the stars’ raw chemistry to the limit and was intensified when Ayars underwent an emergency appendectomy just days

Continue reading →
Feb 27, 2019