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C. Thomas Howell is set to star in AMC’s “The Terror: Infamy“, the second season of the historical anthology series that debuted last year. “Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful 10-episode season centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.” Actor, author, and activist George Takei (Star Trek) will be a series regular as well as a consultant for the series. Derek Moi (“Seal Team”) will also be starring along with Alex Shimizu, Hira Ambrosino, Eiji Inoue, James Saito, Teach Grant, Mathew Bittroff, Kai Bradbury, and William deVry. Howell, known for his role in the horror classic The Hitcher, is a legendary actor who made his film debut in E.T. He played the role of Ponyboy in the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsider directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Howell also starred in films such as The Hillside Strangler,
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Brace yourselves, you’re not going to be happy with I’m about to tell you. We’ve been reporting for a while that a series adaptation is in the works for the beloved 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. Today we have an update. The CW’s series is going to be very different from the story we know and love. In fact, several characters are getting a gender swap, including the Frog brothers, originally played by Cory Feldman and Jamison Newlander. That’s right, the two vampire slayers are going to be girls in the series. Collider is reporting that the Frogs will now be named Cassie and Liza. Ugh (*facepalm). While no casting has been announced at this point we have our fingers crossed that this will be the only change to the main characters. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for expanding storylines to make all viewers happy, but when main characters based on cult classics are drastically changed I can’t
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Dark Sky Films has just announced the premiere date of writer-director Paul Raschid‘s horror thriller White Chamber, to celebrate their announcement, they have also revealed the film’s first trailer. Set in the United Kingdom in the near future, a civil war rages, and martial law has been declared by a military government hellbent on squashing the opposition. A woman (Scottish BAFTA nominee Shauna MacDonald, The Descent) wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell, where General Zakarian (Oded Fehr) uses increasingly sophisticated and cruel methods to torture her for information – information she claims not to have. As questions of trust are placed both on captor and captive, they find themselves embroiled in an increasingly spiraling journey into the nature of authority. Tense, shocking, and all-too-relevant, White Chamber poses the question: can there even be such a thing as certainty in these most uncertain of times? White Chamber opens in theaters and arrives on VOD on March 29, 2019, from
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One of the most intriguing horror films of the year, Diederik Van Rooijen‘s The Possession of Hannah Grace, arrives on VOD this Tuesday. Starring Shay Mitchell as a cop just out of rehab who signs up for the night shift at the local hospital morgue where she will face an onslaught of strange, violent events caused by an evil entity attached to the corpse of a girl (Kirby Johnson) left contorted and dead during an exorcism. The Possession of Hannah Grace arrives on Bru-ray and DVD, which both include deleted scenes and two featurettes, on February 26th from Sony Pictures.
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Luke Jaden‘s indie horror Boo! Ahead of its overseas release later this month, the international trailer has arrived, revealing that when a family gets “Booed” it’s no prank, it’s a curse. Starring Moonlight‘s Jaden Piner, Boo! centers on a family that battling an unseen force as they realize they have to stick together in order to stop unimaginable terror. Jill Marie Jones (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”), Aurora Perrineau (Passengers), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Darkest Hour, Beast), Dwight Henry (12 Years a Slave) and Rob Zabrecky (A Ghost Story) also star. Boo! premieres overseas on February 28th, from Front Row Filmed Entertainment, followed by its U.S. release at a later date (we’ll let you know when).
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Writer-director Jimmy Lee Combs is following up his hit horror anthology Terror Tales, released last month, with the horror western Spirit Reckoning, Heart and Fire Productions announced today. To celebrate the announcement Heart and Fire Productions has released the first poster, designed by Ian Miller, The film centers on an avenging skull cowboy. Combs describes the film as “John Woo meets Sergio Leone meets the horror genre.” Set in the Wild West circa 1875, “the story follows Sam Conley, a farmer with a wicked gambling addiction trying to make ends meet for his family. One day while Sam is out selling produce, his wife is brutally beaten and raped by three petty outlaws headed by Savage Bill. Sam returns home to this horrific sight and is strung up and killed alongside his wife and child. To return the favor on a good deed Sam did for the Indian people, a Shaman brings Sam’s spirit back from the dead as an
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Widely regarded as one of the goriest films in years, Brazilian horror hit Cannibal Club, written and directed by Guto Parente, premieres in North America this March from Uncork’d Entertainment. Ahead of its arrival, the Red Band trailer has been released and it’s a blood-drenched, sex-filled, NSFW spectacle that will either leave you blushing or nauseous or both. “Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman and the Club’s leader, her and her husband’s lives are in grave danger.” Tavinho Teixeira, Ana Luiza Rios, Pedro Domingues, Zé Maria, Breno Beptista, Rodrigo Capistrano, and Juliana Carvalho star. The smartly satirical and undeniably stomach turning Cannibal Club premieres in theaters March 1, 2019, followed by its arrival On Demand March 5th.
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Before superhero movies liked Thor and The Avengers smashed box offices, Wes Craven brought DC’s Swamp Thing to life on the big screen. 88 Films is celebrating the Craven’s vision by releasing a special edition of Swamp Thing ahead of DC’s new “Swamp Thing” series premiere. “Following the success of The Hills Have Eyes, Swamp Thing shows Craven adapting his style from less rough ‘n’ ready thrills and spills – and the result is an adventure thriller featuring a mutant-monster with good intentions, and a supporting cast of fan-favourites including Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog, Escape from New York), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks, RoboCop) and David Hess (The Last House On The Left) in one of his best-remembered villainous turns.” Released in 1982, Swamp Thing remains one of Craven’s most mesmerizing achievements – with a faithful DC-comic look and action-packed special effects. 88 Films is delighted to present Swamp Thing in a very special edition Blu-ray to be released on March
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The sequel to 2016’s The Boy is headed our way. Today we have the first creepy, official image of the possessed doll Brahms. Starring Katie Holmes, the sequel centers on a young family, unaware of the terrifying history into which they move. Their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, Brahms. In the original film, Lauren Cohan played Greta, a young woman who takes a job as a nanny. But when she arrives she finds that is not a child she is caring for, it’s a strange doll. Directed by William Brent Bell, the script was penned by Stacey Menear who also wrote the original. Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Eric Reid, and Gary Lucchesi, Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa, and Roy Lee are producing.
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The 91st Acadamy Awards is set to air on February 24th. While there has been controversy over the award show’s plans to skip airing four categories, which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have changed their mind about, there is something else about the awards we really need to discuss. When it comes to categories, there are winners for everything from Best Picture to Sound Mixing to Hair and Makeup, but there’s one category has been missing for way too long, Best Stunt Actor. If someone can win an award for the best hair in a film, why the hell aren’t the people who put themselves in danger to make movies considered good enough to award? Every day these actors put their lives on the line to make films bigger and better, with several actually losing their lives over the past few years. Think about what your favorite movies would be like without stunt people doing falls from
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C. Thomas Howell is set to star in AMC’s “The Terror: Infamy“, the second season of the historical anthology series that debuted last year. “Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful 10-episode season centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.” Actor, author, and activist George Takei (Star Trek) will be a series regular as well as a consultant for the series. Derek Moi (“Seal Team”) will also be starring along with Alex Shimizu, Hira Ambrosino, Eiji Inoue, James Saito, Teach Grant, Mathew Bittroff, Kai Bradbury, and William deVry. Howell, known for his role in the horror classic The Hitcher, is a legendary actor who made his film debut in E.T. He played the role of Ponyboy in the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsider directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Howell also starred in films such as The Hillside Strangler,
Continue reading →
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Brace yourselves, you’re not going to be happy with I’m about to tell you. We’ve been reporting for a while that a series adaptation is in the works for the beloved 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. Today we have an update. The CW’s series is going to be very different from the story we know and love. In fact, several characters are getting a gender swap, including the Frog brothers, originally played by Cory Feldman and Jamison Newlander. That’s right, the two vampire slayers are going to be girls in the series. Collider is reporting that the Frogs will now be named Cassie and Liza. Ugh (*facepalm). While no casting has been announced at this point we have our fingers crossed that this will be the only change to the main characters. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for expanding storylines to make all viewers happy, but when main characters based on cult classics are drastically changed I can’t
Continue reading →
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Dark Sky Films has just announced the premiere date of writer-director Paul Raschid‘s horror thriller White Chamber, to celebrate their announcement, they have also revealed the film’s first trailer. Set in the United Kingdom in the near future, a civil war rages, and martial law has been declared by a military government hellbent on squashing the opposition. A woman (Scottish BAFTA nominee Shauna MacDonald, The Descent) wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell, where General Zakarian (Oded Fehr) uses increasingly sophisticated and cruel methods to torture her for information – information she claims not to have. As questions of trust are placed both on captor and captive, they find themselves embroiled in an increasingly spiraling journey into the nature of authority. Tense, shocking, and all-too-relevant, White Chamber poses the question: can there even be such a thing as certainty in these most uncertain of times? White Chamber opens in theaters and arrives on VOD on March 29, 2019, from
Continue reading →
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One of the most intriguing horror films of the year, Diederik Van Rooijen‘s The Possession of Hannah Grace, arrives on VOD this Tuesday. Starring Shay Mitchell as a cop just out of rehab who signs up for the night shift at the local hospital morgue where she will face an onslaught of strange, violent events caused by an evil entity attached to the corpse of a girl (Kirby Johnson) left contorted and dead during an exorcism. The Possession of Hannah Grace arrives on Bru-ray and DVD, which both include deleted scenes and two featurettes, on February 26th from Sony Pictures.
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Luke Jaden‘s indie horror Boo! Ahead of its overseas release later this month, the international trailer has arrived, revealing that when a family gets “Booed” it’s no prank, it’s a curse. Starring Moonlight‘s Jaden Piner, Boo! centers on a family that battling an unseen force as they realize they have to stick together in order to stop unimaginable terror. Jill Marie Jones (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”), Aurora Perrineau (Passengers), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Darkest Hour, Beast), Dwight Henry (12 Years a Slave) and Rob Zabrecky (A Ghost Story) also star. Boo! premieres overseas on February 28th, from Front Row Filmed Entertainment, followed by its U.S. release at a later date (we’ll let you know when).
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsThriller
Writer-director Jimmy Lee Combs is following up his hit horror anthology Terror Tales, released last month, with the horror western Spirit Reckoning, Heart and Fire Productions announced today. To celebrate the announcement Heart and Fire Productions has released the first poster, designed by Ian Miller, The film centers on an avenging skull cowboy. Combs describes the film as “John Woo meets Sergio Leone meets the horror genre.” Set in the Wild West circa 1875, “the story follows Sam Conley, a farmer with a wicked gambling addiction trying to make ends meet for his family. One day while Sam is out selling produce, his wife is brutally beaten and raped by three petty outlaws headed by Savage Bill. Sam returns home to this horrific sight and is strung up and killed alongside his wife and child. To return the favor on a good deed Sam did for the Indian people, a Shaman brings Sam’s spirit back from the dead as an
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
Widely regarded as one of the goriest films in years, Brazilian horror hit Cannibal Club, written and directed by Guto Parente, premieres in North America this March from Uncork’d Entertainment. Ahead of its arrival, the Red Band trailer has been released and it’s a blood-drenched, sex-filled, NSFW spectacle that will either leave you blushing or nauseous or both. “Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman and the Club’s leader, her and her husband’s lives are in grave danger.” Tavinho Teixeira, Ana Luiza Rios, Pedro Domingues, Zé Maria, Breno Beptista, Rodrigo Capistrano, and Juliana Carvalho star. The smartly satirical and undeniably stomach turning Cannibal Club premieres in theaters March 1, 2019, followed by its arrival On Demand March 5th.
Continue reading →
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Before superhero movies liked Thor and The Avengers smashed box offices, Wes Craven brought DC’s Swamp Thing to life on the big screen. 88 Films is celebrating the Craven’s vision by releasing a special edition of Swamp Thing ahead of DC’s new “Swamp Thing” series premiere. “Following the success of The Hills Have Eyes, Swamp Thing shows Craven adapting his style from less rough ‘n’ ready thrills and spills – and the result is an adventure thriller featuring a mutant-monster with good intentions, and a supporting cast of fan-favourites including Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog, Escape from New York), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks, RoboCop) and David Hess (The Last House On The Left) in one of his best-remembered villainous turns.” Released in 1982, Swamp Thing remains one of Craven’s most mesmerizing achievements – with a faithful DC-comic look and action-packed special effects. 88 Films is delighted to present Swamp Thing in a very special edition Blu-ray to be released on March
Continue reading →
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The sequel to 2016’s The Boy is headed our way. Today we have the first creepy, official image of the possessed doll Brahms. Starring Katie Holmes, the sequel centers on a young family, unaware of the terrifying history into which they move. Their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, Brahms. In the original film, Lauren Cohan played Greta, a young woman who takes a job as a nanny. But when she arrives she finds that is not a child she is caring for, it’s a strange doll. Directed by William Brent Bell, the script was penned by Stacey Menear who also wrote the original. Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Eric Reid, and Gary Lucchesi, Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa, and Roy Lee are producing.
Continue reading →
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The 91st Acadamy Awards is set to air on February 24th. While there has been controversy over the award show’s plans to skip airing four categories, which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have changed their mind about, there is something else about the awards we really need to discuss. When it comes to categories, there are winners for everything from Best Picture to Sound Mixing to Hair and Makeup, but there’s one category has been missing for way too long, Best Stunt Actor. If someone can win an award for the best hair in a film, why the hell aren’t the people who put themselves in danger to make movies considered good enough to award? Every day these actors put their lives on the line to make films bigger and better, with several actually losing their lives over the past few years. Think about what your favorite movies would be like without stunt people doing falls from
Continue reading →
