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Hellboy’s Animated Double Feature Arriving This April

One the best comic book characters of all-time, Hellboy is back this April with the animated double feature Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms and Blood & Iron on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray™ and Digital) April 2 from Lionsgate. Voiced by the very same actors from the popular live-action films, including Ron Perlman as Hellboy, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, and John Hurt, Sword of Storms and Blood & Iron arrive on 4K Ultra HD™ just in time for fans to catch up on the iconic franchise before the new reboot of the live-action film hits theaters on April 12. HELLBOY ANIMATED: SWORD OF STORMSOFFICIAL SYNOPSIS In the first animated feature from director Tad Stones (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), a folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy to a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped The Devil’ Set For An April Release From IFC Midnight

IFC Midnight announced today that they are acquiring the rights to writer-director Josh Lobo‘s debut film I Trapped the Devil (formerly known as A Man in the Dark). The all-star cast includes Chris Sullivan (“This is Us”, Guardians of the Galaxy 2), Jocelin Donahue (The House of the Devil, Doctor Sleep), AJ Bowen (You’re Next, The Sacrament), Susan Burke (Stan against Evil), and Scott Poythress (“Homeland”). It’s the Christmas season, a time of peace and joy with friends and family. But when Matt (AJ Bowen) and his wife Karen (Susan Burke) show up unannounced at the home of his estranged brother Steve (Scott Poythress) to celebrate the holidays, they are instead greeted with a disturbing surprise. Held hostage in Steve’s basement is a man—though not just any man. Or perhaps not a man at all. Steve believes that he has captured the human manifestation of the Devil himself. As shock and skepticism turn to fear and paranoia, Matt and Karen

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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A Film Crew Gets More Than They Bargained For In The ‘Lake Of Shadows’ Trailer

A documentary film crew travels to an infamous lake to get the real story but find much more than they were bargaining for in the trailer for Michael S. Rodriguez‘s Lake of Shadows: The Legend of Avocado Lake, based on true events. In the film, three aspiring filmmakers venture to a mysterious lake resort to uncover a story on a local legend. As they get closer to the truth, the danger follows. Before they know it they are thrust into a fight for their lives as they discover the truth about Avocado lake. Co-written by Michael S. Rodriguez and Tino Zamora, Lake of Shadows stars Robert LaSardo, Dawna Lee Heising, Felissa Rose, Marv Blauvelt, Elissa Dowling, Debra Lamb, Sarah French, Sheri Davis, Dawn Wildsmith, Gary Lee Vincent, and Michael Wainwright.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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Meet The Vampires Of FX’s “What We Do In The Shadows” In New Trailer

Since the moment fans first sunk their teeth into Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement‘s hilarious mocumentary What We Do In the Shadows, they’ve been thirsting for more. The dynamic duo is happy to oblige, giving us the upcoming FX series by the same name. Today, the network announced the series’ March premiere date and unveiled the first full trailer which introduces the Staten Island vampires, Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Nandor (Kayvan Novak), who are your average fun loving vamps, then there’s Olin (Mark Proksch), a psychic vampire who sucks the energy out of his victims by boring them to death with mundane anecdotes and bad jokes. The office is his feeding ground, but his powers also work on his vampire roomies. Don’t worry, the film franchise is far from over. Waititi and Clement are currently working on the film’s sequel titled We’re Wolves which will follow the group of werewolves we met in the first film. Tune in

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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Netflix Scores The Rights To ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’

Netflix has snagged the rights to Joe Berlinger‘s Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile starring Zac Efron as the prolific serial killer. It’s pretty fitting that Berlinger’s Bundy documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is already available on the streaming giant. The news comes just eleven days after the 30th anniversary of Bundy’s execution. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile tells Bundy’s story and trial through the point of view of his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins) who was oblivious that he was killing during the several years that they were together. John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Haley Joel Osment, James Hetfield, Grace Victoria Cox, Jeffrey Donovan, Kaya Scodelario, Angela Sarafyan, Terry Kinney, and Dylan Baker round out the cast. Bundy killed young women across several states. In the end, Bundy confessed to killing 30. When asked by one agent if he really killed 30, Bundy replied: “add one digit to that (the 30

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2019
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(Watch) Four Terrifying ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Creatures Revealed

Last night during the Super Bowl we were introduced to four of the nightmare-inducing monsters in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark from director André Øvredal. We’ve got all four videos here to share with you, but here’s a piece of advice, don’t watch them in dark, alone. While it is based on the hit children’s books series by Alvin Schwartz, and the film is about kids, it will leave adults sleeping with the lights on. The film centers on a group of teens who must solve the mystery surrounding the sudden and macabre deaths in their small town. Written by Guillermo del Toro, Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman, the film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. Guillermo del Toro produces alongside Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, and Elizabeth Grave Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens in theaters everywhere on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2019
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Super Bowl Hacked And Briefly Taken Over By The ‘Twilight Zone’

During the Super Bowl, a treasure trove of new trailers, first looks, and more were unveiled. At one point the game appeared to be hacked, revealing our first look at Jordan Peele‘s “Twilight Zone“. The series stars an incredible cast that includes Taissa Farmiga, John Cho, Greg Kinnear, Sanaa Lathan, Kumail Nanjiani, Adam Scott, Jacob Tremblay, Jessica Williams, Alison Tolman,DeWanda Wise, Rhea Seehorn, Jefferson White, Lucinda Dryzek, Jonathan Whitesell, Luke Kirby, Ike Barinholtz, Percy Hynes-White and “The Walking Dead” actor Steven Yeun. The anthology series is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Peele, Kinberg, and Ramirez will be executive producing along with Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon. The original “The Twilight Zone” series that ran from 1959 to 1964, was created and hosted by Rod Serling. Peele will be hosting the new series that is set to premiere on CBS All Access on April 1, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2019
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A “Black Cloud” Hangs Over The ‘Us’ Super Bowl Trailer

The Super Bowl may have some football fans down, but it has horror fans happy as hell. First, we got our first taste of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, now the second trailer for Jordan Peele‘s US has been revealed. The best way to describe it is, dark and disturbing. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o stars as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home for a getaway along with her husband, Gabe (Winston Duke) and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex). Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. Soon she will learn her worries are warranted. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2019
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Two Super Bowl Spots Tease The Villians Of ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’

One of the best things about the Super Bowl isn’t the football, it’s the commercials, TV spots, and trailer unveiled during the big game. Two of the TV spots this year belongs to the Guillermo del Toro-produced film adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, based on the best selling children’s book series of the same name. In the first two teaser videos, we get our first real look at two of the villains of the film and they are nightmare inducing. This is gonna be good! Written by Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman, the film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. Del Toro produces alongside Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, and Elizabeth Grave Director André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens in theaters everywhere on August 9, 2019, from CBS Films and Lionsgate.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2019
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TNT Celebrating Supernatural’s 300th Episode With A Fan Favorite Marathon

Very few series ever get more than a few seasons. That’s not the case for “Supernatural“. The epic series will soon celebrate its 300th episode which will feature the return of a much-loved character. To celebrate the occasion TNT is having a marathon featuring the top 25 fan-favorite episodes which will air from February 4th through the 7th! In the series, brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) lost their mother (Samantha Smith) to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America … and he taught them how to kill it. The 300th episode, titled “Lebanon”, airs on Thursday, February 7th! What’s your favorite “Supernatural” episode? Let us know on social media by using #SPN300. Here’s the schedule: Monday, February 4, 2019 10am – Various & Sundry Villains

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2019

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Hellboy’s Animated Double Feature Arriving This April

One the best comic book characters of all-time, Hellboy is back this April with the animated double feature Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms and Blood & Iron on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray™ and Digital) April 2 from Lionsgate. Voiced by the very same actors from the popular live-action films, including Ron Perlman as Hellboy, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, and John Hurt, Sword of Storms and Blood & Iron arrive on 4K Ultra HD™ just in time for fans to catch up on the iconic franchise before the new reboot of the live-action film hits theaters on April 12. HELLBOY ANIMATED: SWORD OF STORMSOFFICIAL SYNOPSIS In the first animated feature from director Tad Stones (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), a folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy to a

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped The Devil’ Set For An April Release From IFC Midnight

IFC Midnight announced today that they are acquiring the rights to writer-director Josh Lobo‘s debut film I Trapped the Devil (formerly known as A Man in the Dark). The all-star cast includes Chris Sullivan (“This is Us”, Guardians of the Galaxy 2), Jocelin Donahue (The House of the Devil, Doctor Sleep), AJ Bowen (You’re Next, The Sacrament), Susan Burke (Stan against Evil), and Scott Poythress (“Homeland”). It’s the Christmas season, a time of peace and joy with friends and family. But when Matt (AJ Bowen) and his wife Karen (Susan Burke) show up unannounced at the home of his estranged brother Steve (Scott Poythress) to celebrate the holidays, they are instead greeted with a disturbing surprise. Held hostage in Steve’s basement is a man—though not just any man. Or perhaps not a man at all. Steve believes that he has captured the human manifestation of the Devil himself. As shock and skepticism turn to fear and paranoia, Matt and Karen

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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A Film Crew Gets More Than They Bargained For In The ‘Lake Of Shadows’ Trailer

A documentary film crew travels to an infamous lake to get the real story but find much more than they were bargaining for in the trailer for Michael S. Rodriguez‘s Lake of Shadows: The Legend of Avocado Lake, based on true events. In the film, three aspiring filmmakers venture to a mysterious lake resort to uncover a story on a local legend. As they get closer to the truth, the danger follows. Before they know it they are thrust into a fight for their lives as they discover the truth about Avocado lake. Co-written by Michael S. Rodriguez and Tino Zamora, Lake of Shadows stars Robert LaSardo, Dawna Lee Heising, Felissa Rose, Marv Blauvelt, Elissa Dowling, Debra Lamb, Sarah French, Sheri Davis, Dawn Wildsmith, Gary Lee Vincent, and Michael Wainwright.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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Meet The Vampires Of FX’s “What We Do In The Shadows” In New Trailer

Since the moment fans first sunk their teeth into Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement‘s hilarious mocumentary What We Do In the Shadows, they’ve been thirsting for more. The dynamic duo is happy to oblige, giving us the upcoming FX series by the same name. Today, the network announced the series’ March premiere date and unveiled the first full trailer which introduces the Staten Island vampires, Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Nandor (Kayvan Novak), who are your average fun loving vamps, then there’s Olin (Mark Proksch), a psychic vampire who sucks the energy out of his victims by boring them to death with mundane anecdotes and bad jokes. The office is his feeding ground, but his powers also work on his vampire roomies. Don’t worry, the film franchise is far from over. Waititi and Clement are currently working on the film’s sequel titled We’re Wolves which will follow the group of werewolves we met in the first film. Tune in

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 5, 2019
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Netflix Scores The Rights To ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’

Netflix has snagged the rights to Joe Berlinger‘s Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile starring Zac Efron as the prolific serial killer. It’s pretty fitting that Berlinger’s Bundy documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is already available on the streaming giant. The news comes just eleven days after the 30th anniversary of Bundy’s execution. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile tells Bundy’s story and trial through the point of view of his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins) who was oblivious that he was killing during the several years that they were together. John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Haley Joel Osment, James Hetfield, Grace Victoria Cox, Jeffrey Donovan, Kaya Scodelario, Angela Sarafyan, Terry Kinney, and Dylan Baker round out the cast. Bundy killed young women across several states. In the end, Bundy confessed to killing 30. When asked by one agent if he really killed 30, Bundy replied: “add one digit to that (the 30

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2019
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(Watch) Four Terrifying ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Creatures Revealed

Last night during the Super Bowl we were introduced to four of the nightmare-inducing monsters in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark from director André Øvredal. We’ve got all four videos here to share with you, but here’s a piece of advice, don’t watch them in dark, alone. While it is based on the hit children’s books series by Alvin Schwartz, and the film is about kids, it will leave adults sleeping with the lights on. The film centers on a group of teens who must solve the mystery surrounding the sudden and macabre deaths in their small town. Written by Guillermo del Toro, Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman, the film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. Guillermo del Toro produces alongside Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, and Elizabeth Grave Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens in theaters everywhere on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2019
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Super Bowl Hacked And Briefly Taken Over By The ‘Twilight Zone’

During the Super Bowl, a treasure trove of new trailers, first looks, and more were unveiled. At one point the game appeared to be hacked, revealing our first look at Jordan Peele‘s “Twilight Zone“. The series stars an incredible cast that includes Taissa Farmiga, John Cho, Greg Kinnear, Sanaa Lathan, Kumail Nanjiani, Adam Scott, Jacob Tremblay, Jessica Williams, Alison Tolman,DeWanda Wise, Rhea Seehorn, Jefferson White, Lucinda Dryzek, Jonathan Whitesell, Luke Kirby, Ike Barinholtz, Percy Hynes-White and “The Walking Dead” actor Steven Yeun. The anthology series is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Peele, Kinberg, and Ramirez will be executive producing along with Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon. The original “The Twilight Zone” series that ran from 1959 to 1964, was created and hosted by Rod Serling. Peele will be hosting the new series that is set to premiere on CBS All Access on April 1, 2019.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2019
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A “Black Cloud” Hangs Over The ‘Us’ Super Bowl Trailer

The Super Bowl may have some football fans down, but it has horror fans happy as hell. First, we got our first taste of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, now the second trailer for Jordan Peele‘s US has been revealed. The best way to describe it is, dark and disturbing. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o stars as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home for a getaway along with her husband, Gabe (Winston Duke) and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex). Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. Soon she will learn her worries are warranted. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2019
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Two Super Bowl Spots Tease The Villians Of ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’

One of the best things about the Super Bowl isn’t the football, it’s the commercials, TV spots, and trailer unveiled during the big game. Two of the TV spots this year belongs to the Guillermo del Toro-produced film adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, based on the best selling children’s book series of the same name. In the first two teaser videos, we get our first real look at two of the villains of the film and they are nightmare inducing. This is gonna be good! Written by Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman, the film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. Del Toro produces alongside Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, and Elizabeth Grave Director André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens in theaters everywhere on August 9, 2019, from CBS Films and Lionsgate.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2019
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TNT Celebrating Supernatural’s 300th Episode With A Fan Favorite Marathon

Very few series ever get more than a few seasons. That’s not the case for “Supernatural“. The epic series will soon celebrate its 300th episode which will feature the return of a much-loved character. To celebrate the occasion TNT is having a marathon featuring the top 25 fan-favorite episodes which will air from February 4th through the 7th! In the series, brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) lost their mother (Samantha Smith) to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America … and he taught them how to kill it. The 300th episode, titled “Lebanon”, airs on Thursday, February 7th! What’s your favorite “Supernatural” episode? Let us know on social media by using #SPN300. Here’s the schedule: Monday, February 4, 2019 10am – Various & Sundry Villains

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2019
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