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Gothic horror combines with intense suspense in the new trailer for Matthew Butler Hart‘s award-winning film The Isle which teases a supernatural threat to a group of survivors. In the film, when three shipwrecked sailors land on an island abandoned except for four sole residents, one sailor starts to question what happened on the island. He must uncover the truth while he battles to save his own life and escape the isle’s clutches. Written by Matthew Butler-Heart (The Da Vinci Code), the film stars Tori Butler Heart (Two Down) Conleth Hill (“Game of Thrones”), Alex Hassell (“The Miniaturist”), Fisayo Akinade (Girl With All the Gifts), Alix Wilton Regan, Graham Butler, Emma King, Joe Bannister, and Ben Lee. Co-writer and producer Tori Butler Hart (Miss in Her Teens) also stars along with, Alix Wilton Regan (The Wife) and Graham Butler (Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful”). Based loosely on Scottish ghostly folklore with inspiration from Greek sirens, the tale is set in 1846 on
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Are you ready for this? Resident Evil is headed to a TV near you. That’s right the hit film franchise is getting a small screen adaptation from streaming giant Netflix, Deadline has confirmed. Constantin Film, who was also behind the movie franchise that started back in 2002, based on the Capcom gaming franchise, is also behind the upcoming series which will be available globally. The show will explore the inner workings of the Umbrella Corporation which caused the global outbreak of the T-virus. Not only are we getting a “Resident Evil” series, we are also getting a new reboot of the franchise from director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down).
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Focus Home Interactive and Asobo Studio announced the release date for A Plague Tale: Innocence. The game is due May 14th of this year. Along with news of the release date, Focus Home Interactive has also launched part one of the web series that will show behind the scenes making of the game as well providing a bit more backstory for the two main characters, Amicia and Hugo and we even get a quick glimpse at one of the inquisitors who are the antagonists of the story and needless to say he’s looking badass! We’re also introduced to one of the orphans who assist our heroes, Lucas, an alchemist’s apprentice who helps make Amicia’s slingshot more dangerous. We also get to meet the voices behind the siblings, Charlotte McBurney as Amicia, and Logan Hannan as Hugo. A Plague Tale: Innocence will infest your life May 14th, 2019 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Bryan Bertino, the man behind The Strangers and most recently Mockingbird and the Monster, is in the director’s chair for The Dark and the Wicked, which he also wrote. In the film, two siblings are summoned back to the family farm, in the middle of nowhere, to await the inevitability of their father’s death. What initially appears to be a timeless ritual of loss and remembrance turns out to be something very different. Filming is set for Texas as early as February for The Dark and the Wicked, produced by Adrienne Biddle, Sonny Mallhi, and Kevin Matusow producing. Casting news should arrive soon according to Production Weekly.
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“Welcome to sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat…and a secret underworld of vampires.” Back in 2016, we reported that The CW was developing a series adaptation of 1987’s classic The Lost Boys. Tonight, Deadline is reporting that The CW has now officially ordered the pilot. The series, originally written by Rob Thomas the series is now in the hands of “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Heather Mitchell. “After the sudden death of their father, two brothers move to Santa Carla with their mother, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead.”
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This February, Shudder is showing horror fans some love with a killer line-up of films, series, and exclusives. Shudder also has a surprise planned to celebrate Women in Horror Month. Horror’s past comes to life this month on Shudder, first in the new Shudder Original documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, and then in the seven-part series “Eli Roth’s History of Horror.” After that, step into horror’s future with the Shudder Exclusive films The Crucifixion, offering a new take on the demonic possession genre from the director of Frontier(s), and Beast, an elegant, wild fable of love and murder. Horror Noire (2019) — available Thursday, February 7 Director: Xavier Burgin Shudder’s first original documentary takes a critical look at a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and embraced both black filmmakers and black audiences, presenting an essential social history of blacks in America as seen through their changing images in horror films. Beginning
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Rematch Studios, an indie game developer from Pakistan, will be debuting their first game Area of Darkness: Sentinel in March of this year. The story takes place in 1978 in the North Sentinel Islands where players take control of Dr. Anne Evans who’s trying to solve the island’s mysteries. Evans will have to solve puzzles and face deadly creatures on her adventure as she encounters many colorful characters on her way. The game is mainly set up for VR but at the time of launch, a standalone non-VR version will be available as well. The game will be available for Steam and PC. Rematch Studios is one of Pakistan’s few game developers, let alone VR developers, who wish to strictly make VR games for both PC and Consol.
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Following is out of this world performance in Mandy, Nicolas Cage has reteamed with SpectreVision for the upcoming feature film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 novella The Color Out of Space. Directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware, The Island of Dr. Moreau) from the script he penned, the film is a story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches…including them. Joely Richardson (Red Sparrow), Tommy Chong (Up in Smoke), Elliot Knight ( “Titans”), Julian Hilliard (“The Haunting of Hill House”), and Q’Orianka Kilcher
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Today we have the first look at the highly-anticipated film Abeyance from the multi-award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Betrayed, Moving Parts) who wrote, produced and directed. Scout Taylor Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 and 2) stars alongside Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop, There’s Something About Mary), Billy Wirth (The Lost Boys), Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs), Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s Game of Death), and Harley Wallen. Calhoun Koenig (NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and Vida Ghaffari (FOX’s The Mindy Project) round out the ensemble cast. “After a revolutionary invention with great implications Bridget (Erika Hoveland), finds a character flaw in the company they’ve partnered with to develop the prototype that could be the fountain of youth. When she pulls the plug and steps away from their original deal, she soon realizes they will stop at nothing to get it back. After her family gets kidnapped to sway a favorable vote, their hopes rely on
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February is all about love, but it’s not just for Valentines’. February is Women in Horror month, an entire month dedicated to us showing extra love to those women who make the horror genre what it is. Mass Grave Pictures and CongestedCat Productions have teamed up to celebrate women in a big way, with The Big, Bloody Apple: Women in Horror Month Event celebrating a ‘Decade of Blood’ for women in horror in NYC! The event is being held at Stone Creek Bar and Lounge (140 East 27 th Street, NYC) on February 21st and will feature films by Amanda Goodman, Angie Hansen, Nicole Solomon, Kristina Leath-Marlin, Victoria Diana, and Amanda Sabater. The evening festivities will also include “Women In Horror” trivia from Nicole Solomon of 4MileCircus and a presentation by Heather Buckley (Kino Lorber, Miskatonic University). This is a free event, hosted by award-winning directors Lindsay Serrano (Mass Grave Pictures) and Christina Raia (CongestedCat). Films: The Cabinet – Dir.Victoria
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Gothic horror combines with intense suspense in the new trailer for Matthew Butler Hart‘s award-winning film The Isle which teases a supernatural threat to a group of survivors. In the film, when three shipwrecked sailors land on an island abandoned except for four sole residents, one sailor starts to question what happened on the island. He must uncover the truth while he battles to save his own life and escape the isle’s clutches. Written by Matthew Butler-Heart (The Da Vinci Code), the film stars Tori Butler Heart (Two Down) Conleth Hill (“Game of Thrones”), Alex Hassell (“The Miniaturist”), Fisayo Akinade (Girl With All the Gifts), Alix Wilton Regan, Graham Butler, Emma King, Joe Bannister, and Ben Lee. Co-writer and producer Tori Butler Hart (Miss in Her Teens) also stars along with, Alix Wilton Regan (The Wife) and Graham Butler (Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful”). Based loosely on Scottish ghostly folklore with inspiration from Greek sirens, the tale is set in 1846 on
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Are you ready for this? Resident Evil is headed to a TV near you. That’s right the hit film franchise is getting a small screen adaptation from streaming giant Netflix, Deadline has confirmed. Constantin Film, who was also behind the movie franchise that started back in 2002, based on the Capcom gaming franchise, is also behind the upcoming series which will be available globally. The show will explore the inner workings of the Umbrella Corporation which caused the global outbreak of the T-virus. Not only are we getting a “Resident Evil” series, we are also getting a new reboot of the franchise from director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down).
Continue reading →
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Focus Home Interactive and Asobo Studio announced the release date for A Plague Tale: Innocence. The game is due May 14th of this year. Along with news of the release date, Focus Home Interactive has also launched part one of the web series that will show behind the scenes making of the game as well providing a bit more backstory for the two main characters, Amicia and Hugo and we even get a quick glimpse at one of the inquisitors who are the antagonists of the story and needless to say he’s looking badass! We’re also introduced to one of the orphans who assist our heroes, Lucas, an alchemist’s apprentice who helps make Amicia’s slingshot more dangerous. We also get to meet the voices behind the siblings, Charlotte McBurney as Amicia, and Logan Hannan as Hugo. A Plague Tale: Innocence will infest your life May 14th, 2019 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Bryan Bertino, the man behind The Strangers and most recently Mockingbird and the Monster, is in the director’s chair for The Dark and the Wicked, which he also wrote. In the film, two siblings are summoned back to the family farm, in the middle of nowhere, to await the inevitability of their father’s death. What initially appears to be a timeless ritual of loss and remembrance turns out to be something very different. Filming is set for Texas as early as February for The Dark and the Wicked, produced by Adrienne Biddle, Sonny Mallhi, and Kevin Matusow producing. Casting news should arrive soon according to Production Weekly.
Continue reading →
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“Welcome to sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat…and a secret underworld of vampires.” Back in 2016, we reported that The CW was developing a series adaptation of 1987’s classic The Lost Boys. Tonight, Deadline is reporting that The CW has now officially ordered the pilot. The series, originally written by Rob Thomas the series is now in the hands of “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Heather Mitchell. “After the sudden death of their father, two brothers move to Santa Carla with their mother, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead.”
Continue reading →
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This February, Shudder is showing horror fans some love with a killer line-up of films, series, and exclusives. Shudder also has a surprise planned to celebrate Women in Horror Month. Horror’s past comes to life this month on Shudder, first in the new Shudder Original documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, and then in the seven-part series “Eli Roth’s History of Horror.” After that, step into horror’s future with the Shudder Exclusive films The Crucifixion, offering a new take on the demonic possession genre from the director of Frontier(s), and Beast, an elegant, wild fable of love and murder. Horror Noire (2019) — available Thursday, February 7 Director: Xavier Burgin Shudder’s first original documentary takes a critical look at a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and embraced both black filmmakers and black audiences, presenting an essential social history of blacks in America as seen through their changing images in horror films. Beginning
Continue reading →
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Rematch Studios, an indie game developer from Pakistan, will be debuting their first game Area of Darkness: Sentinel in March of this year. The story takes place in 1978 in the North Sentinel Islands where players take control of Dr. Anne Evans who’s trying to solve the island’s mysteries. Evans will have to solve puzzles and face deadly creatures on her adventure as she encounters many colorful characters on her way. The game is mainly set up for VR but at the time of launch, a standalone non-VR version will be available as well. The game will be available for Steam and PC. Rematch Studios is one of Pakistan’s few game developers, let alone VR developers, who wish to strictly make VR games for both PC and Consol.
Continue reading →
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Following is out of this world performance in Mandy, Nicolas Cage has reteamed with SpectreVision for the upcoming feature film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 novella The Color Out of Space. Directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware, The Island of Dr. Moreau) from the script he penned, the film is a story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches…including them. Joely Richardson (Red Sparrow), Tommy Chong (Up in Smoke), Elliot Knight ( “Titans”), Julian Hilliard (“The Haunting of Hill House”), and Q’Orianka Kilcher
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNews
Today we have the first look at the highly-anticipated film Abeyance from the multi-award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Betrayed, Moving Parts) who wrote, produced and directed. Scout Taylor Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 and 2) stars alongside Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop, There’s Something About Mary), Billy Wirth (The Lost Boys), Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs), Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s Game of Death), and Harley Wallen. Calhoun Koenig (NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and Vida Ghaffari (FOX’s The Mindy Project) round out the ensemble cast. “After a revolutionary invention with great implications Bridget (Erika Hoveland), finds a character flaw in the company they’ve partnered with to develop the prototype that could be the fountain of youth. When she pulls the plug and steps away from their original deal, she soon realizes they will stop at nothing to get it back. After her family gets kidnapped to sway a favorable vote, their hopes rely on
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February is all about love, but it’s not just for Valentines’. February is Women in Horror month, an entire month dedicated to us showing extra love to those women who make the horror genre what it is. Mass Grave Pictures and CongestedCat Productions have teamed up to celebrate women in a big way, with The Big, Bloody Apple: Women in Horror Month Event celebrating a ‘Decade of Blood’ for women in horror in NYC! The event is being held at Stone Creek Bar and Lounge (140 East 27 th Street, NYC) on February 21st and will feature films by Amanda Goodman, Angie Hansen, Nicole Solomon, Kristina Leath-Marlin, Victoria Diana, and Amanda Sabater. The evening festivities will also include “Women In Horror” trivia from Nicole Solomon of 4MileCircus and a presentation by Heather Buckley (Kino Lorber, Miskatonic University). This is a free event, hosted by award-winning directors Lindsay Serrano (Mass Grave Pictures) and Christina Raia (CongestedCat). Films: The Cabinet – Dir.Victoria
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