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The trailer for Ruben Rodriguez’s new found footage horror film The Death of April, based on a true story, is here ahead of the film’s December Digital release. The film follows Amy Rutledge as Meagan Mullen, who has freshly moved into her East coast home, keeping in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her apartment and the camera captures all of it. Witness The Death of April on Digital on December 9, 2022, from Terror Films.
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Experience the true horror of exorcisms when the highly-anticipated supernatural horror Prey for the Devil arrives this December from Lionsgate. Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) believes she is answering a calling to be the first female exorcist…but who, or what, called her? In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, Ann seeks out a place at an exorcism school reopened by the Catholic Church. Until now these schools have only trained priests in the Rite of Exorcism – but a professor (Colin Salmon) recognizes Sister Ann’s gifts and agrees to train her. Thrusting onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro), Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl, who Sister Ann believes is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago. Determined to root out the evil, Ann soon realizes that evil has been expecting her. Directed by Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism) from a screenplay
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Contorted Writer/director Kang Dong Hun’s Contorted (South Korea, 2022) looks great and is well acted but its screenplay is weighed down with horror movie cliches. The film opens intriguingly with preteen girl HeeWoo (Kim BoMin) seeing a paranormal occurrence while at a funeral parlor with her father HyunMin (Kim MinJae). Meanwhile at their home, HeeWoo’s mother MyungHye (Seo YoungHee) contemplates suicide by jumping off of the balcony of their apartment. Her very young daughter JiWoo (Noh HaYeon) prevents her from doing so, but then a horrible act takes place. MyungHye suffers from mental health issues while HyunMin, unemployed and unsuccessful in finding new work because of a plagiarism scandal, takes a passive stance while trying to keep appearances as normal as possible. Young teen son DongWoo (Oh JaHun) is emotionally checked out of the family. As increasingly bizarre and upsetting occurrences take place in the new home into which they have just moved because of financial difficulties, and inside a
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Following its festival run, which includes screenings at Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, and more, The Offering is set to be unleashed this January. Starring Nick Blood (“Euphoria”), Paul Kaye (“Game of Thrones”), and Emily Wiseman (Winchester), The Offering is from director Oliver Park (Still, “Strange Events”) and was written by Hank Hoffman. In the film, “In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly beneath them in the family morgue, an ancient evil with sinister plans for the unborn child lurks inside a mysterious corpse.” The Offering opens in select theatres and debuts on VOD on January 13, 2022, from Decal.
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CONCURRENT PREMIERES: Travel Channel and discovery+ DESTINATION FEAR NEW SEASON – Premieres Friday, November 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+ Paranormal explorers brother and sister duo Dakota Laden and Chelsea Laden, and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder, level up their fear experiment in an all-new season of DESTINATION FEAR – and their darkest, most terrifying road trip yet. The fear-chasing foursome embraces the darkness more than ever before – physically, emotionally, and psychologically – as they push the boundaries of fear and daringly spend the night inside America’s most sinister and haunted locations. This season, Dakota challenges the team with darker hauntings and locations and shocks them with the most disturbing experiment yet: removing flashlights and forcing them to blindly face the shadows of the night in true darkness. It’s one of many twisted and unnerving new experiments that will test their paranormal theories from the most uncomfortable of situations. [Hour-long episodes]
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Focus Entertainment and THE PARASITE released the new gamplay trailer for the upcoming first-person dark fairy tale Blacktail as the game’s release will be next month. Blacktail is the retelling of the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga where players take on the role of Yaga, a girl accused of witchcraft and forced to fend for herself but then memories of her past returned in the form of walking spirits, Yaga is then forced to hunt them down with the hopes by doing so she’ll be uncovering her own mystery. Players will be armed with a bow and be able to use magical powers to fight enemies, and gather resources to craft potions and arrows. Players will determine the fate of the land by making moral choices along the way that will determine if Yaga will become a good, or evil witch. Blacktail will be coming out on December 15th for PC, Playstation 5, and Xbox Series X/S
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Focus Entertainment and Mudfish released a new trailer today for their upcoming Sci-Fi action RPG FPS Atomic Heart along with news about it’s release date and Pre-orders. Atomic Heart is a first-person game where players are in an alternate timeline where the second world war ended differently and the world is in a utopia where humans and their mechanical creations live in harmony. At least that’s what it looks like on the surface as the world is really twisted and full of rogue robots and mutants that players must deal with in order to uncover the truth as to what’s really going on. Atomic Heart will be coming out on February 21, 2023, for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. You can pre-order Atomic Heart today to get access to exclusive weapon skins with the “Labour & Science Weapon Skin Pack.” Three editions of the title are available for pre-order: the Standard Edition, consisting of
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Skip having another boring mundane holiday season, and head to the Winchester Mystery House! The Mystery House has just announced the lineup of special events that will take place throughout the holiday season. Tickets for all events are available now at winchestermysteryhouse.com. “The holidays are a very special time at Winchester Mystery House,” said General Manager Walter Magnuson. “Many people don’t realize that during Sarah Winchester’s lifetime, the spookiest day of the year was actually Christmas Eve. Families and neighbors would gather around the fire in shadow-filled story circles to hear tales of specters and the supernatural. We hope that our guests make a visit to the Winchester Mystery House part of their holiday tradition.” Built during the Victorian era, Sarah Winchester’s eccentric house is a sight to behold any time of year, but it’s especially inspiring during the holidays. From November 25, 2022, through January 1, 2023, Winchester Mystery House will present daily mansion tours developed specifically for the
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Bendy, the little animated scamp from Bendy and the Ink Machine will be coming back to haunt your dreams. Today Roster Teeth and Joey Drew Studios have debuted a new trailer for the sequel along with information about the release date. Bendy and the Dark Revival is a first-person survival horror where players assist Audrey as she explores the ever-madening animation studio that’s being haunted by the ink demon. Players will have to solve puzzles and fight ink-tainted enemies as they help uncover the mysteries of the animation studio and escape, all the while trying to stay away from the ink demon. The game will introduce several new features and mechanics to deliver more action-oriented gameplay. Using agility, stealth, and strategy to fight or evade enemies as you explore the studio. Audrey will acquire powerful new abilities to aid her in her escape as the story progresses and players can expect help from both new and familiar faces. Bendy and
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Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton plays a dual role in the ghost story The Eternal Daughter, from acclaimed writer-director Joanna Hogg. Today, the trailer has premiered teasing a dark, haunting film. \ In the film, “An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. Featuring a towering, deeply moving performance by Tilda Swinton, acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s beguiling latest film is a brilliant and captivating exploration of parental relationships and the things we leave behind.” Swinton is best known for her roles in films such as 2018’s Suspiria, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Constantine, as well as her latest role in Three Thousand Years of Longing. Joseph Mydell and Carly-Sophia Davies also star in the film opening in theaters and debuting On Demand on December 2, 2022.
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The trailer for Ruben Rodriguez’s new found footage horror film The Death of April, based on a true story, is here ahead of the film’s December Digital release. The film follows Amy Rutledge as Meagan Mullen, who has freshly moved into her East coast home, keeping in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her apartment and the camera captures all of it. Witness The Death of April on Digital on December 9, 2022, from Terror Films.
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Experience the true horror of exorcisms when the highly-anticipated supernatural horror Prey for the Devil arrives this December from Lionsgate. Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) believes she is answering a calling to be the first female exorcist…but who, or what, called her? In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, Ann seeks out a place at an exorcism school reopened by the Catholic Church. Until now these schools have only trained priests in the Rite of Exorcism – but a professor (Colin Salmon) recognizes Sister Ann’s gifts and agrees to train her. Thrusting onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro), Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl, who Sister Ann believes is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago. Determined to root out the evil, Ann soon realizes that evil has been expecting her. Directed by Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism) from a screenplay
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Contorted Writer/director Kang Dong Hun’s Contorted (South Korea, 2022) looks great and is well acted but its screenplay is weighed down with horror movie cliches. The film opens intriguingly with preteen girl HeeWoo (Kim BoMin) seeing a paranormal occurrence while at a funeral parlor with her father HyunMin (Kim MinJae). Meanwhile at their home, HeeWoo’s mother MyungHye (Seo YoungHee) contemplates suicide by jumping off of the balcony of their apartment. Her very young daughter JiWoo (Noh HaYeon) prevents her from doing so, but then a horrible act takes place. MyungHye suffers from mental health issues while HyunMin, unemployed and unsuccessful in finding new work because of a plagiarism scandal, takes a passive stance while trying to keep appearances as normal as possible. Young teen son DongWoo (Oh JaHun) is emotionally checked out of the family. As increasingly bizarre and upsetting occurrences take place in the new home into which they have just moved because of financial difficulties, and inside a
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Following its festival run, which includes screenings at Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, and more, The Offering is set to be unleashed this January. Starring Nick Blood (“Euphoria”), Paul Kaye (“Game of Thrones”), and Emily Wiseman (Winchester), The Offering is from director Oliver Park (Still, “Strange Events”) and was written by Hank Hoffman. In the film, “In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly beneath them in the family morgue, an ancient evil with sinister plans for the unborn child lurks inside a mysterious corpse.” The Offering opens in select theatres and debuts on VOD on January 13, 2022, from Decal.
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CONCURRENT PREMIERES: Travel Channel and discovery+ DESTINATION FEAR NEW SEASON – Premieres Friday, November 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+ Paranormal explorers brother and sister duo Dakota Laden and Chelsea Laden, and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder, level up their fear experiment in an all-new season of DESTINATION FEAR – and their darkest, most terrifying road trip yet. The fear-chasing foursome embraces the darkness more than ever before – physically, emotionally, and psychologically – as they push the boundaries of fear and daringly spend the night inside America’s most sinister and haunted locations. This season, Dakota challenges the team with darker hauntings and locations and shocks them with the most disturbing experiment yet: removing flashlights and forcing them to blindly face the shadows of the night in true darkness. It’s one of many twisted and unnerving new experiments that will test their paranormal theories from the most uncomfortable of situations. [Hour-long episodes]
Continue reading →
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Focus Entertainment and THE PARASITE released the new gamplay trailer for the upcoming first-person dark fairy tale Blacktail as the game’s release will be next month. Blacktail is the retelling of the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga where players take on the role of Yaga, a girl accused of witchcraft and forced to fend for herself but then memories of her past returned in the form of walking spirits, Yaga is then forced to hunt them down with the hopes by doing so she’ll be uncovering her own mystery. Players will be armed with a bow and be able to use magical powers to fight enemies, and gather resources to craft potions and arrows. Players will determine the fate of the land by making moral choices along the way that will determine if Yaga will become a good, or evil witch. Blacktail will be coming out on December 15th for PC, Playstation 5, and Xbox Series X/S
Continue reading →
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Focus Entertainment and Mudfish released a new trailer today for their upcoming Sci-Fi action RPG FPS Atomic Heart along with news about it’s release date and Pre-orders. Atomic Heart is a first-person game where players are in an alternate timeline where the second world war ended differently and the world is in a utopia where humans and their mechanical creations live in harmony. At least that’s what it looks like on the surface as the world is really twisted and full of rogue robots and mutants that players must deal with in order to uncover the truth as to what’s really going on. Atomic Heart will be coming out on February 21, 2023, for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. You can pre-order Atomic Heart today to get access to exclusive weapon skins with the “Labour & Science Weapon Skin Pack.” Three editions of the title are available for pre-order: the Standard Edition, consisting of
Continue reading →
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Skip having another boring mundane holiday season, and head to the Winchester Mystery House! The Mystery House has just announced the lineup of special events that will take place throughout the holiday season. Tickets for all events are available now at winchestermysteryhouse.com. “The holidays are a very special time at Winchester Mystery House,” said General Manager Walter Magnuson. “Many people don’t realize that during Sarah Winchester’s lifetime, the spookiest day of the year was actually Christmas Eve. Families and neighbors would gather around the fire in shadow-filled story circles to hear tales of specters and the supernatural. We hope that our guests make a visit to the Winchester Mystery House part of their holiday tradition.” Built during the Victorian era, Sarah Winchester’s eccentric house is a sight to behold any time of year, but it’s especially inspiring during the holidays. From November 25, 2022, through January 1, 2023, Winchester Mystery House will present daily mansion tours developed specifically for the
Continue reading →
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Bendy, the little animated scamp from Bendy and the Ink Machine will be coming back to haunt your dreams. Today Roster Teeth and Joey Drew Studios have debuted a new trailer for the sequel along with information about the release date. Bendy and the Dark Revival is a first-person survival horror where players assist Audrey as she explores the ever-madening animation studio that’s being haunted by the ink demon. Players will have to solve puzzles and fight ink-tainted enemies as they help uncover the mysteries of the animation studio and escape, all the while trying to stay away from the ink demon. The game will introduce several new features and mechanics to deliver more action-oriented gameplay. Using agility, stealth, and strategy to fight or evade enemies as you explore the studio. Audrey will acquire powerful new abilities to aid her in her escape as the story progresses and players can expect help from both new and familiar faces. Bendy and
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Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton plays a dual role in the ghost story The Eternal Daughter, from acclaimed writer-director Joanna Hogg. Today, the trailer has premiered teasing a dark, haunting film. \ In the film, “An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. Featuring a towering, deeply moving performance by Tilda Swinton, acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s beguiling latest film is a brilliant and captivating exploration of parental relationships and the things we leave behind.” Swinton is best known for her roles in films such as 2018’s Suspiria, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Constantine, as well as her latest role in Three Thousand Years of Longing. Joseph Mydell and Carly-Sophia Davies also star in the film opening in theaters and debuting On Demand on December 2, 2022.
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