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Horror movie icons Jen and Sylvia Soska are wrapping up this season of Hellevator and are gearing up to not only produce, but co-write and star in director Lisa Ovies new horror-comedy Puppet Killer. Synopsis: Years after a the mysterious disappearance of his stepmother, Jamie and his friends return to his family’s cabin for a Christmas getaway, but the cabin holds a dark secret. Jamie becomes convinced that his childhood puppet is a magically animated killer. Will Jamie be able to save his friends, or is he crazy? The cast for the film includes Richard Harmon, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Jen and Sylvia Soska, Johannah Newmarch, Aleks Paunovic, Geoff Gustafson, Lisa Durput, Sage Brocklebank and Lee Majdoub. The Soska sisters (aka The Twisted Twins) co-wrote Puppet Killer along with Kevin Mosley. The film is Lisa Ovies’ first full-length feature. But with the Soskas attached we are guaranteed a bloody goody time. The “Twisted Twins”, on the other hand, are by no means
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A camping trip goes awry as newlyweds Mike and Wit are suddenly joined by Mike’s brother, Sean, a former marine, in the psychological horror-thrill ride “Preservation.” They awake from their first night on the trip to find that everything has been stolen from their campsite. A weekend in the woods suddenly becomes a game of survival for the three. The film is littered with classic horror stereotypes which makes it a particularly fun watch, especially for horror fans! For me, the movie fell short in the realm of reality, and what “traditional hunters” actually do on a hunting trip. A great example of this is when the group arrives at their hunting spot and realize it is closed. To quote the characters, “That’s never stopped our family before,” and they enter anyways. With that said, the common horror movie stereotype-stupidity of these three is what makes this film a great horror film. The “closed” sign is the typical warning in
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This Wednesday, on the season finale of GSN’s Hellevator, the competition gets bloody. Watch as three team members dig through maggot filled pies and dead mice to decode a secret message, and see them search for parts of a ladder in buckets filled with blood to make their escape. Will they walk away with $50,000 or will the gore be too much to stomach? Each week a team of three come together in the hopes of scoring a bag of cash, but they must face a series of frightening challenges, terrifying sights and overcome everything that the hosts, horror icons Jen and Sylvia Soska, send their way. The teams enter an elevator, at each floor one contestant must get off and face whatever twisted challenge the Soska sisters have cooked up, to win a cash prize. If they don’t make it back in time the elevator moves on, leaving the challenger stranded with what ever is lurking their in the
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The music for the epic horror classic The Thing (1982), directed by John Carpenter, was composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone. But not all of the music Morricone created for the The Thing was actually used in the film and sat dormant, until now. Brilliant filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has made use of the previously unused music. Tarantino was working with Morricone to complete the soundtrack for his film The Hateful Eight, which is now in theaters, pressed for time, and still trying to find the perfect score for his film, he brought up the unused tracks and Morricone approved. The track was recut and can be heard in the film, along with twenty-five minutes of other music. You will be able to pick up the soundtrack when it is released on deluxe vinyl early next year. The Hateful Eight is set in post-Civil War Wyoming. Eight men, trying to survive a blizzard, get involved in a plot of betrayal and
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There has been a lot of buzz about Christopher Landon’s zombie-comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, now I know why. Last night when I sat down to watch Scouts Guide, I was hoping it would live up to the hype. The film follows three Scouts, who happen to be best friends. Two of the friends, Ben (Tye Sheridan) and Carter (Logan Miller), are starting to worry how people look at them. They’ll be juniors (in high school) next year and like most kids at that age, they worry girls won’t think they’re cool. While trying decide how to tell Augie (Joey Morgan) (the third friend) they want to quit Scouts, they hit a deer. Ben and Carter are changing the tire when Carter’s sister Kendall (Halston Sage) and her boyfriend and friend pull up. Ben has had a crush on Kendall since he was little, but she’s pretty and popular, and she has a boyfriend, who’s a douche. Carter
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Anchor Bay will be releasing the Goetz brothers’ remake of the 2009 French film Martyrs, on VOD on January 22nd, followed by the DVD on February 2nd. Bailey Noble, who stared in the vampire series ‘True Blood’, appears along side Troian Bellisario of ‘Pretty Little Liars’, Blake Robbins (Rubber) and Kate Burton (Big Trouble In Little China). In the film, a ten year old girl named Lucie escapes from the warehouse where she has been held prisoner. Lucie is deeply traumatized and struggles with terrifying nightmares while growing up in an orphanage. Ten years later Lucie and her only friend Anna, finally track down the family that kidnapped and tortured her as a child. Soon the girls find themselves trapped in the same situation Lucie survived once before, but this time if they two can not escape, a painful death will await them, the death of a Martyr. The original has long been considered one of the most gruesome, brutal
Continue reading →
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If this past year at the box office has taught us anything, it is that dinosaurs STILL rule the earth! One could say that dinosaurs are Earth’s first REAL monsters…. “Carnosaur,” “Dinosaur Hell,” “Dinosaur Island,” “Dinosaur Lake,” “Extinction,” are just a few of the horror films that come to mind when I think of these prehistoric beasts… and of course there is the “Jurassic Park,” but a new documentary on Netflix shows you the nightmare one paleontologist, Peter Larson, and his team went through after discovering the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in history. The film documents the past 25 years of Larson’s life fighting with local land owners and the United States Government. Larson ends up fighting for the fossil’s freedom and his own. The documentary has a great juxtaposition about it, which really helps tell a sad story and makes you feel for not only the paleontologist, but also for the fossil, Sue. Todd Douglas Miller’s “Dinosaur
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Who would volunteer to move into a home that they know is haunted? The couple in the horror film Dwelling, did just that. The Mother (Hogan) hopes to make contact with the other side, but the entity she makes contact with, may be much darker and more powerful than she bargained for. Now, the spirit is hell-bent on destroying the family. Dwelling was both written and directed by Kyle Mecca. This paranormal thriller is Mecca’s first full length film. The cast includes Ray Donavan actress Erin Marie Hogan, Mu-Shaka Benson (Half Dead), Josie DiVincenzo (Daredevil), Bill Brown (A Grimm Becoming), ‘Truth or Dare’s’ Devanny Pinn and newcomers Abigail Mary and Alexandra Merritt Mathews. Dwelling will arrive in select theaters and on DVD in 2016.
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Last night the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence landed, and it’s fantastic. There’s only one problem, it’s lacking Will Smith. Smith played the role of Captain Steve Hiller, the badass fly-boy who, along with Jeff Goldblum, saved the world in the first film. But why is Smith missing from the sequel? We can answer that. Director Roland Emmerich told Collider in an interview back in June that Smith was “just tired of sequels” and was not interested in doing another science-fiction movie after his 2013 film After Earth. It starred Smith and his son, and it crashed and burned. So, you may be wondering how they explain Smith’s absence. We can answer that too. In the sequel we will learn that Smith was killed in a training accident. According to Fox he was killed when alien technology malfunctioned in 2007. Let’s be honest, Resurgence looks great, but it won’t be the same without Smith’s wit.
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When most people are 17, they’re main concerns are friends and who’s doing what on the weekend, but at 17 one young woman, named Kansas Bowling, had something a little different on her mind, directing her first feature film. Bowling is the co-writer, director and producer of B.C. Butcher, the world’s first prehistoric slasher film, which is now under the Troma banner. I had the opportunity to interview Bowling and this is what she had to say: KM “Can you tell us a little about you film B.C. Butcher?” KB “B.C. Butcher is the world’s first prehistoric slasher! Shot on 16mm, the film features cavewomen girl-gangs, live rock ‘n’ roll, and cameo appearances by Rodney Bingenheimer, Kadeem Hardison, and Kato Kaelin!” KM “How old were you when you wrote the film?” KB “I was 15-years-old when my friend Kenzie and I wrote it, 17-years-old when I directed it, and now I am 19-years-old promoting it’s release through Troma Entertainment!” KM
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Horror movie icons Jen and Sylvia Soska are wrapping up this season of Hellevator and are gearing up to not only produce, but co-write and star in director Lisa Ovies new horror-comedy Puppet Killer. Synopsis: Years after a the mysterious disappearance of his stepmother, Jamie and his friends return to his family’s cabin for a Christmas getaway, but the cabin holds a dark secret. Jamie becomes convinced that his childhood puppet is a magically animated killer. Will Jamie be able to save his friends, or is he crazy? The cast for the film includes Richard Harmon, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Jen and Sylvia Soska, Johannah Newmarch, Aleks Paunovic, Geoff Gustafson, Lisa Durput, Sage Brocklebank and Lee Majdoub. The Soska sisters (aka The Twisted Twins) co-wrote Puppet Killer along with Kevin Mosley. The film is Lisa Ovies’ first full-length feature. But with the Soskas attached we are guaranteed a bloody goody time. The “Twisted Twins”, on the other hand, are by no means
Continue reading →
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A camping trip goes awry as newlyweds Mike and Wit are suddenly joined by Mike’s brother, Sean, a former marine, in the psychological horror-thrill ride “Preservation.” They awake from their first night on the trip to find that everything has been stolen from their campsite. A weekend in the woods suddenly becomes a game of survival for the three. The film is littered with classic horror stereotypes which makes it a particularly fun watch, especially for horror fans! For me, the movie fell short in the realm of reality, and what “traditional hunters” actually do on a hunting trip. A great example of this is when the group arrives at their hunting spot and realize it is closed. To quote the characters, “That’s never stopped our family before,” and they enter anyways. With that said, the common horror movie stereotype-stupidity of these three is what makes this film a great horror film. The “closed” sign is the typical warning in
Continue reading →
NewsReviewsStreaming TV
This Wednesday, on the season finale of GSN’s Hellevator, the competition gets bloody. Watch as three team members dig through maggot filled pies and dead mice to decode a secret message, and see them search for parts of a ladder in buckets filled with blood to make their escape. Will they walk away with $50,000 or will the gore be too much to stomach? Each week a team of three come together in the hopes of scoring a bag of cash, but they must face a series of frightening challenges, terrifying sights and overcome everything that the hosts, horror icons Jen and Sylvia Soska, send their way. The teams enter an elevator, at each floor one contestant must get off and face whatever twisted challenge the Soska sisters have cooked up, to win a cash prize. If they don’t make it back in time the elevator moves on, leaving the challenger stranded with what ever is lurking their in the
Continue reading →
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The music for the epic horror classic The Thing (1982), directed by John Carpenter, was composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone. But not all of the music Morricone created for the The Thing was actually used in the film and sat dormant, until now. Brilliant filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has made use of the previously unused music. Tarantino was working with Morricone to complete the soundtrack for his film The Hateful Eight, which is now in theaters, pressed for time, and still trying to find the perfect score for his film, he brought up the unused tracks and Morricone approved. The track was recut and can be heard in the film, along with twenty-five minutes of other music. You will be able to pick up the soundtrack when it is released on deluxe vinyl early next year. The Hateful Eight is set in post-Civil War Wyoming. Eight men, trying to survive a blizzard, get involved in a plot of betrayal and
Continue reading →
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There has been a lot of buzz about Christopher Landon’s zombie-comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, now I know why. Last night when I sat down to watch Scouts Guide, I was hoping it would live up to the hype. The film follows three Scouts, who happen to be best friends. Two of the friends, Ben (Tye Sheridan) and Carter (Logan Miller), are starting to worry how people look at them. They’ll be juniors (in high school) next year and like most kids at that age, they worry girls won’t think they’re cool. While trying decide how to tell Augie (Joey Morgan) (the third friend) they want to quit Scouts, they hit a deer. Ben and Carter are changing the tire when Carter’s sister Kendall (Halston Sage) and her boyfriend and friend pull up. Ben has had a crush on Kendall since he was little, but she’s pretty and popular, and she has a boyfriend, who’s a douche. Carter
Continue reading →
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Anchor Bay will be releasing the Goetz brothers’ remake of the 2009 French film Martyrs, on VOD on January 22nd, followed by the DVD on February 2nd. Bailey Noble, who stared in the vampire series ‘True Blood’, appears along side Troian Bellisario of ‘Pretty Little Liars’, Blake Robbins (Rubber) and Kate Burton (Big Trouble In Little China). In the film, a ten year old girl named Lucie escapes from the warehouse where she has been held prisoner. Lucie is deeply traumatized and struggles with terrifying nightmares while growing up in an orphanage. Ten years later Lucie and her only friend Anna, finally track down the family that kidnapped and tortured her as a child. Soon the girls find themselves trapped in the same situation Lucie survived once before, but this time if they two can not escape, a painful death will await them, the death of a Martyr. The original has long been considered one of the most gruesome, brutal
Continue reading →
DocumentariesIndieMoviesReviewsStreaming TV
If this past year at the box office has taught us anything, it is that dinosaurs STILL rule the earth! One could say that dinosaurs are Earth’s first REAL monsters…. “Carnosaur,” “Dinosaur Hell,” “Dinosaur Island,” “Dinosaur Lake,” “Extinction,” are just a few of the horror films that come to mind when I think of these prehistoric beasts… and of course there is the “Jurassic Park,” but a new documentary on Netflix shows you the nightmare one paleontologist, Peter Larson, and his team went through after discovering the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in history. The film documents the past 25 years of Larson’s life fighting with local land owners and the United States Government. Larson ends up fighting for the fossil’s freedom and his own. The documentary has a great juxtaposition about it, which really helps tell a sad story and makes you feel for not only the paleontologist, but also for the fossil, Sue. Todd Douglas Miller’s “Dinosaur
Continue reading →
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Who would volunteer to move into a home that they know is haunted? The couple in the horror film Dwelling, did just that. The Mother (Hogan) hopes to make contact with the other side, but the entity she makes contact with, may be much darker and more powerful than she bargained for. Now, the spirit is hell-bent on destroying the family. Dwelling was both written and directed by Kyle Mecca. This paranormal thriller is Mecca’s first full length film. The cast includes Ray Donavan actress Erin Marie Hogan, Mu-Shaka Benson (Half Dead), Josie DiVincenzo (Daredevil), Bill Brown (A Grimm Becoming), ‘Truth or Dare’s’ Devanny Pinn and newcomers Abigail Mary and Alexandra Merritt Mathews. Dwelling will arrive in select theaters and on DVD in 2016.
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Last night the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence landed, and it’s fantastic. There’s only one problem, it’s lacking Will Smith. Smith played the role of Captain Steve Hiller, the badass fly-boy who, along with Jeff Goldblum, saved the world in the first film. But why is Smith missing from the sequel? We can answer that. Director Roland Emmerich told Collider in an interview back in June that Smith was “just tired of sequels” and was not interested in doing another science-fiction movie after his 2013 film After Earth. It starred Smith and his son, and it crashed and burned. So, you may be wondering how they explain Smith’s absence. We can answer that too. In the sequel we will learn that Smith was killed in a training accident. According to Fox he was killed when alien technology malfunctioned in 2007. Let’s be honest, Resurgence looks great, but it won’t be the same without Smith’s wit.
Continue reading →
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When most people are 17, they’re main concerns are friends and who’s doing what on the weekend, but at 17 one young woman, named Kansas Bowling, had something a little different on her mind, directing her first feature film. Bowling is the co-writer, director and producer of B.C. Butcher, the world’s first prehistoric slasher film, which is now under the Troma banner. I had the opportunity to interview Bowling and this is what she had to say: KM “Can you tell us a little about you film B.C. Butcher?” KB “B.C. Butcher is the world’s first prehistoric slasher! Shot on 16mm, the film features cavewomen girl-gangs, live rock ‘n’ roll, and cameo appearances by Rodney Bingenheimer, Kadeem Hardison, and Kato Kaelin!” KM “How old were you when you wrote the film?” KB “I was 15-years-old when my friend Kenzie and I wrote it, 17-years-old when I directed it, and now I am 19-years-old promoting it’s release through Troma Entertainment!” KM
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