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One of Wes Craven’s last projects, ‘The Girl in the Photographs’, has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Vertical plans to release the thriller some time next year. In The Girl in the Photographs’, a bored young woman, living in a sleepy little town, starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. A celebrity photographer arrives in town after seeing the photographs after seeing the photographs, but are the photos real or is the man behind them simply a great artist faking the brutal scenes? Katharine Isabelle, Christy Carlson Romano, Kenny Wormald, Claudia Lee, Miranda Rae Mayo, Toby Hemingway and Eva Bourne star along side ‘The X-Files’ actor Mitch Pileggi and ‘Harold and Kumar’s’ Kal Penn. Nick Simon co-wrote the film with Osgood Perkins. Wes Craven and Bawaf Alghanium served as executive producers.
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Fans were ecstatic to see Constantine make a cameo last week (November 4th) on ‘Arrow’. The episode (S4 Ep5), “Haunted”, proved a couple of things, that the fan base for Constantine, played by Matt Ryan, is very much alive and are still calling for the series’ return. The second thing, as if that wasn’t enough, the episode boosted ‘Arrow’s’ ratings by 10%, proving that Constantine still has value, of which, a network should be taking advantage. Earlier this year fans were crushed to learn that Constantine had been cancelled by NBC, after it’s first season and have since been begging for someone to bring the series back, with the cast from it’s one and only season. Fans have gone so far as starting a petition, that has already surpassed 50,000 signatures, in hopes that it will get the attention of a network. At the moment the rights to Constantine are owned by The El Rey Network, but there has been
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“Thief” where do I begin? “Thief” is a 2014 reboot of the PC exclusive stealth series of the same name that was popular back in the 90’s. The series was loved for it’s open world, innovative stealth mechanics and a likable main protagonists. Unfortunately publisher Square Enix and developer Eidos Montreal threw all that out and replaced it with black archaic background #246980, strange game-play and generic grisly archetype #410. As I am writing this review I am listening to Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” which only makes me more depressed to write this review because I really liked the “Thief” series. the original series came out at around the time first person shooters were starting to evolve. We got some of the biggest most influential shooters to date! “DOOM”, “Half Life”, “Halo” and “Thief” , not only did this game have nostalgia credit behind itself but it also had a really good developer handing it. Eidos Montreal who were responsible
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We reported back in 2014 the Universal Studios has a plan in place to reboot all of their classic monster films and build a shared universe. The new collection began with ‘Dracula Untold’ and they already have several reboots in various stages of production. Now, Van Helsing is joining Universal’s list. According to Variety, Universal has hired ‘Prometheus’s’ Jon Spaihts and Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010) to pen the new script. Van Helsing, a tough vampire hunter, first appeared in Bram Stoker’s classic novel ‘Dracula’. In the previous films and literature, Van Helsing has dedicated his life to killing Dracula. Hugh Jackman played the role of Van Helsing in the 2004 film, by the same name. In the both the 2004 film and the new version, Van Helsing will not only face Dracula and his brides, but Frankenstein’s monster and werewolves as well. The director, cast, premiere date and plot of the remake have not been released
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When Eddie’s girlfriend leaves him, he orders Natasha, a life size doll, to fill the voids in his life. Mesmerized by the perfection of her beauty Eddie is infatuated with her. Natasha’s possessed behavior goes unnoticed as she carries out her purpose…to fuel her killing fetish. When Eddie’s ex-girlfriend comes to the house, Natasha turns her murderous rage towards the couple. The Ukraine’s Valeria Lukynova, known as the “human Barbie”, has been cast to play an evil doll in the horror-thriller ‘The Doll’. The film, was written and will be directed by Dr. Susannah O’Brian and is now in pre-production. There is also an Indiegogo campaign to help fund the project. Lukynova is controversial figure in the Ukraine. She’s a model, who has had extensive cosmetic procedures in the hopes of looking like a living Barbie. She is a YouTube star, musician and considers herself a spiritual guru. She claims to be an alien and has made the statement that
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The Orchard has acquired the distribution rights to Oliver Irving’s new film ‘Ghost Team’. The film was written by Irving and Peter Warren and stars Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Amy Sedaris (Alpha House), David Krumholtz (This Is the End), Melonie Diaz (Be Kind Rewind) and Paul W. Downs (Broad City), according to Deadline. ‘Ghost Team’ follows a man, obsessed with the paranormal,who teams up with his depressed best friend, his nephew, a cable-access medium and an over-eager security guard. The team of ghost hunters get more than they bargained for when they embark on a paranormal investigation. Oliver Irving will be the first filmmaker to use the new Steadicam Tango, created by cinematographer Garrett Brown, in a film, giving ‘Ghost Team’ its own unique look. Personally, I am looking forward to seeing ‘Ghost Team’, I think the star-studded cast should make for an interesting film. We should see ‘Ghost Team’ released some time in
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On New Year’s Eve, seven friends book a ski lodge where they plan to celebrate the New Year. But just minutes before midnight, a group of twisted masked murderers begin hunting down them down. Now, they must find a way to survive. ‘Minutes to Midnight’ stars William Baldwin and horror veteran Bill Moseley, along with Richard Grieco, Viva Bianca, Christopher Judge and John Hennigan. The slasher-thriller was directed by Christopher Ray and written by Victoria Dadi and Christopher M. Don. The release date for ‘Minutes to Midnight’ has yet to be announced, but we do have the trailer.
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Terror Films has just released their supernatural film ‘Trace’ on VOD, iTunes, Vudu, dish networks and Redbox, with a full release later this year. The film follows a group of friends, experimenting with Trace Phenomena, a type of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). After trying to make contact with a spirit at a party, the friends have gotten more than they are bargaining for. When the friends begin dying one by one they realize that they have opened a door to a horrific realm that the living were never meant to witness. Now, they are in a race against time to sever the transmission in order to save themselves and prevent a demon for entering our world. ‘Trace’ stars Nick Fink, August Roads, Jesse Pepe, Samantha Lee, Maddie McGuire, Jerod Meagher, Jeremiah Benjamin, Mike Capozzi and Herion Mustafaraj. Ryan Brookhart both wrote and directed ‘Trace’. Brookhart had this to say about his film: “I feel ‘Trace’, taken on the merits of
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It’s Not A Remake The Thing, 2011, is NOT a remake. It is a prequel. I just did more than the entire Universal Studios marketing department with that clarification. John Carpenter got royally screwed on his 1982 masterpiece. Some call The Thing his greatest film. Others, like me, call it one of the greatest films ever made for any genre. Carpenter’s film was buried in 1982 by a candy pilfering alien and Spielberg. Between a lackluster marketing campaign by Universal Studios and America’s pop sugar desire for heart glowing aliens, The Thing, 1982, never really had a chance. Carpenter himself saw the handwriting on the wall after exiting a plane to giant advertisements for ET: The Extraterrestrial. “We’re done,” he lamented. However home video and cable gave his film a new life, and eventually the tortoise caught up and passed the alien. Today, Carpenter’s film is regarded as timeless and as mentioned, by many, his best. The film is deserving
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The psychological thriller ‘Trouble Sleeping’ stars Billy Zane, Vanessa Angel, Rick Otto, Ingrid Eskeland, Kale Clauson and Fred Stoller. The film was directed by Robert Adetuyi, ‘Trouble Sleeping’ follows Justin, just cleared by his psychiatrist, as he comes to live with his stepmother and her new husband. It just so happens, in two weeks Justin turns 21 and inherits the family’s country estate, where they are currently living. But Justin’s stepmother and her husband have no intention of letting Justin claim his inheritance. Justin’s stepmom’s husband, Alex, has given permission to a PH.D. student, name August, to stay at the home while she writes a book on Justin’s late father. But August is not who she seems to be. When everyone is under one roof, things get complicated quick.
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One of Wes Craven’s last projects, ‘The Girl in the Photographs’, has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Vertical plans to release the thriller some time next year. In The Girl in the Photographs’, a bored young woman, living in a sleepy little town, starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. A celebrity photographer arrives in town after seeing the photographs after seeing the photographs, but are the photos real or is the man behind them simply a great artist faking the brutal scenes? Katharine Isabelle, Christy Carlson Romano, Kenny Wormald, Claudia Lee, Miranda Rae Mayo, Toby Hemingway and Eva Bourne star along side ‘The X-Files’ actor Mitch Pileggi and ‘Harold and Kumar’s’ Kal Penn. Nick Simon co-wrote the film with Osgood Perkins. Wes Craven and Bawaf Alghanium served as executive producers.
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Fans were ecstatic to see Constantine make a cameo last week (November 4th) on ‘Arrow’. The episode (S4 Ep5), “Haunted”, proved a couple of things, that the fan base for Constantine, played by Matt Ryan, is very much alive and are still calling for the series’ return. The second thing, as if that wasn’t enough, the episode boosted ‘Arrow’s’ ratings by 10%, proving that Constantine still has value, of which, a network should be taking advantage. Earlier this year fans were crushed to learn that Constantine had been cancelled by NBC, after it’s first season and have since been begging for someone to bring the series back, with the cast from it’s one and only season. Fans have gone so far as starting a petition, that has already surpassed 50,000 signatures, in hopes that it will get the attention of a network. At the moment the rights to Constantine are owned by The El Rey Network, but there has been
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“Thief” where do I begin? “Thief” is a 2014 reboot of the PC exclusive stealth series of the same name that was popular back in the 90’s. The series was loved for it’s open world, innovative stealth mechanics and a likable main protagonists. Unfortunately publisher Square Enix and developer Eidos Montreal threw all that out and replaced it with black archaic background #246980, strange game-play and generic grisly archetype #410. As I am writing this review I am listening to Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” which only makes me more depressed to write this review because I really liked the “Thief” series. the original series came out at around the time first person shooters were starting to evolve. We got some of the biggest most influential shooters to date! “DOOM”, “Half Life”, “Halo” and “Thief” , not only did this game have nostalgia credit behind itself but it also had a really good developer handing it. Eidos Montreal who were responsible
Continue reading →
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We reported back in 2014 the Universal Studios has a plan in place to reboot all of their classic monster films and build a shared universe. The new collection began with ‘Dracula Untold’ and they already have several reboots in various stages of production. Now, Van Helsing is joining Universal’s list. According to Variety, Universal has hired ‘Prometheus’s’ Jon Spaihts and Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010) to pen the new script. Van Helsing, a tough vampire hunter, first appeared in Bram Stoker’s classic novel ‘Dracula’. In the previous films and literature, Van Helsing has dedicated his life to killing Dracula. Hugh Jackman played the role of Van Helsing in the 2004 film, by the same name. In the both the 2004 film and the new version, Van Helsing will not only face Dracula and his brides, but Frankenstein’s monster and werewolves as well. The director, cast, premiere date and plot of the remake have not been released
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When Eddie’s girlfriend leaves him, he orders Natasha, a life size doll, to fill the voids in his life. Mesmerized by the perfection of her beauty Eddie is infatuated with her. Natasha’s possessed behavior goes unnoticed as she carries out her purpose…to fuel her killing fetish. When Eddie’s ex-girlfriend comes to the house, Natasha turns her murderous rage towards the couple. The Ukraine’s Valeria Lukynova, known as the “human Barbie”, has been cast to play an evil doll in the horror-thriller ‘The Doll’. The film, was written and will be directed by Dr. Susannah O’Brian and is now in pre-production. There is also an Indiegogo campaign to help fund the project. Lukynova is controversial figure in the Ukraine. She’s a model, who has had extensive cosmetic procedures in the hopes of looking like a living Barbie. She is a YouTube star, musician and considers herself a spiritual guru. She claims to be an alien and has made the statement that
Continue reading →
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The Orchard has acquired the distribution rights to Oliver Irving’s new film ‘Ghost Team’. The film was written by Irving and Peter Warren and stars Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Amy Sedaris (Alpha House), David Krumholtz (This Is the End), Melonie Diaz (Be Kind Rewind) and Paul W. Downs (Broad City), according to Deadline. ‘Ghost Team’ follows a man, obsessed with the paranormal,who teams up with his depressed best friend, his nephew, a cable-access medium and an over-eager security guard. The team of ghost hunters get more than they bargained for when they embark on a paranormal investigation. Oliver Irving will be the first filmmaker to use the new Steadicam Tango, created by cinematographer Garrett Brown, in a film, giving ‘Ghost Team’ its own unique look. Personally, I am looking forward to seeing ‘Ghost Team’, I think the star-studded cast should make for an interesting film. We should see ‘Ghost Team’ released some time in
Continue reading →
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On New Year’s Eve, seven friends book a ski lodge where they plan to celebrate the New Year. But just minutes before midnight, a group of twisted masked murderers begin hunting down them down. Now, they must find a way to survive. ‘Minutes to Midnight’ stars William Baldwin and horror veteran Bill Moseley, along with Richard Grieco, Viva Bianca, Christopher Judge and John Hennigan. The slasher-thriller was directed by Christopher Ray and written by Victoria Dadi and Christopher M. Don. The release date for ‘Minutes to Midnight’ has yet to be announced, but we do have the trailer.
Continue reading →
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Terror Films has just released their supernatural film ‘Trace’ on VOD, iTunes, Vudu, dish networks and Redbox, with a full release later this year. The film follows a group of friends, experimenting with Trace Phenomena, a type of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). After trying to make contact with a spirit at a party, the friends have gotten more than they are bargaining for. When the friends begin dying one by one they realize that they have opened a door to a horrific realm that the living were never meant to witness. Now, they are in a race against time to sever the transmission in order to save themselves and prevent a demon for entering our world. ‘Trace’ stars Nick Fink, August Roads, Jesse Pepe, Samantha Lee, Maddie McGuire, Jerod Meagher, Jeremiah Benjamin, Mike Capozzi and Herion Mustafaraj. Ryan Brookhart both wrote and directed ‘Trace’. Brookhart had this to say about his film: “I feel ‘Trace’, taken on the merits of
Continue reading →
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It’s Not A Remake The Thing, 2011, is NOT a remake. It is a prequel. I just did more than the entire Universal Studios marketing department with that clarification. John Carpenter got royally screwed on his 1982 masterpiece. Some call The Thing his greatest film. Others, like me, call it one of the greatest films ever made for any genre. Carpenter’s film was buried in 1982 by a candy pilfering alien and Spielberg. Between a lackluster marketing campaign by Universal Studios and America’s pop sugar desire for heart glowing aliens, The Thing, 1982, never really had a chance. Carpenter himself saw the handwriting on the wall after exiting a plane to giant advertisements for ET: The Extraterrestrial. “We’re done,” he lamented. However home video and cable gave his film a new life, and eventually the tortoise caught up and passed the alien. Today, Carpenter’s film is regarded as timeless and as mentioned, by many, his best. The film is deserving
Continue reading →
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The psychological thriller ‘Trouble Sleeping’ stars Billy Zane, Vanessa Angel, Rick Otto, Ingrid Eskeland, Kale Clauson and Fred Stoller. The film was directed by Robert Adetuyi, ‘Trouble Sleeping’ follows Justin, just cleared by his psychiatrist, as he comes to live with his stepmother and her new husband. It just so happens, in two weeks Justin turns 21 and inherits the family’s country estate, where they are currently living. But Justin’s stepmother and her husband have no intention of letting Justin claim his inheritance. Justin’s stepmom’s husband, Alex, has given permission to a PH.D. student, name August, to stay at the home while she writes a book on Justin’s late father. But August is not who she seems to be. When everyone is under one roof, things get complicated quick.
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