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Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game) will star in ‘Croak’, the first live-action film from Oscar-nominated ParaNorman director Sam Fell. Fell will star along side ‘X-Files’ actress Gillian Anderson, Stanley Tucci and Jermine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows), according to THR. Butterfield will be playing a young Grimm Reaper in this horror-comedy. Butterfield’s Reaper character will be haunting everyday people while he controls the exit of souls from our world to the next. The other details of the film are being kept “hush hush”, but with a such an impressive cast, I expect great things from the film. We will give an update when we know more.
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WARNING SPOILERS !!! Last night was Halloween, and we got one hell of a treat, the premiere of ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’. The series is based on ‘The Evil Dead’, released on January 17, 1981. The film was written and directed by Sam Raimi and starred Bruce Campbell, as the chainsaw wielding badass Ash. The film, followed by 2 more films, quickly became cult classics and has a legion of dedicated fans. ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ begins thirty years after Ash Williams lost his friends at that cabin in the woods. Now, the aging ladies man is working a dead end job. Lucky for him, his co-worker Pablo (Ray Santiago) is looking out for him. Pablo looks up to Ash and does what he can to make sure Ash keeps his job. Ash hooks up with a random woman in a bar right before it closes, while they’re having sex in the bar’s bathroom, he sees her face transform into
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Uncork’d Entertainment’s ‘Crying Wolf‘ will be unleashed in select theaters on December 12th. The British werewolf horror-comedy was written by Andy Davie, Michael Dale, and Tony Jopia, who also directed the movie. ‘Crying Wolf stars Hugh Edwards (‘Apocalypse’),Guy Mannerings (‘Kingsman’), Marco Radice (‘Dark Soulmate’), Gabriela Hersham (Gypsy), Kristofer Dayne (‘Going Home’), Rosie Pearson (‘Razzle Dazzle’), Ian Donnelly (‘Deadtime’), Kimberly Jaraj (‘Knife Edge’), David Sellicks (‘The Zombie King’) and Roger Pinkha. ‘Crying Wolf’ begins in a small English village named Deddington, a town that frequently experiences strange happenings. After the brutal death of a local woman is blamed on a rabid creature, two hunters on a mission of revenge, arrive undercover as camping guides. A group of friends has hired the guides to take them camping, not knowing their secret of being a pack of werewolves is known. On their way to the campsite, they pick up two hitchhikers and one of the group’s stepsister. Tensions run high and things are
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Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment have a good run this year, with films like ‘Bite’, ‘Antisocial’ and ‘The Drowsman’. Now they are preparing for ‘The Sublet’ to make its European debut at the Razor Reel Film Festival on November 7th, followed by the North American premiere at the Whistler Film Festival this December. ‘The Sublet’ is psychological-thriller that follows Joanna, a new mom, who is struggling with postpartum depression, while she and her baby spend their time alone in a odd sublet apartment. Joanna’s husband neglects her and their child preferring to spend long hours at work. Joanna soon discovers that their apartment has a dark violent past. She clings to her sanity as the apartment’s blood soaked past leaks into the present. ‘The Sublet’ was written and directed by John Ainslie (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer) and stars Tianna Nori, Mark Matechuk, Krista Madison and Rachel Sellan. Chad Archibald (Bite, The Drownman) will be serving as producer for the
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We reported back in August that a movie, based on Disney’s Tower of Terror ride, was in the works. Now Disney is moving forward and looking to hire a screen writer for the project, according to Deadline. John August and Jim Whitiker will be producing the film that revolves around five people in a hotel elevator that disappears after it struck by lightening. ‘ The Tower of Terror’, originally based an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’, is getting it’s own film. This is not the first time the subject has come up at Disney headquarters. A movie has been discussed in the past, but was dropped until screenwriter John August, who has worked with Tim Burton several times in the past, pitched the idea again to Disney and they said yes.
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Happy Halloween everyone! One of my favorite holidays personally. Free candy, awesome costumes and marathons of horror movies and games. This entire month I’ve been playing horror games non-stop and I’m going to review the 4 games I played. I was gonna review “Alien: Isolation” this week but since the sequel was just announced so I’m gonna review 2013’s surprise hit “Outlast”. “Outlast” was released to PC in 2013 and came out to great success both financially and critically, even getting better reviews then its competition “Amnesia”. Do to “Outlast”s success Canadian developer Red Barrels ported it to new-gen consoles bringing “Outlast” to a whole new audience and making it a mainstay series. So what is “Outlast” about? In “Outlast” you play as Miles Upshur, a freelance photojournalist who was tipped off by a whistle blower about radical experiments being performed on the mental patients at “Mount Massive Asylum” in Colorado and the world must know what is happening. Miles
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‘I, Frankenstien’s’ Aaron Eckhart stars along side Carice van Houten (Repo Men), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Falling Skies), Keir O’Donnell (American Sniper) and ‘Gothum’s’ David Mazouz in the possession thriller ‘Incarnate’. Bloody-Disgusting reported that WWE’s own Mark Henry will also be making a cameo in the film. ‘Incarnate’ was directed by Brad Peyton (San Andreas) from the screenplay penned by Ronnie Christensen for WWE Studios. In the film Dr. Seth Ember, confined to a wheelchair after a horrific accident, is a “Incarnate” – gifted with the ability to delve into the minds of people possessed in order to exorcise their demons from the inside out. The Vatican enlists him to exorcise a very troubled boy. Ember is shocked to discover that inside the boy is the same entity responsible for the death of his wife and child many years before. Now, with the boy’s life in his hands Ember must find a way to destroy the demon before it takes the
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In ‘Last Shift’, a rookie cop’s first shift is on the last night of a police station’s operation. The rookie has no idea that the night will turn into a nightmare. She must face a horde of hellish visions alone. But can she survive the night and the evil that lurks inside the walls of the station? Juliana Harkavy (Dolphin Tale) plays the role of rookie officer Jessica Loren. ‘Terminator Genisys” actor Joshua Mikel stars along side J. LaRose, Natalie Victoria, Sarah Sculco and Kathryn Kilger in this twisted supernatural tale, written and directed by Anthony DiBlasi. ‘Last Shift’ has just been released on DVD and VOD.
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WE TV has announced that they will air the entire first season of their new supernatural series ‘South of Hell’ marathon style on November 27, Black Friday. The first episode of ‘South of Hell’ will premier at 6pm (est). If you miss the marathon because you’re hitting the sales, don’t panic, after the marathon all of the episodes will be available on VOD. The series is produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse Production and is directed by horror super stars Eli Roth, Ti West, Jennifer Lynch, Rachel Talalay and Jeremiah Chechik. ‘South of Hell’ stars Mena Suvari (American Reunion, Don’t Blink), Zachery Booth (Damages), Bill Irwin (Interstellar), Drew Moerlein (V/H/S), Lydia Hearst (Cabin Fever: Patient Zero), Lamman Rucker (Why Did I Get Married), Paulina Singer (The Intern), Slate Holmgren (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and’Dexter’ actress Lauren Velez. The series takes place in Charleston, South Carolina, where Maria Abascal (Suvari) is a beautiful, 30-year-old demon hunter for fire. Together with her
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One of the scariest games of all time is getting a sequel! Although it was teased last year it wasn’t until this morning where Canadian game developer Red Barrels confirmed that they are making a sequel to their successful survivor horror game “Outlast” nicely titled “Outlast 2”. Not much information has been released other then that this game will deal with the fallout of the events of the first game and that the night vision camera will return. “Outlast” was a first person survival horror game that had you playing a photojournalist tipped off by an unnamed source that very “evil” things are happening at an asylum up in Colorado. Once you arrive there you discover something far beyond evil is happening and now you must run and hide for your life and escape the horrors of the asylum. I’m going to be writing a review for the game tomorrow so if you are interested in “Outlast” definitely check back
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Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game) will star in ‘Croak’, the first live-action film from Oscar-nominated ParaNorman director Sam Fell. Fell will star along side ‘X-Files’ actress Gillian Anderson, Stanley Tucci and Jermine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows), according to THR. Butterfield will be playing a young Grimm Reaper in this horror-comedy. Butterfield’s Reaper character will be haunting everyday people while he controls the exit of souls from our world to the next. The other details of the film are being kept “hush hush”, but with a such an impressive cast, I expect great things from the film. We will give an update when we know more.
Continue reading →
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WARNING SPOILERS !!! Last night was Halloween, and we got one hell of a treat, the premiere of ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’. The series is based on ‘The Evil Dead’, released on January 17, 1981. The film was written and directed by Sam Raimi and starred Bruce Campbell, as the chainsaw wielding badass Ash. The film, followed by 2 more films, quickly became cult classics and has a legion of dedicated fans. ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ begins thirty years after Ash Williams lost his friends at that cabin in the woods. Now, the aging ladies man is working a dead end job. Lucky for him, his co-worker Pablo (Ray Santiago) is looking out for him. Pablo looks up to Ash and does what he can to make sure Ash keeps his job. Ash hooks up with a random woman in a bar right before it closes, while they’re having sex in the bar’s bathroom, he sees her face transform into
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Uncork’d Entertainment’s ‘Crying Wolf‘ will be unleashed in select theaters on December 12th. The British werewolf horror-comedy was written by Andy Davie, Michael Dale, and Tony Jopia, who also directed the movie. ‘Crying Wolf stars Hugh Edwards (‘Apocalypse’),Guy Mannerings (‘Kingsman’), Marco Radice (‘Dark Soulmate’), Gabriela Hersham (Gypsy), Kristofer Dayne (‘Going Home’), Rosie Pearson (‘Razzle Dazzle’), Ian Donnelly (‘Deadtime’), Kimberly Jaraj (‘Knife Edge’), David Sellicks (‘The Zombie King’) and Roger Pinkha. ‘Crying Wolf’ begins in a small English village named Deddington, a town that frequently experiences strange happenings. After the brutal death of a local woman is blamed on a rabid creature, two hunters on a mission of revenge, arrive undercover as camping guides. A group of friends has hired the guides to take them camping, not knowing their secret of being a pack of werewolves is known. On their way to the campsite, they pick up two hitchhikers and one of the group’s stepsister. Tensions run high and things are
Continue reading →
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Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment have a good run this year, with films like ‘Bite’, ‘Antisocial’ and ‘The Drowsman’. Now they are preparing for ‘The Sublet’ to make its European debut at the Razor Reel Film Festival on November 7th, followed by the North American premiere at the Whistler Film Festival this December. ‘The Sublet’ is psychological-thriller that follows Joanna, a new mom, who is struggling with postpartum depression, while she and her baby spend their time alone in a odd sublet apartment. Joanna’s husband neglects her and their child preferring to spend long hours at work. Joanna soon discovers that their apartment has a dark violent past. She clings to her sanity as the apartment’s blood soaked past leaks into the present. ‘The Sublet’ was written and directed by John Ainslie (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer) and stars Tianna Nori, Mark Matechuk, Krista Madison and Rachel Sellan. Chad Archibald (Bite, The Drownman) will be serving as producer for the
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We reported back in August that a movie, based on Disney’s Tower of Terror ride, was in the works. Now Disney is moving forward and looking to hire a screen writer for the project, according to Deadline. John August and Jim Whitiker will be producing the film that revolves around five people in a hotel elevator that disappears after it struck by lightening. ‘ The Tower of Terror’, originally based an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’, is getting it’s own film. This is not the first time the subject has come up at Disney headquarters. A movie has been discussed in the past, but was dropped until screenwriter John August, who has worked with Tim Burton several times in the past, pitched the idea again to Disney and they said yes.
Continue reading →
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Happy Halloween everyone! One of my favorite holidays personally. Free candy, awesome costumes and marathons of horror movies and games. This entire month I’ve been playing horror games non-stop and I’m going to review the 4 games I played. I was gonna review “Alien: Isolation” this week but since the sequel was just announced so I’m gonna review 2013’s surprise hit “Outlast”. “Outlast” was released to PC in 2013 and came out to great success both financially and critically, even getting better reviews then its competition “Amnesia”. Do to “Outlast”s success Canadian developer Red Barrels ported it to new-gen consoles bringing “Outlast” to a whole new audience and making it a mainstay series. So what is “Outlast” about? In “Outlast” you play as Miles Upshur, a freelance photojournalist who was tipped off by a whistle blower about radical experiments being performed on the mental patients at “Mount Massive Asylum” in Colorado and the world must know what is happening. Miles
Continue reading →
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‘I, Frankenstien’s’ Aaron Eckhart stars along side Carice van Houten (Repo Men), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Falling Skies), Keir O’Donnell (American Sniper) and ‘Gothum’s’ David Mazouz in the possession thriller ‘Incarnate’. Bloody-Disgusting reported that WWE’s own Mark Henry will also be making a cameo in the film. ‘Incarnate’ was directed by Brad Peyton (San Andreas) from the screenplay penned by Ronnie Christensen for WWE Studios. In the film Dr. Seth Ember, confined to a wheelchair after a horrific accident, is a “Incarnate” – gifted with the ability to delve into the minds of people possessed in order to exorcise their demons from the inside out. The Vatican enlists him to exorcise a very troubled boy. Ember is shocked to discover that inside the boy is the same entity responsible for the death of his wife and child many years before. Now, with the boy’s life in his hands Ember must find a way to destroy the demon before it takes the
Continue reading →
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In ‘Last Shift’, a rookie cop’s first shift is on the last night of a police station’s operation. The rookie has no idea that the night will turn into a nightmare. She must face a horde of hellish visions alone. But can she survive the night and the evil that lurks inside the walls of the station? Juliana Harkavy (Dolphin Tale) plays the role of rookie officer Jessica Loren. ‘Terminator Genisys” actor Joshua Mikel stars along side J. LaRose, Natalie Victoria, Sarah Sculco and Kathryn Kilger in this twisted supernatural tale, written and directed by Anthony DiBlasi. ‘Last Shift’ has just been released on DVD and VOD.
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WE TV has announced that they will air the entire first season of their new supernatural series ‘South of Hell’ marathon style on November 27, Black Friday. The first episode of ‘South of Hell’ will premier at 6pm (est). If you miss the marathon because you’re hitting the sales, don’t panic, after the marathon all of the episodes will be available on VOD. The series is produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse Production and is directed by horror super stars Eli Roth, Ti West, Jennifer Lynch, Rachel Talalay and Jeremiah Chechik. ‘South of Hell’ stars Mena Suvari (American Reunion, Don’t Blink), Zachery Booth (Damages), Bill Irwin (Interstellar), Drew Moerlein (V/H/S), Lydia Hearst (Cabin Fever: Patient Zero), Lamman Rucker (Why Did I Get Married), Paulina Singer (The Intern), Slate Holmgren (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and’Dexter’ actress Lauren Velez. The series takes place in Charleston, South Carolina, where Maria Abascal (Suvari) is a beautiful, 30-year-old demon hunter for fire. Together with her
Continue reading →
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One of the scariest games of all time is getting a sequel! Although it was teased last year it wasn’t until this morning where Canadian game developer Red Barrels confirmed that they are making a sequel to their successful survivor horror game “Outlast” nicely titled “Outlast 2”. Not much information has been released other then that this game will deal with the fallout of the events of the first game and that the night vision camera will return. “Outlast” was a first person survival horror game that had you playing a photojournalist tipped off by an unnamed source that very “evil” things are happening at an asylum up in Colorado. Once you arrive there you discover something far beyond evil is happening and now you must run and hide for your life and escape the horrors of the asylum. I’m going to be writing a review for the game tomorrow so if you are interested in “Outlast” definitely check back
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