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Wild Eye Releasing has released the first film inspired by the true unsolved case of ‘The Long Island Serial Killer’. The film covers the brutal killings at the hands of a serial killer who targets the sex workers. The film puts a fictitious coed in the path of the brutal killer, who is believed to have killed around fifteen women in real life. The young woman turns to the escorting in desperation, but unwittingly puts herself in the path of the vicious killer. The movie stars Jennifer Polansky, Adam Ginsberg, Dewey Wynn, Renee Kay, Ryan Kaiser, Lindsey DeLuca, Mathew Smolko, Josephine Pizzino and Stav Livine. ‘The Long Island Serial Killer was directed and co-written by Joseph DiPietro. Family and friends of the murdered women are still hunting for answers, but the police have yet to catch the killer, who lured prostitutes to their deaths through the internet and left a string of dead bodies along the beaches of Long Island.
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I reviewed the premiere issue of Death Head here and was excited to read the second installment. I was not disappointed as this title from Dark Horse Comics just keeps getting better. The comic opens up with two utility company workers going down into the sewers to investigate water levels rising due to backed up drains. They find that the tunnel is chock-full of ravenous rats and one of them meets a grisly demise. Next we see Niles at the doctor’s office after coming back from their babymoon. He has a piece of bone embedded in his leg that has to be removed, although it is not his own. He then makes a call to the Shadowcliff National Park Service’s Ranger Station to complain about their vacation from Hell. He is obviously and reasonably upset by their brush with death at the crematorium. Instead of getting some sort of apology, they accuse him of trespassing on private property, and sell
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Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures will teaming up with Gold Circle Entertainment to bring an adaption of the supernatural thriller ‘Don’t Breathe a Word’, written by Jennifer McMahon, to the big screen. According to JoBlo Ghost House and Gold Circle are now searching for a writer to pen the script. The story follows Sam as his twelve year old sister disappears. Years later Sam and his girlfriend Pheobe face a series of unexplained events that challenge Sam’s view of the world. As both Sam and Pheobe begin to question their reality, a terrible promise Sam made long ago comes to light and threatens to destroy everything they know.
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As Marie (Sonia Suhl) approaches her birthday she begins to notice that her body is changing and she does not understand why. As she begins to hunt for the truth her family and their history lead her on frightening journey. The towns’ people, weary after several mysterious deaths, are beginning to notice the changes in Marie, but her father will do all he can to shield her from them for as long as he can. Director Jonas Alexander Arnby breathes life into this unusual werewolf coming of age story, which stars Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Jakob Oftebro and Stig Hoffmeyer. ‘When Animals Dream’ will be released in the U.S. on August 28, 2015.
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Photos from AMC’s new series ‘Preacher‘ have been posted to FaceBook. The photos are the first glimpses of Joseph Gilgun, who will be playing Cassidy, and Ian Colletti, who will have the role of character Eugene Root, also known as “Arseface”. The series follows Preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) as he searches for God, after God has abandoned his post. Jesse must face a host of supernatural enemies with the help of his friends. The show an adaption based on the graphic novel by the same name created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion. Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg will both be serving as producers for ‘Preacher’. Thomas Barbusca, W. Earl Brown, Elizabeth Perkins. Ruth Negga, Lucy Griffiths, Jamie Anne Allman and Derek Wilson also star ‘Preacher’. ‘Preacher’ is set to premier some time in the fall of 2016.
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Carlson Young, who presently stars on MTV’s ‘Scream’, as Brooke Maddox, will be joining the cast of Grimm. The beauty will be playing the role of Selina Golias, a young woman who is caught between a rock and a hard place, when she hides the survivor of an attack that results in the death of her boyfriend. Selina then becomes a target of the Wesen King. The fifth season of Grimm premiers of Friday, October 3oth.
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This October a new zombie movie titled ‘Scout’s Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse’ (also known as Scouts Vs. Zombies) will bring humor to the zombie genre. Christopher Landon, who also directed ‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’, is behind the new film about three Scouts who join forces with a bad-ass waitress to survive when their town is swarmed by zombies. ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ stars Patrick Shchwarzenegger, Tye Sheridan, Halston Sage, David Koechner and Jesica Ahlberg, among others. Zombies aren’t the only thing to fear in this zombie flick, the cast will also have to dodge a horde of crazy kitties. ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ will open in theaters on October 30, you’re not going to want to miss this movie. Enjoy the new trailer, it’s insane!
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Director Roland Emmerich has announced via Twitter that ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ has completed filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ‘Resurgence’ is the long awaited sequel to the 1996 blockbuster about a world wide alien invasion. In the sequel the nations of Earth, using the alien’s technology, have built a defense system knowing that one day the aliens would return, but nothing has prepared them for the fight ahead. It’s up to a few brave men and women to fight back and save the world from extinction. Several on the original movies’ cast are returning for ‘Resurgence’, including Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, Sela Ward and Judd Hirsch. Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Joey King, Maika Monroe, Chalotte Gainsbourg, Brent Spiner, Hays Wellford, Ryan Cartwright, Grace Haung and Gbenga Akinnagbe will star along side the original cast. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ will invade theaters on June 23, 2016.
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Libby Day (Charlize Theron) was only eight years old when her brother Ben was charged with the murder of her mother and two sisters. Twenty-five years later, Libby discovers evidence that Ben may actually be innocent and that the real killer is still out there. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ actor Nicholas Hoult, Sterling Jerin (World War Z), Chloe Grace Moretz (If I Stay), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and ‘Ant-Man’s’ Corey Stoll co-star in this thriller, based on Gillian Flynn’s (Gone Girl) novel. Giles Paquet-Brenner both co-wrote and directed ‘Dark Places’.
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You might recognize the name Robert Bloch, he is the author that wrote the book that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous film about a mamma’s boy in 1959, Psycho. Bloch wrote the sequel in 1982 and yet another book in 1990. Bloch passed away twenty years ago, but according to Entertainment Weekly, another author is picking up where Bloch left off. Chet Williamson is writing the next book in line, Psycho: Sanitarium. The novel is not a sequel, but a prequel to Bloch’s Psycho 2. In Williamson’s new novel Norman Bates is locked in a sanitarium and reveals what took place during those twenty years he was institutionalized. The book’s end will meet the beginning of Bloch’s Psycho 2. Williamson’s Psycho: Sanitarium will be out on shelves on March 1st, 2016.
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Wild Eye Releasing has released the first film inspired by the true unsolved case of ‘The Long Island Serial Killer’. The film covers the brutal killings at the hands of a serial killer who targets the sex workers. The film puts a fictitious coed in the path of the brutal killer, who is believed to have killed around fifteen women in real life. The young woman turns to the escorting in desperation, but unwittingly puts herself in the path of the vicious killer. The movie stars Jennifer Polansky, Adam Ginsberg, Dewey Wynn, Renee Kay, Ryan Kaiser, Lindsey DeLuca, Mathew Smolko, Josephine Pizzino and Stav Livine. ‘The Long Island Serial Killer was directed and co-written by Joseph DiPietro. Family and friends of the murdered women are still hunting for answers, but the police have yet to catch the killer, who lured prostitutes to their deaths through the internet and left a string of dead bodies along the beaches of Long Island.
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsReviews
I reviewed the premiere issue of Death Head here and was excited to read the second installment. I was not disappointed as this title from Dark Horse Comics just keeps getting better. The comic opens up with two utility company workers going down into the sewers to investigate water levels rising due to backed up drains. They find that the tunnel is chock-full of ravenous rats and one of them meets a grisly demise. Next we see Niles at the doctor’s office after coming back from their babymoon. He has a piece of bone embedded in his leg that has to be removed, although it is not his own. He then makes a call to the Shadowcliff National Park Service’s Ranger Station to complain about their vacation from Hell. He is obviously and reasonably upset by their brush with death at the crematorium. Instead of getting some sort of apology, they accuse him of trespassing on private property, and sell
Continue reading →
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Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures will teaming up with Gold Circle Entertainment to bring an adaption of the supernatural thriller ‘Don’t Breathe a Word’, written by Jennifer McMahon, to the big screen. According to JoBlo Ghost House and Gold Circle are now searching for a writer to pen the script. The story follows Sam as his twelve year old sister disappears. Years later Sam and his girlfriend Pheobe face a series of unexplained events that challenge Sam’s view of the world. As both Sam and Pheobe begin to question their reality, a terrible promise Sam made long ago comes to light and threatens to destroy everything they know.
Continue reading →
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As Marie (Sonia Suhl) approaches her birthday she begins to notice that her body is changing and she does not understand why. As she begins to hunt for the truth her family and their history lead her on frightening journey. The towns’ people, weary after several mysterious deaths, are beginning to notice the changes in Marie, but her father will do all he can to shield her from them for as long as he can. Director Jonas Alexander Arnby breathes life into this unusual werewolf coming of age story, which stars Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Jakob Oftebro and Stig Hoffmeyer. ‘When Animals Dream’ will be released in the U.S. on August 28, 2015.
Continue reading →
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Photos from AMC’s new series ‘Preacher‘ have been posted to FaceBook. The photos are the first glimpses of Joseph Gilgun, who will be playing Cassidy, and Ian Colletti, who will have the role of character Eugene Root, also known as “Arseface”. The series follows Preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) as he searches for God, after God has abandoned his post. Jesse must face a host of supernatural enemies with the help of his friends. The show an adaption based on the graphic novel by the same name created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion. Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg will both be serving as producers for ‘Preacher’. Thomas Barbusca, W. Earl Brown, Elizabeth Perkins. Ruth Negga, Lucy Griffiths, Jamie Anne Allman and Derek Wilson also star ‘Preacher’. ‘Preacher’ is set to premier some time in the fall of 2016.
Continue reading →
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Carlson Young, who presently stars on MTV’s ‘Scream’, as Brooke Maddox, will be joining the cast of Grimm. The beauty will be playing the role of Selina Golias, a young woman who is caught between a rock and a hard place, when she hides the survivor of an attack that results in the death of her boyfriend. Selina then becomes a target of the Wesen King. The fifth season of Grimm premiers of Friday, October 3oth.
Continue reading →
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This October a new zombie movie titled ‘Scout’s Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse’ (also known as Scouts Vs. Zombies) will bring humor to the zombie genre. Christopher Landon, who also directed ‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’, is behind the new film about three Scouts who join forces with a bad-ass waitress to survive when their town is swarmed by zombies. ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ stars Patrick Shchwarzenegger, Tye Sheridan, Halston Sage, David Koechner and Jesica Ahlberg, among others. Zombies aren’t the only thing to fear in this zombie flick, the cast will also have to dodge a horde of crazy kitties. ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ will open in theaters on October 30, you’re not going to want to miss this movie. Enjoy the new trailer, it’s insane!
Continue reading →
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Director Roland Emmerich has announced via Twitter that ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ has completed filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ‘Resurgence’ is the long awaited sequel to the 1996 blockbuster about a world wide alien invasion. In the sequel the nations of Earth, using the alien’s technology, have built a defense system knowing that one day the aliens would return, but nothing has prepared them for the fight ahead. It’s up to a few brave men and women to fight back and save the world from extinction. Several on the original movies’ cast are returning for ‘Resurgence’, including Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, Sela Ward and Judd Hirsch. Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Joey King, Maika Monroe, Chalotte Gainsbourg, Brent Spiner, Hays Wellford, Ryan Cartwright, Grace Haung and Gbenga Akinnagbe will star along side the original cast. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ will invade theaters on June 23, 2016.
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Libby Day (Charlize Theron) was only eight years old when her brother Ben was charged with the murder of her mother and two sisters. Twenty-five years later, Libby discovers evidence that Ben may actually be innocent and that the real killer is still out there. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ actor Nicholas Hoult, Sterling Jerin (World War Z), Chloe Grace Moretz (If I Stay), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and ‘Ant-Man’s’ Corey Stoll co-star in this thriller, based on Gillian Flynn’s (Gone Girl) novel. Giles Paquet-Brenner both co-wrote and directed ‘Dark Places’.
Continue reading →
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You might recognize the name Robert Bloch, he is the author that wrote the book that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous film about a mamma’s boy in 1959, Psycho. Bloch wrote the sequel in 1982 and yet another book in 1990. Bloch passed away twenty years ago, but according to Entertainment Weekly, another author is picking up where Bloch left off. Chet Williamson is writing the next book in line, Psycho: Sanitarium. The novel is not a sequel, but a prequel to Bloch’s Psycho 2. In Williamson’s new novel Norman Bates is locked in a sanitarium and reveals what took place during those twenty years he was institutionalized. The book’s end will meet the beginning of Bloch’s Psycho 2. Williamson’s Psycho: Sanitarium will be out on shelves on March 1st, 2016.
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