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For the past eight years the town of Downers Grove has suffered a curse, every year just before graduation, one senior dies a bizarre death. Graduation is approaching and Senior Chrissie Swanson (Bella Heathcote) has the nagging feeling it’s her turn. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she suffer the same fate as those Seniors before her? ‘The Curse of Downers Grove’ was directed by Derick Martini based on the script co-written by Martini and Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), based on the novel by Michael Hornburg. The film was produced by Oren Segal, Chiara Trento, Jason Dubin and Anchor Bay. Heathcote, Lucas Till, Tom Arnold, Penelope Mitchell and Kevin Zegers star in this horror-thriller, inspired by true events. ‘The Curse of Downers Grove’ debuts in select theaters August 21st and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 1st.
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“Wolfenstein: The Old Blood” is a stand alone prequel to 2014’s “Wolfenstein: The New Order”. Set in 1946 it features our main protagonist BJ Blazkowics (the shirtless man pictured above) sent undercover into Castle Wolfenstein in order to steal an important file that holds top secret information containing the whereabouts of the evil leader of the Nazi army General Deathshead who’s technical advances are destroying the Allied forces. Finding this file is the miracle the Allies need in order to turn the tide and hope to defeat the Nazis once and for all and it’s all up to BJ and you but of course soon after you infiltrate Castle Wolfenstein everything goes awry and the mission that ensues is fantastic! For those who are unfamiliar with the “Wolfenstein” franchise, It’s considered the king of first person shooters and is always allotted as being the actual very first FPS to ever be made. The story and concept itself are very straight
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Deadline broke the news that Warner Bros. has accepted a pitch from Dwain Worrell, writer of the film ‘Walking the Dead’, to make an adaption of Dante Alighieri’s 14th century epic poem ‘The Divine Comedy’ and will begin with the first of the three books that make the poem, ‘Dante’s Inferno’. The original poem, set in 1300, is split into three parts/books, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the ‘Inferno’ poem Dante, heart broken by the lost of his love, Beatrice, is met by the dead poet Virgil while walking in the woods. In ‘Inferno’ Dante is guided through the nine circles of Hell by Virgil. The film adaption will follow Dante through the nine circles to save the woman he loves. This is where the film will differ from the poem, at no point does Dante seek to save his Beatrice. In fact in the in the poem Beatrice saves Dante at the end of ‘Purgatorio’ and replaces Virgil as
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The Sci-Fi thriller ‘Dark Peak’ follows a group of hikers on Dark Peak exploring the wreckage of a plane wreck. The group encounters a mysterious force. The only surviving member of the group now must convince his rescuers that there is something very wrong on Dark Peak, before it’s to late. The most disturbing aspect of ‘Dark Peak’, it is inspired by a true story. Dark Peak, located in Derbyshire, UK, has been dubbed “The Bermuda Triangle of the North West” . Over fifty planes have crashed on the peak in the past thirty years. Today the peak remains littered with pieces of twisted wreckage, which can be seen in the movie. ‘Dark Peak’ was written by Alistair Audsley and co-written and directed by Ben Jagger. Paul Tucker is producing the film for Belief Films, John Adams will produce under the banner of Angry Badger Pictures, who have yet to announce a release date. https://vimeo.com/84800439
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A few weeks ago I came across a fantastic piece of artwork on Twitter, I immediately followed @OddNMacabre (Sean Wilson) as the days passed and Sean tweeted more of his pieces I always found myself surprised and impressed. Not only are his fan pieces great, his original artwork is fantastic. His pieces are often dark yet vibrant, sometimes creepy, but beautiful. This fall a collection of his work, titles “The Fallen” will be released. Sean remains a bit of mystery and prefers to let his work speak for it’self. He did share with me that his artwork is mainly created digitally. You can see more examples of Sean’s work, order prints and request commissions by visiting his Twitter Page and by emailing him at [email protected].
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Dino! “When Jaws die, nobody cry . When my Kong die, everybody cry.” – Dino DeLaurentiis, producer Younger viewers have almost no idea who legendary producer Dino DeLaurentiis was. Some saw him as the Italian forerunner of Michael Bay; creator of expensive, big budget, soulless films followed by similar producers like Alexander and Ilya Salkind, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, Jerry Bruckheimer as well as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. DeLaurentiis said this about his humble beginnings in film: “After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the
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Derek Connolly, the writer of this year’s blockbuster ‘Jurassic World, has signed on to reopen parts of the script for Universal’s ‘Kong: Skull Island’, which is being directed by Jordon Vogt-Roberts. ‘Kong: Skull Island’ already has an impressive cast, including Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly (Guardians of the Galaxy), Tom Wilkinson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four) and Brie Larson of ’21 Jump Street’. Universal plans to begin filming this October and for the movie to debut in theaters March 10, 2017. In the film a team of explorers investigate a mysterious island, full of creatures, including the king of the Apes.
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Go Go Godzilla “We spared no expense.” – Sir Richard Attenborough, Jurassic Park Rumors circulated Hollywood since the early 1990’s of an American Godzilla movie. Writers and directors left the project and by 1996, Toho and Sony/Tri Star came to terms and the producing team of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich were anointed to bring a full fledged American Godzilla film to the US masses. He would attack New York City; it would boast a big name cast and incorporate state of the art visual effects. There would be no man in a giant rubber suit in this film since Jurassic Park raised the bar for giant reptilian creatures. Toho Knew In the wake of the successful 2014 reboot (which had its own issues), it seems like a cheap shot to take yet another swipe at the much maligned (and deservedly so) 1998 mess. This time it’s to see how this film fits the Cynema paradigm. It’s not Godzilla, it
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‘The Witch’, written and directed by Robert Eggers, premiered at this years’ Sundance Film Festival. Studio A24, the studio behind ‘Ex Machina’, has just released the trailer for this period piece that will be released sometime next year. The trailer is dark, unnerving and teases of the horrors to come. In ‘The Witch’ old traditional fears of magic, witchcraft, and possession meet to make a dark tale that explores one family’s fears and superstitions. ‘The Witch’ stars Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Taylor Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucus Dawson. The movie, set in 1630’s takes place in New England. A farmer has been cast out of a colonial plantation, along with his family. they are forced to move to a remote piece of land bordered by a forest, rumored to be the home of witches and dark magic. Soon, strange things begin to occur, animals act oddly and crops wilt. A child disappears, only to return possessed. As
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Interested in owning a real piece of horror history? How about living in one? If you can come up with $300,000 you can own the infamous home where Buffalo Bill kept, murdered and skinned his victims in the 1990 classic ‘Silence of the Lambs’. Hannibal fans, don’t hyperventilate. The Bimmel house, located at 8 Circle Street, Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, is up for sale by the same owners who owned the home during the filming. Filming at the five bedroom home only took three days, but earned the home a spot on the list of the great homes of horror. If they don’t hand out lotion when they show the home, they’re making a mistake, just saying. If you are interested in making an offer you can contact Berkshire Hathaway Realty .
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For the past eight years the town of Downers Grove has suffered a curse, every year just before graduation, one senior dies a bizarre death. Graduation is approaching and Senior Chrissie Swanson (Bella Heathcote) has the nagging feeling it’s her turn. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she suffer the same fate as those Seniors before her? ‘The Curse of Downers Grove’ was directed by Derick Martini based on the script co-written by Martini and Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), based on the novel by Michael Hornburg. The film was produced by Oren Segal, Chiara Trento, Jason Dubin and Anchor Bay. Heathcote, Lucas Till, Tom Arnold, Penelope Mitchell and Kevin Zegers star in this horror-thriller, inspired by true events. ‘The Curse of Downers Grove’ debuts in select theaters August 21st and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 1st.
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“Wolfenstein: The Old Blood” is a stand alone prequel to 2014’s “Wolfenstein: The New Order”. Set in 1946 it features our main protagonist BJ Blazkowics (the shirtless man pictured above) sent undercover into Castle Wolfenstein in order to steal an important file that holds top secret information containing the whereabouts of the evil leader of the Nazi army General Deathshead who’s technical advances are destroying the Allied forces. Finding this file is the miracle the Allies need in order to turn the tide and hope to defeat the Nazis once and for all and it’s all up to BJ and you but of course soon after you infiltrate Castle Wolfenstein everything goes awry and the mission that ensues is fantastic! For those who are unfamiliar with the “Wolfenstein” franchise, It’s considered the king of first person shooters and is always allotted as being the actual very first FPS to ever be made. The story and concept itself are very straight
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Deadline broke the news that Warner Bros. has accepted a pitch from Dwain Worrell, writer of the film ‘Walking the Dead’, to make an adaption of Dante Alighieri’s 14th century epic poem ‘The Divine Comedy’ and will begin with the first of the three books that make the poem, ‘Dante’s Inferno’. The original poem, set in 1300, is split into three parts/books, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the ‘Inferno’ poem Dante, heart broken by the lost of his love, Beatrice, is met by the dead poet Virgil while walking in the woods. In ‘Inferno’ Dante is guided through the nine circles of Hell by Virgil. The film adaption will follow Dante through the nine circles to save the woman he loves. This is where the film will differ from the poem, at no point does Dante seek to save his Beatrice. In fact in the in the poem Beatrice saves Dante at the end of ‘Purgatorio’ and replaces Virgil as
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The Sci-Fi thriller ‘Dark Peak’ follows a group of hikers on Dark Peak exploring the wreckage of a plane wreck. The group encounters a mysterious force. The only surviving member of the group now must convince his rescuers that there is something very wrong on Dark Peak, before it’s to late. The most disturbing aspect of ‘Dark Peak’, it is inspired by a true story. Dark Peak, located in Derbyshire, UK, has been dubbed “The Bermuda Triangle of the North West” . Over fifty planes have crashed on the peak in the past thirty years. Today the peak remains littered with pieces of twisted wreckage, which can be seen in the movie. ‘Dark Peak’ was written by Alistair Audsley and co-written and directed by Ben Jagger. Paul Tucker is producing the film for Belief Films, John Adams will produce under the banner of Angry Badger Pictures, who have yet to announce a release date. https://vimeo.com/84800439
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A few weeks ago I came across a fantastic piece of artwork on Twitter, I immediately followed @OddNMacabre (Sean Wilson) as the days passed and Sean tweeted more of his pieces I always found myself surprised and impressed. Not only are his fan pieces great, his original artwork is fantastic. His pieces are often dark yet vibrant, sometimes creepy, but beautiful. This fall a collection of his work, titles “The Fallen” will be released. Sean remains a bit of mystery and prefers to let his work speak for it’self. He did share with me that his artwork is mainly created digitally. You can see more examples of Sean’s work, order prints and request commissions by visiting his Twitter Page and by emailing him at [email protected].
Continue reading →
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Dino! “When Jaws die, nobody cry . When my Kong die, everybody cry.” – Dino DeLaurentiis, producer Younger viewers have almost no idea who legendary producer Dino DeLaurentiis was. Some saw him as the Italian forerunner of Michael Bay; creator of expensive, big budget, soulless films followed by similar producers like Alexander and Ilya Salkind, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, Jerry Bruckheimer as well as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. DeLaurentiis said this about his humble beginnings in film: “After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the
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Derek Connolly, the writer of this year’s blockbuster ‘Jurassic World, has signed on to reopen parts of the script for Universal’s ‘Kong: Skull Island’, which is being directed by Jordon Vogt-Roberts. ‘Kong: Skull Island’ already has an impressive cast, including Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly (Guardians of the Galaxy), Tom Wilkinson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four) and Brie Larson of ’21 Jump Street’. Universal plans to begin filming this October and for the movie to debut in theaters March 10, 2017. In the film a team of explorers investigate a mysterious island, full of creatures, including the king of the Apes.
Continue reading →
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Go Go Godzilla “We spared no expense.” – Sir Richard Attenborough, Jurassic Park Rumors circulated Hollywood since the early 1990’s of an American Godzilla movie. Writers and directors left the project and by 1996, Toho and Sony/Tri Star came to terms and the producing team of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich were anointed to bring a full fledged American Godzilla film to the US masses. He would attack New York City; it would boast a big name cast and incorporate state of the art visual effects. There would be no man in a giant rubber suit in this film since Jurassic Park raised the bar for giant reptilian creatures. Toho Knew In the wake of the successful 2014 reboot (which had its own issues), it seems like a cheap shot to take yet another swipe at the much maligned (and deservedly so) 1998 mess. This time it’s to see how this film fits the Cynema paradigm. It’s not Godzilla, it
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‘The Witch’, written and directed by Robert Eggers, premiered at this years’ Sundance Film Festival. Studio A24, the studio behind ‘Ex Machina’, has just released the trailer for this period piece that will be released sometime next year. The trailer is dark, unnerving and teases of the horrors to come. In ‘The Witch’ old traditional fears of magic, witchcraft, and possession meet to make a dark tale that explores one family’s fears and superstitions. ‘The Witch’ stars Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Taylor Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucus Dawson. The movie, set in 1630’s takes place in New England. A farmer has been cast out of a colonial plantation, along with his family. they are forced to move to a remote piece of land bordered by a forest, rumored to be the home of witches and dark magic. Soon, strange things begin to occur, animals act oddly and crops wilt. A child disappears, only to return possessed. As
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Interested in owning a real piece of horror history? How about living in one? If you can come up with $300,000 you can own the infamous home where Buffalo Bill kept, murdered and skinned his victims in the 1990 classic ‘Silence of the Lambs’. Hannibal fans, don’t hyperventilate. The Bimmel house, located at 8 Circle Street, Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, is up for sale by the same owners who owned the home during the filming. Filming at the five bedroom home only took three days, but earned the home a spot on the list of the great homes of horror. If they don’t hand out lotion when they show the home, they’re making a mistake, just saying. If you are interested in making an offer you can contact Berkshire Hathaway Realty .
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