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Focus Home Interactive has released their third and final episode of their web series showing behind the scenes of the making of their upcoming game, A Plague Tale: Innocence. The final episode titled “Children of the Plague” focuses more on the game’s main antagonists, the hoard of plague-infested rats. The developers at Asobo Studio used their own software to create the hoard of vermin where at times there will be about 5000 rats on the screen, along with being programmed with a “hive mind”, each virtual rat will have its own artificial intelligence and behavior. Spectacularly creepy! Rats for generations have been blamed for the Second Pandemic (Black Death) and have been depicted for a long time as being ravenous hoards attacking at will. Though the idea and imagery of a moving mountain of sleek fur, wormy tails, and deafening squeaks gnawing away at you instill fear and disgust, our own fears give these little dudes a little too much
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have long been attached to the adaptation of Erik Larson’s book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness At the Fair That Changed America. The book, about the true story of serial killer Henry H. Holmes, was going to be adapted for film, but it looks like the plan has changed. It is headed to the small screen instead. Variety is reporting that both DiCaprio and Scorsese will executive produce Hulu‘s series “The Devil in the White City.” “The Devil in the White City” follows “two men, one an architect, and the other Holmes, whose fates were forever linked by The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893: Daile H. Burnham, a brilliant and fastidious architect racing to make his mark on the world and Henry H. Holmes, a handsome and cunning doctor who fashioned his own pharmaceutical “Murder Castle” on the fairgrounds.” Paramount Television will produce, with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, Emma Koskoff,
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Imagine you’re at work one day and by chance, they needed someone to step in and perform a task you were not trained for and you nailed it on your first try. After impressing your coworkers you keep the position and as a result, you won the highest honors for it. This is what happened to Melina Juergens, my personal pick for Women of Horror Month. German-born Melina was working as a video editor for Ninja Theory while they were in the middle of making, what would become, their multi-award-winning video game, Hellbade: Senua’s Sacrifice. When the time came to animate the title character’s movements, Melina stepped in to don the motion capture suit and perform as the game’s heroine Senua, this inadvertently became an audition. Impressing everyone, Melina was now officially playing the title role both voicing and acting out her actions via-motion capture. Adding more to it, her likeness was used for Senua forever cementing her place in
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A documentary film crew travels to an infamous lake to get the real story but find much more than they were bargaining for in the trailer for Michael S. Rodriguez‘s Lake of Shadows: The Legend of Avocado Lake, based on true events. In the film, three aspiring filmmakers venture to a mysterious lake resort to uncover a story on a local legend. As they get closer to the truth, the danger follows. Before they know it they are thrust into a fight for their lives as they discover the truth about Avocado lake. Co-written by Michael S. Rodriguez and Tino Zamora, Lake of Shadows stars Robert LaSardo, Dawna Lee Heising, Felissa Rose, Marv Blauvelt, Elissa Dowling, Debra Lamb, Sarah French, Sheri Davis, Dawn Wildsmith, Gary Lee Vincent, and Michael Wainwright.
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Man, Ronnie Jr. “Butch” DeFeo (John Robinson) has got it tough. His abusive ape of a father (Paul Ben-Victor) treats him like a punching bag (due in no small part to his draft dodging, pot smoking ways)…when he isn’t up to Mob biz that is, his dabbling into the supernatural has left him susceptible to arcane evil from the depths of hell, his girlfriend is on his ass every second (she kinda has a point as Butch chucks her ass out of a car into a huge mud puddle after a mid-blowie, hallucinogenic incest based freak-out…you know, a Tuesday for you boils n’ ghouls no doubt), oh…and there’s a rock solid chance this cat is a full-on lunatic. Before long the paranormal and psychosis begin to take their toll and Butch will be pushed beyond his limits! There’s a lot to dig about The Amityville Murders in my not so humble opinion. For starters, Robinson and Ben-Victor absolutely nail their
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Scotland Yard Inspector O’Neill (Eddie Byrne) is hella pissed due in no small part to his department’s stunning failure in clappin’ some irons on ol’ Saucy Jack (Jack the Ripper to you boils n’ ghouls). To help solve the case O’Neill calls for his old chum, New York City Detective Sam Lowry (Lee Patterson, sporting a 1950’s pompadour that must have been all the rage in 1888). Soon the Dublin Dynamo and…Sam…are balls deep in red herrings and sinister suspects, all of whom could potentially be the horrific hooker hacker. While this is going on, our man Sam gets a case of the hornies for Anne Ford (Betty McDowall), the ward of tight-ass A-number one…namely Dr. Tranter (John Le Mesurier), which goes over with the good Doctor like a rather large turd in a perfectly good punch bowl. Anyway, will our heroes save the day and discover who is behind the murder biz, or will Jack slip silently into the
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“Into Am the Night“, the new series from TNT has just premiered and I ‘d like to share my thoughts with you. The series centers on Pat, a beautiful young woman searching for where she belongs and a family hiding dark secrets. Pat’s mother is a verbally abusive alcoholic who resents her daughter. She blames Pat for her failed dream to become a singer. Despite this, Pat has grown into a sweet, but naive young woman. When she learns that she was adopted she searches through her mother’s things and discovers her birth certificate. Upon ambushing her mother with her discovery she learns that her real name is Fauna Hodel. Desperate to learn more about her family she calls her grandfather George and is invited to visit L.A. Following a fight with her mom she sets off to meet her birth family, not knowing the dangers she will soon face. The series also follows disgraced journalist Jay Singletary (Chris Pine),
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The trailer has arrived for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zaf Efron as infamous killer Ted Bundy. Directed by Joe Berlinger, the trailer gives the impression that the film is more about Bundy’s life than it is about his brutal crimes. You have to admit, Efron’s resemblance to Bundy is uncanny. Lily Collins (Les Misérables) stars as Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundy’s longtime girlfriend and whose point of view the film is told from. John Malkovich plays the role of Judge Edward Cowart, who presided over Bundy’s trial and sentenced him to death, with Jim Parsons in the role of lead prosecutor Larry Simpson. Haley Joel Osment, Angela Sarafyan, Dylan Baker, Jeffrey Donavan, Terry Kinney, and Metallica frontman James Hetfield round out the cast. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile debuts at Sundance this weekend.
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Netflix has a real treat for those of who love true crime, the new, chilling trailer for their four-part series Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. The Ted Bundy Tapes centers on the infamous serial killer who used his good looks, charisma, and charm to lure and slaughter over 30 women in the ’70s. Directed by Joe Berlinger, the documentary series features exclusive interviews with the killer conducted during the 1980s while he was on death row in Florida awaiting his execution. The series promises to give new insight into the mind of the killer and delve into his motivations for killing. Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes premieres on the 30th anniversary of Bundy’s execution, January 24th.
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This January and February the Travel Channel has a ton of intriguing, pulse-pounding new series and premieres in store for viewers including the return of “Kindred Spirits“; Pat Spain searches for Ireland’s stolen Crown Jewels on a new episode of “Legend Hunter” and Don Wildman investigates Watergate on a “Mysteries at the Museum” Special. Take a look at what’s headed your way. NEW EPISODES LOST GOLD Travel Channel’s new series, “Lost Gold,” follows brothers Josh and Jesse Feldman as they seek out America’s most fabled missing treasures. With reverence for the past and a taste for adventure, the brothers track legends and clues across the vast American Frontier in search of unfound riches. To unravel these more than 100-year-old mysteries, Josh and Jesse put themselves in the shoes of the people of the era: they search for old maps, diaries, and records, as well as connect with locals who have intimate knowledge of the area. With a family history steeped
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Focus Home Interactive has released their third and final episode of their web series showing behind the scenes of the making of their upcoming game, A Plague Tale: Innocence. The final episode titled “Children of the Plague” focuses more on the game’s main antagonists, the hoard of plague-infested rats. The developers at Asobo Studio used their own software to create the hoard of vermin where at times there will be about 5000 rats on the screen, along with being programmed with a “hive mind”, each virtual rat will have its own artificial intelligence and behavior. Spectacularly creepy! Rats for generations have been blamed for the Second Pandemic (Black Death) and have been depicted for a long time as being ravenous hoards attacking at will. Though the idea and imagery of a moving mountain of sleek fur, wormy tails, and deafening squeaks gnawing away at you instill fear and disgust, our own fears give these little dudes a little too much
Continue reading →
HuluMoviesNewsStreaming TVTrue Story
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have long been attached to the adaptation of Erik Larson’s book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness At the Fair That Changed America. The book, about the true story of serial killer Henry H. Holmes, was going to be adapted for film, but it looks like the plan has changed. It is headed to the small screen instead. Variety is reporting that both DiCaprio and Scorsese will executive produce Hulu‘s series “The Devil in the White City.” “The Devil in the White City” follows “two men, one an architect, and the other Holmes, whose fates were forever linked by The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893: Daile H. Burnham, a brilliant and fastidious architect racing to make his mark on the world and Henry H. Holmes, a handsome and cunning doctor who fashioned his own pharmaceutical “Murder Castle” on the fairgrounds.” Paramount Television will produce, with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, Emma Koskoff,
Continue reading →
GamingIndieProductTrue Story
Imagine you’re at work one day and by chance, they needed someone to step in and perform a task you were not trained for and you nailed it on your first try. After impressing your coworkers you keep the position and as a result, you won the highest honors for it. This is what happened to Melina Juergens, my personal pick for Women of Horror Month. German-born Melina was working as a video editor for Ninja Theory while they were in the middle of making, what would become, their multi-award-winning video game, Hellbade: Senua’s Sacrifice. When the time came to animate the title character’s movements, Melina stepped in to don the motion capture suit and perform as the game’s heroine Senua, this inadvertently became an audition. Impressing everyone, Melina was now officially playing the title role both voicing and acting out her actions via-motion capture. Adding more to it, her likeness was used for Senua forever cementing her place in
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrue Story
A documentary film crew travels to an infamous lake to get the real story but find much more than they were bargaining for in the trailer for Michael S. Rodriguez‘s Lake of Shadows: The Legend of Avocado Lake, based on true events. In the film, three aspiring filmmakers venture to a mysterious lake resort to uncover a story on a local legend. As they get closer to the truth, the danger follows. Before they know it they are thrust into a fight for their lives as they discover the truth about Avocado lake. Co-written by Michael S. Rodriguez and Tino Zamora, Lake of Shadows stars Robert LaSardo, Dawna Lee Heising, Felissa Rose, Marv Blauvelt, Elissa Dowling, Debra Lamb, Sarah French, Sheri Davis, Dawn Wildsmith, Gary Lee Vincent, and Michael Wainwright.
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Man, Ronnie Jr. “Butch” DeFeo (John Robinson) has got it tough. His abusive ape of a father (Paul Ben-Victor) treats him like a punching bag (due in no small part to his draft dodging, pot smoking ways)…when he isn’t up to Mob biz that is, his dabbling into the supernatural has left him susceptible to arcane evil from the depths of hell, his girlfriend is on his ass every second (she kinda has a point as Butch chucks her ass out of a car into a huge mud puddle after a mid-blowie, hallucinogenic incest based freak-out…you know, a Tuesday for you boils n’ ghouls no doubt), oh…and there’s a rock solid chance this cat is a full-on lunatic. Before long the paranormal and psychosis begin to take their toll and Butch will be pushed beyond his limits! There’s a lot to dig about The Amityville Murders in my not so humble opinion. For starters, Robinson and Ben-Victor absolutely nail their
Continue reading →
MoviesReviewsThrillerTrue Story
Scotland Yard Inspector O’Neill (Eddie Byrne) is hella pissed due in no small part to his department’s stunning failure in clappin’ some irons on ol’ Saucy Jack (Jack the Ripper to you boils n’ ghouls). To help solve the case O’Neill calls for his old chum, New York City Detective Sam Lowry (Lee Patterson, sporting a 1950’s pompadour that must have been all the rage in 1888). Soon the Dublin Dynamo and…Sam…are balls deep in red herrings and sinister suspects, all of whom could potentially be the horrific hooker hacker. While this is going on, our man Sam gets a case of the hornies for Anne Ford (Betty McDowall), the ward of tight-ass A-number one…namely Dr. Tranter (John Le Mesurier), which goes over with the good Doctor like a rather large turd in a perfectly good punch bowl. Anyway, will our heroes save the day and discover who is behind the murder biz, or will Jack slip silently into the
Continue reading →
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“Into Am the Night“, the new series from TNT has just premiered and I ‘d like to share my thoughts with you. The series centers on Pat, a beautiful young woman searching for where she belongs and a family hiding dark secrets. Pat’s mother is a verbally abusive alcoholic who resents her daughter. She blames Pat for her failed dream to become a singer. Despite this, Pat has grown into a sweet, but naive young woman. When she learns that she was adopted she searches through her mother’s things and discovers her birth certificate. Upon ambushing her mother with her discovery she learns that her real name is Fauna Hodel. Desperate to learn more about her family she calls her grandfather George and is invited to visit L.A. Following a fight with her mom she sets off to meet her birth family, not knowing the dangers she will soon face. The series also follows disgraced journalist Jay Singletary (Chris Pine),
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailersTrue CrimeTrue Story
The trailer has arrived for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zaf Efron as infamous killer Ted Bundy. Directed by Joe Berlinger, the trailer gives the impression that the film is more about Bundy’s life than it is about his brutal crimes. You have to admit, Efron’s resemblance to Bundy is uncanny. Lily Collins (Les Misérables) stars as Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundy’s longtime girlfriend and whose point of view the film is told from. John Malkovich plays the role of Judge Edward Cowart, who presided over Bundy’s trial and sentenced him to death, with Jim Parsons in the role of lead prosecutor Larry Simpson. Haley Joel Osment, Angela Sarafyan, Dylan Baker, Jeffrey Donavan, Terry Kinney, and Metallica frontman James Hetfield round out the cast. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile debuts at Sundance this weekend.
Continue reading →
DocumentariesMoviesNetflixNewsTrailersTrue CrimeTrue Story
Netflix has a real treat for those of who love true crime, the new, chilling trailer for their four-part series Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. The Ted Bundy Tapes centers on the infamous serial killer who used his good looks, charisma, and charm to lure and slaughter over 30 women in the ’70s. Directed by Joe Berlinger, the documentary series features exclusive interviews with the killer conducted during the 1980s while he was on death row in Florida awaiting his execution. The series promises to give new insight into the mind of the killer and delve into his motivations for killing. Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes premieres on the 30th anniversary of Bundy’s execution, January 24th.
Continue reading →
NewsStreaming TVTravel ChannelTrue Story
This January and February the Travel Channel has a ton of intriguing, pulse-pounding new series and premieres in store for viewers including the return of “Kindred Spirits“; Pat Spain searches for Ireland’s stolen Crown Jewels on a new episode of “Legend Hunter” and Don Wildman investigates Watergate on a “Mysteries at the Museum” Special. Take a look at what’s headed your way. NEW EPISODES LOST GOLD Travel Channel’s new series, “Lost Gold,” follows brothers Josh and Jesse Feldman as they seek out America’s most fabled missing treasures. With reverence for the past and a taste for adventure, the brothers track legends and clues across the vast American Frontier in search of unfound riches. To unravel these more than 100-year-old mysteries, Josh and Jesse put themselves in the shoes of the people of the era: they search for old maps, diaries, and records, as well as connect with locals who have intimate knowledge of the area. With a family history steeped
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