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Survival Horror ‘Black Water: Abyss’ Bares Its Teeth This August
Screen Media has snagged the North American rights to the survival horror Black Water: Abyss ahead of Cannes and has set an August release. The directing-producing team Andrew Traucki (The Reef) and Michael Robertson are behind the sequel to their 2007 film Black Water. Based on a real-life crocodile attack, “Black Water: Abyss follows an adventure-loving couple who convince their friends to explore a remote cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, which starts to flood and find themselves threatened by a pack of apex predators – dangerous and hungry crocodiles. As danger mounts, long-kept secrets emerge and the friends turn on each other in a frantic fight for survival.” The sequel is said to have a similar feel as the original, which was shot with live crocodiles. Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Anthony J. Sharpe, and Benjamin Hoetjes star. Sarah Smith and Ian John Ridley
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Horror Classic ‘The Changeling’ Getting A Remake
For years there have been rumors of a remake of Peter Medak’s 1980 horror classic The Changeling, Now, Deadline has confirmed that it’s finally on its way. The site reports that Finnish filmmaker Anders Engström (“Taboo,” Hanna) will be directing the upcoming remake, produced by Joel B. Michaels. Tab Murphy penned the script. “The film follows a musician who, after the death of his young daughter, returns to his childhood home. After a series of terrifying events, he begins to unlock the mystery of the dead child that haunts his home along with a terrible family secret.” Take a look at the trailer for the original film.
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Sequel To Award-Winning Indie Horror ‘The Wicked One’ Unleashed This Fall
The sequel to 2017’s award-winning indie horror The Wicked One is set to arrive just in time for Halloween. Titled Wicked Ones, the film, written by Nathan Thomas Milliner (The Confession of Fred Krueger) and Torry Jones, picks up ten years after the original ended and follows survivors Adam and Alex who return to where the nightmare started. “While Returning to Carpenter Falls, The Lawson Family come to their final confrontation with The Wicked One, a serial killer with whom their last encounter has haunted them for a decade.” Returning stars include Katie Stewart, Dale Miller, and James Tackett who are joined by Jason Crowe (The Bad Man, Harvest Lake) Roni Jonah (Powerbomb, Savage Vengeance) Morgan Pyle (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile) and Skyler Guthrie (Stage Fright) Jonestown Films and Studio 605. The new film picks up 10 years after the original ended and follows our survivors Adam and Alex who return to where the nightmare started. Wicked Ones
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Blu-ray Review: Universal Horror Collection: Volume 5 (1941 – 1945)
The last four Universal Horror Collections brought to us courtesy of those delightful devils over at Scream Factory have been a putrid potluck of fiendishly fun fright flicks (Don’t believe me? Head here, here, here, and lastly here to read my thoughts for your own sinister self!)! Let’s see if Volume 5 (which features fright flicks starring ghoulish gorillas goin’ apeshit and sultry half-human women) lives up to it’s predecessors! Starting things off we have The Monster and the Girl (1941): Scot Webster (Philip Terry) is a small town rube that attempts to save his sister, Susan (Ellen Drew) from a life of ill-repute at the hands of city slicker gangster W. S. Bruhl (Paul Lukas)… a course of action that finds ol’ single “T” Scot taking the fall for the murder gangster. As is the way of things; Scot is tried, executed, and has his brain placed in the body of a gorilla… it happens more than you think
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Sink Your Teeth Into ‘The Dinner Party’ – Now Out On DVD
Sink your teeth into Miles Doleac‘s The Dinner Party (review), now out on DVD and Digital from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the sophisticated horror, renowned surgeon and culinary enthusiast, Carmine Braun, invites playwright, Jeffrey Duncan, and his wife to join his eccentric friends at their semi-annual dinner party, having promised to fund Duncan’s new play to Broadway. As the evening descends into madness, the group’s true intentions are revealed, along with an ancient secret that will change the Duncans’ lives and fortunes forever. Lindsay Anne Williams, Mike Mayhall, Alli Hart, Ritchie Montgomery, and Miles Doleac (interview) also star. The Dinner Party is now available on DVD and Digital from Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Fandango Now, Xbox, Dish Network, Direct TV, and through local cable providers.
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Fantasia International Film Festival Offers Up World-Class Horror and Genre Cinema in Its First Wave Announcement
The Fantasia International Film Festival, one of the world’s premiere genre film fests, is forging ahead with its first-ever virtual edition so that Canadian movie lovers can partake of the festival’s outstanding programs despite the current pandemic and the uncertainty it brings to the world. The official press release for Fantasia’s 24th edition follows. The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 24th edition as a virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada, with a wild assortment of scheduled screenings, panels, and workshops taking place online from August 20 through September 2, 2020. The decision to launch a digital edition of the famed genre festival was born from Fantasia’s desire to keep the health and safety of its attendees a top priority during the current global health crisis, while still offering daring, much-needed new genre entertainment to residents of Canada and supporting the breakout filmmakers of the year. The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August.
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‘Attraction 2: Invasion’ Lands On Blu-ray This July
Following the international success of Attraction in late 2018, Fedor Bondarchuk‘s follow up film Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms this July. “Two years have passed since an alien spaceship crash-landed in Chertanovo. After her direct contact with extraterrestrial technologies, Julia, a previously ordinary girl, has become an object of study at the Ministry of Defense’s secret labs. While undergoing their analysis, she discovers she is developing seemingly impossible superhuman powers. And soon she finds that not only are her fellow humans out to harness her newfound abilities but that her amazing potential has made her the target of new intergalactic entities, plunging the world into a cosmic threat.” Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Alexander Petrov, Yura Borisov, Oleg Menshikov, and Sergey Garmash star in the Russian film produced by Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andryuschenko, Anton Zlatopolskiy, and Vyatcheslav Murugov. Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms and on Blu-ray and DVD on July 21st,
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Shudder Original ‘The Marshes’ Coming To Blu-ray, DVD, And Digital
RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to The Marshes from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, for release on Blu-ray and DVD. The horror-thriller marks directorial and screenwriting debut of Roger Scott, and stars Dafna Kronental (41, The Menkoff Method), Mathew Cooper (Burning Kiss, “Janet King”), Sam Delich (“Home and Away,” “Mr. Inbetween”), and Eddie Baroo (Son of a Gun, Australia). In The Marshes, when a group of young microbiologists head deep into the Australian wilderness to test water samples, they inadvertently enter the domain of a mysterious local. As they travel through the marshes, he stalks their every move, determined to kill anyone who enters his land. The Marches will be released on VOD, Digital HD, DVD, and Blu-ray on June 16, 2020.
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Movie Review: Vampire Dad (2020)
After a fantastic opening that is the unholy blend of Lichtenstein by way of E.C. Comics we get down to brass tacks with Vampire Dad… Psychologist Dr. Raymond Walenski (Jackson Hurst) is the ultimate early ’60’s father figure; a great husband and father with an ideal suburban lifestyle… but that goes to shit right quick when he’s turned into a bloodsuckin’ fang-banger thanks to the beastly bite of Victoria, the Goddess of the Underworld (Sarah Palmer)! Now that he’s a full-fledged creature of the night, Doc Walenski is offered the position of therapist to the monsters of the world by vicious Victoria; and soon he’s balls deep in the neurotic n’ demonic denizens of the midnight hour… a fact that Walenski’s wife tries to keep from family and neighbor’s alike! If you ever wished The Addams’ Family had a dash more Ozzie and Harriet and a pinch of The Bob Newhart Show then Vampire Dad is the picture for you!
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Rumpelstiltskin: The Tragic Hero
Back in 2017 I wrote an article on Rumpelstiltskin. It was part of a collection (that is slowly ongoing) about how fairy tales are the original horror stories. In that article I called the manikin an “unheralded villain” and wrote about how he tore himself in half in rage when the queen guessed his name. But here is the question: Is Rumpelstiltskin truly evil? Is he a villain? Should he be reviled and cursed? I know that it is easy to villain-ise a little man-troll who threatens to steal children; I know that it is easy to make him a gold-mongering charlatan like in the show ‘Once Upon a Time’ (and Robert Carlyle does an amazing job); I know (as I explained in my other article) that his name is shares etymology with the word poltergeist and it’s hard to put that in a good light; I know it’s easy to fall victim to the motif of a princess always
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Survival Horror ‘Black Water: Abyss’ Bares Its Teeth This August
Screen Media has snagged the North American rights to the survival horror Black Water: Abyss ahead of Cannes and has set an August release. The directing-producing team Andrew Traucki (The Reef) and Michael Robertson are behind the sequel to their 2007 film Black Water. Based on a real-life crocodile attack, “Black Water: Abyss follows an adventure-loving couple who convince their friends to explore a remote cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, which starts to flood and find themselves threatened by a pack of apex predators – dangerous and hungry crocodiles. As danger mounts, long-kept secrets emerge and the friends turn on each other in a frantic fight for survival.” The sequel is said to have a similar feel as the original, which was shot with live crocodiles. Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Anthony J. Sharpe, and Benjamin Hoetjes star. Sarah Smith and Ian John Ridley
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Horror Classic ‘The Changeling’ Getting A Remake
For years there have been rumors of a remake of Peter Medak’s 1980 horror classic The Changeling, Now, Deadline has confirmed that it’s finally on its way. The site reports that Finnish filmmaker Anders Engström (“Taboo,” Hanna) will be directing the upcoming remake, produced by Joel B. Michaels. Tab Murphy penned the script. “The film follows a musician who, after the death of his young daughter, returns to his childhood home. After a series of terrifying events, he begins to unlock the mystery of the dead child that haunts his home along with a terrible family secret.” Take a look at the trailer for the original film.
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Sequel To Award-Winning Indie Horror ‘The Wicked One’ Unleashed This Fall
The sequel to 2017’s award-winning indie horror The Wicked One is set to arrive just in time for Halloween. Titled Wicked Ones, the film, written by Nathan Thomas Milliner (The Confession of Fred Krueger) and Torry Jones, picks up ten years after the original ended and follows survivors Adam and Alex who return to where the nightmare started. “While Returning to Carpenter Falls, The Lawson Family come to their final confrontation with The Wicked One, a serial killer with whom their last encounter has haunted them for a decade.” Returning stars include Katie Stewart, Dale Miller, and James Tackett who are joined by Jason Crowe (The Bad Man, Harvest Lake) Roni Jonah (Powerbomb, Savage Vengeance) Morgan Pyle (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile) and Skyler Guthrie (Stage Fright) Jonestown Films and Studio 605. The new film picks up 10 years after the original ended and follows our survivors Adam and Alex who return to where the nightmare started. Wicked Ones
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Blu-ray Review: Universal Horror Collection: Volume 5 (1941 – 1945)
The last four Universal Horror Collections brought to us courtesy of those delightful devils over at Scream Factory have been a putrid potluck of fiendishly fun fright flicks (Don’t believe me? Head here, here, here, and lastly here to read my thoughts for your own sinister self!)! Let’s see if Volume 5 (which features fright flicks starring ghoulish gorillas goin’ apeshit and sultry half-human women) lives up to it’s predecessors! Starting things off we have The Monster and the Girl (1941): Scot Webster (Philip Terry) is a small town rube that attempts to save his sister, Susan (Ellen Drew) from a life of ill-repute at the hands of city slicker gangster W. S. Bruhl (Paul Lukas)… a course of action that finds ol’ single “T” Scot taking the fall for the murder gangster. As is the way of things; Scot is tried, executed, and has his brain placed in the body of a gorilla… it happens more than you think
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Sink Your Teeth Into ‘The Dinner Party’ – Now Out On DVD
Sink your teeth into Miles Doleac‘s The Dinner Party (review), now out on DVD and Digital from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the sophisticated horror, renowned surgeon and culinary enthusiast, Carmine Braun, invites playwright, Jeffrey Duncan, and his wife to join his eccentric friends at their semi-annual dinner party, having promised to fund Duncan’s new play to Broadway. As the evening descends into madness, the group’s true intentions are revealed, along with an ancient secret that will change the Duncans’ lives and fortunes forever. Lindsay Anne Williams, Mike Mayhall, Alli Hart, Ritchie Montgomery, and Miles Doleac (interview) also star. The Dinner Party is now available on DVD and Digital from Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Fandango Now, Xbox, Dish Network, Direct TV, and through local cable providers.
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Fantasia International Film Festival Offers Up World-Class Horror and Genre Cinema in Its First Wave Announcement
The Fantasia International Film Festival, one of the world’s premiere genre film fests, is forging ahead with its first-ever virtual edition so that Canadian movie lovers can partake of the festival’s outstanding programs despite the current pandemic and the uncertainty it brings to the world. The official press release for Fantasia’s 24th edition follows. The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 24th edition as a virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada, with a wild assortment of scheduled screenings, panels, and workshops taking place online from August 20 through September 2, 2020. The decision to launch a digital edition of the famed genre festival was born from Fantasia’s desire to keep the health and safety of its attendees a top priority during the current global health crisis, while still offering daring, much-needed new genre entertainment to residents of Canada and supporting the breakout filmmakers of the year. The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August.
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‘Attraction 2: Invasion’ Lands On Blu-ray This July
Following the international success of Attraction in late 2018, Fedor Bondarchuk‘s follow up film Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms this July. “Two years have passed since an alien spaceship crash-landed in Chertanovo. After her direct contact with extraterrestrial technologies, Julia, a previously ordinary girl, has become an object of study at the Ministry of Defense’s secret labs. While undergoing their analysis, she discovers she is developing seemingly impossible superhuman powers. And soon she finds that not only are her fellow humans out to harness her newfound abilities but that her amazing potential has made her the target of new intergalactic entities, plunging the world into a cosmic threat.” Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Alexander Petrov, Yura Borisov, Oleg Menshikov, and Sergey Garmash star in the Russian film produced by Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andryuschenko, Anton Zlatopolskiy, and Vyatcheslav Murugov. Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms and on Blu-ray and DVD on July 21st,
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Shudder Original ‘The Marshes’ Coming To Blu-ray, DVD, And Digital
RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to The Marshes from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, for release on Blu-ray and DVD. The horror-thriller marks directorial and screenwriting debut of Roger Scott, and stars Dafna Kronental (41, The Menkoff Method), Mathew Cooper (Burning Kiss, “Janet King”), Sam Delich (“Home and Away,” “Mr. Inbetween”), and Eddie Baroo (Son of a Gun, Australia). In The Marshes, when a group of young microbiologists head deep into the Australian wilderness to test water samples, they inadvertently enter the domain of a mysterious local. As they travel through the marshes, he stalks their every move, determined to kill anyone who enters his land. The Marches will be released on VOD, Digital HD, DVD, and Blu-ray on June 16, 2020.
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Movie Review: Vampire Dad (2020)
After a fantastic opening that is the unholy blend of Lichtenstein by way of E.C. Comics we get down to brass tacks with Vampire Dad… Psychologist Dr. Raymond Walenski (Jackson Hurst) is the ultimate early ’60’s father figure; a great husband and father with an ideal suburban lifestyle… but that goes to shit right quick when he’s turned into a bloodsuckin’ fang-banger thanks to the beastly bite of Victoria, the Goddess of the Underworld (Sarah Palmer)! Now that he’s a full-fledged creature of the night, Doc Walenski is offered the position of therapist to the monsters of the world by vicious Victoria; and soon he’s balls deep in the neurotic n’ demonic denizens of the midnight hour… a fact that Walenski’s wife tries to keep from family and neighbor’s alike! If you ever wished The Addams’ Family had a dash more Ozzie and Harriet and a pinch of The Bob Newhart Show then Vampire Dad is the picture for you!
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Rumpelstiltskin: The Tragic Hero
Back in 2017 I wrote an article on Rumpelstiltskin. It was part of a collection (that is slowly ongoing) about how fairy tales are the original horror stories. In that article I called the manikin an “unheralded villain” and wrote about how he tore himself in half in rage when the queen guessed his name. But here is the question: Is Rumpelstiltskin truly evil? Is he a villain? Should he be reviled and cursed? I know that it is easy to villain-ise a little man-troll who threatens to steal children; I know that it is easy to make him a gold-mongering charlatan like in the show ‘Once Upon a Time’ (and Robert Carlyle does an amazing job); I know (as I explained in my other article) that his name is shares etymology with the word poltergeist and it’s hard to put that in a good light; I know it’s easy to fall victim to the motif of a princess always
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