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Charles Manson Docuseries “Helter Skelter” On The Way From Epix
The public’s interest in serial killers continues to drive studios to create new documentaries. The latest is Epix’s “Helter Skelter” which is set to debut this June. . The six-part series will take an in-depth look into “the story of how Charles Manson and his cult terrorized California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” Deadline reports, “It will be a comprehensive telling of the Manson Family history, featuring never-before-accessed interviews from former family members and journalists first on the scene and in the courtroom, with archival footage and newly-unearthed images.” The docuseries is from Lesley Chilcott, Berlanti Productions, Rogue Atlas Productions, and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. “Helter Skelter” will premiere on June 14th on Epix.
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‘The Others’ Getting A Reboot With A Contemporary Twist
Nearly twenty years after its release, Alejandro Amenábar’s haunting film The Others is getting a reboot with a contemporary twist, according to Deadline. Released back in 2001, the original supernatural film centers on Grace (Nicole Kidman), a mother of two struggling to take care of her children while waiting for her husband to return for fighting in WWII. After the arrival of three servants, Grace’s world begins to fall apart as terrible secrets begin to surface. Sentient Entertainment is producing the film and plan to “reinvent and modernize” the terrifying classic.
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Season 2 Trailer For “Homecoming” Introduces Janelle Monáe
The trailer is here for the second season of Amazon Prime’s hit original series “Homecoming,” introducing us to a new and exciting new star, Janelle Monáe. Her character wakes in a rowboat adrift a lake, with no memory of how she got there — or even who she is. Her ensuing search for identity will lead her into the heart of the Geist Group, the unconventional wellness company behind the Homecoming Initiative. The second season finds Stephan James reprising his role as Walter Cruz, who is trying to build a new life following the traumas of war and the Homecoming Initiative when he begins to realize that there’s an even more insidious version of the program underway – if only he can remember. Hong Chau returns as Audrey Temple, an anonymous underling at Geist who finds herself thrust into unexpected positions at the top of the corporate ladder. Joining the cast for season Two are Oscar-winner Chris Cooper as Leonard
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This Friday ‘We Summon The Darkness’ Star Doing Live IG Q&A
To celebrate the release of Marc Meyers‘ We Summon the Darkness, Alexandra Daddario, star of this fun flick, is taking to Instagram for a LIVE Q&A! That’s right, you can ask the devilish diva about the movie the same day as it’s released! “On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.” Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, San Andreas) stars alongside Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa, Jackass), Keean Johnson (Midway), Maddie Hasson (“Impulse”), Logan Miller (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Amy Forsyth (Hell Fest) and Austin Swift (Live by Night) star in the film written by Alan Trezza (Burying the Ex).
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You Can’t Escape ‘Jack-In-The-Box’ This May
From writer-director Lawrence Fowler comes the coulrophobic nightmare Jack-In-The-Box starring Ethan Taylor, Robert Nairne, and Lucy-Jane Quinlan. “When a museum is donated a vintage Jack-In-The-Box, it’s not long before staff member Casey starts to think that the creepy clown doll inside has a life of its own. As he discovers his colleagues are dying, one by one, Casey realizes it’s up to him to find a way to end the nightmare or become another victim of the box’s curse.” Produced by Geoff Fowler and Lawrence Fowler, Jack-In-The-Box pops up on DVD, VOD, and Digital HD on May 5, 2020, from 4Digital Media.
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Tyler Mane & Scout Taylor-Compton Take A Trip Down ‘Penance Lane’
From director Peter Engert (Aftermath) comes Penance Lane, starring horror icons Tyler Mane (Halloween 1 & 2) and Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween 1 & 2). The action-packed horror film tells the harrowing story of Crimson Matthews, a hardened criminal fresh out of the joint who takes a job as a handyman in a dilapidated house; but the twisted horrors he finds inside are enough to send anyone running. So why does he stay? John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and Have Nots, WB’s Series Smallville), Daniel Roebuck (Getting Grace), William Tokarsky (Jumanji), Renae Geerlings (Halloween II), Travis Love (Black Panther) also star along with WWE Hall of Famers Booker T. Huffman and Diamond Dallas Page. Munier Sharrief, Renae Geerlings, Matt Granger, and Mikey Granger penned the script for the film produced by Mane, Geerling, Jared Safier, Michael Leavy, Steve Della Salla, and Jason Leavy. Penance Lane is be released on VOD on April 21st, 2020.
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Movie Review: The Perished
Writer/director Paddy Murphy’s The Perished is a horror film that explores the religious and social controversies in his native Ireland regarding abortion — which was illegal there until quite recently — and the stigma that it carries, but the film is easily relatable to viewers outside that country who bring their own differing viewpoints to it. It delivers as a body horror film and a monster movie with a decidedly creepy creature. Sarah (Courtney McKeon) is a young woman who accidentally gets pregnant by her boyfriend Shane (Fiach Kunz). During the same conversation when she planned to tell him about it, he dumps her before she can break the news. Not wanting a child at this point in her life, she travels alone to England to have an abortion. Her strictly religious mother Elaine (Noelle Clarke) finds out and kicks her out of the house in an uproar for bringing shame to their family as Sarah’s meek father Richard (Conor
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Movie Review: Penance Lane (2020)
Crimson Matthews (Tyler Mane), is one hard-ass ex-con who is trying his beastly best to turn over a new leaf. To that end he takes on a job as a handyman of sorts working in an arcane abode down Penance Lane way. As fate, and horror tropes, would have it, ol’ cray-cray Crimson discovers that demonic dwelling is home to it’s fair share of deep, dark sinister secrets… secrets the town is none to pleased to have discovered… and they’ll do anything to make sure they remain hidden in the shadows. Has Crimson traded one prison for another as the house begins to gain a hold on our hero? Let’s kick out the fuckin’ joltin’ jams of Penance Lane with some preternatural positives, shall we? First up, the cast assembled here is absolutely first rate. We get Mane (he of Rob Zombie’s Halloween remakes, and the first X-Men flick, who also produced this freaky fracas) as our oddly named hero,
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Secrets Are Buried In The ‘Union Bridge’ Trailer
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North America rights to the Lynchian southern gothic thriller Union Bridge, the debut feature from writer-director Brian Levin. The new teaser trailer. The film follows Will Shipe, the scion of a powerful family living near the Mason Dixon line, as he moves back home after years in the city. His old friend Nick, who still lives in town, is feverishly digging in the land because of a vision he can’t escape. What is buried in this small town and the events around it has repercussions that affect many people. Most of all, Will Shipe, and the past and future of his legacy. Union Bridge held its World Premiere at the New Filmmakers NY Film Festival and stars Scott Friend (Fourteen), Emma Duncan (“Chicago Med”), Alex Breaux (Depraved, When They See Us), and Elisabeth Noone (“The Wire”). The film is proudly produced by Lucie Elwes, alongside Levin. Breaking Glass acquired rights to the film in March
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Movie Review: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020)
The new doc Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, hosted by Dr. Steven Greer, the world’s foremost authority on all things spaceman related, puts both spiritual belief is being utilized to contact extraterrestrials. Over the course of two hours we are witness to countless footage of alleged spacecraft, interviews, and tales of those that pilot those strange vehicles… and these are not conversations with any ol’ crackpots; no the folks talked to here are some real big brain cats, ya dig? So with all of that intellectual weight behind it, does this doc make the tales presented believable? I have no idea… hows that for a non-answer cats n’ creeps? For real though, if you are a die-hard U.F.O. skeptic, I doubt the evidence presented here will change your mind, but if you like to hold the belief that there is something out there, than this flick is a whole mess of speculative fun! Comprised of a sort of New
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Charles Manson Docuseries “Helter Skelter” On The Way From Epix
The public’s interest in serial killers continues to drive studios to create new documentaries. The latest is Epix’s “Helter Skelter” which is set to debut this June. . The six-part series will take an in-depth look into “the story of how Charles Manson and his cult terrorized California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” Deadline reports, “It will be a comprehensive telling of the Manson Family history, featuring never-before-accessed interviews from former family members and journalists first on the scene and in the courtroom, with archival footage and newly-unearthed images.” The docuseries is from Lesley Chilcott, Berlanti Productions, Rogue Atlas Productions, and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. “Helter Skelter” will premiere on June 14th on Epix.
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‘The Others’ Getting A Reboot With A Contemporary Twist
Nearly twenty years after its release, Alejandro Amenábar’s haunting film The Others is getting a reboot with a contemporary twist, according to Deadline. Released back in 2001, the original supernatural film centers on Grace (Nicole Kidman), a mother of two struggling to take care of her children while waiting for her husband to return for fighting in WWII. After the arrival of three servants, Grace’s world begins to fall apart as terrible secrets begin to surface. Sentient Entertainment is producing the film and plan to “reinvent and modernize” the terrifying classic.
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Season 2 Trailer For “Homecoming” Introduces Janelle Monáe
The trailer is here for the second season of Amazon Prime’s hit original series “Homecoming,” introducing us to a new and exciting new star, Janelle Monáe. Her character wakes in a rowboat adrift a lake, with no memory of how she got there — or even who she is. Her ensuing search for identity will lead her into the heart of the Geist Group, the unconventional wellness company behind the Homecoming Initiative. The second season finds Stephan James reprising his role as Walter Cruz, who is trying to build a new life following the traumas of war and the Homecoming Initiative when he begins to realize that there’s an even more insidious version of the program underway – if only he can remember. Hong Chau returns as Audrey Temple, an anonymous underling at Geist who finds herself thrust into unexpected positions at the top of the corporate ladder. Joining the cast for season Two are Oscar-winner Chris Cooper as Leonard
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This Friday ‘We Summon The Darkness’ Star Doing Live IG Q&A
To celebrate the release of Marc Meyers‘ We Summon the Darkness, Alexandra Daddario, star of this fun flick, is taking to Instagram for a LIVE Q&A! That’s right, you can ask the devilish diva about the movie the same day as it’s released! “On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.” Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, San Andreas) stars alongside Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa, Jackass), Keean Johnson (Midway), Maddie Hasson (“Impulse”), Logan Miller (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Amy Forsyth (Hell Fest) and Austin Swift (Live by Night) star in the film written by Alan Trezza (Burying the Ex).
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You Can’t Escape ‘Jack-In-The-Box’ This May
From writer-director Lawrence Fowler comes the coulrophobic nightmare Jack-In-The-Box starring Ethan Taylor, Robert Nairne, and Lucy-Jane Quinlan. “When a museum is donated a vintage Jack-In-The-Box, it’s not long before staff member Casey starts to think that the creepy clown doll inside has a life of its own. As he discovers his colleagues are dying, one by one, Casey realizes it’s up to him to find a way to end the nightmare or become another victim of the box’s curse.” Produced by Geoff Fowler and Lawrence Fowler, Jack-In-The-Box pops up on DVD, VOD, and Digital HD on May 5, 2020, from 4Digital Media.
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Tyler Mane & Scout Taylor-Compton Take A Trip Down ‘Penance Lane’
From director Peter Engert (Aftermath) comes Penance Lane, starring horror icons Tyler Mane (Halloween 1 & 2) and Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween 1 & 2). The action-packed horror film tells the harrowing story of Crimson Matthews, a hardened criminal fresh out of the joint who takes a job as a handyman in a dilapidated house; but the twisted horrors he finds inside are enough to send anyone running. So why does he stay? John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and Have Nots, WB’s Series Smallville), Daniel Roebuck (Getting Grace), William Tokarsky (Jumanji), Renae Geerlings (Halloween II), Travis Love (Black Panther) also star along with WWE Hall of Famers Booker T. Huffman and Diamond Dallas Page. Munier Sharrief, Renae Geerlings, Matt Granger, and Mikey Granger penned the script for the film produced by Mane, Geerling, Jared Safier, Michael Leavy, Steve Della Salla, and Jason Leavy. Penance Lane is be released on VOD on April 21st, 2020.
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Movie Review: The Perished
Writer/director Paddy Murphy’s The Perished is a horror film that explores the religious and social controversies in his native Ireland regarding abortion — which was illegal there until quite recently — and the stigma that it carries, but the film is easily relatable to viewers outside that country who bring their own differing viewpoints to it. It delivers as a body horror film and a monster movie with a decidedly creepy creature. Sarah (Courtney McKeon) is a young woman who accidentally gets pregnant by her boyfriend Shane (Fiach Kunz). During the same conversation when she planned to tell him about it, he dumps her before she can break the news. Not wanting a child at this point in her life, she travels alone to England to have an abortion. Her strictly religious mother Elaine (Noelle Clarke) finds out and kicks her out of the house in an uproar for bringing shame to their family as Sarah’s meek father Richard (Conor
Continue reading →
Movie Review: Penance Lane (2020)
Crimson Matthews (Tyler Mane), is one hard-ass ex-con who is trying his beastly best to turn over a new leaf. To that end he takes on a job as a handyman of sorts working in an arcane abode down Penance Lane way. As fate, and horror tropes, would have it, ol’ cray-cray Crimson discovers that demonic dwelling is home to it’s fair share of deep, dark sinister secrets… secrets the town is none to pleased to have discovered… and they’ll do anything to make sure they remain hidden in the shadows. Has Crimson traded one prison for another as the house begins to gain a hold on our hero? Let’s kick out the fuckin’ joltin’ jams of Penance Lane with some preternatural positives, shall we? First up, the cast assembled here is absolutely first rate. We get Mane (he of Rob Zombie’s Halloween remakes, and the first X-Men flick, who also produced this freaky fracas) as our oddly named hero,
Continue reading →
Secrets Are Buried In The ‘Union Bridge’ Trailer
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North America rights to the Lynchian southern gothic thriller Union Bridge, the debut feature from writer-director Brian Levin. The new teaser trailer. The film follows Will Shipe, the scion of a powerful family living near the Mason Dixon line, as he moves back home after years in the city. His old friend Nick, who still lives in town, is feverishly digging in the land because of a vision he can’t escape. What is buried in this small town and the events around it has repercussions that affect many people. Most of all, Will Shipe, and the past and future of his legacy. Union Bridge held its World Premiere at the New Filmmakers NY Film Festival and stars Scott Friend (Fourteen), Emma Duncan (“Chicago Med”), Alex Breaux (Depraved, When They See Us), and Elisabeth Noone (“The Wire”). The film is proudly produced by Lucie Elwes, alongside Levin. Breaking Glass acquired rights to the film in March
Continue reading →
Movie Review: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020)
The new doc Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, hosted by Dr. Steven Greer, the world’s foremost authority on all things spaceman related, puts both spiritual belief is being utilized to contact extraterrestrials. Over the course of two hours we are witness to countless footage of alleged spacecraft, interviews, and tales of those that pilot those strange vehicles… and these are not conversations with any ol’ crackpots; no the folks talked to here are some real big brain cats, ya dig? So with all of that intellectual weight behind it, does this doc make the tales presented believable? I have no idea… hows that for a non-answer cats n’ creeps? For real though, if you are a die-hard U.F.O. skeptic, I doubt the evidence presented here will change your mind, but if you like to hold the belief that there is something out there, than this flick is a whole mess of speculative fun! Comprised of a sort of New
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