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‘Idle Hands’ Director’s Zombie Movie ‘Eat, Brains, Love’ Coming To Digital
Grab your Valentine and get ready, Gunpowder & Sky’s horror brand ALTER, DIGA Studios and Full Fathom Five announced today that their teen zombie flick Eat, Brains, Love from director Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, “Scream: The TV Series”) is set to be released globally next week. “The good news: Jake’s dream girl, Amanda, finally knows his name. The bad? It’s because they both contracted a sexually transmitted mysterious zombie virus and devoured half of their senior class. Now they’re on the run from the government as they search for a cure, all while weighing up the existential question of who really deserves to be eaten alive.” Starring Jake Cannavale (Nurse Jackie) as ’Jake’, Angelique Rivera (American Crime) as ‘Amanda’, Sarah Yarkin (American Horror Story) as ‘Cass’ and Alex Stage (“Cloak & Dagger”) as ‘Kyle’, Eat, Brains, Love is a gory and funny zombie-rom-com based on the living dead road trip novel by Jeff Hart. Eat, Brains, Love premieres on iTunes,
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Cast Announced For Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “Midnight Mass”
“Haunting of Hill House” director Mike Flanagan‘s upcoming Netflix horror series “Midnight Mass,” has now officially announced its full cast. The seven-episode series follows an isolated island community experiencing miraculous events, and frightening omens, after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest. Deadline reports that Kate Siegel (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Zach Gilford (The Purge: Anarchy), and Hamish Linklater (“Legion”) star along with Annabeth Gish (The Haunting of Hill House). Michael Trucco (Hunter Killer), Samantha Sloyan (Grey’s Anatomy), Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Hill House), Rahul Abburi (Killer Ransom), Matt Biedel (Altered Carbon), Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep), Rahul Kohli (Supergirl), Kristin Lehman (The Chronicles of Riddick), Crystal Balint (The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco), Robert Longstreet (Doctor Sleep), Igby Rigney (Blue Bloods) and Annarah Shephard round out the cast. Interesting fact: “Midnight Mass” has ties to two other of Flanagan’s films. Midnight Mass is the title of the book written by the character Maddie Young in Hush. The title
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Amazon Adapting Meg Gardiner’s ‘The Dark Corners Of The Night’
Ahead of being published on February 18th, Meg Gardiner‘s novel The Dark Corners of the Night, the third book in a series, has already been picked up for a series adaptation with Amazon Studios acquiring the rights earlier this week, according to Deadline. “The first book, UNSUB, follows a female detective on the trail of an infamous serial killer – inspired by the still-unsolved Zodiac case – who breaks his silence and begins killing again. The detective grew up watching her father destroy himself and his family as he chased the killer, and now finds herself confronting the same monster her father failed to catch.” “In the third book, The Dark Corners of The Night, the heroine has risen through the ranks to become a Behavioral Analysts for the FBI and is on the hunt for a serial killer who targets families, killing the parents and leaving the children alive to witness the unspeakable horror.” Larry Trilling (“Goliath”) will serve
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Set Sail With The True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Dead Sound’ (Trailer)
Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
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Emily Tosta Joins Nicolas Cage In Animatronic Horror ‘Wally’s Wonderland’
Hot off the heels of his role in Color Out of Space Nicolas Cage will next star in the animatronic horror Wally’s Wonderland from director Kevin Lewis (The Drop). he film’s cast continues to build with the latest addition being actress Emily Tosta (“Party of Five”, “Mayans M.C.”). Tosta’s character Liv joins Cage’s character “The Janitor”, in their bid to survive a hellish night trapped inside an abandoned family entertainment center populated by possessed animatronics. Rounding out the cast are Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men), Ric Reitz (The Resident), and Chris Warner (Machete). I’m so excited to be working with Nicolas Cage, who has always been one of my favorite actors, in this totally fun and unique feature film,” said Tosta. When I first saw Emily in Mayans M.C., I was struck by her unique combination of toughness and sensitivity and knew immediately we found our perfect Liv,” said Lewis. We are thrilled to be working with Nicolas,
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The ‘Spiral: From The Book Of Saw’ Trailer Is Badass AF
Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) has returned to the Saw franchise to direct Spiral: From the Book of Saw. The first teaser trailer is here and it looks badass AF. Chris Rock executive produced and stars as a police detective on the hunt for a killer following a series of gruesome murders. Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella also star. The question is, will Tobin Bell make a cameo? In Spiral, a sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game. Marl Burg and Oren Kohls return to
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Blu-ray Review: FLCL: Progressive/Alternative (2018)
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. The original FLCL (pronounced “fooly cooly”… just go with it) was a completely batshit insane coming of age tale featuring a young dude named Naota just trying to get by in the city of Mabase… too bad an alien named Haruko runs his ass over with her vespa, smacks him with her super charged guitar, and discovers a portal in Naota’s head can unleash robots created by Medical Mechanica. See what I mean by “batshit”? But under it all this was the story of a kid who was forced to grow up too fast coming to terms with his lost youth in order to become a well-adjusted adult. Flash forward twenty years, and we now have not one, but two sequel series, Progressive and Alternative by name (both available on one handy-dandy Blu-ray release
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Psychological Horror Game ‘Someday You’ll Return’ Gets Release Date
Today CBE Software has announced an update about their upcoming story-driven psychological horror game Someday You’ll Return, its release date for PC! Console players don’t have to worry; the game will be coming later in 2020. Along with the release date comes a new trailer showing more of what players will be expecting as they play as Daniel, a father looking for his missing daughter Stela who ran away from home. Daniel’s search soon brings him to the Moravian forests, a place from his past where he swore he would never return to. In Someday You’ll Return, players will experience all sorts of game mechanics such as crafting, herbalism, stealth, tracking, climbing, interacting with an in-game Smartphone, and a karmic system that will affect the game’s ending. The game’s setting is unique as it takes place in the Czech Republic and features references to 9th-century tales and locations. Someday You’ll Return will be coming to PC April 14th, 2020 and
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A First Look At Steven Kostanski’s ‘Psycho Goreman’
We’ve got the first images from director Steven Kostanski‘s (The Void, Leprechaun) new horror-comedy Psycho Goreman (via Bloody Disgusting). Set in small-town suburbia, the movie follows two kids, Mimi and Luke as they discover the tomb of a sleeping alien warlord whose only goal is to destroy the entire universe. The children find the magical gemstone allowing them to control the creature and embark on a crazy adventure full of cosmic action and comedy. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks star in this flick that somehow carries a PG rating and an 80s feel. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks, the programmer of the Toronto film festival’s Midnight Madness section, produced Psycho Goreman along with Stuart F. Andrews, Shannon Hanmer, and Steve Kostanski. Jesse Kristensen, and Peter Kuplowsky executive produce. Take a look at some of the first images.
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MidWest WeirdFest First Wave Announcement Promises Aliens, Monsters, Cryptids, and Demons
MidWest WeirdFest— a cinematic celebration of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird — has announced its first programming wave for 2020. The fourth annual installment of the festival takes place March 6–8, 2020 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. “MidWest WeirdFest is back with the type of cutting edge genre, paranormal, and underground cinema that our regular attendees have come to expect, and that first-time fest-goers are going to adore,” said festival founder and programming director Dean Bertram. “We are delighted to announce this year’s first wave of feature programming. From murderous puppets and ghostly encounters, through legendary beasties and UFOs, to Lovecraftian nightmares and serial killers, the festival’s 2020 program is loaded with weirdness — some of it real, some of it imagined, and much of it from that mysterious twilight territory that lays in between.” The first seven feature films announced follow. I saw Puppet Killer as part of Canada’s Blood in
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‘Idle Hands’ Director’s Zombie Movie ‘Eat, Brains, Love’ Coming To Digital
Grab your Valentine and get ready, Gunpowder & Sky’s horror brand ALTER, DIGA Studios and Full Fathom Five announced today that their teen zombie flick Eat, Brains, Love from director Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, “Scream: The TV Series”) is set to be released globally next week. “The good news: Jake’s dream girl, Amanda, finally knows his name. The bad? It’s because they both contracted a sexually transmitted mysterious zombie virus and devoured half of their senior class. Now they’re on the run from the government as they search for a cure, all while weighing up the existential question of who really deserves to be eaten alive.” Starring Jake Cannavale (Nurse Jackie) as ’Jake’, Angelique Rivera (American Crime) as ‘Amanda’, Sarah Yarkin (American Horror Story) as ‘Cass’ and Alex Stage (“Cloak & Dagger”) as ‘Kyle’, Eat, Brains, Love is a gory and funny zombie-rom-com based on the living dead road trip novel by Jeff Hart. Eat, Brains, Love premieres on iTunes,
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Cast Announced For Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “Midnight Mass”
“Haunting of Hill House” director Mike Flanagan‘s upcoming Netflix horror series “Midnight Mass,” has now officially announced its full cast. The seven-episode series follows an isolated island community experiencing miraculous events, and frightening omens, after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest. Deadline reports that Kate Siegel (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Zach Gilford (The Purge: Anarchy), and Hamish Linklater (“Legion”) star along with Annabeth Gish (The Haunting of Hill House). Michael Trucco (Hunter Killer), Samantha Sloyan (Grey’s Anatomy), Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Hill House), Rahul Abburi (Killer Ransom), Matt Biedel (Altered Carbon), Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep), Rahul Kohli (Supergirl), Kristin Lehman (The Chronicles of Riddick), Crystal Balint (The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco), Robert Longstreet (Doctor Sleep), Igby Rigney (Blue Bloods) and Annarah Shephard round out the cast. Interesting fact: “Midnight Mass” has ties to two other of Flanagan’s films. Midnight Mass is the title of the book written by the character Maddie Young in Hush. The title
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Amazon Adapting Meg Gardiner’s ‘The Dark Corners Of The Night’
Ahead of being published on February 18th, Meg Gardiner‘s novel The Dark Corners of the Night, the third book in a series, has already been picked up for a series adaptation with Amazon Studios acquiring the rights earlier this week, according to Deadline. “The first book, UNSUB, follows a female detective on the trail of an infamous serial killer – inspired by the still-unsolved Zodiac case – who breaks his silence and begins killing again. The detective grew up watching her father destroy himself and his family as he chased the killer, and now finds herself confronting the same monster her father failed to catch.” “In the third book, The Dark Corners of The Night, the heroine has risen through the ranks to become a Behavioral Analysts for the FBI and is on the hunt for a serial killer who targets families, killing the parents and leaving the children alive to witness the unspeakable horror.” Larry Trilling (“Goliath”) will serve
Continue reading →
Set Sail With The True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Dead Sound’ (Trailer)
Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
Continue reading →
Emily Tosta Joins Nicolas Cage In Animatronic Horror ‘Wally’s Wonderland’
Hot off the heels of his role in Color Out of Space Nicolas Cage will next star in the animatronic horror Wally’s Wonderland from director Kevin Lewis (The Drop). he film’s cast continues to build with the latest addition being actress Emily Tosta (“Party of Five”, “Mayans M.C.”). Tosta’s character Liv joins Cage’s character “The Janitor”, in their bid to survive a hellish night trapped inside an abandoned family entertainment center populated by possessed animatronics. Rounding out the cast are Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men), Ric Reitz (The Resident), and Chris Warner (Machete). I’m so excited to be working with Nicolas Cage, who has always been one of my favorite actors, in this totally fun and unique feature film,” said Tosta. When I first saw Emily in Mayans M.C., I was struck by her unique combination of toughness and sensitivity and knew immediately we found our perfect Liv,” said Lewis. We are thrilled to be working with Nicolas,
Continue reading →
The ‘Spiral: From The Book Of Saw’ Trailer Is Badass AF
Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) has returned to the Saw franchise to direct Spiral: From the Book of Saw. The first teaser trailer is here and it looks badass AF. Chris Rock executive produced and stars as a police detective on the hunt for a killer following a series of gruesome murders. Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella also star. The question is, will Tobin Bell make a cameo? In Spiral, a sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game. Marl Burg and Oren Kohls return to
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: FLCL: Progressive/Alternative (2018)
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. The original FLCL (pronounced “fooly cooly”… just go with it) was a completely batshit insane coming of age tale featuring a young dude named Naota just trying to get by in the city of Mabase… too bad an alien named Haruko runs his ass over with her vespa, smacks him with her super charged guitar, and discovers a portal in Naota’s head can unleash robots created by Medical Mechanica. See what I mean by “batshit”? But under it all this was the story of a kid who was forced to grow up too fast coming to terms with his lost youth in order to become a well-adjusted adult. Flash forward twenty years, and we now have not one, but two sequel series, Progressive and Alternative by name (both available on one handy-dandy Blu-ray release
Continue reading →
Psychological Horror Game ‘Someday You’ll Return’ Gets Release Date
Today CBE Software has announced an update about their upcoming story-driven psychological horror game Someday You’ll Return, its release date for PC! Console players don’t have to worry; the game will be coming later in 2020. Along with the release date comes a new trailer showing more of what players will be expecting as they play as Daniel, a father looking for his missing daughter Stela who ran away from home. Daniel’s search soon brings him to the Moravian forests, a place from his past where he swore he would never return to. In Someday You’ll Return, players will experience all sorts of game mechanics such as crafting, herbalism, stealth, tracking, climbing, interacting with an in-game Smartphone, and a karmic system that will affect the game’s ending. The game’s setting is unique as it takes place in the Czech Republic and features references to 9th-century tales and locations. Someday You’ll Return will be coming to PC April 14th, 2020 and
Continue reading →
A First Look At Steven Kostanski’s ‘Psycho Goreman’
We’ve got the first images from director Steven Kostanski‘s (The Void, Leprechaun) new horror-comedy Psycho Goreman (via Bloody Disgusting). Set in small-town suburbia, the movie follows two kids, Mimi and Luke as they discover the tomb of a sleeping alien warlord whose only goal is to destroy the entire universe. The children find the magical gemstone allowing them to control the creature and embark on a crazy adventure full of cosmic action and comedy. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks star in this flick that somehow carries a PG rating and an 80s feel. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber, and Adam Brooks, the programmer of the Toronto film festival’s Midnight Madness section, produced Psycho Goreman along with Stuart F. Andrews, Shannon Hanmer, and Steve Kostanski. Jesse Kristensen, and Peter Kuplowsky executive produce. Take a look at some of the first images.
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MidWest WeirdFest First Wave Announcement Promises Aliens, Monsters, Cryptids, and Demons
MidWest WeirdFest— a cinematic celebration of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird — has announced its first programming wave for 2020. The fourth annual installment of the festival takes place March 6–8, 2020 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. “MidWest WeirdFest is back with the type of cutting edge genre, paranormal, and underground cinema that our regular attendees have come to expect, and that first-time fest-goers are going to adore,” said festival founder and programming director Dean Bertram. “We are delighted to announce this year’s first wave of feature programming. From murderous puppets and ghostly encounters, through legendary beasties and UFOs, to Lovecraftian nightmares and serial killers, the festival’s 2020 program is loaded with weirdness — some of it real, some of it imagined, and much of it from that mysterious twilight territory that lays in between.” The first seven feature films announced follow. I saw Puppet Killer as part of Canada’s Blood in
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