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Movie Review: A Stranger Among the Living
Henry (Jake Milton) would rather spend his time in the limelight than enriching young minds. To that end, he plays hooky from work to go on an audition an inadvertently initiates Operation: Save Ass as a student goes hog wild shooting up the school. Soon, ol’ Hank makes like Haley Joel circa ’99 and seeing dead folk everywhere. This leads to a bit of the soul searchin’ bag as our hero has to deal with the voices of the dead and the worth of pursuing his desires… oh, and those ghost-toasties are quite miffed because our “hero” knew the shooter was a bit “off”, but never alerted anyone. Smooth move Ex-lax. A Stranger Among the Living is not your average ghost story boils n’ ghouls. Rather, what we get from writer/director Chris Moore is an atmospheric, Twilight Zone style slow burn (at times this works against the film as explained below) that teaches us that people can be haunted as
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Movie Review: The House That Jack Built (2018)
Jack (Matt Dillon) is one of your normal failed architect and arch-sociopath types that you see practically everywhere these days. But this is the 70’s so maybe that was less common then… So Jack; he’s a burgeoning serial killer looking to make one hell of an artistic statement with his murder biz. Over the course of twelve years, Jack builds on his previous mayhem in more and more audacious (read: highly noticeable) ways which attract the attention of the local po-po something fierce. What will fate (and other forces) have in store for Jack? I’m laying it on the line, The House That Jack Built is at times funny, stomach churning, and gore drenched, and at all times ultra-misogynistic, but no matter how brutal things get… and holy fucking fuck do they… it remains relentlessly watchable. The reason for that lies squarely on Matt Dillon. While often depicted as comedic and surface level likable, sympathy is not something we are
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A Lakota Myth Comes To Life In The Trailer For ‘Lore’
This month Indican Pictures is set to unleash the dark horror thriller Lore, heavily influenced by the myths of the Lakota Tribe. In the film, a woman searches for her missing son in a remote wilderness with the help of her estranged husband and a Native American guide. When an evil creature starts to hunt them, their journey becomes a fight for survival. Directed by both Christian Larsen and Brock Manwill, Lore stars Lyndsey Lantz, Max Lesser (“My Best Friend’s Death”), Sean Wei Mah (How the Fiddle Flows) and Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts. We were fortunate enough to have cast members from three different Native American nations…each of them brought authenticity and elevated our film in both performance and spirit.” Larsen and Manwill have stated. They continued saying, “while Lore is meant to be a scary story, our hope is that one can come away from it knowing that no matter what path of life’s questions you find yourself on,
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DVD Review: The Siren (2019)
Pious mute Tom (Evan Dumouchel) goes on a sabbatical to one of those remote lake houses that are all the rage with kids ages 18 to 54. Seems all well and good, but the location is an odd choice for our hero seeing as he had a water related tragedy as a youth that resulted in his current malady. Once he makes the scene he meets Al (MacLeod Andrews), whose husband drowned in the local lake… as have many. Al thinks there’s a mystery afoot… a mystery perhaps related to a woman named Nina (Margaret Ying Drake) who often swims to the cabin and chats with tom who has become all cat with a shiny object with the lass, who as fate and this movie would have it may be more than she seems. So what makes The Siren worth your time? Let’s start with the performances of Dumouchel, Drake, and Andrews. Dumouchel is absolutely amazing to watch in a
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A First Look At Stephen Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories” Revival
Today, we have the first look at the Stephen Spielberg produced reboot/revival of the 1985 sci-fi horror series “Amazing Stories” for Apple TV+. The first image is from the premiere episode titled “The Rift”, directed by Mark Mylod. Kerry Lynn Bishe, Dylan O’Brien, Josh Holloway, Victoria Pedretti, Sasha Alexander, and the late Robert Forster star. Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller is writing the writing scripts for the show’s revival. He will be joined in the writers’ room by Emily Gordon, Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, and Jane Goldman, “Once Upon a Time” creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz serve as executive producers and showrunners for “Amazing Stories”, from Universal TV and Amblin Television. Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz will also executive produce. The original series featured episodes that were everything from sci-fi to horror and was directed by the who’s who of directors including Martin Scorsese, Tom Holland, Tobe Hooper and Spielberg himself. But sadly, the
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Vampire Film ‘Caleb’ Bares Its Fangs In New Teaser Trailer
The teaser trailer for writer-director Robert D’Antona‘s vampire film Caleb has arrived which promises a distressing gothic tale. This film represents a return to the origins, to the themes dear to the director. The fascinating mythological creatures are inspired by the ancient European folkloristic legend while, for the staging, Caleb aims to convey the same feelings of anguish, eroticism, and elegance that are present in the great cult films such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Interview with Vampire directed by Neil Jordan. In the first trailer, we get a taste of what the film will be, according to the words of the director, a “visionary, frightening and distressing movie, but that will make you excited at the same time” and presents “Timere”, an imaginary village geographically located in the Alps on the borders with Switzerland, recreated thanks to the two beautiful Piedmontese towns of Vogogna (VB) and Oleggio (NO). The filming of Caleb lasted 47
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This February Meet ‘A Perfect Host’ In This Airbnb Horror
Director Chad Werner makes his directorial debut with the indie Airbnb horror A Perfect Host about a group of friends rent an isolated lake house owned by a fitness-obsessed man with mysterious intentions. “Four friends rent an isolated lake house for a weekend getaway. While the dramas of the friends’ relationships unfold, they are continually interrupted by the home’s owner: a health-obsessed bodybuilder named Tad. Throughout the group’s short stay, Tad’s seemingly affable gestures take an eerie and sinister twist, turning their dream vacation into a nightmare. Mystery entangles this tale that questions the blind acceptance of modern-day practices.” Kasey Givens, Emily Hiott, and Brady Burleson Johnson star in the film produced by Grace Potter, Jon Michael Simpson, and Chad Werner. From Three Hair Production and One Chameleon Entertainment comes A Perfect Host out February 4th on DVD and Digital by Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Investigates ‘The Postcard Killings’ This March
“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as a detective in The Postcard Killings, an adaptation of James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s best-selling novel of the same name, Deadline reports. Directed by Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) and written by Andrew Stern, Ellen Furman, Marklund and Tove Alsterdal, the thriller centers on “NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon, whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Famke Janssen (X-Men: The Last Stand) stars alongside Morgan, Cush Jumbo, Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh and Denis O’Hare. The film is produced by Good Films Collective and James Patterson Entertainment.
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‘Walking Dead’ Spinoff “World Beyond” Premieres This April
The world of “The Walking Dead” continues to expand with the series’ second spin-off “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” whose premiere is set for this April. The new series’ 10-episode first season will center on two young women and the first generation to come-of-age in the zombie apocalypse. “Two sisters along with two friends leave a place of safety and comfort to brave dangers, known and unknown, living and undead on an important quest. Pursued by those who wish to protect them and those who wish to harm them, a tale of growing up and transformation unfurls across dangerous terrain, challenging everything they know about the world, themselves and each other.” Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu, Hal Cumpston, Aliyah Royale, Julia Ormond, and Annet Mahendru star. Unlike the original series, which feels like it will run forever, the spin-off will only reportedly only run for two seasons. The first season of “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” premieres on AMC on Sunday,
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DVD Review: Mommy (1995) and Mommy 2 (1997)
“Mommy” (Patty McCormick, unofficially reprising her role from 1956’s The Bad Seed) is a dotting mother to young Jessica Ann (Rachel Lemieux)… and nothing, and I mean nothing will stand in the way of her daughter being a success. To wit: when Jessica fails to win the ‘Student of the Year’ award she straight up murders the girl’s teacher (Star Trek‘s Majel Barrett) and makes it look like an accident. This attracts the attention of hard-ass Lt. March (The Exorcist‘s Father Karras himself, Jason Miller)… but that does little, okay… absolutely zero, to stop this psycho from murdering even more folks that give Jessie static. Speaking of our favorite tyke, she gets wind of mommy’s wicked ways (I mean it’s hard not to when your mother blasts holes in someone right in front of you)… but the lethal lady’s silver tongue manages to initiate “Operation: Save Ass” with the quickness. Will Jessica Ann come to her senses and help justice
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Movie Review: A Stranger Among the Living
Henry (Jake Milton) would rather spend his time in the limelight than enriching young minds. To that end, he plays hooky from work to go on an audition an inadvertently initiates Operation: Save Ass as a student goes hog wild shooting up the school. Soon, ol’ Hank makes like Haley Joel circa ’99 and seeing dead folk everywhere. This leads to a bit of the soul searchin’ bag as our hero has to deal with the voices of the dead and the worth of pursuing his desires… oh, and those ghost-toasties are quite miffed because our “hero” knew the shooter was a bit “off”, but never alerted anyone. Smooth move Ex-lax. A Stranger Among the Living is not your average ghost story boils n’ ghouls. Rather, what we get from writer/director Chris Moore is an atmospheric, Twilight Zone style slow burn (at times this works against the film as explained below) that teaches us that people can be haunted as
Continue reading →
Movie Review: The House That Jack Built (2018)
Jack (Matt Dillon) is one of your normal failed architect and arch-sociopath types that you see practically everywhere these days. But this is the 70’s so maybe that was less common then… So Jack; he’s a burgeoning serial killer looking to make one hell of an artistic statement with his murder biz. Over the course of twelve years, Jack builds on his previous mayhem in more and more audacious (read: highly noticeable) ways which attract the attention of the local po-po something fierce. What will fate (and other forces) have in store for Jack? I’m laying it on the line, The House That Jack Built is at times funny, stomach churning, and gore drenched, and at all times ultra-misogynistic, but no matter how brutal things get… and holy fucking fuck do they… it remains relentlessly watchable. The reason for that lies squarely on Matt Dillon. While often depicted as comedic and surface level likable, sympathy is not something we are
Continue reading →
A Lakota Myth Comes To Life In The Trailer For ‘Lore’
This month Indican Pictures is set to unleash the dark horror thriller Lore, heavily influenced by the myths of the Lakota Tribe. In the film, a woman searches for her missing son in a remote wilderness with the help of her estranged husband and a Native American guide. When an evil creature starts to hunt them, their journey becomes a fight for survival. Directed by both Christian Larsen and Brock Manwill, Lore stars Lyndsey Lantz, Max Lesser (“My Best Friend’s Death”), Sean Wei Mah (How the Fiddle Flows) and Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts. We were fortunate enough to have cast members from three different Native American nations…each of them brought authenticity and elevated our film in both performance and spirit.” Larsen and Manwill have stated. They continued saying, “while Lore is meant to be a scary story, our hope is that one can come away from it knowing that no matter what path of life’s questions you find yourself on,
Continue reading →
DVD Review: The Siren (2019)
Pious mute Tom (Evan Dumouchel) goes on a sabbatical to one of those remote lake houses that are all the rage with kids ages 18 to 54. Seems all well and good, but the location is an odd choice for our hero seeing as he had a water related tragedy as a youth that resulted in his current malady. Once he makes the scene he meets Al (MacLeod Andrews), whose husband drowned in the local lake… as have many. Al thinks there’s a mystery afoot… a mystery perhaps related to a woman named Nina (Margaret Ying Drake) who often swims to the cabin and chats with tom who has become all cat with a shiny object with the lass, who as fate and this movie would have it may be more than she seems. So what makes The Siren worth your time? Let’s start with the performances of Dumouchel, Drake, and Andrews. Dumouchel is absolutely amazing to watch in a
Continue reading →
A First Look At Stephen Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories” Revival
Today, we have the first look at the Stephen Spielberg produced reboot/revival of the 1985 sci-fi horror series “Amazing Stories” for Apple TV+. The first image is from the premiere episode titled “The Rift”, directed by Mark Mylod. Kerry Lynn Bishe, Dylan O’Brien, Josh Holloway, Victoria Pedretti, Sasha Alexander, and the late Robert Forster star. Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller is writing the writing scripts for the show’s revival. He will be joined in the writers’ room by Emily Gordon, Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, and Jane Goldman, “Once Upon a Time” creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz serve as executive producers and showrunners for “Amazing Stories”, from Universal TV and Amblin Television. Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz will also executive produce. The original series featured episodes that were everything from sci-fi to horror and was directed by the who’s who of directors including Martin Scorsese, Tom Holland, Tobe Hooper and Spielberg himself. But sadly, the
Continue reading →
Vampire Film ‘Caleb’ Bares Its Fangs In New Teaser Trailer
The teaser trailer for writer-director Robert D’Antona‘s vampire film Caleb has arrived which promises a distressing gothic tale. This film represents a return to the origins, to the themes dear to the director. The fascinating mythological creatures are inspired by the ancient European folkloristic legend while, for the staging, Caleb aims to convey the same feelings of anguish, eroticism, and elegance that are present in the great cult films such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Interview with Vampire directed by Neil Jordan. In the first trailer, we get a taste of what the film will be, according to the words of the director, a “visionary, frightening and distressing movie, but that will make you excited at the same time” and presents “Timere”, an imaginary village geographically located in the Alps on the borders with Switzerland, recreated thanks to the two beautiful Piedmontese towns of Vogogna (VB) and Oleggio (NO). The filming of Caleb lasted 47
Continue reading →
This February Meet ‘A Perfect Host’ In This Airbnb Horror
Director Chad Werner makes his directorial debut with the indie Airbnb horror A Perfect Host about a group of friends rent an isolated lake house owned by a fitness-obsessed man with mysterious intentions. “Four friends rent an isolated lake house for a weekend getaway. While the dramas of the friends’ relationships unfold, they are continually interrupted by the home’s owner: a health-obsessed bodybuilder named Tad. Throughout the group’s short stay, Tad’s seemingly affable gestures take an eerie and sinister twist, turning their dream vacation into a nightmare. Mystery entangles this tale that questions the blind acceptance of modern-day practices.” Kasey Givens, Emily Hiott, and Brady Burleson Johnson star in the film produced by Grace Potter, Jon Michael Simpson, and Chad Werner. From Three Hair Production and One Chameleon Entertainment comes A Perfect Host out February 4th on DVD and Digital by Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Investigates ‘The Postcard Killings’ This March
“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as a detective in The Postcard Killings, an adaptation of James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s best-selling novel of the same name, Deadline reports. Directed by Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) and written by Andrew Stern, Ellen Furman, Marklund and Tove Alsterdal, the thriller centers on “NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon, whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Famke Janssen (X-Men: The Last Stand) stars alongside Morgan, Cush Jumbo, Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh and Denis O’Hare. The film is produced by Good Films Collective and James Patterson Entertainment.
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‘Walking Dead’ Spinoff “World Beyond” Premieres This April
The world of “The Walking Dead” continues to expand with the series’ second spin-off “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” whose premiere is set for this April. The new series’ 10-episode first season will center on two young women and the first generation to come-of-age in the zombie apocalypse. “Two sisters along with two friends leave a place of safety and comfort to brave dangers, known and unknown, living and undead on an important quest. Pursued by those who wish to protect them and those who wish to harm them, a tale of growing up and transformation unfurls across dangerous terrain, challenging everything they know about the world, themselves and each other.” Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu, Hal Cumpston, Aliyah Royale, Julia Ormond, and Annet Mahendru star. Unlike the original series, which feels like it will run forever, the spin-off will only reportedly only run for two seasons. The first season of “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” premieres on AMC on Sunday,
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DVD Review: Mommy (1995) and Mommy 2 (1997)
“Mommy” (Patty McCormick, unofficially reprising her role from 1956’s The Bad Seed) is a dotting mother to young Jessica Ann (Rachel Lemieux)… and nothing, and I mean nothing will stand in the way of her daughter being a success. To wit: when Jessica fails to win the ‘Student of the Year’ award she straight up murders the girl’s teacher (Star Trek‘s Majel Barrett) and makes it look like an accident. This attracts the attention of hard-ass Lt. March (The Exorcist‘s Father Karras himself, Jason Miller)… but that does little, okay… absolutely zero, to stop this psycho from murdering even more folks that give Jessie static. Speaking of our favorite tyke, she gets wind of mommy’s wicked ways (I mean it’s hard not to when your mother blasts holes in someone right in front of you)… but the lethal lady’s silver tongue manages to initiate “Operation: Save Ass” with the quickness. Will Jessica Ann come to her senses and help justice
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