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Writer-Director Donna McRae Talks ‘Lost Gully Road’
Indie filmmaker Donna McRae’s new indie film Lost Gully Road has just been released. I had the pleasure of talking with McRae about the film and other projects. The dark minimalistic film starring Adele Perovic as a woman waiting at a remote cabin for her sister, not knowing that she is not alone there in the forest. Horror Fuel: “Will you tell us about your journey becoming a filmmaker?” Donna McRae: “After drama school, I was an actress doing short films and advertisements, but I met up with a young director in film school and I was playing the leading role in his film and I started writing. When I left drama school, after about two years, all the roles that I wanted didn’t happen and so I just started writing screenplays to pass the time. I felt like I liked that better. I like creating story worlds and I was basically trying to write things for myself to be
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Blu-ray Review: Ultraman Orb (2016) and Ultraman Geed (2017)
Mill Creek Entertainment have gone done and released a dynamic duo of newer Ultra series… Ultraman Orb (2016) and Ultraman GEED (2017) respectively, and I marathoned the ever-loving shit out of them! So hunker down and read my wicked words about ’em! Created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ultra-franchise, ol’ Ultraman Orb follows the adventures of a new Ultraman (Orb ‘natch) who arrives on the scene all fired up to kick some monster ass, and boy will he ever get the chance as a cadre of killer kaiju known as King Demon Beasts have been set free after cooling their jets for centuries thanks to the Ultra Warriors locking their asses away and throwing away the key. Now Orb has a trick or two up his sleeve, mainly the fact he can call upon and utilize the powers of past Ultra Warriors and utilize them to inflict all manner of grave bodily harm to each and every monster
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Amy Adams Is In Danger In ‘The Woman In The Window’ Trailer
Amy Addams (Arrival) stars as a mentally ill woman in danger in the first trailer for director Joe Wright‘s The Woman in the Window. Written by Tracy Letts the film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by A.J. Finn and features an all-star cast that includes Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore. This suspense thriller centers on Anna Fox (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic child psychologist living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence that puts her own life in danger. The Woman in the Window is set to be released on May 15, 2020, from Fox.
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Blu-ray Review: The Fly Collection (1958 – 1989)
Those magnificent bastards at Scream Factory have gone and done it; they’ve shoved every damn Fly flick into a boxed set, packed them with features, and set them loose to be lapped up by horror hounds everywhere… and I’m going to put a revoltin’ review on the whole shebang! Let’s kick things off with 1958’s The Fly… because that’s the first film in the series, and it would be stupid to do anything else… Andre Delambre (David Hedison) is flat as a pancake after being crushed to shit and back in a mechanical press, and his wife Helene (Patricia Owens) is the one responsible… but like an attention whore’s Facebook relationship status, it’s complicated. Fortunately we learn just how complicated as she recounts the strange events leading to Andre’s trip to the permanent press cycle to his brother Francois (Vincent Price, the one and only baby… ) and Police Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall). You see ol’ Andy had been balls
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Adrien Brody Cast As Lead For Epix Adaptation Of Stephen King’s “Jerusalem’s Lot”
It feels like there’s not a day goes by that we don’t report on something involving Stephen King (not that we are complaining). Today is no different. This time we are here to tell you that the MGM premium cable network Epix has ordered 10-episodes of “Jerusalem’s Lot” based on King’s Night Shift short story of the same name. The story, with connections to Salem’s Lot, takes place in the 1850s, in the fictional town of Preacher’s Corners in Cumberland County, Maine and is told through a series of letters and diary entries. Adrian Brody will star as Captain Charles Boone, who faces a series of troubles related to his family’s roots after moving to the town following the death of his wife. The series is an intense, absolutely terrifying reimaginig of classic gothic horror,” THR quoted Michael Wright, president of Epix, as saying. “We can’t wait to work with the exceptional team of Donald De Line and Jason and
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Pucker Up For Into The Dark’s New Year Themed Installment ‘Midnight Kiss’
Hulu’s “Into the Dark” is ready to ring in the New Year with Midnight Kiss, the next installment of their anthology series and we’ve got the trailer! Starring Augustus Prew (The Morning Show), Scott Evans (Grace and Frankie), and Lukas Gage (Euphoria), the tale that follows a group of longtime gay best friends who head to a beautiful desert home to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Relationships are put to the test and truths are revealed as the night turns into a fight for survival. “Into the Dark” returns with Midnight Kiss on December 27, 2019.
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IFC Midnight Announces Release Of ‘Disappearance At Clifton Hill’
IFC Midnight has just announced the release date for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric Johnson, and Marie Josée-Croze appear alongside
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Elijah Woods Is In Danger In The Twisted ‘Come To Daddy’ Trailer
Elijah Wood (Color Out of Space) is making his return to horror with Come to Daddy. Saban Films has now released the trailer which teases a dark, twisted movie. Come to Daddy centers on Norval Greenwood, who arrives at his estranged father’s remote coastal cabin after receiving a letter. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a prick and a bit insane, but that he also has a shady past that they are about to come face to face with. Norval must fight demons, some real and some perceived, in order to reconnect with the father he doesn’t really know. Written by Toby Harvard (The Greasy Strangler), based on an idea from director Ant Timpson (ABC of Death), Come to Daddy also stars Stephen McHattie (“Watchmen”), Garfield Wilson (“The Man in the High Castle”), Michael Smiley (The World’s End), Martin Donovan (Tenet), and Simon Chin (Killing Eve). Harvard is producing along with Laura Tunstall, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Emma Slade,
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New ‘Remotherd: Broken Porcelain’ Trailer Is A Christmas Fright!
Modus and Stormind Games are reminding you that creepy shit doesn’t take a Christmas break with the new “Home for the Holidays” trailer for the upcoming horror survival game Remothered: Broken Porcelain. The trailer showcases the Ashmann Inn where the story takes place and who (Or what) is waiting for you after your checked-in! The trailer also teases the return of Rosemary Reed from Remothered: Tormented Fathers, the trailer also concludes with the ominous whistling of Porcelain, the infamous legendary being that haunts the Inn. Broken Porcelain follows the events of the first game as players take on the role of Jennifer, Ashmann Inn’s young caretaker who finds herself in a life and death game of cat and mouse as supernatural threats stalk her in the halls of the creepy Inn. Remothered: Broken Porcelain will be coming out in 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
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Movie Reviews (Another Hole in the Head Film Fest): Beneath the Black Veil and Giantess Attack versus Mecha Fembot (both 2019)
Director Jason M. Koch — no stranger to controversy with his ABCs of Death 2.5 (2016) segment “M is for Munging” and his grisly feature 7th Day (2013) — tackles Chritsian faith and lack thereof in his latest film, Beneath the Black Veil. The lives and marriage of Genna (Samantha Jean) and her husband Aaron (Michael Acosta) are shattered when their child is killed by a driver. When the driver is not punished by law for the accident, the couple plots to take their anger at God out by killing the driver and breaking all of the Ten Commandments. This proves difficult when Aaron cannot find the willpower to leave their house, and then finds himself growing grotesquely sicker. Meanwhile, Genna’s behavior becomes ever odder, alarming her coworkers and close friend. Koch, who wrote the screenplay based on a story by Stephen Biro (writer of the American Guinea Pig films), doesn’t shy away from blasphemy in this body horror/occult horror
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Writer-Director Donna McRae Talks ‘Lost Gully Road’
Indie filmmaker Donna McRae’s new indie film Lost Gully Road has just been released. I had the pleasure of talking with McRae about the film and other projects. The dark minimalistic film starring Adele Perovic as a woman waiting at a remote cabin for her sister, not knowing that she is not alone there in the forest. Horror Fuel: “Will you tell us about your journey becoming a filmmaker?” Donna McRae: “After drama school, I was an actress doing short films and advertisements, but I met up with a young director in film school and I was playing the leading role in his film and I started writing. When I left drama school, after about two years, all the roles that I wanted didn’t happen and so I just started writing screenplays to pass the time. I felt like I liked that better. I like creating story worlds and I was basically trying to write things for myself to be
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Blu-ray Review: Ultraman Orb (2016) and Ultraman Geed (2017)
Mill Creek Entertainment have gone done and released a dynamic duo of newer Ultra series… Ultraman Orb (2016) and Ultraman GEED (2017) respectively, and I marathoned the ever-loving shit out of them! So hunker down and read my wicked words about ’em! Created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ultra-franchise, ol’ Ultraman Orb follows the adventures of a new Ultraman (Orb ‘natch) who arrives on the scene all fired up to kick some monster ass, and boy will he ever get the chance as a cadre of killer kaiju known as King Demon Beasts have been set free after cooling their jets for centuries thanks to the Ultra Warriors locking their asses away and throwing away the key. Now Orb has a trick or two up his sleeve, mainly the fact he can call upon and utilize the powers of past Ultra Warriors and utilize them to inflict all manner of grave bodily harm to each and every monster
Continue reading →
Amy Adams Is In Danger In ‘The Woman In The Window’ Trailer
Amy Addams (Arrival) stars as a mentally ill woman in danger in the first trailer for director Joe Wright‘s The Woman in the Window. Written by Tracy Letts the film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by A.J. Finn and features an all-star cast that includes Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore. This suspense thriller centers on Anna Fox (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic child psychologist living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence that puts her own life in danger. The Woman in the Window is set to be released on May 15, 2020, from Fox.
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Blu-ray Review: The Fly Collection (1958 – 1989)
Those magnificent bastards at Scream Factory have gone and done it; they’ve shoved every damn Fly flick into a boxed set, packed them with features, and set them loose to be lapped up by horror hounds everywhere… and I’m going to put a revoltin’ review on the whole shebang! Let’s kick things off with 1958’s The Fly… because that’s the first film in the series, and it would be stupid to do anything else… Andre Delambre (David Hedison) is flat as a pancake after being crushed to shit and back in a mechanical press, and his wife Helene (Patricia Owens) is the one responsible… but like an attention whore’s Facebook relationship status, it’s complicated. Fortunately we learn just how complicated as she recounts the strange events leading to Andre’s trip to the permanent press cycle to his brother Francois (Vincent Price, the one and only baby… ) and Police Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall). You see ol’ Andy had been balls
Continue reading →
Adrien Brody Cast As Lead For Epix Adaptation Of Stephen King’s “Jerusalem’s Lot”
It feels like there’s not a day goes by that we don’t report on something involving Stephen King (not that we are complaining). Today is no different. This time we are here to tell you that the MGM premium cable network Epix has ordered 10-episodes of “Jerusalem’s Lot” based on King’s Night Shift short story of the same name. The story, with connections to Salem’s Lot, takes place in the 1850s, in the fictional town of Preacher’s Corners in Cumberland County, Maine and is told through a series of letters and diary entries. Adrian Brody will star as Captain Charles Boone, who faces a series of troubles related to his family’s roots after moving to the town following the death of his wife. The series is an intense, absolutely terrifying reimaginig of classic gothic horror,” THR quoted Michael Wright, president of Epix, as saying. “We can’t wait to work with the exceptional team of Donald De Line and Jason and
Continue reading →
Pucker Up For Into The Dark’s New Year Themed Installment ‘Midnight Kiss’
Hulu’s “Into the Dark” is ready to ring in the New Year with Midnight Kiss, the next installment of their anthology series and we’ve got the trailer! Starring Augustus Prew (The Morning Show), Scott Evans (Grace and Frankie), and Lukas Gage (Euphoria), the tale that follows a group of longtime gay best friends who head to a beautiful desert home to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Relationships are put to the test and truths are revealed as the night turns into a fight for survival. “Into the Dark” returns with Midnight Kiss on December 27, 2019.
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IFC Midnight Announces Release Of ‘Disappearance At Clifton Hill’
IFC Midnight has just announced the release date for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric Johnson, and Marie Josée-Croze appear alongside
Continue reading →
Elijah Woods Is In Danger In The Twisted ‘Come To Daddy’ Trailer
Elijah Wood (Color Out of Space) is making his return to horror with Come to Daddy. Saban Films has now released the trailer which teases a dark, twisted movie. Come to Daddy centers on Norval Greenwood, who arrives at his estranged father’s remote coastal cabin after receiving a letter. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a prick and a bit insane, but that he also has a shady past that they are about to come face to face with. Norval must fight demons, some real and some perceived, in order to reconnect with the father he doesn’t really know. Written by Toby Harvard (The Greasy Strangler), based on an idea from director Ant Timpson (ABC of Death), Come to Daddy also stars Stephen McHattie (“Watchmen”), Garfield Wilson (“The Man in the High Castle”), Michael Smiley (The World’s End), Martin Donovan (Tenet), and Simon Chin (Killing Eve). Harvard is producing along with Laura Tunstall, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Emma Slade,
Continue reading →
New ‘Remotherd: Broken Porcelain’ Trailer Is A Christmas Fright!
Modus and Stormind Games are reminding you that creepy shit doesn’t take a Christmas break with the new “Home for the Holidays” trailer for the upcoming horror survival game Remothered: Broken Porcelain. The trailer showcases the Ashmann Inn where the story takes place and who (Or what) is waiting for you after your checked-in! The trailer also teases the return of Rosemary Reed from Remothered: Tormented Fathers, the trailer also concludes with the ominous whistling of Porcelain, the infamous legendary being that haunts the Inn. Broken Porcelain follows the events of the first game as players take on the role of Jennifer, Ashmann Inn’s young caretaker who finds herself in a life and death game of cat and mouse as supernatural threats stalk her in the halls of the creepy Inn. Remothered: Broken Porcelain will be coming out in 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
Continue reading →
Movie Reviews (Another Hole in the Head Film Fest): Beneath the Black Veil and Giantess Attack versus Mecha Fembot (both 2019)
Director Jason M. Koch — no stranger to controversy with his ABCs of Death 2.5 (2016) segment “M is for Munging” and his grisly feature 7th Day (2013) — tackles Chritsian faith and lack thereof in his latest film, Beneath the Black Veil. The lives and marriage of Genna (Samantha Jean) and her husband Aaron (Michael Acosta) are shattered when their child is killed by a driver. When the driver is not punished by law for the accident, the couple plots to take their anger at God out by killing the driver and breaking all of the Ten Commandments. This proves difficult when Aaron cannot find the willpower to leave their house, and then finds himself growing grotesquely sicker. Meanwhile, Genna’s behavior becomes ever odder, alarming her coworkers and close friend. Koch, who wrote the screenplay based on a story by Stephen Biro (writer of the American Guinea Pig films), doesn’t shy away from blasphemy in this body horror/occult horror
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