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Blu-ray Review: Cruising (1980)
A serial killer has marked gay men frequenting New York’s meat packing district; home to the S/M and leather scene, and he’s been dismembering them like a beastly butcher! Thankfully police officer Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is placed deep undercover onto the streets to try and draw the killer out. Soon our hero becomes almost completely isolated from his previous life as his new fabricated existence consumes him. Will Steve be able to catch the killer and remain who he is? Comprised of a stellar cast (besides the aforementioned Pacino; Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, James Remar, Ed O’ Neill and the Maniac himself Joe Spinell round out the roster), a brutal mystery to solve, a deep-dive into a subculture not often examined, and the unbeatable grit and grime of late ’70s/early ’80s Manhattan; Cruising is a rock-solid horror film dressed in thriller clothing. Among all of that goodness, there is of course the ol’ elephant in the room that should
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“The Purge” Returns This October With Its Second Season
USA is gearing for the season two premiere of the hit series “The Purge” this October and we couldn’t be more excited! Based on the hit movie franchise, “The Purge” revolves around a 12-hour period when all crime, including murder, is legal. Season 2 explores how a single Purge night affects the lives of four interconnected characters over the course of the ensuing year, all inevitably leading up to the next Purge. From Blumhouse Television and UCP, the second season of the anthology series opens on Purge night but dives deeper than ever before into what the Purge world looks like the other 364 days of the year for the first time. Season 2 is executive produced by the film franchise creator James DeMonaco, who executive produces along with his partner for Man in a Tree, Sébastien K. Lemercier; Krystal Houghton Ziv, James Roland, Tim Andrew, and Jason Blum. Additionally, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form, from the film
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‘Minutes To Midnight’ Writer Is Back With Survival Horror ‘Restricted Area’
The first art is here for survival horror Restricted Area from Minutes to Midnight‘s (review) Christopher M. Don who both wrote and directed the film. Randy Wayne (Hellraiser: Judgment), Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self-Defense), and Shawn C. Phillips star alongside Robert Don, Paige Lindsay Betts, Emily Gardt, Ross Britz, and West Murphy. Restricted Area follows four blue-collar friends, recently laid off from the steel mill, take one last camping trip into the wilderness when they discover a backwoods cult with a cataclysmic agenda and must fight to stay alive. Featuring an original score from Michael Levinson and bands Agent 51 and The Megas, Restricted Area will land on VOD this October via ITN Distribution. The trailer is set to be released soon.
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A Life-Saving Transplant Leads To Terror In ‘What Death Leaves Behind’
Acclaimed film What Death Leaves Behind, described as a“Hitchcockian Journey,” is receiving a theatrical release across North America this September and October via Artist Rights Distribution. Directed by Scott A. Hamilton, and scripted by Hamilton, Chad Morton, Nico Giampietro, and Rachel K. Ofori, What Death Leaves Behind centers on a man who, after a kidney transplant, experiences reoccurring nightmares he believes to be visions of his donor’s violent murder, sending him on a dark path of vengeance, leading to an unbearable truth. Christopher Mann, Vincent Young, Erin O’Brien, Johnny Alonso, Alexandra Tydings, Shaira Barton, Amanda Diaz, Kelly Dowdle, and Khalil McMillan star in a Scott A.Hamilton film. What Death Leaves Behind, from Artist Rights Distribution and Smash Entertainment, opens in theaters nationwide this fall. Following the premiere in Los Angeles on September 11th, the multi-award winner will open in other markets including Ohio, San Diego, New York, Tennessee, Florida, DC, and Philadelphia. You can find participating theaters and screening dates
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Movie Review: Nefarious (2019)
Darren (Buck Braithwaite), Lou (Nadia Lamin), Jo (Abbey Gillett) and Mas (Omari Lake-Pottinger) are scratchin’ and survivin’ in an environment of poverty. Trying to get over, they become indebted to ye olde local crime lord; a totally reasonable and not at all violence prone individual…just fuckin’ with you; this dude makes them worried about their continued existence 24/7. Meanwhile, richie-rich sumbitch Marcus (Toby Wynn-Davies) and his disabled bro Clive (Gregory A. Smith) get even richer when they win the lottery. Hearing this bit o’ news, our troubled heroes decide to get their steal on to improve their shitty lives…this of course doesn’t go as planned. Violence ensues! Now of course home invasion thrillers are nothing new, and at it’s core Nefarious isn’t either…it has all the tropes of the genre, but I don’t think re-inventing the wicked wheel was the goal here. Co-Writer (along with Matthew Davies)/Director Richard Rowntree instead decides to concentrate on a slick visual style (aided and
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‘Deep Blue Sea 3’ Is Swimming Our Way
While it’s still early in the development phase, production Weekly is reporting that a new sequel for the Deep Blue Sea franchise is swimming our way, this time from Netflix. Unfortunately, no other details have been revealed. The franchise made a splash back in 1999 with the Renny Harlin-directed feature starring Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, L.L. Cool J, and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie centered on a group of scientists at an isolated research facility where they have been creating intelligent sharks. Last year Warner Bros. unleashed a sequel about scientists experimenting on bull sharks, of course, the sharks get out causing death and destruction. Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, and Michael Beach starred.
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Sony And Blumhouse’s Horror ‘Fantasy Island’ Gets A New Release Date
Sony Pictures and Blumhouse is bringing new life to the TV classic “Fantasy Island” in the form of a new horror feature by the same name. News has now come that the movie has a been moved up from its original release date February 28, 2020, to February 14, 2020. Lucy Hale (Truth or Dare) stars alongside Michael Pena (End of Watch), who is set play Mr. Roarke, the host of the island. Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy, “The Walking Dead”), Charlotte McKinney (A Girl is a Gun), Parisa Fitz-Henley (“Jessica Jones”), and Austin Stowell (Bridge of Spies) also star. Jeff Wadlow is directing Fantasy Island, written by Wadlow and co-writers Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs who reunited from Truth or Dare. In the original 1977 series, “Fantasy Island was a unique resort in the Pacific Ocean, where there is very little that the mysterious overseer, Mr. Roarke, cannot provide. Visitors can experience adventures that should be impossible, but
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Oscar Winner Hilary Swank Stars In Deon Taylor’s Thriller ‘Fatale’
From Deon Taylor, the director behind The Intruder comes Fatale, which has now been acquired Lionsgate, Deadline reports. “Fatale centers on a married man who finds himself living a nightmare as he is relentlessly compromised, out-witted and morally manipulated by a mysterious woman with whom he had a wild one night stand. How far will he go to save his marriage from his mistake?” Written and produced by David Loughery (The Intruder, Lakeview Terrace, Obsessed) this thriller stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank along with Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, and Tyrin Turner. Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group partnered with Roxanne Taylor to produce and is executive produced by partner Robert F. Smith.
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Short Film Review: We Know You Are Home (2018)
Due to an increase of missing children, Halloween is almost outlawed in the town April (Julie Landriault) calls home, but that doesn’t stop her from getting a gig house-sitting on our favorite haunted holiday while the owners are out doing Satan knows what. Our heroine settles in for a night of fright flick classics on the beastly boob tube when she receives a chilling visit from some ghostly trick r’ treaters (Johnny Elston, Ricky Elston, and Daniel Elston) who may not be what they seem… and before long those sheet-covered supernatural shit heels are in the house, and that’s when things get positively preternatural for Alice! Written and directed by Andrew J.D. Robinson, We Know You Are Home is an effective expansion of his previous short, Trick r’ Treat (which I reviewed right here). The entire affair is a fangtastic Halloween spookshow replete with sheet covered spectral beings, forbidden rooms, family secrets, and plenty of good ol’ spine chilling suspense…
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Pre-Order Your Copy Of ‘Candy Corn’ Now
Get ready for a real treat, Josh Hasty‘s Candy Corn is coming to VOD and Blu-ray this September from Epic Pictures and DREAD! “It’s Halloween weekend and a group of bullies are planning their annual hazing on local outcast, Jacob Atkins. When they take things too far, he’s resurrected to seek revenge against those that wronged him.” Candy Corn, written and directed by Josh Hasty (In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn), stars P.J. Soles (Halloween), Courtney Gains (Children of the Corn), Tony Todd (Candyman), Pancho Moler (3 from Hell), Sky Elobar (The Greasy Strangler), Caleb Thomas (The Terror of Hallow’s Eve), Lovlee Carroll (Anabolic Life), Matt O’Neill (Edgar Allan Poe’s Lighthouse Keeper), and introduces Nate Chaney. Produced by Josh Hasty, Courtney Gains, and Matt O’Neill alongside executive producers Tony Todd, James Claeys (Local Boogeyman Productions) Justin Mabry (Trick or Treat Studios), Lindsey Kowalski, Benjamin Scrivens (Fright Rags), and Johnny Cooper. Candy Corn is the first production financed by Local Boogeyman Productions.
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Blu-ray Review: Cruising (1980)
A serial killer has marked gay men frequenting New York’s meat packing district; home to the S/M and leather scene, and he’s been dismembering them like a beastly butcher! Thankfully police officer Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is placed deep undercover onto the streets to try and draw the killer out. Soon our hero becomes almost completely isolated from his previous life as his new fabricated existence consumes him. Will Steve be able to catch the killer and remain who he is? Comprised of a stellar cast (besides the aforementioned Pacino; Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, James Remar, Ed O’ Neill and the Maniac himself Joe Spinell round out the roster), a brutal mystery to solve, a deep-dive into a subculture not often examined, and the unbeatable grit and grime of late ’70s/early ’80s Manhattan; Cruising is a rock-solid horror film dressed in thriller clothing. Among all of that goodness, there is of course the ol’ elephant in the room that should
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“The Purge” Returns This October With Its Second Season
USA is gearing for the season two premiere of the hit series “The Purge” this October and we couldn’t be more excited! Based on the hit movie franchise, “The Purge” revolves around a 12-hour period when all crime, including murder, is legal. Season 2 explores how a single Purge night affects the lives of four interconnected characters over the course of the ensuing year, all inevitably leading up to the next Purge. From Blumhouse Television and UCP, the second season of the anthology series opens on Purge night but dives deeper than ever before into what the Purge world looks like the other 364 days of the year for the first time. Season 2 is executive produced by the film franchise creator James DeMonaco, who executive produces along with his partner for Man in a Tree, Sébastien K. Lemercier; Krystal Houghton Ziv, James Roland, Tim Andrew, and Jason Blum. Additionally, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form, from the film
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‘Minutes To Midnight’ Writer Is Back With Survival Horror ‘Restricted Area’
The first art is here for survival horror Restricted Area from Minutes to Midnight‘s (review) Christopher M. Don who both wrote and directed the film. Randy Wayne (Hellraiser: Judgment), Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self-Defense), and Shawn C. Phillips star alongside Robert Don, Paige Lindsay Betts, Emily Gardt, Ross Britz, and West Murphy. Restricted Area follows four blue-collar friends, recently laid off from the steel mill, take one last camping trip into the wilderness when they discover a backwoods cult with a cataclysmic agenda and must fight to stay alive. Featuring an original score from Michael Levinson and bands Agent 51 and The Megas, Restricted Area will land on VOD this October via ITN Distribution. The trailer is set to be released soon.
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A Life-Saving Transplant Leads To Terror In ‘What Death Leaves Behind’
Acclaimed film What Death Leaves Behind, described as a“Hitchcockian Journey,” is receiving a theatrical release across North America this September and October via Artist Rights Distribution. Directed by Scott A. Hamilton, and scripted by Hamilton, Chad Morton, Nico Giampietro, and Rachel K. Ofori, What Death Leaves Behind centers on a man who, after a kidney transplant, experiences reoccurring nightmares he believes to be visions of his donor’s violent murder, sending him on a dark path of vengeance, leading to an unbearable truth. Christopher Mann, Vincent Young, Erin O’Brien, Johnny Alonso, Alexandra Tydings, Shaira Barton, Amanda Diaz, Kelly Dowdle, and Khalil McMillan star in a Scott A.Hamilton film. What Death Leaves Behind, from Artist Rights Distribution and Smash Entertainment, opens in theaters nationwide this fall. Following the premiere in Los Angeles on September 11th, the multi-award winner will open in other markets including Ohio, San Diego, New York, Tennessee, Florida, DC, and Philadelphia. You can find participating theaters and screening dates
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Movie Review: Nefarious (2019)
Darren (Buck Braithwaite), Lou (Nadia Lamin), Jo (Abbey Gillett) and Mas (Omari Lake-Pottinger) are scratchin’ and survivin’ in an environment of poverty. Trying to get over, they become indebted to ye olde local crime lord; a totally reasonable and not at all violence prone individual…just fuckin’ with you; this dude makes them worried about their continued existence 24/7. Meanwhile, richie-rich sumbitch Marcus (Toby Wynn-Davies) and his disabled bro Clive (Gregory A. Smith) get even richer when they win the lottery. Hearing this bit o’ news, our troubled heroes decide to get their steal on to improve their shitty lives…this of course doesn’t go as planned. Violence ensues! Now of course home invasion thrillers are nothing new, and at it’s core Nefarious isn’t either…it has all the tropes of the genre, but I don’t think re-inventing the wicked wheel was the goal here. Co-Writer (along with Matthew Davies)/Director Richard Rowntree instead decides to concentrate on a slick visual style (aided and
Continue reading →
‘Deep Blue Sea 3’ Is Swimming Our Way
While it’s still early in the development phase, production Weekly is reporting that a new sequel for the Deep Blue Sea franchise is swimming our way, this time from Netflix. Unfortunately, no other details have been revealed. The franchise made a splash back in 1999 with the Renny Harlin-directed feature starring Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, L.L. Cool J, and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie centered on a group of scientists at an isolated research facility where they have been creating intelligent sharks. Last year Warner Bros. unleashed a sequel about scientists experimenting on bull sharks, of course, the sharks get out causing death and destruction. Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, and Michael Beach starred.
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Sony And Blumhouse’s Horror ‘Fantasy Island’ Gets A New Release Date
Sony Pictures and Blumhouse is bringing new life to the TV classic “Fantasy Island” in the form of a new horror feature by the same name. News has now come that the movie has a been moved up from its original release date February 28, 2020, to February 14, 2020. Lucy Hale (Truth or Dare) stars alongside Michael Pena (End of Watch), who is set play Mr. Roarke, the host of the island. Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy, “The Walking Dead”), Charlotte McKinney (A Girl is a Gun), Parisa Fitz-Henley (“Jessica Jones”), and Austin Stowell (Bridge of Spies) also star. Jeff Wadlow is directing Fantasy Island, written by Wadlow and co-writers Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs who reunited from Truth or Dare. In the original 1977 series, “Fantasy Island was a unique resort in the Pacific Ocean, where there is very little that the mysterious overseer, Mr. Roarke, cannot provide. Visitors can experience adventures that should be impossible, but
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Oscar Winner Hilary Swank Stars In Deon Taylor’s Thriller ‘Fatale’
From Deon Taylor, the director behind The Intruder comes Fatale, which has now been acquired Lionsgate, Deadline reports. “Fatale centers on a married man who finds himself living a nightmare as he is relentlessly compromised, out-witted and morally manipulated by a mysterious woman with whom he had a wild one night stand. How far will he go to save his marriage from his mistake?” Written and produced by David Loughery (The Intruder, Lakeview Terrace, Obsessed) this thriller stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank along with Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, and Tyrin Turner. Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group partnered with Roxanne Taylor to produce and is executive produced by partner Robert F. Smith.
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Short Film Review: We Know You Are Home (2018)
Due to an increase of missing children, Halloween is almost outlawed in the town April (Julie Landriault) calls home, but that doesn’t stop her from getting a gig house-sitting on our favorite haunted holiday while the owners are out doing Satan knows what. Our heroine settles in for a night of fright flick classics on the beastly boob tube when she receives a chilling visit from some ghostly trick r’ treaters (Johnny Elston, Ricky Elston, and Daniel Elston) who may not be what they seem… and before long those sheet-covered supernatural shit heels are in the house, and that’s when things get positively preternatural for Alice! Written and directed by Andrew J.D. Robinson, We Know You Are Home is an effective expansion of his previous short, Trick r’ Treat (which I reviewed right here). The entire affair is a fangtastic Halloween spookshow replete with sheet covered spectral beings, forbidden rooms, family secrets, and plenty of good ol’ spine chilling suspense…
Continue reading →
Pre-Order Your Copy Of ‘Candy Corn’ Now
Get ready for a real treat, Josh Hasty‘s Candy Corn is coming to VOD and Blu-ray this September from Epic Pictures and DREAD! “It’s Halloween weekend and a group of bullies are planning their annual hazing on local outcast, Jacob Atkins. When they take things too far, he’s resurrected to seek revenge against those that wronged him.” Candy Corn, written and directed by Josh Hasty (In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn), stars P.J. Soles (Halloween), Courtney Gains (Children of the Corn), Tony Todd (Candyman), Pancho Moler (3 from Hell), Sky Elobar (The Greasy Strangler), Caleb Thomas (The Terror of Hallow’s Eve), Lovlee Carroll (Anabolic Life), Matt O’Neill (Edgar Allan Poe’s Lighthouse Keeper), and introduces Nate Chaney. Produced by Josh Hasty, Courtney Gains, and Matt O’Neill alongside executive producers Tony Todd, James Claeys (Local Boogeyman Productions) Justin Mabry (Trick or Treat Studios), Lindsey Kowalski, Benjamin Scrivens (Fright Rags), and Johnny Cooper. Candy Corn is the first production financed by Local Boogeyman Productions.
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