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Blu-ray Review: Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro (1966)
If you are unfamiliar with the world of Mondo documentaries I can sum things up for you real quick; boobs and/or blood, fake-ass footage passed off as the real deal, and often a strong need for bleach eye drops. Let’s begin, shall we? Those sexy devils over at one of my fav houses of horror (and the bizarre); Severin Films have taken it upon themselves to wallow in the sea of bad taste and tackiness (one of my most cherished hang-outs boils n’ ghouls) and bring us two mondo docs on one lil’ ol’ Blu-ray…namely 1966’s Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro. Mondo Bizarro, from Producers Bob Cresse and Lee Frost, begins as it should with a voyeuristic hidden camera view of a woman’s changing room…totally legit with it’s multiple cuts and camera angles…see what I was talking about up yonder boils n’ ghouls? Via the magic of stock footage we are whisked away on a whirlwind journey to the Bahamas
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Stevn Spielberg Produced Haunted House Movie ‘The Turning’ Delayed
Originally set to be released this year, the Steven Spielberg-produced horror thriller The Turning has been delayed until 2020. Universal has now scheduled the adaptation of The Turn of the Screw to arrive on January 24, 2020. Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Davis, and Brooklynn Prince lead the cast for the film that follows a young woman hired as the nanny to two orphans who are convinced that the country mansion they live in is haunted. Floria Sigismondi directed the film with Jade Bartlett penning the latest version of the script by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring 2). Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee are producing. Stephen Spielberg is serving as executive producer for The Turning.
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Sink Your Teeth Into The Trailer For ‘Cannibal Club’
Widely regarded as one of the goriest films in years, Brazilian horror hit Cannibal Club, written and directed by Guto Parente, premieres in North America this March from Uncork’d Entertainment. “Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman and the Club’s leader, her and her husband’s lives are in grave danger.” Tavinho Teixeira, Ana Luiza Rios, Pedro Domingues, Zé Maria, Breno Beptista, Rodrigo Capistrano, and Juliana Carvalho star. The smartly satirical and undeniably stomach turning Cannibal Club premieres in theaters March 1, 2019, followed by its arrival On Demand March 5th.
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The Poster For ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Features A Creepy Scarecrow
Inspired by one of the scariest children’s book series of all times penned by Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark follows a group of teens who must solve the mystery surrounding the sudden and macabre deaths in their small town. The first poster (above) for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has surfaced and it features a terrifying scarecrow that looks a little too alive if you ask me. Written by Guillermo del Toro, Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman, the film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. Del Toro produces alongside Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, and Elizabeth Grave Director André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens in theaters everywhere on August 9, 2019, from CBS Films and Lionsgate.
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Blu-ray Review: Jack the Ripper (1959)
Scotland Yard Inspector O’Neill (Eddie Byrne) is hella pissed due in no small part to his department’s stunning failure in clappin’ some irons on ol’ Saucy Jack (Jack the Ripper to you boils n’ ghouls). To help solve the case O’Neill calls for his old chum, New York City Detective Sam Lowry (Lee Patterson, sporting a 1950’s pompadour that must have been all the rage in 1888). Soon the Dublin Dynamo and…Sam…are balls deep in red herrings and sinister suspects, all of whom could potentially be the horrific hooker hacker. While this is going on, our man Sam gets a case of the hornies for Anne Ford (Betty McDowall), the ward of tight-ass A-number one…namely Dr. Tranter (John Le Mesurier), which goes over with the good Doctor like a rather large turd in a perfectly good punch bowl. Anyway, will our heroes save the day and discover who is behind the murder biz, or will Jack slip silently into the
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‘Upgrade’ Director To Remake ‘Escape From New York’
Genre fans should be very familiar with filmmaker Leigh Whannell, who is behind the Insidious franchise, Saw and Upgrade. He continues to add to his long list of horror hits. Not only was it just announced that Whannell will be in the director’s chair for Universal’s reboot of The Invisible Man, we’ve just learned that he will also be directing the remake of John Carpenter’s classic Escape from New York. THR is reporting that while no deal is in place at the moment their sources are saying he’s the one. “Whannell is kickstarting Escape from New York with a new vision for the project that sources say will retain elements of the original but bring new ideas to the table. One of Whannell’s goals is to avoid the bloated tentpole remake path that afflicted the reboots of the other 1980s-era movies such as Robocop and Total Recall.” Kurt Russell starred in the 1981 original as Snake Plissken, a convicted bank
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Filmmaker Conrad Faraj Fills Us In On His New Sci-Fi Horror Film ‘Fighting The Sky’
Conrad Faraj‘s (The Shadow People, The Candyman Conspiracy) latest film Fighting the Sky is rapidly approaching its February release date. Ahead of the film’s arrival, I sat down with Conrad to ask a few questions about the alien invasion film and the many movies he has coming out soon. Horror Fuel: “How did you get into the film industry?” Conrad Faraj: “I’ve always wanted to be a filmmaker since I was very, very young. I remember writing a lot of fan fiction. As I started writing more and more, I decided to make them into movies. I turned short stories into short movies. Ever since then, I’ve been making bigger and bigger movies. Here I am now.” Horror Fuel: “How would describe your latest film, Fighting the Sky?” Conrad Faraj: “Fighting the Sky is a science fiction adventure film with horror elements. It is a film that I’ve been dreaming of doing for a very long time. It’s a film
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‘The Ghost Survivors’ DLC Coming To ‘Resident Evil 2’ UPDATE
If you have not got a copy of the horror game of the year, Resident Evil 2, then this news of an upcoming free Downloadable Content (DLC) should entice you. In the upcoming mode The Ghost Survivors, players will turn back the clocks during the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City and see the nightmare from three new angels. In this “what if” scenario, you take on the roles of three individuals who have not survived the outbreak. In the segment titled, “No time to mourn”, follows gun shop owner Robert Kendo whose appearance in the Resident Evil 2 remake is more tragic than in the original where he was just a cannon fodder character. In “Runaway” players for the first time can see Katherine Warren, daughter of Raccoon City’s mayor like never before…alive. Finally in “Forgotten Soldier” you get to see through the eyes of another surviving Umbrella Special Ops soldier, teasing that legendary Hunk was not the only survivor
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Stephen King’s New Novel ‘The Institute’ Coming This September
We’ve been talking a lot about Stephen King lately, what can we say, the man popular. This time we have news on the master or horror’s latest novel, The Institute. This September the novel will take readers to a dark place, where children with special gifts are kidnapped and imprisoned by the evil Mrs. Sigsby. The synopsis goes like this: “In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated
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CBS Orders Pilot For New “Frankenstein” Series
What do you get when you combine horror and a police drama? You get CBS’ new series adaptation of Mary Shelly’s classic novel Frankenstein. The network has just ordered the pilot for their series simply titled “Frankenstein.” The series centers on “a San Francisco homicide detective who is mysteriously brought back to life after being killed in the line of duty. But as he resumes his old life he and his wife they realize he isn’t the same person he used to be and the couple zero in on the strange man behind his resurrection, Dr. Frankenstein.” The series will be aiming for a premiere next season and hails from writer Jason Tracey (Burn Notice). If you think the plot sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen or heard about Fox’s “The Frankenstein Code” which has been retitled several times as “Lookinglass” and “Second Chance”, and was originally titled “Frankenstein”. It followed a cop who gets a second chance after being brought
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Blu-ray Review: Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro (1966)
If you are unfamiliar with the world of Mondo documentaries I can sum things up for you real quick; boobs and/or blood, fake-ass footage passed off as the real deal, and often a strong need for bleach eye drops. Let’s begin, shall we? Those sexy devils over at one of my fav houses of horror (and the bizarre); Severin Films have taken it upon themselves to wallow in the sea of bad taste and tackiness (one of my most cherished hang-outs boils n’ ghouls) and bring us two mondo docs on one lil’ ol’ Blu-ray…namely 1966’s Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro. Mondo Bizarro, from Producers Bob Cresse and Lee Frost, begins as it should with a voyeuristic hidden camera view of a woman’s changing room…totally legit with it’s multiple cuts and camera angles…see what I was talking about up yonder boils n’ ghouls? Via the magic of stock footage we are whisked away on a whirlwind journey to the Bahamas
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Stevn Spielberg Produced Haunted House Movie ‘The Turning’ Delayed
Originally set to be released this year, the Steven Spielberg-produced horror thriller The Turning has been delayed until 2020. Universal has now scheduled the adaptation of The Turn of the Screw to arrive on January 24, 2020. Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Davis, and Brooklynn Prince lead the cast for the film that follows a young woman hired as the nanny to two orphans who are convinced that the country mansion they live in is haunted. Floria Sigismondi directed the film with Jade Bartlett penning the latest version of the script by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring 2). Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee are producing. Stephen Spielberg is serving as executive producer for The Turning.
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Sink Your Teeth Into The Trailer For ‘Cannibal Club’
Widely regarded as one of the goriest films in years, Brazilian horror hit Cannibal Club, written and directed by Guto Parente, premieres in North America this March from Uncork’d Entertainment. “Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman and the Club’s leader, her and her husband’s lives are in grave danger.” Tavinho Teixeira, Ana Luiza Rios, Pedro Domingues, Zé Maria, Breno Beptista, Rodrigo Capistrano, and Juliana Carvalho star. The smartly satirical and undeniably stomach turning Cannibal Club premieres in theaters March 1, 2019, followed by its arrival On Demand March 5th.
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The Poster For ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Features A Creepy Scarecrow
Inspired by one of the scariest children’s book series of all times penned by Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark follows a group of teens who must solve the mystery surrounding the sudden and macabre deaths in their small town. The first poster (above) for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has surfaced and it features a terrifying scarecrow that looks a little too alive if you ask me. Written by Guillermo del Toro, Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman, the film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. Del Toro produces alongside Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, and Elizabeth Grave Director André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens in theaters everywhere on August 9, 2019, from CBS Films and Lionsgate.
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Blu-ray Review: Jack the Ripper (1959)
Scotland Yard Inspector O’Neill (Eddie Byrne) is hella pissed due in no small part to his department’s stunning failure in clappin’ some irons on ol’ Saucy Jack (Jack the Ripper to you boils n’ ghouls). To help solve the case O’Neill calls for his old chum, New York City Detective Sam Lowry (Lee Patterson, sporting a 1950’s pompadour that must have been all the rage in 1888). Soon the Dublin Dynamo and…Sam…are balls deep in red herrings and sinister suspects, all of whom could potentially be the horrific hooker hacker. While this is going on, our man Sam gets a case of the hornies for Anne Ford (Betty McDowall), the ward of tight-ass A-number one…namely Dr. Tranter (John Le Mesurier), which goes over with the good Doctor like a rather large turd in a perfectly good punch bowl. Anyway, will our heroes save the day and discover who is behind the murder biz, or will Jack slip silently into the
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‘Upgrade’ Director To Remake ‘Escape From New York’
Genre fans should be very familiar with filmmaker Leigh Whannell, who is behind the Insidious franchise, Saw and Upgrade. He continues to add to his long list of horror hits. Not only was it just announced that Whannell will be in the director’s chair for Universal’s reboot of The Invisible Man, we’ve just learned that he will also be directing the remake of John Carpenter’s classic Escape from New York. THR is reporting that while no deal is in place at the moment their sources are saying he’s the one. “Whannell is kickstarting Escape from New York with a new vision for the project that sources say will retain elements of the original but bring new ideas to the table. One of Whannell’s goals is to avoid the bloated tentpole remake path that afflicted the reboots of the other 1980s-era movies such as Robocop and Total Recall.” Kurt Russell starred in the 1981 original as Snake Plissken, a convicted bank
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Filmmaker Conrad Faraj Fills Us In On His New Sci-Fi Horror Film ‘Fighting The Sky’
Conrad Faraj‘s (The Shadow People, The Candyman Conspiracy) latest film Fighting the Sky is rapidly approaching its February release date. Ahead of the film’s arrival, I sat down with Conrad to ask a few questions about the alien invasion film and the many movies he has coming out soon. Horror Fuel: “How did you get into the film industry?” Conrad Faraj: “I’ve always wanted to be a filmmaker since I was very, very young. I remember writing a lot of fan fiction. As I started writing more and more, I decided to make them into movies. I turned short stories into short movies. Ever since then, I’ve been making bigger and bigger movies. Here I am now.” Horror Fuel: “How would describe your latest film, Fighting the Sky?” Conrad Faraj: “Fighting the Sky is a science fiction adventure film with horror elements. It is a film that I’ve been dreaming of doing for a very long time. It’s a film
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‘The Ghost Survivors’ DLC Coming To ‘Resident Evil 2’ UPDATE
If you have not got a copy of the horror game of the year, Resident Evil 2, then this news of an upcoming free Downloadable Content (DLC) should entice you. In the upcoming mode The Ghost Survivors, players will turn back the clocks during the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City and see the nightmare from three new angels. In this “what if” scenario, you take on the roles of three individuals who have not survived the outbreak. In the segment titled, “No time to mourn”, follows gun shop owner Robert Kendo whose appearance in the Resident Evil 2 remake is more tragic than in the original where he was just a cannon fodder character. In “Runaway” players for the first time can see Katherine Warren, daughter of Raccoon City’s mayor like never before…alive. Finally in “Forgotten Soldier” you get to see through the eyes of another surviving Umbrella Special Ops soldier, teasing that legendary Hunk was not the only survivor
Continue reading →
Stephen King’s New Novel ‘The Institute’ Coming This September
We’ve been talking a lot about Stephen King lately, what can we say, the man popular. This time we have news on the master or horror’s latest novel, The Institute. This September the novel will take readers to a dark place, where children with special gifts are kidnapped and imprisoned by the evil Mrs. Sigsby. The synopsis goes like this: “In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated
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CBS Orders Pilot For New “Frankenstein” Series
What do you get when you combine horror and a police drama? You get CBS’ new series adaptation of Mary Shelly’s classic novel Frankenstein. The network has just ordered the pilot for their series simply titled “Frankenstein.” The series centers on “a San Francisco homicide detective who is mysteriously brought back to life after being killed in the line of duty. But as he resumes his old life he and his wife they realize he isn’t the same person he used to be and the couple zero in on the strange man behind his resurrection, Dr. Frankenstein.” The series will be aiming for a premiere next season and hails from writer Jason Tracey (Burn Notice). If you think the plot sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen or heard about Fox’s “The Frankenstein Code” which has been retitled several times as “Lookinglass” and “Second Chance”, and was originally titled “Frankenstein”. It followed a cop who gets a second chance after being brought
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