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‘Hell Fest’ Coming To 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, And DVD Just In Time For Christmas
This Christmas stuff a horror fan’s stocking with something they really want, Hell Fest arriving on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack and Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, as well as DVD just in time for Christmas, from Lionsgate. From Gale Anne Hurd, an executive producer of TV’s “The Walking Dead,” executive producer Tucker Tooley (Limitless, Den of Thieves), and director Gregory Plotkin (editor of Get Out, Happy Death Day, of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension), Hell Fest is one truly terrifying ride. The scary slasher film stars Amy Forsyth (TV’s “The Path,” “Rise,” “Defiance”), Reign Edwards (TV’s “Snowfall,” “MacGyver,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”), Bex Taylor-Klaus (TV’s “Scream: The TV Series,” “Arrow,” The Last Witch Hunter), and the legendary Tony Todd (Candyman, Night of the Living Dead, The Crow). The film was penned by Seth M. Sherwood and Blair Butler, and Akela Cooper and is based on the story by William Penick & Christopher Sey and Stephen Susco. In this action-packed slasher,
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Zac Effron Celebrates As Ted Bundy In New Image From ‘Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile’
Today we have a new official still at Zac Efron as infamous serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile. The image was released as part of the announcement that the film will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this January. Directed by Joe Berlinger and written by Michael Werwie, Extremely Wicked chronicles the crimes of Ted Bundy through the eyes of his girlfriend Elizabeth, played by Lily Collins. In real life, “Liz” refused to believe that her boyfriend sexually assaulted and murdered women during the 1970s. Bundy, who was described as charismatic and handsome, confessed to killing thirty women. John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, Jeffrey Donovan, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Terry Kinney, Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield, and Dylan Baker also star.
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Movie Review: Intensive Care (2018)
Alex (Tara Macken) earns some scratch by being the live-in nurse for an elderly woman named Claire (Leslie Easterbrook); and it seems like a rather cake assignment minus changin’ an adult diaper or two. Meanwhile Claire’s estranged, and constantly down on his luck, grandson Danny (Jai Rodriguez) has reunited with Seth and Rudy (played to the hilt by Kevin Sizemore and Jose Rosete respectively), a duo of no-good-nik townies he fucked over in the past, and the trio decide to rob the old bat, with the dastardly duo doing the deed while Danny takes Alex out on a date (plus distraction sex…Danny really suffers for his machinations, eh creeps? It’s like “You dudes get dolled up in spooky masks and struggle to open that safe…I’ll take the heat off of you by getting down and dirty with this outrageously attractive woman!” That ol’ rugged cross is a hard one to bear…). As is often the case, things go south, and
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From The Creator Of ‘Final Deastination’ Comes ‘The Final Wish’ Starring Lin Shaye & Tony Todd
From the creator of Final Destination, Jeffery Reddick comes The Final Wish, set to be released in 2019 from Cinedigm. Directed by Timothy Woodard Jr. the film was written by Reddick, Jonathan Doyle, and William Halfon, and stars horror icons Lin Shaye and Tony Todd as well as Spencer Locke and Michael Welch, Deadline reports. The Final Wish “follows a young man (Michael Welch), struggling in his life and career, who returns home to his devastated mother (Shaye) following the passing of his father, an antique collector. Once home, he encounters a run of good luck but can’t shake the feeling that there is something sinister at work, and these events may be tied to a mysterious antiquity that, legend has it, grants wishes but kills and steals souls in return.” Woodward Jr. produced the film along with Lauren de Normandie, Johnny Cleveland, Reddick, and Thommy Huston. Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Joe Listhaus, Patrick DePeters, Arthur Wylie, and Dale Godboldo
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Claes Bang Sinks His Teeth Into The Lead Role In New Dracula Series
Following his role in Fede Alverez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Danish actor Claes Bang is sinking his teeth into a new role, as Count Dracula in the upcoming three-part series from the BBC and Netflix, set in “Transylvania in 1897, the blood drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London.” Set to start filming next year, the series features 90-minutes episodes created and written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the team behind BBC’s hit series “Sherlock”. I am thrilled to be taking on the role of Dracula, especially when the script is in the hands of the incredible talents of Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and the team responsible for Sherlock,” Bang said. “I’m so excited that I get to dig in to this iconic and super-interesting character. Yes he’s evil, but there’s also so much more to him, he’s charismatic, intelligent, witty and sexy. I realise that there’s a lot to live up to with all
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Shudder Gifts Fans With Specials, Marathons, Movies And More This December
SHUDDER is gifting fans with a killer lineup which includes 6 new and classic holiday-themed horror movies and 8 essential Stephen King adaptations, along with a new dusk-till-dawn The Last Drive-In marathon, A Very Joe Bob Christmas. Here are some of the goodies you’ll find under the tree from Shudder this December: KING OF HORROR — available Saturday, December 1 THE CULT OF “KING” COHEN — available Tuesday, December 10 We close out the year with two collections celebrating our favorite pair of Kings: horror master Stephen King and maverick indie filmmaker Larry “King” Cohen. Start with eight beloved Stephen King adaptations—Cujo (1983), Creepshow (1982), Creepshow 2 (1987), The Dead Zone (1983), Misery (1990), Pet Sematary (1989), Salem’s Lot (1979), and Silver Bullet (1985). Then discover the larger-than-life, mostly true story of a great American iconoclast in the documentary King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018), and stream three of our favorite Cohen cult classics, God Told
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Survival Thriller ‘Rust Creek’ Opens In Theaters This January (Trailer)
This January a young woman must fight to survive in the award-winning film Rust Creek, directed by Jen McGowan and starring Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi). In the film, “an ordinary woman must summon extraordinary courage to survive a nightmare odyssey in this harrowing survival thriller. Sawyer (Hermione Corfield) is an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods. Suddenly, the young woman with everything to live for finds herself facing her own mortality as she’s punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. With nowhere left to run, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with Lowell (Jay Paulson), an enigmatic loner with shadowy intentions. Though she’s not sure she can trust him, Sawyer must take a chance if she hopes to escape Rust Creek alive. Sean O’Bryan, Micah Hauptman, and Daniel
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‘Venom’ Comes Home This December (New Trailer)
This December bring home one of Marvel’s coolest and most badass movies, Venom, debuting on Digital, followed by its arrival on Blu-ray. The blockbuster directed by Ruben Fleisher (Zombieland) stars Tom Hardy (“Taboo”, Mad Max: Fury Road) and grossed over $822 million in theaters worldwide. The all-star cast also includes Michelle Williams (The Greatest Showman), Riz Ahmed (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, TV’s “The Night Of”), Jenny Slate (Zootopia), and Woody Harrelson (Zombieland, The Hunger Games franchise). The perfect holiday gift, Venom tells “the evolution story of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass character Venom! Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is a broken man after he loses everything including his job and fiancee. Just when his life is at its lowest, he becomes host to an alien symbiote which results in extraordinary superpowers – transforming him into Venom. Will these powers be enough for this new lethal protector to defeat great evil forces, especially against the far stronger and more
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Blu-ray Review Attraction (2017)
On the eve of a massive meteor shower, a titanic damaged U.F.O. crash lands in Moscow. This sets off massive confusion among the citizenry with many resisting the arrival of our new-found brothers from the stars, some out of prejudice and others out of more personal reasons, such as Julia (Irina Starshenbaum) who’s best friend Sveta (Darya Rudenok) was inadvertently killed as the craft ripped the city apart during it’s landing. Soon Julia, along with her boyfriend Tyoma (Alexander Petrov) and his friends venture into ground zero to see what just what the aliens, who claim they wish for nothing more than to be left alone and repair their ship, are really up to! Unbeknownst to her pals, Julia finds out a secret about the aliens that causes her to have a change of heart…a change that leads to the fires of revolution and even love. But will all of that be enough to save the city, and just who
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Blu-ray Review: Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Warner Brothers have just unleashed a real terror treat for fang bangers everywhere; a duo of discs starring that demonic Dracula and his vampire hordes courtesy of the haunted Hammer House of Horror! So let’s grab a slice or two of extra garlic pizza and give Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula a wicked whirl! Dracula A.D. 1972 begins with Dracula (Christopher Lee) dying at the hands (spokes?) of a wagon wheel in the 1800’s (trust me, it plays out waaay better than it reads). Flash forward to ultra-mod London in the year 1972 where hip scenster cum Occultist Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame) gets the shit-hot idea to perform a ritual with his chums in a deconsecrated church in the hopes of giving rise to the Devil himself, but he instead conjurs up ol’ Drac-Attack! What Johnny doesn’t know however is that his pal Jessica (Stephanie Beacham) and her grandfather Lorrimer (Peter Cushing) are part of a
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‘Hell Fest’ Coming To 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, And DVD Just In Time For Christmas
This Christmas stuff a horror fan’s stocking with something they really want, Hell Fest arriving on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack and Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, as well as DVD just in time for Christmas, from Lionsgate. From Gale Anne Hurd, an executive producer of TV’s “The Walking Dead,” executive producer Tucker Tooley (Limitless, Den of Thieves), and director Gregory Plotkin (editor of Get Out, Happy Death Day, of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension), Hell Fest is one truly terrifying ride. The scary slasher film stars Amy Forsyth (TV’s “The Path,” “Rise,” “Defiance”), Reign Edwards (TV’s “Snowfall,” “MacGyver,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”), Bex Taylor-Klaus (TV’s “Scream: The TV Series,” “Arrow,” The Last Witch Hunter), and the legendary Tony Todd (Candyman, Night of the Living Dead, The Crow). The film was penned by Seth M. Sherwood and Blair Butler, and Akela Cooper and is based on the story by William Penick & Christopher Sey and Stephen Susco. In this action-packed slasher,
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Zac Effron Celebrates As Ted Bundy In New Image From ‘Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile’
Today we have a new official still at Zac Efron as infamous serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile. The image was released as part of the announcement that the film will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this January. Directed by Joe Berlinger and written by Michael Werwie, Extremely Wicked chronicles the crimes of Ted Bundy through the eyes of his girlfriend Elizabeth, played by Lily Collins. In real life, “Liz” refused to believe that her boyfriend sexually assaulted and murdered women during the 1970s. Bundy, who was described as charismatic and handsome, confessed to killing thirty women. John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, Jeffrey Donovan, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Terry Kinney, Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield, and Dylan Baker also star.
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Movie Review: Intensive Care (2018)
Alex (Tara Macken) earns some scratch by being the live-in nurse for an elderly woman named Claire (Leslie Easterbrook); and it seems like a rather cake assignment minus changin’ an adult diaper or two. Meanwhile Claire’s estranged, and constantly down on his luck, grandson Danny (Jai Rodriguez) has reunited with Seth and Rudy (played to the hilt by Kevin Sizemore and Jose Rosete respectively), a duo of no-good-nik townies he fucked over in the past, and the trio decide to rob the old bat, with the dastardly duo doing the deed while Danny takes Alex out on a date (plus distraction sex…Danny really suffers for his machinations, eh creeps? It’s like “You dudes get dolled up in spooky masks and struggle to open that safe…I’ll take the heat off of you by getting down and dirty with this outrageously attractive woman!” That ol’ rugged cross is a hard one to bear…). As is often the case, things go south, and
Continue reading →
From The Creator Of ‘Final Deastination’ Comes ‘The Final Wish’ Starring Lin Shaye & Tony Todd
From the creator of Final Destination, Jeffery Reddick comes The Final Wish, set to be released in 2019 from Cinedigm. Directed by Timothy Woodard Jr. the film was written by Reddick, Jonathan Doyle, and William Halfon, and stars horror icons Lin Shaye and Tony Todd as well as Spencer Locke and Michael Welch, Deadline reports. The Final Wish “follows a young man (Michael Welch), struggling in his life and career, who returns home to his devastated mother (Shaye) following the passing of his father, an antique collector. Once home, he encounters a run of good luck but can’t shake the feeling that there is something sinister at work, and these events may be tied to a mysterious antiquity that, legend has it, grants wishes but kills and steals souls in return.” Woodward Jr. produced the film along with Lauren de Normandie, Johnny Cleveland, Reddick, and Thommy Huston. Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Joe Listhaus, Patrick DePeters, Arthur Wylie, and Dale Godboldo
Continue reading →
Claes Bang Sinks His Teeth Into The Lead Role In New Dracula Series
Following his role in Fede Alverez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Danish actor Claes Bang is sinking his teeth into a new role, as Count Dracula in the upcoming three-part series from the BBC and Netflix, set in “Transylvania in 1897, the blood drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London.” Set to start filming next year, the series features 90-minutes episodes created and written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the team behind BBC’s hit series “Sherlock”. I am thrilled to be taking on the role of Dracula, especially when the script is in the hands of the incredible talents of Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and the team responsible for Sherlock,” Bang said. “I’m so excited that I get to dig in to this iconic and super-interesting character. Yes he’s evil, but there’s also so much more to him, he’s charismatic, intelligent, witty and sexy. I realise that there’s a lot to live up to with all
Continue reading →
Shudder Gifts Fans With Specials, Marathons, Movies And More This December
SHUDDER is gifting fans with a killer lineup which includes 6 new and classic holiday-themed horror movies and 8 essential Stephen King adaptations, along with a new dusk-till-dawn The Last Drive-In marathon, A Very Joe Bob Christmas. Here are some of the goodies you’ll find under the tree from Shudder this December: KING OF HORROR — available Saturday, December 1 THE CULT OF “KING” COHEN — available Tuesday, December 10 We close out the year with two collections celebrating our favorite pair of Kings: horror master Stephen King and maverick indie filmmaker Larry “King” Cohen. Start with eight beloved Stephen King adaptations—Cujo (1983), Creepshow (1982), Creepshow 2 (1987), The Dead Zone (1983), Misery (1990), Pet Sematary (1989), Salem’s Lot (1979), and Silver Bullet (1985). Then discover the larger-than-life, mostly true story of a great American iconoclast in the documentary King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018), and stream three of our favorite Cohen cult classics, God Told
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Survival Thriller ‘Rust Creek’ Opens In Theaters This January (Trailer)
This January a young woman must fight to survive in the award-winning film Rust Creek, directed by Jen McGowan and starring Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi). In the film, “an ordinary woman must summon extraordinary courage to survive a nightmare odyssey in this harrowing survival thriller. Sawyer (Hermione Corfield) is an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods. Suddenly, the young woman with everything to live for finds herself facing her own mortality as she’s punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. With nowhere left to run, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with Lowell (Jay Paulson), an enigmatic loner with shadowy intentions. Though she’s not sure she can trust him, Sawyer must take a chance if she hopes to escape Rust Creek alive. Sean O’Bryan, Micah Hauptman, and Daniel
Continue reading →
‘Venom’ Comes Home This December (New Trailer)
This December bring home one of Marvel’s coolest and most badass movies, Venom, debuting on Digital, followed by its arrival on Blu-ray. The blockbuster directed by Ruben Fleisher (Zombieland) stars Tom Hardy (“Taboo”, Mad Max: Fury Road) and grossed over $822 million in theaters worldwide. The all-star cast also includes Michelle Williams (The Greatest Showman), Riz Ahmed (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, TV’s “The Night Of”), Jenny Slate (Zootopia), and Woody Harrelson (Zombieland, The Hunger Games franchise). The perfect holiday gift, Venom tells “the evolution story of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass character Venom! Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is a broken man after he loses everything including his job and fiancee. Just when his life is at its lowest, he becomes host to an alien symbiote which results in extraordinary superpowers – transforming him into Venom. Will these powers be enough for this new lethal protector to defeat great evil forces, especially against the far stronger and more
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review Attraction (2017)
On the eve of a massive meteor shower, a titanic damaged U.F.O. crash lands in Moscow. This sets off massive confusion among the citizenry with many resisting the arrival of our new-found brothers from the stars, some out of prejudice and others out of more personal reasons, such as Julia (Irina Starshenbaum) who’s best friend Sveta (Darya Rudenok) was inadvertently killed as the craft ripped the city apart during it’s landing. Soon Julia, along with her boyfriend Tyoma (Alexander Petrov) and his friends venture into ground zero to see what just what the aliens, who claim they wish for nothing more than to be left alone and repair their ship, are really up to! Unbeknownst to her pals, Julia finds out a secret about the aliens that causes her to have a change of heart…a change that leads to the fires of revolution and even love. But will all of that be enough to save the city, and just who
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Warner Brothers have just unleashed a real terror treat for fang bangers everywhere; a duo of discs starring that demonic Dracula and his vampire hordes courtesy of the haunted Hammer House of Horror! So let’s grab a slice or two of extra garlic pizza and give Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula a wicked whirl! Dracula A.D. 1972 begins with Dracula (Christopher Lee) dying at the hands (spokes?) of a wagon wheel in the 1800’s (trust me, it plays out waaay better than it reads). Flash forward to ultra-mod London in the year 1972 where hip scenster cum Occultist Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame) gets the shit-hot idea to perform a ritual with his chums in a deconsecrated church in the hopes of giving rise to the Devil himself, but he instead conjurs up ol’ Drac-Attack! What Johnny doesn’t know however is that his pal Jessica (Stephanie Beacham) and her grandfather Lorrimer (Peter Cushing) are part of a
Continue reading →