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High-Rise Director Made New Holiday Horror Thiller Under The Radar
Ben Wheatly, the director behind films such as High-Rise, Kill List, and Free Fire, has made a holiday horror film, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, in secret. Happy New Year centers around Neil Maskell‘s character, who rents a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin, his station in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David. Richard Glover, Peter Ferdinando, Neil Maskell, Mark Monero and Sam Riley along with Asim Chaudhry, Joe Cole, Charles Dance, Alexandra Maria Lara, Doon Mackichan, Sinead Matthews, Bill Paterson, and Hayley Squires star. Andy Starke of Rook Films is producing. Funny, acute and very human, it’s a film abo, t families at their worst and best, and a perfect bit of alternative Christmas television,” Rose Garnett, head of BBC Films, stated. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is set to be released in association with BBC Films and BBC Two and was made
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Hell House LLC: Abaddon Hotel Premiering Exclusively On Shudder
Terror Films and Shudder, the leading streaming service for horror, thriller, and suspense, have teamed up for the release of writer-director Stephen Cognetti‘s highly-anticipated Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. Following the success of Hell House LLC, released in 2016, Cognetti is giving fans what they’ve been begging for, a sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. The sequel picks up eight years since the opening night tragedy of Hell House LLC; s many unanswered questions remain. Thanks to an anonymous tip, an investigative journalist is convinced that key evidence is hidden inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This evidence that will shed light on the hotel’s mysteries, many unsolved deaths, and disappearances. Journalist Jessica Fox (Jillian Geurts) assembles a team to break into the hotel in hopes of discovering the truth. But the source of the tip and the secrets of the Abaddon Hotel are more horrifying than any of them could have imagined. Geurts stars alongside Vasile
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Short Film Review: octOber (2018)
Two friends, Alex and Jeremy, stroll along some train tracks under a steel grey sky. Alex discusses the disappearance of his sister, and the toll it has taken on his family…and he also explains that he thinks he knows who did it…a local man named Mr. Whitman whom he claims he has seen bump off other townsfolk. Well, our erstwhile heroes get to investigating, and Jeremy is slaughtered, while Alex makes like a fuckin’ banana and splits. Of course his meddling sets of a whole lot of horror biz…biz he may not be able to survive! Stylish, super slick, and possessing a strong story (of which this is but one part of an over reaching narrative…this is part 2 for those keepin’ score at home), octOber is a mini-masterpiece of suburban horror and taught tension. It’s the type of flick that as you watch you just know something horrible is going to happen, but just what or more importantly when
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Album Review: Ghosts in the Graveyard: The Last Halloween: Remix Album (2018)
I’ve been following Seattle Washington’s Darkwave shock rockers Ghosts in the Graveyard since the beginning (I’m like a fuckin’ horror hipster now, minus the beard and mason jars…and everything that makes a hipster a hipster), and I was excited as all unholy hell when the leader o’ this gang o’ ghouls Byron C. Miller reached out to your’s cruelly and asked him to check out a new arcane album full o’ revoltin’ remixes of some of the best terror tunes from the group’s debut Monsters for the Masses! Featuring remixes from Idoless, Dead Animal Assembly Plant, Patrick Fears, Pill Brigade, Blakk Glass, The Labrynth, Kain Kinetic, and Endless Sunder; The Last Halloween takes the already creeptastic pitch black New Wave stylings the band is known for, and rips them open and blows them up into sonic assaults that sound even more melodic, layered, and downright “huge” then they did on their first go around! Standout re-mixes for me include Thirteen
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‘Anna And The Apocalypse’ Gifts Us With A New Trailer
Anna and the Apocalypse is the new holiday treat we didn’t know we needed. Horror fans have just been gifted with the second trailer that’s filled with Christmas cheer and a lot of zombies. Director John McPhail‘s fresh musical twist on the zombie genre is set in the “sleepy town of Little Haven. Anna and her high school pals must fight, sing and slash their way to survival. Teaming with her best friend John, Anna and her crew try to save family and faculty alike as they encounter zombified snowmen, a manic bachelor party, and teenage hormones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and the only people they can truly rely on are each other.” Ella Hunt (Our Robot Overlords) stars alongside Mark Benton (The Halcyon) and Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones). Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, and Marli Siu co-star. Ryan McHenry, who wrote the 2010 short film Zombie
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“Gotham” Star Joins James Wan’s “Swamp Thing”
James Wan‘s “Swamp Thing” series has begun casting. The first actress to join the cast is “Gotham” star Crystal Reed, who will play Abby Arcane, the love interest of Swamp Thing. The series, based on the DC comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, is penned by “Ash vs. Evil Dead” writer Mark Verheiden and IT co-writer Gary Dauberman. Underworld director Lin Wiseman will direct the pilot episode. “Swamp Thing” centers on CDC researcher Abby Arcane. When she returns to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, she develops a surprising bond with scientist Alec Holland — only to have him tragically taken from her. But as powerful forces descend on Houma, intent on exploiting the swamp’s mysterious properties for their own purposes, Abby will discover that the swamp holds mystical secrets, both horrifying and wondrous — and the potential love of her life may not be dead after all. Verheiden and
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Animus International Trailer Takes Us On A Journey To Hell
Filmex, the company that brought us the [Rec] franchise, Sleep Tight, and Summer Camp, has unleashed the first international trailer for Animus (aka Souls) co-directed by Laura Alvea and Jose Ortuño. The film centers on Alex, “a confident girl with a strong personality and great tenacity. She’s very close to her best friend Abraham, to whom she provides constant help and support, as Abraham is a shy, withdrawn and insecure boy, mainly due to the complex relationship between he and his parents. But everything changes when Daniel – Abraham’s father – dies in a strange accident, the cause of which is unclear. From this moment on, Alex finds herself on a hallucinatory journey that takes her on a descent into hell, where the line between reality and nightmare becomes blurred to the point that Alex begins to question the foundations of her very existence.” Clare Durant, Ivan Pellicer, and Angela Molina star. Animus arrives overseas on October 5, 2018. We’ll
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Every Clip And Trailer For The Nun – Now In Theaters
One of the most highly-anticipated horror films of the year, The Nun, opened in theaters nationwide yesterday. The film which had a budget of around $22 million, brought in over $5.4 million dollars on its opening night. To celebrate its opening, we have all of the trailers and clips for you to watch. If they don’t make you excited, you’re dead inside. In the film, a priest with a haunted past and woman on the threshold of taking her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania. The two are forced to face a dark entity in the form of a nun. The Nun stars Oscar-nominated Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Sister Irene, Charlotte Hope (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria and Ingrid Bisu (“Toni Erdmann”) as Sister Oana, Jonas Bloquet (Elle) as local villager Frenchie. Bonnie Aarons
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Casper Van Dien Bares His Teeth In The Alpha Wolf Trailer
Starship Troopers‘ Casper Van Dien (interview) sinks his teeth into his latest role, in the werewolf film Alpha Wolf, from director Kevin VanHook. And we have the hair-raising new trailer. When Virginia (Jennifer Wenger) and her husband Jack (Dien) spend a long weekend in the idyllic countryside, they encounter a creature that tears their lives apart. While the attack has an effect on each of them, it brings out the worst in Jack. Written by Wes C. Caefer, Alpha Wolf co-stars Patrick Muldoon, James Preston Rogers, Robert Allen Mukes, Larry Poole, Tyler Gallant, and Shane P. Allen. Wes C. Caefer and Kevin VanHook produced with William Caefer executive producing. Alpha Wolf arrives in theaters on November 13, 2018.
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Movie Review: Diane (2018)
Stage actress/singer Diane (Carlee Avers) is discovered in the back yard of hard luck disabled war vet Steve (Jason Alan Smith)…well, her semi-clothed body is anyway along with a bloody screwdriver. After an intense, and off-kilter, grilling by the local authorities, Steve is returned home where he becomes obsessed with Diane…so much so that he begins to hear her voice late at night and has strange fever dreams involving her (tinted a strange crimson hue, or taking place in nebulous white spaces)…while his days find him even more ostracized from his community than we was previously. Before long, Diane’s appearances become rather sinister, and find that things aren’t as they appear to be! Boasting a unique and surreal aesthetic, Diane is definitely not your run of the mill police procedural/murder mystery. Every character is perfectly nuanced and acted (with Smith’s leading man performance a true standout…but Margaret Rose Champagne, Dick Boland, and Jim Thalman as the police assigned to his
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High-Rise Director Made New Holiday Horror Thiller Under The Radar
Ben Wheatly, the director behind films such as High-Rise, Kill List, and Free Fire, has made a holiday horror film, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, in secret. Happy New Year centers around Neil Maskell‘s character, who rents a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin, his station in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David. Richard Glover, Peter Ferdinando, Neil Maskell, Mark Monero and Sam Riley along with Asim Chaudhry, Joe Cole, Charles Dance, Alexandra Maria Lara, Doon Mackichan, Sinead Matthews, Bill Paterson, and Hayley Squires star. Andy Starke of Rook Films is producing. Funny, acute and very human, it’s a film abo, t families at their worst and best, and a perfect bit of alternative Christmas television,” Rose Garnett, head of BBC Films, stated. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is set to be released in association with BBC Films and BBC Two and was made
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Hell House LLC: Abaddon Hotel Premiering Exclusively On Shudder
Terror Films and Shudder, the leading streaming service for horror, thriller, and suspense, have teamed up for the release of writer-director Stephen Cognetti‘s highly-anticipated Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. Following the success of Hell House LLC, released in 2016, Cognetti is giving fans what they’ve been begging for, a sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. The sequel picks up eight years since the opening night tragedy of Hell House LLC; s many unanswered questions remain. Thanks to an anonymous tip, an investigative journalist is convinced that key evidence is hidden inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This evidence that will shed light on the hotel’s mysteries, many unsolved deaths, and disappearances. Journalist Jessica Fox (Jillian Geurts) assembles a team to break into the hotel in hopes of discovering the truth. But the source of the tip and the secrets of the Abaddon Hotel are more horrifying than any of them could have imagined. Geurts stars alongside Vasile
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Short Film Review: octOber (2018)
Two friends, Alex and Jeremy, stroll along some train tracks under a steel grey sky. Alex discusses the disappearance of his sister, and the toll it has taken on his family…and he also explains that he thinks he knows who did it…a local man named Mr. Whitman whom he claims he has seen bump off other townsfolk. Well, our erstwhile heroes get to investigating, and Jeremy is slaughtered, while Alex makes like a fuckin’ banana and splits. Of course his meddling sets of a whole lot of horror biz…biz he may not be able to survive! Stylish, super slick, and possessing a strong story (of which this is but one part of an over reaching narrative…this is part 2 for those keepin’ score at home), octOber is a mini-masterpiece of suburban horror and taught tension. It’s the type of flick that as you watch you just know something horrible is going to happen, but just what or more importantly when
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Album Review: Ghosts in the Graveyard: The Last Halloween: Remix Album (2018)
I’ve been following Seattle Washington’s Darkwave shock rockers Ghosts in the Graveyard since the beginning (I’m like a fuckin’ horror hipster now, minus the beard and mason jars…and everything that makes a hipster a hipster), and I was excited as all unholy hell when the leader o’ this gang o’ ghouls Byron C. Miller reached out to your’s cruelly and asked him to check out a new arcane album full o’ revoltin’ remixes of some of the best terror tunes from the group’s debut Monsters for the Masses! Featuring remixes from Idoless, Dead Animal Assembly Plant, Patrick Fears, Pill Brigade, Blakk Glass, The Labrynth, Kain Kinetic, and Endless Sunder; The Last Halloween takes the already creeptastic pitch black New Wave stylings the band is known for, and rips them open and blows them up into sonic assaults that sound even more melodic, layered, and downright “huge” then they did on their first go around! Standout re-mixes for me include Thirteen
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‘Anna And The Apocalypse’ Gifts Us With A New Trailer
Anna and the Apocalypse is the new holiday treat we didn’t know we needed. Horror fans have just been gifted with the second trailer that’s filled with Christmas cheer and a lot of zombies. Director John McPhail‘s fresh musical twist on the zombie genre is set in the “sleepy town of Little Haven. Anna and her high school pals must fight, sing and slash their way to survival. Teaming with her best friend John, Anna and her crew try to save family and faculty alike as they encounter zombified snowmen, a manic bachelor party, and teenage hormones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and the only people they can truly rely on are each other.” Ella Hunt (Our Robot Overlords) stars alongside Mark Benton (The Halcyon) and Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones). Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, and Marli Siu co-star. Ryan McHenry, who wrote the 2010 short film Zombie
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“Gotham” Star Joins James Wan’s “Swamp Thing”
James Wan‘s “Swamp Thing” series has begun casting. The first actress to join the cast is “Gotham” star Crystal Reed, who will play Abby Arcane, the love interest of Swamp Thing. The series, based on the DC comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, is penned by “Ash vs. Evil Dead” writer Mark Verheiden and IT co-writer Gary Dauberman. Underworld director Lin Wiseman will direct the pilot episode. “Swamp Thing” centers on CDC researcher Abby Arcane. When she returns to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, she develops a surprising bond with scientist Alec Holland — only to have him tragically taken from her. But as powerful forces descend on Houma, intent on exploiting the swamp’s mysterious properties for their own purposes, Abby will discover that the swamp holds mystical secrets, both horrifying and wondrous — and the potential love of her life may not be dead after all. Verheiden and
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Animus International Trailer Takes Us On A Journey To Hell
Filmex, the company that brought us the [Rec] franchise, Sleep Tight, and Summer Camp, has unleashed the first international trailer for Animus (aka Souls) co-directed by Laura Alvea and Jose Ortuño. The film centers on Alex, “a confident girl with a strong personality and great tenacity. She’s very close to her best friend Abraham, to whom she provides constant help and support, as Abraham is a shy, withdrawn and insecure boy, mainly due to the complex relationship between he and his parents. But everything changes when Daniel – Abraham’s father – dies in a strange accident, the cause of which is unclear. From this moment on, Alex finds herself on a hallucinatory journey that takes her on a descent into hell, where the line between reality and nightmare becomes blurred to the point that Alex begins to question the foundations of her very existence.” Clare Durant, Ivan Pellicer, and Angela Molina star. Animus arrives overseas on October 5, 2018. We’ll
Continue reading →
Every Clip And Trailer For The Nun – Now In Theaters
One of the most highly-anticipated horror films of the year, The Nun, opened in theaters nationwide yesterday. The film which had a budget of around $22 million, brought in over $5.4 million dollars on its opening night. To celebrate its opening, we have all of the trailers and clips for you to watch. If they don’t make you excited, you’re dead inside. In the film, a priest with a haunted past and woman on the threshold of taking her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania. The two are forced to face a dark entity in the form of a nun. The Nun stars Oscar-nominated Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Sister Irene, Charlotte Hope (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria and Ingrid Bisu (“Toni Erdmann”) as Sister Oana, Jonas Bloquet (Elle) as local villager Frenchie. Bonnie Aarons
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Casper Van Dien Bares His Teeth In The Alpha Wolf Trailer
Starship Troopers‘ Casper Van Dien (interview) sinks his teeth into his latest role, in the werewolf film Alpha Wolf, from director Kevin VanHook. And we have the hair-raising new trailer. When Virginia (Jennifer Wenger) and her husband Jack (Dien) spend a long weekend in the idyllic countryside, they encounter a creature that tears their lives apart. While the attack has an effect on each of them, it brings out the worst in Jack. Written by Wes C. Caefer, Alpha Wolf co-stars Patrick Muldoon, James Preston Rogers, Robert Allen Mukes, Larry Poole, Tyler Gallant, and Shane P. Allen. Wes C. Caefer and Kevin VanHook produced with William Caefer executive producing. Alpha Wolf arrives in theaters on November 13, 2018.
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Movie Review: Diane (2018)
Stage actress/singer Diane (Carlee Avers) is discovered in the back yard of hard luck disabled war vet Steve (Jason Alan Smith)…well, her semi-clothed body is anyway along with a bloody screwdriver. After an intense, and off-kilter, grilling by the local authorities, Steve is returned home where he becomes obsessed with Diane…so much so that he begins to hear her voice late at night and has strange fever dreams involving her (tinted a strange crimson hue, or taking place in nebulous white spaces)…while his days find him even more ostracized from his community than we was previously. Before long, Diane’s appearances become rather sinister, and find that things aren’t as they appear to be! Boasting a unique and surreal aesthetic, Diane is definitely not your run of the mill police procedural/murder mystery. Every character is perfectly nuanced and acted (with Smith’s leading man performance a true standout…but Margaret Rose Champagne, Dick Boland, and Jim Thalman as the police assigned to his
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