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Enter The ‘House On Elm Lake’ This April
This April, enter the House on Elm Lake – the rooms are to-die-for! Director James Klass conjures up a holiday of horrors in Wild Eye Releasing’s House on Elm Lake. “In the tradition of The Conjuring comes a critically acclaimed and genuinely frightening feature “chock-full of superbly scary imagery” and “oozing with atmosphere” (The Schlock Pit).” In the film, a young couple moves into a lake house that was the site of a ritual murder, and soon realize an ancient, dormant evil has awakened to prey upon them. Directed by James Klass (Mother Krampus), House on Elm Lake stars Becca Hirani (Unhinged, Mother Krampus), Oliver Ebsworth (Curse of the Witching Tree, Mother Krampus), and Tony Manders (Darker Shade of Elise, Fox Trap). House on Elm Lake opens for inspection on April 10, 2018, on VOD.
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Movie Review: Accident is a Beautiful, if Lightweight Thriller
Two women on their way to a music festival hitch a ride with two dudes in a stolen car. Things get slightly rapey and the car goes a shootin’ down into a ravine, where our “heroes” become trapped in the overturned vehicle. Horribly wounded the gang tries to survive the night with little chance of rescue…but can they survive each other and the evil that greed can inspire? While the story line, as evidenced by my lil’ synopsis up there may be a bit lightweight (I actually would call it compact, streamlined, and uncomplicated), Accident more than makes up for it in visual panache. Director Dan Tondowski and Cinematographer Maxime Cointe have created a masterpiece (in the ‘looking good’ department that is) of long, unbroken shots and serpentine camera moves (both natural and digitally enhanced) that are rather astonishing at times, and they also manage to effectively dial it back once the protagonists become trapped within the confines of the
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‘Dying Light’ Enters The World Of Battle Royal Gaming
In recent years a new kind of video game genre is making its mark on gamers, Battle Royal style gaming. These games are a free for all survival either being played solo or in teams. The most notable games of this genre are H1Z1, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), and the more recent popular game Fortnite: Battle Royal. With the popularity of these games, many of which originally did not have a battle royal style features till they became a DLC that eventually turned into stand-alone titles. A new popular game has entered this territory, Dying Light, the first-person zombie survival game where players use parkour skills along with makeshift weaponry to survive in the urban jungle infested with zombies. The game’s developers announced a new update/game mode coming to the game, Dying Light: Bad Blood a battle royal style game pitting players against one another and zombies. Six players are dropped into the fictional city of Harran (where the game takes
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‘Orphan’ Star Isabelle Fuhrman Boards Thriller ‘Tape’
Full Moon announced this morning that Orphan star Isabelle Fuhrman has boarded Deborah Kampmeier’s revenge thriller Tape. Fuhrman joins Thom Bishops (The Tale) and Annarosa Mudd in the film based on the true story of an innocent young actress, a producer and a woman looking for revenge. “Tape tells the story of a young, ambitious actress (Fuhrman), who meets a producer (Bishops) at an open call audition. Taken with her, he invites her to his hotel to discuss another role. What he doesn’t know is that another actress (Mudd), is waiting to exact her revenge against him.” Kampmeier (Hounddog) and Veronica Nickel (First Match) for Full Moon Films will be producing. Ken and Marie Romanski are serving as executive producers. Shooting begins in New York City this April. I’ll be honest, I have high hopes for Tape. Fuhrman blew me away in Orphan. Her portrayal as a grown woman posing as a child was both terrifying and incredible.
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A Woman Is Out For ‘Revenge’ In New Blood-Drenched Red Band Trailer
Neon is gearing up to release writer-director Coralic Fargeat’s action-packed festival hit Revenge in theaters and on VOD this May. Today, we’ve got a the new blood-drenched Red Band trailer In the film, “Jen (Matilda Lutz) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge.” Lutz stars alongside Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. Witness Revenge in theaters or on VOD on May 11, 2018.
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The Queen Mary Opening New Attraction On Friday The 13th
This April, board The Queen Mary for a paranormal experience on one of the scariest days of the year, Friday the 13th. Dubbed one of the “Top 10 most haunted places on Earth” by Time Magazine, The Queen Mary, featured on Syfy’s “Ghost Hunters” will open its notoriously haunted Stateroom B340 for overnight guests. Visitors will have the unique opportunity to spend the night in the middle of an alleged paranormal hot spot. “Several of the cabins onboard the Queen Mary are considered haunted. But, the stateroom with the most infamous reputation is room B340,” said Stephen Sowards, General Manager of the Queen Mary. “The last time the room was occupied by a guest was in the 1980’s. For decades we’ve had thousands of visitors request to occupy the room, and after 30 years, we are excited to once again extend the offer to our guests.” Stateroom B340 has a lengthy record of paranormal activity with many stories of haunted
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DVD Review: Curse of the Mayans is a Serviceable Sci-Fi Adventure
Dr. Alan Green (Steve Wilcox…who looks alarmingly like Ridley Scott) discovers a manuscript that he believes holds the key to solving the disappearance of the Mayans centuries before, which results in him hiring a team of spunky spelunkers headed by Danielle Nobel (Carla Ortiz…who thankfully looks nothing like Ridley Scott since she has a nude scene) to put that pesky parchment to the test! Well these folks bitch and moan and trek through the jungle for a long, long time before they arrive at an underwater tomb from which they unleash an evil from beyond the stars. Kicking out the positive jams; this film is extremely well shot, and features some truly beautiful locations (yup, the film makers actually filmed in Mexico, at ancient Mayan ruins) that add an immeasurable amount of production value to Curse of the Mayans. Along with those vistas comes some solid acting, and a unique (if uneven) story…but the real show stopper is the cool
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Beetlejuice On Broadway
While we all wait impatiently for Beetlejuice 2, there is exciting news from the world Tim Burton created. Beetlejuice is coming to Broadway! There is an advanced off-Broadway run coming to Washington DC this October. Music a lyrics are being written by Eddie Perfect who is also working on the stage version of King Kong. This classic, weird, and wonderful film will surely translate in a twisted and beautiful way onto the stage. Personally, I am extremely intrigued and excited about this news!
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Funko Announces New Line Of Horror Cereal!
Hold on to your bowls people! Funko is making themed cereal. Could it get any cooler? How about finding mini Popo! as the prizes in the themed boxes of cereal? Because that’s exactly what you will get. Michael Becker founder of Funko, made the big announcement while speaking with Coronado Eagle & Journal and revealed that this Summer Funko will launch the brand new line of Funko Cereal that includes licenses that are part of the company’s POP! line. The new line will first feature Freddy Krueger, Elvira, and Beetlejuice! One of the fun things is we are about to release our own line of cereal, with a mini-Pop inside,” Becker stated. “We got all the cool licenses like He-Man, Wonder Woman, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Freddy Krueger and our own Freddy Funko. We start shipping to stores in June and we have the distribution set up and the product is pre-sold. It’s just one more of those feel-good
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‘Cargo’ Trailer Teases A More Brutal Zombie Film Than The Original
Following his role in the IFC festival hit Ghost Stories, Martin Freeman plays a father desperate to find a home for his child during the zombie apocalypse in Cargo. The trailer has just arrived and it is a lot more brutal and gore-filled than the short film by the same name that it is based on. From filmmakers Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling comes the film about, “…a father who, stranded in rural Australia in the aftermath of a violent pandemic and, infected himself, desperately seeks a new home for his infant child and a means to protect her from his own changing nature.” Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius, Susie Porter, Kris McQuade, Simone Landers and David Gulpilil also star. Following its run at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, Cargo will arrive on Netflix’s streaming service on May 18, 2018. You can watch the original short film below.
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Enter The ‘House On Elm Lake’ This April
This April, enter the House on Elm Lake – the rooms are to-die-for! Director James Klass conjures up a holiday of horrors in Wild Eye Releasing’s House on Elm Lake. “In the tradition of The Conjuring comes a critically acclaimed and genuinely frightening feature “chock-full of superbly scary imagery” and “oozing with atmosphere” (The Schlock Pit).” In the film, a young couple moves into a lake house that was the site of a ritual murder, and soon realize an ancient, dormant evil has awakened to prey upon them. Directed by James Klass (Mother Krampus), House on Elm Lake stars Becca Hirani (Unhinged, Mother Krampus), Oliver Ebsworth (Curse of the Witching Tree, Mother Krampus), and Tony Manders (Darker Shade of Elise, Fox Trap). House on Elm Lake opens for inspection on April 10, 2018, on VOD.
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Movie Review: Accident is a Beautiful, if Lightweight Thriller
Two women on their way to a music festival hitch a ride with two dudes in a stolen car. Things get slightly rapey and the car goes a shootin’ down into a ravine, where our “heroes” become trapped in the overturned vehicle. Horribly wounded the gang tries to survive the night with little chance of rescue…but can they survive each other and the evil that greed can inspire? While the story line, as evidenced by my lil’ synopsis up there may be a bit lightweight (I actually would call it compact, streamlined, and uncomplicated), Accident more than makes up for it in visual panache. Director Dan Tondowski and Cinematographer Maxime Cointe have created a masterpiece (in the ‘looking good’ department that is) of long, unbroken shots and serpentine camera moves (both natural and digitally enhanced) that are rather astonishing at times, and they also manage to effectively dial it back once the protagonists become trapped within the confines of the
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‘Dying Light’ Enters The World Of Battle Royal Gaming
In recent years a new kind of video game genre is making its mark on gamers, Battle Royal style gaming. These games are a free for all survival either being played solo or in teams. The most notable games of this genre are H1Z1, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), and the more recent popular game Fortnite: Battle Royal. With the popularity of these games, many of which originally did not have a battle royal style features till they became a DLC that eventually turned into stand-alone titles. A new popular game has entered this territory, Dying Light, the first-person zombie survival game where players use parkour skills along with makeshift weaponry to survive in the urban jungle infested with zombies. The game’s developers announced a new update/game mode coming to the game, Dying Light: Bad Blood a battle royal style game pitting players against one another and zombies. Six players are dropped into the fictional city of Harran (where the game takes
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‘Orphan’ Star Isabelle Fuhrman Boards Thriller ‘Tape’
Full Moon announced this morning that Orphan star Isabelle Fuhrman has boarded Deborah Kampmeier’s revenge thriller Tape. Fuhrman joins Thom Bishops (The Tale) and Annarosa Mudd in the film based on the true story of an innocent young actress, a producer and a woman looking for revenge. “Tape tells the story of a young, ambitious actress (Fuhrman), who meets a producer (Bishops) at an open call audition. Taken with her, he invites her to his hotel to discuss another role. What he doesn’t know is that another actress (Mudd), is waiting to exact her revenge against him.” Kampmeier (Hounddog) and Veronica Nickel (First Match) for Full Moon Films will be producing. Ken and Marie Romanski are serving as executive producers. Shooting begins in New York City this April. I’ll be honest, I have high hopes for Tape. Fuhrman blew me away in Orphan. Her portrayal as a grown woman posing as a child was both terrifying and incredible.
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A Woman Is Out For ‘Revenge’ In New Blood-Drenched Red Band Trailer
Neon is gearing up to release writer-director Coralic Fargeat’s action-packed festival hit Revenge in theaters and on VOD this May. Today, we’ve got a the new blood-drenched Red Band trailer In the film, “Jen (Matilda Lutz) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge.” Lutz stars alongside Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. Witness Revenge in theaters or on VOD on May 11, 2018.
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The Queen Mary Opening New Attraction On Friday The 13th
This April, board The Queen Mary for a paranormal experience on one of the scariest days of the year, Friday the 13th. Dubbed one of the “Top 10 most haunted places on Earth” by Time Magazine, The Queen Mary, featured on Syfy’s “Ghost Hunters” will open its notoriously haunted Stateroom B340 for overnight guests. Visitors will have the unique opportunity to spend the night in the middle of an alleged paranormal hot spot. “Several of the cabins onboard the Queen Mary are considered haunted. But, the stateroom with the most infamous reputation is room B340,” said Stephen Sowards, General Manager of the Queen Mary. “The last time the room was occupied by a guest was in the 1980’s. For decades we’ve had thousands of visitors request to occupy the room, and after 30 years, we are excited to once again extend the offer to our guests.” Stateroom B340 has a lengthy record of paranormal activity with many stories of haunted
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DVD Review: Curse of the Mayans is a Serviceable Sci-Fi Adventure
Dr. Alan Green (Steve Wilcox…who looks alarmingly like Ridley Scott) discovers a manuscript that he believes holds the key to solving the disappearance of the Mayans centuries before, which results in him hiring a team of spunky spelunkers headed by Danielle Nobel (Carla Ortiz…who thankfully looks nothing like Ridley Scott since she has a nude scene) to put that pesky parchment to the test! Well these folks bitch and moan and trek through the jungle for a long, long time before they arrive at an underwater tomb from which they unleash an evil from beyond the stars. Kicking out the positive jams; this film is extremely well shot, and features some truly beautiful locations (yup, the film makers actually filmed in Mexico, at ancient Mayan ruins) that add an immeasurable amount of production value to Curse of the Mayans. Along with those vistas comes some solid acting, and a unique (if uneven) story…but the real show stopper is the cool
Continue reading →
Beetlejuice On Broadway
While we all wait impatiently for Beetlejuice 2, there is exciting news from the world Tim Burton created. Beetlejuice is coming to Broadway! There is an advanced off-Broadway run coming to Washington DC this October. Music a lyrics are being written by Eddie Perfect who is also working on the stage version of King Kong. This classic, weird, and wonderful film will surely translate in a twisted and beautiful way onto the stage. Personally, I am extremely intrigued and excited about this news!
Continue reading →
Funko Announces New Line Of Horror Cereal!
Hold on to your bowls people! Funko is making themed cereal. Could it get any cooler? How about finding mini Popo! as the prizes in the themed boxes of cereal? Because that’s exactly what you will get. Michael Becker founder of Funko, made the big announcement while speaking with Coronado Eagle & Journal and revealed that this Summer Funko will launch the brand new line of Funko Cereal that includes licenses that are part of the company’s POP! line. The new line will first feature Freddy Krueger, Elvira, and Beetlejuice! One of the fun things is we are about to release our own line of cereal, with a mini-Pop inside,” Becker stated. “We got all the cool licenses like He-Man, Wonder Woman, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Freddy Krueger and our own Freddy Funko. We start shipping to stores in June and we have the distribution set up and the product is pre-sold. It’s just one more of those feel-good
Continue reading →
‘Cargo’ Trailer Teases A More Brutal Zombie Film Than The Original
Following his role in the IFC festival hit Ghost Stories, Martin Freeman plays a father desperate to find a home for his child during the zombie apocalypse in Cargo. The trailer has just arrived and it is a lot more brutal and gore-filled than the short film by the same name that it is based on. From filmmakers Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling comes the film about, “…a father who, stranded in rural Australia in the aftermath of a violent pandemic and, infected himself, desperately seeks a new home for his infant child and a means to protect her from his own changing nature.” Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius, Susie Porter, Kris McQuade, Simone Landers and David Gulpilil also star. Following its run at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, Cargo will arrive on Netflix’s streaming service on May 18, 2018. You can watch the original short film below.
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