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Jason Won’t Be Back Any Time Soon – Friday The 13th Pulled From The Schedule
We are sorry to have to inform you all of this, but ‘Friday the 13th‘, one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, has been pulled from Paramount’s release schedule. The film, which we reported last week had hired Legacy Effects, was set to begin filming this Spring under the direction of Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners). Casting had already begun for the roles of young Jason and his father Elias Voorhees, but there is no word if that will continue or be put on hold as well. Deadline is reporting that ‘Mother’, from director Darren Aronosfky, will take the place of ‘Friday the 13th’ on the schedule. The site is saying that the reason for the halt in production is that Paramount is not happy with ‘Rings” Box Office results on its opening weekend. ‘Mother’, a drama starring Jennifer Lawrence, centers on a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
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The Dead Have Taken Over The Seas In The New Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 Trailer
The first full trailer for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ has washed ashore and it looks fantastic. The message is made clear, the dead have taken over the seas. In the teaser, released this October, we got our first look at Javier Bardem as Captain Salazar and young man Henry, played by Brenton Thwaites, as he promises to deliver a message to Captain Sparrow for Captain Salazar. Johnny Depp is back as the one and only, Captain Jack Sparrow. And Orlando Bloom walks the deck once again as Captain Will Turner. There will be a horde of other cast members, both returning and those making their first appearance in the fifth swashbuckling pirate film of the franchise, including: Kaya Scodelario, Stephen Graham, Colshifteh Farahani, Geoffrey Rush, David Wenham, Kevin McNally, Goran D. Kleut, Martin Klebba, and Sir Paul McCartney. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales’ sails into theaters nationwide on May 26, 2017.
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Rick And The Group Are ‘Fighting For A Future’ In the New Walking Dead Promo
The Walking Dead is gearing up to return on Sunday, February 12th. The resistance is gaining momentum. In this half of the season Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group are working hard to build an alliance with the other nearby settlements in hopes of teaming up and taking down Negan Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his men. “The first half of Season 7 saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group broken by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), forced to fall under his will and brutally convinced to live under his rules. The second half of the season will focus on preparing for war and gathering the supplies and numbers to take Negan down once and for all. Rick’s group will find out yet again that the world isn’t what they thought it was. It’s much bigger than anything they’ve seen so far. While they have a singular purpose — to defeat Negan — it won’t come easy. More importantly, victory will require
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The New Teaser For Season Two Of Stranger Things Has Arrived!
Season two of Netflix’s hit original series ‘Stranger Things’ will soon be here. Several new actors have joined the cast, including Sean Astin, who will play Bob Newby, the manager of the local RadioShack in Hawkins. Bob will be romancing Winona Ryder’s character Joyce in season two. Four other stars have also joined the cast for next season. Paul Reiser will play a high-ranking member within the Department of Energy on a “Clean-up” mission. Linnea Berthelsen will star as Roman, who is still coping with her own trauma at the hands of the Hawkins Laboratory. Sadie Sink co-star as Max, a tomboy with a complicated history. Sink previously co-stared on ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’. Dacre Montgomery, who recently starred as the red ‘Power Ranger’, will co-star as bad boy Billy, Max’s older step brother. Some people in town are aware of what happened to Will and the kids, others are not. Last season Nancy’s best friend Barb was killed and the
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The Boogieman Lived – The Story of Albert Fish
There are creatures who are born on this earth who are comparable to those created by the best mind in horror for literature, movies and campfire stories. However, every once in a while, a demon is born who trumps even the sickest and wildest imaginations. Albert Fish is one of those…maybe THE one of those. This creature is known as The Grey Man, The Werewolf of Wysteria, The Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogieman. He is known for extreme sexual perversions, pedophilia, coprophilia, urophilia, and masochism. Albert Hamilton Fish was born in Washington DC on May 19, 1870. His life had a difficult and tragic beginning. Many members of his family suffered from various mental illnesses and were unfit to raise Fish. He was placed in hyper-religious orphanage and routinely beaten and whipped. He was ridiculed by the other children and the leaders of the orphanage because he would become physically aroused at during the whippings. His life in the orphanage
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‘A Cure For Wellness’ May Be Found In This Super Bowl Commercial
The Super Bowl is currently underway and let’s be honest, the commercials are the best part (#SorryNotSorry). One of the night’s commercials is for Gore Verbinski’s upcoming eerie thriller ‘A Cure for Wellness’. The film centers on “an ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious ‘wellness center’ at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa’s miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.” Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Celia Imrie, Susanne Wuest, Lisa Banes, Carl Lumbly, Adrian Schiller, Natalia Bobrich, and Eric Todd star. ‘A Cure for Wellness’, will arrive in theaters on February 17, 2017, from 20th Century. You can find the previous trailers and clips for the film here.
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Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead – The Series
Back in 2014, writer-director Klah Roache-Turner unleashed his Australian zombie film ‘Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead‘ which got both a warm reception from genre fans and from us (review). For fans of ‘Wyrmwood’, and zombie fans in general, we have great news. The hit film is getting a spin-off a series. In fact, the official Facebook page for ‘Wyrmwood’ shared an image from the costume test of two of the film’s stars, Bianca Bradley and Jay Gallagher, who will also be appearing in the series. The caption on the image reads: “SO super-awesome to see these two legends in the studio again! The teaser’s gonna be BAAAAADASS!!!” In the comment section it states that the series will deliver “six hours of content instead of another 95-minutes.” While currently being written, the show will reportedly be on “a streaming platform rather than Aussie TV.” That’s a good thing for us here in the states. We will keep you updated. In the
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Sarah Paulson Joins Cast of Amazon’s Craigslist Murder Movie, LOST GIRLS
She has dealt with witchy girls, slept cheek by jowl with “freaks”, inhabited a haunted hotel, and even prosecuted a double murderer. But now Sarah Paulson will step into the skin of Mari, the mother of a young woman named Shannan, who is one of many escorts and prostitutes to fall victim to a serial killer. Paulson has been cast to star in the Amazon Studios’ serial killer thriller, Lost Girls. The movie tells the story of a real life serial killer on Long Island, who was often referred to by the media as the “Gilgo Beach Killer”. But due to the fact that many of the killer’s victims were sex workers, who were found on Craigslist, the killer was dubbed with the more familiar moniker of the “Craigslist Ripper” . Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus will direct the film based on Michael Werwie’s screen adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (2013). This will be Garbus’
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The True Story Of ‘Frank Johnny Garrett’s Last Word’ – Arriving On VOD This March
Simon Rumley’s ‘ film ‘Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word’ is set for a March release. One thing that adds to the terror of the film is that is based on a true story. So, who was the real Frank Johnny Garrett, you might ask? Let me fill you in. The Crime On October 31, 1981, at 7:30 a.m., the battered, bloodied, dead body of 76-year-old Sister Teadea Benz was discovered inside the St. Francis Convent in Potter County, Texas. The sister was found in her second story bedroom brutally attacked, raped, stabbed, and strangled. Clues, including finger prints, led police to one suspect and on November 9, 1981 Johnny Frank Garrett, who lived across the street from the convent, was arrested for Sister Benz’s murder. The Sentence Garrett was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. He would spent his remaining days on death row in Huntsville, Texas. He was originally scheduled for execution on January 2, 1992, but
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Dates for 2017 Stranger With My Face International Film Festival Announced
The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, which takes it’s name from the title of a young adult horror fiction novel written by Lois Duncan, is returning May 4th – 7th for its fifth edition. The four day festival will be held in Tasmania’s capital city of Hobart, and will include screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and a number of year round “satellite events”. The festival specifically showcases the work of women directors, as well as exploring female perspectives within the realm of genre film. It has also become an important resource in Australia for genre film, and takes great pride in its involvement with the Women in Horror movement. Festival Director Briony Kidd expressed just how relevant of such a festival is in this day and age, when she said, “Events like this are needed more than ever, with women’s rights under threat around the world. Women are angry, and they have a lot to say. Genre filmmaking is
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Jason Won’t Be Back Any Time Soon – Friday The 13th Pulled From The Schedule
We are sorry to have to inform you all of this, but ‘Friday the 13th‘, one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, has been pulled from Paramount’s release schedule. The film, which we reported last week had hired Legacy Effects, was set to begin filming this Spring under the direction of Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners). Casting had already begun for the roles of young Jason and his father Elias Voorhees, but there is no word if that will continue or be put on hold as well. Deadline is reporting that ‘Mother’, from director Darren Aronosfky, will take the place of ‘Friday the 13th’ on the schedule. The site is saying that the reason for the halt in production is that Paramount is not happy with ‘Rings” Box Office results on its opening weekend. ‘Mother’, a drama starring Jennifer Lawrence, centers on a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
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The Dead Have Taken Over The Seas In The New Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 Trailer
The first full trailer for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ has washed ashore and it looks fantastic. The message is made clear, the dead have taken over the seas. In the teaser, released this October, we got our first look at Javier Bardem as Captain Salazar and young man Henry, played by Brenton Thwaites, as he promises to deliver a message to Captain Sparrow for Captain Salazar. Johnny Depp is back as the one and only, Captain Jack Sparrow. And Orlando Bloom walks the deck once again as Captain Will Turner. There will be a horde of other cast members, both returning and those making their first appearance in the fifth swashbuckling pirate film of the franchise, including: Kaya Scodelario, Stephen Graham, Colshifteh Farahani, Geoffrey Rush, David Wenham, Kevin McNally, Goran D. Kleut, Martin Klebba, and Sir Paul McCartney. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales’ sails into theaters nationwide on May 26, 2017.
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Rick And The Group Are ‘Fighting For A Future’ In the New Walking Dead Promo
The Walking Dead is gearing up to return on Sunday, February 12th. The resistance is gaining momentum. In this half of the season Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group are working hard to build an alliance with the other nearby settlements in hopes of teaming up and taking down Negan Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his men. “The first half of Season 7 saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group broken by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), forced to fall under his will and brutally convinced to live under his rules. The second half of the season will focus on preparing for war and gathering the supplies and numbers to take Negan down once and for all. Rick’s group will find out yet again that the world isn’t what they thought it was. It’s much bigger than anything they’ve seen so far. While they have a singular purpose — to defeat Negan — it won’t come easy. More importantly, victory will require
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The New Teaser For Season Two Of Stranger Things Has Arrived!
Season two of Netflix’s hit original series ‘Stranger Things’ will soon be here. Several new actors have joined the cast, including Sean Astin, who will play Bob Newby, the manager of the local RadioShack in Hawkins. Bob will be romancing Winona Ryder’s character Joyce in season two. Four other stars have also joined the cast for next season. Paul Reiser will play a high-ranking member within the Department of Energy on a “Clean-up” mission. Linnea Berthelsen will star as Roman, who is still coping with her own trauma at the hands of the Hawkins Laboratory. Sadie Sink co-star as Max, a tomboy with a complicated history. Sink previously co-stared on ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’. Dacre Montgomery, who recently starred as the red ‘Power Ranger’, will co-star as bad boy Billy, Max’s older step brother. Some people in town are aware of what happened to Will and the kids, others are not. Last season Nancy’s best friend Barb was killed and the
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The Boogieman Lived – The Story of Albert Fish
There are creatures who are born on this earth who are comparable to those created by the best mind in horror for literature, movies and campfire stories. However, every once in a while, a demon is born who trumps even the sickest and wildest imaginations. Albert Fish is one of those…maybe THE one of those. This creature is known as The Grey Man, The Werewolf of Wysteria, The Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogieman. He is known for extreme sexual perversions, pedophilia, coprophilia, urophilia, and masochism. Albert Hamilton Fish was born in Washington DC on May 19, 1870. His life had a difficult and tragic beginning. Many members of his family suffered from various mental illnesses and were unfit to raise Fish. He was placed in hyper-religious orphanage and routinely beaten and whipped. He was ridiculed by the other children and the leaders of the orphanage because he would become physically aroused at during the whippings. His life in the orphanage
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‘A Cure For Wellness’ May Be Found In This Super Bowl Commercial
The Super Bowl is currently underway and let’s be honest, the commercials are the best part (#SorryNotSorry). One of the night’s commercials is for Gore Verbinski’s upcoming eerie thriller ‘A Cure for Wellness’. The film centers on “an ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious ‘wellness center’ at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa’s miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.” Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Celia Imrie, Susanne Wuest, Lisa Banes, Carl Lumbly, Adrian Schiller, Natalia Bobrich, and Eric Todd star. ‘A Cure for Wellness’, will arrive in theaters on February 17, 2017, from 20th Century. You can find the previous trailers and clips for the film here.
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Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead – The Series
Back in 2014, writer-director Klah Roache-Turner unleashed his Australian zombie film ‘Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead‘ which got both a warm reception from genre fans and from us (review). For fans of ‘Wyrmwood’, and zombie fans in general, we have great news. The hit film is getting a spin-off a series. In fact, the official Facebook page for ‘Wyrmwood’ shared an image from the costume test of two of the film’s stars, Bianca Bradley and Jay Gallagher, who will also be appearing in the series. The caption on the image reads: “SO super-awesome to see these two legends in the studio again! The teaser’s gonna be BAAAAADASS!!!” In the comment section it states that the series will deliver “six hours of content instead of another 95-minutes.” While currently being written, the show will reportedly be on “a streaming platform rather than Aussie TV.” That’s a good thing for us here in the states. We will keep you updated. In the
Continue reading →
Sarah Paulson Joins Cast of Amazon’s Craigslist Murder Movie, LOST GIRLS
She has dealt with witchy girls, slept cheek by jowl with “freaks”, inhabited a haunted hotel, and even prosecuted a double murderer. But now Sarah Paulson will step into the skin of Mari, the mother of a young woman named Shannan, who is one of many escorts and prostitutes to fall victim to a serial killer. Paulson has been cast to star in the Amazon Studios’ serial killer thriller, Lost Girls. The movie tells the story of a real life serial killer on Long Island, who was often referred to by the media as the “Gilgo Beach Killer”. But due to the fact that many of the killer’s victims were sex workers, who were found on Craigslist, the killer was dubbed with the more familiar moniker of the “Craigslist Ripper” . Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus will direct the film based on Michael Werwie’s screen adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (2013). This will be Garbus’
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The True Story Of ‘Frank Johnny Garrett’s Last Word’ – Arriving On VOD This March
Simon Rumley’s ‘ film ‘Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word’ is set for a March release. One thing that adds to the terror of the film is that is based on a true story. So, who was the real Frank Johnny Garrett, you might ask? Let me fill you in. The Crime On October 31, 1981, at 7:30 a.m., the battered, bloodied, dead body of 76-year-old Sister Teadea Benz was discovered inside the St. Francis Convent in Potter County, Texas. The sister was found in her second story bedroom brutally attacked, raped, stabbed, and strangled. Clues, including finger prints, led police to one suspect and on November 9, 1981 Johnny Frank Garrett, who lived across the street from the convent, was arrested for Sister Benz’s murder. The Sentence Garrett was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. He would spent his remaining days on death row in Huntsville, Texas. He was originally scheduled for execution on January 2, 1992, but
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Dates for 2017 Stranger With My Face International Film Festival Announced
The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, which takes it’s name from the title of a young adult horror fiction novel written by Lois Duncan, is returning May 4th – 7th for its fifth edition. The four day festival will be held in Tasmania’s capital city of Hobart, and will include screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and a number of year round “satellite events”. The festival specifically showcases the work of women directors, as well as exploring female perspectives within the realm of genre film. It has also become an important resource in Australia for genre film, and takes great pride in its involvement with the Women in Horror movement. Festival Director Briony Kidd expressed just how relevant of such a festival is in this day and age, when she said, “Events like this are needed more than ever, with women’s rights under threat around the world. Women are angry, and they have a lot to say. Genre filmmaking is
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