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Cinderella…The Real Story
Most people know the story of Cinderella. Poor orphaned girl with step-mother and even worse-step sisters who woos the dreamy prince charming at a ball in a dress crafted by whimsical animals and a fairy godmother. We know about the glass slipper and the stroke of midnight. We know about the happily ever after. However, like most fairy tales, the real story written by the Grimm brothers is much darker. There is no stroke of midnight, no dimwitted mice, and no bibbity-boppity-boo. So here it goes. Cinderella is not the real name of the protagonist. We never know her name (or anyone else’s in the tale). The story starts with her mother’s last words before dying of an unknown illness encouraging her daughter to always be good and kind. The loss of her mother breaks poor Cinderella and she spends each day at her mother’s grave. After a year, her father marries a woman who brings two daughters into the
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The London Tombs And Templeheart Films Teaming Up For New Indie Project: The Tombs: Rise of the Damned
The London Tombs, the UK’s scariest attraction, is teaming up with Templeheart Films on a new project that will bring the terrifying experience to life in a new film, titled ‘The Tombs: Rise of the Damned’. From the Press Release: London, UK – Officially classed as the UK’s scariest tourist attraction, The London Tombs at the London Bridge Experience, is about to get scarier as Templeheart Films begin principal photography this week on a movie designed to bring the attraction to life. A publicity stunt, promoting the sequel to the cult box office hit ‘The Tombs’, turns horribly wrong as an evil spirit trails the “celebrity” guests through the claustrophobic halls of the famous maze of terror. Written by Michael W Smith and directed by Dan Brownlie, The Tombs: Rise of the Damned, is set entirely in the London attraction and stars Jessica Ann Brownlie (Valley of the Witch), Jess Impiazzi (The Only Way Is Essex), Marcia do Vales (Ibiza
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Fa-la-la-la-la….La-la-la-Lawson….The Christmas Family Murders
1929 was a rough year. The stock markets crashed and it was the genesis of the dreaded dirty thirties. Many people had their lives ripped apart, but on Christmas Day, the Lawson family had their lives ripped away…by their own father. Charlie Lawson (age 43) his wife, Fanny (age 37) and their seven children, Marie (age 17), Arthur (age 16), Carrie (age 12), Maybell (age 7) James (age 4) Raymond, (age 2) and Mary Lou (age 4 months) had a large family on a failing tobacco farm in North Carolina. A few days before Christmas, Charley took his family to town and and used what little funds they had to buy new clothes and get a, now famous, family portrait. This action has led many to believe that his actions were pre-meditated as opposed to a spur of the moment psychotic break. First on the familial hit list were daughters Carrie and Maybell. They were murdered with a shot gun
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Find The Second Season Of The Missing This February On Starz
Starz announced today that the next chapter of the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated thriller series ‘The Missing’ will premiere on Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 8 pm. The 8-episode limited series will introduce a new case, location, and characters. Produced by New Pictures in association with Two Brother Pictures, Starz, BBC One and Playground, the limited series is written by Harry and Jack Williams and directed by Ben Chanan. “The anthology series follows parents Sam (David Morrissey (The Walking Dead)) and Gemma Webster (Keeley Hawes), whose daughter, Alice, went missing in 2003. Eleven years later, a young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and announces herself as Alice Webster (Abigail Hardingham), the girl who went missing over a decade prior. Alice’s sudden return causes ripples of suspicion through the small community, especially when it is revealed she may hold vital clues to the whereabouts of another missing girl, Sophie Giroux, who vanished shortly before Alice.
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16 Holiday Horror Films You Need To See This Christmas
Holiday horror films have become one of my favorite Christmas traditions. I have compiled a list of 15 of the best holiday horror films you need to see this Christmas. Black Christmas (1974) A sorority house falls victim to a stranger during Christmas break. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads The Gingerdead Man (2005) The soul of a killer possesses a Gingerbread Man. The cookie reaks havoc on the girl who sent him to the chair. The film has three sequels. Black Christmas (2006) An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, only to discover that it’s now a sorority house. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) In the Konvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest guarded secrets of Christmas. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) This film is a must see for every fan of Halloween. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once
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Take A Journey Into The World Of Guillermo Del Toro’s Netflix Series Trollhunters This December
Guillermo del Toro’s latest project, ‘Trollhunters’, is one that the entire family can enjoy. The Netflix original 26-episode animated series premieres later this month worldwide from DreamWorks. In the series two worlds collide when Jim Lake Jr., an ordinary teen, finds a mystical amulet on his way to school. Jim and his friends stumble upon a rich civilization of trolls living beneath their small town. Suddenly, they are thrust into a battle between good and evil and learn that the fate of their world is tied to the fate of the trolls. The friends are determined to give their all to save both worlds. The incredible cast of voice actors includes Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Kelsey Grammer (The Simpsons), and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Beyond). Del Toro both created and serves as executive producer for ‘Trollhunters’ alongside Marc Guggenheim (Arrow), Rodrigo Blaas (Brave), Chad Hammes (Dragons: Race to the Edge), and Christina Steinberg (Rise of the
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A Look At The Supernatural Thriller Help Me
Mike Gasaway make his genre directorial debut with the up coming supernatural thrillers ‘Help Me’ and its prequel ‘Help Me First’, starring Horror Fuel’s own Maggie Carr and ‘Day of the Dead’ actress Lori Cardille, Luke Ryan Halferty and Mike Scheib. Gasaway has served as the director for multiple animated series and movies, including ‘Jimmy Neutron’, ‘Boy Genius,’ ‘Planet Sheen’ and ‘Back at the Barnyard’. Synopsis: Lori Delaney gets a cryptic text from her best friend who’s gone missing for three days after shooting video footage at the local haunted insane asylum. On a mission with two other friends, Lori quickly finds the asylum isn’t exactly abandoned. Its rooms are still filled with patients, or residents who haven’t been able to move on after their deaths. The group encounters an old woman, Lisetta, who explains she is the head nurse at the hospital but they soon discover she’s quite different. By only seeing the spirits through their video equipment, the
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Game2: Winter The Russian Reality Series That Allows Real Violence, Rape, And Murder
There are a lot of reality series on television worldwide, but none push the limit of contestant’s humanity like the upcoming Russian reality survival series ‘Game2: Winter’. Thirty men and women will be dropped in the Siberian wilderness, filled with wild animals like bears, where temperatures drop to -40 degrees Celsius, for nine months with the hopes of winning the $1.6 million prize. The reason the series is so controversial, the show has no rules and allows for contestants to be beaten, raped or murdered, all for ratings. Each contestant signs a legal consent form sacrificing their rights. Each contestant gives consent that they could be maimed, even killed. 2000 cameras, 900 hectares and 30 lives, Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, everything. The ‘Game2’, created by entrepreneur Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, will premiere worldwide on July 1, 2017 and will run through April 1, 2018. Hopefully, we won’t actually witness anyone murdered or raped.
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Theatrical Premiere Announced For The Highly Acclaimed Film We Are The Flesh
Arrow Films has announced that Emiliano Rocha Minter’s acclaimed apocalyptic thriller ‘We Are the Flesh’ will arrive in theaters this January. Starring Noé Hernández, Maria Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Gambino Rodríguez and Maria Cid, this unique take on the end of the world centers on a brother and sister, struggling to survive in a ruined city, find their way into of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they discover a man who makes a dangerous offer that would help insure their survival. From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Arrow Films has announced the January 2017 theatrical rollout of Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are the Flesh. After a thought-provoking and acclaimed year on the festival circuit, the film will screen in over ten cities across the United States. Visionary, unrelenting, and not for the faint-hearted, Rocha Minter’s provocative and explicit creation is an erotic inferno of the senses that manages to pack all manner of delirium into its short running time.
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Walking Dead Star Will Travel Space As Lead In New Star Trek Series
Beginning this May, after nearly a decade, a new ‘Star Trek’ series will be coming to television and to CBS’ streaming service. News has come that Sonequa Martin-Green, who currently stars as Sasha on AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’, will be playing Lieutenant Commander Rainsford aboard the U.S.S. Discovery on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’. The question on the mind of many of Green’s fans is what will this mean for her character Sasha? Currently, ‘The Walking Dead’ is on its mid-season break. When the show returns this February the group from Alexandria will be trying to build bridges with the surrounding settlements in hopes that they will a unite to take out Negan and his Saviors. Does this mean that Sash won’t around much longer? Hopefully she will be there to see Negan’s fall and get justice for Abraham’s death.
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Cinderella…The Real Story
Most people know the story of Cinderella. Poor orphaned girl with step-mother and even worse-step sisters who woos the dreamy prince charming at a ball in a dress crafted by whimsical animals and a fairy godmother. We know about the glass slipper and the stroke of midnight. We know about the happily ever after. However, like most fairy tales, the real story written by the Grimm brothers is much darker. There is no stroke of midnight, no dimwitted mice, and no bibbity-boppity-boo. So here it goes. Cinderella is not the real name of the protagonist. We never know her name (or anyone else’s in the tale). The story starts with her mother’s last words before dying of an unknown illness encouraging her daughter to always be good and kind. The loss of her mother breaks poor Cinderella and she spends each day at her mother’s grave. After a year, her father marries a woman who brings two daughters into the
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The London Tombs And Templeheart Films Teaming Up For New Indie Project: The Tombs: Rise of the Damned
The London Tombs, the UK’s scariest attraction, is teaming up with Templeheart Films on a new project that will bring the terrifying experience to life in a new film, titled ‘The Tombs: Rise of the Damned’. From the Press Release: London, UK – Officially classed as the UK’s scariest tourist attraction, The London Tombs at the London Bridge Experience, is about to get scarier as Templeheart Films begin principal photography this week on a movie designed to bring the attraction to life. A publicity stunt, promoting the sequel to the cult box office hit ‘The Tombs’, turns horribly wrong as an evil spirit trails the “celebrity” guests through the claustrophobic halls of the famous maze of terror. Written by Michael W Smith and directed by Dan Brownlie, The Tombs: Rise of the Damned, is set entirely in the London attraction and stars Jessica Ann Brownlie (Valley of the Witch), Jess Impiazzi (The Only Way Is Essex), Marcia do Vales (Ibiza
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Fa-la-la-la-la….La-la-la-Lawson….The Christmas Family Murders
1929 was a rough year. The stock markets crashed and it was the genesis of the dreaded dirty thirties. Many people had their lives ripped apart, but on Christmas Day, the Lawson family had their lives ripped away…by their own father. Charlie Lawson (age 43) his wife, Fanny (age 37) and their seven children, Marie (age 17), Arthur (age 16), Carrie (age 12), Maybell (age 7) James (age 4) Raymond, (age 2) and Mary Lou (age 4 months) had a large family on a failing tobacco farm in North Carolina. A few days before Christmas, Charley took his family to town and and used what little funds they had to buy new clothes and get a, now famous, family portrait. This action has led many to believe that his actions were pre-meditated as opposed to a spur of the moment psychotic break. First on the familial hit list were daughters Carrie and Maybell. They were murdered with a shot gun
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Find The Second Season Of The Missing This February On Starz
Starz announced today that the next chapter of the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated thriller series ‘The Missing’ will premiere on Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 8 pm. The 8-episode limited series will introduce a new case, location, and characters. Produced by New Pictures in association with Two Brother Pictures, Starz, BBC One and Playground, the limited series is written by Harry and Jack Williams and directed by Ben Chanan. “The anthology series follows parents Sam (David Morrissey (The Walking Dead)) and Gemma Webster (Keeley Hawes), whose daughter, Alice, went missing in 2003. Eleven years later, a young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and announces herself as Alice Webster (Abigail Hardingham), the girl who went missing over a decade prior. Alice’s sudden return causes ripples of suspicion through the small community, especially when it is revealed she may hold vital clues to the whereabouts of another missing girl, Sophie Giroux, who vanished shortly before Alice.
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16 Holiday Horror Films You Need To See This Christmas
Holiday horror films have become one of my favorite Christmas traditions. I have compiled a list of 15 of the best holiday horror films you need to see this Christmas. Black Christmas (1974) A sorority house falls victim to a stranger during Christmas break. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads The Gingerdead Man (2005) The soul of a killer possesses a Gingerbread Man. The cookie reaks havoc on the girl who sent him to the chair. The film has three sequels. Black Christmas (2006) An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, only to discover that it’s now a sorority house. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) In the Konvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest guarded secrets of Christmas. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) This film is a must see for every fan of Halloween. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once
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Take A Journey Into The World Of Guillermo Del Toro’s Netflix Series Trollhunters This December
Guillermo del Toro’s latest project, ‘Trollhunters’, is one that the entire family can enjoy. The Netflix original 26-episode animated series premieres later this month worldwide from DreamWorks. In the series two worlds collide when Jim Lake Jr., an ordinary teen, finds a mystical amulet on his way to school. Jim and his friends stumble upon a rich civilization of trolls living beneath their small town. Suddenly, they are thrust into a battle between good and evil and learn that the fate of their world is tied to the fate of the trolls. The friends are determined to give their all to save both worlds. The incredible cast of voice actors includes Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Kelsey Grammer (The Simpsons), and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Beyond). Del Toro both created and serves as executive producer for ‘Trollhunters’ alongside Marc Guggenheim (Arrow), Rodrigo Blaas (Brave), Chad Hammes (Dragons: Race to the Edge), and Christina Steinberg (Rise of the
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A Look At The Supernatural Thriller Help Me
Mike Gasaway make his genre directorial debut with the up coming supernatural thrillers ‘Help Me’ and its prequel ‘Help Me First’, starring Horror Fuel’s own Maggie Carr and ‘Day of the Dead’ actress Lori Cardille, Luke Ryan Halferty and Mike Scheib. Gasaway has served as the director for multiple animated series and movies, including ‘Jimmy Neutron’, ‘Boy Genius,’ ‘Planet Sheen’ and ‘Back at the Barnyard’. Synopsis: Lori Delaney gets a cryptic text from her best friend who’s gone missing for three days after shooting video footage at the local haunted insane asylum. On a mission with two other friends, Lori quickly finds the asylum isn’t exactly abandoned. Its rooms are still filled with patients, or residents who haven’t been able to move on after their deaths. The group encounters an old woman, Lisetta, who explains she is the head nurse at the hospital but they soon discover she’s quite different. By only seeing the spirits through their video equipment, the
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Game2: Winter The Russian Reality Series That Allows Real Violence, Rape, And Murder
There are a lot of reality series on television worldwide, but none push the limit of contestant’s humanity like the upcoming Russian reality survival series ‘Game2: Winter’. Thirty men and women will be dropped in the Siberian wilderness, filled with wild animals like bears, where temperatures drop to -40 degrees Celsius, for nine months with the hopes of winning the $1.6 million prize. The reason the series is so controversial, the show has no rules and allows for contestants to be beaten, raped or murdered, all for ratings. Each contestant signs a legal consent form sacrificing their rights. Each contestant gives consent that they could be maimed, even killed. 2000 cameras, 900 hectares and 30 lives, Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, everything. The ‘Game2’, created by entrepreneur Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, will premiere worldwide on July 1, 2017 and will run through April 1, 2018. Hopefully, we won’t actually witness anyone murdered or raped.
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Theatrical Premiere Announced For The Highly Acclaimed Film We Are The Flesh
Arrow Films has announced that Emiliano Rocha Minter’s acclaimed apocalyptic thriller ‘We Are the Flesh’ will arrive in theaters this January. Starring Noé Hernández, Maria Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Gambino Rodríguez and Maria Cid, this unique take on the end of the world centers on a brother and sister, struggling to survive in a ruined city, find their way into of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they discover a man who makes a dangerous offer that would help insure their survival. From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Arrow Films has announced the January 2017 theatrical rollout of Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are the Flesh. After a thought-provoking and acclaimed year on the festival circuit, the film will screen in over ten cities across the United States. Visionary, unrelenting, and not for the faint-hearted, Rocha Minter’s provocative and explicit creation is an erotic inferno of the senses that manages to pack all manner of delirium into its short running time.
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Walking Dead Star Will Travel Space As Lead In New Star Trek Series
Beginning this May, after nearly a decade, a new ‘Star Trek’ series will be coming to television and to CBS’ streaming service. News has come that Sonequa Martin-Green, who currently stars as Sasha on AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’, will be playing Lieutenant Commander Rainsford aboard the U.S.S. Discovery on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’. The question on the mind of many of Green’s fans is what will this mean for her character Sasha? Currently, ‘The Walking Dead’ is on its mid-season break. When the show returns this February the group from Alexandria will be trying to build bridges with the surrounding settlements in hopes that they will a unite to take out Negan and his Saviors. Does this mean that Sash won’t around much longer? Hopefully she will be there to see Negan’s fall and get justice for Abraham’s death.
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