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Does Shark Lake Bite ? (Review)
Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane, Lily Brooks O’Brian, James Chalke, Michael Aaron Milligan and Ibrahim Renno star in the shark thriller Shark Lake. Directed by Jerry Dugan and written by David Anderson and Gabe Burnstein, Shark Lake centers on officer Meredith Hernandez, a single mother raising Carley (O’Brian), her young daughter. Meredith’s life is thrown into chaos when she learns that her ex Clint (Lundgren), has been released from prison and is back in town. Clint was arrested for smuggling exotic animals, but Meredith and the small lake-side town have no idea that before he was arrested Clint released a pregnant shark into the lake. Not only is it thriving, its pups are grown and hungry. A mob boss won’t leave Clint alone until he gets the shark he is owed. Meanwhile, the three large sharks are eating both residents and vacationers visiting the lake. Meredith, with the help of a visiting doctor, is determined to hunt the sharks down.
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The Craft’s Upcoming Remake Isn’t A Remake After All
This week marks the 20th anniversary of The Craft and it has been a while since there has been any news about the remake. New came yesterday that it won’t be a remake after all. Douglas Wick, the new film’s producer, told HitFix that the film is actually a sequel that picks up 20 years later. I wouldn’t say that we wouldn’t so much call it a remake as a ‘twenty years later’. There will be callbacks to the original movie, so you will see there is a connection between what happened in the days of ‘The Craft,’ and how these young women came across the magic many years later.’ Wick stated. Wick also discussed the vision that Phil Graziadei and co-writer and director Leigh Janiak have in store. Here are some young women who once again discover the power of magic, and we explore their emotional lives, their wants, their fears, their longings, as they become empowered. So you
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The Shallows Sinks Its Teeth Into A New Trailer
Last week we told you that Sony Screen Gems’ thriller The Shallows, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and penned by Tony Jaswinski, had been given a new theatrical release date, June 29th. Today, we have a brand new trailer that reveals more of the story and gives us a closer look at the beast. Blake Liveley stars as Nancy, a young woman surfing in the waters off of a secluded beach. Nancy comes face-to-face with the ocean’s ultimate killing machine, a Great White that has killed her friends right in-front of her eyes. After she is attacked by the huge predator she finds refuge on an islet. The shark, still circling, is the only thing standing in her way of making it back to shore and getting help.
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The Road to Death House Part 1
Let’s build on Eli Roth’s prescient observation. I have written quite a bit on cynicism in filmmaking. If you are just coming to my series, stop here. Go back and read my other pieces. Then you can read this in context. However, he is talking about a SMALL percentage of fans. This is not a general description at all. We prefer to focus on the majority of horror fans that do the opposite of Roth’s comments. I have provided an open door, a very wide door, into the production of a movie since “Death House” started filming. “Death House” is my fifth feature film: the fifth I have written and the third I have directed. It’s been a long road, and frankly, I am doing what no one else is doing in Hollywood, making consistent, high quality product on very low budgets. I’ve made one film a year since doing this profession full time. “Death House” was brought to me
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U.S. Company Recieves Approval To Revive The Dead
A group of scientist, standing beside an operating table, machines chirping and ventilators pumping. Slowly a doctor sinks a long needle, filled with cells and chemicals, into the brain-stem of a brain-dead patient, with the hopes of reactivating their brain and bring them back to life. No, it’s not a scene out of Frankenstein. It will soon be a reality. Bioquark, a U.S. biotech company, has been granted permission by a review board to begin human trials in both the U.S. and and India. The company will start with 20 brain-dead patients for their highly controversial study, known as the ReAnima project, beginning next year. Dr. Calixto Machado, a member of the American Academy of Neurology, is a well known neurological researcher, will be one of the doctors on the team. Their “subjects” have all been medically certified as being brain dead, meaning that the only thing keeping their bodies alive are life support machines. Their spinal cords will be
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First Teaser Arrives For New Slasher Series Dead Of Summer
We’ve been following the upcoming horror series Dead of Summer closely. Today we get our first glimpse of what’s to come. Freeform (originally ABC Family) has unveiled the first teaser for the slasher series. Dead of Summer, has an impressive cast that includes Candman actor Tony Todd, Zelda Williams (Teen Wolf), Albert Frezza (Charlie’s Angels), Ronen Rubienstein (Orange is the New Black), Paulina Singer (Gothem), Eli Gore (The 100), Mark Indelicato (Ugly Betty) and Once Upon a Time’s Elizabeth Mitchell and Elizabeth Lail. Set in the 1980’s, school is out for the summer and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp. including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn. Each episode of the show, directed by creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis,
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Evil Dead Writers To Adapt Monsterpocalypse For Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. has officially won the biding war over the film rights to Monsterpocalypse. Evil Dead‘s Fede Alavarez has signed on to direct the film as well as co-write the screenplay along with his fellow Evil Dead alum Rodo Sayagues. The film is an adaption of Pivateer Press’ board game by the same name, which pits humans in robotic suits against monsters. This isn’t the first time Monsterpocalypse has been in the works. Back in 2010 the film was set to enter preproduction with Tim Burton directing, but the film stalled when Guillermo del Toro began work on a competing film, Pacific Rim. Figuring that fans only needed one humans versus monsters movie at the time, Monsterpocalypse was put on the back burner. Alavarez and Sayagues are a winning team. They have worked on several projects together, including Evil Dead and for Don’t Breathe, set to be released on August 25th. Don’t Breathe follows a group of friends who break
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First Trailer Arrives For The Sci-Fi Thriller Andron
The first trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Andron has arrived. Alec Baldwin stars alongside Danny Glover, Michelle Ryan, Leo Howard, Gale Howard, Gaia Scodellaro, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Clara Pasieka, and Jon Kortajarena in this futuristic film, with one rule, don’t die. In Andron, a group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, they must fight to survive, while the outside world watches the struggle. Andron, written and directed by Francesco Cinquemani, will open in theaters on June 3, 2016.
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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich To Kick Off A New Era For the Franchise
Puppet Master fans, hold on to your seats, were getting a new Puppet Master film from the man behind Bone Tomahawk. Full Moon Entertainment and Charles Band are teaming up to raise the franchise to breathe new life into the franchise. From the Press Release: Di Bonaventura Pictures (1408, Transformers) and Caliber Media (Dark Was the Night, Some Kind of Hate) partnered up to option the right to develop a brand new take on Charles Band’s cult classic horror film franchise Puppet Master. With the intention to produce multiple storylines within this new universe, the producers have set S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) to write the first script, entitled Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, and expand the mythology, and the director’s search is quietly under way. The film, produced by Loerenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian for di Bonaventura Pictures alongside Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller for Caliber Media, will have Charles Band as executive producer. The project was announced
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Mads Mikkelson Believes We Haven’t Seen The Last Of Hannibal
Hannibal fans were crushed when the series was canceled by NBC. But like true fans they haven’t given hope that the series might return. And they’re not alone. The cast all want to return for a forth season. Mads Mikkelsen, who played played the cannibalistic Dr. Hannibal Lecter, remains confident that the series will return with in the next few years, with the help of the series’ creator Bryan Fuller. In an interview Mikkelsen was asked about the possibility of the show being picked up by another network. He stated that it’s all up to Fuller, who is currently working on the series adaption of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. It depends on Bryan. He is the key, the base, the heart, Mikkelsen said. “We will wait and see what happens next in his career. But we all know that we can easily pick this up in two or three years, there are breaks in the stories. We could pick it
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Does Shark Lake Bite ? (Review)
Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane, Lily Brooks O’Brian, James Chalke, Michael Aaron Milligan and Ibrahim Renno star in the shark thriller Shark Lake. Directed by Jerry Dugan and written by David Anderson and Gabe Burnstein, Shark Lake centers on officer Meredith Hernandez, a single mother raising Carley (O’Brian), her young daughter. Meredith’s life is thrown into chaos when she learns that her ex Clint (Lundgren), has been released from prison and is back in town. Clint was arrested for smuggling exotic animals, but Meredith and the small lake-side town have no idea that before he was arrested Clint released a pregnant shark into the lake. Not only is it thriving, its pups are grown and hungry. A mob boss won’t leave Clint alone until he gets the shark he is owed. Meanwhile, the three large sharks are eating both residents and vacationers visiting the lake. Meredith, with the help of a visiting doctor, is determined to hunt the sharks down.
Continue reading →
The Craft’s Upcoming Remake Isn’t A Remake After All
This week marks the 20th anniversary of The Craft and it has been a while since there has been any news about the remake. New came yesterday that it won’t be a remake after all. Douglas Wick, the new film’s producer, told HitFix that the film is actually a sequel that picks up 20 years later. I wouldn’t say that we wouldn’t so much call it a remake as a ‘twenty years later’. There will be callbacks to the original movie, so you will see there is a connection between what happened in the days of ‘The Craft,’ and how these young women came across the magic many years later.’ Wick stated. Wick also discussed the vision that Phil Graziadei and co-writer and director Leigh Janiak have in store. Here are some young women who once again discover the power of magic, and we explore their emotional lives, their wants, their fears, their longings, as they become empowered. So you
Continue reading →
The Shallows Sinks Its Teeth Into A New Trailer
Last week we told you that Sony Screen Gems’ thriller The Shallows, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and penned by Tony Jaswinski, had been given a new theatrical release date, June 29th. Today, we have a brand new trailer that reveals more of the story and gives us a closer look at the beast. Blake Liveley stars as Nancy, a young woman surfing in the waters off of a secluded beach. Nancy comes face-to-face with the ocean’s ultimate killing machine, a Great White that has killed her friends right in-front of her eyes. After she is attacked by the huge predator she finds refuge on an islet. The shark, still circling, is the only thing standing in her way of making it back to shore and getting help.
Continue reading →
The Road to Death House Part 1
Let’s build on Eli Roth’s prescient observation. I have written quite a bit on cynicism in filmmaking. If you are just coming to my series, stop here. Go back and read my other pieces. Then you can read this in context. However, he is talking about a SMALL percentage of fans. This is not a general description at all. We prefer to focus on the majority of horror fans that do the opposite of Roth’s comments. I have provided an open door, a very wide door, into the production of a movie since “Death House” started filming. “Death House” is my fifth feature film: the fifth I have written and the third I have directed. It’s been a long road, and frankly, I am doing what no one else is doing in Hollywood, making consistent, high quality product on very low budgets. I’ve made one film a year since doing this profession full time. “Death House” was brought to me
Continue reading →
U.S. Company Recieves Approval To Revive The Dead
A group of scientist, standing beside an operating table, machines chirping and ventilators pumping. Slowly a doctor sinks a long needle, filled with cells and chemicals, into the brain-stem of a brain-dead patient, with the hopes of reactivating their brain and bring them back to life. No, it’s not a scene out of Frankenstein. It will soon be a reality. Bioquark, a U.S. biotech company, has been granted permission by a review board to begin human trials in both the U.S. and and India. The company will start with 20 brain-dead patients for their highly controversial study, known as the ReAnima project, beginning next year. Dr. Calixto Machado, a member of the American Academy of Neurology, is a well known neurological researcher, will be one of the doctors on the team. Their “subjects” have all been medically certified as being brain dead, meaning that the only thing keeping their bodies alive are life support machines. Their spinal cords will be
Continue reading →
First Teaser Arrives For New Slasher Series Dead Of Summer
We’ve been following the upcoming horror series Dead of Summer closely. Today we get our first glimpse of what’s to come. Freeform (originally ABC Family) has unveiled the first teaser for the slasher series. Dead of Summer, has an impressive cast that includes Candman actor Tony Todd, Zelda Williams (Teen Wolf), Albert Frezza (Charlie’s Angels), Ronen Rubienstein (Orange is the New Black), Paulina Singer (Gothem), Eli Gore (The 100), Mark Indelicato (Ugly Betty) and Once Upon a Time’s Elizabeth Mitchell and Elizabeth Lail. Set in the 1980’s, school is out for the summer and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp. including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn. Each episode of the show, directed by creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis,
Continue reading →
Evil Dead Writers To Adapt Monsterpocalypse For Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. has officially won the biding war over the film rights to Monsterpocalypse. Evil Dead‘s Fede Alavarez has signed on to direct the film as well as co-write the screenplay along with his fellow Evil Dead alum Rodo Sayagues. The film is an adaption of Pivateer Press’ board game by the same name, which pits humans in robotic suits against monsters. This isn’t the first time Monsterpocalypse has been in the works. Back in 2010 the film was set to enter preproduction with Tim Burton directing, but the film stalled when Guillermo del Toro began work on a competing film, Pacific Rim. Figuring that fans only needed one humans versus monsters movie at the time, Monsterpocalypse was put on the back burner. Alavarez and Sayagues are a winning team. They have worked on several projects together, including Evil Dead and for Don’t Breathe, set to be released on August 25th. Don’t Breathe follows a group of friends who break
Continue reading →
First Trailer Arrives For The Sci-Fi Thriller Andron
The first trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Andron has arrived. Alec Baldwin stars alongside Danny Glover, Michelle Ryan, Leo Howard, Gale Howard, Gaia Scodellaro, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Clara Pasieka, and Jon Kortajarena in this futuristic film, with one rule, don’t die. In Andron, a group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, they must fight to survive, while the outside world watches the struggle. Andron, written and directed by Francesco Cinquemani, will open in theaters on June 3, 2016.
Continue reading →
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich To Kick Off A New Era For the Franchise
Puppet Master fans, hold on to your seats, were getting a new Puppet Master film from the man behind Bone Tomahawk. Full Moon Entertainment and Charles Band are teaming up to raise the franchise to breathe new life into the franchise. From the Press Release: Di Bonaventura Pictures (1408, Transformers) and Caliber Media (Dark Was the Night, Some Kind of Hate) partnered up to option the right to develop a brand new take on Charles Band’s cult classic horror film franchise Puppet Master. With the intention to produce multiple storylines within this new universe, the producers have set S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) to write the first script, entitled Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, and expand the mythology, and the director’s search is quietly under way. The film, produced by Loerenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian for di Bonaventura Pictures alongside Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller for Caliber Media, will have Charles Band as executive producer. The project was announced
Continue reading →
Mads Mikkelson Believes We Haven’t Seen The Last Of Hannibal
Hannibal fans were crushed when the series was canceled by NBC. But like true fans they haven’t given hope that the series might return. And they’re not alone. The cast all want to return for a forth season. Mads Mikkelsen, who played played the cannibalistic Dr. Hannibal Lecter, remains confident that the series will return with in the next few years, with the help of the series’ creator Bryan Fuller. In an interview Mikkelsen was asked about the possibility of the show being picked up by another network. He stated that it’s all up to Fuller, who is currently working on the series adaption of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. It depends on Bryan. He is the key, the base, the heart, Mikkelsen said. “We will wait and see what happens next in his career. But we all know that we can easily pick this up in two or three years, there are breaks in the stories. We could pick it
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