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Say “I Do” To ‘Til Death Do Us Part’ In Theaters This Summer
From the twisted mind of the creator of Final Destination comes the highly anticipated revenge flick Til Death Do Us Part, in theaters nationwide this Summer. Til Death Do Us Part is a fresh and frightening, genre-bending ride led by Cam Gigandet (Twilight, Never Backdown), Jason Patric (The Lost Boys, Speed 2: Cruise Control), Natalie Burn (Black Adam, The Enforcer), and Orlando Jones (The Time Machine, Drumline). Directed by Emmy® Award Winner Timothy Woodward Jr., the film explores the grim reality that not every romance story ends with happily ever after. “After running away on her wedding day, a bride-to-be must fight for survival against her former fiancé and his seven deadly groomsmen. In the ultimate horror showdown, the groomsmen soon discover that she has no intention of going back to the life she left behind.” Featuring a marriage of violence and blood-soaked action, Til Death Do Us Part seamlessly blends the slick, kinetic thrills of John Wick with the
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A Price Must Be Paid In The Irish Horror ‘Unwelcome,’ Coming To Shudder
The Irish horror Unwelcome from Grabbers and Robot Overlords director Jon Wright is coming to Shudder this June. In Unwelcome, married couple Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent and murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. As warned by their new neighbors, in Irish mythology, the Redcaps will come when called to help souls in dire need of rescue, but it’s crucial to remember that there is always a dear price to pay for their aid. Hannah John-Kamen (Red Sonja, Ready Player One) stars alongside Douglas Booth (That Dirty Black Bag, The Dirt) and Colm Meaney (Gangs of London, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Jamie-Lee O’Donnell (6 Degrees, Derry Girls), Chris Walley (Bloodlands, The Young Offenders) and Kristian Nairn (Game of Thrones). Unwelcome, from Warner Bros., makes its debut on June 23, 2023, on both Shudder and AMC+.
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Essential Ghost Hunting Equipment: A Guide to the Tools of the Paranormal Trade
When exploring the paranormal world, ensuring you have the technology and equipment to make the most of your experiences is essential. Whether you’re heading to explore a potentially haunted building or exploring a historic site, like ruins or a castle, you’re going to need various pieces of equipment to help you identify abnormalities. Ghost hunting equipment like electromagnetic field meters, infrared thermometers, and spirit boxes can help you detect and communicate with spirits and entities. Read on for our guide to the essential tools you’ll need for ghost-hunting. EMF Meters An EMF meter, or an electromagnetic field meter, is used to detect changes in electromagnetic fields. When ghost hunting, you can use an EMF meter to help identify and detect paranormal activity, as spirits can disrupt these fields when they’re present. You can also use these meters to communicate with spirits and ask them to trigger the meter when asking questions. An EMF meter can be a great addition to
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‘Brooklyn 45’ Haunts Shudder And AMC+ This Weekend
The past comes back to haunt a group of friends in the trailer for Brooklynn 45, directed by Ted Geoghegan. “On Friday, December 27, 1945, five military veterans gather in the ornate parlor of a Brooklyn brownstone. Best friends since childhood, they’ve reunited to support their troubled host–but when his invitation for cocktails turns into an impromptu séance, the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all too literal… Trapped in their host’s lounge, the Greatest Generation now finds themselves put to one final test, with their only route to freedom being more bloodshed.” Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, and Kristina Klebe star. Brooklyn 45 premieres on Shudder and AMC+ on Friday, June 9, 2023.
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A Horrifying Half-Dozen: Six Slices of Spooky Cinema from Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The 27th edition of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) takes place in Bucheon, South Korea, from June 29–July 9, 2023, and as always, Asia’s largest genre film fest offers well over 250 films from around the globe. With world, international, and Korean premieres of horror, science fiction, thriller, dark comedy, and related features and shorts, the fest is a cinephile’s dream. Here are six of the features that we can’t wait to watch — and with yours truly in attendance, expect BIFAN reviews right here at Horror Fuel. Following are descriptions of the films from the BIFAN website, where more information is available: http://www.bifan.kr/eng/ Nightmare (Norway, 2022) Mona and Robby are a young couple in love. Robby has just landed his dream job, and they’ve scored an amazing deal on a spacious flat. Never mind that it requires a bit of renovation and the neighbors’ constant fighting and screaming baby. Mona is suddenly plagued by night terrors which
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: THE BYSTANDERS and OZMA (Sci-Fi London 2023)
The Bystanders The invisible-to-people titular characters in director Gabriel Foster Prior’s U.K. science-fiction comedy The Bystanders aren’t exactly guardian angels, but they do have similar tasks in that they are assigned humans to watch over. If you get a positive-minded Bystander like rookie Peter Weir (Scott Haran), you could be in good shape, but if you’re stuck with a more jaded one such as Frank (Seann Walsh) — well, all bets are off. Peter, an anonymous office worker and a perennial second-place personality still stinging from a childhood chess championship loss, switches his charge Sarah (Georgia Mabel Clarke), a music label employee who is trying to get noticed at her job, with Frank’s ambitionless man-child Luke (Andi Jashy) in an effort to become Bystander of the Year. A budding friendship turns into rivalry, and Prior — who cowrote the screenplay with Jack Hughes — delivers a winning comedy of ill manners. Haran and Walsh have terrific comic chemistry together, and
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Horror Grows As Tree Monster Is Unleashed This June In ‘Pollen’
As if the yellow substance that covers the south from spring through summer wasn’t enough of a nightmare, they’ve gone and made a horror film, simply titled Pollen. From writer-director D.W. Medoff comes the horror film in which “After a senior coworker assaults a bright-eyed young woman, her dream job becomes a living nightmare as she tries to keep her career together while being tormented at work, at home, and in her dreams by a mysterious tree monster.” The cast includes Ava Rose Kinard, Tyler Buckingham, Ashley Ames, and Bennett Welch. Pollen arrives in select theatres from Gravitas Ventures on June 6, 2023.
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Streaming Services Dust & Alter Double Down On Horror
Gunpowder & Sky is doubling down on its ever-growing library of horror and sci-fi offerings on its channels DUST & ALTER. It was announced today that DUST & ALTER are set to release more than 30 new films and TV series. New films include: Train to Busan; Creep; Hounds of Love; Summer of ‘84; The “Masters of Horror” series, with episodes directed by John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween), Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Joe Dante (Gremlins) and John Landis (An American Werewolf in London); “Fear Itself,” starring Elisabeth Moss, Anna Kendrick, and Jesse Plemons; Elvira’s “Movie Macabre” (1980s); Mark Hamill’s “Pop Culture Quest”; “Weird or What?” with William Shatner; and “Encounter: UFO.” Franchise marathons include Phantasm, Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead, Phantasm 4: Oblivion, Phantasm 5: Ravager; Grave Encounters 1 & 2; The Stepfather 1 – 3; Waxwork 1 & 2; Wishmaster, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, Wishmaster 3, Sword of Justice, Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled;
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New ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ Trailer Reveals An Unhinged Nicolas Cage
The action-packed trailer has just arrived for the balls-to-the-walls thriller Sympathy For the Devil, out this July, from RLJE Films. Nicolas Cage stars as an unhinged psychopath (the type of role he’s born to play), who kidnaps a man (Joel Kinnaman) at gunpoint, taking viewers on a wild ride during a thrilling night filled with action and insanity. “After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.” Written and directed by Luke Paradise, Sympathy For the Devil, opens in theaters on July 28, 2023.
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MGM+ Announces True Crime Docuseries ‘Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein’
MGM+ announced today that it has picked up the four-episode true-crime docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, directed and executive produced by James Buddy Day (Blumhouse’s Compendium of Horror, Fall River). This MGM+ original docuseries follows the horrifying grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, otherwise known as “The Plainfield Ghoul” and “The Mad Butcher,” whose crimes inspired such iconic films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. For years, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars have tried to unravel the mind of this notorious killer, and with new reveals and never-before-heard recordings, viewers will be transported to late-1950s Middle America and submerged in Gein’s perverse mind. The series explores Gein’s upbringing and twisted relationship with his mother (which famously inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho), his early grave robbing, the murders leading up to his arrest, and the police’s discovery of his terrifying house of horrors—all accompanied by the brand-new revelations revealed in the recordings. “This
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Say “I Do” To ‘Til Death Do Us Part’ In Theaters This Summer
From the twisted mind of the creator of Final Destination comes the highly anticipated revenge flick Til Death Do Us Part, in theaters nationwide this Summer. Til Death Do Us Part is a fresh and frightening, genre-bending ride led by Cam Gigandet (Twilight, Never Backdown), Jason Patric (The Lost Boys, Speed 2: Cruise Control), Natalie Burn (Black Adam, The Enforcer), and Orlando Jones (The Time Machine, Drumline). Directed by Emmy® Award Winner Timothy Woodward Jr., the film explores the grim reality that not every romance story ends with happily ever after. “After running away on her wedding day, a bride-to-be must fight for survival against her former fiancé and his seven deadly groomsmen. In the ultimate horror showdown, the groomsmen soon discover that she has no intention of going back to the life she left behind.” Featuring a marriage of violence and blood-soaked action, Til Death Do Us Part seamlessly blends the slick, kinetic thrills of John Wick with the
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A Price Must Be Paid In The Irish Horror ‘Unwelcome,’ Coming To Shudder
The Irish horror Unwelcome from Grabbers and Robot Overlords director Jon Wright is coming to Shudder this June. In Unwelcome, married couple Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent and murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. As warned by their new neighbors, in Irish mythology, the Redcaps will come when called to help souls in dire need of rescue, but it’s crucial to remember that there is always a dear price to pay for their aid. Hannah John-Kamen (Red Sonja, Ready Player One) stars alongside Douglas Booth (That Dirty Black Bag, The Dirt) and Colm Meaney (Gangs of London, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Jamie-Lee O’Donnell (6 Degrees, Derry Girls), Chris Walley (Bloodlands, The Young Offenders) and Kristian Nairn (Game of Thrones). Unwelcome, from Warner Bros., makes its debut on June 23, 2023, on both Shudder and AMC+.
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Essential Ghost Hunting Equipment: A Guide to the Tools of the Paranormal Trade
When exploring the paranormal world, ensuring you have the technology and equipment to make the most of your experiences is essential. Whether you’re heading to explore a potentially haunted building or exploring a historic site, like ruins or a castle, you’re going to need various pieces of equipment to help you identify abnormalities. Ghost hunting equipment like electromagnetic field meters, infrared thermometers, and spirit boxes can help you detect and communicate with spirits and entities. Read on for our guide to the essential tools you’ll need for ghost-hunting. EMF Meters An EMF meter, or an electromagnetic field meter, is used to detect changes in electromagnetic fields. When ghost hunting, you can use an EMF meter to help identify and detect paranormal activity, as spirits can disrupt these fields when they’re present. You can also use these meters to communicate with spirits and ask them to trigger the meter when asking questions. An EMF meter can be a great addition to
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‘Brooklyn 45’ Haunts Shudder And AMC+ This Weekend
The past comes back to haunt a group of friends in the trailer for Brooklynn 45, directed by Ted Geoghegan. “On Friday, December 27, 1945, five military veterans gather in the ornate parlor of a Brooklyn brownstone. Best friends since childhood, they’ve reunited to support their troubled host–but when his invitation for cocktails turns into an impromptu séance, the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all too literal… Trapped in their host’s lounge, the Greatest Generation now finds themselves put to one final test, with their only route to freedom being more bloodshed.” Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, and Kristina Klebe star. Brooklyn 45 premieres on Shudder and AMC+ on Friday, June 9, 2023.
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A Horrifying Half-Dozen: Six Slices of Spooky Cinema from Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The 27th edition of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) takes place in Bucheon, South Korea, from June 29–July 9, 2023, and as always, Asia’s largest genre film fest offers well over 250 films from around the globe. With world, international, and Korean premieres of horror, science fiction, thriller, dark comedy, and related features and shorts, the fest is a cinephile’s dream. Here are six of the features that we can’t wait to watch — and with yours truly in attendance, expect BIFAN reviews right here at Horror Fuel. Following are descriptions of the films from the BIFAN website, where more information is available: http://www.bifan.kr/eng/ Nightmare (Norway, 2022) Mona and Robby are a young couple in love. Robby has just landed his dream job, and they’ve scored an amazing deal on a spacious flat. Never mind that it requires a bit of renovation and the neighbors’ constant fighting and screaming baby. Mona is suddenly plagued by night terrors which
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: THE BYSTANDERS and OZMA (Sci-Fi London 2023)
The Bystanders The invisible-to-people titular characters in director Gabriel Foster Prior’s U.K. science-fiction comedy The Bystanders aren’t exactly guardian angels, but they do have similar tasks in that they are assigned humans to watch over. If you get a positive-minded Bystander like rookie Peter Weir (Scott Haran), you could be in good shape, but if you’re stuck with a more jaded one such as Frank (Seann Walsh) — well, all bets are off. Peter, an anonymous office worker and a perennial second-place personality still stinging from a childhood chess championship loss, switches his charge Sarah (Georgia Mabel Clarke), a music label employee who is trying to get noticed at her job, with Frank’s ambitionless man-child Luke (Andi Jashy) in an effort to become Bystander of the Year. A budding friendship turns into rivalry, and Prior — who cowrote the screenplay with Jack Hughes — delivers a winning comedy of ill manners. Haran and Walsh have terrific comic chemistry together, and
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Horror Grows As Tree Monster Is Unleashed This June In ‘Pollen’
As if the yellow substance that covers the south from spring through summer wasn’t enough of a nightmare, they’ve gone and made a horror film, simply titled Pollen. From writer-director D.W. Medoff comes the horror film in which “After a senior coworker assaults a bright-eyed young woman, her dream job becomes a living nightmare as she tries to keep her career together while being tormented at work, at home, and in her dreams by a mysterious tree monster.” The cast includes Ava Rose Kinard, Tyler Buckingham, Ashley Ames, and Bennett Welch. Pollen arrives in select theatres from Gravitas Ventures on June 6, 2023.
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Streaming Services Dust & Alter Double Down On Horror
Gunpowder & Sky is doubling down on its ever-growing library of horror and sci-fi offerings on its channels DUST & ALTER. It was announced today that DUST & ALTER are set to release more than 30 new films and TV series. New films include: Train to Busan; Creep; Hounds of Love; Summer of ‘84; The “Masters of Horror” series, with episodes directed by John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween), Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Joe Dante (Gremlins) and John Landis (An American Werewolf in London); “Fear Itself,” starring Elisabeth Moss, Anna Kendrick, and Jesse Plemons; Elvira’s “Movie Macabre” (1980s); Mark Hamill’s “Pop Culture Quest”; “Weird or What?” with William Shatner; and “Encounter: UFO.” Franchise marathons include Phantasm, Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead, Phantasm 4: Oblivion, Phantasm 5: Ravager; Grave Encounters 1 & 2; The Stepfather 1 – 3; Waxwork 1 & 2; Wishmaster, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, Wishmaster 3, Sword of Justice, Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled;
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New ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ Trailer Reveals An Unhinged Nicolas Cage
The action-packed trailer has just arrived for the balls-to-the-walls thriller Sympathy For the Devil, out this July, from RLJE Films. Nicolas Cage stars as an unhinged psychopath (the type of role he’s born to play), who kidnaps a man (Joel Kinnaman) at gunpoint, taking viewers on a wild ride during a thrilling night filled with action and insanity. “After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.” Written and directed by Luke Paradise, Sympathy For the Devil, opens in theaters on July 28, 2023.
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MGM+ Announces True Crime Docuseries ‘Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein’
MGM+ announced today that it has picked up the four-episode true-crime docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, directed and executive produced by James Buddy Day (Blumhouse’s Compendium of Horror, Fall River). This MGM+ original docuseries follows the horrifying grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, otherwise known as “The Plainfield Ghoul” and “The Mad Butcher,” whose crimes inspired such iconic films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. For years, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars have tried to unravel the mind of this notorious killer, and with new reveals and never-before-heard recordings, viewers will be transported to late-1950s Middle America and submerged in Gein’s perverse mind. The series explores Gein’s upbringing and twisted relationship with his mother (which famously inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho), his early grave robbing, the murders leading up to his arrest, and the police’s discovery of his terrifying house of horrors—all accompanied by the brand-new revelations revealed in the recordings. “This
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