Latest Articles
The Zombies In HBO’s “Last Of Us” Are Based On Something Real!
Odds are, by now, you’ve seen the first couple of episodes of the “Last of Us” adaptation, and let’s be honest, it’s fantastic! “The series is set twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.” Right off to bat, you are probably wondering about the show’s gnarly zombies. The zombie infection is not a virus that morphed like we’ve seen in movies and series a thousand times. Instead, we get these crazy fungi-face creatures created by a fungus, Cordyceps, to be exact. Now here’s the terrifying part: Cordyceps are a very real thing. In reality, Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus, infects its hosts, usually small insects, turning them into real-life zombies by controlling their host’s actions,
Continue reading →
How to Capture a Picture with a Blurry Backdrop Using Your Camera
There are a few methods you may use to create a hazy background. You can either employ an online photo blurrier in the post-production stage or do it manually while capturing the image. Many reasons can be given as to why people request a blurry background for their pictures or why photographers prefer to take their photographs that way. The most important reason, however, is that a blurry background shifts attention from what is happening at the back and transfers it to the main subject in the picture. Sometimes, distracting details in the Background take away from the image’s visual impact. So, to keep the photo looking good and ensure that your subject is the only thing that stands out, it is important to blur the unwanted background features. Therefore, this piece focuses on getting your technique right to capture pictures with a blurry background using your camera. So keep on reading! How to Create a Blurry Background Using Your
Continue reading →
Film Review: In My Mother’s Skin (Sundance Film Festival)
From its blood-soaked, batty beginning to its harrowing third act, writer/director Kenneth Dagatan’s dark fairy tale horror feature In My Mother’s Skin (Philippines/Singapore/Taiwan, 2023) is a masterful tale of terror. Tala (Felicity Kyle Napuli) is a young girl living in The Philippines at the end of World War II, when Japanese forces are still occupying the county. Her father has been accused of stealing gold from the Japanese and leaves to meet with American contacts. With barely any food to eat, Tala, her younger brother Bayani (James Mavie Estrella), and her mother Ligaya (Beauty Gonzalez) must fend for themselves, and as Ligaya grows ever sicker, times get desperate. Tala meets a fairy (Jasmine Curtis-Smith) in the nearby woods who offers to help with a cure for Ligaya’s ailment, but she says that Tala must make the decision as to whether to use it or not. As fright-fare fans might surmise, the fairy has a dark side and Tala’s decision to
Continue reading →
Trailer Gives You A Taste Of ‘Blood’ – Coming To Theaters
How far would a mother go to save her child? Michelle Monaghan stars as a mother desperate to save her son in the horror-thriller Blood, out this week in select theaters. In the film, “Jess, a separated nurse, moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten by the dog, resulting in a mysterious infection from the bite.” Directed by Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) and written by Will Honley, Blood stars Frederick Allen, Onalee Ames, and Erik Athavale. Watch Blood in theaters on January 27, 2023, from Vertical Entertainment.
Continue reading →
Hereditary Star Joins The Cast Of ‘A Quiet Place 3: Day One’
The next installment of the hit Quiet Place franchise, A Quiet Place 3: Day One, is headed your way and continues to expand its cast list. Deadline is reporting that Hereditary star Alex Wolff has now joined the cast, which already includes Lupita Nyong’o (Us) and Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”). Described as a spin-off, A Quiet Place: Day One will be directed by Michael Sarnoski, who recently directed the Nicolas Cage movie Pig. Michael Sarnoski and Jeff Nichols penned the script for Day One. Franchise creator and star John Krasinski will produce alongside Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller under the Platinum Dunes banner. While no plot details are available now, we do know when the sequel/spin-off will arrive. A Quiet Place 3: Day One will open in theaters on March 8, 2024.
Continue reading →
Experience ‘Fear’ In Theaters This Week (Trailer)
This January, experience Fear, the film that features a group of friends gathering together only to have things go terribly wrong. In Fear, a much-needed getaway and a celebratory weekend turn into a nightmare when one by one, the friends’ worst fears begin to come true. Fear stars Joseph Sikora (The Intruder), Ruby Modine (Happy Death Day), “T.I.” Harris (Monster Hunter), Iddo Goldberg (“Snowpiercer), King Bach (Rim of the World), and Andrew Bachelor (The Babysitter). The film is from director Deon Taylor who co-wrote the screenplay with John Ferry. Experience Fear in select theaters on January 27, 2023.
Continue reading →
‘Violent Night 2’ Is Coming Down The Chimney!
Director Tommy Wirkola’s hit holiday action-thriller Violent Night is now available on Digital and Peacock, but that’s not all; according to The Wrap, Violent Night 2 is officially coming down the chimney! “We’re talking about it and we’re just making deals and getting everything in order,” Wirkola tells the site “We have time to really crack the script and figure out the story.” Word is Pat Casey, and Josh Miller will be back to pen the script for Violent Night 2. “And we have some ideas, me and Pat and Josh and the producers, we’ve been talking about where we want to take it and what we want to see. There’s stuff we left on the floor like the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, the elves,” The director stated. “But story-wise I think we have a really, really cool idea that expands on the world and scope, but still keeping that tone that we love from the first one.” Violent Night,
Continue reading →
New Featurettes Give A Look Inside M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Knock At The Cabin’
This February, M. Night Shymalan‘s apocalyptic thriller Knock at the Cabin, an adaptation of The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay, is set to be unleashed. Ahead of its premiere, we have two new behind-the-scenes featurettes that give us an inside look at the dark world of the film. In Knock at the Cabin, “While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.” Dave Bautista (Army of the Dead), Rupert Grint (The Harry Potter franchise), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Old), Ben Aldridge (“Pennyworth”), and Jonathan Groff (“Mindhunter”) star. Universal Pictures presents a Blinding Edge Pictures production with FilmNation Features and Wishmore Entertainment, an M. Night Shyamalan film. M. Night Shyamalan and, Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman adapted
Continue reading →
Family Is All That Matters In The Twisted New ‘Daughter’ Trailer
The new trailer for writer-director Corey Deshon‘s dark thriller Daughter reveals a twisted tale of terror as a woman finds herself kidnapped. Starring Casper Van Dien, Elyse Dinh, Vivien Ngô, and Ian Alexander, Daughter is the tale of “A young woman who is kidnapped and inducted into a bizarre family as their new surrogate daughter. As she navigates through this twisted dynamic, awful secrets about the past are revealed, leading to even darker implications about the future.” Daughter will open in theaters and arrive on Digital and On Demand on February 10, 2023, from Lightbulb Film, followed by its release on DVD on May 9th.
Continue reading →
‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Gets A New Action-Packed Trailer
Paramount Pictures is rolling the dice with a new trailer for the upcoming movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, inspired by the iconic dice-based fantasy game. In the movie, “A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the legendary roleplaying game’s rich world and playful spirit to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure.” Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant, the action-packed movie will land in theaters on March 3, 2023.
Continue reading →More latest articles
The Zombies In HBO’s “Last Of Us” Are Based On Something Real!
Odds are, by now, you’ve seen the first couple of episodes of the “Last of Us” adaptation, and let’s be honest, it’s fantastic! “The series is set twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.” Right off to bat, you are probably wondering about the show’s gnarly zombies. The zombie infection is not a virus that morphed like we’ve seen in movies and series a thousand times. Instead, we get these crazy fungi-face creatures created by a fungus, Cordyceps, to be exact. Now here’s the terrifying part: Cordyceps are a very real thing. In reality, Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus, infects its hosts, usually small insects, turning them into real-life zombies by controlling their host’s actions,
Continue reading →
How to Capture a Picture with a Blurry Backdrop Using Your Camera
There are a few methods you may use to create a hazy background. You can either employ an online photo blurrier in the post-production stage or do it manually while capturing the image. Many reasons can be given as to why people request a blurry background for their pictures or why photographers prefer to take their photographs that way. The most important reason, however, is that a blurry background shifts attention from what is happening at the back and transfers it to the main subject in the picture. Sometimes, distracting details in the Background take away from the image’s visual impact. So, to keep the photo looking good and ensure that your subject is the only thing that stands out, it is important to blur the unwanted background features. Therefore, this piece focuses on getting your technique right to capture pictures with a blurry background using your camera. So keep on reading! How to Create a Blurry Background Using Your
Continue reading →
Film Review: In My Mother’s Skin (Sundance Film Festival)
From its blood-soaked, batty beginning to its harrowing third act, writer/director Kenneth Dagatan’s dark fairy tale horror feature In My Mother’s Skin (Philippines/Singapore/Taiwan, 2023) is a masterful tale of terror. Tala (Felicity Kyle Napuli) is a young girl living in The Philippines at the end of World War II, when Japanese forces are still occupying the county. Her father has been accused of stealing gold from the Japanese and leaves to meet with American contacts. With barely any food to eat, Tala, her younger brother Bayani (James Mavie Estrella), and her mother Ligaya (Beauty Gonzalez) must fend for themselves, and as Ligaya grows ever sicker, times get desperate. Tala meets a fairy (Jasmine Curtis-Smith) in the nearby woods who offers to help with a cure for Ligaya’s ailment, but she says that Tala must make the decision as to whether to use it or not. As fright-fare fans might surmise, the fairy has a dark side and Tala’s decision to
Continue reading →
Trailer Gives You A Taste Of ‘Blood’ – Coming To Theaters
How far would a mother go to save her child? Michelle Monaghan stars as a mother desperate to save her son in the horror-thriller Blood, out this week in select theaters. In the film, “Jess, a separated nurse, moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten by the dog, resulting in a mysterious infection from the bite.” Directed by Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) and written by Will Honley, Blood stars Frederick Allen, Onalee Ames, and Erik Athavale. Watch Blood in theaters on January 27, 2023, from Vertical Entertainment.
Continue reading →
Hereditary Star Joins The Cast Of ‘A Quiet Place 3: Day One’
The next installment of the hit Quiet Place franchise, A Quiet Place 3: Day One, is headed your way and continues to expand its cast list. Deadline is reporting that Hereditary star Alex Wolff has now joined the cast, which already includes Lupita Nyong’o (Us) and Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”). Described as a spin-off, A Quiet Place: Day One will be directed by Michael Sarnoski, who recently directed the Nicolas Cage movie Pig. Michael Sarnoski and Jeff Nichols penned the script for Day One. Franchise creator and star John Krasinski will produce alongside Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller under the Platinum Dunes banner. While no plot details are available now, we do know when the sequel/spin-off will arrive. A Quiet Place 3: Day One will open in theaters on March 8, 2024.
Continue reading →
Experience ‘Fear’ In Theaters This Week (Trailer)
This January, experience Fear, the film that features a group of friends gathering together only to have things go terribly wrong. In Fear, a much-needed getaway and a celebratory weekend turn into a nightmare when one by one, the friends’ worst fears begin to come true. Fear stars Joseph Sikora (The Intruder), Ruby Modine (Happy Death Day), “T.I.” Harris (Monster Hunter), Iddo Goldberg (“Snowpiercer), King Bach (Rim of the World), and Andrew Bachelor (The Babysitter). The film is from director Deon Taylor who co-wrote the screenplay with John Ferry. Experience Fear in select theaters on January 27, 2023.
Continue reading →
‘Violent Night 2’ Is Coming Down The Chimney!
Director Tommy Wirkola’s hit holiday action-thriller Violent Night is now available on Digital and Peacock, but that’s not all; according to The Wrap, Violent Night 2 is officially coming down the chimney! “We’re talking about it and we’re just making deals and getting everything in order,” Wirkola tells the site “We have time to really crack the script and figure out the story.” Word is Pat Casey, and Josh Miller will be back to pen the script for Violent Night 2. “And we have some ideas, me and Pat and Josh and the producers, we’ve been talking about where we want to take it and what we want to see. There’s stuff we left on the floor like the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, the elves,” The director stated. “But story-wise I think we have a really, really cool idea that expands on the world and scope, but still keeping that tone that we love from the first one.” Violent Night,
Continue reading →
New Featurettes Give A Look Inside M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Knock At The Cabin’
This February, M. Night Shymalan‘s apocalyptic thriller Knock at the Cabin, an adaptation of The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay, is set to be unleashed. Ahead of its premiere, we have two new behind-the-scenes featurettes that give us an inside look at the dark world of the film. In Knock at the Cabin, “While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.” Dave Bautista (Army of the Dead), Rupert Grint (The Harry Potter franchise), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Old), Ben Aldridge (“Pennyworth”), and Jonathan Groff (“Mindhunter”) star. Universal Pictures presents a Blinding Edge Pictures production with FilmNation Features and Wishmore Entertainment, an M. Night Shyamalan film. M. Night Shyamalan and, Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman adapted
Continue reading →
Family Is All That Matters In The Twisted New ‘Daughter’ Trailer
The new trailer for writer-director Corey Deshon‘s dark thriller Daughter reveals a twisted tale of terror as a woman finds herself kidnapped. Starring Casper Van Dien, Elyse Dinh, Vivien Ngô, and Ian Alexander, Daughter is the tale of “A young woman who is kidnapped and inducted into a bizarre family as their new surrogate daughter. As she navigates through this twisted dynamic, awful secrets about the past are revealed, leading to even darker implications about the future.” Daughter will open in theaters and arrive on Digital and On Demand on February 10, 2023, from Lightbulb Film, followed by its release on DVD on May 9th.
Continue reading →
‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Gets A New Action-Packed Trailer
Paramount Pictures is rolling the dice with a new trailer for the upcoming movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, inspired by the iconic dice-based fantasy game. In the movie, “A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the legendary roleplaying game’s rich world and playful spirit to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure.” Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant, the action-packed movie will land in theaters on March 3, 2023.
Continue reading →