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Something Is Very Wrong With A Kid Brought Back To Life In The J-Horror ‘Bloat’
“Gotham” star Ben McKenzie (pictured) and Beyond Skyline’s Bojana Novakovic are set to star in the upcoming J-horror film Bloat, Variety reports. “Bloat stars McKenzie as a military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife (Novakovic) is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.” Written and directed by Pablo Absento, Bloat is produced by Bazelevs’ Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching, Profile) and is co-production of Pulsar Content, which recently released the fantastic aquatic horror The Deep House. McKenzie and Absent are producing alongside Bekmambetov, Anna Shalashina from Bazelevs, Maria Zatulovskaya, Gilles Sousa, and Marie Garrett of Pulsar Content, Hiroko Oda from flag Co., Ltd, and Dzhanik Fayziev from Okko. The Fantasia Film Festival’s artistic directors Mitch Davis and Aleksandr Fomin are serving as associate producers. Filming has already begun for Bloat in New York and will continue
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Norman Reedus Teaming Up With The Jim Henson Co. For A New Fantasy Series
“Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus is teaming up with the Jim Henson Co. for a new live-action fantasy series. Variety reports that the project is still in early development and is “creating an entirely new universe of characters by teaming up with Brian and Wendy Froud (“The Dark Crystal”) for a project in the works for Henson. The primetime adventure series, intended for a family audience, will feature an entirely new universe of creatures created by the Frouds.” “Norman Reedus, the Frouds, and the Jim Henson Company coming together to create a show is the mashup of my dreams,” Halle Stanford, president of the TV at The Jim Henson Company said in a statement. “Norman is an artist, and when I suggested to him, what if we create a series with the Frounds together that explores his love of magical creatures, he was so excited.” “They are masters in the fantasy world-building space. I mean, a show about goblins, trolls,
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Keke Palmer Is On A Mission For Revenge In The True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Alice’ (Trailer)
Keke Palmer (“Scream” series) stars in Alice, a post-Civil Rights tale of modern empowerment inspired by true events, directed by Van Linden. In the thriller, “Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation.” Palmer is also set to star in Jordan Peele’s upcoming mysterious film Nope and will lend her voice to the new animated spin-off of “Big Mouth”, titled “Human Resources.” Vertical Entertainment is set to release Alice on March 18, 2022.
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First Image Surfaces From The Shark Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’
Principle photography has now officially wrapped in the Dominican Republic on the survival thriller The Black Demon, starring Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) who is featured in the first image from the film (below). Directed by Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo), the film is based on a Mexican legend. While on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig where the sins of his past have put him and all he holds dear in the crosshairs of a sinister force. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”), and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario), also star in The Black Demon, written by Boise Esquerra (Austin Film Festival nominated “Blackwater”). Producers include Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Silk Mass’ Jon Silk, alongside R.U. and Robot’s Petr Jákl with Mucho Mas’ Phillip Braun, Simon Wise, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero,
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Sci-Fi Horror FPS ‘RIPOUT’ Coming Later This Year
Indie game developer Pet Project Games is getting a major boost with their newly formed partnership with legendary game publisher 3D Realms to get their latest project out later this year, first-person sci-fi horror shooter RIPOUT. RIPOUT takes players to the year 2084 as one of Humanity’s lone survivors. Earth developed a bio-weapon to fight off an alien invasion, but in typical sci-fi horror fashion…it turned against us. Now surrounded by mutated creatures once human, you must fight for survival with your living weapon. RIPOUT will feature procedurally generated levels with a variety of objectives, hoards of enemies who can configure their bodies requiring you to exploit their weaknesses, customizable weapon loadouts and character classes, 10 to 20 minute long missions, scalable difficulty (the more players, the harder the gameplay), single-player or online co-op with up to four players. RIPOUT is expected to be released later in 2022 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Award-Winning Thriller ‘Nightmare Alley’ Is Coming To 4K Ultra
Nominated for best picture, Gullermo del Toro‘s beautifully twisted film Nightmare Alley is getting a home release this March after premiering on HBO Max and Hulu earlier this month. Starring Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara, the suspenseful psychological thriller has been nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Picture, 8 Critics’ Choice Awards, a Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett, and BAFTA, SDSA, MPSE, ADG, CDG, VES, and WGA Awards. In Nightmare Alley, “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might
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Shudder Announces Killer March Lineup
Shudder, the ultimate streaming service for horror and thrillers has a killer lineup this March with a ton of new movies, series, and Originals. To make sure you don’t miss a thing, we’ve got your guide! March 3rd The Scary of Sixty-First Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret. Directed by Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First won the “Best First Feature Award” at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Madeline Quinn, Betsey Brown, and Dasha Nekrasova, and was written by Quinn and Nekrasova. March 10th The Seed This horror-comedy centers on Deidre (Lucy Martin), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur), and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge), lifelong friends finally getting some time away together, using an upcoming meteor shower to gather more followers for their social media channels. But what starts as a girls’ getaway in the Mojave Desert descends into a battle for survival with the arrival of an alien
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‘Candyman 3: Day Of The Dead’ Is Now Out On Blu-ray
The Collector’s Series of 1999’s Candyman 3: Day of the Dead has just been released. The question is, should you buy it? The film opens with a young woman, Caroline (Donna D’Errico) unhappy with the way a gallery owner is presenting the art by her ancestor, Daniel Robitaille, who became known as the legendary Candyman. His great, great, granddaughter also wants people to see him for who he was, a gifted artist. However, when she is pushed into calling his name by the gallery owner, her romantic notions of the artist give way to the horror of who he has become, a supernatural killer. This all begins just days before the Day of the Dead, the day that is celebrated as a day to honor the dead. While you can tell the movie was made in the ’90s, before special effects and camera quality reached today’s standards, it’s still entertaining. And is still is heavily connected to its predecessors story-wise,
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‘Willy’s Wonderland’ Director Is Back With ‘The Accursed’
Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) company, announced today the acquisition of all North American rights to the upcoming horror movie The Accursed, the follow up to Kevin Lewis’ Willy Wonderland. Starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Sarah Grey (Power Rangers), Meg Foster (They Live), and Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), The Accursed follows a young woman who is forced to return home following the death of her mother. Consumed by guilt and desperate to escape the haunting visions playing out in her head, she takes a temporary caregiver position for a comatose old lady living alone in the woods. It does not take long before she realizes that not all is as it seems and that the old lady harbors a demonic secret; an evil secret that the old lady’s daughter is intent on passing on. Currently, in post-production, The Accursed is set to premiere this Fall. GFM Film Sales is handling worldwide sales for the
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The New ‘Tethered’ Trailer Reminds Us To Always Follow The Rules
Director Daniel Robinette is taking horror fans deep into the woods with the trailer for his horror film Tethered, which reminds you that you must always follow the rules. “In the remote woods of North Carolina, a blind teenager named Solomon lives by himself in total isolation. Despite his impairment, Solomon can navigate his surroundings by tying a long rope around his waist that stays tethered to the cabin where he lives. Armed with only his tether, Solomon survives by fishing, foraging, and trapping small animals for food. His only other stimulation is a tape-recorded message containing three mysterious rules: The First Rule: When you hunt or scavenge, do it for two—one for the forest and one for you. The Second Rule: When your will is almost gone and you feel like giving up, find comfort in singing our song.The Third Rule: You must never, ever let go of the rope.” Starring Alexandra Paul, Kareem Ferguson, Jared L. Cook, Brody
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Something Is Very Wrong With A Kid Brought Back To Life In The J-Horror ‘Bloat’
“Gotham” star Ben McKenzie (pictured) and Beyond Skyline’s Bojana Novakovic are set to star in the upcoming J-horror film Bloat, Variety reports. “Bloat stars McKenzie as a military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife (Novakovic) is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.” Written and directed by Pablo Absento, Bloat is produced by Bazelevs’ Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching, Profile) and is co-production of Pulsar Content, which recently released the fantastic aquatic horror The Deep House. McKenzie and Absent are producing alongside Bekmambetov, Anna Shalashina from Bazelevs, Maria Zatulovskaya, Gilles Sousa, and Marie Garrett of Pulsar Content, Hiroko Oda from flag Co., Ltd, and Dzhanik Fayziev from Okko. The Fantasia Film Festival’s artistic directors Mitch Davis and Aleksandr Fomin are serving as associate producers. Filming has already begun for Bloat in New York and will continue
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Norman Reedus Teaming Up With The Jim Henson Co. For A New Fantasy Series
“Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus is teaming up with the Jim Henson Co. for a new live-action fantasy series. Variety reports that the project is still in early development and is “creating an entirely new universe of characters by teaming up with Brian and Wendy Froud (“The Dark Crystal”) for a project in the works for Henson. The primetime adventure series, intended for a family audience, will feature an entirely new universe of creatures created by the Frouds.” “Norman Reedus, the Frouds, and the Jim Henson Company coming together to create a show is the mashup of my dreams,” Halle Stanford, president of the TV at The Jim Henson Company said in a statement. “Norman is an artist, and when I suggested to him, what if we create a series with the Frounds together that explores his love of magical creatures, he was so excited.” “They are masters in the fantasy world-building space. I mean, a show about goblins, trolls,
Continue reading →
Keke Palmer Is On A Mission For Revenge In The True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Alice’ (Trailer)
Keke Palmer (“Scream” series) stars in Alice, a post-Civil Rights tale of modern empowerment inspired by true events, directed by Van Linden. In the thriller, “Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation.” Palmer is also set to star in Jordan Peele’s upcoming mysterious film Nope and will lend her voice to the new animated spin-off of “Big Mouth”, titled “Human Resources.” Vertical Entertainment is set to release Alice on March 18, 2022.
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First Image Surfaces From The Shark Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’
Principle photography has now officially wrapped in the Dominican Republic on the survival thriller The Black Demon, starring Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) who is featured in the first image from the film (below). Directed by Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo), the film is based on a Mexican legend. While on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig where the sins of his past have put him and all he holds dear in the crosshairs of a sinister force. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”), and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario), also star in The Black Demon, written by Boise Esquerra (Austin Film Festival nominated “Blackwater”). Producers include Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Silk Mass’ Jon Silk, alongside R.U. and Robot’s Petr Jákl with Mucho Mas’ Phillip Braun, Simon Wise, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero,
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Sci-Fi Horror FPS ‘RIPOUT’ Coming Later This Year
Indie game developer Pet Project Games is getting a major boost with their newly formed partnership with legendary game publisher 3D Realms to get their latest project out later this year, first-person sci-fi horror shooter RIPOUT. RIPOUT takes players to the year 2084 as one of Humanity’s lone survivors. Earth developed a bio-weapon to fight off an alien invasion, but in typical sci-fi horror fashion…it turned against us. Now surrounded by mutated creatures once human, you must fight for survival with your living weapon. RIPOUT will feature procedurally generated levels with a variety of objectives, hoards of enemies who can configure their bodies requiring you to exploit their weaknesses, customizable weapon loadouts and character classes, 10 to 20 minute long missions, scalable difficulty (the more players, the harder the gameplay), single-player or online co-op with up to four players. RIPOUT is expected to be released later in 2022 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Award-Winning Thriller ‘Nightmare Alley’ Is Coming To 4K Ultra
Nominated for best picture, Gullermo del Toro‘s beautifully twisted film Nightmare Alley is getting a home release this March after premiering on HBO Max and Hulu earlier this month. Starring Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara, the suspenseful psychological thriller has been nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Picture, 8 Critics’ Choice Awards, a Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett, and BAFTA, SDSA, MPSE, ADG, CDG, VES, and WGA Awards. In Nightmare Alley, “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might
Continue reading →
Shudder Announces Killer March Lineup
Shudder, the ultimate streaming service for horror and thrillers has a killer lineup this March with a ton of new movies, series, and Originals. To make sure you don’t miss a thing, we’ve got your guide! March 3rd The Scary of Sixty-First Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret. Directed by Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First won the “Best First Feature Award” at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Madeline Quinn, Betsey Brown, and Dasha Nekrasova, and was written by Quinn and Nekrasova. March 10th The Seed This horror-comedy centers on Deidre (Lucy Martin), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur), and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge), lifelong friends finally getting some time away together, using an upcoming meteor shower to gather more followers for their social media channels. But what starts as a girls’ getaway in the Mojave Desert descends into a battle for survival with the arrival of an alien
Continue reading →
‘Candyman 3: Day Of The Dead’ Is Now Out On Blu-ray
The Collector’s Series of 1999’s Candyman 3: Day of the Dead has just been released. The question is, should you buy it? The film opens with a young woman, Caroline (Donna D’Errico) unhappy with the way a gallery owner is presenting the art by her ancestor, Daniel Robitaille, who became known as the legendary Candyman. His great, great, granddaughter also wants people to see him for who he was, a gifted artist. However, when she is pushed into calling his name by the gallery owner, her romantic notions of the artist give way to the horror of who he has become, a supernatural killer. This all begins just days before the Day of the Dead, the day that is celebrated as a day to honor the dead. While you can tell the movie was made in the ’90s, before special effects and camera quality reached today’s standards, it’s still entertaining. And is still is heavily connected to its predecessors story-wise,
Continue reading →
‘Willy’s Wonderland’ Director Is Back With ‘The Accursed’
Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) company, announced today the acquisition of all North American rights to the upcoming horror movie The Accursed, the follow up to Kevin Lewis’ Willy Wonderland. Starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Sarah Grey (Power Rangers), Meg Foster (They Live), and Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), The Accursed follows a young woman who is forced to return home following the death of her mother. Consumed by guilt and desperate to escape the haunting visions playing out in her head, she takes a temporary caregiver position for a comatose old lady living alone in the woods. It does not take long before she realizes that not all is as it seems and that the old lady harbors a demonic secret; an evil secret that the old lady’s daughter is intent on passing on. Currently, in post-production, The Accursed is set to premiere this Fall. GFM Film Sales is handling worldwide sales for the
Continue reading →
The New ‘Tethered’ Trailer Reminds Us To Always Follow The Rules
Director Daniel Robinette is taking horror fans deep into the woods with the trailer for his horror film Tethered, which reminds you that you must always follow the rules. “In the remote woods of North Carolina, a blind teenager named Solomon lives by himself in total isolation. Despite his impairment, Solomon can navigate his surroundings by tying a long rope around his waist that stays tethered to the cabin where he lives. Armed with only his tether, Solomon survives by fishing, foraging, and trapping small animals for food. His only other stimulation is a tape-recorded message containing three mysterious rules: The First Rule: When you hunt or scavenge, do it for two—one for the forest and one for you. The Second Rule: When your will is almost gone and you feel like giving up, find comfort in singing our song.The Third Rule: You must never, ever let go of the rope.” Starring Alexandra Paul, Kareem Ferguson, Jared L. Cook, Brody
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