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New Documentary Explores ‘Ghostbusters’ Like Never Before
Ghostbusters is one of the most iconic movies ever made. Now, a new documentary, Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters will delve into the making of the film like you’ve never seen before. See never-before-seen footage, glimpses behind-the-scenes of the film that changed the industry forever. Cleanin’ Up the Town also features interviews from the Ghostbusters themselves, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson. The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made for the era and emphasizes just how ambitious an undertaking the making of Ghostbusters really was. Directed by Anthony Bueno (Beware the Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf in London) the documentary is produced by Claire Bueno. The extended version of Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters will open in theaters on October 1, 2021, followed by its release On Demand on October 5th.
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Dracula Party releases debut album, Video Wasteland in October!
My pals, the scintillating’ sonic sorcerers Dracula Party are crawlin’ from their terror tomb to unleash their next creepy collection; Video Wasteland! Here’s the lowdown straight from the coffin crew themselves! Seattle, September 1, 2021 – The Seattle based Horror Industrial band, Dracula Party, will release their debut album, Video Wasteland, on October 1, 2021 on all digital platforms. Now available for Preorder on Bandcamp: The follow-up to their EP, The Devil Wears a Mask (2019), Video Wasteland is a synth-driven exploration of 80s and 90s VHS Horror films. Combining elements of Industrial, EBM, Synthesizer Movie Scores, and Darkwave, every track feels like a living Horror film; one you can dance to. Frontman, Byron C. Miller, recalls the inspiration for the album, “When I was a horror geek teen in the early 90s I would read about these awesome sounding straight to video horror films in Fangoria Magazine. These titles were often hard to find at your local mom and
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Murder, Monsters & Mayhem: The “Creepshow” Season 3 Trailer Is Here
The new season of Shudder‘s “Creepshow” is set to premiere later this month. Ahead of its premiere, the trailer has just arrived, giving us a taste of the horrors that await us. Based on the classic 1982 horror-comedy, the series returns for its third season which features murder, monsters, and mayhem. Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy) makes an appearance this season as a border patrol officer who is up to his neck in dead bodies. In another episode, James Remar (Dexter, Black Lightning) plays the role of a museum collector obsessed with obtaining rare horror movie props at any cost. Kara Kimmer, Ali Larter, Justin Long, and Ryan Kwanten appear this season. Showrunner Greg Nicotero had this to say about the new season during a talk with ComicBook.com, “For Season 3, the most fun thing about Creepshow is every episode is very different,” He continued. “I wrote a bunch of them, and I directed a lot of them. and
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Humanity Fights Dark Entities And Each Other This September In ‘Companion’
Humanity fights to survive both evil entities and each other in writer-director John Darbonne‘s (The Cottages) indie horror Companion, out on Demand this September. “In 2030, society fell as malicious entities appeared around the world. The survivors must fight each other and the dead. Across this brutal landscape, Ella Grace’s burden of guilt is exposed. The past, and the horrors of what she will become, force Ella to kill what she loves in order to discover the terrifying meaning of the ghosts that feed on her fear.” The cast includes Russell Shealy (Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird”, The Farmhand, Surrender Me), Eric Hanson (The Challenger Disaster, No Ordinary Love, Brady’s Lot), Christine Nguyen (Vigilante Diaries, Attack of the Killer Donuts, Get Him to the Greek), Stephen Brodie (“Fear the Walking Dead”), Anna Flynn (Persuasion), Cody Renee Cameron (El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie), and Marcus Anthony. Companion lands on Digital on September 14, 2021, from Level 33 Entertainment.
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We’ve Got The First Image From The Thriller ‘Clean’ Starring Adrien Brody
Hot off the heels of the premiere of Epix’s Stephen King-inspired series “Chapelwaite,” which we called “the best new series of the year,” Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody is set to star in Paul Solet‘s crime-thriller Clean. The film is a longtime passion project for Adrien Brody, who also acts as producer, co-writer, and composer, Clean is directed and co-written by Paul Solet. The film stars Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, Ari Chandler-DuPont, Mykelti Williamson, RZA, Michelle Wilson, and John Bianco, and is produced by Daniel Sollinger and Brody alongside Solet and Elliot Brody. In Clean, grappling with the tragic loss of his daughter and haunted by nightmares from his own criminal past, Clean (Adrien Brody) attempts to live a quiet life of service, caring for his community as a sanitation worker and acting as a mentor to his young neighbor. When local gang violence puts his neighbor’s life in danger, it ignites a return to the violence and darkness that
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An Influencer Gets More Than She Bargained For In ‘Beyond Paranormal’
Writer-director Matteo Ribaudo‘s new indie horror film Beyond Paranormal is set to be released later this month. Ahead of the release we’ve got the trailer. Starring Ryan Donowho, Cortney Palm, and Oliver Cooper, Beyond Paranormal centers on Box Girl Lily, an influencer wannabe, who will risk anything for fans including her boyfriend’s sanity. Promoting her next project she receives a mysterious statue. Desperate for likes she recruits him to capture her own possession. The social media-crazed couple gets more than they can bargain for when she calls upon powers that are beyond paranormal. Beyond Paranormal lands on Digital on September 28, 2021, from Make It Happen Films.
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Movie Review (Arrow Video FrightFest): The Retaliators
Strap on your seat belts and turn the volume up loud for The Retaliators (2021), a high-octane combination of revenge thriller, crime drama, and outright horror movie from codirectors Samuel Gonzalez Jr. and Bridget Smith. Power plays, power tools, and power chords abound in this gore-fueled exploitation shocker that serves up a fair amount of surprises. In the film’s opening sequence, two women have trouble with their van and are attacked by what look to be either zombies or backwoods mutants (I won’t spoil what they actually are). A bloodied rescuer attempts to save one of them, laying the groundwork for the scare fare ahead. Pastor John Bishop (Michael Lombardi) is the widowed father of two daughters, living in a peaceful, upscale small town. His teenage daughter Rebecca (Abbey Hafer) accidentally witnesses a crime in progress and is ruthlessly murdered by a vicious baddie named Ram Kady (Joseph Gatt). When local cop Jed (Marc Menchaca) offers Bishop an opportunity at
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THE LAST FRANKENSTEIN Rises This Halloween Season!
Hey cats n’ creeps, here’s the skinny on a new supernatural suspense shocker that yours cruelly was lucky enough to both work on and cameo in; David Weaver’s The Last Frankenstein! AMSTERDAM, NY (August 31, 2021) – Gila Films announces their debut feature film, the horror movie “The Last Frankenstein”, will be premiering at the Underground Cinema Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland, on September 3rd, to be followed by its theatrical premiere at the historic Proctor’s Theatre in Schenectady, NY, on October 23rd, in time for the Halloween season. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Amsterdam native and Gila Films owner David Weaver, who shot the movie primarily in his hometown. “The Last Frankenstein” centers on Jason Frankenstein (William Barnet), last of his family line. Buried in a dormant life and a dead end relationship, Jason finds himself frustratingly approaching mid-life with little progress to show towards carrying forward his ancestors’ experiment. But after a creature from his
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Your Ultimate Guide To Shudder’s Annual “61 Days Of Halloween”
It’s official! The Halloween season is here!! Today, Shudder’s “61 Days of Halloween” annual event, featuring a slate of weekly new movie premieres and original series debuts, a new Halloween special with Joe Bob Briggs (and more specials to be announced), and more begins! But that’s not all, there are also horror film favorites being added to the Shudder library from Brian De Palma’s Carrie to Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, a new edition of Shudder’s beloved “Ghoul Log,” a 24/7 streaming jack-o’-lantern, and the return of Shudder’s Halloween Hotline, where members can receive live, personalized movie recommendations from Shudder’s head curator Samuel Zimmerman. Shudder is the ultimate destination for horror all year long, but every Halloween, we try to outdo ourselves. Last year, we supersized the season, expanding our celebration to 61 days, and this year, we’re going even bigger by bringing Shudder members an unbeatable lineup of new original series and exclusive movie premieres every week, along with new specials
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John Jarratt & Lincoln Lewis Star In The True Story Inspired Horror ‘The Possessed’ (Trailer)
Ahead of its November release, we’ve got the new trailer for The Possessed, inspired by terrifying true events. Starring Wolf Creek‘s John Jarratt, Lincoln Lewis, Angie Kent, Lauren Grimson, and Kevin Foster, The Possessed follows Jacob Chandler (Jarratt), an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift. Together with his nephew Liam (Lewis), the pair have forged a career clearing demons from the bodies of their clients. Of late, something has changed and demonic possessions are on the rise, together they face the wrath of unspeakable evil. Christine Hulsby, Sue Baldwin, Danny Baldwin, Mitchell Clough, and Chris Sun produce. The supernatural horror from writer-director Chris Sun opens in Aussie theaters on November 2, 2021, from Nexus Films, with a US release to follow.
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New Documentary Explores ‘Ghostbusters’ Like Never Before
Ghostbusters is one of the most iconic movies ever made. Now, a new documentary, Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters will delve into the making of the film like you’ve never seen before. See never-before-seen footage, glimpses behind-the-scenes of the film that changed the industry forever. Cleanin’ Up the Town also features interviews from the Ghostbusters themselves, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson. The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made for the era and emphasizes just how ambitious an undertaking the making of Ghostbusters really was. Directed by Anthony Bueno (Beware the Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf in London) the documentary is produced by Claire Bueno. The extended version of Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters will open in theaters on October 1, 2021, followed by its release On Demand on October 5th.
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Dracula Party releases debut album, Video Wasteland in October!
My pals, the scintillating’ sonic sorcerers Dracula Party are crawlin’ from their terror tomb to unleash their next creepy collection; Video Wasteland! Here’s the lowdown straight from the coffin crew themselves! Seattle, September 1, 2021 – The Seattle based Horror Industrial band, Dracula Party, will release their debut album, Video Wasteland, on October 1, 2021 on all digital platforms. Now available for Preorder on Bandcamp: The follow-up to their EP, The Devil Wears a Mask (2019), Video Wasteland is a synth-driven exploration of 80s and 90s VHS Horror films. Combining elements of Industrial, EBM, Synthesizer Movie Scores, and Darkwave, every track feels like a living Horror film; one you can dance to. Frontman, Byron C. Miller, recalls the inspiration for the album, “When I was a horror geek teen in the early 90s I would read about these awesome sounding straight to video horror films in Fangoria Magazine. These titles were often hard to find at your local mom and
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Murder, Monsters & Mayhem: The “Creepshow” Season 3 Trailer Is Here
The new season of Shudder‘s “Creepshow” is set to premiere later this month. Ahead of its premiere, the trailer has just arrived, giving us a taste of the horrors that await us. Based on the classic 1982 horror-comedy, the series returns for its third season which features murder, monsters, and mayhem. Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy) makes an appearance this season as a border patrol officer who is up to his neck in dead bodies. In another episode, James Remar (Dexter, Black Lightning) plays the role of a museum collector obsessed with obtaining rare horror movie props at any cost. Kara Kimmer, Ali Larter, Justin Long, and Ryan Kwanten appear this season. Showrunner Greg Nicotero had this to say about the new season during a talk with ComicBook.com, “For Season 3, the most fun thing about Creepshow is every episode is very different,” He continued. “I wrote a bunch of them, and I directed a lot of them. and
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Humanity Fights Dark Entities And Each Other This September In ‘Companion’
Humanity fights to survive both evil entities and each other in writer-director John Darbonne‘s (The Cottages) indie horror Companion, out on Demand this September. “In 2030, society fell as malicious entities appeared around the world. The survivors must fight each other and the dead. Across this brutal landscape, Ella Grace’s burden of guilt is exposed. The past, and the horrors of what she will become, force Ella to kill what she loves in order to discover the terrifying meaning of the ghosts that feed on her fear.” The cast includes Russell Shealy (Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird”, The Farmhand, Surrender Me), Eric Hanson (The Challenger Disaster, No Ordinary Love, Brady’s Lot), Christine Nguyen (Vigilante Diaries, Attack of the Killer Donuts, Get Him to the Greek), Stephen Brodie (“Fear the Walking Dead”), Anna Flynn (Persuasion), Cody Renee Cameron (El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie), and Marcus Anthony. Companion lands on Digital on September 14, 2021, from Level 33 Entertainment.
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We’ve Got The First Image From The Thriller ‘Clean’ Starring Adrien Brody
Hot off the heels of the premiere of Epix’s Stephen King-inspired series “Chapelwaite,” which we called “the best new series of the year,” Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody is set to star in Paul Solet‘s crime-thriller Clean. The film is a longtime passion project for Adrien Brody, who also acts as producer, co-writer, and composer, Clean is directed and co-written by Paul Solet. The film stars Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, Ari Chandler-DuPont, Mykelti Williamson, RZA, Michelle Wilson, and John Bianco, and is produced by Daniel Sollinger and Brody alongside Solet and Elliot Brody. In Clean, grappling with the tragic loss of his daughter and haunted by nightmares from his own criminal past, Clean (Adrien Brody) attempts to live a quiet life of service, caring for his community as a sanitation worker and acting as a mentor to his young neighbor. When local gang violence puts his neighbor’s life in danger, it ignites a return to the violence and darkness that
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An Influencer Gets More Than She Bargained For In ‘Beyond Paranormal’
Writer-director Matteo Ribaudo‘s new indie horror film Beyond Paranormal is set to be released later this month. Ahead of the release we’ve got the trailer. Starring Ryan Donowho, Cortney Palm, and Oliver Cooper, Beyond Paranormal centers on Box Girl Lily, an influencer wannabe, who will risk anything for fans including her boyfriend’s sanity. Promoting her next project she receives a mysterious statue. Desperate for likes she recruits him to capture her own possession. The social media-crazed couple gets more than they can bargain for when she calls upon powers that are beyond paranormal. Beyond Paranormal lands on Digital on September 28, 2021, from Make It Happen Films.
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Movie Review (Arrow Video FrightFest): The Retaliators
Strap on your seat belts and turn the volume up loud for The Retaliators (2021), a high-octane combination of revenge thriller, crime drama, and outright horror movie from codirectors Samuel Gonzalez Jr. and Bridget Smith. Power plays, power tools, and power chords abound in this gore-fueled exploitation shocker that serves up a fair amount of surprises. In the film’s opening sequence, two women have trouble with their van and are attacked by what look to be either zombies or backwoods mutants (I won’t spoil what they actually are). A bloodied rescuer attempts to save one of them, laying the groundwork for the scare fare ahead. Pastor John Bishop (Michael Lombardi) is the widowed father of two daughters, living in a peaceful, upscale small town. His teenage daughter Rebecca (Abbey Hafer) accidentally witnesses a crime in progress and is ruthlessly murdered by a vicious baddie named Ram Kady (Joseph Gatt). When local cop Jed (Marc Menchaca) offers Bishop an opportunity at
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THE LAST FRANKENSTEIN Rises This Halloween Season!
Hey cats n’ creeps, here’s the skinny on a new supernatural suspense shocker that yours cruelly was lucky enough to both work on and cameo in; David Weaver’s The Last Frankenstein! AMSTERDAM, NY (August 31, 2021) – Gila Films announces their debut feature film, the horror movie “The Last Frankenstein”, will be premiering at the Underground Cinema Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland, on September 3rd, to be followed by its theatrical premiere at the historic Proctor’s Theatre in Schenectady, NY, on October 23rd, in time for the Halloween season. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Amsterdam native and Gila Films owner David Weaver, who shot the movie primarily in his hometown. “The Last Frankenstein” centers on Jason Frankenstein (William Barnet), last of his family line. Buried in a dormant life and a dead end relationship, Jason finds himself frustratingly approaching mid-life with little progress to show towards carrying forward his ancestors’ experiment. But after a creature from his
Continue reading →
Your Ultimate Guide To Shudder’s Annual “61 Days Of Halloween”
It’s official! The Halloween season is here!! Today, Shudder’s “61 Days of Halloween” annual event, featuring a slate of weekly new movie premieres and original series debuts, a new Halloween special with Joe Bob Briggs (and more specials to be announced), and more begins! But that’s not all, there are also horror film favorites being added to the Shudder library from Brian De Palma’s Carrie to Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, a new edition of Shudder’s beloved “Ghoul Log,” a 24/7 streaming jack-o’-lantern, and the return of Shudder’s Halloween Hotline, where members can receive live, personalized movie recommendations from Shudder’s head curator Samuel Zimmerman. Shudder is the ultimate destination for horror all year long, but every Halloween, we try to outdo ourselves. Last year, we supersized the season, expanding our celebration to 61 days, and this year, we’re going even bigger by bringing Shudder members an unbeatable lineup of new original series and exclusive movie premieres every week, along with new specials
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John Jarratt & Lincoln Lewis Star In The True Story Inspired Horror ‘The Possessed’ (Trailer)
Ahead of its November release, we’ve got the new trailer for The Possessed, inspired by terrifying true events. Starring Wolf Creek‘s John Jarratt, Lincoln Lewis, Angie Kent, Lauren Grimson, and Kevin Foster, The Possessed follows Jacob Chandler (Jarratt), an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift. Together with his nephew Liam (Lewis), the pair have forged a career clearing demons from the bodies of their clients. Of late, something has changed and demonic possessions are on the rise, together they face the wrath of unspeakable evil. Christine Hulsby, Sue Baldwin, Danny Baldwin, Mitchell Clough, and Chris Sun produce. The supernatural horror from writer-director Chris Sun opens in Aussie theaters on November 2, 2021, from Nexus Films, with a US release to follow.
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