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ATB Publishing Releasing Biography of Director Mick Garris
ATB Publishing is releasing an official biography of iconic horror director, Mick Garris! The highly anticipated novel will be released on August 13, 2021 and you can pre-order it here. Written by Abbie Bernstein with a forward by John Landis, this biography promises to be extremely entertaining. I can’t wait to read (And review) it! Check out the press release below: What makes a true Master of Horror? If you’re a horror fan, you may know Mick Garris as the creator of the television series, Masters of Horror, and the anthology film, Nightmare Cinema, as well as the director of multiple television adaptations of Stephen King novels like The Stand and The Shining. But although you may know his work, you may not know much about the man that so many in the industry call “the nicest guy in horror.” From his days as front man for the band Horsefeathers, to his work with a certain diminutive droid at the
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‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows’ Is Coming To DVD
The Midnight Society returns in a follow-up to 2019’s reimagined limited series horror anthology in Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows, coming to DVD this August. Curse of the Shadows is based on the ‘90s kids’ cult classic and features a terrifying new story, the second season includes six hour-long episodes that follow an all-new group of kids as they tell the tale of a curse that has been cast over their small seaside town, haunted by a villain named the Shadowman. After their leader goes missing, it’s up to the remaining members of the Midnight Society to break the curse and free the Shadowman’s victims, before they too disappear into the shadows. The members of the newest chapter of the Midnight Society include Luke, played by Bryce Gheisar (Wonder, Nickelodeon’s The Astronauts); Jai, played by Arjun Athalye; Hanna, played by Beatrice Kitsos (Child’s Play); Gabby, played by Malia Baker (The Baby-Sitters Club); Seth, played
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‘The Banishing’ Director Turns To Religion For New Horror Film ‘Consecration’
Christopher Smith, whose film The Banishing landed on Shudder this past April, is back with his supernatural horror Consecration, which is being launched at Cannes, Variety reports. “The movie turns on events following the suspicious death of a priest, whose sister goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened to her brother. There, she soon uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.” Smith, who also directed Creep and Black Death, co-wrote the religious horror alongside Laurie Cook (The Banishing). Consecration is described by Smith as “a film about the nature of religion and how defining one thing as divine creates a false opposite that is heretical.” He continued, “This film is an opportunity to take the audience on a thrilling journey into the dark unknown, and I want to really push that to the limit both in terms of scares and the
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A24 Unveils Chilling Trailer For ‘Lamb’ Starring Noomi Repace
We first learned about Valdimar Jóhannsson’s supernatural thriller Lamb last year, but things have been petty quiet since, until now. Variety is reporting that a24 has acquired the film ahead of Cannes. Starring Prometheus actress Noomi Repace, “Lamb is the story of a childless couple, María (Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason), who are sheep farmers in Iceland. On Christmas Eve they find a newborn who is half-human, half sheep. Longing for a child of their own they decide to keep the lamb-child and raise it as their own regardless of the consequences. This unexpected prospect of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroys them.” Hopefully, A24 will announce the release date soon. In the meantime, check out the unsettling trailer.
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New ‘Fear Street: 1978’ Trailer Takes Us To Summer Camp
Director Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) is bringing R.L.Stein‘s classic Fear Street books to life with Netflix’s Fear Street Trilogy. Ahead of the second movie’s premiere, we’ve got the new trailer that takes us back in time to a summer camp in 1978. In the Fear Street Trilogy “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.” In Fear Street Part 2: 1978, “Shadyside, 1978. School’s out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.” Fear Street Part 2: 1978 premieres on Netflix on Friday, July 9, followed by the release of Fear Street Part 3: 1666 on
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The Horror Collective Unleashing Two New Films And A Series On Shudder
The Horror Collective is set to unleash three tales of terror this month, including Rot, Mass Hysteria, and a new season of “Etheria.” All are coming to Shudder. ROT (2020), written and directed by, Andrew Merrill (Warm Insides), stars Kris Alexandrea (Gothic Springs), Johnny Kostrey (Kidding, Aquarius, The Good Place), McKale Jude Bingham (Betrayed), Adam Burch (Nazis at the Center of the Earth), and Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist, 100 Acres of Hell, Halloween 2). And is produced by Beth Crudele (Side Hustle, The Gift, Fuller House). In the film, when Madison’s ex goes missing, his friends expect her to lead the search to find him. But something vile has taken over his body, and what they find is worse than any of them could have imagined. Rot lands on Shudder on July 20, 2021. Directed by Arielle Cimano and Jeff Ryan, in Mass Hysteria, a tourist dies on Halloween night in Salem, the crowd seeks justice by mounting a modern-day
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Dive Into The Mysteries The Have Plagued Tinsel Town With The Series “Hollywood Files”
Bestselling Author Bryn Curt James Hammond (A Case for Murder Brittany Murphy Files) & Ufologist Lisa Marie Appleton (Big Brother 9) are set to take a deep dive into the mysterious cases that have long plagued Hollywood, including the 2013 case of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in the new documentary series, “Hollywood Files“. Directed and executive produced by Bryn Curt James Hammond (Brittany Murphy An ID Mystery), the docuseries will “deconstruct” the events behind Lam’s disappearance, revealing never before heard information that left fans of the Netflix show “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” reeling. The shocking and disturbing case of Lam, a tourist from Vancouver at the Skid Row hotel, gripped the public due to the strange circumstances surrounding her untimely disappearance and death. She vanished in late January 2013, and by mid-February, the authorities had released the explosive last-known CCTV footage of Lam (timestamped February 1) taken inside the Cecil hotel elevator as she
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New Stills From Cannibal Horror ‘Human Hibachi 2’
If the indie cannibal flick Human Hibachi left you hungry for more you’ll be excited to learn that the sequel, simply titled Human Hibachi 2, is on its way and promises more of everything you loved about the first one. Set in the woods, HH2 centers on a cannibal family, obsessed with the first video, sets out to find the only two people survivors from it If found, they promise to provide them with an elaborate feast amongst the trees. Jeff Alpert, Frank Volpe, Nick Brennan, Kristina Aponte, and Ray Bolden star. Cerrito and Joy produce along with John DiRenzo. While staying true to the first movie, HH2 will be different in many ways and promises to be bigger and better according to director Mario Cerrito III and producer Michael Joy with more action and more gore. In fact, we’ve got the first behind-the-scenes images to whet your appetite. Human Hibachi made its premiere on Troma Now after being deemed
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Blu-ray Review: Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Everyone’s favorite Rambo surrogate, Ransom, is back on the scene in Bruno Mattei’s 1988 follow-up to his batshit action pic Strike Commando (which I reviewed right here), the reasonably titled Strike Commando 2! While Ransom may be back, Reb Brown sure as shit isn’t… so this time we follow The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak’s Brent Huff (who looks more like Solid Snake than Rambo once kitted up) on a mission to rescue Maj. Vic Jenkins (Richard Harris… yeah, the actual one from Camelot and the first couple of Harry Potter Pictures… not to mention dozens upon dozens of other memorable performances), his old squad leader from ‘Nam from a group of ninja warriors with KGB ties (there’s heroin smuggling mixed up in this hot mess as well)… this is the most fucking ’80s plot I have ever witnessed… Anyway, the kidnappers are demanding a cool ten million in diamonds, so the CIA sends in
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Blu-ray Review: Strike Commando (1986)
You know who was shit-hot in the 1980’s? John mother fuckin’ Rambo… we all loved his PTSD-infused spots of rough n’ tumble fun n’ games (mostly involving murdering large swaths of human beings post his first outing in 1982’s First Blood). You know who else loved his ass? The fucking creative team behind Troll 2, and my personal fav, Uncle Bruno Mattei… How do I know this? Because I just watched the most Rambo thing ever created that doesn’t have jack-shit to do with Sly; 1986’s Strike Commando, and those are the cats that made it! Ransom (Jesus, they aren’t even trying to hide it… anyway, he’s played by Yor: The Hunter From the Future himself, Reb Brown) is the sole survivor of a botched mission in ‘Nam while the war was raging hot n’ heavy. Soon Ransom finds himself in the savior-biz as he ends up in a small village, who’s residents include the missionary Le Due (Luciano Pigozzi,
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ATB Publishing Releasing Biography of Director Mick Garris
ATB Publishing is releasing an official biography of iconic horror director, Mick Garris! The highly anticipated novel will be released on August 13, 2021 and you can pre-order it here. Written by Abbie Bernstein with a forward by John Landis, this biography promises to be extremely entertaining. I can’t wait to read (And review) it! Check out the press release below: What makes a true Master of Horror? If you’re a horror fan, you may know Mick Garris as the creator of the television series, Masters of Horror, and the anthology film, Nightmare Cinema, as well as the director of multiple television adaptations of Stephen King novels like The Stand and The Shining. But although you may know his work, you may not know much about the man that so many in the industry call “the nicest guy in horror.” From his days as front man for the band Horsefeathers, to his work with a certain diminutive droid at the
Continue reading →
‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows’ Is Coming To DVD
The Midnight Society returns in a follow-up to 2019’s reimagined limited series horror anthology in Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows, coming to DVD this August. Curse of the Shadows is based on the ‘90s kids’ cult classic and features a terrifying new story, the second season includes six hour-long episodes that follow an all-new group of kids as they tell the tale of a curse that has been cast over their small seaside town, haunted by a villain named the Shadowman. After their leader goes missing, it’s up to the remaining members of the Midnight Society to break the curse and free the Shadowman’s victims, before they too disappear into the shadows. The members of the newest chapter of the Midnight Society include Luke, played by Bryce Gheisar (Wonder, Nickelodeon’s The Astronauts); Jai, played by Arjun Athalye; Hanna, played by Beatrice Kitsos (Child’s Play); Gabby, played by Malia Baker (The Baby-Sitters Club); Seth, played
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‘The Banishing’ Director Turns To Religion For New Horror Film ‘Consecration’
Christopher Smith, whose film The Banishing landed on Shudder this past April, is back with his supernatural horror Consecration, which is being launched at Cannes, Variety reports. “The movie turns on events following the suspicious death of a priest, whose sister goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened to her brother. There, she soon uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.” Smith, who also directed Creep and Black Death, co-wrote the religious horror alongside Laurie Cook (The Banishing). Consecration is described by Smith as “a film about the nature of religion and how defining one thing as divine creates a false opposite that is heretical.” He continued, “This film is an opportunity to take the audience on a thrilling journey into the dark unknown, and I want to really push that to the limit both in terms of scares and the
Continue reading →
A24 Unveils Chilling Trailer For ‘Lamb’ Starring Noomi Repace
We first learned about Valdimar Jóhannsson’s supernatural thriller Lamb last year, but things have been petty quiet since, until now. Variety is reporting that a24 has acquired the film ahead of Cannes. Starring Prometheus actress Noomi Repace, “Lamb is the story of a childless couple, María (Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason), who are sheep farmers in Iceland. On Christmas Eve they find a newborn who is half-human, half sheep. Longing for a child of their own they decide to keep the lamb-child and raise it as their own regardless of the consequences. This unexpected prospect of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroys them.” Hopefully, A24 will announce the release date soon. In the meantime, check out the unsettling trailer.
Continue reading →
New ‘Fear Street: 1978’ Trailer Takes Us To Summer Camp
Director Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) is bringing R.L.Stein‘s classic Fear Street books to life with Netflix’s Fear Street Trilogy. Ahead of the second movie’s premiere, we’ve got the new trailer that takes us back in time to a summer camp in 1978. In the Fear Street Trilogy “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.” In Fear Street Part 2: 1978, “Shadyside, 1978. School’s out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.” Fear Street Part 2: 1978 premieres on Netflix on Friday, July 9, followed by the release of Fear Street Part 3: 1666 on
Continue reading →
The Horror Collective Unleashing Two New Films And A Series On Shudder
The Horror Collective is set to unleash three tales of terror this month, including Rot, Mass Hysteria, and a new season of “Etheria.” All are coming to Shudder. ROT (2020), written and directed by, Andrew Merrill (Warm Insides), stars Kris Alexandrea (Gothic Springs), Johnny Kostrey (Kidding, Aquarius, The Good Place), McKale Jude Bingham (Betrayed), Adam Burch (Nazis at the Center of the Earth), and Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist, 100 Acres of Hell, Halloween 2). And is produced by Beth Crudele (Side Hustle, The Gift, Fuller House). In the film, when Madison’s ex goes missing, his friends expect her to lead the search to find him. But something vile has taken over his body, and what they find is worse than any of them could have imagined. Rot lands on Shudder on July 20, 2021. Directed by Arielle Cimano and Jeff Ryan, in Mass Hysteria, a tourist dies on Halloween night in Salem, the crowd seeks justice by mounting a modern-day
Continue reading →
Dive Into The Mysteries The Have Plagued Tinsel Town With The Series “Hollywood Files”
Bestselling Author Bryn Curt James Hammond (A Case for Murder Brittany Murphy Files) & Ufologist Lisa Marie Appleton (Big Brother 9) are set to take a deep dive into the mysterious cases that have long plagued Hollywood, including the 2013 case of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in the new documentary series, “Hollywood Files“. Directed and executive produced by Bryn Curt James Hammond (Brittany Murphy An ID Mystery), the docuseries will “deconstruct” the events behind Lam’s disappearance, revealing never before heard information that left fans of the Netflix show “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” reeling. The shocking and disturbing case of Lam, a tourist from Vancouver at the Skid Row hotel, gripped the public due to the strange circumstances surrounding her untimely disappearance and death. She vanished in late January 2013, and by mid-February, the authorities had released the explosive last-known CCTV footage of Lam (timestamped February 1) taken inside the Cecil hotel elevator as she
Continue reading →
New Stills From Cannibal Horror ‘Human Hibachi 2’
If the indie cannibal flick Human Hibachi left you hungry for more you’ll be excited to learn that the sequel, simply titled Human Hibachi 2, is on its way and promises more of everything you loved about the first one. Set in the woods, HH2 centers on a cannibal family, obsessed with the first video, sets out to find the only two people survivors from it If found, they promise to provide them with an elaborate feast amongst the trees. Jeff Alpert, Frank Volpe, Nick Brennan, Kristina Aponte, and Ray Bolden star. Cerrito and Joy produce along with John DiRenzo. While staying true to the first movie, HH2 will be different in many ways and promises to be bigger and better according to director Mario Cerrito III and producer Michael Joy with more action and more gore. In fact, we’ve got the first behind-the-scenes images to whet your appetite. Human Hibachi made its premiere on Troma Now after being deemed
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Everyone’s favorite Rambo surrogate, Ransom, is back on the scene in Bruno Mattei’s 1988 follow-up to his batshit action pic Strike Commando (which I reviewed right here), the reasonably titled Strike Commando 2! While Ransom may be back, Reb Brown sure as shit isn’t… so this time we follow The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak’s Brent Huff (who looks more like Solid Snake than Rambo once kitted up) on a mission to rescue Maj. Vic Jenkins (Richard Harris… yeah, the actual one from Camelot and the first couple of Harry Potter Pictures… not to mention dozens upon dozens of other memorable performances), his old squad leader from ‘Nam from a group of ninja warriors with KGB ties (there’s heroin smuggling mixed up in this hot mess as well)… this is the most fucking ’80s plot I have ever witnessed… Anyway, the kidnappers are demanding a cool ten million in diamonds, so the CIA sends in
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: Strike Commando (1986)
You know who was shit-hot in the 1980’s? John mother fuckin’ Rambo… we all loved his PTSD-infused spots of rough n’ tumble fun n’ games (mostly involving murdering large swaths of human beings post his first outing in 1982’s First Blood). You know who else loved his ass? The fucking creative team behind Troll 2, and my personal fav, Uncle Bruno Mattei… How do I know this? Because I just watched the most Rambo thing ever created that doesn’t have jack-shit to do with Sly; 1986’s Strike Commando, and those are the cats that made it! Ransom (Jesus, they aren’t even trying to hide it… anyway, he’s played by Yor: The Hunter From the Future himself, Reb Brown) is the sole survivor of a botched mission in ‘Nam while the war was raging hot n’ heavy. Soon Ransom finds himself in the savior-biz as he ends up in a small village, who’s residents include the missionary Le Due (Luciano Pigozzi,
Continue reading →