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The Hype Is Real! ‘Back 4 Blood’ Extended E3 Trailer
Warner Bros. Games and Turtle Rock Studios blew up E3 with the extended trailer for the FPS co-op Back 4 Blood showcasing the story, what horrors await players, and a sneak peek at the PVP “Swarm” mode where players are pitted against one another as they are switched from being humans OR zombies. Also announced today during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Back 4 Blood will be coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch on Oct. 12 via Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One Consoles, as well as Windows 10 PC. For more information, visit Xbox.com/Xbox-Game-Pass. Back 4 Blood will be swarming players on October 12th, 2021 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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Blu-ray Review: Years Of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers 1973-1977
Coming from a period of massive social upheaval in 1970’s Italy, the “Years of Lead” as they were called, inspired filmmakers of the time to dip their toes in all-manner brutal crime pictures (the poliziotteschi genre), and our fine fiends at Arrow Video have collected some of them in the aptly named Years of Lead collection, a series of five films on Blu-ray that represent the era to a “T”! First up comes 1975’s Savage Three which concerns Turin-based computer programmer Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro), and his two pals Peppi (Guido Di Carli) and Giacomo (Gianfranco De Grassi); a trio of bored-ass mother fuckers that aren’t above starting a soccer riot, stealing a car, and riding folks down if they like their wheels better… ya know, just for kicks! Making matter worse, the men all have shitty home lives, and are in danger of being replaced by machines at work, which in turn fuels larger and larger crime sprees featuring those
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Horror Icons Gather For Horror Anthology ‘Death Breed’ Arriving Just In Time For Halloween (Trailer)
This Halloween, Bayview Entertainment will unleash Ben and Stacey Dixon‘s horror anthology Death Breed featuring three tales of terror starring some of horror’s biggest icons. And we’ve got the first trailer. The first tale called “Wolfsbayne”, stars Lloyd Kaufman, (The Toxic Avenger) and owner of Troma Films, Linnea Quigly (Night of the Demons, The Return of the Living Dead, etc.), Debbie Rochon, Jim O’Rear, and more. The second tale, “Shudder” features several of the cast members from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre including Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface), Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker} and John Dugan (Grandpa). The third story, “Old Habits Die Hard” features Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four of the Friday The 13th movies as well as Victor Crowly in the Hatchet franchise, along with Tricia Cast, Stacey Dixon, Roger Hewlett. For upcoming news about Death Breed, follow Bayview Entertainment on Facebook. https://vimeo.com/381346285
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Blu-ray Review: Irezumi (1966)
Otsuya (Ayako Wakao) has it all, being the daughter of a well-off merchant type back in the days of yore down Japan-way. Not content to live a life on Easy Street, Otsuya falls head over ass for one of her father’s employees (read dirt-poor bastard), Shinsuke ( Akio Hasegawa) to be precise. Anyway, the dynamic duo decide to beat feet and elope, because you can bet demons to diamonds that Daddy Dearest would never approve of that bit of bad romance. Speaking of “bad”, that whole eloping idea was right shit and long story short; Otsuya ends up a prostitute who’s fortune gets even more like a puddle of puke when she meets a shady-as-fuck master tattooist who decides Otsuya’s ivory-white skin would make one hell of a canvas for his latest work; a big-ass monster spider with a human face, and right on her back that shit goes. Along with her new ink comes the ire of nearly fuckin’
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Become The Baba Yaga In ‘BLACKTAIL’
Ex Bloober Team members THE PARASITE have announced their first game they’re working on that brings a whole new look of the Slavic legend The Baba Yaga with her origin story in the game BLACKTAIL. In BLACKTAIL, players will be taken into an open-world first-person shooter where they take on the role of Yaga, a young woman cast out of her village for suspicion of witchcraft. Now armed with a bow and powers, she must journey through the world to find missing pieces of her past and unlock keys to her future. The game will also feature tough decision-making options for Yaga where her choices will lead her to become the guardian of the forest or down a twisted path of nightmares and become evil. The Player’s choices will also affect Yaga’s selection of abilities that will change based on her morality. BLACKTAIL will be released for Steam, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5.
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Thomas & Harlow Jane Star As Father & Daughter In The Thriller ‘Dig’
Thomas Jane (“The Expanse”, The Mist, Deep Blue Sea), and his daughter, Harlow Jane (“Texas Rising” I Love Us) will star in the roles of father and daughter in the thriller Dig, whose international rights have just been acquired by Screen Media Ventures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company. Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) and Liana Liberato (If I Stay) also star in DIG, directed by K. Asher Levin. from the script penned by brothers Banipal Ablakhad and Benhur Ablakhad. Contracted for home demolition, a widowed father (Thomas Jane) and his daughter suffering from major hearing loss (Harlow Jane) arrive at the construction site. They are soon taken hostage by a dangerous couple (Hirsch and Liberato), who will stop at nothing to retrieve what lies beneath the property. The father and daughter must work together to outsmart their captors and survive the grueling night. Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment will launch international
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Comic Book Review: Attaboy (2021)
Artist extraordinaire Tony McMillen (creator of the horror effects biz/coming of age tale Serious Creatures that every, single one of you monster mother fuckers need on your beastly bookshelves right away) is getting ready to launch a Kickstarter campaign to get his latest creation, the ’80s video game influenced Attaboy in your hairy lil’ hands, and he just so happened to grant yours cruelly an advanced look-see at his tale of advanced robots and the perils of fatherhood… Presented in an over-sized “treasury” format, Attaboy relates the tale of the eponymous robot boy; the creation of a kindly scientist and a soon-to-turn rogue Motherboard, who must stand against a fleet of mechanical menaces. It’s also about exploring the existence of a game that might be completely hallucinatory (even the name of the games supposed creators, Alucinari offers credence to this)… and I haven’t gotten to the juicy part yet cats n’ creeps! At it’s center, Attaboy is a story of
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Movie Review (Tribeca Festival 2021): My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To
How far would you go to help keep a sick loved one alive? How willing would you be to enable an addicted family member? At what point would you begin to say “Enough is enough” in either of these scenarios and actually act on it? These are just three of the questions explored in writer/director Jonathan Cuartas’ arthouse horror feature My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To. Three siblings live a bleak existence in their suburban home. Thomas (Owen Campbell) is the youngest, and he needs human blood to survive. He isn’t a typical fright-fare vampire, though. He is weak, often barely able to move without the help of his siblings, and totally dependent on them to survive. His brother Dwight (Patrick Fugit) rounds up unsuspecting homeless people under the guise of driving them to a shelter, and then takes them home where sister Jessie (Ingrid Sophie Schram) does the nasty business of draining the victims’ blood into
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Netflix Shares The First Footage From The Witcher’s Second Season
The long-awaited second season of Netflix’s hit series “The Witcher” is finally headed our way later this year. Netflix has now released a first-look video to whet our appetite during their “Geeked Week” presentation. While scenes are played in rapid prosesion, it does give us a glimpse of what’s to come, but whatever you do don’t blink or you’ll miss it. The series, based on the best-selling books by Andrzej Sapkowski, stars Henry Cavill as the legendary Witcher, Geralt of Rivia. “The Witcher” is a tale of fate and family. In season two, convinced Yennefer’s (Anya Chalotra) life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, Geralt of Rivia brings Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans, and demons fight for supremacy outside its walls, Geralt must protect the girl from something far more dangerous, the mysterious power she possesses inside. The cast of season two
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Kevin Bacon Starring In The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Reboot
A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in
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The Hype Is Real! ‘Back 4 Blood’ Extended E3 Trailer
Warner Bros. Games and Turtle Rock Studios blew up E3 with the extended trailer for the FPS co-op Back 4 Blood showcasing the story, what horrors await players, and a sneak peek at the PVP “Swarm” mode where players are pitted against one another as they are switched from being humans OR zombies. Also announced today during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Back 4 Blood will be coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch on Oct. 12 via Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One Consoles, as well as Windows 10 PC. For more information, visit Xbox.com/Xbox-Game-Pass. Back 4 Blood will be swarming players on October 12th, 2021 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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Blu-ray Review: Years Of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers 1973-1977
Coming from a period of massive social upheaval in 1970’s Italy, the “Years of Lead” as they were called, inspired filmmakers of the time to dip their toes in all-manner brutal crime pictures (the poliziotteschi genre), and our fine fiends at Arrow Video have collected some of them in the aptly named Years of Lead collection, a series of five films on Blu-ray that represent the era to a “T”! First up comes 1975’s Savage Three which concerns Turin-based computer programmer Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro), and his two pals Peppi (Guido Di Carli) and Giacomo (Gianfranco De Grassi); a trio of bored-ass mother fuckers that aren’t above starting a soccer riot, stealing a car, and riding folks down if they like their wheels better… ya know, just for kicks! Making matter worse, the men all have shitty home lives, and are in danger of being replaced by machines at work, which in turn fuels larger and larger crime sprees featuring those
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Horror Icons Gather For Horror Anthology ‘Death Breed’ Arriving Just In Time For Halloween (Trailer)
This Halloween, Bayview Entertainment will unleash Ben and Stacey Dixon‘s horror anthology Death Breed featuring three tales of terror starring some of horror’s biggest icons. And we’ve got the first trailer. The first tale called “Wolfsbayne”, stars Lloyd Kaufman, (The Toxic Avenger) and owner of Troma Films, Linnea Quigly (Night of the Demons, The Return of the Living Dead, etc.), Debbie Rochon, Jim O’Rear, and more. The second tale, “Shudder” features several of the cast members from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre including Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface), Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker} and John Dugan (Grandpa). The third story, “Old Habits Die Hard” features Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four of the Friday The 13th movies as well as Victor Crowly in the Hatchet franchise, along with Tricia Cast, Stacey Dixon, Roger Hewlett. For upcoming news about Death Breed, follow Bayview Entertainment on Facebook. https://vimeo.com/381346285
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Blu-ray Review: Irezumi (1966)
Otsuya (Ayako Wakao) has it all, being the daughter of a well-off merchant type back in the days of yore down Japan-way. Not content to live a life on Easy Street, Otsuya falls head over ass for one of her father’s employees (read dirt-poor bastard), Shinsuke ( Akio Hasegawa) to be precise. Anyway, the dynamic duo decide to beat feet and elope, because you can bet demons to diamonds that Daddy Dearest would never approve of that bit of bad romance. Speaking of “bad”, that whole eloping idea was right shit and long story short; Otsuya ends up a prostitute who’s fortune gets even more like a puddle of puke when she meets a shady-as-fuck master tattooist who decides Otsuya’s ivory-white skin would make one hell of a canvas for his latest work; a big-ass monster spider with a human face, and right on her back that shit goes. Along with her new ink comes the ire of nearly fuckin’
Continue reading →
Become The Baba Yaga In ‘BLACKTAIL’
Ex Bloober Team members THE PARASITE have announced their first game they’re working on that brings a whole new look of the Slavic legend The Baba Yaga with her origin story in the game BLACKTAIL. In BLACKTAIL, players will be taken into an open-world first-person shooter where they take on the role of Yaga, a young woman cast out of her village for suspicion of witchcraft. Now armed with a bow and powers, she must journey through the world to find missing pieces of her past and unlock keys to her future. The game will also feature tough decision-making options for Yaga where her choices will lead her to become the guardian of the forest or down a twisted path of nightmares and become evil. The Player’s choices will also affect Yaga’s selection of abilities that will change based on her morality. BLACKTAIL will be released for Steam, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5.
Continue reading →
Thomas & Harlow Jane Star As Father & Daughter In The Thriller ‘Dig’
Thomas Jane (“The Expanse”, The Mist, Deep Blue Sea), and his daughter, Harlow Jane (“Texas Rising” I Love Us) will star in the roles of father and daughter in the thriller Dig, whose international rights have just been acquired by Screen Media Ventures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company. Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) and Liana Liberato (If I Stay) also star in DIG, directed by K. Asher Levin. from the script penned by brothers Banipal Ablakhad and Benhur Ablakhad. Contracted for home demolition, a widowed father (Thomas Jane) and his daughter suffering from major hearing loss (Harlow Jane) arrive at the construction site. They are soon taken hostage by a dangerous couple (Hirsch and Liberato), who will stop at nothing to retrieve what lies beneath the property. The father and daughter must work together to outsmart their captors and survive the grueling night. Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment will launch international
Continue reading →
Comic Book Review: Attaboy (2021)
Artist extraordinaire Tony McMillen (creator of the horror effects biz/coming of age tale Serious Creatures that every, single one of you monster mother fuckers need on your beastly bookshelves right away) is getting ready to launch a Kickstarter campaign to get his latest creation, the ’80s video game influenced Attaboy in your hairy lil’ hands, and he just so happened to grant yours cruelly an advanced look-see at his tale of advanced robots and the perils of fatherhood… Presented in an over-sized “treasury” format, Attaboy relates the tale of the eponymous robot boy; the creation of a kindly scientist and a soon-to-turn rogue Motherboard, who must stand against a fleet of mechanical menaces. It’s also about exploring the existence of a game that might be completely hallucinatory (even the name of the games supposed creators, Alucinari offers credence to this)… and I haven’t gotten to the juicy part yet cats n’ creeps! At it’s center, Attaboy is a story of
Continue reading →
Movie Review (Tribeca Festival 2021): My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To
How far would you go to help keep a sick loved one alive? How willing would you be to enable an addicted family member? At what point would you begin to say “Enough is enough” in either of these scenarios and actually act on it? These are just three of the questions explored in writer/director Jonathan Cuartas’ arthouse horror feature My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To. Three siblings live a bleak existence in their suburban home. Thomas (Owen Campbell) is the youngest, and he needs human blood to survive. He isn’t a typical fright-fare vampire, though. He is weak, often barely able to move without the help of his siblings, and totally dependent on them to survive. His brother Dwight (Patrick Fugit) rounds up unsuspecting homeless people under the guise of driving them to a shelter, and then takes them home where sister Jessie (Ingrid Sophie Schram) does the nasty business of draining the victims’ blood into
Continue reading →
Netflix Shares The First Footage From The Witcher’s Second Season
The long-awaited second season of Netflix’s hit series “The Witcher” is finally headed our way later this year. Netflix has now released a first-look video to whet our appetite during their “Geeked Week” presentation. While scenes are played in rapid prosesion, it does give us a glimpse of what’s to come, but whatever you do don’t blink or you’ll miss it. The series, based on the best-selling books by Andrzej Sapkowski, stars Henry Cavill as the legendary Witcher, Geralt of Rivia. “The Witcher” is a tale of fate and family. In season two, convinced Yennefer’s (Anya Chalotra) life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, Geralt of Rivia brings Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans, and demons fight for supremacy outside its walls, Geralt must protect the girl from something far more dangerous, the mysterious power she possesses inside. The cast of season two
Continue reading →
Kevin Bacon Starring In The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Reboot
A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in
Continue reading →