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The People Behind Horror’s Two Biggest Franchises Team Up For A New One
Two of the most successful franchise in modern history, the Saw franchise, and The Conjuring franchise, are uniting for a new franchise based on the true horrific events that took place at the infamous property known as The Lalaurie Mansion, still considered one of the most haunted houses in the world. We first reported the news back in October of 2019, but today, it was officially announced that brilliant filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman (Spiral, Saw franchise) will be in the director’s chair and that Chad and Carey Hayes, the creators of The Conjuring franchise, are teaming with Faster Horse Pictures, the film and TV production and financing outfit founded and run by Cindy Bond, Doug McKay, and Michael Whalen, to build the new horror film franchise. Talk about a horror dream team. Bousman’s most recent addition in the Saw universe, Spiral, starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, opened as the #1 film in the U.S. and held the top
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“Murder Your Thirst”: An Interview With Liquid Death Founder And CEO Mike Cessario
Liquid Death, what a killer name for a brand of water! Recently, Liquid Death teamed up with Netflix for Zach Snyder’s Army of the Dead (review). As part of their advertising Liquid Death released their “No Brainer,” part hat, part koozie that not only keeps your water cold but is also a hat that protects your brain from those pesky zombies. It’s a trip! I decided to dive into the brand and discovered a great company on a serious mission, to lower plastic pollution. I spoke with Mike Cessario, founder and CEO of Liquid Death, who is a former Netflix creative, to learn more about the company. Kelli McNeely: “How did Liquid Death come to be?” Mike Cessario: “Liquid Death was essentially the perfect combo of my love for music, art, comedy, and health, along with my passion and experience for pushing the boundaries of marketing and advertising to make it suck less. I was tired of all the unhealthy
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A Woman Must Face Her Past As She Tries To Survive A Maze Of Traps In ‘Meander’
Writer-director Mathieu Turi‘s claustrophobic horror film Meander is headed your way this July. Ahead of its release, we’ve got the new trailer. In the film, “after getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…” Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen, and Romane Libert star in Meander, arriving in theaters and VOD on July 9, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures.
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This July, Netflix Is Taking Us To ‘Fear Street’ With New Trilogy (Trailer)
All roads lead to Fear Street… Today, the trailer debuted for Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy at the first-ever Geeked Week (@NetflixGeeked), a virtual fan-facing event revealing first looks and celebrating all things genre entertainment at Netflix. In the trilogy, a group of teenagers discovers the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected – and they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine‘s best-selling horror series, Fear Street follows Shadyside’s sinister history through a nightmare 300 years in the making. FEAR STREET PART 1: 1994 A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounters the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside. 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
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Twisted Dreams Film Festival Review: “To Freddy”
Norwegian feature To Freddy (original title Til Freddy; 2020) finds the titular character, one of a group of friends planning a final camping trip after graduating university and heading into the workaday world, becoming increasingly paranoid after a box found randomly in the woods predicts that he will be killed by a member of their group. The film is a well-crafted thriller with horror overtones. Freddy (Nicolai Narvesen Lied) is worried about his future, and more than a little distrustful of social media, having recently abandoned it altogether after receiving targeted ads after a phone call. His friend Viljar (writer/director Viljar Bøe) finds a box containing birthday cards and messages anonymously addressed to Freddy. Curious, Freddy reads one that says one of his friends will kill him at a precise date and time during the camping trip, and that the trip cannot be cancelled. To prove the validity of this prediction, Freddy has instructions to perform specific games of chance
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New ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Poster Takes Us Back To The Beginning
The new poster for Jurassic World: Dominion is here and not only does it pay homage to the original movie and the creation of the first cloned dinosaur at Jurassic Park using DNA recovered from a mosquito trapped in Amber, but it also teases that the movie will connect back 65 million years to when that mosquito got DNA from its source. Dominion, set to be the final film of the trilogy, Jurassic World: Dominion is in the hands of brilliant filmmaker Colin Trevorrow who directs from a script written by Emily Carmichael, based on a story by Trevorrow and Derek Connolly. The movie stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and BD Wong are all returning for Dominion as are stars of the original trilogy, Sam Neill, Lauren Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. While the plot is being kept quiet, Fallen Kingdom left dinosaurs not only escaping but with many dinosaurs having been auctioned off to the highest bidders, leaving the
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Game Review: ‘Green Hell’
Ever wonder what it would be like to fight for survival in the middle of the Amazon? I try not to, but Creepy Jar has now made that possible without having to leave the comfort of my air conditioning! Ladies and Gents let me introduce to you the psychological thriller that will test your gaming survival skills, Green Hell. Green Hell follows Jake, who recently wrote a book about a tribe in the Amazon that has yet to have been contacted by the modern world, going with his wife Mia to make contact with the tribe as Mia can speak the language. 30 days into the expedition, something goes wrong and Jake is alone and lost in the jungle with little to no memory of what caused his accident while fleeing from the tribe. Now onto the game itself! When it comes to the game’s controls, they can be a bit tricky, you can tell the game was originally made
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‘Evil Dead: The Game’ Gameplay Video Coming June 10th
The Twitter page for Evil Dead: The Game has teased that tomorrow June 10th, the world will finally see the first gameplay footage of the upcoming multiplayer game by Saber Interactive. The footage will be released at Summer Game Fest. Evil Dead: The Game allows players to play as either Ash and his friends or as a demon trying to thwart the activities of Ash and company. The game will be done in the style of Dead by Daylight and Friday The 13th: The Game where one player is the antagonist while the others try to survive by completing tasks that will allow them to escape. The post on Twitter also revealed that Ash’s sister Cheryl will be in the game as one of the many possible playable characters as the game will feature characters and enemies from all the “Evil Dead” films including the TV series. Evil Dead: The Game is set for release in 2021 for Xbox One,
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Friends On A Trip Discover They Are Being Stalked In The ‘Terror Eyes’ Trailer
Delaney Bishop makes his feature directorial debut with the brutal thriller Terror Eyes, which he also wrote. “When a celebratory road trip to Joshua Tree for Lisa (Ayla Kell, “Make It Or Break It”), Danny (Riker Lynch, “Glee”) and Rebecca (Lisseth Chavez, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) turns to terror, they quickly discover they’re being followed and watched from a dark website called “Terror Eyes.” In order to escape the growing nightmare, the group must determine who is behind the terrorizing website before it’s too late.” Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (“Dark Angel”), Robert Romanus (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), and Arlene Santana (“Grey’s Anatomy”) also star. Felix Brenner (Kung Fu Man), Clive Jaye, and Brad Carpenter (Leisure World) produce. Terror Eyes is now out On Demand and is available on Apple TV, DirecTV, Google Play, Prime Video, FandangoNOW, and more, from Indican Pictures.
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Blumhouse Is Remaking Stephen King’s ‘Christine’ With Bryan Fuller Directing
After years of development, Blumhouse’s Firestarter has finally begun production, but that’s not the only Stephen King project they are working on. Now, they’ve officially announced they are remaking Stephen King‘s classic killer car movie, Christine. But that’s not all, Deadline is reporting that Bryan Fuller, who was behind the brilliant series “Hannibal” and “Dead Like Me”, will be both writing and directing the film, which will be produced by Jason Blum and Vincenzo Natai who has been involved with several King adaptations, including In the Tall Grass and several episodes of the series “The Stand”. In King’s novel, released in 1983, Arnie, a teen who is tired of being bullied and having no luck with the ladies buys a beat-up 1958 Plymouth Fury to restore, not knowing the car is possessed by an evil spirit. Soon, the car begins to corrupt Arnie and the body count begins to rise. It’s up to Arnie’s best friend Dennis Guilder, and his
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The People Behind Horror’s Two Biggest Franchises Team Up For A New One
Two of the most successful franchise in modern history, the Saw franchise, and The Conjuring franchise, are uniting for a new franchise based on the true horrific events that took place at the infamous property known as The Lalaurie Mansion, still considered one of the most haunted houses in the world. We first reported the news back in October of 2019, but today, it was officially announced that brilliant filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman (Spiral, Saw franchise) will be in the director’s chair and that Chad and Carey Hayes, the creators of The Conjuring franchise, are teaming with Faster Horse Pictures, the film and TV production and financing outfit founded and run by Cindy Bond, Doug McKay, and Michael Whalen, to build the new horror film franchise. Talk about a horror dream team. Bousman’s most recent addition in the Saw universe, Spiral, starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, opened as the #1 film in the U.S. and held the top
Continue reading →
“Murder Your Thirst”: An Interview With Liquid Death Founder And CEO Mike Cessario
Liquid Death, what a killer name for a brand of water! Recently, Liquid Death teamed up with Netflix for Zach Snyder’s Army of the Dead (review). As part of their advertising Liquid Death released their “No Brainer,” part hat, part koozie that not only keeps your water cold but is also a hat that protects your brain from those pesky zombies. It’s a trip! I decided to dive into the brand and discovered a great company on a serious mission, to lower plastic pollution. I spoke with Mike Cessario, founder and CEO of Liquid Death, who is a former Netflix creative, to learn more about the company. Kelli McNeely: “How did Liquid Death come to be?” Mike Cessario: “Liquid Death was essentially the perfect combo of my love for music, art, comedy, and health, along with my passion and experience for pushing the boundaries of marketing and advertising to make it suck less. I was tired of all the unhealthy
Continue reading →
A Woman Must Face Her Past As She Tries To Survive A Maze Of Traps In ‘Meander’
Writer-director Mathieu Turi‘s claustrophobic horror film Meander is headed your way this July. Ahead of its release, we’ve got the new trailer. In the film, “after getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…” Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen, and Romane Libert star in Meander, arriving in theaters and VOD on July 9, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures.
Continue reading →
This July, Netflix Is Taking Us To ‘Fear Street’ With New Trilogy (Trailer)
All roads lead to Fear Street… Today, the trailer debuted for Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy at the first-ever Geeked Week (@NetflixGeeked), a virtual fan-facing event revealing first looks and celebrating all things genre entertainment at Netflix. In the trilogy, a group of teenagers discovers the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected – and they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine‘s best-selling horror series, Fear Street follows Shadyside’s sinister history through a nightmare 300 years in the making. FEAR STREET PART 1: 1994 A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounters the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside. 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
Continue reading →
Twisted Dreams Film Festival Review: “To Freddy”
Norwegian feature To Freddy (original title Til Freddy; 2020) finds the titular character, one of a group of friends planning a final camping trip after graduating university and heading into the workaday world, becoming increasingly paranoid after a box found randomly in the woods predicts that he will be killed by a member of their group. The film is a well-crafted thriller with horror overtones. Freddy (Nicolai Narvesen Lied) is worried about his future, and more than a little distrustful of social media, having recently abandoned it altogether after receiving targeted ads after a phone call. His friend Viljar (writer/director Viljar Bøe) finds a box containing birthday cards and messages anonymously addressed to Freddy. Curious, Freddy reads one that says one of his friends will kill him at a precise date and time during the camping trip, and that the trip cannot be cancelled. To prove the validity of this prediction, Freddy has instructions to perform specific games of chance
Continue reading →
New ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Poster Takes Us Back To The Beginning
The new poster for Jurassic World: Dominion is here and not only does it pay homage to the original movie and the creation of the first cloned dinosaur at Jurassic Park using DNA recovered from a mosquito trapped in Amber, but it also teases that the movie will connect back 65 million years to when that mosquito got DNA from its source. Dominion, set to be the final film of the trilogy, Jurassic World: Dominion is in the hands of brilliant filmmaker Colin Trevorrow who directs from a script written by Emily Carmichael, based on a story by Trevorrow and Derek Connolly. The movie stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and BD Wong are all returning for Dominion as are stars of the original trilogy, Sam Neill, Lauren Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. While the plot is being kept quiet, Fallen Kingdom left dinosaurs not only escaping but with many dinosaurs having been auctioned off to the highest bidders, leaving the
Continue reading →
Game Review: ‘Green Hell’
Ever wonder what it would be like to fight for survival in the middle of the Amazon? I try not to, but Creepy Jar has now made that possible without having to leave the comfort of my air conditioning! Ladies and Gents let me introduce to you the psychological thriller that will test your gaming survival skills, Green Hell. Green Hell follows Jake, who recently wrote a book about a tribe in the Amazon that has yet to have been contacted by the modern world, going with his wife Mia to make contact with the tribe as Mia can speak the language. 30 days into the expedition, something goes wrong and Jake is alone and lost in the jungle with little to no memory of what caused his accident while fleeing from the tribe. Now onto the game itself! When it comes to the game’s controls, they can be a bit tricky, you can tell the game was originally made
Continue reading →
‘Evil Dead: The Game’ Gameplay Video Coming June 10th
The Twitter page for Evil Dead: The Game has teased that tomorrow June 10th, the world will finally see the first gameplay footage of the upcoming multiplayer game by Saber Interactive. The footage will be released at Summer Game Fest. Evil Dead: The Game allows players to play as either Ash and his friends or as a demon trying to thwart the activities of Ash and company. The game will be done in the style of Dead by Daylight and Friday The 13th: The Game where one player is the antagonist while the others try to survive by completing tasks that will allow them to escape. The post on Twitter also revealed that Ash’s sister Cheryl will be in the game as one of the many possible playable characters as the game will feature characters and enemies from all the “Evil Dead” films including the TV series. Evil Dead: The Game is set for release in 2021 for Xbox One,
Continue reading →
Friends On A Trip Discover They Are Being Stalked In The ‘Terror Eyes’ Trailer
Delaney Bishop makes his feature directorial debut with the brutal thriller Terror Eyes, which he also wrote. “When a celebratory road trip to Joshua Tree for Lisa (Ayla Kell, “Make It Or Break It”), Danny (Riker Lynch, “Glee”) and Rebecca (Lisseth Chavez, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) turns to terror, they quickly discover they’re being followed and watched from a dark website called “Terror Eyes.” In order to escape the growing nightmare, the group must determine who is behind the terrorizing website before it’s too late.” Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (“Dark Angel”), Robert Romanus (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), and Arlene Santana (“Grey’s Anatomy”) also star. Felix Brenner (Kung Fu Man), Clive Jaye, and Brad Carpenter (Leisure World) produce. Terror Eyes is now out On Demand and is available on Apple TV, DirecTV, Google Play, Prime Video, FandangoNOW, and more, from Indican Pictures.
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Blumhouse Is Remaking Stephen King’s ‘Christine’ With Bryan Fuller Directing
After years of development, Blumhouse’s Firestarter has finally begun production, but that’s not the only Stephen King project they are working on. Now, they’ve officially announced they are remaking Stephen King‘s classic killer car movie, Christine. But that’s not all, Deadline is reporting that Bryan Fuller, who was behind the brilliant series “Hannibal” and “Dead Like Me”, will be both writing and directing the film, which will be produced by Jason Blum and Vincenzo Natai who has been involved with several King adaptations, including In the Tall Grass and several episodes of the series “The Stand”. In King’s novel, released in 1983, Arnie, a teen who is tired of being bullied and having no luck with the ladies buys a beat-up 1958 Plymouth Fury to restore, not knowing the car is possessed by an evil spirit. Soon, the car begins to corrupt Arnie and the body count begins to rise. It’s up to Arnie’s best friend Dennis Guilder, and his
Continue reading →