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Movie Review: Ravage (2020)
Balls deep in the Watchatoomy Valley, nature photog Harper (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) feasts her putrid peepers on a sight she was never supposed to see; namely the beating of a man by the psycho Ravener (Robert Longstreet) and his crazy crew. After documenting the violence on hand, our heroine bolts… and after a murder attempt she reports the ghoulish goings-on to the local authorities. This does nothing to deter her fate of becoming a barnyard captive of those murderous yokel locals more than ready to stride revenge’s road… but Harper has a few ideas as to vengeance of her own! The greatest strength of Ravage is the prowess of it’s heroine. Writer/director Teddy Grennan fashions his muse as a true creature of nature; scrappy, capable, and able to survive in the wilderness… This of course leads to the same Shakespeare by way of the “Me” generation’s “Battle of the Sexes” that seemed to define ’70s grindhouse cinema ; and was evident
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She Was Left For Dead But She’s Back For Revenge In The ‘Range Runners’ Trailer
Left for Dead. Back for Vengeance. The trailer has arrived for the highly-anticipated brutal survival thriller Range Runners, from director Philip S. Plowden and writer Devon Colwell. A woman thru-hiking an isolated trail runs into trouble when her pack is hijacked by two men hiding out in the woods, desperate and on the run. Now, stranded and left to fend for herself, she has a choice: crawl back to her normal life in defeat, or push forward and take back what was stolen from her. Celeste M Cooper, Sean Patrick Leonard, Michael B. Woods, and Tiffany Renee Johnson star in Range Runners, out September 8th from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.
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New Trailer For Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘Death Of Me’ Will Cast A Spell On You
From director and horror mainstay Darren Lynn Bousman comes a new thrilling tale of terror, black magic, and murder, Death of Me. The new pulse-pounding trailer teases an intense supernatural mystery that will make you think twice about traveling to exotic places. Written by Ari Margolis, James Morley III, and David Tish, Death of Me stars Maggie Q (Fantasy Island), Luke Hemsworth (“Westworld”), and Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep). “Vacationing on an island off the coast of Thailand, Christine (Maggie Q) and Neil Oliver (Luke Hemsworth) awake hungover and with no memory of the previous night. They find footage on Neil’s camera, and watch, horrified, as Neil appears to murder Christine. With twenty-four hours until the next ferry and a typhoon threatening the island, Christine and Neil attempt to reconstruct the night’s events—and are snared in a web of mystery, black magic, and murder.” Bousman has a long history of providing genre fans the scares they crave with films such as
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Shudder Is Now Available In Australia And New Zealand
AMC Networks’ Shudder—called the “gold standard” of targeted streaming services by The Guardian —is growing. They announced today that its premium subscription streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural is now available in Australia and New Zealand, expanding a global footprint that already encompasses the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. We’re thrilled to share our unrivaled collection of curated horror and supernatural movies and series with Australian and New Zealand audiences just in time for Halloween season, where we feature our biggest and best programming of the year,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “These new launches continue our growing international expansion and our commitment to offer premium genre entertainment to a global audience.” Shudder offers hundreds of hours of programming, including dozens of original and exclusive movies and original series like the breakout hits “Creepshow” and ”Cursed Films“ which have already been renewed for new seasons. Among the first titles released in Australia and
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The Weird World of Wild Eye Releasing: Part Two!
The fine fiends at Wild Eye Releasing have plenty of horror biz spills and chills available right now, and they sent me a ton o’ titles to slap revoltin’ reviews upon (part one of this fearsome feature can be found right here)! First title we will examine is Human Zoo! Roll up and check out the latest reality TV diversion; a sinister show where contestants are jammed in a teeny tiny cell and filmed as they inevitably lose their shit. Now the idea is there will be a “winner” to these unsavory shenanigans with a prize of a cool mil’ waiting for whoever keeps their sanity the longest… which will just about cover the therapy bills they’ll acquire trying to cope with the fallout of what they will endure on this show… Human Zoo takes us through the creation of that aforementioned TV program from it’s casting to it’s implementation and puts our quirky and/or snarky characters through the wringer.
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L.C. Barlow’s ‘Pivot’ Is A Must Read! (Book Review)
Jack Harper, the girl raised in a cult, the assassin, the hero, the miracle worker, the drug addict…she is introduced to the world by L.C. Barlow in the novel Pivot. I very specifically say that she was “introduced to the world” and not “she was created” because I was absolutely drawn to this character..as a human. Her emotions were real and desperate. Her growth and changes and development were real and believable. I will get to the specifics of the book next, but to have the depth and power of this book in only 224 pages is remarkable. Characters The characters in this book is where it really shines. Not that it is lacking in other areas, but the characters are a standout for me. Cyrus, the cult leader, is as villainous and evil as any character I have come across. But more than that, he is believable! This chameleon of a man manipulates those around him with such ease
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Movie Review: The Honeymoon Phase (2019)
Tom (Jim Schubin) and Eve (Chloe Carroll) get a wild hair up their asses that they can put one over on the eggheads runnin’ your friendly neighborhood research project and score fifty grand in cold, hard cash. All they need to do is convince everyone they are married, and get locked up good n’ tight in a futuristic smart house cum lab for a month (while wearing fancy futuristic suits as a bonus) while the scientists wrap their noggins around why couples stop being all lovey-dovey. What could go wrong? Fuckin’ plenty, because as Tom really seems to be gettin’ his jollies in his new environs, Eve begins to suspect that Tom is a tad different from the man she thought she knew… as she tries to navigate a slippery-slope that leads into madness! In The Honeymoon Phase; the debut feature from writer/director Phillip G. Carroll Jr., we get a near-perfect slice of sweet, sweet Twilight Zone pie, as our
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Say A Prayer, It Appears That ‘The Exorcist’ Is Being Rebooted
Break out the holy water and call a priest, Morgan Creek is about to commit blasphemy. They are reportedly rebooting the most iconic horror film in history, 1973’s The Exorcist. The news that was hidden in a recent Deadline article. The single sentence has sent heads spinning throughout the genre. Current Morgan Creek Projects include Stay Tuned at AMC, with a theatrical reboot of The Exorcist in the works for 2021.” The strange part about all this, besides that anyone is attempting to reboot it, is that Morgan Creek swore on Twitter back on September 28, 2015, that, “For the record, we will never attempt to remake THE EXORCIST.” It seems they’ve decided to follow the sad trend of rebooting/remaking anything that could make a dime. There is one thing, the term “reboot” being used which implies that the story will differ from the original, but who knows. The film is not currently featured on their “in development” list. There’s
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‘The God In The Hills’ Is Guaranteed To Horrify And Entertain (Short Story Review)
“The God in the Hills” by Jon Steffens is an absolute slap in the face…a kick to the groin…a punch right through your chest-into your heart, and I mean all of this in a good way! I got this short story the other day with no inkling what is was about. No warning, no heads up. So let me give you the favor I never got…this story will wreck you. It is 50 pages of uncensored, no holds barred, gruesome, shocking, and horrific terror that I couldn’t put down. I say that again, I could not stop reading! I was grabbed from word one all the way to the end. This was entertainment in the most graphic way. I was intrigued because of the gore and evilness of the story, but let;s not take away from Steffen’s abilities as a writer. He is very engaging and pains an amazing tale with his words. I saw exactly what he wanted me
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Blu-Ray Review: “Z” Scores A 5/5 !
I reviewed Shudder’s Z back in May, so of course, I was excited to get my hands on the Blu-ray a couple of days ago. As I sat down to watch it with a bag of popcorn, I couldn’t help but wonder if the movie would stand up to my original impression and the 5/5 score I gave it. I was wrong to even question it. It turns out, the Blu-ray is even better. The picture is crisp and the sound is great. The story itself is fresh, clever, and absolutely unnerving. A lot of people had an imaginary friend as a kid. Imagine if that friend came back when you were an adult and it is hell-bent on destroying your life by using your innocent child. That’s the premise of Z. The movie follows Elizabeth (Keegan Connor Tracy), a mother whose 8-year-old son has a new playmate, an invisible friend named Z. As her son’s behavior becomes more menacing
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Movie Review: Ravage (2020)
Balls deep in the Watchatoomy Valley, nature photog Harper (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) feasts her putrid peepers on a sight she was never supposed to see; namely the beating of a man by the psycho Ravener (Robert Longstreet) and his crazy crew. After documenting the violence on hand, our heroine bolts… and after a murder attempt she reports the ghoulish goings-on to the local authorities. This does nothing to deter her fate of becoming a barnyard captive of those murderous yokel locals more than ready to stride revenge’s road… but Harper has a few ideas as to vengeance of her own! The greatest strength of Ravage is the prowess of it’s heroine. Writer/director Teddy Grennan fashions his muse as a true creature of nature; scrappy, capable, and able to survive in the wilderness… This of course leads to the same Shakespeare by way of the “Me” generation’s “Battle of the Sexes” that seemed to define ’70s grindhouse cinema ; and was evident
Continue reading →
She Was Left For Dead But She’s Back For Revenge In The ‘Range Runners’ Trailer
Left for Dead. Back for Vengeance. The trailer has arrived for the highly-anticipated brutal survival thriller Range Runners, from director Philip S. Plowden and writer Devon Colwell. A woman thru-hiking an isolated trail runs into trouble when her pack is hijacked by two men hiding out in the woods, desperate and on the run. Now, stranded and left to fend for herself, she has a choice: crawl back to her normal life in defeat, or push forward and take back what was stolen from her. Celeste M Cooper, Sean Patrick Leonard, Michael B. Woods, and Tiffany Renee Johnson star in Range Runners, out September 8th from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.
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New Trailer For Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘Death Of Me’ Will Cast A Spell On You
From director and horror mainstay Darren Lynn Bousman comes a new thrilling tale of terror, black magic, and murder, Death of Me. The new pulse-pounding trailer teases an intense supernatural mystery that will make you think twice about traveling to exotic places. Written by Ari Margolis, James Morley III, and David Tish, Death of Me stars Maggie Q (Fantasy Island), Luke Hemsworth (“Westworld”), and Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep). “Vacationing on an island off the coast of Thailand, Christine (Maggie Q) and Neil Oliver (Luke Hemsworth) awake hungover and with no memory of the previous night. They find footage on Neil’s camera, and watch, horrified, as Neil appears to murder Christine. With twenty-four hours until the next ferry and a typhoon threatening the island, Christine and Neil attempt to reconstruct the night’s events—and are snared in a web of mystery, black magic, and murder.” Bousman has a long history of providing genre fans the scares they crave with films such as
Continue reading →
Shudder Is Now Available In Australia And New Zealand
AMC Networks’ Shudder—called the “gold standard” of targeted streaming services by The Guardian —is growing. They announced today that its premium subscription streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural is now available in Australia and New Zealand, expanding a global footprint that already encompasses the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. We’re thrilled to share our unrivaled collection of curated horror and supernatural movies and series with Australian and New Zealand audiences just in time for Halloween season, where we feature our biggest and best programming of the year,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “These new launches continue our growing international expansion and our commitment to offer premium genre entertainment to a global audience.” Shudder offers hundreds of hours of programming, including dozens of original and exclusive movies and original series like the breakout hits “Creepshow” and ”Cursed Films“ which have already been renewed for new seasons. Among the first titles released in Australia and
Continue reading →
The Weird World of Wild Eye Releasing: Part Two!
The fine fiends at Wild Eye Releasing have plenty of horror biz spills and chills available right now, and they sent me a ton o’ titles to slap revoltin’ reviews upon (part one of this fearsome feature can be found right here)! First title we will examine is Human Zoo! Roll up and check out the latest reality TV diversion; a sinister show where contestants are jammed in a teeny tiny cell and filmed as they inevitably lose their shit. Now the idea is there will be a “winner” to these unsavory shenanigans with a prize of a cool mil’ waiting for whoever keeps their sanity the longest… which will just about cover the therapy bills they’ll acquire trying to cope with the fallout of what they will endure on this show… Human Zoo takes us through the creation of that aforementioned TV program from it’s casting to it’s implementation and puts our quirky and/or snarky characters through the wringer.
Continue reading →
L.C. Barlow’s ‘Pivot’ Is A Must Read! (Book Review)
Jack Harper, the girl raised in a cult, the assassin, the hero, the miracle worker, the drug addict…she is introduced to the world by L.C. Barlow in the novel Pivot. I very specifically say that she was “introduced to the world” and not “she was created” because I was absolutely drawn to this character..as a human. Her emotions were real and desperate. Her growth and changes and development were real and believable. I will get to the specifics of the book next, but to have the depth and power of this book in only 224 pages is remarkable. Characters The characters in this book is where it really shines. Not that it is lacking in other areas, but the characters are a standout for me. Cyrus, the cult leader, is as villainous and evil as any character I have come across. But more than that, he is believable! This chameleon of a man manipulates those around him with such ease
Continue reading →
Movie Review: The Honeymoon Phase (2019)
Tom (Jim Schubin) and Eve (Chloe Carroll) get a wild hair up their asses that they can put one over on the eggheads runnin’ your friendly neighborhood research project and score fifty grand in cold, hard cash. All they need to do is convince everyone they are married, and get locked up good n’ tight in a futuristic smart house cum lab for a month (while wearing fancy futuristic suits as a bonus) while the scientists wrap their noggins around why couples stop being all lovey-dovey. What could go wrong? Fuckin’ plenty, because as Tom really seems to be gettin’ his jollies in his new environs, Eve begins to suspect that Tom is a tad different from the man she thought she knew… as she tries to navigate a slippery-slope that leads into madness! In The Honeymoon Phase; the debut feature from writer/director Phillip G. Carroll Jr., we get a near-perfect slice of sweet, sweet Twilight Zone pie, as our
Continue reading →
Say A Prayer, It Appears That ‘The Exorcist’ Is Being Rebooted
Break out the holy water and call a priest, Morgan Creek is about to commit blasphemy. They are reportedly rebooting the most iconic horror film in history, 1973’s The Exorcist. The news that was hidden in a recent Deadline article. The single sentence has sent heads spinning throughout the genre. Current Morgan Creek Projects include Stay Tuned at AMC, with a theatrical reboot of The Exorcist in the works for 2021.” The strange part about all this, besides that anyone is attempting to reboot it, is that Morgan Creek swore on Twitter back on September 28, 2015, that, “For the record, we will never attempt to remake THE EXORCIST.” It seems they’ve decided to follow the sad trend of rebooting/remaking anything that could make a dime. There is one thing, the term “reboot” being used which implies that the story will differ from the original, but who knows. The film is not currently featured on their “in development” list. There’s
Continue reading →
‘The God In The Hills’ Is Guaranteed To Horrify And Entertain (Short Story Review)
“The God in the Hills” by Jon Steffens is an absolute slap in the face…a kick to the groin…a punch right through your chest-into your heart, and I mean all of this in a good way! I got this short story the other day with no inkling what is was about. No warning, no heads up. So let me give you the favor I never got…this story will wreck you. It is 50 pages of uncensored, no holds barred, gruesome, shocking, and horrific terror that I couldn’t put down. I say that again, I could not stop reading! I was grabbed from word one all the way to the end. This was entertainment in the most graphic way. I was intrigued because of the gore and evilness of the story, but let;s not take away from Steffen’s abilities as a writer. He is very engaging and pains an amazing tale with his words. I saw exactly what he wanted me
Continue reading →
Blu-Ray Review: “Z” Scores A 5/5 !
I reviewed Shudder’s Z back in May, so of course, I was excited to get my hands on the Blu-ray a couple of days ago. As I sat down to watch it with a bag of popcorn, I couldn’t help but wonder if the movie would stand up to my original impression and the 5/5 score I gave it. I was wrong to even question it. It turns out, the Blu-ray is even better. The picture is crisp and the sound is great. The story itself is fresh, clever, and absolutely unnerving. A lot of people had an imaginary friend as a kid. Imagine if that friend came back when you were an adult and it is hell-bent on destroying your life by using your innocent child. That’s the premise of Z. The movie follows Elizabeth (Keegan Connor Tracy), a mother whose 8-year-old son has a new playmate, an invisible friend named Z. As her son’s behavior becomes more menacing
Continue reading →