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P.D. Alleva’s ‘Golem’ Is A Trip Into Darkness That You Won’t Recover From – Book Review

Plot “The devil is in the details” according to author P.D. Alleva in his novel Golem. This phenomenal book starts off with a phenomenal plot. A detective story, a horrific nightmare, a thriller, a view into the occult, and the spiraling of insanity all rolled up onto one package called Golem. As newly-badged Detective John Ashton digs deeper into a very public missing child case, he digs up much more than he bargained for and much more than even he believes. This novel is a journey into the darkest and most vile parts of horror and personally, I couldn’t put it down. As the the story races forward, the plot that Alleva reveals gets more and more intriguing as the devils in the dark swallow everything. Characters There are not a ton of characters in this novel (nor does there need to be) and the characters there are, are very memorable. Alleva stays away from from overused cliches while creating

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Greg Kershaw
Sep 30, 2021
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‘Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special’ Is Coming To Shudder

When it comes to horror, there’s only one “Mistress of the Dark”, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson). The voluptuous horror host is back! Coming to Shudder this September, Elvira will be hosting a one-night movie marathon titled Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special! Part of Shudder’s “61 Days of Halloween”, the special will debut on Saturday, September 25th at 8 PM EST in the US and Canada and on-demand on all Shudder platforms (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand) and AMC+ beginning Monday, September 27th. Similar to the cult classic, late-night television series Elvira’s Movie Macabre, which debuted in 1981, Elvira will lend her own blend of witty commentary to a horror movie lineup that includes Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, House on Haunted Hill, The City of the Dead and Messiah of Evil. Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special includes the following films: Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark (1988) Upon arriving in a small town

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 15, 2021
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A24’s New ‘Lamb’ Trailer Left Us Speechless

When it comes to unique, unnerving films, anything from A24 is bound to get under your skin. That includes Lamb, whose new trailer left me speechless. From Valdimar Jóhannsson comes the supernatural horror thriller Lamb “is the story of a childless couple, María (Noomi 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 it ultimately destroys them.” Lamb, a film unlike anything we’ve seen before, is set to be released on October 8, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 28, 2021
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Arrow Video FrightFest 2021’s Second Wave of Films Features Amazing Fright Fare from Around the Globe

Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 — the U.K.’s premiere event for fear-fare films and the fanatics and cinephiles who love them — has taken things to a new level with its second-wave announcement of features slated for its August 26–30 theatrical run. Following is the official press announcement. It’s Full Scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 announces its second wave of hugely anticipated Discovery Screen and First Blood titles — a summer collection of provocative, edgy and transgressive entertainment to die for. There are fourteen World and ten European/ International premieres amongst the thirty-four films on offer. Eleven countries are represented, with titles ranging from Canadian entries BLOODTHIRSTY, Amelia Moses’ simmering LGBQT+ werewolf movie and sinister isolation thriller MOTHERLY to Francesco Erba’s AS IN HEAVEN, SO ON EARTH, a stunning Italian blend of live action and Gothic puppet animation. Then there’s Péter Bergendy’s sumptuous POST MORTEM, an epic Hungarian ghost story, Frida Kempff’s Swedish entry KNOCKING, a breakout Sundance sensation,

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Joseph Perry
Jul 22, 2021
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Dark Secrets Come To Light In ‘The Darkness’

This June discover writer-director Tharun Mohan‘s (Baby, Purgatory State of Mind) haunting horror thriller The Darkness. On a country retreat, to write her new novel, Lisa feels another presence in the house, feeling as if a spirit is taking her over, sending her on a road to madness. Can she discover the truth behind the spirit in the house or will she be lost forever? Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor) stars as Lisa. The cast also includes Cyril Blake (The Waiting Game, Z-List), Katherine Hartshorne (Happiest Day, Chaos In The Spectrum), Jo Hart, and Adam Bond. Tharun Mohan and Honey Subin produce along with Tharun Productions. The Darkness will be unleashed on VOD and Digital on June 15, 2021, by Trinity Creative Partnership.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 9, 2021
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Austria’s Slash ½ Film Festival Features Supernatural Shudders and Gag-Inducing Grue

The stellar minds behind Slash Filmfestival Austrian film festival present Slash ½ — which returns to cinemas after an absence last year — with 11 amazing films. Highlights of he fest, which runs June 17–20, 2021 at Filmcasino in Vienna, Austria, include the gruesome shocker The Stylist, the gory dark-horror comedy Cyst, the supernatural chiller Son, and much more. Following is official information from Slash ½. After cancelling last year’s edition due to the pandemic, SLASH 1/2 is making its big comeback in 2021. Extended to four festival days, the mini festival presents international Fantastic Cinema in all its diversity. Sporting more than ten films, the program serves up hearty scenes of blood and pus splattering everywhere (mmhh!) as well as subtle horrors and social critique — after all, it’s not just your stomach that ought to turn but also the wheels in your head. Festival films include Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller POSSESSOR, Tyler Russell’s equally nasty and funny body

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Joseph Perry
May 31, 2021
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Blumhouse Sets January Release for ‘The Black Phone’ – Starring Ethan Hawke

Director Scott Derrickson returns to horror to partner again with the foremost brand in the genre, Blumhouse, for his new horror thriller, The Black Phone whose release date has now been set for January. In the film, “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.” The four-time Oscar® nominee Ethan Hawke stars in the most terrifying role of his career in The Black Phone. Mason Thames makes his film debut in this terror-filled flick that is produced, directed, and co-written by Scott Derrickson, the writer-director of Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Also starring in the film are

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 13, 2021
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Movie Review: The Djinn

David Charbonier and Justin Powell are making waves as a cowriting/codirecting duo with their single-location cat-and-mouse horror thrillers. They made a big debut splash with last year’s excellent The Boy Behind the Door and have followed it up with their terrific supernatural sophomore effort The Djinn. In The Djinn, young Dylan Jacobs (Ezra Dewey), who is mute, has just moved with his radio personality father Michael (Rob Brownstein) into a new home after the death of Michelle (Tevy Poe), Dylan’s mother and Michael’s wife. The father and son are grieving Michelle’s loss, but their obviously strong bond is helping them work through matters. Dylan discovers a large tome entitled The Book of Shadows in a closet and tries out one of the spells contained in the book in hopes that it will grant him one of his fondest wishes. This unleashes the titular supernatural being, which can take on different human forms. Dylan must escape the djinn’s deadly wrath for

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Joseph Perry
May 11, 2021
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Movie Review (Panic Fest 2021): Blood Conscious

Writer/Director Timothy Covell’s Blood Conscious is a gripping horror thriller that touches on social commentary while delivering a good share of excitement and paranoia. Brittney (DeShawn White), her university student younger brother Kevin (Oghenero Gbaje), and her fiancée Tony (Lenny Thomas) travel to Brittney’s and Kevin’s family lakeside cabin in the woods for a relaxing getaway with their parents. They explore the eerily quiet surroundings and Kevin discovers the bodies of his parents and their neighbors, who have all been shot or otherwise violently killed. The perpetrator — Nick Damici as “The Stranger” — sneaks up on them, demanding to know at gunpoint whether they are humans or, as he claims, demons who replaced the murder victims before he disposed of them. The trio manages to overcome the stranger and lock him in the basement, where he continues to shout that they should protect themselves from the demons, who are on their way. Though Brittney and Tony insist that his

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Joseph Perry
Apr 23, 2021
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From The Director Of ‘The Descent’ Comes ‘The Reckoning’ – Casting Its Spell On Shudder

Neil Marshall’s brilliant horror thriller The Reckoning, premiering this May on Shudder, is set against the backdrop of England at the end of the 17th century, as the Great Plague and the obsession with witch hunts rage. In the film, “After losing her husband during the Great Plague, Grace Haverstock (Charlotte Kirk) is unjustly accused of being a witch and placed in the custody of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter, Judge Moorcroft (Sean Pertwee). Forced to endure physical and emotional torture while steadfastly maintaining her innocence, Grace must face her inner demons as the Devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.” Joe Anderson and Steven Waddington also star in the film that Marshall wrote with Charlotte Kirk and Edward Evers-Swindell, based on a story by Antony Jones and Nico Evers-Swindell. Marshall has a long list of genre hits, including The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Doomsday. He also directed several episodes of the record-breaking series “Game of Thrones.” The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 8, 2021
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