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New Haunting Poster And Trailer Arrive For The Purgation – Out On VOD This August

Take a trip to Black Falls and an abandoned insane asylum in Elaine Chu’s award winning film paranormal thriller The Purgation, starring Tiffany Kieu, Kat Johnston, Corey Fabyan, Kate Dauphin and Tom Walsh. From the Press Release: Ever since she was a little girl, Iris has aspired to be a filmmaker. For the last five years though, she’s been stuck in television, directing episodes for an investigative series that’s barely able to compete with Ghost Hunters. Iris sees her big chance to prove herself when her boss sends her on assignment to her hometown of Black Falls, a town harboring an abandoned insane asylum with a dark history of excessive shock therapy. Filming inside the asylum brings back childhood memories for Iris – memories of sneaking into the Black Falls Asylum to shoot homemade horror movies with her friends. Little does she know, her life is about to imitate her art. Don’t miss The Purgation arriving on VOD on August

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 22, 2016

From the Crypt

The Lovecraftian Indie Thriller Reel Nightmare Wraps Filming

Armand Petri makes his directorial debut with the feature film Reel Nightmare, which wrapped principle photography July 16th. The New England set story is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. The film centers on the discovery of a Necronomicon inside of cursed Victorian home once occupied by three witches. The main characters of Reel Nightmare are a group of students from a film school. From the Press Release: LOS ANGELES, CA July 17th – Reel Nightmare, a hybridized found-footage horror feature film by independent production company Together Magic Films completed principal photography in Los Angeles on July 16th, following a ten-day shoot primarily set at the historical Woodbury-Story house. The film exists in a contemporary interpretation of the H.P. Lovecraft universe, with the New England-set story centered around the discovery of a Necronomicon inside a Victorian house cursed by three body snatching witches; and the main characters depicted as students from the film school at the fictional Miskatonic University. An ambitious female

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 18, 2016

From the Crypt

Tyler Perry’s Famous Character Must Face Terrors In Boo! A Madea Halloween

There have been many horror spoofs over the years. Now, a new horror-comedy, titled Boo! A Madea Halloween, is combining the aspects of horror we love with a popular character with a franchise of their own, and you have to love the poster. Coming this Halloween, Tyler Perry’s Medea will face ghosts, zombies, and famous horror gags like scary phone calls, insane people, home invasions, and more. For those of you who have never heard of Medea, let me explain. Medea is a foul-mouthed, gun-toting, 6’5″, hilarious, ex-stripper, who is a blunt. She is a no-nonsense type of woman. Medea is played by writer/director Tyler Perry. Medea’s franchise includes television series, plays, films, and a book written from her point-of-view. Tyler Perry, who has 12 awards and 37 award nominations, first introduced the character on film in Diary of a Mad Black Woman, based on the play by the same name. In Boo! A Madea Halloween, Media ends up in

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 17, 2016

From the Crypt

Am I Dreaming ? Before I Wake Finally Coming To Blu-ray And DVD!

After opening in theaters in May of 2015, Relativity Media is finally releasing the nightmarish film Before I Wake from director Mike Flanagan, who co-wrote the film with Jeff Howard. Flanagan is the same director behind 2013’s Oculus and the 2016 home invasion thriller Hush. His next project is the upcoming film Ouija: Origins of Evil, the prequel to the 2014 paranormal film, directed by Stiles White. Starring Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Annabeth Gish, Dash Mihok and Jacob Tremblay, Before I wake follows a young couple who have just agreed to foster a young boy after losing their own son. Soon, the couple learns that whatever the boy dreams manifest into reality, including his nightmares. Before I Wake will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD September 9, 2016.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 9, 2016

News

Adam Wingard’s The Woods Debuting At San Diego Comic Con Later This Month

Director Adam Wingard’s new highly anticipated horror film, The Woods, is set to premiere at the San Diego Comic Con later this month, EW has reported. The film, written by Simon Barrett, follows a group of college students on a camping trip who discover they are not alone. Starring Valorie Curry, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, James Allen McCune, Wes Robinson and Corbin Reid, The Woods will open in theaters on September 16, following it’s debut at the San Diego Comic Con on Friday, July 22. Wingard and writer Simon Barrette have worked together before. Wingard directed and Barrett wrote V/H/S and V/H/S 2, as well as the hit home invasion thriller You’re Next. In other words, they make one hell of a team. Several horror heavy hitters are producing, including Roy Lee (The Ring, The Strangers), Jessica Wu (You’re Next, The Guest), Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) and Keith Calder (You’re Next, The Guest).

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 30, 2016

From the Crypt

Plot And First Two Cast Members Announced For Annabelle 2

We reported last week that Annabelle 2 , the sequel to 2013 horror hit Annabelle, had entered preproduction. David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) will be directing Annabelle 2, and he already seems very excited about the project. Sandberg and even called the sequel “The Godfather II of creepy doll movies.” Today, news comes that Lord of the Rings actress Miranda Otto is the first to join the film’s cast and will play the wife of a dollmaker. Her character has been described as “a disfigured recluse”. Otto will star long side Stephanie Sigman (Narcos, Spectre), who has been cast as the nun, Sister Charlotte. Otto and Sigman’s casting is not the only Annabelle 2 news today. The sequel’s plot was also revealed, and we were right, it is a prequel. Synopsis: Annabelle 2 tells of a dollmaker and his wife who, 20 years after the tragic death of their daughter, welcome a nun and the girls from a shuttered orphanage

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 22, 2016

Reviews

Making Men Scream Like Little Girls – A Review Of The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring 2 is everywhere, social media, TV, and is still number one at the box office for its second week. I’ve been dying to see The Conjuring 2. Last night, I made the hour-plus drive to the nearest theater to see it for myself, and I was not disappointed. Directed by genre genius James Wan and starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as the real life legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring 2 takes on two real life paranormal events. The Conjuring 2, based on a true story, delves into the Enfield Poltergiest. But the film begins with the Amityville investigation. The Amityville haunting began in real life when the Lutz family moved into the home once owned by the DeFeo family and began experiencing paranormal events, which inspired The Amityville Horror. On November 13, 1974 police discovered the bodies of six members of the DeFeo family shot and killed in their home at 112 Ocean

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 19, 2016

News

The Conjuring 2 Scares Man To Death

It turns out, The Conjuring 2, directed by James Wan, is not only killing at the box office, it’s actually killing viewers. Thursday night a 65-year-old man and his friend were watching The Conjuring 2 at the Sri Balasubramaniar Cinema in Tiruvannamalai, India. During the film’s scariest scene the man fainted. By the time an ambulance arrived the man was having a heart attack. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Old Government Hospital, The Times of India reported. The man’s death has taken a strange turn, his body is now missing after the hospital staff asked the man’s friend to take the body to the Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College Hospital for an autopsy. Now, both the man’s body and his friend have gone M.I.A. The police are now investigating. In The Conjuring 2 we witness Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to England in the 1970s to investigate the poltergeist activity plaguing a single mother and her children. Referred

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 18, 2016

Events

Have You Ever Wanted To Meet Lorraine Warren ? Here’s Your Chance !

The Conjuring 2 is everywhere right now. And it wouldn’t exist without the Warrens, both The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2 and Annabelle are based on their investigations. Ed and Lorraine Warren have a long history of investigating the paranormal and supernatural. In 1970 Ed and Lorraine took possession of the infamous doll Annabelle. The haunted doll still remains in the Warren’s occult museum. How would you like to meet Annabelle and Lorraine in person? Here’s your chance. Lorraine will be hosting an event titled “An Evening With Annabelle” along with the New England Society for Psychic Research. On September 10, 2016 guests will be able to dine with Lorraine and the N.E.S.P.R before spending an evening filled with tales, lectures, guests will hear recordings from some of the Warren’s cases, including of The Enfield Poltergeist, which The Conjuring 2 is based on, as well as a video tour of the museum narrated by Ed Warren, who passed in 2006, before

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 17, 2016

From the Crypt

The Director Of Annabelle 2 Says It Will Be Better Than The Original

2013’s genre hit The Conjuring not only laid a path for it’s sequel, which is now in theaters nationwide, it also gave life to a spin-off. Annabelle introduced us to the haunted doll that in real life came into the possession of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the main characters of both The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, and real life paranormal investigators. While The Conjuring 2 continues to wow at the box office, the sequel to Annabelle is already entering production. David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) will be directing Annabelle 2 and, he already seems very excited about the film. Sandberg even called the sequel “The Godfather II of creepy doll movies,” while speaking to Bloody-Disgusting. I don’t think I can give too many details at this point but it’s not a continuation of the first film,” Sandberg stated. “That’s one of the many things that enticed me with the project, that it’s a new story. Also the setting and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 16, 2016