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Fantasia 2020 Reveals Final Round of Features and Lifetime Achievement Award for John Carpenter in Massive Third Wave Announcement

As if Fantasia Film Festival’s first and second wave announcements about its 24th edition weren’t jaw-dropping enough, today the Montreal-based fest announced a huge new assortment of feature films, along with details on scheduled panels, talks, tributes, and special events. Following is the official press release from Fantasia, which presents its digital edition from August 20–September 2, 2020. JOHN CARPENTER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AND MASTERCLASS Fantasia attendees lovingly recall that the Kentucky-raised writer/director/musician was one of the first major international guests to attend Fantasia for the fest’s third edition in 1998, when it launched the International Premiere of VAMPIRES. In conjunction with awarding him a Fantasia Lifetime Achievement Award, the festival will also present a masterclass from Carpenter, where he’ll discuss everything from his own festival origin story to his awe-inspiring career, touching on HALLOWEEN, THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE THING, STARMAN, THEY LIVE, and many more. In addition, the fest will explore his recent resurgence as a

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Joseph Perry
Aug 7, 2020
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Book Review: Lee Murray’s ‘Grotesque’

According to the afterword in Lee Murray’s short story collection Grotesque, she “steals” ideas for her stories. Murray describes how she listens to conversations, “frankensteins” people’s appearances and personalities together to create characters and uses old legends to twist into her own words and world. I am so happy that I took the time to read the afterword because throughout the entire collection I kept asking myself “how can someone write with such diversity in language, characters, and plot?” If I didn’t know better and without the Maori theme that ties through many of Murray’s stories, I truly would have expected each of these stories to be written by different authors And let me be clear: That is an exceptionally good thing! It is difficult to review collections like this. I am going to be very careful not to give any plot spoilers and I am going to shy away from focusing too heavily on any particular story (although I

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Capt McNeely
Jul 27, 2020
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RLJE Captures Alien Horror ‘PG: Psycho Goreman’

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired US rights to PG: Psycho Goreman with plans to release the film in theaters in late 2020 followed by its arrival on Shudder in early 2021. Written and directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void), PG: Psycho Goreman stars Matthew Ninaber (Transference), Nita-Josee Hanna (Books of Blood), Owen Myre (“NOS4A2”), and Adam Brooks (The Editor). In the film, “siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.” PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN is a perfect movie for all of us who grew up in a video store,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer for RLJE Films. “It has so much heart, thrills and fun that we believe this could be a franchise. We love

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 21, 2020
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Even (4) More B-Movies You Can Watch On YouTube Right Now!

Guess whose back with more B-movies you can watch as Social Distancing continues! These are some good campy ones that you can MST3K with friends over facetime or with family! I hope you enjoy them and I look forward to sharing even more with you soon! Fiend Without a Face (1958) Based on Amelia Reynolds Long’s short story The Thought-Monster, this film takes place in a small town in Manitoba where strange deaths are accruing and the American airbase nearby is being blamed by the locals. Cosmic Monsters (The Strange World Planet X) (1958) In England, an experiment involving electromagnetic fields is having a negative effect on local insects in the nearby forest. As two of the scientists working on the project (Forrest Tucker, and Gaby André) work on trying to figure out why their experiments are failing while a visitor from another planet (Martin Benson) tries to help. Killers from Space (1954) A nuclear scientist (Peter Graves) survives a

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Capt McNeely
Mar 20, 2020
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An Interview With Damian Kindler, Series Creator Of Netflix’s “October Faction”

Netflix’s new series “October Faction” has it all, action, monsters, love, drama, magic. The series’ creator Damian Kindler (“American Gods”, “Sleepy Hollow”) took us inside the series and it’s making during our interview, which I’d love to share with you. Based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles, the series follows a family of monster hunters and their teen twins who discover that their parents are monster hunters which sends their lives spiraling into chaos. “October Faction” is produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment. IDW Entertainment is the worldwide distributor (excluding Canada) for the series. “October Faction” builds on the success of IDW Publishing’s comic book series written by Steve Niles. Horror Fuel: “I’ve been watching October Faction. I’m really digging it. How difficult was it to adapt the series from the books?” Damian Kindler: “When you are doing something with this much story involved, you want as much time and as much money as possible

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 7, 2020
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Travel Channel Gifts Viewers With A Spooky December Schedule (Dec 16-29)

The Travel Channel is gifting viewers with a spooky new lineup this December featuring premieres, new series, new episodes and more! NEW SERIES IT FEELS EVIL Demon hunter Tim Wood and his team investigate the darkest hauntings. The battle-tested crew employs unique scientific investigative methods and works closely with eyewitnesses to identify, communicate and confront the malevolent entities lurking in the shadows. Their ultimate goal is to better understand the evil intentions of these demonic and destructive forces. [Hour-long episodes] SERIES PREMIERE: “Get It Out” – Premieres Monday, December 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT Demon hunter Tim Wood is called to a former hospital in Texas, where a powerful poltergeist is believed to travel between the abandoned site and the nearby town. He and his team employ a dangerous experiment to trap the entity on the grounds permanently. Demon hunter Tim Wood and his team – Montana Jordan, Scott Dilalla and Patrick Langdon – investigate Texas’ Yorktown Memorial Hospital in

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 8, 2019
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‘Gremlins’ Returning To Theaters For The Holidays

You may not have heard, but Gremlins are back. Just make sure not to feed them after midnight! Not only is a new animated Gremlins series coming soon from WarnerMedia, but Regal is also bringing back the original film to theaters. Relieve the classic Christmas film this holiday season in 4DX! Tickets are available now for the one week run from December 5th through December 11th. The 1984 iconic film from director Joe Dante follows Billy (Zach Galligan), a boy who receives a strange creature and inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. The upcoming animated prequel series is titled “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.” It will take us back to 1920s Shanghai to reveal the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 19, 2019
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Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival Offers Witches, Werewolves, and Weirdness

The 2019 edition of Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival is chock full of outstanding, outrageous horror features and shorts from around the world. The fest is scheduled for November 13–17 at 7 Stages Theatre. Following are the features that I am most looking forward to seeing, either for the first time or once again. My thoughts in italics follow the fest’s official descriptions for each film. Antrum: The Deadliest Movie Ever Made Dir. Michael Laicini and David Amito – USA – 95min Antrum, a feature length film shot in the late 1970’s, is cursed. In 1988, a movie theatre in Budapest that was screening the film burnt to the ground, killing the 56 people who were in attendance. This incident follows the inexplicable deaths of a number of film festival programmers that had received Antrum as a submission and died shortly after watching the film. These events culminated with a riot during an exhibition in San Francisco, after which the

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Joseph Perry
Nov 8, 2019
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New Series And Episodes Premiere This November On The Travel Channel

Just because Halloween has passed doesn’t mean the chills and thrills are over. We’ve got the highlights for Travel Channel’s lineup from November 18th through December 1st that includes new series premieres, new episodes, and more that are guaranteed to spook you. NEW SERIES HOMETOWN HORROR Many white picket fence communities across America are gripped with tales of horror, mystery, and intrigue that have lingered over these towns for centuries – dark forces haunting unassuming communities with stories of the undead, ghouls, monsters and things that go bump in the night. “Hometown Horror” delves into these quiet communities to examine what is behind these stories and myths and to shine a light on what may be lurking in the shadows of small-town America – such as the Pigman of Angola in New York, the hauntings of circus town Baraboo, Wisconsin, the bloodstained history of Perryville, Kentucky, and more. [Hour-long episodes] SERIES PREMIERE: “The Pigman” – Premieres Monday, November 18 at

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: Ultra Q (1965)/Ultraman (1966)

As a kid, I was absolutely obsessed with Japanese creature features (still am, actually!) but there was only so much of that material available in my small mountain hometown. Occasionally my friends and I would trek to the nearest “big” city where there was a store that had all manner of import toys and magazines, and here is where my mania became even more intense as I wanted so badly to see some of the Far East flicks and shows mentioned in those petulant pages… and nowhere seemed to be kaiju ground zero more than the Ultra shows produced by Tsuburaya Productions, headed by man-in-suit wizard Eiji Tsuburaya! Anyway fast forward to like last week sometime, and those sexy devils at Mill Creek Entertainment have sent yours cruelly Blu-ray sets of the first two series set in the Ultra universe; 1965’s Ultra Q and 1966’s Ultraman! Let’s get balls deep in the Q to kick things off, shall we? Now

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DanXIII
Nov 7, 2019
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