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Movie Review: Zebra Girl (A Night of Horror International Film Festival)

U.K. mystery thriller Zebra Girl (2021) is rich with slowly unfolding shocks and surprises, and is the kind of film that is difficult to discuss much in a review for concern of giving too much away for future viewers. Director Stephanie Zari’s chilling film is ultimately a character study of a highly troubled woman dealing with the emotional and psychological aftermath of having gone through horrifying events when she was younger, and how it affects her as an adult. Catherine (Sarah Roy) and English professor Dan (Tom Cullen) meet online and then in-person for a first date, during which she makes a startling confession and then asks Dan to do the same. Hers is far darker than his, but she later finds out that he was hiding a secret from her worse than the one he had originally told her. After they marry and she becomes pregnant, Dan’s secret threatens to drive Catherine to drastic measures. She calls her estranged

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Joseph Perry

Oct 14, 2022

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Rakuten Viki Announces Killer “Happy Halloween” Weekend Programming

Horror fanatics rejoice! Halloween is right around the corner and this year, Rakuten Viki, the largest streaming service for Asian content, is making sure viewers get to indulge in spooky thrills and chills. Scary movie fans know that when it comes to the genre, the U.S. can learn a thing or two about horror films from Asia, so leading into Halloween night, Rakuten Viki is launching a robust collection of its best titles. Get your popcorn ready and turn on the “Happy Halloween!” collection, which has a line-up of over 45 Asian horror titles that are sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. Some of the chilling titles include the hit zombie thriller, Train to Busan and the sequel Peninsula, Tale of the Nine-Tailed, a mythical drama about the nine-tailed fox creature, Zombie Detective, a fantasy horror series, The Wailing, a Korean film about a cursed village and much more. See below for additional titles in the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 12, 2022

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A Suburban Dream Turns Into A Nightmare In Netflix’s True Story Inspired Series ‘The Watcher’ (Trailer)

In 2018, an article by Reeves Wiedeman appeared in Cut Magazine, just two months later the rights were acquired by Netflix. The subject? The true story of the Broaddus family that moved into a new home in 2014, only to receive mysterious and unnerving letters from someone who called themselves “The Watcher.” The writer detailed how they had been watching the house for decades and knew intimate details about the Broaddus family and their routines. The police could not help and the family finally gave up and moved out in July 2019. Later this week you can watch the tense story unfold in the Netflix Original thriller series “The Watcher,” from Ryan Murphy (“AHS”). Naomi Watts (King Kong) and Bobby Cannavale (Ant-Man) lead the cast which also includes Jennifer Coolidge, Noma Dumezweni, Yuko Torihara, Mia Farrow, Luke David Blumm, Margo Martindale, and Kathryn Boswell. “After the Brannock family moves into what was supposed to be their suburban dream home, it

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 12, 2022

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Stephen Lang Stars In ‘Old Man’ – Premiering This October

Buried secrets from the past surface in Lucky McKee’s (Tales of Halloween, The Woman) highly-anticipated thriller Old Man, starring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe I & 2) In the film, “When a lost hiker stumbles upon an erratic old man living in the woods, he could never have imagined the nightmare that awaits.” Marc Senter, Liana Wright-Mark, and Patch Darragh also star in the film written by Joel Veach. Old Man lands in theaters and on VOD and Digital on October 14, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 12, 2022

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Film Review: Good Boy (Beyond Fest)

About as cautionary a fable as you can have for both meeting strangers through online dating apps and not following first impressions, writer/director Viljar Bøe’s Norwegian chiller Good Boy (2022) is a dark journey, indeed. Part-time university student Sigrid (Katrine Lovise Øpstad Fredriksen) and non-working millionaire Christian (Gard Løkke) meet on tinder, and their first date goes well enough that they wind up in bed at his house. Things take a turn for the unexpected when Frank’s dog walks into the bedroom. Frank, as viewers see in the opening minutes of the film, is actually a man (Nicolai Narvesen Lied) in a canine costume participating in “puppy play” role playing. Naturally, this freaks Sigrid out, but once her roommate tips her off about who Christian is and about his wealth, Sigrid begins to second-guess the red flags she originally felt about the situation. She meets Christian at his home again and sparks fly even as she questions the relationship between

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Joseph Perry

Oct 12, 2022

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How to Write a Horror Story That Terrifies Your Readers

Things are about to get spooky! A horror story often addresses a specific theme or problem. It may be about how miserable life is, how wicked people are, or about the beast that lives within us. It may even be about fear or the many ways we deal with fear. All horror stories share the characteristic that they are “tales of terror.” The best horror stories deal with fear, whether it’s dread of death, sickness, pain, loneliness, or the unknown. The majority of people dislike being afraid, which is the primary issue with horror tales. Human thoughts gravitate toward the easy, comfortable, and familiar. How, then, can we circumvent that? In this article, you’ll discover how to write a good horror story in 5 simple stages. Horror Story Writing: 5 Comprehensive Steps So, would you like to discover how to compose an incredible horror story? The 5 steps this article highlights will set you on the right path and match

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Ella Rebecca Horton

Oct 11, 2022

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A Maid Is Out For Blood This October In ‘The Domestic’ (Trailer)

Opening in select theaters, and coming to Digital and On Demand, this Halloween is The Domestic, a dark, horror-filled tale set in urban Johannesburg. “Set in a single location, an upper-class, happily married couple hire the daughter of their recently deceased housekeeper as their new helper, only for things to take a dark and macabre turn when she tries to destroy them from within.” The film stars Thuli Thabethe (Happiness is a Four-Letter Word), Amanda Du-Pont (Netflix South African Thriller Mini Series “Shadow,” “Little Big Mouth,” “10 Days in Sun City”), Tusmisho Masha (Bounce TV Drama Series “Saints & Sinners,” “Prey,” “Catch a Fire,” “Beyond Borders”), Ane Meas (Kite, Tarzan and the Lost City, Showmax Series “Binnelanders”), Linda Sebozo (SAFTA Award Winning series “Gauteng Maboneng”), Andil Mbatha (South African Youth Drama Series “Tshisa”), and Faith Baloy (Flatland, Showmax Action Series “Blood Psalms”). From Level 33 Entertainment and 33 Films in association with TAMPA (The African Motion Picture Alliance), comes a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 11, 2022

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Box Set Review: The Incredibly Strange Films of Ray Dennis Steckler (1962 – 1986)

Severin has recently unleashed a new box set titled The Incredibly Strange Films of Ray Dennis Steckler, and that is my personal choice for understatement of the century! Let’s just dive-in to the first feature in the set, 1962’s Wild Guitar: The incredible legend (well at least his Dad wanted that to be a thing) Arch Hall Jr. (who also appeared in the caveman shocker Eegah! the same year) stars as Bud Eagle, a dude that’s a lil’ bit Elvis but is more a clumsy doofus with a massive Johnny Bravo-style blonde pompadour. Anyway Bud blows in to Hollywood one fateful day, down to his last fifteen cents, and happens into a diner (populated by cartoon hooligans and an inexplicable kid dressed as a cowboy) where he meets the bubbly, Joker-grin having Vickie (Nancy Czar), a hopeful dancer that let’s Bud tag along with her to a variety show taping where she struts her stuff; a shimmy-packed, facial tick-laced dynamite

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Oct 10, 2022

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Tubi’s Halloween Celebration, “Terror On Tubi” Features Over 13,000 Free Titles

Tubi has now announced its lineup for the resurrection of “Terror on Tubi,” a month-long streaming celebration beginning October 1st of 13,000 spooky, eerie, thrilling, creepy, and terrifying titles that fans love to indulge in around Halloween. Creeping into the catalog of Tubi’s scary good streams are six brand-new Tubi Originals that will debut throughout October, ranging from beastly and chilling documentaries to slasher and thriller films, including the originals ALONE IN THE DARK; BATTLE OF THE BEASTS: BIGFOOT VS. YETI (October 12); THE FINAL ROSE (October 14); a remake of the cult classic TERROR TRAIN (October 21); LIGHTS, CAMERA, MURDER: SCREAM (October 26), and A PARTY TO DIE FOR (October 28). “Terror on Tubi” will also offer timeless Halloween content, from spooky seasonal titles to horror film buff favorites, totaling 27,000 hours of movies and TV shows, including horror films such as Stephen King’s “It,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Hellraiser,” and “Twilight Zone: The Movie” as well as thrillers

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 10, 2022

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‘Beast’ Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

A rouge lion hunts Idris Elba (Hobbs & Shaw, The Suicide Squad) in the pulse-pounding thriller Beast, out now Digital. Elba stars as Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed father who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a trip with his daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley, “Russian Doll”, Maleficent), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing turns into a fight for survival when a lion begins hunting them. Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, with Leah Sava Jeffries (Real series, Empire series) in the role of his 13-year-old daughter, Norah. The action-packed film is from filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, the director of Everest and Universal Pictures’ 2 Guns and Contraband. Beast is produced by Will Packer (Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, Night School, No Good Deed) and the president of Will Packer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 8, 2022