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Starship Troopers’ Casper Van Dien Talks ‘Darkness Reigns’ And More

Casper Van Dean, that’s a name everyone recognizes. When you hear it, odds are, you automatically think of the giant bug movie Starship Troopers. Well, Mr. Van Dien sat down with me to talk about that iconic film and his latest projects, including the supernatural film Darkness Reigns. Horror Fuel: “What was it like on the set of Starship Troopers?” Casper Van Dien: “It was a little bit surreal at the time. I was on this massive production team, with Edward Neumeier, writer of RoboCop, which I am a huge fan of. They had all the same team that worked on RoboCop. I am such fan that. All the actors and all the crew, the extras, there were so many people. It felt like a real family though. We all got along really well for the most part.” Horror Fuel: “Did they use mostly practical effects or was most of it CGI?” Caper Van Dien: “It was hard. There were

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 27, 2018

ForeignMoviesReviews

Movie Review: Satan’s Slaves (2017)

Pengabdi Setan, or Satan’s Slaves (the title of both this film and the original 1982 film upon which it is based) concerns a cash strapped Indonesian family who suffers the loss of the matriarch of the clan. Upon her death, the family is left with a lingering debt due in part to having had to pay out the ass for medicine for her preternatural (and mega-creepy) illness. To alleviate that financial burden, Daddy Dearest heads off to the city to find a way to make money leaving his four children home alone. It doesn’t take long before shit hits the frightful fan six ways to Sunday as soon the children’s mother’s ghost begins appearing in ever more frightful ways…and her pact with a Satanic cult to allow her to bear children (she was barren up to that point ‘natch) is revealed. Can our young heroes survive the supernatural’s invasion into their lives (including the aforementioned cult and ghosts, as well

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DanXIII

Jun 23, 2018

MoviesNews

A.I. Goes Terribly Wrong In Netflix’s Trailer For Tau

Streaming giant Netflix continues to build their original horror library. One of their latest titles is the action sci-fi horror thriller Tau, whose trailer has just arrived. Directed by artist and filmmaker Frederico D’Alessandro, Tau stars Gary Oldman, Ed Skrein, and Maika Monroe (It Follows) as a young woman held hostage by the AI devices inside a house. Tau will premiere on Netflix on June 29, 2018.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 23, 2018

Film Festivals

Sci-fi/Horror Short ‘Mainline’ Set To Screen At Cinepocalypse (Trailer)

It has now been announced that the “mind-bending” short Scifi/horror film Mainline is set to be screened at Chicago’s Cinepocalypse Film Festival on Saturday, June 23rd at 9:30 pm and Thursday, June 28th at 1:45 pm CT. Written and directed by Eric Kleifield, the short film is a “thrilling time-travel story that explores the dark side of advanced technology. Confined to his makeshift lab, a reclusive bioengineer must deal with the horrifying and deadly consequences of his injectable time-traveling serum.” The film made its world premiere at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in October 2017 and was nominated for both Best Horror Short Film and Best Short Film Director at the North Hollywood Cinefest in April 2018. “A lifelong sci-fi and horror fan, writer/director Eric Kleifield spent a year developing the film’s time-travel mechanics: “It took a lot of narrative experimentation, and many headache-inducing diagrams, to create a new take on time-travel that feels fresh and packs an emotional punch.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 20, 2018

IndieMovies

Blu-ray Reviews: Trancers 1 – 3 (1984 – 1992)

Man-o-man did I ever love me some Trancers flicks back in my misspent youth…but I haven’t laid eyes on any of these scintillatin’ sci-fi thrillers in many a year. To that end, I was pleased as poison punch when the first three films in the Trancers series arrived on my demonic doorstep courtesy of those sexy lil’ devils at Full Moon Entertainment! So, let’s kick back, pop open a brew or twenty and dive into the first feature… Trancers (1984): In a Blade Runner style future (replete with voice over narration), Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) is a bounty hunter hot on the trail of master criminal Whistler (Michael Stefani); a bad motherfucker who can hypnotize folks turning them into zombie like creatures called Trancers (‘natch). Said trail leads our hard boiled hero back in time to 1985 where Whistler has traveled “down the line” (a process by which an individual can possess the body of their ancestor) to kill the

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DanXIII

Jun 17, 2018

Film FestivalsMoviesNews

Tales From The Hood 2 Making Its World Premiere At Fantasia Along With Others

This year’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced the latest additions to their lineup. They have also announced that Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott’s highly anticipated Tales From the Hood 2 will be making its world debut at the festival which runs from July 12 to August 1st, along with other films. The full lineup of 130 films is to be announced on June 28th. TRIPPING THE FOG FANTASTIQUE: DANIEL ROBY’S DANS LA BRUME IS FANTASIA 2018’S OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT FILM Fantasia is proud to announce that the festival’s 22nd edition will open with the North American Premiere of DANS LA BRUME (“Just a Breath Away”), a large-scale genre co-production between France and Canada, directed by celebrated Quebec filmmaker Daniel Roby (LOUIS CYR, WHITE SKIN), starring Romain Duris (MOOD INDIGO), Olga Kurylenko (QUANTUM OF SOLACE), and Fantine Harduin (HAPPY END). Paris is hit by an earthquake, then filled with a mysterious toxic gas that seems to come from below ground. A

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 15, 2018

IndieMoviesReviews

Movie Review: Mad Genius (2017)

Mason Wells (Chris Mason) gets a wild hair up his ass about “fixing” society’s ills by hacking the human mind in order to save mankind from themselves. This seems reasonable (in a totally batshit, definitely going to go wrong sort of way). Standing in Mason’s way is the fact that he doesn’t have the resources to pull this off on the scale necessary in any way, shape, or form…and he has multiple personalities rattlin’ around in his head (thanks to the fact he’s done the initial testing of his new technology on himself) making him do whatever it take to see his crazy scheme come to fruition. To make matters worse, he spends his time hanging out with some sort of tech obsessed drug cult that hangs out in a warehouse having raves and attempting to expand their consciousness via new hardware (oh, and drugs as previously established). Before our story is through, what will be left of Mason’s morality

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DanXIII

Jun 15, 2018

NewsTrailers

An Aging Rocker Finds Himself In Trouble In The ‘Dead Envy’ Trailer

Random Media has acquired all domestic rights to Harley Di Nardo’s Dead Envy, a thriller that centers on an aging rocker who finds himself in over his head when he thinks he meets the perfect protege. The feature film debut of writer-director Di Nardo and co-writer Stacy Hullah, Dead Envy held its world premiere at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, where the filmmakers took home the prize for Best Thriller. Random Media plans a limited release in select markets this fall, followed by a VOD release. To celebrate Dead Envy‘s release announcement Random has released a new trailer. In the film, aging rock star “David Tangier’s sense of identity is all but destroyed as he works cutting hair to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife. His sound and age bind him to the Rock of the 2000’s, where his band Katatonic Spin once ruled the scene. David cannot tolerate that his entire existence has fallen prey

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 13, 2018

GamingNewsProductTrailers

Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision Teams Up With Ubisoft Montreal For New Video Game

Elijah Wood, one of three partners of the film company SpectreVision known for its horror/thriller related films, has teamed up with gaming giant Ubisoft Montreal to bring a new first-person thriller game to fans this fall. Ubisoft Montreal (a branch of Ubisoft) has released some major titles over the years most notably the “Assassin’s Creed” series, the “Far Cry” series, and “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege”. The two companies are working on a new psychological thriller video game called “Transference”. Players are unwilling participants in an experiment by Dr. Raymond Hayes who took brain data from himself, his wife, and their son and programmed it into a corrupt digital simulation. Players will have to traverse the environments as they solve puzzles in order to unlock some secrets hidden in the minds of the Hayes family members. The game is a unique mix of live action performances and digital gameplay that can be enjoyed with the aid of VR headsets, don’t

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Capt McNeely

Jun 13, 2018

InterviewsMoviesTrailers

Directors Chris Micklos And Jay Sapiro Talk ‘The Nursery’ In An Interview

Christopher Micklos and Jay Sapiro are making their directorial debut with the chilling supernatural thriller The Nursery. So I sat down with Micklos and Sapiro to discuss their film, how it came to be, and what’s next for the duo. In the film, “When Ranae, a college student babysits for a family with a tragic history, she finds herself stalked by a sinister presence and haunted by ghosts from her past. Soon, she and her friends must confront the angry, evil spirit hunting them down one-by-one on a deliberate march towards its ultimate prey.” Emmaline Friederichs, Madeline Conway, and Carly Rae James Sauer star. Horror Fuel: “How did you two get brought together for The Nursery?” Jay: “Chris and I have owned a media firm with our third partner and fellow filmmaker Glenn Chung for about twenty years. We’ve made countless ads and videos. We’ve always talked about making a film together on some level. But we kept putting it

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 12, 2018