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The Exorcist Series Ordered Into Production By Fox

News comes to that Fox has ordered the re-imagined series adaption of the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist to begin production. The psychological thriller series is set four decades after the original film. Scream Queen actress Brianne Howey had been cast as Charlotte, their version of Regan. Geena Davis will co-star as Angela Rance, a regal and proud woman, under tremendous stress, trying to keep her faith and stay positive while her family is going through hell. Howey and Davis star along side Alfonso Herrera (Sense8), Ben Daniels (House of Cards), Kurt Egiawan (Beasts of No Nation) and Hannah Kasulk. The series, directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and penned by Jeremy Slater (The Lazarus Effect), has been described as a modern reinvention of the novel that was also adapted into William Friedkin’s classic by the same name. The series follows two very different men, Father Marcus Lang (Daniels) and Father Tomas Ortega (Herrera) ,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2016
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The First Trailer And Stills Have Arrived For Adam Wingard’s The Woods

Adam Wingard who headed V/H/S and V/H/S 2 as well as directing the home invasion thriller You’re Next, is back with a new film, The Woods, that is being referred to as the next great horror film. The film was penned by Wingard’s long time collaborator Simon Barrett. The details are being kept hush-hush, but we do know that it does “involve a group of collage student on a camping trip who discover they are not alone.” The Woods stars James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Valorie Curry, and Wes Robinson. 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). Genre fans will be able to witness the horror of The Woods this September the 16th in theaters. The first stills and first trailer has just arrived from Lionsgate and they look amazing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2016
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An Interview With Director Jonathan Patrick Hughes Plus Exclusive Set Photos From (S)aint Nick

Tonight I spoke with an up-and-coming writer and director Jonathan Patrick Hughes about his latest project, the 20 minute short horror film (S)aint Nick, which is being eyed for a Horror Christmas anthology titled The 12 Slays of Christmas by Body Bag Films . Hughes was kind enough to share never-before-seen behind the scenes photos from the set of (S)aint Nick, which is his first film out of Film school. Hughes graduated from “The Factory”, a program at The Douglas Education Center, the same school where Tom Savini’s School of Make Up Effects is located. (S)aint Nick , filmed in Canonsburg, Pittsburgh, stars Leeana Hergenreder, John Seese and Chaise Thompkins and follows a kid named Billy who asks Santa to kill his abusive stepfather. KM “How old were you when you realized you wanted to be a director?” JH “When I was four my mom bought me The Making Of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. By the age of 5, I was

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 8, 2016
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Practical Effects And Magic Meet in Darkfall

R. Paul Wilson, who you may know from the long-running series Real Hustle on BBC, is now running a Kickstarter campaign for his film Darkfall, which he both wrote and will be directing. What makes Darkfall unique ? Wilson will be combining magic and practical effects to create a film like we have never seen before. From the Press Release: “Darkfall: Death Goes Live will use absolutely no CGI,” Wilson states in his Kickstarter campaign. “Everything seen on the screen will be the result of practical effects, actual magic and the art of illusion. This is a contemporary film that pays homage to fine classic techniques.” “Darkfall will have plenty of violence and bloodshed, but it won’t be gratuitous,” Wilson continues. “We will combine an excellent story line, believable characters, talented cast, and then add amazing effects, all shot on film. When our characters find themselves in a predicament which worsens, concern turns to panic, and terror. For me, the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 8, 2016
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Does Shark Lake Bite ? (Review)

Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane, Lily Brooks O’Brian, James Chalke, Michael Aaron Milligan and Ibrahim Renno star in the shark thriller Shark Lake. Directed by Jerry Dugan and written by David Anderson and Gabe Burnstein, Shark Lake centers on officer Meredith Hernandez, a single mother raising Carley (O’Brian), her young daughter. Meredith’s life is thrown into chaos when she learns that her ex Clint (Lundgren), has been released from prison and is back in town. Clint was arrested for smuggling exotic animals, but Meredith and the small lake-side town have no idea that before he was arrested Clint released a pregnant shark into the lake. Not only is it thriving, its pups are grown and hungry. A mob boss won’t leave Clint alone until he gets the shark he is owed. Meanwhile, the three large sharks are eating both residents and vacationers visiting the lake. Meredith, with the help of a visiting doctor, is determined to hunt the sharks down.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2016
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The Shallows Sinks Its Teeth Into A New Trailer

Last week we told you that Sony Screen Gems’ thriller The Shallows, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and penned by Tony Jaswinski, had been given a new theatrical release date, June 29th. Today, we have a brand new trailer that reveals more of the story and gives us a closer look at the beast. Blake Liveley stars as Nancy, a young woman surfing in the waters off of a secluded beach. Nancy comes face-to-face with the ocean’s ultimate killing machine, a Great White that has killed her friends right in-front of her eyes. After she is attacked by the huge predator she finds refuge on an islet. The shark, still circling, is the only thing standing in her way of making it back to shore and getting help.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2016
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WATCH SCYTHE’ Now! The Newest Slasher Film to “Break All The Rules”

Scythe’ the newest slasher film that claims to “break all the horror movie rules”. We were sent this slasher film for review and to build awareness of it before it’s Kickstarter runs out [which runs out in 2 days]. Opening to two teens/20 somethings smoking joints as one of them leaves the other turns on the tv, a report of escaped serial killer, Ronald Wade, dubbed “The Grim Reaper Killer” was top story on the news. As the absent girl [Amy] makes her way back home, the escaped serial killer tracks her down and in a jump worthy scene she gets offed. Words from the director: “The film is called SCYTHE. It’s a psychological SLASHER THRILLER in the same vein of Halloween, Saw & Hitchcock. While the genre seems like it has been done to death, OUR FILM is unique: IT’S REAL. IT’S REALISTIC. It’s realistic in setting and realistic in tone. The film has a human interest dramatic element

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Capt McNeely
May 2, 2016
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New Line Adapting The Award Winning Novel Ice Beneath Her

Continuing with the trend of adaptions, New Line Cinema has set in motion the film adaption of Swedish author Camilla Grebe’s bestselling 2015 novel The Ice Beneath Her, a head of the book’s December debuts here in the U.S. American Sniper’s Andrew Lazar is attached to produce, according to Deadline. The Ice Beneath Her centers on a psychological profiler and an investigator working together to solve the case of a young woman found beheaded in the home of a prominent business man. There is no word yet who might be cast in the psychological thriller. We will give an update when we know more.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 1, 2016
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The Shallows Gets A New Release Date

Sony Screen Gems’ thriller The Shallows, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and penned by Tony Jaswinski, was set to premiere on June 24, 2016. Now, the shark film will be treading water until its new theatrical release date on June 29th. Blake Liveley stars as Nancy, a young woman surfing in the waters off of a secluded beach. Nancy comes face-to-face with the ocean’s ultimate killing machine, a Great White. After she is attacked by the huge predator she finds refuge on an islet. The shark, still circling, is the only thing standing in her way of making it back to shore and getting help.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 30, 2016
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Zack Ward’s Restoration Deserves To Be Seen (Review) – Coming To VOD This May

The supernatural thriller Restoration, penned by James Cullen Bressack and Zack Ward, who also directs and stars in the feature, is set to arrive on Demand on May 3, 2016 followed by its DVD release on July 5th from Uncork’d Entertainment . Emily Roya O’Brien, who starred in Bressack’s Pernicious, plays the role of Dr. Rebecca Jordan, who along with her husband Todd (Adrian Gaeta), have moved into a older home. While Rebecca is at work, Todd stays elbows deep into the home’s restoration and remodeling. One night while working Todd discovers an old teddy bear in the wall. That night when Rebecca arrives home from a tough shift she finds Todd in the kitchen with her neighbors, a lovely young couple, played by Zach Ward (Resident Evil: Apocalypse) and Sarah Ann Schultz (The Hit List). After their guests leave Rebecca and Todd break into a teddy bear fight, you see the man who last lived in the house left

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2016
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