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ABC Passes On ‘The Brides’ But The Series Isn’t Dead Just Yet

Earlier this year, ABC ordered the pilot for their vampire series “The Brides” from Roberto Aquirre-Sacasa (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) which centered on the Brides of Dracula. News has now come via Deadline that the series will not be moving forward at ABC but will be shopped to other networks. Gina Torres (“Hannibal”) and Goran Višnjić (“Timeless”) were set to star. The series is described as “a sexy, contemporary reimagining of the Dracula saga as a family drama with a trio of powerful, diverse female leads. With strong horror elements, a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy—and their non-traditional family.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 30, 2020
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The Best Horror Themed Slots

You can’t beat that tense feeling of a horror movie; the shift in background music that alerts you to imminent evil and the cliché storylines. If you love a good horror movie, then you’ll probably appreciate games with horror themes too, such as fun horror-themed slots. Next time you are at the casino or playing online, look out for the following great horror themes and their slots. Vampire Princess of Darkness The originals are always the best, and vampires have made great movie themes since day one, so naturally, they have also been used as the basis for lots of slot games. Playtech’s Vampire Princess of Darkness features everything you would expect: bats, blood, and crucifixes aplenty. Then if you are lucky enough to land the tombstone reels, you head off to the graveyard for bonuses that rise up from underneath headstones. You can play this and lots of similar betting games at Paddy Power, where there are hundreds of

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Ella Rebecca Horton
Jun 29, 2020
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Dive Into ‘Deep Blue Sea 3’ This Summer

This July dive into Deep Blue Sea 3. New discoveries and predators emerge in the middle of the ocean in the highly anticipated feature film, from Warner Bros Home Entertainment (WBHE). Emma Collins, an eminent marine biologist, and her crew have set up a mid-ocean laboratory over a sunken island town in the ocean where they are observing the first known Great White mating area. Unfortunately, the enhanced Bull Sharks that escaped in Deep Blue Sea 2 are also there with their own evolutionary goal: cross-breeding with the bigger faster Great Whites. The mission’s patron, Richard Lowell, believes that the Bull Sharks contain the key to intelligence enhancement, which he secretly intends to sell for big profits. Now, Emma and her crew are trapped on crumbling stilt houses mere feet over the ocean, caught between predators above and below the water. Following the breakout success of Deep Blue Sea 2, itself a sequel to the 1999 cult hit Deep Blue

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2020
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Fantasia International Film Festival Offers Up World-Class Horror and Genre Cinema in Its First Wave Announcement

The Fantasia International Film Festival, one of the world’s premiere genre film fests, is forging ahead with its first-ever virtual edition so that Canadian movie lovers can partake of the festival’s outstanding programs despite the current pandemic and the uncertainty it brings to the world. The official press release for Fantasia’s 24th edition follows. The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 24th edition as a virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada, with a wild assortment of scheduled screenings, panels, and workshops taking place online from August 20 through September 2, 2020. The decision to launch a digital edition of the famed genre festival was born from Fantasia’s desire to keep the health and safety of its attendees a top priority during the current global health crisis, while still offering daring, much-needed new genre entertainment to residents of Canada and supporting the breakout filmmakers of the year. The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August.

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Joseph Perry
Jun 10, 2020
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Portland Horror Film Festival Announces Its Terrific Virtual Edition Lineup

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a new trend of film festivals going virtual this year. Portland Horror Film Festival, the Pacific Northwest’s premiere horror genre film festival, is the latest fest to announce that it is offering a virtual version, and as a selection and awards judge on the fest’s film jury, I can tell Horror Fuel readers first-hand that the quality of fright fare selected for this outing is high, indeed. Best of all, you can partake of the terror from anywhere in the United States! Horror fans can dig into a selection of more than 60 short and feature films during the 6-night event, beginning June 10th with the first shorts block and a preview of the festival’s upcoming features. The terror continues June 17–21 with more shorts and feature films from around the world. Following is the official press release from Portland Horror Film Festival: In the midst of this pandemic, some businesses are finally starting

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Joseph Perry
Jun 4, 2020
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‘The Color Out Of Space’ & ‘The Shed’ Coming To Shudder

Shudder announced today that it has acquired exclusive U.S. streaming rights for Richard Stanley’s (interview) Color Out of Space starring Nicolas Cage (Mandy), Joely Richardson (“The Rook”) and Madeleine Arthur (“Snowpiercer”). Shudder also announced the acquisition of exclusive U.S. streaming rights for The Shed, the sophomore feature from writer/director Frank Sabatella (Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, interview), starring Jay Jay Warren (“Bosch”), Cody Kostro (“City on a Hill”), Sofia Happonen (Woman of a Certain Age), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Men in Black) and Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show). Both films will premiere on Shudder later this year. We’re thrilled to be bringing Shudder members Stanley’s masterful adaptation of one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most influential stories—as well as another unforgettable Nicolas Cage performance—and Sabatella’s inventive new take on the vampire genre,” said Shudder General Manager Craig Engler. “The first half of 2020 has been the most successful in Shudder history, and these two great films

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 4, 2020
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“What We Do In The Shadows” Sinks Its Fangs Into Season 3

The Staten Island vampires are here to stay, at least for another season. FX has renewed the hilarious series “What We Do In the Shadows” for a third season ahead of the June 10th season two finale. The show starring Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, and Mark Proksch follows three vampires, their energy vampire roommate, and one of their human familiars as they live out their daily lives. The mockumentary series is based on Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s 2014 hit feature film of the same name. Airing on both FX and Hulu, the series’ second season rose to over 3.2 million viewers.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 23, 2020
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Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage Reunite For Horror Movie ‘Good Bad & Undead’

“Game of Thrones” alum Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are reuniting for Legendary’s action-horror movie Good Bad & Undead, directed by Max Barbakow (Palm Springs), Deadline reports. The movie is based on an original idea by horror veterans Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo behind Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the 13th (2009). “Dinklage will play Van Helsing, last in a long line of vampire hunters. He develops an uneasy partnership with a vampire (Momoa) who has taken a vow never to kill again. Together they run a scam from town to town, where Van Helsing pretends to anguish the vampire for money. But when a massive bounty is put on the vampire’s head, everything in this dangerous world full of monsters and magic is now after them.” Both Momoa and Dinklage will be producing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020
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Product Review: HorrorPack May Subscription Box

Who doesn’t love subscription boxes? Monthly goodies delivered right to your front door every month, it’s the best right? Spending so much time home lately, I’ve watched pretty much everything worth watching on streaming networks, so it was great to get the May HorrorPack subscription box. Featuring four Blu-rays, the box includes: The Exorcist III, released in 1990, comes to Blu-ray for the first time. Arguably one of the best horror sequels ever made, the film picks up where the original ends, following Lt. Kinderman (George C. Scott) as he investigates a series of killings. Jason Miller reprises his role from the original film. 2016’s The Forest (review) starring Natalie Dormer whose search for her sister leads her to the suicide forest. It was directed by Jason Zada and written by Nick Antosca and Sarah Cornwell. The box also includes the horror-comedy Bloodsucking Bastards, a side-splitting vampire flick that reminds us the office really can suck the life out of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020
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New Series “Buried Worlds With Don Wildman” Delves Into Mankind’s Darkest Mysteries

Iconic Travel Channel host Don Wildman (“Mysteries at the Museum”) is back and takes his thirst for adventure into terrifying new territory to explore mankind’s darkest mysteries in “Buried Worlds with Don Wildman”. In his newest series premiering on Travel Channel on Monday, June 8th at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Wildman is on a mission of a more cryptic sort, heading to remote regions of Peru, Haiti, Bulgaria and beyond – visiting the dark chasms and caverns of the paranormal and supernatural, tracking alleged lingering ghosts, devilish demons, vampires and witches burned at the stake. His global quest to explore the world’s most terrifying mysteries will consist of seven hour-long episodes and a two-hour special event finale airing on Monday, July 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. As he joins in taboo rituals, comes face-to-face with paranormal entities, and witnesses deadly practices, Wildman is seeking out the darkest legends in the world and experiencing them for himself. His adventures take him to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 6, 2020
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