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1974’s Controversial Film ‘The Night Porter’ Getting A 4K Restoration Release

CultFilms has now announced the 4K restoration of Liliana Cavani‘s highly controversial 1974 thriller The Night Porter. In the film, “former SS Officer Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a night porter in a Vienna hotel in the 1950s, and a member of a group of covert Nazis who is ruthlessly covering up the atrocities they committed. When beautiful Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) checks in with her husband, she recognizes the night porter from her traumatic past: Max was an officer in the concentration camp who had abused and tortured her when she was his teenage prisoner. Soon Lucia’s husband leaves the hotel for work and Lucia stays behind, finding herself compelled to re-ignite the sadomasochistic relationship she had with her vicious captor.” The Night Porter has been controversial since its initial release in 1974, with Roger Ebert describing the film as ‘a despicable attempt to titillate us by exploiting memories of persecution and suffering’. Now, over 45 years later, Liliana Cavani‘s story

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 14, 2020
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Halloween Horror ‘Black Pumpkin’ Gets A December Release Date

Thanks to the delays due to Covid, genre fans are continuing to see Halloween movies be released, not that we are complaining. Festival favorite Black Pumpkin happens to be one of those movies, but this December it’s heading home. “On October 31, 2018, two preteens in a small town accidentally awaken an evil that has lain dormant for decades. They are forced to survive through a terrifying Halloween night of cat-and-mouse, from the monster known as “Bloody Bobby”.” Dogen Eyeler (PAW Patrol), Gemma Brooke Allen (SealTeam), Grayson Thorne Patrick (Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later), Kamilla Alnes (“American Horror Story”), Ellie Patrikios (In The Blink of An Eye), Alix Lane (One Minute Worlds), Jacques Derosena (“The Wire”), Connor Weil (Scream: The TV Series), Jo Osmond (Doctor Who), Jordyn Lucas (Room 104), Brittany Belt (The Rookie), and Joseph Barone (“American Horror Story”) star in a Ryan McGonagle film. Black Pumpkin will be released on iTunes, Vudu, Xbox, Googleplay, Amazon, DirecTV,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
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A Blogger Becomes A Doctor’s Obsession In The ‘Incision’ Trailer

One blogger learns that the obsession with beauty can be dangerous when she’s kidnapped by a deranged doctor in Incision, starring Costas Mandylor (the Saw franchise) and Korrina Rico (“Ray Donavan”). “Beauty Blogger Alexa Landry (Rico) only had one fear, plastic surgery. She ultimately had to face this fear when she was kidnapped with her friends by Dr. Cunningham (James Allen Brewer), a deranged plastic surgeon who is obsessed with beautifying his victims.” Lee Kholafai, Caylee Cowan, Kev Adams, Tristan Tales, James Allen Brewer, Jonathan McDaniel, Olga Safari, Marik Knight, John Wallbank, Elaine Partnow, Hailee Lautenbach, Olivia Day, Madison Bontempo, Kyler Fisher, Josefin Nilsson, Amanda Paris, Courtney Paige, Kristen Solis, Gary Daniel Mosher, Malia Maquera, & Tohi co-star in a film directed by Az and was written by Chris Kato. Incision is out now out On Demand, from Eleven Seven Productions.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
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WWII Set Horror Film ‘Werewolf’ Soon To Be Unleashed

This December writer-director Adrian Panek is taking us back to World War II where we will encounter monstrous beasts in Werewolf. In Werewolf, a group of Jewish and Gypsie children is liberated from a Nazi concentration only to be left at a crumbling mansion surrounded by a forest. They must not only survive soldiers and vicious dogs on the attack but hunger and thirst as well in this tale of terror, and prejudice. Can they survive the dogs of war? Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica, Danuta Stenka, and Werner Daehn star. The Polish award-winning and fourteen-time nominated festival hit is headed to Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, and VOD in the U.S. on December 1, 2020, from Indiecan Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
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A First Look At The Horror Comedy ‘Too Late’

The first image (above) has surfaced (via THR) for the upcoming horror-comedy Too Late, billed as “a macabre love letter to the L.A. alt comedy scene.” “Los Espookys” actor Fred Armisen stars alongside Mary Lynn Rajskub (“24”), Ron Lynch (“Bob’s Burgers”), Will Weldon(“Above the Line”), Alyssa Limperis (Are You Happy Now), Jack De Sena (“Avatar: The Last Airbender”), Jenny Zigrino (Bad Santa 2), and Brooks Wheelan (“Hawaii Five-0”) in the film written by Tom Becker. Directed by D. W. Thomas, Too Late is “Set amid the L.A. comedy scene and tells the story of a lonely assistant who finally finds love and must escape her monster of a boss (Lynch) before she and her new love become his next meal.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
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‘Freaky’ Coming To VOD Only 17 Days After It Opens In Theaters

We’ve got great news for fans of Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. Landon’s new body-swapping slasher Freaky is set to open in theaters this November on Friday the 13th and today Blumhouse’s Jason Blum confirmed via Twitter that the slasher is being fast-tracked to VOD and will be coming to home video after just 17 days from opening night! In the film, “Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton, Blockers, HBO’s Big Little Lies) is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of “The Butcher” (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries. “When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
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‘Return To Splatter Farm’ This November

30 years after the infamous Death Farm murders, the killer is back in Return to Splatter Farm, directed by Jeff Kirkendall who co-wrote the film with Mark Polonia. A young woman and her friends descend upon the farm to party after discovering that she has inherited the land. But soon after, the strange occurrences and brutal murders begin again in the shocking sequel to the 1987 cult classic Splatter Farm. Danielle Donahue, Nico Bryant, Mel Heflin, Marie DeLorenzo, James Kelly, and Jeff Kirkendall star in Return to Splatter Farm out now on DVD and Digital from Wild Eye Releasing!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
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This December Enter ‘The Facility’

The Facility, the highly anticipated follow up to 2017’s The Rizen, is set to premiere on DVD and Digital this December from Uncork’d Entertainment. Harriet Madeley, Michael Fatogun, Sarine Sofair, Kevin Leslie, Sophie Miller, Marcus Bronzy, James Barnes, Lewis Saunderson, Clarice Burton, Connor Williams, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Marcus, Laurence Kennedy, Jenny Lathan, and Carol Cleveland star in this Matt Mitchell film. Set in 1955, NATO and the Allied Forces conducted secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. They succeeded, but what they unleashed almost tore our world apart. Now a group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed closed. The Facility lands on DVD and Digital on December 8, 2020, from Uncork’d Entertainment. Check out the trailer for this action-packed film!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
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Killer Insects Attack L.A. In ‘Cicada’ – Out Now On DVD

Odds are you’ve heard the haunting song of the Cicada or seen the dried husks they shed and leave latched on to trees which look terrifying. Now imagine a swarm of those monster bugs, but they are giant and they are descending on a town, and they’re hungry for human flesh. From writer-director David Willis, the giant insect horror Cicada flies onto DVD and Digital this November from Wild Eye Releasing. In Cicada, after an environmental disaster, four eccentric friends led by a disgraced baseball player must band together to defend Los Angeles from a swarm of bloodthirsty cicadas. Jeffrey Ryan Kent, Cassandra Hein, Beau Crawford, Mike Nielsen, and Lawrence Mandle star in the film executive produced by Nasser Othman and Tom Diridon, with David Aguilera, Jon Tucker, David Willis, Jeffrey Ryan Kent, and Beau Crawford producing. Cicada is out now on DVD and Digital.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
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Saban Films Acquires The Rights To The ‘Wrong Turn’ Reboot

Saban Films has snagged the rights from Constantin Films to the upcoming reboot of the 2003 movie Wrong Turn that went on to spawn six sequels and has plans to take if to AFM this week. Wrong Turn follows a group of friends hiking the Appalachian Trail, who are confronted by ‘The Foundation’, a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years. Mike P. Nelson’s reboot of Wrong Turn stars Charlotte Vega (The Lodgers), Matthew Modine (“Stranger Things”, 47 Meters Down), Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), and Bill Sage (“Hap and Leonard”). Mister Smith Entertainment is handling worldwide sales for Constantin Film productions this week out of the AFM, where it will be screening for buyers. The franchise reboot was written by Alan B. McElroy, the writer of the original film. Robert Kulzer, Constantin Film, in association with James Harris, Tea Shop Productions, produced.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 11, 2020

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1974’s Controversial Film ‘The Night Porter’ Getting A 4K Restoration Release

CultFilms has now announced the 4K restoration of Liliana Cavani‘s highly controversial 1974 thriller The Night Porter. In the film, “former SS Officer Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a night porter in a Vienna hotel in the 1950s, and a member of a group of covert Nazis who is ruthlessly covering up the atrocities they committed. When beautiful Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) checks in with her husband, she recognizes the night porter from her traumatic past: Max was an officer in the concentration camp who had abused and tortured her when she was his teenage prisoner. Soon Lucia’s husband leaves the hotel for work and Lucia stays behind, finding herself compelled to re-ignite the sadomasochistic relationship she had with her vicious captor.” The Night Porter has been controversial since its initial release in 1974, with Roger Ebert describing the film as ‘a despicable attempt to titillate us by exploiting memories of persecution and suffering’. Now, over 45 years later, Liliana Cavani‘s story

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 14, 2020
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Halloween Horror ‘Black Pumpkin’ Gets A December Release Date

Thanks to the delays due to Covid, genre fans are continuing to see Halloween movies be released, not that we are complaining. Festival favorite Black Pumpkin happens to be one of those movies, but this December it’s heading home. “On October 31, 2018, two preteens in a small town accidentally awaken an evil that has lain dormant for decades. They are forced to survive through a terrifying Halloween night of cat-and-mouse, from the monster known as “Bloody Bobby”.” Dogen Eyeler (PAW Patrol), Gemma Brooke Allen (SealTeam), Grayson Thorne Patrick (Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later), Kamilla Alnes (“American Horror Story”), Ellie Patrikios (In The Blink of An Eye), Alix Lane (One Minute Worlds), Jacques Derosena (“The Wire”), Connor Weil (Scream: The TV Series), Jo Osmond (Doctor Who), Jordyn Lucas (Room 104), Brittany Belt (The Rookie), and Joseph Barone (“American Horror Story”) star in a Ryan McGonagle film. Black Pumpkin will be released on iTunes, Vudu, Xbox, Googleplay, Amazon, DirecTV,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
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A Blogger Becomes A Doctor’s Obsession In The ‘Incision’ Trailer

One blogger learns that the obsession with beauty can be dangerous when she’s kidnapped by a deranged doctor in Incision, starring Costas Mandylor (the Saw franchise) and Korrina Rico (“Ray Donavan”). “Beauty Blogger Alexa Landry (Rico) only had one fear, plastic surgery. She ultimately had to face this fear when she was kidnapped with her friends by Dr. Cunningham (James Allen Brewer), a deranged plastic surgeon who is obsessed with beautifying his victims.” Lee Kholafai, Caylee Cowan, Kev Adams, Tristan Tales, James Allen Brewer, Jonathan McDaniel, Olga Safari, Marik Knight, John Wallbank, Elaine Partnow, Hailee Lautenbach, Olivia Day, Madison Bontempo, Kyler Fisher, Josefin Nilsson, Amanda Paris, Courtney Paige, Kristen Solis, Gary Daniel Mosher, Malia Maquera, & Tohi co-star in a film directed by Az and was written by Chris Kato. Incision is out now out On Demand, from Eleven Seven Productions.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
Horror Fuel

WWII Set Horror Film ‘Werewolf’ Soon To Be Unleashed

This December writer-director Adrian Panek is taking us back to World War II where we will encounter monstrous beasts in Werewolf. In Werewolf, a group of Jewish and Gypsie children is liberated from a Nazi concentration only to be left at a crumbling mansion surrounded by a forest. They must not only survive soldiers and vicious dogs on the attack but hunger and thirst as well in this tale of terror, and prejudice. Can they survive the dogs of war? Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica, Danuta Stenka, and Werner Daehn star. The Polish award-winning and fourteen-time nominated festival hit is headed to Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, and VOD in the U.S. on December 1, 2020, from Indiecan Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
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A First Look At The Horror Comedy ‘Too Late’

The first image (above) has surfaced (via THR) for the upcoming horror-comedy Too Late, billed as “a macabre love letter to the L.A. alt comedy scene.” “Los Espookys” actor Fred Armisen stars alongside Mary Lynn Rajskub (“24”), Ron Lynch (“Bob’s Burgers”), Will Weldon(“Above the Line”), Alyssa Limperis (Are You Happy Now), Jack De Sena (“Avatar: The Last Airbender”), Jenny Zigrino (Bad Santa 2), and Brooks Wheelan (“Hawaii Five-0”) in the film written by Tom Becker. Directed by D. W. Thomas, Too Late is “Set amid the L.A. comedy scene and tells the story of a lonely assistant who finally finds love and must escape her monster of a boss (Lynch) before she and her new love become his next meal.”

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2020
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‘Freaky’ Coming To VOD Only 17 Days After It Opens In Theaters

We’ve got great news for fans of Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. Landon’s new body-swapping slasher Freaky is set to open in theaters this November on Friday the 13th and today Blumhouse’s Jason Blum confirmed via Twitter that the slasher is being fast-tracked to VOD and will be coming to home video after just 17 days from opening night! In the film, “Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton, Blockers, HBO’s Big Little Lies) is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of “The Butcher” (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries. “When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
Horror Fuel

‘Return To Splatter Farm’ This November

30 years after the infamous Death Farm murders, the killer is back in Return to Splatter Farm, directed by Jeff Kirkendall who co-wrote the film with Mark Polonia. A young woman and her friends descend upon the farm to party after discovering that she has inherited the land. But soon after, the strange occurrences and brutal murders begin again in the shocking sequel to the 1987 cult classic Splatter Farm. Danielle Donahue, Nico Bryant, Mel Heflin, Marie DeLorenzo, James Kelly, and Jeff Kirkendall star in Return to Splatter Farm out now on DVD and Digital from Wild Eye Releasing!

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
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This December Enter ‘The Facility’

The Facility, the highly anticipated follow up to 2017’s The Rizen, is set to premiere on DVD and Digital this December from Uncork’d Entertainment. Harriet Madeley, Michael Fatogun, Sarine Sofair, Kevin Leslie, Sophie Miller, Marcus Bronzy, James Barnes, Lewis Saunderson, Clarice Burton, Connor Williams, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Marcus, Laurence Kennedy, Jenny Lathan, and Carol Cleveland star in this Matt Mitchell film. Set in 1955, NATO and the Allied Forces conducted secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. They succeeded, but what they unleashed almost tore our world apart. Now a group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed closed. The Facility lands on DVD and Digital on December 8, 2020, from Uncork’d Entertainment. Check out the trailer for this action-packed film!

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
Horror Fuel

Killer Insects Attack L.A. In ‘Cicada’ – Out Now On DVD

Odds are you’ve heard the haunting song of the Cicada or seen the dried husks they shed and leave latched on to trees which look terrifying. Now imagine a swarm of those monster bugs, but they are giant and they are descending on a town, and they’re hungry for human flesh. From writer-director David Willis, the giant insect horror Cicada flies onto DVD and Digital this November from Wild Eye Releasing. In Cicada, after an environmental disaster, four eccentric friends led by a disgraced baseball player must band together to defend Los Angeles from a swarm of bloodthirsty cicadas. Jeffrey Ryan Kent, Cassandra Hein, Beau Crawford, Mike Nielsen, and Lawrence Mandle star in the film executive produced by Nasser Othman and Tom Diridon, with David Aguilera, Jon Tucker, David Willis, Jeffrey Ryan Kent, and Beau Crawford producing. Cicada is out now on DVD and Digital.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2020
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Saban Films Acquires The Rights To The ‘Wrong Turn’ Reboot

Saban Films has snagged the rights from Constantin Films to the upcoming reboot of the 2003 movie Wrong Turn that went on to spawn six sequels and has plans to take if to AFM this week. Wrong Turn follows a group of friends hiking the Appalachian Trail, who are confronted by ‘The Foundation’, a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years. Mike P. Nelson’s reboot of Wrong Turn stars Charlotte Vega (The Lodgers), Matthew Modine (“Stranger Things”, 47 Meters Down), Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), and Bill Sage (“Hap and Leonard”). Mister Smith Entertainment is handling worldwide sales for Constantin Film productions this week out of the AFM, where it will be screening for buyers. The franchise reboot was written by Alan B. McElroy, the writer of the original film. Robert Kulzer, Constantin Film, in association with James Harris, Tea Shop Productions, produced.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 11, 2020
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