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Movie Review: Train To Busan: Peninsula

I just watched Peninsula, the sequel to the worldwide 2016 hit zombie movie Train to Busan. I’m going to be honest, I loved Train to Busan, so I had high hopes for Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula. What did I think? Read on to find out. Heads up, there will be some spoilers. The film picks up four years after the zombie apocalypse. We meet a completely new group of survivors, including a soldier whose family was wiped out, except for his brother in law. The two get a gig from a rich guy to go back to the peninsula along with a small group of survivors on a mission to retrieve a truckload of money. Of course, nothing goes as planned. The main message of the movie is to remind the audience to be better people as well as the importance of family. There’s also the topic of redemption. First off, the young teenage character drives like she’s watched

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 21, 2020

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Danny Trejo Leads The Cast In First Trailer For Supernatural Series “Paragon: The Shadow Wars”

Action superstar Danny Trejo stars in Pikchure Zero Entertainment’s new supernatural sci-fi action series “Paragon: The Shadow Wars.” In a world where Reapers take souls and demons bargain with humans for their place in the food chain, a new descendent named Jael has emerged. After centuries of civil unrest in the real world, a new war is waging amongst those who are seeking to create a new after-life and Jael finds herself in the middle of it. She must venture into the dark world of Soul Reaping and embrace her new role as the Paragon. Trejo stars alongside Amin Joseph, Franziska Schissler, Dilan Gwyn, Khu, and Justin Price. The series is currently out to networks and will encompass a 7-episode first season, with each 43-minute episode fixing on the human race dealing with the obliteration of Heaven. Paragon is a sci-fi action series that follows the different factions of society as they deal with Heaven’s destruction. With only a small

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 20, 2020

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Blumhouse Releasing A Horde Of New Series And Films

As always, Blumhouse aims to keep genre fans on the edge of their seats. The horror powerhouse has a horde of new series soon to be unleashed and we’re going to make sure you don’t miss a moment of the action. Here’s what you need to know: First off, there’s “Welcome to Blumhouse,” a collection of the first four of eight terrifying tales, that includes Black Box and The Lie, which premieres on Amazon Prime on October 6th. Nocturne and Evil Eye arrive on October 13th. Writer-director Zu Quirke makes her directorial debut with Nocturne, set inside an art academy where a music student begins to outshine her twin sister after discovering a mysterious notebook. Sydney Sweeny (Euphoria) and Madison Iseman (Annabelle Comes Home) star. In Black Box, directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., who co-wrote the film with Stephen Herman, a single father loses both his wife and his memory in a can accident. After undergoing an experimental procedure he

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 20, 2020

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She Was Left For Dead But She’s Back For Revenge In The ‘Range Runners’ Trailer

Left for Dead. Back for Vengeance. The trailer has arrived for the highly-anticipated brutal survival thriller Range Runners, from director Philip S. Plowden and writer Devon Colwell. A woman thru-hiking an isolated trail runs into trouble when her pack is hijacked by two men hiding out in the woods, desperate and on the run. Now, stranded and left to fend for herself, she has a choice: crawl back to her normal life in defeat, or push forward and take back what was stolen from her. Celeste M Cooper, Sean Patrick Leonard, Michael B. Woods, and Tiffany Renee Johnson star in Range Runners, out September 8th from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 19, 2020

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New Trailer For Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘Death Of Me’ Will Cast A Spell On You

From director and horror mainstay Darren Lynn Bousman comes a new thrilling tale of terror, black magic, and murder, Death of Me. The new pulse-pounding trailer teases an intense supernatural mystery that will make you think twice about traveling to exotic places. Written by Ari Margolis, James Morley III, and David Tish, Death of Me stars Maggie Q (Fantasy Island), Luke Hemsworth (“Westworld”), and Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep). “Vacationing on an island off the coast of Thailand, Christine (Maggie Q) and Neil Oliver (Luke Hemsworth) awake hungover and with no memory of the previous night. They find footage on Neil’s camera, and watch, horrified, as Neil appears to murder Christine. With twenty-four hours until the next ferry and a typhoon threatening the island, Christine and Neil attempt to reconstruct the night’s events—and are snared in a web of mystery, black magic, and murder.” Bousman has a long history of providing genre fans the scares they crave with films such as

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 19, 2020

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Say A Prayer, It Appears That ‘The Exorcist’ Is Being Rebooted

Break out the holy water and call a priest, Morgan Creek is about to commit blasphemy. They are reportedly rebooting the most iconic horror film in history, 1973’s The Exorcist. The news that was hidden in a recent Deadline article. The single sentence has sent heads spinning throughout the genre. Current Morgan Creek Projects include Stay Tuned at AMC, with a theatrical reboot of The Exorcist in the works for 2021.” The strange part about all this, besides that anyone is attempting to reboot it, is that Morgan Creek swore on Twitter back on September 28, 2015, that, “For the record, we will never attempt to remake THE EXORCIST.” It seems they’ve decided to follow the sad trend of rebooting/remaking anything that could make a dime. There is one thing, the term “reboot” being used which implies that the story will differ from the original, but who knows. The film is not currently featured on their “in development” list. There’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 19, 2020

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Horror Icons Star In ‘The Good Things Devils Do’ – Out Now On Demand & DVD

From writer-director Jess Norvisgaard, and featuring a who’s who of horror, witness The Good Things Devils Do this August from Gravitas Ventures. Linnea Quigley (Silent Night, Deadly Night), Kane Hodder (Jason X), and Bill Oberst Jr (3 From Hell) realize that breaking in was easy but breaking out is going to be hell. Richard, a small-time gangster is retiring. Before he can, he must take one last job: to steal money from a rival gangster’s house. Miles apart, Melvin is a reluctant family man who has dreams of becoming a famous curator for his Museum of the Macabre. His newest acquisition? The remains of the notorious Masquerade, a vampire born from the embers of hell, slain centuries ago. On Halloween Night, their paths will collide and they’ll be forced to work together to fight centuries-old evil with everything on the line. Kelley Wilson Robinson, Mary Katherine O’Donnell, and Veronika Stoykova also star in this Jess Norvisgaard film, available now on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 18, 2020

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This September ‘The Silencing’ Will Have You On The Edge Of Your Seat

“Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in the edge-of-your-seat thriller The Silencing out this September from Lionsgate. Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders,” The Mummy) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) also star in the film about “a reformed hunter (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and a sheriff (Annabelle Wallis) are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they set out to track a killer who may have kidnapped the hunter’s daughter five years ago.” Directed by Robin Pront and written by Micah Ranum, The Silencing arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on September 29, 2020. Check out the riveting trailer! BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Making The Silencing Creating a Weapon: The Silencing Spear

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 18, 2020

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Sink Your Fangs Into The Trailer For Horror Comedy ‘Hawk And Rev: Vampire Slayers’

Ahead of its World Premiere at the Dances with Films Festival in L.A. later this month, we’ve got the trailer for Ryan Barton Grimley’s horror-comedy Hawk And Rev: Vampire Slayers which teases a frighteningly funny, blood-soaked flick. Grimley, Ari Schneider, Jana Savage, and Richard Gayler star in the indie film that follows Philip “HAWK” Hawkins who doesn’t just dream about killing vampires…he eats, sleeps, drinks, and freakin’ breaths it. After getting kicked out of the Army for staking a fellow soldier with a blunt two by four, Hawk almost dies of boredom working as a night security guard at a deserted warehouse in his hometown of Santa Muerte, California. Just when it looks like all Hawk’s options in life have expired, ﬁlthy blood-sucking vampires appear and of course, no one freakin’ believes him! With his back up against the wall, his sweaty Karate Kid headband tied on tight, real tight, and hordes of blood-thirsty vampires closing in, Hawk enlists the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 17, 2020

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Award-Winning Director And HNN Manager Team Up For New Indie Horror Film

Award-winning filmmaker Mario Cerrito III and HNN manager, Michael Joy, have teamed up for the upcoming horror film, The House in the Pines, which Cerrito will direct. The two will co-produce the film, described as “an ’80s slasher that is nothing like an 80s slasher.” John DiRenzo will also be producing. This isn’t the first time that Cerrito and DiRenzo have worked together. DiRenzo executive produced Cerrito’s film The Listing which won Best Feature Film at last year’s HNN Film Festival. Cerritos’ latest work of horror is titled Human Hibachi and will be released soon. The House In The Pines screenplay is complete and there will be casting announcements in the coming weeks. The world as we know it has changed and with the film industry getting back to work, it’s not going to be business as usual. We stand at the forefront of a very different movie experience. The food chain has been disrupted and independent filmmakers will be

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 16, 2020

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