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Charlotte Kirk Set to Star in Neil Marshall's Cat-and-Mouse Horror-Thriller 'The Spiral Down'

Movie Review: Neil Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ Will Cast A Spell On You

Neil Marshall is a name you should be very familiar with. He’s the director behind movies such as The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Tales of Halloween. He’s back with a new film, The Reckoning. Set in England in the late 17th century, the Great Plague is raging as the witch trials cause hysteria, people begin to fear their friends, neighbors, and family, may be witches. During this time in history in real life, over 1,000 innocent people were imprisoned, tortured, and killed with ninety percent of the victims being women. All it took was a whisper for these people to be condemned. This is a key element in The Reckoning. In the opening scene, we see Grace (Charlotte Kirk), an exhausted mother kiss her baby before retrieving a sword from a chest. Struggling, she drags the Scottish Claymore through the mud as she stumbles across her yard. That’s when we see him, her dear husband hanging from a tree. Clawing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2021
Horror Fuel

February’s “Into The Dark” Teases How Dangerous Love Can Be

This February, Hulu’s new installment of “Into the Dark“, titled “Tentacles,” is all about love and just how dangerous it can be. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this psychosexual horror-thriller about a young Los Angeles couple Tara (Dana Drori) and Sam (Casey Deidrick) who fall head over heels into a new romance, entwining their lives — until their intimacy transforms into something terrifying. Evan Williams (Versailles) and Kasey Elise (North Hollywood) also star in the feature-length episode directed by Clara Aranovich (Tantalum) and written by Alexandra Pechman (“Channel Zero”), based on a story by Pechman and Nick Antosca (“Channel Zero”, Antlers). In partnership with Blumhouse Television, Hulu’s “Into The Dark” is a monthly anthology horror event series from the prolific, award-winning producer, Jason Blum’s independent TV studio. Each feature-length installment is inspired by a holiday from that month and features Blumhouse’s signature genre spin on the story. The series has explored nearly every facet of the horror genre, with the latest

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 31, 2021
Horror Fuel

Darren Aronofsky & Jared Leto Reteam For Film From ‘Ring’ Writer

Before The Ring movie franchise was made the frightening tale was born in Koji Suzuki‘s novel. Now, another film adaptation of Suzuki’s is headed our way from 2000’s Requiem for a Dream and The wrestler director Darren Aronofsky. Aronofsky is reteaming with Requiem for a Dream star Jared Leto for Adrift, the adaptation of Suzuki’s short story. The story “is set in the dead calm of the open sea, where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but soon he discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a Ghost Ship.” Deadline reports. Luke Dawson is writing the script along with Aranosky for the film that will be produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Leto can also be seen in the upcoming MCU’s vampire horror Morbius which has been hit with several delays, with the most recent release

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Suspiria’ Director And Writer Reunite For ‘Bones & All’

Suspiria director Luca Guadagino is reuniting with screenwriter David Kajganich for Bones & All, described as a “horror love story.” Deadline is reporting that Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name) is now in talks to play the lead role in the film, but he’s not the only star currently in negotiations for the film, Escape Room actor Tayloe Russell is also in talks to star in a key role. Guadagnino and Chalamet previously worked together on the romantic drama Call Me By Your Name. We’ll keep you posted.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Wrong Turn’ Is Coming To Blu-Ray And DVD

Next month, you can bring home director Mike P. Nelson‘s (The Domestics) Wrong Turn, a new take on the hillbilly cannibal slasher released in 2003. In the film, “Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross onto land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return— unless Jen’s father (Golden Globe nominee Matthew Modine) can reach them in time.” Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), Bill Sage (“Hap and Leonard”), Emma Dumont (“The Gifted”), Chaney Morrow (Haunt), Valerie Jane Parker (“Greenleaf”), and David Hutchinson (“American Horror Story”) also star in the film. The original movie’s writer Alan B. McElroy returned to write the script

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Cloverfield’ Is Finally Getting A Direct Sequel

Back in 2008, there were discussions of a possible new direct sequel to Matt Reeve‘s highly acclaimed monster movie Cloverfield, which spawned 10 Cloverfield Land and The Cloverfield Paradox which both went in new directions. A proper sequel to Cloverfield never materialized, until now. Paramount and Bad Robot have now hired Joe Baron, the showrunner for HBO’s “The Batman”, to pen the script for the direct sequel which will be see J.J Abrams return as a producer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the true sequel has now entered development. One thing will be different from the original though, it will not be found-footage. While details are still slim we also know that the original movie’s director Matt Reeves will not be involved. In the original 2008 movie, a group of friends venture into the streets of New York after a party on a rescue mission as the city is attacked by a giant monster. Here’s a look back at the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

New Set Image Teases The Return Of Major Character In “Stranger Things”

Season four of Netflix’s hit series “Stranger Things” is now in production. A new batch of images has surfaced and appear to confirm the return of a major character from season one, Bremmer. In the photos posted on the Instagram account of Stranger Things 4 Updates, actor Matthew Modine can be seen on the set. While he could be just featured in Eleven’s flashbacks or something, we don’t know yet. But Modine did tease back in 2019 that the character may be returning. At the moment no plot details have been revealed for this season of “Stranger Things,” but we do know that Hooper is imprisoned by the Russians and that things will be complicated now that Joyce, Will, Jonathan, and Eleven have moved away from Hawkins. Modine plays the role of Dr. Bremmer, a highly manipulative, ruthless, and cruel director and researcher for Hawkins National Laboratory who held Eleven prisoner for much of her childhood to study her psychokinetic

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

Sisters Fight To Uncover The Truth In ‘Silence & Darkness’

Writer-director Barak Barkan makes his feature film debut with the dark thriller Silence & Darkness. Following the death of their mother, blind and deaf sisters Anna (Mina Walker) and Beth (Joan Glackin) live happily in a secluded small town with Father (Jordan Lage). However, when a neighbor stops by, Anna and Beth begin to question Father’s medical diagnoses and start to realize his intentions are more sinister than they could have imagined. Shot in the haunting ephemeral landscapes of Vermont, Silence & Darkness crafts a harrowing, and eerie portrait of two sisters forced to adapt and use every skill they have to uncover their family’s dark truth. I sought to create tension between the viewer and the film, both through Anna and Beth’s interactions and Father’s backstory,” says writer-director Barak Barkan. “My goal is that while viewing the film, the audience will inhabit a constant state of curious unease—desperate to find out what led to the circumstances of this family’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

Shudder’s Critically Acclaimed Horror ‘Host’ Coming To Blu-ray & DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Host from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host, which is Certified 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes was shot remotely during quarantine and features groundbreaking scares, stunts, and surprises, all filmed by the actors in their own homes. The project was commissioned, written, produced, and will be released in under three months. Host is the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). Watch as “six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

Witness The Haunting Film ‘The Funeral Home’ This January

Mauro Iván Ojeda’s new chilling supernatural thriller The Funeral Home is headed your way this January, hot off the heels of its premiere at Fantasia. The film centers on Bernardo, an undertaker. He and his dysfunctional family live amongst coffins, wreaths, and mischievous supernatural entities that visit daily. They attribute the paranormal manifestations to the dead bodies from their mortuary work. Finding the real source of all this madness will be their quest, but they might find a terrifying truth. Luis Machín, Celeste Gerez, Camila Vaccarini, Susana Varela, and Hugo Arana star in this haunting tale. The Funeral Home (review) opens in virtual theaters on January 29, 2021, before arriving on digital on February 2nd via Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021

More from 2021

Charlotte Kirk Set to Star in Neil Marshall's Cat-and-Mouse Horror-Thriller 'The Spiral Down'

Movie Review: Neil Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ Will Cast A Spell On You

Neil Marshall is a name you should be very familiar with. He’s the director behind movies such as The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Tales of Halloween. He’s back with a new film, The Reckoning. Set in England in the late 17th century, the Great Plague is raging as the witch trials cause hysteria, people begin to fear their friends, neighbors, and family, may be witches. During this time in history in real life, over 1,000 innocent people were imprisoned, tortured, and killed with ninety percent of the victims being women. All it took was a whisper for these people to be condemned. This is a key element in The Reckoning. In the opening scene, we see Grace (Charlotte Kirk), an exhausted mother kiss her baby before retrieving a sword from a chest. Struggling, she drags the Scottish Claymore through the mud as she stumbles across her yard. That’s when we see him, her dear husband hanging from a tree. Clawing

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2021
Horror Fuel

February’s “Into The Dark” Teases How Dangerous Love Can Be

This February, Hulu’s new installment of “Into the Dark“, titled “Tentacles,” is all about love and just how dangerous it can be. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this psychosexual horror-thriller about a young Los Angeles couple Tara (Dana Drori) and Sam (Casey Deidrick) who fall head over heels into a new romance, entwining their lives — until their intimacy transforms into something terrifying. Evan Williams (Versailles) and Kasey Elise (North Hollywood) also star in the feature-length episode directed by Clara Aranovich (Tantalum) and written by Alexandra Pechman (“Channel Zero”), based on a story by Pechman and Nick Antosca (“Channel Zero”, Antlers). In partnership with Blumhouse Television, Hulu’s “Into The Dark” is a monthly anthology horror event series from the prolific, award-winning producer, Jason Blum’s independent TV studio. Each feature-length installment is inspired by a holiday from that month and features Blumhouse’s signature genre spin on the story. The series has explored nearly every facet of the horror genre, with the latest

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 31, 2021
Horror Fuel

Darren Aronofsky & Jared Leto Reteam For Film From ‘Ring’ Writer

Before The Ring movie franchise was made the frightening tale was born in Koji Suzuki‘s novel. Now, another film adaptation of Suzuki’s is headed our way from 2000’s Requiem for a Dream and The wrestler director Darren Aronofsky. Aronofsky is reteaming with Requiem for a Dream star Jared Leto for Adrift, the adaptation of Suzuki’s short story. The story “is set in the dead calm of the open sea, where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but soon he discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a Ghost Ship.” Deadline reports. Luke Dawson is writing the script along with Aranosky for the film that will be produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Leto can also be seen in the upcoming MCU’s vampire horror Morbius which has been hit with several delays, with the most recent release

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Suspiria’ Director And Writer Reunite For ‘Bones & All’

Suspiria director Luca Guadagino is reuniting with screenwriter David Kajganich for Bones & All, described as a “horror love story.” Deadline is reporting that Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name) is now in talks to play the lead role in the film, but he’s not the only star currently in negotiations for the film, Escape Room actor Tayloe Russell is also in talks to star in a key role. Guadagnino and Chalamet previously worked together on the romantic drama Call Me By Your Name. We’ll keep you posted.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Wrong Turn’ Is Coming To Blu-Ray And DVD

Next month, you can bring home director Mike P. Nelson‘s (The Domestics) Wrong Turn, a new take on the hillbilly cannibal slasher released in 2003. In the film, “Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross onto land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return— unless Jen’s father (Golden Globe nominee Matthew Modine) can reach them in time.” Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), Bill Sage (“Hap and Leonard”), Emma Dumont (“The Gifted”), Chaney Morrow (Haunt), Valerie Jane Parker (“Greenleaf”), and David Hutchinson (“American Horror Story”) also star in the film. The original movie’s writer Alan B. McElroy returned to write the script

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Cloverfield’ Is Finally Getting A Direct Sequel

Back in 2008, there were discussions of a possible new direct sequel to Matt Reeve‘s highly acclaimed monster movie Cloverfield, which spawned 10 Cloverfield Land and The Cloverfield Paradox which both went in new directions. A proper sequel to Cloverfield never materialized, until now. Paramount and Bad Robot have now hired Joe Baron, the showrunner for HBO’s “The Batman”, to pen the script for the direct sequel which will be see J.J Abrams return as a producer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the true sequel has now entered development. One thing will be different from the original though, it will not be found-footage. While details are still slim we also know that the original movie’s director Matt Reeves will not be involved. In the original 2008 movie, a group of friends venture into the streets of New York after a party on a rescue mission as the city is attacked by a giant monster. Here’s a look back at the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

New Set Image Teases The Return Of Major Character In “Stranger Things”

Season four of Netflix’s hit series “Stranger Things” is now in production. A new batch of images has surfaced and appear to confirm the return of a major character from season one, Bremmer. In the photos posted on the Instagram account of Stranger Things 4 Updates, actor Matthew Modine can be seen on the set. While he could be just featured in Eleven’s flashbacks or something, we don’t know yet. But Modine did tease back in 2019 that the character may be returning. At the moment no plot details have been revealed for this season of “Stranger Things,” but we do know that Hooper is imprisoned by the Russians and that things will be complicated now that Joyce, Will, Jonathan, and Eleven have moved away from Hawkins. Modine plays the role of Dr. Bremmer, a highly manipulative, ruthless, and cruel director and researcher for Hawkins National Laboratory who held Eleven prisoner for much of her childhood to study her psychokinetic

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

Sisters Fight To Uncover The Truth In ‘Silence & Darkness’

Writer-director Barak Barkan makes his feature film debut with the dark thriller Silence & Darkness. Following the death of their mother, blind and deaf sisters Anna (Mina Walker) and Beth (Joan Glackin) live happily in a secluded small town with Father (Jordan Lage). However, when a neighbor stops by, Anna and Beth begin to question Father’s medical diagnoses and start to realize his intentions are more sinister than they could have imagined. Shot in the haunting ephemeral landscapes of Vermont, Silence & Darkness crafts a harrowing, and eerie portrait of two sisters forced to adapt and use every skill they have to uncover their family’s dark truth. I sought to create tension between the viewer and the film, both through Anna and Beth’s interactions and Father’s backstory,” says writer-director Barak Barkan. “My goal is that while viewing the film, the audience will inhabit a constant state of curious unease—desperate to find out what led to the circumstances of this family’s

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

Shudder’s Critically Acclaimed Horror ‘Host’ Coming To Blu-ray & DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Host from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host, which is Certified 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes was shot remotely during quarantine and features groundbreaking scares, stunts, and surprises, all filmed by the actors in their own homes. The project was commissioned, written, produced, and will be released in under three months. Host is the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). Watch as “six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

Witness The Haunting Film ‘The Funeral Home’ This January

Mauro Iván Ojeda’s new chilling supernatural thriller The Funeral Home is headed your way this January, hot off the heels of its premiere at Fantasia. The film centers on Bernardo, an undertaker. He and his dysfunctional family live amongst coffins, wreaths, and mischievous supernatural entities that visit daily. They attribute the paranormal manifestations to the dead bodies from their mortuary work. Finding the real source of all this madness will be their quest, but they might find a terrifying truth. Luis Machín, Celeste Gerez, Camila Vaccarini, Susana Varela, and Hugo Arana star in this haunting tale. The Funeral Home (review) opens in virtual theaters on January 29, 2021, before arriving on digital on February 2nd via Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
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