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‘The Taking Of Deborah Logan’ Duo Behind New Netflix Series “The Craving”

Adam Robitel, who is behind Escape Room, and Gavin Heffernan, who brought us Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, who brought us 2014’s The Taking of Deborah Logan. are reuniting for the Netflix addiction horror series “The Craving”, Deadline reports. A Netflix original, “The Craving” “explores the real-world horrors of addiction through a genre lens. It centers around a female sheriff in a Colorado ski town besieged by an unprecedented new threat.” Robitel also directed Escape Room: Tournament of Champions which premieres on July 16th. The Craving will be executive produced by Darren Aronofsky and Elizabeth Gesas of Protozoa Pictures. We’ll keep you posted. .

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 3, 2021
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A Man Will Go To Any Length The Save His Friend In ‘We Think We’re All Special’

Director Kirby Voss’s We All Think We’re Special, starring Jared Bankens (Bill and Ted Face the Music, Venom, “Looking for Alaska”) premieres on digital this June. In this haunting thriller, a night of reckless drinking compels a car mechanic to forcibly detox his best friend — whatever the cost. William McGovern, Sophie White, and Sherri Marina co-star in a film written by Kirby Voss and Felicia Stallard. We All Think We’re Special arrives On Demand on June 4, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 31, 2021
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Gary Oldman Issues A Warning In The New Clip From The Thriller ‘Crisis’

Writer-director Nicholas Jarecki takes us inside the dark, horrifying world of drug trafficking and addiction in his new thriller Crisis, starring acting legend Gary Oldman who has appeared in films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and The Dark Knight. In Crisis, “a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation. An architect recovering from an Oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s disappearance. A university professor battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a pharmaceutical company bringing a new “non-addictive” painkiller to market. Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, their stories collide in this dramatic thriller from writer/director Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage). The film also stars Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan. Oldman executive produces alongside Douglas Urbanski, Michael Suppes, Tony Hsieh, Mohammed Al Turki, Lisa Wilson, William Rosenfeld, Sam Slater, David Bernon, and Samuel Reich. Nicholas

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 26, 2021
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Enter The World Of The Black Market Organ Trade In ’12 Hour Shift’

This Januar,y enter the world of the black market organ trade and addiction in writer Brea Grant‘s thriller 12 Hours Shift. Starring Angela Bettis (Carrie), David Arquette (Scream), Chloe Farnworth (Departure), Nikea Gamby-Turner (“Rosewood”), and Tara Perry (“The Fresh Beat Band”), 12 Hour Shift is a tale of desperation and survival that outlines the gruesome realities of opioid abuse and the terrifying world of the black market. Set in a small-town Arkansas hospital in 1999, 12 Hour Shift follows Mandy (Bettis) a drug-addicted nurse who gets caught in the middle of a black market organ-trading scheme after her ruthless cousin, Regina (Farnworth), misplaces a kidney scheduled for delivery that night. Death soon descends on the hospital as a mob boss and an injured convict (Arquette) terrorize patients, while Mandy and Regina scramble to replace the lost organ by any means necessary. Nothing is off the table and every patient is at risk as Mandy fights to restore order and appease

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 24, 2020
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Short Film Review: Ida (2019)

Ida (Kerstin Jannerup Gjesing) is a cherubic tyke that is getting some serious static in her life thanks to some dreadful dreams of a monster that has it out for her. Her mother, Leonora (Molly Blixt Egelind), assures her that there are no monsters… as she herself battles the demon in a bottle; I’m talkin’ booze boils n’ ghouls! Let me tell you lot; this sinister short really plays with ya! This thing enters some dark, psychologically fucked-up territory and smacks you right in the gut, while playing out in sun dappled rooms full of bright, cheery color. It’s that dichotomy that makes the entire affair so damn unsettling… well, that and the fact young Ida has no skills to help her cope with the horrors of her dreams and her reality. Speaking of Ida, Gjesing is one hell of a fantastic actor who’s tender age belies her acting prowess, and Egelind as her beleaguered mother is no slouch either

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DanXIII
Oct 26, 2019
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Movie Review: Red Krokodil: Director’s Cut is a Nightmarish Decent into Self Inflicted Hell!

Red Krokodil tells the tale of a man hopelessly addicted to a drug that causes him to fall into physical decay in a tiny apartment located within a post-apocalyptic city. His mental state begins to fall to hell in a hand basket as well as he begins to have strange hallucinations of a rabbit headed interloper…then the nightmares become worse, and so does reality! What’s good about Red Krokodil? Well for starters, the effects utilized to show our protagonist’s rotting away are really well done. There’s plenty of weeping sores, gaping holes, and bodily fluids to keep the gore hounds well fed. The fantasy elements presented featuring rabbit masks, strange openings within the apartment, peering disembodied eyes et. al. were really well done as well, and made the piece more of a fever dream than just the drug induced nightmare it could have been…in other words, this ain’t just a body horror flick creeps (and the allegories to war both

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DanXIII
Feb 2, 2018

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‘The Taking Of Deborah Logan’ Duo Behind New Netflix Series “The Craving”

Adam Robitel, who is behind Escape Room, and Gavin Heffernan, who brought us Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, who brought us 2014’s The Taking of Deborah Logan. are reuniting for the Netflix addiction horror series “The Craving”, Deadline reports. A Netflix original, “The Craving” “explores the real-world horrors of addiction through a genre lens. It centers around a female sheriff in a Colorado ski town besieged by an unprecedented new threat.” Robitel also directed Escape Room: Tournament of Champions which premieres on July 16th. The Craving will be executive produced by Darren Aronofsky and Elizabeth Gesas of Protozoa Pictures. We’ll keep you posted. .

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 3, 2021
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A Man Will Go To Any Length The Save His Friend In ‘We Think We’re All Special’

Director Kirby Voss’s We All Think We’re Special, starring Jared Bankens (Bill and Ted Face the Music, Venom, “Looking for Alaska”) premieres on digital this June. In this haunting thriller, a night of reckless drinking compels a car mechanic to forcibly detox his best friend — whatever the cost. William McGovern, Sophie White, and Sherri Marina co-star in a film written by Kirby Voss and Felicia Stallard. We All Think We’re Special arrives On Demand on June 4, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 31, 2021
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Gary Oldman Issues A Warning In The New Clip From The Thriller ‘Crisis’

Writer-director Nicholas Jarecki takes us inside the dark, horrifying world of drug trafficking and addiction in his new thriller Crisis, starring acting legend Gary Oldman who has appeared in films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and The Dark Knight. In Crisis, “a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation. An architect recovering from an Oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s disappearance. A university professor battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a pharmaceutical company bringing a new “non-addictive” painkiller to market. Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, their stories collide in this dramatic thriller from writer/director Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage). The film also stars Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan. Oldman executive produces alongside Douglas Urbanski, Michael Suppes, Tony Hsieh, Mohammed Al Turki, Lisa Wilson, William Rosenfeld, Sam Slater, David Bernon, and Samuel Reich. Nicholas

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 26, 2021
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Enter The World Of The Black Market Organ Trade In ’12 Hour Shift’

This Januar,y enter the world of the black market organ trade and addiction in writer Brea Grant‘s thriller 12 Hours Shift. Starring Angela Bettis (Carrie), David Arquette (Scream), Chloe Farnworth (Departure), Nikea Gamby-Turner (“Rosewood”), and Tara Perry (“The Fresh Beat Band”), 12 Hour Shift is a tale of desperation and survival that outlines the gruesome realities of opioid abuse and the terrifying world of the black market. Set in a small-town Arkansas hospital in 1999, 12 Hour Shift follows Mandy (Bettis) a drug-addicted nurse who gets caught in the middle of a black market organ-trading scheme after her ruthless cousin, Regina (Farnworth), misplaces a kidney scheduled for delivery that night. Death soon descends on the hospital as a mob boss and an injured convict (Arquette) terrorize patients, while Mandy and Regina scramble to replace the lost organ by any means necessary. Nothing is off the table and every patient is at risk as Mandy fights to restore order and appease

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 24, 2020
Horror Fuel

Short Film Review: Ida (2019)

Ida (Kerstin Jannerup Gjesing) is a cherubic tyke that is getting some serious static in her life thanks to some dreadful dreams of a monster that has it out for her. Her mother, Leonora (Molly Blixt Egelind), assures her that there are no monsters… as she herself battles the demon in a bottle; I’m talkin’ booze boils n’ ghouls! Let me tell you lot; this sinister short really plays with ya! This thing enters some dark, psychologically fucked-up territory and smacks you right in the gut, while playing out in sun dappled rooms full of bright, cheery color. It’s that dichotomy that makes the entire affair so damn unsettling… well, that and the fact young Ida has no skills to help her cope with the horrors of her dreams and her reality. Speaking of Ida, Gjesing is one hell of a fantastic actor who’s tender age belies her acting prowess, and Egelind as her beleaguered mother is no slouch either

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Oct 26, 2019
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Red Krokodil: Director’s Cut is a Nightmarish Decent into Self Inflicted Hell!

Red Krokodil tells the tale of a man hopelessly addicted to a drug that causes him to fall into physical decay in a tiny apartment located within a post-apocalyptic city. His mental state begins to fall to hell in a hand basket as well as he begins to have strange hallucinations of a rabbit headed interloper…then the nightmares become worse, and so does reality! What’s good about Red Krokodil? Well for starters, the effects utilized to show our protagonist’s rotting away are really well done. There’s plenty of weeping sores, gaping holes, and bodily fluids to keep the gore hounds well fed. The fantasy elements presented featuring rabbit masks, strange openings within the apartment, peering disembodied eyes et. al. were really well done as well, and made the piece more of a fever dream than just the drug induced nightmare it could have been…in other words, this ain’t just a body horror flick creeps (and the allegories to war both

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Feb 2, 2018