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This March Bruce Willis And Frank Grillo Battle Aliens To Save Earth In ‘Cosmic Sin’

Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo are heading into space to battle aliens in the upcoming sci-fi film Cosmic Sin whose trailer has just premiered, teasing an action-packed flick that’s bound to be out of this world. In the film set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets, “Retired Military General James Ford (Willis) is called back into service after soldiers on a remote planet are attacked by a hostile alien fleet. The threat against the human race escalates into an inevitable interstellar war. General Ford teams up with General Eron Ryle (Grillo) and a team of elite soldiers in a race to stop the imminent attack before it is too late.” Edward Drake directed the film which he co-wrote with Corey Lange. Frank Grillo (Captain America: Civil War), Costas Mandylor (the Saw franchise), Adelaide Kane (“Reign”), and “Riverdale’s” Lochlyn Munro star alongside Willis (Die Hard). Cosmic Sin, from Saban Films, lands On Demand

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2021
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John Carpenter Confirms Involvement With New Reboot Of ‘The Thing’

For fans of John Carpenter, we have some exciting news. This Saturday, while the Master of Horror was receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award during the Fantasia Film Festival (full interview below), he confirmed several projects. One of those projects is Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot of The Thing. As previously reported, the new film as well as Carpenter’s 1982 movie, is inspired by acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien. The new film will also draw from Frozen Hell, a recently unearthed novella that serves as an abridged version of Campbell’s original story. In all, there are already three film versions of the same story, The Thing from Another World (1951), Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing, and 2011’s The Thing from director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot will be number four. It will be interesting to see how

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
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An Alien Stalks The Night In New ‘Invasion Earth’ Clip

Premiering this August is the exhilarating new indie science-fiction thriller that’ll have you “begging for more”*, Invasion Earth. In the new clip an alien stalks the night. The story follows a group of addicts who attend therapy to avoid being sent to prison, while a TV journalist goes undercover and joins the group to try and expose this as a scam. However, all of their lives are thrown into chaos by the beginning of an alien invasion. Charlotte Gould, Phoebe Delikoura, Tony Fadil, Jon-Paul Gates, Nigel Thijs, and David Shaw star in the critically acclaimed new film from James Twyman, debuting On Demand and DVD August 4th from Midnight Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 24, 2020
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Exclusive New Clip From Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Invasion Earth’

Premiering this August is the exhilarating new science-fiction thriller that’ll have you “begging for more”*, Invasion Earth. Not only do we have the trailer, but we also have an exclusive clip! The story follows a group of addicts who attend therapy to avoid being sent to prison, while a TV journalist goes undercover and joins the group to try and expose this as a scam. However, all of their lives are thrown into chaos by the beginning of an alien invasion. Charlotte Gould, Phoebe Delikoura, Tony Fadil, Jon-Paul Gates, Nigel Thijs, and David Shaw star in the critically acclaimed new film from James Twyman, debuting On Demand and DVD August 4th from Midnight Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 13, 2020
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Bruce Willis Will Battle An Alien In The Sci-fi Action Thriller ‘Anti-Life’

Film Mode Entertainment will soon reveal the first look at the new Sci-fi action movie Anti-Life (aka Breach), starring Die Hard‘s Bruce Willis. In the film, “A hardened mechanic (Bruce Willis) is one of a few chosen to stay awake and maintain an interstellar arc fleeing a dying planet Earth with a few thousand lucky souls on board… the last of humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not the only guests on board. A shape-shifting alien creature has also taken residence and its only goal is to kill as many people as possible. Now, the crew must think quickly and try to stop this menace before it destroys humanity.” Directed by John Suits (Pandemic), Anti-Life also stars Cody Kearsley (“Riverdale”), Rachel Nicols (Star Trek), and Thomas Jane (The Mist, The Punisher). As evident with the success of new titles like these, Film Mode Entertainment continues to operate as a home for elevated genre and has been helping to pave the way for

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 19, 2020
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‘Invasion Planet Earth’ Lands This February

The world is under attack from an alien menace in the sci-fi action film Invasion Planet Earth from writer-director-producer Simon Cox. Co-written by Simon Bovey, the film centers on Thomas Dunn, who is a broken man after the death of his young daughter. When his wife falls pregnant again, he cannot believe their luck. However, his joy is short-lived, on the very same day, the people of Earth become plagued with terrifying visions of the end of the world. When a gigantic, all-consuming alien mothership appears in the sky and launches a ruthless attack on Earth’s cities, chaos and destruction follow! Tom must find the strength and wisdom to save his wife and unborn child. However, first, he must confront a shocking truth, a truth that threatens the key to the survival of the human race. Simon Haycock, Lucy Drive, Toyah Willcox, Sophie Anderson, Julie Hoult, Danny Steele, and Ian Brooker star. Invasion Planet Earth lands on VOD, Digital HD,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 11, 2020
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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Dark Encounter’ Lands On DVD

From writer-director Carl Strathie (interview) comes Dark Encounter, a dark sci-fi thriller about a family’s grief and an encounter with something otherworldly. “A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appears to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.” Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters, Vincent Regan, and Spike White star in the film produced by Charlette Kilby and Alan Latham. Dark Encounter lands on VOD, Digital, and DVD on January 7, 2020, from 4Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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Dark Encounter Director Carl Strathie Talks Alien Lights And Grief In Our Interview

I had the pleasure of sitting down with writer-director Carl Strathie to discuss his new film Dark Encounter, a sci-fi thriller about a family’s struggle with loss and the truth of a dark mystery discovered with the help of otherworldly beings. The following is our conversation. Horror Fuel: “If you will, tell us about your most recent film Dark Encounter?” Carl Strathie: “The story is about a little girl who has gone missing. We follow the family a year after on the day of her memorial and they are grieving and they’re coping with the fact that no one knows what happened. It’s about a family struggling. There’s a big twist at the ending. Did you see it coming?” Horror Fuel: “No, I did not, which is a miracle, I always see what’s coming in movies. I like not knowing what happens right up until the end.” Carl Strathie: “Good, that’s good.” Horror Fuel: “I’m glad that you explore the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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Horror Comedy ‘Snatchers’ Landing On Digital And Blu-ray

Named as one of Variety’s “11 Best Movies of the 2019 SXSW Film Festival,” the horror-comedy Snatchers is coming to digital this January from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Described as a cross between Aliens meets Mean Girls – the full-length film was initially released in new media as a successful short-form series that follows a status-obsessed high school teenager who loses her virginity and finds herself pregnant the next day…with an alien! Senior year is going to rule! Thanks to her relationship with clueless hunk Skyler, Sara is totally in with the cool girls. But Skyler contracted an extraterrestrial bug during his summer vacation. After just one night together, Sara discovers she’s Nine. Months. Pregnant. Desperate to keep her condition on the DL, she turns to the only person she can trust: her nerdy ex-bestie, Hayley. The girls soon realize this alien problem is only just the beginning. Aliens had best beware in this hilarious comedy filled with action and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 20, 2019
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The ‘Color Out Of Space’ Trailer Has Landed

Richard Stanley’s (Hardware, Dust Devil) is returning to the genre next year with SpectreVision’s Color Out of Space, starring Nicolas Cage. The adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s short story has just released its first trailer featuring a terrified family’s technicolor-tinted nightmare. “After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, Nathan Gardner (Cage) and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a nightmare.” Cage stars alongside Joely Richardson, Brendan Meyer, Madeleine Arthur, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight with Q’Orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong (yes “The” Tommy Chong). Color Out of Space is set to be released on January 24, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 6, 2019

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This March Bruce Willis And Frank Grillo Battle Aliens To Save Earth In ‘Cosmic Sin’

Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo are heading into space to battle aliens in the upcoming sci-fi film Cosmic Sin whose trailer has just premiered, teasing an action-packed flick that’s bound to be out of this world. In the film set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets, “Retired Military General James Ford (Willis) is called back into service after soldiers on a remote planet are attacked by a hostile alien fleet. The threat against the human race escalates into an inevitable interstellar war. General Ford teams up with General Eron Ryle (Grillo) and a team of elite soldiers in a race to stop the imminent attack before it is too late.” Edward Drake directed the film which he co-wrote with Corey Lange. Frank Grillo (Captain America: Civil War), Costas Mandylor (the Saw franchise), Adelaide Kane (“Reign”), and “Riverdale’s” Lochlyn Munro star alongside Willis (Die Hard). Cosmic Sin, from Saban Films, lands On Demand

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 4, 2021
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John Carpenter Confirms Involvement With New Reboot Of ‘The Thing’

For fans of John Carpenter, we have some exciting news. This Saturday, while the Master of Horror was receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award during the Fantasia Film Festival (full interview below), he confirmed several projects. One of those projects is Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot of The Thing. As previously reported, the new film as well as Carpenter’s 1982 movie, is inspired by acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien. The new film will also draw from Frozen Hell, a recently unearthed novella that serves as an abridged version of Campbell’s original story. In all, there are already three film versions of the same story, The Thing from Another World (1951), Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing, and 2011’s The Thing from director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot will be number four. It will be interesting to see how

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
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An Alien Stalks The Night In New ‘Invasion Earth’ Clip

Premiering this August is the exhilarating new indie science-fiction thriller that’ll have you “begging for more”*, Invasion Earth. In the new clip an alien stalks the night. The story follows a group of addicts who attend therapy to avoid being sent to prison, while a TV journalist goes undercover and joins the group to try and expose this as a scam. However, all of their lives are thrown into chaos by the beginning of an alien invasion. Charlotte Gould, Phoebe Delikoura, Tony Fadil, Jon-Paul Gates, Nigel Thijs, and David Shaw star in the critically acclaimed new film from James Twyman, debuting On Demand and DVD August 4th from Midnight Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 24, 2020
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Exclusive New Clip From Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Invasion Earth’

Premiering this August is the exhilarating new science-fiction thriller that’ll have you “begging for more”*, Invasion Earth. Not only do we have the trailer, but we also have an exclusive clip! The story follows a group of addicts who attend therapy to avoid being sent to prison, while a TV journalist goes undercover and joins the group to try and expose this as a scam. However, all of their lives are thrown into chaos by the beginning of an alien invasion. Charlotte Gould, Phoebe Delikoura, Tony Fadil, Jon-Paul Gates, Nigel Thijs, and David Shaw star in the critically acclaimed new film from James Twyman, debuting On Demand and DVD August 4th from Midnight Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 13, 2020
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Bruce Willis Will Battle An Alien In The Sci-fi Action Thriller ‘Anti-Life’

Film Mode Entertainment will soon reveal the first look at the new Sci-fi action movie Anti-Life (aka Breach), starring Die Hard‘s Bruce Willis. In the film, “A hardened mechanic (Bruce Willis) is one of a few chosen to stay awake and maintain an interstellar arc fleeing a dying planet Earth with a few thousand lucky souls on board… the last of humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not the only guests on board. A shape-shifting alien creature has also taken residence and its only goal is to kill as many people as possible. Now, the crew must think quickly and try to stop this menace before it destroys humanity.” Directed by John Suits (Pandemic), Anti-Life also stars Cody Kearsley (“Riverdale”), Rachel Nicols (Star Trek), and Thomas Jane (The Mist, The Punisher). As evident with the success of new titles like these, Film Mode Entertainment continues to operate as a home for elevated genre and has been helping to pave the way for

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 19, 2020
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‘Invasion Planet Earth’ Lands This February

The world is under attack from an alien menace in the sci-fi action film Invasion Planet Earth from writer-director-producer Simon Cox. Co-written by Simon Bovey, the film centers on Thomas Dunn, who is a broken man after the death of his young daughter. When his wife falls pregnant again, he cannot believe their luck. However, his joy is short-lived, on the very same day, the people of Earth become plagued with terrifying visions of the end of the world. When a gigantic, all-consuming alien mothership appears in the sky and launches a ruthless attack on Earth’s cities, chaos and destruction follow! Tom must find the strength and wisdom to save his wife and unborn child. However, first, he must confront a shocking truth, a truth that threatens the key to the survival of the human race. Simon Haycock, Lucy Drive, Toyah Willcox, Sophie Anderson, Julie Hoult, Danny Steele, and Ian Brooker star. Invasion Planet Earth lands on VOD, Digital HD,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 11, 2020
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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Dark Encounter’ Lands On DVD

From writer-director Carl Strathie (interview) comes Dark Encounter, a dark sci-fi thriller about a family’s grief and an encounter with something otherworldly. “A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appears to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.” Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters, Vincent Regan, and Spike White star in the film produced by Charlette Kilby and Alan Latham. Dark Encounter lands on VOD, Digital, and DVD on January 7, 2020, from 4Digital Media.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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Dark Encounter Director Carl Strathie Talks Alien Lights And Grief In Our Interview

I had the pleasure of sitting down with writer-director Carl Strathie to discuss his new film Dark Encounter, a sci-fi thriller about a family’s struggle with loss and the truth of a dark mystery discovered with the help of otherworldly beings. The following is our conversation. Horror Fuel: “If you will, tell us about your most recent film Dark Encounter?” Carl Strathie: “The story is about a little girl who has gone missing. We follow the family a year after on the day of her memorial and they are grieving and they’re coping with the fact that no one knows what happened. It’s about a family struggling. There’s a big twist at the ending. Did you see it coming?” Horror Fuel: “No, I did not, which is a miracle, I always see what’s coming in movies. I like not knowing what happens right up until the end.” Carl Strathie: “Good, that’s good.” Horror Fuel: “I’m glad that you explore the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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Horror Comedy ‘Snatchers’ Landing On Digital And Blu-ray

Named as one of Variety’s “11 Best Movies of the 2019 SXSW Film Festival,” the horror-comedy Snatchers is coming to digital this January from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Described as a cross between Aliens meets Mean Girls – the full-length film was initially released in new media as a successful short-form series that follows a status-obsessed high school teenager who loses her virginity and finds herself pregnant the next day…with an alien! Senior year is going to rule! Thanks to her relationship with clueless hunk Skyler, Sara is totally in with the cool girls. But Skyler contracted an extraterrestrial bug during his summer vacation. After just one night together, Sara discovers she’s Nine. Months. Pregnant. Desperate to keep her condition on the DL, she turns to the only person she can trust: her nerdy ex-bestie, Hayley. The girls soon realize this alien problem is only just the beginning. Aliens had best beware in this hilarious comedy filled with action and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 20, 2019
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The ‘Color Out Of Space’ Trailer Has Landed

Richard Stanley’s (Hardware, Dust Devil) is returning to the genre next year with SpectreVision’s Color Out of Space, starring Nicolas Cage. The adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s short story has just released its first trailer featuring a terrified family’s technicolor-tinted nightmare. “After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, Nathan Gardner (Cage) and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a nightmare.” Cage stars alongside Joely Richardson, Brendan Meyer, Madeleine Arthur, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight with Q’Orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong (yes “The” Tommy Chong). Color Out of Space is set to be released on January 24, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 6, 2019
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