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Schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) has it tough; he’s been comatose for nigh on five years after a surprisingly milk-related car crash, and as soon as he wakes up he discovers his gal-pal Sarah (Brooke Adams) has shacked up with another dude, and he’s developed the ability to tell things about people’s lives by merely touching their hand. That had to be the milk’s fault… Now you may guess that Johnny would keep this new ability to himself, but he doesn’t… it’s just public knowledge our hero can do this amazing ass shit… so naturally folks begin showing up asking for all sorts of freaky favors like finding the local serial killer, or tutoring the young son of a wealthy fat-cat… well, that last part doesn’t have much to do with his arcane abilities, but it is his day job… until it isn’t because of those pesky powers. Speaking of which, that groovy gift of Johnny’s has a few surprises
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Shudder unveiled the new trailer for their upcoming series “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” this weekend at Comic-Con@Home and we’ve got it here for our readers to see. “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family gathering for a reunion on a secluded island. Their old wounds and competitive rivalries flare up when the family realizes a masked killer is on the island, intent on cruelly picking them off one by one. Horror legend David Cronenberg has joined the cast for the new season. Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot will return for the new season and will be joined by Rachael Crawford (Heartland), Sydney Meyer (Departure), Jeananne Goossen (The Walking Dead), and Alex Ozerov (The Americans). Adam MacDonald directs. “Slasher” is developed and produced by Shaftesbury and was created by Aaron Martin. It is executive produced by Aaron Martin, Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, David Ozer, Thomas P. Vitale, and Ian Carpenter, who also
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Last year, Shudder announced the fourth series of “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” would be premiering this year with eight episodes. Today, we’ve learned the premiere date! “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family gathering for a reunion on a secluded island. Their old wounds and competitive rivalries flare up when the family realizes a masked killer is on the island, intent on cruelly picking them off one by one. Horror legend David Cronenberg has joined the cast for the new season. Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot will return for the new season and will be joined by Rachael Crawford (Heartland), Sydney Meyer (Departure), Jeananne Goosen (The Walking Dead), and Alex Ozerov (The Americans). Adam MacDonald directs. “Slasher” is developed and produced by Shaftesbury and was created by Aaron Martin. It is executive produced by Aaron Martin, Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, David Ozer, Thomas P. Vitale, and Ian Carpenter, who also serves
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, announced today that it has teamed up with award-winning production company Shaftesbury to make a new eight-episode installment of the hugely popular horror series, “Slasher”. “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family gathering for a reunion on a secluded island. Their old wounds and competitive rivalries flare up when the family realizes a masked killer is on the island, intent on cruelly picking them off one by one. As with the past installments of the series, Slasher: Flesh & Blood will combine elements of a traditional murder mystery with the intense horror and bold kills that audiences have come to expect. Canadian horror legend David Cronenberg has joined the cast for the new season, which will also continue “Slasher’s“ trend of bringing back cast members in new roles. Stars returning from previous seasons include Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot. New
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IFC Midnight has just unveiled the trailer for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. Watch as a dark mystery begins to unfold. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric
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IFC Midnight has just announced the release date for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric Johnson, and Marie Josée-Croze appear alongside
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Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is having a shitty go at life lately; she’s the odd one out in the fashion biz she toils away in, she’s the pity project of her one friend in the world, Chelsea (Hanneke Talbot), and before too long half of her freakin’ face is scraped off in a moped accident (not really the vehicle that comes to mind when I think of horrible, life-altering, trauma, but here we are… to be fair there were cars involved on the periphery). She also gets fired, you know, just to piss directly on the raw, festering wound that is Rose’s soul. Not content to live a life destined to haunting Parisian (or Toronto in this case) opera houses, or cosplaying as Darkman, our heroine opts to undergo a radical gene splicing therapy to fix her busted chops. Everything seems to be coming up Rose at first; she’s hot A.F., she gets a new position actually designing fashion for her
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Canadian production company Back 40 Pictures announced earlier today the production has begun on Jen and Sylvia Soska‘s remake of Rabid. Written and directed by the acting/writing/directing duo, who were behind Dead Hooker in a Trunk and the bloody fabulous American Mary, the film stars Laura Vandervoort (Jigsaw, BITTEN) as “Rose” a demure seamstress who goes through a radical transformation after electing for plastic surgery following a disfiguring accident. Ben Hollingsworth (CODE BLACK) is “Brad” a fashion photographer. Rabid is a remake of the classic David Cronenberg 1977 horror feature film which was executive produced by Ivan Reitman. Rabid also stars Hanneke Talbot (PLAYING DEAD) who portrays Rose’s best friend Chelsea and Mackenzie Gray (LEGION, RIVERDALE) as an arrogant fashion designer “Gunter”. Rabid will also feature WWE superstars CM Punk as “Billy” and his wife New York Times best-selling author AJ Mendez as “Kira”. It’s a tremendous honor to be re-imagining David’s 1977 body horror classic, Rabid, with such incredible
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Back in February of last year we reported that the Soska sisters, Jen and Sylvia, will be directing the remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 film Rabid. There hasn’t been any news since, until now. The writing-directing sister team, also known as the “Twisted Twins”, let a lit info slip about their approach to the making the film while talking to The Horror Channel. We are very honored to have been the team chosen to take on the remake of Cronenberg’s Rabid. Normally, I’m not a huge fan of remakes but that’s if they don’t have anything new to bring to the story. We have a unique perspective just because of who we are to tell the story from Rose’s eyes as well as make a commentary on the increasingly rabid world that we live in. Also, we’ve been dying to get back into body horror. Ten years into David’s filmmaking career, he remade The Fly and it brought him to
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News has come that directors Jen and Sylvia Soska, aka ” The Twisted Twins”, are set to remake David Cronenberg’s 1977 film Rabid. The writer/directors are known not only for their films American Mary, See No Evil 2 and Vendetta, but also as the hosts of GSN’s competition series Hellevator . The Soska sisters also present the annual Women In Horror Massively Big PSA , an anthology that encourages people to donate blood. Variety announced that John Vidette’s Somerville House Releasing will be making a joint venture with Paul Lalonde and Michael Walker to not only produce the remake but an original series based on Rabid. In the original film, after a surgery goes awry, a woman develops a taste for human blood. Her victims are turned into vampire-zombie hybrids and soon the infection spreads into a city-wide epidemic. The Twisted Twins are busy ladies. They have several projects in the works including the film Puppet Killer, which they are
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Schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) has it tough; he’s been comatose for nigh on five years after a surprisingly milk-related car crash, and as soon as he wakes up he discovers his gal-pal Sarah (Brooke Adams) has shacked up with another dude, and he’s developed the ability to tell things about people’s lives by merely touching their hand. That had to be the milk’s fault… Now you may guess that Johnny would keep this new ability to himself, but he doesn’t… it’s just public knowledge our hero can do this amazing ass shit… so naturally folks begin showing up asking for all sorts of freaky favors like finding the local serial killer, or tutoring the young son of a wealthy fat-cat… well, that last part doesn’t have much to do with his arcane abilities, but it is his day job… until it isn’t because of those pesky powers. Speaking of which, that groovy gift of Johnny’s has a few surprises
Continue reading →
NewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
Shudder unveiled the new trailer for their upcoming series “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” this weekend at Comic-Con@Home and we’ve got it here for our readers to see. “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family gathering for a reunion on a secluded island. Their old wounds and competitive rivalries flare up when the family realizes a masked killer is on the island, intent on cruelly picking them off one by one. Horror legend David Cronenberg has joined the cast for the new season. Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot will return for the new season and will be joined by Rachael Crawford (Heartland), Sydney Meyer (Departure), Jeananne Goossen (The Walking Dead), and Alex Ozerov (The Americans). Adam MacDonald directs. “Slasher” is developed and produced by Shaftesbury and was created by Aaron Martin. It is executive produced by Aaron Martin, Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, David Ozer, Thomas P. Vitale, and Ian Carpenter, who also
Continue reading →
NewsShudderStreaming TV
Last year, Shudder announced the fourth series of “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” would be premiering this year with eight episodes. Today, we’ve learned the premiere date! “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family gathering for a reunion on a secluded island. Their old wounds and competitive rivalries flare up when the family realizes a masked killer is on the island, intent on cruelly picking them off one by one. Horror legend David Cronenberg has joined the cast for the new season. Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot will return for the new season and will be joined by Rachael Crawford (Heartland), Sydney Meyer (Departure), Jeananne Goosen (The Walking Dead), and Alex Ozerov (The Americans). Adam MacDonald directs. “Slasher” is developed and produced by Shaftesbury and was created by Aaron Martin. It is executive produced by Aaron Martin, Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, David Ozer, Thomas P. Vitale, and Ian Carpenter, who also serves
Continue reading →
NewsShowShudderStreaming TV
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, announced today that it has teamed up with award-winning production company Shaftesbury to make a new eight-episode installment of the hugely popular horror series, “Slasher”. “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family gathering for a reunion on a secluded island. Their old wounds and competitive rivalries flare up when the family realizes a masked killer is on the island, intent on cruelly picking them off one by one. As with the past installments of the series, Slasher: Flesh & Blood will combine elements of a traditional murder mystery with the intense horror and bold kills that audiences have come to expect. Canadian horror legend David Cronenberg has joined the cast for the new season, which will also continue “Slasher’s“ trend of bringing back cast members in new roles. Stars returning from previous seasons include Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot. New
Continue reading →
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IFC Midnight has just unveiled the trailer for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. Watch as a dark mystery begins to unfold. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric
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IFC Midnight has just announced the release date for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric Johnson, and Marie Josée-Croze appear alongside
Continue reading →
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Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is having a shitty go at life lately; she’s the odd one out in the fashion biz she toils away in, she’s the pity project of her one friend in the world, Chelsea (Hanneke Talbot), and before too long half of her freakin’ face is scraped off in a moped accident (not really the vehicle that comes to mind when I think of horrible, life-altering, trauma, but here we are… to be fair there were cars involved on the periphery). She also gets fired, you know, just to piss directly on the raw, festering wound that is Rose’s soul. Not content to live a life destined to haunting Parisian (or Toronto in this case) opera houses, or cosplaying as Darkman, our heroine opts to undergo a radical gene splicing therapy to fix her busted chops. Everything seems to be coming up Rose at first; she’s hot A.F., she gets a new position actually designing fashion for her
Continue reading →
MoviesNews
Canadian production company Back 40 Pictures announced earlier today the production has begun on Jen and Sylvia Soska‘s remake of Rabid. Written and directed by the acting/writing/directing duo, who were behind Dead Hooker in a Trunk and the bloody fabulous American Mary, the film stars Laura Vandervoort (Jigsaw, BITTEN) as “Rose” a demure seamstress who goes through a radical transformation after electing for plastic surgery following a disfiguring accident. Ben Hollingsworth (CODE BLACK) is “Brad” a fashion photographer. Rabid is a remake of the classic David Cronenberg 1977 horror feature film which was executive produced by Ivan Reitman. Rabid also stars Hanneke Talbot (PLAYING DEAD) who portrays Rose’s best friend Chelsea and Mackenzie Gray (LEGION, RIVERDALE) as an arrogant fashion designer “Gunter”. Rabid will also feature WWE superstars CM Punk as “Billy” and his wife New York Times best-selling author AJ Mendez as “Kira”. It’s a tremendous honor to be re-imagining David’s 1977 body horror classic, Rabid, with such incredible
Continue reading →
From the Crypt
Back in February of last year we reported that the Soska sisters, Jen and Sylvia, will be directing the remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 film Rabid. There hasn’t been any news since, until now. The writing-directing sister team, also known as the “Twisted Twins”, let a lit info slip about their approach to the making the film while talking to The Horror Channel. We are very honored to have been the team chosen to take on the remake of Cronenberg’s Rabid. Normally, I’m not a huge fan of remakes but that’s if they don’t have anything new to bring to the story. We have a unique perspective just because of who we are to tell the story from Rose’s eyes as well as make a commentary on the increasingly rabid world that we live in. Also, we’ve been dying to get back into body horror. Ten years into David’s filmmaking career, he remade The Fly and it brought him to
Continue reading →
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News has come that directors Jen and Sylvia Soska, aka ” The Twisted Twins”, are set to remake David Cronenberg’s 1977 film Rabid. The writer/directors are known not only for their films American Mary, See No Evil 2 and Vendetta, but also as the hosts of GSN’s competition series Hellevator . The Soska sisters also present the annual Women In Horror Massively Big PSA , an anthology that encourages people to donate blood. Variety announced that John Vidette’s Somerville House Releasing will be making a joint venture with Paul Lalonde and Michael Walker to not only produce the remake but an original series based on Rabid. In the original film, after a surgery goes awry, a woman develops a taste for human blood. Her victims are turned into vampire-zombie hybrids and soon the infection spreads into a city-wide epidemic. The Twisted Twins are busy ladies. They have several projects in the works including the film Puppet Killer, which they are
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