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Beautiful And Haunting: Game Review ‘Mundaun’

Hidden Fields and MWM Interactive were awesome enough to allow me the chance to check out their unique horror tale set in the Swiss Alps, Mundaun. The game follows a young man returning to the village of Mundaun where he grew up after receiving news that his grandfather died where shortly afterward the grandson soon discovers that there’s more to the story and a threat from the past awaits. Now onto Mundaun itself. The controls are very easy to master and not over thought out. The game handles well from its default settings so players are able to just start the game and go without any tweaking. When it comes to sound, finally, a game that does it right! The ambient sounds are not ridiculously loud or clearly on a loop but actually sound like how I would imagine it would be in the Alps, I’ll admit, I like it at one part in the story when you’re inside the

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Capt McNeely

Apr 7, 2021

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Blu-ray Review: A Slaughter in Plague Town (2008)

A bickering family of American tourists decide to stop off in a small Irish village located in a picturesque, verdant landscape. Seems prosaic enough, but as horror movies oft times go; this village has a deep, dark (in this case mutant) based secret that will put that vacay in a serious dovetail right quick! As you may surmise from that sinister synopsis, Plague Town (or A Slaughter in Plague Town) is a fright flick positively dripping with atmosphere. This is nowhere as evident in the locales utilized to bring this terror tale to life; all wicked woods and dark, almost monotone environs. It’s drab, it’s dreary, and it looks exactly like the place you’d run into some good ol’ folk horror madness! Adding to the positives are the lean n’ mean flow of the film delivered by co-writer (along with John Cregan)/director David Gregory keeps things disturbing and moving like a spectral locomotive from hell, so this one never becomes

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DanXIII

Feb 7, 2021

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Folk Horror Film ‘The Pond’ Leaves A Man Questioning His Sanity

This February, Scream Factory and Shout! Studios will release their mind-bending new folk horror film The Pond. Directed by Petar Pasic, the film is set in a Balkin Village filled with supernatural dread. The story centers on an anthropologist on the verge of an apocalyptic discovery who begins to descend into madness, as his hallucinations reveal something sinister is after him. Marco Canadea, Leslie Kunz, and Paul Murray star in the film, written by Dusan Bulic which is described as “deeply unsettling.” The Pond lands on Digital and On Demand on February 23, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 14, 2021

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Two New Clips Take You Behind The Scenes Of ‘Midsommar’

One of the best genre films of the year, Midsommar (review) has now been released on home video, but the festivities are continuing with two new behind the scenes clips from the special features featuring Ari Aster, Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh, and Vilhelm Blomgren discussing their time filming this summer’s unsettling film! The film stars Florence Pugh (upcoming Black Widow and Little Women) as a young woman who reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a remote Swedish village for a midsummer festival, which becomes more and more sinister as the days pass. The Rotten Tomato Certified Fresh™ film also stars Jack Reynor (Kin, Free Fire, TV’s “Strange Angel”), William Jackson Harper (TV’s “The Good Place,” They Remain, TV’s “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”), and Will Poulter (The Maze Runner, Detroit, The Revenant). “After a family tragedy, a young American couple joins some friends at a midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 8, 2019

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‘Gwen’ Takes On A Mysterious Evil This October

Shudder continues to announce releases for this October. The latest to be announced is writer-director William McGregor‘s (“Misfits”), Gwen. Staring Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Maleficent) and Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), the film centers on Gwen, a young girl whose life seems to be collapsing around her. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a group of angry villagers threatening to take her farm, Gwen must find the strength to guide her family through the darkness. But as a malevolent presence begins to take grip of her home, it becomes apparent there is a greater evil that may be too strong to overcome. RLJE Films will release Gwen on October 8th on DVD for an SRP of $27.97 and Blu-ray for an SRP of $28.97. Special Features include: GWEN DVD and Blu-ray include the following bonus features: An interview with Maxine Peake An interview with Eleanor Worthington-Cox

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 6, 2019

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Norwegian Folk Horror ‘Lake Of Death’ Snagged By Shudder (First Look

TrustNordisk’s psychological Norwegian horror film Lake of Death has been nabbed by Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, for six territories, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, Variety reports. The folk horror film whose first images we have today is an adaptation of André Bjerke’s classic 1942 Norwegian novel “Lake of the Dead”, is from Nini Bull Robsahm (Manhunt, Amnesia). Lake of Death follows a small group of friends who a battle to survive in the middle of the forests and fjords of Norway. The story is based on Norwegian legend thought to be innocent folklore. It stars Iben Akerlie, Jacob Andersen Schoyen, Jonathan Harboe, and Sophia Lie. Thomas Robsahm and Fredrik Pryser for Canopy Film produced in association with Pryserfilm, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 5, 2019

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Folk Horror ‘Midsommar’ Coming To Digital And Blu-ray

Ari Aster, the filmmaker behind last year’s breakout horror film Hereditary, is back with the unnerving and viscerally disturbing sun-soaked horror film Midsommar, coming soon to Digital, On Demand, and Blu-ray™. The film stars Florence Pugh (upcoming Black Widow and Little Women) as a young woman who reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a remote Swedish village for a midsummer festival, which becomes more and more sinister as the days pass. The Rotten Tomato Certified Fresh™ film also stars Jack Reynor (Kin, Free Fire, TV’s “Strange Angel”), William Jackson Harper (TV’s “The Good Place,” They Remain, TV’s “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”), and Will Poulter (The Maze Runner, Detroit, The Revenant). “After a family tragedy, a young American couple joins some friends at a midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that grow increasingly unnerving and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 19, 2019

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Praise Is Sung In Apostle’s Final Trailer

From Gareth Evans, the director of The Raid, comes the brutal folk horror film Apostle whose final trailer sings its own praises. “Legion” actor Dan Stevens and Underworld‘s Michael Sheen star alongside Kristine Forseth with Lucy Boynton, Bill Milner, Mark Lewis Jones, Elen Rhys, and Annes Elwy co-starring. Set in London, 1905, “Prodigal son Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) has returned home, only to learn that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. Determined to get her back at any cost, Thomas travels to the idyllic island where the cult lives under the leadership of the charismatic Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen). As Thomas infiltrates the island’s community, he learns that the corruption of mainland society that they claim to reject has infested the cult’s ranks nonetheless – and uncovers a secret far more evil than he could have imagined. Apostle is a harrowing occult fable where the only thing more horrifying than madness is the sinister reality

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 10, 2018

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Thom Burgess Explores Supernatural Folk Horror In ‘The Eyrie’

From writer Thom Burgess (Malevolents) and illustrator Barney Bodoano comes The Eyrie, a new graphic novella mixing equal parts ghost story and folk horror. As unnerving as it is beautiful, The Eyrie is the tale of Rebecca, an American photojournalist, who while working on location along the coast of Sussex, England, becomes entrenched in the darkness of the local folklore. She encounters the local townsfolk, who are a mostly friendly, if superstitious bunch. The thing is, they have every reason to be. Rebecca is being stalked by shadowy horrors born of death, torture, and revenge. Will she escape the quaint seaside town before she’s taken by the Long Men? Burgess’ dialog is realistic, his settings and backstories eerily familiar and at-once brand new, while Bodoano’s ominous storybook-style art brings a palpable feeling of a gloomy “otherness” to the work. Drenched in foreboding, sinister atmosphere akin to The Wicker Man and The Woman in Black, The Eyrie is more than a

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Capt McNeely

Jul 5, 2017

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