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Movie Review: Deathcember (2019)

The latest horror anthology to hit the sinister scene, Deathcember, presents to us a literal arcane avalanche of terror tales (presented via an advent calendar wrap-around), most with a Christmas theme… and let me tell ya; this is one wicked whopper of a fright flick as it clocks in at an oh so brief two hour and twenty three minute runtime! It would be impossible, and really fuckin’ long, to take you through each and every segment presented here… oh fuck it; I’ll give it a (sorta brief) go… First up we get Dominic Saxl’s A Door Too Far; the neo-Brother’s Grimm-like tale of a greedy boy that can’t keep to eating just one piece of his advent calendar chocolate a day with dire results, followed by All Sales Fatal, Michael Varrati’s tale of a Karen named Claire (genre stalwart Tiffany Shepis) gone berserk… well more berserk than normal, Christmas on a contamination-riddled spaceship in Lazar Bodroza’s Aurora, Florian Frerichs’

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DanXIII

Nov 19, 2020

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Twisted Thanksgiving Horror ‘Derelicts’ Is Out This Friday The 13th!

Brett Glassberg’s twisted holiday horror film, Derelicts, is out this Friday the 13th, from Terror Films! Written by Glassberg, Andre Evrenos, and Clay Shirley, the film introduces us to a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving Day. From the over-sexed grandparents to the squabbling siblings and an emotionless husband who seems uninterested in touching his wife – all appears normal for this particular household. That is until a gang of vicious vagrants invades their home, not only to cause havoc, pain, and death but also laying bare everyone’s faults and inhumanity while exposing some deeper family secrets along the way. Produced by Udoy Rahim and co-produced by Mark Newton and Matt Stryker, Derelicts premiered at the Telluride Horror Show Film Festival in 2017. During its festival run the film received praise from critics, including Modern Horrors who referred to the film as “A visual feast of sex, violence, and insanity” and Killer Horror Critic who stated, “Derelicts is the Thanksgiving horror film

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 11, 2020

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Horror Anthology ’13 Slays Till X-Mas’ Gifts Genre Fans With A Killer Trailer

The highly-anticipated holiday horror anthology 13 Slays Till X-Mas has just gifted genre fans with the premiere of their brand new trailer! 13 Slays Till X-Mas is set on December 24th, Christmas Eve, with five seemingly random men who are invited to a dive bar by a mysterious e-mail. They decide to pass the time by resurrecting the old tradition of telling scary stories on Christmas Eve. As each takes turns spinning yarns of yuletide terror it becomes evident, they may be harboring a dark and deadly secret. The film is from writer-producer P.J. Starks, the creator of Volumes of Blood, and producer Eric Huskisson (The Confession of Fred Krueger, VOB: Horror Stories). The film features thirteen Christmas themed stories of merry mayhem from Brittany Blanton (Seasons Greetings 2), Sean Blevins (Trick or Treat), Jed Brian (Unlisted Owner), William Capps (After the Slasher), Alex Clark, John Hale (The Conduit), Blair Hoyle (Five Wild Animals), Robert Kern III, Carlos Omar De

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Ella Rebecca Horton

Nov 9, 2020

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Thanksgiving Home Invasion Horror ‘Derelicts’ Gets A Release Date

Terror Films has now announced the release date for Brett Glassberg’s twisted holiday horror film, Derelicts. Written by Glassberg, Andre Evrenos, and Clay Shirley, the film introduces us to a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving Day. From the over-sexed grandparents to the squabbling siblings and an emotionless husband who seems uninterested in touching his wife – all appears normal for this particular household. That is until a gang of vicious vagrants invades their home, not only to cause havoc, pain, and death but also laying bare everyone’s faults and inhumanity while exposing some deeper family secrets along the way. Produced by Udoy Rahim and co-produced by Mark Newton and Matt Stryker, Derelicts premiered at the Telluride Horror Show Film Festival in 2017. During its festival run the film received praise from critics, including Modern Horrors who referred to the film as “A visual feast of sex, violence, and insanity” and Killer Horror Critic who stated, “Derelicts is the Thanksgiving horror film

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 3, 2020

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Holiday Horror Film ‘Toys Of Terror’ Aims To Make Toys Scary Again

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will have you on the edge of seats with their all-new holiday horror film, Toys of Terror. David and Hannah Cashman have promised their family a fun Christmas getaway, but when they arrive at a grand, old house in the snowy woods of Washington and are greeted by a familiar construction foreman, the kids realize their parent’s plan to make it a working vacation; renovating the place in the hopes of flipping it. Alicia, the eldest, is annoyed but the younger kids are soon distracted when, wandering through the creepy mansion, they find a stash of old toys in an abandoned playroom and take to them instantly. Before long, they seem to be inseparable from their new playthings, much to the consternation of their nanny Rose who, along with Alicia, senses that something in the house is not quite right. As stranger and stranger things start to happen, Rose and Alicia have a hunch that there

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 21, 2020

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DVD Review: Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the DVD I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. Scooby (Frank Welker) and the gang, Fred (also voiced by Welker), Daphne (Grey Griffin), Velma (Kate Micucci), and Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) are up to their arcane armpits in preternatural peril when ye olde friendly neighborhood pumpkin patch is covered in toxic waste (accompanied by a cue that definitely brings to mind 1985’s Return of the Living Dead) which results in the pumpkins coming to life and they have the horror biz foremost on their monstrous minds! Seems like a solid Scooby-Doo scenario… how about if I told you that Elvira (the legendary Cassandra Peterson herself, ‘natch) shows up, as does Bill Nye the Science Guy (himself, though amped-up to 11)… and the Scarecrow (The A-Team‘s world famous Howlin’ Mad Murdock, Dwight Shultz)… like from Batman… yeah, what the what now?!! With it’s faster pace

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DanXIII

Sep 26, 2020

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Trailer: Have A Taste Of The Horrors ‘The Last Thanksgiving’ Has Cooked Up

Writer-director Erick Lorine is soon serving up his retro holiday horror film The Last Thanksgiving and day we’ve got the tasty trailer for you to sink your teeth into. In the film, a family of brutal cannibalistic pilgrims attacks a restaurant that has made the mistake of remaining open on Thanksgiving. Scream Queen Linnea Quigley stars along with Madelin Marchant, Michael Vitovich, Robert Richards Jr., Alex Michell, and Samantha Ferrand, as well as others. The film is set to make its premiere at the all-virtual Salem Horror Fest. You can get your tickets here. Here’s a taste of the horrors The Last Thanksgiving has cooked up.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 18, 2020

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New Christmas Horror Book Returns to ’80s Horror

Billed as a mix between The Shining and Office Space, upcoming holiday-horror novel Secret Santa promises a return t the horror boom of the ’80s. After half a decade editing some of the biggest names in horror, Lussi Meyer joins prestigious Blackwood-Patterson to kickstart its new horror imprint. Her co-workers seem less than thrilled. Ever since the illustrious Xavier Blackwood died and his party-boy son took over, things have been changing around the office. When Lussi receives a creepy gnome doll as part of the company’s annual holiday gift exchange, it verifies what she’s long suspected: her colleagues think she’s a joke. No one takes her seriously, even if she’s the one whose books are keeping the company afloat. What happens after the doll’s arrival is no joke. With no explana- tion, Lussi’s co-workers begin to drop like flies. A heart attack here; a food poisoning there. One of her authors and closest friends, the fabulous but underrated Fabien Nightingale,

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Capt McNeely

Jul 1, 2020

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Blu-ray Review: My Bloody Valentine (1981)

One fateful Valentine’s Day up Nova Scotia way, a mine explosion killed a bunch of dudes because those in charge of making sure shit like that didn’t happen were partying hardy at the local holiday dance. As fate would have it, one man, Harry Warden by name, survived the explosion and went on to go on a murder spree of those involved in the disaster… and that stone cold mother fucker warned the town to never have another Valentine’s Day dance again, or else! 20 years later a group of “young” miners gets a wild hair to hold another dance, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, Harry (or a copycat) makes the scene and begins dispatching folks in ultra-violent ways (more on that ghoulish goodness below). Naturally the dance gets the ax, but our heroes decide to hold a secret party (who’s main attraction seems to be the large number of hot dogs on hand) at the coal

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DanXIII

Feb 9, 2020

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‘Gremlins’ Returning To Theaters For The Holidays

You may not have heard, but Gremlins are back. Just make sure not to feed them after midnight! Not only is a new animated Gremlins series coming soon from WarnerMedia, but Regal is also bringing back the original film to theaters. Relieve the classic Christmas film this holiday season in 4DX! Tickets are available now for the one week run from December 5th through December 11th. The 1984 iconic film from director Joe Dante follows Billy (Zach Galligan), a boy who receives a strange creature and inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. The upcoming animated prequel series is titled “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.” It will take us back to 1920s Shanghai to reveal the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 19, 2019

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