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This March ‘Capture Kill Release’ lands on Digital HD from co-directors Nick McAnulty and Brian Allen Stewart. This found footage is a twist on the infamous real life story of “the Ken and Barbie killers”. In the film a young married couple documents their descent down the rabbit hole as they seek to fulfill one of their darkest desires: kill a stranger and film it for posterity. Strain and second thoughts pull at their devotion to each other as they carefully plot out a heinous crime for the sake of curiosity. While they may have carefully thought out every small step and detail of getting away with murder, nothing can prepare them with the guilt and the weight of moving on in the aftermath. Shot in a documentary style from the perspective of the couple’s camera, the film follows unflinching as they document their moral decay for the sake of “art”. From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Midnight
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Tony E. Valenzuela’s paranormal thriller, ‘The Axe Murders of Villisca’, is now available in select theaters, on VOD, and on Digital HD, as of January 20th. The haunting film was inspired by the true story of the viscous, unsolved murder of an entire family. The Crime Sometime around midnight on Sunday, June 9, 1912, a killer or killers entered a home in Villisca, Iowa, and slaughtered eight people in their sleep. The victims included two adults and six children from the ages of 5 to 12. The night before the murders, the family had spent the evening in church, then walked the 3 blocks to their home. Sometime after midnight one or more killers entered the residence, one armed with the father’s ax and bludgeoned to death each person in the home. By 8:00 am on the 10th, the father’s brother Ross arrived at the house. Upon entering he saw Joe and Sarah Moore’s bodies covered by a bedsheet. Ross
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Director John R. Leonetti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman, the team behind 2014’s ‘Annabelle’, are back with a Manson Family inspired tale, ‘Wolves At The Door’. This home invasion film is a retelling of the night when member’s of Charlie Manson’s cult members broke into the home of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time. Mason Family members brutally slaughtered Tate, along with three of her friends. The victims in ‘Wolves at the Door’ share the first names of the real victims, but reportedly they are not supposed to actually be them. Official Synopsis: Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns into a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack. Kate Cassidy, Elizabeth Henstridge, Miles Fisher, Adam Campbell,
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On October 9th A&E’s three-part series ‘The Enfield Haunting’ will air. The mini series follows the real-life events of the haunting of a family in London, in the fall of 1977. The series is also an adaption of Guy Lynon Playfair’s book “This House is Haunted’ that documented the events of the haunting in detail. ‘The Enfield Haunting’ was well documented and was investigated by many, including by Ed and Loraine Warren. The haunting is also the topic of ‘The Conjuring 2’. ‘The Enfield Haunting’ stars Timothy Spall, who won Best Actor at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Spall stars along side Juliet Stevenson (The Village), Mathew Macfadyen (Ripper Street) and Guy Lyon Playfair (Anna Karenina) and was directed by Kristoffer Nyholm. Be sure to tune into A&E on October 9th for the first episode of ‘The Enfield Haunting’.
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Trailers
This March ‘Capture Kill Release’ lands on Digital HD from co-directors Nick McAnulty and Brian Allen Stewart. This found footage is a twist on the infamous real life story of “the Ken and Barbie killers”. In the film a young married couple documents their descent down the rabbit hole as they seek to fulfill one of their darkest desires: kill a stranger and film it for posterity. Strain and second thoughts pull at their devotion to each other as they carefully plot out a heinous crime for the sake of curiosity. While they may have carefully thought out every small step and detail of getting away with murder, nothing can prepare them with the guilt and the weight of moving on in the aftermath. Shot in a documentary style from the perspective of the couple’s camera, the film follows unflinching as they document their moral decay for the sake of “art”. From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Midnight
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True CrimeTrue Story
Tony E. Valenzuela’s paranormal thriller, ‘The Axe Murders of Villisca’, is now available in select theaters, on VOD, and on Digital HD, as of January 20th. The haunting film was inspired by the true story of the viscous, unsolved murder of an entire family. The Crime Sometime around midnight on Sunday, June 9, 1912, a killer or killers entered a home in Villisca, Iowa, and slaughtered eight people in their sleep. The victims included two adults and six children from the ages of 5 to 12. The night before the murders, the family had spent the evening in church, then walked the 3 blocks to their home. Sometime after midnight one or more killers entered the residence, one armed with the father’s ax and bludgeoned to death each person in the home. By 8:00 am on the 10th, the father’s brother Ross arrived at the house. Upon entering he saw Joe and Sarah Moore’s bodies covered by a bedsheet. Ross
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Trailers
Director John R. Leonetti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman, the team behind 2014’s ‘Annabelle’, are back with a Manson Family inspired tale, ‘Wolves At The Door’. This home invasion film is a retelling of the night when member’s of Charlie Manson’s cult members broke into the home of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time. Mason Family members brutally slaughtered Tate, along with three of her friends. The victims in ‘Wolves at the Door’ share the first names of the real victims, but reportedly they are not supposed to actually be them. Official Synopsis: Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns into a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack. Kate Cassidy, Elizabeth Henstridge, Miles Fisher, Adam Campbell,
Continue reading →
NewsReviewsStreaming TV
On October 9th A&E’s three-part series ‘The Enfield Haunting’ will air. The mini series follows the real-life events of the haunting of a family in London, in the fall of 1977. The series is also an adaption of Guy Lynon Playfair’s book “This House is Haunted’ that documented the events of the haunting in detail. ‘The Enfield Haunting’ was well documented and was investigated by many, including by Ed and Loraine Warren. The haunting is also the topic of ‘The Conjuring 2’. ‘The Enfield Haunting’ stars Timothy Spall, who won Best Actor at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Spall stars along side Juliet Stevenson (The Village), Mathew Macfadyen (Ripper Street) and Guy Lyon Playfair (Anna Karenina) and was directed by Kristoffer Nyholm. Be sure to tune into A&E on October 9th for the first episode of ‘The Enfield Haunting’.
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