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Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
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Chad and Carey Hayes, the writers behind The Conjuring franchise, are teaming up again to bring new chills with a brand new franchise connected to the infamous LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans, according to Deadline. The LaLaurie Mansion is considered one of the world’s most haunted places, with a sinister and infamous reputation thanks to its former owner Madame Delphine LaLaurie. The truth of LaLaurie, known for her lavish parties, was discovered when a fire broke out in the mansion in 1834. When neighbors and firemen came in to put out the blaze, they discovered the slave who started the fire chained to the stove and multiple slaves in the attic that had been mutilated and tortured in grotesque ways. Soon the city learned that Madame was a serial killer who tortured and killed the slaves for her own entertainment. Unfortunately, she and her family fled to Paris before she could be punished. The Hayes brothers are partnering with Cindy
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Catskill Park, the sci-fi horror film by director Vlad Yudin, is set to arrive this November from Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Based on a true story, Catskill Park is a chilling tale about a camping trip that turns into a living nightmare when a blizzard traps four friends in 36 inches of sudden snow on Halloween night. A race for life ensues as they are hunted by horrific monsters, discovering a larger alien conspiracy with every terrifying stride. Lauren Francesca (‘Sam’), Gregory Lay (‘Tommy’), Alexander Cendese (‘Ex’), Melissa Haley Smith (‘Monica’), Wen Yann Shih (‘Karen’), and Brittney Lee Hamilton (‘Liz’) star with Rajesh Nahar (‘Dr. Charles Roy’), Tristan Montejo Garcia (‘Little Boy’), C.R. Marchi (‘Ranger’), Gio Perez (‘Mike’), and Timothy M. Schumacher (‘Jimmy’) co-starring. Dan DeFilippo and Edwin Mejia produced for Pipeline Entertainment and The Vladar Company. Paul Jarrett and Patrick M. Wood serve as co-producers. Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the
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After we have the hoary ol’ chestnut of “based on a true story” flashed before our eerie eyeballs we catch up with Bill and Ashely “Ash” DiAngelo (Biden Hall and Alyx Melone respectively), a married couple livin’ high on the hog in Singapore with a baby on the way…well, until it isn’t. So after that disturbing, crimson splashed miscarriage, Ash sinks into an understandable deep depression. So what is a femme in a funk to do? Why carry out the ancient East Asian practice of raising a “ghost child” as one does, much to the eternal chagrin of Ash’s maid Siti (Cynthia Lee MacQuarrie). Long story short, Ash contacts a witch doctor whom specializes in trapping unborn dead fetuses. Before you can say “monumentally shitty idea”, the couple (along with Siti) returns home to Minnesota where they discover they are pregnant..and let’s just say that ghost tyke ain’t taking a cotton to being the big sis to any flesh and
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Following a year on the international film festival circuit, Blood Child is headed back to the States for release this week and is now available on all major platforms, including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, inDemand, Dish and more. Writer-director Jennifer Phillips makes her feature debut with Blood Child, a horror fantasy that combines every parent’s worst nightmare with the Malay myth of the Toyol, ghost children raised by black magic, devastating all involved. The based on a true story film premiered at Toronto’s Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival, where lead actress Alyx Melone took home the Rising Star Award. “After suffering a devastating miscarriage in Singapore, Ashley turns to a witch doctor to help her with the occult practice of raising a “ghost child” and finding the spirit of her lost child. After returning to the States, Ashley and her husband Bill find themselves pregnant again. However, their happiness is short-lived as the pregnancy acts as a catalyst
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Friday (August 3) marks the 126th anniversary of the infamous 1892 ax murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts. What better day to unveil the trailer for the true story inspired film Lizzie. Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry, “Big Love”) stars as Lizzie Borden, the notorious woman at the heart of one of the most enduring mysteries in American history. After a lifetime of loneliness, Lizzie finds a kindred spirit in housemaid Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart) and their secret intimacy sparks an unthinkable act. Director Craig William Macneill (The Boy (2015), “Channel Zero: Candle Cove”) explores the days leading up to the savage crimes in a dark tale of repression, exploitation and thwarted dreams. Written by Bryce Kass (“13 Reasons Why”), this dark tale’s all-star cast includes Sevigny who stars along with her fellow “American Horror Story” alum Denis O’Hare, as well as Stewart (Twilight), Jamey Sheridan (“Arrow”), Fiona Shaw (Channel Zer0: Butchers Block), Kim
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This August witness the exorcism of a young woman in Along Came the Devil, inspired by true events. From director Jason DeVan (Mindless) comes this dark supernatural thriller that follows “a young woman who, after a troubled childhood, unwittingly invites in a demonic force — leaving her loved ones battling for her soul.” Originally titled Tell Me Your Name, the film stars Sydney Sweeney (Under the Silver Lake), Jessica Barth (Ted, Ted 2), Matt Dallas (“Kyle XY”), Madison Lintz (“The Walking Dead”), Heather DeVan (“Mindless”), and Bruce Davison (X-Men), Variety reports. Jason DeVan and Heather DeVan are producing under their DeVan Clan banner. Keeneth C.Dunn is serving as executive producer. Along Came the Devil possesses a release date, August 10, 2018, from Gravitas Ventures.
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Thomas Griffith (Mark Lewis Jones) and Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) are two men, one a former brawler and one a religious man with a dark past respectively, charged with keeping a Welsh lighthouse up and running on a small isolated rock of an island in 1801. Neither man likes the other too much so that makes things a bit rough, but nothing compared to what happens when a big ass storm (official meteorological term if ever there was one) leaves them stranded on the island for weeks longer than their provisions could provide for. What do they do to compensate, why drink their asses off and begin to slide down the slippery slope of complete batshit lunacy…then an event occurs that makes things get impossibly more out of control. Just to get it out of the way; if you are expecting over-the-top thrills and chills with The Lighthouse, you definitely are going to come away disappointed. This is basically two
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Uncork’d Entertainment has just cast light on the release of Chris Crow‘s BAFTA award-winning survival thriller The Lighthouse. Crow, along with the film’s actors Michael Jibson (Hunter Killer, Beauty and the Beast) and Mark Lewis Jones (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, “Game of Thrones”) were nominated for five BAFTA awards including Best Director and Best Actor and won Best Visual Effects. The Lighthouse, inspired by a terrifying true story, tells of two men trapped in an isolated lighthouse, surrounded by the deadly Irish sea, with both their minds ultimately pushed to the limits. Discover The Lighthouse in select theaters and on VOD on July 10, 2018, from Uncork’d Entertainment. Uncork’d Entertainment’s upcoming releases also include The Lullaby, released theatrically in March, Lou Simon’s 3, and My Pet Dinosaur from Matt Drummond.
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Paco Plaza, the director behind 2007’s found footage flick [REC], is back with the Spanish horror film Veronica which has been all over genre sites since it arrived on Netflix earlier this month. The reason the film is getting so much buzz, many viewers can’t finish watching the film because it’s so scary. One thing that adds to the reputation is the fact that it is based on a true story. The film centers on a young woman (Sandra Escacena) who must protect her younger brother and sister after she attempts to contact the spirit of their dead father through a ritual using an Ouija board. So, what’s the true story that inspired the film? Back in August of 1991 in Madrid, Spain, a teenage girl named Estafania Gutierrez Lazaro died a mysterious death. Her parents believed the death was caused by Estafania playing with an Ouija board. Shortly before she passed away one of her friends died in a
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Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
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Chad and Carey Hayes, the writers behind The Conjuring franchise, are teaming up again to bring new chills with a brand new franchise connected to the infamous LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans, according to Deadline. The LaLaurie Mansion is considered one of the world’s most haunted places, with a sinister and infamous reputation thanks to its former owner Madame Delphine LaLaurie. The truth of LaLaurie, known for her lavish parties, was discovered when a fire broke out in the mansion in 1834. When neighbors and firemen came in to put out the blaze, they discovered the slave who started the fire chained to the stove and multiple slaves in the attic that had been mutilated and tortured in grotesque ways. Soon the city learned that Madame was a serial killer who tortured and killed the slaves for her own entertainment. Unfortunately, she and her family fled to Paris before she could be punished. The Hayes brothers are partnering with Cindy
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsParanormalTrailers
Catskill Park, the sci-fi horror film by director Vlad Yudin, is set to arrive this November from Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Based on a true story, Catskill Park is a chilling tale about a camping trip that turns into a living nightmare when a blizzard traps four friends in 36 inches of sudden snow on Halloween night. A race for life ensues as they are hunted by horrific monsters, discovering a larger alien conspiracy with every terrifying stride. Lauren Francesca (‘Sam’), Gregory Lay (‘Tommy’), Alexander Cendese (‘Ex’), Melissa Haley Smith (‘Monica’), Wen Yann Shih (‘Karen’), and Brittney Lee Hamilton (‘Liz’) star with Rajesh Nahar (‘Dr. Charles Roy’), Tristan Montejo Garcia (‘Little Boy’), C.R. Marchi (‘Ranger’), Gio Perez (‘Mike’), and Timothy M. Schumacher (‘Jimmy’) co-starring. Dan DeFilippo and Edwin Mejia produced for Pipeline Entertainment and The Vladar Company. Paul Jarrett and Patrick M. Wood serve as co-producers. Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the
Continue reading →
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After we have the hoary ol’ chestnut of “based on a true story” flashed before our eerie eyeballs we catch up with Bill and Ashely “Ash” DiAngelo (Biden Hall and Alyx Melone respectively), a married couple livin’ high on the hog in Singapore with a baby on the way…well, until it isn’t. So after that disturbing, crimson splashed miscarriage, Ash sinks into an understandable deep depression. So what is a femme in a funk to do? Why carry out the ancient East Asian practice of raising a “ghost child” as one does, much to the eternal chagrin of Ash’s maid Siti (Cynthia Lee MacQuarrie). Long story short, Ash contacts a witch doctor whom specializes in trapping unborn dead fetuses. Before you can say “monumentally shitty idea”, the couple (along with Siti) returns home to Minnesota where they discover they are pregnant..and let’s just say that ghost tyke ain’t taking a cotton to being the big sis to any flesh and
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
Following a year on the international film festival circuit, Blood Child is headed back to the States for release this week and is now available on all major platforms, including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, inDemand, Dish and more. Writer-director Jennifer Phillips makes her feature debut with Blood Child, a horror fantasy that combines every parent’s worst nightmare with the Malay myth of the Toyol, ghost children raised by black magic, devastating all involved. The based on a true story film premiered at Toronto’s Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival, where lead actress Alyx Melone took home the Rising Star Award. “After suffering a devastating miscarriage in Singapore, Ashley turns to a witch doctor to help her with the occult practice of raising a “ghost child” and finding the spirit of her lost child. After returning to the States, Ashley and her husband Bill find themselves pregnant again. However, their happiness is short-lived as the pregnancy acts as a catalyst
Continue reading →
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Friday (August 3) marks the 126th anniversary of the infamous 1892 ax murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts. What better day to unveil the trailer for the true story inspired film Lizzie. Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry, “Big Love”) stars as Lizzie Borden, the notorious woman at the heart of one of the most enduring mysteries in American history. After a lifetime of loneliness, Lizzie finds a kindred spirit in housemaid Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart) and their secret intimacy sparks an unthinkable act. Director Craig William Macneill (The Boy (2015), “Channel Zero: Candle Cove”) explores the days leading up to the savage crimes in a dark tale of repression, exploitation and thwarted dreams. Written by Bryce Kass (“13 Reasons Why”), this dark tale’s all-star cast includes Sevigny who stars along with her fellow “American Horror Story” alum Denis O’Hare, as well as Stewart (Twilight), Jamey Sheridan (“Arrow”), Fiona Shaw (Channel Zer0: Butchers Block), Kim
Continue reading →
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This August witness the exorcism of a young woman in Along Came the Devil, inspired by true events. From director Jason DeVan (Mindless) comes this dark supernatural thriller that follows “a young woman who, after a troubled childhood, unwittingly invites in a demonic force — leaving her loved ones battling for her soul.” Originally titled Tell Me Your Name, the film stars Sydney Sweeney (Under the Silver Lake), Jessica Barth (Ted, Ted 2), Matt Dallas (“Kyle XY”), Madison Lintz (“The Walking Dead”), Heather DeVan (“Mindless”), and Bruce Davison (X-Men), Variety reports. Jason DeVan and Heather DeVan are producing under their DeVan Clan banner. Keeneth C.Dunn is serving as executive producer. Along Came the Devil possesses a release date, August 10, 2018, from Gravitas Ventures.
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Thomas Griffith (Mark Lewis Jones) and Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) are two men, one a former brawler and one a religious man with a dark past respectively, charged with keeping a Welsh lighthouse up and running on a small isolated rock of an island in 1801. Neither man likes the other too much so that makes things a bit rough, but nothing compared to what happens when a big ass storm (official meteorological term if ever there was one) leaves them stranded on the island for weeks longer than their provisions could provide for. What do they do to compensate, why drink their asses off and begin to slide down the slippery slope of complete batshit lunacy…then an event occurs that makes things get impossibly more out of control. Just to get it out of the way; if you are expecting over-the-top thrills and chills with The Lighthouse, you definitely are going to come away disappointed. This is basically two
Continue reading →
TrailersTrue Story
Uncork’d Entertainment has just cast light on the release of Chris Crow‘s BAFTA award-winning survival thriller The Lighthouse. Crow, along with the film’s actors Michael Jibson (Hunter Killer, Beauty and the Beast) and Mark Lewis Jones (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, “Game of Thrones”) were nominated for five BAFTA awards including Best Director and Best Actor and won Best Visual Effects. The Lighthouse, inspired by a terrifying true story, tells of two men trapped in an isolated lighthouse, surrounded by the deadly Irish sea, with both their minds ultimately pushed to the limits. Discover The Lighthouse in select theaters and on VOD on July 10, 2018, from Uncork’d Entertainment. Uncork’d Entertainment’s upcoming releases also include The Lullaby, released theatrically in March, Lou Simon’s 3, and My Pet Dinosaur from Matt Drummond.
Continue reading →
ParanormalTrailersTrue Story
Paco Plaza, the director behind 2007’s found footage flick [REC], is back with the Spanish horror film Veronica which has been all over genre sites since it arrived on Netflix earlier this month. The reason the film is getting so much buzz, many viewers can’t finish watching the film because it’s so scary. One thing that adds to the reputation is the fact that it is based on a true story. The film centers on a young woman (Sandra Escacena) who must protect her younger brother and sister after she attempts to contact the spirit of their dead father through a ritual using an Ouija board. So, what’s the true story that inspired the film? Back in August of 1991 in Madrid, Spain, a teenage girl named Estafania Gutierrez Lazaro died a mysterious death. Her parents believed the death was caused by Estafania playing with an Ouija board. Shortly before she passed away one of her friends died in a
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