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Social Media Horror ‘Followed’ Out On VOD And Digital This September

A social media influencer and a crew enter one of the most haunted hotels in America in a bid to gain a new sponsorship and more views in director Antoine Le‘s true story inspired horror film Followed. When aspiring social media influencer “DropTheMike” is offered a lucrative sponsorship to grow his channel, he’s joined by his video crew on a visit to one of the most haunted hotels in America, where he’ll give his audience a horrific night of thrill-seeking the likes of which they have never seen before. What begins as a fun investigative challenge including the infamous Elevator Ritual quickly descends into a personal hell of true evil, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame? Written by Todd Klick, this paranormal flick stars Matthew Solomon, John Savage, Sam Valentine, Tim Drier, Caitlin Grace, Kelsey Griswold, and Christopher Ross Martin. Matthew Ryan Brewbaker produced Followed with J. Todd Harris, Thomas Pettinelli, Greg Berlant,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 25, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Mikey (1992)

Here comes ol’ Mikey (Brian Bonsall); a terror tyke that will surely be a royal ass pain to everyone he (dis)graces with his presence. So yeah, Mikey… this mother fucker tries to set his house on fire, watches his sister drown, and electrocutes his adoptive mother… all in the first five minutes of the goddamned film; fuckin’ beast mode activated amirite? Oh, he then kills his father with an aluminum baseball bat… Mikey is also a liar par excellence, so he gets away with this shit scot free, and shipped off to live with the Trentons, Neil (John Diehl) and Rachel (Mimi Craven… yup she was married to Wes); a pair of upper-middle class rubes that have no idea the hell they’ve welcomed into their home. To his credit, Mikey tries to fit in, even though he’s death obsessed and is bound and determined to put the moves on the neighbor’s teenage daughter Jessie (Josie Bissett)… even though she has

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DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
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The CW Debuts New “Swamp Thing” Trailer

If you missed your chance to see DC’s short-lived “Swamp Thing” series, don’t fret. The show is coming to The CW in time for Halloween! Ahead of its arrival, a new trailer has been unleashed by The CW. Check it out below. Produced by James Wan, the series based on the DC characters created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson stars Crystal Reed, Jennifer Beals, Virginia Madsen, Will Patton, Andy Bean, Ian Ziering, Kevin Durand, Henderson Wade, Jeryl Prescott and Maria Sten star in the series. Swamp Thing is played by Friday the 13th’s Derek Mears. “Swamp Thing” centers on CDC researcher Abby Arcane (Reed). After returning to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, she develops a relationship with scientist Alec Holland, only to have him tragically taken from her. But as powerful forces descend on Houma, intent on exploiting the swamp’s mysterious properties for their own purposes, Abby discovers that the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 24, 2020
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Movie Review: SLAXX (2020)

Ol’ Libby (Romane Denis) is happier than a clam in pigshit (of course as everyone knows, that is pretty damn happy) to be a new employee of an ultra-swank clothing store that is filled with plenty of those pretentious-ass types we all know and loathe. Anyway, one of those aforementioned asses steals a pair of jeans, puts them on, and before you can say “Ooh la la Sasson” she’s pinched in two by that ghoulish garment… and those putrid pants Hoover-up the red sauce left behind with the quickness! You see those sinister slacks are alive and hellbent on creating some serious employee turnover; and it’s up to Libby and her co-worker Shruti (Sehar Bhojani) to try and appease those terror trousers before the entire staff is devoured! Man-oh-man, Slaxx is a nice big slice of ridiculousness and it’s pretty damn glorious let me tell you cats n’ creeps! Director Elza Kephart, who also co-wrote this fright flick along with

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DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Demonia (1990)

Picture it; Sicily 1486… a group of monks, doubtless filled with the friskiness of youth, crucify five nuns they believe are witches… Fast forward to the amazing future year 1990 A.D., and Liza (Meg Register) and Professor Evans (Brett Halsey), head to Sicily to investigate a series of ruins on the island even though every mother fucker on there tells them that it’s a rather shit idea… hell even Liza had a terrifying psychic visions of the damned place at a seance held months earlier. Well, Liza finds the bodies of those nuns, and guess what? They really were witches… blood drinkin’, hard fuckin’, Satanic ones at that… and now they are up and at ’em for some (at times) naked tittied supernatural revenge, and not even Inspector Carter (Lucio Fulci) from Interpol can do fuck-all about it! While not as bat-shit crazy as some of Fulci’s previous efforts, Demonia is still pretty fuckin’ fantastic. The ancient monastery and it’s

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DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Aenigma (1987)

As with most films, Lucio Fulci’s Aenigma begins with two friends helping their pal, Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), get gussied up for a date as a theme song featuring the “not quite Air Supply” stylings of Douglas Meakin (Head Over Heels by name, though the credits are sure it’s Head Over Meels… missed it by that much) gives us a yacht rock punch right to the ol’ hairy beanbag. Well, the joke’s on her as seemingly the entire student body of St. Mary’s College (her “friends” included) laugh their asses off as the sounds of her getting hot n’ heavy with her date are broadcast for all to hear. Long story short, she bolts, is accidentally hit by a car, and rendered comatose. Enter: Eva Gordon (Lara Lamberti), a new student at the university mentioned up yonder that Kathy attended before Sex Noise Scandal ’87 took her motor skills away. Guess what? Kathy is still attending the school as she has

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DanXIII
Aug 23, 2020
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John Carpenter Confirms Involvement With New Reboot Of ‘The Thing’

For fans of John Carpenter, we have some exciting news. This Saturday, while the Master of Horror was receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award during the Fantasia Film Festival (full interview below), he confirmed several projects. One of those projects is Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot of The Thing. As previously reported, the new film as well as Carpenter’s 1982 movie, is inspired by acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien. The new film will also draw from Frozen Hell, a recently unearthed novella that serves as an abridged version of Campbell’s original story. In all, there are already three film versions of the same story, The Thing from Another World (1951), Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing, and 2011’s The Thing from director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot will be number four. It will be interesting to see how

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
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Björk To Play A Witch In Robert Eggers’ Upcoming Revenge Film ‘The Northman’

Robert Eggers, the brilliant filmmaker that delivered The Witch and The Lighthouse, is building an epic cast for his next film, The Northman. Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Anya Taylor-Joy, Kate Dickie, and Nicole Kidman are all set to star. This week another name was added. According to reports, actress and musician Björk has also joined the cast and will play the role of the “Slav Witch.” Known for her unique sound and elaborate costumes, Björk’s most notable film role was that of Selma in Lars von Trier’s award-winning 2000 movie Dancer in the Dark. At the moment, the details surrounding the film are being kept very quiet. We do know that it is a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland near the turn of the 10th century. Eggers co-wrote the script along with Icelandic poet and novelist, Sjón. Due to the pandemic, filming will probably take place later this year, with The Northman likely premiering at film festivals

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
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Things Get Bloody In The New ’12 Hour Shift’ Trailer

Things get bloody in the new trailer for writer-director Brea Grant‘s (After Midnight) comedy laced horror-thriller 12 Hour Shift in which Angela Bettis (Carrie, The Woman) makes her return to the genre. It’s 1998 and over the course of one night at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals get caught up in a heist gone wrong. David Arquette, Chloe Farnworth, Nikea Gamby-Turner, and Kit Williamson also star. Christina Arquette, David Arquette, Jordan Wayne Long, Tara Perry, and Matt Glass produced 12 Hour Shift which features original music by Matt Glass. 12 Hour Shift opens in theaters and lands On Demand on October 2, 2020, from Magnet Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
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DVD Review: Evil Boy (2019)

Igor (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) and Polina (Elena Lyadova) have lost their son Vanya (Sevastian Bugaev), and three years later decide to adopt. Off they trot to a rural Gothic mansion of an orphanage and while there discover a dead groundskeeper and a feral child (Sevastian Bugaev, in a dual role) locked in the basement. Well, that lil’ hellion bonds with Polina, and soon they are the proud parents of a completely uncontrollable maniac… well Polina is thrilled anyway. Igor on the other hand is torn between trying to make his wife happy and trying to not get totally creeped out by the fact that the child soon starts looking and acting like Vanya… hell Polina even gives the new addition the name of their missing child. Well wouldn’t ya know it, junior begins displaying some rather off putting supernatural tendencies that send our heroes into a deep dive into the child’s past. I’m sure that’ll go well… Co-writer/director Olga Gorodetskaya (working

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DanXIII
Aug 22, 2020

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Social Media Horror ‘Followed’ Out On VOD And Digital This September

A social media influencer and a crew enter one of the most haunted hotels in America in a bid to gain a new sponsorship and more views in director Antoine Le‘s true story inspired horror film Followed. When aspiring social media influencer “DropTheMike” is offered a lucrative sponsorship to grow his channel, he’s joined by his video crew on a visit to one of the most haunted hotels in America, where he’ll give his audience a horrific night of thrill-seeking the likes of which they have never seen before. What begins as a fun investigative challenge including the infamous Elevator Ritual quickly descends into a personal hell of true evil, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame? Written by Todd Klick, this paranormal flick stars Matthew Solomon, John Savage, Sam Valentine, Tim Drier, Caitlin Grace, Kelsey Griswold, and Christopher Ross Martin. Matthew Ryan Brewbaker produced Followed with J. Todd Harris, Thomas Pettinelli, Greg Berlant,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 25, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Mikey (1992)

Here comes ol’ Mikey (Brian Bonsall); a terror tyke that will surely be a royal ass pain to everyone he (dis)graces with his presence. So yeah, Mikey… this mother fucker tries to set his house on fire, watches his sister drown, and electrocutes his adoptive mother… all in the first five minutes of the goddamned film; fuckin’ beast mode activated amirite? Oh, he then kills his father with an aluminum baseball bat… Mikey is also a liar par excellence, so he gets away with this shit scot free, and shipped off to live with the Trentons, Neil (John Diehl) and Rachel (Mimi Craven… yup she was married to Wes); a pair of upper-middle class rubes that have no idea the hell they’ve welcomed into their home. To his credit, Mikey tries to fit in, even though he’s death obsessed and is bound and determined to put the moves on the neighbor’s teenage daughter Jessie (Josie Bissett)… even though she has

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
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The CW Debuts New “Swamp Thing” Trailer

If you missed your chance to see DC’s short-lived “Swamp Thing” series, don’t fret. The show is coming to The CW in time for Halloween! Ahead of its arrival, a new trailer has been unleashed by The CW. Check it out below. Produced by James Wan, the series based on the DC characters created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson stars Crystal Reed, Jennifer Beals, Virginia Madsen, Will Patton, Andy Bean, Ian Ziering, Kevin Durand, Henderson Wade, Jeryl Prescott and Maria Sten star in the series. Swamp Thing is played by Friday the 13th’s Derek Mears. “Swamp Thing” centers on CDC researcher Abby Arcane (Reed). After returning to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, she develops a relationship with scientist Alec Holland, only to have him tragically taken from her. But as powerful forces descend on Houma, intent on exploiting the swamp’s mysterious properties for their own purposes, Abby discovers that the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 24, 2020
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Movie Review: SLAXX (2020)

Ol’ Libby (Romane Denis) is happier than a clam in pigshit (of course as everyone knows, that is pretty damn happy) to be a new employee of an ultra-swank clothing store that is filled with plenty of those pretentious-ass types we all know and loathe. Anyway, one of those aforementioned asses steals a pair of jeans, puts them on, and before you can say “Ooh la la Sasson” she’s pinched in two by that ghoulish garment… and those putrid pants Hoover-up the red sauce left behind with the quickness! You see those sinister slacks are alive and hellbent on creating some serious employee turnover; and it’s up to Libby and her co-worker Shruti (Sehar Bhojani) to try and appease those terror trousers before the entire staff is devoured! Man-oh-man, Slaxx is a nice big slice of ridiculousness and it’s pretty damn glorious let me tell you cats n’ creeps! Director Elza Kephart, who also co-wrote this fright flick along with

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Demonia (1990)

Picture it; Sicily 1486… a group of monks, doubtless filled with the friskiness of youth, crucify five nuns they believe are witches… Fast forward to the amazing future year 1990 A.D., and Liza (Meg Register) and Professor Evans (Brett Halsey), head to Sicily to investigate a series of ruins on the island even though every mother fucker on there tells them that it’s a rather shit idea… hell even Liza had a terrifying psychic visions of the damned place at a seance held months earlier. Well, Liza finds the bodies of those nuns, and guess what? They really were witches… blood drinkin’, hard fuckin’, Satanic ones at that… and now they are up and at ’em for some (at times) naked tittied supernatural revenge, and not even Inspector Carter (Lucio Fulci) from Interpol can do fuck-all about it! While not as bat-shit crazy as some of Fulci’s previous efforts, Demonia is still pretty fuckin’ fantastic. The ancient monastery and it’s

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Aenigma (1987)

As with most films, Lucio Fulci’s Aenigma begins with two friends helping their pal, Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), get gussied up for a date as a theme song featuring the “not quite Air Supply” stylings of Douglas Meakin (Head Over Heels by name, though the credits are sure it’s Head Over Meels… missed it by that much) gives us a yacht rock punch right to the ol’ hairy beanbag. Well, the joke’s on her as seemingly the entire student body of St. Mary’s College (her “friends” included) laugh their asses off as the sounds of her getting hot n’ heavy with her date are broadcast for all to hear. Long story short, she bolts, is accidentally hit by a car, and rendered comatose. Enter: Eva Gordon (Lara Lamberti), a new student at the university mentioned up yonder that Kathy attended before Sex Noise Scandal ’87 took her motor skills away. Guess what? Kathy is still attending the school as she has

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 23, 2020
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John Carpenter Confirms Involvement With New Reboot Of ‘The Thing’

For fans of John Carpenter, we have some exciting news. This Saturday, while the Master of Horror was receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award during the Fantasia Film Festival (full interview below), he confirmed several projects. One of those projects is Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot of The Thing. As previously reported, the new film as well as Carpenter’s 1982 movie, is inspired by acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien. The new film will also draw from Frozen Hell, a recently unearthed novella that serves as an abridged version of Campbell’s original story. In all, there are already three film versions of the same story, The Thing from Another World (1951), Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing, and 2011’s The Thing from director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot will be number four. It will be interesting to see how

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
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Björk To Play A Witch In Robert Eggers’ Upcoming Revenge Film ‘The Northman’

Robert Eggers, the brilliant filmmaker that delivered The Witch and The Lighthouse, is building an epic cast for his next film, The Northman. Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Anya Taylor-Joy, Kate Dickie, and Nicole Kidman are all set to star. This week another name was added. According to reports, actress and musician Björk has also joined the cast and will play the role of the “Slav Witch.” Known for her unique sound and elaborate costumes, Björk’s most notable film role was that of Selma in Lars von Trier’s award-winning 2000 movie Dancer in the Dark. At the moment, the details surrounding the film are being kept very quiet. We do know that it is a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland near the turn of the 10th century. Eggers co-wrote the script along with Icelandic poet and novelist, Sjón. Due to the pandemic, filming will probably take place later this year, with The Northman likely premiering at film festivals

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
Horror Fuel

Things Get Bloody In The New ’12 Hour Shift’ Trailer

Things get bloody in the new trailer for writer-director Brea Grant‘s (After Midnight) comedy laced horror-thriller 12 Hour Shift in which Angela Bettis (Carrie, The Woman) makes her return to the genre. It’s 1998 and over the course of one night at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals get caught up in a heist gone wrong. David Arquette, Chloe Farnworth, Nikea Gamby-Turner, and Kit Williamson also star. Christina Arquette, David Arquette, Jordan Wayne Long, Tara Perry, and Matt Glass produced 12 Hour Shift which features original music by Matt Glass. 12 Hour Shift opens in theaters and lands On Demand on October 2, 2020, from Magnet Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2020
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DVD Review: Evil Boy (2019)

Igor (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) and Polina (Elena Lyadova) have lost their son Vanya (Sevastian Bugaev), and three years later decide to adopt. Off they trot to a rural Gothic mansion of an orphanage and while there discover a dead groundskeeper and a feral child (Sevastian Bugaev, in a dual role) locked in the basement. Well, that lil’ hellion bonds with Polina, and soon they are the proud parents of a completely uncontrollable maniac… well Polina is thrilled anyway. Igor on the other hand is torn between trying to make his wife happy and trying to not get totally creeped out by the fact that the child soon starts looking and acting like Vanya… hell Polina even gives the new addition the name of their missing child. Well wouldn’t ya know it, junior begins displaying some rather off putting supernatural tendencies that send our heroes into a deep dive into the child’s past. I’m sure that’ll go well… Co-writer/director Olga Gorodetskaya (working

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DanXIII
Aug 22, 2020
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