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From The Writer Of ‘You’re Next’ Comes ‘Seance’

This May, RLJE Films and Shudder will invite you to witness Seance, written by Simon Barrett who also brought us You’re Next and The Guest. The film marks Barrett’s directorial debut. In Seance, Camille Meadows (Suki Waterhouse) is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened. Seance stars Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation, The Divergent Series: Insurgent), Madisen Beaty (Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ella-Rae Smith (”Into the Badlands”, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Inanna Sarkis (Boo 2! A Madea Halloween), and Seamus Patterson who reunites with fellow “Channel Zero” star Marina Stephenson-Kerr. We’re so excited to finally be working with the amazingly

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2021
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Thousands Of Zombies Roam Vegas In The New ‘Army Of The Dead’ Trailer

Ahead of its May premiere on Netflix, we’ve got a new teaser trailer for Zach Snyder’s (Dawn of the Dead, “Watchmen”) Army of the Dead which teases Vegas in ruins, a vault filled with cash, and thousands of hungry zombies walking the streets, including a zombie Elvis. And we dig it. In the movie, Dave Bautista and his crew after a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, where the group of mercenaries takes the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted. Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, Garret Dillahunt, Tig Notaro, Raúl Castillo, Huma Qureshi, Samantha Win, Richard Cetrone, and Michael Cassidy also star. Army of the Dead marches onto Netflix on May 21, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 25, 2021
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Sex, Satanic Cults, And Murder: New Epix Docuseries “Fall River” Debuts This May

Uncover a sordid story of sex, satanic cults, and murder in Blumhouse and Epix’s new four-part docuseries “Fall River“. In 1979, almost 90 years after infamous, accused murderer Lizzie Borden’s notorious acquittal – Fall River, Massachusetts would become home to another terrifying series of crimes. Three young women were brutally murdered. The police alleged a satanic cult was practicing human sacrifice. The cult leader, a man named Carl Drew, was captured and sent to prison for life without parole. Twenty years after the trial, the lead investigator Paul Carey became so haunted by inconsistencies in the stories that he re-investigated his own case after he retired. Evidence surfaced that brought the entire story into question. Now through exclusive interviews, including intimate conversations with Drew, new witnesses, and illuminating evidence, this documentary series will tell the true story of a town caught in the grips of the paranoia and fear around the 1980s Satanic Panic and will shed light on murders

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 24, 2021
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Blu-ray Review: Brahms: The Boy II (2020)

Married-types Liza (Katie Holmes) and Sean (Owain Yeoman) beat a hasty retreat to the countryside in an attempt to forget a robbery dealio that L-Dawg experienced in the city that left her shook A.F. As fate and the script wound have it, their crotch-goblin Jude (Christopher Convery) discovers a creepy-ass doll in the woods and brings that putrid, porcelain fuck right the fuck home… and guess what? That terrible toy seems to have a life of it’s own. Unrelenting horror biz ensues. Look, I can’t slap a revoltin’ review on Brahms: The Boy II without mentioning 2016’s original recipe The Boy… and you bet your ass there is a spoiler or two heading your way, so consider your arcane asses duly warned. The thing I hated the most about the first entry is fixed-as-all-fuck this go-around… namely the nature of the doll, Brahms, itself. In the first movie, that doll was just a cover for some other sinister shit (though

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DanXIII
May 16, 2020
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The ‘Don’t Run’ Trailer Awakens Childhood Fears

From director Ben Rood comes Don’t Run, an indie horror-fantasy born from the fear files of children everywhere. In the film, “a timid boy is trapped inside his house with a monster that threatens to eat him if he isn’t in bed by sundown every night.” Charlotte Arnold, Holly Arnold, Grant Brooks, Dan Foley, Danny Irizarry, and Cody Cheatwood star in Don’t Run, written, directed, produced, edited, and financed by Cincinnati-native Ben Rood, Don’t Run is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2020
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Watch The First Clip From Panama’s First Horror Film ‘Diablo Rojo Pty’

The first clip from Diablo Rojo Pty, Panama’s first-ever horror film, is here to give audiences a taste of what’s to come! The scene showcases the first appearance of La Tulivieja, the witch that haunts our heroes through the jungles of Panama’s Chiriqui province. Based on local folklore, Panama’s first horror film is a ride through Hell with witches, cannibals, and monsters! Written and produced by J. Oskura Nájera and directed by Sol Moreno, Diablo Rojo Pty features a stellar cast that includes Carlos Carrasco (Speed and Blood In, Blood Out) and Leo Wiznitzer (Causa Justa and Hands of Stone). Diablo Rojo Pty (review) premieres exclusively to Amazon Prime Video on May 14th, 2020, from The Horror Collective.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 14, 2020
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This May ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ Comes Home

This May bring home Brams: The Boy II. Katie Holmes (Batman Begins) and Christopher Convery (“Gotham”) star in the chilling sequel from the producers that brought you IT and The Ring. In Brahms: The Boy II, unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Director William Brent Bell (The Boy, The Devil Inside) returns alongside the team that produced the original film, Roy Lee (It, Doctor Sleep, The Ring), Jim Wedaa (Mission to Mars, Unstoppable), and Matt Berenson (Best of Enemies, The Place Beyond the Pines) for the eerie second installment that features outstanding supporting performances by Owain Yeoman (The Belko Experiment, American Sniper), Christopher Convery (“Gotham,” “Stranger Things”), and Ralph Ineson (The Witch, “Chernobyl”). Audiences everywhere can now witness the haunting story of Brahms slowly unfold, as it exposes a trail

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 14, 2020
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Today, ‘The Invisible Man’ Comes Home

You can’t escape what you can’t see…in The Invisible Man. Today, he comes home. Already considered the best horror movie of the year by Horror Fuel (review), The Invisible Man stars Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss (Us, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale) in a new terrifying tale of obsession inspired by Universal’s classic monster character. Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding, aided by her sister (Harriet Dyer (NBC’s The InBetween), their childhood friend (Aldis Hodge, Straight Outta Compton) and his teenage daughter (Storm Reid, HBO’s Euphoria). But when Cecilia’s abusive ex (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House”) commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turn lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia’s sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 13, 2020
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A First Look At The Holiday Horror Comedy ‘Creatures’

From director Tony Jopia (interview), the filmmaker behind Cute Little Buggers and the executive producer of The Hive, Good Tidings, and Crying Wolf comes the new sci-fi horror comedy Creatures. In the film, A group of astronomy students gets more than they bargained for after finding an injured alien who is being targeted by a group of bloodthirsty alien Creatures.’ Jopia Productions and Creatures Media LLC wanted to create a Christmas themed creature feature that could sit alongside such classic movies as Night of the Creeps, Critters, Dead Heat, Ghoulies, They Live, and Gremlins. Our passion lies in melding practical and visual FX. We aim to deliver on the goods by bringing together some creatively nasty SFX, tremendous puppet creature work and VFX work that will blow fans of action, horroromedies truly away.” Director Tony Jopia states. “Creatures will definitely be delivering a Red Christmas this year! We’re super excited to be making our biggest movie yet, it’s going to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 12, 2020
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Pluto TV Announces New Channels Featuring Many Of Your Favorite AMC & IFC Series

AMC Networks announced today that Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in the US, will launch a series of original AMC Networks channels on May 1, including Stories by AMC, Slightly Off by IFC, All Reality WE tv, and “The Walking Dead en Español”. The launch of these dedicated channels will give Pluto TV customers access to a wide variety of popular and critically acclaimed AMC Networks content, including AMC’s “The Walking Dead”, “Fear the Walking Dead”, Halt and Catch Fire, and “Into the Badlands”, IFC’s “Portlandia“, “Documentary Now!”, and “Brockmire”; and WE tv’s “Kendra on Top” and “Mary Mary”, and more favorites from across AMC Networks’ cable channels. Select programming will also be available On Demand as part of Pluto TV’s platform. We are excited to partner with Pluto TV to bring AMC Networks’ acclaimed originals to our fans in new ways, as viewers continue to seek greater flexibility and choice,” said Joshua Reader, president of distribution

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2020

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From The Writer Of ‘You’re Next’ Comes ‘Seance’

This May, RLJE Films and Shudder will invite you to witness Seance, written by Simon Barrett who also brought us You’re Next and The Guest. The film marks Barrett’s directorial debut. In Seance, Camille Meadows (Suki Waterhouse) is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened. Seance stars Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation, The Divergent Series: Insurgent), Madisen Beaty (Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ella-Rae Smith (”Into the Badlands”, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Inanna Sarkis (Boo 2! A Madea Halloween), and Seamus Patterson who reunites with fellow “Channel Zero” star Marina Stephenson-Kerr. We’re so excited to finally be working with the amazingly

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2021
Horror Fuel

Thousands Of Zombies Roam Vegas In The New ‘Army Of The Dead’ Trailer

Ahead of its May premiere on Netflix, we’ve got a new teaser trailer for Zach Snyder’s (Dawn of the Dead, “Watchmen”) Army of the Dead which teases Vegas in ruins, a vault filled with cash, and thousands of hungry zombies walking the streets, including a zombie Elvis. And we dig it. In the movie, Dave Bautista and his crew after a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, where the group of mercenaries takes the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted. Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, Garret Dillahunt, Tig Notaro, Raúl Castillo, Huma Qureshi, Samantha Win, Richard Cetrone, and Michael Cassidy also star. Army of the Dead marches onto Netflix on May 21, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 25, 2021
Horror Fuel

Sex, Satanic Cults, And Murder: New Epix Docuseries “Fall River” Debuts This May

Uncover a sordid story of sex, satanic cults, and murder in Blumhouse and Epix’s new four-part docuseries “Fall River“. In 1979, almost 90 years after infamous, accused murderer Lizzie Borden’s notorious acquittal – Fall River, Massachusetts would become home to another terrifying series of crimes. Three young women were brutally murdered. The police alleged a satanic cult was practicing human sacrifice. The cult leader, a man named Carl Drew, was captured and sent to prison for life without parole. Twenty years after the trial, the lead investigator Paul Carey became so haunted by inconsistencies in the stories that he re-investigated his own case after he retired. Evidence surfaced that brought the entire story into question. Now through exclusive interviews, including intimate conversations with Drew, new witnesses, and illuminating evidence, this documentary series will tell the true story of a town caught in the grips of the paranoia and fear around the 1980s Satanic Panic and will shed light on murders

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 24, 2021
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Brahms: The Boy II (2020)

Married-types Liza (Katie Holmes) and Sean (Owain Yeoman) beat a hasty retreat to the countryside in an attempt to forget a robbery dealio that L-Dawg experienced in the city that left her shook A.F. As fate and the script wound have it, their crotch-goblin Jude (Christopher Convery) discovers a creepy-ass doll in the woods and brings that putrid, porcelain fuck right the fuck home… and guess what? That terrible toy seems to have a life of it’s own. Unrelenting horror biz ensues. Look, I can’t slap a revoltin’ review on Brahms: The Boy II without mentioning 2016’s original recipe The Boy… and you bet your ass there is a spoiler or two heading your way, so consider your arcane asses duly warned. The thing I hated the most about the first entry is fixed-as-all-fuck this go-around… namely the nature of the doll, Brahms, itself. In the first movie, that doll was just a cover for some other sinister shit (though

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 16, 2020
Horror Fuel

The ‘Don’t Run’ Trailer Awakens Childhood Fears

From director Ben Rood comes Don’t Run, an indie horror-fantasy born from the fear files of children everywhere. In the film, “a timid boy is trapped inside his house with a monster that threatens to eat him if he isn’t in bed by sundown every night.” Charlotte Arnold, Holly Arnold, Grant Brooks, Dan Foley, Danny Irizarry, and Cody Cheatwood star in Don’t Run, written, directed, produced, edited, and financed by Cincinnati-native Ben Rood, Don’t Run is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2020
Horror Fuel

Watch The First Clip From Panama’s First Horror Film ‘Diablo Rojo Pty’

The first clip from Diablo Rojo Pty, Panama’s first-ever horror film, is here to give audiences a taste of what’s to come! The scene showcases the first appearance of La Tulivieja, the witch that haunts our heroes through the jungles of Panama’s Chiriqui province. Based on local folklore, Panama’s first horror film is a ride through Hell with witches, cannibals, and monsters! Written and produced by J. Oskura Nájera and directed by Sol Moreno, Diablo Rojo Pty features a stellar cast that includes Carlos Carrasco (Speed and Blood In, Blood Out) and Leo Wiznitzer (Causa Justa and Hands of Stone). Diablo Rojo Pty (review) premieres exclusively to Amazon Prime Video on May 14th, 2020, from The Horror Collective.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

This May ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ Comes Home

This May bring home Brams: The Boy II. Katie Holmes (Batman Begins) and Christopher Convery (“Gotham”) star in the chilling sequel from the producers that brought you IT and The Ring. In Brahms: The Boy II, unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Director William Brent Bell (The Boy, The Devil Inside) returns alongside the team that produced the original film, Roy Lee (It, Doctor Sleep, The Ring), Jim Wedaa (Mission to Mars, Unstoppable), and Matt Berenson (Best of Enemies, The Place Beyond the Pines) for the eerie second installment that features outstanding supporting performances by Owain Yeoman (The Belko Experiment, American Sniper), Christopher Convery (“Gotham,” “Stranger Things”), and Ralph Ineson (The Witch, “Chernobyl”). Audiences everywhere can now witness the haunting story of Brahms slowly unfold, as it exposes a trail

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Today, ‘The Invisible Man’ Comes Home

You can’t escape what you can’t see…in The Invisible Man. Today, he comes home. Already considered the best horror movie of the year by Horror Fuel (review), The Invisible Man stars Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss (Us, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale) in a new terrifying tale of obsession inspired by Universal’s classic monster character. Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding, aided by her sister (Harriet Dyer (NBC’s The InBetween), their childhood friend (Aldis Hodge, Straight Outta Compton) and his teenage daughter (Storm Reid, HBO’s Euphoria). But when Cecilia’s abusive ex (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House”) commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turn lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia’s sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 13, 2020
Horror Fuel

A First Look At The Holiday Horror Comedy ‘Creatures’

From director Tony Jopia (interview), the filmmaker behind Cute Little Buggers and the executive producer of The Hive, Good Tidings, and Crying Wolf comes the new sci-fi horror comedy Creatures. In the film, A group of astronomy students gets more than they bargained for after finding an injured alien who is being targeted by a group of bloodthirsty alien Creatures.’ Jopia Productions and Creatures Media LLC wanted to create a Christmas themed creature feature that could sit alongside such classic movies as Night of the Creeps, Critters, Dead Heat, Ghoulies, They Live, and Gremlins. Our passion lies in melding practical and visual FX. We aim to deliver on the goods by bringing together some creatively nasty SFX, tremendous puppet creature work and VFX work that will blow fans of action, horroromedies truly away.” Director Tony Jopia states. “Creatures will definitely be delivering a Red Christmas this year! We’re super excited to be making our biggest movie yet, it’s going to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 12, 2020
Horror Fuel

Pluto TV Announces New Channels Featuring Many Of Your Favorite AMC & IFC Series

AMC Networks announced today that Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in the US, will launch a series of original AMC Networks channels on May 1, including Stories by AMC, Slightly Off by IFC, All Reality WE tv, and “The Walking Dead en Español”. The launch of these dedicated channels will give Pluto TV customers access to a wide variety of popular and critically acclaimed AMC Networks content, including AMC’s “The Walking Dead”, “Fear the Walking Dead”, Halt and Catch Fire, and “Into the Badlands”, IFC’s “Portlandia“, “Documentary Now!”, and “Brockmire”; and WE tv’s “Kendra on Top” and “Mary Mary”, and more favorites from across AMC Networks’ cable channels. Select programming will also be available On Demand as part of Pluto TV’s platform. We are excited to partner with Pluto TV to bring AMC Networks’ acclaimed originals to our fans in new ways, as viewers continue to seek greater flexibility and choice,” said Joshua Reader, president of distribution

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2020
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