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TV Review: Into The Dark: Pure (2019)

Pure concerns the adventures of Shay (Jahkara Smith), who along with her half-sister Jo (McKaley Miller) and father Kyle (Jim Klock), head out to one hell of a fucked-up retreat where women are dressed in white, lectured repeatedly on purity, and promise to their fathers that they won’t give up that cherry cobbler to any ol’ walkin’ hard on that comes their way until after marriage. It’s all rather Draconian and Patriarchal, and the extreme methods employed by the smarmy, yet charismatic Pastor Seth (Scott Porter) (including an outre box which he uses to punish dissenters) don’t help matters. Soon Shay, Jo and their new friends Kellyann (Annalisa Cochrane) and Lacey (Ciara Bravo) discover that all of Seth’s talk of Lilith and sins of the flesh made real are nothing compared to the supernatural evil that enters their lives after they perform a half-assed arcane ritual on the grounds of the revoltin’ retreat! With it’s emphasis on father’s controlling the

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DanXIII
Sep 7, 2019
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“Into The Dark’s” September Episode Is ‘Pure’ Horror

The next installment of Blumhouse and Hulu’s monthly horror feature series Into the Dark explores the horror of a purity retreat gone terribly wrong. In this female coming-of-age horror story titled Pure, “several teen girls attend a Purity Retreat with their fathers each summer. One of the girls performs a secret ritual and begins to see a supernatural entity and the terrifying question emerges, what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers’ expectations.” Jahkara Smith (NOS4A2), McKaley Miller (MA, Hart of Dixie), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, The Good Wife), Annalisa Cochrane (Cobra Kai, Heathers), Ciara Bravo (Wayne, The Long Dumb Road, To the Bone), Jim Klock (Wounds, Son of the South), and T.C. Carter (Blocks, Assassination Nation) star in Pure, written and directed by Hannah Macpherson, based on s story by Paul Fischer & Paul Davis, and Hannah Macpherson. Into the Dark‘s Pure premieres exclusively on Hulu Friday, September 6, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 31, 2019
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Octavia Spencer Goes Psycho In The ‘Ma’ Trailer

Octavia Spencer stars a woman terrorizing teenagers in the first trailer for Ma, from Blumhouse, the producers of Get Out. The first look from Universal Pictures reveals that after a group of teenagers recruits “Ma” to buy them alcohol her basement becomes the kid’s go-to party spot. But when “Ma” becomes obsessed with the kids, things turn deadly. Missi Pyle, Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis, Allison Janney, McKaley Miller, Diana Silvers, Corey Fogelmanis, and Kyanna Simone Simpson also star. Opening in theaters May 31st, Ma reunites Spencer with Tate Taylor, the director of The Help which earned Spencer an Acadamy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2019
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Octavia Spencer Joins Blumhouse’s Star Studded Film ‘Ma’

News has come that Octavia Spencer, the brilliant actress who starred in the highly-acclaimed and highly-nominated film The Shape of Water and in Halloween II, has signed on to star Blumhouse’s “twisted thriller” Ma. While we do not know a lot about the film at this time, we do know that Spencer will be playing the role of “a lonely woman who befriends a group of teenagers with torturous consequences for the kids.” thanks to Deadline‘s report. Spencer will reteam with Tate Taylor, who she worked with on The Help. The script was penned by Scotty Landes, which was developed with Ryan Turek, who will produce alongside Jason Blum and John Norris Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers), Luke Evans (Dracula Untold), Diana Silvers (Glass), Cory Fogelmanis (“Girl Meets World”), McKaley Miller (Hart of Dixie), Dante Brown (Lethal Weapon), and Gianni Paolo (The Mick) also star. Production is set to begin on Ma this month.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2018

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TV Review: Into The Dark: Pure (2019)

Pure concerns the adventures of Shay (Jahkara Smith), who along with her half-sister Jo (McKaley Miller) and father Kyle (Jim Klock), head out to one hell of a fucked-up retreat where women are dressed in white, lectured repeatedly on purity, and promise to their fathers that they won’t give up that cherry cobbler to any ol’ walkin’ hard on that comes their way until after marriage. It’s all rather Draconian and Patriarchal, and the extreme methods employed by the smarmy, yet charismatic Pastor Seth (Scott Porter) (including an outre box which he uses to punish dissenters) don’t help matters. Soon Shay, Jo and their new friends Kellyann (Annalisa Cochrane) and Lacey (Ciara Bravo) discover that all of Seth’s talk of Lilith and sins of the flesh made real are nothing compared to the supernatural evil that enters their lives after they perform a half-assed arcane ritual on the grounds of the revoltin’ retreat! With it’s emphasis on father’s controlling the

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DanXIII
Sep 7, 2019
Horror Fuel

“Into The Dark’s” September Episode Is ‘Pure’ Horror

The next installment of Blumhouse and Hulu’s monthly horror feature series Into the Dark explores the horror of a purity retreat gone terribly wrong. In this female coming-of-age horror story titled Pure, “several teen girls attend a Purity Retreat with their fathers each summer. One of the girls performs a secret ritual and begins to see a supernatural entity and the terrifying question emerges, what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers’ expectations.” Jahkara Smith (NOS4A2), McKaley Miller (MA, Hart of Dixie), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, The Good Wife), Annalisa Cochrane (Cobra Kai, Heathers), Ciara Bravo (Wayne, The Long Dumb Road, To the Bone), Jim Klock (Wounds, Son of the South), and T.C. Carter (Blocks, Assassination Nation) star in Pure, written and directed by Hannah Macpherson, based on s story by Paul Fischer & Paul Davis, and Hannah Macpherson. Into the Dark‘s Pure premieres exclusively on Hulu Friday, September 6, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 31, 2019
Horror Fuel

Octavia Spencer Goes Psycho In The ‘Ma’ Trailer

Octavia Spencer stars a woman terrorizing teenagers in the first trailer for Ma, from Blumhouse, the producers of Get Out. The first look from Universal Pictures reveals that after a group of teenagers recruits “Ma” to buy them alcohol her basement becomes the kid’s go-to party spot. But when “Ma” becomes obsessed with the kids, things turn deadly. Missi Pyle, Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis, Allison Janney, McKaley Miller, Diana Silvers, Corey Fogelmanis, and Kyanna Simone Simpson also star. Opening in theaters May 31st, Ma reunites Spencer with Tate Taylor, the director of The Help which earned Spencer an Acadamy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2019
Horror Fuel

Octavia Spencer Joins Blumhouse’s Star Studded Film ‘Ma’

News has come that Octavia Spencer, the brilliant actress who starred in the highly-acclaimed and highly-nominated film The Shape of Water and in Halloween II, has signed on to star Blumhouse’s “twisted thriller” Ma. While we do not know a lot about the film at this time, we do know that Spencer will be playing the role of “a lonely woman who befriends a group of teenagers with torturous consequences for the kids.” thanks to Deadline‘s report. Spencer will reteam with Tate Taylor, who she worked with on The Help. The script was penned by Scotty Landes, which was developed with Ryan Turek, who will produce alongside Jason Blum and John Norris Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers), Luke Evans (Dracula Untold), Diana Silvers (Glass), Cory Fogelmanis (“Girl Meets World”), McKaley Miller (Hart of Dixie), Dante Brown (Lethal Weapon), and Gianni Paolo (The Mick) also star. Production is set to begin on Ma this month.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2018