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What could go wrong here I ask ya: Young Margaret goes riding pell mell on her bicycle all around the small Southern town she calls home. Her grandmother (who I will get back to the deeper we go into this revoltin’ review) begins to engage in a near cataclysmic level of frettin’ which lets us know that things are going to take a turn for the lousy AF with utmost quickness. Not convinced enough? How about that foreboding wind and rain that suddenly roll on in? Or how about that murder machine of a man (who drives a hearse because ‘subtle’ is his middle name) that chucks Margaret of a bridge after strangling her. Well, I guess that last one is more like the actual deed than any sort of foreshadowing, but you know what I mean… Anyway, Margaret’s body is fished out of the water and we learn she was knocked up six ways to Sunday when she met
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This October Cold Moon, a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance, will haunt theaters and VOD from Uncork’d Entertainment. Directed and co-written by Griff Furst, the film stars Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises), Christopher Loyd (Back to the Future), Robbie Kay (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Candy Clark (Twin Peaks), Rachel Brooke Smith (The Nice Guys), and Frank Whaley (Luke Cage). The movie is based on the novel ‘Cold Moon Over Babylon’ by the late Michael McDowell who also wrote Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. “In a sleepy southern town, the Larkin family suffers a terrible tragedy. Now the Larkin’s are about to endure another: Traffic lights blink an eerie warning, a ghostly visage prowls in the streets erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror…And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form to seek a terrible vengeance.” Cold Moon, produced by Curmudgeon Films, will arrive
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What could go wrong here I ask ya: Young Margaret goes riding pell mell on her bicycle all around the small Southern town she calls home. Her grandmother (who I will get back to the deeper we go into this revoltin’ review) begins to engage in a near cataclysmic level of frettin’ which lets us know that things are going to take a turn for the lousy AF with utmost quickness. Not convinced enough? How about that foreboding wind and rain that suddenly roll on in? Or how about that murder machine of a man (who drives a hearse because ‘subtle’ is his middle name) that chucks Margaret of a bridge after strangling her. Well, I guess that last one is more like the actual deed than any sort of foreshadowing, but you know what I mean… Anyway, Margaret’s body is fished out of the water and we learn she was knocked up six ways to Sunday when she met
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This October Cold Moon, a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance, will haunt theaters and VOD from Uncork’d Entertainment. Directed and co-written by Griff Furst, the film stars Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises), Christopher Loyd (Back to the Future), Robbie Kay (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Candy Clark (Twin Peaks), Rachel Brooke Smith (The Nice Guys), and Frank Whaley (Luke Cage). The movie is based on the novel ‘Cold Moon Over Babylon’ by the late Michael McDowell who also wrote Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. “In a sleepy southern town, the Larkin family suffers a terrible tragedy. Now the Larkin’s are about to endure another: Traffic lights blink an eerie warning, a ghostly visage prowls in the streets erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror…And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form to seek a terrible vengeance.” Cold Moon, produced by Curmudgeon Films, will arrive
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