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'Black Phone' And 'The Wretched' Filmmakers Team Up For 'Room 429'

Indie Horror ‘The Wretched’ On The Brink Of Breaking ‘Black Panther’s’ Record At Box Offices

IFC’s witchy indie horror The Wretched (review) is nearing a record fifth week at the top of box offices, a record that hasn’t been made since Black Panther premiered. From Brett Pierce and Drew Pierce, the writing-directing team behind the zombie cult hit Deadheads, comes a new tale of terror, The Wretched. John-Paul Howard (Hell or High Water) stars as Ben, a rebellious teen who has been sent to stay with his father (Jamison Jones) for the summer. One night he notices a creature lurking outside his home and follows it to his neighbor’s house. As he begins to watch the house he notices something strange. An evil force, a witch, is at work and it is erasing the memory of the children it encounters. Jamison Jones, Zarah Mahler, Kevin Bigley, and Blane Crockarell also star. While most studios have delayed and rescheduled releases, IFC Midnight is continuing to release movies as scheduled, with Drive-Ins leading the way for indie

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 3, 2020
Horror Fuel

The Trailer For ‘The Luring’ Teases An Unspeakable Act

From writer-director Christopher Wells comes The Luring, a terrifying new psychological horror film coming this summer from Wild Eye Releasing! In the film, a man tries to recover a lost memory by returning to his family’s Vermont vacation home where an unspeakable act took place leaving him institutionalized as a child. Rick Irwin, Dan Berkey, Molly Fahey, Henry Gagliardi, and Michaela Sprague star in The Luring, available on digital and DVD June 16th from Wild Eye Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 27, 2020
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

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DanXIII
May 16, 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

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Russell Crowe Has A Serious Case Of Road Rage In ‘Unhinged’ – In Theaters This July

Theaters are gearing up to reopen. One of the first films to premiere is the brutal, action-packed movie Unhinged, from director Derrick Borte and writer Carl Ellsworth. We got the new intense trailer that will make you think twice about how you drive. Academy Award winner Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we’ve all experienced- road rage – to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. Soon, Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of a man who decides to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 13, 2020
Horror Fuel

Haunting Horror ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ Being Released On SteelBook

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Shudder’s, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, Tigers Are Not Afraid which releases this May. Written and directed by Issa López (Secondary Effects), the horror thriller stars Paola Lara (La Siberia), Juan Ramón López, Ianis Guerrero (“Club de Cuervos”), Rodrigo Cortes, Hanssel Casillas (“Sitiados: Mexico”), Nery Arredondo (“Como Dice El Dicho”), and Tenoch Huerta (Get the Gringo) as “Chino.” “Tigers Are Not Afraid is a haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars. The film follows a group of orphaned children who are unexpectedly given three magical wishes. As they run from the cartel that murdered their parents and the ghosts that haunt them, they must decide how to use this special gift to save their own lives and the people they love.” Acclaimed by critics and filmmakers alike, Guillermo del Toro has called Tigers Are Not Afraid

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2020
Horror Fuel

Heist Thriller ‘Among Them’ Steals A Spot On Amazon Prime And Tubi

Tarantino meets Bad Times at the El Royale in writer-director Kevin James Barry’s thriller Among Them. In the film, “After a botched heist, two bank robbers and their unwanted hostage retreat into a seedy coastal motel in the dead of winter. When their boss doesn’t show up and their tickets to freedom go missing, the three of them must battle through their deteriorating mental state and find a way out before they turn on each other.” Starring Jonathan Thomson, Dan Liebman, and Evalena Marie, who also co-wrote the script for Among Them, now available on Amazon Prime and Tubi TV, from Cinema Epoch.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 23, 2020
Horror Fuel

Shudder’s Sci-Fi Horror ‘Blood Machines’ Hunts Down A Premiere Date

Ahead of its release on Shudder next month, the trailer is here for Seth Ickerman‘s sci-fi horror “cosmic opera” Blood Machines. “The film follows two space hunters tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the carcass as if the spaceship had a soul… trying to understand its nature, they start chasing the woman through space…” Funded through Kickstarter, Blood Machines stars Anders Heinrichsen, Elisa Lasowski, Christian Erickson, and Natasha Cashman. Blood Machines will air in 3 episodes on Shudder beginning May 21st.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

This June ‘We Summon The Darkness’ On Blu-ray And DVD

This June Saban Films’ horror flick We Summon the Darkness will be unleashed on Blu-ray. From My Friend Dahmer director Marc Meyers comes this dark tale of satanic murder and mayhem. “On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.” Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, San Andreas), Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa, Jackass), Keean Johnson (Midway), Maddie Hasson (“Impulse”), Logan Miller (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Amy Forsyth (Hell Fest) and Austin Swift (Live by Night) star in the film written by Alan Trezza (Burying the Ex). We Summon the Darkness, which we called “Badass and Bloody” in our review, slashes

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 13, 2020
Horror Fuel

A First Look: Dave Franco Makes His Directorial Debut With ‘The Rental’

Today, IFC Midnight unveiled the first look at their newly acquired thriller The Rental, the debut feature from Dave Franco. Written by Franco and Joe Swanberg, the film stars Alison Brie (Glow, Horse Girl, Promising Young Woman), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Call of the Wild), Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) and Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Snowpiercer). In the chilling film, “two couples embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a celebratory weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed and they realize they may not be alone.” Franco is best known for his roles in the hit films such as ​Neighbors, ​21 Jump Street,​Now You See Me, and their successful sequels, as well as in the critically acclaimed independent films ​The Little Hours, ​The Disaster Artist, and​ If Beale Street Could Talk. Arianna

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2020

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'Black Phone' And 'The Wretched' Filmmakers Team Up For 'Room 429'

Indie Horror ‘The Wretched’ On The Brink Of Breaking ‘Black Panther’s’ Record At Box Offices

IFC’s witchy indie horror The Wretched (review) is nearing a record fifth week at the top of box offices, a record that hasn’t been made since Black Panther premiered. From Brett Pierce and Drew Pierce, the writing-directing team behind the zombie cult hit Deadheads, comes a new tale of terror, The Wretched. John-Paul Howard (Hell or High Water) stars as Ben, a rebellious teen who has been sent to stay with his father (Jamison Jones) for the summer. One night he notices a creature lurking outside his home and follows it to his neighbor’s house. As he begins to watch the house he notices something strange. An evil force, a witch, is at work and it is erasing the memory of the children it encounters. Jamison Jones, Zarah Mahler, Kevin Bigley, and Blane Crockarell also star. While most studios have delayed and rescheduled releases, IFC Midnight is continuing to release movies as scheduled, with Drive-Ins leading the way for indie

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 3, 2020
Horror Fuel

The Trailer For ‘The Luring’ Teases An Unspeakable Act

From writer-director Christopher Wells comes The Luring, a terrifying new psychological horror film coming this summer from Wild Eye Releasing! In the film, a man tries to recover a lost memory by returning to his family’s Vermont vacation home where an unspeakable act took place leaving him institutionalized as a child. Rick Irwin, Dan Berkey, Molly Fahey, Henry Gagliardi, and Michaela Sprague star in The Luring, available on digital and DVD June 16th from Wild Eye Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 27, 2020
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

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

Russell Crowe Has A Serious Case Of Road Rage In ‘Unhinged’ – In Theaters This July

Theaters are gearing up to reopen. One of the first films to premiere is the brutal, action-packed movie Unhinged, from director Derrick Borte and writer Carl Ellsworth. We got the new intense trailer that will make you think twice about how you drive. Academy Award winner Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we’ve all experienced- road rage – to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. Soon, Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of a man who decides to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close

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

Haunting Horror ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ Being Released On SteelBook

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Shudder’s, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, Tigers Are Not Afraid which releases this May. Written and directed by Issa López (Secondary Effects), the horror thriller stars Paola Lara (La Siberia), Juan Ramón López, Ianis Guerrero (“Club de Cuervos”), Rodrigo Cortes, Hanssel Casillas (“Sitiados: Mexico”), Nery Arredondo (“Como Dice El Dicho”), and Tenoch Huerta (Get the Gringo) as “Chino.” “Tigers Are Not Afraid is a haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars. The film follows a group of orphaned children who are unexpectedly given three magical wishes. As they run from the cartel that murdered their parents and the ghosts that haunt them, they must decide how to use this special gift to save their own lives and the people they love.” Acclaimed by critics and filmmakers alike, Guillermo del Toro has called Tigers Are Not Afraid

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2020
Horror Fuel

Heist Thriller ‘Among Them’ Steals A Spot On Amazon Prime And Tubi

Tarantino meets Bad Times at the El Royale in writer-director Kevin James Barry’s thriller Among Them. In the film, “After a botched heist, two bank robbers and their unwanted hostage retreat into a seedy coastal motel in the dead of winter. When their boss doesn’t show up and their tickets to freedom go missing, the three of them must battle through their deteriorating mental state and find a way out before they turn on each other.” Starring Jonathan Thomson, Dan Liebman, and Evalena Marie, who also co-wrote the script for Among Them, now available on Amazon Prime and Tubi TV, from Cinema Epoch.

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

Shudder’s Sci-Fi Horror ‘Blood Machines’ Hunts Down A Premiere Date

Ahead of its release on Shudder next month, the trailer is here for Seth Ickerman‘s sci-fi horror “cosmic opera” Blood Machines. “The film follows two space hunters tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the carcass as if the spaceship had a soul… trying to understand its nature, they start chasing the woman through space…” Funded through Kickstarter, Blood Machines stars Anders Heinrichsen, Elisa Lasowski, Christian Erickson, and Natasha Cashman. Blood Machines will air in 3 episodes on Shudder beginning May 21st.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

This June ‘We Summon The Darkness’ On Blu-ray And DVD

This June Saban Films’ horror flick We Summon the Darkness will be unleashed on Blu-ray. From My Friend Dahmer director Marc Meyers comes this dark tale of satanic murder and mayhem. “On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.” Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, San Andreas), Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa, Jackass), Keean Johnson (Midway), Maddie Hasson (“Impulse”), Logan Miller (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Amy Forsyth (Hell Fest) and Austin Swift (Live by Night) star in the film written by Alan Trezza (Burying the Ex). We Summon the Darkness, which we called “Badass and Bloody” in our review, slashes

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

A First Look: Dave Franco Makes His Directorial Debut With ‘The Rental’

Today, IFC Midnight unveiled the first look at their newly acquired thriller The Rental, the debut feature from Dave Franco. Written by Franco and Joe Swanberg, the film stars Alison Brie (Glow, Horse Girl, Promising Young Woman), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Call of the Wild), Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) and Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Snowpiercer). In the chilling film, “two couples embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a celebratory weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed and they realize they may not be alone.” Franco is best known for his roles in the hit films such as ​Neighbors, ​21 Jump Street,​Now You See Me, and their successful sequels, as well as in the critically acclaimed independent films ​The Little Hours, ​The Disaster Artist, and​ If Beale Street Could Talk. Arianna

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2020
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