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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
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Movie Review: Butt Boy (2019)

Chip Gutchell (played by the film’s writer/director Tyler Cornack), who decidedly isn’t livin’ his best life… hell, he’s barely “livin'” at all; his job sucks, his marriage is the pits, and not even a new role as “daddy” has brought him any joy. Oh, and he just booked his first prostate exam. Should go easy seeing as how life is shovin’ it in dry where the sun don’t shine on the daily… And there he finds his life’s true pleasure; having foreign objects jammed up his arse six ways to Sunday… and acts on his new desire like a true champion! Well, fate has more in store for our anal-lovin’ hero as the world’s most stereotypical police detective (slick hair and drinking habit intact) named Russel Fox (Tyler Rice) who is desperate to solve a missing child case… but what does our hero and his chocolate starfish have to do with any of that? Better buckle up for that revelation

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DanXIII
Apr 10, 2020
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IFC Midnight Acquires Out Of This World Sci-Fi Horror ‘Sputnik’

IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquired the North American rights to Egor Abramenko’s directorial debut Sputnik from XYZ Films. Abramenko’s sci-fi thriller short film The Passenger played in the 2017 Fantastic Film Festival in Austin and was the inspiration for his feature debut. The film stars Oksana Akinshina who debuted in Lukas Moodysson’s award-winning film Lilya 4-EVER, alongside Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, and Anton Vasilev. The script was written by Oleg Malovichko and Andrei Zolotarev. Producing is Vodorod Pictures, Art Pictures Studio, Hype Film, Cinema Fund, NMG Studio, and CTC Network. Producers are Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andryushenko, Fedor Bondarchuk, Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Vyacheslav Murugov. In the film, at the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 4, 2020
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Interactive Sci-Fi Film ‘The Complex’ Is The First Of Its Kind (Trailer)

Wales Interactive, Red and Black Films, Good Gate Media and Little Jade Productions are delighted to announce that The Complex – a completely live-action, interactive sci-fi thriller filmed in the UK, is out now on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Following “Black Mirror’s” ‘Bandersnatch’ and BAFTA-winning game Late Shift – the film was written by Lynn Renee Maxcy, part of the Emmy award-winning writing team from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and is the very first live interactive Science Fiction film and one of only a small number of interactive films in existence. Directed by visionary new talent Paul Raschid (White Chamber) The Complex stars Michelle Mylett (Letterkenny, Bad Blood), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones, The Witch), Al Weaver (Grantchester) and Twitch streamer and former Xbox UK presenter, Leah Viathan. The film’s award-winning team includes Oscar-nominated Production Designer Guy Thompson (Black Sheep) and internationally acclaimed DOP Matthias Pilz (Top Boy). In the film, “After a major bio-weapon attack on London,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 1, 2020
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Spaghetti Western Meets Dystopian Sci-Fi In ‘The Archivist’ (Trailer)

Spaghetti western meets dystopian sci-fi in a twisted new throwback to the good old days of cinemas’ past in writer-director Eric Hand‘s The Archivist, filmed in glorious 35mm and featuring real-life stunts. This film is sure to please fans of the old-school and new, seeking something fresh. Set in the year 2070, Calder Benson is a government Archivist Officer charged by an increasingly invasive and restrictive government to destroy all elements and remnants of his society’s self-indulgent and avaricious past. Co-written by Bo Gardner, the film stars Eric Hand, Dale Shumate, Butch Thompson, and Jennifer Giles. Guns are drawn and the body count rises in the new trailer. Check it out.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 24, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Abigail (2019)

Abigail (Tinatin Dalakishvili) has grown up in a city surrounded by a thick border constructed to keep a mysterious illness at bay… an illness so severe that if you show any signs of having it the government just hauls your ass away (as they did with Abigail’s own father). The problem with this is, the disease doesn’t exist. In fact, Abigail’s city has been overtaken by dark magic users who have attempted to erase all knowledge of magic in a city once full of it, and dig this; the people hauled away are those suspected of being able to possess magic ability. This of course sets Abigail off on a journey to find her father while learning to control her own burgeoning magical abilities while becoming a hero to the downtrodden… all in a days work for our scrappy heroine! The first thing you will doubtless notice about Abigail is that this film is absolutely a visual wonder. Every detail

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DanXIII
Mar 14, 2020
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Movie Review: Alien Outbreak (2020)

Police Sergeant Zoe Norris (Katherine Drake) is having a rather shit day on the job what with the lunatics, suicides, and alien invasions. This is why I don’t do Mondays, amirite fam? Any fuckin’ how, those pesky aliens and their robot pals are turning the town into a petri dish to test out some wacky-ass space virus that makes anyone infected go bathsit and off themselves right quick! soon Norris and a rag-tag group of survivors hole up in the ol’ police station and attempt to make it through the outre ordeal, but of course that will prove mega difficult… so all hail our new alien overlords I guess?!! Let’s not buck our terror tradition, and start out with what works well with Alien Outbreak… and let me lay a spoiler on ya; this flick does plenty right in-fucking-deed! Let’s start with the nuts n’ bolts; this is a well acted, well shot flick with plenty of mounting tension and

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DanXIII
Mar 11, 2020
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Noomi Repace Is Running Out Of Air In The Alex Aja Produced Thriller ‘O2’

Prometheus actress Noomi Repace is set to star in the Alex Aja (Horns, Crawl) produced thriller O2. Aja is reteaming with director Frank Khalfoun (P2, Maniac, Amityville: The Awakening) for the film. Christie LeBlanc penned the script, Deadline reports. “The pic centers on a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod, alone, with no memory, and no way out. All she knows is that she has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself while discovering who she really is, who put her there, and most importantly – why?” One of the most compelling scripts I’ve read in years – a pure survival experience with a great mystery at its core,” Aja said. “Even without the oxygen running out, the suspense on the page left me breathless.” Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 17, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Snatchers (2019)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. Sara (Mary Nepi) thinks she’s hot shit; it’s senior year in high school and she’s finally become one of the in-crowd (thanks to completely giving up everything that made her unique), had a lil’ of the ol’ in n’ out with her bohunk boyfriend, Skyler (Austin Fryberger), and got her self a little alien bun in the oven, as those wacky-ass teens oft do amirite? Anyway, ol’ Sara gives birth with the quickness, and some sort of symbiotic beastly bug rockets from her socket… a bug that immediately goes on an unreasonably violent killing spree. Soon it’s up to Sara and her former best friend and nerd’s nerd Hayley (Gabrielle Elyse) to figure out how to stop her offspring from destroying the entire town! First of all, Nepi and Elyse make for a truly

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DanXIII
Feb 10, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: FLCL: Progressive/Alternative (2018)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. The original FLCL (pronounced “fooly cooly”… just go with it) was a completely batshit insane coming of age tale featuring a young dude named Naota just trying to get by in the city of Mabase… too bad an alien named Haruko runs his ass over with her vespa, smacks him with her super charged guitar, and discovers a portal in Naota’s head can unleash robots created by Medical Mechanica. See what I mean by “batshit”? But under it all this was the story of a kid who was forced to grow up too fast coming to terms with his lost youth in order to become a well-adjusted adult. Flash forward twenty years, and we now have not one, but two sequel series, Progressive and Alternative by name (both available on one handy-dandy Blu-ray release

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DanXIII
Feb 5, 2020

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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
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Movie Review: Butt Boy (2019)

Chip Gutchell (played by the film’s writer/director Tyler Cornack), who decidedly isn’t livin’ his best life… hell, he’s barely “livin'” at all; his job sucks, his marriage is the pits, and not even a new role as “daddy” has brought him any joy. Oh, and he just booked his first prostate exam. Should go easy seeing as how life is shovin’ it in dry where the sun don’t shine on the daily… And there he finds his life’s true pleasure; having foreign objects jammed up his arse six ways to Sunday… and acts on his new desire like a true champion! Well, fate has more in store for our anal-lovin’ hero as the world’s most stereotypical police detective (slick hair and drinking habit intact) named Russel Fox (Tyler Rice) who is desperate to solve a missing child case… but what does our hero and his chocolate starfish have to do with any of that? Better buckle up for that revelation

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Apr 10, 2020
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IFC Midnight Acquires Out Of This World Sci-Fi Horror ‘Sputnik’

IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquired the North American rights to Egor Abramenko’s directorial debut Sputnik from XYZ Films. Abramenko’s sci-fi thriller short film The Passenger played in the 2017 Fantastic Film Festival in Austin and was the inspiration for his feature debut. The film stars Oksana Akinshina who debuted in Lukas Moodysson’s award-winning film Lilya 4-EVER, alongside Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, and Anton Vasilev. The script was written by Oleg Malovichko and Andrei Zolotarev. Producing is Vodorod Pictures, Art Pictures Studio, Hype Film, Cinema Fund, NMG Studio, and CTC Network. Producers are Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andryushenko, Fedor Bondarchuk, Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Vyacheslav Murugov. In the film, at the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 4, 2020
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Interactive Sci-Fi Film ‘The Complex’ Is The First Of Its Kind (Trailer)

Wales Interactive, Red and Black Films, Good Gate Media and Little Jade Productions are delighted to announce that The Complex – a completely live-action, interactive sci-fi thriller filmed in the UK, is out now on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Following “Black Mirror’s” ‘Bandersnatch’ and BAFTA-winning game Late Shift – the film was written by Lynn Renee Maxcy, part of the Emmy award-winning writing team from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and is the very first live interactive Science Fiction film and one of only a small number of interactive films in existence. Directed by visionary new talent Paul Raschid (White Chamber) The Complex stars Michelle Mylett (Letterkenny, Bad Blood), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones, The Witch), Al Weaver (Grantchester) and Twitch streamer and former Xbox UK presenter, Leah Viathan. The film’s award-winning team includes Oscar-nominated Production Designer Guy Thompson (Black Sheep) and internationally acclaimed DOP Matthias Pilz (Top Boy). In the film, “After a major bio-weapon attack on London,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 1, 2020
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Spaghetti Western Meets Dystopian Sci-Fi In ‘The Archivist’ (Trailer)

Spaghetti western meets dystopian sci-fi in a twisted new throwback to the good old days of cinemas’ past in writer-director Eric Hand‘s The Archivist, filmed in glorious 35mm and featuring real-life stunts. This film is sure to please fans of the old-school and new, seeking something fresh. Set in the year 2070, Calder Benson is a government Archivist Officer charged by an increasingly invasive and restrictive government to destroy all elements and remnants of his society’s self-indulgent and avaricious past. Co-written by Bo Gardner, the film stars Eric Hand, Dale Shumate, Butch Thompson, and Jennifer Giles. Guns are drawn and the body count rises in the new trailer. Check it out.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 24, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Abigail (2019)

Abigail (Tinatin Dalakishvili) has grown up in a city surrounded by a thick border constructed to keep a mysterious illness at bay… an illness so severe that if you show any signs of having it the government just hauls your ass away (as they did with Abigail’s own father). The problem with this is, the disease doesn’t exist. In fact, Abigail’s city has been overtaken by dark magic users who have attempted to erase all knowledge of magic in a city once full of it, and dig this; the people hauled away are those suspected of being able to possess magic ability. This of course sets Abigail off on a journey to find her father while learning to control her own burgeoning magical abilities while becoming a hero to the downtrodden… all in a days work for our scrappy heroine! The first thing you will doubtless notice about Abigail is that this film is absolutely a visual wonder. Every detail

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Mar 14, 2020
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Movie Review: Alien Outbreak (2020)

Police Sergeant Zoe Norris (Katherine Drake) is having a rather shit day on the job what with the lunatics, suicides, and alien invasions. This is why I don’t do Mondays, amirite fam? Any fuckin’ how, those pesky aliens and their robot pals are turning the town into a petri dish to test out some wacky-ass space virus that makes anyone infected go bathsit and off themselves right quick! soon Norris and a rag-tag group of survivors hole up in the ol’ police station and attempt to make it through the outre ordeal, but of course that will prove mega difficult… so all hail our new alien overlords I guess?!! Let’s not buck our terror tradition, and start out with what works well with Alien Outbreak… and let me lay a spoiler on ya; this flick does plenty right in-fucking-deed! Let’s start with the nuts n’ bolts; this is a well acted, well shot flick with plenty of mounting tension and

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Mar 11, 2020
Horror Fuel

Noomi Repace Is Running Out Of Air In The Alex Aja Produced Thriller ‘O2’

Prometheus actress Noomi Repace is set to star in the Alex Aja (Horns, Crawl) produced thriller O2. Aja is reteaming with director Frank Khalfoun (P2, Maniac, Amityville: The Awakening) for the film. Christie LeBlanc penned the script, Deadline reports. “The pic centers on a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod, alone, with no memory, and no way out. All she knows is that she has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself while discovering who she really is, who put her there, and most importantly – why?” One of the most compelling scripts I’ve read in years – a pure survival experience with a great mystery at its core,” Aja said. “Even without the oxygen running out, the suspense on the page left me breathless.” Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Snatchers (2019)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. Sara (Mary Nepi) thinks she’s hot shit; it’s senior year in high school and she’s finally become one of the in-crowd (thanks to completely giving up everything that made her unique), had a lil’ of the ol’ in n’ out with her bohunk boyfriend, Skyler (Austin Fryberger), and got her self a little alien bun in the oven, as those wacky-ass teens oft do amirite? Anyway, ol’ Sara gives birth with the quickness, and some sort of symbiotic beastly bug rockets from her socket… a bug that immediately goes on an unreasonably violent killing spree. Soon it’s up to Sara and her former best friend and nerd’s nerd Hayley (Gabrielle Elyse) to figure out how to stop her offspring from destroying the entire town! First of all, Nepi and Elyse make for a truly

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Feb 10, 2020
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: FLCL: Progressive/Alternative (2018)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. The original FLCL (pronounced “fooly cooly”… just go with it) was a completely batshit insane coming of age tale featuring a young dude named Naota just trying to get by in the city of Mabase… too bad an alien named Haruko runs his ass over with her vespa, smacks him with her super charged guitar, and discovers a portal in Naota’s head can unleash robots created by Medical Mechanica. See what I mean by “batshit”? But under it all this was the story of a kid who was forced to grow up too fast coming to terms with his lost youth in order to become a well-adjusted adult. Flash forward twenty years, and we now have not one, but two sequel series, Progressive and Alternative by name (both available on one handy-dandy Blu-ray release

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Feb 5, 2020
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