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This June Shawn Ashmore Is On The Hunt For Serial Killers In ‘Darkness Falls’

Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 21, 2020
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Blumhouse Television Teams Up With NBC For True Crime Series “The Thing About Pam”

Blumhouse Television is teaming up with NBC New Studios on a new scripted true crime series titled “The Thing About Pam,” based on the notorious Pam Hupp case. It will mark the first project of the new partnership announced earlier this year. Blumhouse Television, an independent studio, will develop and produce the series of new shows based on content featured from the series “Dateline.” In 2011, Betsy Faria was stabbed 55 times. While he pleaded his innocence, Betsy’s husband Russ Faria was charged and sentenced for the crime in 2013, thanks in part to the testimony of Pamela Hupp. In 2015 he was exonerated after evidence surfaced that he had been set up by Happ. It seems Hupp had taken out a life insurance policy on Betsy in the amount of $150, 000. The case was covered by “Dateline” in five episodes, but the corruption doesn’t stop there. Hupp was investigated for her connection with her own mother’s death. And

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020
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Shawn Ashmore Is On The Hunt For A Serial Killer In ‘Darkness Falls’

Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2020
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The ‘Cry Havoc’ Trailer Introduces Us To A New Masked Killer

Robert Bronzi, the star of Death Kiss and Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, faces his deadliest opponent yet in Cry Havoc – available this May On Demand. In the film, “an ambitious young reporter is granted an interview with one of the FBI’s most wanted. While entering his compound she finds one of his prized possessions, a serial killer who murders at call, called HAVOC. Her only hope is a rogue policeman searching for his daughter.” Co-starring Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop), Emily Sweet, and JD Angstadt, writer-director Rene Perez’s Cry Havoc premieres On Demand May 5th from Midnight Releasing. Check out the brutal trailer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 17, 2020
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Charles Manson Docuseries “Helter Skelter” On The Way From Epix

The public’s interest in serial killers continues to drive studios to create new documentaries. The latest is Epix’s “Helter Skelter” which is set to debut this June. . The six-part series will take an in-depth look into “the story of how Charles Manson and his cult terrorized California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” Deadline reports, “It will be a comprehensive telling of the Manson Family history, featuring never-before-accessed interviews from former family members and journalists first on the scene and in the courtroom, with archival footage and newly-unearthed images.” The docuseries is from Lesley Chilcott, Berlanti Productions, Rogue Atlas Productions, and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. “Helter Skelter” will premiere on June 14th on Epix.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 9, 2020
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Thriller ‘Disrupted’ Making Its World Premiere At Cinequest

Later this year, writer-director Andre Welsh‘s thriller Disrupted is set to arrive in theaters and digital. For longtime Oakland resident, Pete, survival is an endless struggle in a gentrified, tech-driven world that’s left him in its dust. But he’s clean and sober, has rectified a relationship with his daughter, and the memories of his wife’s unsolved murder from decades ago rarely haunt him these days. That is until a local killing is strikingly familiar. Reluctantly pulled back in by the retired detective who worked the original case, Pete again sets out to find his wife’s killer and is quickly consumed by his rekindled thirst for justice, a pursuit that cost him everything once before. Starring Ron Kaell, Geoffrey Lower, and Chioke Jelani Clanton, Marie Wilson, Drew Seeley, Amy Paffrath, and Daniel Roebuck. Mark Gogolewski, Steven Siig, and Jared Drake are producing. Jeff Gadigan co-produced. Disrupted will make its World Premiere as an Official Selection of the 2020 Cinequest Film &

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 23, 2020
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Hunts A Serial Killer In ‘The Postcard Killings’ Trailer

“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars alongside Famke Janssen (Hause on Haunted Hill) in The Postcard Killings, the film adaptation of the best-selling book by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. In the trailer, we meet a troubled detective on the hunt for a twisted serial killer. NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon (Morgan), whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Cush Jumbo, Steven Mackintosh, Joachim Król, and Denis O’Hare round out the cast. Witness The Postcard Killings in theaters on March 13, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 21, 2020
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Amazon Adapting Meg Gardiner’s ‘The Dark Corners Of The Night’

Ahead of being published on February 18th, Meg Gardiner‘s novel The Dark Corners of the Night, the third book in a series, has already been picked up for a series adaptation with Amazon Studios acquiring the rights earlier this week, according to Deadline. “The first book, UNSUB, follows a female detective on the trail of an infamous serial killer – inspired by the still-unsolved Zodiac case – who breaks his silence and begins killing again. The detective grew up watching her father destroy himself and his family as he chased the killer, and now finds herself confronting the same monster her father failed to catch.” “In the third book, The Dark Corners of The Night, the heroine has risen through the ranks to become a Behavioral Analysts for the FBI and is on the hunt for a serial killer who targets families, killing the parents and leaving the children alive to witness the unspeakable horror.” Larry Trilling (“Goliath”) will serve

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 6, 2020
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“The Confession Killer”: Netflix Exploring The Case Of Killer Henry Lee Lucus

Netflix’s latest exploration into the mind of serials killers will delve into the crimes of Henry Lee Lucas in the documentary “The Confession Killer“. The killer, who claims to have killed hundreds of victims in the 1980s was the inspiration for the 1986 film, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, starring Michael Rooker. Netflix and filmmakers Robert Kenner and Taki Oldham explore Lucas’ crimes and confessions of slaying multiple victims. Originally convicted of killing three people in 1998, including his own mother, he admitted to killing around 600 victims across the US. But many of his supposed victims were lies. Investigators and reporters’ research uncovered evidence that most of his confessions were false. “The Confession Killer‘s” synopsis reads: “During the early ’80s, Henry Lee Lucus confessed to hundreds of murders. Bringing closure to unsolved cases and grieving families. Even with no direct evidence linking Lucus to the crime scenes, he stunned authorities with his ability to sketch victims’ portraits of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2019
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David Tennant Starring In New True Serial Killer Series “Des”

“Doctor Who” and “Good Omens” star David Tennant is set to play serial killer Dennis Nilsen in the ITV series “Des” about the Scottish serial killer who murdered men in London in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The three-part series is based on the book by Brian Masters who penned the killer’s biography, “Killing for Company.” Tennant will star as Nilsen, also known as “Des”. Daniel Mays (“Line of Duty”)plays the cop investigating the killer and Jason Watkins (“The Crown”) has been cast as Brian Masters. Luke Neal penned “Des”. Nielsen aka “Des” murdered 12 to 15 boys and young men in his flat in London. He went undetected until cops investigate fragments of human flesh and bone clogging the drains in his building.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 23, 2019

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This June Shawn Ashmore Is On The Hunt For Serial Killers In ‘Darkness Falls’

Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 21, 2020
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Blumhouse Television Teams Up With NBC For True Crime Series “The Thing About Pam”

Blumhouse Television is teaming up with NBC New Studios on a new scripted true crime series titled “The Thing About Pam,” based on the notorious Pam Hupp case. It will mark the first project of the new partnership announced earlier this year. Blumhouse Television, an independent studio, will develop and produce the series of new shows based on content featured from the series “Dateline.” In 2011, Betsy Faria was stabbed 55 times. While he pleaded his innocence, Betsy’s husband Russ Faria was charged and sentenced for the crime in 2013, thanks in part to the testimony of Pamela Hupp. In 2015 he was exonerated after evidence surfaced that he had been set up by Happ. It seems Hupp had taken out a life insurance policy on Betsy in the amount of $150, 000. The case was covered by “Dateline” in five episodes, but the corruption doesn’t stop there. Hupp was investigated for her connection with her own mother’s death. And

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020
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Shawn Ashmore Is On The Hunt For A Serial Killer In ‘Darkness Falls’

Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2020
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The ‘Cry Havoc’ Trailer Introduces Us To A New Masked Killer

Robert Bronzi, the star of Death Kiss and Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, faces his deadliest opponent yet in Cry Havoc – available this May On Demand. In the film, “an ambitious young reporter is granted an interview with one of the FBI’s most wanted. While entering his compound she finds one of his prized possessions, a serial killer who murders at call, called HAVOC. Her only hope is a rogue policeman searching for his daughter.” Co-starring Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop), Emily Sweet, and JD Angstadt, writer-director Rene Perez’s Cry Havoc premieres On Demand May 5th from Midnight Releasing. Check out the brutal trailer.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 17, 2020
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Charles Manson Docuseries “Helter Skelter” On The Way From Epix

The public’s interest in serial killers continues to drive studios to create new documentaries. The latest is Epix’s “Helter Skelter” which is set to debut this June. . The six-part series will take an in-depth look into “the story of how Charles Manson and his cult terrorized California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” Deadline reports, “It will be a comprehensive telling of the Manson Family history, featuring never-before-accessed interviews from former family members and journalists first on the scene and in the courtroom, with archival footage and newly-unearthed images.” The docuseries is from Lesley Chilcott, Berlanti Productions, Rogue Atlas Productions, and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. “Helter Skelter” will premiere on June 14th on Epix.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 9, 2020
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Thriller ‘Disrupted’ Making Its World Premiere At Cinequest

Later this year, writer-director Andre Welsh‘s thriller Disrupted is set to arrive in theaters and digital. For longtime Oakland resident, Pete, survival is an endless struggle in a gentrified, tech-driven world that’s left him in its dust. But he’s clean and sober, has rectified a relationship with his daughter, and the memories of his wife’s unsolved murder from decades ago rarely haunt him these days. That is until a local killing is strikingly familiar. Reluctantly pulled back in by the retired detective who worked the original case, Pete again sets out to find his wife’s killer and is quickly consumed by his rekindled thirst for justice, a pursuit that cost him everything once before. Starring Ron Kaell, Geoffrey Lower, and Chioke Jelani Clanton, Marie Wilson, Drew Seeley, Amy Paffrath, and Daniel Roebuck. Mark Gogolewski, Steven Siig, and Jared Drake are producing. Jeff Gadigan co-produced. Disrupted will make its World Premiere as an Official Selection of the 2020 Cinequest Film &

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 23, 2020
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Hunts A Serial Killer In ‘The Postcard Killings’ Trailer

“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars alongside Famke Janssen (Hause on Haunted Hill) in The Postcard Killings, the film adaptation of the best-selling book by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. In the trailer, we meet a troubled detective on the hunt for a twisted serial killer. NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon (Morgan), whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Cush Jumbo, Steven Mackintosh, Joachim Król, and Denis O’Hare round out the cast. Witness The Postcard Killings in theaters on March 13, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 21, 2020
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Amazon Adapting Meg Gardiner’s ‘The Dark Corners Of The Night’

Ahead of being published on February 18th, Meg Gardiner‘s novel The Dark Corners of the Night, the third book in a series, has already been picked up for a series adaptation with Amazon Studios acquiring the rights earlier this week, according to Deadline. “The first book, UNSUB, follows a female detective on the trail of an infamous serial killer – inspired by the still-unsolved Zodiac case – who breaks his silence and begins killing again. The detective grew up watching her father destroy himself and his family as he chased the killer, and now finds herself confronting the same monster her father failed to catch.” “In the third book, The Dark Corners of The Night, the heroine has risen through the ranks to become a Behavioral Analysts for the FBI and is on the hunt for a serial killer who targets families, killing the parents and leaving the children alive to witness the unspeakable horror.” Larry Trilling (“Goliath”) will serve

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 6, 2020
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“The Confession Killer”: Netflix Exploring The Case Of Killer Henry Lee Lucus

Netflix’s latest exploration into the mind of serials killers will delve into the crimes of Henry Lee Lucas in the documentary “The Confession Killer“. The killer, who claims to have killed hundreds of victims in the 1980s was the inspiration for the 1986 film, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, starring Michael Rooker. Netflix and filmmakers Robert Kenner and Taki Oldham explore Lucas’ crimes and confessions of slaying multiple victims. Originally convicted of killing three people in 1998, including his own mother, he admitted to killing around 600 victims across the US. But many of his supposed victims were lies. Investigators and reporters’ research uncovered evidence that most of his confessions were false. “The Confession Killer‘s” synopsis reads: “During the early ’80s, Henry Lee Lucus confessed to hundreds of murders. Bringing closure to unsolved cases and grieving families. Even with no direct evidence linking Lucus to the crime scenes, he stunned authorities with his ability to sketch victims’ portraits of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 3, 2019
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David Tennant Starring In New True Serial Killer Series “Des”

“Doctor Who” and “Good Omens” star David Tennant is set to play serial killer Dennis Nilsen in the ITV series “Des” about the Scottish serial killer who murdered men in London in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The three-part series is based on the book by Brian Masters who penned the killer’s biography, “Killing for Company.” Tennant will star as Nilsen, also known as “Des”. Daniel Mays (“Line of Duty”)plays the cop investigating the killer and Jason Watkins (“The Crown”) has been cast as Brian Masters. Luke Neal penned “Des”. Nielsen aka “Des” murdered 12 to 15 boys and young men in his flat in London. He went undetected until cops investigate fragments of human flesh and bone clogging the drains in his building.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 23, 2019
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