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Watch The Japanese Legend Inspired Short Film ‘Stay Pretty, No Pity’ Now

From Tokyo Bay Films, and filmmaker Wilco C.Rullens, comes the terrifying short horror film Stay Pretty, No Pity – available to watch below. Starring Maria Ozawa, the 11-minute long film is based on the Japanese folklore of Oiwa Yotsuya (Yotsuya Kaidan) that was born from a true story from the Edo period. The tale tells of a samurai that had his beautiful wife killed because she became deformed, only to be haunted by her vision until he went insane and killed himself. Now hundreds of years later, Yotsuya is back! Out to punish more ugly characters by recruiting the pretty. In the film, Lucy (half Japanese/half American) just escaped from an abusive relationship and took refuge with her new American roommate. Things turn horrible fast for her when a ghost shows her seemingly random images and gives her three days. The clock starts ticking. She will have to solve the mystery of the visions, find the clues within them, to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 30, 2021

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Short Story Collection ‘A – Z of Horror: D Is For Demon’ Is Out Now

The book The A-Z of Horror Book Four: D is for Demons is here from Red Cape Publishing comes the book that is now out on Audible and iTunes. Narrated by Bill Perry, also available are A is for Aliens, B is for Beasts, and C is for Cannibals. D is for Demons, the fourth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. Within these pages, you will find a collection of thirteen terrifying stories from some of the finest independent writers on the scene today. From the disturbing to the humorous, from the gruesome to the psychological, D is for Demons contains a range of unsettling stories that will make you sleep with the lights on! D is for Demons includes stories by Jessica Clem, Matt Doyle, Carmilla Voiez, Lesley Drane, David Green, P.J. Blakey-Novis, Molly Thynes, D.S. Ullery, Bryan Miller, J. Herrera Kamin, Mark Anthony Smith, Charles R. Bernard, and Dona Fox. Check out Horror Book Four:

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 23, 2021

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Nightmarish Film “The Fall” Explores The Rise Of Hate

BAFTA nominee Jonathan Glazer’s topical short film The Fall we follow a story which relates to the rise of hate we are seeing all over the world, one that threatens to throw us back into horrors that we expected never to see again. The Fall was originally commissioned by the BBC, then curated on MUBI and will be released Itunes, Amazon, Univerciné, Vimeo On Demand, and many more on July 15th. Inspired by ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’, an etching by Francisco Goya, The Fall is a powerful short film that invites its audience to project their preoccupations and interpretations. An acclaimed director of feature films and commercials, Jonathan Glazer first found fame for his revolutionary work on Radiohead’s Street Spirit and Jamiroquai’s multi-MTV award-winning Virtual Insanity video. His 1999 ground-breaking Guinness advert Surfer picked up 2 D&AD Black Pencils, a Gold at Cannes, and still tops many lists as one of the best commercials of all time. In

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 6, 2020

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Your Days Of Rideshare Will Be Over After Watching Quibi’s “The Stranger” Trailer

The new trailer for Quibi‘s intense series “The Stranger” is here and it will leave you thinking twice about ever taking a rideshare trip again. Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Maika Monroe (The Guest, It Follows), and Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) star. “The Stranger” centers on an unassuming young rideshare driver (Maika) who is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger (Dane) enters her car. Her terrifying, heart-stopping ride with “The Stranger” unfolding over 12 horrifying hours as she navigates the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in a spine-chilling game of cat and mouse. “The Stranger” is from Fox 21 Television studios and is created, written, and directed by Emmy nominated writer-director, Veena Sud. Each episode of the series will give viewers ten minutes of thrills and chills. Tune in for the premiere on April 13, 2020, on Quibi, the app featuring shows made for your phone.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 11, 2020

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Take A Ride Down ‘Lost Gully Road’ In It’s First Teaser

For fans of a horror down under, Lost Gully Road, the new Austrailan Supernatural Thriller from Johnny Ghost director Donna McRae might be just what it takes to scratch that Aussie itch, with the first teaser dropping onto Youtube. And teaser is the right word for it, because this little trailer doesn’t tell you jack shit about the movie. Not that going into a movie knowing jack shit about it is necessarily a bad thing. Nothing ruins a good twisty movie like spoiling the hell out of it in the marketing. From the press release, Lost Gully Road “tells the story of Lucy, a directionless young woman who travels to a secluded cottage in the forest to wait for her sister. With no television and little communication with the outside world she spends her days alone and drinking to pass the time. That is, until her unexpected host decides to keep her company…” Wow, spending days alone and drinking to

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Capt McNeely

Jun 10, 2017

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