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Brutal Social Media Horror Movie ‘Shook’ Coming To DVD & Digital

RLJE Films will unleash the brutal social media horror and Shudder Original Shook, from writer-director Jennifer Harrington (Housekeeping, “Dear…”) this August on VOD, Digital HD, and DVD. In Shook, when Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she’s forced to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered. But is it real? Or is it just a game at her expense? Daisye Tutor (Funny Story, Come as You Are), Emily Goss (Snapshots, The House on Pine Street), Nicola Posener (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” Mythica Series), and Octavius J. Johnson (Sleepless, “Ray Donovan”) star. Get your copy of Shook on DVD or watch it on VOD or Digital HD on August 17, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 13, 2021
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Horror Social Media Platform Slasher Is Getting Major Upgrades

Slasher, the ultimate social media app for horror fans, is gearing up to not only revamp the site but is also improving existing features as well as adding a ton of new ones. Slasher’s creator Damon Gerard has just filled us in on some of the upgrades as well as expressing that all he wants is to make subscribers and horror fans as happy as possible. Some of the current features include chat rooms, events, groups, trailers, lists, movie tracking, and get this, you can even join Slasher’s horror fan dating service (yes, really). Subscribers also get the latest news automatically from HorrorFuel.com and more. What’s not to love? A few of the new features to be added in 2021: A new vendors section separated by category to help you find just what you’re looking for, collectibles, merchandise, or one of a kind pieces. A new Indie Film section where you can find news, trailers, and purchase films. A new

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 23, 2021
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From The Creator Of ‘Final Destination’ Comes ‘Don’t Look Back’

From Jeffrey Riddick, the creator of Final Destination, comes Don’t Look Back, set to arrive this week. The trailer for the film shines a brutal light on society’s habit of watching terrible things but doing nothing to stop it as well as tackling the subject of karma. In the film, Caitlin Kramer, a woman overcoming a tragic past, is among several people who see a man being fatally assaulted. When the witnesses start dying mysteriously, she must unearth if they’re being targeted by a killer or something far more insidious. Kourtney Bell, Bryan Batt, Will Stout, Skyler Hart, Jeremy Holm, Jaqueline Fleming, Amanda Grace Benitez, Damon Lipari, Han Soto, Dean J. West, and Stephen Twardokus star. Don’t Look Back, which scored 4 out of 5 skulls in our review where we called it “a movie that’s definitely worth watching,” opens in theaters and lands On Demand on October 16, 2020, from Gravitas Ventures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 13, 2020
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‘No Escape’ Trailer Makes A Point About Social Media

Social media “influencers” have to go bigger with each post in order to keep their “fans” tuning in, but sometimes, people get more than they’ve bargained for. That’s the case in the new trailer for No Escape. Keegan Allen, Holland Roden, Denzel Whitaker, Ronen Rubinstein, Pasha Lynchnikoff, George Janko, and Siya star in the film written and directed by Will Wernick. A social media star travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, he and his friends enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. As the line between real life and social media is blurred, the group must fight to escape and survive. No Escape arrives on Digital and On Demand September 18, 2020, from Vertical. Check out the new trailer!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2020
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Bianca Devins’s Death Taken Over By Misinformation And Trolls

Yesterday around 7:30 AM EST users of Discord were horrified to see posts of their favorite rising star sitting in a car seat covered in blood from a slash on her throat. The young woman was later identified as 17-year-old Bianca Devins, a rising social media star on the website Instagram. As soon as the news broke of her death, so did the floodgates of the internet court of public opinion where a deep divide was established and sides picked. The tragedy of this incident is only made worse by the fact that the grisly images of Devins’s body are still circulating around Instagram and 4Chan by trolls and disturbingly angry individuals who applaud her death. The trolls are not where it ends sadly. Almost immediately after the announcement of Devins’s death, a massive wave of misinformation surrounding the incident spread like the rage virus in 28 Days Later. Social media stars, streamers, and YouTubers have fallen victim to the

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Capt McNeely
Jul 16, 2019
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Kickstarter Coming For A Social Network Aimed At Gamers

Social media users utilize websites to stay in touch with friends, keep up with current trends, voice opinions, share laughs, and meet new people. Gamers are no different on these sites but they have to swim through a lot of other people’s nonsense to see what they’re more interested in. Well, if you’re a gamer who would rather talk gaming, get the latest news and reviews, guess what, there may be a new site just for you and others like you! A Kickstarter campaign will begin on November 30th for GameCritter, a new kind of social media site dedicated to all things gaming. The site will combine some of the best concepts from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Metacritic, Reddit and Quora in an all-in-one site. For gamers, the site will allow users to post statuses, community-driven reviews for games, and join in discussions by asking/answering questions. Users are rewarded for participating on the site and interacting with others

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Capt McNeely
Nov 22, 2018
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Movie Review: Selfie From Hell (2018)

When pro-vlogger Julia (Meelah Adams) arrives in the states from Germany to visit her cousin Hannah (Alyson Walker) she brings a few things along for the trip…like the ability to cry sideways, and a strange shadowy figure that haunts her selfies, oh, and let’s not forget the ability to send text messages without using her god damned phone because she’s seemingly possessed, and also some sort of infection (that one is reasonable at least)…seriously; I’d ask this bitch to leave about 2 millifarts (it’s a real measurement…and it’s mega short believe me…I’m a reviewer, I know things…) after she walked across my threshold. Anyway, Hannah is a better person than your’s cruelly and instead plays nursemaid to her sickly/haunted cuz…while also launching into a full on Nancy Drew to search all of the deep (web), dark (net) online secrets Julia is keeping…mainly that she got involved in some seriously F’d up crap on a part of the internet none should

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DanXIII
May 2, 2018
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DVD Review: Followers (2017)

Two amazingly perfect social media fitness-centric “celebrities” head out into the deep woods for a lil’ R&R (which they plan to record every minute of…which is a needed conceit seeing as how this is a found footage fright flick and all). But there is more to this yarn, as two online documentary film makers who want to prove how easy it is to track someone on social media and find them no matter where they are, follow our couple into those aforementioned woods…but just what do they plan on doing to them once they are found? While on the surface Followers may not appear to be the most original horror picture you could ever see (especially blending found footage and stalk n’ slay elements), but it has some clever use of social media elements (including a Facetime cold open murder to start things off), and Actors Amanda Delaney and Justin Maina as our comely protagonists do a really solid job

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Apr 19, 2018
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Suicidal Social Media Users Stalked By Murderers

On Wednesday (Japan time), 28-year-old newspaper delivery man Kazunari Saito was arrested in Tokyo for the attempted murder of a suicidal teenage girl who he met online. According to Japan Times, Saito saw the girl’s tweet on Twitter expressing suicidal tendencies that prompted him to contact the girl and lure her to his residence with the promise he would end her life. After the girl arrived Tuesday, Saito strangled her with a string and left her for dead. The girl survived the attempt and escaped from Saito’s home and made contact with her father resulting in police arresting Saito who admitted to authorities that the girl “Wanted it.” This incident follows very closely on the heels of a familiar case that shook the nation back in October. On Halloween police in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture were looking for a missing 23-year-old woman and ended up at an apartment owned by 27-year-old former supermarket worker Takahiro Shiraishi following events that came right

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jan 3, 2018

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Horror Fuel

Brutal Social Media Horror Movie ‘Shook’ Coming To DVD & Digital

RLJE Films will unleash the brutal social media horror and Shudder Original Shook, from writer-director Jennifer Harrington (Housekeeping, “Dear…”) this August on VOD, Digital HD, and DVD. In Shook, when Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she’s forced to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered. But is it real? Or is it just a game at her expense? Daisye Tutor (Funny Story, Come as You Are), Emily Goss (Snapshots, The House on Pine Street), Nicola Posener (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” Mythica Series), and Octavius J. Johnson (Sleepless, “Ray Donovan”) star. Get your copy of Shook on DVD or watch it on VOD or Digital HD on August 17, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 13, 2021
Horror Fuel

Horror Social Media Platform Slasher Is Getting Major Upgrades

Slasher, the ultimate social media app for horror fans, is gearing up to not only revamp the site but is also improving existing features as well as adding a ton of new ones. Slasher’s creator Damon Gerard has just filled us in on some of the upgrades as well as expressing that all he wants is to make subscribers and horror fans as happy as possible. Some of the current features include chat rooms, events, groups, trailers, lists, movie tracking, and get this, you can even join Slasher’s horror fan dating service (yes, really). Subscribers also get the latest news automatically from HorrorFuel.com and more. What’s not to love? A few of the new features to be added in 2021: A new vendors section separated by category to help you find just what you’re looking for, collectibles, merchandise, or one of a kind pieces. A new Indie Film section where you can find news, trailers, and purchase films. A new

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 23, 2021
Horror Fuel

From The Creator Of ‘Final Destination’ Comes ‘Don’t Look Back’

From Jeffrey Riddick, the creator of Final Destination, comes Don’t Look Back, set to arrive this week. The trailer for the film shines a brutal light on society’s habit of watching terrible things but doing nothing to stop it as well as tackling the subject of karma. In the film, Caitlin Kramer, a woman overcoming a tragic past, is among several people who see a man being fatally assaulted. When the witnesses start dying mysteriously, she must unearth if they’re being targeted by a killer or something far more insidious. Kourtney Bell, Bryan Batt, Will Stout, Skyler Hart, Jeremy Holm, Jaqueline Fleming, Amanda Grace Benitez, Damon Lipari, Han Soto, Dean J. West, and Stephen Twardokus star. Don’t Look Back, which scored 4 out of 5 skulls in our review where we called it “a movie that’s definitely worth watching,” opens in theaters and lands On Demand on October 16, 2020, from Gravitas Ventures.

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

‘No Escape’ Trailer Makes A Point About Social Media

Social media “influencers” have to go bigger with each post in order to keep their “fans” tuning in, but sometimes, people get more than they’ve bargained for. That’s the case in the new trailer for No Escape. Keegan Allen, Holland Roden, Denzel Whitaker, Ronen Rubinstein, Pasha Lynchnikoff, George Janko, and Siya star in the film written and directed by Will Wernick. A social media star travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, he and his friends enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. As the line between real life and social media is blurred, the group must fight to escape and survive. No Escape arrives on Digital and On Demand September 18, 2020, from Vertical. Check out the new trailer!

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

Bianca Devins’s Death Taken Over By Misinformation And Trolls

Yesterday around 7:30 AM EST users of Discord were horrified to see posts of their favorite rising star sitting in a car seat covered in blood from a slash on her throat. The young woman was later identified as 17-year-old Bianca Devins, a rising social media star on the website Instagram. As soon as the news broke of her death, so did the floodgates of the internet court of public opinion where a deep divide was established and sides picked. The tragedy of this incident is only made worse by the fact that the grisly images of Devins’s body are still circulating around Instagram and 4Chan by trolls and disturbingly angry individuals who applaud her death. The trolls are not where it ends sadly. Almost immediately after the announcement of Devins’s death, a massive wave of misinformation surrounding the incident spread like the rage virus in 28 Days Later. Social media stars, streamers, and YouTubers have fallen victim to the

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 16, 2019
Horror Fuel

Kickstarter Coming For A Social Network Aimed At Gamers

Social media users utilize websites to stay in touch with friends, keep up with current trends, voice opinions, share laughs, and meet new people. Gamers are no different on these sites but they have to swim through a lot of other people’s nonsense to see what they’re more interested in. Well, if you’re a gamer who would rather talk gaming, get the latest news and reviews, guess what, there may be a new site just for you and others like you! A Kickstarter campaign will begin on November 30th for GameCritter, a new kind of social media site dedicated to all things gaming. The site will combine some of the best concepts from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Metacritic, Reddit and Quora in an all-in-one site. For gamers, the site will allow users to post statuses, community-driven reviews for games, and join in discussions by asking/answering questions. Users are rewarded for participating on the site and interacting with others

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Nov 22, 2018
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Selfie From Hell (2018)

When pro-vlogger Julia (Meelah Adams) arrives in the states from Germany to visit her cousin Hannah (Alyson Walker) she brings a few things along for the trip…like the ability to cry sideways, and a strange shadowy figure that haunts her selfies, oh, and let’s not forget the ability to send text messages without using her god damned phone because she’s seemingly possessed, and also some sort of infection (that one is reasonable at least)…seriously; I’d ask this bitch to leave about 2 millifarts (it’s a real measurement…and it’s mega short believe me…I’m a reviewer, I know things…) after she walked across my threshold. Anyway, Hannah is a better person than your’s cruelly and instead plays nursemaid to her sickly/haunted cuz…while also launching into a full on Nancy Drew to search all of the deep (web), dark (net) online secrets Julia is keeping…mainly that she got involved in some seriously F’d up crap on a part of the internet none should

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 2, 2018
Horror Fuel

DVD Review: Followers (2017)

Two amazingly perfect social media fitness-centric “celebrities” head out into the deep woods for a lil’ R&R (which they plan to record every minute of…which is a needed conceit seeing as how this is a found footage fright flick and all). But there is more to this yarn, as two online documentary film makers who want to prove how easy it is to track someone on social media and find them no matter where they are, follow our couple into those aforementioned woods…but just what do they plan on doing to them once they are found? While on the surface Followers may not appear to be the most original horror picture you could ever see (especially blending found footage and stalk n’ slay elements), but it has some clever use of social media elements (including a Facetime cold open murder to start things off), and Actors Amanda Delaney and Justin Maina as our comely protagonists do a really solid job

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Apr 19, 2018
Horror Fuel

Suicidal Social Media Users Stalked By Murderers

On Wednesday (Japan time), 28-year-old newspaper delivery man Kazunari Saito was arrested in Tokyo for the attempted murder of a suicidal teenage girl who he met online. According to Japan Times, Saito saw the girl’s tweet on Twitter expressing suicidal tendencies that prompted him to contact the girl and lure her to his residence with the promise he would end her life. After the girl arrived Tuesday, Saito strangled her with a string and left her for dead. The girl survived the attempt and escaped from Saito’s home and made contact with her father resulting in police arresting Saito who admitted to authorities that the girl “Wanted it.” This incident follows very closely on the heels of a familiar case that shook the nation back in October. On Halloween police in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture were looking for a missing 23-year-old woman and ended up at an apartment owned by 27-year-old former supermarket worker Takahiro Shiraishi following events that came right

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jan 3, 2018
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