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‘Attraction 2: Invasion’ Lands On Blu-ray This July

Following the international success of Attraction in late 2018, Fedor Bondarchuk‘s follow up film Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms this July. “Two years have passed since an alien spaceship crash-landed in Chertanovo. After her direct contact with extraterrestrial technologies, Julia, a previously ordinary girl, has become an object of study at the Ministry of Defense’s secret labs. While undergoing their analysis, she discovers she is developing seemingly impossible superhuman powers. And soon she finds that not only are her fellow humans out to harness her newfound abilities but that her amazing potential has made her the target of new intergalactic entities, plunging the world into a cosmic threat.” Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Alexander Petrov, Yura Borisov, Oleg Menshikov, and Sergey Garmash star in the Russian film produced by Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andryuschenko, Anton Zlatopolskiy, and Vyatcheslav Murugov. Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms and on Blu-ray and DVD on July 21st,

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Kevin Bacon Stars As A Father Fighting To Save His Family In ‘You Should Have Left’

From Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room) comes the new psychological thriller You Should Have Left. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you. In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave. Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when

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Serial Killer Horror ‘Cut Off’ Getting A U.S. Release (Trailer)

From writer-director Christian Alvart (Antibodies, Pandorum) comes the dark German horror-thriller Cut Off, based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Fitzek and Michael Tsokos. Titled Abgeschnitten in its original language, the pulse-pounding film centers on Coroner Paul Herzfeld who discovers something terrifying, a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter who is missing. Paul finds himself to save his daughter from a serial killer on an island cut off from the mainland by a raging storm. Moritz Bleibtreu leads the cast that includes Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Fahri Yardim, Enno Hesse, Christian Kuchenbuch, Urs Jucker, and Barbara Prakopenka. Cut Off will receive an American release on digital platforms on July 3, 2020, from Dark Sky Films

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Movie Review: Stained: The Red Letter (2019)

Hey cats n’ creeps; you lot ever wished someone would make a modern day horror remake of Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Me either, but someone did it, and it’s my job to watch it and talk about, so off we fuckin’ go… The long and the short of Stained goes as follows: Jane Macbeth (Arielle Brachfeld who also wrote the film along with Edward Gusts) is a nice enough if slightly fractured young woman… but her husband John (Gusts), is the exact opposite; shrewd, ambitious… a real go-getter. Together they have a picture perfect life, a nice home, and a chance at upward mobility… but it’s that last one is where things start to fall apart, ya dig? You see, John’s boss screws him out of a promotion, so that naturally leads to John going absolutely batshit and dippin’ his balls in the murder biz… well, that’s one way to get ahead in business. Understandably, this causes some slight problems with ol’

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Jun 6, 2020
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Movie Review: The Madness Within (2019)

Russ Washington (played by the film’s writer/director Hunter G. Williams) is a successful dude who has it all… including a truly fucked-up dark side that often causes him to be balls deep in sex and drugs, and not in the fun way… plus he’s a prize-winning dick on top of it. All of this begins having a major effect on his relationships and ability to function within the web of lies he’s spun and he soon begins a downward spiral that leads him to the titular “madness within”. Will Russ get his shit together, or will these personal demons lead him further into his psychotic ways? The Madness Within has some major things going in it’s favor. Firstly, triple threat Williams is a solid and engaging actor that gets you to actually care about Russ, no matter how deplorable his actions become… and that’s no small feat! Speaking of Williams, the dude knows how to make a shot, that’s for

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Jun 6, 2020
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Movie Review: The Incantation (2018)

Lucy (Sam Valentine) schleps to France for the funeral of an uncle she’s never even laid eyeballs upon. Once there she doesn’t meet any family, but rather the creepy-ass and pissy Vicar of Borley (Jude S. Walko) provides her “greeting”… and by “greeting” I really mean “list of strict as balls rules to follow during her stay”. Speaking of family, after that funeral mentioned up yonder, our heroine starts gettin’ chumy with the local gravedigger, J.P. (Dylan Kellogg), who tells her of her family’s rather unsavory history which results in Sam beginning to loose her ever-lovin’ fucking mind as she experiences strange dreams and hallucinations. Now is this a growing evil presence, or has Sammy gone looney fuckin’ tunes. Dean Cain ensues. The Incantation, if you haven’t guessed by now, has it’s essence entrenched in full on Gothic thriller territory; you get the secluded location populated by a young woman with no idea of the dark secrets that hide in

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Jun 6, 2020
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Kidnap Thriller ‘The Runners’ Is Headed To DVD And Digital This Summer

Micah Lyons, Tom Sizemore (Heat, Saving Private Ryan), and Glenn Morshower (“24”, Friday Night Lights) star in white-knuckle action-thriller The Runners, headed your way this summer. After losing their parents in a car accident, Ryan must raise his rebellious teenage sister, Zoe. One night, Zoe sneaks out to a party and is abducted by a charming older boy who intends to sell her to the cartel for human trafficking. Now, Ryan and his best friend have just hours to track them down and save her before she is sold and dragged across the Mexican border, never to be seen again. From directors Joey Loomis and Micah Lyons the movie also stars s Netty Leach, Joey Loomis, Neal McCoy, Glenn Morshower, Jason Peter Kennedy, and Swayde McCoy. The Runners arrives on DVD and Digital July 14, 2020, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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‘The Fanatic’ Gets A New DVD Release Date

John Travolta (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Pulp Fiction) stars in writer-director and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst‘s thriller The Fanatic. We’ve just learned that film has a new release date. In the film, Moose (Travolta), a celebrity-obsessed fan who feels slighted by his favorite movie star at an autograph convention. He quickly embarks on an unhinged quest to get a response, leading to a home invasion and a very long night that changes both men irreparably. Devon Sawa (Final Destination) and Ana Golja (Degrassi: Next Class) also star in The Fanatic, a tense and suspenseful thriller that boasts a commanding central performance from Travolta. Dazzler Media presents The Fanatic (review) on Digital June 8th, followed by its release on DVD on July 20th, 2020. You can pre-order your copy now.

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New Images Surface From The Apocalyptic Thriller ‘2067’

Back in May Deadline shared the first look at sci-fi infection thriller 2067, set in a world plagued by disease after climate change has forced the adoption of artificial oxygen. Now, new images have surfaced, via Bloody-Disgusting, of writer-director Seth Larney’s (Tombiruo) English-language directorial debut. “With his wife sick and little hope for survival, Ethan (Smit-McPhee) is forced to travel to the future in search of a cure for the mysterious illness. Not knowing who to trust, he has to navigate a future filled with imminent danger and the possibility of never coming home.” The film was written by and stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, The Road, ParaNorman) and Ryan Kwanten’s (Dead Silence, “True Blood”). Aaron Glenane (“Snowpiercer”) stars as well along with Sana’a Shaik, Leeana Walsman, and Finn Little. 2067 is now headed to the virtual Cannes market.

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Emmy Winner John Renck In Talks To Direct “The Magus” Adaptation

The Emmy Award-winning “Chernobyl” John Renck is currently in negotiation to direct the adaptation of John Fowles’ novel for the mini-series “The Magus,” Variety reports. “The Magus,” originally published back in 1966, is set on a Greek isle where Nicholas Urfe, a young school teacher, finds himself embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which becomes increasingly dark and serious. “1917’s” Neal Street Productions produces along with Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes and is written by Tom Edge (Judy, “The Crown”). The novel has been adapted once before in the 1960s by Fowles himself and starred Anthony Quinn. Take a look at the 1968 film’s trailer (below). Featured Image By Variety

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‘Attraction 2: Invasion’ Lands On Blu-ray This July

Following the international success of Attraction in late 2018, Fedor Bondarchuk‘s follow up film Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms this July. “Two years have passed since an alien spaceship crash-landed in Chertanovo. After her direct contact with extraterrestrial technologies, Julia, a previously ordinary girl, has become an object of study at the Ministry of Defense’s secret labs. While undergoing their analysis, she discovers she is developing seemingly impossible superhuman powers. And soon she finds that not only are her fellow humans out to harness her newfound abilities but that her amazing potential has made her the target of new intergalactic entities, plunging the world into a cosmic threat.” Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Alexander Petrov, Yura Borisov, Oleg Menshikov, and Sergey Garmash star in the Russian film produced by Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andryuschenko, Anton Zlatopolskiy, and Vyatcheslav Murugov. Attraction 2: Invasion will arrive on digital platforms and on Blu-ray and DVD on July 21st,

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Kevin Bacon Stars As A Father Fighting To Save His Family In ‘You Should Have Left’

From Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room) comes the new psychological thriller You Should Have Left. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you. In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave. Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when

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Serial Killer Horror ‘Cut Off’ Getting A U.S. Release (Trailer)

From writer-director Christian Alvart (Antibodies, Pandorum) comes the dark German horror-thriller Cut Off, based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Fitzek and Michael Tsokos. Titled Abgeschnitten in its original language, the pulse-pounding film centers on Coroner Paul Herzfeld who discovers something terrifying, a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter who is missing. Paul finds himself to save his daughter from a serial killer on an island cut off from the mainland by a raging storm. Moritz Bleibtreu leads the cast that includes Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Fahri Yardim, Enno Hesse, Christian Kuchenbuch, Urs Jucker, and Barbara Prakopenka. Cut Off will receive an American release on digital platforms on July 3, 2020, from Dark Sky Films

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Movie Review: Stained: The Red Letter (2019)

Hey cats n’ creeps; you lot ever wished someone would make a modern day horror remake of Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Me either, but someone did it, and it’s my job to watch it and talk about, so off we fuckin’ go… The long and the short of Stained goes as follows: Jane Macbeth (Arielle Brachfeld who also wrote the film along with Edward Gusts) is a nice enough if slightly fractured young woman… but her husband John (Gusts), is the exact opposite; shrewd, ambitious… a real go-getter. Together they have a picture perfect life, a nice home, and a chance at upward mobility… but it’s that last one is where things start to fall apart, ya dig? You see, John’s boss screws him out of a promotion, so that naturally leads to John going absolutely batshit and dippin’ his balls in the murder biz… well, that’s one way to get ahead in business. Understandably, this causes some slight problems with ol’

Continue reading →
Jun 6, 2020
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Movie Review: The Madness Within (2019)

Russ Washington (played by the film’s writer/director Hunter G. Williams) is a successful dude who has it all… including a truly fucked-up dark side that often causes him to be balls deep in sex and drugs, and not in the fun way… plus he’s a prize-winning dick on top of it. All of this begins having a major effect on his relationships and ability to function within the web of lies he’s spun and he soon begins a downward spiral that leads him to the titular “madness within”. Will Russ get his shit together, or will these personal demons lead him further into his psychotic ways? The Madness Within has some major things going in it’s favor. Firstly, triple threat Williams is a solid and engaging actor that gets you to actually care about Russ, no matter how deplorable his actions become… and that’s no small feat! Speaking of Williams, the dude knows how to make a shot, that’s for

Continue reading →
Jun 6, 2020
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Movie Review: The Incantation (2018)

Lucy (Sam Valentine) schleps to France for the funeral of an uncle she’s never even laid eyeballs upon. Once there she doesn’t meet any family, but rather the creepy-ass and pissy Vicar of Borley (Jude S. Walko) provides her “greeting”… and by “greeting” I really mean “list of strict as balls rules to follow during her stay”. Speaking of family, after that funeral mentioned up yonder, our heroine starts gettin’ chumy with the local gravedigger, J.P. (Dylan Kellogg), who tells her of her family’s rather unsavory history which results in Sam beginning to loose her ever-lovin’ fucking mind as she experiences strange dreams and hallucinations. Now is this a growing evil presence, or has Sammy gone looney fuckin’ tunes. Dean Cain ensues. The Incantation, if you haven’t guessed by now, has it’s essence entrenched in full on Gothic thriller territory; you get the secluded location populated by a young woman with no idea of the dark secrets that hide in

Continue reading →
Jun 6, 2020
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Kidnap Thriller ‘The Runners’ Is Headed To DVD And Digital This Summer

Micah Lyons, Tom Sizemore (Heat, Saving Private Ryan), and Glenn Morshower (“24”, Friday Night Lights) star in white-knuckle action-thriller The Runners, headed your way this summer. After losing their parents in a car accident, Ryan must raise his rebellious teenage sister, Zoe. One night, Zoe sneaks out to a party and is abducted by a charming older boy who intends to sell her to the cartel for human trafficking. Now, Ryan and his best friend have just hours to track them down and save her before she is sold and dragged across the Mexican border, never to be seen again. From directors Joey Loomis and Micah Lyons the movie also stars s Netty Leach, Joey Loomis, Neal McCoy, Glenn Morshower, Jason Peter Kennedy, and Swayde McCoy. The Runners arrives on DVD and Digital July 14, 2020, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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‘The Fanatic’ Gets A New DVD Release Date

John Travolta (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Pulp Fiction) stars in writer-director and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst‘s thriller The Fanatic. We’ve just learned that film has a new release date. In the film, Moose (Travolta), a celebrity-obsessed fan who feels slighted by his favorite movie star at an autograph convention. He quickly embarks on an unhinged quest to get a response, leading to a home invasion and a very long night that changes both men irreparably. Devon Sawa (Final Destination) and Ana Golja (Degrassi: Next Class) also star in The Fanatic, a tense and suspenseful thriller that boasts a commanding central performance from Travolta. Dazzler Media presents The Fanatic (review) on Digital June 8th, followed by its release on DVD on July 20th, 2020. You can pre-order your copy now.

Continue reading →
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New Images Surface From The Apocalyptic Thriller ‘2067’

Back in May Deadline shared the first look at sci-fi infection thriller 2067, set in a world plagued by disease after climate change has forced the adoption of artificial oxygen. Now, new images have surfaced, via Bloody-Disgusting, of writer-director Seth Larney’s (Tombiruo) English-language directorial debut. “With his wife sick and little hope for survival, Ethan (Smit-McPhee) is forced to travel to the future in search of a cure for the mysterious illness. Not knowing who to trust, he has to navigate a future filled with imminent danger and the possibility of never coming home.” The film was written by and stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, The Road, ParaNorman) and Ryan Kwanten’s (Dead Silence, “True Blood”). Aaron Glenane (“Snowpiercer”) stars as well along with Sana’a Shaik, Leeana Walsman, and Finn Little. 2067 is now headed to the virtual Cannes market.

Continue reading →
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Emmy Winner John Renck In Talks To Direct “The Magus” Adaptation

The Emmy Award-winning “Chernobyl” John Renck is currently in negotiation to direct the adaptation of John Fowles’ novel for the mini-series “The Magus,” Variety reports. “The Magus,” originally published back in 1966, is set on a Greek isle where Nicholas Urfe, a young school teacher, finds himself embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which becomes increasingly dark and serious. “1917’s” Neal Street Productions produces along with Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes and is written by Tom Edge (Judy, “The Crown”). The novel has been adapted once before in the 1960s by Fowles himself and starred Anthony Quinn. Take a look at the 1968 film’s trailer (below). Featured Image By Variety

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