Expect a steady stream of Sundance 2015 news to keep pouring in over the next several days. Up now, the official poster for Bruce McDonald’s (Pontypool) Halloween-themed film Hellions.

In the movie Robert Patrick plays Corman, a hardened cop who winds up protecting a teenager (Chloe Rose) on All Hallows’ Eve. If Bruce McDonald sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the twisted genius behind Pontypool, which means Hellions is already a must see.

The horror/thriller also stars Rossif Sutherland (“Reign”), Luke Bilyk (“Degrassi: The Next Generation”), and Rachel Wilson (“Republic of Doyle”).

Whizbang Films’ Frank Siracusa is producing the script from Pascal Trottier (The Colony).

Synopsis:
A pregnant teen (Rose) must survive a Halloween night from Hell when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking.

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By now, all Box of Dread acolytes should have received their January boxes (if you haven’t, please email the team at boxofdread@dreadcentral.com), and some have already posted their pictures and unboxing videos. However, three diehard acolytes have been saving their boxes for a group unboxing livestream so that everyone can watch them react.

Anthony Rapino (Candy Corn Apocalypse), Tiffany Villalpando (Girl Terror), and Johnny Tellez (the Hyper Geek) will be on Google Hangout to unbox their January 2015 Box of Dread together live. The Google Hangout will take place on Sunday, January 25, 2015, 7pm CT (watch the timezone) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d743evLSoh0

Dread Central’s own Jon Condit, who packs all your Box of Dread boxes, will be joining the fun. On top of that, there will be a few giveaways throughout the hangout including prints from Dark Matter Artwork, prints from Gabi Levitt/Grimmwizard, and a Box Of Dread, of course, along with a couple other surprises.

So make sure to RSVP to this event on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/719863824787457/. Even if you cannot make the hangout, you should post a question on the Facebook event page to be entered into a separate drawing. The winner of that drawing will get the February Box of Dread.

Related Story: January 2015 Box of Dread: Outer Space with Aliens, Jason X and More!

If you missed the January 2015 Box of Dread, don’t fret. You can always email the team at boxofdread@dreadcentral.com, and they can help you get a January box if we still have them on hand.

All you have to do is sign up for Box of Dread and sit back as a mystery box with cool horror merch is mailed right to your doorstep each month. Get started TODAY! Visit the official Box of Dread website for more information!

Pick one of the Two Membership Plans above, and then come check out the Box of Dread Facebook Page for details on our upcoming January “selfie” contest.

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Starring Fran Kranz, Pedro Pascal, Emma Fitzpatrick

Directed by Brian James O’Connell

Are you continuously bitching because the boss is asking you to show up early for work, only to ask you to stay late? Have you ever truly wondered WHY he wants you to do that? Well, the next time you’re ready to file a grievance about unfair labor practices, you might want to consider the alternative – you could be working for a bunch of vampires…no, not the type that bleed you dry of your paycheck and downtime – the real ones! Although, these creatures of the night don’t sparkle, and they don’t war with shirtless werewolves…and they especially don’t tolerate employees being uncooperative, after all, work in an office environment is a team atmosphere, isn’t it?

Director Brian O’Connell’s vampire-horror/comedy Bloodsucking Bastards is the kind of film that takes the humor and charm of Office Space, and throws it headlong into the blender with the villainous ferocity of Near Dark, and repeatedly pressing “puree” until the ultimate hybrid is concocted. Okay, maybe not the ultimate hybrid, but this is one pretty funny presentation that should be witnessed by all that love a good laugh before, during, and after their gore. The focal point of the film is Evan (Kranz), who is one dedicated, yet overworked employee of a company that solicits “As Seen On TV” products to gullible buyers. Temporarily serving as an acting sales manager, he currently oversees his friends Tim (Joey Kern), Mike (Neil W. Garguilo), and Andrew (Justin Ware), whose work ethic slightly represents that of a group of seated slugs. Added to which inconvenience, bitter ex-girlfriend Amanda (Fitzpatrick), works only a few doors down in Human Resources – awkward to say the least. Seemingly, brighter days are on the horizon as Evan’s boss (Joel Murray) is getting closer to naming a new manager of sales, and he’s got a good feeling about this one.

Waiting for the “horror” yet? Hold tight – it’s coming. As the gut-punching news is given of a new sales manager hire named Max (Pedro Pascal from Game of Thrones), employees begin to start disappearing…then re-appearing as much-paler, more serious versions of their former selves. From the nerdy office worker who’s constantly requesting NCAA-tournament pool-money owed to him, down to the sultry little secretary, the workers are evolving into something sinister – a much more dire situation than your atypical disgruntled cubicle-dwellers. As the souls start to cross over to the “dark-side” if you will, Evan must rely on his own strength,(with some help from the ample supply-closet) while banding together with the remaining survivors in order to strike down this vampire uprising from becoming the worst-possible corporate takeover. As I eluded to earlier, fans of comedies like Office Space and Shaun of the Dead will truly appreciate the laughs in this film, and let’s not overlook the gorehounds either – while not possessing the crimson quart-quantity like the Evil Dead remake, there is an ample amount of the hemoglobin to heave around, especially in the film’s latter stages. The performances are solid in general, and outside of some randomly-placed goofy jokes that fall flat, I couldn’t offer many complaints about this one.

Overall, these bastards have the goods to make even the biggest slackers want to clock in early, but just remember: don’t call out sick, don’t refuse an assignment, and please keep the office blinds CLOSED. The management thanks you for your service.

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The Hallow, which is making its World Premiere this Sunday, January 25th, in the Midnight Section at the Sundance Film Festival, tells the tale of a man fighting to protect his family; and in honor of the screening this weekend, we have have a few stills for you!

Starring Joseph Mawle (The Awakening, “Game of Thrones”) and Bojana Novakovic (Devil, Burning Man), The Hallow marks acclaimed visual stylist Corin Hardy’s feature directorial debut. Hardy, who has recently been tapped by Relativity Studios to direct its remake of The Crow, displays a technical elegance and sophisticated approach to the macabre in this modern and disquieting horror fable.

Synopsis:
When a London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland with his wife and infant child to survey an area of forest believed to be hallowed ground by superstitious locals, his actions unwittingly disturb a horde of demonic creatures who prey upon the lost. Alone and deep within the darkness of the remote wilderness, he must now fight back to protect his family against the ancient forces’ relentless attacks.

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On tap right now is the first clip from Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah, which was picked up by Lionsgate pre-Sundance 2015. Check it out!

Margot Robbie, Chris Pine, and Chiwetel Ejiofor star.

Look for release news via Roadside Attractions soon!

Synopsis:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman who believes she is the last human on Earth meets a dying scientist searching for survivors. Their relationship becomes tenuous when another survivor appears. As the two men compete for the woman’s affection, their primal urges begin to reveal their true nature.

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More casting news has come in for NBC’s “Hannibal” as Variety is reporting that “True Blood’s” Rutina Wesley has chosen an equally gory series for her rebound role, joining NBC’s “Hannibal” as a pivotal character from Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon novel in Season 3.

She’ll play Reba McClane, a blind woman who enters into a relationship with the psychotic Francis Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage) and helps soothe his murderous urges — at least at first. Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) will come into contact with Dolarhyde (aka “The Tooth Fairy”) around the eighth episode of the third season.

Season 3 of the dark drama will premiere in the summer of 2015 with no firm date announced just yet. It picks up one year after Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) and Bedelia (Gillian Anderson) were seen jetting off to Europe.

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Sometimes a change is needed to keep your perspective on things fresh, and change is exactly what’s in store for “The Walking Dead’s” Lauren Cohan (Maggie) as she’s just signed on for a slight reprieve from the zombie apocalypse.

THR is reporting that Cohan will star in The Boy, a horror thriller from Lakeshore Entertainment and Vertigo Entertainment. William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) is directing the project, which is eyeing a March start in British Columbia.

The script, written by Stacey Menear, centers on a nanny (Cohan) who is tasked with overseeing a lifelike doll by a bizarre couple who treat it as a real child. The couple use the doll as way to cope with the death of their young son, but the nanny becomes increasingly convinced that it is alive.

Producing are Lakeshore’s Gary Lucchesi and Tom Rosenberg, Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Adam Stone, along with Jim Wedaa.

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Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Ian Nelson, John Corbett

Directed by Rob Cohen

Having risen from the ranks of the Fly Girls to enjoy stratospheric heights of success as a mediocre pop star, a notable Hollywood actress, and now a lovable, ridiculously well-paid reality television judge, is Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo to her peeps in the Bronx and your grandmother who continues her awkward attempts to be hip and “in-the-know”) now trying her hand at being a bankable Scream Queen? Still suspiciously ravishing after all these years (skin care products containing the placentas of cherubic French babies and whipped sheep semen can work wonders), perhaps Lopez is looking to the horror genre to help garner new fans and produce more off-center roles – parts that have certainly been made available to other A-listers once their mass appeal diminishes, forcing them down the path of B-movie matinee idols. Or maybe she’s just taking whatever comes her way at this point.

With The Boy Next Door, director Rob Cohen, the man responsible for kicking off the Fast & the Furious franchise (i.e., the greatest series of action films in modern history), serviceably directs a mostly predictable thriller that doesn’t deliver enough action inside or outside of the bedroom.

The titular bohunk turned psychopath in question is Noah Sandborn (Ryan Guzman), a 19-year-old high school senior now living with his wheelchair-bound uncle after his parents were involved in “an accident.” Together, they look like Rick Rossovich and William Hickey from the “Tales From the Crypt” episode “The Switch” directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sandborn leads with his bicep, but it’s a means to an end:  J-Lo’s end. First, he sweetly wants to sweep her off her tired, suburban feet, but then, in typical fashion, he grows obsessive and mettlesome.

It’s okay to root for Claire (Lopez) as a sexy Mom who’s recently separated, thanks to a past affair by her husband (John Corbet) on a business trip in San Francisco, a city historically famous for its association with free love. Claire is an English teacher passionate about the classics, but she’s quietly suppressing the fire within. When the time comes to throw caution (and her summer dress) to the wind, the sex doesn’t seem as forbidden and hot as it should. The scene starts to live up to the R rating of The Boy Next Door and might have had the potential to beat 50 Shades of Grey to the punch, but it holds back even though this should be Claire’s moment to go for broke.

The first reel is pretty sexy though, featuring a scantily clad Lopez in flowing fashions that highlight her curves (yes, that curve in particular). Once she’s the victim of Noah’s growing obsession, the story forbids her from being sultry. School is back in session and the summer of love is over. The indiscretion would never happen in the fall when the school year starts up again because that’s when the bell rings and hunting season begins.

Surprisingly, but also somewhat insulting because of how elementary the discussion is, Claire and Noah connect over Homer’s The Iliad, bringing painful flashbacks of freshman English to the audience potentially and delusions of grandeur for Noah. Everything he does is a twisted, soap operatic interpretation of the hero’s journey, but what he ends up running is a fool’s errand that starts as starstruck puppy dog love and turns into a mad dash towards the climax involving tantrums, kidnappings, and murder (at least for some of the co-stars).

The Boy Next Door is definitely a thriller because it doesn’t have the unapologetic death count a horror movie would if found in the same position. There are deaths, but they’re not too graphic, and some deaths could be seen as somewhat justified because some of the victims have sinned and Noah is brewed in lustful obsession. Does it have enough deaths to be in contention as horror? No. Are they graphic enough? Not quite. Although the ending does walk the line and even teeters over a little into horror territory, showing disfigurement and a little shock in its fiery conclusion.

The fact that it’s not quite a horror thriller is something Blumhouse Productions seems to recognize. The company grows more synonymous with the genre with each new release, and they are smart enough to know that A Boy Next Door doesn’t fit within the brand of atmospheric ghost tales and high-concept scares that Blumhouse is becoming known for thanks to the Insidious and Purge franchises.

Lopez herself is no Scream Queen and she’s much more suited to roles like her great turn in Out of Sight and even the second half of Enough where she takes control and starts kicking ass in her empowerment version of Sleeping With the Enemy. When she does finally let out a horrified yelp towards the end of The Boy Next Door, the scream sounds like it’s coming from a woman who’s gone to great lengths to protect her vocal chords.

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Starring Adam Green, Ray Wise, Will Barratt, Rileah Vanderbilt, Josh Ethier

Written and directed by Adam Green

Adam Green’s newest release, Digging Up The Marrow, is just what fans of the filmmaker have been waiting for. Not only is it an extremely clever and unique movie experience, it gives Green’s fans exactly what they want: more Adam Green.

Although Green does manage to turn up somewhere in almost all his films, fans really got a chance to fall in love with the director during two seasons of his television series, “Holliston.” Playing a version of himself on the show, Green managed to project his magnetic personality and love of the horror genre through the screen and into the hearts of audience members. In Digging Up The Marrow, Green makes that jump once again.

So what exactly is it? How do you classify Digging Up The Marrow? That’s a damn good question. It’s actually a lot of things, including tough to categorize.  It isn’t exactly a “mocumentary” since so much of it is, in fact, real; and it isn’t “found footage” either in that it is filmed, edited, and presented professionally as a film/documentary. Shot by Green and his real-life movie making partner, Will Barratt, Digging Up the Marrow features many of Green’s real-life co-workers as well as a slew of impressive cameo appearances by horror heavy hitters like Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Tom Holland, Mick Garris, and Lloyd Kaufman. Several horror artists are interviewed as well, including Alex Pardee, whose artwork was an inspiration for the film. There’s even an appearance by our own Steve “Uncle Creepy” Barton and the late Dave Brockie as Oderus Urungus, who performed so brilliantly for Green on “Holliston” and entertained legions of scumdogs as the lead singer of GWAR for 30 years.

But the majority of the film focuses on Green and his obsession with a fan he comes in contact with named William Dekker. Dekker is played masterfully by Ray Wise, and the exchanges between Green and Wise make for many of the high points of the movie. And this brings us to the plot: Dekker has contacted Green via his production studio, ArieScope Pictures, to bring a very pressing issue to his attention. Dekker claims to have proof that real monsters exist, and he hopes Green, with his influence in the horror genre and professional success in spite of an anti-establishment approach to the business, will take interest in Dekker’s find and help him get the story out to the world… Monsters are very real, and they live in an area 100 yards below the surface of the Earth called The Marrow.

Green plays his usual, exuberant self, and Wise uses many of the colors in his palette, going from curious old man to off-putting weirdo. He plays his chilling scenes just as deftly as he does his comedic work, and Wise is fantastic when it comes to comedy. Green and Wise sometimes work together, sometimes fight each other, but consistently provide one entertaining scene after another as Barratt catches it all on film.

It’s difficult to shed too much more light on the events of Digging Up The Marrow without spoiling the entire thing, as it is a slippery slope to review this picture without unveiling just what is captured by the three adventurers investigating The Marrow. Suffice to say that Green becomes as obsessed investigating Dekker as Dekker has become obsessed with investigating The Marrow and its inhabitants. Scenes slowly turn more serious from the original lighthearted comedy we began with and culminate with a finale that will chill the bones in a rare fashion. Green has you smiling to begin the movie and peeking through your fingers by the tense finale.

Digging Up The Marrow is just another example of Adam Green thinking outside the box by combining many different styles of filmmaking to create something that feels completely fresh and fun. A big reason for that is Green’s own ability to personally engage an audience and the fact that the material is very entertaining. Whether it’s the comedic exchanges between Green and Wise, the story itself that becomes deeper and more engrossing as the movie rolls on, or the tension that Green manages to deftly build right in front of you, you’ll undoubtedly find yourself entertained by this movie. Digging Up The Marrow is a fun film, and isn’t that all you can really hope for when you invest your time in a flick?

Adam Green has once again delivered a movie that audiences will really get into, and he did it using his strongest asset: himself. Digging Up The Marrow is another unique effort from Green. It’s as different as Spiral is from Hatchet, as Frozen is from Spiral, and as “Holliston” is from Frozen. Green seems to effortlessly create completely new visions with each and every project he creates, and Digging Up The Marrow is no different. To put it in the simplest terms possible, Adam Green has done it again. Enjoy.

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As the UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Leigh Janiak’s acclaimed Honeymoon lies right around the corner, we’ve grabbed ourselves an exclusive infographic that helps you figure out whether your significant other might be… something else. Dig it!

Honeymoon, the chilling directorial debut of Leigh Janiak, features rising stars Rose Leslie (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”) and Harry Treadaway (Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful”). Janiak co-wrote the film with Phil Graziadei; Patrick Baker and Esmé Howard produced. Ben Huber and Hanna Brown co-star.

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Synopsis:
Young newlyweds Paul (Treadaway) and Bea (Rose Leslie) travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon, where the promise of private romance awaits them. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behavior increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods.

Treadaway and Leslie give captivating leading performances as a couple that takes new love to disturbing depths. With romance slowing giving way to terror, writer/director Leigh Janiak puts her unique stamp on this intimate, chilling thriller.

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With a “Scream” TV series on its way thanks to MTV, the last thing we were expecting was word of a new movie “inspired by” it, but that’s exactly what we seem to be getting with The Girl in the Photographs, the first project from the newly formed US/Kuwaiti-based Al-Ghanim Entertainment. And it’s being executive produced by franchise creator Wes Craven.

From the Press Release:
Kuwaiti industrialist Nawaf Alghanim, a member of the Al-Ghanim founding family of the nation of Kuwait, announces the formation of Al-Ghanim Entertainment (AGE), a Los Angeles and Kuwaiti-based specialty financing and production company. The family, who own international conglomerates and have links to the majority of theaters in Kuwait, will back the new entity, which is positioned to participate in various levels of filmed entertainment financing and will target 2-4 films annually with budgets up to $15M.

Alghanim is committed to skillfully vetting each feature film investment opportunity with a specific criterion for green lighting any picture. He will serve as the CEO of the new entity.
Joining him at the new venture are entertainment industry veterans and company Partners Andrea Chung, Krystal Tiffany Vayda, and Brandon M. Vayda.

The first project to be announced under this new banner is THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS, which the company will both finance and produce. Horror legend Wes Craven (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT) is set to executive produce, and Craven’s protégé Nick Simon (writer of THE PYRAMID, COLD COMES THE NIGHT) is set to direct. Brandon M. Vayda and Krystal Tiffany Vayda will executive produce alongside Craven and Alghanim, with Thomas Mahoney set to produce along with Chung.

THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS is an original thriller inspired by Craven’s Nineties blockbuster SCREAM. Set against the glamorous backdrop of the fashion world, the film will bring a modern sensibility to the genre. The film is currently in the casting stage.

“With the inception of this company, we wanted to build a bridge between East and West that not only nurtures talent and fosters the creative vision, but creates content that inspires as well as entertains global audiences. We will remain grounded with our projects, yet will always be open to explore the dynamic new media landscape that is forming in the marketplace in various parts of the world,” said Alghanim.

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“Constantine” has been hitting it out of the park lately in terms of guest stars, and next week’s Episode 1.11, “A Whole World Out There,” is no exception as it features both Jeremy Davies and his “Lost” cohort William Mapother. Check out a few photos from the ep and its preview.

“Constantine” Episode 1.11 – “A Whole World Out There” (1/30/15; 8-9pm)
AN EXPERIMENT GOES HORRIBLY WRONG WHEN A GROUP OF STUDENTS TEST A DISTURBING THEORY – Manny (Harold Perrineau) sends John to help an old friend, Ritchie Simpson (guest star Jeremy Davies), at Ivy University, where a group of students have a found a way into an alternate dimension, only to be met by a maniacal killer (guest star William Mapother).

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Starring Ashley Benson, Matt McGorry, Michael William Freeman

Directed by Branden Kramer

When it appears that our privacy has been compromised, there is a certain overtaking of raw innocence that fronts itself, giving one the illusion of a child who’s been caught doing something they shouldn’t have. And for good reason.

We as a society want to believe that our lives are impenetrable, allowing virtually no one to access our most solitary moments; but unfortunately, with the ever-growing advent of electronic devices, be they mobile or home-based, there is always someone watching at one time or another.

Think about it; while you’re taking the time to read this review, or as I’m taking the time to type it, my laptop is open, as is yours… and the eyes could be upon us.

Director Branden Kramer jumps feet-first into the deep end of the thriller genre with his first feature, Ratter.  For those who aren’t familiar with the term, a “rat” stands for Random Access Trojan: kind of like a parasite that affixes itself to either your laptop, mobile device, tablet, or basically anything with a CPU that has the ability to use its camera to peer back at you. They’re normally controlled by another person with the intent of spying on someone through the webcam, thereby obtaining the title of “ratter” – frightening, huh?

So, we take a simple story of a college girl named Emma (Ashley Benson), alone in the big city, with a lofty apartment all to herself, attempting to pick up the pieces of a broken relationship with a slightly possessive ex named Alex. Emma is literally tethered to either her cell or her laptop, making her the A+ prime candidate for such an unfortunate undertaking, as her time spent alone doing even the most manageable of daily activities isn’t without an audience. Her apartment is center stage, and she is the performer regardless of wherever she may roam, as her cellphone is never out of her reach (making some scenes slightly improbable to fathom).

Whoever has decided to make Emma a target definitely put some work into his voyeuristic gameplan, as we not only see her cell and tablet used as a broadcaster, but a stationary peep-cam appears to have been set up in her living room, giving a continuous shot of the day’s events (this is freaking me out as I type).

Unbeknownst to Emma, she goes about her life, living as a single student would: classes during the day, a little partying at night, and a budding romance in the works with the new guy she met at school (Matt McGorry) – all the while under the scope of someone who feels the need to get a closer look at her. As the movie rolls along, we have random emails from unnamed people popping up, threatening text messages, and even some video that Emma thought was long stowed away (no, it’s not porn, ya sickos). What started as simple technical glitches manifest into undetected break-ins at night and ultra-creepy long shots of a shadowed person watching Emma as she sleeps. Kramer surely goes the extra mile into making a simplistic, yet terrifying presentation. Unfortunately, the downsides are the shots themselves at times, as it seems inconceivable that someone would have their cell or laptop perfectly perched in a scenic view as they’re either at lunch, watching TV, or simply crossing the street. For an 80-minute movie, there are build-up shots that can come off as lengthy but are for the betterment of the overall product.

Benson gives a passable performance as the sweet student who later becomes the paranoid soul, and for good reason. All in all I could definitely recommend Ratter to anyone who wants not only a decent thriller at-hand, but quite possibly one of the better cautionary tales to come down the pike in a while. If you’re going to go web-surfing, for God’s sake, make sure you’re covered up because you never know who’s looking at you.

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If you’re not fully caught up with “Grimm,” beware of a few spoilers in the synopsis for next week’s Episode 4.11, “Death Do Us,” in which Garcelle Beauvais guest stars as a woman from Captain Renard’s past.  The rest of you, feel free to read on for several stills, a clip, and the ep’s promo.

“Grimm” Episode 4.11 – “Death Do Us” (1/30/15; 9-10pm)
AN ELECTRIFYING HOMICIDE HAS LOCALS THINKING A HOUSE IS HAUNTED – Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) are finally off on their honeymoon, but that doesn’t mean trouble isn’t stirring in Portland. Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) are called to a shocking homicide at an abandoned residence many Portland locals think is haunted; even the survivors swear a ghost committed the murder.

Meanwhile, on the heels of Juliette’s (Bitsie Tulloch) startling revelation, Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) seeks the help of a mystical woman (guest star Garcelle Beauvais; “Franklin & Bash,” “The Mentalist”) from his past. Reggie Lee also stars.

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We have close to a dozen stills and four clips to share today from the upcoming Episode 2.14 of “Sleepy Hollow,” entitled “Kali Yuga.”  Are we alone in thinking that things would have been a lot tighter and more cohesive if the season were winding down now instead of still having five episodes to go?  In any event, check out the goods and let us know how you feel about Season 2 so far.

“Sleepy Hollow” Episode 2.14 – “Kali Yuga” (airs 1/26/15)
A WOMAN FROM HAWLEY’S PAST WREAKS HAVOC – With the help of Ichabod (Tom Mison), Abbie (Nicole Beharie), and Jenny (Lyndie Greenwood), Nick Hawley (Matt Barr) faces off against his evil childhood caretaker, and Captain Frank Irving (Orlando Jones) adjusts to his new… life(?).

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Starring Salma Hayek, Jennifer Blanc, Togo Igawa, Akie Kotabe, Hiroyuki Watanabe

Directed by Joe Lynch

Acclaimed filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once wrote, “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.” Though plenty of films that have come along over the years have proven the Frenchman quite wrong, his immortal words have never felt more truthful than they do in the wake of Everly‘s VOD release.

Though, in fairness, Everly delivers a girl and about 15 different guns – as well as a handful of enemy-obliterating grenades. But still. You get what I’m trying to say.

Directed by “horror guy” Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2), Everly stars Salma Hayek as the title character, who has found herself enemy #1 of her ex-boyfriend – who happens to be a ruthless mob boss by the name of Taiko. Everly has betrayed Taiko to the point that her murder is the only thing that will bring him inner peace, and the vengeful mobster vows to end her life before the day is through.

Holed up in the lavish apartment building she once shared with Taiko, Everly is forced to spend the day fighting for her life, battling a seemingly endless array of bad guys/girls in her quest for survival. And thank god for the assault rifles and various deadly weapons that are hidden underneath the floorboards and stashed all around the premises – mob bosses, am I right?

Joe Lynch is a filmmaker who has more than ingratiated himself to us horror fans over the years, bursting onto the scene in 2007 with Wrong Turn 2 and immediately letting us all know that he’s one of us. From there, Lynch directed the wraparound segment of anthology film Chillerama as well as his follow-up feature, Knights of Badassdom, and he also portrayed a heightened version of himself in the FEARnet original series “Holliston.”

His first film that doesn’t quite fit into the horror genre, Everly is nevertheless the one that lets us know precisely who Joe Lynch is as a filmmaker, as Wrong Turn 2 was a part of an established franchise while Knights of Badassdom was infamously given a Lynch-less makeover in the editing suite. And that right there is the beauty of his third film. Like last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Everly feels like a direct feed into the brain of its maker, and with it Lynch proves that his is a brain worth hanging out in.

More than anything, Everly is an exercise in taking a simple premise and squeezing optimum entertainment factor out of it, and boy, does it ever. With very little backstory provided or needed, the stage is set right from the word go, as we’re introduced to a sexy lady who’s in a whole lot of trouble and who happens to have many weapons at her disposal. The precise trouble she’s in, or why she’s in it, matters very little, as Everly is the sort of movie that reminds us why we fell in love with movies in the first place: because they entertain us.

Playing out like a video game – and holy shit, I really want to play a video game based on this movie – Everly is 90 minutes of pure entertainment, as Salma Hayek’s utterly badass character shoots, chops and explodes her way through a never-ending onslaught of freaks and deviants. It’s as if everyone in the entire world is out to kill her, and to speak any further about the specific baddies that enter her apartment would quite frankly ruin the wholly unexpected fun of the proceedings – suffice to say, it’s a colorful cast of bounty hunters.

To complain that Everly lacks any real substance is missing the point of what Lynch has presented here, as the film is, at the end of the day, exploitation cinema at its finest. A bullet-ridden, blood-soaked homage to the brand of cinema that guys like Tarantino and Miike specialize in, Everly aims to please that particular audience and does precisely that, though I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the fact that there’s a whole lot of heart underneath all the violence.

As Everly, Salma Hayek is thoroughly badass and drop-dead-sexy, but her performance also lends some unexpected emotional weight to the proceedings. Taiko aims to not just kill Everly but also her mother and young daughter, and you might be surprised by how much you find yourself caring about the character and her plight. Hayek’s Everly is unquestionably one of the great female action heroes of our time, single-handedly filling a cinematic gap that desperately needed to be filled.

So many movies promise to deliver what Everly promises to deliver and come up short in that quest, and Everly is one of the rare movies that does precisely what it says it’s going to do. The film is of course at its most entertaining when Hayek is brutally dispatching her adversaries, though Lynch manages to make the downtime feel like anything but – the post-mayhem cleanup is as fun as the mayhem itself, for example. From start to finish, Everly is just plain fun, and that’s really all it needs, wants or desires to be.

If Everly is what it looks like when Joe Lynch has full creative control, then I look forward to seeing what else Lynch does when he’s in charge of his own creations. Yes, he’s still one of us, but his future’s so bright that I’m pretty sure we’re going to have to start sharing him with the rest of the world. And that’s totally fine with me… if it means more movies like this one.

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Charlie and Dean square off in this sneak peek of Tuesday night’s Episode 10.11 of “Supernatural,” entitled “There’s No Place Like Home,” and it doesn’t look so good for Sammy’s big bro. But what the heck has gotten into our little hacker-turned-hunter anyway? Apparently her adventure in Oz didn’t have such a happy ending…

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“Supernatural” Episode 10.11 – “There’s No Place Like Home” (airs 1/27/15)
CHARLIE RETURNS FROM OZ — Sam (Jared Padalecki) is scanning the internet for suspicious paranormal activity and comes across a video of Charlie (guest star Felicia Day) beating up a district attorney.  Dean (Jensen Ackles) suspects she’s back from Oz and hunting on her own, assuming the district attorney must have been a demon.

When they do find Charlie, they are shocked when she tells them why she really came back from Oz.  Phil Sgriccia directed this episode written by Robbie Thompson.

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To celebrate the release of Where the Devil Hides, the eerie and atmospheric possession chiller coming to UK DVD tomorrow (26th January 2015), we have one (1) copy to give away courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.

Like recent super-cool indie sleeper-hit The Sacrament, Where the Devil Hides (known in the States as The Devil’s Hand) revolves around a religious cult. Unlike that film, Where the Devil Hides’ cast features some of cinema’s most iconic actors – Colm Meaney, Rufus Sewell and Jennifer Carpenter all turn in career-best performances.

Where the Devil Hides is available to order on Amazon now!

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To be in with a chance of winning, simply send an email to contests@dreadcentral.com with the subject line “UK DEVIL HIDES” and including YOUR FULL NAME AND POSTAL ADDRESS before the competition closing date of 2nd February. We’ll take care of the rest.

Directed by Christian E. Christiansen, Where the Devil Hides stars the aforementioned trio of Sewell, Meaney, and Carpenter alongside Alycia Debnam Carey, Thomas McDonell, Adelaide Kane, and Leah Pipes.

Synopsis:
When six baby girls are born on the sixth night of the sixth month, it spells doom for a religious cult who have prophesied that one of them will be the devil. Elder Beacon (Meaney) resolves to kill the infants but is stopped by one baby’s father, Jacob (Sewell). 18 years later, on the eve of the prophecy’s completion, someone starts killing the girls, one-by-one.

Please note that this competition is open ONLY to UK readers. Good luck!

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Starring Vincent Martella, Jennifer LaPorte, Julia Aks

Directed by Michael Steves

Everyone remembers their first love: the hand-holding, the awkward glances, the first kiss… and the decapitations. More importantly, it’s the knowledge that your primary crush won’t leave your side, even if they turn into a soul-sucking amorous leech that burrows in deeper than a wood tick into the levels of one’s dermis.

Such is the case with director Michael Steves’ teen-love-gone-wrong Clinger, which should encourage sufficient distance between two youngins when a courtin’. (Sorry to get all “Beverly Hillbillies” on you, but it needed to be said.)

Fern Petersen (LaPorte) is your common high school teen: good at school, readying for her chance to attend MIT come graduation-time, and delicately balancing the scales between her future and her new boyfriend, Robert Klingher (Martella), a baby-faced adolescent who best resembles one of those cute little puppies that will follow its master everywhere, all the time, relentlessly.

While his feelings for Fern are pure and innocent, his incessant presence can be viewed as a nuisance. We’ve got it all on display here: the little gifts, the song he writes for her, and that 1000-yard stare with googly eyes he gives her when right in her face. Torn between the thought of a long-standing relationship with him, therefore impeding her college career, Fern opts for a plan to give Robert the boot, and on the night before she can utter those dreadful severing words, a horrifying accident befalls him and he loses his head… literally, not figuratively.

Well, good old Robert is now in the past-tense; yet, he isn’t ready to leave his love’s side. Yep, Robert is back in paranormal form but doesn’t know it. Stuck in limbo between the living and the dead, his residence is at the local cemetery with dozens of other wayward souls, forcing him to question his own mortality. Fern’s situation seems dour, and without the help of her spaced-out parents (Debbie Rochon and Jeffrey Bean) or her jobless sister (Aks), who is a budding sock-puppet entrepreneur, she turns to maybe the only person who can be of some assistance: her track coach, Valeria (Alicia Monet Caldwell), who doubles as a paranormal investigator/medium of sorts. Robert’s end-goal is to murder Fern so that they can spend eternity together, whether she approves of it or not, and now it’s up to her and Valeria to stop Robert and his newly-assembled band of undead entities from bringing her back to his grave for a very tedious afterlife.

Unfortunately, the presentation is one that can seem a little confusing – while easy to follow, the movie doesn’t seem to pick a direction in which to go. We’ve got all the goofy humor and stereotypes of an MTV-styled teen angst comedy/drama with a smattering of gore and language that would prevent it from being shown all-out on regular cable, and although some performances are within passable levels, others drag it down to the sub-levels of flat-out annoyance. Peterson stands out in the lead role as she conveys both the teenage student that’s fairly adjusted and the grieving (and regretful) ex-girlfriend. Martella also shows a subtle comedic side as the pestering boyfriend, but the overacted displays of Fern’s sister and track coach are not only unfunny, but hard to pass off as characters that you wouldn’t want to shove into a deep, dark hole for all days, never to be heard from again.

When all was said and done, Clinger will prove to amuse the lightest of horror/comedy fans with its moments of casual laughter and vanilla gore, but for the rest of you genre aficionados, I’d request an order of protection against this adhesive specter.

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With so many horror films coming out every single week, you really have to step outside the box if you’re hoping to catch the attention of the fans. Filmmaker Guy Soulsby understands that, and with Devil Makes Work he’s looking to bring something totally new to the table.

Described as a supernatural horror movie based on the stories of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Dante’s Inferno, Devil Makes Work is a low-budget short film that Soulsby has been working on for quite some time now, and he hasn’t let the lack of funds stand in the way of his vision.

“The goal was to create something that looked like a feature film, but which told a story and was also incredibly visual, dark, graphic, powerful and had great characters,” explains Soulsby, on the short’s official website. “The film took a long time to get off the ground – this was mainly due to my desire to not make just another short film.”

“There was an enormous amount of research from a variety of areas: films, books, religious sources, online, and the work of different artists. Films such as Angel Heart, Apocalypse Now, Evil Dead, Constantine, and even The Texas Chain Ssaw Massacre helped spark ideas and inspiration. Even with all these references and source materials, the aim was to create something new, a different take on familiar characters, along with creating stylised images, settings, and environments.”

Sound interesting? Then check out the teaser trailer for Devil Makes Work below, and learn more about the project over on Little Black Book!

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