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Second Half of The Walking Dead Season 7 to Be Different

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So yeah, Rick has finally found his backbone and is looking to stop Negan once and for all. That’s what we learned when “The Walking Dead” mid-season finale aired a couple of weeks back, but would he retain it? Sure sounds like it.

I will say 7B’s vibe is very different from 7A’s vibe,” says showrunner Scott Gimple to ComicBook.com. “The ending of 7B is very different than the beginning of 7A. Just the vibe in 7B, I was just talking about it with Andy [Lincoln] last night. It’s just a very, very different half season than the half season that preceded it.

Even with structure, what we’re doing right now with the episodes and seeing where everyone is at, the structure is very, very different than the back half. There’s a lot more variety to the structure. It’s just a very, very different situation, but 6, 7, 8 … Wow, we’re really close, aren’t we? I would say the end of 7A is very different than the beginning of 7A. That’s the thing that kind of launches that different tone of 7B.

“The Walking Dead” stars Andrew Lincoln, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Lennie James, Sonequa Martin-Green, Alanna Masterson, Christian Serratos, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Xander Berkeley, Austin Amelio, and Tom Payne.

Season 7 of “The Walking Dead” will be returning to AMC on February 12, 2017.

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Who Goes There Podcast: Episode 96 – Black Christmas

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Ho! Ho! Ho! Where the hoes is?! It’s Christmastime, and we’ve got quite the package for you. We’re coming down the chimney to give you the gift of greatness!

We hope you’ve got a nice big stocking because we’re stuffing it with subreddits you didn’t know you wanted, the new feminist fight against “Scream Queens,” the creepy tones of The Thing, and the haomie Carlos “Warm Babies” Bielma joins us to talk 1974’s Black Christmas.

Don’t use that political language shit with me; it’s Christmas so wish me Merry Christmas! It’s the Who Goes There Podcast Episode 96!

The Who Goes There Podcast is available to subscribe to on iTunes right here. Not an iTunes user? You can listen on our Dread Central page. Can’t get enough of our terrible jokes? Why not creep on all of our social media? You’ll find us on FacebookTwitterInstagram, and YouTube.

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Brainwaves Episode 27 – Holiday Spectacular Featuring Silent Night, Deadly Night’s Scott Schneid – Listen Now!

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Our final show of 2016 was as festive as you could hope for, and that’s a good thing since we’re taking December 28th off for the holidays! Scott Schneid, the producer of one of the single most controversial horror films ever, Silent Night, Deadly Night, joined us for an evening of yuletide terrors.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg, too, kids! We have some terror-ific Christmas stories to help get you through the season so be sure to spike your eggnog, cozy up by the fire, and light ’em if you’ve got ’em.

It’s radio without a safety net, kids. It’s Brainwaves: Horror and Paranormal Talk Radio.

PLEASE SUPPORT BRAINWAVES: HORROR AND PARANORMAL TALK RADIO ON PATREON!

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Brainwaves: Horror and Paranormal Talk Radio is available to subscribe to on iTunes. Not an iTunes user?  You can also listen right here on the site.

Also you can hit Dread Central on Facebook on most Wednesday nights to watch a live stream of the show as it happens.

Spooky, funny, touching, honest, offensive, and at times completely random, Brainwaves airs live every Wednesday evening beginning at 9:00 PM Pacific Time (12:00 midnight Eastern Time) and runs about 3 hours per episode.

Knetter and Creepy will be taking your calls LIVE and unscreened via Skype, so let your freak flags fly! Feel free to add BrainWavesTalk to your Skype account so you can reach us, or call in from a landline or cellphone – 858 480 7789. The duo also take questions via Twitter; you can reach us at @BrainwavesRadio or @UncleCreepy and @JoeKnetter using the hashtag #BrainWaves.

Have a ghost story or a paranormal story but can’t call in? Feel free to email it to me directly at UncleCreepy@dreadcentral.com with “Brainwaves Story” in your subject line. You can now become a fan of the show via the official… BRAINWAVES FACEBOOK PAGE!

Brainwaves: Horror and Paranormal Talk Radio is hosted live (with shows to be archived as they progress) right here on Dread Central. You can tune in and listen via the FREE TuneIn Radio app or listen to TuneIn right through the website!

For more information and to listen live independent of TuneIn, visit the Deep Talk Radio Network website, “like” Deep Talk Radio on Facebook, and follow Deep Talk Radio on Twitter. And don’t forget to subscribe to Brainwaves on iTunes.

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Take a Swing with McFarlane’s The Walking Dead Lucille Bat Replica

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According to the McFarlane Toys website, their replica version of Negan’s infamous baseball bat named Lucille is “in stores now” so if you’re looking for the perfect last-minute gift for a fan of “The Walking Dead,” you might have found it!

It’s also available for pre-order from Amazon (with a 12/23/16 release date) and Entertainment Earth (which will make you wait until 03/2017, but at a lower price).

Here are the details…

About “The Walking Dead” Negan’s Bat Lucille Replica:
It’s not for playing baseball…

This adult roleplay replica of Lucille is crafted to match the exact specifications as the bat carried by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who portrays Negan on AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” The full-size plastic bat measures approximately 32 inches long and is displayed in window box packaging. The highly detailed bat comes complete with identical markings and barbed wire-wrapped barrel end.

“Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe.” Negan’s use of the classic nursery rhyme sent chills down the spines of all viewers everywhere during the Season 6 finale of “The Walking Dead” TV series, right before he swung his trusted weapon, Lucille, at one of the beloved survivors.

Leader of the group known as The Saviors, Negan is one of the most merciless enemies to ever cross paths with Rick Grimes and the other survivors. With no remorse, Negan executes those who get in his way with his weapon of choice. With the barrel end wrapped in barbed wire, Lucille is the iconic baseball bat that Negan wields to not only intimidate others, but eliminate them as well.

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We Are the Flesh Release Trailer Unwrapped; More Cities Added to US Rollout

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A few days ago Arrow Films announced the premiere of We Are the Flesh on January 13th in Los Angeles and promised additional cities across the U.S. would be revealed soon. That time has come, and it brings with it the official release trailer.

From the Press Release:
Arrow Films has announced the January 2017 theatrical rollout of Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are the Flesh (review). After a thought-provoking and acclaimed year on the festival circuit, the film will screen in over ten cities across the United States. Visionary, unrelenting, and not for the faint-hearted, Rocha Minter’s provocative and explicit creation is an erotic inferno of the senses that manages to pack all manner of delirium into its short running time. On the heels of the January 13th Los Angeles debut, We Are the Flesh will open in New York City on January 20th for a week’s run at Cinema Village (22 E. 12th Street, New York, NY 10003).

We Are the Flesh will also open for week-long runs in Laredo and San Antonio on January 13th, Denver and New Orleans on January 20th, and San Francisco and Columbus on January 27th. Special screenings include El Paso, Houston, Phoenix, Cleveland, Portland, and Albuquerque throughout January and February.

Hailed by Oscar-winning Mexican directors Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu (The Revenant), We Are the Flesh stars Noé Hernández as a post-apocalyptic hermit eager to transform the ashes of the world and María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel as the starving siblings under his thrall.

Rocha Minter’s debut feature stunned audiences following the world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival. We Are the Flesh has since screened at festivals around the world, including Sitges, Fantastic Fest, Telluride, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and more, picking up the Séquences Award for Best Film at Fantasia and nominations for Best First Film and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Synopsis:
After the end of the world, a young brother and sister roam an apocalyptic city looking for food and shelter. They take refuge in the dilapidated lair of a strange hermit who makes them a dangerous offer to survive. He puts them to work building a bizarre cavernous structure, where he acts out his insane and depraved fantasies. Trapped in a maddening womb-like world under his malign influence, they find themselves sinking into the realms of dark and forbidden behavior.

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Start Clearing Space for the Alien Pinball Machine

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It doesn’t look like we’re getting any new AvP video games anytime soon (stop slacking, Sega), but we do have Alien Pinball. Yup, the once terrifying eyeless Xenomorph monstrosities have now been reduced to hitting a metal ball across a game table, all for our own amusement. The Xeno tongue up the balls (at 1:12 in the first video below) is a nice touch.

If you’re an Aliens aficionado, and if you have both the room and the cash, then this is the must buy. You can head over to manufacturer Heighway’s official website to pro-order both a standard version or a limited edition (only 500 will be produced) which comes with black gloss cabinet finish and exclusive sideart.

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New Short Warns Don’t Feed the Troll

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Internet trolling is a big problem these days, and the new short Don’t Feed the Troll tackles it head on. The film hails from our friends at Insane-o-rama Productions, and as a holiday gift to their fans, it’s available online for a limited time…

Which means that you can check it out right here, right now!

Don’t Feed the Troll is written, directed, and edited by Marc Fratto.  It’s produced by Fratto, Frank Garfi, Gaetano Iacono, and Dave Carlucci.

Iacono co-stars with Sonia Villani and Jennice Carter with special guest appearances by Christina Jacquelyn Calph and Kasey Williams.

Synopsis:
An internet troll gets a supernatural comeuppance when he accidentally summons a real-life troll.

 

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Richard Chizmar Collects 35 Stories in A Long December

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As the owner and founder of Cemetery Dance Publication, Richard Chizmar certainly knows a thing or two about what makes a story scary and enticing, which is why we’re especially excited about his new book, A Long December, which collects 35 of his most popular stories, including a never-before-seen novella.

Intrigued? Then read on for the details of A Long December, about which Stephen King says, “Powerful… I love it… Richard Chizmar writes clean, no-nonsense prose. [He] sets his tales in no-nonsense, middle-class neighborhoods I can relate to… and writes terrific stories served with a very large slice of Disquiet Pie.”

From the Press Release:
The A Long December collection spans over two decades’ worth of writing. As the founder and publisher of Cemetery Dance Publications, Chizmar has had almost 30 years of experience in the book industry. Now, A Long December debuts to showcase his own imagination. It is currently available from Amazon and all the other usual outlets in both paperback and e-book versions.

Whether you read horror, dark fiction, fantasy, mystery, or suspense – there’s a story waiting for you in A Long December. Chizmar’s work is acquiring new praise frequently as he branches out in the publishing industry. His latest release features 35 of the stories he’s written over the last two decades. This includes the acclaimed “Midnight Promises,” a unique and realistic love story he wrote after his own experience with cancer.

“I’ve never been able to write a big monster story that is more about the monster than it is about the people,” says Chizmar. “For me, it always starts with the people. And yeah, those winter months can be dark times, there’s not as much daylight, it’s a time that people are more depressed. I love the snow, I love the bare trees, the whole Ray Bradbury-esque fall, the Earth dying and turning into winter.”

A Long December combines new, never-before-seen fiction with previous reader favorites, including:

• “Heroes”
• “Night Call”
• “Last Words”
• “Like Father, Like Son”
• “Cemetery Dance”
• “A Long December” (the novella)
• And many, many more!

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New The Autopsy of Jane Doe Clip Rings Our Bell

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Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal (Trollhunter) makes his English-language debut with The Autopsy of Jane Doe (review), and right now we have a new clip that takes you in the morgue. Look for the film December 21st via IFC Midnight.

The film, with a Black List screenplay by Ian B. Goldberg and Richard Naing, stars Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, and Ophelia Lovibond.

Synopsis:
Two coroners – a father and son – receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to identify the beautiful young “Jane Doe,” they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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A Mysterious Force Seeps from The Crescent

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Things are appropriately chilling up north, as Screen Daily is reporting that Seth Smith’s psychedelic horror has completed filming at a remote beach house on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Raven Banner holds Canadian distribution rights to The Crescent, which centers on a woman and her young son following an unexpected death in the family.

While the mother and toddler struggle to find spiritual healing, a mysterious force from the sea threatens to tear their souls apart.

Danika Vandersteen stars with Woodrow Graves, the son of Smith and producer Nancy Urich. Darcy Spidle wrote the screenplay, and Urich serves as producer. Executive producer Rob Cotterill previously produced Hobo With a Shotgun.

The producers retain international rights.

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More Bye Bye Man Nightstands Haunting Across the Country

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Over a week ago, nightstands featuring a warning about The Bye Bye Man popped up on Craigslist across the country. And now, two more have been uncovered in NY and LA in a live scavenger hunt. The first ones to find these nightstands in undisclosed locations will win a cash prize. Details are HERE. And you can watch a live feed of the nightstands HERE.

Michael Trucco stars with Douglas Smith, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount, Doug Jones, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Faye Dunaway.

Stacy Title directed from Jonathan Penner’s script, based on Robert Damon Schneck’s short story “The Bridge to Body Island.” Trevor Macy produced for Intrepid, and Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman produced for Los Angeles Media Fund.

Synopsis:
When three college friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, they discover that there is only one way to avoid his curse: don’t think it, don’t say it. But once the Bye Bye Man gets inside your head, he takes control. Is there a way to survive his possession?

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Tutorial – How to Log In to Dread Central via Patreon for the AD-FREE EXPERIENCE

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With every new endeavor comes growing pains. So we put together this quick walk-through on how to properly connect and log in to your DreadCentral.com account using Patreon to access our ad-free experience.

We want YOU to join the hundreds of users who are loving what we offer without advertisements. Let’s make it thousands of users! You can help from any part of the world as Patreon is a worldwide service.

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If you have a previously existing account with DreadCentral.com, your Patreon account must use the same email address in order to be connected properly.

If you did not have an existing account prior to becoming a Patron, then the site will create a new account for you. The new account will be set up with the same username and email address as your Patreon account, and a password will be emailed to you.

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Victor Crowley LIVES! First Look at Hatchet Comic Variant Covers

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The bloody legend of Victor Crowley lives on in comic form. and we have a look at the trio of variant covers being readied for the violent return of Adam Green’s Hatchet!

Look for the comics in stores and online in March 2017! Check out the artwork below courtesy of Bleeding Cool!

About the Hatchet Comics:
ArieScope Pictures has partnered with American Mythology to bring you a full series of HATCHET comic books starting in 2017. Based on Adam Green’s popular slasher franchise, American Mythology promises to take HATCHET in bold new directions with a series of planned story arcs revolving around genre icon “Victor Crowley.”

A seasoned cast of veteran artists will bring the stories to life including Andrew Mangum (RE-ANIMATOR, EVIL ERNIE), who will be drawing the gory interiors, and Greg LaRocque (THE AVENGERS, THE FLASH), Buz Hasson (THE LIVING CORPSE), and Ken Haesser (ARMY OF DARKNESS, BACK TO THE FUTURE) providing the gorgeously horrific covers.

More details, artwork from the comics, and specific release dates for each issue will be available soon. One thing is for certain… the printers better stock up on red ink!

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Hide and Shriek (Video Game)

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Hide and ShriekDeveloped and published by Funcom

Available on PC through Steam

Suitable for ages 12+


There are some ideas that when you hear them, you instinctively cock your head about two inches back, furrow your brow, and purse your lips in a half smile. It’s the universal expression of, “wut?” I try my best avoid instinctive skepticism, but Hide and Shriek is a game that describes itself as a, “one vs. one multiplayer romp,” where the objective is to, “be a mischievous little rascal and scare your opponent half to death before time runs out!” Oh, and you’re both invisible. How do you win? Well, “points can be acquired by scaring your opponent, luring them into traps, or performing an ancient ritual.” How does that all work? How do you do any of this if your opponent is invisible? How do you perform ancient rituals? Guess you’ll just have to play to find out!

Or, you know, you could read this review. I got you fam. When you actually get down to it, Hide and Shriek isn’t as complicated as it sounds. You and your opponent both start on different sides of a five room map modeled after a mystical high school. The rooms are randomized from a set, but the middle is always a long locker filled hallway connecting all four classrooms. Going through these rooms, you can find spell runes, score orbs, and the occasional collectible. You’ll simultaneously try to collect these score orbs and trap/scare your opponent.

Scoring is pretty easy. You grab an orb, wait a few seconds for it to spin around, and then follow the arrow to your altar. The altar moves after each touchdown or a set period of time without a score. Unfortunately, scoring makes you vulnerable. While you’re normally invisible, your opponent can see the orb you carry floating around. Since you don’t also have the benefit of seeing them, it’s a sure way to get yourself hit by a scare. As a secondary objective, it works just fine. From my experience, it’s much more effective to try and scare your opponent.

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The altars are usually in different rooms, but fun configurations like this lead to some interesting games of chicken.

“Scares” can be achieved at any time by “screaming” with the spacebar. If your opponent is in your crosshairs, you’ll hit them with a spooky custom jumpscare and force them to respawn. Hit them three times in a row to win. The recharge on the scream is incredibly long, so you’ll want to wait to use it until you’re sure the enemy is in your sights. To this end, you’ll craft a number of spells to track, trap, and trick your opponent. Or just fuck with them. That happens a lot, too.

Runes are used to make spells, with a total of seven runes to play with. Basic runes can be fired off for simple effects, or combined with another rune for increased effectiveness. There are only four triple rune combinations in the game, so this never gets too complicated. Each round is also randomized to contain only five of the seven rune types, further reducing the confusion. Even just picking the game up, it only took me about ten minutes to learn how it all worked.

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To make it even easier, here’s the cheat sheet. Not a lot to remember.

It only took an additional ten minutes to learn which combinations were bullshit. I’m speaking to you directly, Funcom, when I say the homing black hole to the purple melting dimension is bullshit. There is a lot of variety to the spells, allowing you to boobytrap doors, objects, the floor, or even just thin air, but not all spells are created equal. Given the option between setting a powerful fart trap that knocks someone down and sending a homing missile of perpetual annoyance that teleports your opponent to the pain dimension, which would you choose? Pain dimension, every time. And like hell if that wasn’t what happened every single round it was available.

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I spent more time here than in the actual classrooms.

Some traps are just way more useful. Traps on the floor can be surprising, but are easily avoided with a sprint or reveal spell. Traps on doors or cabinets cannot be likewise worked around. Need to get in a room where both doors are blocked? Tough titties, eat the trap and the following scream to the face. One of the spell combinations is a light spray of fairy dust that makes sparkle noises when people walk through. Or, you could summon the stalking doom whisp that drops them with a portal gun into the world of their nightmares.

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Oh no! A light spray of color! I sure hope it doesn’t make a light tinkling sound, that would really rustle my jimmies.

So yeah, the game is hella imbalanced. Oh well. It’s a $6 indie title, I can accept some design oversight. Take my Hide and Shriek complaints with a grain of salt. In reality, the game impressed me more than it frustrated. As much as this game looks and sounds silly on paper, it works well. I actually would jump at the scares, even when I knew it was coming. The different rooms and traps look great. It’s not AAA budget high resolution, but the visual design is distinct and effective.

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I promise this is way less silly when its jumping in your face.

It takes a heavy degree of shit to not recommend a $6 game. If you’re looking for a good way to kill a few hours with a friend, this is definitely worth it. That being said, I don’t see this game living long. At time of writing, the daily high of users playing was 20. For a purely 1v1 multiplayer game, that just isn’t enough. There are leaderboards to climb, but what’s the point? If they had instituted a 2v2 mode, where one character can play offence and the other defence, this game would have a much longer shelf life. Hide and Shriek is an innovative title, worth checking out on concept alone. Beyond that, there’s nothing to keep you coming back.

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Blair Witch (Blu-ray/DVD)

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Blair WitchStarring Valorie Curry, Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, Corbin Reid

Directed by Adam Wingard

Distributed by Lionsgate


When it comes to The Blair Witch Project, I can be considered a MEGA FAN. I mean, just note my usage of not only caps but also the bold tag around “mega fan.” I love this franchise and each film in it for better or worse. I was elated when news broke at this past summer’s San Diego Comic-Con that The Woods was actually Blair Witch, and even more elated that Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett were the ones at the reins.

Thus far I’ve seen the film four times… once at Comic-Con, once at a special early screening, once in theaters with a crowd, and now on Blu-ray with the commentary track. I stand by my (mostly) positive review of Blair Witch and think that director Wingard and writer Barrett brought a lot of good stuff to the franchise.

Sadly, the movie didn’t do especially well at the box office. Blair Witch was expected to take in around $20 million for the weekend but managed just $9.7 million. It was playing on 3,121 screens and averaged $3,092 per location. Not phenomenal numbers, but this was kind of an impossible situation. Here’s a franchise that’s been out of the public eye for over a decade. Its fans have all grown older, and I’m willing to bet that the younger crowd barely ever even heard of Elly Kedward. Pile on found footage fatigue, impossible to live up to quotes from some websites, and little to no hype time to get people ready for it; and you kind of have a recipe for disaster.

Would the film have fared better if Lionsgate had been upfront about it being a Blair Witch movie and not something called The Woods earlier? Who knows? We’ll never know unfortunately. But we now have the flick on Blu-ray and DVD so maybe it will find its intended audience.

Then again, there’s also a good chance that its intended audience will be turned off by both Barrett’s and Wingard’s feelings about the film’s reception. More on that in a minute…

The Blu-ray of Blair Witch is home to one of the single most extensive making-of featurettes I’ve ever seen. Entitled Never Ending Night: The Making of Blair Witch, this 6-part documentary delivers even the most minute of details from the story origins, the secretive process everyone would be facing, to the big reveal at the San Diego Comic-Con. “The Reveal” segment even features a surprise cameo from our own Debi Moore, who was just exiting the theater for a quick moment before the festivities commenced.

The only really bad thing about this doc is that it’s paced kind of slowly, but man, is it brimming with info and behind-the-scenes goodness.

Next up is House of Horrors: Exploring the Set, which is easily my favorite of the package. In it we get a look at the painstaking work put into getting the now iconic house to look as it did back in the 90s, a job made much harder by the fact it had to be built from scratch as the original structure burned down long ago. Bravo to everyone who helped bring this monster back to life!

One of the only things missing from the documentary portion of this package is that during the extensive look, they never delve into all the cool easter eggs and surprises they added in for fans of the film. Part of the joy of the Blair Witch universe is the mysterious mythology the filmmakers sprinkled along the way. From the masterful “Curse of the Blair Witch” Syfy special to “The Secret of Esrever,” the hidden things and the back story only added to the fun. Surely Wingard and Barrett would address these things in their commentary track, right?

Wrong. Dead wrong.

Here’s a hint to Hollywood – NEVER HAVE YOUR FILMMAKERS DO A COMMENTARY TRACK IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEIR FILMS FAIL AT THE BOX OFFICE. I get that it sucks when something you’ve poured your heart and soul into goes south (lord knows I’m more than familiar with these instances), but to verbally take it out on the fans while sarcastically denigrating your own work for 90 minutes isn’t the best route to go. Every other word out of Barrett’s and Wingard’s mouths is along the lines of “Our movie sucked. No one went to see it. Fans hated it. We ruined this. We did that wrong.” You get what I’m saying. They even go off on tangents like, “Yeah, we were gonna talk about the mythology and the easter eggs [i.e., the onscreen location of the original map], but since none of you went to see it, we’re not gonna! Just sit there and wonder.

Really, guys? So fuck the fans that the movie has; they don’t deserve it because not everyone went to the theater to support your movie? How do you think they will feel listening to your commentary? I’ll tell you… disappointed. Probably even more than you were at the box office returns. This track is so pointlessly negative it nearly made me like the movie even less. Barrett and Wingard spend what should be an informative good time being too hard on themselves, the fans, and everything in-between. I’ve heard of sour grapes, but god damn, guys. Holy shit. Just, holy shit.

At the end of the day, we get a great package for a really good movie that’s only brought down by the filmmakers themselves. Maybe that is the true curse of the Blair Witch.

Special Features:

  • Audio Commentary with Director Adam Wingard and Writer Simon Barrett
  • Never Ending Night: The Making of Blair Witch (6-Part Documentary Exclusive to Blu-ray)

– “Primal Fear: Story Origins”
– “Ambiguous Loss: The Cast”
– “P.O.V.: On Location”
– “Trapped in the Time Loop: Editing”
– “Distorted Reality: Music and Sound Design”
– “The Reveal”

  • “House of Horrors: Exploring the Set” Featurette

BUY IT NOW!

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Bodies Are So Analog in New Short The New Hands

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I’m pretty attached to my hands, so to speak, so I sure wouldn’t want to misplace them anytime soon. Which is what happens in the short The New Hands, in which a guy attempts to remove his five-fingered appendages after he feel that they aren’t good enough to touch his true love.

Director Brandon Scullion didn’t make The New Hands to promote anything or to push a campaign. Instead he made it simply because he wanted to make a weird short horror film. And we salute you for that, sir. It stars up and coming actress Liesel Hanson, who you may remember from Tales of Halloween and Children of Sorrow.

Synopsis
A man attempts to amputate his own hands when he is rejected by his true love because his original hands aren’t good enough for her.

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Dark Prism – Interview with Director Dylan Mars Greenberg and More!

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Just when you think you’ve seen the trippiest of horror films, Dark Prism rises from the indie underground with enough weirdness to make Cronenberg blush.

The movie follows three women with mysterious pasts, a nerdy boy, a company man, and Jesus Christ, all of whom are plunged into an absurdist nightmare when a giant and magical prism descends upon planet Earth and warps reality.

Dark Prism is directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg, and features Lloyd Kaufman (or Troma Entertainment), Matt Katz-Bohen (of Blondie), and indie superstar Mac DeMarco. Dread Central recently met up with Greenberg, as well as the cast and crew of Dark Prism, for an in-depth interview about inspiration for the movie, challenges along the way, and how any filmmaker can realize their vision without a budget.

Dread Central: Okay, first off, tell me how all of you came together to make such a zany, brilliantly-screwed-up movie? Did you all know each other before this?

Yolpie Kaiser: Yeah actually! We did, we’ve all been friends for a few years. Some have known each other longer than others.

Max Husten: Yeah like basically the entire cast is friends.

Yolpie Kaiser: But Dylan has always made movies.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: Yeah I knew most of these folks beforehand! Some of them hadn’t met each other but they all knew me somehow.

Sofe Cote: I met most of everyone here through Dark Prism so I’m more new to the friend group than most!

Dylan Mars Greenberg: Some of them were very surprised when I told them the roles I had envisioned for them I believe

Dread Central: Haha I bet!! Speaking of which, how much of it was improv and how much was written and rehearsed beforehand?

Dylan Mars Greenberg: Most of it was improvised!

Sofe Cote: Nothing was rehearsed at all.

Max Husten: It was basically all ad-libbed.

Sofe Cote: Some was written but we only learned about it during the scene.

Yolpie Kaiser: There was like an outline of what we wanted to happen, but mostly all the lines were thought of on the spot. Sometimes by Dylan and sometimes the cast themselves.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: I don’t write scripts. I take my filmmaking style from Scot Shaw’s Zen Technique of filmmaking. I wrote a basic outline but for the 1st and 2nd acts I had 90 percent of everything in my head. I think Yolpie must remember on their first day of shooting the second act, there were a few minutes where I actually had to stand there and think up the next scene!

Dread Central: That sounds like both a relief and a burden! Was there any trouble piecing it all together in the end? How did you make everything work together?

Dylan Mars Greenberg: I think piecing it together was the easy part. I knew how everything would flow together. A lot of it came to me in dreams or visions. I get my best ideas not when I’m fully asleep but when I’m in the stage between sleep and waking life.

Dread Central: What were some of the difficulties you ran into?

Max Husten: Getting everybody to the filming location on time.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: The hardest part by far was locations. At the time I had no money to work with, and I’m talking zero. Not 10,000 dollars, not 1,000 dollars. Nothing. So, I couldn’t pay for locations. I had to basically beg people to let me shoot in their space.

Sofe Cote: Yeah, scheduling was our main issue for sure

Dread Central: Speaking of locations, I found it especially hilarious how you integrated Troma’s offices into the movie in a way that didnt’ call for much change to their routine set-up. How did you get the luxury of shooting there??

Dylan Mars Greenberg: The folks at Torus_porta were really helpful and gave me their performance venue to shoot whatever I wanted in. It came to a point where I actually ran out of locations to shoot in, so I would go into Torus_porta and re dress it with bedsheets and things. I also used my parents’ house for a lot because a lot of buildings fell through. There was a boxing match scene that we were supposed to shoot in this giant building, but they decided they didn’t want me there so I had to spend the day running around Brooklyn begging people to let me shoot there. I managed to get the back of an active flea market to shoot in. Some of the sellers at the market became extras. I got the luxury of shooting there because I am actually one of the in-house editors for Troma! I got hired while I was still in high school. I made the offices look slightly bigger by using an effect to look like the camera goes up a floor and you see a second floor. In reality that’s the same floor. There’s only one office floor, and then there’s a basement. Lloyd is always really cooperative and he really helped me out. He also thought it was funny that a teenager was his stuntman

Dread Central: I’ve got to say, I average about a movie a day, and very few movies I’ve seen come close to being as off-the-beaten-path as Dark Prism! What draws each of you to this sort of movie?

Dylan Mars Greenberg: Well I grew up on weird shit. That’s all I was into as a kid. All I wanted to watch was obscure shit, the more obscure the better. I was 10 years old and I brought a movie into school called the wizard of speed and time. The kids all taunted me afterwards because they wanted to watch Harry Potter. One of my favorite movies growing up was also forbidden zone.

Sofe Cote: I’m a huge fan of anything Dylan does, and it was such a fun thing to get to shoot! I love the way she allows for creativity and I love anything weird or nonconformist.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: And John waters. My parents told me I wasn’t allowed to watch female trouble til I was 13 but I found it online and watched it when I was 11. They had a VHS of it and they thought if they hid it from me I wouldn’t find it, but they didn’t realize I was very good at streaming things.

Dread Central: Many people of the past who’ve worked for Troma have gone on to mainstream careers in film. Is this something you’re really interested in, or is “weird” cinema your calling?

Dylan Mars Greenberg: I want my career to go one of two ways: Either I am recognized by the art and indie world as an artist and as a specialty film director, and that becomes my work, to direct art films where I have the full creative control, and likely teach film classes as a professor, that’s how guy Maddin makes ends meet I believe, or I am seen as a genre filmmaker which I also am, and I am hired by companies like sci fi and the asylum to direct their films. I think I could do a good job either way. I really could take both sides of the film world and make them fun. That’s kind of self-assured but I really think I could bring something new to the art world and the genre film world. If Guy Maddin is reading this, please collaborate with me! It’s my dream!

Dread Central: Sofe, you’ve done both modelling and acting in the past–did any of that help prepare you for working with Dylan on Dark Prism? I mean, you get attacked by a giant monster dick puppet. That had to have been pretty…unique.

Sofe Cote: Definitely not! This was more strange and fun than any modeling work I’ve ever done, including the day that I spent 16 hours with a prosthetic bear nose on. Dylan is one of the most unique filmmakers I’ve ever met and I don’t think I’ll ever do anything again that compares to the way she shot dark prism.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: I made Sofe lie on the rocks in the cold for her dream sequence. It was freezing and raining when we shot that and I think she had to lie there for at least an hour.

Sofe Cote: That was so fun.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: In a masochistic sort of way. For both of us.I feel like there is definitely a masochistic element to enjoying acting in the realm of horror and this type of surreal film ~ there’s a lot of joy in it as well. Like fun masochism.

Sofe Cote: That’s my favorite type of masochism.

Dread Central: Which is part of what I loved about it–it’s risky, and risk isn’t something you find a lot of in movies anymore.

Amanda Flowers: Definitely, risk is a thing lacking in a lot of things these days, but through risk you can create some truly beautiful work you never expected to happen.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: Tell me about it! When I shot the scene as Marllii in the boxing scene, I was sick with the flu, pinkeye, and a fever. When I pull my sunglasses off and you see my red eyes, that’s not special effects, I had pinkeye! I was wearing that leopard print jacket because I was freezing and it was the middle of summer.

Yolpie Kaiser: Dylan was a machine. She was so sick that day. I’ll never forget. I’ve never met someone with so much drive to make content in my life. And it’s AMAZING.

Dylan Mars Greenberg: Chandani did a great job as Jesus.

Chandini Smith: Superhuman capabilities. The entire process was so intense because Dylan was juggling like 10000 million people’s schedules. But pulled off an amazing project that I’m super proud to have been involved in.

Amanda Flowers: I just wanted to say that working with Dylan has been a truly invigorating experience. I don’t think there is anyone else like her in the world these days, and I’m really excited to see what she comes up with next, especially with her new movie the heart of Dr. West. Her movies just get better and more immersive and unique with each new addition to her creative endeavors. It’s amazing that she’s so young and has this drive and vision. I can’t wait for the future. Robert butcher said that she gives him hope for the world and I completely agree.

Dread Central: What’s next for this cast? You’ve all got such wonderful movie making chemistry; are there plans for a “part II,” or at least a sequel-in-spirit?

Dylan Mars Greenberg: If the movie ends up doing well I want to make a movie called PRISM 3D. I want to use a different method of 3D I’ve been experimenting with called pulfrich. All you need to use are a pair of sunglasses lying around the house. It’ll make the PRISM pop right out of the screen!

Dread Central: Hopefully that means more guitar solo throat slitting! haha that was kickass!

Yolpie Kaiser: I know I’ll be working with a lot of these people in the future because we just work so well together it’s something I could never abandon!

Dylan Mars Greenberg: Max got about two gallons of blood poured on him for that.

Max Husten: The part where me and Sofe are walking backwards into the bathroom was filmed backwards so it could look more awkward. It was so awkward but so funny.

Sofe Cote: Oh that was like the second time I ever met max too. Which made it even more awkward.

Dread Central: The awkward hand holding made me fall out of my seat!

Dylan Mars Greenberg: I deliberately chose two people I knew would have a very awkward chemistry.

Dread Central: I’m sure you’ve all gotten this before, but I’m damn impressed a group of such young film makers and actors pulled together to make something so divisive and new! This gives a lot of inspiration to younger film makers, and really raises the bar for what’s possibly with ZERO budget. What’s some advice each of you would give to readers who are aspiring film makers?

Yolpie Kaiser: You’d be surprised what you can make with no money. Make connections with people. And that can carry you a super duper long way. Most of us actually have a multitude of skills that we ended up using to make up for things that would cost money. Some of us have backgrounds in makeup and costume. Music production, stuff like that. People JUMPED at us to have their songs in the movie. It was super humbling. I was the person who actually drew Chandani’s beard

Max Husten: There aren’t rules do what you want.

Chandini Smith: Yes I love how much of this was entirely dependent on relationships, for locations and props and whatnot. Everyone did a part. I kinda hate the term grassroots.

Sofe Cote: Yeah, and a lot of the green screen stuff was actually shot at my home!

Dylan Mars Greenberg: My advice is the following, 1: don’t wait for money to come in. You’re not going to raise a million dollars on Kickstarter. If you have a camera and you have an editing system you can make a movie. 2: there aren’t rules if you don’t have to answer to anyone. You don’t need a script, you don’t need to block shit and you don’t need to storyboard. If that helps you, fine, but it also can slow things down. 3: Don’t be an asshole, ever, because that shit will never fly. 4: Annoy the shit out of anyone who can help you. I know that sort of contradicts the previous statement but it’s true. Two things can happen: one, they don’t help you and think you’re stupid, or two, they decide to help you. You have to be very nice, but you have to be pushy, and you have to hustle like crazy. A lot of times you get turned down but then you’ll find someone willing to help you when you least expect it.

Dread Central: Are there any closing remarks any of you would like to make?

Dylan Mars Greenberg: We have a new movie coming up called ReAgitator: A Parody. Most of the folks here are in it as well as Aurelio Voltaire Schooly, D. Alan Merrill, and Jurgen Munster as the Doctor. It’s a pop art parody of horror and I guarantee it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before. It’s like a Hammer Horror film on acid. Also, we made another movie since then called Amityville: Vanishing Point. That’s on amazon now. It’s very different than Dark Prism it’s a lot darker and David lynch inspired. Amityville like you’ve never seen it before!

Yolpie Kaiser: You’ll be seeing more of us!

 

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Carrie Fisher Suffers Massive Heart Attack on Plane

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Now this is not the news we wanted to lead into Christmas weekend… During a flight from London to Los Angeles, Carrie Fisher suffered a massive heart attack and at one point even stopped breathing. Upon landing in L.A., Fisher was rushed immediately to a hospital and is currently listed as in critical condition.

We here at Dread Central would like to send our immediate prayers and good vibes out to Fisher, and we suggest you do the same.

Seriously… 2016, don’t you fucking dare.

Carrie Fisher

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Neve Campbell and Kevin Williamson Talk Possible Scream 5

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Not gonna lie… the passing of Wes Craven still stings. The question begs, though, could there ever be a Scream 5 without Craven? Writer Kevin Williamson and star Neve Campbell aren’t willing to completely write off Ghostface just yet.

During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the duo had the following to say about the possible film:

Wes and I, when we were starting Scream 4, we had plans for Scream 5 and 6,” Williamson told the outlet. “Now without Wes, I feel like you have to sort of answer the questions of how and why, and I don’t know how to do it without Wes and I don’t know why to do it.

Campbell echoed Williamson’s remarks; however, she seemed a bit more optimistic.

It would be tough to do it without Wes,” Campbell said. “His vision was so clear and he was so good. I think it would be painful. It doesn’t mean it would never happen, but it would be challenging. Nobody is talking about it at the moment.

Scream

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Amityville: The Awakening Releases New Image

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To soften the news that Amityville: The Awakening is missing yet another release date (Dimension Films has delayed the flick yet again to June 30th), we have a new image for you today. Um… Hooray?

Amityville: The Awakening was trimmed from an R rating down to a PG-13 for “disturbing horror violence and terror, suggestive images, brief language and thematic material.” The previous R rating was for “strong horror violence and language.”

Amityville: The Awakening

The film stars Bella Thorne (pictured above, right), Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cameron Monaghan, Thomas Mann, Taylor Spreitler, Mckenna Grace (pictured above, left), and Kurtwood Smith. Daniel Farrands and Casey La Scala co-wrote the script and produce with Jason Blum of hit factory Blumhouse. Franck Khalfoun (Maniac) directs.

Obviously, you can disregard the date on the below poster while we await an updated version.

Synopsis:
Belle and her family move into a new house, but when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.

Amityville The Awakening

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