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Win a Copy of Hekla’s Children by James Brogden

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Last September we provided you with an exclusive excerpt from the new horror novel Hekla’s Children, and now that it’s set for release in a few days by Titan Books, we’re back with a contest!

Titan has provided us with three copies, and to enter for your chance to win one of them, just send an email to contests@dreadcentral.com including your FULL NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS along with “Hekla’s Children” in your subject line. We’ll take care of the rest.

This contest will end at 12:01 AM PT on March 10, 2017. Note: By entering this contest, you are consenting to allow Dread Central and its subsidiaries use of your email address.

Hekla’s Children, written by James Brogden (The Narrows, The Realt), arrives March 7th; you can pre-order a copy from Amazon now.

Synopsis:
Teacher Nathan Brookes leaves four pupils alone during a field trip in a national park. Within minutes, they have disappeared. A girl called Liv returns, but she has no memory of where she’s been. When a body is found years later, it is first believed to be one of the children but is identified as a Bronze Age man. Yet, Nathan starts to have horrific visions of the missing students. Then Liv reappears, desperate that the man be reburied. For he is the only thing keeping a terrible evil at bay…

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Some Creepy Stories Can Be Experienced in VR at This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival

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Yesterday, we posted the first announcement for the 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival, which will run April 19th-30th. The Festival will be bringing several top notch genre films, including Mickey Keating’s Psychopaths, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s The Endless, Clay Staub’s Devil’s Gate, and much more.

Today, the Festival has released an announcement about its VR offerings, of which there will be 29 different titles. There will be six storyscapes and 23 interactive titles, several of which seem like they’d be right up the alley of any horror fan! I’ve culled the ones that I thought were the most interesting, each of which you can see below.

Remember, tickets are available right now on Tribeca’s website, so get yours before they’re all gone!

Alteration (World Premiere) – France:

Project Creator: Jérôme Blanquet
Key Collaborators: James Sénade, Yann Apéry, Antoine Cayrol, Baptiste Chesnais, Pierre Zandrowicz, Jean-françois Blanquet
This is a poetic trip into the future: Alexandro volunteers for an experiment carried out to study dreams. He can’t imagine that he will be subjected to the intrusion of Elsa, a form of Artificial Intelligence who aims to digitize his subconscious in order to feed off it. She’s a vampire…bit by megabit.


Apex (World Premiere) – The Netherlands/USA:

Project Creator: Arjan van Meerten
Key Collaborator: Wevr
The stunning new experience from the brilliant imagination of 3D artist and musician Arjan van Meerten, APEX is the highly anticipated follow up to the creator’s acclaimed and award-winning experience, Surge. Step into a surrealistic and darkly beautiful vision of a fiery urban apocalypse; one populated by skeletal ghost animals, abstract shapes, maniacal smiling giants and, of course, you.


Arden’s Wake (World Premiere) – USA:

Project Creator: Eugene Chung
Key Collaborators: Jimmy Maidens
The sea levels have risen, and a young woman and her father live in a lighthouse perched atop the ocean’s surface. When he goes missing, she descends deep into the post-apocalyptic waters previously forbidden to her, embarking on a thrilling journey of family history and self-discovery. From the creators of the magnificent Allumette (Tribeca 2016), Arden’s Wake continues the elegant evolution of storytelling from Penrose Studios.


Broken Night (World Premiere) – USA:

Project Creator: Alon Benari, Tal Zubalsky, Alex Vlack
Key Collaborators: Eko, Hidden Content, Real Motion VFX
Broken Night explores a woman’s (Emily Mortimer) unreliable narrative of an intense trauma. Speaking to a detective, her confused memories unfold: returning home in the midst of a fight with her husband (Alessandro Nivola), they encounter an intruder. The viewer is placed in a position of choosing which memories to follow, sharing her confusion before coming to the startling truth.


Remember: Remember (World Premiere) – USA:

Project Creator: Kevin Cornish
If our minds are a map of every memory we’ve had, what do we become if those memories are stripped away? In this cinematic, room-scale VR experience set against the backdrop of an alien invasion, you are a prisoner being brainwashed by a lost love. As you cycle through your memories, the two of you begin to question what is real and what is imagined.


Sergeant James (North American Premiere) – France:

Project Creator: Alexandre Perez
Key Collaborators: Avi Amar
It’s Leo’s bedtime, but he thinks there is something under his bed. Is it just the harmless imagination of a young boy, or something more sinister? Is it…you? From director Alexandre Perez, Sergeant James recaptures the innocence of youth, the wonder of the unknown, and the folly of fear, while hinting at a far creepier possibility.

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France Goes Post-Apocalyptic in Reset

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If you can’t get enough post-apocalyptic movies these days, you might be interested in the French TV pilot “Reset”, which has just been released on YouTube with English subtitles.

RESET – A roof to die – Pilot
After living several months barricaded in an apartment in the aftermath of a devastative infection, five survivors united by the events decide to leave their sanctuary in a quest for a better life. They will face the worst peculiarities of mankind, without knowing that a bigger threat is heading for them.

The end of the world, the beginning of theirs.

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Have You Seen This Awesome Five Nights at Freddy’s Animated Film?

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I’m edging closer to 40 everyday (I know, that’s some scary shit!), and that means my mind and hand-eye coordination have been gradually slowing for a few years now. All of this means – of course – that I’m not much of a gamer. Hell, I’m a terrible gamer, if I’m sticking to the old motto of honesty is the best policy.

But there’s one game franchise that I’ve always had a serious interested in, and that franchise is Five Nights at Freddy’s. Just the concept alone – a night security guard is forced to battle for survival as a small horde of malfunctioning animatronic critters look to exterminate anyone with a pulse… especially security guards – is enough to send chills down the spine.

When you see the visuals, those chills amplify exponentially.

To be frank, Scott Cawthon’s brainchild is a frightening creation. The games have generally impressed on a large scale, and now other creators have discovered inspiration in this franchise.

In December of last year Secret4Studio released a (near) feature length animated film based on the games, and it’s absolutely loaded with creepy shit. I mean, really, really creepy shit! So, if animated films are your thing (if they’re not, you’ve missed some superb pictures), or if you’re a big fan of the Five Nights at Freddy’s games, you’re going to likely find this film extremely satisfying.

We’ve got it attached below, so turn the lights down low and prepare to develop a fear of cuddly creatures!

Five Nights at Freddy's

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In a Lonely Place (2017)

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Starring Luigi Busignani, Lucrezia Frenquellucci

Directed by Davide Montecchi


When was the last time you feasted your eyes upon a “sexy” film? No, I’m not talking about that Fifty Shades-type garbage – I’m talking about a movie that simply looks attractive in every facet, and one that can manage to hook your eyes and hold your attention for the entire duration of the presentation – I present to all you lunatics: Davide Montecchi’s In A Lonely Place.

Centering around a couple of longtime friends, Thomas (Busignani) and Teresa (Frenquellucci); their relationship is one that has stood the test of time. Thomas is a man that is blundering, both in his personal image and outwardly towards others, while Teresa is a straight-up stunner, however she’s got a little bit of an issue with her own representation. What lies deep down in the depths of Thomas’s mind is his complete and total obsession with his bestie…wait a minute? You mean that he’s daring to breach that unbreachable boundary known as “the friend zone?” Big troubles on the horizon, Thomas – BIG troubles. Teresa struggles on a daily basis to explore for her true inner self, and Thomas takes it upon himself to “assist” her in the search to help her find that beauty…yep, things are about to get a bit demented. Teresa is poised to feel pain on multiple levels for a cost of aligning all facets of her life…seems a bit excessive, but apparently there’s no price on infinite happiness.

When you delve deep down to the bowels of this film, you really might not find the conventional horror obverses glimmering through the surface, yet it’s the essence of what’s happening to both characters that’s what is so damn disturbing. In separate instances, both Thomas and Teresa, although friends, act as if their lives are incomplete without each other, and the impending trauma that’s on the horizon just might be what the couple needs to weld their souls together for all time – talk about a demented love connection! The assistance of both of their performances only adds to an innately dark story that brims with uncertainty, and as I was alluding to earlier, this film just looks luxurious, visually speaking. With a bevy of exquisite camera-shots from cinematographer Fabrizio Pasqualetto, In A Lonely Place bleeds beauty on an insanely dark level. Downsides? Aside from a creepingly slow pace (which in actuality aids the story), there really isn’t much to poke at, which is why I can HIGHLY recommend this flick to those who want their terror on a bit more of an intimate level – seek this one out now!

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#Brainwaves Episode 36 Guest Announcement – Ghost Hunters’ Steve Gonsalves

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The TV show “Ghost Hunters” was a smash hit for the Syfy channel, and part of the reason was the interesting group of paranormal researchers put together by T.A.P.S. – The Atlantic Paranormal Society. One of those people, Steve Gonsalves, will be joining us live for our 36th episode of the strange!

Tune in this coming Wednesday, March 8th, at 8:00PM PT/11:00PM ET for all the shenanigans fit to be had! It’s radio without a safety net, kids. It’s Brainwaves: Horror and Paranormal Talk Radio.

Brainwaves Steve Gonsalvez

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Spooky, funny, touching, honest, offensive, and at times completely random, Brainwaves airs live every Wednesday evening beginning at 8:00 PM Pacific Time (11:00 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, @JoeKnetter, or @MrDarkDC 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!

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Graphic Novel The Underwater Welder Being Adapted by Ryan Gosling, Waypoint, and Anonymous Content

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A new comic-to-screen adaptation is heading our way based on the popular Top Shelf/IDW graphic novel The Underwater Welder.  We have the early details for you here, and one of the parties involved is a very familiar name!

From the Press Release:
The Underwater Welder is the mind-bending graphic novel written by critically acclaimed, award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire and published by Top Shelf/IDW, which has been optioned for a feature film.

Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao’s Waypoint, and Anonymous Content will produce the film. Lemire, Chris Staros (Editor–in–Chief, Top Shelf), and Ted Adams (CEO and Publisher, IDW Publishing) are attached as executive producers.

The New York Times bestselling graphic novel details a man in the dangerous profession of underwater welding, who has a supernatural encounter at the bottom of the sea.

The deal was brokered on Jeff Lemire’s behalf by Angela Cheng Caplan of the Cheng Caplan Company, Inc., and Allison Binder, Esq., of Stone, Genow, Smelkinson, Binder & Christopher, LLP, and on Top Shelf/IDW’s behalf by Tuvyah Aronoff of Schwell Wimpfheimer & Associates.

Graphic Novel Synopsis:
Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. But then, something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever!

Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending science fiction epic, The Underwater Welder explores fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and truth, and the treasures we all bury deep down inside.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day Back In August… In 3D

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It was August of 2016 when we first told you that James Cameron’s 1991 action sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day would be getting a theatrical 3D re-release in 2017. For those of you chomping at the bit for this, we can now report the flick’s re-release date will be August 25th.

August 29, 1997: The day Skynet first became self-aware.
August 29, 2016: The day you first saw the brand new poster for Terminator 2 in 3D.
Coming to theaters in 2017
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which hit theaters on July 3, 1991, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned as The Terminator for an explosive action-adventure spectacle. Now he’s one of the good guys, sent back in time to protect John Connor, the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. Linda Hamilton reprised her role as Sarah Connor, John’s mother, a quintessential survivor who had been institutionalized for her warning of the nuclear holocaust she knows is inevitable. Together, the threesome must find a way to stop the ultimate enemy – the T-1000, the most lethal Terminator ever created.

Check out the re-release poster below!

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What Would YOU Do for a New TV Spot for The Belko Experiment?

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With regard to the upcoming The Belko Experiment, with all the various clips and TV spots that have come out, it’s staring to feel like we’re seeing most of the movie before it’s been released. And here’s one more video to add to the collection…

This one wonders, “What Would YOU Do?”

Look for The Belko Experiment, which was directed by Greg McLean and written by James Gunn, in theaters on March 17th courtesy of Orion Releasing and BH Tilt.

The film stars John Gallagher, Jr. (“The Newsroom,” 10 Cloverfield Lane), Adria Arjona (“True Detective”), Tony Goldwyn (“Scandal”), John C. McGinley (Stan Against Evil, “Scrubs”), Josh Brener (“Silicon Valley”), Michael Rooker (“The Walking Dead,” Guardians of the Galaxy), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station).

Synopsis:
The Belko Experiment explores a twisted social experiment, in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogata, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

The Belko Experiment

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The Belko Experiment Wants to Know What Weapon You’d Choose

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With the release of The Belko Experiment coming in just two weeks, it’s time to hunker down and really start thinking about how you’re going to make it through a free-for-all battle to the death. What objects are in an office building that can be turned into weapons? What do you have to defend yourself? What options are there in case things start going to hell and you have to make desperate decisions?

Luckily, the folks behind The Belko Experiment have decided to lend a helping hand and have released a series of posters suggesting various office mainstays that might make for a great hand-to-hand weapon. If you were in these unlucky souls’ position, would you choose the mug, pencil, phone, or tape dispenser? Let us know in the comments below!

Look for The Belko Experiment, which was directed by Greg McLean and written by James Gunn, in theaters on March 17th courtesy of Orion Releasing and BH Tilt.

The film stars John Gallagher, Jr. (“The Newsroom,” 10 Cloverfield Lane), Adria Arjona (“True Detective”), Tony Goldwyn (“Scandal”), John C. McGinley (Stan Against Evil, “Scrubs”), Josh Brener (“Silicon Valley”), Michael Rooker (“The Walking Dead,” Guardians of the Galaxy), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station).

Synopsis:
The Belko Experiment explores a twisted social experiment, in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogata, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

The Belko Experiment

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Lavender (2017)

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Starring Abbie Cornish, Diego Klattenhoff, Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney

Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly


Lavender deals with the after effects of personal tragedy and how it shapes who you are, even if you don’t always remember who you really were. Through memory loss, the story reveals an old mystery that winds up being more haunting than the pain of never knowing the real truth.

Director Ed Gass-Donnelly has crafted a well-constructed ghost story where the living have the potential to be more dangerous than tormented souls trapped in limbo. Still, there may not be enough memorable moments for those looking for a satisfying conclusion that’s worth the slower character beats seen in Lavender.

The one-word title certainly isn’t as ominous as something like Insidious, but once the backstory is fleshed out, it suddenly doesn’t seem as innocuous. The title offers a clue to help Jane (Cornish), a disconnected mother and wife who finds comfort in photography, start to uncover the truth behind a murderous night in her childhood. As the sole survivor, Jane doesn’t snap into action until a sudden car accident causes a form of amnesia that leads her to track down her long lost uncle, Patrick (Mulroney), who has taken over the property where she grew up. A psychiatrist (Long) also tries to nurse Jane back to health, but he seems a little too invested in her recovery. As Jane gets closer and closer to the truth, she uncovers a frightening family secret.

The setup for Lavender takes a little too long to fully develop, but once the story returns to the rundown farm of Jane’s past, the scenes between Cornish and Mulroney look to have a lot of layers that are ready to be peeled back. The problem is there just aren’t enough scenes and dialogue with the two of them, and Mulroney’s limited screen time lessens the impact of an unfolding mystery as the story digs in. Jane’s husband and daughter are used instead to provide the family conflict when one withdraws from the situation while the other is pulled deeper into the secrets of the house.

Once the larger reveals and twists come out into the light, Lavender fails to make their emotional impact be felt fully, mostly due to how suddenly they emerge. Although beautifully shot and constructed, the major mysteries conflict with each other and seem to be taken from two separate films: one that deals with the loss of family connection and one that falls into more familiar genre tropes. Two different endings combine to form one that doesn’t entirely feel earned, but that doesn’t stop Lavender from succeeding in more ways than it backfires.

Lavender is in theaters today and is also available on VOD and Digital HD (watch it on Amazon).

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Shin Godzilla Lights Up Japanese Academy Awards

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No mistakes were made at the Japanese Academy Awards in terms of who won what. There was no denying Godzilla from taking home his gold.

Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Godzilla) was the big winner, with seven victories, at the 40th Japan Academy Prize awards this past Friday.

Shin Godzilla took home the gold for:

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director – Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
  • Best Editing – Hideaki Anno and Atsuki Sato
  • Best Cinematography – Kousuke Yamada
  • Best Art Direction – Yuji Hayashida and Eri Sakushima
  • Best Lighting – Takayuki Kawabe
  • Best Sound Recording – Jun Nakamura and Haru Yamada

Congrats to all those concerned! Now give us our U.S. Blu-ray PLEASE!

Shin Godzilla

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Die Funny – Man Killed by 6-Ton Porn Collection

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Now, listen… we’re not saying that the passing of any human being should be considered anything less than tragic, but with tragedy comes comedy, and we’re firm believers that if you have to die, DIE FUNNY!

The U.K. Mirror is reporting that a 50-year-old Japanese man, identified only as Joji, was killed when his six-ton (12,000 pounds) stash of porn magazines fell on top of him. The man’s body was found six months later after his landlord ordered a cleaning crew to discreetly get rid of this gargantuan collection of flaunty furburger magazines.

Authorities are guessing that after the massive stash of porn toppled over on him, the man died of a heart attack.

Big Boobs

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Get Out Director Talks Alternate Darker Ending

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Jordan Peele’s suspense thriller, Get Out (review), has been riding high since its release last weekend, and -SPOILER ALERT – the film has “sort of” a happy ending.

It wasn’t always that way though as Peele explained to the Another Round Podcast… there was an alternate and far darker ending…

There is an alternate ending in which the cops actually come at the end. He gets locked up and taken away for slaughtering an entire family of white people and you know he’s never getting out, if he doesn’t get shot there on the spot.

In the beginning when I was first making this movie the idea was, ‘OK, we’re in this post-racial world, apparently.’ That was the whole idea. People were saying, ‘We’ve got Obama so racism is over, let’s not talk about it.’ That’s what the movie was meant to address. Like look, you recognize this interaction. These are all clues, if you don’t already know, that racism isn’t over. So the ending in that era was meant to say, look, ‘You think race isn’t an issue? Well at the end, we all know this is how this movie would end right here.’

Peele continues, “It was very clear that the ending needed to transform into something that gives us a hero, that gives us an escape, gives us a positive feeling when we leave this movie. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing the audience go crazy when Rod shows up.

Get Out Details:
In Universal Pictures’ Get Out, a speculative thriller from Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series and The Gift) and the mind of Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.

Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods).

At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

Equal parts gripping thriller and provocative commentary, Get Out is written and directed by Peele (Key and Peele) and produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, as well as Sean McKittrick (Donnie Darko, The Box), Peele and Edward H. Hamm Jr. (The Box, Bad Words). The film also stars Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men series), Milton “Lil Rel” Howery (The Carmichael Show), Betty Gabriel (The Purge: Election Year), Marcus Henderson (Pete’s Dragon) and Keith Stanfield (Straight Outta Compton).

Get Out

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That’s Tilda Swinton in the Suspiria Remake?!

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Amazon Studios’ remake of Dario Argento’s classic Italian horror film Suspiria is one that has many fans feeling concern and trepidation. After all, while there are some fantastic horror remakes, the majority have failed to capture the spirit of the originals, giving something that felt like it was a cash grab rather than an honest, earnest attempt at creating something interesting with the source material, a lá Dawn of the Dead.

Still, there’s a fantastic cast associated with the film, including Chloë Grace Moretz, Mia Goth, Dakota Johnson, and Tilda Swinton, who was recently spotted on set looking very different than usual, thanks to a heavy dose of makeup that turned her into a geriatric crone. You can see the photo for yourself over at People.

Related Story: Mia Goth Talks Suspiria Remake and How it Will Shock Fans

Suspiria is written by David Kajganich, who adapts the “remake” from Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s original script.

Frenesy Film Company, Mythology Entertainment, First Sun Films, and Memo Films produce. Guadagnino, Brad Fischer, Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, William Sherak, and Silvia Venturini Fendi are producers on the title while James Vanderbilt, Paul Deason, Massimiliano Violante, and Carlo Antonelli exec produce.

Amazon Studios picked up the project last year for worldwide distribution rights and is financing production.

Argento’s original, which was laden with the supernatural, witches, and a lot of blood, marked the beginning of the director’s “Three Mothers” trilogy, which was followed by Inferno (1980) and The Mother of Tears (2007).

Synopsis:
Suspiria is based on a young American ballet dancer who travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is something far more sinister and supernatural. She becomes increasingly terrified after a series of gruesome murders ensue and she slowly unravels the dark history of the academy.

Suspiria

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Lizzy Caplan Takes on Aliens in Extinction

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More casting news has come our way for the latest alien invasion film which will soon be laying waste to our cities, Extinction. Variety is reporting that Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield, “Masters of Sex”) will play opposite Michael Pena in Universal and Good Universe’s sci-fi thriller.

Caplan will play Pena’s wife in the film, which follows a man trying to save his family from an alien invasion.

Ben Young will direct. Eric Heisserer — who was most recently nominated for his script on Arrival — will write the screenplay with Spenser Cohen and Bradley Caleb Kane.

Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman of Mandeville, who backed the highly-anticipated live action Beauty and the Beast, will produce. Mandeville’s Alexander Young of will executive produce, alongside Nathan Kahane and Joe Drake of Good Universe. Anna Halberg, will serve as co-producer.

Exec VP of production Erik Baiers and creative executive Mika Pryce will oversee production for Universal. Erin Westerman will oversee on behalf of Good Universe.

Lizzy Caplan

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Hellpoint Mixes Sci-Fi, Horror, and RPG to Create a Unique and Visually Fascinating Title

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I’m a fan of Imgur, the image hosting website that has grown its own community over the years. It’s where I find many of my memes, funny images, and weird gifs that I use as response material to tweets. It’s also a place where creators and innovators can show off their work, hoping to interest the community enough so that they get support, recognition, or simply attention.

The other day, Montreal video game company Cradle Games put up a post about a game called Hellpoint, a dark sci-fi action/RPG which clearly has a lot of horror elements/influence. At first glance, it looks like Dark Souls and Diablo had a ménage à trois with Dead Space. It uses a 3rd person perspective which follows the player’s character as they navigate through a space station, which happens to be orbiting a black hole, that is infested with demonic-looking beasts.

The game will feature parallel universes, weapons with multiple attack possibilities, a spell editor, and a system by which the position of the aforementioned black hole in relation to the space station will affect the inhabitants insanity. Oh, and did I mention that the game will have a splitscreen multiplayer option? If these features haven’t spurred your interest, I’m not sure what will!

Cradle Games estimates that the game will come out either Q4 of 2017 or Q1 of 2018. They are aiming for the game to run on PC, PS4, and Xbox One and will also be launching a Kickstarter in the coming weeks. Head on below for a trailer, synopsis, GIFs, and screenshots.

Synopsis:
Hellpoint is a dark sci fi action RPG set in the aftermath of a massive quantic cataclysm. You play as a mysterious ghoulish character whose intentions are entirely determined by your decisions. Everything is designed to give the game character and make its freshness renewable so that a creeping Stockholm syndrome begins to develop with the delphian space station on which the experience is taking place. With a deep, twisted, mind-breaking and multi-layered lore system to sink teeth in, the team at Cradle Games made a smaller but deeper game world that keeps entertained. Add in the dynamic Quantic System based on 21 hours’ orbit cycles, digging deeper into the mystery with each new game pluses and new game endings and you have there the vision for Cradle games: to forge a world that is truly spinning somewhere out there among the stars.

I'm making a game: Hellpoint

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Don’t Kill It – Dolph Lundgren in Need of Medical Attention in New Clip

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Mike Mendez’s Don’t Kill It (reviews here and here) is now available in limited theaters and on Digital VOD via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. To celebrate, here’s a new clip!

Directed by Mike Mendez and written by Dan Berk along with Robert Olson, Don’t Kill It stars Dolph Lundgren, Kristina Klebe, Tony Bentley, James Chalke, and Miles Doleac. The film is produced by Scott Martin, Robert Yocum, and Michael Thomas Slifkin. Cinematography by Jan-Michael Losada.

Synopsis:
An ancient evil is unleashed in a small Mississippi town leaving a trail of death and destruction as it passes from host to host. The only hope of survival lies with a grizzled demon hunter (Dolph Lundgren) who has faced this terror before. Together with a reluctant FBI agent (Kristina Klebe) he has to figure out how to destroy a demon with the ability to possess its killer.

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Horrible Imaginings Podcast #170 Bonus Episode: It’s Morphin’ Time!

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Hello everyone! Bonus episode today since I was asked if I wanted to interview some of the actors who are playing the new Lions Gate Power Rangers and I just couldn’t resist. It was a lot of fun, especially for a quick, 10-minute press round. I love Japanese Tokusatsu shows, which always left me predisposed to enjoying Power Rangers when they first came on and I was a mere 13 or 14 years old. Especially before they went all out with CGI and still had a lot of suitmation goodness. I don’t know whether or not this new movie will be my cup of tea, though I am interested in some of the casting (Bryan Cranston as Zordon, WHAT?), but I have to say I was perfectly charmed by these young new Rangers and I wish them the best!

This is a bonus episode, so I will keep this short. Press play and meet three of your new Rangers–Naomi Scott as Pink Ranger Kimberly Hart, Ludi Lin as Black Ranger Zack, and Dacre Montgomery as Red Ranger Jason!

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Director Ed Gass-Donnelly Talks Lavender

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After a somewhat tumultuous experience in the studio system with The Last Exorcism Part II (co-written by this year’s Best Director Oscar winner Damien Chazelle, by the way), Ed Gass-Donnelly got the opportunity to make a more character-driven, somewhat genre-defying story in Lavender.

There are moments of quiet beauty in this unconventional ghost story that show an artist’s eye, but speaking with Gass-Donnelly about the film, he seems incredibly grounded with the potential to be a great filmmaker.

Lavender (review), starring Abbie Cornish, Dermot Mulroney, Diego Klattenhoff, and Justin Long, is available in limited theaters and on VOD and Digital HD now.

DC: What’s the meaning behind the title Lavender?

EGD: It was more appropriate to the tone of the movie. This is definitely not like a… not a diss to them, but a Blumhouse movie. It’s more of a psychological thriller and a character piece. There were suggestions to change the name to something more traditionally horror… but this actually stands out more. If you would have called this something like that, it would be false advertising.

DC: Is there a film you’d compare Lavender to so viewers can have an idea of what to expect from the feel of the film?

EGD: A movie that definitely inspired me… they’re very different, but it was The Others. And the reason being it’s fundamentally a psychological thriller with supernatural elements, but it’s such a strong character piece with great performances. There are certain tropes of the genre so, for me, what I love so much about The Others is I one hundred percent believe, and I found it really constantly creepy but fundamentally just such a great character story. It has to be grounded in people for me to actually invest.

DC: The beginning really grabbed me with the tableau vivant style you used to depict the central tragedy. Was that your way of showing the power of memory? (I won’t mention the mannequin challenge.)

EGD: Because she’s a photographer, I loved the idea that memories are photographs and that the memories are frozen in time. It really was like trying to have a walk through a photograph as a means of exploring memory.

DC: With Abbie, Dermot, and Justin’s characters, they do a great job of seeming fairly innocuous to being creepy at different points in the film. I was surprised how creepy Abbie is in some of the scenes as Jane.

EGD: If you cast someone that just looks creepy, there’s not really any surprise there. It was always important that whoever was going to play Justin’s character was going to have to be someone who’s not known for playing that. Especially in this genre, people are always looking to solve the puzzle so you’re trying to bait people one way and you’re always layering the deception you’re trying to do. You’re trying to keep your cards close to the vest. It’s a fun sort of dance to try and offer up red herrings, but at the same time you want to deliver. I find that part really fun…

DC: What’s the main takeaway you want people to get from Lavender?

EGD: There’s something about having to embrace our demons in order to move past them. If you’re metaphorically sweeping them under a rug, they’re just lying there festering waiting to come out. I definitely had a friend who suffered abuse as a child and had no memory of it until a point much later in their life when it suddenly came back. It was just kind of the bodies way of protecting itself. Confronting your issues is far better than burying them forever.

Synopsis:
When a photographer (Cornish) suffers severe memory loss after a traumatic accident, strange clues amongst her photos suggest she may be responsible for the deaths of family members she never knew she had.  A psychiatrist helps her recover lost memories.

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