If you’re attending SXSW this year, then one of the midnight screenings you’ll probably want to see with an audience is Sebastien Landry and Laurence Morais-Lagace’s Game of Death, which is being described as Jumanji meets Natural Born Killers. Having already seen the film, I can say that this isn’t an inaccurate way to describe the film, although I think there are other movies that could be cited as influences.

Regardless of what movies may have played a part in its creation, what matters is that it’s ready for the world to see! Just ahead of its world premiere at SXSW, an uncensored trailer for the movie has come out and it’s ready to make you thank the filmmakers for not only embracing practical FX but for bringing their A+ game and drenching everyone and nearly everything in viscera, blood, and gore! Check out the trailer, stills, and the poster below!

SXSW world premiere and screenings:
Tues. March 14, 11:45pm @ Alamo Ritz, 320 E. 6th St. (world premiere)
Friday, March 17, 7:00pm @ Stateside Theater

Synopsis:
Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the Game of Death, which sucks for seven decent-looking young friends who decide to play one sunny day. They quickly and gruesomely realize that if they don’t murder people, their heads will literally explode. Hence, they go on a killing spree, taking the lives of anyone they meet in their middle-of-nowhere town. The killer-instinct in each of them bubbles to the surface as their search for victims unravels into chaos. Divided, terrified and confronted with their own mortality, their drive to survive blurs with their desire to win the game. Will they turn on each other? “Jumanji” meets “Natural Born Killers”… The Game of Death will blow your mind.

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Starring Alice Lowe, Gemma Whelan, Jo Hartley, Kate Dickie

Written and directed by Alice Lowe

Screened at SXSW 2017

Premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Prevenge isn’t really a cautionary tale for motherhood so much as it is a lighthearted slasher dealing with a pregnant woman’s descent into madness from a combination of raging hormones and unconsolable grief. Walking the line between dark comedy and revenge horror, writer, director and star Alice Lowe channels Abel Ferrara’s guerilla-style stalker films with her keen sense of comedic timing – as seen in Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers.

Imagine if Ms.45 was seven months pregnant, and you’ll start to get the idea.

Every man Ruth (Lowe) meets is a potential victim just because of what’s between his legs. That cursed member tortures her every day now that Ruth’s baby won’t stop harassing her from the womb, convincing her in an adorable but menacing baby voice that they all must get what’s coming to them. Granted, most of the men Ruth encounters or sets her sights on are total scumbags; but even when she meets a sweet man with whom she has a real connection, he still has to go. Even women aren’t safe if they happen to set Ruth off, allowing for some sequences where the men in the surrounding area are granted a short reprieve.

The focus is really on the relationship Ruth has with her unborn baby and whether it is really influencing her to kill, so Prevenge never delves into sexual politics and, as a result, doesn’t feel like an attack on the male race. Lowe makes Ruth so relatable, funny, and disturbed that she never comes off as some sort of militant on a mission. The murders themselves are carried out in an almost childlike way, with one of the standout scenes involving “Game of Thrones” star Gemma Whelan as an athletic boxer who sets Ruth off simply because she sees recreational sports as utterly pointless. Seeing Yara Greyjoy fight for her life against a pregnant, knife-wielding psychopath hurtling insults and quick quips would be the centerpiece of most movies, but here it’s just one of many great moments.

Through flashbacks, the true motivation for Ruth’s killing spree is slowly brought to life, adding a thread of sentimentality and twisted justification to her actions. Quiet scenes between mother and baby (where Lowe essentially acts with and plays off of her baby bump) are surprisingly sweet even if they are unavoidably macabre and demented. Comparisons to Henenlotter’s Basket Case and Ferrara’s Driller Killer can be drawn, but Prevenge isn’t a part of the New York City slime punk movies of the Eighties. It is unabashedly British, embracing a wry sense of humor with an absurdist premise that complements Lowe’s sensibility and plays to her strengths wonderfully.

Having previously contributed to Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy, appearing in Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, and Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy Sightseers and the cult horror classic Kill List, Lowe seems to have birthed Prevenge out of those films to create a perfect vehicle with which to flex her muscles. Prevenge is too funny to be disturbing and too disturbing to be dismissed.

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The PAX East gaming convention is happening this weekend in Boston, and it’s brought us a new trailer for Friday the 13th: The Game along with a detailed look at the Tom Savini-designed Jason Voorhees!

First up is the “Killer” trailer featuring Crazy Lixx. Check out new locations, new counselors, and of course several never-before-seen kills!

Below you’ll see the promised first look at the Tom Savini-designed Jason Voorhees skin. It was designed as an interpretation by Tom of what would have happened to Jason after Part 9… Jason has escaped Hell!

The only way to get this pre-order-only item is by visiting friday-the-13th-the-game.backerkit.com.

Synopsis:
Jason is unleashed! Take part in the ultimate asymmetrical multiplayer horror game experience! 1 vs. 7 gameplay featuring Jason Voorhees against a group of teen counselors attempting to survive the night.

For more information, check out Gun Media’s Friday the 13th: The Game on Kickstarter.

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If you’ve been looking for a game to scare you frigid, then try Frédérick Raynal’s 2Dark, which has now launched on Steam and consoles.

From the Press Release:
PQube, Bigben, and Gloomywood Studios are pleased to present the 2Dark launch trailer! 2Dark will be available both physically and digitally for PlayStation®4; Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system; and PC on March 17, 2017.

Danger lurks everywhere in 2Dark – each shadow harbours a threat, and your investigation slowly lifts the bloody shroud that hides a monstrous nightmare. Leave nothing to chance as you make your way stealthily through the lairs of psychopathic killers, each more perverse and twisted than the last. Explore the limits of madness and dread, peering deeply into each dark corner as you try to rescue all of the children!

2Dark is a stealth adventure game which will test your mettle and your thinking skills to the limit. Sneak through the shadows and escape merciless traps to master a series of intricate levels. Try to survive your investigation, but above all else… save the children!

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Sure, the idea of finding life on other planets sounds exciting, but what if the discovery leads to the end of the world as we know it on Earth? We’ll soon find out when Daniel Espinosa’s Life hits theaters in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime here’s a pair of new videos from Sony Pictures to get you thinking about what choices you might make trapped in outer space with a dangerous new Life form…

Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Ryan Reynolds star in the new film from Espinosa (Safe House, Child 44).

Life arrives in theaters on March 24th from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Synopsis:
Life is a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.

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If you’re looking forward to Ghost in the Shell, settle in and get comfortable because we have a half-dozen new videos to share this fine Saturday… some TV spots, a featurette with ScarJo telling us about playing Major, and a promo for the website iammajor.me, which lets you describe yourself and upload a picture inside a mini-poster for the film.

The film is directed by Rupert Sanders and stars Scarlett Johansson, “Beat” Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, and Kaori Momoi. The members of Section 9 are played by Chin Han, Danusia Samal, Lasarus Ratuere, Yutaka Izumihara, and Tuwanda Manyimo.

Paramount Pictures will release Ghost in the Shell in the U.S. in theaters, REALD 3D, and IMAX 3D on March 31, 2017.

Synopsis:
Based on the internationally-acclaimed sci-fi property, Ghost in the Shell follows the Major, a special ops, one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite task force Section 9. Devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, Section 9 is faced with an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotics’ advancements in cyber technology.

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This weekend saw the World Premiere of Aaron Burns’ psychological thriller Madre at South by Southwest in the fest’s Narrative Spotlight section, and to say the film did well for itself would be an understatement.

Not only did the powers-that-be release a new teaser to celebrate the opening, but Netflix has acquired the global streaming rights with Madre set to be available exclusively on the platform by the end of 2017.

Check out the new teaser below along with remaining SXSW screening dates in case you happen to be in Austin… lucky you!

REMAINING SXSW 2017 SCREENINGS:
Tuesday, March 14th at 1:30PM | Alamo Lamar B – Public Screening
Wednesday, March 15th at 9:00PM | Alamo Lamar D – Public Screening
Friday, March 17th at 9:00PM | ZACH Theater – Public Screening

Madre is directed by Aaron Burns, who also wrote the original screenplay. Burns has done a lot of work with Eli Roth, and this is his second feature as a director. He previously co-starred in Knock Knock and The Green Inferno and was behind visual effects for Machete and Grindhouse.

Madre stars Chilean actress Daniela Ramírez (La Poseída, Los Archivos del Cardenal), Cristobal Tapia Montt (The Stranger), Matías Bassi (Pulseras Rojas), and Aida Jabolin. The film is produced by Nicolás López and Miguel Asensio Llamas.

Synopsis:
Diana Prieto (Ramirez), is a four months pregnant wife and mother of Martin (Matías), who is severely autistic and whose special needs have become overwhelming for her. After a chance encounter with Luz (Jabolin), a gifted Filipino caretaker, Diana regains some sanity in her life as Martin begins to adapt and communicate quickly under the supervision of Luz. However, as he has only been taught to communicate in Filipino, Diana begins to suspect that Luz is using the language barrier to turn Martin against her and into something much more sinister.

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Yesterday, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the “Face Your Fear” panel at this year’s SXSW festival, which was hosted by Grae Drake of Rotten Tomatoes fame. The panel gave directors David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) and Andy Muschietti (Mama) the chance to talk about their films Annabelle 2 and It Part 1 – The Losers Club, respectively. They also brought never-before-seen footage with them, which gave us attendees the chance to see amazing scenes that absolutely must be discussed!

So, let’s first talk about the footage from It Part 1 – The Losers Club, as I’m sure that’s the one that the majority of you are most excited about! In advance, I’m going to say that Muschietti said that some parts didn’t have finished VFX but I honestly couldn’t tell because everything looked so damn solid. Anyways, here we go:

The trailer opens with Bill helping Georgie make his paper boat, a chance to see the close relationship the two have. It’s a tender moment, which quickly turns sour as Georgie places the boat in rushing water next to the curb. It’s a visual we’re all familiar with and it plays out almost the same way as the miniseries, only here Georgie hits his head on a street barrier, causing him to fall back and allow the boat to sail on without him, ultimately falling into a drain. As Georgie looks into the blackness with desperate sadness, Pennywise suddenly pops up, giving us the briefest glance of him before cutting to black. Without being able to pause the teaser, there’s no way you’ll get a solid look at the infamous clown.

From there, we meet the individual members of the Losers Club as they all come to the realization that they are afraid of the same dark entity, one that they refer to as “The Clown”. From there, we’re treated to the members flipping through a slide machine in the garage as they try to understand the history of Derry and this evil creature. Just like in the book and miniseries with the photo album that begins flipping through pages at an alarming rate, the slide machine begins moving from one slide to the next, faster and faster. As the children begin crying out in terror to shut it off, the slides show Pennywise’s face, covered by his orange hair. Again, we do not get a good, solid, clear look at Pennywise, just a tantalizing tease.

The teaser then flips through startling and often terrifying images, flashing the words “What Are You Afraid Of?” The famous scene where Bev’s bathroom gets soaked in blood is shown here, only the amount of blood is much, much higher in this version. We also see Pennywise approaching two children, his hand forming a claw and his nails extending like some terrible transformation is occurring. There are also shots of the Neibolt Street house, which looks like it’s straight out of an old Tim Burton movie (I say this as a good thing).

The final sequence in the trailer is Bill facing Georgie’s ghost in a flooded basement, who chants, “We all float down here! Float down here, float down here, float down here!!!” Suddenly, Pennywise appears in the water and charges Bill while moving erratically. The footage is cut heavily, so as to appear like a strobe light effect. The footage cuts and the title screen is revealed.

The audience erupted into cheers and for very good reason. Any doubts that the audience had flew right out the window. This teaser trailer was the perfect exercise in holding back and refusing to show too much. Instead, it gave us delightfully brief teases that made me desperate to see more. Everyone was beyond thrilled and the release date of September 8th really can’t come soon enough. Oh, and we also found out that the news that the sequel was filming is bogus and nothing is happening on that front just yet.

Additionally, we were shown a scene of Bill, Richie, Stan, and Eddie at the mouth of the sewer cistern entrance, discussing the disappearance of Georgie and Bev and arguing over what needed to be done. The scene ended with Ben falling into the river by the four boys, revealing that this is right after Henry Bowers and his goons beat up Ben and are chasing him.

What made this scene special was two things:
1) The kids are clearly very adept at working off one another. There was a chemistry between the four that was wonderful to see and it’s obvious that Muschietti worked very hard to ensure they were believable.
2) If you were worried that this movie would tip toe carefully around what the kids can and can’t say, fear not. Jack Dylan Grazer, who plays Stan, swore up a storm, not hesitating at all to drop multiple “Fucks” in a short span. If these kids can swear, you better believe they can face real peril.

Trust me, folks. As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing to be worried about here!

Alright, shall we move on to Annabelle 2? Here’s what we saw:

The first scene opened with one of the young girls (99% sure that it was Talitha Bateman, who plays “Janice”), who needs a walker on one arm, go into a room that obviously belonged to another young girl. This is the room of the owner’s daughter, who tragically passed away. Janice goes in because there is a record playing, although no one is in that room. After turning it off, another girl, who is clearly younger, enters and they go back and forth on whether or not they should be in the room. Meanwhile, the Annabelle doll is on the bed in the center of the room. While the girls bicker, the younger one fires a toy gun that she picked up and the ball hits Annabelle, causing her head to turn away from the children. As they continue to discuss the room, they look over and see Annabelle’s face is somehow angled towards them. Creepy stuff, to be certain.

The younger girl leaves the room, leaving Janice to herself. She begins reading a diary that is on a nightstand. Suddenly, the door closes behind her, causing her to spin around. A few feet away, a puppet show box begins showing signs of life. Two puppets come up and begin acting out a performance, although no one else should be in the room. Janice grabs the puppets and pulls them away, revealing no hands. She parts the curtain in the back and no one is in the box. Then, behind her a dollhouse lights up. Going to it, Janice sees a small figurine of a young girl. She picks it up, inspects it, and then sets it down. Behind the figurine, there is movement in the window. Janice lifts her head up and looks over the dollhouse to see the ghost of the homeowners’ daughter, who asks her for a favor. When questioned as to what it is, the ghost turns her back to Janice and taps her finger on the pane of a nearby window. Suddenly, she spins around and, bearing a demonic face, yells, “Your soul!” It’s an overused gag but it still got several jumps and screams from the audience.

Janice screams and hobbles out of the room (remember that arm crutch?) and tries to go through several doors in the outer hallway, each of which slams shut just before she can get to them. So, she then sits down in an electric stairlift chair, which she desperately tries to activate. Meanwhile, the door to the ghost child’s room opens and heavy CGI tendrils of darkness emerge and creep along the wall. Finally, the chair begins to move down, nearly bringing Janice to the bottom of the stairs. However, it stops and then begins coming back up. When it reaches the top of the landing, which Janice so desperately tried to flee from, she is yanked up into the darkness of the ceiling. Several tense moments pass and then we see a shoe fall to the ground of the first floor. A few moments later and the Janice’s body slams to the ground with a heavy THUD next to the shoe. She is alive but very clearly hurt by this event.

So, that was the first scene from Annabelle 2. The overall reaction was very positive but that “Your soul!” moment didn’t sit well with me. It just felt a bit too cliché, a bit too overdone. That being said, everything else looked great! It cannot be denied that there was a great deal of tension during those couple of minutes. Onwards to describing the next clip!

After Janice’s terrible encounter that saw her plummet nearly two dozen feet, she has moved from an arm crutch to needing a rudimentary wheelchair. Stephanie Sigman’s “Sister Charlotte” wheels her outside, promising her that the sunlight will do her some good. Sister Charlotte then hears the ringing of a bell from the house, so she leaves Janice to sit and catch a nice tan. However, someone seemingly evil and malevolent begins pushing Janice towards a nearby barn. Turning, Janice can’t make out the face of this person as the sun is right by her head, making her face impossible to see. However, she clearly doesn’t feel comfortable next to this person and begins screaming.

After passing through the door of the barn, Janice is pushed out of the wheelchair, where she flies several feet forward and slams against some farming implement (this girl just can’t catch a break!). The various bric-a-brac around the farm begins shaking and moving, which leads Janice to crawl under the floorboards of a raised section of the barn. The bright sun from outside penetrates the cracks in the floor and the side of the barn but she is still bathed in shadows.

Frantically looking around, she suddenly sees a figure laying on the ground several feet to the side. It’s the ghost girl, who beings crawling rapidly towards Janice! Catching her, the ghost flips Janice onto her back and, mirroring Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead, begins vomiting some black substance into Janice’s mouth (we were told this was CGI because, as David F. Sandberg hilariously put it, “Hollywood won’t allow you to waterboard children.). It was here that the clip cut to black.

Once again, the audience seemed to love it and I appreciated this clip far more than the first one, which was still fantastic in many of its own ways. While I can’t say that I’m 100% convinced that Annabelle 2 is going to be a winner, I will say that I’m more optimistic than not.

We’ll have more from this panel soon!

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Starring Olivia Applegate, Louis Hunter, Dora Madison, Liam Aiken, Katie Folger, Michael Eric Reid, Mackenzie Astin, Michelle Forbes, Josephine McAdam, Christina Parrish

Written and directed by Karen Skloss

Screened at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival

The Honor Farm may not be considered a typical midnight movie, but its blend of teen angst, the occult, and psychedelia represents the unique cultural mix found in Austin, making it a natural fit for the late night crowd at the SXSW Film Festival. Add the fact that SXSW and Austin Film Society co-founder Louis Black served as producer, and the twisted coming-of-age tale suddenly seems right at home among previous entries in the “keep Austin weird” film canon.

The Honor Farm isn’t really about the terror of discovering an unseen ceremony of the occult hidden away in the hill country; it’s about going through the sometimes horrific journey of finding yourself… while you’re on mushrooms.

Not to be rude, but besties Lucy (Applegate) and Annie (Folger) are pretty much your typical bow-heads dreaming of the perfect senior prom night that will cap off their high school years and send them off into the rest of their incredibly fulfilling lives in suburbia. After the night takes a turn for the worse thanks to their drunk dates, the two girls escape the night they expected and wind up embarking on the adventure they never knew they really needed. You know, how prom night should really be!

On a whim, they jump into a car with three of the wildest girls in school on their way to an abandoned prison work camp for a night of flashlight investigating and personal exploration. After agreeing to go down the rabbit hole with the rest of the group by downing a few stems and caps, it’s Lucy who winds up going on the most frightening journey of her young and sheltered life.

As the trip takes hold, Lucy has visions of an animal head with a human body calling her from afar, as if to invite her to join in some ancient dance. With the entire idea of prom as one of our last, nationally recognized rituals, writer/director Karen Skloss draws parallels with more pagan ideas of communing with nature to help guide Lucy through the process of creating a new, more worldly version of herself. As she starts to fall for JD (Hunter), the biggest drug dealer in school, Lucy realizes that she’s a lot deeper and more self-aware than her Eighties-inspired prom dress might suggest.

The kids do actually stumble upon some dark deeds in the bowels of the abandoned prison that shock them and challenge what they think they know about themselves, but Skloss uses the moment to embolden instead of enslaving them. The Honor Farm doesn’t have time for victims and the horror cliches that comes with them, and it takes a very deliberate turn in the second act that drives home the fact that this is not going to turn into a typical genre piece.

The classic horror setup of kids in the woods at an abandoned haunted building is really used to subvert the genre expectations that we’ve all grown accustomed to. Layered on top of that setup, imagery of the occult and moments that would make David Lynch proud do allow The Honor Farm to call itself genre, but those devices are cleverly used to aid in self-discovery. Instead of putting the cool kids of The Honor Farm on a path that should lead to their doom, it actually leads them into a psychedelic metamorphosis. It’s a document to remind us of the days when one night really could change your life.

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This past Friday, legendary director Ridley Scott walked into one of the South by Southwest press rooms with the incredibly diverse actress Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and her Alien: Covenant co-star Danny McBride (a legend in his own mind) to talk a little bit about the upcoming film.

The excitement about the project is reaching near stratospheric levels from the fans, but it was especially heartening to see how much Ridley himself seems to be proud of the film.

While the actors respectfully gave up the floor to their director for most of our talk, it was clear how humbled they were to be a part of the ever-gestating legacy of Alien as Scott waxed philosophical about topics such as A.I., creation, and what makes something truly scary.

Note: This was a roundtable discussion with other outlets so not all questions were asked by Dread Central.

Q: You’ve said on several occasions that if the situation were to arise, you could see yourself doing more Alien films. I was wondering if that’s still your feeling now?

Ridley Scott: Oh, yeah. Well, I think this is so, dare I say, clever and violent and everything you kind of want. I think it’s a cut above what’s happened before and therefore will leave all kinds of things open for the next one. I enjoy doing them so much that I would like it to go on forever.

Q: Who would you want to take over? You can’t do it forever.

Ridley Scott: I’m trying. That’s why I have A.I.’s in everything, I’m trying to figure out what they do. Stick a fucking chip in you.

Katherine Waterston: Ridley might be an A.I.

Q: We’re coming to a point when cybernetics seem like they’re something that could become a part of human life very soon. Is that something that you personally would be interested in?

Katherine Waterston: Maybe the next movie you could have an A.I. actor!

Ridley Scott: Absolutely. But can a computer be a chess master? I’m just hoping that you can’t quite replace a human being’s capability. Can you have a computer write a book or write a screenplay? Or write a poem? It’s always going to be very derivative and only based on what’s been done and trained in different ways before. So, it’s going to be a cross-collateralization … it can only be that. Medically, it’s going to be fantastic. I don’t think it’s going to make better movies.

Q: Spinning off that, though, when I look at some of these films, I’m wondering if it looks at the irrelevance of humans. You’ve got these aliens killing us and A.I. taking over.

Ridley Scott: Big subject in this. It’s in this; that’s one of the big questions. The film begins with something very interesting which sets up a platform for acknowledging what you just said and discussion. It’s quite clever actually. I’m surprised.

Q: So now that we know the Engineers really aren’t the creators of humanity, are we still getting quite a few clues in Covenant? Or is everybody just running for their lives?

Ridley Scott: No, they’re metaphors for superior beings, and therefore, are their superior beings out there? I’d put your money right now on yes. Do they like us? I have no idea. Superior? Almost certainly.

Q: I have a question for Katherine and Danny. If you could imagine your characters dropped into Ridley’s original Alien, which scene would you be most interested in seeing how your character is reacting in that scene?

Katherine Waterston: I think it’s Ash’s head. But it’s hard to pick, man. The Chestburster.

Ridley Scott: Ash’s head was a really giant, fresh surprise during the process of the film.

Katherine Waterston: Me, I think I would just want to be hanging out with Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto.

Q: People still love what you did. How does that feel… that you created something people still love? You’re now a part of that legacy, and Katherine, you’re part of Harry Potter too. And [Danny], you’re doing Halloween; you’re a part of legacies. How does that resonate in your head?

Ridley Scott: It doesn’t really. You get used to it. I can give you another answer… but no, it’s fun. We’re lucky to be doing this production.

Danny McBride: Yeah, my parents think that I’m finally, like, making real movies now.

Ridley Scott: I was an art student; my Mom said to me after my agony of being an art student… I said I’m going to go do films. She said, ‘You mean you’re going to waste all that time being an art student, and now you’re going to do movies?’

Q: Danny, did you get to pick out your awesome hat?

Danny McBride: You know, that was one of Ridley’s ideas from the get-go. We talked about it being like an homage to Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. Yeah, it was easily embraced. Then it became the signs of when he’s wearing it and when he’s not, you know… how stressed out he is.

Q: Is there any truth to the rumor that Katherine’s character is connected to Ripley?

Katherine Waterston: Who started that shit?

Q: That’s a really great answer! Danny, quick question… Tennessee, where did you draw your inspiration from? Or did you just say, “You know what… let’s do something brand new?”

Danny McBride: Well, you know, on the ship it’s a lot of scientists and I liked the idea that in the original you had working class people and so I think that was sort of his dynamic with him… that he was a little more working class. And he gets paired up with all these scientists and brilliant people. So it was sort of like trying to figure out how he would kind of operate in that world, something advanced like that, but still bring a little salt of the Earth to it as well.

Q: What does it take for a film to be scary?

Ridley Scott: You know, it’s the hardest thing to do. It’s a lot easier to make people smile. I think we’ve been challenged by so much violence, super-violence, like Saw 13, so we get numb to blood and numb to brutality. And numb to inhuman behavior. Way back when I was going to do Alien, I think at that point in time there were two… three… one really serious one that scared the hell out of me. Exorcist One is a fantastic film maybe because it feels logical, feels possible. And when it’s possible and logical it’s always scarier.

Alien: Covenant is finally being unleashed on May 19th.

Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, and Benjamin Rigby star in Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott directed the film, which was written by John Logan and Dante Harper based on a story by Jack Paglen and Michael Green.

Synopsis:
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

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PAX East got an extra dose of red with a new gameplay video for Mirage: Arcane Warfare. Developed by Torn Banner Studios, the multiplayer fantasy title strives for some of the most realistic and detailed gore mechanics seen in any game to date, so we’re talking levels of brutality that might even make Mortal Kombat blush.

Closed beta for Mirage: Arcane Warfare will begin on March 27, so we don’t have long to wait until we can experience what they refer to as their “ultra-satisfying, dynamic gore system.” Torn Banner’s Chivalry: Arcane Warfare was a huge hit with critics and sold over two million copies, so Mirage is likely to receive similar praise when the full game launches later this year.

Mirage: Arcane Warfare PAX East 2017 Gameplay
Pre-order Mirage on March 27 to access the Closed Beta instantly. More info at: miragearcanewarfare.com.

Watch new Mirage: Arcane Warfare gameplay footage in celebration of PAX East. See new Team Deathmatch maps Courtyard and Falcon Ridge alongside the previously shown Team Objective map, Academy. Mirage: Arcane Warfare will release in 2017.

Obliterate your enemies with powerful magic or silence them with a sword in Mirage: Arcane Warfare, a multiplayer FPS from the creators of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.

Mirage is a skill-based multiplayer FPS that lets you tear your enemies limb from limb with destructive magic and melee combat. Experiment and find your perfect playstyle between six diverse classes including stealthy assassins, hulking brutes, powerful mages and more. With an unparalleled focus on truly feeling in control of your magic and sword, Mirage demands combat creativity and will challenge you like never before.

PHYSICS-BASED RAGDOLLS AND GORE
Mirage’s gameplay crosses the intersection between close quarters and ranged combat. Block any attack – ranged or melee – in bloody combat where you can feel the shock of every blow. Experience the thrill of fantastic battles with an ultra-satisfying, dynamic gore system as limbs fly, blood gushes and heads are dismembered in cathartic, joyful destruction.

Taurant: https://youtu.be/KcPIW81Vnn0?t=26
Vypress: https://youtu.be/KcPIW81Vnn0?t=164
Vigilist: https://youtu.be/KcPIW81Vnn0?t=320
Alchemancer: https://youtu.be/KcPIW81Vnn0?t=442
Tinker: https://youtu.be/KcPIW81Vnn0?t=547
Entropist: … Play the Beta!

Mirage: Arcane Warfare
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BH Tilt and Orion Releasing’s The Belko Experiment is nearly upon us! Coming out March 17th, the claustrophobic, hyper-violent film from director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) and writer James Gunn (Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy) promises to radically change the phrase “office warfare”! But if you’re still not sold on the movie, why not watch the below video, which sees Huxley Berg Studios recreate the trailer using LEGO blocks, and see if that possibly changes your mind!

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.

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Starring Ashleigh Cummings, Emma Booth, Stephen Curry, Susie Porter, Damien de Montemas, Harrison Gilbertson

Written and directed by Ben Young

Screened at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival

Abduction movies that use sexual assault as a means of attempting to inflict terror and horror upon their viewers, for the most part, really don’t do anything for me. It’s not that I think they’re necessarily bad, it’s just that I find the subject matter to be distasteful and I derive no joy from watching films like I Spit on Your Grave or Last House on The Left. Often, these films go so over-the-top in terms of their 3rd act revenge (example) that I begin to find myself believing that everyone involved is a horrible person, regardless of their status in the first two acts. That, however, is where Ben Young’s Hounds of Love separates itself from the pack by remaining grounded in reality, offering forth a story that is heartbreaking, incredibly difficult, emotionally exhausting, and unrelentingly tense.

The story follows young Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings), who is a typical rebellious teenager in the 1980’s Australia. One night, she sneaks out of her mother’s house to attend a party. Along the way, Evelyn (Emma Booth) and John (Stephen Curry) pull up in a car beside her and offer to sell her some pot, which Vicki is clearly interested in. Manipulated cleverly into getting into the car and going to their house, Vicki is then drugged, tied up, and held captive by Evelyn and John, who seem to get some sort of sick sexual thrill out of their escapades. As she watches the dynamics between the two, Vicki realizes that their relationship is not as strong as she originally thought and her only way to survive is to pit her two captors against each other.

There are several things that make this film stand out. First is the aforementioned reality of the situation. There isn’t some grand scene where Vicki breaks free and decides to arm herself and take on Evelyn and John. There is no glorious explosion of violence that allows the audience to cheer the prey becoming the predator. Such a series of events wouldn’t make sense in this film and they’re wonderfully avoided.

Second is how brilliantly each of the leads plays their role. Ashleigh Cummings is magnificent in the role of Vicki and watching her slide from terror to desperation to a near-total loss of dignity to apathy is marvelous yet heartbreaking (she spoke about that performance here). Stephen Curry as John is a sociopath that should inspire fear yet also elicit a strange sense of pity, as though he’s a pathetic creature that needs some form of rehabilitation in order to fix himself. But it’s really Emma Booth as Evelyn who shines in this film. Her character is desperate for the love and attention of John but she is fully aware of his manipulations. However, she simply doesn’t want to accept this and chooses to willfully ignore it as much as possible. But that inner struggle is not lost and it flashes across her face constantly, pain, grief, sadness, and loneliness never absent from her eyes.

Third, the production is wonderful. Beautifully shot and expertly edited, Hounds of Love doesn’t waste time but it also doesn’t feel like it’s moving fast. Furthermore, for as intense as the subject matter and the performances are, much of the terror is off-screen. When it comes to sexual assault, the act is so monstrous that showing it doesn’t add anything. In fact, it can detract from the impact of such a scene, which is why I personally feel like writer/director Ben Young made the brilliant choice to avoid showing too much. It would cheapen the horror.

Now, with all that being said, the film is, as mentioned above, emotionally exhausting, at times too much so. I had to walk away from the film on a few occasions simply because I felt drained and needed to catch my breath. It’s one of those films that, upon completion, you’ll either need a comedy or something lighthearted and fun to dive into or you’ll have to allow yourself a couple of hours to unwind while thinking about what you’ve seen. This isn’t a movie you watch when you’re bored and want to kill some time. This is something you watch with full attention, giving it the respect it deserves.

For those of you who want your kidnap thrillers to build up to some explosive climax, you won’t find that here. If you want gore and viscera, look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for a film that will leave you unsettled and will challenge your view on what it means to be a villain and what it means to be a victim, Hounds of Love offers just that and more.

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Goddamn it Dead By Daylight, could you really spoil us anymore? Not only did you give us the slasher icon Michael Myers as a playable character, but you’re now giving us another hugely popular horror star in the form of war veteran William “Bill” Overbeck from the classic zombie game series Left 4 Dead. He served for two terms in Vietnam and has put countless zombies in the ground, so he’s not someone you want to fuck with.

The DLC pack in which he appears is titled Left Behind and can be purchased for free on Steam. We probably won’t be getting Left 4 Dead III anytime some, but I guess this is the next best thing.

UP AND AT ‘EM, SOLDIER. TIME TO MOVE!
Put on that comfy beret and green combat jacket if you wanna fight another day as war veteran Bill Overbeck. You were left for dead, but you woke up. Now you have gotten the only thing you ever wanted: an enemy to fight.

Left Behind is a free add-on for Dead by Daylight and includes 1 survivor + 4 brand new Survivor outfits.

Back to fight another day
It took two tours in Vietnam, a handful of medals, a knee full of shrapnel, and an honorable discharge to get William “Bill” Overbeck to stop fighting. He hated it. After decades spent drifting aimlessly through dead end jobs, Bill went in for a routine surgery and woke up to a plague turning normal people into mindless killing machines. Making his way through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests, he found other survivors, and together they fled from the infected hordes. In the end, one of them sacrificed himself to ensure their safety. Bill was left for dead…and with a new enemy to fight.

PERKS – Bill Overbeck
Bill is tough as nails and knows how to survive just about anything. He’ll do whatever it takes to help others live to see another day and he’s not afraid to take one for the team.

Left Behind
You’ll get the job done… no matter the cost. If you are the last person remaining in the trial, for each generator that needs to be completed, gain a bonus to repair speed.

Borrowed Time
You get unexpected energy when saving an ally from a hook within the killer’s terror radius. Once per trial when saving an ally, any damage taken that would put you or the unhooked survivor into the dying state is delayed.

Unbreakable
Past battles have taught you a thing or two about survival. Grants the ability to fully recover from the dying state once per trial. Increases dying recovery speed.

The LEFT BEHIND Paragraph also include 4 new outfits for the Survivors inspired by the Left 4 Dead series.

Dress your favorite Dead by Daylight Survivor in outfits suited for zombie slayers!

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James Moran, whom you may know as the writer of Severance, Cockneys vs. Zombies, and “Doctor Who,” is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his new short Blood Shed. Get all the details here!

The campaign only runs until 27th March so act now if you’re interested!

The award-winning SHAUN DOOLEY to play the role of Jack!
Shaun Dooley stars in the upcoming BBC One drama Gunpowder alongside Kit Harington and Liv Tyler, just the latest in a hugely impressive list of credits including a Royal Television Society North Award for Best Actor for Mark of Cain. From the heartbreak of Broadchurch and the Red Riding trilogy, to the hit movies The Woman in Black, The Awakening and Eden Lake, Shaun can always be relied upon to deliver a powerhouse performance. He showed a sensitive yet terrifying side in Misfits, as well as a barnstorming singing voice, proving his range, flexibility and fiercely unpredictable edge. He’s also appeared in the TV shows DCI Banks, Ordinary Lies, Cuffs, Great Expectations, The Game, This Is England ’90 and Exile. Whenever Shaun appears on screen, you never know what might happen next, but you can guarantee it’ll always be exciting, even when there’s a shed involved…

Shaun said of Blood Shed, “As soon as I read the title, it appealed to me. I grew up on horror and schlock movies, and to be honest the thought of being covered in blood and entrails from a vomiting murderous shed?  Well, who in their right mind would say no?”

SALLY PHILLIPS to play the role of Helen!
Sally is a comedy ICON and writer instantly recognisable as one of the forces behind Channel 4’s award-winning comedy sketch show Smack the Pony. She has also starred in the three smash hit Bridget Jones films and The Decoy Bride, which she co-wrote, and HBO’s Veep with Julia Louis-Dreyfus!

Sally has been a near-constant presence on British television, from I’m Alan Partridge to Hippies, Green Wing, Miranda, and Parents. Sally co-starred in the 2016 film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, as Mrs Bennet. Since 2004, she has played the title role in the BBC Radio 4 comedy show, Clare in the Community.

Blood Shed Synopsis:
Jack loves a bargain. And he loves sheds. When he buys suspiciously cheap second-hand parts online to build his very own dream shed, he and long-suffering wife Helen find they’ve got more than they bargained for: a killer shed with an appetite for blood. As the body count rises and the shed’s ferocious appetite grows, Jack is faced with a horrifying dilemma. A comedy horror about a man’s twisted love for his shed… that eats people.

Crowdfunding campaign notes:
The team need to raise £10K to make this beautiful nightmare a reality, with a Kickstarter campaign live from 27th February – 27th March 2017. Currently 51% funded in just over a week, but full target must be met for the film to be made. CLICK HERE.

Team Biographies:
James Moran, co-writer and director, will already be familiar to many fans of the horror and comedy genre through his writing on the movies Severance, Cockneys vs. Zombies and Tower Block and internationally acclaimed TV shows such as Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval and Spooks. His other work includes 5-time Streamy Award nominated web series Girl Number 9 and several short films which he wrote and directed, including the award-winning hit Crazy for You (Best Horror/Sci-Fi, Crystal Palace International Film Festival), starring Arthur Darvill and Hannah Tointon, which screened at huge festivals across the globe and is now part of an anthology feature film.

Moran says, “I’ve always loved 80s horror, and I’m really excited to unleash our evil beast. For years, we’ve seen people getting killed in or near cabins and outhouses, but we’ve never seen a shed itself actually doing the killing – until now!”

Cat Davies, co-writer and producer of the film, has worked professionally in production since 2005 at the BBC, ITV and as a publishing executive at BBC Worldwide managing the release of some of the UK’s biggest comedy titles. Cat is an expert in making the most of every penny and managing productions end-to-end. Cat is also an award-winning filmmaker, with her last short Connie starring Catrin Stewart, playing the international festival circuit and currently nominated for a prestigious iHorror award in the US. Cat is co-founder of Moranic Productions, with James.

Davies says, “We really need your help to make this happen and shoot the film in late April. We cannot wait to share Blood Shed with the world.”

Ben Foster (Torchwood, Thunderbirds Are Go, Happy Valley, Our Girl, Scott & Bailey, Banana), a BAFTA-nominated composer, is on score duties and firing up the synths NOW!

Official Website and Links:
www.bloodshedfilm.com
@bloodshedfilm

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If you enjoy reading twisted thrillers, the chilling, powerful new novel The Devil Within ought to be on your list… Crafted from the boundless imagination of Annie Muscutt, it embroils readers in the life of Amelia Greystock and confronts the old woman’s fierce, murderous past.

Everything unravels in this supernatural thriller, which grabs readers by the throat with a dark, disturbing, yet humanity-filled narrative. Raw emotion spills off every page, while a cinematic life story unfolds that readers won’t be forgetting any time soon.

Greystock is a troubled, evil woman whose lifetime of cruelty comes to a head as she prepares for her death. Fast-paced and a quick read, the volume explores the devil that lives inside everyone and could very well force readers to reconsider every shred of their existence.

The story begins with an elderly Amelia, sitting alone in a house of previous grandeur looking out of the window. She is waiting, and shortly afterwards two children arrive by car, a brother and sister escaping from London and the ongoing war. The old lady is a reluctant and hostile host; but the children, Polly and Edward, have a friend in her servant Mary and begin to settle to their new surroundings so far from home. They soon discover that the house is not as it seems and, haunted by ghostly memories, is hiding tales from the past and terrible crimes that were committed within its grounds. The story journeys back and forth from Amelia’s past to the present day, uncovering the sins of her youth and the deaths she planned and executed.

As a working mother who loves to read, Muscutt joins the ranks of millions of women unable to steal the hours required to tackle an average-sized thriller. Stepping up to the plate with gusto, Muscutt has fought back against the lack of suitable books by creating her own. “My goal with this volume was to take all of the facets of thrillers that readers crave, while slapping them in the face with concepts that are not usually found in the genre,” explains the author. “While fiction, the bold emotion the characters feel and the adversities they confront will ground readers in reality.”

She continues, “…I also wanted to be strategic with the length. I didn’t want to write a short story, per se, but it needed to be something that people with busy lives (like me!) could still consume with the little free time we manage to steal. I hope I hit the nail on the head.”

The Devil Within was just released on March 8th via CreateSpace and is available from Amazon.

Synopsis:
An isolated recluse living out the remainder of her days in the unnoticed countryside of early 20th Century Britain, for most of her life the mysterious Amelia Greystock has sought decrepit solitude within the decaying walls of her once-lavish manor house. Keeping her affairs from everyone else, the Greystock house has always been viewed as an untrustworthy domain, a mysterious artifact kept hidden from the rest of society. However, the elderly outsider’s self-inflicted seclusion is rudely broken when Polly and Edward, two children sent to the manor to escape the nightly bombing raids hitting London, arrive on her doorstep seeking shelter. But before the children can breathe a sigh of relief, Polly and Edward quickly realize that something sinister haunts the walls of the Greystock manor.

As the nights become stranger and stranger, a plot unfolds that could explain just why Amelia has secluded herself from the rest of society. Navigating a house haunted by ghostly aspirations and the wounds of crimes that have been all but forgotten, an evil presence starts to make itself known to the two children. Through further exploration of off-limit rooms and private areas, the children uncover the history of both the house and Greystock herself, slowly beginning to understand the true nature of the danger they’ve found themselves in. Uncovering the myriad of sins and crimes that have since left the place feeling rotten to the core, the truth of the Greystock manor is about to be revealed.

Stepping into the dark world of Amelia Greystock, The Devil Within promises to be one of the most twisted thrillers of the year.

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Karen Skloss’ high school trip-out movie The Honor Farm isn’t a straight-up horror film, and the Austin-based director is quick to bring that to attention. Although it is a part of the Midnighters section at SXSW this year, Skloss doesn’t want to mislead any horror fans.

That being said, the strange and occult are well represented since we all know how easy it can be for a few drugged out kids to accidentally raise the dead.

Just before The Honor Farm‘s premiere this past Saturday night, Skloss spoke with Dread Central about how personal the film is to her and how she used genre expectations to craft a story about self-discovery… on drugs!

DC: After watching The Honor Farm (review), I wound up going down the rabbit hole a little bit, and I watched Tobe Hooper’s first film, Eggshells, which was filmed in Austin.

KS: Oh, I love that movie!

DC: Honor Farm really felt like Austin. It had some of the psychedelia that Eggshells had so I didn’t know if it was an unintentional influence?

KS: That’s really interesting. I did take a look at Eggshells, either after we shot or before we shot, and definitely Tobe Hooper was somebody that we even actually talked to and reached out to while we were in development on the project. So he was kind of a quiet mentor, I guess you could say. I never thought of it as being a direct influence, but I think that’s fair to say. I found that film to be so startling and strange and fun. It’s like a time capsule of Austin so it’s really exciting to me that you’d see a parallel between this movie and that one.

DC: Are you kind of disguising a coming-of-age story inside a horror movie?

KS: I wanted to explore certain themes, but I also wanted to make a movie that would be a fun journey and kind of “fried.” I felt like co-opting elements of the horror genre, making it have some thrills and spills and be scary, would help those scenes be more accessible and make it more fun. If you want to go into themes and delve into scenes about “Who are we?” and “What does it mean?” and those kinds of things, unless you can do it with a little bit of humor and fun, it gets a little heavy-handed. I wanted it to be kind of an exploration. It’s not so much that we’re shying away from using the word “horror.” I just want to make sure that people don’t feel like we’ve sold them on something and then they get there and it’s not what they were expecting.

DC: I related to the cast a lot. Was casting kind of inspired by Eighties stereotypes? I know you were saying that films like Pretty in Pink were an influence. There’s a little bit of John Hughes in there with the preps and outcasts meeting up and spending a night together.

KS: With this movie we’re trying to deal with some kind of esoteric content, and then we’re also genre hopping or co-opting from different genres. So, yeah, I felt like using a relatable frame of the good kids and the bad kids, the sort of honor student type with the smoking section kids, seemed like a good way to frame the story, for sure.

DC: What is the title a reference to?

KS: The Honor Farm actually came from a physical place that did exist that was called the Honor Farm. My co-writer, Jay Tonne, grew up in Pueblo, Colorado; and when they were in high school, they would all go to this place on the edge of town just like in the movie: an abandoned prison work farm. He actually even had an old VHS video that they had filmed there. It was torn down because there was so much juvenile delinquency that happened there and kids getting into trouble. At some point, some kids actually did die there just by accident. It wasn’t satanists or anything!

DC: It seems like some of your favorite films might be represented here as well?

KS: Definitely David Lynch and “Twin Peaks” and kind of the world of “Twin Peaks” was a really important reference. How he manages to create this alternative world that has its own rules and vibe and feeling. I just love that about David Lynch. I love his stream-of-consciousness approach to storytelling. Even down to in “Twin Peaks” how there’s the Black Lodge and the White Lodge, and I feel like the Honor Farm and then the experience they have coming out of the Honor Farm are kind of loosely modeled after that idea. When you go into psychological terrain, there’s going to be these physical or maybe psychological spaces that you can enter. So that seemed like a really fun vehicle to explore within the psychedelic mindset. And also the strange and enigmatic structure of Donnie Darko, where the movie is kind of a puzzle but it’s still a fun puzzle for a teenager to put together.

Written and directed by Karen Skloss, The Honor Farm stars Olivia Applegate, Louis Hunter, Dora Madison, Liam Aiken, Katie Folger, Michael Eric Reid, Mackenzie Astin, Michelle Forbes, Josephine McAdam, and Christina Parrish.

Synopsis:
After prom night falls apart, Lucy finds herself at very different kind of party… on a psychedelic trip that could be a dangerous trap.

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According to ANN, Polygon Pictures’ Godzilla anime will be coming to the streaming service Netflix at some point this year and will be available globally, so no territory will have to worry about not getting it. Additionally, there will be limited theatrical screenings.

Related Story: A Look at the Beautiful, Cheesy, and Absurd Godzilla Posters Over the Years

Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) are preparing the animated feature. It will be co-directed by Kobun Shizuno (Detective Conan, Knights of Sidonia) and CG director Hiroyuki Seshita (the Final Fantasy movie franchise, Ajin: Demi-Human). Gen Urobuchi (Psycho-Pass, Gargantia) will write from his own concept.

Confirmed voice actors include Yuki Kaji, Takahiro Sakurai, Tomokazu Sugita, Junichi Suwabe, Kana Hanazawa, and Mamoru Miyano. Also per ANN, there will be an event for the film at AnimeJapan 2017, which takes place on Sunday, March 26th.

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One flick we cannot wait to see is Simon Rumley’s supernatural vengeance thriller Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word, and it’ll be here before you know it. Right now though we have an exclusive clip for you!

You want to talk about spooky? Look up the actual events this film is based upon, or see the incredible documentary The Last Word. If it doesn’t make you a believer in the supernatural, we don’t know what will.

Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word tells the tale of what happens when a young man is executed for committing murder and he leaves behind a curse letter in which he promises to take vengeance on all those connected to his trial.

Starring Green Lantern‘s Mike Doyle, Bitch Slap‘s Erin Cummings, Devin Bonnée, and The Boondock Saints‘ Sean Patrick Flanery, the flick had its World Premiere at last year’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

Look for it on VOD, DVD and Blu-ray on March 14th via Momentum Pictures

Synopsis:
Based on a true story… a nun was murdered in her convent bedroom in Amarillo, Texas, on Halloween 1981. The police arrested a young man, Johnny Frank Garrett, who always maintained his innocence; but he was found guilty and sentenced to death. On the night of his execution, he wrote a curse letter condemning the people and their families who helped send him to his demise. Shortly after Garrett’s death, members of the community start mysteriously dying. One of the jurors takes it upon himself to break the curse when his son is suddenly struck with a life-threatening illness.

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Titan has a new entry in its Dark Souls comic series heading our way in April, Dark Souls: Tales of Ember, set in the world of the best-selling Bandai Namco video game; and they’ve shared with us some of the first lettered interiors from Issue #1.

Following the smash success of Dark Souls: Winter’s Spite and Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame, the critically acclaimed short stories return on April 5, 2017, with eight fresh new tales set in the staggeringly popular mythos!

George Mann (Doctor Who) and Alan Quah (Dark Souls: Winter’s Spite) return to the eldritch world of their three-time sell-out smash Dark Souls series alongside a host of creators: Tauriq Moosa (Dark Souls), Damien Worm (The October Faction), Michael Walsh (Hawkeye), and more!

See below for all the Issue #1 covers and a tease of the stunning interior art from Daniel Serra, Damien Worm, and Michael Walsh. You can pre-order yours now from TFAW!

Cover A: Damien Worm

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