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The Hellzapoppin Circus SideShow Revue Has Announced Several Tour Dates

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If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “Boy, I really wish I could see a rock-n-roll circus freak show“, I think I’ve got just the thing you’re looking for. Introducing Hellzapoppin Circus SideShow Revue, which was named after a successful Broadway Musical and Movie from the late 30’s and 40’s. It’s a renowned theatrical circus that features deadly and entertaining stunts, all set to some hard and fun tunes.

The tour will feature the “Anti-Conjuror” Dan Sperry, who will be co-starring in the shows running through July 8th. Sperry was a semi-finalist on “America’s Got Talent” and has also co-starred in The Illusionists – Live From Broadway since its debut five years ago in Australia. Also performing will be daredevil Short E. Dangerously.

Those who attend can expect to see loads of fire eating/breathing, knife throwing, acrobatics, stunts, sword/balloon swallowing, and more.

Below are a list of dates during which you can catch this gleeful freak show!

Tour dates:
6/14: St. Joseph, MO @ Cafe Acoustic Concert Hall
6/15: Springfield, MO @ Outland Ballroom
6/18: Albuquerque @ TBA
6/19: Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
6/21: Tucson, AZ @ Railto Theater
6/25: San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick
6/26: Los Angeles, CA @ The Whisky
6/27: Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst Atrium
6/28: San Francisco, CA @ TBA
7/1: Las Vegas, NV @ Beauty Bar
7/6: Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Club Casino
7/7: Reno, NV @ Trocadero Ballroom
7/8: Lewiston, ID @ Lewiston Rodeo Round Up
7/16: Spanaway, WA @ Uncle Sams
8/4: Eureka, CA @ Shiner Fest
8/5: Eureka, CA @ Shiner Fest
9/15 – 9/17: Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest at Douglas Park
9/26 – 10/31: Miami, FL @ House of Horrors Haunted House

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Ash vs. Evil Dead Season 3 – First Look: Bruce Gets Bloody!

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The third season of the hit Starz TV show “Ash vs. Evil Dead” is currently filming in New Zealand (look for a set visit report soon), and the Chin himself, Bruce Campbell, recently took to Twitter to share a behind-the-scenes look!

“Ash vs. Evil Dead” is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) in the role of Ash Williams; Lucy Lawless (“Salem,” “Spartacus”) as Ruby; Ray Santiago (“Touch,” Meet the Fockers) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, Ash’s loyal sidekick; and Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) as Kelly Maxwell.

Sam Raimi serves as executive producer with Rob Tapert (Evil Dead, “Spartacus,” “Xena: Warrior Princess”), Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”), and Ivan Raimi (Drag Me to Hell, Spider-Man 3) along with Craig DiGregorio (“Workaholics,” “Chuck”), who serves as executive producer/showrunner. Aaron Lam (“Spartacus”) and Moira Grant (“Spartacus”) serve as producers.

Dig on the image below which came with the caption “You should see the other guy.

Ash Vs. Evil Dead

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Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen – David Harbour Posts First Behind-the-Scenes Image

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A new Hellboy flick is well on its way with none other than Neil Marshall at the helm, and today the new Big Red, “Stranger Things” co-star David Harbour, took to Instagram to share the first behind-the-scenes image of his arm being cast for the fabled Doom Fist!

Rights to the film sold big at Cannes. The new Hellboy project emerged a few weeks ago with Mike Mignola, who created the original Hellboy comic, breaking the news on Facebook.

Check out the image below, and look for more soon.

Hellboy

Hellboy Rise of the Blood Queen

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Trey Edward Shults – Exclusive Interview on It Comes at Night

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It Comes at Night is a post-apocalyptic horror movie, and is the sophomore effort by writer-director Trey Edward Shults, who won acclaim for his dark family drama, Krisha.

Billed as a mystery/thriller, It Comes At Night (review) follows a small, blighted family. “Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous order a man (Joel Edgerton) has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within the man as he learns that the protection of his family comes at the cost of his soul.”

Dread Central: Even though it seems the studio or publicity department is shying away from the horror genre, we think horror fans will enjoy It Comes at Night. How do you see it?

Trey Edward Shults: That’s a great question and I will say, just from my point of view and where they come from, especially with Krisha [being called a horror movie], I didn’t approach it like this is a horror movie. I just approached it about this woman and her experience and I want to be honest to it and my experience with it and how it affected my family. You know with Krisha, it started with a lot of things, because my family suffered with addiction for a long time. But in particular there was a family reunion where my cousin relapsed and I remember the feeling I felt because of everything with my dad, and everything else, was dread and sheer terror. I remember how awkward I was. I didn’t want to move, I just sat there and I didn’t want any eye contact. It was like a good horror film or something, it was that pit of your stomach dread and the anxiety that I felt, so naturally when I was making the movie I wanted to be honest with that emotion and let you feel that emotion. With Night, it was never really ever about… I mean it was because you can’t think about these things. The core of Night came from personal stuff. It was my dad’s death and how I was with him on his death bed. He was wracked with regret with the life he had led and it was one of the most devastating things I’d gone through. My life is different ever since then. I started writing this two months after that, and it started with that opening scene: what Sarah says to her dad, that’s what I said to mine. Obviously after that it goes into a fictional narrative, but what I hope comes through in the movie is, I wrote the movie in grief and I think the movie is about fear and death and your own mortality and loss and regret and family. I think I wanted those emotions to come through in this fictional narrative, to speak to what it’s really about phonetically and for whatever reason, that once again led to horror. I don’t consider this a traditional horror movie, but it led to this subject matter and yeah, I guess me confronting my own fears and how that felt, bringing that truth to the film.

DC: Was it ultimately cathartic, making this film?

TES: I think that stuff comes in waves. The first draft of it kind of spewed out of me in three days, sobbing and everything else, that was super cathartic. This movie, where it stems from, the demon in me that I had to purge, to get out or something, yeah… I do know that on this side of things, I’m very happy to be done with the movie. I’m ready for something new and totally different. I killed myself making this movie. I saw a picture of me before production and I saw one now and I looked worse, like I had aged five years. I’m like Travis in the movie, I’m a night owl, my mind is so active at night, that’s when I think about all this stuff.

DC: In Krisha, you directed your family members. What was it like making a feature with all professional actors, whom you did not have a previous relationship with?

TES: One thing, obviously it was a conscious choice, I didn’t want my family in this movie. I wanted a new challenge. And I don’t think there are any roles for my family in this one anyway, but that was always the conscious choice. I was very adamant and it was important to me that I feel like I’m working with good humans, good people that hopefully want to try and make something special, and go on this little journey together. It started with Joel, he was the first cast, and everything led from that. But even that first meeting, which I was fortunate enough to have him have any interest in this movie, I was already a huge fan of his work. He’s good people. You can feel that, and I brought that through to every person in the process, to where when we went on this together, I wanted us to come together as a family, wanted us all to embark on this journey. Now that I’m on the other side of it, it was really not that different. Also, my Aunt Krisha, who’s the lead in my first film, she’s an incredible actress. And so I don’t know Joel or Kelvin or Riley like my aunt, but I still hopefully know somehow how to work with an actor. It was different and a new challenge and I won’t lie, leading into it, the first day of shooting I was very nervous. It took a second to get around to it, but by the end of the first week we felt like a family, which was really the goal. I had a great time making it.

DC: One of my favorite things about It Comes at Night was its score. Who’s the composer, and how did you initially connect?

TES: My composer is Brian McOmber. I think he’s crazy talented. He did the music for my first feature Krisha, and he did the music for the short film version of the movie Krisha. That’s actually how we met. I was a fan of his and found his email, and he actually responded to me. I sent him the short and he dug it and wanted to do the music, and I was like, ‘We have to do the feature together.’ And that was so great, and then of course we had to do this one together. I think I rely, and Brian would say this for sure, I rely way too heavily on temp music. It is just so great to help a movie flow and function, so I like live by it, but that can put you in a creative disadvantage when you start doing the score for the movie, so instead of just trying to rip off the temp, you have to come up with something original, which Brian is very adamant about. We like to just start from scratch, start with… he will find a super talented person. But you’ve got to start from the ground up, so with this, the very beginning was picking random people and just letting them jam out, like playing images of a movie and just jam the music and make a lot of it. Then Brian will re-edit that and play with that and get it to picture. That’s the beginning, then it continues to shape and shape until we really figure it out by the end of it. I think what comes through with this, that was different for us, apart from instrumentation and everything, just how we use themes and subtlety have a difference between nightmare and reality sounds and how we let those converge once reality has become a nightmare later in the movie. I can go on and on talking about it but I’m with you: the scores great.

DC: What can we expect next from you?

TES: Well I do have something that’s really personal to me, like Night, images in my head for a while before they clicked. It was my dad’s death which clicked for Night, with this new movie it was sort of love and my relationships, love and hate and that dichotomy. I’m still trying to write it but it’s sort of like a family over a year, a brother and a sister and these two halves of a story split it, these kids in high school. In the first half there’s a downward spiral and a tragedy, and the second half is upward and out of that. I kind of want it to flow like a piece of music, movies like Good Fellas or Boogie Nights, where they almost flow like a musical. It has those elements of Night, just the tension and some of the tragedy. For me it’s just a case by case thing and I think it’s interesting too, now that I’ve made Night after Krisha, and I didn’t realize it but some people consider Krisha a horror movie. I don’t know if people think I’m a horror genre guy or something. I know for me I don’t think that way, even though I love horror movies, but it’s just a case by case basis. I’m only going to make stuff that I care about and believe in with all my heart and hope they find the people they’re meant to find. Not everyone is going to dig them, but I will just try and do what I can do, so we’ll see. I hope that movie is next.

It Comes at Night hits theaters everywhere on June 9, 2017. Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbot, and Kelvin Harrison, Jr., star.

For more info visit the official It Comes at Night website, “like” It Comes at Night on Facebook, and follow It Comes at Night on Twitter and It Comes at Night on Instagram.

Synopsis:
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

It Comes at Night

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Helen Hunt Joins Horror Flick I See You

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Cheating on your spouse is so not worth it, man. Wrecking two lives for some fleeting humpfest can have some really bad consequences… sometimes even deadly ones. Such is the case with the new horror flick from Zodiac Pictures, I See You.

Deadline is reporting that Oscar Winner Helen Hunt has been set to star in the horror thriller to be directed by Adam Randall (Netflix’s “iBoy”). Shooting on the pic will begin this summer in Cleveland.

Devon Graye wrote the script. Zodiac’s Matt Waldeck will produce and the company’s Ben Hecht will executive produce alongside Hilary Davis, Stephen Kelliher and Patrick Howson for Bankside Films, and Phil Hunt and Compton Ross for Head Gear Films. CAA, which reps Hunt, packaged the film and will co-rep domestic sales with Bankside, which is also repping international.

Synopsis:
Infidelity has put great strain on the Harper household as Greg, the lead investigator in a child abduction case which has brought into the spotlight a similar case from years past, struggles to find a way to forgive his well-heeled wife, Jackie (Hunt). As her guilt slowly gnaws away at her grip on reality, a malicious presence begins manifesting itself in their home, putting their young son in mortal danger.

Helen Hunt

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Must Watch: Bulldog Watching The Conjuring Scares Up Incredible Responses

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Animals, man. They don’t get the credit they deserve. They’re seriously smarter than you think, sometimes exhibiting human-like tendencies. While browsing YouTube’s trending videos of the day we came across the following video just posted yesterday that you just have to watch.

Ever see your dog or cat watching TV and think to yourself… “Are they really watching, or am I reading into this too much?” Of course you have! We all have! The truth is we’ll never really know, but in the case of this adorable pooch… there’s no doubts to be had!

Khaleesi the bulldog loves watching horror movies and always tries to protect any potential victims from harm,” says her human in the video description! “She is especially vocal when children are in danger as seen in this clip.

I’m truly in love with this Wonder Woman!

The Conjuring Dog

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Nicolas Cage Goes Nuts for Mandy

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How happy you made me, oh Mandy. Well you came and you gave without taking, but I sent you away, oh Mandy. And you kissed me and stopped me from shaking. And I need you today, oh Mandy!

We all need a little Mandy in our lives (it worked for Angel), but seriously… any movie that brings more Nicolas Cage in our lives is okay with us!

According to Deadline Cage is set to star in action thriller Mandy, directed by Beyond the Black Rainbow helmer Panos Cosmatos.

The project is produced by SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, and Elijah Wood; XYZ Films’ Nate Bolotin; and Umedia’s Adrian Politowski and is exec produced by Nick Spicer, Lisa Whalen, Todd Brown, Martin Metz, Peter Bevan, Christopher Figg, and Robert Whitehouse with Umedia and Piccadilly Pictures financing.

The film is currently in pre-production and set to shoot this summer in Belgium. XYZ Films is handling worldwide sales.

Mandy is set in the primal wilderness of 1983 where Red Miller, a broken and haunted man, hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life.

Panos is one of the most vital young filmmakers alive, a pop-culture Kubrick in the making,” said Noah, SpectreVision’s Head of Development. “Nicolas Cage is a veritable god to those of us who grew up watching his classic performances. Bringing these two together for this surrealist, heavy-metal-soaked story of battle axes and demon bikers is unfathomably exciting to us.

Us too!

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First The Exorcist Season 2 Casting News Confirms a New Family on Its Way

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We learned last month that Fox has thankfully renewed “The Exorcist” for another season – maybe there is a god after all! – and now some casting news has arrived.

Per TVLine, the holy trifecta of priests portrayed by Alfonso Herrera (Father Tomas Ortega), Ben Daniels (Father Marcus Keane), and Kurt Egyiawan (Father Bennett) will all be back in Season 2 as series regulars, but they will be presiding over a new possession case. As a result, Geena Davis, Alan Ruck, Hannah Kasulka, and Brianne Howey — aka the demonized Rance family — are exiting the series (although one or more of them could return as guest stars) to make way for a new family.

The series was created by writer/producer Jeremy Slater (The Lazarus Effect, Pet, Death Note).

We should have more updates soon so stay tuned!

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Vega Baby and Sony Hear the Devil’s Whisper

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Word’s come our way that the supernatural thriller Devil’s Whisper has been acquired by Vega Baby Releasing and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ahead of its world premiere at Dances With Films. The film will be receiving a multiplatform VOD release later this year, but if you’re in the Los Angeles area you can see it really soon.

From the Press Release:
Vega Baby Releasing announced today that they have acquired all rights in North America to Adam Ripp’s supernatural psychological thriller DEVIL’S WHISPER, which will have a multiplatform fall release through their multi-year agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. DEVIL’S WHISPER will world premiere on June 10th at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as an official selection of the Dances With Films festival.

Inspired by true events, DEVIL’S WHISPER tells the story of 15 year-old Alejandro Duran who aspires to be a Catholic priest. But when Alex discovers a mysterious box passed down from his grandparents, he unwittingly unleashes a demonic spirit bent on possessing him. Alex must find a way to defeat this ancient demon, which has been tormenting children since the dawn of man, before it destroys him and everyone he loves. On the surface DEVIL’S WHISPER is a supernatural horror film about demonic possession but at its core it’s a psychological thriller about repressed memories and childhood trauma.

Financed by MD Pictures DEVIL’S WHISPER was directed by Adam Ripp from a screenplay by Oliver Robins and Paul Todisco based upon a story by Adam Ripp, Oliver Robins and Paul Todisco. The film was produced by Manoj Punjabi, Mark Stolaroff, Liam Finn and Adam Ripp. DEVIL’S WHISPER stars Luca Oriel (Shameless), Tessie Santiago (Scandal), Marcos Ferraez (Pacific Blue), Rick Ravanello (The Cave) Alison Fernandez (Logan), Coy Stewart (Are We There Yet?) Jasper Polish (The Astronaut Farmer) Justin Tinucci (Lady Dynamite), Benjamin A. Hoyt (Mono) and Luna Maya (Killers).

Sheldon Brigman, CEO and Co-President of Vega Baby Releasing said “Adam has created a compelling and thought provoking thriller with an incredibly talented cast that we are excited to bring to audiences.”

“We are excited to see DEVIL’S WHISPER set to be unleashed. It’s an incredibly well produced and intelligently scripted psychological thriller that will more than satisfy an appetite for provocation,” said Dances With Films Co-Founders Leslee Scallon and Michael Trent.

“I am honored to have the combined marketing and distribution power of Vega Baby Releasing and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment behind the film,” said Adam Ripp, director of DEVIL’S WHISPER. “I’m excited to see this intimate, intricate story brought to a wide audience.”

Odin’s Eye Entertainment is representing international sales on DEVIL’S WHISPER.

For tickets to the world premiere of Devil’s Whisper at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on June 10 @ 9:30PM, CLICK HERE!

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Devils whisper

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Horror History: See Jason X FINALLY Unmasked

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I love the Friday the 13th franchise more than words could ever describe. But I gotta tell you the one thing that irks me is when a particular entry either doesn’t unmask Jason or just gives you a quick glance. For me, that’s the pay off, man! In Jason X we got a pretty gooey reveal that lasted a couple of seconds before the mask went back on.

While we got the general idea, we never really had a good look. That changes now as Damon Bishop revealed via his Instagram page your first NEVER BEFORE SEEN look at just what Jason looked like in that flick! It’s like a wonderful hybrid of Jason’s look from Part 2 and The Final Chapter. Having worked with Bishop, who did my makeup in George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, I can tell you the man is pure talent. A genius if you will.

Peruse his Instagram page and just drool. Now then… on to Mr. Voorhees. Thanks to Friday the 13th Franchise for bringing these to our attention!

Jason X Unmasked

Jason X Unmasked

Jason X Unmasked

Jason X Unmasked

Jason X Unmasked

Jason X Unmasked

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Mummy, The (2017)

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Starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe

Directed by Alex Kurtzman


As a fan of the original Universal Monsters (I mean the ones from the 30s and 40s) as well as their flashier reboots throughout the 00s (well, The Mummy starring Brendan Frasier anyway, and I didn’t hate The Wolfman), I was really looking forward to The Mummy. I like Tom Cruise as an action-adventure guy, and director Alex Kurtzman usually comes through since he is a geek and lover of horror. Plus, I’m a sucker for anything based on ancient Egyptian ceremony and myth.

This is the first in a slate of films set in a shared universe of swashbuckling horror films based on Universal’s classic monster characters (including The Bride of Frankenstein coming next year from director Bill Condon – you may recall, he directed 1998’s glorious Gods and Monsters). So, it was with great expectations that I donned my 3D glasses, settled into my IMAX theater seat, and entered the Dark Universe.

The cold open, a dark, foreboding montage setting up the curse of the mummified Princess Ahmanet (Boutella), is stylish, slick, and even stirs some suspense and a bit of romance. Then – bam! – here we are plunked in modern times, as a cache of caskets is found in the London Underground. Seems some Crusaders from the Dark Ages have been lying about, undiscovered, for centuries. Clear across the globe, another tomb, that of the menacing Mummy herself, has also been unearthed.

Cruise plays Nick Morton, a swashbuckling soldier of fortune with questionable morals. He’s a bit of a rake, too, as he steals a treasure map belonging to pulchritudinous archaeologist Jenny Halsey (Wallis) shortly after bedding her, then nearly beats her to prize. All Morton sees is the jewels and gold on the long-buried sarcophagus, while Jenny wants to study the long-lost mummy inside. Thus begins their battle of wile and wit.

Along for the wild ride is Nick’s long-suffering sidekick, Chris Vail (Jake Johnson), and at their heels is Dr. Henry Jekyll (Crowe). Everyone is in danger of death – and worse – when Princess Ahmanet wakes up and realizes she’s been plundered. The Mummy isn’t the only monster; we’ve also got hordes of undead, a bothersome ghost, and of course, Dr. Jekyll’s furry flipside, Mr. Hyde.

Those are the players. The playing field stretches from Iraq to the UK and even above and below ground. In fact, some of the most impressive sequences include a harrowing plane crash and an escape through an underwater kingdom. The look of the Dark Universe is well-wrought. I was especially dazzled by Dr. Jekyll’s lair/lab, in which he studies the creatures of the night. Here, we geeks get peeks at possibilities to come: a creature’s flipper and a vampire’s skull in glass specimen jars.

The action sequences are beyond reproach. Though we’ve all seen Cruise’s signature sprint-and-tumble and we’ve all heard his deadpan 90s throwback one-liners, more of the same is fine. Wallis, while lacking the fire of, say, Rachel Weitz in the first Mummy reboot, offers up cool blonde beauty while still being believably brainy. Crowe chomps the considerable scenery, and it’s appropriate enough in the context.

My favorite character and actor in the film is Boutella as Ahmanet. She goes above and beyond the confines of the screenplay, embodying evil and seething rage with gorgeous villainy. She’s got a lot of screen presence, which helps when there is so much competing for our eyeballs. Speaking of which, she’s got the double-iris thing going on, but it’s not nearly as eerie as it was last year in “The Exorcist” TV series. Another nod, riff (or rip-off) is the undead version of simpering sidekick Vail, who decomposes and pops in and out too much the same as Griffin Dunne’s Goodman in An American Werewolf in London. Unfortunately for us, Johnson is an insufferably annoying actor playing a paper-thin character who is given the weakest dialogue imaginable. He’s not funny or entertaining as living and breathing Vail, and he’s even less so when resurrected and rotting.

The Mummy is overall a fun movie, doing what it says it’s going to do: mildly entertain. But in the end, it’s just “the meh-my.

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Seven Sisters Poster Countdown Begins

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Noomi Rapace is an incredible actress, but when it comes to one person playing several different sisters, each with distinct personalities, my money will always be on “Orphan Black’s” Tatiana Maslany. Still, maybe Seven Sisters (formerly What Happened to Monday?) can prove me wrong!

Directed by Tommy Wirkola (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow), Seven Sisters stars Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, and Willem Dafoe. Check out the newly released international posters below.

Synopsis:
In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (all of them portrayed by Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday – each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.

Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters

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Jennifer Connelly Boards TNT’s Snowpiercer

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Some quick casting news has arrived for TNT’s small screen series version of “Snowpiercer,” as Deadline is reporting that Jennifer Connelly is set to star opposite Daveed Diggs in TNT’s pilot, a futuristic thriller drama based on the acclaimed 2013 feature by Bong Joon-ho.

The hourlong drama pilot, directed by Doctor Strange helmer Scott Derrickson, is set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, and the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. It explores class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival.

Oscar winner Connelly will play Melanie Cavill, a First Class passenger who works as the Voice of the Train – responsible for making the daily announcements over its PA system. Though many in her VIP position are dismissive of the lower class passengers, Melanie is curiously fascinated by them. Diggs plays Layton Well, a prisoner who becomes a reluctant participant in a struggle that could upend life on the train.

“Snowpiercer,” a co-production between Marty Adelstein/ITV Studios’ Tomorrow Studios, Turner’s Studio T and CJ Entertainment, is executive-produced by writer-showrunner Josh Friedman; director Derrickson; Tomorrow Studios’ Adelstein and Becky Clements; and the original film’s Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae-hun and Dooho Choi.

Jennifer Connelly

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Exclusive: Say F*ck Society With This Mr. Robot Song Premiere

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We’re in a magical age of quality television. More and more shows have production values of big budget Hollywood films, stellar writing teams, brilliant stars, and composers that are making memorable and powerful music. One such show that combines all of these aspects into a mind-bending masterpiece is “Mr. Robot”, the series that follows Elliot Alderson, a brilliant but unhinged computer hacker who helped orchestrate a massive cyberattack on the multi-national company Evil Corp.

Today, we’re bringing you an exclusive taste of the soundtrack with the premiere of “2.0_1-s4ve-the-w0rld.act“, the opening track to Mr. Robot V.3, the first volume of a two-volume set. Haunting and epic, the track uses electronic synths to create a beautiful foundation that is assaulted by thunderous percussion and piercing strings. Everything combines to make “2.0_1-s4ve-the-w0rld.act” a track that embodies every aspect of the show, a blend of human emotion with synthetic rage. This is a prime example of Quayle’s magnificent skill and ability to draw in the listener with hypnotic majesty.

Quayle explains, “If the first season of “Mr. Robot” took us into Elliot’s mind, the second season drew us deeper into his subconscious. As we learned, it’s pretty dark in there and so naturally the music followed suit. Darker, weirder, more dissonant, more paranoid.” He then adds, “It’s quite possibly some of the strangest music I’ve ever written. I brought Elliot’s theme back from season one but in a much more subtle and obscure form. In addition, I expanded the electronic instrument palette with the use of orchestral style strings to add another layer of emotion to certain scenes.

Lakeshore Records will release the album digitally on June 9 and CD later this summer. Invada Records, in conjunction with Lakeshore, will also release a special LP package later this year.

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20 Seconds to Live Returns! Launches Crowdfunding Campaign!

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If you’ve never seen the webseries “20 Seconds to Live,” stop what you’re doing right now and head on over to the ArieScope YouTube page and start watching it like yesterday. If you already are a fan, GOOD NEWS! There’s a brand spanking new episode just waiting for you to DIVE into called “Medium!”

In it, three siblings seek help in ridding their family estate of unwanted spirits.

Like all good things that are put online for FREE for your enjoyment, things cost money to make. That’s where YOU come in!

Created by Ben Rock and Bob DeRosa, “20 Seconds To Live” is the award-winning horror/comedy web series for people who hate happy endings!

“We made and released our 8-episode first season, and last year played over a dozen international film and web festivals. Now we’d love to make a second season but we need your help,” said Rock on the official “20 Seconds to Live” IndieGoGo page. So if you like what you see and you have some extra scratch, CONTRIBUTE. The video gods shall thank you!

20 Seconds to Live

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Tom Cruise Intros Final Mummy Sneak Peek

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This Friday The Mummy (review) finally makes its way to theaters as the first entry in Universal’s Dark Universe, but if you need any more incentive to get your ass to the theater, how about this latest sneak peek?

Tom Cruise headlines a spectacular, all-new cinematic version of the legend that has fascinated cultures all over the world since the dawn of civilization: The Mummy. The cast also includes Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Russell Crowe, and Sofia Boutella as the titular character.

The creative team on this action-adventure event is led by director/producer Alex Kurtzman and producer Chris Morgan. Sean Daniel, who produced the most recent Mummy trilogy, produces alongside Kurtzman and Morgan. The script is by Jon Spaihts and Christopher McQuarrie.

Look for The Mummy in theaters on June 9, 2017.  For more info in the meantime, keep your eyes on themummy.com.

Synopsis:
Thought safely entombed in a tomb deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess (Boutella) whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.

From the sweeping sands of the Middle East through hidden labyrinths under modern-day London, The Mummy brings a surprising intensity and balance of wonder and thrills in an imaginative new take that ushers in a new world of gods and monsters.

The Mummy

The Mummy

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The Blob – New Teaser One-Sheet Cannot Be Stopped

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Another bit of eye candy has been released for Arclight Films’ (Prisoners, Predestination) retelling of The Blob, and we have it for you right here. Go ahead… poke it with a stick, why dontcha?

Confirmed to be attached so far are director Simon West, producers Brian Witten and Richard Saperstein, and actors Samuel L. Jackson and Halle Berry.

Synopsis:
A terrifying re-imagining of an enduring horror icon. Based on the 1958 sci-fi classic that starred Steve McQueen and has thrilled genre fans since.

When a band of miners uncover something hidden deep beneath the earth, they unwittingly unleash a hideous creature beyond imagination. Now the townsfolk must fight back before it destroys everything.

The Blob

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LAFF 2017: Replace These Stills

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Following its World Premiere at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, where it received a Melies D’Argent nomination for Best European Fantasy Film, German director Norbert Keil’s neo-noir body horror Replace will be having its North American premiere in the Nightfall section of the 2017 LA Film Festival, running June 14-22 and right now we have a fresh batch of stills for you.

Co-written by genre icon Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) and starring Rebecca Forsythe (daughter of William Forsythe) and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Replace is a Bathoryesque tale of a beautiful young woman afflicted with a disease that rapidly ages her skin. After seeking the advice of a dermatologist, she discovers she can replace her skin with that of other girls; and aided by her lover, she abducts and kills a potential donor. But when the disease returns, she is forced to find more victims and soon becomes the target of a police investigation.

Replace

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Lucie Aron and Sean Knopp co-star.

The LA Film Festival screening of Replace will take place at Arclight Cinemas, Culver City, CA, at 9:45 pm on Friday, June 16th. CLICK HERE for more info.

Filmed on location in Toronto and executive produced by Colin Geddes (former director of TIFF – Midnight Madness) and Katerina Gligorijevic of Ultra8 Pictures, Replace has already drawn comparisons to the films of David Cronenberg (Rabid, Crash) and Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral).

Produced by Felix Von Poser of German-based production company Sparkling Pictures and represented for worldwide sales by UK-based genre specialist Jinga Films, Replace will also receive its market premiere at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival. Stay tuned for more updates!

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MVD Goes on a Chinese Monster Hunt

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One of China’s highest-grossing movies of all time, Monster Hunt, comes to DVD in the US via FilmRise and MVD Entertainment Group on June 13th, and we have your details right here. Dig it!

From the Press Release:
China’s highest-grossing movie of all time until just recently is coming to DVD via FilmRise and MVD Entertainment Group on June 13th.

Made for around $50 million, Monster Hunt has grossed over $390 million to set China’s all-time box office record. It beat out several foreign titles to get there, including Furious 7, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and Avatar. Directed by Shrek the Third co-director Raman Hui, the live-action / CG fantasy epic centers on a war between monsters and humans. At the center of the story is Wuba, a baby monster born to a human man. Yes, a man.

Slash Film says, “Maybe the cute little baby monster will attract enough curious American moviegoers to make it a modest success. After all, if there’s anything Star Wars’ BB-8 taught us, it’s that adorable blobs cross all cultural and linguistic barriers.”

Synopsis:
In a mythical ancient world, monsters rule their land while humans keep to their own kingdom. But when adorable baby monster Wuba is born to a human father and the monster queen, mortals and creatures alike set out to capture the newborn, and Wuba’s epic adventure begins.

This family-friendly version is intended for kids of all ages and has been dubbed in English.

Monster Hunt

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Travel Down Lost Gully Road

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Another chiller is on its way to our shores set in Australia that looks pretty promising. Read on for your first look at Lost Gully Road… some places are lost for a reason. Thank the video gods no one ever listens.

From the Press Release:
LOST GULLY ROAD tells the story of Lucy, a directionless young woman who travels to a secluded cottage in the forest to wait for her sister. With no television and little communication with the outside world, she spends her days alone and drinking to pass the time–that is, until her unexpected host decides to keep her company…

Lucy is played by Adele Perovic (THE CODE), with supporting cast Eloise Mignon (THE CHERRY ORCHARD), John Brumpton (THE LOVED ONES), and Jane Clifton (PRISONER, CELL BLOCK H).

LOST GULLY ROAD is directed by Donna McRae, whose debut film, JOHNNY GHOST (2012), was hailed as “stylistically removed from your average gore film and just as chilling as some of the best” by Fangoria, called an “immediate classic” by Hellnotes, and given 5 stars from Filmthreat.

The film features beautiful cinematography from Laszlo Baranyai (HSC, ACS), exquisite production design from visual artist Michael Vale, and a haunting score by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates and soon to be announced festival dates.

Lost Gully Road. Your host is waiting…

Lost Gully Road

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