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Slappy Is Back One Last Time In ‘Goosebumps Escape The Cage’

The little creepy dummy Slappy is back one last time in Krikey’s latest multiplayer augmented reality game, “Goosebumps Escape the Cage”. As the name implies, you’re stuck inside a cage all thanks to Slappy and it’s up to you and a friend to escape. Like the previous games, you solve puzzles within a set amount of time as well as escaping a maze. Each level has a jump scare that’s unique to it and gameplay is different each time you play. The game is available for free on the App Store and Google Play. Krikey teamed up with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in a “Goosebumps AR Takeover” campaign to help promote the release of “Goosebumps 2” that’s coming to digital on Christmas and Blu-ray January 15th.

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Capt McNeely

Dec 5, 2018

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Movie Review: Elves (2018)

A kid gets possessed by an elf, and gets his dunce of a brother to crawl into an oven where then proceeds to cook him. I say “What the fuck?!!”, and thus begins Elves…a sequel to a film I’ve never seen (The Elf for you keeping score at home)… Things kick into high gear once a group of friends open a chest-full of elf dolls at a holiday soiree. Each friend takes an elf with them and before long they get possessed by the effigies who make them suffer for their “naughtiness”…with predictably murderous results. Will anyone survive the arcane ordeal to see next Christmas? First things first, as mentioned up yonder, I had never laid my eerie eyeballs on The Elf, and fortunately Director Jamaal Burden has crafted a simple tale that’s easy to follow for neophytes to the franchise. What you get is a big ol’ slice of fruit cake as our troubled heroes take on the visage

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DanXIII

Dec 2, 2018

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Movie Review: Slay Belles (2018)

Alexi (Kristina Klebe) heads out with her ultra-bosomy gal pals Dahlia (Susan Slaughter) and Sadie (Hannah Wagner) to help them film the latest installment of their wicked web series Adventure Girls; a show dedicated to exploring abandoned structures…like the recesses of my mind where dignity and shame once did dwell. Out on the road they stop into a local watering hole where they learn kids have turned up slaughtered before heading on to their destination, a dilapidated Christmas based theme park named Santa Land. Once there they meet the kiddie-snatchin’ (and eating) culprit; none other than everyone’s favorite Xmas demon; Krampus…as well as Santa (Barry Bostwick) himself, though he is more of a brawlin’, boozin’ , biker-type rather than the jolly ol’ St. Nick we have become accustomed to. Now it’s up to our comely heroines and Santa to put an end to that Germanic terror’s reign of evil…fuck, we are all going to die, aren’t we? As you may

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DanXIII

Dec 1, 2018

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DVD Review: All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018)

An awkward couple arrive at a playhouse presenting a series of vignettes, named after phrases from ‘The Night Before Christmas‘, and based on varying elements of the Christmas spirit (and hosted by a silent master of ceremonies portrayed by genre mainstay Maria Olsen). Thus begins the latest arcane anthology from our beloved horror biz titled All the Creatures Were Stirring. The first story up is called ‘The Stockings Were Hung‘, and concerns an office Holiday party where the gift exchange goes hideously awry as an unwanted participant turns the game into a murder packed fight for survival! This was a tale equal parts humorous and grim and a very strong start to the ho ho horror at hand. Next we have ‘Dash Away All‘ which presents the terror tale of a man trying to get home for Christmas. Things become complicated when he locks his keys in his car and seeks help from two mysterious women in a van…a van

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DanXIII

Nov 25, 2018

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Third Episode Of Hulu’s “Into The Dark” Is A Christmas Themed Nightmare

One of Hulu’s coolest new series is the series is “Into the Dark“, which delivers a feature-length holiday-themed episode once a month. The first episode, “The Body” was set on Halloween. We interviewed Tembi Locke about the Thanksgiving set episode titled “Flesh and Blood”. Now, it’s nearing time for the third episode to premiere. December’s episode, “Pooka“, follows a struggling actor (Nyasha Hatendi) who gets a temp job as the Christmas character in a plush suit to promote Pooka, the hottest toy of the year. At first, it’s not a bad gig, but as time goes by Pooka slowly takes over. Dale Dickey, Isabelle Bates, Jonny Berryman, April Campion, Gene Freeman, Nyasha Hatendi, Cliff Weissman, and Katie Wilson co-star in “Pooka”, directed by Nacho Vigalondo and written by Gerald Olson. “Into the Dark: Pooka” premieres on December 5th on Hulu.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 25, 2018

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Movie Review: Christmas Blood (2017)

Ho, ho, mother fuckin’ ho; what do we have here boils n’ ghouls? A Christmas set thriller where a slashin’ Santa works his way through a group of victims. Good to see originality is still alive and well in the ol’ horror biz… Anyway, there is a killer Santa that terrorizes folks with a pick-ax every Yuletide, and this year he brings his murder biz to a small Norweigian town where a group of female friends have gathered for a reunion. Things get bloody for our comely heroines and soon their mortality is seriously in jeopardy. Thankfully for them, a grizzled (and alcoholic) detective and his gung-ho partner make the scene, and they are bound and determined to bring these horrible holiday homicides to a swift end! While I may have brought the sass up-top, Christmas Blood, for all of it’s trope-heavy elements, nevertheless delivers some effective storytelling and visuals. Writer/Director Reinert Kiil (with that name, fright flick Director was

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DanXIII

Nov 24, 2018

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Slappy’s Back Again In The AR Game ‘Slappy’s Haunted Christmas’

Krikey has launched its second Augmented Reality mobile game of their three-part “Goosebumps 2” Slappy series; the first one was released in October. This time Slappy the ventriloquist dummy is back in a Christmas themed multiplayer AR game, “Slappy’s Haunted Christmas”. Players must open Christmas presents with a tap of the screen in order to find the Goosebumps manuscript before Slappy does. The presents are not as pleasant as they may seem as some contain jump scares! Each level is unique and the Goosebumps manuscript and jump scares are never in the same spot twice ensuring a unique play through each time. Krikey is available on the App Store and Google Play for free.

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Capt McNeely

Nov 15, 2018

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Movie Review: Mrs. Claus (2018)

What can be better than a slasher flick that starts with a sorority pledge forced to lap up toilet water and humiliate herself with a pitch black marital aide before she finally snaps and chokes the head of the sorority with said dildo before slicing her up like a prize-winning ham then hanging herself? Honestly, not a hell of a lot I reckon… So after all of that craziness, Mrs. Claus starts in earnest when the sister of the now defunct sorority head, Amber by name, joins the same sorority as some sort of half-assed grief therapy. Well, before you can say ‘blood covered yule log’…wait, why would you ever even say that? Anyway…sorority bros and hoes start gettin’ offed right quick by a sinister slasher dressed as a nightmare version of Mrs. Clause and the body count climbs ever upward. Can ol’ Amber and her pals survive the slashin’s going on six ways to Sunday and figure out who

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DanXIII

Nov 15, 2018

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This November ‘Mrs. Claus’ Is Out For Blood

It’s going to be a very Black Christmas. Scream Queen Brinke Stevens, My Bloody Valentine’s Helene Udy and Kaylee Williams (Model Hunger) star in the stocking stuffer, Mrs. Claus. In the film, a group of college students attending a Christmas party at a sorority house that has a sinister past is stalked by a bloodthirsty killer disguised as Mrs. Claus in writer/director Troy Escamilla’s award-winning yuletide spookfest. Mrs. Claus premieres on VOD and DVD November 13th from Wild Eye Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 14, 2018

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Things Get Bloody In The New Clip From ‘Anna And The Apocalypse’

With Halloween behind us, it’s now time to look forward to the Christmas-themed horror flicks coming our way. One of those films is John McPhail‘s zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse. We’ve got a new clip that’s filled with enough blood to deck the halls with. In the film, “When a zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven, Anna and her high school pals must fight, sing and slash their way to survival. Teaming with her best friend John, Anna and her crew try to save family and faculty alike as they encounter zombified snowmen, a manic bachelor party, and teenage hormones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and the only people they can truly rely on are each other.” Ella Hunt (Our Robot Overlords) stars alongside Mark Benton (The Halcyon) and Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones). Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, and Marli Siu co-star. Anna and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 7, 2018

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