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K-Horror Series “Gyeongseong Creature” Claws Its Way Onto Netflix

Prepare to face the darkness as the K-horror series “Gyeongseong Creature” claws its way onto Netflix this week with two edge-of-your-seat seasons. This period horror takes you back to Spring 1945. It was a time when Seoul (then known as Gyeongseong) was shrouded in the oppressive darkness of Japanese colonial rule. But even amidst the historical turmoil, something even more frightening lurks in the shadows. In this chilling series, the city is stalked by a monstrous entity spawned from human greed. Two brave young adults, Jang Tae-sang (Park Seo-Joon) and Yoon Chae-ok (Han So-hee), are thrust into a desperate battle for survival against this horrifying creature. “Gyeongseong Creature” masterfully blends historical drama with monstrous suspense. As Tae-sang and Chae-ok navigate the dangers of Japanese occupation, they must also unravel the dark mystery behind the creature’s origins. Is it simply a product of human depravity, or is there something more sinister at play? The series boasts a star-studded cast ready to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 21, 2023

Movie Review: Lion-Girl (2023) – Cleopatra Entertainment Blu-ray

Beginning the way you’d imagine a live-action flick created in part by Go Nagai (Devilman, Violence Jack to name but a few… ) would; namely with a shit-ton of nudity (more on that in a bit) and folks turning into demons! After that bit of biz we learn that the world has been turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland due to meteor strikes with the resulting remains of said strikes turning compatible humans into space demons known as ANORAC (that’s Corona backwards, and more on that in a bit as well). Meanwhile Japan, now known as Neo-Nippon, has fallen under the rule of the tyrannical Shogun Nobuhide Fujinaga (Tomoki Kimura) and his cadre of bondage-gear clad samurai lead by Kaisei Kishi (the ever-popular Derek Mears, who has been in a ton of stuff, so let’s go with 2009’s Friday the 13th update and the 2019 Swamp Thing TV series… and really goes all-fuckin’-out in this role to comic book super-villain perfection!).

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DanXIII
Dec 16, 2023

Korean Horror ‘The Ghost Station’ Will Haunt You On Digital

Get ready to be chilled to the bone with The Ghost Station, directed by JEONG Yong-Ki (The Doll Master, Once Upon a Time) and written by TAKAHASHI Hiroshi (The Ring, The Ring 2) and LEE So-Young (Robot Sound). KIM Bo-Ra (Ghost Mansion), KIM Jae-Hyun (Love You as the World Ends), and SHIN So-Yul (A Violent Prosecutor) star. A young reporter, determined to uncover the truth behind a suspicious accident, stumbles upon a shocking discovery. Her source, who provided crucial information, is revealed to be deceased, raising a multitude of unsettling questions. As more mysterious and unexplained deaths plague the city, the reporter and her partner embark on a dangerous investigation. They delve deeper into the darkness, unearthing secrets threatening to shatter everything they thought they knew. Their relentless pursuit of the truth leads them to a horrifying revelation: a sinister entity lurks in the shadows, orchestrating a deadly game. The lines between life and death blur as they confront unimaginable

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 7, 2023

2024 Sundance Film Festival Fear Fare Announced

Utah’s Sundance Film Festival announced its slate of selections for its 2024 edition today, and we have the horror and related features for you. The following information is from the fest’s official press announcement. Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the 82 films, eight episodic titles, and a New Frontier interactive experience selected for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will take place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25–28, 2024. This year marks the 40th edition of the Festival, bringing together audiences in Utah and beyond to celebrate Sundance’s rich history of supporting engaging new stories and groundbreaking independent artists. In-Person Ticket Packages and Passes and Online Ticket Packages and Passes are currently on sale and single film tickets go on sale January 11 at 10 a.m. MT. To kick things off, the Festival will begin at noon MT on January 18

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Joseph Perry
Dec 7, 2023

A Woman Discovers Horrific Truths This December In The Movie ‘Peacock’

Directed by Jaco Minnaar, who co-wrote the film with David Cornwell, Peacock is an upcoming South African gothic horror film that is set to make its U.S. debut this December. The film follows Anna Pohl, played by Tarryn Wyngaard. A young woman who was raised in a strict and brutal Authoritarian institute called “The Foundation.” After violating the institute’s strict moral standards, Anna is sent to care for one of the founding members, Sarel Cilliers (Johan Botha), an Apartheid-era theologian who is living out his days on his isolated farm in a state of paranoia and demonic hallucinations. As Anna tries to unravel the mysteries of Sarel’s farm and The Foundation, she is slowly pulled into his terrifying world. Her own feelings of guilt also haunt her. Peacock is described as an “erotic” and “evocative” horror film that explores the dark recesses of paranoia, as well as the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past. The film is directed by Jaco

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 5, 2023

Spoiler-Free Reviews: EVIL SUBLET and BAKEMONO (Another Hole in the Head Film Festival)

eVil Sublet (U.S., 2023) Like most things in life, if rent sounds too good to be true, there must be some sort of problem. In writer/director/cinematographer/editor/producer Allan Piper’s horror comedy eVil Sublet — eVil referring to New York City’s East Village — couple Alex (Jennifer Leigh Houston, Piper’s wife and also a producer on the film) and Ben (Charley Tucker) find that out first-hand when they rent a fully-furnished apartment for incredibly low rent that turns out to be not only haunted, but the site of multiple past murders. The film aims more for satire and silliness than scares, though plenty of creepiness is certainly on hand. eVil Sublet sends up the housing crisis, pharmaceutical companies, political and sexual politics, and more as Alex and Ben try to cope with their spooky situation with the help of a large cast of supporting characters, including Sally Struthers as a woman living in a storage facility, Stephen Mosher and Pat Dwyer as

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Joseph Perry
Nov 23, 2023

Movie Review: Crocodile Island (2020) – WellGo USA DVD

The Dragon’s Triangle is like an Asia-based Bermuda Triangle, but instead of the normal magnetic interference bringing down aircraft over the area (though that plays a part too), ol’ D.S. is lousy with pterodactyls which have a tendency to smash into planes en masse and causing them to crash on a remote island populated by the biggest fuckin’ crocodile in forever… like since prehistoric times “forever”! Enter: Lin Hao (Gallen Lo) and his daughter Yi (Liao Yinyue), who along with a handful of others have recently survived a passenger plane crash in the aforementioned location. Now as the few that remain try to survive both in-fighting and the harsh locale they’ll have to deal with not only crocodiles of varying size, as well as giant spiders that stalk the mist-covered forests of the island! Will Lin be able to keep his skin intact while also looking out for his daughter and the other passengers, or will they become just more

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DanXIII
Nov 20, 2023

Hidden Secrets Are Uncovered In The Trailer For South African Horror ‘Peacock’

A young woman raised in a strict institute discovers hidden horrors in the exotic South African gothic horror Peacock, coming to the US this December. Directed by Jaco Minnaar, who co-wrote the film with David Cornwell, the film, which is described as “erotic,” stars Tarryn Wyngaard, Johan Botha, Ruan Wessels, Alida Theron, Liza Van Deventer, Nicola Hanekom, and Andre Stolz. “After violating the strict moral standards of The Foundation, the puritanical institution for young women in which she was raised, Anna Pohl (Tarryn Wyngaard) is sent to care for one of its founding members. An Apartheid-era theologian living out his days in paranoia on his isolated farm, Sarel Cilliers (Johan Botha) suffers from frightening visions and demonic hallucinations. Haunted by her own feelings of guilt, Anna slowly gets pulled into Sarel’s terrifying world as she tries to unravel the mysteries behind this sinister place and its connection to the devastating secrets being hidden by The Foundation. An evocative and erotic

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2023

Spoiler-Free Film Review: Wickedly Evil (2023)

Director Garry Walsh’s genre-bending Irish feature Wickedly Evil (AKA Bad Things in the Middle of Nowhere, 2023) finds gangsters Frankie (Joseph McGucken), Dancer (James Farrelly), and Gaz (Darryl Carter) hiding out in rural Ireland after pulling off a heist. The robbery was not without its problems, though, as Gaz is bleeding out from a gunshot wound, he and Frankie have kidnapped Clare (Louise Bourke), the daughter of a local crime family, and a woman who lives next door to the hideout named Sadie (Cat L. Walsh) just might be on to the men. The worst of their problems is yet to come, though. Wickedly Evil is billed as a horror comedy and although there is plenty of tension on tap, viewers expecting horror throughout — like with the 2020 U.K. holed-up criminals vs. the supernatural feature The World We Knew, for example — will likely come away disappointed. Blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shots of something unusual going on in the background are peppered

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Joseph Perry
Nov 16, 2023

Netflix’s Series “Sweet Home” Scores A New Trailer Ahead Of Season Two

News has now come out of “Geek Week” that fans will get a second season of one of the best Korean series ever to grace Netflix, the monster-filled, action-packed series “Sweet Home.” The announcement came with the release of the teaser trailer, which frankly looks good as hell. In season one, which premiered in 2020, Hyun, who lost his entire family in a terrible accident, is forced to face a new reality where monsters are trying to wipe out all of humanity. Season two sees “The main characters depart from the Green Home, the site of their previous monster battles, and are compelled to venture into the outside world. Survivors have gathered at what is left of the stadium and built a community, but they still cannot let their guard down. The evolving storyline promises heightened anticipation as the characters confront new dangers in different environments, where they must fight against external monsters and their monstrous desires.” Song Kang returns

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2023

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K-Horror Series “Gyeongseong Creature” Claws Its Way Onto Netflix

Prepare to face the darkness as the K-horror series “Gyeongseong Creature” claws its way onto Netflix this week with two edge-of-your-seat seasons. This period horror takes you back to Spring 1945. It was a time when Seoul (then known as Gyeongseong) was shrouded in the oppressive darkness of Japanese colonial rule. But even amidst the historical turmoil, something even more frightening lurks in the shadows. In this chilling series, the city is stalked by a monstrous entity spawned from human greed. Two brave young adults, Jang Tae-sang (Park Seo-Joon) and Yoon Chae-ok (Han So-hee), are thrust into a desperate battle for survival against this horrifying creature. “Gyeongseong Creature” masterfully blends historical drama with monstrous suspense. As Tae-sang and Chae-ok navigate the dangers of Japanese occupation, they must also unravel the dark mystery behind the creature’s origins. Is it simply a product of human depravity, or is there something more sinister at play? The series boasts a star-studded cast ready to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 21, 2023

Movie Review: Lion-Girl (2023) – Cleopatra Entertainment Blu-ray

Beginning the way you’d imagine a live-action flick created in part by Go Nagai (Devilman, Violence Jack to name but a few… ) would; namely with a shit-ton of nudity (more on that in a bit) and folks turning into demons! After that bit of biz we learn that the world has been turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland due to meteor strikes with the resulting remains of said strikes turning compatible humans into space demons known as ANORAC (that’s Corona backwards, and more on that in a bit as well). Meanwhile Japan, now known as Neo-Nippon, has fallen under the rule of the tyrannical Shogun Nobuhide Fujinaga (Tomoki Kimura) and his cadre of bondage-gear clad samurai lead by Kaisei Kishi (the ever-popular Derek Mears, who has been in a ton of stuff, so let’s go with 2009’s Friday the 13th update and the 2019 Swamp Thing TV series… and really goes all-fuckin’-out in this role to comic book super-villain perfection!).

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Dec 16, 2023

Korean Horror ‘The Ghost Station’ Will Haunt You On Digital

Get ready to be chilled to the bone with The Ghost Station, directed by JEONG Yong-Ki (The Doll Master, Once Upon a Time) and written by TAKAHASHI Hiroshi (The Ring, The Ring 2) and LEE So-Young (Robot Sound). KIM Bo-Ra (Ghost Mansion), KIM Jae-Hyun (Love You as the World Ends), and SHIN So-Yul (A Violent Prosecutor) star. A young reporter, determined to uncover the truth behind a suspicious accident, stumbles upon a shocking discovery. Her source, who provided crucial information, is revealed to be deceased, raising a multitude of unsettling questions. As more mysterious and unexplained deaths plague the city, the reporter and her partner embark on a dangerous investigation. They delve deeper into the darkness, unearthing secrets threatening to shatter everything they thought they knew. Their relentless pursuit of the truth leads them to a horrifying revelation: a sinister entity lurks in the shadows, orchestrating a deadly game. The lines between life and death blur as they confront unimaginable

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 7, 2023

2024 Sundance Film Festival Fear Fare Announced

Utah’s Sundance Film Festival announced its slate of selections for its 2024 edition today, and we have the horror and related features for you. The following information is from the fest’s official press announcement. Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the 82 films, eight episodic titles, and a New Frontier interactive experience selected for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will take place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25–28, 2024. This year marks the 40th edition of the Festival, bringing together audiences in Utah and beyond to celebrate Sundance’s rich history of supporting engaging new stories and groundbreaking independent artists. In-Person Ticket Packages and Passes and Online Ticket Packages and Passes are currently on sale and single film tickets go on sale January 11 at 10 a.m. MT. To kick things off, the Festival will begin at noon MT on January 18

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Dec 7, 2023

A Woman Discovers Horrific Truths This December In The Movie ‘Peacock’

Directed by Jaco Minnaar, who co-wrote the film with David Cornwell, Peacock is an upcoming South African gothic horror film that is set to make its U.S. debut this December. The film follows Anna Pohl, played by Tarryn Wyngaard. A young woman who was raised in a strict and brutal Authoritarian institute called “The Foundation.” After violating the institute’s strict moral standards, Anna is sent to care for one of the founding members, Sarel Cilliers (Johan Botha), an Apartheid-era theologian who is living out his days on his isolated farm in a state of paranoia and demonic hallucinations. As Anna tries to unravel the mysteries of Sarel’s farm and The Foundation, she is slowly pulled into his terrifying world. Her own feelings of guilt also haunt her. Peacock is described as an “erotic” and “evocative” horror film that explores the dark recesses of paranoia, as well as the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past. The film is directed by Jaco

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 5, 2023

Spoiler-Free Reviews: EVIL SUBLET and BAKEMONO (Another Hole in the Head Film Festival)

eVil Sublet (U.S., 2023) Like most things in life, if rent sounds too good to be true, there must be some sort of problem. In writer/director/cinematographer/editor/producer Allan Piper’s horror comedy eVil Sublet — eVil referring to New York City’s East Village — couple Alex (Jennifer Leigh Houston, Piper’s wife and also a producer on the film) and Ben (Charley Tucker) find that out first-hand when they rent a fully-furnished apartment for incredibly low rent that turns out to be not only haunted, but the site of multiple past murders. The film aims more for satire and silliness than scares, though plenty of creepiness is certainly on hand. eVil Sublet sends up the housing crisis, pharmaceutical companies, political and sexual politics, and more as Alex and Ben try to cope with their spooky situation with the help of a large cast of supporting characters, including Sally Struthers as a woman living in a storage facility, Stephen Mosher and Pat Dwyer as

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Nov 23, 2023

Movie Review: Crocodile Island (2020) – WellGo USA DVD

The Dragon’s Triangle is like an Asia-based Bermuda Triangle, but instead of the normal magnetic interference bringing down aircraft over the area (though that plays a part too), ol’ D.S. is lousy with pterodactyls which have a tendency to smash into planes en masse and causing them to crash on a remote island populated by the biggest fuckin’ crocodile in forever… like since prehistoric times “forever”! Enter: Lin Hao (Gallen Lo) and his daughter Yi (Liao Yinyue), who along with a handful of others have recently survived a passenger plane crash in the aforementioned location. Now as the few that remain try to survive both in-fighting and the harsh locale they’ll have to deal with not only crocodiles of varying size, as well as giant spiders that stalk the mist-covered forests of the island! Will Lin be able to keep his skin intact while also looking out for his daughter and the other passengers, or will they become just more

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Nov 20, 2023

Hidden Secrets Are Uncovered In The Trailer For South African Horror ‘Peacock’

A young woman raised in a strict institute discovers hidden horrors in the exotic South African gothic horror Peacock, coming to the US this December. Directed by Jaco Minnaar, who co-wrote the film with David Cornwell, the film, which is described as “erotic,” stars Tarryn Wyngaard, Johan Botha, Ruan Wessels, Alida Theron, Liza Van Deventer, Nicola Hanekom, and Andre Stolz. “After violating the strict moral standards of The Foundation, the puritanical institution for young women in which she was raised, Anna Pohl (Tarryn Wyngaard) is sent to care for one of its founding members. An Apartheid-era theologian living out his days in paranoia on his isolated farm, Sarel Cilliers (Johan Botha) suffers from frightening visions and demonic hallucinations. Haunted by her own feelings of guilt, Anna slowly gets pulled into Sarel’s terrifying world as she tries to unravel the mysteries behind this sinister place and its connection to the devastating secrets being hidden by The Foundation. An evocative and erotic

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2023

Spoiler-Free Film Review: Wickedly Evil (2023)

Director Garry Walsh’s genre-bending Irish feature Wickedly Evil (AKA Bad Things in the Middle of Nowhere, 2023) finds gangsters Frankie (Joseph McGucken), Dancer (James Farrelly), and Gaz (Darryl Carter) hiding out in rural Ireland after pulling off a heist. The robbery was not without its problems, though, as Gaz is bleeding out from a gunshot wound, he and Frankie have kidnapped Clare (Louise Bourke), the daughter of a local crime family, and a woman who lives next door to the hideout named Sadie (Cat L. Walsh) just might be on to the men. The worst of their problems is yet to come, though. Wickedly Evil is billed as a horror comedy and although there is plenty of tension on tap, viewers expecting horror throughout — like with the 2020 U.K. holed-up criminals vs. the supernatural feature The World We Knew, for example — will likely come away disappointed. Blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shots of something unusual going on in the background are peppered

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Nov 16, 2023

Netflix’s Series “Sweet Home” Scores A New Trailer Ahead Of Season Two

News has now come out of “Geek Week” that fans will get a second season of one of the best Korean series ever to grace Netflix, the monster-filled, action-packed series “Sweet Home.” The announcement came with the release of the teaser trailer, which frankly looks good as hell. In season one, which premiered in 2020, Hyun, who lost his entire family in a terrible accident, is forced to face a new reality where monsters are trying to wipe out all of humanity. Season two sees “The main characters depart from the Green Home, the site of their previous monster battles, and are compelled to venture into the outside world. Survivors have gathered at what is left of the stadium and built a community, but they still cannot let their guard down. The evolving storyline promises heightened anticipation as the characters confront new dangers in different environments, where they must fight against external monsters and their monstrous desires.” Song Kang returns

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 12, 2023
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