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Paramount+ Is Taking Us Back To The ‘Pet Sematary’ With A New Prequel

The world of Pet Sematary is expanding with a new prequel in the works at Paramount+, which will be Lindsey Beer’s feature directorial debut. Jeff Buhler, who penned the script for the 2019 adaptation, based on the Stephen King story, wrote the prequel which was last revised by Beer, THR is reporting. Natalie Alyn Lind (“Big Sky,” “Tell Me a Story”), Jack Mulhern (“Mare of Easttown”), Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), and Isabella Star LaBlanc have joined the cast with Jackson White (“Mrs. Fletcher”) playing a young Jud Crandall. While there have been no plot details revealed at this point, there are a couple of ways it could go. We can’t help but wonder if the prequel will involve the cautionary story that Jud recounts to Louis about Timmy, the young man who was the last person buried in the Pet Sematary. During the story, Jud says those famous lines, “Sometimes dead is better.” But we could be completely wrong. We

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 11, 2021
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Censor’s Prano Bailey-Bond Directing Female Driven Horror ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’

C Prano Bailey-Bond left horror fans pleased with her hit horror film Censor (Out now on DVD) earlier this year. She’s wasting no time and has already moved on to her next project, titled Things We Lost in the Fire, based on a short story by Mariana Enriquez. Deadline reports that Prano Bailey-Bond will both write and direct Things We Lost in the Fire for RT Features, with Anthony Fletcher (Censor) penning the screenplay. The film “will chronicle how a terrorized female community resorts to ever more extreme actions in response to male violence.” RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira (Call Me by Your Name) and Lourenço Sant’Anna (The Lighthouse) will produce, with Alan Terpins serving as Executive Producer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 8, 2021
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‘The Banishing’ Director Turns To Religion For New Horror Film ‘Consecration’

Christopher Smith, whose film The Banishing landed on Shudder this past April, is back with his supernatural horror Consecration, which is being launched at Cannes, Variety reports. “The movie turns on events following the suspicious death of a priest, whose sister goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened to her brother. There, she soon uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.” Smith, who also directed Creep and Black Death, co-wrote the religious horror alongside Laurie Cook (The Banishing). Consecration is described by Smith as “a film about the nature of religion and how defining one thing as divine creates a false opposite that is heretical.” He continued, “This film is an opportunity to take the audience on a thrilling journey into the dark unknown, and I want to really push that to the limit both in terms of scares and the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 6, 2021
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‘Silent Night’ Director Is Back With The A.I. Horror ‘Margaux’

Steven C. Miller, the filmmaker behind Silent Night, First Kill, and Escape Plan 2 is back to direct the new horror film, Margaux, Deadline reports. The first cast members have been announced including Madison Pettis (He’s All That), Vanessa Morgan (“Riverdale”), and Richard Harmon (“The 100”). Set to begin production this summer, the film centers on, “A group of college friends rent a smart house for a weekend of partying. However, they slowly start to realize that Margaux, the house’s super-advanced AI system, has sinister designs for them.” Nick Waters and Christ Beyrooty penned the script for Margaux.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 3, 2021
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An Update For The Upcoming “Alien” Series

The Alien universe is expanding once again, this time with a new TV series for FX from showrunner Noah Hawley, the man behind “Fargo” and “Legion.” First announced back in December of 2020, the series is produced by Ridley Scott. While details are being kept quiet, we do know that the seventh installment of the franchise will not be about Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), instead it will be a completely new story and will be set on Earth. Howley revealed a few details during a recent interview with Vanity Fair. Hawle said “The alien stories are always trapped… trapped in a prison, trapped in a spaceship. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate. Those are great monster movies, but they’re not just monster movies,” Hawley continued, “They’re about humanity trapped between our primordial, parasitic past and our artificial intelligence future—and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 2, 2021
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Halloween’s David Gordon Green In Talks To Direct Blumhouse’s Reboot Of ‘The Exorcist’

When it comes to horror, one movie stands out as not only one of the most important but also the most frightening, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. While it has had sequels and series adaptations nothing has quite matched in nearly 50 years. But Blumhouse has set out to change that with a reboot (*insert head shake). David Gordon Green (Halloween, Halloween Kills) is reportedly in talks to direct the movie produced by Blumhouse and Morgan Creek. Jason Blum made a comment during an interview with Den of Geek, describing that the movie will be like the situation between the original Halloween and Green’s 2018 version. [It’s] going to be like David’s Halloween sequel,” Blum told the site. “I think it’s going to pleasantly surprise all the skeptics out there. We had a lot of skeptics about Halloween and David turned them around, and I think he’s going to turn it around with The Exorcist.” From what Blum said it sounds

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 1, 2021
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“Good Omens” Gets Renewed Two Years After Finale

In a twist that we never expected, Amazon has renewed “Good Omens” for a second season after a two-years after season one’s finale. Two reasons that it’s so surprising is that the series was first billed as limited series and another, the first season covered the entire novel it’s based upon. Co-written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet, the new season will deliver a fresh story about the supernatural duo of Michael Sheen‘s (“Masters of Sex”) angel Aziraphale and David Tennant’s (“Doctor Who”) Crowley and their involvement in the apocalypse and with humanity. Both are returning. The new six-episode season will begin production later this year in Scotland and will stream exclusively on Amazon with its premiere likely in 2022. We’ll keep you posted.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 30, 2021
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“Helstrom” & “FTWD” Actress Joins The Cast Of Blumhouse’s “Firestarter”

The Firestarter reboot is beginning to take shape. Today, we’ve learned via a press release that Sydney Lemmon (Helstrom, Succession, Fear of the Walking Dead) has joined the cast to play Vicky. Lemmon joins previously announced actors Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Greatest Showman), Michael Greyeyes (Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls, True Detective), Gloria Reuben (City on a Hill, Mr. Robot), and Ryan Kiera Armstrong (“American Horror Story”, The Tomorrow War, It: Chapter II). Keith Thomas, who brought us the fantastic horror film The Vigil earlier this year, directs from the script adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. The tale centers on a young girl (Armstrong) who develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful gift as a weapon. Jason Blum and Academy Award® winner Akiva Goldsman will produce. Martha De Laurentiis, who was an associate producer on the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 29, 2021
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AMC Sinks Its Teeth Into New “Interview With The Vampire” Series

AMC has officially ordered the new series adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire” with an eight-episode first season, Deadline reports. The series is created by Rolin Jones (“Friday Night Lights”) who will also serve as showrunner and writer. Deadline notes, that “Interview With the Vampire” will premiere in 2022 on both AMC and AMC+. “The challenge of adapting for television the groundbreaking and immensely compelling work of Anne Rice is both intimidating and exhilarating,” Mark Johnson (“Breaking Bad”) said in a statement shared by Deadline. “Having previously produced films from such singular works, I recognize both the responsibility and the obligation we owe the material. I strongly believe that with AMC and Rolin Jones we are equipped to meet this challenge and to thrill and entertain both the loyal Anne Rice fan and the viewer who is just now discovering her work.” The “Interview With the Vampire” saga centers on vampires Louis and Lestat, who were played by

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2021
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Yellow Veil Pictures Acquires Mattie Do’s Sci-fi Thriller ‘The Long Walk’

Yellow Veil Pictures has snagged the North American rights to Mattie Do‘s acclaimed Laos sci-fi thriller The Long Walk and is set to release it in early 2022. The film tells “the story of an elderly man who has the power to travel back in time thanks to a mysterious spectral companion whose death he witnessed fifty years earlier. He decides to trespass into his own past and set in motion a plan to preempt his mother’s terminal suffering, and ultimately appease his soul.” The Long Walk made its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and later went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema program, Fantastic Fest, and Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. The Long Walk was written by Christopher Larsen, who also penned Do’s previous films, produced by Do, Larsen, Annick Mahnert, Justin Deimen, Anousone Sirisackda, and Abhi Rastogi. Jeremy Sim and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 22, 2021

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Paramount+ Is Taking Us Back To The ‘Pet Sematary’ With A New Prequel

The world of Pet Sematary is expanding with a new prequel in the works at Paramount+, which will be Lindsey Beer’s feature directorial debut. Jeff Buhler, who penned the script for the 2019 adaptation, based on the Stephen King story, wrote the prequel which was last revised by Beer, THR is reporting. Natalie Alyn Lind (“Big Sky,” “Tell Me a Story”), Jack Mulhern (“Mare of Easttown”), Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), and Isabella Star LaBlanc have joined the cast with Jackson White (“Mrs. Fletcher”) playing a young Jud Crandall. While there have been no plot details revealed at this point, there are a couple of ways it could go. We can’t help but wonder if the prequel will involve the cautionary story that Jud recounts to Louis about Timmy, the young man who was the last person buried in the Pet Sematary. During the story, Jud says those famous lines, “Sometimes dead is better.” But we could be completely wrong. We

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 11, 2021
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Censor’s Prano Bailey-Bond Directing Female Driven Horror ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’

C Prano Bailey-Bond left horror fans pleased with her hit horror film Censor (Out now on DVD) earlier this year. She’s wasting no time and has already moved on to her next project, titled Things We Lost in the Fire, based on a short story by Mariana Enriquez. Deadline reports that Prano Bailey-Bond will both write and direct Things We Lost in the Fire for RT Features, with Anthony Fletcher (Censor) penning the screenplay. The film “will chronicle how a terrorized female community resorts to ever more extreme actions in response to male violence.” RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira (Call Me by Your Name) and Lourenço Sant’Anna (The Lighthouse) will produce, with Alan Terpins serving as Executive Producer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 8, 2021
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‘The Banishing’ Director Turns To Religion For New Horror Film ‘Consecration’

Christopher Smith, whose film The Banishing landed on Shudder this past April, is back with his supernatural horror Consecration, which is being launched at Cannes, Variety reports. “The movie turns on events following the suspicious death of a priest, whose sister goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened to her brother. There, she soon uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.” Smith, who also directed Creep and Black Death, co-wrote the religious horror alongside Laurie Cook (The Banishing). Consecration is described by Smith as “a film about the nature of religion and how defining one thing as divine creates a false opposite that is heretical.” He continued, “This film is an opportunity to take the audience on a thrilling journey into the dark unknown, and I want to really push that to the limit both in terms of scares and the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 6, 2021
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‘Silent Night’ Director Is Back With The A.I. Horror ‘Margaux’

Steven C. Miller, the filmmaker behind Silent Night, First Kill, and Escape Plan 2 is back to direct the new horror film, Margaux, Deadline reports. The first cast members have been announced including Madison Pettis (He’s All That), Vanessa Morgan (“Riverdale”), and Richard Harmon (“The 100”). Set to begin production this summer, the film centers on, “A group of college friends rent a smart house for a weekend of partying. However, they slowly start to realize that Margaux, the house’s super-advanced AI system, has sinister designs for them.” Nick Waters and Christ Beyrooty penned the script for Margaux.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 3, 2021
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An Update For The Upcoming “Alien” Series

The Alien universe is expanding once again, this time with a new TV series for FX from showrunner Noah Hawley, the man behind “Fargo” and “Legion.” First announced back in December of 2020, the series is produced by Ridley Scott. While details are being kept quiet, we do know that the seventh installment of the franchise will not be about Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), instead it will be a completely new story and will be set on Earth. Howley revealed a few details during a recent interview with Vanity Fair. Hawle said “The alien stories are always trapped… trapped in a prison, trapped in a spaceship. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate. Those are great monster movies, but they’re not just monster movies,” Hawley continued, “They’re about humanity trapped between our primordial, parasitic past and our artificial intelligence future—and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 2, 2021
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Halloween’s David Gordon Green In Talks To Direct Blumhouse’s Reboot Of ‘The Exorcist’

When it comes to horror, one movie stands out as not only one of the most important but also the most frightening, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. While it has had sequels and series adaptations nothing has quite matched in nearly 50 years. But Blumhouse has set out to change that with a reboot (*insert head shake). David Gordon Green (Halloween, Halloween Kills) is reportedly in talks to direct the movie produced by Blumhouse and Morgan Creek. Jason Blum made a comment during an interview with Den of Geek, describing that the movie will be like the situation between the original Halloween and Green’s 2018 version. [It’s] going to be like David’s Halloween sequel,” Blum told the site. “I think it’s going to pleasantly surprise all the skeptics out there. We had a lot of skeptics about Halloween and David turned them around, and I think he’s going to turn it around with The Exorcist.” From what Blum said it sounds

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 1, 2021
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“Good Omens” Gets Renewed Two Years After Finale

In a twist that we never expected, Amazon has renewed “Good Omens” for a second season after a two-years after season one’s finale. Two reasons that it’s so surprising is that the series was first billed as limited series and another, the first season covered the entire novel it’s based upon. Co-written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet, the new season will deliver a fresh story about the supernatural duo of Michael Sheen‘s (“Masters of Sex”) angel Aziraphale and David Tennant’s (“Doctor Who”) Crowley and their involvement in the apocalypse and with humanity. Both are returning. The new six-episode season will begin production later this year in Scotland and will stream exclusively on Amazon with its premiere likely in 2022. We’ll keep you posted.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 30, 2021
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“Helstrom” & “FTWD” Actress Joins The Cast Of Blumhouse’s “Firestarter”

The Firestarter reboot is beginning to take shape. Today, we’ve learned via a press release that Sydney Lemmon (Helstrom, Succession, Fear of the Walking Dead) has joined the cast to play Vicky. Lemmon joins previously announced actors Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Greatest Showman), Michael Greyeyes (Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls, True Detective), Gloria Reuben (City on a Hill, Mr. Robot), and Ryan Kiera Armstrong (“American Horror Story”, The Tomorrow War, It: Chapter II). Keith Thomas, who brought us the fantastic horror film The Vigil earlier this year, directs from the script adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. The tale centers on a young girl (Armstrong) who develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful gift as a weapon. Jason Blum and Academy Award® winner Akiva Goldsman will produce. Martha De Laurentiis, who was an associate producer on the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

AMC Sinks Its Teeth Into New “Interview With The Vampire” Series

AMC has officially ordered the new series adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire” with an eight-episode first season, Deadline reports. The series is created by Rolin Jones (“Friday Night Lights”) who will also serve as showrunner and writer. Deadline notes, that “Interview With the Vampire” will premiere in 2022 on both AMC and AMC+. “The challenge of adapting for television the groundbreaking and immensely compelling work of Anne Rice is both intimidating and exhilarating,” Mark Johnson (“Breaking Bad”) said in a statement shared by Deadline. “Having previously produced films from such singular works, I recognize both the responsibility and the obligation we owe the material. I strongly believe that with AMC and Rolin Jones we are equipped to meet this challenge and to thrill and entertain both the loyal Anne Rice fan and the viewer who is just now discovering her work.” The “Interview With the Vampire” saga centers on vampires Louis and Lestat, who were played by

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2021
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Yellow Veil Pictures Acquires Mattie Do’s Sci-fi Thriller ‘The Long Walk’

Yellow Veil Pictures has snagged the North American rights to Mattie Do‘s acclaimed Laos sci-fi thriller The Long Walk and is set to release it in early 2022. The film tells “the story of an elderly man who has the power to travel back in time thanks to a mysterious spectral companion whose death he witnessed fifty years earlier. He decides to trespass into his own past and set in motion a plan to preempt his mother’s terminal suffering, and ultimately appease his soul.” The Long Walk made its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and later went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema program, Fantastic Fest, and Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. The Long Walk was written by Christopher Larsen, who also penned Do’s previous films, produced by Do, Larsen, Annick Mahnert, Justin Deimen, Anousone Sirisackda, and Abhi Rastogi. Jeremy Sim and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 22, 2021
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