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Blumhouse and Epix Announce The Cast For The Marcus Dunstan Directed Horror ‘Unhuman’

EPIX® and Blumhouse have just announced the lead cast member of the upcoming horror film Unhuman, including two-time Emmy nominated actress Brianne Tju (Light As a Feather, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Benjamin Wadsworth (Your Honor), Uriah Shelton (Freaky), and Ali Gallo (The Carpool). Unhuman centers on “a group of high school students. After their school bus crashes while on a field trip, relationships are tested amongst the students once they realize they are being stalked by a mysterious attacker who intends to drive them out of their bucolic adolescence and straight into a horrifying fight to survive.” Marcus Dunstan is directing from a script by Paul Soter (Club Dread). Dunstan and Soter previously collaborated with Blumhouse Television on the horror anthology series Into the Dark – Dunstan directed the Thanksgiving episode Pilgrim, while Soter penned the Christmas-themed A Nasty Piece of Work. As a screenwriter, Dunstan’s credits include Saw IV, V, VI, and Saw: The Final Chapter

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 11, 2021

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Filming Begins For ‘The Reef: Stalked’, The Sequel To ‘The Reef’

Production has begun on the survival thriller The Reef: Stalked, the sequel to 2010’s shark movie The Reef with writer-director and creature feature master Andrew Traucki returning. Starring Australian actors Teressa Liane (Neighbours, The Vampire Diaries), Ann Truong (Cowboy Bebop, Strike Back), Kate Lister (Unhinged, Fox Trap), and newcomer Saskia Archer, the story follows four girlfriends on a kayaking and diving adventure that goes horribly wrong, and draws on themes of resilience, healing from trauma and strength in sisterhood and female friendship. Filming is taking place in Bowen in The Whitsundays, the region off of Papua New Guinea with its gorgeous landscape and reefs serving as the backdrop for the character’s thrilling fight for survival against nature’s ultimate predator. Andrew Traucki said, “I’m thrilled The Reef: Stalked is in production and back to Bowen where we shot parts of The Reef eleven years ago! As a lover of survival tales, there is nothing I enjoy more than storytelling that pits

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 11, 2021

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The People Behind Horror’s Two Biggest Franchises Team Up For A New One

Two of the most successful franchise in modern history, the Saw franchise, and The Conjuring franchise, are uniting for a new franchise based on the true horrific events that took place at the infamous property known as The Lalaurie Mansion, still considered one of the most haunted houses in the world. We first reported the news back in October of 2019, but today, it was officially announced that brilliant filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman (Spiral, Saw franchise) will be in the director’s chair and that Chad and Carey Hayes, the creators of The Conjuring franchise, are teaming with Faster Horse Pictures, the film and TV production and financing outfit founded and run by Cindy Bond, Doug McKay, and Michael Whalen, to build the new horror film franchise. Talk about a horror dream team. Bousman’s most recent addition in the Saw universe, Spiral, starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, opened as the #1 film in the U.S. and held the top

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 10, 2021

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Idris Elba Is Stalked By A ‘Beast’ In Upcoming Survival Thriller

Last year it was announced that Universal Pictures will be pitting Idris Elba against a hungry lion in the survival thriller Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Universal has now announced the date that Beast will be unleashed in theaters, August 19, 2022. “[Beast] finds Elba on a trip to South Africa, only for he and his two teenage daughters to be hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savanna has but one apex predator. Elba plays Dr. Nate Samuels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa where he first met his wife on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them.” The Wrap reports. Ryan Engle (Rampage) penned the script, based on an idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan. Primak-Sullivan,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 20, 2021

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Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ Addams Series Has Found Its Star

Netflix’s upcoming live-action “Wednesday” Addams series has found its star. Jenna Ortega has been cast as Wednesday. Ortega is known for her roles in films such as The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Insidious Chapter Two, and Iron Man 3, and in Netflix’s series “You.’ The series, directed by Tim Burton, will find Wednesday as a student at Nevermore Academy where she attempts to master her emerging psychic abilities, go up against monsters, and attempt to solve the supernatural mystery that involved her parents 25 ago, Variety reports. The first season of “Wednesday,” created by Al Gough and Miles Miller, will feature eight episodes. Gough and Miller will also serve as showrunners and executive producers.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 19, 2021

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Horror Icons Fill The Cast Of Serial Killer Horror ‘Jasper’

Award-winning writer-director Keith Vaile will unleash a serial killer in his new film, Jasper, starring horror icons Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Bill Mosely (The Devil’s Rejects), Emmy-winner Bill Oberst Jr. (The Chair), and Kane Hodder from both the Friday the 13th franchise and the Hatchet franchise. In Jasper, a young woman (Erin O’Brien) and her friends a stalked by a vicious serial killer who uses the hogs on his small southwestern farm to dispose of bodies. Shaun Cairo (Pitchfork), Judy Fox, and Keith Vaile produce. Unmanned Media will release Jasper on February 25, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 17, 2021

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Frank Grillo & Bruce Willis Star In The Action-Thriller ‘A Day To Die’

Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the action-thriller A Day to Die, which recently wrapped shooting in Jackson, Mississippi. Frank Grillo (Captain America and The Purge franchises, “Kingdom,” and Boss Level), Bruce Willis (Die Hard franchise), Leon (“City on a Hill,” Cool Runnings), and Kevin Dillon (Platoon, “Entourage”) lead the cast that also includes Gianni Capaldi, Brooke Butler, Vernon Davis, Mohamed Karim, Alexander Kane, and introducing Curtis Nichouls. In the film, “A disgraced parole officer (Dillon) is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dangerous drug heists within twelve hours in order to pay the $2 million dollars he owes, rescue his kidnapped pregnant wife, and settle a score with the city’s corrupt police chief (Willis), who is working with the gang leader and double-crossed him years ago.” Veteran filmmaker Wes Miller (River Runs Red, Hell on the Border) directs from the script he co-wrote with Scott Mallace and Rab Berry.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 17, 2021

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Joaquin Phoenix Starring In Ari Aster’s ‘Disappointment BLVD’

Academy Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, known for his roles in films such as Joker, Gladiator, and Walk the Line has found his next project, he’ll be starring in Disappointment Blvd from Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster. Set to begin filming in Montreal late this summer, there is little known about Disappointment Blvd, except that it is a horror film with comedic undertones, which Aster describes as a “nightmare comedy.”. According to IMDB, the film is said to be “A decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.” We’ll update you when we know more.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 16, 2021

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Blumhouse Sets January Release for ‘The Black Phone’ – Starring Ethan Hawke

Director Scott Derrickson returns to horror to partner again with the foremost brand in the genre, Blumhouse, for his new horror thriller, The Black Phone whose release date has now been set for January. In the film, “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.” The four-time Oscar® nominee Ethan Hawke stars in the most terrifying role of his career in The Black Phone. Mason Thames makes his film debut in this terror-filled flick that is produced, directed, and co-written by Scott Derrickson, the writer-director of Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Also starring in the film are

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 13, 2021

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Mark Ruffalo To Star In HBO’s Upcoming Series Set In The World Of ‘Parasite’

HBO will take viewers into the world of the critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning horror Parasite with a new series that will be an original story, Discussing Film states in a Tweet. Avengers actor Mark Ruffalo has confirmed that the rumors of his involvement are true and that he is set to star in a lead role. He made the following statement, “We’ve met, I love him [Bong Joon-ho], I love that movie. I might be playing the father in Parasite on a television show. I‘d love to do it. We’re sort of waiting on the script and all that, but yeah, that’s pretty much true and in the works.” In the 2019 film, “The Park Family are the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 10, 2021

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