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Blu-ray Review: Terra Formars (2016)

In a very Blade Runner influenced future; a group of humanity’s rejects (including the likes of a serial killer, the leader of a child prostitution ring, Yakuza members etc.) are loaded onto a spacecraft and sent on their (un)merry way to Mars where they are to eliminate a roach infestation that is the result of a terra-forming project 500 years previous. In exchange for their service they will have their records wiped clean. Sounds like a breeze, right? Well as fate and sci-fi comic book tropes would have it, those roaches have rapidly evolved into humanoid creatures who are quite able to kick some ass. To combat this situation, our “heroes” are given injections that turn them into super-powered half-human/half-insect hybrids…and then the war for Mars is on in earnest! Directed by the master of disturbing Japanese horror Takashi Miike; Terra Formars is a violent, over-the-top- comic book come to life (not surprising as it is adapted from one). You

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DanXIII
Mar 30, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: The Body Snatcher (1945)

Mrs. Marsh (Rita Corday) visits the house of smug asshair Dr. Wolfe “Toddy” MacFarlane (Henry Daniell), seeking a cure for her daughter Georgina’s (Sharyn Moffett) paralysis, which ol’ Toddy recommends surgery as the solution, but tells her he can’t perform it…just build ’em up and knock ’em down you learned douche-nozzle. MacFarlane’s other static comes in the form of his A-No. 1 student Donald Fettes (Russell Wade) who can no longer afford his studies…which Toddy solves by offering Fettes a position assisting in some sort of experiment he is planning…an experiment on cadavers delivered by John Gray (Boris Karloff), a cab driver and graverobber. Speaking of Gray, he has taken a shine to Georgina and blackmails MacFarlane to operate on the girl or else he will reveal the doctor’s “dark secret”. Soon Fettes is swept up in a wicked whirlwind of botched operations, murder, and (possibly) even the supernatural! Full of pitch black shadows and gloom, tortured souls, and a

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DanXIII
Mar 12, 2019
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AMC Shares First “NOS4A2” Series Teaser

During the midseason premiere of “The Walking Dead”, AMC shared the first teaser trailer for their upcoming supernatural series “NOS4A2“, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Hill. The teaser also announced the series will premiere this Summer. Set in blue-collar New England, the story is a coming of age tell centering on Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), who discovers that she has the power to find lost things. Her gift sets her on a collision course with Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto), a mysterious supernatural villain who kidnaps children in his Rolls Royce Wraith. Manx periodically has to rejuvenate himself and does so by feeding on the life forces of children before taking them to the Christmasland, a world he created. The series’ pilot is set to premiere at the upcoming SXSW Film Festival.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2019
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‘The Dark Tower’ Series Begins Filming This Spring

It feels like every day we are reporting or giving an update on another Stephen King adaptation (not that we are complaining). Today we have an update on Amazon Studios’ upcoming series adaptation of King’s The Dark Tower. According to That Hashtag Show, the series is set to begin production this April in Croatia and will have a 13-episode first season. Casting is still being kept hush, hush at this point but it will be interesting to see who is cast in the roles of Roland and Walter. The 2017 movie starred Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, and while it had King’s support before the PG-13 release, after it opened in theaters he got very quiet. By the end of it, The Dark Tower only scored a mere 16 on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans were let down due to the amount of story that was left out due to time constraints and the way that everything was rushed to try to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 9, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Young orphan Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) is the type of kid that takes to memorizing dictionaries rather than engaging in the folly of youth. Anyway, Lewis soon takes up residence with his eccentric clock obsessed uncle Jonathon (Jack Black) in his Victorian mansion…a mansion filled with living furniture and more magic than most households (which admittedly hover somewhere around zero on the magic-o-meter). It doesn’t take Lewis long to learn that Jonathan is a real life warlock, and his associate Florence Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett) is no slouch in that department either, which is a damn good thing as the house was once owned by an evil warlock named Isaac Izard (Kyle MacLachlan) who left a clock hidden within the mansion walls that can bring about doomsday when it’s countdown ends. Can our erstwhile heroes find the demonic timepiece before the end of the world…and before Izard himself arrives from the afterlife? Filled with magic, monsters, re-animated corpses, a heartfelt story-line involving

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DanXIII
Dec 18, 2018
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Series Adaptation Of Comic “October Faction” Coming To Netflix

Fantasy meets horror in the upcoming Netflix series “October Faction“, from the executive producer of “Sleepy Hollow” and “Bones”. Based on the supernatural comic by the same name from Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), the series follows a famous family of monster hunters that includes a witch and a warlock. “Bones” actress Tamara Taylor stars alongside Maxim Roy, J.C. Mackenzie, Aurora Burghart, Gabriel Darku, Wendy Crewson, Megan Follows, Stephen McHattie, Praneet Akilla, Nicola Correia-Damude, and Clavin Desautels. “The series follows globetrotting monster hunters Fred (MacKenzie) and Deloris Allen (Taylor) who, after the death of Fred’s father, return to their hometown in upstate New York with their teenage children Geoff (Darku) and Viv (Burghart). As the family adjusts, Fred and Deloris must hide their identities as members of a secret organization, and our heroes quickly discover that their new small-town setting isn’t as idyllic as it seems,” Damian Kindler, Megan Follows, and Vikings‘ David Frazee are a few of those

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 26, 2018
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Carl Lumby And Alex Essoe Join ‘Doctor Sleep’

It’s been a few months since we had any news on Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep, the sequel to Stephen King’s The Shining. Today news has come that two more names have been added to the guest list that already includes the previously announced stars Rebecca Ferguson and Ewan McGregor who will play adult Danny Torrence. Carl Lumby (Supergirl) has filled the role of Dick Halloran. Alex Essoe (Midnighters) is set to play Wendy Torrance, originally played by Shelley Duvall, Deadline reports. Ferguson plays “Rose The Hat, head of a cult that feeds on the “steam” created by young people who have a touch of the “shining.” It is an excruciating fatal process for the victims and Torrance finds himself in their crosshairs as he tries to help a young girl elude their grasp.” Flanagan rewrote Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation of King’s 2013 novel which picks up with Danny who is now in his 40s and struggling with the same demons his

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 3, 2018
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Joe Hill’s Locke And Key Finds A Home At Netflix

Joe Hill‘s graphic novel Locke and Key has been picked up by Netflix. The new series adaptation from the son of Stephen King will be developed by the streaming giant after the pilot was failed to be ordered to series by Hulu. Featuring a new script, cast, and director, the series will be developed by Hill and showrunner Carlton Cuse. Andy Muschietti, who directed the pilot for Hulu will be an executive producer for the new series, THR reports. The series centers on “three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father move to their ancestral home in Maine only to find the house has magical keys that give them an array of powers. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys and will stop at nothing to attain them.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 30, 2018
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Milla Jovovich Set To Star In ‘Monster Hunter’ Adaptation

Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich is teaming back up with director Paul W.S. Anderson (her husband) and producer Jeremy Bolt for Constantin Film’s Monster Hunter, Variety reports. Set to begin production this September with a $60 million budget in South Africa, the film is an adaptation of the video game franchise that first debuted back in 2008. The game tasks players with hunting down monsters. Anderson revealed that in the film, for every monster, there is a hero.” “An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours.” There are no real central characters so it’s a bit like when we first approached Resident Evil and imposed our own characters and story on that world,” Anderson stated. “I think this is a perfect IP for us to do

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 12, 2018
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‘What We Do In The Shadows: The Series’ Coming To FX

Taika Waititi, the director behind Thor: Ragnarok, also brought us the horror-comedy What We Do in the Shadows which he co-directed and starred in along with Jemaine Clement, is preparing to bring us a series by the same name. Recently we reported that FX had ordered the pilot. Now, we can share the happy news that FX has ordered the first 10 episodes of the half-hour series which is aiming for a Spring 2019 premiere, Variety reports. “Set in New York City, the series follows three vampires who have been roommates for hundreds and hundreds of years.” Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Harvey Guillen, and Natasia Demetriou will star. Waititi, Clement, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Garrett Basch, and Paul Simms will executive produce. Waititi directed the pilot written by Clement. FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” isn’t the only show in the works for the franchise, a spin-off series of the movie, titled “Wellington Paranormal”, will soon premiere in New

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2018

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Blu-ray Review: Terra Formars (2016)

In a very Blade Runner influenced future; a group of humanity’s rejects (including the likes of a serial killer, the leader of a child prostitution ring, Yakuza members etc.) are loaded onto a spacecraft and sent on their (un)merry way to Mars where they are to eliminate a roach infestation that is the result of a terra-forming project 500 years previous. In exchange for their service they will have their records wiped clean. Sounds like a breeze, right? Well as fate and sci-fi comic book tropes would have it, those roaches have rapidly evolved into humanoid creatures who are quite able to kick some ass. To combat this situation, our “heroes” are given injections that turn them into super-powered half-human/half-insect hybrids…and then the war for Mars is on in earnest! Directed by the master of disturbing Japanese horror Takashi Miike; Terra Formars is a violent, over-the-top- comic book come to life (not surprising as it is adapted from one). You

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Mar 30, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: The Body Snatcher (1945)

Mrs. Marsh (Rita Corday) visits the house of smug asshair Dr. Wolfe “Toddy” MacFarlane (Henry Daniell), seeking a cure for her daughter Georgina’s (Sharyn Moffett) paralysis, which ol’ Toddy recommends surgery as the solution, but tells her he can’t perform it…just build ’em up and knock ’em down you learned douche-nozzle. MacFarlane’s other static comes in the form of his A-No. 1 student Donald Fettes (Russell Wade) who can no longer afford his studies…which Toddy solves by offering Fettes a position assisting in some sort of experiment he is planning…an experiment on cadavers delivered by John Gray (Boris Karloff), a cab driver and graverobber. Speaking of Gray, he has taken a shine to Georgina and blackmails MacFarlane to operate on the girl or else he will reveal the doctor’s “dark secret”. Soon Fettes is swept up in a wicked whirlwind of botched operations, murder, and (possibly) even the supernatural! Full of pitch black shadows and gloom, tortured souls, and a

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Mar 12, 2019
Horror Fuel

AMC Shares First “NOS4A2” Series Teaser

During the midseason premiere of “The Walking Dead”, AMC shared the first teaser trailer for their upcoming supernatural series “NOS4A2“, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Hill. The teaser also announced the series will premiere this Summer. Set in blue-collar New England, the story is a coming of age tell centering on Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), who discovers that she has the power to find lost things. Her gift sets her on a collision course with Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto), a mysterious supernatural villain who kidnaps children in his Rolls Royce Wraith. Manx periodically has to rejuvenate himself and does so by feeding on the life forces of children before taking them to the Christmasland, a world he created. The series’ pilot is set to premiere at the upcoming SXSW Film Festival.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2019
Horror Fuel

‘The Dark Tower’ Series Begins Filming This Spring

It feels like every day we are reporting or giving an update on another Stephen King adaptation (not that we are complaining). Today we have an update on Amazon Studios’ upcoming series adaptation of King’s The Dark Tower. According to That Hashtag Show, the series is set to begin production this April in Croatia and will have a 13-episode first season. Casting is still being kept hush, hush at this point but it will be interesting to see who is cast in the roles of Roland and Walter. The 2017 movie starred Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, and while it had King’s support before the PG-13 release, after it opened in theaters he got very quiet. By the end of it, The Dark Tower only scored a mere 16 on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans were let down due to the amount of story that was left out due to time constraints and the way that everything was rushed to try to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 9, 2019
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Young orphan Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) is the type of kid that takes to memorizing dictionaries rather than engaging in the folly of youth. Anyway, Lewis soon takes up residence with his eccentric clock obsessed uncle Jonathon (Jack Black) in his Victorian mansion…a mansion filled with living furniture and more magic than most households (which admittedly hover somewhere around zero on the magic-o-meter). It doesn’t take Lewis long to learn that Jonathan is a real life warlock, and his associate Florence Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett) is no slouch in that department either, which is a damn good thing as the house was once owned by an evil warlock named Isaac Izard (Kyle MacLachlan) who left a clock hidden within the mansion walls that can bring about doomsday when it’s countdown ends. Can our erstwhile heroes find the demonic timepiece before the end of the world…and before Izard himself arrives from the afterlife? Filled with magic, monsters, re-animated corpses, a heartfelt story-line involving

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Dec 18, 2018
Horror Fuel

Series Adaptation Of Comic “October Faction” Coming To Netflix

Fantasy meets horror in the upcoming Netflix series “October Faction“, from the executive producer of “Sleepy Hollow” and “Bones”. Based on the supernatural comic by the same name from Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), the series follows a famous family of monster hunters that includes a witch and a warlock. “Bones” actress Tamara Taylor stars alongside Maxim Roy, J.C. Mackenzie, Aurora Burghart, Gabriel Darku, Wendy Crewson, Megan Follows, Stephen McHattie, Praneet Akilla, Nicola Correia-Damude, and Clavin Desautels. “The series follows globetrotting monster hunters Fred (MacKenzie) and Deloris Allen (Taylor) who, after the death of Fred’s father, return to their hometown in upstate New York with their teenage children Geoff (Darku) and Viv (Burghart). As the family adjusts, Fred and Deloris must hide their identities as members of a secret organization, and our heroes quickly discover that their new small-town setting isn’t as idyllic as it seems,” Damian Kindler, Megan Follows, and Vikings‘ David Frazee are a few of those

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 26, 2018
Horror Fuel

Carl Lumby And Alex Essoe Join ‘Doctor Sleep’

It’s been a few months since we had any news on Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep, the sequel to Stephen King’s The Shining. Today news has come that two more names have been added to the guest list that already includes the previously announced stars Rebecca Ferguson and Ewan McGregor who will play adult Danny Torrence. Carl Lumby (Supergirl) has filled the role of Dick Halloran. Alex Essoe (Midnighters) is set to play Wendy Torrance, originally played by Shelley Duvall, Deadline reports. Ferguson plays “Rose The Hat, head of a cult that feeds on the “steam” created by young people who have a touch of the “shining.” It is an excruciating fatal process for the victims and Torrance finds himself in their crosshairs as he tries to help a young girl elude their grasp.” Flanagan rewrote Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation of King’s 2013 novel which picks up with Danny who is now in his 40s and struggling with the same demons his

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 3, 2018
Horror Fuel

Joe Hill’s Locke And Key Finds A Home At Netflix

Joe Hill‘s graphic novel Locke and Key has been picked up by Netflix. The new series adaptation from the son of Stephen King will be developed by the streaming giant after the pilot was failed to be ordered to series by Hulu. Featuring a new script, cast, and director, the series will be developed by Hill and showrunner Carlton Cuse. Andy Muschietti, who directed the pilot for Hulu will be an executive producer for the new series, THR reports. The series centers on “three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father move to their ancestral home in Maine only to find the house has magical keys that give them an array of powers. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys and will stop at nothing to attain them.”

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 30, 2018
Horror Fuel

Milla Jovovich Set To Star In ‘Monster Hunter’ Adaptation

Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich is teaming back up with director Paul W.S. Anderson (her husband) and producer Jeremy Bolt for Constantin Film’s Monster Hunter, Variety reports. Set to begin production this September with a $60 million budget in South Africa, the film is an adaptation of the video game franchise that first debuted back in 2008. The game tasks players with hunting down monsters. Anderson revealed that in the film, for every monster, there is a hero.” “An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours.” There are no real central characters so it’s a bit like when we first approached Resident Evil and imposed our own characters and story on that world,” Anderson stated. “I think this is a perfect IP for us to do

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 12, 2018
Horror Fuel

‘What We Do In The Shadows: The Series’ Coming To FX

Taika Waititi, the director behind Thor: Ragnarok, also brought us the horror-comedy What We Do in the Shadows which he co-directed and starred in along with Jemaine Clement, is preparing to bring us a series by the same name. Recently we reported that FX had ordered the pilot. Now, we can share the happy news that FX has ordered the first 10 episodes of the half-hour series which is aiming for a Spring 2019 premiere, Variety reports. “Set in New York City, the series follows three vampires who have been roommates for hundreds and hundreds of years.” Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Harvey Guillen, and Natasia Demetriou will star. Waititi, Clement, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Garrett Basch, and Paul Simms will executive produce. Waititi directed the pilot written by Clement. FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” isn’t the only show in the works for the franchise, a spin-off series of the movie, titled “Wellington Paranormal”, will soon premiere in New

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2018
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