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Blumhouse Gifts Fans With The ‘Black Christmas’ Trailer

Ahead of the quickly approaching holidays comes Black Christmas, a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Today, Blumhouse gifts horror fans with the first bloody trailer. “Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue, The CW’s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon, The CW’s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes). Whoever

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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New ‘Deathcember’ Trailer Teases 24 Bloody Days Of Christmas

This Christmas Epic Pictures’ horror anthology Deathcember will treat genre fans to 24 terror-inducing short films by 24 directors from around the world, each taking aim the holiday season. Directors include Michael Varrati, Lazar Bodroža, Florian Frerichs, Isaac Ezban, Sonia Escolano, Bob Pipe, Steve De Roover, Jürgen Kling, Ama Lea, Lucky McKee, Milan Todorović, Pollyanna McIntosh, Sadrac González-Perellón, Julian Richards, Lee Sang-woo, Vivienne Vaughn, Ruggero Deodato, Sam Wineman, Andreas Marschall, Rémi Fréchette, Jason A. Rostovsky, John Cook Lynch, Trent Haaga, Annika Marx, BJ Colangelo, Zach Shildwachter, and Alyosha Saari. The cast includes Barbara Crampton, AJ Bowen, and Suspiria Barbara Magnolfi Today, we’ve got the teaser. You won’t have to wait long to see the full trailer, it arrives next week. Here it is, our first official teaser trailer! Can’t wait for you all to see the crazy, bloody, weird Advent horror anthology that #DEATHCEMBER has become. Full trailer out next month! 🎅 world sales: @epic_pictures pic.twitter.com/KivRAymp9Y — Deathcember (@DeathcemberFilm) July

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 14, 2019
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Celebrate The Season With These Holiday Themed Horror Movies!

Holiday horror films have become one of our favorite Christmas traditions. We’ve gathered a list of films to keep you entertained this holiday season. Enjoy! Black Christmas (1974) A sorority house falls victim to a stranger during Christmas break. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads Black Christmas (2006 Remake) An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, only to discover that it’s now a sorority house. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads The Gingerdead Man (2005) The soul of a killer possesses a Gingerbread Man. The cookie reaks havoc on the girl who sent him to the chair. The film has three sequels. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) In the Konvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest guarded secrets of Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) This film is a must-see for every fan of Halloween, Tim Burton, horror or just great films. Load videoYouTube sets

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 25, 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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Shudder Gifts Fans With Specials, Marathons, Movies And More This December

SHUDDER is gifting fans with a killer lineup which includes 6 new and classic holiday-themed horror movies and 8 essential Stephen King adaptations, along with a new dusk-till-dawn The Last Drive-In marathon, A Very Joe Bob Christmas. Here are some of the goodies you’ll find under the tree from Shudder this December: KING OF HORROR — available Saturday, December 1 THE CULT OF “KING” COHEN — available Tuesday, December 10 We close out the year with two collections celebrating our favorite pair of Kings: horror master Stephen King and maverick indie filmmaker Larry “King” Cohen. Start with eight beloved Stephen King adaptations—Cujo (1983), Creepshow (1982), Creepshow 2 (1987), The Dead Zone (1983), Misery (1990), Pet Sematary (1989), Salem’s Lot (1979), and Silver Bullet (1985). Then discover the larger-than-life, mostly true story of a great American iconoclast in the documentary King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018), and stream three of our favorite Cohen cult classics, God Told

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 29, 2018
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Santa Has An Ax To Grind In The Brutal Holiday Slasher ‘Christmas Blood’

Santa is on his way this December you better hope you’re not on his list. From Norwegian filmmaker Reinert Kiil (The House) comes the brutal holiday-themed Santa lasher Christmas Blood (aka Juleblod). “Christmas is a time of peace, love, and family. But not for one Norwegian town as a psychopath dressed in a Santa Claus suit has been terrorizing them for the past 13 years. For as soon as the caroling starts, this demented Kris Kringle dispenses bloody ax blows regardless of whether you’ve been bad or good. As the holiday approaches on one snow-covered town filled with revelers, a pair of detectives work against time to find and arrest this bearded serial killer. Will they manage to stop this demented St. Nick before he kills again? Director Reinert Kiil (The House) delivers a dark, disturbing and bloody holiday thriller.” Julianne Aga, Pernille Baggeranas, Ida Malene Smith Bakke, Solje Bergman, Asbjørn Buarøy, May Lydia Eistø, and Helene Eidsvåg star. Christmas

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 26, 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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Sci-Fi Horror ‘Await Further Instructions’ Opens In Theaters And Arrives On VOD

This December the British sci-fi horror film of the year, Await Further Instructions, arrives this December from director Johnny Kevorkian. In Await Further Instructions, set on Christmas day, “the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly – an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen, a message glows ominously: ‘Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions’. As the television exerts an ever more sinister grip, their paranoia escalates into bloody carnage.” Starring David Bradley (Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Harry Potter), Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, and Grant Masters, the film is now playing in UK cinemas and is available on VOD on December 7th from Dark Sky Films. It recently received a five-star review from our writer Dan XIII.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 2, 2018

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Blumhouse Gifts Fans With The ‘Black Christmas’ Trailer

Ahead of the quickly approaching holidays comes Black Christmas, a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Today, Blumhouse gifts horror fans with the first bloody trailer. “Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue, The CW’s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon, The CW’s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes). Whoever

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 5, 2019
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New ‘Deathcember’ Trailer Teases 24 Bloody Days Of Christmas

This Christmas Epic Pictures’ horror anthology Deathcember will treat genre fans to 24 terror-inducing short films by 24 directors from around the world, each taking aim the holiday season. Directors include Michael Varrati, Lazar Bodroža, Florian Frerichs, Isaac Ezban, Sonia Escolano, Bob Pipe, Steve De Roover, Jürgen Kling, Ama Lea, Lucky McKee, Milan Todorović, Pollyanna McIntosh, Sadrac González-Perellón, Julian Richards, Lee Sang-woo, Vivienne Vaughn, Ruggero Deodato, Sam Wineman, Andreas Marschall, Rémi Fréchette, Jason A. Rostovsky, John Cook Lynch, Trent Haaga, Annika Marx, BJ Colangelo, Zach Shildwachter, and Alyosha Saari. The cast includes Barbara Crampton, AJ Bowen, and Suspiria Barbara Magnolfi Today, we’ve got the teaser. You won’t have to wait long to see the full trailer, it arrives next week. Here it is, our first official teaser trailer! Can’t wait for you all to see the crazy, bloody, weird Advent horror anthology that #DEATHCEMBER has become. Full trailer out next month! 🎅 world sales: @epic_pictures pic.twitter.com/KivRAymp9Y — Deathcember (@DeathcemberFilm) July

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 14, 2019
Horror Fuel

Celebrate The Season With These Holiday Themed Horror Movies!

Holiday horror films have become one of our favorite Christmas traditions. We’ve gathered a list of films to keep you entertained this holiday season. Enjoy! Black Christmas (1974) A sorority house falls victim to a stranger during Christmas break. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads Black Christmas (2006 Remake) An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, only to discover that it’s now a sorority house. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads The Gingerdead Man (2005) The soul of a killer possesses a Gingerbread Man. The cookie reaks havoc on the girl who sent him to the chair. The film has three sequels. Load videoYouTube sets cookies once the video loads Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) In the Konvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest guarded secrets of Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) This film is a must-see for every fan of Halloween, Tim Burton, horror or just great films. Load videoYouTube sets

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 25, 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

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Dec 2, 2018
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Shudder Gifts Fans With Specials, Marathons, Movies And More This December

SHUDDER is gifting fans with a killer lineup which includes 6 new and classic holiday-themed horror movies and 8 essential Stephen King adaptations, along with a new dusk-till-dawn The Last Drive-In marathon, A Very Joe Bob Christmas. Here are some of the goodies you’ll find under the tree from Shudder this December: KING OF HORROR — available Saturday, December 1 THE CULT OF “KING” COHEN — available Tuesday, December 10 We close out the year with two collections celebrating our favorite pair of Kings: horror master Stephen King and maverick indie filmmaker Larry “King” Cohen. Start with eight beloved Stephen King adaptations—Cujo (1983), Creepshow (1982), Creepshow 2 (1987), The Dead Zone (1983), Misery (1990), Pet Sematary (1989), Salem’s Lot (1979), and Silver Bullet (1985). Then discover the larger-than-life, mostly true story of a great American iconoclast in the documentary King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018), and stream three of our favorite Cohen cult classics, God Told

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 29, 2018
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Santa Has An Ax To Grind In The Brutal Holiday Slasher ‘Christmas Blood’

Santa is on his way this December you better hope you’re not on his list. From Norwegian filmmaker Reinert Kiil (The House) comes the brutal holiday-themed Santa lasher Christmas Blood (aka Juleblod). “Christmas is a time of peace, love, and family. But not for one Norwegian town as a psychopath dressed in a Santa Claus suit has been terrorizing them for the past 13 years. For as soon as the caroling starts, this demented Kris Kringle dispenses bloody ax blows regardless of whether you’ve been bad or good. As the holiday approaches on one snow-covered town filled with revelers, a pair of detectives work against time to find and arrest this bearded serial killer. Will they manage to stop this demented St. Nick before he kills again? Director Reinert Kiil (The House) delivers a dark, disturbing and bloody holiday thriller.” Julianne Aga, Pernille Baggeranas, Ida Malene Smith Bakke, Solje Bergman, Asbjørn Buarøy, May Lydia Eistø, and Helene Eidsvåg star. Christmas

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 26, 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

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Nov 15, 2018
Horror Fuel

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.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 14, 2018
Horror Fuel

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

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 7, 2018
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Sci-Fi Horror ‘Await Further Instructions’ Opens In Theaters And Arrives On VOD

This December the British sci-fi horror film of the year, Await Further Instructions, arrives this December from director Johnny Kevorkian. In Await Further Instructions, set on Christmas day, “the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly – an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen, a message glows ominously: ‘Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions’. As the television exerts an ever more sinister grip, their paranoia escalates into bloody carnage.” Starring David Bradley (Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Harry Potter), Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, and Grant Masters, the film is now playing in UK cinemas and is available on VOD on December 7th from Dark Sky Films. It recently received a five-star review from our writer Dan XIII.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 2, 2018
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