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Things You Didn’t Know About The ‘Candyman’ Franchise

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman…Don’t worry, we’re not going to say it. The franchise that stars Tony Todd as the titular legendary character has been popular since the original film debuted back in 1992, with the latest installment (review), simply titled Candyman, opening in theaters this past August. We’ve put together a list of ten interesting facts about the franchise that you may not of known. The original film centers on Helen (Virginia Madsen) who is writing her thesis on the legend of the Candyman, a killer that will come after you if you say his name five times in a mirror. Helen makes the mistake of calling Candyman and she pays the ultimate price. The original film is based on a short story titled “The Forbidden” written by Clive Barker. The story was originally published in the magazine Fantasy Tales in 1986. There are several things that are different between the story and the film with the biggest being that

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 5, 2021

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Celebrate Friday The 13th By Watching The Entire Franchise

Friday the 13th is a date held dear by every horror fan. To help celebrate the day, as well as the classic horror franchise we’ve got a list of all the places you can stream it today and all weekend, so grab your PJs, a bag of popcorn, a friend or sweetheart, and binge the crap out of the legendary franchise! Sean S. Cunningham directed 1980’s Friday the 13th that starred Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. The movie centers on a group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double murder years before. The entire franchise consists of 12 films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and a ton of merchandise. You also might want to check out our interview with the creator Victor Miller who wrote Jason Voorhees into

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 13, 2021

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‘Evil Dead’ Is Headed Back To Theaters To Celebrate 40th Anniversary

When it comes to classic horror, you don’t get much more iconic than writer-director Sam Raimi’s 1981 film The Evil Dead, which has spawned sequels, a reboot, a TV series, and a game franchise. This October the cherished film is returning to theaters to celebrate its 40th anniversary. In addition to the part horror, part comedy film’s theatrical return, attendees will be treated to an exclusive introduction from star Bruce Campbell, who portrayed the franchise’s iconic lead character, Ashley “Ash” Williams. In the first installment of Raimi’s famed original Evil Dead trilogy, Ash (Campbell), his girlfriend Linda (Baker), his sister Cheryl (Sandweiss), and couple Scotty (Delrich) and Shelly (York), drive to a remote cabin in the woods for a fun getaway. While there, they find the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (aka “The Book of the Dead”), an ancient tome whose text reawakens the dead when read out loud. After unintentionally releasing a flood of evil, the five friends must fight for their

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 12, 2021

Holiday HorrorInterviews

‘The Collected’ Has Been Abandoned

The highly anticipated new installment of The Collector franchise is dead, Dread Central reports. Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton have now revealed that The Collected has been abandoned after filing only eight days before Covid-19 brought production to a halt. And get this, according to the filmmaker the producers have been dodging their phone calls, which is pretty shitty. Dunstan tells The Thing With Two Heads podcast: “Well, we shot for eight days, and then it was shut down. I invested in this thing, I’d like to know what’s happening. We stopped hearing from anybody with the production. I know most of the props I brought there have been stolen. I would think that anybody else who invested in this movie that thinks that it’s happening, wouldn’t like to know what’s happening? .. All calls and emails have gone unanswered. When you can’t get anyone on the phone and you don’t hear anything, at this point, I’m really p*ssed off.“

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 6, 2021

MoviesNews

Plot And Release Date For ‘Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City’

We’ve got the new release date and plot for Johannes Robert‘s upcoming reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City which is meant to kick off a new franchise. “Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.” Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) stars as Claire Redfield with Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) playing Jill Valentine, Tom Hopper (“The Umbrella Academy”) as Albert Wesker, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (“Yellowstone“) playing William Birkin, with Donal Logue (Silent Night) playing Chief Irons. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will be released in theaters nationwide on November 24, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 2, 2021

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Good News And Bad News For The New ‘Paranormal Activity’ Movie

We’ve got good news and bad news for the upcoming Paranormal Activity installment. Let’s go ahead and get the bad news out of the way first. The pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the film industry causing movie release dates to shift. News recently came that the movie would be going straight to Paramount+ this March. Now, Paramount has pulled the title from their release calendar which could mean either the film won’t be getting a theatrical release, or that it will be delayed. We are guessing that it will be delayed. Here’s the good news, the cast has just been announced. The Wrap is reporting that Emily Bader, Dan Lippert, Buck III, and Henry Ayres-Brown will star in the movie which has already begun filming. Freaky and Happy Death Day‘s Christopher Landon is behind the script. Landon is a Paranormal Activity veteran, haven written the second, third, and fourth films along with Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. Underwater‘s William

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 28, 2021

MoviesNews

‘Wrong Turn 7’ Receives A Hard “R” Rating

The inbred killer redneck franchise Wrong Turn will soon unleash another bloody installment. The follow-up to Wrong Turn 6 is on its way and has just scored its MPA rating, a hard “R,” for “strong bloody violence, grisly images, and pervasive language.” But that’s no surprise, after all the movies are damn pretty brutal. Mike P. Nelson (The Domestics) is in the director’s chair for Wrong Turn 7, reportedly titled Wrong Turn: The Foundation. In the sequel, a group of unlucky friends to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia to spend a couple of days hiking the Appalachian Trail where they are confronted by “The Foundation”, a community of people who have lived isolated in the mountains since before the Civil War. Bloody-Disgusting reports. Matthew Modine (“Stranger Things”, 47 Meters Down), Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), Bill Sage (“Hap and Leonard”), Emma Dumont (“The Gifted”), Valerie Jane Parker (“Greenleaf”), Chaney Morrow (Haunt) and David Hutchinson (“American Horror Story”) star.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 5, 2020

DocumentariesMoviesNews

New Documentary Gives Us The First Look At ‘The Conjuring 3’

While we have to wait until next summer to watch The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It in theaters, a 30-minute documentary titled Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe Behind the Scenes was released this weekend giving us our first brief look at footage from The Conjuring 3, directed by Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona). You can watch it below. I really wanted Conjuring 3 to get away from the haunted house setup of the first two films,” Wan says in the video. “It should be on a whole different level. Something that we’ve never explored before in the Conjuring world.” Set in 1981, the film tells the story of Arne Johnson, notable for being the first time demonic possession was used as a reason for manslaughter.” “The Devil Made Me Do It reveals a chilling story of terror, murder, and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 27, 2020

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John Carpenter Skipped A Few Of Those Terrible “Halloween” Sequels

Out of the 10 films in the Halloween franchise, one’s a master piece, two are good, one (Season of the Witch) is an underrated outlier, and 6 are pretty much crap. There’s a lot of convoluted and pretty terrible mythology, turning Michael Myers, one of horror’s most terrifying human monsters into a muddled mess of Shatner masks and kitchen knives. Full disclosure, I haven’t seen every Halloween film. But hey, neither has John Carpenter! But with the newest entry, Carpenter hopes to bring the 40 year old franchise back to its roots. In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Carpenter admitted he had skipped a few entries of the franchise he founded stating “You know, you know I talked about the Halloweens for a long time, the sequels — I haven’t even seen all of them. I don’t even know what really was there.” Carpenter has only had sporadic involvement in the film world the past few years, last releasing poorly

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Capt McNeely

Feb 3, 2018

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