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‘Bird Box’ Monster Revealed

One of the most talked about series of the season is Netflix’s Bird Box. While we never see the monsters in the film, we almost did. You see, there was a deleted scene that revealed the monsters. Star Sandra Bullock described the creature as being a “green man with a horrific baby face.” On Instagram, special effects artist Andy Bergholtz and the effects company SFX Atlas recently shared some photos of the creature that would have been revealed in the deleted scene. We had the unique pleasure of designing a creepy makeup for the film, although the scene ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor. Keep in mind, the fatal “vision” that each character saw would most likely be different for each person (you’ll understand if you’ve seen the film), and this makeup appeared in a cut “dream/nightmare sequence” with Sandra Bullock’s character.Considering her pregnant state and emotional arc thru the movie, the producers felt Sandra’s nightmare would have

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2019
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Horror Comedy ‘Mandao Of The Dead’ Now Streaming On Amazon

The second feature from filmmaker Scott Dunn and producer Gina Gomez, Mandao of the Dead (review) combines temporal hijinks with chills from beyond the grave in a film Horror Fuel calls “a charming winner of a flick.” In the film, unambitious Jay Mandao lives frugally off his late father’s cereal royalties. He wants nothing more than to live in solitude but is duped into taking in his adult nephew-in-law, Jackson. As Halloween approaches, Jay begins having odd dreams and comes to find that he has the ability of astral projection. Jay and Jackson are approached by a ghost who has a small window of opportunity to reverse his death at the hands of Jackson’s murderous ex-girlfriend. Scott Dunn, Alexandra Chen, Samara Kohne, Gina Gomez, Marisa Hood, and David Gallegos star, Mandao of the Dead is now exclusively streaming on Amazon and will arrive on iTunes in 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 1, 2019
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Movie Review: Summer of 84

After kids begin to disappear around their town in 1984, a group of friends begins their own investigation. After spending their summer gathering evidence they zero in on a suspect, their neighbor officer Wayne Mackey (Rich Sommer). The closer they get to the truth, the more danger they face. Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emry, Cory-Gruter-Andrew, Tiera Skovbye, Jason Gray-Stanford, and Rich Sommer star in Summer of 84. Directed by the trio of François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, Summer of 84 is a dark, brilliant, pulse-pounding throwback to the thrillers of the eighties’. When we first meet the boys, you can understand how their parents could believe they’re jumping to conclusions, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. They will soon face a serial killer. The young cast did an absolutely fantastic job of not only projecting the innocence of their age but also their character’s fear and determination to find out who is behind the missing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 31, 2018
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Movie Review: The Harrowing (2017)

Detective Ryan Calhoun (Matthew Tompkins) is having a shit go of it as of late as he is plagued by the events surrounding the rather strange murder of his best friend…a murder that involves the local forensic hospital. Being a blithe spirit (read sad sack borderline psychotic), our here tap dances into danger’s gaping maw and sets about investigating that sinister structure to uncover the truth, but instead of your normal procedural, Ry-man is tossed six ways to Sunday! I gotta tell you creeps; Writer/Director Jon Keeyes kinda pulled the rug out from under ol’ XIII with The Harrowing…and that is a thing of wicked wonder indeed! With it’s deft blend of psychological thrills, and supernatural shocks, this film rises (severed) head and shoulders over the typical “spooky asylum fraught with jump scares” that pictures of this genre usually fall prey to…rather, things play out like a walking nightmare, and all sense of reality becomes nicely skewed. Along with that

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DanXIII
Dec 29, 2018
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Jon Keeye’s Supernatural Horror ‘The Harrowing’ Arrives On VOD

From director Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare) comes The Harrowing starring genre icons Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Starship Troopers) and Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy, G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra). Haunted by the ritualistic killing of his best friend, a vice detective (Matthew Tompkins, Sicario) determined to discover the truth goes undercover into a forensic hospital and is plunged into his own personal hell where demons might be real. We’ve carefully crafted an intelligent, suspenseful, tense thriller that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats while driving them down a road of psychological twists and turns. Right out of the gate, we pull them in with an explosive opening sequence and then keep them guessing as the mystery unfolds until we blow their minds in the final moments. Being able to construct such an intricate puzzle like this – that is both entertaining and thought-provoking – has been a joy.” Jon Keeyes, writer and director of the film said.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 26, 2018
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A Serial Killer Is On The Loose In The ‘One Must Fall’ Trailer

The trailer has arrived for writer-director Antonio Pantoja‘s (Awakening) new horror-comedy One Must Fall. Set in the 1980s, the film centers on a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene cleanup crew. There’s a maniacal serial killer on the loose, leaving the team a lot of work. But did he ever leave the crime scene? Julie Streble, Vincent Lee Alston, Daniel de Weldon, Rebekah Lynn Dow, and Heidi Harian staring along with Lloyd Kaufman. Gill Holland is producing, with Lee Kiper and Dorian Washington executive producing. One Must Fall is set to make its festival premiere at HorrorHound this March.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 26, 2018
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Camp Death III In 2D! Director Hosting 48 Hour Streaming Marathon Featuring Cast And Crew

Canadian director Matt Frame announced today that he will attempt to sit through his film Camp Death III in 2D! for 48 consecutive hours! The event will be live streamed via Facebook starting at 8 pm (PST) on Saturday, December 29, 2018. Viewers will be encouraged to drop in and ask questions during the live broadcast that will also feature several cast and crew of Camp Death III! The rules are simple” said Frame, “Between viewings, I am allowed 10 minutes to stretch my legs, use the restroom, and partake in any legal activity that’ll help me from sliding comatose off my office chair.” Camp Death III in 2D! is a comedy-horror parody of Friday the 13th Part III 3D that has enjoyed a successful festival run since September, racking up 14 acceptances, 4 awards, and several nominations. On February 15, 2019, the film is being released digitally via Amazon Prime, hence the underlying purpose of Frame’s (admittedly) moronic promotional

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 21, 2018
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A First Look At Jordan Peele’s Horror Film ‘Us’

Ahead of its trailer release this Christmas and following its poster unveiling last week, Universal has shared the first look, via EW, at Jordan Peele‘s Us, the follow up to Get Out. After months of secrecy, the first details have begun to surface. It turns out that Us is a monster movie! Peele has confessed that the monsters are called “The Tethered” Set in the present day the film follows Adelaide (Lupita Nying’o) and Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) as they take their kids to visit Adelaide’s childhood North California home for the summer. After a day spent at the beach with the Tyler family (Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker), Adelaide – who is haunted by her past trauma – becomes increasingly paranoid that something bad is going to happen to her family. As the night falls the Wilsons see four figures standing silently at the end of their driveway. For my second feature, I wanted to create a monster mythology,” Peele

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 21, 2018
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A Man Faces His Demon In A New Clip From The Harrowing

From director Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare) comes The Harrowing starring genre icons Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Starship Troopers) and Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy, G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra). We have gotten our hands on a new clip where a man must face his demon. Haunted by the ritualistic killing of his best friend, a vice detective (Matthew Tompkins, Sicario) determined to discover the truth goes undercover into a forensic hospital and is plunged into his own personal hell where demons might be real. We’ve carefully crafted an intelligent, suspenseful, tense thriller that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats while driving them down a road of psychological twists and turns. Right out of the gate, we pull them in with an explosive opening sequence and then keep them guessing as the mystery unfolds until we blow their minds in the final moments. Being able to construct such an intricate puzzle like this – that is both entertaining

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 20, 2018
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Art Meets Horror In The Supernatural Thriller Don’t Leave Home

From writer-director Michael Tully comes Don’t Leave Home, the supernatural thriller starring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Helena Bereen, Mark Lawrence, Karrie Cox, David McSavage, and Lalor Roddy. In the film, “After recently unveiling her new sculptural exhibit on Irish urban legends, artist Melanie Thomas is contacted by Father Alistair Burke, a reclusive Irish priest who, legend has it, once painted the portrait of a young girl who later disappeared on the very day her image vanished from the painting. Now, summoned by Burke and his cohort to the Irish countryside for a special art commission, Melanie eagerly accepts the offer, never stopping to consider that some urban legends might be true. Being praised as “GET OUT with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside” (Indiewire), Don’t Leave Home proves that not all mysteries should be solved.” George Rush, Jeff Allard, Ryan Zacarias, Tristan Orpen Lynch, Aoife O’Sullivan, and Wally Hall produced. Don’t Leave Home is now out on Digital and Blu-ray, from

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 14, 2018

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‘Bird Box’ Monster Revealed

One of the most talked about series of the season is Netflix’s Bird Box. While we never see the monsters in the film, we almost did. You see, there was a deleted scene that revealed the monsters. Star Sandra Bullock described the creature as being a “green man with a horrific baby face.” On Instagram, special effects artist Andy Bergholtz and the effects company SFX Atlas recently shared some photos of the creature that would have been revealed in the deleted scene. We had the unique pleasure of designing a creepy makeup for the film, although the scene ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor. Keep in mind, the fatal “vision” that each character saw would most likely be different for each person (you’ll understand if you’ve seen the film), and this makeup appeared in a cut “dream/nightmare sequence” with Sandra Bullock’s character.Considering her pregnant state and emotional arc thru the movie, the producers felt Sandra’s nightmare would have

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2019
Horror Fuel

Horror Comedy ‘Mandao Of The Dead’ Now Streaming On Amazon

The second feature from filmmaker Scott Dunn and producer Gina Gomez, Mandao of the Dead (review) combines temporal hijinks with chills from beyond the grave in a film Horror Fuel calls “a charming winner of a flick.” In the film, unambitious Jay Mandao lives frugally off his late father’s cereal royalties. He wants nothing more than to live in solitude but is duped into taking in his adult nephew-in-law, Jackson. As Halloween approaches, Jay begins having odd dreams and comes to find that he has the ability of astral projection. Jay and Jackson are approached by a ghost who has a small window of opportunity to reverse his death at the hands of Jackson’s murderous ex-girlfriend. Scott Dunn, Alexandra Chen, Samara Kohne, Gina Gomez, Marisa Hood, and David Gallegos star, Mandao of the Dead is now exclusively streaming on Amazon and will arrive on iTunes in 2019.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 1, 2019
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Summer of 84

After kids begin to disappear around their town in 1984, a group of friends begins their own investigation. After spending their summer gathering evidence they zero in on a suspect, their neighbor officer Wayne Mackey (Rich Sommer). The closer they get to the truth, the more danger they face. Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emry, Cory-Gruter-Andrew, Tiera Skovbye, Jason Gray-Stanford, and Rich Sommer star in Summer of 84. Directed by the trio of François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, Summer of 84 is a dark, brilliant, pulse-pounding throwback to the thrillers of the eighties’. When we first meet the boys, you can understand how their parents could believe they’re jumping to conclusions, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. They will soon face a serial killer. The young cast did an absolutely fantastic job of not only projecting the innocence of their age but also their character’s fear and determination to find out who is behind the missing

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 31, 2018
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: The Harrowing (2017)

Detective Ryan Calhoun (Matthew Tompkins) is having a shit go of it as of late as he is plagued by the events surrounding the rather strange murder of his best friend…a murder that involves the local forensic hospital. Being a blithe spirit (read sad sack borderline psychotic), our here tap dances into danger’s gaping maw and sets about investigating that sinister structure to uncover the truth, but instead of your normal procedural, Ry-man is tossed six ways to Sunday! I gotta tell you creeps; Writer/Director Jon Keeyes kinda pulled the rug out from under ol’ XIII with The Harrowing…and that is a thing of wicked wonder indeed! With it’s deft blend of psychological thrills, and supernatural shocks, this film rises (severed) head and shoulders over the typical “spooky asylum fraught with jump scares” that pictures of this genre usually fall prey to…rather, things play out like a walking nightmare, and all sense of reality becomes nicely skewed. Along with that

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Dec 29, 2018
Horror Fuel

Jon Keeye’s Supernatural Horror ‘The Harrowing’ Arrives On VOD

From director Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare) comes The Harrowing starring genre icons Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Starship Troopers) and Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy, G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra). Haunted by the ritualistic killing of his best friend, a vice detective (Matthew Tompkins, Sicario) determined to discover the truth goes undercover into a forensic hospital and is plunged into his own personal hell where demons might be real. We’ve carefully crafted an intelligent, suspenseful, tense thriller that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats while driving them down a road of psychological twists and turns. Right out of the gate, we pull them in with an explosive opening sequence and then keep them guessing as the mystery unfolds until we blow their minds in the final moments. Being able to construct such an intricate puzzle like this – that is both entertaining and thought-provoking – has been a joy.” Jon Keeyes, writer and director of the film said.

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

A Serial Killer Is On The Loose In The ‘One Must Fall’ Trailer

The trailer has arrived for writer-director Antonio Pantoja‘s (Awakening) new horror-comedy One Must Fall. Set in the 1980s, the film centers on a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene cleanup crew. There’s a maniacal serial killer on the loose, leaving the team a lot of work. But did he ever leave the crime scene? Julie Streble, Vincent Lee Alston, Daniel de Weldon, Rebekah Lynn Dow, and Heidi Harian staring along with Lloyd Kaufman. Gill Holland is producing, with Lee Kiper and Dorian Washington executive producing. One Must Fall is set to make its festival premiere at HorrorHound this March.

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

Camp Death III In 2D! Director Hosting 48 Hour Streaming Marathon Featuring Cast And Crew

Canadian director Matt Frame announced today that he will attempt to sit through his film Camp Death III in 2D! for 48 consecutive hours! The event will be live streamed via Facebook starting at 8 pm (PST) on Saturday, December 29, 2018. Viewers will be encouraged to drop in and ask questions during the live broadcast that will also feature several cast and crew of Camp Death III! The rules are simple” said Frame, “Between viewings, I am allowed 10 minutes to stretch my legs, use the restroom, and partake in any legal activity that’ll help me from sliding comatose off my office chair.” Camp Death III in 2D! is a comedy-horror parody of Friday the 13th Part III 3D that has enjoyed a successful festival run since September, racking up 14 acceptances, 4 awards, and several nominations. On February 15, 2019, the film is being released digitally via Amazon Prime, hence the underlying purpose of Frame’s (admittedly) moronic promotional

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 21, 2018
Horror Fuel

A First Look At Jordan Peele’s Horror Film ‘Us’

Ahead of its trailer release this Christmas and following its poster unveiling last week, Universal has shared the first look, via EW, at Jordan Peele‘s Us, the follow up to Get Out. After months of secrecy, the first details have begun to surface. It turns out that Us is a monster movie! Peele has confessed that the monsters are called “The Tethered” Set in the present day the film follows Adelaide (Lupita Nying’o) and Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) as they take their kids to visit Adelaide’s childhood North California home for the summer. After a day spent at the beach with the Tyler family (Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker), Adelaide – who is haunted by her past trauma – becomes increasingly paranoid that something bad is going to happen to her family. As the night falls the Wilsons see four figures standing silently at the end of their driveway. For my second feature, I wanted to create a monster mythology,” Peele

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 21, 2018
Horror Fuel

A Man Faces His Demon In A New Clip From The Harrowing

From director Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare) comes The Harrowing starring genre icons Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Starship Troopers) and Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy, G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra). We have gotten our hands on a new clip where a man must face his demon. Haunted by the ritualistic killing of his best friend, a vice detective (Matthew Tompkins, Sicario) determined to discover the truth goes undercover into a forensic hospital and is plunged into his own personal hell where demons might be real. We’ve carefully crafted an intelligent, suspenseful, tense thriller that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats while driving them down a road of psychological twists and turns. Right out of the gate, we pull them in with an explosive opening sequence and then keep them guessing as the mystery unfolds until we blow their minds in the final moments. Being able to construct such an intricate puzzle like this – that is both entertaining

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 20, 2018
Horror Fuel

Art Meets Horror In The Supernatural Thriller Don’t Leave Home

From writer-director Michael Tully comes Don’t Leave Home, the supernatural thriller starring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Helena Bereen, Mark Lawrence, Karrie Cox, David McSavage, and Lalor Roddy. In the film, “After recently unveiling her new sculptural exhibit on Irish urban legends, artist Melanie Thomas is contacted by Father Alistair Burke, a reclusive Irish priest who, legend has it, once painted the portrait of a young girl who later disappeared on the very day her image vanished from the painting. Now, summoned by Burke and his cohort to the Irish countryside for a special art commission, Melanie eagerly accepts the offer, never stopping to consider that some urban legends might be true. Being praised as “GET OUT with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside” (Indiewire), Don’t Leave Home proves that not all mysteries should be solved.” George Rush, Jeff Allard, Ryan Zacarias, Tristan Orpen Lynch, Aoife O’Sullivan, and Wally Hall produced. Don’t Leave Home is now out on Digital and Blu-ray, from

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 14, 2018
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