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‘The Grudge’ Will Be Unleashed This March

From director Nicolas Pesce comes a new, terrifying installment of The Grudge franchise whose Blu-ray and DVD features three featurettes, an alternate ending, and bonus scenes too frightening for theaters. In The Grudge, “A curse born in Japan is simultaneously unleashed in the U.S. Those who encounter it are consumed by its fury and met with a violent fate. “Producer Sam Raimi brings us the untold chapter of this horror classic starring Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, and Betty Gilpin, with horror movie legend Lin Shaye (Insidious, Ouija) and Jacki Weaver, in the darkest, creepiest and most shocking film in the series.” Produced by Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Taka Ichise the movie is executive produced by Nathan Kahane, Erin Westerman, Brady Fujikawa, Andrew Pfeffer, Roy Lee, Doug Davison, John Powers Middleton and Schuyler Weiss. The Grudge will be unleashed on Digital March 10th followed by its release on Blu-ray and DVD on March 24th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 4, 2020
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Emily Hampshire Joins “Chapelwhaite” Series Based On King’s ‘Jerusalems Lot’

Actress Emily Hampshire has joined the cast of Epix’s “Chapelwhaite“, based on Stephen King‘s short story Jerusalem’s Lot. The “Schitt’s Creek” actress will star opposite Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Deadline reports. The story follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody) who, in the 1850s moves his family to his ancestral home in Preacher’s Corner, Maine. There he must confront hidden secrets and fight against the darkness that has plagued his family for generations. Hampshire will play Rebecca Morgan, “an ambitious young woman” who left the comforts of home for college and has now returned to write for the prestigious Atlantic Magazine.” Rebecca is instantly drawn to the Captain. She applies to be the governess of the infamous Chapelwaite Manor so that she can write her novel based on the family. Jason and Peter Filardi will executive produce as well as serve as showrunners. Production will begin this April in Novia Scotia on “Chapelwhaite” with a Fall 2020 premiere.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 4, 2020
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‘The Dramkatcher’ Trailer Will Give You Nightmares

A young boy plagued by nightmares steals a dreamcatcher from a neighbor, not knowing that the object is cursed in director Kerry Harris‘possession horror Dreamkatcher. In this terrifying film, Gail (Radha Mitchell, Silent Hill) is forced to come to terms with Josh, her new stepson, at a remote country home. After stealing an evil talisman from a mysterious neighbor, Josh has sinister dreams of his dead mother who commands Josh to murder Gail. When Josh’s dad (Henry Thomas, “The Haunting of Hill House”) returns, he and Gail suspect that their son has been possessed by an ancient, bloodthirsty spirit. Is it too late to save Josh’s life or their own? Henry Thomas (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill), and Lin Shaye (Insidious franchise) also star in this intense flick written by Harris and Dan V. Shea. Dreamkatcher will be unleashed on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on April 28, 2020, from Taylor Lane Productions and Lionsgate.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 2, 2020
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Brutal Trailer Unleashed For ‘The Dare’ – Starring Richard Brake

“Face your fears” and watch the trailer for The Dare, from writer-director Giles Alderson (A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life). In the film, “A rare family night for Jay takes a brutal twist when he awakens in a basement with three other prisoners. As their vengeful captor runs riot, Jay engages in a twisted battle to solve the puzzle to his past and save his family’s future.” Starring genre icon Richard Blake (31, 3 from Hell), Bart Edwards, Richard Short, Alexandre Evans, Robert Maaser, and Daniel Schutzmann, The Dare was co-written by Jonny Grant. The movie was produced by Julian Kostov (Leatherface) Yariv Lerner (Hellboy) and Alexander Kenanov (Loving Pablo) for B2Y Productions. Sales Millennium Films (Hellboy, Day of The Dead, Rambo, Last Blood). It was filmed at Nu Boyana Studios in Bulgaria. The Dare made its US premiere at the Popcorn Frights Festival this past August. A US release should be announced soon.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 2, 2020
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A Zombie Virus Infects The ‘Blood Quantum’ Red Band Trailer

Mi’gMaq writer-director Jeff Barnaby‘s undead thriller Blood Quantum flips the western genre on its ear in its new red band trailer. Shudder has also unveiled the poster ahead of the film’s Canadian theatrical debut. In the film, the dead come back to life outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reservation of Red Crow whose people are somehow immune to the plague. A tribal sheriff must find a way to protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, refugees, and his people from the horde of hungry zombies. “Fear the Walking Dead” actor Michael Greyeyes, stars alongside Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (On the Farm) and Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant). John Christou of Prospector Film produced along with XYZ Films. Madrona Drive serves as an executive producer. Blood Quantum opens in Canadian theaters on March 27th, followed by its premiere on Shudder on this Spring.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 1, 2020
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‘Candyman’ Is Unleashed In The New Trailer

An artist unleashes Candyman with a gallery show in the first trailer for director Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman “spiritual sequel.” The movie returns to the neighborhood where the legend began, where Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. We all know not to say the legend’s name five times, but the people in the movie co-written and produced by Jordan Peele say it anyway and bring down Candyman’s wrath upon themselves. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (US, Aquaman), Tony Todd (Candyman), Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett star. Candyman returns on June 12, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2020
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This April A Black Comedy Asks ‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’

Writer-director Kirill Sokolov is making his feature debut with Why Don’t You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy that is a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. In the film, “Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend’s parents’ apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honor. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey’s attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don’t quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable – not to mention ruthless – opponent than he anticipated… and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.” Ahead of the release, Sokolov shared, “Despite our exaggerated use of genre tropes and all the flashy effects, Why Don’t You Just Die! remains, for me, an incredibly personal and sincere story. The film’s inherent violence is the result

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2020
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Hunt Down ‘The Furies’ On Blu-ray This March

Seven women struggle for survival against a group of deranged killers in The Furies, coming to Blu-ray and DVD this March. Written and directed by Tony D’Aquino (Alpha Male), the film stars Airlie Dodds (Killing Ground), Linda Ngo (“Top of the Lake”), Taylor Ferguson (“Glitch”), and Ebony Vagulans (“My Life Is Murder”) with Danielle Horvat (“House Husbands”) and Tom O’Sullivan (A Man on the Edge) In The Furies, when Kayla (Airlie Dodds) wakes up in a coffin-like box in the middle of the woods, the first thing she sees is a terrifying masked man with an ax running straight for her. As she runs to try to get away, she realizes she is part of an insane and deadly game. Six other women running scared in the woods, each with a masked assassin assigned to protect them and kill everyone else. Kayla races to save herself and as many women as she can, but when they start to turn on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2020
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“Game Of Thrones” Actress Joins ‘Annabelle” Director’s ‘Lullaby’

The first cast member for Annabelle and Wish Upon director John R. Leonetti‘s new movie Lullaby is “Game of Thrones” actress and ballerina Oona Chaplin. Lullaby is based on the mythical figure Lillith and follows a new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book. Soon, her world becomes a nightmare when the lullaby unleashes the ancient demon. The film was written by Alex Greenfield (Abducted) and Ben Powell (Satanic), the duo behind 2015’s The Sand. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson are producing. Lee Nelson, David Tish, Scott Parish, and Carl Rogers are executive producing along with Markus Goerg, Dick Hillenbrand, Mikhail Nayfeld, Jeff Boler, John Lewis Bret Saxon, and Mark Holder. In “Game of Thrones,” Chaplin played the role of Talisa Maegyr, the wife of King Robb Stark. Her character was murdered during the infamous Red Wedding episode along with her unborn baby, King Stark, and many others. Production is set to begin in Toronto this March on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 26, 2020
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A Legend Returns In The ‘Candyman’ Poster And Teaser Trailer

The teaser trailer for director Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman “spiritual sequel” is here giving us our first look ahead of the full trailer’s arrival later this week. Co-written and produced by Jordan Peele, the movie will return to the neighborhood where the legend began, where Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (US, Aquaman), Tony Todd (Candyman), Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett star. Candyman returns on June 12, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 26, 2020

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‘The Grudge’ Will Be Unleashed This March

From director Nicolas Pesce comes a new, terrifying installment of The Grudge franchise whose Blu-ray and DVD features three featurettes, an alternate ending, and bonus scenes too frightening for theaters. In The Grudge, “A curse born in Japan is simultaneously unleashed in the U.S. Those who encounter it are consumed by its fury and met with a violent fate. “Producer Sam Raimi brings us the untold chapter of this horror classic starring Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, and Betty Gilpin, with horror movie legend Lin Shaye (Insidious, Ouija) and Jacki Weaver, in the darkest, creepiest and most shocking film in the series.” Produced by Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Taka Ichise the movie is executive produced by Nathan Kahane, Erin Westerman, Brady Fujikawa, Andrew Pfeffer, Roy Lee, Doug Davison, John Powers Middleton and Schuyler Weiss. The Grudge will be unleashed on Digital March 10th followed by its release on Blu-ray and DVD on March 24th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 4, 2020
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Emily Hampshire Joins “Chapelwhaite” Series Based On King’s ‘Jerusalems Lot’

Actress Emily Hampshire has joined the cast of Epix’s “Chapelwhaite“, based on Stephen King‘s short story Jerusalem’s Lot. The “Schitt’s Creek” actress will star opposite Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Deadline reports. The story follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody) who, in the 1850s moves his family to his ancestral home in Preacher’s Corner, Maine. There he must confront hidden secrets and fight against the darkness that has plagued his family for generations. Hampshire will play Rebecca Morgan, “an ambitious young woman” who left the comforts of home for college and has now returned to write for the prestigious Atlantic Magazine.” Rebecca is instantly drawn to the Captain. She applies to be the governess of the infamous Chapelwaite Manor so that she can write her novel based on the family. Jason and Peter Filardi will executive produce as well as serve as showrunners. Production will begin this April in Novia Scotia on “Chapelwhaite” with a Fall 2020 premiere.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 4, 2020
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‘The Dramkatcher’ Trailer Will Give You Nightmares

A young boy plagued by nightmares steals a dreamcatcher from a neighbor, not knowing that the object is cursed in director Kerry Harris‘possession horror Dreamkatcher. In this terrifying film, Gail (Radha Mitchell, Silent Hill) is forced to come to terms with Josh, her new stepson, at a remote country home. After stealing an evil talisman from a mysterious neighbor, Josh has sinister dreams of his dead mother who commands Josh to murder Gail. When Josh’s dad (Henry Thomas, “The Haunting of Hill House”) returns, he and Gail suspect that their son has been possessed by an ancient, bloodthirsty spirit. Is it too late to save Josh’s life or their own? Henry Thomas (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill), and Lin Shaye (Insidious franchise) also star in this intense flick written by Harris and Dan V. Shea. Dreamkatcher will be unleashed on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on April 28, 2020, from Taylor Lane Productions and Lionsgate.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 2, 2020
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Brutal Trailer Unleashed For ‘The Dare’ – Starring Richard Brake

“Face your fears” and watch the trailer for The Dare, from writer-director Giles Alderson (A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life). In the film, “A rare family night for Jay takes a brutal twist when he awakens in a basement with three other prisoners. As their vengeful captor runs riot, Jay engages in a twisted battle to solve the puzzle to his past and save his family’s future.” Starring genre icon Richard Blake (31, 3 from Hell), Bart Edwards, Richard Short, Alexandre Evans, Robert Maaser, and Daniel Schutzmann, The Dare was co-written by Jonny Grant. The movie was produced by Julian Kostov (Leatherface) Yariv Lerner (Hellboy) and Alexander Kenanov (Loving Pablo) for B2Y Productions. Sales Millennium Films (Hellboy, Day of The Dead, Rambo, Last Blood). It was filmed at Nu Boyana Studios in Bulgaria. The Dare made its US premiere at the Popcorn Frights Festival this past August. A US release should be announced soon.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 2, 2020
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A Zombie Virus Infects The ‘Blood Quantum’ Red Band Trailer

Mi’gMaq writer-director Jeff Barnaby‘s undead thriller Blood Quantum flips the western genre on its ear in its new red band trailer. Shudder has also unveiled the poster ahead of the film’s Canadian theatrical debut. In the film, the dead come back to life outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reservation of Red Crow whose people are somehow immune to the plague. A tribal sheriff must find a way to protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, refugees, and his people from the horde of hungry zombies. “Fear the Walking Dead” actor Michael Greyeyes, stars alongside Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (On the Farm) and Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant). John Christou of Prospector Film produced along with XYZ Films. Madrona Drive serves as an executive producer. Blood Quantum opens in Canadian theaters on March 27th, followed by its premiere on Shudder on this Spring.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 1, 2020
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‘Candyman’ Is Unleashed In The New Trailer

An artist unleashes Candyman with a gallery show in the first trailer for director Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman “spiritual sequel.” The movie returns to the neighborhood where the legend began, where Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. We all know not to say the legend’s name five times, but the people in the movie co-written and produced by Jordan Peele say it anyway and bring down Candyman’s wrath upon themselves. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (US, Aquaman), Tony Todd (Candyman), Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett star. Candyman returns on June 12, 2020.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2020
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This April A Black Comedy Asks ‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’

Writer-director Kirill Sokolov is making his feature debut with Why Don’t You Just Die!, a blood-soaked black comedy that is a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. In the film, “Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend’s parents’ apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honor. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey’s attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don’t quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable – not to mention ruthless – opponent than he anticipated… and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.” Ahead of the release, Sokolov shared, “Despite our exaggerated use of genre tropes and all the flashy effects, Why Don’t You Just Die! remains, for me, an incredibly personal and sincere story. The film’s inherent violence is the result

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2020
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Hunt Down ‘The Furies’ On Blu-ray This March

Seven women struggle for survival against a group of deranged killers in The Furies, coming to Blu-ray and DVD this March. Written and directed by Tony D’Aquino (Alpha Male), the film stars Airlie Dodds (Killing Ground), Linda Ngo (“Top of the Lake”), Taylor Ferguson (“Glitch”), and Ebony Vagulans (“My Life Is Murder”) with Danielle Horvat (“House Husbands”) and Tom O’Sullivan (A Man on the Edge) In The Furies, when Kayla (Airlie Dodds) wakes up in a coffin-like box in the middle of the woods, the first thing she sees is a terrifying masked man with an ax running straight for her. As she runs to try to get away, she realizes she is part of an insane and deadly game. Six other women running scared in the woods, each with a masked assassin assigned to protect them and kill everyone else. Kayla races to save herself and as many women as she can, but when they start to turn on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 27, 2020
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“Game Of Thrones” Actress Joins ‘Annabelle” Director’s ‘Lullaby’

The first cast member for Annabelle and Wish Upon director John R. Leonetti‘s new movie Lullaby is “Game of Thrones” actress and ballerina Oona Chaplin. Lullaby is based on the mythical figure Lillith and follows a new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book. Soon, her world becomes a nightmare when the lullaby unleashes the ancient demon. The film was written by Alex Greenfield (Abducted) and Ben Powell (Satanic), the duo behind 2015’s The Sand. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson are producing. Lee Nelson, David Tish, Scott Parish, and Carl Rogers are executive producing along with Markus Goerg, Dick Hillenbrand, Mikhail Nayfeld, Jeff Boler, John Lewis Bret Saxon, and Mark Holder. In “Game of Thrones,” Chaplin played the role of Talisa Maegyr, the wife of King Robb Stark. Her character was murdered during the infamous Red Wedding episode along with her unborn baby, King Stark, and many others. Production is set to begin in Toronto this March on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 26, 2020
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A Legend Returns In The ‘Candyman’ Poster And Teaser Trailer

The teaser trailer for director Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman “spiritual sequel” is here giving us our first look ahead of the full trailer’s arrival later this week. Co-written and produced by Jordan Peele, the movie will return to the neighborhood where the legend began, where Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (US, Aquaman), Tony Todd (Candyman), Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett star. Candyman returns on June 12, 2020.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 26, 2020
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