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TV Review: Into The Dark: Pure (2019)

Pure concerns the adventures of Shay (Jahkara Smith), who along with her half-sister Jo (McKaley Miller) and father Kyle (Jim Klock), head out to one hell of a fucked-up retreat where women are dressed in white, lectured repeatedly on purity, and promise to their fathers that they won’t give up that cherry cobbler to any ol’ walkin’ hard on that comes their way until after marriage. It’s all rather Draconian and Patriarchal, and the extreme methods employed by the smarmy, yet charismatic Pastor Seth (Scott Porter) (including an outre box which he uses to punish dissenters) don’t help matters. Soon Shay, Jo and their new friends Kellyann (Annalisa Cochrane) and Lacey (Ciara Bravo) discover that all of Seth’s talk of Lilith and sins of the flesh made real are nothing compared to the supernatural evil that enters their lives after they perform a half-assed arcane ritual on the grounds of the revoltin’ retreat! With it’s emphasis on father’s controlling the

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DanXIII
Sep 7, 2019
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“Into The Dark’s” September Episode Is ‘Pure’ Horror

The next installment of Blumhouse and Hulu’s monthly horror feature series Into the Dark explores the horror of a purity retreat gone terribly wrong. In this female coming-of-age horror story titled Pure, “several teen girls attend a Purity Retreat with their fathers each summer. One of the girls performs a secret ritual and begins to see a supernatural entity and the terrifying question emerges, what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers’ expectations.” Jahkara Smith (NOS4A2), McKaley Miller (MA, Hart of Dixie), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, The Good Wife), Annalisa Cochrane (Cobra Kai, Heathers), Ciara Bravo (Wayne, The Long Dumb Road, To the Bone), Jim Klock (Wounds, Son of the South), and T.C. Carter (Blocks, Assassination Nation) star in Pure, written and directed by Hannah Macpherson, based on s story by Paul Fischer & Paul Davis, and Hannah Macpherson. Into the Dark‘s Pure premieres exclusively on Hulu Friday, September 6, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 31, 2019
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“NOS4A2” Coming To Shudder

“NOS4A2”, the hit vampire series based on the bestselling novel by Joe Hill, is coming to Shudder, the premium streaming service dedicated to horror, thriller and the supernatural. Shudder announced today that the first episode of “NOS4A2″ will debut on their service in the U.S. and Canada this August. Showrunner Jami O’Brien and her cast have done an amazing job bringing Joe Hill’s gripping novel to life,” said Shudder GM Craig Engler. “NOS4A2 is one of the best new horror series in years, and we’re beyond thrilled to bring it to Shudder members.” The series stars Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Virginia Kull, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Jahkara Smith. “NOS4A2″ introduces Vic McQueen (Cummings), a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx (Quinto). Manx is a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 17, 2019
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YouTube Star Sailor J Cast In AMC’s “NOS4A2”

Casting has begun for AMC’s upcoming series adaptation on Joe Hill’s “NOS4A2”. Today we’ve learned via Deadline that YouTube star Jahkara Smith (aka Sailor J) has been cast as Maggie Leigh, a recurring role in the supernatural horror series. Maggie is a bubbly, purple-haired librarian with a Scrabble Bag portal to the universe. “NOS4A2” centers on Vic McQueen, a young, working-class artist who discovers she has a supernatural ability to track Charlie Manx, who appears to be an immortal. Manx feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – a twisted Christmas Village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic must find a way to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself. AMC Studios is producing in association with Michael Eisner’s Tornante Television. The series was created by Jami O’Brien (Fear the Walking Dead) who

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 8, 2018

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TV Review: Into The Dark: Pure (2019)

Pure concerns the adventures of Shay (Jahkara Smith), who along with her half-sister Jo (McKaley Miller) and father Kyle (Jim Klock), head out to one hell of a fucked-up retreat where women are dressed in white, lectured repeatedly on purity, and promise to their fathers that they won’t give up that cherry cobbler to any ol’ walkin’ hard on that comes their way until after marriage. It’s all rather Draconian and Patriarchal, and the extreme methods employed by the smarmy, yet charismatic Pastor Seth (Scott Porter) (including an outre box which he uses to punish dissenters) don’t help matters. Soon Shay, Jo and their new friends Kellyann (Annalisa Cochrane) and Lacey (Ciara Bravo) discover that all of Seth’s talk of Lilith and sins of the flesh made real are nothing compared to the supernatural evil that enters their lives after they perform a half-assed arcane ritual on the grounds of the revoltin’ retreat! With it’s emphasis on father’s controlling the

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 7, 2019
Horror Fuel

“Into The Dark’s” September Episode Is ‘Pure’ Horror

The next installment of Blumhouse and Hulu’s monthly horror feature series Into the Dark explores the horror of a purity retreat gone terribly wrong. In this female coming-of-age horror story titled Pure, “several teen girls attend a Purity Retreat with their fathers each summer. One of the girls performs a secret ritual and begins to see a supernatural entity and the terrifying question emerges, what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers’ expectations.” Jahkara Smith (NOS4A2), McKaley Miller (MA, Hart of Dixie), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, The Good Wife), Annalisa Cochrane (Cobra Kai, Heathers), Ciara Bravo (Wayne, The Long Dumb Road, To the Bone), Jim Klock (Wounds, Son of the South), and T.C. Carter (Blocks, Assassination Nation) star in Pure, written and directed by Hannah Macpherson, based on s story by Paul Fischer & Paul Davis, and Hannah Macpherson. Into the Dark‘s Pure premieres exclusively on Hulu Friday, September 6, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 31, 2019
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“NOS4A2” Coming To Shudder

“NOS4A2”, the hit vampire series based on the bestselling novel by Joe Hill, is coming to Shudder, the premium streaming service dedicated to horror, thriller and the supernatural. Shudder announced today that the first episode of “NOS4A2″ will debut on their service in the U.S. and Canada this August. Showrunner Jami O’Brien and her cast have done an amazing job bringing Joe Hill’s gripping novel to life,” said Shudder GM Craig Engler. “NOS4A2 is one of the best new horror series in years, and we’re beyond thrilled to bring it to Shudder members.” The series stars Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Virginia Kull, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Jahkara Smith. “NOS4A2″ introduces Vic McQueen (Cummings), a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx (Quinto). Manx is a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 17, 2019
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YouTube Star Sailor J Cast In AMC’s “NOS4A2”

Casting has begun for AMC’s upcoming series adaptation on Joe Hill’s “NOS4A2”. Today we’ve learned via Deadline that YouTube star Jahkara Smith (aka Sailor J) has been cast as Maggie Leigh, a recurring role in the supernatural horror series. Maggie is a bubbly, purple-haired librarian with a Scrabble Bag portal to the universe. “NOS4A2” centers on Vic McQueen, a young, working-class artist who discovers she has a supernatural ability to track Charlie Manx, who appears to be an immortal. Manx feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – a twisted Christmas Village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic must find a way to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself. AMC Studios is producing in association with Michael Eisner’s Tornante Television. The series was created by Jami O’Brien (Fear the Walking Dead) who

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 8, 2018