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Movie Review: The Jurassic Games (2018)

Sometimes I can’t even believe the things I have to type for this column…like this for instance: In the future, death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game show called The Jurassic Games, where they have to fight dinosaurs to win their freedom…so, this is The Running Man with dinosaurs…this may actually be genius (I mean someone is eaten by a T-rex before even five minutes have passed, so that is a good sign). Alliances and rivalries are formed among the convicts, dinosaurs eat people, and even more story elements are lifted wholesale from the Schwarzenegger classic (including corruption behind the scenes of the games, the “hero” convict being wrongfully accused, merch of the show being advertised during the broadcast…and on and on). Look, no one is ever going to say The Jurassic Games is original (and if they do they may need serious psychiatric help), but I’ll be damned if the film isn’t entertaining. It’s

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DanXIII
May 10, 2018
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Movie Review: ‘Gremlin’ Is A Film That Struggles To Get Outside Of The Box

When you give a loved one a gift it can come in all shapes and sizes, and in all manner of containers – like a box. Granted, when said box changes hands, almost everyone on the giving end hopes it won’t be re-gifted…except when it comes to this particular box. It’s a dilemma that Jimmy faces when he finds himself re-gifting this particular box to his mother, Mary. But this situation becomes somewhat more grave when he learns that his mother has guests: her granddaughter Julie Thatcher, her granddaughter’s husband Adam, and their two children, Anna and Charlie. Jimmy passes the box along to his mother with one simple caveat: she MUST give the box to someone she truly love sand the recipient must do the same, and so on down the line. Unfortunately for Mary, she doesn’t begin what should have been a long line of successive hand offs, thus causing her own demise at the “hands” of the

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Capt McNeely
Jun 7, 2017
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The Clock Is Ticking As ‘Gremlin’ Approaches Its VOD Release

The “clock is ticking” towards the release of Emmy Award winning director Ryan Bellgardt’s creature feature Gremlin this July from Uncork’d Entertainment. The film, described as “Godzilla meets The Ring”, centers on a man given a mysterious box and told to give it away before the clock runs out. When he fails, a terrifying creature is released. From the Press Release: Emmy Award winning director, Ryan Bellgardt’s (Army of Frankenstein) highly anticipated creature feature Gremlin hits VOD July 11 from Uncork’d Entertainment. Godzilla meets The Ring in a thrilling, uniquely-scripted horror jaunt that boasts amazing computer-generated effects and from some of the best in the game. Adam receives a mysterious box from a relative containing a creature that will kill everyone he cares about. The only way to be rid of the curse is to give the box to someone he loves. As the ominous timer on the box counts down to its end, he can only imagine the horrors

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 2, 2017
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Ryan Merriman and Perrey Reeves Enter THE JURASSIC GAMES

Imagine a world where video games are no longer justs games, but are a place where you can live or die in reality. Where they are a place where you compete not for entertainment, but for freedom. That is the premise of the upcoming film The Jurassic Games, from director Ryan Bellgardt (Gremlin), who co-wrote the film with Galen Christy. High Octane Pictures, in association with the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO), has just announced that production has begun on the action-packed film. From the Press Release: Los Angeles, California : Galen Christy’s High Octane Pictures, in association with the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO), have kicked off production on Ryan Bellgardt’s The Jurassic Games. Starring Ryan Merriman (Final Destination 3) and Perrey Reeves (Entoutrage), the film imagines a world set in the near future wherein ten Death Row convicts are chosen to compete in The Jurassic Games, the ultimate virtual reality game show that pits its players

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 6, 2017

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Horror Fuel

Movie Review: The Jurassic Games (2018)

Sometimes I can’t even believe the things I have to type for this column…like this for instance: In the future, death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game show called The Jurassic Games, where they have to fight dinosaurs to win their freedom…so, this is The Running Man with dinosaurs…this may actually be genius (I mean someone is eaten by a T-rex before even five minutes have passed, so that is a good sign). Alliances and rivalries are formed among the convicts, dinosaurs eat people, and even more story elements are lifted wholesale from the Schwarzenegger classic (including corruption behind the scenes of the games, the “hero” convict being wrongfully accused, merch of the show being advertised during the broadcast…and on and on). Look, no one is ever going to say The Jurassic Games is original (and if they do they may need serious psychiatric help), but I’ll be damned if the film isn’t entertaining. It’s

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 10, 2018
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: ‘Gremlin’ Is A Film That Struggles To Get Outside Of The Box

When you give a loved one a gift it can come in all shapes and sizes, and in all manner of containers – like a box. Granted, when said box changes hands, almost everyone on the giving end hopes it won’t be re-gifted…except when it comes to this particular box. It’s a dilemma that Jimmy faces when he finds himself re-gifting this particular box to his mother, Mary. But this situation becomes somewhat more grave when he learns that his mother has guests: her granddaughter Julie Thatcher, her granddaughter’s husband Adam, and their two children, Anna and Charlie. Jimmy passes the box along to his mother with one simple caveat: she MUST give the box to someone she truly love sand the recipient must do the same, and so on down the line. Unfortunately for Mary, she doesn’t begin what should have been a long line of successive hand offs, thus causing her own demise at the “hands” of the

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jun 7, 2017
Horror Fuel

The Clock Is Ticking As ‘Gremlin’ Approaches Its VOD Release

The “clock is ticking” towards the release of Emmy Award winning director Ryan Bellgardt’s creature feature Gremlin this July from Uncork’d Entertainment. The film, described as “Godzilla meets The Ring”, centers on a man given a mysterious box and told to give it away before the clock runs out. When he fails, a terrifying creature is released. From the Press Release: Emmy Award winning director, Ryan Bellgardt’s (Army of Frankenstein) highly anticipated creature feature Gremlin hits VOD July 11 from Uncork’d Entertainment. Godzilla meets The Ring in a thrilling, uniquely-scripted horror jaunt that boasts amazing computer-generated effects and from some of the best in the game. Adam receives a mysterious box from a relative containing a creature that will kill everyone he cares about. The only way to be rid of the curse is to give the box to someone he loves. As the ominous timer on the box counts down to its end, he can only imagine the horrors

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 2, 2017
Horror Fuel

Ryan Merriman and Perrey Reeves Enter THE JURASSIC GAMES

Imagine a world where video games are no longer justs games, but are a place where you can live or die in reality. Where they are a place where you compete not for entertainment, but for freedom. That is the premise of the upcoming film The Jurassic Games, from director Ryan Bellgardt (Gremlin), who co-wrote the film with Galen Christy. High Octane Pictures, in association with the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO), has just announced that production has begun on the action-packed film. From the Press Release: Los Angeles, California : Galen Christy’s High Octane Pictures, in association with the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO), have kicked off production on Ryan Bellgardt’s The Jurassic Games. Starring Ryan Merriman (Final Destination 3) and Perrey Reeves (Entoutrage), the film imagines a world set in the near future wherein ten Death Row convicts are chosen to compete in The Jurassic Games, the ultimate virtual reality game show that pits its players

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 6, 2017