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Action RPG ‘Gothic’ To Possibly Be Remade

THQ Nordic Barcelona is giving gamers the chance to offer their opinion on their upcoming project, a remake of cult classic Action RPG, Gothic. Players and fans of the popular series are invited to play the “Playable Teaser” which can show fans the true potential of how the game can look and feel once it’s finished. If fans approve it may take some time for the game to be released as the small development team plans to rebuild the game from the ground up fixing issues that plagued the game since 2001 (like the combat system). The two-hour-long prototype of Gothic is available on Steam and is only accessible for free to those who own any of the following titles Gothic, Gothic 2, Gothic 3, Risen, Risen 2, Risen 3, or ELEX. If you don’t own any of these titles, you’ll have to buy one of the games in order to have access to the playable prototype.

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Capt McNeely
Dec 13, 2019
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Movie Review: Rabid (2019)

Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is having a shitty go at life lately; she’s the odd one out in the fashion biz she toils away in, she’s the pity project of her one friend in the world, Chelsea (Hanneke Talbot), and before too long half of her freakin’ face is scraped off in a moped accident (not really the vehicle that comes to mind when I think of horrible, life-altering, trauma, but here we are… to be fair there were cars involved on the periphery). She also gets fired, you know, just to piss directly on the raw, festering wound that is Rose’s soul. Not content to live a life destined to haunting Parisian (or Toronto in this case) opera houses, or cosplaying as Darkman, our heroine opts to undergo a radical gene splicing therapy to fix her busted chops. Everything seems to be coming up Rose at first; she’s hot A.F., she gets a new position actually designing fashion for her

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DanXIII
Dec 11, 2019
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The Grudge’s Red Band Trailer Is Creepy AF

The Red Band trailer is here The Grudge and its creepy AF. Featuring Lin Shaye, the trailer is twisted and features a seriously nasty surprise. Directed by Nicolas Pesce and produced by Sam Raimi, the new version of The Grudge stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, and Betty Gilpin with Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver. With a screenplay by Nicolas Pesce and a story by Pesce and Jeff Buhler, the movie is based on the film Ju-On: In The Grudge, a house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Produced by Sam 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 is set to haunt theaters beginning January 3, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: Crazy Fat Ethel (2016)

Ethel (Dixie Gers) has gotten her ass in the soup right good this time. Institutionalized for the murder of her uncle Joe (Brian Dorton), she’s abused by patients and staff alike before finally using the fact that she was raped by some (dis)orderlies to leverage being transferred to he care of her aunt Joyce (Jenny Coulter). True to form, Ethel soon begins eating her aunt out of house and home (while watching cooking shows no less… at least she’s all in on that binge eating shit). Joyce reaches her limit and locks up all the food in the house which naturally leads to Ethel becoming a murder machine once more! But there are consequences for her ways, and soon all those missing persons begin to cause static for ol’ Ethel in the form of a police detective (William Allen Nugent) who becomes mighty suspicious of our anti-heroine… but Ethel is no slouch in covering her tracks. Will anyone be safe

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DanXIII
Nov 9, 2019
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New ‘Rabid’ Trailer Unleashes A Virus

Ahead of its U.S. Premiere at Screamfest next week, Scream Factory! has unleashed a new trailer for directors Jen and Sylvia Soska‘s remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 classic Rabid. Laura Vandervoort (Supergirl) stars as Rose, a woman who wants to become a fashion designer. After an accident leaves her scarred, Rose undergoes a radical, untested treatment that unleashes a vicious contagion. Rabid also stars Stephen Huszar, Greg Bryk, Stephen McHsttie, C.M. Punk, Hsnnrkr Tslbot, and Jen Soska. Also known as the “Twisted Twins,” Jen and Sylvia Soska gave horror fans Dead Hooker in a Trunk, 2012’s American Mary, See No Evil 2, and Vendetta, starring Dean Cain and Paul “The Big Show” Wight. Rabid arrives in theaters and on VOD on December’s Friday the 13th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 13, 2019
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Opinion: Remaking ‘Resident Evil 4’ Would Be A Bad Idea

CAPCOM’s biggest release of 2018, Resident Evil 2, was a hit with critics and fans, myself included. The game is a remake of the original but not in a traditional “remake” sense. With the exception of the Orphanage level and a few extra scenes (or scene rewrites), the overall plot was the same along with the stories of the game’s two main heroes Claire and Leon. The major changes to RE2 obviously were the graphics and art making it more detailed to a real-world scenario, and the adoption of the third-person over-the-shoulder view for players, the first time this was seen in the “Resident Evil” game series was the 4th installment of the game, Resident Evil 4. There’s been some rumbling around the internet from fans wanting to see the RE2 remake magic happen again but with Resident Evil 4. The 2005 game took players out of Raccoon City and to a fictional location in Spain (where the locals spoke

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Capt McNeely
Feb 17, 2019
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Jacob’s Ladder Gets A Release Date

David M. Rosenthal‘s new version of the 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder is moving right along, in fact, it is set to be released early next year. The film centers on Jacob Singer who returns home from Afghanistan after losing his brother in combat, only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia as he realizes that his brother is alive and life is not what it seems. Michael Ealy and Jesse Williams star with Joseph Sikora, Guy Burnet, Nicole Beharie, Nicole Beharie, and Karla Souza co-starring. Michael J. Gaeta, Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Monroe, William Packer, Alison R. Rosenzwig, and Pete Shilaimon are producing. Scott Holroyd and James Lopez serve as executive producers. The original film, directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Bruce Joel Rubin, starred Tim Robbins. Jacob’s Ladder is set to be released nationwide on February 1, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 20, 2018
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Movie Review: Satan’s Slaves (2017)

Pengabdi Setan, or Satan’s Slaves (the title of both this film and the original 1982 film upon which it is based) concerns a cash strapped Indonesian family who suffers the loss of the matriarch of the clan. Upon her death, the family is left with a lingering debt due in part to having had to pay out the ass for medicine for her preternatural (and mega-creepy) illness. To alleviate that financial burden, Daddy Dearest heads off to the city to find a way to make money leaving his four children home alone. It doesn’t take long before shit hits the frightful fan six ways to Sunday as soon the children’s mother’s ghost begins appearing in ever more frightful ways…and her pact with a Satanic cult to allow her to bear children (she was barren up to that point ‘natch) is revealed. Can our young heroes survive the supernatural’s invasion into their lives (including the aforementioned cult and ghosts, as well

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DanXIII
Jun 23, 2018
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We Need To Talk About Michael

News of Jamie Lee Curtis’s return to the long-running Halloween franchise almost broke the Internet a few weeks ago. Some online posts were akin to The Beatles US arrival or the announcement of The Force Awakens. Blumhouse has taken the reigns and hopes to run with it. Part of this Cynema post asks, “to where?” There is nothing wrong with what Blumhouse is doing. Films get made, they get sequels, they get remakes. Hats off to any franchise that lasts forty years and remains relevant. However, there are a number Cynema-like elements to this. While everyone gushes about what this means to horror, I am going to look at just what this means to horror. Fan Reaction Details trickled in not long after the initial euphoria. Would this new film ignore the events after Carpenter’s original ’78 film? The news of Judy Greer joining the new film as Laurie Strode’s daughter sent a new wave of concern among online nerd-dom.

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Capt McNeely
Oct 7, 2017
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New ‘Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes’ Movie Enters Development

The trend of horror remakes is far from over, in fact, it is continuing to grow (sigh). The next genre film to be added to the long list of remakes, reboots, and revamps is the remake of 1978’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Kent Nicholas is directing from the script that he penned with Douglas Sarine. Currently the film is development and will be produced by M. Dal Walton III, according to Movie Insider. In the original, directed by John De Bello, a group of scientists banded together to save the world from mutant killers tomatoes. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes spawned three sequels and an animated series that ran from 1990 to 1991. Part horror, part comedy, and part musical, the film is truly a classic. Here’s the original trailer. If you haven’t seen the movie, I recommend that you do so immediately.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 7, 2017

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Action RPG ‘Gothic’ To Possibly Be Remade

THQ Nordic Barcelona is giving gamers the chance to offer their opinion on their upcoming project, a remake of cult classic Action RPG, Gothic. Players and fans of the popular series are invited to play the “Playable Teaser” which can show fans the true potential of how the game can look and feel once it’s finished. If fans approve it may take some time for the game to be released as the small development team plans to rebuild the game from the ground up fixing issues that plagued the game since 2001 (like the combat system). The two-hour-long prototype of Gothic is available on Steam and is only accessible for free to those who own any of the following titles Gothic, Gothic 2, Gothic 3, Risen, Risen 2, Risen 3, or ELEX. If you don’t own any of these titles, you’ll have to buy one of the games in order to have access to the playable prototype.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Dec 13, 2019
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Rabid (2019)

Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is having a shitty go at life lately; she’s the odd one out in the fashion biz she toils away in, she’s the pity project of her one friend in the world, Chelsea (Hanneke Talbot), and before too long half of her freakin’ face is scraped off in a moped accident (not really the vehicle that comes to mind when I think of horrible, life-altering, trauma, but here we are… to be fair there were cars involved on the periphery). She also gets fired, you know, just to piss directly on the raw, festering wound that is Rose’s soul. Not content to live a life destined to haunting Parisian (or Toronto in this case) opera houses, or cosplaying as Darkman, our heroine opts to undergo a radical gene splicing therapy to fix her busted chops. Everything seems to be coming up Rose at first; she’s hot A.F., she gets a new position actually designing fashion for her

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Dec 11, 2019
Horror Fuel

The Grudge’s Red Band Trailer Is Creepy AF

The Red Band trailer is here The Grudge and its creepy AF. Featuring Lin Shaye, the trailer is twisted and features a seriously nasty surprise. Directed by Nicolas Pesce and produced by Sam Raimi, the new version of The Grudge stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, and Betty Gilpin with Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver. With a screenplay by Nicolas Pesce and a story by Pesce and Jeff Buhler, the movie is based on the film Ju-On: In The Grudge, a house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Produced by Sam 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 is set to haunt theaters beginning January 3, 2020.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2019
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Crazy Fat Ethel (2016)

Ethel (Dixie Gers) has gotten her ass in the soup right good this time. Institutionalized for the murder of her uncle Joe (Brian Dorton), she’s abused by patients and staff alike before finally using the fact that she was raped by some (dis)orderlies to leverage being transferred to he care of her aunt Joyce (Jenny Coulter). True to form, Ethel soon begins eating her aunt out of house and home (while watching cooking shows no less… at least she’s all in on that binge eating shit). Joyce reaches her limit and locks up all the food in the house which naturally leads to Ethel becoming a murder machine once more! But there are consequences for her ways, and soon all those missing persons begin to cause static for ol’ Ethel in the form of a police detective (William Allen Nugent) who becomes mighty suspicious of our anti-heroine… but Ethel is no slouch in covering her tracks. Will anyone be safe

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Nov 9, 2019
Horror Fuel

New ‘Rabid’ Trailer Unleashes A Virus

Ahead of its U.S. Premiere at Screamfest next week, Scream Factory! has unleashed a new trailer for directors Jen and Sylvia Soska‘s remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 classic Rabid. Laura Vandervoort (Supergirl) stars as Rose, a woman who wants to become a fashion designer. After an accident leaves her scarred, Rose undergoes a radical, untested treatment that unleashes a vicious contagion. Rabid also stars Stephen Huszar, Greg Bryk, Stephen McHsttie, C.M. Punk, Hsnnrkr Tslbot, and Jen Soska. Also known as the “Twisted Twins,” Jen and Sylvia Soska gave horror fans Dead Hooker in a Trunk, 2012’s American Mary, See No Evil 2, and Vendetta, starring Dean Cain and Paul “The Big Show” Wight. Rabid arrives in theaters and on VOD on December’s Friday the 13th.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 13, 2019
Horror Fuel

Opinion: Remaking ‘Resident Evil 4’ Would Be A Bad Idea

CAPCOM’s biggest release of 2018, Resident Evil 2, was a hit with critics and fans, myself included. The game is a remake of the original but not in a traditional “remake” sense. With the exception of the Orphanage level and a few extra scenes (or scene rewrites), the overall plot was the same along with the stories of the game’s two main heroes Claire and Leon. The major changes to RE2 obviously were the graphics and art making it more detailed to a real-world scenario, and the adoption of the third-person over-the-shoulder view for players, the first time this was seen in the “Resident Evil” game series was the 4th installment of the game, Resident Evil 4. There’s been some rumbling around the internet from fans wanting to see the RE2 remake magic happen again but with Resident Evil 4. The 2005 game took players out of Raccoon City and to a fictional location in Spain (where the locals spoke

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Feb 17, 2019
Horror Fuel

Jacob’s Ladder Gets A Release Date

David M. Rosenthal‘s new version of the 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder is moving right along, in fact, it is set to be released early next year. The film centers on Jacob Singer who returns home from Afghanistan after losing his brother in combat, only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia as he realizes that his brother is alive and life is not what it seems. Michael Ealy and Jesse Williams star with Joseph Sikora, Guy Burnet, Nicole Beharie, Nicole Beharie, and Karla Souza co-starring. Michael J. Gaeta, Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Monroe, William Packer, Alison R. Rosenzwig, and Pete Shilaimon are producing. Scott Holroyd and James Lopez serve as executive producers. The original film, directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Bruce Joel Rubin, starred Tim Robbins. Jacob’s Ladder is set to be released nationwide on February 1, 2019.

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

Movie Review: Satan’s Slaves (2017)

Pengabdi Setan, or Satan’s Slaves (the title of both this film and the original 1982 film upon which it is based) concerns a cash strapped Indonesian family who suffers the loss of the matriarch of the clan. Upon her death, the family is left with a lingering debt due in part to having had to pay out the ass for medicine for her preternatural (and mega-creepy) illness. To alleviate that financial burden, Daddy Dearest heads off to the city to find a way to make money leaving his four children home alone. It doesn’t take long before shit hits the frightful fan six ways to Sunday as soon the children’s mother’s ghost begins appearing in ever more frightful ways…and her pact with a Satanic cult to allow her to bear children (she was barren up to that point ‘natch) is revealed. Can our young heroes survive the supernatural’s invasion into their lives (including the aforementioned cult and ghosts, as well

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jun 23, 2018
Horror Fuel

We Need To Talk About Michael

News of Jamie Lee Curtis’s return to the long-running Halloween franchise almost broke the Internet a few weeks ago. Some online posts were akin to The Beatles US arrival or the announcement of The Force Awakens. Blumhouse has taken the reigns and hopes to run with it. Part of this Cynema post asks, “to where?” There is nothing wrong with what Blumhouse is doing. Films get made, they get sequels, they get remakes. Hats off to any franchise that lasts forty years and remains relevant. However, there are a number Cynema-like elements to this. While everyone gushes about what this means to horror, I am going to look at just what this means to horror. Fan Reaction Details trickled in not long after the initial euphoria. Would this new film ignore the events after Carpenter’s original ’78 film? The news of Judy Greer joining the new film as Laurie Strode’s daughter sent a new wave of concern among online nerd-dom.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Oct 7, 2017
Horror Fuel

New ‘Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes’ Movie Enters Development

The trend of horror remakes is far from over, in fact, it is continuing to grow (sigh). The next genre film to be added to the long list of remakes, reboots, and revamps is the remake of 1978’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Kent Nicholas is directing from the script that he penned with Douglas Sarine. Currently the film is development and will be produced by M. Dal Walton III, according to Movie Insider. In the original, directed by John De Bello, a group of scientists banded together to save the world from mutant killers tomatoes. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes spawned three sequels and an animated series that ran from 1990 to 1991. Part horror, part comedy, and part musical, the film is truly a classic. Here’s the original trailer. If you haven’t seen the movie, I recommend that you do so immediately.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 7, 2017
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