Category Archives: Horror

Brad Anderson To Direct George A. Romero’s Twilight of the Dead

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Roundtable Entertainment Announces Brad Anderson To Direct George A. Romero’s Twilight of the Dead

Brad Anderson is set to direct George A. Romero’s final film Twilight of the Dead, produced and financed by multi-platform production company Roundtable Entertainment. Roundtable recently announced a partnership with the Romero estate to bring Twilight of the Dead to the screen.

Anderson expressed: “George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead may have been the first real horror movie I ever saw and its shock value, its keen social relevance, and even the means by which it was made were all hugely inspirational to me. George’s “indie spirit”, his Do-It-Yourself approach to filmmaking – outside of the main industry; on a shoestring budget; collaborating with family and friends – is exactly how I made my first film, and to some extent still make films now. Night of the Living Dead, and many of those that followed, wove together straight up horror with pointed social commentary. This unexpected combination is what elevated George’s films, and for me it is exactly what is most exciting about Twilight of the Dead. This too is a zombie movie in which limbs fly and heads roll, but one that is also about social transformation, one that asks the question: What is it to be human? It is also a horror movie with “heart” and, dare I say, hope. As a filmmaker who relishes combining and reinventing genres, the chance to bring to life (so to speak!) this last installment in George Romero’s zombie franchise is a true honor and a privilege.”

“Brad is the ideal filmmaker to bring this project to life. Both Brad and George began their careers in the independent film scene and have directed seminal movies in the genre space and beyond. Brad has had tremendous success both commercially and critically and Roundtable is thrilled to have him onboard to direct” remarked John Baldecchi. “Twilight of the Dead is the seventh and final chapter of the Dead series and we think Brad is the perfect storyteller to bring this cinematic tale about the human condition to life.”

Twilight of the Dead is produced by Suzanne Romero, John Baldecchi, Ardvella Entertainment’s Stephanie Caleb, Paolo Zelati, and Sarah Donnelly, with Executive Producers Dominic Ianno, Alex Dundas, Jason Resnick, Chris Roe, and Luis Riefkohl. George A. Romero and Paolo Zelati penned the treatment, with the screenplay written by Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas, and Paolo Zelati. Stephanie Holbrook is casting the film. While specifics are currently undisclosed, Twilight Of The Dead plans to be in production later this year.

Roundtable Entertainment was launched in early 2022 by media executives Dominic Ianno, John Baldecchi, Griffin Gmelich, and Alex Dundas, and adds Twilight of the Dead to its impressive portfolio of IP.

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New Fear Unlocked… Official Teaser for “Thanksgiving” Released

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Hostel director Eli Roth returns in the upcoming horror film “Thanksgiving”, with the release of the first teaser for the slasher film.

Here is the film’s tagline: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.

The movie is for release in time for the holiday season on November 17, 2023. Eli Roth wrote the script along with Jeff Rendell.
Roth also produced it with Roger Birnbaum.

The cast for the movie includes Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Jalen Thomas Brooks (“Walker”), Milo Manheim (Zombies), Nell Verlaque (“Big Shot”), Gina Gershon (“Chucky”), Tim Dillon and Rick Hoffman (Hostel).

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Trailer For Horror/Romance “My Animal”

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The Canadian supernatural horror romance film tells the story of Heather, an outcast teenage goalie, who falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater.

As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.

The film stars Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg, Heidi von Palleske, and is directed by Jacqueline Castel.

Paramount Global is releasing the film on September 08, 2023.

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Trailer And Poster For “ElevaTor Game” Released

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The film is set to stream on Shudder on September 15th.

Directed by Rebekah McKendry, “Elevator Game” stars Gino Anania, Verity Marks, Alec Carlos, Nazariy Demkowicz, Madison MacIsaac, Liam Stewart-Kanigan, Megan Best.

Based on the online phenomenon of the same name, “ElevaTor Game” follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who ingratiates himself into a group of recent high school graduates that run an online web series debunking urban legends.

But Ryan has a secret: His sister disappeared months earlier, and he believes they – and a dangerous online challenge called ‘The Elevator Game’ – were responsible. To play the game, you must ride the elevator in a specific sequence, invoking a supernatural creature called ‘The 5th Floor Woman’.

In an attempt to gain more information as to the whereabouts of his sister, Ryan persuades the group to play the game once more, and risk unleashing the most fearsome consequences imaginable.

Here is the film’s trailer:

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Dark Sky Films Brings “8 Found Dead” to Theaters and VOD

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Dark Sky Films is bringing the horror thriller “8 Found Dead” to theaters & VOD on September 8, 2023.

The film follows two couples as they head to a secluded desert hideaway for a weekend of relaxation and, unbeknownst to their friends, uneasy revelations.

When they arrive, each couple is met by the same eccentric couple, claiming to have booked the rental on the same day at the same time. As two local police officers are drawn into the evening’s strange and unpredictable events, depravity and derangement begin to consume everyone at the house. What begins as miscommunication soon descends in mayhem and bloody murder.

Directed by Travis Greene and written by Jonathan Buchanan (Key and Peele, art department), the film stars Aly Trasher (What’s My Name Again?), Alisha Soper (American Horror Story), William Gabriel Grier (The Stalking Fields), Eddy Acosta (5 Years Gone), Rosanne Limeres (1000 Ways to Die), Tim Simek (Viral), & Nancy Linehan Charles (Minority Report)

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Psychological Thriller “Bad Things” Coming to Shudder

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In “Bad Things”, a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd (Gayle Rankin) inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal (Hari Nef) drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory.

They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie (Rad Pereira) and mysterious grifter Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel’s seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.

“Bad Things” is written and directed by Stewart Thorndike (Lyle), “Bad Things” is coming to SHUDDER and AMC+ on Friday, August 18th, 2023.

“”Bad Things” is the second film in a trilogy about the power of motherhood. It’s an unrequited ghost love story between a mother and a daughter. It isn’t polite. I wanted to obliterate the societal norms of what a mother and daughter are – not subtle, loving, passive, healers – but epic and frightening and active. It’s a celebration of this first primal relationship and how blurry and complex that can be. Especially an unrequited one,” says director Stewart Thorndike.

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Dark Sky Films Brings Lauded “LOLA” to Theaters and VOD

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LOLA is a sci-fi drama set in 1940 England, which follows enterprising sisters Thomasina “Thom” Hanbury (Emma Appleton, Everything I Know About Love, The Witcher, Pistol, Traitors) and Martha “Mars” Hanbury (Stefanie Martini, Prime Suspect 73, The Last Kingdom, Make Up, Crooked House) who have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future.

The device gives them an exciting preview of the world to come, including music by the likes of David Bowie and the Kinks. But with World War II escalating, the sisters decide to use the machine as a weapon of intelligence, with world-altering consequences.

The film is director Andrew Legge’s feature debut, and written by Andrew Legge & Angeli Macfarlane.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
1941, sisters Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. This allows them to listen to iconic music before it has been made, place bets knowing what the outcome will be and embrace their inner punk well before the movement came into existence.

But with the Second World War escalating, the sisters decide to use the machine for good to intercept information from the future that could help with military intelligence. The machine initially proves to be a huge success, rapidly twisting the fortunes of the war against the Nazis. While Thom becomes intoxicated by LOLA, Mars begins to realise the terrible consequences of its power

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First Trailer For The Upcoming “The Nun II” Horror Film Released

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Warner Bros. has released the terrifying first trailer for the gothic supernatural horror film “The Nun II”.

Writer and producer James Wan had confirmed that the production for the follow up movie took place in France, which would coincide with the film’s setting and plot.

The original film, The Nun” was released in 2018, which told the history of the demon Valak. The character was first introduced in “The Conjuring 2” film. That film became the highest grossing film in the “Conjuring Universe”, making $365.5 million globally.

Directed by Michael Chaves, the film stars Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet and Bonnie Aarons.

The Nun II is set for release on September 8, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures.

You can see the trailer below.

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“Five Nights at Freddy’s” Trailer

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The terrifying horror game phenomenon becomes a blood-chilling cinematic event, as Blumhouse— the producer of M3GAN, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man— brings Five Nights at Freddy’s to the big screen.

The film follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.

Produced by Blumhouse Productions and Striker Entertainment, the film is based on the video game franchise of the same name created by Scott Cawthon, who also wrote the screenplay with Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback.

Directed by Emma Tammi, the film stars Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio and Matthew Lillard.

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” is set for release on October 27, 2023.

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MGM+ Renews Sci-Fi Horror Series FROM for Season Three

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MGM+, a premium linear channel and streaming service, announced today that the contemporary sci-fi horror series FROM has been renewed for a 10-episode third season. Created and executive produced by John Griffin (Crater) and executive produced by showrunner Jeff Pinkner (Lost, Alias, Fringe), and director Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones), the series unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town that traps all those who enter. In the wake of Season Two’s epic cliffhanger, escape will become a tantalizing and very real possibility as the true nature of the town comes into focus, and the townspeople go on offense against the myriad horrors surrounding them. The series is set to return in 2024.

FROM is the second-most viewed series in the history of the premium network, behind the Emmy winning Godfather of Harlem, starring Forest Whitaker and co-created by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein (Narcos).

The series stars Harold Perrineau (Lost) and an ensemble cast which includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace, The Affair), Eion Bailey (Band of Brothers, Once Upon a Time), Hannah Cheramy (Under Wraps, Van Helsing), Simon Webster (Strays), Ricky He (The Good Doctor), Chloe Van Landschoot (Charity, Skin), Corteon Moore (Utopia Falls), Pegah Ghafoori (The Perfect Wedding), David Alpay (Castle Rock), Elizabeth Saunders (Clarice), Elizabeth Moy, Avery Konrad (Honor Society), and Scott McCord (East of Middle West). Joining the ensemble in Season Two were Nathan D. Simmons (Diggstown, This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Kaelen Ohm (Hit & Run, Eumenides Falls), Angela Moore (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Maid), A.J. Simmons (Reacher), and Deborah Grover (My Next Door Nightmare, Jann).

“The first two seasons of FROM captivated critics and terrified and engaged fans, who have formed a thriving online community that is trying to put the pieces together week by week as the secrets of the nightmarish town—and possibly beyond—are slowly revealed,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “We can’t wait for fans to see the surprises ahead in Season Three, which promises more scares and mysteries, but also more answers.”

“We’re so grateful for the support of our fans and FROMily this season. We have a lot more story to tell … and shocking, weird roads to take you on, with plenty of answers along the way,” said Jack Bender, executive producer and director.
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