2015
07.11

‘Ash Vs. Evil Dead’ Is More Groovy Than Groovy!

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Starz has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming series “Ash Vs. Evil Dead.” The show is produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, reprising his role as antihero Ashley J. Williams. It premieres Oct. 31.

The trailer is insanely awesome, chockful of gore, freaky-looking beasts, ass-kicking, and Ash’s one-of-kind wit. It’s everything Evil Dead fans want.

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Campbell told Comic-Con:

We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for your incessant hounding. Nothing would please us more than to be able to bring this to you for years. This is not a fluff thing, this is not a hobby. They’re all taking it seriously.

“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” picks up 30-years after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites and finds the reluctant hero forced out of hiding to stop a new uprising he has inadvertently caused yet again.

Campbell said:

Ash in his prime was the wrong guy to save the world, now he’s 30 years older. I’m really worried for the world.

“Ash Vs. Evil Dead co-stars Lucy Lawless (“Spartacus”), Jill Marie Jones (”Sleepy Hollow”), Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar #D Christmas), Mimi Rogers (The Rapture), and Ray Santiago (In Time).

2015
07.10

Bughuul Gets Brutal in ‘Sinister 2’ Red Band Trailer!

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Gramercy Pictures has released a red-band trailer for Blumhouse’s eagerly anticipated sequel Sinister 2, in theaters Aug. 21. Ciarán Foy (Citadel) directs from a script by original Sinister helmer Scott Derrickson and writing partner C. Robert Cargill.

Sinister 2 stars Shannyn Sossamon as a single mother of twin boys tormented by evil specter Bughuul. The trailer does a brilliant job of selling the film’s biggest strength: gruesome kills (did a gator just eat that guy). The kids, however, are as silly as ever. But, damn, if the murders aren’t enticing!

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2015
07.07

Piper Perabo Heads ‘Into the Grizzly Maze’ in August!

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Open Road has set an Aug. 4 DVD release date for SAW V director David Hackl’s Into the Grizzly Maze, previously titled Grizzly, Endangered and Red Machine.

The film stars Bob Thornton (”Fargo”), James Marsden (Straw Dogs), Thomas Jane (The Punisher), and stunners Piper Perabo (”Covert Affairs”) and Michaela McManus (”Vampire Diaries”).

Into the Grizzly Maze follows a deputy (Jane) as he searches for his missing wife (Perabo) in the Alaskan wilderness with the aid of his estranged brother (Marsden) and his girlfriend (McManus). Making matters more dire are the bloodthirsty bear stalking them and the wacko hunter (Thornton) trailing it.

2015
07.05

Beat That: Anchor Bay to Distribute ‘Martyrs’

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Anchor Bay announced it has picked up distribution rights to Blumhouse and The Safran Company’s American remake of the controversial French psychological thriller, Martyrs. The company will release the film in theaters and VOD.

Released in 2008 to critical acclaim, Martyrs centers on Anna, a severely traumatized child abuse survivor abducted by a secret society convinced they can reach God by beating the living shit out of her for about an hour of the film’s duration.

The Goetz Brothers direct from a script by Vacancy scribe Mark L. Smith. “True Blood” alumna Bailey Noble (pictured) and “Pretty Little Liar” Troian Bellisario star.

2015
06.28

Get Your Knotfest 2015 Tix & Enjoy the Apocalypse!

If you’ve watched movies and TV shows about the apocalypse, you’ve probably thought two things: that kinda looks fun and you wouldn’t last a day. Deep down in your black and rotting heart, you know running around decaying and burning cities free to indulge in your darkest, most base desires sounds awesome.

BUT… you also know chances are more likely your leg will end up on someone’s looted Foreman’s grill, the main course for a roving band of cannibals. Yup… stick a fork in you; you’re done. The way we see it… the apocalypse would be a fun place to visit, not live.

Well, here’s your chance! Slipknot invites you to spend “13 Hours of the Apocalypse” at Knotfest, its annual heavy music festival. The event takes place Oct. 24 and 25 at the San Manuel Amphitheater and festival grounds in San Bernardino, CA.

Knotfest features 50 bands on five stages. Performers include metal gods Judas Priest and heavy-hitters Korn, Suicidal Tendencies, Body Count, Mastodon, Corrosion of Conformity, Trivium, Cannibal Corpse, The Sword, GWAR, Helmet and many more. Slipknot headline both nights with different sets.

Knotfest also includes carnival rides and attractions, including the Slipknot Museum, Massive Fire Hell Zone, Ring of Fire, Fighting Thunderdome, zipline, sideshow freak show and more. For complete festival details, visit the Knotfest website.

Early bird tickets go on sale Monday, June 29.

2015
06.27

Dakota Fanning, Kit Harington Bring Fire to ‘Brimstone’

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Dakota Fanning and Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”) have joined Guy Pearce in writer/director Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone. Fanning plays the film’s protagonist, a young woman running from her past and Pearce’s fearsome preacher. Harington portrays an outlaw who runs across her.

Principal photography on Brimstone has begun and shooting will take place in Romania, Spain and Germany. Fanning and Harington replace Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight Saga).

Fanning is coming off The Twilight Saga and has starred in notable thrillers Trapped, Hide and Seek, Push, Coraline, and War of the Worlds. Harington is coming off a devastating season of HBO’s brilliant and brutal “Game of Thrones.”

2015
06.27

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Your mother/daughter fantasies will run rampant when Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s new Fox anthology series “Scream Queens” premieres Sept. 22. “Angel” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” alumna Charisma Carpenter has been announced to play mom to tween pop music sensation Ariana Grande.

The horror-comedy runs 15 episodes and is set on a college campus plagued by a series of brutal murders on the 20th anniversary of a horrid event that befell a hopeful sorority pledge.

“Scream Queens” is toplined by iconic scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and “American Horror Story” regular Emma Roberts. Co-stars include Lea Michele (”Glee”), Abigail Breslin (Maggie), Joe Manganiello (”True Blood”), and—this being a Ryan Murphy show—retards and celebrity cameos.

Ariana Grande plays Charisma's daughter!

Ariana Grande plays Charisma's daughter!

Carpenter first broke hearts as high school teen-turned-vamp-killer Cordelia Chase on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and spinoff “Angel.” She went on to score roles on “Veronica Mars,” Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, and a string of indie horror culminating in this year’s Bound, a Fifty Shades of Grey inspired thriller from TheAsylum featuring a mind-blowing nude turn by Carpenter.

Grande is a Nickelodeon star. These days, she is best known for her terrible music.

2015
06.26

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MTV has released the first eight minutes of the pilot episode of its small screen adaptation of Wes Craven’s “Scream.” Former Disney star Bella Thorne (“Shake It Up”) steps in for Drew Barrymore and reenacts the slasher’s gruesome opening.

But… don’t expect any of the original’s humor. Forget the popcorn and the phone call and the movie trivia. This is by-the-numbers horror for today’s smart phone crowd. It’s not a total loss though. The new “Scream” mask looks menacing and Thorne’s tush is spectacular.

“Scream: The Series” premieres June 30.

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2015
06.21

Winona Ryder Joins Supernatural Series for Netflix!

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Winona Ryder is toplining Netflix’s new supernatural series. The eight-episode show remains untitled, but is set in the ’80s and follows the mysterious disappearance of a two-year-old boy as police, family, and friends uncover frightening government experiments and evil paranormal forces during their search.

Ryder plays the boy’s working-class mom. “Wayward Pines” writers Matt and Ross Duffer direct the show, marking Ryder’s debut as a series regular.

Ryder has an impressive string of frighteners and genre offerings under her belt, including Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, Frances Ford Coppola’s Dracula, Alien: Resurrection, Richard Linklater’s Scanner Darkly, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. But it’s her role in the black-comedy Heathers that forever makes her awesome.

2015
06.20

Father Knows Best in ‘Green Inferno’ Trailer!

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BH Tilt, Jason Blumhouse’s new multi-platform label, has released a new trailer for its recently acquired Eli Roth frightener The Green Inferno. Written by Roth and his Aftershock collaborator Guillermo Amoedo, the gory cannibal thriller marks Roth’s return to directing since 2007’s Hostel 2.

Shot in the rainforests of Peru, The Green Inferno follows student activists from New York caught and cooked in the Amazon by an endangered tribe of cannibals they had set out to rescue. The trailer finds hippie Lorenza Izzo warned by her sensible dad Richard Burgi about the dangers of do-gooding.

The Green Inferno co-stars Ariel Levy (Aftershock), pop singer Sky Ferreria and Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X). The feast is set for Sept. 25

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