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Showtime is heading back to The Chi.

The second half of the drama’s sixth season will kick off Friday, May 10, on Paramount+ With Showtime and on demand, before making its on-air debut Sunday, May 12 at 9/8c on Showtime.

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Per the official synopsis, “danger lies in wait” as “no one is safe and everyone will...

While it’s irrefutably true that where exactly you are in life has more to do with your opinion of a movie than maybe even the movie itself, some films are more demanding than that. To truly let go of your reservations and take Bill Holderman’s rom-com Book Club: The Next Chapter how it was intended, you’d need to tame a lot of your cynicism, and even your politics may need to take a backseat. And if you can look past the tremendous exhibition of privilege the characters wish to pass off as their impassioned revolt against fate, Book Club really does bring about quite a ray of hope, a toned-down version of which could be yours too. Barring the recurrent The Alchemist references that can be chalked up to Carol, Vivian, Diane, and Sharon’s hallmark optimism and the flamboyantly mushy ending, it’s quite refreshing...

Missing is a thriller directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick staring Storm Reid.

Screenlife movies are those movies that tell stories through the computer screen, with hookups, video calls and so on. Not that it’s a new genre, nor is this one going to be the first blockbuster in the genre, but it has a good enough script to make an impact with its premise.

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Fast-paced, lots of story and, above all, lots of editing. It is not the movie about “four friends” with no money who want to make a movie and, for budgetary reasons, choose this genre as a last resort: Missing is a movie with a dizzying pace, plot twists, surprises and a lot of sense of aesthetics (although these aesthetics may not please everyone).

It knows how to take advantage of everything at its disposal and teaches us that, with almost anything,...

The 78th annual Golden Globes take place virtually Sunday night on NBC with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey returning as hosts. “Mank,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “The Crown,” “The Flight Attendant” and “Ted Lasso” are among the top nominees in the feature film and TV categories.

Also in contention is a movie called “Music” that was shot in 2017 and marks the directorial debut of the singer Sia. While it merits a mere 11% at Rotten Tomatoes, it reaped nominations for Best Musical/Comedy and star Kate Hudson. These bids harken back to 1982 when Pia Zadora won New Star of the Year for the well-stuffed turkey “Butterfly.” She also won the Razzie Award for the film which also starred Orson Welles.

And just who was Zadora’s competition for New Star of the Year? Elizabeth McGovern and Howard Rollins Jr. for “Ragtime”; Kathleen Turner for “Body Heat” Rachel Ward for...

Four Friends. One Phone Call. 60 Seconds. Stay Alive. Check out the trailer:

Four Friends. One Phone Call. 60 Seconds to Stay Alive. In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs in The Call. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it. This simple task quickly spirals into terror as their worst nightmares become reality as they enter the realm of The Call.

This spine-tingling tale stars horror icons Lin Shaye and Tobin Bell, along with Chester Rushing (Stranger Things), Erin Sanders (Big Time Rush) and Judd Lormand (Seal Team). The Call opens exclusively in theaters and drive-ins nationwide October 2 from Cinedigm (Nasdaq: Cidm).

Shaye is best known for her role of Elise Rainier from the worldwide box office hit franchise Insidious.

InterviewAfter the success of 'Allu Ramendran', Kunchacko Boban talks about his choice of movies, learning from mistakes, and the actor assault case.CrisImage courtesy: Green Studio Photography Kunchacko Boban was in Dubai, two days before Valentine’s Day. And then he fell ill. But he watched from far, the good reviews that his recent movie was earning in Kerala. Allu Ramendran was a lovely beginning to a new year, and he speaks happily of the film and the very ordinary character of a policeman that he plays in it. “He is a police jeep driver, a commoner. The film itself runs on a simple thread but it is the narration that makes it interesting. That and the emotional content. Ramendran’s emotional travel is what attracted me to the film,” Kunchacko says in a nasal voice. The cold has not left him yet. But the voice is easily recognisable. We've heard it for 20 odd years,...

On Sept. 24, Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, a Green Beret, celebrated his 29th birthday. It included what would be a final call with his brother Will.

There was talk of future plans, and Dustin’s blossoming romance with his girlfriend, which Will, 30, of Lyons, Georgia, tells People was leading to a marriage proposal.

“I wanted him to know I loved him and I was proud of him,” says Will. “And the last thing I said to my brother and the last thing he said to me was, ‘I love you and we’ll talk soon.’ ”

Just 10 days later, Dustin was killed...

When Kip Moore released his debut album, Up All Night, in 2012, it was a success almost out of the gate. With hits like “Something ‘Bout a Truck,’ which Moore’s sexy, raspy delivery managed to elevate out of country’s truck rut, “Hey Pretty Girl” and “Beer Money,” the album put the Tifton, Georgia, native in the spotlight. But despite critical kudos, his sonically ambitious second album Wild Ones underperformed, and suddenly the town that hailed him as a new original voice got busy writing his swan song. It was, Moore tells People, “a kick in the teeth.”

But the...

To celebrate the release of Wolves at the Door – on DVD & Digital Download 24th July – we are giving away a DVD courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

From the director of Annabelle comes this shocking thriller. Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969, but unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack.

To win Wolves at the Door on DVD, just answer the following question:

Wolves at the Door star Katie Cassidy played which character on Arrow? Was it:

a) Speedy

b) Black Canary

c) Green Arrow

Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.com, making sure to include your name and address. You can also leave your answer on our Facebook page,...

Four friends head to New Orleans

Girls Trip is the story of when four lifelong friends— Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish—travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

Girls Trip will be released in UK cinemas on 28 July 2017.

April is shaping up to be a great month for horror and sci-fi VOD releases, as we have over a dozen great titles making their way home this month. Things kick off with Universal’s release of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split and the Sasquatch-themed The Bigfoot Project on April 4th. Then, on April 7th, we have a pair of stellar indie horrors coming our way—The Void and Bethany—with The Bye Bye Man making its VOD bow just a few days later.

April’s digital genre offerings continue throughout the month, with the releases of The Dark Tapes on April 18th, Detour on April 25th, and both Rupture and A Dark Song rounding out the month’s VOD titles with their April 28th releases. Read on for our full breakdown of all the genre VOD releases for April 2017.

The Bigfoot Project (Gravitas Ventures) – April 4th

A bush-league group...

Four friends on a road trip to get hitched are suddenly forced into an epic quest to save the world. Square Enix is at it again, and considering how convoluted their stories are usually, it’s certainly something different, yet it’s the same as it always has been. Final Fantasy Xv turns the average anime protagonists into a […]

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Rebecca Lea Nov 21, 2016

Our lookbacks at the screen adaptations of Stephen King land on a real classic: Rob Reiner's film of Stand By Me...

The film: Four friends living in Castle Rock, Gordie (Wil Wheaton), Chris (River Phoenix), Vern (Jerry O’Connell), and Teddy (Corey Feldman), find out the location of the body of a boy, recently gone missing from a nearby town. Deciding that they want the credit for finding the boy first, the quartet set out on a hike along the river. As the boys make their way across country to the body, they confront their various anxieties, their plans for the future, and the bullies that want to get to the body first.

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In today's Horror Highlights, we have a look at Halloween Forevermore's limited edition Cthulhu statue, a horror DVD prize pack contest courtesy of Level 33 Entertainment, an excerpt from The Anatomy of Fear: Conversations with Cult Horror and Science-Fiction Filmmakers, a trailer for the haunting short film Agatha, the cast announcement for Manos Returns, a teaser video and poster for Barry Baker: Aspiring Serial Killer, and details on the All Through the House Blu-ray signing at Dark Delicacies in Burbank.

Halloween Forevermore's Limited Edition Cthulhu Statue: "Halloween Forevermore is a company known to many Halloween and Horror fans. Formed in 2014, they have released one dozen very popular and well-made wax warmers that appeal to both the seasonal Halloween fan and horror lifestyle enthusiasts. Their Undertaker and Cthulhu wax warmers were featured in Rue Morgue magazine. The company that trick-or-treats 365 nights a year is proud to announce a new limited edition...

"The campaign was way too short."

"It was 10 hours!"

"But what about the lost knight? And the proud princess? And those weird little flowers in the cave?"

In its final minutes, Stranger Things comes full circle, and the irresistible Netflix nostalgia bath, salted with 1,500 pounds of 1980s sci-fi movie references, ends where it began: Four friends wrap up an all-day session of Dungeons & Dragons, eager for the next adventure. The conversation above is a cheeky meta-moment, like talking through a pitch session for a second season. Wasn't 10 (or, in this case,...

To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.

Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.

See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for July 2016

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, July 1. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.

Wide

The Bfg

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill

Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...

It’s never too early to start planning a trip to the movies. Now that July is upon us, we wanted to have a place for movie fans to see every film opening in theaters for the entire month. We’ve separated the wide releases from the arthouse/specialty offerings for each week, giving you the best of both worlds. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)

For more of what’s on the horizon, you can also bookmark our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. In the meantime, enjoy your time at the theaters!

Week of July 1 Wide

The Bfg

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill

Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...

The Indonesian Film Festival will be held from April 14th until the 20th at the Australian Center for the Moving Image, in the beautiful city of Melbourne.

The 11th Indonesian Film Festival (Iff) will be screening eight films, spanning a variety of genres from social realist drama, to comedy and horror, with explorations of Lgbt and religious issues in modern Indonesian society. The festival will have a Gala Meet & Green on April 13th at The Crafty Squire Melbourne (127 Russell St, Melbourne) at 5:30 pm (Booking required). This year the Iff Brand Ambassador and Special Guest is the award-winning actress Tara Basro. Over the years, Tara Basro’s diverse film roles and wonderful performances have earned her accolades and made her one of the most recognisable actresses in Indonesia. She has worked with many prominent Indonesian filmmakers and won Best Actress at the Indonesian Film Awards (Ffi) in 2015 for her role...

Four friends, played by Steve Zahn, Romany Malco, Michael Imperioli and Ben Chaplin, visit old pal Billy Zane in his seemingly idyllic villa in Belize. But what has Milo (Zane) been up to all these years, and why is there a dead goat in his pool? As things take a turn for the worse in the official trailer for Amazon's newest dark comedy, there are many questions waiting to be answered, like, how do seemingly quotidian men handle a spiraling situation? And who is behind their misery? And, most importantly, who's the figure with the cat head? Watch the trailer for the upcoming first season for the hour-long dark comedy "Mad Dogs" by creator Cris Cole, adapted from his hit UK program of the same name. You can currently check out the first episode with your Amazon Prime membership, while the show's full 10-episode season will be available to stream...

Subliminal Criminal: Haley’s Debut Feloniously Familiar

There’s a certain amount of smarmy appeal to justify Jackie Earle Haley’s attraction to taking on Criminal Activities, the actor’s first stint as director. Updating a script written by Robert Lowell (a man who has been deceased since 1977), Haley updates the action to modern day Cleveland, but this mob affiliated kidnap caper feels exactly like direct-to-video fodder from the mid to late 90’s modeling snappy, impressionistic dialogue around loopy bits of violence and pronounced plot twists, a common template following the success of Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). An intriguing ensemble cast heightens a certain interest in the film’s rudimentary wiles, but exaggerated characterizations distract from an inevitable plot twist only unexpected because it’s not particularly notable.

Four friends from college are reunited years later following the death of a friend. Noah (Dan Stevens) convinces his buddies Zach...

Four friends who owe a mobster a lot of money are sent on a suicide mission to repay the debt in the trailer for thriller Criminal Activities. A sure investment that was supposed to make four friends millionaires goes south, along with all their money. The problem is one of them borrowed his part of the investment […]

Read John Travolta is Involved in Some Criminal Activities on Filmonic.

Four friends stumble into a deal too good to refuse. But when the investment goes bad, they learn that part of their funding came from a notoriously ruthless crime boss… and it’s payback time. Now, they must successfully kidnap a family member of a rival kingpin in order to erase the life-threatening debt. In way over their heads, if they can complete the assigned task without screwing up, they just might escape with their lives. John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), Michael Pitt (“Boardwalk Empire”) and Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) star in this action-packed thriller about insider trading, the Mob and an unrelenting quest for vengeance. The new movie stars Michael Pitt, [ Read More ]

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Based on a novel published in 1978, "The World According To Garp" was released in 1982, and yet watching the film on the recently-released Blu-ray from Warner Archive, I was struck by how timely and even urgent the material felt, and how much more adult and daring it is than most of the movies released by studios today. Not only do they not make them like this anymore, but I'd offer the opinion that they never really did. How can a film from 1978 have a better handle on the times we're living in right now than most of the films coming out this year? After all, much of John Irving's novel is a direct reaction to the late '70s and what Irving thought of the social landscape at that particular moment. How relevant could it be today, since we've obviously progressed so much since then? You'd be surprised. For those...

Stare at the magnificent poster, and then read the official announcement of what the greatest film festival in the world is up to at the end of September.

Fantastic Fest announces the first wave programming lineup for its 11th annual celebration of exciting genre-bending films, including the World Premiere of Bone Tomahawk with Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox in attendance, a retrospective of Turkish Genre Cinema, and a special Mondo Gallery event and programming series curated by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn to celebrate the release of his new book Nicolas Winding Refn: The Act of Seeing, which profiles Refn’s collection of vintage exploitation-era American movie posters. “We’re very excited about this year’s mix of premieres, unique events and a retrospective theme unlike any other featuring audacious and otherworldly Turkish remakes of classic Hollywood films,” said Fantastic Fest founder Tim League.

See the full list of first...

To mark the release of La Grande Bouffe on 17th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD. Four friends, played by international superstars Marcello Mastroianni (Fellini’s 8½), Michel Piccoli (Belle de jour), Ugo Tognazzi (Barbarella) and Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso) retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves

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Fantastic Fest is touted as the largest genre film fest, from experience, I can tell you the Austin week-long event still feels like an intimate gathering, for fans who love of horror, sci-fi, experimental, foreign, action, animated and just straight-up gnarly film. The curtain has rolled back on this year's first wave of programming at the Alamo Drafthouse fest, held Sept. 24 through Oct. 1 at the South Lamar location. Highlights include the world premiere of Kurt Russell-starrer "Bone Tomahawk"; a retrospective of Turkish genre cinema; and a programming series from "Drive" and "Only God Forgives" director Nicolas Winding Refn, who will be supporting his new book "Nicolas Winding Refn: The Act of Seeing." There are a few films that are crossing over with other major film fest lineups, like one-take flick "Victoria" which took home awards from Berlinale International. The initial film lineup for Fantastic Fest 2015 is below it's new poster,...

The day has come. The reminder that Autumn is nearing and the best genre film festival in the Magnited States of America is nigh! We got the poster and the first wave of films listed below. Nicolas Winding Refn comes back and curates some obscure films and motherfuckin’ Kurt F’n Russell is coming with his new film, Bone Tomahawk! Read below and prepare for our coverage of this year’s Fantastic Fest!!!!

From the Press Release:

Austin, TX – Thursday, July 30, 2015 – Fantastic Fest announces the first wave programming lineup for its 11th annual celebration of exciting genre-bending films, including the World Premiere of Bone Tomahawk with Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox in attendance, a retrospective of Turkish Genre Cinema, and a special Mondo Gallery event and programming series curated by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn to celebrate the release of his new book Nicolas Winding Refn: The Act of Seeing,...

Kurt Russell, Matthew Fox, and more star in the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, the closing film of Fantastic Fest 2015. Karyn Kusama's The Invitation is also included in the first wave of programming for the Austin-based festival that kicks off September 24th.

Press Release: "Austin, TX - Thursday, July 30, 2015 - Fantastic Fest announces the first wave programming lineup for its 11th annual celebration of exciting genre-bending films, including the World Premiere of Bone Tomahawk with Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox in attendance, a retrospective of Turkish Genre Cinema, and a special Mondo Gallery event and programming series curated by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn to celebrate the release of his new book Nicolas Winding Refn: The Act of Seeing, which profiles Refn's collection of vintage exploitation-era American movie posters. "We're very excited about this year's mix of premieres, unique events and a retrospective theme unlike any other featuring audacious and...

The gangster era of the 80’s is a principal layer in the upcoming film ‘Vartak Nagar’. The gangster played by Jimmy Shergill has a violent face off with the honest and upright mill union leader played by Raghu Ram.

Producer Amit Agarwal feels that the audience has not seen such a film in years. “Vartak Nagar is the story of four teenage boys set against the gangster era and the great Bombay mill strike of the 80s.” “Though I am based in Kolkata but I am happy teaming up with Kunal Kohli and debuting in Bollywood as a producer for this wonderful tale of friendship” says Amit.

Jimmy Shergill is upbeat about playing Bala Chavan, the local don. “I have never played a Maharashtrian don before. It was fun to play a character which is pure evil and also a bit disconcerting at times to play a character like Bala...

On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.

On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.

The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”

The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and have filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...

On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.

On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.

The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”

The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...

Nope, you didn’t read that heading wrong. Despite sharing a similar title to That Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Shark is not a rip-roaring archaeological adventure, instead it’s the latest in a long line of creature-feature movies that have, for what seems like eons now, been a mainstay of the Syfy channel (see Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Sharknado, Swamp Shark et al).

Four friends set out by boat for an idyllic vacation on a private, remote island. But unknown to them, a weaponized shark has escaped from a top secret military lab nearby, a shark that was genetically engineered with hate in its blood, and programmed to hunt any human within range. Now, these friends must band together to battle an all new brand of predator who will stop at nothing to remain at the top of the food chain.

Raiders of the Lost Shark...

The Australian shot horror title Lemon Tree Passage has an exciting trailer. The clip shows several new friends and a ghostly light. Released in the land of Oz through Odin's Eye Entertainment, Lemon Tree Passage has not found North American distribution, as of yet. The film stars Nicholas Gunn (The Devil's Whispers), Jessica Tovey, and Pippa Black. Bright lights await below. The film's story is based on an old legend. The myth of Lemon Tree Passage is founded on one man's fatal motorcycle accident. Now, it is believed that his ghost haunts the hills around Lemon Tree. Four friends are determined to see if this urban legend is true. The trailer for the film offers a few scares. The four friends might have had more fun at the beach. Only terror awaits them at Lemon Tree Passage! Release Date: Tba. Director: David Campbell. Writers: Erica Brien and David Campbell. Cast: Jessica Tovey,...

To mark the release of Wish You Were Here on 12th May, we’ve been given 5 copies to give away on DVD.

Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy’s mysterious disappearance. When Alice’s sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?

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I must admit that I have a big ole soft spot for movies that take place in abandoned mental asylums, especially when they're actually shot inside real ones. Such is the case with Eloise, and we've got all the spooky details for ya today!

Per Deadline, Eliza Dushku, Chace Crawford, Brandon T. Jackson and Pj Byrne have all been cast in the Robert Legato-directed thriller, which begins shooting on May 5th.

Written by Chris Borrelli (The Vatican Tapes), the film is set in a defunct insane asylum known as “Eloise.” Four friends break into the abandoned institution in hopes of finding a death certificate, which will provide Jacob (Crawford) with the rights to a sizable inheritance. While inside the asylum, the group not only finds that the institution houses a horrifying history but also the truth about their own tragic pasts.

The psychological thriller is being shot in Michigan's Eloise Insane Asylum,...

Ready for more abandoned asylum thrills? Well, Eliza Dushku, Chace Crawford, Brandon T. Jackson and Pj Byrne are set to star in Eloise for director Robert Legato. Shooting begins next month in Detroit. According to Deadline: The film is set in a defunct insane asylum known as “Eloise.” Four friends break into the abandoned institution in hopes of finding a death certificate, which will provide Jacob (Crawford) with the rights to a sizable inheritance.

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We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes details on zombie-themed charities working to fight Cancer, DVD release details for Raze, first details on Autumn Moon and The Infected, and much more:

The Walking Hope Charity Details: “Do you Relay like I do? Are you a supporter of Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society? Are you a fan of the AMC Show “The Walking Dead?” Yes…Yes…and Yes!! This shirt is for you! All proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society via Rfl!

The Walking Hope has broad support of fans and cast and crew of the show like Melissa Mcbride, Norman Reedus, Addy Miller, Kyla Kenedy, Jon Bernthal, Steven Yeun, Emily Kinney, Lauren Cohan, Brighton Sharbino, Chad Coleman and more!

Each year, millions of people in 21 countries take place in Relay For Life events.

Exclusive: Chace Crawford, Eliza Dushku, Brandon T. Jackson and Pj Byrne are set to start production on Eloise, the Robert Legato-directed psychological thriller. Pic’s just getting underway in Detroit, a co-production between Slam Productions, Vinson Films and Legato, who has won two Oscars for visual effects work on Hugo and Titanic. Shooting begins May 5, with Tripp Vinson and Sanford Nelson producing and Linden Nelson, Don Foss, Lisa Zambri and Sean Gowrie exec producing. The script was written by Chris Borrelli (Vatican Tapes). The film is set in a defunct insane asylum known as “Eloise.” Four friends break into the abandoned institution in hopes of finding a death certificate, which will provide Jacob (Crawford) with the rights to a sizable inheritance. While inside the asylum, the group not only finds that the institution houses a horrifying history but also the truth about their own tragic pasts. They’re shooting...

We told you about the horror project The Infected about a week or so ago, and the people behind it are now reaching out to the horror community to help get this thing out and infecting the masses.

From the Press Release

Writer/director Barry Morgan (Arcana) and actress/producer Helenna Santos (American Reunion, Black Box TV) are well under way with post-production for the new short horror film The Infected. In order to get the film on screens for horror lovers everywhere, they are looking to the indie horror community for assistance in raising finishing funds.

​With picture lock completed, The Infected is now off to color correction, sound design, and scoring.

Morgan states: “The cast and crew did an amazing job bringing this wonderfully sick story to life. While in pre-production we had planned to immediately put the short online when completed, but once editing was finished, we...

Here at Dread Central we pride ourselves on recognizing that the indie filmmaker is the future of our genre and should be given as much spotlight as anyone else. Ya just never know! On tap right now we have the first look at another short film headed our way called The Infected. Dig it!

From the Press Release

Writer/director Barry Morgan’s (Arcana) new short horror film The Infected wrapped principal photography in Los Angeles last week and stars Filipino American actress Helenna Santos (American Reunion, Black Box TV), who also produced the film with Morgan.

While The Infected fits squarely in the horror genre, it has one important difference: The lead character is a visible minority. As Morgan states: “We never even thought about the fact that Helenna is a visible minority. It was only after we wrapped and started discussing our plans for the project that we...

Sarah Dobbs Oct 14, 2016

Lots and lots of horror novels to put the willies up you this Halloween - and we've added a few more...

It’s October. The leaves are turning brown and the nights are drawing in. It’s cold and it’s raining and it’s nearly Halloween. The perfect time, then, to curl up with a good book and give yourself the creeps. But which book?

You could go for one of the classics – Dracula, or Frankenstein, or something by Lovecraft or Poe – or you could go with the zeitgeist and pick up Stephen King’s Cell, or even The Shining, if you’ve not read it already. Any of those would be perfectly good choices. But let’s face it, if you were gonna read one of those, you wouldn’t need me to recommend them.

Here, instead, is a list of 25 other horror novels guaranteed to give you nightmares…...

The 2nd annual South Texas Underground Film Festival, running Oct. 3-6 in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a massive celebration of international alternative cinema, including plenty from Texas filmmakers, of course.

The fest opened on the 3rd with the drop-dead hilarious comedy Pictures of Superheroes by Austin filmmaker Don Swaynos.

But, there’s still plenty more to see throughout the jam-packed weekend wherein films screen from morning until, well, early into the next morning.

The film that’s absolutely not to be missed is the screening on the 6th at 10:30 a.m. of Savage Witches, the amazing celebration of the art of filmmaking by British directors Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais. A colorful spectacle of multiple filmmaking styles, Savage Witches is a real joy to experience.

Also to be on the lookout for are on the 5th at 11:00 a.m. is the new rockin’ documentary Mondo Fuzz: Twilight of the...

"Butcher Boys" has a tough road ahead of it. Thanks to its writer and producer, the movie will inevitably be compared to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as soon as the opening credits start to roll. It's unfair and a shame, because the movie once entitled "Boneboys" actually isn't a bad little independent horror piece.

Four friends are out on the town for a birthday celebration. After provoking a couple troublemakers, the group get into a high-speed chase through a bad part of the city. They drive up on a gang hanging out in the street, causing a wreck that kills the dog of one of the thugs. Little do they know that their actions have brought them into the world of a cannibalistic band of psychopaths bent on making them their next meal.

Kim Henkel is probably best known as the producer and writer of the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The found-footage horror genre has become more ubiquitous over the past decade, even though it dates back to 1980's "Cannibal Holocaust." Some of its movies have met critical acclaim, including "The Blair Witch Project" -- which celebrates its 14th anniversary on July 30 -- as well as the original "Paranormal Activity" and this month's "The Conjuring."

Each of these movies bills itself on a sense of believability, but some are too far-fetched to be truly terrifying. Here are six of the least believable found-footage horror films.

"Europa Report" (2013)

It's like "Gravity" without the budget or the A-list cast. "Europa Report" finds six astronauts traveling to Jupiter's moons on a privately funded mission to detect life on the planet. One crew member dies and the remaining space troopers can't re-establish communication with Earth, yet they find a way to transmit the "found" footage back home before the rest of them meet their doom.

In this article Jason Bender, lead designer from Blizzard Entertainment, talks about Diablo III’s showing at E3 and some of the inspiration for bringing this game to a home console. Here’s what he had to say about the feeling he wants to evoke with this move from the PC to the console:

The excitement and energy of the show reminded me of a time when people actually left the house to play videogames. Yes, I’m talking about arcades: magical places filled with vibrant colors, flashing lights, and the never-ending clink-clink-clink of tokens cascading out of a change machine. There you could find the latest and greatest games—and people to play them with. Arcades were a uniquely social experience. You could hang out and have fun with friends, or you could make new ones while bonding over joysticks.

I got a chance to get my hands on...

Dedicated television viewers know that there will always be shows that everyone wants you to watch, either it’s a cult show, a show that ended way before it’s time, or seems to grab everyone’s attention but yours. However many viewers find themselves stumbling upon these shows either years later or late into a shows run. I’ve compiled a list of ten shows, published once a week, that have become classics or are on their way to doing so and have recently been discovered by this writer.

Mad Dogs

Created by Chris Cole

Original run February 2011-Present

Four friends from school, who don’t really like each other and have drifted apart and into middle age come together when a fifth friend invites them to his villa in Majorca. Alvo (Ben Chaplin) is celebrating his early retirement after making a lot of money in some very shady ways.

The opening documentary film at the 2012 Napa Vally Film Festival, welcome to the most difficult test you’ve Never heard of…

Somm takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into a mysterious world – the Court of Master Sommeliers and the massively intimidating Master Sommelier Exam. The Court of Master Sommeliers is one of the world’s most prestigious, secretive, and exclusive organizations. Since its inception almost 40 years ago, less than 200 candidates have reached the exalted Master level. The exam covers literally every nuance of the world of wine, spirits and cigars.

Those who have passed have put at risk their personal lives, their well- being, and often their sanity to pull it off. Shrouded in secrecy, access to the Court Of Master Sommeliers has always been strictly regulated and cameras have never been allowed anywhere near the exam, until now.

How much do you think you know about wine?...

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Previously on Pretty Little Liars, Mona left the A-Team to join the P-Team, and I mean that in every way you think I do. Paige took Emily's Nightmare Express declaration to heart and began planning a U-Haul life for them as far away from Rosewood as the borders of the continental United States will allow. Spencer permitted herself exactly 24 hours of romantic bliss with Toby before popping open a casket and robbing a dead body. Hanna wore a real bad wig. And Aria had a waking fever dream that made her realize Ezra wouldn't last ten minutes in the clink, so she broke up with him for good for today. Oh, and as soon as her spirit was reunited with her body, Ali cloned five children that look like five Liars and then gave the Liar...

On Demand DVD New Releases June 17-23: It’s good week for music fans with Glastonbury the Movie (In Flashback), Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation, all premiering this week. Indie film fans will want to consider Maniac, Stoker, or Breakup at a Wedding. In addition, Movie 43, the Golden Globe-nominated Quartet and Jack the Giant Slayer will all be available. American Idiots Four friends embark on a cross-country journey to Las Vegas in an old Rv to stop a wedding and save a friend from losing the love of his life. Jeffrey T. Schoettlin, Sean Muramatsu, Caroline D’Amore (R, 1:32) 6/18 (same day as theatrical release) [...]

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Warner Brothers is opening up its hallowed home video vault this year and is set to release one of John Carpenter's best, one of Leatherface's worst, and a flick that embodies the very definition of the word "classic."

That's right kids! On Blu-ray October 15th will be John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, and the original spookshow... The Haunting! Details are sparse as ever, but we'll keep an eye on things for you.

In the Mouth of Madness Synopsis

Imagine a novel so tremendously horrifying that it paralyzes its audience with fear. When the author disappears, an investigator hired to find writer discovers far more than imagined!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Synopsis

Four friends on a road trip get into a car accident. The deranged sheriff arrests them and brings them to his house of sadistic and insane cannibals in...