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Indie Spotlight: Watch the Short Film ‘Count to Ten’
2 hours ago
"Whenever you get scared, you close your eyes and you count to ten, and then when you're done counting, you open your eyes and whatever was scaring you... will be gone." A boy fears what could be waiting in the shadows of his closet in the short horror film, Count to Ten. From Lone Suspect Productions, Count to Ten was recently released on BlackBoxTV and we now have the scary short for Daily Dead readers to enjoy.
Press Release -- "(Los Angeles, CA) April 30, 2015 - BlackBoxTV, the number one genre portal on the internet for all things horror, thriller and sci-fi, has released Count to Ten, a short film starring three time Emmy Winner Julie Marie Berman (General Hospital), Bob Clendenin (Cougar Town, Scrubs), and newcomer Jason Bonell.
In Count to Ten, a single mother in a new house tries to reassure her son that fear is only in his mind. »
- Derek Anderson
Round-Up: Thanksgiving Slasher Film ‘Blood Rage’ to Make Blu-ray Debut, Wonderland, Stephen King’s The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
3 hours ago
"This Thanksgiving it's not cranberry sauce." Arrow Video is releasing the 1980s Thanksgiving slasher film, Blood Rage, on Blu-ray for the first time in both the Us and UK. Also featured in our latest round-up is the cover art and synopsis for the Free Comic Book Day issue of Wonderland, the dark reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. We also have details on Stephen King's upcoming short story collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
Blood Rage: Scheduled for an August 25th release in the UK and an August 26th release in the Us from Arrow Video, Blood Rage will make its debut on Blu-ray and DVD:
"Synopsis: It’S Not Cranberry Sauce!!!
What do you get if you combine Thanksgiving, American TV star Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman), killer 80s synths and some of the most gruesome special effects in all of slasher history courtesy of Ed (Terminator 2) French. »
- Derek Anderson
Watch the George Miller Featurette for Mad Max: Fury Road
4 hours ago
"You're not really in a movie, you're in George's head." In a new featurette from Warner Bros., Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, and other members of the cast and crew of Mad Max: Fury Road reflect on what it was like to be a part of the latest grand vision from filmmaker George Miller.
"From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary “Mad Max” franchise, comes “Mad Max: Fury Road,” a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky.
Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his »
- Derek Anderson
Exclusive: Barbara Crampton talks Sun Choke, Re-Animator, Indie Horror
7 hours ago
If you're a fan of Stuart Gordon's films and/or modern indie horror, Barbara Crampton needs no real introduction. The actress continues to pair with talented filmmakers on incredible indie horror movies and she's at the Stanley Film Festival in support of multiple projects. Ahead of Stuart Gordon receiving this year's Master of Horror award during the festival, I caught up with Barbara Crampton to talk about Re-Animator, Sun Choke, and her role as a producer on Beyond the Gates:
You're here at the Stanley Film Festival for multiple films, including a screening of Re-Animator, which includes a Master of Horror award being given to Stuart Gordon.
Barbara Crampton: He's the person who made me who I am today by casting me in Re-Animator and I have the utmost thanks for that. He's an amazing filmmaker who's always interesting and never repeats himself. His stories are always cohesive, »
- Jonathan James
Drive-In Dust Offs: The Devil’s Rain
11 hours ago
“Corbis! God Damn You!!!” Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. The above quote is from none other than the mighty William Shatner, and I’m emphasizing it to let everyone know what amazing and fantastical delights await those who enter…The Devil’s Rain. Released in 1975, to little fanfare, The Devil’s Rain sits smack dab in the middle of a decade long wave of satanic cinema. From Rosemary’s Baby (1968) to Damien Omen II (1978), the market was flooded with horror films dedicated to the Behooved One. It’s a shame that audiences and critics alike didn’t want to play in this rain, as this is a devilish delight.
Mark Preston (Shatner) and his family have been hiding Satan’s Guest Book from Jonathan Corbis (a creepily effective Ernest Borgnine) , Satan’s earthly salesman, for centuries. Without the book, all of Corbis’ converts cannot »
- Scott Drebit
Exclusive: Elijah Wood, Leigh Whannell, and Alison Pill Talk Cooties
1 May 2015 4:41 PM, PDT
Last night, Cooties opened the 2015 Stanley Film Festival and was definitely a crowd-pleaser. The horror / comedy finds a group of teachers fighting for their life when a virus turns their students into ravenous zombies. I'll post my full impressions soon, but I think our readers will really be into this and caught up with Elijah Wood, Leigh Whannell, and Alison Pill to hear about how they got involved with this movie.
Killing children in movies can be a very taboo subject. Not only were you able to center your movie around it, but you were able to really balance the horror and comedy. What can you tell me about the origins of this idea and how difficult was it to get the right tone for this movie?
Elijah Wood: This started as an internal idea. My producing partner Josh Waller came to myself and my other producing partner, Daniel Noah. »
- Jonathan James
Round-Up: Shout! Factory Acquires The Editor for Us Distribution, RoboCop Marathon on El Rey Network, The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Open for Submissions
1 May 2015 4:39 PM, PDT
Shout! Factory has acquired the giallo thriller, The Editor, for U.S. distribution, the El Rey Network is hosting a RoboCop marathon this weekend, and submissions are now open for The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival.
The Editor: Press Release -- "Los Angeles, Calif. (May 1, 2015) – Shout! Factory, a leading multi-platform entertainment company, and Kennedy/Brooks, Inc. have entered a picture deal to distribute The Editor in the U.S. Directed and produced by Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy, this stylish, giallo-inspired horror comedy premiered with critical praise at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and is scheduled to play at the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 1. The announcement was made today by Shout! Factory’s founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos, and filmmakers Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy.
In this picture deal, Shout! Factory secured exclusive U.S. distribution rights to The Editor, including broadcast, »
- Derek Anderson
Daily Dead Partners with King Falls Am Radio Show, Listen to First Broadcast Now
1 May 2015 12:46 PM, PDT
The Daily Dead team is proud to announce that we've teamed up with the King Falls Am radio show. Produced and co-hosted by Ben Arnold, this late-night radio talk show broadcasts out of small-town America and covers a wide range of topics that will be right at home on Daily Dead. With the always entertaining Sammy Stevens (formerly known as Shotgun Sammy from the Bj & Kazoo Morning Show) stepping in front of the microphone, we felt it was the perfect time to make King Falls Am available in our new "Listen" section on Daily Dead. Expect to hear new broadcasts of the show on the 1st and 15th of every month, and you can listen to the first broadcast right now!
Press Release -- "Producer Ben Arnold has worked for King Falls Am for since the summer of 2010, producing for local King Falls legends Chet Sebastian's Jazz Corner and Diamond Dave Alvarez Live. »
- Derek Anderson
May VOD Releases Include What We Do in the Shadows and Maggie
1 May 2015 12:07 PM, PDT
The month of May features a ton of great genre titles coming to VOD and digital platforms, including the highly anticipated zombie drama Maggie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin. The Orchard is releasing the Kiwi horror comedy mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows later this month and we also have both Oren Peli’s Area 51 and the sure-to-be-insane The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) from Tom Six to look forward to as well. The indie spookfest Evangeline is also getting a VOD release from Uncork’d Entertainment and look for the latest from Dark Sky Films, Let Us Prey, which arrives the last week of May.
Private Number (Arc Entertainment) - 5/1
A series of sinister phone calls haunt an ex-alcoholic writer as he struggles to finish a novel. Efforts to trace the calls result in dead ends, leaving the author with no choice but to solve the mystery himself. »
- Heather Wixson
The Walking Dead TV Series 8 Figures Include Morgan, Dale, Bob, Eugene
1 May 2015 11:25 AM, PDT
From a skilled bō staff survivor to the group's former conscience, The Walking Dead TV Series 8 figures pay tribute to the show's heartfelt history as well as its exciting present. Though they're not slated to come out until October, the Series 8 figures are teased in digital renderings that should help hold collectors over until the Halloween season hits.
Now available to pre-order for $15.99 apiece (or $74.99 for all five), McFarlane Toys' The Walking Dead TV Series 8 figures come with accessories unique to each character (such as Bob's severed, barbecued leg). We have details and a look at the figures below (thanks to BigBadToyStore.com for the info and images!):
"Morgan Jones - A true survivor, Morgan has battled the apocalypse almost entirely on his own. After losing his family to the outbreak and almost losing himself in the process, Morgan has sought redemption by slaying the endless Walkers on his quest to find Rick Grimes. »
- Derek Anderson
New Look at Rob Zombie’s Halloween-Set Horror Film ‘31’
1 May 2015 9:52 AM, PDT
With Rob Zombie's upcoming film 31 taking place in a setting known as "Murder World", you can expect to find plenty of malevolent monsters (of the human variety) around every corner, as evidenced in the latest still from the film, which shows someone who looks like they came from Dr. Frankenstein's lab.
Revealed by Bloody Disgusting, the new still from Rob Zombie's 31 features a very memorable member of the Murder World proceedings. Though the official cast member and character in the still haven't been announced, there are physical similarities between this character and Richard Brake's Doom-Head, who was revealed in a shadow-shrouded still in March, so they very well could be one and the same.
Zombie's 31 was recently acquired for North American distribution by Alchemy. No release date has been revealed at this time, but stay tuned to Daily Dead for further updates on Zombie's latest film. »
- Derek Anderson
Remake of Cube (1997) Moving Forward at Lionsgate
1 May 2015 8:25 AM, PDT
It contained 17,576 rooms filled with life-ending obstacles. The titular object in Vincenzo Natali's 1997 thriller, Cube, foreshadowed the psychological and physical torment of the Saw traps to come. If you were unlucky enough to wake up inside it, you were going to have one hell of a time trying to get out. Lionsgate, however, is willingly returning to the cube's confines. The studio is moving forward on a remake of the original film, with a director, writer, and pair of producers already in place.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Saman Kesh is lined up for the director's chair on the Cube remake, which is titled Cubed. Kesh, who helmed the impressive sci-fi short, Controller, will work from a screenplay by Philip Gawthorne (based on a story angle by Kesh). Roy Lee and Jon Spaihts are producing the project, with Vertigo's Adam Stone overseeing it.
"Using the original setup of seven »
- Derek Anderson
Watch the Insidious: Chapter 3-Inspired Music Video for Cherry Glazerr’s ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ Cover
30 April 2015 8:13 PM, PDT
Fans of the Insidious films have likely never listened to "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" quite the same way since following Josh Lambert into the fire-face demon's lair and hearing the classic song bouncing off the walls. Last October, we shared audio of indie rock band Cherry Glazerr's cover of the famous song, and now Cinemand and Focus Features have teamed up to make a music video of the band's chilling cover. The video tells a story all its own, and it debuted today on Totally Sketch.
The "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" music video was directed by Michael Gallagher and comes from Cinemand, which was founded by Gallagher (”Smiley”), Jana Winternitz (”urFRENZ”), and Michael Wormser (”Smiley”).
"In a rare blending of classic tune, hot new movie, and next-gen talent, Cinemand tapped top stars from YouTube and Vine (Meg Deangelis, Eric Ochoa, Brittany Furlan, and Christian DelGrosso) to act in the video. »
- Derek Anderson
Fear The Walking Dead Enlists New Cast Member
30 April 2015 1:25 PM, PDT
The zombifying world of Fear The Walking Dead has gained a new cast member, one who is a familiar face for Orange is the New Black fans.
EW reports that Elizabeth Rodriguez has joined the cast of Fear The Walking Dead, the official companion series to AMC's The Walking Dead. The details of her recurring role are not yet known. Rodriguez is perhaps best known for playing Daya’s mother Aleida Diaz on Netflix's popular series, Orange is the New Black, though she's appeared in many TV shows and films, including The Shield, All My Children, 2006's Miami Vice, and The Drop.
Set in Los Angeles and slated to premiere in the late summer, Fear The Walking Dead stars Cliff Curtis (Gang Related), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm). The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, »
- Derek Anderson
New Poster for Zombie Film ‘Cooties’, Starring Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson & Alison Pill
30 April 2015 12:53 PM, PDT
Elementary school teachers deal with the occasional little monster, but in the horror film Cooties, an entire faculty faces an army of disobedient, hungry zombie children that are wilder and far more dangerous than any human troublemakers. Starring Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, and Leigh Whannell, Lionsgate Premiere's Cooties kicks off the Stanley Film Festival tonight and to mark the occasion, a new poster for the living dead film has been released.
Cooties will be released in select theaters and on VOD beginning September 18th. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for our coverage of Cooties and other films at the Stanley Film Festival.
Press Release -- "From the twisted minds of Leigh Whannell (co-creator of Saw and Insidious) and Ian Brennan (co-creator of "Glee"), Cooties is a horror comedy with unexpected laughs and unapologetic thrills. When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into killer zombies, a group »
- Derek Anderson
‘Ouija 2’ Slated to Hit Theaters on October 21st, 2016
30 April 2015 11:57 AM, PDT
Universal Pictures is going to play with the Ouija board once again. The studio has announced the release date for the sequel to the Olivia Cooke-starring horror film, Ouija, that came out last October. This time around, however, the studio is working from a screenplay scribed by the writing team behind Oculus.
Variety reveals that Ouija 2 is scheduled to hit theaters on October 21st, 2016. Nobody is signed on to direct at this point, but it's been revealed that Universal is working from a screenplay written by Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard, who co-wrote the popular mirror-centric horror movie, Oculus, which Flanagan also directed.
As part of their first-look deal with Universal, Blumhouse Productions will back the sequel, with Jason Blum producing alongside Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis and Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. It's also been announced that Ouija 2 will see worldwide distribution. »
- Derek Anderson
Round-Up: Angela Bassett Joins American Horror Story: Hotel, Casting Update for Hap and Leonard
30 April 2015 11:27 AM, PDT
Angela Bassett has checked into American Horror Story: Hotel, the awesome role of Hap Collins has been cast for the highly anticipated Hap and Leonard SundanceTV series.
American Horror Story: Hotel: Ryan Murphy revealed on Twitter today that Angela Bassett will play a role in FX's American Horror Story: Hotel. Bassett, who played Marie Laveau in American Horror Story: Coven and Desiree Dupree in American Horror Story: Freak Show, joins a growing Hotel cast that includes Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley, Evan Peters, and Chloë Sevigny.
In October, Angela Bassett will be making lots of trouble with Lady Gaga in the ballroom and elsewhere. #ahshotel
— Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) April 30, 2015
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Hap and Leonard: Variety reports that James Purefoy (The Following) has been cast as Hap Collins in the upcoming six-episode season of SundanceTV's new series, Hap and Leonard, based on »
- Derek Anderson
Round-Up: L.A. Slasher Theatrical Release Details, Monsters: Dark Continent Blu-ray, Helix Cancelled
30 April 2015 9:57 AM, PDT
In our latest round-up, we take a look at the theatrical release details for L.A. Slasher, Anchor Bay Entertainment's Blu-ray release of Monsters: Dark Continent, and the news of Helix being cancelled by Syfy.
L.A. Slasher: Press Release -- "Los Angeles, CA (April 27, 2015) - Archstone Distribution has announced that the horror-dark comedy feature L.A. Slasher, directed by Martin Owen and produced by Jeffrey Wright and Daniel Sollinger, will receive a North American theatrical release starting June 12 in select AMC Theatres.
“We are very excited to take L.A. Slasher to the silver screen," Archstone Distribution's President & CEO Brady Bowen stated. "It is a highly entertaining film with a unique voice that we know audiences are going to love!”
L.A. Slasher Producer Daniel Sollinger remarked, “My team and I are thrilled to be working with Archstone, as they have a steady track record for bringing high quality films to audiences worldwide. »
- Derek Anderson
Dead Island 2 Debut Delayed, Pushed to 2016
30 April 2015 8:50 AM, PDT
Gamers itching for another living dead slaughter in the sand are going to have to wait until next year. Deep Silver announced that they have pushed back the release of Dead Island 2 from this spring to 2016.
Deep Silver made the announcement via Twitter:
"We have always set ourselves a big goal for Dead Island 2: to create the sequel that takes Dead Island to the next level. A game that takes what our fans tell us they love about Dead Island – multiple different characters to play with, co-op, and turning a paradise setting into a zombie slaughter melee – and a game that adds a ton more content and combat options on top of that.
And we wanted to have all of that that done for release in Spring 2015.
We have been looking at the game long and hard, and we have decided we didn’t reach that goal we set out to achieve quite yet. »
- Derek Anderson
The Omen Sequel TV Series ‘Damien’ Moves from Lifetime to A&E, First Season Order Increased to 10 Episodes
29 April 2015 4:02 PM, PDT
A&E continues to become a small screen horror hub. Not long after the network announced they are moving forward on a TV series adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's world-renowned Sweden-set vampire novel, Let the Right One In, A&E has now revealed that they will air The Omen sequel series, Damien. The follow-up show to the 1976 horror film was originally going to air on Lifetime, but the series has moved to its sister network and has also seen an increase from six to ten episodes on its first season order:
Press Release (via TV by the Numbers) -- "New York, NY— April 29, 2015 — A&E Network will premiere the new original scripted drama series, “Damien.” The hour-long drama from Fox 21 Television Studios and executive producer Glen Mazzara is a follow-up to the classic horror film, The Omen. Currently in production in Toronto, “Damien” will premiere a 10-episode season on A&E, »
- Derek Anderson
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