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Compared to other anime series with lots of fan service, Dragon Ball is a comparatively tame and conservative piece of shonen anime. However, one character in early Dragon Ball remains a most prominent source of criticism: Master Roshi. The Turtle Hermit is a beloved and popular character as one of the main members of Dragon Ball’s iconic cast, but he’s also one of anime’s most infamously problematic perverts. Roshi singlehandedly popularized the trope of lecherous old men in shonen anime, and arguably did it better than any character after him.

That said, there’s a valid reason this trope has gone out of favor in modern anime, which is exactly why Roshi has been featured far less prominently in modern Dragon Ball media than he once was. While there’s a lot more nuance to the story than that, the reality is that much of what Roshi...

Stars: Ben Getz, Dylan Eshbaugh, Sully Brown, Jayson Bernard, Piper Verbrick, Fiona Domenica, Samantha Rothermel, Jamie Day, Tom Moynahan, Annie Gill | Written by Dylan Eshbaugh, Ben Getz | Directed by Caleb Harris

Ben Duff and Dylan Mulligan are best friends and co-workers at a mini-golf course. They’re also the last two people anyone would ever expect to be heroes.

But when their mutual friend Dougie is kidnapped by a demonic cult led by the sinister Eugene, they have no choice but to step up. What starts as an attempt to rescue their friend quickly turns into something much bigger, as they find themselves facing supernatural forces and a growing threat to their town. In the process, these two aimless slackers must embrace their inner warriors and become Gothic Slayers or at least, do their best impression of heroes as they fumble their way through a mission far beyond their pay grade.

That 70s Show was an American sitcom that surprisingly started airing in 1998. The show starred Wilmer Valderrama in the role of Fez alongside Ashton Kutcher and other notable stars.

Wilmer Valderrama in a still from That ’70s Show | Credits: The Carsey-Werner Company

Being a show about a set of teenage students going through adolescence while navigating life, the sitcom was well-received by the audience and became a cultural phenomenon. Well, Wilmer Valderrama became the proud owner of one iconic set piece following the show’s end.

Wilmer Valderrama Bought a Car for $500

And not just any car, but the iconic Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser that Eric and his group of friends often drove around. Being their main source of transportation, the cast spent hundreds of hours on those four wheels and the Vista Cruiser became an iconic piece of memorabilia.

Valderrama bough the car for $500 after the show ended | Credits: The...

Two previously released Bloody Disgusting titles have made their way to our Screambox streaming platform, one is a creepy found footage horror for those with a fear of clowns, and the other is an absolutely stunning A24-esque chiller reminiscent of The Witch.

Drawing comparisons to The Witch comes German gothic folk tale Hagazussa, which The Hollywood Reporter hailed as “a spellbinding audiovisual symphony” and earned a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes upon release.

Hagazussa, which has a stunning atmosphere mixed with brooding terror from start to finish, takes place in the Austrian Alps in the 15th century when people feared witches and ancient magic.

In the 15th Century in the remote Austrian Alps, the orphan Albrun (Celina Peter) grows up to be a simple goatherd living in solitude…and a marked woman. As a scapegoat of ancient myths and monstrous misogyny, Albrun (portrayed by Aleksandra Cwen as an adult) finds herself tormented by the local townsfolk,...

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Screambox has revealed the new films joining the horror streaming service in July 2024, including Walking After Midnight: The Making of Survival of the Dead, The Black Mass, and Body Parts.

Drawing comparisons to The Witch, the German gothic folk tale Hagazussa curses Scream on July 12. Hailed by The Hollywood Reporter as “a spellbinding audiovisual symphony,” the film earned a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Go behind the scenes of George A. Romero’s final film with Walking After Midnight: The Making of Survival of the Dead, exclusively on Screambox on July 26. The feature-length documentary follows the master of horror’s Survival of the Dead from production to premiere.

Inspired by true events, serial killer thriller The Black Mass will be available on July 26. Jeremy London (Mallrats) co-stars alongside genre veterans Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4), Susan Lanier (The Hills Have Eyes), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Eileen Dietz (The...

In early January, comedian Katt Williams went on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast and took aim at Cedric the Entertainer for stealing “my very best joke.” The bit in question — which involved a pantomime of driving with music blasting — was first performed by Katt in a 1998 appearance on ComicView, then reproduced by Cedric (according to Katt) for his set in Spike Lee’s The Original Kings of Comedy. Cedric called the accusations “revisionist history” on Instagram.

We’ve been down this road many times before. For much of the 20th century, joke stealing was an open secret. “All comedians steal from all comedians,” the legend Stan Laurel once mused. Some of the biggest names in comedy did it. Milton Berle was so blatant in his joke stealing that he earned the nickname “The Thief of Bad Gags.” Richard Pryor admitted on The Tonight Show that he ripped off his comedy idols,...

Writer/director John Pata’s feature debut Black Mold won Best Indie Feature when it screened at the Panic Fest film festival earlier this year, and now a wider audience will have the chance to see just how it good it is, as the film has been released through the Tubi streaming service. To help you decide whether or not this is something you’d like to watch on Tubi, we have the film’s trailer embedded above.

Said to be a hallucinogenic urban exploration horror story, Black Mold has the following synopsis: Photographer Brooke and her pal Tanner sneak into abandoned, off-limits buildings for the sake of their art and also the adrenaline rush. But when the daredevil pair break into their holy grail – Franklin Hill, a large facility with a history – they encounter a dangerously paranoid squatter who holds them captive. The longer their attacker keeps them there,...

“Gags The Clown” Gets Halloween Release In UK Ireland Australia And New Zealand Danse Macabre is pleased to announce that Adam Krause’s award winning satirical horror Gags The Clown will be released in Australia and New Zealand on October 28th and UK and Ireland on November 9th 2020. Starring Lauren Ashley Carter (The Woman), Tracy …

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A trailer was released for Gags the Clown in late 2019. Before that, the film has had a World Premiere (Cinepocalypse). Now, this feature is set to show internationally through Digital platforms. Based on a strange clown phenomenon in 2015 and 2016, this title brings a sinister clown to city streets as this crowd-pleaser terrorizes a small Wisconsin town. This title was developed by director Adam Krause, with Lauren Ashley Carter (The Woman), Tracy Perez (Devil May Call), Aaron Christensen (Dead Weight) and Evan Gamble starring. A preview of the film's worldwide launch is here. In the trailer for Gags the Clown, reporters and police officers search for a mysterious figure. People are being attacked at night. And, this clown may have malicious intentions for a town incensed by a new, strange phenomenon. Jinga Films will bring the film to multiple countries this month and into November. Initially, Gags the Clown will show...

London-based specialty title outfit Jinga Films has launched a new distribution arm, Danse Macabre. Operating under the Jinga umbrella, Danse Macabre will focus on the distribution of horror films in Anglophone territories, including the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Danse Macabre will also act as a horror sales sub-label within Jinga Films while the parent company Jinga itself expands to include a wider range of genres, including arthouse. The label is co-owned by Jinga’s Julian Richards and Rosana Coutinho.

The 2020 slate for Danse Macabre includes “Antrum” and “The Ringmaster” that will have theatrical releases alongside their home entertainment release on Oct. 26 and Nov. 16 respectively. “Gags the Clown” (Oct. 5), “Purgatory Road” (Nov. 2) and “All the Creatures Were Stirring” (Nov. 23) will be released across DVD and digital.

Marketing and communications agency Strike Media will be working with Danse Macabre across their titles.

“Danse Macabre will be the home for horror,...

With Christmas officially just right around the corner, we have one last big push for home media before the big day, just in case you have any last-minute shopping to do. This week’s horror and sci-fi releases make for a pretty great final batch of titles for 2019, too, with Scream Factory at the forefront. Not only have they put together a Collector’s Edition for Silver Bullet (which is probably my most anticipated release of theirs for the entire year), but they’ve also put together a new volume of Universal Horror films and are showing some love to Murders in the Rue Morgue and To The Devil… A Daughter as well.

Ad Astra is also hitting various formats this Tuesday, and if you missed it during its release in October, Patrick Lussier’s Trick comes home on both Blu-ray and DVD this week, too.

Other releases for December 17th include Gags the Clown,...

Gags the Clown is making house calls on Blu-ray and DVD this November, and the audio horror anthology Come Join Us By the Fire can be found now on the Google Play store. Continue reading for more details. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a new Spiral clip, Indie Memphis Film Festival lineup details, and Don't Get Stabbed! game now on Amazon.

Gags The Clown Coming to Blu-ray and DVD: Chicago, Il – The clown hunt continues this November with Lauren Ashley Carter in horror comedy Gags The Clown by Adam Krause. The feature film, inspired by the viral media frenzy and worldwide phenomenon of ‘clown roaming’ will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Doppelgänger Releasing (the genre label of arthouse distributor Music Box Films) and horror genre website Bloody Disgusting beginning November 26th.

A small city in Wisconsin is terrorized by a mysterious clown who roams the streets late at...

With the month of September nearly upon us, that means two things: one, we have a new batch of titles headed to VOD and Digital platforms, and two, our beloved Halloween season is finally almost here. And when it comes to September’s digital releases, we have a lot of great films to get excited about that will be headed home over the next few weeks.

The month’s releases kick off with a double dose of clown-themed horror—Clownado and Gags the Clown­—as well as Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die and a Scooby Doo on Zombie Island sequel on September 3rd. Both Satanic Panic and The Fanatic hit various platforms on the 6th, and September 10th is playing host to a trio of terror as well: Artik, Hellmington, and Investigation 13. Haunt arrives on digital on the most perfect of days—September 13th—and look for...

Remember when creepy clowns were randomly roaming around small towns in the dead of night a few years ago? This freaky phenomenon was sparked by Adam Krause's short film Gagsin, which has been expanded into the feature film Gags the Clown, coming to spread demented laughter and twisted horror on VOD beginning September 3rd from Doppelgänger Releasing and Bloody Disgusting... potentially setting the stage for more creepy clown sightings this fall.

Press Release: Chicago, Il – Horror comedy Gags The Clown, which delighted and terrified audiences at its 2018 Cinepocalypse world premiere, will be released by Doppelgänger Releasing (the genre label of arthouse distributor Music Box Films) and horror genre website Bloody Disgusting beginning September 3, 2019. This is the feature film debut for director Adam Krause and was inspired by the viral media frenzy and worldwide phenomenon of ‘clown roaming’ sparked by his sixteen-minute short film Gagsin 2016.

“Gags the Clownis a scary,...

Tagline: "The Joke's On Us..." Gags the Clown is based on a short film from 2016. Adam Krause has directed both titles. His latest, Gags the Clown, is based on a clown phenomenon in 2016, which involved several clown sightings across the United States. Krause's earlier short may have partially created this strange craze. This horror fan remembers these strange occurrences, being reported on the news. Now, Krause's short film has been turned into a feature. Taking place over one night, clowns begin to appear in a small Wisconsin town. Hysteria sweeps the city, leading to a clown hunt. Now, a trailer is available for Gags the Clown - below. The trailer shows a news reporter investigating the clown craze. But, there is only one clown behind all of the initial madness. Vigilantes and police are searching for this masked terrorizer. Meanwhile, copycats are emerging. And, this clown army is not just about the laughs!

Dread Central isn’t the only horror website distributing our own films; our friends at Bloody Disgusting have also taken forays into moviemaking. Next on their roster, Gags the Clown–a film that might just be responsible for the creepy clown craze of 2017 (aka the “Clownpocalypse”). Give the trailer a spin embedded at the top of […]

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With the success of last year’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It, I think most of us knew we’d be seeing a new wave of clown-themed movies coming at us, since filmmaking is often about embracing trends. So, when I read that the indie horror film Gags would be venturing into some atypical territory by exploring that weird creepy clown phenomena happening around the country in recent years, I was more than intrigued. Unfortunately, Gags spends a little too much time worrying about other characters and not nearly enough time with its mysterious eponymous jokester, ultimately making Gags an underwhelming experience that never quite lives up to its potential.

Following the events of one night in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Gags introduces us to its twisted titular character as he stalks some folks on their way to their car in an otherwise empty parking garage. From there, we begin following various groups,...

Genre favorite Lauren Ashley Carter (The Woman, Jug Face, Darling, The Mind’s Eye and Pod) has joined the cast of Gags. She will play Heather Duprey, a local news reporter forced to cover her city’s recent creepy clown problem and in turn uncovers something much more sinister. The film also stars Jesse C. Boyd (The Walking Dead, The Choice and High on the Hog), […]...