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A while back, we shared a Best Movie You Never Saw video on the action thriller Sniper, which was given a theatrical release in 1993 and spawned a direct-to-video franchise that is continuing to this day. In fact, a trailer for the eleventh film in the franchise, Sniper: The Last Stand, has just arrived online and can be seen in the embed above. The film is set to receive a digital release on January 21st.

Tom Berenger took on the lead role of sniper Thomas Beckett in the original film, and came back for Sniper 2 (2002) and Sniper 3 (2004). As of 2011’s Sniper: Reloaded, Thomas’s son Brandon, played by Chad Michael Collins, became the lead character in the franchise, and his story has continued through Sniper: Legacy (2014), Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016), Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017), Sniper: Assassin’s End (2020), Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022), Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team (2023), and now Sniper: The Last Stand.

Five Nights at Freddy's adapts the eponymous Scott Cawthon video game franchise into its first feature-length movie in an expected new franchise. Josh Hutcherson stars as Mike Schmidt, a security guard by trade who picks up a new job at an abandoned pizzeria as he battles for custody of his little sister after their parent's deaths. However, once he starts working his overnight shifts, he discovers Freddy Fazbear's Pizza's animatronics come to live at night, and he ends up fighting for his life when his sister ends up trapped in the restaurant with him.

Five Nights at Freddy's divided critics and audiences, but it was a box office success, making $291.1 million on a $20 million budget, and its critical reviews never hurt its success. As a result, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is coming, with an expected Christmas 2025 release date, which should excite fans of the movie and the games on which it is based.

1980s nostalgia is out and 1990s nostalgia is in, with the horror genre doling out films like I Saw the TV Glow (review) and now Mr. Crocket, an adaptation of Brandon Espy’s 2022 short of the same name (itself a part of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween series). Espy’s feature debut sadly sees the filmmaker struggling to find inspiration, working with a pedestrian script despite some impressive gore effects and puppetry.

It’s 1994 in the town of Shurry Bottom, Pa, and Summer has recently been widowed following the tragic death of her husband. She’s left to raise their son Major (Ayden Gavin) on her own, but finds herself struggling to deal with his public outbursts and temper tantrums as he attempts to process his own grief. Following a particularly nasty fight between the two of them, a magic mailbox suddenly appears in their front yard, delivering a VHS...

Horror fans tend to treat their favorite movies — no matter how schlocky or cheaply-made — as sacred cows, which puts an immeasurable amount of pressure on anyone who dares to remake, reboot, or legacyquel a beloved title. And yet, director Danishka Esterhazy handled that pressure with ease for her fantastic meta-remake of "Slumber Party Massacre," and quickly solidified herself as one of the most exciting new voices in horror.

Esterhazy had already earned a great deal of goodwill with her twisted take on "The Banana Splits Movie," and well-versed aficionados likely first learned of her work with the gripping sci-fi dystopian flick "Level 16," about a prison-like boarding school for girls harboring a demented secret. And luckily for fans of all things scary and slasher, Esterhazy has a new film coming to the Tubi streaming service on May 17, 2024, called "Killer Body Count." That's right, in less than three days from the time this article goes live,...

Stars: Jase Rivers, Chrissie Wunna, Danielle Scott, Alexandra DeCaluwe, Matthew Baunsgard | Written by Charlie Carter, Tom Carter | Directed by Ben J. Williams

With a title like Freddy’s Fridays, it’s obvious this was meant to cash in on the release of Five Nights at Freddy’s. And with the length of time that film took to actually get made both of the other knockoffs, The Banana Splits Movie and Willy’s Wonderland ended up preceding it to release, so Freddy’s Fridays has the mockbuster slot all to itself.

Todd is bringing an escort named Anastasia home. She doesn’t seem overly concerned when he brings her not to his apartment but to a basement full of candles, chains, and a book with an eye in the middle of the cover. She even reads from it, which is a big mistake. Four figures appear and hack her to pieces as Todd watches.

Detective...

The success of the Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2023 is a hell of a thing. It took so many years for Hollywood to realize that just taking one of the most popular video game franchises ever and translating it to the movie screen in the most basic way can net them a ton of money. They figured this out with comic books years ago, but only now are they realizing that maybe you can use that same strategy with games instead of giving a middle-aged man a silly haircut and claiming he’s supposed to be Bowser.

Now in the latter half of the year, we get a video game movie from the other side of the spectrum. Instead of video games’ golden boy, it’s the little indie series that could. Five Nights at Freddy’s, an inexpensive breakout gaming hit from nine years ago, has a movie coming out...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 16, episode 6!Risk E. Rat's Pizza and Amusement Center is a restaurant line introduced in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 16, but is the creepy animatronic franchise actually real? The pizza restaurant is undoubtedly similar to many other real-life restaurants, with the gang's misadventures showing off the location in pretty great detail. However, the Risk E. Rat's Pizza name is pretty obscure, causing many to wonder if the franchise actually exists.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 16, episode 6 sees Charlie, Mac, Dee, Dennis, and Frank return to one of the restaurants that defined their childhood: Risk E. Rat's Pizza and Amusement Center. However, it isn't quite as they remember. Risk E. Rat's has significantly changed from when the gang visited it in the 1980s (and Frank in the 1950s). Much of the dangerous and more problematic material has been removed, with...

The Five Nights at Freddy’s trailer has already made it mercifully clear that the video game adaptation won't repeat the worst mistakes of its imitators. Five Nights at Freddy’s became a hit when the indie video game was released in 2014. A first-person survival horror, Five Nights at Freddy’s forced the player to evade haunted animatronics, so they could survive the eponymous period in an abandoned pizzeria. Despite the premise’s simplicity, Five Nights at Freddy’s was so popular that the game went on to spawn countless copycats from Poppy Playtime to Duck Season to Choo Choo Charles. However, it wasn’t only games that ripped off Five Nights at Freddy’s.

2019’s The Banana Splits Movie and 2021's Willy’s Wonderland both saw killer animatronics pursue their heroes throughout one long night day/night, copying Five Nights at Freddy’s game formula. While Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey borrowed Five...

Between Rhys Frake-Waterfield's "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey," Elizabeth Banks' "Cocaine Bear," Kanphong Banjongphinij's slasher movie "Night of the Killer Bears," and now Emma Tammi's "Five Nights and Freddy's" -- due in theaters on October 27 -- this has been an exceptionally terrifying year for all things ursine. Determining what has drawn filmmakers to make movies about bears in 2023 may have to remain a matter for sociologists. 

"Five Nights at Freddy's" is based on the massively popular series of video games that began in 2014 and immediately shot to the foreground of the popular consciousness. Game creator Scott Cawthon reportedly came up with "Five Nights at Freddy's" after negative reviews of his family-friendly, Christian-facing game "Chipper & Sons Lumber Co." started to appear. Evidently, the central beaver character was compared to a malfunctioning animatronic, the type one might see in an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese's. Miffed at the negative reaction to "Chipper,...

After nearly a decade of talking about it, the "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie is finally coming our way later this year, thanks to the folks at Blumhouse. The company behind hits like "The Black Phone" and "The Purge" is bringing the beloved series of video games to life, meaning some animatronic murder bears will be gracing the silver screen this Halloween season. But a small movie from a couple of years ago may have beat Blumhouse to the punch, and Nicolas Cage was the man doing the punching.

In early 2021, as the pandemic was still raging on, Screen Media Films released "Willy's Wonderland," which features Cage as an unnamed janitor with no dialogue in a film that, as it happens, seems to resemble "Five Nights at Freddy's" an awful lot. Directed by Kevin Lewis, the film focuses on a quiet loner who agrees to clean an abandoned family fun...

Rhys Frake-Waterfield's new horror film "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey" takes the toddler-like characters from A.A. Milne's beloved 1926 children's novel, and transforms them into lumbering, human-hating, bloodthirsty serial killers. If you ever wanted to see Christopher Robin's little yellow Pooh bear as Leatherface from "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," then "Blood and Honey" is for you.

The central gag of Frake-Waterfield's film is, of course, the juxtaposition of Milne's childlike innocence with the violent crassness of your average slasher movie. One might ostensibly get a certain lascivious thrill from seeing well-known childhood imagery blended with adult material. A similar approach was used in Danishka Esterhazy's 2019 film "The Banana Splits Movie" which saw the stars of the 1968 children's TV show turned into murderous robots, as well as any number of horror fairy tales.

Because most of the above stories are now in the public domain ("The Banana Splits...

Stars: Osric Chau, Sara Canning, Gracie Gillam, Barbara Crampton | Written and Directed by Brandon Christensen

Superhost is the third film by writer/director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) and the first that wasn’t co-written with Colin Minihan. It’s also the first that doesn’t revolve around parenthood. How well has he managed to change things up? And can he bring something new to a pair of well-worn plots, the Airbnb from hell and YouTubers getting more of a story than they bargained for?

Teddy and Claire are co-hosts of the YouTube channel Superhost! as well as being a couple off-screen. He’s even planning to propose to her when they film their next segment.

But all is not well in the world of Airbnb reviews. Their subscriber count has been dropping due to their unsensational content. They rent a remote cabin only to find that the access code has been changed.

Rebooting the 1982 slasher horror, director Danishka Esterhazy tweaks the genre’s shocks in a movie that’s mostly decent fun

The 1982 video-nasty classic The Slumber Party Massacre – a confection of polyester sleepwear, orangey fake blood and phallic construction equipment with remarkable battery longevity, directed by Amy Jones – gets a reboot for a new generation with this, along with a more euphonious title, shorn of the definitive article. This time the director is Danishka Esterhazy, whose previous feature, The Banana Splits Movie, similarly retweaked a near-forgotten property from the pop-culture landfill. After an 80s-set prologue that establishes driller killer Russ Thorn’s (Rob van Vuuren) stalk-and-skewer modus operandi, we catch up with lone survivor Trish Deveraux (Schelaine Bennett) in the present day. Trish is now a paranoid parent, worriedly sending off her only daughter Dana off for a rustic overnighter with her friends. Will history repeat itself?

Not quite. Esterhazy and...

"The Banana Splits" horror movie, re-imagines 'Bingo', 'Fleegle', 'Snorky' and 'Drooper' from "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" TV series (1968), directed by Danishka Esterhazy for Warner Bros Television Group's digital studio Blue Ribbon Content:

"...a boy named 'Harley' and his family, including brother 'Austin', mother 'Beth' and father 'Mitch', attend a taping of the 'Banana Splits' TV show, featuring a humanoid lion, beagle, elephant and orange gorilla.

"It is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for 'Rebecca', producer of the series. But things take an unexpected turn. Can Harley, his mom and their new pals safely escape ?..."

Cast includes Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Romeo Carere, Steve Lund and Sara Canning.

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Danishka Esterhazy is helping to usher in another era of horror.

First, she took a beloved '70s children's program and turned it into a tongue-in-cheek nightmare with The Banana Splits Movie. Now she's at it again, taking what is widely known as the first feminist horror movie, Slumber Party Massacre, giving it the 21st-century treatment.

Why she did it is simple. "I am a fan of '80s horror and I am a fan of slasher movies. They were definitely the kind of movie I'd watch at sleepovers with my friends as a teen girl."

In 1982, Rita Mae Brown wrote Slumber Party Massacre, which Amy Holden Jones (The Resident) directed. Both were working with some of the industry's top behind-the-screen talent, and their intent was to shine a light on the misogynistic qualities of horror.

Danishka says it was a little later in life that she watched the original franchise,...

Syfy is bringing us an updated classic, and we couldn't be more excited!

The '80s were all about cheesy horror, and The Slumber Party Massacre is about as cheesy as it gets.

Thankfully, some things never get old -- horror, cheese, and coeds among them.

This movie has deep roots that appeal to the best TV Fanatics around, as the original was directed by Amy Holden Jones, who you know as The Resident showrunner.

This time out, hot on the heels of SurrealEstate, Danishka Esterhazy directs, so we know the remake is in good hands.

Airing on Saturday, October 16 at 9/8c, this new contemporary twist-filled reimagining of the 1982 slasher cult classic arrives just in time for Halloween.

Don't you just hate when a slumber party turns into a bloodbath, and a psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill disrupts the fun??

The hour and a half horror film with cast members Hannah Gonera,...

It is with sadness in our hearts we report the death of Director-producer Richard Donner, who was 91.

Donner, best known for movies including the original ‘Superman’, the ‘Lethal Weapon’ series of films and of course, ‘The Goonies’ for which our site owes immense gratitude for inspiring our name.

Donner, who had a long and illustrious career made his big breakthrough with 1976’s The Omen before going on to make what is regarded as the first superhero film with ‘Superman’ starring Christopher Reeves. In 1985, Donner went on to direct the story of a group of children hunting for a hidden treasure, ‘The Goonies’. The movie has since gone on to become a bit of a cult classic for those that grew up in the ‘80s.

His career highlight came with the ‘Lethal Weapon’ franchise starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover which garnered over a billion dollars at the box office. He...

Director Richard Donner, who died on Monday at age 91, was once compared to Victor Fleming (“Gone with the Wind”) and Michael Curtiz (“Casablanca”), old-school filmmakers who worked hard to give their studio bosses what they wanted (and to give the public what they thought it wanted).

Donner may have come into his own as a hit-maker during the New Hollywood of the 1970s, but no one ever accused him of being an auteur. He made accessible entertainments — and if that were an easy task, everyone would have done it — and helped usher in the modern era of superhero cinema with 1978’s “Superman,” a thrilling and utterly unironic take on the comic-book icon that feels more influential to contemporary moviemaking with each passing year.

Born Richard Donald Schwartzberg in the Bronx, Donner moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s with hopes of becoming an actor. He was soon mentored by director Martin Ritt,...

Richard Donner, director of the original “Superman” film as well as “The Goonies” and all four “Lethal Weapon” films, has died at the age of 91. Deadline reported that his wife, Lauren Schuler Donner and business manager confirmed his passing. No cause of death has been provided.

Richard Donner spent nearly two decades working on some of the best television programs of the 1960s and ’70s. His early work included directing episodes of “The Rifleman,” “The Twilight Zone,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” “Gilligan’s Island,” and “Perry Mason.” Later, he was behind the camera for “Get Smart,” “The Fugitive,” “The Streets of San Francisco,” and “Kojak.”

All that work in action and suspense paid off with back-to-back big screen hits in “The Omen” (1976) and “Superman” (1978). The horror classic starring Gregory Peck was nominated for two Oscars and won for Jerry Goldsmith’s score. The superhero film starring Christopher Reed was nominated for...

Director-producer Richard Donner, best known for helming the “Lethal Weapon” film series, “The Goonies” and the original “Superman” film, died on Monday. He was 91.

Donner’s production company confirmed news of his death to Variety, though the cause was not disclosed.

Though not his first bigscreen effort, his big feature break came with 1976’s “The Omen,” starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. Thereafter, he brought his craftsmanship to the first “Superman.” He also branched out into producing, usually with his wife Lauren Shuler Donner — he executive produced the huge 2000 success “X-Men” and later the prequel “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” But his career was highlighted by the “Lethal Weapon” series, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, which elevated him to the ranks of directors generating more than a billion dollars in box office.

Born Richard Donald Schwartzberg in the Bronx, he attended Parker Junior College and then NYU, where he majored in business and theater.

Ahead of its VOD release next month, the official trailer for the wild horror movie Willy's Wonderland Trailer has finally arrived. Starring Nicolas Cage, the story follows a night-shift janitor battling violent animatronic mascots in an abandoned family entertainment center. Cage also produced the movie alongside Killer Klowns from Outer Space star Grant Cramer and Mike Nilon, Jeremy Davis, David Ozer, and Bryan Lord. You can check out the trailer below.

Directed by Kevin Lewis and written by G. O. Parsons, Willy's Wonderland begins with a drifter (Nicolas Cage) winding up stranded in the remote town of Hayesville, Nevada. He agrees to work as a janitor at a Chuck E. Cheese-style family fun center called Willy's Wonderland, only to discover that the animatronics have come to life and are trying to kill him. To survive the night, the janitor must work together with a group of teenagers to protect themselves from the murderous robots.

Exclusive: Canadian director Danishka Esterhazy, whose recent projects include helming Lifetime’s TV pic I Was Lorena Bobbitt and horror comedy The Banana Splits Movie, has signed with Paradigm.

The move comes as has come aboard as producer-director on the new Syfy series The Surrealtor, which is set to begin shooting in Newfoundland in the fall. The project reunites Esterhazy with the network after Banana Splits Movie, a dark reboot of the Hanna-Barbera children’s series. It bowed at San Diego Comic-Con last year before premiering on Syfy in October.

Esterhazy also recently directed episodes of Syfy’s action adventure Vagrant Queen starring Adriyan Rae, which bowed in March.

“I couldn’t be more excited to be part of the team at Paradigm,” said said. “I look forward to working with them, developing and expanding my work in both television and feature films in Canada, the USA, and internationally.”

The Surrealtor,...

Some sad news is coming in today as it has been reported that famous Hollywood puppeteer Pat Brymer has passed away. Particularly well known for puppeteering the mischievous gopher that tormented Bill Murray in Caddyshack, Brymer had also lent a hand to many other movies and television shows. Although the news of his death has just been announced, Brymer reportedly died on April 12 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, following a battle with cardiomyopathy. He was 70 years old.

Born James Patrick Brymer, the legendary puppeteer was born on March 17, 1950, in Highland Park, Illinois. Following four years studying theater at Illinois State University, Brymer began working as a puppeteer in St. Louis when he took a job at Sid and Marty Krofft's puppet theater at Six Flags Over Mid-America. There, he would build puppets and walk-around characters. This would lead to more work with the Kroffts, such as...

A happy-go-lucky dragon with a yellow head who talks with a magic flute. Diminutive sea monsters frolicking with a pair of young boys. A world where lifesize hats run things. And presidents in a bar, laughing it up with Saddam Hussein and Barbara Walters. These are the worlds which have been the mainstay of Sid and Marty Krofft for over 50 years, and for which they are being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Feb.13.

The Kroffts’ craft developed out of several decades of marionette work, including their hugely successful “Les Poupées de Paris,” the first “adults only” puppet show, featuring naked marionettes, which opened in 1962. Its success drew the attention of Six Flags, who brought the brothers onboard as creative heads to install shows at all of their amusement parks.

To produce the many costumes, puppets and props used at the Six Flags parks, the...

A new international trailer for Blumhouse’s horror remake of Fantasy Island has given us a brief look at the character Michael Rooker will be playing in the film.

The pic is based on the popular TV series of the same name that ran for seven seasons from 1977 to 1984, in which various guests travel to live out their deepest fantasies on the titular tropical paradise run by the enigmatic and possibly immortal Mr. Rourke. Each scenario often provides exactly what the guest asked for but in a way not expected, usually leaving them learning something about themselves in the process. The remake is a not entirely dissimilar idea to The Banana Splits Movie, which also took a beloved property and updated it with a horror twist, and it turned out to be a surprisingly decent film.

Most of the new trailer’s content is similar to that already seen in the first one,...

Earlier this year, Blue Ribbon Content unveiled one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen in The Banana Splits Movie. Yes, I’m talking about those Banana Splits.

Given a modern-day, A.I. upgrade, these Splits were, for the purposes of the story, beloved children’s characters during the day and cybertronic killers at night. And you know what, the final product wasn’t that bad.

Don’t get me wrong: The Banana Splits Movie was bad, but it was the kind of pleasantly self-aware venture that you couldn’t help but enjoy. The jury, however, has yet to make a verdict on the latest TV-adapted horror film, Blumhouse and Sony’s Fantasy Island.

The original series, which ran from 1977 to 1984 and starred Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize, followed various guests as they recounted their visits to a unique island resort. Whilst there, as the title suggests, their greatest fantasies could be fulfilled.

Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump continues his extensive work in the film/TV soundtrack realm with the release of “Spell,” which comes on Nov. 1 on Milan Records through Sony Music Masterworks. The soundtrack features Stump’s music from Crush Pictures’ psych-thriller, including the ballad “Deep Blue Love.” a soulful, blues-tinged ballad performed by Stump and recorded exclusively for the project, which you can hear below. “Spell” made its debut at last year’s La Film Festival and will premiere in theaters Friday, November 1 and on VOD and DVD beginning Tuesday, November 19.

“Brendan gave me a real chance as a composer,” says Stump of working with director Brendan Walter on the soundtrack to “Spell.” “I was allowed to explore elements of my writing that I could never have without the narrative of the film. This score was fantastic to work on because I got to play with the film’s...

We have a brand new trailer for The Banana Splits Movie. This trailer was revealed in honor of the movie getting a premiere date on Syfy, which is set for October 12. Much like the first trailer, it's very clear this is a full-blown, R-rated, horror-driven take on this beloved children's classic. How or why this came to be remains a mystery, but this is happening and we have a bloody look at what's coming our way.

It was initially revealed back in February that The Banana Splits were being revived. One might have thought that would include a new TV series that would have been aimed at children, much like the original 1960s TV series. Instead, it was stated that the reboot was, confusingly, going to be a horror movie. Once the first trailer debuted, many began making comparisons, rightfully so, to the popular video game Five Nights at Freddy's.

One banana, two banana, three banana, Gore! It's time, kiddies! Gather around the TV for the latest episode of everyone's favorite family program as the animals go insane and start hacking up the studio audience. Yes, the Hanna-Barbera legends are back like you've never seen them before in The Banana Splits Movie, which hits home today. We have a scary new clip that isn't very kind to influencers. Watch if you dare, but you better hide your phone from Fleegle.

The Banana Splits Movie, an original feature-length film, is available everywhere today, August 27, 2019, on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital. And horror fans won't be disappointed. This weird excursion into 'Wtf did I just watch' territory will split you from the inside out, and it definitely wins its R-rating. There is blood, guts, and plenty of mayhem to go around.

In this all-new clip from&#160The Banana Splits Movie, newly...

We’ve got a ton of great titles on the docket for this final week of home media releases in August. Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters is hitting various formats on Tuesday, and if you’re looking for some oddball entertainment, The Banana Splits Movie should undoubtedly do the trick. For all you sci-fi fans out there, the classic V miniseries is finally making its way to Blu, and Scream Factory is also giving both The Leech Woman and Fear in the Night the HD treatment as well.

Vinegar Syndrome is showing some love to Hell Comes to Frogtown this week, and the Warner Archive Collection is bringing home several of their films on DVD, including Wolfen, Of Unknown Origin, The Hand, and Dracula Has Risen From the Grave. Also, one of the more disturbing psychological thrillers I’ve seen in some time, Ladyworld, is being released on DVD on August 27th,...

Stars: Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Romeo Carere, Steve Lund, Maria Nash, Naledi Majola, Richard White, Sara Canning, Celina Martin, Kiroshan Naidoo | Written by Jed Elinoff, Scott Thomas | Directed by Danishka Esterhazy

One banana, two banana, three banana, Gore! The cult-favorite animal rock-band from Hanna-Barbera’s 1968 The Banana Splits Adventure Hour variety program is back with a blood-spattered vengeance as a young boy named Harley and his family go to a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley. But things take an unexpected turn… and the body count quickly rises.

It would seem Warner Bros., through production company Blue Ribbon Content, have taken a leaf out of Universal’s Dtv playbook and commissioned a series of direct to market, low-to-mid budget movies that capitalise on existing franchises. Whereas Universal created a myriad of sequels to popular action franchises like Death Race...

Unless you really think Danishka Esterhazy’s The Banana Splits Movie is going to mimic the kid-friendly environment of the 1960s Hanna-Barbera series, it won’t come as too much of a shock to learn that these are not the same Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snork of your childhood. No, in their big screen debut and faint rebirth back into the social stream, these four splits’ goal is to simply split you. And with this bloodthirsty reincarnation comes one of the strangest and, not speaking to its quality, welcomed films of the year.

With fans from all boroughs of pop culture demanding neatly packaged nostalgia trips, this picture mangles the memory of a kid’s pop-rock band and turns it into a gruesome pack of furry killing machines. Its premise is bold, radical, and, in terms of branding, everlasting. While the idea of The Banana Splits has been left on...

In 1968 Hanna Barbera debuts a new TV show, The Banana Splits Club. Its stars are Fleegle, a beagle; Bingo, an orange-furred ape; Drooper, a lion; and Snorky, an elephant. The hour-long musical/comedy variety show ran for 2 seasons and as you would guess was geared towards children. 49 years later, writers, Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas decided to spice things up and make them murderers

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Most of the big summer movies have come and gone, but there is still one last incoming treat that will splatter across these dog days with gleeful abandoned. Coming later this month is the hugely anticipated The Banana Splits Movie. It turns the classic 60s kids show into a horror extravaganza with Bingo, Fleegle, Snorky and Drooper wrecking havoc behind the scenes. Today, we get the first exciting clip, which puts an ominous spin on old Drooper.

The show Must go on! So says Bingo, Fleegle, Snorky and, especially, Drooper when they learn that their long-running variety show has been cancelled. In this all-new clip from the upcoming The Banana Splits Movie, stage manager Rebecca, played by Sara Canning, learns the show has been cancelled from studio executive Andy, played by Daniel Fox ... just as does a lurking-in-the-shadows Drooper.

Produced by Blue Ribbon Content in association with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Syfy,...

One banana, two banana, three banana, Gore! Lovers of Saturday Morning Cartoons are going to have their heads split open next week when The Banana Splits Movie hits home video with a big red splat of chainsaw-chewing violence. That's right, American's favorite animal band is back, and this time they're taking no prisoners. Cause they're going to eat them instead.

What the bloody hell is this? Well, if it looks like someone got the bright idea to turn Hanna-Barbera's 1968 The Banana Splits Adventure Hour variety program into a big screen version of Five Nights at Freddy's, you wouldn't be wrong. A movie based on that popular video game has been in the works for quite a while now. And it is rumored that The Banana Splits Movie is actually using an old script that was originally written for Freddy and his Terrifying friends.

So if your seeing any similarities, you're not far off.

As the calendar creeps closer towards the Halloween season, we have a brand new month of VOD and Digital releases coming our way throughout the month of August. Things kick off on the 2nd with the latest installment of Blumhouse’s Into the Dark series, School Spirit, and the directorial debut of Jason Mewes, Method in the Madness, also hits various platforms the same day.

August 6th is a very busy day for digital releases, as we have 10 different films coming out that day, including Brightburn, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Night Sitter, and Perception. Nekrotronic, featuring Monica Bellucci, arrives on the 9th, and just a few days later, The Banana Splits Movie hits digital on the 13th, and I’m still not sure what to make of it, but I will definitely be watching that night to see just what on earth they’ve done with these classic TV characters.

We have a brand new trailer for Iron Sky: The Coming Race, which is sure to be the craziest movie coming our way in 2019. Yes, even when taking into account that an R-rated horror movie centered on The Banana Splits is also being released this summer. This serves as a sequel to the cult hit Iron Sky, which was first released back in 2012. The creative team has made us wait a long time for the follow-up, but those who are interested are going to be rewarded with some remarkable madness when the movie finally arrives in July.

The trailer kicks off with a pretty impressive action sequence, before diving into a recap of the events that brought us to where we are today. Life on Earth as we know it came to an end, thanks to those damned Moon Nazis and the nuclear war they started. So, some humans have...

The Banana Splits Movie will be bringing the potentially childhood-ruining R-rated horror shenanigans home this summer. We initially learned in February that the children's show icons were being revived with a brand new movie. Yet, peculiarly, the series was being given a horror twist. Recently, we were treated to the first, very bizarre and blood-filled trailer for the unlikely reboot. Now, those who are curious to see how this all comes together will get their chance via Blu-ray/DVD this summer.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and SyFy have partnered to bring The Banana Splits Movie to digital platforms on August 13. The movie will then make its way to Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on August 27. The cover art for the Blu-ray has also been released, which features Drooper, Snorky, Fleegle and Bingo, with Bingo holding onto an ax like Jack Torrence from The Shining. The cover also boasts the tagline "Tra la la terror,...

In the wake of last week’s trailer (found below), we’ve learned today that the rated R horror film The Banana Splits Movie is headed to home video this coming August! The cult-favorite animal rock-band from Hanna-Barbera’s 1968 The Banana Splits Adventure Hour variety program is back with a blood-spattered vengeance! Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings you The Banana Splits […]...

Once beloved kids show in the ’60s, Hanna-Barbera’s ‘The Banana Splits’ has been brought back to life to invade your kid’s nightmares.

In the new trailer, the show that brings joy and happiness to youngsters everywhere turns into a horror-fest after the show is axed.

Dani Kind plays the mom while Sara Canning stars as the show’s producer, along with Romeo Carere and Steve Lund as Harley’s brother and father.

Danishka Esterhazy directs from a script by Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas.

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The film will premiere on Syfy later this year.

The Banana Splits Movie Synopsis

The story follows a boy named Harley (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong) who celebrates his birthday by attending a taping of the Banana Splits TV show with his family. Things take an unexpected turn...

We have the first trailer for The Banana Splits movie and it's probably not what anyone was expecting. We first got wind that the children's icons were getting a reboot in the form of a new movie back in February. That was welcome news, but it came with something of a twist. At the time, it was heavily implied that this was, strangely, going to be a horror-themed take on the 60s TV series. This trailer serves as stone-cold proof of that as things get extra bloody in this R-rated reboot that may very well be the most bizarre thing coming our way this year.

The trailer kicks off with a family who surprise their young son with tickets to go see The Banana Splits live. Things seem normal enough at first. Everyone seems happy. Then things get weird. As soon as the original costumed characters Bingo, Fleegle, Snorky and Drooper appear on screen,...

Back in February, we passed along the news that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Syfy will be bringing us a new original film based on the cult favorite children's series The Banana Splits... but with a horror twist. And today we have word that the film will be going full-tilt boogie with the horror as the MPAA has just slapped the movie with an R-rating for "horror violence and gore."

The upcoming horror thriller centers on a boy named Harley who attends a taping of The Banana Splits TV show with his brother Austin, mother Beth, and father, Mitch. It was supposed to be business as usual for the producer of the series, Rebecca, and a fun-filled birthday for young Harley. But things take an unexpected turn - evidently filled with horror violence and gore - and fittingly the body count quickly rises. Will Harley and company survive? And if so,...

Jan-Michael Vincent, who starred in the TV series “Airwolf” and movies like “The Mechanic,” died on Feb. 10 at the age of 74 in North Carolina, according to a death certificate obtained by Ktla.

According to CBS, the actor died of cardiac arrest.

Vincent’s other credits including 1970’s “Tribes,” 1975’s “White Line Fever,” 1976’s “Baby Blue Marine.” In 2002, he starred in the drama “White Boy.” Other films include “Bite the Bullet” and “Big Wednesday.”

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Vincent was born on July 15, 1944, in Denver. He made his first appearance on screen in the 1967 TV film “The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk.” He was found by a talent scout because of his looks as he was finishing a tour of duty in the California Army National Guard, and then made his movie debut opposite Robert Conrad in “The Bandits.”

His career took off in the late...