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The slasher-comedy Totally Killer is on the way from Blumhouse and Amazon Studios, and today we’ve been provided with a first look at the film’s new slasher villain.

Their name is “The Sweet Sixteen Killer,” described in a press release as “the frightening, fresh new face joining iconic villains from Blumhouse’s horror canon.”

That lineup to date includes…

The Grabber / The Black Phone The Butcher / Freaky Babyface / Happy Death Day Lady Liberty / The Purge: Election Year Pooka / Into the Dark: Pooka! Sweet Sixteen Killer / Totally Killer

Meet “The Sweet Sixteen Killer” in the new teaser video below.

Totally Killer hits Prime Video on October 6, 2023. The film has been rated “R” for “Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.”

Totally Killer sounds quite a bit like the brilliant slasher-comedy The Final Girls, similarly transporting characters back in time and putting them inside of a classic 80s slasher setup.

Harlan Coben’s Shelter is a new mystery drama series that takes the viewers through a deep, dark forest in the hope that the story’s matrix of truth and lies will keep you entertained while you keep second-guessing the next turn of events. Shelter Episode 4 proves that the mystery of Brad’s death and the intentions of the ‘Bat Lady’ regarding Brad’s son Mickey will not be deciphered so easily. Although the episode did give us some answers, especially regarding Ashley and Rachel’s connection, there are many questions that were left unanswered. The episode was a mixed bag this time. It meandered from one story to the next without much fervor.

The whole subplot exploring Shira’s past seemed out of place and disturbed the pacing, but as soon as the episode focused on Ashley and the Bat Lady, the intrigue was back. Shelter Episode 4 did a...

The ultra-violent horror movie Megalomaniac (read Meagan’s review) premiered at Fantasia last year, and Dark Star Pictures is bringing it to US theaters on September 8, 2023.

Watch the nasty, bloody, extreme trailer for Megalomaniac below, which is loaded with rave reviews from critics – including Bloody Disgusting’s 3.5 star review out of Fantasia.

Winner of the top Jury Prize (Best Feature) at the Fantasia Film Festival, this brutal and dark serial killer film utilizes the backdrop of an unsolved true crime.

With Megalomaniac, prolific filmmaker Karim Ouelhaj, Méliès d’Or winner for The Frozen Eye (2016), brings us his fourth feature and by far his most savage.

In the film, “Martha and Félix are the children of the Butcher of Mons, a notorious Belgian serial killer from the 1990s. Unstable and riddled with insecurities, Martha lives vicariously through social media. Her brother, crushed by the family legacy, takes over their father’s killings.

Another week, another episode of Aew: Dark which emanates from Grand Rapids, Michigan – which means this was taped at the same time as this past weekend’s Battle of the Belts special. We’ve got Taz and Excalibur on commentary as usual so let’s get to the action!

Match #1: Private Party, The Butcher & The Blade def. Isaiah Broner, James Alexander, Brayden Lee, & Sam Moore

My Thoughts: So we open Dark with an 8-man quasi-squash match. Hey, at least Private Party, The Butcher & The Blade are getting “TV” time right? Right..? It seems both teams are floundering somewhat after the end of the Hfo/Ahfo so to see them in action is good, even more so when the in-ring action is good too!

My Score: 2.5 out of 5 Match #2: Anna Jay A.S. def. Megan Meyers

My Thoughts: Anna Jay gets a new name and new attitude… Hopefully her...

Feature by Matthew De Monti

Yes I wholeheartedly apologise for the click bait style title, but this article has nothing to do with the bedroom antics of comic fans, rather whether they prefer their reading in floppy or hard format (sorry!)

Recently I had a WhatsApp message from a friend showing a picture of the collected edition of Doctor Strange Surgeon Supreme he’d picked up in WHSmith at the airport and that he was looking forward to reading it on the sun lounger on holiday.

Over 20 years ago when I first met my friend he had just discovered Thor in the pages of some Marvel UK reprints and after being shown some of the American issues he embarked on a collecting spree, regularly picking up as many Thor and Journey Into Mystery issues as we could keep in stock and occasional other titles we could recommend to him. I...

The Boys are back and more violent and off-the-wall than ever. With the first few episodes of the second season now available courtesy of Amazon Prime, Karl Urban's Billy Butcher has now gone solo for this short film, titled Butcher, which has now been released via social media ahead of the season's fourth episode.

The Butcher short film begins with some familiar scenes from the main series before shifting focus to Butcher on the run, where he reaches out to his old war buddy, Jock, for help. The short goes a long way to filling some of the gaps left between the first and second seasons of [The Boys}, which finds Butcher off his game thanks to the nefarious schemes of the tyrannical "superhero" Homelander. Show creator Eric Kripke teased the release of Butcher a few months ago, calling the release a "pretty substantial thing."

"We had a whole...

Once again, Insomniac’s Escape Psycho Circus took over the Nos Events Center in San Bernardino this past weekend for yet another thrilling two-day event highlighting some of the best electronic music acts from across the world with tons of spooky shenanigans, just in time for the Halloween season. For 2019, Escape not only revamped its stages, but also several key areas of the festival, and these improvements were very welcome, making it the biggest and best year in the long-running festival’s impressive history.

More than 65 artists played on Escape’s four stages, including the likes of Deadmau5, Dillon Francis, Rl Grime, Dombresky, TestPilot, Eric Prydz, Excision, ATLiens, Valentino Khan, San Holo, Nicole Moudaber (who performed a B3B set with both Dubfire and Paco Asuna), Alesso, i_o, Bear Grillz, Chris Liebing B2B with Charlotte De Witte, Timmy Trumpet, Headhunterz, and so many more.

This year, a giant...

Marta Meszaros to receive lifetime achievement award.

Gabor Herendy’s hit comedy Valami Amerika 3 will open 18th Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles, set to run from October 18-November1.

Female star Szonja Oroszlan will attend the screening and this year’s event is dedicated to women in Hungarian filmmaking.

Many of the features, TV movies, documentaries, animation, and short were directed by Hungarian women.

Franciska Torocsik (pictured) will attend with Aurora Borealis, which is directed by 87-year-old Marta Meszaros who will receive the lifetime achievement award.

Other female stars in attendance include: Viktoria Tarpai with Santan’s Bastard and Dori Behumi with Budapest Bar.

The following recap, by the very definition of the word “recap,” contains spoilers from the Shooter series finale.

Shooter went out with many bangs — including a quite devastating one — as the USA Network drama wrapped its three-season run on Thursday night.

Picking right up where the Supreme Court building explosion left off, Isaac accompanied Nadine as she was whisked away in an ambulance, in “stable but bad” shape. Bob Lee, with Harris’ help, meanwhile sneaked inside the building to hunt down the Atlas operative behind the bus bomb, Jack Long. After finding Justice Carla Tortelli’s Gibson’s driver tied...

James Hunt Oct 11, 2017

Discovery delivers another great modern Star Trek episode in its fourth instalment. Spoilers and geeky spots ahead in our review...

This review contains spoilers.

See related Arrow season 6: UK air date announced Arrow season 6: Rick Gonzalez interview Arrow season 5 episode 23 review: Lian Yu

1.4 The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry

What a title this episode has. If Discovery has done nothing else, it’s brought back the spirit of the original series’ episode titles, which were essentially “how grandiose and Shakespearean can we be in fewer than 10 words”. Turns out: very.

Of course, it’s not completely without meaning. There are lots of butcher’s knives in this episode, and lots of lambs crying. Metaphorically, of course. The most Star Trek thing about this episode was Burnham’s insistence that science and compassion prevail over, like, randomly shooting stuff in the face.

You've gotta watch this trailer for the upcoming action thriller Savage Dog, which features Scott Adkins (Doctor Strange, The Expendables II) kicking ass as he embarks on a mission for revenge.

The movie looks like it came straight out of the early 1990s, which is why I'm kind of looking forward to watching it. I've seen a few trailers for upcoming action films recently that reminded me of movies from the 90s. Are 90s-style action movies making a comeback!? Yeah, it looks like a very low-budget flick, but sometimes it's just fun to sit back, relax, and watch a fun movie like this. Here's the synopsis:

Indochina, 1959. A Wild West town controlled by the criminal class: Vietnamese warlords and European war criminals. The worst prison in the land, it is here that a European, former-champion boxer Martin Tilman (Scott Adkins) has made a name for himself fighting tournaments. When Tilman is due for release,...

Hell’s Kitchen‘s renewal news just came in a double portion.

Fox has renewed Gordon Ramsay’s cooking competition series for Seasons 17 and 18, it was announced Friday.

Related 2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?

Season 16, meanwhile, premieres in two weeks — on Friday, Sept. 23 at 8/7c.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* Supernatural is keeping its promise to put the focus on hunters in Season 12. Kara Royster (Pretty Little Liars) will guest-star in Episode 6 as Alicia, a monster-killer who was raised by a witch, our sister site Variety reports.

FX’s Fargo this Monday night put a tidy-ish bow on its stellar second season — no small feat, given that when last we tuned in a bona fide UFO had descended upon the site of an epically bloody melee.

RelatedFargo‘s Season 3 Time Period Is Revealed

Having yet again dodged death, Peggy and Ed Blumquist (played by Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons) sought safe harbor from Hanzee (Zahn McClarnon) in a supermarket, with Minnesota trooper Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson) close on their heels. Alas, “The Indian” had put a bullet in Ed during the preceding foot chase, leaving “The Butcher...

"This is a true story."And the first casualty of the great war of '79 between the North and South was... a zoning commissioner? Joe Bulo's (Brad Garrett) bow-and-arrow-wielding contact took a shot to the head with a good ol' fashioned rifle before the rest of the hunting party met their maker — including Joe himself, who was later delivered in a gift box to Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine). Things went quiet for a bit after that as both families plotted their next move, but the bloodshed wasn't over. Ed "The Butcher" Blomquist (Jesse Plemons) was Charlie Gerhardt's (Allan Dobrescu) first target; a fine choice for a gunshy kid unsure of what he himself is capable of, but one that went awry when the surprisingly spry big man killed one more of the Gerhardt clan before "saving" Charlie (who's also wounded). Now the cops are coming for the indecisive Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) and her more-than-capable husband,...

Is that the last we'll see of Community or will the hashtag become a reality when six seasons are joined by a movie?

Warning: contains spoilers for Community season 6.

For the first time since 2009, Community just got through a season without the threat of cancellation looming over it at any given moment. NBC finally pulled the plug on Dan Harmon's weird and wonderful series in 2014 after five seasons, but like Arrested Development before it and The Mindy Project since, it got another season by moving online, to the Yahoo! Screen streaming service.

Given how Harmon was fired in 2012, following a harried production schedule on season three and a very public dispute with Chevy Chase over filming, it seems kind of impossible that the show ever got to the six seasons for which the fans campaigned ceaselessly. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie became the rallying cry for Greendale's Human Beings and the lifespan of...

Community is back in a new home for its much-discussed sixth season, but is it still the same show?

This review contains spoilers.

“We'll definitely be back next year. If not, it'll be because an asteroid has destroyed all human civilization. And that's canon.”

Quick, to the internet! After NBC finally dropped the axe on Community, its “six seasons and a movie” mantra appeared to be in jeopardy. At the eleventh hour, the series found a second life on the Yahoo! Screen streaming service and we've got 13 new episodes before Dan Harmon and company have to start thinking about a movie.

The first two episodes arrived online on Tuesday - if you're in the UK it's also broadcast on Wednesdays at 10pm on the Sony Entertainment Channel. Greendale Community College has never been more accessible, but is the new season trying to keep everyone happy?

These first two episodes, Ladders and Lawnmower Maintenance & Postnatal Care,...

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s massive feature includes a review for Nobody Can Cool, first details on The Night Crew, Heir, and a Doctor Who documentary called Who’s Changing: An Adventure In Time With Fans, a new clip from Muck, trailers for Blood Shed, NightBeasts, and Virginia Obscura, and much more:

[Editor's Note: We want to give a big thanks to our Indie Spotlight manager, Tamika Jones, for her constant work on this weekly feature and putting together our largest Indie Spotlight to date this weekend!]

Indie Spotlight Review: Nobody Can Cool

by Heather Wixson

Nobody Can Cool is the rather impressive directorial debut from up-and-coming filmmaking duo Dpyx, Marcy Boyle and Rachel Holzman, who crafted a blisteringly taut and thoughtful indie crime thriller with a palpable sense of tension from start to finish. A gritty and engaging tale of deceit, violence and desperation, Nobody Can Cool is anchored by a breakout performance by Nick Principe (best known from his work in the Laid to Rest series, Madison County and...

It can't have been easy for Warner Bros. and their subsidiary DC Entertainment to sit and watch Marvel release The Avengers to huge box office success last year while Christopher Nolan was simultaneously closing the doors on his massively successful Batman trilogy with The Dark Knight Rises. While The Avengers is clearly open to have more sequels, Nolan never tried to expand his movies' scope to DC's other characters. In response to the success of The Avengers, Warners did hire Gangster Squad screenwriter Will Beall to script a Justice League movie, which would potentially team Batman with other legendary DC characters such as Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, however, the movie is already rumored to be slated for a complete overhaul, with the safe money betting that the studio will wait and see if Superman's next outing, Man of Steel, will provide the box office boost necessary to move...

Now this is impressive. Latino-Review has an exclusive promotional trailer for Wonder Woman up, and it's a doozie. First though, some background information: Jesse V. Johnson has been a stuntman or stunt coordinator for such films as The Amazing Spider-man, Thor, and Beowulf. He's also directed a few films like The Package and The Butcher. Johnson is interested in working with bigger studios so he decided to shoot a concept trailer to show off his talents. The idea to do a trailer for Wonder...

If you’re late to the Fourth Wall Studios games, it’s not too late to hop onboard. The studio is all about an interactive fan experience with its horror anthology, releasing free movies online that immerse you in the experience. The newest such film is 6:14, starring Ethan Embry and the immortal Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers! Total Recall!). Check out the press release and trailer below, or just go watch the movie on Rides.TV, or check out some of their other projects, where you’ll get horror in your ear (or cell phone, at least).

Los Angeles, CA – Emmy Award-winning Fourth Wall Studios has released the fourth installment of their Dark Wall horror anthology, “6:14,” the story of a man caught in an endless nightmare. The transmedia short is available to view for free now on Fourth Wall Studios’ platform, Rides.tv.

Directed and co-written by acclaimed horror filmmaker Toby Wilkins (Splinter,...

If a film is being featured on Rides.tv, you know two things…it's going to kick ass and you're going to be involved in it somehow. The Dark Wall film series, presented by Emmy Award-winning Fourth Wall Studios, featured at Rides.tv has released their newest nightmare, 6:14.

Check this film out, and be sure to sign in with your information to get the most thorough experience. 6:14 was directed by Toby Wilkins, who co-wrote the script with Zach Schiff-Abrams. The cast is Ethan Embry, Michael Ironside, Tim Powell and Brian Robinson. That's a pretty stellar team for a horror short, and they do an excellent job. The F/X are very nice as well. We can't ever remember seeing a nail gun used as effectively…but shhh, don't let us spoil the surprise. Check out 6:14 on Rides.tv.

For more visit the official Dark Wall page on Rides.

Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox feel the pain in the first trailer for the James Patterson adaptation.

By Josh Wigler

Tyler Perry in "Alex Cross"

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Don't cross Alex Cross. Do cross the "Alex Cross" trailer.Tyler Perry makes his debut as James Patterson's iconic detective and forensic psychologist in the first official trailer for "Alex Cross," which premiered exclusively on Amazon Tuesday (June 26). Previously played by Morgan Freeman in "Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came a Spider," Cross gets a younger makeover in the Perry-starring flick, as well as an impossibly ripped homicidal-maniac nemesis in the form of "Lost" veteran Matthew Fox.The trailer is all kinds of bonkers, with Fox shouting out sadistic one-liners and threatening women like it's his job (in this case, it actually is) and Perry doing everything he can to hold it together while going up against one of the most ruthless psychopaths this side of Madea.

Here's a new poster for John Dowdle's "Devil", from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan. Logan Marshall-Green ("Across The Universe"), Jenny O'Hara ("Big Love", "Drop Dead Diva"), Jacob Vargas ("Death Race", "The Hills Have Eyes II"), Matt Craven ("Disturbia", "Crimson Tide"), Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic ("Edge Of Darkness", "Drag Me To Hell"), Bokeem Woodbine ("The Poker House", "The Butcher"), Geoffrey Arend ("Trust Me", "The Ringer") and Caroline Dhavernas ("Wrecked") are starring....

Safe House Movie PosterProduction began on the thriller Safe House in March of this year and director Simon Hunter (Mutant Chronicles) will lead the project (Deadline). Hunter is describing the film as Assault on Precinct 13 meets The Thing and this project will be shot in South Africa. The only cast announced thus far are Lena Headey ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") and Michael Ironside (The Butcher). Have a very early look at a film poster for the project and the film's full synopsis.

The synopsis for Safe House here:

"Safe House follows a team of Us Marshals charged with protecting a mob-trial witness and her teenage daughter, Alice. Mother and daughter are relocated to an isolated compound high in the Californian Rockies. The location appears secure -- outfitted specifically for witness protection -- yet its past is steeped in mystery and violence..." (Deadline).

Release Date: 2011.

Director: Simon Hunter.

Writer: Andy Briggs.

Director: Chad Ferrin.

Writers: Chad Ferrin and Roham Ghodsi.

Chad Ferrin and Crappy World Films produced Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! for release this year and their latest film is Someone's Knocking at the Door. This feature will release on DVD and Blu-Ray May 25th via Vicious Circle Films and the film stars a number of recognizable independent actors. A giant step up from Easter Bunny, Ferrin gets the right amount of excitement in the film, while creating a unique, horrifying movie watching experience through the use of sexual deviancy and shocking imagery.

The plot is a lot more complex than Easter Bunny; from a reductionist viewpoint the film involves perception and secondarily illicit drug use, hallucinations, and near death experiences. A group of young medical students set out to investigate a pair of deceased serial killers in the hospital's basement only to succumb to an ancient vial of experimental drugs.

Logan Marshall-Green ("Across The Universe"), Jenny O'Hara ("Big Love", "Drop Dead Diva"), Jacob Vargas ("Death Race", "The Hills Have Eyes II") and Matt Craven ("Disturbia", "Crimson Tide") are to dance with John Dowdle's "Devil" movie shoot in Toronto, part of M. Night Shyamalan's three-film slate with Media Rights Capital. Also rounding out the ensemble cast ahead of an Oct. 24 production start are Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic ("Edge Of Darkness", "Drag Me To Hell"), Bokeem Woodbine ("The Poker House", "The Butcher"), Geoffrey Arend ("Trust Me", "The Ringer") and Caroline Dhavernas ("Wrecked"). Universal will distribute "Devil", the first project from Shyamalan's "The Night Chronicles" financing/production partnership with Mrc. Drew Dowdle and Trish Hofmann will executive...

DVD Playhouse—October 2009

By

Allen Gardner

The Wizard Of Oz 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’S Edition (Warner Bros.) A true highlight in digital restoration technology, Warner Bros. restoration of the 1939 classic is cause for celebration. The Technicolor of the late ‘30s looks as though it was shot yesterday, and is especially stunning on Blu-ray, which was produced by scanning each of the film’s original Technicolor camera negatives using 8K resolution. From this scan, a final “capture” master was created in 4K, yielding twice the resolution seen in the master utilized for the film’s previous DVD release. Judy Garland’s Dorothy is charming as ever, and the entire cast: Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch, are all stellar. Four disc set bonuses include: Sing-along track; Documentaries and featurettes; Two 1914 silent films produced by Oz author L. Frank Baum, based on his stories...

The Butcher is coming to DVD July 14th from Vivendi and we have the details. Every dog has his day ... The Butcher will have his. Academy Award®- and Golden Globe®-nominated Eric Roberts (Best Supporting Actor, Runaway Train, 1985) is Merle “The Butcher” Hench, a hit man with 20 years of bad luck and gambling debts he can’t repay. Now he’s an ageing loser with nothing to show for himself but a lifetime of bad decisions and a nickname he’s tried to shed for all those years. So when Merle is setup as a fall guy by those he trusts, he decides to start making ...