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A new horror film is tapping into the digital age’s obsession with influencers and the supernatural. Viral Haunt, the latest project from UK-based Taw Entertainment, is bringing social media horror to the big screen, blending found-footage terror with psychological dread. Filming is underway, with the movie set to be distributed worldwide by ITN Distribution.

Directors Natasha Tosini and Stephen Staley helm the project, which follows a group of internet-famous ghost hunters as they attempt to silence accusations that their paranormal investigations are staged. Determined to prove their legitimacy, they embark on their most ambitious ghost hunt yet—only to discover that some hauntings are very real. The cast includes Kelly Rian Sanson, Danielle Scott, Jack Hoy, Jack Hyde, and Will Wickham, alongside Tosini and Staley, who also take on acting roles. Shooting has been taking place on location across the UK, making full use of eerie and atmospheric settings.

A huge part of the draw to most superhero movies is their action, making it all the more disappointing when they fail to deliver a climactic final fight sequence. From the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the many one-off films featuring DC characters, most comic book movies rely heavily on their fight scenes to draw audiences' attention. This focus on combat usually results in one final battle against the film's overarching villain to close out the story, pulling out all the stops for a memorable last battle.

The best comic book movie final fights are able to balance characterization with smooth editing, believable special effects, and creative uses of powers to maintain an exciting bout. Conversely, the worst finales in superhero movie history can be the result of a lackluster final battle, especially in films featuring otherwise great combat scenes. Both Marvel and DC have committed the sin...

The "Velociraptor Horror" bar is pretty low outside Universal’s Jurassic franchise. All Mike Hermosa's The Invisible Raptor had to outperform are titles like Area 407, Jim Wynorski's Raptor, or The VelociPastor. On that scale, The Invisible Raptor proves more competent than other prehysterical B-movies that you might find on the Syfy channel after midnight. It's selling what's on the tin — a goofy creature feature with an unseen raptor and more Jurassic Park references than Comic Con. If that sounds like brainless fun, you're (mostly) in luck!

Mike Capes stars as Dr. Grant Walker (red bandana and all), a disgraced paleontologist who now works for a dinosaur amusement park. He's down on his luck, but Dr. Walker jumps into action when an invisible velociraptor escapes its top-secret facility cage. With the help of DinoWorld's redneck security guard Deniel 'Denny' Denielson (David Shackelford) and his former lover Amber (Caitlin McHugh), Dr.

Some of the best horror movies and creature features came at a time when Hollywood blockbusters were still in their infancy. But the legacy that movies like Jaws and Jurassic Park started eventually led to the newest and strangest entry in the monster subgenre, The Invisible Raptor. As the title indicates, the film revolves around an invisible dinosaur terrorizing a small town -- leaving paleontologist Dr. Grant Walker and a motley crew to stop it.

Cbr spoke with The Invisible Raptor star Caitlin McHugh-Stamos about stepping into the role of Amber. She spoke about her longtime love of similar movies like the Jurassic Park franchise, and the unique way she became involved with this movie. She also discussed the fun and the challenges of making a film with a title character that can't be seen.

Cbr: The Invisible Raptor is a unique, charming and totally unexpected horror comedy. Could you...

In the exciting fifth episode of “Milkshake! Croc Watch,” titled “Croc Shock,” Steve takes viewers on an adventure into the world of crocodiles. This episode, airing at 10:05 Am on Friday, December 13, 2024, on Channel 5, promises to be both educational and thrilling.

Steve will dive into the fascinating ways crocodiles use their sense of touch to navigate their environment. Through his exploration, he highlights how these reptiles interact with their surroundings, using their skin to feel vibrations and changes in water. This insight into crocodile behavior will surely captivate young audiences and spark their curiosity about wildlife.

However, the episode takes an unexpected turn when Steve encounters a big croc. It seems he might get more than he bargained for, leading to a shocking moment that viewers won’t want to miss. With a mix of learning and excitement, “Croc Shock” is set to be another memorable installment in the...

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"Batman: Caped Crusader" was developed by "Batman: The Animated Series" co-creator Bruce Timm, with veteran Batman comic scribes like Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka in the writers' room. Despite its familiar creative staff, "Caped Crusade" wound up making plenty of changes to Gotham City.

Take the villain of the first episode: the Penguin — but not as we usually know him. The "Batman: Caped Crusader" Penguin is gender-swapped from Oswald Cobblepot to Oswalda (Minnie Driver). She's got the trademark umbrella and beak-y nose, but Oswalda is neither the gentleman super-villain like most past Penguins, the repellent weirdo as played by Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns," or the waddling criminal upstart currently played by a costumed Colin Farrell in HBO's "The Penguin." The "Caped Crusader" Penguin is like an upper-crust Mags Bennett (Margo Martindale), the Kentucky mob boss villain of "Justified" season...

Growing up during the PS2 era, you were likely familiar with one of these platformer franchises: Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, or Sly Cooper. All three are iconic 3D platformers developed during the 2000s.

One from developer Insomniac Games, widely known today for its work on Marvel’s Spider-Man and soon Marvel’s Wolverine. Another from the powerhouses at Naughty Dog, its early beginning with Crash Bandicoot before entangling itself with realistic franchises like Uncharted and The Last of Us.

Lastly, Sucker Punch Productions came out strong during the PS3 era with inFAMOUS and now Ghost of Tsushima for modern PlayStation consoles. While all three are beloved 3D platformers from the era, only Ratchet & Clank has seen love recently with Rift Apart in 2021.

Jak & Daxter and Sly Cooper have both not received a new entry in over ten years. Naughty Dog’s platformer series last entry was in 2009 with...

Have you ever wondered how many cameos there were in the first two Sharknado films? Or who the sharks haunted in Ghost Shark? Maybe you’d like to discuss what the best scene is in Killer Klowns From Outer Space? Would you like to know just how big the spider is in Big Ass Spider? Did you recently ask a friend which Japanese dish starts killing people in a film from 2012? Would you like to know if zombies can be vegan? And what exactly is a Stonado?

Nerdly’s very own Alain Elliott will answer most of these questions in his latest book Awfully Good Movies Volume One: Adventures in B-Movies! which features a rundown of 50 of the craziest, strangest, and Awfully Good collection of B-Movies. With each film, he discusses the Awfully Good scenes, characters, lines, and everything in between. You will want to seek out and watch every...

Universal Pictures keeps on pumping out Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies and cartoons – in fact, another Jurassic World movie will be reaching theatres in 2025, and there are two seasons of the animated series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory dropping onto the Netflix streaming service this year. But while that’s all cool to have, one dinosaur series I wish had more installments is the Carnosaur franchise, which was produced by the late, great Roger Corman. The first Carnosaur (which was inspired by a novel written by Harry Adam Knight) was released in 1993 as a mockbuster alternative to Jurassic Park, and was followed by Carnosaur 2 in 1995 and Carnosaur 3: Primal Species in 1996. Sadly, while there were two spin-offs of sorts with Raptor in 2001 and The Eden Formula in 2006, we haven’t gotten an actual Carnosaur movie in almost thirty years, and no sort-of spin-offs in almost twenty years. While I...

Stars: Stephanie Lodge, Lauren Staerck, Beatrice Fletcher, Megan Purvis, Darrell Griggs, Natasha Henstridge, Mark Collier, Stephen Staley | Written by Tom Jolliffe | Directed by Andy Edwards

Horror versions of fairy tales, such as Snow White: A Tale of Terror with Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neil, for example, have been around for quite a while. And now the current trend of turning kid’s stories and nursery rhymes into horror films has carried over to them. It makes sense, they’re filled with witches, ghosts and in their original versions tended to be pretty grim and bloody moments such as Cinderella’s stepsisters cutting off their toes to try and get their foot in the glass slipper. And that brings us to Cinderella’s Revenge.

It certainly opens on an appropriately nasty note as Katherine frames her husband for the theft of the king’s jewels and has him killed for the bounty.

Fans of the DC superhero Batman have recently been looking for a hidden villain in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy. Starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, the beloved film series introduced multiple adversaries of the superhero, from Scarecrow, The Joker, and Bane to the likes of Harvey Dent and Talia Al Ghul.

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight | Credits: Warner Bros. Entertainment

However, a new fan-made image has sparked speculation among fans, suggesting that the final installment in the trilogy might have included another villain, Deathstroke, with a CIA agent role, portrayed by the Irish actor Aidan Gillen in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.

Did Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises feature Deathstroke?

Each film in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy focuses on a Batman villain. Along with the lead antagonist, the filmmaker also utilized other Batman villains in the film series. And...

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Football fans who want to watch every Monday night game will have to subscribe to a cable-like service for the privilege this year.

The Walt Disney Company intends to simulcast fewer “Monday Night Football” games on ABC, relegating most games to ESPN on an exclusive basis, according to a report from esteemed sports journalist John Ourand.

Last year, Disney decided to place more Monday Night Football games on ABC in order to offset the availability of fewer scripted and reality-based programming due to twin Hollywood strikes that ground television production to a halt.

Prior to the strikes, Disney said it would simulcast around five Monday Night Football games between ESPN and ABC. Another two games were set to broadcast exclusively on ABC while ESPN aired another game under the same Monday Night Football banner.

The number of games simulcast between the two...

Fubo’s new “Instant Headlines” feature uses AI to create news clips from programming aired on channels like NewsNation and MSNBC. (Courtesy image)

Fubo saw its customer base shrink to 1.51 million paid customers in North America during the first three months of the year, reflecting a loss of 100,000 accounts as customers churn out for other streaming options.

The sports-heavy streaming service offers comparatively less live events from top-tier franchises like the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Hockey League (NHL) during Q1 and Q2 due to its lack of carriage of Warner Bros Discovery (Wbd) channels — namely, TBS, TNT and Tru TV — which offer some games from those sports organizations.

Instead, Fubo primarily markets the live sports programming carried on the four broadcast networks, ESPN, Fox Sports 1 and its regional sports channels. NFL games are a large driver of subscribers during the second half of the year, and...

A sound technician with ESPN helps produce a telecast of a football game.

Two federal lawmakers have sent a letter to the chief executives at Fox Corporation, the Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros Discovery (Wbd) expressing concern over their organization of a joint venture that is tasked with developing a sports-centric streaming service.

The letter, sent by Representatives Jerrold Nadler of New York and Joaquin Castro of Texas, included nearly two dozen questions exploring whether the proposed project tentatively called Raptor would benefit the three broadcasters over cable, satellite and streaming TV distributors.

As designed, Raptor will carry sports-inclusive broadcast and cable channels owned by the programmers when it launches later this year, including Fox, ABC, ESPN, Fox Sports 1, TBS, TNT and Tru TV. Absent from the service are ancillary entertainment and news channels like Fox News, CNN, Disney and FX, which carry little to no sports programming throughout the year.

Dcau's Batman shines with a deep roster of Gotham characters, outperforming live-action films by a wide margin. The show's format allows for in-depth exploration of heroes and villains, showcasing a compelling incarnation of Batman characters. The iconic animated series excels in presenting complex villains like Two-Face, Mr. Freeze, and Harley Quinn with depth and nuance.

Batman: The Animated Series has continued to remain the definitive version of Batman and his supporting cast for many DC fans, and for good reason when compared to live-action movies. It's not secret that there are many things Dcau's Batman does better than the movies, and the expanded list of characters that call Gotham City home are frequently done better in the iconic 90s cartoon. Whether it's by a close call or an incredibly wide margin, the series has managed to present a more compelling draft of many Batman characters time and time again.

Frightfest pick The Invisible Raptor Photo: Frightfest

The line-up for this year's Glasgow Frightfest was announced this week. Opening with Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell's psychological mystery You'll Never Find Me, which sees a request for shelter on a dark and stormy night turn into something much more unsettling, it will close with Alan Scott Neal and Taylor Sardoni's tale of small town desperation, The Last Straw. Brazilian newcomer Tiago Teixeira delivers paranoid erotic in Custom and Ireland's Paul Duane explores the ethics of ethnology and the power of music in All You Need Is Death, one of the most talked-about horror films of the year to date.

Other highlights include Wake Up, an environmental slasher from Turbo Kid team Rkss, and Mike Hermosa’s joyously silly splatterfest The Invisible Raptor.

"We live in amazing times of change in the delivery of the audiovisual experience," said festival co-director Alan Jones,...

DC Comics' Beast World event sees heroes and villains transformed into astonishing new animal forms. The coolest beast transformations include Killer Croc's monstrous form and Power Girl as a literal Flamebird. Characters like Harley Quinn and Red Hood also undergo unique and wacky transformations in this exciting event.

Warning! Contains spoilers for DC's Beast World event!

DC Comics is closing out 2023 with its massive Beast World event, which sees the publisher's heroes and villains taking on astonishing new animal forms. After Beast Boy loses himself to his Starro form and begins attacking the Earth, he rains down Beast spores onto the planet, transforming civilians, heroes, and even villains into beastly versions of themselves. There are plenty of transformations to go over as DC's next big event kicks off.

A major staple in comic books is the crossover event. They often happen several times a year, and it's no surprise that...

Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez, whose debut feature “The Settlers” premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has signed with CAA for representation.

Set in 1901, “The Settlers” centers on Segundo, a mixed-race Chilean, who rides south on an expedition led by a former Boer War English captain and an American mercenary to fence off land granted to Spanish landowner José Menéndez. Their mission soon turns into a “civilizing” raid. Based on true events, the Western exposes a particularly brutal period of Chile’s colonial history and the genocide of Indigenous tribes.

“I love to be controversial,” Gálvez told Variety about the uncomfortable questions the film poses about his country’s past. “If something is controversial, it’s a good sign. It means it’s interesting. I am trying to provoke with my film, because this conversation is far from over.”

Gálvez directed and co-wrote the film with Antonia Girardi, in collaboration with Mariano Llinás,...

Batman Beyond continues to impress by expanding upon the original series, this time bringing back an iconic Gotham villain in a shocking new form. The upcoming issue #2 of Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic reveals that Killer Croc has grown to kaiju-sized proportions, presenting a formidable threat to Batman. While the reason for Killer Croc's growth is not yet confirmed, it is clear that he has been unchecked in the sewers of Under Gotham for twenty-five years, resulting in a mutation with mysterious components.

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #2 Batman Beyond is one of the few legacy series that isn’t just comparable to the original, but arguably surpasses it in many ways. At the very least, Batman Beyond always seems to expand upon ideas and characters from the original Batman series in interesting ways, and this latest example is no exception, as Batman Beyond debuts the stunning final...

Warning: Spoilers for Batman: The Audio Adventures #7 ahead!

Batman reflects on the destructive nature of crusades and rejects his title as the "Caped Crusader." Batman's partnership with Robin is his refuge from the destructive path he has chosen in his crusade against crime. The term "Caped Crusader" is often associated with a lighthearted Batman, but Batman sees it as a terrible and violent designation.

Batman has long traded in many monikers and nicknames, but has rarely outright rejected any — which makes his rebuke of one of his most famous titles, "the Caped Crusader," all the more surprising. In a thoughtful montage, Batman muses over the name bequeathed to him and the legacy it projects — as well as the legacy he is desperately trying to shape for Gotham and himself.

In Batman: The Audio Adventures #7 by Dennis McNicholas, Anthony Marques, J. Bone, Dave Stewart, and Ferran Delgado, Batman reflects on what...

Just yesterday, we shared the news that the “nature run amok” horror thriller The Flood is going to receive a theatrical, VOD, and digital release on July 14th, courtesy of Saban Films. With the release date so close, we knew a trailer would be available soon – we just didn’t expect it to be this soon! The trailer for The Flood is now online, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Brandon Slagle (Attack of the Unknown) from a screenplay by Chad Law (Daylight’s End) and Josh Ridgway (Howlers), this project could be described as “Crawl meets Assault on Precinct 13”. Here’s the synopsis: A horde of giant hungry alligators is unleashed on a group of in-transit prisoners and their guards after a massive hurricane floods Louisiana.

The film stars Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass), Louis Mandylor (Rambo: Last Blood), Devanny Pinn...

A romantic, intimate wedding ceremony is meant to be a time of celebration between family and friends. However, a group of unwelcome visitors – the titular crocodiles – crash the wedding between the protagonists of Lisa and Charlie in the upcoming action horror film, ‘Croc!’ Uncork’d Entertainment is set to distribute the drama on DVD […]

The post Croc! Exclusive Trailer Premiere Features the Titular Creatures Crashing a Wedding appeared first on Shockya.com.

HBO Max To Build ‘The Bridge’ In Hungary

HBO Max’s Hungarian arm will run a local version of Banijay survival format The Bridge. The format tasks bringing contestants together to build a 250-metre-long bridge to an island for the chance to win a large cash prize, and this latest deal marks its sixth international adaptation. Presented by Csaba Magyarósi, The Bridge Hungary is produced locally by Free Monkeys Production, based on the original Spanish format. Production took place neat Lake Belis in Romania, near the Hungarian border. Deadline understands it was given the greenlight before HBO Max stopped commissioning in the Cee region. Most production staff in Europe have now been let go, as Deadline revealed last month.

eOne Bolsters Canadian Non-Scripted

eOne has bolstered its non-scripted offering in Canada by signing a VP Development and promoting Scott Boyd to the same level. Christine Diakos joins in the newly-created...

“Life finds a way.” Those famous words from Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm in the original Jurassic Park have been quoted, paraphrased, and meme-ified ad infinitum. But they take on a new ominous meaning in the first full trailer for this summer’s anticipated Jurassic World: Dominion.

Heralded as the “epic conclusion of the Jurassic era,” the trailer nonetheless appears to tease a whole new era for this franchise that’s ready to begin as soon as we meet everyone’s favorite velociraptor: Blue. The carnivorous dinosaur won hearts and minds for a species of predators that was the essential villain in the 1993 classic movie which started it all. But the determined pluck and loyalty of Blue, the biggest raptor raised from birth by gamesman Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), won folks over—especially after she teamed up with Owen and no less than a T. Rex (the raptors’ mortal enemy...

Stars: Chynna Walker, Richard Rennie, Mel Mede, Ken ’Gabby’ Mertz, Allen Lyster | Written by Gerald Rascionato, Joel Hogan | Directed by Gerald Rascionato

Claw, the latest film from director Gerald Rascionato and co-writer Joel Hogan has a bit of an identity crisis. The trailer promises a straightforward creature feature but the film’s tagline, “Do you think he-saurus? screams comedy, it’s even stolen from a joke told in Jurassic Park. The truth is, it’s an uneven mix of both.

Julia (Chynna Walker; Seven Short Films About (Our) Marriage) and Kyle (Richard Rennie; The Truth of It) are on their way to LA where she has a showcase performance for her standup routine. However when a coyote, probably chasing a roadrunner, runs in front of them they end up stranded in the middle of nowhere with a flat tire and have to spend the night in a ghost town with it’s only inhabitant,...

This is a busy week full of premieres, and at a time the world is crumbling, well, we need premieres!

And just to ensure that politics are never far out of reach, these premieres run the gambit of the political spectrum.

There is a documentary about fake news, alternate history addressing the treatment of Jews in America, a culture clash between two mothers, and even a line of female witches answering the call of duty to protect their motherland. Check it out!

Sunday, March 15

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If you think Coronavirus is a big deal, then let it settle in that once upon a time, measles and chickenpox were catastrophic.

And on Wcth this week, Elizabeth, Carson, and Faith deal an outbreak of chickenpox, and Rosemary falls ill! Scary stuff.

And if that's not enough, things heat up as Nathan and Lucas stop hiding their feelings for the "town.

Thunderhead Entertainment recently secured a foreign distribution deal with ITN Distribution for the Benjamin Cooper-directed thriller, Lighthouse Keeper (inspired by an unfinished story from Edgar Allan Poe), which is featured in an official trailer. Also in today’s Highlights: details on the new Suicide Squad Mez-itz figures from Mezco Toyz and Vigilante Diaries Blu-ray and DVD release details.

Lighthouse Keeper Distribution Details and Trailer: Press Release: “Burbank, CA May 4, 2016 — Thunderhead Entertainment LLC has just inked a deal with ITN Distribution to handle foreign sales of their latest movie, Edgar Allan Poe’s Lighthouse Keeper.

“I’m beyond thrilled to be working with Stuart Alson and his team at ITN,” said Benjamin Cooper (Primitive), the movie’s director/producer. “The genre is their bread and butter. It’s a great fit.”

ITN Distribution will represent Lighthouse Keeper at the upcoming Marche Du Film.

The deal follows the world premiere at...

DVD Releases: 2/5/08

It's an indie asylum of straight to DVD this week. Also, I have a copy of Storm Warning released this week from Dimension Extreme to give away email cinezombi@zombiefriends.com with an in order list of the films below and I will choose a winner Friday to send a copy.

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Croc (2008)

Directed by Stewart Raffill

A man-eating croc is on the loose. Locals are missing. And body parts are bobbing in the swamps. This is an adventure you can really "sink your teeth into." On the outskirts of a beach resort in Thailand is Jack’s Croc Farm, featuring its star attraction, Delilah. But when Delilah goes missing, body parts begin to pile up in the most dangerous and fetid swampland in Thailand. Croc Hawkins (Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs) is the croc hunter assigned to the case but even his expertise...

DVD Releases: 2/5/08

It's an indie asylum of straight to DVD this week. Also, I have a copy of Storm Warning released this week from Dimension Extreme to give away email cinezombi@zombiefriends.com with an in order list of the films below and I will choose a winner Friday to send a copy.

Click On The Pictures To Buy

Croc (2008)

Directed by Stewart Raffill

A man-eating croc is on the loose. Locals are missing. And body parts are bobbing in the swamps. This is an adventure you can really "sink your teeth into." On the outskirts of a beach resort in Thailand is Jack’s Croc Farm, featuring its star attraction, Delilah. But when Delilah goes missing, body parts begin to pile up in the most dangerous and fetid swampland in Thailand. Croc Hawkins (Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs) is the croc hunter assigned to the case but even his expertise...