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Now Is The Time for Indie Films To Strike

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Tom Jolliffe looks at a pre-Covid rise in popularity for independent films, and a big upcoming push for content going forward… Slowly but surely, changes were afoot this time last year. It had been a progressive rise for a few years. Cinema was still monopolised by the mega budget blockbusters. In particular, Disney and every […]

Blumhouse’s real time thriller Soft & Quiet gets a trailer and images

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Momentum Pictures and Blumhouse has released a trailer and images for writer-director Beth de Araújo’s upcoming thriller Soft & Quiet. Paying out in real time, the film follows elementary school teacher Emily as she hosts an inaugural meeting for a group of like-minded women which leads to a volatile chain of events. Watch the trailer […]

Friendship evolves in trailer for Blumhouse horror M3GAN

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Universal Pictures and Blumhouse has released a new poster and trailer for M3GAN, the upcoming horror from director Gerard Johstone and producers Jason Blum and James Wan. The film stars Get Out’s Allison Williams as Gemma, a roboticist working for a toy company who has designed a life-like doll which can be programmed to be […]

Blumhouse’s Spawn movie gains three new writers, keeps Jamie Foxx as star

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The long-planned Spawn reboot has landed a trio of new scribes to help try and bring it to life. In a series of tweets from Blumhouse head Jason Blum, we’ve learned that the Spawn film is bringing abroad three new writers in hopes of finally getting Todd McFarlane’s reboot off the ground. It has also […]

Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s movie finds its director

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An adaptation of popular videogame Five Nights At Freddy’s has been in development longer than it used to take to load a Commodore64 game via cassette (one for the kids there), but it has finally found its director in Emma Tammi. Once a project for both Home Alone‘s Chris Columbus and Monster House‘s Gil Kenan, […]

Stephen King adaptation Mr. Harrigan’s Phone gets a new poster

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With just a week to go until Mr. Harrigan’s Phone arrives on Netflix, the streamer dialled up the excitement for Blumhouse’s new Stephen King adaptation with the release of a poster featuring star Jaeden Martell (IT); take a look here… SEE ALSO: Trailer for Netflix’s latest Stephen King adaptation Mr. Harrigan’s Phone SEE ALSO: Top 5 […]

The final trailer for Halloween Ends teases the most dangerous Michael Myers yet

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After Michael Myers vanishes for three years, his return is marked with madness and murder. In the final trailer for the last Halloween film starring Laurie Strode, we see the havoc Michael’s caused on her life. This final trailer gives fans an even deeper look at the upcoming film Halloween Ends, which is heading to […]

Ariana DeBose to star in Blumhouse thriller House of Spoils

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THR is reporting that Blumhouse has set Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) to lead the cast of House of Spoils, a psychological thriller for Prime Video. The film will see DeBose starring as “an ambitious chef who opens her first restaurant, a farm-to-table affair on a remote estate. She soon battles kitchen chaos, a […]

Video Review – They/Them sees Kevin Bacon elevating the indie queer horror

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Peacock’s slasher They/Them… In many ways, They/Them is a very standard slasher; sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. But the setting and focus on LGBTQ characters allow the film to add needed new layers. Join critic EJ Moreno for a review on the indie […]

Kevin Bacon’s LGBTQIA+ conversion camp slasher They/Them gets a creepy trailer

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The last time Kevin Bacon was staying at summer camp he was being terrorised by Jason Voorhees’ mum in Friday the 13th, but now he’s running one for LGBTQIA+ teens that’s just as terrifying in Blumhouse and Peacock’s conversion therapy camp horror They/Them. Written and Directed by Gladiator and Skyfall‘s John Logan, you can check out the full […]