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Does horror The Prodigy push beyond the standard spooky kid template? By Amy West 15-03-19 1,194 Released: 15 March 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Nicholas McCarthy Writer: Jeff Buhler Cast: Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Colm Feore, Brittany Allen Distributor: Vertigo Releasing If you like this, try… The Omen Creepy kids don’t come any
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Marvel Studios has officially hired director Destin Daniel Cretton to take on Shang-Chi, according to Deadline, which will become the studio’s first film to feature an Asian lead character. Cretton is known for helming 2013 indie hit Short Term 12, which starred Captain Marvel‘s Brie Larson as a woman working in a group home for teenagers. He later
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Bryan Singer has been dropped from the Red Sonja film that’s currently in production at Millennium Films, according to THR, but not for the reason you may think. Singer, who was set to direct the film, was fired by the studio not because of the reports of him sexually assaulting underaged boys but because the production
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Disney regular Alan Tudyk (Firefly‘s Wash) is returning to the House of Mouse for Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of Aladdin, according to THR. The actor is set to voice Iago, villain Jafar’s parrot sidekick that was originally voiced by Gilbert Gottfriend in the 1992 animated film. Tudyk’s other recent Disney work includes voicing King Candy in Wreck-It
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Check out this collection of wonderful Dumbo posters By Poppy-Jay Palmer 12-03-19 209 You can read the synopsis for Dumbo here: From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, the all-new grand live-action adventure Dumbo expands on the beloved classic story where differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former
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A whole new trailer for Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film Aladdin has landed, and it’s loads better than the first one. Check it out:  We think it’s safe to say that the main takeaway from the new trailer is that the GENIE IS NO LONGER BLUE! HUZZAH! Here’s a matching poster: A thrilling and vibrant live-action adaptation
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“This house is a bitch,” pastor Ellie Mueller (Karen Woditsch) tells Don Koch (WWE legend Phil “CM Punk” Brooks) of the Victorian mansion opposite her church that he is fixing up so that he and his pregnant wife Liz (Trieste Kelly Dunn) can start a family there. “Certain places have personalities, and sometimes they’re rotten.
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Brightburn wants to do good in this creepy new trailer from James Gunn’s next superhero film By Poppy-Jay Palmer 07-03-19 5 A new UK trailer for James Gunn’s (Guardians Of The Galaxy) new ‘superhero’ film Brightburn has landed, and it knows how to send tingles up your spin. Check it out:  Here’s the synopsis for the
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Check out this fun and action-packed new trailer for Shazam! By Poppy-Jay Palmer 05-03-19 270  Shazam! stars Zachary Levi as the titular DC superhero, along with Asher Angel as Billy Batson and Mark Strong in the role of supervillain Dr. Thaddeus Sivana. Peter Safran serves as the film’s producer, the screenplay was written by Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke,
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When films open with establishing shots of a city, it’s normally to evoke a sense of place for a story that will, presumably, mostly take place there. When a horror opens this way, it can also be a way of setting up locations for third-act set-pieces. Zoo, written, directed, edited and scored by Antonio Tublen,
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Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters 3 is in talks with Finn Wolfhard and Carrie Coon By Poppy-Jay Palmer 04-03-19 2,120 Jason Reitman’s upcoming Ghostbusters film is already eyeing up some cast members, according to Variety. Finn Wolfhard (It, Stranger Things) and Carrie Coon (The Leftovers, Gone Girl) are currently in talks to join the threequel. Not much is known about
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Meet the Wilsons in these new posters for Jordan Peele’s Us By Poppy-Jay Palmer 04-03-19 5,568 The Wilson family comes face to face with their worst nightmare (themselves) in this new banner poster collection for Jordan Peele’s upcoming horror Us, which you can check out in the gallery above. Read the synopsis for Us here: A mother (Lupita
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Following the news that Jordan Peele’s upcoming Candyman reboot has cast Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the lead role, THR has recently reported that the film is also currently in negotiations with Teyonah Parris. Abdul-Mateen is set to play a Chicago artist who becomes obsessed with the legend of the Candyman, and Parris will play his art
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“The following presentation is derived from footage captured by the catastrophic reality TV pilot Extremely Haunted Hoarders,” reads text at the beginning of The Hoard, over a rapid – indeed, so rapid as to be near inscrutable – montage of monstrosity, mayhem and murder. It is not just a precise prelude of what is to
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Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein’s film opens to the distorted strains of ice cream truck music, as seven-year-old Chloe (Lexy Kolker) peeks out at Mr Snowcone’s blue-and-pink vehicle parked in the suburban street below. Ice cream is such a simple, tantalising pleasure, yet Chloe’s dad Henry (Emile Hirsch) pulls Chloe back from the window
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Taking place (mostly) in an isolated petrol station on the night that the Danish football team is playing in the finals of the European Championship, Finale sets itself up as a familiar – indeed timeless – tale of predatory victimisation. The station owner’s daughter Agnes (Anne Bergfeld) and disgruntled employee Belinda (Karin Michelsen) are working
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This fourth feature from Ron Carlson (All American Christmas Carol, Tom Cool, Midgets Vs. Mascots) opens with a before-and-after sequence: a young woman buys peyote from Native American Bigfoot (Michael Horse) and his diminutive sidekick Firecracker (Danny Woodburn), with a warning of ‘grave consequences’ should their client disrupt the local fauna; and then the same
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Click here to see full size. Another look at Fox’s upcoming Dark Phoenix has arrived in the form of this haunting new poster that puts Jean Grey, as played by Game Of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner, in the spotlight. The first trailer for the upcoming film landed last September, but judging by this poster’s release all signs point to
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Neo-feminist thriller Knives And Skin mashes genres into its small-town mystery By Katie Goh 25-02-19 945 Released: TBA Certificate: TBC Director: Jennifer Reeder Writer: Jennifer Reeder Cast: Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Marika Engelhardt Distributor: TBC If you like this, try… Heathers The original tale of moody, teenage malaise is a classic
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