Lionsgate has revealed two new clips from The Last Witch Hunter ahead of its release on October 23rd. Also in this morning's round-up: details on the New York City Horror Film Festival and the Colorado Horror Convention, as well as information on how to watch The Walking Dead online and release details for Eli Morgan Gesner's Condemned.
The Last Witch Hunter: "The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. Armies of witch hunters battled the unnatural enemy across the globe for centuries, including KAULDER, a valiant warrior who managed to slay the all-powerful QUEEN WITCH, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the QUEEN curses KAULDER with her own immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife. Today KAULDER is the only one of his kind remaining and has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones. However, unbeknownst to KAULDER, the QUEEN WITCH is resurrected and seeks revenge on her killer causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race."
Hitting theaters October 23rd from Lionsgate and directed by Breck Eisner (The Crazies remake), The Last Witch Hunter stars Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Julie Engelbrecht, and Michael Caine.
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NYC Horror Film Festival: Press Release: "Oct. 14, 2015 - New York, NY – Tom Atkins will join Sean Cunningham during the 14th New York City Horror Film Festival at new location Times Scare to receive the Michael J. Hein Award for Personal Achievement in Acting on Saturday, November 14th, for his contributions to horror cinema. Sean Cunningham will be presented with his Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, November 13th after a screening of his series-leading film FRIDAY THE 13TH.
Tom Atkins, a performer since the 1960s, has brought his craft to classic genre films including John Carpenter’s THE FOG and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, William Peter Blatty’s THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, George Romero’s CREEPSHOW, Tommy Lee Wallace’s HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, William Lustig’s MANIAC COP, and more favorite roles. Mr. Atkins will be on hand to receive the Michael J. Hein Award for Personal Achievement in Acting on Saturday, November 14th, at Times Scare.
14 features and 34 short films make up this year’s festival, running on two screens at Times Scare. The festival opens Thurs Nov. 12 with the New York premiere of the IFC Midnight release of Tara Subkoff’s #HORROR, an online social media game that turns a moment of cyberbullying into a night of insanity, starring Natasha Lyonne (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK) and Chloe Sevigny (AMERICAN HORROR STORY), followed by Anthony DiBlasi’s MOST LIKELY TO DIE, a modern slasher. Other features include Michael Bafaro’s WRECKER, from the producer of AMERICAN MARY, a tale of two best girlfriends taking a road trip… to Hell. And from Russian filmmaker Pavel Khvaleev, III. A bevy of short films accompany the features, with new works including Jeremiah Kipp’s PAINKILLER and Michael Turney’s THE LITTLE.
The festival runs Nov. 12–15, 2015, at Times Scare, 669 8th Avenue., right on Times Square’s famed 42nd Street, aka “The Deuce.” Times Scare is enhanced with custom-built designs and elegant macabre décor including a state-of-the-art haunted house and skeletal bar. The venue’s history traces back to the crematorium that operated there in the roaring ’20s and the dark echoes of old Times Square’s bawdy past.
The NYC Horror Film Festival was born in 2002 by filmmaker Michael J. Hein as a venue for newer independent horror filmmaking. After Michael’s passing in 2011, the festival created the Michael J. Hein Achievement Award to celebrate the hard work and perseverance of creators in the field. George Romero was the first recipient of the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, followed by other classic scare meisters including Rob Zombie, Tobe Hooper, Roger Corman, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Frank Henenlotter, Robert Englund, Angus Scrimm, Stuart Gordon, and the beloved late Wes Craven.
The full schedule for the New York City Horror Film Festival is here: http://nychorrorfest.com/schedule/"
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Watch The Walking Dead Online: Now that The Walking Dead Season 6 is underway, are you looking to watch the living dead series online in a safe and legal manner? If so, Mr. Cable Cutter has you covered with a new list of ways to watch The Walking Dead online and on demand:
"The October 11, 9 p.m. ET premiere of the new season of The Walking Dead is sure to be met with a ton of buzz and hype. The Walking Dead is TV’s highest rated series, bringing in tens of millions of viewers each week. Season six is set to be the craziest yet. As lead actor Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) put it, “Every single episode has been a season finale, and then it goes off the chain.”
The Walking Dead airs on AMC, a cable network. For those without cable, however, there are now legal ways to watch The Walking Dead live stream as well as on demand online. Cord cutters fortunately have multiple great options to watch The Walking Dead online (even in the UK!)."
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Colorado Horror Con: Press Release: "October 7, 2015 - Littleton, CO - Promoters of the first annual Colorado Horror Con and Halloween Film Festival are pleased to announce the guest list and schedule for the 3 day event 10/30-11/1 at the Ramada Plaza in Northglenn, CO. The diverse guest list includes Master of Ceremonies and Monstervision Drive-In and B-Movie Reviewer Joe Bob Briggs, the Wishmaster himself Andrew Divoff, iconic horror American illustrator Basil Gogos, controversial 1978 cult classic I Spit on Your Grave's Camille Keaton, and Lusty Kitten Productions Horror Burlesque.
The Colorado Horror Con and Halloween Film Festival is a unique local assemblage and national gathering of individuals and groups who exhibit exceptional ability or profound interest in dark fantasy and horror within the spheres of the arts; this includes fine art, filmmaking, writing, reading, visual displays, comic books, graphic novels, and all of their attached genres and subgenres. Whether you or your group fits in these categories wholly or connects in a more-than-familiar way through one or more of the roles of attendee, vendor, exhibitor, creator, or sponsor, we ask you to join us at Colorado Horror Con and Halloween Film Festival 2015. We provide a unique and creative partnership good for Colorado and the fine arts, the entertainment industry, and retail sector that both surrounds and supports her."
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Condemned: "RLJ Entertainment will release CONDEMNED in theaters on VOD and iTunes on Friday, November 13th.
CONDEMNED centers around poor-little-rich-girl Maya (DYLAN PENN) who runs away from her posh home and moves in with her boyfriend Dante (RONEN RUBENSTEIN) who is squatting in an old condemned building in NYC's Lower East Side. Sickness and chaos ensue.
The film stars DLYAN PENN, RONEN RUBINSTEIN, LYDIA HEARST, JON ABRAHAMS, HONOR TITUS and GENEVIEVE HUDSON-PRICE, and is written and directed by ELI MORGAN GESNER."
Tamika hails from North Beach, Maryland, a tiny town inches from the Chesapeake Bay.She knew she wanted to be an actor after reciting a soliloquy by Sojourner Truth in front of her entire fifth grade class. Since then, she's appeared in over 20 film and television projects. In addition to acting, Tamika is the Indie Spotlight manager for Daily Dead, where she brings readers news on independent horror projects every weekend.
The first horror film Tamika watched was Child's Play. Being eight years old at the time, she remembers being so scared when Chucky came to life that she projectile vomited. It's tough for her to choose only one movie as her favorite horror film, so she picked two: Nosferatu and The Stepford Wives (1975).
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