Author: Jacob Dressler

Micro-budget filmmaker and lover of all things horror.

As most people by this point know, star Johnny Depp and his ex-wife actress Amber Heard have been the focus of a variety of lawsuits and controversies throughout the past year. While the two have frequently been part of an ongoing series of trials, actor Johnny Depp is now attempting to have it delayed so that he can begin filming his part for Fantastic Beasts 3. This proposal to delay the lawsuit was agreed to by Amber Heard, as long as the postponement “would not entail any prejudice to her, much less unfair prejudice”. This is because Amber Heard fully…

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The Friday the 13th franchise has been dormant for over a decade now, and fans are getting restless. In an effort to keep the series alive, some fans have been producing different fan films inspired by the Friday the 13th franchise. One of the most notorious Friday the 13th fan films based upon the property has been Never Hike Alone, especially because it saw the return of actor Thom Mathews to the role of Tommy Jarvis. Now fans will be getting a fan film prequel to Never Hike Alone, this time titled Never Hike in the Snow. Interestingly, this fan…

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Things haven’t been the best for The Batman, the latest solo take on the famous caped crusader. The film started shooting earlier this year until the pandemic forced a hiatus. About 25% of the film was completed, enough to throw together a trailer that was rather well received at the DC FanDome event. The film then began to continue shooting not long after, but it seems that filming has once again been paused. This time because one of the actors in The Batman, believed to be lead Robert Pattinson himself, have apparently contracted the Coronavirus. As explained in an official…

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Now that production for the upcoming Jurassic Park film, Jurassic World: Dominion, is back underway, we’re getting all kinds of new looks at the movie. These include teases of returning cast members like Sam Neill, but also new looks at the film’s massive array of practical dinosaur effects. Now we’re getting a look at some kind of entirely new type of dinosaur for Jurassic World: Dominion – something called a Pyroraptor. Now it should be stated that the images of the supposed Pyroraptor that will be making an appearance in Jurassic World: Dominion aren’t exactly showing any kind of animatronics.…

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It shouldn’t have been a surprise that the Paranormal Activity film franchise would be making a comeback at some point. The found footage horror film series made its mark again and again at the box office, and all horror fans know what that means – there’ll always be another sequel. This is especially true when a film is considered the “final chapter”, such as Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension was in 2017. Now it looks like horror fans can expect the next Paranormal Activity film to hit theaters in 2022, according to its new release date. The film, which will…

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One of the most saddening announcements this year is that actor Chadwick Boseman, known for having played Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, died recently following a four year long battle with colon cancer. Now many of his fans have been starting and signing petitions to see a Confederate monument in his hometown of Anderson, South Carolina replaced with a statue of Chadwick Boseman himself. As of this writing, the biggest petition to see a statue of Chadwick Boseman places in Anderson, South Carolina has already gathered around 40,000 signatures. It’s an impressive number and will likely only continue…

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After a long time of waiting, audiences are finally getting their first taste of Mike Flanagan’s upcoming horror miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor, the followup to The Haunting of Hill House. We already received a gallery of haunting and gothic images which tease a rather unique and eerie story for this season. Now the marketing team at Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming series! We now also know that the show will be hitting the streaming platform on October 8th. In addition to the first trailer, the first plot details for the upcoming series have been…

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The next installment in the Scream franchise is prepping for production this year, with several cast members from the original film franchise set to reprise their iconic characters alongside new actors and actresses. While we’ve known that production was set to begin this year for quite some time, we now also know the film’s release date. According to Paramount Pictures’ release date announcement, fans can expect Scream 5 to hit theaters on January 14, 2022. The news was revealed on the official Scream Twitter account, along with a small teaser video that shows off the classic Ghostface mask. Perhaps we…

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Netflix’s upcoming film Cuties has found plenty of negative attention since its promotional campaign began. The film is intended to be something of a commentary on the United States entertainment industry, and how young girls are constantly being overly-sexualized by it. As a bit of an ironic result, however, the film has so far been promoted with overly-sexualized imagery of young girls. Thus the backlash, and now actress Tessa Thompson is attempting to defend Cuties against it. Moviegoers may recognize Tessa Thompson for her work on films like Thor: Ragnarok and Men in Black: International. The actress, who praised the…

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It wouldn’t be 2020 if there wasn’t some absurd, potentially apocalyptic news to deliver. And as it turns out, there is. It’s actually now been confirmed by NASA that there’s an asteroid headed in the Earth’s direction – and it has a possibility of hitting us the day before the election. The asteroid is named 2018VP1, and was actually discovered at Palomar Observatory in California in 2018. It seems that the asteroid might just have the possibility of hitting us on November 2, one day before the United States’ presidential election is due to begin. What perfect timing, and with…

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