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AMC’s Shudder Guarantees VICIOUS FUN In June

AMC Networks’ premium horror streamer, Shudder, is bolstering with some fine picks for subscribers, all set to launch in June. Joining the line-up will be Cody Calahan’s fifth film to date, Vicious Fun, having already picked up some film festival recognition from this year’s virtual Panic Fest and at Brussels both back in April. The award-winning horror comedy will land as a Shudder Original premiere on Tuesday, June 29, and the streamer has also released a clip to help set the mood proper. Given it’s about a guy forced to attend group counseling for attendees of the psychotic and murderous kind, I’d say it’s fair to allude to what that mood just might be.  Joel (Evan Marsh, Shazam!), a caustic 1980’s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings […]

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THE OAK ROOM: Cameras Now Rolling For New 2020 Thriller

Andrew Mack over at Screen Anarchy broke some news last week on the production launch of dark new thriller, The Oak Room, reportedly filming in Burlington, Ontario near Toronto. The film is based on a Canadian stage play by Peter Genoway and hails from Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment. Genoway penned the script with director Cody Calahan, and with a cast that lists RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad), Peter Outerbridge (Suicide Squad, V-Wars) and Ari Millen (Orphan Black, I’ll Take Your Dead). The film takes place during “a raging snowstorm when a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night’s events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double crosses and shocking violence.” As the rest of the synopsis elucidates: […]

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