Author: Jacob Dressler

Micro-budget filmmaker and lover of all things horror.

The upcoming Ghostbusters sequel is a special event for fans of the franchise – it won’t just be a sequel to the original two films, but it will bring back the original surviving cast as well. However, if you were wondering about the late Harold Ramis who once portrayed Egon Spengler, it turns out they’ll be paying tribute to him in the new movie. Dan Aykroyd explained it all during a new interview. As Aykroyd stated, “I miss him a lot. He was, of course, a really intelligent, great writer and collaborator… We paid tribute to him in the movie…

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Now that Disney Plus has finally launched and fans are having a blast navigating through their favorite collections of Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars material, many have been eager to find out more about the eventual original programs coming to the app. Disney Plus is hard at work with a multitude of original shows, and we finally have our first look at concept art for their upcoming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series. Scroll on down below to see the Falcon and Winter Soldier costumes! The new artwork reveals main characters Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes’ (Sebastian…

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Director Bob Clark’s 1974 horror classic Black Christmas is getting its second remake this year. While the first remake took some creative liberties in more than a few places, the movie still retained the core concept and presented itself with an R-rating much like the original film. However, with Blumhouse’s new remake coming this December, they’ve already revealed throughout their marketing campaign that this will be a very different interpretation. And it turns out the rating will be too – as this will be the first Black Christmas film to receive a PG-13 rating. It’s been revealed that the second…

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One of the most appealing reasons for horror fans to attend horror conventions is to meet their favorite stars. It’s become a popular tradition for horror icons, like Friday the 13th franchise veteran Kane Hodder for example, to appear in costume for photo shoots with fans. And while Kane Hodder has made a number of appearances geared up in character as Jason Voorhees, one of his next appearances will mark a first for the experienced actor. He’ll be showing up as “Uber Jason”, the cybernetically-enhanced version of Jason Voorhees best remembered from the climax of Jason X. The event will…

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It only took 39 years, but we finally got a film sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining – based on Stephen King’s 2013 novel of the same name titled Doctor Sleep. The movie was painstakingly directed by Mike Flanagan, who had to balance elements from both novels by Stephen King while also preserving continuity with Stanley Kubrick’s defining 1980 masterpiece. And it turns out director Mike Flanagan had impressed Warner Bros. so much that he was commissioned to write and direct another installment titled Hallorann. As you can tell by the title of the film, it would’ve somehow followed the…

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While Marvel fans have gotten some exciting looks at the deleted scenes which were cut from Avengers: Endgame, it’s with the release of Disney Plus that we’ve gotten even more deleted scenes to look at. One such scene released with the launch of Disney’s new streaming service was one which depicted Tony Stark navigating through the afterlife and coming across a future version of his daughter Morgan. Now another scene has been revealed, and this time we see Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff attempting to sacrifice themselves in order to gain the Soul Stone with a bit of a twist.…

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It seems to be a recent trend as of late to not just reboot older television and film properties, but reboot them as horror films unlike their original interpretations. One of the latest to receive this treatment is the upcoming Blumhouse and Sony production titled Fantasy Island, which is inspired by the 1970’s/1980’s television series of the same name. The film starts off with the promise that guests who visit the mysterious island get to receive their deepest, darkest desires. But, as you can imagine, those desires end up leading our characters through a much more twisted nightmare than they…

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Warner Bros. has been having a lucky streak with their iconic female villain Harley Quinn. The DC character has seen a massive spike in popularity ever since actress Margot Robbie brought her to life in Suicide Squad, and the actress is once again returning to the role for the upcoming Birds of Prey movie. Obviously Harley Quinn is still a big name for DC fans at the moment, and Warner Bros. is taking full advantage of the hype. They’re promising an all new animated series titled Harley Quinn for their DC Universe streaming service. Now you can watch the trailer…

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Kevin Feige is the one in charge of Marvel Studios, and he’s been hard at work with developing the present and future of the Marvel brand. This includes how their catalogue of heroes will be used throughout Marvel’s Phase 4 and Phase 5, and with the inclusion of Disney Plus to the equation, there is plenty of additional planning to be had. This is where fans’ curiosities come in – how will the Disney Plus Marvel characters be involved with the actual films? It turns out quite a bit. According to Kevin Feige, the new Marvel phase will actually depend…

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Although the Star Wars saga has moved on from The Last Jedi, with focus being put on the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker, director Rian Johnson is still a target for many Star Wars fans that were upset with his eighth episode of the long-running space opera. It turns out that during a Wired live Q&A event, one fan implied how the new amounts of diversity in the modern Star Wars films may have upset some fans. Rian Johnson had a rather straightforward response for him, stating: “If someone’s responding to diversity negatively, fuck them.” However, the director did note…

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