‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ Season 3 is confirmed for February 2018
Perhaps later than we’d hoped but it has been confirmed that Season 3 of Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead will premiere on February 25, 2018.
“The third season finds Ash’s status in Elk Grove, Michigan has changed from murderous urban legend to humanity-saving hometown hero. When Kelly witnesses a televised massacre with Ruby’s fingerprints all over it, she returns with a new friend to warn Ash and Pablo that evil isn’t done with them yet. Blood is thicker than water in the battle of good vs Evil Dead!”
New TV series ‘Dark’ debuts soon
“Dark, a family saga with a supernatural twist, is set in a German town in present day where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four families. In ten, hour-long episodes, the story takes on a supernatural twist that ties back to the same town in 1986.”
New German supernatural series Dark premieres on December 1st on Netflix.
IFC Midnight snaps up North American rights to ‘Ghost Stories’
Variety reports that IFC Midnight has signed up the North American rights to Ghost Stories, the British supernatural thriller based on the stage production of the same name. It stars Martin Freeman (Cargo; The World’s End; Shaun of the Dead).
Ghost Stories will have its world premiere on Thursday at the BFI London Film Festival. The film was co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (“The League of Gentleman”) and Andy Nyman. Lionsgate own the UK rights.
In the film, Nyman plays Professor Goodman, a psychologist and skeptic, who has his rationality tested when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three terrifying hauntings. He then embarks on a mission to find rational explanations for the ghostly happenings… [read more]
Nightmares Film Festival line-up
The Nightmares Film Festival 2017 in Ohio aims to present “a world-class assembly of the scariest, tensest, and most bizarre films from across the globe.” The festival, which runs from October 19th to 22nd, will showcase such features as:
- Victor Crowley w/Adam Green
- Leatherface
- Capture, Kill, Release
- Bong of the Living Dead
- 3 Dead Trick or Treaters
- Ruin Me
- Unnuyayuk
- Found Footage 3D
- 2 Pigeons
- Midnighters
- She Was So Pretty 2: Be Good for Goodness Sake
- Scars of Xavier
- Rock, Paper, Dead
- Hostile
- Romeo’s Distress
- I’m Dreaming of a White Doomsday
- Flesh of the Void
- Torment
- Le Accelerator
- Samurai Rauni
Plus masses of shorts over the four day festival. The full schedule is on their website
“Dream girls can be a nightmare” in ‘The Babysitter’
Young Cole is madly in love with his babysitter Bee. She’s seemingly cool and awesome in all the ways Cole thinks he isn’t. One evening while Bee is babysitting, Cole witnesses the unthinkable. Now he must survive a night full of first kisses, first broken hearts, and first encounters with homicidal maniacs…
McG (Terminator: Salvation) directed The Babysitter from a script by Brian Duffield (Insurgent). Samara Weaving, Judah Lewis, Hana Mae Lee, Robbie Amell, and Bella Thorne star.
The Babysitter comes to Netflix on October, Friday the 13th