Horror Channel Take a HATCHET to the September Schedule

hatchet

Horror Channel has announced the UKTV Premiere of Adam Green’s fabulously gory Hatchet in their September line-up.

The 2006 film took fans back to the Golden Age of the slasher movie and created a new horror icon with the tale of the deformed killer Victor Crowley. Starring the legendary Kane Hodder, it also features cameos from terror royalty Robert Englund and Tony Todd, Freddy Krueger and the Candyman respectively.

Also screening in September is Kieron Parker’s Outpost III: Rise of the Spetsnaz, Steven Sheil’s Dead Mine, and Will Canon’s Demonic.

Other films to watch out for are Bloodsucking Bosses, Three starring Kelly Brook and Billy Zane, the serial killer thriller Scar and – highly recommended by us – the brilliant 100 Bloody Acres.

Check out http://www.horrorchannel.co.ukfor more information.

You can find Horror Channel on Sky 317, Virgin 149, Freeview 70 and Freesat 138.

Netflix Renews GLOWS for a Third Season

GLOW

Since debuting on the on-demand streaming service last year, Netflix’s GLOW has gone on to become a huge favourite of many a genre fan. And now, it’s been confirmed that those Gorgeous Women of Wrestling will indeed be back for a third year.

Where we left things with GLOW’s second season, the women had set sail for Las Vegas. When that third season arrives, it looks like we’ll all be joining them on this ride!

Expect more on GLOW’s third season as it continues to develop.

HUGO AWARDS 2018 Winners Announced

Hugo Awards

The winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards have been announced. The lovely rocket shaped awards were presented on this past Sunday evening – August 19th, 2018 – at a ceremony at the 76th World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California, USA.

Notable wins include a hattrick for NK Jemisin – this nomination meaning that The Broken Earth trilogy has won a Hugo per book – while Mike Glyer continues to pick up awards for his Fanzine, and Lois McMaster Bujold has won Best Series second year in a row.

Congratulations to everyone involved, and we’ll see you all next year in Dublin, Ireland!

Here’s the full list of this year’s winners:

Best Novel – The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)

Best Novella – All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Novelette – “The Secret Life of Bots,” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, September 2017)

Best Short Story – “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™,” by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex, August 2017)

Best Related Work – No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Best Graphic Story – Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood, written by Marjorie M. Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form – Wonder Woman, screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs, directed by Patty Jenkins (DC Films / Warner Brothers)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form – The Good Place: “The Trolley Problem,” written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, directed by Dean Holland (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)

Best Editor – Short Form – Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Best Editor – Long Form – Sheila E. Gilbert

Best Professional Artist – Sana Takeda

Best Semiprozine – Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Julia Rios; podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine- File 770, edited by Mike Glyer

Best Fancast – Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

Best Fan Writer – Sarah Gailey

Best Fan Artist -Geneva Benton

Best Series – World of the Five Gods, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Harper Voyager / Spectrum Literary Agency)

Sneak Peak at ARMY OF DARKNESS: THE BOARD GAME

Army of Darkness: The Board Game

These days it seems everything is getting the board game treatment, but some things are just too groovy to resist. The Evil Dead is coming to the table top, and we have an exclusive preview.

Following in the footsteps of hit games like Zombicide, Army of Darkness: The Board Game promises to let you control Ash and his buddies as they fight off hordes of horrible gribblies. In addition to an original illustrated castle, the game will feature forty highly detailed miniatures.

You can find out more by visiting Dynamite.com, and in the meantime by sure to check out our exclusive preview pics of Evil Sheila and Duke Henry below:

 Army of Darkness: The Board Game

Army of Darkness: The Board Game

Inbar Lavi Joins LUCIFER

Inbar Lavi

With Lucifer’s fourth season now having begun production, the genre fave has added a new name to its ranks.

Via TV Insider, Imposters and Prison Break’s Inbar Lavi has joined the series as Eve – as in the one and the same Eve of the Garden of Eden fame.

The official blurb on the character reads:

After an eternity with Adam, she’s grown restless in her marriage and longs for a less predictable time when things were exciting. Naughty. Dangerous. She misses her hot and heavy first love… the charming rogue who tempted her so many years ago. That’s right, the devil himself… Lucifer.

Remember, Lucifer now has a home at Netflix following the on-demand streaming service picking up the right to the show earlier this year. After three seasons, FOX decided to cancel the Tom Ellis-starrer, and fans instantly launched an online campaign to try and save the series. And it worked! Not long after, Netflix confirmed that they had bagged the show.

Production on Lucifer’s fourth season is expected to continue until the end of the year, with said Season 4 to premiere at a TBC 2019 date.

Bruce Campbell Returning as Ash for New EVIL DEAD Game

Ash vs Evil Dead

One of the biggest disappointments of 2018 so far for genre fans was the news that Starz had cancelled Ash vs. Evil Dead after three seasons. And not only that, but Bruce Campbell then stated how that was it for him as Ashley J. Williams, how Ash was being retired for good. Well, maybe not…

In an exclusive scoop for Bloody-Disgusting, not only has it been confirmed that an Evil Dead video game is happening, but Campbell will indeed be returning to voice the iconic Ash.

Speaking to BD about his Ash retirement and if that would stick for a video game, Campbell explained, “Oh no no, that’s different. I have previous obligations I have to fulfil. They are doing a video game, a whole immersive kind of dealio. I’ll be Ash for that, because I wouldn’t want someone else’s voice hamming it up.”

No specifics are known about this Evil Dead video game just yet, but, based on Campbell’s words, seemingly it could well be some sort of VR game – which sounds all kinds of awesome to us!

This wouldn’t be the first time that genre fans have been treated to an Evil Dead game, with six games to date; the last of which being 2011’s Evil Dead: The Game for iOS.

As ever, expect more on all of this as we get it.

HBO Gives Series Order for Damon Lilndelof’s WATCHMEN

We’ve known for a little while now that Damon Lindelof was developing a Watchmen series for HBO, and now comes the news that the show has been booked in for a full series order.

Let’s face it, this news doesn’t come as any sort of surprise, but, y’know, it’s at least now official. Currently, The Hollywood Reporter is pegging this Watchmen series for a 2019 premiere – with HBO themselves releasing the below teaser:

Watchmen began life back in 1986 as a twelve-issue miniseries from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, soon going on to become a hugely acclaimed classic and a tale regularly cited as one of the greatest comic book/graphic novel stories of all time. A big screen adaptation finally happened in 2009, with Zack Snyder directing a huge blockbuster starring the likes of Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

This new series will be set in and around the Watchmen world that we know and love, yet will be a completely new and original story. Already, the pilot episode has put together quite the impressive ensemble cast, with the likes of Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Louis Gossett Jr., Tim Blake Nelson, Adelaide Clemens, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II making up the show’s core cast.

Expect more on Watchmen as it continues to develop.

ISSUE 452 – OUT NOW!

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STARBURST goes hunting and takes a look at THE PREDATOR as well as looks at various other iterations of vicious but sporting character.

We also preview the VENOM, in which Tom Hardy portrays Marvel’s arch Spidey villain-cum-anti-hero, and THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, the latest from Eli Roth, starring Jack Black and based on the popular children’s book.

Elsewhere, we take a look at the story behind the terrifying SLENDERMAN, and have look at some other vestal evils ahead of the release of THE NUN.

If that’s not enough, we go on location of the new Paul Hyett film HERETIKS, countdown the most outrageous JACKIE CHAN stunts, investigate the US government’s secret UFO program with expert NICK POPE, look into INCIDENT IN A GHOST LAND, and chat to the director of HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES.

In our regular features, we take a look at the FRIGHTFEST season that’s heading to HORROR CHANNEL, and Independents Day talks to SAM MASON-BELL, who runs the TRASH ARTS PORTSMOUTH production company.

Plus all your favourite COLUMNS, NEWS, REVIEWS and much MORE from the worlds of SCI-FI, HORROR and FANTASY!

Indiegogo Campaign Launched for IT-Driven Short, GEORGIE

Georgie

John Campopiano is likely a huge favourite of many a genre fan, without you actually knowing who he is. And now, we’ve got news on his latest project.

You see, the reason that you’ll know Campopiano without really knowing him, is that he’s responsible for several brilliant documentaries that you will have found online or on certain horror releases. For instance, the Boston native wrote, produced, and directed 2017’s brilliant Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary doc, and he’s also now currently putting the finishing touches to Pennywise: The Story of IT. Up next for the talented filmmaker then is a project by the name of Georgie.

Teaming with Ryan Grulich – who himself has produced the Foolish Morals documentary about Disney’s Haunted Mansion – Campopiano will be returning to a familiar subject matter: the world of Pennywise. To be precise, Georgie will showcase poor Georgie Denbrough; the youngster killed by Pennywise in the early moments of IT. With Grulich and Campopiano both huge fans of the 1990 IT miniseries, they’ve actually managed to bring in original Georgie actor, Tony Dakota, to return to the role of the doomed Denbrough brother.

The official word on Georgie reads:

The written and documentary work of John Campopiano and Ryan Grulich have focused on telling stories not yet told – hidden truths of film, television, and pop culture. With their newest project, Georgie – an experiment in fantastical reinventions – the award-winning filmmakers have now partnered with original star of the IT television miniseries, Tony Dakota (Georgie) to reimagine the unparalleled horror of Stephen King’s most iconic story and one of its most tragic characters, Georgie.

Ryan and John have launched an Indiegogo campaign for some assistance in putting Georgie together, and you can find full details simply by clicking here.

In the meantime, by sure to check out the below video to give you an idea of what to expect from Georgie:

 

Oz Perkins to Direct GRETEL AND HANSEL

Oz Perkins

Having impressed many a horror hound with his work so far, now comes word on Oz Perkins’ next project.

Courtesy of Collider, the I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and The Blackcoat’s Daughter helmer is to direct Gretel and Hansel for Orion Pictures and Automatik Entertainment. In case you hadn’t guessed, this will be an adaptation of the famed Brothers Grimm story.

Perkins was initially on the radar of many genre fans simply for being the son of the much-loved Anthony Perkins, but Oz has gone on to prove himself as quite the talented filmmaker in his own right.

The current plan for Gretel and Hansel is to start filming in Europe later this year.