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The running game needs work and quarterback play needs to improve, but the Longhorns wide receiver corps should be stout.

Yet another Texas Longhorns Orange-White spring game is in the books.

Yes, it’s just a spring game, so everything should understandably be taken with a grain of salt, but there were a few key takeaways worth noting.

Texas has four quarterbacks, but it doesn’t have its quarterback yet

Last season, the lack of depth in the quarterback room was a major concern, with just two scholarships options available in Shane Buechele and Sam Ehlinger, who split starts as the position was plagued by injuries. This spring, depth doesn’t appear to be an issue with a pair of four-star early enrollees in Cameron Rising and Casey Thompson joining the mix. Both made a handful of notable plays in limited second-half action.

But of course, the quarterback competition is a clear battle between Ehlinger and Buechele.

Co-offensive coordinator Tim Beck said just days ago that he doesn’t expect this battle to be decided until fall camp, and understandably so. Both quarterbacks made their fair share of quality connections, but each also missed on opportunities that Texas must capitalize on in hopes of taking the next step next season. For example, Ehlinger was a bit late in finding a streaking Humphrey down the sideline and consequently, Kris Boyd recovered in time to notch a pass breakup, and later, he missed an open Reese Leitao down the seam that would have been a gain of more than 30 yards.

Buechele overthrew what would have been a pair of touchdowns to a wide open John Burt.

Although each made plays, neither looked like the clear-cut starter of the group, and there’s certainly progress to be made from both prospective starters throughout the summer and on into fall camp. At this stage, Texas probably isn’t going to win many shootouts.

Although the stats were quite similar, Buechele looked to be a bit more polished as a passer, as expected, while Ehlinger predictably made more on an impact outside of the pocket as a scrambler.

Ehlinger completed 13-of-22 attempts for 151 yards as the starter. Buechele connected on 12-of-21 masses for 120 yards and one score. As far as the backups are concerned, Rising completed 6-of-9 attempts for 57 yards and flashed confidence and plenty of zip on his throws, while Thompson added another 88 yards on 5-of-9 passing attempts, and of course, made plays with his legs to the tune of 18 yards, despite a sack.

Lil’Jordan Humphrey is in for a special junior season, as is Collin Johnson

Lil’Jordan Humphrey was the most productive Longhorn on the field on Saturday night, and the only one to come relatively close was his running mate, Collin Johnson. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as spring practice reports have raved about the flashes these two have provided throughout the recent weeks, and on Saturday, the burnt orange nation got a glimpse of what that looks like inside DKR.

Humphrey was quite clearly Ehlinger’s favorite target, and the same can be said for Johnson with Buechele, as the latter pair connected for the game’s only passing touchdown in the first half.

Humphrey finished as the team’s leading receiver after hauling in seven receptions for 100 yards. More notably, he bolstered a struggling ground game with four carries for 14 yards and two touchdowns. Johnson, on the other hand, looked the part of an All-Big 12 performer. Not far behind Humphrey in the productivity department, Johnson pulled down six receptions for 91 yards and one score, and a couple of his catches were simply remarkable.

Regardless of which quarterback ultimately emerges as the starter, one thing is for certain: He’s going to have to premier talents at his disposal.

Texas awaits freshman Keontay Ingram’s arrival

Last season, Daniel Young, Kyle Porter and Toneil Carter combined for just 886 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Not much changed in the spring game.

Yes, it’s just a spring game, but the trio wasn’t anything to write home about during their lone public appearance before the 2018 season.

Carter, who fumbled his first carry of the game, totaled 25 yards and 10 carries, making for a 2.5 yards per carry average. Porter touched the ball just twice, netting a whopping four yards. On the Orange team, Daniel Young’s three carries produced 17 yards, as he saw Thompson (six carries, 18 yards) and Tim Yoder (four carries, 24 yards, 1 touchdown) each outperform him in limited reps.

As an entire team, the Longhorns racked up a mere 106 yards and three touchdowns on 39 attempts — 47 of those yards came from Ehlinger and Thompson, and all three touchdowns came from either Humphrey or Yoder, a walk-on.

Again, it’s just the spring game and reps were limited, but the early returns speak to why the Longhorns coaching staff has told incoming All-American freshman Keaontay Ingram to arrive on campus ready to compete for a starting job. And make no mistake about it: He’s more than capable of taking control of that role.

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• Kicker Joshua Rowlandmade each of his two attempts, connecting from 29 yards and 50 yards.
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• The Longhorns had just eight scholarship offensive linemen available, so the starting unit remained on the field for much of the action. The group did allow a few sacks and committed a couple-drive killing penalties, so they’re clearly not where Herb Hand hopes to have them by September, but considering the among of reps put in, it was an improvement over last season.

Campo Santo has widely been regarded as the little game studio that could. Its very first game, Firewatch, won numerous awards and even landed a movie deal. It won't be quite so indie going forward, however: the development team is joining Valve. Whi...

Director Darren Lynn Bousman began his feature filmmaking career by directing the first three sequels in the mega-popular Saw series. Between his distinct style and his work on that series, Bousman became the perfect person to revive a subgenre we didn’t know we needed; the gritty nunsploitation. In St. Agatha, Bousman unleashes vicious nuns upon unsuspecting young girls in need, with terrifying results.

Set in 1957, St. Agatha follows Mary, a young woman with a dark past who also happens to be unmarried and pregnant, a bit of a taboo for the time period. With nowhere left to turn, she finds herself directed to a nearby convent for support. It’s a looming home right out of a gothic nightmare, led by Mother Superior, and Mary soon discovers that the strict rules employed by these nuns are anything but holy. The pregnant girls in Mother Superior’s care live in constant fear, and breaking any rules, however minuscule, comes with violent punishment.

Washed in blues and oranges, Bousman’s vision begins as an almost ethereal dreamscape before descending into a nerve-fraying nightmare. His use of silence, with only the squeaks and creaks of the old house, builds for some taut, uncomfortable tension. Mary’s story cuts between her haunted past, slowly unspooling what led her to her current convent prison, and her frightening present. While the motivations behind Mother Superior’s plans for these pregnant young women might be guessed long before its reveal, the journey getting there is every bit unpredictable as it is petrifying.

Sabrina Kern makes her feature debut as Mary, and what a debut she makes. The protagonist is put through the ringer, suffering torture that makes James Caan’s romp with Kathy Bates in Misery look like a trip to Disney World. That’s only the physical aspect, the emotional trauma from Mary’s past combined with the guilt of her actions affecting her roommates adds a whole new hefty weight to the character’s shoulder. Kern carries the heavy weight of the role with ease. To Kern’s empathetic protagonist is Carolyn Hennesy’s Mother Superior, an icy villain that would terrify even Jigsaw himself. Hennesy is hands down one of the most horrifying horror villains to come along in a while, and her underling nuns only enhance her cunning, ruthless power.

Even with the immeasurable talent of Kern and Hennesy at the forefront, St. Agatha is filled a roster of talented women. The ruthless nuns working for Mother Superior don’t have much dialogue, yet convey a depth of calculated hatred with their physicality. Hannah Fierman (V/H/S, SiREN) is also a standout as one of the girls living at the convent, her character journey is heartbreaking and satisfying, and the actress is one clearly on the rise.

Even though Bousman has toned down the torture from his Saw days, he still has a strong grasp of eliciting audience reaction, and is surely not afraid of putting his characters through the ringer. There are some graphic moments of extreme brutality, but they punctuate a long drawn out cat-and-mouth game of psychological warfare that brings the true fear. If you didn’t have a phobia of nuns before, this might cause it.

Truthfully, there’s not much to St. Agatha, and the motivations behind the convent can easily be construed before the final showdown. None of that really matters though, because it’s such an engaging thrill ride full of shocking moments and fulfilling character arcs that it’s absolutely worth watching. Kern and Hennesy deliver powerhouse performances that leave you gripping your seat and holding your breath. Bousman knows how to ramp up the tension in measured strokes, barely allowing the audience time to gasp for more air. His nuns are brutal in the most exploitive way, finding grisly new ways to torment their wards that don’t involve gore (though gore is plenty). If your gag reflex is strong, prepare to get tested with St. Agatha. Bousman’s latest is a remarkable, gritty nunsploitation that we didn’t know we needed, and I hope it’s a sign of more to come.

If you weren't able to get your hands on one of the 5,000 copies of the campy horror game, Night Trap, for the PS4 last August, fear not! Limited Run Games announced on Friday that it will be releasing the cult classic once again, this time for the Nintendo Switch.

Via: Variety

Source: Limited Run Games

(Asheville, NC) – To celebrate the 2018 Craft Brewer’s Conference, Bhramari Brewing Co. in Asheville, NC is releasing two specialty IPA 16oz. cans in their taproom 4/28/2018.

The first release is a collaboration with Mantra Artisan Ales (Franklin, TN), Triangular Optics.

Triangular Optics: Milkshake IPA w/ Thai Tea, Plum, Lactose, & Vanilla
ABV: 8.8%
IBU: 38
Available on draft, and in single and 4-pack 16oz. Cans.

The second release, City of Gold, was created to feature El Dorado Hops from Yakima Quality Hops.

City of Gold: S.M.A.S.H. IPA w/ Golden Promise & El Dorado
ABV: 7.7%
IBU: 43

Available on draft, and in single and 4-pack 16oz. Cans.

Both brands will be available for limited distribution within N.C.

Bhramari Brewing Co. was founded in Asheville, NC in 2016. Culinary inspired, locally and globally infused, and experimental at its heart – we at Bhramari Brewing Co. want to always create what inspires us so that you might be inspired as well. Find balance, find whimsy, and discover something completely new in every sip of a Bhramari brew! Visit bhramaribrewing.com.

I’ll be honest, when I heard there was a movie called 4/20 Massacre I did not have the highest expectations. (Highest, LOL). The movie is dubbed as the first stoner-slasher and that sets up, at least in my mind, the expectation of a stoner comedy mixed with a classic slasher and that’s a tough combo to pull off successfully. Stoner comedies and slashers are similar in that they either work really well or they’re extremely aggravating. Put two and two together and it because twice has hard to nail down. So suffice to say, I expected that 4/20 Massacre would quickly run dry and repeat the same joke from start to finish. I’m happy to report that I was wrong.

Five ladies head out to the woods for a camping trip over 4/20 weekend to celebrate a friend’s birthday. As they make the walk to their campground they run into a park ranger. This is a standard horror trope where we meet an authority figure that should be good but you can’t quite tell what his angle is. You can’t be sure that this park ranger is a bad guy, but he doesn’t seem all that good. He eventually takes a beer from the ladies so maybe he’s just a drunk? At any rate, he tells the girls to have a good time but warns to stay away from the mountains because an illegal weed plantation is set up there and those that run the plantation ain’t too kind to strangers. Whatevs.

Eventually, the group of ladies come across a costumed killer dead set on protected the weed and a battle for their lives breaks out. This road to survival contains a number of weed jokes, some better than others.

The absolute highlight of 4/20 Massacre and what makes most of the movie work is the portrayal of our five leading ladies. Each one is written incredibly well and given real character depth.  A big problem with a lot of slashers, especially the indie low-budget variety, is that the characters are all cookie-cutter tropes, just there to serve as fodder for our killer. That’s the case here. Each girl has a different unique personality and their own issues that they’re trying to work through. One of the girls likes one of the others and isn’t sure how to approach her about it. There are some really sweet moments where she’s trying to determine the best way to go about this and seeking advice from one of the other friends. Some of the best scenes within the film are when the girls are together and just talking, setting up their campsite. It’s this likability that makes their impending doom matter. Unlike a lot of movies, you don’t want to see these characters die.

The kills do leave a bit to be desired. They’re not wholly originally and with a new slasher it’s always fun to get new kills. The effects are acceptable and a cut above what you see in a lot of low-budget slasher fare these days. They appear, at least to my untrained eye, to be a mix of practical and digital. I’ll take that.

The pacing could also use a little work. I would’ve liked the movie to be a little quicker and more fluid. It opens with a couple of guys searching for this weed plantation and when they find it they’re thrilled. Little do they know there’s a lunatic killer waiting for them. This is a solid little opening that pulls you in, but then it bogs down just a bit before the action picks back up.

All and all, 4/20 Massacre is a fun, little slasher filled with plenty of weed jokes and a good soundtrack (seriously, I’d buy this thing on vinyl). If you yourself are a pothead or have friends that are potheads, you’ll probably find this really enjoyable. If you’re Jeff Sessions and hate potheads, you’ll probably want to pass without puffing. And if you just like a good slasher, this one will do. Here’s to more films from writer/director Dylan Reynolds in the future.

4/20 Massacre is currently available on DVD and will be playing at the California Institute of Abnormal Arts in North Hollywood now through April 27th.

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In the documentary Not Quite Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino called the 1982 Australian movie Next of Kin “a horror movie unlike any other,” adding that “it has a very, very unique tone and the closest equivalent to this tone is The Shining.” Despite Tarantino’s praise, the film has to date never come off of VHS, but it’s soon headed to Blu-ray!

Australian company Umbrella Entertainment has announced this week that Next of Kin will be one of their 2018 Blu-ray releases, part of the “Beyond Genres” collection.

“Tony Williams’ unsettling horror tale set in a remote retirement home hits Blu-ray newly remastered from a 4K scan and for the first time worldwide.”

In the film, starring Wolf Creek‘s John Jarratt…

“In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother’s diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother’s diary begin to happen to the daughter.”

As Heinz and ketchup goes, so goes Hidden Valley and ranch. Brand affinity affects taste perceptions, and as we found out in our blind taste test of ketchup, the most popular brand don’t always score the highest points when you can’t see the label.

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With the loss of R. Lee Ermey, we’ve lost a truly great horror villain.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is an interesting one, as the villain isn’t merely one monster but rather an entire family of them. In each of the Chainsaw movies, Leatherface is flanked by colorful characters that he calls family, which sets him apart from lone wolves such as Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers. While Leatherface himself may be mute, characters like Chop Top, Drayton, Tex and Vilmer serve to bring a whole lot of personality to the proceedings; I’d go so far as to say that the success of any given Chainsaw movie is largely dependent on those secondary antagonists, who are the proverbial teeth of the big guy’s chainsaw.

It takes a special kind of actor to outshine the iconic Leatherface in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, and I don’t suspect you’ll argue with me when I say that R. Lee Ermey did just that in the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic. 

The casting of R. Lee Ermey as “Sheriff Hoyt” in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ’03 was nothing short of a stroke of brilliance, as it essentially allowed Ermey to channel his most memorable role: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, a performance that nabbed the late actor a Golden Globe nomination. Ermey’s Hartman is unquestionably one of the most imposing and intimidating characters in the history of cinema, so much so that there are times when Full Metal Jacket feels like a full blown horror movie. You could say that Sergeant Hartman was the role Ermey, a real life Gunnery Sergeant, was born to play; and you could say the very same thing about Sheriff Hoyt, a war vet himself.

As Sheriff Hoyt, Ermey essentially took his Golden Globe-nominated performance to a whole new level, bringing to the screen a horror villain who hardly even needed Leatherface as his muscle in order to be truly terrifying. When it comes to Sheriff Hoyt, the fear isn’t that Leatherface is surely close behind, it’s that Sheriff Hoyt is right in front of your face, screaming in your ear and asserting his dominance over you. Hoyt doesn’t need a chainsaw. His voice alone cuts right through his victims, with its shocking, on-a-dime upticks in intensity proving more intimidating even than Leatherface’s iconic weapon of choice.

Take, for example, what is easily the most chilling and tense scene in the entirety of Chainsaw Massacre ’03. After Hoyt arrives on the scene, discovering the body of the young woman who blew her brains out, Hoyt makes Morgan get back into the van and re-enact the suicide; he forces Morgan to put the gun in his own mouth and demands he pull the trigger. Ermey is at his terrifying best in the scene, and if actor Jonathan Tucker wasn’t genuinely intimidated by his co-star as the cameras rolled, he damn sure could’ve fooled me.

The likely reason the ’03 remake spawned a prequel in ’06 rather than a sequel is that Leatherface had his arm lopped off in the final act of the remake, but you could make the argument that the prequel was the best route if only because it allowed for Ermey to reprise and expand upon the role of Sheriff Hoyt – he was pretty definitively killed off in the remake, you may recall. Ermey’s performance is once again the star of the show in Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, the actor solidifying that he’s maybe the single biggest reason the remake was a success. Hoyt becomes an even stronger character in the prequel, as we learn the backstory behind his cannibalism and discover that, well, he’s not actually the real Sheriff Hoyt.

Just try to imagine either of those Texas Chainsaw Massacre films without R. Lee Ermey. Like Full Metal Jacket, you simply can’t. And that’s the truest testament to Ermey’s one-of-a-kind screen dominance. There will never be another like him. And we were fortunate that he spent some time in the world of horror, giving us an unforgettable horror villain for the ages.

It’s April 20, a day on which many people continue doing the thing they already do pretty much every day anyway, and many other people make a quick detour to enjoy a thing they only occasionally do, and the internet at large rejoices in a flood of viral content and “cool cop” tweets and none of that fucking matters…

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The first thing we ever heard about this year’s Halloween, a sequel to John Carpenter‘s original, was that Carpenter was on board as executive producer and creative consultant, which immediately made the film an exciting prospect. After all, having Carpenter back in Haddonfield, alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, was a huge win right off the bat.

It was also said, at the time, that Carpenter *might* end up scoring the new film, just as he did the original classic. This week, Jason Blum has confirmed that he indeed is.

Over on Twitter last night, Blum responded with a definitive “Confirm!” when asked to confirm or deny that Carpenter will be providing the score for the new installment!

Confirm!

— Jason Blum (@jason_blum) April 19, 2018

In the film, directed by David Gordon Green and co-written by Danny McBride…

“Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.”

Judy Greer plays Karen Strode, Laurie’s daughter, while Andi Matichak landed the coveted role of the film’s young lead (daughter to Greer and granddaughter to Curtis).

Nick Castle will return to the role of Michael Myers, while stunt performer and actor James Jude Courtney has also been cast to play Myers.

The cast also includes Virginia “Ginny” Gardner (Project Almanac, Marvel’s “Runaways”), Miles Robbins (Mozart in the Jungle, My Friend Dahmer), Dylan Arnold (Mudbound, Laggies, When We Rise), and Drew Scheid (“Stranger Things”, The War with Grandpa). They will be playing the friends of Matichak’s Allyson.

Michael returns home in exactly six months, on October 19, 2018.

Go behind the scenes with these first shots from Moose, an indie thriller directed by Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst.

Principal photography took place in Alabama on the film starring John Travolta as a rabid movie fan obsessed with his favorite celebrity action hero, Hunter Dunbar, played by Devon Sawa (who is best known among us horror fans as the star of Final Destination, while others obsess over his appearance in Casper). As Moose’s obsession grows stronger, his fixation turns from stalking to the ambition of destroying the star’s life.

The story was inspired by a real-life fan who stalked Durst many years ago. The screenplay was written by Durst and Dave Bekerman.

Above is a bloodied shot of Travolta doing his best “Frank the Bunny” impression, while below we can see Sawa tied up.

Devon Sawa is CRUSHING it!!! @moosemovie #moosemovie Photo by @brian_douglas_stills

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Ryuhei Kitamura – director of the action-packed Japanese zombie film Versus, as well as Alive, Godzilla: Final Wars, Lionsgate’s Clive Barker adaptation of The Midnight Meat Train, and WWE’s slasher No One Lives  is back with the uber-violent Downrange, which I called “gloriously vicious and mean-spirited.” You won’t have to wait much longer as Shudder is targeting an April 26, 2018, release and has zoomed in for the kill with this brand new trailer, exclusive to Bloody Disgusting.

In the throwback to 70’s thrillers:

“Six college students are carpooling cross-country when one of their tires blows out on a desolate stretch of country road. Getting out to fix the flat, they quickly discover that this was no accident. The tire was shot out. With their vehicle incapacitated, the group is pinned down and mercilessly attacked by an unseen assailant as they desperately attempt to find a way to escape.”

It stars newcomer Kelly Connaire, Stephanie Pearson (Insidious: Chapter 2), Rod Hernandez-Farella, Anthony Kirlew, Alexa Yeames (The CW’s The Originals), and Jason Tobias (ABC Television’s Notorious).

Texas appeared to be the team to beat, but an official visit to Texas A&M altered this recruitment considerably.

As recently as last week, the Texas Longhorns appeared to be the team to beat for elite Converse Judson defensive tackle DeMarvin Leal.

An official visit to Texas A&M over the weekend changed that, and on Wednesday, the coveted lineman announced his pledge to Jimbo Fisher and the Aggies, marking a significant recruiting loss for Tom Herman and the ‘Horns.

Throughout the recent months, Leal’s recruitment was considered an in-state battle between Texas and Texas A&M. Following numerous trips up I-35 to Austin — most recently on March 31 — the San Antonio-area product was thought to be a Longhorns lean, with each of his last five Crystal Ball projections before the trip to Texas A&M favoring Texas. By the end of his official visit to College Station, however, each of those Texas picks were flipped to Texas A&M, and collectively, 14 projections were logged favoring the Aggies following the news that the visit was overwhelming positive.

There was belief that a commitment could have come as soon as Sunday night.

Of course, Leal delayed until Wednesday, but nevertheless, the commitment came and it’s one that will service as a significant blow to Texas’ 2019 recruiting efforts. The Longhorns were originally expected to receive an official visit this spring before what Leal was planning to be a summer decision.

With Leal now headed for College Station, the Longhorns have seen seven of the top 15 players in the state head elsewhere, and the four-star lineman is arguably the biggest miss of the bunch.

A 6’4, 280-pound prospect, Leal is ranked as the nation’s No. 104 player, No. 7 defensive tackle and the No. 15 player in Texas, per the 247Sports Composite.

Only two other defensive tackles — Ismael Sopsher and Faatui Tuitele — hold a Texas offer thus far, and each are projected to commit elsewhere.

We’ve been beating the drum about upcoming horror film Hereditary for a while now. First it was the film’s premiere at Sundance, then the nightmarish follow-up screening at SXSW to haunt lucky(?) viewers. But there’s a good reason we keep talking it up: The damn thing is absolutely terrifying. And now there’s a new…

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Lady Silence isn’t silent anymore. Nor is she screwing around. “You don’t want to live,” the Netsilik Inuit woman shouts at Captain Francis Crozier, commander of the increasingly desperate expedition at the heart of The Terror. “Look at you.” Sure, why not: Rheumy-eyed and ruddy-faced, visibly drunk even at his…

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Bloody-Disgusting’s Benedict Seal called it “an exercise in cinematic shock and disgust”, now Cinepocalypse selection Attack of the Adult Babies is headed to Blu-ray, DVD & Digital HD in the UK this June 11th.  Take a look at the new trailer as well as getting an eyeful of the release details which includes a Limited Edition Slip Case designed by film artist Graham Humphreys for the first 1,000 collectors.

“The aftermath of a shocking home invasion forces three frightened family members to break into a remote country manor and steal Top Secret documents. Little do they know the stately pile is also the clandestine venue where a group of high-powered elderly men go to take refuge from the stresses and strains of daily life by dressing up in nappies and having a bevy of beautiful nurses indulging their every perverse nursery whim. Nor do they realize this grotesque assembly is compelled to refuel the world’s economy by very sinister, sick and monstrous means. As the bodily fluids hit the fan, the bloody carnage and freaky weirdness escalates.“

World premiered at FrightFest, Attack of the Adult Babies has been described as disgusting, depraved, brave, bonkers, brilliant and quintessentially British in its humor and depravity.

As Brunt and Mitchell reveal: “The film was inspired by a mixture of ideas and events…the Formula One President Max Mosely’s sadomasochistic orgy exposé, the dubious all-male Charity events, Freemason lore, exploitative male bosses, Carry On movies, saucy seaside postcards and 1950s EC Horror Comics. The plan was always to make a movie almost beyond description”.

Shot entirely on location at Broughton Hall in Skipton, West Yorkshire, the cast includes TV favourites Sally Dexter, Charlie Chuck and Andrew Dunn and horror film fans will enjoy a cameo appearance from Human Centipede II; Full Sequence star Laurence R Harvey. The film also features animated sequences, courtesy of Claymation maestro Lee Hardcastle.

Ahead of the June 11 release, there will be special cinema screenings at the Genesis Cinema, London and The Quad, Derby. Details of both screenings will be announced soon.

who is the DEA's graphic designer? pic.twitter.com/i8MLNeAfSu

— Shayna Gentiluomo (@kd2luw) April 15, 2018

Available along with other DEA patches at ebay.

Anker, as you probably know by now, makes a lot of products. But I don’t think any of them are as ambitious as the Nebula Capsule, a surprisingly good portable projector shrunk down to the size of a soda can.

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A brand new look into the world of The Terminator will launch for pre-order on Thursday, April 19, as Sideshow Collectibles is unleashing their Rebel Terminator statue.

Screen Rant got the exclusive first images of Sideshow’s upcoming Rebel Terminator, a statue designed by the Kucharek Brothers that introduces a badass female Terminator standing atop a pile of endoskeleton skulls and holding another in her robotic arm. She carries a plasma rifle over her shoulder, ready to lead the resistance into battle.

The Premium Format Figure will launch for Pre-Order on Thursday, April 19, 2018 between Noon – 3PM (Pacific Time). Sign-up on the RSVP list to receive updates!

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Warner Bros. has just released the bait and a trailer for Jon Turteltaub‘s (National Treasure) prehistoric shark thriller The Meg, which stars both Jason Statham (Spy, Furious 7, The Expendables films) and award-winning Chinese actress Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Forbidden Kingdom, The Message).

*Also be sure to watch the international trailer, with more footage!*

The Meg is enormous, monstrous even, completely dwarfing that of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Shit, it even gives slight homage to the classic scene when Jaws lands on a boat and chomps at everyone’s feet. But does bigger mean better? Nah. Still, the trailer is fun enough and lands somewhere between a Syfy Channel movie and Piranha 3D. What do you all think?

The Meg will swim into theaters on August 10, 2018.

“A deep-sea submersible—part of an international undersea observation program—has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific…with its crew trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew—and the ocean itself—from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below…bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.”

Rounding out the international main cast of Meg are New Zealander Cliff Curtis (The Dark Horse, Risen, TV’s Fear the Walking Dead), Rainn Wilson (TV’s The Office, Super), Ruby Rose (xXx: Return of Xander Cage, TV’s Orange is the New Black), Winston Chao (Skiptrace, Kabali), Page Kennedy (TV’s Rush Hour), Jessica McNamee (The Vow, TV’s Sirens), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The BFG, TV’s The Missing), Robert Taylor (Focus, TV’s Longmire), Sophia Shuya Cai (Somewhere Only We Know), and Masi Oka (TV’s Hawaii Five-0, Heroes).

Ask a Sea of Thieves player for complaints and they'll likely have one common theme: there's not enough to do. You can only dig up so many treasures on the same islands. And Rare knows it. The developer has detailed content plans for the first several months after launch, including a shift in priorities. While Rare had talked about adding pets and ship captaincy early on, those features are "on the back burner" as the company focuses on adding more raw gameplay, including maps, enemies and events.

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Some hot news out of the ongoing Chattanooga Film Festival as indie filmmaker Jeremy Gardner has made the surprise announcement that he’ll be returning to the director’s chair with Something Else. He’ll be co-directing with longtime collaborator Christian Stella, who was DP on The Battery and co-director on the duos Tex Montana Will Survive!, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively add.

No details were revealed other than it’s a “monster movie” that he’s doing with producer David Lawson (The Endless, Spring). Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson will also be producing via their Rustic Films banner. Additional producers include Arvind Harinath of Kavya Films with Venu Kunnappilly executive producing.  Tiffany Boyle and Elsa Ramo are co-EPs.

Gardner gave a speech about how hard it is to be an indie filmmaker and the weeks and months you spend hoping something will get made, we’re told, “But it all pays off when a producer like David Lawson shows up and says ‘I have an actual budget for you to make your movie.’”

In Garder’s 2013 indie The Battery, two former baseball players (Gardner and Adam Cronheim) are forced together by a zombie apocalypse and find their relationship becoming strained as they struggle to survive each day.

The announcement was made during the Chattanooga awards ceremony where it was announced that Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid won “Best Feature” and Rebekah and Dave McKendry’s All the Creatures Were Stirring scored the “Audience Award”.

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It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S.

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presented with CNN's findings, Facebook initially said the page didn't violate its "Community Standards."

Only after almost a week of emails and calls between CNN and Facebook about this story did Facebook suspend the page, and then only because it had suspended a user account that administrated the page.