From the director of Wolf Creek and Rogue, comes THE DARKNESS a ghostly tale featuring Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, David Mazouz and …wait for it… Paul Reiser! The film is a horrendous flop forcing The Black Saint, Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani to search long and hard for anything…seriously, anything…positive to say about the feature film hitting theaters this past weekend.
Doc drives the HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK segment sharing a massive amount of information about Insidious 4, The Exorcist TV show, a Maniac Cop remake, a Kevin Smith two-for and a troubled romance for Gareth Edwards and Godzilla 2. For the What Have You Been Watching segment, the Grue-crew dive deep into the icky, sticky, gooey body horror feature, BITE.
Co-hosts Doc Rotten, Santos (The Black Saint) Ellin Jr., Dave Dreher, Thomas Mariani and Vixen, the voice of reason, are back again this week to give you the best in horror as they recap, review and obliterate all that is horror this week! Oh, and don’t forget – Stump the Saint! (Brought to you by Gruesome Magazine)
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Episode 163 — The Darkness (2016) — Bite (2016)
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- Featured Review: The Darkness (2016)
A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation, haunted by an ancient supernatural entity they unknowingly awakened and engages them in a fight for their survival.
- d. Greg McLean
- w. Shayne Armstrong and Shane Krause
- c. Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, David Mazouz, Lucy Fry, Jennifer Morrison, Ming-Na Wen and Paul Reiser
- Thomas Mariani
(1.5 / 5) - Doc Rotten
(1 / 5) - The Black Saint
(0.5 / 5)
- What Have You Been Watching: Bite (2016)
While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she’s able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.- d. Chad Archibald
- w. Jayme LaForest
- c. Elma Begovic, Annette Wozniak, Denise Yuen, Jordan Gray, Lawrene Denkers
- Thomas Mariani
(2 / 5) - Doc Rotten
(2.3 / 5) - The Black Saint
(1.8 / 5)
Announcements: DragonCon (2016) & Podcast Awards Nominations- DragonCon (2016) September 2 – 5, 2016: http://dragoncon.org
- Look for The Black Saint, Doc Rotten, Thomas Mariani and Bill Mulligan on various panels on the Horror Block
- DragonCon (2016) September 2 – 5, 2016: http://dragoncon.org
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- Horror News of the Week: 05/16/2016
- Blumhouse has announced Insidious 4 with Adam Robitel (Taking of Deborah Logan) directing
- The Exoricist TV series aires this fall on FOX Fridays, here’s the promo on youtube.
- Don’t Breath from Fede Alverez gets a trailer and it’s incredible
- News from Cannes, Nicolas Refn is producing a remake of Maniac Cop with John Hyams directing from a screenplay by Ed Brubaker
- From Kevin Smith, here’s the Yoga Hosers trailer – uh, yeah, it’s a thing
- Straight out of South Korea comes Train to Busan – it’s zombies on a train, folks
- More trailers, here’s the teaser for this October’s Rocky Horror Picture Show
- More Kevin Smith news, the director is in the running to direct a TV version of Buckaroo Banzai
- Yet another trailer, Incarnate from Blumhouse featuring Aaron Eckhart and David Mazouz
- Rumor has it that DC is planning a Harley Quinn film featuring a number of female heroes
- It’s about time Helen Mirren stars in a horror film, how about the notorious Winchester House
- Kaiju fans rejoice, Gareth Edwards has dropped out of directing Godzilla 2
- Stump the Saint: w/ prizes supplied Gruesome Magazine
- Horror News Radio T-Shirt
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Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
