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“How can it be? My God! Felissa has a hot sauce!”

A partnership three years in the making, Gemini Crow has teamed with Og scream queen, actress Felissa Rose to bring to you, Angel Of Death; a hot sauce with a mute, yet fiery agenda.

Felissa Rose has over 100 film credits on her resume, but is best known for her portrayal of Angela Baker in the 1983 iconic slasher horror masterpiece, ‘Sleepaway Camp’. The enduring popularity and cult-like fandom of this movie has only continued to grow and thrive over the last 40 years.

Angel Of Death is a garlic & mustard blend that guides your flavor journey of deliciousness. And like ‘Sleepaway Camp’ which has one of the most shocking & iconic endings in horror movie history; Angel Of Death morphs from serene yet bold innocence to a shocking end scene that comes about due to the inclusion of the Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper.

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has always stuck up for heavy metal’s place in pop culture. So it was no surprise that when the singer, known to his fans as the “Metal God,” submitted his ballot for Rolling Stone’s new 500 Greatest Songs of All Time rankings, nearly all of his Top 10 tunes were certified headbangers. Halford was one of more than 250 artists, journalists, and industry figures to weigh in on the new list.

He recently caught up with Rolling Stone to break down his picks, singing the praises of Ozzy Osbourne,...

Hello, dear readers! August 10th looks to be something of a quiet day for horror and sci-fi home media releases, but one of this writer’s favorite films of 2021 is arriving on Blu-ray and DVD this week—My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To—so that makes me incredibly happy. Cult genre fans will be excited about the opportunity to add The Frenchman’s Garden and Jess Franco’s Angel of Death to their personal media collections, and if you missed it in theaters, The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 is headed home on Blu and DVD this Tuesday as well.

Other releases for August 10th include re-releases for Friday the 13th (1980), The Haunting (1999), Disintegration, Day of the Reaper, Prison of the Psychotic Damned, and Dark Stories.

The Frenchman’s Garden

"The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the...

Now here is one dark premise – a nurse who funds her drug addiction by killing her patients and selling their organs. Some may see this as a nod to the organ theft legend of the 1990s, while others may recall the numerous ‘Angel of Death’ cases. Either way, there is always comedy to be found in the darkest of subjects.

The nurse in question is Mandy (Angela Bettis), a misanthrope who lives for smoke breaks and crushed opiates. Bettis does good work here, lending her character a disdainful crabbiness, especially when confronted by her peers’ intrusive small talk. Mandy bides her time until the small hours, when she can continue her lucrative organ trafficking. However, things go awry when she recruits Regina (Chloe Farnworth), her idiotic cousin, to act as a delivery driver.

This is ripe ground for all manner of neo-noir nastiness. Think Killer Joe meets Nurse Betty – a real deep-fried,...

Martin Scorsese-fronted Documentary

Abacus Media Rights will distribute documentary The Oratorio, hosted by multiple Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese. The 66-minute TV film about the immigrant experience will tell the story of a long-forgotten event that helped shape the cultural landscape of New York. In 1826, a single performance at St Patrick’s Old Cathedral introduced Italian opera to New York City. Painstaking research has unearthed stories of the personalities involved including Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, debt-ridden and selling groceries; Maria Malibran, a young singer considered opera’s first diva and Pierre Toussaint, a freed slave and chief benefactor in building the church. The film is directed and produced by Mary Anne Rothberg and Jonathan Mann, co-founders of production company Provenance Productions (Do Not Duplicate) and director Alex Bayer. The feature also includes contributions from church parishioner and comedian Jim Gaffigan and members of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari...

Stan is set to further expand its international drama slate, thanks to a new partnership with UK VOD service Walter Presents announced today.

The exclusive long-term deal means dramas that have been hand-picked from around the world by the service’s curator and co-founder, Walter Iuzzolino, will run first on Stan.

Among the eight new shows launching in January are Peacemaker, Devil’s Throat, First Responders, Hide and Seek, Sløborn and Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders.

They will be followed by The Pleasure Principle, Hassle, Perfect Places, and Angel of Death in February.

It comes after Stan inked a multi-year, exclusive content partnership with NBCUniversal Global Distribution in August to become the local home for productions from Sky Studios, NBCUniversal International Studios, as well as Peacock Originals produced by Universal Studio Group and Dreamworks Animation TV.

Stan’s chief content officer Nick Forward says the deal with Walter Presents is...

In today’s Global Bulletin, Netflix picks up four originals in Nigeria, Amazon Prime Video gets Noggin in several major European markets, Walter Presents buys three Polish series, and Iwc Schaffhausen and the BFI announce finalists and jury for this year’s Filmmaker Bursary Award.

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Netflix has announced a slate of new original series and films from Nigeria, doubling down on its commitment to finding and promoting talent on the African continent.

One new series and three Nigerian films were secured by Netflix in various stages of production, with some ready to debut immediately.

“Far From Home” is a six-part series created by Chinaza Onuzo and Dami Elebe, who double as executive producer and writer. Produced by Inkblot Productions, It follows Ishaya, a teenage artist who wins a scholarship that launches her from her humble surroundings into the world of Nigeria’s 1%. Actor-producer Funke Akindele is confirmed for a lead role.

Some weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Nashville singer-songwriter India Ramey was wrestling with the still-fresh outcome and writing songs, when an image came to mind that provided an appropriately unsettling tone to what she was feeling.

“A lot of times when I write a song, I visualize it as if I’m watching a movie,” Ramey says. “It was this Western town and the narrator is stumbling out after all the fires have gone out and there’s smoke in the air and she’s telling the story. It went from there.

Hospitalization proves more than usually fatal in “12 Hour Shift,” a bloody black comedy from actress turned writer-director Brea Grant. This clever mix of the farcical and macabre finds shady nurse Angela Bettis’ sideline in illicit organ harvesting going seriously awry during an extra-long work stint at a 1999 Arkansas care facility. Although closer to the twistedly gallows-humorous likes of “The Hospital” and Scorcese’s underrated “Bringing Out the Dead” than the sizable subgenre of hospital horror mellers, it will most likely find an appreciative initial audience among genre fans. Magnet plans release to available theaters and on demand Oct. 2, following a brief, Covid-hobbled festival tour.

Though she started out in prestige dramatic roles for Zeffirelli and James Mangold, Bettis became a favorite for horror aficionados as of 2002, via title roles in both indie cult object “May” and a TV “Carrie.” Her forays into that territory invariably up the movie’s game,...

Exclusive: Mulan actor Ron Yuan will sit in the director’s chair for the upcoming untitled 47 Ronin sequel. The action-fantasy pic will be produced by Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production entity of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

“I’m incredibly excited to be working with Universal and the producing team on this genre-blending, martial arts, action, horror and cyber-punk film,” said Yuan. “This will be a fun, intense, supercharged thrill ride for viewers globally.”

The original film was directed by Carl Rinsch and written by Chris Morgan and Hossein Amini from a story conceived by Morgan and Walter Hamada. Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Rinko Kikuchi and Ko Shibasaki starred in 47 Ronin, which was based on Chūshingura. The pic tells a fictionalized account of the titular 47 rōnin, a real-life group of samurai in the 18th century who set out to avenge the death of their master who was killed by a merciless shogun.

Exclusive: In one of the biggest sales deals to come together at any Efm, we understand Netflix is nearing a world rights pre-buy in the region of $25M for The Good Nurse, set to star Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.

Based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by 1917 scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt) is set to make his English-language feature directing debut on film, which has had buyers hot in Berlin.

Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing with FilmNation, which is handling sales with CAA. Scott Franklin is leading for Protozoa. The film was previously being set up with Lionsgate but hit the open market before Efm.

The pic tells the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie Cullen, a nurse who is regarded as one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Now called ‘Angel of Death’, Cullen was a married father...

FilmNation has boarded hot project The Good Nurse, starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.

We first broke news of the thriller in 2018. Based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by 1917 scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt) is set to make his English-language feature directing debut.

Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing with FilmNation. We hear the film is being budgeted around $30M.

The pic tells the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie Cullen, a nurse who is regarded as one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Now called “Angel of Death,” Cullen was a married father who was thought to be a responsible caretaker, but his secret compulsion to take life led to his implication in the deaths of as many as 300 patients over 16 years, spread across nine hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Redmayne will play Cullen, who was caught by...

FilmNation will launch international sales on “The Good Nurse,” a thriller set to star Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, at the European Film Market (Efm), Variety has learned.

The film marks Tobias Lindholm’s English language feature directing debut. The Danish filmmaker previously oversaw “A Hijacking” and “A War.” The film centers on Charlie Cullen, a nurse who is regarded as one of the most prolific serial killers in history and was known by the moniker, “Angel of Death.” He is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of as many as 300 patients over 16 years. Redmayne will play Cullen and Chastain will play a nurse who begins to unravel the true scope of his crimes.

Redmayne won an Oscar for “Theory of Everything” and scored another nomination for “The Danish Girl.” Upcoming projects include “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3” and Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of...

It probably won’t surprise anyone that Jason Momoa — a.k.a. Khal Drogo, a.k.a. Aquaman — is a devoted metalhead. So when he showed up at The Forum in Los Angeles on Saturday night for Slayer’s farewell concert, he didn’t pass up the chance to sing a Pantera classic with Phil Anselmo.

Anselmo was one of the opening acts for the thrash metal legends, performing alongside his post-Pantera solo band, The Illegals. During the set, Momoa, who was attending the show with his two kids, joined him onstage while he was performing Pantera’s famous ballad “This Love” from their biggest album, “Vulgar Display of Power.”

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Slayer’s lengthy farewell tour and the thrash metal legends’ four-decade touring career came to an end Saturday with what was billed as the band’s final concert ever at the Forum in Inglewood, California.

Following the conclusion of “Angel of Death,” the last song of the final show, Slayer spent 10 more minutes onstage, with band mates hugging each other and taking one last photo of themselves together in front of a crowd. Bassist/singer Tom Araya and guitarist Kerry King then remained onstage as the crowd continued to shower them with applause and chants.

When I think about the American New Wave, I’m always traveling through the vast open roads of North America, its forever-changing landscapes and mythical American dreams, with all its bittersweet promise. Sonically speaking, I’m in that space, too. So much of the New Hollywood cinema is vast Americana; Death Valley and desert-hot gas stations, the ultimate nihilistic road movie. But so much of it is everywhere else too; sleek Manhattan apartment blocks, the old Wild West, and the outer regions of space. In my head it’s a mixtape of philosophical and artistic ideas, one of cinema’s counter-culture melting pots where more questions are raised than answered and the plot is not driven by a desire for resolution.This mix was dreamed up as a mixtape: driving across state lines, re-adjusting the radio station on the dashboard as the trip moves further towards a destination that is unknown.

Slayer - Tom Araya, Kerry King, Gary Holt and Paul Bostaph - along with Trafalgar Releasing, Nuclear Blast Records and Prime Zero Productions, are pleased to share the theatrical trailer for Slayer: The Repentless Killogy, coming to theaters worldwide for a one-night-only event on November 6. &#160In addition to the new trailer, fans can now find local theaters and purchase tickets at Slayer.Film.

Full of revenge, murder, bloodshed and retribution, the first part of Slayer: The Repentless Killogy is a short narrative film written and directed by Bj McDonnell, that blends the music of&#160Slayer with an uncompromising and unmissable, trilogy of music videos assembled as one chronological storyline. Part two of The Repentless Killogy features Slayer's entire live set performed at the Los Angeles Forum on August 5, 2017, and was directed by Wayne Isham who has directed videos for artists including Metallica, Foo Fighters, Michael Jackson and more. &#160Key performances featured in the film,...

As a parting gift for their fans, Slayer will mark the last leg of their final tour with The Repentless Killology, a combination narrative movie and concert film. The film portion features the trilogy of videos that filmmaker Bj McDonnell made for “You Against You,” “Repentless,” and “Pride in Prejudice” — all off the band’s Repentless album — with a beefed-up storyline connecting them.

The concert film features the band’s entire Los Angeles Forum performance from August 5th, 2017. The video release will come out digitally and on Blu-ray on November 8th.

For a show that spends so much of its time weighing the consequences of the pain that humans can cause themselves, each other, and the world around them, “Yellowstone” can be pretty funny when it wants to be.

It’s one example of how, when the Paramount Network series hits pause on its tortured meditations on political power and leaden family drama, there’s a wealth of potential that lies just beneath the surface. Season 2 returns with a slightly better understanding of what it can do within its confines, but this is still a show with a mammoth to-do list. It’s a size befitting of the wide-open backdrop it’s set against and one that leads to a still-overstuffed drama of all kinds, even if more of it clicks after some time away.

Co-creator and writer Taylor Sheridan first took the reins of this ongoing saga of the Duttons...

Finally, there is a happy ending for Pride.

He was beaten and drugged within an inch of his life on NCIS: New Orleans Season 5 Episode 24.

But he came out the other side, decidedly the worse for wear.

The celebration at his bar echoed the ending on NCIS: New Orleans Season 4 Episode 24 when he went up to his apartment only to have three bullets pumped into him by Parsons.

This time around, fortunately, he just got the joy.

That isn't to say that Dwayne hadn't been through a hard few days.

The action picked right up after his capture by Apollyon at the end of NCIS: New Orleans Season 5 Episode 23.

Pride was being pumped full of mind-altering drugs by Walker's best pharmacologist so he could probe to find out what information about Apollyon that Dwayne had.

Related: NCIS: New Orleans Season 5 Episode 23 Review: The River Styx, Part 1

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Next month Game of Thrones and Hannibal director Niel Marshall will unleash his new version of Mike Mignola's classic character Hellboy onto the masses in a theater near you and on your local IMAX screens. This new version of the Big Red One with the Right Hand of Doom is played by David Harbour - or as he's better known around these parts, Sheriff Jim Hopper from Netflix and The Duffer Brothers' hit series Stranger Things - and Milla Jovovich will join him as the film's villain, Nimue, the Blood Queen. This new big-budget, R-rated film hasn't even opened in a theater near you yet, and already it seems that the powers that be behind the scenes are planning for potential sequels. At least in a very "vague sense." To be a bit more specific, producer Lloyd Levin says:

"Not in a No. 2 will be this and No. 3 will be that,...

With studios like Disney and WarnerMedia hoarding content in preparation to launch streaming services, original content has become a priority among streamer’s attempting to build their subscriber base.

Hoping to capitalize on this trend is Wattpad, a text-based storytelling platform with more than 500 million user-generated stories and over 70 million users around the globe. The first fruits of Wattpad’s push into filmed content can already be seen: “Light as a Feather,” a supernatural thriller based on Zoe Aarsen’s episodic Wattpad stories that has gotten 3.3 million reads, debuted as a 10-part Hulu series last October — and last month got greenlit for a second season.

Sony Pictures Television last year announced plans to develop a series based on Katarina E. Tonks’ “Death is My Bff,” a story about a sarcastic Angel of Death who meets his match that garnered 92 million reads on Wattpad.

The Toronto-based company has also partnered with...

Join our newsletter to get more stories like this Tonight’s episode of Shattered profiles Efren Saldivar, who nicknamed himself the “Angel of Death,” a respiratory therapist who was convicted in 2002 of murdering six elderly patients while employed at the Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Larry Schlegel’s mother, Eleanora, was one of Saldivar’s victims. Originally, Schlegel thought his mother had succumbed to pneumonia in January 1997. Years later, he would learn that his mother had, in fact, not died of pneumonia, but instead had been visited by the Angel of Death. In 1998, Saldivar confessed to police that he had killed […]

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The fall finale of Manifest delivered excitement and more than a few surprises as secrets were revealed and losses were incurred.

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Manifest Season 1 Episode 9

It’s good to know that Manifest is not afraid of tweaking its own formula as the show progresses. Although “Dead Reckoning” took out one of the show’s most relatable characters in Agent Vance, it also introduced the idea of dissent within the ranks of the Flight 828 passengers by giving us Autumn Cox, a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The secret of the callings is now more out in the open, for better or worse, and the fissure that has opened up in the Stone family really gives viewers something to stew on while they wait for the show to return in January.

This might be a good time to mention that the electroshock torture of the missing...

Did Ben and Vance manage to find the missing passengers?

That was revealed on Manifest Season 1 Episode 8 as the two men who were once at war put their differences aside. 

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Meanwhile, Michaela helped a suicidal passenger who believed in the Angel of Death, but it put her at odds with her ex-boyfriend. 

Also, Cal returned to school but quickly realized it was not going to be easy because all of his friends were now over 16 years old. 

Use the video above to watch Manifest online right here via TV Fanatic. 

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The latest Halloween re-contextualizes the slasher genre with Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode forming its true unstoppable Shape.

This article contains major Halloween spoilers.

She appears behind him like a wraith; a shade; an unstoppable force. For the first time in perhaps 11 movies, Michael Myers is reacting with surprise. This isn’t how it’s supposed to go. Below him, one of the helpless Strode women who have been his victims du jour for 40 years (no matter the timeline) turned out to be not so helpless. Rather than weeping at the arrival of the very male Angel of Death, and his ever phallic kitchen knife, Karen (Judy Greer) feigned crocodile tears before blasting a hole the size of a golf ball in his shoulder. Only then comes the true ‘Shape’ of David Gordon Green’s Halloween reimagining: Laurie Strode.

Once the defining visage of victimhood in the horror subgenre of slashers,...

Luis Ortega’s Pedro Almodovar-backed ‘El Angel,’ which premiered at Cannes and screens at this week’s San Sebastian Film Festival, has been selected as Argentina’s submission for consideration for the Academy Award for best foreign language picture.

Sold by Vicente Canales’ Film Factory, produced by Argentina’s K & S and and Pedro Almodovar’s El Deseo and co-produced by Argentine broadcast network Telefe – a quartet with previous Oscars clout – their film “Wild Tales” was nominated for best foreign-language feature in 2015 – “El Ángel” also marks a move into feature film production for Underground Producciones, one of Argentina’s foremost drama series production houses (“El Marginal”).

The film examines the teenage beginnings of Argentina’s longest-serving prisoner, the near-celebrity Carlos Robledo Puch. Dubbed the “Angel of Death” because of his age, baby face and angelic blonde curls, Carlos and his older friend from school, Ramón, started experimenting with petty crime when still in school,...

Frank Castle is undoubtedly the outlier of Marvel’s street-level heroes.

Whereas Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist attempt to clean up the streets of Hell’s Kitchen (and Harlem!) while still adhering to some sort of moral code, The Punisher‘s rage and animosity know no bounds, as Castle slaughters his targets one after another with deadly precision.

It’s part of the reason why Marvel and Netflix’s 13-part series was such a faithful rendition of the iconic anti-hero, and below, you’ll see yet more evidence that The Punisher season 2 is about to honor tradition. Front and center as New York’s Angel of Death is Jon Bernthal, who is once again wearing that iconic skull vest as he zeroes in on his prey. Oh, and it’s smeared in blood, just to drive the point home that Frank Castle is not to be trifled with.

Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game) and Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts) are in negotiations to join a film called The Good Nurse. The film is based on a serial killer book written by Charles Graeber and it's a very dark and twisted story. Have you ever heard of the 'Angel of Death'? Because that's who this movie is about.

The movie will tell the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie Cullen, "a nurse who is regarded as one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Now called 'Angel of Death,' Cullen was a married father who was thought to be a responsible caretaker, but his secret compulsion to take life led to his implication in the deaths of as many as 300 patients over 16 years, spread across nine hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania."

Redmayne will take on the role Cullen, who was eventually caught...

Fantastic Beasts’ Eddie Redmayne and Molly’s Game’s Jessica Chastain are in final talks to join Tobias Lindholm’s thriller, The Good Nurse.

Redmayne will play Cullen. Cullen was caught by two former Newark homicide detectives who wouldn’t let go, aided by a nurse who worked alongside Cullen and risked her job and family’s safety to stop him. Chastain will play the nurse whose dogged pursuit helped end his killing spree.

Based on the by Charles Graeber, the film will follow the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie Cullen, a nurse who is regarded as one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Now called ‘Angel of Death,’ Cullen was a married father who was thought to be a responsible caretaker, but his secret compulsion to take life led to his implication in the deaths of as many as 300 patients over 16 years, spread...

Exclusive: Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne are in advanced negotiations to star in The Good Nurse, a thriller based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Tobias Lindholm is set to make his English-language feature directing debut. Bron Studios, run by Aaron L. Gilbert, has come aboard to finance and will release through Lionsgate. Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing as well.

The pic tells the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie Cullen, a nurse who is regarded as one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Now called “Angel of Death,” Cullen was a married father who was thought to be a responsible caretaker, but his secret compulsion to take life led to his implication in the deaths of as many as 300 patients over 16 years, spread across nine hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Redmayne will play Cullen, who was caught...

Charles Cullen murdered at least 40 patients in the many medical facilities where he worked as a nurse, The Killing Oath examines how his co-worker Amy Loughren helped bring him to justice. Charles Cullen was a nurse working in New Jersey when he embarked on a murderous killing spree, targeting the very vulnerable patients he was supposed to be caring for. Cullen’s mental health issues started very young and he made several attempts to kill himself aged just nine-year-old. Eventually he seems to have changed the focus of that self-hatred to that of his patients. Over a period of 16 years […]

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Through the 10 years of the Emmys from 2000 to 2009, the Television Academy only chose five men to win the award for Best Drama Actor. The decade included not one, not two, but three actors who won the Drama Actor trophy multiple times. So which Emmy-winning performance is your favorite all these years later? Take a look back on each Drama Actor Emmy winner of the 2000s and vote in our poll below.

James Gandolfini, “The Sopranos” — The new decade also served as a sign that the Emmys were looking to embrace the antihero as cable came to the forefront. Gandolfini’s performance as New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano was the true godfather of this new wave, winning Emmys for the second, third and fourth seasons of “The Sopranos.” His Emmy-winning episode submissions included “The Happy Wanderer,” in which Tony starts to reject therapy, “Amour Fou,” where he grapples with his erratic mistress,...

Having flirted with horror in The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn is turning his focus back to the criminal underbelly in his new Amazon series, Too Old to Die Young. The first teaser trailer for the series has landed and it's an orgiastic collage of impressionistic images set to pulsing synth. Fans of Drive rejoice.  Co-created with writer Ed Brubaker, the series explores the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles by following characters' existential journeys from being killers to becoming samurais in the City of Angels. Miles Teller stars along with Jena Malone (The Neon Demon), William "Billy" Baldwin (Backdraft), John Hawkes (Deadwood), Cristina Rodlo (The Condemned), Augusto Aguilera (The Predator), Nell Tiger Free (Game of Thrones), Babs Olusanmokun (The Defenders), and...

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Luis Ortega’s “El Ángel” is set to world premiere Friday at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. Variety has been granted access to the first exclusive clip of the upcoming serial killer origin story.

Sold by Film Factory, produced by Argentina’s K & S and Pedro and Agustin’s El Deseo and co-produced by Argentine broadcast network Telefe – a quartet behind “Wild Tales” and “The Clan” – “El Ángel” also marks an incursion as a producer into feature film production of Underground Producciones, of one of Argentina’s foremost drama series production houses (“El Marginal”).

“El Ángel” explores the dark beginnings of Argentina’s longest-serving prisoner and one of its most brutal killers, Carlos Robledo Puch. Dubbed the “Angel of Death” because of his angelic blonde curls, Carlos started experimenting with petty crime in early adolescence. In time his ambitions escalated...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to Katarina E. Tonks’s story series Death Is My Bff, which bowed via Wattpad, the Toronto-based storytelling app that combines crowdsourced content and other material.

Paul Shapiro, who brought the project to Sony, will executive produce under his All In Media banner, along with Wattpad’s Aron Levitz and Eric Lehrman.

Tonks’s Death Is My Bff series of stories have more than 92 million reads to date on Wattpad.

In Death Is My Bff, the irresistible and insatiably sarcastic Angel of Death is in for a rude awakening when he comes to claim Faith William’s soul and discovers that he’s met his match. Faith has five days to hold off signing her soul away, but demons, an arrogant playboy, and her own conflicted feelings for Death aren’t going to make it any easier.

Aron Levitz, head of Wattpad Studios,...

Need to catch up? Check out our previous Riverdale recap here.

After all the kidnappings in this week’s (particularly bananas) episode of Riverdale, the town’s general store might want to order a fresh supply of duct tape.

At Midge’s funeral — where Cheryl sings a mournful ballad, natch — the whole town is in shock… and Archie is back in what Veronica calls “Death Wish Archie” mode. He’s convinced that the Black Hood’s return means that he and his dad Fred are in danger, and sure enough, as he’s peeking inside a boarded-up house, he spots...

Doug Jones can clearly recall his first day filming The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro's hand-crafted aquatic fairy tale in which the 57-year-old actor plays a nameless amphibian man who falls for Sally Hawkins' mute cleaning lady in 1960s Baltimore. "We started with a scene in which … I'm chained to a cement block on my knees and being tortured and prodded by Michael Shannon," Jones says. "My first day on set was going through the makeup and costume process, then ending up on my knees on concrete...

In his seven weeks of shooting “The Shape of Water,” the film’s male lead, Doug Jones, could not grasp a doorknob, send a text message, breathe through his mouth, or go to the bathroom while in costume. His call time to the Toronto set was a “mercifully short” three hours earlier than co-stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, and Octavia Spencer.

Each morning, four people armed with K-y Jelly shoehorned him into a latex, foam, and rubber bodysuit, built from a cast of his six-foot-three, 140-pound frame. Then came webbed-fingered gloves (glued on), following by a neck and fiberglass helmet, which featured built-in buzzing, whirring mechanics to puppeteer his gills off camera. Once dressed, barely able to see or hear, Jones was required at various times to hang from a hip harness, stand on a smoke-bathed teeter-totter to simulate bobbing in water, and employ scuba diving techniques while acting in a flooded,...

A new Hellboy movie is finally coming to theaters next year, but it is going to be a reboot and not a continuation of the Guillermo Del Toro movies. There are mixed feelings about that, since Del Toro never got to make Hellboy 3. But it turns out that isn't the only movie this newly announced Neil Marshall directed reboot has killed. Writer Peter Briggs has revealed that he had been working on an Abe Sapien spin-off movie since 2010, but the project is officially dead in the water now.

Peter Briggs wrote the original Hellboy movie and, after the news of the reboot broke, he took to his Facebook page to talk about the Abe Sapien movie, which would have been centered on Doug Jones' character. Universal actually had the idea for the movie and contacted him to work on it back in 2010. That turned out to be the beginning...

Earlier this week, Hellboy fans were taken by surprise when it was announced that The Descent director Neil Marshall would be getting behind the camera for a reboot of the property, with Stranger Things star David Harbour taking on the titular role. We say it was a surprise because after Guillermo del Toro officially put those Hellboy 3 rumors to bed, we assumed that the character was done with the silver screen. As it turns out, however, that couldn’t be further from the truth and we will indeed be seeing him again.

In light of all the excitement surrounding the new project, which has been tentatively titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen and is apparently set to be darker and more gruesome than the previous films, we’ve learnt of something quite interesting. Due to the fact that this new reboot has been given to go ahead, we won...

Michael Ahr Mar 16, 2019

The wait for The Oa season 2 is nearly over as a new trailer for "Part II" has the series returning to Netflix in March.

The return of The Oa season 2, also known as Part II, is finally right around the corner, and the new trailer has us hungry for more. According to lead actor, Brit Marling, principal photography wrapped in June of 2018, so the wait was certainly a long one. The second season will have 8 episodes, and the premiere episode will be entitled "Angel of Death," in which we will finally learn the fate of Prairie Johnson. Cindy Holland, VP of Original Series at Netflix, assures fans that good things are in store and that series is built to last.

The official description of The Oa season 2 shows how strange the reality of this series continues to be in Part II. Here's the synopsis:

"The “mind-bending” story...

Kirsten Howard Dec 17, 2017

Brit Marling has confirmed that the second season of The Oa is about to start filming...

Netflix announced that a second season of The Oa was on the way earlier in the year, and those utterly confused (and enthralled) with the show's heroine might be wondering how she'll be using her strange 'movements' to open up more of the story when it eventually returns.

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The heroine in question, Oa creator Brit Marling, didn't give too much away when she announced on Twitter this week that she'd finally completed all 8 scripts for season 2. We did find out that production will begin next month, and that it looks like the first episode is entitled 'Angel Of Death'. We can see the Golden Gate Bridge on the cover of that first script, too, which could mean that the sophomore run is set in San Francisco,...

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From The Cabin In The Woods and Ghostbusters through to Pan's Labyrinth: the movie monsters that make a huge impression in their one scene.

Screen monsters come in all shapes and sizes, from the bizarre beauty of Giger’s Alien all the way through to the very human evil of Seven’s John Doe. Audiences have a strange relationship with these creatures, being both repelled and fascinated by them at the same time. This push/pull attraction has been going on since the birth of cinema, and it’s likely to continue for many years to come.

Sometimes the most enduring creatures are the ones that pop up, steal the movie and then swiftly exit stage left. It could be their unique design or the impact they have on the story, but for the monsters included here, all they needed was one scene to impact on our collective nightmares.

It looks like the cameras may finally start rolling on the remake of William Lustig's 1988 horror crime flick, Maniac Cop, as director John Hyams is pencilling in a spring shoot for the new take.

According to Variety, Hyams plans to film the Maniac Cop remake in New York City from a script by Ed Brubaker (Angel of Death).

On board as a producer, Lustig is involved with the remake, along with Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon), who is also producing. Here's what Hyams told Variety about the remake's script:

"The script is able to re-invent the original with the same mythology. We had thought about shooting in the fall, but we decided on the spring to give ourselves enough time to get the best cast and crew."

Maniac Cop starred horror genre favorites Bruce Campbell and Tom Atkins as New York City police officers on the hunt...

The X-Men have been around for more than 50 years. They multiply: rapidly, frequently, endlessly. They aren’t really a superteam like the Justice League or the Avengers, those all-star crews built out of solo-series stars (Superman, Captain America) mixed together with B-list glue characters (Martian Manhunter, Wonder Man). With one very obvious exception and a few other arguable exceptions, the X-Men aren’t Solo-Star people. They are a team.

Or rather, teams. Chris Claremont’s iconic decade-and-a-half run on Uncanny X-Men cemented the idea that the X-lineup was eternally fluid: Characters died, left on sabbatical, joined the Avengers, got replaced...

If you own the PS4 or Xbox One and have been wondering when you'll get to play Diablo 3 and it's Reaper of Souls expansion on their brand new machines. Well, Blizzard has finally announced an August release date for The Ultimate Evil edition of the game on the new (and old consoles) which will combine the core game and it's expansion, plus a bunch of other neat features; including the ability to transfer your character from PS3 or Xbox 360 to your new game! Come inside to check out all the details.

We all knew that Reaper of Souls (which released earlier this year on the PC) would be coming to the consoles at some point, but honestly we didn't think it'd be so soon. Fortunately, if you've been anxious to play Diablo 3 on the new consoles, you don't have much longer to wait. Diablo III: The Ultimate Evil Edition will...

It was during last year's Comic-Con that we first told you about the partnership between Life of Agony's Alan Robert and Idw which resulted in the graphic novel The Shunned One. Today we learned that it's being adapted for the screen.

Jack Reher is the man who is behind the adaptation. The book focuses on an Angel of Death who goes rogue after being ordered to take several innocent lives. This guilt-ridden death angel begins to carry out his own judgment on humans based on their actions instead of whether their names appear on the preordained Death List.

The Angel’s unsanctioned murders instantly alter the balance within the universe and trigger a string of unforeseen disasters that spiral out of control. Banished from Heaven by his Creator and hunted by a pack of vengeful death angels, The Shunned One must hide among the humans to survive while trying to...

The German Doctor, Argentina's Submission for the Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. U.S. :Samuel Goldwyn Films. International Sales Agent: Pyramide International

In the quest for perfection humanity has gone to great lengths to alter and manipulate physical processes or unaesthetic features. Striving to improve and increase the species' adaptability is the basis for evolution. Traits and defects are passed on through generations engraved in the DNA. Aware of this, and in an attempt to justice their heinous crimes and bless them as 'scientific purification of the Aryan race', the Nazis fabricated their own branch of Social Darwinism. They pursued a type of homogenous beauty based on phony symmetrical genetics, with which they aimed to craft a special breed of super humans.

Rid of any genetic imperfections or miscegenation these individuals would become the pinnacle of their efforts. Spearheading this research and its consequential experimentation was Josef Mengele, a physician and one of the most notorious German SS officers. Following Germany’s defeat the world was learning of the horrors that took place in the concentration camps. Many Nazi officers and supporters, Mengele included, escaped to South America to avoid facing justice. Lucía Puenzo’s magnificent historical fiction film The German Doctor tries to reconstruct the time the so-called “Angel of Death” spent in Argentina and the moral implications of the unexplored complicity of the locals.

Set in 1960 against the breathtaking scenery of the Patagonian town of Bariloche, the story focuses on a family that serendipitously crosses paths with Mengele (Àlex Brendemühl) on their way to the family owned hostel. Upon meeting Lilith (Florencia Bado), the family’s daughter, the doctor is instantly captivated by the girl’s size and physical features. She is a 12-year-old girl that appears extremely underdeveloped and fragile for her age. He immediately considers her the perfect specimen to test his theories, and to his advantage she seems to be equally intrigued by the foreign man. Her pregnant mother, Eva (Natalia Oreiro), fluent in German, seems to like the doctor who easily gains her trust, despite her husband Enzo’s (Diego Peretti) noticeable suspicion of his intentions.

Once in Bariloche the doctor convinces the family to let him rent a room at their place, clearly part of his plan to stay close to his interest. The city exudes a heavily German influence, including Eva’s old Nazi-supported school where she enrolls Lilith and her two siblings. There, her tall and blond classmates of German descent bully the young girl because of her size. This represents a prime opportunity for Mengele to interfere. He persuades Eva to let him inject Lilith with hormones that will make her grow, and he provides her with pills to help with her pregnancy, all of it behind the patriarch’s back.

Mindful of Enzo’s growing uneasiness towards him, the conniving German doctor shows interest in the man’s passion for designing dolls. With Lilith’s father now distracted with his own project, Mengele has free range to experiment after discovering Eva is expecting twins. Increasingly curious about the doctor’s stories, Lilith begins reading about the Aryan pseudo-mythology in her school’s library where she meets photographer Nora Eldoc (Elena Roger). As the family starts to grapple with the motives behind the doctor’s unsolicited help, Eldoc will prove to be a crucial character when the Israeli secret police, the Mossad, comes hunting down the runaway Nazis.

Conceived with incredible moral complexity and a mysteriously alluring tone, the film doesn’t simply crucify Mengele as the source of all evil, but it instead questions the willing collaboration of others. There is a shared responsibility for his acts occurring between him and the participants. He doesn’t kidnap Lilith or forces Eva to accept any treatment, but they grant him permission. In the same manner, the replication of artificial beauty is not only expressed via Mengele’s vision of what Lilith and the twins can become, but also in Enzo’s obsessive interest in creating the perfect human-like doll.

“Wakolda”, Lilith’s rag doll made by the native Mapuche Indians is not good enough in his eyes, and it must be improved. Just like with Mengele’s grueling fixation with engineering a utopian race, all individuality must be suppressed and replaced by identical flawlessness. This absurd aspiration is shared by both of the their enterprises. Such tacit complicity mirrors that of the entire community, which aware of the numerous Nazis and their supporters, prefers to let them live in obscurity.

Puenzo’s fascinating period piece, based on her own novel, revisits familiar stories of Nazism with a particular focus on the Argentinean involvement. Executed with outstanding attention to detail, a prodigious ensemble cast, and splendid cinematography, the film is a window into a time lost in history. Despite the secrecy surrounding the doctor’s time in her country, the writer/director incorporates the facts available to formulate her own informed version of the story. Her great artistic achievement might be the most plausible retelling of the events one might ever get to see. Evoking a sense impending danger, The German Doctor is a challenging and enthralling masterwork.

The German Doctor opens in L.A. and New York on April 25th, 2014

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R, 1 Hr., 32 Mins.

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