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The Son of Sam Tapes takes us back to the mid-1970s, when New York City was going through a phase of transition. There was a fire epidemic that was taking place in the city, with arson cases increasing with every passing day, and unfortunately it had become the center of every kind of unlawful activity. There were budget cuts made by the authorities, a lot of police officers and firemen had been discharged, and there was an increase in the number of people breaking the law. It was a strange period when a sense of anarchy pervaded society, and even the world of cinema reflected that aspect, as we saw a surge in characters that were labelled as anti-heroes, harboring anti-establishment sentiments, being written by the filmmakers. This was the same period when Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver was released, and it had a very strong link with the Son of Sam murders.

The 1978 controversial Mondo horror film Faces of Death is receiving a reboot. The film's star, Dacre Montogomery, recently teased its contents.

The original Faces of Death has a reputation as a deeply disturbing horror classic. The film was directed by John Alan Schwartz, who then went by the pseudonyms of Conan Le Claire and Alan Black. It is a documentary-style movie that showcases both staged and actual footage of gruesome death and its aftermath. Montgomery spoke a bit about the upcoming film in an interview with Collider.

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At the Toronto International Film Festival, Collider spoke to Montgomery about his other film, Went Up the Hill, before he was asked about Faces of Death. When pressed for details about the reboot,...

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Popular Hallmark stars Jodie Sweetin and Corey Sevier are an unexpected match in The Heiress and the Handyman. Airing as part of Hallmark Channel’s Fall into Love programming event, an heiress and what she thinks is a handyman team up, leading to romance.

Read on to find out more about the romantic movie, its plot and its cast, and see beautiful images taken on the set.

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According to the official synopsis, a case of mistaken identity leads to romance when Jodie Sweetin and Corey Sevier meet up. Wealthy heiress June Waltshire (Sweetin) is relaxing at one of her family’s six-star hotels in Greece when she suddenly finds out that her fortune has disappeared in a cryptocurrency crisis.

The further you look back on history, the more you realize that the separation of fact and fiction is a relatively recent phenomenon. For the longest time, there wasn’t much of a difference between storytellers and historians (just look at how many people still think the Trojan War was a real event), and while this skewed perception of reality can have devastating consequences in the modern interconnected world, I think there’s some wisdom to be found in extracting a dose of truth from obvious hoaxes.

When it comes to media, one of the most enduring examples of this is Found Footage cinema, a whole genre that relies on our willingness to accept that what we see on-screen is real even if we don’t actually believe in ghosts, demons and witches. This decidedly modern form of filmmaking may have been popularized in the digital age, but the seeds...

Where do you go when you've exhausted your horror collection? When you feel like you've seen everything, and another viewing of Saw just won't do? The answer, of course, is mondo horror favorite Faces of Death. Both the 1978 original and a slew of follow-up films under the same infamous name have captured the morbid fascination of generations — more for their shock value than outright quality. Featuring a pathologist named Francis B. Gröss (Michael Carr) as he takes the audience through his collection of deadly footage, the real draw of Faces of Death, as many an edgy suburban kid knows, is that the series is real. That's right: through decades of changing morality, the wicked rumors of Faces of Death's veracity have persisted. But just how real is real? Is it all fake blood, or have we just witnessed a murder on tape? As it turns out, the truth lies...

At the end of the 1970s - following the success of horror classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Carrie - a new type of production came from the spooky scary genre. Titled Faces of Death, the movie was a morbidly curious look into the moments leading up to, during, and following death. Considered to be one of the most iconic mondo projects of all time, audiences follow along with pathologist Francis B. Gröss (Michael Carr) in the John Alan Schwartz-helmed film as he shows shocking imagery of all things death related including suicide, murders, cannibalistic kills, animal deaths, and more. As one could imagine, the movie received a solid amount of pushback from the censorship powers that be, which only made it all the more interesting to its ever-growing cult fandom. Now, more than four decades later, director Daniel Goldhaber (How to Blow Up a Pipeline) is resurrecting...

In a world where superheroes, sequels, horror (thankfully) and anything IP related are king, it seems as though the risqué original thriller has gone by the wayside. Over the past ten years or so you’d be hard pressed to find anything other than The Invisible Man, You Should Have Left, Gerald’s Game, Gone Girl, or Knock, Knock that really fit the mold (albeit with some finagling) and each of those is either tied to popular literature or skews closer to the horror genre.

But the original thriller thrived in the 1990s. Also thriving during this beautiful time in Hollywood were action movies featuring two adversaries face to face on the poster and/or movie cover. Movies like Face/Off, Point Break, Demolition Man, Universal Soldier, and Broken Arrow. 1992’s Unlawful Entry combines both of these elements with two heaping sides of the stalker and slasher horror subgenres. Which is why...

Kurt Russell has had a successful career as an action star, with many of his greatest and most famous credits falling within this genre. Some of Kurt Russell's best action movies cross over into other genres, such as horror, superhero, and Western, making for an outstanding and diverse list. While not all of Kurt Russell's best movies are critically acclaimed, they are highly entertaining and have a dedicated following, solidifying his status as a beloved action hero.

Kurt Russell is one of the foremost action stars in modern cinema and has appeared in some thrilling and spectacular movies throughout his career. Russell has acted since the early 1960s and made his big screen debut with an uncredited role in the Elvis Presley musical It Happened at the World's Fair. Afterward, he became a Disney movie star and then a comedic action hero through his many collaborations with John Carpenter, and...

The cast of the Faces of Death remake in the works at Legendary Entertainment continues to fill out, as now Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You) has been announced as the latest actor to join the film. No details have been revealed about the character Fowler is playing, as plot details are still being kept under lock and key by the studio. But we know who else is starring in the film, as Fowler joins previously announced cast members Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria), Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell), and Charli Xcx.

Fowler's casting comes just ahead of the release of the comedy-horror film The Blackening, which will be put into theaters by Lionsgate on June 16. The actor's voice can also be heard in the new animated Marvel series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Some of his other credits include starring in the CBS series Superior Donuts...

Legendary Entertainment has enlisted actor-comedian Jermaine Fowler to join the cast of the upcoming remake of 1978’s mondo horror film Faces of Death.

Per Deadline, Fowler, who gained recognition for his performances in comedies like Sorry to Bother You and Coming 2 America, will be starring opposite Dacre Montgomery and Barbie Ferreira in the Faces of the Death remake. Saved by the Bell’s Josie Totah and Grammy nominee Charlie Xcx have also been cast in the project, which is currently in production in Louisiana. Further details about their characters are still being kept under wraps.

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The Faces of Death remake marks Fowler’s latest project in the horror genre as he will next be seen in Lionsgate’s The Blackening, which will debut in theaters on June 16. His on-screen career started with appearances in...

The Faces of Death remake has now cast stars from both Netflix's Stranger Things and HBO's Euphoria. The original 1978 Faces of Death, from writer-director John Alan Schwartz, was an anthology-style film hosted by Michael Carr as pathologist Francis B. Gröss that purported to show real-life footage of shocking deaths. The amount to which the footage was real has been questioned throughout the years, with many but not all scenes later having been revealed to be fake, a controversy that also plagued its three sequels. Despite its divisiveness, the film was a hit, earning $35 million off its $450,000 budget.

Per Collider, the upcoming Faces of Death remake has cast Dacre Montgomery and Barbie Ferreira. Both are best known for their recent teen roles, with Montgomery playing Max's bullying older brother Billy on Stranger Things and Ferreira playing body positivity advocate Kat Hernandez on Euphoria. They are the first stars to be announced for the film,...

Midge Maisel’s farewell tour will get underway in six weeks.

Prime Video has announced that the fifth and final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will launch on Friday, April 14 with a three-episode premiere. Season 5’s remaining six episodes will then be released weekly, culminating with the series finale on May 26.

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Horror has always been one of the most controversial film genres. From the silent frights of "Nosferatu" to Wes Craven's 1970s shockers, horror films are the harbingers of moral panic and audience debate. Though American horror films have spurred plenty of moral outrage on our shores, it's not common for films to be banned outright in the United States. However, that doesn't mean that American horror films receive the same reception in other counties.

Countries have specific rules regarding censorship and movie ratings, leading some to ban certain American horror films for violating federal guidelines. Horror movies tend to be the most censored genre because of their depiction of violence (as well as sex and nudity), making some horror films unsuitable for viewing due to their explicit depictions of depravity. Censorship like this comes from ethical debates about whether or not pop culture influences the masses: Can violent movies make people more violent?...

Patrick Haggerty, the trailblazer widely regarded as the first openly-gay country singer, died on Monday surrounded by his husband and children, according to a statement on his band’s Instagram page. He was 78.

“This morning, we lost a great soul. Rip Patrick Haggerty. After suffering a stroke several weeks ago, he was able to spend his final days at home surrounded by his kids and lifelong husband, Jb. Love, and solidarity,” reads the statement.

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Lavender Country was the band’s name as well as the title of its debut album. The self-titled 1973 album is the first known gay-themed album in country music history, according to Journal of County Music. With tracks like “Come Out Singing” and “Cryin’ These C*cks***ing Tears,” it was funded and released by Gay Community Social Services of Seattle. Just 1,000 copies of the...

Patrick Haggerty, the leader of the pioneering queer country-folk musical project Lavender Country, died Monday from complications related to a stroke he had suffered in September. Haggerty’s manager confirmed the singer’s death. He was 78.

Born Sept. 27, 1944, Haggerty grew up in a large family in Port Angeles, Washington, the son of a dairy farmer and homemaker. He has noted in interviews that his parents were both accepting of his sexuality, though the rest of the world hadn’t yet caught up — in 1966, he was discharged from the Peace Corps for being gay.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is clearly taking a “go big or go home” approach to its fifth and final season. To wit: The Prime Video smash held its final table read at New York’s Steiner Studios on Wednesday and it’d be an understatement to say no expense was spared.

The streamer’s Head of Awards, Debra Birnbaum, shared on Instagram Thursday a collection of photos from the grandiose event, which featured an opulent banquet hall-type setting and culminated with a fireworks display.

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English professional golfer, Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston, has teamed up with the fast-growing audio-on-demand network Crowd Network to launch his first ever podcast: Beef’s Golf Club.

The podcast sees Beef and his co-presenter John Robins - an amateur golfer, podcaster and comedian, lift the lid on the world of professional golfing, to fans of the sport and those new to the game. From handling the pressure of a first tee shot at a major, to how you put a charge on down the stretch, and everything in between, Beef and John reveal what it’s really like inside the minds of the world’s best players and playing both as a professional and an amateur.

Listeners can expect to hear from a range of guests on the podcast, including pro-golfers, comedians and TV personalities, as well as those who know and love their golf. Beef, John and their guests will...

A new episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? video series has just been released, and in this one the movie we’re looking into is the infamous 1978 box office hit Faces of Death (get it Here). A movie that mixes footage that was shot by writer/director John Alan Schwartz (credited as Conan Le Cilaire and Alan Black) with actual footage of real human and animal deaths. To hear more about Faces of Death, check out the video embedded above.

In Faces of Death,

a coroner (Dr. Francis B. Gröss) shows scenes of gruesome deaths from around the world both real and re-enacted.

Dr. Francis B. Gröss was played by Michael Carr.

This is what the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie series is all about:

Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites,...

As predicted long ago, Faces of Death is getting rebooted for the 21st century at Legendary Entertainment. The studio has reportedly just picked up the rights to the faux documentary that was originally released in 1978 and became a cult hit at the time, spawning multiple sequels in the following years. Because many video rental stores refused to carry the movie, it was frequently passed around on bootleg VHS throughout the 1980s and 90s.

For Legendary's reboot, Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, the team behind 2018's Cam, will respectively write and direct the new movie. Susan Montford and Don Murphy of Angry Films are producing, and Cory Kaplan will co-produce with Rick Benattar of BT Productions executive producing. John Burrud, who produced the original Faces of Death movies, is also on board to work on the reboot.

Per THR, the plot of the new movie "revolves around a female moderator of a YouTube-like website,...

“Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness” is streaming now on Netflix

Netflix dropped its four-part limited series “Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness” on Wednesday, and it’s chock-full of new and disturbing details in the Son of Sam serial killer case.

Produced by reporter Joshua Zeman, “Sons of Sam” centers on investigative journalist Maury Terry and his decades-long search for what he believed to be the truth behind the murders of six people in New York City during the summer of 1977. Namely, Terry believed that convicted murderer David Berkowitz didn’t act alone in the slayings and was part of a satanic cult that ordered him to kill his victims.

Each episode of “Sons of Sam” tracks Terry’s journey through more than two decades of research into the Son of Sam case — an investigation that took him from New York to South Dakota and eventually (as...

Based on the works of journalist Maury Terry, Netflix's The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness looks beyond David Berkowitz for the shooting murders that unfolded from 1976 to 1977 in New York City. Per the title, Terry's theory was that there wasn't just one Son of Sam, but multiple. Ultimately, Terry believed that the so-called Sons of Sam could be traced back to a cult called The Children, which was connected to the likes of Scientology and Charles Manson's Family. But how did that connection come about? Here's what you need to know.

While looking into Berkowitz, Terry connected him to John and Michael Carr, brothers who were literally sons to a man named Sam. The journalist strongly believed that these brothers were involved in the Sons of Sam killings and looked further into their past connections. He found that the siblings had been linked to the Church of Scientology in their past.

From the get-go, it's clear that the focus of Netflix's true-crime docuseries The Sons of Sam is investigative journalist Maury Terry, but just exactly who was Terry? We'd have to first talk about David Berkowitz, the infamous Son of Sam. From 1976 to 1977, a terror was unleashed in New York City when someone who dubbed themselves the Son of Sam started shooting in random places with a .44 caliber gun. The police eventually caught Berkowitz, who immediately confessed to killing six people and injuring seven others that year. However, Terry would make a career out of trying to prove that Berkowitz did not, in fact, act alone and that he was part of a widespread satanic cult linked to Scientology and Charles Manson.

When the Berkowitz case cropped up in 1976, Terry was in his early 30s working as an in-house editor at Ibm in Yorktown. He previously worked as a cub...

Netflix's latest true-crime project takes another look at one of New York City's deadliest murder sprees. The docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness re-examines the David Berkowitz case that terrorized New York City in the '70s. While Berkowitz was held responsible for the Son of Sam shootings, investigative journalist Maury Terry believed that there was more to this case. So what happened to David Berkowitz after he was caught? Berkowitz did, in fact, talk with Terry on two occasions after he was convicted. Today, he is still serving six consecutive life sentences in prison, where he has taken to the Christian faith.

What Were the Son of Sam Killings?

From 1976 to 1977, terror took over New York City when a mysterious killer started shooting in random places with a .44-caliber revolver. The shooter killed six people and wounded seven others before the NYPD could close in on the case.

Netflix's new docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness takes on the infamous case of David Berkowitz, the 24-year-old postal worker from Yonkers, NY, who was convicted for killing six people between 1976 and 1977. The true-crime series focuses primarily on the records and investigations of journalist Maury Terry as he pushed against the single-shooter narrative that the police and media presented. While the NYPD stuck to the story that Berkowitz committed his crimes alone, Terry believed that Berkowitz had other accomplices and was part of a more widespread satanic cult. In interviews, Berkowitz even confirmed some of Terry's theories.

But just who was David Berkowitz, and what were his crimes? Before you delve into The Sons of Sam, here's what you need to know about Berkowitz and his infamous "Son of Sam" case.

Berkowitz's Early Life

Berkowitz was born out of wedlock on June 1, 1953, in Brooklyn and put...

“There’s obviously enough doubt to suggest that it’s worth looking into,” Zeman says

Netflix’s “Sons of Sam: a Descent Into Darkness” docuseries begins streaming May 5, and it tells the story of true crime reporter Maury Terry’s crusade to prove to the world that convicted serial killer David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz didn’t act alone in killing six people in the summer of 1977.

“Sons of Sam” director Joshua Zeman told TheWrap he believes there’s evidence that Berkowitz wasn’t the only killer responsible for the New York City slayings in the summer of 1977.

“There’s a preponderance of evidence to suggest that Berkowitz didn’t act alone,” Zeman said, adding that he knows the names of some potential suspects but is keeping them anonymous.

“I have been told the names of those individuals, some of whom are still alive. So, you know, that remains to be seen…...

On Thursday night, one of the off-campus AmericanaFest offerings is “Queer Roots,” a new showcase organized with the goal of celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities represented across the roots music community.

Sponsored in association with Rolling Stone Country, the Change Project, BriteHeart, and Hearth PR, the event features a range of new talent, including Little Bandit, Mercy Bell, Eve Sheldon and Amythyst Kiah. It also includes Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty, a pioneer of using country music to further the rights of the queer community whose 1973 album...

Make room for Mota, the man from Mars! Mota enlists a scientist and two thugs to lay the groundwork for a full-scale invasion from space. Only the heroes of Fowler Aerial Patrol can save us! Republic's serial adventure ought to carry an "80% Recycled" label -- even the flying disc craft is second-hand, bearing a Japanese Rising Sun flag from a previous wartime serial. Flying Disc Man from Mars Blu-ray Olive Films 1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 169 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring Walter Reed, Lois Collier, Gregory Gaye (or Gay), James Craven, Harry Lauter, Richard Irving, Sandy Sanders, Michael Carr. Cinematography Walter Strenge Film Editors Cliff Bell, Sam Starr Original Music Stanley Wilson Special Effects Howard and Theodore Lydecker Written by Ronald Davidson Produced by Franklin Adreon Directed by Fred C. Brannon

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Looking at the gloriously redundant Flying Disc Man from Mars,...