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Buckle up for a modern cult classic that I think many horror fans have yet to see. Now on Screambox is Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund’s Wither, an extremely bloody scary tale of demonic possession that plays as a Swedish tribute to Sam Raimi’s horror classic, Evil Dead.

In the film, a couple set off to a cabin in the vast Swedish woodlands to have a fun holiday with their friends… but under the floorboards awaits an evil from Sweden’s dark past.

“The dazed young men and women soon mount their attack that includes decapitations, dismemberment, spurting blood, flailing axes and the kind of gore one does associate with Swedish cinema!”

Check out Wither, which Meagan Navarro calls “gloriously gory”, right now on Screambox alongside Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Blood Feast (and its remake), the Pet Sematary-inspired Lizzie Lazarus, several Giallo movies, the newly added and incredibly timely Street Trash remake,...

New month, new horror recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. This installment features five selections reflecting the month of August 2024.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include a horror take on a classic fairy tale, a creature-feature, and more.

Dead Kids (1981)

Dead Kids a.k.a. Strange Behavior (1981)

Directed by Michael Laughlin.

While College Colors Day (August 30) is a time to be proud of your alma mater, the students and faculty of Galesburg University likely feel less spirited after the events of Dead Kids. In this sci-fi/horror chiller, college experiments on a Midwestern community’s young people result in murder. Several, in fact. The guinea pigs’ homicidal impulses amount to a few rather creepy sequences in this “bad science” slasher.

Dead Kids, also known as Strange Behavior, is...

Way back in 2011, Sony Pictures acquired a spec script titled The Big Stone Grid, which was written by S. Craig Zahler – who is best known these days for writing and directing the films Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete. As of early 2012, Michael Mann was in talks to work on script revisions with Zahler and to direct the film. The Mann take on the material didn’t come to fruition, and four years later the project moved over to Lotus Entertainment, with Pierre Morel on board to direct. Morel couldn’t get it into production, either. Eight more years down the line, World of Reel reports that Zahler is now set to direct the film himself.

Part of the reason why Zahler has gone six years without directing a new film is the fact that the project he was pursuing, Hug Chickenpenny (an adaptation of...

Doktor Death, the second spin-off in Full Moon’s Puppet Master series, aims low and hits high with its heightened addition to the small-scale horror franchise.

The killer doll genre has been around for decades, but it’s currently in the middle of a Renaissance and there’s never been a better time for the Puppet Master franchise to indulge in wild spin-off experiments. It’s been three years since the release of the last Puppet Master spin-off, Blade: The Iron Cross, and in that time there’s now two seasons of an exceptional Chucky TV series and movies like M3GAN that have pushed horror’s killer doll subgenre to exciting and challenging new places. In some respects these evolutions make something like Puppet Master: Doktor Death feel especially lackluster and irrelevant. That being said, no one who sees Doktor Death is expecting an Annabelle or M3GAN level spectacle.

Full...

Cora Trailer — Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund‘s Cora (2023) movie trailer has been released. The Cora trailer stars Felicia Rylander, Thomas Lennon, and Michael Pare. Crew “Produced by David Liljeblad. With VFX by Sonny Laguna.” Plot Synopsis Cora‘s plot synopsis: “Cora is set decades into the future, after a deadly mist has covered earth, effectively wiping out most [...]

Continue reading: Cora (2023) Movie Trailer: Felicia Rylander Tries to Reverse an Apocalyptic Mist that has Destroyed Humanity...

Stockholm Syndrome Film, the studio behind Wither, and the directing duo of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, announced today their next offering, the apocalyptic sci-fi Cora.

Cora is set decades into the future after a deadly mist covers the earth, effectively wiping out most of humanity.

The film follows Cora, a woman working for an organization trying to reverse the effects of the apocalypse.

Directed by Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund, the sci-fi thriller stars Felicia Rylander as Cora, with appearances from Thomas Lennon (Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich) and Michael Paré.

It will be completed this February.

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Manchester-based genre festival to offer horror features and shorts for the duration of quarantine.

UK genre film festival Grimmfest is to launch a streaming platform today (April 20) that will offer horror films and shorts for free during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Grimmfest TV will launch with several features and around 25 short films, most of which have screened and won awards at the Manchester-based festival. The collection will be made available to watch on the festival’s website and at least two titles are set to be added weekly for the duration of the ongoing quarantine.

With the future of its next edition uncertain,...

Sonny Laguna is a Sweden-based director who began his career with a number of super low budget films (costing between $5 and $10K) with his co-director Tommy Wiklund. He eventually got on the radar of S. Craig Zahler as he was writing Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. Zahler and the team at Fangoria were so […]

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Stars: Udo Kier, Thomas Lennon, Alex Beh, Barbara Crampton, Nelson Franklin, Skeeta Jenkins, Michael Paré, Jenny Pellicer, Charlyne Yi | Written by S. Craig Zahler | Directed by Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund

[Note: With the film finally getting a physical release in the UK, here's a reposting of my review of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich from last years festival run]

Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet in his deceased brother’s room, he decides to sell the doll for some quick cash. Girl-next-door Ashley and and comic book pal Markowitz join Edgar for a doomed road trip to an auction at a convention celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets at the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that’s motivated by an evil as old as time.

I’m going to be honest, there’s absolutely no way this review is unbiased.

Grimmfest Films will develop, produce and part-finance features and streaming content.

Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones, directors of Manchester-based UK genre film festival Grimmfest, are launching a production company called Grimmfest Films.

The company will develop, produce and part-finance feature films and streaming content from filmmakers who have premiered work in the festival. This year’s event runs from October 3-6.

Grimmfest Films is financially supported by M2 Media Post Inc, providing an equity fund to invest in post-production. Further funding announcements are pending.

The management team includes executive producer Sarada McDermott McDermott’s credits include co-producer roles on Fighting With My Family and Tolkien.

Happy (Good) Friday, everyone! We have another trio of terror-filled short films on tap for you to enjoy today as part of Daily Dead’s ongoing Salute Your Shorts series, including the phenomenally creepy The Dollmaker from Al Lougher, Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund’s Mystery Box, and the revenge-driven Casting Couch by Matt Thiesen and Justin Lee.

Enjoy!

The Dollmaker (Directed by Al Lougher)

Synopsis: A grieving mother latches on to a magical surrogate for her lost child. But small miracles come with big consequences.

Mystery Box (Directed by Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund)

Synopsis: A young woman named Moa is surprised to find a strange box tangled in her fishing nets while on vacation at a cabin outside Stockholm. She takes the box back to the cabin, storing it in a shed until she can dispose of it properly. Later that night, however, she hears a sound outside...

Exclusive: Unannounced, the fledgling distribution label of former Works UK CEO Laurence Gornall, has picked up UK rights to the S. Craig Zahler-scripted comedy horror Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich.

The reimagining of the 1989 cult film, in which all hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets up for auction at a convention, was written by Zahler (Bone Tomahawk), co-directed by Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund (We Are Monsters), and produced by Dallas Sonnier (Bone Tomahawk).

Pic debuted stateside earlier this year at the Overbrook festival and had its UK premiere at Frightfest, which was attended by star Barbara Crampton. Udo Kier, Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi and Michael Pare also star.

Unannounced, which struck the deal with Cinestate, is planning a multiple-city UK theatrical release in Q2, 2019 and will present the film under the Fangoria banner, which was recently acquired by Cinestate’s Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk.

A reboot of the now almost three decade-old Puppet Master franchise – a series which totals a mammoth 12 films at last count – The Littlest Reich will undoubtedly pique the interest of those outside of the original fanbase due to the pedigree of writing talent attached. It’s from the mind of one S. Craig Zahler, responsible for the double whammy of Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Bone Tomahawk (both if which he helmed and wrote). Zahler’s particular brand of witty wordplay, jet black humour and wincingly Ott gore is evident throughout The Littlest Reich. The film has been shepherded to the screen by the production arm of the recently resurrected Fangora brand, and like Blumhouse, there’s been real care here to ensure that horror aficionados haven’t been short-changed by an empty cash-grab exercise.

The great Udo Kier appears in the film’s 80s-set prologue as disfigured Nazi and...

Out tomorrow on DVD, Blu-ray and even 4K Ultra HD is Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund‘s Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, the reimagining of the Full Moon Features cult classic that stars Udo Kier (Suspiria, Blade, Brawl in Cell Block 99), Thomas Lennon (TV’s “Reno 911!”), Jenny Pellicer (TV’s “Cocaine Godmother”), Nelson Franklin (TV’s “Veep”), Charlyne Yi (This is 40), Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers), and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, […]...

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is coming home this fall, and now you can own every gory bit of viscera that this mean machine sprays across the screen in glorious shades of crimson red, which will look even brighter and scarier in 4K Ultra HD.

That's right! Rlje Films has announced that they will release the Fangoria horror film Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Uhd/Blu-ray combo on Sept. 25, 2018. The movie was written by S. Craig Zahler, who is becoming quite notorious in horror circles, delivering the hard-hitting Western Bone Tomahawk, which left many jaws on the floor. And he's behind the Vince Vaughn thriller Brawl in Cell Block 99, which gutted many with its devastating blows.

Directing this new Puppet Master movie is Sonny Laguna, who is best known for his films Wither, Animalistic, and Blood Runs Cold. He worked alongside partner Tommy Wiklund,...

Stars: Hanna Oldenburg, Ralf Beck, Torbjörn Andersson, Niki Nordenskjöld, Cheryl Murphy, Johanna Wagrell | Written by Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund, David Liljeblad | Directed by Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund

Animalistic comes from the directorial team of Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wirklund. A duo whose have decent form when it comes to genre filmmaking. Their previous film, Wither was a nod to the Evil Dead movies; and Laguna was also behind the Superb Swedish winter-set slasher film Blood Runs Cold, one of my favourite films of 2011 (was it really that long ago?). The pair were also in the directors chair for the recent Puppet Master reboot/redux, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich – which is undoubtedly one of the reasons Wild Eye Releasing chose to distribute this particular movie right now… after all, this film, under the title We Are Monsters, originally debuted in 2015 across the rest of the world.

Animalistic tells the story of Emma,...

Charles Band set a precedent when he founded Full Moon Features over thirty years ago, creating a narrative blueprint that many modern horror filmmakers adhere to, and was an enduring and provocative figure during the VHS Boom of the ’80s and early ’90s. When Epic Entertainment bought the bankrupt Empire Pictures (Empire produced Ghoulies and Re-Animator), Charles, with an eye for the cultural merits of truly great cinema, founded Full Moon Features. Already familiar with studio filmmaking and the machinery surrounding it, including distribution, Band now had complete control.

The polymath (Band was involved to a greater or lesser extent in several other entertainment subsidiaries) went on to spawn cult movie franchises such as Puppet Master, The Gingerdead Man, and Subspecies. Most readers will remember Blockbuster Video putting out most of Band’s catalogues in their “straight-to-b-movie” bargain bins. Horror fans were enamoured with VHS covers featuring lurid images of interdimensional tentacled sex fiends,...

Grimmfest 2018, a celebration of the horror genre, sweeps over Manchester, England for the tenth time starting on October 4th and the lineup is pretty exciting. The recently revealed lineup features a fully remastered screening of Splintered (from Grimmfest festival directors Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones), the regional premiere of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, the horror anthology Nightmare Cinema, a Barbara Crampton Lifetime Achievement Award presentation, and more!

Press Release: This year, Grimmfest, Manchester's Festival of Horror, Cult and Fantastic Film, celebrates its 10th anniversary. Get ready for decimation, with the darkest, deadliest line-up yet of wild, weird, witty, thrilling, chilling, blood-spilling movies, every one of them a premiere or cult classic of one kind or another, many with cast and crew in attendance.

But Grimmfest will also be looking back, a little nervously over its shoulder, perhaps, at a decade spent delivering top-quality cinematic carnage to the movie-goers of Manchester,...

Starring Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi, Michael Pare, Barbara Crampton, Udo Kier Directed By Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund Written By Craig Zahler When Edgar decides to sell a nefarious looking puppet at a convention, all hell breaks loose when the puppets come alive and go on a killing spree. Available In …

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The momentum was building fast heading into Day 2 of Arrow Video FrightFest, as horror icon Barbara Crampton swooped into town to introduce the European Premieres of Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund’s Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich as well as Brad Baruh’s Dead Night. Elsewhere boasted the world premiere of Jon Knautz’s The Cleaning Lady and the UK premiere of Pascal Laugier’s brutal Incident in a Ghost Land. Friday also saw the festival’s only Asian feature film, Shinichiro Ueda’s riotously entertaining One Cut of the Dead, take its UK bow. Over at the Prince Charles, the legendary Scala Cinema was lovingly celebrated by former programmer Jane Giles, in conversation with Alan Jones. The festival had planned to screen a double bill of Julien Temple’s...

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Thomas Lennon has had himself quite the varied career. Dating back to his MTV sketch comedy series The State, to his days as officer Jim Dangle on Reno 911! and his many various movie roles over the years, he's kept very busy for the last two and half decades. Sometimes his movie roles are small, but in massive projects, such as his brief turn in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Other times, he gets to be the star of the show in a smaller but compelling movie. Such is the case with his latest work, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich.

Puppet Master is an enduring franchise that got its start back in 1989 and, eleven sequels later, the thing was still going as of 2017 with Puppet Master: Axis Termination. Up to that point, the franchise had never been rebooted, which is pretty amazing for a horror franchise that had been running that long.

The S. Craig Zahler penned reboot Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich - now out in theaters and available on VOD and Digital HD - goes back to basics with its setting: a bunch of people in a hotel become the potential victims of a group of murderous living puppets. That classic storyline traces back to 1989, when the original Puppetmaster came out; though this time Andre Toulon’s puppets are actually Nazis and crazier than ever. Enter Tate Steinsiek, the new puppet and creature designer who, in collaboration with directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund, managed to deliver some of the most memorable killings in the history of Charles Band and Full Moon Features’ iconic franchise. To find out how he did it, read on... ScreenAnarchy:...

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Following its well-received festival run and its recent release in theaters and on VOD platforms (including a live online movie night party hosted by Fangoria), Cinestate's Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (written by Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler) is coming to Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on September 25th, giving those Toulon puppets plenty of time to make house calls before the Halloween season!

Press Release: Los Angeles – Rlje Films (Nasdaq: Rlje) will release the Fangoria horror film Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Uhd/Blu-ray combo on Sept. 25, 2018. Written by S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99)and co-directed by Sonny Laguna (Wither, Animalistic, Blood Runs Cold) and Tommy Wiklund (Wither, Animalistic, Madness), Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich stars Thomas Lennon (I Love You, Man, “Reno 911!”), Jenny Pellicer (“State of Affairs”, “The Bridge”), Nelson Franklin (“Black-ish,” “New Girl”), Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up,...

Event will take place on September 29 and 30.

Fractured Visions Film Festival, a two-day event showcasing horror cinema from across the world, has revealed the official selection for its inaugural event.

Taking place on September 29 and 30 at Tramshed in Cardiff, the official selection includes three UK premieres and five Welsh premieres.

Titles chosen include the UK premiere of Eitan Gafny’s Children Of The Fall, which premiered at Tallinn Black Nights. The film is about a young immigrant arriving in Israel who looks to convert to Judaism, but soon realises the local Kibbutz members don’t take kindly to foreigners.

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Odds are, if you're old enough to remember wandering the aisles of a Blockbuster or your favorite local video store, you remember seeing near countless VHS or DVD covers for horror movies that never made it to theaters, but existed, it would seem, for the sole purpose of tempting people's curiosity. The Puppet Master franchise was a major staple in that particular department and one that is still going strong today. Now, for the first time since its inception, it's been totally rebooted with Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. There may no longer be video stores with shelves for this movie to grace. However, if you're a horror fan who isn't easily offended and can get on board with something that can only be described as delightfully depraved, seek this out.

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich centers on a man named Edgar, played by Reno 911 star Thomas Lennon who, despite...

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich will turn some heads, but it will surely turn more stomachs. These feel like the most crystalline goals of writer S. Craig Zahler (writer-director of Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99) with his reimagining of the Puppet Master franchise, helmed by directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund. In this alternate history, puppet crafter Andre Toulon (played by midnight-circuit specialist Udo Kier) is no longer a foe to the Nazi regime, but a Nazi himself. So when comic book creator and recent divorcee Edgar (Thomas Lennon) moves back home and finds a mysterious puppet, he heads to a convention celebrating the death of the infamous Nazi to sell it. Sure enough, Toulon’s puppet army are Nazis too, and unlike their master, very much animated. So, we have mechanical murderers in a film whose mechanics are all based on murder.

Yes, The Littlest Reich...

After an extremely short sprint on the festival circuit Rlj Entertainment is bringing the latest chapter of the Puppet Master franchise, The Littlest Reich, to Us cinemas, VOD and Digital HD on August 17th.    A red band trailer was released today. Check it out below.    When Edgar decides to sell a nefarious looking puppet at a convention, all hell breaks loose when the puppets come alive and go on a killing spree.   Puppet Master The Littlest Reich stars Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi, Michael Pare, Barbara Crampton, and Udo Kier   Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund (Wither) directed from a script written by S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99).  ...

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We're used to seeing trailers for movies months before they arrive in theaters or on VOD, but the folks at Rlje Films really went down to the wire for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. The film from directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund has been tearing up the festival circuit and will finally arrive on VOD and in select theaters beginning August 17th, but we're just getting our first look at what's in store today. The Nsfw Red Band trailer is definitely not for those with delicate sensibilities!

"Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet in his deceased brother's room, he decides to sell the doll for some quick cash. Girl-next-door Ashley and and comic book pal Markowitz join Edgar for a doomed road trip to an auction at a convention celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders.

Following its well-received screening at the 2018 Overlook Film Festival, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (written by Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler) was acquired for North American distribution by Rlje Films. It's been playing the festival circuit and will be getting a Us theatrical and VOD release on August 17th. Having seen the movie at Fantasia, I can say that this movie has some of the most insane and bloody kills ever put on screen, and if you want to see some of that for yourself ahead of August 17th, take a look at the newly released red band trailer:

"The reimagining of the Full Moon Features cult classic stars Thomas Lennon (TV’s “Reno 911!”), Jenny Pellicer (TV’s “Cocaine Godmother”), Nelson Franklin (TV’s “Veep”), Charlyne Yi (This is 40), Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers), and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator). The iconic Udo Kier (Brawl in Cell Block 99) stars as the titular character.

Those murderous marionettes are back in Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. This is somehow the 13th entry in the Puppet Master franchise, because you just can’t contain such an incredible story into one film. The latest Puppet Master flick hails from directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund, with a script by Bone Tomahawk scribe S. Craig Zahler. Watch the Puppet Master: The Littlest […]

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"Vile and wicked." Cinestate has debuted the first official trailer for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, an updated reboot of the Puppetmaster horror film. The original Puppetmaster was released in 1989, about crazy animated, murderous puppets. This new film features a screenplay written by S. Craig Zahler (director of Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99), along with some crazy new puppets, including a ringleader known as the "Littlest Reich". All hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets up for auction at a convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that's motivated by an evil as old as time. The film stars Michael Paré, Thomas Lennon, Charlyne Yi, Udo Kier, Nelson Franklin, Matthias Hues, Jenny Pellicer, and Barbara Crampton. This does look totally weird and violent and crazy, so have fun. Official trailer for Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund's Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, on YouTube...

Stars: Udo Kier, Thomas Lennon, Alex Beh, Barbara Crampton, Nelson Franklin, Skeeta Jenkins, Michael Paré, Jenny Pellicer, Charlyne Yi | Written by S. Craig Zahler | Directed by Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund

Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet in his deceased brother’s room, he decides to sell the doll for some quick cash. Girl-next-door Ashley and and comic book pal Markowitz join Edgar for a doomed road trip to an auction at a convention celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets at the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that’s motivated by an evil as old as time.

I’m going to be honest, there’s absolutely no way this review is unbiased. In the slightest. You see, I’ve...

The Puppet Master franchise is back in a big way, with a terrifying new installment from Rlje Films, Cinestate and most important of all, the resurrected Fangoria, who have moved beyond the magazine to producer their own movies. This is also coming straight from the demented mind that created Bone Tomahawk and one of the producers of The Meg. Today, we have a blood-soaked first trailer for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, and it's going to grab you by the lungs and give a good squeeze till your wheezing on the floor begging for mercy. One thing's for sure, they've managed to capture that old Full Moon magic, and it might have you feeling just a bit nostalgic while it stiffens your spine.

"Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet in his deceased brother's room, he...

The Puppet Master franchise is back in a big way, with a terrifying new installment from Rlje Films, Cinestate and most important of all, the resurrected Fangoria, who have moved beyond the magazine to producer their own movies. This is also coming straight from the demented mind that created Bone Tomahawk and one of the producers of The Meg. Today, we have a blood-soaked first trailer for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, and it's going to grab you by the lungs and give a good squeeze till your wheezing on the floor begging for mercy. One thing's for sure, they've managed to capture that old Full Moon magic, and it might have you feeling just a bit nostalgic while it stiffens your spine.

"Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet in his deceased brother's room, he...

Following its well-received screening at the 2018 Overlook Film Festival, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (written by Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler) was acquired for North American distribution by Rlje Films, and after screening at Fantasia, the film's list of theatrical screening locations has now been revealed.

The list of theatrical screenings list comes straight from Cinestate's official Twitter account, and we have the image and the previous press release below with full details. Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich will be released in Us theaters on August 17th, the same day it comes to VOD:

From the Press Release: "The reimagining of the Full Moon Features cult classic stars Thomas Lennon (TV’s “Reno 911!”), Jenny Pellicer (TV’s “Cocaine Godmother”), Nelson Franklin (TV’s “Veep”), Charlyne Yi (This is 40), Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers), and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator). The iconic Udo Kier (Brawl in Cell Block 99) stars as the titular character.

As a lifelong fan of the Puppet Master franchise, there was probably no movie I was looking forward to more at this year’s Cinepocalypse genre film festival than Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, technically the 12th Puppet Master movie but one of only two (alongside Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys) to take place outside of the continuity established in the original Full Moon franchise. My excitement level wasn’t hurt by the fact that the movie has a script by S. Craig Zahler, a score by Fabio Frizzi, and a cast that includes Barbara Crampton, Tom Lennon, Michael Paré, and Udo Kier. This promised to be the best Puppet Master yet, and my anticipation could not have been any higher.

And then I saw the movie... That’s too harsh. It’s my own fault for being really hyped up about the movie, which has sounded so fascinating on...

Following its well-received screening at the 2018 Overlook Film Festival, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (written by Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler) was acquired for North American distribution by Rlje Films. We knew that an August date was being targeted and now you can mark your calendars for August 17th!

This confirmation comes straight from the official Twitter account for the new Puppet Master movie, but we're still waiting on details regarding screening locations. Rlje acquired North American rights, so it's likely this date only applies to the United States and Canada.

We have more information on the new movie and recent acquisition below, and we'll provide additional screening details as soon as they become available:

Rlje Films, a brand of Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje), has acquired all North American rights to highly anticipated horror movie Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. The reimagining of the Full Moon Features cult...

The biggest celebration of genre films in Latin America will kick off on May 17th with Brazil's 2018 Fantaspoa film festival, and following the reveal of the first wave of titles, the second wave of titles for the anticipated festival have now been unveiled, along with the announcement that filmmaker William Lustig will join Mick Garris in receiving a career achievement award:

We have the official press release below with the full second wave of titles, and be sure to visit Fantaspoa's official website for more information.

Press Release: Porto Alegre, Brazil - April 30, 2018 - Brazil's Fantaspoa, the largest genre film festival in Latin America, is proud to reveal the second wave of programming selected for their upcoming fourteenth edition, running from May 17th through June 3rd, 2018. The celebrated genre film fest, which takes place annually in the lakeside city of Porto Alegre will announce their full line-up, containing more than 100 films from around the world,...

Avid followers of Charles Band's Puppet Master series are most likely cheering at a new reimagining coming late Summer. After thirteen films and a comic book series by Action Lab Comics, most fans saw fatigue in this producer's vision and were disappointed when the comic continuation was canceled. The curtain call was inevitable since the fan base is not huge. Exit Band and enter Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich by Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund who promise to return the series back to whence it came — a product of supernatural terror. The original film dealt with a mysterious toymaker, committing suicide and providing no answers. The meat of the product was on how curiosity seekers are wanting answers to an age-old mystery. They are psychics and paranormal investigators. With the new film, the tale rests on an individual recovering from a divorce and finding a puppet he thinks can...

Hot on the heels of its world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival this past weekend Rlje Films have announced that they have acquired the North American rights for Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund's horror on strings, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. Rlje Films plans to release The Littlest Reich in U.S. cinemas this August. Rlje Films, a brand of Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje), has acquired all North American rights to highly anticipated horror movie Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. The reimagining of the Full Moon Features cult classic stars Thomas Lennon (TV’s “Reno 911!”), Jenny Pellicer (TV’s “Cocaine Godmother”), Nelson Franklin (TV’s “Veep”), Charlyne Yi (This is 40), Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers), and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator). The iconic Udo Kier...

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In today’s film news roundup, Demetrius Shipp Jr. stars in a mystery and the newest “Puppet Master” and the documentary “The Last Horsemen of New York” get distribution.

Casting

“All Eyez on Me” star Demetrius Shipp Jr., Essence Atkins, Terrence Jenkins, and Edwina Findley have all signed on to star in the indie mystery/drama “Same Difference.”

Produced by Datari Turner and written and directed by Derege Harding, the film follows a young woman (Atkins) who is told that her death is imminent by a mysterious group of people who all start dying one by one. The woman becomes compelled to let go of the past and reconcile with her estranged twin sister, also played by Atkins, who is suffering from alcohol addiction.

The film co-stars Kandi Burruss, Affion Crockett, Kris D. Lofton, Gabby Douglas, Lew Temple, and Page Kennedy. Production has begun in Los Angeles.

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Following its well-received screening at the 2018 Overlook Film Festival, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (written by Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler) has been acquired for North American distribution by Rlje Films, with a theatrical release planned for August:

Press Release: Los Angeles, April 23, 2018 – Rlje Films, a brand of Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje), has acquired all North American rights to highly anticipated horror movie Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. The reimagining of the Full Moon Features cult classic stars Thomas Lennon (TV’s “Reno 911!”), Jenny Pellicer (TV’s “Cocaine Godmother”), Nelson Franklin (TV’s “Veep”), Charlyne Yi (This is 40), Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers), and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator). The iconic Udo Kier (Brawl in Cell Block 99) stars as the titular character. Written by S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) and directed by Sonny Laguna (We Are Monsters) and Tommy Wiklund (Wither), Rlje Films plans to release the movie in...

Rlje Films has acquired North American rights to Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, the movie that serves as a reimagining of the 1989 Full Moon Features cult horror pic. Udo Kier toplines the new incarnation that co-stars Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi, Michael Pare and Barbara Crampton. S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) penned the script and We Are Monsters‘ Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund co-directed.

The pic will now hit theaters in August 2018 via the resurrected Fangoria label after that horror mag was acquired by Cinestate’s Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk. They produced the pic with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian and David Liljeblad. Adam Donaghey, Johnathan Brownlee, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Rick Prince and Red Sanders executive produced along with Charles Band, who was behind the original film.

The plot centers on Edgar (Lennon), recently divorced and reeling, who returns to his childhood home to regroup his life.

The Puppet Master franchise is returning to theaters this summer. Rlje Films has acquired the rights the upcoming reboot, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. The movie is billed as a "reimagining" but will serve as a reboot of the franchise and, instead of heading straight to the world of VOD or the bargain bin at Walmart, this one is heading to a theater near you in August. Rlje Films' Chief Acquisitions Officer Mark Ward had this to say.

"We are incredibly excited to be able to bring the first film under the new Fangoria brand to audiences this summer. With an amazing script from S. Craig Zahler and performances from horror legends Barbara Crampton and Udo Kier, we know Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich will thrill fans of the original films and new audiences alike."

The movie stars Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!), Jenny Pellicer (Cocaine Godmother), Nelson Franklin (Veep), Charlyne Yi...

Brazil’s Fantaspoa, the largest genre film festival in Latin America, is proud to reveal the first wave of films selected for their upcoming fourteenth edition, running from May 17th through June 3rd. The celebrated genre film fest, which takes place annually in Porto Alegre will announce their full line-up, consisting of more than 100 films, on the first week of May.

Fifteen features have just been announced, in addition to the previously-announced opening night film, Rodrigo Aragão’s Brazilian feature A Mata Negra, and closing night film, A Pedra da Serpente – the first feature from award-winning Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Sanches, co-produced by the festival’s own Fantaspoa Produções.

Honored guests at Fantaspoa 2018 include “Masters of Horror” creator Mick Garris, renowned for his cinematic adaptations of Stephen King novels; and Romanian actress Elina Löwensohn, famous for starring in features from Hal Hartley, Michael Almereyda, and other greats. Attending filmmakers include Marc Carreté,...

Cinestate just shared a behind-the-scenes shot of the great Barbara Crampton in their Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, the latest entry in the Puppet Master franchise that will have its World Premiere at next month’s Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the film directed by Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund, “During a road trip to a convention for the 30th Anniversary of […]...

Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund, the dynamic duo behind Swedish Evil Dead inspired splatterfest Wither, as well as the forthcoming Puppet Master reboot, The Littlest Reich, have begun work on their next horror venture. We told you last December that Laguna and Wiklund are reteaming once again for They Cast No Shadows, from a script they co-wrote with regular collaborator David Liljeblad. “In 1963, Laura and […]...

We didn’t see much of him on screens last year, but Oscar Isaac has been quite busy. This year, we’ll see him in the next Star Wars film, along with the George Clooney-directed Suburbicon, as well as alongside Christian Bale in The Promise next month, not to mention next year in Alex Garland’s Annihilation next year. He’s now found his next role, according to Deadline.

The Inside Llewyn Davis star is set to lead the WWII drama Operation Finale, which will be directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon). Described as a drama akin to Argo and Munich, it will follow his character as an Israeli spy named Peter Malkin, who hunts down the Nazi general Adolf Eichmann, as scripted by Matthew Orton. Production is expected to begin this fall in Argentina, so we could see it by next year.

We know that Hollywood is pretty remake and reboot happy these days, but the rehash that literally nobody was asking for has officially started filming. Yes, the upcoming Puppet Master reboot, which is titled The Littlest Reich, just began shooting in Dallas, Texas. What's perhaps most surprising is that the movie actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun.

The official Puppet Master Instagram account posted an update today that revealed production is officially underway on Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. It was also recently revealed that Reno 911 and The Odd Couple star Thomas Lennon is set to star in the movie in the lead role. It is said that this new take on the enduring horror series will blend comedy with horror, which makes Thomas Lennon seem like the perfect guy for the job. Here is the synopsis for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich.

"Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich...

The twelfth (!) installment of the “Puppet Master” series, “Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich,” is set to start filming in Dallas next week, and an interesting cast has been revealed. The franchise, which has never previously featured notable acting talent, is bringing an interesting roster to the production: Thomas Lennon, Udo Kier, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi, Alex Beh, Barbara Crampton, Tina Parker, Skeeta Jenkins, and Michael Pare are all set to tango with the devious dolls, Variety reports.

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This chapter will also be a “new take” on the horror series, which could definitely benefit from a fresh coat of paint. Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund are set to direct the script, which was penned by “Bone Tomahawk” screenwriter S. Craig Zahler. “Reich” is set to amp up both the gore and comedy,...