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Lionsgate is planning to give the horror comedy creature feature Big Freaking Rat a VOD release on April 25th – and with just one month to go until that date arrives, a trailer for the film has dropped online. You can watch it in the embed above.

This film comes our way from writer/director Thomas J. Churchill, whose previous credits include A System Devoured, Emerging Past, The Day of the Living Dead, Check Point, The Rack Pack, Nation’s Fire, The Step Daddy, The Amityville Harvest, The Business of Christmas, The Amityville Moon, Amityville Uprising, The Godfather Buck, and Devilreaux. We recently heard that he’s teaming with Anson Williams of Happy Days and Brian Austin Green of Beverly Hills, 90210 on a horror thriller called The Three Killer Pigs.

The story Churchill crafted for Big Freaking Rat has the following synopsis: Ranger Brody, along with his niece and nephew, works...

"That's no freakin' racoon!" "It ain't a bear!" Lionsgate has debuted the final official trailer for a cult fave horror comedy B-movie called Big Freaking Rat, which is indeed a creature feature flick about this giant frickin' rat. This was actually made & first premiered back 2020, way before Hollywood went on to make Cocaine Bear, it's just only getting a real release now. Ranger Brody believes looking after his teenage niece and nephew will be the biggest challenge of the summer until his brand-new campground is turned into a den of terror by a massive mutant rat. Years of dumping toxic waste into the land have created a monstrous rodent with a taste for blood, and now it’s up to a reluctant band of warriors to exterminate the beast. Oh s&*t! What will they do?! Horror veteran Felissa Rose stars with Scott C. Roe, Caleb Thomas, Nino Aldi, Caroline Abbott,...

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

With Amityville Uprising, Thomas J. Churchill joins illustrious company as the only director of three Amityville films.

After kicking off his run with Amityville Harvest (2020) which focused on a film crew interviewing a vampire, Churchill’s second entry was 2001’s “werewolf in a women’s half-way house” title Amityville Moon. Now he’s back for his third film in the “series,” a self-referential zombie outing.

What makes the new film intriguing is less the details of the plot – which include a chemical explosion at a military base with unleashes red acid rain on Amityville and reanimates the dead – but how the film acts as the last part of an unofficial Amityville trilogy.

The same issues that plagued Churchill’s previous entries pop up here: too many characters,...

Here is a behind the scenes look at Amityville Uprising from director Thomas J. Churchill and starring Mike Ferguson, Kelly Lynn Reiter (Deadlock), Barry Papick (Private Parts), and Scott C. Roe coming out on Digital, On Demand and DVD January 11, 2021 from Lionsgate. Synopsis: A chemical blast at a …

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"I just killed a dead guy!" Lionsgate has unveiled an official trailer for an indie direct-to-vhs horror film called Amityville Uprising, another B-movie creation from the genre filmmaker Thomas J. Churchill - of Amityville Harvest, The Business of Christmas, and Big Freaking Rat recently. The Amityville franchise has entered public domain, hence the over-use of the concept despite none of it having any real connection to the original story or the original ghosts or anything. Amityville Uprising takes place after a chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster. The explosion unleashes a toxic acid rain that dissolves the flesh of anyone trapped in it. Even worse, it causes the dead to rise again and attack the living. How's that for a concept? The movie stars Mike Ferguson, Scott C. Roe, Tank Jones, Alysha Young, Michael Cervantes, and Barry Papick. This horror looks especially dumb, but sometimes...

A chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster in this tense action-horror thriller Amityville Uprising, coming to On Demand, Digital and DVD January 11 from Lionsgate.

Here’s the new trailer:

A chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster in this tense action-horror thriller. As Sgt. Dash tries to keep the peace at the local police station, the explosion unleashes a toxic acid rain that dissolves the flesh of anyone trapped in it. Even worse, it causes the dead to rise again and attack the living. Can Dash and fellow officer Nina Rossi figure out who is friend and foe, fend off the attacks, and defend their colleagues until the savage cataclysm subsides?

Amityville Uprising stars Scott C. Roe, Tank Jones, and Alysha Young

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"Get ready for the ultimate predator!" Madman Films has released an official international trailer for Big Freaking Rat, a ridiculous B-movie Troma horror special from filmmaker Thomas J. Churchill (also of the B-movies Nation's Fire and The Amityville Harvest). This was apparently already released last fall in the US, but we haven't heard about it until now. So why not give it a look?! Nothing like a gnarly Big Freaking Rat to ruin your day. Ha ha. A ranger is about to open a campground for the season. Everything is in order and the camp seems peaceful until a giant rat, mutated by dumped toxic waste, begins killing the campers and rangers. The film stars Scott C. Roe, Caleb Thomas, Cece Kelly, Nino Aldi, Mark Hoadley, and Theresa Ireland. It is one of those films to stay far away from, unless you want to laugh at how bad it is.

Stars: Scott C. Roe, Dave Sheridan, Caleb Thomas, Cece Kelly, Vincent M. Ward, Felissa Rose | Written and Directed by Thomas J. Churchill

How the can you not watch a horror film called Big Freaking Rat? Give your film a title that involves a oversized creatures and I’m there. Though after the disappointment of last years Dead Ant I’m approaching these kinds of films with a bit more trepidation these days… On the plus side, Big Freaking Rat comes from director Thomas J. Churchill, who’s only other film I’ve seen is Checkpoint, the Goldberg-headlining action movie that – despite some issues – said a lot about divisions in society being exploited by those in power, be it political or financial. But I very much doubt there’ll be any political talk in a film about a giant killer rat?!

Big Freaking Rat tells the story of Ranger Brody who,...

Devanny Pinn, Stacey Dash, Ryan Kiser and Jonathan Bennett star in Jaguar Cinema and Throughline Films’ paranormal psycho-thriller The Dawn, which marks the 10th feature from director Brandon Slagle.

Written by Elliot Diviney and Slagle, The Dawn follows a young woman who witnesses her father murder her family in the wake of World War 1. Sent to live in a convent, she dedicates her life to the Lord. However, her demons follow and manifest themselves in ways which bring the nightmares of her past with her.

Rounding out the cast of The Dawn are Heather Wynters (Fear the Walking Dead), David Goryl (American Crime), Andrew E. Wheeler (Sons of Anarchy), Susan Slaughter (Ghost Hunters International), Claire Engler, Julie Rose, Amanda Day, Scott C. Roe, Ronnie Kerr, Jimmy Redhawk James, Briana Caitlin, William McMullen and Teilor Grubbs (Hawaii Five-0) making her film debut.

The Dawn is expected to premiere later this year...

Recently, CBS served up the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS" episode 13 of season 10. The episode is entitled, "Blood Brothers," and it turns out that we're going to see some pretty interesting stuff go down as a sailor that needs a bone marrow transplant, right away, becomes the main focus for the NCIS crew, and more. In the new, 10th episode press release: The NCIS Team Is Called To Help A Sailor Get A Bone Marrow Transplant By Thanksgiving After His Two Marine Siblings Are Killed In The Line Of Duty, On "NCIS," Tuesday, Nov. 24. Press release number 2: In the hopes of sparing a family further tragedy, the Secretary of the Navy will call on NCIS to help a sailor battling leukemia locate a bone marrow transplant after his two Marine siblings, are killed in the line of duty. Also, Bishop is going to return home to Oklahoma for the Thanksgiving holiday.