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Stars: Casper Van Dien, Michael Beach, Sarah Lieving, Bryan Head, Keith Meriweather, Chad Brummett, James Lawrence Sicard, Dale O’Malley, Hayley Derryberry, Alex Knight | Written by Kuang Lee, Hank Woon Jr. | Directed by Daniel Lusko

When an experiment into a new source of natural fuel goes disastrously wrong, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A scientist, originally responsible for the design of the new power plant but who has walked away from the project, must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a “hypercane” with the power to wipe America off the map.

A ridiculous plot, terrible CGI and a former Hollywood superstar slumming it with a bunch of B-list actors… Seems like a step back for mockbuster kings The Asylum if you ask me – especially when their recent films have see the company step up production values and storytelling to craft some great direct-to-market films.

Stars: Eric Balfour, Bianca A. Santos, Romeo Miller, Patrick Muldoon, Heather Tom, Brendan Wayne, Marina Sirtis, Amy Argyle, Tony Ketcham, Jake T. Getman, Izabella Alvarez, Taylor Carr, Ashley Doris, Demetrius Stear, Baker Chase Powell | Written by Gabriel Campisi | Directed by Jared Cohn

For years, the old woman in the woods has secretly kept the wolves of the forest at bay. When the woman dies, the creatures suddenly attack the residents of a nearby town. As more people turn up dead, the townsfolk discover something far more sinister than wolves lurking in the woods and wage a bloody battle against the ruthless creatures. As the wolves begin to overrun the town, only the woman’s granddaughter holds the key to stopping the bloodbath before it’s too late…

Writer/director Jared Cohn has been carving out somewhat of a decent horror career in recent years, both in front and behind the camera.

Considering how insanely popular superheroes have been over the last few years, it's a little surprising that it's taken this long for someone to reboot The Toxic Avenger. For starters, the name alone should give it the same edge with confused consumers as mockbusters like Almighty Thor and Atlantic Rim, but unlike the quick cash-ins produced by The Asylum, it's a franchise with some genuine soul at its roots. First released back in 1984, The Toxic Avenger was an intentionally cheesy, sleazy comedy about a tormented janitor who has an accident with some barrels of toxic waste, turning him into a super mutant. Instead of using his newfound powers exclusively to smite his bullies, the hideous ghoul with a heart of gold decides to become a hero and starts cleaning up his...

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Combining Sharknado, Sharknado 2: The Second One, and Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! – Sharknado: The Collection is a 3-disc boxset filled with shark-infested splatter-fest action! With the set due for release on May 2nd, here’s our review of all three Sharknado movies…

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Stars: Ian Ziering, Jaason Simmons, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, John Heard, Alex Arleo, Neil H. Berkow, Heather Jocelyn Blair | Written by Thunder Levin | Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante

When a freak tornado swamps Los Angeles, thousands of man-eating sharks are sucked into the swirling vortex, terrorizing the waterlogged populace and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin (Ziering) sets out with his friends Baz (Simmons) and Nova (Scerbo) to rescue his estranged wife April (Reid) and teenage daughter Claudia from the sharks raining down from the skies. With nature’s deadliest killer ruling sea, land, and air, they soon realise that...

Jared Cohn (Bound, Atlantic Rim, Born Bad, Buddy Hutchins) has been tapped to direct 6ix, a Nicholas Celozzi-written thriller that is being likened to David Fincher’s classic Se7en – being that it’s about a killer who is using The Book of Revelations for slaying inspiration… Check out the teaser/poster art below:

6ix sees a devout and merciless killer seeking to obtain the soul he believes he was born without by taking the “senses” of his victims. Two detectives are charged with the mission to save 6 innocent lives.

The lasagna eating feline's Halloween special turns 30 this year and Fright Rags is ready to celebrate! Also: a Q&A with Jared Cohn from Sharknado: Heart of Sharkness, Horror Decor's Pumpkin scented candle and release details for I am a Hero.

Garfield's Halloween Adventure Shirts: Time flies when you are stuffing your face with Italian cuisines, and it has been 30 years (already) since Garfield's Halloween Adventure aired on CBS on October 30th, 1985.

Fright Rags is celebrating this occasion with three T-Shirts and one Baseball tee that showcase Garfield and Odie's personalities.

The shirts in this collection will be available to pre-order on Wednesday, September 23rd at 10:00 Am Est. These shirts are limited and may sell out during the pre-order period. Shipping begins in mid-October.

To learn more, visit the Fright Rags online store.

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Sharknado: Heart of Sharkness: "Jared Cohn stars in Sharknado: Heart of Sharkness...

Making movies is hard. We should know – we write articles about them and we imagine actually making them is two, maybe three, times as hard (Ok, maybe a lot more).

There’s so many things to be dealing with, ranging from making sure catering are going to be able to provide a varied diet for the crew and that you have actors who can give the work the depth it requires. Of course, it’s very easy to take the easy route – make a product placement deal with Dominos that sees pizzas delivered to the set every day and hire Nicolas Cage.

The one place you’d imagine films wouldn’t skimp is in the creative department. The purpose of the whole enterprise is, after all, to make something entertaining for the audience. Except too often an overt focus on money takes over and a film simply steals entire swathes...

Birthday shoutouts go to Kevin Alejandro (above), who is 38, Russell Crowe is 50, John Oates is 65, and Jackie Chan is 60.

Our thoughts are with the family and generations of fans of screen legend Mickey Rooney, who died today at the age of 93. He’ll always be the one true Fallout Boy to me.

In more sad news, model and ally Peaches Geldof has died at the age of 25.

Supreme Court won’t hear anti-gay photographer case. Nom heads just exploded.

I Was Broken, and Matt Bomer Put Me Back Together. Is there anything he can’t do?

As I’m sure you’ll agree, The Asylum is one of the great production companies in Hollywood. They’re responsible for most of the iconic Syfy Channel movies, including Sharknado, Almighty Thor, Nazis At The Center Of The Earth, American Warships, Atlantic Rim, Titanic II, and of course, Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (to name just a few.

Diamond Dallas Page reunites with The Devil’s Rejects cast members Bill Moseley and Michael Berryman for the upcoming horror film, Dead afterlife. Bang! Of course, Dead afterlife is written by Michael Joy, Operations Manager at Horrornews.net and Jared Cohn (Buddy Hutchins, Atlantic Rim) is set to direct.

In addition, Ddp will induct Jake “The Snake” Roberts into this years WWE Hall of Fame, on Saturday evening, April 5th, 2014. The night before Wrestlemania XXX. … Continue reading →

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Feature Simon Brew 25 Feb 2014 - 06:36

Bone Alone is a low budget movie 'inspired' by Home Alone. We've taken a look at what treats it has in store...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Bone Alone and Home Alone.

Further Warning: Bone Alone is not an adult film.

Just a few short weeks ago, this site - along with a few others - received a letter from lawyers purportedly acting for 20th Century Fox, claiming that we'd infringed copyright by posting a what-had-been-debunked synopsis for the upcoming Fantastic Four movie.

At the time, I thought that its legal hounds had been a bit over the top. But then I was casually browsing through W H Smith (Halesowen branch) a week or two back, and I saw this...

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Bone Alone. For the purpose of comparison, here is the DVD cover of Bone Alone, set alongside the DVD cover of Home Alone,...

Buddy Hutchins – Everyone Has a Breaking Point.

What’s all the fuss about this guy named Buddy Hutchins? How about Richard Switzer being the youngest producer in history. Richard’s company http://www.switzerent.com/ is making this amazing movie happen and writer/director Jared Cohn ( Atlantic Rim ) is the driving creative force.

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Buddy Hutchins just wants to live a simple life. But when he catches his wife cheating on him, she … Continue reading →

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Take another look @ footage, images and synopsis from "Atlantic Rim" aka "From The Sea", directed by Jared Cohn for The Asylum production company:

"...when giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the Us Government is forced to trust A.I. robots to defend the country..."

Cast includes Graham Greene, David Chokachi, Anthony Criss and Jackie Moore.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Atlantic Rim"...

Sharknado. A simple “portmanteau” – two words combined together to make one. The two words in this case were most likely “shark” and “tornado,” which make-up two of mother nature’s deadliest weapons in her arsenal of terrors, thrown together to spawn an idea for an incredibly creative original film. A film that could only be produced by The Asylum, of course. If you’re not familiar with the The Asylum, they’re the studio behind some of the most of the popular low-budget creature-features of recent times: 2-Headed Shark Attack, Mega Shark vs. Gatoroid and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus… you’re beginning to see a pattern emerge, right?

But The Asylum doesn’t exclusively make movies using the formula “shark plus other thing equals arggggh!” Like any other studio, The Asylum has to make movies with mainstream appeal to finance their artsy, more personal films like Sharknado. And that...

Stars: Ian Ziering, Jaason Simmons, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, John Heard, Alex Arleo, Neil H. Berkow, Heather Jocelyn Blair | Written by Thunder Levin | Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante

When a freak tornado swamps Los Angeles, thousands of man-eating sharks are sucked into the swirling vortex, terrorizing the waterlogged populace and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin (Ziering) sets out with his friends Baz (Simmons) and Nova (Scerbo) to rescue his estranged wife April (Reid) and teenage daughter Claudia from the sharks raining down from the skies. With nature’s deadliest killer ruling sea, land, and air, they soon realise that the best chance they have to survive the deadly shark-infested maelstrom is to find a way to destroy it themselves.

What can I say about Sharknado that hasn’t already been said? A film that caused a social media furore on its Syfy channel debut, this...

Mockbuster kings The Asylum are currently basking in the slightly disingenuous ray of glory following Syfy’s premiere of Sharknado. The film was instantly picked up by bored celebrities on Twitter and started to ‘trend’ across the world, giving many people their first glimpse at the work of The Asylum.

Not ones to miss their celebrity-propelled moment articles in THR and Variety followed and the Burbank studio was suddenly under a playful, if as I said – slightly snarky, spotlight. A sequel was rushed into production (Shark Too-nami is my pick for the name) and it is fair to say that this is perhaps the studio’s golden hour.

While the stream of rip-offs (Atlantic Rim?) and low-budget, ultra-gory, mega-ridiculous features will continue The Asylum may never reach the heights scaled with Sharknado, yet they are here to stay and we decided to mock the mockers and create our own posters...

Sharknado is the latest water-cooler buzzword, trending tweet and potential drinking game all rolled into one, and Syfy isn’t resting on its laurels when it comes to their bad z-movie darling of the moment. Although the ratings for The Asylum produced movie a swarm of sharks flopping around in a tornado were relatively modest—around 1.4 million which is somewhat light for their usual CGI monster extravaganza–it exploded the Twitterverse.

A combination of a hair brained idea and patently ridiculous moments like Ian Ziering flying into a shark with a chainsaw in hand inspired everyone from Mia Farrow (who jokingly claimed she was watching with Philp Roth) to Damon Lindelof (offering to write the sequel) to tweet about it. So, no surprise, here comes a sequel that few will watch but everyone will talk about. The Asylum, who cheerfully own their reputation as dedicated rip-off artists and concept-first, script-later...

Feature Ryan Lambie 5 Jul 2013 - 06:32

Atlantic Rim may be a cheap, DVD imitation of Pacific Rim, but it also works remarkably well as an unofficial prequel, Ryan writes...

History is full of uncanny coincidences. Mark Twain was born on the day Halley's Comet swung by Earth in 1835, and died when it hurtled around again in 1910. The writer Morgan Robertson wrote a book about the sinking of a huge ocean-going liner 14 years before the Titanic collided with an iceberg in 1912. And by an uncanny twist of fate, last month saw the release of Atlantic Rim, which appears to have anticipated Guillermo del Toro's giant-robots-versus-giant-monsters flick Pacific Rim by several weeks.

American film studio The Asylum has a spooky knack of releasing its own similarly-named film just before a major blockbuster. Transmorphers appeared just before Transformers in 2007. I Am Omega appeared at around the time of I Am Legend. Other...

Looking to cash in on the marketing created for "Pacific Rim", Sneak Peek footage, images and synopsis from "Atlantic Rim" aka "From The Sea", directed by Jared Cohn for The Asylum production company:

"...when giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the Us Government is forced to trust A.I. robots to defend the country..."

Cast includes Graham Greene, David Chokachi, Anthony Criss and Jackie Moore.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Atlantic Rim"...

Amazing the things you can find by complete accident when conducting a Google search. Like a Pensacola, Florida, news site spilling the beans about the cast and crew of the Asylum’s Pacific Rim mockbuster Atlantic Rim/From the Sea shooting in their area.

The reason for the two titles is because the film being reported on is clearly Atlantic Rim, The Asylum’s version of Guillermo Del Toro’s giant robots vs. giant monsters from beneath the sea mega-blockbuster coming this summer they initially announced last summer. Given some of the legal wrangling The Asylum has had to deal with in the year since, it might not be released with such a similar title when the time comes. The tentative working title is From the Sea; safe to say that won’t be the release title. I suppose they could retitle it something like Earth vs. the Giant Monsters,...