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“Haunt”: That Can’t Be for Reals!

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On Halloween night, a gang of friends go in search of live entertainment and encounter an “extreme” haunted house, that turns out to be far too terrifyingly real.

So it’s the scariest night of the year, and sorority sister Harper (Katie Stevens) just isn’t feeling it, especially since her latest fight with her alcoholic boyfriend Sam (Samuel Hunt). But the need for escape is strong and the insistence of sorority sisters is stronger, so Harper gets hauled away by Angela (Shazi Raja), Bailey (Lauryn Alison McClain) and Mallory (Schuyler Helford) to some pretty standard Halloween party.

(L-R) Schuyler Helford as Mallory, Lauryn Alisa McClain as Bailey, Andrew Caldwell as Evan, Will Brittain as Nathan, Shazi Raja as Angela, and Katie Stevens as Harper in the horror / thriller HAUNT, a Momentum Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Momentum Pictures.

The gang is joined at the party by former baseball jock Nathan (Will Brittain) and his foul-mouthed friend but well-meaning friend Evan (Andrew Caldwell), who convince the gal gang to ditch the come-on jerkwads at the party and go “extreme” haunted house hunting instead. A strange series of incidents end up leading them to a house that advertises making their nightmares come true, and actually manages to deliver on that quite a bit.

An image from the horror / thriller HAUNT, a Momentum Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Momentum Pictures.

There is the silent Clown (Justin Marxen) who insists all the gang sign NDAs before going inside, the Witch (Terri Partyka) who has a far too healthy like for flaming-hot pokers, the Vampire (Justin Rose) who looks like an interesting version of Darth Maul but with a terrifying penchant for real masks, and the helpful friendly neighborhood psychotic Ghost (Chaney Morrow) to contend with, in this house of real horrors. Will Harper and her friends survive the night?

The movie relies heavily on makeup and practical FX, to pretty believable effect. The horribly real faces under the masks for all the bad guys are nicely twisted and nasty, sweaty and raw. All the tricks and traps of the haunted house have echoes of other great horror romps, particularly the Saw franchise, and does up the homemade and entirely effective feel quite well. The actors give their all to make you feel every prick, slice, jab, and other horror-ific thing the Clown and his cohorts subject the gang to, and it shows. Much of the engineering done in the haunted house could be done by anyone, and that in itself is terrifying.

Katie Stevens as Harper in the horror/thriller, “HAUNT,” a Momentum Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Momentum Pictures.

The ending suffers a bit from what is now a horror movie trope, and while I won’t spoil it, I will say did seem a bit rushed. Perhaps it was intentional, so as to leave the movie open for a sequel!

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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