HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: November 29, 2024

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Here’s a review of this week’s comic and movie releases and premieres!

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The Magic Order Library Edition Vol. 1 Available January 28

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By: Mark Millar

Millarworld and Dark Horse Comics are proud to present the first two arcs of the bestselling dark fantasy thriller graphic novel in an oversized hardcover format. Soon to be a Netflix series!

Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as magicians sworn to protect our world for generations battle an enemy who’s picking them off one by one.

Collected together for the first time, this beautiful hardcover introduces us to The Magic Order, a group of five families of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards.

They live among us as our neighbors, friends, and co-workers, but by night they protect us from the forces of darkness… unless the darkness gets them first.

From the best-selling, award-winning creator Mark Millar, featuring the artwork of modern masters Oliver Coipel and Stuart Immonen.

Collects The Magic Order series 1 & 2.

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Hack/Slash Available January 28

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By: Deluxe Edition Vol. 5

HACK/SLASH continues in this collectible, fifth hardcover edition!

When Cassie discovers a potential cure for slashers, she accidentally kick starts a chain of events that will lead to the ultimate betrayal at the hands of a man she thought she could trust! Giant monsters, Vlad’s man-eating family, the secret life of Cat Curio, and the finale showdown fans have waited years to see!

This HACK/SLASH DELUXE edition collects MERCY SPARKS: A SLICE OF HELL and issues #12-25 of the ongoing Image Comics series, including guest stories by writers Justin Jordan (LUTHER STRODE), Steve Seeley and Michael Moreci (Barbaric.) Also includes a brand new bonus story by acclaimed creators Steve Orlando and Steve Kurth!

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Into the Unbeing Vol. 1 Available January 28

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Hayden Sherman (Illustrator), Jim Campbell (Illustrator)

Lose yourself inside its innards.

A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. Led by botanist Hildur Johansson, the team sets out to conduct a routine exploratory mission to map the terrain, record their observations, and try to understand this anomalous landscape.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and the Unbeing delivers. The expedition discovers a massive, entirely novel, giant holobiont that threatens to upend everything they understand about the natural world. Propelled by hubris and the intoxicating charm of forbidden knowledge, the research team descends into a hostile alien environment allowed to thrive without human interference. The beautiful yet unforgiving landscape hosts strange flora, gorgeous fauna and dangerous predators lurking in the darkness. As the team pushes deeper, can they survive long enough to find what they’re looking for?

Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Blow Away) and visionary artist Hayden Sherman (Dark Spaces: Dungeon, Wasted Space).

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Crashdown Vol. 1 Available January 28

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By: Tom Garcia (Author), Ryan Sargeant (Author), Ben Templesmith (Illustrator)

Tom Garcia and Ryan Sargeant, the hosts of the Comic Tom 101 YouTube Channel with over 16,5 million views, team up with legendary horror artist BEN TEMPLESMITH (co-creator of 30 Days of Night) for this story of suspense and survival.

The Earth is dead. Humanity’s last hope is the distant planet EMPYREAN and the ship full of colonists ready to repopulate our civilization. But what happens when their new home doesn’t want them there and it fights back?

Equal parts Lost and Alien, with a Lovecraftian twist, Crashdown delivers a dark vision of our world’s final days.

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Severence (2006) (Import) Available January 24

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Severence is a darkly comedic horror-thriller that blends office politics with a deadly game of survival. So, venture out for buckets of corporate carnage with this darkly hilarious manhunt! Featuring a similar satirical British sucker punch as Shaun of the Dead, Severence from Christopher Smith (Creep, Triangle) starring Danny Dyer (Human Traffic) and Laura Harris (The Faculty) will have you rethink returning to the office. During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one. With razor-sharp humor and intense suspense, Severence is an unpredictable thrill ride that balances satire and scares, delivering a unique twist on both the slasher and workplace comedy genres.

STARRING: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny

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Tales from the Crypt Vol. 5 (The EC Archives) Available January 21

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By: Carl Wessler (Author), Jack Davis (Illustrator), Graham Ingels (Illustrator), Jack Kamen (Illustrator), Bruce Campbell (Foreword)

Dark Horse Comics brings even more macabrely majestic Tales from the Crypt, now as an affordable paperback!

This terrifying tome has been digitally recolored—using Marie Severin’s original palette as a guide—and features stories drawn by all-star comic artists Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, George Evans, Graham Ingels, Bill Elder, Bernie Krigstein, Reed Crandall, and Joe Orlando!

Featuring a foreword by cult icon Bruce Campbell!

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Falling In Love On The Path To Hell Vol. 1 Available January 21

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By: Gerry Duggan (Author), Garry Brown (Illustrator)

Falling in Love on the Path to Hell has it all—otherworldly intrigue, gunslingers and samurai, the dead, the dying, the undead, and of course…romance.

The sun set on samurai and gunslingers at roughly the same time, but our two leads didn’t die off quietly. In the East, a samurai would rather die with her weapons than surrender them to a sword hunt. In the West, the gunslinger follows his revenge to the bitter end. The future lovers are mortally wounded a world apart and awake together in a purgatory ruled by a ruthless society of damned warriors. Asami and MacRaith will need to overcome the dead, the dying, and the undead. Can love redeem them? This first volume is violent, mysterious, thrilling and sexy.

From GERRY DUGGAN (X-Men, Deadpool) and GARRY BROWN (Babyteeth).

Collects the oversized first issues of FALLING IN LOVE ON THE PATH TO HELL # 1-4.

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Creep (2004) (Import) Available January 24

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Descend into an eruption of subterranean slashing in the survival horror CREEP from Christopher Smith (Severance, Triangle) starring Franka Potente (Run Lola Run) and Vas Blackwood (Mean Machine). Delivering relentless scares and psychological suspense, CREEP is a nightmare you can’t escape. London, midnight, on a cold winters evening. Unable to find a taxi in the West End, Kate (Franka Potente) heads for the Underground. Slightly tipsy, she waits for the last train but drifts off to sleep… and awkens to find everybody else gone. Gripped by panic she attempts to leave the station, she realises she has been locked in. Then a train pulls into the platform and she boards, somewhat unnerved, as she is the only passenger. Her relief at finally being on her journey home turns to alarm when halfway through the train jerks to a halt and her carriage is plunged into darkness. Kate is about to face the first in a series of terrifying events, ones that will shatter her nerve and chic composure – testing her endurance to the limit. She is not alone in the maze of nooks and dark crannies. Lurking in the pitch-black maze is something unimaginable. Something that calls a hidden laboratory home. And something that won’t leave Kate alone.

STARRING: Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Vas Blackwood

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Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown Available January 21

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By: Mike Mignola (Author, Illustrator), Dave Stewart (Colorist), Clem Robins (Letterer)

New folklore-inspired tales abound in this anthology of eight fantasy stories written and drawn by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, featuring a bonus sketchbook section.

From a search for the beating heart of a long-dead sorcerer, to a pirate girl who makes a deal with the devil, to the titular boy who wins a grim prize in a game with some undead interlopers, and more.

Mignola builds a brand-new world filled with the weird, wicked and whimsical in this volume that will delight longtime Hellboy fans and new readers alike.

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The All-Nighter Vol. 3 Available January 21

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By: Chip Zdarsky (Author), Jason Loo (Illustrator)

Welcome to The All-Nighter, the only diner in town run by covert superheroes (who are also secretly vampires).

In this final arc, the staff at The All-Nighter are trying to piece their lives back together in the wake of Alex’s disappearance. They know that Alex would stop at nothing to get any of them back, so they have no choice: it’s time to bring this fight to The Takers.

With unexpected new allies, the crew will have to live up to Alex’s dreams of super heroes. If they want to rescue their friend and uncover the mystery of The Takers, they’ll have to do it as a team—or as a family.

Collects The All-Nighter #11–#15.

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Alien : Black, White & Blood Treasury Edition Available January 21

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By: Collin Kelly (Author), Marvel Various (Author, Illustrator), Michael Dowling (Illustrator), Ryan Stegman (Cover Art)

The ALIENS universe as only Marvel could imagine it — in thrilling black, white, red…and green!

Marvel Comics and 20th Century Studios present a kill-fest of an anthology in chest-rending artistic detail! Superstar writers and fan-favorite artists combine to spin fresh tales of Alien terror — including a generations-spanning epic from Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Michael Dowling! The hunt begins in a story of guts, glory and the most exhilarating of games…and much more horror! Plus: Legendary writer Paul Jenkins (WOLVERINE: ORIGIN, INHUMANS) explores the chemistry of fear in a story that will leave you with a whole new and terrifying understanding of the Xenomorph species!

COLLECTING: Alien: Black, White & Blood (2024) 1-4

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Your Love Is Mine (2022) Available November 26

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When a couple’s relationship is threatened by sudden tragedy, one of them goes to unthinkable lengths to preserve their union.

STARRING: Senie Priti, Lester Ellis Jr, Maurial Spearim

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Werewolf Santa (2023) Available November 26

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Chaos erupts as Santa Claus undergoes a startling transformation into a fearsome werewolf. Lucy captures this bizarre event on camera. With only a rusty ice skate and her limited knowledge of werewolves amassed from horror comics, Lucy and her family embark on an adventure to save Christmas. ‘Werewolf Santa’ is a unique holiday film that blurs the lines between quirky family drama and spine-tingly horror fantasy, offering an unconventional twist on the Christmas movie genre.

STARRING: Katherine Rodden, Mark Arnold, Emily Booth, Charlie Preston, Dave Darko

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The Tenant (1976) (4K Ultra HD Set) Available November 26

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Trelkovsky, freshly arrived in Paris, is in desperate need of a place to live. After inquiring at a large apartment complex run by the brooding Monsieur Zy, he’s offered the room of Simone Choule, a resident who recently attempted suicide by throwing herself out of the window. Undeterred by this macabre event, Trelkovsky is happy to move in. Shortly thereafter, he meets Stella, Simone’s friend, and does his best to comfort and befriend her. Quickly integrating into Stella’s bohemian social scene, Trelkovsky hopes that his life is finally turning a corner; that is, until his new neighbors begin acting strangely, making wild accusations against him, and displaying increasingly sinister and violent behaviors. As the weeks go on, Trelkovsky begins to suspect that something is very wrong in the stuffy old building and that Simone’s fatal plunge might not have been her own doing…

From maverick director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby) comes one of the most unusual and unsettling studio thrillers of the 1970s: The Tenant. Adapted from Roland Topor’s cult novel, Polanski casts himself in the lead, offering a uniquely demented and outrageously funny performance, and is supported by Melvyn Douglas (The Changeling), Shelly Winters (Night of the Hunter, Lolita), and Isabelle Adjani (Possession). Featuring cinematography by two-time Oscar® winner Sven Nykvist (Cries and Whispers) along with an original score by acclaimed composer Philippe Sarde (La Grande Bouffe), Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to present the 4K UHD debut of The Tenant, newly and exclusively restored in 4K from its original camera negative and featuring a wide array of new and archival extras including an expanded interview with Polanski himself.

STARRING: Roman Polanski, Melvyn Douglas, Shelly Winters, Isabelle Adjani

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Revenge of the Zombies (1943) Available November 26

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Celebrated celluloid creeper John Carradine (Bluebeard, The Black Sleep) strikes again in this undead classic made at the height of WWII. Monogram Pictures revamps the plot of its earlier hit, 1941’s King of the Zombies, as Scott Warrington (Mauritz Hugo) returns to his childhood home in the Louisiana bayou after learning that his deceased sister, Lila (Veda Ann Borg), may have been poisoned. He is shocked to discover that Lila’s husband, Dr. von Altermann (Carradine), is secretly a Nazi madman who has been perfecting a way to turn the dead, including Lila, into an army of zombies who will serve Hitler! Simultaneously spine-chilling and rib-tickling, Revenge of the Zombies was “the first movie to presume the audience knows what a ‘zombie’ is and not provide an explanation” (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia). With Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Mantan Moreland, Bob Steele and James Baskett; directed by cult-movie maven Steve Sekely (The Day of the Triffids).

STARRING: John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele

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Portraits Available November 26

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Mira inherits a building full of secrets and mysterious new friends. Will she survive long enough to uncover her family’s dark past, or will her friends draw her deeper into her new fate?

STARRING: Amanda Jones, Jack Bennett, Olivia Bellafontaine, Tally Smith, Elissa Dowling

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Pale Horse Available November 26

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Art, Love, and Dark Magic come together in this gothic tale of an eccentric man who summons a vengeful spirit to manifest his desires and make him a great artist.

STARRING: James Perish Dignam, Taylor Plecity, Alexandra Bard

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Night of the Missing (2023) Available November 26

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On a stormy Christmas eve night, a secretive, small-town sheriff gets a visit from a mysterious woman who recounts a series of bizarre stories involving missing persons. Both disturbing and unsettling, the most terrifying realization may be that the monster behind them is much closer than anyone thinks.

STARRING: Meredith Thomas, Jill Awbrey, Philip Estrin, Gigi Gustin

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Night (1996) Available November 26

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Night lays bare the planning, botched execution, and grisly aftermath of an attack on a brood of lethal vampires. Leading the deadly pack is Anthony Garring (Richard Cutler), once a rum-runner, now a crack-dealing suburban bloodsucker.

Night is a super unique and fun take on the vampire genre shot exclusively in New York in the mid-90s and never officially released. Only a handful of screener VHS were ever given away and it has been impossible to see until now. With a new transfer from the original master VHSHITFEST could not be happier to awaken this lost film from its tomb.

STARRING: Richard Cutler, Jillanne Smith

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Murder Party (2007) Available November 26

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On Halloween Eve in Brooklyn, an average Joe loser named Chris finds an invitation to a costume party. Arriving at the “party,” Chris discovers he’s fallen prey to a lethal trap set by deranged artists. As the night wears on, rivalries within the group flare up. A body count accrues, and Chris must take advantage of the ensuing chaos if he’s to survive the night.

STARRING: Chris Sharp, Kate Porterfield, Tess Porterfield Lovell, Macon Blair

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Karnal (1983) Available November 26

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A fork in the road brings Narcing (Phillip Salvador) back to his hometown of Mulawin, rumored to be located not so far from Hell. Freshly married, he arrives from Manila in the hopes of introducing his wife Puring (Cecille Castillo) to his relatives. Gusting (Vic Silayan), the family’s domineering patriarch, does not welcome the couple kindly. Still scarred by the suicide of wife, Gusting immediately resents his son for what he perceives as a betrayal: the loss of land-owning heritage to the vulgarity of city women. Spite mingles with jealousy, turning to something altogether more sinister when Narcing’s behavior begins mirroring that of his father who, in turn, begins noticing Puring’s uncanny resemblance to his wife.

Following Brutal (1980) and Moral (1982), Marilou Diaz-Abaya closes her informal feminist trilogy with Karnal, a striking example of Filipino Gothic set in the 1930s. Inspired by a sordid true crime story, what begins as archetypal Filipino melodrama soon turns to horror: a Village of the Damned-inspired study of the places that turn people into monsters and of the cruel, feudalistic patriarchy that continues to have deadly repercussions for Philippines politics today. The latter is embodied brilliantly by Vic Silayan, on the heels of a similar, monstrous turn as a tyrannical father in Kisapmata (1981).

STARRING: Charito Solis, Phillip Salvador, Vic Silayan, Cecille Castillo

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Inherit The Witch (2024) Available November 26

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In 1984, a family throws a 14th-birthday party for Cory and Jessie. 30 years later, what’s left of the family reunites for the father’s funeral at two isolated houses in the forest, historically a hotbed of witchcraft. There, horrific truths are slowly uncovered about the family’s occult pact with an ancient evil that has secretly been at the core of their wealth and power.

STARRING: Cradeaux Alexander, Rohan Quine, Heather Cairns, Christopher Sherwood, Imogen Smith

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In Memorium (2005) Available November 26

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Two years before Paranormal Activity, there was In Memorium—a chilling found footage haunted house movie from filmmaker Amanda Gusack. The story follows Dennis (Erik McDowell) and his partner Lily (Johanna Watts) as they install home security cameras to document Dennis’s struggles with a terminal disease. But soon, the cameras capture . . . something else. Never released on home video, In Memorium is a prescient exploration of generational trauma in the horror genre and an essential Analog Horror artifact.

STARRING: Erik McDowell, Johanna Watts, Levi Powell, Mary Portser

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Hush (2016) (Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available November 26

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In this minimalist thriller from director Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep), a deaf writer (Kate Seigel) who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.

STARRING: John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco, Kate Siegel

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Hollywood 90028 (1973) Available November 26

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Hollywood 90028 shows the dark side of the L.A. dream in the bleak and downbeat story of an aspiring movie cameraman turned serial murderer. Mark (Christopher Augustine) is a disturbed loner who toils in the sub-basement of the movie business as a cameraman shooting porno films for swinish boss Jobal (Dick Glass). In his off hours, Mark prowls the peep shows and strip clubs of Los Angeles to prey on random young women who he picks up and strangles to death. When Mark pursues a romantic interest in Michelle (Jeannette Dilger), a model who he films in one of Jobal’s sleazy movies, the grim reality behind the fantasy leads the frustrated cinematographer to shoot a different kind of Hollywood ending. Written and directed by esteemed experimental filmmaker Christina Hornisher, and beautifully captured through the lens of camera operator Jean-Pierre Geuens, who later shot the horror classic Lemora: A Child’s Tale Of The Supernatural, Hollywood 90028 offers a vivid time capsule of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

STARRING: Beverly Walker, Christopher Augustine, Dianna Huntress, Dick Glass

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