Alex Essoe has a lot of horror credits to her name. Starry Eyes, Tales of Halloween, Doctor Sleep, Death of Me, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, Trim Season, The Pope’s Exorcist… the list goes on. Lou Taylor Pucci’s genre credits include the 2013 Evil Dead and episodes of American Horror Story. And now, Essoe and Pucci are going to earn a new horror credit together, as they’re set to star in a horror film called The Avalanche.

The Avalanche will mark the feature directorial debut of Johnny Coffeen, who has previously directed several short films (his 2016 short The Swan Girl was screened at David Lynch’s Festival Of Disruption and won a Student Academy Award) and worked as an Assistant Editor on Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12. Deadline reports that this psychological horror film will center on two former lovers forced together by an avalanche that cuts them off from the world. 

Here’s the synopsis: As the weight of their shared history begins to crack the thin veneer of civility, strange apparitions stir in the dark corners of their shelter. Reality and paranoia bleed together as buried secrets claw their way to the surface, leaving them to question whether the true danger lies outside the cabin—or within.

Jamie Parslow is producing The Avalanche, with Emily Zercher and Shane Brady serving as co-producers. Deadline adds that the cinematographer is Evan Zissimopulos (Breathing Happy), the art designer is Danielle Lopez (Disney+’s Stan Lee), and this project will be the production design debut of fine art sculptor John Frame (Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Faust).

The Avalanche will be filming by the end of this month.

I’m a fan of Essoe’s work and Pucci did well dealing with Deadites in Evil Dead (even though he was fool enough to read the Book of the Dead out loud), so I’m looking forward to seeing how this project is going to turn out.

Does The Avalanche sound interesting to you? Share your thoughts on this Alex Essoe / Lou Taylor Pucci psychological horror project by leaving a comment below.

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It’s time for everyone’s favorite class. Marvel Rivals, much like its direct inspiration Overwatch, is plagued with players who just want to collect kills on a scoreboard. That means, if you’re running with randos, that it’s entirely possible you’ll end up with a team of people who instalock their favorite…

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It’s time for everyone’s favorite class. Marvel Rivals, much like its direct inspiration Overwatch, is plagued with players who just want to collect kills on a scoreboard. That means, if you’re running with randos, that it’s entirely possible you’ll end up with a team of people who instalock their favorite…

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Jared Padalecki will trade his Stetson for a mask and scrubs as he reteams with Walker showrunner Anna Fricke for a new medical drama developing at CBS. The untitled one-hour series finds Padalecki playing a doctor treating patients using rural medicine. Rural, of course, refers to medical establishments outside of massive community hospitals. Rural medical facilities are typically in semi-remote areas, meaning treatment is out of the way.

According to Deadline‘s exclusive report, Anna Fricke’s untitled Texas medical drama revolves around a headstrong, devoted country doctor (Padalecki) who practices his unique style of improvisational medicine alongside his new protégé, a young doctor running from her past. Together, they operate a mobile clinic and heal the bodies and souls of their underserved community in the medical desert of rural Texas.

Similar to the arrangement for Walker, Anna Fricke executive produces with Laura Terry via Fricke’s Pursued by a Bear, which could be the best name for a studio ever. Jared Padalecki and Dan Spilo also executive produce.

Additionally, Deadline says signing on for Fricke’s untitled Texas medical drama does not affect Padalecki’s participation in headlining a Fire County spinoff. The upcoming television project, Fire County: Surfside, is in its early stages of development.

“Anna Fricke is a fantastic producer, and Jared is a great producer and lead; he was a really good number one,” CBS Studios President David Stapf said about Padalecki and Fricke joining forces for another series.

Jared Padalecki started making waves in Hollywood when he played Dean Forester, Rory Gilmore’s on-again, off-again romantic partner. After appearing in movies like House of Wax, Cry Wolf, Christmas Cottage, and the Friday the 13th reboot, Padalecki got his most significant television role as Sam Winchester, brother to Jensen Ackles’ Dean Winchester, in The CW’s Supernatural. The dark fantasy show ran for 15 seasons, resulting in 327 episodes. Padalecki followed his Supernatural tenure with 69 episodes of Walker, then a three-episode run on Fire County.

Padalecki and Fricke make a great team, and it should be interesting to see how they tackle a unique setup for the upcoming untitled Texas medical drama.

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Jake Busey has taken on aliens in the likes of The Predator and Starship Troopers, vampires in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, and was even a rampaging ghost himself in The Frighteners. With credits like The Reckoning, The Lair, and Duchess, we’ve also seen Charlotte Kirk face off with a variety of threats. But Busey and Kirk are set to take on their biggest challenge yet in the upcoming horror comedy CATnip: feral killer cats.

Coming Soon reports that CATnip is scheduled to begin filming in Los Angeles next month. Written and directed by Nyle Cavazos Garcia, who is also producing the film with Rob Margolies and Keli Price, CATnip is described as “Gremlins for grown-ups.”

Here’s the synopsis: The Betancourt family has just moved from the projects of New York City to an up-and-coming neighborhood in San Pedro, CA, hoping for a fresh start and better life. Immediately, they feel like outcasts and are not welcomed by their eclectic neighbors as they had hoped. A thick, dangerous fog from LA Harbor forces everybody to stay indoors on Christmas Eve, and things go quickly from bad to worse when the apartment building is overtaken by a horde of blood-thirsty, feral killer cats. Now the family and their new neighbors must band together and overcome their differences if they are going to fend off the cats and survive until Christmas morning.

Busey and Kirk are joined in the cast by Geoffrey Arend (500 Days of Summer), Lorelei Linklater (American Trash), Kylee Levien (Roswell Delirium), Lord Kraven (S.W.A.T.), and Christian Calloway (Destroy All Neighbors), plus a pair who have experiencing working on major horror franchises: Brooke Bundy, who played an unhelpful mother in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, and Tiffany Helm, who met a bad end in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

Are you interested in watching this cast battle feral killer cats in CATnip? Share your thoughts on this horror comedy by leaving a comment below. Here’s a poster to check out while you’re scrolling down:

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Shuhei Yoshida first joined Sony back during 1993 before the first PlayStation shipped. Now, over three decades later, he’s taking his leave, after helping ship dozens of legendary games and bringing many, many more to the platform from developers big and small throughout the rest of the world. His parting gift to PS5…

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Shuhei Yoshida first joined Sony back during 1993 before the first PlayStation shipped. Now, over three decades later, he’s taking his leave, after helping ship dozens of legendary games and bringing many, many more to the platform from developers big and small throughout the rest of the world. His parting gift to PS5…

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It’s time to take NBC‘s comedic sitcom St. Denis Medical off life support because the show is getting a Season 2 renewal! Fans of the series created by Superstore and American Auto’s Eric Ledgin and Justin Spitzer have been stuck in the waiting room while hoping for more episodes of the laugh-out-loud comedy, and today, news outlets are ready to give them the good news!

St. Denis Medical takes place in an underfunded, understaffed Pregon hospital for a mockumentary-style sitcom. The show places audiences in the scrubs of determined doctors and nurses who work tirelessly to treat patients while holding tightly to their tolerance and humanity. Anyone who’s ever worked in the medical field or experienced an extended hospital stay knows how stressful a hospital environment can be, and the staff of St. Denis Medical do their best to keep the unpredictable environment safe, light-hearted, and functioning.

Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids, Blended, The Goldbergs), David Alan Grier (In Living Color, Blankman, Tales From the Hood), Allison Tolman (Krampus, The Gift, Why Women Kill), Josh Lawson (Mortal Kombat, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, The Little Death), Kahyun Kim (Cocaine Bear, American Gods, Freaky Friday), Mekki Leeper (Jury Duty, Mag Mell, Fintech), and Kaliko Kauahi (Ghosts, Superstore, American Auto) lead the series, while a rotating cast of patients test their every nerve.

The series airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT following the rebooted Night Court, currently in its third season, and streams the next day on Peacock.

Since the November 12 premiere of St. Denis Medical, the show’s popularity skyrocketed, making it NBC’s best show of the broadcast season in the 18-49 demographic. While the first episode got a quiet launch, positive word of mouth quickly spread, netting the show an 82% increase in viewership with episode 2.

As someone with an extensive medical history, I’m surprised I haven’t heard about St. Denis Medical until now. Hospitals aren’t typically a place I associate with humor. Then again, Scrubs was fun, and I remember how a handful of episodes gave us some of television’s most rewarding and dramatic moments in the early 2000s. Are you looking forward to St. Denis Medical Season 2? Let us know in the comments section below.

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The free Xbox app is a great way to manage Game Pass, check out what your friends on Xbox Live are doing, and even earn some Microsoft reward points, too. But did you also know that inside the app is a free puzzle game that is fun to play and can earn you credits toward your next Xbox purchase? It’s true!

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The free Xbox app is a great way to manage Game Pass, check out what your friends on Xbox Live are doing, and even earn some Microsoft reward points, too. But did you also know that inside the app is a free puzzle game that is fun to play and can earn you credits toward your next Xbox purchase? It’s true!

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