Movies

Dean Taylor (‘Chain Letter’) Launches New Genre Label

Published

14 years ago

February 5, 2010

Urban-focused production company Deon Taylor Enterprises has launched a genre label. “Nite Tales Presents” is inspired by “Nite Tales”, the 1998 horror anthology narrated by rapper Flavor Flav that Taylor co-wrote and served as executive producer on. Screen Daily reports that the company will create genre content for film and television as well as animated children’s series and a branded interactive online platform. Taylor (Chain Letter – penned by Thomas Fenton) will direct and produce for the label and collaborate with such writers as Thomas Fenton from Saw IV and Chain Letter. Flavor Flav has signed on as the recurring host and face of Nite Tales Presents. The first two features to go will be the two-part anthology Dark Christmas and Terminated. Check out a trailer for Terminated below.Screen Daily also reports that former NBA star basketball player Mitch Richmond joins Taylor as a partner and will serve as executive producer for the label. Another well-known name from basketball, Bobby Jackson, and current NFL American football player Ephraim Salaam are lending their financial heft as executive producers alongside DTE’s Roxanne Avent.

“There is a substantial market for original, high quality, urban-themed horror content and Nite Tales Presents is a label created to provide just that,” Taylor said.

Check out Taylor’s official website for more info on all of the films:

Movies

‘Frogman’ Leaping Onto SCREAMBOX and ‘Frogman 2’ in the Works!

Published

56 mins ago

May 31, 2024

John Squires

Pictured: 'Frogman'

The legend of the Frogman has taken the horror community by storm this year, and we’re excited to announce that the viral found footage hit is coming soon to SCREAMBOX.

Frogman will be streaming on SCREAMBOX beginning June 7, 2024!

Additionally, Dread Central reports this morning that Frogman 2 is in the works. Rotting Press and director Anthony Cousins are re-teaming for the upcoming sequel, which was teased with an early piece of poster art (see it on Dread) and an announcement video (below).

In Frogman, “In the summer of 1999, a 12-year-old named Dallas Kyle captured footage of the mythical Frogman, but no one believed it was real. Twenty years later, Dallas, now an amateur filmmaker struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns to Loveland with friends Amy and Scotty determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the Frogman exists.

“But what starts as an innocent documentary soon turns into a Lovecraftian nightmare as Dallas uncovers the horrific secrets hidden beneath Loveland’s idyllic surface.”

Nathan Tymoshuk, Chelsey Grant, Benny Barrett and Justen Jones star.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her mini review out of Popcorn Frights 2023, “Director Anthony Cousins takes on the cryptic Frogman via found footage in his feature directorial debut, co-written with John Karsko. In it, a trio of friends embarks on one final filmmaking hoorah before life takes them in separate directions. But in their bid to make one last attempt to capture the elusive cryptid Frogman on camera, they find far more than they ever bargained for.”

“Frogman adheres to the standard found footage blueprint and tropes, drawing heavily from The Blair Witch Project and Willow Creek as the trio starts by interviewing Loveland, Ohio, locals about their town’s cryptid mascot,” Meagan’s review continues. “Friction between the friends gets brought to the surface as they get closer to the truth. While Cousins’ debut doesn’t offer any narrative surprises and makes strange style choices for the camera, it makes up for it with impressive creature effects. The more the humans invade the Frogman’s turf, the more delightfully weird and gnarly things get. It’s an SFX showcase with delightfully deranged mythology that makes this one worth the price of admission.”