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Michael Winnick‘s Malicious held its world premiere at Cinepocalypse just a few weeks ago. Now, the trailer is here and it’s creepy af. In the film, a housewarming gift from hell terrorizes a young pregnant couple when a malevolent entity that will stop at nothing until it satisfies its morbid intentions is unleashed from a cursed antique box. The Collector actor Josh Stewart (interview) and Bojana Novakovic (Beyond Skyline) star along with Delroy Lindo (Marvel’s Most Wanted) star in this haunting tale. Melissa Bolona, Yvette Yates, and Jaqueline Fleming co-star. The film is produced by Shaun Redick, the executive producer of the Academy Award-winning cultural phenomenon Get Out. A release date should be announced soon.
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The Music Box Theatre is honored to announce the juried winners of the 2018 edition of Cinepocalypse. As the festival wraps today, it is also immensely proud to note that, in its sophomore year, the festival shattered its first year attendance record, and won accolades for its progressive, boundary-pushing, and phenomenal programming and guests.” The festival’s feature film jury, which was co-chaired by DOCTOR STRANGE director Scott Derrickson, screenwriter C. Robert Cargill, and Deputy Director of the Illinois Film Office Louis Ferrara have awarded “Best Film” to Robert Schwentke’s riveting World War II thriller THE CAPTAIN; “Best Screenplay” to Matt Leslie and Stephen Smith for their retro throwback mystery SUMMER OF ’84; and “Best Director” to Joko Anwar for his horrific, electrifying take on the haunted house genre, SATAN’S SLAVES (PENGABDI SETAN). Additional feature awards were given to Joe Cole, for “Best Actor” in A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN, and Paula Niedert Elliott, for “Best Actress” in CLARA’S GHOST. The festival
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It has now been announced that the “mind-bending” short Scifi/horror film Mainline is set to be screened at Chicago’s Cinepocalypse Film Festival on Saturday, June 23rd at 9:30 pm and Thursday, June 28th at 1:45 pm CT. Written and directed by Eric Kleifield, the short film is a “thrilling time-travel story that explores the dark side of advanced technology. Confined to his makeshift lab, a reclusive bioengineer must deal with the horrifying and deadly consequences of his injectable time-traveling serum.” The film made its world premiere at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in October 2017 and was nominated for both Best Horror Short Film and Best Short Film Director at the North Hollywood Cinefest in April 2018. “A lifelong sci-fi and horror fan, writer/director Eric Kleifield spent a year developing the film’s time-travel mechanics: “It took a lot of narrative experimentation, and many headache-inducing diagrams, to create a new take on time-travel that feels fresh and packs an emotional punch.
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Writer-director Kurt Knight‘s will take us back to medieval times with the supernatural thriller The Appearance, whose trailer has just arrived. Jake Stormoen (Extinct), “Game of Thrones” actor Kristian Nairn, Adam Johnson (Vamp U), and Baylee Self (The Outpost) star. “When a medieval monk unexpectedly dies in a horrific way, the Church sends Mateho the Inquisitor, a rational man of science, to investigate the alleged ‘witch’. When Mateho himself becomes implicated as more monks die mysteriously, he must learn that science cannot explain the horrors around him, before he is seduced by the evil that haunts this monastery. The Appearance will make its world premiere on Wednesday, June 27th at Cinepocalypse (you can get tickets here).
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Michael Winnick‘s Malicious held its world premiere at Cinepocalypse just a few weeks ago. Now, the trailer is here and it’s creepy af. In the film, a housewarming gift from hell terrorizes a young pregnant couple when a malevolent entity that will stop at nothing until it satisfies its morbid intentions is unleashed from a cursed antique box. The Collector actor Josh Stewart (interview) and Bojana Novakovic (Beyond Skyline) star along with Delroy Lindo (Marvel’s Most Wanted) star in this haunting tale. Melissa Bolona, Yvette Yates, and Jaqueline Fleming co-star. The film is produced by Shaun Redick, the executive producer of the Academy Award-winning cultural phenomenon Get Out. A release date should be announced soon.
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsMoviesNews
The Music Box Theatre is honored to announce the juried winners of the 2018 edition of Cinepocalypse. As the festival wraps today, it is also immensely proud to note that, in its sophomore year, the festival shattered its first year attendance record, and won accolades for its progressive, boundary-pushing, and phenomenal programming and guests.” The festival’s feature film jury, which was co-chaired by DOCTOR STRANGE director Scott Derrickson, screenwriter C. Robert Cargill, and Deputy Director of the Illinois Film Office Louis Ferrara have awarded “Best Film” to Robert Schwentke’s riveting World War II thriller THE CAPTAIN; “Best Screenplay” to Matt Leslie and Stephen Smith for their retro throwback mystery SUMMER OF ’84; and “Best Director” to Joko Anwar for his horrific, electrifying take on the haunted house genre, SATAN’S SLAVES (PENGABDI SETAN). Additional feature awards were given to Joe Cole, for “Best Actor” in A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN, and Paula Niedert Elliott, for “Best Actress” in CLARA’S GHOST. The festival
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Film Festivals
It has now been announced that the “mind-bending” short Scifi/horror film Mainline is set to be screened at Chicago’s Cinepocalypse Film Festival on Saturday, June 23rd at 9:30 pm and Thursday, June 28th at 1:45 pm CT. Written and directed by Eric Kleifield, the short film is a “thrilling time-travel story that explores the dark side of advanced technology. Confined to his makeshift lab, a reclusive bioengineer must deal with the horrifying and deadly consequences of his injectable time-traveling serum.” The film made its world premiere at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in October 2017 and was nominated for both Best Horror Short Film and Best Short Film Director at the North Hollywood Cinefest in April 2018. “A lifelong sci-fi and horror fan, writer/director Eric Kleifield spent a year developing the film’s time-travel mechanics: “It took a lot of narrative experimentation, and many headache-inducing diagrams, to create a new take on time-travel that feels fresh and packs an emotional punch.
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsIndieTrailers
Writer-director Kurt Knight‘s will take us back to medieval times with the supernatural thriller The Appearance, whose trailer has just arrived. Jake Stormoen (Extinct), “Game of Thrones” actor Kristian Nairn, Adam Johnson (Vamp U), and Baylee Self (The Outpost) star. “When a medieval monk unexpectedly dies in a horrific way, the Church sends Mateho the Inquisitor, a rational man of science, to investigate the alleged ‘witch’. When Mateho himself becomes implicated as more monks die mysteriously, he must learn that science cannot explain the horrors around him, before he is seduced by the evil that haunts this monastery. The Appearance will make its world premiere on Wednesday, June 27th at Cinepocalypse (you can get tickets here).
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