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This October Witness ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’

Writer-director Thomas Robert Lee takes viewers on a dark journey filled with religious paranoia, horror, and revenge set against the autumnal palette of the harvest season in 1973 in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw. The film explores the disturbing bond between Audrey, an enigmatic young woman, and Agatha, her domineering ‘mother’, who live secretly as occultists on the outskirts of a remote Protestant village. As the community is besieged by a pestilence of unknown origin: children, fields, and livestock begin to die — yet the Earnshaw farm remains strangely unaffected. As mass hysteria sets in the village, the townsfolk commence accusations against Audrey and Agatha of witchcraft. Catherine Walker, Jared Abrahamson, Hannah Emily Anderson, Geraldine O’Rawe, Don McKellar, and Sean McGinley star in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw, featuring Jessica Reynolds in the titular role of Audrey Earnshaw. I wanted to tell a story about legacy, and to specifically explore it within the context of a folk horror narrative,”says writer-director

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 1, 2020
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A First Look At The Nightmarish Film ‘Come True’ Ahead Of Fantasia Debut

Today, we have the first look at Come True, the new nightmarish sci-fi thriller from acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician Anthony Scott Burns, director of Our House. Starring Julia Sarah Stone (Honey Bee, The Killing) and Landon Liboiron (Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare), the film finds high school student Sarah (Stone) at her lowest point yet when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money and brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the overseeing scientist Jeremy (Liboiron). But there’s something curious about proceedings, and being under observation seems to make Sarah’s disturbing dreams even worse. As the darkness begins to close in, it’s soon clear that Sarah has unknowingly become the conduit to a horrifying, new discovery…” Written and directed by Burns, the film is executive produced by Vincenzo Natali

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2020
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‘Hail To The Deadites’ Doc Making World Premiere At Fantasia

It’s been seven years in the making, now Hail to the Deadites is finally set to make its world premiere at next month’s Fantasia International Film Festival. When it comes to a classic horror movie, you’ll be hard-pressed to find more loyal fans than that of the iconic Evil Dead franchise starring the oh so groovy Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, the chainsaw-handed lady’s man who makes slaying deadites his business. “Inspired by the 1981 classic’s cult following, Hail to the Deadites is a documentary about the fans of the Evil Dead franchise. Through interviews with the cast, crew, collectors, fans, freaks, and geeks, Hail to the Deadites seeks to illuminate the darkest reaches of the Evil Dead franchise’s undying and still-growing popularity, a popularity that has spawned four films, a TV series, comic books, figurines and surpassed even its creator’s wildest dreams. Hail to the Deadites puts the spotlight on the fans that cultivated and spread this groovy pop-culture

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 21, 2020
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The Duo Behind ‘Turbo Kid’ Unleash Killer Jeans In ‘Slaxx’ (Fantasia Trailer)

Produced by The Horror Collective parent company Entertainment Squad, SLAXX will be making its world premiere at this year’s prestigious Fantasia Film Festival. Ahead of its debut we have the trailer. The film is the latest collaboration between Anne-Marie Gélinas and Shaked Berenson, the duo the 2015 cult hit Turbo Kid. The film about a possessed pair of jeans comes to life and terrorizes the staff of a trendy, vapid clothing boutique, stars Romane Denis (True North), Brett Donahue (Total Recall), Sehar Bhojani (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Kenny Wong (“Jack Ryan”), Tianna Nori (“Letterkenny”), and Hanneke Talbot (Ready or Not). SLAXX was directed by Elza Kaphert, who co-wrote the film alongside Patricia Gomez who produces with Anne-Marie Gélinas. Shaked Berenson acts as executive producer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 12, 2020

More from Fantasia 2020

Horror Fuel

This October Witness ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’

Writer-director Thomas Robert Lee takes viewers on a dark journey filled with religious paranoia, horror, and revenge set against the autumnal palette of the harvest season in 1973 in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw. The film explores the disturbing bond between Audrey, an enigmatic young woman, and Agatha, her domineering ‘mother’, who live secretly as occultists on the outskirts of a remote Protestant village. As the community is besieged by a pestilence of unknown origin: children, fields, and livestock begin to die — yet the Earnshaw farm remains strangely unaffected. As mass hysteria sets in the village, the townsfolk commence accusations against Audrey and Agatha of witchcraft. Catherine Walker, Jared Abrahamson, Hannah Emily Anderson, Geraldine O’Rawe, Don McKellar, and Sean McGinley star in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw, featuring Jessica Reynolds in the titular role of Audrey Earnshaw. I wanted to tell a story about legacy, and to specifically explore it within the context of a folk horror narrative,”says writer-director

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 1, 2020
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A First Look At The Nightmarish Film ‘Come True’ Ahead Of Fantasia Debut

Today, we have the first look at Come True, the new nightmarish sci-fi thriller from acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician Anthony Scott Burns, director of Our House. Starring Julia Sarah Stone (Honey Bee, The Killing) and Landon Liboiron (Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare), the film finds high school student Sarah (Stone) at her lowest point yet when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money and brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the overseeing scientist Jeremy (Liboiron). But there’s something curious about proceedings, and being under observation seems to make Sarah’s disturbing dreams even worse. As the darkness begins to close in, it’s soon clear that Sarah has unknowingly become the conduit to a horrifying, new discovery…” Written and directed by Burns, the film is executive produced by Vincenzo Natali

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2020
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‘Hail To The Deadites’ Doc Making World Premiere At Fantasia

It’s been seven years in the making, now Hail to the Deadites is finally set to make its world premiere at next month’s Fantasia International Film Festival. When it comes to a classic horror movie, you’ll be hard-pressed to find more loyal fans than that of the iconic Evil Dead franchise starring the oh so groovy Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, the chainsaw-handed lady’s man who makes slaying deadites his business. “Inspired by the 1981 classic’s cult following, Hail to the Deadites is a documentary about the fans of the Evil Dead franchise. Through interviews with the cast, crew, collectors, fans, freaks, and geeks, Hail to the Deadites seeks to illuminate the darkest reaches of the Evil Dead franchise’s undying and still-growing popularity, a popularity that has spawned four films, a TV series, comic books, figurines and surpassed even its creator’s wildest dreams. Hail to the Deadites puts the spotlight on the fans that cultivated and spread this groovy pop-culture

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 21, 2020
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The Duo Behind ‘Turbo Kid’ Unleash Killer Jeans In ‘Slaxx’ (Fantasia Trailer)

Produced by The Horror Collective parent company Entertainment Squad, SLAXX will be making its world premiere at this year’s prestigious Fantasia Film Festival. Ahead of its debut we have the trailer. The film is the latest collaboration between Anne-Marie Gélinas and Shaked Berenson, the duo the 2015 cult hit Turbo Kid. The film about a possessed pair of jeans comes to life and terrorizes the staff of a trendy, vapid clothing boutique, stars Romane Denis (True North), Brett Donahue (Total Recall), Sehar Bhojani (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Kenny Wong (“Jack Ryan”), Tianna Nori (“Letterkenny”), and Hanneke Talbot (Ready or Not). SLAXX was directed by Elza Kaphert, who co-wrote the film alongside Patricia Gomez who produces with Anne-Marie Gélinas. Shaked Berenson acts as executive producer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 12, 2020