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Dark Secrets Put A Woman In Danger In The Psychological Thriller ‘Help’ (Trailer)

Ridder Films, in association with executive producer Lucas A. Ferrara, have now shared the new trailer and poster for their award-winning psychological thriller HELP, which will be available on digital download in the USA and Canada this February. In the film, “A young woman’s life turns chaotic when she uncovers a deadly secret about her friend…A painful breakup prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio starts the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Everyone has a secret…” Louis James (The English Teacher, A Simple Robbery), Emily Redpath (Romeo and Juliet, Casualty), and Sarah Alexandra Marks (Glamour, Psychosis) star with a cameo performance from iconic boyband Blue’s very own Duncan James! I met Louis whilst filming in Liverpool, a mutual friend introduced

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 18, 2021

Danish Horror ‘Breeder’ Sees Women Forced Into Horrible Experiments

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the Danish horror, Breeder, from Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017. Produced by Maria Møller Christoffersen (Koko-Di Koko-Da), Breeder sees women being abducted for bio-hacking experiments. One of the women, Mia, begins to work out the truth – can she escape from this nightmare? Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, the film stars Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Signe Egholm Olsen, Anders Heinrichsen, and Morten Holst. BREEDER is a superbly crafted horror film with a real-world reminder that we live in a world measured by youth and beauty. This is a film about the effects of ageing, how the world looks upon you once you do, and a miraculous cure- at a cost”, said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “I’m excited for audiences to experience the film in January”. Breeder screened at a number of leading film festivals including Sitges in Catalonia, Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021

Watch The Japanese Legend Inspired Short Film ‘Stay Pretty, No Pity’ Now

From Tokyo Bay Films, and filmmaker Wilco C.Rullens, comes the terrifying short horror film Stay Pretty, No Pity – available to watch below. Starring Maria Ozawa, the 11-minute long film is based on the Japanese folklore of Oiwa Yotsuya (Yotsuya Kaidan) that was born from a true story from the Edo period. The tale tells of a samurai that had his beautiful wife killed because she became deformed, only to be haunted by her vision until he went insane and killed himself. Now hundreds of years later, Yotsuya is back! Out to punish more ugly characters by recruiting the pretty. In the film, Lucy (half Japanese/half American) just escaped from an abusive relationship and took refuge with her new American roommate. Things turn horrible fast for her when a ghost shows her seemingly random images and gives her three days. The clock starts ticking. She will have to solve the mystery of the visions, find the clues within them, to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 30, 2021

Shudder Moves Up Premiere Of French Horror Film ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
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Shudder Announces New Premiere Date For French Thriller ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Two Teens Discover The Horrors Of A Religious Retreat In The ‘Children Of Sin’ Trailer

CWM Entertainment has unveiled the new trailer for the terrifying new independent horror film, Children of Sin, from writer-director Christopher Wesley Moore who also brought you A Stranger Among the Living, Triggered, and Blessed Are the Children. The film follows Emma, a pregnant teenager, and Jackson, her gay brother, who are sent to Abraham House – a secluded religious retreat for young adults – by their abusive stepfather to rid them of their sinning ways. Soon, they start to suspect that Abraham House has a more sinister way of cleansing their souls than they could have ever imagined. For Abraham House has a motto – if you don’t leave a different person, you won’t be leaving at all. Children of Sin stars Meredith Mohler (Triggered), Lewis Hines (Boots and Trenches), and Jo Ann Robinson (Scalps). The film is currently in post-production and will be released in 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Filipno Action-Horror ‘Circle Of Bones’ Is Out Today

Circle of Bones, a Filipino independent horror-action film written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Vincent Soberano, is out now. International action star Sarah Chang stars alongside Jana Victoria, Marela Torre, Ian Ignacio, and Epy Quizon, with a cameo of the Philippines’ iconic actor Joel Torre. The film is based on Vincent Soberano’s unpublished book, “Yawa” – tales of local superstitions and modern-day urban legends of the Visayas region. Set on the picturesque island of Panglao, Bohol, the story is told by a lone survivor of a mysterious cult suspected of mass murders and human sacrifices. In the film, when the Filipino police investigate the lone survivor from a series of bizarre and macabre cult murder-sacrifices that has left a trail of bloody, dismembered bodies and bones, they find a former American FBI agent living in seclusion – disfigured, traumatized and mentally unstable. Her accounts of supernatural events, demonic possessions, ancient prophecies, and child sacrifices only sound too incredulous, where lines

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

We’ve Got The First Look At ‘Room 9 Part 2’

Today, we’ve got a sneak peek of writer-director Thomas Walton‘s upcoming indie horror Room 9 Part 2: They Turned Us Into Killers to share with our readers. The sequel to this year’s Room 9 stars Scout Taylor-Compton, Lauren Francesca, and Brian Anthony Wilson with Bryce Draper, Brandon Irons, and Maritza Brikisak co-starring. the sequel also features appearances by horror icons, Kane Hodder and Michael Berryman. It is produced by Thomas Walton, Jared Safier, Navid Sanati, and Lauren Francesca. Coming soon from Safier Entertainment, PhilaDreams Films, and Step by Step Pictures. In the first movie, “Long ago, Room 9 of the Johnson/Bedford Inn, located in a remote small town, was the site of a gruesome double murder. Decades later, with the town terrorized once again by a string of bloody ritual killings, a mysterious woman named Star arrives to investigate and suffers bizarre flashbacks related to the inn’s slayings. Is she connected to the killings…or the inn’s next victim?” Room 9

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Dark Comedy-Thriller ‘The Estate’ Slashing Its Way Into Theaters & Onto VOD

Director James Kapner makes his feature debut with The Estate, part dark comedy, part thriller, which reminds us that family reunions can be brutal. In the film, when a narcissistic son (Chris Baker), yearning for a life of luxury, and his father’s erratic gold-digging wife (Eliza Coupe) decide to kill their way into their inheritance, they employ the help of an absurdly handsome, mysterious hitman (Greg Finley), initiating a psychosexual love triangle that spirals into more than anyone bargained for. Deftly balancing sharp humor and horror, The Estate delivers a perfectly campy, wildly enjoyable thrill ride that packs a deadly punch. Written by Chris Baker, The Estate also stars Eliza Coupe, Chris Baker, Lala Kent, Heather Matazarro, and Eric Roberts. The Estate debuts in theaters and VOD on October 22, 2021, from Vertical Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Red Band Trailer Teases The Horrors Of ‘Isolation’

Eleven filmmakers have joined forces for Isolation. The new Red Band trailer has just arrived giving us a glimpse of the unnerving film comprised of nine tales of survival filmed during lockdown. As a narrative framework, Director and Producer, Nathan Crooker created a fictional world many months into the future that is based around the current global pandemic. All eleven filmmakers used the same unifying framework in creating their stories. The filmmakers were tasked with how to stay creative using only what was available to them at the time. They were not allowed to use Zoom or any other video conferencing services and were only allowed to use the equipment and resources they had with them when they entered into lockdown, including cast and crew, adhering to their respective COVID-19 protocols. The impressive list of directors also includes Dennie Gordon (Jack Ryan, Legion, Hunters, Waco), Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter, Habit, Depraved”), Bobby Roe, (The Houses October Built 1&2), Andrew

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

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Dark Secrets Put A Woman In Danger In The Psychological Thriller ‘Help’ (Trailer)

Ridder Films, in association with executive producer Lucas A. Ferrara, have now shared the new trailer and poster for their award-winning psychological thriller HELP, which will be available on digital download in the USA and Canada this February. In the film, “A young woman’s life turns chaotic when she uncovers a deadly secret about her friend…A painful breakup prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio starts the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Everyone has a secret…” Louis James (The English Teacher, A Simple Robbery), Emily Redpath (Romeo and Juliet, Casualty), and Sarah Alexandra Marks (Glamour, Psychosis) star with a cameo performance from iconic boyband Blue’s very own Duncan James! I met Louis whilst filming in Liverpool, a mutual friend introduced

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 18, 2021

Danish Horror ‘Breeder’ Sees Women Forced Into Horrible Experiments

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the Danish horror, Breeder, from Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017. Produced by Maria Møller Christoffersen (Koko-Di Koko-Da), Breeder sees women being abducted for bio-hacking experiments. One of the women, Mia, begins to work out the truth – can she escape from this nightmare? Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, the film stars Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Signe Egholm Olsen, Anders Heinrichsen, and Morten Holst. BREEDER is a superbly crafted horror film with a real-world reminder that we live in a world measured by youth and beauty. This is a film about the effects of ageing, how the world looks upon you once you do, and a miraculous cure- at a cost”, said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “I’m excited for audiences to experience the film in January”. Breeder screened at a number of leading film festivals including Sitges in Catalonia, Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021

Watch The Japanese Legend Inspired Short Film ‘Stay Pretty, No Pity’ Now

From Tokyo Bay Films, and filmmaker Wilco C.Rullens, comes the terrifying short horror film Stay Pretty, No Pity – available to watch below. Starring Maria Ozawa, the 11-minute long film is based on the Japanese folklore of Oiwa Yotsuya (Yotsuya Kaidan) that was born from a true story from the Edo period. The tale tells of a samurai that had his beautiful wife killed because she became deformed, only to be haunted by her vision until he went insane and killed himself. Now hundreds of years later, Yotsuya is back! Out to punish more ugly characters by recruiting the pretty. In the film, Lucy (half Japanese/half American) just escaped from an abusive relationship and took refuge with her new American roommate. Things turn horrible fast for her when a ghost shows her seemingly random images and gives her three days. The clock starts ticking. She will have to solve the mystery of the visions, find the clues within them, to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 30, 2021

Shudder Moves Up Premiere Of French Horror Film ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Horror Fuel

Shudder Announces New Premiere Date For French Thriller ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Two Teens Discover The Horrors Of A Religious Retreat In The ‘Children Of Sin’ Trailer

CWM Entertainment has unveiled the new trailer for the terrifying new independent horror film, Children of Sin, from writer-director Christopher Wesley Moore who also brought you A Stranger Among the Living, Triggered, and Blessed Are the Children. The film follows Emma, a pregnant teenager, and Jackson, her gay brother, who are sent to Abraham House – a secluded religious retreat for young adults – by their abusive stepfather to rid them of their sinning ways. Soon, they start to suspect that Abraham House has a more sinister way of cleansing their souls than they could have ever imagined. For Abraham House has a motto – if you don’t leave a different person, you won’t be leaving at all. Children of Sin stars Meredith Mohler (Triggered), Lewis Hines (Boots and Trenches), and Jo Ann Robinson (Scalps). The film is currently in post-production and will be released in 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Filipno Action-Horror ‘Circle Of Bones’ Is Out Today

Circle of Bones, a Filipino independent horror-action film written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Vincent Soberano, is out now. International action star Sarah Chang stars alongside Jana Victoria, Marela Torre, Ian Ignacio, and Epy Quizon, with a cameo of the Philippines’ iconic actor Joel Torre. The film is based on Vincent Soberano’s unpublished book, “Yawa” – tales of local superstitions and modern-day urban legends of the Visayas region. Set on the picturesque island of Panglao, Bohol, the story is told by a lone survivor of a mysterious cult suspected of mass murders and human sacrifices. In the film, when the Filipino police investigate the lone survivor from a series of bizarre and macabre cult murder-sacrifices that has left a trail of bloody, dismembered bodies and bones, they find a former American FBI agent living in seclusion – disfigured, traumatized and mentally unstable. Her accounts of supernatural events, demonic possessions, ancient prophecies, and child sacrifices only sound too incredulous, where lines

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

We’ve Got The First Look At ‘Room 9 Part 2’

Today, we’ve got a sneak peek of writer-director Thomas Walton‘s upcoming indie horror Room 9 Part 2: They Turned Us Into Killers to share with our readers. The sequel to this year’s Room 9 stars Scout Taylor-Compton, Lauren Francesca, and Brian Anthony Wilson with Bryce Draper, Brandon Irons, and Maritza Brikisak co-starring. the sequel also features appearances by horror icons, Kane Hodder and Michael Berryman. It is produced by Thomas Walton, Jared Safier, Navid Sanati, and Lauren Francesca. Coming soon from Safier Entertainment, PhilaDreams Films, and Step by Step Pictures. In the first movie, “Long ago, Room 9 of the Johnson/Bedford Inn, located in a remote small town, was the site of a gruesome double murder. Decades later, with the town terrorized once again by a string of bloody ritual killings, a mysterious woman named Star arrives to investigate and suffers bizarre flashbacks related to the inn’s slayings. Is she connected to the killings…or the inn’s next victim?” Room 9

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Dark Comedy-Thriller ‘The Estate’ Slashing Its Way Into Theaters & Onto VOD

Director James Kapner makes his feature debut with The Estate, part dark comedy, part thriller, which reminds us that family reunions can be brutal. In the film, when a narcissistic son (Chris Baker), yearning for a life of luxury, and his father’s erratic gold-digging wife (Eliza Coupe) decide to kill their way into their inheritance, they employ the help of an absurdly handsome, mysterious hitman (Greg Finley), initiating a psychosexual love triangle that spirals into more than anyone bargained for. Deftly balancing sharp humor and horror, The Estate delivers a perfectly campy, wildly enjoyable thrill ride that packs a deadly punch. Written by Chris Baker, The Estate also stars Eliza Coupe, Chris Baker, Lala Kent, Heather Matazarro, and Eric Roberts. The Estate debuts in theaters and VOD on October 22, 2021, from Vertical Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Red Band Trailer Teases The Horrors Of ‘Isolation’

Eleven filmmakers have joined forces for Isolation. The new Red Band trailer has just arrived giving us a glimpse of the unnerving film comprised of nine tales of survival filmed during lockdown. As a narrative framework, Director and Producer, Nathan Crooker created a fictional world many months into the future that is based around the current global pandemic. All eleven filmmakers used the same unifying framework in creating their stories. The filmmakers were tasked with how to stay creative using only what was available to them at the time. They were not allowed to use Zoom or any other video conferencing services and were only allowed to use the equipment and resources they had with them when they entered into lockdown, including cast and crew, adhering to their respective COVID-19 protocols. The impressive list of directors also includes Dennie Gordon (Jack Ryan, Legion, Hunters, Waco), Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter, Habit, Depraved”), Bobby Roe, (The Houses October Built 1&2), Andrew

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
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