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Foreign Horror ‘Achuora’ Coming To DVD And Digital

Director Talal Selhami’s foreign horror film Achoura is set to arrive on DVD and Digital this December from Dark Star Pictures. Following rave reviews at Cinepocalypse, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival, and more, North America gets to now witness the terrifying tale of a Moroccan legend. In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a terrifying legend, a Djinn, who during a religious festival, seizes the young in order to devour them. It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil.” Franco–Moroccan filmmaker Selhami said. “Fear cinema is therefore a kind of outlet for the viewer, unfortunately today too used to seeing atrocities through the media. Stories of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Award-Winning Hungarian Horror ‘Post Mortem’ Acquired By Black Mandala

Black Mandala has just announced that it has acquired the Hungarian horror film Post Mortem, directed by Péter Bergendy, which has been chosen to represent Hungary at the Oscars 2022 in the category of Best International Feature Film. Post Mortem premiered at the Warsaw and Sitges film festivals last year and went on to screen at more than 20 genre festivals, picking up prizes in Trieste, Fantasporto, Sombra, and Parma. Last week, the film was screened at the Toronto After Dark Film Festing, bringing home ten awards including Best Feature Film, Best Horror Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Fruzsina Hais), and Best Special Effects. Set at the end of the First World War, the film follows Tomás, a traveling photographer who wanders through Hungary and photographs the recently deceased. Following the premonitory call of a 10-year-old orphan girl, Anna arrives in a small town where an unusual number of supernatural phenomena occur. The spirits need to tell him something,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

New Clip Arrives Ahead Of Action Horror ‘Ouija Japan’s’ Release

Ahead of its release next week, we’ve got a new clip from the indie horror film Ouja Japan, the female-led action/horror film combines two popular horror elements: the Ouija and the Japanese Battle Royal. The film centers on Karen, an American housewife living in Japan who desperately wants to fit in with her Japanese community, until peer pressure forces her to play the Kokkuri-san (the Japanese Ouija) with the other housewives, unwittingly disrespecting a local deity, who sets them up to fight each other in a deadly game of battle royal. A mysterious app gets installed on their phones to aid them in their battle. It offers the women tools to fight each other, which they buy with credits. But they better be careful with their spending Ouija Japan is out now on Amazon Prime Video and arrives on October 19th on Blu-ray from Leomark Studios and TokyoSHOCK Japan.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

‘Detention’ Game Adaptation Makes Its US Premiere

The award-winning Taiwanese adaptation of Red Candle Games’ Detention is making its US premiere in theaters today. Set in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror. Martial law is in full force across the country. In a time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception to this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang (Fu Meng-Po) runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about banned books and dream of freedom. One of his club members, Fang (Gingle Wang, in a Golden Horse-nominated performance) is madly in love with him. The usually shy teenage girl from an abusive home manages to open up like a book in his presence. But then, Chang disappears… One night, Fang wakes up at her desk, the school around her changed and distorted. As she wanders through the sinister

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
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This September, A Woman Uncovers The Truth Of Her Past In The Horror Thriller ‘Censor’

Director Prano Bailey-Bond, who is making their feature debut, takes us into the world of “video nasties” in the new horror film Censor (review), out on DVD and On Demand this September. Starring Niamh Algar, the film centers on “Enid, who takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences against the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye gougings she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister, recently declared dead in absentia. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.” Prano Bailey-Bond and Anthony Fletcher penned the script for Censor that also stars. Michael Smiley, Nicholas Franklin, and Sophia La Porta also star. Bring home Censor on DVD and watch On Demand on September 14,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2021
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A Family Is Attacked In The New Exclusive Clip From The Road Rage Horror ‘Tailgate’

This August buckle up for the Dutch thriller Tailgate, in which a family’s road trip turns into a terrifying nightmare. We’ve got an exclusive in which the family is attacked by a stranger following a road rage-induced event. In Tailgate (aka Bumperkleef), Hans, his wife, and two young children hit the highway on a trip to visit family. After getting stuck behind a slow-moving van, he recklessly starts to antagonize the eerily stoic driver, blaring the horn and riding his bumper. Little does he realize that he’s just crossed the wrong motorist – a deranged madman who sets out to teach Hans a lesson he’ll not soon forget. Lured into an alarming game of vehicular cat and mouse, a simple family road trip turns into a deadly obstacle course in this nerve-wracking, pulse-pounding thriller, an Official Selection at the Sitges Film Festival and FrightFest. Written and directed by Lodewijk Crijns, the thriller stars Jeroen Spitzenberger and Anniek Pheifer. Tailgate makes

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 22, 2021
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Thai Horror ‘The Convent’ Gets A New Disturbing Trailer Ahead Of U.S. Release

A new trailer for the Thai horror The Convent has been released and it just might give you nightmares. Originally titled Run Phee and then Senior, writer-director Wisit Sasanatieng‘s film is finally coming to the states, we just don’t the exact date. The trailer includes some terrifying sights such as a ghost whose face is crawling with maggots, a spirit covered in eyes, and an angry ghost whose face is dripping with blood. The Convent centers on a young woman at a boarding school who can smell ghosts. She teams up with a dead classmate to uncover secrets that would prefer to remain buried. As they try to solve a mystery that began fifty years earlier with a murder, the two are faced with angry spirits hellbent on keeping the school’s secrets. Sa-Ard Piempongsan, Kara Polasit, and Pongsakorn Tosuwann star. ITN Distribution will be releasing the film in the U.S. As soon as we have a release date we’ll let

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2021
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Doctors Seek To Find Proof Of The After Life In Netflix’s ‘Ghost Lab’

Doctors try to prove there’s an afterlife in the new official trailer for Netflix‘s Thai horror Ghost Lab from director Paween Purijitpanya (Body, Phobia). “In this Thai horror film that marries science with the supernatural, an experiment about the afterlife goes awry when Gla and Wee, two medical doctor buddies see a ‘ghost’ with their own eyes for the first time. This encounter spawns an insatiable drive to find a scientific explanation for ghosts and to find proof of the afterlife. Their fixation and reckless pursuit of knowledge will take them down a rabbit hole that will cost them their friendship and their loved ones.” Thanapob Leeratanakachorn, Paris Intarakomalyasut, and Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich star. Ghost Lab premieres on Netflix on May 26, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2021
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Two New Clips Take Us Into ‘The Night’ – Out Now On VOD And Digital

To celebrate the release of the award-winning Iranian horror film The Night, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry calls “a gripping chiller” in his review, we’ve got two brand new clips to share with you. Directed and co-written by Kourosh Ahari, the film follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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A Family Finds Themselves Trapped And Terrified In ‘The Night’ Trailer

From director and co-writer, Kourosh Ahari comes the psychological thriller The Night, from the executive producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ahead of its January release, we’ve got the new trailer that teases a dark, unnerving movie. The psychological thriller follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical release

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021

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Foreign Horror ‘Achuora’ Coming To DVD And Digital

Director Talal Selhami’s foreign horror film Achoura is set to arrive on DVD and Digital this December from Dark Star Pictures. Following rave reviews at Cinepocalypse, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival, and more, North America gets to now witness the terrifying tale of a Moroccan legend. In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a terrifying legend, a Djinn, who during a religious festival, seizes the young in order to devour them. It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil.” Franco–Moroccan filmmaker Selhami said. “Fear cinema is therefore a kind of outlet for the viewer, unfortunately today too used to seeing atrocities through the media. Stories of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

Award-Winning Hungarian Horror ‘Post Mortem’ Acquired By Black Mandala

Black Mandala has just announced that it has acquired the Hungarian horror film Post Mortem, directed by Péter Bergendy, which has been chosen to represent Hungary at the Oscars 2022 in the category of Best International Feature Film. Post Mortem premiered at the Warsaw and Sitges film festivals last year and went on to screen at more than 20 genre festivals, picking up prizes in Trieste, Fantasporto, Sombra, and Parma. Last week, the film was screened at the Toronto After Dark Film Festing, bringing home ten awards including Best Feature Film, Best Horror Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Fruzsina Hais), and Best Special Effects. Set at the end of the First World War, the film follows Tomás, a traveling photographer who wanders through Hungary and photographs the recently deceased. Following the premonitory call of a 10-year-old orphan girl, Anna arrives in a small town where an unusual number of supernatural phenomena occur. The spirits need to tell him something,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

New Clip Arrives Ahead Of Action Horror ‘Ouija Japan’s’ Release

Ahead of its release next week, we’ve got a new clip from the indie horror film Ouja Japan, the female-led action/horror film combines two popular horror elements: the Ouija and the Japanese Battle Royal. The film centers on Karen, an American housewife living in Japan who desperately wants to fit in with her Japanese community, until peer pressure forces her to play the Kokkuri-san (the Japanese Ouija) with the other housewives, unwittingly disrespecting a local deity, who sets them up to fight each other in a deadly game of battle royal. A mysterious app gets installed on their phones to aid them in their battle. It offers the women tools to fight each other, which they buy with credits. But they better be careful with their spending Ouija Japan is out now on Amazon Prime Video and arrives on October 19th on Blu-ray from Leomark Studios and TokyoSHOCK Japan.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021

‘Detention’ Game Adaptation Makes Its US Premiere

The award-winning Taiwanese adaptation of Red Candle Games’ Detention is making its US premiere in theaters today. Set in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror. Martial law is in full force across the country. In a time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception to this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang (Fu Meng-Po) runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about banned books and dream of freedom. One of his club members, Fang (Gingle Wang, in a Golden Horse-nominated performance) is madly in love with him. The usually shy teenage girl from an abusive home manages to open up like a book in his presence. But then, Chang disappears… One night, Fang wakes up at her desk, the school around her changed and distorted. As she wanders through the sinister

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
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This September, A Woman Uncovers The Truth Of Her Past In The Horror Thriller ‘Censor’

Director Prano Bailey-Bond, who is making their feature debut, takes us into the world of “video nasties” in the new horror film Censor (review), out on DVD and On Demand this September. Starring Niamh Algar, the film centers on “Enid, who takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences against the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye gougings she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister, recently declared dead in absentia. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.” Prano Bailey-Bond and Anthony Fletcher penned the script for Censor that also stars. Michael Smiley, Nicholas Franklin, and Sophia La Porta also star. Bring home Censor on DVD and watch On Demand on September 14,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2021
Horror Fuel

A Family Is Attacked In The New Exclusive Clip From The Road Rage Horror ‘Tailgate’

This August buckle up for the Dutch thriller Tailgate, in which a family’s road trip turns into a terrifying nightmare. We’ve got an exclusive in which the family is attacked by a stranger following a road rage-induced event. In Tailgate (aka Bumperkleef), Hans, his wife, and two young children hit the highway on a trip to visit family. After getting stuck behind a slow-moving van, he recklessly starts to antagonize the eerily stoic driver, blaring the horn and riding his bumper. Little does he realize that he’s just crossed the wrong motorist – a deranged madman who sets out to teach Hans a lesson he’ll not soon forget. Lured into an alarming game of vehicular cat and mouse, a simple family road trip turns into a deadly obstacle course in this nerve-wracking, pulse-pounding thriller, an Official Selection at the Sitges Film Festival and FrightFest. Written and directed by Lodewijk Crijns, the thriller stars Jeroen Spitzenberger and Anniek Pheifer. Tailgate makes

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 22, 2021
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Thai Horror ‘The Convent’ Gets A New Disturbing Trailer Ahead Of U.S. Release

A new trailer for the Thai horror The Convent has been released and it just might give you nightmares. Originally titled Run Phee and then Senior, writer-director Wisit Sasanatieng‘s film is finally coming to the states, we just don’t the exact date. The trailer includes some terrifying sights such as a ghost whose face is crawling with maggots, a spirit covered in eyes, and an angry ghost whose face is dripping with blood. The Convent centers on a young woman at a boarding school who can smell ghosts. She teams up with a dead classmate to uncover secrets that would prefer to remain buried. As they try to solve a mystery that began fifty years earlier with a murder, the two are faced with angry spirits hellbent on keeping the school’s secrets. Sa-Ard Piempongsan, Kara Polasit, and Pongsakorn Tosuwann star. ITN Distribution will be releasing the film in the U.S. As soon as we have a release date we’ll let

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2021
Horror Fuel

Doctors Seek To Find Proof Of The After Life In Netflix’s ‘Ghost Lab’

Doctors try to prove there’s an afterlife in the new official trailer for Netflix‘s Thai horror Ghost Lab from director Paween Purijitpanya (Body, Phobia). “In this Thai horror film that marries science with the supernatural, an experiment about the afterlife goes awry when Gla and Wee, two medical doctor buddies see a ‘ghost’ with their own eyes for the first time. This encounter spawns an insatiable drive to find a scientific explanation for ghosts and to find proof of the afterlife. Their fixation and reckless pursuit of knowledge will take them down a rabbit hole that will cost them their friendship and their loved ones.” Thanapob Leeratanakachorn, Paris Intarakomalyasut, and Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich star. Ghost Lab premieres on Netflix on May 26, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2021
Horror Fuel

Two New Clips Take Us Into ‘The Night’ – Out Now On VOD And Digital

To celebrate the release of the award-winning Iranian horror film The Night, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry calls “a gripping chiller” in his review, we’ve got two brand new clips to share with you. Directed and co-written by Kourosh Ahari, the film follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
Horror Fuel

A Family Finds Themselves Trapped And Terrified In ‘The Night’ Trailer

From director and co-writer, Kourosh Ahari comes the psychological thriller The Night, from the executive producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ahead of its January release, we’ve got the new trailer that teases a dark, unnerving movie. The psychological thriller follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical release

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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