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Let’s be honest, we’ve all wondered what would happen if two of horror’s biggest icons, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers, were to face off against each other. Now, a fan film from the YouTube channel CallMeJeff86 has done what no studio has had the balls to do, bring the battle to life. Simply titled Michael Myers Versus Jason Voorhees, the fight is depicted in a three-part short film released this January, written and directed by Mason C. McDonald. Jeff Payne stars as Michael Myers, with Dustin Miller starring as Jason Voorhees. John Alton plays the role of a vengeful father. Behold the long-awaited battle between horror titans.
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Ten years following the release of director Daisuke Sato’s short film The Fog Horn, based off of Ray Bradbury’s short story, a new short film is on the way, titled Howl from Beyond the Fog. The filmmaker has teamed up with legendary special FX master Keizô Murase (Goliathon, The H-Man) to bring to life a monster with the use of puppetry, miniatures, and a mixture of practical FX and CGI. The environment and atmosphere of the film will be conveyed by expressing everything within the work as a model this includes the human element as well. People will be depicted using half sized puppets fitted with special make up technology that with help show expressions uniquely different from traditional puppet theater. The scale of the environmental models will fit seamlessly with the puppets. Howl from Beyond the Fog is set during the Meiji reformation era in a small village in Kyushu, Japan. The story revolves around a young boy named
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Oats Studios has unveiled the trailer for the next short film in the series from director Neill Blomkamp (Elysium, Chappie), titled Lima. Lima is released following its predecessors Rakka, Firebase, Zygote. Together they are known as The Oats Studios Volume 1. Once the series is complete, one or more are likely to become a feature film. In an interview Blomkamp gave us a little taste of what Lima is about. Lima’ is more like a thriller, sort of a conspiracy thriller. It’s a slightly different genre, unlike the three that are out.” Blomkamp continued. “That one is a little slower burn. That is the final piece coming out from this first batch.” The film, which longer than the other films in The Oats Studios Volume 1 collection, will explore “the ideas of multinational corporations, secret government programs and failed scientific experiments”. If you would like to read our entire interview with Neill Blomkamp you can do so HERE.
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Seraph film has announced its annual Halloween Short Horror Film Night. This year the short film Lankershim Boulevard will be holding its premiere at the event in Los Angeles on October 25, 2017. “Seraph Films is thrilled to announce its fifth annual Halloween Short Horror Film Night which will serve as the premiere for Seraph’s most recent short film, LANKERSHIM BOULEVARD. This film was produced from the winning script of Seraph’s recent short film screenplay competition. Directed by Gene Blalock and written by Andrew Martin, LANKERSHIM BOULEVARD tells the quirky story of a raging party’s aftermath and a deranged killer on the loose. Stars: Tyler Adams, Neville Bryant-Poppelwell, Mike Sjoerdsma, and Kristen Walker.” Joined by other horror shorts, LANKERSHIM BOULEVARD will be shown at Seraph’s upcoming Short Horror Film Night at Club Bahia on October 25th. A red carpet pre-show cocktail mixer and dinner party begins at 8 pm, with the 21 and older show starting at 9. Tickets are
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Last month, a short film contest for Annabelle: Creation (review), from director David F. Sandberg, was announced. Filmmakers were asked to create a short film, lasting 2 minutes or less, that would fit into The Conjuring universe. Filmmaker Julian Terry’s The Nurse has been named the winner for the US portion with his film The Nurse. The UK and Mexico winners are still out. As part of his prize, he will be going on an all-expense paid trip to Hollywood where he will meet with New Line Cinema and David F. Sandberg. In the terrifying short a young girl with her eyes bandaged feels as if she’s not alone. At some point, everyone has had that feeling, like they were not alone in the dark and that something terrible is lurking close by and terror sets in. That is was the girl is feeling. Terry was great at expressing that. There is no word if the short will be adapted
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Writer-Director George J. Fraser’s short horror film Happenstance is now making its rounds at film festivals. On March 15, Happenstance premiered at Chunky’s Cinema in Haverhill, Massachusetts to a sold out crowd along with Patrick Rea’s Pillow Fright, Andy Stewart’s Ink and other short films. The 12-minute short stars Kevin Whittier as a serial killer trying to fill the whole in his heart and his stomach with his victims. On a night out the killer stumbles across a damsel in distress (Christina Kostoulakos). Will she be his next victim or will she be much more? Charmaine Jossick, Michael Nelson, Sophia Nazzaro and Stabatha La Thrills co-star along side Whittier and Kostoulakos Happenstance is a uniquely twisted love story filled with gore. The short film’s emphasis is on happenstance: something that happens by chance; a series of random and coincidental events that brings to strangers together. I had the opportunity to watch an advance screening of Happenstance. It’s creative, interesting and
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Sam Raimi, the man behind the Evil Dead franchise, has made a new short horror film, sort of, it’s actually a commercial for Chevrolet. The horror inspired commercial will be shown in 2,300 theaters nation wide of the next six months. “We approached the development of the Chevrolet trailer in the same way we would an actual movie – by thinking through the plot, characters and eventual outcome.” Raimi told Ad Week in a statement quoted by Bloody-Distgusting. “I’ve been in plenty of theaters where the audience is so concerned for the safety of the main characters that they call out warnings to save them. That’s what this is based on.” The commercial poses the scenario “What would happen if someone was there to warn you that something bad was about to happen?”. The advertisement ends “With an impressive array of available active safety features, the all new 2016 Chevy Malibu and Chevy Cruze can help you avoid danger.”
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Kat Threlkeld, who won best director at Mostra Amazona Cinema Festival in Brazil this year for her short film, Seiren, is already getting a lot of attention. In fact, the mermaid-horror was also featured at this year’s Blood in the Snow Festival. It’s great to see another talented female director in the horror genre, we have so few in comparison with the number of male directors. I’ve been following Seiren for a while now. I was very excited to finally be able to see it last night and it did not disappoint. It began with a model on the beach, during a photo shoot. Soon she moves into the water for her next pose. Suddenly she screams, she’s bitten by something, what it was, she did not see. After returning home she falls ill and strange behavior over takes her. I won’t say any more about the plot, I would not want to spoil it for you. We see few
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The short film ‘Foxed!’ has had such a successful run at festivals and has been so well received that David Cronnenberg has decided to adapt it into a feature film, with Martin Katz producing. James E.D. Stewart directed ‘Foxed!’ along side Nev Bezaire, who also penned the film. Athena Karkanis lends her voice to the main character Emily and the mother’s voice belongs to actress Fiona Highet. In ‘Foxed’ a little girl named Emily is kidnapped by foxes and forced to slave away in a mine beneath her home. When she finally has a chance to run she finds her way to a two-way mirror. On the other side she can see her mother at home talking the fox that has replaced her. The short stop-animation film is dark and is not designed with children in mind. It tackles a dark subject and does it well. Even though the film is short I was left thinking about it for days.
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Michael Kehoe is the writer/director of ‘Hush’ , a short film taking film festivals by storm. Every time I check my Twitter feed or talk with Michael there is a new update and another award. I’ve never seen anything like it. ‘Hush’ truly is fantastic and knowing that there will be a full length film has me really excited. You see, the short is actually one scene from the movie. I recently interviewed Michael about ‘Hush’ you can read the full interview here : https://horrorfuel.com/horror/reviews-horror/an-interview-with-michael-kehoe-writerdirector-of-hush-2 I caught up with Michael on Friday to get an update and find out how everything was going. KM “Since our interview you have been racking up awards for ‘Hush’. What awards have you gotten since the last time we talked?” MK “We’ve won two more awards for ‘Best Horror Film’, and one award for ‘Best Cinematography’ , I wanted Director of Photography John Connor to win. He was instrumental in making it happen. After
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Let’s be honest, we’ve all wondered what would happen if two of horror’s biggest icons, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers, were to face off against each other. Now, a fan film from the YouTube channel CallMeJeff86 has done what no studio has had the balls to do, bring the battle to life. Simply titled Michael Myers Versus Jason Voorhees, the fight is depicted in a three-part short film released this January, written and directed by Mason C. McDonald. Jeff Payne stars as Michael Myers, with Dustin Miller starring as Jason Voorhees. John Alton plays the role of a vengeful father. Behold the long-awaited battle between horror titans.
Continue reading →
Trailers
Ten years following the release of director Daisuke Sato’s short film The Fog Horn, based off of Ray Bradbury’s short story, a new short film is on the way, titled Howl from Beyond the Fog. The filmmaker has teamed up with legendary special FX master Keizô Murase (Goliathon, The H-Man) to bring to life a monster with the use of puppetry, miniatures, and a mixture of practical FX and CGI. The environment and atmosphere of the film will be conveyed by expressing everything within the work as a model this includes the human element as well. People will be depicted using half sized puppets fitted with special make up technology that with help show expressions uniquely different from traditional puppet theater. The scale of the environmental models will fit seamlessly with the puppets. Howl from Beyond the Fog is set during the Meiji reformation era in a small village in Kyushu, Japan. The story revolves around a young boy named
Continue reading →
Trailers
Oats Studios has unveiled the trailer for the next short film in the series from director Neill Blomkamp (Elysium, Chappie), titled Lima. Lima is released following its predecessors Rakka, Firebase, Zygote. Together they are known as The Oats Studios Volume 1. Once the series is complete, one or more are likely to become a feature film. In an interview Blomkamp gave us a little taste of what Lima is about. Lima’ is more like a thriller, sort of a conspiracy thriller. It’s a slightly different genre, unlike the three that are out.” Blomkamp continued. “That one is a little slower burn. That is the final piece coming out from this first batch.” The film, which longer than the other films in The Oats Studios Volume 1 collection, will explore “the ideas of multinational corporations, secret government programs and failed scientific experiments”. If you would like to read our entire interview with Neill Blomkamp you can do so HERE.
Continue reading →
EventsHalloween
Seraph film has announced its annual Halloween Short Horror Film Night. This year the short film Lankershim Boulevard will be holding its premiere at the event in Los Angeles on October 25, 2017. “Seraph Films is thrilled to announce its fifth annual Halloween Short Horror Film Night which will serve as the premiere for Seraph’s most recent short film, LANKERSHIM BOULEVARD. This film was produced from the winning script of Seraph’s recent short film screenplay competition. Directed by Gene Blalock and written by Andrew Martin, LANKERSHIM BOULEVARD tells the quirky story of a raging party’s aftermath and a deranged killer on the loose. Stars: Tyler Adams, Neville Bryant-Poppelwell, Mike Sjoerdsma, and Kristen Walker.” Joined by other horror shorts, LANKERSHIM BOULEVARD will be shown at Seraph’s upcoming Short Horror Film Night at Club Bahia on October 25th. A red carpet pre-show cocktail mixer and dinner party begins at 8 pm, with the 21 and older show starting at 9. Tickets are
Continue reading →
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Last month, a short film contest for Annabelle: Creation (review), from director David F. Sandberg, was announced. Filmmakers were asked to create a short film, lasting 2 minutes or less, that would fit into The Conjuring universe. Filmmaker Julian Terry’s The Nurse has been named the winner for the US portion with his film The Nurse. The UK and Mexico winners are still out. As part of his prize, he will be going on an all-expense paid trip to Hollywood where he will meet with New Line Cinema and David F. Sandberg. In the terrifying short a young girl with her eyes bandaged feels as if she’s not alone. At some point, everyone has had that feeling, like they were not alone in the dark and that something terrible is lurking close by and terror sets in. That is was the girl is feeling. Terry was great at expressing that. There is no word if the short will be adapted
Continue reading →
News
Writer-Director George J. Fraser’s short horror film Happenstance is now making its rounds at film festivals. On March 15, Happenstance premiered at Chunky’s Cinema in Haverhill, Massachusetts to a sold out crowd along with Patrick Rea’s Pillow Fright, Andy Stewart’s Ink and other short films. The 12-minute short stars Kevin Whittier as a serial killer trying to fill the whole in his heart and his stomach with his victims. On a night out the killer stumbles across a damsel in distress (Christina Kostoulakos). Will she be his next victim or will she be much more? Charmaine Jossick, Michael Nelson, Sophia Nazzaro and Stabatha La Thrills co-star along side Whittier and Kostoulakos Happenstance is a uniquely twisted love story filled with gore. The short film’s emphasis is on happenstance: something that happens by chance; a series of random and coincidental events that brings to strangers together. I had the opportunity to watch an advance screening of Happenstance. It’s creative, interesting and
Continue reading →
News
Sam Raimi, the man behind the Evil Dead franchise, has made a new short horror film, sort of, it’s actually a commercial for Chevrolet. The horror inspired commercial will be shown in 2,300 theaters nation wide of the next six months. “We approached the development of the Chevrolet trailer in the same way we would an actual movie – by thinking through the plot, characters and eventual outcome.” Raimi told Ad Week in a statement quoted by Bloody-Distgusting. “I’ve been in plenty of theaters where the audience is so concerned for the safety of the main characters that they call out warnings to save them. That’s what this is based on.” The commercial poses the scenario “What would happen if someone was there to warn you that something bad was about to happen?”. The advertisement ends “With an impressive array of available active safety features, the all new 2016 Chevy Malibu and Chevy Cruze can help you avoid danger.”
Continue reading →
Reviews
Kat Threlkeld, who won best director at Mostra Amazona Cinema Festival in Brazil this year for her short film, Seiren, is already getting a lot of attention. In fact, the mermaid-horror was also featured at this year’s Blood in the Snow Festival. It’s great to see another talented female director in the horror genre, we have so few in comparison with the number of male directors. I’ve been following Seiren for a while now. I was very excited to finally be able to see it last night and it did not disappoint. It began with a model on the beach, during a photo shoot. Soon she moves into the water for her next pose. Suddenly she screams, she’s bitten by something, what it was, she did not see. After returning home she falls ill and strange behavior over takes her. I won’t say any more about the plot, I would not want to spoil it for you. We see few
Continue reading →
Reviews
The short film ‘Foxed!’ has had such a successful run at festivals and has been so well received that David Cronnenberg has decided to adapt it into a feature film, with Martin Katz producing. James E.D. Stewart directed ‘Foxed!’ along side Nev Bezaire, who also penned the film. Athena Karkanis lends her voice to the main character Emily and the mother’s voice belongs to actress Fiona Highet. In ‘Foxed’ a little girl named Emily is kidnapped by foxes and forced to slave away in a mine beneath her home. When she finally has a chance to run she finds her way to a two-way mirror. On the other side she can see her mother at home talking the fox that has replaced her. The short stop-animation film is dark and is not designed with children in mind. It tackles a dark subject and does it well. Even though the film is short I was left thinking about it for days.
Continue reading →
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Michael Kehoe is the writer/director of ‘Hush’ , a short film taking film festivals by storm. Every time I check my Twitter feed or talk with Michael there is a new update and another award. I’ve never seen anything like it. ‘Hush’ truly is fantastic and knowing that there will be a full length film has me really excited. You see, the short is actually one scene from the movie. I recently interviewed Michael about ‘Hush’ you can read the full interview here : https://horrorfuel.com/horror/reviews-horror/an-interview-with-michael-kehoe-writerdirector-of-hush-2 I caught up with Michael on Friday to get an update and find out how everything was going. KM “Since our interview you have been racking up awards for ‘Hush’. What awards have you gotten since the last time we talked?” MK “We’ve won two more awards for ‘Best Horror Film’, and one award for ‘Best Cinematography’ , I wanted Director of Photography John Connor to win. He was instrumental in making it happen. After
Continue reading →
