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A First Look At The Holiday Horror Comedy ‘Creatures’

From director Tony Jopia (interview), the filmmaker behind Cute Little Buggers and the executive producer of The Hive, Good Tidings, and Crying Wolf comes the new sci-fi horror comedy Creatures. In the film, A group of astronomy students gets more than they bargained for after finding an injured alien who is being targeted by a group of bloodthirsty alien Creatures.’ Jopia Productions and Creatures Media LLC wanted to create a Christmas themed creature feature that could sit alongside such classic movies as Night of the Creeps, Critters, Dead Heat, Ghoulies, They Live, and Gremlins. Our passion lies in melding practical and visual FX. We aim to deliver on the goods by bringing together some creatively nasty SFX, tremendous puppet creature work and VFX work that will blow fans of action, horroromedies truly away.” Director Tony Jopia states. “Creatures will definitely be delivering a Red Christmas this year! We’re super excited to be making our biggest movie yet, it’s going to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 12, 2020

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‘Wander Tales’ Horror Anthology Announces Filmmakers

“Since the beginning of time; urban legends, fairy tales, stories of monsters, madness, and wonder have lived inside of us all waiting for the chance to be told.” Now those fearsome fables are coming to life in the horror anthology Wander Tales. Composed of eight segments from eight filmmakers all over the world, the film takes fables from each filmmaker’s region and breathes life into them. Each filmmaker is given complete artistic freedom over their part. Wander Tales‘s creator and producer Nick Hunt (interview), the filmmaker behind the upcoming film Safe Place and the documentary The Dark Heart of Jason Voorhees: The Making of the Final Friday, will also be directing a segment of the film, starring David McMahon (American Guinea Pig). Hunt will be producing alongside Johnny Macabre (Crepitus) The other seven filmmakers include Sophia Cacciola (Blood of the Tribades ), Todd Nunes (All Through the House), upcoming, Stu Jopia (Good Tidings, Cute Little Biggers), Billy Pon (Circus of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 2, 2018

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An Interview With ‘Dawning Of The Dead’ And ‘Cute Little Buggers’ Director Tony Jopia

Tony Jopia, writer-director-producer of films such as Crying Wolf 3D, Cute Little Buggers, and the zombie film Dawning of the Dead, which just arrived on VOD, took the time to sit down and answer a few of our questions about his films. Horror Fuel: Do you remember the first horror film you saw? What was it and how old were you?” Tony Jopia: I got to see loads of black and white creature features like THEM! and The Black Scorpion from around 11years old when my father would wake me up to watch them on late night TV. Prior to this, I think The Wizard of OZ was pretty scary, I remember going to the cinema on a very rainy day with my dad when I was about 6 and getting freaked out by the monkeys and the green witch. The forest was spooky too. The first few films I call full-on horror, that had a massive impact on me,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 13, 2017

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Aliens Disguised As Creatures Wreak Havoc In The New ‘Cute Little Buggers’ Trailer

From the creator of ‘Deadtime’ and 2015’s ‘Crying Wolf’ comes the creature feature ‘Cute Little Buggers’. The third trailer has just been released for this fun film, directed by Tony Jopia. When hostile aliens crash land on local farmland in the English countryside. Villagers get suspicious when all the women begin to disappear. The villagers soon band together with the film’s hero, Melchoir, to fight off the invaders who are masquerading as forest animals. Caroline Munro, Gary Martin, Dani Thompson, Angela Holmes, Kumud Pant, Sara Dee, John R. Walker, Stu Jopia, Kristofer Dayne, and Sarah Bennett star in ‘Cute Little Buggers’, written by Garry Charles and Andy Davie. ‘Cute Little Buggers’ is set to be released on February 10, 2017. Check out the brand new trailer and get ready for the film, which I believe has all the hallmarks of being a new cult classic.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 6, 2016

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A New Horror Anthology Is Exploring The ‘Dark Continents’

Two-Headed Snake Entertainment in conjunction with Komet Films bring us ‘ Dark Continents, a new tale of terror in the style of Lovecraft meets (Clive) Barker. This dark anthology is comprised of five films from four different continents. Each segment explores the world of the supernatural while having the feel of Clive Barker’s ‘Hellraiser’. ‘American Mary’ star Tristan Risk stars along side ‘Game of Thrones’ actor Miltos Yerolemou in the U.K. segment of ‘Dark Continent’. Other talented actors star through out the film during the segments based in Norway, Belgium, and Greece. One by One, four companions board an international cargo liner. One by one they are stalked by a shape-shifting creature, who enjoys toying with their emotions and inflicting torment. The creature can manipulate the fabric of reality itself. Concept Art Along with Stu Bedford and Stu Jopia, the creators of the movie, Yannis Zafeiriou, Sam Hooper, Nick D’Hondt and Yorgos Kasfikis served as writers for ‘Dark Continent’. Bedford

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 5, 2015

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