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Film Adaptation of Nicholas Vince’s One-Man Show I AM MONSTERS! Receives Exclusive Limited Edition Blu-Ray Release

Actor Nicholas Vince, best known for his roles as the Chatterer in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and Kinski (Moon Face) in Nightbreed, is the subject of his own one-man show I Am Monsters!. The film adaptation of this stage show is now available for preorder, with the first 500 Blu-rays copies in a Signed Collectors Numbered Limited Edition that boasts a slipcover designed by celebrated graphic artist Graham Humphreys. Following is the official press announcement. PREORDER NOW! “In this extraordinary confessional, Nick charms and chills us, mingling the witty and the nightmarish”. (Clive Barker) Nicholas Vince’s movie adaptation of his one-man show I AM MONSTERS! gets the Deluxe treatment with a special 500 signed limited-edition Blu Ray, which will be available to pre-order from Oct 1, 2024. The Blu Ray extras will include four postcards, slipcover designed by celebrated graphic artist Graham Humphreys, four short films written / directed by Nick, a four-page booklet. and an exclusive interview, hosted by Emmerdale

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Joseph Perry

Oct 4, 2024

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Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Halloween 2024 Lineup: From Time Travel to Serial Killers and Beyond

London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Halloween film festival is the place to be for fright-fare fanatics! The event features horror and science fiction features with world, international, and U.K. premieres aplenty. Following is the official press announcement. Following the success of its spectacular 25th Anniversary August five-day event, the UK’s most popular genre film festival returns to the Odeon Luxe West End in Leicester Square. Taking over both screens on Friday 1st November and Saturday 2nd November, the Halloween special will feature nine premiere titles from six countries, spanning Europe, North America, South America and Asia, making it a truly spine-chilling display of global talent. Each film will be screened twice. Tickets Opening the event is the UK premiere of Sam Yates’s MAGPIE, a darkly intense psychological thriller which thrives in its classic neo-noir atmosphere, eliciting tension that is seconds away from permanently snapping. Daisy Ridley delivers a tour de force performance as a neglected wife on the edge, and will

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Joseph Perry

Oct 4, 2024

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Spoiler-Free Review: THE SEVERED SUN (Fantastic Fest)

Writer/director Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun (U.K., 2024) is an engrossing work that takes folk horror elements and sets them in an ambiguous time period — the story could be taking place in the past but a couple of items suggest that it could also be set in an isolated rural area in the present day. The Pastor (Toby Stephens) leads a village of followers who must adhere to his religious moral code. The upstanding reputations of the men of the village must be upheld, even if it means covering up or ignoring their physical and mental abuse toward family members. When the pastor’s daughter Magpie (Emma Appleton) decides to no longer take such abuse from her husband toward his sons and her, she kills him, and some of the other flock members are suspicious of her claims of the death being an accident. Magpie grows further away from the strict religious regiment demanded of the Pastor’s followers to the

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Joseph Perry

Sep 30, 2024

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Spoiler-Free Reviews: WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? and FACES (Fantastic Fest)

What Happened to Dorothy Bell? An interesting investigation of familial trauma and mental illness through a horror lens, What Happened to Dorothy Bell? uses a combination of vintage-style footage (not found footage, to clarify, although the approach is similar) and present-day proceedings. Protagonist Ozzie (Asya Meadows) was attacked when she was a child by her titular grandmother (Arlene Arnone Bibbs). Now a young adult, Ozzie searches for answers to why that happened and also about her grandmother’s disappearance. As might be expected with a family as the focus in a horror film, skeletons lurk in the closet and the supernatural may well be at play. What Happened to Dorothy Bell? has the feel of a gateway horror film, with its surprises and shocks not approaching very scary levels nor reveling in gory effects work. Lingering shots of rooms in which something may or may not happen in the background and noises from other rooms make for most of the suspenseful

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Joseph Perry

Sep 27, 2024

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Screamfest Announces a Lineup Worth Shrieking About

Los Angeles’s Screamfest has announced its second wave lineup, so its full slate of chillers and thrillers for its October 8–17 run is now available for fright-fare fanatics to drool over. Following is the official press announcement. Screamfest® Horror Film Festival, the largest and longest-running horror film festival in the United States, is excited to announce its opening and closing night events as well as additional features. Taking place from October 8 to 17, 2024, at the TCL Chinese Theater, Screamfest® will kick off the festival with award-winning filmmaker Joseph Kahn’s (Bodied), sci-fi/horror satire ICK, which will have its West Coast premiere with a red-carpet gala screening on Tuesday, October 8. ICK follows ex-jock turned science teacher Hank (Brandon Routh) who is stuck in his hometown, dreaming of a life as a professional athlete. While teaching chemistry, he reconnects with his high school crush’s daughter, Grace (Malina Weissman). When a mysterious substance called the “Ick” begins to spread through Eastbrook,

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Joseph Perry

Sep 26, 2024

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Nightmares Film Festival Announces Its Full 2024 Lineup

Nightmares Film Festival has unveiled its complete lineup for its 2024 edition! The fest, running in Columbus, Ohio from October 17–20, is chock full of tantalizing horror cinema selections and incredible events. Following is the official press announcement. Nightmares Film Festival, FilmFreeway’s #1-ranked genre fest, today revealed its 2024 program of #BetterHorror, including one-of-a-kind live experiences and workshops alongside its heralded film and screenplay slate. The four-day Nightmare program once again delivers a must-see feature lineup collected from new and beloved genre voices around the world, with highlights including the genre-smashing martial arts/horror-revenge actioner Sayara from Can Evrenol (Baskin); gruesome remote-town thriller The Soul Eater from Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (Inside, Leatherface); the world premiere of Jason Trost (The FP)’s The Waves of Madness, the first-ever side-scrolling horror film; the North American premiere of attendee favorite Johannes Grenzfurthner’s POV nightmare Solvent; and the world premiere of Ohio-made body horror feature Replicator from Mark Hamer (Helen Hunt-starrer I See You).

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Joseph Perry

Sep 26, 2024

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Spoiler-Free Review: BEEZEL

Official synopsis: Over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors — an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the souls of the living. Director Aaron Fradkin’s Beezel is a take-no-prisoners occult horror movie — just ask the little boy who gets offed within the first few minutes — that deals in otherworldly eeriness and impressive practical effects work. With the film’s lean, mean 82-minutes running time, Fradkin, who cowrote the screenplay with Victoria Fratz, keeps the suspense coming at a fine clip. Beezel plays like an anthology film with a strong connection between its three stories: the titular blind witch and the house that contains the basement in which she lurks. Beezel is a bloodthirsty one, and she gets her cravings met in a variety of gruesome ways. The film opens with what I feel is the strongest segment, which finds a budding documentarian (LeJon

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Joseph Perry

Sep 24, 2024

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Albuquerque’s Dark Red Film Festival Announces Its 2024 Lineup

New Mexico’s Dark Red Film Festival is set to send shivers down the spines of fear-fare aficionados when it hits multiple screens in Albuquerque from October 25–27, 2024. The fest features dozens of horror shorts that run the gamut from the supernatural to the super shocking. Following is the official press announcement. The Dark Red Film Festival, New Mexico’s premier international horror film festival, is set to return to Albuquerque from October 25-27, 2024. Recognized as one of Movie Maker Magazine’s top 5 “Best Places to Live and Work as a MovieMaker” for the last six years, Albuquerque provides a dynamic backdrop for this celebration of independent horror cinema. Recommended as one of New York Film Academy’s “Top Film Festivals to Submit To,” Dark Red Film Festival is dedicated to elevating the horror genre. Crafted by filmmakers, the festival will unite a vibrant community of filmmakers and horror enthusiasts over the course of three days at two iconic Albuquerque venues.

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Joseph Perry

Sep 19, 2024

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L.A.’s Beyond Fest Announces Its Monstrous 12th Edition Lineup

Horror, science fiction, thrillers, and other fantastic genres of cinema, with world premieres, classic favorites, and retrospectives: Los Angeles’s Beyond Fest has it all from September 25th–October 9th for its mighty 12th edition. Following is the official press announcement. Beyond Fest, the biggest and highest-attended genre film festival in the US, is excited to announce its complete slate of 2024 programming comprising 82 features, including 16 World Premieres, 4 International Premieres, 1 North American Premiere, 3 US Premieres, and 25 West Coast Premieres. After entertaining over 25,000 guests in 2023, Beyond Fest returns for its 12th edition spanning September 25th – October 9th. Presented exclusively by NEON and programmed and produced in partnership with the American Cinematheque, Beyond Fest returns to the Egyptian Theatre, Aero Theatre, Los Feliz 3, and Vista Theatre with all ticket sales going to the 501(c)(3) non-profit film institution. Beyond Fest opens with the World Premiere of Gary Dauberman’s chilling adaptation of Stephen King’s seminal novel

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Joseph Perry

Sep 13, 2024

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Unnamed Footage Festival Virtual Version Kicks Off This Friday . . . the 13th!

Found footage and faux documentary fright-fare aficionados, Unnamed Footage Festival has a virtual event this weekend that you won’t want to miss! From world premieres to repertory titles to secret screenings, this one-time-only event looks to be a blast! Following is the official press announcement. The Unnamed Footage Festival’s annual virtual festival returns, officially beginning this weekend on the cursed evening of Friday the 13th at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. The stream, which goes live an hour early with a pre-show, will feature 17 found footage horror, first person POV, and faux documentary feature films, over a dozen short films, and a wraparound of original never-before-seen and never-to-be-seen-again footage sourced for the festival. #UFF24HR24’s lineup features a tantalizing variety of in-world camera films, including world premieres, repertory screenings, and secret screenings with many filmmakers in attendance, answering questions and giving behind-the-scenes info in the livechat accompanying the stream. The live streamed film festival, which must be watched live and

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Joseph Perry

Sep 12, 2024

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