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You may have taken wrong turns with horror movie protagonists and wound up in terrifying rural areas with them before, but you have never been on a ride quite like the one the main characters go through in director Devereux Milburn’s macabre Honeydew. The film is a dizzying, discomfiting experience full of surprises that gives a new flavor to backwoods fright fare. Rylie (Malin Barr) is a PhD student researching a strain of fungus that affects wheat crops. She and her actor boyfriend Sam (Sawyer Spielberg) travel to a rural area affected by the fungus as part of her work for dissertation. When a landowner tells them that they must leave his property immediately but their car won’t start, they stumble upon a house owned by eldery farmer Karen (Barbara Kingsley), who calls her neighbor to come give their battery a jump. He doesn’t show, so the young couple winds up eating a meal with Karen and her adult son
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Director Maximillano Contenti’s Uruguayan shocker The Last Matinee (AKA Red Screening and its original title of Al morir la matinée) goes all in on the thrills and gore in its telling of a murderer going on a bloody rampage inside a cinema. The film is a hybrid of slasher movie motifs and giallo film aesthetics, with an obvious love for cinemas — from the ticket and projection booths to the seats to areas you never knew existed — added for good measure. Ana (Luciana Grasso) is a university student whose father works as a projectionist in a Montevideo cinema in the early 1990s. She insists one rainy night that he go home and rest rather than working a double shift, as she has watched him enough over the years to know how to work the equipment. Planning to study while a horror movie unspools for the audience — which includes a couple on an awkward date, three drunk minors and
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The Fantasia International Film Festival had a hugely successful virtual version in 2020, and the fest will be online again this year as it celebrates its 25th edition. Today Fantasia announced that its opening film will be Québécois zombie comedy Brain Freeze from director Julien Knafo, and revealed the ultracool poster for its 2021 edition. Following is the official press announcement. The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th edition as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada, with a dynamic program of scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops running from August 5 through August 25, 2021, once again using the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, the festival will be following advice from local health authorities, with the possibility of also adding a range of flagship physical events to the lineup. Last summer’s virtual edition was a phenomenal success, screening to 85000 spectators and amassing a record amount of
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Humble Bundle has launched its April Bundle on Humble Choice where proceeds go towards this month’s charity of choice, in short, Gamers buy/play games for charity. Starting now, Humble Choice has added 12 new games to its lineup with titles like Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts, Remotherd: Broken Porcelain, Rock of Ages III, and more! For a limited time, new customers can sign up for Choice Premium and get access to all Choice Games for 12 months at $12 a month. The promotion will end on May 4 at 9:59 AM PT. Proceeds from this month’s bundle go to Stop AAPI Hate. The complete Game lineup: Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts F1 2020 Shenmue 3 Main Assembly Rock of Ages 3 Remothered: Broken Porcelain In Other Waters Aven Colony Simulacra 1 + 2 Colt Canyon Skully Popup Dungeon
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Decal, the newly formed home entertainment distributor from Neon and Bleecker Street, has obtained the North American rights to the South African horror-thriller Gaia, directed by Jaco Bouwer. Set to be released this summer, the film stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi, and Alex Van Dyk and made its debut at SXSW. The film centers on a park ranger on a surveillance mission in a primordial forest who encounters two survivalists living a post-apocalyptic lifestyle. The boy and his philosophical father seem to have their own religion and a mysterious relationship to nature. Tertius Kapp penned the screenplay and is producing the film along with Bouwer and Jorrie van der Walt, Deadline reports.
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The ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most iconic horror films ever made. How awesome would it be to watch the movie in the actual house it was filmed in and stay for a sleepover? You can! The second annual “Texas Chainsaw Massacre Sleepover” is set to happen in Kingsland, Texas, giving horror fans and one of a kind experience on Sunday, December 5, 2021, and Monday, December 6th! On Set Cinema returns to Texas this December. A limited number of fans (only 13 max each night) will get the opportunity to not only hang out and watch Texas Chainsaw inside the house but will also get to stay all night inside the iconic location! On Set Cinema will be clearing out Grand Central Café for the coolest horror slumber party ever! There will be a big TV inside the room where the infamous dining room scene took place and they’ll have a Texas Chain Saw-a-thon all night long
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Thriller, horror, surrealism, dark comedy, and neo noir elements — director George Louis Bartlett’s genre-mashing Demon has all of those and more. It’s an ambitious independent film from the United Kingdom that is sometimes grounded and sometimes all over the map, but always intriguing. Ralph (Ryan Walker-Edwards) goes on the run after a small fine he incurred while oversleeping past his stop on a train balloons into a large amount that he can’t afford to pay. With the help of his friend Kent (Jacob Hawley), he holes up in an old forest motel to try to elude a bailiff bent on collecting the fine. While there, he goes through a series of real and imagined situations ranging from the bizarre to the terrifying to the deadly. Bartlett, who cowrote the screenplay with Theo McDonald, has created an interesting character in Ralph and surrounded him with quirky characters and weird proceedings. Shot mostly in black-and-white, the director knows his budgetary limitations
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Highly acclaimed Brazilian genre film festival will hold its seventeenth edition from April 9th through the 18th, 2021, showcasing 160 shorts and features from around the world. From the Mexico-set folk horror of The Old Ways to the French dark fantasy Jumbo to the Canadian science fiction feature Parallel Minds, the fest offers an incredible array of top-notch genre films. Following is the official press announcement. As previously announced, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil’s long-running Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival will celebrate its seventeenth edition completely online and free of charge. The 2021 edition of the beloved South American genre festival is supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government, which is offered to relevant cultural events amidst the pandemic. The festival has renewed its partnership with Darkflix, Brazil’s immensely popular streaming service aimed at fantastic genre cinema. Fantaspoa’s festival directors are keenly aware of the fact that no live events will take place in the cinemas of
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Writer/director Stacey Gregg’s Here Before (U.K., 2021) is a Northern Ireland-set feature in which a mother begins to believe that the new neighbors’ young daughter may be the reincarnation of her own deceased daughter. The film is a gripping examination of grief bolstered by a terrific performance from Andrea Riseborough. Laura (Riseborough) is a rather well-adjusted person, considering her daughter died a few years earlier. She still grieves, but has a seemingly happy, loving relationship with her husband Brendan (Jonjo O’Neill) and their teen son Tadgh (Lewis McAskie). When new neighbors move in next door with a little girl of their own — Niamh Dornan as Megan — who would be right around the age of Laura’s daughter, Laura and Megan hit it off with rides home from school and dinner invitations. Things take a puzzling turn for Laura, though, when Megan insists that she has been in the area before — according to her parents, she hasn’t — and
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Writer/director Mickey Keating’s latest horror film is Offseason, a terrific, atmospheric chiller that blends Lovecraftian themes, Southern Gothic, conspiracy thriller, and other elements. The result is a brooding stranger-in-a-familiar-yet-strange-land offering that delivers the creeps quite satisfactorily. Marie (Jocelin Donahue) and her significant other George (Joe Swanberg) travel to the island where her mother Ava (Melora Walters), a once famous actress, was buried after the cemetery caretaker wrote, saying that Ava’s grave had been desecrated. The couple must get past the Bridge Man (Richard Brake), who initially refuses them admittance to the island because storm season is starting, and once they do, they find the locals to be less than welcoming and forthcoming — with no sign of a caretaker. Marie and George attempt to leave the island the same way they came, but instead find the road blocked where it was open just moments earlier. They then find themselves in increasing danger as they try to piece together the strange
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You may have taken wrong turns with horror movie protagonists and wound up in terrifying rural areas with them before, but you have never been on a ride quite like the one the main characters go through in director Devereux Milburn’s macabre Honeydew. The film is a dizzying, discomfiting experience full of surprises that gives a new flavor to backwoods fright fare. Rylie (Malin Barr) is a PhD student researching a strain of fungus that affects wheat crops. She and her actor boyfriend Sam (Sawyer Spielberg) travel to a rural area affected by the fungus as part of her work for dissertation. When a landowner tells them that they must leave his property immediately but their car won’t start, they stumble upon a house owned by eldery farmer Karen (Barbara Kingsley), who calls her neighbor to come give their battery a jump. He doesn’t show, so the young couple winds up eating a meal with Karen and her adult son
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Director Maximillano Contenti’s Uruguayan shocker The Last Matinee (AKA Red Screening and its original title of Al morir la matinée) goes all in on the thrills and gore in its telling of a murderer going on a bloody rampage inside a cinema. The film is a hybrid of slasher movie motifs and giallo film aesthetics, with an obvious love for cinemas — from the ticket and projection booths to the seats to areas you never knew existed — added for good measure. Ana (Luciana Grasso) is a university student whose father works as a projectionist in a Montevideo cinema in the early 1990s. She insists one rainy night that he go home and rest rather than working a double shift, as she has watched him enough over the years to know how to work the equipment. Planning to study while a horror movie unspools for the audience — which includes a couple on an awkward date, three drunk minors and
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The Fantasia International Film Festival had a hugely successful virtual version in 2020, and the fest will be online again this year as it celebrates its 25th edition. Today Fantasia announced that its opening film will be Québécois zombie comedy Brain Freeze from director Julien Knafo, and revealed the ultracool poster for its 2021 edition. Following is the official press announcement. The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th edition as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada, with a dynamic program of scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops running from August 5 through August 25, 2021, once again using the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, the festival will be following advice from local health authorities, with the possibility of also adding a range of flagship physical events to the lineup. Last summer’s virtual edition was a phenomenal success, screening to 85000 spectators and amassing a record amount of
Continue reading →
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Humble Bundle has launched its April Bundle on Humble Choice where proceeds go towards this month’s charity of choice, in short, Gamers buy/play games for charity. Starting now, Humble Choice has added 12 new games to its lineup with titles like Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts, Remotherd: Broken Porcelain, Rock of Ages III, and more! For a limited time, new customers can sign up for Choice Premium and get access to all Choice Games for 12 months at $12 a month. The promotion will end on May 4 at 9:59 AM PT. Proceeds from this month’s bundle go to Stop AAPI Hate. The complete Game lineup: Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts F1 2020 Shenmue 3 Main Assembly Rock of Ages 3 Remothered: Broken Porcelain In Other Waters Aven Colony Simulacra 1 + 2 Colt Canyon Skully Popup Dungeon
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Decal, the newly formed home entertainment distributor from Neon and Bleecker Street, has obtained the North American rights to the South African horror-thriller Gaia, directed by Jaco Bouwer. Set to be released this summer, the film stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi, and Alex Van Dyk and made its debut at SXSW. The film centers on a park ranger on a surveillance mission in a primordial forest who encounters two survivalists living a post-apocalyptic lifestyle. The boy and his philosophical father seem to have their own religion and a mysterious relationship to nature. Tertius Kapp penned the screenplay and is producing the film along with Bouwer and Jorrie van der Walt, Deadline reports.
Continue reading →
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The ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most iconic horror films ever made. How awesome would it be to watch the movie in the actual house it was filmed in and stay for a sleepover? You can! The second annual “Texas Chainsaw Massacre Sleepover” is set to happen in Kingsland, Texas, giving horror fans and one of a kind experience on Sunday, December 5, 2021, and Monday, December 6th! On Set Cinema returns to Texas this December. A limited number of fans (only 13 max each night) will get the opportunity to not only hang out and watch Texas Chainsaw inside the house but will also get to stay all night inside the iconic location! On Set Cinema will be clearing out Grand Central Café for the coolest horror slumber party ever! There will be a big TV inside the room where the infamous dining room scene took place and they’ll have a Texas Chain Saw-a-thon all night long
Continue reading →
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Thriller, horror, surrealism, dark comedy, and neo noir elements — director George Louis Bartlett’s genre-mashing Demon has all of those and more. It’s an ambitious independent film from the United Kingdom that is sometimes grounded and sometimes all over the map, but always intriguing. Ralph (Ryan Walker-Edwards) goes on the run after a small fine he incurred while oversleeping past his stop on a train balloons into a large amount that he can’t afford to pay. With the help of his friend Kent (Jacob Hawley), he holes up in an old forest motel to try to elude a bailiff bent on collecting the fine. While there, he goes through a series of real and imagined situations ranging from the bizarre to the terrifying to the deadly. Bartlett, who cowrote the screenplay with Theo McDonald, has created an interesting character in Ralph and surrounded him with quirky characters and weird proceedings. Shot mostly in black-and-white, the director knows his budgetary limitations
Continue reading →
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Highly acclaimed Brazilian genre film festival will hold its seventeenth edition from April 9th through the 18th, 2021, showcasing 160 shorts and features from around the world. From the Mexico-set folk horror of The Old Ways to the French dark fantasy Jumbo to the Canadian science fiction feature Parallel Minds, the fest offers an incredible array of top-notch genre films. Following is the official press announcement. As previously announced, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil’s long-running Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival will celebrate its seventeenth edition completely online and free of charge. The 2021 edition of the beloved South American genre festival is supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government, which is offered to relevant cultural events amidst the pandemic. The festival has renewed its partnership with Darkflix, Brazil’s immensely popular streaming service aimed at fantastic genre cinema. Fantaspoa’s festival directors are keenly aware of the fact that no live events will take place in the cinemas of
Continue reading →
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Writer/director Stacey Gregg’s Here Before (U.K., 2021) is a Northern Ireland-set feature in which a mother begins to believe that the new neighbors’ young daughter may be the reincarnation of her own deceased daughter. The film is a gripping examination of grief bolstered by a terrific performance from Andrea Riseborough. Laura (Riseborough) is a rather well-adjusted person, considering her daughter died a few years earlier. She still grieves, but has a seemingly happy, loving relationship with her husband Brendan (Jonjo O’Neill) and their teen son Tadgh (Lewis McAskie). When new neighbors move in next door with a little girl of their own — Niamh Dornan as Megan — who would be right around the age of Laura’s daughter, Laura and Megan hit it off with rides home from school and dinner invitations. Things take a puzzling turn for Laura, though, when Megan insists that she has been in the area before — according to her parents, she hasn’t — and
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Writer/director Mickey Keating’s latest horror film is Offseason, a terrific, atmospheric chiller that blends Lovecraftian themes, Southern Gothic, conspiracy thriller, and other elements. The result is a brooding stranger-in-a-familiar-yet-strange-land offering that delivers the creeps quite satisfactorily. Marie (Jocelin Donahue) and her significant other George (Joe Swanberg) travel to the island where her mother Ava (Melora Walters), a once famous actress, was buried after the cemetery caretaker wrote, saying that Ava’s grave had been desecrated. The couple must get past the Bridge Man (Richard Brake), who initially refuses them admittance to the island because storm season is starting, and once they do, they find the locals to be less than welcoming and forthcoming — with no sign of a caretaker. Marie and George attempt to leave the island the same way they came, but instead find the road blocked where it was open just moments earlier. They then find themselves in increasing danger as they try to piece together the strange
Continue reading →
