CategoryEvents
Horror events, screenings and experiences — premieres, festivals and one-night-only shows.
407 stories
Film Festivals
The Fantasia International Film Festival is approaching its 22nd annual film festival in Montreal and the first round of films and events have been announced. FIFF will run from July 12, 2018, to August 1st, with its Frontières International Co-Production Market and Industry Rendez-Vous Weekend being held July 19th to the 22nd. The most anticipated Japanese film of 2018 will have its International Premiere at Fantasia 2018 and completely blow everyone’s minds! Adapted from one of the world’s most popular mangas, BLEACH is directed by Shinsuke Sato (GANTZ, LIBRARY WARS) and masterfully portrays the epic fight between Shinigamis (Soul Reapers) and monstrous lost souls called Hollows. BLEACH fans will shed tears of joy as they see teenager Ichigo Kurosaki (AS THE GODS WILL’s Sota Fukushi) slice his giant sword through superbly designed Hollows, while the uninitiated will be amazed by this action-packed fantasy loaded with young rising stars and state-of-the-art special effects. BLEACH has everything one hopes for in a
Continue reading →
ConventionsForeignMovies
Today we have the trailer for Roberto D’Antona’s Road To Hell (aka Fino all’Inferno). Presented at the Cartoomics 2018 in Milan, a convention featuring comics and films, the film will arrive in Italian theaters this August. In the film, “A group of robbers fleeing to a new life, crossing their path with a woman, with her son and with the tragic curse they bring with them. a criminal boss and a mysterious organization of unscrupulous men, to help them, an ex-policeman with hasty methods and a jealous girlfriend.The escape will soon turn into a mad rush to hell to save the life of the child and the fate of the world.” I take the inspiration from the films of my childhood – explains the director and protagonist Roberto D’Antona – especially from Big Trouble in Little China. Adventurous stories of heroes and anti-heroes that, searching a redemption, were capable of the most titanic undertaking. These are the stories that have
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignNewsParanormalTrailers
Making its way around film festival circuits is an Argentinean film that’s making a big impact, Aterrados (Terrified). The movie overall, is a mix of a cop drama and horror. Aterrados (Terrified) is about a cop who’s heading towards retirement and he’s also known for having a big interest in paranormal investigating and because of his interest, he’s called in to investigate a series of strange deaths. The deaths are occurring in houses doors down from one another. The cop meets a well known paranormal investigator who’s handling a missing person case in the same area. The pair, along with other paranormal investigators, team up as they soon learn that the cases are all linked.
Continue reading →
Film Festivals
Pollyanna McIntosh, who currently stars on “The Walking Dead” as Jadis, is making her directorial debut with Darlin’, the continuance of 2011’s cult hit The Woman. Lauryn Canny stars in the film which is set to head to market at Cannes. Darlin’, which MPI Media Group will introduce to buyers, continues the twisted vicious adventure of Lucky McKee’s 2011 cult hit The Woman, which he novelized with famed horror writer Jack Ketchum and which starred McIntosh in the title role. McIntosh reprises her role from The Woman and stars alongside Lauryn Canny (1,000 Times Good Night, Amber), Bryan Batt (Mad Men, 12 Years a Slave), Nora-Jane Noone (The Magdalene Sisters, The Descent, Brooklyn) and Cooper Andrews (The Walking Dead, Shazam, Halt and Catch Fire), as well as fellow Walking Dead alumni Sabrina Gennarino and Thomas Francis Murphy. In the film, “Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by
Continue reading →
Advertisement
Film Festivals
We’ve been waiting for a while to hear more about Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino ‘s new version of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Yesterday, crowds at CinemaCon finally got a look and it sent people on Twitter into a frenzy. https://twitter.com/AmyKinLA/status/989607055240511488 https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/989606582840246272 Dakota Johnson stars alongside Chloe Grace-Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Sylvie Testud, Malgosia Bela, Jessica Harper, and Lutz Ebersdorf. Written by David Kajganich, the film that centers on, “A young American Ballet dancer who travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is something far more sinister and supernatural. She becomes increasingly terrified after a series of gruesome murders ensue and she slowly unravels the dark history of the academy.” Suspiria was co-financed by Amazon Studios and K Period Media. It features a score composed by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and is set for a Fall release.
Continue reading →
EventsGamingNews
The 22nd Annual Webby Awards has posted the list of winners this morning along with the winners of the People’s Voice Awards. The Webby Award is decided by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences while The People’s Voice winners are voted on by the general public. The following is the list of winners from the Video gaming category. The complete list of all winners of the Webby and People’s Voice can be found HERE. Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Cuphead StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. Games Features Best Art Direction Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Overwatch Blizzard Games Features Best Game Design Webby Award Winner Farpoint (Original Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design People’s Voice Winner Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Original Game Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Star Wars: Jedi Challenges Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media Games Features Best Use of Augmented Reality People’s
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsNews
Filmmakers Jacob Wasserman, Adam Donald, and Ant Gentile have announced the formation of Hidden Content, a full-service virtual reality company. Their first project was unveiled earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of their narrative 360 Cinema project The Caretaker, the first installment of an original horror anthology series. Created by Wasserman and Donald as well as filmmaker Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes Of My Mother, Piercing), The Caretaker stars Adelaide Clemens, Tom Lipinski, Clara Wong, and Diana Agostini. The project was produced by Max Born and Schuyler Weiss and executive produced by Gentile and Kimberly Parker. The pilot was a co-production with RealMotion Inc. and audio services were provided by Hobo Audio. Hidden Content has also teamed with film producer and financier Max Born to produce and acquire a slate of VR films and series, as well as develop a VR/AR distribution platform. Wasserman, Donald, and Gentile have been working in the virtual reality and
Continue reading →
EventsGamingNews
Ever wanted to be a Colonial Marine from Aliens and go kick some Xenomorph ass (assuming they have one)? Well, FoxNet and Pure Imaginations Studios teamed up and now you and three other friends can team up and go on a free-roaming virtual bug hunt on a mining planted owned and operated by the nefarious Weyland-Yutani Corporation in Alien Descent. This is a first of its kind virtual reality experience, players can explore their surroundings wearing VR headsets without worrying about wires or PC backpacks. Each player is equipped with a personalized weapon with a motion tracker on their wrist. The event will start on April 26th at The Outlets at Orange, Orange County, California. More locations are said to open sometime afterward. For more information check out the site HERE to book your VR roaming experience!
Continue reading →
Film Festivals
Alex Pettyfer makes his directorial debut with the thriller Back Roads, an official selection at this month’s Tribeca Film Festival that runs from April 18th to April 28th. In the film, “After his mother (a gritty Juliette Lewis) goes to jail for shooting and killing his abusive father, Harley Altmyer (Alex Pettyfer) is left to care for his three younger sisters in a rural Pennsylvania town. The uneducated Harley works two dead-end jobs to preserve what’s left of his family, including the rebellious, sexual 16-year-old Amber (Nicola Peltz). Angered and traumatized by his painful past, Harley finally begins to feel hope when he connects with an older, married woman (Jennifer Morrison), and they embark on an affair. When shocking family secrets emerge, Harley’s life begins to spiral downward, leading to a devastating conclusion that impacts the entire community.” Written by Tawni O’Dell and Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction), the film has an all-star cast that includes Alex Pettyfer (The Strange Ones),
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsStreaming TV
This April on the 16th tune in to the American Horrors Roku Channel on your TVs, Tablets and smartphones for the very first American Horrors Film Festival TV Special, shot live at the Geneva 4 theater and Thumbs Up Saloon in downtown Lake Geneva Wisconsin where you will be able watch panels, parties, interviews with directors and stars, films and more. The American Horrors Film Festival has selected THE CHILD REMAINS (by Michael Melski) as the Best Feature Film of the 2017 festival. WHAT METAL GIRLS ARE INTO (by Laurel Vail) is the Best Short Film of 2017. HITCHHIKER by infamous godfathers of death metal, WARBEAST, won Best Music Video of 2017! Viewers will also see music videos by WARBEAST, DEMON BOY, RATBATSPIDER, CONNIPTION, THE EUNUCHS plus short films “CUCK”, “LANE: THE DARK WOOD”, “THE 3RD STAPLE”, silent short film “AETEURNUS”, feature film “THIS BOOK IS CURSED” by Wisconsin’s own Michael Butt plus a live performance by Midwest legends LevRage!
Continue reading →
More from Events
Film Festivals
The Fantasia International Film Festival is approaching its 22nd annual film festival in Montreal and the first round of films and events have been announced. FIFF will run from July 12, 2018, to August 1st, with its Frontières International Co-Production Market and Industry Rendez-Vous Weekend being held July 19th to the 22nd. The most anticipated Japanese film of 2018 will have its International Premiere at Fantasia 2018 and completely blow everyone’s minds! Adapted from one of the world’s most popular mangas, BLEACH is directed by Shinsuke Sato (GANTZ, LIBRARY WARS) and masterfully portrays the epic fight between Shinigamis (Soul Reapers) and monstrous lost souls called Hollows. BLEACH fans will shed tears of joy as they see teenager Ichigo Kurosaki (AS THE GODS WILL’s Sota Fukushi) slice his giant sword through superbly designed Hollows, while the uninitiated will be amazed by this action-packed fantasy loaded with young rising stars and state-of-the-art special effects. BLEACH has everything one hopes for in a
Continue reading →
ConventionsForeignMovies
Today we have the trailer for Roberto D’Antona’s Road To Hell (aka Fino all’Inferno). Presented at the Cartoomics 2018 in Milan, a convention featuring comics and films, the film will arrive in Italian theaters this August. In the film, “A group of robbers fleeing to a new life, crossing their path with a woman, with her son and with the tragic curse they bring with them. a criminal boss and a mysterious organization of unscrupulous men, to help them, an ex-policeman with hasty methods and a jealous girlfriend.The escape will soon turn into a mad rush to hell to save the life of the child and the fate of the world.” I take the inspiration from the films of my childhood – explains the director and protagonist Roberto D’Antona – especially from Big Trouble in Little China. Adventurous stories of heroes and anti-heroes that, searching a redemption, were capable of the most titanic undertaking. These are the stories that have
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignNewsParanormalTrailers
Making its way around film festival circuits is an Argentinean film that’s making a big impact, Aterrados (Terrified). The movie overall, is a mix of a cop drama and horror. Aterrados (Terrified) is about a cop who’s heading towards retirement and he’s also known for having a big interest in paranormal investigating and because of his interest, he’s called in to investigate a series of strange deaths. The deaths are occurring in houses doors down from one another. The cop meets a well known paranormal investigator who’s handling a missing person case in the same area. The pair, along with other paranormal investigators, team up as they soon learn that the cases are all linked.
Continue reading →
Film Festivals
Pollyanna McIntosh, who currently stars on “The Walking Dead” as Jadis, is making her directorial debut with Darlin’, the continuance of 2011’s cult hit The Woman. Lauryn Canny stars in the film which is set to head to market at Cannes. Darlin’, which MPI Media Group will introduce to buyers, continues the twisted vicious adventure of Lucky McKee’s 2011 cult hit The Woman, which he novelized with famed horror writer Jack Ketchum and which starred McIntosh in the title role. McIntosh reprises her role from The Woman and stars alongside Lauryn Canny (1,000 Times Good Night, Amber), Bryan Batt (Mad Men, 12 Years a Slave), Nora-Jane Noone (The Magdalene Sisters, The Descent, Brooklyn) and Cooper Andrews (The Walking Dead, Shazam, Halt and Catch Fire), as well as fellow Walking Dead alumni Sabrina Gennarino and Thomas Francis Murphy. In the film, “Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by
Continue reading →
Film Festivals
We’ve been waiting for a while to hear more about Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino ‘s new version of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Yesterday, crowds at CinemaCon finally got a look and it sent people on Twitter into a frenzy. https://twitter.com/AmyKinLA/status/989607055240511488 https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/989606582840246272 Dakota Johnson stars alongside Chloe Grace-Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Sylvie Testud, Malgosia Bela, Jessica Harper, and Lutz Ebersdorf. Written by David Kajganich, the film that centers on, “A young American Ballet dancer who travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is something far more sinister and supernatural. She becomes increasingly terrified after a series of gruesome murders ensue and she slowly unravels the dark history of the academy.” Suspiria was co-financed by Amazon Studios and K Period Media. It features a score composed by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and is set for a Fall release.
Continue reading →
EventsGamingNews
The 22nd Annual Webby Awards has posted the list of winners this morning along with the winners of the People’s Voice Awards. The Webby Award is decided by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences while The People’s Voice winners are voted on by the general public. The following is the list of winners from the Video gaming category. The complete list of all winners of the Webby and People’s Voice can be found HERE. Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Cuphead StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. Games Features Best Art Direction Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Overwatch Blizzard Games Features Best Game Design Webby Award Winner Farpoint (Original Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design People’s Voice Winner Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Original Game Soundtrack) Sony Interactive Entertainment Games Features Best Music/Sound Design Webby Award Winner, People’s Voice Winner Star Wars: Jedi Challenges Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media Games Features Best Use of Augmented Reality People’s
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsNews
Filmmakers Jacob Wasserman, Adam Donald, and Ant Gentile have announced the formation of Hidden Content, a full-service virtual reality company. Their first project was unveiled earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of their narrative 360 Cinema project The Caretaker, the first installment of an original horror anthology series. Created by Wasserman and Donald as well as filmmaker Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes Of My Mother, Piercing), The Caretaker stars Adelaide Clemens, Tom Lipinski, Clara Wong, and Diana Agostini. The project was produced by Max Born and Schuyler Weiss and executive produced by Gentile and Kimberly Parker. The pilot was a co-production with RealMotion Inc. and audio services were provided by Hobo Audio. Hidden Content has also teamed with film producer and financier Max Born to produce and acquire a slate of VR films and series, as well as develop a VR/AR distribution platform. Wasserman, Donald, and Gentile have been working in the virtual reality and
Continue reading →
EventsGamingNews
Ever wanted to be a Colonial Marine from Aliens and go kick some Xenomorph ass (assuming they have one)? Well, FoxNet and Pure Imaginations Studios teamed up and now you and three other friends can team up and go on a free-roaming virtual bug hunt on a mining planted owned and operated by the nefarious Weyland-Yutani Corporation in Alien Descent. This is a first of its kind virtual reality experience, players can explore their surroundings wearing VR headsets without worrying about wires or PC backpacks. Each player is equipped with a personalized weapon with a motion tracker on their wrist. The event will start on April 26th at The Outlets at Orange, Orange County, California. More locations are said to open sometime afterward. For more information check out the site HERE to book your VR roaming experience!
Continue reading →
Film Festivals
Alex Pettyfer makes his directorial debut with the thriller Back Roads, an official selection at this month’s Tribeca Film Festival that runs from April 18th to April 28th. In the film, “After his mother (a gritty Juliette Lewis) goes to jail for shooting and killing his abusive father, Harley Altmyer (Alex Pettyfer) is left to care for his three younger sisters in a rural Pennsylvania town. The uneducated Harley works two dead-end jobs to preserve what’s left of his family, including the rebellious, sexual 16-year-old Amber (Nicola Peltz). Angered and traumatized by his painful past, Harley finally begins to feel hope when he connects with an older, married woman (Jennifer Morrison), and they embark on an affair. When shocking family secrets emerge, Harley’s life begins to spiral downward, leading to a devastating conclusion that impacts the entire community.” Written by Tawni O’Dell and Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction), the film has an all-star cast that includes Alex Pettyfer (The Strange Ones),
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsStreaming TV
This April on the 16th tune in to the American Horrors Roku Channel on your TVs, Tablets and smartphones for the very first American Horrors Film Festival TV Special, shot live at the Geneva 4 theater and Thumbs Up Saloon in downtown Lake Geneva Wisconsin where you will be able watch panels, parties, interviews with directors and stars, films and more. The American Horrors Film Festival has selected THE CHILD REMAINS (by Michael Melski) as the Best Feature Film of the 2017 festival. WHAT METAL GIRLS ARE INTO (by Laurel Vail) is the Best Short Film of 2017. HITCHHIKER by infamous godfathers of death metal, WARBEAST, won Best Music Video of 2017! Viewers will also see music videos by WARBEAST, DEMON BOY, RATBATSPIDER, CONNIPTION, THE EUNUCHS plus short films “CUCK”, “LANE: THE DARK WOOD”, “THE 3RD STAPLE”, silent short film “AETEURNUS”, feature film “THIS BOOK IS CURSED” by Wisconsin’s own Michael Butt plus a live performance by Midwest legends LevRage!
Continue reading →
