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A Serial Killer Spills Blood In The First Batch Of Images From ‘ARTIK’

Award-winning filmmaker, Tom Botchii, is gearing up for the World Premiere of his horror-thriller, ARTIK. With Popcorn Frights just weeks away, we have an exclusive look at brutal stills from the film to share with you. In the film, “a comic book obsessed serial killer teaches his son how to get away with a series of brutal murders until the boy befriends a mysterious man who threatens to expose everything.” It sounds funny but making ARTIK, a film about a murderer, was actually, kind of healing. Truth is, the character himself is loosely based on my dad and the character of Holton was based around an ex-girlfriend,” says Botchii. “So from the moment that I started writing, it felt like the story was just pouring out of me and releasing a lot of pent up emotion. And that was the original goal, do something that gets this off my chest, but also works as a small, independent horror production. Then,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 17, 2019
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New Clip From Horror Thriller ‘1BR’ Arrives Ahead Of Fantasia Premiere

Ahead of its premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival, a new clip has arrived for David Marmor‘s LA-set horror-thriller 1BR. “After leaving behind a painful past to follow her dreams, Sarah scores the perfect Hollywood apartment. But something is not right. Unable to sleep, tormented by strange noises and threatening notes, her new life quickly starts to unravel. By the time she learns the horrifying truth, it’s too late. Caught in a waking nightmare, Sarah must find the strength to hold onto her crumbling sanity…or be trapped forever in an existential hell.” Horror films don’t come more instantly identifiable than 1BR… Marmor’s smart script and solid cast make 1BR one of Fantasia 2019’s top discoveries. Don’t sleep in this 1BR, but don’t sleep on it, either.” Matthew Kiernan, Fantasia International Film Festival, stated. 1BR is the debut from writer/director David Mamor and is produced by Alok Mishra and Shane Vorster for Malevolent Films, Allard Cantor and Jarrod Murray for Epicenter,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 5, 2019
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Movie Reviews: Dances with Films Festival premieres: Driven, Would You Like to Try Again? and Wowzers

In this creep column, I’m focusing my putrid peepers on three vastly different flicks that will be prancin’ across the sinful silver screen this month at the Dances with Films Festival! Playing Saturday, June 15th at 11:45 pm at TCL Chinese Theatre is: Driven (2019) Ride share fright flicks are en vogue these days; and as a relatively new phenomena they are ripe for exploration and fresh ideas, and Driven exemplifies this fully! Emerson (Casey Dillard who also wrote and co-produced the film) is havin’ the usual ass-pain of a night schlepping around various annoying fares, but things take a turn for the batshit when she picks up Roger (Richard Speight Jr.). You see Rog-baby is lookin’ to dump off a curse handed down through the generations, and now he and E-dawg are in for a night of supernatural shenanigans as they attempt to confront a preternatural evil. Sounds like a Tuesday to your’s cruelly… The lions share of what

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DanXIII
Jun 11, 2019
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Exclusive: New Trailer Warns That There Is An ‘Animal Among Us’

The screams can still be heard from last weekend’s Die Laughing Film Festival in Hollywood where Animal Among Us won Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and the coveted Audience Choice Award. Ahead of its screening at the Creepy Tree Film Festival, the trailer for the film has been unleashed, teasing an action filled, bloody film. “This is a story about a monster… Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed an animal attack, the camp was condemned and the killer never found – but something horrific still waits in those woods.” Starring Larisa Oleynik (10 Things I Hate About You, The Secret World of Alex Mack), Christian Oliver (The Good German, Speed Racer), Christine Donlon (Entourage), Erin Daniels (House of 1000 Corpses), UFC Hall of Famer Don Frye (Miami Vice), and Daytime Emmy Award winner Heather Tom (Bold & The Beautiful, Young & the Restless) star in the film that pays

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 22, 2019
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Saban Films Snags Horror Comedy ‘Come To Daddy’ Starring Elijah Wood

Saban Films has snagged the U.S. rights to producer Ant Timpson‘s Come to Daddy, his directorial debut which made its world premiere at Tribeca last month before heading to Cannes. Starring Elijah Wood, the horror-comedy centers on a man in his thirties who travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father. Stephen McHattie (Watchmen, Pontypool) also stars along with Wood and Martin Donavan (Ant-Man, “Big Little Lies”). Toby Harvard penned the script based on Timpson’s story. The film was produced by Mette-Marie Kongsved and Laura Tunstall for Nowhere, Katie Holly for Blinder Films, Daniel Bekerman for Scythia Films, Emma Slade for Firefly Films, and Toby Harvard. Tango Entertainment financed the film which is a Canadian, New Zealand, and Irish co-production that also had support from the New Zealand Film Commission. A theatrical release date should be announced soon for Come to Daddy. Take a look at the clip titled “Impress Me” that features Wood’s character Norval having

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 19, 2019
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Omar Epps Hunts A Killer In First Image From ‘Trick’ – From The Director Of ‘My Bloody Valentine’

Genre veteran Patrick Lussier has released the first image and comments for his latest film, the horror thriller Trick, featuring Omar Epps who leads the cast in the main role of Detective Mike Denver, a man obsessed with a serial killer that has remained one step ahead of him for years. Trick also stars Ellen Adair (Showtime’s “Homeland” and “Billions,” USA’s “The Sinner”) as Sheriff Lisa Jayne, the sheriff in the small town of Benton who has always considered Detective Denver as her mentor. Cheryl Winston, the only survivor of the latest round of killings in her small town, is played by Kristina Reyes (“Blindspot,” “Shades of Blue”). Talbott is played by frequent George A. Romero collaborator Tom Atkins and Jamie Kennedy (Scream 1-3, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Romeo + Juliet) stars as Dr. Steven. Describing his cast, Lussier told Bloody Disgusting, “Reyes is Cheryl, the survivor of Trick’s first rampage, her innocence slain along with the lives of her friends

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 16, 2019
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New Clip Arrives Ahead World Premiere Of ‘Vivarium’ At Cannes

Ahead of director Lorcan Finnegan‘s (Without Name) sci-fi thriller Vivarium making its world premiere this weekend as part of Cannes Critics’ Week Section, we have a clip to share with you that features Imogen Poots (Green Room) and Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) having a very strange encounter with a real estate agent. In the film, “In search of a starter home, a young couple follows a mysterious estate agent and get trapped in a strange housing development.” John McDonnell and Brendan McCarthy produced with Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Alexander Brøndsted, and Antonio Tublen co-producing. Executive producers include Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Brunella Cocchiglia, Lorcan Finnegan, Aram Tertzakian, Maxime Cottray, Todd Brown, Nick Spicer, Gabe Scarpelli, Ryan Shoup, Thomas Gammeltoft, Christophe Hollebeke, Manuel Chiche, and Violaine Barbaroux. Vivarium premieres on May 18, 2019. CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – Public Screenings -Sunday 5/19 @ 7:00pm – Theatre Alexandre III, 19 Boulevard Alexandre III, Cannes -Sunday 5/19 @ 8:30pm – Cinema Valbonne, Pré des Arts,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2019
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A Priest Transforms In A Raptor In The New Trailer For ‘The VelociPastor’

Forget werewolves, a troubled priest finds his way after becoming a wereraptor in writer-director Brendan Steere‘s action-packed movie The VelociPastor, coming later this year from Wild Eye Releasing. A priest on a mission to clean up the streets, a dinosaur, ninjas, blood, and gore, what more could you want? After a devastating family tragedy, a priest travels to China to find deeper spirituality but instead is endowed with an ancient ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first, he is horrified by his newfound superpower, but a local prostitute convinces him to use his newfound gift to fight evil – and ninjas. This grindhouse-style flick stars Claire Hsu, Nicholas M. Garofolo, and Alyssa Kempinski. The VelociPastor is set to have a special midnight screening and Q&A at Texas Frightmare on May 3rd ahead of its release.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 21, 2019
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First Footage Of Alexandre Aja’s Horror Film ‘Crawl’ Shown At CinemaCon

News continues to fly out of CinemaCon. This time, the subject is Alexandre Aja‘s upcoming horror film Crawl whose first footage was revealed today at the Con. In Crawl, Kaya Scodelario plays a young woman who, while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators, the alligator. Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, and Anson Boon are co-starring in the movie that is part creature feature, part horror, and part disaster movie. CinemaCon attendees can’t stop talking about the footage, calling it “bloody and chaotic.” But what else would you expect from the director of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D, High Tension, and Mirrors? This is going to be bloody good! Produced by Sam Raimi‘s (Evil Dead) Ghost House Pictures, Crawl swims into theaters on July 12th, 2019. Switching gears from the dazzling to the deathly, never before seen

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 4, 2019
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Actress Tracey Birdsall Wins Award From U.N.

Congratulations to actress Tracey Birdsall who has just won “Actress of the Year of Women in Film” at the Women in Film Forum, presented by WeLink Media Groups, at the United Nations. Birdsall, star of such films as Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter, Evolution War, and Who’s Jenna..?, was presented with the award at the Delegates Room Dining Hall at the UN on March 15th. The Women In Film Forum, initiated by WIFF founder Ira Houston in cooperation with the United Nations, was first held last year during the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Now a permanent part of the CSW, the forum this year invited some of the world’s most influential women filmmakers and artists – including film and television star Birdsall – from all around the world to participate. The Women in Film Forum, is helmed by Zoe Chang, Multimedia Guild President, and was held and televised on the United Nations channel March

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 21, 2019

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A Serial Killer Spills Blood In The First Batch Of Images From ‘ARTIK’

Award-winning filmmaker, Tom Botchii, is gearing up for the World Premiere of his horror-thriller, ARTIK. With Popcorn Frights just weeks away, we have an exclusive look at brutal stills from the film to share with you. In the film, “a comic book obsessed serial killer teaches his son how to get away with a series of brutal murders until the boy befriends a mysterious man who threatens to expose everything.” It sounds funny but making ARTIK, a film about a murderer, was actually, kind of healing. Truth is, the character himself is loosely based on my dad and the character of Holton was based around an ex-girlfriend,” says Botchii. “So from the moment that I started writing, it felt like the story was just pouring out of me and releasing a lot of pent up emotion. And that was the original goal, do something that gets this off my chest, but also works as a small, independent horror production. Then,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 17, 2019
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New Clip From Horror Thriller ‘1BR’ Arrives Ahead Of Fantasia Premiere

Ahead of its premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival, a new clip has arrived for David Marmor‘s LA-set horror-thriller 1BR. “After leaving behind a painful past to follow her dreams, Sarah scores the perfect Hollywood apartment. But something is not right. Unable to sleep, tormented by strange noises and threatening notes, her new life quickly starts to unravel. By the time she learns the horrifying truth, it’s too late. Caught in a waking nightmare, Sarah must find the strength to hold onto her crumbling sanity…or be trapped forever in an existential hell.” Horror films don’t come more instantly identifiable than 1BR… Marmor’s smart script and solid cast make 1BR one of Fantasia 2019’s top discoveries. Don’t sleep in this 1BR, but don’t sleep on it, either.” Matthew Kiernan, Fantasia International Film Festival, stated. 1BR is the debut from writer/director David Mamor and is produced by Alok Mishra and Shane Vorster for Malevolent Films, Allard Cantor and Jarrod Murray for Epicenter,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 5, 2019
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Movie Reviews: Dances with Films Festival premieres: Driven, Would You Like to Try Again? and Wowzers

In this creep column, I’m focusing my putrid peepers on three vastly different flicks that will be prancin’ across the sinful silver screen this month at the Dances with Films Festival! Playing Saturday, June 15th at 11:45 pm at TCL Chinese Theatre is: Driven (2019) Ride share fright flicks are en vogue these days; and as a relatively new phenomena they are ripe for exploration and fresh ideas, and Driven exemplifies this fully! Emerson (Casey Dillard who also wrote and co-produced the film) is havin’ the usual ass-pain of a night schlepping around various annoying fares, but things take a turn for the batshit when she picks up Roger (Richard Speight Jr.). You see Rog-baby is lookin’ to dump off a curse handed down through the generations, and now he and E-dawg are in for a night of supernatural shenanigans as they attempt to confront a preternatural evil. Sounds like a Tuesday to your’s cruelly… The lions share of what

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jun 11, 2019
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Exclusive: New Trailer Warns That There Is An ‘Animal Among Us’

The screams can still be heard from last weekend’s Die Laughing Film Festival in Hollywood where Animal Among Us won Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and the coveted Audience Choice Award. Ahead of its screening at the Creepy Tree Film Festival, the trailer for the film has been unleashed, teasing an action filled, bloody film. “This is a story about a monster… Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed an animal attack, the camp was condemned and the killer never found – but something horrific still waits in those woods.” Starring Larisa Oleynik (10 Things I Hate About You, The Secret World of Alex Mack), Christian Oliver (The Good German, Speed Racer), Christine Donlon (Entourage), Erin Daniels (House of 1000 Corpses), UFC Hall of Famer Don Frye (Miami Vice), and Daytime Emmy Award winner Heather Tom (Bold & The Beautiful, Young & the Restless) star in the film that pays

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 22, 2019
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Saban Films Snags Horror Comedy ‘Come To Daddy’ Starring Elijah Wood

Saban Films has snagged the U.S. rights to producer Ant Timpson‘s Come to Daddy, his directorial debut which made its world premiere at Tribeca last month before heading to Cannes. Starring Elijah Wood, the horror-comedy centers on a man in his thirties who travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father. Stephen McHattie (Watchmen, Pontypool) also stars along with Wood and Martin Donavan (Ant-Man, “Big Little Lies”). Toby Harvard penned the script based on Timpson’s story. The film was produced by Mette-Marie Kongsved and Laura Tunstall for Nowhere, Katie Holly for Blinder Films, Daniel Bekerman for Scythia Films, Emma Slade for Firefly Films, and Toby Harvard. Tango Entertainment financed the film which is a Canadian, New Zealand, and Irish co-production that also had support from the New Zealand Film Commission. A theatrical release date should be announced soon for Come to Daddy. Take a look at the clip titled “Impress Me” that features Wood’s character Norval having

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 19, 2019
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Omar Epps Hunts A Killer In First Image From ‘Trick’ – From The Director Of ‘My Bloody Valentine’

Genre veteran Patrick Lussier has released the first image and comments for his latest film, the horror thriller Trick, featuring Omar Epps who leads the cast in the main role of Detective Mike Denver, a man obsessed with a serial killer that has remained one step ahead of him for years. Trick also stars Ellen Adair (Showtime’s “Homeland” and “Billions,” USA’s “The Sinner”) as Sheriff Lisa Jayne, the sheriff in the small town of Benton who has always considered Detective Denver as her mentor. Cheryl Winston, the only survivor of the latest round of killings in her small town, is played by Kristina Reyes (“Blindspot,” “Shades of Blue”). Talbott is played by frequent George A. Romero collaborator Tom Atkins and Jamie Kennedy (Scream 1-3, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Romeo + Juliet) stars as Dr. Steven. Describing his cast, Lussier told Bloody Disgusting, “Reyes is Cheryl, the survivor of Trick’s first rampage, her innocence slain along with the lives of her friends

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 16, 2019
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New Clip Arrives Ahead World Premiere Of ‘Vivarium’ At Cannes

Ahead of director Lorcan Finnegan‘s (Without Name) sci-fi thriller Vivarium making its world premiere this weekend as part of Cannes Critics’ Week Section, we have a clip to share with you that features Imogen Poots (Green Room) and Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) having a very strange encounter with a real estate agent. In the film, “In search of a starter home, a young couple follows a mysterious estate agent and get trapped in a strange housing development.” John McDonnell and Brendan McCarthy produced with Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Alexander Brøndsted, and Antonio Tublen co-producing. Executive producers include Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Brunella Cocchiglia, Lorcan Finnegan, Aram Tertzakian, Maxime Cottray, Todd Brown, Nick Spicer, Gabe Scarpelli, Ryan Shoup, Thomas Gammeltoft, Christophe Hollebeke, Manuel Chiche, and Violaine Barbaroux. Vivarium premieres on May 18, 2019. CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – Public Screenings -Sunday 5/19 @ 7:00pm – Theatre Alexandre III, 19 Boulevard Alexandre III, Cannes -Sunday 5/19 @ 8:30pm – Cinema Valbonne, Pré des Arts,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 15, 2019
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A Priest Transforms In A Raptor In The New Trailer For ‘The VelociPastor’

Forget werewolves, a troubled priest finds his way after becoming a wereraptor in writer-director Brendan Steere‘s action-packed movie The VelociPastor, coming later this year from Wild Eye Releasing. A priest on a mission to clean up the streets, a dinosaur, ninjas, blood, and gore, what more could you want? After a devastating family tragedy, a priest travels to China to find deeper spirituality but instead is endowed with an ancient ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first, he is horrified by his newfound superpower, but a local prostitute convinces him to use his newfound gift to fight evil – and ninjas. This grindhouse-style flick stars Claire Hsu, Nicholas M. Garofolo, and Alyssa Kempinski. The VelociPastor is set to have a special midnight screening and Q&A at Texas Frightmare on May 3rd ahead of its release.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 21, 2019
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First Footage Of Alexandre Aja’s Horror Film ‘Crawl’ Shown At CinemaCon

News continues to fly out of CinemaCon. This time, the subject is Alexandre Aja‘s upcoming horror film Crawl whose first footage was revealed today at the Con. In Crawl, Kaya Scodelario plays a young woman who, while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators, the alligator. Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, and Anson Boon are co-starring in the movie that is part creature feature, part horror, and part disaster movie. CinemaCon attendees can’t stop talking about the footage, calling it “bloody and chaotic.” But what else would you expect from the director of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D, High Tension, and Mirrors? This is going to be bloody good! Produced by Sam Raimi‘s (Evil Dead) Ghost House Pictures, Crawl swims into theaters on July 12th, 2019. Switching gears from the dazzling to the deathly, never before seen

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 4, 2019
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Actress Tracey Birdsall Wins Award From U.N.

Congratulations to actress Tracey Birdsall who has just won “Actress of the Year of Women in Film” at the Women in Film Forum, presented by WeLink Media Groups, at the United Nations. Birdsall, star of such films as Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter, Evolution War, and Who’s Jenna..?, was presented with the award at the Delegates Room Dining Hall at the UN on March 15th. The Women In Film Forum, initiated by WIFF founder Ira Houston in cooperation with the United Nations, was first held last year during the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Now a permanent part of the CSW, the forum this year invited some of the world’s most influential women filmmakers and artists – including film and television star Birdsall – from all around the world to participate. The Women in Film Forum, is helmed by Zoe Chang, Multimedia Guild President, and was held and televised on the United Nations channel March

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 21, 2019
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