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South African offering Wesens (2020) is one of the more thoughtful found footage features in recent memory, focusing on the single-day investigation by four intelligence agents of a mysterious, unidentified object that fell from the sky onto remote farmland. Morné Visser plays the businesslike, skeptical head of the foursome; Pietie Beyers portrays a more open-minded character who becomes mesmerized by the dark, egg-shaped object; and Conradie van Heerden and Randy Januarie round out the group as assistants. As the men record their findings on what seems to be Super 8mm and 16mm film, the object begins to have weird, and possibly dangerous effects, on them. Wesens is wonderfully shot by cinematographer Tom Purcell, who thankfully avoids much of the shaky-cam trappings of the found-footage subgenre. Writer/director Derick Muller invests his science fiction film with elements of folk horror and psychological horror, and with the aid of his crackerjack cast members, serves up a thought-provoking film that addresses historical and political
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If almost 200 slices of fear-fare and related cinema sounds tantalizing to you, check out the just-revealed full lineup for Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival, which takes place from April 15 to May 1, 2022. From cutting-edge premieres to splatter-ific genre favorites, Fantaspoa offers something for horror fans of every stripe. Following is the official press announcement. After revealing the first batch of titles from its upcoming lineup last month, Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival is proud to announce the remaining selection of features appearing in its eighteenth edition. The full Fantaspoa 2022 lineup will consist of 90 features and 97 shorts – equaling 187 incredible movies, shown in five theaters around Porto Alegre from April 15 to May 1 of this year. The festival’s selection of feature films is divided into five competitive sections: International; Ibero-American; Brazilian; Animation; and “Mondo Bizarro”. While the first three are based on the geographic origin of the productions, the others are built solely
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I’m in no way a fan of watching YouTubers, TikTokers, and the like, nor am I very big on films that use the social influencer method of storytelling or that have influencers, would-be or otherwise, as their protagonists. So when I say that I was bowled over by Deadstream and had a fun-tastic time watching it, it is no small compliment. This horror comedy from codirectors/cowriters Joseph Winter and Vanessa Winter is an absolute blast, paying homage to The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and similar 1980s horror movies boasting wicked practical effects work and makeup. Joseph toplines as Shawn Ruddy, a disgraced and demonetized former internet star trying to make a comeback. He plans to livestream as he investigates a haunted house, with the caveat that if he doesn’t investigate mysterious noises or occurrences, he will lose his new potential sponsors. Joseph gives a hilarious performance as Ruddy, with his revved-up internet persona giving way to screaming and cowardice
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Panic Fest, Kansas City’s superb film festival filled with fright fare and thrillers galore, is back on the big screens this year, and The Last Drive-In‘s Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl, as well as Sleepwalkers director Mick Garris, will be on hand to help celebrate 10 years of the renowned film festival. Panic Fest also has a jaw-dropping, drool-worthy lineup of fear-fare cinema, of course! Following is the official press announcement. The Last Drive-In‘s Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl are kicking off the 10th annual Panic Fest with a special 20th anniversary screening of Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho-Tep on Thursday, April 28 at 7pm CST at Screenland Armour Theatre. Panic Fest co-founder Tim KC Canton says, “We couldn’t be more thrilled to bring Panic Fest back to the masses for our 10th festival! Can’t wait to see everyone back at the theater and kick things off with Joe Bob while celebrating so many great
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GROUND Game Atelier announced their debut title, The Time I Have Left, as part of yesterday’s Future Games Spring Showcase. The Time I Have Left is available to wishlist now on STEAM and will launch for PC in 2023. The Time I Have Left is a time-driven exploration game with RPG elements and a big focus on storytelling. The player takes the role of Aline, a woman affected by a mysterious condition that marks her for certain death: The Miasma. Players will guide Aline in a race against time to escape from an enormous underground complex, Colony 7. Features: The clock is always ticking. What will players do with the time they have left? Key events only trigger at specific times. Shortcuts, hidden stories, unique items, and other secrets lie in wait. Players will resist attacks from grotesque visions of death that assault Aline and will need to time their movements to evade the creatures that dwell in the liminal
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Brazil’s renowned genre film festival Fantaspoa makes its triumphant return to the big screen from April 15–May 1after two years of online editions. With plenty of fear fare on tap, ranging from F. W. Murnau’s 1922 classic silent vampire film NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR to the reimagining of Stephen King’s The Langoliers mini-series THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY, with an amazing bounty of science fiction, thrillers, and other movies offering the weird and the wild. Following is the official press announcement. After two years of successful online editions, the 18th edition of the beloved Brazilian genre festival Fantaspoa will return to the cinemas from April 15th through May 1st. This year, attendees will discover a very different Fantaspoa from its last on-site edition (a very distant 2019): instead of its usual two venues, the fest will take place simultaneously in five cinemas, with part of its program also being available online, geo-blocked for viewers within Brazil. The poster for this
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Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival returns to the big screen from March 31–April 3 this year for its 15th edition, and quite a lineup is in store for fear-fare aficionados! With four frightening features and a bevy of terror-ific shorts on tap, the 7 Stages Theatre will be home to a four days of incredible horror cinema. We here at Horror Fuel are excited about the full slate of films at Buried Alive Film Festival, but we can’t help but drool over the four features scheduled for this year. First up is the Friday night feature Duyster, a Belgian film in which three students film a documentary about Johannes Duyster, Antwerp’s 17th century executioner. Fans of found-footage horror know that things are bound to go horribly wrong for the trio. Saturday afternoon serves up the anthology film What Happens Next Will Scare You, from the imaginative creative team that brought the world the WNUF Halloween Special. The official description of
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Filmmaker Larry Fessenden, who has delivered horror films such as The House of the Devil, Wendigo, Stake Land, and the film The Transfiguration, is teaming up with The Museum of Modern Art for an exploration of his contribution to the world of film. Titled “Oh, The Humanity! The Films of Larry Fessenden & Glass Eye Pix”, the event will run from March 30th through April 19, 2022, featuring 26 feature films, shorts, and oddities in theaters and online. Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent production shingle headed by art-horror auteur Larry Fessenden, is pleased to announce that a retrospective of 26 feature films along with numerous shorts, animations, and early works created during its 37 years of operation, is being presented by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) March 30 through April 19. The run of films will be hosted by Fessenden and many of the directors who have participated in the Glass Eye Pix mission to support “individual
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Writer/director Addison Heimann brings an unflinching look at a mental breakdown using body horror, psychological horror, and some truly dark comedy to his latest feature, Hypochondriac. The result is an intense effort that serves up some mind-boggling imagery. Will (Zach Villa) is a potter who has experienced enough trauma in his life to successfully help a coworker calm down from a panic attack. His mother (Marlene Forte) has mental health issues, including trying to kill Will when he was a child. The two have not spoken in 10 years but she is now trying to contact him at a rapid clip, causing his stress levels to rise and for him to experience physical pain including not being able to use his hands. His boyfriend Luke (Devon Graye) wants to help, but Will prefers to remain closed off and not discuss his past, including the situation with his mother. As Will’s conditions worsen, he becomes increasingly suspicious and paranoid, and begins
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With the conflict in Ukraine intensifying, many civilians are caught up in the chaos the likes of which surpasses the humanitarian crisis in WWII. The Farm 51 and All In! Games launched today the latest DLC for Chernobylite called the “Digital Charity Pack” in which all proceeds go towards the Pure Heart Foundation a non-profit charitable organization established in 2013 that works with underprivileged communities focusing on humanitarian aid and youth projects. The Foundation is currently working on distributing humanitarian aid to Ukrainian civilians such as hygiene products, diapers, baby food, phones, sleeping bags, and medicine. For purchases made on Steam, the digital charity pack requires owning the base game of Chernobylite but for anyone wanting to support the initiative without having to buy the full game, they can buy the product on the Epic Games Store or GOG.com. The Devs also want fans and gamers to know that this is one of many ways to help those in need
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South African offering Wesens (2020) is one of the more thoughtful found footage features in recent memory, focusing on the single-day investigation by four intelligence agents of a mysterious, unidentified object that fell from the sky onto remote farmland. Morné Visser plays the businesslike, skeptical head of the foursome; Pietie Beyers portrays a more open-minded character who becomes mesmerized by the dark, egg-shaped object; and Conradie van Heerden and Randy Januarie round out the group as assistants. As the men record their findings on what seems to be Super 8mm and 16mm film, the object begins to have weird, and possibly dangerous effects, on them. Wesens is wonderfully shot by cinematographer Tom Purcell, who thankfully avoids much of the shaky-cam trappings of the found-footage subgenre. Writer/director Derick Muller invests his science fiction film with elements of folk horror and psychological horror, and with the aid of his crackerjack cast members, serves up a thought-provoking film that addresses historical and political
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If almost 200 slices of fear-fare and related cinema sounds tantalizing to you, check out the just-revealed full lineup for Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival, which takes place from April 15 to May 1, 2022. From cutting-edge premieres to splatter-ific genre favorites, Fantaspoa offers something for horror fans of every stripe. Following is the official press announcement. After revealing the first batch of titles from its upcoming lineup last month, Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival is proud to announce the remaining selection of features appearing in its eighteenth edition. The full Fantaspoa 2022 lineup will consist of 90 features and 97 shorts – equaling 187 incredible movies, shown in five theaters around Porto Alegre from April 15 to May 1 of this year. The festival’s selection of feature films is divided into five competitive sections: International; Ibero-American; Brazilian; Animation; and “Mondo Bizarro”. While the first three are based on the geographic origin of the productions, the others are built solely
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I’m in no way a fan of watching YouTubers, TikTokers, and the like, nor am I very big on films that use the social influencer method of storytelling or that have influencers, would-be or otherwise, as their protagonists. So when I say that I was bowled over by Deadstream and had a fun-tastic time watching it, it is no small compliment. This horror comedy from codirectors/cowriters Joseph Winter and Vanessa Winter is an absolute blast, paying homage to The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and similar 1980s horror movies boasting wicked practical effects work and makeup. Joseph toplines as Shawn Ruddy, a disgraced and demonetized former internet star trying to make a comeback. He plans to livestream as he investigates a haunted house, with the caveat that if he doesn’t investigate mysterious noises or occurrences, he will lose his new potential sponsors. Joseph gives a hilarious performance as Ruddy, with his revved-up internet persona giving way to screaming and cowardice
Continue reading →
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Panic Fest, Kansas City’s superb film festival filled with fright fare and thrillers galore, is back on the big screens this year, and The Last Drive-In‘s Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl, as well as Sleepwalkers director Mick Garris, will be on hand to help celebrate 10 years of the renowned film festival. Panic Fest also has a jaw-dropping, drool-worthy lineup of fear-fare cinema, of course! Following is the official press announcement. The Last Drive-In‘s Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl are kicking off the 10th annual Panic Fest with a special 20th anniversary screening of Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho-Tep on Thursday, April 28 at 7pm CST at Screenland Armour Theatre. Panic Fest co-founder Tim KC Canton says, “We couldn’t be more thrilled to bring Panic Fest back to the masses for our 10th festival! Can’t wait to see everyone back at the theater and kick things off with Joe Bob while celebrating so many great
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GROUND Game Atelier announced their debut title, The Time I Have Left, as part of yesterday’s Future Games Spring Showcase. The Time I Have Left is available to wishlist now on STEAM and will launch for PC in 2023. The Time I Have Left is a time-driven exploration game with RPG elements and a big focus on storytelling. The player takes the role of Aline, a woman affected by a mysterious condition that marks her for certain death: The Miasma. Players will guide Aline in a race against time to escape from an enormous underground complex, Colony 7. Features: The clock is always ticking. What will players do with the time they have left? Key events only trigger at specific times. Shortcuts, hidden stories, unique items, and other secrets lie in wait. Players will resist attacks from grotesque visions of death that assault Aline and will need to time their movements to evade the creatures that dwell in the liminal
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Brazil’s renowned genre film festival Fantaspoa makes its triumphant return to the big screen from April 15–May 1after two years of online editions. With plenty of fear fare on tap, ranging from F. W. Murnau’s 1922 classic silent vampire film NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR to the reimagining of Stephen King’s The Langoliers mini-series THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY, with an amazing bounty of science fiction, thrillers, and other movies offering the weird and the wild. Following is the official press announcement. After two years of successful online editions, the 18th edition of the beloved Brazilian genre festival Fantaspoa will return to the cinemas from April 15th through May 1st. This year, attendees will discover a very different Fantaspoa from its last on-site edition (a very distant 2019): instead of its usual two venues, the fest will take place simultaneously in five cinemas, with part of its program also being available online, geo-blocked for viewers within Brazil. The poster for this
Continue reading →
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Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival returns to the big screen from March 31–April 3 this year for its 15th edition, and quite a lineup is in store for fear-fare aficionados! With four frightening features and a bevy of terror-ific shorts on tap, the 7 Stages Theatre will be home to a four days of incredible horror cinema. We here at Horror Fuel are excited about the full slate of films at Buried Alive Film Festival, but we can’t help but drool over the four features scheduled for this year. First up is the Friday night feature Duyster, a Belgian film in which three students film a documentary about Johannes Duyster, Antwerp’s 17th century executioner. Fans of found-footage horror know that things are bound to go horribly wrong for the trio. Saturday afternoon serves up the anthology film What Happens Next Will Scare You, from the imaginative creative team that brought the world the WNUF Halloween Special. The official description of
Continue reading →
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Filmmaker Larry Fessenden, who has delivered horror films such as The House of the Devil, Wendigo, Stake Land, and the film The Transfiguration, is teaming up with The Museum of Modern Art for an exploration of his contribution to the world of film. Titled “Oh, The Humanity! The Films of Larry Fessenden & Glass Eye Pix”, the event will run from March 30th through April 19, 2022, featuring 26 feature films, shorts, and oddities in theaters and online. Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent production shingle headed by art-horror auteur Larry Fessenden, is pleased to announce that a retrospective of 26 feature films along with numerous shorts, animations, and early works created during its 37 years of operation, is being presented by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) March 30 through April 19. The run of films will be hosted by Fessenden and many of the directors who have participated in the Glass Eye Pix mission to support “individual
Continue reading →
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Writer/director Addison Heimann brings an unflinching look at a mental breakdown using body horror, psychological horror, and some truly dark comedy to his latest feature, Hypochondriac. The result is an intense effort that serves up some mind-boggling imagery. Will (Zach Villa) is a potter who has experienced enough trauma in his life to successfully help a coworker calm down from a panic attack. His mother (Marlene Forte) has mental health issues, including trying to kill Will when he was a child. The two have not spoken in 10 years but she is now trying to contact him at a rapid clip, causing his stress levels to rise and for him to experience physical pain including not being able to use his hands. His boyfriend Luke (Devon Graye) wants to help, but Will prefers to remain closed off and not discuss his past, including the situation with his mother. As Will’s conditions worsen, he becomes increasingly suspicious and paranoid, and begins
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With the conflict in Ukraine intensifying, many civilians are caught up in the chaos the likes of which surpasses the humanitarian crisis in WWII. The Farm 51 and All In! Games launched today the latest DLC for Chernobylite called the “Digital Charity Pack” in which all proceeds go towards the Pure Heart Foundation a non-profit charitable organization established in 2013 that works with underprivileged communities focusing on humanitarian aid and youth projects. The Foundation is currently working on distributing humanitarian aid to Ukrainian civilians such as hygiene products, diapers, baby food, phones, sleeping bags, and medicine. For purchases made on Steam, the digital charity pack requires owning the base game of Chernobylite but for anyone wanting to support the initiative without having to buy the full game, they can buy the product on the Epic Games Store or GOG.com. The Devs also want fans and gamers to know that this is one of many ways to help those in need
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