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Post-Apocalyptic Horror Thriller ‘Undergods’ Coming To Theaters And On Demand

Director Chino Moya makes his feature directorial debut with the award-winning post-apocalypse film Undergods is about to be released. The film is set, “in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, K and Z roam the streets on the lookout for corpses and something even more valuable – fresh meat.” Kate Dickie (The Witch, Game of Thrones”) and Ned Dennehy (“Good Omens,” “Peaky Blinders”) star in Undergods along with Burn Gorman (Pacific Rim, Enola Holmes), Geza Rohrig (Resistance, Son of Saul), and Tanya Reynolds (Emma., Sex Education). Witness Undergods in select theaters and On Demand on May 7, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studio Company.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 2, 2021
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Glenn Payne’s Micro Budget Horror-Comedy ‘Killer Concept’ Out This May

From director Glenn Payne (Driven, Earthrise) and writer Casey Dillard (Driven, As I Lay Dying) comes Killer Concept, a horror-comedy starring Payne, Dillard, and Coley Bryant (Driven, Stargrassle Paranormal). The film “explores what happens when three creatives team up to write a screenplay about a string of murders in their town, not knowing that one of the three may be closer to the story than the others realize. Mark (Glenn Payne), a voyeuristic photographer with a secret, is at first reluctant when aspiring cut-throat producer Seth (Coley Bryant) and true crime writer Holly (Casey Dillard) want him to help them make a movie about a local serial killer: after all, they might figure out that he is the murderer, but he figures it could be interesting. However, when rivalries, crushes, and outside influences begin to cloud his twisted mind it’s harder to tell if he’s in his own story or theirs.” With a primary cast and crew of five people,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 2, 2021
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Movie Review: ‘Sweet Water’ (2021)

From director Justin McMillan comes Sweet River, out in theaters and on VOD on April 23, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures. The film centers on Hanna (Lisa Kay), a grieving mother whose son was killed by a serial killer, however, the boy’s body was never found, and she never found acceptance. At the beginning of the film, Hanna rents the cottage on the property where the serial killer lived in hopes that she might find her son’s body in the nearby field, not knowing that the land holds many dark secrets. A bit of slow-burn, Sweet River is a thriller at heart, exploring death, grief, acceptance, regret, and how far a parent would go for their child. While there are paranormal aspects of the film, the death of the child takes more of the focus in the story. Lisa Kay did great with the role she was given, which was an emotional one. She was believable, which is always great. Eddie

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 30, 2021
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Dustin Ferguson’s ‘Terror At Black Tree Forest’ Getting A Remake

Trash Arts has teamed up with HB Films once again, this time for the remake of Dustin Ferguson‘s Terror At Black Tree Forest. The new film, based on Ferguson’s 2010 indie slasher, will be directed by Sam Mason Bell, who said “I am honored to have been asked by Dustin to remake his film. Originally, he asked me in 2018 and we were about to start production when the covid-19 pandemic hit but now we can see a way to filming safely and successfully, so it feels absolutely great being back in pre-production’.” In the slasher, “Caroline and her friends usually meet up once a year for a camping trip escaping their everyday lives and feeling young again, but this time it is different. They still meet up, but someone is stalking and killing them off … one by one! Is it a secret from the past? Or an urban legend come to life? What terror awaits at Black Tree

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
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Terror Films And FilmIsNow Team Up For The Release Of Twenty-Three Horror Films

Indie genre distributor TERROR FILMS has teamed up with YouTube AVOD platform FILMISNOW for the release of a massive slate of horror films, Twenty-three to be exact. FILMISNOW, a leading European YouTube network that encompasses ten movie-related channels. Combined, the channels have a total of over 8.5 million subscribers! They are an international company that specializes in movie-related content including production, distribution, and movie marketing – in four different languages. FILMISNOW entered the AVOD market at the beginning of 2020 and already has over 300 titles online, with more on the way. TERROR FILMS President Joe Dain spoke of this partnership recently, saying “this is one of many steps we have been taking to pave the way for more direct platform relationships, to expand our digital footprint, and to improve revenue streams for our filmmakers. This collaboration also helps us chip away at our need for 3rd party film aggregators.“ The initial launch will feature twenty-three films from this genre

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
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‘Sound Of Violence’ Trailer Teases Music Can Be Deadly

Following its world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence is receiving its home release. Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost), and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”) star. In the film, “Alexis recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis’ unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won’t let anything stop her, not

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
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New Horror Anthology ‘Seasons’ Releases First Trailer

Horror anthology series are all the rage right now. One of the new movies headed your way is Seasons, and you’ll recognize a bunch of its stars in the new teaser trailer. Seasons stars Jeremy London (Kevin Smith’s Mallrats), Lisa Wilcox (Nightmare on Elm Street 4 & 5), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), Eric Freeman (Silent Night, Deadly Night 2), and Cleve Hall (Terrorvision) in his final role. The film is written by Benjamin Swicker and produced by Tim Melican, Jesse Kozel, Brandon E. Brooks. Seasons will feature “four spine-tingling tales of terror,” and is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to get the film finished. Head over and grab an awesome perk like copies of the film, posters, and even film credit!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2021
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Heist Gone Wrong Horror ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time,’ Out On Demand This May

From Justin Price, the director of The Elf and The 13th Friday comes the action-packed horror film Wrong Place, Wrong Time. The film, described as “S.W.A.T. meets Resident Evil,” centers on, “An elite team of vigilantes who plot to steal 14 billion dollars of laundered money from a notorious mob boss. After being double-crossed, they find refuge in the middle of nowhere with a mysterious family carrying an unsettling secret. They discover that the man of the house is a creature of the dark and they must fight to survive the night.” Franziska Schissler, Justin Price, Bianca Stein, Alex Ryan Brown, Chase Garland, Olivia Rivera, Mike Markoff, Timothy McKinney, Marcia Vargas, Karen Carreno, and Natalia Rangel star in Wrong Place, Wrong Time out On Demand on May 4, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 24, 2021
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New Horror Comedy ‘Werewolves Within’ Will Leave You Howling With Laughter

After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community in Werewolves Within. Directed by Josh Ruben and written by Mishna Wolff, Werewolves Within stars Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns, Michael Chernus, Catherine Curtain, Wayne Duvall, Harvey Guillén, Rebecca Henderson, Cheyenne Jackson, Michaela Watkins, and Glenn Fleshler. I grew up near the same small town where we shot Werewolves Within. As a kid, I’d freak myself out, making up monster stories, running through the woods, pretending I was Chief Brody, fighting creatures in the brush (I LOVED Jaws — hell, I loved horror). That hometown experience, where neighbors knew your business (whether you liked it or not) is so much of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 21, 2021
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Cults, Curses And A Road Trip: ‘Threshold’ Is Coming To Arrow

Arrow Video has announced the release of Powell Robinson and Patrick R. Young‘s acclaimed film Threshold for this May. The haunted road trip thriller made its world premiered at the Salem Horror Fest in October, followed by its European premiere at Soho Horror Film Festival in November. “When a phone call from out of the blue brings Leo (Joey Millin) back into contact with his sister, Virginia (Madison West), long estranged from her family due to years of drug abuse, he arrives to find her alone in a bare apartment in the midst of an apparent overdose. After the convulsions and nausea subside, Virginia insists to Leo that she has been clean for 8 months due to the help of a mysterious group. She confides to her cynical brother that her edginess and paranoia actually stem from a sinister ritual conducted by the group that took her in at her lowest and eventually revealed themselves to be a cult. This

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 19, 2021

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Post-Apocalyptic Horror Thriller ‘Undergods’ Coming To Theaters And On Demand

Director Chino Moya makes his feature directorial debut with the award-winning post-apocalypse film Undergods is about to be released. The film is set, “in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, K and Z roam the streets on the lookout for corpses and something even more valuable – fresh meat.” Kate Dickie (The Witch, Game of Thrones”) and Ned Dennehy (“Good Omens,” “Peaky Blinders”) star in Undergods along with Burn Gorman (Pacific Rim, Enola Holmes), Geza Rohrig (Resistance, Son of Saul), and Tanya Reynolds (Emma., Sex Education). Witness Undergods in select theaters and On Demand on May 7, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studio Company.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 2, 2021
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Glenn Payne’s Micro Budget Horror-Comedy ‘Killer Concept’ Out This May

From director Glenn Payne (Driven, Earthrise) and writer Casey Dillard (Driven, As I Lay Dying) comes Killer Concept, a horror-comedy starring Payne, Dillard, and Coley Bryant (Driven, Stargrassle Paranormal). The film “explores what happens when three creatives team up to write a screenplay about a string of murders in their town, not knowing that one of the three may be closer to the story than the others realize. Mark (Glenn Payne), a voyeuristic photographer with a secret, is at first reluctant when aspiring cut-throat producer Seth (Coley Bryant) and true crime writer Holly (Casey Dillard) want him to help them make a movie about a local serial killer: after all, they might figure out that he is the murderer, but he figures it could be interesting. However, when rivalries, crushes, and outside influences begin to cloud his twisted mind it’s harder to tell if he’s in his own story or theirs.” With a primary cast and crew of five people,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 2, 2021
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Movie Review: ‘Sweet Water’ (2021)

From director Justin McMillan comes Sweet River, out in theaters and on VOD on April 23, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures. The film centers on Hanna (Lisa Kay), a grieving mother whose son was killed by a serial killer, however, the boy’s body was never found, and she never found acceptance. At the beginning of the film, Hanna rents the cottage on the property where the serial killer lived in hopes that she might find her son’s body in the nearby field, not knowing that the land holds many dark secrets. A bit of slow-burn, Sweet River is a thriller at heart, exploring death, grief, acceptance, regret, and how far a parent would go for their child. While there are paranormal aspects of the film, the death of the child takes more of the focus in the story. Lisa Kay did great with the role she was given, which was an emotional one. She was believable, which is always great. Eddie

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 30, 2021
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Dustin Ferguson’s ‘Terror At Black Tree Forest’ Getting A Remake

Trash Arts has teamed up with HB Films once again, this time for the remake of Dustin Ferguson‘s Terror At Black Tree Forest. The new film, based on Ferguson’s 2010 indie slasher, will be directed by Sam Mason Bell, who said “I am honored to have been asked by Dustin to remake his film. Originally, he asked me in 2018 and we were about to start production when the covid-19 pandemic hit but now we can see a way to filming safely and successfully, so it feels absolutely great being back in pre-production’.” In the slasher, “Caroline and her friends usually meet up once a year for a camping trip escaping their everyday lives and feeling young again, but this time it is different. They still meet up, but someone is stalking and killing them off … one by one! Is it a secret from the past? Or an urban legend come to life? What terror awaits at Black Tree

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
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Terror Films And FilmIsNow Team Up For The Release Of Twenty-Three Horror Films

Indie genre distributor TERROR FILMS has teamed up with YouTube AVOD platform FILMISNOW for the release of a massive slate of horror films, Twenty-three to be exact. FILMISNOW, a leading European YouTube network that encompasses ten movie-related channels. Combined, the channels have a total of over 8.5 million subscribers! They are an international company that specializes in movie-related content including production, distribution, and movie marketing – in four different languages. FILMISNOW entered the AVOD market at the beginning of 2020 and already has over 300 titles online, with more on the way. TERROR FILMS President Joe Dain spoke of this partnership recently, saying “this is one of many steps we have been taking to pave the way for more direct platform relationships, to expand our digital footprint, and to improve revenue streams for our filmmakers. This collaboration also helps us chip away at our need for 3rd party film aggregators.“ The initial launch will feature twenty-three films from this genre

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
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‘Sound Of Violence’ Trailer Teases Music Can Be Deadly

Following its world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence is receiving its home release. Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost), and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”) star. In the film, “Alexis recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis’ unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won’t let anything stop her, not

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
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New Horror Anthology ‘Seasons’ Releases First Trailer

Horror anthology series are all the rage right now. One of the new movies headed your way is Seasons, and you’ll recognize a bunch of its stars in the new teaser trailer. Seasons stars Jeremy London (Kevin Smith’s Mallrats), Lisa Wilcox (Nightmare on Elm Street 4 & 5), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), Eric Freeman (Silent Night, Deadly Night 2), and Cleve Hall (Terrorvision) in his final role. The film is written by Benjamin Swicker and produced by Tim Melican, Jesse Kozel, Brandon E. Brooks. Seasons will feature “four spine-tingling tales of terror,” and is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to get the film finished. Head over and grab an awesome perk like copies of the film, posters, and even film credit!

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2021
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Heist Gone Wrong Horror ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time,’ Out On Demand This May

From Justin Price, the director of The Elf and The 13th Friday comes the action-packed horror film Wrong Place, Wrong Time. The film, described as “S.W.A.T. meets Resident Evil,” centers on, “An elite team of vigilantes who plot to steal 14 billion dollars of laundered money from a notorious mob boss. After being double-crossed, they find refuge in the middle of nowhere with a mysterious family carrying an unsettling secret. They discover that the man of the house is a creature of the dark and they must fight to survive the night.” Franziska Schissler, Justin Price, Bianca Stein, Alex Ryan Brown, Chase Garland, Olivia Rivera, Mike Markoff, Timothy McKinney, Marcia Vargas, Karen Carreno, and Natalia Rangel star in Wrong Place, Wrong Time out On Demand on May 4, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 24, 2021
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New Horror Comedy ‘Werewolves Within’ Will Leave You Howling With Laughter

After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community in Werewolves Within. Directed by Josh Ruben and written by Mishna Wolff, Werewolves Within stars Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns, Michael Chernus, Catherine Curtain, Wayne Duvall, Harvey Guillén, Rebecca Henderson, Cheyenne Jackson, Michaela Watkins, and Glenn Fleshler. I grew up near the same small town where we shot Werewolves Within. As a kid, I’d freak myself out, making up monster stories, running through the woods, pretending I was Chief Brody, fighting creatures in the brush (I LOVED Jaws — hell, I loved horror). That hometown experience, where neighbors knew your business (whether you liked it or not) is so much of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 21, 2021
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Cults, Curses And A Road Trip: ‘Threshold’ Is Coming To Arrow

Arrow Video has announced the release of Powell Robinson and Patrick R. Young‘s acclaimed film Threshold for this May. The haunted road trip thriller made its world premiered at the Salem Horror Fest in October, followed by its European premiere at Soho Horror Film Festival in November. “When a phone call from out of the blue brings Leo (Joey Millin) back into contact with his sister, Virginia (Madison West), long estranged from her family due to years of drug abuse, he arrives to find her alone in a bare apartment in the midst of an apparent overdose. After the convulsions and nausea subside, Virginia insists to Leo that she has been clean for 8 months due to the help of a mysterious group. She confides to her cynical brother that her edginess and paranoia actually stem from a sinister ritual conducted by the group that took her in at her lowest and eventually revealed themselves to be a cult. This

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Apr 19, 2021
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