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Unearthed Films has announced the latest addition to its “Too Extreme for Mainstream Line” (TEFM) collection, 29 Needles, which is now available on Blu-ray and DVD pre-order, but only 30 copies are available at this time. Exploring such topics as sadism, masochism, and one man’s ready descent into his personal hell, 29 Needles has all of the brutal nastiness you’d expect from a TEFM title, with subversive and beautiful, yet truly disturbing scenes. In the film, Francis (Brooke Berry) uses pain to hold back his inner demons, but when this no longer works, his obsessions for pain and sex lead him into new territory. Scott Philip Goergens, director, gallery owner, and artist had this to say, “My work is meant to challenge. To push the boundaries of what is conventionally comfortable and “normal”. 29 NEEDLES is meant to highlight aspects of the human condition in ways that evoke tones of anxiety, perversion, fear, and the things we do in our
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Following a lengthy legal battle, the long-awaited indie horror film Agoraphobia has finally been released. From writer-director Lou Simón (interview) and starring Cassie Scerbo from Sharknado and horror legend Tony Todd (Candyman), Agoraphobia tells the story of an agoraphobic who inherits her father’s house in a remote part of the Florida Keys. Afraid to go outside, she discovers that there’s something far more terrifying trapped inside the house with her. Cassandra Scerbo plays the role of the agoraphobic, Faye, and Tony Todd plays her psychiatrist, Doctor Murphy. The cast also includes Adam Brudnicki (Tom), Maria Olsen (Aunt Margie), Aniela McGuinness (Stephanie), Roberto Escobar (Detective Martinez), Gema Calero (Nina), and Julie Kendall (Elizabeth). Tara Cardinal produces the film with cinematography by Stephen Brevig. After being selected to screen and winning several awards at film festivals worldwide, Agoraphobia was picked up for distribution in various territories, including North America. However, when the film was inadvertently released without permission, the independent film company
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The award-winning horror-thriller Rendez-Vous from writer-director Pablos Olmos Arrayales is out now on Digital and On Demand, from Level 33 Entertainment. . Filmed in one single take with no cuts, Rendez-Vous is an original Mexican thriller about a couple who meet online with one night, one chance to fall in love. When Lili and Eduardo meet up after connecting online, their first date takes an unexpected and terrifying turn as the evening progresses. In the English subtitled film, “Lili and Eduardo meet for the first time after connecting on a dating app. Eduardo arrives late but with a good reason in a place like Mexico City: he was mugged, and they took his phone so he couldn’t text her to say he was running late. While at first everything seems to be going fine, when Lili finds Eduardo’s phone in his jacket, things take an unexpected and terrifying turn for the worse.” Antonio Alcántara, Helena Puig, Markin López, Axel Zapién,
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Back in the darkest of Dark Ages, a gaggle of Knights Templar oversee a gnarly birth and attempt to perform one of those morally dicey post-partum abortions… but the local pitchfork toting mob but the kibosh on the lady, the baby, and finally the knights themselves via a good ol’ burning at the stake (after blinding them of course… that’ll be important later if the title of this fright flick didn’t clue ya in)! Flash forward to a rather rugged post-apocalyptic future, and the misadventures of Michael (Aaron Stielstra) and his preggo kid, Lily (Alice Zanini), whom after having their asses saved from some deep woods banditos, find themselves balls deep in the commune of a religious cult. Speaking of said cult; their leaders Kain (Micky Ray Martin) and Abel (Bill Hutchens) are hellbent in reenacting that monstrous monkey biz mentioned up yonder and they need Lily’s lil’ bun in the oven to bring those blind-as-a-bat terror Templars back to
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Award-winning filmmaker, music director, composer, and Grammy nominee Martin Guigui discusses his new film Paradise Cove in our interview. Guigui has directed Feature Films, Music Videos, composed music for film and TV, worked on over 100 productions, produced over 50 music albums, toured extensively, and is a Music Director for high profile Broadcast Concert Events. Starring BAFTA Nominee Mena Suvari (“Ameican Horror Story,” “South of Hell”), Todd Grinnell (“Revenge,” “One Day at a Time”), and Kristin Bauer van Straten (“True Blood”) the thriller centers on a contractor and his wife who move to Malibu to flip his mother’s beach house only to be terrorized by the deranged homeless lady living under the home. Below you will find the conversation I had with Martin, who is kind and down to earth, about Paradise Cove. Martin Guigui: “I see our number starts with 478, is that Georgia?” HorrorFuel: “It is.” Martin Guigui: “I just shot a film in Savannah, Drama Drama, it’s
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Following its international premiere at Sundance’s 2021 film festival, Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s chilling debut feature Violation is heading exclusively to Shudder, AMC Networks’ premiere streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. We’ve got the new trailer for the film that is as beautiful as it is brutal. “With her marriage about to implode, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law. But one evening a tiny slip in judgment leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. Believing her only recourse is to exact revenge, Miriam takes extreme action, but the price of retribution is high, and she is not prepared for the toll it takes as she begins to emotionally and psychologically unravel.” Written, produced, directed by, and starring Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, Violation is a turbulent feminist revenge fable that explores the idea of trauma within families and untangles a web of
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ALL in! Games and PolyAmorous have released a new trailer for the upcoming first-person mystery walking sim, Paradise Lost, a game taking place in an alternate timeline where WWII lasted 20 years. In Paradise Lost players take on the role of 12-year-old Szymon. A Polish boy raised in the now post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once Europe till the Nazis in a desperate attempt nuked the entire continent sealing it off from the rest of the world. Its winter in 1980 and Szymon has discovered an old Nazi bunker and begins to explore it and uncover the mystery of the bunker’s former inhabitants where retro-futuristic technology and Slavic mythology collide. The “Alternative History” trailer explains the events leading up to the main story of the game on a historical level while keeping the mystery of the bunker up in the air for us to find out. Paradise Lost is set to be released this year for Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation
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Genre staple Bill Oberst Jr. (3 From Hell, Synchronic) stars in The Parish, coming this March from Uncork’d Entertainment. Check out the new trailer and Poster which have just arrived. In the film, “A widow haunted by the gruesome death of her husband uproots her daughter and moves them to a peaceful rural town. Then the real nightmares begin when she and her daughter stumble upon a long-buried scandal. They team up with the town’s priest after encountering a creepy young boy, a hostile janitor, and a bloodthirsty nun who will stop at nothing to protect the deadly secrets of The Parish. Directed by David S.Hogan and scripted by Todd Downing, The Parish also stars Angela DiMarco, Sanae Loutsis, Ray Tagavilla, Bill Oberst Jr., Sara Coates, Gin Hammond, Amber Wolfe, Ryan Sanders, Lucas Oktay, and Jonathan Holbrook. The Parish premieres on DVD and Digital on March 16, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Jordan Graham’s new supernatural horror Sator is heading towards its release. I got a chance to watch it early and I thought I’d share my thoughts with you. In Sator, Graham’s family, including his grandmother, have claimed to have long had contact with a mysterious presence by the name of Sator. After the sudden loss of his mother, Adam has become a recluse and retreats deep into the forest to his family’s cabin. When he’s not hunting, he sits in the dark cabin along with his trusty dog and listens to the tapes of his grandmother talking to Sator while consumed by the trances she frequently falls into. Gabriel Nicholson stars as Adam, who is best described as the silent type, hell, he barely says anything at all. I’m sure his lack of lines was meant to make him come across as sort of stoic, but it only makes him feel distant and cold. The other main character is Adam’s
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A bickering family of American tourists decide to stop off in a small Irish village located in a picturesque, verdant landscape. Seems prosaic enough, but as horror movies oft times go; this village has a deep, dark (in this case mutant) based secret that will put that vacay in a serious dovetail right quick! As you may surmise from that sinister synopsis, Plague Town (or A Slaughter in Plague Town) is a fright flick positively dripping with atmosphere. This is nowhere as evident in the locales utilized to bring this terror tale to life; all wicked woods and dark, almost monotone environs. It’s drab, it’s dreary, and it looks exactly like the place you’d run into some good ol’ folk horror madness! Adding to the positives are the lean n’ mean flow of the film delivered by co-writer (along with John Cregan)/director David Gregory keeps things disturbing and moving like a spectral locomotive from hell, so this one never becomes
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Unearthed Films has announced the latest addition to its “Too Extreme for Mainstream Line” (TEFM) collection, 29 Needles, which is now available on Blu-ray and DVD pre-order, but only 30 copies are available at this time. Exploring such topics as sadism, masochism, and one man’s ready descent into his personal hell, 29 Needles has all of the brutal nastiness you’d expect from a TEFM title, with subversive and beautiful, yet truly disturbing scenes. In the film, Francis (Brooke Berry) uses pain to hold back his inner demons, but when this no longer works, his obsessions for pain and sex lead him into new territory. Scott Philip Goergens, director, gallery owner, and artist had this to say, “My work is meant to challenge. To push the boundaries of what is conventionally comfortable and “normal”. 29 NEEDLES is meant to highlight aspects of the human condition in ways that evoke tones of anxiety, perversion, fear, and the things we do in our
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Following a lengthy legal battle, the long-awaited indie horror film Agoraphobia has finally been released. From writer-director Lou Simón (interview) and starring Cassie Scerbo from Sharknado and horror legend Tony Todd (Candyman), Agoraphobia tells the story of an agoraphobic who inherits her father’s house in a remote part of the Florida Keys. Afraid to go outside, she discovers that there’s something far more terrifying trapped inside the house with her. Cassandra Scerbo plays the role of the agoraphobic, Faye, and Tony Todd plays her psychiatrist, Doctor Murphy. The cast also includes Adam Brudnicki (Tom), Maria Olsen (Aunt Margie), Aniela McGuinness (Stephanie), Roberto Escobar (Detective Martinez), Gema Calero (Nina), and Julie Kendall (Elizabeth). Tara Cardinal produces the film with cinematography by Stephen Brevig. After being selected to screen and winning several awards at film festivals worldwide, Agoraphobia was picked up for distribution in various territories, including North America. However, when the film was inadvertently released without permission, the independent film company
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The award-winning horror-thriller Rendez-Vous from writer-director Pablos Olmos Arrayales is out now on Digital and On Demand, from Level 33 Entertainment. . Filmed in one single take with no cuts, Rendez-Vous is an original Mexican thriller about a couple who meet online with one night, one chance to fall in love. When Lili and Eduardo meet up after connecting online, their first date takes an unexpected and terrifying turn as the evening progresses. In the English subtitled film, “Lili and Eduardo meet for the first time after connecting on a dating app. Eduardo arrives late but with a good reason in a place like Mexico City: he was mugged, and they took his phone so he couldn’t text her to say he was running late. While at first everything seems to be going fine, when Lili finds Eduardo’s phone in his jacket, things take an unexpected and terrifying turn for the worse.” Antonio Alcántara, Helena Puig, Markin López, Axel Zapién,
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Back in the darkest of Dark Ages, a gaggle of Knights Templar oversee a gnarly birth and attempt to perform one of those morally dicey post-partum abortions… but the local pitchfork toting mob but the kibosh on the lady, the baby, and finally the knights themselves via a good ol’ burning at the stake (after blinding them of course… that’ll be important later if the title of this fright flick didn’t clue ya in)! Flash forward to a rather rugged post-apocalyptic future, and the misadventures of Michael (Aaron Stielstra) and his preggo kid, Lily (Alice Zanini), whom after having their asses saved from some deep woods banditos, find themselves balls deep in the commune of a religious cult. Speaking of said cult; their leaders Kain (Micky Ray Martin) and Abel (Bill Hutchens) are hellbent in reenacting that monstrous monkey biz mentioned up yonder and they need Lily’s lil’ bun in the oven to bring those blind-as-a-bat terror Templars back to
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Award-winning filmmaker, music director, composer, and Grammy nominee Martin Guigui discusses his new film Paradise Cove in our interview. Guigui has directed Feature Films, Music Videos, composed music for film and TV, worked on over 100 productions, produced over 50 music albums, toured extensively, and is a Music Director for high profile Broadcast Concert Events. Starring BAFTA Nominee Mena Suvari (“Ameican Horror Story,” “South of Hell”), Todd Grinnell (“Revenge,” “One Day at a Time”), and Kristin Bauer van Straten (“True Blood”) the thriller centers on a contractor and his wife who move to Malibu to flip his mother’s beach house only to be terrorized by the deranged homeless lady living under the home. Below you will find the conversation I had with Martin, who is kind and down to earth, about Paradise Cove. Martin Guigui: “I see our number starts with 478, is that Georgia?” HorrorFuel: “It is.” Martin Guigui: “I just shot a film in Savannah, Drama Drama, it’s
Continue reading →
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Following its international premiere at Sundance’s 2021 film festival, Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s chilling debut feature Violation is heading exclusively to Shudder, AMC Networks’ premiere streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. We’ve got the new trailer for the film that is as beautiful as it is brutal. “With her marriage about to implode, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law. But one evening a tiny slip in judgment leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. Believing her only recourse is to exact revenge, Miriam takes extreme action, but the price of retribution is high, and she is not prepared for the toll it takes as she begins to emotionally and psychologically unravel.” Written, produced, directed by, and starring Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, Violation is a turbulent feminist revenge fable that explores the idea of trauma within families and untangles a web of
Continue reading →
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ALL in! Games and PolyAmorous have released a new trailer for the upcoming first-person mystery walking sim, Paradise Lost, a game taking place in an alternate timeline where WWII lasted 20 years. In Paradise Lost players take on the role of 12-year-old Szymon. A Polish boy raised in the now post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once Europe till the Nazis in a desperate attempt nuked the entire continent sealing it off from the rest of the world. Its winter in 1980 and Szymon has discovered an old Nazi bunker and begins to explore it and uncover the mystery of the bunker’s former inhabitants where retro-futuristic technology and Slavic mythology collide. The “Alternative History” trailer explains the events leading up to the main story of the game on a historical level while keeping the mystery of the bunker up in the air for us to find out. Paradise Lost is set to be released this year for Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation
Continue reading →
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Genre staple Bill Oberst Jr. (3 From Hell, Synchronic) stars in The Parish, coming this March from Uncork’d Entertainment. Check out the new trailer and Poster which have just arrived. In the film, “A widow haunted by the gruesome death of her husband uproots her daughter and moves them to a peaceful rural town. Then the real nightmares begin when she and her daughter stumble upon a long-buried scandal. They team up with the town’s priest after encountering a creepy young boy, a hostile janitor, and a bloodthirsty nun who will stop at nothing to protect the deadly secrets of The Parish. Directed by David S.Hogan and scripted by Todd Downing, The Parish also stars Angela DiMarco, Sanae Loutsis, Ray Tagavilla, Bill Oberst Jr., Sara Coates, Gin Hammond, Amber Wolfe, Ryan Sanders, Lucas Oktay, and Jonathan Holbrook. The Parish premieres on DVD and Digital on March 16, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Jordan Graham’s new supernatural horror Sator is heading towards its release. I got a chance to watch it early and I thought I’d share my thoughts with you. In Sator, Graham’s family, including his grandmother, have claimed to have long had contact with a mysterious presence by the name of Sator. After the sudden loss of his mother, Adam has become a recluse and retreats deep into the forest to his family’s cabin. When he’s not hunting, he sits in the dark cabin along with his trusty dog and listens to the tapes of his grandmother talking to Sator while consumed by the trances she frequently falls into. Gabriel Nicholson stars as Adam, who is best described as the silent type, hell, he barely says anything at all. I’m sure his lack of lines was meant to make him come across as sort of stoic, but it only makes him feel distant and cold. The other main character is Adam’s
Continue reading →
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A bickering family of American tourists decide to stop off in a small Irish village located in a picturesque, verdant landscape. Seems prosaic enough, but as horror movies oft times go; this village has a deep, dark (in this case mutant) based secret that will put that vacay in a serious dovetail right quick! As you may surmise from that sinister synopsis, Plague Town (or A Slaughter in Plague Town) is a fright flick positively dripping with atmosphere. This is nowhere as evident in the locales utilized to bring this terror tale to life; all wicked woods and dark, almost monotone environs. It’s drab, it’s dreary, and it looks exactly like the place you’d run into some good ol’ folk horror madness! Adding to the positives are the lean n’ mean flow of the film delivered by co-writer (along with John Cregan)/director David Gregory keeps things disturbing and moving like a spectral locomotive from hell, so this one never becomes
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