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This November Witness ‘The Haunting Of Grady Farm’

Matt Disckstein makes his feature debut with the found footage indie horror film The Haunting of Grady Farm. Starring Josh Server (All That), Alex Owen-Sarno (Titanic), Justin Miles (The Crazies, “The Walking Dead”), and Lauren O’Quinn (House of Cards, Bloodline), the film introduces us to Emily Wolf, the host of a travel show documenting reportedly haunted locations throughout the country. The destination of her next episode happens to be in rural Florida where she and her cinematographer’s old college friends live. The Haunting of Grady Farm will be released for purchase and to rent on VOD from High Octane Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 16, 2020

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A Native American Legend Comes To Life In The Horror Film ‘The Retreat’

There’s something waiting in the mountains this November. From director Bruce Wemple (Monstrous), and starring Grant Schumacher, The Retreat is set to take viewers on a frightening trip this Fall to meet a monster. Set in the Adirondack High Peaks of Upstate New York, two best friends. Gus and Adam set out for a winter backpacking trip. After a horrifying encounter with a monster, Gus finds himself alone and lost. Now, he must now fight for his life while keeping his grip on reality as he’s tormented both physically and psychologically by the evil Native American legend, the Wendigo. Dylan Grunn, Rick Montgomery Jr., Chris Cimperman, and Ariella Mastroianni also star in the film arriving on DVD and On-Demand on November 10, 2020, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 16, 2020

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Supernatural Horror ‘Playhouse’ Coming To VOD This Fall

As Frightfest comes to a close, Devilworks has picked up the supernatural chiller Playhouse for North America and Canada and has set a November release date. The film centers on a notorious horror writer, who moves into an ancient castle with his teenage daughter, to work on his next play; only to face terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to a supernatural evil lurking within the castle walls. Brothers Fionn and Toby Watts produced and directed Playhouse, which made its premiere at London’s Frightfest in August. William Holstead (Shudder Original ‘Christmas Presence’) Grace Courtney, James Rottger (BBCs ‘The Break’), and Helen Mackay (BBC’s ‘The Miracle Maker’) star in this dark, twisted tale. Devilworks will release Playhouse on VOD on all North American platforms on November 17th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 13, 2020

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Are You Ready to Travel Into the Black Abyss?

Talented fright flick filmmaker Daniel Mark Young (who’s short film For Her… I examined right here) has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise the dough necessary to bring us a new slice of putrid pie called Into the Black Abyss: Deathstream! Here’s the skinny straight from the film’s campaign page: “Into the Black Abyss: Deathstream takes a lot of influences from many different sub-genres of Horror, Including “Found Footage”, “Point of View Horror”, “Tech Horror”, “Home Invasion” and “Cult Horror” The Movie follows Zach a 28 Year old online Gamer who makes a living streaming his gameplay videos online. One night during a live stream things get a little strange. Viewers see faces at his window, odd noises can be heard outside his house and as things go from bad to worse when a group of masked individuals break into his home. Zach captures the events on camera, streamed live to anyone who happens to be watching. Soon it becomes

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Oct 9, 2020

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Blu-Ray Review: The Pale Door

From director Aaron B. Koontz comes the western horror The Pale Door, an indie film that follows a group of outlaws that discover a woman locked inside a trunk during a trailer robbery. They release her not knowing that she is a witch. When one of the gang is shot they follow her to her town in hopes of finding a doctor and saving their leader, but things don’t go as planned after entering a brothel. Even though the film had a small budget, the cast is surprisingly good, especially Devin Druid, Zachary Knighton, Bill Sage, Pat Healy, Natasha Bassett, and Monster Squad actor Stan Shaw. The cast also includes Melora Walters, Noah Segan, and James Landry Hebert who plays the infamous Cotton Mather. The special effects, which features a ton of gunfire, burn makeup and people crawling on ceilings, were impressive, as was the town that I assume was built just for the movie. The lumber alone would have

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 5, 2020

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Writing/Directing Duo Ruckus And Lane Skye Discuss ‘The Devil To Pay’

With the release of the southern gothic thriller The Devil to Pay, I sat down with the husband and wife writing, directing, and producing duo Ruckus and Lane Skye to talk about the film and their writing process. The Devil to Pay centers on an Appalachian woman named Lemon (Danielle Deadwyler) who must fight to save herself, her son, and her home after her husband disappears and a powerful family demands her husband’s debt be paid, or else. Horror Fuel: “I love the location you chose for your film. There’s just something about the mountains. And they also seem sort of like a character in the film. It’s great cinematography. How did you go about capturing that?” Ruckus: “We shot in Hiawassee, Georgia, about two hours north of Atlanta. It’s actually a pretty town. We had to erase some houses and powerlines out of the footage. It’s a little movie magic.” Lane:” We had a guy come in and do

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 3, 2020

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Indie Horror ‘Noise In The Middle’ Snags A Release Date

Terror Films has acquired the worldwide digital rights to Marcus McCollum’s feature film debut, Noise In the Middle. “After the sudden death of his wife Sara, Richard, a grieving and emotionally ill-equipped father is left on his own to care for his severely, non-verbal autistic daughter Emmie. Before her death, Sara had arranged for Emmy to partake in an experimental therapy and rented a house near the facility where the treatments would take place. Little does Richard know the house has a haunted history. While Richard struggles with his wife’s death he soon realizes he has no patience, skills, or even any empathy to deal with Emmie’s condition and begins to find solace in drinking and drugs. As the spirits in the house grow restless, so does the noise in Emmie’s head, awakening her psychic abilities along with Richard’s personal demons. When visions of his dead wife begin to appear, Richard is convinced she has returned to help him. But

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 1, 2020

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This October Witness ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’

Writer-director Thomas Robert Lee takes viewers on a dark journey filled with religious paranoia, horror, and revenge set against the autumnal palette of the harvest season in 1973 in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw. The film explores the disturbing bond between Audrey, an enigmatic young woman, and Agatha, her domineering ‘mother’, who live secretly as occultists on the outskirts of a remote Protestant village. As the community is besieged by a pestilence of unknown origin: children, fields, and livestock begin to die — yet the Earnshaw farm remains strangely unaffected. As mass hysteria sets in the village, the townsfolk commence accusations against Audrey and Agatha of witchcraft. Catherine Walker, Jared Abrahamson, Hannah Emily Anderson, Geraldine O’Rawe, Don McKellar, and Sean McGinley star in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw, featuring Jessica Reynolds in the titular role of Audrey Earnshaw. I wanted to tell a story about legacy, and to specifically explore it within the context of a folk horror narrative,”says writer-director

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 1, 2020

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Movie Review: Do Not Reply (2020)

Chelsea (Amanda Arcuri) is your normal teen pain in the ass; giving her mom (Savannah Kennick) static on the regular while her pappy is in parts unknown doing duty for the military brass. Thankfully she has her online chat sesh with “VRCowboy” to keep her grounded. Turns out that cow poke is in fact a dude named Brad (Jackson Rathbone), and he and Chel-Chel are planning to meet in the flesh at ye olde out of towne Samhain shindig. Well, that goes tits up, and our heroine finds herself chained up in a basement, and Brad sure as fuck isn’t what he seems! Adding to the fun, Chelsea must convince her fellow captives; a cadre of blonde A.F. cheerleaders, Meagan (Kerri Medders), Heather (Elise Luthman), and Victoria (Kaitlyn Black) by name, that they are indeed not in love with Brad (even though he has brainwashed them into believing otherwise), but that they need to get the hell out of there

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DanXIII

Oct 1, 2020

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Movie Review: Daddy’s Girl (2018)

Sick ticket John (Costas Mandylor) gets his rocks off by doin’ the sex with his step-daughter (if PornHub is to believed, so is everyone else in the known universe) Zoe (Gemma Dallender), who is kinda/sorta his prisoner, as well as an accomplice in his game of luring young women into his private torture chamber. Zoe acts as a sort of angel of death as well as she offers some victims a choice of suicide in lieu of her father’s abuse, though it’s possible she’s excited by setting up these scenarios rather than being altruistic. But soon deputy Scott Wallace (Jesse Moss) gets hip to their horror biz, but will he be able to stop the deadly duo before they kill again? Daddy’s Girl really caught me off guard, let me tell ya cats n’ creeps! What seems like your average, everyday torture porn affair ends up being anything but, as we delve into heady territory of gender roles and their

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DanXIII

Sep 29, 2020

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