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Independent horror: micro-budget features, short films and first-time filmmakers doing more with less — and often doing it better.
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From director Ben Rood comes Don’t Run, an indie horror-fantasy born from the fear files of children everywhere. In the film, “a timid boy is trapped inside his house with a monster that threatens to eat him if he isn’t in bed by sundown every night.” Charlotte Arnold, Holly Arnold, Grant Brooks, Dan Foley, Danny Irizarry, and Cody Cheatwood star in Don’t Run, written, directed, produced, edited, and financed by Cincinnati-native Ben Rood, Don’t Run is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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The first clip from Diablo Rojo Pty, Panama’s first-ever horror film, is here to give audiences a taste of what’s to come! The scene showcases the first appearance of La Tulivieja, the witch that haunts our heroes through the jungles of Panama’s Chiriqui province. Based on local folklore, Panama’s first horror film is a ride through Hell with witches, cannibals, and monsters! Written and produced by J. Oskura Nájera and directed by Sol Moreno, Diablo Rojo Pty features a stellar cast that includes Carlos Carrasco (Speed and Blood In, Blood Out) and Leo Wiznitzer (Causa Justa and Hands of Stone). Diablo Rojo Pty (review) premieres exclusively to Amazon Prime Video on May 14th, 2020, from The Horror Collective.
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From director Tony Jopia (interview), the filmmaker behind Cute Little Buggers and the executive producer of The Hive, Good Tidings, and Crying Wolf comes the new sci-fi horror comedy Creatures. In the film, A group of astronomy students gets more than they bargained for after finding an injured alien who is being targeted by a group of bloodthirsty alien Creatures.’ Jopia Productions and Creatures Media LLC wanted to create a Christmas themed creature feature that could sit alongside such classic movies as Night of the Creeps, Critters, Dead Heat, Ghoulies, They Live, and Gremlins. Our passion lies in melding practical and visual FX. We aim to deliver on the goods by bringing together some creatively nasty SFX, tremendous puppet creature work and VFX work that will blow fans of action, horroromedies truly away.” Director Tony Jopia states. “Creatures will definitely be delivering a Red Christmas this year! We’re super excited to be making our biggest movie yet, it’s going to
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Awesome Games Studio where indeed awesome and gave me the opportunity to give their 2D platforming, shooter Fury Unleashed a try! Taking place in a comic book world, you take on the role of Fury, a soldier that runs and guns through the world around them as they learn more about the origin of their world as well as themselves. The game is quite nostalgic in its gameplay mechanics as you have to jump up and down platforms as you shoot at enemies, anyone who grew up in the 80’s and early 90’s know these types of games. The controls are not very complicated and given some short work you can get used to them fairly quickly. The graphics are quite fitting for this game and flow cleanly making the 2D art pleasant to see. You really are transferred into a comic book-like world with how everything looks together. Each map of the game is set up like a page
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We’ve got the new trailer for writer-director Johnny Hickey’s (Oxy Morons) new drug-fueled indie horror film, Habitual. In the film starring Chris ‘CT’ Tamburello (MTV’s The Challenge) and Thomas Walton (Room 9) after sniffing drugs and going to a rave being held at an abandoned asylum, a group of young adults is stalked by a relentless, malevolent presence, and their grasp on reality is torn limb from limb. A few years back, Boston-bred filmmaker Johnny Hickey brought the OxyContin epidemic to America’s attention with Oxy Morons. Based on his life, trials, and near-death experiences in the nascent throes of the opioid crisis, the film was a gut-wrenching wakeup call to anybody who at that point hadn’t come to understand the dangers of prescription painkillers. For his second feature film, Habitual, which is planned for release this coming fall, Hickey kept the theme in his macabre wheelhouse but also dove much deeper into horror territory in order to capture the nightmare
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Giant Pictures is set to unleash their recently acquired sci-fi thriller Volition this July, which marks the directorial debut of Tony Dean Smith, who also co-wrote the film with his brother Ryan W. Smith (Next Gen). Adrian Glynn McMorran (The Revenant), Magda Apanowicz (You), John Cassini (The Possession), Frank Cassini (Watchmen), Aleks Paunovic (War for the Planet of the Apes), and Bill Marchant (Godzilla) star. It was produced in association with Paly Productions and Smith Brothers Film Company. “A great debut for the Smith Brothers, VOLITION is sure to deliver thrills and a mind-bending experience to sci-fans everywhere,” said Courtney Cox, Manager of Content Acquisitions & Marketing at Giant Pictures. “We are thrilled to be bringing it to digital platforms.” Volition is a time-bending cerebral science-fiction thriller where a man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder. Awarded as best feature at the Philip K.
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Rock & Roll meets horror in Chase Smith‘s genre film, Dark Roads 79, the newly acquired film from Terror Films. The fantastic cast includes April Bogenschutz (Penance Lane), Eddie George (“Ballers”), David Flannery (Detroit), Chase Smith, Jessica Sonneborn, and horror icon Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects, 3 From Hell). The film centers on a southern rock band known as Dark Roads, whose time in the spotlight has come to an abrupt end. To find a new sound and regain their fame and fortune, they head to a secluded cabin to work on a new album. One by one, each band member begins to meet their demise and the survivors soon discover that the frontman of the band sold his soul to the devil – for the fame and fortune they’ve enjoyed. Now, the time has come to pay back this debt with their souls! Written and directed by Chase Smith (Creature Feature) also features an original soundtrack by Smith, which
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Character actor David Howard Thorton, best known for his role as Art the Clown for the indie hit Terrifier, has joined the cast of Heart and Fire Productions and Spirit Reckoning LLC’s upcoming horror western Spirit Reckoning. Thorton is set to play the role of the Skull Cowboy who was once a human named Sam Conley. Sam was murdered alongside his family and brought back to life by an Indian Shaman who turned him into an avenging Skull Cowboy. Thorton joins previously announced cast Sean Patrick Flannery of The Boondock Saints, and Lew Temple of “The Walking Dead” as well as The Devil’s Rejects. Spirit Reckoning is a fun-filled action-horror-western that has never been done like this before and we’re billing it as John Woo meets Sergio Leone meets the horror genre”, said writer-director Jimmy Lee Combs. “I have been absolutely mesmerized by David Howard Thornton since seeing him as Art the Clown in Terrifier. The eerie pizza parlor scene
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This June “love won’t stay buried” in The Deeper You Dig, from the writing and directing duo of Toby Poser and John Adams. In the film starring John Adams, Toby Poser, and Zelda Adams, “14-year old Echo and mother, Ivy, a tarot card reader, live a quiet life in a rural area. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo’s murder, and suddenly three lives collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground. But Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won’t stay buried.” We’ve uncovered that The Deeper You Dig, from Dark Sky Films, now has a June 5th digital release date. Check out the haunting trailer.
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Indie genre distributor Terror Films has acquired the worldwide rights to Marvin Choi’s feature debut, A Knight’s Tour. In a post-apocalyptic world, J.D. (Darnel Powell) is a young drifter suffering from an injury. Soon, J.D. finds himself at a secluded cabin occupied by Henry (Joseph Price), a detached hermit; here, Henry is living in self-imposed isolation from a chaotic world. After their initial suspicions subside, these two strangers begin to form a friendship over a game of chess. When Henry discovers a notebook in J.D.’s backpack highlighting various locations that are now crossed off, Henry begins to question J.D.’s true intentions. After investigating a bit more, Henry suspects that a threat of unseen invaders from the outside world are close at hand, brought to his doorstep by J.D. The film was written by Choi and produced by Sara Razack and has been an official selection at several film festivals. Festival appearances include the Pan African Film Festival, the DisOrient Asian
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From director Ben Rood comes Don’t Run, an indie horror-fantasy born from the fear files of children everywhere. In the film, “a timid boy is trapped inside his house with a monster that threatens to eat him if he isn’t in bed by sundown every night.” Charlotte Arnold, Holly Arnold, Grant Brooks, Dan Foley, Danny Irizarry, and Cody Cheatwood star in Don’t Run, written, directed, produced, edited, and financed by Cincinnati-native Ben Rood, Don’t Run is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Continue reading →
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The first clip from Diablo Rojo Pty, Panama’s first-ever horror film, is here to give audiences a taste of what’s to come! The scene showcases the first appearance of La Tulivieja, the witch that haunts our heroes through the jungles of Panama’s Chiriqui province. Based on local folklore, Panama’s first horror film is a ride through Hell with witches, cannibals, and monsters! Written and produced by J. Oskura Nájera and directed by Sol Moreno, Diablo Rojo Pty features a stellar cast that includes Carlos Carrasco (Speed and Blood In, Blood Out) and Leo Wiznitzer (Causa Justa and Hands of Stone). Diablo Rojo Pty (review) premieres exclusively to Amazon Prime Video on May 14th, 2020, from The Horror Collective.
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From director Tony Jopia (interview), the filmmaker behind Cute Little Buggers and the executive producer of The Hive, Good Tidings, and Crying Wolf comes the new sci-fi horror comedy Creatures. In the film, A group of astronomy students gets more than they bargained for after finding an injured alien who is being targeted by a group of bloodthirsty alien Creatures.’ Jopia Productions and Creatures Media LLC wanted to create a Christmas themed creature feature that could sit alongside such classic movies as Night of the Creeps, Critters, Dead Heat, Ghoulies, They Live, and Gremlins. Our passion lies in melding practical and visual FX. We aim to deliver on the goods by bringing together some creatively nasty SFX, tremendous puppet creature work and VFX work that will blow fans of action, horroromedies truly away.” Director Tony Jopia states. “Creatures will definitely be delivering a Red Christmas this year! We’re super excited to be making our biggest movie yet, it’s going to
Continue reading →
GamingIndieProductReviews
Awesome Games Studio where indeed awesome and gave me the opportunity to give their 2D platforming, shooter Fury Unleashed a try! Taking place in a comic book world, you take on the role of Fury, a soldier that runs and guns through the world around them as they learn more about the origin of their world as well as themselves. The game is quite nostalgic in its gameplay mechanics as you have to jump up and down platforms as you shoot at enemies, anyone who grew up in the 80’s and early 90’s know these types of games. The controls are not very complicated and given some short work you can get used to them fairly quickly. The graphics are quite fitting for this game and flow cleanly making the 2D art pleasant to see. You really are transferred into a comic book-like world with how everything looks together. Each map of the game is set up like a page
Continue reading →
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We’ve got the new trailer for writer-director Johnny Hickey’s (Oxy Morons) new drug-fueled indie horror film, Habitual. In the film starring Chris ‘CT’ Tamburello (MTV’s The Challenge) and Thomas Walton (Room 9) after sniffing drugs and going to a rave being held at an abandoned asylum, a group of young adults is stalked by a relentless, malevolent presence, and their grasp on reality is torn limb from limb. A few years back, Boston-bred filmmaker Johnny Hickey brought the OxyContin epidemic to America’s attention with Oxy Morons. Based on his life, trials, and near-death experiences in the nascent throes of the opioid crisis, the film was a gut-wrenching wakeup call to anybody who at that point hadn’t come to understand the dangers of prescription painkillers. For his second feature film, Habitual, which is planned for release this coming fall, Hickey kept the theme in his macabre wheelhouse but also dove much deeper into horror territory in order to capture the nightmare
Continue reading →
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Giant Pictures is set to unleash their recently acquired sci-fi thriller Volition this July, which marks the directorial debut of Tony Dean Smith, who also co-wrote the film with his brother Ryan W. Smith (Next Gen). Adrian Glynn McMorran (The Revenant), Magda Apanowicz (You), John Cassini (The Possession), Frank Cassini (Watchmen), Aleks Paunovic (War for the Planet of the Apes), and Bill Marchant (Godzilla) star. It was produced in association with Paly Productions and Smith Brothers Film Company. “A great debut for the Smith Brothers, VOLITION is sure to deliver thrills and a mind-bending experience to sci-fans everywhere,” said Courtney Cox, Manager of Content Acquisitions & Marketing at Giant Pictures. “We are thrilled to be bringing it to digital platforms.” Volition is a time-bending cerebral science-fiction thriller where a man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder. Awarded as best feature at the Philip K.
Continue reading →
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Rock & Roll meets horror in Chase Smith‘s genre film, Dark Roads 79, the newly acquired film from Terror Films. The fantastic cast includes April Bogenschutz (Penance Lane), Eddie George (“Ballers”), David Flannery (Detroit), Chase Smith, Jessica Sonneborn, and horror icon Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects, 3 From Hell). The film centers on a southern rock band known as Dark Roads, whose time in the spotlight has come to an abrupt end. To find a new sound and regain their fame and fortune, they head to a secluded cabin to work on a new album. One by one, each band member begins to meet their demise and the survivors soon discover that the frontman of the band sold his soul to the devil – for the fame and fortune they’ve enjoyed. Now, the time has come to pay back this debt with their souls! Written and directed by Chase Smith (Creature Feature) also features an original soundtrack by Smith, which
Continue reading →
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Character actor David Howard Thorton, best known for his role as Art the Clown for the indie hit Terrifier, has joined the cast of Heart and Fire Productions and Spirit Reckoning LLC’s upcoming horror western Spirit Reckoning. Thorton is set to play the role of the Skull Cowboy who was once a human named Sam Conley. Sam was murdered alongside his family and brought back to life by an Indian Shaman who turned him into an avenging Skull Cowboy. Thorton joins previously announced cast Sean Patrick Flannery of The Boondock Saints, and Lew Temple of “The Walking Dead” as well as The Devil’s Rejects. Spirit Reckoning is a fun-filled action-horror-western that has never been done like this before and we’re billing it as John Woo meets Sergio Leone meets the horror genre”, said writer-director Jimmy Lee Combs. “I have been absolutely mesmerized by David Howard Thornton since seeing him as Art the Clown in Terrifier. The eerie pizza parlor scene
Continue reading →
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This June “love won’t stay buried” in The Deeper You Dig, from the writing and directing duo of Toby Poser and John Adams. In the film starring John Adams, Toby Poser, and Zelda Adams, “14-year old Echo and mother, Ivy, a tarot card reader, live a quiet life in a rural area. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo’s murder, and suddenly three lives collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground. But Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won’t stay buried.” We’ve uncovered that The Deeper You Dig, from Dark Sky Films, now has a June 5th digital release date. Check out the haunting trailer.
Continue reading →
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Indie genre distributor Terror Films has acquired the worldwide rights to Marvin Choi’s feature debut, A Knight’s Tour. In a post-apocalyptic world, J.D. (Darnel Powell) is a young drifter suffering from an injury. Soon, J.D. finds himself at a secluded cabin occupied by Henry (Joseph Price), a detached hermit; here, Henry is living in self-imposed isolation from a chaotic world. After their initial suspicions subside, these two strangers begin to form a friendship over a game of chess. When Henry discovers a notebook in J.D.’s backpack highlighting various locations that are now crossed off, Henry begins to question J.D.’s true intentions. After investigating a bit more, Henry suspects that a threat of unseen invaders from the outside world are close at hand, brought to his doorstep by J.D. The film was written by Choi and produced by Sara Razack and has been an official selection at several film festivals. Festival appearances include the Pan African Film Festival, the DisOrient Asian
Continue reading →
