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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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This May, a husband evolves into a monster in the indie horror Becoming, written and directed by Omar Naim (The Final Cut). Toby Kebbell (Planet Of The Apes, Fantastic Four, Black Mirror) stars alongside Beth Broderick (Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Psycho Beach Party), Jason Patric (Lost Boys, Narc, Speed 2), and Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries, Hemlock Grove, Hellboy). Becoming follows Alex (Toby Kebbell) and Lisa (Penelope Mitchell), a couple newly engaged and deeply in love. While on a road trip, they encounter an ancient evil force that chooses Alex as its new host and begins to slowly take over his mind and body, gradually transforming him into someone terrifying and violent. The changes are small at first. His handwriting. His body language. As Alex struggles with the horror of losing his identity, Lisa notices the shifts in the man she thought she loved. Is he falling out of love with her, or is it something far, far worse? Lisa
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Look, I’ll lay it on the line; physical media may soon go the way of the dinosaur, and that is kind of bullshit if you ask your’s cruelly. Anyway, I’m not alone in this… just take a gander at the number of boutique labels providing horror hounds with the titles they crave on Blu-ray these days. Well, ‘lo and behold video game fans have the same fuckin’ desire which brings us to Not for Resale… Not for Resale, the new documentary from Kevin J. James, takes us on a tour of independent video game stores still keeping the lights on by wheeling n’ dealing in the relics of the golden age of physical cartridges and disks that transported us to the realms of our most fantastic dreams… and speaking of dreams, these shops may soon become obsolete thanks to the aging out of the customer base; but damn it if the folks behind these cultural meccas of geekdom won’t give
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Grab your Valentine and get ready, Gunpowder & Sky’s horror brand ALTER, DIGA Studios and Full Fathom Five announced today that their teen zombie flick Eat, Brains, Love from director Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, “Scream: The TV Series”) is set to be released globally next week. “The good news: Jake’s dream girl, Amanda, finally knows his name. The bad? It’s because they both contracted a sexually transmitted mysterious zombie virus and devoured half of their senior class. Now they’re on the run from the government as they search for a cure, all while weighing up the existential question of who really deserves to be eaten alive.” Starring Jake Cannavale (Nurse Jackie) as ’Jake’, Angelique Rivera (American Crime) as ‘Amanda’, Sarah Yarkin (American Horror Story) as ‘Cass’ and Alex Stage (“Cloak & Dagger”) as ‘Kyle’, Eat, Brains, Love is a gory and funny zombie-rom-com based on the living dead road trip novel by Jeff Hart. Eat, Brains, Love premieres on iTunes,
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Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
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Today CBE Software has announced an update about their upcoming story-driven psychological horror game Someday You’ll Return, its release date for PC! Console players don’t have to worry; the game will be coming later in 2020. Along with the release date comes a new trailer showing more of what players will be expecting as they play as Daniel, a father looking for his missing daughter Stela who ran away from home. Daniel’s search soon brings him to the Moravian forests, a place from his past where he swore he would never return to. In Someday You’ll Return, players will experience all sorts of game mechanics such as crafting, herbalism, stealth, tracking, climbing, interacting with an in-game Smartphone, and a karmic system that will affect the game’s ending. The game’s setting is unique as it takes place in the Czech Republic and features references to 9th-century tales and locations. Someday You’ll Return will be coming to PC April 14th, 2020 and
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The New Organization Of Nations, or N.O.O.N. if you are one of those sick, sick bastards that need to abbreviate things… has a wild hair about winning the space race… too bad the terrorist group Clean Space have gone all commando and began causing static for N.O.O.N. up to and including kidnapping a lady astronaut. N.O.O.N. is N.O.N.E. too thrilled about this turn of events, so they bring in Ilona (Sybil Danning), leader of the all-girl ass-kickers known as The Panther Squad… you know, they of the skimpy costumes, bedazzled and exclusively worn with bikinis underneath… to rip Clean Space a new asshole! Boobs, bloodshed, and a motorcycle with a cute as balls duckie painted on it follow in equal measure… oh, and there’s a laser gun in there too because fuck yeah, that’s why! Coming from those paragons of cinematic top-shelfery, Eurocine (who also brought us the equally batshit insane Zombie Lake), Panther Squad is an absolute scream of
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There are so many people that work behind-the-scenes to get a movie made and we rarely hear their side. During my interview with writer-director Marti King Young, she told me about the other jobs in Hollywood including on The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It and Annabelle Comes Home, as well as her recent projects and what her goals are as a filmmaker. Horror Fuel: “I love finding out how movies are made and all of the fascinating jobs that go into it. What did your position as Location Coordinator for The Conjuring 3 involve? “Marti”: “That’s the first time I had ever worked in that regard, and I never got to go to set which really bugs me. I stayed in the office. Basically, I was the coordinator, I was in charge of all the paperwork. I made sure all of the locations got paid. We had things like water meters that we had to go pick
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The February we will be introduced to writer-director Rory Kindersley‘s Eve, a psychological thriller set in London’s iconic Notting Hill, that tells the story of an actress who fails to land the role of her dreams and becomes obsessed with the woman who gets the part. Co-written by Drew Sherring-Hill, the film stars Christine Marzano, Andrew Lee Potts, Jonathan Forbes, Rachael Warren, Lex Shrapnel, Rhashan Stone, Ali Bastian, and Yennis Cheung. It was produced by Toby Cook, Matthew Cook, and Drew Sherring-Hill. “Eve follows two actresses fighting for the coveted role of ‘Eve’ in a screen adaptation of ‘Paradise Lost’. When the talented and beautiful Alex Beyer is awarded the role, her excitement is quickly tempered by a disturbing home invasion. Unsure of who or what is tormenting her, Alex’s sense of reality starts to spiral out of control threatening her sanity and the lives of those around her.” The film was nominated as Best Thriller, Best Original Screenplay, and
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Ten years ago, a bullied student kills herself in the school bathroom with a lil’ jagged glass to the throat routine… Fast forward a decade, and at said institution, that alliterative muv-fuck Sue Steel (Debra Lamb) is throwing her annual shindig for her peers in Ye Olde English Department at her pad. Things are a bit strained at the soiree for sure… but shit is going to be a tad more tense right quick, as a maniac has crashed the party, and that right bastard is lugging around a yearbook from ten years previous! The main thing Teacher Shortage has going for it is writer/director Troy Escamilla’s love of ’80s slasher flicks (which also provides us with a negative as well, but we’ll get to that shit in due time boils n’ ghouls)… my dude digs on the genre the most, and it shows… it also gives the film a great deal of heart, which goes a loooong way with
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Last year we reported that filmmaker Robert Rodriguez was returning to his roots and making a movie with the budget of just $7000, the same budget he had for his breakout film El Mariachi. The film, titled Red 11, was inspired by the medical experiments Rodriguez went through himself to raise the money for El Mariachi thirty years ago. The film is set “in the dark, twisted world of legal drug research. College kids turn lab rats to make quick money. The pic’s protagonist Rob (who is assigned the color and number Red 11), is trying to buy his way out of a huge debt to the tune of $7K. But things get surreal when he’s not sure if the hospital is really trying to kill him, or if it’s the side effects from the experimental drugs.” Rodriguez wrote the script with his son Racer, based on the original script Robert wrote in the ’90s. Since Red 11 made its
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This May, a husband evolves into a monster in the indie horror Becoming, written and directed by Omar Naim (The Final Cut). Toby Kebbell (Planet Of The Apes, Fantastic Four, Black Mirror) stars alongside Beth Broderick (Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Psycho Beach Party), Jason Patric (Lost Boys, Narc, Speed 2), and Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries, Hemlock Grove, Hellboy). Becoming follows Alex (Toby Kebbell) and Lisa (Penelope Mitchell), a couple newly engaged and deeply in love. While on a road trip, they encounter an ancient evil force that chooses Alex as its new host and begins to slowly take over his mind and body, gradually transforming him into someone terrifying and violent. The changes are small at first. His handwriting. His body language. As Alex struggles with the horror of losing his identity, Lisa notices the shifts in the man she thought she loved. Is he falling out of love with her, or is it something far, far worse? Lisa
Continue reading →
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Look, I’ll lay it on the line; physical media may soon go the way of the dinosaur, and that is kind of bullshit if you ask your’s cruelly. Anyway, I’m not alone in this… just take a gander at the number of boutique labels providing horror hounds with the titles they crave on Blu-ray these days. Well, ‘lo and behold video game fans have the same fuckin’ desire which brings us to Not for Resale… Not for Resale, the new documentary from Kevin J. James, takes us on a tour of independent video game stores still keeping the lights on by wheeling n’ dealing in the relics of the golden age of physical cartridges and disks that transported us to the realms of our most fantastic dreams… and speaking of dreams, these shops may soon become obsolete thanks to the aging out of the customer base; but damn it if the folks behind these cultural meccas of geekdom won’t give
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Grab your Valentine and get ready, Gunpowder & Sky’s horror brand ALTER, DIGA Studios and Full Fathom Five announced today that their teen zombie flick Eat, Brains, Love from director Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, “Scream: The TV Series”) is set to be released globally next week. “The good news: Jake’s dream girl, Amanda, finally knows his name. The bad? It’s because they both contracted a sexually transmitted mysterious zombie virus and devoured half of their senior class. Now they’re on the run from the government as they search for a cure, all while weighing up the existential question of who really deserves to be eaten alive.” Starring Jake Cannavale (Nurse Jackie) as ’Jake’, Angelique Rivera (American Crime) as ‘Amanda’, Sarah Yarkin (American Horror Story) as ‘Cass’ and Alex Stage (“Cloak & Dagger”) as ‘Kyle’, Eat, Brains, Love is a gory and funny zombie-rom-com based on the living dead road trip novel by Jeff Hart. Eat, Brains, Love premieres on iTunes,
Continue reading →
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Set sail this March with the based on true events thriller Dead Sound, from director Tony Glazer, and writers Jon Adler and Ted Weihman. Genre icon Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead, Buffy), Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in this brutal film. In the film, “four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.” Caroline Day, Ashley Austin Morris, John Behlmann, Eric Tabach, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor and Sophie Faulkenberry co-star. Dead Sound arrives DVD and Digital on March 3rd,
Continue reading →
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Today CBE Software has announced an update about their upcoming story-driven psychological horror game Someday You’ll Return, its release date for PC! Console players don’t have to worry; the game will be coming later in 2020. Along with the release date comes a new trailer showing more of what players will be expecting as they play as Daniel, a father looking for his missing daughter Stela who ran away from home. Daniel’s search soon brings him to the Moravian forests, a place from his past where he swore he would never return to. In Someday You’ll Return, players will experience all sorts of game mechanics such as crafting, herbalism, stealth, tracking, climbing, interacting with an in-game Smartphone, and a karmic system that will affect the game’s ending. The game’s setting is unique as it takes place in the Czech Republic and features references to 9th-century tales and locations. Someday You’ll Return will be coming to PC April 14th, 2020 and
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The New Organization Of Nations, or N.O.O.N. if you are one of those sick, sick bastards that need to abbreviate things… has a wild hair about winning the space race… too bad the terrorist group Clean Space have gone all commando and began causing static for N.O.O.N. up to and including kidnapping a lady astronaut. N.O.O.N. is N.O.N.E. too thrilled about this turn of events, so they bring in Ilona (Sybil Danning), leader of the all-girl ass-kickers known as The Panther Squad… you know, they of the skimpy costumes, bedazzled and exclusively worn with bikinis underneath… to rip Clean Space a new asshole! Boobs, bloodshed, and a motorcycle with a cute as balls duckie painted on it follow in equal measure… oh, and there’s a laser gun in there too because fuck yeah, that’s why! Coming from those paragons of cinematic top-shelfery, Eurocine (who also brought us the equally batshit insane Zombie Lake), Panther Squad is an absolute scream of
Continue reading →
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There are so many people that work behind-the-scenes to get a movie made and we rarely hear their side. During my interview with writer-director Marti King Young, she told me about the other jobs in Hollywood including on The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It and Annabelle Comes Home, as well as her recent projects and what her goals are as a filmmaker. Horror Fuel: “I love finding out how movies are made and all of the fascinating jobs that go into it. What did your position as Location Coordinator for The Conjuring 3 involve? “Marti”: “That’s the first time I had ever worked in that regard, and I never got to go to set which really bugs me. I stayed in the office. Basically, I was the coordinator, I was in charge of all the paperwork. I made sure all of the locations got paid. We had things like water meters that we had to go pick
Continue reading →
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The February we will be introduced to writer-director Rory Kindersley‘s Eve, a psychological thriller set in London’s iconic Notting Hill, that tells the story of an actress who fails to land the role of her dreams and becomes obsessed with the woman who gets the part. Co-written by Drew Sherring-Hill, the film stars Christine Marzano, Andrew Lee Potts, Jonathan Forbes, Rachael Warren, Lex Shrapnel, Rhashan Stone, Ali Bastian, and Yennis Cheung. It was produced by Toby Cook, Matthew Cook, and Drew Sherring-Hill. “Eve follows two actresses fighting for the coveted role of ‘Eve’ in a screen adaptation of ‘Paradise Lost’. When the talented and beautiful Alex Beyer is awarded the role, her excitement is quickly tempered by a disturbing home invasion. Unsure of who or what is tormenting her, Alex’s sense of reality starts to spiral out of control threatening her sanity and the lives of those around her.” The film was nominated as Best Thriller, Best Original Screenplay, and
Continue reading →
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Ten years ago, a bullied student kills herself in the school bathroom with a lil’ jagged glass to the throat routine… Fast forward a decade, and at said institution, that alliterative muv-fuck Sue Steel (Debra Lamb) is throwing her annual shindig for her peers in Ye Olde English Department at her pad. Things are a bit strained at the soiree for sure… but shit is going to be a tad more tense right quick, as a maniac has crashed the party, and that right bastard is lugging around a yearbook from ten years previous! The main thing Teacher Shortage has going for it is writer/director Troy Escamilla’s love of ’80s slasher flicks (which also provides us with a negative as well, but we’ll get to that shit in due time boils n’ ghouls)… my dude digs on the genre the most, and it shows… it also gives the film a great deal of heart, which goes a loooong way with
Continue reading →
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Last year we reported that filmmaker Robert Rodriguez was returning to his roots and making a movie with the budget of just $7000, the same budget he had for his breakout film El Mariachi. The film, titled Red 11, was inspired by the medical experiments Rodriguez went through himself to raise the money for El Mariachi thirty years ago. The film is set “in the dark, twisted world of legal drug research. College kids turn lab rats to make quick money. The pic’s protagonist Rob (who is assigned the color and number Red 11), is trying to buy his way out of a huge debt to the tune of $7K. But things get surreal when he’s not sure if the hospital is really trying to kill him, or if it’s the side effects from the experimental drugs.” Rodriguez wrote the script with his son Racer, based on the original script Robert wrote in the ’90s. Since Red 11 made its
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