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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 1091 Pictures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc. comes to the indie horror-comedy Keeping Company. In the film, “A fateful chain of events begins to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen knock on the wrong door and find themselves trapped inside a serial killer’s basement, putting their lives and their jobs on the line.” Keeping Company is from the creative minds of co-writers Devin Das and Josh Wallace, with Wallace directing and Das starring in the film along with Jacob Grodnik, Ahmed Bharoocha, Devin Das, and Gillian Vigman, Andy Buckley, and Rex Lee. The horror-comedy will be available on Video on Demand on June 7, 2022.
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Three men gather around a body in the first image from Millennium Media’s new horror-thriller Abyzou, which Decal acquired at Cannes. In the film, the son of a Jewish funeral director returns home with his pregnant in tow. When the family receives a mysterious body, they are unaware that it holds an ancient demon with sinister plans for the unborn child. Nick Blood (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Allan Corduner (“Homeland”), Emm Wiseman (Winchester), and Paul Kaye (“Game of Thrones”) star in the film directed by Oliver Park. Hank Hoffman penned the script with Jonathan Yunger. According to lore and myths, Abyzou “The Taker of Children” is the demon often blamed for miscarriages and infant deaths. She was said to be motivated by envy because she was infertile herself. In the Hebrew tradition, she is identified with Lilith, in Egypt with Alabasandria, and in Byzantine culture with Gylou, but throughout history she had many names. Deadline reports that Abyzou will land in
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Today, we’ve got the first look at director Brandon Slagle‘s chilling new thriller Frost, the story of a young woman and her estranged father who have to fight to survive after being stranded on a remote mountainside during a winter storm. Written by Robert Thompson, based on a story James Cullen Bressack, Frost was filmed on location in the San Bernardino mountains in southern California. After recently wrapping up final production on Glen Danzig’s film Death Rider in the House of Vampires, Bressack produces with Tim Yasui co-producing the feature. Vernon Wells (Mad Max II, Weird Science), Devanny Pinn (The Dawn, Crossbreed), and Venus DeMilo Thomas (Life, Family Matters) star in the survival thriller. A full motion picture soundtrack for Frost is scheduled for both the CD and VINYL LP formats to accompany the film’s release on October 11, 2022, and features contributions by Rick Wakeman (YES), Geoff Downes (YES/ASIA) and Terry Reid – amongst others – courtesy of Cleopatra
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2021’s Croatian Game of the year Saint Kotar which was developed by Red Martyr, will be coming out in both digital and physical forms this October in time to help set the mood for gamers heading into Halloween! Saint Kotar is a psychological detective horror game with point-and-click style mechanics set in Croatia with Lovecraftian tones. Players can switch between two characters, Benedek and Nikolay, each seeing things in their own unique perspectives. The two are in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar in search of a missing relative but it’s quite clear that something horribly unnatural is going on. Saint Kotar will be coming out on October 14th for Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.
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From director Sean King O’Grady (Dinner In America) comes the horror film We Need To Do Something, headed to Blu-ray this June. In the film, a dysfunctional family retreats to a bathroom during a storm, not knowing the hell that awaits them when they find themselves trapped with the walls closing in. Sierra McCormick stars as Melissa, a teen with a history of mental illness and a girlfriend who is a witch. John James Cronin plays the role of Melissa’s sheltered, babied little brother. Vinessa Shaw plays the role of a loving mother who puts up with too much shit from their severely alcoholic, verbally abusive father, played by Pat Healy. Being locked in a room with him is enough to drive anyone crazy. As the film unfolds, we see real-life horrors, supernatural ones, and a monster, voiced by Ozzy Osbourne. There are many witchy themes and unseen horrors, but the real story, the real horrors, is what unfolds in
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In March of this year, YouTuber Chris Stuckmann‘s Kickstarter went live, aiming to raise funds to make his found-footage horror film Shelby Oaks, and boy did he. In just a couple of weeks, the campaign brought in over $1.39 million, taking the record for the most money raised for a horror film in Kickstarter’s history. News has come, via Deadline, that the movie has officially completed casting and will star Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter) in the lead role. She is joined by Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2), Charlie Talbert (The Big Short), Michael Beach (If Beale Street Could Talk), Keith David (The Thing), and Robin Bartlett (Shutter Island), as well as Emily Bennett (Alone With You), and Sarah Durn (Where the Crawdads Sing). Shelby Oaks centers on Mia (Sullivan) as she frantically searches for her sister Riley (Durn) after Riley ominously disappeared in the last tape of a group of paranormal investigators called the Paranormal Paranoids. As Mia’s obsession
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A woman is haunted by spirits in the indie horror film The Unbroken, starring Daniel Baldwin (Vampires, “Grimm”), Warwick Davis (Leprechaun, Willow), and Veryl Jones (The Punisher, Out of Time). In the film, “Sarah has visions of a little boy and a shadowy figure, which intensify as accidents happen wherever she goes. Sarah realizes that her charming neighbor is the shadowy figure and that the boy is sending her warnings.” The Unbroken comes to DVD on May 31, 2022, from Bayview Entertainment. Pre-order your copy now.
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Following its hit festival run, including its world premiere at Frightfest, “Cult Classic of the Future” LAGUNA AVE. is now available on VOD platforms and by subscription from Arrow Releasing. This David Buchanan-directed gender/genre-bending slacker lo-fi-sci-fi horror-comedy defies easy description and follows one man’s mystical misadventures in and surrounding a rambling Echo Park apartment. Starring Russell Steinberg (Adventureland) as Russell, a middle-aged, burned-out TV editor with a prosthetic hand who futilely searches for work in Hollywood’s brutal, exploitative underbelly. His former boss (Paul Papadeas) owes him money, his partner Rita (Stephanie Brait) is indifferent, always out of town and inaccessible, and his new downstairs neighbor Gary (Jamie Hall/James Markham Hall Jr., Neighbors) keeps him awake at night with mysterious, disturbing noises. But everything changes one evening when Gary visits Russell and introduces him to his sinister world of renegade accelerationism and a collection of outrageous, unstable but captivating fellow travelers and co-conspirators. “A film found on a trash heap after
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Terror fills the sky when passengers on a flight suddenly begin to suffer unexplained deaths in the high-flying horror film ROW 19. In the film, “a young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood.” ROW 19 stars Svetlana Ivanova (Cosmoball), Marta Timofeeva (Abigail, Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest), Wolfgang Cerni (T-34), Ekaterina Vilkova (Dark Planet, “Black Lightning”), Anatoliy Kot (House Arrest, Lektor, Battle for Sevastopol), and Victoria Korlyakova (Power, Better Than Us). Directed by Alexander Babaev and Samantha A. Morrison, ROW 19 lands on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 31, 2022, from Well Go USA, and includes bonus features such as an all-new English dub.
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Today, XYZ Films unleashed the first teaser and poster for the upcoming Mexican occult horror Huesera, the breakout feature debut from Michelle Garza Cervera, which will receive a theatrical release under their new distribution arm following the Tribeca Film Fest where it will make its world premiere as part of Tribeca’s Midnight section. Garza Cervera, a rising young director in the Mexican genre film scene, has been recognized internationally for her celebrated short films that have played in over a hundred film festivals around the world, including Fantastic Fest, and the Fantasia International Film Festival, and Sitges. In Huesera, Valeria’s (Natalia Solián) joy at becoming pregnant with her first child is quickly taken away when she’s cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in and relationships with her family become fractured, she’s forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her. A group of witches emerges that could be her only hope for safety
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From 1091 Pictures, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc. comes to the indie horror-comedy Keeping Company. In the film, “A fateful chain of events begins to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen knock on the wrong door and find themselves trapped inside a serial killer’s basement, putting their lives and their jobs on the line.” Keeping Company is from the creative minds of co-writers Devin Das and Josh Wallace, with Wallace directing and Das starring in the film along with Jacob Grodnik, Ahmed Bharoocha, Devin Das, and Gillian Vigman, Andy Buckley, and Rex Lee. The horror-comedy will be available on Video on Demand on June 7, 2022.
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Three men gather around a body in the first image from Millennium Media’s new horror-thriller Abyzou, which Decal acquired at Cannes. In the film, the son of a Jewish funeral director returns home with his pregnant in tow. When the family receives a mysterious body, they are unaware that it holds an ancient demon with sinister plans for the unborn child. Nick Blood (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Allan Corduner (“Homeland”), Emm Wiseman (Winchester), and Paul Kaye (“Game of Thrones”) star in the film directed by Oliver Park. Hank Hoffman penned the script with Jonathan Yunger. According to lore and myths, Abyzou “The Taker of Children” is the demon often blamed for miscarriages and infant deaths. She was said to be motivated by envy because she was infertile herself. In the Hebrew tradition, she is identified with Lilith, in Egypt with Alabasandria, and in Byzantine culture with Gylou, but throughout history she had many names. Deadline reports that Abyzou will land in
Continue reading →
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Today, we’ve got the first look at director Brandon Slagle‘s chilling new thriller Frost, the story of a young woman and her estranged father who have to fight to survive after being stranded on a remote mountainside during a winter storm. Written by Robert Thompson, based on a story James Cullen Bressack, Frost was filmed on location in the San Bernardino mountains in southern California. After recently wrapping up final production on Glen Danzig’s film Death Rider in the House of Vampires, Bressack produces with Tim Yasui co-producing the feature. Vernon Wells (Mad Max II, Weird Science), Devanny Pinn (The Dawn, Crossbreed), and Venus DeMilo Thomas (Life, Family Matters) star in the survival thriller. A full motion picture soundtrack for Frost is scheduled for both the CD and VINYL LP formats to accompany the film’s release on October 11, 2022, and features contributions by Rick Wakeman (YES), Geoff Downes (YES/ASIA) and Terry Reid – amongst others – courtesy of Cleopatra
Continue reading →
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2021’s Croatian Game of the year Saint Kotar which was developed by Red Martyr, will be coming out in both digital and physical forms this October in time to help set the mood for gamers heading into Halloween! Saint Kotar is a psychological detective horror game with point-and-click style mechanics set in Croatia with Lovecraftian tones. Players can switch between two characters, Benedek and Nikolay, each seeing things in their own unique perspectives. The two are in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar in search of a missing relative but it’s quite clear that something horribly unnatural is going on. Saint Kotar will be coming out on October 14th for Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.
Continue reading →
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From director Sean King O’Grady (Dinner In America) comes the horror film We Need To Do Something, headed to Blu-ray this June. In the film, a dysfunctional family retreats to a bathroom during a storm, not knowing the hell that awaits them when they find themselves trapped with the walls closing in. Sierra McCormick stars as Melissa, a teen with a history of mental illness and a girlfriend who is a witch. John James Cronin plays the role of Melissa’s sheltered, babied little brother. Vinessa Shaw plays the role of a loving mother who puts up with too much shit from their severely alcoholic, verbally abusive father, played by Pat Healy. Being locked in a room with him is enough to drive anyone crazy. As the film unfolds, we see real-life horrors, supernatural ones, and a monster, voiced by Ozzy Osbourne. There are many witchy themes and unseen horrors, but the real story, the real horrors, is what unfolds in
Continue reading →
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In March of this year, YouTuber Chris Stuckmann‘s Kickstarter went live, aiming to raise funds to make his found-footage horror film Shelby Oaks, and boy did he. In just a couple of weeks, the campaign brought in over $1.39 million, taking the record for the most money raised for a horror film in Kickstarter’s history. News has come, via Deadline, that the movie has officially completed casting and will star Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter) in the lead role. She is joined by Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2), Charlie Talbert (The Big Short), Michael Beach (If Beale Street Could Talk), Keith David (The Thing), and Robin Bartlett (Shutter Island), as well as Emily Bennett (Alone With You), and Sarah Durn (Where the Crawdads Sing). Shelby Oaks centers on Mia (Sullivan) as she frantically searches for her sister Riley (Durn) after Riley ominously disappeared in the last tape of a group of paranormal investigators called the Paranormal Paranoids. As Mia’s obsession
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A woman is haunted by spirits in the indie horror film The Unbroken, starring Daniel Baldwin (Vampires, “Grimm”), Warwick Davis (Leprechaun, Willow), and Veryl Jones (The Punisher, Out of Time). In the film, “Sarah has visions of a little boy and a shadowy figure, which intensify as accidents happen wherever she goes. Sarah realizes that her charming neighbor is the shadowy figure and that the boy is sending her warnings.” The Unbroken comes to DVD on May 31, 2022, from Bayview Entertainment. Pre-order your copy now.
Continue reading →
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Following its hit festival run, including its world premiere at Frightfest, “Cult Classic of the Future” LAGUNA AVE. is now available on VOD platforms and by subscription from Arrow Releasing. This David Buchanan-directed gender/genre-bending slacker lo-fi-sci-fi horror-comedy defies easy description and follows one man’s mystical misadventures in and surrounding a rambling Echo Park apartment. Starring Russell Steinberg (Adventureland) as Russell, a middle-aged, burned-out TV editor with a prosthetic hand who futilely searches for work in Hollywood’s brutal, exploitative underbelly. His former boss (Paul Papadeas) owes him money, his partner Rita (Stephanie Brait) is indifferent, always out of town and inaccessible, and his new downstairs neighbor Gary (Jamie Hall/James Markham Hall Jr., Neighbors) keeps him awake at night with mysterious, disturbing noises. But everything changes one evening when Gary visits Russell and introduces him to his sinister world of renegade accelerationism and a collection of outrageous, unstable but captivating fellow travelers and co-conspirators. “A film found on a trash heap after
Continue reading →
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Terror fills the sky when passengers on a flight suddenly begin to suffer unexplained deaths in the high-flying horror film ROW 19. In the film, “a young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood.” ROW 19 stars Svetlana Ivanova (Cosmoball), Marta Timofeeva (Abigail, Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest), Wolfgang Cerni (T-34), Ekaterina Vilkova (Dark Planet, “Black Lightning”), Anatoliy Kot (House Arrest, Lektor, Battle for Sevastopol), and Victoria Korlyakova (Power, Better Than Us). Directed by Alexander Babaev and Samantha A. Morrison, ROW 19 lands on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 31, 2022, from Well Go USA, and includes bonus features such as an all-new English dub.
Continue reading →
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Today, XYZ Films unleashed the first teaser and poster for the upcoming Mexican occult horror Huesera, the breakout feature debut from Michelle Garza Cervera, which will receive a theatrical release under their new distribution arm following the Tribeca Film Fest where it will make its world premiere as part of Tribeca’s Midnight section. Garza Cervera, a rising young director in the Mexican genre film scene, has been recognized internationally for her celebrated short films that have played in over a hundred film festivals around the world, including Fantastic Fest, and the Fantasia International Film Festival, and Sitges. In Huesera, Valeria’s (Natalia Solián) joy at becoming pregnant with her first child is quickly taken away when she’s cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in and relationships with her family become fractured, she’s forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her. A group of witches emerges that could be her only hope for safety
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