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Your December Guide To ARROW

This December, ARROW has a gift for horror fans, a killer holiday lineup including the premiere of The Last Matinee and we’ve got your guide. December 1st releases include The Sublime Gothic: Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, cursed crumbling castles, decaying minds, and ancestral homes, mad untethered emotions and lashings of overwrought doom and mystery – we love to wallow in the sublime gothic at ARROW, and with The Mill of the Stone Women joining our ranks, this seemed the perfect opportunity for a season devoted to the wild, the tormented, the possibly haunted and the aching romance of all things deliciously dark and gothic. Titles include: Mill of the Stone Women, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Black Cat, and The Shiver of the Vampires. Also arriving on December 1st is The Dark of the Matinee, inspired by The Last Matinee. A season full of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 23, 2021

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The Dead Rise In The ‘Amityville Uprising’ Trailer

At his point movies with “Amityville” in the title are a dime a dozen and are nine times out of ten are simply terrible. Hopefully, Lionsgate’s new horror Amityville Uprising will be one of the few good ones. Following The Amityville Harvest and The Amityville Moon, Uprising sees a chemical explosion at a military base set off a supernatural disaster, unleashing an acid rain the melts the flesh from bone from anyone it touches. If that wasn’t bad enough, the dead soon begin to rise. Written and directed by Thomas Churchill, Amityville Uprising stars Mike Furguson, Micah Fitzgerald, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Troy Fromin, Aleksandra Zorich Hunt, and Thomas J. Churchill as “Chuck”. Amityville Uprising is out on DVD, Digital, and On Demand on January 11, 2022, from Lionsgate. Check out the new trailer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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Home Invasion Horror ‘An Intrusion’ Breaks Into Theaters This Week

A stalker is determined to ruin a man’s life and reveal his dark secrets in An Intrusion, heading to theaters this week. The thriller follows “a man whose home and family is terrorized by a malicious stalker after ending a recent affair with a coworker. Through bloody messages and deadly threats, it is secretly revealed to the patriarch of the family that the motivations may have nothing to do with his recent secret affair, but instead a secret he has violently kept hidden in his past.” Keir Gilchrist (Netflix’s “Atypical”), Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween I & II), Billy Boyd (Lord of the Rings trilogy), Erika Hoveland (Netflix’s Before I Wake), and Jaime Zevallos (Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger) and newcomers Dustin Prince and Angelina Danielle Cama star in the film written and directed by Nicholas Holland, produced by Emmy nominee Sam Logan Khaleghi, p.g.a. (who also plays the role of ‘Chris’), and is co-produced by Alexander M. Norris. An Intrusion

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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Gameplay Trailer For Nordic Horror Game ‘Bramble: The Mountain King’

Game developer Dimfrost Studio announced today released the gameplay trailer for their upcoming Nordic-inspired horror game Bramble: The Mountain King. The game was first revealed IGN expo at E3 but the trailer is the first look players have to see what awaits them in the dark magical woods full of creatures of Nordic folklore. In Bramble: The Mountain King players will play as a young boy who along with his sister is lost in a magical forest known as Bramble while on an emotional journey to uncover the truth behind a dark curse. The game will feature stealth mechanics along with environmental puzzles and combat that will include “David vs Goliath” boss fights. Bramble: The Mountain King is scheduled to be released in 2022 for PC and consoles.

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Nov 22, 2021

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This Week, Sink Your Teeth Into The Horror Comedy ‘Ankle Biters’

A group of young sisters set out on a campaign of terror against their mom’s new boyfriend in the new horror-comedy Ankle Biters (aka Cherrypicker), being released this week. In the movie, Sean, a pro hockey enforcer, has fallen in love with Laura, a widowed mother of four young daughters. When Laura’s children mistake an act of lovemaking as abuse, they plot to protect their mother at all costs. Directed by Bennet De Brabandere, Ankle Biters stars Zion Forrest Lee, Marianthi Evans, Lily Gail Reid, Violet Reid, Rosalee Reid, and Dahlia Reid. Watch out for Ankle Biters, which we called “as entertaining as it is vicious” in our review, on DVD and On Demand on November 16, 2021, from Dark Star Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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‘The Scrapper’ Unleashes Violent New Trailer Ahead Of December Release

We’ve got the new trailer for Bari Kang‘s violent crime thriller The Scrapper, out this December on Digital. Set in Queens, New York City, a criminal playing-ﬁeld of modern immigrant syndicates participates in human-trafﬁcking, money-laundering, and unﬂinching brutality. Uncomfortable in his Punjabi-Mexican skin, ex-con turned ‘scrapper’ Jake carries the weight of both his family legacy and a violent past. Caring for a mentally-challenged brother and an unborn child on the way, he is focused on turning his life around. When one last job presents a way out for good, he must decide between loyalty to blood ties or to his newfound family. His past soon catches up with him and he’s thrown into the middle of a conﬂict between Punjabi and Mexican factions led by violent, ruthless criminals. As events explode into brutal violence, with everyone he loves at stake, he may need to go to his own darkest places to ﬁnally escape. The thriller is led by a diverse

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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Foreign Horror ‘Achuora’ Coming To DVD And Digital

Director Talal Selhami’s foreign horror film Achoura is set to arrive on DVD and Digital this December from Dark Star Pictures. Following rave reviews at Cinepocalypse, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival, and more, North America gets to now witness the terrifying tale of a Moroccan legend. In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a terrifying legend, a Djinn, who during a religious festival, seizes the young in order to devour them. It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil.” Franco–Moroccan filmmaker Selhami said. “Fear cinema is therefore a kind of outlet for the viewer, unfortunately today too used to seeing atrocities through the media. Stories of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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Shudder Announces New Premiere Date For French Thriller ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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‘Johnny’ Comes Home Today

On November 5, 2021, Johnny comes home. Director John Charles Gerald‘s indie horror, Johnny centers on Floyd, a surviving child abuse victim constantly being tormented by the voices in his head. After numerous hallucinations, Floyd comes across a talking puppet that is somehow linked to his abusive childhood and the horror begins. John Charles Gerald, Gary Quart, Joshaway Kingsbury, and Nick Gerald star. Watch Johnny today on VOD and Digital, from Midnight Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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Ahead Of Its World Premiere, Horror ‘Father Of Flies’ Unveils Its Trailer

Father of Flies, part psychological thriller, part supernatural horror, will make its UK Physical Premiere at Raindance Film Festival on November 6th. Shot in Suffern – upstate New York, the film stars Camilla Rutherford (Gosford Park, Phantom Thread), Sandra Andreis (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Davi Santos (Tell Me a Story), Page Ruth (Shameless), and Nicholas Tucci, the star of cult horror film You’re Next’who, unfortunately, has since passed away. This was one of the final films Nicholas had completed. The film is written and directed by Ben Charles Edwards who The British Film Institute said ‘has crafted distinctive, admirable work that seems to have emerged from the unseen margins of British cinema.’ He was also recently nominated for ‘The Discovery Award’ ‘Outstanding Achievement in Craft’ and ‘Newcomer Discovery Award’ at the British Independent Film Awards. Co-written by Edwards’ writing partner Nadia Doherty, the film is based on a story Edwards had written as a child, a haunting tale of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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