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The trailer is out for Netflix’s upcoming dark psychological thriller The Devil All the Time and it is amazing! Not only does the trailer look good, but the film has an all-star cast that will leave you saying, ‘Woooow.” Spider-Man actor Tom Holland stars alongside IT’s Bill Skarsgård, The Lighthouse‘s Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Riley Keough, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Jason Collett, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Harry Melling, and Pokey LaFarge. The Netflix original centers on an orphaned young man named Arvin Eugene Russell (Holland) and explores the psyches of various corrupt or broken characters between the end of World War II and the 1960s, including a manipulative preacher and a serial killer couple. An adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s book of the same name, the film is directed by Antonio Campos, known for 2012’s Simon Killer. He also serves as executive producer for “The Sinner”. “I was really eager to work with Antonio because his previous films that I’ve
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Director Robin Pront’s serial killer thriller The Silencing is chock full of genre-film tropes and red herrings, but solid performances and crisp cinematography help raise the film to the level of being a perfectly serviceable thriller. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones; Headhunters) stars as Rayburn, an alcoholic former hunter who has transformed his old hunting grounds into a wildlife sanctuary. He is emotionally haunted by the disappearance of his daughter five years earlier. He sees someone heavily disguised on one of his trail cams hunting down a frightened, bleeding young woman and goes in pursuit. The other main character is Sheriff Alice Gustafson, played by Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle; Peaky Blinders). She is so protective of her younger, screw-up brother that she is willing to go beyond just bending the law to keep him out of further trouble. As astute readers might guess, Rayburn and Gustafason cross paths in their mutual quest to determine the identity of the killer and stop
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We’ve got our hands on a brand new exclusive clip to share with our readers from Hunter Johnson’s indie revenge thriller Serena Waits! Written by Johnson, the film centers around Serena (Brialynn Massie, Must Love Horror), who attends a college frat party. When an alcohol-fueled hookup takes a violent and horrifying turn, Serena becomes the victim of a violent and deadly encounter with three college athletes (Colton Wheeler, Charles Chudabala, and David Marlowe). Soon after discarding Serena’s body, the guys find themselves haunted by her presence. Is it all in their heads or has Serena returned for revenge? Produced by Johnson, Chudabala, Emily Dahm, and Paul Davila, the cast also includes Lara Jean (Space), Emily Dahm (From Jennifer), Jennifer Clarke, and Gregory Blair. The film will premiere on the Kings of Horror YouTube channel on Friday, August 14th at 2pm PST. The premiere will also include a live stream with Johnson and Chudabala. As well, Serena Waits will be available
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Academy Award winner Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge. Evident in the new retro trailer titled “Be Safe Out There”, Crowe catches a severe case of road rage and a woman’s life is left hanging in the balance. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. Soon, Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of a man who decides to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged. Solstice Studios and Ingenious Media present the Derrick Borte film that stars Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman,
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Elisabeth Moss is a busy woman with multiple projects, including the most recently announced movie Mrs. March who her Love and Squalor Pictures production company is teaming up with Blumhouse for. The feature film, in which Moss will play the titular character, is based on Virginia Feito’s psychological thriller by the same name, is the story of a polished Upper East Side housewife who unravels when she begins to suspect the detestable protagonist of her husband’s latest bestselling novel is based on her. Mrs. March the novel, will be released in the United States in August 2021 via Liveright, an imprint of the W. W. Norton & Company. Feito is penning the script. Elisabeth Moss and Lindsey McManus will produce for Love and Squalor Pictures. Jason Blum will produce for Blumhouse. Virginia Feito, Carla Hacken, and Bea Sequeira are executive producers. Elisabeth Moss is represented by WME, Ribisi Entertainment Group, Independent Talent Group in the UK, and Viewpoint. Feito is
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Ahead of it release this August, we’ve got the new trailer for writer-director Padraig Reynolds‘ serial killer thriller Open 24 Hours. In the film, “a paranoid delusional woman, Mary White, has just been released from a mental hospital for setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire. Mary suffers from severe paranoia and hallucinations. Her boyfriend, James Lincoln Fields, is a brutal serial killer known as The Rain Ripper. He enjoyed murdering people and making Mary watch. After being released from the Hospital, Mary’s vulnerable demeanor aids her in obtaining employment at an all-night gas station. However, left alone to her own devices, her paranoia and hallucinations return with furious consequences. Things take a gruesome turn when customers and friends suddenly start turning up dead and mutilated all around her… Vanessa Grasse (Mary), Brendan Fletcher (Bobby), Cole Vigue (The Rain Ripper), Emily Tennant (Debbie), and Daniel O’Meara (Tom Doogan) star in the film produced by Shibani Kapur and R.P. Khemanand. Open
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Writer-director Jimmy Henderson‘s (Jailbreak) The Prey is ready to supply pulse-pounding action in a new thrilling tale of a man fighting to survive human hunters. Check out the Red Band trailer! Loosely based on Richard Connell’s story of survival The Most Dangerous Game, The Prey, hails from the team behind the festival hit Jailbreak. “Undercover Chinese cop Xin (newcomer Gu Shangwei), is on a secret international mission when a surprise raid puts him in a remote Cambodian jungle prison that plays by its own rules. Ruthless warden (Vithaya Pansringarm of Only God Forgives ) sells prisoners as human prey for rich hunters looking for thrills in the jungle. After years of hunting down ruthless criminals, Xin suddenly finds himself running for his life. If Xin manages to survive this sadistic game, he’ll walk out of the jungle the same way he came in: as a free man. If Xin fails, he’s just another hunting trophy.” Byron Bishop, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Nophand
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“Game of Thrones” actress Maisie Williams stars in co-writer-director Julius Berg‘s (The Forest) horror-thriller The Owners. In The Owners, set in the 1990s, a group of friends thinks they have found the perfect easy score – an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues the would-be thieves are left to fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined. Williams stars alongside Sylvester McCoy, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny, Andrew Ellis, and Rita Tushingham. Berg co-wrote the script with Matthieu Gompel. The film is based on the comic by Yves H. and artist Herrmann. This pulse-pounding film arrives in theaters as well as On Demand and Digital on September 4, 2020, from RLJE Films.
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An experiment goes terribly wrong in director Jacob Burns‘ indie sci-fi thriller Shifter, which he co-wrote with Zach Burns. Nicole Fancher (Unchained Love), Ashley Mandanas (Golden Arm), Paul T. Taylor (Hellraiser: Judgment), and Jamie Brewster (The Adventures of Jurassic Pet: Chapter 1) star. In Shifter, “a young woman experiences painful and gruesome side effects after an experiment with time travel goes wrong.” Shifter made its world premiere at this year’s DeadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City, where it won Best Oklahoma Feature. The film is produced by Jacob Burns, Zach Burns, and Vinnie Hogan. The Horror Collective is releasing Planet Thunder’s bold and fascinating sci-fi body horror film Shifter on August 6th on VOD and On Demand platforms.
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Shark season is here! Michael Paré and country music star Erin Alvey jump into the waters in Thailand’s Shark Island. Check out the first poster (above). In the film, directed by Stephen “Scruffy” Edgewood, several beautiful models are invited to an exotic location for a photo shoot. There they model a rare $10 million dollar necklace for a wealthy investor. Unbeknownst to them, the island’s surroundings are infested with sharks. But, perhaps it’s not the sharks in the water they need to worry about. Alan Collett and Erin Alvey also star. Russell Geoffrey Banks, Zara Dragon, Poi Haywood, Alexandra Merle, Jude S. Walko, and Selina Weismann round out the cast. Dustin Alexander penned the script based on the story by Daniel Zirilli. Paul Collett executive produced with Dante del Mare and Pranom Thumcha, Victory of the People, Blue Falcon Productions LLC, Pop Art Film Factory, and Oscuro Films producing. Lee Gibson and Andrew Reyes co-produced.
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The trailer is out for Netflix’s upcoming dark psychological thriller The Devil All the Time and it is amazing! Not only does the trailer look good, but the film has an all-star cast that will leave you saying, ‘Woooow.” Spider-Man actor Tom Holland stars alongside IT’s Bill Skarsgård, The Lighthouse‘s Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Riley Keough, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Jason Collett, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Harry Melling, and Pokey LaFarge. The Netflix original centers on an orphaned young man named Arvin Eugene Russell (Holland) and explores the psyches of various corrupt or broken characters between the end of World War II and the 1960s, including a manipulative preacher and a serial killer couple. An adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s book of the same name, the film is directed by Antonio Campos, known for 2012’s Simon Killer. He also serves as executive producer for “The Sinner”. “I was really eager to work with Antonio because his previous films that I’ve
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Director Robin Pront’s serial killer thriller The Silencing is chock full of genre-film tropes and red herrings, but solid performances and crisp cinematography help raise the film to the level of being a perfectly serviceable thriller. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones; Headhunters) stars as Rayburn, an alcoholic former hunter who has transformed his old hunting grounds into a wildlife sanctuary. He is emotionally haunted by the disappearance of his daughter five years earlier. He sees someone heavily disguised on one of his trail cams hunting down a frightened, bleeding young woman and goes in pursuit. The other main character is Sheriff Alice Gustafson, played by Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle; Peaky Blinders). She is so protective of her younger, screw-up brother that she is willing to go beyond just bending the law to keep him out of further trouble. As astute readers might guess, Rayburn and Gustafason cross paths in their mutual quest to determine the identity of the killer and stop
Continue reading →
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We’ve got our hands on a brand new exclusive clip to share with our readers from Hunter Johnson’s indie revenge thriller Serena Waits! Written by Johnson, the film centers around Serena (Brialynn Massie, Must Love Horror), who attends a college frat party. When an alcohol-fueled hookup takes a violent and horrifying turn, Serena becomes the victim of a violent and deadly encounter with three college athletes (Colton Wheeler, Charles Chudabala, and David Marlowe). Soon after discarding Serena’s body, the guys find themselves haunted by her presence. Is it all in their heads or has Serena returned for revenge? Produced by Johnson, Chudabala, Emily Dahm, and Paul Davila, the cast also includes Lara Jean (Space), Emily Dahm (From Jennifer), Jennifer Clarke, and Gregory Blair. The film will premiere on the Kings of Horror YouTube channel on Friday, August 14th at 2pm PST. The premiere will also include a live stream with Johnson and Chudabala. As well, Serena Waits will be available
Continue reading →
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Academy Award winner Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge. Evident in the new retro trailer titled “Be Safe Out There”, Crowe catches a severe case of road rage and a woman’s life is left hanging in the balance. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. Soon, Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of a man who decides to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged. Solstice Studios and Ingenious Media present the Derrick Borte film that stars Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman,
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Elisabeth Moss is a busy woman with multiple projects, including the most recently announced movie Mrs. March who her Love and Squalor Pictures production company is teaming up with Blumhouse for. The feature film, in which Moss will play the titular character, is based on Virginia Feito’s psychological thriller by the same name, is the story of a polished Upper East Side housewife who unravels when she begins to suspect the detestable protagonist of her husband’s latest bestselling novel is based on her. Mrs. March the novel, will be released in the United States in August 2021 via Liveright, an imprint of the W. W. Norton & Company. Feito is penning the script. Elisabeth Moss and Lindsey McManus will produce for Love and Squalor Pictures. Jason Blum will produce for Blumhouse. Virginia Feito, Carla Hacken, and Bea Sequeira are executive producers. Elisabeth Moss is represented by WME, Ribisi Entertainment Group, Independent Talent Group in the UK, and Viewpoint. Feito is
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Ahead of it release this August, we’ve got the new trailer for writer-director Padraig Reynolds‘ serial killer thriller Open 24 Hours. In the film, “a paranoid delusional woman, Mary White, has just been released from a mental hospital for setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire. Mary suffers from severe paranoia and hallucinations. Her boyfriend, James Lincoln Fields, is a brutal serial killer known as The Rain Ripper. He enjoyed murdering people and making Mary watch. After being released from the Hospital, Mary’s vulnerable demeanor aids her in obtaining employment at an all-night gas station. However, left alone to her own devices, her paranoia and hallucinations return with furious consequences. Things take a gruesome turn when customers and friends suddenly start turning up dead and mutilated all around her… Vanessa Grasse (Mary), Brendan Fletcher (Bobby), Cole Vigue (The Rain Ripper), Emily Tennant (Debbie), and Daniel O’Meara (Tom Doogan) star in the film produced by Shibani Kapur and R.P. Khemanand. Open
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Writer-director Jimmy Henderson‘s (Jailbreak) The Prey is ready to supply pulse-pounding action in a new thrilling tale of a man fighting to survive human hunters. Check out the Red Band trailer! Loosely based on Richard Connell’s story of survival The Most Dangerous Game, The Prey, hails from the team behind the festival hit Jailbreak. “Undercover Chinese cop Xin (newcomer Gu Shangwei), is on a secret international mission when a surprise raid puts him in a remote Cambodian jungle prison that plays by its own rules. Ruthless warden (Vithaya Pansringarm of Only God Forgives ) sells prisoners as human prey for rich hunters looking for thrills in the jungle. After years of hunting down ruthless criminals, Xin suddenly finds himself running for his life. If Xin manages to survive this sadistic game, he’ll walk out of the jungle the same way he came in: as a free man. If Xin fails, he’s just another hunting trophy.” Byron Bishop, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Nophand
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“Game of Thrones” actress Maisie Williams stars in co-writer-director Julius Berg‘s (The Forest) horror-thriller The Owners. In The Owners, set in the 1990s, a group of friends thinks they have found the perfect easy score – an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues the would-be thieves are left to fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined. Williams stars alongside Sylvester McCoy, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny, Andrew Ellis, and Rita Tushingham. Berg co-wrote the script with Matthieu Gompel. The film is based on the comic by Yves H. and artist Herrmann. This pulse-pounding film arrives in theaters as well as On Demand and Digital on September 4, 2020, from RLJE Films.
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An experiment goes terribly wrong in director Jacob Burns‘ indie sci-fi thriller Shifter, which he co-wrote with Zach Burns. Nicole Fancher (Unchained Love), Ashley Mandanas (Golden Arm), Paul T. Taylor (Hellraiser: Judgment), and Jamie Brewster (The Adventures of Jurassic Pet: Chapter 1) star. In Shifter, “a young woman experiences painful and gruesome side effects after an experiment with time travel goes wrong.” Shifter made its world premiere at this year’s DeadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City, where it won Best Oklahoma Feature. The film is produced by Jacob Burns, Zach Burns, and Vinnie Hogan. The Horror Collective is releasing Planet Thunder’s bold and fascinating sci-fi body horror film Shifter on August 6th on VOD and On Demand platforms.
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Shark season is here! Michael Paré and country music star Erin Alvey jump into the waters in Thailand’s Shark Island. Check out the first poster (above). In the film, directed by Stephen “Scruffy” Edgewood, several beautiful models are invited to an exotic location for a photo shoot. There they model a rare $10 million dollar necklace for a wealthy investor. Unbeknownst to them, the island’s surroundings are infested with sharks. But, perhaps it’s not the sharks in the water they need to worry about. Alan Collett and Erin Alvey also star. Russell Geoffrey Banks, Zara Dragon, Poi Haywood, Alexandra Merle, Jude S. Walko, and Selina Weismann round out the cast. Dustin Alexander penned the script based on the story by Daniel Zirilli. Paul Collett executive produced with Dante del Mare and Pranom Thumcha, Victory of the People, Blue Falcon Productions LLC, Pop Art Film Factory, and Oscuro Films producing. Lee Gibson and Andrew Reyes co-produced.
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