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Actor Chris Coppola, whose many credits include, Spawn, Friday the 13th, Far Cry, and BloodRayne: Deliverance, took a few minutes to talk with us about his previous projects and his most recent film Acts of Desperation following its release this week from Gravitas Ventures. Horror Fuel: “Great performance in Acts of Desperation, sir!” Chris Coppola: “Thanks for having me, very excited to talk to you guys.” Horror Fuel: “Now, you have a famous surname there… are you related to…” Chris Coppola: “Biggest misconception is that I’m related to Francis Ford Coppola. My name is Coppola but the fact of the matter is I’m not related to that Coppola family. Although funny story I went to the vineyard years ago with my wife, I went to pay and put my credit card and license down and the cashier said: “Oh Mr. Coppola family gets half off all sales.” And I said, “oh yeah I knew that.” I then signaled to my
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The film is a timely new horror thriller from writer-director Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged), stars Corbin Bernsen (Psych), Oksana Orlan, and Kristina Pimenova. Child supermodel Pimenova, named “the most beautiful girl in the world” by Women Daily magazine in 2014, makes her feature motion picture debut. The Russian Bride, a young Russian woman (Orlan) and her daughter (Pimenova) who come to America to marry a reclusive billionaire (Bernsen), but they soon discover he is a madman with sinister plans and finds themselves fighting for their lives. The movie premiered last year at the Cinepocalypse Genre Film Festival and was recently the closing night film at Fantasporto. VMI Worldwide is handling international sales. Ojeda’s supernatural horror thriller Avenged (aka savaged), a revenge tale about a woman reincarnated as the spirit of an Apache warrior, was a critical and commercial hit, playing at Sitges, FrightFest, Screamfest, and many other festivals before its release in 2015. The bulk of The Russian Bride was
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Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek is following up his role in the hist film Bohemian Rhapsody with the audio drama Blackout in which he plays a New Hampshire radio DJ who must fight to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending modern civilization. Blackout, created and written by Scott Conroy (The Daily Show), is executive produced by Rami Malek and produced by QCode and Endeavor Audio. Release Schedule: Episodes 1 & 2 – Tuesday, March 19th Episode 3 – Tuesday, March 26 Episode 4 – Tuesday, April 2 Episode 5 – Tuesday, April 9 Episode 6 – Tuesday, April 16 Episode 7 – Tuesday, April 23 Season Finale – Tuesday, April 30 Visit the Official Site for episodes of this thrilling audio series. Listen to the trailer HERE.
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The award-winning sci-fi dystopian thriller Division 19, starring Mandy’s Linus Roache and Alison Doody (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), heads to theaters and digital this April from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the future, prisons have been turned into online portals where paying subscribers vote on what felons eat, watch, wear and who they fight. Panopticon TV is so successful it is about to be rolled out to a whole new town. When the world’s most downloaded felon escapes, the authorities set a trap to reel him in. The bait is his little brother who has so far managed to avoid detection. Jamie Draven (Billy Elliot), Lotte Verbeek (“Outlander”), Clarke Peters (“Jessica Jones”), L. Scott Caldwell (“Lost”) and Will Rothhaar (“Grimm”) star in District 19, written and directed by S A Halewood. The film scored several awards including t Critics’ Award at the Fantasporto Film Festival. Suzie Halewood took home the award for Best Director at the Boston Science Fiction Film
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Acclaimed, award-winning actor Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas, Nixon) leads a superb ensemble cast in Richard Friedman’s gritty Acts of Desperation, from Gravitas Ventures. Also starring Jason Gedrick (Backdraft, “Bosch”) and Kira Reed Lorsch (“The Bay”), Acts of Desperation is an intensely unique and unpredictable thriller that sees the lives of a desperate cop, his distraught wife, a bank robber, an obsessed woman, and two criminals intertwine. In the film, “a desperate cop on the edge is obsessed over the fact that his beautiful but frantic wife is having an affair. At the same time, he tracks a desperately shrewd bank robber who is falling in love with a desperately obsessed woman whose life he just saved from suicide. As if that’s not enough, he is also being blackmailed by two desperately unhinged street criminals who will stop at nothing to get their money. Time is running out for all of them as their worlds collide.” Tim DeZarn (The Cabin in the
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Emma Tammi makes her debut with the haunting supernatural thriller The Wind, which held its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before heading to Fantastic Fest, Sitges, and others. The film explores an unseen evil as it haunts the homestead in this chilling, folkloric tale of madness, paranoia, and otherworldly terror. Lizzy (Caitlin Gerard) is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be born of the land itself, an overwhelming dread that her husband (Ashley Zukerman) dismisses as superstition. When a newlywed couple arrives on a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy’s fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events. Masterfully blending haunting visuals with pulse-pounding sound design, director Emma Tammi evokes a godforsaken world in which the forces of nature come alive with quivering menace. Julia
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Celebrity chef Peter Rake (Jimmi Simpson) heads out to the middle of nowhere to park his ass in his family’s secluded, and posh vacation estate. The reason for his exodus? Some of your typical family drama…oh and he’s being “raked” (oh hell yeah; still got it boils n’ ghouls!) over the coals by the tabloids due to some implied indiscretion with a lady. Once there he catches up with the family’s smart ass blind housekeeper Agnes (Nancy Linehan Charles) and his sister Gwen (Amanda Walsh) who is soon called away on business. What will Petey do to occupy his time? Well, he has a mysterious black goat, toilets full of gore, and pondering the old creepy treehouse he used to spend his childhood in to keep him busy. Along with all that, Pete befriends a bachelorette party staying nearby…and from there shit gets really intense as we learn Peter has more than one skeleton in his closet, and there are
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Vivien (Katie Douglas) and her pals at Vestalis Academy are meant to be clean, obedient, humble, and patient (or fucking else…a punishing experience our heroine experienced back on Level 10) as they progress toward their ultimate goal of adoption into a picture perfect home. That threat isn’t the only wonky thing going on at this sinister school as once the girls reach Level 16 it is revealed that while they are a brainy bunch, not a single one of them can read and they are administered sleeping pills disguised as vitamins nightly…in short things are definitely not what they seem at this putrid place and Vivien, along with her friend Sophia (Celina Martin) are going to get to the bottom of it as long as the fearsome Miss Brixil (Sara Canning) doesn’t stop them first! While a work of dystopian fiction, the themes of Level 16 ring loud and clear in our troubled times where women are often marginalized and
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The trailer for has just arrived Abduction 101, nominated for “Best Special Effects”, “Best Badass” and “Best Nudity Scene” at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. “Everything is happening in this big forest. A young woman is in danger. She has just discovered a strange house, isolated, in which masked men wearing loose jackets come and go carrying big bags plastique… With the help of her two adventurous friends, she decides to go, equipped with a camera, to investigate these funny actions and to shed light on this disturbing mystery. The situation turns into a nightmare when two of them are captured and held captive in a morbid basement.” Cast & Crew: Directed by Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir, Abduction 101 stars Brianna Shewbert Rouse, Nixi Oblivion, Adrienne Stone, Luna Labelle, and Kayla Kilby with music by Teddy Fetch. Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir both wrote the film and produced. Abduction 101 is represented by www.TheMovieAgency.com Watch Abduction 101 today on
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The new trailer has arrived for What Lies Ahead opening in select theaters and arriving on VOD and DVD this March. Starring Rumer Willis (Empire) and Emma Dumont (Gifted), the thriller centers on two young women thrown together on an unexpected road trip in What Lies Ahead, a peril emerges between them that grows stronger with each passing mile. Jessica (Emma Dumont) is head over heels in love with her new boyfriend Kyle. But when he is unexpectedly called to ER duty, he asks Jessica to fly to his home town in Georgia and accompany his sister Raven (Rumer Willis) as she drives up to New York to move closer to him following the recent death of their mother. Jessica reluctantly complies. As the two women get to know one another on this three-day journey – encountering assorted locals and misadventures along the way – it soon becomes clear with each passing mile, that something just isn’t right. What began
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Actor Chris Coppola, whose many credits include, Spawn, Friday the 13th, Far Cry, and BloodRayne: Deliverance, took a few minutes to talk with us about his previous projects and his most recent film Acts of Desperation following its release this week from Gravitas Ventures. Horror Fuel: “Great performance in Acts of Desperation, sir!” Chris Coppola: “Thanks for having me, very excited to talk to you guys.” Horror Fuel: “Now, you have a famous surname there… are you related to…” Chris Coppola: “Biggest misconception is that I’m related to Francis Ford Coppola. My name is Coppola but the fact of the matter is I’m not related to that Coppola family. Although funny story I went to the vineyard years ago with my wife, I went to pay and put my credit card and license down and the cashier said: “Oh Mr. Coppola family gets half off all sales.” And I said, “oh yeah I knew that.” I then signaled to my
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The film is a timely new horror thriller from writer-director Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged), stars Corbin Bernsen (Psych), Oksana Orlan, and Kristina Pimenova. Child supermodel Pimenova, named “the most beautiful girl in the world” by Women Daily magazine in 2014, makes her feature motion picture debut. The Russian Bride, a young Russian woman (Orlan) and her daughter (Pimenova) who come to America to marry a reclusive billionaire (Bernsen), but they soon discover he is a madman with sinister plans and finds themselves fighting for their lives. The movie premiered last year at the Cinepocalypse Genre Film Festival and was recently the closing night film at Fantasporto. VMI Worldwide is handling international sales. Ojeda’s supernatural horror thriller Avenged (aka savaged), a revenge tale about a woman reincarnated as the spirit of an Apache warrior, was a critical and commercial hit, playing at Sitges, FrightFest, Screamfest, and many other festivals before its release in 2015. The bulk of The Russian Bride was
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Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek is following up his role in the hist film Bohemian Rhapsody with the audio drama Blackout in which he plays a New Hampshire radio DJ who must fight to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending modern civilization. Blackout, created and written by Scott Conroy (The Daily Show), is executive produced by Rami Malek and produced by QCode and Endeavor Audio. Release Schedule: Episodes 1 & 2 – Tuesday, March 19th Episode 3 – Tuesday, March 26 Episode 4 – Tuesday, April 2 Episode 5 – Tuesday, April 9 Episode 6 – Tuesday, April 16 Episode 7 – Tuesday, April 23 Season Finale – Tuesday, April 30 Visit the Official Site for episodes of this thrilling audio series. Listen to the trailer HERE.
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The award-winning sci-fi dystopian thriller Division 19, starring Mandy’s Linus Roache and Alison Doody (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), heads to theaters and digital this April from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the future, prisons have been turned into online portals where paying subscribers vote on what felons eat, watch, wear and who they fight. Panopticon TV is so successful it is about to be rolled out to a whole new town. When the world’s most downloaded felon escapes, the authorities set a trap to reel him in. The bait is his little brother who has so far managed to avoid detection. Jamie Draven (Billy Elliot), Lotte Verbeek (“Outlander”), Clarke Peters (“Jessica Jones”), L. Scott Caldwell (“Lost”) and Will Rothhaar (“Grimm”) star in District 19, written and directed by S A Halewood. The film scored several awards including t Critics’ Award at the Fantasporto Film Festival. Suzie Halewood took home the award for Best Director at the Boston Science Fiction Film
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Acclaimed, award-winning actor Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas, Nixon) leads a superb ensemble cast in Richard Friedman’s gritty Acts of Desperation, from Gravitas Ventures. Also starring Jason Gedrick (Backdraft, “Bosch”) and Kira Reed Lorsch (“The Bay”), Acts of Desperation is an intensely unique and unpredictable thriller that sees the lives of a desperate cop, his distraught wife, a bank robber, an obsessed woman, and two criminals intertwine. In the film, “a desperate cop on the edge is obsessed over the fact that his beautiful but frantic wife is having an affair. At the same time, he tracks a desperately shrewd bank robber who is falling in love with a desperately obsessed woman whose life he just saved from suicide. As if that’s not enough, he is also being blackmailed by two desperately unhinged street criminals who will stop at nothing to get their money. Time is running out for all of them as their worlds collide.” Tim DeZarn (The Cabin in the
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Emma Tammi makes her debut with the haunting supernatural thriller The Wind, which held its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before heading to Fantastic Fest, Sitges, and others. The film explores an unseen evil as it haunts the homestead in this chilling, folkloric tale of madness, paranoia, and otherworldly terror. Lizzy (Caitlin Gerard) is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be born of the land itself, an overwhelming dread that her husband (Ashley Zukerman) dismisses as superstition. When a newlywed couple arrives on a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy’s fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events. Masterfully blending haunting visuals with pulse-pounding sound design, director Emma Tammi evokes a godforsaken world in which the forces of nature come alive with quivering menace. Julia
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Celebrity chef Peter Rake (Jimmi Simpson) heads out to the middle of nowhere to park his ass in his family’s secluded, and posh vacation estate. The reason for his exodus? Some of your typical family drama…oh and he’s being “raked” (oh hell yeah; still got it boils n’ ghouls!) over the coals by the tabloids due to some implied indiscretion with a lady. Once there he catches up with the family’s smart ass blind housekeeper Agnes (Nancy Linehan Charles) and his sister Gwen (Amanda Walsh) who is soon called away on business. What will Petey do to occupy his time? Well, he has a mysterious black goat, toilets full of gore, and pondering the old creepy treehouse he used to spend his childhood in to keep him busy. Along with all that, Pete befriends a bachelorette party staying nearby…and from there shit gets really intense as we learn Peter has more than one skeleton in his closet, and there are
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Vivien (Katie Douglas) and her pals at Vestalis Academy are meant to be clean, obedient, humble, and patient (or fucking else…a punishing experience our heroine experienced back on Level 10) as they progress toward their ultimate goal of adoption into a picture perfect home. That threat isn’t the only wonky thing going on at this sinister school as once the girls reach Level 16 it is revealed that while they are a brainy bunch, not a single one of them can read and they are administered sleeping pills disguised as vitamins nightly…in short things are definitely not what they seem at this putrid place and Vivien, along with her friend Sophia (Celina Martin) are going to get to the bottom of it as long as the fearsome Miss Brixil (Sara Canning) doesn’t stop them first! While a work of dystopian fiction, the themes of Level 16 ring loud and clear in our troubled times where women are often marginalized and
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The trailer for has just arrived Abduction 101, nominated for “Best Special Effects”, “Best Badass” and “Best Nudity Scene” at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. “Everything is happening in this big forest. A young woman is in danger. She has just discovered a strange house, isolated, in which masked men wearing loose jackets come and go carrying big bags plastique… With the help of her two adventurous friends, she decides to go, equipped with a camera, to investigate these funny actions and to shed light on this disturbing mystery. The situation turns into a nightmare when two of them are captured and held captive in a morbid basement.” Cast & Crew: Directed by Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir, Abduction 101 stars Brianna Shewbert Rouse, Nixi Oblivion, Adrienne Stone, Luna Labelle, and Kayla Kilby with music by Teddy Fetch. Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir both wrote the film and produced. Abduction 101 is represented by www.TheMovieAgency.com Watch Abduction 101 today on
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The new trailer has arrived for What Lies Ahead opening in select theaters and arriving on VOD and DVD this March. Starring Rumer Willis (Empire) and Emma Dumont (Gifted), the thriller centers on two young women thrown together on an unexpected road trip in What Lies Ahead, a peril emerges between them that grows stronger with each passing mile. Jessica (Emma Dumont) is head over heels in love with her new boyfriend Kyle. But when he is unexpectedly called to ER duty, he asks Jessica to fly to his home town in Georgia and accompany his sister Raven (Rumer Willis) as she drives up to New York to move closer to him following the recent death of their mother. Jessica reluctantly complies. As the two women get to know one another on this three-day journey – encountering assorted locals and misadventures along the way – it soon becomes clear with each passing mile, that something just isn’t right. What began
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