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Psychological Thriller 'Cordelia' Coming To Theaters And On-Demand This Week

Paranoia Fills The Unsettling Trailer For ‘Cordelia’

Screen Media has just unveiled the trailer for the unsettling psychological thriller, Cordelia, a tale of loneliness, paranoia, and survivor guilt. The film is directed by Adrian Shergold (“Mad Dogs,” Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, “Eureka Street”), who co-wrote Cordelia along with Antonia Campbell-Hughes (3096 Days, Kelly + Victor, Zone 414) who stars alongside Johnny Flynn (Emma., Clouds of Sils Maria, Beast), Catherine McCormack (Braveheart, Spy Game, 28 Weeks Later), Joel Fry (In The Earth, Yesterday, Cruella), and Michael Gambon (Gosford Park, Harry Potter). In the thriller, “Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young woman living in London, meets her mysterious and alluring neighbor Frank (Johnny Flynn) for the first time but quickly becomes suspicious of his motives. With her twin sister away for the weekend, Cordelia is left alone and overcome with paranoia. She begins to unravel and sink back into past traumas the more that Frank tries to charm his way into her life, becoming a danger to herself and others.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 6, 2022
'Escape The Field' Is Out Today On Blu-ray

Movie Review: ‘Escape The Field’ Gets Lost Amongst The Rows

Lionsgate is gearing to unleash the puzzling horror film Escape the Field, about a group of strangers who wake up in a huge cornfield. They must work together, using the items they woke up with, and beat mazes to escape. But they aren’t alone, something deadly lurks amongst the rows. Escape the Field features a cast that includes Shane West, Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, and Elena Juatco. First off, all but two characters are not only unlikable, they are dicks, giving viewers zero reasons to care about what happens to them. The only two likable characters are played by Theo Rossi and Jordan Claire Robbins who give decent performances. The rest, well, they lack character development and depth, but that’s not their fault. They just serve to raise the body count. The constant trips the characters make back and forth to retrieve items they forget are a bit obnoxious. It wastes so much time that

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 6, 2022
Award-Winning Film 'Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes' To Be Released Next Week

Digital Release Announced For Gothic Thriller ‘Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes’

Dark Sky Films announced today the release date for the multi-award-winning Gothic German thriller Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes. In the film, “Margo, who comes from a noble family, inherited a castle that she inspects with her ill-tempered husband Dieter. When they arrive at the run-down keep, their relationship is put to a test as their sanity slowly deteriorates. This opens up a new world. As time and space begin to shift around them, a reality that only exists within the walls of the eerie building is exposed – a reality full of warmth and excess.” Things aren’t as they seem in this genre-bending film, which shifts between different story layers in unpredictable ways. It is a love letter to European cinema of the sixties and seventies that will leave viewers guessing what will happen next. Directed by Kevin Kopacka (Hades), and written and produced by Lili Villányi and Kevin Kopacka, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes stars Anna Platen (Para

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 5, 2022
Explore The Depths Of Madness When 'Hollow' Comes To DVD (Trailer)

Explore The Depths Of Madness When ‘Hollow’ Comes To DVD (Trailer)

Devilworks has unleashed the North American trailer for the psychological horror film Hollow, from writer-director Jonathan Zaurin, ahead of its home release later this month. In Hollow, “A woman with early signs of Alzheimer’s begins to have lucid dreams and nightmares that a living Punch puppet has moved in with her and her family. As her loss of reality and symptoms worsen, she uncovers something sinister is observing her every move and preparing darkness that leads her into a frenzied and terrifying confrontation.” Pat Garrett (Little Shop of Horrors), Ellie Jeffreys (Jack Falls), Ben Manning (The Snarling), Pete Bird (The Snarling), Pablo Raybould, Mike Coombes, and Ayvianna Snow (The Convent, The Lockdown Hauntings, Vampire Virus, The Seven) star In Hollow, out on VOD and DVD on May 17, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 5, 2022
Screen Media Acquires Horror-Thriller 'Saint Clare' Starring Bella Thorne

Screen Media Acquires Horror-Thriller ‘Saint Clare’ Starring Bella Thorne

Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) company, announced today the acquisition of worldwide rights to the upcoming horror-thriller Saint Clare, starring Bella Thorne (the upcoming Rumble Through the Dark, Time Is Up). Saint Clare follows Clare Bleecker (Thorne), a quiet catholic college student with a divine vocation for killing. Directed by Mitzi Peirone (Braid) and written by Guinevere Turner (American Psycho) and Mitzi Peirone, the film is based on the hit novel “Clare at 16” by Don Roff, whose sequel novel will be released in 2023. Producers are in negotiations with Rebecca DeMornay (Hand That Rocks the Cradle) to join the cast, with the additional casting of other key roles underway. The film will be produced by David Chackler, Arielle Elwes, Thor Bradwell, and Joel Michaely. Executive producers are Cassian Elwes, Seth Needle, Mark Damon, Tamara Birkemoe, Veronica Radaelli, Tom Culliver, Nadia Redler, Dave Sereny, and Jere Hausfater. “With such a talented pedigree, we’re thrilled

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2022
New "Escape The Field" Clip Arrives Just Days Ahead Of Premiere

New “Escape The Field” Clip Arrives Just Days Ahead Of Premiere

Just ahead of its release, Lionsgate has shared an all-new clip for the horror-thriller Escape the Field, about a group of six strangers who must work together to solve a puzzle in order to survive. In the clip we see the group discovering that items they’ve found along the way can be used to operate things in the field such as water faucets and unlock new clues. “The fear is inescapable and the suspense nonstop in this gripping horror-thriller about six strangers who suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil, and survival depends upon solving a diabolical — and deadly — puzzle.” Joshua Dobkin

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2022
Blu-ray Review: The Forbidden Door (2009)

Blu-ray Review: The Forbidden Door (2009)

Gambir (Fachry Albar) is a fashionable mother fucker, all art galleries and high times… but all isn’t as it seems with our hero. See, awhile back, he and his girlfriend (later wife) Talyda (Marsha Timothy) went and made a baby out of wedlock, and since her parents would never approve, it’s soon abortion o’ clock, and the resulting fallout from that leaves Gambir weak in the crotch… permanently. None of this puts a damper on his art career however, and soon Gambir’s life casts of pregnant women contain extra baggage, namely aborted fetuses… for fuck’s sake dude… Anyway, the meteoric rise in Gambir’s career is matched only by his descent into rather poor mental health, and with the looming threat of his dark secret being revealed, he becomes caught up in the sick goings-on centered around the Herosase building… a structure who’s walls hide the viewing displeasure of multiple television screens that “treat” the viewers to scenes of extreme violence

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 2, 2022
Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller 'The Righteous'

Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller ‘The Righteous’

Today, Arrow has shared the first look at the black and white award-winning film The Righteous, which marks the directorial debut of actor and writer Mark O’Brien (AMC’s “61st Street”, Blue Bayou, Ready or Not). Starring O’Brien, Henry Czerny (Ready or Not, Mission Impossible, “Revenge”), and Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, “Shadowhunters”) The Righteous is “a unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, and tells the story of Frederic (Henry Czerny) a grieving man struggling with his faith, who helps an injured young man, Aaron Smith (Mark O’Brien) who stumbles onto his property one night, claiming to be lost in the woods. Frederic and his wife (Mimi Kuzyk) invite the man to stay for the night, but Frederic soon begins to have doubts about this enigmatic stranger’s story – and his motives for being there. When Aaron asks Frederic to commit an unspeakable deed, it becomes clear that the man is

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Ella Rebecca Horton
May 2, 2022
Serial Killer Horror 'Night Caller' Debuts This Week On Digital

Serial Killer Horror ‘Night Caller’ Coming To VOD And Digital (Trailer)

123 Go Films has just announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin‘s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, written and directed by Chad Ferrin, a “Telephone psychic Clementine Carter (Susan Priver) is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” The cast also includes Steve Railsback, Bai Ling, Lew Temple, Susan Driver, Silvia Spross, and Robert Miano. Robert “Corpsy” Rhine, whose Girls and Corpses Films produced with Ferrin’s Crappy World Films, also has an onscreen role.

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Ella Rebecca Horton
May 2, 2022
Serial Killer Horror 'Night Caller' Debuts This Week On Digital

A Psychic And A Serial Killer Are Caught In A Game Of Cat And Mouse In ‘Night Caller’ (Trailer)

The gritty horror-thriller Night Caller, a dark tale of a psychic thrust into the world of murder when she begins seeing the acts of a serial killer, is coming to streaming platforms this May. In the film, written and directed by Chad Ferrin, a “Telephone psychic Clementine Carter (Susan Priver) is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” The cast includes Steve Railsback, Bai Ling, Lew Temple, Susan Driver, Silvia Spross, and Robert Miano. Robert “Corpsy” Rhine, whose Girls and Corpses Films produced with Ferrin’s Crappy World Films, also has an onscreen role. Night Caller (review),

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Ella Rebecca Horton
Apr 30, 2022

More from Thriller

Psychological Thriller 'Cordelia' Coming To Theaters And On-Demand This Week

Paranoia Fills The Unsettling Trailer For ‘Cordelia’

Screen Media has just unveiled the trailer for the unsettling psychological thriller, Cordelia, a tale of loneliness, paranoia, and survivor guilt. The film is directed by Adrian Shergold (“Mad Dogs,” Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, “Eureka Street”), who co-wrote Cordelia along with Antonia Campbell-Hughes (3096 Days, Kelly + Victor, Zone 414) who stars alongside Johnny Flynn (Emma., Clouds of Sils Maria, Beast), Catherine McCormack (Braveheart, Spy Game, 28 Weeks Later), Joel Fry (In The Earth, Yesterday, Cruella), and Michael Gambon (Gosford Park, Harry Potter). In the thriller, “Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young woman living in London, meets her mysterious and alluring neighbor Frank (Johnny Flynn) for the first time but quickly becomes suspicious of his motives. With her twin sister away for the weekend, Cordelia is left alone and overcome with paranoia. She begins to unravel and sink back into past traumas the more that Frank tries to charm his way into her life, becoming a danger to herself and others.”

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 6, 2022
'Escape The Field' Is Out Today On Blu-ray

Movie Review: ‘Escape The Field’ Gets Lost Amongst The Rows

Lionsgate is gearing to unleash the puzzling horror film Escape the Field, about a group of strangers who wake up in a huge cornfield. They must work together, using the items they woke up with, and beat mazes to escape. But they aren’t alone, something deadly lurks amongst the rows. Escape the Field features a cast that includes Shane West, Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, and Elena Juatco. First off, all but two characters are not only unlikable, they are dicks, giving viewers zero reasons to care about what happens to them. The only two likable characters are played by Theo Rossi and Jordan Claire Robbins who give decent performances. The rest, well, they lack character development and depth, but that’s not their fault. They just serve to raise the body count. The constant trips the characters make back and forth to retrieve items they forget are a bit obnoxious. It wastes so much time that

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 6, 2022
Award-Winning Film 'Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes' To Be Released Next Week

Digital Release Announced For Gothic Thriller ‘Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes’

Dark Sky Films announced today the release date for the multi-award-winning Gothic German thriller Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes. In the film, “Margo, who comes from a noble family, inherited a castle that she inspects with her ill-tempered husband Dieter. When they arrive at the run-down keep, their relationship is put to a test as their sanity slowly deteriorates. This opens up a new world. As time and space begin to shift around them, a reality that only exists within the walls of the eerie building is exposed – a reality full of warmth and excess.” Things aren’t as they seem in this genre-bending film, which shifts between different story layers in unpredictable ways. It is a love letter to European cinema of the sixties and seventies that will leave viewers guessing what will happen next. Directed by Kevin Kopacka (Hades), and written and produced by Lili Villányi and Kevin Kopacka, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes stars Anna Platen (Para

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 5, 2022
Explore The Depths Of Madness When 'Hollow' Comes To DVD (Trailer)

Explore The Depths Of Madness When ‘Hollow’ Comes To DVD (Trailer)

Devilworks has unleashed the North American trailer for the psychological horror film Hollow, from writer-director Jonathan Zaurin, ahead of its home release later this month. In Hollow, “A woman with early signs of Alzheimer’s begins to have lucid dreams and nightmares that a living Punch puppet has moved in with her and her family. As her loss of reality and symptoms worsen, she uncovers something sinister is observing her every move and preparing darkness that leads her into a frenzied and terrifying confrontation.” Pat Garrett (Little Shop of Horrors), Ellie Jeffreys (Jack Falls), Ben Manning (The Snarling), Pete Bird (The Snarling), Pablo Raybould, Mike Coombes, and Ayvianna Snow (The Convent, The Lockdown Hauntings, Vampire Virus, The Seven) star In Hollow, out on VOD and DVD on May 17, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 5, 2022
Screen Media Acquires Horror-Thriller 'Saint Clare' Starring Bella Thorne

Screen Media Acquires Horror-Thriller ‘Saint Clare’ Starring Bella Thorne

Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) company, announced today the acquisition of worldwide rights to the upcoming horror-thriller Saint Clare, starring Bella Thorne (the upcoming Rumble Through the Dark, Time Is Up). Saint Clare follows Clare Bleecker (Thorne), a quiet catholic college student with a divine vocation for killing. Directed by Mitzi Peirone (Braid) and written by Guinevere Turner (American Psycho) and Mitzi Peirone, the film is based on the hit novel “Clare at 16” by Don Roff, whose sequel novel will be released in 2023. Producers are in negotiations with Rebecca DeMornay (Hand That Rocks the Cradle) to join the cast, with the additional casting of other key roles underway. The film will be produced by David Chackler, Arielle Elwes, Thor Bradwell, and Joel Michaely. Executive producers are Cassian Elwes, Seth Needle, Mark Damon, Tamara Birkemoe, Veronica Radaelli, Tom Culliver, Nadia Redler, Dave Sereny, and Jere Hausfater. “With such a talented pedigree, we’re thrilled

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2022
New "Escape The Field" Clip Arrives Just Days Ahead Of Premiere

New “Escape The Field” Clip Arrives Just Days Ahead Of Premiere

Just ahead of its release, Lionsgate has shared an all-new clip for the horror-thriller Escape the Field, about a group of six strangers who must work together to solve a puzzle in order to survive. In the clip we see the group discovering that items they’ve found along the way can be used to operate things in the field such as water faucets and unlock new clues. “The fear is inescapable and the suspense nonstop in this gripping horror-thriller about six strangers who suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil, and survival depends upon solving a diabolical — and deadly — puzzle.” Joshua Dobkin

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2022
Blu-ray Review: The Forbidden Door (2009)

Blu-ray Review: The Forbidden Door (2009)

Gambir (Fachry Albar) is a fashionable mother fucker, all art galleries and high times… but all isn’t as it seems with our hero. See, awhile back, he and his girlfriend (later wife) Talyda (Marsha Timothy) went and made a baby out of wedlock, and since her parents would never approve, it’s soon abortion o’ clock, and the resulting fallout from that leaves Gambir weak in the crotch… permanently. None of this puts a damper on his art career however, and soon Gambir’s life casts of pregnant women contain extra baggage, namely aborted fetuses… for fuck’s sake dude… Anyway, the meteoric rise in Gambir’s career is matched only by his descent into rather poor mental health, and with the looming threat of his dark secret being revealed, he becomes caught up in the sick goings-on centered around the Herosase building… a structure who’s walls hide the viewing displeasure of multiple television screens that “treat” the viewers to scenes of extreme violence

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 2, 2022
Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller 'The Righteous'

Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller ‘The Righteous’

Today, Arrow has shared the first look at the black and white award-winning film The Righteous, which marks the directorial debut of actor and writer Mark O’Brien (AMC’s “61st Street”, Blue Bayou, Ready or Not). Starring O’Brien, Henry Czerny (Ready or Not, Mission Impossible, “Revenge”), and Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, “Shadowhunters”) The Righteous is “a unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, and tells the story of Frederic (Henry Czerny) a grieving man struggling with his faith, who helps an injured young man, Aaron Smith (Mark O’Brien) who stumbles onto his property one night, claiming to be lost in the woods. Frederic and his wife (Mimi Kuzyk) invite the man to stay for the night, but Frederic soon begins to have doubts about this enigmatic stranger’s story – and his motives for being there. When Aaron asks Frederic to commit an unspeakable deed, it becomes clear that the man is

Continue reading →
Ella Rebecca Horton
May 2, 2022
Serial Killer Horror 'Night Caller' Debuts This Week On Digital

Serial Killer Horror ‘Night Caller’ Coming To VOD And Digital (Trailer)

123 Go Films has just announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin‘s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, written and directed by Chad Ferrin, a “Telephone psychic Clementine Carter (Susan Priver) is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” The cast also includes Steve Railsback, Bai Ling, Lew Temple, Susan Driver, Silvia Spross, and Robert Miano. Robert “Corpsy” Rhine, whose Girls and Corpses Films produced with Ferrin’s Crappy World Films, also has an onscreen role.

Continue reading →
Ella Rebecca Horton
May 2, 2022
Serial Killer Horror 'Night Caller' Debuts This Week On Digital

A Psychic And A Serial Killer Are Caught In A Game Of Cat And Mouse In ‘Night Caller’ (Trailer)

The gritty horror-thriller Night Caller, a dark tale of a psychic thrust into the world of murder when she begins seeing the acts of a serial killer, is coming to streaming platforms this May. In the film, written and directed by Chad Ferrin, a “Telephone psychic Clementine Carter (Susan Priver) is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” The cast includes Steve Railsback, Bai Ling, Lew Temple, Susan Driver, Silvia Spross, and Robert Miano. Robert “Corpsy” Rhine, whose Girls and Corpses Films produced with Ferrin’s Crappy World Films, also has an onscreen role. Night Caller (review),

Continue reading →
Ella Rebecca Horton
Apr 30, 2022
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