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An Author Is Hunted In The Thriller 'Alter Ego' Starring Dylan Walsh (Trailer)

An Author Is Hunted In The Thriller ‘Alter Ego’ Starring Dylan Walsh (Trailer)

From writer-director-producer, Ezio Massa (5 A.M.) comes the acclaimed horror-thriller Alter Ego, set to be released next month. Taking home the awards for both Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the New York International Film Festival, Alter Ego follows detective DiBiasse (Oscar® nominee Eric Roberts, Runaway Train) as he arrives at his last crime scene, the mansion of a wealthy, yet paranoid recluse named Alan Schaeffer (Dylan Walsh, FX’s “Nip/Tuck”). As Detective Dibiasse is accompanied by a new detective, he soon begins to weave together the strange story of Alan Schaeffer, a once-renowned author of a best-selling serial killer book series, who now vehemently insists that one of his creations is trying to kill him. Surrounded by security who reportedly see nothing, no one can help Alan Schaeffer as the police move on without a second thought. Yet, shortly after, Detective Dibiasse is summoned back to the mansion and is met with a horrible, brutal crime and not a suspect

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2022
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Dark And Deadly Secrets Surface In The Thriller ‘Help’ (Trailer)

Director Blake Ridder‘s award-winning psychological thriller HELP, featuring a cameo performance from boyband Blue’s very own Duncan James, is set to land on Digital this February. In the film, “A young woman’s life turns chaotic when she uncovers a deadly secret about her friend…A painful breakup prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio starts the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Everyone has a secret…” Louis James (The English Teacher, A Simple Robbery), Emily Redpath (Romeo and Juliet, Casualty), and Sarah Alexandra Marks (Glamour, Psychosis) star. HELP was filmed in just 12 days due to UK lockdown restrictions, with only 20 cast and crew members were involved. HELP debuts on Digital in both the US and Canada on February 15, 2021,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2022
IFC Midnight's Unsettling Horror 'Hatching' Out Today On Digital And VOD

Movie Reviews: “Hatching” and “Resurrection” (Sundance Film Festival)

Sundance Film Festival is absolutely killing it with its horror selections! Following are capsule reviews of two absolutely bonkers, can’t-miss features. Hatching Finnish/Swedish coproduction Hatching (Ruva, 2022) finds pre-teen gymnast Tinja (Siiri Solalinna in a captivating debut performance) trying to live up to the expectations of her domineering mother (Sophia Heikkilӓ), who vlogs about the wonderful life of their seemingly perfect family. Naturally, the online presence is merely an illusion, as evidenced earlier on when Tinja captures a bird that flew into their house, only to see her mother break its neck. Soon after, Tinja finds a bird’s egg near her home, and promises to take care of what will hatch from it. Big mistake, what with this being a horror film. It would be a shame to go into too many details here about Hanna Bergholm’s astonishing directorial debut Hatching, so suffice it to say that there are some amazing creature and body horror effects on display of both

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Joseph Perry
Jan 28, 2022
Epix Celebrating The Premiere Of "From" With A Sneak Peek Twitter Watch Party!

Epix Celebrating The Premiere Of “From” With A Sneak Peek Twitter Watch Party!

To celebrate the February 20, 2022 premiere of their new horror series “From,” Epix is inviting HorrorFuel.com readers and other viewers to a special sneak peek of the series and a live Twitter Watch Party of the premiere episode! On February 17th at 9 pm ET, Epix will be live-streaming the first episode of “From” exclusively on Twitter ahead of Sunday’s premiere and we’re encouraging fans to join along and live tweet. Tweet along with Epix using #FROMWatchParty and @FROMonEPIX. The Twitter live stream is open to the public, though please note, the episode will only be viewable by those in the United States. Starring Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Eion Bailey, the new trailer teases a family stuck in a time loop and forced to acclimate to a town made up of stranded travelers. Just when they think things couldn’t get any worse, they discover that when the sun goes down and terrifying monsters come out to hunt.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 27, 2022
IFC Midnight Serves Up The Trailer For 'A Banquet'

IFC Midnight Serves Up The Trailer For ‘A Banquet’

Let the new trailer for the psychodrama A Banquet whet your appetite ahead of the film’s release this February. Directed by Ruth Paxton and starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, the film centers on widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) “who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.” A Banquet opens in select theaters and arrives on Digital Platforms and VOD on February 18, 2022, from IFC Midnight.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 27, 2022
Cast Announced For 'Rambo: Last Blood' Director's Survival Thriller 'The Black Demon'

Cast Announced For ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Director’s Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’

The full cast has now been announced for prolific action director Adrian Grünberg’s (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) survival thriller The Black Demon. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario) join Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) Jorge A. Jimenez (Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, Netflix’s “Narcos”), Héctor Jiménez (Jared Hess’ Nacho Libre), Raúl Méndez (“Narcos”), Edgar Flores (Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre), Venus Ariel (Ava DuVernay’s upcoming “DMZ”) and Carlos Solórzano (Eva Longoria’s upcoming Flamin’ Hot). “We’re so happy with the cast that Adrian was able to unite around this film and cannot imagine a more talented group of actors to create a movie about this Mexican legend,” said producers Javier Chapa and Jon Silk. In the film, based on a Mexican legend, while on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 26, 2022
Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller 'The Righteous'

Award-Winning Chiller ‘The Righteous’ Snags A Summer Release Date

Arrow Films announced today that they have acquired distribution rights to the extraordinary chiller The Righteous, an award-winning standout on the genre festival circuit. The film, a dark chiller about a burdened man who feels the wrath of a vengeful God, after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger, marks the directorial debut or actor and writer Mark O’Brien (AMC’s “61st Street”, Blue Bayou, Ready or Not). Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny (Ready or Not, Mission Impossible, “Revenge”), and Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, “Shadowhunters”) star. A unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, The Righteous 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

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 26, 2022
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Following It Sundance World Premiere, ‘Master’ Is Coming To Prime Video

Following its World Premiere at this week’s Sundance Film Festival, Mariama Diallo‘s occult thriller Master is set to arrive on Prime Video this March. The film, which Diallo both wrote and directed, follows “three black women who strive to find their place at the celebrated Ancaster College, an elite university in New England. The school was built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill and the ghostly legacies of Puritan-era persecution haunt the campus in an increasingly supernatural fashion.” Regina Hall (Girls Trip) stars alongside Zoe Renee (“Black Lightning” ), and Amber Gray (Escape at Dannemora). Master arrives on Prime on March 18, 2022. While you wait for the trailer, be sure to check out Diallo’s Sundance “Meet the Artist” profile video in which she discusses the film.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 25, 2022
New 'Moonfall' Clip Takes Us "Inside The Moon"

Sci-Fi Disaster Film ‘Moonfall’ Gets An Epic Final Trailer

Buckle up, you’re in for a wild ride with the upcoming sci-fi disaster thriller Moonfall, from the director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, and it is headed your way this February. The final trailer is here and it teases an action-packed movie that every sci-fi and disaster movie fan must see! The out-of-this-world cast includes Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, and Donald Sutherland. This pulse-pounding film is directed by Roland Emmerich who also co-wrote the film along with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen. Harald Kloser, p.g.a. and Roland Emmerich, p.g.a produce. In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award® winner Halle Berry) is convinced she

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 23, 2022
Men Fight A Frozen Landscape In Netflix's True Story Inspired Thriller 'Against The Ice' (Trailer)

Men Fight A Frozen Landscape In Netflix’s True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Against The Ice’ (Trailer)

Fighting a frozen landscape, hunger, and insanity, aA group of men set out to discover the truth of what happened to a group of explorers in the trailer for the survival thriller Against the Ice, coming to Netflix. Starring “Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole (“Peaky Blinders”), the film is set In 1909. Against the Ice is a true story-inspired tale of friendship, love, and the awe-inspiring power of companionship as two men succeed in finding proof Greenland is one island but not before battling extreme conditions in their fight for survival. Directed by Peter Flinth, Against the Ice was written by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Derrick,and Ejnar Mikkelsen. Tune in for the premiere of Against the Ice on Netflix on March 2, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 23, 2022

More from Thriller

An Author Is Hunted In The Thriller 'Alter Ego' Starring Dylan Walsh (Trailer)

An Author Is Hunted In The Thriller ‘Alter Ego’ Starring Dylan Walsh (Trailer)

From writer-director-producer, Ezio Massa (5 A.M.) comes the acclaimed horror-thriller Alter Ego, set to be released next month. Taking home the awards for both Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the New York International Film Festival, Alter Ego follows detective DiBiasse (Oscar® nominee Eric Roberts, Runaway Train) as he arrives at his last crime scene, the mansion of a wealthy, yet paranoid recluse named Alan Schaeffer (Dylan Walsh, FX’s “Nip/Tuck”). As Detective Dibiasse is accompanied by a new detective, he soon begins to weave together the strange story of Alan Schaeffer, a once-renowned author of a best-selling serial killer book series, who now vehemently insists that one of his creations is trying to kill him. Surrounded by security who reportedly see nothing, no one can help Alan Schaeffer as the police move on without a second thought. Yet, shortly after, Detective Dibiasse is summoned back to the mansion and is met with a horrible, brutal crime and not a suspect

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2022
Horror Fuel

Dark And Deadly Secrets Surface In The Thriller ‘Help’ (Trailer)

Director Blake Ridder‘s award-winning psychological thriller HELP, featuring a cameo performance from boyband Blue’s very own Duncan James, is set to land on Digital this February. In the film, “A young woman’s life turns chaotic when she uncovers a deadly secret about her friend…A painful breakup prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio starts the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Everyone has a secret…” Louis James (The English Teacher, A Simple Robbery), Emily Redpath (Romeo and Juliet, Casualty), and Sarah Alexandra Marks (Glamour, Psychosis) star. HELP was filmed in just 12 days due to UK lockdown restrictions, with only 20 cast and crew members were involved. HELP debuts on Digital in both the US and Canada on February 15, 2021,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2022
IFC Midnight's Unsettling Horror 'Hatching' Out Today On Digital And VOD

Movie Reviews: “Hatching” and “Resurrection” (Sundance Film Festival)

Sundance Film Festival is absolutely killing it with its horror selections! Following are capsule reviews of two absolutely bonkers, can’t-miss features. Hatching Finnish/Swedish coproduction Hatching (Ruva, 2022) finds pre-teen gymnast Tinja (Siiri Solalinna in a captivating debut performance) trying to live up to the expectations of her domineering mother (Sophia Heikkilӓ), who vlogs about the wonderful life of their seemingly perfect family. Naturally, the online presence is merely an illusion, as evidenced earlier on when Tinja captures a bird that flew into their house, only to see her mother break its neck. Soon after, Tinja finds a bird’s egg near her home, and promises to take care of what will hatch from it. Big mistake, what with this being a horror film. It would be a shame to go into too many details here about Hanna Bergholm’s astonishing directorial debut Hatching, so suffice it to say that there are some amazing creature and body horror effects on display of both

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Jan 28, 2022
Epix Celebrating The Premiere Of "From" With A Sneak Peek Twitter Watch Party!

Epix Celebrating The Premiere Of “From” With A Sneak Peek Twitter Watch Party!

To celebrate the February 20, 2022 premiere of their new horror series “From,” Epix is inviting HorrorFuel.com readers and other viewers to a special sneak peek of the series and a live Twitter Watch Party of the premiere episode! On February 17th at 9 pm ET, Epix will be live-streaming the first episode of “From” exclusively on Twitter ahead of Sunday’s premiere and we’re encouraging fans to join along and live tweet. Tweet along with Epix using #FROMWatchParty and @FROMonEPIX. The Twitter live stream is open to the public, though please note, the episode will only be viewable by those in the United States. Starring Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Eion Bailey, the new trailer teases a family stuck in a time loop and forced to acclimate to a town made up of stranded travelers. Just when they think things couldn’t get any worse, they discover that when the sun goes down and terrifying monsters come out to hunt.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 27, 2022
IFC Midnight Serves Up The Trailer For 'A Banquet'

IFC Midnight Serves Up The Trailer For ‘A Banquet’

Let the new trailer for the psychodrama A Banquet whet your appetite ahead of the film’s release this February. Directed by Ruth Paxton and starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, the film centers on widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) “who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.” A Banquet opens in select theaters and arrives on Digital Platforms and VOD on February 18, 2022, from IFC Midnight.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 27, 2022
Cast Announced For 'Rambo: Last Blood' Director's Survival Thriller 'The Black Demon'

Cast Announced For ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Director’s Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’

The full cast has now been announced for prolific action director Adrian Grünberg’s (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) survival thriller The Black Demon. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario) join Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) Jorge A. Jimenez (Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, Netflix’s “Narcos”), Héctor Jiménez (Jared Hess’ Nacho Libre), Raúl Méndez (“Narcos”), Edgar Flores (Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre), Venus Ariel (Ava DuVernay’s upcoming “DMZ”) and Carlos Solórzano (Eva Longoria’s upcoming Flamin’ Hot). “We’re so happy with the cast that Adrian was able to unite around this film and cannot imagine a more talented group of actors to create a movie about this Mexican legend,” said producers Javier Chapa and Jon Silk. In the film, based on a Mexican legend, while on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 26, 2022
Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller 'The Righteous'

Award-Winning Chiller ‘The Righteous’ Snags A Summer Release Date

Arrow Films announced today that they have acquired distribution rights to the extraordinary chiller The Righteous, an award-winning standout on the genre festival circuit. The film, a dark chiller about a burdened man who feels the wrath of a vengeful God, after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger, marks the directorial debut or actor and writer Mark O’Brien (AMC’s “61st Street”, Blue Bayou, Ready or Not). Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny (Ready or Not, Mission Impossible, “Revenge”), and Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, “Shadowhunters”) star. A unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, The Righteous 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

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 26, 2022
Horror Fuel

Following It Sundance World Premiere, ‘Master’ Is Coming To Prime Video

Following its World Premiere at this week’s Sundance Film Festival, Mariama Diallo‘s occult thriller Master is set to arrive on Prime Video this March. The film, which Diallo both wrote and directed, follows “three black women who strive to find their place at the celebrated Ancaster College, an elite university in New England. The school was built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill and the ghostly legacies of Puritan-era persecution haunt the campus in an increasingly supernatural fashion.” Regina Hall (Girls Trip) stars alongside Zoe Renee (“Black Lightning” ), and Amber Gray (Escape at Dannemora). Master arrives on Prime on March 18, 2022. While you wait for the trailer, be sure to check out Diallo’s Sundance “Meet the Artist” profile video in which she discusses the film.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 25, 2022
New 'Moonfall' Clip Takes Us "Inside The Moon"

Sci-Fi Disaster Film ‘Moonfall’ Gets An Epic Final Trailer

Buckle up, you’re in for a wild ride with the upcoming sci-fi disaster thriller Moonfall, from the director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, and it is headed your way this February. The final trailer is here and it teases an action-packed movie that every sci-fi and disaster movie fan must see! The out-of-this-world cast includes Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, and Donald Sutherland. This pulse-pounding film is directed by Roland Emmerich who also co-wrote the film along with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen. Harald Kloser, p.g.a. and Roland Emmerich, p.g.a produce. In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award® winner Halle Berry) is convinced she

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 23, 2022
Men Fight A Frozen Landscape In Netflix's True Story Inspired Thriller 'Against The Ice' (Trailer)

Men Fight A Frozen Landscape In Netflix’s True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Against The Ice’ (Trailer)

Fighting a frozen landscape, hunger, and insanity, aA group of men set out to discover the truth of what happened to a group of explorers in the trailer for the survival thriller Against the Ice, coming to Netflix. Starring “Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole (“Peaky Blinders”), the film is set In 1909. Against the Ice is a true story-inspired tale of friendship, love, and the awe-inspiring power of companionship as two men succeed in finding proof Greenland is one island but not before battling extreme conditions in their fight for survival. Directed by Peter Flinth, Against the Ice was written by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Derrick,and Ejnar Mikkelsen. Tune in for the premiere of Against the Ice on Netflix on March 2, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 23, 2022
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