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Dark Star Pictures is set to release the ultra brutal, violent 1986 Ozploitation classic Fair Game on the big screen across North America this July! A bonafide Aussie classic that would later inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Fair Game is a wild revenge thriller set in the outback, pitting Cassandra Delaney’s wildlife sanctuary boss against three psycho kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little “fun” with her, too. It turns out that they may get a bit more “fun” than they bargained for. Directed by Emmy Winner Mario Andreacchio and shot by Oscar Winner Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Fair Game stars Peter Ford, David Sandford, Garry Who, and Don Barker. Fair Game will open theatrically on July 8, 2022, before a digital release on July 12th. A physical release is planned for August.
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The planet is covered in a toxic fog after a catastrophe on Earth. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors or stay safe in the station’s “algae symbiosis system” in the sci-fi thriller Rubikon. Starring Mark Ivanir (The Hunting Party), Julia Franz Richter (The Driver Inside), George Blagden (“Vikings”), and Nicholas Monu (The Glass), the film is directed by Magdalena Lauritsch. Rubikon lands in select theaters on July 1, 2022, from IFC Midnight.
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This June, Dark Star Pictures will release the Spanish horror film The Passenger, which made its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in 2021, where it was nominated for the Audience Award. The Passenger (original titled La Pasajera) stars Ramiro Blas (“La Fuga”), Cecilia Suárez (“The House of Flowers”), Paula Gallego (“Cuéntame”), and Cristina Alcázar (Cachorro). It was co-directed by Raúl Cerezo in and Fernando González Gómez (Zombie World 2) and was written by Luis Sánchez-Polack (Como Caido Del Cielo). In the film, A group of strangers sharing a ride have their trip interrupted when the driver hits a woman hiking in the dark of night. They decide to help her but quickly learn that something is terribly wrong and that they shouldn’t have let her in at all. The Passenger lands On Demand and DVD on June 28, 2022.
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This week, IFC Midnight is gearing up to release director Chloe Okuno’s chilling psychological thriller Watcher, co-written by Zach Ford. It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars alongside Karl Glusman (Love) and Burns Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises) in the film in which Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building that looks back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theater, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes confident she’s being followed — could it be the same unknown neighbor? Meanwhile, a serial killer called “The Spider” stalks the city. Watcher, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry’s called “one of this year’s finest” in his review, arrives on VOD and Digital on June 21, 2022.
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Following her role in Robert Egger’s Viking epic The Northman, Nicole Kidman is set to star in the upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan. From the director of Hulu’s Fresh, Mimi Cave, comes “The feature, based on Andrew Sodroski’s (Manhunt) script, topped the 2013 Black List, and involves secrets that lurk beneath a Midwestern town with a Hitchcock bent. Kidman will star and produce with Per Saari under her Blossom Films.” Deadline reports. The movie centers on a woman (Kidman) who suspects her husband is cheating and enters into an affair of her own before learning about her husband’s true, dark secret life. Peter Delbert is producing, with Kate Churchill serving as executive producer. Cave’s Fresh, a horror-comedy, premiered earlier this year on Hulu and explores “the horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.”
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The cast of SYFY’s “Chucky” continues to expand ahead of its second season. SYFY took to Twitter to announce new cast members for “Chucky” Season 2, sharing a group photo of them, along with Jennifer Tilly. Look who's coming to party on #Chucky Season 2 👀 🤩@meggamonstah @JenniferTilly @RealGinaGershon @realtonynappo @SuttonBStracke @RealJoeyPants1 pic.twitter.com/Y2ELbh9LO5 — SYFY (@SYFY) June 15, 2022 Joining the series is Meg Tilly (Psycho 2, Body Snatchers), Gina Gershon (Bound, Killer Joe), Joe Pantoliano (Memento), Tony Nappo (Saw II), Lara Jean Chorostecki (NBC’s “Hannibal”), and Sutton Stracke (“Real Housewives”). Brad Dourif will return as the voice of Chucky. Jennifer Tilly is back as both herself and as the voice of Tiffany. Alex Vincent is reprising the role of Andy Barclay from the original two Child’s Play movies and the first season of “Chucky. “ Christine Elise, who starred in Child’s Play 2, is also returning along with Zackary Arthur, who will play Jack Wheeler, Alyvia Alyn Lind as
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Rose Glass, the director behind Saint Maud, is back with Love Lies Bleeding with Anna Baryshnikov (Dickenson) set to star alongside Kristen Stewart (the Twilight franchise). The film is a thriller about “romance fueled by ego, desire, and the American Dream. It is reportedly set in the world of bodybuilding. The A24 film is directed by Glass, who co-wrote the script with Weronika Tofilska. The film is produced by A24, Andrea Cornwell for Lobo Films, and Oliver Kassman for Escape Plan Productions.
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Netflix, what would we do without them? The streaming giant unleashed a horde of teasers for their upcoming new series during Geek Week, including the first trailer for their “Resident Evil” series, based on the long-running game and movie franchise. The trailer gives us glimpses of enormous creatures, including giant spiders and hordes of zombies. The series, first announced the series back last year, is set in “2036 – 14 years after a deadly virus caused a global apocalypse; Jade Wesker fights for survival in a world overrun by the blood-thirsty infected and insane creatures. In this absolute carnage, Jade (Ella Balinska; played at a younger age by Tamara Smart) is haunted by her past in New Raccoon City, by her father’s (Lance Reddick) chilling connections to the Umbrella Corporation but mostly by what happened to her sister, Billie.” The series is not a reboot but will have ties to the franchise. Netflix had this to say about what they
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The female-driven revenge thriller Death Hunt, directed by Neil Mackay, is set to be released this month by Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, “a developer and his mistress, traveling to their weekend retreat, are taken hostage by a group of men and brought to a remote island. Here they fight for survival as the men release them into the wild and hunt them for sport.” Omar Tucci, Rick Amsbury, Michael Coughlan, Marlene Malcolm, Greg Johnston, Frank Ieraci, Terry McDonald, Peter Lewis, Sam Slessor, and Mason Cromwell star in the film, which will be released on Digital, DVD, and On-Demand on July 12, 2022.
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Filmmaker Isaac Rodriguez’s haunted horror film A Town Full of Ghosts is out today on Digital and On-Demand. In the found footage style film, “Mark and his wife Jenna sell everything they have to purchase a western ghost town called Blackwood Falls in the middle of nowhere. They plan to turn the ghost town into a tourist attraction with hotels, restaurants, and attractions. They hire a small film crew to document their journey and upload the videos to their video channel they find themselves stuck in the middle of nowhere when funding falls through. When funding falls through, they find themselves stuck in the middle of nowhere. Things take a twist when Mark discovers the town has a horrible history of death. He secretly digs deeper into the past and stumbles upon something evil.” Andrew C. Fisher, Mandy Lee Rubio, Lauren Lox, Sarah Froelich, Isaac Rodriguez, Keekee Suki, and Vania Vasquez star in an Isaac Rodriguez film. “After visiting the
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Dark Star Pictures is set to release the ultra brutal, violent 1986 Ozploitation classic Fair Game on the big screen across North America this July! A bonafide Aussie classic that would later inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Fair Game is a wild revenge thriller set in the outback, pitting Cassandra Delaney’s wildlife sanctuary boss against three psycho kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little “fun” with her, too. It turns out that they may get a bit more “fun” than they bargained for. Directed by Emmy Winner Mario Andreacchio and shot by Oscar Winner Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Fair Game stars Peter Ford, David Sandford, Garry Who, and Don Barker. Fair Game will open theatrically on July 8, 2022, before a digital release on July 12th. A physical release is planned for August.
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The planet is covered in a toxic fog after a catastrophe on Earth. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors or stay safe in the station’s “algae symbiosis system” in the sci-fi thriller Rubikon. Starring Mark Ivanir (The Hunting Party), Julia Franz Richter (The Driver Inside), George Blagden (“Vikings”), and Nicholas Monu (The Glass), the film is directed by Magdalena Lauritsch. Rubikon lands in select theaters on July 1, 2022, from IFC Midnight.
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This June, Dark Star Pictures will release the Spanish horror film The Passenger, which made its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in 2021, where it was nominated for the Audience Award. The Passenger (original titled La Pasajera) stars Ramiro Blas (“La Fuga”), Cecilia Suárez (“The House of Flowers”), Paula Gallego (“Cuéntame”), and Cristina Alcázar (Cachorro). It was co-directed by Raúl Cerezo in and Fernando González Gómez (Zombie World 2) and was written by Luis Sánchez-Polack (Como Caido Del Cielo). In the film, A group of strangers sharing a ride have their trip interrupted when the driver hits a woman hiking in the dark of night. They decide to help her but quickly learn that something is terribly wrong and that they shouldn’t have let her in at all. The Passenger lands On Demand and DVD on June 28, 2022.
Continue reading →
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This week, IFC Midnight is gearing up to release director Chloe Okuno’s chilling psychological thriller Watcher, co-written by Zach Ford. It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars alongside Karl Glusman (Love) and Burns Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises) in the film in which Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building that looks back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theater, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes confident she’s being followed — could it be the same unknown neighbor? Meanwhile, a serial killer called “The Spider” stalks the city. Watcher, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry’s called “one of this year’s finest” in his review, arrives on VOD and Digital on June 21, 2022.
Continue reading →
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Following her role in Robert Egger’s Viking epic The Northman, Nicole Kidman is set to star in the upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan. From the director of Hulu’s Fresh, Mimi Cave, comes “The feature, based on Andrew Sodroski’s (Manhunt) script, topped the 2013 Black List, and involves secrets that lurk beneath a Midwestern town with a Hitchcock bent. Kidman will star and produce with Per Saari under her Blossom Films.” Deadline reports. The movie centers on a woman (Kidman) who suspects her husband is cheating and enters into an affair of her own before learning about her husband’s true, dark secret life. Peter Delbert is producing, with Kate Churchill serving as executive producer. Cave’s Fresh, a horror-comedy, premiered earlier this year on Hulu and explores “the horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.”
Continue reading →
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The cast of SYFY’s “Chucky” continues to expand ahead of its second season. SYFY took to Twitter to announce new cast members for “Chucky” Season 2, sharing a group photo of them, along with Jennifer Tilly. Look who's coming to party on #Chucky Season 2 👀 🤩@meggamonstah @JenniferTilly @RealGinaGershon @realtonynappo @SuttonBStracke @RealJoeyPants1 pic.twitter.com/Y2ELbh9LO5 — SYFY (@SYFY) June 15, 2022 Joining the series is Meg Tilly (Psycho 2, Body Snatchers), Gina Gershon (Bound, Killer Joe), Joe Pantoliano (Memento), Tony Nappo (Saw II), Lara Jean Chorostecki (NBC’s “Hannibal”), and Sutton Stracke (“Real Housewives”). Brad Dourif will return as the voice of Chucky. Jennifer Tilly is back as both herself and as the voice of Tiffany. Alex Vincent is reprising the role of Andy Barclay from the original two Child’s Play movies and the first season of “Chucky. “ Christine Elise, who starred in Child’s Play 2, is also returning along with Zackary Arthur, who will play Jack Wheeler, Alyvia Alyn Lind as
Continue reading →
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Rose Glass, the director behind Saint Maud, is back with Love Lies Bleeding with Anna Baryshnikov (Dickenson) set to star alongside Kristen Stewart (the Twilight franchise). The film is a thriller about “romance fueled by ego, desire, and the American Dream. It is reportedly set in the world of bodybuilding. The A24 film is directed by Glass, who co-wrote the script with Weronika Tofilska. The film is produced by A24, Andrea Cornwell for Lobo Films, and Oliver Kassman for Escape Plan Productions.
Continue reading →
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Netflix, what would we do without them? The streaming giant unleashed a horde of teasers for their upcoming new series during Geek Week, including the first trailer for their “Resident Evil” series, based on the long-running game and movie franchise. The trailer gives us glimpses of enormous creatures, including giant spiders and hordes of zombies. The series, first announced the series back last year, is set in “2036 – 14 years after a deadly virus caused a global apocalypse; Jade Wesker fights for survival in a world overrun by the blood-thirsty infected and insane creatures. In this absolute carnage, Jade (Ella Balinska; played at a younger age by Tamara Smart) is haunted by her past in New Raccoon City, by her father’s (Lance Reddick) chilling connections to the Umbrella Corporation but mostly by what happened to her sister, Billie.” The series is not a reboot but will have ties to the franchise. Netflix had this to say about what they
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The female-driven revenge thriller Death Hunt, directed by Neil Mackay, is set to be released this month by Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, “a developer and his mistress, traveling to their weekend retreat, are taken hostage by a group of men and brought to a remote island. Here they fight for survival as the men release them into the wild and hunt them for sport.” Omar Tucci, Rick Amsbury, Michael Coughlan, Marlene Malcolm, Greg Johnston, Frank Ieraci, Terry McDonald, Peter Lewis, Sam Slessor, and Mason Cromwell star in the film, which will be released on Digital, DVD, and On-Demand on July 12, 2022.
Continue reading →
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Filmmaker Isaac Rodriguez’s haunted horror film A Town Full of Ghosts is out today on Digital and On-Demand. In the found footage style film, “Mark and his wife Jenna sell everything they have to purchase a western ghost town called Blackwood Falls in the middle of nowhere. They plan to turn the ghost town into a tourist attraction with hotels, restaurants, and attractions. They hire a small film crew to document their journey and upload the videos to their video channel they find themselves stuck in the middle of nowhere when funding falls through. When funding falls through, they find themselves stuck in the middle of nowhere. Things take a twist when Mark discovers the town has a horrible history of death. He secretly digs deeper into the past and stumbles upon something evil.” Andrew C. Fisher, Mandy Lee Rubio, Lauren Lox, Sarah Froelich, Isaac Rodriguez, Keekee Suki, and Vania Vasquez star in an Isaac Rodriguez film. “After visiting the
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