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Off Limits Press Releasing Hearts Strange and Dreadful, Historical Horror Novel Set in a Plague-Ridden 1800s New England Town Off Limits Press made waves in the horror fiction community when it released its debut novella, Crossroads by Laurel Hightower, which was included in the Library Journal’s list of 2020 Best Horror and a big hit with horror fans everywhere. The boutique press, specializing exclusively in horror fiction, is now releasing its first novel, Hearts Strange and Dreadful by Tim McGregor. Hearts Strange and Dreadful takes place in 1821 in the fictional New England town of Wickstead, which has recently been overcome by a deadly plague. As the town’s paranoia grows, the buried dead are exhumed and occult fires burn well into the night. A mysterious traveler rides into town, and the residents aren’t sure who to trust anymore. Surprisingly, Wickstead’s residents begin to look to Hester Stokely, an outcast orphan with unusual abilities, who may be just the heroine the
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Writer-director Barak Barkan makes his feature film debut with the dark thriller Silence & Darkness. Following the death of their mother, blind and deaf sisters Anna (Mina Walker) and Beth (Joan Glackin) live happily in a secluded small town with Father (Jordan Lage). However, when a neighbor stops by, Anna and Beth begin to question Father’s medical diagnoses and start to realize his intentions are more sinister than they could have imagined. Shot in the haunting ephemeral landscapes of Vermont, Silence & Darkness crafts a harrowing, and eerie portrait of two sisters forced to adapt and use every skill they have to uncover their family’s dark truth. I sought to create tension between the viewer and the film, both through Anna and Beth’s interactions and Father’s backstory,” says writer-director Barak Barkan. “My goal is that while viewing the film, the audience will inhabit a constant state of curious unease—desperate to find out what led to the circumstances of this family’s
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Today, Unearthed Films announced it is releasing a new version of German director Olaf Ittenbach’s 2010 gorefest No Reason, uncut and off a new scan of the master, and with new features and bonus material. “NO REASON has never looked better,” said Stephen Biro, President and Founder, Unearthed Films. In the film, engulfed by anguish, and trapped inside an allegory of torment and carnage, Jennifer’s (Irene Holzfurtner) soul seeks the path of awareness and enlightenment. A harrowing journey into the pits of Hell where one woman’s quest for redemption in the afterlife is tested to the most extreme limits. Unearthed Films describes Olaf Ittenbach as “one of the most prominent splatter directors to come out of Germany. Originally a practical effects artist, Ittenbach got behind the camera to direct some of the most extreme films, including the 2010 release of No Reason.” No Reason is set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on May 11, 2021. Extras on the new
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Host from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host, which is Certified 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes was shot remotely during quarantine and features groundbreaking scares, stunts, and surprises, all filmed by the actors in their own homes. The project was commissioned, written, produced, and will be released in under three months. Host is the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). Watch as “six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high
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Many found footage films assert to be discovered after a certain amount of time, but The Revenant director Kerry Prior’s The Blare Rabbit Project can actually lay claim to having been rediscovered after being shot in 1999 and then considered lost. The film will finally have its world premiere this March at MidWest WeirdFest. Following is the official press announcement from the festival. A found footage feature film, thought lost for over 20 years, is finally seeing the light of the projector booth at its world premiere this March. Kerry Prior, acclaimed Hollywood special effects artist and the visionary director of the cult horror hit THE REVENANT, lensed the found footage film THE BLARE RABBIT PROJECT in 1999. There is still some mystery as to why that film – once set for commercial release – was suddenly pulled and apparently lost for over two decades. But now, the re-found, found footage film is having its very first public screening at
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Mauro Iván Ojeda’s new chilling supernatural thriller The Funeral Home is headed your way this January, hot off the heels of its premiere at Fantasia. The film centers on Bernardo, an undertaker. He and his dysfunctional family live amongst coffins, wreaths, and mischievous supernatural entities that visit daily. They attribute the paranormal manifestations to the dead bodies from their mortuary work. Finding the real source of all this madness will be their quest, but they might find a terrifying truth. Luis Machín, Celeste Gerez, Camila Vaccarini, Susana Varela, and Hugo Arana star in this haunting tale. The Funeral Home (review) opens in virtual theaters on January 29, 2021, before arriving on digital on February 2nd via Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Four-time Academy-Award nominee Ethan Hawke is reuniting with director Scott Derrickson to star in the upcoming film The Black Phone, from Blumhouse and Universal. Derrickson, known for films such as Dr. Strange and Sinister in which Hawke starred, is set to begin production on The Black Phone in North Carolina this February. Derrickson and frequent collaborator Robert Cargill (Doctor Strange, Sinister) adapted the script based on a short story by Joe Hill. Derrickson, Cargill, and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film. Universal and Blumhouse will present the Crooked Highway Production. Joe Hill will be executive producing. Ethan Hawke is a four-time Academy Award®-nominated actor and screenwriter. Not long ago, he made his television debut in Showtime’s limited series, “The Good Lord Bird”, which he also executive produced and co-wrote, based on the National Book Award-winning novel by James McBride. “The Good Lord Bird”, produced by Blumhouse Television, is a seven-part limited series shot mostly in Virginia that brilliantly
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Netflix’s has now announced the full cast for the upcoming series adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s comic book “The Sandman“. The most recent additions to the cast include Tom Sturridge (Velvet Buzzsaw) who will play Dream. Gwendoline Christi (“Game of Thrones”) who will play Lucifer, Vivienne Acheampong (“The Witches”) who will play Lucienne, chief librarian and trusted guardian of Dream’s realm. Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”) will play magician and blackmailer Roderick Burgess. Boyd Holbrook (“Narcos”) will star as The Corinthian, an escaped nightmare who wishes to taste all that the world has in store. Asim Chaudhry will play Abel with Sanjeev Bhaskar playing as Cain, Variety reports. For the last thirty-three years, the ‘Sandman’ characters have breathed and walked around and talked in my head. I’m unbelievably happy that now, finally, they get to step out of my head and into reality,” Gaiman said. “I can’t wait until the people out there get to see what we’ve been seeing as
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This February, enter an abandoned prison with a group of paranormal investigators in director Brian Jagger‘s horror film Paranormal Prison. The impending demolition of an abandoned prison has the paranormal investigation team “The Skeptic and the Scientist” rushed to spend a locked-in night within the prison’s walls before the wrecking balls start swinging turning the now state historical building into condos. Knowing their channel needs views, team leader Matthew (Todd Haberkorn) funds one last-ditch effort in hopes the device science expert Sara (Paris Warner) has invented will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Along with their sound technician Ashley (Coryn Treadwell), cameraman Jacob (Brian Telestai) and guided by their assigned park ranger, the team recorded everything, hoping to capture elusive spirits. What they captured instead will change paranormal investigation forever, and may have even solved a long-standing mystery. Todd Haberkorn, Paris Warner, Don Shanks, Corynn Treadwell, Easton Lay, and Brian Telestai star. Paranormal Prison opens in select theaters and
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A24 has snagged the world rights for the under-the-radar ghost story The Eternal Daughter, starring Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Suspiria, Constantine). The paranormal mystery-thriller, which is currently in post-production, centers on the story of a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother who must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their former family home, a once-grand manor that has become a nearly vacant hotel brimming with mystery. Deadline reports. Joseph Mydell (Tonight You’re Mine), Carly Davies (The enemy), and Alfie Sankey-Green (Downtown Abbey) also star. Shot in secret in Wales during the lockdown, the project re-teams Swinton with director Joanna Hogg after they recently collaborated on the movie The Souvenir and the upcoming sequel The Souvenir Part 2, which will premiere later this year. The film is produced by Normal People and Room producers Element Pictures and JWH Films, with backing from BBC Film. Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will serve as executive producer.
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Off Limits Press Releasing Hearts Strange and Dreadful, Historical Horror Novel Set in a Plague-Ridden 1800s New England Town Off Limits Press made waves in the horror fiction community when it released its debut novella, Crossroads by Laurel Hightower, which was included in the Library Journal’s list of 2020 Best Horror and a big hit with horror fans everywhere. The boutique press, specializing exclusively in horror fiction, is now releasing its first novel, Hearts Strange and Dreadful by Tim McGregor. Hearts Strange and Dreadful takes place in 1821 in the fictional New England town of Wickstead, which has recently been overcome by a deadly plague. As the town’s paranoia grows, the buried dead are exhumed and occult fires burn well into the night. A mysterious traveler rides into town, and the residents aren’t sure who to trust anymore. Surprisingly, Wickstead’s residents begin to look to Hester Stokely, an outcast orphan with unusual abilities, who may be just the heroine the
Continue reading →
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Writer-director Barak Barkan makes his feature film debut with the dark thriller Silence & Darkness. Following the death of their mother, blind and deaf sisters Anna (Mina Walker) and Beth (Joan Glackin) live happily in a secluded small town with Father (Jordan Lage). However, when a neighbor stops by, Anna and Beth begin to question Father’s medical diagnoses and start to realize his intentions are more sinister than they could have imagined. Shot in the haunting ephemeral landscapes of Vermont, Silence & Darkness crafts a harrowing, and eerie portrait of two sisters forced to adapt and use every skill they have to uncover their family’s dark truth. I sought to create tension between the viewer and the film, both through Anna and Beth’s interactions and Father’s backstory,” says writer-director Barak Barkan. “My goal is that while viewing the film, the audience will inhabit a constant state of curious unease—desperate to find out what led to the circumstances of this family’s
Continue reading →
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Today, Unearthed Films announced it is releasing a new version of German director Olaf Ittenbach’s 2010 gorefest No Reason, uncut and off a new scan of the master, and with new features and bonus material. “NO REASON has never looked better,” said Stephen Biro, President and Founder, Unearthed Films. In the film, engulfed by anguish, and trapped inside an allegory of torment and carnage, Jennifer’s (Irene Holzfurtner) soul seeks the path of awareness and enlightenment. A harrowing journey into the pits of Hell where one woman’s quest for redemption in the afterlife is tested to the most extreme limits. Unearthed Films describes Olaf Ittenbach as “one of the most prominent splatter directors to come out of Germany. Originally a practical effects artist, Ittenbach got behind the camera to direct some of the most extreme films, including the 2010 release of No Reason.” No Reason is set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on May 11, 2021. Extras on the new
Continue reading →
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Host from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host, which is Certified 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes was shot remotely during quarantine and features groundbreaking scares, stunts, and surprises, all filmed by the actors in their own homes. The project was commissioned, written, produced, and will be released in under three months. Host is the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). Watch as “six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsNews
Many found footage films assert to be discovered after a certain amount of time, but The Revenant director Kerry Prior’s The Blare Rabbit Project can actually lay claim to having been rediscovered after being shot in 1999 and then considered lost. The film will finally have its world premiere this March at MidWest WeirdFest. Following is the official press announcement from the festival. A found footage feature film, thought lost for over 20 years, is finally seeing the light of the projector booth at its world premiere this March. Kerry Prior, acclaimed Hollywood special effects artist and the visionary director of the cult horror hit THE REVENANT, lensed the found footage film THE BLARE RABBIT PROJECT in 1999. There is still some mystery as to why that film – once set for commercial release – was suddenly pulled and apparently lost for over two decades. But now, the re-found, found footage film is having its very first public screening at
Continue reading →
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Mauro Iván Ojeda’s new chilling supernatural thriller The Funeral Home is headed your way this January, hot off the heels of its premiere at Fantasia. The film centers on Bernardo, an undertaker. He and his dysfunctional family live amongst coffins, wreaths, and mischievous supernatural entities that visit daily. They attribute the paranormal manifestations to the dead bodies from their mortuary work. Finding the real source of all this madness will be their quest, but they might find a terrifying truth. Luis Machín, Celeste Gerez, Camila Vaccarini, Susana Varela, and Hugo Arana star in this haunting tale. The Funeral Home (review) opens in virtual theaters on January 29, 2021, before arriving on digital on February 2nd via Uncork’d Entertainment.
Continue reading →
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Four-time Academy-Award nominee Ethan Hawke is reuniting with director Scott Derrickson to star in the upcoming film The Black Phone, from Blumhouse and Universal. Derrickson, known for films such as Dr. Strange and Sinister in which Hawke starred, is set to begin production on The Black Phone in North Carolina this February. Derrickson and frequent collaborator Robert Cargill (Doctor Strange, Sinister) adapted the script based on a short story by Joe Hill. Derrickson, Cargill, and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film. Universal and Blumhouse will present the Crooked Highway Production. Joe Hill will be executive producing. Ethan Hawke is a four-time Academy Award®-nominated actor and screenwriter. Not long ago, he made his television debut in Showtime’s limited series, “The Good Lord Bird”, which he also executive produced and co-wrote, based on the National Book Award-winning novel by James McBride. “The Good Lord Bird”, produced by Blumhouse Television, is a seven-part limited series shot mostly in Virginia that brilliantly
Continue reading →
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Netflix’s has now announced the full cast for the upcoming series adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s comic book “The Sandman“. The most recent additions to the cast include Tom Sturridge (Velvet Buzzsaw) who will play Dream. Gwendoline Christi (“Game of Thrones”) who will play Lucifer, Vivienne Acheampong (“The Witches”) who will play Lucienne, chief librarian and trusted guardian of Dream’s realm. Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”) will play magician and blackmailer Roderick Burgess. Boyd Holbrook (“Narcos”) will star as The Corinthian, an escaped nightmare who wishes to taste all that the world has in store. Asim Chaudhry will play Abel with Sanjeev Bhaskar playing as Cain, Variety reports. For the last thirty-three years, the ‘Sandman’ characters have breathed and walked around and talked in my head. I’m unbelievably happy that now, finally, they get to step out of my head and into reality,” Gaiman said. “I can’t wait until the people out there get to see what we’ve been seeing as
Continue reading →
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This February, enter an abandoned prison with a group of paranormal investigators in director Brian Jagger‘s horror film Paranormal Prison. The impending demolition of an abandoned prison has the paranormal investigation team “The Skeptic and the Scientist” rushed to spend a locked-in night within the prison’s walls before the wrecking balls start swinging turning the now state historical building into condos. Knowing their channel needs views, team leader Matthew (Todd Haberkorn) funds one last-ditch effort in hopes the device science expert Sara (Paris Warner) has invented will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Along with their sound technician Ashley (Coryn Treadwell), cameraman Jacob (Brian Telestai) and guided by their assigned park ranger, the team recorded everything, hoping to capture elusive spirits. What they captured instead will change paranormal investigation forever, and may have even solved a long-standing mystery. Todd Haberkorn, Paris Warner, Don Shanks, Corynn Treadwell, Easton Lay, and Brian Telestai star. Paranormal Prison opens in select theaters and
Continue reading →
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A24 has snagged the world rights for the under-the-radar ghost story The Eternal Daughter, starring Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Suspiria, Constantine). The paranormal mystery-thriller, which is currently in post-production, centers on the story of a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother who must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their former family home, a once-grand manor that has become a nearly vacant hotel brimming with mystery. Deadline reports. Joseph Mydell (Tonight You’re Mine), Carly Davies (The enemy), and Alfie Sankey-Green (Downtown Abbey) also star. Shot in secret in Wales during the lockdown, the project re-teams Swinton with director Joanna Hogg after they recently collaborated on the movie The Souvenir and the upcoming sequel The Souvenir Part 2, which will premiere later this year. The film is produced by Normal People and Room producers Element Pictures and JWH Films, with backing from BBC Film. Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will serve as executive producer.
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