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From writer-director Christopher Wells comes The Luring, a terrifying new psychological horror film coming this summer from Wild Eye Releasing! In the film, a man tries to recover a lost memory by returning to his family’s Vermont vacation home where an unspeakable act took place leaving him institutionalized as a child. Rick Irwin, Dan Berkey, Molly Fahey, Henry Gagliardi, and Michaela Sprague star in The Luring, available on digital and DVD June 16th from Wild Eye Releasing.
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The Horror Collective is gearing up to unleash the side-splitting Aussie horror-comedy Two Heads Creek this June. In the film, written by Jordan Waller and directed by Jesse O’Brien (Alien Arrival), “a timid butcher and his drama-queen twin sister adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.” The film stars Kathryn Wilder (Murder on the Orient Express), Jordan Waller (Darkest Hour), Kerry Armstrong (The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee), Stephen Hunter (The Hobbit trilogy), Gary Sweet (Wolf Creek), Don Bridges (Judy & Punch), Kevin Harrington (Seachange), and Helen Dallimore (Into the Woods). Jayne Chard and Judd Tilyard serve as producers. Vickie Gest and Brett Thornquest co-produce with Steven Matusko serving as executive producer. Two Heads Creek is set to be released on June 23rd on VOD and On Demand.
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A few weeks ago “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy announced that the was working on a spin-off to his hit anthology series. Titled “American Horror Stories,” the show has officially been given the green light by FX. The new weekly anthology series will have a different tale each week and will likely feature the cast of the original series, according to Variety. “American Horror Story” remains the longest-running one-hour series in FX’s history with it already renewed through its thirteenth season. Season one through nine of “AHS” is now streaming on Hulu.
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Shana Feste’s supernatural horror film, Run Sweetheart Run, from Blumhouse Productions and Automatik, will debut worldwide exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Written and directed by Feste, Run Sweetheart Run stars Ella Balinska (Charlie’s Angels), Pilou Asbæk (“Game of Thrones”), Aml Ameen (The Maze Runner), Dayo Okeniyi (Shades of Blue), Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”), Clark Gregg (The Avengers) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (Star Trek Beyond, House of Sand and Fog). In Run Sweetheart Run, a blind date turns violent and the woman has to get home on foot through Los Angeles as she’s pursued by her date. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Blumhouse and Automatik to bring this thriller to our global Prime Video customers,” said Matt Newman, Co-Head of Movies at Amazon Studios. “Filmmaker Shana Feste takes the audience on a knuckle-bending ride that is sure to keep genre fans on the edge of their seats.” As crazy as audiences may find the film protagonist’s experience, I wrote
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With perfect timing, Dark Sky Films has released the trailer for the pandemic thriller Before The Fire, the debut feature of Charlie Buhler. Jenna Lyng Adams of “The Kominsky Method,” wrote and stars in the film that follows Ava Boone (Adams), a Hollywood actress whose rising career is cut short when a pandemic influenza sends her back to the small town she fled years before, only to find something more dangerous than any virus waiting for her. Instead of shelter, her South Dakota hometown brings her face to face with unforeseen peril. Adams stars alongside Jackson Davis (Vida), Ryan Vigilant (Naked As We Came), and Charles Hubbell. Audiences are thirsty for unconventional, layered and imperfect women on-screen. Dark Sky Films has been known to support female-driven films and we are happy to have found the right partnership for this movie.” Adams states. Before the Fire made its festival debut just before the Covid pandemic struck. It is now set to
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Back in 2016 I sat down with actor-writer-director Miles Doleac to talk about several of his films in an interview. With the upcoming release of his film The Dinner Party I thought it was fitting to catch up with him to talk about the film as well as what he’s been up to the last four years. In The Dinner Party, a couple is invited to an exclusive dinner party, not knowing that they are on the menu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh0XXNbdyjI[/embedyt] Horror Fuel: “It’s been a while since we got the chance to catch up. What have you been up to?” Miles Doleac: “I’m teaching at Loyola University in New Orleans, the film program there, which is a great gig. I’ve been gearing up for the release of The Dinner Party. I’ve also been juggling a couple of other projects, one of which I was supposed to do this summer, but now, with COVID, of course, that’s up on the air. But,
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We’ve long thought that the next film of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World: Dominion, will be the last. But that might not be true after all. Producer Frank Marshall has now teased that Dominion is just the beginning. Marshall told Collider that Dominion will start “a new era” for the franchise. It’s the start of a new era,” Marshall told the site this week. “The dinosaurs are now on the mainland amongst us, and they will be for quite some time, I hope.” The last installment, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ended with a cliffhanger and dinosaurs running into our world for the first time. Jurassic World: Dominion, directed by Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) will pick up with dinosaurs living among us. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning. Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern will be reprising their roles from the 1993 classic Jurassic Park. Jurassic World: Dominion is set to be released on June 11, 2021.
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Ryan Hawkins and Mark Kerins make their feature debut with All the Wrong Friends, the film that centers around a group of high school friends, who reunite for a vacation one year after graduating. They soon find that their relationships have changed for the worse after one of them turns up dead. As accusations begin to fly, no one is safe and everyone suspects everyone else of murder, in this twist-filled thriller. The cast includes Brina Palencia (The CW’s “Star-Crossed), Krishna Smitha (HBO’s “Silicon Valley”), Ricco Fajardo (Fruits Basket), Dexter Hostetter (Aria the Scarlet Ammo), Sean O’Connor (Ping Pong the Animation), Tom Gelo (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), with Andrew Milbourn and Alexandra Chaudoin rounding out the cast. The film has continued to rack up multiple awards including “Best Thriller” (Hot Springs International Film Festival), “Best Supporting Actress” for Krishna Smitha (International Horror Hotel), “Best Feature Director” for Mark Kerins & Ryan Hawkins, “Best Cinematography” for Daniel Maitland, “Best
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As elegant as it is disturbing, the indie horror film The Dinner Party invites viewers to witness a gathering they’ll never forget. From director and star Miles Doleac who co-wrote the film along with Michael Donovan comes the film that follows a playwright and his wife who have been invited to a dinner at a patron’s home. What the couple doesn’t know is that they’re on the menu. As always, Doleac’s films continue to please. The Dinner Party has an heir of sophistication and beauty but also the intensity and horror that will keep viewers intrigued. The cast of The Dinner Party includes Doleac, Jeremy London, Bill Sage, Sawandi Wilson, Lindsay Anne Williams, Alli Hart, and Mike Mayhall who did wonderfully in their roles, especially our heroine played by Hart who captures both innocence and strength. The Dinner Table takes a stab at the elite, bringing the thought that the affluent can get away with murder, and often do. It
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This June Saban Films’ horror flick We Summon the Darkness will be unleashed on Blu-ray. From My Friend Dahmer director Marc Meyers comes this dark tale of satanic murder and mayhem. “On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.” Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, San Andreas), Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa, Jackass), Keean Johnson (Midway), Maddie Hasson (“Impulse”), Logan Miller (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Amy Forsyth (Hell Fest) and Austin Swift (Live by Night) star in the film written by Alan Trezza (Burying the Ex). We Summon the Darkness, which we called “badass, bloody, and fun” in our review,
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From writer-director Christopher Wells comes The Luring, a terrifying new psychological horror film coming this summer from Wild Eye Releasing! In the film, a man tries to recover a lost memory by returning to his family’s Vermont vacation home where an unspeakable act took place leaving him institutionalized as a child. Rick Irwin, Dan Berkey, Molly Fahey, Henry Gagliardi, and Michaela Sprague star in The Luring, available on digital and DVD June 16th from Wild Eye Releasing.
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The Horror Collective is gearing up to unleash the side-splitting Aussie horror-comedy Two Heads Creek this June. In the film, written by Jordan Waller and directed by Jesse O’Brien (Alien Arrival), “a timid butcher and his drama-queen twin sister adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.” The film stars Kathryn Wilder (Murder on the Orient Express), Jordan Waller (Darkest Hour), Kerry Armstrong (The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee), Stephen Hunter (The Hobbit trilogy), Gary Sweet (Wolf Creek), Don Bridges (Judy & Punch), Kevin Harrington (Seachange), and Helen Dallimore (Into the Woods). Jayne Chard and Judd Tilyard serve as producers. Vickie Gest and Brett Thornquest co-produce with Steven Matusko serving as executive producer. Two Heads Creek is set to be released on June 23rd on VOD and On Demand.
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A few weeks ago “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy announced that the was working on a spin-off to his hit anthology series. Titled “American Horror Stories,” the show has officially been given the green light by FX. The new weekly anthology series will have a different tale each week and will likely feature the cast of the original series, according to Variety. “American Horror Story” remains the longest-running one-hour series in FX’s history with it already renewed through its thirteenth season. Season one through nine of “AHS” is now streaming on Hulu.
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Shana Feste’s supernatural horror film, Run Sweetheart Run, from Blumhouse Productions and Automatik, will debut worldwide exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Written and directed by Feste, Run Sweetheart Run stars Ella Balinska (Charlie’s Angels), Pilou Asbæk (“Game of Thrones”), Aml Ameen (The Maze Runner), Dayo Okeniyi (Shades of Blue), Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”), Clark Gregg (The Avengers) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (Star Trek Beyond, House of Sand and Fog). In Run Sweetheart Run, a blind date turns violent and the woman has to get home on foot through Los Angeles as she’s pursued by her date. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Blumhouse and Automatik to bring this thriller to our global Prime Video customers,” said Matt Newman, Co-Head of Movies at Amazon Studios. “Filmmaker Shana Feste takes the audience on a knuckle-bending ride that is sure to keep genre fans on the edge of their seats.” As crazy as audiences may find the film protagonist’s experience, I wrote
Continue reading →
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With perfect timing, Dark Sky Films has released the trailer for the pandemic thriller Before The Fire, the debut feature of Charlie Buhler. Jenna Lyng Adams of “The Kominsky Method,” wrote and stars in the film that follows Ava Boone (Adams), a Hollywood actress whose rising career is cut short when a pandemic influenza sends her back to the small town she fled years before, only to find something more dangerous than any virus waiting for her. Instead of shelter, her South Dakota hometown brings her face to face with unforeseen peril. Adams stars alongside Jackson Davis (Vida), Ryan Vigilant (Naked As We Came), and Charles Hubbell. Audiences are thirsty for unconventional, layered and imperfect women on-screen. Dark Sky Films has been known to support female-driven films and we are happy to have found the right partnership for this movie.” Adams states. Before the Fire made its festival debut just before the Covid pandemic struck. It is now set to
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Back in 2016 I sat down with actor-writer-director Miles Doleac to talk about several of his films in an interview. With the upcoming release of his film The Dinner Party I thought it was fitting to catch up with him to talk about the film as well as what he’s been up to the last four years. In The Dinner Party, a couple is invited to an exclusive dinner party, not knowing that they are on the menu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh0XXNbdyjI[/embedyt] Horror Fuel: “It’s been a while since we got the chance to catch up. What have you been up to?” Miles Doleac: “I’m teaching at Loyola University in New Orleans, the film program there, which is a great gig. I’ve been gearing up for the release of The Dinner Party. I’ve also been juggling a couple of other projects, one of which I was supposed to do this summer, but now, with COVID, of course, that’s up on the air. But,
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We’ve long thought that the next film of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World: Dominion, will be the last. But that might not be true after all. Producer Frank Marshall has now teased that Dominion is just the beginning. Marshall told Collider that Dominion will start “a new era” for the franchise. It’s the start of a new era,” Marshall told the site this week. “The dinosaurs are now on the mainland amongst us, and they will be for quite some time, I hope.” The last installment, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ended with a cliffhanger and dinosaurs running into our world for the first time. Jurassic World: Dominion, directed by Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) will pick up with dinosaurs living among us. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning. Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern will be reprising their roles from the 1993 classic Jurassic Park. Jurassic World: Dominion is set to be released on June 11, 2021.
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Ryan Hawkins and Mark Kerins make their feature debut with All the Wrong Friends, the film that centers around a group of high school friends, who reunite for a vacation one year after graduating. They soon find that their relationships have changed for the worse after one of them turns up dead. As accusations begin to fly, no one is safe and everyone suspects everyone else of murder, in this twist-filled thriller. The cast includes Brina Palencia (The CW’s “Star-Crossed), Krishna Smitha (HBO’s “Silicon Valley”), Ricco Fajardo (Fruits Basket), Dexter Hostetter (Aria the Scarlet Ammo), Sean O’Connor (Ping Pong the Animation), Tom Gelo (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), with Andrew Milbourn and Alexandra Chaudoin rounding out the cast. The film has continued to rack up multiple awards including “Best Thriller” (Hot Springs International Film Festival), “Best Supporting Actress” for Krishna Smitha (International Horror Hotel), “Best Feature Director” for Mark Kerins & Ryan Hawkins, “Best Cinematography” for Daniel Maitland, “Best
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As elegant as it is disturbing, the indie horror film The Dinner Party invites viewers to witness a gathering they’ll never forget. From director and star Miles Doleac who co-wrote the film along with Michael Donovan comes the film that follows a playwright and his wife who have been invited to a dinner at a patron’s home. What the couple doesn’t know is that they’re on the menu. As always, Doleac’s films continue to please. The Dinner Party has an heir of sophistication and beauty but also the intensity and horror that will keep viewers intrigued. The cast of The Dinner Party includes Doleac, Jeremy London, Bill Sage, Sawandi Wilson, Lindsay Anne Williams, Alli Hart, and Mike Mayhall who did wonderfully in their roles, especially our heroine played by Hart who captures both innocence and strength. The Dinner Table takes a stab at the elite, bringing the thought that the affluent can get away with murder, and often do. It
Continue reading →
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This June Saban Films’ horror flick We Summon the Darkness will be unleashed on Blu-ray. From My Friend Dahmer director Marc Meyers comes this dark tale of satanic murder and mayhem. “On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.” Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, San Andreas), Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa, Jackass), Keean Johnson (Midway), Maddie Hasson (“Impulse”), Logan Miller (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Amy Forsyth (Hell Fest) and Austin Swift (Live by Night) star in the film written by Alan Trezza (Burying the Ex). We Summon the Darkness, which we called “badass, bloody, and fun” in our review,
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