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Independent horror: micro-budget features, short films and first-time filmmakers doing more with less — and often doing it better.
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From award-winning writer-director, Matthew Berkowitz comes the twist-filled thriller The Madness Inside Me, out this September. In the film, “Madison Taylor (Merrin Dungey) is a forensic psychiatrist, spending her days interviewing prison inmates and her evenings with her husband Jeremy. When Jeremy is killed in a home invasion by Francis Tate (Devon Graye), her world begins to turn itself inside out. Madison’s fascination with morbid crime begins to gnaw away at her character. She becomes sleepless and now spends her evenings stalking and photographing strangers. She refuses to identify her husband’s killer and instead chooses to stalk him for revenge. Now finding pleasure in her thrill-seeking, dangerous life choices, she starts to put herself in compromising situations for arousal. Is her relationship with criminals an excuse for her to rebel or is this the person who has always been inside her?” Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies, Alias, American Horror Stories), Devon Graye (I See You, American Horror Stories), and Thomas
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This September, Hall will leave you wanting to keep your door deadbolted as a virus breaks out. Check out the new trailer below. Set within the confines of a dark hotel corridor, Hall stars Carolina Bartczak (X-Men: Apocalypse), Julian Richings (Anything for Jackson), and Bailey Thain (Pet Sematary). In the Canadian film, which made its premiere at FrightFest, a debilitating virus spreads across a hotel hallway, leaving the scattered victims in a fight for survival.” Hall will be released on Digital and On-Demand on September 13th, from Lightbulb Films.
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This October witness a group of filmmakers set out to make a movie in the found footage film Perfect Horror, from Bayview Entertainment. In the English subtitled film, “An ambitious film director, Mr. Gang, brings his crew to an abandoned factory, which is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in northern China, to shoot a horror film. Mr. Gang ignores all common sense and tells his crew that they are staying for the night, despite the warnings against doing so. What happens to them that night is more terrible than anything Mr. Gang was conceiving for his perfect horror film. In Mandarin with English subtitles.” Dawei Lee wrote and directed Perfect Horror which is coming to DVD on October 19th, 2021, from Bayview Entertainment.
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Two friends. One secret. During the tumultuous summer of 1998, two young women find themselves at the center of a murder investigation in What Breaks the Ice. This coming-of-age thriller stars a trio of young Hollywood’s A-listers including Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”, Knives Out 2), Sofia Hublitz (“Ozark”), and Lukas Gage (“The White Lotus”). From writer-director Rebecca Eskreis, the film starts as a sweet, idyllic coming-of-age story about female empowerment and friendship, but soon takes a dark and powerful turn. As the socio-political landscape is turned on its head, two girls from different worlds form an unlikely friendship in the sweltering summer heat. Their fun and carefree days quickly turn cold as they find themselves at the center of a murder that rocks an idealistic East Coast community. Catherine Curtin (“Homeland”), Aimee Mullins (“Stranger Things”), Shakira Barrera (“GLOW”), and Joel Allen (The Purge) round out the cast. What Breaks the Ice is a movie that, above all, celebrates female friendship,”
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From award-winning filmmaker, Miles Doleac comes a new tale of terror, a macabre riff on the Cernunnos myth, Demigod. In the film, “Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany’s Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaits them.” Co-written by Doleac and Michael Donovan Horn, Demigod stars Rachel Nichols (Continuum, Star Trek), Jeremy London (Mallrats), and Elena Sanchez (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). Doleac, James Victor Bulian, Lindsay Anne Williams, and Wesley O’Mary produce and are the same team behind the 2020 horror-thriller The Dinner Party. Demigod will be unleashed in theaters and on Demand on October 15, 2021.
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A couple stuck in a hotel during lockdown discover they aren’t as alone as they thought in 1091 Pictures’ horror film Shelter in Place. Directed and Written by Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, the film stars Brendan Hines (The Tick, Lie to Me), Tatjana Marjanovic (Great White, Purgatory), Kevin Daniels (Atypical, Modern Family, The Big Leap), Ola Kaminska (The Madness Within), and Jey Reynolds. In Shelter in Place, out on VOD and Digital on September 14, 2021, “a honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and learns that there is more to fear than just cabin fever.”
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This Friday, The Asylum unleashes the perfect predator, massive hungry sharks thought to be extinct, in Megladon Rising. Directed by Brian Nowak and written by Andrea Ruth, Megladon Rising stars Tom Sizemore, O’Shay Neal, and Wynter Eddins. In the film, “When history’s greatest aquatic predator returns, an armada of modern warships is sent to destroy it, but they may not be a match for the beast.” Megladon Rising gets a day and date release on August 27, 2021.
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To celebrate today’s release of Filip Jan Rymsza‘s entomophobia-inducing Shudder Original Mosquito State we’ve got a new unnerving clip to share with you, titled “What’s Going On Here?”. Set in August 2007, we see “a man isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca (Beau Knapp) sees ominous patterns: His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown. On Wall Street, they’re called “quants”—the intense data analysts whose mathematical prowess can make the difference between a fortune and a flop. Consumed with his work, Richard doesn’t often stray from his office or apartment. But when Richard decides to go to a company party, he makes two acquaintances: the mysterious, sylphlike Lena (Charlotte Vega) and one pesky mosquito, both of which take root in his mind, altering his existence in profound ways.” “Finding common ground between Franz Kafka, David Cronenberg,
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From writer-director Richard Green, and starring Sir Roel Twijnstra, Sibongiseni Shezi, and Angela Balkovic comes the haunting film The Tokoloshe: The Calling. In the film, “A successful writer and media personality, takes his wife and their adopted Zulu daughter to an abandoned hotel in The Transkei, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, to finish his much-anticipated follow-up novel. Once there, strange things begin to occur inside the hotel. The family soon learns that the hotel has a dark past in which many murders were carried out since it opened in 1808, including rumors that the land is cursed due to being stolen from its native people. Meanwhile, in a city nearby, a high school teacher is experiencing strange visions and dreams, as “something” seems to be calling her back to the same hotel for some unfinished business. Through a sequence of events, the teacher and the family find themselves confronting a mythical creature that haunts people as
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Detective Mike Jericho (John Hardy) is in a bit of a pickle; you see he’s become a blood lappin’ fang banger after inadvertently turning a comely lass into so much Swiss cheese with his pistol (as one does). How did that happen you may ask? Well, even if ya didn’t ask I’ll tell you! The woman was a vampire, so dying by bullet wound wasn’t really her “thing”, and she turns Mike into one as well. So with Mike’s nocturnal pursuits keeping him from his day job, his co-worker Jimi Cannon (Shawn LeTang) begins searching for his chum, which of course puts him in direct opposition of the creatures of the night who have no intention of giving Mike back to the land of the living! Shot on a shoestring by multi-talented filmmaker/musician Byron C. Miller (who wrote the fright flick as well), Night represents an impressive, if low-tech debut from someone that continues to work in the horror biz
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From award-winning writer-director, Matthew Berkowitz comes the twist-filled thriller The Madness Inside Me, out this September. In the film, “Madison Taylor (Merrin Dungey) is a forensic psychiatrist, spending her days interviewing prison inmates and her evenings with her husband Jeremy. When Jeremy is killed in a home invasion by Francis Tate (Devon Graye), her world begins to turn itself inside out. Madison’s fascination with morbid crime begins to gnaw away at her character. She becomes sleepless and now spends her evenings stalking and photographing strangers. She refuses to identify her husband’s killer and instead chooses to stalk him for revenge. Now finding pleasure in her thrill-seeking, dangerous life choices, she starts to put herself in compromising situations for arousal. Is her relationship with criminals an excuse for her to rebel or is this the person who has always been inside her?” Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies, Alias, American Horror Stories), Devon Graye (I See You, American Horror Stories), and Thomas
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This September, Hall will leave you wanting to keep your door deadbolted as a virus breaks out. Check out the new trailer below. Set within the confines of a dark hotel corridor, Hall stars Carolina Bartczak (X-Men: Apocalypse), Julian Richings (Anything for Jackson), and Bailey Thain (Pet Sematary). In the Canadian film, which made its premiere at FrightFest, a debilitating virus spreads across a hotel hallway, leaving the scattered victims in a fight for survival.” Hall will be released on Digital and On-Demand on September 13th, from Lightbulb Films.
Continue reading →
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This October witness a group of filmmakers set out to make a movie in the found footage film Perfect Horror, from Bayview Entertainment. In the English subtitled film, “An ambitious film director, Mr. Gang, brings his crew to an abandoned factory, which is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in northern China, to shoot a horror film. Mr. Gang ignores all common sense and tells his crew that they are staying for the night, despite the warnings against doing so. What happens to them that night is more terrible than anything Mr. Gang was conceiving for his perfect horror film. In Mandarin with English subtitles.” Dawei Lee wrote and directed Perfect Horror which is coming to DVD on October 19th, 2021, from Bayview Entertainment.
Continue reading →
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Two friends. One secret. During the tumultuous summer of 1998, two young women find themselves at the center of a murder investigation in What Breaks the Ice. This coming-of-age thriller stars a trio of young Hollywood’s A-listers including Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”, Knives Out 2), Sofia Hublitz (“Ozark”), and Lukas Gage (“The White Lotus”). From writer-director Rebecca Eskreis, the film starts as a sweet, idyllic coming-of-age story about female empowerment and friendship, but soon takes a dark and powerful turn. As the socio-political landscape is turned on its head, two girls from different worlds form an unlikely friendship in the sweltering summer heat. Their fun and carefree days quickly turn cold as they find themselves at the center of a murder that rocks an idealistic East Coast community. Catherine Curtin (“Homeland”), Aimee Mullins (“Stranger Things”), Shakira Barrera (“GLOW”), and Joel Allen (The Purge) round out the cast. What Breaks the Ice is a movie that, above all, celebrates female friendship,”
Continue reading →
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From award-winning filmmaker, Miles Doleac comes a new tale of terror, a macabre riff on the Cernunnos myth, Demigod. In the film, “Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany’s Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaits them.” Co-written by Doleac and Michael Donovan Horn, Demigod stars Rachel Nichols (Continuum, Star Trek), Jeremy London (Mallrats), and Elena Sanchez (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). Doleac, James Victor Bulian, Lindsay Anne Williams, and Wesley O’Mary produce and are the same team behind the 2020 horror-thriller The Dinner Party. Demigod will be unleashed in theaters and on Demand on October 15, 2021.
Continue reading →
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A couple stuck in a hotel during lockdown discover they aren’t as alone as they thought in 1091 Pictures’ horror film Shelter in Place. Directed and Written by Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, the film stars Brendan Hines (The Tick, Lie to Me), Tatjana Marjanovic (Great White, Purgatory), Kevin Daniels (Atypical, Modern Family, The Big Leap), Ola Kaminska (The Madness Within), and Jey Reynolds. In Shelter in Place, out on VOD and Digital on September 14, 2021, “a honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and learns that there is more to fear than just cabin fever.”
Continue reading →
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This Friday, The Asylum unleashes the perfect predator, massive hungry sharks thought to be extinct, in Megladon Rising. Directed by Brian Nowak and written by Andrea Ruth, Megladon Rising stars Tom Sizemore, O’Shay Neal, and Wynter Eddins. In the film, “When history’s greatest aquatic predator returns, an armada of modern warships is sent to destroy it, but they may not be a match for the beast.” Megladon Rising gets a day and date release on August 27, 2021.
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
To celebrate today’s release of Filip Jan Rymsza‘s entomophobia-inducing Shudder Original Mosquito State we’ve got a new unnerving clip to share with you, titled “What’s Going On Here?”. Set in August 2007, we see “a man isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca (Beau Knapp) sees ominous patterns: His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown. On Wall Street, they’re called “quants”—the intense data analysts whose mathematical prowess can make the difference between a fortune and a flop. Consumed with his work, Richard doesn’t often stray from his office or apartment. But when Richard decides to go to a company party, he makes two acquaintances: the mysterious, sylphlike Lena (Charlotte Vega) and one pesky mosquito, both of which take root in his mind, altering his existence in profound ways.” “Finding common ground between Franz Kafka, David Cronenberg,
Continue reading →
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From writer-director Richard Green, and starring Sir Roel Twijnstra, Sibongiseni Shezi, and Angela Balkovic comes the haunting film The Tokoloshe: The Calling. In the film, “A successful writer and media personality, takes his wife and their adopted Zulu daughter to an abandoned hotel in The Transkei, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, to finish his much-anticipated follow-up novel. Once there, strange things begin to occur inside the hotel. The family soon learns that the hotel has a dark past in which many murders were carried out since it opened in 1808, including rumors that the land is cursed due to being stolen from its native people. Meanwhile, in a city nearby, a high school teacher is experiencing strange visions and dreams, as “something” seems to be calling her back to the same hotel for some unfinished business. Through a sequence of events, the teacher and the family find themselves confronting a mythical creature that haunts people as
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
Detective Mike Jericho (John Hardy) is in a bit of a pickle; you see he’s become a blood lappin’ fang banger after inadvertently turning a comely lass into so much Swiss cheese with his pistol (as one does). How did that happen you may ask? Well, even if ya didn’t ask I’ll tell you! The woman was a vampire, so dying by bullet wound wasn’t really her “thing”, and she turns Mike into one as well. So with Mike’s nocturnal pursuits keeping him from his day job, his co-worker Jimi Cannon (Shawn LeTang) begins searching for his chum, which of course puts him in direct opposition of the creatures of the night who have no intention of giving Mike back to the land of the living! Shot on a shoestring by multi-talented filmmaker/musician Byron C. Miller (who wrote the fright flick as well), Night represents an impressive, if low-tech debut from someone that continues to work in the horror biz
Continue reading →
