Indie

Independent horror: micro-budget features, short films and first-time filmmakers doing more with less — and often doing it better.

2,259 stories

IndieMoviesNewsTrailers

A Man Has Visions Of His Own Murder In The ‘Volition’ Green Band Trailer

This July, the award-winning paranormal thriller Volition is set to arrive on home release. Directed by Tony Dean Smith, who wrote the script along with Ryan W. Smith, the film is a time-bending cerebral science-fiction thriller, that centers on a man afflicted with clairvoyance who tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder. Adrian Glynn McMorran, Magda Apanowicz, John Cassini, Frank Cassini, Aleks Paunovic, and Bill Marchant star. The film won Best Feature at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival, among a slew of other awards and critical acclaim. Volition is a tightly-wound puzzle of a ride that arrives on Apple TV, Prime, and Digital on July 10, 2020.

Continue reading →

Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 13, 2020

IndieMoviesNewsTrailers

Things Get Demented In The Trailer for ‘Homewrecker’

The critically acclaimed festival hit Homewrecker comes home on digital and DVD this summer. Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep) and Precious Chong (L.A Confidential) star in director Zach Gayne’s “hilarious, dark view of modern loneliness” that has “the energy of a Jane Fonda workout tape” (Rotten Tomatoes), from Uncork’d Entertainment and Dark Star Pictures. “Michelle is an interior designer and newlywed to Robert. Linda lives alone and fills her days with painting and exercise classes. Seeking a new friend, Linda coerces the reserved, deferential Michelle into visiting her home for a spontaneous interior design consultation. Once inside, it quickly becomes clear that Linda has something far more sinister on her mind than throw pillows.” Scripted by Precious Chong, Alex Essoe, and Zach Gayne, Homewrecker set to be released in Homewrecker in select theaters June 26th and will arrive on Digital and DVD on July 7th.

Continue reading →

Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 12, 2020

IndieMoviesNewsTrailers

Sequel To Award-Winning Indie Horror ‘The Wicked One’ Unleashed This Fall

The sequel to 2017’s award-winning indie horror The Wicked One is set to arrive just in time for Halloween. Titled Wicked Ones, the film, written by Nathan Thomas Milliner (The Confession of Fred Krueger) and Torry Jones, picks up ten years after the original ended and follows survivors Adam and Alex who return to where the nightmare started. “While Returning to Carpenter Falls, The Lawson Family come to their final confrontation with The Wicked One, a serial killer with whom their last encounter has haunted them for a decade.” Returning stars include Katie Stewart, Dale Miller, and James Tackett who are joined by Jason Crowe (The Bad Man, Harvest Lake) Roni Jonah (Powerbomb, Savage Vengeance) Morgan Pyle (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile) and Skyler Guthrie (Stage Fright) Jonestown Films and Studio 605. The new film picks up 10 years after the original ended and follows our survivors Adam and Alex who return to where the nightmare started. Wicked Ones

Continue reading →

Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 10, 2020

IndieMoviesNewsTrailers

Sink Your Teeth Into ‘The Dinner Party’ – Now Out On DVD

Sink your teeth into Miles Doleac‘s The Dinner Party (review), now out on DVD and Digital from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the sophisticated horror, renowned surgeon and culinary enthusiast, Carmine Braun, invites playwright, Jeffrey Duncan, and his wife to join his eccentric friends at their semi-annual dinner party, having promised to fund Duncan’s new play to Broadway. As the evening descends into madness, the group’s true intentions are revealed, along with an ancient secret that will change the Duncans’ lives and fortunes forever. Lindsay Anne Williams, Mike Mayhall, Alli Hart, Ritchie Montgomery, and Miles Doleac (interview) also star. The Dinner Party is now available on DVD and Digital from Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Fandango Now, Xbox, Dish Network, Direct TV, and through local cable providers.

Continue reading →

Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 10, 2020

IndieMoviesReviews

Movie Review: Vampire Dad (2020)

After a fantastic opening that is the unholy blend of Lichtenstein by way of E.C. Comics we get down to brass tacks with Vampire Dad… Psychologist Dr. Raymond Walenski (Jackson Hurst) is the ultimate early ’60’s father figure; a great husband and father with an ideal suburban lifestyle… but that goes to shit right quick when he’s turned into a bloodsuckin’ fang-banger thanks to the beastly bite of Victoria, the Goddess of the Underworld (Sarah Palmer)! Now that he’s a full-fledged creature of the night, Doc Walenski is offered the position of therapist to the monsters of the world by vicious Victoria; and soon he’s balls deep in the neurotic n’ demonic denizens of the midnight hour… a fact that Walenski’s wife tries to keep from family and neighbor’s alike! If you ever wished The Addams’ Family had a dash more Ozzie and Harriet and a pinch of The Bob Newhart Show then Vampire Dad is the picture for you!

Continue reading →

DanXIII

Jun 9, 2020

ForeignIndieMoviesNewsTrailers

Watch The Trailer For The Post-Apocalypse Horror ‘Entombed’

Three survivors of a pandemic fight to survive each other in the post-apocalyptic Nordic indie film Entombed, from director Kjell Hammerø. In the near future, a pandemic has broken out. In this post-apocalyptic world, civilization has collapsed and mankind is threatened. We follow Seamus on his desperate run from dangers. By accident, he comes across a subterranean shelter and decides to entrench himself there. He is however not alone. Konrad and his wife Mila, who is in a coma, also hide down there. Soon Seamus discovers that things are not the way they first seemed to be. Soon they discover that life in the underground shelter is as dangerous as the one on the surface. Martine Johansen, Jan Neal Holden, and Øystein Tverberg star in the psychological thriller.

Continue reading →

Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 8, 2020

IndieMoviesReviews

Movie Review: Presidents Day (2016)

Zombie Presidents reawaken to kill obnoxious teens…that seems like a premise that would be both deleriously fun and near impossible to F up, right? Well… Presidents Day (yeah, no comma here) begins with your stereotypical teen cardboard cutouts (jock, nerd, strong woman et. al.) getting ready to head to a cabin in the woods™ (Jesus H. Christ…there has got to be a place to film as cheap as this hoary ol’ chestnut…). Before I continue with the story at hand, I have to mention that these folks play their roles so over-the-top that it becomes rather grating, rather quickly…just like the obvious “wink, wink, ain’t we clever” self aware film making present here as well. Anyway…kids arrive, zombie Presidents rise from their graves to kill them (why, who the F knows)…and that’s about it. Oh, John Wilkes Booth shows up, and if you have even a third grader’s knowledge of U.S. History you will be able to assess his role

Continue reading →

DanXIII

Jun 6, 2020

IndieMoviesParanormalReviews

Movie Review: Ghost Note (2017)

The first thing you’ll notice when you sit down to watch Ghost Note is that the film makers behind this fright flick actually had an original idea (will wonders never cease?). Don’t believe me? Dig this preternatural premise my creeps; Teen with ‘tude Mallory is left to her own devices when her family pisses off to Hawaii leaving her sour ass behind. So what’s a girl to do with all of that free time? Why, go nosing around in the attic and uncovering a family secret…namely that her late grandfather attempted to exorcise a demonically possessed mass murdering jazz musician but instead just imprisoned his spirit within the home decades previous. She also goes jogging…oh, and eventually unleashes that murderous musician to begin his happy-go-lucky homicide spree once again. Ghost Note does a lot of things right. First of all, the visual aspect and origin of our main monster, Eugene by name, is fun and unique enough to set it

Continue reading →

DanXIII

Jun 6, 2020

IndieMoviesReviewsThriller

Movie Review: The Madness Within (2019)

Russ Washington (played by the film’s writer/director Hunter G. Williams) is a successful dude who has it all… including a truly fucked-up dark side that often causes him to be balls deep in sex and drugs, and not in the fun way… plus he’s a prize-winning dick on top of it. All of this begins having a major effect on his relationships and ability to function within the web of lies he’s spun and he soon begins a downward spiral that leads him to the titular “madness within”. Will Russ get his shit together, or will these personal demons lead him further into his psychotic ways? The Madness Within has some major things going in it’s favor. Firstly, triple threat Williams is a solid and engaging actor that gets you to actually care about Russ, no matter how deplorable his actions become… and that’s no small feat! Speaking of Williams, the dude knows how to make a shot, that’s for

Continue reading →

DanXIII

Jun 6, 2020

IndieMoviesReviewsThriller

Movie Review: The Incantation (2018)

Lucy (Sam Valentine) schleps to France for the funeral of an uncle she’s never even laid eyeballs upon. Once there she doesn’t meet any family, but rather the creepy-ass and pissy Vicar of Borley (Jude S. Walko) provides her “greeting”… and by “greeting” I really mean “list of strict as balls rules to follow during her stay”. Speaking of family, after that funeral mentioned up yonder, our heroine starts gettin’ chumy with the local gravedigger, J.P. (Dylan Kellogg), who tells her of her family’s rather unsavory history which results in Sam beginning to loose her ever-lovin’ fucking mind as she experiences strange dreams and hallucinations. Now is this a growing evil presence, or has Sammy gone looney fuckin’ tunes. Dean Cain ensues. The Incantation, if you haven’t guessed by now, has it’s essence entrenched in full on Gothic thriller territory; you get the secluded location populated by a young woman with no idea of the dark secrets that hide in

Continue reading →

DanXIII

Jun 6, 2020

Indie

More from Indie