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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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Souls fans will be happy to hear that the first set of gameplay footage for Cold Symmetry and Playstack’s souls-like game Mortal Shell will be on its way very soon as it will make its presence felt at the upcoming gaming festivals! With major public events canceled for the year due to COVID-19, a new string of events dubbed “2020 Summer of Digital Showcases” as many gaming news sites and game companies will be holding their own digital expos showcasing their upcoming games. The first official gameplay footage for Mortal Shell will make its world debut at IGN Summer of Gaming on June 5th. With over 2 million views of its first trailer and overwhelming support on its Discord channel, Mortal Shell is already racking up a large fanbase of players eager to dive into the torturous experience that Souls fans love. Mortal Shell will take players to a twisted medieval world where they possess the bodies of dead warriors
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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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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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The social thriller anthology series “Tales from Da Ville” is now streaming free on Youtube. The anthology is hosted by Brooklyn’s own Rapper, Bam Vito, widely known for performing the theme song for the popular web series, “Money & Violence.” The rest of the talented New York cast are actors on the rise seen on stage and screen. Credits include Blue Bloods, Hell House 3 Lake of Fire, and many more! In the anthology series, an account of Brownsville Brooklyn, tells three scary stories that deal with horrific social issues. The idea of Tales from da Ville was initiated after I saw Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”. After I saw Get out. I knew Hollywood and filmmakers as a whole were gonna tackle racism into a horror genre. All that being said I wanted to do a horror anthology series and coin it as Tales from such and such. The word Da Ville is a nickname to the neighborhood in Brooklyn
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The one and only Izzy Lee (Innsmouth) is back with her latest short film Disco Graveyard; a stock footage soiree swan diving into a fever dream! Created in a punk rock, found art style, Disco Graveyard could be boiled down as such; it’s a commencement speech intended for the Children of the Damned. As each carefully selected image flashes before our putrid peepers, it is Izzy herself (if you’re keeping score at home; Lee wrote, directed, produced, and stars in this flick) that delivers strangely comforting platitudes (for example: “Don’t be dead, the dead are dumb. Be weird”) that espouse how it is a good thing to be a complete weirdo (a parable your’s cruelly surely takes to my lil’ ol’ black heart). Also on hand is an excellent score by Lee’s long-time composer Shayne Gryn, and some impressive editing courtesy of Michael J. Epstein (Blood of the Tribades). To sum it up, these are the words of wisdom folks
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Skull and The Wanting Mare are part of Chattanooga Film Festival’s 2020 virtual edition, which runs May 22–25, and these films may be viewed anytime during those dates. For more information, visit chattfilmfest.org. Please note that the festival is open to residents of the United States only. Fest badges can be purchased at www.chattfilmfest.org/badges. Skull If a demonic monster/slasher mashup sounds right up your alley, don’t hesitate on catching Skull (AKA Skull: The Mask), a grue-filled, giddy romp that delivers action and carnage at a frenetic pace. This Brazilian fright flick centers on the excavated Mask of Anhangá — the executioner of Tahawantinsupay, a Pre-Columbian God — which viewers learn during a jaw-dropping cold open is a deadly false face, indeed. Police officer Beatriz Obdias (Natalia Rodrigues) gets tangled up with mysterious creep Tack Waelder (Ivo Müller of The Devil Lives Here) after a double murder in which the killer ripped out the victims’ hearts, because Waelder wants the mask
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired US rights to PG: Psycho Goreman with plans to release the film in theaters in late 2020 followed by its arrival on Shudder in early 2021. Written and directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void), PG: Psycho Goreman stars Matthew Ninaber (Transference), Nita-Josee Hanna (Books of Blood), Owen Myre (“NOS4A2”), and Adam Brooks (The Editor). In the film, “siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.” PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN is a perfect movie for all of us who grew up in a video store,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer for RLJE Films. “It has so much heart, thrills and fun that we believe this could be a franchise. We love
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Mental Illnesses like Depression and Anxiety are becoming more and more common now and those who suffer from it first start experiencing this while they’re in their adolescence, the worst time of your life. Not many people know what “it’s like” but the folks over at Genius Slackers have developed a very real crash course for those unfamiliar with it in their upcoming psychological horror game What Happened. Players are taken to tackle the struggle of Stiles, a high schooler struggling with Depression and Anxiety. Players will go into Stiles’ mind and navigate through the dark corners of his subconscious to unravel the trauma hidden inside that torments at him and lead him away from self-destruction. While exploring, players will also encounter Stiles’ subconscious as he experiments with drugs to cope with his issues and facing his demons both real and imaginary. Players will solve puzzles and face the inner darkness and in a twist, the empathy players show or
Continue reading →
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The awesome folks over at Playmind gave me the opportunity to experience their award-winning atmospheric psychological thriller The Inner Friend. In this game, players will be taking on the role of an unnamed character (that resembles a child) that journey through the subconscious world of the Shadow, the literal inner-child of the player’s character picking up the pieces of the past and facing past trauma. Since there’s nothing earth-shattering negative about The Inner Friend, let’s get some of the negative points that out of the way first. The game’s length is short, I was able to beat it in about 2 hours or so but I enjoyed every second of it. The controls for the game are a bit aggravating as directing the direction of the character is a bit tedious and there’s no real tutorial, which is alright in the end as you literally only use two buttons and the control sticks. With that, now onto the positives! As
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South African actress Reine Swart (“Z Nation”, The Lullaby, interview) has now made the leap to directing and is gearing up for the release of her feature debut, Heks. We’ve got the first trailer and it is killer! In the film, “a grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother’s secrets connected to a South African witch doctor’s curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.” Coco Lloyd, Mari Molefe van Heerden, Mary-Anne Barlow, and Christopher Jaftha star in Heks written by Swart. Check out the creepy AF trailer for Heks!
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Souls fans will be happy to hear that the first set of gameplay footage for Cold Symmetry and Playstack’s souls-like game Mortal Shell will be on its way very soon as it will make its presence felt at the upcoming gaming festivals! With major public events canceled for the year due to COVID-19, a new string of events dubbed “2020 Summer of Digital Showcases” as many gaming news sites and game companies will be holding their own digital expos showcasing their upcoming games. The first official gameplay footage for Mortal Shell will make its world debut at IGN Summer of Gaming on June 5th. With over 2 million views of its first trailer and overwhelming support on its Discord channel, Mortal Shell is already racking up a large fanbase of players eager to dive into the torturous experience that Souls fans love. Mortal Shell will take players to a twisted medieval world where they possess the bodies of dead warriors
Continue reading →
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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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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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The social thriller anthology series “Tales from Da Ville” is now streaming free on Youtube. The anthology is hosted by Brooklyn’s own Rapper, Bam Vito, widely known for performing the theme song for the popular web series, “Money & Violence.” The rest of the talented New York cast are actors on the rise seen on stage and screen. Credits include Blue Bloods, Hell House 3 Lake of Fire, and many more! In the anthology series, an account of Brownsville Brooklyn, tells three scary stories that deal with horrific social issues. The idea of Tales from da Ville was initiated after I saw Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”. After I saw Get out. I knew Hollywood and filmmakers as a whole were gonna tackle racism into a horror genre. All that being said I wanted to do a horror anthology series and coin it as Tales from such and such. The word Da Ville is a nickname to the neighborhood in Brooklyn
Continue reading →
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The one and only Izzy Lee (Innsmouth) is back with her latest short film Disco Graveyard; a stock footage soiree swan diving into a fever dream! Created in a punk rock, found art style, Disco Graveyard could be boiled down as such; it’s a commencement speech intended for the Children of the Damned. As each carefully selected image flashes before our putrid peepers, it is Izzy herself (if you’re keeping score at home; Lee wrote, directed, produced, and stars in this flick) that delivers strangely comforting platitudes (for example: “Don’t be dead, the dead are dumb. Be weird”) that espouse how it is a good thing to be a complete weirdo (a parable your’s cruelly surely takes to my lil’ ol’ black heart). Also on hand is an excellent score by Lee’s long-time composer Shayne Gryn, and some impressive editing courtesy of Michael J. Epstein (Blood of the Tribades). To sum it up, these are the words of wisdom folks
Continue reading →
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Skull and The Wanting Mare are part of Chattanooga Film Festival’s 2020 virtual edition, which runs May 22–25, and these films may be viewed anytime during those dates. For more information, visit chattfilmfest.org. Please note that the festival is open to residents of the United States only. Fest badges can be purchased at www.chattfilmfest.org/badges. Skull If a demonic monster/slasher mashup sounds right up your alley, don’t hesitate on catching Skull (AKA Skull: The Mask), a grue-filled, giddy romp that delivers action and carnage at a frenetic pace. This Brazilian fright flick centers on the excavated Mask of Anhangá — the executioner of Tahawantinsupay, a Pre-Columbian God — which viewers learn during a jaw-dropping cold open is a deadly false face, indeed. Police officer Beatriz Obdias (Natalia Rodrigues) gets tangled up with mysterious creep Tack Waelder (Ivo Müller of The Devil Lives Here) after a double murder in which the killer ripped out the victims’ hearts, because Waelder wants the mask
Continue reading →
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired US rights to PG: Psycho Goreman with plans to release the film in theaters in late 2020 followed by its arrival on Shudder in early 2021. Written and directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void), PG: Psycho Goreman stars Matthew Ninaber (Transference), Nita-Josee Hanna (Books of Blood), Owen Myre (“NOS4A2”), and Adam Brooks (The Editor). In the film, “siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.” PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN is a perfect movie for all of us who grew up in a video store,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer for RLJE Films. “It has so much heart, thrills and fun that we believe this could be a franchise. We love
Continue reading →
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Mental Illnesses like Depression and Anxiety are becoming more and more common now and those who suffer from it first start experiencing this while they’re in their adolescence, the worst time of your life. Not many people know what “it’s like” but the folks over at Genius Slackers have developed a very real crash course for those unfamiliar with it in their upcoming psychological horror game What Happened. Players are taken to tackle the struggle of Stiles, a high schooler struggling with Depression and Anxiety. Players will go into Stiles’ mind and navigate through the dark corners of his subconscious to unravel the trauma hidden inside that torments at him and lead him away from self-destruction. While exploring, players will also encounter Stiles’ subconscious as he experiments with drugs to cope with his issues and facing his demons both real and imaginary. Players will solve puzzles and face the inner darkness and in a twist, the empathy players show or
Continue reading →
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The awesome folks over at Playmind gave me the opportunity to experience their award-winning atmospheric psychological thriller The Inner Friend. In this game, players will be taking on the role of an unnamed character (that resembles a child) that journey through the subconscious world of the Shadow, the literal inner-child of the player’s character picking up the pieces of the past and facing past trauma. Since there’s nothing earth-shattering negative about The Inner Friend, let’s get some of the negative points that out of the way first. The game’s length is short, I was able to beat it in about 2 hours or so but I enjoyed every second of it. The controls for the game are a bit aggravating as directing the direction of the character is a bit tedious and there’s no real tutorial, which is alright in the end as you literally only use two buttons and the control sticks. With that, now onto the positives! As
Continue reading →
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South African actress Reine Swart (“Z Nation”, The Lullaby, interview) has now made the leap to directing and is gearing up for the release of her feature debut, Heks. We’ve got the first trailer and it is killer! In the film, “a grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother’s secrets connected to a South African witch doctor’s curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.” Coco Lloyd, Mari Molefe van Heerden, Mary-Anne Barlow, and Christopher Jaftha star in Heks written by Swart. Check out the creepy AF trailer for Heks!
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