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This February 'Viking Wolf' Bares Its Teeth On Netflix

This February ‘Viking Wolf’ Bares Its Teeth On Netflix

Looking for something you can sink your teeth into? The Norwegian horror Viking Wolf (aka Vikingulven) bares its teeth on Netflix this February. The movie centers on 17-year-old “Thale, who has just moved with her parents to a small town after her mother has a new job in the local police. After a student is killed brutally at a party Thale attends, she becomes a key witness. Was the killer an animal? A wolf?” Directed by Stig Svendsen (King’s Bay, Elevator) from the script by Espen Aukan and Stig Svendsen, the action-packed horror stars Liv Mjönes, Arthur Hakalahti, Elli Rhiannon Müler Osborne, Sjur CanteBrean, and more. Viking Wolf lands on Netflix on February 3, 2023.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 18, 2023
Bear Witness To The Brutal Trailer For The Adult Animated Movie 'Unicorn Wars'

Bear Witness To The Brutal Trailer For The Adult Animated Movie ‘Unicorn Wars’

From GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced today the release of Unicorn Wars this March, the latest genre-bending animated feature for adults from Goya and Annecy Cristal-winning director Alberto Vásquez (Birdboy: The Forgotten Children). It’s Bambi meets Apocalypse Now in this provocative and strangely beautiful horror comedy from acclaimed filmmaker and illustrator Alberto Vazquez (Birdboy: The Forgotten Children), who uses its outrageous candy-colored premise to explore religious zealotry, the tortured legacies of military fascism, and the depths of the soul. In the film, “for ages, teddy bears have been locked in an ancestral war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will complete the prophecy and usher in a new era. Aggressive, confident teddy bear Bluet and his sensitive, withdrawn brother Tubby could not be more different. As the rigors and humiliation of teddy bear bootcamp turn to the psychedelic horrors of a combat tour in the Magic

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 17, 2023
Creature Feature 'The Devil Beneath' Claws Its Way Onto Digital

Creature Feature ‘The Devil Beneath’ Claws Its Way Onto Digital

From Writer-director Luke Sparke, the filmmaker behind Occupation Rainfall and Red Billabong, comes the highly anticipated action-packed creature feature, The Devil Beneath, starring Dan Ewing (Home & Away) and Tim Pocock (Dance Academy), which was first released in Australia 6 years ago. It has just been released in the US for the first time on Digital. Originally titled Bunyip, the film has been re-edited, re-mixed, re-scored, and obtained by Vertical Entertainment! Set “in the Australian Outback, two brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by someone or something from their worst nightmares – But is it just a story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real?” The Devil Beneath also stars Sophie Don, Jessica Green (Lightning Point), Ben Chisholm, John Reynolds, Emily Joy, James Straiton, Felix Williamson, and Gregory Fryer. “I can’t recall a fully realized computer-generated character as a ‘lead’ in an Australian film before.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 17, 2023
Film Review: Death Knot

Film Review: Death Knot

Indonesian horror cinema is gaining a well-deserved reputation as some of the finest fear-fare film offering in the world, but it must be killing any tourism interest in the country’s most rural areas. Director/cowriter/star Cornelio Sunny’s Death Knot (2021) is the latest such feature to get a U.S. release, a folk horror outing focused on brooding atmosphere rather than shocks and gore. If only characters in horror movies would learn from their predecessors that it is never a good idea to go to their childhood homes after an estranged parent dies. Hari (Sunny) and his sister Eka (Widika Sidmore) do just that, despite the fact that they have both had nightmares about their mother hanging herself and warning them not to come home. They should have followed the instruction in the dreams, as they are shunned by locals because the villagers believe that their mother was in league with the devil for harvesting souls. Hari especially is not the superstitious

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Joseph Perry
Jan 16, 2023
Ultra Violent Horror 'Project Wolf Hunting' Slashing Its Way Onto Blu-ray

Ultra Brutal Action-Horror ‘Project Wolf Hunting’ Battles Its Way Onto Icon Film Channel

As a jailbreak takes place on a ship, something even more terrifying emerges from below in the new balls-to-the-wall action-packed trailer for the South Korean action-horror film Project Wolf Hunting. The ultra-brutal film is from director Kim Hong-Sun (Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area) and stars Seo In-guk (The Master’s Sun, Hello Monster), Jang Dong-yoon (Search, Mr. Sunshine), Choi Guy-hwa (Train to Busan, The Wailing), Sung Dong-il (The Cursed, The Great Battle), Park Ho-san (The Call, Prison Playbook) and Jung So-min (Alchemy of Souls). Project Wolf Hunting is premiering exclusively on the Icon Film Channel and the Icon Film Channel on Prime Video on January 30, 2023, from Well Go USA Entertainment, before heading to UK theaters this March featuring an all-new English dub.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2023
'Legions' Will Be Unleashed This January (Trailer)

‘Legions’ Will Be Unleashed This January (Trailer)

XYZ Films has just unveiled the trailer for Fabián Forte’s Legions, set to be unleashed this January, following an acclaimed festival run that included Sitges, Fantasia, and Fantaspoa. An unabashed love letter to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead franchise, this gory, hilarious, and heartwarming horror gem is the perfect way to start your 2023! Argentinian filmmaker Fabián Forte’s newest film combines the best of his previous cinematic endeavors: the comedic writing and direction of his 2016 hit Dead Man Tells His Own Tales is masterfully mixed with the horror of 2017’s Terrified – which Forte contributed to – and once you add a dash of slapstick gore and a whole lot of heart, and you have Legions of fun! In Legions, “A powerful sorcerer, Antonio Poyju (Germán De Silva), is locked away in an asylum and wastes away in his imprisonment as evil, demonic forces take control of Argentina. If Antonio can escape the psychiatric hospital and find his daughter, Helena,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2023
Black Magic And Curses Fill The New Trailer For 'Death Knot'

Black Magic And Curses Fill The New Trailer For ‘Death Knot’

This January, two siblings find themselves in grave danger after their mother dies, and locals accuse her of practicing black magic in the Indonesian horror film Death Knot. In the film, “After the sudden suicide of their estranged mother, two siblings return to their hometown and are immediately confronted by angry villagers. Convinced that the woman was a devotee of a dangerous brand of black magic deemed responsible for a string of mysterious deaths over many years, the locals demand that the siblings leave and allow for the burning of their childhood home to rid the town of the curse. While initially skeptical, a string of strange occurrences leads the siblings to believe there may be more truth to the rumors than they ever dreamed possible.” Director Cornelio Sunny (who also stars) utilizes folk horror layered with mood and atmosphere in his directorial debut, which nabbed him a nomination for a White Mulberry Award for First Time Director when the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 30, 2022
A Woman's Past Puts Her In Serious Danger In The 'The Silent Forest' Trailer

A Woman’s Past Puts Her In Serious Danger In The ‘The Silent Forest’ Trailer

This January journey into The Silent Forest and witness a woman’s struggle with her past that triggers a horrifying series of events. In the film “An internship leads forestry student Anja Grimm to the remote forest area where her father disappeared without a trace when she was eight years old. Her sudden appearance triggers a brutal murder. Disturbances in the forest floor and pointer plants force her on the trail of deeper layers of guilt and crime and trigger a catastrophe.” Henrietta Confurius (The Girl and the Spider) stars along with Joseph Bierbichler, Noah Saavedra, Robert Stadlober, and August Zinner. Saralisa Volm directed from the script written by Wolfram Fleischhauer. The Silent Forest opens in select theaters on January 27, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 29, 2022
Creature Feature 'The Devil Beneath' Claws Its Way Onto Digital

Aussie Horror ‘The Devil Beneath’ Finally Getting A US Release (Trailer)

The highly anticipated action-packed creature feature, The Devil Beneath, starring Dan Ewing (Home & Away) and Tim Pocock (Dance Academy), is the first Australian film to feature a CGI character in a leading role. First released in Australia 6 years ago it is coming to the US for the first time. Originally titled Bunyip, the film has been re-edited, re-mixed, re-scored, and obtained by Vertical Entertainment! Set “in the Australian Outback, two brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by someone or something from their worst nightmares – But is it just a story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real? The Devil Beneath stars Home & Away heartthrob Dan Ewing and Dance Academy favorite Tim Peacock. Sophie Don, Jessica Green (Lightning Point), Ben Chisholm, John Reynolds, Emily Joy, James Straiton, Felix Williamson, and Gregory Fryer. “I can’t recall a fully realized computer-generated character as a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 27, 2022
Horror Fuel’s Top 10 Film Festival Premieres of 2022

Horror Fuel’s Top 10 Film Festival Premieres of 2022

Outstanding horror and horror-adjacent movies were in strong supply at film festivals this year, and whittling down my “best of 2022” list was no easy feat. Here are the selections on which I decided. Some are now available through digital, on-demand, subscription services, and physical media, while others are still making the rounds on the fest circuit. (1) Evil Eye (A Night of Horror) Awash in the atmosphere, visually beautiful, and boasting terrific performances and superb set design, Mexican chiller Evil Eye — from one of my favorite directors, Isaac Ezban — is a dark fairy tale/folk horror outing that is woven together masterfully in its telling of a teen girl’s suspicions that her grandmother may be a witch. (2) Skinamarink (Fantasia) This goosebumps-inducing, lo-fi slice of fear-fare cinema became an instant year-end best candidate when I saw it for its Fantasia run in the summer. It induces the feeling of fright we had as children, which is no small

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Joseph Perry
Dec 24, 2022

More from Foreign

This February 'Viking Wolf' Bares Its Teeth On Netflix

This February ‘Viking Wolf’ Bares Its Teeth On Netflix

Looking for something you can sink your teeth into? The Norwegian horror Viking Wolf (aka Vikingulven) bares its teeth on Netflix this February. The movie centers on 17-year-old “Thale, who has just moved with her parents to a small town after her mother has a new job in the local police. After a student is killed brutally at a party Thale attends, she becomes a key witness. Was the killer an animal? A wolf?” Directed by Stig Svendsen (King’s Bay, Elevator) from the script by Espen Aukan and Stig Svendsen, the action-packed horror stars Liv Mjönes, Arthur Hakalahti, Elli Rhiannon Müler Osborne, Sjur CanteBrean, and more. Viking Wolf lands on Netflix on February 3, 2023.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 18, 2023
Bear Witness To The Brutal Trailer For The Adult Animated Movie 'Unicorn Wars'

Bear Witness To The Brutal Trailer For The Adult Animated Movie ‘Unicorn Wars’

From GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced today the release of Unicorn Wars this March, the latest genre-bending animated feature for adults from Goya and Annecy Cristal-winning director Alberto Vásquez (Birdboy: The Forgotten Children). It’s Bambi meets Apocalypse Now in this provocative and strangely beautiful horror comedy from acclaimed filmmaker and illustrator Alberto Vazquez (Birdboy: The Forgotten Children), who uses its outrageous candy-colored premise to explore religious zealotry, the tortured legacies of military fascism, and the depths of the soul. In the film, “for ages, teddy bears have been locked in an ancestral war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will complete the prophecy and usher in a new era. Aggressive, confident teddy bear Bluet and his sensitive, withdrawn brother Tubby could not be more different. As the rigors and humiliation of teddy bear bootcamp turn to the psychedelic horrors of a combat tour in the Magic

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 17, 2023
Creature Feature 'The Devil Beneath' Claws Its Way Onto Digital

Creature Feature ‘The Devil Beneath’ Claws Its Way Onto Digital

From Writer-director Luke Sparke, the filmmaker behind Occupation Rainfall and Red Billabong, comes the highly anticipated action-packed creature feature, The Devil Beneath, starring Dan Ewing (Home & Away) and Tim Pocock (Dance Academy), which was first released in Australia 6 years ago. It has just been released in the US for the first time on Digital. Originally titled Bunyip, the film has been re-edited, re-mixed, re-scored, and obtained by Vertical Entertainment! Set “in the Australian Outback, two brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by someone or something from their worst nightmares – But is it just a story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real?” The Devil Beneath also stars Sophie Don, Jessica Green (Lightning Point), Ben Chisholm, John Reynolds, Emily Joy, James Straiton, Felix Williamson, and Gregory Fryer. “I can’t recall a fully realized computer-generated character as a ‘lead’ in an Australian film before.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 17, 2023
Film Review: Death Knot

Film Review: Death Knot

Indonesian horror cinema is gaining a well-deserved reputation as some of the finest fear-fare film offering in the world, but it must be killing any tourism interest in the country’s most rural areas. Director/cowriter/star Cornelio Sunny’s Death Knot (2021) is the latest such feature to get a U.S. release, a folk horror outing focused on brooding atmosphere rather than shocks and gore. If only characters in horror movies would learn from their predecessors that it is never a good idea to go to their childhood homes after an estranged parent dies. Hari (Sunny) and his sister Eka (Widika Sidmore) do just that, despite the fact that they have both had nightmares about their mother hanging herself and warning them not to come home. They should have followed the instruction in the dreams, as they are shunned by locals because the villagers believe that their mother was in league with the devil for harvesting souls. Hari especially is not the superstitious

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Jan 16, 2023
Ultra Violent Horror 'Project Wolf Hunting' Slashing Its Way Onto Blu-ray

Ultra Brutal Action-Horror ‘Project Wolf Hunting’ Battles Its Way Onto Icon Film Channel

As a jailbreak takes place on a ship, something even more terrifying emerges from below in the new balls-to-the-wall action-packed trailer for the South Korean action-horror film Project Wolf Hunting. The ultra-brutal film is from director Kim Hong-Sun (Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area) and stars Seo In-guk (The Master’s Sun, Hello Monster), Jang Dong-yoon (Search, Mr. Sunshine), Choi Guy-hwa (Train to Busan, The Wailing), Sung Dong-il (The Cursed, The Great Battle), Park Ho-san (The Call, Prison Playbook) and Jung So-min (Alchemy of Souls). Project Wolf Hunting is premiering exclusively on the Icon Film Channel and the Icon Film Channel on Prime Video on January 30, 2023, from Well Go USA Entertainment, before heading to UK theaters this March featuring an all-new English dub.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2023
'Legions' Will Be Unleashed This January (Trailer)

‘Legions’ Will Be Unleashed This January (Trailer)

XYZ Films has just unveiled the trailer for Fabián Forte’s Legions, set to be unleashed this January, following an acclaimed festival run that included Sitges, Fantasia, and Fantaspoa. An unabashed love letter to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead franchise, this gory, hilarious, and heartwarming horror gem is the perfect way to start your 2023! Argentinian filmmaker Fabián Forte’s newest film combines the best of his previous cinematic endeavors: the comedic writing and direction of his 2016 hit Dead Man Tells His Own Tales is masterfully mixed with the horror of 2017’s Terrified – which Forte contributed to – and once you add a dash of slapstick gore and a whole lot of heart, and you have Legions of fun! In Legions, “A powerful sorcerer, Antonio Poyju (Germán De Silva), is locked away in an asylum and wastes away in his imprisonment as evil, demonic forces take control of Argentina. If Antonio can escape the psychiatric hospital and find his daughter, Helena,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2023
Black Magic And Curses Fill The New Trailer For 'Death Knot'

Black Magic And Curses Fill The New Trailer For ‘Death Knot’

This January, two siblings find themselves in grave danger after their mother dies, and locals accuse her of practicing black magic in the Indonesian horror film Death Knot. In the film, “After the sudden suicide of their estranged mother, two siblings return to their hometown and are immediately confronted by angry villagers. Convinced that the woman was a devotee of a dangerous brand of black magic deemed responsible for a string of mysterious deaths over many years, the locals demand that the siblings leave and allow for the burning of their childhood home to rid the town of the curse. While initially skeptical, a string of strange occurrences leads the siblings to believe there may be more truth to the rumors than they ever dreamed possible.” Director Cornelio Sunny (who also stars) utilizes folk horror layered with mood and atmosphere in his directorial debut, which nabbed him a nomination for a White Mulberry Award for First Time Director when the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 30, 2022
A Woman's Past Puts Her In Serious Danger In The 'The Silent Forest' Trailer

A Woman’s Past Puts Her In Serious Danger In The ‘The Silent Forest’ Trailer

This January journey into The Silent Forest and witness a woman’s struggle with her past that triggers a horrifying series of events. In the film “An internship leads forestry student Anja Grimm to the remote forest area where her father disappeared without a trace when she was eight years old. Her sudden appearance triggers a brutal murder. Disturbances in the forest floor and pointer plants force her on the trail of deeper layers of guilt and crime and trigger a catastrophe.” Henrietta Confurius (The Girl and the Spider) stars along with Joseph Bierbichler, Noah Saavedra, Robert Stadlober, and August Zinner. Saralisa Volm directed from the script written by Wolfram Fleischhauer. The Silent Forest opens in select theaters on January 27, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 29, 2022
Creature Feature 'The Devil Beneath' Claws Its Way Onto Digital

Aussie Horror ‘The Devil Beneath’ Finally Getting A US Release (Trailer)

The highly anticipated action-packed creature feature, The Devil Beneath, starring Dan Ewing (Home & Away) and Tim Pocock (Dance Academy), is the first Australian film to feature a CGI character in a leading role. First released in Australia 6 years ago it is coming to the US for the first time. Originally titled Bunyip, the film has been re-edited, re-mixed, re-scored, and obtained by Vertical Entertainment! Set “in the Australian Outback, two brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by someone or something from their worst nightmares – But is it just a story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real? The Devil Beneath stars Home & Away heartthrob Dan Ewing and Dance Academy favorite Tim Peacock. Sophie Don, Jessica Green (Lightning Point), Ben Chisholm, John Reynolds, Emily Joy, James Straiton, Felix Williamson, and Gregory Fryer. “I can’t recall a fully realized computer-generated character as a

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 27, 2022
Horror Fuel’s Top 10 Film Festival Premieres of 2022

Horror Fuel’s Top 10 Film Festival Premieres of 2022

Outstanding horror and horror-adjacent movies were in strong supply at film festivals this year, and whittling down my “best of 2022” list was no easy feat. Here are the selections on which I decided. Some are now available through digital, on-demand, subscription services, and physical media, while others are still making the rounds on the fest circuit. (1) Evil Eye (A Night of Horror) Awash in the atmosphere, visually beautiful, and boasting terrific performances and superb set design, Mexican chiller Evil Eye — from one of my favorite directors, Isaac Ezban — is a dark fairy tale/folk horror outing that is woven together masterfully in its telling of a teen girl’s suspicions that her grandmother may be a witch. (2) Skinamarink (Fantasia) This goosebumps-inducing, lo-fi slice of fear-fare cinema became an instant year-end best candidate when I saw it for its Fantasia run in the summer. It induces the feeling of fright we had as children, which is no small

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Dec 24, 2022
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