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Terror Films And FilmIsNow Team Up For The Release Of Twenty-Three Horror Films

Indie genre distributor TERROR FILMS has teamed up with YouTube AVOD platform FILMISNOW for the release of a massive slate of horror films, Twenty-three to be exact. FILMISNOW, a leading European YouTube network that encompasses ten movie-related channels. Combined, the channels have a total of over 8.5 million subscribers! They are an international company that specializes in movie-related content including production, distribution, and movie marketing – in four different languages. FILMISNOW entered the AVOD market at the beginning of 2020 and already has over 300 titles online, with more on the way. TERROR FILMS President Joe Dain spoke of this partnership recently, saying “this is one of many steps we have been taking to pave the way for more direct platform relationships, to expand our digital footprint, and to improve revenue streams for our filmmakers. This collaboration also helps us chip away at our need for 3rd party film aggregators.“ The initial launch will feature twenty-three films from this genre

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
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‘Sound Of Violence’ Trailer Teases Music Can Be Deadly

Following its world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence is receiving its home release. Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost), and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”) star. In the film, “Alexis recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis’ unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won’t let anything stop her, not

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
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New Horror Anthology ‘Seasons’ Releases First Trailer

Horror anthology series are all the rage right now. One of the new movies headed your way is Seasons, and you’ll recognize a bunch of its stars in the new teaser trailer. Seasons stars Jeremy London (Kevin Smith’s Mallrats), Lisa Wilcox (Nightmare on Elm Street 4 & 5), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), Eric Freeman (Silent Night, Deadly Night 2), and Cleve Hall (Terrorvision) in his final role. The film is written by Benjamin Swicker and produced by Tim Melican, Jesse Kozel, Brandon E. Brooks. Seasons will feature “four spine-tingling tales of terror,” and is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to get the film finished. Head over and grab an awesome perk like copies of the film, posters, and even film credit!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2021
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Heist Gone Wrong Horror ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time,’ Out On Demand This May

From Justin Price, the director of The Elf and The 13th Friday comes the action-packed horror film Wrong Place, Wrong Time. The film, described as “S.W.A.T. meets Resident Evil,” centers on, “An elite team of vigilantes who plot to steal 14 billion dollars of laundered money from a notorious mob boss. After being double-crossed, they find refuge in the middle of nowhere with a mysterious family carrying an unsettling secret. They discover that the man of the house is a creature of the dark and they must fight to survive the night.” Franziska Schissler, Justin Price, Bianca Stein, Alex Ryan Brown, Chase Garland, Olivia Rivera, Mike Markoff, Timothy McKinney, Marcia Vargas, Karen Carreno, and Natalia Rangel star in Wrong Place, Wrong Time out On Demand on May 4, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 24, 2021
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New Horror Comedy ‘Werewolves Within’ Will Leave You Howling With Laughter

After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community in Werewolves Within. Directed by Josh Ruben and written by Mishna Wolff, Werewolves Within stars Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns, Michael Chernus, Catherine Curtain, Wayne Duvall, Harvey Guillén, Rebecca Henderson, Cheyenne Jackson, Michaela Watkins, and Glenn Fleshler. I grew up near the same small town where we shot Werewolves Within. As a kid, I’d freak myself out, making up monster stories, running through the woods, pretending I was Chief Brody, fighting creatures in the brush (I LOVED Jaws — hell, I loved horror). That hometown experience, where neighbors knew your business (whether you liked it or not) is so much of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 21, 2021
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Cults, Curses And A Road Trip: ‘Threshold’ Is Coming To Arrow

Arrow Video has announced the release of Powell Robinson and Patrick R. Young‘s acclaimed film Threshold for this May. The haunted road trip thriller made its world premiered at the Salem Horror Fest in October, followed by its European premiere at Soho Horror Film Festival in November. “When a phone call from out of the blue brings Leo (Joey Millin) back into contact with his sister, Virginia (Madison West), long estranged from her family due to years of drug abuse, he arrives to find her alone in a bare apartment in the midst of an apparent overdose. After the convulsions and nausea subside, Virginia insists to Leo that she has been clean for 8 months due to the help of a mysterious group. She confides to her cynical brother that her edginess and paranoia actually stem from a sinister ritual conducted by the group that took her in at her lowest and eventually revealed themselves to be a cult. This

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 19, 2021
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A First Look At Rene Perez’s Horror-Western ‘Legend Of Hawes’

Saddle up, we’re heading out west for the horror-western Legend of Hawes, from genre director Rene Perez, the filmmaker behind Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, Cry Havoc, and The Insurrection. We got the first images that tease an action-packed film. In the film, “A mountain homestead is attacked by a raiding party made up of ravenous marauders. The lone survivor, a beautiful young woman hires a dangerous Gunman to help her track and exact revenge on the marauders. Together they trek to a forbidding mountain only to find that the savage marauders have a deadly secret.” Currently filming in California at the Hawes Ranch, the indie film stars Emily Whitcomb, Mike Markoff, and veteran actor Richard Tyson. We’ll let you know when a release date is announced.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 19, 2021
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Game Preview: ‘Bad Dream: Coma’ Coming To Xbox One, X/S

A big Thank You to Desert Fox for reaching out to us and offering us a chance to check out their point and click horror Bad Dream: Coma before its April 20th release on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S! Bad Dream: Coma takes players to a nightmarish world where there’s no chance to wake up. In a strange world full of disturbing imagery, puzzles, a unique story, and interesting characters you encounter along your way as well as potential dangers! With the non-linear story, the player’s actions and choices will determine events within the story as well as Bad Dream: Coma’s one of three endings. Bad Dream: Coma will be coming to Xbox One and Series X/S on April 20th. The game is currently available on STEAM and Nintendo Switch.

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Capt McNeely
Apr 18, 2021
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Movie Review: Flesh Contagium (2020)

In a plague-ravaged future a nomadic couple, Helmut (Lorenzo Lepori, who also co-wrote, co-produced, and directed the film) and Ornella (Shiri Binder), traverse a rural landscape trying like hell to avoid the murder-happy, haz-mat suited, gasmask sportin’ mother fuckers that eliminate the remaining populace with wild abandon. Long story short, Helmut buys the farm, and Ornella is taken in by Udolfo (Pio Bisanti in a Dafoe-level performance); a highly troubled individual who rapes her repeatedly while using her in his experiments involving nightmarish mutants and his disease-ridden wife that take place within the stone walls of the dilapidated fortress Udolfo calls home. What follows is a wicked whirlwind of brutal survival in a new world ruled by monsters and madmen! What begins with a set-up you may expect from a Bruno Mattei post-apocalyptic flick from down Italy way, soon transforms into something a bit deeper as Flesh Contagium unfolds. Sure we get mutants, naked flesh, and oh-s0-much bloodshed (more on

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DanXIII
Apr 18, 2021
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A Writer Faces Off Against An Escaped Psycho In ‘Why’

When a writer takes refuge at a cabin in the woods to write her book she has no idea that an escaped killer is heading her way in Why, out now on VOD and Digital, from High Octane Pictures. Starring Natasha Henstridge (Species), Emma Bell (“The Walking Dead”), and genre staple Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Why is directed by Corbin Timbrook. In the film, “Writer Blake Sinclair goes away for the weekend to the small town of Northdale to stay in a cabin and finish writing her book, with plans to meet her husband days later. Unaware that a madman, a killer has escaped a mental hospital. He returns to his home, coincidently, the same cabin where Blake is staying in Northdale. The killer toys with Blake and must be stopped, but will her husband make it in time to save her?” In 2016, Timbrook received two nominations at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival for his work on the feature

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 18, 2021

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Terror Films And FilmIsNow Team Up For The Release Of Twenty-Three Horror Films

Indie genre distributor TERROR FILMS has teamed up with YouTube AVOD platform FILMISNOW for the release of a massive slate of horror films, Twenty-three to be exact. FILMISNOW, a leading European YouTube network that encompasses ten movie-related channels. Combined, the channels have a total of over 8.5 million subscribers! They are an international company that specializes in movie-related content including production, distribution, and movie marketing – in four different languages. FILMISNOW entered the AVOD market at the beginning of 2020 and already has over 300 titles online, with more on the way. TERROR FILMS President Joe Dain spoke of this partnership recently, saying “this is one of many steps we have been taking to pave the way for more direct platform relationships, to expand our digital footprint, and to improve revenue streams for our filmmakers. This collaboration also helps us chip away at our need for 3rd party film aggregators.“ The initial launch will feature twenty-three films from this genre

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
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‘Sound Of Violence’ Trailer Teases Music Can Be Deadly

Following its world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence is receiving its home release. Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost), and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”) star. In the film, “Alexis recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis’ unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won’t let anything stop her, not

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
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New Horror Anthology ‘Seasons’ Releases First Trailer

Horror anthology series are all the rage right now. One of the new movies headed your way is Seasons, and you’ll recognize a bunch of its stars in the new teaser trailer. Seasons stars Jeremy London (Kevin Smith’s Mallrats), Lisa Wilcox (Nightmare on Elm Street 4 & 5), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), Eric Freeman (Silent Night, Deadly Night 2), and Cleve Hall (Terrorvision) in his final role. The film is written by Benjamin Swicker and produced by Tim Melican, Jesse Kozel, Brandon E. Brooks. Seasons will feature “four spine-tingling tales of terror,” and is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to get the film finished. Head over and grab an awesome perk like copies of the film, posters, and even film credit!

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2021
Horror Fuel

Heist Gone Wrong Horror ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time,’ Out On Demand This May

From Justin Price, the director of The Elf and The 13th Friday comes the action-packed horror film Wrong Place, Wrong Time. The film, described as “S.W.A.T. meets Resident Evil,” centers on, “An elite team of vigilantes who plot to steal 14 billion dollars of laundered money from a notorious mob boss. After being double-crossed, they find refuge in the middle of nowhere with a mysterious family carrying an unsettling secret. They discover that the man of the house is a creature of the dark and they must fight to survive the night.” Franziska Schissler, Justin Price, Bianca Stein, Alex Ryan Brown, Chase Garland, Olivia Rivera, Mike Markoff, Timothy McKinney, Marcia Vargas, Karen Carreno, and Natalia Rangel star in Wrong Place, Wrong Time out On Demand on May 4, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 24, 2021
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New Horror Comedy ‘Werewolves Within’ Will Leave You Howling With Laughter

After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community in Werewolves Within. Directed by Josh Ruben and written by Mishna Wolff, Werewolves Within stars Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns, Michael Chernus, Catherine Curtain, Wayne Duvall, Harvey Guillén, Rebecca Henderson, Cheyenne Jackson, Michaela Watkins, and Glenn Fleshler. I grew up near the same small town where we shot Werewolves Within. As a kid, I’d freak myself out, making up monster stories, running through the woods, pretending I was Chief Brody, fighting creatures in the brush (I LOVED Jaws — hell, I loved horror). That hometown experience, where neighbors knew your business (whether you liked it or not) is so much of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 21, 2021
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Cults, Curses And A Road Trip: ‘Threshold’ Is Coming To Arrow

Arrow Video has announced the release of Powell Robinson and Patrick R. Young‘s acclaimed film Threshold for this May. The haunted road trip thriller made its world premiered at the Salem Horror Fest in October, followed by its European premiere at Soho Horror Film Festival in November. “When a phone call from out of the blue brings Leo (Joey Millin) back into contact with his sister, Virginia (Madison West), long estranged from her family due to years of drug abuse, he arrives to find her alone in a bare apartment in the midst of an apparent overdose. After the convulsions and nausea subside, Virginia insists to Leo that she has been clean for 8 months due to the help of a mysterious group. She confides to her cynical brother that her edginess and paranoia actually stem from a sinister ritual conducted by the group that took her in at her lowest and eventually revealed themselves to be a cult. This

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 19, 2021
Horror Fuel

A First Look At Rene Perez’s Horror-Western ‘Legend Of Hawes’

Saddle up, we’re heading out west for the horror-western Legend of Hawes, from genre director Rene Perez, the filmmaker behind Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, Cry Havoc, and The Insurrection. We got the first images that tease an action-packed film. In the film, “A mountain homestead is attacked by a raiding party made up of ravenous marauders. The lone survivor, a beautiful young woman hires a dangerous Gunman to help her track and exact revenge on the marauders. Together they trek to a forbidding mountain only to find that the savage marauders have a deadly secret.” Currently filming in California at the Hawes Ranch, the indie film stars Emily Whitcomb, Mike Markoff, and veteran actor Richard Tyson. We’ll let you know when a release date is announced.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 19, 2021
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Game Preview: ‘Bad Dream: Coma’ Coming To Xbox One, X/S

A big Thank You to Desert Fox for reaching out to us and offering us a chance to check out their point and click horror Bad Dream: Coma before its April 20th release on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S! Bad Dream: Coma takes players to a nightmarish world where there’s no chance to wake up. In a strange world full of disturbing imagery, puzzles, a unique story, and interesting characters you encounter along your way as well as potential dangers! With the non-linear story, the player’s actions and choices will determine events within the story as well as Bad Dream: Coma’s one of three endings. Bad Dream: Coma will be coming to Xbox One and Series X/S on April 20th. The game is currently available on STEAM and Nintendo Switch.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Apr 18, 2021
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Movie Review: Flesh Contagium (2020)

In a plague-ravaged future a nomadic couple, Helmut (Lorenzo Lepori, who also co-wrote, co-produced, and directed the film) and Ornella (Shiri Binder), traverse a rural landscape trying like hell to avoid the murder-happy, haz-mat suited, gasmask sportin’ mother fuckers that eliminate the remaining populace with wild abandon. Long story short, Helmut buys the farm, and Ornella is taken in by Udolfo (Pio Bisanti in a Dafoe-level performance); a highly troubled individual who rapes her repeatedly while using her in his experiments involving nightmarish mutants and his disease-ridden wife that take place within the stone walls of the dilapidated fortress Udolfo calls home. What follows is a wicked whirlwind of brutal survival in a new world ruled by monsters and madmen! What begins with a set-up you may expect from a Bruno Mattei post-apocalyptic flick from down Italy way, soon transforms into something a bit deeper as Flesh Contagium unfolds. Sure we get mutants, naked flesh, and oh-s0-much bloodshed (more on

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Apr 18, 2021
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A Writer Faces Off Against An Escaped Psycho In ‘Why’

When a writer takes refuge at a cabin in the woods to write her book she has no idea that an escaped killer is heading her way in Why, out now on VOD and Digital, from High Octane Pictures. Starring Natasha Henstridge (Species), Emma Bell (“The Walking Dead”), and genre staple Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Why is directed by Corbin Timbrook. In the film, “Writer Blake Sinclair goes away for the weekend to the small town of Northdale to stay in a cabin and finish writing her book, with plans to meet her husband days later. Unaware that a madman, a killer has escaped a mental hospital. He returns to his home, coincidently, the same cabin where Blake is staying in Northdale. The killer toys with Blake and must be stopped, but will her husband make it in time to save her?” In 2016, Timbrook received two nominations at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival for his work on the feature

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 18, 2021
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