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A magician (German Baudino) finds himself at the mercy of a sadistic killer in Luciano Onetti and Nicolás Onetti’s (aided and abetted by co-writer/cinematographer Carlos Goitia) love letter to ’70s giallo flicks; Abrakadabra… one of the debut offerings from Cauldron Films, and what a debut it is cats n’ creeps! Now if the names of those two dudes up yonder sound familiar, they are the ones responsible for two other giallo-style flicks; 2013’s Sonno Profondo and 2015’s Francesca… and as they did with those flicks, they attempt to not merely homage the genre, the seek to replicate it 110% in Abrakadabra! To that end the screen is filled to bursting with what a giallo fan would expect, namely: bizarre fashions, outre set dressing (dolls, puppets, and more seek to unnerve the viewer), strange camera placement, a dash of kinky sex and gore, a painterly use of color and shadow… hell, they even make the film look as though the film
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Peep this; it’s the Second World War, and things are gettin’ violent as fuck! Don’t believe me? Well, those dreaded Axis powers have hucked a torpedo at a military hospital ship… resulting in a motley crew of military personal being adrift on the open sea in a lil’ life raft. Fortunately for them, they are soon within spittin’ distance of a huge German vessel… okay, that’s not fortunate at all… but possibly a p.h. better than starving to death in a rubber raft… debatable. Anyway after an action-packed boarding of that beastly boat we get down to brass tacks; namely that the ship is mostly full of corpses… mostly… I mean there’s a pretty unreasonable amount of vampires on board as well… I mean, one would be more than enough to qualify as “unreasonable”, but there’s at least a few more than that. So it’s Das Boot by way of the ‘Demeter’ sequence from Dracula as our harried heroes attempt
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An experiment goes terribly wrong in director Jacob Burns‘ indie sci-fi thriller Shifter, which he co-wrote with Zach Burns. Nicole Fancher (Unchained Love), Ashley Mandanas (Golden Arm), Paul T. Taylor (Hellraiser: Judgment), and Jamie Brewster (The Adventures of Jurassic Pet: Chapter 1) star. In Shifter, “a young woman experiences painful and gruesome side effects after an experiment with time travel goes wrong.” Shifter made its world premiere at this year’s DeadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City, where it won Best Oklahoma Feature. The film is produced by Jacob Burns, Zach Burns, and Vinnie Hogan. The Horror Collective will be releasing Planet Thunder’s bold and fascinating sci-fi body horror film Shifter on August 6th on VOD and On Demand platforms. The announcement was made through EW.com.
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What are you afraid of? Terror Films have just acquired the worldwide rights to director Hunter Johnson‘s (Ugly Sweater Party) film Irrational Fear. The story centers around six therapy patients who are brought together at a secluded cabin. Here, they confront their strangest fears of germs, bugs, drowning, choking, and losing teeth – to name just a few. But these fears won’t just hurt them …they may very well kill them! The cast includes Scream Queen Jennifer Nangle (Malvolia: The Queen of Screams), Baker Chase Powell (Dolemite Is My Name), Charles Chudabala (Ugly Sweater Party), Leah Wiseman (Dismembering Christmas), Kaleb Shorey (“Shameless”), Guy Holling (Love in the Time of Irony), Cati Glidewell (Gags The Clown), and Dane Bingenheimer (Those Who Deserve to Die). Executive producer Kevin Sommerfield co-wrote the script with Johnson, who also produced alongside Chris Gierowski and Jay Sorenson. Irrational Fear is set to hit digital platforms Friday, July 24th. The digital roll-out will expand over several months
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Serenity Forge and Atmos Games were awesome enough to let me check out their 2D Platformer Neversong. Neversong is a remake/sequel to Once upon a coma. Players take on the role of a boy named Peet who fell into a coma after seeing his best friend Wren being kidnapped by a mysterious figure known as Dr.Smile. Peet awakens to find himself in a nightmare world where something is wrong with the adults after they looked for him and Wren in the asylum the two youngsters wandered into. Now onto the game itself. When it comes to the controls, it’s so limited that you master it within the first minute of gameplay. Speaking of gameplay, it’s actually quite fun. I’m not big when it comes to puzzles and platformers but Neversong made it quite unique and not very frustrating. Sound; the sound mixing when it comes to cinematics could use some tweaking as it’s a bit louder than the rest of
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Early Morning Studio announced their dark RPG turn-based game; Vampire’s Fall: Origins will be coming to Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this autumn. The game is currently available on Steam, App Store, and Google Play. Vampire’s Fall: Origins is a 2D open world where players will take on the role of a Vampire and through their decisions will either be a hero or villain. Players will face countless enemies, have a skill tree and abilities, be able to customize their character, choose dialogue, and 50+ hours of gameplay. In Vampire’s Fall: Origins players take on the role of a newborn Vampire on a mission to rid the lands of dark influences of the Witchmaster after it destroyed the Vampire’s village. On the quest for vengeance, players can take on side quests, and interact with NPCs in this massive open world.
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We’ve got a brand new clip from the upcoming horror anthology Realm of Shadows, from directors Jimmy Drain and Brian McCulley. This much-anticipated film is a world of mystery, possession, and shadows in an anthology of short horror-themed tales woven into a full-length feature presentation. Even the most shocking stories are based on true events. The movie has a killer cast of horror icons that includes Tony Todd (Candyman), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Mel Novak (Bruse Lee’s Game of Death), Tamara Glynn (Halloween 5), and rising stars Jimmy Drain (The Initiation opposite Vern Wells), Lauren C.Mayhew (“Dexter”), and Vida Ghaffari (Eternal Code opposite Scout Taylor- Compton). Todd plays Fr. Dudley, a long time Catholic priest, dedicated to his profession. Fr. Dudley must watch out for his close friend Robby Duray, played by Drain, during a testing time in Robby’s life. He also takes on the volatile task of taming Robby’s diabolic alter ego, and steering him away from
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Writer-director Joko Anwar’s hit horror film Impetigore (aka Perempuan Tanah Jahanam) is set to premiere on Shudder later this month. In the film, Maya with her best friend, Dini, tries to survive in a city without a family. She realized that she might inherit property from her rich family. Maya returns to the village with Dini and unaware of the danger was waiting for her. Joko Anwar is a master of modern horror, and Satan’s Slaves is one of the most loved — and scariest — movies on Shudder. We couldn’t wait to work with him again and are thrilled to share his scary, visceral and darkly sinister Impetigore with Shudder members,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. Impetigore is my love letter to horror movies I grew up with, slashers, ghost stories, wrapped in a tragic family drama not unlike my family. I’m excited to be working again with Shudder to bring Impetigore to their members around the world,”
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Premiering this August is the exhilarating new science-fiction thriller that’ll have you “begging for more”*, Invasion Earth. Not only do we have the trailer, but we also have an exclusive clip! The story follows a group of addicts who attend therapy to avoid being sent to prison, while a TV journalist goes undercover and joins the group to try and expose this as a scam. However, all of their lives are thrown into chaos by the beginning of an alien invasion. Charlotte Gould, Phoebe Delikoura, Tony Fadil, Jon-Paul Gates, Nigel Thijs, and David Shaw star in the critically acclaimed new film from James Twyman, debuting On Demand and DVD August 4th from Midnight Releasing.
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Produced by The Horror Collective parent company Entertainment Squad, SLAXX will be making its world premiere at this year’s prestigious Fantasia Film Festival. Ahead of its debut we have the trailer. The film is the latest collaboration between Anne-Marie Gélinas and Shaked Berenson, the duo the 2015 cult hit Turbo Kid. The film about a possessed pair of jeans comes to life and terrorizes the staff of a trendy, vapid clothing boutique, stars Romane Denis (True North), Brett Donahue (Total Recall), Sehar Bhojani (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Kenny Wong (“Jack Ryan”), Tianna Nori (“Letterkenny”), and Hanneke Talbot (Ready or Not). SLAXX was directed by Elza Kaphert, who co-wrote the film alongside Patricia Gomez who produces with Anne-Marie Gélinas. Shaked Berenson acts as executive producer.
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A magician (German Baudino) finds himself at the mercy of a sadistic killer in Luciano Onetti and Nicolás Onetti’s (aided and abetted by co-writer/cinematographer Carlos Goitia) love letter to ’70s giallo flicks; Abrakadabra… one of the debut offerings from Cauldron Films, and what a debut it is cats n’ creeps! Now if the names of those two dudes up yonder sound familiar, they are the ones responsible for two other giallo-style flicks; 2013’s Sonno Profondo and 2015’s Francesca… and as they did with those flicks, they attempt to not merely homage the genre, the seek to replicate it 110% in Abrakadabra! To that end the screen is filled to bursting with what a giallo fan would expect, namely: bizarre fashions, outre set dressing (dolls, puppets, and more seek to unnerve the viewer), strange camera placement, a dash of kinky sex and gore, a painterly use of color and shadow… hell, they even make the film look as though the film
Continue reading →
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Peep this; it’s the Second World War, and things are gettin’ violent as fuck! Don’t believe me? Well, those dreaded Axis powers have hucked a torpedo at a military hospital ship… resulting in a motley crew of military personal being adrift on the open sea in a lil’ life raft. Fortunately for them, they are soon within spittin’ distance of a huge German vessel… okay, that’s not fortunate at all… but possibly a p.h. better than starving to death in a rubber raft… debatable. Anyway after an action-packed boarding of that beastly boat we get down to brass tacks; namely that the ship is mostly full of corpses… mostly… I mean there’s a pretty unreasonable amount of vampires on board as well… I mean, one would be more than enough to qualify as “unreasonable”, but there’s at least a few more than that. So it’s Das Boot by way of the ‘Demeter’ sequence from Dracula as our harried heroes attempt
Continue reading →
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An experiment goes terribly wrong in director Jacob Burns‘ indie sci-fi thriller Shifter, which he co-wrote with Zach Burns. Nicole Fancher (Unchained Love), Ashley Mandanas (Golden Arm), Paul T. Taylor (Hellraiser: Judgment), and Jamie Brewster (The Adventures of Jurassic Pet: Chapter 1) star. In Shifter, “a young woman experiences painful and gruesome side effects after an experiment with time travel goes wrong.” Shifter made its world premiere at this year’s DeadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City, where it won Best Oklahoma Feature. The film is produced by Jacob Burns, Zach Burns, and Vinnie Hogan. The Horror Collective will be releasing Planet Thunder’s bold and fascinating sci-fi body horror film Shifter on August 6th on VOD and On Demand platforms. The announcement was made through EW.com.
Continue reading →
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What are you afraid of? Terror Films have just acquired the worldwide rights to director Hunter Johnson‘s (Ugly Sweater Party) film Irrational Fear. The story centers around six therapy patients who are brought together at a secluded cabin. Here, they confront their strangest fears of germs, bugs, drowning, choking, and losing teeth – to name just a few. But these fears won’t just hurt them …they may very well kill them! The cast includes Scream Queen Jennifer Nangle (Malvolia: The Queen of Screams), Baker Chase Powell (Dolemite Is My Name), Charles Chudabala (Ugly Sweater Party), Leah Wiseman (Dismembering Christmas), Kaleb Shorey (“Shameless”), Guy Holling (Love in the Time of Irony), Cati Glidewell (Gags The Clown), and Dane Bingenheimer (Those Who Deserve to Die). Executive producer Kevin Sommerfield co-wrote the script with Johnson, who also produced alongside Chris Gierowski and Jay Sorenson. Irrational Fear is set to hit digital platforms Friday, July 24th. The digital roll-out will expand over several months
Continue reading →
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Serenity Forge and Atmos Games were awesome enough to let me check out their 2D Platformer Neversong. Neversong is a remake/sequel to Once upon a coma. Players take on the role of a boy named Peet who fell into a coma after seeing his best friend Wren being kidnapped by a mysterious figure known as Dr.Smile. Peet awakens to find himself in a nightmare world where something is wrong with the adults after they looked for him and Wren in the asylum the two youngsters wandered into. Now onto the game itself. When it comes to the controls, it’s so limited that you master it within the first minute of gameplay. Speaking of gameplay, it’s actually quite fun. I’m not big when it comes to puzzles and platformers but Neversong made it quite unique and not very frustrating. Sound; the sound mixing when it comes to cinematics could use some tweaking as it’s a bit louder than the rest of
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Early Morning Studio announced their dark RPG turn-based game; Vampire’s Fall: Origins will be coming to Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this autumn. The game is currently available on Steam, App Store, and Google Play. Vampire’s Fall: Origins is a 2D open world where players will take on the role of a Vampire and through their decisions will either be a hero or villain. Players will face countless enemies, have a skill tree and abilities, be able to customize their character, choose dialogue, and 50+ hours of gameplay. In Vampire’s Fall: Origins players take on the role of a newborn Vampire on a mission to rid the lands of dark influences of the Witchmaster after it destroyed the Vampire’s village. On the quest for vengeance, players can take on side quests, and interact with NPCs in this massive open world.
Continue reading →
ClipsIndieMoviesNewsTrailers
We’ve got a brand new clip from the upcoming horror anthology Realm of Shadows, from directors Jimmy Drain and Brian McCulley. This much-anticipated film is a world of mystery, possession, and shadows in an anthology of short horror-themed tales woven into a full-length feature presentation. Even the most shocking stories are based on true events. The movie has a killer cast of horror icons that includes Tony Todd (Candyman), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Mel Novak (Bruse Lee’s Game of Death), Tamara Glynn (Halloween 5), and rising stars Jimmy Drain (The Initiation opposite Vern Wells), Lauren C.Mayhew (“Dexter”), and Vida Ghaffari (Eternal Code opposite Scout Taylor- Compton). Todd plays Fr. Dudley, a long time Catholic priest, dedicated to his profession. Fr. Dudley must watch out for his close friend Robby Duray, played by Drain, during a testing time in Robby’s life. He also takes on the volatile task of taming Robby’s diabolic alter ego, and steering him away from
Continue reading →
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Writer-director Joko Anwar’s hit horror film Impetigore (aka Perempuan Tanah Jahanam) is set to premiere on Shudder later this month. In the film, Maya with her best friend, Dini, tries to survive in a city without a family. She realized that she might inherit property from her rich family. Maya returns to the village with Dini and unaware of the danger was waiting for her. Joko Anwar is a master of modern horror, and Satan’s Slaves is one of the most loved — and scariest — movies on Shudder. We couldn’t wait to work with him again and are thrilled to share his scary, visceral and darkly sinister Impetigore with Shudder members,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. Impetigore is my love letter to horror movies I grew up with, slashers, ghost stories, wrapped in a tragic family drama not unlike my family. I’m excited to be working again with Shudder to bring Impetigore to their members around the world,”
Continue reading →
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Premiering this August is the exhilarating new science-fiction thriller that’ll have you “begging for more”*, Invasion Earth. Not only do we have the trailer, but we also have an exclusive clip! The story follows a group of addicts who attend therapy to avoid being sent to prison, while a TV journalist goes undercover and joins the group to try and expose this as a scam. However, all of their lives are thrown into chaos by the beginning of an alien invasion. Charlotte Gould, Phoebe Delikoura, Tony Fadil, Jon-Paul Gates, Nigel Thijs, and David Shaw star in the critically acclaimed new film from James Twyman, debuting On Demand and DVD August 4th from Midnight Releasing.
Continue reading →
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Produced by The Horror Collective parent company Entertainment Squad, SLAXX will be making its world premiere at this year’s prestigious Fantasia Film Festival. Ahead of its debut we have the trailer. The film is the latest collaboration between Anne-Marie Gélinas and Shaked Berenson, the duo the 2015 cult hit Turbo Kid. The film about a possessed pair of jeans comes to life and terrorizes the staff of a trendy, vapid clothing boutique, stars Romane Denis (True North), Brett Donahue (Total Recall), Sehar Bhojani (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Kenny Wong (“Jack Ryan”), Tianna Nori (“Letterkenny”), and Hanneke Talbot (Ready or Not). SLAXX was directed by Elza Kaphert, who co-wrote the film alongside Patricia Gomez who produces with Anne-Marie Gélinas. Shaked Berenson acts as executive producer.
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