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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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Seven women struggle for survival against a group of deranged killers in The Furies, coming to Blu-ray and DVD this March. Written and directed by Tony D’Aquino (Alpha Male), the film stars Airlie Dodds (Killing Ground), Linda Ngo (“Top of the Lake”), Taylor Ferguson (“Glitch”), and Ebony Vagulans (“My Life Is Murder”) with Danielle Horvat (“House Husbands”) and Tom O’Sullivan (A Man on the Edge) In The Furies, when Kayla (Airlie Dodds) wakes up in a coffin-like box in the middle of the woods, the first thing she sees is a terrifying masked man with an ax running straight for her. As she runs to try to get away, she realizes she is part of an insane and deadly game. Six other women running scared in the woods, each with a masked assassin assigned to protect them and kill everyone else. Kayla races to save herself and as many women as she can, but when they start to turn on
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The wrestling world bodyslams the horror genre this June’s with the funny fright-flick, Wrestlemassacre! Check out the trailer below. Randy is an awkward groundskeeper who is obsessed with professional wrestling. Longing for a sense of belonging with grandiose dreams of becoming a wrestling superstar, he is only met with abject humiliation. A brutal shaming at a local wrestling school pushes Randy over the edge and sets out on a blood-soaked rampage to punish those who wronged him. Wrestlemassacre, starring Richie Acevedo aka The Cuban Assassin, The WWE’s Tony Atlas, Julio Bana Fernandez (“House of Cards”), Jason John Beebe (Crossbreed) and Canadian pro wrestler Rene Dupree, will be available On Demand and DVD June 16, 2020, from Wild Eye Releasing.
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It wasn’t supposed to escape…now it’s on the hunt. This March, writer-director Scott Jeffrey (Cupid) sets a terrifying creature free in the horror film Don’t Speak. Upon arriving at their grandparent’s farm, a family soon realizes the entire town has been slaughtered by an unknown monster… And soon, the family find themselves fighting to survive. Stephanie Lodge, Ryan Davies, and Jake Watkins star in Don’t Speak arriving on DVD and Digital March 10th, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Hulu has snagged the exclusive US streaming rights to the dark South Korean thriller Parasite that took home 4 Oscars this year, including Best Picture, Best International Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screen Play. From filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, the film explores socioeconomic inequality in South Korea. It follows an impoverished, basement-dwelling family posing as professionals to gain employment with a wealthy family. Variety reports that Parasite, from Neon, will arrive exclusively on Hulu on Wednesday, April 8th. The film is also being adapted into an English-language limited series for HBO with director Bong Joon Ho teaming up with Adam McKay for the series, but there is no word yet if the series will be a continuance of the film or a reboot.
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A group of friends, fairly large idiots one and all, decide to partake in a paint ball/survival game fracas where the staff pretend to be the living dead. Unfortunately for a member of said staff, one of the blokes gets a little too into the goings-on and ends up stabbed to death (accidentally) by our gang of goofs. This of course causes our heroes to hatch a screwy plan to hide what they’ve done from the rest off the staff… and hopefully that goes well because they are rather unhinged en masse! Let’s waste no time diving into the mixed bag that is Killer Weekend. While amusing at times, most of the characters on display here are pretty interchangable, and at times pretty unlikable, which is definitely a bit of a minus in a horror comedy where you are supposed to sympathize with the dire straits the characters find themselves in. To be fair, when they are “on” they are
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Laura Tremblay (“The Expanse”, Lifechanger) stars in the spine-chilling Drowning, a “wonderful twisted story”* from filmmaker Pasquale Marco Veltri who is making his feature debut. “Anna is a prostitute who has been abused, exploited and manipulated since childhood. Disconnected from her emotions and the sympathetic people around her, Anna accepts that she must take control of her own life, empower herself and learn to live her life on her own terms. Returning to the place where her nightmare began, her childhood home, Anna faces off against her enablers, her abusers, and her own demons.” Tracy Rowland, Alys Crocker, Pardeep Bassi, and Mark Nuttall also star in a Pasquale Marco Veltri film, available Feb 25th On Demand.
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Headup Games has announced their upcoming game set to be released around Q4 of this year in time for Halloween with their 3D platformer Pumpkin Jack where players take on the role of Jack the pumpkin lord. Pumpkin Jack will take players to a vibrantly colorful world that is peaceful, too peaceful in fact that it made the devil plunge the world in eternal night! The once happy kingdom calls upon a powerful wizard to end this curse but the devil has an ace up his sleeve… Jack, the pumpkin lord! Players will experience gameplay reminiscent of legendary games like Medievil and Jak & Daxter as they must master combo attacks against the forces of good and defeat a variety of foes and unlock new weapons and choose them wisely for battles. Players might lose their heads solving puzzles but Jack will gladly lose his for them to solve physics-based puzzles. Pumpkin Jack will be coming out around the Halloween
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Carlee ( Sadie Katz who co-wrote the film along with director Minh Collins) decides gettin’ hitched ain’t her bag (mainly because her future beau is a D-bag) and ditches her wedding along with a cadre of bridesmaids. Their flight takes them waaaay off the beaten path and they find themselves at a motor inn run by a cult comprised of some of those creepy mother fuckin’ clowns that are all the rage with Irish women between the ages of 21 and 37 named Aoibhinn. Anyway, those damn clowns have had a firm grip on the entire territory for centuries, and now they are making these ladies’ day hell six ways to Sunday! Now which, if any, of our comely heroines will survive these grease paint ghouls… So what works, what doesn’t, and is Clown Fear worth your time? Glad you mother fuckers asked… even if you didn’t. So firmly in the “plus” column is the acting present in this terror
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Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, ‘Scream: The TV Series’) brought Gunpowder & Sky, ALTER, DIGA Studios, and Full Fathom Five’s zombie rom-com Eat, Brains, Love to viewers digitally on Valentine’s day. The flick, based on the novel of the same name by Jeff Hart, follows stoner loser Jake, and cheerleader captain Amanda after they become zombies and are on the run from a government organization that uses Psychics to find and kill Zombies. The problem is, one of the best psychics in the organization is falling in love with Jake. There are spoilers ahead but if you just want my final thought you can scroll down to the end. SPOILERS AHEAD! The film is told through narration by Jake (Jake Cannavale) and the psychic teenage government worker Cass (Sarah Yarkin) which at times also doubles as an inner monologue. Jake contracts a zombie virus, which in the film is sexually transmitted, and changes into a zombie in a crowded cafeteria; he’s
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Hunted by an unstoppable secret agent, a brother must hide his twin sister and her supernatural abilities so that she does not fall prey to becoming an experiment in a classified government program in Transference, out this March. Tony Nash, Jeremy Ninaber, Mathew Ninaber, Eamon Hanson, and Rikki Wright star in the sci-fi thriller directed by Matthew Ninaber. In the film, “a twelve-year-old boy, Joshua, is charged with the protection of his twin sister when their father passes, but she possesses a special ability and his greatest challenge will not be keeping her safe but keeping her hidden. Twenty years later, Joshua is struggling to cope with the events of his childhood and the choices he has made since. Out of desperation, he places Emma in a psychiatric compound against her will. Joshua is driven to the world of underground crime to maintain their secret. But he cannot earn enough to hide their past and someone has followed their trail
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Seven women struggle for survival against a group of deranged killers in The Furies, coming to Blu-ray and DVD this March. Written and directed by Tony D’Aquino (Alpha Male), the film stars Airlie Dodds (Killing Ground), Linda Ngo (“Top of the Lake”), Taylor Ferguson (“Glitch”), and Ebony Vagulans (“My Life Is Murder”) with Danielle Horvat (“House Husbands”) and Tom O’Sullivan (A Man on the Edge) In The Furies, when Kayla (Airlie Dodds) wakes up in a coffin-like box in the middle of the woods, the first thing she sees is a terrifying masked man with an ax running straight for her. As she runs to try to get away, she realizes she is part of an insane and deadly game. Six other women running scared in the woods, each with a masked assassin assigned to protect them and kill everyone else. Kayla races to save herself and as many women as she can, but when they start to turn on
Continue reading →
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The wrestling world bodyslams the horror genre this June’s with the funny fright-flick, Wrestlemassacre! Check out the trailer below. Randy is an awkward groundskeeper who is obsessed with professional wrestling. Longing for a sense of belonging with grandiose dreams of becoming a wrestling superstar, he is only met with abject humiliation. A brutal shaming at a local wrestling school pushes Randy over the edge and sets out on a blood-soaked rampage to punish those who wronged him. Wrestlemassacre, starring Richie Acevedo aka The Cuban Assassin, The WWE’s Tony Atlas, Julio Bana Fernandez (“House of Cards”), Jason John Beebe (Crossbreed) and Canadian pro wrestler Rene Dupree, will be available On Demand and DVD June 16, 2020, from Wild Eye Releasing.
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It wasn’t supposed to escape…now it’s on the hunt. This March, writer-director Scott Jeffrey (Cupid) sets a terrifying creature free in the horror film Don’t Speak. Upon arriving at their grandparent’s farm, a family soon realizes the entire town has been slaughtered by an unknown monster… And soon, the family find themselves fighting to survive. Stephanie Lodge, Ryan Davies, and Jake Watkins star in Don’t Speak arriving on DVD and Digital March 10th, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Continue reading →
HuluIndieMoviesNewsStreaming TVTrailers
Hulu has snagged the exclusive US streaming rights to the dark South Korean thriller Parasite that took home 4 Oscars this year, including Best Picture, Best International Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screen Play. From filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, the film explores socioeconomic inequality in South Korea. It follows an impoverished, basement-dwelling family posing as professionals to gain employment with a wealthy family. Variety reports that Parasite, from Neon, will arrive exclusively on Hulu on Wednesday, April 8th. The film is also being adapted into an English-language limited series for HBO with director Bong Joon Ho teaming up with Adam McKay for the series, but there is no word yet if the series will be a continuance of the film or a reboot.
Continue reading →
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A group of friends, fairly large idiots one and all, decide to partake in a paint ball/survival game fracas where the staff pretend to be the living dead. Unfortunately for a member of said staff, one of the blokes gets a little too into the goings-on and ends up stabbed to death (accidentally) by our gang of goofs. This of course causes our heroes to hatch a screwy plan to hide what they’ve done from the rest off the staff… and hopefully that goes well because they are rather unhinged en masse! Let’s waste no time diving into the mixed bag that is Killer Weekend. While amusing at times, most of the characters on display here are pretty interchangable, and at times pretty unlikable, which is definitely a bit of a minus in a horror comedy where you are supposed to sympathize with the dire straits the characters find themselves in. To be fair, when they are “on” they are
Continue reading →
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Laura Tremblay (“The Expanse”, Lifechanger) stars in the spine-chilling Drowning, a “wonderful twisted story”* from filmmaker Pasquale Marco Veltri who is making his feature debut. “Anna is a prostitute who has been abused, exploited and manipulated since childhood. Disconnected from her emotions and the sympathetic people around her, Anna accepts that she must take control of her own life, empower herself and learn to live her life on her own terms. Returning to the place where her nightmare began, her childhood home, Anna faces off against her enablers, her abusers, and her own demons.” Tracy Rowland, Alys Crocker, Pardeep Bassi, and Mark Nuttall also star in a Pasquale Marco Veltri film, available Feb 25th On Demand.
Continue reading →
GamingHalloweenIndieNewsProductTrailers
Headup Games has announced their upcoming game set to be released around Q4 of this year in time for Halloween with their 3D platformer Pumpkin Jack where players take on the role of Jack the pumpkin lord. Pumpkin Jack will take players to a vibrantly colorful world that is peaceful, too peaceful in fact that it made the devil plunge the world in eternal night! The once happy kingdom calls upon a powerful wizard to end this curse but the devil has an ace up his sleeve… Jack, the pumpkin lord! Players will experience gameplay reminiscent of legendary games like Medievil and Jak & Daxter as they must master combo attacks against the forces of good and defeat a variety of foes and unlock new weapons and choose them wisely for battles. Players might lose their heads solving puzzles but Jack will gladly lose his for them to solve physics-based puzzles. Pumpkin Jack will be coming out around the Halloween
Continue reading →
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Carlee ( Sadie Katz who co-wrote the film along with director Minh Collins) decides gettin’ hitched ain’t her bag (mainly because her future beau is a D-bag) and ditches her wedding along with a cadre of bridesmaids. Their flight takes them waaaay off the beaten path and they find themselves at a motor inn run by a cult comprised of some of those creepy mother fuckin’ clowns that are all the rage with Irish women between the ages of 21 and 37 named Aoibhinn. Anyway, those damn clowns have had a firm grip on the entire territory for centuries, and now they are making these ladies’ day hell six ways to Sunday! Now which, if any, of our comely heroines will survive these grease paint ghouls… So what works, what doesn’t, and is Clown Fear worth your time? Glad you mother fuckers asked… even if you didn’t. So firmly in the “plus” column is the acting present in this terror
Continue reading →
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Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, ‘Scream: The TV Series’) brought Gunpowder & Sky, ALTER, DIGA Studios, and Full Fathom Five’s zombie rom-com Eat, Brains, Love to viewers digitally on Valentine’s day. The flick, based on the novel of the same name by Jeff Hart, follows stoner loser Jake, and cheerleader captain Amanda after they become zombies and are on the run from a government organization that uses Psychics to find and kill Zombies. The problem is, one of the best psychics in the organization is falling in love with Jake. There are spoilers ahead but if you just want my final thought you can scroll down to the end. SPOILERS AHEAD! The film is told through narration by Jake (Jake Cannavale) and the psychic teenage government worker Cass (Sarah Yarkin) which at times also doubles as an inner monologue. Jake contracts a zombie virus, which in the film is sexually transmitted, and changes into a zombie in a crowded cafeteria; he’s
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsParanormalTrailers
Hunted by an unstoppable secret agent, a brother must hide his twin sister and her supernatural abilities so that she does not fall prey to becoming an experiment in a classified government program in Transference, out this March. Tony Nash, Jeremy Ninaber, Mathew Ninaber, Eamon Hanson, and Rikki Wright star in the sci-fi thriller directed by Matthew Ninaber. In the film, “a twelve-year-old boy, Joshua, is charged with the protection of his twin sister when their father passes, but she possesses a special ability and his greatest challenge will not be keeping her safe but keeping her hidden. Twenty years later, Joshua is struggling to cope with the events of his childhood and the choices he has made since. Out of desperation, he places Emma in a psychiatric compound against her will. Joshua is driven to the world of underground crime to maintain their secret. But he cannot earn enough to hide their past and someone has followed their trail
Continue reading →
