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Something evil stalks the new trailer for Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley‘s Echoes of Fear, starring Trista Robinson, Hannah Race, and Paul Chirico. In the film, “After inheriting her grandfather’s home due to his sudden death, Alysa returns to her childhood house to make the necessary repairs in order to sell it. But as she begins packing, her grandfather’s belongings, something inside the house starts spooking her. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. And now, within the secret rooms and hidden crawlspaces beneath the house, Alysa realizes that she must uncover the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear is stilling making its rounds at film festivals. As soon as we have a release date we’ll let you know. In the meantime, check out the trailer.
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The trailer has arrived for This Is Our Home – a riveting new psychological thriller created on a micro-indie budget – makes its world premiere at the 2019 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, in the event’s Feature Thrills category. “Jeff Ayars (“Cory”), a viral comedy actor and director turned horror lead, and Simone Policano (“Reina”), a New York City-raised, Yale-educated actress. The unsettling arrival of a mysterious boy, gifted newcomer Drew Beckas (“Zeke”), at Reina’s childhood home throws a nightmarish wrench into their plans for an idyllic, romantic retreat. Perhaps best described by Ayars as “Blue Valentine wrapped in a horror.” Director Omri Dorani and his cinematographer, Thomas Taugher, “carefully composed and choreographed the film over the course of a non-stop, eleven-day shoot to showcase the on-screen chemistry of Ayars (a fellow Philadelphia-native) and Policano–a couple off-screen. The exhausting into-the-night schedule pushed the stars’ raw chemistry to the limit and was intensified when Ayars underwent an emergency appendectomy just days
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In 2027 Los Angeles, cybernetic bounty hunter Alex Raine (Olivier Gruner) finds himself on the losing end of a battle with a group of equally robotic terrorists named the Red Army Hammerheads. After healing up, and entering one of those existential crises man/machines often find themselves in…or so I’m told, Alex is kidnapped by his old boss, Commissioner Farnsworth (Tim Thomerson) for one last mission; stop his old girlfriend, the android Jared (Marjorie Monaghan), from delivering security details of an upcoming summit between the U.S. and Japan to Angie-Liv (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa); the leader of the Hammerheads…and if he refuses the bomb in his heart, placed courtesy of Farnsworth, will explode. But, things aren’t exactly what they seem with the R.A.H., and soon Alex is up to his eighty-six point five percent still human ass in bullets, bad guys, butt cheeks and…well killer robot skeletons; as one does. Holy shit Nemesis…what a fucking picture! This baby has it all; insane action
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The trailer for has just arrived Abduction 101, nominated for “Best Special Effects”, “Best Badass” and “Best Nudity Scene” at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. “Everything is happening in this big forest. A young woman is in danger. She has just discovered a strange house, isolated, in which masked men wearing loose jackets come and go carrying big bags plastique… With the help of her two adventurous friends, she decides to go, equipped with a camera, to investigate these funny actions and to shed light on this disturbing mystery. The situation turns into a nightmare when two of them are captured and held captive in a morbid basement.” Cast & Crew: Directed by Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir, Abduction 101 stars Brianna Shewbert Rouse, Nixi Oblivion, Adrienne Stone, Luna Labelle, and Kayla Kilby with music by Teddy Fetch. Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir both wrote the film and produced. Abduction 101 is represented by www.TheMovieAgency.com Watch Abduction 101 today on
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Being a found footage flick the following sinister synopsis for 1st Summoning is going to sound awfully familiar to any cat or creep familiar with the genre: four student filmmakers set off to the east end of fucking nowhere to shoot a lil’ demonic doc about a location reputed to be a hang out for a Satanic cult. Along the way, they talk to various towns folk foremost of which is the ultra-weird Pastor Youngblood (Jason MacDonald), a dude that just screams “I’m in on this Satanic shit like fucking gangbusters you hipster filmmaking doofuses…now here, eat my avocado toast of DOOM!”…wait, where was I? Oh yeah, these folks bicker, ass around in the dark and the woods, and find that the evil rumored to curse the land is still very much a thing! While the story of 1st Summoning isn’t going to set the world ablaze with it’s stunning inventiveness and originality, it really doesn’t have to. This is
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Kyra (Amy Weber), one of those troubled artist types, answers an ad in the newspaper (welcome to the future year of 1999!) to become a sort of human lab rat for a sketchy filmed anthropology experiment to take place in a fancy-ass mountain lodge. Once there she settles in with the rest of the “subjects”, and shows them her creepy A.F. artwork, which she fails to mention is inspired by a faceless man who haunts her dreams (waking and otherwise). Of course all of this leads to something dire; namely the lodge locks down come nightfall and his loaded to the balls with deadly booby traps. Will our heroes survive the dangerous dwelling, and how will Kyra’s fantasies affect their reality? Man-oh-man, Kolobos is one stylish-ass fright flick! Taking it’s cues from Argento and Bava, the flick is packed tight with lurid colors (kudos to Photography Yoram Astrakhan), surreal fever dream imagery, and fetishistic displays of extreme gore that lead
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Carlotta Moore (playing herself) blows into town like an unholy amalgamation of Father Merrin and a film noir femme fatale (and you can bet her make-up is flawless to boot)! What is Moore’s mission? To perform an exorcism of a man possessed by consumerism (and armed with a killer credit card)…all at the hands of a walking, talking Satanic tooth (have I mentioned this short is batshit insane?)…things get stranger from there with Moore attempting to complete her crusade against capitalism no matter what outre forces stand in her way (and if you think that tooth was weird, you are in for oh so much more…)! You know how folks are always going on about “how they don’t make flicks like they used to in the Grindhouse days?” Well CHRZU fucking does! This dude is a powerhouse of beautifully shot, ultra-shocking pure exploitation bliss (and there’s a message in there for ya too), and The Congregation continues that trend (and
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Bob Langmore (Aden Young); deadbeat dad, lumber mill worker, partially invisible…what, what the fuck now?!! Yeah, ol’ Bob made like a fuckin’ banana and split, leaving his wife Darlene (Camille Sutherland) and rebellious teen daughter Eva (Julia Sarah Stone) in his wake…to say nothing of a promising hockey career…to start over in a remote Canadian town. Why did he leave all that behind? Because he is slowly, painfully. turning invisible, which admittedly would tax the ol’ noggin a bit…and lately that “slowly” part is starting to speed up exponentially. Before long, Darlene calls Bob home to help wrangle in their daughter…but there’s one small problem; she goes missing, and Bob doesn’t take kindly to that, so he sets off on a mission of vengeance to find her…all before he vanishes altogether. The Unseen is a unique take on the whole “invisible man” trope. For one thing we get the troubled every man who is dealing with an outre condition (the
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Luke Jaden‘s indie horror Boo! Ahead of its overseas release later this month, the international trailer has arrived, revealing that when a family gets “Booed” it’s no prank, it’s a curse. Starring Moonlight‘s Jaden Piner, Boo! centers on a family that battling an unseen force as they realize they have to stick together in order to stop unimaginable terror. Jill Marie Jones (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”), Aurora Perrineau (Passengers), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Darkest Hour, Beast), Dwight Henry (12 Years a Slave) and Rob Zabrecky (A Ghost Story) also star. Boo! premieres overseas on February 28th, from Front Row Filmed Entertainment, followed by its U.S. release at a later date (we’ll let you know when).
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During World War II, a murdering, raping, shit heel of a human named Langdon (John Ashley) encounters Satan (Vic Diaz) in the woods, and pleads for his life. Ol’ Scratch spares him as long as L-dawg becomes his servant, which he does…I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? Well, Langdon becomes a pseudo-werewolf eventually, so there’s that. Before all that mangy madness though, Langdon inhabits the bodies of various people over a quarter of a century, making them be the worst they can be to give the Devil his due. Eventually Langdon ends up in the body of a dude named Phil…who just so happens to look just like our “hero” (confused yet)? anyway, langdon has enough of Satan’s shit and try’s to enforce his own will into his existence…and that’s where the werewolf comes in as he turns willy-nilly into a mass murdering monster mutt-man. Before long Inspector de Santos (Leopoldo Salcedo) recognizes Langdon and is hot on
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Something evil stalks the new trailer for Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley‘s Echoes of Fear, starring Trista Robinson, Hannah Race, and Paul Chirico. In the film, “After inheriting her grandfather’s home due to his sudden death, Alysa returns to her childhood house to make the necessary repairs in order to sell it. But as she begins packing, her grandfather’s belongings, something inside the house starts spooking her. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. And now, within the secret rooms and hidden crawlspaces beneath the house, Alysa realizes that she must uncover the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear is stilling making its rounds at film festivals. As soon as we have a release date we’ll let you know. In the meantime, check out the trailer.
Continue reading →
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The trailer has arrived for This Is Our Home – a riveting new psychological thriller created on a micro-indie budget – makes its world premiere at the 2019 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, in the event’s Feature Thrills category. “Jeff Ayars (“Cory”), a viral comedy actor and director turned horror lead, and Simone Policano (“Reina”), a New York City-raised, Yale-educated actress. The unsettling arrival of a mysterious boy, gifted newcomer Drew Beckas (“Zeke”), at Reina’s childhood home throws a nightmarish wrench into their plans for an idyllic, romantic retreat. Perhaps best described by Ayars as “Blue Valentine wrapped in a horror.” Director Omri Dorani and his cinematographer, Thomas Taugher, “carefully composed and choreographed the film over the course of a non-stop, eleven-day shoot to showcase the on-screen chemistry of Ayars (a fellow Philadelphia-native) and Policano–a couple off-screen. The exhausting into-the-night schedule pushed the stars’ raw chemistry to the limit and was intensified when Ayars underwent an emergency appendectomy just days
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In 2027 Los Angeles, cybernetic bounty hunter Alex Raine (Olivier Gruner) finds himself on the losing end of a battle with a group of equally robotic terrorists named the Red Army Hammerheads. After healing up, and entering one of those existential crises man/machines often find themselves in…or so I’m told, Alex is kidnapped by his old boss, Commissioner Farnsworth (Tim Thomerson) for one last mission; stop his old girlfriend, the android Jared (Marjorie Monaghan), from delivering security details of an upcoming summit between the U.S. and Japan to Angie-Liv (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa); the leader of the Hammerheads…and if he refuses the bomb in his heart, placed courtesy of Farnsworth, will explode. But, things aren’t exactly what they seem with the R.A.H., and soon Alex is up to his eighty-six point five percent still human ass in bullets, bad guys, butt cheeks and…well killer robot skeletons; as one does. Holy shit Nemesis…what a fucking picture! This baby has it all; insane action
Continue reading →
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The trailer for has just arrived Abduction 101, nominated for “Best Special Effects”, “Best Badass” and “Best Nudity Scene” at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. “Everything is happening in this big forest. A young woman is in danger. She has just discovered a strange house, isolated, in which masked men wearing loose jackets come and go carrying big bags plastique… With the help of her two adventurous friends, she decides to go, equipped with a camera, to investigate these funny actions and to shed light on this disturbing mystery. The situation turns into a nightmare when two of them are captured and held captive in a morbid basement.” Cast & Crew: Directed by Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir, Abduction 101 stars Brianna Shewbert Rouse, Nixi Oblivion, Adrienne Stone, Luna Labelle, and Kayla Kilby with music by Teddy Fetch. Robin Entreinger and Steve Noir both wrote the film and produced. Abduction 101 is represented by www.TheMovieAgency.com Watch Abduction 101 today on
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Being a found footage flick the following sinister synopsis for 1st Summoning is going to sound awfully familiar to any cat or creep familiar with the genre: four student filmmakers set off to the east end of fucking nowhere to shoot a lil’ demonic doc about a location reputed to be a hang out for a Satanic cult. Along the way, they talk to various towns folk foremost of which is the ultra-weird Pastor Youngblood (Jason MacDonald), a dude that just screams “I’m in on this Satanic shit like fucking gangbusters you hipster filmmaking doofuses…now here, eat my avocado toast of DOOM!”…wait, where was I? Oh yeah, these folks bicker, ass around in the dark and the woods, and find that the evil rumored to curse the land is still very much a thing! While the story of 1st Summoning isn’t going to set the world ablaze with it’s stunning inventiveness and originality, it really doesn’t have to. This is
Continue reading →
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Kyra (Amy Weber), one of those troubled artist types, answers an ad in the newspaper (welcome to the future year of 1999!) to become a sort of human lab rat for a sketchy filmed anthropology experiment to take place in a fancy-ass mountain lodge. Once there she settles in with the rest of the “subjects”, and shows them her creepy A.F. artwork, which she fails to mention is inspired by a faceless man who haunts her dreams (waking and otherwise). Of course all of this leads to something dire; namely the lodge locks down come nightfall and his loaded to the balls with deadly booby traps. Will our heroes survive the dangerous dwelling, and how will Kyra’s fantasies affect their reality? Man-oh-man, Kolobos is one stylish-ass fright flick! Taking it’s cues from Argento and Bava, the flick is packed tight with lurid colors (kudos to Photography Yoram Astrakhan), surreal fever dream imagery, and fetishistic displays of extreme gore that lead
Continue reading →
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Carlotta Moore (playing herself) blows into town like an unholy amalgamation of Father Merrin and a film noir femme fatale (and you can bet her make-up is flawless to boot)! What is Moore’s mission? To perform an exorcism of a man possessed by consumerism (and armed with a killer credit card)…all at the hands of a walking, talking Satanic tooth (have I mentioned this short is batshit insane?)…things get stranger from there with Moore attempting to complete her crusade against capitalism no matter what outre forces stand in her way (and if you think that tooth was weird, you are in for oh so much more…)! You know how folks are always going on about “how they don’t make flicks like they used to in the Grindhouse days?” Well CHRZU fucking does! This dude is a powerhouse of beautifully shot, ultra-shocking pure exploitation bliss (and there’s a message in there for ya too), and The Congregation continues that trend (and
Continue reading →
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Bob Langmore (Aden Young); deadbeat dad, lumber mill worker, partially invisible…what, what the fuck now?!! Yeah, ol’ Bob made like a fuckin’ banana and split, leaving his wife Darlene (Camille Sutherland) and rebellious teen daughter Eva (Julia Sarah Stone) in his wake…to say nothing of a promising hockey career…to start over in a remote Canadian town. Why did he leave all that behind? Because he is slowly, painfully. turning invisible, which admittedly would tax the ol’ noggin a bit…and lately that “slowly” part is starting to speed up exponentially. Before long, Darlene calls Bob home to help wrangle in their daughter…but there’s one small problem; she goes missing, and Bob doesn’t take kindly to that, so he sets off on a mission of vengeance to find her…all before he vanishes altogether. The Unseen is a unique take on the whole “invisible man” trope. For one thing we get the troubled every man who is dealing with an outre condition (the
Continue reading →
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Luke Jaden‘s indie horror Boo! Ahead of its overseas release later this month, the international trailer has arrived, revealing that when a family gets “Booed” it’s no prank, it’s a curse. Starring Moonlight‘s Jaden Piner, Boo! centers on a family that battling an unseen force as they realize they have to stick together in order to stop unimaginable terror. Jill Marie Jones (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”), Aurora Perrineau (Passengers), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Darkest Hour, Beast), Dwight Henry (12 Years a Slave) and Rob Zabrecky (A Ghost Story) also star. Boo! premieres overseas on February 28th, from Front Row Filmed Entertainment, followed by its U.S. release at a later date (we’ll let you know when).
Continue reading →
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During World War II, a murdering, raping, shit heel of a human named Langdon (John Ashley) encounters Satan (Vic Diaz) in the woods, and pleads for his life. Ol’ Scratch spares him as long as L-dawg becomes his servant, which he does…I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? Well, Langdon becomes a pseudo-werewolf eventually, so there’s that. Before all that mangy madness though, Langdon inhabits the bodies of various people over a quarter of a century, making them be the worst they can be to give the Devil his due. Eventually Langdon ends up in the body of a dude named Phil…who just so happens to look just like our “hero” (confused yet)? anyway, langdon has enough of Satan’s shit and try’s to enforce his own will into his existence…and that’s where the werewolf comes in as he turns willy-nilly into a mass murdering monster mutt-man. Before long Inspector de Santos (Leopoldo Salcedo) recognizes Langdon and is hot on
Continue reading →
