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Severin has recently unleashed a new box set titled The Incredibly Strange Films of Ray Dennis Steckler, and that is my personal choice for understatement of the century! Let’s just dive-in to the first feature in the set, 1962’s Wild Guitar: The incredible legend (well at least his Dad wanted that to be a thing) Arch Hall Jr. (who also appeared in the caveman shocker Eegah! the same year) stars as Bud Eagle, a dude that’s a lil’ bit Elvis but is more a clumsy doofus with a massive Johnny Bravo-style blonde pompadour. Anyway Bud blows in to Hollywood one fateful day, down to his last fifteen cents, and happens into a diner (populated by cartoon hooligans and an inexplicable kid dressed as a cowboy) where he meets the bubbly, Joker-grin having Vickie (Nancy Czar), a hopeful dancer that let’s Bud tag along with her to a variety show taping where she struts her stuff; a shimmy-packed, facial tick-laced dynamite
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Before its latest sequel, V/H/S/99 can premiere on October 20th, news has come that Shudder has just green-lit the next installment of the franchise, V/H/S/85. The upcoming anthology will feature renowned genre filmmakers such as David Bruckner (Hellraiser, The Night House), Scott Derrickson (The Black Phone, Sinister), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Bingo Hell, Culture Shock), Natasha Kermani (Lucky) and Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn). “Since its inception, the V/H/S franchise has been a showcase for both established and emerging horror filmmakers to terrify audiences with innovative takes on the found footage genre. Following the success of last year’s hit V/H/S/94 and this year’s upcoming V/H/S/99, we are totally stoked to take Shudder members back to 1985 with a wicked new collection of scares from some of the most radical horror directors working today,” said Shudder General Manager Craig Engler. “The V/H/S series is a continued love letter to found footage nastiness and the mad variety of anthology horror,” said director and
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The hit found footage horror anthology franchise, V/H/S, is back with an all-new installment, V/H/S/99. The official trailer is here, teasing the horror that awaits you when it premieres this Halloween. Featuring renowned genre filmmakers Maggie Levin (Into The Dark: My Valentine), Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City), Flying Lotus (Kuso), Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls), and Joseph & Vanessa Winter (Deadstream). V/H/S/99 takes us back to the final punk rock analog days of the VHS while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium. In the film, a video leads to a series of horrifying revelations. “V/H/S/94 set a new bar for what is already a fantastic film franchise, featuring some of the best horror anthology segments in recent memory by an incredible lineup of filmmakers,” said Craig Engler, GM of Shudder. We’re confident this is the biggest, baddest, and most wildly savage V/H/S yet!” Producer Josh Goldbloom had this to say about
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MUBI is proud to announce the U.S. theatrical and streaming release of The Box (La Caja) the gut-punching psychological thriller and latest feature film from acclaimed Venezuelan writer-director Lorenzo Vigas, which had its world premiere in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival and is Venezuela’s official Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Film. Set in the harsh landscape of northern Mexico, The Box is Vigas’ third and last installment of his fiction trilogy on the theme of the father figure after the 2004 short film Elephants Never Forget, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, and his 2015 debut feature From Afar, winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, marking a first for a Latin American film. “The Box tells the story of Hatzín (played wonderfully by the non-professional newcomer Hatzín Navarrete), a young teenager from Mexico City who travels to northern Mexico to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in
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RLJE Films has set a Fall release date for the horror-thriller, The Friendship Game which follows a group of teens as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other and has increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go. Directed by Scooter Corkle (Hollow in the Land) and written by Damien Ober (“The OA”), the film stars Peyton List (“Cobra-Kai”, “Bunk’d”), Brendan Meyer (Color Out of Space), Kelcey Mawema (“To All the Boys…” franchise), Kaitlyn Santa Juana (“The Flash”) and Dylan Schombing (Warcraft). “THE FRIENDSHIP GAME features an incredibly talented young cast lead by rising star Peyton List,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer at RLJE Films. “We cannot wait for audiences to join this fun, exciting, entertaining thrill-ride of a movie.” “We’re very energized to be partnered with RLJE Films on the release of THE FRIENDSHIP GAME – this is the kind of film they always rock with,” said Producer Daniel Bekerman.
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The sci-fi mystery/suspense film Silent River is heading to theaters for one week, on October 14th at Laemmle Glendale before landing on Digital later this month. With a surreal filmmaking style inspired by the neo-noir work of David Lynch, Silent River—starring West Liang (FBI: Most Wanted, Atypical, Rebel) and Amy Tsang (Love Shot, Kung Fu)—is the third feature film release from writer-director Chris Chan Lee, who made his directorial debut in 1997 with the award-winning, critically acclaimed film, Yellow, a coming-of-age drama/comedy then Lee followed with producing the thriller, Jasmine, which won 100 awards in international film festival competitions. Lee was one of the “Class of 1997”—as noted in the book Rise: A Pop History of Asian Americans from the Nineties to Now (pages 150-151)—when the film industry lauded six Asian filmmakers who were bringing the same game-changing talent and momentum to indie film that had previously announced the bomb-dropping “arrival” of noted Black filmmakers like Spike Lee and queer
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Human trafficking has become a terrifying, horror-filled reality for many, with an average of 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children being trafficked every year. Director Larry A. McLean’s new thriller Beyond the Neon follows one woman’s search for her missing sister, a trafficking victim. “Based on true accounts, a Las Vegas escort is recognized by her sister in a viral social experiment video. Looking to reunite the sisters, and secretly motivated to capture the reunion on camera, Joey Salads and his apprehensive crew are thrown into the dangerous and corrupt world of escorting, documenting every step of their desperate effort to rescue the woman from human sex trafficking in Las Vegas.” YouTube star Joey Salads appears alongside Cynthia Lucero, Gila Goodman, Marisa Dzintars, Caitlin Carleton, and Frank Pesce in the indie film that opens in theaters on October 14, 2022, followed by its release on VOD on October 18th. If you are someone you know has been trafficked, please
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“Chucky” star Fiona Dourif (Tenet, The Blacklist) leads the cast of director Brando Lee‘s frightening new horror film Don’t Look at the Demon, being unleashed this week. In the film, “A troubled medium Jules (Dourif) and an American team of paranormal TV investigators, played by Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing, Triangle of Sadness, The King’s Man), Jordon Belfi (Entourage), and Randy Wayne (Dukes of Hazard: The Beginning), go to the home of a couple who claim to have experienced inexplicable, threatening disturbances. Delving into the mystery, they encounter possessions and apparitions more terrifying than any they’d witnessed before – actual contact with the other side. As the cameras roll and bodies are possessed, they’re inevitably overwhelmed by this violent supernatural force. Their only hope? Jules. She refuses to face what really happened when her first supernatural encounter left her sister dead. But her dark past, if she can unlock it, may be their only hope of stopping the demon
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From director Randy Kent and writer Chris Sanders comes the indie horror Demons at Dawn, set to be released just in time for Halloween. Today the official poster has been revealed featuring the entire cast which includes Dani Thompson, Amber Doig-Thorne, Bill Victor Arucan, Stacy Johnson, John Altman, Andy Gatenby, William ‘Bill’ Connor, Chris Sanders, and Crystal J. Huang. The chilling horror film follows a retired hitman who is blackmailed into taking one last job. During his mission, he uncovers an elite Satanic cult that uses human sacrifice to summon demons. Demons At Dawn will be unleashed on digital platforms on October 28, 2022, from Black Coppice Films Ltd.
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The fantastic, creepy AF, and one-of-a-kind horror The Deep House is surfacing on Blu-ray and DVD this October. ” In this terrifying supernatural horror, Tina and Ben are YouTubers who travel to explore a house lost at the bottom of a lake and share their experience on social media. What is initially a unique find turns into a nightmare when they learn that the house was once the scene of atrocious crimes. Trapped, with their oxygen reserves falling dangerously low, they soon discover they aren’t alone in the house.” Starring James Jagger (Vinyl) and Camille Rowe (No Limit), The Deep House, which we called “a brilliantly dark and disturbing movie that should be seen by every horror fan,” in our review, is written and directed by award-winning filmmakers, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (Kandisha, Inside). Get your copy of The Deep House on Blu-ray o DVD on Halloween, from Dazzler Media. You can pre-order your copy now.
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Severin has recently unleashed a new box set titled The Incredibly Strange Films of Ray Dennis Steckler, and that is my personal choice for understatement of the century! Let’s just dive-in to the first feature in the set, 1962’s Wild Guitar: The incredible legend (well at least his Dad wanted that to be a thing) Arch Hall Jr. (who also appeared in the caveman shocker Eegah! the same year) stars as Bud Eagle, a dude that’s a lil’ bit Elvis but is more a clumsy doofus with a massive Johnny Bravo-style blonde pompadour. Anyway Bud blows in to Hollywood one fateful day, down to his last fifteen cents, and happens into a diner (populated by cartoon hooligans and an inexplicable kid dressed as a cowboy) where he meets the bubbly, Joker-grin having Vickie (Nancy Czar), a hopeful dancer that let’s Bud tag along with her to a variety show taping where she struts her stuff; a shimmy-packed, facial tick-laced dynamite
Continue reading →
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Before its latest sequel, V/H/S/99 can premiere on October 20th, news has come that Shudder has just green-lit the next installment of the franchise, V/H/S/85. The upcoming anthology will feature renowned genre filmmakers such as David Bruckner (Hellraiser, The Night House), Scott Derrickson (The Black Phone, Sinister), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Bingo Hell, Culture Shock), Natasha Kermani (Lucky) and Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn). “Since its inception, the V/H/S franchise has been a showcase for both established and emerging horror filmmakers to terrify audiences with innovative takes on the found footage genre. Following the success of last year’s hit V/H/S/94 and this year’s upcoming V/H/S/99, we are totally stoked to take Shudder members back to 1985 with a wicked new collection of scares from some of the most radical horror directors working today,” said Shudder General Manager Craig Engler. “The V/H/S series is a continued love letter to found footage nastiness and the mad variety of anthology horror,” said director and
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
The hit found footage horror anthology franchise, V/H/S, is back with an all-new installment, V/H/S/99. The official trailer is here, teasing the horror that awaits you when it premieres this Halloween. Featuring renowned genre filmmakers Maggie Levin (Into The Dark: My Valentine), Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City), Flying Lotus (Kuso), Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls), and Joseph & Vanessa Winter (Deadstream). V/H/S/99 takes us back to the final punk rock analog days of the VHS while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium. In the film, a video leads to a series of horrifying revelations. “V/H/S/94 set a new bar for what is already a fantastic film franchise, featuring some of the best horror anthology segments in recent memory by an incredible lineup of filmmakers,” said Craig Engler, GM of Shudder. We’re confident this is the biggest, baddest, and most wildly savage V/H/S yet!” Producer Josh Goldbloom had this to say about
Continue reading →
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MUBI is proud to announce the U.S. theatrical and streaming release of The Box (La Caja) the gut-punching psychological thriller and latest feature film from acclaimed Venezuelan writer-director Lorenzo Vigas, which had its world premiere in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival and is Venezuela’s official Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Film. Set in the harsh landscape of northern Mexico, The Box is Vigas’ third and last installment of his fiction trilogy on the theme of the father figure after the 2004 short film Elephants Never Forget, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, and his 2015 debut feature From Afar, winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, marking a first for a Latin American film. “The Box tells the story of Hatzín (played wonderfully by the non-professional newcomer Hatzín Navarrete), a young teenager from Mexico City who travels to northern Mexico to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in
Continue reading →
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RLJE Films has set a Fall release date for the horror-thriller, The Friendship Game which follows a group of teens as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other and has increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go. Directed by Scooter Corkle (Hollow in the Land) and written by Damien Ober (“The OA”), the film stars Peyton List (“Cobra-Kai”, “Bunk’d”), Brendan Meyer (Color Out of Space), Kelcey Mawema (“To All the Boys…” franchise), Kaitlyn Santa Juana (“The Flash”) and Dylan Schombing (Warcraft). “THE FRIENDSHIP GAME features an incredibly talented young cast lead by rising star Peyton List,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer at RLJE Films. “We cannot wait for audiences to join this fun, exciting, entertaining thrill-ride of a movie.” “We’re very energized to be partnered with RLJE Films on the release of THE FRIENDSHIP GAME – this is the kind of film they always rock with,” said Producer Daniel Bekerman.
Continue reading →
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The sci-fi mystery/suspense film Silent River is heading to theaters for one week, on October 14th at Laemmle Glendale before landing on Digital later this month. With a surreal filmmaking style inspired by the neo-noir work of David Lynch, Silent River—starring West Liang (FBI: Most Wanted, Atypical, Rebel) and Amy Tsang (Love Shot, Kung Fu)—is the third feature film release from writer-director Chris Chan Lee, who made his directorial debut in 1997 with the award-winning, critically acclaimed film, Yellow, a coming-of-age drama/comedy then Lee followed with producing the thriller, Jasmine, which won 100 awards in international film festival competitions. Lee was one of the “Class of 1997”—as noted in the book Rise: A Pop History of Asian Americans from the Nineties to Now (pages 150-151)—when the film industry lauded six Asian filmmakers who were bringing the same game-changing talent and momentum to indie film that had previously announced the bomb-dropping “arrival” of noted Black filmmakers like Spike Lee and queer
Continue reading →
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Human trafficking has become a terrifying, horror-filled reality for many, with an average of 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children being trafficked every year. Director Larry A. McLean’s new thriller Beyond the Neon follows one woman’s search for her missing sister, a trafficking victim. “Based on true accounts, a Las Vegas escort is recognized by her sister in a viral social experiment video. Looking to reunite the sisters, and secretly motivated to capture the reunion on camera, Joey Salads and his apprehensive crew are thrown into the dangerous and corrupt world of escorting, documenting every step of their desperate effort to rescue the woman from human sex trafficking in Las Vegas.” YouTube star Joey Salads appears alongside Cynthia Lucero, Gila Goodman, Marisa Dzintars, Caitlin Carleton, and Frank Pesce in the indie film that opens in theaters on October 14, 2022, followed by its release on VOD on October 18th. If you are someone you know has been trafficked, please
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“Chucky” star Fiona Dourif (Tenet, The Blacklist) leads the cast of director Brando Lee‘s frightening new horror film Don’t Look at the Demon, being unleashed this week. In the film, “A troubled medium Jules (Dourif) and an American team of paranormal TV investigators, played by Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing, Triangle of Sadness, The King’s Man), Jordon Belfi (Entourage), and Randy Wayne (Dukes of Hazard: The Beginning), go to the home of a couple who claim to have experienced inexplicable, threatening disturbances. Delving into the mystery, they encounter possessions and apparitions more terrifying than any they’d witnessed before – actual contact with the other side. As the cameras roll and bodies are possessed, they’re inevitably overwhelmed by this violent supernatural force. Their only hope? Jules. She refuses to face what really happened when her first supernatural encounter left her sister dead. But her dark past, if she can unlock it, may be their only hope of stopping the demon
Continue reading →
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From director Randy Kent and writer Chris Sanders comes the indie horror Demons at Dawn, set to be released just in time for Halloween. Today the official poster has been revealed featuring the entire cast which includes Dani Thompson, Amber Doig-Thorne, Bill Victor Arucan, Stacy Johnson, John Altman, Andy Gatenby, William ‘Bill’ Connor, Chris Sanders, and Crystal J. Huang. The chilling horror film follows a retired hitman who is blackmailed into taking one last job. During his mission, he uncovers an elite Satanic cult that uses human sacrifice to summon demons. Demons At Dawn will be unleashed on digital platforms on October 28, 2022, from Black Coppice Films Ltd.
Continue reading →
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The fantastic, creepy AF, and one-of-a-kind horror The Deep House is surfacing on Blu-ray and DVD this October. ” In this terrifying supernatural horror, Tina and Ben are YouTubers who travel to explore a house lost at the bottom of a lake and share their experience on social media. What is initially a unique find turns into a nightmare when they learn that the house was once the scene of atrocious crimes. Trapped, with their oxygen reserves falling dangerously low, they soon discover they aren’t alone in the house.” Starring James Jagger (Vinyl) and Camille Rowe (No Limit), The Deep House, which we called “a brilliantly dark and disturbing movie that should be seen by every horror fan,” in our review, is written and directed by award-winning filmmakers, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (Kandisha, Inside). Get your copy of The Deep House on Blu-ray o DVD on Halloween, from Dazzler Media. You can pre-order your copy now.
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