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The controversial, super brutal horror film The Sadness, which nearly caused a riot by disturbed viewers at its festival screening, is now streaming on Shudder. Written and directed by Rob Jabbaz, the story “follows a young couple, played by Regina Lei (76 Horror Bookstore) and Berant Zhu (We Are Champions, How to Train Our Dragon), trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists. Tzu Chiang Wang (It’s Drizzling) and In Ru Chen also star. The film is produced by David Barker and executive produced by Li-Cheng Huang, while Eunice Cheng’s associate produced for Machi Xcelsior Studios. The Sadness, which features English subtitles, was shot in Taipei, Taiwan. While The Sadness, which Craig Engler general manager of Shudder describes as “a brutal, boundary-pushing shocker, one of the boldest and bloodiest we’ve ever acquired,” may not be for everyone, but if you’re into extreme horror it will be right up your alley.
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Remember the 1981 TV movie Dark Night of the Scarecrow? Even if you answer “no” it won’t matter a bit when you sit down to view Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (or maybe it’s Straw Eyes if the extra title card is to be believed), because other than a few passing references to the first film this is a stand alone flick through and through, but more on that in a bit… Single mom Chris Rhymer (Amber Wedding) and her son Jeremy (Aiden Shurr) arrive smack-dab in the middle of cornfield country to begin life anew. Speaking of life, someone or something is wandering about these rural environs killing folks willy-nilly. Therein lies the crux of this fright film. Who is committing these murders, and why? Well, in case you are a really shit-lousy guesser, it seems a scarecrow is doing the deed, but why and how? That is where the movie gets a bit over-complicated for it’s own
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Writer-director Leonardo Araneo takes viewers on a terrifying trip to a country home this May in the indie horror Back from Hell. In the film, “six ex-classmates decide to spend some holidays together in a manor house in the countryside. Very soon, the jovial mood progressively deteriorates as strange paranormal phenomena start to happen.” Starring Aran Bert, Giovanni Guidelli, Jennifer Mischiati, Manuela Parodi, Marco Quaglia, Marco Vannini Gandolfi, and Robert Zibetti, Back From Hell arrives on DVD on May 31, 2022, from Bayview Entertainment. You can pre-order your copy today.
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Narcotics Anonymous said in 1981 “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” before it was famously misquoted saying that it’s “doing the same thing over and over”, either way, the point is repeating things with the hope of a different outcome is insane. The subject of this review is a perfect example of that thanks to Thunderful & Carry Castle’s Lovecraftian game Source of Madness. Source of Madness is a side-scrolling action RPG that takes players into a world being twisted by cosmic horrors from beyond the stars. Players take on the role(s) of an acolyte of a cult venturing into the twisted landscapes of different biomes to find the source of the growing madness taking over your world. Now onto the game itself! the controls for Source of Madness are straightforward and thankfully limited allowing you to master it quickly and respond very well. The game’s sound design is amazing with the roars of the monsters,
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Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take
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Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.
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Following a successful run on the genre festival circuit, 123 Go Films has announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin’s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, “telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” Night Caller stars Susan Priver, Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Bai Ling (The Crow), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Christine Nguyen, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), and Robert Miano, as well as Robert “Corpsy” Rhine. The
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The dead communicate in Giorgio Bruno’s Italian horror-thriller They Talk, out today Digital and DVD, from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, sound engineer Alex accidentally records sinister voices while shooting a documentary. The voices do not sound human, and they appear to be trying to warn him about someone, or something. His search for their meaning will bring back mysterious people and events from his past. A threatening, black, and gloomy wave starts to haunt him. Written by Vinicio Canton, Stefano Ceccarelli, and Chiara Barbo, They Talk also stars Rocío Muñoz, Sydney White, and Margaux Billard.
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Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural has announced today that it has acquired rights to and set the release date for Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood, Kindred) and Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Being the Ricardos). In Glorious, “Kwanten plays a young man who is spiraling out of control after a bad breakup. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside a rest-stop bathroom with a mysterious figure (Simmons) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As he tries to escape, he realizes he is an unwilling player in a situation bigger and more terrible than he could have imagined.” This film is written by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull, and David Ian McKendry. AMP International’s Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh serve as producers along with Joe Wicker and Morgan Peter Brown from Fallback Plan Productions, Jason Scott Goldberg, and Christian Armogida. “For years, I had been searching for a project that
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Dark Sky Films announced today the release date for the multi-award-winning Gothic German thriller Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes. In the film, “Margo, who comes from a noble family, inherited a castle that she inspects with her ill-tempered husband Dieter. When they arrive at the run-down keep, their relationship is put to a test as their sanity slowly deteriorates. This opens up a new world. As time and space begin to shift around them, a reality that only exists within the walls of the eerie building is exposed – a reality full of warmth and excess.” Things aren’t as they seem in this genre-bending film, which shifts between different story layers in unpredictable ways. It is a love letter to European cinema of the sixties and seventies that will leave viewers guessing what will happen next. Directed by Kevin Kopacka (Hades), and written and produced by Lili Villányi and Kevin Kopacka, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes stars Anna Platen (Para
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The controversial, super brutal horror film The Sadness, which nearly caused a riot by disturbed viewers at its festival screening, is now streaming on Shudder. Written and directed by Rob Jabbaz, the story “follows a young couple, played by Regina Lei (76 Horror Bookstore) and Berant Zhu (We Are Champions, How to Train Our Dragon), trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists. Tzu Chiang Wang (It’s Drizzling) and In Ru Chen also star. The film is produced by David Barker and executive produced by Li-Cheng Huang, while Eunice Cheng’s associate produced for Machi Xcelsior Studios. The Sadness, which features English subtitles, was shot in Taipei, Taiwan. While The Sadness, which Craig Engler general manager of Shudder describes as “a brutal, boundary-pushing shocker, one of the boldest and bloodiest we’ve ever acquired,” may not be for everyone, but if you’re into extreme horror it will be right up your alley.
Continue reading →
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Remember the 1981 TV movie Dark Night of the Scarecrow? Even if you answer “no” it won’t matter a bit when you sit down to view Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (or maybe it’s Straw Eyes if the extra title card is to be believed), because other than a few passing references to the first film this is a stand alone flick through and through, but more on that in a bit… Single mom Chris Rhymer (Amber Wedding) and her son Jeremy (Aiden Shurr) arrive smack-dab in the middle of cornfield country to begin life anew. Speaking of life, someone or something is wandering about these rural environs killing folks willy-nilly. Therein lies the crux of this fright film. Who is committing these murders, and why? Well, in case you are a really shit-lousy guesser, it seems a scarecrow is doing the deed, but why and how? That is where the movie gets a bit over-complicated for it’s own
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsParanormalTrailers
Writer-director Leonardo Araneo takes viewers on a terrifying trip to a country home this May in the indie horror Back from Hell. In the film, “six ex-classmates decide to spend some holidays together in a manor house in the countryside. Very soon, the jovial mood progressively deteriorates as strange paranormal phenomena start to happen.” Starring Aran Bert, Giovanni Guidelli, Jennifer Mischiati, Manuela Parodi, Marco Quaglia, Marco Vannini Gandolfi, and Robert Zibetti, Back From Hell arrives on DVD on May 31, 2022, from Bayview Entertainment. You can pre-order your copy today.
Continue reading →
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Narcotics Anonymous said in 1981 “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” before it was famously misquoted saying that it’s “doing the same thing over and over”, either way, the point is repeating things with the hope of a different outcome is insane. The subject of this review is a perfect example of that thanks to Thunderful & Carry Castle’s Lovecraftian game Source of Madness. Source of Madness is a side-scrolling action RPG that takes players into a world being twisted by cosmic horrors from beyond the stars. Players take on the role(s) of an acolyte of a cult venturing into the twisted landscapes of different biomes to find the source of the growing madness taking over your world. Now onto the game itself! the controls for Source of Madness are straightforward and thankfully limited allowing you to master it quickly and respond very well. The game’s sound design is amazing with the roars of the monsters,
Continue reading →
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Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take
Continue reading →
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Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.
Continue reading →
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Following a successful run on the genre festival circuit, 123 Go Films has announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin’s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, “telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” Night Caller stars Susan Priver, Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Bai Ling (The Crow), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Christine Nguyen, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), and Robert Miano, as well as Robert “Corpsy” Rhine. The
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsParanormalTrailers
The dead communicate in Giorgio Bruno’s Italian horror-thriller They Talk, out today Digital and DVD, from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, sound engineer Alex accidentally records sinister voices while shooting a documentary. The voices do not sound human, and they appear to be trying to warn him about someone, or something. His search for their meaning will bring back mysterious people and events from his past. A threatening, black, and gloomy wave starts to haunt him. Written by Vinicio Canton, Stefano Ceccarelli, and Chiara Barbo, They Talk also stars Rocío Muñoz, Sydney White, and Margaux Billard.
Continue reading →
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Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural has announced today that it has acquired rights to and set the release date for Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood, Kindred) and Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Being the Ricardos). In Glorious, “Kwanten plays a young man who is spiraling out of control after a bad breakup. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside a rest-stop bathroom with a mysterious figure (Simmons) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As he tries to escape, he realizes he is an unwilling player in a situation bigger and more terrible than he could have imagined.” This film is written by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull, and David Ian McKendry. AMP International’s Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh serve as producers along with Joe Wicker and Morgan Peter Brown from Fallback Plan Productions, Jason Scott Goldberg, and Christian Armogida. “For years, I had been searching for a project that
Continue reading →
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Dark Sky Films announced today the release date for the multi-award-winning Gothic German thriller Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes. In the film, “Margo, who comes from a noble family, inherited a castle that she inspects with her ill-tempered husband Dieter. When they arrive at the run-down keep, their relationship is put to a test as their sanity slowly deteriorates. This opens up a new world. As time and space begin to shift around them, a reality that only exists within the walls of the eerie building is exposed – a reality full of warmth and excess.” Things aren’t as they seem in this genre-bending film, which shifts between different story layers in unpredictable ways. It is a love letter to European cinema of the sixties and seventies that will leave viewers guessing what will happen next. Directed by Kevin Kopacka (Hades), and written and produced by Lili Villányi and Kevin Kopacka, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes stars Anna Platen (Para
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