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Director Devon Jovi Johnson makes his feature film debut with the indie horror film What Happened at 625 River Road. Today, the first trailer has arrived for the film. What really happened at 625 River Road on May 11th, 2015? This film is based on true events and follows two young female college students from New York City on their spring break. As they arrive at their rental home, 625 River Road, a chain of mysterious events takes place that remains unsolved to this day. The film stars Francheska Pujols, Summer Foley, Silvana Jakich, Piotr Marzecki, Matrell Smith, and Lloyd Dickenson, and was written by director Devon Jovi Johnson and Allen Worrell. This summer, we will find out What Happened at 625 River Road. For more information please visit the film’s official website.
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Remember as a kid turning the handle of a Jack in the Box? As you slowly cranked it tension built as you waited for something to spring out at you. Get ready for a new spring-loaded scare. From award-winning writer-director, Lawrence Fowler comes The Jack in the Box: Awakening, the sequel to 2020’s indie horror The Jack in the Box. Starring Matt McClure, James Swanton, Mollie Hindle, and Nicola Wright, Awakening centers on terminally ill heiress Olga Marsdale who acquires a mysterious gothic box containing a captured demon – Jack. The powerful entity within makes a deadly deal with Olga and her devoted son Edgar – deliver six victims to Jack and Olga will live. They trap several unsuspecting victims for him within the vast crumbling mansion – but can they deliver all six before it’s too late? Or will Amy, the young and innocent woman recently hired to look after the estate turn out to be more than a
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Yellow Veil Pictures has unveiled the new cover art and special disc extras for the upcoming re-release of Sarah Adina Smith’s 2014 acclaimed debut feature The Midnight Swim, available for pre-order from Vinegar Syndrome in a special collector’s Blu-ray edition followed by a digital release on January 25, 2022. “Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. They find themselves unable to let go of their mother and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.” With new artwork designed by celebrated Polish poster artist and frequent Yellow Veil collaborator, Aleksander Walijlewski, the new home video edition will include the following bonus and special features: Commentary with Sarah Adina Smith, Aleksa Palladino, Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, and Ross Patridge. Special Features: Sarah Adina Smith’s 2009 short THE SIRENS (13’) Sarah Adina Smith’s
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Ahead of its 2022 release, we’ve got the first look at director Nick McCallum‘s upcoming psychological thriller Find Her, giving you the first glimpse at the main cast. In the film, Isaiah Slade, a mysterious ex-cop with an addiction to uppers, arrives in a small town searching for answers to a murdered ranch owner and his still-missing daughter. Slowly it becomes clear that he has his own personal agenda to find the truth. Emmy Award-winner Evan Zissimopulos serves as director of photography for the film that stars Nick McCallum (Burning Kentucky), Richard Gunn (Clemency), Stelio Savante, (Running For Grace), Rebecca Lines (The Falcon And The Winter Soldier), Anais Lilit (The Walking Dead: Red Machete), Randall Gonzalez (Greenland), John James (Axcellerator), Mary Drew Ahrens, John Daniel Gates and G. Andrew Ahrens who also serves as producer. As soon as a release date is announced, we’ll let you know.
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This January, the Snygg Brothers unleash their new horror indie horror movie Monsters in the Closet on Digital and On Demand. “When famous horror author Raymond Grant dies under mysterious circumstances, his daughter returns home to investigate his death. Jasmin discovers her father was using evil black magic to write his newest horror masterpiece. When the author’s audiobook is played out loud monsters, zombies and terrifying beings spring from the undead pages to haunt the living. Never open a Pandora box that can’t be closed.” Jasmine Flores, Shanna Bess (Manifest), Valerie Bittner (Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell), Tom Cikoski (Superbadazz), and Camilla Crawford star. Discover Monsters in the Closet on Digital and On Demand January 4, 2022, from Gravitas Ventures.
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Two sisters, the timid, practical Elizabeth (Mary Buss) and artsy free spirit Alma (Ginger Gilmartin), reconnect with their friend, the suave and worldly writer Wesley (Ben Hall), after two decades apart. Over the course of many (bizarre ’70s era) meals (all announced in separate vignettes), the trio catch up… and we delve deeper and deeper into the triangle’s various psychoses while the atmosphere grows ever more like an extended fever dream where a normal relationship drama becomes something that grows completely into a psychotropic soap opera replete with a “love” triangle, strange offspring, and a whole mess of red wine. Let me sum things up a bit early and announce: “Holy fuck did I love Climate of the Hunter!” Set in a Neo-Romanticized Pseudo-Transylvania (all humble cabins sitting among leafless trees under slate grey skies) of sorts, director Mickey Reece (who also co-wrote the film along with John Selvidge) put a fiercely unique spin on the ol’ vampire biz… yup,
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Italian director, Domiziano Cristopharo, behind films such as Red Krokodil (2012), American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice (2017), and Torment (2017), returns to indie horror with the film Xpiation (2017) which is now getting a North America release from Unearthed Films this February. In Xpiation, a mysterious aristocratic woman begins torturing a man while videotaping it. The torture escalates as we find out the secrets the man holds inside of him. Pleasure and pain are all on the menu as we find out the full meaning of The Trilogy of Death. Emanuele Delia, Karen Lynn, and Chris Milewski star in Xpiation which lands on Blu-ray and DVD on February 8, 2022. Bonus features include bloopers, a photo gallery, and trailers.
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The new trailer for Fallen, reveals that “darkness is coming,” in 2022. Starring Andrea Zirio, Ortensia Fioravanti, and Fabio Tarditi, the trailer teases an exorcism film filled with horrors. In the film, Father Abraham was ready to save the world from an evil menace using exorcism — until tragedy struck. Years later, he lives on a remote farm with his daughter, haunted by the faces of those he saved and those he could not. After finding a pale humanoid creature lurking in the woods one night, he shoots and cremates the monster. But all too soon he discovers that the beast was not alone and that his troubles have only just begun. This frightening supernatural horror tale will chill you to your soul. Fallen lands on VOD and DVD beginning February 22, 2022, from Lionsgate. You can pre-order your copy now.
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Dark Star Pictures has just announced the February release date for Alone With You, written and directed by Bennett and Justin Brooks in their feature film debuts. In the film, ”as a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face.” Emily Bennett (King of Knives), Emma Myles (“Orange Is the New Black”), Dora Madison (“Friday Night Lights”), and genre icon Barbara Crampton (You’re Next) star, with Andrew Corkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and Theo James (Divergent) producing under their Untapped banner. We’ve always been drawn to the horror films of the late 70’s/ early 80’s. Films that played with the sanity of their characters such as don’t look now or the changeling. These films could almost be thrillers until they walked us deeper into the dark like the sentinel or possession. Those films bring the
Continue reading →
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From Emmy-Award nominated director Darren Mann (This Cold Life) comes the sci-fi survival thriller Arctic Void, written by Michael Weaver (Diary of a Future President, Ouija: Origin of Evil), and we’ve got the brand new chilling trailer. In the film, “When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore and alone in the elements, the men deteriorate in body and mind with the clock now ticking on their survival. In the end, a dark truth emerges that forces them to ally or perish. Arctic Void is the story of childhood friends, Ray Marsh and Alan Meursault, in the far north to make an episode of their modestly popular travel and nature show, Vagabond. Since their regular cameraman fails to get a visa, they’re joined by local hire an ex-pat, Sean Tibbets. What starts as a once-in-a-lifetime day cruise quickly descends into madness as all but the three
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Director Devon Jovi Johnson makes his feature film debut with the indie horror film What Happened at 625 River Road. Today, the first trailer has arrived for the film. What really happened at 625 River Road on May 11th, 2015? This film is based on true events and follows two young female college students from New York City on their spring break. As they arrive at their rental home, 625 River Road, a chain of mysterious events takes place that remains unsolved to this day. The film stars Francheska Pujols, Summer Foley, Silvana Jakich, Piotr Marzecki, Matrell Smith, and Lloyd Dickenson, and was written by director Devon Jovi Johnson and Allen Worrell. This summer, we will find out What Happened at 625 River Road. For more information please visit the film’s official website.
Continue reading →
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Remember as a kid turning the handle of a Jack in the Box? As you slowly cranked it tension built as you waited for something to spring out at you. Get ready for a new spring-loaded scare. From award-winning writer-director, Lawrence Fowler comes The Jack in the Box: Awakening, the sequel to 2020’s indie horror The Jack in the Box. Starring Matt McClure, James Swanton, Mollie Hindle, and Nicola Wright, Awakening centers on terminally ill heiress Olga Marsdale who acquires a mysterious gothic box containing a captured demon – Jack. The powerful entity within makes a deadly deal with Olga and her devoted son Edgar – deliver six victims to Jack and Olga will live. They trap several unsuspecting victims for him within the vast crumbling mansion – but can they deliver all six before it’s too late? Or will Amy, the young and innocent woman recently hired to look after the estate turn out to be more than a
Continue reading →
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Yellow Veil Pictures has unveiled the new cover art and special disc extras for the upcoming re-release of Sarah Adina Smith’s 2014 acclaimed debut feature The Midnight Swim, available for pre-order from Vinegar Syndrome in a special collector’s Blu-ray edition followed by a digital release on January 25, 2022. “Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. They find themselves unable to let go of their mother and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.” With new artwork designed by celebrated Polish poster artist and frequent Yellow Veil collaborator, Aleksander Walijlewski, the new home video edition will include the following bonus and special features: Commentary with Sarah Adina Smith, Aleksa Palladino, Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, and Ross Patridge. Special Features: Sarah Adina Smith’s 2009 short THE SIRENS (13’) Sarah Adina Smith’s
Continue reading →
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Ahead of its 2022 release, we’ve got the first look at director Nick McCallum‘s upcoming psychological thriller Find Her, giving you the first glimpse at the main cast. In the film, Isaiah Slade, a mysterious ex-cop with an addiction to uppers, arrives in a small town searching for answers to a murdered ranch owner and his still-missing daughter. Slowly it becomes clear that he has his own personal agenda to find the truth. Emmy Award-winner Evan Zissimopulos serves as director of photography for the film that stars Nick McCallum (Burning Kentucky), Richard Gunn (Clemency), Stelio Savante, (Running For Grace), Rebecca Lines (The Falcon And The Winter Soldier), Anais Lilit (The Walking Dead: Red Machete), Randall Gonzalez (Greenland), John James (Axcellerator), Mary Drew Ahrens, John Daniel Gates and G. Andrew Ahrens who also serves as producer. As soon as a release date is announced, we’ll let you know.
Continue reading →
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This January, the Snygg Brothers unleash their new horror indie horror movie Monsters in the Closet on Digital and On Demand. “When famous horror author Raymond Grant dies under mysterious circumstances, his daughter returns home to investigate his death. Jasmin discovers her father was using evil black magic to write his newest horror masterpiece. When the author’s audiobook is played out loud monsters, zombies and terrifying beings spring from the undead pages to haunt the living. Never open a Pandora box that can’t be closed.” Jasmine Flores, Shanna Bess (Manifest), Valerie Bittner (Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell), Tom Cikoski (Superbadazz), and Camilla Crawford star. Discover Monsters in the Closet on Digital and On Demand January 4, 2022, from Gravitas Ventures.
Continue reading →
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Two sisters, the timid, practical Elizabeth (Mary Buss) and artsy free spirit Alma (Ginger Gilmartin), reconnect with their friend, the suave and worldly writer Wesley (Ben Hall), after two decades apart. Over the course of many (bizarre ’70s era) meals (all announced in separate vignettes), the trio catch up… and we delve deeper and deeper into the triangle’s various psychoses while the atmosphere grows ever more like an extended fever dream where a normal relationship drama becomes something that grows completely into a psychotropic soap opera replete with a “love” triangle, strange offspring, and a whole mess of red wine. Let me sum things up a bit early and announce: “Holy fuck did I love Climate of the Hunter!” Set in a Neo-Romanticized Pseudo-Transylvania (all humble cabins sitting among leafless trees under slate grey skies) of sorts, director Mickey Reece (who also co-wrote the film along with John Selvidge) put a fiercely unique spin on the ol’ vampire biz… yup,
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Italian director, Domiziano Cristopharo, behind films such as Red Krokodil (2012), American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice (2017), and Torment (2017), returns to indie horror with the film Xpiation (2017) which is now getting a North America release from Unearthed Films this February. In Xpiation, a mysterious aristocratic woman begins torturing a man while videotaping it. The torture escalates as we find out the secrets the man holds inside of him. Pleasure and pain are all on the menu as we find out the full meaning of The Trilogy of Death. Emanuele Delia, Karen Lynn, and Chris Milewski star in Xpiation which lands on Blu-ray and DVD on February 8, 2022. Bonus features include bloopers, a photo gallery, and trailers.
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
The new trailer for Fallen, reveals that “darkness is coming,” in 2022. Starring Andrea Zirio, Ortensia Fioravanti, and Fabio Tarditi, the trailer teases an exorcism film filled with horrors. In the film, Father Abraham was ready to save the world from an evil menace using exorcism — until tragedy struck. Years later, he lives on a remote farm with his daughter, haunted by the faces of those he saved and those he could not. After finding a pale humanoid creature lurking in the woods one night, he shoots and cremates the monster. But all too soon he discovers that the beast was not alone and that his troubles have only just begun. This frightening supernatural horror tale will chill you to your soul. Fallen lands on VOD and DVD beginning February 22, 2022, from Lionsgate. You can pre-order your copy now.
Continue reading →
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Dark Star Pictures has just announced the February release date for Alone With You, written and directed by Bennett and Justin Brooks in their feature film debuts. In the film, ”as a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face.” Emily Bennett (King of Knives), Emma Myles (“Orange Is the New Black”), Dora Madison (“Friday Night Lights”), and genre icon Barbara Crampton (You’re Next) star, with Andrew Corkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and Theo James (Divergent) producing under their Untapped banner. We’ve always been drawn to the horror films of the late 70’s/ early 80’s. Films that played with the sanity of their characters such as don’t look now or the changeling. These films could almost be thrillers until they walked us deeper into the dark like the sentinel or possession. Those films bring the
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
From Emmy-Award nominated director Darren Mann (This Cold Life) comes the sci-fi survival thriller Arctic Void, written by Michael Weaver (Diary of a Future President, Ouija: Origin of Evil), and we’ve got the brand new chilling trailer. In the film, “When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore and alone in the elements, the men deteriorate in body and mind with the clock now ticking on their survival. In the end, a dark truth emerges that forces them to ally or perish. Arctic Void is the story of childhood friends, Ray Marsh and Alan Meursault, in the far north to make an episode of their modestly popular travel and nature show, Vagabond. Since their regular cameraman fails to get a visa, they’re joined by local hire an ex-pat, Sean Tibbets. What starts as a once-in-a-lifetime day cruise quickly descends into madness as all but the three
Continue reading →
