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One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.
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Director and master of Italian horror, Michele Soavi‘s (The Sect, The Church) 1987 horror Stagefright is being unleashed on 4K Ultra. In the film, “when a masked killer infiltrates a group of actors rehearsing overnight in an isolated theatre, the stage is set for carnage! Featuring an abundance of over-the-top kills and spills, shot with Soavi’s typical style, marvel at the mayhem as the iconic chainsaw-wielding ‘Owl Man’, delivers a blood-soaked performance for the ages.” Stagefright is at the pinnacle of 80s slashers. Michele Soavi was schooled by Dario Argento and Terry Gilliam and his beloved first feature can now finally be seen as intended, with this edition further benefiting from the director’s color grading and framing indications given during a candid interview filmed exclusively for this release. SPECIAL FEATURES – New 4K restoration – ‘Staging the Fright’ – Interview with director Michele Soavi – ‘The Theatre of Blood’ – Interview with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice – ‘The Last Performance’
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Rebecca (Stephanie Dees) is more than anxious to get the hell out of dodge and take up residence in a new off campus apartment house many states away from her hometown`. Thankfully she can still keep in touch with her Juggalo townie potential love interest Johnny (Johnny Burton) via a webcam based video messaging service (more on that in a bit). Speaking of Johnny, that hombre does not trust Rebecca a single bit… thanks in part to the advice of his perpetually wasted-off-his-ass buddy Billy (Grant Edmonds and his balls), so he decides to hire an online psychic, Madam Vera (Diane Behrens) to hopefully straighten things out (an amateur Don Ho and the American antecedent to Alan Moore are also involved). Of course this all goes completely to shit, as the psychic reveals that Rebecca has just moved to the most evil place in all of New Jersey… and that’s sayin’ somethin’… Collingswood (a mere “G” away from a Dan
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Wired Productions and LKA announced at the Golden Joystick Awards that their upcoming first-person psychological thriller Martha Is Dead will be getting a February release for Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox, and PC. Set in Italy during the Second World War, Martha is Dead follows a young woman who is going through loss after her sister was found murdered after her body washed to shore near the village they live in. With the horrors of war playing in the background, players will explore the blurred lines of reality and local folklore and urban legends surrounding the White Lady. Players can explore the countryside of Tuscany, use tarot cards, take pictures and develop them in a dark room, unlock the main character’s suppressed memories through mechanical theatre sequences using marionettes, and collect newspapers and telegrams as well as listen to the radio to follow the historical events unfolding. Martha is Dead will be coming to PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox, and
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We’ve got a new clip and trailer for director Adam Reider‘s Woodland Grey which made its World Premiere at the Blood in the Snow film festival earlier this month. Written by Reider and Jesse Toufexis, Woodland Grey stars Jenny Raven, Ryan Blakely, and Art Hindle, and is produced by Arrow in the Head founder John Fallon. In the film, “A man living alone in the deep woods finds Emily, a hiker, unconscious and laying on the forest floor. He brings her back to his home and helps her get back to health so she can leave the forest and get home. After a few tense days coexisting, Emily makes a discovery. She finds a crudely built shed behind the man’s home. When she opens it, she unleashes something truly haunting. As Emily and the man come to terms with what has been released, they also attempt to find a way out of the forest which isn’t exactly what it seems.”
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For generations, Hammer Horror has been an intricate part of the genre, delivering so many great films, including their own twist on classic monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein. Variety is reporting that Hammer Films has created Hammer Studios Ltd., the latest evolution of the iconic British film company that will not only manage Hammer’s vast library but will also be restoring their classics and creating new films. Hammer’s Tim Beddows said in a statement, “This partnership is a really exciting opportunity to merge Hammer’s amazing library with Network’s infrastructure. Whilst we work our way through restoring its entire back catalog for future generations’ enjoyment, we’re equally excited about the development of new productions from the Hammer canon.” Hammer was born in November of 1934, the brainchild of comedian and businessman William Hinds, who titled the company after his stage name Will Hammer. Since its birth, Hammer has released over 150 films, including Dracula (1958) starring genre legend Christopher Lee, The
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Sink your teeth into the trailer for the indie vampire horror Red Snow, written and directed by Sean Nicholas Lynch. Starring Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, and Laura Kennon, and produced by Alrik Bursell, Red Snow centers on a struggling vampire romance novelist who must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe. When an injured bat transforms into a handsome vampire, struggling horror novelist Olivia Romo hides him in her garage to protect him from a vampire hunter. Besotted by the creature, she feeds him animal blood, but any chance of romance is soon thwarted when a gang of fellow bloodsuckers invades her home in search of their missing friend. Red Snow bares its fangs on DVD, VOD, and Digital on December 28, 2021, from 4Digital Media.
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This December, ARROW has a gift for horror fans, a killer holiday lineup including the premiere of The Last Matinee and we’ve got your guide. December 1st releases include The Sublime Gothic: Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, cursed crumbling castles, decaying minds, and ancestral homes, mad untethered emotions and lashings of overwrought doom and mystery – we love to wallow in the sublime gothic at ARROW, and with The Mill of the Stone Women joining our ranks, this seemed the perfect opportunity for a season devoted to the wild, the tormented, the possibly haunted and the aching romance of all things deliciously dark and gothic. Titles include: Mill of the Stone Women, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Black Cat, and The Shiver of the Vampires. Also arriving on December 1st is The Dark of the Matinee, inspired by The Last Matinee. A season full of
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At his point movies with “Amityville” in the title are a dime a dozen and are nine times out of ten are simply terrible. Hopefully, Lionsgate’s new horror Amityville Uprising will be one of the few good ones. Following The Amityville Harvest and The Amityville Moon, Uprising sees a chemical explosion at a military base set off a supernatural disaster, unleashing an acid rain the melts the flesh from bone from anyone it touches. If that wasn’t bad enough, the dead soon begin to rise. Written and directed by Thomas Churchill, Amityville Uprising stars Mike Furguson, Micah Fitzgerald, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Troy Fromin, Aleksandra Zorich Hunt, and Thomas J. Churchill as “Chuck”. Amityville Uprising is out on DVD, Digital, and On Demand on January 11, 2022, from Lionsgate. Check out the new trailer.
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A stalker is determined to ruin a man’s life and reveal his dark secrets in An Intrusion, heading to theaters this week. The thriller follows “a man whose home and family is terrorized by a malicious stalker after ending a recent affair with a coworker. Through bloody messages and deadly threats, it is secretly revealed to the patriarch of the family that the motivations may have nothing to do with his recent secret affair, but instead a secret he has violently kept hidden in his past.” Keir Gilchrist (Netflix’s “Atypical”), Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween I & II), Billy Boyd (Lord of the Rings trilogy), Erika Hoveland (Netflix’s Before I Wake), and Jaime Zevallos (Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger) and newcomers Dustin Prince and Angelina Danielle Cama star in the film written and directed by Nicholas Holland, produced by Emmy nominee Sam Logan Khaleghi, p.g.a. (who also plays the role of ‘Chris’), and is co-produced by Alexander M. Norris. An Intrusion
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One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.
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Director and master of Italian horror, Michele Soavi‘s (The Sect, The Church) 1987 horror Stagefright is being unleashed on 4K Ultra. In the film, “when a masked killer infiltrates a group of actors rehearsing overnight in an isolated theatre, the stage is set for carnage! Featuring an abundance of over-the-top kills and spills, shot with Soavi’s typical style, marvel at the mayhem as the iconic chainsaw-wielding ‘Owl Man’, delivers a blood-soaked performance for the ages.” Stagefright is at the pinnacle of 80s slashers. Michele Soavi was schooled by Dario Argento and Terry Gilliam and his beloved first feature can now finally be seen as intended, with this edition further benefiting from the director’s color grading and framing indications given during a candid interview filmed exclusively for this release. SPECIAL FEATURES – New 4K restoration – ‘Staging the Fright’ – Interview with director Michele Soavi – ‘The Theatre of Blood’ – Interview with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice – ‘The Last Performance’
Continue reading →
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Rebecca (Stephanie Dees) is more than anxious to get the hell out of dodge and take up residence in a new off campus apartment house many states away from her hometown`. Thankfully she can still keep in touch with her Juggalo townie potential love interest Johnny (Johnny Burton) via a webcam based video messaging service (more on that in a bit). Speaking of Johnny, that hombre does not trust Rebecca a single bit… thanks in part to the advice of his perpetually wasted-off-his-ass buddy Billy (Grant Edmonds and his balls), so he decides to hire an online psychic, Madam Vera (Diane Behrens) to hopefully straighten things out (an amateur Don Ho and the American antecedent to Alan Moore are also involved). Of course this all goes completely to shit, as the psychic reveals that Rebecca has just moved to the most evil place in all of New Jersey… and that’s sayin’ somethin’… Collingswood (a mere “G” away from a Dan
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Wired Productions and LKA announced at the Golden Joystick Awards that their upcoming first-person psychological thriller Martha Is Dead will be getting a February release for Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox, and PC. Set in Italy during the Second World War, Martha is Dead follows a young woman who is going through loss after her sister was found murdered after her body washed to shore near the village they live in. With the horrors of war playing in the background, players will explore the blurred lines of reality and local folklore and urban legends surrounding the White Lady. Players can explore the countryside of Tuscany, use tarot cards, take pictures and develop them in a dark room, unlock the main character’s suppressed memories through mechanical theatre sequences using marionettes, and collect newspapers and telegrams as well as listen to the radio to follow the historical events unfolding. Martha is Dead will be coming to PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox, and
Continue reading →
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We’ve got a new clip and trailer for director Adam Reider‘s Woodland Grey which made its World Premiere at the Blood in the Snow film festival earlier this month. Written by Reider and Jesse Toufexis, Woodland Grey stars Jenny Raven, Ryan Blakely, and Art Hindle, and is produced by Arrow in the Head founder John Fallon. In the film, “A man living alone in the deep woods finds Emily, a hiker, unconscious and laying on the forest floor. He brings her back to his home and helps her get back to health so she can leave the forest and get home. After a few tense days coexisting, Emily makes a discovery. She finds a crudely built shed behind the man’s home. When she opens it, she unleashes something truly haunting. As Emily and the man come to terms with what has been released, they also attempt to find a way out of the forest which isn’t exactly what it seems.”
Continue reading →
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For generations, Hammer Horror has been an intricate part of the genre, delivering so many great films, including their own twist on classic monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein. Variety is reporting that Hammer Films has created Hammer Studios Ltd., the latest evolution of the iconic British film company that will not only manage Hammer’s vast library but will also be restoring their classics and creating new films. Hammer’s Tim Beddows said in a statement, “This partnership is a really exciting opportunity to merge Hammer’s amazing library with Network’s infrastructure. Whilst we work our way through restoring its entire back catalog for future generations’ enjoyment, we’re equally excited about the development of new productions from the Hammer canon.” Hammer was born in November of 1934, the brainchild of comedian and businessman William Hinds, who titled the company after his stage name Will Hammer. Since its birth, Hammer has released over 150 films, including Dracula (1958) starring genre legend Christopher Lee, The
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Sink your teeth into the trailer for the indie vampire horror Red Snow, written and directed by Sean Nicholas Lynch. Starring Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, and Laura Kennon, and produced by Alrik Bursell, Red Snow centers on a struggling vampire romance novelist who must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe. When an injured bat transforms into a handsome vampire, struggling horror novelist Olivia Romo hides him in her garage to protect him from a vampire hunter. Besotted by the creature, she feeds him animal blood, but any chance of romance is soon thwarted when a gang of fellow bloodsuckers invades her home in search of their missing friend. Red Snow bares its fangs on DVD, VOD, and Digital on December 28, 2021, from 4Digital Media.
Continue reading →
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This December, ARROW has a gift for horror fans, a killer holiday lineup including the premiere of The Last Matinee and we’ve got your guide. December 1st releases include The Sublime Gothic: Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, cursed crumbling castles, decaying minds, and ancestral homes, mad untethered emotions and lashings of overwrought doom and mystery – we love to wallow in the sublime gothic at ARROW, and with The Mill of the Stone Women joining our ranks, this seemed the perfect opportunity for a season devoted to the wild, the tormented, the possibly haunted and the aching romance of all things deliciously dark and gothic. Titles include: Mill of the Stone Women, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Black Cat, and The Shiver of the Vampires. Also arriving on December 1st is The Dark of the Matinee, inspired by The Last Matinee. A season full of
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At his point movies with “Amityville” in the title are a dime a dozen and are nine times out of ten are simply terrible. Hopefully, Lionsgate’s new horror Amityville Uprising will be one of the few good ones. Following The Amityville Harvest and The Amityville Moon, Uprising sees a chemical explosion at a military base set off a supernatural disaster, unleashing an acid rain the melts the flesh from bone from anyone it touches. If that wasn’t bad enough, the dead soon begin to rise. Written and directed by Thomas Churchill, Amityville Uprising stars Mike Furguson, Micah Fitzgerald, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Troy Fromin, Aleksandra Zorich Hunt, and Thomas J. Churchill as “Chuck”. Amityville Uprising is out on DVD, Digital, and On Demand on January 11, 2022, from Lionsgate. Check out the new trailer.
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A stalker is determined to ruin a man’s life and reveal his dark secrets in An Intrusion, heading to theaters this week. The thriller follows “a man whose home and family is terrorized by a malicious stalker after ending a recent affair with a coworker. Through bloody messages and deadly threats, it is secretly revealed to the patriarch of the family that the motivations may have nothing to do with his recent secret affair, but instead a secret he has violently kept hidden in his past.” Keir Gilchrist (Netflix’s “Atypical”), Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween I & II), Billy Boyd (Lord of the Rings trilogy), Erika Hoveland (Netflix’s Before I Wake), and Jaime Zevallos (Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger) and newcomers Dustin Prince and Angelina Danielle Cama star in the film written and directed by Nicholas Holland, produced by Emmy nominee Sam Logan Khaleghi, p.g.a. (who also plays the role of ‘Chris’), and is co-produced by Alexander M. Norris. An Intrusion
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