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The 27th edition of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) takes place in Bucheon, South Korea, from June 29–July 9, 2023, and as always, Asia’s largest genre film fest offers well over 250 films from around the globe. With world, international, and Korean premieres of horror, science fiction, thriller, dark comedy, and related features and shorts, the fest is a cinephile’s dream. Here are six of the features that we can’t wait to watch — and with yours truly in attendance, expect BIFAN reviews right here at Horror Fuel. Following are descriptions of the films from the BIFAN website, where more information is available: http://www.bifan.kr/eng/ Nightmare (Norway, 2022) Mona and Robby are a young couple in love. Robby has just landed his dream job, and they’ve scored an amazing deal on a spacious flat. Never mind that it requires a bit of renovation and the neighbors’ constant fighting and screaming baby. Mona is suddenly plagued by night terrors which
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The action-packed trailer has just arrived for the balls-to-the-walls thriller Sympathy For the Devil, out this July, from RLJE Films. Nicolas Cage stars as an unhinged psychopath (the type of role he’s born to play), who kidnaps a man (Joel Kinnaman) at gunpoint, taking viewers on a wild ride during a thrilling night filled with action and insanity. “After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.” Written and directed by Luke Paradise, Sympathy For the Devil, opens in theaters on July 28, 2023.
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“American Gods” actress Adrienne Kress and Ryan Allen (In the Shadow of the Moon) star in the cult horror-thriller The Devil Comes At Night. “Ben, a washed-up boxer searching for his inheritance, must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father’s farmhouse by a cannibal cult. With the help of Amy, the local librarian, he discovers the cult’s leader, Mason, has been hunting down his family for generations. And now his sights are set on Ben. Together, Ben and Amy come up with a plan to defeat the cult once and for all.” The film also stars Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Shawn Ahmed, Todd Campbell, Dana Fradkin, Ty Andrassy, DL Macdonald, Jeremiah Sparks, and Julie Cohn. The Devil Comes At Night will be released on Digital and DVD on June 6, 2023, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Cleopatra Entertainment has now released the trailer for their highly-anticipated sequel, What the Waters Left Behind: Scars, the film festival hit written by Camilio Zaffora and directed by Nicolas Onetti. Shot five years after Onetti’s’ first installment, What the Waters Left Behind (2017), the sequel tells the story of an Anglo-American indie rock band that ends up stranded in the desolate city of Epecuén. Their internal conflicts and the bad luck of their tour quickly fade when they begin to discover the bloody hell that awaits them. The sequel has garnered rave reviews after its recent international film festival run as an official selection at SITGES (Spain), Blood Window Film Festival (Argentina), Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival (Brazil), The Boulder International Film Festival (USA), the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Belgium) and the Obscura Film Festival (Germany). David Michigan, Mario Alarcon, Magui Bravi, and German Baudino star in What the Waters Left Behind: Scars, out July 18, 2023, on VOD,
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Revenge horror-thriller Peppergrass is coming to Digital. To celebrate the release, we have a new exclusive clip. In the film, during the pandemic, a pregnant restaurateur tries to rob a priceless truffle from a reclusive World War 2 veteran in the film from award-winning filmmaking duo Steven Garbas and Chantelle Han. Producers include Grant Cooper, Bennet De Brabandere, Michael Flax, Steven Garbas, Chantelle Han, Philip Irwin, Michael Kraetzer, Nicolas Onetti, and Gayna Theophilus. Chantelle Han, Charles Boylan, and Michel Copeman star in Peppergrass – out on digital platforms beginning June 16, 2023, from Terror Films.
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From director Herbert James (“Jamie”) Winterstern comes the action-thriller Supercell which sees a teenage boy join a group of storm chasers in a bid to find himself and to learn more about his father. I’ll admit I had low expectations going into this film. Let’s be honest. There are a ton of shit natural disaster movies out there. But Supercell isn’t one of them. Supercell features sympathetic characters, a must for any movie, such as the main character William, played well by Daniel Diemer (“The Midnight Club”). You want to cheer for this kid. And it was great to see Skeet Ulrich, best known for his role in Scream, in action. The film also sadly features Anne Heche in one of her final roles. Academy-Award nominee, three-time Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Alec Baldwin stars as a storm guide and a total prick. When it comes to a natural disaster movie, especially one with tornadoes, the special effects must be
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A homebody is a person who stays home and does not venture out much, but what if you are forced to not be a homebody and go hang out with friends, at a strange house, with a killer on the loose? Well, then you have Rogue and Game Grumps’ horror-puzzle game Homebody. I want to thank Rogue and Game Grumps for allowing me to check out the game. Homebody follows Emily, a young woman with severe agoraphobia who is going to a rented house to hang out with her old friends who she has not seen in over a year. While at the house strange events take place where a masked killer attacks Emily and her friends and every time Emily dies, she loops back to after she arrives at the house. Now onto the game itself! Homebody‘s controls are pretty simple and limited making it easy to get going with the story which seems to drop you right into
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An Inspector, while on the hunt for a serial killer, must face his own demons in The Punished, out today on VOD and Digital. Jamie Coulter, Keith Mason, James Merrill, Sebastian Jennings, and Tony Lovell star in this intense thriller. In The Punished, Chief Inspector Jack Sullivan is in a losing battle with alcohol and his own inner demons after his wife goes missing when the case of a lifetime lands on his desk—tracking down a vigilante serial killer stocking the northern English streets. Watch The Punished, directed by Thierry Chavrimootoo, now on VOD and Digital from Octane Multimedia.
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Actor Richard Brake, who has starred in films such as Rob Zombie’s 31, Barbarian, and Hannibal Rising, has a gift for portraying disturbing, rough around the edges characters that you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley. Blake is back with another dark role in the upcoming Irish horror film The Gates. . In the film, directed by Stephen Hall, “A serial killer has been sentenced to death by electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in, and all of those in it.” John Rhys-Davies, Michael Yare, Elena Delia, David Pearse, and Peter Coonan also star. 101 Films and Trinity Creative Partnership will release The Gates on VOD and Digital platforms on June 27, 2023.
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This June, Hulu’s new horror-thriller Jagged Mind, from director Kelley Kali, sees a woman plagued by visions and a sense of reliving her days over and over. Written by Allyson Morgan, the film stars Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Shannon Woodward, Jagged Mind sees a woman plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she’s stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend. The film, which made its world premiere at the American Black Film Festival, is based on the short film “First Date,” which was included in the first season of 20th Digital Studio’s “Bite Size Halloween.” The feature is part of the studio’s existing slate of horror features for Hulu, including Grimcutty, Matriarch, Clock, and the upcoming films Appendage and The Mill. 20th Digital Studio developed Jagged Mind with David Worthen Brooks, Arbi Pedrossian, and Jenna Cavelle as executive producers. Daniela Ruiz produced under her Palabra Productions banner. Kelley Kali and
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The 27th edition of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) takes place in Bucheon, South Korea, from June 29–July 9, 2023, and as always, Asia’s largest genre film fest offers well over 250 films from around the globe. With world, international, and Korean premieres of horror, science fiction, thriller, dark comedy, and related features and shorts, the fest is a cinephile’s dream. Here are six of the features that we can’t wait to watch — and with yours truly in attendance, expect BIFAN reviews right here at Horror Fuel. Following are descriptions of the films from the BIFAN website, where more information is available: http://www.bifan.kr/eng/ Nightmare (Norway, 2022) Mona and Robby are a young couple in love. Robby has just landed his dream job, and they’ve scored an amazing deal on a spacious flat. Never mind that it requires a bit of renovation and the neighbors’ constant fighting and screaming baby. Mona is suddenly plagued by night terrors which
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The action-packed trailer has just arrived for the balls-to-the-walls thriller Sympathy For the Devil, out this July, from RLJE Films. Nicolas Cage stars as an unhinged psychopath (the type of role he’s born to play), who kidnaps a man (Joel Kinnaman) at gunpoint, taking viewers on a wild ride during a thrilling night filled with action and insanity. “After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.” Written and directed by Luke Paradise, Sympathy For the Devil, opens in theaters on July 28, 2023.
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“American Gods” actress Adrienne Kress and Ryan Allen (In the Shadow of the Moon) star in the cult horror-thriller The Devil Comes At Night. “Ben, a washed-up boxer searching for his inheritance, must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father’s farmhouse by a cannibal cult. With the help of Amy, the local librarian, he discovers the cult’s leader, Mason, has been hunting down his family for generations. And now his sights are set on Ben. Together, Ben and Amy come up with a plan to defeat the cult once and for all.” The film also stars Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Shawn Ahmed, Todd Campbell, Dana Fradkin, Ty Andrassy, DL Macdonald, Jeremiah Sparks, and Julie Cohn. The Devil Comes At Night will be released on Digital and DVD on June 6, 2023, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Cleopatra Entertainment has now released the trailer for their highly-anticipated sequel, What the Waters Left Behind: Scars, the film festival hit written by Camilio Zaffora and directed by Nicolas Onetti. Shot five years after Onetti’s’ first installment, What the Waters Left Behind (2017), the sequel tells the story of an Anglo-American indie rock band that ends up stranded in the desolate city of Epecuén. Their internal conflicts and the bad luck of their tour quickly fade when they begin to discover the bloody hell that awaits them. The sequel has garnered rave reviews after its recent international film festival run as an official selection at SITGES (Spain), Blood Window Film Festival (Argentina), Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival (Brazil), The Boulder International Film Festival (USA), the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Belgium) and the Obscura Film Festival (Germany). David Michigan, Mario Alarcon, Magui Bravi, and German Baudino star in What the Waters Left Behind: Scars, out July 18, 2023, on VOD,
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Revenge horror-thriller Peppergrass is coming to Digital. To celebrate the release, we have a new exclusive clip. In the film, during the pandemic, a pregnant restaurateur tries to rob a priceless truffle from a reclusive World War 2 veteran in the film from award-winning filmmaking duo Steven Garbas and Chantelle Han. Producers include Grant Cooper, Bennet De Brabandere, Michael Flax, Steven Garbas, Chantelle Han, Philip Irwin, Michael Kraetzer, Nicolas Onetti, and Gayna Theophilus. Chantelle Han, Charles Boylan, and Michel Copeman star in Peppergrass – out on digital platforms beginning June 16, 2023, from Terror Films.
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From director Herbert James (“Jamie”) Winterstern comes the action-thriller Supercell which sees a teenage boy join a group of storm chasers in a bid to find himself and to learn more about his father. I’ll admit I had low expectations going into this film. Let’s be honest. There are a ton of shit natural disaster movies out there. But Supercell isn’t one of them. Supercell features sympathetic characters, a must for any movie, such as the main character William, played well by Daniel Diemer (“The Midnight Club”). You want to cheer for this kid. And it was great to see Skeet Ulrich, best known for his role in Scream, in action. The film also sadly features Anne Heche in one of her final roles. Academy-Award nominee, three-time Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Alec Baldwin stars as a storm guide and a total prick. When it comes to a natural disaster movie, especially one with tornadoes, the special effects must be
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A homebody is a person who stays home and does not venture out much, but what if you are forced to not be a homebody and go hang out with friends, at a strange house, with a killer on the loose? Well, then you have Rogue and Game Grumps’ horror-puzzle game Homebody. I want to thank Rogue and Game Grumps for allowing me to check out the game. Homebody follows Emily, a young woman with severe agoraphobia who is going to a rented house to hang out with her old friends who she has not seen in over a year. While at the house strange events take place where a masked killer attacks Emily and her friends and every time Emily dies, she loops back to after she arrives at the house. Now onto the game itself! Homebody‘s controls are pretty simple and limited making it easy to get going with the story which seems to drop you right into
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An Inspector, while on the hunt for a serial killer, must face his own demons in The Punished, out today on VOD and Digital. Jamie Coulter, Keith Mason, James Merrill, Sebastian Jennings, and Tony Lovell star in this intense thriller. In The Punished, Chief Inspector Jack Sullivan is in a losing battle with alcohol and his own inner demons after his wife goes missing when the case of a lifetime lands on his desk—tracking down a vigilante serial killer stocking the northern English streets. Watch The Punished, directed by Thierry Chavrimootoo, now on VOD and Digital from Octane Multimedia.
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Actor Richard Brake, who has starred in films such as Rob Zombie’s 31, Barbarian, and Hannibal Rising, has a gift for portraying disturbing, rough around the edges characters that you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley. Blake is back with another dark role in the upcoming Irish horror film The Gates. . In the film, directed by Stephen Hall, “A serial killer has been sentenced to death by electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in, and all of those in it.” John Rhys-Davies, Michael Yare, Elena Delia, David Pearse, and Peter Coonan also star. 101 Films and Trinity Creative Partnership will release The Gates on VOD and Digital platforms on June 27, 2023.
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This June, Hulu’s new horror-thriller Jagged Mind, from director Kelley Kali, sees a woman plagued by visions and a sense of reliving her days over and over. Written by Allyson Morgan, the film stars Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Shannon Woodward, Jagged Mind sees a woman plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she’s stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend. The film, which made its world premiere at the American Black Film Festival, is based on the short film “First Date,” which was included in the first season of 20th Digital Studio’s “Bite Size Halloween.” The feature is part of the studio’s existing slate of horror features for Hulu, including Grimcutty, Matriarch, Clock, and the upcoming films Appendage and The Mill. 20th Digital Studio developed Jagged Mind with David Worthen Brooks, Arbi Pedrossian, and Jenna Cavelle as executive producers. Daniela Ruiz produced under her Palabra Productions banner. Kelley Kali and
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