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Stephen Lang Stars In 'Old Man' - Premiering This October

Stephen Lang Stars In ‘Old Man’ – Premiering This October

Buried secrets from the past surface in Lucky McKee’s (Tales of Halloween, The Woman) highly-anticipated thriller Old Man, starring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe I & 2) In the film, “When a lost hiker stumbles upon an erratic old man living in the woods, he could never have imagined the nightmare that awaits.” Marc Senter, Liana Wright-Mark, and Patch Darragh also star in the film written by Joel Veach. Old Man lands in theaters and on VOD and Digital on October 14, 2022.

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Oct 12, 2022
Home Invasion Horror 'Shady Grove' Premiering Just In Time For Halloween

Home Invasion Horror ‘Shady Grove’ Premiering Just In Time For Halloween

A couple’s retreat becomes a fight for survival in the new trailer for the indie horror Shady Grove, from director Dale Resteghini. In the film, “A young couple, Shaina and Mark, attend a music festival with their best friend Elijah on their annual pilgrimage away from their work-heavy city lives. It’s also something of a farewell trip for the couple because they are expecting, though they haven’t told Elijah, yet. Their plan is to tell him while at that beautiful cabin they found on a vacation rental app. Upon arrival, the host is nowhere to be found, but she has left instructions for them on the door along with a gift basket of wine. Everything is perfect except the faint smell of death that only pregnant Shaina can smell. After a visit by two beautiful women, Shaina quickly becomes suspicious – things just don’t add up. When Elijah disappears, she and Mark begin to search frantically for their friend, only

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Oct 11, 2022
A Maid Is Out For Blood This October In 'The Domestic' (Trailer)

A Maid Is Out For Blood This October In ‘The Domestic’ (Trailer)

Opening in select theaters, and coming to Digital and On Demand, this Halloween is The Domestic, a dark, horror-filled tale set in urban Johannesburg. “Set in a single location, an upper-class, happily married couple hire the daughter of their recently deceased housekeeper as their new helper, only for things to take a dark and macabre turn when she tries to destroy them from within.” The film stars Thuli Thabethe (Happiness is a Four-Letter Word), Amanda Du-Pont (Netflix South African Thriller Mini Series “Shadow,” “Little Big Mouth,” “10 Days in Sun City”), Tusmisho Masha (Bounce TV Drama Series “Saints & Sinners,” “Prey,” “Catch a Fire,” “Beyond Borders”), Ane Meas (Kite, Tarzan and the Lost City, Showmax Series “Binnelanders”), Linda Sebozo (SAFTA Award Winning series “Gauteng Maboneng”), Andil Mbatha (South African Youth Drama Series “Tshisa”), and Faith Baloy (Flatland, Showmax Action Series “Blood Psalms”). From Level 33 Entertainment and 33 Films in association with TAMPA (The African Motion Picture Alliance), comes a

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Oct 11, 2022
Home Invasion Horror-Thriller 'Alone In The Dark' Breaks Onto Tubi (Trailer)

Home Invasion Horror-Thriller ‘Alone In The Dark’ Breaks Onto Tubi (Trailer)

Tubi continues to build its library of original films. The latest addition is the horror-thriller film Alone in the Dark, whose trailer teases an intense, heart-pounding film. If the movie, Bri (Novi Brown, “Sistas”) is a recent divorcée who is forced to live under house arrest following her ex-husband Michael’s (Christopher Bencomo, “The Rookie”) crimes. She must deal with uncovering the truth after she encounters an elusive stalker who appears to have control over her surroundings. Kimberly Daugherty (“A Christmas Movie Christmas”), Terrell Carter (“Empire”), and Malcolm Goodwin (“Reacher”) also star in Alone in the Dark, directed by Brant Daugherty (“Pretty Little Liars”), and co-written by Daugherty and wife, Kimberly. The film is executive produced by Marianne C. Wunch (“A Job to Die For”), Larry Grimaldi (“The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay”), Hannah Pillemer (“Stay Awake”), and Fernando Szew (“Rounding”) with David Sweeney (“In A Relationship”). Alone in the Dark has just been released on Tubi which also features over

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'Beast' Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

‘Beast’ Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

A rouge lion hunts Idris Elba (Hobbs & Shaw, The Suicide Squad) in the pulse-pounding thriller Beast, out now Digital. Elba stars as Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed father who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a trip with his daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley, “Russian Doll”, Maleficent), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing turns into a fight for survival when a lion begins hunting them. Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, with Leah Sava Jeffries (Real series, Empire series) in the role of his 13-year-old daughter, Norah. The action-packed film is from filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, the director of Everest and Universal Pictures’ 2 Guns and Contraband. Beast is produced by Will Packer (Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, Night School, No Good Deed) and the president of Will Packer

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Witness The Twisted True Crime Series 'A Friend of the Family' Now On Peacock

Witness The Twisted True Crime Series ‘A Friend of the Family’ Now On Peacock

Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to

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Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, 'The Box,' Getting US Release

Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, ‘The Box,’ Getting US Release

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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"Cobra Kai" Star Plays 'The Friendship Game' In New Horror-Thriller

“Cobra Kai” Star Plays ‘The Friendship Game’ In New Horror-Thriller

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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Watch The Trailer For Human Trafficking Thriller 'Beyond The Neon' Based On True Events

Watch The Trailer For Human Trafficking Thriller ‘Beyond The Neon’ Based On True Events

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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Sink Your Teeth Into The New Clip From 'Bones And All" From The Director Of Suspiria

New Extended Trailer For ‘Bones And All’ Will Give You A Taste Of What’s To Come

Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino and writer David Kajganich have reunited for the horror film Bones and All, an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis‘s novel. The new trailer is here, teasing a dark, twisted cannibalistic love story. In the film, “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” Timothée Chalamet reunites with Guadagnino after starring in his film Call Me By Your Name. Taylor Russell (Escape Room) also stars along with Mark Rylance, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon-Green, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Francesca Scorsese. Bones and All will open in theaters on November 23, 2022, from MGM.

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Stephen Lang Stars In 'Old Man' - Premiering This October

Stephen Lang Stars In ‘Old Man’ – Premiering This October

Buried secrets from the past surface in Lucky McKee’s (Tales of Halloween, The Woman) highly-anticipated thriller Old Man, starring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe I & 2) In the film, “When a lost hiker stumbles upon an erratic old man living in the woods, he could never have imagined the nightmare that awaits.” Marc Senter, Liana Wright-Mark, and Patch Darragh also star in the film written by Joel Veach. Old Man lands in theaters and on VOD and Digital on October 14, 2022.

Continue reading →
Oct 12, 2022
Home Invasion Horror 'Shady Grove' Premiering Just In Time For Halloween

Home Invasion Horror ‘Shady Grove’ Premiering Just In Time For Halloween

A couple’s retreat becomes a fight for survival in the new trailer for the indie horror Shady Grove, from director Dale Resteghini. In the film, “A young couple, Shaina and Mark, attend a music festival with their best friend Elijah on their annual pilgrimage away from their work-heavy city lives. It’s also something of a farewell trip for the couple because they are expecting, though they haven’t told Elijah, yet. Their plan is to tell him while at that beautiful cabin they found on a vacation rental app. Upon arrival, the host is nowhere to be found, but she has left instructions for them on the door along with a gift basket of wine. Everything is perfect except the faint smell of death that only pregnant Shaina can smell. After a visit by two beautiful women, Shaina quickly becomes suspicious – things just don’t add up. When Elijah disappears, she and Mark begin to search frantically for their friend, only

Continue reading →
Oct 11, 2022
A Maid Is Out For Blood This October In 'The Domestic' (Trailer)

A Maid Is Out For Blood This October In ‘The Domestic’ (Trailer)

Opening in select theaters, and coming to Digital and On Demand, this Halloween is The Domestic, a dark, horror-filled tale set in urban Johannesburg. “Set in a single location, an upper-class, happily married couple hire the daughter of their recently deceased housekeeper as their new helper, only for things to take a dark and macabre turn when she tries to destroy them from within.” The film stars Thuli Thabethe (Happiness is a Four-Letter Word), Amanda Du-Pont (Netflix South African Thriller Mini Series “Shadow,” “Little Big Mouth,” “10 Days in Sun City”), Tusmisho Masha (Bounce TV Drama Series “Saints & Sinners,” “Prey,” “Catch a Fire,” “Beyond Borders”), Ane Meas (Kite, Tarzan and the Lost City, Showmax Series “Binnelanders”), Linda Sebozo (SAFTA Award Winning series “Gauteng Maboneng”), Andil Mbatha (South African Youth Drama Series “Tshisa”), and Faith Baloy (Flatland, Showmax Action Series “Blood Psalms”). From Level 33 Entertainment and 33 Films in association with TAMPA (The African Motion Picture Alliance), comes a

Continue reading →
Oct 11, 2022
Home Invasion Horror-Thriller 'Alone In The Dark' Breaks Onto Tubi (Trailer)

Home Invasion Horror-Thriller ‘Alone In The Dark’ Breaks Onto Tubi (Trailer)

Tubi continues to build its library of original films. The latest addition is the horror-thriller film Alone in the Dark, whose trailer teases an intense, heart-pounding film. If the movie, Bri (Novi Brown, “Sistas”) is a recent divorcée who is forced to live under house arrest following her ex-husband Michael’s (Christopher Bencomo, “The Rookie”) crimes. She must deal with uncovering the truth after she encounters an elusive stalker who appears to have control over her surroundings. Kimberly Daugherty (“A Christmas Movie Christmas”), Terrell Carter (“Empire”), and Malcolm Goodwin (“Reacher”) also star in Alone in the Dark, directed by Brant Daugherty (“Pretty Little Liars”), and co-written by Daugherty and wife, Kimberly. The film is executive produced by Marianne C. Wunch (“A Job to Die For”), Larry Grimaldi (“The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay”), Hannah Pillemer (“Stay Awake”), and Fernando Szew (“Rounding”) with David Sweeney (“In A Relationship”). Alone in the Dark has just been released on Tubi which also features over

Continue reading →
'Beast' Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

‘Beast’ Has Been Unleashed On Digital Ahead Of Blu-ray Release

A rouge lion hunts Idris Elba (Hobbs & Shaw, The Suicide Squad) in the pulse-pounding thriller Beast, out now Digital. Elba stars as Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed father who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a trip with his daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley, “Russian Doll”, Maleficent), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing turns into a fight for survival when a lion begins hunting them. Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, with Leah Sava Jeffries (Real series, Empire series) in the role of his 13-year-old daughter, Norah. The action-packed film is from filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, the director of Everest and Universal Pictures’ 2 Guns and Contraband. Beast is produced by Will Packer (Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, Night School, No Good Deed) and the president of Will Packer

Continue reading →
Witness The Twisted True Crime Series 'A Friend of the Family' Now On Peacock

Witness The Twisted True Crime Series ‘A Friend of the Family’ Now On Peacock

Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to

Continue reading →
Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, 'The Box,' Getting US Release

Venezuela’s Official Oscar Submission, ‘The Box,’ Getting US Release

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 →
"Cobra Kai" Star Plays 'The Friendship Game' In New Horror-Thriller

“Cobra Kai” Star Plays ‘The Friendship Game’ In New Horror-Thriller

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 →
Watch The Trailer For Human Trafficking Thriller 'Beyond The Neon' Based On True Events

Watch The Trailer For Human Trafficking Thriller ‘Beyond The Neon’ Based On True Events

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

Continue reading →
Sink Your Teeth Into The New Clip From 'Bones And All" From The Director Of Suspiria

New Extended Trailer For ‘Bones And All’ Will Give You A Taste Of What’s To Come

Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino and writer David Kajganich have reunited for the horror film Bones and All, an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis‘s novel. The new trailer is here, teasing a dark, twisted cannibalistic love story. In the film, “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” Timothée Chalamet reunites with Guadagnino after starring in his film Call Me By Your Name. Taylor Russell (Escape Room) also stars along with Mark Rylance, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon-Green, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Francesca Scorsese. Bones and All will open in theaters on November 23, 2022, from MGM.

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