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The action-packed monster movie, The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus, from co-directors Eric Hensman and Matthew Hensman, is now on Cable, Satellite, and Telco platforms and is out now on VOD. Matthew Hensman and Gustavo Sainz de la Peña wrote the script in an homage to the action-adventure and monster flicks of the 1980s. Set in the Afghanistan desert, “a group of mercenaries out for treasure completes their greatest heist. Seeking refuge from the hunting Taliban in a nearby cave, they are soon joined by retreating US soldiers, and both groups are trapped within by a rocket explosion at the cave’s entrance. The newly joined parties need to work together to find an escape through the labyrinth but soon realize a deadly beast is tracking them that local legend calls Karnoctus, and they have become… the prey.” The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus stars Nick Chinlund (Chronicles of Riddick, Con Air), Adrian Paul (“Highlander: The Series”), Kevin Grevioux (Underworld), Fahim Fazli (Argo,
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This July, guests begin disappearing in an off-grid location during a family reunion of misfit siblings and their offspring in the pulse-pounding horror film Neon Lights. From director Rouzbeh Heydari and writer Dana Abraham comes the film about a brilliant man on the edge of a breakdown, starring Dana Abraham, Brenna Coates, Brit MacRae, Stephen Tracey, Rene Escobar Jr, Erika Swayze, Lauren Howe, and “Sons of Anarchy” star Kim Coates. Neon Lights premieres on July 12, 2022, on VOD and Digital, from Momentum Pictures.
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Dark Star Pictures is set to release the ultra brutal, violent 1986 Ozploitation classic Fair Game on the big screen across North America this July! A bonafide Aussie classic that would later inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Fair Game is a wild revenge thriller set in the outback, pitting Cassandra Delaney’s wildlife sanctuary boss against three psycho kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little “fun” with her, too. It turns out that they may get a bit more “fun” than they bargained for. Directed by Emmy Winner Mario Andreacchio and shot by Oscar Winner Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Fair Game stars Peter Ford, David Sandford, Garry Who, and Don Barker. Fair Game will open theatrically on July 8, 2022, before a digital release on July 12th. A physical release is planned for August.
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Suspicion and secrets fill the new six-episode thrill-filled police series “Faster Than Fear” premiering on Topic this week. “In this fast-paced, action-packed police procedural, Sunny is a tough cop, but lately, she hasn’t quite been herself. After a six-week absence, she returns to duty, right back on a hard case. The brutal killer André Haffner has escaped prison how. No one knows. He must have had help—on the inside and out. One thing, though, is for sure: He will kill again–and his victims have always been women. Sunny is eager to take the lead, but her superiors give the case to her colleague and send her to therapy. Because Sunny has a secret reason for her absence: She was sexually assaulted on the job and had no idea by whom. Even though her male coworkers and her life-and-work partner Alex support her, she does not trust them with everything. Being suspicious has become second nature to her. When Sunny discovers
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The planet is covered in a toxic fog after a catastrophe on Earth. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors or stay safe in the station’s “algae symbiosis system” in the sci-fi thriller Rubikon. Starring Mark Ivanir (The Hunting Party), Julia Franz Richter (The Driver Inside), George Blagden (“Vikings”), and Nicholas Monu (The Glass), the film is directed by Magdalena Lauritsch. Rubikon lands in select theaters on July 1, 2022, from IFC Midnight.
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This June, Dark Star Pictures will release the Spanish horror film The Passenger, which made its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in 2021, where it was nominated for the Audience Award. The Passenger (original titled La Pasajera) stars Ramiro Blas (“La Fuga”), Cecilia Suárez (“The House of Flowers”), Paula Gallego (“Cuéntame”), and Cristina Alcázar (Cachorro). It was co-directed by Raúl Cerezo in and Fernando González Gómez (Zombie World 2) and was written by Luis Sánchez-Polack (Como Caido Del Cielo). In the film, A group of strangers sharing a ride have their trip interrupted when the driver hits a woman hiking in the dark of night. They decide to help her but quickly learn that something is terribly wrong and that they shouldn’t have let her in at all. The Passenger lands On Demand and DVD on June 28, 2022.
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This week, IFC Midnight is gearing up to release director Chloe Okuno’s chilling psychological thriller Watcher, co-written by Zach Ford. It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars alongside Karl Glusman (Love) and Burns Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises) in the film in which Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building that looks back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theater, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes confident she’s being followed — could it be the same unknown neighbor? Meanwhile, a serial killer called “The Spider” stalks the city. Watcher, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry’s called “one of this year’s finest” in his review, arrives on VOD and Digital on June 21, 2022.
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Following her role in Robert Egger’s Viking epic The Northman, Nicole Kidman is set to star in the upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan. From the director of Hulu’s Fresh, Mimi Cave, comes “The feature, based on Andrew Sodroski’s (Manhunt) script, topped the 2013 Black List, and involves secrets that lurk beneath a Midwestern town with a Hitchcock bent. Kidman will star and produce with Per Saari under her Blossom Films.” Deadline reports. The movie centers on a woman (Kidman) who suspects her husband is cheating and enters into an affair of her own before learning about her husband’s true, dark secret life. Peter Delbert is producing, with Kate Churchill serving as executive producer. Cave’s Fresh, a horror-comedy, premiered earlier this year on Hulu and explores “the horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.”
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Rose Glass, the director behind Saint Maud, is back with Love Lies Bleeding with Anna Baryshnikov (Dickenson) set to star alongside Kristen Stewart (the Twilight franchise). The film is a thriller about “romance fueled by ego, desire, and the American Dream. It is reportedly set in the world of bodybuilding. The A24 film is directed by Glass, who co-wrote the script with Weronika Tofilska. The film is produced by A24, Andrea Cornwell for Lobo Films, and Oliver Kassman for Escape Plan Productions.
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The female-driven revenge thriller Death Hunt, directed by Neil Mackay, is set to be released this month by Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, “a developer and his mistress, traveling to their weekend retreat, are taken hostage by a group of men and brought to a remote island. Here they fight for survival as the men release them into the wild and hunt them for sport.” Omar Tucci, Rick Amsbury, Michael Coughlan, Marlene Malcolm, Greg Johnston, Frank Ieraci, Terry McDonald, Peter Lewis, Sam Slessor, and Mason Cromwell star in the film, which will be released on Digital, DVD, and On-Demand on July 12, 2022.
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The action-packed monster movie, The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus, from co-directors Eric Hensman and Matthew Hensman, is now on Cable, Satellite, and Telco platforms and is out now on VOD. Matthew Hensman and Gustavo Sainz de la Peña wrote the script in an homage to the action-adventure and monster flicks of the 1980s. Set in the Afghanistan desert, “a group of mercenaries out for treasure completes their greatest heist. Seeking refuge from the hunting Taliban in a nearby cave, they are soon joined by retreating US soldiers, and both groups are trapped within by a rocket explosion at the cave’s entrance. The newly joined parties need to work together to find an escape through the labyrinth but soon realize a deadly beast is tracking them that local legend calls Karnoctus, and they have become… the prey.” The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus stars Nick Chinlund (Chronicles of Riddick, Con Air), Adrian Paul (“Highlander: The Series”), Kevin Grevioux (Underworld), Fahim Fazli (Argo,
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This July, guests begin disappearing in an off-grid location during a family reunion of misfit siblings and their offspring in the pulse-pounding horror film Neon Lights. From director Rouzbeh Heydari and writer Dana Abraham comes the film about a brilliant man on the edge of a breakdown, starring Dana Abraham, Brenna Coates, Brit MacRae, Stephen Tracey, Rene Escobar Jr, Erika Swayze, Lauren Howe, and “Sons of Anarchy” star Kim Coates. Neon Lights premieres on July 12, 2022, on VOD and Digital, from Momentum Pictures.
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Dark Star Pictures is set to release the ultra brutal, violent 1986 Ozploitation classic Fair Game on the big screen across North America this July! A bonafide Aussie classic that would later inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Fair Game is a wild revenge thriller set in the outback, pitting Cassandra Delaney’s wildlife sanctuary boss against three psycho kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little “fun” with her, too. It turns out that they may get a bit more “fun” than they bargained for. Directed by Emmy Winner Mario Andreacchio and shot by Oscar Winner Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Fair Game stars Peter Ford, David Sandford, Garry Who, and Don Barker. Fair Game will open theatrically on July 8, 2022, before a digital release on July 12th. A physical release is planned for August.
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Suspicion and secrets fill the new six-episode thrill-filled police series “Faster Than Fear” premiering on Topic this week. “In this fast-paced, action-packed police procedural, Sunny is a tough cop, but lately, she hasn’t quite been herself. After a six-week absence, she returns to duty, right back on a hard case. The brutal killer André Haffner has escaped prison how. No one knows. He must have had help—on the inside and out. One thing, though, is for sure: He will kill again–and his victims have always been women. Sunny is eager to take the lead, but her superiors give the case to her colleague and send her to therapy. Because Sunny has a secret reason for her absence: She was sexually assaulted on the job and had no idea by whom. Even though her male coworkers and her life-and-work partner Alex support her, she does not trust them with everything. Being suspicious has become second nature to her. When Sunny discovers
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The planet is covered in a toxic fog after a catastrophe on Earth. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors or stay safe in the station’s “algae symbiosis system” in the sci-fi thriller Rubikon. Starring Mark Ivanir (The Hunting Party), Julia Franz Richter (The Driver Inside), George Blagden (“Vikings”), and Nicholas Monu (The Glass), the film is directed by Magdalena Lauritsch. Rubikon lands in select theaters on July 1, 2022, from IFC Midnight.
Continue reading →
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This June, Dark Star Pictures will release the Spanish horror film The Passenger, which made its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in 2021, where it was nominated for the Audience Award. The Passenger (original titled La Pasajera) stars Ramiro Blas (“La Fuga”), Cecilia Suárez (“The House of Flowers”), Paula Gallego (“Cuéntame”), and Cristina Alcázar (Cachorro). It was co-directed by Raúl Cerezo in and Fernando González Gómez (Zombie World 2) and was written by Luis Sánchez-Polack (Como Caido Del Cielo). In the film, A group of strangers sharing a ride have their trip interrupted when the driver hits a woman hiking in the dark of night. They decide to help her but quickly learn that something is terribly wrong and that they shouldn’t have let her in at all. The Passenger lands On Demand and DVD on June 28, 2022.
Continue reading →
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This week, IFC Midnight is gearing up to release director Chloe Okuno’s chilling psychological thriller Watcher, co-written by Zach Ford. It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars alongside Karl Glusman (Love) and Burns Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises) in the film in which Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building that looks back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theater, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes confident she’s being followed — could it be the same unknown neighbor? Meanwhile, a serial killer called “The Spider” stalks the city. Watcher, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry’s called “one of this year’s finest” in his review, arrives on VOD and Digital on June 21, 2022.
Continue reading →
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Following her role in Robert Egger’s Viking epic The Northman, Nicole Kidman is set to star in the upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan. From the director of Hulu’s Fresh, Mimi Cave, comes “The feature, based on Andrew Sodroski’s (Manhunt) script, topped the 2013 Black List, and involves secrets that lurk beneath a Midwestern town with a Hitchcock bent. Kidman will star and produce with Per Saari under her Blossom Films.” Deadline reports. The movie centers on a woman (Kidman) who suspects her husband is cheating and enters into an affair of her own before learning about her husband’s true, dark secret life. Peter Delbert is producing, with Kate Churchill serving as executive producer. Cave’s Fresh, a horror-comedy, premiered earlier this year on Hulu and explores “the horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.”
Continue reading →
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Rose Glass, the director behind Saint Maud, is back with Love Lies Bleeding with Anna Baryshnikov (Dickenson) set to star alongside Kristen Stewart (the Twilight franchise). The film is a thriller about “romance fueled by ego, desire, and the American Dream. It is reportedly set in the world of bodybuilding. The A24 film is directed by Glass, who co-wrote the script with Weronika Tofilska. The film is produced by A24, Andrea Cornwell for Lobo Films, and Oliver Kassman for Escape Plan Productions.
Continue reading →
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The female-driven revenge thriller Death Hunt, directed by Neil Mackay, is set to be released this month by Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, “a developer and his mistress, traveling to their weekend retreat, are taken hostage by a group of men and brought to a remote island. Here they fight for survival as the men release them into the wild and hunt them for sport.” Omar Tucci, Rick Amsbury, Michael Coughlan, Marlene Malcolm, Greg Johnston, Frank Ieraci, Terry McDonald, Peter Lewis, Sam Slessor, and Mason Cromwell star in the film, which will be released on Digital, DVD, and On-Demand on July 12, 2022.
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