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The French filmmaker behind the fantastic cannibalistic horror Raw, Julia Ducournau, is back with Titane. The film opened in theaters back in October, via Neon, and is now made its US home release. The film, starring Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon, sees a father reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years after a series of unexplained crimes. Titane: “A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys. A metal often used in surgical procedures.” Titane is produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond, Jean Yves Rubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Oliver Père, Philippe Logie, Anne-Laure Declerck, and Christophe Hollebek. Titane, rated “R” for “disturbing material,” “nudity,” and “violence,” is now available on Prime Video, Hulu, and VUDU.
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To celebrate the release of director Mattie Do‘s The Long Walk, a new poster has been unveiled for the genre-bending film. In The Long Walk, “An old scavenger living on the fringes of a near-future society exploits a ghostly companion’s ability to traverse time, hoping to prevent his mother’s suffering from a terminal illness.” The film made its World Premiered to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and was followed by praise out of the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s the third feature of Lao based director Mattie Do (Chanthaly, Dearest Sister), whose career has been recognized by the Oldenburg International Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival for her breakthrough work as Lao’s first and only woman filmmaker, and the only filmmaker of the country to work in the horror and fantasy genres. A deliberately paced story that burns with intensity and human emotion, The Long Walk is all at once a
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Trinity CineAsia’s critically acclaimed South Korean action-thriller, Spiritwalker, fights its way onto Digital this March. In the film, “Waking up with a gunshot wound, a mysterious man (Yoon Kye-Sang, Golden Slumber, The Outlaws) has no memory of who he is or where he came from, but soon finds himself transported into someone else’s body every twelve hours. Confused and hunted down at every turn, it’s a race against the clock as he pieces together clues about his identity and any connection between the seemingly random body-swaps he is experiencing.” From the producers of The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, and The Outlaws, Spiritwalker is an action-packed and unforgettable thriller, written and directed by Yoon Jae-Keun (Heartbeat), and stars Yoon Kyesang, Ji-Yeon Lim, and Yong-woo Park. Trinity CineAsia presents Spiritwalker on Digital platforms March 31, 2022.
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This March, IFC Films will release the star-studded psychological thriller Johna and the Hole, starring “Dexter” actor Michael C. Hall, Saint Maud‘s Jennifer Ehle, “American Horror Story” actress Taissa Farmiga, and young Captain Fantastic star Charlie Shotwell. “In this enigmatic and unsettling meditation on adolescent angst, 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell) discovers an unfinished bunker while exploring the neighboring woods—a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents (Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister (Taissa Farmiga), holding them captive within the bunker. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally enjoy and explore newfound independence. Exploring the difficult passage from childhood freedom to adult responsibility, John and the Hole is both a slow-burn psychological thriller and meditative coming-of-age fable, anchored by a chilling lead performance from Charlie Shotwell.” Pascual Sisto makes his feature directorial debut with John and the Hole, arriving
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If you have a cinematic taste for the odd, the unusual, and the frightening, Wisconsin’s MidWest WeirdFest has just what you are craving! The film festival has announced the full lineup for its March 4-6 run this year, and it’s fantastic! Along with two films previously reviewed on Horror Fuel — Night Caller and Crabs! — the fest serves up a smorgasbord of cinematic strangeness. The official press announcement follows. MidWest WeirdFest announces its full program for 2022 today. The 6th annual film festival – a cinematic celebration of of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird – takes place March 4-6, 2022 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Among the fest’s fantastic line-up of horror, sci-fi, underground and documentary cinema, are a number of films world premiering at the event. One of these is HAIR-TRIGGER, a genre-bending crime caper come rural horror movie. “HAIR-TRIGGER is truly a product of the region,” says the feature
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An ambitious news reporter, Sarah Lee (Jenna Willis), and her plucky news team find themselves in the clutches of evil when they agree to interview an infamous serial killer in the Lucky Strike horror film Killer Connection, directed by Romane Simon. Killer Connection stars Sadie Katz (Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort), Quinton Aaron (The Blindside with Sandra Bullock), Lilian Lev, and Deanna Pak. Recently acquired by Joston “El Rey” Theney’s #SinningWorks, Killer Connection was for the screen by novelist Rhonnie Fordham whose recent work includes the acclaimed “Last Serial Killer” series. Watch Killer Connection NOW on Amazon Prime Video.
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Following its World Premiere at SXSW, the crime-thriller Broadcast Signal Intrusion is set to be released this March in theaters and on Blu-ray from Lightbulb and Dark Sky Films. Set “in the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy behind them.” While the synopsis may sound familiar, a lot like Netflix’s “Archive 81,” the stories are in reality very different, which you’ll see in the new trailer below. Directed by Jacob Gentry (Synchronicity), the film stars Harry Shum Jr. (Crazy Rich Asians, Glee), Kelley Mack (Shot In The Dark, “The Walking Dead”), and Chris Sullivan (This Is Us, Agnes). The film was produced by Greg Newman (Stake Land, Girl On The Third Floor) and co-written by Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall. The feature is based on a short made in 2016 of the same name. Broadcast Signal Intrusion opens in UK/EIRE Cinemas on March 25, 2022, and will
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Director Blake Ridder‘s award-winning psychological thriller HELP, featuring a cameo performance from boyband Blue’s very own Duncan James, is out today on Digital and On-Demand. In the film, “A young woman’s life turns chaotic when she uncovers a deadly secret about her friend…A painful breakup prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio starts the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Everyone has a secret…” Louis James (The English Teacher, A Simple Robbery), Emily Redpath (Romeo and Juliet, Casualty), and Sarah Alexandra Marks (Glamour, Psychosis) star. HELP was filmed in just 12 days due to UK lockdown restrictions, with only 20 cast and crew members were involved. HELP debuts on Digital in both the US and Canada on February 15, 2021, from
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Producers Helen Leake AM and Gena Ashwell from Dancing Road Productions announced today that the feature film Carnifex is currently in post-production after wrapping principal photography in Adelaide, South Australia. Today, the first image has arrived featuring actress Alexandra Park crawling through the mud and the muck on her belly. Developed from an original concept by Dancing Road, Carnifex is an environmental horror-thriller with a talented cast that includes Alexandra Park (The Royals), Sisi Stringer (Mortal Kombat), and Harry Greenwood (Wakefield), along with one of Australia’s best-loved actors, Darren Gilshenan. In Carnifex, “As Australia recovers from unprecedented bushfires, Bailey (Alexandra Park), an aspiring documentary filmmaker, joins conservationists Grace (Sisi Stringer) and Ben (Harry Greenwood) as they travel deep into the Australian outback to track and record the animals left displaced and devastated by the fires. As night falls, the trio discovers a terrifying species and quickly becomes the one being tracked. The film marks the feature directorial debut of acclaimed
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From the mind of acclaimed director Tony Stone comes TED K– a cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, who took the lives of three people and injured twenty-three others with a series of bombs. Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As the outside world encroached on his mountain sanctuary, he slowly became radicalized with rage. What began with small acts of sabotage, culminated with deadly bomb attacks, national media attention, and the largest manhunt in American history. Actor Sharlto Copley brings a dark intensity and unnerving intimacy to this chilling real-life portrait of America’s most notorious and enigmatic terrorist. TED K is a film about the American soul: dark, criminal, and fantastic. D.H. Lawrence said, “the essential American soul is hard, isolated, stoic, and a killer.” One man fits that description perfectly: UNABOMBER Theodore J. Kaczynski,
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The French filmmaker behind the fantastic cannibalistic horror Raw, Julia Ducournau, is back with Titane. The film opened in theaters back in October, via Neon, and is now made its US home release. The film, starring Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon, sees a father reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years after a series of unexplained crimes. Titane: “A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys. A metal often used in surgical procedures.” Titane is produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond, Jean Yves Rubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Oliver Père, Philippe Logie, Anne-Laure Declerck, and Christophe Hollebek. Titane, rated “R” for “disturbing material,” “nudity,” and “violence,” is now available on Prime Video, Hulu, and VUDU.
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To celebrate the release of director Mattie Do‘s The Long Walk, a new poster has been unveiled for the genre-bending film. In The Long Walk, “An old scavenger living on the fringes of a near-future society exploits a ghostly companion’s ability to traverse time, hoping to prevent his mother’s suffering from a terminal illness.” The film made its World Premiered to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and was followed by praise out of the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s the third feature of Lao based director Mattie Do (Chanthaly, Dearest Sister), whose career has been recognized by the Oldenburg International Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival for her breakthrough work as Lao’s first and only woman filmmaker, and the only filmmaker of the country to work in the horror and fantasy genres. A deliberately paced story that burns with intensity and human emotion, The Long Walk is all at once a
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Trinity CineAsia’s critically acclaimed South Korean action-thriller, Spiritwalker, fights its way onto Digital this March. In the film, “Waking up with a gunshot wound, a mysterious man (Yoon Kye-Sang, Golden Slumber, The Outlaws) has no memory of who he is or where he came from, but soon finds himself transported into someone else’s body every twelve hours. Confused and hunted down at every turn, it’s a race against the clock as he pieces together clues about his identity and any connection between the seemingly random body-swaps he is experiencing.” From the producers of The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, and The Outlaws, Spiritwalker is an action-packed and unforgettable thriller, written and directed by Yoon Jae-Keun (Heartbeat), and stars Yoon Kyesang, Ji-Yeon Lim, and Yong-woo Park. Trinity CineAsia presents Spiritwalker on Digital platforms March 31, 2022.
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This March, IFC Films will release the star-studded psychological thriller Johna and the Hole, starring “Dexter” actor Michael C. Hall, Saint Maud‘s Jennifer Ehle, “American Horror Story” actress Taissa Farmiga, and young Captain Fantastic star Charlie Shotwell. “In this enigmatic and unsettling meditation on adolescent angst, 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell) discovers an unfinished bunker while exploring the neighboring woods—a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents (Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister (Taissa Farmiga), holding them captive within the bunker. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally enjoy and explore newfound independence. Exploring the difficult passage from childhood freedom to adult responsibility, John and the Hole is both a slow-burn psychological thriller and meditative coming-of-age fable, anchored by a chilling lead performance from Charlie Shotwell.” Pascual Sisto makes his feature directorial debut with John and the Hole, arriving
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If you have a cinematic taste for the odd, the unusual, and the frightening, Wisconsin’s MidWest WeirdFest has just what you are craving! The film festival has announced the full lineup for its March 4-6 run this year, and it’s fantastic! Along with two films previously reviewed on Horror Fuel — Night Caller and Crabs! — the fest serves up a smorgasbord of cinematic strangeness. The official press announcement follows. MidWest WeirdFest announces its full program for 2022 today. The 6th annual film festival – a cinematic celebration of of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird – takes place March 4-6, 2022 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Among the fest’s fantastic line-up of horror, sci-fi, underground and documentary cinema, are a number of films world premiering at the event. One of these is HAIR-TRIGGER, a genre-bending crime caper come rural horror movie. “HAIR-TRIGGER is truly a product of the region,” says the feature
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An ambitious news reporter, Sarah Lee (Jenna Willis), and her plucky news team find themselves in the clutches of evil when they agree to interview an infamous serial killer in the Lucky Strike horror film Killer Connection, directed by Romane Simon. Killer Connection stars Sadie Katz (Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort), Quinton Aaron (The Blindside with Sandra Bullock), Lilian Lev, and Deanna Pak. Recently acquired by Joston “El Rey” Theney’s #SinningWorks, Killer Connection was for the screen by novelist Rhonnie Fordham whose recent work includes the acclaimed “Last Serial Killer” series. Watch Killer Connection NOW on Amazon Prime Video.
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Following its World Premiere at SXSW, the crime-thriller Broadcast Signal Intrusion is set to be released this March in theaters and on Blu-ray from Lightbulb and Dark Sky Films. Set “in the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy behind them.” While the synopsis may sound familiar, a lot like Netflix’s “Archive 81,” the stories are in reality very different, which you’ll see in the new trailer below. Directed by Jacob Gentry (Synchronicity), the film stars Harry Shum Jr. (Crazy Rich Asians, Glee), Kelley Mack (Shot In The Dark, “The Walking Dead”), and Chris Sullivan (This Is Us, Agnes). The film was produced by Greg Newman (Stake Land, Girl On The Third Floor) and co-written by Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall. The feature is based on a short made in 2016 of the same name. Broadcast Signal Intrusion opens in UK/EIRE Cinemas on March 25, 2022, and will
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Director Blake Ridder‘s award-winning psychological thriller HELP, featuring a cameo performance from boyband Blue’s very own Duncan James, is out today on Digital and On-Demand. In the film, “A young woman’s life turns chaotic when she uncovers a deadly secret about her friend…A painful breakup prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio starts the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Everyone has a secret…” Louis James (The English Teacher, A Simple Robbery), Emily Redpath (Romeo and Juliet, Casualty), and Sarah Alexandra Marks (Glamour, Psychosis) star. HELP was filmed in just 12 days due to UK lockdown restrictions, with only 20 cast and crew members were involved. HELP debuts on Digital in both the US and Canada on February 15, 2021, from
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Producers Helen Leake AM and Gena Ashwell from Dancing Road Productions announced today that the feature film Carnifex is currently in post-production after wrapping principal photography in Adelaide, South Australia. Today, the first image has arrived featuring actress Alexandra Park crawling through the mud and the muck on her belly. Developed from an original concept by Dancing Road, Carnifex is an environmental horror-thriller with a talented cast that includes Alexandra Park (The Royals), Sisi Stringer (Mortal Kombat), and Harry Greenwood (Wakefield), along with one of Australia’s best-loved actors, Darren Gilshenan. In Carnifex, “As Australia recovers from unprecedented bushfires, Bailey (Alexandra Park), an aspiring documentary filmmaker, joins conservationists Grace (Sisi Stringer) and Ben (Harry Greenwood) as they travel deep into the Australian outback to track and record the animals left displaced and devastated by the fires. As night falls, the trio discovers a terrifying species and quickly becomes the one being tracked. The film marks the feature directorial debut of acclaimed
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From the mind of acclaimed director Tony Stone comes TED K– a cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, who took the lives of three people and injured twenty-three others with a series of bombs. Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As the outside world encroached on his mountain sanctuary, he slowly became radicalized with rage. What began with small acts of sabotage, culminated with deadly bomb attacks, national media attention, and the largest manhunt in American history. Actor Sharlto Copley brings a dark intensity and unnerving intimacy to this chilling real-life portrait of America’s most notorious and enigmatic terrorist. TED K is a film about the American soul: dark, criminal, and fantastic. D.H. Lawrence said, “the essential American soul is hard, isolated, stoic, and a killer.” One man fits that description perfectly: UNABOMBER Theodore J. Kaczynski,
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