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The Boston Underground Film Festival is mere days away, and Horror Fuel has our collective eyes on many of the fest’s fine fear-fare offerings. Following are official press announcements, with thoughts from Film Festival Editor Joseph Perry in italics. 23nd annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The Brattle Theatre with five days of vanguard cinemania from March 22nd through the 26th. This year’s lineup is stacked with fearsome folk horror, mendacious miscreants, harrowing horrors and hero/es/ines, godless god-complexes, eco-thrillers and chillers, sensational sci-fi, and all manner of midnight madness. BUFF is beyond honored to host the World Premiere of Jeffrey A. Brown’s haunting, Massachusetts-based horror thriller The Unheard for a homecoming heroes’ welcome on Opening Night. Starring Lachlan Watson (Chucky, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), The Unheard follows a deaf young woman ensconced in a signal-to-noise mystery of dueling senses, realities, truths, identities, and possibly worlds. Brown (2019’s The Beach House) and local screenwriting legends Michael
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The latest indie horror film, The Reaper Man, from Tennessee-based filmmaker Jason Lockridge, director of Succuba and Down Bad: Life In The Hood, is heading your way. In the film, “a grieving wife summons a dark spirit with an insatiable desire for revenge.” Written and directed by Lockridge and starring Jessica Jai Johnson (“The Stix”), K.J. Baker (“Nashville”), Kenon Walker (100 Lives), and Jeff Halton (Hongo), the film will be available come April 18, 2023, on Digital Platforms, from Gravitas Ventures.
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Lightbulb Film Distribution has just shared the poster and trailer for the new survival thriller, The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, written and directed by Robert Machoian (The Killing of Two Lovers) In the film, “An insurance salesman, hoping to prove his survivalist skills to his family, irresponsibly goes hunting alone. But he isn’t prepared for what lies ahead…” Clayne Crawford (A Walk to Remember, “Lethal Weapon”), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“The Walking Dead,” “Supernatural’), and Jordana Brewster (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Faculty) star in this tense film. The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, which made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, will be released on Digital and Blu-ray on April 17, 2023, via AppleTV, Amazon, Sky Store, Virgin Media, and Google Play. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon now.
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The new trailer is here for Bron Theron‘s new paranormal, comedy-laced horror film, Half Dead Fred. In Half Dead Fred, “A mysterious murder occurs in Flint, Michigan, and Medium detective Freddy Nash is on the case. Years ago, Fred was the victim of a fatal car accident that left Fred and his 9-year-old son dead. A few seconds after his death, Fred came back to life in the hospital. Since this traumatic accident, he has been able to see the dead. As Fred investigates, the case turns out to be much more than a murder. Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis Can’t Lose), Jason London (Dazed and Confused), and Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley) star in Half Dead Fred, out on Prime Video Today, March 15, 2023, from White Ninja Productions.
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Jeremy Irvine (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, War Horse) and Hannah Emily Anderson (X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Jigsaw) are set to star in the upcoming sequel, Return to Silent Hill. Christophe Gans (Beauty and the Beast, Brotherhood of The Wolf), director of the first Silent Hill feature, is returning to direct the new installment of the hit film franchise. Written by Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh (Beauty and the Beast), and William Josef Schneider, Return to Silent Hill is based on the game Silent Hill II, the second and most popular game in KONAMI’s video game series. The film follows James, a man broken after being separated from his one true love. When a mysterious letter calls him back to Silent Hill in search of her, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil. As James descends deeper into the darkness, he encounters terrifying figures, both familiar and new. He begins to question his own sanity as he struggles to
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Writer-director Ehrland Hollingsworth‘s nail-biting survival thriller, Homestead, is out now and gives off House of 1000 Corpses meets “1883” vibes. Starring Brian Krause (“Charmed”), Jamie Bernadette (“Chicago Fire”), and wrestler-turned-actor Dallas Page (The Devil’s Rejects), the film sees a family taken captive by a gang of outlaws. And it’s up to a loud-mouthed, 12-year-old markswoman to save the family. Mike Ferguson (Hellblazers), Mike Markoff (“Death Squad”), Greg Kriek (Rogue), Betsy Sligh (I Want You Back), and Scot Scurlock (Painkiller) also star. Head to Tubi now and watch Homestead for free.
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Kansas City’s renowned Panic Fest has announced a 2023 hybrid slate that will have horror and genre-film fans reaching for their drool cups! Whether your cinematic appetites lean toward slashers or slitherers, maniacs or monsters, or practically anything in between, Panic Fest offers something for pretty much everyone next month. Have a gander at the fest’s official press announcement, which follows. Universal Pictures’ new Dracula horror-comedy Renfield, starring Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult as Renfield and Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as The Prince of Darkness, kicks off the 11th annual Panic Fest on Thursday, April 13, at Screenland Armour Theatre in Kansas City, MO. Our festival expands its 2023 programming to feature over 100 films along with special guest filmmakers and special events for opening weekend. Panic Fest will once again be a hybrid festival allowing genre fans to enjoy programming in-person and keep the party going online at home with our virtual programming. In-Person: April 13-19, 2023 Virtual Fest: April
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One of horror’s most famous icons, that violent, red-headed, possessed doll Chucky, is the subject of a new documentary titled Living With Chucky. Filmmaker Kyra Elise Gardner, daughter of iconic special effects artist Tony Gardner, takes an in-depth look at the groundbreaking horror franchise. Featuring interviews with creator Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, who has long been the voice of Chucky, Fiona Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, John Waters, and more. Living with Chucky explores the appeal and longevity of the Child’s Play franchise – and its iconic bloodthirsty doll that we all know and love. Living With Chucky will make its streaming premiere on April 4, 2023, followed by its Blu-ray release on April 18th, from Yellow Veil Pictures.
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Written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), the highly-anticipated Evil Dead Rise is headed your way this April. The movie stars Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, and Nell Fisher. “Moving the action out of the woods and into the city, Evil Dead Rise tells the twisted tale of two estranged sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.” While franchise star Bruce Campbell will not be reprising his role as Ash, he is serving as a producer and has made a statement about the film’s plot. “It’s [about] a single mom who now has to deal with this book. These days it’s more about the book. That book gets around. Passed along, people try and get rid of it, they try to bury it or destroy
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The are few things more unnerving than creepy kids in horror movies, and the new fright-filled horror flick, There’s Something Wrong with the Children, is filled with them! Directed by Roxanne Benjamin, There’s Something Wrong With the Children stars Alisha Wainwright, Zach Gilford, Amanda Crew, and Carlos Santos. In the film, “When Margaret (Wainwright) and Ben (Gilford) take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie (Crew) and Thomas (Santos) and their two young children (Guiza and Mattle), Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.” Written by T.J. Cimfel and Dave White, the film is executive produced by Josh Reinhold, Jeremy Gold, Chris McCumber, and Jason Blum. And features music by The Gifted. There’s Something Wrong with the Children is now on Digital, Prime Video, and Demand from Blumhouse. The film arrives on MGM+ on March 17, 2023.
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The Boston Underground Film Festival is mere days away, and Horror Fuel has our collective eyes on many of the fest’s fine fear-fare offerings. Following are official press announcements, with thoughts from Film Festival Editor Joseph Perry in italics. 23nd annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The Brattle Theatre with five days of vanguard cinemania from March 22nd through the 26th. This year’s lineup is stacked with fearsome folk horror, mendacious miscreants, harrowing horrors and hero/es/ines, godless god-complexes, eco-thrillers and chillers, sensational sci-fi, and all manner of midnight madness. BUFF is beyond honored to host the World Premiere of Jeffrey A. Brown’s haunting, Massachusetts-based horror thriller The Unheard for a homecoming heroes’ welcome on Opening Night. Starring Lachlan Watson (Chucky, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), The Unheard follows a deaf young woman ensconced in a signal-to-noise mystery of dueling senses, realities, truths, identities, and possibly worlds. Brown (2019’s The Beach House) and local screenwriting legends Michael
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IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
The latest indie horror film, The Reaper Man, from Tennessee-based filmmaker Jason Lockridge, director of Succuba and Down Bad: Life In The Hood, is heading your way. In the film, “a grieving wife summons a dark spirit with an insatiable desire for revenge.” Written and directed by Lockridge and starring Jessica Jai Johnson (“The Stix”), K.J. Baker (“Nashville”), Kenon Walker (100 Lives), and Jeff Halton (Hongo), the film will be available come April 18, 2023, on Digital Platforms, from Gravitas Ventures.
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Lightbulb Film Distribution has just shared the poster and trailer for the new survival thriller, The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, written and directed by Robert Machoian (The Killing of Two Lovers) In the film, “An insurance salesman, hoping to prove his survivalist skills to his family, irresponsibly goes hunting alone. But he isn’t prepared for what lies ahead…” Clayne Crawford (A Walk to Remember, “Lethal Weapon”), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“The Walking Dead,” “Supernatural’), and Jordana Brewster (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Faculty) star in this tense film. The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, which made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, will be released on Digital and Blu-ray on April 17, 2023, via AppleTV, Amazon, Sky Store, Virgin Media, and Google Play. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon now.
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The new trailer is here for Bron Theron‘s new paranormal, comedy-laced horror film, Half Dead Fred. In Half Dead Fred, “A mysterious murder occurs in Flint, Michigan, and Medium detective Freddy Nash is on the case. Years ago, Fred was the victim of a fatal car accident that left Fred and his 9-year-old son dead. A few seconds after his death, Fred came back to life in the hospital. Since this traumatic accident, he has been able to see the dead. As Fred investigates, the case turns out to be much more than a murder. Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis Can’t Lose), Jason London (Dazed and Confused), and Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley) star in Half Dead Fred, out on Prime Video Today, March 15, 2023, from White Ninja Productions.
Continue reading →
AdaptationGamingMoviesNews
Jeremy Irvine (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, War Horse) and Hannah Emily Anderson (X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Jigsaw) are set to star in the upcoming sequel, Return to Silent Hill. Christophe Gans (Beauty and the Beast, Brotherhood of The Wolf), director of the first Silent Hill feature, is returning to direct the new installment of the hit film franchise. Written by Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh (Beauty and the Beast), and William Josef Schneider, Return to Silent Hill is based on the game Silent Hill II, the second and most popular game in KONAMI’s video game series. The film follows James, a man broken after being separated from his one true love. When a mysterious letter calls him back to Silent Hill in search of her, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil. As James descends deeper into the darkness, he encounters terrifying figures, both familiar and new. He begins to question his own sanity as he struggles to
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
Writer-director Ehrland Hollingsworth‘s nail-biting survival thriller, Homestead, is out now and gives off House of 1000 Corpses meets “1883” vibes. Starring Brian Krause (“Charmed”), Jamie Bernadette (“Chicago Fire”), and wrestler-turned-actor Dallas Page (The Devil’s Rejects), the film sees a family taken captive by a gang of outlaws. And it’s up to a loud-mouthed, 12-year-old markswoman to save the family. Mike Ferguson (Hellblazers), Mike Markoff (“Death Squad”), Greg Kriek (Rogue), Betsy Sligh (I Want You Back), and Scot Scurlock (Painkiller) also star. Head to Tubi now and watch Homestead for free.
Continue reading →
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Kansas City’s renowned Panic Fest has announced a 2023 hybrid slate that will have horror and genre-film fans reaching for their drool cups! Whether your cinematic appetites lean toward slashers or slitherers, maniacs or monsters, or practically anything in between, Panic Fest offers something for pretty much everyone next month. Have a gander at the fest’s official press announcement, which follows. Universal Pictures’ new Dracula horror-comedy Renfield, starring Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult as Renfield and Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as The Prince of Darkness, kicks off the 11th annual Panic Fest on Thursday, April 13, at Screenland Armour Theatre in Kansas City, MO. Our festival expands its 2023 programming to feature over 100 films along with special guest filmmakers and special events for opening weekend. Panic Fest will once again be a hybrid festival allowing genre fans to enjoy programming in-person and keep the party going online at home with our virtual programming. In-Person: April 13-19, 2023 Virtual Fest: April
Continue reading →
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One of horror’s most famous icons, that violent, red-headed, possessed doll Chucky, is the subject of a new documentary titled Living With Chucky. Filmmaker Kyra Elise Gardner, daughter of iconic special effects artist Tony Gardner, takes an in-depth look at the groundbreaking horror franchise. Featuring interviews with creator Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, who has long been the voice of Chucky, Fiona Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, John Waters, and more. Living with Chucky explores the appeal and longevity of the Child’s Play franchise – and its iconic bloodthirsty doll that we all know and love. Living With Chucky will make its streaming premiere on April 4, 2023, followed by its Blu-ray release on April 18th, from Yellow Veil Pictures.
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Written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), the highly-anticipated Evil Dead Rise is headed your way this April. The movie stars Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, and Nell Fisher. “Moving the action out of the woods and into the city, Evil Dead Rise tells the twisted tale of two estranged sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.” While franchise star Bruce Campbell will not be reprising his role as Ash, he is serving as a producer and has made a statement about the film’s plot. “It’s [about] a single mom who now has to deal with this book. These days it’s more about the book. That book gets around. Passed along, people try and get rid of it, they try to bury it or destroy
Continue reading →
MGM+MoviesNewsStreaming TVTrailers
The are few things more unnerving than creepy kids in horror movies, and the new fright-filled horror flick, There’s Something Wrong with the Children, is filled with them! Directed by Roxanne Benjamin, There’s Something Wrong With the Children stars Alisha Wainwright, Zach Gilford, Amanda Crew, and Carlos Santos. In the film, “When Margaret (Wainwright) and Ben (Gilford) take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie (Crew) and Thomas (Santos) and their two young children (Guiza and Mattle), Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.” Written by T.J. Cimfel and Dave White, the film is executive produced by Josh Reinhold, Jeremy Gold, Chris McCumber, and Jason Blum. And features music by The Gifted. There’s Something Wrong with the Children is now on Digital, Prime Video, and Demand from Blumhouse. The film arrives on MGM+ on March 17, 2023.
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