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Academy Award® Winner Adrien Brody stars alongside Emily Hampshire in EPIX’s “Chapelwaite“, a series based on the short story Jerusalem’s Lot by Stephen King. Today, the fantastic first official trailer has arrived, teasing a dark, unnerving series filled with mystery and horror. “Set in the 1850s, the series follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations. Hampshire plays Rebecca Morgan, an ambitious young woman who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke College and has returned home with an advance to write a story for the new and prestigious Atlantic Magazine. Her writer’s block lifts when Boone arrives in town with his children, and despite her mother’s protests, Rebecca applies to be the governess of the infamous Chapelwaite manor and the
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C Prano Bailey-Bond left horror fans pleased with her hit horror film Censor (Out now on DVD) earlier this year. She’s wasting no time and has already moved on to her next project, titled Things We Lost in the Fire, based on a short story by Mariana Enriquez. Deadline reports that Prano Bailey-Bond will both write and direct Things We Lost in the Fire for RT Features, with Anthony Fletcher (Censor) penning the screenplay. The film “will chronicle how a terrorized female community resorts to ever more extreme actions in response to male violence.” RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira (Call Me by Your Name) and Lourenço Sant’Anna (The Lighthouse) will produce, with Alan Terpins serving as Executive Producer.
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Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 will see the United Kingdom’s largest horror and fantasy film festival return to the cinema, and it does so in huge way: with 25 films set to show on the main screen! With a schedule of films ranging from supernatural to slashers and monsters to murderous mayhem, there is something for every scare-fare fan. Following is the official press release. Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thurs August 26 – Monday 30 August, 2021 for five days of the very best of global genre cinema. The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions caused by the pandemic, this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be presented in the main screens are revealed. They include four world premieres and eight International / European premieres. Global events over the past eighteen
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Genius filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro has now officially wrapped production on Nightmare Alley. Today we’ve learned that the film has been rated “R” for “Strong/bloody violence, some sexual content, nudity, and language.” The all-star cast includes Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn. In the film, an adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, “An ambitious young carny (Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is.” Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan penned the script. Take a trip down Nightmare Alley on December 3, 2021, from Searchlight Pictures.
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After ten years of successful film festival screenings, the award-winning supernatural horror film Trick of the Witch by filmmaker Chris Morrissey is making its exclusive streaming debut on his official YouTube channel FREE for a limited time. The film “centers on a group of fashion models fighting a witchcraft curse during a photo shoot.” The film premiered in 2010 at the New York International Independent Film Festival and won awards for Best Horror Film and the Audience Award. The film had a theatrical run in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in 2011. Trick of the Witch won Best Horror Film at the Golden Indie Movie Awards in 2012. The film recently screened and won awards for Best Actress, Director’s Spotlight, and the Audience Award at the 2016 RIPP Horror Festival and screened along with Morrissey’s most recent feature film Heavy Makeup at the historic Los Feliz 3 Cinemas in Los Angeles. The cast includes indie film starlet Share
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Everyone’s favorite spooky family is back for an all-new animated sequel, The Addams Family 2. In the newly arrived trailer, we see the Addams set off for a hair-raising road trip. In this movie we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time.” To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin, It, as well as many new kooky characters. What could possibly go wrong? Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton, and Wallace Shawn star, with Snoop Dogg playing Cousin ‘IT’, Bette Midler as Grandma and Bill Hader as Cyrus. The all-together spooky sequel is directed by Greg Tiernan and produced by Gail Berman,
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Writer-director Mathieu Turi‘s claustrophobic horror film Meander is headed your way this July. In the film, “after getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, a fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…” Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen, and Romane Libert star in Meander, arriving in theaters and VOD on July 9, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures.
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A troubled musician is lured into a potent mystery, tied to the disappearance of a missing teen in the thriller The Green Sea. Starring Katherine Isabelle (American Mary, Ginger Snaps), Hazel Doupe (Float Like A Butterfly), Jenny Dixon (Full Circle), Dermot Ward (“Game of Thrones”), Michael Parle (Tin Can Man), and Zeb Moore (Hexing), The Green Sea was written and directed by Randal Plunkett. Edwina Forkin and Stephen Lordes produce. Simone (Katharine Isabelle), an American writer living a solitary life in the Irish countryside, is haunted by visions of her past which begin to intertwine with the fantasy world of the novel she is writing, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Her life changes, when the protagonist of her book, known only as “Kid”, played by up-and-coming Irish actress Hazel Doupe (Float Like A Butterfly), appears to her as a victim of a drunk driving incident that forces the pair together. This sets up the beginning of an unlikely
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From director James Suttles (The Evil Inside Her) comes the entomophobia-inducing film The Nest (aka The Bewailing), starring scream queen Dee Wallace (Cujo, The Howling). We’ve got the new trailer that just might leave you with Entomophobia (the fear of insects). “When Meg and her mother Beth visit a yard sale, Beth buys her young daughter an adorable stuffed bear, thinking it may help with Meg’s separation anxiety. As children do, she quickly becomes attached to the bear, talking to it and taking it everywhere she goes. However, soon Beth notices that the bear is communicating with Meg and even influencing her behavior. When Meg starts developing hoarding habits and seems infected by a parasitic creature, things take a turn for the worse. Soon it’s clear there’s something much more nightmarish and sinister to this yard sale toy than anyone could have imagined.” Written by Jennifer Trudrung, The Nest also stars Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy, Drez Ryan, Blaque Fowler,
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Lin Shaye (Insidious) and Tobin Bell (Saw) star in The Call, the new supernatural horror film from Emmy® Nominated Director Timothy Woodward Jr. Set in the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it. Filled with twist after twist, the film reveals lies, secrets, and horrible deeds done by a teenage group, including the harassment they have committed against the elderly couple for years. In the first half of the movie you are given reason after reason to dislike these kids then the movie attempts to trigger your empathy halfway through by revealing their past traumas. But the group is flat-out unlikeable. They are rude, cruel, and well, just assholes in general, save for the new guy (Chester Rushing).
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Academy Award® Winner Adrien Brody stars alongside Emily Hampshire in EPIX’s “Chapelwaite“, a series based on the short story Jerusalem’s Lot by Stephen King. Today, the fantastic first official trailer has arrived, teasing a dark, unnerving series filled with mystery and horror. “Set in the 1850s, the series follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations. Hampshire plays Rebecca Morgan, an ambitious young woman who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke College and has returned home with an advance to write a story for the new and prestigious Atlantic Magazine. Her writer’s block lifts when Boone arrives in town with his children, and despite her mother’s protests, Rebecca applies to be the governess of the infamous Chapelwaite manor and the
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C Prano Bailey-Bond left horror fans pleased with her hit horror film Censor (Out now on DVD) earlier this year. She’s wasting no time and has already moved on to her next project, titled Things We Lost in the Fire, based on a short story by Mariana Enriquez. Deadline reports that Prano Bailey-Bond will both write and direct Things We Lost in the Fire for RT Features, with Anthony Fletcher (Censor) penning the screenplay. The film “will chronicle how a terrorized female community resorts to ever more extreme actions in response to male violence.” RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira (Call Me by Your Name) and Lourenço Sant’Anna (The Lighthouse) will produce, with Alan Terpins serving as Executive Producer.
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Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 will see the United Kingdom’s largest horror and fantasy film festival return to the cinema, and it does so in huge way: with 25 films set to show on the main screen! With a schedule of films ranging from supernatural to slashers and monsters to murderous mayhem, there is something for every scare-fare fan. Following is the official press release. Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thurs August 26 – Monday 30 August, 2021 for five days of the very best of global genre cinema. The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions caused by the pandemic, this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be presented in the main screens are revealed. They include four world premieres and eight International / European premieres. Global events over the past eighteen
Continue reading →
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Genius filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro has now officially wrapped production on Nightmare Alley. Today we’ve learned that the film has been rated “R” for “Strong/bloody violence, some sexual content, nudity, and language.” The all-star cast includes Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn. In the film, an adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, “An ambitious young carny (Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is.” Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan penned the script. Take a trip down Nightmare Alley on December 3, 2021, from Searchlight Pictures.
Continue reading →
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After ten years of successful film festival screenings, the award-winning supernatural horror film Trick of the Witch by filmmaker Chris Morrissey is making its exclusive streaming debut on his official YouTube channel FREE for a limited time. The film “centers on a group of fashion models fighting a witchcraft curse during a photo shoot.” The film premiered in 2010 at the New York International Independent Film Festival and won awards for Best Horror Film and the Audience Award. The film had a theatrical run in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in 2011. Trick of the Witch won Best Horror Film at the Golden Indie Movie Awards in 2012. The film recently screened and won awards for Best Actress, Director’s Spotlight, and the Audience Award at the 2016 RIPP Horror Festival and screened along with Morrissey’s most recent feature film Heavy Makeup at the historic Los Feliz 3 Cinemas in Los Angeles. The cast includes indie film starlet Share
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Everyone’s favorite spooky family is back for an all-new animated sequel, The Addams Family 2. In the newly arrived trailer, we see the Addams set off for a hair-raising road trip. In this movie we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time.” To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin, It, as well as many new kooky characters. What could possibly go wrong? Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton, and Wallace Shawn star, with Snoop Dogg playing Cousin ‘IT’, Bette Midler as Grandma and Bill Hader as Cyrus. The all-together spooky sequel is directed by Greg Tiernan and produced by Gail Berman,
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Writer-director Mathieu Turi‘s claustrophobic horror film Meander is headed your way this July. In the film, “after getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, a fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…” Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen, and Romane Libert star in Meander, arriving in theaters and VOD on July 9, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures.
Continue reading →
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A troubled musician is lured into a potent mystery, tied to the disappearance of a missing teen in the thriller The Green Sea. Starring Katherine Isabelle (American Mary, Ginger Snaps), Hazel Doupe (Float Like A Butterfly), Jenny Dixon (Full Circle), Dermot Ward (“Game of Thrones”), Michael Parle (Tin Can Man), and Zeb Moore (Hexing), The Green Sea was written and directed by Randal Plunkett. Edwina Forkin and Stephen Lordes produce. Simone (Katharine Isabelle), an American writer living a solitary life in the Irish countryside, is haunted by visions of her past which begin to intertwine with the fantasy world of the novel she is writing, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Her life changes, when the protagonist of her book, known only as “Kid”, played by up-and-coming Irish actress Hazel Doupe (Float Like A Butterfly), appears to her as a victim of a drunk driving incident that forces the pair together. This sets up the beginning of an unlikely
Continue reading →
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From director James Suttles (The Evil Inside Her) comes the entomophobia-inducing film The Nest (aka The Bewailing), starring scream queen Dee Wallace (Cujo, The Howling). We’ve got the new trailer that just might leave you with Entomophobia (the fear of insects). “When Meg and her mother Beth visit a yard sale, Beth buys her young daughter an adorable stuffed bear, thinking it may help with Meg’s separation anxiety. As children do, she quickly becomes attached to the bear, talking to it and taking it everywhere she goes. However, soon Beth notices that the bear is communicating with Meg and even influencing her behavior. When Meg starts developing hoarding habits and seems infected by a parasitic creature, things take a turn for the worse. Soon it’s clear there’s something much more nightmarish and sinister to this yard sale toy than anyone could have imagined.” Written by Jennifer Trudrung, The Nest also stars Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy, Drez Ryan, Blaque Fowler,
Continue reading →
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Lin Shaye (Insidious) and Tobin Bell (Saw) star in The Call, the new supernatural horror film from Emmy® Nominated Director Timothy Woodward Jr. Set in the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it. Filled with twist after twist, the film reveals lies, secrets, and horrible deeds done by a teenage group, including the harassment they have committed against the elderly couple for years. In the first half of the movie you are given reason after reason to dislike these kids then the movie attempts to trigger your empathy halfway through by revealing their past traumas. But the group is flat-out unlikeable. They are rude, cruel, and well, just assholes in general, save for the new guy (Chester Rushing).
Continue reading →
