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Movie Review: A Rough Draft (2018)
Look, there’s a shit ton of alternate dimensions out there, and our dude Kiril Maksimov (Nikita Volkov) is in charge of customs to those travelling between universes, although truth be told he misses his life on Earth. It wouldn’t do him much good to go back though as the former shit-hot game designer has had all traces of his existence expunged from those that knew him, and if he ever did venture back he’d be in hot water as the powers that be that control his new position have made sure to frame him for murder on as well. Among all the multiverses (that run the gamut from beachfront paradises to grim gulags), there is one where access is denied (due to revolutionaries looking to create a coup); Arkan, a place a few steps ahead of our own, and a potential learning tool to fix Earth’s various fuck-ups. Naturally Maksimov’s shadow bosses want “in” to Arkan, and soon task our
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‘Captured’ Unleashes Sex, Rock & Roll, And Death This January
Seven years after its production began director Joe Arias‘ horror film Captured is finally getting released by Green Apple Entertainment. During “a weekend getaway to shoot a music video turns into a nightmare for a band when they become the crazed obsession of an escaped convict who is purposely targeting the female lead of the band. Guitars and axes will clash as the prisoner becomes obsessed with their music. He wants to silence it forever! Arias co-wrote the script along with Michael Meinecke and J.P. Ouellette for the film starring Kirsten Prout, Brittany Curran, Jasper Cole, Julian Curtis, Jake White, Mike Randy, and Christian Monzon. Ouellette produced along with Charles Arthur Berg, Maxx Fisher, and Dylan Matlock. Ewan Bourne, Paul Emami, Jeff Jeffers, Scott Stoltz, Nicolas Veinberg, and Jake White executive produced the film. Captured will be released on January 1, 2020.
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Movie Reviews (Another Hole in the Head Film Fest): Horror Shorts — The Boy with the Sombrero, Hell Hath No Furie, Wendigo, Azrahel, and La Noria
The Boy with the Sombrero Written and directed by Constantien Konstin While walking with his mother (Dawn Briceño), a young boy (Cristiano Briceño) sees the titular character (Broadie Briceño) nearby, but his mother does not. After returning home and spending time with his father (David Briceño), the boy learns that he wasn’t merely seeing things. This slow burner pays off nicely with a sudden shocking climax. Kudos to Alicia Barry for her impressive makeup and special effects work. Hell Hath No Furie Written, directed, and animated by Kitty Faingold This fun, wicked short boasts a unique style of hand-drawn animation heavy on red and black. Its tale of three furies hanging out and getting on each other’s nerves is both comical and violent. The music and sound design by Max Mannone round out Faingold’s short well. You can watch Hell Hath No Furie now at https://vimeo.com/372211393. Wendigo This short from Large Ark Films shows how three friends learn the hard
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Movie Review: Come to Daddy (2019)
Learn as little as possible about Come to Daddy — that includes avoiding trailers, though the one presented below thankfully avoids the film’s biggest reveals — and prepare for a highly uncomfortably blast. Director Ant Timpson’s genre-bending feature is chock full of secrets, well-calculated twists, and bravura performances. Family drama, gruesome set pieces, pitch-black humor, and even some poignant bittersweetness collide in the story of man-child Norval’s (Elijah Wood, Maniac; Cooties) travels to a remote beach house to meet his father, who abandoned Norval and his mother 30 years earlier. Norval was initially nervous about the reunion, but nothing prepared him for the verbal abuse and physical threats he receives courtesy of his highly aggressive, judgmental father (Stephen McHattie, Pontypool; Dreamland ), who chides Norval about his substance abuse recovery despite his own fondness for the bottle. In a nail-bitingly tense scene, the father plays an excrutiating game of mental chess regarding how well Norval actually knows rock music legend
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‘Blood Quantum’ Pits Native Americans Against A Zombie Horde
Mi’gMaq writer-director Jeff Barnaby‘s zombie thriller Blood Quantum flips the western genre on its ear in its new gory trailer. In the film, the dead come back to life outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reservation of Red Crow whose people are somehow immune to the plague. A tribal sheriff must find a way to protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, refugees, and his people from the horde of hungry zombies. “Fear the Walking Dead” actor Michael Greyeyes, stars alongside Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (On the Farm) and Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant). John Christou of Prospector Film produced along with XYZ Films. Madrona Drive serves as an executive producer.
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A Theater Full Of People Are Terrified In The ‘Echoes Of Fear’ Reaction Video
Watch the audience react in terror to the award-winning supernatural horror Echoes of Fear from Brian and Laurence Avnet-Bradley. In the film, “Alysa inherits her grandfather’s house following his sudden death from an apparent heart attack. She cannot keep the house so travels there to prepare it for sale. While she is packing away her grandfather’s belongings some strange and unexplained events inside the house start to spook her and she soon comes to the conclusion that she is not alone there. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. Something supernatural lurks in the house and she begins to believe that her grandfather was trying to find something before he died. When her friend Steph arrives they attempt to solve the mystery and what they uncover together forces them to confront the diabolical truth and the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear made its World Premiere at the 18th annual Shriekfest Horror Festival, the longest-running horror festival in Los
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Dean Cain Stars In The Fantasy Comedy ‘2050’ – On DVD This January
Princeton Holt’s award-winning film, 2050 will be released On Demand and DVD this January from Uncork’d Entertainment. Lauded by critics as “stylish and thoughtful,” will also screen day-and-date in select theaters. 2050 centers on married video game developer who is introduced to a warehouse that customizes androids for human companionship. Dean Cain (“Supergirl”) plays the role of Maxwell, the mastermind behind the warehouse. Along with Cain, the film stars a strong ensemble of actors including David Vaughn, Irina Abraham, Devin Fuller, Stefanie Bloom, Stormi Maya, Jace Nicole, Shannone Holt, Hope Blackstock, and more. The satiric fantasy comedy was produced by David Vaughn (who also plays Michael Greene), Princeton Holt (who also directed), Chris Riquinha (who also plays David), and Brian Ackley (who also wrote the screenplay). 2050 will be available on Demand and DVD January 14th, from Uncork’d Entertainment. It will also be screening in select theaters on the same day.
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This January ‘The Siren’ Will Be Unleashed
A man searches a secluded lake for the monster that murdered his husband in the award-winning film The Siren, the new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People). The Siren is an enthralling, seductive and creepy supernatural tale about cursed star-crossed lovers. Tom (Evan Dumouchel, Stephen King‘s Doctor Sleep) is a mute man from a sheltered, religious background who is haunted by the childhood accident that cost him his voice. While on a retreat at a lake house, he meets Al (MacLeod Andrews, Doctor Sleep), whose husband drowned in the lake-one of many mysterious deaths that occurred there. “The area is marked by a local legend of a lovelorn spirit who haunts the surrounding woods and drowns anyone she encounters. The legend proves all too real when Tom encounters the beautiful creature. Drawn to her immediately, Tom knows he has found his soulmate in the seemingly human Nina (Margaret Ying Drake, They Look Like People, 59 Seconds),
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Veterans Are In For The Fight Of Their Lives In ‘VFW’ – Starring Stephen Lang
A group of war veterans finds themselves in the biggest battle of their lives against punk mutants is Joe Begos‘ VFW. Written by Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle, the film stars Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Martin Kove, David Patrick Kelly, Sierra McCormick, Tom Williamson, Travis Hammer and Dora Madison with George Wendt and Fred Williamson. In VFW, a typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what’s theirs – at any cost – the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW, in the biggest fight of their lives. This action-packed flick from RLEJ Films and Fangoria opens in theaters and arrives of VOD on February 14, 2020. Check out the trailer.
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A Nurse Is Out To Save a Soul No Matter The Cost In A24’s ‘Saint Maud’
Writer-director Rose Glass‘s supernatural thriller Saint Maud is headed towards its 2020 release. In the trailer, we are introduced to a young woman with extreme religious views who is determined to save her patient’s soul. Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle lead the cast that also includes Lily Knight, Lily Frazer, and Turlough Convery. Maud, a reclusive young nurse, pursues a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud’s fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward’s soul from eternal damnation – whatever the cost. Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman produce with Daniel Battsek, Mary Burke, and Sam Lavender executive producing. Saint Maud opens in theaters on March 27, 2020, from A24, the studio that brought us Hereditary and Midsommar.
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Movie Review: A Rough Draft (2018)
Look, there’s a shit ton of alternate dimensions out there, and our dude Kiril Maksimov (Nikita Volkov) is in charge of customs to those travelling between universes, although truth be told he misses his life on Earth. It wouldn’t do him much good to go back though as the former shit-hot game designer has had all traces of his existence expunged from those that knew him, and if he ever did venture back he’d be in hot water as the powers that be that control his new position have made sure to frame him for murder on as well. Among all the multiverses (that run the gamut from beachfront paradises to grim gulags), there is one where access is denied (due to revolutionaries looking to create a coup); Arkan, a place a few steps ahead of our own, and a potential learning tool to fix Earth’s various fuck-ups. Naturally Maksimov’s shadow bosses want “in” to Arkan, and soon task our
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‘Captured’ Unleashes Sex, Rock & Roll, And Death This January
Seven years after its production began director Joe Arias‘ horror film Captured is finally getting released by Green Apple Entertainment. During “a weekend getaway to shoot a music video turns into a nightmare for a band when they become the crazed obsession of an escaped convict who is purposely targeting the female lead of the band. Guitars and axes will clash as the prisoner becomes obsessed with their music. He wants to silence it forever! Arias co-wrote the script along with Michael Meinecke and J.P. Ouellette for the film starring Kirsten Prout, Brittany Curran, Jasper Cole, Julian Curtis, Jake White, Mike Randy, and Christian Monzon. Ouellette produced along with Charles Arthur Berg, Maxx Fisher, and Dylan Matlock. Ewan Bourne, Paul Emami, Jeff Jeffers, Scott Stoltz, Nicolas Veinberg, and Jake White executive produced the film. Captured will be released on January 1, 2020.
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Movie Reviews (Another Hole in the Head Film Fest): Horror Shorts — The Boy with the Sombrero, Hell Hath No Furie, Wendigo, Azrahel, and La Noria
The Boy with the Sombrero Written and directed by Constantien Konstin While walking with his mother (Dawn Briceño), a young boy (Cristiano Briceño) sees the titular character (Broadie Briceño) nearby, but his mother does not. After returning home and spending time with his father (David Briceño), the boy learns that he wasn’t merely seeing things. This slow burner pays off nicely with a sudden shocking climax. Kudos to Alicia Barry for her impressive makeup and special effects work. Hell Hath No Furie Written, directed, and animated by Kitty Faingold This fun, wicked short boasts a unique style of hand-drawn animation heavy on red and black. Its tale of three furies hanging out and getting on each other’s nerves is both comical and violent. The music and sound design by Max Mannone round out Faingold’s short well. You can watch Hell Hath No Furie now at https://vimeo.com/372211393. Wendigo This short from Large Ark Films shows how three friends learn the hard
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Movie Review: Come to Daddy (2019)
Learn as little as possible about Come to Daddy — that includes avoiding trailers, though the one presented below thankfully avoids the film’s biggest reveals — and prepare for a highly uncomfortably blast. Director Ant Timpson’s genre-bending feature is chock full of secrets, well-calculated twists, and bravura performances. Family drama, gruesome set pieces, pitch-black humor, and even some poignant bittersweetness collide in the story of man-child Norval’s (Elijah Wood, Maniac; Cooties) travels to a remote beach house to meet his father, who abandoned Norval and his mother 30 years earlier. Norval was initially nervous about the reunion, but nothing prepared him for the verbal abuse and physical threats he receives courtesy of his highly aggressive, judgmental father (Stephen McHattie, Pontypool; Dreamland ), who chides Norval about his substance abuse recovery despite his own fondness for the bottle. In a nail-bitingly tense scene, the father plays an excrutiating game of mental chess regarding how well Norval actually knows rock music legend
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‘Blood Quantum’ Pits Native Americans Against A Zombie Horde
Mi’gMaq writer-director Jeff Barnaby‘s zombie thriller Blood Quantum flips the western genre on its ear in its new gory trailer. In the film, the dead come back to life outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reservation of Red Crow whose people are somehow immune to the plague. A tribal sheriff must find a way to protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, refugees, and his people from the horde of hungry zombies. “Fear the Walking Dead” actor Michael Greyeyes, stars alongside Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (On the Farm) and Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant). John Christou of Prospector Film produced along with XYZ Films. Madrona Drive serves as an executive producer.
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A Theater Full Of People Are Terrified In The ‘Echoes Of Fear’ Reaction Video
Watch the audience react in terror to the award-winning supernatural horror Echoes of Fear from Brian and Laurence Avnet-Bradley. In the film, “Alysa inherits her grandfather’s house following his sudden death from an apparent heart attack. She cannot keep the house so travels there to prepare it for sale. While she is packing away her grandfather’s belongings some strange and unexplained events inside the house start to spook her and she soon comes to the conclusion that she is not alone there. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. Something supernatural lurks in the house and she begins to believe that her grandfather was trying to find something before he died. When her friend Steph arrives they attempt to solve the mystery and what they uncover together forces them to confront the diabolical truth and the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear made its World Premiere at the 18th annual Shriekfest Horror Festival, the longest-running horror festival in Los
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Dean Cain Stars In The Fantasy Comedy ‘2050’ – On DVD This January
Princeton Holt’s award-winning film, 2050 will be released On Demand and DVD this January from Uncork’d Entertainment. Lauded by critics as “stylish and thoughtful,” will also screen day-and-date in select theaters. 2050 centers on married video game developer who is introduced to a warehouse that customizes androids for human companionship. Dean Cain (“Supergirl”) plays the role of Maxwell, the mastermind behind the warehouse. Along with Cain, the film stars a strong ensemble of actors including David Vaughn, Irina Abraham, Devin Fuller, Stefanie Bloom, Stormi Maya, Jace Nicole, Shannone Holt, Hope Blackstock, and more. The satiric fantasy comedy was produced by David Vaughn (who also plays Michael Greene), Princeton Holt (who also directed), Chris Riquinha (who also plays David), and Brian Ackley (who also wrote the screenplay). 2050 will be available on Demand and DVD January 14th, from Uncork’d Entertainment. It will also be screening in select theaters on the same day.
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This January ‘The Siren’ Will Be Unleashed
A man searches a secluded lake for the monster that murdered his husband in the award-winning film The Siren, the new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People). The Siren is an enthralling, seductive and creepy supernatural tale about cursed star-crossed lovers. Tom (Evan Dumouchel, Stephen King‘s Doctor Sleep) is a mute man from a sheltered, religious background who is haunted by the childhood accident that cost him his voice. While on a retreat at a lake house, he meets Al (MacLeod Andrews, Doctor Sleep), whose husband drowned in the lake-one of many mysterious deaths that occurred there. “The area is marked by a local legend of a lovelorn spirit who haunts the surrounding woods and drowns anyone she encounters. The legend proves all too real when Tom encounters the beautiful creature. Drawn to her immediately, Tom knows he has found his soulmate in the seemingly human Nina (Margaret Ying Drake, They Look Like People, 59 Seconds),
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Veterans Are In For The Fight Of Their Lives In ‘VFW’ – Starring Stephen Lang
A group of war veterans finds themselves in the biggest battle of their lives against punk mutants is Joe Begos‘ VFW. Written by Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle, the film stars Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Martin Kove, David Patrick Kelly, Sierra McCormick, Tom Williamson, Travis Hammer and Dora Madison with George Wendt and Fred Williamson. In VFW, a typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what’s theirs – at any cost – the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW, in the biggest fight of their lives. This action-packed flick from RLEJ Films and Fangoria opens in theaters and arrives of VOD on February 14, 2020. Check out the trailer.
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A Nurse Is Out To Save a Soul No Matter The Cost In A24’s ‘Saint Maud’
Writer-director Rose Glass‘s supernatural thriller Saint Maud is headed towards its 2020 release. In the trailer, we are introduced to a young woman with extreme religious views who is determined to save her patient’s soul. Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle lead the cast that also includes Lily Knight, Lily Frazer, and Turlough Convery. Maud, a reclusive young nurse, pursues a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud’s fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward’s soul from eternal damnation – whatever the cost. Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman produce with Daniel Battsek, Mary Burke, and Sam Lavender executive producing. Saint Maud opens in theaters on March 27, 2020, from A24, the studio that brought us Hereditary and Midsommar.
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