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Horror Comedy ‘Shaky Shivers’ Conjures Zombies, Werewolves, and more
Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights to the 80s-inspired horror comedy Shaky Shivers from director Sung Kang, known for reprising his role as Han in Fast X, which hits theaters this Friday. After winning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida, Shaky Shivers is now set to have its Canadian premiere in June at the Dark Bridges Saskatoon Horror Film Festival. In Kang’s directorial debut, Shaky Shivers takes viewers on a hilarious and nostalgic journey to an abandoned camp where two young women, played by Brooke Markham (In the Dark) and VyVy Nguyen (The Sympathizer), stumble upon a book of magical spells. Surrounded by classic monsters and drawing inspiration from 80’s horror films, Karen and Lucy find themselves facing a series of supernatural occurrences after a fateful encounter with an old woman. As zombies, werewolves, and BigFoot wreak havoc, the duo must navigate a wild night, armed with an
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First Trailer Arrives For Scorsese’s True Crime Thriller ‘Killer Of The Flower Moon’
The new trailer for Killer of the Flower Moon, based on the true story of one of America’s most brutal crimes, is here. Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, behind films such as Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Casino, The Wolf Of Wall Street, The Irishman, The Departed, Raging Bull, and Gangs Of New York, is back with Killers Of The Flower Moon, reuniting Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. The all-star cast includes Jesse Plemons (Antlers), Lily Gladstone (Certain Women, “Billions”), and Brendan Fraser (The Whale). Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the Osage Nation were the richest people per capita in the world after oil was discovered under their land. And then they were murdered, one by one. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case and unraveled a chilling conspiracy and one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. Based on David Grann’s best-selling book Killer of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of
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Killer Horror Films Coming To Shudder This June
BROOKLYN 45 Streaming on Shudder June 9 **SHUDDER PREMIERE** (Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ) Writer & Director: Ted Geoghegan Cast: Anne Ramsey, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, Kristina Klebe Synopsis: Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all too literal. QUICKSAND Streaming on Shudder June 23 **SHUDDER PREMIERE** (Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ) Director: Andres Beltran Writer: Matt Pitts Cast: Carolina Gaitan, Allan Hawco Language: English Synopsis: On the brink of divorce, an American couple travels to Colombia for a work conference. While hiking through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake in order to escape. CHILDREN OF THE CORN Streaming on Shudder June 30 (Available in US, CA) Writer &
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‘Hopewell Haunting’ Trailer Teases A Film Filled With Terrifying Paranormal Activity
A couple gets more than they bargained for after moving into “the most haunted house in Kentucky” in The Hopewell Haunting. In the film, “When a mysterious and frightened young couple arrives in the small town of Hopewell, they immediately flee their rural, dilapidated home in terror. With nowhere to go, they turn to an elderly, jaded preacher for help. After he begrudgingly agrees to bless their troubled abode, he finds himself face to face with the unknown in what locals have dubbed the most haunted house in Kentucky.” Written and directed by Dane Sears, the film stars Ted Ferguson. Timothy Morton, Audra Todd, and Rich Williams. Duane Graves and Justin Meeks produce. Witness The Hopewell Haunting on VOD and Digital on June 13, 2023, from Dark Sky Films.
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Willem Defoe Finds Himself Trapped In The Trailer For ‘Inside’
Brilliant actor Willem Defoe, who has appeared in films such as The Lighthouse, The Northman, Platoon, and Spider-Man, can next be seen in the thriller Inside, out later this month. Directed by Vasilis Katsoupis, the film is “A psychological thriller that tells the story of Nemo (Willem Dafoe), an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.” Written by Ben Hopkins and Vasilis Katsoupis, Inside also stars Gene Bervoets and Eliza Stuyck. Watch Inside on Digital, Blu-ray, or DVD on May 30, 2023, from Universal Pictures.
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Nicolas Cage Is Out For Revenge In Psychological Thriller ‘The Surfer’
Following his role as Dracula in the horror-comedy Renfield, Nicolas Cage will star in the upcoming psychological thriller The Surfer from director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium). THR reports, “Mossbank, the partnership between Sculptor Media and Raven and headed by Michael Rothstein and Sam Hall, is handling international sales and introducing The Surfer to buyers at the Cannes Market.” In The Surfer, a man (Cage) returns to his beachside hometown in Australia many years after building a life for himself in the U.S. He is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local gang of surfers who claim strict ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, Cage’s character declares war against the gang. But as the conflict escalates, the stakes spin wildly out of control, taking “The Surfer” to the edge of his sanity. Filming will begin this September in Australia. The premiere date has not been announced. Watch Nicols Cage in Renfield, now available on Digital and
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Spoiler-Free Film Review: The Night of the 12th (La nuit du 12; 2022)
Director Dominik Moll’s superb French feature The Night of the 12th (La nuit du 12) — César Award winner for Best Film, Best Director, and five other César awards — is a gripping murder mystery/police procedural based on an actual unsolved murder in France. As the film begins, a 21-year-old woman named Clara (Lula Cotton-Frapier) leaves a party in the middle of the night. On her way walking home, a hooded and masked man who calls her by name splashes her with flammable liquid and sets her on fire. She dies from the attack, and detectives Yohan (Bastien Bouillon) and Marceau (Bouli Lanners) are assigned to the case. Yohan is a strictly by-the-book man of few words, while the more veteran Marceau is having marital problems and often on the edge. The Night of the 12th focuses on the investigation and the toll it takes on both the detectives, the others in their department, and those close to Clara. Clara’s
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Jeremy Pivons Starring In Luke Sparke’s Supernatural Action Film ‘Fight For Your Life’
Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”) is set to star in the upcoming supernatural action feature, Fight for Your Life, which is currently in production in Australia. The Golden Globe-winning star will play a soldier who wakes up in a mysterious cell and is forced to face an onslaught of deadly opponents in an ever-changing fight arena – his only goal being to survive long enough to return to his daughter. Directed by Luke Sparke (Occupation: Rainfall, Bring Him To Me), the film also features rising star Jamie Costa, who shot to viral fame in 2021 with his incredible portrayal of Robin Williams in a proof-of-concept short film for a proposed biopic, as well as his Star Wars fan film Kenobi. Costa stars in Sparke’s upcoming crime thriller Bring Him to Me. “Fight For Your Life places Jeremy in a morality battle with himself and a slew of opponents in a vast array of settings. I was drawn to do this film and
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Jade Pettyjohn And JoJo Siwa Join Upcoming Slasher Franchise ‘All My Friends Are Dead’
All My Friends Are Dead, the first film of a new horror franchise, has now revealed its cast at Cannes, and it is filled with a horde of young, exciting actors. Jade Pettyjohn (“Little Fires Everywhere”) and dancer and social media sensation JoJo Siwa join cast members Jennifer Ens (“Chapelwaite”), Ali Fumiko Whitney (Cabin Girl), Justin Derickson (“The Midnight Club”), Julian Haig (“Riverdale”), Cardi Wong (“Are You Afraid of the Dark”), Jack Doupe-Smith (Salad Days), and Michaella Russell (“WandaVision”). The film is directed by horror veteran Marcus Dunstan, who is behind The Collector franchise, Saw IV, and Feast. The upcoming horror film was written by Josh Sims (“PBC”) and Jessica Sarah Flaum (“PBC”). All My Friends Are Dead “follows a group of college friends as they head to the year’s biggest music festival. When they get a killer deal on an Airbnb, they waste little time celebrating their good fortune. Their weekend of partying quickly turns into a nightmare as
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Casting News For Destry Spielberg’s ‘Please Don’t Feed The Children’ Comes Out Of Cannes
Out of Cannes comes casting news about the upcoming “elevated” horror film Please Don’t Feed the Children, the feature directorial debut of Destry Allyn Spielberg. The cast includes Zoe Colletti (Only Murders In The Building, Boo Bitch and Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark), Regan Aliyah (Marvel’s Ironheart and Netflix’s XO KITTY), Andrew Liner (‘Vampire Academy,’ ‘Bang Bang,’ ‘Gray Matter’), and Michelle Dockery. In Please Don’t Feed The Children, “after a viral outbreak ravages the country’s adult population, a group of orphans head south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.” Please Don’t Feed the Children is produced by Jason Dubin (Who Invited Charlie?, Babysitters) and his Perry Street Films banner, Josh Kesselman (“The Great,” “Devil’s Peak”), and Michael Hagerty (“Old Henry”). Set to begin principal photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico, next month, the film was penned by Paul Bertino. Destry Allyn Spielberg is
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Horror Comedy ‘Shaky Shivers’ Conjures Zombies, Werewolves, and more
Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights to the 80s-inspired horror comedy Shaky Shivers from director Sung Kang, known for reprising his role as Han in Fast X, which hits theaters this Friday. After winning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida, Shaky Shivers is now set to have its Canadian premiere in June at the Dark Bridges Saskatoon Horror Film Festival. In Kang’s directorial debut, Shaky Shivers takes viewers on a hilarious and nostalgic journey to an abandoned camp where two young women, played by Brooke Markham (In the Dark) and VyVy Nguyen (The Sympathizer), stumble upon a book of magical spells. Surrounded by classic monsters and drawing inspiration from 80’s horror films, Karen and Lucy find themselves facing a series of supernatural occurrences after a fateful encounter with an old woman. As zombies, werewolves, and BigFoot wreak havoc, the duo must navigate a wild night, armed with an
Continue reading →
First Trailer Arrives For Scorsese’s True Crime Thriller ‘Killer Of The Flower Moon’
The new trailer for Killer of the Flower Moon, based on the true story of one of America’s most brutal crimes, is here. Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, behind films such as Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Casino, The Wolf Of Wall Street, The Irishman, The Departed, Raging Bull, and Gangs Of New York, is back with Killers Of The Flower Moon, reuniting Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. The all-star cast includes Jesse Plemons (Antlers), Lily Gladstone (Certain Women, “Billions”), and Brendan Fraser (The Whale). Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the Osage Nation were the richest people per capita in the world after oil was discovered under their land. And then they were murdered, one by one. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case and unraveled a chilling conspiracy and one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. Based on David Grann’s best-selling book Killer of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of
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Killer Horror Films Coming To Shudder This June
BROOKLYN 45 Streaming on Shudder June 9 **SHUDDER PREMIERE** (Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ) Writer & Director: Ted Geoghegan Cast: Anne Ramsey, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, Kristina Klebe Synopsis: Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all too literal. QUICKSAND Streaming on Shudder June 23 **SHUDDER PREMIERE** (Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ) Director: Andres Beltran Writer: Matt Pitts Cast: Carolina Gaitan, Allan Hawco Language: English Synopsis: On the brink of divorce, an American couple travels to Colombia for a work conference. While hiking through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake in order to escape. CHILDREN OF THE CORN Streaming on Shudder June 30 (Available in US, CA) Writer &
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‘Hopewell Haunting’ Trailer Teases A Film Filled With Terrifying Paranormal Activity
A couple gets more than they bargained for after moving into “the most haunted house in Kentucky” in The Hopewell Haunting. In the film, “When a mysterious and frightened young couple arrives in the small town of Hopewell, they immediately flee their rural, dilapidated home in terror. With nowhere to go, they turn to an elderly, jaded preacher for help. After he begrudgingly agrees to bless their troubled abode, he finds himself face to face with the unknown in what locals have dubbed the most haunted house in Kentucky.” Written and directed by Dane Sears, the film stars Ted Ferguson. Timothy Morton, Audra Todd, and Rich Williams. Duane Graves and Justin Meeks produce. Witness The Hopewell Haunting on VOD and Digital on June 13, 2023, from Dark Sky Films.
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Willem Defoe Finds Himself Trapped In The Trailer For ‘Inside’
Brilliant actor Willem Defoe, who has appeared in films such as The Lighthouse, The Northman, Platoon, and Spider-Man, can next be seen in the thriller Inside, out later this month. Directed by Vasilis Katsoupis, the film is “A psychological thriller that tells the story of Nemo (Willem Dafoe), an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.” Written by Ben Hopkins and Vasilis Katsoupis, Inside also stars Gene Bervoets and Eliza Stuyck. Watch Inside on Digital, Blu-ray, or DVD on May 30, 2023, from Universal Pictures.
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Nicolas Cage Is Out For Revenge In Psychological Thriller ‘The Surfer’
Following his role as Dracula in the horror-comedy Renfield, Nicolas Cage will star in the upcoming psychological thriller The Surfer from director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium). THR reports, “Mossbank, the partnership between Sculptor Media and Raven and headed by Michael Rothstein and Sam Hall, is handling international sales and introducing The Surfer to buyers at the Cannes Market.” In The Surfer, a man (Cage) returns to his beachside hometown in Australia many years after building a life for himself in the U.S. He is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local gang of surfers who claim strict ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, Cage’s character declares war against the gang. But as the conflict escalates, the stakes spin wildly out of control, taking “The Surfer” to the edge of his sanity. Filming will begin this September in Australia. The premiere date has not been announced. Watch Nicols Cage in Renfield, now available on Digital and
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Spoiler-Free Film Review: The Night of the 12th (La nuit du 12; 2022)
Director Dominik Moll’s superb French feature The Night of the 12th (La nuit du 12) — César Award winner for Best Film, Best Director, and five other César awards — is a gripping murder mystery/police procedural based on an actual unsolved murder in France. As the film begins, a 21-year-old woman named Clara (Lula Cotton-Frapier) leaves a party in the middle of the night. On her way walking home, a hooded and masked man who calls her by name splashes her with flammable liquid and sets her on fire. She dies from the attack, and detectives Yohan (Bastien Bouillon) and Marceau (Bouli Lanners) are assigned to the case. Yohan is a strictly by-the-book man of few words, while the more veteran Marceau is having marital problems and often on the edge. The Night of the 12th focuses on the investigation and the toll it takes on both the detectives, the others in their department, and those close to Clara. Clara’s
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Jeremy Pivons Starring In Luke Sparke’s Supernatural Action Film ‘Fight For Your Life’
Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”) is set to star in the upcoming supernatural action feature, Fight for Your Life, which is currently in production in Australia. The Golden Globe-winning star will play a soldier who wakes up in a mysterious cell and is forced to face an onslaught of deadly opponents in an ever-changing fight arena – his only goal being to survive long enough to return to his daughter. Directed by Luke Sparke (Occupation: Rainfall, Bring Him To Me), the film also features rising star Jamie Costa, who shot to viral fame in 2021 with his incredible portrayal of Robin Williams in a proof-of-concept short film for a proposed biopic, as well as his Star Wars fan film Kenobi. Costa stars in Sparke’s upcoming crime thriller Bring Him to Me. “Fight For Your Life places Jeremy in a morality battle with himself and a slew of opponents in a vast array of settings. I was drawn to do this film and
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Jade Pettyjohn And JoJo Siwa Join Upcoming Slasher Franchise ‘All My Friends Are Dead’
All My Friends Are Dead, the first film of a new horror franchise, has now revealed its cast at Cannes, and it is filled with a horde of young, exciting actors. Jade Pettyjohn (“Little Fires Everywhere”) and dancer and social media sensation JoJo Siwa join cast members Jennifer Ens (“Chapelwaite”), Ali Fumiko Whitney (Cabin Girl), Justin Derickson (“The Midnight Club”), Julian Haig (“Riverdale”), Cardi Wong (“Are You Afraid of the Dark”), Jack Doupe-Smith (Salad Days), and Michaella Russell (“WandaVision”). The film is directed by horror veteran Marcus Dunstan, who is behind The Collector franchise, Saw IV, and Feast. The upcoming horror film was written by Josh Sims (“PBC”) and Jessica Sarah Flaum (“PBC”). All My Friends Are Dead “follows a group of college friends as they head to the year’s biggest music festival. When they get a killer deal on an Airbnb, they waste little time celebrating their good fortune. Their weekend of partying quickly turns into a nightmare as
Continue reading →
Casting News For Destry Spielberg’s ‘Please Don’t Feed The Children’ Comes Out Of Cannes
Out of Cannes comes casting news about the upcoming “elevated” horror film Please Don’t Feed the Children, the feature directorial debut of Destry Allyn Spielberg. The cast includes Zoe Colletti (Only Murders In The Building, Boo Bitch and Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark), Regan Aliyah (Marvel’s Ironheart and Netflix’s XO KITTY), Andrew Liner (‘Vampire Academy,’ ‘Bang Bang,’ ‘Gray Matter’), and Michelle Dockery. In Please Don’t Feed The Children, “after a viral outbreak ravages the country’s adult population, a group of orphans head south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.” Please Don’t Feed the Children is produced by Jason Dubin (Who Invited Charlie?, Babysitters) and his Perry Street Films banner, Josh Kesselman (“The Great,” “Devil’s Peak”), and Michael Hagerty (“Old Henry”). Set to begin principal photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico, next month, the film was penned by Paul Bertino. Destry Allyn Spielberg is
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