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Scout Taylor-Compton & Jaclyn Betham Star In The Cult Horror ‘Getaway’ (Trailer)

Halloween‘s Scout Taylor-Compton finds herself kidnapped in the trailer for writer-director Lane Toran‘s unnerving cult thriller Getaway, from Uncork’d Entertainment. “Tamara Miller (Jaclyn Betham) has planned a weekend lake getaway with her two best friends. When she gets kidnapped by a backwoods cult, eerie and unexplained occurrences arise. Will she make it out alive or become the treasure of these deranged lunatics?” Landry Allbright (“Star Trek: Picard”), Lane Toran (“Hey Arnold”), Jamil Walker Smith (“Stargate Universe”), Jaclyn Betham (“The Haves and Have Nots”), Ben Deschaine (Super Shark), and Chrystopher Ryan Johnson (“The Riches”) also star in the thriller written co-written by Betham. Getaway is available on DVD and Digital April 14th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 6, 2020

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Ghosts, Religious Horror, and Obsession Are Slated for Boston Underground Film Festival 2020

Among the incredible films selected for the 22nd annual Boston Underground Film Festival are some mouth-watering horror movie options. The fest returns to Harvard Square, bringing with it five days of cutting-edge cinema to the Brattle Theatre from March 25th through the 29th. This year’s program boasts, according to BUFF’s press release, “a whole lot of unholy obsession, objectophilia, WTF thrillers, genre-spinning slashers, familial dysfunction, queer clairvoyance, and more!” Among the fear fare on display at BUFF will be U.K. writer-director Rose Glass’ gut-punch feature debut Saint Maud, a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world. BUFF hosts the Boston premiere of this highly anticipated upcoming A24 release, with director Glass in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. The fest’s thematic strand of unholy obsession continues with the world premiere of the 2K restoration of Philip Ridley’s 1995 awe-inspiring The Passion of Darkly Noon, courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive and Arrow Films.

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Joseph Perry

Mar 6, 2020

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IFC Midnight Unveils Trailer For Cult Thriller ‘The Other Lamb’

The official trailer and poster are here for the award-winning thriller The Other Lamb which made waves at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival last year. From the Polish award-winning director Malgorzata Szumowska and the producer of Nightcrawler, and starring Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, and Denise Gough, the film explores the horrors of toxic masculinity and the abuse of power through the eyes of a teenage girl, who is beginning to question everything about her existence. “For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 3, 2020

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‘Swallow’ Star Joins “Rosemary’s Baby” Style Thriller ‘Kristy’

Hot off the heels of her starring role in Swallow, Haley Bennett is now set to star in the “Rosemary’s Baby” style psychological thriller Kristy from director Oliver Blackburn (Donkey Punch). Written by Anthony Jaswinski, Variety reports that Kristy centers on a girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break when a random encounter with a gang of violent outcasts leads them to target her as their next victim. To survive, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back. TWC, Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell of Electric City Entertainment are producing along with David Kirschner and Corey Sienega. Bennett is repped by WME- and Schiff Company.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 9, 2020

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival Preview: Killers, Thrillers, and Chillers of All Stripes Are on Tap

The fifth edition of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival takes place February 6–9, 2020 at City Kino Wedding as the fest continues to raise the bar by showcasing horror movies written, directed, and/or produced by women and nonbinary filmmakers. Festival codirector Eli Lewy calls this year’s festival edition the “most expansive and international yet, presenting a wide array of films by visionary filmmakers that represent the diversity and originality that can be found in the current horror landscape.” The exciting program features eight curated short blocks and nine feature films, a horror-inspired self-defense workshop, an exhibition, a festival party with multimedia drag performances, and specialist talks on horror martyrs, made-for-TV horror, “female monsters,” and “bad mothers” in Mexican horror cinema. “Horror is a very elastic term,” said fellow co-director Sara Neidorf, “and we’re excited to discover films that make us question and expand our conceptions of what horror can be, both in ways that are distant from and uncannily near

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Joseph Perry

Jan 14, 2020

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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Dark Encounter’ Lands On DVD

From writer-director Carl Strathie (interview) comes Dark Encounter, a dark sci-fi thriller about a family’s grief and an encounter with something otherworldly. “A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appears to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.” Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters, Vincent Regan, and Spike White star in the film produced by Charlette Kilby and Alan Latham. Dark Encounter lands on VOD, Digital, and DVD on January 7, 2020, from 4Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 7, 2020

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Blu-ray Review: Universal Horror Collection: Volume 3 (1939 – 1941)

Straight up; the last two Universal Horror Collections brought to us courtesy of those wonderful warlocks over at Scream Factory have been nothing if not a whole monstrous mess of fright flick fun (don’t believe me? Head here and here and read my thoughts on the matter for your own sinister self!)! Let’s see if Volume 3 lives up to the legacy of it’s predecessors! First up we travel to the not-so-jolly land of 15th century England with 1939’s Tower of London! Hunchbacked Richard Duke of Gloucester (Basil Rathbone), is sixth in line in succession to the throne, and he is pretty pissed about that let me tell ya. So what does that damned deformed dastard… err, bastard do to remedy that situation? Why he begins secretly eliminating those ahead of him in line with the help of his putrid pal Mord (Boris Karloff), the bloodthirsty town executioner (equally deformed as his boss; in this case with a club-foot). Things

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DanXIII

Jan 2, 2020

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Naomi Watts Stars In The Dark Agoraphobic Horror ‘The Wolf Hour’ (Trailer)

The Ring Acadamy Award-nominated actress Naomi Watts returns to the horror genre in writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin‘s dark agoraphobic thriller The Wolf Hour. Watts stars as June, “a woman who was once a celebrated counter-culture figure now lives alone in her Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world during the notorious “Summer of Sam” in 1977. As she retreats further into isolation, an unseen tormentor begins exploiting her weaknesses.” Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Jeremy Bobb co-star. The Wolf Hour made its World Premiere at Sundance in 2019. As soon as a release date is announced we’ll let you know. In the meantime check out the intense trailer from Universal Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 2, 2020

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Horror Fuel’s Top 10 Films And Series Of 2019

2019 saw many horror films and series released, some good, some bad. We’re here to talk about the best of the best, the top 10 must-see films and series of the year! Top 10 Films 10.The Head Hunter (review) In a cold, medieval forest, a warrior (Christopher Rygh) stalks the land eternally hunting for one more monster head to add to his collection… but this decapitation would offer our hero sweet revenge! While at it’s heart an absolute exercise in minimalism, this film is everything I crave from genre cinema; unique, inventive, and packed with sweet, sweet creatures! Grim, grizzly, nihilistic, and often breathtaking; The Head Hunter is easily one of the best horror pics that has come down the putrid pike in a damn sight! -Dan XIII 9. The Lighthouse (review) Robert Eggers (The Witch) is back with his new venture into the dramatic, psychological horror with The Lighthouse starring Willem Dafoe. Set on an isolated island in New

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 31, 2019

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Home Invasion Horror ‘Nefarious’ Breaks Out This March

Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, is set to release the award-winning horror Nefarious, a home invasion horror-thriller featuring a robbery gone horribly wrong. Starring Toby Wynn-Davies (Escape From Cannibal Farm), Nadia Lamin (Hosts) and newcomer Buck Braithwaite, the indie horror was directed by Richard Rowntree from a script he co-wrote with Matthew Davies (Dogged). In our review, we said it had “a ton of entertainment value”. Ready, Steady, Cut described it as “a nasty little film, just as intended” and “a brutal little success”. Ash Mountain Films said of the deal “We’re very excited to be partnering with Gravitas on the release of our second feature film in the horror genre, and hope that it serves horror fans and beyond with a thrilling experience.” Nefarious will be unleashed on March 17, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 16, 2019