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This November, An Experiment Turns Into Terror In ‘Like Dogs’

From director Randy Van Dyke comes the horrifying tale of a behavioral experiment gone wrong in the horror film Like Dogs. Annabel Barrett (the upcoming “Clifford the Big Red Dog”) and Ignacyo Matynia (“Luke Cage”), star in this savage story. Abducted, and treated like animals, two university students are unwilling participants in a behavioral experiment gone horribly wrong. It gets personal when the pair learn they’ve each been specifically targeted. Once people start dying it’s a race to escape and survive. From Terror Films, Like Dogs is available on Digital October 1, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 23, 2021

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Toronto International Film Festival 2021: Our Half-Dozen “Have to See!” Horror Films

Shocks and shudders abound during Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) hybrid event September 9–18, 2021, with in-person cinema screenings in Toronto and digital screenings available to viewers across Canada. Among the incredible international line-up of horror, science fiction, thriller, and other genre-cinema styles are the following six stand-outs, which Horror Fuel highly recommends. My comments follow in italics after descriptions adapted from TIFF’s official program and website. Kicking Blood “Blaine Thurier’s sultry, perma-stoned, ultra-modern spin on the vampire genre evokes cult-horror figures like George A. Romero and Stuart Gordon.” Fusing the grittiness of George Romero’s Martin with the sly theatricality of Stuart Gordon’s early films (Re-Animator, From Beyond), Blaine Thurier’s Kicking Blood reimagines vampire mythology by transplanting it to the bohemian world Thurier has satirized since he began making films. Instead of the usual desiccated, tormented aristocrats with impossibly innocent victims, Thurier’s undead are hipster scavengers and swingers, their victims luckless hangers-on and drunks. Vampire Anna (Alanna Bale) is disappointed

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Joseph Perry

Sep 9, 2021

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Blu-ray Review: Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman (1955 – 1957)

Producer Sam Katzman was responsible for a stunning array of poverty-row shockers, and this new box set from Arrow Video (along with MVD Entertainment) brings forth the creepy cream of the crop! Without further arcane ado, let’s dip out terror toes in this putrid pond, shall we? First comes Creature with the Atom Brain (1955): Gangsters are being found tits up, with radioactive dead man’s fingerprints found all over the scene, so the police are baffled. How is this a thing? Well, exiled gangster Frank Buchanan (Michael Granger) hooks up with Wilhelm Steigg (Gregory Gaye), a Nazi mad scientist who is trying to create a new mindless work force created from the bodies of the dead. Frank likes the sound of that shit, believe you me, and before long him and Dr. Feelbad are back in the States and putting a murder on each and every gangster that has ever crossed Buchanan… wait, why are the police angry this dude

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DanXIII

Sep 5, 2021

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Dark Sky Films Unleashing ‘Night Drive’ & ‘Blood Conscious’ On DVD

Dark Sky Films is gearing to release two tales of terror on DVD this September, Night Drive and Blood Conscious. In Night Drive, “Russell (AJ Bowen – You’re Next, The Signal) is a driver in Los Angeles who’s reeling from a series of bad decisions. While his life seems to be caught in a downward spiral, a business proposition from an alluring but enigmatic passenger named Charlotte (Sophie Dalah – Unbroken, Dead Night) proves too good to turn down. A simple ride turns deadly, catapulting Russell into an even darker place, but Charlotte may be the key to a second chance he thought he’d never have… if he can make it through the night.” Bradford Baruh, the filmmaker that brought you John Dies at the End, directed Night Drive alongside Meghan Leon who penned the script. Blood Conscious, starring Nick Damici (“Hap and Leonard”, Dark Was the Night), centers on Kevin, his older sister, Brittney, and her fiancé, Tony, set

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 25, 2021

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Dark Sky Films Announces August Release Of Horror Thriller ‘Blood Conscious’

Dark Sky Films has just announced the theatrical, Digital, and VOD release of the festival fan-favorite horror film Blood Conscious, starring Nick Damici (“Hap and Leonard”, Dark Was the Night). In the film, ” Kevin, his older sister, Brittney, and her fiancé, Tony, set off to their parents’ lakeside cottage expecting a leisurely weekend getaway but little did they expect the horror that awaits them. Their holiday turns into a trip from hell as they enter a scene of mass murder, where their parents and neighbors on this side of the lake all lie dead. Terror strikes when the armed murderer confronts them, alleging that they are fighting demonic forces that had possessed them all. They pin him down and lock him up in the cellar, but soon he claims not to be alone down there. As unexpected and traumatic events keep unfolding, they will have to find a way to survive the night without turning on each other, or

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 11, 2021

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Christmas In July: Holiday Horror Films From The Past Year

It may still be hot as balls outside, but we’re already halfway to Christmas! We’ve got some indie holiday-themed movies from the past year that you should see. So turn up the air conditioner, snuggle up in a blanket with a cup of hot chocolate and watch these movies. Happy Christmas in July! Jim Klock‘s holiday horror film Slayed is arriving just in time for Christmas on Digital! Ahead of its debut, we’ve been gifted with not only the film’s official trailer to share with you, but we’ve also got a new, exclusive clip too! Described as a cross between Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1979) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), the film is set five years after a Christmas Eve massacre in Harris County, Arizona, when a crazed killer returns to a condemned water-treatment plant to terrorize and kill again. Only this time, the lone survivor from that tragic night is waiting to make this Santa-clad monster pay for what

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 27, 2021

Film Festivals

Arrow Video FrightFest 2021’s Second Wave of Films Features Amazing Fright Fare from Around the Globe

Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 — the U.K.’s premiere event for fear-fare films and the fanatics and cinephiles who love them — has taken things to a new level with its second-wave announcement of features slated for its August 26–30 theatrical run. Following is the official press announcement. It’s Full Scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 announces its second wave of hugely anticipated Discovery Screen and First Blood titles — a summer collection of provocative, edgy and transgressive entertainment to die for. There are fourteen World and ten European/ International premieres amongst the thirty-four films on offer. Eleven countries are represented, with titles ranging from Canadian entries BLOODTHIRSTY, Amelia Moses’ simmering LGBQT+ werewolf movie and sinister isolation thriller MOTHERLY to Francesco Erba’s AS IN HEAVEN, SO ON EARTH, a stunning Italian blend of live action and Gothic puppet animation. Then there’s Péter Bergendy’s sumptuous POST MORTEM, an epic Hungarian ghost story, Frida Kempff’s Swedish entry KNOCKING, a breakout Sundance sensation,

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Joseph Perry

Jul 22, 2021

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The Horror Collective Unleashing Two New Films And A Series On Shudder

The Horror Collective is set to unleash three tales of terror this month, including Rot, Mass Hysteria, and a new season of “Etheria.” All are coming to Shudder. ROT (2020), written and directed by, Andrew Merrill (Warm Insides), stars Kris Alexandrea (Gothic Springs), Johnny Kostrey (Kidding, Aquarius, The Good Place), McKale Jude Bingham (Betrayed), Adam Burch (Nazis at the Center of the Earth), and Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist, 100 Acres of Hell, Halloween 2). And is produced by Beth Crudele (Side Hustle, The Gift, Fuller House). In the film, when Madison’s ex goes missing, his friends expect her to lead the search to find him. But something vile has taken over his body, and what they find is worse than any of them could have imagined. Rot lands on Shudder on July 20, 2021. Directed by Arielle Cimano and Jeff Ryan, in Mass Hysteria, a tourist dies on Halloween night in Salem, the crowd seeks justice by mounting a modern-day

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 5, 2021

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Bayview Entertainment Launches Roku Channel Featuring Over 400 Films

Bayview Entertainment has officially launched its Roku channel with over 400 of its best titles including comedy, horror, drama, science fiction, documentaries, and more. If you’re a fan of indie films the channel is a must-have, featuring films like Teacher Shortage, The Wicked Woods, Brain Dead, Winifred Meeks, and so many more. Among Bayview’s extensive catalog you will find acclaimed feature films from Monterey Media. Monterey Media’s films have been nominated or won Independent Spirit Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and NAACP Image Awards, have had 14 TIFF premieres, premieres at Sundance, SXSW, and the Tribeca Film Festivals, as well as being included on Roger Ebert’s 10 Best Independent Films list. To download and start watching, you can search for “Bayview Films” from your Roku device’s channel store. Or, click the link and log in with your Roku account. When you do, the channel will be downloaded to your Roku device next time you turn it on! Welcome to Bayview Entertainment

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 30, 2021

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July Programming Highlights For AMC+, Acorn TV, ALLBLK, IFC Films Unlimited, Shudder, & Sundance Now

This July, AMC Network is releasing a ton of new series, films, specials, and more, and we’ve got the highlights from AMC+, Acorn TV, ALLBLK, IFC Films Unlimited, Shudder, and Sundance Now, to make sure you stay entertained! On ACORN TV: Jack Irish (Acorn TV Exclusive) Final Season Premieres Monday, July 12 Emmy® Award-winner Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown) reprises his iconic role as Jack Irish, a former criminal lawyer, part-time debt collector, and private investigator with a penchant for getting wrapped up in things he shouldn’t. The explosive final season delves deep into Jack’s past, questioning everything he thought he knew about his life and bringing him face-to-face with an antagonist more personal and destructive than he has ever encountered. Joining Pearce in this final journey are the series’ veteran stars Marta Dusseldorp (A Place to Call Home), Roy Billing (The End), Aaron Pedersen (Mystery Road), and Shane Jacobson (Guardians of the Tomb). The Heart Guy (Acorn TV Exclusive)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 27, 2021