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Monsters, Murderers, and Mayhem Come Calling at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2023

Monsters, Murderers, and Mayhem Come Calling at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2023

London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest announces its 24th edition with a new headline sponsor and 70 drool-worthy horror and genre films from around the world. From world premieres of cutting-edge independent fare to anniversary screenings of classics and longtime favorites, the fest truly has something for hear-fare fans of every stripe, with creepy creatures, violent slashers, supernatural spookiness, and loads more. Following is the official press announcement. FrightFest, the UK’s biggest, best and most beloved community-driven horror & fantasy film festival, returns in a blaze of gory glory to the Cineworld Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition, this year with pioneering technology & entertainment company Pigeon Shrine as its headline sponsor. The company is the brainchild of Tom Paton, working alongside industry finance veterans Jamie McLeod-Ross and Charley McDougall. Running from Thursday August 24–Monday 28 August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is a joyful big screen celebration of genre cinema, offering a carnival of carnage, a smorgasbord of shock and a tableau

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Joseph Perry
Jul 14, 2023
The Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Horrors We Can’t Wait to See at Fantasia 

The Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Horrors We Can’t Wait to See at Fantasia 

The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America’s largest genre-focused film fest, celebrates its 27th edition from July 20 through August 9, 2023 in Montreal, Canada at the Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. I’ll be covering the festival for Horror Fuel, and here are six of the fear-fare features that I find highly intriguing, with more information available at https://fantasiafestival.com/en/. Following are official press descriptions, followed by my thoughts in italics. OPENING THE FESTIVAL, PASCAL PLANTE WILL BRING US INTO RED ROOMS Coming to christen Fantasia’s 27th edition days after its Karlovy-Vary competition debut, RED ROOMS (Les chambres rouges) is the haunting third feature from celebrated Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante (FAKE TATTOOS, NADIA, BUTTERFLY). The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, STANLEYVILLE) has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy, BOOST) is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek

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Joseph Perry
Jun 20, 2023
Stakeland Director Larry Fessenden Is Back With 'Blackout'

Stakeland Director Larry Fessenden Is Back With ‘Blackout’

Glass Eye Pix has just announced that director Larry Fessenden (House of the Devil, Stakeland) has completed principal photography on his seventh feature film, Blackout. The film stars Alex Hurt as Charley Barrett, a Fine Arts painter convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town under the full moon, wrapped under the glow of October 8th’s Hunter Moon. The film features a cast of Glass Eye staples and newcomers including Addison Timlin (Little Sister, Like Me, Depraved), Motell Gyn Foster (Marriage Story, Foxhole), Joseph Castillo-Midyett (Equalizer, Death Saved My Life), Ella Rae Peck (upcoming Crumb Catcher), Rigo Garay (upcoming Crumb Catcher), John Speredakos (Wendigo, I Sell The Dead), Michael Buscemi (Habit, BlacKkKlansman), Jeremy Holm (The Ranger, Brooklyn 45), Joe Swanberg (You’re Next, Offseason), Barbara Crampton (You’re Next, Jakob’s Wife), James Le Gros (Foxhole, The Last Winter), and Marshall Bell (Total Recall, Stand By Me). Casting was handled by Lois Drabkin, who previously worked with Fessenden

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 29, 2022
Shudder Snags Supernatural Horror 'The Sacrifice Game' Starring Mena Massoud

Shudder Snags Supernatural Horror ‘The Sacrifice Game’ Starring Mena Massoud

Shudder and Red Sea Media announced today that production will begin next week on the 1970s supernatural horror film The Sacrifice Game. The film, which begins principal photography on May 9, 2022, is set at a girls’ boarding school over Christmas break, 1971, where Samantha and Clara, two students staying behind for the holidays, must survive the night against uninvited visitors. Directed by Jenn Wexler (The Ranger), who co-wrote the film with Sean Redlitz, The Sacrifice Game stars Mena Massoud (Aladdin, pictured above), Olivia Scott Welch (Fear Street), Gus Kenworthy (“American Horror Story: 1984”), and Chloë Levine (“The OA”), who also starred in Wexler’s The Ranger. Derek Johns (The Wolf and the Lion) and Laurent Pitre (Under the Banner of Heaven) also star along with Madison Baines (1UP), and newcomer Georgia Acken. The producers are Philip Kalin-Hajdu and Albert I. Melamed with Heather Buckley, Wexler, and Todd Slater (King of Killers, The Parts You Lose) of Slater Brothers Entertainment. Roman

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 7, 2022
Larry Fessenden Among Filmmakers Featured In Upcoming Museum Of Modern Art Event

Larry Fessenden Among Filmmakers Featured In Upcoming Museum Of Modern Art Event

Filmmaker Larry Fessenden, who has delivered horror films such as The House of the Devil, Wendigo, Stake Land, and the film The Transfiguration, is teaming up with The Museum of Modern Art for an exploration of his contribution to the world of film. Titled “Oh, The Humanity! The Films of Larry Fessenden & Glass Eye Pix”, the event will run from March 30th through April 19, 2022, featuring 26 feature films, shorts, and oddities in theaters and online. Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent production shingle headed by art-horror auteur Larry Fessenden, is pleased to announce that a retrospective of 26 feature films along with numerous shorts, animations, and early works created during its 37 years of operation, is being presented by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) March 30 through April 19. The run of films will be hosted by Fessenden and many of the directors who have participated in the Glass Eye Pix mission to support “individual

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 22, 2022
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Movie Review: Ten Minutes to Midnight

Office politics have never gotten quite the cinematic workout that they do in director Erik Bloomquist’s Ten Minutes to Midnight. To say that it goes down unexpected paths would be an understatement, and that is just part of the bizarre fun of this well-made shocker. Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986], Halloween II [2009], and more than three dozen other horror outings) plays Amy Marlowe, a veteran disc jockey whose night starts off with a bat bite during an approaching hurricane on her way to work — and things are only going to get worse for her. She soon finds out that this will be her last night before being forcefully retired by her smarmy, sleazy boss Robert (William Youmans) and replaced by his new, young protégé Sienna (Nicole Kang of Swallow [2019] and the Batwoman TV series). Station security guard Ernie (Nicholas Tucci of The Ranger [2018] and You’re Next [2011]) has locked down the building because

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Joseph Perry
Jan 19, 2021
Horror Fuel

Shudder Is Now Available In Australia And New Zealand

AMC Networks’ Shudder—called the “gold standard” of targeted streaming services by ​The Guardian ​—is growing. They announced today that its premium subscription streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural is now available in Australia and New Zealand, expanding a global footprint that already encompasses the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. We’re thrilled to share our unrivaled collection of curated horror and supernatural movies and series with Australian and New Zealand audiences just in time for Halloween season, where we feature our biggest and best programming of the year,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “These new launches continue our growing international expansion and our commitment to offer premium genre entertainment to a global audience.” Shudder offers hundreds of hours of programming, including dozens of original and exclusive movies and original series like the breakout hits​ “Creepshow” ​and ​”Cursed Films“​ which have already been renewed for new seasons. Among the first titles released in Australia and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2020
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Mermaids, Mystery, and Murderers Abound in Fantasia’s Incredible Second Wave Announcement

After Fantasia International Film Festival announced its tremendous first wave of films scheduled for the fest’s 24th edition next month, it has disclosed its equally amazing second wave. This year’s Fantasia will be an exciting virtual event composed of scheduled live screenings, a program library, panels, and workshops, taking place from August 20th to September 2nd, 2020. The festival will be accessible across Canada, geo-locked to the country, and will maintain unique film admittance quantities in line with the cinema experience. Feast your eyes on the announcements in Fantasia’s following press release, and check back with Horror Fuel in early August for the festival’s third and final line-up announcement. THE DARK AND THE WICKED…VERY DARK AND VERY WICKED! Writer/director Bryan Bertino (THE STRANGERS) takes rural terror up another notch in this incredibly scary shocker, previously slated to launch at the Tribeca Film Festival. On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers

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Joseph Perry
Jul 13, 2020
Horror Fuel

Horror Anthology ‘Scare Package’ Will Give You Chills This June On Shudder

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has acquired all rights in its territories to horror-comedy Scare Package, from creators Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns. The anthology film, which delighted audiences at numerous festivals including the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, features seven gleefully ghoulish tales from a range of horror subgenres. We are delighted to introduce a new generation of horror voices in this smart, funny, gory, ode to horror that is Scare Package,” said Emily Gotto, Shudder’s Director of Global Acquisitions & Co-Production. People say this often, but we mean it: This truly is a movie made by horror fans, for horror fans. And we have the tears, sweat and 40+ gallons of blood to prove it. So, to be able to partner this love-letter with Shudder was a dream come true and hopefully can be a wild and hilarious distraction in our newly confined times,” said producer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Game Review: ‘Jurassic World Evolution: Return To Jurassic Park’ Takes You Back To 1993

The latest DLC for Frontier Development’s business/theme park simulation Jurassic World Evolution is possibly its biggest yet! The “Return to Jurassic Park” DLC brings back Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum in their iconic roles from the film series and picks up where their first adventure left off. In the game, players return to Isla Nublar to help Drs Grant and Sattler, and Ian Malcolm as they’re helping John Hammond to get control back of the island, repair damaged facilities, and get dinosaurs under control so the park can finally open to the public. The story also includes a young Cabot Finch who is in charge of finances in the main game but in the DLC is Hammond’s intern. The DLC not only has the buildings from 1993 (that can be carried over into the main game) but two new dinosaurs, the Compys and Pterandons, and two new attractions, the self-driving tour jeeps from the first film, and the

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Capt McNeely
Dec 11, 2019
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