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Horror-Thriller 'Glorious' Coming Exclusively To Shudder

Horror-Thriller ‘Glorious’ Coming Exclusively To Shudder

Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural has announced today that it has acquired rights to and set the release date for Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood, Kindred) and Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Being the Ricardos). In Glorious, “Kwanten plays a young man who is spiraling out of control after a bad breakup. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside a rest-stop bathroom with a mysterious figure (Simmons) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As he tries to escape, he realizes he is an unwilling player in a situation bigger and more terrible than he could have imagined.” This film is written by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull, and David Ian McKendry. AMP International’s Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh serve as producers along with Joe Wicker and Morgan Peter Brown from Fallback Plan Productions, Jason Scott Goldberg, and Christian Armogida. “For years, I had been searching for a project that

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 6, 2022
Award-Winning Film 'Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes' To Be Released Next Week

Digital Release Announced For Gothic Thriller ‘Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes’

Dark Sky Films announced today the release date for the multi-award-winning Gothic German thriller Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes. In the film, “Margo, who comes from a noble family, inherited a castle that she inspects with her ill-tempered husband Dieter. When they arrive at the run-down keep, their relationship is put to a test as their sanity slowly deteriorates. This opens up a new world. As time and space begin to shift around them, a reality that only exists within the walls of the eerie building is exposed – a reality full of warmth and excess.” Things aren’t as they seem in this genre-bending film, which shifts between different story layers in unpredictable ways. It is a love letter to European cinema of the sixties and seventies that will leave viewers guessing what will happen next. Directed by Kevin Kopacka (Hades), and written and produced by Lili Villányi and Kevin Kopacka, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes stars Anna Platen (Para

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 5, 2022
Screen Media Acquires Horror-Thriller 'Saint Clare' Starring Bella Thorne

Screen Media Acquires Horror-Thriller ‘Saint Clare’ Starring Bella Thorne

Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) company, announced today the acquisition of worldwide rights to the upcoming horror-thriller Saint Clare, starring Bella Thorne (the upcoming Rumble Through the Dark, Time Is Up). Saint Clare follows Clare Bleecker (Thorne), a quiet catholic college student with a divine vocation for killing. Directed by Mitzi Peirone (Braid) and written by Guinevere Turner (American Psycho) and Mitzi Peirone, the film is based on the hit novel “Clare at 16” by Don Roff, whose sequel novel will be released in 2023. Producers are in negotiations with Rebecca DeMornay (Hand That Rocks the Cradle) to join the cast, with the additional casting of other key roles underway. The film will be produced by David Chackler, Arielle Elwes, Thor Bradwell, and Joel Michaely. Executive producers are Cassian Elwes, Seth Needle, Mark Damon, Tamara Birkemoe, Veronica Radaelli, Tom Culliver, Nadia Redler, Dave Sereny, and Jere Hausfater. “With such a talented pedigree, we’re thrilled

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 4, 2022
Overlook Film Festival Announces Its Second Wave of Chillers and Thrillers

Overlook Film Festival Announces Its Second Wave of Chillers and Thrillers

The Overlook Film Festival brings another drool-inducing slate of horror and horror-adjacent features and shorts to New Orleans next month. From monsters to murderers to other mayhem-makers, the fest has something for fear-fare fans of every stripe. Following is the official press announcement. The Overlook Film Festival is proud to announce its opening night film and second wave of the 2022 festival lineup. These titles join previously announced films and events, including closing night film THE BLACK PHONE, for a total of 23 feature films and 25 short films from 16 countries, with 3 World Premieres and 1 North American premiere, along with 10 live events taking place at the Prytania Theatres At Canal Place in New Orleans June 2-5, 2022. The festival will open with the North American premiere of Ana Lily Amirpour’s MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON, which features a stellar cast including Jeon Jong-soo, Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson. Shot in New Orleans, this fantastical boundary

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Joseph Perry
May 4, 2022
Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller 'The Righteous'

Trailer Premieres For Award-Winning Spiritual Thriller ‘The Righteous’

Today, Arrow has shared the first look at the black and white award-winning film The Righteous, which marks the directorial debut of actor and writer Mark O’Brien (AMC’s “61st Street”, Blue Bayou, Ready or Not). Starring O’Brien, Henry Czerny (Ready or Not, Mission Impossible, “Revenge”), and Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, “Shadowhunters”) The Righteous is “a unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller, strikingly shot in black and white, and tells the story of Frederic (Henry Czerny) a grieving man struggling with his faith, who helps an injured young man, Aaron Smith (Mark O’Brien) who stumbles onto his property one night, claiming to be lost in the woods. Frederic and his wife (Mimi Kuzyk) invite the man to stay for the night, but Frederic soon begins to have doubts about this enigmatic stranger’s story – and his motives for being there. When Aaron asks Frederic to commit an unspeakable deed, it becomes clear that the man is

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Ella Rebecca Horton
May 2, 2022
Home Release Date Announced For The Horror-Thriller 'You Are Not My Mother'

Home Release Date Announced For The Horror-Thriller ‘You Are Not My Mother’

You Are Not My Mother, from writer-director Kate Dolan, spins a dark tale inspired by Irish legends on Blu-ray and DVD this Summer. Starring Carolyn Bracken (“Dublin Murders”), IFTA Award nominee Ingrid Craigie (“Blood”), and Dublin International Film Festival Discovery Award winner Hazel Doupe (Kathleen Was Here), You Are Not My Mother takes viewers on a frightening, yet authentic coming-of-age journey through the dark history of the folks in Ireland. In the film, set the week before Halloween, Char’s bedridden mother, Angela, has mysteriously gone missing. All that remains is her abandoned car parked in the middle of a field. When Angela returns home to their North Dublin estate the following evening without explanation, it becomes clear to Char and her grandmother, Rita, that something is amiss. She might look and sound the same, but Angela’s behavior has become increasingly erratic and frightening as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force. As Halloween approaches, a night steeped in

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Ella Rebecca Horton
Apr 29, 2022
A Killer Stalks The New Trailer For Psychological Thriller 'Watcher'

A Killer Stalks The New Trailer For Psychological Thriller ‘Watcher’

Today, IFC Midnight unveiled the new trailer for director Chloe Okuno’s chilling psychological thriller Watcher, written by Zach Ford and Chloe Okuno. It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars alongside Karl Glusman (Love), and Burn Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises). In Watcher, Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building, who seems to be looking back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theater, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes certain she’s being followed — could it be the same unknown neighbor? Meanwhile, a serial killer known as “The Spider” stalks the city. Watcher made its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and most recently screened at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2022
Psychological Thriller 'Cordelia' Coming To Theaters And On-Demand This Week

A Woman Is Plagued By Paranoia This May In The Psychological Thriller ‘Cordelia’

Screen Media has just announced the May premiere date for the unsettling psychological thriller, Cordelia, which explores loneliness, paranoia, and survivor guilt. The film is directed by Adrian Shergold (“Mad Dogs,” Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, “Eureka Street”), who co-wrote Cordelia along with Antonia Campbell-Hughes (3096 Days, Kelly + Victor, Zone 414) who stars alongside Johnny Flynn (Emma., Clouds of Sils Maria, Beast), Catherine McCormack (Braveheart, Spy Game, 28 Weeks Later), Joel Fry (In The Earth, Yesterday, Cruella), and Michael Gambon (Gosford Park, Harry Potter). In the thriller, “Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young woman living in London, meets her mysterious and alluring neighbor Frank (Johnny Flynn) for the first time but quickly becomes suspicious of his motives. With her twin sister away for the weekend, Cordelia is left alone and overcome with paranoia. She begins to unravel and sink back into past traumas the more that Frank tries to charm his way into her life, becoming a danger to herself and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2022
Natasha Henstridge & Lydia Hearst Join The Supernatural Thriller 'Condition Of Return'

Natasha Henstridge & Lydia Hearst Join The Supernatural Thriller ‘Condition Of Return’

Natasha Henstridge (The Whole Nine Yards) and Lydia Hearst (“Z Nation”) have joined the cast of the supernatural thriller Condition of Return which sees a woman make a deal with the devil. Henstridge and Hearst join previously announced cast members AnnaLynne McCord (Excision), Dean Cain (“Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”), and Stelio Savante (Infidel). Directed by Tommy Stovall (Room for Rent, starring Lin Shaye, interview), the film follows “a hapless psychoanalyst who is tasked with determining a woman’s fitness to stand trial after she commits an unspeakable crime. In a contentious interrogation, he persuades her to recount her troubling past as she in turn shrewdly manipulates him into revealing secrets of his own.” Written by John E. Spare, Condition of Return will be filming in Arizona this summer. Henstridge is repped by Buchwald, Atlas Artists, and Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal, Laviolette, and Feldman. Hearst is repped by Buchwald, MPE, and Ginsburg, Daniels, Kallis. Savante by SMS Talent,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 25, 2022
Joe Manganiello Playing A Hit Man In The Dark Comedic Thriller 'The Kill Room'

Joe Manganiello Playing A Hit Man In The Dark Comedic Thriller ‘The Kill Room’

The upcoming dark comedic thriller The Kill Room already has an impressive cast that includes Umma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson. Deadline is reporting the latest addition to the cast is “True Blood” and Magic Mike actor Joe Manganiello. Directed by Nicol Paone (Friendsgiving, Funny People) and written by Jonathan Jacobson (“Mark Lives In Ikea”), the movie tells the story of “a hitman (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), and an art dealer (Thurman) whose money-laundering scheme accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight avant-garde sensation forcing Thurman’s character to play the art world against the underworld.” Jordan Beckerman, Jordan Yale Levine, and Jon Keeyes for Yale Productions produce along with Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas, and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, and William Rosenfeld of Such Content. Executive producers include Robert Kapp, Scott Levenson, Jason Kringstein, Richard Switzer, Ian Niles, Philip W. Shaltz, Bradley Pilz, Michael Rothstein, Jesse Korman, and Jeffrey Tusi.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 24, 2022
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