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Dustin Ferguson’s ‘Terror At Black Tree Forest’ Getting A Remake

Trash Arts has teamed up with HB Films once again, this time for the remake of Dustin Ferguson‘s Terror At Black Tree Forest. The new film, based on Ferguson’s 2010 indie slasher, will be directed by Sam Mason Bell, who said “I am honored to have been asked by Dustin to remake his film. Originally, he asked me in 2018 and we were about to start production when the covid-19 pandemic hit but now we can see a way to filming safely and successfully, so it feels absolutely great being back in pre-production’.” In the slasher, “Caroline and her friends usually meet up once a year for a camping trip escaping their everyday lives and feeling young again, but this time it is different. They still meet up, but someone is stalking and killing them off … one by one! Is it a secret from the past? Or an urban legend come to life? What terror awaits at Black Tree

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
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New Video And Images Gives Us Our First Look At Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Demonic’

Back in February, we reported that filmmaker Neill Blomkamp had secretly made the horror film known simply as Demonic. Today we have a first look at the film with several images and an 8mm behind-the-scenes video shot by Blomkamp himself. Needless to say, we’re excited! After all, the film is from the brilliant director behind District 9, Elysium, and Chappie. In the film, “A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed in this horror-thriller” from IFC Midnight. Carly Pope (Elysium), Chris William Martin (The Age of Adaline, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, TV’s “The Vampire Diaries”), and Michael Rogers (TV’s “Siren”, “The Blacklist”, “Supernatural”) are set to star in the supernatural horror. IFC Midnight will release Demonic in theaters on August 20th followed by an On-Demand and Digital release on August 27, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
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Enter To Win Your Copy Of The Certified Fresh Film ‘The Columnist’!

We’ve got a treat for all you horror fans! We’re giving away three copies of the darkly funny, “Certified Fresh” film The Columnist! Katja Herbers (“Evil”, “Westworld”) stars in the film, from director Ivo van Aart about “Femke Boot (Herbers), a columnist who is obsessed with reading the endless abusive messages and death threats posted about her on social media. This obsession consumes her life and prevents her from concentrating on the novel she has promised to her publisher. One day, all her pent-up anger and frustration explode in a moment of shocking and unexpected violence. When this brutal and bloody act inspires Femke to write again, she surrenders to her rage and begins to lead a double life as a daytime writer and nighttime murderer.” Written by Daan Windhorst, The Columnist also stars Genio de Groot, Katja Herbers, Rein Hofman, and Bram van der Kleln. Pick up your copy of The Columnist on May 11, 2021, on DVD (Amazon),

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
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‘Escape Room 2’ Release Moved Up To This Summer

Adam Robitel‘s Escape Room 2 has changed its release date several times. A new date has now been announced. Columbia Pictures has moved up the release from January 2022 all the way up to July 16, 2021. That’s right, it’s coming early. Escape Room‘s Logan Miller and Talyor Russell will both be returning and will star alongside Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Holland Roden (“Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block”), Indya Moore (“Pose”), Thomas Cocquerel (“The 100”), and Carlito Olivero (“East Los High”). The 2019 original film follows six strangers who participate in an escape room game, but soon learn they are locked in a game of life or death. Together they aim to solve clues and riddles in order to move from one room to the next, discovering that they must reveal their biggest secrets and work together to survive. After escaping the game, the two survivors talk about getting even which we assume will be part of the plot of the sequel.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
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Terror Films And FilmIsNow Team Up For The Release Of Twenty-Three Horror Films

Indie genre distributor TERROR FILMS has teamed up with YouTube AVOD platform FILMISNOW for the release of a massive slate of horror films, Twenty-three to be exact. FILMISNOW, a leading European YouTube network that encompasses ten movie-related channels. Combined, the channels have a total of over 8.5 million subscribers! They are an international company that specializes in movie-related content including production, distribution, and movie marketing – in four different languages. FILMISNOW entered the AVOD market at the beginning of 2020 and already has over 300 titles online, with more on the way. TERROR FILMS President Joe Dain spoke of this partnership recently, saying “this is one of many steps we have been taking to pave the way for more direct platform relationships, to expand our digital footprint, and to improve revenue streams for our filmmakers. This collaboration also helps us chip away at our need for 3rd party film aggregators.“ The initial launch will feature twenty-three films from this genre

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
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‘Sound Of Violence’ Trailer Teases Music Can Be Deadly

Following its world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence is receiving its home release. Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost), and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”) star. In the film, “Alexis recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis’ unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won’t let anything stop her, not

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
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Chris Pratt Is Ready To Fight In The First Look At Amazon’s ‘The Tomorrow War’

Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) is ready to fight in the first images for the Amazon Original film The Tomorrow War, about a group of time travelers on a mission to deliver a message that could save the world and prevent a war with an alien race. “In The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrives from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is a high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
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New ‘Berserkers’ Trailer Unleashed To Celebrate Release

Jacob Mulliken‘s high-intensity horror film Berserkers is slashing its way onto DVD and Digital today (April 27) and we’ve got a brand new trailer! Filled with horror, action, and insanity, Berserkers follows four friends who must fight for their lives when everyone in their hometown is turned into bloodthirsty maniacs, only to find themselves escaping to a post-apocalyptic wasteland as a virus slowly engulfs the world. Dave Petti (Bob Roberts), Rebecca Gruss (The Knick), and James Quinn (The Dark Knight Rises) star in Berserkers, available on DVD and Digital on April 27, 2021, from Wild Eye Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
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This May A Mother Fights To Save Her Child In The Horror-Thriller ‘Son’

How far would a mother go to save her child? That question is explored in writer-director Ivan Kavanagh’s (Never Grow Old, The Canal) new horror-thriller, Son, set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this May. In Son, after a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura’s home and attempts to abduct her eight-year-old son, David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Andi Matichak (Halloween franchise, Assimilate), Emile Hirsch (Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Into the Wild, Milk), and Luke David Blumm (The King of Staten Island) star in this intense film filled with horror, mystery, about a family stalked by a cult. Son arrives on Blu-ray and DVD

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2021
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Scout Taylor-Compton Starring In 90s Style Slasher ‘Scream Bloody Murder’

Halloween‘s Scout Taylor-Compton stars in Scream Bloody Murder, a joint venture of Safier Entertainment, PhilaDreams Films, and Cult Cinema LLC. The slasher, which marks the feature directorial debut of Shawn C. Phillips, is in the vain 90s horror classics such as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Compton stars alongside Robert LaSardo, James Duval, Vernon Wells, Kelly Reiter, and Lauren Francesca in Scream Bloody Murder, set to begin filming this May. Producers Jared Safier and Thomas Walton previously teamed with Scout Taylor-Compton for the upcoming studio film, Room 9. We also see the producers re-teaming with Johnny Hickey from the horror movie, Habitual. It’s going to be a love letter to 90s slasher films in the style of Scream and. The movie will also have elements of films like Mean Girls as well as Revenge of the Nerds. So it will have some humor mixed in as well to the film.” Director Shawn C. Phillips states. Will

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2021

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Dustin Ferguson’s ‘Terror At Black Tree Forest’ Getting A Remake

Trash Arts has teamed up with HB Films once again, this time for the remake of Dustin Ferguson‘s Terror At Black Tree Forest. The new film, based on Ferguson’s 2010 indie slasher, will be directed by Sam Mason Bell, who said “I am honored to have been asked by Dustin to remake his film. Originally, he asked me in 2018 and we were about to start production when the covid-19 pandemic hit but now we can see a way to filming safely and successfully, so it feels absolutely great being back in pre-production’.” In the slasher, “Caroline and her friends usually meet up once a year for a camping trip escaping their everyday lives and feeling young again, but this time it is different. They still meet up, but someone is stalking and killing them off … one by one! Is it a secret from the past? Or an urban legend come to life? What terror awaits at Black Tree

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

New Video And Images Gives Us Our First Look At Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Demonic’

Back in February, we reported that filmmaker Neill Blomkamp had secretly made the horror film known simply as Demonic. Today we have a first look at the film with several images and an 8mm behind-the-scenes video shot by Blomkamp himself. Needless to say, we’re excited! After all, the film is from the brilliant director behind District 9, Elysium, and Chappie. In the film, “A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed in this horror-thriller” from IFC Midnight. Carly Pope (Elysium), Chris William Martin (The Age of Adaline, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, TV’s “The Vampire Diaries”), and Michael Rogers (TV’s “Siren”, “The Blacklist”, “Supernatural”) are set to star in the supernatural horror. IFC Midnight will release Demonic in theaters on August 20th followed by an On-Demand and Digital release on August 27, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

Enter To Win Your Copy Of The Certified Fresh Film ‘The Columnist’!

We’ve got a treat for all you horror fans! We’re giving away three copies of the darkly funny, “Certified Fresh” film The Columnist! Katja Herbers (“Evil”, “Westworld”) stars in the film, from director Ivo van Aart about “Femke Boot (Herbers), a columnist who is obsessed with reading the endless abusive messages and death threats posted about her on social media. This obsession consumes her life and prevents her from concentrating on the novel she has promised to her publisher. One day, all her pent-up anger and frustration explode in a moment of shocking and unexpected violence. When this brutal and bloody act inspires Femke to write again, she surrenders to her rage and begins to lead a double life as a daytime writer and nighttime murderer.” Written by Daan Windhorst, The Columnist also stars Genio de Groot, Katja Herbers, Rein Hofman, and Bram van der Kleln. Pick up your copy of The Columnist on May 11, 2021, on DVD (Amazon),

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Escape Room 2’ Release Moved Up To This Summer

Adam Robitel‘s Escape Room 2 has changed its release date several times. A new date has now been announced. Columbia Pictures has moved up the release from January 2022 all the way up to July 16, 2021. That’s right, it’s coming early. Escape Room‘s Logan Miller and Talyor Russell will both be returning and will star alongside Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Holland Roden (“Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block”), Indya Moore (“Pose”), Thomas Cocquerel (“The 100”), and Carlito Olivero (“East Los High”). The 2019 original film follows six strangers who participate in an escape room game, but soon learn they are locked in a game of life or death. Together they aim to solve clues and riddles in order to move from one room to the next, discovering that they must reveal their biggest secrets and work together to survive. After escaping the game, the two survivors talk about getting even which we assume will be part of the plot of the sequel.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
Horror Fuel

Terror Films And FilmIsNow Team Up For The Release Of Twenty-Three Horror Films

Indie genre distributor TERROR FILMS has teamed up with YouTube AVOD platform FILMISNOW for the release of a massive slate of horror films, Twenty-three to be exact. FILMISNOW, a leading European YouTube network that encompasses ten movie-related channels. Combined, the channels have a total of over 8.5 million subscribers! They are an international company that specializes in movie-related content including production, distribution, and movie marketing – in four different languages. FILMISNOW entered the AVOD market at the beginning of 2020 and already has over 300 titles online, with more on the way. TERROR FILMS President Joe Dain spoke of this partnership recently, saying “this is one of many steps we have been taking to pave the way for more direct platform relationships, to expand our digital footprint, and to improve revenue streams for our filmmakers. This collaboration also helps us chip away at our need for 3rd party film aggregators.“ The initial launch will feature twenty-three films from this genre

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Sound Of Violence’ Trailer Teases Music Can Be Deadly

Following its world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence is receiving its home release. Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost), and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”) star. In the film, “Alexis recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis’ unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won’t let anything stop her, not

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
Horror Fuel

Chris Pratt Is Ready To Fight In The First Look At Amazon’s ‘The Tomorrow War’

Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) is ready to fight in the first images for the Amazon Original film The Tomorrow War, about a group of time travelers on a mission to deliver a message that could save the world and prevent a war with an alien race. “In The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrives from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is a high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
Horror Fuel

New ‘Berserkers’ Trailer Unleashed To Celebrate Release

Jacob Mulliken‘s high-intensity horror film Berserkers is slashing its way onto DVD and Digital today (April 27) and we’ve got a brand new trailer! Filled with horror, action, and insanity, Berserkers follows four friends who must fight for their lives when everyone in their hometown is turned into bloodthirsty maniacs, only to find themselves escaping to a post-apocalyptic wasteland as a virus slowly engulfs the world. Dave Petti (Bob Roberts), Rebecca Gruss (The Knick), and James Quinn (The Dark Knight Rises) star in Berserkers, available on DVD and Digital on April 27, 2021, from Wild Eye Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2021
Horror Fuel

This May A Mother Fights To Save Her Child In The Horror-Thriller ‘Son’

How far would a mother go to save her child? That question is explored in writer-director Ivan Kavanagh’s (Never Grow Old, The Canal) new horror-thriller, Son, set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this May. In Son, after a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura’s home and attempts to abduct her eight-year-old son, David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Andi Matichak (Halloween franchise, Assimilate), Emile Hirsch (Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Into the Wild, Milk), and Luke David Blumm (The King of Staten Island) star in this intense film filled with horror, mystery, about a family stalked by a cult. Son arrives on Blu-ray and DVD

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2021
Horror Fuel

Scout Taylor-Compton Starring In 90s Style Slasher ‘Scream Bloody Murder’

Halloween‘s Scout Taylor-Compton stars in Scream Bloody Murder, a joint venture of Safier Entertainment, PhilaDreams Films, and Cult Cinema LLC. The slasher, which marks the feature directorial debut of Shawn C. Phillips, is in the vain 90s horror classics such as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Compton stars alongside Robert LaSardo, James Duval, Vernon Wells, Kelly Reiter, and Lauren Francesca in Scream Bloody Murder, set to begin filming this May. Producers Jared Safier and Thomas Walton previously teamed with Scout Taylor-Compton for the upcoming studio film, Room 9. We also see the producers re-teaming with Johnny Hickey from the horror movie, Habitual. It’s going to be a love letter to 90s slasher films in the style of Scream and. The movie will also have elements of films like Mean Girls as well as Revenge of the Nerds. So it will have some humor mixed in as well to the film.” Director Shawn C. Phillips states. Will

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 26, 2021
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