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BritBox Is Gifting Horror Fans A Spooky Holiday Season With A Ton Of Films

BritBox is giving horror fans the gift of a spooky holiday season with a killer line-up of “spirited” films! BritBox, the subscription streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, is offering the biggest collection of unmissable streaming British entertainment in North America. BritBox continues to bring the best of British Television to US audiences by exclusively releasing an incredible collection of ghost stories during the holiday season! Ghost stories at Christmas are a tradition in the UK dating back centuries and particularly popularized by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future that we know so well from Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. In the 1970s, the BBC produced a number of adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of M.R. James to carry on the tradition for modern audiences in a collection called “A Ghost Story for Christmas”. In his time, James redefined the genre and many of his tales were written to be read aloud on Christmas

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 18, 2021

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A Man Faces Demons From His Past This December In ‘Repossession’ (Trailer)

Gravitas Ventures is set to release the genre-bending film festival favorite Repossession, from directors Goh Ming Siu and Scott C.Hillyard, the December. The provocative horror-thriller fixes on 50-year-old Jim who has constructed a perfect life in the world’s most expensive city. When he is unexpectedly laid off, he desperately clings to the symbols of his success, while wrestling with resurfacing demons from his past. In the tradition of Get Out and Parasite, Repossession stars Gerald Chew, Amy J Cheng, Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Rachel Wan, and Matthew Loo. Witness the intense horror-thriller Repossession on Digital on December 21, 2021, from Gravitas Ventures and Kamikaze Dogfight.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 15, 2021

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Legend Based Moroccan Horror ‘Achoura’ Lands On Digital And DVD

Following raves at Cinepocalypse, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival, and more, North America gets to now witness the terrifying tale of a Moroccan legend in Achoura. In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a horrible legend. “It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil.” Franco–Moroccan filmmaker Talal Selhami says. “ Fear cinema is therefore a kind of outlet for the viewer, unfortunately today too used to seeing atrocities through the media. Stories of ghosts, vampires, creatures hidden under the bed, allow us to transpose our fears into something unreal. The best way to play to scare yourself without taking risks. The times we are living in

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 6, 2021

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Coming Of Age Horror ‘The Unhealer’ Coming To Roku

Following a wildly successful run on the global film festival circuit and a wide physical and digital release, Horror Business Films and Shout! Studios have announced the ad-supported and subscription-based release of Martin Guigui’s The Unhealer. In the film, A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to settle the score. Directed by writer and producer Martin Guigui (Beneath the Darkness, The Bronx Bull, Future World), the film stars genre favorites Natasha Henstridge (Species, The Whole Nine Yards) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Near Dark). The cast is rounded out by TikTok superstar Elijah Nelson (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, “S.W.A.T.”), Kayla Carlson (“Why Women Kill,” “Widow Detective”), Adam Beach (Suicide Squad, Cowboys & Aliens), Chris Browning (“Westworld”, “Bosch”), Cristi Harris (Night of the Demons 2) and Branscombe Richmond (The Scorpion King, Hard To Kill). The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 6, 2021

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Witness The Terror Filled Horror Thriller ‘The Darkness Of The Road’

Najarra Townsend (Contracted, Dementia: Part II) stars in the spine-chilling new horror-thriller The Darkness of the Road, premiering on DVD and Digital this December. In the film, “A single mother and her young daughter are driving on a desolate road in a moonless desert. After meeting a young female hitchhiker at a gas station, the mother realizes her daughter is missing. As they search for her, a merciless force begins to torment the two women, unraveling a world of terror they must survive if they are to discover the terrifying truth behind the daughter’s disappearance.” From director Eduardo Rodriguez (Fright Night II, El Gringo), the film also stars Leah Lauren and Johnny Whitworth (“The 100”, Empire Records). Discover the horrors of The Darkness of the Road on DVD and Digital on December 14, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 1, 2021

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Shudder Shares New Clip From ‘The Advent Calander’ Ahead Of Its Release

Ahead of its December release, Shudder has unveiled a new clip, titled “Captured,” from writer/director Patrick Ridremont’s French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar, revealing a terrifying monster. In the film, Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her. The Advent Calendar made its world premiere earlier this year at London’s Frightfest and was produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. Premiering exclusively on Shudder on Tuesday, December 2nd, The Advent Calander combines Faustian themes

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 30, 2021

Guillermo Del Toro's Award-Winning Thriller 'Nightmare Alley' Is Coming To 4K Ultra

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Guillermo Del Torro Takes Us To ‘Nightmare Alley’ This December

Guillermo del Toro’s new film Nightmare Alley, rated “R” for “Strong/bloody violence, some sexual content, nudity, and language.” debuts this December. The all-star cast includes Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn. In the film, an adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, “An ambitious young carny (Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is.” This is not the first time the story has made it to the big screen, it was first made into a film back in 1947 by director Edmund Goulding and starred Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. Nightmare Alley was written by Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan and will open in theaters on December 17, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 27, 2021

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Horror Thriller ‘Repossession’ Set For December Release

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 26, 2021

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Shudder Takes Us To ‘Death Valley’ To Witness An Experiment Gone Wrong

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, announced today that it will release the original film Death Valley this December. Written and directed by Matthew Ninaber (Psycho Goreman), who also appears as the frightening monster in the film, Death Valley also stars Jeremy Ninaber (Escape the Dark), Ethan Mitchell (Escape the Dark), and Kristen Kaster (If I should Die). “When a secret experiment goes horribly wrong, bioengineer Dr. Chloe (Kaster) becomes trapped inside a secret underground facility. With only 24 hours before a fatal decontamination protocol destroys the entire lab, Chloe deploys an emergency distress signal before a terrifying creature (Matthew Ninaber) of unknown origin can consume what’s left of her. Alerted by the distress beacon, battle-weary guns for hire, Marshall (Mitchell) and Beckett (Jeremy Ninaber) are commissioned to carry out a covert operation to extract the imprisoned scientist. Upon deployment, the team is ambushed by another heavily armed militia hell-bent on finding a way

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 26, 2021

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Shudder Moves Up Premiere Of French Horror Film ‘The Advent Calander’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced a new release date for writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror-fantasy The Advent Calendar. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin, and Cassandre Warnauts. In the film, “Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Tomorrow is Ours) gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her.” The Advent Calendar, which

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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