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‘Automata’ Director Willing To Do Something Crazy To Raise Money For Campaign

Following the success of their film The Black Gloves, director Lawrie Brewster and writer Sarah Daly are back with a new Gothic tale, Automata. And they are willing to go crazy heights to get this film made. The film centers on an antique dealer sent to authenticate the “Infernal Princess”, a three-hundred-year-old clockwork doll with a notorious history. He soon comes under its corrupting influence along with his stepdaughter Rose. Jamie Scott Gordon (The Black Gloves, Bonejangles), Alexandra Nicole Hulme (The Black Gloves, Lord of Tears), Erich Redman (The Danish Girl), Jonathan Hansler (The Devil’s Business), and Victoria Lucie (Dartmoor Killing). Director Lawrie Brewster said, “Automata is a wild, Gothic thrill-ride inspired by the decadence of Ken Russell’s Gothic, as well as the sensual expressionism of Argento’s Suspiria and Bava’s Black Sabbath.” The film is produced by Hex Studios and their partners Dark Dunes Productions along with Needle’s Eye Productions. Nick Ford, Greg Orsi, and Richard Pate executive produce. Automata

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 5, 2018

ForeignTrailers

This June Bring Home The Haunting South Korean Horror Film ‘The Mimic’

Following writer-director Huh Jung’s directorial debut hit Hide and Seek, which is currently getting an American remake, comes Jung’s horror-thriller The Mimic. Inspired the South Korean mythological tale of the “Tiger of Mt. Jang,” where a legendary ghost that mimics humans, a woman takes in a lost girl she finds near the mysterious Mt. Jang and mystifying things begin to happen to her frightened family. The Mimic stars Yum Jung-Ah (Tell Me Something), Park Hyuk-Kwon (A Taxi Driver), Shin Rin-Ah (Ode To My Father), Heo Jin (The Wailing), Kil Hae-Yeon (Missing) and Lee Yool (Hello Murderer). In the film, “A classic Korean ghost story gets a horrifying new spin, as the mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods and soon begins to wonder if she is even human.” The Mimic arrives on Digital and Blu-ray™ June 12, 2018, from Well Go USA Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 5, 2018

Trailers

‘Escape Room’, Starring Skeet Ulrich, Coming To Redbox

Escape Room, starring Skeet Ulrich (“Riverdale”, Scream), will be arriving on Redbox this May. Sean Young (“The Alienist,” “Blade Runner 2049”) and Randy Wayne (ABC Family’s “The Lying Game,” “Hellraiser: Judgement”) also star in the film about, “four friends decide to partake in a popular escape room horror attraction only to find themselves stuck inside with a demonically possessed killer. They only have one hour to solve the room and escape with their lives.” We are so excited to work with Redbox to bring this incredible film to viewers across the country,” stated Rick Romano, President of Global Genesis Group and Producer of Escape Room. The film explores the latest trend in immersive entertainment phenomena, escape rooms, where participants are locked in a room and must solve a variety of clues and puzzles to escape before time runs out. In Escape Room, directed by Peter Dukes, “Brice (Skeet Ulrich) is the owner of Deranged, Los Angeles’s top-rated escape room needs

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 5, 2018

ClipsTrailers

Exclusive Clip From Gehenna: Where Death Lives

From visual effects master turned director Hiroshi Katagiri (interview), comes Gehenna: Where Death Lives, starring award-winning actor Doug Jones (Hell Boy, The Shape of Water). Today, we have a new exclusive clip to share with you (below). Katagiri, who has worked on films such as Jurassic Park 3, Alien vs Predator: Requiem, The Hunger Games, and War of the Worlds, makes his directorial debut this dark, twisted tale. Acting legend Lance Henriksen (TV’s ”Millennium”, Aliens), Eva Swan, Simon Phillips, and Justin Gordon also star. Gehenna centers on five people who enter a hidden bunker from WW2 and realize it’s way more than a bunker. Some fates are MUCH worse than death. Spectral Motion, known for award-winning work on such films as Hellboy and Looper, did the makeup effects on the creature played by Jones. Gehenna: Where Death Lives opens in theaters across the U.S and on Digital Friday, May 4, 2018, from Uncork’d Entertainment. Check out the new clip, filled

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 4, 2018

ConventionsForeignMovies

New Trailer Takes Us On A ‘Road To Hell’

Today we have the trailer for Roberto D’Antona’s Road To Hell (aka Fino all’Inferno). Presented at the Cartoomics 2018 in Milan, a convention featuring comics and films, the film will arrive in Italian theaters this August. In the film, “A group of robbers fleeing to a new life, crossing their path with a woman, with her son and with the tragic curse they bring with them. a criminal boss and a mysterious organization of unscrupulous men, to help them, an ex-policeman with hasty methods and a jealous girlfriend.The escape will soon turn into a mad rush to hell to save the life of the child and the fate of the world.” I take the inspiration from the films of my childhood – explains the director and protagonist Roberto D’Antona – especially from Big Trouble in Little China. Adventurous stories of heroes and anti-heroes that, searching a redemption, were capable of the most titanic undertaking. These are the stories that have

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 3, 2018

News

Alexandre Aja To Direct ‘Crawl’ From Producer Sam Raimi

Paramount has tapped Alexandre Aja to direct the creature thriller Crawl. Aja is known for having an impressive track record with horror films including The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Pirahna 3D, Maniac, and The Other Side of the Door. THR reports that the film centers on, “a young woman, who while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house, fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators (an alligator).” The script for Crawl was originally written by brothers Shawn and Michael Rasmussen (The Ward) and re-written by Aja. Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi will produce along with Craig Flores (300: Rise of an Empire). Crawl follows up Paramount’s’ highly-successful film A Quiet Place, which has grossed over $236 at box offices so far. Its sequel has just been announced.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 2, 2018

Trailers

Dine On The Trailer For Horror Comedy The Restuarant

Ahead of the Marche du Film in Cannes, May 8th-17th genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed the second title in their Cannes lineup, the horror comedy The Restaurant, along with the film’s trailer. “Set in New York, Andy manages an Italian eatery where in exchange for business he feeds undesirables to a demon in the basement. Everything was going smoothly… until the busboy found out.” Written and directed by Eric Ford-Holevinski, this supernatural flick stars Mark Turner, Anthony Misiano, Byron Clohessy, Stephanie Juergens, and Ariel Eliaz, The Restuarant was executive produced by Kris Maxx. The deal was negotiated by Ben Yennie founder of The Guerrilla Rep on behalf of the filmmakers and Samantha Richardson on behalf of Devilworks.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 2, 2018

Film Festivals

TWD’s Pollyanna McIntosh Makes Directorial Debut With ‘Darlin”, Sequel To ‘The Woman’

Pollyanna McIntosh, who currently stars on “The Walking Dead” as Jadis, is making her directorial debut with Darlin’, the continuance of 2011’s cult hit The Woman. Lauryn Canny stars in the film which is set to head to market at Cannes. Darlin’, which MPI Media Group will introduce to buyers, continues the twisted vicious adventure of Lucky McKee’s 2011 cult hit The Woman, which he novelized with famed horror writer Jack Ketchum and which starred McIntosh in the title role. McIntosh reprises her role from The Woman and stars alongside Lauryn Canny (1,000 Times Good Night, Amber), Bryan Batt (Mad Men, 12 Years a Slave), Nora-Jane Noone (The Magdalene Sisters, The Descent, Brooklyn) and Cooper Andrews (The Walking Dead, Shazam, Halt and Catch Fire), as well as fellow Walking Dead alumni Sabrina Gennarino and Thomas Francis Murphy. In the film, “Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 1, 2018

Trailers

Feral Set To Be Unleashed This May

This May, writer-director Mark Young’s Feral will be unleashed by IFC Midnight and they have just released a new trailer. In the movie, a group of friends get together for a camping trip that goes terribly wrong. The friends begin to fall ill one by one as an illness turns them into something feral. The Devil’s Rejects actor Lew Temple stars alongside Scout Taylor-Compton, Olivia Luccardi, Renee Olstead, Brock Vincent Kelly, and Landry Allbright. Adam Frazier co-wrote the script. Feral will be unleashed on May 25, 2018.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 1, 2018

From the Crypt

First Look At ‘Agramon’s Gate’ From Award Winnning Filmmaker Harley Wallen

Painted Creek Productions has released series of movie stills from their upcoming thriller Agramon’s Gate, written, directed, and produced by award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Artificial Loyalty). Starring Laurene Landon (Sky, Maniac Cop 1 & 2) and Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Underneath the Stairs, Death House), the film centers on, “Richie, a young man with a dark past coming to pull him back in. At the age of 12, he shot and killed his father to protect his mother who was being assaulted by his deeply troubled dad. Richie has just bought a house, gotten married and at the housewarming party along with a psychic medium something else comes through and haunts the people from the party. Is it Carter, Richie’s father? Has Carter come back to settle the score? Or is it Sharon, his mother who’s been at a mental institution ever since? Or is it a spirit or a demon and if so, what can

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 30, 2018

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