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Dark Sky Films Snags Award-Winning Horror Thriller ‘Caveat’

Dark Sky Films today announced that it has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Caveat, the acclaimed new suspense thriller from rising director Damian McCarthy. Dark Sky parent company MPI Media Group will be handling worldwide sales of the film and will bring it to the American Film Market in November. The film is set mainly in an isolated house on a remote island. When Isaac (Jonathan French, A Soldier’s Voice), a lone drifter with partial memory loss, accepts a job to look after his landlord’s niece Olga (Leila Sykes, Missing Something, Lancaster Skies) for a few days it all seems like easy money, but there is a caveat: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms. Once Olga’s uncle, Barrett (Ben Caplan, Call the Midwife, Band of Brothers), leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues as Olga displays ever worsening psychological issues. With Isaac trapped and

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Oct 28, 2020
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From The Director Of ‘Parasite’ Comes ‘Memories Of Murder’ This October

From the brilliant Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, who brought you Parasite, comes an original masterpiece, Memories of Murder, based on a shocking true story. The film, which was originally released seventeen years ago, tells a harrowing story about the hunt for a sadistic serial rapist and murderer terrorizing a small providence in 1980s South Korea. Marking the first of many successful collaborations between four-time Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho and star Song Kang Ho, the film follows the paths of three increasingly desperate detectives as they attempt to decipher the violent mind of a killer. Neon presents Memories of Murder debuting on digital platforms on October 27th.

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Oct 26, 2020
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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Minor Premise’ Takes You Inside A Disturbed Mind

This December, director Eric Schultz‘s sci-fi thriller Minor Premise will take viewers on a journey into the mind of a man facing off against his darker side. “Attempting to surpass his father’s legacy and pressured by an old colleague (Dana Ashbrook of “Twin Peaks”), a reclusive neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own risky experiment. Ethan (Sathya Sridharan) has now locked himself in his home with his ex-girlfriend Allie (Paton Ashbrook) and the two navigate trauma, ambition, and missteps of the past. Diving headfirst into the uncharted equations of the brain, they realize that there is more at stake than just their relationship or Ethan’s reputation. With time quickly running out, he is forced to face off against the darker sides of himself while frantically attempting to solve an enigma that lies within his subconscious. New York filmmaker Eric Schultz’s striking feature debut, after having co-produced such acclaimed works as James White, Katie Says Goodbye, and The Strange Ones, Minor Premise

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Oct 26, 2020
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This October Take A Terrifying Trip To ‘Lake Artifact’

This October, take a trip to the most terrifying place you’ve never heard of, Lake Artifact. In the film, “Five friends pick up a drifter on their way to a cabin in Upstate New York for a three day weekend. Upon arrival they discover a picture of themselves posing at the cabin, which they’ve never been to; Time and space begin to function without rhyme or reason, slowly turning them against each other.” “We were at an Airbnb and there were all these pictures hanging on the walls. We jokingly wondered ‘what if we saw ourselves in one of these photos’. After a few hours, the joke became more serious, and we started tossing around ideas about what that could mean if we really did discover that photo. Are we in a time loop? Are we dead? Do we have doppelgangers? The directions we could go were really exciting.” “I thought it would be interesting to try to combine my

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Oct 26, 2020
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Indie Horror ‘Teacher Shortage’ Will School You In A Lesson In Terror

Writer-director Troy Escamilla (Party Night) wants to teach you a new lesson in terror this October with his new indie horror Teacher Shortage. Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre, Slavegirls from Beyond Infinity), Debra Lamb (Beverly Hills Vamp, Tales from the Campfire 2) star in the film that pays homage to 80s slashers. “What is supposed to be an educational and collaborative weekend professional development session for the English Department of Prescott High School instead turns into a blood-soaked nightmare when a masked killer targets them.” Teacher Shortage is out on DVD on October 27th, 2020, from Bayview Entertainment.

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Oct 25, 2020
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Horror Documentary “Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors” Explores The 70s & 80s

Direct-to-video sequel Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors documentary on horror is this time focusing on the best of Grindhouse horror from the 1970s and 80s and it’s heading to the small screen this Halloween. Dustin Ferguson‘s (Direct To Video, Penny Pinchers, The Party’s Just Begun: The Legacy of Night of The Demons) documentary features interviews with genre icons Mel Novak (A Force of Darkness), John Dugan (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), Camilla Carr (Don’t Look In The Basement), Kevin Van Hentenryck (Basket Case), Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), John A. Russo (Midnight), Carl Crew (Blood Diner), Marneen Fields (Hellhole), Jonathan Peacy (I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu), Craig Reed (Ra-Animator), Frank Farel (Spookies), Craig Muckler (Microwave Massacre), and John Naulin who worked Special F/X on such classics as Halloween III: Season of The Witch, From Beyond and Re-Animator. Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors will be available on both VOD and DVD from SCS

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Oct 24, 2020
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New ‘Evil Dead 2’ Details Emerge

The next installment of the Evil Dead franchise is headed your way. Directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), however, the sequel will not star Bruce Campbell or be set in the infamous cabin, word is, it will be set in a high rise. “I’m confident I’m going to do something that’s both familiar and refreshing. I’m gonna deliver a rollercoaster of horror,” Lee Cronin recently told BD’s The Boo Crew Podcast. “That’s what the goal is here. Relentless. Not stopping to explain too much. It needs to be extremely visceral, highly entertaining, properly scary. To push boundaries, that’s important as well.” Talking with AL.com earlier this week, Bruce Campbell who is producing the film gave more details, revealing that Evil Dead Rise, will feature a female heroine like the 2013 movie. What we’re doing now is we’re saying, ‘Look, this is another Evil Dead movie and that book gets around, a lot of people run into it

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Oct 24, 2020
Full Moon Kicks Off New Horror Line Of Collectibles

An Indepth Interview With Full Moon’s Owner Charles Band

When it comes to the horror genre, well any genre for that matter, you won’t find any filmmaker as prolific as Charles Band, owner of Full Moon Features. With over 333 titles under his belt (yes you read that right) the man is a legend! Behind movies like Castle Freak, and franchises like Puppet Master, Subspecies, and Demonic Toys, Band is busy with new projects like the Barbie and Kendra movie series filmed during the lockdown. I sat down to talk with Band, who is as nice a guy as you want to meet, to talk about Halloween, his past, his films, and the official Full Moon site where you can learn more about Charles and his projects, watch movies and find all sorts of goodies including a ton of awesome merchandise in the Full Moon store. Horror Fuel: “I need to confess, I’m a huge fan. I grew up on Full Moon and your movies. You’ve been involved with

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Oct 24, 2020
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Watch The Short Horror Thriller ‘What Have You Done’ At HorrorFuel.com

From New York-based writer-director Mike Palek comes the new short horror-thriller What Have You Done and we’ve got it right here for you to enjoy! Filmed in Brooklyn New York, this exciting film stars Jay Potter (FX’s “Rescue Me”) and Smitty Chai (NBC’s “Blindspot”). “The film is about what happens when a powerful man with a body in his trunk confronts his fixer about what to do. When the identity of the body is revealed, all hell breaks loose. The film examines the dark sides of powerful people in society, and the lengths they’ll go to keep those things secret; a timely piece in the shadow of a controversial election.” Check out What Have You Done and let us know what you think on Facebook or Twitter.

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Oct 23, 2020
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Get Your Massive ‘Haunt’ Collectors Edition Set Today!

Ronin Flix in partnership with Momentum Pictures is proud to add Haunt (2019) to its roster of fan favorites as its special third Blu-ray release, following a highly praised first release of Hardware. Available on Blu-ray for the first time, the Haunt commemorative 2 disc set will treat fans to the Original CD Soundtrack by Tomandandy, four 16” x 20” movie poster reproductions, a 16” x 20” reproduction of the Haunt map, six enamel pins featuring the eerie costume masks worn by the villains in the film, four 2” x 3 ½” replica VHS box-style magnets, and over 5 hours of special features including a NEW To Escape the Haunt: The Making of HAUNT featurette. A single-disc version will also be available. On Halloween, a group of friends encounters an “extreme” haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are very real. Directed by

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Oct 23, 2020

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Dark Sky Films Snags Award-Winning Horror Thriller ‘Caveat’

Dark Sky Films today announced that it has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Caveat, the acclaimed new suspense thriller from rising director Damian McCarthy. Dark Sky parent company MPI Media Group will be handling worldwide sales of the film and will bring it to the American Film Market in November. The film is set mainly in an isolated house on a remote island. When Isaac (Jonathan French, A Soldier’s Voice), a lone drifter with partial memory loss, accepts a job to look after his landlord’s niece Olga (Leila Sykes, Missing Something, Lancaster Skies) for a few days it all seems like easy money, but there is a caveat: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms. Once Olga’s uncle, Barrett (Ben Caplan, Call the Midwife, Band of Brothers), leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues as Olga displays ever worsening psychological issues. With Isaac trapped and

Continue reading →
Oct 28, 2020
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From The Director Of ‘Parasite’ Comes ‘Memories Of Murder’ This October

From the brilliant Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, who brought you Parasite, comes an original masterpiece, Memories of Murder, based on a shocking true story. The film, which was originally released seventeen years ago, tells a harrowing story about the hunt for a sadistic serial rapist and murderer terrorizing a small providence in 1980s South Korea. Marking the first of many successful collaborations between four-time Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho and star Song Kang Ho, the film follows the paths of three increasingly desperate detectives as they attempt to decipher the violent mind of a killer. Neon presents Memories of Murder debuting on digital platforms on October 27th.

Continue reading →
Oct 26, 2020
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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Minor Premise’ Takes You Inside A Disturbed Mind

This December, director Eric Schultz‘s sci-fi thriller Minor Premise will take viewers on a journey into the mind of a man facing off against his darker side. “Attempting to surpass his father’s legacy and pressured by an old colleague (Dana Ashbrook of “Twin Peaks”), a reclusive neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own risky experiment. Ethan (Sathya Sridharan) has now locked himself in his home with his ex-girlfriend Allie (Paton Ashbrook) and the two navigate trauma, ambition, and missteps of the past. Diving headfirst into the uncharted equations of the brain, they realize that there is more at stake than just their relationship or Ethan’s reputation. With time quickly running out, he is forced to face off against the darker sides of himself while frantically attempting to solve an enigma that lies within his subconscious. New York filmmaker Eric Schultz’s striking feature debut, after having co-produced such acclaimed works as James White, Katie Says Goodbye, and The Strange Ones, Minor Premise

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Oct 26, 2020
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This October Take A Terrifying Trip To ‘Lake Artifact’

This October, take a trip to the most terrifying place you’ve never heard of, Lake Artifact. In the film, “Five friends pick up a drifter on their way to a cabin in Upstate New York for a three day weekend. Upon arrival they discover a picture of themselves posing at the cabin, which they’ve never been to; Time and space begin to function without rhyme or reason, slowly turning them against each other.” “We were at an Airbnb and there were all these pictures hanging on the walls. We jokingly wondered ‘what if we saw ourselves in one of these photos’. After a few hours, the joke became more serious, and we started tossing around ideas about what that could mean if we really did discover that photo. Are we in a time loop? Are we dead? Do we have doppelgangers? The directions we could go were really exciting.” “I thought it would be interesting to try to combine my

Continue reading →
Oct 26, 2020
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Indie Horror ‘Teacher Shortage’ Will School You In A Lesson In Terror

Writer-director Troy Escamilla (Party Night) wants to teach you a new lesson in terror this October with his new indie horror Teacher Shortage. Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre, Slavegirls from Beyond Infinity), Debra Lamb (Beverly Hills Vamp, Tales from the Campfire 2) star in the film that pays homage to 80s slashers. “What is supposed to be an educational and collaborative weekend professional development session for the English Department of Prescott High School instead turns into a blood-soaked nightmare when a masked killer targets them.” Teacher Shortage is out on DVD on October 27th, 2020, from Bayview Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Oct 25, 2020
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Horror Documentary “Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors” Explores The 70s & 80s

Direct-to-video sequel Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors documentary on horror is this time focusing on the best of Grindhouse horror from the 1970s and 80s and it’s heading to the small screen this Halloween. Dustin Ferguson‘s (Direct To Video, Penny Pinchers, The Party’s Just Begun: The Legacy of Night of The Demons) documentary features interviews with genre icons Mel Novak (A Force of Darkness), John Dugan (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), Camilla Carr (Don’t Look In The Basement), Kevin Van Hentenryck (Basket Case), Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), John A. Russo (Midnight), Carl Crew (Blood Diner), Marneen Fields (Hellhole), Jonathan Peacy (I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu), Craig Reed (Ra-Animator), Frank Farel (Spookies), Craig Muckler (Microwave Massacre), and John Naulin who worked Special F/X on such classics as Halloween III: Season of The Witch, From Beyond and Re-Animator. Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors will be available on both VOD and DVD from SCS

Continue reading →
Oct 24, 2020
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New ‘Evil Dead 2’ Details Emerge

The next installment of the Evil Dead franchise is headed your way. Directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), however, the sequel will not star Bruce Campbell or be set in the infamous cabin, word is, it will be set in a high rise. “I’m confident I’m going to do something that’s both familiar and refreshing. I’m gonna deliver a rollercoaster of horror,” Lee Cronin recently told BD’s The Boo Crew Podcast. “That’s what the goal is here. Relentless. Not stopping to explain too much. It needs to be extremely visceral, highly entertaining, properly scary. To push boundaries, that’s important as well.” Talking with AL.com earlier this week, Bruce Campbell who is producing the film gave more details, revealing that Evil Dead Rise, will feature a female heroine like the 2013 movie. What we’re doing now is we’re saying, ‘Look, this is another Evil Dead movie and that book gets around, a lot of people run into it

Continue reading →
Oct 24, 2020
Full Moon Kicks Off New Horror Line Of Collectibles

An Indepth Interview With Full Moon’s Owner Charles Band

When it comes to the horror genre, well any genre for that matter, you won’t find any filmmaker as prolific as Charles Band, owner of Full Moon Features. With over 333 titles under his belt (yes you read that right) the man is a legend! Behind movies like Castle Freak, and franchises like Puppet Master, Subspecies, and Demonic Toys, Band is busy with new projects like the Barbie and Kendra movie series filmed during the lockdown. I sat down to talk with Band, who is as nice a guy as you want to meet, to talk about Halloween, his past, his films, and the official Full Moon site where you can learn more about Charles and his projects, watch movies and find all sorts of goodies including a ton of awesome merchandise in the Full Moon store. Horror Fuel: “I need to confess, I’m a huge fan. I grew up on Full Moon and your movies. You’ve been involved with

Continue reading →
Oct 24, 2020
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Watch The Short Horror Thriller ‘What Have You Done’ At HorrorFuel.com

From New York-based writer-director Mike Palek comes the new short horror-thriller What Have You Done and we’ve got it right here for you to enjoy! Filmed in Brooklyn New York, this exciting film stars Jay Potter (FX’s “Rescue Me”) and Smitty Chai (NBC’s “Blindspot”). “The film is about what happens when a powerful man with a body in his trunk confronts his fixer about what to do. When the identity of the body is revealed, all hell breaks loose. The film examines the dark sides of powerful people in society, and the lengths they’ll go to keep those things secret; a timely piece in the shadow of a controversial election.” Check out What Have You Done and let us know what you think on Facebook or Twitter.

Continue reading →
Oct 23, 2020
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Get Your Massive ‘Haunt’ Collectors Edition Set Today!

Ronin Flix in partnership with Momentum Pictures is proud to add Haunt (2019) to its roster of fan favorites as its special third Blu-ray release, following a highly praised first release of Hardware. Available on Blu-ray for the first time, the Haunt commemorative 2 disc set will treat fans to the Original CD Soundtrack by Tomandandy, four 16” x 20” movie poster reproductions, a 16” x 20” reproduction of the Haunt map, six enamel pins featuring the eerie costume masks worn by the villains in the film, four 2” x 3 ½” replica VHS box-style magnets, and over 5 hours of special features including a NEW To Escape the Haunt: The Making of HAUNT featurette. A single-disc version will also be available. On Halloween, a group of friends encounters an “extreme” haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are very real. Directed by

Continue reading →
Oct 23, 2020