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Religious Horror ‘A Banquet’ Conjures A February Release Date & Trailer

Award-winning Scottish director Ruth Paxton‘s religious horror, A Banquet, is due to be released this February. The new trailer teases a dark film filled with horror as we meet a mother and daughter experiencing trials and tribulations that will stay with them forever. In the film, “widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs. A Banquet, starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, and written by Justin Bull, is set to be released on February 18, 2022, on VOD and Digital, from IFC Midnight.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 6, 2022

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Supernatural Horror ‘Agnes’ Possesses A New Trailer Ahead Of Tribeca Premiere

Ahead of its premiere at Tribeca, writer-director Mickey Reece‘s supernatural horror film Agnes possesses a new trailer. Co-written by John Selvidge, the film centers on a nun whose disturbing behavior sparks rumors of demonic possession at a remote convent. When a priest-in-waiting and his disillusioned mentor are sent to investigate, their methods backfire, leaving a wake of terror and trauma. Molly Quinn, Jake Horowitz, Sean Gunn, Chris Browning, Ben Hall, Mary Buss, and Chris Sullivan star in Agnes, produced by Jensine Carr, Molly Quinn, Elan Gale, Jacob Snovel, and Matthew Welty, and executive produced by Molly Quinn, Elan Gale, Matthew Welty, Adam Hendricks, Greg Gilreath, and Zac Locke. While you wait for the film’s release date to be announced, be sure to check out our interview with director Mickey Reece who discusses Agnes as well as his other two recent films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 2, 2021

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New ‘On The 3rd Day’ Trailer Reveals A Mother’s Desperation To Find Her Son

Black Mandala presents the horror-thriller, On the 3rd Day, direct by Daniel de la Vega (White Coffin, Necrophobia) and produced by Del Toro Films (The Funeral Home, I am Toxic), starts a cast of renowned Argentine actors. We’ve got the new trailer revealing a mother desperate to find her son. Cecilia and her son embark on a journey. On the third day, she is found wandering alone, not remembering what happened during this time. She is desperately looking for her son and finds herself wrapped in a brutal hunt, carried out by a religious fanatic, whom she faces off against. To her, he’s a lunatic. To him, Cecilia is the enemy. Director Vega states that the film is “a terrifying story that grows both in suspense and strong emotions at all times … causing the truth of the film to be revealed in an absolutely unexpected climax, a climax that will be like a dagger to the heart of each

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 8, 2021

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Vertical Unleashes Two New Clips To Celebrate The Release Of Exorcism Horror ‘The Seventh Day’

Writer-director Justin P. Lange (The Dark) blurs the line between good and evil in the supernatural thriller The Seventh Day. Two new clips have been unveiled to celebrate the film’s release. Starring Guy Pearce, Vadhir Derbez, Stephen Lang, Brady Jenness, Robin Bartlett, and Keith David, the film centers on renowned “exorcist Father Peter (Guy Pearce) who teams up with a rookie apprentice for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.” In the first clip, titled Fr. Daniel’s Introduction, we meet a young priest and learn that the number of possessions is skyrocketing. In the second clip, The Story of Nicholas Miller, Father Peter tells the terrifying story of an exorcism gone wrong. Dallas Sonnier, Amanda Presmyk, Chelsea Davenport, and Kimberly Hwang produce The Seventh Day, now playing in select theaters and On Demand, from Vertical Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 26, 2021

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The New ‘The Vigil’ Trailer Urges You To “Look Behind You”

This February dare to witness The Vigil, writer-director Keith Thomas‘ fantastic, thrilling new supernatural horror, which delves into ancient Jewish lore and demonology. Ahead of its release we’ve got the band trailer and a new poster. Starring Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, and Lynn Cohen, the film is set over the course of a single evening in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood. Low on funds and having recently left his insular religious community, Yakov (Dave Davis) reluctantly accepts an offer from his former rabbi and confidante (Menashe Lustig) to take on the responsibility of an overnight “shomer,” fulfilling the Jewish practice of watching over the body of a deceased community member. Shortly after arriving at the recently departed’s dilapidated house to sit the vigil, Yakov begins to realize that something is very, very wrong. When I sat down to write the very first draft of THE VIGIL, I knew I wanted to tell a personal story that felt universal. The movie

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 11, 2021

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Movie Review: St. Agatha (2018)

It’s 1957, so the fact that Mary (Sabrina Kern) is unwed and pregnant (not to mention other secrets of her tawdry past) goes over like a fart in a submarine with society at large…leading to our heroine seeking refuge in a convent that takes in women finding themselves in such dire straits. Speaking of that convent; that structure is a Gothic abode that would give ol’ Edgar Allan Poe a solid case of gooseflesh…but as sinister a structure as that is, the woman lording over it, Mother Superior (Carolyn Hennesy) is terror on two legs that tolerates zero disobedience…and if she encounters it her punishment is swift and unbelievably brutal (think extreme bodily harm and vomit consumption). Will Mary be able to survive her stay within those wicked walls? Genre legend Darren Lynn Bousman (along with writers Andy Demetrio, Shaun Fletcher, Sara Sometti Michaels, and Clint Sears) have really outdid themselves with St. Agatha. From the poster image, and basic

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DanXIII

Feb 4, 2019

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