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Cast Announced For 'Rambo: Last Blood' Director's Survival Thriller 'The Black Demon'

Cast Announced For ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Director’s Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’

The full cast has now been announced for prolific action director Adrian Grünberg’s (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) survival thriller The Black Demon. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario) join Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) Jorge A. Jimenez (Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, Netflix’s “Narcos”), Héctor Jiménez (Jared Hess’ Nacho Libre), Raúl Méndez (“Narcos”), Edgar Flores (Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre), Venus Ariel (Ava DuVernay’s upcoming “DMZ”) and Carlos Solórzano (Eva Longoria’s upcoming Flamin’ Hot). “We’re so happy with the cast that Adrian was able to unite around this film and cannot imagine a more talented group of actors to create a movie about this Mexican legend,” said producers Javier Chapa and Jon Silk. In the film, based on a Mexican legend, while on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 26, 2022
Chill Out And Watch The Sci-Fi Survival Thriller 'Arctic Void' Today

Chill Out And Watch The Sci-Fi Survival Thriller ‘Arctic Void’ Today

From Emmy-Award nominated director Darren Mann (This Cold Life) comes the sci-fi survival thriller Arctic Void, written by Michael Weaver (Diary of a Future President, Ouija: Origin of Evil). And it’s out today just in time for the weekend. In the film, “When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore and alone in the elements, the men deteriorate in body and mind with the clock now ticking on their survival. In the end, a dark truth emerges that forces them to ally or perish. Arctic Void is the story of childhood friends, Ray Marsh and Alan Meursault, in the far north to make an episode of their modestly popular travel and nature show, Vagabond. Since their regular cameraman fails to get a visa, they’re joined by local hire an ex-pat, Sean Tibbets. What starts as a once-in-a-lifetime day cruise quickly descends into madness as all but

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 14, 2022
In 'Last Survivors,' Alicia Silverstone & Drew Van Acker Struggle To Survive A Post-Apocalyptic World (Trailer)

In ‘Last Survivors,’ Alicia Silverstone & Drew Van Acker Struggle To Survive A Post-Apocalyptic World (Trailer)

A man fights to protect the life he has created with his son in a post-apocalyptic world, in the survival thriller Last Survivors, directed by Drew Mylrea. Written by Josh Janowicz, Last Survivors stars Drew Van Acker (“Titans”), Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”), and Benjamin Arthur (American Reunion). The film is set “in a post-apocalyptic world where Troy (Stephen Moyer) raised his now-grown son, Jake (Drew Van Acker), in a perfect wooded utopia thousands of miles away from the decayed cities. When Troy is severely wounded, Jake is forced to travel to the outside world to find life-saving medicine. Ordered to kill any humans he encounters, Jake defies his father by engaging in a forbidden relationship with a mysterious woman, Henrietta (Alicia Silverstone). As Jake continues this dangerous affair, Troy will do anything to get rid of Henrietta and protect the perfect utopia he created.” Last Survivors debuts in theaters and on February 4, 2022, and will be

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2022
Chill Out And Watch The Sci-Fi Survival Thriller 'Arctic Void' Today

Trailer Debuts For Emmy Nominated Director Darren Mann’s New Survival Thriller ‘Arctic Void’

From Emmy-Award nominated director Darren Mann (This Cold Life) comes the sci-fi survival thriller Arctic Void, written by Michael Weaver (Diary of a Future President, Ouija: Origin of Evil), and we’ve got the brand new chilling trailer. In the film, “When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore and alone in the elements, the men deteriorate in body and mind with the clock now ticking on their survival. In the end, a dark truth emerges that forces them to ally or perish. Arctic Void is the story of childhood friends, Ray Marsh and Alan Meursault, in the far north to make an episode of their modestly popular travel and nature show, Vagabond. Since their regular cameraman fails to get a visa, they’re joined by local hire an ex-pat, Sean Tibbets. What starts as a once-in-a-lifetime day cruise quickly descends into madness as all but the three

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 23, 2021
Red Band Trailer Teases The Horrors Of ‘Isolation’

Red Band Trailer Teases The Horrors Of ‘Isolation’

Eleven filmmakers have joined forces for Isolation. The new Red Band trailer has just arrived giving us a glimpse of the unnerving film comprised of nine tales of survival filmed during lockdown. As a narrative framework, Director and Producer, Nathan Crooker created a fictional world many months into the future that is based around the current global pandemic. All eleven filmmakers used the same unifying framework in creating their stories. The filmmakers were tasked with how to stay creative using only what was available to them at the time. They were not allowed to use Zoom or any other video conferencing services and were only allowed to use the equipment and resources they had with them when they entered into lockdown, including cast and crew, adhering to their respective COVID-19 protocols. The impressive list of directors also includes Dennie Gordon (Jack Ryan, Legion, Hunters, Waco), Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter, Habit, Depraved”), Bobby Roe, (The Houses October Built 1&2), Andrew

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
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Survival Thriller ‘The Pit’ Now On VOD

In the survivor thriller The Pit, while hiking in an isolated forest, survivalist Danny and his old Army buddy, Aaron become hopelessly trapped when they fall into a dark pit with steep walls and no way out. Over the next 50 days, these mild-mannered old friends turn into vicious animals willing to do whatever it takes to survive. Star Stacy Brown Jr. also wrote and directed the film, which examines the true animal instincts of man when all hope is lost. Jessica Parker, Donnell Bobo, Vinny Evans, Christian Chapa, Svetlana Dashevskaya, Allison Brown, Evette Young, Lady Gaines, and Bryan E. Godier also star. Steven Stafford serves as the producer on the film. The survival thriller The Pit is now out on VOD and is available on iTunes, Vudu, and Vimeo, from Midnight Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 8, 2021
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Casting For The Doomsday Thriller ‘X The End Time’ Continues To Be Announced

Sean GK, co-founder of NewWayFilm Studios in New York, and his NewWayFilm Studios team are currently in the pre-production stage of their action-packed survival story X The End Time. We’ve got the first trailer that reveals a world in chaos and a fight for survival. The doomsday thriller is written and produced by Sean GK. Maxx Oliver also produces. The film features cinematography by Erol Civan with music by Chance Wilder Onody. In the film, “Astrology specialist Lou Diot notices remarkable changes in the sky. Explosions on the surface of the sun and other stars have clearly increased. Believing that the end of the world is near, Lou wants to share this news with everyone, but no one will believe him. Even his neighbor AleXis and her friends think that he is just a madman who’s totally losing it. Convinced that he is right, Lou builds a shelter and starts preparing for the upcoming doomsday. When the chaos hits Earth,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2021
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‘Velocipastor’ Director Brendan Steere Is Back With Survival Horror ‘Animosity’

Wild Eye Releasing has unearthed Velocipastor director Brendan Steere’s first film, Animosity, starring Tracy Willet and Marcin Paluch as two newlyweds that discover a sinister presence in the woods. In this brutal flick, a newlywed couple moves into a house in the middle of woods only to discover that the surrounding forest is host to sinister supernatural powers which turn them against each other. Steere’s hilarious film, The Velocipastor, was also released by Wild Eye Releasing and was a feature-length adaptation of a 2010 grindhouse trailer by the same director, which was made as a film school project and went viral. A sequel is now in development. Animosity lands on Digital on July 20, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

The Hunters Become The Hunted In ‘Fear’ – Out Today On DVD And Digital

This June, the hunters get hunted in director Geoff Resiner‘s survival thriller Fear, coming to DVD and Digital. Set in the desolate regions of the Pacific Northwest, a young family faces a group of bandits who steal the last of their supplies; with time running out, they must form an alliance with the outlaws to protect their children from something far more dangerous. Marci Miller (Sinister Savior, Children of the Corn: Runaway), Jason Tobias (Downrange, The Competition), Justin Dray (Boost, Ad Astra), Danny Druiz (Mighty Oak), and Cece Kelly (Big Freaking Rat, Through the Glass Darkly, Nation’s Fire) star in the film. Fear is set to be unleashed on DVD and Digital on June 15, 2021, from New Era Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2021
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Filming Begins For ‘The Reef: Stalked’, The Sequel To ‘The Reef’

Production has begun on the survival thriller The Reef: Stalked, the sequel to 2010’s shark movie The Reef with writer-director and creature feature master Andrew Traucki returning. Starring Australian actors Teressa Liane (Neighbours, The Vampire Diaries), Ann Truong (Cowboy Bebop, Strike Back), Kate Lister (Unhinged, Fox Trap), and newcomer Saskia Archer, the story follows four girlfriends on a kayaking and diving adventure that goes horribly wrong, and draws on themes of resilience, healing from trauma and strength in sisterhood and female friendship. Filming is taking place in Bowen in The Whitsundays, the region off of Papua New Guinea with its gorgeous landscape and reefs serving as the backdrop for the character’s thrilling fight for survival against nature’s ultimate predator. Andrew Traucki said, “I’m thrilled The Reef: Stalked is in production and back to Bowen where we shot parts of The Reef eleven years ago! As a lover of survival tales, there is nothing I enjoy more than storytelling that pits

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 11, 2021

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Cast Announced For 'Rambo: Last Blood' Director's Survival Thriller 'The Black Demon'

Cast Announced For ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Director’s Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’

The full cast has now been announced for prolific action director Adrian Grünberg’s (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) survival thriller The Black Demon. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario) join Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) Jorge A. Jimenez (Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, Netflix’s “Narcos”), Héctor Jiménez (Jared Hess’ Nacho Libre), Raúl Méndez (“Narcos”), Edgar Flores (Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre), Venus Ariel (Ava DuVernay’s upcoming “DMZ”) and Carlos Solórzano (Eva Longoria’s upcoming Flamin’ Hot). “We’re so happy with the cast that Adrian was able to unite around this film and cannot imagine a more talented group of actors to create a movie about this Mexican legend,” said producers Javier Chapa and Jon Silk. In the film, based on a Mexican legend, while on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 26, 2022
Chill Out And Watch The Sci-Fi Survival Thriller 'Arctic Void' Today

Chill Out And Watch The Sci-Fi Survival Thriller ‘Arctic Void’ Today

From Emmy-Award nominated director Darren Mann (This Cold Life) comes the sci-fi survival thriller Arctic Void, written by Michael Weaver (Diary of a Future President, Ouija: Origin of Evil). And it’s out today just in time for the weekend. In the film, “When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore and alone in the elements, the men deteriorate in body and mind with the clock now ticking on their survival. In the end, a dark truth emerges that forces them to ally or perish. Arctic Void is the story of childhood friends, Ray Marsh and Alan Meursault, in the far north to make an episode of their modestly popular travel and nature show, Vagabond. Since their regular cameraman fails to get a visa, they’re joined by local hire an ex-pat, Sean Tibbets. What starts as a once-in-a-lifetime day cruise quickly descends into madness as all but

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 14, 2022
In 'Last Survivors,' Alicia Silverstone & Drew Van Acker Struggle To Survive A Post-Apocalyptic World (Trailer)

In ‘Last Survivors,’ Alicia Silverstone & Drew Van Acker Struggle To Survive A Post-Apocalyptic World (Trailer)

A man fights to protect the life he has created with his son in a post-apocalyptic world, in the survival thriller Last Survivors, directed by Drew Mylrea. Written by Josh Janowicz, Last Survivors stars Drew Van Acker (“Titans”), Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”), and Benjamin Arthur (American Reunion). The film is set “in a post-apocalyptic world where Troy (Stephen Moyer) raised his now-grown son, Jake (Drew Van Acker), in a perfect wooded utopia thousands of miles away from the decayed cities. When Troy is severely wounded, Jake is forced to travel to the outside world to find life-saving medicine. Ordered to kill any humans he encounters, Jake defies his father by engaging in a forbidden relationship with a mysterious woman, Henrietta (Alicia Silverstone). As Jake continues this dangerous affair, Troy will do anything to get rid of Henrietta and protect the perfect utopia he created.” Last Survivors debuts in theaters and on February 4, 2022, and will be

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2022
Chill Out And Watch The Sci-Fi Survival Thriller 'Arctic Void' Today

Trailer Debuts For Emmy Nominated Director Darren Mann’s New Survival Thriller ‘Arctic Void’

From Emmy-Award nominated director Darren Mann (This Cold Life) comes the sci-fi survival thriller Arctic Void, written by Michael Weaver (Diary of a Future President, Ouija: Origin of Evil), and we’ve got the brand new chilling trailer. In the film, “When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore and alone in the elements, the men deteriorate in body and mind with the clock now ticking on their survival. In the end, a dark truth emerges that forces them to ally or perish. Arctic Void is the story of childhood friends, Ray Marsh and Alan Meursault, in the far north to make an episode of their modestly popular travel and nature show, Vagabond. Since their regular cameraman fails to get a visa, they’re joined by local hire an ex-pat, Sean Tibbets. What starts as a once-in-a-lifetime day cruise quickly descends into madness as all but the three

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 23, 2021
Red Band Trailer Teases The Horrors Of ‘Isolation’

Red Band Trailer Teases The Horrors Of ‘Isolation’

Eleven filmmakers have joined forces for Isolation. The new Red Band trailer has just arrived giving us a glimpse of the unnerving film comprised of nine tales of survival filmed during lockdown. As a narrative framework, Director and Producer, Nathan Crooker created a fictional world many months into the future that is based around the current global pandemic. All eleven filmmakers used the same unifying framework in creating their stories. The filmmakers were tasked with how to stay creative using only what was available to them at the time. They were not allowed to use Zoom or any other video conferencing services and were only allowed to use the equipment and resources they had with them when they entered into lockdown, including cast and crew, adhering to their respective COVID-19 protocols. The impressive list of directors also includes Dennie Gordon (Jack Ryan, Legion, Hunters, Waco), Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter, Habit, Depraved”), Bobby Roe, (The Houses October Built 1&2), Andrew

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Horror Fuel

Survival Thriller ‘The Pit’ Now On VOD

In the survivor thriller The Pit, while hiking in an isolated forest, survivalist Danny and his old Army buddy, Aaron become hopelessly trapped when they fall into a dark pit with steep walls and no way out. Over the next 50 days, these mild-mannered old friends turn into vicious animals willing to do whatever it takes to survive. Star Stacy Brown Jr. also wrote and directed the film, which examines the true animal instincts of man when all hope is lost. Jessica Parker, Donnell Bobo, Vinny Evans, Christian Chapa, Svetlana Dashevskaya, Allison Brown, Evette Young, Lady Gaines, and Bryan E. Godier also star. Steven Stafford serves as the producer on the film. The survival thriller The Pit is now out on VOD and is available on iTunes, Vudu, and Vimeo, from Midnight Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 8, 2021
Horror Fuel

Casting For The Doomsday Thriller ‘X The End Time’ Continues To Be Announced

Sean GK, co-founder of NewWayFilm Studios in New York, and his NewWayFilm Studios team are currently in the pre-production stage of their action-packed survival story X The End Time. We’ve got the first trailer that reveals a world in chaos and a fight for survival. The doomsday thriller is written and produced by Sean GK. Maxx Oliver also produces. The film features cinematography by Erol Civan with music by Chance Wilder Onody. In the film, “Astrology specialist Lou Diot notices remarkable changes in the sky. Explosions on the surface of the sun and other stars have clearly increased. Believing that the end of the world is near, Lou wants to share this news with everyone, but no one will believe him. Even his neighbor AleXis and her friends think that he is just a madman who’s totally losing it. Convinced that he is right, Lou builds a shelter and starts preparing for the upcoming doomsday. When the chaos hits Earth,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Velocipastor’ Director Brendan Steere Is Back With Survival Horror ‘Animosity’

Wild Eye Releasing has unearthed Velocipastor director Brendan Steere’s first film, Animosity, starring Tracy Willet and Marcin Paluch as two newlyweds that discover a sinister presence in the woods. In this brutal flick, a newlywed couple moves into a house in the middle of woods only to discover that the surrounding forest is host to sinister supernatural powers which turn them against each other. Steere’s hilarious film, The Velocipastor, was also released by Wild Eye Releasing and was a feature-length adaptation of a 2010 grindhouse trailer by the same director, which was made as a film school project and went viral. A sequel is now in development. Animosity lands on Digital on July 20, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

The Hunters Become The Hunted In ‘Fear’ – Out Today On DVD And Digital

This June, the hunters get hunted in director Geoff Resiner‘s survival thriller Fear, coming to DVD and Digital. Set in the desolate regions of the Pacific Northwest, a young family faces a group of bandits who steal the last of their supplies; with time running out, they must form an alliance with the outlaws to protect their children from something far more dangerous. Marci Miller (Sinister Savior, Children of the Corn: Runaway), Jason Tobias (Downrange, The Competition), Justin Dray (Boost, Ad Astra), Danny Druiz (Mighty Oak), and Cece Kelly (Big Freaking Rat, Through the Glass Darkly, Nation’s Fire) star in the film. Fear is set to be unleashed on DVD and Digital on June 15, 2021, from New Era Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2021
Horror Fuel

Filming Begins For ‘The Reef: Stalked’, The Sequel To ‘The Reef’

Production has begun on the survival thriller The Reef: Stalked, the sequel to 2010’s shark movie The Reef with writer-director and creature feature master Andrew Traucki returning. Starring Australian actors Teressa Liane (Neighbours, The Vampire Diaries), Ann Truong (Cowboy Bebop, Strike Back), Kate Lister (Unhinged, Fox Trap), and newcomer Saskia Archer, the story follows four girlfriends on a kayaking and diving adventure that goes horribly wrong, and draws on themes of resilience, healing from trauma and strength in sisterhood and female friendship. Filming is taking place in Bowen in The Whitsundays, the region off of Papua New Guinea with its gorgeous landscape and reefs serving as the backdrop for the character’s thrilling fight for survival against nature’s ultimate predator. Andrew Traucki said, “I’m thrilled The Reef: Stalked is in production and back to Bowen where we shot parts of The Reef eleven years ago! As a lover of survival tales, there is nothing I enjoy more than storytelling that pits

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 11, 2021
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