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Occult Horror ‘The Wretched’ To Be Unleashed By IFC Midnight

Following its world premiere at the Fantasia film festival, IFC Midnight has acquired the North American rights to The Wretched, Deadline is reporting. The occult horror film from writer-directors Brett and Drew Pierce (Deadheads) follows a defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent’s imminent divorce, who faces off with a thousand-year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of the woman next door. Starring John-Paul Howard (“Hell or High Water”), Piper Curda (I Didn’t Do It), Azie Tesfai (“Supergirl”), and Kevin Bigley (Netflix’s “Upload”) the film has been described as “a dead serious new spin on witchcraft cinema, with a fresh set of rules, likeable and developed teen characters, a ton of surprising scares, and a cauldron of imaginatively gruesome special makeup effects.” The Wretched is set to be released in 2020. Check out the creepy trailer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2019
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Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival Offers Witches, Werewolves, and Weirdness

The 2019 edition of Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival is chock full of outstanding, outrageous horror features and shorts from around the world. The fest is scheduled for November 13–17 at 7 Stages Theatre. Following are the features that I am most looking forward to seeing, either for the first time or once again. My thoughts in italics follow the fest’s official descriptions for each film. Antrum: The Deadliest Movie Ever Made Dir. Michael Laicini and David Amito – USA – 95min Antrum, a feature length film shot in the late 1970’s, is cursed. In 1988, a movie theatre in Budapest that was screening the film burnt to the ground, killing the 56 people who were in attendance. This incident follows the inexplicable deaths of a number of film festival programmers that had received Antrum as a submission and died shortly after watching the film. These events culminated with a riot during an exhibition in San Francisco, after which the

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Joseph Perry
Nov 8, 2019

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Occult Horror ‘The Wretched’ To Be Unleashed By IFC Midnight

Following its world premiere at the Fantasia film festival, IFC Midnight has acquired the North American rights to The Wretched, Deadline is reporting. The occult horror film from writer-directors Brett and Drew Pierce (Deadheads) follows a defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent’s imminent divorce, who faces off with a thousand-year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of the woman next door. Starring John-Paul Howard (“Hell or High Water”), Piper Curda (I Didn’t Do It), Azie Tesfai (“Supergirl”), and Kevin Bigley (Netflix’s “Upload”) the film has been described as “a dead serious new spin on witchcraft cinema, with a fresh set of rules, likeable and developed teen characters, a ton of surprising scares, and a cauldron of imaginatively gruesome special makeup effects.” The Wretched is set to be released in 2020. Check out the creepy trailer.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2019
Horror Fuel

Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival Offers Witches, Werewolves, and Weirdness

The 2019 edition of Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival is chock full of outstanding, outrageous horror features and shorts from around the world. The fest is scheduled for November 13–17 at 7 Stages Theatre. Following are the features that I am most looking forward to seeing, either for the first time or once again. My thoughts in italics follow the fest’s official descriptions for each film. Antrum: The Deadliest Movie Ever Made Dir. Michael Laicini and David Amito – USA – 95min Antrum, a feature length film shot in the late 1970’s, is cursed. In 1988, a movie theatre in Budapest that was screening the film burnt to the ground, killing the 56 people who were in attendance. This incident follows the inexplicable deaths of a number of film festival programmers that had received Antrum as a submission and died shortly after watching the film. These events culminated with a riot during an exhibition in San Francisco, after which the

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Joseph Perry
Nov 8, 2019