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The Staff Of HorrorFuel.com Pick The Top 10 Horror Movies Of 2020

Kelli’s Top 10 Picks 10: Girl Bella Thorne stars as a young woman seeking out the father that assaulted her mother when she was a kid. She’s learned that he’s threatening her mother and she’s begun a journey to put an end to it. But things may not be as they seem. When she arrives she discovers something disturbing and becomes the target of two brothers who desperately want the cash her father has hidden somewhere on his property. 9: The Wretched A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parents’ imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand-year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door. 8: The Dark And the Wicked On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family. 7: Ghosts of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 30, 2020
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‘Z’ Director Brandon Christenson Talks Terror & Imaginary Friends In Our Interview

One of the best indie horror films of 2020 is writer-director Brandon Christenson‘s Z which premiered on Shudder earlier this year. The film, which we scored as a 5 out of 5 in our review, is haunting and downright unnerving. Of course, when I had the opportunity to pick Christenson’s brain I couldn’t resist. The film, co-written by Colin Minihan, follows a family whose son has become dangerous. He blames everything on his invisible friend Z, but it doesn’t take long for Elizabeth, the mother (Keegan Connor Tracy), to come to the realization that Z may very well be real. Once she realizes that her son is being influenced by a dark entity she reaches out to a psychiatrist played by Stephen McHattie, leading it to be revealed that she’s faced the entity before. Christenson made waves in the genre before Z was released with his 2017 breakout film Still/Born which follows a new mother who lost one of her

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 30, 2020
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Shudder Is Now Available In Australia And New Zealand

AMC Networks’ Shudder—called the “gold standard” of targeted streaming services by ​The Guardian ​—is growing. They announced today that its premium subscription streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural is now available in Australia and New Zealand, expanding a global footprint that already encompasses the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. We’re thrilled to share our unrivaled collection of curated horror and supernatural movies and series with Australian and New Zealand audiences just in time for Halloween season, where we feature our biggest and best programming of the year,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “These new launches continue our growing international expansion and our commitment to offer premium genre entertainment to a global audience.” Shudder offers hundreds of hours of programming, including dozens of original and exclusive movies and original series like the breakout hits​ “Creepshow” ​and ​”Cursed Films“​ which have already been renewed for new seasons. Among the first titles released in Australia and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2020
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Blu-Ray Review: “Z” Scores A 5/5 !

I reviewed Shudder’s Z back in May, so of course, I was excited to get my hands on the Blu-ray a couple of days ago. As I sat down to watch it with a bag of popcorn, I couldn’t help but wonder if the movie would stand up to my original impression and the 5/5 score I gave it. I was wrong to even question it. It turns out, the Blu-ray is even better. The picture is crisp and the sound is great. The story itself is fresh, clever, and absolutely unnerving. A lot of people had an imaginary friend as a kid. Imagine if that friend came back when you were an adult and it is hell-bent on destroying your life by using your innocent child. That’s the premise of Z. The movie follows Elizabeth (Keegan Connor Tracy), a mother whose 8-year-old son has a new playmate, an invisible friend named Z. As her son’s behavior becomes more menacing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2020
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Shudder’s Hit Horror Film ‘Z’ Coming To Blu-Ray And DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Z, one of the best genre films of the year, from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural and will unleash it on home video this September. Directed by Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) who co-wrote the movie with Colin Minihan (What Keeps You Alive, Grave Encounters), the horror film stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Final Destination 2), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Sara Canning (War for the Planet of the Apes), Stephen McHattie (Watchmen), and Chandra West (White Noise). In the film, when Beth’s (Keegan Connor Tracy) son (Jett Klyne) brings home an imaginary friend named “Z,” she becomes concerned that he is falling too deep into a world of make-believe. He starts to display extremely destructive behavior, blaming Z for all of his actions. But after he gets kicked out of school, Beth is forced to find a solution. She

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 26, 2020
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Movie Review: ‘Z’ Is The Horror Movie Fans Deserve

Let’s face it when a movie gets a lot of hype ahead of its release we usually find ourselves left disappointed. That is not the case with writer-director Brandon Christenson and co-writer Colin Minihan’s spooky AF film Z. I was not prepared for this frightening flick. I was expecting a decent movie, but Z is so much more. I’ve been a horror fan for so long that I’ve become pretty jaded, but Z reminded me of why I fell in love with the horror genre in the first place. As horror fans, we are always in search of the next high, that moment when we feel like our heart will jump out of our chest, the times when we flinch in fear and are left with thoughts of a story swimming around in our heads. Z does that. The film follows a family whose son has become dangerous. He blames everything on his invisible friend Z, but it doesn’t take

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020
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This May, An Imaginary Friend Becomes A Supernatural Nightmare In Shudder’s ‘Z’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced that it has acquired all rights in its territories to Z, the latest horror film from Still/Born director Brandon Christensen. The film stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries), and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool). Z centers on Elizabeth, a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may be terrifyingly real. Brandon’s Still/Born was a tense, frightening film grounded in a tragic story that Shudder members quickly embraced and turned into a hit. We jumped at the chance to work with him again on Z, which were excited to debut next month,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. When Still/Born premiered on Shudder on Mother’s Day in 2018, it was clear that they understood what the film was going for and allowed it to shine,” said Christensen. “With Z, we once

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 24, 2020
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Shudder Announces Premiere Date For Imaginary Friend Horror ‘Z’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has acquired all rights in its territories to Z, the latest horror film from Still/Born director Brandon Christensen. The film, which stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), is the story of Elizabeth, a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may actually be terrifyingly real. Brandon’s Still/Born was a tense, frightening film grounded in a tragic story that Shudder members quickly embraced and turned into a hit. We jumped at the chance to work with him again on Z, which were excited to debut next month,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. Z was written by Christensen and Colin Minihan and is produced by Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder, Christensen and Minihan. The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto on behalf of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 17, 2020
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An Invisible Friend Terrorizes A Family In The International Trailer For ‘Z

The international trailer for Z is terrorized by an invisible friend. This terrifying flick was directed by Brandon Christensen, who co-wrote the film with producer Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters). The two also teamed up to bring us Still/Born. Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters) and Jett Klyne (Sky Scraper) star in the film that centers on a family terrorized by their eight-year-old’s imaginary friend. Z made its world premiere at the Popcorn Film Festival on August 11, 2019. We are still waiting for the release date to be announced.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 25, 2020
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Two New Images Tease A Family’s Terror In ‘Z’

Two new images have surfaced teasing the terror that awaits in director Brandon Christensen‘s Z, written by Christensen and Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters) who also teamed up for Still/Born. Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters) and Jett Klyne (Sky Scraper) star in the film that centers on a family terrorized by their eight-year-old’s imaginary friend. Z will screen at the Popcorn Film Festival on August 11th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 9, 2019

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The Staff Of HorrorFuel.com Pick The Top 10 Horror Movies Of 2020

Kelli’s Top 10 Picks 10: Girl Bella Thorne stars as a young woman seeking out the father that assaulted her mother when she was a kid. She’s learned that he’s threatening her mother and she’s begun a journey to put an end to it. But things may not be as they seem. When she arrives she discovers something disturbing and becomes the target of two brothers who desperately want the cash her father has hidden somewhere on his property. 9: The Wretched A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parents’ imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand-year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door. 8: The Dark And the Wicked On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family. 7: Ghosts of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 30, 2020
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‘Z’ Director Brandon Christenson Talks Terror & Imaginary Friends In Our Interview

One of the best indie horror films of 2020 is writer-director Brandon Christenson‘s Z which premiered on Shudder earlier this year. The film, which we scored as a 5 out of 5 in our review, is haunting and downright unnerving. Of course, when I had the opportunity to pick Christenson’s brain I couldn’t resist. The film, co-written by Colin Minihan, follows a family whose son has become dangerous. He blames everything on his invisible friend Z, but it doesn’t take long for Elizabeth, the mother (Keegan Connor Tracy), to come to the realization that Z may very well be real. Once she realizes that her son is being influenced by a dark entity she reaches out to a psychiatrist played by Stephen McHattie, leading it to be revealed that she’s faced the entity before. Christenson made waves in the genre before Z was released with his 2017 breakout film Still/Born which follows a new mother who lost one of her

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 30, 2020
Horror Fuel

Shudder Is Now Available In Australia And New Zealand

AMC Networks’ Shudder—called the “gold standard” of targeted streaming services by ​The Guardian ​—is growing. They announced today that its premium subscription streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural is now available in Australia and New Zealand, expanding a global footprint that already encompasses the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. We’re thrilled to share our unrivaled collection of curated horror and supernatural movies and series with Australian and New Zealand audiences just in time for Halloween season, where we feature our biggest and best programming of the year,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “These new launches continue our growing international expansion and our commitment to offer premium genre entertainment to a global audience.” Shudder offers hundreds of hours of programming, including dozens of original and exclusive movies and original series like the breakout hits​ “Creepshow” ​and ​”Cursed Films“​ which have already been renewed for new seasons. Among the first titles released in Australia and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2020
Horror Fuel

Blu-Ray Review: “Z” Scores A 5/5 !

I reviewed Shudder’s Z back in May, so of course, I was excited to get my hands on the Blu-ray a couple of days ago. As I sat down to watch it with a bag of popcorn, I couldn’t help but wonder if the movie would stand up to my original impression and the 5/5 score I gave it. I was wrong to even question it. It turns out, the Blu-ray is even better. The picture is crisp and the sound is great. The story itself is fresh, clever, and absolutely unnerving. A lot of people had an imaginary friend as a kid. Imagine if that friend came back when you were an adult and it is hell-bent on destroying your life by using your innocent child. That’s the premise of Z. The movie follows Elizabeth (Keegan Connor Tracy), a mother whose 8-year-old son has a new playmate, an invisible friend named Z. As her son’s behavior becomes more menacing

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2020
Horror Fuel

Shudder’s Hit Horror Film ‘Z’ Coming To Blu-Ray And DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Z, one of the best genre films of the year, from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural and will unleash it on home video this September. Directed by Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) who co-wrote the movie with Colin Minihan (What Keeps You Alive, Grave Encounters), the horror film stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Final Destination 2), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Sara Canning (War for the Planet of the Apes), Stephen McHattie (Watchmen), and Chandra West (White Noise). In the film, when Beth’s (Keegan Connor Tracy) son (Jett Klyne) brings home an imaginary friend named “Z,” she becomes concerned that he is falling too deep into a world of make-believe. He starts to display extremely destructive behavior, blaming Z for all of his actions. But after he gets kicked out of school, Beth is forced to find a solution. She

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 26, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: ‘Z’ Is The Horror Movie Fans Deserve

Let’s face it when a movie gets a lot of hype ahead of its release we usually find ourselves left disappointed. That is not the case with writer-director Brandon Christenson and co-writer Colin Minihan’s spooky AF film Z. I was not prepared for this frightening flick. I was expecting a decent movie, but Z is so much more. I’ve been a horror fan for so long that I’ve become pretty jaded, but Z reminded me of why I fell in love with the horror genre in the first place. As horror fans, we are always in search of the next high, that moment when we feel like our heart will jump out of our chest, the times when we flinch in fear and are left with thoughts of a story swimming around in our heads. Z does that. The film follows a family whose son has become dangerous. He blames everything on his invisible friend Z, but it doesn’t take

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020
Horror Fuel

This May, An Imaginary Friend Becomes A Supernatural Nightmare In Shudder’s ‘Z’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced that it has acquired all rights in its territories to Z, the latest horror film from Still/Born director Brandon Christensen. The film stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries), and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool). Z centers on Elizabeth, a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may be terrifyingly real. Brandon’s Still/Born was a tense, frightening film grounded in a tragic story that Shudder members quickly embraced and turned into a hit. We jumped at the chance to work with him again on Z, which were excited to debut next month,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. When Still/Born premiered on Shudder on Mother’s Day in 2018, it was clear that they understood what the film was going for and allowed it to shine,” said Christensen. “With Z, we once

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 24, 2020
Horror Fuel

Shudder Announces Premiere Date For Imaginary Friend Horror ‘Z’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has acquired all rights in its territories to Z, the latest horror film from Still/Born director Brandon Christensen. The film, which stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), is the story of Elizabeth, a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may actually be terrifyingly real. Brandon’s Still/Born was a tense, frightening film grounded in a tragic story that Shudder members quickly embraced and turned into a hit. We jumped at the chance to work with him again on Z, which were excited to debut next month,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. Z was written by Christensen and Colin Minihan and is produced by Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder, Christensen and Minihan. The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto on behalf of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

An Invisible Friend Terrorizes A Family In The International Trailer For ‘Z

The international trailer for Z is terrorized by an invisible friend. This terrifying flick was directed by Brandon Christensen, who co-wrote the film with producer Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters). The two also teamed up to bring us Still/Born. Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters) and Jett Klyne (Sky Scraper) star in the film that centers on a family terrorized by their eight-year-old’s imaginary friend. Z made its world premiere at the Popcorn Film Festival on August 11, 2019. We are still waiting for the release date to be announced.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 25, 2020
Horror Fuel

Two New Images Tease A Family’s Terror In ‘Z’

Two new images have surfaced teasing the terror that awaits in director Brandon Christensen‘s Z, written by Christensen and Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters) who also teamed up for Still/Born. Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters) and Jett Klyne (Sky Scraper) star in the film that centers on a family terrorized by their eight-year-old’s imaginary friend. Z will screen at the Popcorn Film Festival on August 11th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 9, 2019
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