Category: Film
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Independent production house Bankhead Productions have announced a digital release date for the supernatural action-horror thriller The Town That Takes. Directed by Britt Bankhead from a script co-written with Jonathan Blaze, the film marks Bankhead’s directorial debut following its limited theatrical run earlier this summer. The narrative follows Dean Richardson, a troubled Army veteran who…
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Catherine Ashmore Bradley (The Really Loud House) and Cameron Crovetti (The Boys) are set to lead DollKeeper, a new psychological horror film written and directed by Jay Henric. Production is expected to begin in the coming weeks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Bradley will play Sara, a teenage girl who finds herself confronting a terrifying figure…
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There’s something about folk horror that works particularly well when it gets its hands dirty. Give me a miserable village, a population convinced that God is keeping score, and a forest that might be hiding something far worse than the people living outside it. Especially one that feels like a black metal album brought to…
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Straight off the bat, I’m gonna tell you, I absolutely fucking adore this film. I can’t quite put my finger on why I love it so much, other than it’s a fantastic piece of work, without giving away so much of what makes Split Rock one of the most suffocating films set in vast wide…
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Nicky Murphy’s vampire mockumentary I Love Paris has won the Golden Monster for Best Feature Film at Melbourne’s Monster Fest following its Australian premiere. It’s the latest award in a busy festival run for the blood-soaked dark comedy. Since its July debut at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, where it took the Gold Audience Award,…
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Shudder has snapped up the rights to Split Rock, the second supernatural horror feature from director Ryan Glover (The Strings), securing distribution across North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Shot on 16mm, the film stars Clark Backo and Drew Ray Tanner as a pair of geologists who head into the badlands to…
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American indie maverick Henry Jaglom spent much of his career making films that thumbed their noses at Hollywood’s studio system. Now his 1980 mob-robbing road comedy Sitting Ducks is receiving the 4K coat of paint it probably doesn’t deserve, but is getting anyway. The plot is standard pulp absurdity: two small-time crooks steal a limousine…
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Epic Pictures imprint Dread have announced October release dates for Devour, a new supernatural horror film from Bad Candy director Scott B. Hansen. The film follows an all-girl heavy metal band , featuring KateLynn E. Newberry and Butcher Babies vocalist Heidi Shepherd, who find themselves stranded after a disastrous gig. When they try to help…
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Writer and director Andrés Beltrán (Quicksand, Tarumama) is bringing his new psychological horror Postmortem to Screamfest LA, where the film will make its World Premiere on October 10. Odette Annable (Cloverfield) leads the cast as Helena Martinez, a grieving medical examiner running a small-town morgue on the California–Mexico border while quietly falling apart six months…
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Severin Films have just announced what looks set to be one of the most ridiculously ambitious physical media releases ever put together. Titled Morbid Pleasures, this mammoth 12-disc Blu-ray set attempts to chart the evolution of macabre entertainment from the literal birth of cinema right through to modern splatter, packing in more than 80 hours…