Tag: Horror
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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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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…
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If you have an interest in Cult Cinema, then you know who Charles Band is. If you don’t, I highly recommend you go do some research before reading any further. And if you don’t know who Charles Band is while claiming to love Cult Cinema, hand in your membership card on your way out. Charles…
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A mysterious chunk of magnetic stone buried in the badlands, a couple of geologists, and an ancient consciousness looking for a way out. Yeah, Split Rock has my attention. The new supernatural horror feature comes from writer/director Ryan Glover and stars Clark Backo (The Changeling, Venom: The Last Dance), Drew Ray Tanner (Riverdale), Olivia Luccardi…
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Director Ron Krauss is bringing his new psychological thriller Wounds to Screamfest LA for its World Premiere on October 8, starring Jack Kilmer and Paris Jackson alongside the ever-present Eric Roberts. Shot on 35mm film, the movie is being billed as a throwback to classic practical-effects horror. Kilmer plays Caleb Castle, a horror-obsessed makeup artist…