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“Worldwide sales arthouse genre outfit Yellow Veil Pictures announces the launch of a new North American distribution arm. The company will continue to focus on boundary-pushing genre cinema and will inaugurate the new venture with Frida Kempff’s Sundance hit Knocking with a planned theatrical and digital release this fall,” we’ve learned via press release. “Knocking marks the feature debut for Kempff who, in 2010, saw her short Bathing Mickey take home the Prix du Jury at Cannes. The film stars Cecilia Milocco (Involuntary) as Molly, who after suffering a traumatic...

“Werewolves have guns… Get revenge?” This comical line marked the only words that the aspiring writer and werewolf fan could come up with in Josh Ruben’s feature debut, Scare Me. It seems kismet that Ruben’s follow-up, Werewolves Within, works as a spiritual progression of his debut, putting a werewolf at the center of a murder mystery that rocks a snowy little town during a raging winter storm. It’s a murder mystery whodunit based on the Ubisoft game, with guns, commentary, and many laughs. Forest ranger Finn Wheeler (Sam Richardson) embraces his...

Fans of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II will be able to watch *both* movies on the big screen next week, Paramount Pictures has announced this afternoon. “On Wednesday, June 23,, 2021, Paramount will be offering fans of A QUIET PLACE a one-night-only double feature, offering two movies for the price of one regular standard movie ticket. This Double Feature is a chance to relive the original film in select theatres and experience the latest installment, the critically-acclaimed box office hit A QUIET PLACE PART II, in conjunction with...

Sean King O’Grady‘s feature directorial debut works like Pandora’s box of horror. Tension already exists for the dysfunctional foursome trapped together within a cramped space, but endless complications douse that tension with gasoline. Hope dangles like a tiny beacon amidst the relentless wave of obstacles. We Need to Do Something asks its audience to use their imagination for much of the horrors that barrage its characters, as its story is told solely within the confines of a single room. The result is an unpredictable, mean little thriller steeped in ambiguous storytelling. Based on...

2018’s Halloween was undoubtedly a major success. While not everyone loved it, by any stretch, it was pretty well received, did very well at the box office, and more than anything, proudly exclaimed that the franchise was back after a nine-year absence. However, there was one element of the movie that both the people who loved it and the people who hated it seemed to be united in their distaste for, and that’s the whole arc surrounding Dr. Ranbir Sartain. It is impossible to bring up this movie without hearing...

That sneaky New Blood Interactive not only showcased some of its awesome games in a sizzle reel at the PC Gaming Show, it slipped a few unannounced ones in for good measure. In between footage of the likes of DUSK, Gloomwood, and Airdorf’s The Unholy Trinity, there were brief glimpses of five as yet unknown titles such as a creepy visual novel, a Carmageddon-style game, and an old-school cRPG. PC Gamer spoke with New Blood CEO Dave Oshry, who confirmed that there were indeed five very real new projects in...

Back in 2015, you may recall, a creep who called himself “The Watcher” forced a family to move out of their house in the wake of increasingly disturbing behavior towards them, and it didn’t take long for big names in Hollywood to compete for the film rights to the unsettling story. Netflix had acquired the rights back in 2018, with a feature film planned at the time. Those plans, however, have changed. Deadline reports that the story of “The Watcher” will now be told through a limited series, created by Ryan Murphy...

One of the many benefits of genre storytelling is the way horror evokes extreme empathy. Watching a character confront adversity in horror offers a uniquely communal experience that builds understanding that bridges all walks of life. Shapeless explores the all-consuming addictive behaviors of an eating disorder, using psychological body horror to convey the toll it can exact. While it favors drama over horror, this intimate character study delivers a haunting, straightforward downward spiral with no definitive answers. Kelly Murtagh co-wrote the script with Bryce Parsons-Twesten and stars as Ivy, an aspiring singer that spends...

One of the games revealed during Friday’s Summer Game Fest was Elseware Experience’s Broken Pieces, a psychological thriller that evokes some heavy Silent Hill vibes in its aesthetic. Given that you’re stuck in an seemingly abandoned French coastal village, solving puzzles and fighting off otherworldly monsters, you can see where a lot of people are drawing that conclusion. The story for Broken Pieces casts you as Elise, a woman in her thirties living with her fiancé in the village of Saint-Exil along the coast of France. Following an unexplained paranormal...

One of the many benefits of genre storytelling is the way horror evokes extreme empathy. Watching a character confront adversity in horror offers a uniquely communal experience that builds understanding that bridges all walks of life. Shapeless explores the all-consuming addictive behaviors of an eating disorder, using psychological body horror to convey the toll it can exact. While it favors drama over horror, this intimate character study delivers a haunting, straightforward downward spiral with no definitive answers. Kelly Murtagh co-wrote the script with Bryce Parsons-Twesten and stars as Ivy, an aspiring singer that spends...

Last year, developer rose-engine unveiled their pixel-based survival horror title Signalis, which seemed like a combo of survival horror and anime. The game’s back with a new trailer that kicked off the Tribeca Games Spotlight at E3, showing off more aesthetic goodies. It’s already been covered that the game takes inspiration from classic survival horror fare like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. But now rose-engine has added Alien: Isolation to the mix with some clunky-looking analogue display for the UI. Not to mention that the environment in the trailer harkens...

Saber Interactive’s action-strategy adaptation of World War Z is the latest title to get a current-gen upgrade, as well as a bevy of new content. Per IGN, World War Z: Aftermath will be hitting PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC later this year for $39.99 (existing WWZ owners can get it as a $19.99 upgrade), and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series owners in 2022. Aftermath contains everything from the Game of The Year Edition of World War Z, as well as new characters, a new melee...

The director of both The Collector and The Collection, as well as the upcoming (but currently stalled) The Collected, Marcus Dunstan has set up his next project, Deadline reports. Dunstan will be directing the high school horror movie Unhuman for Blumhouse and EPIX, part of the collaboration that will see Blumhouse make eight original movies for EPIX. Written by Paul Soter, “Unhuman follows a group of high school students whose school bus crashes while on a field trip. Relationships are tested amongst the students once they realize they are being...

Home invasion thrillers are inherently terrifying for corrupting the private space designated most for comfort and safety. The terror compounds when the home dweller can’t fight back easily; their vulnerability exacerbates the suspense tenfold—vulnerabilities like blindness. See for Me isn’t the first home invasion thriller to center around a blind character trying to evade the dangerous men that’d broken inside. But it does use the familiar setup to thwart expectations. Sophie (Skyler Davenport) was once a highly successful and renowned skier, but blindness seems to have cut her career short. The dashed...