Genre film maker Rene Perez (Death Kiss, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood)  has spent lockdown working on a ninja fan film based on the G.I Joe Character, Snake Eyes. Starring Beauty Queen Miss Nevada 2020 Victoria Olona as Snake Eyes’ wife and Seventh degree black belt martial artist Juan Manuel Olmedo as the title character,…

  A pulse-pounding love letter to 1950s creature features that delivers horror and humour in equal measure, Tremors is a bonafide cult classic that has grabbed audiences’ affections ever since its release and spawned a successful franchise that continues to this day. Good-ol’-boy handymen Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) are sick of their…

  Kamikaze Dogfight in partnership with Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has announced the Digital HD and Cable VOD launch of Rony Patel’s debut slasher Chop Chop.  An ordinary pizza delivery leads to a night of chaos when a murderous psychopath targets a young couple who might be harboring a secret of their own.  Chop Chop will be available to…

This All Hallows Eve Mistress Morphine, the vampire / nurse / dominatrix (she’s a triple threat, literally!) and hostess of the Sci-Fi & Horror Webcomic Anthology Adrenaline Shots invites YOU into the hallowed halls of Morphine Manor. Hold on to your hat and other parts as Morphine presents one of the most unconventional art classes…

All bets are off as acting veteran Tsai Chin (The Joy-Luck Club, Memoirs of a Geisha) swindles a ruthless gang in wildly chaotic crime-ridden comedy Lucky Grandma. Fast-paced and full of heart, laughs and wicked black humour set in the belly of New York’s Chinatown, Lucky Grandma tells the story of a cardigan clad, chain-smoking Chinese grandma who,…

Written & Directed by: Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination) Starring:  Kourtney Bell, Bryan Batt, Will Stout, Skyler Hart, Jeremy Holm, Jaqueline Fleming, Amanda Grace Benitez, Damon Lipari, Han Soto, Dean J. West  and Stephen Twardokus Caitlin Kramer, a woman overcoming a tragic past, is among several people who see a man being fatally assaulted. When the witnesses start dying…

Though Greg Nicotero and his team are hard at work shooting season 2 (coming in 2021), they’ve crafted a fully animated Creepshow special for us just in time for Halloween, featuring two tales to die for: “Survivor Type,” based on the short story by Stephen King and adapted by Nicotero, stars Kiefer Sutherland (24, Designated Survivor) as a man determined…

Liverpool Film Festival is excited to announce the official selection for the 2020 event taking place 23rd-25th October Due to the current situation surrounding COVID-19 for the first time LIVIFF will be a hybrid event, with some screenings taking place at the Odeon, Liverpool One and a selection screening online. The line-up of films is…

Animal lovers rejoice as the Cat Film Festival and Dog Film Festival come to your lounge room this September! Presented by Tracie Hotchner & the Radio Pet Lady Network, this collection of short films –  which premiered  theatrically – is now available on Tubi and Amazon from Dark Star Pictures. The annual Cat Film Festival…

Inspired by true events, COUNTY LINES is the highly acclaimed and hugely topical feature from writer and director Henry Blake. The film is a vivid and moving coming-of-age film about a struggling mum (Ashley Madekwe) and her 14-year-old son Tyler (Conrad Khan) who is groomed and recruited by Simon (Harris Dickinson) into a lethal drug-selling network…

  Bogus tarot card reader Ivy (Toby Poser) and her teenage daughter Echo (Zelda Adams) are an unconventional but loving mother/daughter team. But when reclusive Kurt (John Adams) moves in down the road, a tragic accident results in Echo’s murder, causing three lives to collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt believes he can hide…

It’s been 10 years since the creation of the Great Truce, an elaborate joint-species surveillance system designed and monitored by cats and dogs to keep the peace when conflicts arise. But when a tech-savvy villain hacks into wireless networks to use frequencies only heard by cats and dogs, he manipulates them into conflict, and the…

When Jerry Harford who discovers what he believes to be his wife having an affair, his best friend urges him to fight fire with fire, with horrific results. Harford begins a nightmarish trip down a surreal rabbit hole that gives Fatal Attraction a dark spin. The script has been adapted by Mark Steensland and James Newman from their novella…

 A new gaming app Werewolves Awaken is being launched at a VIP event hosted by an eccentric billionaire at his country estate. Beast Within tells the story about a lead gaming developer, August (Steven Morana), who is looking forward to finally meeting his online girlfriend, Cheyenne (Holly Deveaux), at a launch party of the gaming…

Featuring an all-star cast, headed up by Esai Morales and Mariel Hemingway, the very timely new film from filmmakers Zachary Colter and Magdalena Zyzak, The Wall of Mexico has been acquired by Dark Star Pictures for a theatrical and digital release this fall. Don, a young handyman, is hired by the Aristas, a wealthy Mexican-American family with…

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, today announced the start of production on the highly-anticipated second season of its hit series Creepshow in Atlanta, Georgia. The anthology series, which shattered all Shudder records when it debuted last October, is executive produced by showrunner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead) and based on…

FrightFest co-director Alan Jones commented: ”Ask any die-hard FrightFester what their favourite ever Closing Night film was and they will say the fabulous TRAIN TO BUSAN. The continuous standing ovations, cheers and applause engendered by our sell-out screenings of that instant genre classic has become the stuff of FrightFest legend. So we are delighted STUDIOCANAL…

Inspired by incredible true stories, A Call to Spy is the award-winning account of the personal sacrifices of the courageous women who put their lives on the line to fight for freedom during World War II. At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), to…

  September 7th 2020   Two peerless masters of Japanese cinema – Kinji Fukasaku (Battles without Honor and Humanity, Battle Royale) and Takashi Miike (Dead or Alive, Audition) – present their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita’s gangster novel Graveyard of Honor, each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period of Japanese…

When celebrated playwright Eugene O’Neill cast Charles Gilpin as the lead in his new play “The Emperor Jones” in 1920, Broadway was changed forever. Vision Films and Egeli Productions are proud to present the incredible story of Charles Gilpin in The Black Emperor of Broadway. Directed by Arthur Egeli (Murder on the Cape) and starring  Shaun Parkes (Lost…

Ladj Ly’s explosive directorial debut Les Misérables will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 4 September.  The film premiered in competition to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival winning the Jury Prize and has been nominated for a variety of awards including a Golden Globe and an Academy Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.…

Stand-up comedy can be a cut-throat business, but in Sam Coex’s world, it’s downright murder… From the annals of bizarre cinema comes perhaps the most bizarre one of them all – 1985’s The Comic! In a dystopian police state reality of indeterminate time and place, orange bouffant-haired comedian Sam Coex is eager for his big…

After the death of their adoptive Polish mother,Norman a timid butcher (played by Jordan Waller) and Annabelle his drama queen twin sister (played by Kathryn Wilder) leave their grim and bleak lives in the UK and take an adventure into the Australian outback in search of their biological mother. But the seemingly tolerant townsfolk of…

Filmmaker Kemal Yildirim has added the wonderful Helene Udy (My Bloody Valentine, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman) to the cast of his up and coming film ‘The Haunting of the Lady-Jane’. Helene will be playing the dual roles of RÀN and Lysette Monk. RÀN, a water spirit of Norse-Germanic lore, collects…

From the creators of the award winning ‘His Hands’ comes I Am Norman, Starring Arron Blake. Whilst not much is known about the film at present, Arron and Darius are a great team and won tons of critical praise and awards with ‘His Hands’  I cant wait to see what I Am Norman has in…

Heralded as the greatest film ever made on release, winning an Oscar in 1949 and topping the Sight & Sound film poll in 1952, Vittoria De Sica’s seminal work of Italian neorealism has had an impact on cinema worldwide from release to the present day, with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray and Ken Loach claiming…

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group…

From writer/director Jess Norvisgaard, and featuring a who’s who of horror, witness THE GOOD THINGS DEVILS DO this August from Gravitas Ventures. Linnea Quigley (Silent Night, Deadly Night), Kane Hodder (Jason X) and Bill Oberst Jr (3 From hell) realize that breaking in was easy but breaking out is going to be hell. Richard, a small-time gangster is retiring. Before he can,…

Available now on the Arrow Video Channel Horror maestro Dario Argento’s deliciously nasty 1982 giallo horror, with a razor-wielding psycho stalking a bestselling horror novelist in Rome, is erotically-charged, gruesome and graphic, and, with a groovy Goblin score to boot, is one of the director’s best. You can see it on the Arrow Video Channel…

The world looks on with baited breath as Russia announced this week that a vaccine developed to combat the Covid-19 virus is ready for use – despite only two months testing on humans. The announcement has echoes of the 1950s Space Race during the Cold War – when the USSR launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1,…

From Freedom Cinema, and director James Di Martino, comes face to face with The Faceless Man this summer. Premiering on Demand August 28, the Australian horror film took home 6 major awards at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival including Best Director and Best Film. Emily is a recovering cancer survivor of three years. Faced with her fear…

Philip “HAWK” Hawkins doesn’t just dream about killing vampires… He eats, sleeps, drinks and freakin’ breaths it. After getting kicked out of the Army for staking a fellow soldier with a blunt two by four, Hawk almost dies of boredom working as a night security guard at a deserted warehouse in his hometown of Santa…

An unapologetic look at race, class and polarized politics manifest themselves in unexpected and very messy ways in director Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and Sam B. Jones’ Red White & Wasted, coming this September from Dark Star Pictures. Red White & Wasted follows a family of mudding enthusiasts as the last mudhole in Orlando, Florida goes up in…

The powerful, timely thriller WATCH LIST, from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment, arrives in virtual theaters August 21 before an On Demand release September 1. WATCH LIST is set against the drug wars in the Philippines. After her husband is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Maria is left to fend for her three children in a police state. As…

Howard J Ford’s latest feature film is THE LOCKDOWN HAUNTINGS, a supernatural serial killer movie. The award-winning director behind The Dead, The Dead 2 India, and Never Let Go, revealed that plans are underway to release the film, which was shot entirely in lockdown without a crew, exactly one year after the UK lockdown was called (March 16) which is…

We last saw you at FrightFest with FROM A HOUSE ON WILLLOW STREET, how’s life been treating you since that time? It’s been great. I got married, had a kid, got into massive amounts of debt with Bitcoin – I’ve made a lot of great life decisions since FrightFest 2016. How did David D. Jones’…

Summer will be bidding us farewell but Arrow Video and Arrow Academy keep things sizzling in September, with the release of the greatest work and autobiography of a French cinema pioneer, a glorious 4K ULTRA HD debut of a beloved Oscar-winning masterpiece about the beauty of cinema, and a pair of blood-splattered Yakuza classics. This outstanding selection of films include pristine restorations, hours…

The films may be short, but there is no shortage of scares as Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 showcases the best new short films from the UK and around the world, with six countries representing three continents. From under-the-bed monsters to monsters in front of your eyes, from the sinister and the creepy to the wickedly…