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…

Genre veteran Tyler Savage (Inheritance) has announced the world premiere of his latest feature, Blinders, at Arrow Video FrightFest Digital Edition 2020.  The increasingly creepy film follows a lonely transplant to the City of Angels who forms a dangerous friendship with a rideshare driver.  Blinders will world premiere during FrightFest at FrightFest Digital on August 31st. Vincent Van…

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY NATALIE ERIKA JAMES ‘Striking, enigmatic, mournful and deeply creepy…horror has its 2020 tidemark set high’ VARIETY ‘With a chillingly effective premise and strong central performances, Relic follows in the footsteps of The Babadook. Horror fans will be watching Natalie Erika James future career with interest’ SCREEN INTERNATIONAL ‘An incredible achievement and…

While many of the big Hollywood film sets have shut down due to the covid-19 restrictions, one plucky little team from Melbourne, Australia is forging full steam ahead. David Black and Gerardo Chierchia have been working hard on their brand-new feature film — “Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space.” Black said, “There have been a few features…

Widow’s Point, Gregory Lamberson’s highly-anticipated, award-winning adaptation of the book of the same name, premieres on DVD and Digital in the USA and Canada September 1 via 101 Films. Craig Sheffer (A River Runs Through It, Nightbreed) leads the cast of the film, alongside KateLynn E. Newberry (Homecoming Revenge). Widow’s Point follows a writer who…

THE VIGIL is set over the course of a long, dark night in Brooklyn’s Hassidic “Boro” Park neighbourhood, following Yakov (Dave Davis, True Detective), a former Hassid, who has lost his faith, and isn’t eager to go back to the insular religious community he only recently fled. But when Reb Shulem (Menashe Lustig), a rabbi and confidante,…

Starring  Kayla Andrews, Adam Berardi and Melaney Cook Directed by Clay Moffatt Two college students find evidence connecting a story they are investigating for film class to a series of deaths. Things begin to spiral out of control when an unknown force watching them becomes more violent and bloodthirsty.  

From writer and director Amy Seimetz (Stranger Things, Pet Sematary), She Dies Tomorrow is a hallucinatory, neon-soaked nightmare about the end of the world. After waking up convinced that she is going to die tomorrow, Amy’s (Kate Lyn Sheil, You’re Next) carefully mended life begins to unravel. Following a visit from her initially pragmatic friend Jane (Jane Adams, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), it becomes…

Now available On Demand, and coming soon to DVD (pre-order the DVD from Target), The Tent is the latest film from award-winning filmmaker Kyle Couch. Winner of multiple awards, and featuring an applauded turn from actor Tim Kaiser, the end-of-days thriller fixes on an apocalyptic event that leaves a man isolated and alone on the edge of…

Starring BAFTA winner Sophie Kennedy Clark (Philomena, The Danish Girl, Obey), Emily Haigh (Jane Eyre, The Dare), Sam Gittins (Ray & Liz, Break, Await Further Instructions) and double BAFTA winner Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones, The Witch, Peaky Blinders) comes ‘Sorority’ a new film by Director James Webber. Sorority explores the lives and relationships of two…

Vision Films are proud to present the loving coming of age film, Liza, Liza, Skies Are Grey. Directed by Terry Sanders (1994 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision) and starring Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood’s breakthrough star Mikey Madison, this unforgettable film captures the innocence and overwhelming emotion that…

This July, Christian Oliver (“Sense8”, House of Good & Evil) and Larisa Oleynik (“Mad Men”, 10 Things I Hate About You) come face to face with hirsute terror in John Woodruff’s highly-anticipated horror throwback, Animal Among Us. Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed as an animal attack, the camp was condemned,…

Arrow Video is excited to announce the August slate of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including the action-packed black-and-white nautical nightmare Lake Michigan Monster, the uncut version of Argento’s Tenebrae and Stephen King’s Children of the Corn. Lake Michigan Monster has been acclaimed at film festivals around the globe, taking home the Gold Audience Award for Best International…

From the Writer/Director of ‘Witch’ and ‘I met Her On The Promenade’ comes a newly announced film by Trevor Hayward. Its name?  ‘Haunted’ Whilst no casting has yet been announced and even a plot synopsis is shrouded in mystery, Trevor Hayward is one of the most wonderfully secretive independent filmmakers that I know,with some cast…

To say that Hiroshima (1953) is a ‘powerful evocation of the devastation wrought by the world’s first deployment of the atomic bomb and its aftermath’ is both true but also a massive understatement. Whilst of course I have read about, seen films about and head stories about the devastation caused by the dropping of the…

Tami Stronach, who played the Childlike Empress in the  timeless 80’s classic “The NeverEnding Story” (and one of my favourite films EVER!), will star in and executive produce a new children’s fantasy film titled “Man & Witch”, written by her husband Greg Steinbruner. Produced and Directed by Indie stalwart Rob Margolies (“She Wants Me”, producer of…

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, today announced that it has renewed its hit original series The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs for a third season to air in 2021. The service also announced a special “summer sleepover” double feature pre-taped prior to quarantine that will feature a visit to…

Radar Pictures has secured the film rights to BlindSide, the world’s first audio-only mobile adventure game.  The project will be developed as Unseen, a horror feature about a couple who wake up blind in a terrifying world they cannot recognize.  The film is a collaboration between Radar Pictures and Jen and Sylvia, the filmmaking team behind…

On the shores of Lake Michigan, the eccentric Captain Seafield enlists a colourful crew of misfits in a bid to slay the hellish sea monster that prowls the murky depths. But as Seafield’s obsession with exacting revenge on the creature that killed his father threatens to consume him, can weapons expert Sean Shaughnessy, sonar whiz…

As the COVID-19 pandemic forces creatives around the world to find new opportunities to share their work, Arrow Video is proud to announce the virtual premiere of Lake Michigan Monster, an action-packed black-and-white nautical nightmare. Writer, director and star Ryland Brickson Cole Tews has crafted an inventive and irreverent homage to the classic monster films of yore…

After testing his sobriety at a bachelor party on the Vegas strip, Gavin, a recovered drug addict and former TV star and his childhood friends return to their hotel room. Gavin finds that his unresolved past with his friends and his “savior” girlfriend present much more of threat to his sobriety than the strip did.…

With cinemas across the country set to reopen in July, Altitude have announced the theatrical release of BLACK WATER: ABYSS from Friday 10 July. BLACK WATER: ABYSS sees adventure-seeking couple Eric (Luke Mitchell AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Jennifer (Jessica McNamee THE MEG) convincing their friends Yolanda (Amali Golden THE INVISIBLE MAN) and Viktor (Benjamin Hoetjes 10×10) to explore…

Baby Frankenstein is the story of Lance and his unlikely friendship with a self-aware, pint-sized automaton Starring Andre Gower Ian Barling Patrick McCartney Rance Nix Cora Savage Eileen Rosen Mike Rutkoski Yannis Stergiopoulos Baby Frankenstein is on VOD and DVD on June 30th from Wild Eye Releasing.

Titans of terror George A. Romero and Stephen King deliver yet another selection of blood-curdling tales in Creepshow 2, the follow-up to the 1982 horror classic. In “Old Chief Wood’nhead”, a group of young hoodlums face retribution from an unlikely source after looting a local hardware store. Meanwhile, “The Raft” sees a group of horny…

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…

With cinemas across the country set to reopen in July, Altitude are excited to announce the theatrical release of STAGE MOTHER from Friday 31 July. STAGE MOTHER sees conservative, Texas church-choir director Maybelline (Jacki Weaver, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, ANIMAL KINGDOM) inheriting her recently deceased son’s drag club, and surprising her closed-minded husband, and everyone else…

This July’s Arrow Video releases are suitably scorching for the height of summer, with a deliriously entertaining action adventure, an overlooked slice of deep South USA gothic, a depraved and violent Japanese treasure, and a unique new Korean spin on the zombie genre. The beautifully presented, pristine hi-def prints are accompanied by collector’s booklets, brand…

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has commissioned scripts for a full third season of Creepshow, showrun and executive produced by Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead) and based on George A. Romero’s iconic 1982 movie. The anthology series shattered all Shudder records when it debuted last…

Ive been listening to podcasts for years now, many years, most of them film related ones of course. If I cast my mind back to 2012, I remember several shows I listened to talking about a film called The Woman. They would talk about how great it was and how amazing the lead actress’s performance…

From the makers of The Covenant and Eminence Hill, Battlefield 2025 available this summer On Demand. Written by Joseph Mbah and Robert Conway. Jose Rosete, Anna Harr, Dustin Leighton, Caleb Thomas, Alaina Laethem, Adam Michael Gold, and Titus Covington star in a Joseph Mbah film, releasing July 7 on digital from Uncork’d Entertainment Weekend campers, an escaped convict, young lovers…

From Uncork’d Entertainment and Dark Star Pictures, Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep) and Precious Chong (L.A Confidential) star in director Zach Gayne’s “hilarious, dark view of modern loneliness” that has “the energy of a Jane Fonda workout tape” (Rotten Tomatoes). Michelle is an interior designer and newlywed to Robert. Linda lives alone and fills her days…

RIDE LIKE A GIRL is the heart-warming, triumphant true story of Michelle Payne (Teresa Palmer) who, as a little girl, dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup – horse racing’s toughest two-mile race. The youngest of 10 children, Michelle is raised by her stern, widowed father Paddy (Sam Neill) who is also a veteran horse trainer.…

In 1942, British officer Major Jack Celliers (Bowie) is captured by Japanese soldiers, and after a brutal trial sent, physically debilitated but indomitable in mind, to a POW camp overseen by the zealous Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Celliers’ stubbornness sees him locked in a battle of wills with the camp’s new commandant, a man obsessed…