Shudder Original ‘Hellbender’ from genre trailblazers the Adams Family nowon DVD & Digital from Acorn Media International


FRESH, RAW and bewitching indie folk horror Hellbender will grip fans with a story that has real bite, promising one hell of a ride. As unnerving and gruesome as it is beautiful and enticing, this captivating, unsettling and hellish feature will push audiences to the brink. Written and directed by genre trailblazers, the Adams Family (The Deeper you Dig),…

Kestie Morassi and Jane Badler star in Australian paranormal horror Surrogate. On digital platforms now.


Australian paranormal horror Surrogate, starring Kestie Morassi (Wolf Creek) and Jane Badler (TV’s ‘V’ The Free Fall), comes to digital platforms this September. Written by Beth King and David Willing, in his feature directorial debut, Surrogate tells of Natalie Paxton (played by Kestie  Morassi), a single mother and nurse, who falls mysteriously ill and struggles to stop…

Shudder Original ‘They Live In The Grey’ arrives on DVD & Digital 26 Sept from Acorn Media International


Get ready for unrelenting terror with They Live In The Grey – a stylish and terrifying paranormal thriller with echoes of paranormal big hitters The Sixth Sense and The Conjuring. Written and directed by The Vang Brothers – best known for Bedeviled – this scare-you-senseless supernatural Shudder Original is set to arrive on DVD and digital on 26 September 2022 from Acorn Media International.  When clairvoyant social worker…

Live At The Apollo’s Harriet Kemsley ‘Honeysuckle Island’ show heads out on tour this autumn ( @harrietkemsley )


Fresh from a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Harriet Kemsley is bringing her new critically acclaimed show ‘Honeysuckle Island’ to the Soho Theatre and then touring nationally this autumn.  Fed up with being told how to look and behave since she was a teenager, Harriet is taking a long hard squint at the beauty industry…

Head back to the ViewAskew Universe this September with Clerks III.


Following a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay, and Silent Bob to make a movie immortalizing his life at the convenience store that started it all.   From writer, director and star Kevin Smith (Dir. Chasing Amy, Dogma) Clerks III reunites Brian O’Halloran (Clerks franchise), Jeff Anderson (Clerks franchise), Jason Mewes (Jay and…

Shudder announce theatrical run this October for Shudder Original Italian thriller Dark Glasses directed by Dario Argento ( @shudder )


Streaming service Shudder have announced a theatrical run for the hotly-anticipated Shudder Original Italian thriller Dark Glasses beginning Friday, October 7 at the IFC Center in New York and at the Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles, ahead of the film’s streaming debut on Thursday, October 13. Additional theatres, to be announced later, will follow beginning Friday, October 14. The long-awaited return from Italian master of…

Giallo-inspired tale of possession starring Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First arrives October 3rd from Fractured Visions ( @fracvis )


A stylish, giallo-inspired tale of possession from Succession star Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First is a must-see New York story of gruesome frights, daring provocation and pitch-black humour.Addie and Noelle can’t believe their luck when they discover an affordable apartment on Manhattan’s famous Upper East Side. As soon as they move in, Addie starts acting odd, sucking her…

Mid-air Monsters, Creatures under beds and hostages in living rooms. Vipco’s Vault Of Terror Volume One gathers some crazy short films. ( @vipcoltd )


Recently I picked up and bought the VIPCO DVD release of the  Bad Moon Rising and along with that film, I also picked up Vipco’s Vault of Terror: Volume One, a 69 minute collection of short films all within the horror genre that are all housed on this single disc.   Whilst some of the horror…

Hammer Horror classics: ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell’ get Limited Edition Releases from Second Sight Films Available Now ( @Secondsightfilm )


Two ultimate Hammer Horror classics, The Mummy and Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell, starring British acting royalty, the legendary Peter Cushing in both films and other greats including Christopher Lee and Patrick Troughton have received special Limited Edition treatment, courtesy of Second Sight Films and are wonderful. I have seen such a small number of Hammer films…

LEGEND reveals slate of horror and action premieres for September ( @legend_channel )


Friday and Saturday nights in September on Legend are premiere-packed, headed up by the UK TV premiere of Doug Liman’s (director of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow), deadly psychological thriller THE WALL, staring John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. There are also Channel premieres for horror-mystery THE FINAL WISH, dark comedy vampire horror THE SHED, Walter Hill’s neo-noir crime thriller THE DRIVER,…

Scifi mystery film  Project Skyquake heads to our home screens this October from Bayview Entertainment ( Bayviewent1 )


Scifi mystery film  Project Skyquake heads to our home screens this October from Bayview Entertainment and takes us into the world of a wannabe journalist investigating strange sounds in the sky with her best friend, but they soon find themselves facing an encounter with terrifying results… Written and directed by József Gallai (I Hear the Trees Whispering; The…

I Spit On Your Grave 4K Ultra HD Collector’s Edition. Out Now. Features a host of special features including the great doc by Terry Zarchi (@ZarchiTerry )


I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, the film that infamously changed the face of cinema forever, is back for the first time in stunning 4K Ultra HD as part of a premium 3-disc Collector’s Edition boxset, packed with incredible bonus features totalling seven hours of content. The first time I saw I Spit On Your Grave…

From Director Josh Stifter comes ‘Greywoods Plot’, a pitch black horror comedy on Digital September 16th 2022 from Terror Films ( @joshstifter @terror_films )


Greywood’s Plot!, a pitch-black horror/comedy from producers Jason Goldberg (Glorious) and Brandon Waites (Followed), premieres on digital September 16 from Terror Films. A labor of love, sending four real life friends into the wilderness of northern Minnesota to film a no budget 1950’s creature feature; with a modern, gory twist, the film is directed by…

Neil Marshall leads FrightFest’s New Blood panel ( @frightfest )


The search is over as this year’s New Blood participants have been unearthed and will be attending Arrow FrightFest for a special mentoring session in a Central London venue at the start of festival on Thursday 25th August where they will pitch their feature script ideas to a panel of industry professionals After a record number of submissions, eight projects…

Alrik Bursell’s highly-anticipated sci-fi thriller THE ALTERNATE releases September 13th by Uncork’d Entertainment ( @uncorkdent )


Uncork’d Entertainment is set to release Alrik Bursell’s highly-anticipated sci-fi thriller THE ALTERNATE this September.  Produced by Jeffrey Allard, executive producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the film stars Ed Gonzalez Moreno, Natalia Dominguez, and Syra McCarthy. Pic was scripted by director Bursell, who has directed five short…

Uncork’d Entertainment acquires Alexander T. Hwang’s nail-biting SOMETHING IN THE WOODS for September 6th 2022 release ( @uncorkdent )


Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired Alexander T. Hwang’s nail-biting SOMETHING IN THE WOODS. Scripted by Deanna Gomez, the creature feature tells of two women who battle a frightening monster in the woods and stars Nicole Cinaglia. the film will be released on digital and DVD September 6. Nora Thompson, a reporter, has become an overnight celebrity…

Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: The Complete Collection releases on bluray+ dvd combo pack from Shout Factory Out Now ( @theoliverstone @ShoutFactory )


After a successful TV broadcast in late 2021, on Sky here in the UK and Showtime in other territories. its time for me to add this fantastic and very detailed documentary series to my ever growing Oliver Stone collection. I’m also every happy that it isn’t just the feature length documentary that is getting a…

Boulet Brothers Sign Multi-Project Deal With Shudder to Expand ‘The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’ Franchise


Following the massive success of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’s fourth season (which became one of Shudder’s most watched series of 2021), Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streamer for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has inked a deal with horror drag icons The Boulet Brothers to expand their Boulet Brothers’ Dragula franchise with a new season, a new spinoff series and an…

World War II ‘impossible mission’ movie ‘Wolves of War’ released September 12th from Signature Entertainment and Picture Perfect Productions ( @picperfltd @SignatureEntUK)


At the end of World War II, a tough British officer leads a band of Allied commandos into enemy territory in Bavaria on one last impossible mission to extract an American held hostage by the Nazis. this if the story of Wolves Of War, the latest film by director Giles Anderson (The Dare, Arthur &…

Terror Films acquire horror/comedy Mister Limbo, starring The Last Starfighter’s Cameron Dye, for North American release. ( @Terror_Films )


Terror Films have acquired directed horror/comedy Mister Limbo, starring Valley Girl’s Cameron Dye, for North American release. Hugo de Sousa and Vig Norris also star in the film, the tale of two strangers that wake up in the middle of the desert with no memory of anything – including their names. Are they dead? Or did they…

Char·ac·ter, a documentary by Drago Sumonja featuring Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles Grodin, Mark Rydell, Harry Dean Stanton and Sydney Pollack


After a recent talk with filmmaker Shaun O’Banion where we talked about our wishlists for podcast guests, Shaun recommended to me a 2009 documentary called Char·ac·ter by Drago Sumonja. Shaun did say he wasnt sure how easy it would be to track down the documentary but it was definitely worth seeking out. Well I found…

Streaming platform Shudder announces its 61-day Halloween Celebration- Sept 1st through Oct 31 ( @shudder )


Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, will kick off its annual 61-day Halloween event beginning Thursday, September 1. Shudder is the leading streamer for thrills and frights year-round. But the service goes above and beyond every September and October, this year presenting an unprecedented lineup of 11 acclaimed, must-see new…

The Retaliators reveals new film footage via the “THE RETALIATORS THEME SONG (21 BULLETS)” video


In anticipation of the forthcoming cinematic release of BETTER NOISE FILMS’ new horror-thriller THE RETALIATORS, which celebrates its’ worldwide release on 14th September, BETTER NOISE MUSIC has released the movie’s theme song across digital platforms today (August 5) along with a music video featuring clips from the film. Watch it HERE “The Retaliators Theme Song…