In this strange world of 2020 where actual physical events are for the most on hold, festivals and conventions have embraced technology even more and have gone online. Along with events such as San Diego Comic Con, Frightfest, Grimmfest and many more, one of the best online conventions and festivals is Inhouse-Con which have been…
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…
Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the night. Shudder has given me so many wonderful surprises on what…
A thrilling and immersive exhibition on the pioneering and unparalleled work of Ray Harryhausen (1920-2012), the cinematic titan whose movies shaped the face of modern cinema, will arrive at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), as part of the late filmmaker’s centenary celebrations. Working in close collaboration with The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, the National Galleries are proud to present Ray…
Danny Trejo stars in Pikchure Zero Entertainment’s new sci-fi action series Paragon. : The Shadow Wars. In a world where Reapers take souls and demons bargain with humans for their place in the food chain, a new descendent named Jael has emerged. After centuries of civil unrest in the real world, a new war is waging amongst…
Actress Charlotte Pathe (Hate, Disconnected) has been announced as the first cast member in the new short film by Trevor Hayward (Witch, The Door) Whilst not too many other casting information is known at the moment, or details of the plot for the up and coming short ‘The Break Up’ Trevor is a wonderfully interesting…
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,…
The untold story of the summer Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Connecticut which inspired one of the world’s most beloved novels: “The Great Gatsby”. Everyone knows the book, the films, and series, but who knows the truth? Track down the mystery millionaire who threw extravagant parties, uncover new evidence of the location and players, and…
After fourteen years, a new volume of the BHF Book of Horror Stories shuffles its way out of the crypt! And this time we’ve been to the movies. This third collection features more than thirty original tales, inspired by and often featuring favourite characters and situations from British fright films: * The White Worm menaces a northern…
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…
From Wild Eye Releasing and director Alex Bourne comes a sideshow of slaughter, headed to DVD and Digital August 18. A deranged young man, donned in a clown mask made of human flesh, terrorizes a small town with a series of abductions and murders. Neighbors Jenna and Owen search for their missing friend Zoe, who…
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…
High Octane Pictures has Acquired the WorldWide Sales Rights to STEALING CHAPLIN; a Las Vegas set crime comedy, based on a true story, of two men who stole the body of Charlie Chaplin to ransom it in an effort to escape their financial woes. The film is directed by Paul Tanter (THE NIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS,…
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…
Ahead of Horror Channel’s UK TV premiere of Julian Richards’ REBORN, on Sat 22 August, actress, producer and genre icon Barbara Crampton reflects on how You’re Next changed the direction of her career, the joy of discovering new talent and the possibility of directing one day… Talk about art imitating real life! REBORN is about a B-Movie…
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…
From Director Matt Routledge, and Writer Johnny Walker comes Tribal:Get Out Alive, a new action packed, thriller horror taking us to a world beneath our own. When a local Bailiff team are hired to clear out a local farmyard of vagrants after the death of the farms owner , things seem to be well organised…
How did Jordan Waller’s TWO HEADS CREEK script end up in your hands and did you see it as more a family comedy than a cannibal gore-fest? Producer Judd Tilyard and I were developing one of my own scripts, Inherit the Earth, which we thought would take a while to finance – and during that process he…
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…
Whilst I do enjoy posting stories on frompage2screen.com about up and coming films, books, and other media related projects, I have a special fondness for the online interviews that I started a few years ago to spice up the website a little. They not only are wonderfully interesting to read and put together, but also…
With pretty much every other event being delayed or cancelled this year, it is a smart move and also the safe move that Grimmfest’s regular live event which last year was held at the Odeon in Manchester has been postponed until spring 2021. Thankfully though team Grimmfest knew that fans would be totally update if…
From Scott Peterson, writer-director of the award-winning “Out of the Loop”, the harrowing story of how two Kansas kids that survived a hitchhiking trip across the Sahara in 1971, “Hitchhiking to the Edge of Sanity” – now available on Amazon Prime and coming to TUBI this Fall. As the US deals with a toxic political…
Vision Films in association with 784 Films and Arlyn Entertainment are proud to present Last Shot, the powerful and surprising film about second chances, family, and freedom. This sensational urban crime drama about a young man looking to start over and experiencing the unpredictability of being a free man in a dangerous town is the debut…
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’…
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together, Marriage Story is available to buy on Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 24. Marriage Story is a hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from the acclaimed writer-director NOAH BAUMBACH (The Squid and the Whale). ADAM DRIVER (BlacKkKlansman) and SCARLETT…
From writer/director Neill Blomkamp (Chappie) comes the startlingly original science fiction thriller DISTRICT 9 debuting on 4k Ultra HD on October 19 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Starring Sharlto Copley (Chappie, TV’s Powers) and produced by Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) DISTRICT 9 was nominated for four 2009 Academy Awards® including Best Picture. With stunning special effects…
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…
Highly-anticipated brutal survival thriller Range Runners, from director Philip S. Plowden , premieres On Demand and DVD this September. A woman thru-hiking an isolated trail runs into trouble when her pack is hijacked by two men hiding out in the woods, desperate and on the run. Now, stranded and left to fend for herself, she…
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…
You’ve said 12 HOUR SHIFT is a valentine to East Texas and the hospital staff who looked after your elderly father, could you elaborate? I grew up in East Texas and most people will say that in spite of not living there since I was 18, I have a lot of very small town Texan…
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…
When the original 1978 film was banned in the UK upon release, this notorious revenge movie helped launch the “video nasty” craze of the 1980’s and inspired a generation of genre directors through its provocative, no-holds-barred brutal filmmaking. 32 years later, a bold and shocking remake reignited the franchise and spawned a series of sequels…
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…
From Writer/Director Ben Mole comes Behind The Line: Escape To Dunkirk the latest film from Picture Perfect, the company behind ‘We Go In At Dawn’ Set in the early years of World War 2 in Occupied France. A Nazi Commander discovers one of his prisoners, Danny (played by Sam Gittins) is a champion boxer and…
THE ULTIMATE TRILOGY EXPERIENCE BACK TO THE FUTURE LIKE NEVER BEFORE INCLUDES OVER AN HOUR OF NEW BONUS FEATURES WITH RARE CASTING AUDITIONS WITH CELEBRATED HOLLYWOOD STARS OWN THE NEW 4K ULTRA HD COMBO PACK WITH NEWLY REMASTERED BLU-RAY™ ON OCTOBER 19, 2020 FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT Great Scott! In 1985, Director Robert Zemeckis, Executive Producer…
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