YA Zombie Movie ‘This Is Not A Test’ Rated R For Bloody Violence and Gore

School will be out forever when zombies invade class in This is Not a Test, and the film’s official MPAA rating suggests it’ll end with a whole love of gore and violence. This is Not a Test has been rated “R” for “strong bloody violence, gore, suicide, language, some sexuality and brief teen drinking.” Independent […]

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School’s Out for Zombies on New ‘This Is Not A Test’ Poster Ahead of February Release

School’s out for a zombie apocalypse on the new poster for the new YA horror movie This is Not a Test, and it comes with an official release date. Independent Film Company and Shudder will release the film theatrically on February 20, 2026. Writer/Director Adam MacDonald (Out Come the Wolves, Pyewacket) adapts the 2012 young adult […]

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‘This Is Not A Test’ Unleashes A YA Zombie Apocalypse That Feels Like Detention [BHFF Review]

The melodramatic adaptation of the Courtney Summers YA novel fails to do anything new with a zombie apocalypse, despite a strong, committed performance by Olivia Holt. “The end of the world is a lonely place.” Film has been exploring zombie stories for close to a century. Zombie stories consistently find an audience and are one […]

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IFC & Shudder Acquire Olivia Holt Zombie Movie ‘This Is Not a Test’ for 2026 Theatrical Release

Independent Film Company and Shudder have acquired the rights to This Is Not a Test in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Variety reports that a 2026 theatrical release is planned. Based on the 2012 young adult novel of the same name by Courtney Summers, the zombie outbreak movie is written and directed […]

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‘Out Come the Wolves’ Director Adam MacDonald Talks Woods Horror Trilogy and Hopes to Remake ‘Congo’

Backcountry and Pyewacket director Adam MacDonald is back this year with Out Come the Wolves, a survival horror movie set for theatrical and VOD release on August 30. MacDonald reteams with Backcountry star Missy Peregrym on the thriller, this time pitting the actor against a metaphorical and physical pack of wolves. Out Comes with Wolves follows Sophie […]

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‘Out Come the Wolves’ Exclusive Trailer – ‘Backcountry’ Director’s New Survival Thriller

Adam MacDonald (Backcountry, Pyewacket) returns this summer with Out Come the Wolves, a survival thriller that’s been dated for theatrical and VOD release on August 30. Bloody Disgusting has been exclusively provided with the official trailer this afternoon, which previews what Eli Roth calls “a tense survival thriller that grips you by the jaws.” Watch the […]

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‘Out Come the Wolves’ – ‘Backcountry’ Director’s New Survival Horror Movie Begins Production

Bloody Disgusting has learned that principal photography has begun for Adam MacDonald’s new movie Out Come the Wolves. The film will shoot through May on location in Dundas, Ontario, with second unit having already been completed in Red Deer, Alberta. Out Come the Wolves will be distributed by IFC Films and Shudder in the US […]

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‘Backcountry’ – This Killer Bear Movie Captures the Primal Fear of Nature

Camping has a way of making people act unlike themselves. Once the Great Outdoors come into view, power dynamics can shift and that usual sense of self-preservation may or may no longer be intact. That’s certainly what happened when one couple went camping in Backcountry, a film inspired by a 2005 incident in Missinaibi Provincial […]

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