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Aislinn Clarke’s Irish Horror ‘Fréwaka’ Begins Production

Aislinn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway) has just started production on Fréwaka, a horror film that’s currently lending in Ireland, reports ScreenDaily. Fréwaka follows the story of a student palliative care nurse, played by Monnelly, who is plagued by a trauma from her past that has a disorienting effect on her present – her relationship, her career […] The post Aislinn Clarke’s Irish Horror ‘Fréwaka’ Begins Production appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Failure!’ – Ted Raimi Previews Ambitious, Violent, Single-Take Thriller Ahead of Cannes Debut [Exclusive]

Actor Ted Raimi loves horror so much that he’s dedicated much of his career to it, providing fans with an endless array of memorable characters from Evil Dead II’s Henrietta to last year’s morally complex Travis Hackett in video game The Quarry. Up next for the horror stalwart is Failure!, an ambitious, violent thriller premiering this Sunday under the […] The post ‘Failure!’ – Ted Raimi Previews Ambitious, Violent, Single-Take Thriller Ahead of Cannes Debut [Exclusive] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
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First Look at Chilean Black Metal Horror ‘Invoking Yell’!

Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, has wrapped production on his black metal horror movie Invoking Yell, Bloody Disgusting learned today. We also scored the first-look image from the Chilean horror that’s set in 1997 South of Chile where a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls venture into the woods to shoot […] The post First Look at Chilean Black Metal Horror ‘Invoking Yell’! appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Earwig’ Trailer Fucks With a Little Girl’s Teeth [Video]

Earwig, the new film from French filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic, is finally heading to UK cinemas this June, and with it comes the first trailer. In the film… “Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after 10-year-old Mia. His most important task is to see to her ice dentures, which must be changed […] The post ‘Earwig’ Trailer Fucks With a Little Girl’s Teeth [Video] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Virtual Reality’ Test Screening Turns Bloody [Image]

Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to horror pic Virtual Reality from Argentine director-producer Hernán Findling (Impossible Crimes), Variety says. The film follows a cast and crew arriving at their director’s house for their film’s first cut screening. They soon find out that he has struck a sinister pact to ensure his career […] The post ‘Virtual Reality’ Test Screening Turns Bloody [Image] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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Filmax Haunts ‘The Elderly’ in New Cannes Horror Title [Image]

Filmax has acquired international rights to Raul Cerezo and Fernando Gonzalez Gomez’s horror The Elderly and is introducing it to buyers in the Marche, reports ScreenDaily. Zorion Eguileor, best known for Sitges audience winner The Platform, stars as an octogenarian who enters into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparking a […] The post Filmax Haunts ‘The Elderly’ in New Cannes Horror Title [Image] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Daughter’ – Dark Star Pictures Inducted Into a Bizarre Family

Things get weird in Corey Deshon’s debut feature Daughter, a new thriller acquired out of the Cannes market by Dark Star Pictures for North America. Casper Van Dien, Elyse Dinh, Ian Alexander and Vivien Ngô star in the pic about a young woman inducted into a bizarre family as their new surrogate daughter. Van Dien (Starship Troopers) plays Father, Dinh (HBO’s […] The post ‘Daughter’ – Dark Star Pictures Inducted Into a Bizarre Family appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Sister Darkness’ – ‘The Crow’ Director Is Making a Haunted House Horror Film!

While Alex Proyas has gone on to do several big studio movies, he is best known to horror fans as the director of both The Crow and the criminally underrated Dark City. Now, he returns to our genre with his first straight-up horror film, Sister Darkness, which has hit the ongoing Cannes Market, Bloody Disgusting […] The post ‘Sister Darkness’ – ‘The Crow’ Director Is Making a Haunted House Horror Film! appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Dark Faces’- Coal Miners Discover an Ancient Crypt in ‘Hostile’ Director’s Next!

Hostile and Meander (pictured above) director Mathieu Turi is next getting behind the camera for Dark Faces (Gueules Noires), which he has brought to Cannes, Bloody Disgusting learned. The film takes place in 1956, north of France. “A bunch of coal miners must embark with a strange professor to get some samples, 1000 meters underground. […] The post ‘Dark Faces’- Coal Miners Discover an Ancient Crypt in ‘Hostile’ Director’s Next! appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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COVID-Set Horror ‘The Revelation’ Goes a Little Mad

Dutch outfit Incredible Films has taken world sales rights to Chris W Mitchell’s Covid-set horror film The Revelation, which was released by Gusto in the Netherlands, writes ScreenDaily. The film is about an anxious, unemployed and increasingly paranoid computer repairman who moves in with his mother at the start of the first lockdown. He is determined […] The post COVID-Set Horror ‘The Revelation’ Goes a Little Mad appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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Cleopatra Entertainment Haunted by ‘The Ghosts of Monday’ [Trailer]

UK-based sales outfit Jinga Films has closed deals in multiple territories for Francesco Cinquemani’s supernatural thriller, The Ghosts of Monday, writes ScreenDaily. Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired all rights for the US, while Raven Banner will release in Canada. Reel2Reel has acquired UK and Ireland and Lighthouse will distribute in Germany and Austria. In the film, a […] The post Cleopatra Entertainment Haunted by ‘The Ghosts of Monday’ [Trailer] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Enys Men’ – NEON Acquires Ancient Standing Stone

Bait director Mark Jenkin‘s next is the Cornish-set horror film Enys Men, which was just acquired by NEON ahead of the pic’s world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section, reports Deadline. NEON picked up North American rights to the film that’s set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends […] The post ‘Enys Men’ – NEON Acquires Ancient Standing Stone appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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Barry Pepper Trapped Below Ground in ‘Scurry’

Barry Pepper, who recently battled gigantic alligators in Sam Raimi and Alex Aja’s Crawl, is set to topline Scurry, Bloody Disgusting learned at Cannes. “In Scurry, the city is under attack by a monstrous threat. Two strangers, a family man with everything to live for and a criminal with nothing to lose, find themselves trapped […] The post Barry Pepper Trapped Below Ground in ‘Scurry’ appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Merciless’ – Frank Grillo Has a Unique Way to Drive Out a Demon

Frank Grillo is on a mean horror streak, adding yet another genre film to his Cannes slate. Deadline announced today that Grillo will topline the horror-thriller Merciless, directed by Skylines franchise filmmaker Liam O’Donnell. In Merciless, when his wife is possessed by a malevolent spirit, the government’s top interrogator seeks vengeance on those who were closest to […] The post ‘Merciless’ – Frank Grillo Has a Unique Way to Drive Out a Demon appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Occupation: Rainfall Chapter 2’ – Casper Van Dien and Danny Trejo Join Sci-Fi Sequel

Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment and Luke Sparke’s Sparke Films have just announced the next feature films in the sci-fi action thriller Occupation: Rainfall franchise, Occupation: Rainfall Chapter 2. With the Cannes market in full swing, they’ve announced that the film will star Jeremy Piven (Judgment Night), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, The Pact), Tricia […] The post ‘Occupation: Rainfall Chapter 2’ – Casper Van Dien and Danny Trejo Join Sci-Fi Sequel appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘The Virginia Bitches’ – Female Vampire Death Metal Band Opens Cannes

Scott Hansen’s The Virginia Bitches, featuring a cast of heavy metal rock stars, is performing at the forthcoming Cannes market, reports ScreenDaily. The film follows a female vampire death metal band trapped in a town of cannibals led by a warlock. Randy Blythe of US heavy metal band Lamb of God and Alissa White-Gluz of Swedish […] The post ‘The Virginia Bitches’ – Female Vampire Death Metal Band Opens Cannes appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘The Cuckoo’s Curse’ Swaps Houses…and Lives [Image]

Variety shares the first image from horror-thriller El Cuco (The Cuckoo’s Curse), the latest film by The Photographer of Mauthausen and Two producer-director Mar Targarona, set up at top Spanish genre auteur house Rodar y Rodar. “The film follows Sebas and Anna, a couple expecting a baby, who this year are going to take a different […] The post ‘The Cuckoo’s Curse’ Swaps Houses…and Lives [Image] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Mary’s Monster’ – Clara Rugaard Is Mary Shelley and Kit Harington “The Monster”!

Heading into the Cannes market, Mary’s Monster details famed author Mary Shelley’s struggles in writing the literary classic “Frankenstein”. Deadline reports today that Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother) will be playing Shelley while “Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington will portray “the monster”. The period film, which will have a contemporary sheen to it, will deal […] The post ‘Mary’s Monster’ – Clara Rugaard Is Mary Shelley and Kit Harington “The Monster”! appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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‘Holy Spider’ Trailer on the Hunt for an Iranian Serial Killer [Video]

A female journalist in Iran goes on the hunt for a serial killer in the first trailer for Ali Abbasi’s Cannes competition entry Holy Spider, shared this morning by THR. “Based on a true story, the film focuses on Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), a reporter from Tehran who travels to the Iranian holy city of […] The post ‘Holy Spider’ Trailer on the Hunt for an Iranian Serial Killer [Video] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska
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Warner Bros.’ Argentinian Thriller ‘Echoes’ Seeks U.S. Release [Trailer]

After a successful release this past January in Argentina by Warner Bros Pictures and HBO Max, Film Factory Entertainment is handling international sales on Cristian Bernard’s thriller movie Ecos de un crimen (Echoes), reports Variety. “The film turns on Julian Lemar, an internationally renown suspense novel writer under pressure from his publisher to complete the last […] The post Warner Bros.’ Argentinian Thriller ‘Echoes’ Seeks U.S. Release [Trailer] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Brad Miska