Paranormal chiller THE DESERVING - Available Digitally, October.

A mute serial killer finds himself being taunted by the ghosts of his victims in THE DESERVING, which comes to UK Digital outlets in October.

Exploring themes of guilt, redemption, and the cyclical nature of abuse, THE DESERVING follows a tormented, mute serial killer who is haunted by the ghosts of his victims and plans to end his life. His resolve is disrupted when a desperate walk-in client arrives, needing an urgent photo shoot.

Directed by S. S. Arora, who makes his feature debut, THE DESERVING stars Venkat Sai Gunda, Simone Stadler, and Kelsey Stalter. 

The film has already amassed a number of accolades, having won over fifteen awards including Best Feature at Athens IFF, Best Horror at Hallucinea FF, and awards at Humro Cinema, Portugal Indie Film Festival, and Rome Indie Film Fest.

THE DESERVING is released to UK Digital Outlets on the 1st October, courtesy of The Horror Collective. 

View the Trailer on YouTube.

Visit the official website at https://www.thedeservingmovie.com

 

 

Thriller UNIT 234: THE LOCKUP, coming to Digital

Overtime is hell for Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan: First Kill) in the tense, white-knuckle thriller UNIT 234: THE LOCKUP, which is released to Digital Platforms this month by Signature Entertainment.

After a shocking discovery of an unconscious man in a locked unit, the lone employee of a remote storage facility must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo - at any cost. 

Starring Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan: First Kill), Don Johnson (Knives Out) and Jack Huston (Kill Your Darlings), the film was written by Derek Steiner and directed by Andy Tennant (Fool’s Gold). 

View the Trailer on YouTube.

UNIT 234: THE LOCKUP is available on Digital Platforms 30 September. Distributed by Signature Entertainment

 

 

Terrifying new horror BEEZEL premieres at Grimmfest

BEEZEL, the terrifying new horror from the studio that brought you Terrifier, will have its UK premiere at Grimmfest 2024.

In this unsettling horror, told over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors - an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the souls of the living.

A creepy chronicle of increasingly sinister legends and dark history, it offers a series of narratively linked vignettes, exploring the influence of an ancient evil upon several generations of the same family. 

Assembled from disparate types of “found footage”, the film presents its various and varied stories across multiple formats, from Super-8, to VHS, to the HD digital camera of a mobile phone, not simply suggesting the passage of time, but also the changes in how people record, interact with, and interrogate their own experiences through the years.

From the exciting creative duo, Aaron Fradkin and Victoria Fratz, of viral filmmaking sensation Social House Films (Val), BEEZEL marks a bold and unsettling new horror not to be missed.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

BEEZEL has its UK Premiere at Grimmfest on 3rd October at Odeon Great Northern. Visit the official website for more info and to buy tickets https://www.grimmfest.com/festival/

The film will be released on Disc and Digital formats January 2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Horror titles from Blue Finch, available Digitally this month...

Blue Finch Releasing have 3 new horror titles released to Digital Outlets this month, in time for Halloween...

THE VOURDALAK

Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family… 

An adaptation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1884 vampiric novella of Gothic Romanticism “La Famille du Vourdalak”, published 40 years before Dracula, THE VOURDALAK is a haunting gothic tale directed by Adrien Beau and starring Ariane Labed (Alps, The Lobster, Assassin's Creed), Kacey Mottet-Klein (Farewell to the Night, Happening), and Grégoire Colin (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum). 

THE VOURDALAK premiered at Venice Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Film at International Critics Week.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

THE VOURDALAK is on Digital platforms 16 September 2024 from Blue Finch Film Releasing

 

LAST STRAW

LAST STRAW is a raw and relentless home invasion thriller starring Jessica Belkin (American Horror Story), Jeremy Sisto (Thirteen, Clueless) and Taylor Kowalski (Snowfall). 

Set over one night in a dusty roadside diner, LAST STRAW follows Nancy (Belkin), a young waitress working alone on the late shift. As a series of chaotic events spiral out of control, Nancy finds herself in a fight for her life when she is terrorised by a group of masked assailants. No one is who they appear to be, and with nowhere to turn, she must do everything she can to survive the night. 

LAST STRAW has played at genre film festivals around the world including Beyond Fest, Sitges and FrightFest Glasgow, and marks the directorial debut of Alan Scott Neal with a script by Taylor Sardoni.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

LAST STRAW is on digital platforms 23 September 2024  from Blue Finch Film Releasing

 

HOME SWEET HOME: WHERE EVIL LIVES

When pregnant Maria starts readying her fiancé’s family estate for bed and breakfast guests, something isn’t right; the power seems to be on the blink and strange noises become all too common. 

Determined to find the truth, Maria soon begins to realise that darker secrets than she could imagine are lurking in this house, and her soon-to-be-family’s past. 

A terrifying single-shot supernatural horror, HOME SWEET HOME: WHERE EVIL LIVES is directed by Thomas Sieben and stars Nilam Farooq, David Kross (The Reader, War Horse) and Justus von Dohnányi (Downfall, The World is Not Enough).

View the Trailer on YouTube.

HOME SWEET HOME: WHERE EVIL LIVES is on digital platforms 30 September 2024 from Blue Finch Film Releasing

 

Blumhouse's WOLF MAN - In UK cinemas, Jan 2025

From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: WOLF MAN.

Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. 

With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matilda Firth; Hullraisers, Coma). 

But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. 

As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognisable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.

The film co-stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Prendergast (The Sojourn Audio Drama) and Benedict Hardie (The Invisible Man).

WOLF MAN is directed by Whannell, whose previous films with Blumhouse include The Invisible Man, Upgrade and Insidious: Chapter 3. The screenplay is written by Leigh Whannell & Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo (Dumb Money) and is released to UK cinemas January 2025.

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

Dark Survival Thriller BLOOD STAR - Premiering at Grimmfest

Plaion Pictures is excited to announce that the gripping thriller, BLOOD STAR, will be coming to Grimmfest from 6th October where it will have its UK Premiere, before heading to all major digital platforms from 7th October.

A young pick-pocket is driving cross country back to her abusive boyfriend when she is targeted by a small-town Sheriff who shoots her off the road. 

A deadly game of cat-and-mouse subsequently ensues and she must use her street-smarts in order to survive.
 
This dark survival thriller is directed by Lawrence Jacomelli and stars Britni Camacho (I'm A Virgo) and John Schwab (Master of the Air). Additional cast include Sydney Brumfield, Travis Lincoln Cox, Felix Merback & Wyomi Reed.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

For more info on this and other films screening at this years Grimmfest, visit the official website at https://www.grimmfest.com

 

Funfair Slasher THE MOUSE TRAP - coming to UK Disc and Digital

There’s a seemingly familiar face stalking the funfair in THE MOUSE TRAP, a horror chiller that’ll make you look at one of your childhood favourites very differently!

It's Alex's 21st Birthday, but she's stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive.

Directed by Jamie Bailey (What Lurks Beneath), THE MOUSE TRAP is written by Simon Phillips (Blood Harvest), who also stars as Mickey, the masked killer, terrorising a gang of friends late one night at an amusement arcade. There’s shocks and gore galore as Mickey dons his mask and goes on a rodent rampage.

With a trailer that’s already scored over one million views on YouTube, this is a horror film that’s sure to get everyone talking. If you enjoyed the Terrifier films and the Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey slashers, then this blood-soaked frightener will be just the ticket.

View the trailer on YouTube.

THE MOUSE TRAP will be released on digital platforms from 30th September and DVD from 14th October

Pre-order the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

 

 

Scottish Thriller KILL - Coming to UK cinemas 13 Sept

Kaleidoscope Entertainment is excited to announce that Scottish thriller KILL will be released in UK cinemas from the 13th September.

Produced by Scottish production company, Synchronicity Films and shot in rural Scotland, on location at an estate in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, the film represents quality Scottish filmmaking and creative output at its best.
 
Stalking for deer in the remote Scottish wilderness, three brothers plot to put an end to their violent and abusive father, the man responsible for the recent death of their mother. Burying Don in a shallow grave they make their way back home to their farmhouse. But what should be a new beginning could bring about their end…
 
Returning to the scene of the crime to retrieve the key to the family safe, and their inheritance, they begin the gruesome task of digging up their dad, only to find his body gone. Is Don really dead? Does their affable cousin know more than he’s letting on? Or is one of the brothers betraying them all?

Already weighed down by guilt and now stricken with fear, the boys begin to show their true natures as day turns to night, and their hope for freedom turns into a desperate struggle to survive. For someone is now out there in the forest, hunting them…

KILL features a star-studded, nearly all-Scottish cast including Daniel Portman (Game of Thrones), Brian Vernel (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Dunkirk), Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty), Calum Ross (Wednesday), and James Harkness (Darkest Hour, Rogue One).
 
Officially selected for the 2023 Edinburgh Film Festival, the film has already recieved a strong critical response with The Herald calling it "Taught and Original" and Loud and Clear hailing it as a "Non-Stop Thriller".
 
Check out the trailer on YouTube.

 

Mockumentary HAUNTED ULSTER LIVE - On UK and Irish Digital platforms, October

On Halloween night 1998, Northern Ireland TV veteran Gerry Burns teams up with popular new children's presenter Michelle Kelly to investigate poltergeist activity in a reputedly haunted house in Belfast. Light entertainment turns to horror when an unseen terror reveals itself.

Combining found footage horror, folklore and a nostalgia for regional television, HAUNTED ULSTER LIVE recreates a familiar world of 90’s light entertainment which, much like Belfast itself during the Northern Ireland Troubles, is haunted by something unseen and sinister. 

Written and directed by Dominic O’Neill, the film premiered at FrightFest 2023 with an Irish premiere at Belfast Film Festival and earned acclaim at leading international genre film festivals including Fantaspoa and Panic Fest.

HAUNTED ULSTER LIVE is available on Digital platforms in the UK and Ireland from the 14th October

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY 2 - UK BD review.

Just when you thought it was safe to return to the 100 Acres wood, along comes WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY 2, the blood soaked sequel to the 2023 indie horror hit.

Several years after the events of the first film and Christopher Robin, played this time by Scott Chambers (Dr Jeckyll - 2023), the sole survivor of the 100 acres massacre, is now a medical student who is struggling to put the events of the past behind him.

When another group of people are brutally slain in the woods one night, the locals think Christopher was the one behind it. As, needless to say, no one believes his stories about the murderous Pooh bear. 

But, as the people in the village are about to find out, the stories of Pooh and his psychotic animal friends are all too real, and Texas isn't the only place to experience a chainsaw massacre...

Boasting what was obviously a much larger budget, this was a real fun, gory, horror comedy. With some fantastic bloody kills, which includes a group of annoying teens getting massacred in a suitably gory fashion, and a hilarious sequence where Pooh and his friends wipe-out a group of teens partying in a warehouse in loving detail, with chainsaw, axes and bats.

If you liked the original, you'll love this. Definitely one for fans of horror comedies.

The film is currently available on Blu-Ray and DVD and is available on selected streaming services.

Buy the UK BD at Amazon.co.uk

Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk