Charlie’s Farm is a 2014 horror Australian movie written and directed by Chris Sun (Daddy’s Little Girl) for Slaughter FX. It stars Tara Reid (Incubus; Sharknado and sequels), Nathan Jones (Mad Max: Fury Road), Allira Jaques, Bill Moseley (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; Night of the Living Dead; 2001 Maniacs), Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th‘s Jason Vorhees; Hatchet and sequels), Dean Kirkright, David Beamish, Sam Coward.

The film was released 4 December 2014 in Australia and is due out in the USA 1 March 2015. The official site contains a range of tie-in products suggesting that the filmmakers are confident that fans will be enamoured with new horror villain Charlie.

Plot teaser:

In an effort to do something different, four friends head into Australia’s outback to explore Charlie’s Farm, the site where a violent family met their end at the hands of an angry mob.

Despite all warnings, they persist in their horror-seeking adventure…

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Clown is a 2014 US/Canadian horror movie directed by Jon Watts from a screenplay he co-wrote with Christopher D. Ford. The film stars Andy Powers, Peter Stormare (Dylan Dog: Dead of Night; Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters; Dweller), Eli Roth (Cabin Fever and remake; Don’t Look Up), Laura Allen (From Within; Hysteria), Elizabeth Whitmere and Christian Distefano (The Strain).

The film was released on November 13, 2014, in Italy.

Plot teaser:

A loving father finds a clown suit for his son’s birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer…

Cast:

• Laura Allen as Meg
• Andy Powers as Kent
• Peter Stormare as Karlsson
• Eli Roth as Frowny the Clown
• Elizabeth Whitmere as Denise
• Christian Distefano as Jack
• Chuck Shamata as Walt
• Amy Balaton as Gamezone Employee
• Claudia Jurt as Panicked Parent
• Jodi Larratt as Mother
• Matthew Stefiuk as Detective
• Allen Altman as ER Doctor
• Robert Reynolds as Dr. Martin Karlsson
• Caeden Lawrence as Hardware Store Clerk
• Abigail Lieff as Waitress
• Jocelyn Deighton as Nurse
• Jeff Lefebvre as Costume Shop Customer
• Jen Julien as Parent at Fun Park
• Lucas Kelly as Colton
• Michael Riendeau as Robbie

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‘Surviving each floor is the name of the game.’

Steel Trap is a 2007 German slasher horror movie co-written and directed by Luis Cámara (Silencio). It stars Georgia Mackenzie, Mark Wilson, Pascal Langdale, Julia Ballard, Joanna Bobin, Annabelle Wallis, Adam Rayner, Frank Maier, Svantje Wascher.

Plot teaser:

Seven adventurous partygoers find themselves trapped in a sadistic game of death after accepting an invitation to a mysterious party. It’s New Year’s Eve, and a group of revellers are living it up on the roof of an abandoned skyscraper when five of the guests receive an intriguing text message. According to the sender, there’s an exclusive VIP party happening on the twenty seventh floor, and they’re all invited.

Once on the floor, however, the five guests and two party crashers quickly realize that they have fallen into a trap. The only way off of this floor is to follow a series of morbid clues left by a murderous psychopath. But who conceived these deadly games, and why have they targeted this specific group?

Reviews:

“The movie leans primarily on the Saw franchise in its layout with the occasional reference to things like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Carrie to spice things up and a twist in the tale that’s trying to be something along the lines of Scream. The problem comes in when it doesn’t deliver on the Saw premise like it was trying to, and the audience is left (more than a little bit) disappointed.” The B-Horror Blog

“Steel Trap is the kind of film that substitutes creepy locations for plotting, and the slightest smatterings of gore in place of anything suspenseful or scary. To call it derivative would avoid its obvious attempts at being different, and yet this is nothing more than the standard slice and dice from 20 years ago, dressed up in a decidedly uninteresting set of the emperor’s new clothes.” Bill Gibron, Pop Matters

“It’s also badly paced. There are only seven people, and you know it will come down to two of them, giving us a total of five kills. Well three of them occur in the film’s first 45 minutes, so the final 50 is primarily a series of boring arguments between the four survivors, one of which you’ve probably already figured out is the killer and one of which is the obvious last man standing. Occasionally they do things like look in computer monitors and see the “killer” … or run down a hallway or whatever, but it’s hardly exciting..” Horror Movie a Day

[Spoiler]: “What makes this go from a shitty movie to a SHITTY movie is the twist/”big reveal”. People I tell you this is one of the dumbest, most retarded reveals I’ve ever seen in a horror movie. Ok ok ok …. I’m gonna tell ya because this way I know for sure you won’t watch this.  The killer is one of the group members (as expected). Its the celebrity chef character and she assembled this group together and is killing them because they were all mean to her years ago when she was fat. That’s right; she was driven to murder and putting together more traps than Saw and The Collector combined because when she was younger she was a big ole fatty.” Anything Horror

Filming locations:

Cologne, Germany

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‘One Hell of a party!’

Saturday the 14th Strikes Back is a 1988 comedy horror film, written and directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman for Concorde. It is a sequel to Saturday the 14th.

The film stars Ray Walston (Galaxy of Terror; Blood Salvage), Avery Schreiber, Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed; Crowhaven Farm; Silent Predators), Jason Presson, Julianne McNamara, Rhonda Aldrich, Daniel Will-Harris, Pamela Stonebrook, Joseph Ruskin. Horror icon Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes; The Devil’s Rejects; Self Storage) has a minor role as a mummy.

Plot teaser:

Eddie and his family have just inherited a spooky wreck of a house. What they do not know about the house is that it was built over an evil passage way, but they are soon to discover the wacky evil it releases…

Reviews:

A cynical Corman attempt to cash-in on the surprising video rental success of their already feeble 1981 comedy horror. Thematically, this is a throw-it-all-at-the-screen affair from Herman R. Cohen (who’d previously given the world Vampire Hookers, the original Saturday the 14th and Deathstalker). The self-reflective ending includes apocalyptic footage from previous Corman acquisitions and productions, including a bizarre one second shot of Johnny Ramone’s lower half and guitar from Rock ‘n’ Rock High School! Avoid, unless in a very charitable mood, or a die-hard Michael Berryman fan.

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“The film isn’t completely terrible though. There’s some cool looking puppets as well as entertaining stop motion throughout. There’s something moderately charming about the fact that the film never takes a second to stop. It’s one bad gag and bad joke after another. While the film doesn’t hold the same level of “so bad it’s good” praise that a Troll 2 or Plan 9 will receive it’s probably the only film where you get to see a werewolf spy on an olympic gold medalist in the shower.” Geekscape

” … few films are as entertaining as watching this movie try to be clever and fail. It’s simply that earnest and determined, and pity makes belly laughs deeper. Like a kid in socks trying to turn a corner on linoleum, like a drunken man hitting on a waitress, there is humor in watching repeated clumsy failure. For this, Saturday the 14th Strikes Back should be saluted.” Axel Kohagen, Slasher Studios

” … one of the most insane genre-related movies I think I’ve ever seen. If you’ve never experienced it for yourself, ST14SB basically makes Troll 2 look Oscar-worthy in comparison and yet, it’s really hard for me as a fan to hate on ST14SB because despite its numerous (and boy do I mean numerous flaws), you can tell it’s a movie with a horror-loving heart beating deep beneath its wacky surface and that’s something I can always appreciate as a fan.” The Misadventures of the Horror Chick

Cast:

• Ray Walston as Gramps Baxter
• Avery Schreiber as Frank Baxter
• Patty McCormack as Kate Baxter
• Jason Presson as Eddie Baxter
• Julianne McNamara as Linda Baxter
• Rhonda Aldrich as Alice
• Daniel Will-Harris as Bert
• Pamela Stonebrook as Charlene
• Joseph Ruskin as Kharis
• Riad as Takatiri
• Phil Leeds as Leonard
• Leo Gordon as The Evil One (as Leo V. Gordon)
• Tommy Rall as The Werewolf
• Michael Berryman as The Mummy
• Dave Workman as The Plumber

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México Bárbaro is a 2014 Mexican horror anthology film with tales by eight different directors:

Isaac Ezban – “La cosa mas preciada”
Laurette Flores Bornn – “Tzompantli”
Jorge Michel Grau – “Muñecas”
Ulises Guzman – “Siete veces siete”
Edgar Nito – “Jaral de Berrios”
Lex Ortega – “Lo que importa es lo de adentro”
Gigi Saul Guerrero – “Día de los Muertos”
Aaron Soto – “Drena”

Cast: 

Mathias Retamal, Barbara Perrin Rivemar, Claudia Goytia, Sara Camacho, Ramón Medína, Rubén Zerecero, Dulce Alexa, Anuar Zuñiga Naime, Lorena Gonzalez, Gilean Alducin Luciano.

The title is derived from a 1908 essay by John Kenneth Turner that highlighted the political and social situation in Mexico during the twilight of the long dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.

Official plot synopsis:

México Bárbaro shows the world stories that form a part of our culture, and even some that have haunted us and made us have nightmares since childhood, those ones which took away our innocence. The boogeyman, trolls, ghosts, creatures, Aztec sacrifices, and of course our most beloved tradition, Day of the Dead, immerse in urban and rural stories are some of the issues that make up this anthology.

Reviews:

” … the film fails to be a cohesive conceptual anthology. When it world premiered at Sitges 2014, it was screened back-to-back with two other recent horror anthologies: V/H/S: Viral and ABCs of Death 2. If I’m going to compare it with those productions, well, México Bárbaro at least doesn’t try to unite its eight segments in a way that hardly makes any sense as V/H/S: Viral did, but it definitely lacks the concrete ideas — as well as the brutality and energy — that the best shorts from ABCs of Death 2 have. It’s a welcomed effort that could have been much more powerful.” Eric Ortiz Garcia, Twitch

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Demonic is a 2015 US horror movie directed by Will Canon from a screenplay he co-wrote with Max La Bella and Doug Simon. The original story was provided by producer James Wan (SAW; Insidious: Chapter 2; The Conjuring). The film’s working title was House of Horror.

Cast: 

Maria Bello, Frank Grillo, Cody Horn, Dustin Milligan, Megan Park, Scott Mechlowicz, Aaron Yoo, Alex Goode, Ashton Leigh, Terence Rosemore, Jesse Steccato, Meyer DeLeeuw, Griff Furst, Tyson Sullivan.

Plot teaser:

In the aftermath of a horrific massacre, in which five college students were brutally murdered inside an abandoned home, Detective Mark Lewis and psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Klein question one of the few survivors who explains they were amateur ghost-hunters, seeking out paranormal phenomenon at the abandoned house, which was believed to be haunted. But what started out as a harmless activity turned into something truly terrifying…

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Alone is an upcoming Hindi Indian horror film directed by Bhushan Patel – who previously helmed hit Indian horror films 1920: Evil Returns and Ragini MMS - from a screenplay by Sheershak Anand and Shantanu Ray Chhibber.

It stars Bipasha Basu (You Must Be Scared; Aatma; Creature), Karan Singh Grover and Zakir Hussain (Vaastu Shastra; Darling; Phoonk) in pivotal roles. It marks the film debut of Grover.

The film is being released on January 16, 2015. It is the Bollywood remake of the 2007 Thai film of the same name, which was remade in Kannada and Tamil in 2012 as Charulatha and remade in Malayalam as Geethaanjali.

Plot teaser:

Conjoined at birth, Anjana and Sanjana were twin sisters who lived by one promise made to each other – ‘We will always be together. We will never separate’. Mysterious circumstances lead to the death of one while the other survives. Years later, the ghost of the dead comes back to haunt the surviving sister…

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‘Evil will rise’

The Lazarus Effect is a 2015 American horror film directed by David Gelb from a screenplay by Luke Dawson (Shutter) and Jeremy Slater (The Fantastic Four). It was previously titled Lazarus and is the latest from Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions, the company behind hits Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious, Sinister, and their sequels.

The film stars Evan Peters (American Horror Story), Olivia Wilde, Sarah Bolger, Mark Duplass and Donald Glover. It is scheduled to be released on February 27, 2015, by Relativity Media.

Plot teaser:

A team of ambitious medical professionals have found a way to bring dead patients back to life using a serum codenamed “Lazarus”. After several successful tests are done on animals, Zoe (Olivia Wilde), one of the lead researchers, dies in a lab accident.

In desperation, the team uses “Lazarus” to bring her back and they are successful. But as she begins to display unusual abilities the team begins to realise that in their attempt to resurrect the dead, they may have opened the door to unfathomable evil…

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‘Possess the possession’

The Atticus Institution is a 2015 American science fiction/horror movie written and directed by Chris Sparling (writer of Buried and ATM) and produced by Peter Safran (Vampires Suck; The Conjuring; Annabelle).

The film stars Julian Acosta (The Lords of Salem; Grimm), Anne Betancourt, Carlos E. Campos, William Mapother, Rya Kihlstedt, John Rubinstein, Sharon Maughan, Gerald McCullouch, Anton Narinskiy, Erich Lane.

The Atticus Institution is due to be released by Anchor Bay on Blu-ray and DVD in the US on January 20, 2015 and by Universal Pictures on March 30, 2015 in the UK.

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Plot teaser:

Dr. Henry West founded The Atticus Institute in the early 1970s to test individuals expressing supernatural abilities – E.S.P., clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc. Despite witnessing several noteworthy cases, nothing could have prepared Dr. West and his colleagues for Judith Winstead. She outperformed every subject they had ever studied – soon gaining the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense, who subsequently took control of the research facility.

The more experiments they conducted on Judith, the clearer it became that her abilities were the manifestation of evil forces within her, prompting the government to take measures to weaponise this force. But they soon discovered there are powers that exist in this world that simply cannot be controlled…

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‘Work. It sucks the life out of you.’

Bloodsucking Bastards is a 2015 US comedy horror film directed by Brian James O’Connell (Killer View) from a screenplay by Dr. God and Ryan Mitts. It stars Fran Kranz, Pedro Pascal, Yvette Yates, Joel Murray, Emma Fitzpatrick, Joey Kern, Patricia Rae, Parvesh Cheena, Zabeth Russell, Neil W. Garguilo, Justin Ware, Kyran Danaher, Marshall Givens, James Warfield.

The film is being premiered on January 23, 2015 at the Slamdance Film Festival.

Plot teaser:

Evan is a dutiful and overworked employee stuck at a soul-killing corporation with his beautiful co-worker and girlfriend Amanda (Emma Fitzpatrick) and his slacker best friend Tim (Joey Kern). Evan’s world begins to crumble when Amanda dumps him and his boss Ted (Joel Murray) hands his coveted promotion to his nemesis Max (Pedro Pascal). When his office mates start going through disturbing changes, Evan must find a way to stop the evil brewing amidst the office cubicles, and rescue his workplace pals before his life and career go from dead-end… to just dead.

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‘You can’t lock out what lives inside’

The Intruders is a 2015 Canadian horror thriller film directed by Adam Massey from a screenplay by Jason Juravic for Darius Films. It stars Miranda Cosgrove, Donal Logue, Tom Sizemore, Jenessa Grant, Austin Butler, Kelly Boegel, Claire Calarco, Michael Luckett, Jazmin Paradis.

In the US, the film is being released on DVD by Sony on February 24, 2015. 

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Official plot teaser:

Every town has its secrets, as college student Rose Halshford (Cosgrove) learns when she and her dad (Logue) move into a musty, old house. When Rose discovers that the previous tenant mysteriously disappeared, leaving her possessions behind, she suspects her unfriendly neighbours know more than they let on. When Rose reports strange noises coming from inside the house, no one, not even her father believes her, insisting that it’s all in her head. As Rose’s suspicions grow she begins to fear that she may be the next victim of whatever or whomever has infiltrated her new home…

Filming Locations:

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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‘The Mold knows Jack, The Mold knows.’

Motivational Growth is a 2013 independent comedy horror film written, edited and directed by Don Thacker. It stars Jeffrey Combs (as the voice of The Mold), Adrian DiGiovanni, Danielle Doetsch, Pete Giovagnoli, Ken Brown, Robert Kramer, Hannah Stevenson, Laura Carlson.

Plot teaser:

Ian Folivor, a depressed and reclusive 30-something, finds himself taking advice from a growth in his bathroom after a failed suicide attempt. The Mold, a smooth talking fungus who was born of the filth collecting in a corner of Ian’s neglected bathroom, works to win Ian’s trust by helping him clean himself up and remodel his lifestyle. With The Mold’s help, Ian attracts the attention of a neighbour he’s been ogling through his peephole, Leah, and he manages to find a slice of happiness despite his unnatural circumstances. But Ian starts to receive strange messages from his old and broken down TV set that make him realize that The Mold may not be as helpful as it seems to be, and strange characters combined with stranger events cast Ian’s life in the shadow of an epic battle between good and evil that Ian is only partially aware of…

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Reviews:

“Writer/director Don Thacker makes this film work on so many levels. First, he tries many different techniques to make the story interesting and succeeds. Ian breaks the fourth wall with the audience early on and teaches a lesson on how little things become significant when one is depressed and lives alone. Next, Thacker moves the story forward through the use of animation (splendidly created by Jérémie Périn) and by inserting Ian into the very television programs he has been hooked on watching. Finally, the camera is utilized to make the most of a cramped and cluttered apartment.” Namtar, Nuke the Fridge

“The fact that 90% of this film takes place with a guy talking to the camera on his couch, all the while maintaining a creative, interesting, and intelligent edge all the way through, is a testament as to how great Motivational Growth truly is. The alternating dark and light tones give this film a unique texture, never really letting on as to where it will go next. Sure to poke, prod, and play with your brain in ways normal cinema does not, Motivational Growth is unlike anything you’ve seen before.” Ambush Bug, Ain’t It Cool News

“It’s set in the 1990s, uses chiptunes by Alex Mauer for a soundtrack that sound straight out of a video game, and even has 8-bit video game style cutscenes for certain scenes that add even more character to the film. What’s even more interesting is the film’s budget, and what Thacker was able to do with it. Shot for just over $176K, the limited number of effects that Thacker was able to pull off were quite impressive. As far as the gore goes, there isn’t too much going on, but there are more gross-out moments than gore, such as Ian eating fungus, vomiting various types of goo, rotted dead bodies and more.” Pat Torfe, Bloody Disgusting

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‘Every apartment has a past…’

Sensoria is a 2015 Swedish horror thriller produced and directed by Christian Hallman from a screenplay he co-wrote with Måns F.G. Thunberg.

NSFW trailer:

The film, which has been part-financed by a Kickstarter campaign, will most probably be shown at festivals late Summer and Fall, with  a tentative release date in Scandinavia of December 2015.

Plot teaser:

Caroline Menard, a woman in her late thirties, has lost almost everything she cares for in the world and is searching for a new beginning. She moves into an old apartment and starts to realise that she is not as alone as she thought she was. Just as she is searching for something new, something is searching for her…

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‘I’ve gotten to know you so well… it’s been a treat’

The Dinner Guest is a 2015 horror thriller co-directed and co-written by Joseph Dean Martinez and James Neff (they previously directed Seizure and 32 two horror shorts). The Night Walker Cinema production stars Shawn C. Phillips, Jon Maxwell, Justin Little, Burt Culver, Karenssa LeGear, Mike Burnell.

Plot teaser:

Eric and Jenn Pierce have plans to celebrate a special evening together but their night is suddenly interrupted by a sadistic intruder. Held captive against their will by this assailant with an agenda of his own, they must put everything on the line to survive and what comes next will haunt you…

Filming locations:

San Diego, California

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Grizzly is a 2014 US/Canadian horror film directed by David Hackl (Saw V) from a screenplay by Guy Moshe and J.R. Reher (based on the latter’s storyline).

The film stars James Marsden (Straw Dogs; X-Men: Days of Future Past), Thomas Jane, Billy Bob Thornton (Chopper Chicks in Zombietown), Piper Perabo, Scott Glenn, Adam Beach, Michaela McManus, Kelly Curran.

This Indomitable Entertainment/Purple Pictures production has a reported budget of $10 million abd was originally titled Red Machine then Endangered. Open Road Films will distribute in the US. It has been rated ‘R” for: “violence, grisly images, language and brief sexuality/nudity.”

Plot teaser:

Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wilderness and attempt to mend their troubled past. Together with their girlfriends, they embark on a camping adventure that goes horribly awry when they are relentlessly stalked and attacked by a grizzly bear on a rampage…

Filming locations:

Vancouver, Canada

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Kampung Zombie – “Zombie Village” – is a 2015 Indonesian horror movie directed by Billy Christian (Hi5teria; Tuyul: Part 1) for Movie 8 productions, a subsidiary of Maxima Pictures. The film stars Ahmad Dhani, El Jalaluddin Rumi, Kia Poetri, Ali Mensan, Axel Matthew Thomas and Luthya Sury.

Kampung Zombie is due to be released on 19 March 2015.

The living dead are brought back to life after a village is consumed by contaminated volcanic ash. Four young travellers unwittingly find themselves stranded in a forest of zombies and must fight for their lives…

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‘Evil is coming’

Deathgasm is a 2015 New Zealand comedy horror movie written and directed by Jason Lei Howden.

The film stars Milo Cawthorne, James Blake, Kimberley Crossman, Stephen Ure, Sam Berkley, Daniel Cresswell, Delaney Tabron, Colin Moy, Jodie Rimmer, Nick Hoskins-Smith, Erroll Shand, Kate Elliott.

Deathgasm has its World Premiere next month at SXSW.

Plot teaser:

New kid in town Brodie and bad-boy Zakk quickly bond over their mutual admiration of heavy metal. But when these two metal-heads unwittingly summon up a demon known as The Blind One, their dreams of stardom may just have to be put on hold…

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‘They do not come in peace’

Extraterrestrial is a 2014 US sci-fi horror film that was directed by Colin Minihan, based on a script by both Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters and its sequel). It was previously known as The Visitors.

The film stars Brittany Allen (Dead Before Dawn 3D), Freddie Stroma and Melanie Papalia (Blade: The Series) as a group of friends that must defend themselves against an alien onslaught. Genre regular Michael Ironside (Scanners; Watchers; Abysm) has a cameo role.

The movie had its world premiere on April 18, 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival under the banner of IFC Midnight.

Plot teaser:

Hoping to spend a romantic weekend in the woods at her parents’ cabin, April (Brittany Allen) is dismayed when her boyfriend Kyle (Freddie Stroma) invites his friends to party in the woods. As the group settles into the secluded location, they discover that a UFO has crashed nearby and that they are being observed by one of the craft’s survivors.

They end up attacking and killing the alien, which prompts a series of counterattacks by its crew mates…

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Reviews:

Overall, Extraterrestrial looks pretty good: the camera and lens work look significantly better than the budget suggests, the CGI is impressive, and white light spills from flashlights and windows like thick white gauze … Of course, the brothers splice found footage-style bits throughout the film, for reasons that remain indiscernible, and these scenes naturally look awful. More than that, they don’t add anything of value…” Greg Cwik, Indiewire

“There are moments here and there in Extraterrestrial suggesting a touch of self-awareness that they’re treading on well-traveled ground—but being self-aware about these clichés doesn’t change the fact that they’re clichés.” Michael Gingold, Fangoria

“Unfortunately, its attempt to be scary fails because it never plays with the psyches of its characters. Nobody in the movie’s world believes these kids, yet the viewer knows immediately that the aliens are real, which kills… no… destroys any suspense. Instead, we’re forced to endure a plethora of fake jump scares.” Bloody Disgusting

” …plays like pretty standard slasher fare. It’s in the final act that the pic becomes more ambitious and interesting, though not quite enough to lift the whole from decent-time-filler status to something more inspired. Like the duo’s prior “Grave Encounters” movies, this is a well-crafted, watchable genre effort short on novel ideas and distinctive dialogue/character writing.” Dennis Harvey, Variety

“Unfortunately, once “Extraterrestrial” finally delivers its most emotionally draining scene, it keeps right on going. Thankfully, these are some of the film’s most visually impressive sequences. But by this point, Minihan and Ortiz’s lack of discipline, and frequent cribbing from just about everything, including The Matrix and Alien, has worn away a lot of good will. There’s a lot to like about Extraterrestrial, but not enough to leave you completely satisfied.” Simon Abrams, RogerEbert.com

” … the Brothers simply recycle the staples without any smarter purpose – there’s even a cabin in the woods, but just a plain old non-ironic, pre-Cabin in the Woods cabin in the woods. It’s all about as pleasurable as the inevitable alien anal probe. Extra-terrible, more like.” Jonathan Romney, The Guardian

Cast:

• Brittany Allen as April
• Freddie Stroma as Kyle
• Melanie Papalia as Melanie
• Jesse Moss as Seth
• Anja Savcic as Lex
• Gil Bellows Sherif Murphy
• Michael Ironside as Travis
• Sean Rogerson as Deputy Mitchell
• Emily Perkins as Nancy
• Mike Kovac as Clerk
• Ian Brown as Farmer
• Fred Keating as Mike
• Mackenzie Gray as Man in Black
• Reese Alexander as Military Officer

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‘Based on a true story’

Backcountry is a 2014 Canadian horror survival thriller written and directed by Adam MacDonald. It stars Eric Balfour, Nicholas Campbell, Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop (Vampire High; Sombre Zombie; Jekyll + Hyde), Melanie Mullen (Dead Before Dawn 3D).

The film is released on VOD on March 20th.

Plot teaser:

Alex is a seasoned outdoorsman while Jenn, a corporate lawyer, is not. After much convincing, and against her better judgment, she agrees to let him take her deep into a Provincial Park to the secluded Blackfoot Trail.

On their first night, deep in the forest, they have an unsettling encounter with Brad, a strange alpha male with eyes for Jenn who may or may not be following them. They push further and further into the woods, Alex stubbornly insisting that he remembers the way.

After three days their path disappears; they are hopelessly lost. Without food or water, they struggle to find their way back, the harsh conditions bringing out the best and worst in them, pushing their already fragile relationship to the breaking point. When…

Reviews:

‘ …an almost perfectly realized film, making the best of its humble budget and exploiting its stunning locations to maximum effect. MacDonald (who is well known in the North for his acting chops) is a major talent, who’s now crafted the best Canadian horror movie in ages.’ Chris Alexander, Fangoria

‘Backcountry is roughly an hour of build-up and then a rip-roaring 30 minutes of sheer terror, but it isn’t a slow burn that makes a desperate attempt to make an impression in the final act of the film.  That last half hour only is what it is because of all the character development and memorable moments you experience before.’ Perri Nemiroff, Collider

‘Involving and at times heartbreaking, Backcountry is an excellent thriller and another fine example of the innovative and talented crop of Canadian film makers that have surfaced these past few years.  If Grizzly was Jaws in the woods, think of this as 2003’s Open Water in the woods. Nothing wrong with that at all.’ Rob Getz, HorrorNews.net

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iZombie is an upcoming American comedy horror detective TV series scheduled to premiere on March 17, 2015, on The CW. It is a loose adaptation of the comic book series created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred, and published by DC Comics‘ Vertigo imprint.

The series is a Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Spondoolie Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Rob Thomas, Diane Ruggiero-Wright (Veronica Mars), Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge. The pilot was directed by Rob Thomas.

Plot teaser:

Olivia “Liv” Moore was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out, until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. Afterward, she became part zombie.

To give her access to the brains she must eat to survive, Olivia currently works at a coroner’s office. A side effect of her new diet is the ability to absorb the memories of the deceased, which helps her solve homicides…

Cast:

• Rose McIver as Olivia “Liv” Moore
• Robert Buckley as Major Lilywhite: Liv’s former fiancee
• Malcolm Goodwin as Clive Babinaux: A local police detective who knows Liv’s secret and often asks for her help to solve crimes
• David Anders as Blaine DeBeers.
• Rahul Kohli as Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti: A medical examiner and Liv’s boss. He also knows about Liv’s secret and assists her whenever he can to protect as well as study her.

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