By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The fright-fave actress is offering 13 “courses” in screen fear on the Indiepix Unlimited’s SVOD service.
IndiePix Unlimited is launching its Fall Semester of Scare School on Halloween, offering 13 “courses” (i.e., feature films) with a trio of themes. “Headmistress” Debbie Rochon has hand-picked five of her own favorite movies for a Master Class, while Shocking Zoology showcases animal-themed terror and Demonic Conjurings is just what it sounds like. The full lineup of films is below, followed by our exclusive trailer; to register for Scare School, visit Amazon Channels on Prime and sign up for a free seven-day trial of IndiePix Unlimited, priced at $5.99 per month.
Debbie Rochon Master Class
- THE GOOD SISTERS: Breanne Good (Rochon) and her younger sister Kindra Good (April Monique Burrill) have lived together in a modest Maryland suburban house for several years to hide a secret life. They are both practionioners of witchcraft which they keep a secret from their neighbors. When a mysterious man named Daniel (David Calhoun) moves into their house next door, Breanna and Kindra become suspicious of their new neighbor who also leads a secret life. Unsure if he is unnaturally obsessed with knowing about them, or if he has an agenda, the Good sisters will have to draw up all their powers to confront him.
- AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: It’s Halloween night and a radio DJ is asking listeners to phone in and share their deepest fears, but the airwaves are being stalked by a monster who targets callers, turning their worst nightmares into horrifying reality. It’s also the one-year anniversary of the slaying of four students, and their killer is celebrating in Grand Guignol style by forcing a group of strangers into a hellish game of cat and mouse in director Jon Keeyes’ debut feature that became a video store favorite.
- COLOUR FROM THE DARK: In Ivan Zuccon’s adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft story “The Colour Out of Space,” Pietro (Michael Segal) and Lucia (Rochon) live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia’s younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil and one day, while drawing water from the well, the couple accidentally free something from Earth’s womb as a strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well’s bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening, and by night, the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, bringing its inhabitants into its sick world of pain, blood and death.
- EXHUMED: A warped and mysterious family are unable to leave the house they reside in for unknown reasons. When this strange brood decides to turn their captivity into a sick and violent game, it challenges their very reality and puts all of their lives in great jeopardy in this moody, atmospheric horror film in the Hammer tradition, shot in gorgeous black-and-white by director Richard Griffin (THE DISCO EXORCIST, MURDER UNIVERSITY).
- THE EXORCISM OF FLEETE MARISH: Many years ago in the Acadian forest, a local sheriff and his oldest friend are forced to perform an exorcism in a remote cabin the woods in this demonic-possession thriller.
Shocking Zoology
- FRENCH BLOOD: MR. PIG, MR. RABBIT & MR. FROG: Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy. MR. PIG is the first title in the FRENCH BLOOD series, combining hyper-designed aesthetics with chilling horror stories. A young geek addicted to horror films is undressed by a pervert zombie, a group of friends are stabbed with a machete by a couple of degenerates and an old best-selling author is found dead in his mansion, while a deranged killer roams the area. FRENCH BLOOD: MR. RABBIT tells the story of women raped and left nearly dead by a dark gang hiding behind terrifying masks: Mister Pig, Mister Rabbit, Mister Frog, Mister Sheep. And in FRENCH BLOOD: MR. FROG, a mad artist becomes famous by photographing sadistic murders in town, two childhood friends are trapped after a botched robbery and a community of survivors live in seclusion under a monster-infested Earth after a nuclear cataclysm. A much-discussed, hyper-stylized film series, FRENCH BLOOD offers up a perfect horror showcase–bloody, gritty and unforgiving but oh-so-stylized!
- PEACOCK: After violating the strict moral standards of The Foundation, the puritanical institution for young women in which she was raised, Anna Pohl (Tarryn Wyngaard) is sent to care for one of its founding members. An apartheid-era theologian living out his days in paranoia on his isolated farm, Sarel Cilliers (Johan Botha) suffers from frightening visions and demonic hallucinations. Haunted by her own feelings of guilt, Anna slowly gets pulled into Sarel’s terrifying world as she tries to unravel the mysteries behind this sinister place and its connection to the devastating secrets being hidden by The Foundation. An evocative and erotic South African Gothic horror, PEACOCK explores the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.
- HOUSE OF THE SERPENT: An actress penning a play inspired by the story of a woman vanishing into thin air becomes disturbed by unexplained phenomena at her rental villa.
Demonic Conjurings
- THE SUDBURY DEVIL: In the late 17th century, two Puritan witch hunters travel to a small Massachusetts town investigating rumors of devil worship, and are irrevocably transformed by the ungodly forces they encounter.
- MUOI: THE CURSE RETURNS: While visiting a friend, a woman finds herself entrapped by a cursed portrait, which she must confront to save her friend and herself.
- WHAT IS BURIED MUST REMAIN: When a group of young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a haunted house, they encounter otherworldly forces engaged in an ancient war for the soul of the land.