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Exclusive teaser and filmmaker comments: Telephonic terror in “CLOSE CALLS”
We previously told you about the upcoming indie chiller CLOSE CALLS, and now we’ve got the exclusive first look at a teaser trailer and words from its creator.
Movie Review: Stick a “PITCHFORK” in it, it’s been done
Debuting director Glenn Douglas Packard has a background as an Emmy-winning choreographer—which might explain why PITCHFORK is the same old song and dance.
Scary “CLOSE CALLS” in new indie chiller; first news, poster
P.J. Starks, producer of the VOLUMES OF BLOOD anthologies, got in touch with the first details and the latest poster for his latest project, CLOSE CALLS, a “psychedelic terror” opus set for release this coming spring.
Monster Fest ’16 Movie Review: “PLAYGROUND” isn’t kidding around
Polish genre film is certainly having one hell of a year. From the archetypically murderous mermaid musical THE LURE to the true-crime character study I, OLGA HEPNAROVÁ to the widely released dybbuk drama DEMON, there have been plenty of choices for horror fans to sample from Poland. Add to those Bartosz M. Kowalski’s PLAYGROUND.
Brooklyn Horror Fest ’16 Review: The award-winning, engrossing mind-messer “WITHOUT NAME”
A few years back, a marvelously atmospheric horror short called FOXES played the festival circuit, showcasing a pair of burgeoning talents in Irish director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Garret Shanley. That promise pays off in the duo’s feature debut, WITHOUT NAME, which made its U.S. premiere and took four awards (including Best Feature and Best Director) over the weekend at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.
Fantasia/Frontières Exclusive: Jenn Wexler and Larry Fessenden talk punks-vs.-maniac movie “THE RANGER”
During this summer’s Frontières International Co-Production Market at Montreal’s Fantasia festival, RUE MORGUE got the chance to chat with several filmmakers who were there pitching ambitious genre projects to potential backers. Among the most notable were Jenn Wexler and Larry Fessenden of Glass Eye Pix, with a unique maniac-in-the-woods chiller called THE RANGER.
Fantasia ’16 Movie Review: “WE GO ON” into seriously spooky territory
A scary and imaginative take on seeing dead people.
Fantasia ’16 Review: Jump aboard “TRAIN TO BUSAN,” and hang on!
It’s like Korea’s WORLD WAR Z, and it knocks the American one on its ass.
Fantasia ’16 Movie Review: Hear the mermaids singing—and killing—in “THE LURE”
If you see only one horror/fantasy/romance/musical/mermaid movie this year… But seriously, the achievement of THE LURE is that it manages to meld all those disparate genres together into a movie in which they coexist naturally—where upbeat musical numbers alternate with graphic gore, and it doesn’t seem jarring.
Fantasia ’16 Movie Review: “THE MASTER CLEANSE” refreshes the body-horror genre
What a strange and beguiling movie is THE MASTER CLEANSE, which quietly refuses to take the easy or expected path. An international premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia festival, it adopts a personal approach to material that could have been milked for easy gross-outs, and is all the better for it.