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Run away to the “VAMPIRE CARNIVAL” next month; trailer, poster & release info

It’s the latest from the filmmakers behind THE DJINN and THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR.

Aura Entertainment brings VAMPIRE CARNIVAL to theaters October 7. Directed by David Charbonier and Justin Powell, from a script by Jason Filardi and Peter Filardi (THE CRAFT, FLATLINERS), it stars Nell Verlaque, Kieron Moore, Paulina Chávez, Alicia Sanz, Cedrick Cooper, Eion Macken and Jason Isaacs. The synopsis: “VAMPIRE CARNIVAL follows a grieving young woman who is drawn to a mysterious traveling carnival that appears without warning in her small town. Seduced by its eerie spectacle and promises of escape, she soon discovers that the carnival is a gateway to a hidden world where vampires feed not on blood, but on human despair. As she becomes ensnared in its seductive illusions, she must confront the trauma she’s been running from or risk becoming the carnival’s next permanent attraction.”

 

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