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Red Water Entertainment has announced that they will be giving writer/director Rasmus Merivoo’s Estonian horror comedy / dark fairy tale Kratt a digital and VOD release in North America on October 11th – and along with that announcement comes the unveiling of the film’s trailer, which you can see in the embed above. The film will be available to watch on the likes of iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, iNDemand, and Dish next month.

Said to be “in the vein of Guillermo del Toro“, Kratt has the following synopsis:

Children are left at Grandma’s without smartphones. Real life seems boring, working feels hard. Luckily they find instructions for Kratt – a magical creature from old Estonian mythology who will do whatever its master says. All they have to do now is buy a soul from the Devil! Life stops being boring in a bloody way…

The film stars Mari Lill,...

Encyclopocalypse Publications is proud to bring Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall's debut YA Horror novel, The Dead Friends Society, to print on November 11, 2022: "Drew and her friends aren't like most college kids. They're dead.

Murdered in 1998 by a masked killer known only as The Fireman, their spirits are trapped in Greywood House, desperate to escape...until Abbey and her family arrive.

The new girl finds herself drawn to their haunting presence, which only makes things worse. Because the dead know what the living can't: The Fireman is coming back.

And this time the ghosts of Greywood House will have to do whatever it takes to stop the next bloodbath, even if it means the end of their afterlives...

"The Dead Friends Society was supposed to be a movie." explains authors Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman, "We started developing it years ago, when the world was very different. We...

When you were at primary school, did you ever get asked to write an essay about what you did in your summer holidays? In the absence of interesting events, were you tempted to get creative? Rasmus Merivoo’s Kratt – part of the Fantasia 2021 line-up – feels as if it started out that way, but that’s not to fault it. It perfectly captures the spirit of a summer adventure.

Mia and Kevin (Nora and Harri Merivoo – this makes no secret of being a family film) are sent to stay with their grandmother (Mari Lill) for the summer because their parents want some time alone. Being stuck out in the middle of nowhere in rural Estonia isn’t their idea of fun, especially without their phones, and the suggestion that they fill up their time by doing chores doesn’t go down well. They’re smart kids, however, always looking for solutions,...

Stars: Nora Merivoo, Harri Merivoo, Mari Lill, Elise Tekko, Roland Teima, Ivo Uukkivi | Written and Directed by Rasmus Merivoo

In Estonian mythology a Kratt is a creature made out of hay and old household implements and brought to life with a soul purchased from the devil. Once animated it was bound to do whatever tasks it was given. The problem was, if it ran out of things to do it became bored, and murderous. I first encountered a Kratt in Rainer Sarnet’s Estonian folk horror film November. Now his countryman Rasmus Merivoo has written and directed a much less serious take on these creatures, simply entitled Kratt.

Mia (Nora Merivoo) and Kevin (Harri Merivoo) have been dropped off with Grandma (Mari Lill) while their parents attend a retreat. Given chores and denied internet access the kids are not happy. They eventually wind up at the library in the company...