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Klayton, the multifaceted musician known for his work across movies, TV, and video games, and bestselling writer and film producer Joshua Viola have teamed up to form Bit Bot Media. The cutting-edge multimedia company will spearhead the creation of original films and video games, along with "a diverse range of licensed comics, music, apparel, and merchandise such as latex masks, toys, and more." Today, they’ve unveiled a teaser video for the company, and we have your exclusive first look, along with more details on their new partnerships.

Bit Bot Media has forged a strategic partnership with Raven Banner Entertainment, a prominent indie Canadian film studio celebrated for its innovative genre films from around the globe. Together, they will collaborate on an array of ancillary offerings and film productions. Raven Banner’s recent productions include Steven Kostanski’s Frankie Freako, Nick Cutter’s The Breach, and the Shudder Original hit...

Some of the best TV shows, like Game of Thrones and The Wire, have dared to kill off their main characters, creating shocking and memorable moments. Shows that defy plot armor and keep audiences guessing produce the most thrilling scenes on television, with a genuine sense of risk and suspense. When normal people interact with killers, like in Fargo, it leads to unpredictable deaths and creates an explosion of suspense and surprise.

All TV shows have plot armor to a certain extent, ensuring major characters survive through certain situations where, logically, their deaths would be more than likely. Plot armor is a term used in film and TV to describe where a key character is protected from danger and death by the necessity of the plot. Sometimes, the story just has to keep going, even if that sacrifices some of the show's realism. However, when TV shows dare to defy...

October marks the start of spooky season, but really 2023 has brought the scares since last winter. It was difficult to narrow down the year’s best horror into just 10 books—and we stopped just short of Halloween, which conveniently coincides with several more creepy book releases including Nat Cassidy’s Nestlings—but these eerie selections sum up how horror has outdone itself so far this year.

Haunted houses abound, from abandoned homes you dare each other to sneak into to summer getaways for artists starved for space, but each sentient building has a unique torture for its visitors and inhabitants. The more meta offerings find the uncanny in everything from bloody memoirs to sinister home improvement YouTube channels. Families are grimly united by demonic secrets, or brutally separated by abduction and misfortune. Whether your tastes run more supernatural or more toward the mundane horrors of neighbor turning on neighbor, you...

Shetland is a gripping Scottish crime drama set in the eponymous Scottish archipelago, known for its darker and more sinister edge. The Shetland cast has seen changes over the years, but the performances continue to impress, with the show remaining a critical darling. The show reinvents the small-town crime genre with each passing year, making it one of the best shows set in Scotland.

Even though the Shetland cast has grown and changed over the course of its near-decade on the air, the featured players never fail to deliver in the gripping Scottish crime drama. Debuting in 2013 on BBC One, Shetland is set on the eponymous Scottish archipelago and follows the men and women of the local police force who investigate crimes that disrupt the sleepy community. With its distinctly Scottish environs and small-town crime aspects, Shetland is a unique specimen among other British crime dramas because of its darker and more sinister edge,...

Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan's new twisted haunted house tale, The Handyman Method, is now available and we have an excerpt that Daily Dead readers can check out right now!

"In The Handyman Method, the Saban family moves into an unfinished development community, and cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives. As a father wrestling with his unemployment and uncertain place in the world, Trent Saban’s attempts at DIY home repairs lead him down an online rabbit hole—where a paranormal radicalization surreptitiously takes hold. Stepping into the sole bread-winner role, his wife Rita tries to hold the family together as matters spiral out of control, going from bad to worse, even as their son Milo, a boy left to his own devices, exhibits sinister side effects of far too much screentime."

To read our excerpt, click on the cover below! The Handyman...

Stars: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Adam Kenneth Wilson, Wesley French, Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini, Alex Lifeson | Written by Nick Cutter, Ian Weir | Directed by Rodrigo Gudiño

The Breach, not to be confused with Breach, is the second feature from Rue Morgue founding editor Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh). Co-written by Nick Cutter and Ian Weir based on Cutter’s novel, its mix of haunted house and mad scientist themes attracted a lot of pre-release buzz which I was hoping it would live up to.

John Hawkins has one week left as sheriff of Lone Crow. Then he can put the town, and his ex Meg, behind him and start a new job in the city. That, of course, means something terrible has to happen before he can leave. And it does when a canoe bearing the mutilated remains of theoretical physicist Cole Parsons washes up at a local park.

Lightbulb Film Distribution is delighted to share the poster and trailer for new sci-fi horror, The Breach.

Based on the award-winning book by Nick Cutter, the Canadian feature is directed by Rodrigo Gudiño, founding editor of Rue Morgue. The soundtrack was written and performed by Slash (Guns N’ Roses), who is also Executive Producer on the film.

Fantasia Film Festival hosted the film’s world premiere in July, and the UK premiere took place at FrightFest 2022 the following month.

The Breach will be released On Demand and Download in the UK & Ireland from 10th July, and in Australia & New Zealand from 12th July.

Synopsis:

Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the small town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one final case when a mangled body washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River.

“We are thrilled to be bringing The Breach to audiences in the UK,...

The Breach is an upcoming Lovecraftian horror film from director Rodrigo Gudiño, the founder of Rue Morgue Magazine and the director of The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh. An exclusive clip of the film has been provided to us courtesy of Fangoria, which you can watch below. Before you do, you might also want to check out this plot synopsis.

“Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River.”

The Audible original audiobook the film is based on also provides us with a few more details.

“Hawkins and coroner Jacob Littlecorn suspect the disfigured body is that of theoretical physicist Graham Raphelson, also known as the 'molecular madman of Trinity College,' who recently disappeared. The two investigators enlist Meg Gilday,...

The Breach is an upcoming Lovecraftian horror film from director Rodrigo Gudiño, the founder of Rue Morgue Magazine and the director of The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh. An exclusive clip of the film has been provided to us courtesy of Fangoria, which you can watch below. Before you do, you might also want to check out this plot synopsis.

“Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River.”

The Audible original audiobook the film is based on also provides us with a few more details.

“Hawkins and coroner Jacob Littlecorn suspect the disfigured body is that of theoretical physicist Graham Raphelson, also known as the 'molecular madman of Trinity College,' who recently disappeared. The two investigators enlist Meg Gilday,...

The Breach: "Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River."

Directed by: ​​Rodrigo Gudiño Screenplay by: Ian Weir, Craig Davidson, Based on “The Breach” by Nick Cutter Cinematographer: Eric Oh Music By: Slash Producers: Pasha Patriki, Andrew Thomas Hunt, Michael Paszt Executive Producers: Slash, Jacquelyn Frisco, Gregor Habsburg, Allan Hawco, James Fler Production Company: Raven Banner & Hangar18 Distribution Company: Trinity Creative Partnership Cast: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo (Spare Parts), Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini (Revenge Delivered), Wesley French, Adam Kenneth Wilson and Alex Lifeson (best known as the guitarist for Rush) Runtime: 92 Minutes

Available July 11, 2023 (Digital and VOD)

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Watch the Short Film Familiar: "Familiar was a modern take on the old silent movies of the 1920’s and apart...

Stars: Greg Hovanessian, Michael Ironside, Dempsey Bryk, Greg Bryk, Noah Dalton Danby, Ted Atherton, Natasha Henstridge | Written by Craig Davidson, Andrew Thomas Hunt | Directed by Andrew Thomas Hunt

The Fight Machine is the second of two very different movies based on novels by Craig Davidson that Raven Banner debuted at this year’s edition of Fantasia. This one is adapted from his novel The Fighter. The other is The Breach, based on the novel of the same name by his perhaps more familiar pseudonym Nick Cutter.

Paul Harris comes from a rich family. He doesn’t have a care in the world until he mouths off to the wrong person and gets beaten bloody. Humiliated, he develops an obsession with bodybuilding and boxing, training under Lou. Rob Tully on the other hand comes from a working-class family and was, according to his father Reuben, born to fight. He trains with...

"They are opening the gates to hell here!" Trinity Creative Partnership and Raven Banner have revealed an official US trailer for an indie horror creation called The Breach, adapted from the novel by Nick Cutter. This premiered at Fantasia, FrightFest, Night Visions, and the Monsters of Film Horror Film Festivals last year - with a VOD release coming up soon this summer. Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River. Described as "gory, cosmic horror" it's made by the founder of Rue Morgue Magazine, Rodrigo Gudiño, directing his second feature. Featuring music by Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash (who's also an executive producer), the film stars Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini, Wesley French, Adam Kenneth Wilson,...

A couple weeks ago, we learned that Rue Morgue Magazine founder Rodrigo Gudiño’s film The Breach will be getting a VOD and digital release in the UK and Ireland on July 10th – and now it has been confirmed that the film will be reaching VOD and digital in the US just one day later, on July 11th! A trailer for The Breach can be seen in the embed above, so check it out and see if this looks like a movie you’ll want to watch next month.

The release date in Australia and New Zealand is July 12th.

Based on an Audible Original Podcast written by Nick Cutter (get the audiobook Here), The Breach follows John Hawkins, who is set to retire from his post as police chief of the small town of Lone Crow that is tucked away in the deep woods of northern Ontario. But following...

JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols already got to see Rue Morgue Magazine founder Rodrigo Gudiño’s film The Breach a year ago, but the film still doesn’t have a release date in the US. It does have a release date in the UK and Ireland, though, and it’s not far away: the movie will be getting a VOD and digital release there on July 10th. Along with the release date announcement comes the unveiling of a new trailer for The Breach, and you can check that out in the embed above.

If you’re in Australia or New Zealand and want to see The Breach soon, you’re in luck. The release date in those territories is coming just two days after the film will be available to watch in the UK and Ireland.

Based on an Audible Original Podcast written by Nick Cutter (get the audiobook Here), The Breach follows John Hawkins,...

Lightbulb Film Distribution has announced the UK release date for sci-fi horror movie The Breach, which will be available for Digital Download in the UK this summer.

Bd has learned that The Breach will be released On Demand and Download in the UK & Ireland from July 10th, and in Australia & New Zealand from July 12th.

Watch the UK trailer below and stay tuned for a US release date.

Directed by Rue Morgue Magazine founder Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh), The Breach tells the story of John Hawkins, counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow nestled deep in the desolate woods of Northern Ontario. But when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River, he’s pulled into a horrific mystery that defies comprehension.

The Breach stars Allan Hawco (“Frontier,...

Saul Hudson, better known as Slash, the British-American lead guitarist of iconic rock group Guns N’ Roses, has launched a horror production outfit.

His new act, BerserkerGang, is being hatched in partnership with horror genre professionals Michael Paszt, James Fler and Andrew T. Hunt of Raven Banner; Rodrigo Gudiño, filmmaker and founder of Rue Morgue magazine; and producer Pasha Patriki of Hangar 18 Media.

“I’ve always been a huge horror fan, especially going back to the days when horror movies actually scared the hell out of you,” Slash said in a statement. “I want to get into the heart of the producing business so I can try and make movies that I’d like to see.”

Slash, Raven Banner and Gudiño recently partnered on the Nick Cutter-scripted film “The Breach,” which was produced by Patriki at Hangar 18. Slash has credits on the picture as composer and executive producer.

Author Nick Cutter’s novel The Deep was released back in 2015 (you can pick up a copy Here), and genre legends Clive Barker and Stephen King were among the readers who were shaken by the story. Barker said the book is “utterly terrifying”. King said The Deep “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down”, adding that the book was “old-school horror at its best”. Now Deadline reports that a series adaptation of the novel is in the works at Amazon Studios, with C. Henry Chaisson – whose credits include co-writing the screenplay for the horror film Antlers and writing a couple episodes of the M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller series Servant – on board to write and executive produce.

Described as “The Abyss meets The Shining“, The Deep tells the following story: A strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It...

Published in 2015 and notably praised by horror master Clive Barker, Nick Cutter‘s underwater horror novel “The Deep” is getting a series adaptation at Amazon, Deadline reports.

C. Henry Chaisson is writing the series for Amazon Studios.

Clive Barker called the novel “utterly terrifying.”

“Set in the near future, The Deep centers on a research station at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where a miraculous discovery signals a new hope for humanity – but secrets unearthed on the ocean floor may hold devastating consequences for the world above.”

The book’s official synopsis reveals more about the storyline…

“A strange plague called the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure.

Exclusive: C. Henry Chaisson, writer of Keri Russell-fronted film Antlers and Apple series Servant, is turning Nick Cutter’s underwater thriller The Deep into a series for Amazon.

The book is in development with Amazon Studios with Lost and Five Days at Memorial exec producer Carlton Cuse exec producing alongside Bosch exec producers Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate.

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Set in the near future, The Deep centers on a research station at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where a...

Rodrigo Gudiño welcomes viewers into "The Breach," a mix between Lovecraft and Cronenbergian squishiness (think "The Fly") produced and co-scored by Guns' N Roses shred master, the horror-lovin' Slash. Ian Weir's screenplay adapts Nick Cutter's novel of the same name, and Gudiño — Rue Morgue's founder turned filmmaker — returns to feature-length thrills after 2012's festival darling "The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh." It's a hodgepodge assortment of influences and collaborators that comes together as science fiction with body horror accents, hinged on a third act loaded with gnarly practical effects. Slow-burn sensibilities are in full force as mysteries down...

The post The Breach Review: A Strong Finish Opens The Gates To Hell [Fantasia] appeared first on /Film.

Stars: Greg Hovanessian, Michael Ironside, Dempsey Bryk, Greg Bryk, Noah Dalton Danby, Ted Atherton, Natasha Henstridge | Written by Craig Davidson, Andrew Thomas Hunt | Directed by Andrew Thomas Hunt

The Fight Machine is the second of two very different movies based on novels by Craig Davidson that Raven Banner debuted at this year’s edition of Fantasia. This one is adapted from his novel The Fighter. The other is The Breach, based on the novel of the same name by his perhaps more familiar pseudonym Nick Cutter.

Paul Harris comes from a rich family. He doesn’t have a care in the world until he mouths off to the wrong person and gets beaten bloody. Humiliated, he develops an obsession with bodybuilding and boxing, training under Lou. Rob Tully on the other hand comes from a working-class family and was, according to his father Reuben, born to fight. He trains with...

Stars: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Adam Kenneth Wilson, Wesley French, Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini, Alex Lifeson | Written by Nick Cutter, Ian Weir | Directed by Rodrigo Gudiño

Making its world premiere at Fantasia, The Breach, not to be confused with Breach, is the second feature from Rue Morgue founding editor Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh). Co-written by Nick Cutter and Ian Weir based on Cutter’s novel, its mix of haunted house and mad scientist themes attracted a lot of pre-release buzz which I was hoping it would live up to.

John Hawkins has one week left as sheriff of Lone Crow. Then he can put the town, and his ex Meg, behind him and start a new job in the city. That, of course, means something terrible has to happen before he can leave.

And it does when a canoe bearing the mutilated remains of...

A police captain in his last days on the job gets sent on a mind-bending journey when a boat carrying a horrendously mutilated corpse ruins a family picnic in Rodrigo Gudiño’s latest horror story, The Breach. Based on the Audible original book of the same name by Nick Cutter, The Breach is a full-on goo-fest with atmosphere to spare. Gudiño’s second feature after 2012’s The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, The Breach is a solid entry into the cosmic horror genre with a few neat tricks up its sleeve. John Hawkins (Allan Hawco) is ready to leave Lone Crow. The town’s longtime police chief has a messy romantic history in this small rural town and is eager to dash off to the big...

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Beginning with the stomach-churning body horror novel The Troop, author Craig Davidson quickly established himself as a horror author to watch under the pen name Nick Cutter. Adapting the boundary-pushing, gruesome, and often cosmic horror found on Cutter’s pages makes for a tricky and daunting task. Rue Morgue president Rodrigo Gudiño‘s second feature takes on Cutter’s latest, an Audible original […]

The post ‘The Breach’ Review – A Lovecraftian and Vague House of Horrors [Fantasia] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

A marriage of police procedural and Lovecraftian horror, Rodrigo Gudiño and Ian Weir’s take on Nick Cutter’s popular genre novel is treading familiar territory for the Fantasia international Film Festival but manages to acquit itself with some distinction thanks to the groundedness and specificity of its approach. It begins when a spectacularly mangled body floats down the Porcupine river in a canoe, and ends in a place which is predictable yet nonetheless retains its sinister quality.

Allan Hawco plays police chief John Hawkins, who is just one week away from moving down south to take up a new job – the very worst time to happen upon a case like this. “This is Jake’s kind of case,” says an officer at the scene of the discovery, referring to Jacob Redgrave (Wesley French). As the jealous former boyfriend of Meg (Emily Alatalo), the woman whom John is on the verge of.

Executive selling genre titles at Fantasia fest.

Cecilia Brush has joined Raven Banner as sales manager and is presenting films to buyers at the ongoing Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal this month.

Brush most recently served as head of acquisitions at OneTwoThree Media and has a background in sales and acquisitions, consulting and producing.

At Fantasia Brush is handling sales on Rodrigo Gudiño’s The Breach written by Nick Cutter and executive-produced by guitar legend Slash, and Andrew T Hunt’s The Fight Machine by Craig Davidson, author of the Rust And Bone shorts stories collection which Jacques Audiard adapted into a feature.

Just before the weekend we caught wind of news that production was completed on an adaptation of Nick Cutter's horror novel The Breach. The adaptation was directed by Rodrigo Gudiño, president of Rue Morgue Magazine and director of The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh. The Breach tells the story of John Hawkins - counting down his last days as Police Chief in the tiny town of Lone Crow, nestled deep in the desolate woods of Northern Ontario. But when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of Porcupine River, he’s pulled into a horrific mystery that defies comprehension. Our friends at Raven Banner Entertainment are co-producers on the pic which was produced by Pasha Patriki of Hangar 18...

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Raven Banner Entertainment announced it has completed production on Rue Morgue Magazine founder Rodrigo Gudiño’s “The Breach,” marking a reunion with former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who serves as the film’s executive producer and co-producer of the score.

Based on a book by horror novelist Nick Cutter (born Craig Davidson), with a screenplay co-penned by Cutter and Ian Weird, “The Breach” centers on John Hawkins, who is set to retire from his post as police chief of the small town of Lone Crow that is tucked away in the deep woods of northern Ontario. But following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he’s pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.

“There’s a reason why Nick Cutter’s stories are terrifying audiences,” Gudiño said. “I am thrilled to be bringing his work to life and couldn’t have...