The direct-to-video action film has its own distinct rhythm, a pulse I’ve followed since my days renting tapes from the local video store. Diablo immediately taps into that familiar beat. We meet Kris Chaney (Scott Adkins), an ex-convict whose world-weary face tells its own story before he even throws a punch.
He’s been smuggled into the vibrant, sun-drenched landscape of Colombia with a singular, dangerous task. His objective is to abduct Elisa, the daughter of the powerful crime lord Vicente. This isn’t a simple snatch-and-grab for cash.
The film quickly signals that Kris is operating from a place of grim duty, a promise to someone lost that puts him on a collision course with an entire criminal organization. The air is thick with the promise of violence from the opening frame.
The Saint, The Sinner, and The Spectre
The film’s engine is a triangle of well-defined personalities.
He’s been smuggled into the vibrant, sun-drenched landscape of Colombia with a singular, dangerous task. His objective is to abduct Elisa, the daughter of the powerful crime lord Vicente. This isn’t a simple snatch-and-grab for cash.
The film quickly signals that Kris is operating from a place of grim duty, a promise to someone lost that puts him on a collision course with an entire criminal organization. The air is thick with the promise of violence from the opening frame.
The Saint, The Sinner, and The Spectre
The film’s engine is a triangle of well-defined personalities.
- 6/15/2025
- by Caleb Anderson
- Gazettely
“Diablo” is a new drug crime action thriller, directed by Ernesto Dìaz Espinoza starring Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Diana Hoyos, Lucho Velasco, Maria del Rosario Barreto, Maria del Rosario Barreto, Alanna De La Rossa and Jason Gurvitz, releasing June 13, 2025 in theaters:
“…after his release from prison, one man makes it his mission to right a terrible wrong by revealing a secret that could end his life.
“‘Kris Chaney’ seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl’s mother.
“When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and the killer ‘El Corvo’ to exact his revenge, Kris will need to draw upon everything he has ever learned — in and out of lockup — to stay alive and keep his word.”
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“…after his release from prison, one man makes it his mission to right a terrible wrong by revealing a secret that could end his life.
“‘Kris Chaney’ seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl’s mother.
“When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and the killer ‘El Corvo’ to exact his revenge, Kris will need to draw upon everything he has ever learned — in and out of lockup — to stay alive and keep his word.”
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- 6/13/2025
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
“Diablo” is a new drug crime action thriller, directed by Ernesto Dìaz Espinoza starring Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Diana Hoyos, Lucho Velasco, Maria del Rosario Barreto, Maria del Rosario Barreto, Alanna De La Rossa and Jason Gurvitz, releasing June 13, 2025 in theaters:
“…after his release from prison, one man makes it his mission to right a terrible wrong by revealing a secret that could end his life.
“‘Kris Chaney’ seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl’s mother.
“When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and the killer ‘El Corvo’ to exact his revenge, Kris will need to draw upon everything he has ever learned — in and out of lockup — to stay alive and keep his word.”
Click the images to enlarge…...
“…after his release from prison, one man makes it his mission to right a terrible wrong by revealing a secret that could end his life.
“‘Kris Chaney’ seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl’s mother.
“When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and the killer ‘El Corvo’ to exact his revenge, Kris will need to draw upon everything he has ever learned — in and out of lockup — to stay alive and keep his word.”
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- 5/2/2025
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Another day, another little known action movie is blowing up on the streaming charts. This time, Prime Video is playing host to Dominique, an explosive and well-reviewed, female-led action movie that will appeal to fans of Atomic Blonde, Hanna, and the recent Netflix hit, Canary Black.
Clocking it at a lean 94 minutes, Dominique is a movie that doesn’t outstay its welcome, instead delivering a relentless, action-packed feature that mostly delivers on its promises and proved to be pleasing for the majority of critics and audiences. The film was given a limited theatrical release back in October 2024, but found itself buried by its arrival on the same weekend as the release of 23 other movies, including the comedy Saturday Night, and the box office-slaying Terrifier 3. The film was released on VOD without much fanfare on the same day.
Dominique stars Oksana Orlan, Alanna De La Rossa, Jose Conejo Martin, Maurice Compte,...
Clocking it at a lean 94 minutes, Dominique is a movie that doesn’t outstay its welcome, instead delivering a relentless, action-packed feature that mostly delivers on its promises and proved to be pleasing for the majority of critics and audiences. The film was given a limited theatrical release back in October 2024, but found itself buried by its arrival on the same weekend as the release of 23 other movies, including the comedy Saturday Night, and the box office-slaying Terrifier 3. The film was released on VOD without much fanfare on the same day.
Dominique stars Oksana Orlan, Alanna De La Rossa, Jose Conejo Martin, Maurice Compte,...
- 2/13/2025
- by Anthony Lund
- MovieWeb
Oksana Orlan (The Russian Bride) and Maurice Compte (Narcos) have teamed up to kick ass in action-thriller Dominique, set to make its Cannes market debut.
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment, Green Dog Films/Agora Entertainment and Reigning Entertainment, was written and directed by Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged, The Russian Bride) and is currently in post-production.
Dominique sees Orlan play a well-trained Ukrainian assassin who flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption. Facing brutal attacks from the police and mafia, she must decide whether to protect herself or stay to help an innocent family.
“Bringing Dominique to life has been a massive undertaking and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with Clay and the whole Film Mode family to introduce the film and our star,...
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment, Green Dog Films/Agora Entertainment and Reigning Entertainment, was written and directed by Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged, The Russian Bride) and is currently in post-production.
Dominique sees Orlan play a well-trained Ukrainian assassin who flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption. Facing brutal attacks from the police and mafia, she must decide whether to protect herself or stay to help an innocent family.
“Bringing Dominique to life has been a massive undertaking and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with Clay and the whole Film Mode family to introduce the film and our star,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Imagine Entertainment has set its roster of participants of Impact 2, the inventive program where the company empowers outside voices, “creators,” paying the newcomers accepted to the program to develop TV series and movies under the watchful eye of “shapers,” a group of established industry writers and showrunners. The program, hatched by Imagine co-heads Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, this year got over 4000 submissions from 57 countries covering every continent but Antarctica. Tyler Mitchell runs the program.
The “shapers” in this year’s program are: Stacy Traub, Akiva Goldsman, Doug Ellin, Seth Grahame-Smith, Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney and Sascha Penn.
Here are the newcomers whose work was accepted and who will be paid a stipend to create one new project during the boot camp, before all of the work gets pitched to the town. Traub will oversee:
Writer/actor and Chicago native Aris Mendoza is creating the half hour TV project Blasian...
The “shapers” in this year’s program are: Stacy Traub, Akiva Goldsman, Doug Ellin, Seth Grahame-Smith, Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney and Sascha Penn.
Here are the newcomers whose work was accepted and who will be paid a stipend to create one new project during the boot camp, before all of the work gets pitched to the town. Traub will oversee:
Writer/actor and Chicago native Aris Mendoza is creating the half hour TV project Blasian...
- 4/23/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Brionne Davis, Ed Fletcher, Jason Gurvitz, Daniel Knight, John Charles Meyer, Kyle Morris, Marc Anthony Samuel | Written and Directed by Micheal S. Ojeda
Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?
Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...
Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?
Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...
- 11/19/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Brionne Davis, Ed Fletcher, Jason Gurvitz, Daniel Knight, John Charles Meyer, Kyle Morris, Marc Anthony Samuel | Written and Directed by Micheal S. Ojeda
Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?
Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...
Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?
Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...
- 2/28/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Screamfest La 2013 kicked off with a bloody bang last night in North Hollywood, CA, at the Laemmle NoHo 7, and we were there to shoot the black carpet, catch the premiere of Ben Ketai's feature Beneath, and hit the opening night party. Read on!
Gracing the carpet, in addition to director Ketai, were Beneath cast members Kelly Noonan, Joey Kern, Eric Etebari, Lauren Gores and Rene Rivera, along with producers Kelly Wagner and Nick Phillips. Joining them for opening night were the following Screamfest 2013 film selection attendees (take a breath): director Matt Eskandari and writer Matt Lawson of The Gauntlet, The Banishing’s director Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen and writer Brian McAuley, The Summoners' filmmaker Christian Ackerman, director Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Frost producer Ingvar Thordarson, director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. and actress Danielle Adams of Woodland Heights, Luna director Antonio Perez, director of Cannon Fodder Eitan Gafny, director...
Gracing the carpet, in addition to director Ketai, were Beneath cast members Kelly Noonan, Joey Kern, Eric Etebari, Lauren Gores and Rene Rivera, along with producers Kelly Wagner and Nick Phillips. Joining them for opening night were the following Screamfest 2013 film selection attendees (take a breath): director Matt Eskandari and writer Matt Lawson of The Gauntlet, The Banishing’s director Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen and writer Brian McAuley, The Summoners' filmmaker Christian Ackerman, director Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Frost producer Ingvar Thordarson, director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. and actress Danielle Adams of Woodland Heights, Luna director Antonio Perez, director of Cannon Fodder Eitan Gafny, director...
- 10/9/2013
- by Sean Decker
- DreadCentral.com
The good folks over at Raven Banner Entertainment just sent over the first teaser trailer for their latest terror tale, Savaged, and it looks to live up to the film's namesake in spades. Check it out.
From the Press Release
Toronto-based genre sales and distribution company Raven Banner Entertainment entered into a co-production deal with Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment for writer-director Michael S. Ojeda’s action-horror film Savaged.
The project, financed by Raven Banner and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC, lensed at an abandoned gold mine on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Raven Banner handling world sales.
Savaged tells the story of Zoe (newcomer Amanda Adrienne), a beautiful deaf woman who is abducted, brutalized, and left for dead by a murderous gang. When she is found by a local native medicine man, he tries to save her, but his efforts take a disastrous turn when she...
From the Press Release
Toronto-based genre sales and distribution company Raven Banner Entertainment entered into a co-production deal with Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment for writer-director Michael S. Ojeda’s action-horror film Savaged.
The project, financed by Raven Banner and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC, lensed at an abandoned gold mine on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Raven Banner handling world sales.
Savaged tells the story of Zoe (newcomer Amanda Adrienne), a beautiful deaf woman who is abducted, brutalized, and left for dead by a murderous gang. When she is found by a local native medicine man, he tries to save her, but his efforts take a disastrous turn when she...
- 11/13/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
For his genre debut, up-and-coming filmmaker Michael Ojeda is ready to give viewers a revenge tale unlike anything they've ever seen before in the indie feature Savaged. Read on for the goods.
Savaged is the brutal tale of a deaf woman named Zoe (Amanda Adrienne) who is tortured and killed by a gang of racist rednecks in the middle of the desert while traveling cross-country to meet her fiancé. A mysterious shaman happens to find her lifeless body so he uses it as a way to resurrect an ancient Apache Warrior who wants to hunt down the murderous group and make them pay for the sins of their ancestors.
Co-produced and co-financed by Raven Banner Entertainment and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC and co-produced by Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment, Savaged recently wrapped production north of Los Angeles and is currently gearing up for a 2012-2013 festival run.
Savaged is the brutal tale of a deaf woman named Zoe (Amanda Adrienne) who is tortured and killed by a gang of racist rednecks in the middle of the desert while traveling cross-country to meet her fiancé. A mysterious shaman happens to find her lifeless body so he uses it as a way to resurrect an ancient Apache Warrior who wants to hunt down the murderous group and make them pay for the sins of their ancestors.
Co-produced and co-financed by Raven Banner Entertainment and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC and co-produced by Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment, Savaged recently wrapped production north of Los Angeles and is currently gearing up for a 2012-2013 festival run.
- 7/30/2012
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
From time to time we all like being savaged by the people whom we love, but that's not this case here. In fact, this is a clear cut case of being Savaged in the most horrific of ways.
From the Press Release
Toronto-based genre sales and distribution company Raven Banner Entertainment has entered into a co-production deal with Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment for helmer-scribe Michael S. Ojeda’s action-horror film Savaged.
The project, financed by Raven Banner and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC, is expected to begin lensing this week at an abandoned gold mine on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Raven Banner handling world sales.
Savaged tells the story of Zoe (starring newcomer Amanda Adrienne), a beautiful deaf woman who is abducted, brutalized, and left for dead by a murderous gang. When she is found by a local native medicine man, he tries to save her,...
From the Press Release
Toronto-based genre sales and distribution company Raven Banner Entertainment has entered into a co-production deal with Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment for helmer-scribe Michael S. Ojeda’s action-horror film Savaged.
The project, financed by Raven Banner and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC, is expected to begin lensing this week at an abandoned gold mine on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Raven Banner handling world sales.
Savaged tells the story of Zoe (starring newcomer Amanda Adrienne), a beautiful deaf woman who is abducted, brutalized, and left for dead by a murderous gang. When she is found by a local native medicine man, he tries to save her,...
- 4/24/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Raven Banner Entertainment, Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment will triple team on film production of Savaged. This title is in the early production stages with shooting expected to begin later this week. To be lensed is Zoe, played by Amanda Adrienne, a vulnerable woman abducted by "a murderous gang" (Raven). She survives the ordeal only to be used by Native American Shaman in a demonic ritual. This tale of brutality and the supernatural will then turn to one of revenge as Zoe channels an ancient Apache warrior on those who have wronged her.
Enjoy the first concept poster for Savaged right here. With more casting details to come.
Director/writer: Michael S. Ojeda.
Producers: Jason Gurvitz, Lezlie Wheeler and Michael S. Ojeda.
Executive Producers: Michael Paszt, James Fler and Andrew Hunt Jorden Fox, Jake Gelyana and Levi Fox.
Cast: Amanda Adrienne.
*shooting will take place in an abandoned gold mine near Los Angeles.
Enjoy the first concept poster for Savaged right here. With more casting details to come.
Director/writer: Michael S. Ojeda.
Producers: Jason Gurvitz, Lezlie Wheeler and Michael S. Ojeda.
Executive Producers: Michael Paszt, James Fler and Andrew Hunt Jorden Fox, Jake Gelyana and Levi Fox.
Cast: Amanda Adrienne.
*shooting will take place in an abandoned gold mine near Los Angeles.
- 4/23/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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