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Available starting today on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital, we have an exclusive look at the restored version of We Go On, from directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton.

"Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom (Clark Freeman) offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon, or anything to prove the existence of an afterlife. He narrows responses down to three candidates - a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. And along with his fiercely protective mother (Annette O'Toole), he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

From Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, the directors of the chilling YellowBrickRoad, comes a supremely accomplished supernatural thriller, “one of the most gripping paranormal explorations that cinema has seen in years” (Fantasia Int’l Film Festival) and winner of Audience Awards at Dances with Films and the Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival,...

Stars: Clark Freeman, Annette O’ Toole, John Glover, David Bickford, Justin Carpenter, Jay Dunn, Edwin Garcia II, Laura Heisler, Terry Kaye, Logan Kishi, Peter Lucas | Written and Directed by Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton

Phobia-ridden and driven by a sense of existential dread a man places an ad in the newspaper: prove the existence of life after death, win thirty thousand dollars. Of the many replies he receives, Miles narrows the applicants down to just three – a scientist, a medium and an entrepreneur.

First and foremost, We Go On is a road movie; a mother and her son, seeking answers. Like a downbeat Mulder and Scully, the sceptic (or flat-out unbeliever) and the agnostic, scrabbling for hope in a world which often terrifies the latter. Such a concept would be nothing without a strong pair of leads, and this it has in spades with Clark Freeman and the always wonderful Annette O’ Toole.

Sometimes it takes a while that's a life lesson applicable to just about anything, especially to art. A pair of extremely original, lo-fi horror movies by filmmakers Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton are a fine example of this. Their first film, 2010's YellowBrickRoad, finally got a good, digitally restored home media release two years ago. Their second film together, We Go On, had its premiere at the Cinequest FIlm Festival in 2016 before winning Audience Awards at Dances with Films and the Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival, as well as the Silver Raven at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. The following year, it had a small release in a variety of countries and quietly went to DVD.

Now it, too, has gotten the restoration and rerelease treatment, dubbed We Go On: Remastered, and it's a wonderful improvement. The critical reevaluation of these unique, existential horror films may be a...

Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom (Clark Freeman) offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost—an angel, a demon, or anything to prove the existence of an afterlife. He narrows responses down to three candidates: a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. And along with his fiercely protective mother (Annette O’Toole), he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

From Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, the directors of the chilling YellowBrickRoad, comes a supremely accomplished supernatural thriller, “one of the most gripping paranormal explorations that cinema has seen in years” (Fantasia Int’l Film Festival) and winner of audience awards at Dances with Films and the Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival, as well as the Silver Raven at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.

We Go On is available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on...

Stars: Gabby Beans, Cody Braverman, Emily Davis, Ray Anthony Thomas, Myles Walker | Written and Directed by Andy Mitton

I think (my memory is generally terrible) The Harbinger is the first film I have seen where the pandemic has played a big and important part in the story.

In the movie, Monique is currently quarantining with her family during the pandemic. But when her oldest friend, Mavis, reaches out in a state of fear, she chooses to visit her to help out. Mavis is suffering from nightmares in which she can’t wake up from, sometimes even days are passing and a demon – The Harbinger – is the one haunting her. Monique soon discovers the nightmares are contagious and they both must find a way to defeat the demon.

The pandemic part of the movie is used really well. It gives a reason for the characters to be where they need to...

Writer-director Andy Mitton inventively mashes up pandemic panic and supernatural danger to make a potent, truly creepy package

Horror as a genre is especially well suited to stories about isolated people in claustrophobic spaces. So it was kind of inevitable there would be a glut of features along those lines made during the most locked-down periods of the Covid-19 pandemic, when safety measures restricted cast and crew sizes as well as location use. And yet few of the resulting movies even mention Covid, let alone address the abundant anxieties and fears surrounding it all. Writer-director Andy Mitton’s simply executed feature – apparently shot in 2021 but set in the more dangerous, pre-vaccine months of 2020 – inventively mashes up pandemic panic and supernatural danger to make a potent, truly creepy horror package, garnished with naturalism and sly, strategic moments of humour. There are flaws, sure, and logical lacunae here and there, but it...

Horror is, without question, still the backbone of cinema, even as cinema struggles in these uncertain times. This year saw a number of wins for the genre; original movies like Smile, Barbarian, and X and its prequel Pearl achieved both critical acclaim and box office success, and franchises like Scream, Predator and Hellraiser were all reignited with praised returns.

Like last year, there were a lot of horror movies to watch in 2022. This resulted in movies slipping through the cracks as the year continued, and bigger releases held the spotlight.

These ten hidden gems might have been overlooked at the time, but it’s never too late to discover them.

An Ideal Host

“An Ideal Host”

After circulating at multiple film festivals for a good two years, the Australian horror-comedy An Ideal Host quietly surfaced on streaming platforms this year. Robert Woods and Tyler Jacob Jones‘ offbeat collaboration amassed a...

In the years and the decade to come, we’re going to look back at pandemic-era films and see some that were made in the pandemic and maybe made it a small detail in the storyline, while others that really embraced it. Not celebrated it, but really grabbed it and incorporated it into the story. There’s no right or wrong to this, but I will say that The Harbinger is most definitely one of the latter. It’s one of the strongest and most impactful pandemic-era films that I have seen (to say nothing of the fact that it’s just a freaking brilliant film overall).

Written and directed by Andy Mitton, The Harbinger is set during the early days of lockdown. Monique (Gabby Beans) and her brother have come home to spend lockdown with their father. The trio are super careful and are doing everything possible to stay...

The Harbinger is available in theaters and VOD after enchanting critics and movie lovers at film festivals. The story conjures a new kind of demon that feeds on fears of isolation and forgetfulness, which makes it ideal that The Harbinger is set in the middle of the Covid pandemic, when we all remained locked inside our homes, uncertain about the future. While writer and director Andy Mitton makes an effort to explain how his original demon acts and what are the movie’s messages, The Harbinger can nevertheless feel convoluted on the first watch. That’s because, by manipulating dreams, the titular demon leads protagonist Monique (Gabby Beans) and the audience to question their reality. After all, we never know when the things we see are only another dream created by the demon to weaken its victim’s mind. Fortunately, we are here to comb through the movie’s many...

Signature Entertainment has acquired U.K. and Ireland rights to supernatural horror “The Harbinger” from MPI Media Group.

The film is produced by Jay Dunn (“The Witch in the Window”), Richard W. King (“We Go On”) and Andy Mitton (“YellowBrickRoad”), with Mitton also directing and writing. It stars Gabby Beans (“House of Cards”), Emily Davis (“The Plagiarists”) and Raymond Anthony Thomas (“Shutter Island”).

The New York-set film sees Monique (Beans) reluctantly break quarantine during the pandemic to care for her friend Mavis (Davis) who’s plagued by horrific nightmares. Monique soon learns that the dreams are contagious, and originate from a demonic, reality-warping force – The Harbinger. Monique and Mavis must discover a way to defeat the malevolent entity before it consumes their souls entirely.

The film was selected at Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival, the U.K.’s FrightFest and the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. It won Best Scare at the U.

The holiday season is now upon us, and it seems only right that we’re heading into December with a brand new Christmas-themed genre movie arriving in theaters later this week.

I’m of course talking about the David Harbour-starring Violent Night, which features the “Stranger Things” actor as an ass-kicking version of none other than Santa himself.

But that’s not the only new genre movie arriving this week…

Here’s all the new horror headed down the chimney November 28 – December 4, 2022!

This week is all quiet on the horror front until Thursday, December 1, which kicks off with the release of The Harbinger, which has been favorably compared to Nightmare on Elm Street.

In the film from writer/director Andy Mitton, “Monique ventures out of quarantine to visit an old friend who’s plagued by nightmares. She finds herself drawn into a hellish dreamscape where she must face her...

8 Found Dead: "Stuck in a pandemic, Travis Greene and Jonathan Buchanan stumbled upon the story of 8 Found Dead while spitballing ideas at their local coffee shop.

Using several real-life characters and situations from Travis' life, Jonathan crafted a story around the inherent drama of being held hostage by conversation, a cue taken from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) - which, along with Death Trap (1982), Funny Games (2007) and The Strangers (2008) served as inspiration for the filmmakers.

The next step was choosing a cinematographer. and the obvious choice was their friend Ryan Valdez. His unique style had always stood out and seemed perfect for 8 Found Dead."

Synopsis:

"Two couples drive to a secluded house in the desert for a weekend getaway, each with their own baggage, expectations and secrets. Upon their arrival, they are met by two strangers, claiming to have rented the house as well.

What starts out as a “simple...

Slate includes Waking Karma, The Third Saturday In October.

MPI Media Group is in talks with AFM buyers on a slate led by horror titles Night Of The Bastard and The Harbinger, both of which screened at London’s FrightFest.

Night Of The Bastard marks the feature directorial debut of Erik Boccio and stars London May (The Dark Knight Rises) as a hermit in the desert who along with a youngster must defend himself from a savage cult. Mya Hudson, Hannah Pierce, and Henry Mortensen also star.

The Harbinger, Andy Mitton’s follow-up to The Witch In The Window, stars...

The Sundance premiere won in the best director, best film and best actress categories.

Spanish thriller Piggy, the feature fiction debut of Spanish TV drama veteran Carlota Pereda, was the big winner at UK horror, sci-fi and fantasy festival Grimmfest.

The Manchester festival awarded Piggy with the best director, best film and best actress prizes, with Laura Galán scooping the win for best actress.

Piggy expands on Pereda’s 2018 short of the same name about a teenager – played by Galán – who is mercilessly bullied about her weight until, from the confines of her family’s butcher shop, she has an...

The first wave of titles for this year's edition of The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival have been announced and is filled with horror movie premieres, special events, and a Lucio Fulci retrospective you won't want to miss!

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival announces today the first wave of titles for their explosive 2022 edition, presented by Shudder, running October 13th to the 20th with screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg and Williamsburg Cinemas. Following last year’s return to theaters, Bhff is thrilled to present its most robust slate to date.

The festival will open with the Eva Green starring Nocebo, the latest psychological thriller from celebrated Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan, best known for his 2019 Cannes selection Vivarium, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, but better known to Bhff audiences for his feature debut Without Name, which swept the festival awards in 2016 taking Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing.

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival announced today an impressive first wave of titles for their explosive 2022 edition running from October 13th to the 20th with screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg and Williamsburg Cinemas. Following last year’s return to theaters, BHFFs presents its most robust slate to date.

From the press release:

“The festival will open with the Eva Green starring Nocebo, the latest psychological thriller from celebrated Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan, best known for his 2019 Cannes selection Vivarium, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, but better known to Bhff audiences for his feature debut Without Name, which swept the festival awards in 2016 taking Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing.

“Wave one includes the world premieres of four exciting new films: the feature directorial debut from Laurence Vannicelli (co-writer of the hit 2021 Bhff horror comedy Porno), Mother, May I?, starring Dinner In America’s Kyle Gallner...

The seventh annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is coming soon, and it runs from October 13-20 with screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg and Williamsburg Cinemas. The festival has announced its first wave of titles for 2022, and we've got the complete lineup presented for the first time by your favorite home for horror, Shudder.

Opening the festival is Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan's film "Nocebo" starring Eva Green, his highly anticipated follow-up after the Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg film "Vivarium." Finnegan is a Bhff alumni after his debut feature "Without Name" swept the 2016 festival, nabbing the awards for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing.

Bhff will be the home of the world premieres for four awesome new horror films including the Kyle Gallner starring "Mother, May I?," the directorial debut of Laurence Vannicelli known for co-writing the horror comedy "Porno." Christopher Denham took time out of...

The festival runs Octobber 6-9 in Manchester.

Final Cut from Michel Hazanavicius and Neil Labute’s House Of Darkness are among this year’s line-up for Grimmfest, a UK horror, sci-fi and fantasy festival, which will be held in Manchester frorm October 6-9.

Hazanavicius’ French comedy horror, a remake of 2017 Japanese title One Cut From The Dead, opened Cannes out of competition earlier this year.

House Of Darkness stars Justin Long and Kate Bosworth whose casual date takes a sinister turn. The gothic horror had its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantastia festival last month.

Also screening at the festival...

In his latest podcast, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright previews Frightfest 2022 with a host of filmmakers premiering their films at Frightfest 2022. You’ll hear from:

Do Not Disturb writer/director John Ainslie The Harbinger writer/director Andy Mitton Mean Spirited director/co-writer Jeff Ryan The Once And Future Smash + End Zone 2 co-writer/director Michael J Epstein The Ones You Didn’T Burn writer/director/actor Elise Finnerty Stalker writer Chris Watt

For more details and tickets to Frightfest see https://frightfest.nuwebgroup.com/

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Celebrating it’s tenth anniversary is YellowBrickRoad (2010), a decidedly surreal horror with an experimental approach to it’s dread soaked aesthetic that in co-director Andy Mitton’s words resulted in “either full on death threats or love letters” from audiences. Looking back on the film Im far closer to the latter than the former. This is labor of love filmmaking that takes plenty of risks and showcases considerable talent behind and in front of the camera. It’s well worth the 10th anniversary edition Blu-ray it gets here. YellowBrickRoad follows a present day author and his research team as they try to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of an entire small town in the 1940s. It’s a journey that starts at the towns small movie theater...

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The isolation and helplessness some people felt during the prime days of Covid lockdown is utilized to good effect in “The Harbinger.” Andy Mitton’s second solo feature (following two co-directed with Jesse Holland) is a spooky tale in which vulnerable individuals find themselves prey to a malevolent spirit that worms into their dreams, dislodging them from grounding reality.

in XYZ Films’ release to limited theaters and VOD on Sept. 1.

Disturbing, recurrent cries from the NYC apartment of Mavis (Ellen Davis) have gotten complaints from neighbors, particularly a next-door “Karen” and belligerent anti-masker (Stephanie Roth Haberle). When her more-sympathetic building superintendent (Cody Braverman) lets himself in to investigate, he finds the tenant in a state of whimpering hysteria and self-harm — yet asleep. After successfully waking her, he urges Mavis to get help.

Blood relatives apparently not being an option, she rings up old friend Monique (Gabby Beans), who’s surprised...

"Ten years after its heralded release, on August 9, Lightyear Entertainment will unleash Yellowbrickroad for a new generation of horror fans. Meticulously remastered in 2K High Definition, the Updated Special Edition boasts more blood and bigger scares with enhanced visual effects. Available on all leading digital platforms and DVD, the special collector’s edition will also be available on extras-loaded Blu-ray for the very first time containing a treasure-trove of specially-created bonus features never before available including two behind-the-scenes featurettes, “Practical Blood FX on an Indie Budget” and “Walking the YellowBrickRoad”, new interviews with cast and crew and more!"

Ahead of the movie's Blu-ray release tomorrow, we have an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers!

The story of Yellowbrickroad begins in 1940 when, after a viewing of The Wizard of Oz, the residents of the small town of Friar, New Hampshire, walked up a mountain trail and mysteriously disappeared into the wilderness.

Exclusive: XYZ Films has taken North American rights to Low Life, the cat-and-mouse thriller from director Tyler Michael James starring Marriage Story’s Lucas Neff. Pic will be released later this month in North America. Scroll down for trailer.

Low Life follows Benny (Wes Dunlap), a small-time YouTube star who catches predators online and experiences a night from hell when he lets one of them into his own home.

Dunlap and Neff, who also voices Duncan in Disney’s Monsters at Work, are leading alongside Lucy Urbano and viral YouTube ballerina Luna Montana.

The film is produced by Noah Rotter, Annie Milligan, Hunter Milano, Jake Dvorsky and director James. It is co-written by Hunter Milano and Rotter.

“As soon as we saw the thrilling, unbearably tense Low Life, we knew we wanted to bring the film to audiences,” said Alex Williams, XYZ Manager of Acquisitions and Development. “Tyler is an...

The Harbinger Photo: Courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival

One of the great things about film festivals is that there is always the potential for a film which hasn’t had much prior word of mouth to surprise you. The Fantasia International Film Festival is no exception. It was almost by accident that I found myself watching The Harbinger, the story of a woman (Emily Davis) troubled by strange nightmares and the friend (Gabby Beans) who tries to help her, only to be caught up in the nightmare herself. Set during the period when Covid-19 was wreaking havoc in new York City, it’s one of the first films in any genre to really take on the fear of contagion and the difficulty of living in that situation. As soon as I watched it, I knew I had to speak to the director.

Fortunately, Andy Mitton was happy to oblige.

Thanks to "The Harbinger," I get to ride the Andy Mitton hype train out of Fantasia Festival station a second time — 2018's "The Witch in the Window" was a Donato-approved Fantasia favorite. This time, Mitton proves that Covid-19 horror films don't have to be exploitative or the cheaply manipulative drek filmmakers have already rushed to market. I'm not talking about non-pandemic flicks shaped by Covid-19 production guidelines — more "Safer at Home" or "Songbird," which chose to highlight Covid-19 quarantines as a characteristic backdrop. "The Harbinger" blends its demonic assessment of simply vanishing from the Earth with the still omnipresent pandemic in...

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Stars: Gabby Beans, Cody Braverman, Emily Davis, Ray Anthony Thomas, Myles Walker | Written and Directed by Andy Mitton

I think (my memory is generally terrible) The Harbinger is the first film I have seen where the pandemic has played a big and important part in the story.

In the movie, Monique is currently quarantining with her family during the pandemic. But when her oldest friend, Mavis, reaches out in a state of fear, she chooses to visit her to help out. Mavis is suffering from nightmares in which she can’t wake up from, some times even days are passing and a demon – The Harbinger – is the one haunting her. Monique soon discovers the nightmares are contagious and they both must find a way to defeat the demon.

The pandemic part of the movie is used really well. It gives a reason for the characters to be where they need...

Director Andy Mitton takes on night terrors and social distancing in his new horror movie “The Harbinger,” fresh off its world premiere at Fantasia. Recently picked up by XYZ Films, it was produced by Jay Dunn and Richard W. King.

Originally set to follow his well-received 2018 release “The Witch in the Window” with “Walk with Me into the Darkness,” the U.S. director changed his mind after the pandemic hit.

“It was probably parallel to what everyone else was experiencing when it finally dawned on us that it wasn’t going to be just a two-week thing. Our plans went down the tubes,” he reminisces at the Montreal-based fest.

Starring Gabby Beans, the film shows a woman who, after quarantining with her family, decides to venture out into the world again to help out a friend (Emily Davis), suffering from loneliness and terrifying dreams.

“Back then, I was also in...

Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s most popular horror and fantasy film festival, is back at London’s Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema from Thursday August 25th – Monday 29th August for five days of the very best of global genre cinema. Celebrating its 23rd blockbuster edition with thirty-two world, twenty-two International / European and eighteen UK premieres, the world renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and this year is no exception, with seventeen countries represented, spanning five continents:

The festival opens with the World premiere of The Lair, an action-packed gore shocker from Neil Marshall, who calls his latest monstrous creation “The Dirty Half Dozen meets The Thing”. Neil will be attending with star Charlotte Kirk and will also introduce a special 4K restoration screening of his modern classic, Dog Soldiers.

The Closing night film is the European premiere of Scott Mann’s Fall.

As we all know, trying to survive a seemingly never-ending global pandemic is pretty damn scary, but what if dying from it completely erased you and it was as if you had never existed? Since we started dealing with Covid-19 in real life in 2020, there have been a slew of pandemic-based movies, but Writer/director Andy Mitton, who is responsible for films like We Go On (2016) and The Witch in the Window (2018), has come up with a unique and frightening twist on pandemic horror. His new film The Harbinger had its World Premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival and uses the fear of contracting coronavirus, combined with a demonic entity which invades your dreams and feeds on fear, to effectively tell a horrifying and profound story of survival and our need to be remembered.

The Harbinger tells the story of Monique, played by Gabby Beans, a woman...

In the opening scene of Andy Mitton’s The Harbinger, a masked man enters a woman’s apartment to find her screaming and clawing at her arm so tightly that it’s dripping blood. He’s the landlord, and she’s having a nightmare of a predatory Plague Doctor. It’s standard horror stuff, but when the exhausted woman is awoken, […]

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The festival features 32 world premieres in total.

The UK horror and fantasy film festival Frightfest (August 25-29) has unveiled its 2022 line-up, with the world premiere of Neil Marshall’s action horror The Lair set to open the event.

Starring Charlotte Kirk, the film tells the story of a Royal Air Force pilot who, after her plane is shot down, finds herself stranded in an underground bunker where she ends up awakening deadly man-made biological weapons. Marshall will also be introducing a restoration of one of his previous films Dog Soldiers.

Closing the festival is the European premiere of Scott Mann...

This August, join Lightyear Entertainment for a terrifying, mind-bending trip up a cursed mountain road with the special, extras-loaded release of YellowBrickRoad, on Blu-ray for the very first time. Originally released as a Bloody Disgusting Selects title, Lightyear Entertainment has digitally restored Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton‘s sci-fi horror classic to celebrate the film’s 10th […]

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Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film have announced the first wave titles for the 2022 festival – which will be returning to regular venue, The Odeon Great Northern, in Manchester on October 6th – 9th, for four high-impact, fear-filled days of the very best in genre cinema. Check out this opening barrage of international frights:

A young girl, struggling to awake from a coma, navigates the nightmare-freighted world of her own subconscious, in Ryan Stevens Harris’s astonishing steampunk gothic fairy tale, Moon Garden, which evokes the best of Jan Svankmajer and Terry Gilliam, Cronenberg and Clive Barker, for an emotionally charged, deeply personal narrative of redemption and renewal, that will enchant and haunt in equal measure. Grimmfest are thrilled to be hosting the film’s international premiere.

An international premiere, too, for Scott Slone’s whip-smart, genre-savvy reinvention of the perennially popular Paranormal Investigation Found Footage trope, Malibu Horror Story.

Exclusive: British genre festival Grimmfest has unveiled a first wave of films that will be showcased at its 2022 edition running October 6-9 in Manchester.

They include U.S. titles Moon Garden by Ryan Stevens Harris, about a young girl struggling to awake from a coma who travels through a strange industrial landscape to consciousness and found footage, paranormal investigation tale Malibu Horror Story by Scott Slone.

Further titles include U.K. dark cannibal comedy Feed Me by Adam Leader and Richard Oakes, Spanish horror-comedy road movie The Passenger by Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez.

U.S. filmmaker Andy Mitton, whose The Witch In The Window was feted at the festival in 2018, returns with his new film The harbinger, which recently premiered in Montreal’s Fantasia fest.

Further titles include Canadian director John Ainslie’s upcoming horror thriller Do Not Disturb, Argentine director Pablo Parés’s rock tour horror tale...

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The Fantasia Film Festival is set to close with July Jung’s thriller Next Sohee, organizers said on Thursday.

Korean filmmaker Jung’s drama, which debuted by closing the Cannes Critics’ Week and will get a North American bow in Montreal, follows a young woman driven to suicide by a relentless work environment and an outraged investigator trying to get to the bottom of what happened.

Fantasia on closing night will also host a special screening for Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, which stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Rachel Sennott and Pete Davidson.

Unveiling its third wave of titles, the genre fest will also hold world premieres for Yuki Tanada’s My Broken Mariko and Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez’s The Elderly.

There’s also North American debuts for Quebec auteur Denis Côté’s That Kind of Summer...

Genre festival to run in Montreal from July 14-August 3.

Fantasia International Film Festival will host first wave world premieres for the likes of Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious and Satoshi Miki’s Convenience Story and a career achievement award for John Woo at the upcoming in-person summer edition.

Set to run in Montreal from July 14-August 3, the event will include workshops, and launch events. Screenings and select events will take place in Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at Cinémathèque Québécoise, Cinéma du Musée and McCord Museum. The full line-up will be unveiled in June.

Woo, whose credits include Hard Boiled,...

Hong Kong director John Woo is slated to receive a career achievement award at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival, which will return to theaters for its 26th edition. The Fantasia Festival is set to run from July 14 to August 3 in Montreal.

“Face/Off” director Woo recently made headlines for helming the English language remake of “The Killer,” his 1989 classic film, for Peacock. Woo also makes his return to the U.S. film market with dialogue-free action thriller “Silent Night,” starring Joel Kinnaman as a father who ventures into the underworld to avenge his young son’s death. Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Harold Torres, and Catalina Sandino Moreno additionally star.

Woo returned to making movies in China after helming 2003’s “Paycheck” starring Ben Affleck. The director recently completed Chinese features “The Crossing” and sequel “The Crossing 2” in 2014 and 2015, respectively, before helming the 2017 police-thriller “Manhunt.”

Woo’s honor at Fantasia will be followed...

We're going back to Montreal! We're going back to Montreal! Seriously, two years away from one of our favorite Summer stops has been too fucking looong. However, we've all been very good and obediant citizens - for the most part - so as a reward we're allowed to come back and share in the excess bounty that international genre filmmaking can provide.    This year we'll be the first to see Glorious from Rebekah McKendry (All The Creatures Were Stirring), Convenience Story from Satoshi Miki (Adrfit in Tokyo), Country Gold from Mickey Reece, The Harbinger from Andy Mitton (YellowBrickRoad) The Breach from Rodrigo Gudino (The Last Will And Testament of Rosalind Leigh) which will launch a new program this year called Septentrion...

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Well, it looks like Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes' hit The Purge franchise is still going as strong as ever. In fact, today we hear that Luke Cage director Everardo Gout's upcoming currently untitled fifth entry in the theatrical film series has just snagged two more actors for the annual anything-goes event. Yes, today we've learned that The Purge 5 has brought in Will Patton (Armageddon) and Cassidy Freeman (The Righteous Gemstones) for undisclosed roles.

Will Patton and Cassidy Freeman will be joining the previously announced cast of Ana de la Reguera (Nacho Libre) and Tenoch Huerta (Narcos: Mexico) in the new Blumhouse/Platinum Dunes horror thriller. It's said The Purge 5 will be ditching its usual city-setting for a more rural tale still dealing with class and race issues.

While that's really all we have to go on at this point in time, my movie senses have me speculating that this...

As we continue to work with Shudder, the premiere streaming network of horror and genre, bringing you news and reviews of their lineup from month to month it is now time to start giving stuff away as well. Starting this month, and every month, we aim to give away iTunes codes for Shudder releases to lucky Screen Anarchy readers.    This month we have two (2) double iTunes codes to give away to two readers from the U.S. They will win iTunes codes for Andy Mitton's The Witch in the Window and Jenn Wexler's The Ranger. Both are excellent horror flicks which you will definitely enjoy, so says me.   Read below these complete film descriptions for rules of entry.    The Witch In The...

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Grimmfest Films will develop, produce and part-finance features and streaming content.

Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones, directors of Manchester-based UK genre film festival Grimmfest, are launching a production company called Grimmfest Films.

The company will develop, produce and part-finance feature films and streaming content from filmmakers who have premiered work in the festival. This year’s event runs from October 3-6.

Grimmfest Films is financially supported by M2 Media Post Inc, providing an equity fund to invest in post-production. Further funding announcements are pending.

The management team includes executive producer Sarada McDermott McDermott’s credits include co-producer roles on Fighting With My Family and Tolkien.

2018 has been a great year for movies, especially for horror films, from mainstream cinema hits to some fantastic direct to market titles. But it’s also been great for the genre as a whole not just the movies… With that in mind here is Chris’ rundown of his Top 10 Horror Films of 2018:

The Witch in the Window

My horror film of the year, Andy Mitton tackles brilliantly the nature of father/son relationships and applies it to an atmosphere of total dread. A masterpiece.

Terrified (Aterrados)

A fun house of jump scares, that sets the pulse racing and doesn’t release its grip until the credits start to roll. A rumoured English language remake from the same director (Demian Rugna) being produced by Del Toro is a cause for celebration.

Summer of ’84

80’s nostalgia pieces have flooded the film screen in recent years. However, this is one of the...

Despite horror’s thematic binding to the world’s most prominent fears – this a year of parental devastation and horrors inside family units – my top genre films from 2018 still revel in variety: arachnid puppets, Nazi experiments, zombie musicals alike. Such morbid creativity would stick out like a sore severed thumb any other year, but in 2018? You could drown out aforementioned absurdity with Nicolas Cage’s descent into occult revenge madness alone.

As I said, it’s been a wild year for horror – and a damn fine one at that.

My ranking comes after killing many darlings, given my final tally of 118 seen horror movies this year. Dig deeper, past these listed twenty, and you’ll still find plenty of gems. The following treasures just shine a little brighter and demand more attention. Feature debuts, streaming darlings, mainstream nightmares, they’re all here. It’s time for another end of year horror countdown,...

Ceremony awards £40,000 post-production to both best film and best director.

Manchester horror event Grimmfest has given out the awards for its 2018 event, with Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid taking four prizes including best feature.

The film is a dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by a drug war.

As well as best feature, it also picked up best screenplay for writer-director López, best actor for Juan Ramón López and the audience award, voted for by Grimmfest attendees.

It also received...

The Witch in the Window is an elegantly-made and deeply moving family drama wrapped up in an occasionally terrifying haunted house tale. It’s the type of film which plays really well with a festival crowd, particularly a horror audience who usually expect some blood-spilling and things going bump in the night. But Witch has zero of the former and very little of the latter, yet it succeeds in still being a deeply unnerving experience, whilst also balancing an unexpectedly moving and authentic father/son relationship as its emotional beating heart.

Past collaborators and good buddies Andy Mitton and Alex Draper have created a really impressive and unique genre offering, and we managed to sit down with them over closing night drinks to briefly chat about how they achieved what they did on a minuscule budget and with a measly 12 shooting days.

HeyUGuys: Where did the idea for The Witch in the Window originate?...

In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Witch in the Window with with the writer/director Andy Mitton.

Andy Mitton, co-writer and co-director of We Go On and Yellowbrickroad, goes solo with a staggeringly effective, character-driven supernatural horror. Stunningly scripted and performed, this gripping paranormal chiller tells the spooky tale of divorced father Simon taking his 12-year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help him property flip an old farmhouse. As they start to fix the place up they soon realise that no matter how deceased Lydia, the previous owner was, it doesn’t look like she ever left the premises. And with every repair they make, her malicious spirit seems to be getting stronger.

Catch The Witch in the Window at Arrow Video Frightfest

23rd to 27th August 2018

Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7Na.

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I haven't yet seen director/writer/editor/composer Andy Mitton's previous two features, We Go On and Yellowbrickroad, but having watched his new film The Witch in the Window (formerly known as The Vermont House) at Fantasia 2018, I'm going to have to rectify that as soon as possible. The story follows New York City denizen and middle-aged dad Simon (Alex Draper) as he picks up his son Finn (Charlie Tacker) from his estranged wife Beverly (Arija Bareikis). The goal is to fix up a house in the middle of nowhere, Vermont, get Finn away from the Internet and city life, and to bond with some quality father-son time. Problem, is the fixer-upper in the countryside already has a resident of the permanent kind, Lydia. The issue with most haunted house...

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Andy Mitton might be without frequent behind-the-scenes partner Jesse Holland (YellowBrickRoad/We Go On) for The Witch In The Window, but separation anxiety is handily staved. As sole writer and director, Mitton embraces parenthood paranoias of this very instant by furthering his obsession with heavyweight thematic manipulations in genre fare. His ghost story chases compassion, unnerves […]

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Yellowbrickroad and We Go On writer-director Andy Mitton’s supernatural thriller The Witch in the Window is having its World Premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Quebec on July 23rd and today we have the film’s poster for your viewing pleasure. You can check out the poster to the right and the recently released teaser trailer below and then make […]

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The more a father and son renovate their new house, the more powerful a sinister spirit grows within it in Andy Mitton's The Witch in the Window. Before it's released on Shudder in the Us, The Witch in the Window will be screened at the 2018 Fantasia film festival in Montreal, and we have a look at the official poster and new images from the film.

The Witch in the Window will make its world premiere on July 23rd at Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, with a cast and crew Q&A following the screening. Visit here for all of our Fantasia 2018 coverage, and check out the official poster, images, and trailer for The Witch in the Window:

"The Witch In The Window focuses on separated father Simon and his estranged twelve year-old son, Finn, who head to Vermont to repair an old farmhouse and encounter the malicious spirit of a previous owner,...