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Exclusive: Malcolm Goodwin has been tapped to lead The Great Wall of Warren, an indie dramedy from writer-director Victor Hawks, which also stars Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X), Vanessa Curry (Behind The Trees), William “Big Sleeps” Stewart (Coffee & Kareem), Ester Tania Jiron (Anniversary), Dax Rey (Swan Song), Jackie Burns (Power Book II) and Yolonda Williams (Robocop).

The film picks up two days before the lockdown of 2020 and finds Warren Grant (Goodwin) living his best Hollywood life, filling his days with frivolity and booze. Two days later, the world shuts down, and he soon realizes how his lifestyle had put him on an island of loneliness, with the damaged 12-year-old inside emerging. Without the distractions of the world, he is left with nothing but time to confront his loneliness and starts to spiral, deciding that the best way to combat it is to...

Stars: Vanessa Curry, Sahil Shroff, Subrat Dutta, Tvisha Seema, Tanvi Shinde, Apoorva Arora, Mohit Hiranandani, Abheer Meherish, Rhea Harwani, Rajesh Arya | Written by Vikram Jayakumar, Arjun Grover | Directed by Vikram Jayakumar

What drew me to Behind the Trees immediately, before I had started watching, was the main story – which sees a young couple come across a group of people performing an exorcism on a young girl. At first, unsure what to do, they watch from afar before deciding to step in and save her. The story kind of begins from there and I liked the idea of the movie coming after the exorcism.

Maybe I should have expected that after this opening that the middle third of the movie slows things down quite alot and becomes way too much of a generic, run-of-the-mill low budget horror. Thankfully, the final thirty minutes pick up again and almost makes you forget the mediocrity that came before it.

"Honestly, this whole thing comes as a complete shock to me." What did they do at summer camp?! Rlje Films has released the official trailer for a thriller called Always and Forever, the latest film from the director of You Got Served - Chris Stokes. This looks a bit like I Know What You Did Last Summer, but more of a suspenseful thriller than horror. After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can't be a coincidence. The secrets of their past are coming back to haunt them. Starring Cynthia Addai-Robbinson as Nicole, with Robbie Jones, Lauren London, Wood Harris, Loretta Devine, Rocsi Diaz, Erica Tazel, Vanessa Curry, and Deborah Ayorinde. Not so sure this looks any good. If these kind of melodramatic "we all did something we wish we could take back" suspense films are you jam,...