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"You can always tell which neighbors are gonna last... Good luck, son." Ha! Blue Finch Films has revealed the teaser trailer for a film titled Hold the Fort, which is premiering this month at the prestigious 2025 Fantasia Film Festival up in Montreal.

Homeownership is an insane hell in the new teaser for the action-packed horror-comedy Hold the Fort, set to premiere later this month at the Fantasia International Film Festival.

Watch the new teaser below, which unleashes a kitchen sink of raucous horror fun, from bad neighbors to over-the-top monster mayhem.

Hold the Fort follows “Lucas and Jenny, who think their life is finally coming together when the couple become homeowners. Little do they know that their new house comes with a big catch. Lucas and Jenny soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when they become trapped in a battle between their Homeowners Association and an onslaught of monsters from hell. The horror-comedy takes the timely concern of homeownership and wraps this up in an entertaining, action-packed thrill ride.”

The horror-comedy is written and directed by William Bagley (The Murder Podcast), with story by Scott Hawkins.

The aim of Hold the Fort,...

Presented by Bloody Disgusting, “Bloody Bites” returns for Season 14 today on Screambox, with two brand new horror shorts now available to watch at your leisure!

The top-performing original series on the Screambox platform spotlights up-and-coming voices in the genre, with each episode featuring two horror shorts from around the world.

New snack-sized frights are available to stream every Friday for the next eight weeks. Episodes also air Fridays at 8pm Et on the linear, always-on channel Screambox TV.

Season 14, Episode 1 features the following two horror shorts…

Sweaty Larry

Director – Vanessa Ionta Wright

Starring – Camryn Bentley, Haley Leary

Three curious young girls summon the entity, Sweaty Larry, based on an urban legend passed down through generations. They must flush the toilet while saying his name nine times…Nine Times and then turn on the lights to see if he will appear. The only problem was that no one told them how to put him back.

Exclusive:The UK’s Blue Finch Films has boarded sales onWilliam Bagley’scomedy horrorHold The Fort.

The film is set to screen at the Fantasia International Film Festival, running from July 7 to August 3 in Montreal.

Hold The Fortis about acouple who think their life is finally coming together when they become homeowners. Little do they know that their new house comes with a big catch.

The film was written by Bagley who also produced alongside Matt Dodd and Luke Williams who both worked with Bagley on 2021 film The Murder Podcast. Tim Reis and Julian Smith also serve as producers.

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Spookt Photo: courtesy of Frightfest

Two popular vloggers; one supposedly haunted house. That’s the set-up for Spookt, which screened recently at Frightfest, with the complication that one of those women is devoted to proving the existence of the paranormal and the other is an avowed sceptic with a history of debunking dodgy claims. They’re not exactly fans of one another’s work, yet as they investigate the building where a child once disappeared, they will both find themselves facing the unexpected, and will ultimately have to work together in order to solve the mystery and escape.

Starring Haley Leary as Claire, the believer, and Christen Sharice as Rachel, her rival, the film was directed by Tony Reames and produced by Vanessa Ionta Wright (amongst others). When I met up with Tony and Vanessa to discuss it, we began by talking about the phenomenon of supernatural-themed vlogging. it wasn...

Stars: Christen Sharice, Haley Leary, Eric Roberts, Erin Brown, Keith Brooks, Victor Rivera, Crystal Cleveland, Jennifer Pearl, Davi Crimmins | Written by Torey Haas | Directed by Tony Reames

Director Tony Reames opens his feature debut, Spookt, with a simple scene, as a boy walks home alone while listening to music through his headphones. The walk is interrupted by a supernatural occurrence, startling the boy as he passes a spooky house. Known as the Gibson house, it is part of local folklore whose bloodied history still frightens locals.

Voice-over gets out the necessary information with accompanying footage, highlighting how ten-year-old Flora Blu Giddens disappeared 6 years earlier after walking into the Gibson house on a dare. It was previously owned by once-respected surgeon and Greenville Butcher, Dr. Bram Byler (Eric Roberts). Delivering this info dump is skeptical YouTuber, Rachel (Christen Sharice), who spends her time debunking supernatural events and has her sights set on the Gibson house next.

One of the problems with extremely polarised debates, no matter what the subject, is that they can blind us to broader possibilities. Rachel (Christen Sharice) has spent many years investigating supposed supernatural phenomena and is adamant that they do not exist. Claire (Haley Leary), a rival vlogger who has spent years getting excited about them, is equally convinced that they do. When the two find themselves thrown together in the investigation of a house where a child disappeared, viewers are left to wonder whether their determination to prove one another wrong will fade in time for them to recognise that they might be facing another kind of danger – one which they will need to work together to survive.

It’s not quite that simple, of course. Nothing ever is. The house has had a reputation for sinister going-on for some time. It used to be the home of a mysterious doctor.