Notícias

Stars: Nicole Jones, Keaton Asma, Tyona Bowman, Ray Buffer, Justina Biosah | Written and Directed by Dan Asma

“I’ve lost my mind.”

From the producer of Mind Body Spirit, comes a new horror… A fantastic and intriguing blend of documentary, found footage horror, and even adventure, Tribe is an effective torment.

Tribe opens with immediate curiosity: a quote on screen, an aerial shot of the West Coast Mountains, and concerning footage of Devin Adams, whose face looks to be succumbing to a disease or infection of sorts. Immediately after, we begin to see footage recorded from earlier in the year. Make sure you’re able to keep track of the events’ chronology and pay close attention to the screen/footage time stamps.

Devin, a retired professor, before things took a turn for the worse, was recording review videos for videography tech. Following a visit from Kate (Nicole Jones), Devin finds...

Welcome to Found Frights, a monthly column in which Ari Drew highlights new, underrated, and underseen found footage movies for those of us who can’t get enough of this horror subgenre that just won’t die.

One thing that I’ve always loved about following and covering independent horror films is the prospect of discovering projects and talent that make me feel excited about the genre all over again. Despite its reputation over the years as a low-effort gateway to genre filmmaking, found footage films and those in its family of subgenres have often been able to spark that unique sense of giddiness in me when executed with care. At their best, they’re an impressive showcase of ingenuity, novel filmmaking approaches, and impassioned collaboration–often born of necessity due to the limited budgets most of these projects have to work with throughout production. At their worst, well… the...

The genre label Welcome Villain Films is back with Puzzle Box, a new found footage nightmare that’s headed to VOD outlets at home this week.

You’ll be able to watch Puzzle Box at home beginning Friday, October 11.

Watch the official trailer below while you wait.

Writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror movie centers on recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate.

“Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”

The Unnamed Footage Festival previewed, “Newcomer Jack Dignan’s direction and extremely clever editing take an otherwise unspectacular location and turn it into a labyrinthine hell, which is further elevated by Kaitlyn Boyé’s amazing performance, creating a piece...

We’ve seen Zoom call horror (Host), and live-stream horror (Deadstream), and now Welcome Villain Films brings us ‘wellness influencer horror’. This realm of online content can easily veer into the uncanny with its commodification of health and self-care through ultra-positive ambassadors. Mind Body Spirit explores the pitfalls of this lucrative corner of the internet while telling the haunting story of a woman trying to break into the industry.

Anya (Sarah J. Bartholomew) is a woman who is lost and on a journey to find herself through the online wellness community. She is able to embark on this venture by inheriting her estranged grandmother’s house which becomes her filming space. The film is shot like a found footage movie as she switches between her “on-screen” yogi persona and the woman struggling to find meaning in what she is doing. Bartholomew does a fantastic job in this practically one-woman show.

Stars: Sarah J. Bartholomew, Anna Knigge, Madi Bready, Kristi Noory | Written and Directed by Alex Henes, Matthew Merenda

Mind Body Spirit may be the first horror film centred around yoga. No, not yoghurt, The Stuff did that decades ago, but yoga. Yes, there was Yoga Hosers, but that was about two yoga practitioners, not about yoga itself. And it was a comedy, which this very definitely isn’t.

Anya was left a house in California by the grandmother she barely knew existed, let alone met. If she’d read a few of my reviews, she would have known what a bad idea that was, though after seeing a video call between her and her mother Lenka (Anna Knigge) I can’t blame her for moving cross-country to become a yoga and fitness influencer, something her childhood friend Kenzi has been very successful at.

It’s while making her first video,...

Who said found footage horror movies are dead? Pun intended and they're thriving. Last year's Lola was a masterpiece, though it wasn't exactly a frightfest like, say, Mind Body Spirit, which drops on digital platforms this week. If the title evokes yoga vibes, that's partly the point. Yes, this movie hits a lot of notes: horror, found footage, yoga, supernatural and more. Hey, yoga once helped Giancarlo Esposito bring his iconic Breaking Bad character to life, but a fictional movie like Mind Body Spirit warns that, combined with the wrong elements, such practices can run haywire.

Directors Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda prove that the possibilities for this fun little subgenre of cinema are seemingly endless. It's no surprise that Welcome Villain Films is the brand behind this horror entry's release, the same studio that released the hard-to-watch movie Beaten to Death and the terrifying film Malum not too long ago.

Mind Body Spirit, the feature horror debut by filmmakers Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda, is not the first film this year to feel like its tapping into similar things as Ari Asters Hereditary. However, it is the only one thus far to involve so much yoga alongside its story about familial trauma and how it gets passed down. This could easily sound like a joke, but Mind Body Spirit is a found footage horror that plays things mostly straight beyond a few gags about influencers. This is both a blessing and a curse. The curse is that it never takes things quite far enough to be as sly a reflection of our modern digital lives as something like the recent The Influencer. Instead, its blessings come in the more supernatural dark delights, operating in the vein of something like Rob Savages Host with a slight hint of the livestream horror Deadstream.

Mind Body Spirit critiques influencer culture and white Western appropriation of yoga. The film builds fear through anticipation, an absence of jump scares, and minimal violence. The ending is anti-climactic, with Anya's fate feeling predetermined, emphasizing journey over destination.

As technology evolves, so must filmmaking, and Mind Body Spirit understands this, managing to make the found footage genre fresh and familiar simultaneously. Starring Sarah J. Bartholomew, the movie follows the fledgling fitness influencer Anya as she embarks on a misguided attempt to reconnect with a deeper spiritual self. Taking place almost entirely through the voyeuristic lens of footage meant for a social media following, the story leaves us questioning our role as viewers. If I am watching this woman's unraveling, am I complicit, and what does that make me?

6/10 ProsMind Body Spirit nicely explores the complicity of influencer cultureSarah J. Bartholomew is excellent in her roleConsThe film doesn't trust...

The return of a fan favorite franchise, the critically acclaimed new movie from a modern day genre visionary, and a slasher from the perspective of the Jason Voorhees-like killer.

It’s all headed our way in the coming weeks. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg…

Here’s all the new horror releasing in theaters and at home in May 2024!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

I Saw The TV Glow – May 3 (Limited), May 17 (Wide)

Fresh off the haunting and singularly creepy indie We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Jane Schoenbrun is back with A24‘s I Saw the TV Glow, releasing only in theaters May 3.

In I Saw the TV Glow, “Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own.

"This is my heritage, and I am living it!" Welcome Villain Films has revealed an official trailer for Mind Body Spirit, a found footage yoga horror movie from filmmakers Alex Henes & Matthew Merenda making their feature directorial debut. This first premiered at the 2023 Phoenix Film Festival last year, and it will be on VOD this May. Breathe. Find your center... before it finds you. An aspiring yoga influencer embarks on a ritual practice left behind by her grandmother. As Anya becomes obsessed with the mysterious power of the practice, she unwittingly unleashes an otherworldly entity that begins to take control of her life – and her videos. She must figure out how to stop it from consuming her in this "extremely frightening and unsettling" new horror. Starring Sarah J. Bartholomew as Anya, with Madi Bready, Kj Flahive, Anna Knigge, and Kristi Noory. This also won the Audience Award for Best Feature...

A yoga influencer discovers just how flexible fear can be in Mind Body Spirit, a new found footage horror movie that Welcome Villain Films is bringing to the table in a couple weeks.

Mind Body Spirit will release on Digital outlets May 7.

Get twisted with the official trailer and poster art below.

Matt Donato raved in his 4-star review, “Mind Body Spirit is a knockout horror session for the livestream era, which has me desperately waiting to see what its creators and stars do next.”

In Mind Body Spirit, “Anya, an aspiring yoga influencer, embarks on a ritual practice left behind by her estranged grandmother. She documents the practice on her YouTube channel for the world to watch, allowing her audience intimate access to her journey.

“But what starts as a spiritual self-help guide evolves into something much more sinister. As Anya becomes obsessed with the mysterious power of the practice,...

Filmmakers could spend the next decade highlighting the mounting horrors of influencer culture, especially with standout dissections like Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda’s Mind Body Spirit. The filmmaking duo organically recreates a hopeful celebrity vlogger’s downward spiral with the utmost Screenlife dedication. Henes and Merenda make tremendous use of a single-location California estate that never feels overused, while cinematography stays cleanly static when recreating YouTube-ready shooting styles. Where other Screenlife titles get bogged down in the technical nitty-gritty, Mind Body Spirit centers on an effortlessly zen production that becomes a haunting supernatural confrontation no positive mental attitude can exorcise.

Sarah J. Bartholomew delivers an obsessively grounded and engagingly imperfect-slash-quirky performance as an aspiring yoga influencer named Anya. We watch a playlist of videos recorded for her not-yet-famous “Mind Body Spirit” channel, complete with themed ad breaks. Everything takes place in Anya’s newly inherited house, a spacious...

In the wake of genre label Welcome Villain Films picking up the yoga horror movie Mind Body Spirit, the label has also just acquired another found footage movie, Variety reports.

Writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror movie Puzzle Box is coming to Unnamed Footage Festival this month, and it has found a home at Welcome Villain Films.

A release is planned for later this year. Stay tuned for a date.

The upcoming Puzzle Box centers on “recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”

The Unnamed Footage Festival previews, “Newcomer Jack Dignan’s direction and extremely clever editing take an otherwise unspectacular location...

I come from a faith-based family and upbringing so this idea of yoga horror tickles me, even within the constructs of the found footage genre. The notion of ancient rituals unleashing unholy entites is not new, I've just never seen it linked to the peaceful and purposeful practice of yoga. This is a first, for me. Oh, I can hear all those church leaders and elders now, "See? See what happens when you open yourself to Eastern practices and New Age religions?".    Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda's found footage horror Mind Body Spirit has been acquired by Welcome Villain Films, who will distribute the horror flick through digital platforms worldwide on May 7th. It looks like it will make one more festival appearance at the...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

A yoga influencer discovers just how flexible fear can be in Mind Body Spirit, an upcoming found footage horror movie that has been acquired by Welcome Villain Films.

The Wrap reports that Mind Body Spirit will release on Digital outlets May 7.

In Mind Body Spirit, “Anya, an aspiring yoga influencer, embarks on a ritual practice left behind by her estranged grandmother. She documents the practice on her YouTube channel for the world to watch, allowing her audience intimate access to her journey.

“But what starts as a spiritual self-help guide evolves into something much more sinister. As Anya becomes obsessed with the mysterious power of the practice, she unwittingly unleashes an otherworldly entity that begins to take control of her life – and her videos. Now Anya must race to unlock the truth, before her descent into madness threatens to consume her mind, body and spirit. By the time she reveals...