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To celebrate the digital release of The Axe Murders of Villisca, available for download from 17th April from iTunes and other platforms, we’ve been given a pair tickets to Haunted Happenings Ghost Hunt Night along with an iTunes download codes for Axe Murders of Villisca. We also have 4 download codes available for runners up.

Intrigued by the real life mystery that surrounds a ‘Murder House’ in the town of Villisca, a group of friends set out to find the truth themselves. After travelling to the scene of the crime, Caleb (Robert Adamson, Princess Protection Program, Hollywood Heights) Denny (Jarrett Sleeper, Stranger Than Fiction, The Fourth Door) and Jess (Alex Frnka, The Inbetweeners, Unanswered Prayers) take a guided tour that follows the final steps of the parents and four children that were brutally murdered over a hundred years prior. Dissatisfied with their findings, the group decide to return,...

This year’s festival will include an inaugural virtual reality strand and a co-production forum focused on UK-Ibero-American relations.Scroll down for line-up

The 24th Raindance Film Festival has revealed its line-up, with 90 feature films set to be screened in London September 21 – October 2.

This year’s jury will be comprised of Stephen Fry (V For Vendetta), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch), Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies), Jack Davenport (Pirates Of The Caribbean), Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy) and American artist David Datuna.

They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the international premiere of Stephen Elliott’s After Adderall, a semi-autobiographical story about the production of the film adaptation of Elliott’s memoirs. Receiving its European premiere will be Japanese director Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life, about a young woman who is assigned to follow a stranger.

Among the seven UK premieres playing in competition are Indian drama [link=tt...

YouTube Red has premiered its latest original series -- a simulated zombie apocalypse reality competition titled Fight Of The Living Dead, featuring a who’s-who of digital superstars. On the show, the 10 contestants -- including VitalyzdTV, FouseyTUBE, Tré Melvin, and Brittani Louise Taylor -- must fight their way through an abandoned hospital overrun by zombies. Throughout the course of 72 hours, they must also complete various challenges.

The series is available on BlackBoxTV’s YouTube channel. The studio, which says it is “increasingly focused on virtual environments, and the implications of Vr, gaming, and 360 video,” is also behind The Fourth Door, a Joey Graceffa-starring series for Verizon’s go90 platform, as well as a prior Fight Of The Living Dead series that ran in April 2015 starring Graceffa, iJustine, PrankvsPrank’s Jesse Wellens, and more. YouTube Red’s Fight Of The Living Dead was produced by Alpine Labs and Revolver Picture Company.

On October 21st, a selection of exemplary international web series will hit Marseille. The French port city will play host to the Marseille Web Fest, which recently announced 24 of the 25 selections for its annual showcase.

The Marseille Web Fest, now in its sixth year, tends to feature a worldly field, and this year’s class is no exception. 12 countries will be represented, will filmmakers hailing from Nepal to Belgium to Argentina converging at Marseille’s Théâtre Joliette. The genres featured at the festival will be similarly diverse, with entries ranging from drama to comedy to horror to science fiction on display.

The festival will serve not just as a showcase for its selected series but also as a mixer where independent web creators can meet producers and other industry professionals. Admission to the event is free.

The most notable selection, at least from our Anglo-centric point-of-view, is The Fourth Door,...

Back in September 2015, New Form Digital announced its plan to bring six original series to Verizon’s go90 mobile video platform. The first series to debut was The Fourth Door, starring Joey Graceffa and created in conjunction with YouTube horror and supernatural channel BlackBoxTV. Now, two months after the series’ premiere on go90, BlackBoxTV released an all-new trailer for The Fourth Door on December 25.

Created by Tony Valenzuela and Jarrett Sleeper, The Fourth Door tells the story of Lain (played by High School Musical’s Monique Coleman), a young woman who tries to save the man she loves from the dangerous afterlife realm of Limbo before its King (Graceffa) destroys them. BlackBoxTV originally released a trailer for The Fourth Door on October 26, a day before the series’ official premiere on go90. The new trailer reveals snippets of the series’ dream-like shots and intense action sequences as Lain travels through Limbo on her quest.

Sneak Peek new footage, plus images from the new science fiction series "The Fourth Door", starring Monique Coleman ("High School Musical"), debuting on Verizon’s 'go90' app:

"...'Lain' (Coleman) wakes up struggling to recall how she got there or who she is. With the help of young astronaut 'Colin' (Reid Miller), she must journey through the bizarre world of 'Limbo' to rescue the man she loves from the 'King of Limbo' before he can devour them all..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Fourth Door"...

On September 25th, production company New Form Digital announced its plan to bring six new series to Go90, a mobile video service from Verizon. Now, about four weeks after Go90’s launch, the first of those six series--The Fourth Door--is set for an October 27th premiere.

The Fourth Door, which comes from BlackBoxTV mastermind Tony E. Valenzuela and actor Jarrett Sleeper, began as a pilot, which was released as part of New Form’s first round of incubated short films. The full 12-episode series will center on Lain (Monique Coleman), who must rescue her lover from an otherworldly Limbo. A trailer, recently released on New Form’s YouTube channel, forecasts all sorts of supernatural twists, as well as a nefarious King of Limbo portrayed by YouTube star Joey Graceffa.

“New Form Digital was proud to work with Tony and Jarrett to create an original and suspenseful story that...