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“The most dangerous thing about the end of the world is each other.“ Blackout, an upcoming action thriller, has dropped its first sneak peek—a 30-second teaser that promises explosive action and heart-pounding suspense. Blackout stars fan favorite Twana Barnett, Mike Ferguson, and [...]

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Emilia, Nicki Nicole and Tini are heating things up!

The three Argentine superstars have teamed up on their first-ever trio collaboration “Blackout,” out now.

The song is the latest from Emilia‘s upcoming EP, and is described as “an anthem that blends desire, confidence and bold feminine energy…challenging the concept of ‘being hot’ into a bold statement of independence and self-confidence.”

Keep reading to find out more…

The official music video for the track is set in a store selling fans during a heat wave, as the three superstars playfully take part in a “hot sale” and send their customers melting.

“Y yo me le pegué, y él se me pegó, woh-woh (Woh-woh) / Hacía calor y ese bombón se derritió / Del baile lo saqué y él no se negó, woh-woh (Woh-woh) / Con una noche no nos alcanzó / Y yo me le pe—,” they declare.

(In English: “And I clinged...

Three of Argentina’s biggest pop divas are linking up on a sexy new song. On Tuesday, Emilia released her track “Blackout,” featuring her fellow queens Tini and Nicki Nicole.

The video shows the three stars working at an air-conditioning/bottled water store on a hot day. Emilia opens “Blackout” by flirting with a sweating customer before the pop trio harmonizes on the track and takes turns seducing different folks stopping by.

“And I stuck to her, and she stuck to me, woh-woh (Woh-woh)/It was hot and that marshmallow melted,...

Stars: Chris Cleveland, Bill Wetherill, Heather Renee Wake, Kellen Garner, Chade Green, Aria Song | Written by Kellen Garner | Directed by Christopher Sheffield, Kellen Garner

I was just thinking the other day that it had been a while since I’d reviewed a western and then along comes Blood in Them Hills a tale of outlaws stolen gold, hostile Apaches and a Wendigo.

In a cabin outside of town a badly injured man begins to act strangely as his daughter pulls a tooth out of his infected shoulder. In the midst of this Apaches attack the cabin and he announces “I’m awake!” before attacking his family.

Back in town the Christmas festivities are taking a dark turn as a mob surrounds the jail looking to lynch one of the prisoners Mack for allegedly killing one of the townsfolk. Far from being afraid, he talks tough as the doctor stitches him up.

Activision has forever blessed us with its best first-person shooter franchise, Call of Duty. The whole series is an absolute treat to play, and although most of the installments might feel a bit repetitive or boring, the story and characters in them are what pull the gamers in.

The Blackout game mode introduced the first battle royale in CoD | Image Credits: Activision

Activision has forever been proud of its battle royale from 2020, Call of Duty: Warzone, but one of their hidden gems has always been the foundation for the Warzone we enjoy now. Of course, we are talking about Call of Duty: Blackout. Let’s delve further.

Call of Duty: Blackout was the best battle royale in the franchise

Blackout was the first battle royale mode that Activision released back in 2018 as a part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. It is the fifteenth installment in the franchise, which was...

David M. Parks new thriller, “Last Hit” is beginning principal photography in Los Angeles, Calif. this month. The film stars Mike Ferguson, Twana Barnett, Trent James (Blackout) and Nichola Perrett (YouTube @NichLmao) Mike Ferguson and Twana Barnett play a pair of criminals looking …

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Exclusive: Hunter Cope has taken to YouTube to dish out The Perfect Parfait, a comedy interview series where he sits down with celebrity guests to enjoy custom-crafted parfaits tailored to each guest’s creative persona.

Blending the traditional talk show format with sketch comedy, culinary flair, and a delightful dash of chaos, The Perfect Parfait is described as Hot Ones meets Between Two Ferns. The show kicks off today with guest Dave Franco, and will also soon feature appearances from the likes of Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Paul Walter Hauser, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christian A. Pierce (The Real Bros of Simi Valley), Sydney Heller & Olivia DeLaurentis (Smosh: The Sitcom Live), and Tim Heidecker.

New episodes will drop every Thursday on the Perfect Parfait YouTube channel. The series is a collaboration with Chef David Codney, former Executive Chef of The Peninsula Beverly Hills,...

Actors Mike Ferguson and Twana Barnett have joined the cast of “Last Hit,” a new action thriller that also stars Joe Davison, who appeared in the second season of “Stranger Things,” and Levee Duplay, who was in “The Tailor of Sin City.”

The film will star Ferguson and Barnett as a pair of criminals looking to get a fresh start from their illicit pasts. Their boss, played by Duplay, takes one of them hostage to force a final job. LeeAnne Bauer is also in the cast, playing a trusted confidante to the leading pair.

“Last Hit” is beginning principal photography in Los Angeles, Calif. this month. David M. Parks, who began feature work as a cinematographer, is directing the thriller. He made his debut with “Static Codes” in 2023 and has helmed several films since. Anthony Leone is screenwriter, while Ovsanna Yepremyan developed the story and is producing for RadCin.

Barnett...

Paramount and YouTube TV have reached a new carriage deal, averting a blackout of programming of the former’s sports, entertainment and news networks — including CBS, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.

The multi-year deal will also expand the two parties’ streaming relationship, with the ongoing inclusion of Paramount+ with Showtime and BET+ on YouTube Primetime Channels and Google giving qualifying YouTube TV customers the option to bundle Paramount+.

In a statement shared on X on Saturday, YouTube TV said the agreement would allow it to continue to offer over 100 channels, while “enabling more user choice in the future.”

With this agreement, YouTube TV will continue to offer 100+ channels, while enabling more user choice in the future. Thank you again for your patience, and as always, we appreciate your membership.

— YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) February 16, 2025

“We look forward to extending our long-standing partnership and giving audiences greater access to their favorite programming,” a Paramount spokesperson told TheWrap.

“Bogotá: City of the Lost” is a 2024 Korean drama categorized as a Crime Thriller, and is streaming on Netflix.

Summary: Sometimes change is good. Sometimes change is bad. All you know is that you have to survive.

Why Move From One Country to Another Country to Be Lost

“Bogotá: City of the Lost”, begins with a reference to the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-1998 when “severe balance-of-payments pressures in South Korea brought the country to the brink of default”. Because of the country’s financial crisis Guk-Hui’s father uprooted the family. He, and his mother and father moved to Bogotá, Columbia. The father had a friend, Mr. Park, who lived and worked there. They were both soldiers who fought in Vietnam together. The father had high hopes. He was told that if you knew Mr. Park, your success was guaranteed. As soon as they arrived they were in a...

What Do We Know About the upcoming limited series Blade Runner 2099? More than you may think. The Prime Video series continuing the story begun in Ridley Scott’s classic film Blade Runner has been on the top of the most anticipated list since it was announced in 2022. With production wrapped, we may see it in 2025. From plot details, casting news, and more, let’s dive in and look at what is coming up in Blade Runner 2099.

What is the plot?

An official synopsis for Blade Runner 2099 was revealed recently. The series picks up fifty years after Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. According to the synopsis, “In Los Angeles 2099, Cora lived her entire life on the run, a chameleon forced to adopt numerous identities. To secure a stable future for her brother, she assumes one final identity and is forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant confronting the end of her life.

Did a Texas man genuinely forget the night of his ex-girlfriend’s death, or is he faking amnesia to cover up a crime? CBS’s 48 Hours tackles the perplexing case of Livye Lewis, found shot to death in her car on Halloween night 2020 in Hemphill, Texas. Her ex-boyfriend, Matthew Edgar, discovered near the scene, bloodied […]

48 Hours: “The Blackout Murder of Livye Lewis”...

Spring is in the air, and so is horror! Between Baghead, The First Omen, Abigail, the werewolf-themed Blackout, and the French movie Infested, we have plenty of options when it comes to scares.Though it's not technically horror, Alex Garland’s Civil War is certainly going to terrify us. Dev Patel’s going to kick ass and take names in Monkey Man, and so is Henry Cavill and his ragtag 1940s crew in Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Bill Skarsgård in Boy Kills World, and, of course, the crew of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver.

We love horror here at /Film, which gives us an excuse to highlight some of the best horror movies of 2024. The year is still young — it's not quite April yet — but there are already a slew of creepy, spooky, and scary titles to pick through and celebrate. We can only hope and assume this list will grow considerably as 2024 continues on, but for now, let's look back at what's already arrived and highlight some titles that might've completely slipped through the cracks for some of you. We've avoided spoilers to keep these films fresh for you. You're welcome. And now, here are the best horror movies of 2024 so far.

Read more: The 50 Scariest Horror Movie Monsters Ranked

Blackout

Larry Fessenden, indie horror auteur, is back — with a werewolf movie. But "Blackout" isn't your typical lycanthrope flick. This is more like a quirky indie character drama that also happens to be about a werewolf.

Blackout emerges as a surprisingly powerful villain in Marvel's upcoming Blood Hunt event, setting the stage for a bloody showdown. Marvel is gearing up for its most gruesome event yet as Earth's vampires harness the Dark Force to unleash chaos and bloodshed. With promises of extreme violence and new ground broken in superhero comics, Blood Hunt #1 hints at the demise of an underrated antagonist.

Warning: contains potential spoilers for Blood Hunt #1!

Blood Hunt, Marvel’s most R-rated event ever, begins with a seriously underrated villain. The next major Marvel event, Blood Hunt will debut in stores later this Spring, but the seeds have been sown for a while now, as Earth’s vampires consolidate their power. Now, in a special first look at Blood Hunt #1, a surprise, and underrated, villain inaugurates what promises to be Marvel’s bloodiest event ever.

Marvel shared a first look at Blood Hunt #1, which...

Marvel's Blood Hunt event promises violent "Red Band" editions targeting A-list heroes, impacting even the Avengers. Blood Hunt builds on 50 years of Marvel vampire lore, with the Vampire Nation's peaceful facade explored. The unexpected violence and gore in Blood Hunt will bring something new to mainstream comics.

Marvel’s next big event, Blood Hunt, is on the horizon, and the publisher has promised its ultra-violent “Red Band” editions will also target A-list heroes. This event, masterminded by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz, will pit the heroes against Earth’s vampires, who have smothered the world in darkness. Marvel will also ship special “Red Band” editions with more gore and violence, and it will impact its biggest icons as well.

Marvel shared a first look at Blood Hunt with Aipt, including a look at preview pages which are shared below. Speaking to Aipt, writer MacKay and editor Tom Brevoort, revealed that...

The Overlook Film Festival announced today their initial lineup for the upcoming 2024 edition, taking place April 4 – April 7 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“We are finally able to see the fruits of post-pandemic productions and it’s a sight to behold,” said Michael Lerman, co-founder and director of film programming of The Overlook Film Festival. “This year’s lineup is full of bigger, scarier, more personal, more bombastic fever dreams that are sure to haunt you for the rest of 2024.”

This wide-ranging initial festival lineup includes 43 films (20 features and 23 shorts) from 11 countries, as well as four live presentations and five immersive experiences.

“This festival has always been as much about horror’s history as it is about its future,” said Landon Zakheim, co-founder and executive director of The Overlook Film Festival. “The expanded retrospective screenings, with some of our favorite heroes once again joining in person, allow us to celebrate what drew...

These past two years I've been fortunate to experience everything from a séance and a Vampire Ball to Halloween costume parties in April at The Overlook Film Festival (you can read all about it in my previous event report), and as I prepare to attend "summer camp for horror fans" for a third year in a row, the initial lineup for the festival's 2024 edition already has me wishing it were time to head to the Big Easy.

Brimming with must-see screenings and immersive experiences, the initial lineup for The Overlook Film Festival 2024 has plenty for horror fans to mark on their calendars between April 4th–7th, including Cuckoo, Abigail, I Saw the TV Glow, Blackout, a 50th anniversary screening of Phantom of the Paradise (with Paul Williams in attendance), and a 10th anniversary screening of Oculus with director Mike Flanagan, who will be in attendance along with Kate Siegel to...

Universal’s monster movie Abigail helmed by Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett has been set to world premiere as the closing night film of horror fest The Overlook Film Festival, which is taking place this year at the Prytania Theatres in New Orleans from April 4 – 7.

Slated for release on April 19, Abigail watches as a group of criminals retreats to an isolated mansion after kidnapping the ballerina daughter (Alisha Weir) of a powerful underworld figure, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl. Written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick, the film’s cast also includes Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Giancarlo Esposito, and the late Angus Cloud.

This year’s Overlook lineup includes 45 films — 22 features and 23 shorts — from 11 countries, as well as four live presentations and five immersive experiences. Set to open the fet, on the heels of its Berlin launch,...

The Overlook Film Festival, which takes place from April 4 to April 7 in New Orleans, La. at the Prytania Theatres, has announced its initial 2024 lineup. The horror festival will open with Neon’s “Cuckoo” and close with the world premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Abigail.”

The lineup includes 45 films — 22 features and 23 shorts — in addition to four live presentations and five immersive experiences.

“We are finally able to see the fruits of post-pandemic productions and it’s a sight to behold,” Michael Lerman, co-founder and director of film programming of Overlook Film Festival, said in a statement. “This year’s lineup is full of bigger, scarier, more personal, more bombastic fever dreams that are sure to haunt you for the rest of 2024.”

As the opening night film, “Cuckoo” will kick off the week. The film stars Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens and Jessica Henwick. Directed by Tilman Singer, “Cuckoo” follows a 17-year-old who moves...

Blackout: "Writer-director Larry Fessenden has created some of the most original and memorable independent horror films of the last 25 years, from Habit and Wendigo to The Last Winter, Skin and Bones, Beneath and Depraved. His latest, Blackout, ranks among his most chilling and thought-provoking works with a cast that includes: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, James Le Gros, Kevin Corrigan, Marshall Bell and Barbara Crampton.

Earning rave reviews on the festival circuit, Blackout marks the long-awaited reunion of Dark Sky Films and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix, two iconic horror companies that brought us contemporary classics such as Ti West's The House of The Devil and The Innkeepers, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land and Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Late Phases.

Blackout will open for a one week exclusive NYC theatrical engagement...

"Everyone needs to go home - there's something out there on the loose and dangerous." Dark Sky Pictures has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Blackout, the latest genre creation from horror regular actor / filmmaker Larry Fessenden. This premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, with additional festival appearances at Sitges, Woodstock, and the Brooklyn Horror Festival. In a small town in upstate New York, Charley, a werewolf who's been infected with the curse and is responsible for a series of brutal murders, confronts the most corrupt person in the area – a real estate tycoon named Hammond. At the same time, he will try to win back his ex-girlfriend Sharon, the tycoon's daughter. Described as a "new twist on the lycanthrope myth." Starring Alex Hurt as Charley, with Addison Timlin, James LeGros, Kevin Corrigan, Barbara Crampton, and indie regular Joe Swanberg. This actually looks pretty...

Larry Fessenden (Habit, Depraved) is back with new werewolf horror movie Blackout, and the official trailer has been unleashed today along with release information.

Dark Sky Films will first bring the modern day werewolf movie to theaters in NYC on March 13, followed by a wider release on Digital/VOD at home on April 12, 2024.

The film’s one week exclusive NYC theatrical engagement will take place at the IFC Center beginning March 13th, and it will feature special cast appearances and a Q&a.

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US.

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf.

Yellow Veil Pictures and Glass Eye Pix release trailer for indie horror film Blackout starring Alex Hurt as a werewolf in a small town. Filmmaker Larry Fessenden blends classic monster tropes with contemporary themes, creating a naturalistic and stylized portrayal of the werewolf story. Blackout serves as part of Fessenden's triptych of classic-monster homages, alongside previous films Depraved and Habit, forming his own Monsterverse on a different budget.

Yellow Veil Pictures and Glass Eye Pix have released the trailer for the new horror movie from indie auteur Larry Fessenden, Blackout. Alex Hurt stars as fine arts painter Charley Barrett, who becomes convinced he is the werewolf plaguing the small town of Talbot Falls whenever the moon is full. Check out the trailer above and the full synopsis below:

"Painter Charley wakes up in an upstate motel where he appears to have been living for some time. After he packs and...

Horror icon Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, Suitable Flesh) and more join Faith Based actor Luke Barnett in the creepy thriller Teacher’s Pet.

The upcoming thriller centers on “a malevolent new high school teacher with a sinister past who becomes disturbingly fixated on a brilliant female student. As he unveils his true sociopathic nature, the young woman is forced to navigate a treacherous battle of wits to survive high school.”

A perfect recipe for intense, skin-crawling thrills.

Sara Tomko (“Resident Alien”), Drew Powell (“Gotham”), newcomer Michelle Torian, Kevin Makely (“Young Rock”), Clayton Royal Johnson (“Stranger Things”), Alexe-Anne Godin, Richard Handley (The Black String), and Alexis DawTyne have also joined the cast alongside Crampton and Barnett.

Teacher’s Pet is written and directed by Noam Kroll.

The official logline for Teacher’s Pet follows “a gifted high school senior (Torian) whose charismatic new teacher (Barnett) offers an escape from her turbulent life, but as the year progresses,...

Baltimore hardcore heroes Turnstile have announced a collaboration with Converse on two sneaker designs set to drop this Thursday (January 25th).

Per Converse’s online store, the “Blackout” Chuck 70 “pairs an all-black canvas upper with translucent details, prints on the outsole and sockliner, and a reflective ‘Turnstile Love Connection’ tour graphic.”

Meanwhile, the “Only One Star” One Star Pro “channels [Turnstile’s] unique aesthetic and passion for skateboarding into the leather design, pairing distinctive details inspired by their album art.”

Both sneakers will be available at the links above beginning at 10 a.m. Et on Thursday. The Chuck 70 retails for $95, while the One Star Pro sells for $80.

Turnstile broke through in a big way with their 2021 album, Glow On. Already known for their dynamic live shows, the band reached a new stratosphere thanks to songs like “Mystery,” “Blackout,” and “Holiday.” In fact, we here at Consequence named Turnstile our 2021 Heavy Band of the Year.

Ahhh.. seems just like yesterday that Film Independent President Josh Welsh was on stage at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards announcing the kickoff to our year-long #AD30 celebration, commemorating three uninterrupted decades—pandemics, strikes and recessions be damned!—of Film Independent Artist Development programs.

Of course, in reality that announcement was one full awards cycle ago, back when the Past Lives, Earth Mamas and May Decembers of the world were but a flicker in eyes of industry plaudit prognosticators. But the story of #AD30 has only grown in the interim.

Look no further than the program that started it all, Project Involve, which today announced the 27 new Fellows joining as part of its 2024 cohort—the 31st overall such cohort in a long line of inclusive, up-and-coming industry players. Project Involve alumni include Lulu Wang (Expats), Linda Yvette Chávez (Flamin’ Hot), Jomo Fray (All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt), Effie T. Brown...

The mark of an actor’s career, I think, is what extent their filmography can reflect the time they’re working. Matthew Modine is a prime case: we can point, first and most easily, to leading a Stanley Kubrick film, a title for which there are fewer living holders than men who’ve walked on the moon; there’s one of the all-time biggest box-office disasters; supporting roles for Christopher Nolan, Robert Altman, Oliver Stone; and aiding auteurs Abel Ferrara and Alan Rudolph as a star. This makes especially appreciable the Roxy Cinema’s retrospective The Many Faces of Matthew Modine, running Friday through Sunday with five films: Ferrara’s The Blackout, Rudolph’s Equinox, Cutthroat Island, Birdy, and his own feature If… Dog… Rabbit…

Having long admired Modine’s screen presence, I was happy to speak with him about this retrospective. But it engendered a longer, deeper conversation about...

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Rights to the second season of Irish crime drama series “Hidden Assets” have been licensed by Dcd Rights. Buyers include the BBC for the U.K., Sbs and Stan for Australia, TV4 for Sweden and TV2 for Norway.

The 12-part series is produced by Saffron Moon, Facet4Media & Potemkino for Rte, Super Channel & Acorn TV, and was written by Peter McKenna, Morna Regan, Mary Fox and Marthy Thornton. It was co-directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and leading Belgian director Kadir Ferati Balci (“Cold Courage”). The second season, which had co-funding from Screen Ireland and Creative Europe Media, was first transmitted on Rte Ireland in September this year.

It stars Nora-Jane Noone, Wouter Hendrickx and Simone Kirby. Series One also starred Angeline Ball.

The story picks up from the first season in which Irish investigators probed a series of bombings in Belgium. Personnel changes mean that the Criminal Assets Bureau...

Larry Fessenden (Wendigo, Habit, Depraved) is back with a new werewolf horror movie titled Blackout, and THR reports today that it’s found a home at Dark Sky Films.

Dark Sky Films has acquired North American rights to Blackout, and they’re aiming to release Fessenden’s latest in theaters and on Digital outlets in the first quarter of 2024.

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US.

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, his flashes of memory of his nighttime grisly acts manifested through...

Dark Sky Films has acquired North American rights to Blackout, the new film from independent horror veteran Larry Fessenden.

The thriller, about a fine arts painter convinced he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town, will be released in the first quarter of 2024 in theaters and on digital platforms. Yellow Veil Pictures is handling worldwide rights at the American Film Market.

Blackout — which stars Alex Hurt (Minyan, New Amsterdam) and Addison Timlin (Submission, American Horror Stories) and received rave reviews during its festival run — marks the reunion of Dark Sky, a subsidiary of MPI Media Group, and Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix. The two renowned horror companies have previously worked together on contemporary classics, such as Ti West’s The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land and Late Phases, directed by Adrian Garcia.

“It’s a little bit like coming home,...

Superman's newest superpower is his most dangerous: anyone who learns his secret identity will immediately die. Lex Luthor removed knowledge of Superman's identity from the world using a powerful psychic, with deadly consequences for those who discover it. Superman must now protect his secret identity more than ever before to keep both his friends and enemies safe, as their lives are at risk if they learn his identity.

There are few heroes in comic books that have as many superpowers as Superman, but his newest one might be his deadliest. He has just about everything that someone could need: super speed, super hearing, super strength, flight, heat vision, cold breath, and more. But surprisingly, none of these powers are nearly as dangerous as the latest power that was forced on him by Lex Luthor. Anyone who learns Superman's secret identity, by any means, will almost immediately die.

This terrifying aspect...

The following post contains spoilers about "Killers of the Flower Moon."

The horrors inflicted upon the Osage people during a string of ghastly murders throughout the 1920s are among the worst atrocities ever committed against Indigenous Americans. Anyone familiar with U.S. history during the Old West will know that's saying a lot. Based upon the 2017 book by David Grann, director Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" uncovers the systematic infiltration of nefarious white men into the lives and affairs of the Indigenous Osage Nation after vast deposits of oil were found on their land. The enormous wealth the Osage possessed led to a string of mysterious deaths that were always deemed accidental or never investigated in the first place. 

As the murders piled up, men like Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Bill Smith (Jason Isbell) married into Osage families and waited patiently for their share of the...

Jon-Michael Ecker has proven to be a talented and versatile actor in both Mexican and American productions, showcasing his abilities in a range of genres and roles. Ecker's standout performances include playing charismatic villains, such as an arms dealer and hitman in NCIS: New Orleans and a serial killer and gang leader in Criminal Minds. Ecker's roles in films like Cantinflas and Gingerbread Miracle allow him to showcase his ability to excel in quirky comedies and display a more light-hearted side of his acting abilities.

While Jon-Michael Ecker is best known for playing Lieutenant Greg Grainger, in season 9 of NBC's Chicago Fire, he has consistently proven to be a very talented actor in all the various other shows and films that he has starred in. Son of Brazilian American actor Guy Ecker, who is best known for his role as Detective Luis Perez in the NBC series Las Vegas,...

Submarine Entertainment is picking up worldwide sales rights on Chris Skotchdopole’s feature directorial debut “Crumb Catcher.” The move comes just ahead of the darkly comic thriller’s Fantastic Fest world premiere.

Skotchdopole wrote, directed, edited, and produced the movie and Submarine Entertainment, a notable sales and production company, will launch sales out of the festival, which runs from Sept. 21 to Sept. 28 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. “Crumb Catcher” was described by Fantastic Fest programmer Anna Bogutskaya as a “chamber piece that melds extreme anxiety with the worst salesmanship imaginable.” The film follows a newlywed couple held captive by an entrepreneur desperate to finance his outlandish invention with a blackmail plot.

With ten years of experience working with Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent genre production outfit led by horror auteur Larry Fessenden, Skotchdopole has amassed numerous credits on several films, including working as the cinematographer on Fessenden’s “Depraved,...

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival announced an impressive full slate of programming for its 2023 edition, running October 12-19 with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park locations.

From the press release:

Audiences are in for an unearthly lineup of films and events, including the inaugural Leviathan Award, which will be presented to NYC horror legend William Lustig at a special 35th anniversary screening of Maniac Cop, followed by a post-screening conversation with Lustig.

The Opening Night film is the World Premiere of Kill Your Lover from directors Alix Austin and Kier Siewert, who previously announced themselves to the Bhff audience last year with their short film Sucker. The 2023 festival boasts the World Premieres of three more exciting new films: Gaia director Jaco Bouwer’s unsettling Breathing In, Aimee Kuge’s audacious debut Cannibal Mukbang, and Tyler Chipman’s powerfully creepy debut The Shade. The festival’s...

There are few Transformers more famous than Soundwave and it's almost all thanks to the original cartoon. In that series, he was portrayed as more robotic than the other Decepticons; his voice (provided by Frank Welker and a vocoder effect) was electronic and his speech patterns were mechanical. Since Soundwave was less expressive than his castmates, he was less likely to indulge in the show's slapstick humor or suffer humiliation. These qualities added up to an air of coolness and mystery. On a show with paper-thin characters, Soundwave's lack of personality actually made him more memorable.

Since Soundwave has been part of "Transformers" from the beginning and is so well-remembered by fans, why was he excluded from the 2007 "Transformers" movie? He's in the sequels, but he's not a player you wait to take off the bench.

Well, his absence wasn't an oversight. "Transformers" writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman wanted...

The good news is that Disney and Spectrum are still talking. That’s according to Sports Business Journal's John Ourand, who says that talks have elevated to the highest level, as Disney CEO Bob Iger and Charter president Chris Winfrey spoke over the phone this past weekend about the carriage dispute that’s erupted between their companies.

The dispute has led 19 Disney-owned networks to be dropped from Spectrum cable plans across the country, including ABC, ESPN, FX, and more. Talks are ongoing, but with the college football season having already started and the NFL kicking off this week, both sides risk fans losing out on must-watch games if a deal can’t be reached soon.

As of now, it appears Spectrum has more leverage than cable providers have had in past carriage disputes. That’s because the pay-tv provider seems ready to make good on the threat to leave cable...

Larry Fessenden's horror credentials are unquestionable. He's both starred in and directed films from deep within the genre, and he's worked with the likes of Guillermo Del Toro and Ti West in his decade-spanning career. His love for classic movie monsters, in particular, is well documented at this point. His 2019 reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the form of the film Depraved was particularly well-received, and his black-and-white, '90s indie classic Habit is a brilliant vampire movie.

With a Dracula-style movie and a Frankenstein movie under his belt, it was only a matter of time before Fessenden took on the snarliest of all the classic monsters, the wolf man. Enter Blackout, Larry Fessenden's moody, introspective take on the werewolf legend.

Blackout Gives Us a Tortured Werewolf Protagonist

The film opens with the suitably gory murder of a young couple who are breaking a cardinal rule of horror...

Get ready to delve into The Music of Heatmiser. The Portland band best known as Elliott Smith’s pre-solo career springboard has announced a new rarities compilation arriving October 6th via Third Man Records, and a demo version of the track “Lowlife” is out now.

Heatmiser initially distributed The Music of Heatmiser — then a 6-song cassette — at local record stores and shows to promote the band before they released their 1993 debut LP, Dead Air. According to co-founding singer-guitarist Neil Gust, this longer package — featuring 23 additional demos, live tracks, rare versions, and previously unreleased songs — came together thanks to drummer Tony Lash.

“Tony found a bunch of forgotten recordings and started mixing them and sending them to me,” Gust said in a statement. “We were struck by the freewheeling energy of the band; you could hear how much fun we were having. In 1992 we could barely afford the studio so it...

In the world of horror, few creatures have captured the imagination quite like The Werewolf. From the classic Universal Monster movies to the 80s hits so good even the Academy Awards had to take notice, the werewolf has always been a symbol of the wild, untamed nature within us all. Larry Fessenden, a name synonymous with indie horror, has unleashed his own take on the werewolf mythos with Blackout which recently celebrated its World Premiere at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival.

In Blackout a Fine Arts painter finds himself tangled in a hairy situation, convinced that he's a werewolf causing chaos in a small American town during the full moon. That's right, Fessenden has painted a picture where the full moon isn't just for romantic nights but a time for unleashing the beast within.

“I've always loved werewolves […but] The werewolf story is always a little harder to get right”

Fessenden's fascination with werewolves is no secret.

Like Depraved, a modern retelling of Frankenstein, Blackout finds writer-director Larry Fessenden once again toying with classic monster tropes. The new film focuses on a tortured artist, Charley (Alex Hurt), whose name is just a few letters removed from “Chaney.” Charley is dealing with a nasty case of werewolfism, which is the same affliction that plagued Lon Chaney Jr.’s character, Larry Talbot, in 1941’s The Wolf Man.

Where Depraved was a commentary on modern warfare, Ptsd, and the pharmaceutical industrial complex, Blackout narrows its focus to the business of being a modern white liberal in a small town. Charley is concerned about the environment, and he’s disturbed at the racist groupthink stoked by a local real estate magnate, Hammond (Marshall Bell), who happens to be his former boss and the father of his ex-girlfriend, Sharon (Addison Timlin). At one point, Charley asks a former co-worker what Hammond has...

Lights, camera, howls! Larry Fessenden's latest indie gem Blackout recently celebrated its World Premiere at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival. An expansion of Fessenden's contemporary remix of the Universal Classic Monster stories (a welcome choice with the failed Dark Universe project on the back burner for the foreseeable future), Blackout stars Alex Hurt as the cursed hairball, with supporting performances from genre icon Barbara Crampton (also appearing at Fantasia in Joe Lynch's Suitable Flesh), Rigo Garay (The Leech), Jeremy Holm (The Ranger), and Marshall Bell (Total Recall) as small-town America's asshole extraordinaire.

Charley Barrett is an artist and struggling alcoholic who is desperate to get his life in order before the next full moon. Perpetually 24 hours from leaving town for good, Charley attempts to make amends with the loved ones he's hurt through his addiction, and atone for the corporate sins of his father that threaten to destroy his hometown.

Filmmaker and horror stalwart Larry Fessenden has dedicated an extensive career to independent horror. Fessenden continues to deliver unique interpretations of familiar movie monsters, from the vampiric Habit to a modern Frankenstein retelling with 2019’s Depraved. His latest, Blackout, brings a contemporary horror drama centered around a Wolfman.

Blackout, which just debuted at Fantasia International Film Festival (our review), follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf.

After the film’s premiere, Bloody Disgusting spoke with the multi-hyphenate writer/director/editor/producer about his love of monsters, his old-fashioned werewolf, and what he’d love to tackle next.

Blackout may be modern in storytelling, but its werewolf harkens back to the bipedal Wolfmen of the ’30s and ’40s. That was always Fessenden’s vision.

He explains his werewolf design, “Ever since I was little,...

Indie horror icon Larry Fessenden is back in the director’s chair with Blackout, a film about the pain of addition and becoming something you don’t want to be. Having tackled vampires in 1995’s Habit and Frankenstein’s monster in 2019’s Depraved, Fessenden finally has his werewolf movie in the solid creature feature Blackout. Opening with a classic stalking sequence following a pair of adventurous lovers in a field, Blackout introduces us to the werewolf terror immediately as the monster tears the canoodlers to shreds before the opening credits roll. We quickly move on to meet Charley Bartlett (Alex Hurt), the above-mentioned monster, only he’s currently in human form and obviously in search of absolution for his many sins. He’s determined to not only set things right...

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Among other consumer benefits, one major upside to the increasing niche-ification of popular culture has been the continuing emergence of esoteric micro-genres of film and TV. Twenty years ago, you might not necessarily think of “horror documentaries” as its own subgenre. Sure, there were documentaries that maybe fell a little more on the creepy/unsettling side, but it was rare that a nonfiction film would be tailored to appeal to a horror-first genre audience. Now, of course, things are different. In recent years, a robust tradition of terrifying nonfiction films have emerged, many as terrifying – or even more eerie – than their traditional narrative counterparts.

For horror movie buffs, Larry Fessenden is a name that should ring quite a few bells. The prolific director and actor has made his mark on the creature feature scene, taking the classic Universal Monster formula and flipping it on its head to create stories that are both subtle and intellectual.

His latest film, Blackout, is a werewolf story that promises to show a gentler, more human side to the creature. Which is funny, according to Fessenden; although he makes horror movies with more of an intellectual bent, as a moviegoer, he confesses that he'd really just rather see the cool monster show up and bare its fangs.

"I'm literally a kid, I just wanna see the monster and get on with it."

Blackout Succeeds with Little Support

The synopsis for Blackout reads as follows:

"In a small upstate New York town, artist Charley Barrett (Alex Hurt) checks out of...

Blackout

Talk about werewolf films and most people expect a lot of spurting blood, growling and gnashing of teeth in a horror tale which they’re unlikely to take seriously. Larry Fessenden’s latest work, Blackout, is a very different beast. It follows a troubled artist (played by Alex Hurt) as he returns to the little town of Talbot Falls after many years away, hoping to make things right with the community and, in particular, with his ex. haunted by what he believes to be happening on moonlit nights which he can barely remember, Charlie is contemplating drastic action. It’s a thoughtful, introspective tale with a lot to say about society at large.

As a longstanding admirer of Larry’s work both behind and in front of the camera, I was delighted to get to meet him as he prepared for the film to screen at Fantasia 2023. i began our conversation.

Werewolf fans rejoice! Fantasia 2023 hosted the premiere of the new film from horror legend Larry Fessenden and it is not to be missed. Blackout brings all of the blood, fangs and carnage that you want out of a werewolf film, while also incorporating the thoughtful contemplation and real-world connection that Fessenden is known for. Much like his early film Habit, Blackout fixes its eye on a mainstay of horror cinema and finds a way to remix the genre staples while at the same time adding his own fingerprints to the narrative.

As the film opens, Charley (Alex Hurt) is checking out of the small motel that has been his temporary home for several weeks. He is in the middle of a separation from his wife Sharon (Addison Timlin) and everything else in his life seems to be at a point of change. We follow along as Charley meets up with...

As with Depraved, writer-director Larry Fessenden returns to the world of classic, Universal-inspired monsters in Blackout. Whereas that title brought the mythos of Frankenstein’s monster (and its ample room for social commentary) into the present-day, this latest update shifts focus towards the so-called “wolfman.”

How does knowing he potentially killed innocent people affect Charley (Alex Hurt)? How can he keep pretending his life is simple and his love (with Addison Timlin’s Sharon) pure when a cloud of uncertain violence looms above the three-day nightly windows he cannot remember each month? Because while his actually being a werewolf is presented with enough ambiguity to make the truth part of the intrigue, Fessenden pulls no punches insofar as making certain we know Charley is at fault. He sees glimpses of his victims’ faces and, as an artist, paints them to try severing their hold. So while he might not be...