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Hunting for Silver Bullets Season 1 Episode 2 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Filthy Fortunes,” titled “Hunting for Silver Bullets,” promises to be an exciting adventure. In this episode, Matt takes on a challenging task in the Pennsylvania woods. He is set to explore a ten-acre property that is rumored to hold a treasure trove of high-value guns and ammunition.

The property belongs to an old-school machinist, and it is filled with heavy equipment and scrap metal. This makes the job even more difficult, as Matt will need to navigate through a maze of machinery to uncover what lies beneath. The potential reward is significant, with an estimated ,000 worth of precious metal hidden somewhere on the site. This could lead to a big payoff for Matt, making the risks worth the effort.

As Matt digs deeper into the woods, viewers can expect to see the challenges he faces.

Martin Phillipps, singer and creative force behind the New Zealand jangle-pop band the Chills, has died at the age of 61.

The Chills’ official social media accounts announced Phillipps’ death in a statement Sunday, “It is with broken hearts the family and friend of Martin Phillipps wish to advise Martin has died unexpectedly. The family ask for privacy at this time.” While cause of death was provided, Rnz reports that Phillipps had been battling liver disease for several years.

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Filmmaker Joe Swanberg was a major figure in the mumblecore film movement, and as the years have gone by he has also earned several credits in the horror genre, whether by taking acting roles in films like A Horrible Way to Die, You’re Next, The Sacrament, and Blackout, or by directing the werewolf movie Silver Bullets and contributing a segment to the anthology film V/H/S. Now Swanberg has increased his number of horror credits by five, as Deadline reports that he has teamed with Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Entertainment to produce a slate of five horror films – all of which have already wrapped filming! Four of the titles are Helldorado, Kenneled, Yellow Eyes, and Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round. The fifth movie is currently simply known as the Untitled Jae Matthews Project.

Written and directed by Kansas Bowling (Cuddly Toys and the Troma release B.

It’s been eight years since Amy Seimetz directed her first feature, “Sun Don’t Shine,” and her second film, “She Dies Tomorrow,” carries her imprint. Both films pull you into an off kilter, menacing dreamscape where unreliable characters are capable of doing just about anything. Appropriately enough, her film was my last press screening before lockdown.

Recovering alcoholic Amy (Seimetz alter ego Kate Lyn Sheil) rattles around her empty new Los Angeles house, hugging the floor, dropping the needle over and over on a Mozart requiem, and slugging back wine. When she gets a friend (Jane Adams) to come over, she tells her, “I’m going to die tomorrow.” Her friend starts to feel the same foreboding, and passes the contagion to her brother (Chris Messina) and his wife (Katie Aselton) at a birthday party. It shares the same absurdist and morbid humor as Luis Bunuel.

At the Soho House...

It’s been eight years since Amy Seimetz directed her first feature, “Sun Don’t Shine,” and her second film, “She Dies Tomorrow,” carries her imprint. Both films pull you into an off kilter, menacing dreamscape where unreliable characters are capable of doing just about anything. Appropriately enough, her film was my last press screening before lockdown.

Recovering alcoholic Amy (Seimetz alter ego Kate Lyn Sheil) rattles around her empty new Los Angeles house, hugging the floor, dropping the needle over and over on a Mozart requiem, and slugging back wine. When she gets a friend (Jane Adams) to come over, she tells her, “I’m going to die tomorrow.” Her friend starts to feel the same foreboding, and passes the contagion to her brother (Chris Messina) and his wife (Katie Aselton) at a birthday party. It shares the same absurdist and morbid humor as Luis Bunuel.

At the Soho House...

It’s altogether fitting that “She Dies Tomorrow” was scheduled to have its world premiere at a film festival that was canceled, South by Southwest, because Amy Seimetz’s indie drama is definitely a movie for this particular, strange and scary time. Seimetz didn’t know it when she made the film, of course, but a movie based on a pervasive sense of all-encompassing dread that spreads from person to person is pretty much right in tune with the prevailing mood of 2020.

It’s a movie about existential panic that happens to be coming out at a time of, well, existential panic. That might make it the last thing some people want to see at this point, or it might make it a disquieting indie thrill ride through a dysfunctional world that isn’t really ours but kind of feels like it.

The lead character, probably not coincidentally named Amy,...

I first watched Pet Sematary on a family vacation when I was 11 years old—well, watched may be a bit of an exaggeration. My older sister and I made it through the second appearance of Pascow’s rotting corpse before we retreated beneath the hotel bed’s comforter. I eventually braved the entirety on my 13thbirthday, a memorable sleepover double feature with The Fly II. No movie ever scared me more than Pet Sematary. But while other horror flicks that sent me scuttling under the blankets as a kid now seem almost comically unthreatening in adulthood—your Silver Bullets and My Bloody Valentines—the themes of […]...

I first watched Pet Sematary on a family vacation when I was 11 years old—well, watched may be a bit of an exaggeration. My older sister and I made it through the second appearance of Pascow’s rotting corpse before we retreated beneath the hotel bed’s comforter. I eventually braved the entirety on my 13thbirthday, a memorable sleepover double feature with The Fly II. No movie ever scared me more than Pet Sematary. But while other horror flicks that sent me scuttling under the blankets as a kid now seem almost comically unthreatening in adulthood—your Silver Bullets and My Bloody Valentines—the themes of […]...

Stephen King is one of the most popular and successful horror writers of all time. You'd think Hollywood wouldn't have such a hard time translating his many novels and short stories to film, but for every "The Shining" there seem to be five "Maximum Overdrives" or "Silver Bullets."

Still, King's work has spawned some legitimate Hollywood classics. As Hulu's "11/22/63" is about to launch, and as we wait to see the long-gestating adaptation of his "Dark Tower" saga, here are the top five Stephen King adaptations of all-time, on both the small and big screens.

"The door to their world could close at any moment. I've got to go in and get her out." A commercial for the Poltergeist remake teases more horrors for the Bowen family. Also included in our latest video round-up is a new Salem Season 2 trailer and clip, along with a recent Avengers: Age of Ultron TV spot and another Scream Queens teaser.

Poltergeist: A remake of the 1982 film of the same name that was directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) and produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist is rated PG-13 and will hit theaters in 2D and 3D on May 22nd.

Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt star as the Bowen parents, who move their family to a new home. Their children are played by Saxon Sharbino, Kennedi Clements, and Kyle Catlett. Jared Harris (Lincoln, The Quiet Ones) plays the star of a TV show, titled Haunted House Cleaners,...

Joe Swanberg, known and loved for his “micro-budget” indie dramas, has been making further steps into the mainstream and is set to direct Work Wife. The script, written by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins of ABC’s Trophy Wife (2013), promises to be full of the “delightfully un-sitcomy-y performances” that defined Trophy Wife . The ABC sitcom was cancelled after one season, but not for lack of quality. One issue that stymied a fan following was the misplaced ironic title, Trophy Wife, for a complex show about intelligent funny women, relationships, divorce, and overall debunking the sitcom tropes that reduce women to clichés.

Although some fans of Swanberg’s indie dramas Kissing on the Mouth (2005), Nights and Weekends (2008), and Silver Bullets (2009), might lament this step, Swanberg actually seems well suited to do the project. Drinking Buddies (2013) centered on the messy romances between colleagues and almost all of Swanberg’s films deal with...

The incredibly prolific Joe Swanberg, whose most recent film "Happy Christmas" recently premiered at Sundance, will be the subject of weekend retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens, New York. The filmmaker will be present at all of the screenings. The series, titled "A Swanberg Sampler," will feature six of his films: "Hannah Takes the Stairs" (2007), "Nights and Weekends" (2008), "Silver Bullets" (2011), "Art History" (2011), "Uncle Kent (2011), and "All the Light in the Sky" (2013). Read More: Joe Swanberg's New Star-Studded Project Proves No Microbudget Filmmaker Wants to Stay That Way Forever "Swanberg’s film capture the messy, often awkward emotional truths of real life," said Chief Curator David Schwartz, who organized the retrospective. "Much like another great behavioralist director, Howard Hawks, Swanberg’s films are acutely observed, sharply perceptive, and deeply entertaining. While his films may at first seem naturalistic, they also have a...

You’ve probably seen his work before.

Director Joe Swanberg is best known for directing “Drinking Buddies” last year that starred Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson and Anna Kendrick. He was one of the collaborators in the cult favorite horror compilation “V/H/S” with the segment called “The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger.”

And maybe you’ve seen him on the big screen like the recent horror thriller “You’re Next,” in which he played as one the family victims.

Swanberg made his directorial debut with the 2005’s indie film “Kissing on the Mouth,” a film about recent college graduates on sex. And then he followed up with “Lol,” that starred with Greta Gerwig. With Gerwig, they further collaborated with 2007’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and 2008’s “Night and Weekends.”

In 2010, Swanberg became extremely busy directing seven films with “Uncle Kent,” “Caitlin Plays Herself,” “The Zone,...

Is the new independent comedy-drama All the Light in the Sky about a Malibu-dwelling, 45-year-old actress called Marie and her dealings with the film industry? Or is it about why we need to accept, and engage with, change — be it personal or global? Actually, this latest film from prolific writer-director Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) is technically both. However, star Jane Adams, who cowrote All the Light in the Sky with Swanberg, insists the movie is much more a philosophical rumination rather than a Tinseltown dissection.

“It’s got nothing to do with a Hollywood actress,” says Adams, whose credits include the Todd Solondz-directed Happiness,...

The term “mumblecore” is usually evoked as a derisive umbrella-term for the films of Joe Swanberg, the Duplass brothers, Andrew Bujalski, and several other twentysomething directors of the 2000s working with little to no budget and a lot of talking. Critics such as Vadim Rizov reject the labeling entirely, noting their disparate qualities, yet the term sticks to this day, even after the major directors of the so-called genre increased their production and vision, making films like Computer Chess, Drinking Buddies, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. Given that these films often have amateurish qualities including bad lighting, questionable camera operations, and self-indulgent or cynical characters, most directors’ work are brushed off as being part of a movement only interested in showing off the worst qualities of Generation Y. While it is easy to be sympathetic toward many of these claims, a look at Swanberg’s oeuvre reveals a filmmaker...

Chicago – It takes a special sort of filmmaker to hit it big without compromising any artistic principles. This month marks a career high for Chicago’s own Diy trail-blazer, Joe Swanberg, whose microbudget gems have influenced everyone from Lynn Shelton (“Touchy Feely”) to Lena Dunham (“Girls”).

On Friday, August 23rd, two of Joe’s buzzed-about pictures will receive a limited theatrical release.

One is Ti West’s darkly satirical horror lark, “You’re Next,” which is currently being advertised at every creepy subway station in the Windy City (Swanberg plays an amusingly hatable character with a smug disregard for indie flicks). The other film is Swanberg’s 15th feature effort, “Drinking Buddies,” featuring an all-star cast, cinematography from a Cannes prize-winner (“Beasts of the Southern Wild” Dp Ben Richardson) and an actual budget. Yet Swanberg’s improvisational style and observant eye for naturalistic nuance remains entirely intact. Olivia Wilde is...

Director Adam Wingard has received rave reviews for his R-rated, home invasion horror-comedy You’re Next, which screened at several film festivals over the past couple of years and will be released August 23. But his often gore-drenched creative sensibility — and twisted sense of humor — is not everyone’s cup of Darjeeling. In the spring of 2007, for instance, the then just the 24-year-old Wingard appeared on the premiere episode of Fox TV’s On The Lot, a much-hyped but now little-remembered, Steven Spielberg-produced filmmakers’ competition with the first prize of a million-dollar development deal at Dreamworks. As Wingard recalls, he...

The full Fantasia 2013 lineup will be announced next Tuesday, July 9th, but in the meantime we have the second wave of titles to share, and per usual, it's a doozy!

From the Press Release:

Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil several additional highlights to warm you up for our July 9th Press Conference, where we’ll be unveiling of our full 120+ film lineup. The festival runs from July 18 to August 6.

Official Opening Night Film – Takashi Miike’s Shield Of Straw (North American Premiere)

Hot off its screening in official completion at the Cannes Film Festival, Takashi Miike’s riveting crime thriller Shield Of Straw will be kicking off Fantasia’s 2013 edition with its first screening on the North American continent. Shield Of Straw stars Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, and Tatsuya Fujiwara. Fantasia’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the...

From the press release:

Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil several additional highlights, before their July 9th Press Conference, where they’ll be unveiling the full 120+ film lineup!

Official Opening Night Film – Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw

(North American Premiere)

Hot off its screening in official completion at the Cannes Film Festival, Takashi Miike’s riveting crime thriller Shield of Straw will be kicking off Fantasia’s 2013 edition with its first screening on the North American continent. Shield of Straw stars Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, and Tatsuya Fujiwara. Fantasia’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the first time that a Miike film had ever been shown in North America, making it all the more joyous to open our 2013 festival with his latest work.

Extensive Artist Talks with Bryan Singer and Simon Boswell

Fantasia will once again offer audiences...

Joe Swanberg is a polarizing figure in independent film. Since his first feature in 2005 (Kissing on the Mouth), he's proved quickly prolific, directing eighteen full-length features in just eight years. Let me say that again: eighteen films in eight years! Within that intense output are such critically praised pictures as Silver Bullets, Alexander The Last and Nights and Weekends. But to some critics, Swanberg's typical mumblecore approach is too rushed and slapdash or.in the opinion of outspoken critic Devin Faraci, who literally fought with Swanberg at last year's Fantastic Fest."the laziest form of filmmaking." But even Swanberg's harshest critics might be wooed by his latest Drinking Buddies, as its trailer suggests it may be his most commercially appealing effort yet. Written and directed by Swanberg, Drinking Buddies boasts a remarkable foursome as its leads: Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson, Olivia Wilde, and Ron Livingston. We first got word of...

While her "Sun Don't Shine" director Amy Seimetz can currently be seen in AMC's "The Killing" and HBO's "Family Tree," Kate Lyn Sheil will soon be seen in television project of her own. Well, if we can classify it as TV -- Sheil, a prolific indie actress who in the last few years has starred in "The Color Wheel," "V/H/S," "Green," "Silver Bullets," "The Comedy" and many more, has joined the cast of season two of Netflix's political drama "House of Cards." Buzzfeed's Jordan Zakarin broke the news, noting that her role on the show remains secret. The second 13-episode arc of the series, which comes out on DVD today and which kicked off Netflix's ongoing and influential rollout of original programming, is currently shooting in Maryland. Sheil isn't the only new cast addition -- TVLine reported last month that Sam Page (Greg Harris on "Mad Men") and Molly Parker ("Deadwood,...

Factory 25 just dropped us a line to let us know they've lined up Andrew Semans' Nancy, Please and Joe Swanberg's Silver Bullets for distribution; and we've got the skinny, artwork, and trailers for both. Dig it!

From the Press Release

Factory 25 has acquired the Tribeca Film Festival film Nancy, Please, a twisted story of obsession and rage directed by Andrew Semans starring Eléonore Hendricks (Bad Fever, Daddy Longlegs and The Dish & the Spoon) and Will Rogers. Nancy, Please tells the story of Paul, a young, gifted, and aimless Yale University student who has just moved in with his girlfriend and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There’s just one snag: As Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that he has left something behind, and only his obstinate and casually sinister former roommate, Nancy, can give it back to him.

Magnolia Pictures announced today that they have acquired North American distribution rights to writer-director Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies, starring Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick and Ron Livingston. Produced by Dark Arts’ Alicia Van Couvering and Andrea Roa; Burn Later?s Paul M. Bernon and Sam Slater; and Swanberg, the film premiered this month at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. The film was executive produced by Mike Witherill, Ashley Bernon, Jessica Klapman, David Kaplan, Anish Savjani, and Wilde. Magnolia Pictures is planning a theatrical release for later this year. Drinking Buddies follows the lives of Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) who work together at a craft brewery. They have one of those friendships that feels like it could be something more. But Kate is with Chris (Ron Livingston), and Luke is with Jill (Anna Kendrick). And Jill wants to know if Luke is ready to talk about marriage.

Drinking Buddies is the quintessential indie drama in the worst way. Meandering and largely unscripted (for that “organic” feel, don’t you know), it features scenes heavy with long looks and few words and the awkwardness that’s inherent in putting actors in a room and letting them “discover” what their characters will say.

Writer/director Joe Swanberg has somewhat of a reputation for his slow, moody indie dramas. And while Drinking Buddies wasn’t as meandering and introspective as Silver Bullets (a waste of a movie), it did feel like a premise that hadn’t been completely thought out or followed through.

The problem with letting actors largely create dialogue and shape scenes, is that your film usually feels like a voyeuristic journey into a stranger’s living room. The conversations are, for the most part, pedantic and circular. Or worse, just casual nothing. All of this translated into...

Chicago – There are a great many talented people involved in the over-hyped, underdeveloped horror anthology, “V/H/S.” It’s a sad sight to see so many gifted filmmakers assembled for a project so misguided. What could’ve been a launching pad for several exciting careers ends up being a mildly diverting curiosity well worth taping over.

Brad Miska’s concept of a “Creepshow”-style amalgam of found footage shorts is certainly promising in theory, but he falters in the execution. At an interminable running time of 116 minutes, the concept outstays its welcome several times over. Miska’s interview in the disc’s plentiful special features indicate that he wasn’t shrewd enough to cut the segments down to sharpen the pacing, while cutting others altogether.

Blu-ray Rating: 2.0/5.0

The wraparound vignette, “Tape 56,” was shot before any of the shorts had been planned, and its disjointed presence in the film is a conspicuous distraction.

Brad Miska, who runs bloody-disgusting.com, sees his fair share of horror successes and failures. It’s pretty safe to say that he knows what works and what doesn’t within the genre. So when he came up with the idea to combine the over-used but still viable found footage concept with an anthology film – which is enjoying a mini-renaissance of its own in horror, with films like The Theatre Bizarre and The ABCs of Death – and offer it up to a group of young, promising genre filmmakers that he’s been championing on his site, you can bet that people took notice of it. And when the resulting film, V/H/S, played at last year’s Sundance Festival, it floored everyone and was promptly acquired by Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm, Magnet Releasing, for a small theatrical run followed by a heavily-promoted VOD and home video release. The question that needs answering,...

Chicago – The 48th Annual Chicago International Film Festival boasts one of the starriest opening nights in its history, with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin and Jon Bon Jovi all scheduled to walk the red carpet for the October 11th world premiere of Fisher Stevens’ crime comedy, “Stand Up Guys.” Yet that is far from the only picture worthy of attention at the year’s festival. Here are the highlights of the opening weekend covering October 11th to October 14th, 2012 (stay tuned on the 15th and 18th for more highlights).

Throughout the festival, Hollywood Chicago will be showcasing various films that deserve to not be overlooked. The opening act of this year’s Ciff includes a mind-bending fantasy that caused a sensation at Cannes and a riveting Wisconsin-set documentary that offers an unforgettable microcosm of the financial crisis. Also screening are the latest buzzed-about titles from directors including Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months,...

Finally the Sundance sensation known as V/H/S is coming home to Blu-ray and DVD, and we have a look at the artwork and more for you. The best part? You won't even have to adjust your tracking to watch it! Remember that? Ah, technology!

Magnolia has announced both DVD ($26.98) and Blu-ray ($29.98) releases of V/H/S on December 4th. Extras will include deleted scenes, a featurette on the visual effects, a behind-the-scenes featurette, an Axs TV: A Look at V/H/S feature, and trailers.

V/H/S (review) is available On Demand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost,...

Chicago – Some of the finest names in modern independent cinema may be garnering their largest audiences to date when the anthology horror film, “V/H/S,” is released on October 5th. It combines five horror shorts with a “wraparound” tale in which an assortment of troublemaking vandals (including “Open Five” director Kentucker Audley) search a spooky house for a priceless VHS tape.

This segment, “Tape 56,” was directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, two accomplished filmmakers in their own right, who have collaborated on horror films such as “A Horrible Way to Die” and “You’re Next.” Barrett also wrote and co-produced the “V/H/S” segment entitled “The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger,” which was directed by Chicago’s own Joe Swanberg (Wingard served as photographer and sound designer). Swanberg’s film stars Helen Rogers as Emily, a young woman who attempts to show her boyfriend,...

Hey you. Yeah, you, sitting there reading this. Whatcha doing? Have a couple of minutes? Of course you do! Wanna see something really scary? Then check out this latest clip from V/H/S.

V/H/S (review) is available On Demand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence, two of whom were part of the YouTube sensations known as Chad, Matt and Rob (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella).

Synopsis:

When a group of petty criminals are hired by a mysterious party...

Here are 29 brand new photos and two posters for V/H/S, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America’s top genre filmmakers.

Hit the jump to check them out.

A group of criminals scour a secluded country home for a mysterious videotape, and bear witness to scenes of unimaginable terror in this found-footage-style anthology horror film featuring segments from Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Ti West (House of the Devil), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), David Bruckner (The Signal), Adam Wingard (You’re Next, and Radio Silence).

It seemed like a simple job; all they needed to do was enter the home, find the videotape, and deliver it to their boss. But from the moment they arrived, a sinister tension descended. Gaining access to the house, the young thugs discover a rotting corpse amidst a collection of vintage television sets, and stockpiles of VHS tapes. Somewhere amidst the...

Simon Barrett offered V/H/S fans a glimpse at an alternate ending of the film recently in the form of a still, and we have it for you right here. Check it out along with an explanation of why it didn't fit and was cut. Dig it!

Barrett, who penned both the wrap, “Tape 56,” and Joe Swanberg’s “The Strange Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger,” shared this: “For your confusion/indifference, here is a still image from a deleted scene we shot for V/H/S. It will Not be on the DVD, etc. The photo looks cool, but the scene ultimately didn’t fit the film.”

V/H/S (review) is available On Demand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next,...

On Saturday, September 22nd (that's tomorrow for you space cadets not following along), we'll be taking to our Twitter account to host a special fan chat with director Joe Swanberg, who came up with the segment "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" from V/H/S.

Taking part, or even just watching, is simple. First, be sure you're following @DreadCentral on Twitter, and then make sure you're following @Joe_Swanberg on Twitter. Finally, follow the hashtag #VHSmovie. It's really that simple. Feel free to watch and interact accordingly!

If you have any specific questions you want us to ask because you're too shy, just message them to us @DreadCentral on Twitter with the hashtag #VHSmovie. The fun starts at 2:00pm Est (11:00am Pt) and will last for about an hour. From there you can look for the chat transcript right here!

V/H...

Move over, Creepshow.

What movie? The found-footage horror anthology V/H/S, which combines the efforts of some of the horror genre's finest new directors: Ti West (The Innkeepers, House of the Devil), David Bruckner (The Signal), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die), and the directing quartet known as Radio Silence. V/H/S follows a group of criminals hired to break in an abandoned house and find a rare piece of video tape. As the group watches tape after tape to find the one they need, they are party to a series of increasingly disturbing videos.

Why we recommend it: With October right around the corner, the time seems right as ever to watch a horror movie, as, pretty soon, the neighborhoods will be dressed with fake spiderwebs and cardboard gravestones. There was a time when horror anthologies were hard to come by,...

Magnet has released Esad Ribic's comic-style one-sheet for V/H/S (review here) - the final one in the set - and we have this beauty right here for you to dig on.

In a truly genius move Magnolia created a series of five posters with all-star artists similar to how the films used multiple all-star genre directors for its five segments. The artist lineup includes James Stokoe, R.M. Guera, Jason Latour, Esad Ribic and Tony Moore.

The one-sheet below is inspired by the segment "Tuesday the 17th" from Glenn McQuaid.

V/H/S is available On Demand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil,...

The 7,087,321,493,018th new one-sheet for V/H/S (review) has arrived, and we're starting to wonder if the publicity team will be releasing one new poster for every second in the movie. Dig it!

V/H/S is available On Demand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence, two of whom were part of the YouTube sensations known as Chad, Matt and Rob (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella).

Synopsis:

When a group of petty criminals are hired by a mysterious party to...

Magnet has released Tony Moore's comic-style one-sheet for V/H/S (review here), and we have this beauty right here for you to dig on. This could be our favorite one yet.

In a truly genius move Magnolia created a series of five posters with all-star artists similar to how the films used multiple all-star genre directors for its five segments. The artist lineup includes James Stokoe, R.M. Guera, Jason Latour, Esad Ribic and Tony Moore.

The one-sheet below is inspired by Radio Silence's segment, "10/31/98."

V/H/S is available On Demand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost,...

Another comic-style one-sheet in promotion of V/H/S (review) has come our way from Magnet and artist Jason Latour, and we're happy to share this one with you cats exclusively!

In a truly genius move Magnolia created a series of five posters with all-star artists similar to how the films used multiple all-star genre directors for its five segments. The artist lineup includes James Stokoe, R.M. Guera, Jason Latour, Esad Ribic and Tony Moore.

The one-sheet below is inspired by Joe Swanberg's segment, "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger."

V/H/S is available On Demand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands...

A week or so ago we received a large box in the mail. Inside was a Vcr wrapped in blood-stained paper along with an equally stained box containing an unmarked video cassette. We bootlegged the clip for you then, but now we have the whole enchilada!

V/H/S (review) is OnDemand Now with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence, two of whom were part of the YouTube sensations known as Chad, Matt and Rob (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella).

Synopsis:

When a...

A new one-sheet for V/H/S (review) (available now on VOD) is here. It was inspired by one of the flick's segments, and we have it say it's pretty friggin' wicked. Check it out!

Look for a limited theatrical run beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence, two of whom were part of the YouTube sensations known as Chad, Matt and Rob (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella).

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When a group of petty criminals are hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from...

In Sophia Takal’s Green, a couple of young, New York sophisticates travel upstate in order to research a book on sustainable farming, but when a working-class local woman becomes the object of their affection, jealousy and sexual gamesmanship threaten to ruin their relationship. Mining the insecurities that persist amongst young lovers is not necessarily new ground, but Takal, working with her fiance Lawrence Levine and roommate Kate Lyn Sheil, invests the storytelling with a moody disquiet, an emotional honesty and a jarring sense of foreboding that elevate the film above so many of its predecessors. Widely deploying the color of envy in its rustic milieu, its a marvelously cinematic enterprise for what is essentially a micro-budget chamber drama, eschewing many of the artless clichés that hamper so many productions of its kind.

The film, long a favorite on these pages, has cut a winding path through the international festival circuit,...

Still on the fence about whether or not you should watch V/H/S (review) on VOD? Well then, maybe this latest red band clip will make your decision easier. Check it out!

Look for a limited theatrical run beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence, two of whom were part of the YouTube sensations known as Chad, Matt and Rob (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella).

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When a group of petty criminals are hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown...

Chicago – In a mere four-year span, New York actress/filmmaker Sophia Takal has sported a remarkable versatility. Since 2009, she’s acted in ten feature films and is set to star in many more. Her first lead role was the titular heroine in Lawrence Michael Levine’s 2010 gem, “Gabi on the Roof in July.” Takal and Levine’s offscreen status as a couple enhanced the chemistry between their characters, siblings Gabi and Sam.

Takal later directed Levine and her close friend Kate Lyn Sheil in her directorial debut, “Green,” a hypnotic psychodrama that has garnered various accolades, including the Chicken & Egg Award at SXSW. The film centers on a young urban couple, Genevieve (Sheil) and Sebastian (Levine), who move to the country and befriend a genial local woman (Takal). As the friends’ laughter echoes through the dense, oddly foreboding forest, an underlying sense of unease threatens to dissolve their newfound bond.

V/H/S was released on VOD services last week and we’re continuing our exclusive series of interviews with the directors behind the found footage anthology film. Today, I have my interview with Joe Swanberg, who acted in Ti West’s segment and directed his own. Continue reading to learn why he enjoys acting and directing, the films that inspired his segment, and what horror films he’s appearing in next.

Ti West recently told me that he shot his segment before the other directors were on board. How did you get involved with Ti’s film?

Joe Swanberg: Ti and I met at SXSW in 2005. We both had our first films there, so we’ve been buddies for a long time. We’ve sort of collaborated on things in the past, but never in a really visible way. Ti acted for me in Silver Bullets and he cast me,...

The found footage anthology flick you've been waiting for, V/H/S (review), is playing on VOD right now, and we have your chance to win a prize package that's to die for! Read on for details!

To celebrate the spirit of the film, we're giving away the following bundle:

One (1) Vcr Deck Five (5) Classic VHS Tapes (subject to differ from what's pictured below) Official V/H/S Poster

Winning is simple! To enter the contest, you must tweet "I want to win a #VHSMovie prize, @MagnetReleasing feast your eyes on these #showusyourtapes" and then upload a picture of yourself with your prized VHS tape.

Look for a limited theatrical run beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West...

Horror fans, rejoice! V/H/S (review) is playing on VOD right now, and to get you stoked to see all of its insanity, there's a ton of behind-the-scenes stuff awaiting you right here!

Look for a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence, two of whom were part of the YouTube sensations known as Chad, Matt and Rob (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella).

Synopsis:

When a group of petty criminals are hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage...

So today in the mail we got a large box. Inside was a Vcr wrapped in blood-stained paper along with an equally stained box containing an unmarked video cassette. Of course we immediately hooked it up to see what all this was about. Read on for our findings.

Upon playing the tape, we realized that we had scored a clip from the long awaited Sundance sensation V/H/S (review)! So then we did what any fine red-blooded American would do... we bootlegged it for you! The uncovered clip is from David Bruckner’s segment, “Amateur Night.”

Magnolia has announced that they're planning to roll the horror anthology film out on VOD August 30th with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next,...

Who's up for a little red band trailer action and group of images from the long awaited Sundance sensation V/H/S (review here)? Yeah we thought there'd be a few takers. Dig in for the goodies right here!

Magnolia has announced that they're planning to roll the horror anthology film out on VOD August 31st with a limited theatrical run to follow beginning October 5th. For more info keep your eyes on the V/H/S Facebook page.

Segment directors include Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence, two of whom were part of the YouTube sensations known as Chad, Matt and Rob ( Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella...

It kind of goes without saying that horror is certainly an experience that is enhanced by viewing in a dark theater with a large group. That is why Andy created and continues to present “Late Nite Grindhouse” each and every first weekend of the month. Much like how comedies often depend on the environment and who you’re watching them with, horror films can change based on whether you’re watching it sitting on your couch at home with a few beers and pizza or if you have the anticipation of a live crowd feeding your appetite. V/H/S is a mixed bag for me in terms of subject and style. You can read my entire review of the film Here. While I do feel some of the scares work better on the big-screen, the presentation of the film and its all Too apparent nod to the visual look...

The horror anthology film V/H/S teams up a good handful of film talents: Radio Silence, Adam Wingard (You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), Simon Barrett(You’re Next, Dead Birds), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), with each of the group contributing a creepy low-fi horror story to the collection. We’ve seen one [...]...