Creepy Christina Productions has launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Straw Girl, an expansion of the short horror film Straw Girl, with a fundraising goal of $22,000. The campaign, available on Crowdfundr, will run until October 31, 2024, aiming to transform the original short into a full-length feature. The production team, driven by their passion for the project, plans to bring a gripping story to life with filming scheduled for October 5th-10th at Mystery Ridge Movie Ranch and other locations in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. In this expanded version, The Straw Girl delves deeper into the ..read more

For many of us, part of our daily routine involves stepping outside our homes for a variety of reasons – be it for our jobs, for appointments, or to send our kids off to school or activities. It’s a normal, repetitive aspect of human existence to have to cross the threshold of our private domiciles and interact with the outside world. What happens, though, when the mere thought of this aspect becomes something of paralyzing, all-consuming fear? When you can’t leave the one place that provides you with safety and comfort, not even for a minute? Girl Upstairs, directed by Kevin Van Stevenson, ex ..read more

Vendetta Road was written and directed by Nathan Light. It follows Dakota, played by Marci Engle, a campground host who knows her way around a gun or two. When her path intersects with an escaped fugitive named Ivan, portrayed by Christian Watkins, she’s placed squarely in the middle of a battle against the Irish mafia.  The acting is amateurish from start to finish. Dakota is an interesting character. You never know what will and won’t roll off her shoulders given the dangerous circumstances she finds herself in. Ivan is less interesting. The most  ..read more

The Fantasia International Film Festival, a beacon of cinematic innovation, is set to dazzle audiences once again with its 28th edition. Running from July 18 through August 4, 2024, the festival will host a series of screenings, workshops, and launch events across multiple venues in Montreal, including Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, as well as the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée.   This year’s festival kicks off with a dynamic first wave of titles that promise to captivate horror and fantasy enthusiasts. Among the highlighted films are Chuck Russell’s “Witchboard ..read more

Black Mandala’s latest cinematic venture, MAR.IA, directed by the talented duo Gabriel Grieco and Nicanor Loreti, has been making waves across the international film festival circuit. This sci-fi horror thriller delves into the haunting consequences of artificial intelligence, captivating audiences and critics alike. The film has not only participated in prestigious festivals such as Sitges in Spain, FrightFest in the UK, Trieste Science+Fiction Festival in Italy, and Night Visions in Finland, but it has also scooped several awards including BEST FILM at Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, BEST DIRECTOR ..read more

Pentagram Girl was written by Bryan Enk and David Robson and directed by Bryan Enk. Lissa Anne Sclar stars as Jenna Bouchard, a daughter who has inherited the skeletons in her father’s closet. In this case, the closet is a basement, and the skeleton is a demon.  The performances vary from pretty good to genuinely good. There is a heightened and exaggerated element to most of these performances. Even when a character is acting normal the microexpressions sometimes add something a little cartoonish. The characters aren’t explored much. We’re introduced to the c ..read more

Gwen (Phoebe Tonkin) lands an overnight job at the beginning of the pleasantly entertaining new thriller Night Shift. The job? She is the overnight caretaker of a remote motel called The All Tucked Inn. Clever name. But motels are never pleasant if you know the least bit about horror and thrillers. On her shift, Gwen encounters horrible customers, ghostly room calls, rats, and apparitions while dealing with a sinkhole in the pool out back and taxidermy as a key decorative aesthetic. Their favorite single-location thrillers inspire familial writer-director duo Benjamin China and Paul China and ..read more

If you are into horror movies and would like to extend your experience into your gaming entertainment, this post is for you. Check out the best horror video games based on iconic movies that you have probably watched a hundred times.  Friday the 13th: The Game The game truly nails the chilling and intense atmosphere of the original movie plus the publisher has its own extra plot twists like the one near the campfire. The developers were clearly very passionate about the main character and it shows as they stay faithful to the key elements and concepts of the movie.  You can also gues ..read more

Imagine, if you will, the perfect home. Clean, airy, pre-furnished, plenty of land, and all waiting for the right person to move in. Even the price tag is incredible, considering the current market. Obviously, there’s something seriously wrong here. For Sale follows a comically sleazy salesman named Mason McGuiness (Andrew Roth). He loses his job selling used cars after his shady practices get too blatant to hide, then gets kicked out by his wife (Rachael Lubarsky), who is more than a little peeved that he lost his job and forgot their anniversary on the same day. He mopes around, sleeping in ..read more

Protanopia is about how a writer named Luke has strange dreams about an unfamiliar house after his sister goes missing. The homeowner, Alan Roscoe Jr., inherited it after his father’s untimely death. Now he participates in disturbing behaviour seemingly tending to the house in unsettling, bizarre ways. Written and directed by Matthew Mahler, this labour of love received its financing from Kickstarter. It’s full of surreal imagery similar to Darren Aronofsky or Dario Argento. Luke’s dream sequences are distorted, hyperbolic depictions of Alan’s house. Is he seeing reality or hallucinating? It’s ..read more