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PLAY DEAD (2022) Review: Suspense with Surgical Precision

Play Dead (2022, USA) Review: Suspense with Surgical Precision

The healthcare system in the United States must be well and truly fucked if people are resorting to the black market for organ transplants. Directed by Patrick Lussier, known for his numerous collaborations with Wes Craven, Play Dead stars Bailee Madison as criminology and forensic medicine student Chloe.

“All that you are, all that you’ve done… is worth considerably less than the sum of your parts.”

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Shudder Releases First Look Clip & Poster for Jennifer Reeder’s Horror-Noir PERPETRATOR

Shudder Releases First Look Clip & Poster for Jennifer Reeder’s Horror-Noir PERPETRATOR

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, has released the new festival poster designed by Creepy Duck Designs and first-look clip from Jennifer Reeder’s upcoming horror-noir Perpetrator.

“A girl like you cannot afford to be stupid and selfish.”

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Out of This World Sci-Fi/Horror Comedy THE SEED Launches on Shudder Tomorrow!

Out of This World Sci-Fi/Horror Comedy THE SEED Launches on Shudder Tomorrow!

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, unveils a new clip for the Shudder Original sci-fi/horror comedy The Seed, ahead of the film’s exclusive debut.

“We’re here to party, and watch the biggest shooting star event since the dinosaurs checked out.”

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Shinya Tsukamoto’s HIRUKO THE GOBLIN Available on Blu-ray from Third Window Films (UK / 24 January)

Shinya Tsukamoto's HIRUKO THE GOBLIN Available on Blu-ray from Third Window Films (UK / 24 January)

Shinya Tsukamoto directed this wonderfully bizarre adaptation of Daijiro Morohoshi’s Yokai Hunter manga as his first studio project. Called to an idyllic countryside town, disgraced archaeologist Professor Hieda teams up with high schooler Masao when a series of disappearances – including those of Masao’s father and classmate crush Reiko – take place. Together, the unlikely duo discover that the local high school sits atop an ancient burial mound that may very well be a subterranean gateway to hell.

“School becomes a bizarre horror zone!”

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Shudder Acquires Unearthly Horror Comedy THE SEED

Shudder Acquires Unearthly Horror Comedy THE SEED

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired worldwide rights to the black comedy creature feature The Seed. Written and directed by Sam Walker, The Seed will be released in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 2022.

“Sam Walker’s stunning feature debut blends sci-fi, body horror and pitch-black comedy into one stylish and scary package.”

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Signature Entertainment Presents Brandon Cronenberg’s POSSESSOR on Digital HD (UK / 1 February) & Blu-ray/DVD (UK / 8 February)

Signature Entertainment Presents Brandon Cronenberg's POSSESSOR on Digital HD (UK / 1 February) & Blu-ray/DVD (UK / 8 February)

From the visionary mind of writer-director Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor is a game-changing sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos; available on Digital HD 1st February, and Blu-ray/DVD 8th February from Signature Entertainment.

Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

“No body is safe.”

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Possessor (2020, UK / Canada) BFI London Film Festival 2020 Review

Possessor (2020, UK / Canada) BFI London Film Festival 2020 Review

If David Cronenberg was the prime mover of the horror sub-genre known as ‘body horror’, his son Brandon is taking it to the next level. With Possessor, his second feature after debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg starts with a scene that braces you for the bloodletting that will come… A young woman stands in the bathroom of a hotel and stabs a long metal electrode into her skull as blood seeps around the wound. Her face runs through a gamut of emotions as the electrode fulfils its mysterious purpose in her brain.

“You have a very special nature. One we have worked hard together to unlock.”

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Signature Entertainment Presents Brandon Cronenberg’s POSSESSOR in Cinemas (UK / 27 November)

Signature Entertainment Presents Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor in Cinemas (UK / 27 November)

From the visionary mind of writer-director Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor is a game-changing sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high profile targets.

“No body is safe.”

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Rabid (2019, Canada) Review

Rabid (2019, Canada) Review

Sylvia and Jen Soska, known as The Soska Sisters, have made quite a name for themselves directing, writing and acting in some of most visceral, brutal horror films of the last ten years. Their breakout film, 2009’s Dead Hooker in a Trunk, attracted more attention for its controversial name than the movie itself. However, it established the style and mystique the Soska name would bring to independent film. I have to give Sylvia and Jen props for taking on the re-imagining of one of Canada’s greatest director’s best films.

“You’ve just had reconstructive surgery… You can’t take your bandages off just yet!”

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Verotika versus Rabid ’77

Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner we have the classic 1977 David Cronenberg film, Rabid. In the opposite corner, we have the Glenn Danzig opus, Verotika. Is one a better film than the other? Will the cult classic crush the newcomer or will the Master Misfit cut new horror film ground based on his comic book kingdom?

If you’re like me, your interest in anything Danzig related was piqued the moment it was announced he was working on a movie. Unfortunately, the promise faded with ever passing time…

“Pray it doesn’t happen to you.”

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Tattoo Horror PERFECT SKIN Bleeds Ink (September 10th) on DVD through Indican Pictures

Tattoo Horror PERFECT SKIN Bleeds Ink (September 10th) on DVD through Indican Pictures

Tattoo artist Bob has just found out he has Parkinson’s – a disease that will end his life long career. With the clock ticking, he has become obsessed with creating one final masterpiece before his body deteriorates. Just then he meets Katia, a young Polish woman with perfect, unblemished, untouched skin. He needs his final canvas, so he offers Katia a free tattoo; his final work-of-art. However, Katia likes the skin she is in and rejects his offer. The two characters collide in Bob’s tattoo parlour, with Katia’s life set to be turned on its head, in this exciting tale of creativity corrupted by madness.

“His masterpiece. Her body.”

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