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Marketing Macabre 2023 Year In Review

Marketing Macabre 2023 Year In Review

Marketing Macabre looks back at 10 of it’s top news stories from 2023.
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Teaser Poster from Horror Anthology “F’d: Tales From the End Times”

Ash Hamilton (Holes In The Sky: The Sean Miller Story) teams with directors Dillon Brown (The Flock, Tahoe Joe), Ben Harl (Last Day, Afterlife), Josh Brucker (Mothman) and John Isberg (Final Summer) to create the doomsday anthology, “F’d: Tales From the End Times”

BAKEMONO is a Japanese monster movie that features all practical FX and no CGI, inspired by John Carpenter’s The Thing with a tentacle transforming creature. The film is shot in Tokyo, Japan by an American director, Doug Roos (The Sky Has Fallen, Rearranged).

A gruesome creature waits for unsuspecting victims in a cheap Tokyo rental apartment.

What makes the story unique is the fact that it’s told out-of-order like Memento and Pulp Fiction. Doug Roos says, “I wanted to make something unpredictable and new that would hook audiences from the very beginning. Something extremely exciting that you can’t stop watching.”

An official poster has dropped for the new horror film that is directed by Dale Stelly (Compton’s Finest): The Boatyard. The film stars Mike Ferguson (Amityville Hex), Susan Lanier (Hide), and Meghan Carrasquillo (Hider in My House).

The Boatyard Synopsis
Five college kids go out on one of their dad’s boats for spring break. After partying all day, the boat won’t start back up and they are stranded in the middle of the sea. Once it gets darks, a strangers offers to help them by taking them to the boatyard where he can fix their boat only to find out he’s hungry for death.

King Jeff’s Sci-Fi / Horror film, TROUBLESHOOTERS is now available to watch for free on Tubi TV. The film stars real life brothers King Jeff and Gorio.

Synopsis:
In the near future, when laser blasting home and business security robots begin malfunctioning and attacking and killing the people they’re assigned to protect, a cracker-jack team known as ‘Troubleshooters’ are called in to stop the robots before they cause more death and destruction.

Maid Droid is a sexy psychological horror film from director, Rick Mallery (Holy Terror, Sinful, Wicked Game, and Felines) is a mash up of M3GAN meets Fatal Attraction meets Takahi Miike’s Audition.

Recovering from a recent break-up, Harrison’s life changes forever when he contacts the mysterious Maid Droid agency and he meets the mysterious Mako, a beautiful android who serves his every wish. However, soon Mako starts to learn human emotions and memories from her past surface, leading her to act out in dangerous ways.

DEATH METAL, award winning horror film from director Michael Kuciak comes to Blu-ray on May 30th, 2023 from Bayview Entertainment / VIPCO.

A death metal band is on its last legs after a disastrous European tour and is about to be dropped by their label. Hiring a legendary producer from the Norwegian black metal scene, the band sets out to record their latest album in a remote farmhouse outfitted with top-of-the-line gear. Ivan, the lead guitarist, plans to record The Devil’s Concerto, a piece of music he brought back from Europe that – according to myth – drives audiences mad. What the band didn’t expect was that the myth was true, and they must now survive the curse that’s been unleashed.

New found footage horror film, The Woodmen directed by Joshua Brucker and starring Anna Clary, Dan Grogan, Hunter Nino, L.C. Holt, Bailey Harrington, Connor Flynn, Nancy Anne Ridder, and Leonora Scelfo is now available on Amazon Prime.

The Woodmen follows three individuals who find themselves in a fight for their lives as they attempt to escape from a clan of feral humans that call the Great Smoky Mountains home. Together, they battle this cunning and elusive adversary that wants nothing more than to protect their land with deadly and savage force.

Author Mark Allen has released his new NOCTURNAL novel, JUST BEFORE DAWN on Amazon. Press photos from award winning photographer, Fiona Young.

It has been five years since the events of NOCTURNAL, and life has settled back to normal. The Vampire continues his quiet existence and visits his beloved granddaughter, Lottie. Reggie Downing is now Lead Detective, and Nick Castle is his lieutenant after Morris Horn’s retirement. Reggie is Nick’s most trusted confidant.

But a twisted killer stalks San Diego’s Vampire Goth club scene, leaving kills that mimic vampirism. Desperate to stop this evil, Reggie asks for his ancestor’s help once again. Reluctant to involve himself in “the affairs of man” and yet deeply offended by the killer’s methods, the Vampire uneasily agrees.

Disco Diablo is a new horror comedy podcast series going into pre-production and directed by Greg Tally and Halle Capone. This will be a Collywood Studios and Damn Dirty Drive In Presentation, both based in Denver, Colorado. It is also the first of several podcast plays, film shorts and features Collywood is moving into pre-production.

It’s a dance off with the devil. In the midst of the glittering 1970s disco era, a ragtag group of dancers known as the Dance Hall Dozen must infiltrate the nefarious nightclub, Disco Diablo, to thwart the plans of the diabolical owner and save their souls from eternal damnation.

From Antoinette Corvo, author of Dirges in the Dark and The Ivory Tower, comes The Cat That Caught The Canary, available now on Kindle and Paperback.

When an unloved child loses her only friend, she finds the courage to leave home and reinvent herself as Pearl Lancaster. Innocent and naïve, Pearl’s quest to become a theatre star puts her at the mercy of abusive teachers and predatory cult members. This is the story of one girl’s rise to fame and the desperate lengths she will go to in order to stay in the spotlight. Blood will be shed, tears will fall, but the show must go on.

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