Ballet of Blood, the 9th feature film by Jared Masters, has been picked up for distribution by Gravitas Ventures. It will have a vast cross-platform VOD release March 1, 2016. What critics are saying: “A lot of potential to plumb… Solid… Fun… Compelling… Extremely poetic… Complex and intriguing… BALLET OF BLOOD delivers big ideas … I appreciated a lot.” – …

  The Buffalo International Film Festival is excited to announce our open call for submissions for the 2016 (10th anniversary) season. Tentative festival dates are October 7th-10th and are to be finalized by early Spring. This year we anticipate a record number of submissions, so filmmakers should be sure to submit early and encourage others to do so as well.

Matchbox Films and Jinga Films have  announced the UK DVD and digital release of Frank Perez-Garland’s supernatural horror FACE OF THE DEVIL with a street date of February 8th 2016. FACE OF THE DEVIL follows seven friends who go on a remote jungle vacation where they are terrorized by a primeval spirit, but as they struggle to survive they come to realize …

On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 6 pm, The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY will be hosting a focus-group screening of Troma Entertainment’s most recent work-in-progress movie, Return to Return to Nuke ‘Em High AKA Volume 2″, it was announced today by the Film and Video Department of The Pratt Institute. The screening will be open to the public and …

Scream Factory Presents Murders in the Rue Morgue & The Dunwich Horror On Blu-ray March 29, 2016  A pair of horror’s most famous authors – Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft – provide the inspiration for a most diabolical double feature. Scream Factory presents two terrifying tales from literary legends with the release of Murders in the Rue Morgue & …

Australia’s premier festival of cult, horror and the fantastic, Monster Fest is thrilled to announce the appointment of its new Festival Director, renowned Canadian film programmer and author Kier-La Janisse. Returning to Melbourne’s Lido Cinemas for its sixth edition, Monster Fest 2016 has been scheduled for to take place November 24-27. Monster Fest has also announced that submissions for Features, …

SYNOPSIS: Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend… The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into …

Harvest Moon Motion Pictures & Television announces their new contest “Share The Scare” to tie-in with their hit series, “Tales of Horror.” The contest began on February 4th and will allow fans and viewers to use social media to enter the contest as well as spread the word about the VOD series hosted by actress Jessica Felice as the mysterious …

Epic Pictures Group today announced that it has added two acclaimed films to its slate for the European Film Market:  the award winning comedy UNCLE KENT 2 and the sci-fi thriller HALF LIFE.  The announcement was made today by Epic’s CEO Patrick Ewald and Co-Founder Shaked Berenson. “UNCLE KENT 2 and HALF LIFE epitomize the breadth of films that fit …

SYNOPSIS: A beautiful French female gets her face ruined by some crazy broad who throws acid on her face. Her determined brother is a doctor and promises to restore her beauty and make her look like an attractive girl again. He begins to kidnap young and beautiful females and bringing them to his clinic with the help of his nurse …

Megan Freels Johnston’s new psychological horror, The Ice Cream Truck is set to shoot in Spring of 2016. The screenplay for the film is already gaining traction as a semi-finalist in the Circus Road Screenplay Competition. Hilary Barraford and Johnston will serve as producers of the film while many of Johnston’s creative team from Rebound are already in place. Mary’s husband …

Extreme Cinema is not entirely a new classification (hence the fairly in-adequate wiki listing) but one that was attached to a genre of horror that challenges the limits of what we have been exposed to over the years. With television, cable, and pay TV taking things “much further” in recent years, that gray line has become awful thin. Certainly fans …

RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brings you UNCAGED.  Directed by Daniel Robbins (The Friend Zone), the film stars Ben Getz (Grotto), Kyle Kirkpatrick (Stealing Suburbia), Zachary Weiner (The Convenient Job), Garrett Hendricks (The Paragon Cortex), Paulina Singer (The Intern) and Gene Jones (No Country for Old Men). UNCAGED is available on Digital Video and on DVD on Feb. 2, 2016 for an SRP of $27.97. Available on DVD and Digital Video February …

Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, FrightFest ask the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning …

Actress Bailey Noble (“True Blood” “Glee”) stars in “Martyrs” directed by Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz. How did you prepare to play your character in “Martyrs?” Bailey- It’s kind of all in the script. The material is so emotional, rich and physically demanding that I didn’t have to do anything demanding to prepare for it really. What was it like …