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Actress/writer/stand-up comedian Jenny Slate, whose credits include Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Marvel Comics adaptation Venom, and Saturday Night Live, has signed on to star in the horror film Mindful, which Deadline describes as being about “a possessed meditation app that begins to kill its followers.”

Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People) will be directing the film from a screenplay by Leslie Bohem, who got his start writing House III: The Horror Show and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child. In the decades since, Bohem has worked on the likes of Nowhere to Run, Daylight, Dante’s Peak, The Darkest Hour, The Alamo, and the mini-series Taken. The story he has crafted for Mindful has the following synopsis: When her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology.

Jenny Slate (Venom, Everything Everywhere All At Once) is set to make her horror entrance in Mindful, an upcoming feature about a possessed meditation app that murders its followers, per Deadline.

The actor, author, and stand-up comedian won’t just star in the horror movie, but executive produces as well. Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People, When I Consume You) will direct.

In Mindful, “when her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology. As the app’s popularity spreads like wildfire, she is forced to confront her own demons and dive into a terrifying ‘out of body’ experience in order to save the ones she loves.”

The script is penned by Les Bohem (Daylight, Dante’s Peak).

Blackshear told Deadline, “I am delighted to be working with such a high caliber actress as Jenny,...

Exclusive: Everything Everywhere All At Once and Venom star Jenny Slate will lead cast in and executive-produce horror movie Mindful, about a possessed meditation app that begins to kill its followers.

Actress, author and stand-up Slate is in the limelight having recently co-created, co-written, co-produced and voiced the titular character of Marcel in A24’s Oscar-nominated film Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, and for having co-starred in Oscar and box office breakout Everything Everywhere All At Once. The SNL alum is also well known for voicing animated series such as Big Mouth and Bob’s Burgers.

In Mindful, when her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology. As the app’s popularity spreads like wildfire, she is forced to confront her own demons and dive into a terrifying ‘out of...

Bingo Hell is a movie directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero starring young upstarts called Adriana Barraza, Richard Brake, L. Scott Caldwell and Bertila Damas among other promising cast members.

The screenplay was written together by Shane McKenzie, Gigi Saul Guerrero and Perry Blackshear. And, apparently, they had a blast writing this.

Plot

Some seniors live a peaceful life caring for their community and spending hours playing bingo until things change: a new owner, with greater and more infernal prizes has arrived at the district to change the way this entertainment is experienced from now on.

About the Movie Bingo Hell (2021)

I was recommended this film as one of the worst films to write about and I will disagree: Bingo Hell is infernal entertainment, and very well made visually (at least the choices they have made). It is tacky, kitsch or whatever you want to call it, it has a neon...

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“Bergman Island” (The Criterion Collection): Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s seventh feature is graceful and complex, a story about stories and the sometimes fragile connections between partners and friends. A couple travel to Fårö, Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, in order to work on their own respective filmmaking projects. There they discover more about themselves than they anticipated. The Blu-ray includes an essay from critic Devika Girish; a short film, “Bergman’s Ghosts,” made during production by actor Gabe Klinger; and interviews with Krieps and Hansen-Løve.

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“Black Adam” (Warner Bros): Dwayne Johnson is the DC Comics anti-hero, freed from his tomb after 5000 years, now ready to deliver his own version of justice.

“Bones and All” (Warner Bros): The latest from “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino is a romantic horror film about cannibals in love — it’s as divisive...

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First up, 1091 Pictures has provided us with an exclusive clip from the supernatural horror drama "When I Consume You," the third feature from award-winning Brooklyn-based indie filmmaker Perry Blackshear. Starring Evan Dumouchel and Libby Ewing, the film is now available on digital platforms.

Here is the official synopsis:

Ewing and Dumouchel play brother-sister duo Daphne and Wilson Shaw. Troubled since childhood, the two have struggled to find stability as they've grown older, and while Daphne seems to have finally gotten her life together, the darkness that's followed their family all along begins to close in more aggressively than ever before. A unique urban folktale set and filmed in Brooklyn, "When I Consume You...

Perry Blackshear, the director of the 2015 indie slow-burn film They Look Like People, is back with another really interesting, micro-budget creeper, When I Consume You. The premise is simple. A brother and sister try to fend off a mysterious stalker. It gets less simple when this stalker seems to appear out of nowhere, materializing in the darkness of a closet or in the shadows of a sketchy urban street. And then there are those glowing yellow eyes that seem to not just pierce, but see into and Know everything about them. It's the perfect metaphor for trauma. An all-seeing, all-knowing demon that's always with you, and it appears whenever you're at your lowest and most vulnerable. It's a thing that you can't shake, no...

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Available on VOD starting today from 1091 Pictures, we have an exclusive clip from When I Consume You that you can watch right now!

"When I Consume You marks the third feature for New York-based filmmaker Perry Blackshear following his award-winning psychological horror feature debut They Look Like People and celebrated sophomore effort, the aquatic supernatural horror romance The Siren. All three of his films have been widely embraced and praised both on the festival circuit and upon release, with They Look Like People winning a Jury Honorable Mention at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival upon its premiere.

Blackshear again teams up with creative collaborators MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Margaret Ying Drake for When I Consume You, who, alongside Libby Ewing, deliver a heartfelt family drama about grief and redemption. Ewing and Dumouchel play brother-sister duo Daphne and Wilson Shaw. Troubled since childhood, the two have struggled to find stability as they’ve grown older,...

This week may be lacking in quantity when it comes to horror releases but two big new films are leading the pack, one of them bringing back a horror villain over 10 years later.

The other, well, it pits Idris Elba up against a bloodthirsty predator…

Here’s all the new horror releasing August 16-August 21, 2022!

First up, the supernatural revenge movie When I Consume You is now available on VOD outlets today, director Perry Blackshear’s latest released by 1091 Pictures to kick off the week.

The Breakout Festival Sensation is now available in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Watch the official trailer for When I Consume You below.

“This gritty, urban folktale follows a woman (Libby Ewing) and her brother (Evan Dumouchel) as they hunt down a mysterious stalker hellbent on their destruction, testing the limits of love and loyalty in the face of ultimate evil.

1091 Pictures is bringing Perry Blackshear’s psychological demonic horror movie When I Consume You to VOD on August 16, and the official trailer is here to unleash the beast. The Breakout Festival Sensation Will Be Available in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Watch the official trailer for When I Consume You […]

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"You can't break someone more than once." 1091 Pictures has revealed an official trailer for an indie thriller titled When I Consume You, which first premiered at the Fantasia and Screamfest Horror Festivals last year. When I Consume You marks the third feature for New York filmmaker Perry Blackshear following his award-winning psychological horror feature debut They Look Like People and celebrated sophomore effort, the aquatic supernatural horror romance The Siren. His latest is described as: "a gritty, slow-burn urban folktale about family, damnation, and redemption." A young woman and her brother seek revenge against a mysterious stalker. It's a unique urban folktale set and filmed in Brooklyn, confronting the vulnerabilities people struggle with every day through a genre lens to create a chillingly intimate indie horror nightmare. The film stars MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, Margaret Ying Drake, and Libby Ewing. This reminds me of Kill List in a few ways,...

The trailer and poster have been released for Perry Blackshear’s horror hit When I Consume You. 1091 Pictures is putting it out on VOD Available in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on August 16th. A new trailer and poster were released yesterday, You will find the trailer below. When I Consume You marks the third feature for New York-based filmmaker Perry Blackshear following his award-winning psychological horror feature debut They Look Like People and celebrated sophomore effort, the aquatic supernatural horror romance The Siren. All three of his films have been widely embraced and praised both on the festival circuit and upon release, with They Look Like People winning a Jury Honorable Mention at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival...

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Release Date Announced For Perry Blackshear’s Hotly-Anticipated, Widely-Celebrated Psychological Demonic Horror Hit When I Consume You — Out On VOD August 16 From 1091 Pictures The Breakout Festival Sensation Will Be Available in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand A woman and her brother seek revenge against a mysterious stalker. A gritty, …

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1091 Pictures has acquired English-speaking world rights to Perry Blackshear’s atmospheric social horror film When I Consume You. The third feature from the New York-based filmmaker (2015’s They Look Like People and 2019’s The Siren), When I Consume You, premiered at the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival to critical acclaim and went on to have its […]

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Perry Blackshear’s third film follows siblings who seek revenge against a stalker.

In a deal hatched in Cannes 1091 Pictures has acquired all English-speaking rights from Yellow Veil to Perry Blackshear’s horror drama When I Consume You.

Blackshear’s third film after psychological horror They Look Like People and creature feature The Siren premiered at 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival entry and once again stars MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Margaret Ying Drake. It tells of a woman and her brother who seek revenge against a stalker. Libby Ewing also stars.

1091 Pictures, which is owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment,...

Hello, dear readers! Now that June is pretty much right around the corner, we have one last round of horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases to look forward to to finish out the month of May first. This week, Scream Factory is giving both Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U the 4K treatment, and Vinegar Syndrome is resurrecting Bill Hinzman’s FleshEater in 4K as well. The new aviation thriller Row 19 is making its way to both Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday, and Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People is coming home on both formats this week, too.

Other May 31st home media releases include Wicked World, Video Murders, The Conjuring Universe 7-Movie Collection and Back From Hell.

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While assisting on a dig, a construction worker accidentally destroys the final resting place of a demonic zombie, rousting him from his unholy slumber, and reigniting his taste for human flesh.

Exclusive: Adam Kolbrenner’s Lit Entertainment Group is expanding its ranks, adding Raquelle David as Manager and Producer and Patrick White as Creative Executive.

David established herself as an indie producer and held executive positions at Screen Nsw and The Seven Network in her native Australia before launching her U.S. management career in 2017. She brings with her to Lit Entertainment Group clients including screenwriters/filmmakers Jenny Yang (The Gordita Chronicles), Amos Mac (Gossip Girl), Dani Parker (Midnight Mass), Sean King O’Grady (We Need To Do Something), Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People), Aisling Chin-Yee (The Rest of Us) Johnny Ma (To Live To Sing) Jovanka Vuckovic (Riot Girls) and Peter Hutchings (The Hating Game).

“When the opportunity arose to join Adam and the Lit Entertainment Group team, it was a no-brainer for me and my clients. His taste and instincts in an ever-changing market are both prolific and exceptional.

They Look Like People Perry Blackshear’s Multi-Award-Winning 2015 Psychological Horror Debut To Be Released on Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray This Month — New Key Art Revealed Available for Pre-Order Today from Yellow Veil Pictures Synopsis: Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend …

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Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian. As the mysterious horrors close in on Wyatt, he questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself. A genre-bending story of love, loyalty and living nightmares.   This is cool. Our friends at Yellow Veil Pictures have announced today that they're releasing Perry Blackshear's psychological horror flick They Look LIke People on a Collector's Edition Blu-ray this month.    When They Look Like People burst onto the scene at the beginning of 2015 and during a time when a knockout punch of a film could have an lengthy festival tour They Look Like People did okay or...

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The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ended its 6th edition last Thursday with the sold-out closing night East Coast Premiere of Rob Jabbaz’s The Sadness at Nitehawk Cinema and announced today its jury and audience award winners. Launching on October 14th with the NY Premiere of Mlungu Wam (Good Madam), Brooklyn Horror is proud to have welcomed back an eager and excited audience who packed the cinemas after a one year pandemic related hiatus and hosted a majority of sold-out screenings, with special highlights being the festival’s 35mm projection of Session 9, presented for its 20th anniversary with lead actor and co-writer Stephen Gevedon in attendance, and the US Premiere of local filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti’s debut The Last Thing Mary Saw, with Rory Culkin and Vitaletti present for the Q&a.

Further highlights of the festival include the world premieres of Adam Randall’s Netflix Original vampire feature Night Teeth...

...a woman and her brother hunt down a mysterious stalker hellbent on their destruction, testing the limits of love and loyalty in the face of ultimate evil.   Our friends at Yellow Veil Pictures have picked up the English-speaking world sales rights for Perry Blackshear's latest, When I Consume You.    Our own Izzy caught the world premiere of When I Consume You at Fantasia this Summer. You will find her review here where she closes with, "...don't sleep on When I Consume You. It's masterful and thought-provoking, and an incredible example of what can be done with little --- though Blackshear deserves much more".    NY/LA based arthouse genre outfit Yellow Veil Pictures have added English-speaking world sales rights to When I Consume You,...

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One of the lesser-sung items among umpteen offbeat little ’70s movies was Larry Yust’s “Homebodies.” That 1974 black comedy on the cusp of horror was about a community of frail old retirees who turn out to be surprisingly vigorous — even homicidal — in defending their homes from the callous forces of market-driven “progress.” A similar premise is the starting point for “Bingo Hell,” which alongside “Black as Night” kicks off the second quartet of genre features premiering under the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” umbrella on Amazon Prime. This first full-length solo directorial project for Gigi Saul Guerrero exchanges the Cincinnati grit of “Homebodies” for the hotter palette of a Southern California desert town.

The comedy and horror elements get amped up as well — maybe too much so. In any case, what starts out looking like another caustic commentary on gentrification at the expense of the elderly soon takes a turn into half-baked Stephen King territory,...

Smoke And Mirrors : The Story Of Tom Savini: "Special Makeup Effects legend, Actor, Director, Stuntman. Tom Savini has redefined the horror genre with his arsenal on talents. But who is the man behind the "King of Splatter?" From his his childhood in Pittsburgh, Pa; to his tour of duty during Vietnam, to his beginnings with George A. Romero and beyond. Smoke And Mirrors is the defining documentary on the life and career of horror icon Tom Savini.

Featuring Tom Savini, Danny McBride, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, Alice Cooper, Greg Nicotero, Tom Atkins, Corey Feldman, Doug Bradley, Bill Moseley, and more!

From Wild Eye Releasing, director Jason Baker's Smoke And Mirrors on Digital October 19."

Wide On Demand And Digital Release : October 19

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And Then! He Kissed Me: "A small bump on an otherwise smooth date sends Nastya on a gory journey of self actualization. "

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Amazon Prime Video recently announced the latest installment of Welcome to the Blumhouse. Featuring films directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, Maritte Lee Go, Ryan Zaragoza, and Axelle Carolyn, we now have individual trailers for reach film, ahead of their premiere this October!

"Amazon Prime Video is excited to announce this year's installment of "Welcome To The Blumhouse," featuring an all new set of unique, unsettling thrillers developed with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. Produced by Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, Bingo Hell, Black As Night, Madres and The Manor premiere worldwide this October exclusively on Prime Video.

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate once again showcases both well-established and breakout actors collaborating with emerging, predominantly female, directors.

Bingo Hell and Black As Night premiere on October 1, followed by Madres and The Manor on October 8."

Bingo Hell

October 1, 2021

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A feisty senior citizen fights to protect her beloved neighborhood from...

Amazon Prime Video recently announced the latest installment of Welcome to the Blumhouse. Featuring films directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, Maritte Lee Go, Ryan Zaragoza, and Axelle Carolyn, we now have the trailer for you to watch ahead of the films premiering this October!

"Amazon Prime Video is excited to announce this year's installment of "Welcome To The Blumhouse," featuring an all new set of unique, unsettling thrillers developed with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. Produced by Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, Bingo Hell, Black As Night, Madres and The Manor premiere worldwide this October exclusively on Prime Video.

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate once again showcases both well-established and breakout actors collaborating with emerging, predominantly female, directors.

Bingo Hell and Black As Night premiere on October 1, followed by Madres and The Manor on October 8.

Bingo Hell

October 1, 2021

Logline

A feisty senior citizen fights to protect her beloved...

Perry Blackshear, the director of the 2015 indie slow-burn film They Look Like People, is back with another really interesting, micro-budget creeper this year at Fantasia, When I Consume You. The premise is simple. A brother and sister try to fend off a mysterious stalker. It gets less simple when this stalker seems to appear out of nowhere, materializing in the darkness of a closet or in the shadows of a sketchy urban street. And then there are those glowing yellow eyes that seem to not just pierce, but see into and Know everything about them. It's the perfect metaphor for trauma. An all-seeing, all-knowing demon that's always with you, and it appears whenever you're at your lowest and most vulnerable. It's a thing...

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Stars: Evan Dumouchel, Libby Ewing, MacLeod Andrews | Written and Directed by Perry Blackshear

I was lucky enough to watch and review director Perry Blackshear’s previous movies The Siren and They Look Like People. Both are really impressive movies. Bringing fresh and original ideas to sci-fi and horror I knew he was a director that I would be keeping an eye on in his future projects. Thankfully this year brings his latest movie to Fantasia – When I Consume You.

It feels very much like a Perry Blackshear movie right from the off. This isn’t an issue and I don’t mean it in a way that all his films look the same. They just have that similar grittiness to them, they feel like real life even though you know something supernatural is almost definitely going to be involved. In When I Consume You we meet a brother, Wilson Shaw (Evan Dumouchel) and sister,...

When I Consume You Review — When I Consume You (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Perry Blackshear, starring Libby Ewing, Evan Dumouchel, MacLeod Andrews, Margaret Ying Drake, Mick Casale, Kiara Jones, Jeff Musillo, Claire Siebers, and Adam Stovall. There’s something to admire about low-budget indie horror, and [...]

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Perry Blackshear, writer-director of “They Look Like People” and “The Siren,” has returned with genre bending “When I Consume You,” a suspenseful twist on revenge and courage in the face of helplessness. Siblings Daphne and Wilson Shaw brave the long shadow of childhood trauma together in a fight with a demon stalker hellbent on their destruction.

“When I Consume You” stars Blackshear’s frequent collaborators Evan Dumouchel and MacLeod Andrews as well as new-to-the-crew Libby Ewing. In addition all three served as co-producers on the film, which was shot in lonely side streets of Brooklyn.

Variety spoke with Blackshear ahead of “When I Consume You’s” debut at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival.

The monster in the film nods to Goya’s black paintings, and has the viewer wondering throughout the film whether it is real or an element of psychosis. How did you choose to anchor the soul...

Daphne (Libby Ewing) and Wilson Shaw (Evan Dumouchel) didn’t really have anyone growing up besides themselves. The same could be said now. They cut out their parents years ago and did their best to power through the trauma they endured, but it almost came crashing down courtesy the former’s long-lasting drug addiction. They endured it, though. Together. And they have hope again: Daphne dreams of adopting a child to love like they never were, Wilson aspires to turn his janitorial job into a teaching career to give kids the time they were never afforded. When those leaps forward become threatened by adversity, however, old feelings of self-loathing return with menacing yellow eyes in the shadows.

We see the latter early on: two glowing orbs in the blackness of an open closet. Are they a demon? A nightmare? Who knows. Writer-director Perry Blackshear intentionally keeps their origins shrouded in...

Amazon Prime Video Announces Latest Installment of “Welcome To The Blumhouse”: "Amazon Prime Video is excited to announce this year's installment of "Welcome To The Blumhouse," featuring an all new set of unique, unsettling thrillers developed with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. Produced by Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, Bingo Hell, Black As Night, Madres and The Manor premiere worldwide this October exclusively on Prime Video.

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate once again showcases both well-established and breakout actors collaborating with emerging, predominantly female, directors.

Bingo Hell and Black As Night premiere on October 1, followed by Madres and The Manor on October 8.

Bingo Hell

October 1, 2021

Logline

A feisty senior citizen fights to protect her beloved neighborhood from an evil force that’s taken over the local bingo hall and is killing the residents in gruesome ways.

Short Synopsis

When a sinister figure threatens the residents of a low-income community,...

Evan Dumouchel and Libby Ewing in When I Consume You Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival

A consistent creator of interesting independent films, Perry Blackshear works with the same small team to tell stories about the sort of people who tend to go under the radar in mainstream cinema. His previous works They Look Like People and The Siren both did well on the festival circuit and attracted a lot of good word of mouth. Now he’s back with When I Consume You, which is screening as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival.

The story of brother and sister Wilson (Evan Dumouchel) and Daphne (Libby Ewing), who have survived a difficult past and try to look out for one another when threatened by a sinister stalker, the film is big on atmosphere and has the same elements of uncertainty that fans have come to expect from Perry’s films.

Quebec’s Fantasia Festival has unveiled the third and final wave of titles set to screen at this year’s 25th edition and announced that Takashi Miike’s latest feature “The Great Yokai War – Guardians,” will close the festival. The world premiere of Julien Knafo’s Quebec zombie flic “Brain Freeze” will open the festival following an Aug. 4 pre-fest screening of James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad.”

“The Great Yokai War- Guardians” is the follow-up to Fantasia 2006 opener “The Great Yoki War,” and unspools in a fantasy world of Japanese demons, kaiju and pop culture references which proved a hit in Montreal the first time around.

Other key titles featured in the third wave lineup include Lee Won-tae’s “The Devil’s Deal,” his first film since “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil” won Sitges’ best film award in 2019. BAFTA-winner Paul Andrew Williams’ (“Murdered for Being Different”) “Bull,” a revenge thriller,...

L. Scott Caldwell will star in Blumhouse and Amazon’s “Bingo,” the latest thriller on the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate.

The Tony Award-winning actor, known for her roles as Rose in “Lost” and in “The Fugitive” will star as Delores, the “witty, loyal and tough grandmother” at the center of “Bingo’s” story.

Caldwell joins previously announced stars Adriana Barraza (Oscar nominee for “Babel”), who plays Delores’ best friend Lupita, and “The Good Lord Bird” breakout Joshua Caleb Johnson, as her grandson Caleb.

Set in the barrio of Oak Springs, the film follows a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Lupita is the leader of the group, keeping them together as a community, a family, but little do they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.

“Bingo” is directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero...

Following the announcement that Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza will star as Lupita in Gigi Saul Guerrero's new movie Bingo, it's now been revealed that Joshua Caleb Johnson has joined the cast as Caleb in the film that's part of Blumhouse and Amazon's new "Welcome to the Blumhouse" lineup:

Joshua Caleb Johnson has been cast in Bingo, the upcoming film in the Welcome to the Blumhouse slate from Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, directed and co-written by Gigi Saul Guerrero, currently in production.

He will star as the character of “Caleb”, a teenager being raised by a single mother and living in his grandmother Dolores’ home, torn between his anger at the tough hand he’s been dealt in life and longing for connection, love and acceptance.

Johnson received acclaim and is nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series...

Joshua Caleb Johnson, the breakout star of the acclaimed Showtime series “The Good Lord Bird,” has landed a key role in the upcoming Blumhouse feature “Bingo.”

One of several pics on Blumhouse’s Amazon Studios genre slate, highlighting female and emerging filmmakers, the film from director and co-writer Gigi Saul Guerrero also stars Adriana Barraza.

Johnson will play Caleb, a teenager being raised by a single mother and living in his grandmother’s home. He’s torn between his anger at the tough hand he’s been dealt in life, and longs for connection, love and acceptance.

“Bingo” follows a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified in the barrio of Oak Springs. Alpha Lupita (Barraza) keeps them together as a community and family, but little do they know, their beloved bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.

Announced as part of the next wave of "Welcome to the Blumhouse" movies last Halloween season, Gigi Saul Guerrero's new movie Bingo has now cast Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza in the lead role of Lupita:

"Golden Globe® and Academy Award® nominee Adriana Barraza will star in Bingo, the upcoming film in the Welcome to the Blumhouse slate from Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, directed and co-written by Gigi Saul Guerrero, currently in production.

Barraza plays the lead character of “Lupita,” a strong and stubborn “chingona” (bad ass) who grew up in the barrio of Oak Springs, a neighborhood formerly full of crime and dangerous characters. Lupita has dedicated her life to cleaning up the neighborhood, and creating a community the residents could be proud to call home.

Bingo presents an exciting, seldom-seen collaboration in Hollywood between esteemed Mexican actress Barraza and Mexico City-born and raised Guerrero,...

Exclusive: Oscar-nominated actress Adriana Barraza is set to serve up some scares in the next slate of films in the horror anthology Welcome To The Blumhouse at Amazon studios. The influential Mexican actress will star in Bingo directed and co-written by rising genre filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero. The film is currently in production.

The collaboration is a Latinx-driven narrative that includes two generations of Mexican artists. In this case, it is legendary veteran actress Barraza and the up and comer Guerrero. This is a major win as we have seen a severe lack of Latinx representation in film and TV.

Set in the barrio of Oak Springs, Bingo follows a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Barraza plays the leader of the pack, Lupita, a “chingona” (aka bad ass) who grew up in the neighborhood formerly filled with crime and dangerous characters.

Amazon & Blumhouse's partnership on "Welcome to the Blumhouse" has proven to be a big hit and they've just announced the next four movies that will be released on Amazon Prime Video in 2021, including The Manor from Axelle Carolyn, Black as Night from Maritte Lee Go, Madres from Ryan Zaragoza, and Bingo from Gigi Saul Guerrero:

"Following the highly-anticipated global launch of “Welcome to the Blumhouse”, Prime Video announced today the next chapter of four films in this collection of eight genre-movies produced by Amazon Studios and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television. The slate of titles are: The Manor written and directed by Axelle Carolyn, Black as Night from director Maritte Lee Go, Madres directed by Ryan Zaragoza and Bingo from director Gigi Saul Guerrero. The suspenseful thrillers will launch in 2021 on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” program continues the legacy of original,...

The next chapter of Welcome to the Blumhouse is ready to deliver thrills while highlighting some of today’s emerging and inclusive talent in front of and behind the camera. Amazon Prime Video has unveiled The Manor, Black as Night, Madres and Bingo as the final four films in the eight-film genre anthology. The quartet will debut on the streaming platform in 2021.

Welcome to the Blumhouse kicked off at the beginning of October with its first slate of films including The Lie from Veena Sud, Black Box from up-and-coming writer-director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., Evil Eye from emerging filmmakers Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani, and Nocturne from filmmaker Zu Quirke.

“Coming off the successful launch of the first four films of the program, which has surpassed our expectations, we are excited to reveal the next chapter coming in 2021,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. “The spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat thrills continues in...

Amazon on Thursday revealed the next four films to be released next year as part of its “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series. The first four genre movies in the collection launched on Prime Video this month.

Just like the first four films of the program, the next group represents four unique stories that are connected by common themes, including institutional horrors and personal phobias. The “social thrillers,” as Amazon terms them, are helmed by up-and-coming directors.

“Coming off the successful launch of the first four films of the program, which has surpassed our expectations, we are excited to reveal the next chapter coming in 2021,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. “The spine-tingling, edge of your seat thrills continues in this next collection of titles that will surely entertain, surprise and shock our global customers.”

The first four in the Blumhouse series are a mixed bag, with IndieWire’s best review going to “Black Box.

Back in 2015, Perry Blackshear made an impressive splash on the festival circuit with his feature-length directorial debut, They Look Like People, and now he's taking viewers to a haunted lake in his next movie, The Siren. Featuring a supernatural romance between human and haunter, The Siren is now on Digital and DVD from Dark Sky Films, and we've been provided with an exclusive clip from the film to share with Daily Dead readers.

You can watch a seemingly peaceful lakeside nook become a haunting setting for a demonic attack in our exclusive clip below, and we also have the official press release with more information on The Siren:

Press Release: A man searches a secluded lake for the monster that murdered his husband, while that monster falls in love with an unsuspecting visitor in the award-winning The Siren. The new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People...

Back in 2015, Perry Blackshear made an impressive splash on the festival circuit with his feature-length directorial debut, They Look Like People, and now he's taking viewers to a haunted lake in his next movie, The Siren. Featuring a supernatural romance between human and haunter, The Siren is coming to Digital and DVD on January 28th from Dark Sky Films:

Press Release: A man searches a secluded lake for the monster that murdered his husband, while that monster falls in love with an unsuspecting visitor in the award-winning The Siren. The new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People) arrives on Digital and DVD on January 28, 2020.

The Siren is an enthralling, seductive and creepy supernatural tale about cursed star-crossed lovers. Tom is a mute man from a sheltered, religious background who is haunted by the childhood accident that cost him his voice. While on a retreat at a lake house,...

The Siren The Seductive Supernatural Thriller Comes to DVD on January 28, 2020 A man searches a secluded lake for the monster that murdered his husband, while that monster falls in love with an unsuspecting visitor in the award-winning The Siren. The new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People) arrives on …

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Tagline: "Love Will Haunt You." The Siren is the next horror film from director Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People). This tale of the supernatural and revenge will be released by Dark Sky Film. In the story, a lovelorn spirit draws Tom (Evan Dumouchel) to her watery home. Near this body of water, another character is looking for answers, after a monster destroyed his marriage. The Siren will release in the New Year. And, this title also stars: Margaret Ying Drake ("Devoted") and Evan Dumouchel. More details on the release are hosted here. A few early reviews have gone into more details on the film's story. Jay Seaver at EFilmCritic sees the film's creature as a metaphor: "its title monster all but explicitly defined as a metaphor for being destroyed by a broken heart and lashing out afterward." Emotions are almost always strong after a break-up. Paul Chapinal (Film-news) talks...

Stars: MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, Margaret Ying, Mick Casale, Elena Greenlee | Written and Directed by Perry Blackshear

The opening scene of They Look Like People sets the tone for the rest of the film to follow: it’s minimalist, thought-provoking and creepy as hell. We see nothing more than a man lying in bed staring into the face of his sleeping partner, but through clever lighting, her face is shrouded in blackness. Or is it a lighting trick…? The camera lingers and unease builds.

We are introduced to two men, the aforementioned Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews) and Christian (Evan Dumouchel), an old friend. They bump into each other at random and as it becomes apparent that Wyatt is seemingly in a bad patch and ‘between homes’, he ends up crashing at Christian’s flat. Christian, though outwardly more together, is a similarly damaged bag of neuroses, exercising compulsively and listening to motivational audiobooks.

They Look Like People Photo: Signature Entertainment

Christian (Evan Dumouchel) and Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews) are childhood friends who haven’t see each other for years. When they meet again by chance, Christian invites Wyatt to stay with him. What he doesn’t know is that Wyatt is convinced that the world is about to be taken over by aliens who are invading the bodies of people around him. Is he mentally ill? Could he have stumbled onto something real? Could both these things be true? They Look Like People is a film suffused with paranoia but brightened by the friendship between the two men, which both try to preserve even after the dramatic difference in their worldviews emerges.

It’s the first film made by Perry Blackshear, whose second film, The Siren, screened at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. Four years after it was initially released in the Us,...

Stars: Margaret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel | Written and Directed by Perry Blackshear

[Note: With the film now available to buy, here's a reposting of our review of The Rusalka, now retitled The Siren for its DVD and Digital release, from the films UK debut at Frightfest earlier this year]

Writer-director Perry Blackshear reunites the cast of his debut feature They Look Like People (2015) for The Siren, ahaunting tale of obsession, love and revenge.

Evan Dumouchel plays Tom, a mute from a sheltered background who rents a remote lake house in order to find himself, away from the influence of his church and his deeply religious family. On his first night, he meets Nina (Margaret Ying Drake), a captivating, mysterious woman who swims across the lake and never seems to leave the water. At the same time, Tom befriends Al (MacLeod Andrews), a local man who believes that a monster in the lake killed his husband. When Al sees Tom with Nina, he becomes convinced that she’s...

Following the successful launch of Phase One and Two, the third wave of titles to be released under the FrightFest Presents banner are now officially confirmed. Which give us the opportunity to revisit a couple of Frightfest preview podcasts and get under the hood of these films before they’re available in the UK

Terror Of Hallow’S Eve

Brace yourself for a gore-filled, twisted and chaotic experience; Terror of Hallow’s Eve is a nostalgic treat for the eyes, set to become a horror cult classic.

On Digital HD June 10

Director: Todd Tucker (Watchmen)

Cast: Doug Jones, Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight)

Synopsis: When 15-year-old Tim is brutally beaten up by High School bullies, his intense yearning for revenge unintentionally summons up evil supernatural forces offering to scare his despised enemies to actual death.

They Look Like People

A stressful, chilling yet beautiful horror experience that will give you goosebumps,...

Fantaspoa 2019 ― which will take place from May 16th through June 2nd in Porto Alegre ― has announced its first wave of films! The complete lineup will be revealed in early May. Also: The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies - NYC presents The Shadow Over Lovecraft: Interrogating H.P. Lovecraft's Racism, Down to Hell game release details, and Trail of Blood's release on Audible.

Fantaspoa 2019's First Wave of Films Announced: "Brazil's Fantaspoa, the largest genre film festival in Latin America, is proud to reveal the first wave of films selected for their upcoming fifteenth edition, running from May 16th through June 2nd, 2019. The celebrated film fest, which takes place annually in Porto Alegre will announce their full line-up, consisting of more than 100 films, on the first week of May.

The whimsical poster for the festival's 2019 edition pays homage to Lewis Carroll’s Alice, one of literature and cinema's most memorable fantasy characters,...