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In the name of all that is blasphemous, satanic and unholy, what in Satan’s asshole did I just watch?

Mark Of The Witch is an ambitious mess of hackneyed gimmicks that might have been salvageable with a proper budget, not just writer/director Jason Bognacki’s can-do attitude. I’m all for filmmakers going rogue and shooting original content, but only within their pre-determined means. Bognacki’s style is marred by atrocious CGI and incoherent storytelling, all of which try to skirt by on the presumption that arthouse pretension trumps any semblance of a worthwhile narrative. And you know what? Maybe it would have without all the fluctuating audio levels, fish-eye lensing and inexcusable animated misfires.

Maybe.

Bognacki opens on robed cultists (presumably witches) who are holding a baby, before transitioning into an overhead shot of a birthday cake that reads the name “Jordyn” (Paulie Rojas). As the happy post-teen celebrates another year,...

By Seth Metoyer

MoreHorror.com

It certainly seems like it's been the season of the witch lately, and here's another upcoming gem for you.

The film Mark Of The Witch will be releasing on 6/6/16 on the following platforms Dish, SlingTV, DirectTV, Vubiquity (Verizon), Amazon, Vudu, Xbox, Itunes, Flixfling, Google Play, Vimeo, Comcast (est).

From Director Jason Bognacki, the cast includes Maria Olsen (Paranormal Activity 3, Starry Eyes and Meir Zarchi's I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu) and rising star Paulie Rojas (Down and Dangerous, The Last Resort).

Check out the trailer below the official details.

From The Press Release

On 6/6/16 Epic Pictures will release their acclaimed new horror film Mark Of The Witch on a digital platform near you!

Labeled by Paranormal Underground Magazine as "one of the most beautiful films about witchcraft ever seen," Mark Of The Witch follows Jordyn, a beautiful young woman who is driven...

Stars: Ana Paula Redding, David Landry, Lillian Pennypacker, Michael St. Michaels, Nancy Wolfe | Written and Directed by Jason Bognacki

There’s a joke in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, the under-seen but superlative comedy about the making of a fictional eighties horror programme, that is too good not to repeat at any given opportunity. In it, the show’s producer, played by Richard Ayoade, claims that due to episodes running far too short, any scene without dialogue was considered for slow motion. Given its own brief running time of just eighty minutes and its predilection for the special effect, one wonders if Mark of the Witch was produced under a similar ethos.

Mark of the Witch portrays Jordyn (Ana Paula Redding), a young woman who keeps having weird and wacky experiences of a not entirely pleasant nature. Turns out, she’s being harassed/possessed by a demonic presence. There’s not...

Stars: Ana Paula Redding, David Landry, Lillian Pennypacker, Michael St. Michaels, Nancy Wolfe | Written and Directed by Jason Bognacki

There’s a joke in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, the under-seen but superlative comedy about the making of a fictional eighties horror programme, that is too good not to repeat at any given opportunity. In it, the show’s producer, played by Richard Ayoade, claims that due to episodes running far too short, any scene without dialogue was considered for slow motion. Given its own brief running time of just eighty minutes and its predilection for the special effect, one wonders if Another was produced under a similar ethos.

Another portrays Jordyn (Ana Paula Redding), a young woman who keeps having weird and wacky experiences of a not entirely pleasant nature. Turns out, she’s being harassed/possessed by a demonic presence. There’s not really a great deal more to the plot than that,...

Exclusive: Epic Pictures Group acquires international rights to Jason Bognacki’s horror thriller.

Epic Pictures Group has acquired international rights to horror thriller Another from first-time director Jason Bognacki.

Toronto Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes serves as executive producer and discovered Bognacki as well as Ultra 8 Pictures managing director and Katarina Gligorijevic, the film’s associate producer.

Paulie Rojas, Maria Olsen and Nancy Wolfe star in the film, described as a Giallo-Hammer fusion about a beautiful young woman who learns she may be descended from the Devil.

“From the moment I first saw Another, I was struck by its haunting and captivating story,” said Epic Pictures CEO Patrick Ewald.

“We are excited to be working with the incredibly talented director, Jason Bognacki who will definitely have a long career ahead of him,” said co-founder, Shaked Berenson.

Epic’s sales roster includes V/H/S Viral, the third entry in the horror franchise that Magnolia will distribute in the...

From the very first frame, writer/director Jason Bagnacki’s neo-giallo “Another” sets a dark mood and an atmosphere fraught with tension. When you start your movie with a bunch of creepy dudes in black robes performing some sort of occult ritual on a baby in a cave, this sort of thing is bound to happen. Spooky imagery, slow motion shots, ominous tones, and many more tools of the trade pile layer upon layer of pressure on top of you as you watch. One scene even slows and a well-known pop song plays ever so slightly just in order to disconcert you in a new and interesting way. The baby in question is Jordyn, and when she hits 18 years old, played as an adult by Ana Paula Redding, she learns a hideous secret about her past, her bloodline, and her family. This is all kicked off when her Aunt Ruth...

Director Jason Bognacki's Another is getting set to have its World Premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival. Leading up to its premiere, the director and Full Frame Pictures have released a new graphic for the film. This official artwork highlights the demonic forces lurking inside, with the character and protagonist Jordyn (Paulie Rojas) shown prominently. The film debuts in under a week! Another is a supernatural yarn of two sisters. One sister is just coming into adulthood and the other/another is testing Jordyn's resolve. Can Jordyn resist the temptation of witchcraft? Another will debut at Siff May 17th, 2014. The film will offer two showings in May and horror or supernatural fans are encouraged to see the show on the big screen. A trailer for the film is available below. Release Date: May 17th, 2014 (World Premiere). Director/writer: Jason Bognacki. Cast: Paulie Rojas, Maria Olsen, Nancy Wolfe, David Landry and Michael St. Michaels.

We first heard about Jason Bognacki's supernatural thriller Another last October, and on May 17th the film will be having its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival. Yep, demons will be released in less than two weeks!

Another, which is writer/director Bognacki's debut feature, stars Paulie Rojas (The Last Resort) as Jordyn, a woman possessed by an evil twin... and her twin is growing stronger. Jordyn must explore the dark recesses of her soul when she learns she may be the devil’s kin.

Maria Olsen (Paranormal Activity 3), Nancy Wolfe, Lillian Pennypacker, and David Landry co-star in this stylistic mix of giallo and Hammer horror.

For more info visit Another on Facebook, and stop by the official Another website.

We have a handful of new stills below, and you can click here for additional details on the film's two Siff screenings (5:30 Pm on the...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes DVD release details for Compound Fracture, trailers for Altergeist and Aftermath, first details on Danger Word, the Stage Fright call for submissions, and the lineup from Sci Fest in Los Angeles, a review of the second season of Holliston, and much more:

Compound Fracture DVD Release Details: “Level 33 Entertainment announced today the release of the highly anticipated horror feature film Compound Fracture coming to DVD and VOD on May 13, 2014. Bringing together three iconic figures in the horror pantheon, Compound Fracture stars Tyler Mane (Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Hallowee), Muse Watson (Ben Willis in I Know What You Did Last Summer), and Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees in the new Friday The 13th). The movie will be available at all major retail and rental outlets including Walmart,...

Director Jason Bognacki's ("The Red Door") supernatural thriller Another will debut at the Seattle International Film Festival. Here, the film will have its World Premiere. Another is a coming-of-age film, in which a young woman named Jordyn (Paulie Rojas) discovers the presence of an evil twin. The Another uses witchy powers to take over Jordyn's body and behaviours. The film stars Paulie Rojas (The Last Resort), Maria Olsen (The Bunnyman Massacre) and Nancy Wolfe. The World Premiere for Another takes place May 17th, 2014. On this date, the film will be presented in 4K screen resolution, to highlight the breathtaking imagery from the film. Some of that exquisite quality can be seen in the film's official trailer, which is hosted below. As well, more details on the theatrical launch of Another are below. Release Date: May 17th, 2014 (World Premiere). Director/writer: Jason Bognacki. Cast: Paulie Rojas, Maria Olsen, Nancy Wolfe,...

  When we last chatted with acclaimed photographer, filmmaker and musician Jason Bognacki (check out the interview here), he was in the process of expanding his haunting short film Another to feature length.     The supernatural horror short was one of several stylish, sexy and often intensely disturbing films Bognacki is releasing through his production company Full Frame Features, along with his acclaimed mini-feature The Red Door.     Another stars Paulie Rojas (The Last Resort) as a young woman who must fight for possession of her soul after learning of her demonic heritage. She co-stars with Maria Olsen (Paranormal Activity 3), Nancy Wolfe (Helter Skelter) and Michael St. Michaels (The Video Dead). A release date has not yet been announced, but the new trailer is amazing, so I'm hoping we won't have to wait much longer.  ...

Dark sides. We all have them. How much influence they have on us on an everyday basis is the real story here. It's so much easier to do the wrong thing, but damn it, being bad can be So much fun!

Director Jason Bognacki (The Red Door) has completed production on his latest project, the visually stunning horror feature Another. This supernatural shocker stars Paulie Rojas (The Last Resort) as Jordyn, a woman possessed by an evil twin, and her twin is growing stronger. Maria Olsen (Paranormal Activity 3), Nancy Wolfe, and David Landry co-star.

A darkly beautiful trailer for the film awaits below, in which viewers can see Jordyn’s Aunt Ruth (Wolfe) performing rituals that could save her from possession. But this evil is stronger than any magic. It grows deep within Jordyn, testing her. She must battle this dark force as it attempts to invade her fears,...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes release details for Kane Hodder’s Exit to Hell, trailer for Evil Feed, Another, and Terrible Angels, video highlights from Steven Yeun interview with Conan O’Brien, and much more:

Exit to Hell Release Details: “After robbing a mafia run strip club, a naïve group of thugs head for the border to enjoy their bounty. But when they enter the remote and wind-swept town of Redstone, they gruesomely discover that revenge is all in how you slice it. Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with an abiding appetite for justice! Exit to Hell co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American Grindhouse cinema.

Uncork’d Entertainment has inked North American VOD,...

Director Jason Bognacki (The Red Door) has completed production on his latest horror feature, Another. This supernatural shocker stars Paulie Rojas (The Last Resort) as Jordyn, a woman possessed by an evil twin and her twin is growing stronger. Maria Olsen (Paranormal Activity 3), Nancy Wolfe and David Landry co-star.

Compelled by the possibility that she could have a dark twin, Jordyn (Paulie Rojas) questions her own sanity, and reality itself. Jordyn’s curiousity pulls her into a dark underworld of demonic possession, desire and extreme indulgences churning a dead witch’s brew that tears her very soul apart...

Director Jason Bognacki (The Red Door) has created another film with a beautiful visual display. The film is titled Another. It involves a demon, possession and one woman struggling to retain her soul. Another stars Paulie Rojas (The Last Resort), Maria Olsen (The Bunnyman Massacre) and Nancy Wolfe. Recently, Bognacki has released an early trailer for the film, which is breathtaking. The story elements for the film have not been fully revealed. However, Jordyn (Rojas) is the daughter of a demon and she must fight forces outside of herself to keep control over her soul. A release date has not been announced for Another. But, horror fans and film fans in general are encouraged to take a look at the film's first trailer below. Release Date: Tba. Director/writer: Jason Bognacki. Cast: Paulie Rojas, Maria Olsen, Nancy Wolfe, David Landry and Michael St. Michaels. The film's first trailer is here:...

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The world premier of the Post-Apocalyptic Noir feature Way Down In Chinatown will be at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 15th. Check out the full details below.

From the Press Release:

Described by the director as the "best damn thing out of old Hollywood town since Von Stronheim’S Greed". The 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival in conjunction with We Make Movies’ Wmm Fest is proud to present a preview screening of feature film Way Down In Chinatown. Written and directed by Emk (alias for director Eric Michael Kochmer, a protégé of experimental filmmaker/artist George Landow aka Owen Land) - and co-produced by Maria Olsen of MOnsterworks66, who can also be seen playing Bob - WDiC chronicles over-sexed theater couple, playwright Victor and director Jessica Mitchum who while creating a performance piece about the apocalypse begin experiencing the world slowly falling apart. They are slowly seduced by...

By Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com

Thanks to the generosity of horror film supports all over the world, there is now a trailer for the Iodine Sky / MOnsterworks66 joint production, Live-In Fear, for you all to watch!

Check out the embedded Live-In Fear trailer below the official details.

Live-In Fear stars Arielle Brachfeld (The Haunting of Whaley House), Sarah Grayson (Road Rules), Chris Dorman (8.13) and David Lautman (The Black Guitar). The film also features cameo appearances by Geoffrey Gould (Strictly Background), Myles Cranford (Mega Piranha), Nancy Wolfe (Helter Skelter) and Charlene Geisler (Bobby Fischer Live).

Shot mainly on location in Utah, the film is a gory story of love, lust, murder, mutilation, death and dismemberment, and it should provide any horror fan with more than enough thrills. It follows four innocent – or at least innocent Looking – twenty-somethings as they travel to Utah to spend a weekend of fun in the snow...

By Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com

Although Way Down In Chinatown officially wrapped its whirlwind shoot last weekend, production team Eric Michael Kochmer, Jonathan Haloosim (22Mm Productions) and the MOnsterworks66 duo, Angel Corbin and Maria Olsen, are taking time out to official welcome the multi-talented Ashli Haynes to the cast.

Haynes plays the alluring yet tainted Annie Loraine, who may well turn out to be far more than either Victor or Jessica Mitchum – played respectively by Justin Dray and Stephanie Sanditz – can handle. She will also share screen time with Lisa Loring and Nancy Wolfe, of The Addams Family and Helter Skelter fame respectively, as well as, among others, Kochmer, Corbin and Olsen.

Haynes is a stranger to neither stage nor screen and has known from the young age of 3 that she was destined to be a performer. At 10, she found herself in ‘The Object of My Affection’, starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd.

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Angel Corbin is having a busy – and highly productive – week. Not only will her first feature film, DisOrientation, have its world premiere screening at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard as part of the prestigious Dances With Films Film Festival this Saturday, she will, on Sunday, be accepting pitches from aspiring screenwriters at The Great American PitchFest on behalf of MOnsterworks66, the fledgling production company of which she is co-owner.

As if a Hollywood premiere and an appearance at PitchFest wasn’t enough, this incredibly busy actress/producer has also just landed a pivotal supporting role in Eric Michael Kochmer’s Lynchian noir feature Way Down in Chinatown. As the cherry on the top, she has also been named Producer on the project, along with Jonathan Haloossim of 22Mm Productions and Maria Olsen, Corbin’s partner-in-crime at MOnsterworks66.

There is, however, one thing that Corbin still lacks…...

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Way Down In Chinatown Exclusive Casting Announcement

Nancy Wolfe (Susan Atkins/Sexy Sadie from Helter Skelter) joins the cast of Way Down In Chinatown

The Way Down in Chinatown production team – being independent filmmaker Eric Michael Kochmer, Angel Corbin, Maria Olsen and Jonathan Haloossim - are thrilled to welcome Nancy Wolfe of Helter Skelter fame to the cast. Wolfe has bagged the supporting role of Lindie in Way Down in Chinatown, the utterly creepy and surprisingly intense noir horror feature that will soon be unleashed on horror fans.

Wolfe caused major waves in horror / serial killer movie circles with her eerily terrifying portrayal of Susan Atkins “Sexy Sadie” in the 1976 made-for-television movie Helter Skelter, which tells the story of the gruesome Los Angeles murders masterminded by Charles Manson. Neither the Tate/Labianca murders nor Manson himself is ever out of public consciousness for long, nor should Wolfe’s portrayal of Atkins,...