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Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Daniel Arnold, Madison Walsh, Helen Belay, Roseanne Supernault, Kyra Harper, Luke Moore | Written by Berkley Brady, Tim Cairo | Directed by Berkley Brady

Dark Nature begins with a much different, and more realistic horror than what follows. Joy is busy in the kitchen making dinner when Derek gets home. It’s obvious he’s not happy and from the way both Joy and the dog react we know that is a very bad thing. She barely escapes, the dog isn’t so lucky.

Six months later Joy is still trying to get past this trauma and her friend Carmen thinks she has the solution. She convinces her to join her, Tara (Helen Belay; Abracadavers), Shaina and some others on a camping trip/therapy session with the somewhat controversial Dr. Dunnely, “You guys talk about her like you’re in a cult”.

Berkley Brady makes her feature debut...

This week is the final week of May, and it’s also the unofficial start of summer. We’re headed towards the 3-day Memorial Day Weekend, which should give you some extra time for movie-watching. And that’s a good thing because this week is loaded up with fresh horrors.

Here’s all the new horror releasing May 23 – May 28, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

Viral horror stories have come to life in CreepyPasta, a brand new Screambox Original that’s streaming exclusively on Bloody Disgusting’s Screambox beginning today.

In the brand new horror anthology, “Trapped in an abandoned house, a young man desperately searches for clues to how he got there. The answer is hidden within a series of disturbing viral videos – each of which begins to infect his mind.”

Watch the official CreepyPasta trailer below.

And start screaming now with Screambox on iOS,...

With Dark Nature having a limited theatrical run on May 19th, followed by a VOD release on May 23rd, we have an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers!

"Epic Pictures Group will be releasing the horror-thriller Dark Nature in North America under their Dread label next month. Dark Nature first premiered at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival and also garnered attention when it became one of TIFF’s selections to the Fantastic 7 event at Cannes, which was presented in collaboration between the Cannes Market and the Sitges International Film Festival. The film will have a limited theatrical run beginning May 19, 2023, followed by a VOD release on May 23, 2023. Written and directed by Berkley Brady (The Secret History of: The Wild West) and produced by Michael Peterson, Dark Nature stars Hannah Anderson, Madison Walsh, Kyra Harper and Helen Belay (Abracadavers).

The official Dark Nature synopsis reads: Joy, a survivor of an abusive relationship,...

Epic Pictures Group will be releasing the horror-thriller Dark Nature in North America under their Dread label next month, Bloody Disgusting has learned this morning.

Dark Nature first premiered at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival and also garnered attention when it became one of TIFF’s selections to the Fantastic 7 event at Cannes, which was presented in collaboration between the Cannes Market and the Sitges International Film Festival.

The film will have a limited theatrical run beginning May 19, 2023, followed by a VOD release on May 23, 2023.

Written and directed by Berkley Brady (The Secret History of: The Wild West) and produced by Michael Peterson, Dark Nature stars Hannah Anderson, Madison Walsh, Kyra Harper and Helen Belay (Abracadavers).

In the film, “Joy, a survivor of an abusive relationship, joins her friend Carmen and her therapy group on an isolated weekend retreat in the Canadian Rockies. Led by the enigmatic Dr. Dunnley, whose methods are experimental and,...

Horror took part in Fantastic 7 genre line-up in 2022 Cannes market.

Epic Pictures Group will release horror-thriller Dark Nature, part of the Fantastic 7 genre line-up in the Cannes market last year, in limited US theatrical release on May 19 under its Dread label.

Berkley Brady wrote and directed the story about a survivor of an abusive relationship who attends a weekend retreat where she and others must confront a terrifying entity.

Hannah Anderson, Madison Walsh, Kyra Harper and Helen Belay star in Dark Nature, and Michael Peterson produced. Epic will release it on VoD on May 23.

Epic Pictures Group VP of US distribution Yulissa Morales said,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the thriller The Good Shepherd, which stars Christian Slater and is also known by the title The Confessor. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Lewin Webb from a screenplay by Brad Mirman, The Good Shepherd sees Slater taking on the role of a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist, is also his former sweetheart…

Slater is...

We’re seeing a lot of horror that is dealing with the effects of trauma and healing. These topics are having a rightful genre moment and are the subjects of a lot of different films. From She Will to Swallow to The Vigil and more,stories about the aftermath of trauma are very much a part of the current horror landscape. Which makes sense - we are in a place culturally where we are asking individuals and cultures as a whole to take responsibility for past wrongdoings. This moment of recognition is, in turn, offering (to various degrees of success) the victims of trauma the space and the grace to begin to heal. At least, that’s what we hope. So it’s only natural that our fiction begins to reflect these thoughts and desires as well. Berkeley Brady’s Dark Nature is a horror film that takes on these complicated needs,...

There’s risk dealing with a therapy group like that at the center of Berkley Brady’s directorial debut Dark Nature: the narrative quite often needs to turn into a “Trauma Olympics” if it’ll progress. She knows this and even includes the sentiments as a joke early on when one of Dr. Dunnley’s (Kyra Harper) usual patients Shaina (Roseanne Supernault) speaks about why she’s attending this woodland retreat in the Treaty 7 territory of northern Alberta (Brady is a Métis filmmaker) before trivializing those of newcomer Joy (Hannah Emily Anderson). It’s an important moment, reminding us the potency of trauma isn’t about some objective scale of relativity. Whether war (Shaina) or domestic abuse (Joy), the resulting suffering these women face is what matters.

It can be difficult to separate, especially when the correlation aligns for some. While the psychological horrors Joy faces appear stronger than Shaina...

Exclusive: Deadline has your first look at Six Days to Die, the second film in a sci-fi western trilogy series by Matt Campagna, which he wrote, directed, shot and edited.

The film brought to life through virtual environments, comprised of elaborate 360-degree digital matte paintings, centers on a desperate gambler wrongfully accused of murder who flees through a post-apocalyptic frontier, with a vengeful Marshal doggedly hunting him down, on a bloody quest to bring order to the chaos.

The Umbrella Academy’s Colm Feore stars alongside Darryl Hinds, Melissa D’Agostino, Ari Millen and Kyra Harper. Breann Smordin and Elizabeth Frase produced the pic, which is eyeing a festival premiere next year, and is being sold worldwide by Forward Motion Entertainment. The third film in the trilogy series, Six Guns For Hire, is currently in post-production.

Check out the first still from Campagna’s latest, along with several character portraits, below.

Stars: Nicola Correia-Damude, Michael Ironside, Yannick Bisson, Monica Parker, Gabe Grey, Allegra Fulton, Kyra Harper, Angelica Stirpe, Shannon McDonough, Adam MacDonald, James Eddy, Munro Chambers, Robin Archer, John Clifford Talbot | Written and Directed by Alex Lee Williams, Justin Hewitt-Drakulic

When Samantha’s father is on his death bed, she sees him for the first time in years and his dying words are ‘Katie Owens’. The name of a girl who went missing nine years earlier and has history with Samantha. She sees this as a sign of sorts, and now, as a police officer herself, she investigates the disappearance of Katie Owens.

There’s a few supernatural and horror-leaning elements to the story in Hellmington but basically it is a simple thriller horror about a missing girl. Despite the story featuring many twists and turns, with new revelations coming at what seems like every fifteen minutes the script isn’t...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “To Right the Wrongs of Many,” the series finale of “Orphan Black.”]

BBC America has dubbed “Orphan Black’s” last season “The Final Trip,” and it has been an uneven ride of highs and lows that nevertheless ended satisfactorily.

The season began with the promise that Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) and her sestras would take a stand once and for all to take down the shadowy man who was behind behind their cloning and who still wanted to control their biology. It was exciting to think of the Ledas coming together in force to finally stick it to the man.

Unfortunately putting a face to the name P.T. Westmoreland (Stephen McHattie) proved to be too much of a bizarre distraction. While his Victorian affectations were entertaining, his entire storyline this year — from the “Island of Dr. Moreau” vibes to that twisted Victorian dress-up dinner party — felt far too cartoonish to be worthy of the series’ big bad. After a while, all of...

Hey, "Orphan Black" peeps. Yep, it's true guys. BBC America has definitely renewed your favorite show for a new season 4 as of early May 2015 according to TV Line, so it's been known for quite some time now. Season 4 will serve up another 10, new episodes. The show's co-creators, Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, expressed how happy they were about the renewal, saying: "We're thrilled to be moving forward with season four of the 'Orphan Black' saga. Huge thanks to our partners Temple Street Productions, and to BBC America and Space. We're extremely excited about where our story lines are going, and look forward to riding the rollercoaster with our amazing fans." Lead star ,Tatiana Maslany, who plays multiple roles on the show, is set to return for season 4. She will be joined by Ari Millen, who also plays several different characters because he's part of Leda's male counterpart called Project Castor.

Tatiana Maslany and the Clone Club are getting more company for Season 3. According to TVLine, Ksenia Solo is one of the actors being added to the cast of the upcoming season of BBC America’s sci-fi hit “Orphan Black.” She will play Shay, a holistic healer with a sense of humor. Making the character exponentially more interesting is her destiny as Cosima’s new friend. James Frain, Kyra Harper and Earl Pastko have also been cast. Ferdinand (Frain) is a well-educated “cleaner” who also is “a powerful player in a secretive, multi-national political faction that operates with questionable ethics and a [...]

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Look for some new guests the next time the Orphan Black clones throw a dance party.

BBC America announced on Tuesday the addition of five incoming cast members when the sci-fi favorite returns for Season 3 next year.

James Frain (Grimm, Intruders) will guest star as Ferdinand, “a well-educated, ‘cleaner’ who is both charming and intimidating” — and who happens to be “a powerful player in a secretive, multi-national political faction that operates with questionable ethics and a ruthless approach.” In other words, he and Sarah ought to get along swimmingly.

Other additions include:

* Lost Girl‘s Ksenia Solo as Shay, “a...

Clone Club, ready for some good news? It may not help make the wait for Orphan Black season 3 seem any shorter, but BBC America has announced casting and details for five new characters joining the hit series.

Joining the cast are Shameless' Justin Chatwin, Intruders' James Frain, Lost Girl's Ksenia Solo, Warehouse 13's Kyra Harper and Murdoch Mysteries' Earl Pastko.