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2024 is nearly over and while we have seen some brilliant horror films come out this year I don’t think it has been such a great year for the genre. With most horror films flopping at the box office and the dreaded Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel coming out it all felt wrong. But don’t worry because I have picked out the 18 best horror films that have come out this year. I haven’t ranked the films in the article and I will update the list as more films come out.

Terrifier 3 (In Theaters) Credit – Cineverse

Terrifier 3 is a Christmas supernatural slasher horror film written and directed by Damien Leone. The 2024 film is the third entry into the fan-favorite slasher franchise. It is set during the holidays and it follows Sienna and her brother...

One of this year’s scariest films can be yours! Bloody Disgusting is giving away a few copies of Damian Mc Carthy‘s Oddity on Blu-ray and DVD to three (3) lucky readers. Special features include: Behind the Scenes with the Cast and Crew; Storyboard to Screen featurette; and The Making of the Wooden Mannequin gallery.

In Oddity, “When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the killing, the suspect is found dead.

“A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister’s murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items...

Alas, the end of 2024 is drawing closer, and another Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, waits in the wings of 2025.

This particular prequel is an exciting prospect for the keen and savvy book readers out there.

Given what we know of the books, Max’s latest outing (Max is on a roll heading into 2025) should easily develop into a multi-series story.

(Courtesy of Max/Teaser Screenshot)

There are three books in the Dunk and Egg series (the nicknames given to two of the story’s primary characters), and their story is set some hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones.

In fact, Dunk (short for Duncan) interacted with one of the characters every Game of Thrones viewer is familiar with.

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The second season of House of the Dragon is over and we likely won't see season 3 until sometime in 2026. But we will get to revisit Westeros before that. Next year, HBO will debut a new Game of Thrones prequel series called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on the Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas by George R.R. Martin.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an altogether smaller story than we saw in either Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon. There's no massive war afoot; there's just a very tall knight named Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminuitive squire Egg, who wander the Seven Kingdoms having adventures. The first season will be based on Martin's story "The Hedge Knight," which begins with Dunk entering himself into a tournament in Ashford Meadow in the Reach. There he'll meet a variety of characters, including a member of...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Vincent Price’s Witchcraft-Magic Vinyl from Real Gone Music

No one can summon spookiness quite like Vincent Price. Just in time for Halloween, his 1969 spoken word album, Witchcraft-Magic: An Adventure in Demonology, is returning to vinyl for the first time in 50 years.

Coming September 6 from Real Gone Music, the 2xLP album features the horror legend giving a tutorial on the history and practice of the black arts.

It’s pressed on clear vinyl with “Pumpkin” orange pigment swirl and is housed in a gatefold jacket with a reproduction of the original eight-page booklet.

Oddity Blu-ray from IFC

Oddity will be released on Digital on August 20 before hitting Blu-ray and DVD on October 22 via IFC Films and Shudder.

Stars: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Johnny French | Written and Directed by Damian McCarthy

From director Damian McCarthy (Caveat), Oddity tells the story of a female psychic attempting to get to the bottom of her twin sister’s murder by returning to the scene of the crime.

Oddity is all about its atmosphere. Thankfully the filmmakers have clearly put a lot of effort into creating this part of the movie, whether it be through camera work, sound design, the score, or the placement of jump scares. It all feels incredibly well thought out.

I’m sure many people viewing it will see it as one of the scariest films they have ever seen and that claim would be justified. It does an excellent job of building up two or three really good jump scares. And even knowing that doesn’t hinder the moments because you...

One of this year’s best theatrical releases hits Peacock as we head into the weekend, and it’s joined by four other brand new horror movies and the final season of a hit Netflix horror series.

Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, July 19, 2024!

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

First up, Universal’s ballerina vampire horror movie Abigail has already been available at home for a little while now, but today the film began streaming exclusively on Peacock.

If you’ve missed it up to this point, get on that Asap. It’s one of the year’s best.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her positive review here on Bloody Disgusting, “Radio Silence’s ballerina vampire movie is a bloody blast.” Her review continued, “It’s savagely inventive in terms of its vampiric gore, offering a thrill ride with sharp, pointy teeth.

With Caveat, Damian McCarthy layered mystery upon mystery to create a haunting thriller about isolation. The Irish filmmaker’s latest, Oddity, follows a similarly twist-laden blueprint. The plot exudes a pulpy sense of escalation, defined by a collision of convoluted story threads that might, in lesser hands, have devolved into unintentional comedy.

After all, the central image of Oddity verges on the ludicrous: a horrible wooden mannequin planted at the head of a dinner table, mouth frozen in a silent scream. The ornament belongs to Darcy (Carolyn Bracken), the blind, silver-haired twin sister of Dani (also Bracken), who was murdered while renovating the very house that Darcy visits not long into the film. The apparent culprit was a mental patient, Olin Boole (Tadhg Murphy), recently discharged from the asylum where Dani’s husband, Ted (Gwilym Lee), is a doctor. Ted wasn’t home during the incident, but he has since...

Our Summer Horror Preview 2024 is here! The 2024 slate of summer horror releases looks packed, which is excellent news, considering the year has gotten off to a sluggish start for the genre at the box office. Not only is the release schedule so stacked that it’s guaranteed to keep us distracted while we wait for Halloween, but this summer also brings some of the year’s most anticipated titles from MaXXXine to Alien: Romulus and Longlegs.

This guide covers the highlights of what’s already been announced, but as always, expect a handful of streaming, Digital, and VOD releases to pop up over the next few months as well.

Here are 24 horror movies you don’t want to miss in Summer 2024…

Under Paris – June 5 (Netflix)

French filmmaker Xavier Gens (Mayhem!, Frontier(s)) ensures this summer is stuffed to the gills with shark horror. This time, a shark swims into...

"Every murder lives on" in the official trailer and poster for Oddity, the latest cinematic nightmare fuel from Damian McCarthy (Caveat) that will be haunting theaters on July 19th via IFC Films (ahead of its streaming release on Shudder):

Synopsis: "When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing, the suspect is found dead. A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister's murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge."

Writer / Director: Damian McCarthy

Starring: Gwilym Lee,...

Writer/Director Damian Mc Carthy made his feature debut with the Irish horror movie Caveat in 2021, and Mc Carthy is back with a brand new vision of unsettling nightmare fuel.

Get ready for a creepy wooden mannequin to invade your nightmares when Oddity releases in theaters on July 19, 2024. Watch the brand new official trailer from IFC Films below.

In Oddity, “When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the killing, the suspect is found dead.

“A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister’s murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the...

"My dead wife is not haunting this house!" IFC Films has unveiled the trailer for an indie horror film titled Oddity, the second feature film from Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy. This chilling Irish horror thriller originally premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year to some rave reviews from critics, with many viewers saying it has a few of the freakiest jumpscares they've seen in years. Get ready. Uncover the truth behind a sister's death with the help of a wooden mannequin. When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental institution. However, soon after the tragic killing, the suspect is found dead. Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy is convinced that there was more to her sister's murder than people know, so she brings with her the most dangerous items from her...

Writer/Director Damian Mc Carthy made his feature debut with the Irish horror movie Caveat in 2021, currently available to stream on Shudder, and his follow-up, Oddity, intends to get even creepier. Today, we’ve got an exclusive first look at the poster ahead of tomorrow’s trailer debut, which highlights the film’s ultra-creepy mannequin.

Get ready for this wooden mannequin to invade your nightmares when Oddity releases in theaters on July 19, 2024.

In Oddity, “When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing, the suspect is found dead. A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was...

In the first minutes of “Oddity,” a woman is faced with an impossible choice. She is home alone while her doctor husband works the night shift at a psychiatric hospital. A strange man missing an eye shows up at her door. He claims not to be a threat and informs the resident that someone else, who is trying to hurt her, is already inside the large and isolated home. Should she open the door for this figure or ignore his warning? The nerve-racking scenario takes hold of one’s anxieties and sets the tone for an unsettling ride, which IFC will release theatrically before the film streams on Shudder.

Exactly what happens next and why won’t be revealed right away, since Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy deliberately jumbles the timeline of events in his effectively frightening and unexpectedly droll haunted-house horror. Fast-forward a few months and Ted (Gwilym Lee), the aforementioned medical professional,...

With the 2024 Overlook Film Festival now officially in the rearview mirror, the annual New Orleans celebration of all things horror has announced the winners of its audience and jury awards.

The festival’s top prize, the Audience Award for Feature Film, went to “Oddity,” Damian Mc Carthy’s home invasion horror flick that was a breakout from the SXSW 2024 midnight lineup.

“’Oddity’ delivers a brilliant, bespoke, and tightly entertaining string of ideas that work stronger as a collection — with even these missteps feeling like they branch from a unified center,” IndieWire’s Alison Foreman wrote in her Overlook review of the film. “Similar to Mc Carthy’s earlier ‘Caveat,’ this 98-minute treat demands to be reassessed a second time. Thank the wooden boy it’s coming to streaming: a triumphant addition to the director’s growing filmography and a standout in Shudder’s carousel of kick-ass ghost stories.”

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The latest edition of the SXSW Film Festival kicks off later this week in Austin, Texas, unleashing an expansive slate of film programming an experiences- emphasis on expansive. For the horror fan, the fest offers so much more beyond the Midnighter programming section, and this SXSW 2024 preview guide should help.

The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. The Midnighter category includes buzzy titles like Samara Weaving-starring Azrael and Sundance favorite It’s What’s Inside. The fest’s Headliner section comes packed with highly anticipated titles like Immaculate, Cuckoo, and Arcadian. But all of this only scratches the surface of titles to get excited about.

Whether you’re heading to Austin this week or keeping track...

U.K.-based sales and distribution company Blue Finch Films has boarded international sales for select territories to Shudder original film “Oddity.”

Written and directed by Damian McCarthy (“Caveat”), the supernatural film will have its world premiere at SXSW 2024 as part of the Midnighter section. Blue Finch will introduce the title in advance to buyers at the Berlin European Film Market (EFM).

“Oddity” follows Darcy, a blind medium, who uncovers the sinister truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin. The cast includes Gwilym Lee (“The Great”), Carolyn Bracken (“The Gone”), Tadhg Murphy (“Brassic”), Caroline Menton (“Altar Boys”), Steve Wall (“The English”), Jonathan French (“The Rock in the Sea”) and Joe Rooney (“Harry Wild”).

The film is produced by Shudder, Keeper Pictures and Nowhere Films and is set for a streaming release this summer.

Shudder original “Destroy All Neighbors” will also join Blue Finch’s slate at EFM.

Writer/director Damian Mc Carthy made his feature debut with the Irish horror movie Caveat back in 2021 – it’s streaming on Shudder – and he’s back this year with a new movie.

Just announced as part of the SXSW 2024 lineup, Damian Mc Carthy’s hotly anticipated second movie is titled Oddity, and you can check out a first-look image up above (and below).

“In this new supernatural spectacle from Caveat‘s Damian McCarthy, a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.”

Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, and Joe Rooney star in Oddity, which will World Premiere at SXSW in March.

Producers include Katie Holly, Laura Tunstall, and Evan Horan.

Stay tuned for more on Oddity as we learn it.

The post ‘Oddity’ – First Look at the Creepy Wooden Mannequin in ‘Caveat’ Director...

This year’s SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, just unveiled their lineup, and what a massive year for horror.

The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for what’s in store.

The fest unveiled its Midnight lineup, which includes the Samara Weaving-starring Azrael. Elsewhere, look for Neon’s highly anticipated Cuckoo set to make its premiere.

Read on for the genre titles included in SXSW 2024’s lineup, and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.

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Unforgettable features receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.

Cuckoo (Germany)

Director/Screenwriter: Tilman Singer, Producers: Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer...

Haunted fairgrounds are an old staple of the horror genre, as much a part of playground lore as they are of cinema. This early short film by Lee Cronin, director of Evil Dead Rise and The Hole In The Ground, brings a distinctly Irish slant to the tale, as three boys break into an abandoned site and dare one another to take a ride on the ghost train.

We see that boys as children and we see two of them, Michael (Owen McDonnell) and Peter (Steve Wall) as adults, revisiting the place, which is sufficient to tell us early on that something went very wrong back then. Though they’re brothers, they have an uncomfortable relationship. Peter wants them to go for a drink together but Michael wants to get back to his Finnish wife and their kids as soon as possible. He seems as if he’s finally making ready to put.

Amazon and the BBC have assembled a stellar cast for the forthcoming drama series The English.

The series is produced by Drama Republic.

The epic western will be led by Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer.

It is written and directed by multi-award-winning Hugo Blick and set in the mythic mid-American landscape in the year of 1890.

The series follows Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

Upon meeting Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive.

The cast will also include Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, and Valerie Pachner (The Kingsman).

Additional cast includes Toby Jones,...

Cast also includes Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, Valerie Pachner, Toby Jones and more

Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer are starring on “The English,” a high-octane epic Western series at Amazon, BBC One, which has just begun production in Spain.

Set in the mythic mid-American landscape in the year of 1890, “The English” follows Cornelia Locke (Blunt), an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp (Spencer), an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history that must be defeated at all costs, if either of them is to survive.

“The English” is written and directed by Hugo Blick and consists of six, hourlong episodes.

Along with Blunt and Spencer, the cast for the Western includes Rafe Spall (“The Salisbury Poisonings,...

Production has begun on the BBC and Amazon Studios’ Western series “The English,” starring Emily Blunt. Details around the project were first revealed by Variety last year.

Produced by “Doctor Foster” outfit Drama Republic, the six-part series — which is currently filming in Spain — is led by Blunt (“A Quiet Place”) and Chaske Spencer for BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K., and Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in association with All3Media International.

Written and directed by “The Honourable Woman” creator Hugo Blick, the show is set in the mid-American landscape of 1890, and follows Cornelia Locke (Blunt), an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to get revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp (Spencer), an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth,...

BBC One and Amazon have rounded out the cast for their six-part Western The English, with the likes of Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga), Rafe Spall (Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom) and Toby Jones (Marvellous) joining headliner Emily Blunt.

Produced by The Irregulars outfit Drama Republic and written by The Honourable Woman scribe Hugo Blick, The English follows Cornelia Locke (Blunt) as she arrives in the mythic mid-American landscape in 1890 seeking revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

Upon meeting Eli Whipp (Spencer), an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history that must be defeated at all costs, if either of them is to survive.

Other cast includes Tom Hughes (A Discovery of Witches), Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line), Valerie Pachner (The Kingsman), Ciaran Hinds (The Terror), Malcolm Storry (The Princess Bride...

Emily Blunt is set to saddle up and lead The English, a six-part “high-octane epic Western” for the BBC and Amazon Studios.

Twilight alum Chaske Spencer will also star in the drama series from Hugo Blick (Black Earth Rising, The Honourable Woman) and produced by Drama Republic (Doctor Foster, Us, Black Earth Rising).

Other cast members include Rafe Spall (The Salisbury Poisonings, Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom), Tom Hughes (A Discovery of Witches, Victoria), Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line, The Honourable Woman), Valerie Pachner (The Kingsman), Toby Jones (Marvellous, Detectorists), Ciaran Hinds (The Terror, The Woman in Black), Malcolm Storry (The Princess Bride, Doc Martin), Steve Wall (Raised by Wolves, The Witcher), Nichola McAuliffe (Tomorrow Never ...

Emily Blunt is set to saddle up and lead The English, a six-part “high-octane epic Western” for the BBC and Amazon Studios.

Twilight alum Chaske Spencer will also star in the drama series from Hugo Blick (Black Earth Rising, The Honourable Woman) and produced by Drama Republic (Doctor Foster, Us, Black Earth Rising).

Other cast members include Rafe Spall (The Salisbury Poisonings, Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom), Tom Hughes (A Discovery of Witches, Victoria), Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line, The Honourable Woman), Valerie Pachner (The Kingsman), Toby Jones (Marvellous, Detectorists), Ciaran Hinds (The Terror, The Woman in Black), Malcolm Storry (The Princess Bride, Doc Martin), Steve Wall (Raised by Wolves, The Witcher), Nichola McAuliffe (Tomorrow Never ...

"Where the hell have you been, Barry?" Rock Salt has released an early promo trailer for a totally insane indie horror comedy titled Fried Barry, made in South Africa by a British filmmaker making his feature directorial debut after numerous music videos. This premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival and is playing at tons of other genre festivals this year. "The movie that breaks all the rules." Fried Barry is a bizarre tale told in a genre-bending onslaught of sex, drugs and violence. A spectacle that pulls you in and won’t let go as every expectation is subverted in this boundary-pushing tale of alien abduction. An alien assumes control of a drug addict's body and takes it on a bizarre joyride through Cape Town. Starring Gary Green as Barry, plus Brett Williams, Joey Cramer, Sean Cameron Michael, Steve Wall, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, and Tamer Burjaq. Casting this super weird lookin'...

AMC’s Acorn Media Enterprises and Irish pubcaster Rte have teamed up on “The South Westerlies,” an Irish-produced original comedy-drama featuring an ensemble cast led by Orla Brady (“Mistresses”). Zdf Enterprises and Norway’s TV2 are also on board the series, which has backing from Screen Ireland.

Dublin-based Deadpan Pictures is producing. It will bow on Rte in 2020. In the U.S. it will premiere on the Acorn TV streaming service, which recently surpassed the 1-million subscriber mark in North America.

Eileen Walsh (“Catastrophe”), Ger Ryan (“Rialto”), Sam Barrett, Lily Nichol (“Handymen”), Steve Wall (“Vikings”) and Patrick Bergin (“Patriot Games”) will also star in “The South Westerlies.”

Brady will play Kate, an environmental consultant for a Norwegian energy firm. Before landing a lucrative promotion, she has to go undercover among protesters and quash objections to a wind farm project near their small coastal town.

Filming is underway. The shoot will...

Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall | Written by Lee Cronin, Stephen Shields | Directed by Lee Cronin

Director Lee Cronin serves up some pleasingly old-fashioned supernatural scares in creepy Irish horror The Hole in the Ground.

Seána Kerslake (A Date for Mad Mary) stars as single mother Sarah O’Neill, who moves into a dilapidated farmhouse near a remote village in rural Ireland with her young son Chris (James Quinn Markey), after fleeing an abusive relationship with the boy’s father. One night, Chris disappears and Sarah worries that he might have fallen into an enormous sinkhole that has suddenly opened up in the woods, especially when she finds one of his toys near the edge. The next day, Chris turns up safe and sound, but his behaviour is subtly changed and Sarah becomes increasingly worried that the boy is not her son.

Jack Reynor and Will Poulter aren’t done terrorizing movie-goers just yet, as the “Midsommar” duo have re-teamed for another chilling outing that hinges on the kind of myths and folklore that just won’t die. Reynor makes his directorial debut on the new project, a short entitled “Bainne,” which features his frequent co-star Poulter as an Irish farmer already dealing with some gnawing terror who seems bound for even worse circumstances.

Reynor himself has posted the first trailer for the film on his YouTube page, where he bills the outing as “an Irish ghost story set during The Great Famine of 1845-1852. It is inspired by ancient Irish mythology and traditional Japanese legends, as recorded by the Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn at the end of the 19th century.” The film, shot in black and white, boasts stunning lighting and shadows even in the truncated format of a trailer.

Reynor...

Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall | Written by Lee Cronin, Stephen Shields | Directed by Lee Cronin

Director Lee Cronin serves up some pleasingly old-fashioned supernatural scares in creepy Irish horror The Hole in the Ground.

Seána Kerslake (A Date for Mad Mary) stars as single mother Sarah O’Neill, who moves into a dilapidated farmhouse near a remote village in rural Ireland with her young son Chris (James Quinn Markey), after fleeing an abusive relationship with the boy’s father. One night, Chris disappears and Sarah worries that he might have fallen into an enormous sinkhole that has suddenly opened up in the woods, especially when she finds one of his toys near the edge. The next day, Chris turns up safe and sound, but his behaviour is subtly changed and Sarah becomes increasingly worried that the boy is not her son.

Following the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, A24 has released the official trailer for The Hole in the Ground, the new horror movie about a mother who worries that her son isn't actually her son anymore... or even human, for that matter.

The feature-length directorial debut of Lee Cronin (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Stephen Shields), The Hole in the Ground stars

Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, and James Quinn Markey.

According to Entertainment Weekly (who also unveiled the movie's poster and hosted the exclusive premiere of the film's Us trailer), The Hole in the Ground will be released on DirecTV on January 31st, followed by a March 1st theatrical release from A24.

A horror thriller with a familial focus, The Hole in the Ground has the following synopsis (via Sundance):

"One night, Sarah's young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home.

"You're not my son." A24 has released a new official trailer for the Irish indie horror film The Hole in the Ground, which just premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival over the weekend. We already featured the UK trailer for this a few weeks ago, but this is a whole other look. The film is the feature debut of Irish director Lee Cronin, and is set on the fringes of a backwood rural town. The festival description sets this up quite well: One night, Sarah's young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home. When he returns, he looks the same, but his behavior grows increasingly disturbing. Soon, Sarah realizes that the boy who returned may not be her son at all... The film stars Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, and James Quinn Markey. There's also a creepy new poster for this (ahhh the spider!

Last year at Sundance Film Festival saw the premiere of A24’s Hereditary, which went on to be the company’s biggest hit worldwide. Do they have another horror hit debuting at the festival this year? Lee Cronin’s directorial debut The Hole in the Ground will premiere in Park City and we now have the first trailer.

Following a single mother and her son moving to a new town, the kid ventures into the woods and discovers a strange hole…in the ground and after his mom finds him, he begins to elicit strange qualities. As we learned with Hereditary (and hundreds of films before it), it wouldn’t be a horror hit if it didn’t have a strange, perhaps possessed child, so it at least has that going for it.

Starring Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, and James Quinn Markey, see the trailer below via Empire.

"It's not your boy." Wildcard Distribution has debuted the first official trailer from UK/Ireland for the indie horror film The Hole in the Ground, which is premiering at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in just a few weeks in the Midnight section. The film is the feature debut of Irish director Lee Cronin, and is set on the fringes of a backwood rural town. The description from Sundance sets this up quite well: One night, Sarah's young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home. When he returns, he looks the same, but his behavior grows increasingly disturbing. Soon, Sarah realizes that the boy who returned may not be her son at all... The film stars Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, and James Quinn Markey. The giant hole in the ground from the title looks gnarly. Looks like a good thriller. Here's the first...

As evidenced by Heather Wixson's article on the anticipated genre films announced thus far for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Daily Dead is thrilled to once again cover the annual celluloid celebration in Park City, and ahead of its world premiere at Sundance in January, The Hole in the Ground has already secured distribution.

Variety reports that A24 and DirecTV have acquired North American distribution rights to The Hole in the Ground, with the latter expected to give the film a limited VOD release ahead of its theatrical release from the former.

The feature-length directorial debut of Lee Cronin (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Stephen Shields), The Hole in the Ground stars

Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, and James Quinn Markey.

According to Variety, "leadership at A24" is enthusiastic about the movie, describing it as "a remarkable debut film, weaving suspense, terror, and supernatural...

“Yomeddine,” a road-trip movie about an Egyptian leper and a young orphan journeying in search of family, won the Reflet d’Or for best feature film at the 24th Geneva Intl. Film Festival Saturday. The character-driven drama, Egyptian-Austrian director A.B. Shawky’s feature debut, premiered in competition in Cannes, and is Egypt’s candidate for the foreign-language Oscar.

The features jury, led by Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, gave a special mention to Bi Gan’s languorous noir love story “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” The director’s sophomore feature tracks a lovelorn drifter’s return to his hometown in Southwest China.

“Autonomies,” written and created by Yehonatan Indursky and Ori Elon, and directed by Indursky, received the Reflet d’Or for best TV series. In the alternate-reality drama, Israel has split in two states: Jerusalem is ultra-Orthodox, while Tel Aviv is a secular state. The action focuses on two...

Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Leah McNamara, Ross Noble, Steve Wall, Dennis Bartok, Charlotte Bradley, Richard Foster-King, Robert O’Mahoney, Muireann D’Arcy | Written by Tom Abrams, Dennis Bartok | Directed by Dennis Bartok

Dana Milgrom is a track coach, who having survived a near-death car accident, finds herself almost completely paralysed and trapped inside her own body. While recovering, she becomes convinced that some evil presence exists inside her hospital room and is intent on killing her. No one believes her, not even her own family, who think she’s experienced a mental breakdown. However, Dana soon realises she may not be the only target. As the hauntings become more disturbing and violent Dana’s life is increasingly at risk – as well as the person she cares most about: her teenage daughter, Gemma.

In recent years it seems Ireland’s genre community has flourished, producing films like The Hallow, Let Us Prey,...

This upcoming horror movie Nails actually looks like it could be a fun ghost story! We have a trailer here for you to watch for it today and if you're a fan of horror movies, you might like what you see.

The story centers around a woman who wakes up in a hospital after a devastating car accident that leaves her paralyzed. As she is dealing with this already nightmarish situation, things get even worse and escalate when she starts to see a terrifying presence in her hospital room. Everyone around her has no idea what is going on and they think she's going crazy. 

The film was directed by first-time director Dennis Bartok and it stars Shauna Macdonald , Ross Noble, Leah McNamara, Steve Wall, Charlotte Bradley, Dennis Bartok, and Richard Foster-King. Here's the synopsis:

Dana Milgrom (Macdonald) is a track coach and mother who's survived a near-death car accident,...

Aotn- Smt Heads, usually a film named “Tonight She Comes” would invoke something….well, something else than horror. But, get your mind out of the gutter… Thursday Trailers is always ready to bring the scary and this latest Asylum one-nighter is no different!

Check the trailer for “Tonight She Comes” and its national Cinemark theater listings right now:

Cinemark Theaters and The Asylum (the studio behind Sharknado) have joined forces to present fans with Thursday Nights At The Asylum,a weekly series offering exclusive access to the very best in underground and homegrown horror, thriller, sci-fi and cult cinema. Below you will find information for the second film in the series:

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Tonight She Comes Starring Nathan Eswine, Larissa White, Jenna McDonald, Brock Russell, Cameisha Cotton, Adam Hartley, Dal Nicole and Frank Ray Playing Exclusively At Cinemark Theaters On October 5, 2017 After a girl goes missing, two of her...

"I hear you're having some issues... Want to talk about it?" Kaleidoscope has debuted an official trailer for a horror thriller titled Nails, about a woman who wakes up in the hospital after a brutal car accident. She discovers that she is paralyzed and trapped inside her own body. Forced to communicate with an artificial voice program and hooked to a breathing machine, she becomes convinced that a terrifying presence called Nails exists inside her hospital room, and attempts to convince everyone that he wants to kill her. Shauna Macdonald stars, along with Ross Noble, Leah McNamara, Steve Wall, Charlotte Bradley, Dennis Bartok, and Richard Foster-King. This also doesn't look that great, but maybe I'm just not into this kind of ghost horror story. I'm also a bit bothered by the guy trying to imitate Anthony Hopkins, not too original. Here's the official trailer (+ two posters) for Dennis Bartok's Nails,...

Nails is the latest horror film to be released by Dark Sky Films. This title, supported by the Irish Film Board, takes place in a hospital. Here, a woman is recovering from a near fatal car accident. But, something or someone still seeks her death. This title will show in late October, in Hollywood, for an exclusive theatrical showing. In November, the film will see most Video-on-demand platforms and a few theatres. The film was developed by director Dennis Bartok. And, the film stars: Leah McNamara ("Vikings"), Steve Wall and Ross Noble. The film's United States' artwork and trailer are hosted here. The trailer shows actress Shauna Macdonald as Dana. She is bedridden after the accident. But, something dark lurks in the hospital's halls. This character has a history and Dana must discover the entity's past, if she hopes to escape its pursuit. Time is running out as the lights go off!

Dana lived through a brutal car accident, but the real horror was waiting for her in the hospital room in the form of a sinister spirit in the new horror film Nails, coming out in select theaters and VOD platforms this fall from Dark Sky Films, and we have a look at the new poster ahead of the movie's release.

Press Release: Recovering after a terrible accident, a woman is exposed to a dark and malevolent spirit who is intent on her destruction in the gripping horror film Nails, which will be released in select Us theaters and on digital platforms by Dark Sky Films on November 17, 2017. Nails will also have a special theatrical premiere at the historic Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on October 25, 2017.

Nails is the stunning directorial debut of Dennis Bartok, a screenwriter, author, journalist and film company executive. His edge-of-the-seat drama, co-written by Tom Abrams, centers on Dana Milgrom (Shauna Macdonald,...

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Dark Sky Films has announced the HD Digital and VOD release of Nails on November 17, 2017. Check out the poster and information about the film below.

From The Press Release

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"Sinister goings-on in a run-down Irish hospital deliver the scares"

- Terry Staunton, Radio Times

Recovering after a terrible accident, a woman is exposed to a dark and malevolent spirit who is intent on her destruction in the gripping horror film Nails, which will be released in select Us theaters and on digital platforms by Dark Sky Films on November 17, 2017. Nails will also have a special theatrical premiere at the historic Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on October 25, 2017.

Nails is the stunning directorial debut of Dennis Bartok, a screenwriter, author, journalist and film company executive. His edge-of-the-seat drama, co-written by Tom Abrams, centers on Dana Milgrom (Shauna Macdonald, Filth, Moon Dogs), a track coach and mother who has survived a near-death car accident,...

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After suffering a near-fatal accident whilst running, Dana (Shauna MacDonald, The Descent 1&2) is left paralysed in hospital with only an automated voice program to communicate. The accident not only puts a strain on Dana’s marriage to Steve (Steve Wall, The Vikings) but she soon believes that she is being haunted by serial killer and former hospital employee Eric Nilsson (Richard Foster-King, It Never Sleeps).

With Horror becoming a mainstream affair in recent years, it’s always a pleasant surprise when interesting ideas surface in the genre. In this case, Nails succeeds as our protagonist Dana faces varying degrees of challenges such as being bed ridden with only a laptop to communicate whilst facing the ghoulish antagonist Nails. This spares the audiences from the cliched nature of female lead horrors, having them run endlessly around corridors of spooky old houses.

The setting of the film enhances this positive too,...

In Dennis Bartok’s debut horror flick, Shauna Macdonald is an injured athletics coach who learns the hideous secret of the hospital in which she is a patient

Writer-director Dennis Bartok’s mildly diverting debut horror film is a cheerfully derivative exercise in jump scares, dark shadows and low-budget-driven aesthetics. In Dublin, hyper-fit athletics coach Dana (Shauna Macdonald) is hit by a car while out running. She wakes up with a respirator in her throat and serious injuries in a spooky hospital that hardly seems to have any patients, even though her nurse, Trevor (comedian Ross Noble), complains bitterly about being overworked.

As Dana slowly recovers and learns to use a laptop to communicate with her caregivers, husband (Steve Wall), and teen daughter (Leah McNamara), she learns about the hospital’s hideous secret: years ago, a nurse there killed children, died and then seemingly transmogrified into a variant on internet-meme-turned-urban-myth Slender Man,...

Director Ian Hunt Duffy and producer Simon Doyle’s unnerving thriller Gridlock has been selected to screen at the prestigious Short Shorts Film Festival in Japan on the 7th of June and stars Moe Dunford (Vikings), Peter Coonan (Love/Hate), Steve Wall (Dominion Creek) and Amy de Bhrun (Jason Bourne). The Short Shorts Film Festival is the …

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Dennis Bartok’s English-language horror P.O.V., which was recently retitled to Nails, recently had its World Premiere as part of the Audi Dublin International Film Festival (Adiff). And while there’s still no word on a U.S. release, a new trailer has been discovered that features The Descent‘s Shauna Macdonald, Steve Wall and Ross Noble. Keep your eyes peeled and you’ll […]...

Exclusive: Comedian Ross Noble co-stars in horror from Irish outfit Fantastic Films.

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has signed completed horror feature Nails for worldwide sales and UK distribution.

Shauna Macdonald (The Descent), comedian Ross Noble (Stitches), Steve Wall (Vikings) and Richard Foster-King star in writer-director Dennis Bartok’s story of a paralyzed woman, trapped inside her own body, who becomes convinced she is being stalked by a malevolent spirit in her hospital room.

The feature, previously with Fortissimo, is from the producers of The Hallow and Let Us Prey, Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell of Fantastic Films. Executive producer is Joseph Kaufman (Assault on Precinct 13).

Kaleidoscope will release in the UK in early summer 2016 and will launch the project at the upcoming Efm.

Michael Chapman, acquisitions & development executive at Kfd commented: “We’re thrilled to be working with Fantastic Films again, a company which continues to produce unique genre projects. We look forward...

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A 29-year-old man who was reportedly “fixated on a female wrestler” has been shot by a police deputy outside the WWE Performance Centre in Azalea Park, Orlando today.

The incident occurred at approximately 1:45pmET and the individual was rushed to hospital.

Soon after the chaotic incident, Triple H issued a three tweet message explaining that it was a “deranged individual” behind the shooting;

Unfortunately a deranged individual with no WWE affiliation, who had a court order prohibiting him from being on WWE property was involved in an incident with an Orange County Sherriff’s deputy in the parking lot of the WWE Performance Center. We defer to the Orange County Sherriff’s department for further comment and information.

Orange County Sheriffs held a press conference today and revealed the following details;

Police responded to a trespassing call at 1:30Pm Est and were told the man had a knife.