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The first two episodes of Agatha All Along were all about Agatha Harkness breaking the spell that was cast on her mind by Wanda Maximoff and then setting out on a perilous journey to regain her powers. There was a sense of urgency to the quest, because Agatha’s vulnerability made her prone to attacks from all the enemies she had made in her life. Rio, her former flame, wanted to kill her immediately, but Agatha convinced her to let her get her powers back so that they could have a proper match. She couldn’t bargain with what looked like the Salem Seven, and they almost got to her when she and her coven were trying to open the door to The Witches’ Road. Fortunately, The Road showed itself in the nick of time, and Agatha, her coven, and the unnamed teen were able to disappear into an alternate dimension.

Get ready to be scared out of your flip-flops! We’re diving into a collection of bone-chilling beach horror movies that will make you reconsider your next seaside vacation.

From killer sharks to ghostly fog, these films turn the sun-soaked shores into a playground of terror. So grab your beach towel and prepare for a thrilling journey through the realm of ‘bad beaches,’ where relaxation takes a backseat to spine-tingling horror!

Universal Old (2021)

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Old takes us on a suspenseful journey as a family’s tropical holiday turns into a nightmare. Stranded on a secluded beach with a handful of fellow resort guest, they discover that time is accelerated, causing them all to age rapidly. Years become hours, and hours become seconds. This unsettling premise adds a new level of horror to the sun-soaked shores.

Sony Pictures The Shallows (2016)

In this heart-pounding survival thriller, a young woman,...

Around this time every year, I tend to enjoy putting on Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. In this household it’s as annual a hallmark of summer as warm breezes, smoking meat on the barbecue, and blasts of chlorine water. However, it is too easy to fall into the trap of thinking Spielberg had the first and last word in the sounds of shrieking at the beach.

In truth, there are many great summertime chillers that make your blood run cold, and the sand turn to ice between your toes, no matter how hot the temperature is. Hence why we here at Den of Geek have put our heads together to figure what are the absolute best beachside horror movies (other than the obvious one) that will make you a “lake person” for the rest of your life. Enjoy!

The Shallows (2016)

Yeah, we know: a movie about bikini-clad Blake Lively getting...

Move over, popcorn. Blood-red Scream themed bagels are here, for a limited time only, now through April 30, 2023.

After scaring up massive box office numbers, Scream VI is now available on Digital and streaming on Paramount+. To celebrate the home release, Paramount has partnered with New York’s Utopia Bagels for a limited edition run of Scream VI themed bagels. Fans can treat themselves to blood-red bagel with scream cheese or a bacon, egg & ghost pepper cheese sandwich!

The Utopia Bagel partnership continues after an incredibly successful in-store activation for “Scream Day” on Monday and Scream VI x Utopia Food Truck Pop-up yesterday at 5 different Manhattan locations. Fans lined up in droves to get a free bagel, given away to the first 50 people per location. Check out images below from the pop-up event.

In the meantime, locals can get in on this limited edition tie-in by heading to Utopia Bagels in person:

Utopia Bagels

1909 Utopia Parkway,...

The horror movie to go see in theaters right now is Evil Dead Rise, but a brand new horror movie is being unleashed in theaters this week to give the franchise a little genre competition.

And it’s one of Seven new horror movies releasing this week…

Here’s all the new horror releasing April 25 – April 30, 2023!

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

After scaring up $168 million worldwide, Scream VI just arrived for purchase on Digital Today, and Bloody Disgusting has also learned this week that Scream VI will be unleashed on 4K Ultra HD SteelBook, on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 11, 2023.

Meagan wrote in her review of Scream VI, “This slasher sequel lets a ruthless Ghostface loose in the city, slicing up an intense, flawless entry that continues the streak of insightful introspection while escalating the thrills, kills, humor, and heart to a breathless degree.

After scaring up $168 million worldwide, Scream VI just arrived for purchase on Digital Today, and Bloody Disgusting has also learned this week that Scream VI will be unleashed on 4K Ultra HD SteelBook, on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 11, 2023.

Check out an exclusive clip from the special features package below, wherein filmmakers Radio Silence discuss the unique setting of this latest installment in the horror franchise.

The team explains, “We all got really excited about New York. It’s got an energy that you just love seeing in movies… in contrast to a small, sleepy suburb like Woodsboro.”

Meagan wrote in her review of Scream VI, “This slasher sequel lets a ruthless Ghostface loose in the city, slicing up an intense, flawless entry that continues the streak of insightful introspection while escalating the thrills, kills, humor, and heart to a breathless degree.”

In the brand new movie,...

The latest installment in the hit slasher franchise, Scream VI has scared up $168 million worldwide at the box office, and the film will be available at home starting tomorrow.

Scream VI is available on Digital as well as Paramount+ tomorrow, April 25!

Fans who buy the film on Digital will have access to over an hour of killer bonus content, including behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast and crew discussing the wildly popular franchise and upping the ante in this latest installment. Bonus features include…

Commentary by Filmmakers—Hear from the directors, writers, and executive producer as they dive into the making of the new film. Death Comes to the City—From Woodsboro to the five boroughs, the filmmakers and cast discuss Ghostface’s reign of terror in the big city. The Faces of Death—Join the core four—Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding—and the rest...

Cinemark heard your call: they’ve opened up presale for Scream VI Beverage Buddies in addition to the Collectible Ghostface Popcorn Tub!

After instantly selling out at select Cinemark locations, the movie theater chain just opened up another presale for the Scream VI collectibles.

Like the popcorn tubs, these Ghostface beverage buddies will be available for online purchase and will be mailed out starting in August, and they won’t be available in theaters.

Even better? These buddies come in a two pack.

Grab your ‘Scream VI’ Beverage Buddies here.

Ghostface returns to theaters in less than one month, with Scream VI arriving at the box office on March 10 (if you’d rather see the film one day early, don’t miss the special fan event on March 9).

The franchise began with an unforgettable opening kill in 1996’s Scream that saw Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) preparing popcorn for a horror movie date night,...

Scream VI is finally arriving in theaters nationwide on March 10, 2023, and Paramount has shared another brand new featurette today. This one is titled “The Most Ruthless Ghostface,” and features filmmaker and cast insights alongside clips from the film. There’s admittedly nothing *new* here, but it’s nice to see the movie doubling down on its promises.

This Ghostface, as we’ve been repeatedly told, isn’t like any of the others…

In the brand new movie, “The Scream saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.”

Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not), are both back behind the camera for the upcoming Scream movie from Paramount and Spyglass.

Melissa Barrera (“Sam”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy”), Mason Gooding (“Chad”), Jenna Ortega (“Tara”), and Dermot Mulroney are all confirmed for the next installment of...

Scream VI is finally arriving in theaters nationwide on March 10, 2023, and Paramount has shared another brand new poster today that will put you in a stabby state of mind.

The team notes, “Starting Saturday 3/11, every @RealD3D ticketholder gets a free #ScreamVI collector’s print at participating theatres only – while supplies last.”

Yes, Scream VI will be the first film in the franchise to hit theaters in 3D!

In the brand new movie, “The Scream saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.”

Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not), are both back behind the camera for the upcoming Scream movie from Paramount and Spyglass.

Melissa Barrera (“Sam”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy”), Mason Gooding (“Chad”), Jenna Ortega (“Tara”), and Dermot Mulroney are all confirmed for the next installment of Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures’ franchise,...

Scream VI is arriving in theaters nationwide on March 10, 2023, and Paramount has unleashed a brand new poster today that lets us know we only have to wait two more weeks.

The art was whipped up by Creepy Duck Design, who continues to be the go-to artist for awesome Scream posters. In two weeks, Ghostface takes over New York City…

In the brand new movie, “The Scream saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.”

Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not), are both back behind the camera for the upcoming Scream movie from Paramount and Spyglass.

Melissa Barrera (“Sam”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy”), Mason Gooding (“Chad”), Jenna Ortega (“Tara”), and Dermot Mulroney are all confirmed for the next installment of Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures’ franchise, with Samara Weaving (Ready or Not, Mayhem,...

If you missed your chance to grab the highly coveted Scream VI Collectible Ghostface Popcorn Tub, we’ve got good news!

After instantly selling out at select Cinemark locations, the movie theater chain just opened up a presale, making it easier than ever to snag one.

These tubs will be available for online purchase and will be mailed out starting in August, and they won’t be available in theaters.

The preorder sale closes on March 17 at midnight. Even better is that you don’t have to be located in the U.S. to preorder- this sale is open to international Scream fans as well!

Grab your Ghostface Popcorn Tub here.

Ghostface returns to theaters in less than one month, with Scream VI arriving at the box office on March 10 (if you’d rather see the film one day early, don’t miss the special fan event on March 9).

The...

With Scream VI tickets now on sale ahead of Ghostface’s return on March 10, another new poster has just been unleashed today, this one promoting the film’s 4Dx experience.

The 4Dx team previews, “New York, New Rules! 4Dx transports you right into the thrilling and horrifying chase in the latest installment of Scream.

“4Dx is a unique theatrical experience that can’t be replicated at home – you will be plunged into the world of Scream with intense motion and air blasts as you feel every jump, crash, roar, and more. This one-of-a-kind experience brings the movie to life with movement, air, vibration, water, and 16 other unique environmental effects.

“Don’t miss your chance to catch it in 4Dx! Get ready for an immersive, heart-pounding experience that you won’t forget.”

Head over to the official Scream VI website to check listings and grab your tickets now.

In the brand new movie,...

Back in 2019, Jeffrey A. Brown made his feature directorial debut with a solid horror film called The Beach House (read our review Here), which was released through the Shudder streaming service. Now Deadline reports that Shudder has picked up the streaming rights to Brown’s second feature, a horror movie called The Unheard! The Unheard will be available to watch through Shudder in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand as of March 31st.

Scripted by Crawl writers Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen, The Unheard follows 20-year-old Chloe Grayden, who after undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.

Chloe is played by Lachlan Watson, who was recently seen playing Glen and Glenda on season 2 of the Chucky TV series. Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black) and Brendan Meyer...

Shudder and director Jeff A. Brown (The Beach House) are reteaming with The Unheard, reports Deadline. The horror streaming service has acquired the upcoming horror film.

The Unheard streams exclusively on Shudder beginning March 31, 2023.

The Unheard follows 20-year-old Chloe Grayden (Lachlan Watson), who after undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.

Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black) and Brendan Meyer (The Oa) also star.

Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen (Crawl) wrote the script.

“I am beyond excited to be working with Shudder again,” Brown told Deadline. “We had a fantastic experience with The Beach House and I’m super grateful to have the opportunity to share The Unheard with its members. Our cast and crew have delivered a stunning piece of work and I cannot wait for audiences to take our trip...

Exclusive: Shudder has picked up rights to the horror film The Unheard in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Pic puts AMC’s genre streamer back in business with director Jeffrey A. Brown, whose 2019 debut feature The Beach House proved to be one of its buzziest early titles. His latest will stream exclusively on Shudder starting on March 31st.

The Unheard follows 20-year-old Chloe Grayden (Lachlan Watson), who after undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother. The script was written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen — who previously penned the Paramount alligator horror, Crawl.

The project was developed and produced by Andrew D. Corkin through his Untapped banner that he shares with actor Theo James (White Lotus) who also serves as an EP.

Fans of the Scream franchise have a lot to be thankful for today, as not only did the Scream VI Super Bowl spot (below) drop several days early, but tickets also went up for grabs.

Additionally, Paramount has announced a special Scream VI Fan Event for the week of release, which will allow fans to see the movie one day early – at an earlier Thursday night showtime than usual for new releases. The 3D Fan Event takes place on Thursday, March 9 at 5pm Est, and you can check local listings and secure your tickets for the event right now.

Paramount previews, “Fans will be the first to see the film in 3D at the 3D Fan Event Screening on Thursday, March 9th at 5Pm local time. The event celebrates the theatrical release of the film’s opening exclusively in theatres with one special show in 3D prior to the film...

Ghostface returns to theaters on March 10, 2023 in Scream VI, which means we’re just One Month Away from the franchise’s return. And tickets for Scream VI are available now!

Head over to the official Scream VI website to check listings and grab your tickets now.

You can also check out the film’s official “Super Bowl” spot down below.

In the brand new movie, “The Scream saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.”

Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not), are both back behind the camera for the upcoming Scream movie, which is officially titled Scream VI.

Melissa Barrera (“Sam”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy”), Mason Gooding (“Chad”), Jenna Ortega (“Tara”), and Dermot Mulroney are all confirmed for the next installment of Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures’ franchise, with Samara Weaving (Ready or Not,...

Ghostface returns to theaters on March 10, 2023 in Scream VI, and the marketing team just put out an awesome new piece of promo art that’s inspired by a classic board game.

This particular version of “Guess Who?” is Scream-themed, with all the players – both franchise mainstays and fresh faces – on the board. The task? Guess Who’s the Killer.

No seriously. Take your best stab guess in the comments below…

In the brand new movie, “The Scream saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.”

Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not), are both back behind the camera for the upcoming Scream movie, which is officially titled Scream VI.

Melissa Barrera (“Sam”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy”), Mason Gooding (“Chad”), Jenna Ortega (“Tara”), and Dermot Mulroney are all confirmed for the next installment...

Exclusive: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix franchise), Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) and Liana Liberato (To the Bone) have signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s upcoming feature Face, based on her 2021 bestseller, Face: One Square Foot of Skin.

The film penned by Bateman consists of 14 vignettes, both comedic and dramatic, which look at women’s faces getting older, and why that makes people angry. While much of society appears to assume that women’s faces are somehow broken and need to be fixed, Face reveals some of the many ways in which women, and those around them, allow this idea to take root at all.

Parker will play Tanya, an actress balancing her need to use her face for her job and the pressure to not move it at all, with Moss as Mrs. Foster, a kindergarten teacher whose young students remind her of the magical functionality of the face.

Next year’s Scream 6 will take the franchise into New York City for the very first time, a change of scenery that should bring a whole new element to the Ghostface killings.

Melissa Barrera is back as Sam in the next sequel in the slasher saga, and the actress has given us a little taste of what to expect in a new chat with the website Collider this week.

“It’s like 20 times more mortifying,” Barrera explains. “It’s awful. Because you also see how, in a city like New York City, everyone is kind of doing their own thing and someone is screaming for help, and no one will come to their help.”

She continues, “No one comes to help them, you know, like, everyone’s kind of like, ‘I’m not getting into that.’ So it’s mortifying, because you’re chased by Ghostface, but you also...

Exclusive: Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment have prevailed in a bidding war surrounding the Sundance thriller Emily the Criminal, starring and produced by Aubrey Plaza, claiming North American rights. They’ve slated the film for an exclusive theatrical release this year, with Redbox joining the partnership for home entertainment distribution.

John Patton Ford’s feature directorial debut follows Emily (Plaza), who is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a shady gig as a “dummy shopper,” buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a handsome and charismatic middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi). Faced with a series of dead-end job interviews, Emily soon finds herself seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills of black-market capitalism, and increasingly interested in her mentor Youcef. Together, they hatch a plan to bring...

The 10th Panama Int’l Film Festival wrapped Sunday, Dec. 5 with Michel Franco’s Acapulco-set drama “Sundown” closing the event.

Winners of the rough-cut sidebar Primera Mirada were announced at closing night, which took place at festival venue, La Manzana de Santa Ana. Costa Rican entries took home the top prizes this year, indicative of the tiny Central American nation’s outsized filmmaking talent.

The Primera Mirada jury, led by Diana Sánchez, Marcelo Quesada and Paula Gastaud, bestowed the top prize to Costa Rican supernatural drama “Domingo and the Mist” by Ariel Escalante who took home the $10,000 cash prize; Mauricio Morales of El Salvador won the second cash prize of $5,000 for his docu “Milo, Breaking Frontiers.”

“I’m enormously thankful to Iff Panama for having not only supported ‘Domingo and the Mist,’ both in Primera Mirada as well as in the Panama Film Match a year and a half ago,...

Iff Panama’s co-production forum, the Panama Film Match, launched in 2020 in a virtual format. It’s now holding its first in-person format between Dec. 2-4 as part of the 10th Panama Intl. Film Festival (Iff Panama).

Creating a co-production forum has been a long-standing goal for Iff Panama, the highest-profile film event in Central America. The Pfm is a sister event to Iff Panama’s pix-in-post sidebar, Primera Mirada, which are already showing synergies.

One of the projects that received a special mention in last year’s edition of the Pfm, Ariel Escalante’s Costa Rican supernatural drama “Domingo and the Fog” is returning this year as one of the five films competing in Primera Mirada.

The forum is supported by the Idb Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group.

“Panama Film Match seeks to be a meeting place for artistic, economic and creative cooperation between...

Sometimes the most terrifying circumstances in fictional stories can be those situations that are rooted in reality. That’s certainly the case for the new horror film, ‘The Beach House.’ The sci-fi drama, which was conceived and shot before the outbreak of Covid-19 earlier this year, powerfully brings together a timely, atmospheric and iconic mix of […]

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When I think of my favorite casts in a movie, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead invariably comes to mind, as I love watching the interactions between Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Mekhi Phifer, and Jake Weber as much as I enjoy the fast zombie action (I'm firmly in the camp that enjoys both George A. Romero's lumbering flesh eaters and Snyder's frenetic living dead sprinters). I was especially thrilled, then, to speak with Weber about his enigmatic role in the new mind-bending sci-fi horror film The Beach House, which follows two very different couples in the midst of an otherworldly ecological transformation on the secluded seashore.

During our in-depth chat, Weber talked about what drew him to the character of Mitch in The Beach House, and he also discussed the movie's quiet sense of dread, working with first-time feature director Jeffrey A. Brown, collaborating...

Hello again, dear readers! We’re back for another look at this week’s horror and sci-fi home media releases, and there are quite a few titles headed home tomorrow. So, if you have any last-minute shopping you need to get done, there might be something listed here that could be helpful in that regard.

Probably the biggest release of this week is Arrow’s brand new 4K 2-Disc Limited Edition set celebrating one of the best monster movies ever, Tremors, and Warner is showing some love to The Curse of Frankenstein as well. In terms of recent horror, we have a ton of brilliant genre fare to pick from on Tuesday, including The Wolf of Snow Hollow, The Beach House, Don’t Look Back, and The Call, and Full Moon has resurrected Orgy of the Dead as well.

Suffice to say, there’s a little bit of something for everyone this week,...

The weekend is almost upon as, and as the theatrical schedule remains a barren wasteland until at least the beginning of next year, the weekly onslaught of new VOD releases have arrived to try and entice folks who’ve run out of things to watch on the various streaming services at their disposal that they haven’t seen a handful of times already.

There are a whopping 30 titles flooding the market this weekend, but the bad news is that none of them are what would exactly be called appointment viewing. Pick of the bunch is arguably The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, which sees Francis Ford Coppola return to the closing chapter of his sprawling crime saga and deliver a brand new edit. The early reactions are that he’s greatly improved the original cut, but still not enough to see it enter the rarefied air of the first two installments,...

What begins as an idyllic escape from reality is quickly transforming and morphing into a living nightmare for the four protagonists of the horror movie, ‘The Beach House.’ Their weekend getaway, which starts with an indulgent night of partying, leads to terror of apocalyptic proportions when a mysterious airborne microbe infects the water surrounding the […]

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Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, along with Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, will release the horror film The Beach House on December 15, 2020 on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray. Check out this trailer:

Now you can win the Win the DVD of The Beach House. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite horror movie is that takes place on the beach. (mine’s Blood Beach It’s so easy!)

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The Beach House is the directorial feature debut of Jeffrey A. Brown who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Liana Liberato (“Light as a Feather”), Noah Le Gros (A Score to Settle...

Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, along with Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, will release the horror film The Beach House on December 15, 2020 on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray. Check out this trailer:

The Beach House is the directorial feature debut of Jeffrey A. Brown who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Liana Liberato (“Light as a Feather”), Noah Le Gros (A Score to Settle), Maryann Nagel and Jake Weber (Dawn of the Dead, “13 Reasons Why”). Rlje Films will release The Beach House on DVD for an Srp of $27.97 and Blu-ray for an Srp of $28.96.

In The Beach House, hoping to reignite their relationship, college students Emily (Liberato) and Randall (Le Gros) arrive at their weekend getaway only to discover a peculiar older couple already staying there. They all agree to share the home but, after an indulgent night of partying,...

Currently available to stream on Shudder, The Beach House can be visited by viewers on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, and VOD on December 15th via Rlje Films.

You can check out the cover art and official details below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's interview with writer/director Jeffrey A. Brown and Patrick Bromley's review of the film.

From the Press Release: Los Angeles – Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, along with Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, will release the horror film The Beach House on December 15, 2020 on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray.

The Beach House is the directorial feature debut of Jeffrey A. Brown who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Liana Liberato (“Light as a Feather”), Noah Le Gros (A Score to Settle), Maryann Nagel and Jake Weber. Rlje Films will release The Beach House...

Several major distributors return to UK cinemas this weekend.

France, opening Wednesday, October 21

A dozen new films opened in France this week into a complex reality for the country’s distributors and exhibitors following the introduction of a night-time curfew for Paris and eight other major cities on October 17. It was announced yesterday (Oct 22) that the measure will be extended to more than half the country this Saturday (Oct 24) following a further surge in cases over the past week.

Prior to the announcement, a dozen distributors had taken the plunge to release films on Wednesday against already difficult odds. In the backdrop,...

Shudder, the streaming service focused on horror, thrillers and the supernatural, said Tuesday it has passed the 1 million subscriber mark.

AMC Networks launched Shudder in 2015. The company has pursued a niche streaming strategy, a contrast with larger media rivals launching mass-audience services like HBO Max, Peacock and Disney+. AMC executives have projected the company will end 2020 with close to 4 million total subscribers across Shudder and streaming siblings Acorn, Umc and Sundance Now.

Another of AMC Networks’ offerings, housed in a different part of the company, is AMC+. That subscription service, formerly called AMC Premiere, brings premieres of shows ahead of their linear TV airings, ad-free viewing and other bonuses to viewers on Comcast and Dish pay-tv systems.

Original programming is always the coin of the streaming realm, Shudder’s premiere of Creepshow last September prompted a surge in customer acquisition and engagement, the company said. A second season is in production.

A big trend in 2020 genre releases has been scary movies that take place on the water, but forsake the traditional aquatic horror tropes. William Eubank’s Underwater is a cautionary tale about what happens when you awaken a sleeping giant; Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Beach House is a Lovecraftian home invasion thriller; Neasa Hardiman’s Sea […]

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AMC Networks’ horror SVOD service Shudder is extending to Australia and New Zealand. The genre label is already available in the U.S., Canada, Germany, the UK and Ireland.

Recent Shudder Originals include Zoom-based chiller Host, eco-horror The Beach House, Blood Machines, Blood Quantum, Impetigore, Lake of Death, Random Acts of Violence, Scare Package, The Room, Yummy and Z.

Shudder Original Series include Creepshow from showrunner/executive producer Greg Nicotero, supernatural action series The Dead Lands (in Australia only) and Shudder exclusive Missions.

“We’re thrilled to share our unrivaled collection of curated horror and supernatural movies and series with Australian and New Zealand audiences just in time for Halloween season, where we feature our biggest and best programming of the year,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “These new launches continue our growing international expansion and our commitment to offer premium genre entertainment to a global audience.”...

On the July 17, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: […]

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It is a rare occurrence to find a movie that speaks so clearly to its current moment like “The Beach House,” despite being filmed months before Covid-19 ravaged our lives, homes, and beaches. Part Lovecraft and part virus flick, it fits right into the category of movies such as “Long Weekend,” “The Mist,” and “The Last Winter,” where small groups of people meet an extinction event that can’t be stopped.

Continue reading ‘The Beach House’ Is A Chilling, Timely Horror Film About A Monster You Can’t Outrun [Review] at The Playlist.

(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Hamilton Now Streaming on Disney+ Release Date: 2020 Genre: Musical Director: Thomas Kail Cast: Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, […]

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This week, Shudder welcomed another stellar indie horror film to its ranks, The Beach House from writer/director Jeffrey A. Brown. Starring Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber, and Maryann Nagel, The Beach House is centered around two couples who happen to end up staying at the same seaside vacation home for a weekend. What starts out innocently enough as a cozy dinner with great conversation morphs into a living nightmare as the quartet of characters find themselves contending with a cosmic horror they cannot possibly begin to understand.

Earlier this week, Daily Dead spoke with Brown about The Beach House, and he discussed the inspiration behind the setting of his debut feature film, his approach to working with his cast and crew, and more.

Be sure to check out The Beach House now that it’s streaming exclusively on Shudder.

What initially inspired the story of The Beach House...

[This story contains spoilers for The Beach House]

The rules humanity thought it knew are breaking down. There’s a texture of unreality in the air as time takes on a strange new meaning and the traditional channels of communication fall away. And in the eldritch mists that sweep across a small coastal town, two couples discover something primordial and entropic. Jeffrey A. Brown’s debut feature film, The Beach House, is one of the most frightening horror films to come out of 2020 thus far, not simply because it takes us into the Lovecraftian waters of the unknown but because it ...

[This story contains spoilers for The Beach House]

The rules humanity thought it knew are breaking down. There’s a texture of unreality in the air as time takes on a strange new meaning and the traditional channels of communication fall away. And in the eldritch mists that sweep across a small coastal town, two couples discover something primordial and entropic. Jeffrey A. Brown’s debut feature film, The Beach House, is one of the most frightening horror films to come out of 2020 thus far, not simply because it takes us into the Lovecraftian waters of the unknown but because it ...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Beach House (Jeffrey A. Brown)

There’s a lot to like about Jeffrey A. Brown’s feature directorial debut The Beach House, from its gorgeous production design to its ruminations on mankind’s fragility when compared with Mother Nature’s hardier offerings (despite our penchant for believing we hold dominion over Her). It’s therefore easy to appreciate the reason Emily (Liana Liberato), Randall (Noah Le Gros), Mitch (Jake Weber), and Jane (Maryanne Nagel) have arrived at a site that may end up being their tomb because we’re quick to ignore the baked-in irony too. This was supposed to be an escape from life’s struggles—a...

Contained horror has an added bit of resonance right now. After all, many of us are still essentially stuck in our homes. Moreover, eco-horror is rather under-explored as a sub-genre of fright flicks. So, The Beach House enters with a few things in its favor. However, the genre offering, debuting on the streaming platform Shudder today, shows too much restraint for its own good. There are ideas and scares, to be sure, but the balance is off. What should be foreboding and tense instead just becomes relatively boring. The periodic effectiveness of the concept, as well as the lead performance from Liana Liberato, is drowned in poor pacing and an inability to keep the viewer’s attention. The movie is a horror offering, seeing a small group of people deal with a truly nefarious infection. When Emily (Liberato) and Randall (Noah Le Gros) arrive at his father’s beach house,...

Being released during an epidemic lends additional if unintended frisson to “The Beach House,” a cryptic yet reasonably involving thriller in which vacationers find themselves under threat. The nature of that threat remains ambiguous, but in its partially-airborne inescapability, it definitely hits a note of creepy relevance. Writer-director Jeffrey A. Brown’s first feature is neither fish nor fowl in terms of fitting snugly into any given genre slot — perhaps it’s . In any case, it’s skillful enough to satisfy most viewers, if not quite sufficiently original in concept or striking in execution to leave a lasting imprint. It premieres July 9 on AMC’s streaming imprint Shudder.

Young couple Emily (Liana Liberato) and Randall (Noah Le Gros) drive to his family’s beachside Massachusetts summer house in the off-season, so there seems to be no one else in the neighborhood. As their first priority upon arriving is a shag and a nap,...

Jeffrey A. Brown‘s festival hit The Beach House is headed to Shudder this coming Thursday, July 9th. Our own Daniel Kurland raved about Brown’s indie horror film in his 4-star review last year, writing that his directorial debut is “a powerful, emotional throwback to ‘50s sci-fi that presents a stunning glimpse of a parasitic invasion.” Kurland added, “[Brown] crafts […]...

Stars: Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber, Maryann Nagel, Michael Brumfield, Matt Maisto, Steven Corkin, Dan Zakarija, Veronica Fellman | Written and Directed by Jeffrey A. Brown

Not the most horrific of horror movie titles but The Beach House features two college sweethearts on a getaway to the sea and the aforementioned beach house. Shortly after their arrival they come across some unexpected guests and an environment that doesn’t seem to want them their.

The Beach House somehow manages to feel very familiar, even to the pint that if features quite a few horror clichés, but still highly original too. It ‘borrows’ ideas from some horror and sci-fi classics but brings plenty of its own aswell, which many of the best movies do.

It’s a classic slow-burn style with the first half of the film just introducing its characters (only four ‘proper’ in total) and then setting up...

And the Sea Will Kill: Brown’s Blends Menace with Familiar Tropes in Eco-Horror Debut

Horror films have often benefitted from man vs. nature themes, and we’re decades removed from the genre’s drifting from socio-political metaphor to environmental alarms, where our taken-for-granted control erodes when nature claps back. The ocean, and all its mysterious, unexplored wonders, remains a formidable tool for both known and unknown perils, which Jeffrey A. Brown utilizes in his straightforward but enjoyable debut, The Beach House. Albeit an indie quartet which doesn’t allow for much by way of surprise, it’s an eco-horror film which perfectly blends its creature feature fascinations with formidable dread, resembling something akin to golden era Stephen King, Bradbury or even Lovecraft with its aquatic lurkers at the threshold.…...

Even as the majority of theaters are closed, with films like Relic and The Beach House arriving this month, it’s a good time to be a horror film this summer. Later in July we’ll be getting another genre scare, courtesy of Amulet, the directorial debut from Romola Garai, who has appeared in Atonement, Suffragette, and more.

Premiering earlier this year at Sundance, the film follows a former soldier who moves into a house with a woman taking care of her dying mother, who lives upstairs. As seen in the unsettling first trailer, things do not go as planned as the ailing woman has sinister secrets of her own.

Brian Tallerico said in his review for RogerEbert.com, “Unafraid to turn into a true phantasmagoria, Garai’s filmmaking hints at a director whose tastes skew away from your typical horror movie construction. There’s a major twist in Amulet that feels a little cheap,...

There’s a lot to like about Jeffrey A. Brown’s feature directorial debut The Beach House, from its gorgeous production design to its ruminations on mankind’s fragility when compared with Mother Nature’s hardier offerings (despite our penchant for believing we hold dominion over Her). It’s therefore easy to appreciate the reason Emily (Liana Liberato), Randall (Noah Le Gros), Mitch (Jake Weber), and Jane (Maryanne Nagel) have arrived at a site that may end up being their tomb because we’re quick to ignore the baked-in irony too. This was supposed to be an escape from life’s struggles—a place for quiet relaxation to say what needs to be said and appreciate what might be gone tomorrow. So when the opposite proves true, we understand the fear that inevitably takes over.

The reason is simple: that fear is never far from our minds. What occurs to...