Films

Family Demons, the award-winning psychological horror film produced by Sue Brown and directed by Ursula Dabrowsky, has been picked up for worldwide distribution by IFM World Releasing Inc, the US/Australian international film and TV sales company!

Billie (Cassandra Kane) kills her violent alcoholic mother (Kerry Reid) in a fit of fury and repressed anger. Helped by her boyfriend Sean (Alex Rafalowicz) she plans on getting out of town and heading for the big city but her mother’s vengeful, evil ghost will not let her go....

The Minneapolis, Minnesota USA-based all-female production company Silent But Deadly (Rachel Grubb, Brooke Lemke, and Virgina Head) have 4 films under their belt including the Rachel Grubb-directed horror/thriller feature Why am I in a Box? and a new ten-episode web-series called SBD that you can watch now.

SBD synopsis: Jill (Lemke) and Gina (Grubb) are roommates—single, unemployed and left to their own devices. Gina is in love with a fictional villain from her favorite movie, and Jill likes to talk to the audience in her head. Together, they take everyday obstacles way too seriously and make their lives more interesting than they have any right to be...

France's Gaumont Pictures produced the 2010 highly ambitious — and potentially controversial — movie The Round Up, written and directed by Roselyne Bosch (who also wrote and directed the 2005 psychological horror film Animal). The Round Up (La Rafle) will tackle the subject of French collaboration with the atrocities of The Holocaust...

Anya Camilleri (director of the Tara Reid horror vehicle Incubus) will direct Sharon Stone in the upcoming Satisfaction. Also starring Carice van Houten and to arrive in 2010 from Media 8 Entertainment.

Satisfaction is a sexy, smart and edgy drama/thriller about a young male gigolo, set in London. Jimmy lives in the shadow of the rich women he seduces and uses their money to live a lifestyle he couldn't otherwise afford. He usually leaves the women when a better opportunity comes along - until he meets Emma.

The Guinevere Turner-penned thriller Breaking The Girl is now in pre-production from Myriad Pictures, and will star Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki and be directed by Jamie Babbit (But I'm a Cheerleader.) Guinevere Turner previously wrote the screenplays for horror films American Psycho and Bloodrayne.

The plot: Two attractive college students - the innocent and scholarly Sara and the manipulative and sexy Alex, become more than friends when they make a pact to kill off each other's nemesis. But Alex soon grabs the upper hand and Sara discovers she is being set up for murder.

Expect it in 2010.

Annalee Autumn's short vampire movie Blood Bound can now be watched in its entirety right here!

The Gothic vampire story, accompanied by velvet capes and prerequisite female-empowerment blood-sucking, recently played at the 2009 Vampire Film Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana USA.

Watch the trailer, and the whole film...

The 2009 Blood Shots 48 hour fast horror film competition, run by Kier-La Janisse of Cinemuerte and Celluloid Horror, includes a film from twin sisters and horror filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska (directors of Dead Hooker in a Trunk.) Their entry, bad GirLs, was written, shot, cut, and delivered in 48 hours. Each team was given a line of dialogue, a prop, a weapon, and a horror film subgenre.

The film is available online for audiences to vote for their favorite. Watch bad GirLs and vote right here. Here's how...

Before Paranormal Activity caused such a stir, Amanda Gusack directed the indie ghost story In Memorium, which is only now receiving its dues. Gusack more recently directed the higher-budget horror/thriller The Betrayed, which stars Melissa George and is available on DVD.

Gusack's haunting-caught-on-home-video film is one of our favorite examples of women directing awesome new horror movies, and we'd love to point out that if you like Paranormal Activity, you'll love In Memorium. On July 27, Dennis Wade was diagnosed with terminal cancer. On September 25th, he began to document his illness. On September 27th...the cameras recorded something else. Check out these three clips from In Memorium...

The bland and forgettable, but completely typical 'young woman' Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) and the far more interesting Amber Heard (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane) are set to star in a remake of the feminist (actually, anti-feminist) 1991 movie Thelma And Louise which starred Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as two out-of-their-effing-minds women on the run from the law because evil men had opressed them.

But hold on. Jessica Manafort is attached to direct. But hold on again. It will be called Cowgirl Bandits. Whose effing name is 'Leighton', anyway? I know what this is. This is a younger, hipper version of the film, because who wants to look at women over 30? Not men, that's who not!...

On October 3rd Rising Up: the Story of the Zombie Rights Movement, directed by Laura Moss, made its New York City premiere at the Coney Island Film Festival, playing in a sold out block to an enthusiastic crowd.

I've been an attendee/participant at the super fun, well-run CIFF for the past several years, and this year's Block 6 (which preceded the fest's official horror block but contained several horror/comedy-ish films) was one of the most solid programs I've seen at this or any other film festival. But even with all that strong competition, Rising Up was still a standout...