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Makers of ‘Bite’ Give iHorror Exclusive on ‘The Heretics’, ‘WolfCop 2’
Black Fawn Films grabbed our attention with their release of Bite, a film so gruesome that audiences at the premiere were handed barf bags in advance. You may remember the stir online when an ambulance was called to the event. Patrons fainted, threw up, and one audience member hit his head on the stairs. Their most recent film, The Heretics, continues to embrace the power of body horror with practical effects, but with a lot more mystery going on under the slimy surface.
The Canadian production company will be taking the film to theaters internationally for the festival circuit – including SITGES (Spain), Hardline Film Festival (Germany), and Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (Sweden).
In a new announcement, A71 Entertainment has acquired the distribution rights from Breakthrough Entertainment for a limited theatrical release in Canada through Landmark cinemas as part of the Canadian Indie Film Series. The Heretics will have a special event premiere on November 1st, 2017 with a limited run beginning November 3, 2017.
A71 and Breakthrough will also be partnering with Black Fawn Distribution to help bring home
the occult thriller to horror fans across Canada in early 2018.
The Heretics tells the pagan tale of Gloria, (Nina Kiri – Let Her Out, TV’s The Handmaid’s Tale) a young girl who is abducted by a troubled man (Ry Barrett – The Drownsman, The Demolisher) who claims that a cult is hunting her down. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but, while restrained, Gloria falls deathly ill. While her friends and family desperately search for her, the source of her illness becomes more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.
Thanks to the folks at Black Fawn Distribution, we’ve been treated with an exclusive early look at the theatrical poster for The Heretics.
I spoke with Chad Archibald – director of Bite and The Heretics – about the film and his goal to build a tactile experience using practical elements during production.
“We wanted to make this film as real as possible so, we really focused on the practical effects and the sets. We actually built the cabin that’s in the film from scratch in the middle of the forest before we went to camera. It’s a real functioning cabin that’s still stands today deep in the woods of Erin, Ontario.”
Of course, one of the most important aspects of a film that can really make or break its effect on the audience is the actors.
“It was a real honor to work with Ry Barrett and Nina Kiri again. I couldn’t be happier with their performances. They really drive the film. Also, watch out for actress Jorja Cadence. This was her first feature film and she completely knocks it out of the park.”
Black Fawn Distribution also recently acquired the rights to Another WolfCop, which – I’ve been told – we can expect to see in US theaters shortly after The Heretics hits screens in Canada. The sequel to the Canuxsploitation hit recently won the Audience Choice Award (Gold) at Fantasia Fest. A Canadian theatrical release will begin December 8 with a DVD/BluRay/Digital release set for 2018.
Check out the trailer for The Heretics below and click here to read my interview with the cast from the world premiere at Toronto’s Canadian Film Fest.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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