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iHorror Film Festival Announces Full Selection of Films and Ticket Information

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The first annual iHorror Film Festival is one step closer to being a reality this week with the announcement of the full selection of short films that will be screening when we take over the Cuban Club for one day in the historic Ybor City district of Tampa, Florida.

The selections represent submissions from around the world by some of the finest independent filmmakers in the genre.

You’ll find the full list below in no particular order.

Tickets are also on sale at this time for the iHorror Film Festival which will take place on October 5, 2019.

Doors will open at 9:30 am and we will have a full schedule of screenings and events throughout the day including ghost tours of the Cuban Club, listed as one of the most haunted locations in the U.S. by the Travel Channel, as well as a panel featuring Dan Myrick (The Blair Witch Project) and Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination).

CLICK HERE to purchase your tickets and take a look at our list of selected films below!

iHorror Film Festival Selections:

Emetephobia–Directed by Austin Franco: A boy named Maleek is having sleep issues and no matter what his dad says, sometimes there really are things to fear in the dark.

Vessel–Directed by Scott Sullivan: Sam and his crew find themselves face to face with an otherworldly danger while renovating a home.

Psycho Path–Directed by Daniel Robinette: Laurel Rhodes is a backpacking vlogger who specializes in hidden trails and hard-to-reach hikes. After taking a wrong turn on her latest expedition, she stumbles upon an eerie, deserted cabin with strange markings on the wall. Trapped in the dark and rain, Laurel reluctantly decides to spend the night, unaware that a madman is coming with murder on his mind.

The Itch–Directed by Ethan Walden: Addy isn’t feeling herself. She has a terrible rash on the back of her neck and becomes consumed by the itch, driving her to drastic measures.

The Loop–Directed by Rich Ragsdale: Mikey gets more than he bargained for when his big brother brings home a bootleg VHS of The Loop.

iHorror Film Festival The Loop

Treat Street–Directed by Domonic Smith: No one is exactly who they seem to be in this terrifying Halloween tale.

The Itch–Directed by Timothy Ryan Driscoll: It all starts with mosquito bite for a man on a picnic with his wife in this horror comedy.

Night Crawl–Directed by Gregory Shultz: A prisoner attempting to dig out of prison finds unexpected dangers buried deep within the earth.

Eject–Directed by David Yorke: After discovering a USB port in her wrist, Kate uncovers a world where she has the ability to change herself for the better. But she will slowly discover that greed will come at a cost.

iHorror Film Festival Eject

Dark Anomaly–Directed by Kira Howe: There’s something not quite right about the experiments going on in this lab. There’s something not quite right about the test subject, too.

EXPOSURE–Michael Lazovsky: It’s all about the likes, subscribes, and comments for this young man and he’s willing to do anything to get them.

iHorror Film Festival Exposure

Into the Hills (Entre las Sierras)–Directed by Eduardo Granadsztejn: A young woman driving through a deserted landscape witnesses something she can’t un-see, and finds herself both hunter and hunted.

Into the Hills iHorror Film Festival

The Shade–Directed by Nicholas Canning: Something or someone is in her house, and all she can see is their shadow.

iHorror Film Festival Shade

Zebra–Directed by Peter Spann: Two blood splattered little old ladies skulking through the bush, a real life super model and tapioca pudding collide.

The Desecrated–Directed by John Gray: A young woman working the night shift at the morgue encounters an unexpected visitor.

Cadair Y Fampir (The Vampire Chair)–Directed by Liam A. Matthews: Two men looking for a secluded spot for a romantic night find themselves in the middle of a mystery in this film inspired by Welsh legend.

Terror Road–Directed by Brian Shephard: A young woman driving home late at night on a moonlit road nearly hits a young boy, and soon finds herself in a fight for her life.

The Monster–Directed by Neil Stevens: A father helps a young boy get over his fear of Monsters, at a terrible price.

The Three Crow Boys: Written and animated by Tom Adriani: This terrifying animated fairy tale will chill you to the bone like you haven’t been since childhood. Between mounds of rubble and bomb craters in war-ravaged London stands the house of a lonely old blind man. Late one night he receives three unexpected visitors.

The Ebbing–Directed by Kevin Patrick Murphy: A woman is haunted by the child she lost and she will stop at nothing to find out who took her.

Boo–Directed by Rakefet Abergel: A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.

Boo iHorror Film Festival

Hada–Directed by Tony Morales: Tonight Hada comes to visit Daniel because his last child tooth has fallen out. What Daniel doesn’t expect is that his worst enemy is the light.

Z GOAT: First Bleat–Directed by Julien Jauniaux and Bertrand Leplae: In a dying world, Darwina the scavenger will face a new threat.

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Fever–Directed by Brian Rosenthal: A dark supernatural presence stalks a little girl and her skeptical mother.

Quiet Room Bears–Directed by Lee Howard: Simon’s week alone for home renovations quickly turns into a nightmarish spiral into madness and horror with the arrival of a mysterious teddy bear, whose dark origins are more sinister than they seem. Welcome to the hellish world of the Quiet Room Bears.

The Soul Collector–Directed by Nick Peterson: A man controlled by a mask invades a home.

Finley–Directed by J. Zachary Thurman: “Finley” is a cheerfully energetic horror short following the shenanigans of a wooden puppet as he tries to kill a group of college kids who have moved into his house.

One Last Spin–Directed by Ali Matlock: An engaged skint couple receives an unsolicited package that has the potential to change their lives significantly.

We Die Alone–Directed by Marc Cartwright: A chance encounter dangerously intertwines the lives of three people with differing perspectives on love.

iHorror Film Festival

Serial Dater–Directed by Michael May: All she wanted was a perfect man, but so many have disappointed.

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A Knock at the Door–Directed by Karl Huber: For fifteen years her daughter’s been missing; tonight she’ll come back.

Bitch, Popcorn, Blood–Directed by Fabio Soares: Lily, a popcorn seller, deals with daily frustrations. Stuck in a boring life, she hates people and society.

Black Eyed Child (BEC)–Directed by Tony Morales: An ill woman wakes in her home to find that she’s not alone. As she examines the house, she finds there’s more that one threat to her safety.

Playtime’s Over–Directed by Tony Reames: The only thing that little Dee loves more than classic horror movies is terrorizing the babysitter, with the help of her stuffed friends.

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SockMonster–Directed by Wesley Alley: Anne is shattered by the loss of her young daughter. Refusing to let her go, Anne finds that it’s not only socks that go missing in the dryer.

Don’t Look Into Their Eyes–Directed by John Rhee: They know you’re here. Hide. When they get closer, don’t move or make any noise. But whatever you do, don’t look into their eyes.

Starlets–Directed by Marten Carlson: The Lentz Triplets are the biggest movie stars in the world. When it’s time to renegotiate their contract, it’s up to Biggs Tomlinson to get that ink on paper. He ventures to the mysterious Lentz household with his trusty briefcase in hand. There he meets Milly, aging film star and mother of the triplets. What follows is a game of cat and mouse as Biggs must solve the mystery of the Lentz family before it’s too late.

Bitten–Directed by Sarah K. Reimers: A mysterious and violent encounter sends a dog on a night of adventure and possibility.

AmigosDirected by Randy Gonzalez and Gino Vento: Two men wake to find themselves chained to a radiator in a strange man’s house, but what’s going on outside could be so much worse.

The Desolation Prize–Directed by Shane Day: No returns on second hand ghosts.

The Pickman Model–Directed by Tim Troemner: Join notorious artist Richard Pickman as he teaches you his three-part model for plumbing the depths of depravity toward artistic success. Enjoy, as one of H. P. Lovecraft’s best stories is reconfigured into…something truly unnatural.

iHorror Film Festival Pickman

Trust Me–Directed by Nathan Ruegger: A woman follows her boyfriend into the woods for a romantic surprise only to find something far more sinister. Based on witness accounts of The Goatman, TRUST ME is an atmospheric horror film featuring a new breed of ‘monster’ who fuels our paranoia and forces us to ask: who, or what, can we trust?

iHorror Film Festival Trust Me

Downpour–Directed by Tony Ahedo: With a category 4 hurricane imminent, two brothers, Ben and Mark bunker down at home to wait out the storm. When they let a stranger in looking for help, they realize maybe the real danger isn’t outside, but inside with them.

iHorror Film Festival Downpour

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Brad Dourif Says He’s Retiring Except For One Important Role

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Brad Dourif has been doing movies for nearly 50 years. Now it seems he is walking away from the industry at 74 to enjoy his golden years. Except, there is a caveat.

Recently, digital entertainment publication JoBlo’s Tyler Nichols talked to some of the Chucky television series cast members. During the interview, Dourif made an announcement.

“Dourif said that he’s retired from acting,” says Nichols. “The only reason he came back for the show was because of his daughter Fiona and he considers Chucky creator Don Mancini to be family. But for non-Chucky stuff, he considers himself retired.”

Dourif has voiced the possessed doll since 1988 (minus the 2019 reboot). The original movie “Child’s Play” has become such a cult classic it’s at the top of some people’s best chillers of all time. Chucky himself is ingrained in pop culture history much like Frankenstein or Jason Voorhees.

While Dourif may be known for his famous voiceover, he is also an Oscar-nominated actor for his part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Another famous horror role is The Gemini Killer in William Peter Blatty’s Exorcist III. And who can forget Betazoid Lon Suder in Star Trek: Voyager?

The good news is that Don Mancini is already pitching a concept for season four of Chucky which might also include a feature-length movie with a series tie-in. So, Although Dourif says he is retiring from the industry, ironically he is Chucky’s friend till the end.

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7 Great ‘Scream’ Fan Films & Shorts Worth a Watch

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The Scream franchise is such an iconic series, that many budding filmmakers take inspiration from it and make their own sequels or, at least, build upon the original universe created by screenwriter Kevin Williamson. YouTube is the perfect medium to showcase these talents (and budgets) with fan-made homages with their own personal twists.

The great thing about Ghostface is that he can appear anywhere, in any town, he just needs the signature mask, knife, and unhinged motive. Thanks to Fair Use laws it’s possible to expand upon Wes Craven’s creation by simply getting a group of young adults together and killing them off one by one. Oh, and don’t forget the twist. You’ll notice that Roger Jackson’s famous Ghostface voice is uncanny valley, but you get the gist.

We have gathered five fan films/shorts related to Scream that we thought were pretty good. Although they can’t possibly match the beats of a $33 million blockbuster, they get by on what they have. But who needs money? If you’re talented and motivated anything is possible as proven by these filmmakers who are well on their way to the big leagues.

Take a look at the below films and let us know what you think. And while you’re at it, leave these young filmmakers a thumbs up, or leave them a comment to encourage them to create more films. Besides, where else are you going to see Ghostface vs. a Katana all set to a hip-hop soundtrack?

Scream Live (2023)

Scream Live

Ghostface (2021)

Ghostface

Ghost Face (2023)

Ghost Face

Don’t Scream (2022)

Don’t Scream

Scream: A Fan Film (2023)

Scream: A Fan Film

The Scream (2023)

The Scream

A Scream Fan Film (2023)

A Scream Fan Film
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Another Creepy Spider Movie Hits Shudder This Month

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Good spider films are a theme this year. First, we had Sting and then there was Infested. The former is still in theaters and the latter is coming to Shudder starting April 26.

Infested has been getting some good reviews. People are saying that it’s not only a great creature feature but also a social commentary on racism in France.

According to IMDb: Writer/director Sébastien Vanicek was looking for ideas around the discrimination faced by black and Arab-looking people in France, and that led him to spiders, which are rarely welcome in homes; whenever they’re spotted, they’re swatted. As everyone in the story (people and spiders) is treated like vermin by society, the title came to him naturally.

Shudder has become the gold standard for streaming horror content. Since 2016, the service has been offering fans an expansive library of genre movies. in 2017, they began to stream exclusive content.

Since then Shudder has become a powerhouse in the film festival circuit, buying distribution rights to movies, or just producing some of their own. Just like Netflix, they give a film a short theatrical run before adding it to their library exclusively for subscribers.

Late Night With the Devil is a great example. It was released theatrically on March 22 and will begin streaming on the platform starting April 19.

While not getting the same buzz as Late Night, Infested is a festival favorite and many have said if you suffer from arachnophobia, you might want to take heed before watching it.

Infested

According to the synopsis, our main character, Kalib is turning 30 and dealing with some family issues. “He’s fighting with his sister over an inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend. Fascinated by exotic animals, he finds a venomous spider in a shop and brings it back to his apartment. It only takes a moment for the spider to escape and reproduce, turning the whole building into a dreadful web trap. The only option for Kaleb and his friends is to find a way out and survive.”

The film will be available to watch on Shudder starting April 26.

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