SEVERIN LAUNCHES NEW SEASONAL GHOST STORY SERIES ON SHUDDER THIS DECEMBER: “From boutique label Severin Movies and famend writer, producer and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Darkish and Days Bewitched: A Historical past of Folks Horror, Home of Psychotic Girls) comes new annual sequence The Haunted Season.
Created by Janisse and govt produced by Severin Movies, new episodes of The Haunted Season will arrive on Shudder every December with chilling quick kind horror tales within the custom of telling ghost tales for Christmas. Future episodes shall be introduced every year as the vacation season approaches.
The primary of those unique commissioned productions comes from director Sean Hogan (director of The Satan’s Enterprise, and writer of England’s Screaming and its sequel Twilight’s Final Screaming), known as To Hearth You Come at Final.
In seventeenth century England, close to a rural village the place unquiet spirits collect, a grieving Squire hires three native males to assist carry his son’s coffin to a graveyard throughout the countryside. However as darkness descends upon their journey, disturbing secrets and techniques shall be revealed. Violence will rise to the floor. And because the hellhounds of native lore howl within the night time, this quartet of the damned will uncover a realm of supernatural terror that not even daybreak – or loss of life – can readily comprise.
Mark Carlisle, Harry Roebuck, Richard Rowden, Stephen Smith and James Swanton star on this “chilling” (Nigtmarish Conjurings), “intense” (Bloody Flicks) and “satisfyingly depraved” (Horror Gas) shocker written and directed by Sean Hogan (The Satan’s Enterprise, The Borderlands) produced by Severin Movies and hailed by Starburst as “an awesome addition to the pantheon of British folks horror.”
To Hearth You Come At Final can be accessible on the current All The Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folks Horror Quantity Two field set with particular options launched by Severin Movies within the U.S. and Canada.
Quantity Two brings collectively 24 movies representing 18 nations for extra of the best-loved, not often seen, thought-lost and brand-new classics of people horror, most making their disc debuts together with the North American Disc Premiere of the Severin Movies Unique Manufacturing To Hearth You Come At Final directed by Sean Hogan.”
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Watch the Trailer for SURVIVE: “In SURVIVE, Julia and her loving husband have a good time their son’s birthday on their boat in the midst of the ocean. When a violent storm almost capsizes them, the household awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The household should race to security earlier than the water returns all whereas battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for contemporary flesh.”
Hitting theaters and digital / on-demand on January tenth from Samuel Goldwyn Movies, the movie stars Émilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delamar, and Lucas Ebel.
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XYZ FILMS SETS APRIL 2025 RELEASE OF AL PACINO, DAN STEVENS EXORCISM HORROR “THE RITUAL”: “XYZ Movies has set Easter weekend April 18th, 2025 for the US theatrical launch of the exorcism horror movie The Ritual, starring Academy Award-winner Al Pacino (The Godfather trilogy) and Dan Stevens (Abigail), and directed by David Midell. Ashley Greene and Abigail Cowen spherical out the solid. The movie was acquired by XYZ earlier this 12 months simply previous to Cannes, and has additionally bought out a number of, main worldwide territories.
Based mostly on true occasions, The Ritual follows two monks – one questioning his religion (Stevens) and one reckoning with a troubled previous (Pacino) – who should put apart their variations to avoid wasting a possessed younger lady by means of a troublesome and harmful sequence of exorcisms. The movie is an genuine portrayal of Emma Schmidt, an American lady whose demonic possession culminated in harrowing exorcisms. Her case stays probably the most totally documented exorcism in American historical past.
The movie was written by Midell and Enrico Natale, and produced by Andrew Stevens, Mitchell Welch and Natale.
“David Midell’s grounded aesthetic is terrifying, genuine and leaves you extremely uneasy that these occasions really occurred” say XYZ’s companions. XYZ has lately signed David Midell to its administration division.
New gross sales and manufacturing titles from the XYZ Movies studio embody The Journey starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Juliette Lewis and Timothy Olyphant, which is at the moment in manufacturing; 2024 TIFF Platform title Daniela Ceaselessly directed by Nacho Vigalondo and starring Henry Golding and Beatrice Grannó, Full Throttle Mindset starring Josh Duhamel and Lukas Gage, Flesh of the Gods, directed by Panos Cosmatos and starring Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac, He Bled Neon with Joe Cole and Rita Ora, Kill Me with Allison Williams and Charlie Day, Free Fall starring Zachary Levi and directed by Zoë Bell, Sundance title Skywalkers: A Love Story, which bought to Netflix, Blackberry starring Gotham and Unbiased Spirit-award nominee Glenn Howerton, which was launched by IFC Movies, Ash starring Eiza González and Aaron Paul and directed by Flying Lotus, and the Netflix Unique Havoc, directed by Gareth Evans and starring Tom Hardy and Forrest Whitaker. “
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THE DEMONATRIX: “Written and directed by Jeff Ferrell (Vacation Hell, Useless West) & gothic musician and icon Aurelio Voltaire, The Demonatrix tells the story of a dominatrix (V/H/S’s Hannah Fierman) who inadvertently summons an incubus demon (Skinny Pet’s Nivek Ogre) throughout a seance, and joins forces with a priest (Voltaire) to ship it again to hell. The movie additionally stars horror icons Doug Bradley (Hellraiser) and Larry Fessenden (Jakob’s Spouse.) It options sensible creature results by Norman Cabrera (Hellboy 1&2, Cabin within the Woods.)”
