In 1970s Detroit a working-class romantic is framed by a ruthless gangster after falling for his girlfriend. After years in prison, he returns with only one mission: revenge.
A powerful sage seeks the peak of his magical powers, even if he has to die.
Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.
July is coming in hot and Shudder has announced their lineup of feature films and repertory titles next month. First up, the feature film lineup is one of the strongest the streamer has had all year. It starts with the tremendously funny horror comedy, Touch Me, followed by the new Faces of Death, Japanese liminal thriller Exit 8, Natalie Erika James’s Saccharine and the most recently announced acquisition, Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn. All were either highly anticipated films this year, or critically acclaimed releases. In the repertory programming there is a whole block of public domain/horror parodies coming on July 6th. The rest of the lineup features a fair number of classics like Evil Dead, I Spit on Your Grave, The Craft, Cabin in the Woods,…
The news that Severin Films was partnering with Yellow Veil Pictures to release a box set of Belgian director Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s films came as a pleasant surprise. But I quickly recognized that such a partnering made complete sense. While Severin is often thought of as a champion of neglected exploitation cinema, that sort of simplistic labeling makes less sense when you look at their output, which also includes films such as Peter Medak’s Drowning by Numbers (1988), Juenet and Caro’s Delicatessen (1991), and Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue (1980). The truth is that the instincts that have led to Severin releasing box sets of Ray Dennis Steckler, Andy Milligan and Al Adamson, complete with hours of deep-dive extras laden with expert and…
Austrian filmmaker Rosa Friedrich will unveil her playful hybrid documentary about porn shoot gone awry in the Proxima competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
THR is reporting that Shudder has acquired North American, Australian and New Zealand rights to Nightborn, the new horror feature from Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm, director of 2022’s breakout debut, Hatching. Their sophomore feature film stars Seidi Haarla (Compartment No. 6, Icebreaker) and Rupert Grint (the Harry Potter series, Servant). With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. As soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. Their marriage begins to crack and Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn. – Fantasia…
Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint star in Hanna Bergholm’s sophomore feature film – picked up by Shudder for a July streaming premiere.
The new season begins on Crunchyroll with a cheery period reincarnation comedy.
On the one-year anniversary of the brutal murder of an exotic dancer, a serial killer with a specific kink is “afoot,” stalking and slaughtering his favorite performers to feed his perverse collection of pumps.