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Here is the official trailer for Izabel Pakzad’s feature debut, Find Your Friends, is here. All set to start streaming on Shudder this June (Friday the 12th).   Watch the trailer for a film our own Josh said, “… is bound to be one of the most talked about films of the year”, when they saw it at Fantasia last Summer. It was such a good line that Shudder saw fit to include it in the trailer, down below. Yay, team.    You will find a stack of stills in the gallery below as well.    FIND YOUR FRIENDS   DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY IZABEL PAKZAD   Starring Bella Thorne, Chloe Cherry, Helena Howard, Sophia Ali, Zión Moreno   Streaming on Shudder Starting Friday, June…

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In 1970s Detroit, John Miller falls for a local gangster’s girl. In retaliation, the gangster enacts a frame job to send the innocent man to prison. Life ruined, Miller plots a revenge campaign against the man who took his girl away.

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Shannon Gisela, Cary Elwes, and Danay Garcia lead the ensemble cast in the crime thriller series.

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Alexandria Dadarrio, Daveed Diggs, Josh Gad, and Ashley Park star in writer/director Nora Kirkpatrick’s film.

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Variety is reporting that action icon Scott Adkins is making their directorial debut with an action thriller called Brawler. They are currently filming their debut in the UK. Sales will begin during Marche du Film at Cannes next month.    When action stars or stunt professionals get behind the camera the news it usually met with enthusiasm. Adkins breathes fight choreography and knows how to capture it correctly, to highlight the moves and the person making them.   The contemporary path to directing had been made by the likes of Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, and Sam Hargrave. It’s Adkins’ turn to show us what he’s got.    Find out more from Variety.   Action vet Scott Adkins (The Rip) is making his directorial debut with…

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Our friends at Del Toro Films are co-presenting Patrik Mosquera’s feature debut Colombian horror flick, Six: Game of Death, during Marche du Film at Cannes next month.

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Ella Bruccoleri, Laurie Davidson, Dónal Finn, Indira Varma, Richard E. Grant and Ruth Jones star in Sarah Quintrell’s adaptation of Janice Hadlow’s novel.

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Summer camp for genre film nerds is back for it’s thirtieth anniversary edition. LFG! The first wave of titles for this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival is here and it is full of films from faves and friends of the ScreenAnarchy family.    Films from our friends Jenn Wexler (The Last Temptation of Becky) and Casey Walker (Home Bodies) will be having their World Premieres during the festival. We also get new films from faves like Giddens Ko (Kung Fu) and Fantasia’s go-to time-travel screenwriter, Makoto Ueda (Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, River), who is making their feature film directorial debut with You Are The Film.    The list of other World Premieres feature Hot Spot, the new film from Polish autuer Agnieszka Smoczyńska (The Lure), queer vampire…

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Directed by Shūkō Murase, the second installment of the trilogy balances military actions with outright rebellion.

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Though we are well beyond the recent pandemic, Gen Z still feels the suffocation of those lockdown days, which makes it understandable why they remain fascinated by liminal spaces. Empty or transitional halls, abandoned malls, and lone-standing parking garages all insinuate their very dreaded pandemic-era isolation and the urge to engage with real people once again. Hence, it is no wonder that these “in-between” places reflect a comfortable familiarity with digital existence, turning unsettling atmospheres into a popular aesthetic known as “liminal horror.” The sudden emptying of public spaces created their shared living experience in a “liminal” state. These liminal spaces instantly catch their attention wherever they appear, just as in Kane Parsons’ viral Backrooms YouTube series, which began on January 7, 2022. It was…

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