A Wounded Fawn
Inspired by surrealist art and Greek mythology, A WOUNDED FAWN follows the story of Meredith Tanning (Sarah Lind), a local museum curator who is dipping her toe back into the dating pool, only to be targeted by a charming serial killer (Josh Ruben). When a fateful romantic getaway between the two becomes a tense game of cat and mouse, both must confront the madness within him.
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SELECTED PRESS
“A serial killer thriller marked by strong performances, a twisty plot and eye catching 16mm photography. Throughout, Stevens and his collaborators take familiar ideas and images and give them a fresh pop.” - Los Angeles Times
“Fierce, jagged and surreally sinister, it’s a spiritual companion piece to its illustrious Grindhouse and giallo predecessors that gets not only their look, but also their mood right, culminating in a prolonged finale of mind-bending insanity.” - The Daily Beast
“Stevens vigorously shakes a potent cocktail with ingredients from ‘80s lakeside slahers, ‘70s psychological mind freaks, Steven Kostanski-style do-it-yourself practical effects, folkloric woodland cult vibes, Greek mythology traced to the Furies — and that’s all on the surface.” - IGN
“On the heels of Girl on the Third Floor and Jakob’s Wife, Stevens continues to prove that he is one of the best indie horror directors to emerge into the mainstream.” - Collider
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FESTIVALS
Tribeca 2022 (World Premiere)
FrightFest 2022 (International Premiere)
Fantastic Fest 2022
Beyond Fest 2022
Sitges 2022 (Spain)
Chicago International Film Festival
Telluride Horror Fest
Rama Skirk (Norway)
TORHorror Film Festival (Italy)
Molins 2022 (Spain)
Jakob's Wife
(Amp Films / 2021)
An explosive new power comes into the mundane life of Anne Fedder (Barbara Crampton), upending her 30-year marriage to Pastor Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden) and threatening to leave a trail of dead bodies throughout their small, sleepy town...
Director: Travis Stevens
Writers: Mark Steensland, Kathy Charles & Travis Stevens
Producers: Bob Portal, Barbara Crampton, Inderpal Singh & Travis Stevens
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Bonnie Aarons, Nyisha Bell, Mark Kelly, Sarah Lind, Robert Rusler, Jay Devon Johnson, Phil Brooks, Omar Salazar, Angelie Simone, Ned Yousef, Giovanni Cruz, Monica Henry, Armani Desirae, Skeeta Jenkins and Kathe Newcomb
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PRESS
“Like Stevens’ feature filmmaking debut, his followup includes a handful of memorable horror images: screen-filling gore every now and then, plus a few creepy shots of floating blood-suckers. But the film is more concerned with exploring deeply ingrained gender roles and the pressures of social expectations.” - Los Angeles Times
“More than anything, “Jakob’s Wife” offers the cheerful notion that vampirism can function as a form of marriage therapy and may even jumpstart a couple’s sex life.” - The Boston Globe
“This is Crampton’s movie through and through. The role is sexy, scary, gross, and vulnerable—sometimes all at the same time—and she sinks her teeth into it with aplomb..” - The A.V. Club
“While there are some serious themes at play, the movie still has plenty of gooey gory fun for horror fans. Director Travis Stevens did a great job making a believable world for the characters to play in and made something rare — a feminist vampire comedy. That is not something you see every day, and that uniqueness is in every frame. Believe me when I tell you that Jakob’s Wife is worth seeing.” - Film Threat
“Jakob's Wife, the endlessly entertaining horror-comedy from Travis Stevens about a minister's wife (an electric Barbara Crampton) who undergoes a startling and enlivening transformation, only to then deal with the bloody cost. It's a clever twist on vampire cinema that also manages to delicately and wonderfully balance elements of comedy, domestic drama, and horror, sometimes running them all through the span of one scene.” - SyFy
“It’s one of the best films from this year’s SXSW virtual fest. It’s destined to be a massive hit, breaking the genre molds to make Crampton, Fessenden, and Travis Stevens household names.” - ReelNewsDaily
“The film’s highlight (and one of the year’s best scenes, period) sees Anne rearranging her living room, lifting heavy furniture...and dancing to Concrete Blonde’s “Bloodletting.” It’s such a pure distillation of her newfound joy & ability, you can almost feel Stevens smiling...”" - Film School Rejects
"If you believe that the best and most innovative horror presents us with a new and heightened allegory for a specific and slightly-unexamined feeling, Travis Stevens’ terrific new film, Jakob’s Wife, should rocket to the top of your most-anticipated list. A surprisingly sweet horror-comedy (the emphasis, however, should be on the “horror” here), Stevens here presents vampirism as a compelling metaphor for the kind of mid-marriage conflict that one has when they’ve settled into a semi-comfortable routine with their chosen spouse." - Vanyaland
“All around, the acting in Jakob's Wife was superb, so even with the gallons of blood pouring out on screen every so often, the movie never feels too cheesy. In both the serious and the more comedic scenes, Crampton delivers as she always does, and her role as Anne already stands out as one of her most memorable performances. Fessenden is also not your traditional vampire movie hero, and yet he just brings a certain charm to the role of Jakob that really had me rooting for his character from start to finish.” - Movieweb
“The dynamic between Larry Fessenden and Barbara Crampton cannot be undersold...Fessenden and Crampton both bring a lifetime of experience and understanding to these roles and every minute they are on screen together is a damn delight." - Nightmare on Film Street
“Whether she’s tearing throats and guzzling gallons of practical gore or effortlessly rearranging her living room with her vampiric super-strength, Crampton’s portrait of late-middle age angst giving way to rebellion and reinvention is the highlight of the film.” - Slash Film
“With nods to the Stephen King bloodsuckers in The Night Flier and Salem’s Lot, director Travis Stevens also took inspiration from the more indie modern takes like Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction and Kiss of the Damned from Xan Cassavetes. But the most obvious connective tissue comes from Larry Fessenden’s New York classic Habit and the Grace Jones seductive thriller Vamp starring Robert Rusler. It’s really in the creature design and theatrical entrances of “The Master” where all of these influences allow Jakob’s Wife to soar off the ground, leap off rooftops and start to have a lot more fun with the genre.” - Dread Central
“Travis Stevens infuses Jakob’s Wife with the look and feel of campy ’80s horror-comedies like The Lost Boys, without ever losing sight of the repressive marriage at the heart of the story. It’s a unique spin on one of horror’s oldest tales, shot through with some biting social criticism about the insidious darkness lurking beneath the most seemingly banal of relationships.” - Bad Feeling Mag
“JAKOB’S WIFE is a vital and shocking modern vampire story that seduces you with your own fears and longing. It is empowerment by exsanguination. Using the fantasy construct of the classic vampire tale, it tackles the unfairness of how women are treated in our world and our potential to reclaim that power again.” - Nightmarish Conjuring
“Stevens clearly has a knack for this and his name is going to garner attention from horror fans with every project going forward. Jakob’s Wife is a blood gushing, throat ripping good time.” - Ghastly Grinning
“Like his first film, Jakob's Wife looks at gender politics through a cracked lens, one which reveals the toxicity of a certain kind of man and the ways it can poison those around them. The difference this time around is that this is not Jakob's story. It's the story of Jakob's wife. She has a name, motherfucker, and it's Anne. Ignore it at your own peril.” - F This Movie!
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW (2021)
Panic Fest (2021)
Girl on the Third Floor
(QUEENSBURY PICTURES / 2019)
Bursting pipes, rotting walls and unidentifiable slime were not what Don Koch (WWE legend Phil "CM Punk" Brooks) expected when he convinced his wife Liz (Trieste Kelly Dunn) that he could renovate their new Victorian home himself. In over his head, under duress and tempted by his old weaknesses, Don soon discovers that the house has its own dark, sordid history and won't be so easy to change after all....
Writer, Producer & Director: Travis Stevens
Starring: Phil Brooks, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks, Elissa Dowling, Karen Woditsch, Travis Delgado, Anish Jethmalani, Bishop Stevens & Tonya Kay
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PRESS
“Gore and supernatural comeuppances ensue in a haunted-house flick that mostly eschews jump scares for more satisfying psychological and erotic twists. Punk gives an engaging performance as the increasingly unhinged Don, his tattooed torso and heavy metal playlist no match for the power of a ghostly girl done wrong.” - New York Post
“Stevens makes an impressive directorial debut here, smartly turning the sourness at Don’s core into all manner of viscerally disgusting rot and goo.” - Los Angeles Times
“A deceptively layered haunted house movie that's vicious in its indictment of toxic masculinity (and quite terrifying in its vision of home improvement gone terribly wrong)" - Fortune
"Girl on the Third Floor is more than resourceful and stylish enough for horror fans to eagerly anticipate Stevens’ directorial future — the opening credits alone suggest a refined skill set that’s well above genre average." - Variety
“Girl on the Third Floor is thrilling, distinctive, funny, scary, disturbing and smart. It should not be missed.” - Bloody Disgusting
"Girl On The Third Floor has enough carnage and bloodshed to satisfy all gorehounds. Director Travis Stevens gets terrific performances from an excellent cast, and the atmosphere is consistently foreboding. The set design, cinematography, and gooey practical effects are fantastic to behold." - Film Threat
"A truly memorable directorial debut." - Daily Dead
“The best of the program is Travis Stevens’ “The Girl on the Third Floor,” a genre hybrid about a deeply flawed man who enters into one of the most terrifying home rehab projects in movie history. Stevens is an admired veteran of indie horror, producing respected films like “Cheap Thrills,” “Starry Eyes,” “We Are Still Here,” and “68 Kill.” He makes his directorial debut here, and his experience on indie horror sets for the last decade pays off with a confidence behind the camera that never betrays the fact that this is actually a debut.” - RogerEbert.Com
“An unsettling and icky descent into a man-made hell.” - Film School Rejects
“Girl on the Third Floor uses predictability to generate suspense. It draws the audience through each step of the protagonist’s inevitable downfall, delivering copious foreshadowing and jump scares with simple practical effects. Marbles, mucus, and doorbells have never been so ominous..” - The Verge
“Girl On The Third Floor is both a highly accomplished haunted house story for the #metoo generation, and an examination of antediluvian male drives (for sex and power) that even the perfect domestic situation struggles to contain.” -SciFiNow
"Girl on the Third Floor succeeds as a straightforward haunted house film, but its unique cinematic eye and deep, ambiguous themes are what set it apart from the rest...a marvelous little ghost story" - Nightmare on Film Street
“Stevens breaks a man down, tears a house apart, and leaves us with the ultimate conclusion that forgiveness can only be granted so many times. People change, but only if they desire metamorphosis. Girl on the Third Floor is a portrait of victimization and the vengeful spirits who refuse to see others join them as more failed statistics, with erupting blood sink geysers for good measure.” - SlashFilm
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW (2019)
Boston Underground Film Festival (2019)
Chattanooga Film Festival (2019)
Overlook Film Festival (2019)
Popcorn Frights (2019)
Fright Fest (2019)
Fantasy Film Fest (2019)
Sydney Underground Film Festival (2019)
Beyond Fest (2019)
Brooklyn Horror Fest (2019)
Winner: Best Gooey Effects Award
Telluride Horror Fest (2019)
Sheridan WYO Film Festival (2019)
Nightmare Film Festival (2019)
Burning Kentucky
(2019)
In the hazy mountains of eastern Kentucky, a young woman searches for the missing pieces of a mysterious event that killed her family. When the truth is revealed, she must choose between the love of a man or avenging her blood.
Director: Bethany Brooke Anderson
Starring: John Pyper-Ferguson, Emilie Dhir, Nick McCallum, Nathan Sutton, Augie Duke, Andy Umberger and Charlie Bewley.
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PRESS
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Mammoth Film Festival (2019)
Garden State Film Festival (2019)
Chattanooga Film Festival (2019)
AWARDS
Best Pictures, Mammoth Film Festival (2019)
Best Actress, Augie Duke, Mammoth Film Festival (2019)
Best Feature, Garden State Film Festival (2019)
Best Feature, Chattanooga Film Festival (2019)
Concrete Futuro
(2019)
CONCRETE FUTURO follows Braulio Castro during his 7 year struggle to build a world class skate park in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico.
After seeing the potential in local skateboarders Aldo Reyes and Cristian Ramsburgh, Braulio starts ATMC Skateboards and begins holding public events and lobbying the municipal government to support the blossoming skateboard scene in their beachside community.
But despite the promises, progress is slow to happen.
Traveling across Mexico and the United States, Braulio looks for guidance on how other skate scenes have built support for their local riders...and uses that info in his final push to make this dream park a reality.
Director: Jade Porter
Starring: Braulio Castro, Aldo Reyes, Cristian Ramsburgh, Gustavo Servin, Jr., Max Berrara, Paul Rodriguez, Jamie Thomas
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Montauk Film Festival, 2021 (USA)
Winner: Outstanding Female Content Creator Award
Hover
(2018)
HOVER takes place in the near future, where environmental strain has caused food shortages around the world. Technology provides a narrow path forward, with agricultural drones maximizing the yield from what land remains. Two compassionate care providers, Claudia (Coleman) and her mentor John (Craig muMs Grant), work to assist sick farmland inhabitants in ending their lives. After John dies under mysterious circumstances, a group of locals helps Claudia to uncover a deadly connection between the health of her clients and the technology they are using
Director: Matt Osterman
Starring: Cleopatra Coleman, Craigs muMs Grant, Shane Coffey, Beth Grant, Fabianne Therese, Rhoda Griffis, Leo Fitzpatrick
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Cinepocalypse, 2018 (USA)
AWARDS
For More Information about filming in the State of Louisiana
https://louisianaentertainment.gov/
The Endless
(2018)
Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier.
Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't find as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.
Director: Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead
Starring: Callie Hernandez, Emily Montague, Tate Ellington, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorehead and Lew Temple
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"Spooky, funny, touching and very, very well made.” - The Washington Post
"The Endless" gets into your head and keeps you alert for whatever abnormal turn comes next.” - The San Francisco Chronicle
”Great use of an eerie Southern California landscape and some fine, naturalistic acting emphasizes how the ordinary can sometimes seem threatening - and vice-versa.” - The Los Angeles Times
“With its politically charged themes of oppression and the genocide of Native Americans and the play on how history has been presented in the past, "Mohawk" is a fascinating and engaging tale of bloody revenge.” - The Playlist
“Part of the delicious joy of watching this film is by allowing it to unfold. Benson's script, that he also co-directs with his real-life sibling, is a slow drip of confounding developments.” - Film Threat
“A movie that plays with our perceptions of time, space, and reality, and sketches the outlines of unimaginable terror while leaving the details to our imagination.” - RogerEbert.Com
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Tribeca Film Festival, 2017
Fantasia Film Festival, 2017
Fantastic Fest, 2017
Morbido Film Festival, 2017
Sitges Film Festival, 2017
AWARDS
Mohawk
(2018)
The year is 1814.
Okwaho (Kanietiio Horn) and Calvin Two-Rivers (Justin Rain) are the last of their Mohawk tribe; Joshua Pinsmail (Eamon Farren), a British loyalist who loves – and will die for – the both of them.
Battling against the ruthless new Americans, as they’ve done for nearly two decades, the Mohawk people have fought for their survival and lost. The War of 1812 has all but wiped their blood from the maps of New England. But tonight, after burning an American camp in retaliation for all they’ve lost, these three desperate warriors have become the hunted.
Rising like a howling phoenix from the charred remains of his camp, Captain Hezekiah Holt (Ezra Buzzington) and the crazed last remnants of his renegade American battalion are hot on their trail and hungry for revenge.
These six furious American soldiers will do anything to protect the country they now call their own – and are about to hunt down these lost warriors by any means necessary.
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Kanietiio Horn, Eamon Farren, Justin Rain, Ezra Buzzington, Jonathan Huber, Ian Colletti, Robert Longstreet, Noah Segan and Sherri Foster.
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"Mohawk" is a gripping and despairing action picture, about how we can't seem to stop trying to destroy those we distrust - including ourselves.” - Los Angeles Times
“A period-piece action-horror effort with relevant sociopolitical thoughts on its bloodthirsty mind.” - Variety
“Ted Geoghegan's swift, slicing thriller Mohawk makes a vigorous case for horror as perhaps the most fitting film genre to capture some truths of American history.” - Village Voice
“With its politically charged themes of oppression and the genocide of Native Americans and the play on how history has been presented in the past, "Mohawk" is a fascinating and engaging tale of bloody revenge.” - The Playlist
“Ted Geoghegan's Mohawk is a survival-of-the-fittest film that's charged with a thunderous urgency.” - Slant Magazine
“Has the same political urgency as Wes Craven's now-classic, but rough-around-the-edges early films, like Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes.” - RogerEbert.Com
“In the role of Oak, Horn turns in a moving and raw performance as she turns from prey to predator.” - Vulture
"Equal parts classic revenge thriller, historical lesson in genocide, and political statement"." - Collider
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Fantasia Film Festival, 2017
Morbido Film Festival, 2017
Cinepocalypse Film Festival, 2017
Beyond Fest, 2017
Fantaspoa, 2017
AWARDS
68 Kill
(2017)
Scraping by flushing septic systems is not Chip's vision of a perfect life. But he's a simple guy and he's got a great girlfriend in Liza. Sure, she supplements their income with a sugar daddy, but every relationship has it's own complexities.
When Liza suggests that they relieve her sleazy benefactor of a stack of cash, Chip begins to see a side of her he never knew existed...or never wanted to admit. Now he's got a gun in his hand, a girl in his trunk and less than 24 hours to figure his way out of this mess.
A punk-rock romantic comedy for our jagged times.
Director: Trent Haaga
Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, AnnaLynne McCord, Sheila Vand & Alisha Boe
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“Those who pick through every motion picture searching for the "problematic" will want to steer clear of "68 Kill." But fans of wicked women may have a new cult favorite.” - The Los Angeles Times
“A film which clearly and desperately aspires for cult status, 68 Kill will undoubtedly have its fans, but they won't be people you'll want to have over for dinner.” - The Hollywood Reporter
“Nuttier than a bakery full of fruitcakes and sleazier than a cheap strip club, "68 Kill" is a proudly morbid heist movie that wallows in bad taste and still comes off as absurdly funny.” - The New York Times
“It's full of potentially offensive material, but played so deftly most audiences will chuckle rather than upchuck.” - Screen International
"68 Kill is one of the best films to come out of SXSW this year and one of my top films of 2017. It’s unique in that it combines incredible and concise storytelling with precise character development, over the top bloodshed and quality humor which makes this film unlike anything else out there." - iHorror
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW, 2017
Boston Underground Film Festival 2017
Chattanooga Film Festival 2017
Florida Film Festival 2017
AWARDS
SXSW 2017 Audience Award (Midnighters)
BUFF 2017 Most Effectively Offensive Award
For More Information about filming in the State of Louisiana
https://louisianaentertainment.gov/
XX
(2017)
An all female horror anthology featuring new work from Karyn Kusama, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin and Jovanka Vuckovic.
Director: Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama & Sofia Carillo
Starring: Christina Kirk, Melanie Lynskey, Sheila Vand, Natalie Brown, Angela Trimbur, Mike Doyle, Kyle Allen, Breeda Wool, Payton Kennedy, Morgan Krantz, Brenda Wehle, Jonathan Watton
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"This could be the first great horror film of 2017." - Esquire
"Dully unsettling." - Nerdist
"Chilling." - Rolling Stone
“Skin-crawling creepy.” - LA Weekly
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Sundance, 2017
24X36: A Movie About Movie Posters
(2016)
Movie posters have changed over the years because the film industry has changed as well. The days when movie studios could market films in complex ways are over. There was more balance between art and commerce in both studio movie making and movie marketing. Now, films made for artistic reasons are largely made outside of the Hollywood studio system and the methods to market studio films are almost solely focused on what works for audiences who don’t want to be creatively challenged, and “just want entertainment.” But there are always those who never forgot that the movies they loved could be celebrated in ways beyond just viewing them. Their love for movies extended to their appreciation of illustrated poster art. Just because studio marketing had changed didn’t mean that the art of movie posters had to die.
24 x 36 tells this story. Learn how artists like John Alvin and Roger Kastel created iconic posters. See why the poster world changed and most importantly, about the people that helped bring it back: the companies that commission modern posters, the galleries that display them and the fans who collect them. (James Emanuel Shapiro)
Director: Kevin Burke
Starring: Joe Dante
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"Part history of US film promotion and part video art-gallery, part survey of modern artists and part nerdy fan letter." - Ars Technica
"This doc is so much fun..." - Ain't It Cool News
"A crisp, focused and at times heartbreaking look at these iconic images that have played such an influential part in all of our lives..." - Glide Magazine
“24x36: A Movie About Posters maligns all the boring-ass staid key art churned out for contemporary films — Gotham typeface, I’m coming for you — giving the movie posters of yore and their artists much love and credit.” - LA Weekly
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Fantastic Fest, 2016
Canadian Premiere: DEDFest, 2016
Hamilton Film Festival, 2016 (CAN)
Rio Grind Film Festival, 2016 (CAN)
Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival, 2016 (CAN) BEST POSTER, BEST EDITING & BEST DIRECTING AWARDS
Buster's Mal Heart
(2016)
An eccentric mountain man on the run survives the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes. He's haunted by a recurring dream of being lost at sea only to discover that the dream is real. He is one man in two bodies. This is the story of how he split in two.
Director: Sarah Adina Smith
Starring: Rami Malek, Kate Lyn Sheil, DJ Qualls, Toby Huss, Lin Shaye, Lance Barber, Mark Kelly, Bruce Bundy and Teresa Yenque.
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"A philosophical exploration whose themes are big and universal..." - The Daily Beast
"A chilling and surreal thriller..." - The Michigan Journal
"A feast for the mind..." - The Moveable Fest
"The film dares us to question our place in the grand scheme of things..." - Film School Rejects
"A fable set in the past, and an atheist's prayer for the future..." - The Matinee
"An unconventional indie that doesn't follow the standard ways of storytelling, this is one of the upcoming dramas not to miss." - Cultjer
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Toronto Internation Film Festival, 2016
US Premiere: Fantastic Fest, 2016
Cucalorus 22 (USA)
AFI FEST 2016 (USA)
Teenage Cocktail
(2016)
Feeling confined by their small town and overbearing parents, Annie and Jules hatch a scheme of running away. The only issue is, they need the money to get there. Jules suggests the couple try webcam modelling. Although she’s nervous at first, Annie can’t argue when the money starts rolling in. But as the girls soon find out, consequences can blindside you. Sometimes violently.
Director: John Carchietta
Starring: Nichole Bloom, Fabianne Therese, Pat Healy, Michelle Borth, Joshua Leonard and AJ Bowen
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"A riveting romantic rollercoaster and successful thriller at the same time..." - Collider
"Most impressive about Carchietta's approach to the rather sound script (which the director co-wrote with Sage Bannick and Chris Sivertson) is how he refuses to pass judgement as these girls make one reckless decision after another..." - Birth.Movies.Death
"Both Bloom and Therese shine in TEENAGE COCKTAIL, conceiving their characters in ways that feel wholly authentic to the teenage experience..." - DailyDead
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW, Visions Section
Boston Underground Film Fest
Greenwich International Film Fest
Fantasia International Film Fest (International Premiere)
Sidewalk Film Festival (USA) WINNER BEST SHOUT! NARRATIVE FEATURE
Deauville American Film Festival (France)
NewFest (USA)
DEDFest (Canada)
RazorReel (Belgium)
Trash Fire
(2016)
When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder.
Director: Richard Bates Jr.
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, AnnaLynne McCord, Fionnula Flanagan, Matthew Gray Gubler, Ray Santiago
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"If you find hateful people spewing venom at one another punctuated by random acts of violence amusing, then buckle up, you sick fuck. You're about to go on a ride." - AV Club
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival, Midnight section
International Premiere: Fantasia International Film Festival
Boston Underground Film Festival BEST FEATURE AWARD
Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival (Switzerland)
Fantasy Film Fest (Germany)
Sydney Underground (Australia)
Strasbourg Fantastic Film Festival (France)
Chicago Critics Film Festival (USA)
/FilmFest Vienna (Austria)
Toronto After Dark (Canada)
Brooklyn Horror Fim Festival (USA) BEST ACTRESS AWARD
LA Screamfest (USA)
We Are Still Here
(2015)
In the cold, wintery fields of New England, a lonely old house wakes up every thirty years - and demands a sacrifice.
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Marie and Monte Markham
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"A more nuanced (and spookier) European approach to the haunted-house drama" - The Wall Street Journal
"It might be the single most terrifying movie of 2015." - Paste Magazine
"Genre fans with a sense of history should make this entertaining chiller a sought-after item for midnight slots." - Variety
"We Are Still Here is so relentlessly terrifying it speaks for itself." - The New York Observer
"Old-fashioned, unreconstructed horror film, complete with creepy townsfolk, squawky soundtrack, and what looks like a fair lashing of gore." - IndieWire
"Geoghegan establishes what seems to be a simple haunted house set-up but adds complications which make the outcome less predictable." - Screen International
"A refreshing yet disturbing thriller." - Twitch Film
"WE ARE STILL HERE is a deeply weird, unsettling movie, one that begins small and still and quiet and steadily climbs to a demented, blood-drenched frenzy." - Birth.Movies.Death
"WE ARE STILL HERE is a masterfully crafted slow creeper that knows when to ratchet up the tension and release." - Bloody Disgusting
"The modern day haunted house-house subgenre receives a particularly stylish, uniquely vivifying shot in the arm via WE ARE STILL HERE." - Fangoria
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW 2015
International Premiere: Sydney Film Festival
European Premiere: Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
Asian Premiere: Bifan Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Official Selection: Fantasia International Film Festival, Film4 FrightFest, Sitges Film Festiva
AWARDS
Audiences Everywhere Best New Horror Director
Jury Award Winner, Best Special Effects – International Film, Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival
Fright Meter Awards Nominations: Best Director , Best Actress (Barbara Crampton), Best Supporting Actor (Larry Fessenden), Best Supporting Actress (Lisa Marie) Best Makeup (Marcus Koch), Best Editing (Josh Ethier, Aaron Crozier), Best Cinematography (Karim Hussain)
Fangoria’s Chainsaw Awards Nominations: Best Limited-Release / Direct-to-Video Film, Best Actress (Barbara Crampton), Best Supporting Actor (Larry Fessenden), Best Score (Wojciech Golczewski), Best Makeup / Creature FX (Marcus Koch)
NOTEWORTHY
Rotten Tomatoes #2 Best Horror Films of 2015, with 95% Fresh Rating
One of Rolling Stone’s 10 Best Horror Movies of 2015
One of Fangoria’s Top 10 Movies in 2015 Horror
One of Horror News’ 10 Best Films of 2015
One of Fandango’s Top 10 Horror-Movie Posters of 2015
Starry Eyes
(2014)
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Director: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer
Starring: Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Fabianne Therese, Noah Segan, Pat Healy, Shane Coffey, Natalie Castillo, Nick Simmons, Marc Senter, Maria Olsen and Louis Dezseran
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"If David Lynch and David Cronenberg came together to craft a gory, psychological mindbender, it might be Starry Eyes." - TIME Magazine
"Featuring a knockout performance by Alex Essoe (...) the pic pushes the Tinseltown nightmare scenario to inventive and exciting extremes." - Variety
''Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer break new ground with the horrific answer they deliver. (...) Horror fans should keep their eyes on the filmmakers — and Essoe, who gives a star-making performance." - Entertainment Weekly
"Starry Eyes may leave you feeling hopeless, but its bleak vision of masochistic perfectionism is clear-eyed, cogent, and devastatingly unsettling." - RogerEbert.com
"this film is never just one type of horror film, and while it has many influences, none of this film feels borrowed – it fully creates itself into something wholly unique. This could very well be the best horror film of the year." - Sound on Sight
"Deservedly, Widmyer and Kolsch will be awarded props for intelligently merging the black comedy of Hollywood failure with the Cronenberg-like body horror and slasher-movie brutality. The secondhand trauma is something special." - Complex Magazine
"a most welcome addition to the Hollywood nightmare genre. The genius of Starry Eyes is that it melds the abstract Lynchian nightmare with the body horror of Cronenberg." - TwitchFilm
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW 2014
International Premiere: Neuchatel International Fantastic Festival
Asian Premiere: Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2014
Official Selection: Stanley Film Fest, Sitges International Film Festival, Film4 FrightFest, Fantasia International Film Festival, Paris International Fantastic Fim Festival, Helsinki Night Visions Film Festival, Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, BeyondFest , Fantasy Film Festival
AWARDS
Special Mention of the Jury - BIFFF 2014
Excellence in Poster Design - SXSW 2014
Director's Choice Awards for Best Feature - Boston Underground Film Festival, 2014
Best Actress (Alex Essoe) - Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
NOTEWORTHY
Best Film out of Top 10 Horror Films of 2014 - Bloody Disgusting
Best Film out of Top 15 Horror Movies of 2014 - Icons of Fright
One of 10 Best Horror Movies of 2014 - Movies.com
One of Top 10 Horror Films of 2014 - Fangoria
One of Top 10 Horror Films of 2014 - Collider
One of 14 Best Horror Films of 2014 - Film School Rejects
One of Top 14 Movies of 2014 - Birth.Movies.Death
One of Top 15 Genre Films of 2014 - Shock Till You Drop
Cheap Thrills
(2013)
A scheming couple put a struggling family man and his old friend through a series of increasingly twisted dares over the course of an evening at a local bar.
Director: E.L. Katz
Starring: Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, David Koechner and Sara Paxton
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"You should watch it as a twisted comedy. Those who do will be rewarded, especially by the film's outlandish final image." -Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times
“Cheap Thrills is a thoroughly nasty piece of work." -Joe Leydon, Variety
"One of the most involving works of cinematic misanthropy in years." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
"Suggests 'Jackass' Meets Michael Haneke." -Eric Kohn, Indiewire
"A Black Comic Masterpiece. -Drew McWeeny, HitFix
"Simple, effective and consistently provocative, Cheap Thrills is a masterful debut from a director to watch.. -Chris Tilly, IGN
"100% can’t miss film for any viewer that wants to be sickened, surprised and impressed." -Evan Dickson, Bloody Disgusting
"Fiendish, fierce, and funny." -Peter Martin, Twitch
"Original, satirical, violent, funny….Consider yourself warned. Genre flicks this unique, daring, and perversely thoughtful don't come around very often." -Matt Barone, Complex Magazine
"Nasty fun on the surface, but rather a smart little morality play on the whole." -Scott Weinberg, FEARnet
"Its a gritty, brutal film that’s much smarter than it may look at first glance." -Luke Mullen, Film School Rejects
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW 2013
International Premiere: Fantasia International Film Festival
European Premiere: Film4 Fright Fest
Official Selection: Seattle International Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Sitges International Film Festival, 2013, Sydney Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Lund Fantastisk Film Festival, Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Paris International Fantastic Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival
AWARDS
Midnighters Audience Award - SXSW
New Flesh Award - Fantasia International Film Festival
Director's Choice Award - Boston Underground Film Festival, 2013
Best After Dark Gold Hugo Award - Chicago International Film Festival
Best Feature - Imagine Film Festival
Best Screenplay - Malaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema
Best Actor (Pat Healy) - Fright Meter Awards
NOTEWORTHY
Best film of 2013 - Bloody Disgusting
One of 11 Best Directorial Debuts of 2014 - Indiewire
One of Top 10 Films of 2013 - HitFix
One of 10 Best Films of 2014 - Chicago Reader
One of Top 10 Films of 2014 - Collider
One of Top 15 Genre Films of 2014 - Shock Till You Drop
Jodorowsky's Dune
(2013)
The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.
Director: Frank Pavich
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"A deeply moving testament to single-minded, indefatigable commitment of creative vision and to an almost spiritual ability to let that vision go, thereby allowing it to exist in the world in an entirely unexpected form." -The Washington Post
"A great seminar on creativity." - The Wall Street Journal
"If you enjoy sci-fi, cult cinema, or messianic quests by quixotic lunatics, you will love this movie." - Entertainment Weekly
"A fascinating document of one of the most legendary films ever not made." - NPR
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs - Director's Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2013
International Premiere: Toronto International Film Festival
Asian Premiere: Tokyo International Film Festival
Official Selection: Telluride Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, London Film Festival, AFI Fest, Sitges International Film Festival 2013,Hong Kong International Film Festival, Imagine Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.
AWARDS
Best Documentary and Audience Awards - Fantastic Fest 2013
Silver Scream Award - Imagine Film Festival 2014
Special Mention of the Jury and Audience Award - Sitges International Film Festival 2013
NBR Award for Top Five Documentaries- National Board of Review 2014
AFCA Award for Best Documentary - Australian Film Critics Association Awards 2015
EDA Award for Best Documentary - Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2015
NOTEWORTHY
98% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
One of Best 10 Movies of 2014 - Entertainment Weekly
One of Best 10 Movies of 2014 - Examiner
One of Best 10 Movies of 2014 - The Japan Times
One of Top 15 Movies of 2014 - Birth.Movies.Death
One of Top 15 Movies of 2014 - The Dissolve
American Muscle
(2014)
John Falcon did 10 years of hard time in prison. Now he's got 24 hours to get revenge on every person who had a hand in sending him there.
Director: Ravi Dhar
Starring: Nick Principie, Robin Sydney, Todd Farmer, John Fallon, Malice McMunn, Trent Haaga, Philip Salick, Laban Pheidias and James Duvall
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"This movie is going to take us all out back and kick our asses until we say "Uncle!"- Eric Walkuski, Arrow in the Head
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OFFICIAL SELECTION
Morbido Fest, 2014
Big Ass Spider
(2013)
A giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, it is up to a team of scientists, a clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the city is destroyed.
Director: Mike Mendez
Starring: Greg Grunberg, Lombardo Boyar, Clare Kramer, Patrick Bauchau and Ray Wise
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"An exceedingly good-natured Z-grade creature feature that finds Angel City under attack by a quite literal spider from Mars. Made with tongue welded firmly to cheek, loads of affection for big rubbery monsters, and some surprisingly accomplished bargain-basement effects, director Mike Mendez’s fifth schlock feature is strictly for genre buffs who’ll delight at the sight of Troma impresario Lloyd Kaufman get devoured by a giant arachnid — as well as anyone who found “Sharknado” a bit too highbrow for their taste."
-Scout Foundas, Variety
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: SXSW 2013
International Premiere: Dead By Dawn Horror Film Festival
European Premiere: Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
Asian Premiere: Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
Official Selection: Calgary Underground Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, Sitges International Film Festival , Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival
AWARD
Best DVD Release - 2014 Saturn Awards
The Aggression Scale
(2012)
Four heavily armed hitmen and two unusual teenagers go to war over $500,000 of stolen cash.
Director: Steven C. Miller
Starring: Ryan Hartwig, Fabianne Therese, Dana Ashbrook, Derek Mears, Jacob Reynolds, Joseph McKelheer, Boyd Kestner, Lisa Rotondi and Ray Wise
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"A thrilling and violent film that puts a new spin on the fight of good versus evil." - Blu-Ray.Com
"A tough-as-nails indie stalk/chase/revenge thriller...a low-budget ass-kicker" -Scott Weinberg, FearNet.com
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FESTIVALS
OFFICIAL SELECTION
SXSW 2012
Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival 2012
Lund International Film Festival
Fantasy Film Fest 2012
Newport Beach International Film Festival 2012
The Thompsons
(2012)
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished family of blood-suckers heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Directors: The Butcher Brothers (Phil Flores, Mitchell Altieri)
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Film4 Fright Fest 2012
A Horrible Way To Die
(2010)
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Amy Seimetz, AJ Bowen and Joe Swanberg,
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"A restrained, ripely atmospheric thriller that relies more on mood than on special effects." - The New York Times
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere: Toronto International Film Festival 2011
International Premiere: Leeds International Film Festival
Official Selection: Denver International Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival, Imagine Film Festival, Calgary Underground Film Festival
AWARDS
Best Screenplay - Fantastic Fest 2011
Best Actor - Fantastic Fest 2011
Best Actress - Fantastic Fest 2011
