Genre filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak) made headlines last week when he announced via THR that he plans to soon focus exclusively on animated films.
“Animation to me is the purest form of art, and it’s been kidnapped by a bunch of hoodlums. We have to rescue it. [And] I think that we can Trojan-horse a lot of good shit into the animation world,” del Toro candidly told the outlet. He’s not wrong; a rich world of stunning animation exists beyond films targeting young audiences. That includes horror, of course.
This week’s streaming picks highlight the storytelling that animation can achieve and the various techniques and styles employed to capture them. These five animated horror movies vary in tone and style, from stop-motion to 2D traditional and beyond, finding haunting beauty in grim realities.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home,...
“Animation to me is the purest form of art, and it’s been kidnapped by a bunch of hoodlums. We have to rescue it. [And] I think that we can Trojan-horse a lot of good shit into the animation world,” del Toro candidly told the outlet. He’s not wrong; a rich world of stunning animation exists beyond films targeting young audiences. That includes horror, of course.
This week’s streaming picks highlight the storytelling that animation can achieve and the various techniques and styles employed to capture them. These five animated horror movies vary in tone and style, from stop-motion to 2D traditional and beyond, finding haunting beauty in grim realities.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home,...
- 6/19/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
March is coming to an end and while Screambox‘s April line-up is absolutely jam-packed – stay tuned! – we’re first ending this month with a bang.
Now streaming on Screambox are several Dark Star Pictures classics, including the completely gonzo Bloody Disgusting collaboration Dementia: Part II, which delivers absurd gross-out humor and nonstop mayhem.
Here are some of the titles in addition to new Screambox arrivals Evil Little Things, Crispy’s Curse, Clownface, Clownado, and the previously released Killer Sofa and FeardotCom.
Achoura
Also called “Children’s Night,” Achoura is a religious celebration. In Morocco, children splash water on each other and gather around a bonfire.
In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a horrible legend.
Patrick Bromley...
Now streaming on Screambox are several Dark Star Pictures classics, including the completely gonzo Bloody Disgusting collaboration Dementia: Part II, which delivers absurd gross-out humor and nonstop mayhem.
Here are some of the titles in addition to new Screambox arrivals Evil Little Things, Crispy’s Curse, Clownface, Clownado, and the previously released Killer Sofa and FeardotCom.
Achoura
Also called “Children’s Night,” Achoura is a religious celebration. In Morocco, children splash water on each other and gather around a bonfire.
In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a horrible legend.
Patrick Bromley...
- 3/31/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
When a small Colorado town is overrun by demonic creatures during the yearly music festival, three friends must band together to stop the coming apocalypse.
Sounds pretty fun, right? What if I told you that it is also gory Af? And what if I told you that it has those sweet moments of friendship and characterization that make any good movie worth watching? And Then, what if I told you that this movie is animated in the construction paper style of South Park?
I knew you would be on board. Attack of the Demons is a crazy fun animated feature from director Eric Power. It follows three friends who, by a twist of fate, wind up at the epicenter of the invasion of vicious, mutating demons brought about by a crazy cultist who reads from a cursed book to bring about the end of the world. Kevin (Thomas Petersen), Natalie...
Sounds pretty fun, right? What if I told you that it is also gory Af? And what if I told you that it has those sweet moments of friendship and characterization that make any good movie worth watching? And Then, what if I told you that this movie is animated in the construction paper style of South Park?
I knew you would be on board. Attack of the Demons is a crazy fun animated feature from director Eric Power. It follows three friends who, by a twist of fate, wind up at the epicenter of the invasion of vicious, mutating demons brought about by a crazy cultist who reads from a cursed book to bring about the end of the world. Kevin (Thomas Petersen), Natalie...
- 1/27/2021
- by Emily von Seele
- DailyDead
Features the voices of: Andreas Petersen, Thomas Petersen, Katie Maguire, Eric Power | Written by Andreas Petersen | Directed by Eric Power
Horror and animation don’t exactly go hand in hand. I’m not exactly sure why, maybe it is because when people think of animated movies their minds always think of children’s or family movies. Even when you ink of animated horror, my mind goes to A Nightmare Before Christmas, Paranorman, Monster House or Coraline. All very entertaining movies but still aimed at children. But in recent years there have been a few more ‘adult’ horror animations with Resident Evil: Degeneration and Seoul Station, while anime has always, on a smaller scale, been pushing horror with films like Vampire Hunter D and Blood: The Last Vampire. Attack of the Demons though is very different from any of these.
This is a good thing though. It might not look as...
Horror and animation don’t exactly go hand in hand. I’m not exactly sure why, maybe it is because when people think of animated movies their minds always think of children’s or family movies. Even when you ink of animated horror, my mind goes to A Nightmare Before Christmas, Paranorman, Monster House or Coraline. All very entertaining movies but still aimed at children. But in recent years there have been a few more ‘adult’ horror animations with Resident Evil: Degeneration and Seoul Station, while anime has always, on a smaller scale, been pushing horror with films like Vampire Hunter D and Blood: The Last Vampire. Attack of the Demons though is very different from any of these.
This is a good thing though. It might not look as...
- 11/26/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Free-floating anxiety is a condition that many of us have experienced in our lives, even before this current year, and long before the type of anxiety that has settled into our daily existence in recent days. Now add to that the idea that we may suffer from an Attack of the Demons and we may go out of our minds! Happily, the Attack of the Demons that I am referring to here is an animated horror film, which may make it more palatable for adult viewers who love horror movies and also love animated films. Fresh off its bow in virtual theaters over the weekend, Attack of the Demons is now available to watch via various Digital platforms. Directed by Eric Power, the film is...
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- 11/4/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Presents Attack Of The Demons In virtual theaters 10/30 | DVD/Digital 11/ Eric Power’s fabulously fun and frightening animated adult horror film, hits virtual theaters 10/30 ahead of a Digital and DVD release 11/3. Direct from a notably well-received festival run, and arriving in theaters this Halloween, the frighteningly-fun animated horror treat just for adults! …
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- 10/22/2020
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
"Did you see that?! His head flew off!" Dark Star Pictures has released the official trailer for a homemade animation horror film titled Attack of the Demons, the latest creation from Austin, TX-based animator / filmmaker Eric Power. Direct from a notably well-received festival run (beginning at Cinepocalypse last year), and arriving in theaters this Halloween, the frighteningly-fun animated horror treat just for adults! Described as "South Park meets The Evil Dead" with a "grisly and gorgeous mix of Fulci and puppetry", the film is set in a small Colorado town that is overrun by a legion of mutating demons. Laced with a killer new soundtrack, and featuring the voices of Andreas Petersen, Thomas Petersen, Katie Maguire, as well as Eric Power, Attack of the Demons reanimates the living dead this November (on VOD). While the film's animation style looks rough, it's more of a nod to South Park, and Power...
- 10/19/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Dark Star Pictures has been on fire lately having nabbed some incredible films such as Koko-Di Koko-Da, Empathy, Inc., Jumbo, and even King Cohen. Next up is a wild and crazy animated horror film, Attack of the Demons, written, directed and animated by Eric Power (Path of Blood). Attack of the Demons, which Meagan wrote “wears its horror influences on its sleeve and then […]...
- 10/16/2020
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
The 7th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival will screen a smorgasbord of cult flicks, horror movies, comedies and provocative documentaries on September 19-27 at The Screening Room in Tucson, Az.
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
- 9/19/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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