Stars: Corin Clay, Kyle Corbin, Danielle Grotsky, Paul Ignatius, Will Bunk, April Clark, Brady O’Donnell, Michael Thyer | Written and Directed by Kevin Ignatius, Nick Psinakis
On the surface it’s believed to be another urban legend – a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town’s unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve – a female college student – sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are...
On the surface it’s believed to be another urban legend – a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town’s unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve – a female college student – sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are...
- 8/29/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
What if there was a supernatural being whose sole purpose was to murder anyone who cheats on their partner? That’s the premise of Cheat, premiering at FrightFest this year.
Variety reports today that Black Mandala has acquired global rights ahead of FrightFest.
Written and directed by Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis (“The Long Dark Trail”), Cheat centers on an urban legend that a supernatural being from the afterlife will violently murder anyone who cheats on their partner.
The film is set in a small Pennsylvania college town where the city’s unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing locals and college students alike that all is not as it seems. The story focuses on a college woman who sleeps with the married man of the host family she is staying with.
Variety notes, “Black Mandala handles sales of its own productions, as well as international sales of third party titles.
Variety reports today that Black Mandala has acquired global rights ahead of FrightFest.
Written and directed by Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis (“The Long Dark Trail”), Cheat centers on an urban legend that a supernatural being from the afterlife will violently murder anyone who cheats on their partner.
The film is set in a small Pennsylvania college town where the city’s unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing locals and college students alike that all is not as it seems. The story focuses on a college woman who sleeps with the married man of the host family she is staying with.
Variety notes, “Black Mandala handles sales of its own productions, as well as international sales of third party titles.
- 7/28/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
New Zealand-based specialty sales firm Black Mandala has picked up global rights to upcoming U.S. supernatural horror film “Cheat.” Written and directed by Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis (“The Long Dark Trail”), the film is set for its world premiere at FrightFest.
The picture’s premise is the urban legend that a supernatural being from the afterlife will violently murder anyone who cheats on their partner. “Cheat” is set in a small Pennsylvania college town where the city’s unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing locals and college students alike that all is not as it seems. The story focuses on a college woman who sleeps with the married man of the host family she is staying with.
The picture was produced by Ignatius and Psinakis’ New York-based Four Eighteen Films and stars April Clark, Corin Clay and Michael Thyer. Cinematography is by Connor Smyers.
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The picture’s premise is the urban legend that a supernatural being from the afterlife will violently murder anyone who cheats on their partner. “Cheat” is set in a small Pennsylvania college town where the city’s unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing locals and college students alike that all is not as it seems. The story focuses on a college woman who sleeps with the married man of the host family she is staying with.
The picture was produced by Ignatius and Psinakis’ New York-based Four Eighteen Films and stars April Clark, Corin Clay and Michael Thyer. Cinematography is by Connor Smyers.
The next edition...
- 7/28/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The horror festival runs August 24-28 in London
Joe Stephenson’s Doctor Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard will have its world premiere at the UK’s horror and fantasy film festival FrightFest (August 24-28) as the full line-up is unveiled.
Izzard will play Nina Jekyll, the infamous scientist with a dark alter-ego, in a modern adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s book by placing a woman in the titular role.
Doctor Jekyll is one of 25 world premieres screening at the festival, which takes place at Cineworld Leicester Square in London.
Opening FrightFest will be the European premiere of Joe Lynch’s...
Joe Stephenson’s Doctor Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard will have its world premiere at the UK’s horror and fantasy film festival FrightFest (August 24-28) as the full line-up is unveiled.
Izzard will play Nina Jekyll, the infamous scientist with a dark alter-ego, in a modern adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s book by placing a woman in the titular role.
Doctor Jekyll is one of 25 world premieres screening at the festival, which takes place at Cineworld Leicester Square in London.
Opening FrightFest will be the European premiere of Joe Lynch’s...
- 7/13/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
FrightFest, the UK’s biggest, best and most beloved community-driven horror & fantasy film festival, returns in a blaze of gory glory to the Cineworld Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition, a press release announced this morning.
“Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is a joyful big screen celebration of genre cinema, offering a carnival of carnage, a smorgasbord of shock and a tableau of terror. This year, over five days, audiences can explore the magic of menace, mayhem and mischief with seventy films programmed across four screens. There are twenty-five world, twenty-three International / European and twelve UK premieres, with fourteen countries represented, spanning five continents.
The festival opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest shocker from FrightFest favourite Joe Lynch, who has created an outlandish love letter to the late, great Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon; a new body horror take on H.P Lovecraft...
“Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is a joyful big screen celebration of genre cinema, offering a carnival of carnage, a smorgasbord of shock and a tableau of terror. This year, over five days, audiences can explore the magic of menace, mayhem and mischief with seventy films programmed across four screens. There are twenty-five world, twenty-three International / European and twelve UK premieres, with fourteen countries represented, spanning five continents.
The festival opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest shocker from FrightFest favourite Joe Lynch, who has created an outlandish love letter to the late, great Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon; a new body horror take on H.P Lovecraft...
- 7/13/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
FrightFest, the UK genre festival, has unveiled the lineup for its latest edition (August 24-28).
The event opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest pic from FrightFest regular Joe Lynch. The pic follows a psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with one of her young clients with multiple personalities. The film is co-produced and co-stars Barbara Crampton.
The Sacrifice Game, from director Jenn Wexler, receiving its European premiere, is the closing night film. The festival has described the film as a wild, thrilling ride and a tribute to the beauty and boldness of classic 1970s horror.
This year the festival will host seven world premieres, including Nick Psinakis’s Cheat, Matt Sampere’s Halloween slasher Creeping Death, Raymond Wood’s feminist revenge-fantasy Faceless After Dark, Steven Pierce’s zombie survivalist thriller Herd, and Michael J. Hurst’s wild science fiction shocker Transmission.
Announcing the lineup today, fest co-director Alan Jones...
The event opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest pic from FrightFest regular Joe Lynch. The pic follows a psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with one of her young clients with multiple personalities. The film is co-produced and co-stars Barbara Crampton.
The Sacrifice Game, from director Jenn Wexler, receiving its European premiere, is the closing night film. The festival has described the film as a wild, thrilling ride and a tribute to the beauty and boldness of classic 1970s horror.
This year the festival will host seven world premieres, including Nick Psinakis’s Cheat, Matt Sampere’s Halloween slasher Creeping Death, Raymond Wood’s feminist revenge-fantasy Faceless After Dark, Steven Pierce’s zombie survivalist thriller Herd, and Michael J. Hurst’s wild science fiction shocker Transmission.
Announcing the lineup today, fest co-director Alan Jones...
- 7/13/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The final full week of February is upon us, and with it comes seven more brand new horror movies – including the at-home releases of this year’s two big theatrical horror offerings.
And one of those movies will be a bit bloodier this time around…
Here’s all the new horror arriving February 21 – February 24, 2023!
M. Night Shyamalan‘s latest thriller, Universal’s Knock at the Cabin was released in theaters on February 3, and we’ve learned that the film is Now Available on PVOD at home!
You can rent Knock at the Cabin for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99.
Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin has made $47.9 million worldwide in theaters these past several weeks, with $31 million of that worldwide total made here in the United States.
In Knock at the Cabin, “While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four...
And one of those movies will be a bit bloodier this time around…
Here’s all the new horror arriving February 21 – February 24, 2023!
M. Night Shyamalan‘s latest thriller, Universal’s Knock at the Cabin was released in theaters on February 3, and we’ve learned that the film is Now Available on PVOD at home!
You can rent Knock at the Cabin for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99.
Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin has made $47.9 million worldwide in theaters these past several weeks, with $31 million of that worldwide total made here in the United States.
In Knock at the Cabin, “While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four...
- 2/21/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Trina Campbell, Michael Thyer | Written and Directed by Nick Psinakis, Kevin Ignatius
Opening on a foreboding score and the sight of a cabin in the woods, viewers are introduced to the home where brothers Henry (Carter O’Donnell) and Jacob (Brady O’Donnell) live in fear of their abusive father. After waking up early and tying up their father, the teens take a journey through Northwest Pennsylvania woods to find their cult member mother. Despite the boys taking time to have fun and enjoy their summer, the horrific experiences linger in their minds. No matter how far they travel, the boys cannot escape the terrors endured at their father’s hands.
Co-writers/directors Nick Psinakis and Kevin Ignatius effectively utilise the setting, as aerial shots capture the never-ending feel of this wilderness where hints of a tangible terror lurk within. This is effectively paired with Ignatius’ score,...
Opening on a foreboding score and the sight of a cabin in the woods, viewers are introduced to the home where brothers Henry (Carter O’Donnell) and Jacob (Brady O’Donnell) live in fear of their abusive father. After waking up early and tying up their father, the teens take a journey through Northwest Pennsylvania woods to find their cult member mother. Despite the boys taking time to have fun and enjoy their summer, the horrific experiences linger in their minds. No matter how far they travel, the boys cannot escape the terrors endured at their father’s hands.
Co-writers/directors Nick Psinakis and Kevin Ignatius effectively utilise the setting, as aerial shots capture the never-ending feel of this wilderness where hints of a tangible terror lurk within. This is effectively paired with Ignatius’ score,...
- 2/21/2023
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Coming of age in a horror movie doesn’t often end too well. Yet for the two young characters in The Long Dark Trail, they can’t grow up without facing what scares them the most. It’s not just their abusive father or other daily struggles that hold Henry and Jacob back (played by real-life brothers Carter and Brady O’Donnell). No, these brothers are troubled by their mother’s absence and not knowing why she left them. As the protagonists then set off to find that missing part of themselves, the audience witnesses the start of their ambitious but bumpy road to adulthood.
With their father temporarily out of the picture, Henry and Jacob are free to follow up on a lead about their mother’s disappearance. The ensuing expedition through rural Northwestern Pennsylvania is nothing short of beautiful. Panoramic and aerial shots of Allegheny National Park are astonishing...
With their father temporarily out of the picture, Henry and Jacob are free to follow up on a lead about their mother’s disappearance. The ensuing expedition through rural Northwestern Pennsylvania is nothing short of beautiful. Panoramic and aerial shots of Allegheny National Park are astonishing...
- 2/21/2023
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis’s atmospheric story of abused brothers on the road has minimal plot but is sharply directed
This horror-flecked backwoods Pennsylvanian fable should serve as a useful calling card for writer-directors Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis, who summon up an ambience so oppressive, it’s as if the film is being beamed straight out of the deep, reptilian brain. The atmospherics and the plot’s occultish trimmings feel somewhat indebted to Panos Cosmatos’s 2018 film Mandy but this is an undeniably sharp technical exercise, in spite of its obvious shoestring budget.
A nerve-jangling prologue sees dark-haired siblings Henry (Carter O’Donnell) and Jacob (Brady O’Donnell) cable-tie their abusive father Duane (Michael Thyer) to a bed and abscond from his cabin on BMXs. They’ve got good reason: in one river-bathing scene, we see he once branded Henry with a clothes iron. After a tipoff from a gardening customer,...
This horror-flecked backwoods Pennsylvanian fable should serve as a useful calling card for writer-directors Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis, who summon up an ambience so oppressive, it’s as if the film is being beamed straight out of the deep, reptilian brain. The atmospherics and the plot’s occultish trimmings feel somewhat indebted to Panos Cosmatos’s 2018 film Mandy but this is an undeniably sharp technical exercise, in spite of its obvious shoestring budget.
A nerve-jangling prologue sees dark-haired siblings Henry (Carter O’Donnell) and Jacob (Brady O’Donnell) cable-tie their abusive father Duane (Michael Thyer) to a bed and abscond from his cabin on BMXs. They’ve got good reason: in one river-bathing scene, we see he once branded Henry with a clothes iron. After a tipoff from a gardening customer,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
The Long Dark Trail: "An official selection for numerous prestige film festivals around the globe, including Weekend of Fear and The Festival De Cannes Blood Windoal Selection, director ‘s The Long Dark Trail premieres on Digital, DVD, and Blu-ray February 21 from Cleopatra Entertainment.
Stand By Me meets Midsommar in an unnerving new folk horror tale from writer-directors Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. After two impoverished teenage brothers manage to escape their abusive father, they embark on a treacherous and haunted journey in the hope of finding their estranged mother who has joined a sadistic cult, deep in the woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania."
Starring Trina Campbell and Brady O’Donnell, The Long Dark Trail releases February 21 in the UK, US, and Canada.
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Medusa’S Venom: "The follow up to the provocative snake horror Medusa will release across the US & Canada February 14th 2023 with a home entertainment release, day-and-date DVD and Premium Tvod,...
Stand By Me meets Midsommar in an unnerving new folk horror tale from writer-directors Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. After two impoverished teenage brothers manage to escape their abusive father, they embark on a treacherous and haunted journey in the hope of finding their estranged mother who has joined a sadistic cult, deep in the woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania."
Starring Trina Campbell and Brady O’Donnell, The Long Dark Trail releases February 21 in the UK, US, and Canada.
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Medusa’S Venom: "The follow up to the provocative snake horror Medusa will release across the US & Canada February 14th 2023 with a home entertainment release, day-and-date DVD and Premium Tvod,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
On Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on February 21 from Cleopatra Entertainment is the new indie horror The Long Dark Trail, which the company is comparing to Stand by Me and Midsommar.
It’s also being called an “unnerving new folk horror tale.”
Check out the official trailer below.
In the film, “After two impoverished teenage brothers manage to escape their abusive father, they embark on a treacherous and haunted journey in the hope of finding their estranged mother who has joined a sadistic cult, deep in the woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania.”
Trina Campbell and Brady O’Donnell star.
Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis wrote and directed The Long Dark Trail.
The post ‘The Long Dark Trail’ Trailer – Horror Movie Mashes Together ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘Midsommar’ appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
It’s also being called an “unnerving new folk horror tale.”
Check out the official trailer below.
In the film, “After two impoverished teenage brothers manage to escape their abusive father, they embark on a treacherous and haunted journey in the hope of finding their estranged mother who has joined a sadistic cult, deep in the woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania.”
Trina Campbell and Brady O’Donnell star.
Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis wrote and directed The Long Dark Trail.
The post ‘The Long Dark Trail’ Trailer – Horror Movie Mashes Together ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘Midsommar’ appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 1/18/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
President Zelenskyy Comedy ‘Servant Of The People’ Remade In Poland
Servant of the People, the Ukrainian comedy that inadvertently launched the political career of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is being remade in Poland. Polish channel Polsat has commissioned a local remake of the format, which is sold internationally by Scandinavia-based Eccho Rights. Currently in production under the local title Sługa Narodu, Polsat’s show stars TV actor Marcin Hycnar in role Zelenskyy made famous, playing the part of an ordinary man who is unwittingly voted president. In Ukraine, the storyline amazingly became a reality when comedian and actor Zelenskyy went on to win the presidency in 2019, with his party adopting the Servant of the People moniker. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, many broadcasters have picked up the original series to show unity with Zelenskyy. Polot Media is producing the Polish version, with Maciej Bieliński the director. “This is...
Servant of the People, the Ukrainian comedy that inadvertently launched the political career of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is being remade in Poland. Polish channel Polsat has commissioned a local remake of the format, which is sold internationally by Scandinavia-based Eccho Rights. Currently in production under the local title Sługa Narodu, Polsat’s show stars TV actor Marcin Hycnar in role Zelenskyy made famous, playing the part of an ordinary man who is unwittingly voted president. In Ukraine, the storyline amazingly became a reality when comedian and actor Zelenskyy went on to win the presidency in 2019, with his party adopting the Servant of the People moniker. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, many broadcasters have picked up the original series to show unity with Zelenskyy. Polot Media is producing the Polish version, with Maciej Bieliński the director. “This is...
- 8/18/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
“They escaped from a nigtmare, just to enter into hell” Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror/coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, directed by Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. Two brothers, physical abuse and a fearsome satanic sect. Stand By Me meets Midsommar in this folk horror story that takes refuge deep in a cursed forest. …
The post The Long Dark Trail /Posters and Trailer appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.
The post The Long Dark Trail /Posters and Trailer appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.
- 5/17/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
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