I don’t understand why so few slashers don’t mine rich story potential of the final girl surviving the killer. There are only a handful of slasher films that adequately portray the post-traumatic stress of living through these violent attacks, the two that immediately pop into my head Scream 2 and its sequels as well as the recent Last Girl Standing, and somewhere in between those films – deftly balancing the slasher fun of the former and the sobering drama of the latter is Open 24 Hours, a grisly, waterlogged throwback slasher that relishes in gnashing its sharp, bloody teeth.
Open 24 Hours concerns Mary (Vanessa Grasse), a young woman fresh off a stint behind bars, having set her boyfriend on fire. Why did she do that, you ask? Because he was a hammer-wielding serial killer known as The Rain Ripper, his particular murderous habit triggered by bouts of rainfall. On the surface,...
Open 24 Hours concerns Mary (Vanessa Grasse), a young woman fresh off a stint behind bars, having set her boyfriend on fire. Why did she do that, you ask? Because he was a hammer-wielding serial killer known as The Rain Ripper, his particular murderous habit triggered by bouts of rainfall. On the surface,...
- 9/28/2018
- by Nathan Smith
- DailyDead
Of all the many sub-genres in horror, the slasher is probably my favorite. There aren’t many good ones, but even the bad ones tend to deliver exactly what we want from the formula. They’re horror movie comfort food, and Shudder is offering an entire buffet this October.
Black Christmas (1973, dir. Bob Clark) In many ways the first modern slasher film, Bob Clark’s holiday horror movie is, to this day, a genre masterpiece. From its chilly Canadian atmosphere to the disturbing obscene phone calls being made to a sorority house, Black Christmas is brilliantly constructed and hugely influential. It’s not just one of my favorite slasher movies, but one of my favorite horror movies of any type, full stop.
Blood Rage (1987, dir. Bruce Rubin) There are slasher movies that are tense and scary and stylish. Blood Rage is not one of them. Shot in 1983 but not released...
Black Christmas (1973, dir. Bob Clark) In many ways the first modern slasher film, Bob Clark’s holiday horror movie is, to this day, a genre masterpiece. From its chilly Canadian atmosphere to the disturbing obscene phone calls being made to a sorority house, Black Christmas is brilliantly constructed and hugely influential. It’s not just one of my favorite slasher movies, but one of my favorite horror movies of any type, full stop.
Blood Rage (1987, dir. Bruce Rubin) There are slasher movies that are tense and scary and stylish. Blood Rage is not one of them. Shot in 1983 but not released...
- 10/20/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
With the holidays, it feels like we just had DreadVision December with our screening of Black Christmas and the Swag-a-Go-Go giveaways, but it’s almost time for January’s installment! This time we’re stepping forward in time. So far, we’ve featured classics… Continue Reading →
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- 12/30/2016
- by Mr. Dark
- DreadCentral.com
Last Girl Standing is an interesting diversion from “final girl” norms, forgoing bloody buildups in favor of a life after slasher chaos. Its production may never meet the promise of such a genre shakedown, but the ideas are concrete. That’s what’s most frustrating about this ambitious horror/drama – even after escalating into Ptsd allegories, generic drabness never elevates excitement or mentally stimulates us.
Benjamin R. Moody’s feature debut encapsulates first-timer cinema navigation, be it through minimalist design value or your run-of-the-mill cast that doesn’t hold any surprise breakouts. Story significance is alive, but execution needed to be ten times tighter. Hopefully Moody will take this experience as a stepping stone to bigger things, but a knockout debut Last Girl Standing unfortunately is not.
Akasha Villalobos stars as Camryn, the lone survivor from a cultists’ murderous camping trip rampage. We meet her just as she’s found...
Benjamin R. Moody’s feature debut encapsulates first-timer cinema navigation, be it through minimalist design value or your run-of-the-mill cast that doesn’t hold any surprise breakouts. Story significance is alive, but execution needed to be ten times tighter. Hopefully Moody will take this experience as a stepping stone to bigger things, but a knockout debut Last Girl Standing unfortunately is not.
Akasha Villalobos stars as Camryn, the lone survivor from a cultists’ murderous camping trip rampage. We meet her just as she’s found...
- 11/3/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Even though Halloween is over, that doesn’t mean the horror genre is slowing down for the month of November, as fans have a bunch of great movies hitting VOD to look forward to this month. Uncork’d is getting us into the holiday spirit early with their November 1st release of Krampus Unleashed, and the very same day, the slasher-inspired thriller Last Girl Standing makes its way to VOD platforms as well.
Don’t Breathe and Abbey Grace get their digital releases on November 8th, and the latest from The Strangers director Bryan Bertino, The Monster, arrives on VOD November 11th, along with Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, featuring Nicolas Cage. November’s VOD releases conclude with the cable VOD release of The Similars on the 15th (a film I’ve been looking forward to) followed by an iTunes and Digital release on November 22nd, and M. Shawn Crahan...
Don’t Breathe and Abbey Grace get their digital releases on November 8th, and the latest from The Strangers director Bryan Bertino, The Monster, arrives on VOD November 11th, along with Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, featuring Nicolas Cage. November’s VOD releases conclude with the cable VOD release of The Similars on the 15th (a film I’ve been looking forward to) followed by an iTunes and Digital release on November 22nd, and M. Shawn Crahan...
- 11/1/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Have you ever had a roommate who just wouldn't pay their share of the rent? Three friends face this dilemma in Matthew John Lawrence's short film Larry Gone Demon, but the only problem is that their fellow housemate is seemingly straight out of hell. You can watch their blood-splattered struggle in its entirety right here on Daily Dead, and we also have an exclusive clip from Last Girl Standing, as well as a new Vr video from #Room301.
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- 11/1/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Now that we’re bidding farewell to Halloween, there aren’t a ton of genre-related home entertainment releases coming our way. But as the saying goes—quality over quantity—which means that while November 1st isn’t necessarily a busy day, it still has several stellar horror and sci-fi offerings for us fans to get excited about.
The latest from indie filmmaker Mickey Keating, Carnage Park, comes home on both Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday courtesy of Scream Factory and IFC Midnight, and Star Trek Beyond will be coming out on 3D and 4K Blu-ray releases. For all you Walking Dead fans out there, the sublime season 6 limited edition box set arrives on November 1st from Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Other notable home entertainment releases for this week include Last Girl Standing, Daylight’s End, Dam Sharks, and Happy Birthday.
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The latest from indie filmmaker Mickey Keating, Carnage Park, comes home on both Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday courtesy of Scream Factory and IFC Midnight, and Star Trek Beyond will be coming out on 3D and 4K Blu-ray releases. For all you Walking Dead fans out there, the sublime season 6 limited edition box set arrives on November 1st from Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Other notable home entertainment releases for this week include Last Girl Standing, Daylight’s End, Dam Sharks, and Happy Birthday.
Carnage Park (Scream Factory/IFC Midnight, Blu-ray & DVD)
It’s 1978 and...
- 11/1/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Benjamin R. Moody's Last Girl Standing has a trailer, now. The clip shows the survivor of serial killer attack, attempting to adapt to life, after the crisis. The film bills its uniqueness by looking at what happens to a "final girl...who alone manages to survive the carnage." The film stars: Akasha Villalobos (Now Hiring), Danielle Evon Ploeger (Wind & Rain), Brian Villalobos and Jason Vines. The film's first trailer is available here. The story begins with a brutal attack. Camryn (Akasha Villalobos) has lost almost all of her friends, to a brutal serial killer. Five years on, she is still struggling with her losses. Alone and grief-stricken, Camryn is befriended by a new co-worker. But, how can one let their guard down, after so much murder? The life of a final girl, after the attack, has been looked at in Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II (1981). Horror friends will remember...
- 10/13/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Three films we’ve been keeping our eyes on here at DC landed North American distribution deals at the recently concluded Cannes Market thanks to UK sales agent Jinga Films, and we have the full details below courtesy of Screen Daily.… Continue Reading →
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- 5/23/2016
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Sales outfit strikes deals for three titles in Cannes: Worry Dolls, The Lesson and Last Girl Standing.
UK genre specialist Jinga Films has sold three of its titles to North America in deals closed at the Cannes Marché.
Padraig Reynolds’ supernatural horror Worry Dolls [pictured] has been picked up by IFC Midnight, which in recent years has handled the Us releases of horror films including Can Evrenol’s Baskin and Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook.
Starring Christopher Wiehl (Jericho), Kym Jackson (Iron Sky) and Samantha Smith (Transformers), the film follows a detective racing against the clock to save his eight-year-old daughter from a voodoo curse. IFC previously released director Reynolds’ debut feature Rites Of Spring.
Jinga has also sold Ruth Platt’s thriller The Lesson to Shout! Factory. Starring Robert Hands (Shine), Evan Bendall, Michaela Prchalova and Tom Cox, the film follows a bullied school teacher who has a mental breakdown, resulting in a terrifying...
UK genre specialist Jinga Films has sold three of its titles to North America in deals closed at the Cannes Marché.
Padraig Reynolds’ supernatural horror Worry Dolls [pictured] has been picked up by IFC Midnight, which in recent years has handled the Us releases of horror films including Can Evrenol’s Baskin and Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook.
Starring Christopher Wiehl (Jericho), Kym Jackson (Iron Sky) and Samantha Smith (Transformers), the film follows a detective racing against the clock to save his eight-year-old daughter from a voodoo curse. IFC previously released director Reynolds’ debut feature Rites Of Spring.
Jinga has also sold Ruth Platt’s thriller The Lesson to Shout! Factory. Starring Robert Hands (Shine), Evan Bendall, Michaela Prchalova and Tom Cox, the film follows a bullied school teacher who has a mental breakdown, resulting in a terrifying...
- 5/23/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Horror label will release the new titles in early 2016.
Icon Film Distribution and Frightfest have added six new films to their joint venture FrightFest Presents, the horror label launched by the two companies in April this year.
The new titles are: Ruth Platt’s The Lesson; Benjamin R. Moody’s Last Girl Standing; Levan Bakhia’s Landmine Goes Click, Jaron Henrie-McCrea’s Curtain; Eugene McGing’s The Unfolding and Michael Thelin’s Emelie.
Previous films released through FrightFest include Aaaaaaaah!, The Sand, Night Of The Living Deb, Estranged, After Death and Some Kind of Hate.
Alan Jones, co-director of FrightFest, said: “Our initial slate set out the stall of what FrightFest Presents is all about and got the brand off to a flying start thanks to its diversity and ability to deliver the shocking goods for genre lovers.
“Now we are building on that strong foundation with six more unmissable titles that once more shines a light...
Icon Film Distribution and Frightfest have added six new films to their joint venture FrightFest Presents, the horror label launched by the two companies in April this year.
The new titles are: Ruth Platt’s The Lesson; Benjamin R. Moody’s Last Girl Standing; Levan Bakhia’s Landmine Goes Click, Jaron Henrie-McCrea’s Curtain; Eugene McGing’s The Unfolding and Michael Thelin’s Emelie.
Previous films released through FrightFest include Aaaaaaaah!, The Sand, Night Of The Living Deb, Estranged, After Death and Some Kind of Hate.
Alan Jones, co-director of FrightFest, said: “Our initial slate set out the stall of what FrightFest Presents is all about and got the brand off to a flying start thanks to its diversity and ability to deliver the shocking goods for genre lovers.
“Now we are building on that strong foundation with six more unmissable titles that once more shines a light...
- 12/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
Icon Film Distribution and FrightFest have announced a further three films – all of which are personal faves of mine from this years festival – which will be released under the curated banner FrightFest Presents. The new titles are:
Night of the Living Deb, directed by Kyle Rankin starring Maria Thayer (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Michael Cassidy (Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice), Christopher Marquette (Just Friends, The Girl Next Door) and Ray Wise (Infestation, Twin Peaks).
After a girls’ night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. She’s thrilled, but can’t remember much of what got her there. Ryan only knows it was a mistake, and ushers her out the door into a full-scale zombie apocalypse. Now, a walk of shame becomes a fight for survival as the mismatched pair discovers that the only thing scarier than trusting someone with your life…...
Night of the Living Deb, directed by Kyle Rankin starring Maria Thayer (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Michael Cassidy (Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice), Christopher Marquette (Just Friends, The Girl Next Door) and Ray Wise (Infestation, Twin Peaks).
After a girls’ night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. She’s thrilled, but can’t remember much of what got her there. Ryan only knows it was a mistake, and ushers her out the door into a full-scale zombie apocalypse. Now, a walk of shame becomes a fight for survival as the mismatched pair discovers that the only thing scarier than trusting someone with your life…...
- 9/11/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Night Of The Living Deb, Some Kind Of Hate and Last Girl Standing will all be released under the FrightFest Presents banner.
Icon Film Distribution has added three titles to its FrightFest Presents label.
Night Of The Living Deb stars Maria Thayer as the titular deb, who finds herself caught up in a zombie apocalypse after a one-night stand. The film was directed by Kyle Rankin who wrote the screenplay along with Andy Selsor.
Some Kind Of Hate was directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer, who wrote the screenplay with Brian DeLeeuw, and stars Ronen Rubenstein, Sierra McCormick and Grace Phipps.
The film follows a bullied teenager who after accidentally summoning the spirt of a dead girl uses her presence to take revenge on his tormentors.
Last Girl Standing, which was written and directed by Benjamin R Moody, stars Akasha Villalobos, Brian Villalobos and Danielle Evon Ploeger. The story looks at a girl who attempts to rebuild her life...
Icon Film Distribution has added three titles to its FrightFest Presents label.
Night Of The Living Deb stars Maria Thayer as the titular deb, who finds herself caught up in a zombie apocalypse after a one-night stand. The film was directed by Kyle Rankin who wrote the screenplay along with Andy Selsor.
Some Kind Of Hate was directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer, who wrote the screenplay with Brian DeLeeuw, and stars Ronen Rubenstein, Sierra McCormick and Grace Phipps.
The film follows a bullied teenager who after accidentally summoning the spirt of a dead girl uses her presence to take revenge on his tormentors.
Last Girl Standing, which was written and directed by Benjamin R Moody, stars Akasha Villalobos, Brian Villalobos and Danielle Evon Ploeger. The story looks at a girl who attempts to rebuild her life...
- 9/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Akasha Villalobos, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Brian Villalobos, Jd Carrera, Ryan Hamilton, Kelsey Pribilski, Laura Ray, Chris J. Knight | Written and Directed by Benjamin R. Moody
Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever?
Not only has the idea of strong female protagonists been a key part of this years Frightfest, but it would seem the slasher movie, so often decried even by genre fans, has also made a massive comeback this year. But not in the blood-by-numbers way it existed in the past. This year has seen the tropes of the slasher movie used in thrillers, comedies, even a voodoo movie,...
Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever?
Not only has the idea of strong female protagonists been a key part of this years Frightfest, but it would seem the slasher movie, so often decried even by genre fans, has also made a massive comeback this year. But not in the blood-by-numbers way it existed in the past. This year has seen the tropes of the slasher movie used in thrillers, comedies, even a voodoo movie,...
- 8/31/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl after the credits roll? Nerdly writer and host of the Britflicks podcast, Stuart Wright spoke to Last Girl Standing‘s writer/director Benjamin R. Moody about his exploration into one of horror’s biggest tropes, the final girl…
Last Girl Standing has its World Premiere as part of Frightfest 2105 on Monday 31st August as 3.00pm on Discovery Screen 2. You can check out our first look at the film right here.
Last Girl Standing has its World Premiere as part of Frightfest 2105 on Monday 31st August as 3.00pm on Discovery Screen 2. You can check out our first look at the film right here.
- 8/10/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Part slasher movie and part character study, Last Girl Standing - the feature debut of Benjamin R. Moody (whose work you may know from web series De-Pixelated) – is a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the survivors of horror movies starring Akasha Villalobos (Undercover Alien, Now Hiring), Danielle Evon Ploeger (Summer League), Brian Villalobos (De-Pixleated), Jd Carrera (De-Pixelated: Max Payne 3), Ryan Hamilton, Kelsey Pribilski and Laura Ray.
Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn (Akasha Villalobos), the lone survivor, has struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, Camryn leads a depressingly lonely existence until Nick (Brian Villalobos), a new co-worker, befriends Camryn and attempts to integrate her into his group of friends. Just when she might be ready to start a new life, Camryn’s past comes back to haunt her. Can Camryn ever have a life again,...
Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn (Akasha Villalobos), the lone survivor, has struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, Camryn leads a depressingly lonely existence until Nick (Brian Villalobos), a new co-worker, befriends Camryn and attempts to integrate her into his group of friends. Just when she might be ready to start a new life, Camryn’s past comes back to haunt her. Can Camryn ever have a life again,...
- 7/15/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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