Cabin Fever is a 2016 American horror film and a remake of the 2002 movie of the same name. It is directed by Travis Zariwny (Intruder) from a screenplay by Randy Pearlstein.

The co-writer and director of the original, Eli Roth (Hostel; The Green Inferno; Knock Knock), is executive producing alongside Evan Astrowsky, Christopher Lemole, and Tim Zajaros.

The film is released on VOD by IFC Midnight on February 12th, with a limited theatrical run.

Cast:

Gage Golightly (Teen Wolf; Exeter), Matthew Daddario, Samuel Davis (From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series), Dustin Ingram (Paranormal Activity 3), and Nadine Crocker (Deadgirl).

Plot:

A flesh-eating virus makes a meal of five teens on spring break in a remote wood cabin…

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‘In warden we trust’

The Chair is a 2016 American horror film directed by Chad Ferrin (Someone’s Knocking at the Door; Easter Bunny Kill! Kill!) from a screenplay by Erin Kohut and Peter Simeti. It is based upon the graphic novel of the same name by Peter Simeti and Kevin Christensen.

The film should not be confused with the 1988 horror film The Chair.

Cast:

Bill Oberst Jr. (Black Water Vampire; Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies; Haunted 333), Roddy Piper (Hell Comes to Frogtown; They Live), Tim Muskatell, Noah Hathaway, Zach Galligan (Waxwork; Hatchet III), Naomi Grossman, Derrick Damions, Kyle Hester, Ezra Buzzington, Susan Eisenberg, Kin Shriner, Jacob Banser, Kyle Hester, Robert Rhine, Tomas Boykin, and Christian Hutcherson.

Official synopsis:

Richard Sullivan is an innocent man struggling to escape his fate on death row. Witnessing the savage killings of his fellow inmates at the hands of the prison’s sadistic and psychotic Warden and his crew of guards, Sullivan decides that the only way to survive is to fight back.

With the body count rising, the Warden and his guards close in on Sullivan. As he matches the brutality occurring in the prison, Sullivan starts to lose his grip on reality. Memories of the childhood abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother combine with vivid hallucinations which push him to the very edge, forcing him to question his sanity at every turn…

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Damien is a 2016 American supernatural horror television series inspired by the 1976 film The Omen. The series’ executive producer is Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead).

The series premieres in the US on March 7, 2016, on A&E.

Cast:

Bradley James, Barbara Hershey, Omid Abtahi, Megalyn Echikunwoke, and Scott Wilson (The Walking Dead).

Plot:

Now a 30-year-old war photographer, Damien Thorn (Bradley James), has forgotten his Satanic past. However, Ann Rutledge (Barbara Hershey), who has protected Damien all his life, will help him embrace his fate as the Antichrist…

Main cast and characters:

• Bradley James as Damien Thorn
• Barbara Hershey as Ann Rutledge
• Megalyn Echikunwoke as Simone Baptiste
• Omid Abtahi as Amani Golkar
• Scott Wilson as John Lyons
  David Meunier as Detective James Shay
• Tiffany Hines as Kelly Baptiste
• Gerry Pearson as The Cassocked Man
• Brody Bover as Jacob Shay

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Little Dead Rotting Hood is a 2016 American horror film directed by Jared Cohn (12/12/12; The Horde) from a screenplay by Gabriel Campisi (Alien Agenda: Endangered Species). It was produced by The Asylum’s David Michael Latt (Sharknado and many, many more).

The film was released in the US on DVD by Cinedigm on January 6, 2016.

Main cast:

Eric Balfour (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Dinoshark; Backcountry), Bianca A. Santos (Ouija), Romeo Miller (Don’t Be Scared), Patrick Muldoon (Stigmata; Ice Spiders; Spiders), Heather Tom,  Brendan Wayne, Marina Sirtis (Blind Date; Waxwork II), Amy Argyle, Tony Ketcham, Jake T. Getman, Izabella Alvarez, Taylor Carr, Ashley Doris, Demetrius Stear, Baker Chase Powell.

Plot:

The residents of a small town discover that something more sinister than killer wolves is lurking in the backwoods: first the wolves start turning up dead… then people…

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Reviews:

” … the film makers used REAL wolves during the filming and that is very evident throughout and adds a great element of realism to a werewolf movie. Most of the movie is filled with great looking practice effects, so CGI was very limited. When CGI was used for the main werewolf, I found it to be very well done.” Manny Popoca, Moviepilot

“The film tries to bring forth ideas and mesh them into a cohesive plot, but it fails…big time. The story has huge holes in it, and nothing is explained. There’s even a big “twist” towards the end that is surprising, yes, but also makes no sense.” Matthew Scott Baker, Shattered Ravings

“Along with some of the coolest looking werewolves– never thought someone could bring creativity in designing a hulking werewolf, unlike any I’ve seen before– and a pretty unique zombie-esque angle, this film works as a fun and entertaining movie…” J. Carlos Menjivar, We Are Indie Horror

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‘The heart becomes savage’

She Wolf Rising is a 2016 American werewolf-themed supernatural horror film written and directed by Marc Leland.

Main cast:

Tiffany Shepis (Model Hunger; Axeman), Debbie Rochon (Varsity Blood; Clinger), Timothy Mandala, Ruby Larocca (ZombieChrist; Porkchop; Slaughter Daughter), Tina Krause (Shriek of the Lycanthrope; Psycho Sisters; Vampire Vixens), Nicola Fiore (Ms. Cannibal Holocaust; Sociopathia; Night of Something Strange) and Alan Rowe Kelly (Razor Days; Tales of Poe).

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Gina Skylar, the world’s reining scream queen, wants to cross over into mainstream cinema and leave the B horror genre behind her. Gina’s ticket out is her stellar performance in her latest slasher flick. The problem is that someone has stolen the footage.

Gina goes undercover and recruits her number one fan, Jake Bubar to help. Together they explore the dark and dangerous side of underground filmmaking. Gina and Jake’s beliefs are challenged as they discover myths, legends, bloody decadence and forbidden love.

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‘Careful who you prank’

Scare Campaign is a 2016 Australian horror film written and directed by Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres) and producer by Julie Ryan (Red Dog).

The film is being previewed at special event screenings around Australia from March 12th, beginning with a showing at Beechworth Lunatic Asylum where it was shot.

Main cast:

Olivia DeJonge (The Visit, Hiding), Meegan Warner, Ian Meadows, Josh Quong Tart, Cassandra McGrath (Wolf Creek), John Brumpton (The Loved Ones), Patrick Harvey, Steve Mouzakis, Jason Geary, Sigrid Thornton.

Official synopsis:

Popular prank TV show, Scare Campaign, has been entertaining audiences for the last 5 years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun. But as we enter a new age of online TV the producers find themselves up against a new hard edged web series which makes their show look decidedly quaint. It’s time to up the ante, but will the team go too far this time, and are they about to prank the wrong guy?

Filming locations:

Mayday Hills Village, Victoria
Beechworth Lunatic Asylum , Victoria

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The Purge: Election Year is a 2016 American horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco, who also helmed the first two (and wrote Skinwalkers), and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes.

Frank Grillo reprises his role from The Purge: Anarchy, joined by Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost), Mykelti Williamson, Edwin Hodge and Kyle Secor.

The Purge: Election Year, the third film in The Purge franchise, will open on July 1, 2016, via Universal.

Plot:

It’s been two years since Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets the poor and innocent.

But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive until dawn…or both be sacrificed for their sins against the state.

• Frank Grillo as Sergeant
• Elizabeth Mitchell as Charlene ‘Charlie’ Roan
• Mykelti Williamson
• Betty Gabriel
• Edwin Hodge as The Stranger
• Kyle Secor
• Joseph Julian Soria
• Liza Colón-Zayas

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‘It’s all downhill from here’

Attack of the Lederhosenzombies is a 2016 Austrian science fiction comedy splatter horror film directed by Dominik Hartl from a screenplay co-written with Armin Prediger. Also known as Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies and its original title Angriff der Lederhosen Zombies.

Main cast:

Laurie Calvert, Gabriela Marcinková, Margarete Tiesel, Karl Fischer, Patricia Aulitzky, Julia Stipsits.

Plot:

Steve, a young professional snowboarder, ruins a high-paying photoshoot with a silly prank, causing him, his girlfriend Branka and fellow snowboarder Josh to be left behind on the mountain. They seek shelter in a garish, loud aprés-ski tavern that is hosting an all-night party for the last night of the season.

Things go from bad to worse when a scientific experiment conducted by a local entrepreneur unleashes an epidemic of zombies and mutant wildlife, but this is mostly lost on the local drunkards as they themselves are not always so easy to distinguish from zombies…

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Frankenstein Created Bikers is a 2016 American exploitation horror film written and directed by James Bickert and is a sequel to his Dear God No! (2011). It stars Jett Bryant, Laurence R. Harvey, Tristan Risk, Madeline Brumby and Ellie Church.

The film was part-funded by a Kickstarter campaign.

Plot:

The story focuses on the re-animation of the South’s most notorious biker gang – The Impalers. Dr. Marco and his assistant are performing gruesome experiments in their asylum lab and have resurrected the thrill-kill Motorcycle Club to capture a Bigfoot containing a pathogen that will allow them to perform a human head transplant.

When news of the gang resurrection draws the attention of bounty hunters, law enforcement and rival gangs, the lofty aspirations of these mad scientist starts to spiral out of control.

Things get even worse for the occupants when past failed- experiments escape from the basement and the lab is attacked by a bomb-happy femme fatale named Val…

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Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema is a 2016 book by Jonathan Rigby published by Signum Books, an imprint of Flashpoint Media, on 19 April.

Jonathan Rigby is the author of English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (reprinted 2006), A Study in Terror and Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History.

Press release:

A detailed study of the classics of Continental horror cinema. From the Expressionist reveries of the Weimar Republic to the transgressive nightmares smuggled past the Franco regime, via surrealist Gallic fever-dreams and psychedelic shockers from Cinecitta, Jonathan Rigby brings his incisive scrutiny to bear on more than 100 key films, starting in the aftermath of World War I and winding up with the video revolution of the early 1980s.

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‘Every one has a dark side’

Holidays is a 2016 American horror anthology film written and directed by Kevin Smith (Tusk), Gary Shore (Dracula Unbound), Scott Stewart (Dark Skies), Sarah Adina Smith (The Midnight Swim), Nicholas McCarthy (The Pact), Adam Egypt Mortimer (Some Kind of Hate), Anthony Scott Burns (Darknet), and the filmmaking duo of Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer.

The film is a co-production from XYZ Films, Distant Corners Entertainment and ArtCastle Productions.

Main cast:

Lorenza Izzo, Kevin Smith, Seth Green, Clare Grant, Ruth Bradley, Matt Johnson, Andrew Bowen, Peter Campion, Megan Duffy.

Plot:

This anthology film features a collection of subversive tales each fashioned around celebrations such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day…

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‘Evil lives here’

Havenhurst is a 2015 American horror film directed by former writer Andrew C. Erin (Sam’s Lake; Embrace of the Vampire) from a screenplay co-written with Daniel Farrands (Amityville: The Awakening) for Protocol Entertainment and Twisted Pictures.

Main cast:

Julie Benz, Fionnula Flanagan, Belle Shouse, Danielle Harris, Josh Stamberg.

Plot: 

A troubled young woman, Jackie (Julie Benz), with an unyielding alcohol addiction, is released from rehab and given a second chance with a new job and a furnished apartment at Havenhurst.

Guilt-ridden over the tragic loss of her 8-year-old daughter, Jackie is quickly drawn into the mysteries of Havenhurst, in particular the unsolved disappearance of the apartment’s previous occupant, a young woman (Danielle Harris) she befriended in rehab who disappeared recently without a trace.

Aided by a hardened New York police detective (Josh Stamberg) and a lonely foster child (Belle Shouse) who lives under the shadow of her caretakers’ sadistic whims, Jackie must not only battle her inner demons, but also the very real ones that live deep within the walls of Havenhurst…

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‘Do NOT touch the tape inside’

House of VHS is a 2016 French horror film written and directed by Gautier Cazenave (Onenut; Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein) about young people terrorised by a mysterious VCR.

Tom Cat Films are presenting the film for international sales at the European Film Market in Berlin in February 2016.

Main cast:

Florie Vialens, Morgan Lamorté, Delphine Lanniel, Isabel McCann, Pétur Sigurdsson, and Ewen Blumenstein.

Official synopsis:

A group of young people hailing from six different countries – France, UK, US, Australia, Italy and Belgium – take off for a summer vacation in the French countryside.

They force their way into an old abandoned house, and plan on spending a good time despite having no water or electricity. But one of them discovers a dusty trunk full of VHS tapes, with a mysterious VCR that seems able to work without electricity.

After they start watching the bizarre movies recorded on the tapes, the students realize that there are strange forces at work, and that their lives might be in danger…

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Frankenstein’s ‘The Monster’ as seen in the 1975 original

Death Race 2050 is a 2016 sci-fi action horror exploitation film directed by G.J. Echternkamp (Hard Candy) from a script by Matt Yamashita (Art School of Horrors; Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda) and G.J. Echternkamp, and produced by Roger Corman and Luis Llosa (Anaconda).

A Universal 1440 Entertainment production – an arm of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment – the new film began production earlier this month in Peru.

Producer Roger Corman commented: “This is an amazing opportunity for me and millions of Death Race 2000 fans to experience the intensity, thrills and dark humour of the original, fuelled by a terrific young cast, spectacular vehicles and side-splitting action, literally.

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It should not be confused with Corman’s 1978 movie Deathsport which has been renamed as Death Race 2050: Deathsport for DVD release.

The new film stars Manu Bennett as Frankenstein, Malcolm McDowell as the Chairman, Burt Grinstead, Marci Miller, Folake Olowofoyeku, Anessa Ramsey, Yancy Butler (Lake Placid vs. Anaconda; Rage of the Yeti) and Charlie Farrell.

Released in 1975, the original Death Race 2000 was directed by Paul Bartel (Private Parts; Eating Raoul) and starred David Carradine (as Frankenstein) and a young Sylvester Stallone as his adversary.

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A major remake, Death Race, came in 2008, followed by a couple of low budget prequels, Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives (2011) and Death Race 3: Inferno (2013).

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Miruthan is a 2016 Indian Tamil science fiction zombie horror film written and directed by Shakti Soundar Rajan. It stars Jayam Ravi and Lakshmi Menon in the leading roles. Advertised as India’s first zombie film in Tamil, Miruthan was released on 19 February 2016.

Plot:

A stray dog becomes violent, after being exposed by toxic fumes, then bites a security guard. The security guard becomes a zombie momentarily and starts a chain of human infections via bites…

Karthik (Jayam Ravi) is a traffic officer in Ooty who avoids from any danger as he has to take care of a younger sister in her early teens. He is in love with a Dr. Renuka (Lakshmi Menon) but never proposes as all their meetings end up putting him in a bad light and to complicate things Renuka is already engaged to be married.

As the zombie infection spreads throughout the city, Karthik and Renuka team up with a few others to move to the adjoining metro city to find a vaccine for the infection…

Review:

“A few of the zombie portions work — the initial one involving a dog, the interval block when a hoard of zombies take over the van carrying the protagonists, and the climax, which has a superb set-up, at least on paper. Even though the execution is off, the haunting song that Imman provides for this moment, Mirutha Mirutha, hits us hard, and makes us care for the lead pair.” M. Sugganth, Times of India

“Where the film succeeds, I think, unexpectedly, is that it both exemplifies and transcends regional entertainment by telling a universally popular story that includes locally acceptable tropes without alienating potential outside audiences.” J Hurtado, Twitch

“While the film has been marketed as a ‘zombie’ film, it fits nowhere into that definition except for the inclusion of zombie-like creatures. The storyline is not novel nor convincing. It is amateurish. It is just another Tamil film masquerading as a zombie film.” Latha Srinivasan, dna

Cast and characters:

• Jayam Ravi as Karthik
• Lakshmi Menon as Renuka
• Sriman as Mall Security
• R. N. R. Manohar as Minister
• Kaali Venkat as Chinamalai
• Anikha Surendran as Vidya
• Jeeva Ravi as Chief Doctor
• Crane Manohar as Wedding Broker
• Amit Bhargav as Naveen

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Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion is a 2016 hardback book published in the UK.

Exploring the stars, the filmmakers and the trends, Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion approaches its subject from five angles. Each section is devoted to a different facet of cult filmmaking – the opening chapter features seven essays devoted to key cult movies, and is followed by those on directors, actors, genres (and sub-genres), and finally distribution, which examines how different methods of seeing a film, from travelling shows to DVDs, has allowed cult films and their audiences to flourish.

Arrow Video is one of the foremost distributors of cult cinema on DVD and Blu-ray. From the classic to the obscure, the Arrow Video collection encompasses all styles and genres: horror films and Westerns, science fiction and sex comedies, yakuza epics and neo-noirs, the subversive, the transgressive and the unclassifiable.

This hardback volume brings together twenty-five of the world’s leading genre experts and critics (including two Horrorpedia.com contributors) to guide you through the multi-faceted beast that is cult cinema.

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Featuring the writing of: Robin Bougie, Michael Brooke, Paul Corupe, David Del Valle, David Flint, Kevin Gilvear, Joel Harley, David Hayles, Pasquale Iannone, Alan Jones, Tim Lucas, Michael Mackenzie, Maitland McDonagh, Tom Mes, John Kenneth Muir, Kim Newman, James Oliver, Vic Pratt, Jasper Sharp, Cullen Gallagher, Kenneth J. Souza, Mike Sutton, Stephen Thrower, Caelum Vatnsdal, Doug Weir.

The book features an introduction by filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List; Sightseers; High-Rise) and a cover illustration by artist Graham Humphreys.

The Re-Animator action figure from Monstarz, due in 2016, features H.P. Lovecraft’s character Herbert West (modelled – apparently – on actor Jeffrey Combs) based on the cult classic 1985 film. At Horrorpedia.com, we’re massive fans of the original and amusing film, and Jeffrey Combs, but does this ‘action figure’ add anything to your enjoyment of it?

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Bad Blood: The Movie is a 2016 American horror film co-produced, written and directed by Tim Reis for Black Rider Productions. Reis’ previous work includes directing the short Goat Witch and producing The Demon’s Rook (2013).

The film is set to have its premiere at the Chattanooga Film Festival this March, 2016.

Main cast:

Kevin Galbraith, David Alexander, Grayson Kilpatrick, Michael Gladden, Mickie Banyas, Mary Malloy, and Tomi Lavinder.

Plot:

Parents suspect drugs are behind their missing daughter (played by Mary Malloy) and hire a private investigator (Troy Halverson) to get her back. The reality, however, is much worse: a horrific amphibian attack has infected the girl with a mutagenic disease. As the P.I. begins to connect her disappearance to unethical scientists and a secret laboratory, the disease takes it’s course, transforming her into a hideous monster and murderer…

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Amphibian horror: Fro-g-g! | Frogs | Hell Comes to Frogtown | Humanoids from the Deep |  The Maze | Psychomania | Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake aka Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell

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The Exorcist is a 2016 American pilot for a possible 20th Century Fox TV series to follow. It is being written by Jeremy Slater, who penned the Fantastic Four movie. The project hails from 20th Century Fox Television, in association with Morgan Creek Productions, and was written by Jeremy Slater, who also executive produces alongside James Robinson, David Robinson and Barbara Wall.

Deadline Hollywood has reported that Alfonso Herrera (Sense8, The Chosen) and Ben Daniels (House of Cards; Flesh and Bones) have been cast in the lead roles of Father Tomas Ortega (Herrera) and Father Marcus Lang (Daniels).

Plot:

Two very different men — Father Tomas Ortega and Father Marcus Lang (Daniels) — tackle one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession and confronting the face of true evil…

Dead Rush is a 2016 American point-of-view zombie horror film directed by Zachary Ramelan from a screenplay co-written with Gavin Michael Booth and Raven Cousens for Ruthless Pictures.

The film will have its world premiere at the Canadian Film Fest, which begins March 30th, 2016.

Cast:

David Michael Moote, Raven Cousens, Charlie Hamilton, Caleigh Le Grand, Rich Piatkowski, and Austin Duffy.

Press release:

“For the first time ever, the zombie apocalypse has fallen upon the shoulders of the viewer. Dead Rush puts you in the center of the mayhem like never before by letting you experience the horror through the eyes of a few struggling survivors as they search for safety, defend their loved ones, and fight for their lives through waves of the undead! Dawn is on the horizon, and even the day seems dark as night. The dead rush has begun. Will you make it?”

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