Horror Highlights: KEEPER, THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, AHOY Comics’ THANKSGIVING

Watch the Teaser Trailer for Osgood Perkins' KEEPER: 

A Dark Trip from Osgood Perkins

In Theaters November 14th

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PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY WRAPS ON NARRATIVE DEBUT FROM "WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED" DIRECTOR; DON MCKELLAR STARS—FIRST LOOK RELEASED: "Principal photography has wrapped on THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, the narrative debut of Kier-La Janisse, director of the SXSW award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror and author of the pioneering horror memoir House of Psychotic Women. The film, a special in the tradition of the BBC's Ghost Stories for Christmas, will be ready for markets and festivals this fall.

Adapted for the screen by Janisse, the film is based on the classic chiller of the same name by Algernon Blackwood about a schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest — leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences.

The film stars multi-hyphenate Don McKellar (most recently co-showrunner of The Sympathizer with Park Chan-Wook and starring Robert Downey, Jr.), with supporting roles by Ben Petrie (BlackBerry, Dead Lover) and Delphine Roussell (The ABCs of Death 2: “Z is for Zygote”), and features cinematography by Karim Hussain (Infinity Pool, Possessor). The film was produced by Ruby Mannequin Films’ Liane Cunje (Anything That Moves) and Shannon Hanmer (In a Violent Nature), as well as Janisse’s own company, Spectacular Optical. David Gregory and Carl Daft of Severin Films and Rob Cotterill of Yer Dead Productions are Executive Producers."

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Mark Russell, Mauricet and AHOY Comics Invite You to THANKSGIVING, An Oversized 48-Page Horror-Comedy One-Shot About A Holiday Meal Gone Horribly Wrong: "Thanksgiving: a day for American families, when the alienated, the estranged, and the politically antagonistic come together to perform unity—until the strain inevitably tears them apart. But for one family, the addition of a cruel and deadly secret—involving the continuing rampage of the mysterious Turkeyneck Killer—solidly binds them together in the saddest, most shameful way.

This fall, pull up a chair at your own risk at THANKSGIVING, a gory and timely new horror-comedy one-shot from writer Mark Russell (X-Factor, Second Coming), artist Mauricet (Howl), letterer Rob Steen and publisher AHOY Comics. The oversized 48-page issue about a family dinner gone horribly wrong will feature three grisly covers by Mauricet—a main cover, a “Blood for Dinner” variant, and a “Turkey Death” variant—and land in stores on October 22, 2025… just in time to ruin your holiday.

“Thanksgiving is a black comedy using the most American of holidays as a metaphor for what our nation is in danger of becoming,” said writer Mark Russell. “t tells the story of a nuclear family with many of the same divisions you find within our nation and how deep the rifts between people become while we aren’t paying attention. About how a monster lurks in plain sight, but we choose not to see it.”

“Welcome to the Grandts family's Thanksgiving dinner,” said artist Mauricet. “Please take a seat at the table. We are about to start serving the meal. For the appetizer, you will have a bit of dysfunctional America wrapped in cynical humor. For the main course, we offer you one of the most original serial killers the country has known. Still hungry? Expect a rather surprising dessert…”

"Mark got mad about something big and wrote this story—I think to help process it,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “I think it'll help us all process it. Whenever he gets mad, I hope he brings it to AHOY. Mauricet, meanwhile, is doing the best work of his career, but then he always seems to be."

The darkly funny one-shot THANKSGIVING #1 will land in comic shops on October 22, 2025.

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