PREDATOR: BADLANDS Teaser Trailer: "The director of Prey welcomes you to a world of hurt. Experience Predator: Badlands on the big screen, in theaters and IMAX November 7. “Predator: Badlands,” which stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator (Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and produced by John Davis, Dan Trachtenberg, Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, Brent O’Connor."
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A HARD PLACE: "Following a months-long theatrical rollout, filmmaker J. Horton is excited to release his crime thriller turned apocalyptic showdown, A Hard Place. On May 27, 2025, audiences across North America will be able to rent or own A Hard Place on Digital VOD, including Apple TV and Prime Video.
Horton kicked off the A Hard Place roadshow January 12 at Englewood Cinema, just outside Dayton, Ohio. The genre bending creature feature went on to screen at theaters and drive ins across the country, primarily the Midwest, with many sellout shows and Q&As from Horton. Screenings continue at indie theaters and drive-ins leading up the streaming release.
A Hard Place features a cast of genre titans, including Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp, Terrifier 2), Lynn Lowry (Shivers, The Crazies), Sadie Katz (Wrong Turn 6, The Beast Inside), Rachel Amanda Bryant (Craving), Kevin Caliber ("Future Man"), Ashley Undercuffler (Craving, 16 Bits), and Bai Ling (The Crow)."
Ahead of the wider release of his latest film, Horton shared, "A Hard Place has been by far the most ambitious project I've ever made. This movie would not exist if not for the talent, generosity and just general good personalities of ALL of the cast and crew, as well as our cinema partners. In true Roger Corman style, we hit the road with A Hard Place, traveling with the film to theaters and drive ins across the country. It's been a complete joy to see the movie with multiple audiences, which is something a lot of independent movies don't get the opportunity to do."
Synopsis: "After a botched job leaves a trail of bodies behind, a gang of desperate criminals seeks refuge in a remote desert hideout. But their plans fall apart fast when they discover the area is home to something far worse than the law — an ancient war between monstrous predators of day and night. As tensions rise and the body count climbs, the crew must decide if survival is worth trusting each other — or the creatures hunting them."
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THE REMEDY: "Alex Kahuam's next horror film heads into Cannes.
The film is starting its festival tour with a prestigious booking.
Director Alex Kahuam (Failure!) provided the exclusive still above and behind-the-scenes pics below from THE REMEDY, which will be premiering as part of the Fantastic Pavilion genre lineup at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Kahuam is pictured below with stars Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why) and genre fave Doug Jones (Shape of Water), and the movie also features London Thor (Gen V), Chris Mulkey (Twin Peaks) and Jenny O’Hara (Devil). Daniel Kuhlman scripted; the synopsis: “A troubled young man is the caregiver for his terminally ill mother. When he makes a desperate attempt to save his mom, he unleashes a supernatural entity that feeds on human flesh.”
“I promise horror fans that this will be a psychologically tense, supernaturally creepy, jump-scares-packed, bloody big-screen experience they will never forget,” Kahuam tells DailyDead Stay tuned for updates as THE REMEDY makes its way through the fest circuit.
The Remedy will premiere at Cannes next month as part of the Fantastic Pavilion Galas with Kahuam in attendance."
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ARROW's May SVOD Lineup Debuts STEPPENWOLF, a 4K BIRTHDAY Treat, and Vices for All: "Arrow Video is excited to announce the May 2025 lineup of their subscription-based ARROW platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Enjoy a selection of new titles, from carefully cultivated curations to shorts by new talent. For serious enthusiasts, ARROW offers deep dives into the tastes of filmmakers that changed the way we see the genre.
The ARROW May 2025 lineup leads with the exclusive ARROW release of Steppenwolf, director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s unrelenting journey into a dystopian wasteland. The movie won the Golden Raven Grand Prix at the 2024 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and the Outstanding Performance Award for the leading actors at the 2024 Fantasia Film Festival. Steppenwolf puts Kazakhstan cinema on the action map with a dark thriller and a bleak landscape.
ARROW is also thrilled to launch the 4K release of the long-forgotten comedy The Birthday, starring Corey Feldman in an unhinged take on The Shining. Feldman's Norman thinks he’s just going to a birthday party, but it turns out the festivities are for the birth of a cult’s god.
The lineup begins May 2 with a very appropriate ARROW Season: Not For Everyone (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN). The edgy and the extreme, the saucy and the sleazy, these titles are most definitely Not For Everyone.
Titles Include: I Spit on Your Grave, Tomie, Castle Freak.
Also on May 2, subscribers can tune in and watch Porno (US/ CAN): When five teen employees at the local movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education...written in blood.
And genre legend Linnea Quigley stretches her comedy chops in the beginning of the Vice Academy franchise.
Vice Academy (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN): Students at the police vice academy go out on the streets of L.A. and accumulate graduation points by trying to make small arrests.
Vice Academy 2 (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN): Rookie policewomen thwart a villainess out to spike the city's water with an aphrodisiac.
The franchise fun continues with the next pair of Vice Academy installments on May 9.
Vice Academy 3 (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN): Two policewomen must save the city from a green-haired woman out to harm the environment.
Vice Academy 4 (UK/ IRE/ US): A policewoman and her partner must stop a green-haired prison escapee intent on ruining the commissioner's wedding.
Also on May 9, North American subscribers can get locked in Cube (US/ CAN). A group of strangers wake up in a mysterious room inscribed with an unfamiliar code. Looking for ways to escape, they discover the room is riddled with lethal traps. As fear and distrust swirl around them, the group must work together to survive.
On May 16, take a stroll through the mind of the creator of Beware The Moon, the An American Werewolf in London documentary, and writer/director of several episodes of the Blumhouse horror series Into the Dark.
Paul Davis Selects (UK/US/CA/IRE): Paul Davis - writer/director of Blumhouse's Into The Dark (including The Body, Uncanny Annie) and Beware The Moon - Remembering An American Werewolf in London. "Considering how many incredible movies are available for selection on ARROW, I can only imagine this will be the closest I will ever get to having to pick a favorite child.
Among those I ended up choosing are a collection of movies that have personally inspired me and my own work, and are slices of cinematic delight that I can revisit over again. Essentially this would be my ARROW Desert Island Selects.
I’m absolutely thrilled and humbled to be asked to join the esteemed company here on ARROW Selects, and hope you guys enjoy the titles I have put together for your viewing pleasure."
Titles Include: A Pistol for Ringo, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Woman.
May 16th concludes with the climax of Rick Sloane's Vice Academy franchise.
Vice Academy 5 (UK/ IRE/ US): The commissioner's son unleashes the dirty computer game `Virtual Reality Hooker' from his computer. Therefore Vice Academy officers Candy and Traci have to prevent an epidemic of sexually transmitted computer viruses.
Vice Academy 6 (UK/ IRE/ US): Vice cops Candy and Traci accidentally meet the bikini robbers who are armed with assault weapons in a bank. The thieves escape. The commissioner and the instructor enlist Internal Affairs detective to solve the case.
On May 19, enter The Demon’s Rook (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN). The young Roscoe enters a mystical world through a magical portal; there he meets the old demon Dimwos, who introduces him to the mysterious power of magic; later, Roscoe accidentally unleashes three evil demons, but manages to escape.
On May 21, a largely-forgotten comedy gem launches on 4K. Eugenio Mira’s filmmaking debut, which counts Jason Blum and Jordan Peele among its fans, makes its 4K debut 20 years after its release.
The Birthday (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN): Not everything is as it seems at the old Royal Fulton Hotel. Norman Forrester (Feldman) is finally going to meet his girlfriend’s family at her father’s lavish birthday party. But what was supposed to be an important step forward in their relationship doesn’t exactly go as planned; he’s not on the guest list, his girlfriend is ignoring him, and her father doesn’t like him at all. Rejected and heartbroken, Norman wanders away from the party, only to find something far more sinister than his girlfriend’s family lurking deep within the churning bowels of the ailing hotel: an ancient evil that threatens to bring about the end of the world.
May closes out on May 26 with the exclusive ARROW release of Steppenwolf (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN).
Tamara (Anna Starchenko), a young lady consumed by trauma, searches for her missing son, Timka, in a small town dominated by riots and violence. In a desperate attempt to get him back, she teams up with an amoral former police investigator (Berik Aytzhanov) whose methods prove to be frequently cruel and sadistic. Quietly determined, Tamara decides to complete the mission with the nihilistic detective, no matter what the cost, as the pair embark on a bloody and bullet-riddled road trip in their combined search for salvation.
Winner of the Golden Raven Grand Prix at the 2024 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festivals and the Outstanding Performance Award for both Anna Starchenko and Berik Aitzhanov at the 2024 Fantasia Film Festival, Steppenwolf is the latest film from acclaimed director Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Cannes-selected The Gentle Indifference of the World & Venice-selected Goliath), and Oscar-nominated producer Alexander Rodnyansky (Leviathan).
ARROW is available in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland on the following Apps/devices: Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV & iOS devices, Samsung TVs, Android TV and mobile devices, Fire TV (all Amazon Fire TV Sticks, boxes, etc), and on all web browsers at https://www.arrow-player.com."
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