Horror Highlights: ROOM FOR RENT, SCARECROWS Trailer, BRAID, HALLOWEEN IN A BOX

2018/11/02 15:47:54 +00:00 | Tamika Jones

Lin Shaye has a Room for Rent which will be released in 2019, but in the meantime, check out the still released for the film by Uncork'd Entertainment. Also: a trailer for Scarecrows, Braid's Midnight screening at the 4th annual Ax Wound Film Festival, and documentary Halloween in a Box.

Room For Rent: "Suspense thriller Room for Rent, starring veteran actress Lin Shaye (the Insidious franchise, Ouija), will be released by leading genre distributor Uncork’d Entertainment.

The deal for worldwide rights was finalized this week at AFM between Keith Leopard, President of Uncork’d Entertainment and Tommy Stovall, President of Pasidg Productions Inc.

“We’re very excited to be releasing Room for Rent in 2019,” said Keith Leopard, President of Uncork’d Entertainment. “I loved this movie and I think audiences will really enjoy this unique and spine-tingling thrill ride, which features a powerhouse performance by Lin Shaye, in what’s a very different role for her.”

Room for Rent director Tommy Stovall believes Uncork’d is the perfect home for the film.

“We’re thrilled to be working with Uncork’d to get this film out there and can’t wait for people to see it.”

Room for Rent, expected to be released second quarter of 2019, stars Shaye as a lonely widow who rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.

Uncork’d Entertainment’s upcoming releases include Chad Archibald’s The Heretics, released in November, festival favorite Lifechanger in January 2019, and Darren Lynn Bousman’s spooky thriller St. Agatha in Q1 2019."

Watch the New Scarecrows Trailer: "Teenagers are kidnapped and made into living scarecrows who are left to die in crop fields in an exceedingly frightening stoner-horror throwback in the vein of Jeepers Creepers and Scream. Scarecrows, from director Stu Stone, rise from the cornfields 12/11 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

While on a hike to find a secret lagoon, a group of friends has no choice but to pass through an ominous cornfield. Unbeknownst to them, the farm owner despises trespassers and has vowed to kill anyone who crosses his land by turning them into living scarecrows, leaving them to rot in his fields. Once one goes up... it never comes down.

Scarecrows, starring Hannah Gordon (Hurt), Mike Taylor (Pure) and Umed Amin (A Simple Favor) and co-written by Stone and Adam Rodness, premieres on VOD December 11 and DVD February 1 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Synopsis: While on a hike to find a secret lagoon, a group of friends have no choice but to pass through an ominous cornfield. Unbeknownst to them, the farm owner despises trespassers and has vowed to kill anyone who crosses his land by turning them into living scarecrows, leaving them to rot in his fields. Once one goes up... it never comes down.

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Braid's Ax Wound Film Festival Midnight Premiere Details: "The Ax Wound Film Festival continues to foster a community of fans and female-identified filmmakers in the horror genre for its fourth year running on Friday evening, November 9th and all-day Saturday, November 10th, 2018 at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. Recently named one of MovieMaker magazine’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World, Ax Wound Film Festival’s expanding mission includes becoming an event that promises opportunities for professional connections amongst all filmmakers and additional creatives in order to shatter the glass ceiling of gender inequality in the film industry, starting with each other.

This year is packed with a wicked variety of international film selections from both first-time directors such as American Mary actress Tristian Risk bringing to life a séance with a darkly quirky family in PARLOUR TRICKS and award-winning, fresh voices like Kyra Gardner, back at Ax Wound with her latest zombie comedy, INKED. Director and screenwriter Mitzi Peirone’s 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Midnight selection and much buzzed about, BRAID is Ax Wound’s feature film to cap off the event, a “whimsically insane journey of madness and unnerving violence”. We’re excited about each filmmaker’s stories that bring humor, awareness, and entertainment to their artistic expressions, offering horror some of its most original and darkest work to date.

Doors open to the public on Friday, November 9th at 7:30 PM and Saturday, November 10th at 10:30 AM. Expect free giveaways, raffles, vendors, workshops, presentations, and more, with percentages earned going towards the Hooker-Dunham and the Scleroderma Research Foundation.

You can purchase an All-Access wristband at the door or online now for $25.00 here. Tickets for individual film blocks and other programming is $10.00.

About Ax Wound Film Festival

The Ax Wound Film Festival is an annual event featuring a diverse selection of horror films written and directed by women around the world. Our showcase includes short films, one feature, and a full day of workshops, panels, and excellent networking opportunities. Described as having a “family vibe,” we aim to empower, inspire, and provide an inclusive space deeply dedicated to expanding the visibility of women in the industry.

Website: http://www.womeninhorrormonth.com/axwoundfilmfestival/
Twitter: @AxWoundFilmFest
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AxWoundFilmFestival
Instagram: www.instagram.com/axwoundfilmfestival"

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Halloween in a Box Title Sequence Revealed: "Synopsis: Before the days of elaborate Halloween costumes, there were costumes in a box. Remember them? We seemingly all wore these costumes as kids. Now hear the story behind these costumes and the history of the big three companies that made them, Ben Cooper Inc, Halco, and Collegeville. For years, these costumes were a beloved Halloween institution dating back in the 1930s. In 1982 at the height of their popularity, the first case of domestic terrorism shook the United States and threatened to cancel Halloween forever. In an effort to save the holiday, the costume giants, although rivals in business, were forced to come together and unify or trick or treating would become extinct.

Writer/Director: Rob Caprilozzi

Website: www.HNNProductions.net"

About the Author - Tamika Jones

Tamika hails from North Beach, Maryland, a tiny town inches from the Chesapeake Bay.She knew she wanted to be an actor after reciting a soliloquy by Sojourner Truth in front of her entire fifth grade class. Since then, she's appeared in over 20 film and television projects. In addition to acting, Tamika is the Indie Spotlight manager for Daily Dead, where she brings readers news on independent horror projects every weekend.

The first horror film Tamika watched was Child's Play. Being eight years old at the time, she remembers being so scared when Chucky came to life that she projectile vomited. It's tough for her to choose only one movie as her favorite horror film, so she picked two: Nosferatu and The Stepford Wives (1975).

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