TEARSUCKER: "The film tells the story of Lilly (Allison Walter), an emotionally vulnerable trauma survivor who is desperate to heal and get on with her life. Despite the support of her best friend Deb (Danielle Mcrae Spisso), Lilly is completely isolated. When she crosses paths with a charming stranger, Tom (Sam Brittan), at the park, she feels hope for the first time in months. Tom sweeps Lilly off her feet and invites her on a romantic weekend getaway. However, things take a disturbing turn when Lily discovers that Tom has an unusual appetite for tears… and will stop at nothing to get them.
Tearsucker is a stylish, twisted thriller that gives a true look at toxic relationships and the power dynamic that exists within them, as well as the red flags we often ignore."
Fresh off a world premiere at the Chattanooga Film Festival, Tearsucker is now available on digital.
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Watch an Exclusive Clip from SITE 13: "When Dr. Nathan Marsh wakes up in a mental institution from a 10 year catatonic state he has to watch the tapes from his last expedition to learn what eldritch horrors he has unleashed on the world. Using found footage shot in 2003 as flashback material for a present day story featuring a recurring character, SITE 13 crafts two films from two time periods into one movie that explores, myth, legacy, and madness over the course of more than a decade.
Says writer/director/star Nathan Faudree, “Filmed over the course of 17 years, SITE 13 is a Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror film that truly proves evil never dies. Begun as a found footage film in 2003 under the direction of Tony Urban, the mostly improvised movie was filmed and then due to Urban’s retirement, shelved. Flash forward 13 years and I was still haunted by the work that everyone had done for the film. I contacted Tony with an interesting idea. Let me write and film a present-day portion of the movie and use the old footage as a kind of flashback material. He quickly agreed, happy to give the film a new life. I set about crafting a script that incorporated the footage into a present-day story.
The present-day portion was filmed over the course of a week in the Syracuse area using an incredible crop of regional theatre talent and the crew from WatchWorks Studios led by Chris Steinberger and Megan Piechowicz.
For post-production, indie horror star Alan Rowe Kelly was brought on as a Producer and editor giving the film a whole new scope with his invaluable storytelling skills. A couple additional days of photography and three more years of crafting two films into one has led to a truly unique film experience, where two films became an entirely new story.”
Katie Gibson and Leila Dean also star in the unnerving horror film, due July 28 on digital platforms."
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JOURNAL OF THE DEAD: "Second Sight Publishing is announcing in time for the San Diego Comic Con their recent acquisition Journal of the Dead by Alverne Ball. Alverne is the writer of the critically acclaimed graphic novel, Across the Tracks, as well as a writer on the upcoming horror anthology, SHOOK! A Black Horror anthology from Dark Horse comics.
Journal of the Dead is a one-shot, 38 page full color horror/thriller comic that follows 8 survivors of a zombie apocalypse as they search for a safe haven called the Levy. As the survivors traverse and combat the natural elements as well as the undead, they are slowly being killed off, not by zombies, but by a serial killer. Writer/Creator: Alverne Ball. Artist: Santosh Roth. inks and colors: Beezzz Studios.
Journal of the Dead will be released this fall from Second Sight Publishing."
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THE MISTRESS: "Maddie and Parker move into their dream home when they discover old letters from a lovelorn woman who lived there over 100 years ago. Parker experiences ghostly disturbances while Maddie suspects he’s hiding something dark from his past."
In Theaters and on VOD July 28th
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Welcome Villain Films acquires Chilean found footage fest hit INVOKING YELL: "New genre studio Welcome Villain Films announces their acquisition of the festival horror hit INVOKING YELL, which has been deemed “a shining example of contemporary international found footage.” INVOKING YELL serves as the studio’s third acquisition this year and its first Spanish language film.
Co-written and Directed by Patricio Valladares with co-writer Barry Keating, INVOKING YELL premiered at the Unnamed Footage Festival and garnered numerous positive reviews calling it “shocking, anxiety-inducing, and genuinely horrifying.” The film went on to play at several other genre film festivals including PanicFest, Chattanooga Film Festival, and is set to play at Popcorn Frights later this Summer.
Set in 1997 south of Chile, INVOKING YELL is a love letter to black metal that follows a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls who venture into the woods to shoot the demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell. However, things take a sinister turn as they document their disturbing and unorthodox process of recording paranormal phenomena to be used in the album’s final track.
“This film was always meant to be an ode to the found footage films of the 90’s, but with a black metal twist,” says Director and Co-Writer Patricio Valladares. “I’m a big fan of The Blair Witch Project and many other found footage films from that era, and I am also a metalhead, so the subject matter came easy to me. I was lucky enough to shoot the film in my home country of Chile, taking advantage of the region's natural splendor while also giving audiences a unique perspective into our local music scene that will feel both familiar and new to metalheads and music fans alike. t is incredibly exciting to be teaming up with the amazing group at Welcome Villain to release this special film to the world. We couldn’t be happier with this partnership.”
“We are massive fans of the found footage subgenre, and what Patricio and team created is a genuinely unnerving nightmare that stuck with us long after the credits rolled. This is the type of exciting creative vision that not only breathes new life into the subgenre but also proves there are still plenty of terrifying stories to be told in the found footage style,” says Luke LaBeau, Welcome Villain’s Head of Development.
“Invoking Yell brought back that feeling of seeing films like The Blair Witch Project for the first time - the mystery, the unpredictable plot twists, and the overall raw, gritty aesthetic really make this film effective and creepy in surprising new ways, and we are exceedingly proud to be releasing the film under the Welcome Villain label,” states Eric Kleifield, Welcome Villain’s Head of Creative.
Welcome Villain Films is distributing the film domestically, with an exact release date yet to be announced, and will also be handling international sales for the film.
INVOKING YELL was written by Barry Keating and Patricio Valladares, who also directed the film, and was produced by Moral Brothers Entertainment, owned by Diego Moral Heimpell, who served as producer alongside Vittorio Farfan. The film was shot on location in May of 2022 in Los LLeuques, Ñuble, a small town near Valladares’ home in Chillán City, in the South of Chile. María Jesús Marcone, Macarena Carrere, and Andrea Ozuljevich star as the members of Invoking Yell who go to extreme lengths to ensure their demo is the most evil tape ever made. With cinematography by Vittorio Farfan and Evelyn Belmar serving as the art department, INVOKING YELL was a bare-bones crew. Thishasn’t stopped the film from becoming an indie horror darling from its multiple festival appearances over the past year where it has been
embraced by genre audiences. The film has played at Unnamed Footage Festival, PanicFest, Portland Horror Film Festival, Chattanooga Film Festival, and is set to play Popcorn Frights next month, as well as Sanfic19 in Chile where it will have its Latin America premiere."
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STAY ONLINE: "A young woman (Liza Zaitseva) volunteering in Kyiv is given one of the thousands of laptops donated by ordinary Ukrainians to support the war effort. The woman receives a mysterious video call from a young boy searching for his father, the laptop’s previous owner, who went missing during the Russian army’s invasion in Bucha. Reluctantly, she agrees to help find his missing parents—a decision that will ultimately force her to risk the lives of her own loved ones."
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