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The latest trailer for Pierre Tsigaridis' Traumatika has arrived and it looks creepy as hell. Directed by Tsigaridis with a script he co-wrote with Maxime Rançon, the film stars Rebekah Kennedy, Emily Goss, Ranen Navat, Aj Bowen, Sean O’Bryan, Susan Gayle Watts and Sean Whalen and will be in theaters on September 12th, 2025 from Saban Films.

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A young boy’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

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“This is not a movie you see. This is a movie you survive! You have been warned!“

So claims the tagline for Traumatika, the sophomore feature from director Pierre Tsigaridis (Two Witches). Based on the trailer below, released today by Saban Films, I’m inclined to believe it.

Written by Tsigaridis and Maxime Rancon, Traumatika follows “A young boy (whose) night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.”

Check out the trailer below:

Dear reader, I have chills from watching this trailer. I’m about as seasoned a horror fan as it gets, and I have to admit, this film appears truly nightmarish. Especially considering the fact that it all seems to be from the point of view of a small child experiencing the...

The trailer for Traumatika warns that it’s not a movie you see — it’s a movie you survive.

The supernatural horror film possesses theaters on September 12 from Saban Films.

A young boy’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

Pierre Tsigaridis directs from a script co-wrote with Maxime Rançon. The pair previously collaborated on Two Witches.

Rebekah Kennedy (Two Witches), Emily Goss (The House on Pine Street), Ranen Navat, Aj Bowen (You’re Next), Sean O’Bryan, Susan Gayle Watts (Olympus Has Fallen), and Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) star.

“It’s hard to prepare yourself for the highly disturbing film that Pierre and Maxime have created. They are truly mad genius storytellers,” said Saban co-presidents Jonathan Saba and Shanan Becker.

2025 has been a remarkable year for horror, from original titles like Sinners to legacy sequels like 28 Years Later and, most recently, the body horror Together. If you ask Saban Films, however, the most terrifying feature has yet to make its entrance. Premiering in theaters on September 12, Traumatika promises a chilling new spin on possession horror that goes to dark and deeply disturbing places, creating trauma for its characters that spans generations and maintains a curse that claims countless lives over time. As part of Collider's Exclusive Preview event for fall movies, we can exclusively share a new image from the film that shows a young boy locked in terror as he stares into the shadows. His life will be forever changed by the horror he'll witness when a malevolent entity worms its way into his family.

Traumatika follows Mikey, played by Ranen Navat, who looks to add to...

New demonic horror movie Traumatika is so intense that a full trailer can’t be shown at all, the brief new teaser warns today.

Saban Films releases the unrated demonic horror movie in theaters on September 12, 2025.

Director Pierre Tsigaridis worked with his Two Witches co-writer, producer Maxime Rancon, on the script.

In Traumatika, “A young boy’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.”

Rebekah Kennedy (Two Witches), Emily Goss (The House on Pine Street), Ranen Navat, Aj Bowen (You’re Next), Sean O’Bryan (“The Middle”), Susan Gayle Watts, and Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) star.

“Traumatika is not a movie you see – it’s a movie you experience. And there’s no better way to experience it than on the big screen,...

Although it's not due out for another couple of months, Saban Films is already preparing viewers for what could be the most disturbing horror film of the year — Traumatika. Throughout the entire week, chilling new posters have been dropping for what's been dubbed the "5 Days of Trauma," an event hyping the deeply haunting new movie and all culminating in today's new key art, which brings fans face-to-face with evil incarnate. Collider is excited to cap off the promotional event by exclusively sharing the final poster of a demonic being with burning orange eyes peering through clawed hands and bearing gnarled teeth. It's a taste of the gritty, sinister air of director Pierre Tsigaridis's latest feature before the curtain is pulled back with the first teaser next week.

Traumatika has been described as a genre-bending nightmare mixing the scares of possession horror, slashers, and beyond as it fittingly explores the nature of trauma across generations.

Two Witches filmmaker Pierre Tsigaridis is back with Traumatika, a demonic horror movie so intense that Saban Films is rolling out “5 Days of Trauma” poster reveals leading up to the trailer debut.

Our exclusive poster claws at the throat with a demonic presence.

Saban Films releases the unrated demonic horror movie in theaters on September 12, 2025.

Director Pierre Tsigaridis with his Two Witches co-writer, producer Maxime Rancon, on the script.

In Traumatika, “A young boy’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.”

Rebekah Kennedy (Two Witches), Emily Goss (The House on Pine Street), Ranen Navat, Aj Bowen (You’re Next), Sean O’Bryan (“The Middle”), Susan Gayle Watts, and Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) star.

“Traumatika is not a movie you see – it’s a movie you experience.

Pierre Tsigaridis’ feature film debut, Two Witches, made a massive impact with its disturbing imagery and unrelenting violence. Now, the director is stepping up his game even more with his new film, Traumatika, which he co-wrote with Maxime Rançon. In anticipation of the film’s release, we have an exclusive poster featuring Rebekah Kennedy, the film’s star.

In Traumatika:

A young boy’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

We have an exclusive poster from the film as part of the 5 Days of Trauma, leading up to the reveal of Traumatika‘s teaser trailer on July 28, 2025!

Check it out below: In her review of the film, Dread Central’s Mary Beth McAndrews wrote,

“Ultimately, Traumatika is a poignant exploration of the...

Saban Films has acquired the North American rights to the “off-the-wall” horror film Traumatika for a theatrical release later this year.

Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

Pierre Tsigaridis (Two Witches) directs from a script he co-wrote with producer Maxime Rancon (Two Witches).

Rebekah Kennedy (Two Witches), Emily Goss, Ranen Navat, Aj Bowen (You’re Next), Sean O’Bryan (“The Middle”), Susan Gayle Watts, and Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) star.

“Traumatika is not a movie you see – it’s a movie you experience. And there’s no better way to experience it than on the big screen,” said Saban co-presidents Jonathan Saba and Shanan Becker. “It’s hard to prepare yourself for the highly disturbing film that Pierre and Maxime have created.

“Traumatika,’ an experimental and visually bold new horror film, has sold to Saban Films for North American distribution.

The project hails from co-writer and director Pierre Tsigaridis (“Two Witches”) and co-writer and producer Maxime Rancon. Saban is plotting a theatrical release for 2025. Rancon also serves as executive producer.

“Traumatika” played Australia’s FrightFest and others on the indie horror circuit, earning positive early reviews for genre-blending and featuring multiple points-of-view in a terrorizing tapestry of scenes. The film follows Mikey, whose night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

“[This] is not a movie you see, it’s a movie you experience. And there’s no better way to experience it than on the big screen,” Saban Films co-presidents Jonathan Saba and Shanan Becker said.

Stars: Susan Gayle-Watts, Ranen Navat, Aj Bowen, Sean O’Bryan, Emily Goss, Rebekah Kennedy | Written and Directed by Pierre Tsigaridis

From the off, Pierre Tsigaridis’ sophomore film, Traumatika, promises its audience an exploration of the various sub-types of childhood trauma, focusing on emotional, physical, and sexual abuse alongside a gratuitous amount of violence.

The story is told non-linearly, starting in present-day L.A. We are introduced to Jennifer Novac’s (Susan Gayle-Watts) highly exploitative – verging on evil – true crime show intent on exploring a spate of child murders that occurred in 2003 in Pasadena, California. But, before we get there, the audience is transported back further in time to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, when a lone wanderer buries a mysterious artefact only to then commit suicide after being plagued by visions of his child’s death at the hands of the demon Volpaazu.

93 years later, and we shift to a young Mikey’s (Ranen Navat) bedroom.

The 25th edition of the Pigeon Shrine FrightFest promises to be an unforgettable celebration of horror cinema, taking place between 22 August to 26 August 2024.

It’s hard to comprehend just how many films will be on offer to see at this fantastic event, so we have broken down each of the screens into articles for you to digest. And we may have saved the best (this one) until last!

We have already detailed what will be on offer in Discovery Screen 1, Discovery Screen 2 and Discovery Screen 3 across the long weekend.

Now it’s time to read about the final list of films on offer, detailed below. Read on for the film programme for the Main Screen, at the Cineworld, Leicester Square.

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 – Main Screen Thursday, 22 August 2024

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