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What makes a sex scene sexy? More to the point, what makes a sex scene good? That’s become an especially thorny question in recent years, with detailed accounts of what goes on behind the scenes of movies we love complicating our relationship with their most memorable moments. And though we’re ever so slowly moving away from the male gaze serving as the default perspective on love, sex, and everything between, there’s still a long way to go.

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On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the slasher Scare Zone – a movie we had previously posted as a Friday Fright Nights feature a while back. Then we ran into some YouTube issues and had to take Scare Zone down for a while… but now it’s back! You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Here’s what was written about Scare Zone for Friday Fright Nights:

Every Halloween season, thousands of haunted house attractions of various kinds open up across the United States… and yet we still have very few great horror movies that are set at haunted house attractions.

Stars: Simon Needham, Neil Brown Jr., Pat McMahon, Michele Simms, Arian Ash, Chris Burns, Michaela Stamm, Leigh Anne West | Written and Directed by Jon Binkowski

If Scare Zone seems a bit familiar that’s not surprising. The debut film by Jon Binkowski has been around since 2009, playing festivals and streaming services such as Hulu as well as getting a DVD release. Also, its plot about real deaths in a Halloween Haunted House has been used in films many films such as Hell Fest, The Tombs and Haunt. Now, as in the days of drive-ins and grindhouses Terror Films has picked it up and is giving it a new release based on the success of Neil Brown Jr..

It’s year three for strip mall haunted house The Scare Zone, and its owner Oliver and his right-hand man Spider (Neil Brown Jr.) are looking to make “Scare ZoneIII: The Psycho-Splatter Raw-Topsy...

Every year, millions of people enter haunted attractions not being 100 certain that they're going to make it out alive, and in Scare Zone, those fears become a reality. Premiering on the Terror Films Channel on May 27th ahead of its digital and VOD release on June 3rd, we have the trailer premiere!

Welcome to Scare Zone, just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House …or is it? From the strobe room to the masked maniacs wielding chainsaws, knives and pitchforks as they chase paying customers through the halls of this haunted maze, it’s one good jump scare after another. However, as terrible things begin to happen and people end up dead, the visitors of Scare Zone think it’s all just part of the “show”!

From writer/director Jon Binkowski and Terror Films comes Scare Zone, premiering on the Terror Films Channel May 27 and on wide digital and VOD June 3 (worldwide). Seal Team’s Neil Brown,...

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We've all been there. As horror fans it's almost our duty to take part in haunted attractions each Halloween season no matter how long the lines. Some of them are truly worth it, too. Especially the ones that feature real murder and mayhem. Those are the best!

Eagle One Media announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights to director Jon Binkowski’s debut feature film Scare Zone and will release the flick this summer on DVD, VOD, and digital platforms within North America as well as roll it out globally in various territory markets.

Shot at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights set, Scare Zone features Neil Brown Jr. ("The Walking Dead," Fast and Furious), Arian Ash (Phone Booth, Tigerland), Simon Needham (Health Inspector, Larry the Cable Guy), and Jordan Woods-Robinson (Magic City).

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Scare Zone is Oliver’s pride and joy. Sure, it’s just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House,...

Eagle One Media has acquired worldwide rights to Scare Zone, director Jon Binkowski’s debut feature film.

The film will hit this summer on DVD, VOD, and digital platforms within North America and rolled out globally in various territory markets. Shot on a Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights set, Scare Zone features Neil Brown Jr., Arian Ash, Simon Needham and Jordan Woods-Robinson.

Scare Zone is Oliver's pride and joy. Sure, it's just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he's put his heart and soul into it for the last two years. This year the theme is "Scare Zone III: the Psyco-Splatter Raw-topsy Slaughter Dungeon" where he's created an entire creepy Victorian maze featuring all of his best scenarios: the Living Amputation, the odiferous Toilet of Terror, the Vampire Bride (featuring Bat-Baby), and of course a final encounter with the chainsaw wielding Pumpkin Carver.

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Eagle One Media is proud to announce it has acquired worldwide rights to the critically acclaimed horror feature film Scare Zone. Director Jon Binkowski’s debut feature film will be release this summer on DVD, VOD, and digital platforms within North America and rolled out globally in various territory markets.

Shot at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights set, Scare Zone features Neil Brown Jr. (The Walking Dead, Fast and Furious), Arian Ash (Phone Booth, Tigerland), Simon Needham (Health Inspector, Larry the Cable Guy), and Jordan Woods-Robinson (Magic City).

Multiple film festival award winner Scare Zone delivers and has received glowing reviews:

“It’s a great popcorn movie…the pay-off is delightful.” Horrorview.com

“The film is a screamingly good jaunt…a talented cast” ScareWorld Review

“This is a damn good and fun film!” Dead Derrick Reviews

“Sex and Blood and Wisecracks” Roger Moore (Orlando Sentinel)

And legendary director John Landis...

Director/writer: Jon Binkowski.

Scare Zone is a film that was shot in Orlando, Florida and has gone on to wins some awards as being the Best Picture of Florida (Cenflo). Probably shot at Disneyland, Scare Zone is almost exclusively shot within a Haunted House styled venue. The acting is sometimes overacted with many of the characters unusually giddy and some of the characters are given only shallow attention. Yet, the film is often fun and a guilty pleasure, as the writing does not require in-depth analysis only the suspension of belief for a brief ninety minutes.

The film is a follow the numbers serial killer story, with the addition of a horror fun house an added bonus. Characters get introduced to the horror house right away and the slaughter comes not much later. The non-essential characters are fitted into the usual geek, slut, hero, and more than slightly bent goth girl cardboard cut-outs,...

Have you heard of Scarezone? If not, and if you like 80's slasher films then Scarezone will be the right film for you. The film is set within a haunted house attraction "where actors in costumes lunge from the darkness at hapless customers (Nevermore)." Scarezone is already set for a February 19th release at the Nevermore Film Festival and fans might want to check out this film that has been described as "a stylish, terrifying excursion through...make-believe (Nevermore)." A trailer for this project and synopsis are below.

The tagline for Scarezone (very Aliens inspired):

No one can hear you scream… if they're screaming too!

The synopsis for Scarezone:

"Scare Zone is Oliver's pride and joy. Sure, it is just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he has put his heart and soul into it. This year it is "Scare Zone III: the Psyco-Splatter Raw-topsy Slaughter Dungeon...