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Another trio of Dark Sky Films titles have made their way onto Screambox, joining previously dropped classics Willow Creek, Minor Premise, and The Deeper You Dig (more details).

Place your bets on who will win in Dark Sky Films’ Ghost Killers vs Bloody Mary, now streaming on Screambox.

Fabrício Bittar’s horror-comedy tells of four YouTubers with expertise in paranormal activity who attempt to tackle the mystery of a ghost that haunts a high school bathroom. This film is batshit insane.

The film is being sold in the spirit of Peter Jackson’s earliest work, “An exercise in hilariously bad taste, featuring gratuitous sex, violence, profanity and one seriously pissed-off ghost.”

The feature directorial debut of Paul Owens, Landlocked is a creative new horror movie that incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies.

Now streaming on Screambox, Landlocked‘s use of a family’s original home videos...

Stars: Dani Calabresa, Léo Lins, Danilo Gentili, Murilo Couto | Written by Fabrício Bittar, Andre Catarinacho, Danilo Gentili | Directed by Fabrício Bittar

Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary is a Brazilian export from Fabrício Bittar (Como se Tornar o Pior Aluno da Escola) who also writes along with Andre Catarinacho and Danilo Gentili. It’s a slapstick comedy horror film that’s as juvenile and dumb as you’re going to find, but hey… I sometimes enjoy a juvenile and dumb comedy flick. Bring it on.

The story itself follows four kind-of-but-struggling-to-remain-successful YouTubers who, once they begin to make money on the YouTube platform start to see their subscriptions and views jumping ship and dwindling, so in order to attempt to pull back the subscribers and after a television deal, they take on the spooky case of Bloody Mary. I mean, that’s basically what this is all about. Four goofballs who...

Ghost Killers vs Bloody Mary is a film from Brazil. In Portuguese, this title brings several amateur paranormal investigators to a haunted school. Outmatched, these supernatural researchers will have to use all of their skills to combat this ghost. Ghost Killers vs Bloody Mary is a film from Fabrício Bittar. And, this title stars: Dani Calabresa ("The Mess"), Léo Lins and Danilo Gentili. To release in March, the film's official artwork is available here. The graphic shows Bloody Mary in the background. The investigators are forefront and do not know what Mary has in store for them. Partially looking like a broken window, this film poster also shows one of the characters dressed as Bloody Mary? Dark Sky Films will release this title in March. On March 10th, this international title will show on DVD. The DVD has not been rated. With a run time of 108 minutes, Ghost Killers vs Bloody Mary promises "gratuitous sex,...

Stars: Dani Calabresa, Léo Lins, Danilo Gentili, Murilo Couto | Written by Fabrício Bittar, Andre Catarinacho, Danilo Gentili | Directed by Fabrício Bittar

Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary (Exterminadores do Além Contra a Loira do Banheiro) is a Brazilian export from Fabrício Bittar (Como se Tornar o Pior Aluno da Escola) who also writes along with Andre Catarinacho and Danilo Gentili. It’s a slapstick comedy horror film that’s as juvenile and dumb as you’re going to find, but hey… I sometimes enjoy a juvenile and dumb comedy flick. Bring it on.

The story itself follows four kind-of-but-struggling-to-remain-successful YouTubers who, once they begin to make money on the YouTube platform start to see their subscriptions and views jumping ship and dwindling, so in order to attempt to pull back the subscribers and after a television deal, they take on the spooky case of Bloody Mary. I mean, that’s basically what this is all about.

This year marks the festival’s 20th anniversary.

This year’s FrightFest, the annual UK genre festival, has unveiled a line-up that features 20 world premieres including films from the Soska Sisters (American Mary) and Tom Paton (Black Site).

The Soska Sisters, Jen and Sylvia, are screening their second feature Rabid, their re-imagining of David Cronenberg’s 1977 film. Paton’s Stairs is a sci-fi horror about a special ops squad that find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell.

Also screening are Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by André Øvredal’s, and Crawl,...

Bob Spit

(Cesar Cabral)

Showcased at the first Cannes’ Animation Day, this Nsfw claymation feature spins off a previous short film and the work of famed Brazilian cartoonist Angeli the Killer.

Brief Story From The Green Planet

(Santiago Loza)

Three outsiders are tasked

with returning an alien to its planet. A low-fi road movie about friendship.

Ghost Killer Vs. Bloody Mary

(Fabrício Bittar)

Backed by Warner Bros.

Brasil and Netflix, this $3 million horror-comedy follows a group of paranormal investigators on YouTube looking to explain the ghost terrorizing local school bathrooms.

Sales: Raven Banner

Indianara

(Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcelo Barbosa)

In this polemical docu feature, Brazilian icon Indianara leads the fight against a repressive government to protect her country’s transgender population.

Invisible Life

(Karim Aïnouz)

A banner Brazilian title from Rt Features focuses on two sisters’ lives — denied access to a quality labor market, their voices challenged — from the 1950s to early 1970s.

Horror described as The Hills Have Eyes meets H.P. Lovecraft.

Toronto-based Raven Banner has boarded worldwide sales rights on the cannibal creature feature The Barge People and will launch sales in Cannes next week.

Charlie Steeds’ horror takes place in the British countryside canal system as two couples head off for a relaxing weekend. Unbeknown to the tourists, they are in the province of flesh-eating fish mutants that lurk below, awaiting their prey.

Christopher Lombard wrote the screenplay to The Barge People, which is described as The Hills Have Eyes meets H.P. Lovecraft.

The cast features Kate Davies-Speak,...

Netflix holds rights in Brazil, Portugal, Latin America, Spain.

Toronto-based genre specialists Raven Banner has boarded international sales rights to Ghost Killers Vs Bloody Mary and will commence talks with buyers in Cannes this month.

Fabrício Bittar’s horror comedy tells of Four YouTubers with expertise in paranormal activity who attempt to tackle the mystery of a ghost that haunts a high school bathroom.

Bittar produced the feature along with Danilo Gentili and Warner Bros Brasil. Raven Banner holds North American rights. Bittar co-wrote the screenplay with Andre Catarinacho and Danilo Gentili.

Netflix holds rights to the Clube Filmes production in Brazil,...