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Written and directed by music video vet Paul Boyd, the horror-comedy Scared to Death will be hitting the genre film festival circuit soon, and we’ve got an exclusive preview today.

Horror legends Bill Moseley and Lin Shaye lead the cast of the upcoming Scared to Death, which boasts creature creations by Legacy FX, the maestros best known for Godzilla x Kong, Avatar, The Shape of Water, and this year’s Alien: Romulus.

Watch an exclusive clip below, along with the previously released official trailer.

In Scared to Death, “Jasper is a young opportunistic filmmaker yearning to climb the Hollywood ladder. While working as a lowly production assistant, he seizes his chance to be a “real” director when he suggests to his cantankerous boss that the crew and actors from their upcoming horror film attend a real séance in an old haunted house for research.

“The place they choose is...

Stars: Olivier Paris, Jade Chynoweth, Bill Moseley, Kurt Deimer, Lin Shaye, Victoria Konefal, Rae Dawn Chong | Written and Directed by Paul Boyd

Scared to Death, not to be confused with William Malone’s 1980 creature feature, is the latest horror film about the making of a horror film to come our way. From House of Seven Corpses to A Cat in the Brain, Darkness Reigns, and One Cut of the Dead, it’s a popular subgenre. And it shows no signs of going away any time soon.

Jasper is a production assistant on the film Dead House, which is pretty much the lowest position on the filmmaking ladder. But like many PAs he’s ambitious, and as we meet him he’s checking out a potential location, The Stern Orphanage It’s been closed for seventy years since five children were found literally scared to death. It’s the perfect place to shoot a horror film,...

The Popcorn Frights Film Festival is back this year, both in-person and virtually, from August 8-18. They’ve unleashed the first wave of programming, indicating that the fest is going big for its tenth anniversary celebration with new premieres, virtual screenings, and exciting retro showings including the “Lost First Cut” of Brian Yuzna‘s Return of the Living Dead 3.

To add to the pure mayhem of its anniversary celebration, Popcorn Frights 2024’s in-theater experience will be offered free and open to the public, as a gift back to the community for ten years of their dedicated support and moviegoing love. Popcorn Frights’ free festival is made possible by the generous support of Nightmare Weekend Miami.

Highlights include the 35th anniversary presentation of Brian Yuzna’s spectacularly insane masterpiece Society, one of the ickiest, sweatiest, gloopiest, horniest, and most original body horror shockers of all time. The master of horror will...

Allow me to introduce you to Scared To Death, the new horror comedy starring genre greats Bill Moseley and Lin Shaye and boasting creature creations by Legacy FX, the maestros best known for Godzilla X Kong, Avatar, The Shape Of Water and the upcoming Alien: Romulus.

The movie, which co-stars Rae Dawn Chong (new Interview With The Vampire), has been favorably compared to Return Of The Living Dead and other classics that mix scares, laughs and offbeat characters.

Scared To Death was written and directed by Scottish music video vet Paul Boyd. It was produced (and co-stars) rising heavy metal performer Kurt Deimer.

Synopsis: Jasper is a young opportunistic filmmaker yearning to climb the Hollywood ladder. While working as a lowly production assistant, he seizes his chance to be a “real” director when he suggests to his cantankerous boss that the crew and actors from their upcoming horror film attend...

Written and directed by music video vet Paul Boyd, the horror-comedy Scared to Death will be hitting the genre film festival circuit soon, and we’ve got the exclusive trailer today.

Horror legends Bill Moseley and Lin Shaye lead the cast of the upcoming Scared to Death, which boasts creature creations by Legacy FX, the maestros best known for Godzilla x Kong, Avatar, The Shape of Water, and the upcoming Alien: Romulus.

In Scared to Death, “Jasper is a young opportunistic filmmaker yearning to climb the Hollywood ladder. While working as a lowly production assistant, he seizes his chance to be a “real” director when he suggests to his cantankerous boss that the crew and actors from their upcoming horror film attend a real séance in an old haunted house for research.

“The place they choose is an abandoned children’s shelter that has been closed for 70 years since the...

Genre regulars Bill Moseley and Lin Shaye have just found their latest horror project to work on – and Shaye is a producer on this one as well! Deadline reports that Moseley and Shaye have signed on to appear in Scared to Death, which will be filming in Los Angeles next month.

Written and directed by Paul Boyd, Scared to Death will tell the story of a group of young filmmakers who enter an abandoned children’s orphanage in order to do research for a movie… and that’s their first mistake.

Scared to Death is coming to us from Mirror Films, and Shaye is producing the film alongside Eric Barrett.

Moseley and Shaye are joined in the cast by Olivier Paris (How I Met Your Father) and Daytime Emmy winner Victoria Konefal (Days of Our Lives).

Moseley and Shaye have both been showing up in horror movies since the 1980s.

Exclusive: 2x Emmy nominee Matt Walsh (Veep) has signed on to star alongside Alejandro De Hoyos (The Man from Toronto), Chelsea Rendon (Vida), Francisco Ramos (Gentefied), John Kaler (The Wrong Guy) and Jason Konopisos-Alvarez (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay) in the action-comedy The Unexpecteds from writer-director Alejandro Montoya Marín.

Pic follows Gary (Walsh) and a group of his best friends as they seek revenge against a social media influencer who has scammed them of their life savings. De Hoyos is producing for Alta California Pictures, with Kaler, Jasmin Espada, Walsh and Pedro Pano co-producing.

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Walsh is repped by UTA,...

James Duval is the likable dummy who thinks self-interment will bring him some of the luck he’s down on

James Duval, the man who played Frank the Rabbit in Donnie Darko, is the star of this intriguing stoner comedy-drama, whose wacky/terrifying premise almost lives up to the legendary interdimensional bunny. He plays Sid, an inveterate LA toker and online gamer (Challenger is his digital ID) who, 40 years old and going nowhere, decides to bury himself alive and livestream the ordeal on the internet. Based on the YouTube videos of some Russians who’ve done the same thing, he believes it will bring him good luck.

The ploy is all the more surprising, because for the first half-hour writer-director Paul Boyd keeps us firmly in Lebowski land. Sid is Echo Park’s resident friendly neighbourhood dealer, handing out complimentary joints to the schoolkids he sells kush to. After being...

Rock band Cartel are rocking out loud in a Paul Boyd-directed music video supporting their new single "Let's Go". A number of screaming fans are captured gathering in an abandoned warehouse in order to see their performance.

"Let's Go" is the lead single from Cartel's upcoming third studio effort "Cycles". The album is aimed to follow up their 2007 self-titled record entitled "Cartel" and going to be released across United States on October 20. The band will celebrate the release day by making an in-store performance in Atlanta, Georgia.

Two days after the album arrives in stores, they will kick off a headlining tour with This Providence and The Summer Set. They will stay on the road until November 27. Fans can find complete schedule for the gig on their MySpace.

Cartel's "Let's Go" music video...

Celebrations: Emmy nominee Ted Danson ("Damages") lunching at Blue Water Grill with wife Mary Steenburgen. And that was Deborah Nor ville toasting the 20th anni versary of "Inside Edition" at Remi with executive pro ducer Charles Lachman, weekend co-anchors Diane McInerney and Paul Boyd and the "Ie" team.

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Back in his days as a publicist at E!, Keith Fenimore once tried to convince me to interview Gary Busey,...