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Red Tower announced earlier this month the launch of their new entertainment company and release of their first short feature, the haunting creature feature Esther.

Founded by filmmakers Brian Levin (Union Bridge) and D. M. Cunningham, Red Tower is a genre production company and digital network focusing on short form high quality/low cost content. Red Tower’s goal will be to leverage a deep network of the best filmmakers in the world and bring them online and to genre lovers everywhere.

“Having started in 2005 with one of the first online shows and later been involved in legacy television and film, I feel that the moment has truly arrived where old and new Hollywood have merged”, said Brian Levin, CEO of Red Tower. “The opportunity to bring the best artists in the world into a direct relationship with audiences at a global reach is a century in the making.”

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A late ’90s period drama exploring pain, loss, divorce, grief, and the cinematic arts shown through the perspective of Ephraim, a 10-year-old Filipino boy set during May 1999 in San Jose, California.

The project is helmed by Filipino storyteller, Mark Schoonmaker with an original screenplay penned by Schoonmaker. Produced by Phillip Michael Ramos and Schoonmaker underneath their Cold Moon Productions banner. The film features Steve Wilcox (Dc’s Swamp Thing), Jamie Pasquinelli (The Black Phone), and introduces Isaac Smelcer-Zhang. The film features original music composed by Matt Cunningham (3 Demons, The Spore). The film is due out to release in late 2023.

Statement from Schoonmaker: “The film’s an ode to cinema and my influences – Steven Spielberg, 1930s/1990s horror movies, Stephen Sommers (director of The Mummy (1999)), and it also explores a deep look into the cinematic arts, ambition, pain, divorce and grief. Film actor, Ethan Hawke (Sinister) inspired the...

This weekend, Netflix is expanding its Christmas catalog with two movies perfect for the Holiday season, while also taking its subscribers back to the Halloween season with a very special TV series. Last weekend, Netflix added the supernatural action movie R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned, the African dramas Nafsi and The Griot, and season 2 of the Korean crime thriller series The Good Detective, along with the psychological period drama The Wonder, the Christmas movie Christmas With You, the German mystery-horror TV series 1899, season 2 of the animated series Inside Job, and the fantasy movie Slumberland.

When it comes to licensed content, this weekend the streaming giant will welcome season 4 of Lego: City Adventures, the stop-motion animated movie The Boxtrolls, the sports drama movie Southpaw, the mystery thriller The Vanishing, and Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor. As for original content, Netflix will add more Christmas titles with...

Christmas on Mistletoe Farm is a children’s Netflix Christmas movie written and directed by Debbie Isitt starring Scott Garnham, Scott Paige, Kathryn Drysdale and Delilah O’Riordan.

An addition to the Christmas-themed catalogue that will entertain many a kid as they look forward to Yuletide.

Premise

A widower, father to four children, relocates together with his offspring to the countryside having inherited a farm. Life on the farm will require some adapting.

Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022) Movie Review

Without losing ourselves in cinematic criteria, we will point out that ‘Christmas in Mistletoe Farm’ is produced with the sole objective of being an uncomplicated feature for the young ones to enjoy the joy of the ever-nearing Christmas season, and get to see what life is like beyond the big city, where animals are ever present and amusing, and there are wonderful people everywhere.

No harm in that. They will have a...

Stars: Sherryl Despres, Peter Tell, Laura Golinski, Haley Heslip, Zoe Cunningham, Jovonnah Nicholson | Written and Directed by Matt Cunningham

3 Demons is writer/director Matt Cunningham’s latest release after delivering one of last year’s better surprises, The Spore. That was a low-budget science-fiction/horror hybrid with great effects but whose episodic storyline kept it from reaching its full potential. This is a pandemic shot supernatural tale that he’s referred to as a “Lynchian possession movie” and backed up with a trailer that oozes Evil Dead influences.

Dr. Sawyer is interviewing James Fisher (Peter Tell; The Spore) in his prison cell as part of a psychiatric evaluation. A former cop, he was assigned to babysit the corpse of Matya Abelman (Laura Golinski).

She was found in a circle of stones in front of a remote cabin. The family and their lawyer were quite adamant that there was to be...

Now available on Digital, DVD and On Demand from Uncork’d Entertainment, we have an exclusive clip from 3 Demons that you can watch right now!

"D.M Cunningham’s 3 Demons, a supernatural horror film headlined by Peter Tell, releases this summer from Uncork’d Entertainment. The film, hitting digital and physical platforms July 5, fixes on a Deputy that is tasked with watching over the body of a recently deceased woman until her family can arrive & claim her. As his curiosity gets the better of him, he inadvertently concludes an unfinished ritual. The conjuring now complete, strange & sinister forces begin to target him. As his past is unearthed, he’s forced to face his own demons with terrifying consequences. Haley Heslip, Laura Golinski, Jovonnah Nicholson, Zoë Cunningham, and Sherryl Despres also star."

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Produced by David Christopher Pitt, Kole Mahoney, Abigail Welch, Phillip Michael Ramos, Mark Schoonmaker & Peter Garafalo.

The plot is mostly kept under wraps but the story will follow a heavily impaired central character with hearing aids who experiences a sequence of disturbing phone calls late one evening which ignites a slew of sinister events. The new horror mystery thriller will be shot on digital in black & white on the Red Komodo 6K camera. The narrative will be set in 2005, exploring themes of regret, fear, guilt, consequences/rebirth, and also a father/daughter reconciliation and divorce.

The film will be helmed by Filipino writer/director, Mark Schoonmaker from an original screenplay by Schoonmaker with a screen story conceived by Mahoney, Ramos, and an original concept by Brian P. Griffiths.

The film will be produced underneath Schoonmaker and Welch’s production banner, Cold Moon Productions. Garafalo will also serve as director of...

Not only did I get to experience the 3D coolness of Julia X 3D at Screamfest on Sunday, but I also got the chance to talk with the film’s writer/director P.J. Pettiette at the black carpet!

Adam Cray: How did you become involved with Julia X 3D?

P.J. Pettiette: My producing partner Claudie Viguerie and I did a picture in Argentina, then a picture I produced in Ireland, so I was looking for something to direct. I had this story idea and I thought “Well, what’s scary to me? Not supernatural.” There are a lot of films and I thought “I’ve done that” so with this one I thought: “If I were a woman and I was on an internet date and I got abducted, I’d be kind of scared…What if I was the woman that got abducted and I turned out to be a serial killer too?...

With the Screamfest La Film Festival now under way through October 22nd at Manns Chinese 6 in Hollywood, California, we chatted recently with P.J. Pettiette, the director of one of the fest's selections, the 3D feature Julia X, and got the skinny on the horror-comedy flick, which is having its U.S. premiere this evening, October 16th.

Written by Matt Cunningham and produced by Greg Hall, Claude Viguerie and the film’s director Pettiette, Julia X 3D stars Valerie Azlynn, Kevin Sorbo, Alicia Leigh Willis, Joel Moore, and Ving Rhames and follows, "’Julia’ (Azlynn) who meets a man on her third Internet date. As she is is leaving, she is abducted by ‘The Stranger’ (Sorbo) and branded with an ‘X’. After a cat-and-mouse game, she eventually subdues The Stranger, and we discover that Julia and her younger sister, Jessica (Willis), are Internet predators themselves."

“I wanted it to in some ways...