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Brad Pitt’s F1 Eyes Career Record But Faces Tough Competition to Dethrone World War Z (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Brad Pitt is currently riding high on the critical and commercial success of his Formula One sports drama F1, which is still running in theaters. The high-octane car racing movie is now racing toward the coveted $500 million benchmark. And in doing that, it has outgrossed some 2025 films, including Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, Sinners, Final Destination: Bloodlines, and 28 Years Later.

Had a great time with #F1TheMovie – pulse pounding race sequences, a great cast, plus a fantastic soundtrack and score. All made for a compelling big screen experience...

Stars: Martin Delaney, Josef Altin, Ben Turner | Written by Tommy Draper, Simon Pearce | Directed by Simon Pearce

Alex Trent (Martin Delaney) is a young British Police Officer and is part of a task force that has been sent into a rundown building smack dab in the middle of Civil Riots that are dividing our fair nation. The mission is a man, they are there to capture Elijah (Ben Turner) but shortly after arriving Trent is chased down and separated from the team. Soon after he bumps into Amir (Josef Altin) who on of the face of things wants to help but can Trent put aside his personal prejudice and trust Amir or is Amir exactly the sort of person he was sent in to get.

Officer Down is a perfect 18-minute snapshot of the British social conscious. Whether it’s how people are being portrayed in mass media or a...

In this round-up, we have an excerpt from Scott Shoyer's zombie novel Outbreak: The Mutation. Also: a Q&A with Simon Green, the writer of Judas Ghost, Seraphim Song release details, the short film Samhain, and the third trailer for At Granny's House.

Outbreak: The Mutation: Press Release: "Austin, Texas – While nobody will deny zombie fiction’s huge surge in popularity, both readers and critics alike are currently crying out for wholly unique, mould-breaking narratives that don’t succumb to the recycling of the same old ideas. Thankfully, Scott Shoyer has stepped up to the plate with gusto.

Volume One of Shoyer’s Outbreak trilogy has already injected literally new blood into the market. In The Hunger, readers were captivated as a seemingly innocent day at the zoo led to a violent and world-threatening zombie apocalypse. In volume two, The Mutation, Shoyer further explores the world that he created...

Acclaimed UK indie Judas Ghost finally comes to DVD; trailer revealed. British filmmaker Simon Pearce’s innovative microbudget horror film Judas Ghost is, after well over a year on the festival circuit, finally making its way to DVD and VOD on December 1st courtesy of Uncork’d Entertainment. Based on the writings of author Simon R. Green, Judas…

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Stars: Martin Delaney, Lucy Cudden, Alexander Perkins, Simon Merrells, Grahame Fox | Written by Simon R. Green | Directed by Simon Pearce

Jerry Mackay (Martin Delaney) leads his team of professional ghost hunters into a haunted village hall on a supposedly routine investigation for a tutorial for the Institute. With him are Anna (Lucy Cudden), a psychic to detect and protect the group from psychic attacks, Ian (Alexander Perkins), the tech of the group in charge of streaming the events back to the Institute and monitoring atmospheric changes, and Mark (Simon Merrells) as a cameraman with a dark past here to record the events. However, the group soon find out that the hall is more haunted that they thought, and Mark’s hidden past soon comes back to haunt him.

The phrase ‘cookie cutter’ is the first thing that came to mind when I started to watch Judas Ghost. This is a very basic story,...

Stepping out of the haunted village hall for a break from a dance with the supernatural, Simon Merrells took the time to rendezvous with HeyUGuys to discuss his foray into horror with Judas Ghost. Probably most recognised for his role on TV’s Spartacus: War of the Damned in which he played the villainous Crassus with brutal pomp, Merrells is a regular face on both the big and the small screen.

During the course of our brief conversation he shared with us how he discovered his love of performance, and storytelling, as well as his early memories of horror’s most famous monsters and authors. Whilst reflecting on filmmaking as a musical journey, along with the fortunes of the modern short film he invited us inside the village hall to discuss his one location supernatural horror.

Why a career in acting? Was there that one inspirational moment?

Aside from the...

Stars: Bernie Hodges, Suzie Latham, Judith Haley, Oliver Park, Alicia Ancel, Simon Pearce | Written by Darren Flaxstone, Bernie Hodges | Directed by Darren Flaxstone

Dark Vision is a paranormal competition. Five teams enter and try to make the best paranormal television show possible, but only one can be the victor. We follow Spencer Knights (Bernie Hodges) and his ‘Mindfull’ crew as they set off the Baylock’s Folly, a haunted place where dark happenings are said to have happened in the past. They plan to spend the night, documenting and trying to reveal the secret of Baylock’s Folly, even if they have to make it up a bit themselves. But what they find is more than they could have bargained for. There is more in the darkness than you know…

This film reminded me so much of my early teen years where I used to sit and watch Most Haunted...

Bestselling author Simon R. Green has taken his Ghost Finders book series and made the leap to the big screen. The first film to be adapted from the series is entitled Judas Ghost, and it is scheduled for release this year. Dig the new trailer and some stills.

Judas Ghost was written by Green and directed by Simon Pearce. The film stars Martin Delaney, Lucy Cudden, Simon Merrells, Alexander Perkins and Grahame Fox.

More on this as we get it, but for the most up-to-date info on the film, visit the official Judas Ghost website and follow Judas Ghost on Twitter (@JudasGhost).

Big thanks to Avery G for snooping out the info on Judas Ghost and giving us the heads-up!

Synopsis

The Carnacki Institute exists to do something about ghosts. When reports of the supernatural from an old village hall point to an apparently standard haunting, an elite team of...