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Director Alex Herron’s Dark Windows introduces a conventional slasher setup that pits a masked killer against vacationing teens but teases a potential twist: what if the teens aren’t so innocent?

Brainstorm Media’s horror slasher sees a masked killer invade a quiet weekend getaway and it’s now streaming on Screambox. There’s nowhere to hide for the teens fleeing from a tragic event.

The film is said to “take audiences on a ride of passion, loss, terror and horrific, unthinkable ways of seeking revenge.”

In Dark Windows, “A group of teenagers take a trip to an isolated summerhouse in the countryside. What starts as a peaceful getaway turns into a horrific nightmare when a masked man begins to terrorize them in the most gruesome ways.”

Written by Wolf Kraft, Dark Windows stars Anna Bullard (Marinette), Annie Hamilton (The Wolf of Snow Hollow), Rory Alexander, Jóel Sæmundsson, and Morten Holst.

Dark Windows, available on August 18th, is a terrifying home invasion thriller that explores themes of grief, guilt, and addiction. Director Alex Herron discusses the different ways the characters cope with their grief, highlighting the importance of authenticity in portraying their struggles. The film follows three teenagers who must fend off a masked intruder determined to torment them with buried secrets, creating a tense and suspenseful narrative.

Available in select theaters and On Demand on August 18th, Brainstorm Media's Dark Windows weaves themes of grief, guilt, and addiction into a terrifying home invasion tale. The thriller follows three teenagers who travel to a remote house in the country to put distance between themselves and the tragic accident that took their best friend's life. After realizing that their sanctuary isn't as isolated as they thought, the group must fend off a masked intruder who is determined to torment them with secrets they tried to bury.

Supernatural Thriller ‘Nefarious’ DVD Arrives Aug 15th After Successful Theatrical Release: "Supernatural thriller Nefarious was released in theaters on April 14 through Soli Deo Gloria Releasing, and it ultimately grossed over $5 million at the domestic box office. Nefarious will now be released on DVD Aug. 15 from Mill Creek Entertainment.

Written & Directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the film stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Nefarious, Jordan Belfi as Doctor James Martin, Tom Ohmer as Warden Moss, Stelio Savante as Detective Russo, Cameron Arnett as Trustee Styles, and Eric Hanson as Assistant Warden Anderson, among many others.

The synopsis reads as follows: “On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.”

Believe Entertainment’s Nefarious can now be rented or purchased on Amazon,...

Director Alex Herron’s Dark Windows introduces a conventional slasher setup that pits a masked killer against vacationing teens but teases a potential twist: what if the teens aren’t so innocent?

Brainstorm Media’s upcoming horror thriller will release in Select Theaters and On Demand on August 18, 2023. Bloody Disgusting can exclusively debut the new trailer and poster for the upcoming slasher that sees a masked killer invade a quiet weekend getaway. There’s no where to hide for the teens fleeing from a tragic event.

The film is said to “take audiences on a ride of passion, loss, terror and horrific, unthinkable ways of seeking revenge.”

In Dark Windows, “A group of teenagers take a trip to an isolated summerhouse in the countryside. What starts as a peaceful getaway turns into a horrific nightmare when a masked man begins to terrorize them in the most gruesome ways.”

Written by Wolf Kraft,...

Exclusive: New Europe Film Sales has unveiled fresh deals for Danish director Ulaa Salim’s sci-fi drama Eternal.

The film has sold to France (Kmbo Films), Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Galapagos), ex-Yugoslavia (Five Stars) and Hungary (Mozinet).

Eternal is Ulaa Salim’s second film after his 2019 provocative, conspiracy thriller debut Sons Of Denmark.

Simon Sears stars as a scientist who ditches his relationship with an aspiring singer to join a mission exploring a dangerous climate change phenomenon linked to a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor.

Years later, during the mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice, and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back.

Nanna Øland Fabricius, Magnus Krepper, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Zaki Youssef and Morten Holst round out the cast.

The feature reunites Salim with Sons Of Denmark producer Daniel Mühlendorph at Hyæne Film,...

REinvent International sales has closed deals on genre titles from its Chills label, including “Dark Windows,” “Leave” and “Shadow Island,” ahead of the EFM.

“Dark Windows,” Alex Herron’s English-language horror thriller, has been sold to the Mena region (Enl / Empire Network Ltd) and Latin America (Gussi). The movie tells the story of teenagers involved in a car crash who decide to stay at a summerhouse in the U.S. countryside to work through their grief and start being stalked by a masked man. “Dark Windows” stars Annie Hamilton, Anna Bullard, Rory Alexander, Joel Saemundsson and Morten Holst.

The company has also closed key sales on “Leave,” Herron’s debut film. The horror thriller sold to Italy (Plaion), Germany (Splendid) and Latin America (Gussi). The movie previously sold to Latin America (Gussi), Falcon Films (Mena) and Hungary (Vertigo). REinvent has also sold English-speaking territories. “Leave” follows a young woman who...

The buzzy project was showcased at Goteborg Work in Progress.

New Europe Film Sales is kicking off sales at the European Film Market on Ulaa Salim’s anticipated Eternal, by closing the first deal with Plaion for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The sci-fi love story is now in post and is stirring a lot of buzz after its Goteborg Work in Progress presentation earlier this month. It is about a scientist researching a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor who reunites with a past love. The cast includes Simon Sears, Nanna Øland Fabricius, Magnus Krepper, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Zaki Youssef and Morten Holst.

Soren Green makes his feature debut.

LevelK has boarded international rights to the upcoming Danish drama B.O.Y. – Bruises Of Yesterday. Soren Green, who has directed award-winning shorts including An Afternoon, An Evening And A Night, makes his feature debut.

The film is being pitched today (February 2) as part of the Work in Progress presentations at Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market.

The film follows a 16-year-old boy who has to spend the summer with his grandparents. He falls in love with an older young man but when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness.

The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the 53 Nordic Films that will take part in the latest edition of the Nordic Film Market, running February 2 – 5. Scroll down for the list.

The line-up consists of 17 completed feature films, 15 works in progress, 11 films in development presented at the market’s co-financing platform Discovery, and another 10 features in development from up-and-coming Swedish creators at Talent to Watch.

The 2023 edition of Nordic Film Market will comprise a full on-site event in Göteborg alongside digital screenings on the festival’s dedicated industry platform. This year the festival has said close to 500 invited buyers, distributors, sales agents, producers, festival programmers, and other key industry delegates from 32 countries are expected to attend.

Elsewhere, the 17th edition of the TV Drama Vision summit will run February 1–2.

Göteborg will run January 27 – February 5. As previously announced, Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the festival’s Nordic Competition.

REinvent International Sales has closed on several deals Alex Herron’s English-language horror thriller “Dark Windows” after unveiling the movie’s first footage at Cannes.

“Dark Windows” is being sold as part of REinvent Chills’ label for genre films. The story is about four teenagers who were involved in a car crash and decide to stay at a summerhouse in the countryside to work through their grief. A masked man then appears to terrorize them.

REinvent has sold the movie to Latin America (Gussi), as well as Hungary, Czech Republic a,d Slovakia (Vertigo). Sf Studios will distribute in the Nordics.

The movie stars Annie Hamilton (“Inventing Anna”), Anna Bullard, Rory Alexander, Joel Saemundsson and Morten Holst.

Herron is a Norwegian director whose recent credits include “Leave,” a horror film about a young woman who tries to find her origins after being abandoned as an infant at a cemetery. Also represented by REinvent,...

REinvent will unveil first footage in its Cannes promo reel.

REinvent has boarded international sales for Alex Herron’s US-set, English-language horror thriller Dark Windows, as part of the REinvent Chills label for genre films.

REinvent will unveil first footage in its Cannes promo reel.

The story is about four teenagers who were involved in a car crash. One of them dies, and when the others are blamed for her death, they decide to stay at a summerhouse in the US countryside to get out of town and work through their grief. Then a masked man starts to terrorize them.

New Europe also sold Salim’s 2019 debut feature Sons Of Denmark.

New Europe Film Sales has boarded sales on Ulaa Salim’s second feature, sci-fi love story Eternal, which has started shooting in Aarhus, Denmark; Bergen; Norway; and Iceland.

Daniel Mühlendorph of Hyæne Film is producing.

New Europe also sold Salim’s 2019 debut feature Sons Of Denmark (which premiered in competition at Rotterdam), and has a long history with the film’s Icelandic co-producer, Netop Films.

Salim writes and directs the film, which is set after an earthquake causes a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor, which accelerates climate change.

A Frankensteinian mashup of sci-fi and torture-porn horror tropes, . While there are vague pretensions toward seriousness in Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen’s screenplay and Jens Dahl’s direction, this thriller ends up discomfitingly most reminiscent of 1970s Wip (women in prison) and Nazisploitation grindhouse fare, as well as gamy mainstream serial-killer potboilers like “Kiss the Girls.” Well-made but more than a bit ick, it’s being released to stateside digital formats by Uncork’d Entertainment on Jan. 11.

Mia (Sara Hjort Ditlevsen) is an equestrian training for the Olympics. She seems more comfortable in the company of her horse than husband Thomas (Anders Heinrichsen), though the complexities of their relationship (including apparent separate sexual peccadilloes) never get more than hinted at. In any case, such nuances soon prove irrelevant when circumstances fatefully entangle his home and work life.

He’s employed as financial chief for a shadowy project by one Dr. Isabel Ruben...

Mumbai, March 1 (Ians) The Vinay Pathak-starrer Dust has dropped digitally only now, but the actor proudly recalls how the indie film, written and directed by Udita Bhargava, made waves when it was screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in 2019.

"I remember our screening at the Berlinale where barring me, Udita and her parents, the rest of the audience in the screening theatre, which was a full house, was an entirely international audience. The way the audience reacted to the story after the screening was overwhelming. 'Dust' is an Indian film with a global appeal and perhaps that is why we touched the right chords," Vinay recalls, speaking to Ians

The story of the film revolves around David, a young German who visits Indore after the death of his Indian photojournalist girlfriend Mumtaz and embarks on a journey to the troubled heart of India. As he...

Stars: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Signe Egholm Olsen, Eeva Putro, Jens Andersen, David Bateson | Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen | Directed by Jens Dahl

A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…

Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...

Stars: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Signe Egholm Olsen, Eeva Putro, Jens Andersen, David Bateson | Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen | Directed by Jens Dahl

A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…

Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...

Udita Bhargava's Dust starring Morten Holst and Vinay Pathak will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival 2019. The film will be screened in the ?Perspektive Deutsches Kino (New German Cinema) section.

The film, with the backdrop of the Maoist conflict that affects large parts of India, is a German Indian co-production shot entirely in India with an international crew.

Bhargava is an Indian filmmaker who has previously worked on films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Mira Nair's The Migration. Dust is her first feature film as a director.

"We are delighted to start our journey at the Berlinale. It feels like a homecoming for many of us, since a large part of our team is from Berlin. Also, as an Indian, I am looking forward to watching Zoya and Rima's films and hope they too can watch mine,...

Gold Coast

Written by Daniel Dencik and Sara Isabella Jønsson Vedde

Directed by Daniel Dencik

Denmark, 2015

Stories about slavery can be a tricky proposition, especially if your story is from the Caucasian point of view, because there is a delicate balance to be struck when considering the protagonist’s actions and motivations. If the character doesn’t do enough to fight slavery, they can come off as too complicit in the act itself and their motivations can feel unjustified, while if they are portrayed as the slave’s sole liberator it reinforces the “white saviour” stereotype and robs the black characters of any agency. This is the problem inherent in Daniel Dencik’s Gold Coast which has its heart in the right place but which focuses too much on how slavery makes a white man feel bad while reducing the slave characters themselves to something resembling window dressing.

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