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If you are a fan of the horror genre and are also familiar with the filmmaking style of found footage, In that case, you probably know that the blend between found footage and horror is exhilarating and brilliantly horrifying. That’s why we have compiled a list of the 7 best-found footage horror films you can find on Prime Video right now.

The Outwaters (Watch Now) Credit – Cinedigm

The Outwaters is a found footage sci-fi horror thriller film written and directed by Robbie Banfitch. The 2022 film revolves around a group of campers in the Mojave Desert as they begin experiencing weird sounds, unnatural animal behaviors and other unexplainable phenomena. The Outwaters stars Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell, and Michelle May.

Hell House LLC (Watch Now)

Hell House LLC is a found-footage supernatural horror film written and directed by Stephen Cognetti.

First announced in 2021, The Craving, a brand new thriller from the minds behind The Taking of Deborah Logan, is in development at Netflix. We’ll track everything you need to know about The Craving, including the plot, cast news, production updates, and the Netflix release date.

The Craving is an upcoming Netflix Original thriller television series directed and co-written by Adam Robitel. Gavin Heffernan co-wrote the series alongside Robitel. The pair previously worked on horror movies The Taking of Deborah Logan and Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension. Robitel is most well known for directing both Escape Room movies.

Picture: Adam Robitel on the set of Escape Room – David Bloomer

Darren Aronofsky, the director of Black Swan, Mother, and Requiem for a Dream, is an executive producer of the series. Joining him are Gavin Heffernan and Elizabeth Gesas. Aronofsky’s production company, Protozoa Pictures, is the studio developing the series. Aronofsky previously...

At its most basic, possession horror exploits the primal fear of losing control over your own person, usually due to a demonic entity. Victims in a possession movie are rendered mere passengers in their bodies as a sinister force takes over and destroys them from the inside. That potent combination of body horror and a complete lack of free will makes for inherently terrifying and fertile ground for exploration. While possession horror is often tied to biblical battles of good versus evil, that’s not always the case.

This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to demonic possession horror titles that leave conventional depictions of faith and exorcisms behind for new terrain and metaphors.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Demon Wind – AMC+, Shudder, Tubi

Possession horror tends to take the possession seriously, opting for full-throttle scares and intense emotional or faith-related stakes.

This Friday brings the release of Malum, a demonic new reimagining of 2014’s Last Shift. It seems to kick off a month-long trend dedicated to demonic horror, with April releasing The Pope’s Exorcist and Evil Dead Rise. So, we’re getting into the Halfway-to-Halloween celebrations earlier with streaming picks dedicated to the horror that unleashes demonic mayhem. Some bring the laughs, while others get under your skin and refuse to leave.

Here’s where to watch these five titles this week.

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The Convent – AMC+, freevee, Pluto TV, Roku, Shudder, Tubi

The Convent is what happens when you blend director Mike Mendez’s sense of humor, a colorful Uv light aesthetic, and influences from films like Evil Dead II, Demons, and Night of the Demons. And it features Adrienne Barbeau refusing to put up with any demonic bullshit. In the film,...

Escape Room director Adam Robitel and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension writer Gavin Heffernan, who previously worked together on the creepy faux-documentary The Taking of Deborah Logan, are reuniting for a new Netflix horror series. Much like how Deborah Logan used Alzheimer’s as a springboard for a horror story, this new Netflix series, titled The Craving, will examine “the real-world horrors of addiction through […]

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Exclusive: Netflix is developing a new thriller drama series from Escape Room director Adam Robitel and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension writer Gavin Heffernan.

The writing duo are working up The Craving for the streamer. They have written the pilot and are set to open a writers’ room for season one. Robitel will also direct the pilot episode and likely other episodes if the project is picked up.

They are executive producing with Darren Aronofsky and Elizabeth Gesas at Protozoa Pictures.

The Craving explores the real-world horrors of addiction through a genre lens. It centers around a female sheriff in a Colorado ski town besieged by an unprecedented new threat.

It marks the pair’s first move into television, having previously teamed up on horror features including 2014’s The Taking of Deborah Logan.

Robitel directed Insidious: The Last Key, the fourth instalment of the franchise, for Universal and has just...

Happy New Year and welcome back for our first Let’s Scare Bryan to Death of 2021, where I’m kicking things off with a really fun discussion with Renée Bever. You may know Bever as an artist, horror analyst, and co-host of the great Attack of the Queerwolf podcast. I already knew that this was going to be a treat given her thoughtful, empathetic, and often hilarious approach to interpreting horror films. What I did not know, however, was that when she nominated Adam Robitel’s 2014 found footage film The Taking of Deborah Logan, I was about to watch the best movie I’ve seen since I started this column.

The premise, as is the case in most found footage films, is pretty simple. A group of grad students led by young Mia (Michelle Ang) are making a documentary about Alzheimer’s disease, and the movie picks up as they...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures has picked up an untitled original Adam Robitel project to be produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert through their Ghost House Pictures.

The project, to be directed by Robitel and written by Gavin Heffernan, is only known as a supernatural thriller, with the storyline under wraps. Romel Adam will oversee the project for Ghost House.

Earlier this year, Robitel’s Escape Room grossed a notable $155 million off its $9M production cost for Sony. Robitel is directing the sequel, which is scheduled for release on August 14, 2020.

“Ghost House is thrilled to partner again with Sony Pictures, and to work for the first time with the enormously talented Adam Robitel. From the moment Adam and Gavin pitched me their vision for the movie, I knew that this would be an exciting and terrifying experience for the audience,” said Raimi.

Ghost House has been behind such Sony horror hits as Don’t Breathe,...

The newly established La/ Beijing-based film finance and production company Cristal Pictures, has set its first self-financed project, Imago (a working title), based on a pitch from writing duo Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan, with plans of developing it into a large scale film. The pic is a science-fiction disaster tale, inspired by scientific research and data, that takes place in the near future when scientific experiments to reverse global warming backfire and…...

Los Angeles- and Beijing-based Cristal Pictures has set its next project, the science-fiction disaster movie Imago.

The feature will be the first fully financed project for Cristal, which most recently co-financed and co-produced Millennium Films' Hitman’s Bodyguard, starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel Jackson.

Imago will be a Chinese co-production and is looking to cast both Chinese and Western actors. It will be shot entirely on location in and around Hong Kong.

The movie, written by Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan, takes place in the near future, when scientific experiments intended to reverse global warming backfire to unimaginable consequences.

Robitel and Heffernan worked on the rewrite...

The Los Angeles and Beijing-based producer-financier – backed by Chris Liu’s East Light Film Company – is lining up the sci-fi disaster story.

According to Cristal founder and producer Liu, Imago (working title) will be the first big budget sci-fi disaster movie to shoot in Hong Kong as an official Chinese co-production.

Adam Robitel, who directed the upcoming Insidious: Chapter 4, and Gavin Heffernan (The Taking Of Deborah Logan) are writing the screenplay.

Imago will shoot entirely on location in and around Hong Kong with a Western and Chinese cast and Western and Chinese effects teams.

The story takes place in the near future as scientific experiments to reverse global warming backfire.

“We loved this pitch,” said Cristal president Scott Einbinder (pictured). “It’s a great character-driven disaster movie, a genre favourite in China and around the world, with appeal for Us audiences as well. We’re fast-tracking this one and hope to be in production by late...

Adam Robitel, who is in prep to direct the Blumhouse sequel Insidious 4, has signed with CAA. The writer-director made documentary-style horror feature The Taking Of Deborah Logan, which was produced by Bryan Singer and became to the No. 1 most downloaded film of any genre on Halloween. Robitel and writing partner Gavin Heffernan previously penned Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension for Paramount Pictures and Blumhouse. He and Christopher Landon also recently sold…...

With Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension released on Digital HD and VOD December 15th and coming out tomorrow in a Blu-ray / DVD / Digital HD combo pack from Paramount Home Media Distribution, viewers will be able to see the activity from the comfort of their couches. We've been provided with three Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension Blu-ray / DVD / Digital HD combo packs to give away.

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Playing in theaters now, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is the horrifying conclusion to the Paranormal Activity films.

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Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli, based on the film Paranormal Activity by Oren Peli. Story by Brantley Aufill and Jason Harry Pagan & Andrew Deutschman, with a screenplay by Jason Harry Pagan & Andrew Deutschman and Adam Robitel & Gavin Heffernan.

Directed by Gregory Plotkin. Starring Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Dan Gill, Ivy George, Jessica Brown, Chloe Csengery, Don McManus, Hallie Foote and Cara Pifko.

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Who knew you could get this much mileage out of a ghost named Toby? Nine years ago this week, Oren Peli started production on "Paranormal Activity," which was made for $27, a box of Band-Aids, and three plates of ham sandwiches. Truly independent in every way, the film premiered a year later at ScreamFest, and then… didn't come out for two more years. While "Paranormal Activity" is a remarkable success story, it's also not an instant one. Peli had to struggle to get his film from that first screening to a major theatrical release, and there were plenty of fine-tuning that had to be done to get it there. "Paranormal" has many godfathers, and by the time the film came out in 2009, it had been through many hands. The result, though, has been one of the biggest horror franchises in recent memory, and it laid the foundation for Jason Blum's entire horror empire.

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Meet the Paranormal Activity film that promises to wrap the series up! Here's our review of The Ghost Dimension...

This is a spoiler-free review, which includes plot details from the previous five instalments in the Paranormal Activity series.

Back in 2009, Paramount masterminded a revolutionary marketing campaign for Oren Peli's micro-budget found footage horror movie Paranormal Activity. With endorsements from the likes of Steven Spielberg, it was arguably the most hyped film of its year and certainly the most profitable, returning $193m on a $15,000 budget.

Sequels abounded and the films comfortably usurped the annual Halloween slot occupied by the Saw franchise over the course of the following three sequels. 2013 was supposed to see two Paranormal Activity movies - a “Latin-American oriented” spin-off at the beginning of the year and then a fifth instalment at Halloween as usual, but the cool reception to Paranormal Activity 4 apparently led...

See the unseen in Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension – the horrifying conclusion to the Paranormal Activity films in theaters on October 23.

The film is produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli, based on the film Paranormal Activity by Oren Peli. Story by Brantley Aufill and Jason Harry Pagan & Andrew Deutschman, with a screenplay by Jason Harry Pagan & Andrew Deutschman and Adam Robitel & Gavin Heffernan.

Directed by Gregory Plotkin. Starring Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Dan Gill, Ivy George, Jessica Brown, Chloe Csengery, Don McManus, Hallie Foote and Cara Pifko.

Find out what happens when these unsuspecting people are invited to an open house, and end up experiencing The Ghost Dimension.

Wamg invites you to enter for a chance to win a pass (Good for 2) to the advance screening of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension on Thursday, October 22 at 7Pm in the St. Louis area.

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When Paranormal Activity entered the psyche of audiences in 2009, it made people scared of being at home – especially during the middle of the night.

In his The Chicago Sun-Times review, Roger Ebert called it “an ingenious horror film. It’s so well made it’s truly scary.” Paramount Pictures’ hit thriller screened to sold out theaters in its initial opening in cities across the country.

The film was directed, written and edited by Oren Peli and was produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli. Read our review Here.

With Halloween quickly approaching, Blum says Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension will answer fans questions about the ghost when the final chapter of the popular horror franchise hits theaters on October 23rd.

Screamfest Horror Film Festival, the largest and longest running horror film festival in the U.S., will honor Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli and production company Blumhouse at this year...

The Fleege families "need an extermination," not an exorcism, in a tense new teaser from Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, hitting UK theaters on October 21st and haunting Us cinemas October 23rd.

"Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension centers on the Fleeges — father Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mother Emily (Brit Shaw) and their young daughter Leila (Ivy George) — who move into a house and discover a video camera and a box of tapes in the garage. When they look through the camera’s lens, they begin to see the paranormal activity happening around them – including the re-emergence of young Kristi and Katie. The video camera footage will be presented in 3D in theaters."

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension was directed by Gregory Plotkin from a screenplay by Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan. The film stars Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw, Olivia Taylor Dudley, and Dan Gill.

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As we head into the chilly month of October, it’s time to break out the sweatshirts, hot chocolate and scary movies.

Paramount Pictures has released the first TV spot for Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, the sixth film in the blockbuster horror franchise, will premiere in RealD 3D closing night of the Screamfest Horror Film Festival on Thursday, October 22nd at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The screening marks the series’ return to the largest and longest running horror film festival in the U.S., where the first Paranormal Activity film made its debut in 2007.

The film is produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli, based on the film Paranormal Activity by Oren Peli. Story by Brantley Aufill and Jason Harry Pagan & Andrew Deutschman, with a screenplay by Jason Harry Pagan & Andrew Deutschman and Adam Robitel & Gavin Heffernan.

Directed by Gregory Plotkin, the movie stars Chris J. Murray,...

Paramount Pictures’ Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, the sixth film in the blockbuster horror franchise, will premiere in RealD 3D closing night of the Screamfest Horror Film Festival on Thursday, October 22nd at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The screening marks the series’ return to the largest and longest running horror film festival in the U.S., where the first “Paranormal Activity” film made its debut in 2007.

“We are thrilled to have the ‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension’ premiere close this year’s festival,” said Rachel Belofsky, Screamfest Founder and Festival Director. “We are so proud of Oren Peli and his success with the franchise. It’s great to have him back in the festival where it all began.”

“It’s incredibly exciting, and somewhat surreal, to premiere the final installment of the ‘Paranormal Activity’ series at Screamfest where the first film premiered eight years ago,” said producer Oren Peli,...

As the days get darker and the cold winds of Autumn approach, it’s time to look ahead at the upcoming movies set to hit cinemas this Fall.

The huge slate includes the return of the Jedis, the rebirth of Frankenstein and a new age of Good Dinosaurs. These movies will take audiences to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, on a voyage to Mars and to the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest.

Here’s our list of the 2015 Fall movies that we can’t wait to see!

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The Visit (Sept 11)

Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit. Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip.

Gaze into an otherworldly realm in the new poster for Blumhouse's Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, the final chapter of the supernatural franchise that's slated to hit theaters October 23rd.

"Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension centers on the Fleeges — father Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mother Emily (Brit Shaw) and their young daughter Leila (Ivy George) — who move into a house and discover a video camera and a box of tapes in the garage. When they look through the camera’s lens, they begin to see the paranormal activity happening around them – including the re-emergence of young Kristi and Katie. The video camera footage will be presented in 3D in theaters."

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension was directed by Gregory Plotkin from a screenplay by Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan.

Poster via Blumhouse:

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The first trailer for “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension” suggests screenwriters Gavin Heffernan and Adam Robitel really liked “The Ring.” The upcoming horror movie will focus on an evil spirit that has found its way into a family’s home after the filmmaking dad watches a strange VHS tape he discovered in a box. But at least the familiar premise promises that audiences will actually see the supernatural activity in the sixth installment of the Paramount Pictures franchise. Along with the old tape, the protagonists find a weird camera that captures “spirit photography.” Also read: New 'Paranormal Activity,'...

Every secret will be revealed. Paramount Pictures has revealed the first official trailer for Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, supposedly the final feature in the Paranormal Activity franchise. Or at least the marketing is billing it as such: "Experience Paranormal Activity in a way you never have before as the series comes to a shocking end." That "way you never have before" means in 3D, since that's the extra "dimension" per the title. They even hid spooky ghosts in the 3D parts of the trailer, but since this is just viewable in 2D online it doesn't work as well. Take a look at the next entry in the Paranormal horror series. Here's the first trailer for Gregory Plotkin's Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension on YouTube: Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is directed by Gregory Plotkin (an editor on the Paranormal series making his feature directing debut), from a screenplay by Gavin Heffernan & Adam Robitel,...

Following Jason Blum's reveal yesterday that Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension will be the final film in the supernatural found footage franchise, the first full-length trailer for Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension has now arrived.

Due out in theaters on October 23rd, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension was directed by Gregory Plotkin, and written by Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan.

"Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension centers on the Fleeges — father Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mother Emily (Brit Shaw) and their young daughter Leila (Ivy George) — who move into a house and discover a video camera and a box of tapes in the garage. When they look through the camera’s lens, they begin to see the paranormal activity happening around them – including the re-emergence of young Kristi and Katie. The video camera footage will be presented in 3D in theaters."

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We've known that a new Paranormal Activity movie has been in the works for some time, but it was revealed today that "The Ghost Dimension" will conclude the series. Due out on October 23rd, USA Today caught up with Jason Blum, who spoke about the popular franchise coming to an end:

"It's coming to an end. This is it, the finale... We're saying it before the movie opens. We're not going to grind this horror franchise into the ground. This will keep Paranormal Activity as part of this culture and this particular time in a really fantastic way."

Along with the promise that this movie will answer many of the series' burning questions, the first photos have also been shared. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension was directed by Gregory Plotkin, and written by Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan. Be on the lookout for the first trailer later this week.

"Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension...

The Taking of Deborah Logan starts as a medical documentary about Deborah Leidens descent into Alzheimers disease and her daughters struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening as hairraising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all. The film is directed by Adam Robitel is written by Gavin Heffernan and Adam Robitel and stars Jill Larson Anne Ramsay and Michelle Ang.

There's something to be said about a simple one-sheet that manages to send a bit of a shiver down the old spine. This first piece of artwork for The Taking of Deborah Logan manages to do that and then some!

Adam Robitel directs the film, which he wrote with Gavin Heffernan. Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang, and Ryan Cutrona star. Millennium Entertainment is releasing the flick on VOD and DVD this fall; stay tuned for an exact date.

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Mia Medina (Michelle Ang; My Wedding and Other Secrets, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son) has finally found the perfect subject for her PhD thesis film on Alzheimer’s Disease. For the next several months, cameras will record the everyday life of mother Deborah Logan (Jill Larson; ABC’s “All My Children,” Shutter Island) and her daughter, Sarah (Anne Ramsay; Planet of the Apes, A League of Their Own, NBC’s “Mad About You,...

Not to be confused with the Lydelle Jackson and Cezil Reed flick of the same name, word has just hit the wire that X-Men director Bryan Singer is producing a new low-budget thriller from Adam Robitel entitled The Taking. Read on for details.

The Robitel-directed thriller shot quietly in North Carolina this week. The film, also written by Robitel and Gavin Heffernan (The Steaks), centers on the supernatural happenings in a small Southern community. Further plot details are being kept under wraps.

Singer kept The Taking quiet. It’s Robitel’s feature directing debut, a character-driven project that Singer produced through his Bad Hat Harry shingle. Jeff Rice is also a producer, and executive producers are Jason Taylor and Jonathan Stein, Lati Grobman and Christa Campbell, Rene Besson, Luke Daniels, Alex Cutler, and Dana Guerin. Nu Image/Millennium Films is handling worldwide sales.

More on this one as we get it!

Bryan Singer has shaken up the Twittersphere by announcing he’s planning to do another X-Men film, titled X-Men: Apocalypse, to be released 2016. #Xmen #Apocalypse 2016! — Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) December 5, 2013 At the same time, Singer has shepherded production of The Taking, a Adam Robitel-directed thriller shot quietly in North Carolina this week. The film, written by Robitel (The Bloody Benders) and Gavin Heffernan (The Steaks), centers on the supernatural happenings in a small Southern community. Further plot details are being kept under wraps. Singer kept The Taking quiet. It’s Robitel’s feature directing debut, a character-driven project that Singer produced through his Bad Hat Harry shingle. Jeff Rice is also a producer, and executive producers are Jason Taylor and Jonathan Stein, Lati Grobman and Christa Campbell, Rene Besson, Luke Daniels, Alex Cutler and Dana Guerin. Nu Image/Millennium Films is handling worldwide sales. Singer wrapped X-Men: Days Of Future Past,...

Our Indie Spotlight feature returns with UFO’s, a zombie webseries pilot, and an exclusive interview with Woe to the Living co-designer Joshua Butterfield. We also have an exclusive first look at the cover art for Shakespeare v. Lovecraft:

Devolution: Reckoning- This short film is a unique 10 minute piece about UFOs attacking Earth, told through timelapses and other experimental means.

“Fed up with the failures of mankind, a cruel race of UFOs set out to destroy Earth and all that inhabit it. Can civilization survive the incredible onslaught of the attackers? Baraka meets War Of The Worlds in this unique sci-fi short, told through an unconventional arrangement of dramatic timelapses, public domain radio plays, and some experimental flair from horror filmmaker Gavin Heffernan.”

Watch the short film for free at: https://vimeo.com/12120049

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Zombie Squash: Last month, we were one of the first to bring you news Zombie Squash,...

Guest poster Tim Sullivan shares the making of a head shattering scene in the recent festival hit, I Was A Teenage Wearbear.

One of the highlights of I Was a Teenage Werebear, mysegment of Chillerama (hitting the streets this coming Tuesday, November 29th where all brand new flicks are sold, rented, downloaded, illegally pirated etc… ) is a scene in which I, as the lecherous Coach Tuffman, have my head squashed by conflicted student Ricky O’Reilly (played by Sean Paul Lockhart) in rebuttal to my ‘generous’ offer to do for Ricky what ‘my wife will never do for me…”.

It’s a moment designed to be the first really big gross out moment of the film. The gasp inducing “Oh, no, they didn’t!” kill scene equivalent to the ‘Drawn and Quartering’ of the lovely Miss Pussy (Gina Marie Heekin) in 2001 Maniacs, and the ‘Buzz Saw Halving’ of siren Alana Curry in Field of Screams.

Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:

Trouble with the Curve – A week after Clint Eastwood announced his return to acting with the baseball-themed, father-daughter drama for director Robert Lorenz, the pair have set their sights on Oscar winner Sandra Bullock for the role of Eastwood's daughter. Warner Bros. is producing.

Untitled Dr. Seuss Biopic – It's been hard to keep up with the number of development projects Johnny Depp's been attaching himself to lately. But, one of the more intriguing ones is the life story of popular children's book writer Theodor Geisel. Depp's eyeing the lead role and producing through his Infinitum Nihil company. Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures are also on board to produce.

Perry Mason – In addition to nabbing Adam Gibgot's Accidental Genius pitch for Warner Bros., Robert Downey Jr.'s Team Downey is looking to bring the iconic attorney to the big screen using the original 1930s-set novels written by Erle Stanley Gardner as the film's source material. The Iron Man himself is considering taking on the titular role.

The Liability – Tim Roth stars opposite Peter Mullan and Talulah Riley in this British thriller from director Craig Viveiros and writer John Wrathall. Corona Pictures' Richard Johns and Rupert Jermyn produce the film that Deadline describes as a "a darkly comic road trip."

The Poet in Exile – What if legendary rock star and former Doors front man, Jim Morrison, staged his death in 1971? That's the basis for this drama based on fellow Doors rocker Ray Manzarek's bestselling novel and produced by ClubHouse Entertainment. Tim and Liz Sullivan will write the project with Gavin Heffernan.

If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.

Tim Sullivan ("2001 Maniacs") is set to write, direct and produce an adaptation of Ray Manzarek's 2002 novel "The Poet in Exile" for his Clubhouse Entertainment production banner reports Variety.

Manzarek was a keyboardist and co-founder of The Doors and the story explores the urban legend that his bandmate Jim Morrison is still alive, having staged his death in 1971. He soon contacts Manzarek from his hiding place in the Seychelles Islands to embark on one final journey of rock 'n' roll rebellion.

Sullivan, "Chillerama" producer Gavin Heffernan and New Mexico poet-author Liz Sullivan co-wrote the script. Sullivan, Heffernan, Brian McCulley, John Crockett, Adam Robitel and Paul Ward will all produce.

Manzarek will produce and score the project and may cameo but will not portray himself in the film. Shooting will kick off next year.

Tim Sullivan (Driftwood, Chillerama, Vh1.s Scream Queens) has optioned the rights to Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek.s bestselling novel The Poet in Exile. Plans call for a feature film to be written and directed by Sullivan and produced by Manzarek. Sullivan will co-write the script with Chillerama producer and editor Gavin Heffernan (Expiration) and New Mexico poet/author Liz Sullivan (Icons and Outcasts).

Published to strong acclaim, Manzarek.s novel explores the notion .what if. his former band mate, the iconic rock and roll poet and legend Jim Morrison, did indeed stage his death in 1971 (as widely speculated), and now, 40 years later, contacts Manzarek from his hiding place in the Seychelles Islands to embark on one final journey of rock and roll rebellion.

The Doors are not unfamiliar with the celluloid screen. Between Oliver Stone.s epic biopic The Doors and the highly praised documentary When You.re Strange...

Almost everyone knows a song or two from ’60s psychedelic rock group The Doors, be it “The End,” “Light My Fire,” “Hello, I Love You,” or some other great tune. It’s also entirely possible that you’ve seen Oliver Stone‘s The Doors, a controversial biopic of lead singer Jim Morrison — portrayed there by Val Kilmer in one of his best performances. Many of Morrison‘s friends and family members have often chastised the film for what they feel is the portrayal of a selfish, drug-addled disaster, which they’ve argued as being inaccurate.

With erroneous depictions being a sticking point, it should be interesting to see how they react to The Poet in Exile, a recently-announced adaptation of a novel by Ray Manzarek, who just so happens to be the former Doors keyboardist. His novel presents the popular theory that Morrison faked his own death, then expands upon...

Horror director Tim Sullivan has announced his new production company will be making Hellions. “As part of my ongoing mission to become the next Roger Corman (lol), I am thrilled to announce I'll be producing Hellions (think Juno meets Halloween),” director Tim Sullivan announced to his Facebook followers. “It's to be directed by Gavin Heffernan and made thru The Clubhouse, my new production company with Gavin, Brian McCulley, John Crockett, Adam Robitel and Paul Ward!” Sullivan...

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This morning , we brought your attention to Hellions , a new film in development from director Gavin Heffernan, executive producer Tim Sullivan and Paul Lenart of Storyteller Pictures. A new slice of concept art - by Adam Bolt - has floated our way along with this description. Knock-knock, here comes Hellions. Home alone on Halloween, a 17-year-old girl must survive a night from hell when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking. Described as an eighties-horror throwback with the edgy thematic of Juno and the intensity of The Strangers, Hellions .will boldly push the limits of the genre while blending the pain of adolescent growth and the mayhem of monster-horror.

Around these parts we appreciate true madmen, and they don't come more gloriously crazed than Tim Sullivan. Any time the dude has something new up his sleeve, we're right there to check it out, and word of his latest project has just made its way online! Read on for details.

According to Fangoria next up for everyone's favorite Maniac is Hellions, an ’80s-horror throwback Sullivan gleefully describes as “a cross between Halloween and Juno.”

Sullivan will serve as executive producer on the project, which will be helmed by longtime associate and co-producer Gavin Heffernan. Written by Canadian screenwriter Pascal Trottier, Hellions depicts a night of terror for a 17-year-old girl who must defend herself against an onslaught of hellish creatures on Halloween night. The movie will be produced by Paul Lenart’s Storyteller Pictures in conjunction with The Clubhouse, Sullivan’s newly formed production company with cohorts Heffernan, Brian McCulley and John Crockett.

This past Wednesday, March 16, Dread hit the set of filmmaker Paul Ward’s horror flick One for the Road for an exclusive look at the project, which at the time was shooting in the cold environs of Crestline, California.

While there, we got a chance to chat with Ward and the project’s producer, Tim Sullivan (director of 2001 Maniacs and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams), as well as to witness the vampiric creature creations of Tom Devlin (Syfy’s "Face Off") and a bit of impressive and unintended pyromania. too, by the rather bemused latter.

Produced by Sullivan (under his New Rebellion Entertainment banner) as the second in his series of ‘Tim Sullivan Presents’ projects (initiated with the upcoming psychological thriller Cut/Print), this short film adaptation of Stephen King’s One for the Road (the original story stands as a sequel to Salem’s Lot) was written and directed by...

Known for the outrageous horror-comedy films 2001 Maniacs and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (as well as his hosting duties on the VH1 "Scream Queens 2" reality series), filmmaker Tim Sullivan tipped us off today regarding his latest genre effort, an upcoming short film adaptation of Stephen King’s One for the Road.

The literary sequel to the King novel Salem’s Lot and originally published in the author’s iconic Night Shift horror anthology, Sullivan’s cinematic incarnation is to be written and directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Paul Ward (Fur Coat and No Knickers, pictured below with Sullivan), and will star horror icon Reggie Bannister of Phantasm fame alongside Fur Coat’s Danny O’Connor and newcomers Audrey Walters, Drew Walters and Karen Andrews. Tom Devlin (who currently can be seen as a contestant on the Syfy reality series "Face Off") will provide One for the Road’s make-up and special effects,...

Nestled within the mammoth Maryland Film Festival, which runs May 6-9 in Baltimore, is a collection of avant-garde short films that will screen twice during the fest in a single block. The program will run for 79 minutes and will include 11 shorts.

A full listing of the short films in the avant-garde block is below, but I want to spotlight two in particular. The first is Michael Robinson’s Locking Gazes, described by the filmmaker as the “faded memory figment of someone never born.” You can watch some absolutely gorgeous clips from the film on Robinson’s Vimeo page. This seems like it’d be a sweet meditation up on the big screen.

The other short film to watch out for is Golden Hour by the prolific Robert Todd, which recently screened at the Boston Underground Film Festival. This film is described by the question: “What if the Looking Glass were,...