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On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the 2015 horror film The Dark Stranger, and you can check it out over on the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

The feature debut of writer/director Chris Trebilcock, The Dark Stranger has the following synopsis:

Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.

The film stars Katie Findlay, Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Enrico Colantoni, Jennifer Dale, Mark O’Brien, and Emma Campbell, with Stephen McHattie as Randall Toth / The Dark Stranger.

Trebilcock directed multiple short films before diving into the feature world with The Dark Stranger. As of right now,...

More and more horror films are coming out this Halloween. The most recent release is Chris Trebilcock's The Dark Stranger. Starring Katie Findlay ("How to Get Away with Murder") and Stephen McHattie ("The Strain"), The Dark Stranger involves a young woman, her art and a strange figure. In this latest clip, titled "Bedtime Lurking," McHattie makes a late night appearance as this shadowy figure. The nightmares begin from there. The latest clip for The Dark Stranger is available here. The film's synopsis begins and ends with Leah (Findlay). She has experienced a trauma, that keeps her close to home. She tries to find solace in her artwork, but a strange apparition interferes. Now, Leah is no longer sure if the figure is part of her unconscious or something more physical and sinister. She will have to confront this stranger, or lose her mind. The Dark Stranger has just released (Oct.

With its U.S. release just a week away, Terror Films has shared with Dread Central an exclusive sneak peek of The Dark Stranger, directed by Chris Trebilcock, which tells us a bit about the origin of the titular character. The… Continue Reading →

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Terror Films has acquired U.S. rights to the psychological thriller The Dark Strange directed by Chris Trebilcock. The film stars Katie Findlay (“How to Get Away With Murder”) along with Canadian genre fave Stephen McHattie from “The Strain,” Pontypool and other pretty great underground films. The Dark Stranger will stalk Video-on-demand platforms October 14, 2016 including iTunes, Xbox, YouTube, Vimeo On Demand, […]...

Shock reviews the flawed but interesting Canadian thriller The Dark Stranger. Director Chris Trebilcock’s indie psyche-horror/drama The Dark Stranger has plenty going for it, chiefly a buoyant central performance from actress Katie Findlay who stars as as unstable but spunky artist who may or may not be spiraling further into a state of being unhinged.…

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Unlocked

Noomi Rapace ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") is set to star in Mikael Hafstrom's independently produced spy thriller "Unlocked". Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached as a producer.

Peter O'Brien Black List script has Rapace as a female CIA interrogator duped into getting a terrorist to provide key information to the wrong side. It puts her at the center of a plot to launch a biological attack in London. [Source: Deadline]

Trespass Against Us

Brendan Gleeson ("The Guard") and Killian Scott ("'71") will join Michael Fassbender in Adam Smith's "Trespass Against Us".

Fassbender plays an Irish outlaw looking to escape his life of crime. The other two play members of his family. The film also boasts an original score from The Chemical Brothers. [Source: The Film Stage]

The Dark Stranger

Katie Findlay ("The Carrie Diaries") has scored the lead role in Chris Trebilcock's Canadian indie psychological thriller "The Dark Stranger". Enrico Colantoni,...

Katie Findlay has joined the psychothriller that recently commenced principal photography in Toronto. La-based Moonstone Entertainment handles international sales.

Previously announced Enrico Colantoni, Stephen McHattie, Mark O’Brien, Alex Ozerov and Jennifer Dale star in the story of a traumatised artist who becomes haunted by her own graphic novel.

Chris Trebilcock wrote the screenplay and makes his feature directorial debut.

“After developing The Dark Stranger for more than five years, I’m tremendously excited and grateful to see the film come to fruition with such a distinguished cast and crew,” said Trebilcock.

Telefilm Canada and The Praxis Screenplay Competition developed the screenplay, which also took part in the National Screen Institute’s Features First programme and received the Brian Linehan Foundation Award. Telefilm and the Ontario Media Development Corporation assist with the production.

Devonshire Productions’ Paula Devonshire and Viddywell Films’ Glen Wood are producing with Vigilante Productions’ Mark Gingras.

Prodigy Pictures’ Jay Firestone and Vanessa Piazza and Bershire...