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A full Free Movie of the Day is posted on the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel every day of the week – but on Fridays things get a little freakier and a little more fun. Get your weekend started the right way by indulging in Friday Fright Nights! Every Friday, we’ll be taking a look at another genre movie you can watch in its entirety, free of charge, either on the YouTube channel linked above or in the video embed here.

This week’s Friday Fright Nights feature is writer/director Tyler Christensen’s 2016 horror film House of Purgatory. A while back, when writing about the slasher Scare Zone (which is set in and around a Halloween haunted attraction), I encouraged inspiring filmmakers with access to haunted attractions to use those locations to their advantage, just like the makers of Scare Zone did. House of Purgatory is another horror movie that...

*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by Terror Films. This critic has worked on some publicity for this title. **there are spoilers here. Director/writer: Tyler Christensen. Cast: Torey Michael Adkins, Laura Coover, Aaron Galvin, Brian Krause and Marika Engelhardt. House or Purgatory is a recent horror release from Terror Films and first time director Tyler Christensen. Filmed partly in Wisconsin, the film's central story is based on an urban legend. At a haunted house attraction, participants can get there money back, if they can get through the scariest attraction, ever built! Christensen sets a consistent dramatic, horrifying tone. However, the moral of his story is muddied along the way. The setting is supposed to be Purgatory, but the evidence suggests that this is Hell. Yet, none of characters are the typical sinners. The film's story would have been more cohesive, if Christensen would have stuck...

House of Purgatory promises to be one of this Halloween season’s scariest movies. From first-time writer/director Tyler Christensen, it is based on a terrifying urban legend he used to hear as a child in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The story sees four mid-western teens go looking for the mysterious House of Purgatory on Halloween night. It somehow knows their deepest secrets and starts to use them against them. The movie stars Anne Leighton (Grimm, Nashville, Criminal Minds) alongside Laura Coover (How To Get Away With Murder, Castle) Aaron Galvin, and Brad Fry — with Brian Krause (Charmed) as The Skeleton. We...read more...

The Institution Starring: Harrisson Adeoye, Todd Fleck, Brad J. Fletcher, Aaron Galvin, Tim Krueger Director: Brad Lamar Writers: Brad Lamar & Clayton Monical Studio: Padded Room Productions Rated: Not Rated "The Institution" brings nothing new to the horror genre. Much of the plot and premise are standards of the horror industry: an abandoned asylum cut off from civilization, a legendary killer, a small group of twenty-somethings with li…...

An update on another new indie film landed in our inbox this week. It's set around Halloween, our favorite time of the year, so of course we had to share! Read on for some more details, artwork, and a teaser trailer for House of Purgatory, written and directed by Tyler Christensen.

House of Purgatory is an independent supernatural horror film from Watching Eye Productions that was shot entirely on location in Wisconsin and is now in post-production. Its stars include Brian Krause, Anne Leighton, Laura Coover, Aaron Galvin, and Brad Fry.

Synopsis:

It's a story that has existed throughout the Midwest for years - a haunted attraction that repays a portion of the admittance fee for every floor patrons are brave enough to complete. The haunted house is supposedly so terrifying, however, that nobody has ever made it all the way through to the end.

On Halloween night four Wisconsin...

There is an urban legend about a Halloween fright house that is so scary, you get some of your money back for each level you make it through. No one has ever gotten a full refund. I had never heard of this urban legend, but first-time director Tyler Christensen has, and has turned that legend into horror film: House of Purgatory. The film stars Brian Krause (Sleepwalkers, Charmed) as The Skeleton, and Laura Coover, Anne Leighton, Brad Fry, and Aaron Galvin as his hapless victims. FEARnet snagged the Exclusive teaser trailer - check it out after the jump.