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Stars: Caroline Nicolian, Nathan Hollabaugh, David Flick, Owen Miller, Rik Billock, Megan Bolton, Andrew Ashbrook Freed, Dylan Grunn, Julia Best Warner | Written and Directed by Samuel Krebs

Let’s not mess around, The Whooper Returns is a terrible title for a film – which is why it’s been renamed for a wide US release as The Occupant (which isn’t that much better Tbh). It’s a film that takes the familiar tropes of haunted house stories and turns them on their head, creating a meta take on films like The Amityville Horror, if that film turned out to be based on a story made up by a mentally troubled housewife and her kids. Which might be the case knowing That franchise!

The Occupant opens in a faux-vhs style as we, the audience, watch a Halloween broadcast of The Whooper – a film based on the haunting of the Schepp family home.

"This house isn't really haunted..." "Some might debate that." Devilworks has debuted an official trailer for an indie horror thriller called The Occupant, marking the feature debut of filmmaker Samuel Krebs. This originally went under the title The Whooper Returns, which sounds much more interesting, but I can see how that might confuse some people (who or what is the Whooper?). Following the death of their mother, four estranged siblings find themselves fighting for their inheritance and for their lives when an eccentric stranger arrives, claiming their famous haunted childhood home was left to her. They all start experiencing strange, inexplicable manifestations, which has malevolent effects on everyone in the house. Starring Rik Billock, David Flick, Dylan Grunn, Nathan Hollabaugh, Caroline Nicolian, and Megan Bolton. Looks like fairly generic, derivative supernatural horror, even with Christmas lights like "Stranger Things". Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Samuel Krebs' The Occupant, direct...

‘The Whooper Returns’ is a supernatural thriller from Samuel Krebs.

UK-based genre specialist Devilworks has boarded worldwide rights to two thriller titles, which it will introduce to buyers at the Marche du Film physical event in Cannes (July 6-15).

It has secured rights to supernatural thriller The Whooper Returns from US writer-director Samuel Krebs. Produced by Krebs, Heidi Scheuermann and Michael X. Schmitt for US company Patio Pictures, the film follows four estranged siblings who, after inheriting their family home, are confronted by an eccentric stranger who claims the house was left to her. Krebs previously co-directed 2013 film Milk Mustache.

Stars: Caroline Nicolian, Nathan Hollabaugh, David Flick, Owen Miller, Rik Billock, Megan Bolton, Andrew Ashbrook Freed, Dylan Grunn, Julia Best Warner | Written and Directed by Samuel Krebs

Let’s not mess around, The Whooper Returns is a terrible title for a film that takes the familiar tropes of haunted house stories and turns them on their head, creating a meta take on films like The Amityville Horror. For yes, The Whooper Returns is very much like The Amityville Horror, if that film turned out to be based on a story made up by a mentally troubled housewife and her kids. Which might be the case knowing That franchise!

The Whooper Returns opens in a faux-vhs style as we, the audience, watch a Halloween broadcast of The Whooper – a film based on the haunting of the Schepp family home. That film was purportedly made in 1975, after the rights to the Schepp...

Around these parts we're suckers for old sci-fi and horror movies. You have to respect the genre's roots, man, and besides, there are some true classics out there - both incredibly good and hilariously bad. Enter the new homage flick It Came From Yesterday.

Directed by Jeff Waltrowski, this little golden nugget of indie filmmaking stars Waltrowski along with Nathan Hollabaugh, Nayli Russo, and Joel Ripka.

Check out the trailer below, and look for more on this one soon.

Synopsis

It Came From Yesterday: A Professor Jack Adventure is the feature film that launches scientist/adventurer Professor Jack into unknown realms of adventure! Along with his sidekicks, Buddy and Penny Precious, Jack must unravel the mysterious plot of inter-dimensional creatures hell-bent on enslaving the human race in this serial-inspired sci-fi extravaganza! Starring Jeff Waltrowski (Project: Valkyrie), Nathan Hollabaugh (George A. Romero’s Deadtime Stories, Unstoppable), Nayli Russo, Joel Ripka,...