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There is no exit for American Psycho. Bret Easton Ellis‘ hilarious and grisly novel has hardly gathered dust since its 1991 publication, thanks to the shock and awe of the narrative, the ensuing cultural reaction, and, no doubt, Mary Harron‘s slick 2000 feature adaptation that re-introduced Christian Bale to a post-Newsies generation (and also nabbed him the cowl). Blame it on the dark humor, the ’80s nostalgia, or our predilection for primal indulgences, but Patrick Bateman remains one of the rare cultish enigmas of the 21st century. One that is seemingly impervious to memes, merch, and even a middling Dtv sequel.

But what about a musical? These days it’s perhaps no surprise that even Ellis isn’t immune to Broadway’s IP-driven pursuits. Yet there was admittedly a slight reluctance in seeing this particular story leap from page to stage. After all, the journey to celluloid alone was paved with...

Another trio of Dark Sky Films titles have made their way onto Screambox, joining previously dropped classics Willow Creek, Minor Premise, and The Deeper You Dig (more details).

Place your bets on who will win in Dark Sky Films’ Ghost Killers vs Bloody Mary, now streaming on Screambox.

Fabrício Bittar’s horror-comedy tells of four YouTubers with expertise in paranormal activity who attempt to tackle the mystery of a ghost that haunts a high school bathroom. This film is batshit insane.

The film is being sold in the spirit of Peter Jackson’s earliest work, “An exercise in hilariously bad taste, featuring gratuitous sex, violence, profanity and one seriously pissed-off ghost.”

The feature directorial debut of Paul Owens, Landlocked is a creative new horror movie that incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies.

Now streaming on Screambox, Landlocked‘s use of a family’s original home videos...

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If you’re drawn to creepy and unsettling imagery like I am, odds are you have likely come across and fallen down the rabbit hole of images online known as “liminal spaces.” These images often portray typically bustling places—streets, malls, schools, sprawling corridors—in their most desolate states, uncharacteristically empty and isolated to the point of being unsettling. The public’s fascination with liminal spaces has been growing in recent years, but the term liminality itself first surfaced in the field of anthropology through the early-to-mid 20th-century work of scholars like Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner in their study of rituals. Put as simply as can be, liminality describes a state of transition, where someone or something is neither here nor there, connected to what was before and what is to come, but not fully planted in either.

It...

Emily gave a glowing review to Landlocked following its screening as part of Nighstream in 2021, impressed by its unique approach of blending reality with fiction. With the film now available in select theaters and on VOD platforms, we have an exclusive look just for Daily Dead readers!

"Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers an old VHS camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. Utilizing the director's own home movies, filming in the actual locations where he spent his youth and casting real-life family members to play fictionalized versions of themselves, LandLocked combines narrative and documentary with horror and sci-fi to create a movie unlike any other...

Taking ten years to complete, Landlocked is the feature directorial debut of Paul Owens. Owens creatively incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies...

Stars: Jeffrey Owens, Mason Owens, Paul Owens, Seth Owens, Jane Gale | Written and Directed by Paul Owens

LandLocked is an interesting twist on both the found footage film and the time travel film, one that combines reality and fiction in an unsettling manner. Much like Kyle Edward Ball did with Skinamarink, writer/director Paul Owens shot the film in his own childhood home. Owens however takes it even further, he interweaves actual home movies from his and his siblings Mason and Jeff’s childhood and cast not only them but their father Jeff as well, all playing fictionalized versions of themselves.

Jeff has arranged for the family home to be demolished a year after his death. We learn this via his voice on a tape spanning several years of the boys’ childhood. Apparently, he’s been dead for a while because he tells them they need to get anything they want to save soon.

It’s the first week of a new year, and 2023 is going to be absolutely loaded with new horror. As always, we’ll be providing you with week-by-week previews of what’s being released.

Let’s get right into things, shall we?

Here are the first four horror releases of 2023, which are all out Now!

The 2023 horror season kicks off with the critically acclaimed M3GAN (read Meagan’s review), which is now playing in theaters. The premise? It’s essentially Annabelle meets Terminator!

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.

When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece,...

Paul Owens’ feature debut Landlocked takes a very unique approach to the found footage style of making a horror film, as Owens used his own family’s home movies to build the story for the film. The end result has gotten some strong word of mouth from its festival screenings, and now Dark Sky Films is planning to give Landlocked a VOD, digital, and limited theatrical release on January 6th. To help you figure out whether or not Landlocked is a movie you’ll want to watch at the beginning of the new year, we have the trailer embedded above.

Here’s the story Owens tells with Landlocked: Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers an old VHS camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. Utilizing the director’s own home movies, filming...

"Are you okay with them tearing down the house?" Dark Sky Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled LandLocked, made by filmmaker Paul Owens. It has played at numerous genre festivals since last year. At his soon-to-be-demolished childhood home, Mason finds a VHS camera that can see into the past, invoking a deadly obsession with nostalgia. The film is a documentary-fiction hybrid, a very unique and quite personal. The film utilizes the director's own home movies, and filming in the actual locations where he spent his youth, along with casting real-life family members to play fictionalized versions of themselves. Mason Owens and the rest of the filmmaker's family star. For more info on the project, you can watch this video interview with the director Paul Owens from a film festival just a few months ago. It's a very low budget film, but looks like it...

Coming January 6, 2023, is the feature directorial debut of Paul Owens, Landlocked, a creative new horror movie that incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies.

Landlocked‘s use of a family’s original home videos to create a fictional horror story results in unconventional found footage that combines documentary and narrative filmmaking.

A brand new trailer below reveals ominous imagery lurking beneath the surface when a man returns to his childhood home and discovers an old camera. Are they memories or something far more sinister?

The film features a cast of real-life family members playing fictionalized versions of themselves.

In Landlocked, “Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers an old VHS camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. Utilizing the director’s own home movies, filming in the actual locations where...