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Stars: Airisa Durand, Jason Brooks, Laura Wilson, Jessica Noel Thompson, Chynna Rae Shurts | Written and Directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy

In The Lizzie Borden Game, cult indie horror director Calvin Morie McCarthy (Conjuring: The Beyond; Beware the Boogeyman) returns with another low-budget but high-effort stab at supernatural horror. Blending urban legend thrills with practical gore and flashes of sly humour, the film is a knowingly campy entry that horror buffs with a taste for B-movie bloodshed may well find appealing—if they have the patience.

Let’s clear something up right away: this isn’t a dramatisation of the infamous Lizzie Borden case. Instead, McCarthy mines the true crime icon for mythic inspiration, turning her into the Bloody Mary of this story. A group of five adult friends, including Emily (Airisa Durand), reeling from the tragic loss of her parents, gathers at a remote gothic “castle” for a Friendsgiving getaway.

Lizzie Borden took an axe. She gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. The story of Lizzie Borden still captivates after all these years, and Breaking Glass Pictures brings the tale back to the screen with upcoming indie The Lizzie Borden Game. Watch the trailer below and find the film on Prime Video now.

The Lizzie Borden Game is also coming soon to other VOD outlets.

In director Calvin Morie McCarthy’s film, “After her parents tragic death, Emily joins a Friendsgiving retreat that turns deadly when an eerie game summons Lizzie Borden’s ghost.”

Airisa Durand, Jason Brooks, Laura Wilson, Jessica Noel Thompson, and Steve Larkin star in The Lizzie Borden Game, with Chynna Rae Shurts as Lizzie Borden.

Calvin Morie McCarthy also wrote the screenplay.

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Stars: Elissa Dowling, Airisa Durand, Chynna Rae Shurts, Rollyn Stafford, Nicolette Pullen, Jason Reynolds, Khail Duggan, James Luster, Steve Larkin, Jax Kellington, Calvin Morie McCarthy, Marcella Laasch | Written and Directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy, Josh Dietrich, Kai Pacifico Eng, Tim Coyle

I would have expected the new indie anthology film Beware the Boogeyman to have come out a while back, closer to the release of the widely hyped Stephen King adaptation, The Boogeyman. The inspiration is obvious, one scene even has a character holding a copy of Night Shift, the collection of King’s stories that brought it to most people’s attention. In any case, it’s out now and wants you to believe in it.

Beware the Boogeyman opens with Dr. Tristan Makenzie the newest potential addition to Silverdale Psychiatric Hospital’s staff going in for her orientation on, of all days, a Sunday. Dr. Gabey Moon meets...

‘Quite a good scene, isn’t it? One man, crazy – three very sane spectators!’ said the tragic Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein from James Whale’s classic. Crazy people have always been fodder in genre films with many titles such as the obvious Amicus production Asylum (1972), which is similar to this new film anthology, Beware The Boogeyman (2024).

Similar to the aforementioned Asylum (1972), this new and very competent film opens with the arrival at a remote psychiatric hospital, a new resident Doctor Makenzie (Elissa Dowling) who tries to learn more about her patients from her new boss Doctor Moon (Airisa Durand). These patients in this small rural facility share a delusion regarding a common supernatural presence in their lives that drove them over the edge. These medical histories unfold in stories as the files are read and discussed. The stories range from a haunted young woman bringing home a potential one-night...

Stars: Elissa Dowling, Airisa Durand, Chynna Rae Shurts, Rollyn Stafford, Nicolette Pullen, Jason Reynolds, Khail Duggan, James Luster, Steve Larkin, Jax Kellington, Calvin Morie McCarthy, Marcella Laasch | Written and Directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy, Josh Dietrich, Kai Pacifico Eng, Tim Coyle

I would have expected the new indie anthology film Beware the Boogeyman to have come out a while back, closer to the release of the widely hyped Stephen King adaptation, The Boogeyman. The inspiration is obvious, one scene even has a character holding a copy of Night Shift, the collection of King’s stories that brought it to most people’s attention. In any case, it’s out now and wants you to believe in it.

Beware the Boogeyman opens with Dr. Tristan Makenzie the newest potential addition to Silverdale Psychiatric Hospital’s staff going in for her orientation on, of all days, a Sunday. Dr. Gabey Moon meets...

It’s a new month and a new month brings new horror. In this first full week of March 2024, Eight new horror movies are on the way, coming to theaters, VOD, and even the big screen.

Here’s all the new horror releasing March 5 – March 10, 2024!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

First up, Breaking Glass Pictures has released Beware of the Boogeyman, a psychological thriller written and directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy, on VOD outlets today, March 5.

“In this chilling tale, Dr. Tristian MacKenzie embarks on her first day of orientation at the Silverdale Psychiatric Hospital for the criminally insane. There, she encounters the enigmatic Dr. Moon, who reveals a series of bizarre cases involving five patients and their shared delusion.

“As Dr. MacKenzie delves deeper into the unsettling files, she unravels a web of intrigue and horror that challenges her understanding of reality.

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

Straight off the top, audiences going into An Amityville Poltergeist (2020) hoping to see objects flying around the famed Long Island house need to adjust their expectations. Despite featuring the word “poltergeist” in the title, the film is more of a drama with J-Horror spectral hauntings. In fact all of the horrific set pieces draw heavily on the visual iconography of Ringu/The Ring and The Grudge.

An Amityville Poltergeist is another name-only entry in the Amityville “franchise.” According to IMDb trivia, the film was shot under the title No Sleep, then became Don’t Sleep in post-production, then changed to include Amityville by the distributor when it was being shopped around.

So while there is a brief, half-hearted attempt to capture the iconic cat eye windows,...