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The Popcorn Frights Film Festival is back with its eleventh this year, both in-person and virtually, from August 7-17. The Southeast’s largest genre celebration announces its second wave of programming this morning, from new premieres to repertory screening classics.

The final wave is a short film showcase, featuring seventy-four world premiere shorts. Look for notable entries including Andrew Bowser’s “Frankenbabes from Beyond the Grave” and Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow’s “The Specter of Christmas” featuring Paul Giamatti.

Catch up on the first and second waves here for a full rundown of the lineup.

Read on for the third wave:

Short Film Lineup

Animation Domination

The endless possibilities of genre animation are on dazzling display in this retina-reeling, round-the-world showcase of some of the medium’s most innovative, boundary-pushing, and mind-enhancing short films:

As I Was a Tree, dir. Jalal Maghout (Germany-Syrian Arab Republic); Bullet Time, dir. Eddie Alcazar; Burned Cans for Aluminum Children,...

A new digital show focused on horror and genre cinema is set to debut at this year’s Marché du Film in Cannes. Titled “The Séance,” the series will be produced by Alex Noyer’s You Know Films in collaboration with the Fantastic Pavilion, Fangoria and Paramount Scares.

Hosted by filmmakers and horror personalities Blair Bathory and Gigi Saul Guerrero, “The Séance” aims to provide viewers with a daily recap of events, interviews, and behind-the-scenes moments from the Fantastic Pavilion, an industry space dedicated to genre cinema located in the Palais des Festivals. The show will also include long-form segments and live content, showcasing both the creative and chaotic energy of the festival from a horror-focused perspective. It will stream on social media platforms including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, with editorial partnerships from Fangoria and Paramount Scares.

“What drew us to Fantastic Pavilion is what drives Paramount Scares, a belief...

Raven Banner Entertainment has revealed the poster for Love Is the Monster designed by Creepy Duck Design, via Deadline.

Inspired by Finnish mythology, the folk horror film follows troubled couples to Finland for a transformative retreat, where they fall prey to a sinister cult seeking to resurrect an ancient goddess of love.

Madeline Zima (“Californication”), Leonardo Nam (“Westworld”), Kimberly-Sue Murray (“The Boys”), Moe Jeudy-Lamour (“Ted Lasso”), Kristina Tonteri-Young (“Warrior Nun”), Milla Puolakanaho, and Sheila McCarthy (“The Umbrella Academy”) star.

Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence) directs from a script he co-wrote with Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory.

Raven Banner will launch global sales at the Marché Du Film and its Fantastic Pavilion during Cannes.

“I have known the Raven Banner team for some time and their attachment to bold storytelling in horror is what makes this partnership so exciting,” said Noyer. “Love Is the Monster brings about a sort of modern...

Exclusive: Raven Banner Entertainment is kicking off global sales for Alex Noyer’s horror movie Love Is The Monster starring Madeline Zima (Californication) and Leonardo Nam (Westworld) at the Marché Du Film and its Fantastic Pavilion, during Cannes.

Inspired by Finnish mythology, troubled couples head to Finland for a transformative retreat, where they fall prey to a sinister cult seeking to resurrect an ancient goddess of love. Noyer, wrote and directed the feature. Co-scribes are Hannua Aukia & Blair Bathory.

In addition to Zima and Nam, additional cast members include Kimberly Sue-Murray (The Boys), Moe Jeudy-Lamour (Ted Lasso), Kristina Tonteri-Young (Warrior Nun), Milla Puolakanaho (Attack on Helsinki) and Sheila McCarthy (Women Talking).

Madeline Zima, Leonardo Nam

Noyer is a Finnish-French filmmaker with a background in advertising, documentaries, and genre films. After founding You Know Films, he transitioned from advertising to storytelling, producing art and music documentaries, including the acclaimed ‘808’, the first documentary released on Apple Music.

We feel silly for letting this one fall under our radar yesterday. Deadline announced that XYZ Films have come on board the thriller Love Is The Monster, which is the new film from Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence). XYZ Films will be handling North American sales at TIFF beginning next month. Written bv Noyer, Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory, Love Is the Monster centers on a couple, Ana and Justin who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the...

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The thriller Love Is the Monster has received a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement, so production is now underway in Canada with Madeline Zima of Californication and Twin Peaks: The Return and Leonardo Nam of Westworld and Werewolf by Night in the lead roles.

Directed by Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence), who also wrote the screenplay with Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory, Love Is the Monster follows a couple, Ana (Zima) and Justin (Nam) who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the idyllic setting soon takes a turn…

Deadline reports that Zima and Nam are joined in the cast by Moe Jeudy-Lamour (Ted Lasso...

Up next from Sound of Violence filmmaker Alex Noyer is Love is the Monster, a new thriller that draws on Finnish mythology Deadline reports today.

Madeline Zima and Leonardo Nam star, and production is currently underway through a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement.

Love Is the Monster centers on “a couple, Ana (Zima) and Justin (Nam) who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the idyllic setting soon takes a turn….”

Intriguingly, Wikipedia offers this description about the goddess Lempo: “After Christianity came to Finland, the reputation of Lempo worsened: it is portrayed in the folklore usually as an erratic spirit, as love can be capricious,...

Exclusive: Madeline Zima (Californication) and Leonardo Nam (Westworld) are currently in production in Canada on Love Is the Monster, a new thriller they’re leading for filmmaker Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence) that has landed a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement. Others set to star include Moe Jeudy-Lamour (Ted Lasso), Kimberly-Sue Murray (Trader), Kristina Tonteri-Young (Warrior Nun), Milla Puolakanaho (Omerta), Tatu Sinisalo (Sisu) and Sheila Mccarthy (Women Talking).

Written bv Noyer, Hannu Aukia and Blair Bathory, Love Is the Monster centers on a couple, Ana (Zima) and Justin (Nam) who, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by the ancient Finnish goddess of love and fertility, Lempo. But the idyllic setting soon takes a turn….

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