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In modern horror, a common trend sees filmmakers incorporating a 70s style amidst difficult thematic material. Everyone Will Burn (Y todos arderán), directed by David Hebrero, is an example of this, but the film relies too much on picturesque cinematography and its own unique style. While these aspects can help a film achieve greatness, they are not enough to keep an audience engaged for over 2 hours. Everyone Will Burn is a supernatural epic horror film that starts with an intriguing premise but grows more convoluted as it goes on. The film begins as an old-school horror flick but devolves into a fantasy spectacle, featuring a climax reminiscent of an Avengers film but without rhyme or reason. Everyone Will Burn is a fairly memorable high-concept horror film, but the confusing script could have used some significant tightening.

Everyone Will Burn stars Macarena Gómez as María José, a woman struggling to come...

Last Friday, the apocalyptic supernatural Spanish horror film Everyone Will Burn was given a theatrical release in select locations by Drafthouse Films. Now the film has made its way to VOD (it’s available on iTunes at This Link), and to help you decide whether or not this is one you’d like to check out, we have the trailer embedded above.

David Hebrero, who has racked up many credits as a cinematographer and a gaffer, directed Everyone Will Burn from a screenplay he wrote with Javier Kiran. The story centers on María José, an outlier in her small Spanish town, who is grieving after her young son’s suicide. As she teeters on the brink of suicide herself, she encounters a mysterious young girl caked in dirt. It is quickly revealed that the girl has telekinetic powers and might be the harbinger of the apocalyptic prophecy that exists within town legend.

This week is the final big time new release week for 2023, as things are going to quiet down a bit for the holidays. But we’re going out with a bang, with 15 new horrors this week alone.

Here’s all the new horror releasing December 5 – December 10, 2023!

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It’s Face/Off meets Freaky Friday when a homicide detective swaps bodies with a serial killer in Devils, the critically acclaimed body-swap psychological thriller that’s now on VOD and streaming on Screambox. The thriller, written and directed by Kim Jae-hoon, blurs revenge and morality where an unwavering detective takes on a serial killer.

“Devils follows the story of Jae-hwan, a determined homicide detective assigned to take down a ring of serial killers terrorizing the city. The case becomes deeply personal for him as one of the victims is his own brother-in-law.

The familiar proverb “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” comes to mind in director David Hebrero‘s Everyone Will Burn, a stunning technicolor horror fable set in contemporary Spain. A small town’s attempts to thwart an apocalyptic prophecy instead unwittingly fester over forty years before the film’s events, creating seismic repercussions in the present.

Hebrero, who co-wrote with Javier Kiran, is less interested in the prophecy itself and more in how the concept of evil turns the town inside out. In Hebrero and lead actor Macarena Gómez’s capable hands, Everyone Will Burn offers a devilishly compelling depiction of religious mania run amok.

After the opening text explains the town prophecy, Everyone Will Burn introduces María José right as she’s preparing to step off a ledge and end her pain. She’s stopped by the sudden arrival of a strange girl, Lucía (newcomer Sofía García), caked in muck.

One of the most difficult day to day questions facing Christian theologians is this: how does anybody go to Heaven when somebody they love is in Hell? How is existing in a state of bliss possible, or even desirable, in such a context? Wouldn’t most parents prefer yto be where their children are, no matter the personal cost? This question lies at the heart of David Hebrero’s complex and not altogether successful fable, which sees the mother of a youth who died by suicide abruptly confronting the nature of her feelings for him and her desire for revenge.

Suicide, to the Catholic inhabitants of small Spanish villages like the one where this is set, is a mortal sin. Maria José (Macarena Gómez) sees this as all the more unjust because her boy was hounded to his death, relentlessly bullied for being a little person. She too is held in contempt by.

I've never understood why small towns are so often praised as better places to raise children. Contrary to the popular belief that they are kinder and more welcoming, smaller places tend to be more isolated, and therefore more prejudiced, more close-minded, more stuck in superstitions, more apt to violence against anything they understand.  Small towns like this are perfect places for dark legends to grow, hatred to fester, and rage to simmer until it explodes. David Hebrero's sophomore feature Everyone will Burn focuses on just such a town in the Spanish countryside. Where townsfolk believe that anything 'odd' doesn't belong - which too often translate into anyone who looks different or acts in a way that the town arbitrarily decides is wrong. And while a visually stunning...

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Drafthouse Films, known for its commitment to genre-defying cinema, is bringing apocalyptic supernatural horror movie Everyone Will Burn to select theaters this week. The official trailer teases the end of the world with the arrival of a peculiar girl with supernatural powers.

Everyone Will Burn opens in select theaters December 1 and will be available on Digital on December 5.

The Spanish horror movie premiered at the Sitges Film Festival and racked up multiple festival wins around the world. Directed, co-written, and cinematography by David Hebrero, the film centers on Lucía, a strange little girl who just might be connected to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse.

Everyone Will Burn follows “María José, an outlier in her small Spanish town, who is grieving after her young son’s suicide. As she teeters on the brink of suicide herself, she encounters a mysterious young girl (newcomer Sofía García) caked in dirt.

Spanish horror film Everyone Will Burn, directed by David Hebrero, is set to hit theaters in select US cities starting December 1st. The film centers around a woman who encounters a little girl, triggering a series of horrific events in her town. Critics describe Everyone Will Burn as a visually stunning film that combines elements of biblical apocalypse stories with modern horror techniques.

Drafthouse Films has acquired the rights to the Spanish horror film Everyone Will Burn, which was part of the Fantastic Fest 2022 selection, with a new trailer being unleashed. The movie will be available in theaters in New York City, Los Angeles and Austin starting December 1st and on digital platforms December 5th. Spanish director David Hebrero once again demonstrates his talent for mystery, suspense and horror in his most recent project, Everyone Will Burn, which is finally making its way to theaters in the United States after...

Drafthouse Films, known for its commitment to genre-defying cinema, has announced today that they’ve acquired supernatural horror movie Everyone Will Burn.

The Spanish horror movie premiered at the Sitges Film Festival and racked up multiple festival wins around the world. Directed by David Hebrero, the film follows Lucía, a strange little girl who just might be connected to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse.

Everyone Will Burn will have a theatrical release at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas and other theaters, before debuting on all major streaming platforms.

The film is part of a three-film slate from Drafthouse Films that was announced today, which also includes Mister Organ and Alex Winter’s documentary The YouTube Effect.

”We are in this business because we know there are others just like us who want nothing more than to sit in a dark theater enjoying the movies they care about,” says Alamo...

Drafthouse Films has acquired three films that it will release theatrically in U.S. theaters followed by digital releases across major streaming platforms.

They include “Mister Organ,” a documentary from journalist and filmmaker David Farrier, whose 2016 film “Tickled” explored the dark underbelly of “competitive endurance tickling,” will be released in theaters this fall. As he turns his camera on another stranger than fiction story, Farrier finds himself caught in an increasingly dangerous game of cat and mouse with a mysterious character who expertly manipulates the lives of anyone who dares to expose his secrets. The film, Produced by Ant Timpson and Firefly Films’ Emma Slade and Alex Reed, was a critical and audience favorite at Fantastic Fest 2022, and has become a box office hit in Farrier’s native New Zealand.

“I am incredibly happy to be working with Drafthouse Films,” said Farrier “Watching this funny, disturbing, and deeply weird documentary...

Roster includes Everyone Will Burn, The Breach, Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge.

Toronto-based genre specialists Raven Banner head to AFM with a sales slate led by Day One and The Fight Machine.

Joey De Guzman’s Filipino action horror Day Zero from the creators of On The Job stars Mma fighter Brandon “The Truth” Vera, Pepe Herrera, Mj Lastimosa and Joey Marquez in the story of an inmate with Special Forces training who breaks out of prison to reunite with his loved ones during a zombie outbreak.

Raven Banner’s Michaelangelo Masangkay and Michael Paszt negotiated the international...

Fantastic Fest 2022 has a great selection of film docs, and one of the most interesting ones is the latest from Alexandre O. Philippe. His resume includes some fascinating examinations of classic films, including 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene and Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist. His films always focus on an interesting corner of film and when I heard that he had a new one examining the work of David Lynch, I knew I couldn’t miss it.

This film takes on a bit of a different format from his previous works. It is divided into six chapters and essentially takes on the format of a series of video essays diving into various aspects of Lynch's oeuvre. The common theme is how those works relate or overlap to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz.

With participation from Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, Aaron Moorehead, Justin Benson, Karyn Kusama,...

Stars: Macarena Gómez, Sofía García, Ana Milán, Germán Torres | Written by David Hebrero, Javier Kiran | Directed by David Hebrero

Everyone Will Burn (Y todos arderán) begins with a text crawl that informs us that in 1980 the residents of Razas del Monte sacrificed a baby in the hopes it would prevent the apocalypse they believed was imminent. They’ve managed to keep it covered up, until now.

That’s replaced by a view of the countryside accompanied by the sound of tortured breathing. We see the immaculately dressed María José climb up to the edge of a bridge, ready to kill herself. As she does Lucia (Sofía García) a strange-looking little girl, dirty and dishevelled, walks up behind her and asks “Mama”? Since her suicide attempt is linked to the death of her son and those responsible, including the mayor’s son, managing to escape being prosecuted this has a strong effect on her.

The 22nd Screamfest Horror Film Festival’s just released its first wave of feature films screening this year. The 2022 festival will take place October 11-20 and will be held at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

“We are excited to return to the Tcl Chinese Theaters since the theatrical experience is unlike anything else,” stated festival founder Rachel Belofsky. “We look forward to seeing the LA horror community in person this year and can’t wait to see these premieres on the big screen where they belong.”

The festival’s set Prime Video and Blumhouse’s Run Sweetheart Run with Shohreh Aghdashloo and Pilou Asbæk as its closing night film. Screamfest will also host the West Coast premiere of Living with Chucky, a documentary about the creepy serial killer doll written and directed by Kyra Gardner. Slayers starring Thomas Jane, Abigail Breslin, and Malin Akerman will have its world premiere...

Screamfest Horror Film Festival announced today its first-wave lineup of competitive features and shorts for its 22nd edition running October 11th through 20th at the Tcl Chinese Theater.

The Hulu Original film Matriarch will hold its world premiere screening on October 11 – opening night – before premiering on the streamer for Huluween on October 21.

From the press release:

“Run Sweetheart Run from Prime Video and Blumhouse will close Screamfest LA on October 20th. After what begins as dinner with a client, a single mom (Ella Balinska) finds herself hunted by a monstrous and seemingly unstoppable assailant (Pilou Asbæk). Co-written and directed by Shana Feste, the film is a must-see watch for the Halloween season and helmed by an extraordinary team of women both in front and behind the camera. A Q&a will follow the screening featuring the cast and crew.

“Considered the “Sundance of Horror,” Screamfest is proud to showcase new...

David Hebrero’s feature set for North American premiere at Fantastic Fest.

Exclusive: Raven Banner has come on board to handle world sales on David Hebrero’s Spanish horror film Everyone Will Burn.

The Spanish-language feature had its premiere at last October’s Sitges festival (under the title Y Todos Arderan) and is getting its UK premiere this week at FrightFest London. A North American premiere will follow in late September at Fantastic Fest in Austin.

Genre specialist Raven Banner is planning a festival circuit showcase for the film, which will be introduced to distributors at FrightFest and the American Film Market in November.

As the Sitges Film Festival draws ever closer more films are being announced for this year's lineup. Today we got word that two more Spanish films have joined the roster.    David Casademunt's feature debut, El páramo, will have its world premiere at the festival and take part in the competition program. David Hebrero's sophomore effort El páramo is heading to Sitges as a special screening.    El páramo, which sounds like a creature in the woods flick, translates as The Moor and Y todos arderán, sounding like a reveange thriller, translates into the very fun, And They All Will Burn.    The announcement follows.    The latest in Spanish Fantastic lands at Sitges 2021   David Casademunt's 'El páramo' and David Hebrero's 'Y todos arderán' have been added to the lineup...

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Principal photography is just about to wrap on this independent film toplined by Macarena Gómez, Rodolfo Sancho, Rubén Ochandiano and Ana Milán. “A spiritual successor to Rosemary’s Baby” is how David Hebrero describes his second feature following Dulcinea, a horror-drama entitled Y todos arderán (lit. “And They’ll All Burn”). In addition, the filmmaker asserts that it will emit whiffs of the Italian giallo and Spanish fantaterror genres, as well as absorbing and exuding unashamedly obvious influences from the juggernauts of contemporary fantastical film, such as Álex de la Iglesia, Ari Aster and Robert Eggers (The Witch). As a result, expectations are sky-high. And it’s surely for this very reason that the cast, comprising Macarena Gómez, Rodolfo Sancho (whom we...