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Currently available to buy and rent on digital platforms, Children of the Pines is a new horror film directed by Joshua Morgan and produced by Lucas A. Ferrara. The movie follows Riley, a college junior who is persuaded to visit her estranged parents, Kathy and John, during school break. However, it quickly becomes evident that she was right to keep her distance. Upon returning home, Riley discovers that a group of mysterious children have taken up residence in the house, and their unexplained presence leads her to seek out the dark truth.

Children of the Pines stars Danielle J. Bowman, Kelly Tappan, Vas Provatakis, Donna Rae Allen, Richard Cohn-Lee, and David Raizor. While Ferrara has worked on projects such as 5000 Space Aliens, Makeup, and Frank & Emmet, the film serves as Morgan's feature directorial debut. Morgan wrote the screenplay at the impressive age of seventeen, and he expresses his excitement for...

Stars: Kelly Tappan, Richard Colm-Lee, Sylvie Mohr, Vivian Hunter, Ryosuke Sekoguchi, Vas Provatakis, Joshua Morgan, Mateo Taylor, Donna Rae Allen, Madison M. Bowman, David Raizor | Written and Directed by Joshua Morgan

As Children of the Pines begins, a voiceover tells us, “Sadness will ground you in ways that happiness could only dream of doing.” The person telling us this is Riley, who left home to get away from her father John’s drinking and anger issues and hasn’t been back since she left to attend college.

But now he has apparently gotten his act together and quit drinking, so she agrees to come home at break to visit with him and her mother Kathy. Her parents are preparing for this with the help of councillors Lorelei and Leon. The fact that seem not just fake as hell, but distinctly shady, doesn’t seem to bother them at all. This...

In the 12 years since the release of its flagship film, the V/H/S franchise has spawned six sequels, a pair of spinoffs, and a forgotten miniseries (released exclusively on Snapchat). Following last year's V/H/S/85, the latest installment in the found-footage horror series is V/H/S/Beyond, a collection of segments based on aliens and featuring some of the franchise's best and gnarliest special effects to date.

Presented as a fake documentary about aliens, each segment of V/H/S/Beyond is broken up by talking-head interviews with experts, including a longtime believer and scholar and a trio of YouTubers who specialize in visual effects and make a living by debunking purported UFO footage. That ideological balance is thoughtful if somewhat extraneous in a horror anthology whose primary goal is to maximize thrills and chills, as Beyond often does.

Beyond Begins with 3 Quick & Fun Face-Melting Entries

V/H/S/Beyond 3.5/5 HorrorSci-Fi

V/H/S/Beyond is the seventh entry in the long-running horror...

Join Riley on a quest to uncover dark family secrets in the chilling horror film, Children of the Pines. Experience a refreshingly eerie and disturbing journey with award-winning thrills in this upcoming movie. Get ready for supernatural encounters, mysterious children, and a haunting original score by Sune Rose Wagner.

Screen Rant is proud to present the first official trailer and poster for producer Lucas A. Ferrara's new horror movie, Children of the Pines. Serving as Joshua Morgan's feature directorial debut, the film follows college junior, Riley, who attempts to make amends with her parents over school break. Upon arriving home, she learns that Kathy and John are now friends with her ex-boyfriend, Gordon, and have been dabbling in the supernatural. Things grow increasingly odd when Riley meets a group of mysterious children who are taking up residence in the house.

With flashbacks offering insight into Kathy and John's recent whereabouts,...

Stars: Zita Bai, Boni Mata, Vas Provatakis, Helen Sun | Written by Zita Bai | Directed by Jesse Dvorak

If a movie’s description has ‘coming-of-age’ written in it, I will nearly always be giving it a watch. And as you’ve probably guessed, that was exactly what I read about Baby, Don’t Cry. The Fantasia website also mentioned John Hughes so I couldn’t not watch it.

But Baby, Don’t Cry is a very different kind of coming-of-age story. It’s both strange and fantastical, and gritty and harsh. Blending all kinds of emotions and styles into one twisted story. Written by its lead actor Zita Bai who plays Baby, a seventeen year old girl living on the outskirts of Seattle. The Chinese immigrant has a difficult home life and meets ‘Fox’, a twenty year old whose life is just as pained as hers. They start a relationship that...

Baby (Zita Bai) is a seventeen-year-old Chinese immigrant surviving on the fringes of her community. She’s a voyeur—always with camera on to capture the dialogue and actions of others so she can better mimic how to act and “fit in.” That she also photographs animal carcasses and death with excitement might make that sort of assimilation tough, but she’s not really interested in those that would dismiss such a thing without context. It’s not until she meets Fox (Vas Provatakis) that Baby finally sees someone worth the effort to let the full breadth of her eccentricity become visible. He’s a drug dealer who parties hard, has zero respect for anyone around him, yet finds himself enamored by her singular mystique.

Director Jesse Dvorak says he wanted to bring his coming-of-age filmmaking sensibilities to the unique immigrant experience written by Bai herself. And that goal does...

Scripted, acted and designed by Chinese immigrant Zita Bai, “Baby, Don’t Cry” is a different coming-of-age film that focuses on the marginalized of Seattle, without necessarily providing a message of hope, in an approach that allows it to stand as far out from the plethora of sugar-coated, romantic teenage films as possible.

“Baby Don’t Cry” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival

Baby is a 17-year-old Chinese immigrant who dreams of becoming a filmmaker one day and moving to Los Angeles. However, her life is not exactly paving her way, since she is completely marginalized in school, her mother seems to suffer from some sort of mental illness, which frequently makes her abusive towards her daughter, while she also has to clean houses in order to make a living. Her only solace is constantly recording with her phone everything she finds interesting, a fixation on dead things, and occasionally the world of dreams.

When Baby (Zita Bai) first meets Fox (Vas Provatakis), she knows that he has stolen her camera. She’s a delicately built 17-year-old schoolgirl. He’s a dropout, significantly bigger than her, used to a much rougher lifestyle. Nevertheless, she fights him. She may lack strength but she has no shortage of courage or fierceness. She wins his respect and makes it clear to viewers that no matter how it may look on the surface, her life has not been an easy one.

Characters like Baby are rarely seen on the big screen, and still more rarely in the foreground, driving the narrative. She’s a Chinese immigrant, still not wholly confident in English, and the camera is important to her because it provides her with a means of self expression. Fox, however, provides something different. The two embark on a passionate affair which brings her into contact with aspects of the world she.

Incorporating a universal and visceral human experience into a film’s story that also highlights the unique perspective of immigrants in their new country can often inspire a commanding emotional response from the audience. That’s certainly the case with the new romantic crime thriller, ‘Baby, Don’t Cry,’ which also gives an enthralling depth to the psychological […]

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Baby, Don't Cry

Baby (Zita Bai) is a Chinese immigrant with a troubled home life, living on the outskirts of Seattle. Fox (Vas Provatakis) is a young delinquent who steals from her only to be charmed by her fighting spirit. Their passionate affair turns everything upside down. Screening as part of 2021’s Fantasia International Film Festival, Baby, Don’t Cry! is a small but impactful film which presents an outsider’s view of US culture and charts a young woman’s sexual and spiritual journey into adulthood.

Zita, who wrote the film herself – it was directed by Jesse Dvorak – agreed to meet shortly before the festival to talk about the film. Her co-star Vas and producer Qiyu Zhou joined us, and I began by asking Zita about the roots of the story.

“I think that goes back to a lot of how I was growing up in America as an immigrant,...

Hot on the heels of today's final wave announcement for Fantasia we have an exclusive clip to share with you from one of those films, the crime thriller Baby Don't Cry. Check it out down below, with a small selection of stills as well.    Baby, a withdrawn and sensitive 17-year-old Chinese immigrant from a troubled home, is living in the outskirts of Seattle. One day, she meets a 20-year-old delinquent named Fox. Together they embark on a twisted journey to escape their hopeless fate.   Jesse Dvorak directs a script by actress and filmmaker Zita Bai, who produced with Zeron Zhao and Qiyu Zhou, and stars in the film alongside Vas Provatakis.   Baby Don't Cry will have its world premiere during the Fantasia...

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