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Oscar-winning Ukraine-Russia war documentary 20 Days in Mariupol from Frontline, PBS and The AP, took home awards in two categories at The Grierson Trust’s 2024 British Documentary Awards on Wednesday night.

In association with All3Media, the ceremony took place at London’s Roundhouse arts and music venue, where Channel 4 took home the highest number of prizes with five, followed by the BBC with three and Netflix with two.

Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol, which won the Academy Award for best documentary earlier this year, earned the best current affairs documentary and best cinema documentary awards Wednesday. Me and the Voice in My Head, produced by Hungry Bear Media for Channel 4 won the best single documentary – Domestic award, with Joe Tracini winning the best documentary presenter.

This year’s award winners spanned a wide range of subjects with powerful documentaries on the war in Ukraine, a Turkish singer...

Update — September 17, 07:30 Am: A 26-year-old man has been charged with murdering the wife and two daughters of BBC commentator John Hunt.

Kyle Clifford from Enfield, North London, appeared this morning at Westminster Magistrates’ Court where he was remanded into custody. Clifford was also charged with false imprisonment and two counts of possession of offensive weapons.

Clifford is accused of murdering Carol Hunt and her daughters Louise and Hannah in a crossbow attack at their home in Hertfordshire on July 9. The BBC reported this morning that the court was told that Louise and Hannah had been shot with a crossbow and their mother Carol had been stabbed with a knife and suffered multiple injuries.

A trial date has yet to be set.

Previous, July 10, 10:36 Am: A man wanted in the killings of the wife and two daughters of BBC commentator John Hunt has been found in North London, police confirmed.

Plot: A young man struggling with a broken heart learns that his new place is full of restless spirits.

Review: Breakups are tough and have been the fodder for movie plots since the dawn of celluloid. Yet there’s something about Sorry About The Demon that feels very unique. Probably the way it takes the feeling of a breakup and twists the knife with humor. Because imagine going through a bad breakup and being so in the dumps that even the demon that inhabits the house you’re renting doesn’t want your soul. You can see where the laughs are aplenty.

Sorry About The Demon opens with a family being haunted by a demon. They’re told that the demon won’t leave unless they sacrifice someone. Their solution is to have a friendless loser move into the house. This immediately won me because it’s such a ridiculous...

It’s wild how many new horror movies have already released here in the early days of 2023, and this week brings a whopping Ten more to the table between now and this coming Friday.

In fact, since we’re getting this article up a day late – my apologies! – four of the movies on this list are already available for you to watch at your leisure from the comfort of home.

Here’s all the new horror releasing January 17-January 20, 2023!

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

Blumhouse has joined forces with Epix to “develop and produce eight elevated, standalone horror/genre-thriller movies exclusively for the network,” and up next from that collaboration is There’s Something Wrong With the Children, directed by Roxanne Benjamin (V/H/S, Southbound). The film was put up for rental on VOD and Digital outlets on Tuesday.

The cast for There’s Something Wrong With the Children...

"The internet has a lot of great tips about how to exorcise demons!" Shudder has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror comedy called Sorry About the Demon, arriving for streaming on Shudder later this month. This originally premiered last year at FrightFest, and stopped by a few genre fests. It's the latest feature from Austin, TX based filmmaker Emily Hagins, known for her other indie films My Sucky Teen Romance, Grow Up Tony Phillips, & Coin Heist. "What's worse than getting dumped?" For Will, it's finding out that his new place is haunted. Now faced with a quarter-life crisis and a house full of spirits, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend And banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house. The film stars Jon Michael Simpson as Will, and Paige Evans as his ex, along with Jeff McQuitty, Olivia Ducayen, Dave Peniuk, and Sarah Cleveland.

Emily Hagins (Pathogen, My Sucky Teen Romance, Scare Package) has been making horror movies since she was just 12 years old, and she’s back this year with a brand new one.

Horror-comedy Sorry About the Demon premieres exclusively on Shudder on January 19, and Deadline has debuted the film’s official trailer today. Find it down below.

What’s worse than getting dumped? For Will, it’s finding out that his new place is haunted…

Now faced with a quarter-life crisis and a house full of spirits, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend And banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house.

Jon Michael Simpson, Olivia Ducayen, Paige Evans, Jeff McQuitty and Presley Allard star. Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead and Cameron Burns produce for Paper Street Pictures.

“Working with Emily on Scare Package was such an eye-opening experience,” said Paper Street CEO Aaron B.

Exclusive: Deadline has an exclusive trailer and poster for the horror-comedy Sorry About the Demon, written and directed by Emily Hagins (V/H/S), which is slated to premiere on Shudder on January 19.

The film world premiering at FrightFest 2022 follows the brokenhearted Will (Jon Michael Simpson), who after being dumped by his girlfriend Amy (Paige Evans), is offered a massive house at a very low rent. The catch is that the restless spirit haunting the place needs a human sacrifice and the prior owners must find one or else their young daughter is toast. So, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend And banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house. Jeff McQuitty and Sarah Cleveland also star.

Pic is produced by Cameron Burns, Emily Gotto, Ben Hanks, Aaron B. Koontz, Pasha Patriki and Ashleigh Snead. Exec producers are Craig Engler, James Fler, Andrew Thomas Hunt,...

Exclusive: Buffalo 8 has set a November 4 release date on Prime Video for James Hemings: Ghost In America’s Kitchen. The historical documentary follows the profound life of James Hemings, the first American to train as a chef in France, who at 8 years old was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.

If you’ve ever eaten macaroni and cheese, French fries, crème brulée or ice cream you’ve enjoyed the contributions of Hemings, an older brother of Sally Hemings, who gave birth to six of Thomas Jefferson’s children. He also was a half-sibling of Jefferson’s wife Martha Jefferson, with whom he shared John Wayles as father.

When Jefferson was appointed Minister to France he selected, among others, Hemings to accompany him to Paris. There he trained to be a French chef and, in an era where enslaved people were purposefully kept illiterate, Chef Hemings learned to read, write and speak both English and French.

“What if Amityville was a zany ’00s sitcom?” seems to be the concept underpinning Emily Hagins’ Shudder-backed latest. A demon-driven comedy of errors that pits a Pazuzu-style haunting against a corny How I Met Your Mother-esque relationship drama, and somehow expects the two to gel together. Naturally, they don’t. But while there is a lot of messy plotting and frustratingly broad humour here, there’s also a quiet charm to just how completely earnest the whole thing is.

Namely cute and cuddly leading man Will (Jon Michael Simpson), your classic sad-sack loser who after getting dumped by his girlfriend of five years, sleepwalks into the middle of a completely ridiculous situation – renting a suspiciously cheap and very obviously haunted house from a skeezy looking married couple. It’s a Homer Simpson move; a decision so glaringly stupid it’s almost enraging to watch, but one that’s made with such dough-eyed naivety,...

Stars: Nicholas Saenz, Brea Grant, Dave Buckman, Jon Michael Simpson, Adriana Guerra | Written by Ron Maede | Directed by Matt Patterson

Marco spends his days applying for jobs online and waiting for Dana, his pregnant girlfriend, to get home. Strange post-it notes mysteriously appear around the apartment with cryptic warnings. A mechanic texts and calls him with menacing messages from an old non-functioning cell phone. The walls close in and tensions build between Marco and Dana’s relationship until all sense of safety dwindles as the lines between imagined and reality blur for both Marco and the audience. When Marco discovers the root of it all, his real problems begin.

I jokingly thought to myself, in the early going of Apartment 413, that a really daft reason for what’s happening to Marco would be that black mould in the air conditioning unit Marco loves to stand in front of was driving...

Exclusive: Shudder and Paper Street Pictures have reteamed with writer-director Emily Hagins on horror-comedy, Sorry About the Demon, which will hit the former streaming service in the U.S., the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 2022.

The Shudder Original Film, which recently wrapped production, centers on a young man struggling with a broken heart who has just learned his new place is full of restless spirits.

Jon Michael Simpson, Olivia Ducayen, Paige Evans, Jeff McQuitty and Presley Allard star in the pic, produced by Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead and Cameron Burns of Paper Street Pictures, Ben Hanks, Pasha Patriki and Shudder’s Emily Gotto.

Sorry About the Demon marks the second collaboration between Shudder, Paper Street and Hagins. They first partnered on Scare Package, a 2020 horror-comedy pic, for which Hagins helmed opening segment, Cold Open.

“Working with Emily on Scare Package was such an eye-opening experience,” said Paper Street CEO Aaron B.

"There's a tiny home on the line, let's not play around." Gravitas Ventures has debuted an official US trailer for an indie comedy called The Tiny Life of Butcher Duke, made by filmmaker Mike Apel, who writes, directs, produces, and stars in this. The film first premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival and Hill Country Film Festival back in 2019, and is finally getting a VOD release this spring. The Tiny Life of Butcher Duke is an indie comedy about retired tennis "legend" who attempts to win his life back by competing in a tennis rematch to win his very own tiny home. Aside from Apel as Duke, the cast includes Chad Werner, Emily Hiott, Jeff McQuitty, Jill Young, Emma Rappold, Jon Michael Simpson, Shane Pederson, and Gary Teague. This almost plays like a sports mockumentary, but also just looks like some kooky indie fun. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for...

Shudder’s upcoming Scare Package is a love-letter to genre obsessions inked in blood by horror-loving filmmakers. Any anthology comes with ups and downs, but thankfully the “ups” here swing bigger than expected. Seven directors submit a collection of meta-spoofy spooks which share a collective heart that is forever in the right place. The bigger the horror fan, the harder the jokes land as recognizable structures or archetypes are roasted over an open flame. Sometimes to a charred, smokey Texas flavor that is worth drool-dribble reactions, other times overdone and burned to a bitter aftertaste that’s easier to forget.

So, let’s talk “package.”

Together, shorts double as old-school bites of horror nostalgia that populate a VHS rental joint owned by the film’s Randy Meeks replicant. As a new employee learns the ropes, titles are “explained” by either “Rad” Chad (Jeremy King), regular horror-bro customer Sam (Byron Brown...

"What would happen in a horror movie now?" Paper Street Pictures has debuted the first official trailer for an indie horror anthology film titled Scare Package. This premiered at the Sitges Film Festival last year, and also played at the Telluride Horror Show and FrightFest London. This new horror-comedy anthology with seven different stories "brings together some of the brightest rising stars in horror filmmaking today. This splatter-packed, deviously clever throwback pays homage to horror classics with seven hilarious, meta tales of terror, each exploring—and subverting—different genre tropes. All wrapped around every horror fan's beloved stomping grounds: an old school video store." Starring Noah Segan, Baron Vaughn, Chase Williamson, Jocelyn DeBoer, Jeremy King, Dustin Rhodes, Zoe Graham, Hawn Tran, Chelsey Grant, Jon Michael Simpson, Josephine McAdam, and more. Looks like some crazy good fun! Enjoy. Here's the official trailer (+ rad poster) for Paper Street Pictures' Scare Package, direct from YouTube: Seven directors.