Welcome to Found Frights, a monthly column in which Ari Drew highlights new, underrated, and underseen found footage movies for those of us who can’t get enough of this horror subgenre that just won’t die.
One thing that I’ve always loved about following and covering independent horror films is the prospect of discovering projects and talent that make me feel excited about the genre all over again. Despite its reputation over the years as a low-effort gateway to genre filmmaking, found footage films and those in its family of subgenres have often been able to spark that unique sense of giddiness in me when executed with care. At their best, they’re an impressive showcase of ingenuity, novel filmmaking approaches, and impassioned collaboration–often born of necessity due to the limited budgets most of these projects have to work with throughout production. At their worst, well… the...
One thing that I’ve always loved about following and covering independent horror films is the prospect of discovering projects and talent that make me feel excited about the genre all over again. Despite its reputation over the years as a low-effort gateway to genre filmmaking, found footage films and those in its family of subgenres have often been able to spark that unique sense of giddiness in me when executed with care. At their best, they’re an impressive showcase of ingenuity, novel filmmaking approaches, and impassioned collaboration–often born of necessity due to the limited budgets most of these projects have to work with throughout production. At their worst, well… the...
- 12/4/2024
- by Ari Drew
- bloody-disgusting.com
Available on October 11th from Welcome Villain Films, we have an exclusive look at Jack Dignan's Puzzle Box. "While documenting her drug addict sister Kait’s self-rehabilitation in a remote house in the woods, Olivia discovers a strange woman is in the house with them."
"Puzzle Box follows recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house's layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house."
Writer /Director: Jack Dignan Producer: Morgan Wright, Jack Dignan Cast: Kaityn Boye, Laneikka Denne, Cassandre Girard, Janelle McMenamin, Matias Klaver, Hazel Pompeani Genre: Horror Rating: Not Rated Distributor: Welcome Villain Films
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"Puzzle Box follows recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house's layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house."
Writer /Director: Jack Dignan Producer: Morgan Wright, Jack Dignan Cast: Kaityn Boye, Laneikka Denne, Cassandre Girard, Janelle McMenamin, Matias Klaver, Hazel Pompeani Genre: Horror Rating: Not Rated Distributor: Welcome Villain Films
The post Watch an Exclusive Clip from Puzzle Box appeared first on Daily Dead.
- 10/9/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The genre label Welcome Villain Films is back with Puzzle Box, a new found footage nightmare that’s headed to VOD outlets at home this week.
You’ll be able to watch Puzzle Box at home beginning Friday, October 11.
Watch the official trailer below while you wait.
Writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror movie centers on recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate.
“Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”
The Unnamed Footage Festival previewed, “Newcomer Jack Dignan’s direction and extremely clever editing take an otherwise unspectacular location and turn it into a labyrinthine hell, which is further elevated by Kaitlyn Boyé’s amazing performance, creating a piece...
You’ll be able to watch Puzzle Box at home beginning Friday, October 11.
Watch the official trailer below while you wait.
Writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror movie centers on recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate.
“Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”
The Unnamed Footage Festival previewed, “Newcomer Jack Dignan’s direction and extremely clever editing take an otherwise unspectacular location and turn it into a labyrinthine hell, which is further elevated by Kaitlyn Boyé’s amazing performance, creating a piece...
- 10/7/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
In the wake of genre label Welcome Villain Films picking up the yoga horror movie Mind Body Spirit, the label has also just acquired another found footage movie, Variety reports.
Writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror movie Puzzle Box is coming to Unnamed Footage Festival this month, and it has found a home at Welcome Villain Films.
A release is planned for later this year. Stay tuned for a date.
The upcoming Puzzle Box centers on “recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”
The Unnamed Footage Festival previews, “Newcomer Jack Dignan’s direction and extremely clever editing take an otherwise unspectacular location...
Writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror movie Puzzle Box is coming to Unnamed Footage Festival this month, and it has found a home at Welcome Villain Films.
A release is planned for later this year. Stay tuned for a date.
The upcoming Puzzle Box centers on “recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”
The Unnamed Footage Festival previews, “Newcomer Jack Dignan’s direction and extremely clever editing take an otherwise unspectacular location...
- 3/25/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Australian horror film Psychosis aims to bring psychedelic, violent madness to Popcorn Frights Film Festival next month, and Bloody Disgusting has been provided with exclusive images and a clip that highlights the hyper-stylized feature.
Popcorn Frights describes the film, “Stylishly gloomy tour-de-force of grainy high-contrast black-and-white photography, Psychosis offers a polarizing whirl of arresting visuals and noirish action set in a hypnotic, mystifying world. In this audacious and dramatically gripping Lynchian thriller, a criminal fixer’s unique psychological condition gives him an edge in the underworld, but when he’s hired by two amateur drug dealers claiming they were attacked by “zombies,” he suddenly finds himself dragged into a terrifying and bizarre mystery that will force him to relive the traumatic past he thought he escaped.”
The exclusive clip below introduces the grainy monochrome style and aspect ratio, teasing a psychological horror story ahead. If you scroll further, however, you...
Popcorn Frights describes the film, “Stylishly gloomy tour-de-force of grainy high-contrast black-and-white photography, Psychosis offers a polarizing whirl of arresting visuals and noirish action set in a hypnotic, mystifying world. In this audacious and dramatically gripping Lynchian thriller, a criminal fixer’s unique psychological condition gives him an edge in the underworld, but when he’s hired by two amateur drug dealers claiming they were attacked by “zombies,” he suddenly finds himself dragged into a terrifying and bizarre mystery that will force him to relive the traumatic past he thought he escaped.”
The exclusive clip below introduces the grainy monochrome style and aspect ratio, teasing a psychological horror story ahead. If you scroll further, however, you...
- 7/5/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
A few weeks ago, we shared a trailer for the Australian horror movie After She Died, which will be getting a VOD release (courtesy of Cranked Up Films) this Friday, September 30th. The film will be available to watch on iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play/YouTube Movies, and Vudu. With the release now just one day away, we’ve gotten our hands on a new trailer for After She Died – and you can check it out in the embed above!
Written and directed by visual effects artist Jack Dignan, who has made his feature directorial debut with this film, After She Died has the following synopsis:
Jen’s mother is dead. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind the small town they once called home. Jen is, in every sense of the word,...
Written and directed by visual effects artist Jack Dignan, who has made his feature directorial debut with this film, After She Died has the following synopsis:
Jen’s mother is dead. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind the small town they once called home. Jen is, in every sense of the word,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Cranked Up Films will be giving the Australian horror movie After She Died a VOD release on September 30th, at which time the film will be available to watch on iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play/YouTube Movies, and Vudu. With the release date just a few weeks away, a trailer for After She Died has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
Written and directed by visual effects artist Jack Dignan, who has made his feature directorial debut with this film, After She Died has the following synopsis:
Jen’s mother is dead. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind the small town they once called home. Jen is, in every sense of the word, alone. That is until John introduces Jen to his new girlfriend,...
Written and directed by visual effects artist Jack Dignan, who has made his feature directorial debut with this film, After She Died has the following synopsis:
Jen’s mother is dead. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind the small town they once called home. Jen is, in every sense of the word, alone. That is until John introduces Jen to his new girlfriend,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Cranked Up Films will be releasing the horror movie After She Died this Halloween season, a supernatural haunter from writer/director/visual effects artist Jack Dignan.
Dignan, who worked on the visual effects for this year’s major Hollywood movies Thor: Love and Thunder and Elvis, makes his feature directorial debut with After She Died.
The film comes to On Demand outlets on September 30, 2022.
In After She Died, “Jen’s mother is dead. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind the small town they once called home. Jen is, in every sense of the word, alone.
“That is until John introduces Jen to his new girlfriend, Florence… a woman who looks and sounds identical to Jen’s dead mother.”
Watch the official trailer for After She Died below, being debuted by Bd today.
Dignan, who worked on the visual effects for this year’s major Hollywood movies Thor: Love and Thunder and Elvis, makes his feature directorial debut with After She Died.
The film comes to On Demand outlets on September 30, 2022.
In After She Died, “Jen’s mother is dead. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind the small town they once called home. Jen is, in every sense of the word, alone.
“That is until John introduces Jen to his new girlfriend, Florence… a woman who looks and sounds identical to Jen’s dead mother.”
Watch the official trailer for After She Died below, being debuted by Bd today.
- 9/6/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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