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Stars: Sam Roulston, Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Alexander Oliver, Timothy Paul McCarthy | Written and Directed by Chris Nash

In a Violent Nature begins with a conversation between two unseen men as they walk through a deserted and crumbling shack in the forest. One of them takes a locket they find there, and that’s when the trouble starts. A hulking, Jason Voorhees-like figure emerges from the ground and begins to trudge after them. Seemingly confused by the sound of automobiles in the distance, the silent figure stops as if to ponder the rotting corpse of an animal caught in a steel trap, fittingly his first victim will be the poacher who set them after he catches himself in one.

Sitting around a campfire that night, Ehren tells his friends the story of a young boy named Johnny who...

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Boiling Point, 10.40pm, BBC1, Monday, September 25

Chefs are famously short tempered and Philip Barantini’s 2020 potboiler will help you to understand why, as it follows – purportedly in a single take – the frantic behind-the-scenes action in a high end restaurant which is overbooked, understaffed and all out of time for apologies. With an unhappy inspector sneaking around the kitchen and an important food critic amongst the diners – accompanied by a famous TV cook who just happens to be the head chef’s old mentor – there is no room for anything to go wrong. Stephen Graham is on fine form in the lead, striking a careful balance between charisma and necessary aggression, actor and character both fully focused throughout. The effect is like watching a car chase where you know the stunts are all being done for real.

Lifechanger, 9.00pm, Horror channel Horror Xtra, Tuesday, September 26

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Last week, a bunch of high-ranking military officials went before the US Congress and admitted that the government has been aware of the existence of aliens and that remains of extraterrestrials had been recovered from UFO crash sites. But the public at large was relatively unphased by this news because we're already so wrapped up in our own problems. How much more shocking can an alien invasion be to say, a global pandemic or a climate crisis?

Seeing The Becomers at the Fantasia Film Festival reflected this mood. The sci-fi rom-com indie satire drops a pair of aliens into a distracted and troubled world much like our own. It was written and directed by Zach Clark (Little Sister) in the early days of Covid-19, joining the leagues of post-pandemic flicks like Sick and Corona Zombies.

“…the film has an unworldly feeling to it…”

In The Becomers, an alien has landed on earth,...

In case you missed it, Indiecan Entertainment announced that they were launching a genre label here in Canada called Red Water Entertainment. The goal is to bring more international genre cinema to audiences here in Canada. As international genre cinema has always been our focus this is very appealing to us here at ScreenAnarchy.    Indiecan Entertainment CEO Avi Federgreen is running the show and he already has five films on his slate with the intent on gathering more titles this week at Marche du Film in Cannes. Friend and filmmaker Justin McConnell will carry over his role at Indiecan as acquisitions and operations advisor into the new company.    Announcements for Cannes related acquisitions when the blood, we meant ink, ink,...

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Stars: Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch, Nick Smyth, Colin Paradine | Written by Craig David Wallace, Ian Malone | Directed by Craig David Wallace

[Note: With the film due out on DVD on May 3rd from The Horror Collective, here’s a reposing our our review of Motherly from its screening as part of 2021’s Frightfest]

In recent years there’s been a name associated with the horror genre that is guaranteed to get me excited… Lora Burke. From her absolutely amazing, captivating performance in Poor Agnes; to Justin McConnell’s 2018 sci-fi horror Lifechanger; to 2020’s amazing home invasion thriller For the Sake of Vicious, Burke has been one of the genres shining stars yet, for a lot of people, she’s something of an unknown. Hopefully Motherly, her Fourth stunning performance in a row, will change all that.

What makes Motherly all that more exciting is that it comes from the creator of one of Canada’s best TV shows ever, Todd...

Many modern films embrace 1980s nostalgia, but few embody the lo-fi aesthetic like Forgotten Trash. The shot-on-video sci-fi horror movie is available for digital download from Retro Video Pictures. Here’s the trailer:

A recent film school graduate stumbles across an alien in the woods who convinces him to help with an intergalactic television show. Little does he know that the extraterrestrial entertainment involves traveling from planet to planet and killing the inhabitants.

Forgotten Trash is written and directed by Brandon Espana, whose passion for filmmaking bleeds into the storyline along with social commentary regarding media consumption. Connor McDonald and Steve Kasan star.

Rather than adding digital effects, Espana shot the movie on a MiniDV camcorder then transferred it to VHS to capture the grainy visuals. It plays like a genuine relic rather than a pastiche of tongue-in-cheek nostalgia. “I wasn’t trying to make something self-referential,” Espana explains. “It...

Stars: Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch, Nick Smyth, Colin Paradine | Written by Craig David Wallace, Ian Malone | Directed by Craig David Wallace

In recent years there’s been a name associated with the horror genre that is guaranteed to get me excited… Lora Burke. From her absolutely amazing, captivating performance in Poor Agnes; to Justin McConnell’s 2018 sci-fi horror Lifechanger; to last years amazing home invasion thriller For the Sake of Vicious, Burke has been one of the genres shining stars yet, for a lot of people, she’s something of an unknown. Hopefully Motherly, her Fourth stunning performance in a row, will change all that.

What makes Motherly all that more exciting is that it comes from the creator of one of Canada’s best TV shows ever, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil... and it was co-written with one of the shows staff too!

Motherly tells...

Stars: Lora Burke, Colin Paradine, Nick Smyth, T.J. Kennedy, James Fler, Dorian Allen, Erin Stuart, Adam Ewings, Boris Milinkovich, Nick Spartan | Written by Reese Eveneshen | Directed by Gabriel Carrer, Reese Eveneshen

Actress Lora Burke has been on something of a roll when it comes to genre films – she was astonishing in 2017s Poor Agnes, amazing in 2018s Lifechanger and now she’s back with For the Sake of Vicious, a cross between a home invasion thriller and the John Carpenter classic Assault on Precinct 13.

Set on Halloween (when else?) For the Sake of Vicious opens with kindhearted nurse Romina (Lora Burke), after a long shift at the hospital, coming home and finding a hostage in her house! Chris (Nick Smyth) is demanding justice for a wrongdoing from his past, he’s angry, desperate, and has nothing left to lose. He’s owed a debt of blood and will not be...

Canadian director Justin McConnell has created a self-indulgent selfie-fest – I’d pass on his fantasy horror too

Justin McConnell is a Canadian indie director who has here created what amounts to a tiring and self-indulgent video diary of the last five years as he tries to get his passion project made (a fantasy horror called Lifechanger). It is interspersed with what feels like hundreds of thousands of interviews with beaming film people, some very famous (such as Paul Schrader and Guillermo Del Toro), some not so famous, but all giving us their well-meant platitudes about getting your films made by following your dream and realising that it’s all about storytelling.

Clapboard Jungle suffers from a weird mix of information overload and a lack of actual, usable information that might be of assistance to film-makers or of interest to film audiences. To an extraordinary degree, this film is packed with...

Featuring: Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Chad Archibald, Charles Band, Yazid Benfeghoul, Justin Benson, Zack Bernbaum and many more! | Directed by Justin McConnell

If you watch independent movies, listen to the podcasts about them and follow the people that make them on social media, then Clapboard Jungle is the movie for you. Directed by Justin McConnell he films his own story as an independent filmmaker and all of the struggles that go along with it. He shares five years of his life (2014-2019) but also interviews directors, writers, producers, festival organisers, distributors and much more,giving the viewer a kind of ‘survival guide’ for anybody already in or wanting to start in the industry.

Every talking head has something interesting to say from Guilermo del Toro to Heather Buckley to Mick Garris to Gigi Saul Guerrero to Mike Mendez and many many more. They each talk about their own experiences, what...

Grimmfest have today announced the launch of their Grimmfest Easter Edition, a new annual event taking place over the Easter Weekend, and complimenting the long-established festival in October.

Easter is traditionally a time for rebirth, renewal, resurrection. But as the Pandemic continues to rage, and the world remains on lockdown for the foreseeable future, it is also a time for rethinking. Thus, while the Grimmfest team had hoped to be hosting a ‘live’ Easter event, instead, the Grimmfest Easter Edition will be taking place online, and will build on the success of Grimmfest 2020 online experience.

The festival will open on Thursday April 1st with our preview night that will feature the UK premiere of Kourosh Ahari’s surreal and sulphurous Iranian American haunted hotel horror The Night, which has already earned deserved comparisons to Kubrick’s The Shining, alongside the UK premiere of Lluis Danes’ visually ravishing reimagining of the...

Craig David Wallace directed tale of imperilled woman and daughter in farmhouse.

Raven Banner has boarded worldwide sales on the genre-bending thriller Motherly and will launch talks with buyers at AFM 2020 Online this week.

Craig David Wallace directed the film starring Lora Burke as a woman who lives in a farmhouse with her daughter and suspects something sinister is going on.

Ian Malone wrote the screenplay, and the cast includes Kristen MacCulloch, Nick Smyth, Colin Paradine, and newcomer Tessa Kozma.

Raven Banner has also acquired worldwide rights to veteran stunt performer Kirk Caouette’s American Badger, about a hitman assigned...

Stars: Lora Burke, Colin Paradine, Nick Smyth, T.J. Kennedy, James Fler, Dorian Allen, Erin Stuart, Adam Ewings, Boris Milinkovich, Nick Spartan | Written by Reese Eveneshen | Directed by Gabriel Carrer, Reese Eveneshen

Actress Lora Burke has been on something of a roll when it comes to genre films – she was astonishing in 2017s Poor Agnes, amazing in 2018s Lifechanger and now she’s back with For the Sake of Vicious, a cross between a home invasion thriller and the John Carpenter classic Assault on Precinct 13.

Set on Halloween (when else?) For the Sake of Vicious opens with kindhearted nurse Romina (Lora Burke), after a long shift at the hospital, coming home and finding a hostage in her house! Chris (Nick Smyth) is demanding justice for a wrongdoing from his past, he’s angry, desperate, and has nothing left to lose. He’s owed a debt of blood and will not be...

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving The Independent Film Business

A couple of years ago, Justin McConnell took his highly distinctive horror film, Lifechanger, to Fantasia - we spoke to star Lora Burke about it. This year he’s back with a very different film – Clapboard Jungle, which is also set to screen at Frightfest. It’s a documentary about the film industry which loosely follows his journey in making and promoting Lifechanger, with lots of good advice for people at the start of their own filmmaking careers and an astounding number of big name interviewees, from Guillermo Del Toro to George Romero, Michael Biehn, Lloyd Kaufman and Fantasia’s own Mitch Davis. Shortly before all the chaos of the festival began, he and I connected and I asked him how much the film stemmed from his journey with Lifechanger or if it was a project he had felt drawn to separately from that.

If you know anything about the independent film world, it won’t be surprising to discover the project writer/director Justin McConnell is hoping to get off the ground at the start of Clapboard Jungle isn’t going to be much further along in its pre-production process four years later. That’s the nature of the beast. You’re going to have moments of elation when it appears that funds have come through and the inevitable spiral downward when those plans evaporate. You’re going to hit your head against a wall to draw blood from that stone until you realize stagnation isn’t doing anyone any favors when you have other ideas that may bear fruit quicker. Guess what, though? The next one probably won’t get made before the end of this journey either.

To see that adversity first-hand is what drives McConnell’s documentary about the industry...

Canadian indie filmmaker Justin McConnell (Lifechanger) has been in the game for a good deal of his life, either by providing technical services, programming his Little Terrors short film series in Toronto, or by being behind the camera. It's the latter that McConnell's new documentary, Clapboard Jungle, investigates. Specificially, Clapboard Jungle asks, "what does it take to make an independent genre film? Is it worth the blood, sweat, tears, and agony of getting that elusive budget to make a film?" If you're Canadian, you can watch Clapboard Jungle via Fantasia and find out. McConnell got genre luminaries such as Guillermo del Toro, Larry Coehn, Paul Schrader, Larry Fessenden, Barbara Crampton, Mick Garris, and many more to speak more on what it takes --- in between five years of McConnell's own...

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Featuring: Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Chad Archibald, Charles Band, Yazid Benfeghoul, Justin Benson, Zack Bernbaum ana many more! | Directed by Justin McConnell

If you watch independent movies, listen to the podcasts about them and follow the people that make them on social media, then Clapboard Jungle is the movie for you.

Directed by Justin McConnell he films his own story as an independent filmmaker and all of the struggles that go along with it. He shares five years of his life (2014-2019) but also interviews directors, writers, producers, festival organisers, distributors and much more,giving the viewer a kind of ‘survival guide’ for anybody already in or wanting to start in the industry.

Every talking head has something interesting to say from Guilermo del Toro to Heather Buckley to Mick Garris to Gigi Saul Guerrero to Mike Mendez and many many more. They each talk about their own experiences, what...

Production began this week, here in Toronto, on a new thriller called Daughters from Craig David Wallace. This will be the sophomore feature film from the co-creator and showrunner of the series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, though we get the sense that Daughters is a different ball of wax. It follows a single mother stalked by a vengeful couple who believe she’s responsible for their daughter’s murder. Daughters stars Lora Burke, Kristen MacCulloch (The Vault and upcoming Psycho Goreman), Nick Smyth, and Colin Paradine. It will be the debut of Tessa Kozma. Daughters is being produced by a number of friends...

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Laura Tremblay stars in the spine-chilling Drowning, a “wonderful twisted story”* from filmmaker Pasquale Marco Veltri available Feb 25 On Demand. Anna is a prostitute who has been abused, exploited and manipulated since childhood. Disconnected from her emotions and the sympathetic people around her, Anna accepts that she must take control of …

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Our friends at Indiecan Entertainment will be releasing Pasquale Marco Veltri's Canadian thriller Drowning on VOD here in North America on February 25th. A new trailer has been released, which you can watch below. Laura Tremblay stars in the spine-chilling Drowning, a “wonderful twisted story”* from filmmaker Pasquale Marco Veltri available Feb 25 from Indiecan Entertainment. Anna is a prostitute who has been abused, exploited and manipulated since childhood. Disconnected from her emotions and the sympathetic people around her, Anna accepts that she must take control of her own life, empower herself and learn to live her life on her own terms. Returning to the place where her nightmare began, her childhood home, Anna faces off against her enablers,...

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In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with writer/director Justin McConnell about his 5 Great British Horror Films, which include:

Peeping Tom (1960) The Company Of Wolves (1984) Hellraiser (1987) Ghostwatch (1992) Triangle (2009)

Following the success of his film Lifechanger, Justin has recently teamed up with Serena Whitney to create the Christmas horror Do You See What I See?, one of eight titles announced by the newly formed Grimmfest Films. Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones, directors of Manchester-based UK genre film festival Grimmfest, launched their new production company called Grimmfest Films on 10 May 2019.

Lifechanger is out now via Frightfest Presents.

Canadian filmmaker Justin McConnell's latest feature, Lifechanger, is a fascinating and engaging piece of science fiction/horror that succeeds far beyond its limited means in delivering an unusual experience for film fans looking for some brains with their body horror. The story of a being named Drew who believes he can live forever by draining the life from host after host, taking the lifeforce from unwitting victims, is an examination of our most base drive for survival. We begin with Drew having just taken over the body of a young woman, leaving her corporeal self a dried up husk after "he" takes her body, memories, and senses for his own, fending off the eventual rot that sets in when he stays in the same body for...

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With March in full swing, we have another big batch of horror headed home this week that genre fans should keep an eye out for, including one of my most anticipated releases of the month: Scream Factory’s Collector’s Edition of The Craft (so excited to call the corners with this new Blu-ray!). Beyond that, we have even more great titles to get excited about, including the criminally underseen Kolobos from Arrow Video, Man’s Best Friend, featuring one of my favorites—Ally Sheedy—and Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing, which features some brilliant performances from the likes of Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for March 12th include Garden Party Massacre, She Wolf, The Greasy Strangler: Special Director’s Edition, Lifechanger, Silk Scream, and The Wild Pussycat.

The Craft: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

Sarah has always been different. So as the newcomer at St.

Today marks the North American release of Justin McConnell’s body horror film Lifechanger (Uncork’d Entertainment for Us and Raven Banner for Canada) and we’re here to celebrate the shapeshifting terror with an exclusive clip! Featuring a long, one-shot take, the clip follows a man who is clearly in a state of pain as he narrates […] The post Exclusive Lifechanger Clip Has to Find Someone appeared first on Dread Central.

A deadly shapeshifter takes what it means to be human away from his victims in the new movie Lifechanger, and with the new horror thriller coming out soon in the Us from Uncork'd Entertainment and in Canada from Raven Banner, Daily Dead caught up with writer/director Justin McConnell for our latest Q&A feature to discuss the movie's inception in 2014, the cinematic influences pulsating in the movie's DNA, and the massive practical effects scene that took the combined efforts of 10 people to pull off.

Thanks for taking the time to catch up with us, and congratulations on your latest film, Lifechanger. When and how did you originally come up with the idea for this movie?

Justin McConnell: In 2014 I was getting frustrated with not being able to get a couple of larger films—The Eternal and Tripped—made. So I started brainstorming an idea that could be done on a very limited budget.

An antihero is a villain who nonetheless elicits sympathy and/or empathy; a ne’er-do-well whose inner humanity bubbles to the surface. In Lifechanger, the audience sees the world from the perspective of a shapeshifter, one who kills regularly as a matter of survival. While it would be easy to immediately loathe such a monster, the trailer […] The post Trailer for Lifechanger Proves Love Can Be Tough for a Shapeshifter appeared first on Dread Central.

"In the quiet moments, my thoughts always turn to her." Uncork'd Entertainment has debuted a new trailer for an intriguing horror thriller titled Lifechanger, from Canadian filmmaker Justin McConnell. The film premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival earlier this year, and it's described as a horror thriller about a "murderous shapeshifter [who] sets out on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves." Though a different description says that he's "not so much a shapeshifter as a body thief", moving from body to body until it decomposes too much. The film stars Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Elitsa Bako, Rachel VanDuzer, Steve Kasan, Sam White, Peter Higginson, and Bill Oberst Jr. as the voice of Drew. This looks crazy gnarly, especially all the body switches and gore. Here's the new red band trailer (+ poster) for Justin McConnell's Lifechanger, direct from YouTube: And here's the original first trailer for Justin McConnell's Lifechanger,...

It’s the most, wonderful time, of the year. In two weeks I will be returning to my happy place, Cdmx, for the 2018 edition of the Morbido Film Fest. As always mi Familia de Morbido have put together a top notch program this year. I look forward to seeing who will win the battle of the Giallo projects, the Onetti Brothers’ Abrakadabra or Mirada de cristal from Ezequiel Endelman y Leandro Montejano who will be at the festival this year. I also look forward to discovering and giving focus to the other IberoAmerican films during the festival. International titles coming to Cdmx include Lifechanger, The Ranger, the amazing One Cut of the Dead, Mandy, Starfish, Cam, Luz, Violence Voyager and the sensually dangerous...

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Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...

Toronto After Dark have announced the final films on this year's roster. Leading the pack is the Canadian Premiere of Julius Avery's WWII horror flick Overlord.    There is also an impressive amount of Canadian films in this back half. Justin McConnell's Lifechanger, Chad Archibald's I'll Take Your Dead, the World Premiere of Ray Xue's Extracurricular and Corey Stanton's Robbery are all local films made by local people.    Justin P. Lange's debut feature film The Dark is coming to town. The closing gala this year will be Brett Simmons' You Might Be The Killer. And returning to Toronto one more time is Sato Shinsuke's tremendous zombie flick I Am A Hero.    All the film write up follow...   Overlord (USA) Canadian Premiere Director...

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Stars: Elitsa Bako, Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Sam James White, Steve Kasan, Bill Oberst Jr., Rachel Vanduzer | Written and Directed by Justin McConnell

Lifechanger is a Canadian film. You might not think Canada is best known for its horror movies but it’s delivered some very good ones and some very important ones. From Black Christmas to Cube to Backcountry to Prom Night, it’s a list that could go on and on.

The basic story here, like many movies, is at the surface, very simple. A ‘being’, not really human moves from body to body of its victims. It believes it has to kill to stay alive and these deaths become very frequent as the host body deteriorates. But entwined with this is a love story that has lasted beyond each human body. Okay, they may have sounded a little bit complicated but this is a surprisingly easy film to follow.

In the first of his annual Frightfest interviews, host Stuart Wright talks Lifechanger with the writer/director Justin McConnell.

Catch it at Arrow Video Frightfest

23rd to 27th August 2018

Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7Na.

Programme and tickets are available at

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2018Films/frightfest-schedule-2018.html

www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html

Justin is also CEO of Unstable Ground, Programmer at Toronto After Dark and distribution consultant

Follow him on twitter @unstableground for chit chat and other film related news.

Lora Burke and Jack Foley in Lifechanger Photo: Fantasia Film Festival

Some films are more satisfying the less you know about what happens in them. After writing a very careful review of Lifechanger, which premièred at this year’s Fantasia film festival, I caught up with star Lora Burke for an equally careful chat. It was a year since we’d last spoken, when she’d recently completed work on Poor Agnes with Robert Notman, and she’d spoken briefly about this project then. I put it to her that one of the curious things about it is that she gets the most screentime even though she’s not the main character.

“Yeah,” she says. “We don’t really see Drew all that much, we hear from him. You know what? It was very much an ensemble piece. It was a big cast. I think it equally fell upon everyone’s shoulders.

Director and writer Justin McConnell presents the horror thriller Lifechanger, a film with equal layers of desire and destruction. We talk to McConnell about what to expect from his film, his love for the genre and how a bus trip can turn into a nightmare! Synopsis: A murderous shapeshifter sets out on a blood-soaked mission to […]

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To take Justin McConnell’s horror film Lifechanger at face value is a mistake. You won’t understand this truth right away, though, because it starts out being exactly what you thought. Emily Roberts (Elitsa Bako) awakens covered in blood next to an emaciated corpse as a man’s (Bill Oberst Jr.) voiceover is heard explaining the strange circumstances onscreen. He’s the character we’re seeing before us—a shape-shifter of sorts who must “take” the body (and memories) of another once his latest vessel succumbs to its slowly spreading rash of necrotic tissue. And he’s been doing it for God knows how long, each sojourn through the eyes of a stranger growing shorter as time carries him beyond old age. The need for metamorphosis has now become too abbreviated to sustain.

The first act is therefore rife with turnover as bodies start piling up when necessity renders safety obsolete.

Welcome to the latest installment of the Nerdly poster round-up, where we bring you up to speed on some of the best (and worst) movie posters to have hit the interwebs in recent weeks. This special edition focuses on just some of the years most anticipated genre films which are screening at Frightfest in London this August, including: Bad Samaritan, The Devil’s Doorway, Lifechanger, Dead Night, Our House, The Man Who Killed Hitler Then The Bigfoot, Heretiks, Mega Time Squad, Black Site, The Ranger and Frankenstein’s Creature and more!

Halloween

The full Arrow Video Frightfest guest list was announced today, including big names like Barabara Crampton and Fabio Frizzi and popular TV stars like Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson. Director Jenn Wexler and star Chloë Levine will be there to discuss opening film The Ranger, and attendees can also look forward to meeting the formidable Mexican Issa Lopez, who not only directed the highly acclaimed Tigers Are Not Afraid but braved the Beast from the East to accompany the Frightfest contingent to the Glasgow Film Festival earlier this year.

Imitation Girl's Lauren Ashley Carter and White Chamber's Paul Aviary and Shauna McDonald will also be present, along with François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell for the eagerly awaited Summer Of 84. Aislinn Clark will introduce The Devil's Doorway and Justin McConnell will talk about his new film Lifechanger - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The Fantasia International Film Festival is all set to return to Concordia University, The Cinémathèque Québécoise, and The McCord Museum for the 22nd edition of the festival, which takes place from July 12st to August 1st 2018 and marks the start of a Huge two month festival of genre film that, fingers crossed, we’ll be bringing you coverage of here on Nerdly. With that said, he’s our pick of the ten films we’re looking forward to at this years Fantasia…

10) Lifechanger

Synopsis: Drew is Detective Freddie Ransone, a cop who just left a burning house with two dead bodies inside. Before that, Drew was Emily Roberts, a party girl who became one of those dead bodies, and as the days go on, Drew will become dentist Sam Richardson, his assistant Rachel, and several others. Drew, as it turns out, has the ability to transport from body to body,...

Ahead of Lifechanger's world premiere at this year's Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, the film's first official trailer and poster have been revealed, hinting at a transformation of sorts for potentially more than just one character. The film touts an impressive cast, including Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Elitsa Bako, Sam James White, Rachel Vanduzer, Steve Kasan, and Bill Oberst Jr., and we have a look at the trailer and poster:

Press Release: Toronto, On – The trailer and first poster for the upcoming horror film Lifechanger have newly been released online. The film will have a World Premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival on July 20th, then an International Premiere at London’s Frightfest the following month (on Aug. 25th & 26th). Directed by Justin McConnell, the film follows “a murderous shape-shifter on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves”. The film stars Lora Burke (from...

Director George Mihalka (My Bloody Valentine) is a consulting producer on writer-director Justin McConnell’s Lifechanger, which is set to make its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival this month, with the international premiere scheduled to take place at London’s Frightfest this August. And today we have the film’s poster and trailer for you to check […]

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Our friend Justin McConnell is back in the director's chair. Taking a hiatus from doing film things for other film people he is back in creative control on his new shape-shifting horror/thriller Lifechanger. Production began last week, so we are a little late to the party announcing the new project. We hope to be visiting the set near the end of the shoot next month, and will report back to you in kind. Pictured above is Justin's best side as he gazes upon, it looks like Elitsa Bako in the monitor. Justin McConnell’s Lifechanger begins production in Toronto Production continues until early December The shape-shifting horror/thriller Lifechanger, written and directed by Justin McConnell, has begun production in Toronto. Justin McConnell’s (Broken...

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I’ve been a fan of Justin McConnell‘s since stumbling upon his debut feature The Collapsed during the Canadian theatrical release in Toronto. From that slice of the apocalyps, his presence has been a staple of the genre scene is almost every capacity, from production to programming. He’s now back behind the camera for Lifechanger which is currently […]...