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Forever the alpha of The Jersey Shore, Jenni "JWoww" Farley was long the scariest member of the original crew. As she towered over her best friend and frequent screen partner Snooki, JWoww menaced the Shore Store's resident dickheads, who were busy chugging Ron Ron Juice, making out with two girls,...

Back when Unfriended was still going by the title of Cybernatural, director Leo Gabriadze said he came onto the project because he was attracted to the story’s subject matter. Nelson Greaves’ script demonstrated how personal harassment had since changed in the digital age; in particular those younger people whose torment went beyond the classroom. The internet had not only made a bully’s reach greater but also unavoidable. And in true horror fashion, Unfriended provided an unsettling portrayal of victimhood as well as sadistic retribution from beyond the grave.

Unfriended immediately broke tradition by staying close to home as opposed to traveling to the deep, dark woods or anywhere else teens tend to go and die in horror. More unusual was the unexciting premise of these characters video-chatting all night instead of meeting in person at an ominous social event of some kind. After years of critics reproaching the...

What Comes Around is a drama-thriller film directed by Amy Redford from a screenplay by Scott Organ. Based on the novel The Thing With Feathers written by Scott Organ, the film follows a teenager and her family after she is seduced by an older man online. What Comes Around stars Summer Phoenix, Grace Van Dien, Jesse Garcia, and Kyle Gallner. So, if you loved What Comes Around here are some similar movies you could check out next.

Trust (Prime Video & Peacock) Credit – Millennium Films

Synopsis: When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the internet, her family’s bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.

Disconnect (Prime Video) Credit – Ld Entertainment

Synopsis: A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can’t find the time to communicate with his family.

Last year, director Rebekah McKendry impressed our reviewer Tyler Nichols with the horror film Glorious, which took place in a rest stop bathroom. (You can read Tyler’s 8/10 review at This Link.) Now McKendry has made another “supernatural happenings in a confined location” horror film called Elevator Game, and it’s going to be released through the Shudder streaming service very soon… just not as soon as we had previously heard. Elevator Game was once set to start streaming on August 11th, but its release date has since shifted back to September 15th. And with that date just over a month away, a trailer has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Elevator Game will be available for Shudder subscribers in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It will also stream on AMC+ in some areas.

Michael Goi (Megan Is Missing) was originally attached to direct the film,...

Last year, director Rebekah McKendry impressed our reviewer Tyler Nichols with the horror film Glorious, which took place in a rest stop bathroom. (You can read Tyler’s 8/10 review at This Link.) Now McKendry has made another “supernatural happenings in a confined location” horror film called Elevator Game, and Deadline reports that Elevator Game is going to be released through the Shudder streaming service, just like Glorious was!

Elevator Game will be available for Shudder subscribers in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand to stream as of August 11th. It will also stream on AMC+ in some areas.

Michael Goi (Megan Is Missing) was originally attached to direct the film, but by the time production began McKendry was at the helm. Scripted by Travis Seppala, Elevator Game centers on socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game...

Thanks to the runaway success of The Blair Witch Project in 1999, found footage movies quickly became the hottest thing in horror. By relying on camcorders, surveillance footage, and other unlikely camera sources, filmmakers could not only add some verisimilitude to their stories but could also do it on the cheap. But just as quickly, found footage became the most hated subgenre, as fans and critics decried its rigid constraints, laughing at the ridiculous ways characters justified recording when they should be running.

Just as the subgenre died, a new and more relevant approach emerged: desktop movies taking place entirely on computer screens, using webcams, streaming video, and recordings to tell their stories. Not only do desktop movies offer more variety in visual style, but they also better reflect our actual lives, as we spend a lot of time staring at computer and phone screens.

Exciting as the subgenre certainly is,...

Epistolary storytelling has been immersing readers in fiction since the very dawn of literature. Using simulated letters, diaries and other documents to craft complex tales with shifting points of view, the format inevitably ended up attracting inventive filmmakers who realized that it could be adapted into a cinematic tool to instill terror. From The McPherson Tape to The Blair Witch Project, Found Footage movies have kept the epistolary tradition alive through their use of faux home video and other diegetic media.

However, with over four decades of Found Footage experiments out there, the genre has seen quite a bit of innovation. Personally, I think one of the most interesting off-shoots of Found Footage is the ongoing trend of Screenlife films, where the entire narrative is told within the confines of digital screens. While this curious format has only recently become popular in mainstream media, it’s actually older than most people seem to realize,...

The viral social media hit Megan Is Missing arrives on Blu-ray October 26 from Lionsgate.

The viral social media hit Megan Is Missing arrives on Blu-ray October 26 from Lionsgate. This terrifying cautionary tale from writer-director Michael Goi about the dangers of online communication stars Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, and Dean Waite. Megan Is Missing will be available on Blu-ray on online retailers for the suggested retail price of $17.99.

Controversial. Brutal. Disturbing. To describe Megan Is Missing is to describe the outer limits of terror and horror. But there’s no way to tell the story of the disappearance of 14-year-old Megan Stewart and her best friend, Amy Herman — a story taken from video chats, webcam footage, home videos, and news reports — without descending into the very heart of depravity and despair. Notorious on social media, banned in New Zealand, and enhanced by never-before-seen Blu-ray bonus content, Megan Is Missing offers an...

Exclusive: Amp International has closed a raft of virtual EFM pre-sales on The Elevator Game, the supernatural horror from filmmaker Michael Goi (American Horror Story).

Capelight Pictures beat out competition to land German-speaking Europe; Paradise acquired Cis and the Baltics in another territory that saw multiple offers; Sun Distribution snapped up Latin America, Spain and Portugal; and Scanbox took Scandinavia.

Other deals include Kino Swiat in Poland, Front Row Entertainment in The Middle East, MovieCloud in Taiwan, Mockingbird in Vietnam and Sahamongkol in Thailand. Negotiations are continuing in most other territories.

Based on the eponymous online phenomenon, the project will follow Dale, a socially awkward teenager who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had just played The Elevator Game. The ritual is conducted in an elevator, in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online. Ignoring the many online warnings,...

Exclusive: London-based sales firm Amp International has joined forces with new LA-based genre start-up Fearworks on horror The Elevator Game, which has long-time American Horror Story DoP Michael Goi attached to direct.

The supernatural horror, based on the eponymous online phenomenon, will follow Dale, a socially awkward teenager who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had just played The Elevator Game. The ritual is conducted in an elevator, in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online. Ignoring the many online warnings, Dale resolves to follow and find her. But he discovers that the warnings are there for a reason and ‘The Woman On The 5th Floor’ is not what she seems.

The cult online ‘game’, often found on reddit and YouTube, first emerged in Korea but has gained traction in other countries where some have speculated a...

The erratic world of VOD consumption saw a lift this week with debuts of “The New Mutants” (Disney) and “Unhinged” (Solstice), films that were the first wide releases when theaters began to reopen in August. Ninety days later, normal windows dictate that it’s time for non-premium availability. (They each rent for $5.99.)

Disney’s Marvel spin-off took the top spot at Apple TV and FandangoNow, while Russell Crowe’s stalker thriller is #1 at Google Play. Two items of note: “Mutants” shows its strength by taking the top spot at Fandango, which ranks by revenue, not transactions; that’s impressive for a standard-price title. Unlike “Mutants,” “Unhinged” had a PVOD release and now sees a revival at its lower price.

These two titles were the only ones to place on three charts. (Spectrum’s weekly chart lags behind and will likely show them next week.) “Unhinged” placed #2 and #3 elsewhere, while “Mutants” was #5 on Google.

If you put a big red button in front of someone and tell them not to push the button, all that person is going to want to do is push the damn thing.

So then to the strange case of Megan is Missing, a low budget exploitation movie shot in 2006, given a limited release in 2011 which is now suddenly trending due to some high profile TikTok users talking about how utterly horrible it is and apparently warning others off with hyperbolic statements such as:

@bella.clare

please watch this film at your own risk. It is something i will never watch again . i am forever traumatized.

@lilnutmegg

If you are thinking of watching Megan is Missing, please don’t. I love horror/thriller/murder mysteries and I can watch them very easily, but this one I will never ever forget. I couldn’t even finish it.

Not to miss a trick,...

Michael Goi has been appointed as the 2018 Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

The Dp has earned Emmy nominations for his work on “American Horror Story,” “Glee” and “My Name Is Earl.” He also landed American Society of Cinematographers noms for “The New Normal pilot,” “American Horror Story,” and TV movies “The Fixer” and “Judas.”

This is the 18th year of the residency program, which is sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company. Other DPs who have received the honor include John Bailey, who is the current president of the Motion Picture Academy; Roger Deakins, this year’s Oscar winner for “Blade Runner 2049”; Rodrigo Prieto; and “Dean Cundey”.

Goi, who is past president of the American Society of Cinematographers, has more than 70 credits to his name, including TV series “Salem” and “The Mentalist” and feature film “The Town That Dreaded Sundown.” As a director, he...

From Anthony Jaswinski, writer of last year’s The Shallows, comes Mary. THR reports today that Gary Oldman is attached to star in Mary, a supernatural thriller from Tucker Tooley Entertainment and Entertainment One. Michael Goi, known for directing 2011’s Megan is Missing and a handful of “American Horror Story” episodes, will direct. “Mary centers on a struggling family […]...

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Megan is Missing (2011)Writer/director Michael Goi’s hyper-creepy found footage/faux documentary certainly starts out innocently enough. Gratuitous F-bombs, uncomfortably situations involving teenagers, kids vomiting on party-going lesbians — you know, typical unrated horror movie stuff. And then, about halfway through the film, Goi throws a curve ball, one that’s forever ingrained itself into my memory. It’s a genuinely nasty image, and it’s sure to make even the hardest of genre vets cringe. If these unforgettable moments weren’t bad enough, there’s the last 20 minutes, a sinister descent into exploitation that borderlines on overkill. Of course, “Megan is Missing” isn’t interested in saving your kids from sadistic Internet predators. All the movie really wants to do is shock and horrify the audience, though it tries its best to hide behind the supposed message to justify its content. Nice try. “Megan is Missing” is disturbing, but that’s about it.

I'd like to start this out by saying I'm not the biggest fan of 'Found Footage" films. With that being said, I have seen quite a few, mostly the more well known, or one's mentioned on the Bid,such as 'Megan Is Missing'. While not the biggest fan, it's always nice to see it done right. I am on the other hand, a huge fan of psychological movies, such as 'Bug', and 'May', and will sit and re-watch one until I think I fully understand it. 'Skew' is b…...

Joe and Tom jump into their Top 5 Twists. The twists and films they talk about on their lists contain spoilers from film to film. Listen With Caution. Then the guys get into a lot of what they watched including The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Resident Evil, Megan Is Missing, American Horror Story as well as Joe going through the Scream franchise with his sister and her friend upon many others. After that they guys end the show with a trailer and s…...

Year: 2011Director: Michael GoiCast: Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, Dean Waite

Told “found footage” style through a series of webcam conversations and footage from a digital camcorder, the lives of Megan and Amy, two teenage girls who are best friends, are documented in the days leading up to both of their disappearances. When Amy’s camcorder is discovered in a park trash can, the viewer witnesses their fates.

As equally thought provoking as it is heart-wrenching and brutal, Megan is Missing, should immediately become required viewing for every parent of every teenager who spends even the most modest amount of time on social networking sites such as Facebook; the film is supposedly based on true events. It begins innocently enough with a front row peek into the lives of the two teenage girls. Through their playful videotaping and webcam conversations, it becomes obvious that these are two very typical teenagers. Megan is the more popular,...

This is the time of year every movie lover worth his salt pops out their annual list of “best horror films” and such. I decided to put a twist on the list this year by offering up a smattering of films that will make any parent cower in the corner. Thankfully, this is not inspired by my own domestic plight. For reasons beyond my comprehension, my husband and I have managed to spawn two well-adjusted and happy daughters. I assure you, it is sheer luck, not inherent parenting skill that has afforded me this luxury. To ask what instigated such a list would be a fair question. I have been deeply traumatized by a book I am reading: We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. The book tells the tale of a mom whose only son grew up and committed a Columbine-like massacre. I was drawn to the...

Megan is missing is a film Directed and Written by Michael Goi starring Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn and Dean Waite. The film is all shot as seen through the lenses of webcams, mobile phones and hand held video cameras which capture the day to day lives, secrets, partying, drug use and tragic loss of one girl and the hunt to find her of another! Storyline: Megan Stewart, 14, and her best friend Amy Herman, 13, though opposites in personality, are…...

Well, this week doesn’t fare much better than last. However, you can pick up the first Tarantino/Rodriguez collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn as well as some other flicks that may tickle your fancy. Read beyond the break for all the media from the crypt.

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The Crow: City of Angels

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This fast-moving, action-packed sequel to The Crow explodes on screen with hot stars...