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Yellow Veil Pictures has come on board to represent international sales on the horror Dead Mail and will kick off talks at EFM in Berlin next week.

Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy’s film premiered at 2024 SXSW and went on to screen at Frightfest and TIFF Midnight Madness.

Set in the 1980s Midwest, Dead Mail centres on an ominous, bloody help note that finds its way to the desk of a seasoned dead letter investigator at a post office.

As he begins to piece together the letter’s origins, it leads him down a violent path where he encounters a...

Coming of age can be difficult. You want to prove yourself, but you’re not entirely sure who you are yet. What is important to you? What really matters? How are you going to make yourself noticed? And will anyone pay attention?

These are questions that are often the crux of coming-of-age films, in the horror genre and beyond. Young characters trying to find their place in the world, whether that be the small town Oregon of Stand By Me, or the monstrous life opening up to Izzy in Hellbender. These films always see a character at a turning point, one foot in childhood and one in adulthood, trying to figure out where their next steps will take them. In Bloody Axe Wound, that path happens to be littered with dead bodies.

Abby Bladecut (Sari Arambulo) is going through typical teenager stuff. She is pushing boundaries, asserting her independence, and...

Alexandra Daddario as Rowan Fielding in ‘Mayfair Witches’ season 2 (Photo Credit: Skip Bolen/AMC)

AMC Networks is kicking off 2025 with a January lineup that includes season two of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches and Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale. Planet Earth: Asia, presented by Sir David Attenborough, premieres in late January on BBC America, and horror fans will be treated to Nick Frost’s Get Away debuting on Shudder on January 10th.

Shudder’s January lineup also includes the body horror Grafted and Dark Match, an action horror with Sara Canning and Steven Ogg.

AMC & AMC+:

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season 2 – Premieres Sunday, January 5 at 9pm Et/Pt

Based on Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches, season two of Mayfair Witches continues the journey of Rowan Mayfair (Alexandra Daddario) after she has unwittingly given birth to the demon Lasher (Jack Huston). She is determined to understand...

The AMC Networks January 2025 schedule has been announced and includes a new season of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches and AMC’s premiere of Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale; Acorn TV’s new mystery series The Gone; BBC America’s new natural history series exploring Asia; the return of We TV’s hit series Toya & Reginae; and Allblk’s new political thriller Conspirators.

The New Year will also bring exciting film debuts, including IFC Films’ Skincare, starring Elizabeth Banks, comedic slasher Get Away, written by and starring Nick Frost, Shudder’s satirical body horror Grafted, starring Jess Hong, and wrestling-themed action-horror Dark Match, starring Sara Canning and Steven Ogg.

These films, series and more join an extensive catalog of compelling dramas, beloved franchises, popular films, and timely collections on Acorn TV, Allblk, AMC+, BBC America, Hidive, Shudder, Sundance Now, and We TV all month long.

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season...

Dark Sky Films has acquired all North American rights to the psychological horror Lilly Lives Alone from Yellow Veil Pictures, which will represent international sales at next week’s AFM in Las Vegas.

The feature directorial debut from Martin Melnick stars Shannon Beeby as Lilly, a traumatised woman who was the prime suspect in her young daughter’s death and has become a recluse who sinks into a world of drugs, alcohol and meaningless hook-ups.

Ten years after the death, Lilly is trapped in hallucinations when she meets Jed as the ghosts of her past strengthen their grip, leading to unspeakable horrors.

The Adams Family is a unique collective of filmmakers who have crafted some of the most fascinating indie horror films of recent years. Driven by a creative passion and close-knit family spirit, John and Toby Adams, along with their daughters, have developed a devoted following with their insightful, atmospheric works like Hellbender and Where the Devil Roams.

In their latest feature, Hell Hole, we find the family branching out in bold new directions. For the first time, they filmed on location abroad, capturing shades of Serbian history and landscape to tell their story. With access to more resources, they’ve also scaled up various production elements for what is certainly their most ambitious monster movie to date.

With Hell Hole, the Adams push their style to vibrant new levels while maintaining the heart and vision that have drawn fans in before. We travel with them into uncharted territory as an...

Something organic wreaks havoc on a fracking crew in Hell Hole, the latest cinematic nightmare conjured up by the endlessly innovative and always imaginative Adams Family.

With the unique creature feature now slithering on Shudder, Daily Dead had the great pleasure of catching up with co-directors and co-writers John Adams and Toby Poser (who also star in the film) in a new video interview to dive into the ambitious making of Hell Hole, including writing the script with their daughter Lulu Adams, working with legendary special effects artist Todd Masters and his team at MastersFX, the adventures of filming in Serbia, and they also tease their upcoming horror movies!

You can watch our full video interview with John Adams and Toby Poser below, and in case you missed it, be sure to read Emily von Seele's 5-star review of Hell Hole!

Synopsis: "In the Adams Family's celebration of the classic creature-feature,...

Stars: Tobey Poser, John Adams, Maximum Portman, Aleksandar Trmcic, Olivera Perunicic, Marko Filipovic | Written by Tobey Poser, John Adams, Lulu Adams | Directed by Tobey Poser, John Adams

Hell Hole begins in 1814, somewhere in Serbia, where a bunch of Napoleon’s troops are lost and starving. A local woman wordlessly appears and offers them a horse. Since they aren’t in a position to look a gift horse in the mouth, they accept, and get ready to have their first meal in ages. Unfortunately for them, the gift horse is actually a Trojan Horse carrying a parasitic creature that appears to spread by sodomizing a potential host.

In modern-day Serbia, a fracking operation run by Emily and her foreman John finds itself cut off when the only road connecting them to civilization floods. With nothing else to do the crew, which also includes Emily’s nephew Teddy and a pair of...

Horror has an official first family and their last name is Adams. No not that one. You might be thinking of the Addams Family. They don’t make movies, they’re fictional characters and they’re nowhere near as cool as the Adams Family.

John Adams and Toby Poser, and their daughters Zelda and Lulu, have been making independent films as a family for over a decade under their production company Wonder Wheel Productions. The Adams Family ventured into the horror genre for the first time with their film The Hatred (2018), which tells the story of a young girl who brings a soldier back from the dead to unleash hell on earth. And just like that, they were hooked on horror.

The Adams Family’s early films like Rumblestrips (2013) and Knuckle Jack (2014), were usually case studies of outcasts, who were struggling to find some kind of normalcy and acceptance in...

It feels safe to say that today marks the true beginning of the Halloween season, at least as far as the movie slate is concerned. From now through October 31, the schedule is Packed with new horror. For starters, Nine new horror movies were released today alone…

Here’s all the new horror that released Friday, August 23, 2024!

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

After passing $100 million at the worldwide box office, director Osgood Perkins’ hit horror movie Longlegs is now available at home for digital purchase ($24.99) and rental ($19.99).

Hailed as the “scariest film of the year,” Longlegs was written and directed by Perkins and stars Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, and Nicolas Cage.

[Related] Did You Spot All 15+ Appearances of the Devil in ‘Longlegs’?

In Longlegs, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive...

The eighth feature helmed by the nuclear Adams Family, Hell Hole once again mines from pointed genre influences for the filmmakers’ home-grown creative approach. They’ve previously explored killer carnivals, witch covens, and psychic slashers, and now they train their lens on an environmentally resonant creature feature. Following an American fracking team stationed in Serbia,...

Satranic Panic: "Dark Star Pictures is releasing renowned director Alice Maio Mackay’s Trans slasher/horror Satranic Panic On Digital and On Demand August 13, 2024.

A bloody, demon-infested road movie about the power of claiming one’s identity and the importance of chosen family, Satranic Panic exposes the hypocrisy of the status quo with biting wit, killer drag, and incredible tits.

Satranic Panic made its world premiere at SXSW’s inaugural edition in Sydney before heading to Panic Fest, Salem Horror Fest and more. Dread Central raved that the film is Maio Mackay’s “most ambitious story and style yet.”

At only twenty years old, Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay has already directed five feature films, including So Vam (2021), Bad Girl Boogey (2022), T Blockers (2023), Satranic Panic, and the upcoming Carnage for Christmas. As a transgender filmmaker, Maio Mackay uses camp and comedy to boldly queer the horror genre, crafting vibrant,...

The creative output of the Adams Family seems to be endless, and something as simple as a long road trip is enough to inspire their next big movie idea. It hasn’t even been a full rotation around the sun since the release of their last feature Where The Devil Roams, but husband and wife team John Adams and Toby Poser still somehow managed to make another, Hell Hole. The Adams proved to be experts in crafting witchy and supernatural horrors with The Deeper You Dig and Hellbender, but this time, they’re trying out something different with a creature feature far from the comforts of their home country.

Americans Emily (Toby Poser) and John (John Adams) are overseeing the beginning stages of an oil fracking operation in the Serbian countryside. They’re joined by Emily’s nephew and camp cook, Teddy, a duo of Slovenian environmental scientists, Sofija and...

The Adams Family, an actual family unit of filmmakers comprised of father John Adams, mother Tobey Poser, and their daughters, quickly established a punk rock DIY spirit, wearing multiple hats each on films The Deeper You Dig, Hellbender, and last year’s Where the Devil Roams. That continues in their latest, Hell Hole, an ambitious ode to the classic creature feature. It’s not the gory creature effects that elevate a classic setup in this scrappy effort, though it certainly helps. It’s the way the Adams Family stretch their creative muscles further, opting for a fun, zany creature feature with a heavy metal attitude and dry humor.

Hell Hole opens in an unexpected place: Serbian territory in 1814, where French soldiers fighting for Napoleon Bonaparte (including one played by Subspecies‘ Anders Hove) are starving and desperate for food. A gift horse is literally trotted out to them by a mysterious woman,...

It’s festival season and no festival is quite the same without a new film from Team Adams. The minds who brought us Hellbender, The Deeper You Dig and Where the Devil Roams are back with something new, slimy, and a ton of fun. Having enjoyed their last few outings, I was excited to see what Hell Hole would bring. There is something unique about the Adams’ brand of low-budget filmmaking in that audiences have learned to expect the unexpected. And that continues to be the case here. Hell Hole has all of the things we have come to enjoy from this team of filmmakers - a solid story, creative filmmaking, a kick-ass soundtrack, and DIY filmmaking at its finest. But it also sees the creatives breaking new ground and trying something new.

This time around, John Adams and Toby Poser share directing duties, and co-wrote the script with Lulu Adams.

With Hell Hole, the Catskills-based filmmaking collective known as the Adams family takes its first wobbly baby steps outside its homegrown horror comfort zone. Trading the group’s signature brand of lyrical, self-reflective terror for rambling, environmentalist sci-fi story set among a fracking crew living and working among industrial decay at the edge of a Balkan wilderness, the film is more interesting as an exercise in stretching genre tentacles than a satisfying narrative or artistic one-off. Still, it features enough of the cockeyed familial ruminations and loose improvisational aura for which the filmmakers have become known that their devotees will be more than pleased.

Heading up a fracking crew in the remote reaches of Serbia, Americans Emily (Toby Poser) and John (John Adams) find themselves at odds with the local workers and researchers who make sure their recently legalized extraction operation is above board to minimize environmental impact. As they bore into the earth,...

Something organic is wreaking havoc on a fracking crew in the official trailer for Hell Hole, the new parasitic creature feature from the Adams Family that will slither onto Shudder beginning August 23rd.

Synopsis: "In the Adams Family's celebration of the classic creature-feature, an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness find themselves at odds with government assigned environmental advisors. When they get approval to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host."

Director: John Adams and Toby Poser

Writers: Lulu Adams, John Adams, Toby Poser

Cast: Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portman, Anders Hove, Olivera Perunicic, Aleksandar Trmcic, Petar Arsic, Bruno Veljanovski

Executive Producers: Emily Gotto, Nicholas Lazo, Samuel Zimmerman

Producers: Justin Martell, Matt Manjourides, Miloš Ðukelić

Director of Photography: Sean Dahlberg

Editor: John Adams...

The latest feature from The Adams Family, Hell Hole, unearths a classic creature feature filled with gross-out body horror and glorious practical effects. We’ve got an exclusive look at the official Hell Hole trailer ahead of the film’s premiere tonight at Fantasia International Film Festival, giving a squirm-inducing, gory first look at some of the monster madness ahead.

Shudder will debut Hell Hole on August 23.

In Hell Hole, “an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness find themselves at odds with government assigned environmental advisors. When they get approval to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host.”

John Adams, Toby Poser, and Lulu Adams penned the script. John Adams and Toby Poser direct.

The film stars Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portham (Where the Devil Roams...

This August, Shudder, the premier horror streaming service, is set to deliver a thrilling line-up of original films, series, and classic horror favourites for the UK and Ireland.

Whether you’ve just returned from a summer trip, or you’re trying to stay out of the unbearable heat, Shudder has plenty of good reasons for you to close the curtains and turn on your TV. From chilling new releases to timeless horror treasures, here’s what to look forward to:

Hell Hole – Shudder Original

Film Premieres on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 23 August

The Adams Family, known for their previous work on Hellbender, brings another spine-tingling horror with Hell Hole. This new Shudder Original centres around an American fracking crew that stumbles upon a French soldier from the Napoleonic era, frozen in time and hosting a parasitic monster. Starring Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portman, and Anders Hove, this film promises...

The AMC Networks August 2024 schedule has been announced. It includes new episodes of Snowpiercer Season 4 and Orphan Black: Echoes, both available on AMC and AMC+.

Sundance Now offers an impressive lineup of thrillers including the provocative new tennis drama Fifteen-Love, starring Aidan Turner (Poldark), a new season of hit Nordic noir Wisting, and the new two-part special Kennedy, Sinatra, and the Mafia. Meanwhile, Acorn TV offers new installments of fan-favorite international series Signora Volpe and Under the Vines.

Other highlights include new episodes of BBC America’s landmark nature series Planet Earth: Mammals, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and the highly-anticipated second season of Allblk’s breakout drama Kold x Windy, among other new series, films, and specials across its suite of targeted streaming services.

Film highlights this month include the sequel to IFC Films’ 2020 hit thriller Force of Nature: The Dry 2, starring Eric Bana (Dirty John) and Anna Torv (Fringe); Ghostlight,...

AMC Networks’ Shudder has announced the titles that will be available on the streaming service next month. The Shudder August 2024 slate includes horror, thriller, and supernatural titles.

The August highlights include the films Dancing Village: The Curse Begins, Divinity, and Hell Hole, as well as the series Horror’s Greatest and The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.

Hell Hole

Shudder’s expanding library of films, TV series, and original content is available on most US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand streaming devices.

Shudder August 2024 Highlights

The Shudder premiere schedule for next month.

Hell Hole (Shudder Original Film)

Streaming on Shudder August 23

The newest film from the Adams Family, the filmmaking team behind Hellbender, Hell Hole centers on an America-led fracking crew that uncovers a living French soldier frozen in time from a Napoleonic campaign, whose body hosts a parasitic monster. Starring Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portman,...

Ahead of the film’s world premiere at Fantasia this summer, the next film from The Adams Family (Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams) has received an official poster this week.

Shudder will premiere Hell Hole on August 23.

Check out the brand new official artwork below.

Fantasia previews, “A road trip through Canadian oil fields conjured up fantasies of secrets deep in the dirt for the Adams family, and inspired them to create Hell Hole, an indie rock-n-roll monster movie set at a far-away fracking site.

“Known for their DIY ethos, John and Lulu Adams and Toby Poser, partnering with Shudder, have joined the team behind The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and FX legend Todd Masters to shoot their latest in Serbia with a local cast and crew.

“Absurd, mutinous, and transgressively comical, Hell Hole is old-school sci-fi horror, yet in typical family fashion, they subvert the genre with...

Ahead of the film’s world premiere at Fantasia this summer, the next film from The Adams Family has received a release date this week.

Shudder will premiere Hell Hole on August 23, Rue Morgue first reported.

Fantasia previews, “A road trip through Canadian oil fields conjured up fantasies of secrets deep in the dirt for the Adams family, and inspired them to create Hell Hole, an indie rock-n-roll monster movie set at a far-away fracking site.

“Known for their DIY ethos, John and Lulu Adams and Toby Poser, partnering with Shudder, have joined the team behind The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and FX legend Todd Masters to shoot their latest in Serbia with a local cast and crew.

“Absurd, mutinous, and transgressively comical, Hell Hole is old-school sci-fi horror, yet in typical family fashion, they subvert the genre with textures of biological and environmental horror in tandem with...

World premieres of Jayro Bustamante’s Rita and the Adams Family’s Hell Hole are among the first wave of the 28th edition of Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal running July 18-August 4.

Rita marks Bustamante’s follow-up to 2019 Venice Giornate degli Autori winner and Guatemalan Oscar submission La Llorona. It follows an abused teenage girl’s attempted escape from a government safe house and is inspired by the true story of a deadly orphanage fire in Guatemala.

Hell Hole hails from the filmmaking family behind Hellbender and Where The Devil Roams and centres on an American-led fracking crew that...

Fans of “Tales From the Crypt” and horror-tinged anthology series like “Black Mirror” get ready for “Tales From the Void”, Screambox‘s brand new Original Series that delivers six chilling tales of terror, each adapted from the extremely popular r/No Sleep (18M subs) stories! Variety first reported the news this afternoon.

The first episode will play several festivals before premiering this fall on the Bloody Disgusting-powered streaming service, just in time for Halloween.

Created by Francesco Loschiavo, the series features the directorial talents of renowned filmmakers including Joe Lynch (Mayhem), Maritte Lee Go (Black as Night), The Adams Family (Hellbender), and Francesco Loschiavo himself.

This Canadian co-production brings together Envoi Entertainment, Heroes & Ghosts, Rusty Halo Productions, and the esteemed genre outlet Paper Street Pictures.

Francesco Loschiavo and John Thomas Kelley serve as co-showrunners on the series, produced by Barclay J. Maude, with support from Rebeka Herron and Martin Wotjunik.

Viral scary stories from Reddit will be coming to life in a new series headed to horror streaming service Screambox.

Cineverse has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to “Tales From the Void,” an anthology adaptation of stories that originated on the popular subreddit r/NoSleep. Created by Francesco Loschiavo, the show will consist of six stories from the massive scary story community, which has 18 million subscribers. The series is set to debut this fall on the horror streaming service Screambox.

“Tales From the Void” will feature work from genre directors Joe Lynch (“Suitable Flesh”), Maritte Lee Go (“Black as Night”), the Adams Family (“Hellbender”) and Loschiavo.

Lynch is directing the pilot, based on “The Black Square” by Matt Dymserski. Other r/NoSleep stories will include “Betsy The Doll” by Rebecca Klingel and “I used to hack baby monitors. But one night I learned my lesson.” by Manen Lyset.

Loschiavo and...

Yellow Veil Pictures is kicking off EFM sales on the Shudder Original Film Hell Hole, the latest feature from the Adams Family filmmakers behind Hellbender and Where The Devil Roams.

John Adams and Toby Poser co-directed, co-wrote with Lulu Adams, and star in the feature, which is in post after wrapping production in Serbia.

Hell Hole takes place in Serbia’s Rtanj mountain valley as an American-led fracking crew uncovers a living French soldier frozen in time from a Napoleonic campaign.

When a parasitic monster springs from the soldier’s body it wreaks havoc among the terrified crew looking for a new host to inhabit.

Brewing underneath the surface of many horror films is an ancient force that has haunted humanity’s nightmares for centuries—witchcraft. Witches, with their enigmatic powers and complex history, have always been a rich source of fear and fascination, making them perfect subjects for the horror genre. Whether veiled in Gothic atmospheres or presented in bone-chilling modern narratives, witch horror movies capture something profoundly unsettling about the unknown.

From classic tales of demonic pacts to contemporary stories of isolation and paranoia, these films tap into the primal fear of what lies beyond the boundaries of the known. So, if you’re ready to dive into the world of dark spells and arcane rituals, here are ten must-watch witch horror movies that embody the enchanting terror of this age-old lore.

20th Century Studios 10. The Lords of Salem (2012)

Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem presents a mesmerizing take on witchcraft lore,...

The Adams Family debuted on the scene with The Deeper You Dig and returned last year for Shudder’s Hellbender. Up next from the family – and yes, they are indeed a real family – is Where the Devil Roams, and the film is headed the theaters in November.

Yellow Veil Pictures announced today on social media to look for Where the Devil Roams in theaters on November 3. You’ll then be able to rent and buy the film on cable and digital platforms on November 7. Previously, it was reported that the film will head exclusively to Tubi.

“Set during Depression-era America, Where the Devil Roams follows a family of murderous sideshow performers as they travel the dying carnival circuit.”

Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and John Adams star in the film, as well as write and direct.

Variety previously previewed, “Hugely ambitious, the film’s first 16 minutes packs a black and white...

Yellow Veil Pictures, the U.S.-based arthouse genre distribution company, has acquired North American rights to Belgian director Claude Schmitz’s deadpan detective thriller “The Other Laurens.”

The feature debut world premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and will have its North American Premiere at Fantastic Fest which kicks off Sept. 23 in Austin, Texas. Yellow Veil Pictures plans for a theatrical release in 2024.

“The Other Laurens” follows a private detective, Gabriel, who has been asked by his niece to investigate her father’s death. Gabriel must confront the ghosts of his past and finds himself caught up in a strange investigation mixing fantasy and drug trafficking.

“‘The Other Laurens’ stands beside films like ‘The Big Lebowski’ and ‘The Long Goodbye’ in melding a level of absurdism into Neo-noir, revealing something darker beneath the surface,” said Joe Yannick at Yellow Veil Pictures.

The deal was negotiated by Hugues Barbier, Justin Timms...

The talented Adams Family’s hit film “Hellbender” was ranked No. 1 on Rotten Tomatoes Top 10 of best-rated horror films of 2022. Their most recent film, “Where the Devil Roams,” was purchased by Tubi after premiering at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival on July 27th.

Alongside parents John and Toby Adams, sisters Zelda and Lulu are experiencing a meteoric rise in the horror genre. In addition to writing her first feature length screenplay, Lulu was recently spotted on set of the new Coleman Brothers movie, portraying the character “Eleanor.”

Like her inaugural screenplay (which recently wrapped production), not much has been publicly announced about the new Coleman Brothers movie.

So far, we know that it’s a vampire movie and that it’s written and directed by Vince and James Coleman. We also know that Lulu’s character “Eleanor” gets turned and becomes a bloodsucker. Not much else is known about the movie as of right now.

The talented Adams Family’s hit film “Hellbender” was ranked No. 1 on Rotten Tomatoes Top 10 of best-rated horror films of 2022. Their most recent film, “Where the Devil Roams,” was purchased by Tubi after premiering at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival on July 27th. Alongside parents John and Toby Adams, sisters Zelda and Lulu are …

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There is something about a carnival. Something mysterious. Maybe even a tad dangerous. In the midst of a humdrum existence, a carnival feels like one of the last places left where magic may still exist. It’s here one day, gone the next. A world unto itself that sets up in new places, inviting us into its arms for one or two nights at a time, before vanishing, taking its magic along with it. It is populated by people living their lives on the edge of society; just close enough for us to see and interact with when they choose, before closing the curtain and retreating to their own little world. Performers who thrill, challenge, and play with their audience before disappearing like ghosts, leaving us behind in the ordinary world.

That mysterious nature has been bottled on film a handful of times. Tod Browning’s Freaks, the HBO Carnivale series,...

The Adams Family have done it again! The filmmaking team, made up of father John Adams, mother Toby Poser and daughters Zelda and Lulu, have been writing, directing, producing and starring in their own independent productions for a little over a decade, and have crafted festival favorites including The Deeper You Dig and Hellbender. Last week, at the Fantasia Film Festival, they premiered their most ambitious project yet, Where the Devil Roams, a supernatural horror set in Depression-era America.

Hard times have fallen upon a small carnival. Attendance is at an all-time low, and there's not enough nickels to go around to feed the sideshow acts. Among them are the performing trio, Maggie (Toby Poser), Seven (John Adams) and Eve (Zelda Adams), who do a song and dance routine that hardly draws a crowd. Stealing their spectators is Mr. Tibbs, a magician who slices off his fingers one by one with rusty scissors,...

Where The Devil Roams Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival

The Adams Family – John Adams, Toby Poser and their children Zelda Adams and Lulu Adama – have been making films together for some years now. Screening as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival and also part of the line-up for this month’s Frightfest, their latest work, Where The Devil Roams, is their best yet. It follows a family of carnival performers: the troubled, psychopathic Maggie (Toby), shell shocked former army medic Seven (John) and singing sensation Eve (Zelda), who is mute offstage, as they travel across the US during the Great Depression, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

We spoke briefly about the film a couple of years ago, when they were promoting their last film, Hellbender, and when we meet again I say that I recall being told then that this one was Zelda’s idea.

Zelda nods.

Plot: Traces a family of murderous sideshow performers as it travels around the world on the dying carnival circuit.

Review: I feel it needs to be stated right off the bat that Where the Devil Roams will not be for everybody. From a production standpoint, it feels very amateur at points. The blown-out sky and awkward sound design certainly point to this being more student film than major feature. But even still, there’s a beauty to the cinematography, as well as the awkward performances. You’re either going to be turned off by it or along for the ride. I can’t imagine there being much “in-between” when it comes to such a polarizing style of film.

John Adams, Toby Poser, and Zelda Adams all serve as the writers, directors, and stars of Where the Devil Roams, and that fact alone should be commended. Not very often do you see a Trifecta in film,...

The Adams Family debuted on the scene with The Deeper You Dig and returned last year for Shudder’s Hellbender. Up next from the family – and yes, they are indeed a real family – is Where the Devil Roams, and Variety reports that Tubi has scooped up the film this week.

Where the Devil Roams is set to premiere exclusively on Tubi this coming Winter.

“Set during Depression-era America, Where the Devil Roams follows a family of murderous sideshow performers as they travel the dying carnival circuit.”

Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and John Adams star in the film, as well as write and direct.

Variety previews, “Hugely ambitious, the film’s first 16 minutes packs a black and white prologue where a legless orator recites to a packed theater a poem about fallen angel Abaddon.”

“Tubi is a prime destination for horror fans. We have long seen a hunger for the horror...

Fox Corp.’s Tubi, its free, ad-supported streaming TV service, has pounced on two high-profile Fantasia titles, led by “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams family’s follow-up to “Hellbender,” Rotten Tomatoes No. 1 movie on its Top 10 of best-rated horror films of 2022, just besting Eskil Vogt’s “The Innocents.”

Estimating that it reaches 64 million monthly active users, Tubi also pounced on doc feature “Satan Wants You,” which world premiered at March’s SXSW. Both Fantasia titles will have their exclusive streaming premieres on Tubi this winter.

Written and directed by daughter Zelda Adams, father John Adams and mother Toby Poser at their Wonder Wheel Productions, “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams seventh feature, marks yet another a step-up in scale for the family of filmmakers who first broke out hitting Fantasia in 2019, world premiering “The Deeper You Dig” Zelda, not yet 18, was too young to watch herself.

Set deep in Depression era America,...

The Adams Family are among the most exciting indie horror filmmakers working today. The prolific family of hands-on filmmakers – father John Adams, mother Tobey Poser, and daughter Zelda Adams – share writing, directing and acting credits on all of their films, including 2021’s Hellbender.

Where the Devil Roams is the family’s most ambitious film yet, replete with a large supporting cast and a Depression-era period setting. The sprawling nature of the story gives the film an epic scope, but it also chips away at the cohesive structure, as the film winds up feeling more like a series of vignettes that fail to build to a satisfying, cohesive whole.

Maggie (Poser) is an uneducated woman married to Seven (John Adams), a former war medic. She’s impulsive and prone to violence, while he faints at the sight of blood. The pair have a regular gig as carnival performers with their daughter...

The UK’s biggest horror and genre festival returns to London this August, with another gloriously gory programme. Kicking off with the European premiere of much anticipated new body horror Suitable Flesh from genre legend Joe Lynch, FrightFest’s 2023 summer event boasts a whopping seventy films across four screens, and this year will return to being entirely under one roof, at the Cineworld Leicester Square.

Among the heavy-hitters in the festivals line-up are Farang, the latest “French blockbuster” from fantasy favourite Xavier Gens, Hitman); Where the Devil Roams, the newest chiller from family filmmaking team John, Zelda, Toby and Lulu Adams; Paris Zarcilla’s SXSW breakout hit Raging Grace and transgender director Alice Maio Mackay’s game changing Australian thriller T Blockers, shot by a predominantly queer, non-binary and trans cast and crew.

Documentary fans will be spoiled for choice, too, with new films on the legacy of J-horror, Brian Yuzna...

Feature examines film as conduit for humanity’s end-of-millennium fear, anxiety, elation and obsession.

New York and LA-based genre arthouse specialists Yellow Veil Pictures have acquired worldwide rights to Amanda Kramer’s cyberspace cinema documentary So Unreal narrated by Blondie singer and pop icon Debbie Harry and will launch sales in Cannes.

So Unreal puts cyberspace cinema from 1981-2001 like The Matrix, Tron, Tetsuo and eXisTenz under the spotlight and examines film as a conduit for humanity’s fear, anxiety, elation and obsession over the emerging technology at the end of the millennium.

“What a deep honour that Debbie Harry lent her legendary,...

Yellow Veil Pictures has announced that they have acquired worldwide rights for the erotic thriller documentary We Kill For Love ahead of the world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival. The company is planning a domestic release later this year and will represent the film for international sales with a launch at the upcoming Marche Du Film this May. Written, produced, and directed by Anthony Penta, the doc goes in search of the lost and misunderstood world of the direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores. Director Anthony Penta Courtesy of Anthony Penta Michael Reed in We Kill for Love Courtesy of Yellow Veil Pictures Balancing film art with scholarship, We Kill For Love pulls back the curtain to reveal the heart and soul of a forgotten and often maligned film movement. Joe Yanick Co-Founder of...

Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the erotic thriller documentary “We Kill For Love” ahead of its world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival.

The company is planning a domestic release later this year and will represent the film for international sales with a launch at the upcoming Marche Du Film in Cannes.

Written, produced, and directed by Anthony Penta, “We Kill for Love” depicts the long-gone world of direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores.

“‘We Kill For Love’ is a home run for erotic thriller fans,” said Joe Yanick, co-founder of Yellow Veil Pictures. “It’s one of the most in-depth looks at genre cinema and serves as more than just a love letter but pushes the conversation and spotlights films that have often often lost out to their more glamorous theatrical counterparts,...

Rights go in UK & Ireland, Australia/New Zealand, Italy.

Fast rising US arthouse genre sales and distribution company Yellow Veil Pictures has closed a raft of key territory deals on EFM sales titles Living With Chucky and King On Screen.

Kyra Gardner’s documentary Living With Chucky has sold to the UK & Ireland, Australia and New Zealand (Lightbulb Film Distribution), German-speaking Europe (Plaion Pictures), French-speaking Europe and Spain (VOD Factory), Italy (Midnight Factory), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), and Portugal (Vendetta Filmes).

Cinedigm previously acquired North American rights to the film by Gardner, daughter of veteran special effects artist Tony Gardner, who...

CAA Media Finance to co-rep North American rights.

Yellow Veil Pictures is bringing Where The Devil Roams, the new film from The Adams Family (Hellbender), to EFM next week and will launch sales talks with international buyers.

John Adams, Toby Poser and their daughter Zelda Adams have wrapped principal photography in upstate New York and are in post-production on the Depression-era tale about a clan of murderous sideshow performers travelling the dying carnival circuit.

As with their previous films, The Adams Family share writing and directing credits and Poser is producing through Wonder Wheel Productions.

Yellow Veil will share first...

Today comes news that the next Adams Family film, Where the Devil Roams, is set to be presented for international sales by our friends at Yellow Veil Pictures.    Set during Depression-era America, Where the Devil Roams follows a family of murderous sideshow performers as they travel the dying carnival circuit.   The celebrated creators of lauded horror flicks Hellbender and The Deeper You Dig have already shot the new film and it is currently in post. The triumphant trio of stars Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and John Adams, share writing and directing credits on this one. First footage will be shown to prospective buyers at the upcoming EFM in Berlin.   There is seemingly no time to rest for the Adams Family. Just the...

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One of the hottest filmmaking teams on the indie horror scene right now is The Adams Family, who debuted on the scene with The Deeper You Dig and returned last year for Shudder’s Hellbender. Up next from the family – and yes, they are indeed a real family – is Where the Devil Roams, and Deadline has provided us with the above first look today.

Yellow Veil Pictures has boarded international sales on the film, Deadline reports today. The label will co-represent North American rights with CAA Media Finance.

“Set during Depression-era America, Where the Devil Roams follows a family of murderous sideshow performers as they travel the dying carnival circuit.”

Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and John Adams star in the film, as well as write and direct.

Yellow Veil will show first footage to buyers at the European Film Market.

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Yellow Veil Pictures has boarded international sales on Where The Devil Roams, the latest feature from The Adams Family filmmaking trio who made waves with 2021 horror road trip picture Hellbender.

The New York and Los Angeles-based sales and distribution company will also co-represent North American rights with CAA Media Finance.

Set during Depression-era America, Where The Devil Roams follows a family of murderous sideshow performers as they travel the dying carnival circuit.

The movie wrapped principal photography in upstate New York and is currently in post-production. Yellow Veil will show first footage to buyers at the EFM.

Composed of John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughter, Zelda Adams, The Adams Family broke out with the 2021 horror hit Hellbender, which was also sold internationally by Yellow Veil.

The picture was acquired by AMC Network’s horror streaming service Shudder ahead of its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival...

It's that time of year again for Fangoria's anticipated Chainsaw Award nominations for horror movies and terrifying television, and we have a look at the full list of nominations, including Ti West's Pearl, Jordan Peele's Nope (leading with 10 nominations), and the second season of Don Mancini's Chucky TV series:

Press Release: Fangoria and Fangoria Studios have released their 2023 Chainsaw Award nominations, which recognizes outstanding achievements in horror film and television. Since 1992, the Chainsaw Awards have honored top achievements in the horror genre, with past recipients including Wes Craven, George A. Romero, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Hopkins, and Elisabeth Moss.

“Nope,” written and directed by Jordan Peele, leads the pack with ten nominations including Best Wide Release Movie and Best Director. Other nominees include “Barbarian,” “Pearl,” “Hellraiser,” “Chucky” and “Yellowjackets.” Fangoria has also introduced two new categories this year: Best Short and Best Cinematography.

Editor-in-chief of Fangoria Phil Nobile Jr. states,...

On Friday, Fangoria and Fangoria Studios released their 2023 Chainsaw Award nominations, which recognize outstanding achievements in horror film and television. First established in 1992, the Chainsaw Awards honor works and artists in a genre frequently overlooked by traditional organizations and critics groups. Past recipients include Wes Craven, George A. Romero, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Hopkins and Elisabeth Moss.

“Nope,” Jordan Peele’s follow-up to “Us,” received the most nominations of any film in Chainsaw Award contention, with 10 nominations including best wide release movie and best director. Other nominees include “Barbarian,” “Pearl,” “Hellraiser,” “Chucky” and “Yellowjackets.” Fangoria also introduced two new categories this year: Best Short and Best Cinematography.

Founded in 1979, Fangoria has become one of the most influential horror brands in the genre, living up to its moniker as “First in Fright.” At one time the only place on newsstands where fans could read about the world of contemporary horror, Fangoria...