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What better way to kick off a new month than a look at the many movies coming to Hulu? Ok, if you don’t have a Hulu subscription you might need an alternative. Maybe this list will convince you to take one out, though (not that I’m there salesperson). But enough patter, let’s crack on with it.

Here’s every new film that arrived on July 1st:

12 and Holding (2006)

2001 Maniacs (2005)

52 Pick-Up (1986)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2009)

A Kid Like Jake (2018)

A Mighty Wind (2003)

A Storks Journey (2017)

An Eye for a Eye (1966)

The Axe Murders of Villisca (2017)

The Bellboy (1960)

Beloved (2012)

Best In Show (2000)

Between Us (2017)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

Birdwatchers (2010)

Boogie Woogie (2010)

The Bounty (1984)

Brokedown Palace (1998)

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Bug (1975)

Buried (2010)

Cadaver (2009)

California Dreamin’ (2009)

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)

Catcher Was A Spy (2018)

The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)

Change of Plans (2010)

Cheech & Chong...

With so many streaming services to choose from, it can often be difficult to find the right one to spend your hard-earned dough on. That being said, Hulu has remained among the most exciting and content-heavy platforms alongside Netflix, really cementing itself as one of the most appealing options out there in recent years thanks to its collection of original content and very, very deep library of licensed films.

Like every other streaming service, they bring us new titles every month and July is looking to be quite a good one. Especially if you’re a horror fan. Admittedly, Hulu has always been pretty reliable when it comes to this particular genre, and that’s a reputation they seem intent to keep, as next month will bring us the likes of The Devil’s Rejects, Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, House of 1000 Corpses, The Ninth Gate, The House That Jack Built...

Hulu is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in July.

Highlights include season three of “90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days” and season one of “90 Day Fiance: The Other Way: Complete Season 1,” as well as some classic movies like “The Color Purple” and “Best in Show,” all coming July 1.

A new Hulu original movie “Palm Springs” drops on July 10, and a new episode of “Into the Dark” called “The Current Occupant” premieres July 17.

Movies leaving Hulu on July 31 include “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight,” “Thelma & Louise” and “Wayne’s World.”

See the full list of everything new and leaving the streamer below.

Also Read: ABC Already Changes Fall TV Schedule, Moves 'Black-ish' Up From Midseason

July 1

1000-lb Sisters: Complete Season 1 (TLC)

90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days: Complete Season 3 (TLC)

90 Day Fiance: The Other Way: Complete Season 1 (TLC)

BBQ Rig Race: Complete Season...

Perhaps the most exciting piece of content coming to Hulu in July 2020 is…a movie? Remember those? You would buy a ticket and then go sit in a dark room with other people eating Buncha Crunch. Sounds wild!

Yes, more and more feature films are turning to streaming services for their summer releases. And with their list of new offerings for July 2020, Hulu got itself a big fish. Palm Springs is a Groundhog Day-style comedy starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti as star-crossed lovers forced to live the same day over and over again. It premieres on Hulu on July 10.

And that’s not the only original movie coming to Hulu in July. Romanian crime thriller The Whistlers premieres on July 2. Sasheer Zamata comedy The Weekend follows on July 15. Then Hulu caps the month off with the Julia Garner-starring The Assistant on July 20. There’s good movie news...

With so many streaming services available now, it can often be hard to pick the right one to spend your hard-earned money on. However, Hulu has remained among the most successful and content-heavy platforms alongside Netflix and has only gotten better with age. Whereas it had very few worthwhile movies years ago, now it often has some of the best films you can find to watch, and they’re offered up alongside brand new episodes of shows from various major networks. Like every other streaming service, Hulu updates their content throughout each month, and July is looking to add quite a lot of good stuff.

First up, superhero fans will be happy to hear that Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 swings onto the service on July 1st. This polarizing third entry for the Tobey Maguire version of the popular web-slinger sees Peter Parker bond with a symbiote that brings out...

With 2018 quickly winding down, it’s time to visit a new batch of international directors and auteurs who have been missing in action for five years or more. From our 2017 batch, there have been a few recent updates on completed and projected projects. The most notable resurgence was from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, who broke a seven-year absence in 2018 with her Cannes Jury Prize Winner Capernaum. Meanwhile, French auteur Bertrand Blier is set to break a nine-year absence with Convoi Exceptionnel in 2019, reuniting him with Gerard Depardieu. And Marina De Van, who hasn’t released a project since her 2013 Irish co-pro Dark Touch, recently revealed plans for a feature set to star Charles Berling, which could perhaps be ready for 2020.…...

Although relatively scarce, horror movies directed by women are out there. You may have to turn over a few rocks to know who they are and their material might be a little more difficult to get your hands on, but these directors deserve just as much attention and scrutiny as their male counterparts, who have long dominated the genre. The following discusses selections of female directors’ forays into the business of terror. (This post contains spoilers)

Antonia Bird

The late director Antonia Bird’s Ravenous is a bizarre amalgamation of humor and horror that explores cannibalism with warped nuance. The strangely cacophonous score builds up tension as craven outcasts face a glutinous and depraved attacker whose strength seems fortified by his consumption of human flesh. Set during America’s westward expansion, the metaphor of humanity’s insatiable appetite for power is plain to see, but its execution indulges in such...

There are two ways to get this Ambush Predator figure created by Neca without being at this year's Comic-Con. More details on that story as well as details on Film4 FrightFest 2015 and a trailer from the thriller Psychophonia in this round-up.

Ambush Predator Figure: Neca reports that "This summer we have six awesome convention exclusives (one of which has a Toys ‘R’ Us exclusive variant) — and because the quantities are lower than in previous years, they’re even more exclusive than before! However, there are Two ways to procure one During Comic-Con Without Going To Comic-Con if you’re ready for a little excitement, that is!

1. In Store: From July 9th through 12th, we’ll seed a very small number of each in random Toys ‘R’ Us and Hastings stores all across the U.S. Which ones? That would ruin all the fun.

2. Online Flash Sale: During the show (exact...

The 16th edition of Film4 FrightFest kicks off in skin-crawling fashion with the European premiere of David Keating’s blood-freezing rural nightmare Cherry Tree, starring Anna Walton (Hellboy 2, Soulmate) and rising star Naomi Battrick (Down Dog, Waterloo Road)

Keating, who directed the acclaimed Wake Wood for the revamped Hammer label, offers another provocative and compelling twist on the pagan cult chiller, in which a young girl, Faith (Naomi Battrick), in an attempt to save her father’s life, makes a fateful pact with Sissy Young (Anna Walton) head of a sinister black magic coven. FrightFest’s first Irish event-opener, Cherry Tree, is a Fantastic Films & House of Netherhorror Production, produced by John McDonnell & Brendan McCarthy.

Closing Film4 FrightFest is the European premiere of the stunning anthology Tales of Halloween, a celebration of the spooky October holiday. Ten tales of terror unfold in a sleepy American suburb on All Hallows Eve as ghouls,...

Coming of rage! That’s so good! Psychic rage is coming back. Though the Carrie remake failed to ignite much passion, films like Marina de Van’s Dark Touch, Joe Begos’ recently announced The Mind’s Eye and L Gustavo Cooper’s upcoming June are keeping sorely missed subgenre alive. June, which has been a presence at Industry markets last summer and online with a very…

The post New Poster: Psychic Ability Horror June Makes a Killer Pun appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.

A solid action fantasy more elemental and visceral than I expected, thanks to the potent presence of Luke Evans. I’m “biast” (pro): love Luke Evans

I’m “biast” (con): fantasy action horror is not in a good place right now

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Untold? Really? How can that be? We’ve been telling Dracula stories for more than a century. There are literally hundreds of movies featuring the Transylvanian bloodsucker (and that’s not counting all the probably thousands of films about vampires who aren’t named Dracula). How can there possibly be anything yet untold about him?

Now, I haven’t seen all those previous movies, but I’ve seen the major ones, so I feel fairly confident in confirming that yes, Dracula Untold seems to have found some new angles on an old, oft-told tale, both in the character...

Stars: Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Padraic Delaney, Charlotte Flyvholm, Stephen Wall, Robert Donnelly, Susie Power, Richard Dormer, Catherine Walker, Simon Boyle, Olga Wehrly, Mark Huberman, Katie Kirby, Clare Barrett, Art Parkinson | Written and Directed by Marina de Van

Dark Touch is the story of an eleven year old girl called Niamh (Missy Keating) whose parents and baby brother are killed when household objects seemingly begin to attack them of their own accord. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Niamh’s declarations of supernatural events occurring at the family home and goes to live with family friends but the mysterious occurrences start to happen again and the nightmarish horrors of Niamh’s past return to claim more victims.

Featuring a French crew and an Irish cast and one wonders if something drastic was lost in translation…

Dark Touch is apparently a film about child abuse but it misjudges...

The delights of genre cinema are born from human imagination. The stories are nurtured by individuals who optimistically hope and believe across the years of their lives that a single film will devour that their tales arrive at the intended destination – to discover and touch the sensibilities of the audience.

If films are born out of the imagination then so the same could be said for the festivals that showcase them – festivals such as FrightFest that are crafted according to an ethos shared by four men who genre cinema continues to owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude – “‘Run by fans for the fans”, to find those great new voices in genre and see what difference they can make, and to ensure the FrightFest spirit of community endures.

But those who champion and showcase films, supporting their endeavours to find an audience on their ongoing journey from the intimate confines of its maker’s world,...

We've got our hands on the terrifying trailer for horror film The Babadook, which will go down a storm at FrightFest 2014. In fact, we love it so much we're sponsoring it. The tale of a single mum who reads a cursed storybook to her young son, unleashing a horrific monster in the process, The Babadook could be described as Evil Dead meets Dark Touch.  Termed "Truly frightening" by our very own Rosie Fletcher, dare you watch the below? The Babadook is set to hit UK cinemas from 24 October 2014. 

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Stars: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackoff, Rory Cochrane | Written by Mike Flanagan, Jeff Howard | Directed by Mike Flanagan

Creepy kids have been a staple ingredient of horror films for a long time and recent examples of the genre such as the Insidious films, Dark Touch, Mama and The Quiet Ones show that our fear of little children doing strange things remains unabated. Oculus reverses this trope by having a pair of plucky siblings combat the forces of darkness embodied in part by their creepy parents.

Karen Gillan and Brenton Thwaites play Kaylie and Tim Russell, who 11 years previously survived an ordeal which saw their father Alan (Rory Cochrane) go crazy, kill their mother Marie (Katee Sackhoff) and attempt to kill them too. Tim shot their father and for his troubles, ended up spending the intervening years in psychiatric care. Upon his release, Kaylie recruits him in her mission to...

Marcella Plunkett (Dark Touch) has been booked as a recurring on FX‘s How And Why, from Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich). It tells the story of Goodman Hesselman (John Hawkes), who can explain how and why a nuclear reactor works but is clueless about life. After losing his gig hosting children’s science show How And Why, he tries to start over with a new show in a little TV market in the middle of nowhere when he encounters the supernatural world. We hear Plunkett is playing two roles, Cynthia, a photographer at Goodman’s new TV station in Murfreesboro, and Magda, Mendelson’s (Michael Cera) secretary, whose day is spent in a cramped, tiny room, not much bigger than her desk. Plunkett is with Radius Entertainment and Lisa Richards Agency in Ireland. Newcomer Sofia Mattsson has been cast in the...

Today is of course St. Patrick’s Day, which essentially means that us horror fans are allowed the freedom to do two things, without incurring the wrath of judgment that doing those two things typically incurs; not only do we get to drink all day, but it’s sort of an unwritten rule that we must plop our asses on our couches and watch as many of the films in the Leprechaun franchise as we can possibly endure. A great holiday this one is, to say the least.

That said, if you’ve already seen all the Leprechaun movies, and don’t have much interest in watching them again, then have no fear, because we’ve got you covered. We came up with a list of films to accompany you on today’s couch-riding, beer-drinking escapades, all of which are worthy alternatives to the Leprechaun films.

These ten Irish-made horror...

Click here to read our french "Dark Touch" movie review, directed by Marina de Van with Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Padraic Delaney starring.In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Niamh finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest....

Warning: This review contains spoilers.

If Stephen King had written Matilda instead of Roald Dahl, it might look something like Dark Touch. This bizarre little movie is the creation of writer/director Marina de Van who became infamous after 2002's In My Skin, a film in which the protagonist eats her own flesh. Dark Touch is similarly not for the faint of heart, but for people with similar horror sensibilities, they will get more than they expected from this grade-school Carrie.

After her entire family is brutally murdered, Neve (Marie Missy Keating) goes to live with friends of her parents until a more permanent home can be found. Neve believes that her family's house was haunted and that evil spirits killed her parents and brother, but after leaving the house, unexplainable supernatural events keep happening whenever Neve is upset or frightened. Her foster parents try to be understanding, but they...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

The Armstrong Lie: another brilliant documentary from the ever-incisive Alex Gibney, about Lance Armstrong and the power of celebrity [at Amazon Instant Video]

new this week

Dallas Buyers Club: unsentimental true story of tenacity, and a reexamination of prejudices, in the face of imminent death; Matthew McConaughey is terrific [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Hawking: engaging documentary about the world-famous physicist that emphasizes the challenges of his personal life and the resilience of his humor and spirit [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Mother of George: powerful drama about a Nigerian couple in Brooklyn struggling with the cultural pressures to have a baby [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to streaming

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God: enraging documentary about the Catholic Church’s pedophilia coverup will leave you feeling battered by grief and fury [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] The Conspirator: admirable, handsomely mounted drama about the Lincoln assassination,...

IFC Midnight have let loose with their release details for Dark Touch. It was on VOD a few months back and if you missed it then you’re living right because the DVD is on it’s way.

Jan. 28th is the target date and here is what it’s all about:

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IFC Midnight just dropped the release details and artwork for one of their latest home video offerings, Dark Touch, and we have everything you need to see and know right here! Check it out!

Look for it on DVD this coming January 28th.

Synopsis:

After a mysterious and bloody massacre in her isolated country house leaves her parents and younger brother dead, 11-year-old Neve (Missy Keating, The Sea) is taken by police to friends of the family to be looked after.

When Neve tries to explain that an evil force within the house caused the deaths, she's met with disbelief from both the authorities and her new family. But before long it becomes apparent that whatever killed her family has followed Neve to her new home, and soon she and all those around her are in mortal danger of some malevolent power that seems to be tied to the unfortunate girl.

There are big movies and there are little movies. I mean that entirely in the sense of budget and release, promotion and theatrical scope. In the United States we talk most about our wide studio releases, then homegrown smaller independent films and the big-name foreign imports. But that leaves quality filmmaking to fall through the cracks. Movies that, for one reason or another, no one seems to be talking about. There are overlooked gems, and then there are the deep cuts. The homegrown niche dramas, the Irish horror flicks, the Latin American comedies, the Scandinavian experiments in nonfiction? This year saw some extraordinary unheralded work from abroad, alongside some excellent films that came from unexpected domestic places. Here are thirteen of them. Concussion There aren’t enough independent lesbian dramas (or comedies, for that matter) released in the United States. This is actually a mathematical fact, given the near impossibility of funding projects like Concussion. So...

Let's get right to the point: 2013 was not exactly a banner year for our beloved horror genre. Oh sure, you'll always find a good batch a horror flicks over any 12-month period, but if you scour the 2013 release calendar you'll notice that A) Hollywood studios released very few horror flicks this year, and B) the indie filmmaker and distributors (as usual) really stepped in to fill that void. With that in mind, here's my list of the Top 12 horror films of the year. Yes, they're ranked in order of "favorites," but I firmly recommend each one. My #12 could be your #2. That's why we like art; we all see different things.

#1. Stoker (Fox Searchlight) -- In the hands of more pedestrian filmmakers, Stoker would probably hit the screen feeling like a sexy and slightly audacious thriller that doesn't stick in your memory bank very long. Fortunately it seems that the producers...

Get ready for 10 truly terrifying nights when Washington, D.C.’s Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival haunts the AFI Silver Theatre on Oct 10-19 for the fest’s 8th annual edition.

Things really jolt alive on the 10th with the Opening Night film Willow Creek, a surprising genre entry by comedian-turned-director Bobcat Goldthwait, who tells the tale about a couple of amateur Bigfoot hunters who get in way over their heads in the woods. Goldthwait will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A moderated by Film Comment‘s Laura Kern. Also playing on this opening night are a program of scary short films and the feature An American Terror, a post-Columbine fright flick by Haylar Garcia.

As for the other nine nights, sticking true to the “International” in the fest’s name are movies such as the Ireland/France/Sweden co-production Dark Touch by Marina de Van about...

On the outside, the English-language debut of French director Marina de Van looks like a traditional supernatural thriller, complete with a requisite “creepy” kid, and mysterious telekinetic powers. On the inside, Dark Touch is a heartrendingly sad, unflinchingly intimate exploration of the trauma of abuse: a horror movie that draws its nightmares from the sordid, squalid corners of real life. While de Van is possibly best known for her 2002 art house self-cannibalism shocker In My Skin, her latest feature proves that her ability to viscerally assault and disturb audiences remains undeterred.

Set in a bleak, isolated Irish village, the film centers around eight year old Niamh (played by a mesmerizing Missy Keating). Niamh’s parents and younger brother are brutally killed after their home appears to turn on them when inanimate objects and innocuous furniture are possessed by a murderous, destructive rage. Niamh, the only witness to the tragedy, is...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream on Netflix and Amazon Instant Video.

streaming now, while it’s still in theaters

Dark Touch: an elegantly atmospheric movie that plumbs typically unseen depths of children’s coping mechanisms in the face of of terrible real-life experience [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Touchy Feely: lovely, warmly human dramedy about a massage therapist who loses her touch… and about how we all need to be cared for more than we are [at Amazon Instant Video] Ain’t Them Bodies Saints: oddly dreamy romance among criminals; like if Terrence Malick made Bonnie and Clyde [at Amazon Instant Video]

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

Pacific Rim: a war movie in the richest tradition, set in an exciting and unforgettable near-future science fiction universe; we will be talking about this movie for a long time [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to stream

A Fierce Green Fire: a wonderfully necessary...

The horror genre is rife with awful and evil parents permanently scarring their children, from Norma Bates and Margaret White to Pamela Voorhees, and several more. An intriguing new film from IFC, Dark Touch, touches on many of these themes, including a horrifying portrait of child abuse, as a girl is haunted by her past, and untold demons. The film, from Marina de Van, is now available on VOD and available on SundanceNOW.

We’re thrilled to offer you the chance to see this film for free by entering this week’s contest on FM. One lucky horror fan will get the chance to see this film for free. All you have to do to enter this unique giveaway, is tweet @FMWolfmandy your favorite (or least favorite) mother and/or father from a horror movie. A random winner will be selected by Wednesday 12 Pm Pt, and an online code for...

If Only They Knew She Had the Power: De Van’s Somber Telekinetic Exercise Lacks Verve

Previously a scribe and actress for Francois Ozon in some of his early works, Marina De Van has become a notable director in her own right, mostly due to a phenomenal debut with 2002’s In My Skin, in which she stars as a woman obsessed with cutting off parts of herself…and eating it. While she consistently delves into matters of the grotesque, she hasn’t quite matched the intensity of her first feature, though odd and offbeat often describe her works, such as the schizoid 2009 Bellucci/Marceau headliner Don’t Look Back. Her latest film, Dark Touch, set in Ireland and filmed in English, has her signature ambiguous menace in an otherwise straightforward genre effort focused on an abused preadolescent female with telekinetic powers. Unfortunately, the film will have you recall Carrie more...

Elegantly atmospheric indie horror drama plumbs typically unseen depths of children’s coping mechanisms in the face of terrible real-life experience. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

A young girl, Niamh (amazing and heartbreaking Missy Keating), is the only survivor of a violent attack on her family home in the remote Irish countryside, which kills her parents and her infant brother. The cops figure it to be the work of vandals, Niamh (pronounced “Neve”) insists it was the house itself… but we saw what happened, and damned if it didn’t look like some sort of telekinetic storm that the girl herself manifested. But why? We know, from our history with horror flicks, that this sort of event doesn’t happen out of the blue but as a reaction to something far worse. And we know,...

IFC will release Dark Touch on September 27th and writer/director Marina de Van took part in a brief Q&A with us to discuss her work on the movie.

Thank you for taking the time to talk with us. Can you tell our readers how Dark Touch came to be your latest project? Why was this a story that you wanted to take on as both a writer and director?

Marina de Van: Because It’S A Very Personal Subject, A Subject Which Touches Me Deeply, And I Always Want To Direct The Movies That I Write When It’S About A Subject That Touches Me. I Don’T Know Why I’M Touched By It, Maybe Because The Damages Of Child Abuse Are Permanent, According To Me, And Bring Obstacles To Feel Free And Well In The World, To Feel In A Good Place And Safe, Which...

A family experiences some extreme paranormal activity in an exclusive clip we have received for Dark Touch.

IFC is bringing the UK thriller to the States this Friday. Check out the clip after the jump.

In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve’s explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest. Haunted objects, an eerie score and a moody, oneiric look complement this intense and frightening peek into child abuse and the searing imagination of writer/director Marina de Van.

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Marina de Van's latest thriller Dark Touch hits selected theaters, VOD, and SundanceNowon September 27th and you could see the film for free!In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest. Haunted objects, an eerie score and a moody, oneiric look complement this intense and frightening peek into child abuse and the searing imagination of writer/director...

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If you wanted to describe the excellent new horror film from Ireland called Dark Touch as "Carrie Junior," you wouldn't be all that much off the mark, at least not on a surface level. But there's a lot more to the film than just one angry young girl and a bunch of flying furniture. Despite a handful of familiar components and a whole lot of telekinetic mayhem, Dark Touch is not so much a Carrie acolyte as it is one seriously frank and powerful horror film about the disastrous and irrevocable effects of child abuse.

  Written and directed by Marina de Van (In My Skin, Don't Look Back), Dark Touch opens in an oddly disconcerting fashion -- a strange little girl wanders into a neighbor's house with all sorts of bizarre injuries -- slowly settles into a fairly conventional tale of well-meaning foster parents and their insidious new charge. But...

It seems like every few years we get another one of these scary kids movies and while Marina de Van's Dark Touch doesn't seem to offer anything new, the trailer suggests that this one may be worth keeping an eye out for. It certainly helps that de Van's track record is quite solid.

The story unfolds in a remote Irish town where a young girl is the sole survivor of a massacre. Neve is adamant that the house is responsible for the deaths of her family (or more accurately, something supernatural in the house) while the police think it was the work of homicidal vandals. Neve is taken in by the neighbours but of course, bad things start to happen there too.

Yeah, been there done that. I know. But the trailer is very effective with its music, visuals and effects.

Dark Touch [Continued ...]...

Check out the trailer for Marina de Vans Dark Touch (review) the film will open in select theaters and on VOD on September 27th from IFC Midnight. Dark Touch is an emotionally searing film one that shatters your emotions and leaves you with a deep sense of sadness. At its heart Dark Touch is about the long lasting effects of child abuse and the scars that it leaves both physical and emotional. The film stars Padraic Delaney Robert Donnelly Charlotte Flyvholm and Ella Hayes Synopsis At night an isolated house deep in the countryside takes on a monstrous life of its own. Objects and furniture run riot against the inhabitants leaving 11yearold Neve the only survivor of a bloody massacre that destroys the bodies of her...

Check out the trailer for Marina de Vans Dark Touch (review) the film will open in select theaters and on VOD on September 27th from IFC Midnight. Dark Touch is an emotionally searing film one that shatters your emotions and leaves you with a deep sense of sadness. At its heart Dark Touch is about the long lasting effects of child abuse and the scars that it leaves both physical and emotional. The film stars Padraic Delaney Robert Donnelly Charlotte Flyvholm and Ella Hayes Synopsis At night an isolated house deep in the countryside takes on a monstrous life of its own. Objects and furniture run riot against the inhabitants leaving 11yearold Neve the only survivor of a bloody massacre that destroys the bodies of her...

Prepare yourself for suspense with IFC Midnight’s latest film, Dark Touch. French filmmaker Marina De Van’s (In My Skin) latest eerie and intense thriller dives straight into the darkness that can possess a child’s heart.

In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve’s explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest. Haunted objects, an eerie score and a moody, oneiric look complement this intense and frightening peek into child abuse and the searing imagination of writer/director Marina de Van.

The film stars Missy Keating,...

What’s creepier than creepy kids and a creepy house? A creepy kid In a creepy house. That’s what you get in “Don’t Look Back” director Marina De Van’s very creepy new horror flick “Dark Touch”. I got goosebumps watching the trailer for this thing. A good night kiss has never been, well, creepier. Check out the trailer for “Dark Touch” and some images, including a poster below. In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve’s explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest.

We recently brought you news that IFC will release Marina de Van’s Dark Touch on September 27th. Here’s a look at the newly released Dark Touch trailer:

“At night, an isolated house deep in the countryside takes on a monstrous life of its own.

Objects and furniture run riot against the inhabitants, leaving 11-year-old Neve the only survivor of a bloody massacre that destroys the bodies of her parents and culminates in the death of her little brother, Ciaran.

Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve when she tries to tell them about the murderous rage of the house. She is taken in by friends of her parents who, with the help of a local social worker, try to ease her trauma by surrounding her with love and rebuilding the semblance of a normal life. But Neve doesn’t find peace. Far from it…

All around her,...

IFC debuted the trailer for Dark Touch, which opens in limited release on September 27th. Head inside for a look!

In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve’s explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest. Haunted objects, an eerie score and a moody, oneiric look complement this intense and frightening peek into child abuse and the searing imagination of writer/director Marina de Van.

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Dark Touch is an international film which was shot in Ireland. This horror title deals with the parental abuse of a young child. The film's disturbing matter is alluded to in the early promotional material for Dark Touch (left). The film's story follows Niamh (Missy Keating). She is the sole survivor of a brutal massacre, which leaves her parents dead. Niamh believes that her own home is responsible for their deaths, but no one will listen. Who is responsible for her parents' murder and can they be found before more violence finds Niamh? IFC Films will distribute Dark Touch in North America. The release date for the film is September 27th, 2013 on Video-on-demand. Fans of psychological horror titles can preview the available info' on the film here: a film poster and early still. Release Date: September 27, 2013 (VOD) Director/writer: Marina de Van. Cast: Padraic Delaney, Robert Donnelly, Charlotte Flyvholm, Ella Hayes,...

IFC will release Marina de Van’s Dark Touch later this month and we’ve been provided with a new poster and photos. The film will be released in the Us simultaneously on VOD, digital outlets, and select theaters on September 27th:

“At night, an isolated house deep in the countryside takes on a monstrous life of its own.

Objects and furniture run riot against the inhabitants, leaving 11-year-old Neve the only survivor of a bloody massacre that destroys the bodies of her parents and culminates in the death of her little brother, Ciaran.

Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve when she tries to tell them about the murderous rage of the house. She is taken in by friends of her parents who, with the help of a local social worker, try to ease her trauma by surrounding her with love and rebuilding the semblance of a normal life.

IFC Midnight acquired the UK thriller Dark Touch out of the Tribeca Film Fest earlier this year and, today, we're learning that the film is arriving on September 27th.

Written and directed by Marina de Van, you can find stills from the film via this link.

In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve’s explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker.

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Monday

The fifth and final day of Frightfest mercifully began a little later than the preceding days, a boon to many now slightly flagging and delirious film fans. Unfortunately, the first film on the main screen was the single worst feature I caught at the festival. Dark Touch (Marina De Van) features a French crew and an Irish cast and one wonders if something drastic was lost in translation. It’s the story of an eleven year old girl called Niamh (Marie Missy Keating) whose parents and baby brother are killed when household objects seemingly begin to attack them of their own accord. She goes to live with family friends but the mysterious occurrences start to happen again.

It’s apparently a film about child abuse but it misjudges its take on this very difficult subject so badly, it’s borderline offensive. It’s also just stupid. If I were...

Marina de Van's poem of telekinesis and terror Dark Touch took home the H.R. Giger Narcisse Award when all was said and done at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival this past Saturday. Twitch's Joshua Chaplinsky's feelings were decidedly mixed when he reviewed it in April, noting: [de Van] certainly knows how to make a good looking film, and is adept at setting up an atmosphere of dread and delivering visceral bursts of violence. But after you hook the audience with a visually arresting setup you have to follow it up with this pesky thing called a story, and this one just didn't work for me.The film also took the Mad Movies award for "Maddest" film, and the Youth Award to boot. You'll just have to...

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Marina de Van’s horror movie has won the top prize at the 13th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff).See below for full list of winners

Dark Touch, a supernatural horror film that centres on an 11-year-old girl, was handed the Hr Giger Narcisse Award for best feature in the international competition, which includes a $10,500 (10000Chf) prize.

The international jury said it “appreciated the original way in which the horror genre was combined with a moralistic fairy tale. The director was able to use the supernatural in order to reach a certain truth that revealed an invisible aspect of reality.”

The film, sold by Wild Bunch, also won the Denis-de-Rougemont Youth Award and Mad Movies Award.

A special mention went to Swiss horror Chimères by Olivier Beguin.

The international jury was headed by French producer François Cognard and comprised Frederike Dellert, Kim Newman, Orson Scott Card and Jean-François Rauger.

The festival...

A fresh crop of new images from several of the flicks playing at this year's Film4 FrightFest have come our way and we're dishing 'em right here to ya! Check out new eye candy for Cheap Thrills, Odd Thomas, The Conspiracy, and Wither.

From the Press Release:

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, is delighted to unveil its biggest lineup in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up...

From the press release:

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.

This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.

The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...

If you've been jealous of our UK brothers and sisters in years past because of the incredible lineup offered by the Film4 FrightFest, well, you ain't seen nothing yet! Check out what they have on the menu for 2013 along with a ridiculous amount of new images from several of the films.

From the Press Release:

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, is delighted to unveil its biggest lineup in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also...