Going off to a secluded location always leads to disaster. Characters swap the bright lights of the city for a respite far removed from civilization, unaware that danger lurks in the woods. Toss in a tortured relationship, and it’s the perfect storm. In celebration of Pride Month, let’s take a closer look at two such films, Icelandic horror/thriller Rift and Canadian psychological terror What Keeps You Alive. Both films depict the maddening descent into chaos, each detailing how a relationship meets a bloody, grisly end. Along the way, you’re whipped into an emotional frenzy.
In director Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen’s Rift, Gunnar (Björn Stefánsson) and Einar (Sigurður Þór Óskarsson) have split, yet find themselves still emotionally attached and unable to move on. We first meet them months after the breakup when they both attend the same party. Out on the balcony, Gunnar and Einar nurse drinks and try to reconnect.
In director Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen’s Rift, Gunnar (Björn Stefánsson) and Einar (Sigurður Þór Óskarsson) have split, yet find themselves still emotionally attached and unable to move on. We first meet them months after the breakup when they both attend the same party. Out on the balcony, Gunnar and Einar nurse drinks and try to reconnect.
- 6/22/2023
- by Bee Delores
- bloody-disgusting.com
In M. Night Shyamalan's "Knock at the Cabin," a couple and their young daughter take a trip to a secluded cabin. Their peaceful vacation is interrupted by a group of strangers holding deadly weapons. It feels like a familiar hostage horror movie until the shocking revelation that the family must make a devastating choice to prevent the apocalypse.
"Knock at the Cabin" is just one of many films to use the cabin in the woods trope. This sequestered locale buried in the vast, mysterious woods is often the site of violence, confrontation, and hidden secrets in films — particularly the horror genre. It is a space where characters are forced to be together, and there is nowhere to run when they face danger. The wild, remote setting forces protagonists to confront life-altering circumstances and events. Often, these films are intimate with a small cast trapped in the cabin setting.
The...
"Knock at the Cabin" is just one of many films to use the cabin in the woods trope. This sequestered locale buried in the vast, mysterious woods is often the site of violence, confrontation, and hidden secrets in films — particularly the horror genre. It is a space where characters are forced to be together, and there is nowhere to run when they face danger. The wild, remote setting forces protagonists to confront life-altering circumstances and events. Often, these films are intimate with a small cast trapped in the cabin setting.
The...
- 2/17/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Colin Minihan’s alien abduction thriller, Extraterrestrial!
At one point, it can be argued that the Vicious Brothers were one of Canada’s most influential filmmaking duos, only challenged by the Soska Sisters in genre cinema. While these punk-rock partners (who aren’t really brothers) skyrocketed to stardom after the popularity of 2007’s Grave Encounters, they weren’t too keen on repeating themselves after that initial success, even passing along their directorial duties to John Poliquin on Grave Encounters 2.
For their next endeavor, the duo decided to look back on an unproduced passion project. Inspired by their perceived lack of “cool” alien movies in the horror genre, the filmmakers had come up with a story informed by UFO abduction accounts and government conspiracy theories long before their first feature film. Updating the script, they soon began production on what would eventually become 2014’s Extraterrestrial.
At one point, it can be argued that the Vicious Brothers were one of Canada’s most influential filmmaking duos, only challenged by the Soska Sisters in genre cinema. While these punk-rock partners (who aren’t really brothers) skyrocketed to stardom after the popularity of 2007’s Grave Encounters, they weren’t too keen on repeating themselves after that initial success, even passing along their directorial duties to John Poliquin on Grave Encounters 2.
For their next endeavor, the duo decided to look back on an unproduced passion project. Inspired by their perceived lack of “cool” alien movies in the horror genre, the filmmakers had come up with a story informed by UFO abduction accounts and government conspiracy theories long before their first feature film. Updating the script, they soon began production on what would eventually become 2014’s Extraterrestrial.
- 10/13/2022
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Osric Chau, Sara Canning, Gracie Gillam, Barbara Crampton | Written and Directed by Brandon Christensen
Superhost is the third film by writer/director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) and the first that wasn’t co-written with Colin Minihan. It’s also the first that doesn’t revolve around parenthood. How well has he managed to change things up? And can he bring something new to a pair of well-worn plots, the Airbnb from hell and YouTubers getting more of a story than they bargained for?
Teddy and Claire are co-hosts of the YouTube channel Superhost! as well as being a couple off-screen. He’s even planning to propose to her when they film their next segment.
But all is not well in the world of Airbnb reviews. Their subscriber count has been dropping due to their unsensational content. They rent a remote cabin only to find that the access code has been changed.
Superhost is the third film by writer/director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) and the first that wasn’t co-written with Colin Minihan. It’s also the first that doesn’t revolve around parenthood. How well has he managed to change things up? And can he bring something new to a pair of well-worn plots, the Airbnb from hell and YouTubers getting more of a story than they bargained for?
Teddy and Claire are co-hosts of the YouTube channel Superhost! as well as being a couple off-screen. He’s even planning to propose to her when they film their next segment.
But all is not well in the world of Airbnb reviews. Their subscriber count has been dropping due to their unsensational content. They rent a remote cabin only to find that the access code has been changed.
- 4/1/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "What Keeps You Alive"
Where You Can Stream It: Netflix
The Pitch: Directed by Colin Minihan, this 2018 Canadian psychological thriller follows Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen), a young lesbian couple celebrating their first anniversary at a secluded cabin owned by Jackie's family.
Upon their arrival, something about Jackie's demeanor changes completely. Jules tries to look beyond her odd behavior, but when Jackie's childhood...
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The Movie: "What Keeps You Alive"
Where You Can Stream It: Netflix
The Pitch: Directed by Colin Minihan, this 2018 Canadian psychological thriller follows Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen), a young lesbian couple celebrating their first anniversary at a secluded cabin owned by Jackie's family.
Upon their arrival, something about Jackie's demeanor changes completely. Jules tries to look beyond her odd behavior, but when Jackie's childhood...
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- 9/23/2021
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Stars: Osric Chau, Sara Canning, Gracie Gillam, Barbara Crampton | Written and Directed by Brandon Christensen
Superhost is the third film by writer/director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) and the first that wasn’t co-written with Colin Minihan. It’s also the first that doesn’t revolve around parenthood. How well has he managed to change things up? And can he bring something new to a pair of well-worn plots, the Airbnb from hell and YouTubers getting more of a story than they bargained for?
Teddy and Claire are co-hosts of the YouTube channel Superhost! as well as being a couple off-screen. He’s even planning to propose to her when they film their next segment.
But all is not well in the world of Airbnb reviews. Their subscriber count has been dropping due to their unsensational content. They rent a remote cabin only to find that the access code has been changed.
Superhost is the third film by writer/director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) and the first that wasn’t co-written with Colin Minihan. It’s also the first that doesn’t revolve around parenthood. How well has he managed to change things up? And can he bring something new to a pair of well-worn plots, the Airbnb from hell and YouTubers getting more of a story than they bargained for?
Teddy and Claire are co-hosts of the YouTube channel Superhost! as well as being a couple off-screen. He’s even planning to propose to her when they film their next segment.
But all is not well in the world of Airbnb reviews. Their subscriber count has been dropping due to their unsensational content. They rent a remote cabin only to find that the access code has been changed.
- 8/31/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
What they captured on camera cannot be explained.
Still relatively early in its existence, YouTube was busy bringing Rebecca Black’s weekend anthem “Friday” into homes around the world and teaching viewers how to do the dance moves to The Lonely Island’s “The Creep," but for millions of horror fans in late 2010 and early 2011, the relatively new video platform was home to one of the first horror movie trailers to go viral in the 2010s. The name of the movie was Grave Encounters, and similar to The Blair Witch Project—its found footage predecessor that went viral in its own grassroots way in the ’90s—the film’s trailer was presented as real footage assembled from a real event that went really wrong. Centered on a paranormal investigative team making a TV show called Grave Encounters, the trailer showed what would happen if supernatural sleuths really did make contact with the other side…...
Still relatively early in its existence, YouTube was busy bringing Rebecca Black’s weekend anthem “Friday” into homes around the world and teaching viewers how to do the dance moves to The Lonely Island’s “The Creep," but for millions of horror fans in late 2010 and early 2011, the relatively new video platform was home to one of the first horror movie trailers to go viral in the 2010s. The name of the movie was Grave Encounters, and similar to The Blair Witch Project—its found footage predecessor that went viral in its own grassroots way in the ’90s—the film’s trailer was presented as real footage assembled from a real event that went really wrong. Centered on a paranormal investigative team making a TV show called Grave Encounters, the trailer showed what would happen if supernatural sleuths really did make contact with the other side…...
- 5/1/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Rlje Films Presents Spiral Available On DVD & Blu-ray January 19, 2021 Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Spiral from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Spiral will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 19, 2021. Directed by Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive), Spiral was written by Colin Minihan (Z), and John Poliquin (Still/Born). …
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- 1/16/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Rlje Films Presents Spiral Available On DVD & Blu-ray January 19, 2021 Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Spiral from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Spiral will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 19, 2021. Directed by Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive), Spiral was written by Colin Minihan (Z), and John Poliquin (Still/Born). …
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- 12/27/2020
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
In her Brooklyn Horror Film Festival review, Sara Clements wrote that Kurtis David Harder's Spiral "goes full tilt on the horrors of undying prejudice," and following its streaming release on Shudder back in September, the film is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on January 19th from Rlje Films:
Press Release: Los Angeles – Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Spiral from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Spiral will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 19, 2021.
Directed by Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive), Spiral was written by Colin Minihan (Z), and John Poliquin (Still/Born). The film stars Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (“American Horror Story”), Ari Cohen (It franchise), Jennifer Laporte (“iZombie”), Ty Wood (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Chandra West (I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry), and Lochlyn Munro (“Riverdale”). Rlje Films will release Spiral on...
Press Release: Los Angeles – Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Spiral from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Spiral will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 19, 2021.
Directed by Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive), Spiral was written by Colin Minihan (Z), and John Poliquin (Still/Born). The film stars Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (“American Horror Story”), Ari Cohen (It franchise), Jennifer Laporte (“iZombie”), Ty Wood (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Chandra West (I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry), and Lochlyn Munro (“Riverdale”). Rlje Films will release Spiral on...
- 12/15/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Toronto-based company also acquires Spiral, Deathcember
Raven Banner has acquired Canadian rights to Keith Thomas’ SXSW supernatural horror debut The Vigil, one of several pick-ups announced by the Toronto-based company on Tuesday (November 10).
The film, a SXSW official selection this year that premiered in 2019 Toronto Midnight Madness, centres on a man who encounters a malevolent force when he is tasked with watching over a deceased member of his former Orthodox community.
Raven Banner brokered the deal with Elle Driver and plans to release The Vigil alongside US distribution IFC Films in early 2021. Dave Davis and Malky Goldman star.
The company...
Raven Banner has acquired Canadian rights to Keith Thomas’ SXSW supernatural horror debut The Vigil, one of several pick-ups announced by the Toronto-based company on Tuesday (November 10).
The film, a SXSW official selection this year that premiered in 2019 Toronto Midnight Madness, centres on a man who encounters a malevolent force when he is tasked with watching over a deceased member of his former Orthodox community.
Raven Banner brokered the deal with Elle Driver and plans to release The Vigil alongside US distribution IFC Films in early 2021. Dave Davis and Malky Goldman star.
The company...
- 11/10/2020
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Netflix has acquired the John Poliquin-directed short film, Selfie, to be made into a feature-length that will explore the horrors of body image in the age of social media. Poliquin and Colin Minihan, who wrote the short, will also pen the film adaptation. The short was set to premiere at SXSW in March before the annual Austin gathering was canceled due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Benjamin Anderson and Minihan are producing the pic. The two are also working together on the Screen Gems thriller, Urban Legend, which Anderson producing alongside Mike Medavoy with Minihan writing and directing.
In addition, Poliquin and Minihan are the creators behind the Shudder original LGBTQ thriller, Spiral, which debuted last month. It follows a same-sex couple raising a 16-year-old girl in a small town where nothing is as it seems.
CAA reps Minihan as a producer. Both Poliquin and Minihan are repped by...
Benjamin Anderson and Minihan are producing the pic. The two are also working together on the Screen Gems thriller, Urban Legend, which Anderson producing alongside Mike Medavoy with Minihan writing and directing.
In addition, Poliquin and Minihan are the creators behind the Shudder original LGBTQ thriller, Spiral, which debuted last month. It follows a same-sex couple raising a 16-year-old girl in a small town where nothing is as it seems.
CAA reps Minihan as a producer. Both Poliquin and Minihan are repped by...
- 10/12/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Today we have an exclusive clip to share with you, as well as an iTunes code giveaway, for the LGBTQ coming-of-age film Summerland from Lankyboy (Kurtis David Harder & Noah Kentis). Summerland is out now on VOD on iTunes, Vudu, GooglePlay and Amazon. So what's the connection here, because we are at our roots a genre minded website. Well, one, its Canadian, so, yeah, patriotism. Two, Letterkenny's Dylan Playfair is in it, so, yeah, patriotism again. Three, one half of the Lankyboy duo, Kurtis David Harder, directed the LGBTQ horror flick Spiral which is out now on Shudder. Harder is also a producer of a number of Canadian horror movies including Brandon Christensen’s Z, Rob Grant’s Harpoon, Colin Minihan’s LGBTQ centric horror flick What...
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- 9/22/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Netflix is an ever-changing, constantly growing treasure trove of hidden gems and secret delights (here’s everything new on Netflix UK this month). Sometimes, a teeny bit too secret though.
Who hasn’t sat down to watch a horror movie and found themselves scrolling endlessly, either not being able to find something they’re in the mood for, or not really knowing what half the titles are, or if they’re any good?
We’ve scoured the full current catalogue available to watch in the UK now and picked out the best scary movies. It’s a mix of classic and new, and a range of slashers, horror-coms, mumblegore, monster movies and more to hopefully scratch that itch with ease.
We’ll keep this updated as and when titles drop in and out of the service.
Hereditary (2018)
If you haven’t seen this slice of trauma, the feature debut of Ari Aster,...
Who hasn’t sat down to watch a horror movie and found themselves scrolling endlessly, either not being able to find something they’re in the mood for, or not really knowing what half the titles are, or if they’re any good?
We’ve scoured the full current catalogue available to watch in the UK now and picked out the best scary movies. It’s a mix of classic and new, and a range of slashers, horror-coms, mumblegore, monster movies and more to hopefully scratch that itch with ease.
We’ll keep this updated as and when titles drop in and out of the service.
Hereditary (2018)
If you haven’t seen this slice of trauma, the feature debut of Ari Aster,...
- 9/18/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Stars: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Lochlyn Munro, Ari Cohen, Chandra West, Jennifer Laporte, David LeReaney | Written by Colin Minihan, John Poliquin | Directed by Kurtis David Harder
It’s 1995 and a same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood. And when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something very shocking has got to give.
Billed by many as the gay equivalent of Get Out, I found Spiral to be more of an interesting look into the pressure of being minority – both sexually and racially – and the toll being “different” can have on mental health than That film. For that’s what, for the most part Spiral presents us with: a man, broken by a hate crime of the past, trying...
It’s 1995 and a same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood. And when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something very shocking has got to give.
Billed by many as the gay equivalent of Get Out, I found Spiral to be more of an interesting look into the pressure of being minority – both sexually and racially – and the toll being “different” can have on mental health than That film. For that’s what, for the most part Spiral presents us with: a man, broken by a hate crime of the past, trying...
- 9/15/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
We have the new trailer for Spiral, which will be making its premiere on Shudder later this month:
"Malik and Aaron move to a small town in search of a better environment for them and their 16-year-old daughter. But nothing is as it seems as something sinister lies behind the picturesque homes and welcoming faces of their new neighbors.
A horror film for the current age, Spiral skillfully dissects themes of ostracization, otherness, and the cycles of societal rejection and hate, led by a breakout performance by Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman.
With Ty Wood and Chandra West. Written by Colin Minihan (writer of the Shudder Original Z and the upcoming new Urban Legend) and John Poliquin (Selfie), directed by Kurtis David Harder.
Spiral is produced by Minihan, Harder, and John Poliquin for Digital Interference, the celebrated Canadian indie label behind the SXSW sensation What Keeps You Alive (released by IFC Midnight), Shudder Originals Z and Still/Born,...
"Malik and Aaron move to a small town in search of a better environment for them and their 16-year-old daughter. But nothing is as it seems as something sinister lies behind the picturesque homes and welcoming faces of their new neighbors.
A horror film for the current age, Spiral skillfully dissects themes of ostracization, otherness, and the cycles of societal rejection and hate, led by a breakout performance by Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman.
With Ty Wood and Chandra West. Written by Colin Minihan (writer of the Shudder Original Z and the upcoming new Urban Legend) and John Poliquin (Selfie), directed by Kurtis David Harder.
Spiral is produced by Minihan, Harder, and John Poliquin for Digital Interference, the celebrated Canadian indie label behind the SXSW sensation What Keeps You Alive (released by IFC Midnight), Shudder Originals Z and Still/Born,...
- 9/4/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Winner of Scariest Feature Film at the 2019 Popcorn Frights Film Festival, Brandon Christensen's Z is coming to Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, and VOD on September 1st from Rlje Films, and to celebrate, we've been provided with two Blu-ray copies of the horror film to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers!
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Prize Details: (2) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of Z.
How to Enter: We're giving Daily Dead readers multiple chances to enter and win:
1. Instagram: Following us on Instagram during the contest period will give you an automatic contest entry. Make sure to follow us at:
https://www.instagram.com/dailydead/
2. Email: For a chance to win via email, send an email to contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Z Blu-ray Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on September 7th. This contest is...
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Prize Details: (2) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of Z.
How to Enter: We're giving Daily Dead readers multiple chances to enter and win:
1. Instagram: Following us on Instagram during the contest period will give you an automatic contest entry. Make sure to follow us at:
https://www.instagram.com/dailydead/
2. Email: For a chance to win via email, send an email to contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Z Blu-ray Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on September 7th. This contest is...
- 8/31/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at Z, which marks the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, What Keeps You Alive). Their previous movie Still/Born debuted at Overlook Film Festival with Minihan recently being hired to direct the next Urban Legend for Sony Pictures. “Z is about a family who finds itself terrorized by the eight-year-old son’s imaginary friend.” “In […]...
- 8/28/2020
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Earlier this year, we learned that 1998’s Urban Legend was being set up for a reboot, with Colin Minihan of Grave Encounters in the director’s chair. The Screen Gems production is now reportedly close to securing its lead actors, with Collider reporting that Sydney Chandler and Katherine McNamara are in talks to lead the cast of the new, apparently social-media focused version of the ’90s hit.
Chandler is the daughter of Friday Night Lights‘ Kyle Chandler, and is a relative unknown compared to McNamara, who plays Mia Queen in Arrow and has also appeared in the television series Shadowhunters. The same Collider piece also notes that the Urban Legend producers want a well-known and diverse young cast, with Keith Powers of Straight Outta Compton also being considered.
In terms of plot, Urban Legend will delve into the myths and stories that spread on the internet, and seem to provide...
Chandler is the daughter of Friday Night Lights‘ Kyle Chandler, and is a relative unknown compared to McNamara, who plays Mia Queen in Arrow and has also appeared in the television series Shadowhunters. The same Collider piece also notes that the Urban Legend producers want a well-known and diverse young cast, with Keith Powers of Straight Outta Compton also being considered.
In terms of plot, Urban Legend will delve into the myths and stories that spread on the internet, and seem to provide...
- 8/24/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Z from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Z will be released on September 1, 2020 on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray.
Directed by Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) who co-wrote the movie with Colin Minihan, the horror film stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Final Destination 2), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Sara Canning (War for the Planet of the Apes), Stephen McHattie (Watchmen), and Chandra West (White Noise). Rlje Films will release Z on DVD for an Srp of $27.97 and on Blu-ray for an Srp of $28.97.
Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of Z. We Are Movie Geeks has two copies to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie that starts with the letter ‘Z’. (mine’s Zotz! It’s so easy!
Directed by Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) who co-wrote the movie with Colin Minihan, the horror film stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Final Destination 2), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Sara Canning (War for the Planet of the Apes), Stephen McHattie (Watchmen), and Chandra West (White Noise). Rlje Films will release Z on DVD for an Srp of $27.97 and on Blu-ray for an Srp of $28.97.
Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of Z. We Are Movie Geeks has two copies to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie that starts with the letter ‘Z’. (mine’s Zotz! It’s so easy!
- 8/21/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With theaters still mostly closed due to Covid-19 and normal business not likely to resume anytime soon, Netflix‘s position within the movie industry has become much more important. This marks a big shift, as multiplex chains make top-down decisions on what films to screen, whereas Netflix can put almost anything up and watch how their audience responds to it. This has helped some smaller titles gain way more attention than they ordinarily would, with an excellent example being tense indie horror What Keeps You Alive.
The Canadian movie premiered at SXSW in March 2018 and was released on VOD the following August. We named it as one of the best horror pics of 2018, but it was quickly lost in a deluge of other content and was largely forgotten. Now, however, it’s zipping up the charts on Netflix, making its way onto the Top 10 most-watched films list, where the unknowable...
The Canadian movie premiered at SXSW in March 2018 and was released on VOD the following August. We named it as one of the best horror pics of 2018, but it was quickly lost in a deluge of other content and was largely forgotten. Now, however, it’s zipping up the charts on Netflix, making its way onto the Top 10 most-watched films list, where the unknowable...
- 8/10/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Deals announced in run-up to Cannes virtual market.
Raven Banner has swooped on Canadian distribution rights to horror Z, contagion thriller Sea Fever starring Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott, and supernatural thriller and Fantasia audience award winner Dead Dicks.
Z (pictured) explores what happens when a young mother begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend may be terrifyingly real.
Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool) star. Brandon Christensen directed Z, and wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder,...
Raven Banner has swooped on Canadian distribution rights to horror Z, contagion thriller Sea Fever starring Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott, and supernatural thriller and Fantasia audience award winner Dead Dicks.
Z (pictured) explores what happens when a young mother begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend may be terrifyingly real.
Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool) star. Brandon Christensen directed Z, and wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder,...
- 6/15/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The creepy kid horror canon is extensive. Often paired with the possession film or another supernatural subgenre, many of these pictures look to mine the common fear of a child with innate evil. For parents, they also tap into the fear that your child is not turning the way you imagined they would–in fact, they may be utterly psychotic.
Co-writer and director Brandon Christensen initially codes his second feature, Z, so that it fits neatly into these trappings. It’s apparent right out of the gate: a textural montage of Joshua (Jett Klyne) illustrates the cerebral and visceral immersion of childhood, where toy planes and trains roar to life with all the hums and throttles of their real-life counterparts. This opening also injects the tiniest hint of menace into youth, quickly teasing tension and the threat of violence before snapping it away.
Then, after this moment of abstract childhood bliss,...
Co-writer and director Brandon Christensen initially codes his second feature, Z, so that it fits neatly into these trappings. It’s apparent right out of the gate: a textural montage of Joshua (Jett Klyne) illustrates the cerebral and visceral immersion of childhood, where toy planes and trains roar to life with all the hums and throttles of their real-life counterparts. This opening also injects the tiniest hint of menace into youth, quickly teasing tension and the threat of violence before snapping it away.
Then, after this moment of abstract childhood bliss,...
- 5/18/2020
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
With May right around the corner, Shudder is making sure horror is in full bloom with another month of movies both old and new, with their upcoming titles including Brandon Christensen's Z, the second season of Wolf Creek, Dario Argento's Tenebrae, and the ’90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in May, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!
"Z
Winner “Scariest Film” – Popcorn Frights
Audience Award Winner – Calgary International Film Festival
A couple is shaken to the core when their eight-year-old son begins hanging out with a creepy and ominous imaginary friend. Starring Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), Written...
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in May, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!
"Z
Winner “Scariest Film” – Popcorn Frights
Audience Award Winner – Calgary International Film Festival
A couple is shaken to the core when their eight-year-old son begins hanging out with a creepy and ominous imaginary friend. Starring Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), Written...
- 4/23/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Tagline: "Z Wants to Play." Z is the name of an imaginary? monster. Z is also the title to Shudder's latest horror acquisition. From director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) and writer Colin Minihan, this feature focuses on a young boy and the terror he materializes into reality. Shudder will release this intriguing film in May, Mother's Day weekend. As well, the film stars: Keegan Connor Tracy ("Bates Motel"), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne and Stephen McHattie. Shot in Canada, the film's available release details are hosted here. The film's trailer shows Joshua (Klyne) and the creature that stalks him. First, it appears as a drawing. Then, it takes a human-like form as it terrorizes an entire family. But, how is this monster coming into existence? Director Christensen has talked about his latest film. Christensen says of the characters: "with Z, we once again have a film about a tortured mother and father,...
- 4/17/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Featuring the most shocking jump scare I've seen in years, Brandon Christensen's Z was one of my favorite films I saw last year at Popcorn Frights Film Festival (where it won the Scariest Film award), and I'm thrilled that soon horror fans can see it from the comfort of their own homes when it comes to Shudder on May 7th in the Us, Canada, UK, and Ireland.
We have the trailer and official press release with full details below, and as a special treat, you can also watch the first episode of Christensen's Scaredycats, a new project starring Christensen's sons.
Press Release: April 16, 2020 — Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has acquired all rights in its territories to Z, the latest horror film from director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born). The film, which stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson...
We have the trailer and official press release with full details below, and as a special treat, you can also watch the first episode of Christensen's Scaredycats, a new project starring Christensen's sons.
Press Release: April 16, 2020 — Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has acquired all rights in its territories to Z, the latest horror film from director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born). The film, which stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson...
- 4/16/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: AMC Networks’ streamer Shudder has picked up rights on Brandon Christensen’s Z and will premiere the movie May 7.
The film follows a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may be terrifyingly real. The release is being timed for Mother’s Day.
Pic stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool). Christensen wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder, Christensen and Minihan produced.
The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto on behalf of Shudder and by ICM on behalf of the filmmakers.
Genre-focused VOD service Shudder is available in the U.S.
The film follows a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may be terrifyingly real. The release is being timed for Mother’s Day.
Pic stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool). Christensen wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder, Christensen and Minihan produced.
The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto on behalf of Shudder and by ICM on behalf of the filmmakers.
Genre-focused VOD service Shudder is available in the U.S.
- 4/16/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Reader Fabien M. sends over the international trailer for Z, which marks the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, What Keeps You Alive). Their previous movie Still/Born debuted at Overlook Film Festival with Minihan recently being hired to direct the next Urban Legend for Sony Pictures. “Z is about a family who finds itself terrorized by […]...
- 2/27/2020
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
According to Deadline, What Keeps You Alive director Colin Minihan has been tapped to direct a reboot of ‘90s horror classic Urban Legend, and also he has a hook for a hand! And the truck driving behind you wasn’t tailgating you, it was trying to warn you! And there are alligators in the sewers! Actually, that stuff’s…...
- 2/11/2020
- by Sam Barsanti on News, shared by Sam Barsanti to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
A reboot of 1998 slasher flick Urban Legend is going ahead, to be directed by Grave Encounters’ Colin Minihan. The story follows the members of a university folklore class who become targeted by a killer recreating tales from contemporary mythology.
The movie was one of multiple slasher films released in the wake of Scream that led to a resurgence in the subgenre along with postmodern metafictional satire of it. It wasn’t received fondly by critics, but made a reasonable profit at the box office and is now considered something of a cult classic among horror fans.
Unlike many remakes, this new Urban Legend won’t be a completely uninspired retread and will update the concept for a modern audience by utilizing myths that perpetuate online. As the official description puts it, it will feature “urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.” This means that tales such as the Killer in the Backseat,...
The movie was one of multiple slasher films released in the wake of Scream that led to a resurgence in the subgenre along with postmodern metafictional satire of it. It wasn’t received fondly by critics, but made a reasonable profit at the box office and is now considered something of a cult classic among horror fans.
Unlike many remakes, this new Urban Legend won’t be a completely uninspired retread and will update the concept for a modern audience by utilizing myths that perpetuate online. As the official description puts it, it will feature “urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.” This means that tales such as the Killer in the Backseat,...
- 2/11/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
In today’s film news roundup, “Guest of Honour” and “Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons” have found distribution and Screen Gems is developing “Urban Legend.”
Acquisitions
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Atom Egoyan’s drama, “Guest of Honour,” starring David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira and Luke Wilson.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and was an official selection at the Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Busan International Film Festivals. The film will have its U.S. premiere on Feb. 13 as the opening night selection of the Canada Now 2020 event at IFC Center in New York.
Thewlis portrays a health inspector in Hamilton, Ontario and De Oliveria plays a high school music teacher who has been incarcerated for inappropriate behavior with students. She rebuffs his efforts to secure an early release, convinced she needs to be punished for crimes she committed earlier. The daughter also...
Acquisitions
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Atom Egoyan’s drama, “Guest of Honour,” starring David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira and Luke Wilson.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and was an official selection at the Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Busan International Film Festivals. The film will have its U.S. premiere on Feb. 13 as the opening night selection of the Canada Now 2020 event at IFC Center in New York.
Thewlis portrays a health inspector in Hamilton, Ontario and De Oliveria plays a high school music teacher who has been incarcerated for inappropriate behavior with students. She rebuffs his efforts to secure an early release, convinced she needs to be punished for crimes she committed earlier. The daughter also...
- 2/11/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Screen Gems has set Colin Minihan to write and direct the thriller Urban Legend. Pic is on a fast track, and the studio is currently casting the key roles.
Minihan will introduce an iconic new slasher for the digital age in a world where internet urban legends are born and move at a terrifying pace. The movie will center on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.
Mike Medavoy and Benjamin Anderson will produce for Phoenix Pictures. Eric Paquette and Michael Bitar will oversee for Screen Gems.
Minihan’s micro budget feature What Keeps You Alive premiered to strong reviews at SXSW, landing on Rolling Stone’s 10 Best Horror Movies of the Year (2018) as well as becoming a NY Times Critics’ Pick.
Minihan is repped by Marc Manus at Zero Gravity,...
Minihan will introduce an iconic new slasher for the digital age in a world where internet urban legends are born and move at a terrifying pace. The movie will center on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.
Mike Medavoy and Benjamin Anderson will produce for Phoenix Pictures. Eric Paquette and Michael Bitar will oversee for Screen Gems.
Minihan’s micro budget feature What Keeps You Alive premiered to strong reviews at SXSW, landing on Rolling Stone’s 10 Best Horror Movies of the Year (2018) as well as becoming a NY Times Critics’ Pick.
Minihan is repped by Marc Manus at Zero Gravity,...
- 2/10/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The horrors of having an imaginative youngster have been explored countless times with every twist in the book, from The Babadook to Hide and Seek to Mama and Before I Wake. So 2019’s festival fright Z had a high mountain to climb to stand out from the rest. Though it tries to stand out with its own twists on the tale, what really sets Z apart from its cohorts is its scares. Directing from a screenplay he wrote with his Still/Born writing partner, Colin Minihan, Brandon Christensen creates a tormenting fright worthy of mentioning alongside the greats noted above.
Keegan Connor Tracy stars as Elizabeth, or Beth, a mother trying her best to care for her troubled son, Joshua (Jett Klyne), and manage her husband, Kevin (Sean Rogerson), while taking on her sick mother and her struggling sister. When Joshua seems to be having some trouble at school, and...
Keegan Connor Tracy stars as Elizabeth, or Beth, a mother trying her best to care for her troubled son, Joshua (Jett Klyne), and manage her husband, Kevin (Sean Rogerson), while taking on her sick mother and her struggling sister. When Joshua seems to be having some trouble at school, and...
- 12/4/2019
- by Lindsay Traves
- DailyDead
The FrightFest hit follows a gay couple terrorised by a dark force.
UK sales outfit Sc Films International has boarded worldwide rights outside of English-speaking territories to occult thriller Spiral.
The films follows same-sex couple Malik and Aaron who face homophobic threats when they move to a small Us town to raise their teenage daughter. As the threats become more insidious, Malik begins to suspect there are even darker forces at play.
Spiral premiered at FrightFest over the summer to strong reviews. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Ari Cohen play Spiral’s central couple, with Lochlyn Munro and Chandra West in supporting roles.
UK sales outfit Sc Films International has boarded worldwide rights outside of English-speaking territories to occult thriller Spiral.
The films follows same-sex couple Malik and Aaron who face homophobic threats when they move to a small Us town to raise their teenage daughter. As the threats become more insidious, Malik begins to suspect there are even darker forces at play.
Spiral premiered at FrightFest over the summer to strong reviews. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Ari Cohen play Spiral’s central couple, with Lochlyn Munro and Chandra West in supporting roles.
- 11/8/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Lochlyn Munro, Ari Cohen, Chandra West, Jennifer Laporte, David LeReaney | Written by Colin Minihan, John Poliquin | Directed by Kurtis David Harder
It’s 1995 and a same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood. And when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something very shocking has got to give.
Billed by many as the gay equivalent of Get Out, I found Spiral to be more of an interesting look into the pressure of being minority – both sexually and racially – and the toll being “different” can have on mental health than That film. For that’s what, for the most part Spiral presents us with: a man, broken by a hate crime of the past, trying...
It’s 1995 and a same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood. And when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something very shocking has got to give.
Billed by many as the gay equivalent of Get Out, I found Spiral to be more of an interesting look into the pressure of being minority – both sexually and racially – and the toll being “different” can have on mental health than That film. For that’s what, for the most part Spiral presents us with: a man, broken by a hate crime of the past, trying...
- 8/27/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Reader Fabien M. sends two new images for Z, which marks the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, What Keeps You Alive). Their previous movie Still/Born debuted at Overlook Film Festival and was picked up by Vertical Entertainment for the U.S. Z is about a family who finds itself terrorized by the eight-year-old son’s imaginary friend. Starring are Keegan […]...
- 7/8/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Horror producers Roy Lee and Emile Gladstone have teamed for an untitled scary project just picked up by Paramount Players.
Colin Minihan, the up-and-coming filmmaker behind the well-regarded indie horror flick What Keeps You Alive, will direct the thriller written by Stacey Menear. He is best known for writing creepy horror thriller The Boy, which starred The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan.
Details for the new project are still vague; however, it centers on a family in a border town where the heroine comes to bury her grandmother and is forced to face her childhood fear.
Lee is known for being one of ...
Colin Minihan, the up-and-coming filmmaker behind the well-regarded indie horror flick What Keeps You Alive, will direct the thriller written by Stacey Menear. He is best known for writing creepy horror thriller The Boy, which starred The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan.
Details for the new project are still vague; however, it centers on a family in a border town where the heroine comes to bury her grandmother and is forced to face her childhood fear.
Lee is known for being one of ...
- 6/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Horror producers Roy Lee and Emile Gladstone have teamed for an untitled scary project just picked up by Paramount Players.
Colin Minihan, the up-and-coming filmmaker behind the well-regarded indie horror flick What Keeps You Alive, will direct the thriller written by Stacey Menear. He is best known for writing creepy horror thriller The Boy, which starred The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan.
Details for the new project are still vague; however, it centers on a family in a border town where the heroine comes to bury her grandmother and is forced to face her childhood fear.
Lee is known for being one of ...
Colin Minihan, the up-and-coming filmmaker behind the well-regarded indie horror flick What Keeps You Alive, will direct the thriller written by Stacey Menear. He is best known for writing creepy horror thriller The Boy, which starred The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan.
Details for the new project are still vague; however, it centers on a family in a border town where the heroine comes to bury her grandmother and is forced to face her childhood fear.
Lee is known for being one of ...
- 6/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Reader Fabien M. sends in this new sales art for Z, which marks the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, What Keeps You Alive). Their previous movie Still/Born debuted at Overlook Film Festival and was picked up by Vertical Entertainment for the U.S. Z is about a family who finds itself terrorized by the eight-year-old son’s imaginary friend. Starring […]...
- 3/11/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Despite horror’s thematic binding to society’s most current fears – this a year of parental devastation and horrors inside family units – my twenty favorite genre titles from 2018 still revel in variety: arachnid puppets, Nazi experiments, zombie musicals alike. Such morbid creativity would stick out like a sore severed thumb any other year, but today? You could drown out aforementioned absurdity with Nicolas Cage’s descent into occult revenge madness alone.
As I said, it’s been a wild year for horror – a damn fine one at that.
My ranking comes after killing many darlings, given my final tally of 118 seen horror films this year. Dig deeper, past these listed twenty, and you’ll still find plenty of gold worth mining. The following treasures just shine a little brighter and demand more attention. Feature debuts, streaming darlings, mainstream nightmares, all the works. It’s time for another end of year horror countdown,...
As I said, it’s been a wild year for horror – a damn fine one at that.
My ranking comes after killing many darlings, given my final tally of 118 seen horror films this year. Dig deeper, past these listed twenty, and you’ll still find plenty of gold worth mining. The following treasures just shine a little brighter and demand more attention. Feature debuts, streaming darlings, mainstream nightmares, all the works. It’s time for another end of year horror countdown,...
- 12/28/2018
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
The thriller What Keeps You Alive will release on home entertainment formats, in early December. This film, from director Colin Minihan (It Stains the Sands Red), is his third collaboration with actress Brittany Allen. This time around, two women celebrated their anniversary on a remote island. Here, the two married women turn on each other, in the worst celebration ever. In the United States, Shout Factory will handle the film's release, while in Canada Mongrel Media is showing this title on DVD. A preview of both releases is hosted here. What Keeps You Alive had its World Premiere earlier this year, at the SXSW Film Festival. In an earlier interview, Minihan said of the film and its inclusion of a psychopath: "I feel like this movie is just a shocking, tightly woven thriller, that dabbles in horror and offers a unique take at the psychopath sub-genre (Hollywood News)." There are...
- 11/29/2018
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
UnReal star Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman has landed the lead role in Spiral, an indie film from Digital Interference production company. The narrative follows a same-sex couple raising a 16-year-old girl in a small town where nothing is as it seems. Kurtis David Harder is directing the film based on a script by Colin Minihan and John Poliquin. Chris Ball and Minihan are producing, while ICM Partners is handling worldwide sales. Bowyer-Chapman, repped by Innovative Artists, can be seen as a guest-star in FX’s American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
Tony Todd, the character actor who is best known his role in the Candyman slasher films, has signed on to join horror film Streetwalkers from Night Fox Entertainment. John Beasley will also co-star in the film, which is being directed by Benjamin Louis (State’s Evidence) based on a screenplay by Jonah Kuehner(Good Luck Charlie). The plot...
Tony Todd, the character actor who is best known his role in the Candyman slasher films, has signed on to join horror film Streetwalkers from Night Fox Entertainment. John Beasley will also co-star in the film, which is being directed by Benjamin Louis (State’s Evidence) based on a screenplay by Jonah Kuehner(Good Luck Charlie). The plot...
- 11/7/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
UK sales outfit Amp International has boarded international sales on horror film Z, which marks the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, What Keeps You Alive). Their previous movie Still/Born debuted at Overlook Film Festival and was picked up by Vertical Entertainment for the U.S. Z is about a family who finds itself terrorized […]...
- 10/17/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: UK sales outfit Amp International has boarded international sales on horror film Z, about a family who finds itself terrorized by the eight-year-old son’s imaginary friend.
The genre pic, which completed principle photography last month in and around Calgary, marks the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minihan. Their previous movie Still/Born debuted at Overlook Film Festival and was picked up by Vertical Entertainment for the U.S.
Starring are Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters) and Jett Klyne (Sky Scraper). Producers are Minihan, Christensen, Kurtis David Harder, and Chris Ball. ICM reps North America. Above is a first look at the movie.
Tribeca and SXSW alum Minihan directed 2011 horror Grave Encounters and most recently the IFC Midnight pick-up What Keeps You Alive.
Amp’s slate also includes Romola Garai’s Outside, Flash Gordon doc Life After Flash and comedy James Vs His Future Self.
The genre pic, which completed principle photography last month in and around Calgary, marks the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minihan. Their previous movie Still/Born debuted at Overlook Film Festival and was picked up by Vertical Entertainment for the U.S.
Starring are Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters) and Jett Klyne (Sky Scraper). Producers are Minihan, Christensen, Kurtis David Harder, and Chris Ball. ICM reps North America. Above is a first look at the movie.
Tribeca and SXSW alum Minihan directed 2011 horror Grave Encounters and most recently the IFC Midnight pick-up What Keeps You Alive.
Amp’s slate also includes Romola Garai’s Outside, Flash Gordon doc Life After Flash and comedy James Vs His Future Self.
- 10/16/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Film directors casting their significant others is a trend as old as film itself, but Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are different. They met when he cast her in his 2014 alien invasion pic Extraterrestrial. Not only did they start dating, she started producing his films, in addition to being their star. There was the zombie-thonIt Stains the Sands Redin 2016. Now there’s What Keeps You Alive, a romantic cabin getaway that abruptly turns into a survive-the-night serial killer grinder. It’s not just about putting the one you love on screen; theirs is a true collaboration. Ever since his debut […]...
- 8/31/2018
- by Matt Prigge
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Film directors casting their significant others is a trend as old as film itself, but Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are different. They met when he cast her in his 2014 alien invasion pic Extraterrestrial. Not only did they start dating, she started producing his films, in addition to being their star. There was the zombie-thonIt Stains the Sands Redin 2016. Now there’s What Keeps You Alive, a romantic cabin getaway that abruptly turns into a survive-the-night serial killer grinder. It’s not just about putting the one you love on screen; theirs is a true collaboration. Ever since his debut […]...
- 8/31/2018
- by Matt Prigge
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
What if you found out that the person you married isn't who you thought they were? Filmmaker Colin Minihan explores that harrowing question in his new movie, What Keeps You Alive, which follows a violent one-year anniversary between Jules (Brittany Allen) and Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson).
With IFC Midnight releasing What Keeps You Alive in Us theaters and on VOD platforms beginning August 24th, Daily Dead recently caught up with Minihan and co-star Allen to discuss the unconventional casting process for the role of Jackie (which was originally intended to be a male character), filming near Allen's family's cottage, and the movie's exploration of how well you can really know the one you love the most.
Colin, because I know you wrote and directed this movie, where did you come up with the idea for this?
Colin Minihan: I've made three other movies that are all supernatural horror films. Grave Encounters is a ghost film,...
With IFC Midnight releasing What Keeps You Alive in Us theaters and on VOD platforms beginning August 24th, Daily Dead recently caught up with Minihan and co-star Allen to discuss the unconventional casting process for the role of Jackie (which was originally intended to be a male character), filming near Allen's family's cottage, and the movie's exploration of how well you can really know the one you love the most.
Colin, because I know you wrote and directed this movie, where did you come up with the idea for this?
Colin Minihan: I've made three other movies that are all supernatural horror films. Grave Encounters is a ghost film,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
In the age of Tinder and Bumble, finding new love can be as simple as a single swipe. But sometimes the prospects of meeting a total stranger can lead down some dark paths only visible with time. That’s the central theme throughout “What Keeps You Alive,” a smart and timely thriller from director Colin Minihan.
The filmmaker reimagines old horror tropes — particularly one half of a couple turning on the another in a remote location — through a topical lens. “What Keeps You Alive” is a chilling look at the unraveling of a relationship, and what happens when inner demons come bubbling to the surface to turn betrayal into bloodshed, bolstered by superb performances and some truly shocking twists.
Married couple Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen) are celebrating their one year anniversary with a getaway at Jackie’s family cabin, tucked away in the middle of nowhere...
The filmmaker reimagines old horror tropes — particularly one half of a couple turning on the another in a remote location — through a topical lens. “What Keeps You Alive” is a chilling look at the unraveling of a relationship, and what happens when inner demons come bubbling to the surface to turn betrayal into bloodshed, bolstered by superb performances and some truly shocking twists.
Married couple Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen) are celebrating their one year anniversary with a getaway at Jackie’s family cabin, tucked away in the middle of nowhere...
- 8/23/2018
- by Jamie Righetti
- Indiewire
What begins by seemingly trading in an old horror trope – a shadowy, hooded figure lurks outside as a loving couple settle for a romantic break in a secluded cabin in the woods – soon veers off into another, altogether more satisfying direction in director Colin Minihan’s nifty little psychological thriller. Jackie and Jules are a female married couple celebrating their one-year anniversary in the aforementioned rustic property which belongs to Jackie’s family. The area holds many memories for her – some happy, one incredibly painful – but as the two kick back and relax in what is intended to be the first of many peaceful candle-lit evenings and afternoon hikes, it becomes apparent pretty soon that one half of the couple has other plans in store, which don’t exactly lean on the loving.
Heavy on mood and setting the film begins as something as a slow burn only to be...
Heavy on mood and setting the film begins as something as a slow burn only to be...
- 8/23/2018
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From RedBand.Ca, Sneak Peek restricted 'redband' footage from the new thriller "What Keeps You Alive", written and directed by Colin Minihan, starring Hannah Emily Anderson and Brittany Allen, now playing:
"...when two women celebrate an anniversary at a remote cabin, one of them discovers the other is not what she seems..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "What Keeps You Alive"...
"...when two women celebrate an anniversary at a remote cabin, one of them discovers the other is not what she seems..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "What Keeps You Alive"...
- 8/22/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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