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Simon Rumley Gets Thick ‘Skin’ for Hot Horror Script
UK cult sensation and festival favorite Simon Rumley will direct Adam Allecca‘s psychological horror/ thriller Skin for PCH Films, Bloody Disgusting learned.
Voted #3 “best horror script” on last years Blood List, “ ‘Skin’ is a taut psychological thriller about an insecure woman who becomes addicted to plastic surgery after marrying a well-intentioned surgeon. When a procedure goes horribly wrong, she slips into madness. Blaming the surgeon and his friends, she takes gruesome revenge.”
Rumley most recently directed the jaw-dropping “Bitch” as part of the psycho sexual horror anthology Little Deaths and is currently filming an installment of The ABC’s of Death in Suriname. Rumley’s award winning Red White & Blue was picked up by IFC Midnight and will be released theatrically this week in the UK by Trinity Films. Alleca made a big splash last week when it was announced that he would reteam with Dennis illiadus (The Last House on the Left) to direct his script Home which is being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.
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Katharine Isabelle Battles Cosmic Horror in Exclusive ‘Junction Row’ Teaser Trailer [Fantasia 2026]
Among Fantasia 2026‘s massive final wave of programming this morning is Raven Banner’s Lovecraftian creature feature Junction Row, starring Canadian horror icon Katharine Isabelle, and we’re exclusively unveiling the teaser trailer.
Junction Row will celebrate its World Premiere at Fantasia on July 28.
Watch a housing compound fall under siege from Lovecraftian creatures more dangerous than drug dealers in the trailer below.
Junction Row follows “Juno, a recovering addict who leaves a fringe housing compound for a better life, leaving her beloved Ruby behind. When she learns that Ruby has gone missing, Juno returns, only to find Junction Row has become a hotbed of criminal activity, but she encounters much more than menacing drug dealers on her mission to find Ruby.”
Isabelle stars as Juno, with Natalie Brown (FX’s The Strain) as Ruby.
The creature feature marks the feature debut by director Ashlea Wessel, who has directed festival-favorite shorts like 2018’s “Tick” and 2020’s “Weirdo”.
Wessel co-writes Junction Row with Clown in a Cornfield author Adam Cesare and Matt Serafini.
Katharine Isabelle is coming off a brief appearance in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and more recently appeared in holiday horror It’s a Wonderful Knife. The horror icon is arguably best known for her turn as the eponymous werewolf in Ginger Snaps and for her roles in American Mary and Freddy vs Jason.
Fantasia teases that Junction Row tells “a story where the fear of the unknown isn’t confined to what lies above, but what waits beneath.”
Stay tuned for more from Fantasia as the festival gets underway later this month.