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‘7500’ Writer Sends Himself An Apocalyptic Vision
Just received a tip from an insider who revealed to Bloody that GK Films is in pre-production on a new creepy sci-fi project.
Entitled The Panopticon, the film is said to be in the vein of 12 Monkeys and The Invasion. Craig Rosenberg is attached to direct from his own screenplay in which an average Joe who receives a mysterious videotape from himself telling him the world will end and that he must stop it. As it was explained to us, he was formally held at a mental institution for his claims of aliens infiltrating society – but now he must join his former fellow-patients to reveal the conspiracy and save mankind.
Peter Cornwell was originally attached back in 2009 when Lionsgate was behind the vision.
Rosenberg recently penned 7500 for CBS Films and The Uninvited (the remake of the Korean Tale of Two Sisters) for Paramount back in 2009.
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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.