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AFM ’09: ‘The Reeds’, ‘Secret Sunday’, ‘The Invited’ and ‘Darkening Sky’
There are just too many low budget independent films being announced, so we’ll just keep jamming them into these multiple pieces so you can enjoy a few at one time instead of having to sort through hundreds of stories on the front page. Beyond the break you’ll find the skinny and trailers for films featuring charred ghosts in The Reeds, a great evil in The Invited, negative Karma in Secret Sunday and evil aliens in Darkening Sky.Click here for tons and tons of AFM news
THE REEDS
Terror comes from the water in Altadena Films’ The Reeds, which is directed by Nick Cohen and stars O.T. Fagbenle, Anna Brewster, Danny Caltagirone, Emma Catherwood, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Will Mellor, Geoff Bell. In the film a boating party gets lost in the ancient waterways of the Norfolk Broads and finds itself victim of a terrifying secret hidden in The Reeds. Check out the AFM art and trailer by reading below.
SECRET SUNDAY
Director: Saranyoo Jiralak
Starring: Siraphun Wattanajinda, James Alexander
Number 9 is a horror movie about a man’s journey’s to make a merit in order to correct his bad karma in 9 templates within 7 days. The journey led him and his companions into series of unexpected and horrified revelations.
According to his mother request, Nat, a young architect, unwillingly takes a journey to visit 9 different temples in order to clean up his bad karma. He is accompanied by Poon, his beauty columnist girlfriend and Sujitto, a young monk who takes care of the Tripitaka house and is responsible for the chant to chase away the bad karma.
All three characters have different purposes for taking this trip, but later on they discover that they are put together in this trip for an unforeseeable reason. A karma committed by one person could relate to karma of others. Horrifying acts done in their previous lives reveal themselves as the journey go by. The more they try to clean up Nat’s bad karmas by making a merit, the closer they get to “THEM”
The journey has changed their faith forever. How is Nat going to clean up his own mess? Would Nat be forgiven? How can an act of making the merit overcome the relentless vengeance?
THE INVITED
Directed by: Ryan McKinney
Starring: Megan Ward, Pam Grier, Lou Diamond Phillipps
A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child move into their turn-of-the-century home where they discover that a great evil has resided for nearly a century, unleashed by a previous occupant.
DARKENING SKY
Back in August we reported that Rider Strong (Cabin Fever, Cabin Fever 2) joined Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, “CSI”), Sally Berman (Angels and Demons), Daniel Kirschner and LaShan Anderson in Victor Bornia’s Darkening Sky, which is currently in post-production.
The indie pic is a sci-fi, horror and psychological thriller that explores the world of alien visitation and abduction, and asks: What is the real reason aliens are visiting us? And what is our role in all of it? The official website has now been launched and features your first ever look at the trailer for the film (also being added below), which comes right on the cusp of Uni’s The Fourth Kind.
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the “modern mythology” of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about… All while dealing with a growing suspicion that he is somehow the center of the aliens’ plan.
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‘The Exorcism’ Trailer – Russell Crowe Gets Possessed in Meta Horror Movie from Producer Kevin Williamson
Russell Crowe (The Pope’s Exorcist) is starring in a brand new meta possession horror movie titled The Exorcism, and Vertical has unleashed the official trailer this afternoon.
Vertical has picked up the North American rights to The Exorcism, which they’ll be bringing to theaters on June 7. Shudder is also on board to bring the film home later this year.
Joshua John Miller, who wrote 2015’s The Final Girls and also starred in films including Near Dark and And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, directed The Exorcism.
Joshua John Miller also wrote the script with M.A. Fortin (The Final Girls). This one is personal for Miller, as his late father was the star of the best possession movie ever made.
Miller said in a statement this week, “The origins of the film stem from my childhood spent watching my father, Jason Miller, playing the doomed Father Karras flinging himself out a window at the climax of The Exorcist. If that wasn’t haunting enough on its own, my dad never shied away from telling me stories of just how “cursed” the movie was: the mysterious fires that plagued the production, the strange deaths, the lifelong injuries— the list went on and on. The lore of any “cursed film” has captivated me ever since.”
“With The Exorcism, we wanted to update the possession movie formula (“Heroic man rescues woman from forces she’s too weak and simple to battle herself!”) for a world where no one group owns goodness and decency over another,” he adds. “We were gifted with an extraordinary cast and creative team to tell a story about how we’re all vulnerable to darkness, to perpetuating it, if we fail to face our demons. The devil may retaliate, but what other choice do we have?”
The film had previously been announced under the title The Georgetown Project.
“The Exorcism follows Anthony Miller (Crowe), a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play.”
Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water), Chloe Bailey (Praise This), Adam Goldberg (The Equalizer) and David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) also star.
Of particular note, Kevin Williamson (Scream, Sick) produced The Exorcism.
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