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‘Acolytes’ Director Reveals Next Horror Projects!
With the Toronto International Film Festival only weeks away, we caught up with Jon Hewitt, director of Acolytes, who revealed to Bloody-Disgusting his plans for his next two horror features, along with his dreams and desires for some main stream titles. Read on for the skinny and check out ACOLYTES at the “Midnight Madness” portion of the TIFF this September.
“I’m keen to see what might turn up out of Hollywood” Hewitt tells Bloody-Disgusting. “I’d love to direct the remake of BATTLE ROYALE, or William Castle’s THE TINGLER.”
With THE TINGLER set up at Columbia Pictures and BATTLE ROYALE at New Line, maybe there’s a chance?
Either way, Hewitt has his own indie projects set up back in Australia.
“X is a thriller about two prostitutes who go through a night from hell (the second film in my Kings Cross trilogy – DARKLOVESTORY being the first).”
“VAMPYR is an experimental horror film about a brutalized woman who disintegrates into homicidal insanity. Heavily influenced by the films of Maya Deren, most of the film is being shot by just me (on the red camera) with the star Belinda McClory. My aim is to make the most beautifully brutal and violent film ever!”
Watch this spot for a full-length interview in the coming week!
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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.