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Saw, Feast Writers Head to ‘Killing Street’
With Marcus Dunstan’s The Collector arriving in theaters July 31 from Freestyle Releasing, we caught up with co-writer Patrick Melton who chatted with Bloody-Disgusting about the possibilities of a sequel to the film, along with details on the duos next project! After breaking onto the scene with Feast, Melton and Dunstan have co-written Saw IV-VI, along with the last two Feast sequels.
Before the financial woes hit the public eye, earlier this year Dimension Films was planning a monster slate of DVD releases, which included two direct-to-disc sequel to THE COLLECTOR, now being released by Freestyle Releasing. Patrick Melton tells us it will take some success to keep The Collector busy.
“In terms of another Collector, that depends on the success of the first film. We’ll see come July 31st.”
Being that the duo are now known as horror icons, we wanted to know if they’d continue down the same path. Melton reveals to Bloody-Disgusting that they just finished a brand new horror script.
“Always more horror. Horror is in our blood (pun intended),” Melton jokes. “As for specifics, we’d like to continue writing and directing our original ideas. We just finished fine-tuning an original script called THE KILLING STREET. It’s deeply rooted in the horror world, but it also has thriller elements along the lines of SEVEN or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.”
THE COLLECTOR follows the story of handyman and ex-con Arkin, who aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer’s country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property – and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked “Collector” in a maze of lethal invention – the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg – while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob.
THE COLLECTOR will be in theaters July 31.
What happened to Flight 298? Our exclusive clip from supernatural thriller Black Box suggests a hostile takeover by an inhuman threat.
Black Box arrives on VOD today, July 7, 2026, via distributor Aura Entertainment.
In the horror movie, “A routine domestic flight turns into the flight from hell through a series of inexplicable phenomena and raw terror. Surreal encounters blur the boundaries between reality and nightmare. Passengers fight against all the odds in an attempt to survive while combating bizarre technological malfunctions, accelerating supernatural events, and alien influences.”
The film is based on the short film The Vessel, and an original screenplay from horror writer Stephen Susco (The Grudge, The Grudge 2, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Hell Fest).
Steven Quale (Into the Storm, Final Destination 5) directs.
Tom Brittney, Holly Leena White, Betsy Blue English, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Kaja Chan, Asa Ali, Boadicea Ricketts, Ceallach Spellman, Georgina Leonidas, Molly Belle Wright, Hanneke Talbot, Danny Mack, and Weronika Rosati star in Black Box.
Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (Barbarian, Boy Kills World) and Jon Oakes (Drive, The Guilty) will produce alongside Capstone’s Christian Mercuri and David Haring (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Warren Zide (The Final Destination, American Pie), and Susco. Ruzanna Kegeyan and Roman Viaris of Capstone, and Clark Baker (Vessel) will executive produce.
Watch the clip below that sees a creepy crawling invasion aboard Flight 298, signalling supernatural turbulence ahead.