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AFM ’10: AWP Acquires ‘One By One’
American World Pictures (AWP) just announced that they acquired the Tony Todd starrer One by One: Death’s Door from Mad Crapper Films at this year’s AFM. The film, which also stars Douglas Tait (Freddy vs. Jason), Sally Kirkland (JFK) and Chris Bruno (Dead Zone), was written and directed by Kimberly Seilhamer and tells the story of a group of teens who set out on a field trip to a railroad museum and encounter `Railroad Jack’. After making sure their bus crashes, he forces them to explore `Railroad Jack’s’ carnival, where the reaper “picks” them off one by one. It seems that they changed the killers name from Railroad Jack the Reaper to just Railroad Jack, which rolls off the tongue a lot easier. Sadly, no images or trailers are available as of this point. The premise sounds goofy enough to make an enjoyable 80 minute slasher; here’s hoping they don’t try to force the creation of an icon and just let the film do it on its own.
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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge
Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.
Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.
The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”
Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.
Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”
Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.
Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.
A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”
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