The 2011 supernatural horror film has been newly restored in 4K, approved by writer-director Ti West (X, The House the Devil), and is presented with Dolby Vision HDR.

Special features:

• A Lasting Memory – Interview with Writer-Director Ti West (new)
• Let’s Make This Good – Interview with Actor Pat Healy (new)
• Our Dysfunctional World – Interview with Producer Larry Fessenden (new)
• Living in the Process – Interview with Cinematographer Eliot Rockett (new)
• Cast a Wide Net – Interview with Composer Jeff Grace (new)
• A Validating Moment – Interview with Line Producer Jacob Jaffke (new)

After over 100 years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees, Claire and Luke, are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels.

As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.

Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, and Kelly McGillis star. Larry Fessenden (The House of the Devil, Stake Land) produces.

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Have you heard the story of Madeline O’Malley? She’s the spirit rumored to haunt the mostly empty rooms of the Yankee Pedlar Inn. This would-be bride supposedly died by suicide after she was unceremoniously left at the alter and now appears in the dead of night. But she’s far from the only spectre to lurk in the shadows of an old hotel. These transitional lodgings are filled with the ghosts of passersby who leave an emotional stain after their stay. Ti West explores this eerie phenomenon in The Innkeepers, the unsettling story of a doomed ghosthunter who becomes the subject of her own investigation. 

Claire (Sara Paxton) is contemplating the void in her life as she works her final shifts at the Inn’s front desk. To pass the time, she and coworker Luke (Pat Healy) have plans to do some amateur ghosthunting to find proof of Madeline O’Malley’s existence. But one of the hotel’s only guests is a former actress turned spiritualist with the ability to see beyond the veil. A late night divination session reveals a harrowing prophecy in the basement and Leanne warns Claire to stay away. But now that Madeline has made contact, she seems strangely drawn to the naive innkeeper and other spirits lurking in the shadows. 

In the latest episode of Bloody FM’s The Lady Killers podcast, co-hosts Jenn Adams and Sammie Kuykendall join special guest Ashley Casseday to talk all things spooky in Ti West’s most underrated film. Why does Claire feel drawn to Madeline’s ghost? Do Luke’s actions put her in danger? What does Leeanne (Kelly McGillis) see in the basement and who is the Inn’s third entity? They’ll answer these questions and more while talking about divination, ouija boards, energy, and death in this surprisingly scary and unsettling film.

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Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

The Innkeepers 4K UHD from Second Sight

The Innkeepers will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on August 25 via the UK’s Second Sight Films.

The 2011 supernatural horror film is written and directed by Ti West (X, The House the Devil). Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, and Kelly McGillis star.

It has been newly restored in 4K, approved by West, presented with Dolby Vision HDR. The limited edition set is housed in a rigid slipcase with artwork by Nick Charge alongside a 120-page book with new essays and six art cards.

Special features include: commentary by West, producers Larry Fessenden and Peter Phok, and sound designer Graham Reznick; commentary by West, Paxton, and Healy; new interviews with West, Healy, Fessenden, director of photography Eliot Rockett, composer Jeff Grace, and line producer Jacob Jaffke; and The Innkeepers: Behind the Scenes.

In a Violent Nature Print by Gary Pullin

Gary Pullin was commissioned by Shudder to create an In a Violent Nature poster inspired by the boldly simple Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter artwork.

16×24 screen prints, signed and numbered out of 30, are available for $65. They’ll ship in August.

New Nightmare Poster from Gutter Garbs

The terror doesn’t stop at the screen with Gutter Garbs’ New Nightmare design by Sam Coyne.

It’s available on T-shirts ($32), long sleeves ($40), hoodies ($55), and 12×18 posters ($30) through Sunday, June 29. They’ll ship the week of July 27.

Skateboarding Shirts from Fright-Rags

Go Skateboarding Day was last weekend, and Fright-Rags celebrated with tees paying tribute to old-school decks and monster movies.

Kyle Crawford’s gnarly shirts inspired by Gremlins, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and They Live are $33, while the Lost Boys baseball tee is $40.

Danza Macabra: Volume Four from Severin Films

Danza Macabra: Volume Four – The Italian Gothic Collection will be released on September 30 via Severin Films.

The box set includes Domenico Massimo Pupillo’s Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965), Filippo Ratti’s Night of the Damned (1971), Luigi Batzella & Joe D’Amato’s The Devil’s Wedding Night (1973), and Corrado Farina’s Baba Yaga (1973).

Priced at $125, the 11-disc set features all four films on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray from new 4K scans, over 12 hours of special features, a Piero Umiliani soundtrack compilation CD, and more.

For more merch madness, peruse the Killer Collectibles archives.

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In addition to the extremely controversial The Woman hitting the streaming service last week, SCREAMBOX has now added Ti West‘s (X, Pearl) supernatural classic The Innkeepers, courtesy of MPI and Dark Sky Films!

“While director Ti West’s brand of slow burn horror tends to be divisive, as slow burn horror is in general, The Innkeepers presents itself as a worthy selection for being based around and shot in an actual haunted hotel; the Yankee Pedlar Inn,” writes Meagan Navarro.

In the film, “The Yankee Pedlar Inn is in the process of closing. During its final weekend of operation, Claire and Luke are the only employees working. As avid ghost hunting enthusiasts, the pair toggle between checking in old guests and digging into the hotel’s haunted history to determine if the place is indeed haunted.”

Sara Paxton stars as Claire, and Pat Healy plays her ghost hunting partner in crime, Luke. The film rests mostly on their shoulders, but look for Kelly McGillis to play a crucial role as former actress Leanne Rease-Jones.

Adds Meagan: “The hotel atmosphere is effectively creepy. The thrilling conclusion injects adrenaline to an otherwise sleepy ghost story, and that final parting shot elicits chills.”

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Bleeders DIEgest kicked off their second season last week with The Winter Rental and return from the dead this week with – Shave and a Haircut, written by Trevor Shand.

The episode features a very special guest as our lead, actress Sara Paxton! Sara is known for her iconic roles in the horror genre in films like The Innkeepers (2011) and The Last House on the Left (2009) as well as dozens of film and TV projects, including Cheap Thrills and Return to Halloweentown.

In this new tale, “An antique store guards a mysterious record with a sinister secret.”

Available now on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere you get your podcasts!

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But in the hands of the right movie makers, these boxes of brick and wood can be terrifying.

In researching my meta-haunted house novel Twelve Nights at Rotter House, I dug deep into the haunted house movie subgenre and discovered five rules for them—the HHOA bylaws—but also learned that some of the best haunted house movies flipped that haunted house model faster than the Property Brothers inadvertently picking up the Amityville Horror house.

1. Haunted House Movies Take Place in Houses…right?

It’s right there in the name: Haunted house movie. Otherwise it’s a ghost story, right? However, haunted house stories can take place in all kinds of edifices and structures. Even vehicles. The Shining, The Innkeepers, and 1408 are all in hotels. Ghost Ship is on a ship. Below is on a submarine. The currently in production Horrorstör is in a furniture store. Poltergeist III and The Sentinel take place in apartment buildings. There’s more to haunted house stories than suburban sprawl.

Haunted house movies, while they can say a lot about where we hang our toothbrushes, are more about enclosed spaces. Defined borders. Walls and floors and roofs. Inside-ness. You’re safe on the sidewalk in front of the We Are Still Here house, but once you cross the threshold, you’re Larry Fessenden with a fire poker in your eye. You could take a beached whale carcass, stick candelabra-wielding guests inside it, and it could feel like a haunted house.

2. Haunted House Movies Star Ghosts…right?

Again, it’s there in the name. If you don’t need a literal house, surely you at least need it to be haunted? This section is going to be a spoiler-fest, so—like entering a haunted house—continue at your caution. 

Many great haunted house movies end up without a single ghost in their entire run-time. These houses just appear to be haunted until the Scooby Gang unmasks the human villains at the end. Think Housebound, The Pact (sorta), the original House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price with a puppetry rig strapped to his torso!), Session 9. We realize as the credits roll, that we were actually watching a mystery movie. But you’ll still find these films in the horror section of your local streaming service.

That’s partly because we’re looking for an ambiance from haunted house movies, that aforementioned inside-ness, but also because haunted has more than one definition – only one of which involves ghosts.

3. Haunted House Movies Feature Spooky Locations…right?

Hill House, Hell House, Bly Manor, Rose Red, Dunsmuir House, whatever the name of the estate in Crimson Peak is—these mansions all get a prominent place on the poster. They’re big and creepy and you can just tell from the opening shot that only evil lives there. I mean, who has the house from Poltergeist tattooed on their arm? 

But some movies sidestep castle-like mansions masterfully. Paranormal Activity worked because the house didn’t look special. It was bland and beige and a lot like the houses most people live in. Poltergeist, as already mentioned. The Witch in the Window. Ghostwatch. The Haunting in Connecticut. But that’s part of what made them scary. If you look up and see that your living room looks a lot like the haunted living room on the TV, you might think twice about crossing it to refill your popcorn. And the chances of sleeping with the lights on are much higher.

4. Haunted House Movies Climax with a Big Reveal…right?

Every movie is a mystery movie in some way. But haunted house movies come pre-loaded with multiple mysteries automatically: 1) Is this house haunted or not? 2) Is the force behind that haunting paranormal or human? 3) What do the ghosts or humans want? The answers to those questions are the big reveal of the movie and often the climax.

But some of the best haunted house movies don’t offer easy answers to those questions, like The Babadook. And The Innocents. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. In fact, the gold standard for haunted house movies, Robert Wise’s The Haunting, has no reveal whatsoever. Poor Eleanor. 

5. Haunted House Movies Use Houses as Traps…right?

Michael Myers slashes with a kitchen knife. Candyman disembowels with a hook. Haunted houses…they’re a bit more indirect with their murder and maimery. Sometimes they kill with pieces of themselves (Owen Wilson beheaded in a fireplace), but they mostly possess people to do the dirty work. But they do all that by trapping their victims inside. After all, if you can walk outside, it’s pretty easy to outrun a house. Even Terrified, which was a haunted neighborhood movie, still keeps its spooks indoors. 

Still, some of the best haunted house movies let people come and go for most of the film, like The Changeling, What Lies Beneath, and The Amityville Horror. Some haunted house movies are all about the opposite, trying to make the residents leave. Like Beetlejuice. And Sinister. 

In the end, a haunted house movie doesn’t need to have a house, have that house be haunted, or really adhere to any predefined conditions. It’s an ambiance more than anything else. A place where something goes bump in the night. And, with that flexible of a foundation, an imaginative director can make the haunted house as immediate and terrifying as any other cinematic monster.

Over the years, many have.

J.W. Ocker is the Edgar Award-winning author of horror novels Death and Douglas and the recently released meta-haunted house novel Twelve Nights at Rotter House. He has written for Rue Morgue, Paracinema, ShriekFreak, as well as mainstream publications like The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. Ocker is from John Waters’ Maryland but has lived in Robert Eggers’ New Hampshire for more than a decade. Visit him at oddthingsiveseen.com.

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A historic hotel located in Torrington, Connecticut, The Yankee Pedlar Inn was originally built by owners Frank and Alice Conley, in 1891. It was a family-owned and run business; Alice was the manager while Frank worked as the hotel’s operator. Eventually, Alice died on the hotel’s premises, in room 353. Rumors developed that the hotel is haunted, and most of the paranormal activity is reported from that room. The hotel closed in December 2015 for major renovations, but those plans stalled. As of now, the hotel still remains closed, making The Innkeepers feel all the more eerie.

Synopsis: The Yankee Pedlar Inn is in the process of closing. During its final weekend of operation, Claire and Luke are the only employees working. As avid ghost hunting enthusiasts, the pair toggle between checking in old guests and digging into the hotel’s haunted history to determine if the place is indeed haunted.

Key Players: Sara Paxton stars as Claire, and Pat Healy plays her ghost hunting partner in crime, Luke. The film rests mostly on their shoulders, but look for Kelly McGillis to play a crucial role as former actress Leanne Rease-Jones.

Why It’s on the List: While The House of the Devil was West’s throwback to ‘80s Satanic Panic, this movie is his throwback haunted house fare. It’s a mumblegore film, meaning that it’s a horror movie that places an emphasis on the dialogue and the relationship between Claire and Luke over narrative. In other words, it’s one that’s guaranteed to polarize. But Claire and Luke are highly likable, and the supernatural elements are great. The hotel atmosphere is effectively creepy. The thrilling conclusion injects adrenaline to an otherwise sleepy ghost story, and that final parting shot elicits chills.

“I Don’t Want to Scare You, But”: Everything you need to know to give you an idea of the spooky atmosphere, pace, humor, and characterization of The Innkeepers is contained in this clip. Alone at night, Claire hears weird banging somewhere in the hotel. Cautiously, she gets up from behind the front desk to investigate…

Where You Can Watch: The Innkeepers is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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West, who is the director of such films as The House Of The Devil, The Innkeepers, and The Sacrament, stated:

The first movie I drove myself to see when I got my license was [Wes Craven’s] SCREAM. Now I’m directing part the TV Series. Life is weird.

The cast of “Scream” includes Willa Fitzgerald, Taylor-Klaus, Bobby Campo, Connor Weil and Joel Gretsch.

While neither Trace nor Brad hated the debut pilot presentation, they were both left disappointed and hoping for more in the coming episodes (read Brad’s review; here’s Trace’s review).

In “Scream“:

After a cyber-bullying incident results in a brutal murder, the shocking violence stirs up memories of a killing spree from the past that has haunted some, intrigued others and maybe just inspired a new killer. A group of teens – with two old friends struggling to reconnect at its heart – become lovers, enemies, suspects, targets and victims of a killer who’s out for blood.

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Bloody-Disgusting: How are you doing?
Charlie Scene: Good man, how are you?

BD: Doing good! What’ve you got going on these days?
CS: Everything’s good, man! Just ‘bout to get rolling.

BD: What do ya got planned? What’s coming up next?
CS: Well, we just turned in the record and it’s going to be released in a month, which is Jan. 8th, 2013.

BD: So just a lot of planning and coordinating for the next step then?
CS: Yup! Lots of coordinating. We’re trying to look at tours right now and set that up. We’ll probably be touring all of 2013 and the year after that. We’re gonna be hitting all the major markets. We’re gonna be going back to Europe, to Japan. We won’t be home for all of 2013 and probably a good part of 2014.

BD: Tell me about Notes From The Underground. What sets it apart from Swan Songs and American Tragedy?
CS: On this one we didn’t have any direction or influence from the label or them telling us what to do when, on the last one, we kinda did a little bit. But this time they let us have full creative control, which was good, because that’s what we had on Swan Songs. So, we’re super happy with this record and it’s exactly the way we want it and we’re super proud of it and we think it’s going to be huge for us.

BD: Because you had that freedom, did you decide to take any risks while recording the album?
CS: We always kinda do. We always have these songs that are out of nowhere and sound nothing like what we’ve ever done. That’s the cool thing about our band is that we don’t have to stick to one genre, you know? We write a lot of the stuff that is the “Hollywood Undead sound” but then we can venture off and write stuff is completely out of left field. So there is a couple of those on the record and then there is some Hollywood Undead sounding songs on the record.

BD: Because there are several members, I’m sure each member brings their own tastes and influences to the table. How much of those influences play a role when recording a new album?
CS: Well, everyone would have a different answer for that, obviously [laughs]. Our drummer, Da Kurlzz, is a huge Miley Cyrus fan, so he tries to bring a lot of those sounding riffs and melodies and we just go ahead and throw those away. Then we bring out badass influences, like Nine Inch Nails and Ludacris and whoever is hot right now. I don’t know who’s on the Top 40 but they probably influence us too. That’s usually how we roll.

BD: You guys just filmed a music video for We Are. Can you tell me a bit about that and what fans can expect?
CS: Working with Clown was frickin’ awesome, man! He’s such a cool guy. He talked to each of us individually for, like, an hour on the phone before we even met him in person where we talked for even longer. It was just really cool working with him. And this video is unlike any other video we’ve ever done before. I know some of our videos can get kinda similar, with the band performing and hot girls in the video and drinking and blah blah blah. In this video, there’s none of that. It’s completely different. Each member in the band has their own segment, which they came up with on their own. In mine, I set a guy on fire. So, look out for that shit. It’s pretty intense.

BD: Was something going on in your life that made you think, “Man, I really need to set a guy on fire?”
CS: I just pretended like he was talking shit about my momma! [laughs] It was cool! We shot it like a horror movie, you know? It’s awesome! We filmed it in the most haunted place in the world, the Linda Vista Hospital. It’s a trippy ass, old, fucking abandoned psychiatric hospital. That’s where we filmed the whole video. It’s pretty creepy.

BD: It’s no secret that Hollywood Undead has some strong horror influences. What is it about horror that appeals to you?
CS: I just like the darkness of it. Most of the time when I’m watching movies, that’s what I watch is horror movies because you can sit there watching chick flicks or action movies but I like seeing people get fucked up. I like seeing people get killed and seeing trippy shit.

BD: Horror is often categorized as a very intense, visceral experience, which are terms that are just as often attributed to music. What do you suppose it is about horror that allows it to be so influential on music?
CS: I think just because horror is so entertaining. People love watching that kind of thing. Those movies are so entertaining and, with music, you have to keep it as entertaining as possible as well. You take people to a dark place or feel a certain way, which you can only do with a horror film or with dark music. But we also have songs that aren’t dark at all. We have party tracks.

BD: And that’s how it is with horror, right? You have some dark scenes, some people get killed, and then there’s a party.
CS: Yeah, there’s a party scene with a couple of girls getting boned. And then they get killed. After.

BD: What were some of your favorite horror films from 2012?
CS: Oh shit. I watch movies on Netflix all the time but I forget the names. But I saw a movie called The Pact that was pretty good. I saw The Innkeepers and that was really good. I think those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head.

BD: I loved The Innkeepers.
CS: It was good, right?!

BD: What I loved about it was that it had a very light-hearted feel that was almost comedic throughout and then, at the end, it got real serious real fast.
CS: Exactly! That fucking creepy old man?

BD: On that line, what were some of your favorite albums of 2012?
CS: The new Muse record had some good songs. And any band that we toured with. If they had a record out in 2012, that was my fave.

BD: Charlie, thanks so much for your time! Best of luck to you and the rest of the Hollywood Undead team with Notes From The Underground! Hopefully I’ll get to check you guys out when you come near Detroit!
CS: Hell yeah man, that’d be awesome! We’ll watch a horror movie!

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The film tells “the story of a new father facing eviction who is reunited with a high school friend when a wealthy couple challenges them to the ultimate game of dare, testing the limits of physical pain and morality in exchange for cash.”

Cheap Thrills is being produced by Travis Stevens of Snowfort Pictures and alongside Gabriel Cowan and John Suits of New Artists Alliance.

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But before you can get your hands on the physical release of the supernatural chiller, Bloody Disgusting is going to give you a chance to win an extremely rare, collectible and not-for-sale “gatefold” release of the film signed by West, along with a signed poster and DVD!

The official prizing is as follows:

(1) Grand Prize Winner: (1) The Innkeepers gatefold signed by Ti West, (1) The Dude Designs poster for The Innkeepers signed by Ti West, Pat Healy and Sara Paxton & (1) DVD of The Innkeepers
(1) First Prize: (1) The Innkeepers gatefold signed by Ti West & (1) DVD of The Innkeepers
(3) Second Prize: (1) DVD of The Innkeepers

How to Enter:

Open U.S. residents only, all you have to do is take the time to leave a comment below and tell us what your favorite Ti West movie is (The Roost, House of the Devil, Cabin Fever 2, Trigger Man) and why. Also tell us why you deserve to win. We’ll randomly pick (5) names this coming weekend and contact you via private message. No P.O. boxes accepted.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn in Connecticut is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees – Claire (Sara Paxton, Shark Night 3-D, The Last House on the Left) and Luke (Pat Healy, Dirty Girl) – are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the inn’s final days draw near, odd guests start to check in and the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long mysterious history.”

Writer-director Ti West has revealed a unique style that pays tribute to classic horror of the 1970s and ’80s with the bold spirit of the new American independent cinema. THE INKEEPERS, which co-stars Kelly McGillis (Top Gun, Stake Land), was an award-winning hit on the film festival circuit and opened to rave critical reviews last week in theaters nationwide.

The Innkeepers, which blends the classic ghost story style with a solid modern twist is an original Dark Sky Films in partnership with Glass Eye Pix. The extras on the Blu-ray and DVD will include: The Innkeepers: Behind the Scenes, Commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West, Producers Peter Phok & Larry, Fessenden, and 2nd Unit Director/Sound Designer Graham Reznick, Commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West and Stars Sara Paxton & Pat Healy and Trailer

Purchase the DVD on Amazon.

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To take you inside the release, below we’ve embedded an exclusive clip that gives you a taste of one of the home video extras.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn in Connecticut is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees – Claire (Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) – are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the inn’s final days draw near, odd guests start to check in and the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long mysterious history.”

Writer-director Ti West has revealed a unique style that pays tribute to classic horror of the 1970s and ’80s with the bold spirit of the new American independent cinema. The extras on the Blu-ray and DVD will include: The Innkeepers: Behind the Scenes, Commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West, Producers Peter Phok & Larry, Fessenden, and 2nd Unit Director/Sound Designer Graham Reznick, Commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West and Stars Sara Paxton & Pat Healy and Trailer.

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Ti West’s The Innkeepers will be hitting blu-ray and DVD on April 24, 2012. While full details are forthcoming, extras on the Blu-ray and DVD will include: The Innkeepers: Behind the Scenes, Commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West, Producers Peter Phok & Larry Fessenden, and 2nd Unit Director/Sound Designer Graham Reznick, Commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West and Stars Sara Paxton & Pat Healy.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

West directed such films as The Roost and The House of the Devil.

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There’s a lot to love about Ti West’s The Innkeepers. It’s a smart, funny character study that just happens to be centered around a genuinely fun and creepy ghost story.

The film made my 2011 ‘Best-Of’ List and I included Sara Paxton’s performance as Claire as one of The Five Best Performances of the year. I’m definitely a fan of the film so it was a no-brainer for me to jump at the opportunity to interview both Ti and Sara when they swung through town on the film’s publicity tour.

We also touched on various upcoming projects for the pair (including VHS and which feature Ti might tackle next). Hit the jump to check it out!

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Now available on VOD from Magnet Releasing is Ti West’s supernatural horror flick The Innkeepers, which stars Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle. Opening in limited theaters February 3, we’ve landed a second clip that displays Claire (Sara Paxton) hunting the spirit of Madeline O’malley, a woman who haunts The Yankee Pedlar.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

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Included in Evan Dickson’s best films of 2011 is Ti West’s atmospheric supernatural horror The Innkeepers, which stars Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle. The flick is now available on VOD, and will be opening in limited theaters February 3. A new clip has been released and features Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) succeeding in contacting the spirit of Madeline O’malley, a woman who haunts The Yankee Pedlar.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

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Ti West’s atmospheric supernatural horror The Innkeepers, which stars Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle, is now available on VOD, and will be opening in limited theaters February 3. Bloody Disgusting is excited to bring you behind-the-scenes of the production with the following exclusive featurette. Enjoy below and don’t forget to become a fan on Facebook!

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

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You’re apparently an idiot and haven’t used the internet until, well, this story (in that case, thanks for making Bloody Disgusting your first ever stop on the world wide web!)

Now that you’re here, you may want to check out the EVP clip caught on audio during the filmmking of Ti West’s ghostly The Innkeepers (review)! Oh, and make sure you turn your volume all the way up. ROFL.

Though I kid, the clip is actually a pretty fun moment from the film, but out of context it’s a riot. Check it out after the break. The flick is quite fun and has some creepy moments, I highly recommend checking it out (especially fans of House of the Devil).

Arriving on VOD December 30 from Magnet Releasing before opening in limited theaters February 3, “After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

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House of the Devil fans wait no longer as Magnet Releasing has sent us a new batch of hi-res imagery from Ti West’s atmospheric supernatural horror, The Innkeepers, which stars Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle. The wait won’t be much longer as it will arrive on VOD December 30 before opening in limited theaters February 3.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

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House of the Devil fans wait no longer as Magnet Releasing has premiered the official trailer for Ti West’s atmospheric supernatural horror, The Innkeepers, which stars Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle. The wait won’t be much longer as it will arrive on VOD December 30 before opening in limited theaters February 3. In addition, a hi-res look at the new haunting one sheet is now inside.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

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Having made the festival rounds to mixed reviews (I thought it was a pretty well-made, spooky movie), Magnet Releasing has announced that Ti West’s The Innkeepers, which stars Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle, will arrive on VOD December 30 before opening in limited theaters February 3. In addition, a new haunting one sheet was released and can be enjoyed inside.

“After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees –Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)—are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.”

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“Even though it has some issues, ‘The Innkeepers’ is a fine film that’s not bad, just kind of disappointing. While not trying to really emulate anything in particular unlike West’s last film, it plods along way too much as it tries to make you identify with its characters and their plight, and ends up spinning its wheels for an hour instead. The performances are great, the comedy and horror work well separately and the payoff is worth the wait, but in the end the whole is not as great as the sum of its parts.”

Click the title for the full review or here for our full SXSW coverage. You can also read our exclusive interview with Ti West for more inside info.

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About the last two staffers (Sara Paxton and Pat Healy) of a haunted hotel that’s going out of business, Bloody Disgusting’s David Harley caught up with West to talk about what people are saying is one of the scariest films of the year.

Dark Sky Films will release later this year.
David Harley: There are a lot of similarities between House Of The Devil and The Innkeepers in terms of pacing and plot and action beats. What drove you to create this kind of style for yourself? What attracts you to the slow-burn?

Ti West: It’s weird. When people say slow-burn about this one, I think `Again with the slow-burn!’ I don’t think I’m really aware of it, it’s just my style. But it’s not on purpose. I really thought this movie had regular sort of pacing, because there’s a lot of humor in it. So, I don’t really look at it like that. But, I think slow-burn is just a way of saying `How come there’s not much more horror in the beginning?’ That, for me, is my own personal taste. I don’t think horror is successful until you really get to spend time with the characters in the movie because if something bad happens to them, they’re just the people in the movie. It’s like, who cares? Then you’re just there to see the special effects which, when making a low-budget movie, is not what I’m really after.

But if you do get to spend 30 minutes with these people, hanging out and laughing, you feel like you get to know them. Then when something happens… Like, I remember one part when Sara falls down the stairs and you see a cut on your head. You’re like `Hey, what’s that? She’s not supposed to have a big cut on her head. This isn’t that movie.’ I think that’s what makes that effect; the contrast of the non-horror stuff. You shouldn’t have characters that belong in a horror movie, they should just find themselves in the situation.

BD: The way you set up the comedy makes the film feel a lot lighter than you tend to usually go. It actually reminded me of The Hole, where all the characters are extremely innocent and it has this kind of whimsical vibe. The characters kind of know what’s going on, but they spend most of the time speculating and trying to get concrete evidence. What made you gravitate towards that? It’s quite a departure from your usual style.

West: House Of The Devil was about this girl who’s broke and bummed out. I just didn’t want to do that again. I’ve had crappy jobs where you’re just stuck there all day and I wanted to make a charming movie about that. I used to sell jeans before I did this. When I was selling jeans, I somehow found myself in a ghost story that’s kind of crazy. So I thought that would be an interesting way to get these people with these mediocre jobs who don’t have that much ambition but aren’t quite apathetic. Then they find themselves in this larger than life situation and we look at how they handle that. That’s sort of where it came from.

BD: When Kelly’s character is talking, there’s a strong emphasis – even in the tagline for the poster – on the emphasis of our country’s current economic state. Like you said, the characters aren’t exactly in the most glamorous jobs. They’re making minimum wage and they might be worrying about what’s next but, at the moment, they’re enjoying themselves.

West: It’s not meant to be a social commentary about the recession, but that’s fine if that factors in because that’s what’s going on. To me, I’m only qualified to make movies and be a busboy. I don’t have any intermediate skills. I don’t even know how to work on a movie. I couldn’t A.D. I don’t know how to do it. I can just make them. That’s all I did before; I mowed lawns, I sold jeans, I was a busboy or a cook. Those are the things that I did.

To me, I like that vibe of that’s who these characters are. Yes, they’re on the bottom rung but it’s not that grim. It’s not like we’re digging ditches, but we’re also not doing anything that cool either. That why there’s that moment when Claire is having a rough time after the person she wanted to like her didn’t like her, and then she has a weird, annoying relationship with the person working next door. She’s just bummed out, thinking `My life’s not bad, but should I be doing something else?’ There’s that weird kind of indecisiveness that I think really exists.

BD: I think the normal, humdrum life you’re creating for these characters really comes out in the dialogue. They have random conversations that aren’t really important, and spend a lot of time bullshitting and hanging out. The relationship rings true.

West: There wasn’t a tremendous amount of improvising in the movie, but there are a few lines throughout the movie that they came up with or weird ways that they delivered it that was all on them. Pat improvised a couple of really funny lines, like the joke about Gozer. He just did that on the fly and I thought it was funny. Lena, the barista, improvised a few things that were great.

As a writer/director, I’m pretty meticulous with how it’ll be. I don’t police the actors too much, I let them do their thing but I run a tight ship about sticking to stuff when we can. Since I write the script, if they go off that and improvise, I don’t care because if they do something, I want it in the film. I don’t have to go consult with the writer; it’s me. It’s not like that.

BD: I know Pat was part of a sketch group back in the day. He seemed to be working his chops.

West: He might’ve been, he did some comedy for a while.

BD: So, the normal, ordinary lives of someone in Anytown, USA influenced you in terms of what angle you wanted to put on the story, but what made you choose ghosts as your next subject?

West: My personal experiences with staying at that hotel. I hadn’t done a ghost movie, so I figured I’d do one. I about staying in this hotel and weird stuff happening. What if I just went back to that hotel and shot it there? I lived that and felt I had a good eye to make it charming and scary. I’d already spent enough time in that hotel already. It was very weird going back there but it was really just my personal experience of having lived there during making House Of The Devil. There’s really a Luke that works the front desk that has a ghost website, having Dee Wallace talk to me about spiritual stuff, and having doors and close by themselves. Everyone kept talking about how weird it was. What better than to draw from that personal experience?

BD: But you don’t actually believe in ghosts.

West: No, I don’t.

BD: I’m pretty curious: As a skeptic, you saw weird stuff there, people told you about weird stuff they’d seen… it seems to me that you would try to rationalize all these strange things.

West: It was the closest I’d ever come.

BD: Was there a specific incident that swayed you?

West: Yeah. My phone rang one time and there was nobody there, and they told me that’s what happens in the hotel. I said `Eh, could be something else.’ Then the door opened by itself, but that could’ve been something else. Someone could’ve opened it, it’s an old building. The only thing I can’t explain is that as soon as I had got there, when I was doing House Of The Devil, I came back to sleep and I’d have these really weird, vivid dreams. It only happens there. I’m staying in a hotel here and nothing. Everyone on the crew had weird dreams, too. They’d all wake up and talk about them. That, combined with Dee Wallace and the people who worked there telling me it was haunted… There wasn’t enough to convince me, but I thought maybe it could be. It was the closest I’d ever come, I’m pretty skeptical. I’d have to see a ghost, then I’d be a believer.

The other thing that was really weird was the Honeymoon Suite in the movie, where Madeline hung herself, is where we picked to shoot simply because it had a longer room and I could do that long tracking shot into the bathroom. After we were done and wrapping up, they said, `Oh yeah, that’s the most haunted room in the hotel.’ So, the room I picked which I had no knowledge of and I only picked because of technical reasons ended up being the room that’s most haunted in the entire place.

BD: What luck!

West: It’s weird stuff, man. It’s like a Bermuda Triangle in that place.

BD: I really love ghost movies; it’s actually my favorite horror subgenre. I think, whether you’re spiritual or not, believe in something or are atheist, the idea of spirits and demons kind of challenges something that nobody really comprehends and is widely enough reported, making it conceivable to some. Whether those people are cuckoo or not is another thing entirely, but out of all the otherworldly threats, ghosts – and aliens – seem to be the most prominent in terms of what adults are actually fearful of. Is that what attracts you to the subject matter?

West: Maybe. Sorta. I think that the reason most ghost stuff is so compelling is that no one really believes in zombies or vampires, but ghosts is something you might run into. I think there’s some element of this could be true and it could be around us at all times and also dealing with our own mortality. What happens after you die? Is it a religious thing or not? I think that’s a more relevant human concern than whether or not a zombie is going to break into your house.

BD: Kelly’s character is an old curmudgeon healer-psychic who drinks herself to sleep. It seems so specific… do you know that person? (laughs)

West: Yeah, but I’m very, very sensitive about it. It’s not based on Dee Wallace because she is an awesome, wonderful leady and the character in the movie is an alcoholic asshole. But, when I was doing House Of The Devil and staying at the hotel… She is a healer now, that’s what she does. She does have pendulums and did talk to me about how that stuff works. It was just really kind of amazing. I don’t know how much I believe in it, I think it might be too new agey for me. It was just really interesting. That’s where the idea of Kelly being that came from, but the personality is not based on Dee Wallace. That’s where I got the pendulum ideas from. I experienced that in the hotel. I was like, `Woah, I’ve never seen this before.’ So that’s where the genesis of the idea came from.

BD: Did you actually see it work?

West: She did what they do, yeah. She was awesome, she kept in touch and gives me all these weird messages. I think Dee Wallace is one of my favorite people I’ve worked with. It was also funny because everyone recognized her, like from E.T., so I wanted to have someone like that that everyone recognizes as this character. But instead of being cool like Dee, she ends up being an asshole. It’s the opposite of Dee.

BD: The creepiest performance in the movie, hands down, is George Riddle’s character.

West: We always wanted this old man at the end of his life to come close out his last chapter in life, and there’s something about the hotel that brings him there. When he auditioned, that’s what happened in the audition and I said, `This is the guy.’ It wasn’t really written that way. He didn’t change the lines, but who knew or thought he was going to deliver it like that? I didn’t even know that guy existed but when I saw the tape, I was amazed. He brought something to it that I couldn’t imagine. He has such an odd way about him.

BD: The film has a very minimalistic approach. It’s not overloaded with effects, it’s a very small cast of characters with really only one setting. Was it important to you to keep it like that and place it in modern day? Since you kind of planned it as a classic ghost story, was there ever a specific time in mind?

West: I had no desire to make another 80s movie, and I really wanted to keep this in modern day. I don’t like technology in movies so I was able to avoid most of it.

BD: I saw Insidious the night before Innkeepers, and I felt like the presentation of the ghosts in both films are the exact opposite of one another. Whereas James goes out of his way to really show you everything, you kind of kept everything ambiguous for the most part.

West: To me, it’s very important that there’s two ways of looking at the movie. One way is the skeptic, cynical way, where you think there weren’t ever any ghosts and she just got wrapped up in her imagination and scared herself. Or, all the stuff in the movie was happening, there were ghosts, and she was meant to be there. I think you can look at it both ways, and it works both ways. Just keep it ambiguous enough that, depending on your own personal interest, you could see it both or either way.

BD: Since you layered the film like that, did you find it difficult to balance out both outcomes throughout the film? Or was it instinctual?

West: I just kind of went with my instincts. It’s kind of the same thing when people ask me, `How’d you know that was going to be scary?’ I just assumed. That was always what I had in mind.

BD: It’s like a parallel mind trek.

West: Yeah, it’s weird. There’s never really a moment when we thought there was only one way to look at it, it was always `That’s just what the movie was and we did our best to make it.’ Thankfully, it worked out.

BD: Were there any films that specifically influenced you, even just for scenes? I’m sure a lot of people are comparing the steadicam hallway scenes to The Shining.

West: Nobody can put a steadicam in a hallway without thinking of The Shining, but that’s really not what we wanted to evoke. No, there wasn’t specific stuff but I think, visually, the closest thing me and Eliot [Rockett] talked about was that I want him to shoot with these kooky wide-angle lenses and a lot of the weird steadicam stuff. We talked a lot about Heavenly Creatures, which is a serious subject matter but it’s shot in this really kooky way. That’s sort of what I wanted to do with this, just not as extreme. People ask me what the movie is like, and it’s really hard for me to describe. That opening basement scene in Ghostbusters was kind of the tone that I was going for, where it’s funny but also sort of scary. Or like The Frighteners.

BD: So, in other words, you really love Peter Jackson?

West: Oh yeah! Quite a bit. So, I’m really not a direct influence kind of guy, but I also don’t tell people to sit down and watch this movie because that’s what we’re trying to do. The vibe of those movies is more of what I was going for.

BD: You’ve done the satanic cult movie, now you’ve done the ghost movie, so what’s next?

West: I think I’m going to do this sci-fi movie I wrote. Since 2005, I’ve made five horror movies in a row so it’s kind of like how many times can I do someone’s head getting cut off? Or how many times can I do something popping out? I gotta take a break. Not that I don’t like it anymore, but it’s like when we were doing the special effects on the movie, it’s what I’ve been doing for the last six years. It’s not exciting anymore. If I can’t find something new to do with it, I feel like I’m doing the same thing.

Steven Soderbergh had this really poignant comment where he said he just couldn’t get excited about doing over-the-shoulder camera shots anymore. He’s just chilling out right now. He’s like, `I’ve been doing it for so long, so I’m gonna do something else to motivate me.’ It’s still horror-ish, the sci-fi movie I’m working on. I’ve done zombies, vampires, like this shooting sort of serial killer thing…

BD: Like your own personal Most Dangerous Game.

West: Yeah, so I’ve done that. I’ve tried to do this gory comedy thing and got kind of screwed on that one with Cabin Fever, I did the satanic cult thing with House Of The Devil, and now I just did the ghost thing. It’s time try something outside of the box.

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The trailer premiered last week to a flurry of positive remarks, now we got our hands on two more stills and the official festival one sheet. “Cancel your future…”

“ ‘Detention’ tells the story of the senior class at Grizzly Lake high school. The road to graduation is never an easy one, but it’s further complicated for these students by the arrival of a slasher movie killer who has seemingly come to life. The only ones who can stop the killer are a handful of students, but they’ll have to cut out of detention if they’re to stand a chance at saving the world.” Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Parker Bagley, Alison Woods, Walter Perez, and Carrie Wiita all star.

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Inside you’ll find the trailer debut for the alien invasion horror film which stars Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, and Nick Frost in a film that follows a gang of South London teenagers defending their housing project home against an alien attack.

The pic will have its premiere at this month’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Also dig on the official website and Facebook.

While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade and nothing will stand in their way. THE ESTATE IS ABOUT TO BECOME A BATTLEGROUND. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block’s, only hope.”

Trailer courtesy of our friends at Empire:

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“A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. A loyal friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside two brutal murderers expect them, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives stolen from the last military dictatorship in Argentina.”

Inside you’ll find the film’s official trailer and the two new one sheets, while you can click the image for our full image gallery!

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“A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. A loyal friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside two brutal murderers expect them, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives stolen from the last military dictatorship in Argentina.”

Inside you’ll find the film’s official trailer, while you can click the image for our full image gallery!

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Gearing up for the fest, the official website and Facebook have launched, featuring your first ever look at the film, along with a crazy long synopsis. I love genre films that are targeted towards kids, some of my all-time favorite horror films were made for the youngins.

While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade and nothing will stand in their way. THE ESTATE IS ABOUT TO BECOME A BATTLEGROUND. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block’s, only hope.”

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This afternoon I made a few calls and got my hands on the official festival poster, images, a Metallica-rocking international trailer, a Dawn of the Dead-ish festival trailer, and an exclusive clip that also taps musically into Assault on Precinct 13.

From the executive producer of Paranormal Activity, Phase 7 looks like it taps into early Romero and can be described as a cross between The Crazies, Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later. We’re told Goldbart loves Carpenter and used temp music from Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing and Escape From New York.

Starring Daniel Hendler, Federico Luppi, Jazmin Stuart, and Jose “Yayo” Guridi, “Coco just moved to his new apartment with 7-month pregnant wife. When the building is in quarantined for a deadly flue. The neighbors became unexpected enemies.”

EXCLUSIVE CLIP

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We just now scored this new steamy still, while inside you’ll find details on all of the shorts with some insane imagery.

“A well-to-do yuppie couple, Richard and Victoria, pose as concerned religious do-gooders in order to lure homeless girls back to their home for perverted sex games. Deciding upon their latest target, a mysterious young woman named Sorrow; they drug and imprison her before subjecting her to a series of assaults and humiliations. However, the captive girl is not as helpless as she first appears and the couple soon find the rules of the game have changed…”

Mutant Tool: Written and Directed by Andrew Parkinson

“Jen, a former prostitute and recovering drug addict, is undergoing therapy in a bid to turn her life around. Her new therapist, Dr Reece, comes as a recommendation via her boyfriend Frank. But unbeknownst to Jen, Frank and Dr Reece have a shadowy criminal relationship. The therapist is involved with a bizarre black market narcotics trade, in which the semen from human mutations created during WWII Nazi experiments is harvested and processed for its psychic effects on the human brain. And now the last known mutant is dying and a suitable replacement must be found…”

Bitch: Written and Directed by Simon Rumley

“Stuck in a destructive relationship which isn’t going anywhere and lousy dead-end jobs which have no future, Claire and Pete live in a council flat and are united only in their love of rock music. The flame of passion having long since died, the couple derives a strange sexual pleasure from an unspoken sadomasochistic role-playing game where Claire finds new and inventive ways of mistreating Pete – and Pete, ever the devoted lap dog, takes what she dishes out time and again. But in an unspoken game the boundaries are hazy, and when Claire unwittingly takes things one step too far Pete devises a way to teach the bitch to heel, once and for all.”

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First discovered back in May, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, which stars Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, and MyAnna Buring, was announced as part of the Austin, Texas SXSW Film Festival. No details were revealed, but we’re so on top of our sh*t we’re excited to tell you that it’s about a group of demobbed soldiers turned contract killers who run up against a devil-worshipping coven (sounds a bit like what Rob Zombie is up to with The Lords of Salem). Anyways, here’s the super secret plot crunch and first ever hi-res still:

“Beginning 8 months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer Jay, is pressured by his partner Gal, into taking a tough new assignment. As they descend into the dark, disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again – his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness.”

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How many of you are fans of Frontier(s)? Yeah, me too. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to see Xavier Gens’ quasi-anthology The Divide, which will premiere at this March’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

Starring Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance, and LaurenGerman, “the segments include a post-apocalyptic thriller set mostly in an apartment building fallout shelter, a serial-killer thriller about a woman afflicted with “face blindness,” and a coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking out her birth mother.

German’s character is at the center of the film, set in New York, which is virtually destroyed in a mysterious explosion in the first act. Eight survivors take refuge in the fallout shelter of an apartment building, where they are menaced first by mysterious men in HazMat suits and eventually by each other.”

Check out three more images:

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A key component of the SXSW Film lineup, the Festival offers two midnight feature programs, each including five titles. The long-standing Midnighters section has hosted the premieres and fostered the careers of such filmmakers as Ti West, Eli Roth, and Scott Glosserman, and is programmed by SXSW Senior Programmer & Conference Manager Jarod Neece. In 2009, SXSW added the SXFantastic sidebar, a series of midnight films programmed by Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S. Last year, the section was home to the world premieres of Gareth Edward’s Monsters and the much buzzed about A Serbian Film.

“Our midnight programs are the bloody, beating heart of SXSW,” said SXSW Film Conference & Festival Producer Janet Pierson. “Since the beginning, midnight films have been an essential ingredient to what makes SXSW so exciting and fun, and this year’s selections are no exception.”

MIDNIGHTERS: Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls and the terminally curious.

Films screening in Midnighters are:

Attack The Block (UK-England)
Director & Writer: Joe Cornish
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter and Nick Frost
“A funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of alien monsters. It turns a tower block into a sci-fi playground. It’s inner city versus outer space.” (World Premiere)

The Divide (US-Canada)
Director: Xavier Gens, Writers: Karl Mueller & Eron Sheean
Cast: Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance
“To survive the end of the world…you must first survive each other.” (World Premiere)

Hobo With a Shotgun
Director: Jason Eisner, Writer: John Davies
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith, Molly Dunsworth, Brian Downey, Nick Bateman
“A Hobo finds himself in an urban hell. When he witnesses a brutal robbery, he realizes the only way to deliver justice is with a shotgun.”

Insidious
Director: James Wan, Writer: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins, Barbara Hershey
“Dark spirits have possessed the home of a family whose son has fallen into a coma. Trying to save him, the family moves only to realize that it was not their house that was haunted.” (U.S. Premiere)

Phase 7 / Fase 7 (Argentina)
Director & Writer: Nicolas Goldbart
Cast: Daniel Hendler, Federico Luppi, Jazmin Stuart, Jose “Yayo” Guridi
“Coco just moved to his new apartment with 7-month pregnant wife. When the building is in quarantined for a deadly flue. The neighbors became unexpected enemies.” (North American Premiere)

SXFANTASTIC: Mind-bending Midnighters, hand-selected by our friends at Fantastic Fest.

Films screening in SXFantastic are:

Cold Sweat / Sudor Frio
Director: Adrián Garcia Bogliano, Writers: Adrián Garcia Bogliano, Ramiro García Bogliano, Hernán Moyano
Cast: Facundo Espinosa, Marina Glezer, Camila Velasco, Omar Musa, Noelia Vergini
“What do you do if you are a right-wing Argentinean terrorist and your state-sanctioned organization is disbanded? We can’t say, but it involves chat rooms, bare breasts and a generous slathering of nitro-glycerine.” (International Premiere)

George the Hedgehog / Jeż Jerzy (Poland)
Director: Wojciech Wawszczyk, Writer: Rafał Skarżycki
Cast: Borys Szyc, Maria Peszek, Maciej Maleńczuk, Sokół, Michał Koterski
“Jez Jerzy is a skateboarding hedgehog who likes to drink beer and fondle breasts. He finds it hard to pursue his passions, however, while being tormented by neo-nazi skinheads, mad scientists and a drooling, flatulent clone of himself.” (International Premiere)

Kill List (UK)
Director: Ben Wheatley, Writers: Ben Wheatley & Amy Jump
Cast: Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring
“A horror film about a group of demobbed soldiers turned contract killers who run up against a devil-worshipping coven.” (World Premiere)

Little Deaths (UK)
Directors & Writers: Sean Hogan, Andrew Parkinson & Simon Rumley
Cast: Kate Braithewaite, Daniel Brocklebank, Brendan Gregory, Siubhan Harrison, Jodie Jameson
“A psychosexual horror anthology comprised of three separate stories dealing with the twin themes of sex and death.” (North American Premiere)

The FP
Directors & Writers: Jason Trost & Brandon Trost
Cast: Jason Trost, Lee Valamassy, Caitlyn Folley, Art Hsu, Nick Principe
“For years an underground war has raged for dominance over the town of Frazier Park between two clans. Dominance isn’t determined through fistfights or petty brawls, but the dancing video game Beat-Beat Revelation.” (World Premiere)

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED:

Silver Bullets; Director & Writer: Joe Swanberg
Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Ti West, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, Jane Adams (North American Premiere)
“Filmmaking and life converge around a werewolf film.”

My Sucky Teen Romance; Director & Writer: Emily Hagins
Cast: Elaine Hurt, Patrick Delgado, Santiago Dietche, Lauren Lee, Tony Vespe (World Premiere)
“In a culture that is currently overrun with romanticized vampires, it is up to four geeky teenagers to defend their friend and beloved sci-fi convention from a group of very real, blood-thirsty vampires.”

Red Riding Hood (Special Screening); Director: Catherine Hardwicke, Writer: David Leslie Johnson
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons
“Catherine Hardwicke will be present for Q&A following this special screening of her latest film, on Thursday, March 10 at midnight. In the film, a werewolf terrorizes a small village, especially when the people discover that, by day, the beast could be anyone. And one young woman discovers that she has a unique connection to the wolf that makes her both suspect…and bait.”

Detention; Director: Joseph Kahn, Writers: Joseph Kahn & Mark Palermo
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson (World Premiere)
“A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom.”

The Innkeepers; Director & Writer: Ti West
Cast: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis (World Premiere)
“Hotel clerks by day, amateur ghost hunters by night, the last two employees of the historic Yankee Pedlar Inn set out to prove that their place of business is as haunted as its reputation. ”

Bellflower
Director & Writer: Evan Glodell
Cast: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes, Vincent Grashaw
“A love story with apocalyptic stakes. Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang “Mother Medusa”.”

MIDNIGHT SHORTS: Bite-sized bits for all of your sex, gore, and hilarity needs.

ATTACK
Director: Adam White
When Harold discovers he has a brain tumor he is unaware that the tumor is an independent world of it’s own, fighting to survive.

Billy’s Birthday
Director: Thomas Wohlford
It’s Billy’s Birthday.

BUNNY BOY
Director: Brandon LaGanke
When a young child walks home from school he encounters a strange-looking man in a full bunny costume.

Canary Suicides
Directors: Natalia Provatas & Valerian Zamel
The story of five canaries, that just couldn’t take it anymore.

Christeene, “Bustin’ Brown”
Director: PJ Raval
In “Bustin’ Brown,” the fourth installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, CHRISTEENE confronts the ever-present bastardization of anal sex from mainstream bourgeois heterosexuals by returning “da buh-hole” to its rightful owners.

Good Morning, Beautiful
Director: Todd Cobery
After the death of his newborn daughter, a man deals with his grief as he struggles to keep his grasp on reality.

Hello Caller
Director: Andrew Putschoegl
A suicidal woman makes a call for help with unexpected results.

The Laying on of Hands
Director: Nick Twemlow
Martial arts death dealing meets biblical faith healing.

LGFUAD
Director: Kelsey Stark
Ghosts just wanna have fun!

Love Analysis
Director: Lucas Mireles
Give me one good reason to date your sister.

Special Needs
Director: Scott Smith
Politically incorrect foreplay helps a young couple explore the boundaries of their fantasies.

Waffle
Director: Rafael De Leon Jr.
A disfigured, science fair champion invites her new friend over for dinner, but by the time dessert comes around, the two schoolmates will discover each other’s true, unpleasant natures.

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He’ll be starring alongside Jane Adams, Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil, The Roost), Larry Fessenden (Bitter Feast, I Sell the Dead), Kate Lyn Sheil, and Horrible Way to Die co-star Amy Seimetz in a film following an actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film. Her relationship with her new director blossoms while her boyfriend spirals into a dangerous depression.

We’re told that there are barely any horror elements to the film, so be warned in advance. David Harley will speak to Swanberg and get the full lowdown. Until then, check out the first ever stills and long synopsis inside.

Inspired by Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” SILVER BULLETS examines the cinema and asks questions about art, commerce, power and desire. Using David Foster Wallace as a reference point, the film also explores fame, depression and suicide.”

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The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival released major titles including its Competition, Spotlight Premieres, Headliners, Emerging Visions and other sections slated for the 2011 edition of the popular event taking place March 11 – 19 in Austin, Texas.

130 features, including 60 World Premieres, 12 North American Premieres and 16 U.S. Premieres are on this year’s roster, with eight narrative and eight documentary features will compete for jury prizes.

While you’ve already read about 3 films premiering at this March’s event, inside you’ll find the full line-up announced thus far. Expect some surprises leading up to the fest!

My Sucky Teen Romance; Director & Writer: Emily Hagins
Cast: Elaine Hurt, Patrick Delgado, Santiago Dietche, Lauren Lee, Tony Vespe (World Premiere)
“In a culture that is currently overrun with romanticized vampires, it is up to four geeky teenagers to defend their friend and beloved sci-fi convention from a group of very real, blood-thirsty vampires.”

Red Riding Hood (Special Screening); Director: Catherine Hardwicke, Writer: David Leslie Johnson
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons
“Catherine Hardwicke will be present for Q&A following this special screening of her latest film, on Thursday, March 10 at midnight. In the film, a werewolf terrorizes a small village, especially when the people discover that, by day, the beast could be anyone. And one young woman discovers that she has a unique connection to the wolf that makes her both suspect…and bait.”

Detention; Director: Joseph Kahn, Writers: Joseph Kahn & Mark Palermo
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson (World Premiere)
“A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom.”

The Innkeepers; Director & Writer: Ti West
Cast: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis (World Premiere)
“Hotel clerks by day, amateur ghost hunters by night, the last two employees of the historic Yankee Pedlar Inn set out to prove that their place of business is as haunted as its reputation. ”

Bellflower
Director & Writer: Evan Glodell
Cast: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes, Vincent Grashaw
“A love story with apocalyptic stakes. Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang “Mother Medusa”.“

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“In the film a downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom!”

Below you’ll find the first ever official image featuring Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, and Aaron David Johnson. Click here for a look at the killer.

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