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Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp s comedy sets many, many obstacles between the meeting of a high-school kid and the girl he s obsessed with.
An out-all-night odyssey in which romance is interrupted by a compounding series of mishaps and crimes, Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp s
First Date follows in the tradition of similarly named predecessors like
Date Night, Blake Edwards
Blind Date, et cetera. In this case, the misadventure is mostly had by the would-be suitor (Tyson Brown), who gets waylaid time and again before he can even meet the longtime crush (Shelby Duclos) he can t believe agreed to go out with him. This is the first feature for both leads, and the writer-directors would ve done well to concentrate more on them prioritizing chemistry over introducing an increasingly quirky populace of characters whose antics keep them apart. While the two young thesps acquit themselves nicely, much around them conspires to prevent their debut
Described as ‘the world’s first cinematic advent calendar’
Deathcember is an anthology advent that includes 24 terrifying short films by directors from around the globe. Turning the season of love into a season of fear,
Deathcember promises gifts of blood and terror to unwrap for audiences everywhere.
Conceived and produced in Germany by Dominic Saxl, Ivo Scheloske and Frank Vogt,
Deathcember gives audiences 24 bite-sized festive horror stories for each day leading up to Christmas.
For the project, 24 international directors were given five minutes and a €5000 budget to produce their entries. We spoke to British director, John Cook Lynch, about his segment: ‘Cracker’.
HUNTED January 14
What started as a flirtatious encounter at a bar turns into a life-or-death struggle as Eve becomes the unknowing target of a misogynistic plot against her. Forced to flee as two men pursue her through the forest, she’s pushed to her extremes while fighting to survive but survival isn’t enough for Eve. She will have revenge. A modern and radical take on the Little Red Riding Hood fable, HUNTED is an exhilarating, transcendent, and frequently brutal survival tale that elevates itself with the power of myth and magic, while still holding an exacting mirror to present-day society.
The Confession) and Arieh Worthalter (
Girl), with Ciaran O’Brien rounding out the intimate main cast. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL. (
Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)
THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC January 28
The sins of the past come back with a vengeance in this new film from two of Indonesia’s modern masters of horror, director Kimo Stamboel (
Headshot) and writer Joko Anwar (
Satan’s Slaves,
Impetigore). A family travels to the distant, rural orphanage where the father was raised to pay their respects to the facility’s gravely ill director. But his and his best friends’ homecoming turns into a terrifying supernatural ordeal that threatens their and their families’ lives: someone is using dark magic to avenge evil deeds, long buried but not forgotten. Stamboel’s film is a reimagining of the 1981 Indonesian horror classic of the same name. Starring Ario Bayu, Hannah Al Rashid, Adhisty Zara, Ari Irham and Muzakki Ramdhan. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL
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Hunted, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Vincent Paronnaud, and
The Queen of Black Magic, from two giants of modern Indonesian horror, Kimo Stamboel and Joko Anwar.
The Shudder January 2021 lineup also includes the much-anticipated second season of original series
A Discovery of Witches with new episodes weekly and a binge release of season one of
Nightbreed and
The Wolf House.
HUNTED – January 14
What started as a flirtatious encounter at a bar turns into a life-or-death struggle as Eve becomes the unknowing target of a misogynistic plot against her. Forced to flee as two men pursue her through the forest, she’s pushed to her extremes while fighting to survive but survival isn’t enough for Eve. She will have revenge. A modern and radical take on the Little Red Riding Hood fable, Hunted is an exhilarating, transcendent, and frequently brutal survival tale tha