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It’s not often that a movie’s run-time doubles as both a strength and a weakness, but Tripp Rhame’s Bleed is one such balancing act. Clocking in at a brisk 1:17, credits included, we’re given a streamlined paranormal story boasting a quick pace, and little background concerning the film’s undead antagonist. Cannibal Kane is a new breed of monster, but unlike Freddy or Jason, his beginning is an unclear mess that’s overlooked in favor of a few jump-scares. Again, because the film runs by so quickly, we get our chills without much investment, yet with more attention paid to lore crafting, this could have been an introduction to a new horror mainstay. Not just a quick, spooky write-off.

Our journey starts with Sarah (Chelsey Crisp) and Matt (Michael Steger), two newlyweds who are celebrating their successful pregnancy with friends. Bree (Brittany Ishibashi) and her boy-toy...

Tripp Rhame's Bleed is a backwoods horror film, and with a prologue set in the 70s, you keep expecting the Sawyer clan to rear their ugly heads at any moment. However, it very quickly becomes a bit more than that. The setup is Horror Movie 101: pregnant Sarah (Chelsey Crisp) and husband Matt (Michael Steger) move out to a secluded house in your typical middle-of-nowhere hick town, where they're joined by friend Bree (Brittany Ishibashi), her boyfriend Dave (Elimu Nelson), Sarah's good-for-nothing ghost hunter brother who lives in a van (down by the river) Eric (Riley Smith) and his new-agey girlfriend Skye (Lyndon Smith). They decide to take a field trip to a nearby burned-down abandoned prison, because this is a horror film and they...

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Adam Schindler's Intruders will be released on DVD on March 1st. Also in this round-up: Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party Kickstarter details and artwork / release information for both Stomping Ground and Bleed.

Intruders: Press Release: "On the heels of the successful theatrical release, Momentum Pictures proudly announces the DVD release of Intruders on March 1st, 2016.

Starring: Beth Riesgraf, Jack Kesy, Martin Starr (Dead Snow), and Rory Culkin

Directed by: Adam Schindler

Producers: Steven Schneider, Jeff Rice, Lati Grobman, and Erik Olsen

Executive Producers: Tommy Vlahopoulos, Christa Campbell, Matthew Lamothe, Brian Netto, and Rob Van Norden

Panic Room meets you're Next in this gripping home invasion horror-thriller, full of shocks and surprises. After three criminals, including fan favorite Martin Starr, break into a supposedly empty house, they find themselves in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the occupant, a shy young woman with a...

Recently, ABC released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Modern Family" episode 14 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "The Big Guns," and it turns out that we're going to see some crazy drama go down with Ronnie and Amber's annoying boat. Then Cam secretly takes Lily to clown school, and more. The episode is titled, "The Big Guns." In the new, 14th episode press release: The Dunphys are going to learn that neighbor wars are not for the faint of heart. Press release number 2: Claire will get furious about neighbors, Ronnie and Amber's eye-sore of a boat, on their front lawn and it will soon become an all-out war when Phil calls in the "big guns" as back up -- his dad Frank and all his retired friends to give them a taste of their own medicine. Elsewhere, Jay is going to try to potty train Joe...

After writing and producing for television shows like Sons of Anarchy, Castle, and Criminal Minds, Charles Murray makes his feature directorial debut with Things Never Said. The romantic drama stars Shanola Hampton (Shameless) as Kalindra, an aspiring spoken word artist using poetry to escape the pain of a violent marriage and a troubled past. Also starring Elimu Nelson, Omari Hardwick, Dorian Missick, Tamala Jones and Michael Beach, the film opens in La theaters tomorrow. Find our review of it Here. I recently spoke with Murray and Hampton about the inspiration behind the film and how they stayed true to the story and the culture of spoken word. Shadow & Act: This movie...

In his feature directorial debut, longtime television writer/Ep Charles Murray takes a turn from TV action-drama to deliver a decidedly black love story reminiscent of the late '90s heyday of the genre. Things Never Said centers on Kal (Shanola Hampton), an aspiring spoken word artist using poetry to escape the pain of a miscarriage and an abusive husband (Elimu Nelson). As an La native, she dreams of performing at the famed Nuyorican Poets Café in New York. When Kal falls for Curtis (Omari Hardwick), a poetry fan with a whole heap of emotional baggage of his own, the two must decide if they have an affair worth preserving. You could call it a grown-up love story, which points to...

Ohio Street Pictures will release Charles Murray's feature debut, Things Never Said, in theaters in Los Angeles, this Friday, September 6. The micro-budgeted romantic drama which stars Shanola Hampton, Omari Hardwick, Elimu Nelson, Tamala Jones, Dorian Missick and Michael Beach, centers on a young woman who struggles to realize her self-worth, purpose and potential via spoken-word poetry. Things Never Said is produced by Omar Albertto and Brian Lewis. Read our review of it Here. Ahead of Friday's open, we've got an exclusive look at a short clip from the film to share, which is embedded...

Ohio Street Pictures will release Charles Murray's feature debut, Things Never Said, in theaters this fall. CodeBlack Films is handling DVD/VOD. The micro-budgeted romantic drama which stars Shanola Hampton, Omari Hardwick, Elimu Nelson, Tamala Jones, Dorian Missick and Michael Beach, centers on a young woman who struggles to realize her self-worth, purpose and potential via spoken-word poetry. Things Never Said is produced by Omar Albertto and Brian Lewis. Read our review of it Here. A brand new trailer debuted on Hulu last night, and is embedded below (also check out the official...

In his feature directorial debut, longtime television writer/Ep Charles Murray takes a turn from TV action-drama to deliver a decidedly black love story reminiscent of the late '90s heyday of the genre. Things Never Said centers on Kal (Shanola Hampton), an aspiring spoken word artist using poetry to escape the pain of a miscarriage and an abusive husband (Elimu Nelson). As an La native, she dreams of performing at the famed Nuyorican Poets Café in New York. When Kal falls for Curtis (Omari Hardwick), a poetry fan with a whole heap of emotional baggage of his own, the two must decide if they have an affair worth preserving. You could call it a grown-up love story, which points to...

In his feature directorial debut, longtime television writer/Ep Charles Murray takes a turn from TV action-drama to deliver a decidedly black love story reminiscent of the late '90s heyday of the genre. Things Never Said centers on Kal (Shanola Hampton), an aspiring spoken word artist using poetry to escape the pain of a miscarriage and an abusive husband (Elimu Nelson). As an La native, she dreams of performing at the famed Nuyorican Poets Café in New York. When Kal falls for Curtis (Omari Hardwick), a poetry fan with a whole heap of emotional baggage of his own, the two must decide if they have an affair worth preserving. You could call it a grown-up love story, which...

Here's a new trailer for writer/director/executive producer Charles Murray's feature debut, Things Never Said, which stars Shanola Hampton (Shameless), Omari Hardwick, Elimu Nelson (The Shield), Tamala Jones, Dorian Missick and Michael Beach. This is a project we first alerted you two summers ago, and it's now much closer to making its debut via the film festival circuit - specifically, at the Pan African Film Festival in La. The official announcement on that will be made soon. Described as a drama/romance, the micro-budgeted film "explores a young woman’s quest for self worth and purpose as she...

Sifting through the S&A archives, as I caught up on projects we've written about in the past but haven't updated you on in a long while... Here's a first trailer for writer/director/executive producer Charles Murray's feature debut, Things Never Said, which stars Shanola Hampton (Shameless), Omari Hardwick, Elimu Nelson (The Shield), Tamala Jones, Dorian Missick and Michael Beach. This is a project we first alerted you to last summer, but haven't reported on since then; I checked in on the film's Facebook page, and saw that a trailer has actually been online since last fall. Obviously we missed...

Indican Pictures is ready to unleash scary revenge, with this first poster for Bat S#*! Crazy. Don't stare too long at the graphic, because the art begins to stare back. Releasing on DVD May 24th, Bat S#*! Crazy tells a terrifying tale of Joseph and those little frustrating wrongs that threaten to push us all over the edge. However, Joseph does not just plunge over the edge, he dives in head first. Joseph unleashes a cursed wolf into his local neighbourhood to vicious results. Let the nightmare being with this graphic and synopsis, then go Bat S#*! Crazy this May!

The plot summary for Bat S*&^ Crazy is here:

"What happens when your past comes back for revenge?

Nobody likes Joseph, but he didn’t really care until his beloved dog went missing. It made him suddenly realize that behind a veneer of suburban bliss something is seriously wrong. The...