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SALOUM: Jean Luc Herberlot’s Award-Winning Senegalese Thriller Arrives In Theaters And Streaming This September

AMC Networks’ premium horror and thriller streamer, Shudder, and IFC Midnight have acquired Saloum, the highly-anticipated and award-winning feature from writer/director Jean Luc Herbulot (Dealer). The film will release theatrically on Friday, September 2 ahead of streaming Thursday, September 8, with national rollout will on September 9. “Saloum is a bold combination of horror, revenge thriller and African folklore that’s worthy of every bit of praise it’s been receiving at festivals,” said Shudder General Manager, Craig Engler. “We’re proud to share this incredibly original and thrilling film from the distinctive voice of Jean Luc Herbulot with our members and theatergoers.” Said Herbulot, “I created the Hyenas as a personal gift for my own 7-year-old self who grew up without heroes and my 37-year-old self who was bored by modern African cinema, and today I hope they can be the heroes of many across the globe. It’s very important for us […]

DEMONIC: Neill Blomkamp’s Pandemic-Shot Thriller Goes Behind The Scenes With A Teaser And Two Stills

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IFC Midnight and AGC Studios are ready to ramp up efforts to push writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s newest thriller, Demonic. The pandemic-shot horror was acquired by IFC Midnight last month and marks the latest studious effort from the man behind sci-fi wonders District 9, Elysium and Chappie, and even a Robocop or Alien film if the genre cinema powers that be actually willed it. Co-financed and co-produced by AGC Studios and STABILITi Studios last summer, Blomkamp’s fourth film also employs Oats Studios’s own Austyn Daines as editor and stars up-and-comers Carly Pope (Elysium), Chris William Martin (The Age of Adaline, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, TV’s The Vampire Diaries), and Michael Rogers (TV’s Siren, TV’s The Blacklist, TV’s Supernatural). In DEMONIC, a young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed in this horror-thriller from director Neill Blomkamp. […]

HUNTER HUNTER: Devon Sawa Dares To Out-Wolf A Wolf In The Official Trailer

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Shawn Linden’s latest thriller is finally making the rounds with an official trailer for survival thriller, Hunter Hunter. Following its acquisition by IFC Midnight a few months back, the film is now poised to roll out in theaters and VOD from December 18. HUNTER HUNTER follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renée (Summer H. Howell) struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. Determined to catch the predator in the act, Joseph leaves his family behind to track the wolf. Anne and Renée grow increasingly anxious during Joseph’s prolonged absence and struggle to survive without him. When they hear a strange noise outside their cabin, Anne hopes it is Joseph but instead finds a man named Lou (Nick Stahl), […]

THE 12TH MAN: Don’t Miss The Official Trailer For Harald Zwart’s New War Epic

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IFC Midnight is proudly presenting WWII drama, The 12th Man on limited theatrical and VOD starting May 4. Harald Zwart (The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, The Karate Kid) sits at the helm for the epic new survival tale that casts Thomas Gullestad and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, with Mads Sjogard Pettersen and Maria Grazia Di Meo from a script by Petter Skavlan. This breathtaking action adventure tells an incredible true-life story of heroism and a man’s unbreakable will to live. Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad) finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia. It’s a harrowing journey across unforgiving, frozen wilderness that will stretch on for months—and force Jan to take extreme action in order to survive. With gut-punching realism and vivid psychological immediacy, director Harold Zwart pays […]