I've been off my day job sick with a bad cold for the past few days (at time of typing), so thought I would make an early start on next week's blog posts. This is the second news round-up I've put up this month, due to forgetting to do one at the end of last month. With that out the way, onwards to the news.
First up, Contrition is a dramatic thriller that is out now on Digital platforms from BayView Entertainment. This takes the form of a time-loop film, with the protagonist trapped reliving the day his wife was murdered, trying vainly to find a way to prevent her death. I do enjoy time-loop films, this one was directed by Aaron Boltz, and stars Aaron Bennett, James Bond III, and Ashton Leigh.
Untouchables Entertainment have shown the first look of their upcoming horror film The Dark Domain: Mickey-vs-Winnie. It seemed as soon as old children's licences became public domain, everyone jumped on board to make identical sounding horrors about the iconic characters. Touted as the first 'public domain crossover film', this has Steamboat Willy era Mickey Mouse (Daniel Wilkinson as Dark Mickey) and Wiinie-the-Pooh (Gotay as Dark Winnie) battling each other, with the mouse described as 'Pennywise meets Freddy Krueger', and Winnie 'Jason Voorhees levels up into the Predator'. The plot sees a group of childhood friends returning to the woodland based reform school they once suffered at. Dark Mickey and Dark Winnie are monstrous entities that stem from the group's combined damaged psyche.
Blood Brothers: Life Harvest was one news story I was going to skip over until I noticed it is a zombie film. The film features two brothers who fight to protect their loved ones after a deadly virus sweeps the globe. Conflict emerges when one of the brothers is bitten by a zombie. This was co-directed by Brit and Diana Sellers, and stars Tommy Kramer, Rudy Ledbetter and Bobby Batson. This is out on Digital Platforms worldwide via VIPCO & BayView Entertainment.
Currently in pre-production, Mangled: The Shelbyville Torture Tapes has had its first official look revealed by Horror-Fix Films. The docudrama is slated for a first quarter 2026 wrap, and is to be directed by Ash Hamilton. It is set out as a true crime docudrama that is a look '...into a series of grisly mutilations that terrorized the Midwest, exploring not only the crimes themselves but also the lingering conspiracy surrounding the man believed to be responsible'. The feature is to be made up of a documentary blended with recreations of the crimes.
Massacre at Femur Creek is an award winning horror comedy that was directed by Kyle Hytonen and stars Adam Lemieux, Eric De Santis, Conall Pendergast and August Kyss. The story sees a groom heading away on a bachelor party with his friends. The partying is interrupted by the arrival of a psychotic killer. This is out on Digital Platforms now via BayView Entertainment.
Vertigo Releasing had a bunch of films releasing in November. These include time-loop comedy One More Shot that sees Minnie (Emily Browning) trapped in an endlessly repeating New Year's Eve party in 1999. Good Boy was a movie that I had intended to see at the cinema, but life sadly got in the way. This has the unique spin of being a supernatural horror film that is apparently shown from the perspective of a dog. Dead of Winter is a thriller that stars Emma Thompson as a woman who has headed to remote land to scatter her dead husband's ashes. It is while there that she stumbles across an isolated cabin where two desperate people have kidnapped a young woman.
Finally for today, on December 2nd, Italian Giallo film - The House with Laughing Windows gets its North American 4K debut. The film sees a man arriving at a remote Italian town to help repair the town's damaged church fresco, with local legend saying the fresco was originally painted by an artist who tortured his models to capture the right look for the dark picture.
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