On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the 2008 action drama Animal 2, starring Ving Rhames. You can check it out over on the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Ryan Combs from a screenplay by Jacob L. Adams, Animal 2 has the following synopsis: Years after being shot by his eldest son Darius and taking the fall for his crimes, former gangster James “Animal” Allen serves a life sentence at Folsom Prison. When a riot breaks out between the Blacks and Mexicans, Animal is transferred to Susanville Prison. While serving his time, Animal learns that his son, James Jr., is framed for murder...

(Aotn)- Ok, Smt Heads, you’ve been chomping at the bit for a new take on zombies. Fortunately, the zombie makers have heard your plea…. That’s why we’re sitting down with ‘Jigsaw’ star, Brittany Allen, and talking about her bold, new take on the last survivor trope in her film “It Stains The Sands Red,” out on DVD/Blu-Ray on Sept. 26th!

Check out our conversation with Brittany (and our nifty, new Aotn graphics) right here:

It Stains The Sands Red

Comes to DVD on September 26th

In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, Molly, a troubled woman from Las Vegas, finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone ravenous zombie on her trail. At first, she’s easily able to outpace her undead pursuer, but things quickly become a nightmare when she realizes the zombie doesn’t need to ever stop and rest. Running low...

*full disclosure: an online screener was provided by the film's publicity arm. Director: Colin Minihan. Writers: Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz. Cast: Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir It Stains the Sands Red is the latest thriller from the Vicious Brothers. Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters) and Stuart Ortiz try to breath some life into the zombie sub-genre, with this title. However, the long zombie chase in the desert gets a bit tiresome and repetitive, after awhile. The film's tone is overly sad. Meanwhile, there are almost no redeemable characters on-screen, outside of central character Molly (Brittany Allen). Even Molly has a long list of vices. A bit slow, It Stains the Sands Red offers minimal conflict and action, as well. It is not all bad. But, It Stains the Sands Red will entertain only the most patient zombie film fans. The film begins with one of the film's only wide shots.

As a member of the directing duo known as The Vicious Brothers, Colin Minihan took us on a paranormal-fueled adventure in Grave Encounters, and now he's entering the zombie apocalypse with his next film, It Stains the Sands Red, which now has an official release date from Dark Sky Films.

It Stains the Sands Red will be released in select theaters and on VOD and Digital HD from Dark Sky Films beginning July 28th. Directed by Minihan from a screenplay he wrote with Stuart Ortiz, It Stains the Sands Red stars Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir, Kris Higgins, Michael Filipowich, Andrew Supanz, and Nico David.

"In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, Molly, a troubled woman from Las Vegas, finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone ravenous zombie on her trail. At first, she's easily able to outpace her undead pursuer, but things quickly become a nightmare...

A trailer and poster have debuted for Colin Minihan's (Extraterrestrial) It Stains the Sands Red. A relentless zombie film, the first trailer shows Molly (Brittany Allen) hounded by one of the undead. The film also stars: Juan Riedinger and Merwin Mondesir. As well, It Stains the Sands Red will have its Us Premiere at the La Film Festival, in June. Later in the Summer, the film will see select theatres and Video-on-demand platforms. A look ahead, to the film's upcoming release date, is hosted here. The synopsis, from Dark Sky Films, talks of a zombie apocalypse. Molly is a troubled woman, from Las Vegas. After disaster strikes, Molly is forced to strike out on her own as a zombie shadows her. She cannot rest and she cannot find refuge from this unstoppable killer. The poster for the film shows Molly. But, it also shows her undead pursuer. Already shown...

Stars: Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir, Kristopher Higgins, Andrew Supanz, Michael Filipowich, Nico David, Dylan Playfair | Written by Stuart Ortiz | Directed by Colin Minihan

It Stains the Sands Red follows Las Vegas wild child Molly who finds herself stranded in the desert with a ravenously relentless zombie hot on her high heels, after a horrendous flesh-eating apocalypse ravages Vegas. Forever trying to give it the ingenious slip, the lone stalker has no need of rest and soon it becomes her only physical contact in a world gone mad…

The zombie genre has took a bit of a beating over the years. Too many films and not enough good ideas it seems, and many horror fans are suffering from zombie movie burn-out – especially when it seems like we’re getting a new zombie movie every moth these days! However, there have been some interesting new takes on the much-maligned genre...

Horror Channel FrightFest celebrates 12th year at Glasgow Film Festival with record-breaking fourteen titles – including Ten premieres and a screening of the 4K restoration of Phantasm!

FrightFest Passes are £70 and available from noon on Mon January 16th 2016. Passes cover all films on Fri 24 and Sat 25 Feb Only. Tickets for A Cure for Wellness and Phantasm: Remastered. Individual tickets for the Fri/Sat films are on sale Mon January 23rd from 10am.

To book tickets: +44 (0)141 332 6535 / boxoffice@glasgowfilm.org / www.glasgowfilm.org/festival

From the press release:

Monstrous stories, unspeakable urban legends, brutal acts and fearsome folktales dominate as the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event returns to the Glasgow Film Festival with a record fourteen films, including ten UK premieres, screening from Thurs 23 Feb to Sat 25 Feb 2017 at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre.

Kicking off with a special screening of A Cure For Wellness, an intense psychological ride from Gore Verbinski,...

Metrodome have announced the UK release of “found footage” horror film Grave Encounters, whose trailer has already been viewed a record 20 million times on YouTube! Directed by The Vicious Brothers, the film stars Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray, and Juan Riedinger.

Lance Preston and the crew of “Grave Encounters”, a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years.

All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted – it is alive – and it has no intention of ever letting them leave.

They find themselves lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. They soon begin to question their own sanity,...

Directed and Written by: The Vicious Brothers

Cast: Sean Rogerson, Juan Riedinger, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray, Merwin Mondesir

These days, it seems like you can't flip on the TV without seeing one of the "reality" shows about paranormal investigations; what started out as a relatively underground hobby that very few people took seriously has blossomed into a full-scale cultural phenomenon.

From the cheesy, scripted introductions to the predictable "oh my god, what was that?!" shrieks after every innocent sound, these shows provide both entertainment and sources of eye-rolling for audiences everywhere. For my part, I do believe in the afterlife, but I also don't think that most spirits are hanging around waiting to ham it up the minute a TV crew arrives.

The movie Grave Encounters has a pretty neat premise, all things considered. It's the tried-and-true formula of found-footage film but set within the boundaries of one of these paranormal research cable shows.

Found footage movies have become very popular recently and are a dime a dozen. This is because they are inexpensive to produce and they can be big money makers. Even ones that don’t make a lot of money seem to turn a profit. The main problem with these found footage movies is that people always question the motives of the people in the movie. Why are they still carrying around the camera? Why don’t they just drop it and find their way out of what ever situation they’re in? The Vicious Brothers, the writing and directing team behind Grave Encounters, have found a way to answer this question, it’s just too bad the answer isn’t a very good one.

Grave Encounters tells the story of Lance Preston who is the host of a television ghost hunting show called, get this, Grave Encounters. He, and his...

"They were searching for proof... They found it." Official artwork for Grave Encounters.

If you’ve seen Session 9, you know that indie horror movies about abandoned lunatic asylums can be pretty damn creepy. Today we got the trailer for Grave Encounters, another film in this sub-genre that could soon be doing the rounds. From what we’ve seen, it could be another screamer. You can judge for yourself by checking out the trailer below, courtesy of Tribeca Film.

Grave Encounters is about the crew of a paranormal investigation reality television show, à la Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, that decides to lock themselves inside the disused Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital for an episode of their show. Guess what? It’s proves to be no Comfort Inn. As they go about filming their investigation of the unexplained phenomena that have been reported there over the years they find that the building seems...

Taking cues from films like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project comes a new cinema verite ghost flick, Grave Encounters, which comes from directors simply known as "The Vicious Brothers". Starring Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinge, the pic premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, here's what Johnn Marrone had to say: "The cinema verite horror pic is the latest in a tidal wave of mockumentary films that bites off so many of the "new wave" styles that unfortunately, as fun as it is at times, ends up feeling a bit more like a faded carbon copy of that which we have seen so often before." Click the title for the full review.

Directors: The Vicious Brothers Writers: The Vicious Brothers Starring: Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Merwin Mondesir, Mackenzie Gray, Juan Riedinger The last thing this world needs now is another found footage horror film; but, nonetheless, writers-directors The Vicious Brothers (Colin Vicious and Stuart Vicious) have thrown their hat into the ring with Grave Encounters. The film starts as a reality television producer (Ben Wilkinson) tells us the story of the unaired footage of episode six from the ghost-hunting TV series Grave Encounters. The producer gets all choked up as he talks about the unearthed 76-hours of raw miniDV footage shot by the Grave Encounters crew. Thankfully, we do not have to watch all of the raw footage; someone has done us the courtesy of editing it down to a manageable, 85-minute or so "rough cut." And here we are, within the (presumably) raw footage, in front of Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital. This...

It was last November, 2010, when we got our first look at The Vicious Brothers' new cinéma-vérité style feature film, Grave Encounters. With the flick set to make its world premiere at Tribeca 2011, we have some more info to share.

Grave Encounters, one of the nine titles Tribeca Film plans to release theatrically, on video-on-demand, and via other platforms throughout the coming year (click here for more info on that), stars Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray, and Juan Riedinge.

The new still, a promo trailer, and poster art can be found below the plot crunch. For more revisit our prior story from the 2010 American Film Market, and also check out the official Grave Encounters website and "like" Grave Encounters on Facebook.

And make sure to check out the live chat with the Vicious Brothers via Ustream tomorrow night. You can dig it right here:

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Taking cues from films like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project comes a new cinema verite ghost flick, Grave Encounters, which comes from directors simply known as "The Vicious Brothers". Starring Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinge, the pic will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this April. "The crew of ghost-hunting reality TV show Grave Encounters decides to shoot an episode inside an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a dark past. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night to begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just hauntedit is alive, and has no intention of ever letting them go."...

It was last November, 2010, when we got our first look at The Vicious Brothers' new cinéma-vérité style feature film, Grave Encounters. With the flick set to make its world premiere at Tribeca 2011, we have a new still to share.

Grave Encounters, one of the nine titles Tribeca Film plans to release theatrically, on video-on-demand, and via other platforms throughout the coming year (click here for more info on that), stars Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray, and Juan Riedinge.

The new still, a promo trailer, and poster art can be found below the plot crunch. For more revisit our prior story from the 2010 American Film Market, and also check out the official Grave Encounters website and "like" Grave Encounters on Facebook.

Synopsis:

Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital,...

With the unceremonious canning of Roland Emmerich's The Zone, some speculated that the found-footage horror genre had had its day. At the very least though, we've still got Area 51, Apollo 18 and Paranormal Activity 3 on the way. And there's also Grave Encounters, the trailer for which has just gone online.The film shares its name with a fictional paranormal-investigating TV series: the reason that Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinge are filming inside the Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital. Previously a Bedlam-like insane asylum, the institution is now suposed to be abandoned, but it seems that some of its former residents were reluctant to leave...Cue everything you'd expect, in grainy shaky-cam, as the crew remain determined to keep documenting what looks to be their final episode. Locals provide ominous interviews, windows open of their own accord, and there's even a seemingly deliberate nod to The Blair Witch Project's standing-in-the-corner ending,...

One of the dozens of films we brought you the first word about out of this year's Afm, the new found footage fright fest Grave Encounters, has just made its promotional trailer debut, and of course we have it for you right here!

The film is directed by a team known only right now as The Vicious Brothers, and it stars Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinge. Check out the first images and poster art below the plot crunch. For more dig on the official Grave Encounters website.

Synopsis

Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena have been reported for years.

All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera.

 

Following along the paths set by the Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity and looking like our favorite TV shows like Ghosthunters, Paranormal State and Ghost Adventures we now have the trailer debut for The Vicious Brothers Grave Encounters which shows the familiar "found footage". The film stars Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko,Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinge and judging by what we see in the trailer here this film is going to be a good one!

Synopsis:

"Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years. 

All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. 

They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted -...

                       Here's another cool movie coming out of Afm '10 entitled Grave Encounters and it looks like a good one! Grave Encounters is written and directed by The Vicious Brothers and stars Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinge. Check out the rest of the new images after the jump. Synopsis:

Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years.

All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera.

They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors,...

More cinéma-vérité style supernatural shenanigans are headed our way with a new feature film called, simply, Grave Encounters. Hope you guys are ready for some first-person spooks!

The film is directed by a team known only right now as The Vicious Brothers, and it stars Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinge. Check out the first images and poster art below the plot crunch. For more dig on the official Grave Encounters website.

Synopsis

Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena have been reported for years.

All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera.

They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it...

Darclight Films is shopping Grave Encounters around the American Film Market. It's just one more contribution to the ever-growing spate of films about a "ghost hunting trip gone awry." Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz make their feature directorial debut with this story of a TV production crew, filming a ghost hunting reality show, that finds itself trapped in a haunted asylum for their last ever episode. Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray and Juan Riedinger star. Check out a trailer at the official site .

The cast for the Smokin' Aces prequel, currently being called Smokin' Aces 2, continues to grow with the addition of both Vinnie Jones and Martha Higareda. A perfect mix really: Some testosterone-fueled toughness with a splash of estrogen hotness.

Vinnie Jones and Martha Higareda Smokin' Aces

The good people at Moviehole have learned that Vinnie Jones and Martha Higareda will join Tom Berenger, David Richmond-Peck, Sofia Vergara, Michael Parks, Merwin Mondesir and Tommy Flanagan in the Smokin' Aces prequel. We are also told that Maury Sterling will reprise his role as Lester Tremor, and Christopher Holley will be back as Beanie, Buddy Ace's loyal aid from the previous film.

Guy Ritchie favorite Vinnie Jones has joined the cast of the upcoming direct-to-disc flick Smokin’ Aces: Blowback, a prequel to the 2006 Joe Carnahan action film. Jones’ credits include X-Men: The Last Stand, Midnight Meat Train and the upcoming comedy Year One. The casting news comes from Moviehole and the site has also confirmed that Martha Higareda and Maury Sterling, who played Lester Tremor in the original film, have signed on to the film. Tom Berenger, Nestor Carbonell, Christopher Holley, David Richmond-Peck, Sofia Vergara, Michael Parks, Merwin Mondesir and Tommy Flanagan also star. Carnahan is writing the screenplay, which apparently centers around the Tremor brothers, one of the groups of assassins from the first movie who were hunting down Buddy Israel (Jeremy Piven). P.J Pesce (Lost Boys: The Tribe) is directing. Jones will play McTeague a bloodthirsty and cunning assassin on the trail of a protected witness. Reprising their roles from the first flick,...

X-men 3 and Midnight Meat Train's Vinnie Jones to play assassin McTeague in Smokin Aces Blowback. 

{sidebar id=1}Martha Higareda, seen recently as Grace Garcia in Fox's "Street Kings", is also in the film.

Moviehole had the casting news today.

Moviehole is also confirming a couple of returning characters (from Joe Carnahan's original film) - Maury Sterling will reprise his role as Lester Tremor, and Christopher Holley will be back as 'Beanie', Buddy Ace's loyal aid from the previous film.

Tom Berenger, David Richmond-Peck, Sofia Vergara, Michael Parks, Merwin Mondesir and Tommy Flanagan are also in the film's cast.

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Arriving on both unrated DVD and Blu-ray July 29th is P.J Pesce highly anticipated Lost Boys: The Tribe, the long awaited sequel to the classic '80s film starring Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. Today we not only got our hands on the official sales rack for the film, but 15 new stills to add to our previous five. Inside you'll find all hi-res stills from the sequel, which takes us to the shady surf city of Luna Bay, California, where vampires quickly dispatch anyone who crosses their path. Corey Haim, Tad Hilgenbrink, Autumn Reeser, Angus Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Moneca Delain, Tom Savini, Kyle Cassie, Shaun Sipos and Merwin Mondesir all star.