The weather was beautiful in St. Louis today, but the tranquil was shattered when terrified St. Louisans spotted the bloody killer drone from the new horror film The Drone hovering about our city! It may have killed a few people (we’re not sure). We Are Movie Geeks was able to get these shots of the drone as it took its deadly aim! The Remote Has No Control!

We spotted The killer drone at The Arch, St. Louis University, Union Station, The Art Museum, The History Museum, The Bevo Mill, The Ferris Wheel, The Fox Theater, Grandel Square, Anheuser Buch Brewery, Art Hill and in front of the St. Louis Statue. We’re not sure where it went from there, but we’re pretty sure death and carnage followed!

From the producer of Unfriended and Searching comes the satirical horror film The Drone, arriving on DVD, Digital, and On Demand October 15 from Lionsgate.

Plenty of horror movies explore the terror of technology run amuck, but few do it with as many tounges in their cheek as The Drone, directed by Jordan Rubin. Look for it on DVD, Digital, and On Demand beginning October 15th from Lionsgate. Check out our exclusive clip at the top of the article and the […]

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Jordan Rubin, the director of horror-comedies Zombeavers and “Critters: A New Binge,” is back with Lionsgate’s The Drone, available on DVD, Digital, and On Demand October 15 from Lionsgate. Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip from the film in which Starry Eyes and Doctor Sleep‘s Alex Essoe fights off an attacking drone, which drags her into the night. “This terrifying, outrageous […]...

From the producer of Unfriended and Searching comes the satirical horror film The Drone, arriving on DVD, Digital, and On Demand October 15 from Lionsgate. Written and directed by TV comedy writer Jordan Rubin (TV’s “Last Call with Carson Daly” and various MTV Movie Award specials) alongside co-writers Al Kaplan and Jon Kaplan – and …

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From the producer of Unfriended and Searching comes the satirical horror film The Drone, arriving on DVD, Digital, and On Demand October 15 from Lionsgate. Written and directed by TV comedy writer Jordan Rubin (TV’s “Last Call with Carson Daly” and various MTV Movie Award specials) alongside co-writers Al Kaplan and Jon Kaplan – and in the vein of Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and Snakes on a Plane, The Drone stars John Brotherton, Alex Essoe, Rex Linn, Anita Briem, and Simon Rex, and will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $19.98.

Check out this trailer!

This terrifying, outrageous tale takes flight as a serial killer is struck by lightning while holding his precious drone. Weeks later, the drone shows up at the home of newlywed couple Chris and Rachel. Without them realizing it, the drone films the couple and takes control of their TV, computer, security system,...

Plenty of horror movies explore the terror of technology run amuck, but few do it with as many tounges in their cheek as The Drone, directed by Jordan Rubin. Look for it on DVD, Digital, and On Demand beginning October 15th from Lionsgate. Check out the trailer at the top of the article and the […]

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Stars: Alex Essoe, John Brotherton, Christopher Matthew Cook, Rex Linn, Anita Briem, Harvey B. Jackson, Gonzalo Menendez, Neil Sandilands | Written by Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan, Jordan Rubin | Directed by Jordan Rubin

Right so we’ve got a serial killer into black magic. Child’s Play anyone? Then we’ve got director Jordan Rubin, the man behind horror spoof Zombeavers. And we have a drone. Yes, a drone. So what do we have in film though? Well, one of the funniest genre parodies to hit screens in years!

The Drone tells the story of serial killer The Violator who, just before the police break into his home to arrest him, invokes black magic and downloads his soul into the commercial drone he used to stalk victims. Finding the abandoned drone after moving into their new photographer Chris is more than happy to claim the smart technology as his own. His wife...

Meg Foster stars in the new thriller from director Krisstian de Lara called Investigation 13. The trailer was revealed as well as the film's digital and DVD release dates. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Daughter of Dismay London FrightFest IMAX laser premiere details, Big Top Evil's iTunes release details, and Halloween Party's Amazon Prime release details.

Investigation 13 Trailer and Release Details: "The book opens on Krisstian de Lara’s spine-tingling Investigation 13 this fall with Uncork’d Entertainment announcing a digital and DVD release for September 10.

Screen icon Meg Foster stars in director Krisstian de Lara’s mesmerizingly unnerving Investigation 13, premiering on digital and DVD this September from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Incorporating traditional narrative story-telling, as well as numerous forms of pioneering technology, including found footage, hand-held cameras, surveillance cameras, and smart glasses, Investigation 13 is a new-age fright-fest chronicling the tale of a group of college science students investigating the urban legend of The Mole Man,...

Last year, we interviewed director Jordan Rubin at the winter Television Critics Association press tour when Warner Brothers’ Blue Ribbon Content introduced his new series, Critters: A New Binge. Today, that series premieres on the Shudder streaming service and we had a chance to catch up with Rubin again. 1986’s Critters was New Line Cinema’s answer […]

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Though the Critters films have never been popular with the critics, the franchise’s four-movie run from 1986 to 1992 apparently left enough of an impression on horror fans for the series to be resurrected decades later in the form of an upcoming TV show titled Critters: A New Binge.

With a title so inescapably reminiscent of the 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch, it’s almost as though Critters is embracing its reputation as a Gremlins rip-off franchise, though going by the show’s first trailer, A New Binge is leaning further into campy comedy than the Critters’ mogwai cousins ever did. Complete with goofy, gory death scenes, over-the-top acting and low-budget FX, the 1-minute preview should provide all the footage you need to decide whether or not the series is for you.

Earlier this week, it was announced that streaming service Shudder had acquired exclusive Us rights to A New Binge,...

Joseph Baxter Feb 28, 2019

The classic Critters horror film franchise is returning in the form of a TV series that’s set for streaming service Shudder.

Critters may be but one of several campy horror franchises from the 1980s to – akin to the soon-to-be-animated Gremlins – feature diminutive multiplying mini-monsters, but the imagery of its eponymous alien invaders – resembling demonic bipedal versions of Star Trek Tribbles with shark teeth and T-Rex arms – make them especially memorable, even if the poster image of the toilet monster from Ghoulies was more memorable in its ability to make tense experiences out of nature’s call for a generation. Regardless, Critters is getting a long-overdue return.

AMC Networks’ horror-centric Shudder streaming service will be the platform for a revival television series bearing the meta-minded title, Critters: A New Binge. Moreover, the series is arriving a lot sooner than you might have thought, since the announcement reveals...

Debut trailer for The Drone, directed by Jordan Rubin (director of Zombeavers), making its world premiere this month at Slamdance. The film stars John Brotherton, Alex Essoe, Anita Briem, Neil Sandilands & Simon Rex. Written by Rubin and brothers Jon and Al Kaplan, the pic is about a newlywed couple who is terrorized by a …

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We’ve got a trailer to share with you today for a new comedic horror film called The Drone. The movie kind of has the same concept as Child’s Play, but instead of a killer doll, it’s a killer drone.

The story is built around a serial killer who “transfers his consciousness into a consumer drone right before he is killed.” After that, the drone flies off to “terrorize newlyweds Rachel (Alex Essoe) and Chris (John Brotherton). The couple must fight to stop the insidious device before it destroys them both.”

With the popularity of drones on the rise, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to make a horror film that involves them.

The film was written and directed by Jordan Rubin, who’s perhaps best known for helming the 2014 horror camp-fest Zombeavers. He’s also the producer of the horror films Unfriended and Searching.

Tagline: "Your Remote Has No Control." A trailer has been released for the killer tech' film The Drone. In the film, a serial killer has transferred his consciousness to a device, in hopes of living and killing forever. When this murderous drone attacks a newlywed couple, hilarity ensues. The Drone will have its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. This event takes place in Park City, Utah, later this month. Also, The Drone was directed by Jordan Rubin, who also shot the horror comedy Zombeavers (2014). The Drone cast includes: Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes), John Brotherton (Furious 7), Anita Briem, Neil Sandilands and others. The Drone will show in late January, at this prestigious film festival. The Drone has been completed by Timur Bekmambetov's (Night Watch) Bazelevs Production. This is a Russian based production house. And, The Drone, completed in late 2017, continues to search for wider distribution. The official trailer shows the drone in action.

"The drone is controlling itself!" Another one of these and it looks so, so awful. The first official trailer has debuted for an indie horror comedy titled The Drone, which is premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival later this month. The horror film is about a newlywed couple that's terrorized by a consumer drone that has become sentient with the consciousness of a deranged serial killer. Rolling you eyes now? Yeah. We've seen a number of killer drone films recently: Hover from SyFy, and the short film Donny the Drone. So this isn't original, nor is it clever or funny or anything like that. The Drone stars John Brotherton, Alex Essoe, Anita Briem, Neil Sandilands, and Simon Rex. I really couldn't care any less about this film. Have fun. Here's the first official trailer for Jordan Rubin's The Drone, direct from YouTube: A cornered serial killer transfers his consciousness into a drone,...

Exclusive: Jordan Rubin will ring in 2019 by returning to the big screen with The Drone, the follow-up to his 2014 cult horror comedy Zombeavers about a weekend lake-cabin outing fantastically undone by undead Castor canadensis. Deadline has the exclusive teaser trailer for The Drone to start your new year off right.

The new pic, which as you will have hoped is directly in Zombeaver‘s loopy flight path, revolves around a drone that has become sentient with the consciousness of a deranged serial killer. It then flies off to terrorize newlyweds Rachel (Alex Essoe) and Chris (John Brotherton), who must fight to stop the insidious device before it destroys them both. Anita Briem, Neil Sandilands, Rex Linn, Simon Rex, Sam Adegoke and Christopher Matthew Cook co-star.

Rubin returns to direct, and he reteamed with his Zombeavers co-scribes Al and Jon Kaplan on the script, which judging by the trailer features plenty of bikini and shower scenes,...

The Slamdance Film Festival has selected Steven Soderbergh for its 2019 Founders Award.

The award, first presented in 2015 to Christopher Nolan, is given to a Slamdance alumnus who has represented the Slamdance organization and supported the filmmaker community of Slamdance. It was awarded earlier this year to Joe and Anthony Russo (“Avengers: Infinity War”). Slamdance will be in its 25th year and the festival will run from Jan. 25 to 31.

Soderbergh will participate in a live discussion with Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter before a sneak preview of his newest film, “High Flying Bird.” Soderbergh directed from a script by Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”) with André Holland, Zazie Beetz, Melvin Gregg, Sonja Sohn, Zachary Quinto, Kyle MacLachlan and Bill Duke starring in a story set during a pro basketball lockout. “High Flying Bird” will launch globally on Feb. 8 on Netflix.

“’Don’t ask for permission!’ That was Steven Soderbergh’s advice...

The Slamdance Film Festival said Steven Soderbergh will receive the indie fest’s 2019 Founders Award, given to an alum who has continued to represent the Slamdance organization and support its filmmaker community well into their careers.

The award will be bestowed during the fest, which runs January 25-31 and will open with the world premiere of Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story. Soderbergh will participate in a Q&A with Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter ahead of a sneak preview of his new film High Flying Bird, which bows on Netflix on February 8.

Previous Founders Award recipients include Christopher Nolan and this past year to Avengers writer-directors Joe and Anthony Russo.

High Flying Bird, penned by Oscar-winning Moonlight scribe Tarell Alvin McCraney, is set during a pro basketball lockout and follows a sports agent (Andre Holland) as he pitches a rookie basketball client (Melvin Gregg) on an intriguing and controversial business proposition.

Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story, This Teacher to bookend festival.

Slamdance top brass said on Tuesday (10) they will honour Steven Soderbergh with the 2019 Founders Award, when the filmmaker will also take part in on on-stage conversation with festival co-founder and president Peter Baxter before a sneak preview of his new film, High Flying Bird.

Slamdance also announced that the world premiere of Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story will open the festival and This Teacher will close the festival.

The Founders Awards is presented to “a Slamdance alumnus who has continued to represent the Slamdance organization and support the...

From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for June 2018, including "Airborne", "Van Helsing", "The Big Sleep" and a whole lot more:

Feature Film

Always Be My Maybe

Local Production Company: Anaheim Productions Inc.

Director: Nahnatchka Khan

May 28/18 - Jul 06/18

A Score To Settle

Local Production Company: Settle Productions Inc.

Director: Shawn Ku

Jun 24/18 - Jul 14/18

Benchwarmers 2

Local Production Company: 2nd String Productions Inc.

Director: Johnathan Rosenbaum

Producer: Dan Angel

Jun 05/18 - Jun 28/18

Casino Night

Local Production Company: Hedgehog Films Inc.

Director: Jeffrey Fowler

Jul 30/18 - Sep 26/18

Good Boys

Local Production Company: Good Boy Productions Inc.

Director: Gene Stupnitsky

Producer: Dan Clarke

Jul 09/18 - Aug 23/18

Love & Oatmeal

Local Production Company: Scott & Cindy Film Productions Inc.

Director: Peter Sattler

Producer: Molly Smith, Rachel Smith, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill, Trina Wyatt

Jun 04/18 - Jun 29/18

Needle In A Timestack

Local Production Company: Needle Production Services BC Inc.

Director: John Ridley

Producer: Vince Geradis,...

Over 30 years after the original Critters arrived in theaters, the four-film franchise, which has been lying dormant since 1992, is now getting its own TV series! Verizon’s go90 has ordered “Critters: A New Binge” from Blue Ribbon Content, the Warner Bros. Television Group’s digital studio. The creative team behind Zombeavers, Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, will write and exec […]...

Warner Brothers Digital’s Blue Ribbon Content announced a web series based on the horror-comedy Critters film franchise. Jordan Rubin will write and direct Critters: The New Binge for the digital platform that also has Daphne & Velma, Good Girls Get High, Golden Revenge and animated shows Vixen, The Ray and Constantine. 1986’s Critters was New Line […]

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After more than 25 years since their last official film appearance, the Crites from Critters are coming back, this time as a series for Verizon's go90 streaming service.

Announced at the Television Critics Association's (TCA) 2018 Winter Press Tour, Critters: A New Binge is one of two new projects that have been given a series order by Verizon's go90, with Warner Bros. Television Group's Blue Ribbon Content digital studio on board to create the series.

An adaptation of the film franchise that featured little furry space creatures known as Crites (as well as Krites), Critters: A New Binge will once again bring the hungry aliens back down to Earth, this time in search of one of their own.

Spanning four films from 1986 to 1992, the Critters franchise pitted the invading Crites against bounty hunters from outer space, often with humans stuck in the middle (or on the menu). The Critters movies...

You’ve seen zombies, and you’ve seen killer beavers… wait, have you seen killer beavers? The gang of Monster Party certainly hadn’t, but after watching Jordan Rubin’s cult-classic-in-the-making Zombeavers, they are now! And with that in mind, this week’s episode of Monster Party unites the fangtastic four with Rubin to ask the age of question of […]...

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Zombeavers (2014)

Written by: Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan, Jordan Rubin

Directed by: Jordan Rubin

Cast: Rachel Melvin (Mary), Cortney Palm (Zoe), Lexi Atkins (Jenn), Hutch Dano (Sam), Jake Weary (Tommy), Peter Gilroy (Buck), Rex Linn (Smyth), Brent Briscoe (Winston), Phyllis Katz (Myrne), Bill Burr (Joseph), John Mayer (Luke), Robert R. Shafer (Trucker)

It’s so hard to tell nowadays what kind of film you are going to get by just looking at the solitary picture and the synopsis. I seldom ever rely on the number of stars that it has, because someone else’s trash just might be my treasure. Back in the video store days, there were absolutely no guarantees even by looking at the videocassette box, but I guess that I just had a false sense of security that I could make a more informed choice. I’m slowly letting go, and just going with straight up intuition.

This week, we’ve got an insane amount of horror and sci-fi home entertainment choices getting released on Tuesday, including the latest from Scream Factory, Stigmata, and Kino Lorber is bringing us another Mario Bava cult classic to high-def in the form of Evil Ey,e and the recent horror comedy Zombeavers is looking to make a splash on DVD as well.

Anchor Bay is also unleashing The Vatican Exorcisms on May 19th and Olive Films is bringing a double dose of classic terror to Blu-ray with their releases of Peter Benchley’s Creature and It! The Terror from Outer Space. Indie horror fans have a ton of titles this week arriving on DVD to choose from and we’ve also got new high-def releases for both Poltergeist sequels and Terminator 2: Judgment Day too.

Evil Eye- Featuring The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray & DVD)

While vacationing in Italy,...

Zombeavers (2014) Director: Jordan Rubin Stars: Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, John Mayer   A canister of bio-hazardous waste falls in to a beaver lodge, resulting in angry, unkillable, oversized rodents. Coincidentally, this happens around the same time a group of horny teenagers arrive at a nearby cabin. Huh... It would be easy to screw up a movie called Zombeavers. Experience dictates the most likely course of action would be to turn it in to another SyFy Channel...

To prematurely write off Zombeavers would be an easy task based on the numerous trailers featuring zombified beaver puppets who growl angrily at the camera, as the footage suggests a watch that takes B-Movie stupidity to realms yet unexplored. Who needs a bunch of undead beavers thwapping their tails against the ground while they’re trying to gnaw through a group of drunken fratheads and their sorority babes? Pointless nudity, radiated beaver dams, filthy double entendres, goofy creature work – do horror fans really need to be subjected to such an untamed zombie/animal hybrid?!

Yeah – you’re f#cking right they do!

The same could have been said for movies like Gremlins, Child’s Play, or any other heavily puppeteered genre exploration that requires heavy special effects techniques and loads of imagination. Sure, we already know how those two famous examples turned out. Gremlins is a classic monster mash for...

Watch out Sharknado, there's a new lethal hybrid in town!

Do you ever wonder what happens when you cross a zombie and a beaver? Probably not, but you’re about to find out in the newest horror-comedy to watch, Zombeavers – a film by Jordan Rubin, in theaters and on-demand March 20.

Watch: Jennifer Love Hewitt to Sissy Spacek: Hollywood's Top 5 Scream Queens

A local chemical spill leads to a horde of bloodthirsty zombified beavers (hence the title) wreaking havoc on a trio of unsuspecting co-eds (Cortney Palm, Rachel Melvin, Lexi Atkins) and their boyfriends (Hutch Dano, Jake Weary, Peter Gilroy) at a remote cabin weekend getaway.

Note to self: Never go to a remote cabin.

Prepare yourself for plenty of hilarious gore and beaver puns.

Cameos include John Mayer and Bill Burr. The two sat down with actor and writer Stephen Merchant to shoot down the ridiculous Sharknado comparison and talk about their roles in this...

In an early Afm deal, Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media announced today that they have acquired theatrical and VOD rights to the highly-anticipated horror-comedy Zombeavers, which was directed by Jordan Rubin from a script he wrote with Jon and Al Kaplan.

The film stars Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Jake Weary, Lexi Atkins, Peter Gilroy, and Hutch Dano and was produced by Evan Astrowsky, Chris Lemole, Tim Zajaros, Jake Weiner, Jc Spink and Chris Bender.

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It’s difficult enough to survive an onslaught of living dead humans, but perhaps even trickier is going up against a batch of furtive beavers after they’ve been exposed to toxic waste that turns them into flesh eating animals. In Jordan Rubin’s horror-comedy Zombeavers, three women and their friends strive to survive these carnivorous creatures, and we now know when Us audiences can see these living dead lake dwellers.

Variety recently reported that Zombeavers was acquired by Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media at the American Film Market. Zombeavers will be unleashed in theaters and VOD on March 20th.

Directed by Jordan Rubin off of a screenplay he wrote with Al Kaplan and Jon Kaplan, Zombeavers stars Cortney Palm, Hutch Dano, Lexi Atkins, Peter Gilroy, Rachel Melvin, and Jake Weary.

“From the producers of American Pie, We’Re The Millers, The Ring, and Cabin Fever. Three college girls...

Exclusive: Shanghai New Culture Media Group Company Limited (Snc) has come on to co-finance Jackie Chan action-comedy Skiptrace, which Bloom sells internationally.

Snc joins China’s Talent International and Dasym Media on the financier roster and is in talks to find a North American home for the film.

Renny Harlin commenced production on Skiptrace in September in China. Johnny Knoxville and Fan Bingbing also star in the China-us co-production about a Hong Kong cop who teams up with an American gambler to rescue his niece from the Mob.

Jay Longino wrote the screenplay with revisions by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, Geoff Moore and David Posmentier, Ben David Grabinski, Jack Donaldson and Derek Elliott, Rodney Rothman and Jordan Rubin.

Snc’s ZhenhuaYang and Xiaolin Liu will serve as executive producers, while Qun Gao of Snc and Lifeng Wang of Xing Xing assume the roles of co-executive producers.

Talent International, Dasym Media, Chan, [link...

Just about everything you need to know about Zombeavers is right there in the title. Zombie beavers (should) sound ridiculous, and so it’s a ridiculous movie that follows, strangely capturing your attention for some 70-odd minutes of bloody shenanigans.

The story is lifted from a horror template: a group of co-eds are joined by their obnoxious beaus at a cabin retreat where toxic waste has infected some local rodents, and thus mayhem ensues. That’s it. So it is with equal parts earnestness and absurdity that Zombeavers declares itself a feature film, dedicating itself to actual characters and a simple plot while trying to maintain a straight face with antagonists in the form of killer beavers.

It starts hilariously enough, as a pair of truckers exchange snappy, vulgar dialogue while not at all paying attention to the road. Rather, the driver isn’t giving heed, and when an accident occurs,...

For many horror fans, zombie movies have become too prevalent in the independent horror cinema landscape. In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising to find out that the mere mention of the subgenre makes many cringe. For whatever reason, filmmakers working with a restricted budget seem to think that their best option is to try their hand at making a film that, by it’s very definition, usually requires some sort of elaborate special effects. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule. Last year’s zombie film, The Battery, did a great job on super-tight budget. But that is not the standard, so you can imagine how I felt when I heard that Zombeavers was going to be a real thing…

The movie, co-written and directed by Jordan Rubin, is a horror-comedy about a group of college students head to a lakeside house to party away Jenn’s (Lexi Atkins) boyfriend woes.

Horror comedy Zombeavers (review) recently had its UK debut at Film4 FrightFest, but it hit Tribeca last spring for its world premiere, where we had a chance to chat with director and co-writer Jordan Rubin plus several members of the cast.

Stars Peter Gilroy, Rex Linn, Courtney Palm, Jake Weary, Rachel Melvin, and Lexi Atkins emerged from the Zombeavers onslaught to discuss acting in horror movies vs. watching them, the treasures to be found while peeing in the woods, and the ghostly presence of poor Old Yeller.

Additionally, Rubin (pictured above), a veteran of television comedy, joined in to talk about the technical considerations one must take into account when choosing between practical puppet zombeavers vs. CGI zombeavers.

Beware: A few spoilers for some classic movies that should be beyond spoiling by now are lurking in the below video, but there are no spoilers for Zombeavers itself.

Zombeavers is a horror comedy with hysterical interludes,...

Zombeavers is a film about murderous, undead beavers, and very few people would go to see a film about murderous, undead beavers expecting a subtle cinematic masterpiece. What the film’s knowingly ludicrous premise does call for is cartoonish gore, hordes of mutated rodents, and as much “beaver” innuendo as possible. Luckily, first-time director Jordan Rubin delivers on all these counts.

The film opens with a lovely, tongue-in-cheek cliché: a rogue canister of neon green toxic waste, escaping downriver. Fast forward a few days, and a trio of Sorority sisters, Jenn, Mary and Zoe, head to a remote lakeside cabin. Before long, the girls are joined by three male counterparts: cue lots of nudity, sex, and “beaver” jokes. The first encounter with an actual beaver comes after one of the girls, Jen, finds a particularly savage specimen lurking in the bathroom. The beast is swiftly dispatched and its body left outside in a trash bag.

Stars: Chad Anderson, Lexi Atkins, Brent Briscoe, Bill Burr, Cortney Palm, Hutch Dano, Peter Gilroy, Rex Linn, Rachel Melvin | Written by Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan | Directed by Jordan Rubin

Seriously. Do I have to lay out the plot of a film called Zombeavers? It features zombie beavers. What else do you need to know? Oh well, here goes: Three college friends decide to spend the weekend at a riverside cabin in the woods, man free, after one of the trio splits up with her boyfriend. However the boys see things differently and invite themselves on the trip in the hopes of having a debauched weekend filled with sex and booze. Little do the group know, they are right next door to a lodge of beavers who have been mutated, by an accidental toxic waste spill, into rabid zombeavers.

See, did I really need to explain that? Kids go woods. Kids get dead.

It’s really a testament to the scope and variety of the things one can see at the Fantasia International Film Festival that my top 5 Fantasia films this year can contain a big-budget sci-fi Blockbuster and a movie so obscure and bizarre that I’ll likely never get a chance to see it again. The entire spectrum of film making is encompassed in Fantasia’s 2014 program, from the ultra-budget to the micro-budget, and all places in between. Old and new, comedy and tragedy (and mixes thereof), you can see it all at Fantasia, and no matter what it is, odds are it will be something you’ll remember for a long time to come. This year five films in particular left a lasting impression on me, and they seem to encompass that all-important Fantasia variety quite nicely.

5:

Zombeavers

Written by Al Caplin, Jon Caplin and Jordan Rubin

Directed by Jordan Rubin

USA,...

Philadelphia's Awesome Fest sounds… well… awesome. To be clear, though, it appears this is an evolution of the already-existent event, which is now being called The Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival. As you would expect with a name like that, Bruce Campbell will indeed be there as part of the four-day event in Rosemont, Il, where they'll also be screening a slate of horror titles curated by Scott Weinberg, horror maven and the resident critic at the just-killed FEARnet. They'll also have panels, and they've got some great ones planned. Overall, it looks like a really cool chance to see a fistful of the best of what indie horror has going on right now with bonuses that simply make the weekend better. From August 21 to August 24, you'll be able to check out some great films. How? Well, here's how they put it: Tickets for All screenings are free to attend...

Horror fans are in for a treat during Wizard World Chicago. It has been announced that the first ever Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival will coincide with Wizard World Chicago, featuring new horror films, special guests, and a screening of the first three Evil Dead movies:

“Rosemont, Il – July 31, 2014 – Philadelphia’s The Awesome Fest, in partnership with Wizard World Inc. and horror icon Bruce Campbell, announced today the first ever Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival, running August 21-24, 2014 in Rosemont, Il. The four-day event will coincide with Wizard World Chicago Comic Con and will feature the best in independent horror cinema with a full slate of film premieres, panels, special guests, movie marathons, and of course, Bruce Campbell!

“We could not be any more thrilled to partner with Bruce Campbell on this festival”, said fest director & programmer Josh Goldbloom. “From the ground up, we’ve been able to design a...

Montreal-based genre festival to screen over 160 films at its 18th edition, which runs July 17-Aug 6.

Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled the full line-up for its 18th edition, which takes place in Montreal from July 17-Aug 6.

Along with those previously announced in the first two waves, this year’s festival will also host the world premieres of Gun Ho Jang’s Heavenly Sword, Simon Boisvert’s Bold & Brash: Filmmaking Boisvert Style, Nick Szostakiwskyj’s Black Mountain Side, Maude Michaud’s Dys-, Chad Archibald & Matt Wiele’s Ejecta and LeRoy McCoy’s McCoy the Space Cowboy.

As previously announced, Jacky in the Kingdom of Women and Welcome to New York bookend this year’s festival.

Strands

Jonas Alexander Amby’s Cannes title When Animals Dream will receive its North American premiere as part of the festival’s Camera Lucida strand, which will also screen the likes of Josephine Decker’s Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and the North...

Following previous announcements of their film lineup, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released their full lineup of movies to be shown at the 18th Annual festival, starting July 17.

New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.

Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.

View the whole press release of additional announcements below:

Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday

With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...

The line-up for this year's Film4 FrightFest in London has just been announced – and boy, is it a doozy! Sporting a record-breaking 38 UK/European premieres and 11 world premieres, this August is going to be an exciting time in the genre calendar.

Check it all out right here, including lots of new images!

This year Film4 FrightFest will be moving from its previous home at Leicester Square's Empire Cinema to the nearby Vue Cinema (also on Leicester Square), prompting an ingenious reshuffle of the screening arrangements.

All main screen films will be presented at different times across three different screens, with two extra screens reserved for single-slot screenings of the various films hitting this year's Discovery Screens.

Here's the full list of goodies:

Main Screens (5, 6, 7)

Thursday Aug 21

Opening Night Film - The Guest (UK Premiere)

Director: Adam Wingard. Cast: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser. USA 2014. 99 mins.

Genre festival to close with UK premiere of The Signal; 64 films will be screened, with 38 UK or European premieres and 11 world premieres.

Film4 FrightFest has unveiled the full line-up for its 15th edition, taking place in the new home of Vue West End in Leicester Square from Aug 21-25.

This year’s festival will screen 64 films and 20 shorts, with a record-breaking 38 UK or European premieres and 11 world premieres.

The UK premiere of William Eubank’s sci-fi thriller The Signal, starring Screen Star of Tomorrow Olivia Cooke and Brenton Thwaites, will close the festival.

As previously announced, Adam Wingard’s The Guest will receive its UK premiere as the opening film of this year’s FrightFest.

World premieres at this year’s edition include Jay Weisman’s Shockwave Darkside 3D [pictured], Luke Hyam’s X Moor, Matthew A. Brown’s Julia, Simeon Halligan’s White Settlers and John Shackleton’s The Sleeping Room.

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Film4 FrightFest 2014, returning for its 15th year, unveils its biggest line-up ever. From Thurs 21 August to Monday 25 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Vue West End, Leicester Square, to present sixty-four films plus twenty shorts across five screens. There are sixteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-eight UK or European premieres and eleven world premieres.

Are you ready for a monstrous and memorable mayhem of killer claws, cannibalism, cult classics, murderous musicals, chiller thrillers, graphic novel action and sick celluloid masterpieces? Then prepare yourself for the biggest, strongest and most eclectic must-see programme in Film4 FrightFest’s history.

From the opening night turbo-driven thrill-ride The Guest to the UK premiere of the closing night mesmeric sci-fi fantasy The Signal, FrightFest has netted the latest works from genre big-hitters such as Eli Roth (The Green Inferno), Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins (Show...

On tap for you today are lots of little morsels of info regarding four upcoming horror films, so let's waste no time and jump right in, shall we?!

First up, Screen Daily reports that the horror comedy Zombeavers has been picked up for distribution in a slew of different markets, including Europe (Splendid Films), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), France (Zylo), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow) and the Middle East (Prime Pictures).

Epic is understood to be closing a multi-territory deal with a major distributor for the UK, Scandinavia, Latin America and Eastern Europe excluding Russia and a pan-Asian pay-tv deal with a studio. Negotiations are ongoing for Russia, Taiwan and South Korea.

Jordan Rubin directed the tale of girlfriends at a lakeside getaway who get attacked by mutant rodents. Evan Astrowsky, Chris Bender, Jc Spink, Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros produced.

The site also reports that Johnny Galecki, Chloe Sevigny...

Exclusive: Horror comedy sells to Spain, France and Australia, among others.

Zombeavers has taken a bite out of the market as Epic Pictures heads Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson announced a slew of deals.

The horror comedy received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last month after the trailer went viral, generating more than 2.5m hits.

Rights have gone to Benelux and German-speaking Europe (Splendid Films), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), France (Zylo), Australia and New Zealand  (Roadshow) and the Middle East (Prime Pictures).

Epic is understood to be closing a multi-territory deal with a major distributor for the UK, Scandinavia, Latin America and Eastern Europe excluding Russia and a pan-Asian pay-tv deal with a studio.

Negotiations are ongoing for Russia, Taiwan and South Korea.

Jordan Rubin directed the tale of girlfriends at a lakeside getaway who get attacked by mutant rodents. Evan Astrowsky, Chris Bender, Jc Spink, Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros produced.

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With the recent resurgence in the zombie genre, from AMC’s hit series, ‘The Walking Dead,’ to last year’s hit ‘Evil Dead’ remake, it’s only natural Hollywood wants to amp up the genre once again. The genre has switched its distinct trademark of bringing recently deceased people back to life as flesh-eating killers, to instead on a totally new predator-zombie beavers. First-time feature film writer Jordan Rubin, who also co-wrote the new independent horror film, ‘Zombeavers,’ with Al and Jon Kaplan, amusingly showcases what would happen to humanity if the semi-aquatic animal came back to life. The horror movie, which had its world premiere on April 19 at the 2014 Tribeca [ Read More ]

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Just when you think the zombie craze has hit its peak, someone comes up with a way to put a unique twist on the horror subgenre. For Jordan Rubin, a stand-up comic/comedy writer turned director, it was a brainstorming session with his writing partners Al and Jon Kaplan that led them to the solid gold idea of merging zombies with lovable beavers into their first feature film venture. In Zombeavers, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, three girlfriends hit the road to a cabin on the lake following one of the girls’ boyfriends cheating on her. But before long, the scantily clad gals are joined by the boyfriends and quickly learn they’re not the only ones around when a beady-eyed beaver shows up and ruins the party. Before they know it, the friends, and yes, even...

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This weekend saw the close of the 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival, a cinematic celebration that stretches across lower Manhattan and presents a wide selection of movies as well as star-studded events. This year, Tff boasted the world premiere of documentaries like Björk: Biophilia Live, and the Nas-centered Time is Illmatic, as well as eye-catching narratives like About Alex and Every Secret Thing. It made a home for films by first-time directors, like Jordan Rubin's Zombeavers and Courteney Cox's Just Before I Go, alongside Jon Favreau's Chef, and John Carney's Begin Again. Plus there were free drive-in style screenings of Mary Poppins and Splash. In short, the Tribeca Film Festival had something for everyone. There was so much to choose from this year, it was easy to feel overwhelmed by the Tribeca Film Festival's offerings. But the good news is this is a festival that...