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November 30, 2021

The Surprise Visit Knocks On Your Door January 14

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Vertical Entertainment is bringing the thriller The Surprise Visit to on-demand platforms, as well as select theaters, next month. Based on a true story (and a rather depressing one), The Surprise Visit is about a young woman who decides to visit her mother, and brings along her husband. At the same time, someone else decides to visit HER: an old friend who’s fallen on hard times and openly tells her about his plans to rob her mother. She is…okay with this, as she’s a drug addict just like him and is willing to watch his back for a cut of the cash. Then the “friend” winds up shooting her husband dead. Now they’re really in for it… “I love that The Surprise Visit is based on a true story that explores the themes of class difference and how desperation can make people do things that they might not otherwise do,” says the movie’s director. “The film is an American tragedy. I chose to tell The Surprise Visit in a gritty

October 1, 2021

The Secret of Sinchanee Comes To VOD October 8

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What’s The Secret of Sinchanee? We’ll find out when Vertical Entertainment releases the upcoming indie thriller later this month on digital platforms. The protagonist of this one drives a tow truck for a living and can’t seem to fall asleep lately. Could it be related to the recent demise of his father, or something deeper? To search for answers he returns to the abandoned house his parents once lived in. You’ll never guess — it was built on ancient, sacred burial land and there’s an angry presence within haunting the place. The movie was produced, directed and stars Stweven Grahym, with former NFL player Nate Boyer (“Mayans M.C”), Tamara Austin (“The Walking Dead”), Laila Lockhart Kraner (“Gabby’s Dollhouse”), Jacob Schick (American Sniper, A Star Is Born), and Rudy Reyes (“Generation Kill”) co-starring. “This is a deeply personal film that tackles incredibly challenging themes of xenophobia, childhood trauma, and mental health issues, testing the confines of the horror/thriller genre,” says Grayhm. Newcomb adds, “Steven is one of the most exciting emerging

April 2, 2021

“The Voices” Start Speaking On VOD Today

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Vertical Entertainment is bringing their new horror film The Voices to digital platforms starting today, April 2. After being blinded in a car accident as a little girl, everything changed for Lilly. She lost one sense but gained another…now she can hear the voices of spirits. This led to some confusion for a while, and growing up was awkward, but she has a handle on her powers now and she’s starting a family with her husband. That’s when she learns something: her unborn baby has been chosen to be a vessel for a spirit to be reborn into life. A LOT of ghosts want that privilege and won’t leave her alone. Lilly has a preference toward a little girl who was murdered years ago, but the killers are still out there — and so are the ghosts who are a bit angry Lilly seems to have made up her mind. Both the living and the dead are after her now! The Voices stars Ashley Bell, Jordan Ladd, Leslie Easterbrook, Valerie

October 11, 2019

Portal Comes To DVD And VOD October 15

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When you hear the word “Portal,” all by itself, a certain video game immediately springs to mind. That game is so classic and iconic at this point that you wonder how its title could be used any other way. “Portal” being such a generic word, it’s fair use for other projects, but it still looks jarring: They’re even doing the “O in the title looks like one of the portals” thing. They’re risking GLaDOS’s wrath here. Portal, the 2019 horror movie, is not about an evil robot putting human prisoners through endless tests. It’s about an amateur ghost-hunting team who wishes they could get their own TV deal. If they could just learn to create some convincing fake ghost phenomena, they would have a good enough reel to convince the networks. Unfortunately, the location they pick to shoot their latest pilot is one where ghosts actually reside. But on the plus side, they’ll save a LOT in special effects! Portal stars Ryan Merriman (The Jurassic Games), Jamie Tisdale (“From Dusk