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Written by Michael Nilon and directed by Benjamin Brewer, this terrifying post-apocalyptic horror thriller premiered at South by Southwest this past March. It stars Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins and Sadie Soverall.

In a near future where earth has been decimated by an undisclosed catastrophe, Paul (Cage) barely escapes alive from the city alongside his infant twin boys. Years later, Paul and his teenage sons Joseph (Martell) and Thomas (Jenkins) are living in a remote farmhouse miles away from their nearest neighbours at Rose Farm. During the day, the boys and their father work the land and gather provisions, but at night the threesome are under siege from killer creatures that roam the land.

The trio’s quotidian life of humdrum chores and trying to survive each night at a time, is thrown into chaos when Thomas, the more rebellious of the two brothers, fails to return before nightfall one evening.

Stars: Scott Adkins, Waleed Elgadi, Tom Berenger, Meena Rayann, Michael Jai White, Aaron Toney | Written by Jamie Russell | Directed by James Nunn

Not only is One More Shot filmed with the illusion of being one long take like its predecessor 2021’s One Shot, it does something more important. It reunites director James Nunn and writer Jamie Russell with the previous film’s leads, Scott Adkins as Navy Seal Jake Harris and Waleed Elgadi as terrorist Amin Mansur.

Following the events of the first film, Harris is escorting Mansur back to the US where they plan to get him to reveal the whereabouts of a dirty bomb set to explode during the State of the Union Address, which the President, of course, refuses to postpone. For leverage, CIA Agent Marshall has brought Mansur’s pregnant wife Niesha to meet his plane. But they’re not the only ones there to meet the flight.

Japan’s Dean Fujioka and the U.K.’s Callum Woodhouse are set to star in “Orang Ikan,” a WWII-set creature horror film. The picture is scripted by Singapore and Indonesia-based Mike Wiluan who will also direct the picture from next month.

International rights to “Orang Ikan” have been picked up by London-based Sc Films International, which will give the project its sales launch at the Busan festival and accompanying market next month.

Set in the Pacific, 1942, a Japanese ship transports prisoners of war to occupied territories as slave labor. After being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British Pow are stranded on a deserted island, but soon discover they are not alone. They are being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan, a human-fish hybrid. Unable to communicate in each other’s language, the two mortal enemies must come together to survive the unknown.

Matthias Hoene’s 2023 crime thriller Little Bone Lodge can be best described by the phrase that ‘appearances can be deceiving.’ Joely Richardson stars as Mama, the protagonist of the movie, where she’s the protective mother of a teenage girl named Maisy (Sadie Soverall) and the primary caregiver of her disabled husband Pa (Roger Ajogbe). Things were going fine until two brothers, Jack (Neil Linpow) and Matty (Harry Cadby), arrived on a stormy night, seeking immediate help. Soon, everything spins out of control to reveal a dark secret about this wholesome family. Here’s a recap of everything that happens in the 2023 thriller Little Bone Lodge.

Where Does Mama Take Jack?

On a stormy and rainy night, a family of three is celebrating a birthday. The mother and the daughter prepare a cake for the girl’s disabled father, Pa, and they feed it to him. The house is way...

Exclusive: Channel 4 has set cast for The Gathering, the show from Line of Duty producer World Productions about a violent attack on a teenage girl during a rave.

Boiling Point star Vinette Robinson is aboard the series, which is award-winning novelist Helen Walsh’s debut TV script, and filming has commenced.

BIFA-winner Robinson will play pushy mother Natalie and is joined by leads Eva Morgan and Sadie Soverall (Little Bone Lodge), who play Kelly and Jessica respectively. Also aboard are Warren Brown (Ten Pound Poms) as Kelly’s hard working single parent Paul, and Richard Coyle (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as successful solicitor Jules, along with Sonny Walker (The Responder), Luca Kamleh- Chapman and Hebron Tedros.

Greenlit last year, The Gathering centers on the violent attack on a teenage girl in a tidal islet. Set on Merseyside and interrogating the ways in which today’s parents impose their agendas,...

Joely Richardson in Little Bone Lodge Photo: Signature Entertainment

Making its début as part of the Frightfest strand at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival and now available on digital platforms, Little Bone Lodge is a small scale thriller which makes a very big impression. Writer Neil Linpow plays Jack, a criminal on the run with his childlike but unpredictably violent young brother, Matty (Harry Cadby). After their car crashes, the two seek refuge in an isolated farmhouse in the Scottish highlands, waiting for their boss to arrive, but what they don’t know is that the householder (Joely Richardson) has secrets of her own which she will do anything to protect. As Matty forms a tender bond with sheltered teenager Maisy (Sadie Soverall), whose disabled father (Roger Ajogbe) sites helplessly on the sidelines, events conspire to plunge everybody’s carefully made plans into chaos.

It’s a smart, punchy,...

"She can be glorious, or filled with wrath..." Signature Ent. in the UK has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror film titled Little Bone Lodge, formerly known as The Last Exit. There's no US date set yet, but it's available on VOD later in May in the UK. Set during a vicious storm, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. Taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds dark secrets of its own. Sounds like another Texas Chain Saw Massacre inspired horror with the overused trope that the random home owners are the evil ones in this story. Little Bone Lodge stars Joely Richardson, Neil Linpow, Sadie Soverall, Harry Cadby, Roger Ajogbe, and Euan Bennet. It looks like another messy mish-mash of horror ideas and finicky characters that won't amount to much. For horror fans only... // Continue Reading ›...

Exclusive: UK sales outfit Sc Films International has acquired world rights to the thriller Captive from producer Antony I. Ginnane (Screamers), and to be directed by Louise Alston (Back of the Net).

The film is set to start production this autumn. Billed as a “thrilling kidnap and ransom story,” the pic follows Mav, who wakes up in a confined space next to a dead body. She is tied and gagged and realizes she has been kidnapped. Her kidnapper explains that he knows she is the daughter of the richest woman in the State. He wants a $20,000,000 ransom paid in 12 hours, or he will kill her like the other passenger. A cat-and-mouse game ensues as her mother is unwilling to pay the ransom and neither the kidnappee nor the kidnapper are what they seem.

The pic comes from a screenplay by Stephen Vagg (All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane) and was...

Stars: Joely Richardson, Neil Linpow, Sadie Soverall, Harry Cadby, Roger Ajogbe, Euan Bennet | Written by Neil Linpow | Directed by Matthias Hoene

Matthias Hoene follows up the awesome Warriors Gate (a film I still Love to this day), which was a movie that dealt with time travel and featured a cast of thousands in Huge action sequences, with Little Bone Lodge, a small-scale but oh-so-taut thriller that both conforms to and somehow also defies expectations and skewers stereotypical characterisations, continuously switching up the traditional hero and villain roles as it goes on.

During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds even darker secrets of its own. Including a fearsome family matriarch who will stop at nothing to protect her kin and the shocking mysteries that surround their very existence…...

The title was picked up from UK sales outfit Sc Films International.

UK-based production and distribution outfit Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Irish rights for horror Little Bone Lodge, directed by Matthias Hoene and starring Joely Richardson.

Signature picked up the film from UK sales outfit Sc Films International, for a spring release.

It follows two criminal brothers on the run, who seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. They take the whole family captive, only to find the house holds dark secrets of its own.

Richardson plays the formidable family matriarch, with Sadie Soverall, Neil Linpow and Harry Cadby rounding out the cast.

Six world premieres, 16 European and international premieres and 70 UK premieres feature in the line-up

Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) has unveiled the full line-up for its 19th edition, taking place March 1-12, with the UK premiere of Nida Manzoor’s Sundance title Polite Society the closing night film.

The festival will screen 123 features, including six world premieres, 16 European and international premieres and 70 UK premieres.

Polite Society is the feature debut of Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 Nida Manzoor, who created Channel 4 and Peacock series We Are Lady Parts.

Her first feature is an action comedy about an aspiring stuntwoman who tries...