The feature film debut of writer/director Chris Stuckmann has a solid, albeit slightly familiar, premise. In 2008, four YouTubers known for a ghost hunting show called ‘Paranormal Paranoids’ go missing near the deserted town of Shelby Oaks, sparking conspiracy theories and suspicions it’s a hoax to increase the channel’s notoriety. When the bodies of Laura […]
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There’s a moment in Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks’ Alone with You when Bennett’s character Charlene becomes locked inside her apartment. Paranoia and loneliness have already set in, but given no options to escape on her own, she unleashes a guttural scream. Tears stain her cheeks, and reality grows even colder. Strangled by depression and […]
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Written and directed by Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks, Dark Star’s upcoming horror movie Alone With You goes heavy on the paranoia, with horror icon Barbara Crampton co-starring. Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at the film’s key art that teases a mind-bending paranoid thriller. In Alone With You, “As a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment […]
Single-setting horror films almost always make for a fascinating watch. Films like Buried, Cube and Frozen force their directors to make the most of their sparse surroundings, usually with a limited budget. In these films, the locales are practically their own characters. Executed poorly, and these films risk putting the audience to sleep. More and more of these […]
Dark Star Pictures has taken North American rights to paranoia thriller Alone With You ahead of the film’s world premiere at Fantastic Fest, reports Deadline. Written and directed by Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks as their feature debut and follows a young woman (Bennett) as she painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend. “As she […]