Who doesn’t like a low-budget slasher film with a clown causing havoc and bloodshed? Raymond Wood’s Faceless After Dark takes a new approach to this genre and turns the prey into a hunter. Wood goes with the classic slasher tropes, and you can see he has fully given in to the vision, and it pays off handsomely.
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What happens in the movie?
A small-time actress, Bowie Davidson, is tired of going through life barely subsisting. Her last movie was a dud, and she finds herself signing autographs at Slashercon for nothing. Her girlfriend Jessica is also an actor, whose popularity is only growing day by day. Jessica doesn’t acknowledge their relationship out in public, and that doesn’t sit well with Bowie, but there’s nothing she can do about it. When Jessica leaves for London, Bowie finds herself alone in the house. After getting...
Spoilers Ahead
What happens in the movie?
A small-time actress, Bowie Davidson, is tired of going through life barely subsisting. Her last movie was a dud, and she finds herself signing autographs at Slashercon for nothing. Her girlfriend Jessica is also an actor, whose popularity is only growing day by day. Jessica doesn’t acknowledge their relationship out in public, and that doesn’t sit well with Bowie, but there’s nothing she can do about it. When Jessica leaves for London, Bowie finds herself alone in the house. After getting...
- 5/20/2024
- by Aniket Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
Stars: Jenna Kanell, Danielle Lyn, Danny Kang, Max Calder, Michael Aaron Milligan, Kathrine Barnes, Catherine Corcoran, Erin Day, Alexis Louder | Written by Jenna Kanell, Todd Jacobs | Directed by Raymond Wood
Faceless After Dark opens with a warning about the film’s use of strobing lights, and immediately we see Bowie sitting staring at the camera as neon purple lights flash on her face as the image grows progressively smaller and unintelligible voices babble louder and louder. That and several long, eye-straining montages scattered through the film make the warning more than justified
Next we see her armed with a machete making her way through a human butcher shop, only to be confronted by the killer clown responsible for the carnage. And then mid-fight, she stops and complains about having to deliver the line, “Haven’t you heard, the circus left town bitch!”
Bowie is an actress, and that role has...
Faceless After Dark opens with a warning about the film’s use of strobing lights, and immediately we see Bowie sitting staring at the camera as neon purple lights flash on her face as the image grows progressively smaller and unintelligible voices babble louder and louder. That and several long, eye-straining montages scattered through the film make the warning more than justified
Next we see her armed with a machete making her way through a human butcher shop, only to be confronted by the killer clown responsible for the carnage. And then mid-fight, she stops and complains about having to deliver the line, “Haven’t you heard, the circus left town bitch!”
Bowie is an actress, and that role has...
- 5/17/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Jenna Kanell played the role of Tara in the killer clown horror films Terrifier and Terrifier 2 – and now she has the lead role in a meta horror film called Faceless After Dark, in which she plays an actress who’s best known for her work in a killer clown horror film! Dark Sky Films and MPI Media Group are teaming up to give Faceless After Dark a digital and limited theatrical release on May 17th, and you can take a look at the trailer in the embed above.
Directed by Raymond Wood from a screenplay Kanell wrote with Todd Jacobs, the film has the following synopsis: Following her breakout success as the star of a killer clown horror flick, Bowie now finds herself struggling to capitalize on its success. But when she is suddenly held hostage by an unhinged fan posing as that same killer clown, horror becomes her...
Directed by Raymond Wood from a screenplay Kanell wrote with Todd Jacobs, the film has the following synopsis: Following her breakout success as the star of a killer clown horror flick, Bowie now finds herself struggling to capitalize on its success. But when she is suddenly held hostage by an unhinged fan posing as that same killer clown, horror becomes her...
- 4/23/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Faceless After Dark: "Following her breakout success as the star of a killer clown horror flick, Bowie now finds herself struggling to capitalize on its success. But when she is suddenly held hostage by an unhinged fan posing as that same killer clown, horror becomes her reality as she fights to survive the night and escape before he completes his sinister plan to recreate the film’s fatal plot. Jenna Kanell from the Terrifier franchise gives a tour-de-force performance in this wild, gory ride."
Written by: Jenna Kanell and Todd Jacobs Directed by: Raymond Wood Produced by: Raymond Wood Cast: Jenna Kanell (Terrifier franchise, Renfield, Bad Boys: Ride or Die), Danny Kang (Insatiable, NCIS Hawai'i), Danielle Lyn (Mayfair Witches, Single Drunk Female), Max Calder (Stranger Things,Jungle Cruise), Michael Aaron Milligan (TV's Outer Banks, TV's The Purge), Kathrine Barnes (Average Joe, Queer as Folk), Jason MacDonald (The Vampire Diaries, NCIS...
Written by: Jenna Kanell and Todd Jacobs Directed by: Raymond Wood Produced by: Raymond Wood Cast: Jenna Kanell (Terrifier franchise, Renfield, Bad Boys: Ride or Die), Danny Kang (Insatiable, NCIS Hawai'i), Danielle Lyn (Mayfair Witches, Single Drunk Female), Max Calder (Stranger Things,Jungle Cruise), Michael Aaron Milligan (TV's Outer Banks, TV's The Purge), Kathrine Barnes (Average Joe, Queer as Folk), Jason MacDonald (The Vampire Diaries, NCIS...
- 4/22/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
In the wake of Terrifier‘s breakout success, star Jenna Kanell has gone on to book supporting roles in the likes of Renfield, WandaVision, The Bye Bye Man, and NCIS: New Orleans — but Art the Clown casts a long shadow. Kanell reconciles her unconventional journey while holding a mirror up to the industry in Faceless After Dark, which she co-wrote with Todd Jacobs for director Raymond Wood, both frequent collaborators.
Kanell stars as Bowie Davidson, an actress struggling to break out from the shackles of B-horror after starring in a killer clown movie. She’s no stranger to fandom — peddling herself at conventions, recording Cameo videos, combating social media harassment — but when an obsessive fanatic in a clown mask breaks into her house, Bowie assumes the role of the final girl to fight back against her oppressors.
The home invasion is ostensibly propelling toward a tense game of cat-and-mouse between Bowie and her stalker,...
Kanell stars as Bowie Davidson, an actress struggling to break out from the shackles of B-horror after starring in a killer clown movie. She’s no stranger to fandom — peddling herself at conventions, recording Cameo videos, combating social media harassment — but when an obsessive fanatic in a clown mask breaks into her house, Bowie assumes the role of the final girl to fight back against her oppressors.
The home invasion is ostensibly propelling toward a tense game of cat-and-mouse between Bowie and her stalker,...
- 3/1/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival — the longest running genre fest in America — kicks off its 49th annual event this Wednesday, February 14, and runs through Sunday, February 18, in Somerville, Ma.
Programming highlights include: the US premiere of Shatter Belt and a 10th anniversary screening of Coherence, both with director James Ward Byrkit; premieres of the documentaries Life After the Navigator and Life After The Neverending Story with director Lisa Downs; Faceless After Dark with director Raymond Wood and star Jenna Kanell (Terrifier); and a live Black Friday commentary by special effects legend Robert Kurtzman and director Casey Tebo.
Kicking off on Sunday at noon, the 24-hour marathon will feature Attack of the Crab Monsters, Black from the Past, Deep Blue Sea, Dredd, Lapsis, Mad Max, One Million B.C., Predestination, Ready Player One, The Matrix, Top of the Food Chain, Upgrade, and more.
Other events include: short film blocks, the Cyberpunk Sweethearts Ball,...
Programming highlights include: the US premiere of Shatter Belt and a 10th anniversary screening of Coherence, both with director James Ward Byrkit; premieres of the documentaries Life After the Navigator and Life After The Neverending Story with director Lisa Downs; Faceless After Dark with director Raymond Wood and star Jenna Kanell (Terrifier); and a live Black Friday commentary by special effects legend Robert Kurtzman and director Casey Tebo.
Kicking off on Sunday at noon, the 24-hour marathon will feature Attack of the Crab Monsters, Black from the Past, Deep Blue Sea, Dredd, Lapsis, Mad Max, One Million B.C., Predestination, Ready Player One, The Matrix, Top of the Food Chain, Upgrade, and more.
Other events include: short film blocks, the Cyberpunk Sweethearts Ball,...
- 2/12/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, are delighted to announce their full feature film lineup for 2023. The festival will be returning to regular venue the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester on 6th – 8th October to showcase the best in genre cinema.
Never screened outside of Japan, and believed lost for nearly 30 years, Banmei Takahashi’s 1988 classic, Door, combines deadpan domestic comedy, chilling stalker thriller and baroquely bloody home invasion horror. It finally had its international premiere at Bifan in South Korea in July, and Grimmfest are delighted to be hosting the first UK screening.
Kenichi Ugana’s Love Will Tear US Apart encompasses dark and deadly romance, satiric slasher movie, psychological thriller and even some martial arts mayhem. Grimmfest is delighted to be hosting the UK premiere in Manchester, birthplace of Joy Division, whose music inspired the film’s title.
Mikhail Red’s Filipino psychological thriller Deleter (UK premiere) follows an overworked,...
Never screened outside of Japan, and believed lost for nearly 30 years, Banmei Takahashi’s 1988 classic, Door, combines deadpan domestic comedy, chilling stalker thriller and baroquely bloody home invasion horror. It finally had its international premiere at Bifan in South Korea in July, and Grimmfest are delighted to be hosting the first UK screening.
Kenichi Ugana’s Love Will Tear US Apart encompasses dark and deadly romance, satiric slasher movie, psychological thriller and even some martial arts mayhem. Grimmfest is delighted to be hosting the UK premiere in Manchester, birthplace of Joy Division, whose music inspired the film’s title.
Mikhail Red’s Filipino psychological thriller Deleter (UK premiere) follows an overworked,...
- 9/2/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Celebrity-fan encounters have become the internet’s bread-and-butter in 2023; every user-driven rabbit hole from Reddit to the gossip pages of Instagram (shoutout to deuxmoi) is full of supposed insider info on who’s a sweetheart, and who’s an Irl monster. There’s almost a currency to having met a famous person, and everyone online, anonymous or not, is keen to sell their story – mostly just for clout over any actual cash. So whether you’re an actor or a musician, or even just a familiar-face from a meme, the message is the same: play nice, or be prepared to face the social media backlash.
It’s a dangerous world to navigate, especially for working actors like Faceless After Dark star Jenna Kanell, who co-writes this sharp, scathing home invasion thriller about just that, an often deadly relationship with the spotlight.
Former Hollywood final girl Bowie (Kanell) is still followed everywhere she goes,...
It’s a dangerous world to navigate, especially for working actors like Faceless After Dark star Jenna Kanell, who co-writes this sharp, scathing home invasion thriller about just that, an often deadly relationship with the spotlight.
Former Hollywood final girl Bowie (Kanell) is still followed everywhere she goes,...
- 8/29/2023
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Our friends at Grimmfest, the genre film festival in Manchester, England, have unveiled the lineup for this year's edition. Grimmfest has already announced Banmei Takahashi's unearthed 1988 classic, Door, Kenichi Ugana's Love Will Tear Us Apart and Raymond Wood's Faceless After Dark would be at the festival. To those three films they have added Isaac Ezban's great fairy tale horror Evil Eye, Jenn Wexler's terrfic sophomore film, The Sacrifice Game, the pitch black comedy The Coffee Table and quite possibly the most unsettling puppet film we've experienced Abruptio. Check the complete lineup below. Full festival passes are now available. Grimmfest Announce Full 2023 Lineup Grimmfest, Manchester's International Festival of Fantastic Film, are delighted to announce their full feature film lineup for 2023. The festival will be returning to regular...
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- 8/19/2023
- Screen Anarchy
FrightFest, the UK’s biggest, best and most beloved community-driven horror & fantasy film festival, returns in a blaze of gory glory to the Cineworld Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition, a press release announced this morning.
“Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is a joyful big screen celebration of genre cinema, offering a carnival of carnage, a smorgasbord of shock and a tableau of terror. This year, over five days, audiences can explore the magic of menace, mayhem and mischief with seventy films programmed across four screens. There are twenty-five world, twenty-three International / European and twelve UK premieres, with fourteen countries represented, spanning five continents.
The festival opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest shocker from FrightFest favourite Joe Lynch, who has created an outlandish love letter to the late, great Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon; a new body horror take on H.P Lovecraft...
“Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is a joyful big screen celebration of genre cinema, offering a carnival of carnage, a smorgasbord of shock and a tableau of terror. This year, over five days, audiences can explore the magic of menace, mayhem and mischief with seventy films programmed across four screens. There are twenty-five world, twenty-three International / European and twelve UK premieres, with fourteen countries represented, spanning five continents.
The festival opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest shocker from FrightFest favourite Joe Lynch, who has created an outlandish love letter to the late, great Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon; a new body horror take on H.P Lovecraft...
- 7/13/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
FrightFest, the UK genre festival, has unveiled the lineup for its latest edition (August 24-28).
The event opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest pic from FrightFest regular Joe Lynch. The pic follows a psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with one of her young clients with multiple personalities. The film is co-produced and co-stars Barbara Crampton.
The Sacrifice Game, from director Jenn Wexler, receiving its European premiere, is the closing night film. The festival has described the film as a wild, thrilling ride and a tribute to the beauty and boldness of classic 1970s horror.
This year the festival will host seven world premieres, including Nick Psinakis’s Cheat, Matt Sampere’s Halloween slasher Creeping Death, Raymond Wood’s feminist revenge-fantasy Faceless After Dark, Steven Pierce’s zombie survivalist thriller Herd, and Michael J. Hurst’s wild science fiction shocker Transmission.
Announcing the lineup today, fest co-director Alan Jones...
The event opens with the European premiere of Suitable Flesh, the latest pic from FrightFest regular Joe Lynch. The pic follows a psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with one of her young clients with multiple personalities. The film is co-produced and co-stars Barbara Crampton.
The Sacrifice Game, from director Jenn Wexler, receiving its European premiere, is the closing night film. The festival has described the film as a wild, thrilling ride and a tribute to the beauty and boldness of classic 1970s horror.
This year the festival will host seven world premieres, including Nick Psinakis’s Cheat, Matt Sampere’s Halloween slasher Creeping Death, Raymond Wood’s feminist revenge-fantasy Faceless After Dark, Steven Pierce’s zombie survivalist thriller Herd, and Michael J. Hurst’s wild science fiction shocker Transmission.
Announcing the lineup today, fest co-director Alan Jones...
- 7/13/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
When you find your friend standing in the middle of the road at night, that's cause for concern, but when you approach him and he stares back at you with wide open eyes and a bleeding nose, then you've stepped over into seriously spooky territory. Such is the case for a group of filmmaking friends in the new horror movie 1st Summoning, and we've been provided with an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers.
Directed by Raymond Wood from a screenplay by Chris Piner, 1st Summoning will be released in select theaters and on demand (including iTunes and Amazon Prime Video) on February 22nd via Gravitas Ventures, and we have the exclusive clip, trailer, and key art below.
Synopsis: "As four student filmmakers unearth a bizarre history of occult practice tied to an abandoned warehouse, it becomes clear the horror they set out to document may have been lurking among them all along.
Directed by Raymond Wood from a screenplay by Chris Piner, 1st Summoning will be released in select theaters and on demand (including iTunes and Amazon Prime Video) on February 22nd via Gravitas Ventures, and we have the exclusive clip, trailer, and key art below.
Synopsis: "As four student filmmakers unearth a bizarre history of occult practice tied to an abandoned warehouse, it becomes clear the horror they set out to document may have been lurking among them all along.
- 2/19/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
1st Summoning was originally titled The Millbrook Summoning. Now, this indie horror title is slated to release in late February (Digital) and mid April (Blu-ray). In the film, four student filmmakers uncover strange occult practices, in a remote warehouse. Here, they cannot escape what lays in store for them. 1st Summoning is a film from director Raymond Wood (The Canadoo). As well, this title stars: Hayley Lovitt ("Sleepy Hollow"), Jason MacDonald ("The Vampire Diaries"), Teddy Cole and Brook Todd. A preview of the film's home entertainment release is available now. The official trailer shows the four filmmakers and their early interviews. A legend is revealed, which requires a ritual at midnight. If the filmmakers perform the ritual, they can have anything they want. But, they must pay a price. Also, the film's official graphic is here. The blood red movie poster shows a scarred character, with a tagline: "Evil Lies Within.
- 2/5/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Tagline: "Reality Meets Legend." The Canadoo is an upcoming horror film. The film was completed in September of 2016, in Atlanta. Since September, the film has shown at the American Film Market. But, there has been little news, since. The Canadoo stars: Tyler Buckingham, Alina Lia and Drey Wigfall. Directed by Raymond Wood, this survival horror title was written by Chris Piner. A trailer is available for the film, along with a movie poster. And, the film is expected to release in 2017. In the film, five contestants are invited to a reality show competition. In the outback, their technologies and survival skills are put to the test. Each contestant is after the 50K purse. But, once people begin to disappear, it becomes clear that this competition is to the death. There is a lot of contradictory information on this film. Different writers have been attached to the film and some posts...
- 1/31/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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