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Samer Salem (The Expanse) has joined the series regular cast of CBC’s procedural Allegiance for Season 2, currently in production in British Columbia through December 5. New episodes are set to premiere this winter.

From series creator series Anar Ali, Allegiance focuses on identity and belonging, policing and politics, and finding truth within the heart of a flawed justice system. Season 2 will be rooted in a powerful set of engaging and topical storylines including online gambling, tech janitors and international schools.

Lead character Sabrina Sohal (Wraich) joins the Serious Crimes Unit of the Cfpc and has six months to prove she’s got what it takes to be a detective. She’s paired with a newly transferred partner who has a decade more experience than her and a very different approach to the job. While navigating a complex love life and an equally complicated family life, Sabrina is determined to take...

Network: At&T Audience Network.

Episodes: Tbd (half-hour).

Seasons: Five.

TV show dates: March 22, 2016 — Tbd.

Series status: Ending.

Performers include: Greg Poehler, Rachel Blanchard, Priscilla Faia, Ennis Esmer, Melanie Papalia, Patrick Gilmore, Jennifer Spence, and Jarod Joseph.

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From creator John Scott Shepherd, the You Me Her TV show is a Canadian-American polyamorous comedy-drama series. In the beginning, there was Jack Trakarsky (Poehler) and Emma Trakarsky (Blanchard) and it was good -- just not good enough. While trying to conceive, the suburban Portland, Oregon couple realized their sex drive was at an all-time low.

Jack gets it in his head that seeing an escort . could be just the ticket to thawing out his freeze-dried marital life. After making...

The sexual conundrum of a three-way relationship between a husband, wife and their mutual significant other came to light when You Me Her creator John Scott Shepherd and stars Greg Poehler, Priscilla Faia and Melanie Papalia visited Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event last month at the DGA Theatre. The series, now in its second season, explores the unique living situation of a married couple who welcome a graduate student into their life, sexually, emotionally and every…...

Cineplex Certified: The top 10 movies of 2016Cineplex Certified: The top 10 movies of 2016Garrett McCormick12/29/2016 12:14:00 Pm

At Cineplex, we don’t just watch movies…we study them. From characters, production and performance, to scripts, editing and costumes - at Cineplex, film is life.

Once again, we’ve asked our Cineplex movie experts for their favourite movies of the year. By weighting every list carefully we’ve gathered the results to bring you this year’s Cineplex Certified list of our top movie picks for 2016.

From an R-rated superhero, to a star-studded musical, these are Cineplex's Top 10 Movies of 2016, check it out below:

10. Swiss Army Man

Hank, a man stranded on an island, is moments away from hanging himself and taking his own life – that is until he sees a dead corpse on the beach and becomes intrigued. Although the corpse remains unresponsive – except for farting - the odd pairing...

While it is not yet Christmas, At&T is already making plans for Valentine's Day. The second season of the You Me Her TV show premieres on At&T Audience Network, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 8:30pm Et/Pt. Don't worry about it being cancelled too soon. At&T renewed You Me Her through season three, back in June.Greg Poehler, Rachel Blanchard, and Priscilla Faia are returning for You Me Her Season Two. Ennis Esmer and Jennifer Spence will join the cast as neighbors Dave and Carmen. In addition, Melanie Papalia is coming back to play Nina. Get the details from this At&T press release.Read More…...

Sheltered in my Los Angeles bubble, I can't believe that this crime movie had an accurate measure of the true pulse of the country. Texan outlaws rob banks to fight what appears to be a rigged system; the Texas Ranger who tracks them realizes that much of the population feels the same exact way. Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster lead a crime spree through a depressed, forgotten America. Hell or High Water Blu-ray + DVD Lionsgate 2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 122 min. / Street Date November 8, 2016 / 19.96 Starring Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Alberto Parker, Katy Mixon, Kevin Rankin, Marin Ireland, John-Paul Howard, Melanie Papalia. Cinematography Giles Nuttgens Film Editor Jake Roberts Original Music Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Written by Taylor Sheridan Produced by Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel, Julie Yorn Directed by David Mackenzie

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Someone nominate actor/screenwriter Taylor Sheridan for public office: between this movie...

Canada's Melanie Papalia on her role alongside Chris Pine and Ben Foster in Hell or High WaterCanada's Melanie Papalia on her role alongside Chris Pine and Ben Foster in Hell or High WaterMarni Weisz - Editor, Cineplex Magazine8/17/2016 10:15:00 Am

When you’re an actor, it’s amazing how quickly your life can change.

Take Melanie Papalia. The Vancouver born and bred talent has a small but poignant part opposite Chris Pine in this month’s modern-day Western Hell or High Water — and it came virtually out of the blue.

“It was a Sunday night and I was lying in my apartment watching "Chopped", I was watching like a "Chopped" marathon, and I got a call from my manager seeing if, last minute, I would go to this audition Monday morning,” she recalls over the phone from Vancouver where she’s visiting family and getting ready for a role...

"A story about the collision of the Old and New West." CBS Films has debuted a trailer for the drama Hell or High Water, the latest film from David Mackenzie (who last made one of my favorites - Starred Up). Hell or High Water is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this week, and will be out in Us theaters in just a few months. Ben Foster and Chris Pine star as two brothers who come together to rob a bank, but end up on the run being chased by Jeff Bridges as a relentless Texas Ranger. This definitely has the vibe of a western with some contemporary sensibilities. The full cast includes Katy Mixon, Kevin Rankin, Dale Dickey, Gil Birmingham, Marin Ireland and Melanie Papalia. This looks like solid - give it a watch. Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for David Mackenzie's Hell or High Water, in high...

Sneak Peek footage from director Colin Minihan's science fiction horror feature "Extraterrestrial" (aka "The Visitors"), starring Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma and Melanie Papalia, available on Blu-ray and DVD, September 8, 2015 from Anchor Bay Entertainment:

"...'April' (Brittany Allen) and her boyfriend 'Kyle' (Freddie Stroma) plan to go to her parents' cabin for a romantic weekend alone, however she finds out that Kyle has invited his annoying friend 'Seth' (Jesse Moss), Seth's girlfriend 'Lex' (Anja Savcic) and another friend named 'Melanie' (Melanie Papalia).

"Along the way, Seth sets off fireworks in the car and they are pulled over by 'Sheriff Murphy' (Gil Bellows) who gives them a warning before letting them go and they make it to the cabin and begin drinking and smoking marijuana.

"Suddenly they see something crash in the woods and upon investigating find that it's a 'UFO'. After returning to the cabin they hear noises upstairs, and...

The Vicious Brothers look to the skies in their latest film, Extraterrestrial, hitting Blu-ray from Scream Factory on May 11th. We've been provided with three Blu-ray copies of the alien abduction film to give away to Daily Dead readers.

Synopsis: "They do not come in peace. From The Vicious Brothers, the creators of Grave Encounters, comes a pulse-pounding encounter of the deadly kind.

Still reeling from her parents' divorce, April (Brittany Allen, Dead Before Dawn) is dragged by her boyfriend (Freddie Stroma, Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, Pitch Perfect), and a group of his friends back to the cabin where she spent summers as a child. Her trip down memory lane takes a dramatic and terrifying turn when a fireball descends from the sky and explodes in the nearby woods. The group venture out to the crash site and discover the remnants of a ship from another planet, along with...

Stars: Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Melanie Papalia, Jesse Moss, Anja Savcic, Sean Rogerson, Emily Perkins, Mike Kovac, Fred Keating, Gil Bellows, Michael Ironside | Written and Directed by The Vicious Brothers

Horror fans usually know where a film is going when they see a group of walk into a cabin in the woods, it means that blood is going to flow as freely as the alcohol they brought with them. This is the perfect example of what to expect with Extraterrestrial, you can tell what is coming because it never deviates from what is expected. In truth though this may be exactly what the Vicious Brothers were aiming for anyway.

When April (Britanny Allen) is asked by her father to take pictures of their holiday cabin in the woods that they are selling her boyfriend Kyle (Freddie Stroma) decides to invite a few friends so they can party all weekend. When...

After touring the paranormal-plagued Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, the writing/directing duo known as The Vicious Brothers, step out of the asylum’s haunted halls and into the woods for their latest film, Extraterrestrial. This spring, keep one eye on the skies and the other on store shelves, because on May 12th, Scream Factory is releasing Extraterrestrial on Blu-ray and DVD with a batch of bonus features:

Press Release - “From The Vicious Brothers, the creators of Grave Encounters, comes a pulse-pounding encounter of the deadly kind. On May 12th, 2015, the sinister alien abduction thriller Extraterrestrial makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut from Scream Factory, in partnership with IFC Midnight. Filled with dread and suspense, Extraterrestrial is a hair-raising homage in the tradition of classic alien abduction movies, with impressive visual effects that bring a visceral energy to the film. Scream Factory’s Blu-ray and DVD...

Reviewed by Jennica Lynn Johnson

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As a teenager, being able to watch torture porn without vomiting was an achievement that was held in high regards. My friends and I would frequently visit sites such as Rotten.com to seek out the latest photos of disturbing bodily injuries; we would scour the internet for the Two-Girls-One-Cup video and the Mr. Hands video. It was like a mature version of truth-or-dare; an extreme gross-out game.

After viewing numerous photos and videos of this nature, however, it is easy to become desensitized to the gore and violence and forget that not all of the people in the images are acting. The naive assumption that the brutality witnessed on the internet must be staged is one of the many issues of the 21st century that is addressed in The Den (2013).

In his feature film debut as both a screenwriter and director, Zachary Donohue...

Shades of Mr. Gray: The Vicious Bros.’ Unsatisfying Close Encounter

Following the unanticipated success of their 2011 film debut, Grave Encounters (which feels very much like the derivative, found footage version of a variety of other abandoned mental hospital narratives, including Brad Anderson’s Session 9, but hey, someone managed to squeeze out Grave Encounters 2 for good measure), the Vicious Bros. are back with a sophomore effort, Extraterrestrial. Can you guess what it’s about? Reportedly based on a tale they drafted back in their college days, the film bears the earmarks of pedantic indistinctness, a generic thrust of recycled, disambiguated alien abduction narratives that’s not only hopelessly shallow but utterly routine.

April (Brittany Allen) and longtime beau Kyle (Freddie Stroma) are heading off to a weekend getaway at her parents’ cabin, about to be sold as part of what sounds like a tense divorce settlement. A trip already...

Young adults at a cabin in the middle of nowhere are a big attraction for alien abduction.

From IFC Midnight, the Vicious Brothers present a sci-fi horror using the common alien abduction folklore and legends in “Extraterrestrial.”

Here’s the synopsis:

Still reeling from her parents divorce, April (Brittany Allen) is dragged back to the vacation cabin she spent fond summers at as a child accompanied by a group of friends. Her trip down memory lane takes a dramatic and terrifying turn when a fireball descends from the sky and explodes in the nearby woods. Lead by her boyfriend, played by Freddie Stroma (Harry Potter & The Half Blooded Prince, Pitch Perfect), the group venture out toward the crash site and discover the remnants of a ship from another planet along with footprints that suggest its alien occupants are still alive. The college friends soon find themselves caught in the middle...

Despite such bland, generic branding, the Vicious Brothers’ Extraterrestrial shies away from repeating the same mistakes of their ambitiously convoluted last film, Grave Encounters 2, by reaching for a fast-paced, fun-filled watch that’s more in line with their original Grave Encounters. Alien invasion movies have been recycled time and time again – a statement also easily said about found-footage – but the Vicious Brothers decide instead to go the route of reinvention. Why not just have a ton of fun playing with other-worldly stereotypes? Unfortunately there’s no reward without risk, as this haunting chase won’t go down in history, but if you’re looking for a confident horror flick about gangly grey men, strap in and hold on. The ride may be bumpy, but enough flashing lights and shadowy figures distract from a passable simplicity – or maybe I was just brainwashed to believe as much?

This is going to...

Stars: Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Melanie Papalia, Jesse Moss, Anja Savcic, Sean Rogerson, Emily Perkins, Mike Kovac, Fred Keating, Gil Bellows, Michael Ironside | Written and Directed by The Vicious Brothers

The Vicious Brothers, writer/directors of the two popular Grave Encounters found-footage flicks, turn their hands to a more traditional narrative movie, mixing traditional filming methods with their penchant for Pov shaky-cam, with Extraterrestrial.

Still reeling from her parents divorce, April (Brittany Allen) is dragged back to the vacation cabin she spent fond summers at as a child accompanied by a group of friends. Her trip down memory lane takes a dramatic and terrifying turn when a fireball descends from the sky and explodes in the nearby woods. Lead by her boyfriend (Freddie Stroma), the group venture out toward the crash site and discover the remnants of a ship from another planet along with footprints that suggest its alien occupants are still alive.

After two tours of the paranormal-plagued Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, the writing/directing duo known as The Vicious Brothers, are stepping out of the asylum’s haunted halls and into the woods for their latest film, Extraterrestrial, now available on VOD. We have three new clips from the movie that show what happens when you engage visitors from the sky.

“From The Vicious Brothers, the creators of Grave Encounters comes a different kind of encounter, one of ‘Extraterrestrial’ origin. Still reeling from her parents’ divorce, April (Daytime Emmy winner, Brittany Allen) is dragged back to the vacation cabin she spent fond summers at as a child accompanied by a group of friends. Her trip down memory lane takes a dramatic and terrifying turn when a fireball descends from the sky and explodes in the nearby woods. Lead by her boyfriend, played by Freddie Stroma (Harry Potter & The Half Blooded Prince,...

The Vicious Brothers are no rookies to horror. Cult classic Grave Encounters and its sequel are neatly tucked into their resume and now they are delving into a completely different spectrum of horror with Extraterrestrial. I’m sure you can guess what it’s about.

A group of kids head out into the woods to spend a weekend partying. April (Brittany Allen) and Kyle (Freddie Stroma) are a solid couple who bring along April’s best friend Mel (Melanie Papalia, The Den) and the obligatory loud friend Seth (Jesse Moss) and his newest arm candy Lex (Anja Savcic.) Before long they get on bad terms with Sheriff Murray (Gil Bellows) and wander onto a gigantic pot farm being grown by an old acquaintance of April, the conspiracy theorist Travis (played by the always great Michael Ironside).

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The FrightFest All-Nighter 14 returns to its spiritual home, The Prince Charles Cinema, on Saturday October 25th, with five killer titles, including the world premiere of Anthony Diblasi’s Last Shift.

The evening kicks off with a special preview of The Vicious Brothers Extraterrestrial, a fine blend of Close Encounters and Communion with “some of the most extraordinary special effects and camerawork you’ll see in 2015″. Next up, The ABC’s of Death 2 needs no introduction. The first was a huge draw at FrightFest Glasgow and now attendees can scream along to 26 more deaths by 26 handpicked filmmakers. This is followed by the world premiere of Anthony Diblasi’s demonic horror Last Shift, which had to be dropped from the August line-up because of altered release and completion dates as did the next film – the highly anticipated sequel The Pact II, which has its UK premiere. And Giallo fans will not want...

Extraterrestrial Trailer. Colin Minihan‘s Extraterrestrial (2014) movie trailer stars Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Melanie Papalia, Jesse Moss, and Anja Savcic. Extraterrestrial‘s plot synopsis: “Still reeling from her parents divorce, April (Brittany Allen) is dragged back to the vacation cabin she spent fond summers at as a child accompanied by a [...]

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Well, that looked real.

First came the internet, then came chat rooms, then came Facebook, then FaceTime, then lifecasting, and then murder! As spooky faces come from behind unsuspecting victims in IFC Midnight's release, The Den (2014), the scares and vicarious running makes way only for the desire to understand why it's happening. Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) is an academic of some variety studying the weird wide world of video chat rooms, specifically The Den, all of which will be recorded as from her computer screen. A vast plurality just want to have the pretty miss Lizzy take her top off, but some are benign while others are a mean set of pranksters. When one interaction looks as though a young girl is murdered on screen, Elizabeth is convinced it's real and is dragged down into a living nightmare.

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Stars: Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen, Matt Riedy, Adam Shapiro, Victoria Hanlin, Matt Lasky, Brian Bell | Written by Zachary Donohue, Lauren Thompson | Directed by Zachary Donohue

It may seem, given my past reviews of found footage movies, that all I do is spew bile and vitriol when it comes to a lot of these particular movies but that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to still give the genre a a fair shake. Good job too, otherwise I would have missed out on a great example of it in The Den.

The idea of using the internet (and webcams) is nothing new in horror, it’s cropped up in dozens of movies, some good, a lot bad. With the advent of webcams, CCTV and “always-connected” devices, any good horror movie villain would – given that using the net is his or her modus operandi – have almost total control over their victims lives.

After two tours of the paranormal-plagued Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, the writing/directing duo known as The Vicious Brothers, are stepping out of the asylum’s haunted halls and into the woods for their next film, Extraterrestrial, and the movie’s first teaser trailer shows that these aliens do not come in peace.

Extraterrestrial hits VOD platforms on October 17th before landing in theaters on November 21st:

“From The Vicious Brothers, the creators of Grave Encounters comes a different kind of encounter, one of ‘Extraterrestrial’ origin.

Still reeling from her parents divorce, April (Brittany Allen) is dragged back to the vacation cabin she spent fond summers at as a child accompanied by a group of friends. Her trip down memory lane takes a dramatic and terrifying turn when a fireball descends from the sky and explodes in the nearby woods. Lead by her boyfriend, played by...

“Keep watching the skies!” warned Douglas Spencer’s reporter at the end of the 1951 science-fiction classic The Thing From Another World. More than 60 years on, that remains good advice for characters in alien-themed horror movies such as the Tribeca-screened Extraterrestrial. This third film from directors the Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters) details a weekend getaway by five college friends which goes horribly awry when aliens invade.

Extraterrestrial stars Brittany Allen (The Rocker), Freddie Stroma (the Harry Potter franchise), Jesse Moss (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil), Anja Savcic (I Love You, Beth Cooper), Melanie Papalia (Smiley), and Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal...

“Keep watching the skies!” warned Douglas Spencer’s reporter at the end of the 1951 science-fiction classic The Thing From Another World. More than 60 years on, that remains good advice for characters in alien-themed horror movies such as the Tribeca-screened Extraterrestrial. This third film from directors the Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters) details a weekend getaway by five college friends which goes horribly awry when aliens invade.

Extraterrestrial stars Brittany Allen (The Rocker), Freddie Stroma (the Harry Potter franchise), Jesse Moss (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil), Anja Savcic (I Love You, Beth Cooper), Melanie Papalia (Smiley), and Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal...

Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. The Den Liz (Melanie Papalia) has received a grant to study The Den, a popular online video-chat service (like ChatRoulette) that matches up strangers for conversations, interactions and dick pics. After being pranked a few times by bored kids she witnesses what she believes to be a real murder and calls the police. Nothing comes of it, but she’s thereafter harassed by a particular user capable of infiltrating and controlling her laptop. Soon her friends and family are targeted by the unknown assailant and Liz is forced into an online fight with real-world consequences. You have every right and reason to be leery. This horror flick is composed entirely of footage captured on webcams, cell phones, GoPros and more. Even less promising, the images are displayed as video windows on a computer screen. I...

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.

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...

When Suits returns this Wednesday (USA Network, 9/8c), it’s student vs. teacher as Mike and Harvey draw the battle lines in their new working relationship.

And that’s not the only duo that’s threatened.

Rachel and her beau find themselves dealing with a number of challenges to their romance, and his pretty secretary is, shockingly, the least of their worries.

Related | Suits Enlists Neal McDonough to Investigate Pearson Specter in Season 4

At least things seem to be going well for Jessica, who enjoys some male company.

Below, executive producer Aaron Korsh offers a character-by-character preview of Season’s 4′s hook-ups,...

According to a recent report from TV Line, the "Suits" season 4 folks have hired veteran actor, Neal McDonough (left), to come on and play a new SEC investigator, named Sean Cahill. He'll be a recurring fixture on the show. Sean Cahill is described as being a bulldog who goes toe-to-toe with everyone at Pearson Specter when Eric Woodall (guest star Zeljko Ivanek) tasks him with uncovering wrongdoing at the firm. Neal McDonough's acting credits includes previous roles in Justified, Mob City ,and Desperate Housewives. He joins other new cast additions: Michael Gross (Family Ties), Brendan Hines (Lie to Me), Db Woodside (24) ,and Melanie Papalia (The Newsroom, Aliens in America). Season 4 is set to debut on Wednesday night, June 11th at 9pm on the USA network. Stay tuned.

According to a recent report from TV Line, the Suits season 4 peeps have decided to bring on a new, hot secretary, named Amy, to service Mike Ross, and she'll be played by hottie actress Melanie Papalia (left). Her role will be recurring, so we'll get to see her beautiful face from time to time, which will always be welcomed over here. Amy is going to be Mike’s executive secretary at the investment job he accepted in the season 3 finale, and she's described as being bright, quick-witted ,and develops a nearly instant rapport with Mike, aiding him in both personal and professional matters. Melanie Papalia joins other new cast additions: Db Woodside, Brendan Hines ,and Michael Gross. Melanie's acting credits includes previous roles in The Newsroom and Aliens In America. Season 4 makes its big premiere on Wednesday night,June 11th at 9pm on the USA Network.

IFC Midnight has acquired U.S rights to The Vicious Brothers' ("Grave Encounters") sci-fi horror film "Extraterrestrial," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. "Extraterrestrial" follows a group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods who find themselves terrorized by alien visitors. At Tribeca, an Indiewire critic gave "Extraterrestrial" gave the film credit for its technical chops: "The camera and lens work look significantly better than the budget suggests, the CGI is impressive, and white light spills from flashlights and windows like thick white gauze." However, he also said, "These are the kind of horny, alcohol-fueled young people who think it’s a good idea to split up and search the endless dark corridors of insane asylums, and who can’t figure out how to get around a log in the road." The film stars Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Jesse Moss, and Melanie Papalia,...

IFC Midnight has acquired Us rights to The Vicious Brothers’ Tribeca sci-fi horror Extraterrestrial from Vicarious Entertainment, Twin Engine Films and Buffalo Films. Separately, Film Movement has picked up Belle And Sebastian.

CAA arranged financing and brokered the deal. Cargo Entertainment handles foreign sales.

Shawn Angelski and Martin Fisher produced with Twin Engine Films and Pink Buffalo Films.

Vicarious Entertainment’s Paris Kasidokostas-Latsis and Terry Dougas financed and serve as executive producers along with Randy Manis through his ManisFilm.

Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Jesse Moss, Melanie Papalia, Gill Bellows and Michael Ironside star.

Film Movement has acquired Us rights from Gaumont to Belle And Sebastian.

Cannes -- IFC Midnight has acquired the U.S. rights to The Vicious Brothers’ sci-fi horror film Extraterrestrial from Vicarious Entertainment, Twin Engine Films and Buffalo Films. Written by Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, who bill themselves as The Vicious Brothers, and directed by Minihan, the film, which played the Tribeca Film Festival, stars Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Jesse Moss, Melanie Papalia, Gil Bellows and Michael Ironside. Cannes Day 5: Complete Coverage of Deals, News and Reviews It follows a group of friends on a weekend trip to an inevitable cabin in the woods where they find themselves terrorized

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IFC Midnight acquired U.S rights to The Vicious Brothers’ (Grave Encounters) sci-fi horror film Extraterrestrial from Vicarious Entertainment, Twin Engine Films and Buffalo Films. Pic played Tribeca. The film stars Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Jesse Moss, and Melanie Papalia, with Gill Bellows and Michael Ironside. It is about a group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods who are terrorized by alien visitors. CAA made the deal and Cargo Entertainment is handling foreign.

The Vicious Brothers, Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz (Grave Encounters), have completed a sci-fi horror feature titled Extraterrestrial. Expectedly, the film involves an alien crash landing and several disappearances. Five friends must battle an out-of-this-world presence to survive their camping trip. Extraterrestrial will debut at the Tribeca Film festival April 18th, 2014, in New York City. The film stars Brittany Allen (Dead Before Dawn 3D), Freddie Stroma, Melanie Papalia, Jess Moss and Anja Savcic. For more on the story, five friends head out into the local woods for a hike. Aliens are looking for new specimens and these creatures begin to capture several locals, while searching for the friends. A crazed townie leads the characters to a crash site, which is the source of the trip's chaos. Extraterrestrial is sure to bring a strong showing to its premiere. The film will play three times over the course of eight days. Fans...

Tagline: "He wants to watch you." Director: Zachary Donohue. Writers: Zachary Donohue and Lauren Thompson. Cast: Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen, Matt Riedy and Adam Shapiro. The Den is a film from first time director and scriptwriter Zachary Donohue. This title was released through IFC Midnight's online platform in mid-March. And, this film fan wished he heard of the film earlier. The Den focuses on the protagonist Elizabeth (Melanie Papalia), who is exploring the internet's dark underbelly. Elizabeth loses control of a research project. And, Donohue films all of her failures through an interesting collection of mediums. Shot with an innovative style, The Den is one of the best found footage films to come by way of Los Angeles in awhile. The story is a character study of Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a bright, young woman with a brilliant future. However, her choice of study is a poor one. You see, there...

It never ceases to amaze me when total strangers will send me Skype requests, like I'm really gonna go have a conversation with someone I don't know. Maybe I should hire the big bad of the new flick The Den (review) to handle my calls? Speaking of which... check out this exclusive alternate poster!

Directed by Zach Donahue, the film stars Melanie Papalia, Adam Shapiro, David Schlactenhaufen, and Matt Riedy.

Synopsis

After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as The Den on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth.

Her...

It's the little things that keep us going here at Dread Central, like promotional gimmicks for new horror flicks. Hot on the heels of the release of IFC's The Den (review) comes this bit of interactive fun, which allows you to insert yourself and your friends into the film's poster.

All you've gotta do is upload some pictures, and voila, you become a part of the voyeuristic thriller, which is being described as Rear Window for the internet age. Head over to The Den's official website to get started!

Directed by Zach Donahue, the film stars Melanie Papalia, Adam Shapiro, David Schlactenhaufen, and Matt Riedy.

Synopsis

After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as The Den on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a...

“The Den,” IFC Midnight’s tech-thriller, is now available for thriller fans on VOD and in select theaters. The film, directed by Zach Donahue, written by Donahue and Lauren Thompson and starring Melanie Papalia, Adam Shapiro, David Schlactenhaufen and Matt Riedy, could be seen as a commentary on today’s video-chat culture. In the film, a girl realizes that she’s witnessed a heinous act while on a video-chat site, but no one believes her when she says what she saw. “After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as The Den, on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During [ Read More ]

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Today marks the limited theatrical and VOD release of Zach Donahue's The Den (review), which takes you on a trip to the dark side of modern technology.

If you're not yet sold on giving the flick a VOD rental, check out a trio of brand spankin' new clips below, which should whet your appetite for voyeuristic violence!

The films stars Melanie Papalia, Adam Shapiro, David Schlactenhaufen, and Matt Riedy.

Synopsis

After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as The Den on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth.

Her life...

Be careful on who you meet on the Internet.

“The Den” is a thriller horror movie about a young college student studying social networking on random video chat rooms similar to Chatroulette. And then unexpectedly, she witnesses a murder in one of the chat sessions as strange events follow the incident.

The film stars Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen and Matt Riedy. It marks the directorial debut for Zachary Donohue.

Latino-Review had an exclusive telephone interview with actress Melanie Papalia on her experiences with the film and Chatroulette. She recalls the creepiness of socializing on the Internet and the reflections back towards the movie.

“The Den” is playing in select theaters and available on VOD.

Read the interview transcript below.

Latino-Review: What attracted you to the script for “The Den?”

Melanie Papalia: I think one of the main things that attracted me was that it’s not often a movie...

The film The Den (review) brings a whole new, and much-needed, twist to the found-footage sub-genre of horror. Recently director and co-writer Zachary Donohue sat down with Dread Central to talk about his film.

For starters, Donohue discussed what he hoped to convey to the audience with The Den. "This is unlike any found footage movie you've ever seen," he said. "We wanted to create a movie that felt like you were on your own computer screen."

He added, "We wanted to convey this voyeuristic sense that maybe you shouldn't be watching this movie because you're privy to this character's emails, her chats. We really just wanted to tap into that idea of voyeurism."

But more than just peeping in on someone's life, Donohue also wanted The Den to portray the internet as it actually exists. "We wanted to create a funhouse," he said. "This is a movie about the internet,...

8mm updated for the Skype age, Zachary Donohue's The Den reminds us that those looking for the worst shades of humanity need only spend a few minutes video-chatting with strangers. After receiving a grant to study every nook and cranny of The Den, a stand-in for such chat sites as Chatroulette and Omegle, it isn't long before Elizabeth (Melanie Papalia) has seen a kid with a monster in his closet, an abundance of swinging dicks, and what's either a very convincing prank or an actual teenage girl getting her throat slit. This naturally leads down a rabbit hole for which the mild-mannered grad student is wholly unprepared. The entirety of Donohue's film is shown from the point of view of its heroine's computer desktop, usually with both her webcam's feed and that o...

In the inventive low-budget horror thriller “The Den,” Canadian-born actress Melanie Papalia plays Elizabeth Benton, a graduate student who undertakes a study on the eponymous video-chat site, and witnesses a gruesome murder via webcam. Others dismiss it as a viral prank, but Elizabeth isn’t so sure, and finds herself trapped in a twisted game in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate. For ShockYa, Brent Simon recently had a chance to speak with Papalia one-on-one, about the film, bad Skype connections, ChatRoulette nudity, Uwe Boll, and how John Travolta would pronounce her name at the Oscars. The conversation is excerpted below: ShockYa: You were in another movie centering [ Read More ]

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Bored at night? Ever visited Chatroulette?

Like any Internet trend, Chatroulette opened up a new world of randomly meeting people with one’s webcam. But, the Internet world is very dangerous and you’ll never know what kind of random stranger you’ll meet.

Horror thriller “The Den” sets itself in this webcam social networking arena with a young college student trying to research her thesis. She witnesses pranks, nude flashers, foreigners, dancers, etc. Until she came across a video, in which she witnessed a murder. And then strange things started to happen.

The film stars a few relatively young stars with Melanie Papalia (“Smiley”), David Schlachtenhaufen (“Loose Cannons: The Movie”) and Adam Shapiro (“Now You See Me”). It is the directorial debut for Zachary Donohue, who wrote the script with Lauren Thompson.

Although “The Den” is a fictitious horror setting, it plays into the certain themes of Internet stalkers...

In this exclusive clip from The Den, Elizabeth gets involved in random video chats. She encounters a Nigerian spammer before stumbling on what might be the actual murder of a young girl. Surprisingly, she didn't come across any penises.

The Den opens in select theaters and VOD on March 14th.

Official synopsis: After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as The Den, on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth. Her life quickly spirals out of control as she gets pulled deeper into the darkest recesses of the internet. And eventually,...

The internet is a vile, abhorrent, perverse beast. Need proof besides the countless websites of illegal pornography, shared videos of actual human deaths, and constant accreditation of the “Brony” culture? Please, look no further than a brilliant idea turned into a cesspool for perverts – Chatroulette. Don’t lie, we’ve all gotten hammered one night (many nights) in college and scoured this video chat service looking for some debaucherous internet lulz, only to stumble upon an endless parade of naked men beating their meat for the world to see. Give a man the technology to communicate with any inch of the globe on command, promoting cultural knowledge and uninterrupted encounters with countless interesting people, and all he’ll end up with is a sticky keyboard apparently. Right, and you’re going to argue that society isn’t screwed?

Enter Zachary Donohue, a first time writer/director who noticed the inherent...

The official details and a brand spanking new one-sheet have arrived for the social horror film The Den, and we have that and everything else you need to know about this flick right here for ya! Dig it!

From director Zach Donahue comes The Den, starring Melanie Papalia, Adam Shapiro, David Schlactenhaufen, and Matt Riedy.

Look for it from IFC Midnight in select theaters and on VOD on Friday, March 14th, 2014.

Synopsis

After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Papalia) logs on to a video chat site known as The Den on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth.