Independent filmmaker Patrick Rea has let Bloody Disgusting know this week that post-production is nearing completion for his next movie, a found footage-style LGBTQ vampire feature titled The Night Is Young.
While you wait for more, check out several first look images below.
The film tells the story of Nora (Sarah McGuire), an influencer, who along with her brother Jake (Jake Jackson) are filming her failed dates for a video blog. Through a turn of events, she ends up on a date with Emilia (Valeri Bates), a female vampire.
Soon they find themselves in the crosshairs of a group of murderous vampire hunters.
Rea tells us, “I think we’ve made a fun and original found-footage feature that we hope pleases fans of the sub-genre. We are planning for a festival premiere possibly in the late summer.”
Filming took place over several months in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City,...
While you wait for more, check out several first look images below.
The film tells the story of Nora (Sarah McGuire), an influencer, who along with her brother Jake (Jake Jackson) are filming her failed dates for a video blog. Through a turn of events, she ends up on a date with Emilia (Valeri Bates), a female vampire.
Soon they find themselves in the crosshairs of a group of murderous vampire hunters.
Rea tells us, “I think we’ve made a fun and original found-footage feature that we hope pleases fans of the sub-genre. We are planning for a festival premiere possibly in the late summer.”
Filming took place over several months in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City,...
- 3/5/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
From award-winning writer/director Patrick Rea (I Am LIsa), They Wait In The Dark stars Sarah McGuire (The Stylist) as Amy, a mum fleeing with her son from her abusive partner Judith, encountering something even more terrifying when she seeks refuge in the old farmhouse she grew up in.
They Wait In The Dark features a superb central performances from McGuire, showing unexpected mettle as her situation spirals into hopelessness, and Laurie Catherine Winkel (Father of the Bride) is outstanding as the knife-toting, not to be messed with Judith, who, as Eye for Film says, “strides through this film like one of the great screen villains”.
As with his other genre films I Am Lisa and Enclosure, Rea is proving to be an accomplished horror stylist, eliciting terrific performances from his cast, and wringing maximum suspense from a screenplay that builds up a steady drip of dread, as the characters are plunged deeper into darkness.
They Wait In The Dark features a superb central performances from McGuire, showing unexpected mettle as her situation spirals into hopelessness, and Laurie Catherine Winkel (Father of the Bride) is outstanding as the knife-toting, not to be messed with Judith, who, as Eye for Film says, “strides through this film like one of the great screen villains”.
As with his other genre films I Am Lisa and Enclosure, Rea is proving to be an accomplished horror stylist, eliciting terrific performances from his cast, and wringing maximum suspense from a screenplay that builds up a steady drip of dread, as the characters are plunged deeper into darkness.
- 11/15/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Stars: Sarah McGuire, Patrick McGee, Laurie Catherine Winkel, Paige Maria | Written and Directed by Patrick Rea
They Wait in the Dark opens with a young girl staring at her mother’s corpse laying on her bed, a bloody wound where her throat used to be. The image is filtered as if a dream or a hallucination. And indeed it is a dream, one that Amy wakes up from in the corner of a convenience store, her adopted son Adrian (Patrick McGee) asleep on the floor next to her.
They’re on the run, not from the law but from Judith, Amy’sviolently abusive ex. How violent is she? When w a truck driver directs a few raunchy comments her way she takes a knife to him rather than just kicking him in the nuts. Amy still bears a scar from that same knife. Now, running out of money and options...
They Wait in the Dark opens with a young girl staring at her mother’s corpse laying on her bed, a bloody wound where her throat used to be. The image is filtered as if a dream or a hallucination. And indeed it is a dream, one that Amy wakes up from in the corner of a convenience store, her adopted son Adrian (Patrick McGee) asleep on the floor next to her.
They’re on the run, not from the law but from Judith, Amy’sviolently abusive ex. How violent is she? When w a truck driver directs a few raunchy comments her way she takes a knife to him rather than just kicking him in the nuts. Amy still bears a scar from that same knife. Now, running out of money and options...
- 2/7/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
It’s the first full week of February 2023 and we’re getting another Ten brand new horror movies this week, with the first four of them already put up for grabs at home beginning today.
Here’s all the new horror released on Tuesday, February 7, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
First up, Screambox Original horror movie Yellow Dragon’s Village is now streaming exclusively on the Bd-powered Screambox, directed by Japanese filmmaker Yugo Sakamato.
The film follows a group of travelers who unwittingly become the prey of a homicidal family. After a flat tire derails their trip, a group of campers stumble upon a secluded village where they encounter a homicidal cult looking for their next sacrifice.
Yellow Dragon’s Village features a stellar young cast including Yuni Akino (My Favorite Girl), Itsuki Fujii (Cosmetic DNA) and Masayuki Inô (Green Bullet).
Written and directed by...
Here’s all the new horror released on Tuesday, February 7, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
First up, Screambox Original horror movie Yellow Dragon’s Village is now streaming exclusively on the Bd-powered Screambox, directed by Japanese filmmaker Yugo Sakamato.
The film follows a group of travelers who unwittingly become the prey of a homicidal family. After a flat tire derails their trip, a group of campers stumble upon a secluded village where they encounter a homicidal cult looking for their next sacrifice.
Yellow Dragon’s Village features a stellar young cast including Yuni Akino (My Favorite Girl), Itsuki Fujii (Cosmetic DNA) and Masayuki Inô (Green Bullet).
Written and directed by...
- 2/7/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Written and directed by award winning filmmaker Patrick Rea (Nailbiter, I Am Lisa) Starring Sarah McGuire, Patrick McGee, Laurie Catherine Winkel with Paige Maria, Chris Bylsma and Meagan Flynn. Amy (McGuire) and her adopted son Adrian (McGee) areon the run from Amy’s abusive ex-girlfriend, Judith (Winkel). Desperate to stay hidden, they take refuge in the abandoned farmhouse of Amy’s family outside her …
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- 2/4/2023
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Up next from Patrick Rea is the horror movie They Wait in the Dark, and Deadline reports today that 1091 Pictures will be releasing the film this coming February.
While you wait for a trailer, check out a first-look image up above.
In the thriller from Smart Mouth Productions, “Amy (Sarah McGuire) and her adopted son Adrian (Patrick McGee) are on the run from Amy’s abusive ex-girlfriend, Judith (Laurie Catherine Winkel). Desperate to stay hidden, they take refuge in the abandoned farmhouse of Amy’s family outside her Kansas hometown.
“Soon, though, a supernatural force from Amy’s dark past begins haunting Adrian. With the vengeful Judith in pursuit, Amy and Adrian find themselves locked in a showdown between the threats both outside and in.”
The cast also includes Paige Maria, Chris Bylsma and Meagan Flynn.
Patrick Rea wrote and directed They Wait in the Dark.
The post ‘They...
While you wait for a trailer, check out a first-look image up above.
In the thriller from Smart Mouth Productions, “Amy (Sarah McGuire) and her adopted son Adrian (Patrick McGee) are on the run from Amy’s abusive ex-girlfriend, Judith (Laurie Catherine Winkel). Desperate to stay hidden, they take refuge in the abandoned farmhouse of Amy’s family outside her Kansas hometown.
“Soon, though, a supernatural force from Amy’s dark past begins haunting Adrian. With the vengeful Judith in pursuit, Amy and Adrian find themselves locked in a showdown between the threats both outside and in.”
The cast also includes Paige Maria, Chris Bylsma and Meagan Flynn.
Patrick Rea wrote and directed They Wait in the Dark.
The post ‘They...
- 1/6/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Deadline has an exclusive trailer and poster for the horror-comedy Sorry About the Demon, written and directed by Emily Hagins (V/H/S), which is slated to premiere on Shudder on January 19.
The film world premiering at FrightFest 2022 follows the brokenhearted Will (Jon Michael Simpson), who after being dumped by his girlfriend Amy (Paige Evans), is offered a massive house at a very low rent. The catch is that the restless spirit haunting the place needs a human sacrifice and the prior owners must find one or else their young daughter is toast. So, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend And banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house. Jeff McQuitty and Sarah Cleveland also star.
Pic is produced by Cameron Burns, Emily Gotto, Ben Hanks, Aaron B. Koontz, Pasha Patriki and Ashleigh Snead. Exec producers are Craig Engler, James Fler, Andrew Thomas Hunt,...
The film world premiering at FrightFest 2022 follows the brokenhearted Will (Jon Michael Simpson), who after being dumped by his girlfriend Amy (Paige Evans), is offered a massive house at a very low rent. The catch is that the restless spirit haunting the place needs a human sacrifice and the prior owners must find one or else their young daughter is toast. So, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend And banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house. Jeff McQuitty and Sarah Cleveland also star.
Pic is produced by Cameron Burns, Emily Gotto, Ben Hanks, Aaron B. Koontz, Pasha Patriki and Ashleigh Snead. Exec producers are Craig Engler, James Fler, Andrew Thomas Hunt,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Both films had their UK premiere at the horror festival FrightFest
UK genre specialist Jinga Films has boarded sales on Patrick Rea’s They Wait In The Dark and Paul Wilkins’ The Ghost Writer ahead of the American Film Market.
They Wait In The Dark follows a mother and son on the run from an ex-partner who end up taking shelter in an old farmhouse where they’re protected by an evil spirit.
The supernatural horror is produced by US company Smart Mouth Productions and stars Sarah McGuire.
In The Ghost Writer, Luke Mably plays a struggling author who becomes...
UK genre specialist Jinga Films has boarded sales on Patrick Rea’s They Wait In The Dark and Paul Wilkins’ The Ghost Writer ahead of the American Film Market.
They Wait In The Dark follows a mother and son on the run from an ex-partner who end up taking shelter in an old farmhouse where they’re protected by an evil spirit.
The supernatural horror is produced by US company Smart Mouth Productions and stars Sarah McGuire.
In The Ghost Writer, Luke Mably plays a struggling author who becomes...
- 10/17/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
If you haven’t been there, it can be difficult to imagine what life is like without a home. There are 2.5 million homeless children in the US, most of them accompanied by parents who are desperately trying to make life as normal as possible for them under the circumstances. Director Patrick Rea thrusts us into that world at the start of this film as Amy (Sarah McGuire) gently explains to eight-year-old Patrick (Patrick McGee), that they have to move somewhere else now, helping him up off the concrete where they have been sleeping. He’s accommodating in the manner of children who have recognised that there’s a real problem behind adults’ failure to give them what they want, but protests that he’s hungry. Later, in a café, Amy has to talk him out of ordering everything on the menu, getting by on black coffee herself.
Fortunately, the two of them do have.
Fortunately, the two of them do have.
- 9/8/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sarah McGuire and Patrick McGee in They Wait In The Dark
One of the hidden gems at this year’s Frightfest, Patrick Rea’s claustrophobic thriller They Wait In The Dark is a small budget film which punches well above its weight. It follows troubled mother Amy (Sarah McGuire) as she takes her young son Adrian (Patrick McGee) across the country to the now-abandoned house where she grew up, trying to hide him from her violent partner Judith (Laurie Catherine Winkel). There are other things contributing to Sarah’s disturbed state of mind, however, and the house itself might represent the biggest danger of all. After seeing it I dropped Patrick a line and arranged to chat, beginning by asking him how he managed to create a film which looks so polished and impressive with really limited resources.
“I'm lucky enough that I've worked with a lot of the same people over the last decade,...
One of the hidden gems at this year’s Frightfest, Patrick Rea’s claustrophobic thriller They Wait In The Dark is a small budget film which punches well above its weight. It follows troubled mother Amy (Sarah McGuire) as she takes her young son Adrian (Patrick McGee) across the country to the now-abandoned house where she grew up, trying to hide him from her violent partner Judith (Laurie Catherine Winkel). There are other things contributing to Sarah’s disturbed state of mind, however, and the house itself might represent the biggest danger of all. After seeing it I dropped Patrick a line and arranged to chat, beginning by asking him how he managed to create a film which looks so polished and impressive with really limited resources.
“I'm lucky enough that I've worked with a lot of the same people over the last decade,...
- 8/28/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stars: Davis DeRock, Sarah McGuire, Jamie Addison, Daniel Compo | Written and Directed by Clayton Scott
The story isn’t a new one with Below The Fold, as a couple of local newspaper reporters delve into a ten-year-old case about a missing girl. The deeper they go into the story, the more questions and suspects there seems to be.
As I said, you might feel like you’ve seen it all before, Below The Fold doesn’t throw up any real surprises but what it does do, it does pretty damn well. First time writer and director Clayton Scott does a great job at creating this world (set in Northwest Missouri) that you believe this could all happen in. Often drab and abandoned buildings are shown, and although it is often shot beautifully it’s clear that this is a run-down place that people generally want to leave.
It does indeed...
The story isn’t a new one with Below The Fold, as a couple of local newspaper reporters delve into a ten-year-old case about a missing girl. The deeper they go into the story, the more questions and suspects there seems to be.
As I said, you might feel like you’ve seen it all before, Below The Fold doesn’t throw up any real surprises but what it does do, it does pretty damn well. First time writer and director Clayton Scott does a great job at creating this world (set in Northwest Missouri) that you believe this could all happen in. Often drab and abandoned buildings are shown, and although it is often shot beautifully it’s clear that this is a run-down place that people generally want to leave.
It does indeed...
- 1/28/2022
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
"I guess we all want what we don't have..." Arrow Video has unveiled an official US trailer for the twisted psychological horror-thriller The Stylist, which originally premiered at last year's Fantastic Fest and Sitges Film Festival in the fall. The film is based on co-writer/director Jill Gevargizian's award-winning short film of the same name. A lonely hair stylist becomes obsessed with the lives of her clients and descends into murderous madness, working as a serial killer by night and collecting their scalps. But one day she tries to leave her deadly side behind, only to "discover that repressing your deadly desires is easier said than done." Starring Najarra Townsend as Claire, with Brea Grant, Laura Kirk, Kyle Ament, Millie Milan, and Sarah McGuire. This looks freaky and similar to the scalper horror Maniac, but reinvented for the times. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Jill Gevargizian's The Stylist,...
- 2/19/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jill Gevargizia’s feature was selected for Fantastic Fest, Sitges and FrightFest.
Arrow Films has snapped up all rights in the UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Jill Gevargizian’s genre feature The Stylist from XYZ Films.
The UK-based distributor hopes to release the feature theatrically in the UK in the first quarter of 2021.
The psychological horror follows a lonely hair stylist who becomes obsessed with the lives of her clients, with murderous results. The cast is led by Najarra Townsend and also includes Brea Grant and Sarah McGuire.
Based on a short of the same name by Gevargizian,...
Arrow Films has snapped up all rights in the UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Jill Gevargizian’s genre feature The Stylist from XYZ Films.
The UK-based distributor hopes to release the feature theatrically in the UK in the first quarter of 2021.
The psychological horror follows a lonely hair stylist who becomes obsessed with the lives of her clients, with murderous results. The cast is led by Najarra Townsend and also includes Brea Grant and Sarah McGuire.
Based on a short of the same name by Gevargizian,...
- 11/18/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
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