Summoners is a new horror film from director, Terence Krey (An Unquiet Grave) and starring Christine Nyland (An Unquiet Grave), McLean Peterson (Jessica Jones), Larry Fessenden (Habit), Margaret Reed (Magic in Mount Holly), and Madeline Grey DeFreece (Tahara) now available on digital VOD platforms. Jessica Whitman isn’t a witch. Not anymore, at least. She left …
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- 2/13/2024
- by Mike Joy
- Horror News
Summoners is a new horror film from director, Terence Krey (An Unquiet Grave) and starring Christine Nyland (An Unquiet Grave), McLean Peterson (Jessica Jones), Larry Fessenden (Habit), Margaret Reed (Magic in Mount Holly), and Madeline Grey DeFreece (Tahara) now available on digital VOD platforms.
Jessica Whitman isn’t a witch. Not anymore, at least. She left it behind when she left her hometown almost ten years ago. But when a childhood friend needs her help performing a dark spell, she’ll find herself questioning her sense of right and wrong, and grappling with her late mother’s secrets.
Summoners is now available on Tubi, Prime Video (Tvod), Movie Central (YouTube), Watch Free Flix.
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Jessica Whitman isn’t a witch. Not anymore, at least. She left it behind when she left her hometown almost ten years ago. But when a childhood friend needs her help performing a dark spell, she’ll find herself questioning her sense of right and wrong, and grappling with her late mother’s secrets.
Summoners is now available on Tubi, Prime Video (Tvod), Movie Central (YouTube), Watch Free Flix.
Jackrabbit Media is a full-service sales and production company founded on the principals of integrity, transparency and accountability. We specialize in the licensing, marketing and the distribution of commercial feature films across all platforms to the global market.
- 2/13/2024
- by Michael Joy
- Horror Asylum
Tom Cavanagh reprises his guest starring role as Mickey Patrick, Danny’s childhood friend, on CBS’s Blue Bloods season 13 episode 12. Directed by Ralph Hemecker from a script by Brian Burns and Peter D’Antonio, episode 12 – “The Big Leagues” – will air on Friday, February 3, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.
The cast is led by Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan, Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan, and Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan. Will Estes stars as Jamie Reagan, Len Cariou is Henry Reagan, Sami Gayle is Nicky Reagan-Boyle, Marisa Ramirez plays Det. Maria Baez, and Vanessa Ray is Officer Eddie Janko.
Season 13’s recurring guest stars include Abigail Hawk, Gregory Jbara, Robert Clohessy, Steven Schirripa, Andrew Terraciano, Steven Maier, and James Nucifero.
“The Big Leagues” Plot: Danny reunites with Mickey Patrick (Cavanagh), his childhood friend and a former criminal, who comes to him for help finding his missing fiancée. Also, Anthony surprises Erin with...
The cast is led by Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan, Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan, and Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan. Will Estes stars as Jamie Reagan, Len Cariou is Henry Reagan, Sami Gayle is Nicky Reagan-Boyle, Marisa Ramirez plays Det. Maria Baez, and Vanessa Ray is Officer Eddie Janko.
Season 13’s recurring guest stars include Abigail Hawk, Gregory Jbara, Robert Clohessy, Steven Schirripa, Andrew Terraciano, Steven Maier, and James Nucifero.
“The Big Leagues” Plot: Danny reunites with Mickey Patrick (Cavanagh), his childhood friend and a former criminal, who comes to him for help finding his missing fiancée. Also, Anthony surprises Erin with...
- 2/2/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Terence Krey's "Summoners" is an indie slice of "Practical Magic" pie, telling a heartfelt story about timeless friendship through spellcasting. It's a lighter horror tale that isn't beholden to stereotypical scares, showing the more compassionate side of genre filmmaking. Krey sticks closer to titles like "Hellbender" when executing what wicked curses this way come, without feeling like witchcraft fans are left in the cold. "Summoners" focuses on storytelling and character arcs above all, which accentuates what impractical magic might take place as characters learn there's no cure for life's most unpredictable swings.
Co-writer Christine Nyland stars as Jess Whitman, a Massachusetts resident who returns home after her mother's death. Jess seems apprehensive when father Doug (Larry Fessenden) suggests visiting his wife's grave, always avoiding the conversation. Instead, Jess reconnects with former bestie Alana Wheeler (McLean Peterson) as they relive their local glory days — which eventually brings up their "casting" abilities.
Co-writer Christine Nyland stars as Jess Whitman, a Massachusetts resident who returns home after her mother's death. Jess seems apprehensive when father Doug (Larry Fessenden) suggests visiting his wife's grave, always avoiding the conversation. Instead, Jess reconnects with former bestie Alana Wheeler (McLean Peterson) as they relive their local glory days — which eventually brings up their "casting" abilities.
- 10/20/2022
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
New Release Wall
“Elvis” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): Baz Luhrmann’s obsessions are piled on top of other obsessions that are themselves mashed up with ongoing tendencies toward spectacle, extravagance and emotional extremes — that whole “Moulin Rouge!” ethos of Truth Beauty Freedom Love — and this big loud biopic/love letter to Elvis Presley is a visual and sonic blast, with an uncanny Austin Butler as the King. You don’t even have to like the late legend’s music to enjoy this juggernaut of sensation, just find a friend with a giant-screen TV (this one’s already available in 4K) and very loud sound.
Also available:
“Batman: The Long Halloween” (Deluxe Edition) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): The Caped Crusader has to hunt down a killer that strikes on various holidays in this two-part animated feature.
“The Black Phone” (Universal): A resourceful boy (with assistance from his visions-having...
“Elvis” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): Baz Luhrmann’s obsessions are piled on top of other obsessions that are themselves mashed up with ongoing tendencies toward spectacle, extravagance and emotional extremes — that whole “Moulin Rouge!” ethos of Truth Beauty Freedom Love — and this big loud biopic/love letter to Elvis Presley is a visual and sonic blast, with an uncanny Austin Butler as the King. You don’t even have to like the late legend’s music to enjoy this juggernaut of sensation, just find a friend with a giant-screen TV (this one’s already available in 4K) and very loud sound.
Also available:
“Batman: The Long Halloween” (Deluxe Edition) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): The Caped Crusader has to hunt down a killer that strikes on various holidays in this two-part animated feature.
“The Black Phone” (Universal): A resourceful boy (with assistance from his visions-having...
- 9/15/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Way back when, during the last in-person Slamdance in the cursed year of 2020, I went to see Tahara, the feature debut of Northwestern University graduates director Olivia Peace and screenwriter Jess Zeidman. The feature focuses on two teenage best friends and Hebrew students, Carrie (Madeline Grey DeFreece) and Hannah (Rachel Sennott), who face a gear shift in their friendship during the funeral of one of their classmates. Carrie is timid and awkward, Hannah is self-obsessed and inconsiderate. When Carrie kisses her Hannah to find out if she’s a good kisser or not, sparkles light up her world. Throughout the day, […]
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The post Homecoming Vibes: Olivia Peace and Jess Zeidman on Tahara first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/1/2022
- by Rendy Jones
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Way back when, during the last in-person Slamdance in the cursed year of 2020, I went to see Tahara, the feature debut of Northwestern University graduates director Olivia Peace and screenwriter Jess Zeidman. The feature focuses on two teenage best friends and Hebrew students, Carrie (Madeline Grey DeFreece) and Hannah (Rachel Sennott), who face a gear shift in their friendship during the funeral of one of their classmates. Carrie is timid and awkward, Hannah is self-obsessed and inconsiderate. When Carrie kisses her Hannah to find out if she’s a good kisser or not, sparkles light up her world. Throughout the day, […]
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The post Homecoming Vibes: Olivia Peace and Jess Zeidman on Tahara first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/1/2022
- by Rendy Jones
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Madeline Grey DeFreece and Rachel Sennott in Tahara
The story of a troubled relationship between two teenagers which finally explodes at the funeral of one of their classmates, when Hannah (Rachel Sennott) takes advantage of Carrie (Madeline Grey DeFreece) in a way that makes long-buried feelings impossible to ignore, Tahara is a film which first emerged onto the festival circuit in late 2020 and has finally secured a US release. “It feels like a long road,” says director Olivia Peace as we sit down to talk about it, and I tell her that I’m really pleased that, given the chaos in the industry recently, this smart and sensitive little film made it through.
Waiting for life to begin
One of my classmates died when I was a teenager, I explain, and so I was immediately taken by how real the scenes dealing with the death felt, especially in terms of...
The story of a troubled relationship between two teenagers which finally explodes at the funeral of one of their classmates, when Hannah (Rachel Sennott) takes advantage of Carrie (Madeline Grey DeFreece) in a way that makes long-buried feelings impossible to ignore, Tahara is a film which first emerged onto the festival circuit in late 2020 and has finally secured a US release. “It feels like a long road,” says director Olivia Peace as we sit down to talk about it, and I tell her that I’m really pleased that, given the chaos in the industry recently, this smart and sensitive little film made it through.
Waiting for life to begin
One of my classmates died when I was a teenager, I explain, and so I was immediately taken by how real the scenes dealing with the death felt, especially in terms of...
- 6/7/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A few months before Shiva Baby premiered at SXSW 2020 and led to a breakout for star Rachel Sennott upon its TIFF screenings and subsequent 2021 release, another project starring the actress premiered at Slamdance Film Festival and is finally getting a release this summer. Olivia Peace’s Tahara follows Sennott and Madeline Grey DeFreece’s characters as friends who discover they may have a stronger desire for each other after a kiss while at a classmate’s funeral. Shot in a 1:1 aspect ratio by cinematographer Tehillah de Castro, the Rochester, NY-set drama will now arrive on June 10 and the first trailer has landed.
Jared Mobarak said in his review, “That Peace and Zeidman can take this funny, catty, high school comedy of immature kids and transform it into a weighty drama with authentic consequences is no small feat. And they do it both through their characters (DeFreece and Sennott play...
Jared Mobarak said in his review, “That Peace and Zeidman can take this funny, catty, high school comedy of immature kids and transform it into a weighty drama with authentic consequences is no small feat. And they do it both through their characters (DeFreece and Sennott play...
- 5/16/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Rachel Sennott has made funerals her thing. The “Shiva Baby” award-winning actress is set to star in bloody Gen Z slasher “Bodies Bodies Bodies” but returns to a shiva for Olivia Peace’s directorial debut, “Tahara.”
The 2022 Slamdance film stars Sennott as high schooler Hannah, who kisses her best friend Carrie (Madeline Grey DeFreece) at the funeral of a Hebrew School classmate who committed suicide. The girls’ grieving process gives way to a journey of self-discovery and sexual coming-of-age awakening as Carrie starts to develop feelings for Hannah. Ahead of the film’s release from Film Movement on June 10, watch the trailer exclusively on IndieWire below.
“Tahara” spotlights the intersection of race, faith, lust, social status, and identity, culminating in a dark comedy coming-of-age saga. Shlomit Azoulay, Daniel Taveras, and Bernadette Quigley round out the cast.
Director Peace won Best Directorial Feature Debut of a Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker at NewFest 2020 for the feature,...
The 2022 Slamdance film stars Sennott as high schooler Hannah, who kisses her best friend Carrie (Madeline Grey DeFreece) at the funeral of a Hebrew School classmate who committed suicide. The girls’ grieving process gives way to a journey of self-discovery and sexual coming-of-age awakening as Carrie starts to develop feelings for Hannah. Ahead of the film’s release from Film Movement on June 10, watch the trailer exclusively on IndieWire below.
“Tahara” spotlights the intersection of race, faith, lust, social status, and identity, culminating in a dark comedy coming-of-age saga. Shlomit Azoulay, Daniel Taveras, and Bernadette Quigley round out the cast.
Director Peace won Best Directorial Feature Debut of a Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker at NewFest 2020 for the feature,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The word tumah in Jewish law is the state of being impure—ritually and morally. And it seems there are many reasons why you might fall under this category as stated in the Torah’s Book of Leviticus. Touch a corpse: impure. Touch something that already touched a corpse? Impure. Touch the decaying flesh of dead animals? Impure. Give birth? Impure: but only for seven (son) and fourteen days (daughter) depending on the baby’s gender. Have an “unnatural” discharge from your genitals (including menstruation)? Yes. You guessed it. Impure. And that’s bad. Nobody wants to be impure. Look at Christians. We’ll say anything on our deathbed for absolution (purity). But today’s youth isn’t dying. To the living of any faith, purity can always come later.
Except, of course, when it can’t. Just ask anyone at the high school synagogue for young Samantha’s funeral.
Except, of course, when it can’t. Just ask anyone at the high school synagogue for young Samantha’s funeral.
- 10/12/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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