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You've just said goodbye to Felicity Smoak Queen on Arrow, but that is hardly goodbye from Emily Bett Rickards.

Rickards is taking on a role unlike any we've seen her in previously in Funny Story, a movie coming to theaters, digitally, and On Demand May 24th.

Walter Campbell (Matthew Glave) is an aging heartthrob struggling to keep up appearances -- especially with his estranged adult daughter, Nic (Jana Winternitz).

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In an attempt to reconnect with his family, he invites himself to crash her vacation in Big Sur.

Offering a ride to her friend Kim (Emily Bett Rickards), they bond in unexpected ways that are sure to ruin the lives of everyone in their path.

Are you excited to see Rickards tackling someone a little less reserved that Felicity?

If you're unfamiliar with the name Matthew Glave, you should recognize his face from Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,...

Oscilloscope Laboratories is proud to present the brand new poster for&#160Anna Biller's&#160astonishingly lush, entrancing marvel,&#160The Love Witch.&#160This alluring poster was painted&#160by Michael Koelsch.&#160The enticing horror comedy debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival and screened at BAMcinemaFest and Fantasia. Oscilloscope Laboratories will release the film in 35mm in November, with additional screenings in the following weeks at select theaters across the country.

Elaine, a beautiful young&#160witch, is determined to find a man to&#160love&#160her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims.

When she finally meets&#160the&#160man of her dreams, her desperation to be&#160loved&#160will drive her to&#160the&#160brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of&#160the&#160'60s,...

Look out world, The Love Witch is about to be unleashed upon an unexacting male populace. And they'll be none the wiser of her wicked ways! This tantalizing thriller is set to hit Los Angeles on Friday, November 11 before arriving in New York on November 18. We have the sexy new red band trailer, which stars Samantha Robinson in a star-making turn as an alluring witch who gets more than she bargained for.

On behalf of Oscilloscope Laboratories, Anna Biller writes, produces and directs The Love Witch. This astonishingly lush, entrancing marvel debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year. It also recently screened at BAMcinemaFest and Fantasia. Oscilloscope Laboratories will release the film in 35mm this fall, with additional screenings at select theaters across the country to be announced at a later date.

In The Love Witch, Samantha Robinson stars as Elaine, a beautiful young&#160witch. She is determined...

"She loved men... to death." Oscilloscope has released an official trailer (that's Nsfw) for a horror comedy called The Love Witch, written & directed by Anna Biller. The film is a tribute to 1960s pulp novels and Technicolor melodramas, which is why it looks the way it does, and is about a contemporary witch who uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her. But after she ends up sleeping with them, they all end up dead, which is not what she was hoping for but can't really control. Samantha Robinson stars as Elaine, with a cast including Elle Evans, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Dani Lennon, Lily Holleman, and Gian Keys. As funky as this seems, it actually has great reviews calling it "spellbinding & hilarious". Take a look. Here's the official Nsfw trailer (+ a poster) for Anna Biller's The Love Witch, direct from YouTube: Elaine, a beautiful young witch,...

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...

Below director-writer Jeff Phillips shares a scene from his social networking teen thriller "@urFRENZ." The film is currently available On Demand. Go here to find out how to watch it. What It's About “@urFRENZ” is about a solitary teenage girl (Lily Holleman) who meets a secretive boy online (James Maslow), and begins to come out of her shell. But is he a suitor or a stalker, a friend or foe? ...

Below director-writer Jeff Phillips shares a scene from his social networking teen thriller "@urFRENZ." The film is currently available On Demand. Go here to find out how to watch it. What It's About “@urFRENZ” is about a solitary teenage girl (Lily Holleman) who meets a secretive boy online (James Maslow), and begins to come out of her shell. But is he a suitor or a stalker, a friend or foe? ...

Tommy Davidson is hosting an unusual, one-man art exhibit at the SoHo Gallery, 12350 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 on June 10, 2010, 5-8pm.

Guests will watch renowned artist Hollenstein create an original work of vibrant colors and distinct lines which he will execute from the treads of his wheelchair. The Hollenstein-signature artwork will include hand prints of over a dozen celebrities and benefit Shane's Inspiration, a children’s charity.

Other celebrity supporters scheduled to attend include Sterling Beaumon (Lost), Kate Linder (Young & The Restless), Lorna Scott (Wanted), Michael Papajohn (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Lily Holleman (urFrenz), Michael Colyar (Last Comic Standing), Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Judy Tenuta and Matthew Borlenghi (General Hospital), among many others.

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California's Method Fest gave out its prizes Wednesday night, maintaining its tradition spotlighting actors with Lily Holleman winning the event's Christie Geraldine Page Award for Best Actress for her performance in "UrFrenz," while Brian Cox took the Time Warner Cable John Garfield Award for Best Actor for his role in "The Good Heart." "UrFrenz," by director Jeff Phillips, also won the prize for best feature at the festival, which took place ...

Lily Holleman will receive the Rising Star Award at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival, which runs from Thursday through March 31 in Calabasas and Agoura Hills.

Holleman stars in the drama "UrFrenz," which is playing at the fest, following its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in January.

The actress will receive the award on Friday prior to the film's screening at the Regency Agoura Hills 8 Theatre.

Slamdance, which runs concurrently with Park City’s Sundance Film Festival, has announced its 2010 line-up, and there are several choices that look to make genre fans sit up and take notice.

Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:

Narrative Competition:

Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.

Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...

What's that? You can't wait to hear about the Irish post apocalyptic film One Hundred Mornings? Well you don't have to because we already have a review of it right here! Our own Alan Maxwell called it an "uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society." Yeah, it's good.

So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.

Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?

Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?

Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.

Partial lineup after the break!

Narrative Competition

Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.

Drones (Amber Benson...

Slamdance, Sundance’s indie little brother, has announced the 18 films that will be playing in competition next month. While the economy might be slowing down, there was no shortage of submissions, as Slamdance reports they had 5,000 films vying for a spot in the Festival. Of the 18 films in competition, ten are narrative, eight are documentaries, and eleven are world premieres.

“The quality of indie filmmaking is getting higher while productions costs are getting lower,” said Slamdance prexy and co-founder Peter Baxter. “Far apart from the apparent industry downturn, there appears a great sense of what is possible rather than impossible with our submissions.”

Of course this year will be very interesting at Slamdance after the success Paranormal Activity. If you didn’t know, Activity screened at the 2008 Festival and has since made over $100 million at the domestic box office. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a few more buyers looking for a repeat performance.

The competitive lineup for the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival (of which Fangoria is a media sponsor) has been revealed via an announcement on Variety. "As in years past, competing films are by first-time feature directors working with limited budgets and without domestic theatrical distribution in place. Among the 18 titles, 11 are world premieres." the trade reports.

Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.

Narrative Competition

“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...

Director: Joe Leonard Writer(s): Joe Leonard Starring: Aaron Stanford, Jacob Fishel, Rosemarie DeWitt, Nicole Vicius, Jill Flint, Emily Wickersham, Lily Holleman, Gregory Konow, Katie Apicella, Gregory Northrop, Peter Mayer, Aidan Nichols, John Pierson Cleverly and meaningfully book-ended by two significantly traumatic dates for New Yorkers in the aughts (September 11, 2001 and August 14, 2003), How I Got Lost tells the story of two friends who are caught in a downward spiral into the depths of depression – and Andrew (Aaron Stanford) and Jake (Jacob Fishel) are not just dealing with the mental repercussions of September 11th, they are both facing much more personal losses. Andrew has developed a taste for booze which he hopelessly attempts to balance with his career as a trader on Wall Street. Andrew’s best friend, Jake, is a broken-hearted sports writer. Jake was recently dumped by the love of his life, Sarah (Nicole Vicius), most likely for...