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Black Fawn Films Start a Horror Feast with ‘It Feeds’

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3 years ago

July 7, 2023

Hailing from the great white (and often spooky) North, Black Fawn Films have consistently crafted some high quality genre entertainment. With titles including Bite, The Heretics, I’ll Take Your Dead, Vicious Fun, The Oak Room, and more, these crafty Canuks have cornered the market on effective indie horror.

From a recent announcement, we can get ready to expect a whole lot more from the team.

Productivity Media, Inc. (PMI) — the film finance and production company — has announced that they have partnered with Chad Archibald and Cody Calahan and their Black Fawn Films production company for a slate of 10 genre titles to be co-produced and financed by PMI.

Black Fawn’s next film will be It Feeds, a fear-driven feature starring Ashley Greene (the Twilight saga) and Shawn Ashmore (The X-Men trilogy).

Written and directed by Chad Archibald, the film tells the harrowing story of a young girl who insists that a malevolent entity is feeding on her. Greene portrays a clairvoyant therapist who must confront her own personal demons to save the girl before she is taken completely. Ashmore takes on the role of the anguished father, desperately struggling to protect his daughter.

“We have been aware of Black Fawn for some time and are truly excited to create this long term partnership. This slate of genre pictures adds to the breadth of films we want to bring to audiences worldwide,” said McIlhargey.

“We are beyond thrilled to embark on this new venture with PMI, creating a unique brand of genre films that will not only engage and terrify but pull at the heart strings of our audience,” said Calahan. Archibald commented “This slate won’t just include ‘horror films’ — there will be content specifically crafted for today’s audiences, blending genres to shock and surprise viewers.”

PMI’s William G. Santor added “The team at Black Fawn is a perfect addition to the partnerships Productivity is creating around the world that center on content creators who are best of breed. We look forward to working side by side with them for years to come crafting compelling entertainment.”

Having recently visited the set of It Feeds during the filming process, I can comfortably say that this feature will set a strong tone to start the 10-picture deal. The film has a psychological turn with some truly nightmarish elements that are bound to haunt (and delight) audiences.

You can stay tuned for the full report on my exploration behind the scenes.

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The Severance Writer Found a New Building to Lock People In

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25 minutes ago

May 1, 2026

Luna Gray

Aiyana K. White spent two seasons on Severance working out what happens when a building decides it is done letting people go. Her next project is set in a high school during a zombie outbreak. The architecture is different, but the logic is basically the same. Welcome to ShootAround.

Lion Forge Entertainment and WEBTOON Productions are teaming up for a live-action YA film adaptation of Shoot Around, the zombie horror-comedy webcomic by Suspu (Susanna Nousiainen) with 28 million views on WEBTOON. White, who also served as executive story editor on The Night Agent for Netflix and got her start on Showtime’s Superpumped, is writing the screenplay.

The Premise

When the zombie apocalypse hits Penny Hall High, the state’s best girls’ basketball team is forced to join forces with the boys they cannot stand for 24 hours locked inside their school. You dont even need the zombies, that sounds miserable.

The official description is Zombieland meets Bring It On, which is either the most accurate logline of the year or an extremely specific promise to have to keep. Lets hope ther PR team knew what they were doing when they through that one out there.

The Source Material

The ShootAround webcomic ran 70 chapters across its first season. White has said she devoured all of them in one sitting, which is a better endorsement than anything the studio put in the press release.

Creator Suspu has a decade of comics experience, including WEBTOON Originals Heir’s Game, The Tattletale Fool, and Bad Plan Man. The fanbase already exists, now they just have to know how to use it.

White is rewriting the script from an earlier draft by Mike Dow and Devon Kelly.

The Production

Lion Forge Entertainment, the Oscar-winning studio behind Hair Love, is producing and financing alongside WEBTOON Productions. Founder David Steward II and president Stephanie Sperber are producing for Lion Forge. President David Madden and head of global film Jason Goldberg will executive produce for WEBTOON Productions.

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Resident Evil Drops First Teaser Trailer

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24 hours ago

April 30, 2026

Luna Gray

The first teaser for Zach Cregger‘s Resident Evil is here, and it does not look like anything this franchise has produced before. It does however, look exactly like what Cregger makes. The film opens September 18, 2026 in theaters and IMAX via Sony.

The Setup

Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier who arrives at an empty house in the middle of a snowy night, calls someone to say he may not be able to speak to them again, and then spends the rest of the teaser discovering what he is actually surrounded by.

The film does not use Leon S. Kennedy or Jill Valentine, and it has no connection to the Paul W.S. Anderson films that ran from 2002 to 2016. Cregger has said he deliberately avoided retelling game stories because the fans already have those. He wanted a new entry point: a wrong place, wrong night, no-exit setup, built from inside the mythology rather than around its most familiar edges.

Paul Walter Hauser appears alongside Abrams. Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Johnno Wilson round out the cast. The screenplay was co-written with Shay Hatten, who wrote John Wick: Chapters 3 and 4. Resident Evil is a co-production of Constantin Film, Vertigo Entertainment, and PlayStation Productions. Filming took place in Prague.

The Director

Two films in and Cregger has already done more to define the shape of contemporary horror than most directors manage across an entire career. Barbarian (2022) did things with a Detroit Airbnb that nobody saw coming, and its specific talent was making every assumption you walked in with feel like the setup for a trap.

Weapons (2025) followed with a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and a story about an entire classroom of children disappearing on the same night that kept moving across genres without losing its grip on any of them. Both films are built around the idea that the most effective horror is structural, arriving through architecture you do not recognize until it is already over your head.

Resident Evil is a franchise built around viral outbreaks, Umbrella Corporation negligence, and the specific horror of institutions doing monstrous things behind clean branding. Cregger makes films about exactly that kind of failure. The overlap is not subtle. It is, in retrospect, the obvious hire.

What This Is

Every previous live action Resident Evil film existed somewhere on a spectrum from stylish action to full camp, with Milla Jovovich carrying most of the weight across a run that lasted fourteen years. That franchise was not trying to be scary. The Cregger teaser is. It is dark and still and operates as if something has already gone wrong before anything has technically happened yet, which is the register that both Barbarian and Weapons lived in and that the games, at their best, have always understood.

Cregger has confirmed this is an original story with no connection to the previous films. That is either a promise or a warning depending on how much you loved the Anderson era. For everyone else it is the best news the franchise has had in a while.

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The Vampire Lestat Is Playing a Real Concert in NYC — And Yes, It’s Exactly as Wild as It Sounds

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2 days ago

April 29, 2026

Kirsten Saylor

In what might be the most Lestat-move imaginable, Lestat de Lioncourt is stepping fully into the real world — and no, I’m not kidding. He’ll be joining us mere mortals with a one-night-only concert on June 2, 2026, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Just one performance, because anything less would be completely out of character for the king of the vampire world.

This is, to be quite frank, a huge deal. For longtime fans of Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat — and even for newer audiences just discovering the chaos of Anne Rice’s vampiric world — a real, live Lestat concert has been something of a collective dream. And now, somehow, it’s a reality.

To catch everyone up, AMC Networks premiered Interview with the Vampire in the fall of 2022, starring Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt, respectively. The series adapts Anne Rice’s iconic 1976 novel, which was later brought into the cultural mainstream with the 1994 film starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.

Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt – IWTV: The Vampire Lestat _ Season 3 – Photo Credit: Sophie Giraud/AMC

Since its debut, the series has only grown in acclaim. Season two, which aired in May 2024, further cemented its reputation, with both seasons landing near-perfect scores and averaging an astonishing 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s the kind of reception most shows can only dream of.

Now, in 2026, the story continues on. The third season, now officially titled The Vampire Lestat, is set to premiere on June 7, and if early signs are anything to go by, it’s already shaping up to be something massive. The official trailer, released on April 22, is already closing in on six million views on YouTube, a number that feels less surprising the more you watch it.

For those unfamiliar with this era of the story, the premise is as unhinged as it is perfect: after the events of Interview with the Vampire (yes, within the universe itself), Lestat responds by… becoming a world-famous rockstar.

Naturally. Logically. Understandably.

AMC has fully embraced this direction, leaning into the meta of it in a way that’s both playful and deeply intentional. Promotional materials have taken on a mockumentary style, blurring the line between actor and character, fiction and reality. Even more impressively, The Vampire Lestat exists as an actual musical act, with official artist pages and released singles — including “Long Face,” “All Fall Down,” and a cover of Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself” — all attributed simply to The Vampire Lestat.

Sam Reid, notably, is nowhere to be found in the credits, which is why, if you’ve come across any of my music-focused articles on this, you’ll notice I’ve committed to the bit and started writing about the band as though it’s entirely real. Because, at this point, it kind of is.

It’s an incredibly clever, almost nostalgic approach that calls back to the old Anne Rice days, back when you could call a phone number and leave messages for Lestat himself, or later, watch Rice answer fan questions on Facebook entirely in his character. It created this strange, delightful space where he felt like someone you could actually reach.

Now, however, that idea is being taken even further.

Just five days before the premiere of The Vampire Lestat, AMC is bringing the concept into the physical world with something unprecedented: a real concert. One night and one night only.

And for longtime readers, there’s an added layer of significance here. In the original 1985 novel The Vampire Lestat, Lestat only ever holds one concert during his rockstar era. Everything else exists through recordings, music videos, and a harrowing reputation, but that single performance, held in San Francisco on Halloween night in 1985, becomes something else entirely.

And if you want to know exactly why it’s such a big deal… Well, you’re either going to have to wait and see how the series adapts it, or read it for yourself ahead of time. Trust me, no matter what you do, it’ll be worth it.

So it feels only fitting that there is just one concert; one night where the fourth wall finally gives way, and The Vampire Lestat becomes musically, spectacularly, and dangerously real.

Lestat de Lioncourt is finally stepping off the page, and I, for one, fully intend to be there to see it.

Because if there were ever a moment that demanded to be witnessed firsthand in the life of an Anne Rice fan, it’s this one. A single night where Lestat exists not just in story, or on screen, but in our world — and if that’s the case, it would be a shame not to meet him there.

More information is sure to follow, but keep an eye here at iHorror for updates on the concert, the music, and the upcoming premiere of The Vampire Lestat on June 7.