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iHorror Exclusive: First Look At Upcoming Horror Movie Atelophobia
The fear of imperfection or the feeling of not being “good enough” is Atelophobia. I think it’s pretty safe to say all of us, unless you’re some sort of freak of nature, has experienced these feelings at least once in our lives. Joe Lujan brings these fears to life this year with his upcoming horror film Atelophobia. This horror filled film has been three years in the making for Lujan and his crew, ironically all in the name of perfection.
From the production companies Carcass Studios and Dark Water Productions, the movie stars Brittany Enos, Allison Francheteau, Taylor Kilgore, Gabriella Martinez, Ashley Modzelewski and Corey Taylor in what almost feels like a brilliant mashup between SAW, Mean Girls and The Cell ( as Lujan puts it). Meredith is a girl who so desperately tries to fit in with the beautiful people. A group of beauty pagent girls that have been friends since they were kids. When her attempts fail, and the bullying laps over into adulthood from these girls, Meredith snaps and begins a terrifying life or death game with the girls who treated her so horribly. They must either kill themselves, or live their lives with some sort of “imperfection”.
iHorror recently sat down with writer/ director Joe Lujan and actress Taylor Kilgore who plays “Riley” from the film at Countdown Escape Rooms Las Vegas, that we previously covered here; where you can experience the movie first hand in the form of an escape room. Lujan has put all his passion for horror, sweat and tears in this film over the last three years:
” I’ve built all the sets myself and made all the costumes. It’s a very visual and WEIRD movie. Even the crew who have been doing the editing have told me how insane the footage is. The goal is to depress. Not to impress.”
He added, ” Aside from the killing and torturing, a lot of this story has come from my personal experiences in high school. Every character in the film, is based off a real character I knew during my HS days. So in a way, this is my creative revenge.”
Taylor Kilgore on Atelophobia: ” We worked really hard, and it was a lot of fun. We would work really long days, some straight till 2am where we turned delirious and crazy, but it was a lot of fun. There was a scene where we were all tied up for 8 hours!”
When I asked how she would prepare herself for such scenes: “We were all shaking and crying by the time it was done. Those scenes require a lot of emotions. And it’s really intense. It was my first time actually crying on camera. I’m really proud of that. When I went home at the end of the day, I couldn’t even talk anymore. It had taken a lot out of me.”
The film was shot entirely in the Las Vegas area. Below is a few behind the scenes pictures provided exclusively to us at iHorror.
Atelophobia will be released theatrically this summer (official date TBA) along with another of Lujan’s film called Rust in the fall. Rust is a short film turned horror flick based on true events in Texas with a Texas Chainsaw Massacre feel to the film. The trailer for Atelophobia has already won an award for best trailer at The Pollygrind Film Festival last year. See for yourself below and be on the lookout for what looks to be one of this year’s most anticipated original horror films! So let’s have a standing ovation for some passion and originality. Because, with all these remakes coming at us, it’s a complete breath of fresh air.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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