There Are a Lot of Awesome Indie Horror Flicks Being Released Today!

While it’s best to avoid getting too worked up if you prefer commercial horror productions, those who adore smaller budget indie genre flicks have genuine reason to celebrate this fine day. There are all sorts of compelling movies hitting stands this Tuesday, and with the exception of the mediocre Rings and the seemingly ancient Virus, it’s pretty much all indie fare. Take a look at the lineup of new indie movies being released today!

The Axe Giant: Wrath of Paul Bunyan

Young adults at a first-time offenders’ boot camp discover the legend of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but is much more horrifying than they could have imagined.

The Barn

Its Halloween 1989, best friends Sam and Josh are trying to enjoy what’s left of their final Devil’s Night before graduating high school. But trouble arises when the two pals and a group of friends take a detour on their way to a rock concert, finding an old abandoned barn and awakening the evil inside. Now it’s up to Sam and Josh to find a way to protect their friends and defeat the creatures that lurk within “The Barn”.

Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father’s video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game dubbed ‘Beyond The Gates’ that holds a connection to their father’s disappearance and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.

Devil in the Dark (Review)

Two brothers enter the woods for a hunting trip. The tides turn quickly as they become the hunted.

Fear, Inc.

Joe is a slacker horror film buff leeching of his rich girlfriend and bored out of his skull. With Halloween approaching he’s wishing for a horrific time to jolt him out his malaise. After a night of partying, a drunken Joe calls Fear Inc., an immersive personalized haunt service that promises to bring fear to life. Expecting a series of futile attempts at scaring him and his friends based on classic horror movie plots, the group of friends begin to question the nature of the pranks as the lines between reality and fiction blur. Soon the thrill of a lifetime turns into an exercise in fear and fight for survival.

Hunting Grounds

After losing their home following a devastating tragedy, a father and son are forced to move to an old family cabin. When two old friends arrive for a weekend of hunting, what begins as a bonding trip becomes an unimaginable nightmare. This trip deep into the forest will not find wild game, but does unearth a tribe of Sasquatch that are determined to protect their land.

The Last Heist

A bank Robbery goes terribly wrong when one of the hostages turns out to be a wanted serial killer.

Pandemic

Pandemic is set in the near future, where a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren (Rachel Nichols) is a doctor, who, after the fall of New York, comes to Los Angeles to lead a team to hunt for and rescue uninfected survivors.

Rings

A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a “movie within the movie” that no one has ever seen before…

Virus (Shout Factory Blu-ray)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, True Lies) faces a new, unstoppable terror in this science fiction chiller from the producer of Aliens, Terminator 2 and Tremors. Curtis plays the navigator of a tugboat crew which loses its cargo during a hurricane. In the calm eye of the storm, they come across a Russian research ship floating dead on the water. Boarding the vessel, they initially believe it to be deserted – but they soon realize they’re not alone. First, they discover a terrified survivor (Joanna Pacula, Tombstone), and then they find that the ship has been taken over by a ruthless alien intelligence. Now, the small band must fight for their lives against a force that has come to claim Earth for its own, and creates bio-mechanical monstrosities with one goal: eliminating the virus called humans. Donald Sutherland (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and William Baldwin (Backdraft) also star in a film featuring horrific special effects by the artist behind the Jurassic Park films, Species and Starship Troopers!

Wait Till Helen Comes

When a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year -old Molly soon realizes that she has a gift and must use it; she has to face her deepest fears, and save her troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the ghost of a lonely little girl.

The Windmill

Jennifer is an Australian girl on the run from her past who washes up in Amsterdam. In a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, she joins a coach-load of tourists embarking on a tour of Holland’s world famous windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where, legend has it, a Devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common – a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom.