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With Hanukkah just begun and Christmas around the corner, the year is winding down and making room for good old-fashioned holiday cheer. But whatever one's holiday of choice may be there, plenty of films make the rounds every year, perfectly marketed as family fun for the winter or already established in the classic Christmas canon. For those who wish to venture outside the holiday box and gather around the proverbial fireplace for something a little less expected, Screen Rant has a few options for you.

Though not every selection is from 2022, each one still resonates this holiday season and offers a path less traveled in the face of the usual winter season fare. One movie that is very new, however, is A Christmas Karen, which is a thoroughly modern take on A Christmas Carol and currently streaming on demand and on digital. While the title is tongue-in-cheek, the moral is...

Another year, another take on the seasonal story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, except that this time around it’s a woman, and she wants to speak to the manager. There’s great comedic potential in Jon Binkowski’s A Christmas Karen, but it doesn’t always succeed in holding the moral high ground, nor in delivering its more monstrous comedy with the confidence which satirising this particular trope requires.

None of that is the fault of star Michele Simms, who conjures up a nightmare of suburban entitlement with sufficient glee to make her entertaining throughout. Her forcefulness and charisma help to overcome the inherent challenges involved in centring a story on someone so unpleasant. Binkowski makes her cartoonish from the outset, when she demands that young neighbour Nia (Amina Massai) produce a permit or abandon the stall from which she is selling seasonal drinks of hot chocolate, so that later remarks,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the slasher Scare Zone – a movie we had previously posted as a Friday Fright Nights feature a while back. Then we ran into some YouTube issues and had to take Scare Zone down for a while… but now it’s back! You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Here’s what was written about Scare Zone for Friday Fright Nights:

Every Halloween season, thousands of haunted house attractions of various kinds open up across the United States… and yet we still have very few great horror movies that are set at haunted house attractions.

Stars: Simon Needham, Neil Brown Jr., Pat McMahon, Michele Simms, Arian Ash, Chris Burns, Michaela Stamm, Leigh Anne West | Written and Directed by Jon Binkowski

If Scare Zone seems a bit familiar that’s not surprising. The debut film by Jon Binkowski has been around since 2009, playing festivals and streaming services such as Hulu as well as getting a DVD release. Also, its plot about real deaths in a Halloween Haunted House has been used in films many films such as Hell Fest, The Tombs and Haunt. Now, as in the days of drive-ins and grindhouses Terror Films has picked it up and is giving it a new release based on the success of Neil Brown Jr..

It’s year three for strip mall haunted house The Scare Zone, and its owner Oliver and his right-hand man Spider (Neil Brown Jr.) are looking to make “Scare ZoneIII: The Psycho-Splatter Raw-Topsy...

Every year, millions of people enter haunted attractions not being 100 certain that they're going to make it out alive, and in Scare Zone, those fears become a reality. Premiering on the Terror Films Channel on May 27th ahead of its digital and VOD release on June 3rd, we have the trailer premiere!

Welcome to Scare Zone, just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House …or is it? From the strobe room to the masked maniacs wielding chainsaws, knives and pitchforks as they chase paying customers through the halls of this haunted maze, it’s one good jump scare after another. However, as terrible things begin to happen and people end up dead, the visitors of Scare Zone think it’s all just part of the “show”!

From writer/director Jon Binkowski and Terror Films comes Scare Zone, premiering on the Terror Films Channel May 27 and on wide digital and VOD June 3 (worldwide). Seal Team’s Neil Brown,...

Tagline: "It's Not the House That's Haunted. ReVisitant is a follow-up feature to Jon Binkowski's The Visitant (2014). His latest film brings back several of the original cast members, in a title about an evil entity. This evil spirit terrorizes each character, in a remote home. Now, the film's new poster and trailer are available here. The new poster shows a teenage daughter as objects begin to fly. Blood red paints the background as a demonic clown hovers above. Good fights evil as this graphic promises a horrifyingly good time. Terror Films will bring ReVisitant to the Kings of Horror Youtube Channel, this March 5th; the channel is linked below. As well, this distributor will bring ReVisitant to several more Digital platforms, later this year. For now, horror fans can enjoy the trailer for the film below. Premiere Date: March 5th, 2021 and April 16th. Director: Jon Binkowski. Writers: Jon...

The Fortune Teller

Stars: Michele Simms, Patty Bender, Stephen DeWoody, Chris Dinger, Ana Eligio, Sallie Glaner | Directed by Jon Binkowski

Samantha (Michelle Simms) plays the role of “fortune teller” for all those gullible folks willing to pay for the privilege, but she is a thorough skeptic about paranormal activities and all things supernatural – she certainly doesn’t believe in ghosts. But one night alone in her house, she is about to learn that there are dark forces that don’t care whether she believes or not; they are Real. Or are they..?

Sometimes it can be incredibly frustrating being a horror fan in the UK. Besides all the cover redesigns, making horror titles supermarket-friendly; we also have to contend with all the goddamn re-titles. Case in point: The Fortune Teller. Originally titled The Visitant, the film was due to be released – if online pre-orders are to be believed – this month...

*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by Fwc Pictures. Tagline: "They said their live would last forever...but beyond the grave?" Director/writer: Jon Binkowski. Cast: Michele Feren, Tracy Wiu and Sallie Glaner. The Visitant is the second film from Fwc Pictures. Fwc Pictures is based in Orlando, Florida and director Jon Binkowski is one of the company's co-owners. Their first film was the theme park set Scarezone (2009), which this film fan enjoyed. The second film from Fwc, The Visitant, is told in the style of a paranormal thriller. This film is well shot and the story acts out much like a character study, with the focus placed on the protagonist Samantha (Michele Feren). The Visitant is an indie production that is also a solid thriller. The film, essentially, deals with a haunting. Samantha is a struggling actress, who limelights as a fortune teller. One of her customers,...

Tagline: "Don't be afraid of the dark...be afraid of what is in the dark." The Visitant is being developed by Fwc Pictures. This is a haunted house tale in which the protagonist is a skeptic. She is a doubter of all things paranormal. But, then a spirit comes knocking on her door. Samantha (Michele Feren) must now face her beliefs and something of another world. Jon Binkowski will be directing this feature. Horror fans might remember Binkowski from his other thriller Scarezone (2009), which has been reviewed here (Scare Zone Review). More details will be posted as they become available. Director: Jon Binkowski. Writers: Jon Binkowski, and Stephen DeWoody. Cast: Michele Feren, Tracy Wiu, and Sallie Glaner. *this title recently completed production. The film's homepage is here: The Visitant's Homepage  |  |  |  Advertise Here - Contact me Michael Allen at 28Dla Subscribe to 28 Days Later: An Analysis Email...

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We have a brand new exclusive clip from the latest episode of Burn Notice entitled Breach of Faith, which will air on Thursday, June 24 at 9 Pm Et on the USA Network. Click on the video player below to watch this new exclusive clip, which features Coby Bell and Gabrielle Anwar trying to get an address, and you can also take a look at a TV spot for this episode below as well.

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Burn Notice 4.04 Breach of Faith TV Spot

The stakes become higher than expected when Michael and Sam are inadvertently dragged into a hostage situation at a local bank. Meanwhile, Fiona helps Jesse track down information about a recently deceased weapons runner.

Burn Notice stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless and Coby Bell. The 4.04 episode Breach of Faith will air on Thursday, June 24 at 9 Pm Et only on the USA Network.

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Have you heard of Scarezone? If not, and if you like 80's slasher films then Scarezone will be the right film for you. The film is set within a haunted house attraction "where actors in costumes lunge from the darkness at hapless customers (Nevermore)." Scarezone is already set for a February 19th release at the Nevermore Film Festival and fans might want to check out this film that has been described as "a stylish, terrifying excursion through...make-believe (Nevermore)." A trailer for this project and synopsis are below.

The tagline for Scarezone (very Aliens inspired):

No one can hear you scream… if they're screaming too!

The synopsis for Scarezone:

"Scare Zone is Oliver's pride and joy. Sure, it is just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he has put his heart and soul into it. This year it is "Scare Zone III: the Psyco-Splatter Raw-topsy Slaughter Dungeon...