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Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, has unleashed the trailer for his black metal horror movie Invoking Yell, and you can check out the exclusive new trailer and poster below.

Welcome Villain Films releases the ’90s set found footage horror movie on Digital on September 20, 2024.

Invoking Yell follows “a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls who venture into the woods to shoot the demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell. However, things take a sinister turn as they document their disturbing and unorthodox process of recording paranormal phenomena to be used in the album’s final track.”

Maria Jesus Marcone, Macarena Carrere, and Andrea Ozuljevich star in Invoking Yell.

Valladares and Barry Keating, whose credits include Downhill, wrote the screenplay.

The film is co-produced by Vallastudio Films and Moral Bros Entertainment. Diego Moral Heimpell is the executive producer. Vittorio Farfan and Valladares serve as producers.

Now on its fourth year, the Santiago Film Festival’s Morbido-Sanfic Lab features an ever more diverse selection from Ibero-America.

As Morbido founder-ceo Pablo Guisa said of this year’s edition: “It has projects from multiple countries, several produced or directed by women as well as one LGBTQ-themed project and, for the first time, a documentary.” Vampire creatures abound in this crop.

Humberto Mazari, the helmer-scribe-producer behind one of the six projects, psychological thriller “The Alaska Summit” (“La Cumbre de Alaska),” is developing three comic book spinoffs which will further delve into the underworld of the summit and the creatures that guard it. “In the coming weeks we expect to consolidate the visual aesthetics with three Latin American illustrators in charge of bringing these comic books to life,” he told Variety.

“As Pablo comments, this space continues to grow year by year, and I dare say it houses some of...

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The new genre studio Welcome Villain Films have announced that they’ve acquired the distribution rights to the Chilean found footage horror film Invoking Yell, which has been getting a lot of positive attention while making the festival rounds.

Directed by Patricio Valladares, who also wrote the screenplay with Barry Keating, Invoking Yell is set in Chile in 1997. The film is said to be a love letter to black metal that follows a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls who venture into the woods to shoot the demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell. However, things take a sinister turn as they document their disturbing and unorthodox process of recording paranormal phenomena to be used in the album’s final track.

María Jesús Marcone, Macarena Carrere, and Andrea Ozuljevich play those three metalheads.

Valladares provided the following statement: “This film was always meant to be an ode to the...

Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, is back with Invoking Yell, which has just been acquired by Welcome Villain Films (Malum).

The news was first reported by Screen Daily this afternoon. No word yet on when Welcome Villain will be releasing the film here in the States, but we’ll keep you posted.

Valladares tells the site, “This film was always meant to be an ode to the found footage films of the 90’s, but with a black metal twist. I’m a big fan of The Blair Witch Project and many other found footage films from that era, and I am also a metalhead, so the subject matter came easy to me. It is incredibly exciting to be teaming up with the amazing group at Welcome Villain to release this special film to the world. We couldn’t be happier with this partnership.”

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How far would you be willing to go to become famous? This is the question a group of three twentysomething women ask themselves when they decide to form a black metal band in Chile in the late 1990s. The band calls themselves Invoking Yell and plans a trip to a remote location in the wilderness to work on their demo tape, hoping to capture electronic voice phenomenon (EVPs) to give their music a unique sound. While alone in the middle of nowhere, what starts out as playful competition among the women becomes something much darker and more dangerous, making Invoking Yell a chilling, intensely unnerving experience.

Written by Barry Keating (Killer Mermaid) and Patricio Valladares (En las Afueras De la Ciudad) and directed by Valladares, Invoking Yell is shot VHS found footage style and has an authentic 1990s feel, from denim jackets to the camera and recording equipment used by the band.

Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, has unleashed the trailer for his black metal horror movie Invoking Yell, and you can check out the footage below.

The Chilean horror is set in 1997, when a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls venture into the woods to shoot their demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell, while also documenting the eerie and unsettling process of recording psicofonias in the woods.

Maria Jesus Marcone, Macarena Carrere and Andrea Ozuljevich star in Invoking Yell.

Valladares and Barry Keating, whose credits include Downhill, wrote the screenplay in 2022.

Production took place in Los Lleuques, Ñuble.

The film is co-produced by Vallastudio Films and Moral Bros Entertainment. Diego Moral Heimpell is executive producer. Vittorio Farfan and Valladares serve as producers.

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Ten days have gone by since Warlock star Julian Sands went missing while hiking up Mount Baldy in Southern California. While his car has been located, the actor himself is still missing, and we’re still hoping for a positive outcome to this situation. In a bit of awkward timing, the latest movie Sands starred in was just given a Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD release today – it’s the horror movie The Ghosts of Monday, and you can pick up a copy at This Link. To help you figure out whether or not this is a movie you would like to watch, we have the trailer embedded above.

Directed by Francesco Cinquemani, The Ghosts of Monday promises to deliver an unnerving horror experience. The film centers on Mark Huberman (Vikings Valhalla) as a television director who becomes embroiled in a supernatural conspiracy after traveling to Cyprus to make a tv pilot about a haunted hotel.

Stars: Julian Sands, Anthony Skordi, Maria Ioannou, Mark Huberman, Marianna Rosset, Kristina Godunova, Flavia Watson, Elva Trill | Written by Francesco Cinquemani, Andy Edwards, Barry Keating, Mark Thompson-Ashworth | Directed by Francesco Cinquemani

The Hotel Gula, stately, luxurious and abandoned for over twenty years since the food for a party’s banquet was seasoned with rat poison leading to the painful death of everyone in attendance as well as the owner’s suicide. It’s hardly the kind of place that would need help to appear haunted.

But less than ten minutes into The Ghosts of Monday that’s exactly what Bruce the host of a ghost hunting show, is suggesting to the property’s new owners, Frank and Rosemary. This does not sit well with the show’s director Eric. And the last thing this production needs is more tension, Eric’s ex-wife, and Bruce’s daughter, Sofia is also part of the show’s crew.

The film is expected to hit the festival circuit in 2023.

Principal photography on black metal horror project Invoking Yell, from director Patricio Valladares, has been completed in the Nuble region of Chile. 

The film is co-produced by Vallastudio Films and Moral Bros Entertainment, with Vittorio Farfan and Valladares serving as producers and Diego Moral Heimpell as executive producer. Valladares and Barry Keating wrote the screenplay in 2021. 

Maria Jesus Marcone, Macarena Carrere and Andrea Ozuljevich star in the 1990s story of three twentysomething women who venture into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band. 

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Fresh from Chile this morning is a new poster and batch of stills for the new short film Snowdevil from my friend Patricio Valladares. He made this revenge centered short with his regular writing partner Barry Keating. They expect to get Snowdevil out onto the festival circuit later this year. The sombre yet darkly violent neo-noir tale of Alan Massy, a father who has decided to dive headfirst into the abyss and go to extreme and terrifying lengths to fulfil his daughter’s dying wish. Travelling to the isolated town of Snowdevil during the cold harsh winter, Massy is hell-bent on tracking down his estranged grandchild while exacting a brutal and bloody revenge on his daughter’s former lover, leader of a cult. In a...

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Stars: Romina Perazzo, Domingo Guzmán, Carolina Escobar, Cristian Cuentrejoa, Evelyn Belmar, Paulina Facuse, Yuri Caceres, Giordano Rossi, Serge François | Written by Patricio Valladares, Barry Keating | Directed by Patricio Valladares

The synopsis for Embryo only really explains a hint of the film even if it seems to give away quite a lot. It explains that the movie follows a couple who while camping are abducted by aliens and woman, Evelyn is impregnated. Since that abduction she is having cravings for human flesh.

But this isn’t the only story in Embryo, a film that is some kind of strange anthology as we see a couple of other creepy tales that all link together eventually. Not only this but it’s a mix of sub genre that all umbrella under the same horror/sci-fi link. We see found footage, news stories, a normally shot film and even snuff film-like moments and if...

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Uncork’d has picked up US, Canadian and Mexican rights to Embryo, the sci-fi horror thriller from Chilean genre specialist and Hidden In The Woods director Patricio Valladares.

Valladares and regular collaborator Barry Keating co-wrote the screenplay about Kevin and Evelyn, a couple camping in the woods whose trip takes a turn for the worse when the woman is abducted and impregnated by aliens.

After Evelyn develops a taste for humans and attacks a doctor, the couple flee for the big city in the hope of expelling the...

Stars: Franco Nero, Kristina Klebe, Natalie Burn, Dragan Micanovic, Miodrag Krstovic, Slobodan Stefanovic, Sofija Rajovic, Zorana Kostic Obradovic, Jelena Rakocevic, Janko Cekic | Written by Marko Backovic, Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic | Directed by Milan Todorovic

Serbian director Milan Todorovic, who helmed the direct-to-dvd Ken Foree starrer Apocalyse of the Dead (aka Zone of the Dead), returns to the horror genre with Killer Mermaids, which follows two friends Kelly (Klebe) and Lucy (Burn) who travel into the depths of Montenegro to visit an old friend.

While there, they decide to explore an abandoned military fortress located on a remote island. As the summer sun quickly sets, the dark mystery of the night envelopes the girls as they realise they are not alone. There are secrets which must be protected and an evil darkness hidden beneath the island. Awaking the mythical terror, dawn may never come for the two girls who realise they...

Ireland’s Barry Keating wrote screenplay.

Chilean genre TV pilot Embryo has closed a co-production deal with partners in Argentina and Italy as the filmmakers source additional support at the Cannes Marché.

Chile Suspenso, run by Francisco Inostroza and Patricio Valladares, has teamed up with Argentina’s Cruz del Sur run by Mario E. Levit, and Far Away Cine headed by Federico Ricaldoni, and Amedeo Pesce’s Hydra Film from Italy.

Valladares, the genre specialist whose feature credits include Hidden In The Woods, Downhill, and Nightworld: Door Of Hell, directed the pilot, which follows Kevin, whose girlfriend Evelyn gets impregnated...

*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by the film's publicity arm. Directed by: Dejan Zecevic Writers: Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic. Cast: Ken Foree, Katarina Cas, Monte Markham and Dragan Micanovic. With the Eastern Bloc defunct, more and more films are coming out of Eastern Europe nowadays. The Rift bills itself as Serbia's first science fiction film. But, the film sets itself amongst a number of genres. It is essentially a mystery. There are strong elements of action here, as well. When the dead come back to life, there will be gunfire, especially with longtime horror vet' Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead, 1978) starring. The soundtrack is a bit overwhelming; it bounces between instrumentals, rock music and a few other styles. Meanwhile, the film's story covers existentialist themes. This viewer wondered if the film was trying to answer the question: what if Jesus wore a spacesuit? Overall,...

It started as a seemingly simple security job, but Brett (Jason London) soon discovers that he's protecting more than just a building, he's protecting the world from something sinister that wants to get out in the new horror film Nightworld. Ahead of the film's release later this month from Gravitas Ventures, we've been provided with an exclusive clip from the movie for Daily Dead readers to enjoy right now.

You can watch Brett come across some eerie tracks in the darkness in our exclusive clip below, and keep an eye out for Nightworld (co-starring the legendary Robert Englund) in select theaters and VOD platforms beginning October 20th from Gravitas Ventures.

Synopsis: "When former cop, Brett Irlam (Jason London, Dazed and Confused), takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Bulgaria’s capital city, Sofia, he immediately begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events.

Gravitas Ventures is set to release Nightworld, starring A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Robert Englund, on October 20, 2017, Bloody Disgusting learned. Both Englund and Jason London star in Patricio Valladares’ (Hidden in the Woods, the upcoming Downhill) new supernatural horror drama, which was filmed in Bulgaria by an international crew. Penned by Barry Keating, Loris […]...

Stars: Jason London, Lorina Kamburova, Robert Englund, Gianni Capaldi, Diana Lyubenova | Written by Loris Curci, Dimitar Hristov, Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic | Directed by Patricio Valadares

As the camera swoops over a chilly boreal wilderness, and Luc Suarez’s brooding music evokes an air of intrigue and menace, it seems like we’re onto a winner. And look, there’s Robert Englund in the credits! That’s a sign of quality, right?

Jason London plays Brett Anderson – an ex-cop rather than an ex-Suede frontman – who is having nightmares about his dead wife, Ana (Diana Lyubenova). So naturally he moves to the Bulgarian capital Sofia and becomes a security camera operative in a creepy basement. A man named Martin (Gianni Capaldi) runs the building on behalf of a shadowy organisation. Brett is kept in the dark about what the organisation actually does – and also about what might be skulking in the giant...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to Nightworld, starring A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Robert Englund. Both Englund and Jason London star in Patricio Valladares’ (Hidden in the Woods, the upcoming Downhill) new supernatural horror drama, which was filmed in Bulgaria by an international crew. Penned by Barry Keating, Loris Curci and Milan Konjevic, “When […]...

Stars: Ken Foree, Katarina Cas, Monte Markham, Dragan Micanovic, Denis Muric, Miroljub Leso, Sonja Vukicevic, Mick Garris, Ratko Turcinovic | Written by Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic | Directed by Dejan Zecevic

Produced by Milan Todorovic and Marko Jocic, The Rift stars Ken Foree (Dawn Of The Dead), Monte Markham (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Katarina Kas (The Wolf Of Wall Street) as CIA agents sent to explore the aftermath of a Us space craft which has crashed in Serbia. In a derelict building they discover an astronaut who holds the secret to the ill fated mission and is the carrier of a mysterious virus which threatens mankind by bringing the dead back from the grave.

Billed as Serbia’s first ever sci-fi film, The Rift comes from the writing team of Barry Keating and Milan Konjevic, both of whom previously penned Killer Mermaids and Apocalypse of the Dead – which also starred zombie-killing legend Ken Foree.

Exclusive: The Chilean genre specialist behind Hidden In The Woods and Downhill is preparing a body-horror film.

Embryo centres on the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster and will star regular collaborator Natalie Burn from Downhill.

Valladares and writer Barry Keating anticipate a winter 2017 start in Kiev and Valladares Pictures will produce alongside Us-based 7 Heaven Productions.

The filmmaker told Screen the idea for the story originated at the UK premiere of Downhill at Frightfest when an investor approached him, Burn and Keating.

Downhill followed a champion bike rider and his girlfriend on a test ride for an exhibition performance in Chile who discover a man dying of a mysterious virus.

WTFilms handled international sales on that title, which has not yet opened in Valladares’s native Chile. No sales agent is on board Embryo.

UK genre fans are currently enjoying five days of nailbiting action with the 2016 edition of the Horror Channel FrightFest now underway in Shepherd's Bush, London, and we are chronicling the event with the official FrightFest TV daily highlights packages. Day Four's subjects? Director Simon Rumley discusses Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word; Director Patricio Valladares, Actor Natalie Burn and Writer Barry Keating discuss Downhill; Director Shaun Robert Smith and Actor Craig Conway discuss Broken; Director Martin Owen and Actors Elliot James Langridge and Isabelle Allen discuss Let's Be Evil; Director Wyndham Price discusses Crow; Director Kate Shenton discusses Egomaniac; plus Horror Icon David McGillivray....

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Just a few weeks back we reported that writer-director Patricio Valladares’ satanic cycling shocker Downhill will be screening at this year’s Horror Channel FrightFest in London in August. With a premise and trailer promising to induce more palpitations than the… Continue Reading →

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After the recent announcement that writer-director Patricio Valladares’ satanic thriller Downhill would be screening at this year’s London FrightFest in August, the first trailer has landed… and it’s no ride in the park. From a screenplay Valladares wrote with regular co-scribe Barry Keating,… Continue Reading →

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Exclusive: The Mexican genre film festival’s general director has come on board Patricio Valladares’ Downhill, which screened and won an award in the Ventana Sur genre sidebar this week.

Pablo Guisa Koestinger of Morbido Film Festival will serve as an associate producer on the Chilean genre ace’s survival thriller, fresh from Thursday’s Bunker Sonido post-production prize at the Blood Window Awards.

Koestinger joined the film after a screening at the Bloody Works In Progress session this week.

Chile’s Too Much Films produced Downhill and France’s WTFilms handles international sales. Barry Keating co-wrote the screenplay with Valladares.

Natalie Burn, Bruce Draper, Ariel Levy, Ignacia Allamand, Luke Massy and Matias Lopez star and George Von Knorring of Too Much Films is a producer.

Exclusive: The Mexican genre film festival’s general director has come on board Patricio Valladares’ survival thriller, which screened and won an award in the Ventana Sur genre sidebar this week.

Pablo Guisa Koestinger of Morbido Film Festival will serve as an associate producer on the Chilean genre ace’s Downhill, fresh from Thursday’s Bunker Sonido post-production prize at the Blood Window Awards.

Koestinger joined the film after a screening at the Bloody Works In Progress session this week.

Chile’s Too Much Films produced Downhill and France’s WTFilms handles international sales. Barry Keating co-wrote the screenplay with Valladares.

Natalie Burn, Bruce Draper, Ariel Levy, Ignacia Allamand, Luke Massy and Matias Lopez star and George Von Knorring of Too Much Films is a producer.

Exclusive: Jason London stars in the upcoming supernatural horror from the Chilean director.

Fade is based on a screenplay by Barry Keating and Milan Konjevic from a story by Loris Curci.

Magardich Halvajiyan’s Open Frames will produce and finance the project, which is set to begin shooting in October in Bulgaria.

The story centres on an a former Us police officer who takes a job as security guard in an mysterious building with a sinister past in the Bulgarian city of Sofia.

Valladares described the film as deliciously dark mix of [video game] Remedy’s Alan Wake and Dario Argento’s Suspiria.

The director is applying the finishing touches to his thriller Downhill, which WTFilms represents for international sales and was touting to buyers in Toronto.

54 Below just presented Starmites In Concert, a one-of-a-kind tribute to one of the most brave, boisterous, brazen, raucous and just plain far-out theatre experiences of the 1980s. Based on the 1989 Broadway musical of the same name with music and lyrics by Barry Keating and a book by Keating and Stuart Ross, Starmites blasts off boasting an instant earworm score packed with delectable pop gems, epic ensemble sequences, and one of the most show-stopping diva showcases of all time at its center. Like no musical before or since, Starmites is truly in a galaxy all its own.

Stars: Franco Nero, Kristina Klebe, Natalie Burn, Dragan Micanovic, Miodrag Krstovic, Slobodan Stefanovic, Sofija Rajovic, Zorana Kostic Obradovic, Jelena Rakocevic, Janko Cekic | Written by Marko Backovic, Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic | Directed by Milan Todorovic

Serbian director Milan Todorovic, who helmed the direct-to-dvd Ken Foree starrer Apocalyse of the Dead (aka Zone of the Dead), returns to the horror genre with Killer Mermaids, which follows two friends Kelly (Klebe) and Lucy (Burn) who travel into the depths of Montenegro to visit an old friend.

While there, they decide to explore an abandoned military fortress located on a remote island. As the summer sun quickly sets, the dark mystery of the night envelopes the girls as they realise they are not alone. There are secrets which must be protected and an evil darkness hidden beneath the island. Awaking the mythical terror, dawn may never come for the two girls who realise they...

Exclusive: Never one to rest on his laurels, the Chilean genre filmmaker has reunited with his Downhill co-writer Barry Keating and is moving ahead with the Turkey-set horror film.

Valladares expects to commence shooting in Istanbul at the end of the month on Garip, which until this week had been known as Foe.

The story follows a group of people who uncover a tomb at Tokat Castle that according to legend was the site of Count Dracula’s incarceration.

Gianni Capaldi, Natalie Burn of The Expendables 3, Guillermo Ivan, Katrin Assi and Larry Wade Carrell star.

Barry Keating based his screenplay on a story by Loris Curci, who produces alongside Baris Abacigil and Fikret Soğanci.

Istanbul-based production and services company Fbr Productions is an investor in Garip and produces.

Valladares wrapped production on Tuesday on the micro-budget survival thriller Downhill (pictured).

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Nymph (2014)

Written by: Marko Backovic, Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic

Directed by: Milan Todorovic

Cast: Kristina Klebe (Kelly), Franco Nero (Niko), Natalie Burn (Lucy), Dragan Micanovic (Boban), Slobodan Stefanovic (Alex), Miodrag Krstovic (The Guardian), Sofija Rajovic (Yasmine)

As you can see from the very challenging names to spell in the cast, this film has an international flair. Some scenes were filmed in Montenegro and some in Serbia. As of this writing, this film is streaming on Netflix under the title “Killer Mermaid”. I tend to gravitate more towards “Nymph”, the films’ original title. It leaves a little more mystique and still lets the film hold on to that exotic flair I eluded to earlier.

If anyone remembers “She Creature”, it involved a killer mermaid as well. That’s the only other film that I know of that can be compared to this one. I liked it a lot,...

Exclusive: The Paris-based company has come on as co-producer and international sales agent on the Chilean director’s low-budget survival thriller.

The move strengthens WTFilms’ affiliation with cutting-edge low-budget genre after it served as co-producer on Valladares’ English-language remake of his horror film Hidden In The Woods, as well as the upcoming Terry Miles film Even Lambs Have Teeth.

WTFilms co-founder Gregory Chambet his team are developing Downhill with Valladares and Barry Keating. George Von Knorring of Chile’s Too Much Films produces and the film-makers have earmarked the Chilean locations of Termas de Chillan, Santiago and Chillan City.

Downhill follows a paralegal trapped on a mountain with a killer on a mission to murder a sick man. Valladares (pictured) describes it as “Cliffhanger meets Paranormal Activity by way of David Cronenberg’s old movies.”

“Patricio belongs to that new breed of directors who is capable of making wonders with a small budget because he is a one-man...

Exclusive: The Chilean director of Hidden In The Woods has lined up an April shoot for the micro-budget survival thriller in what will mark his second English-language feature.

Valladares, who attended the Beyond The Window development sidebar at Ventana Sur last week with home invasion thriller Breath, closed the deal at the market in Buenos Aires.

Barry Keating and Valladares will co-write Downhill for producer George Von Knorring of Chile’s Too Much Films.

The story centres on a paralegal trapped on an mountain with a killer on a mission to kill a sick man.

“Think Cliffhanger meets Paranormal Activity by way of David Cronenberg’s old movies,” said Valladares.

Valladares is currently in post on the adventure comedy Toro Loco: Sangriento and his credits include Fantasia Fest 2012 premiere Hidden In The Woods (En Las Afueras De La Ciudad) and his English-language remake of the same name that starred Michael Biehn.

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Genre actress and fan-fave Kristina Klebe sat down with us over the weekend to talk about her role in director Milan Todorović’s upcoming "murderous mermaid" flick (and more), and since she’s all sorts of awesome, you’ll read this. Multi-talented Klebe, best known to horror audiences for her roles in Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Zack Parker’s buzzed-about Proxy and Lucien Förstner’s Bela Kiss: Prologue, added yet another notch to her genre belt last year by re-teaming with Zone of the Dead director Todorović for Nymph (a.k.a. Mamula), a feature which revolves around two young American women who go on a Mediterranean vacation, only to uncover the watery lair of a killer mermaid hidden beneath an abandoned military fortress. “Two things attracted me to Nymph,” stated Klebe of the seemingly Thale-esque project, which was penned by Barry Keating from a story by Marko Backovic, and...

Nymph is a horror movie from director Milan Todorovic (Zone of the Dead). This production, which was shot in Eastern Europe, is currently at the European Film Market. Here, the film is seeking distribution. As well, Nymph stars Kristina Klebe (Breadcrumbs), Franco Nero, Natalie Burn and Dragan Micanovic. And, Nymph now has an official trailer for horror fans. The film follows two American tourists on vacation in Montenegro. They find a mysterious island, which houses an ancient, mythological evil. Soon, characters are fish food and the girls are on the run. Few will survive the clutches of this Nymph. The official trailer for the film shows many of the characters. Also, some of the horror elements are on display and fans of horror are encouraged to take an early look below. Director: Milan Todorovic. Writers: Marko Backovic, Barry Keating and Milan Konjevic. Cast: Kristina Klebe, Franco Nero, Natalie Burn and Dragan Micanovic.