Cranked Up Films has announced a streaming schedule for Fresh Hell, a new triptych of three horror feature films from director Quinn Armstrong.
The new trilogy of horror films, which harken back to Hammer Horror or Roger Corman of shooting small budget films back-to-back, will begin streaming this month with The Exorcism of Saint Patrick, a horror film about a pastor converting a gay teen. It will premiere on August 27th.
Following the first film is Wolves Against the World, which is set to launch digitally on September 3rd and focuses on a “battle of wills between two men” who have done terrible things, with one trying to get the other to rejoin a neo-Nazi movement.
The third and final film, Dead Teenagers, is premiering on September 10th and asks the question: what if a stereotypical killer dies in a horror story but the victims have to play out the story anyway? The group of teens has to decide who lives and who dies.
Here’s a rundown on all three films, plus red band trailers for each:
Three Realities. Same Hell. From writer/director Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills) and the studio that brought you Nightmare Cinema comes Fresh Hell: a new triptych of three visionary horror features. Travel through the worlds of a nefarious conversion camp due for a reckoning with The Exorcism of St. Patrick, to a group of neo-Nazi metalheads who can’t harness the beasts inside with Wolves Against the World, and to an archetypal ‘cabin in the woods’ where the ill-fated teens take control of their own narrative in Dead Teenagers.
With Fresh Hell, Armstrong lovingly harkens back to the Hammer Horror or Roger Corman model of shooting films on a small budget back-to-back, each film with its own unique aesthetic and cleverly interconnected elements between them. Each film is shot with great creativity and killer practical effects by industry legend Dave Greathouse (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Wrong Turn, Fun Size).
THE EXORCISM OF SAINT PATRICK – On Demand 8/27
A pastor takes a young gay teen to a cabin to perform conversion therapy. When the pastor goes too far, bullying the kid into suicide, the ghost of his victim returns to plague the pastor and avenge the deaths of so many other ghosts like him.
WOLVES AGAINST THE WORLD – On Demand 9/3
Two members of a defunct neo-Nazi metal band reunite at the site of their bandmate’s suicide. One sinks into depravity and grievance and one tries to atone for what he has done. What ensues is an occult battle of wills between two men who have done terrible things as one tries to lure the other back into the movement, unleashing the animals that hide inside them.
DEAD TEENAGERS – On Demand 9/10
A masked killer, a cabin in the woods, a group of teens: the basic ingredients of a very old story. But what happens when the story is interrupted? What happens if it keeps going? What do these horror movie archetypes do when they’re thrown into new and unfamiliar situations? Five teenagers are stalked by a killer in the woods. But when the killer accidentally dies, the kids discover they cannot leave until they’ve fulfilled the script of the movie they’re trapped in. They must decide who among them lives and dies.
