I am pleased to share the first of two posters I created for the upcoming Popcorn Frights Film Festival that will be held this upcoming August 11-17 in Miami at O Cinema. Last Year TrueHorror.net was proud to be a sponsor for the festival and have been working throughout the year since with them on various projects and screenings. 

Since my first viewing of it, I have made it very clear that the “Father’s Day” segment from the recent horror anthology film Holidays was one of my absolute favorite things I saw last year.  Expertly crafted by writer/director Anthony Scott Burns (who also scored the film himself)  Father’s Day stars TrueHorror.net favorite Jocelin Donahue as a woman who receives a mysterious package that leads her to go on a haunting trip down memory lane. As many of you know I love creating poster designs for fillms that I am a big fan of, but I’ve recently been in a bad rut creatively due to a bunch of personal stuff I have been going through that has sapped my motivation. In an effort to keep my mind off things though I decided to try and tackle something I knew I would be inspired by and began to play around with some concepts for Father’s Day posters designs. 

Since I first saw it, The Blackcoat’s Daughter has become one of my favorite horror films, and I have been singing it’s praises to anyone who will listen, even going so far as naming it my favorite horror film of 2016. With it’s official release finally approaching, A24 films recently unveiled a new trailer which we posted here . They also included a poster I personally felt was serviceable but nor really as cool as the film deserves. The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a great horror film so I wanted to create something for fun that I felt was not only more interesting but represented it just a bit better. Creating posters for films is one of my favorite things to do, so I wanted to take a crack at it. 

Since the birth of this site, it’s been no secret we are huge Child’s Play and Chucky fans. The launch of the original version of TrueHorror.net intentionally coincided with the release of 2013’s Curse of Chucky.  Since then we have made many new friends and acquaintances. many of whom are big Chucky fans themselves. One of those people would be our friend Travis Falligant who is an extremely talented illustrator and designer, widely known for his Lost Mysteries series which combined classic Scooby Doo characters interacted with modern horror icons. For a while now we have been trying to find some kind of project to collaborate on and the recent news of a new Chucky film seemed to finally provide the opportunity.

It is no secret that House Of The Devil is one of my favorite movies. I still remember the first night I sat down late one night to watch it, back when I still received dvd’s from Netflix. I didn’t realize what I was getting myself into since I knew very little going in. Right off the bat I was really taken with it and impressed with how well it achieved its late 70’s, early 80’s aesthetic. I loved how Ti West stated he was just trying to make a period piece so it felt right to shoot it as if it was from that time period as well. It made all the difference in the world. It was a creepy and classy film that is anchored by Jocelin Donahue’s wonderful performance as Samantha Hughes. My favorite testament to the film’s effectiveness is how I brought it to my brother’s to show him the film and when it was done he said “That was good, I don’t remember that movie (from the 80’s)” and THAT is when I told him it was made just the year prior. He was stunned. Since then I try to let everyone I show it to think it is an old film before revealing afterwards it is from 2009. It has worked everytime.