Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks (Peacemaker Tries Hard, Sexcastle, I Hate This Place) and colorist Vladimir Popov (Where Monsters Lie, Fearscape) team up for Wrestle Heist, a five-issue Image Comics miniseries debuting in December.
The series follows a former pro wrestler who survives a brush with death at the hands of a crooked promoter and assembles a team of wrestlers he has wronged to steal from him during the year’s biggest wrestling event.
Wrestle Heist #1 will be released at comic book shops on December 17.
Writer and director Peter Klausner is set to push horror audiences to their limits with “Stomach It,” a psychological body horror film making its New York premiere on December 6, 2024, at the NYC Horror Film Festival. The screening will take place at LOOK Dine-In Cinema on West 57th Street, with a newly released clip daring viewers to ask, Can you stomach it?
Starring Jon Lee Richardson (Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F), the film follows Joel, a crime scene cleaner who struggles to detach emotionally from the personal possessions of the deceased. During a late-night job, his repressed emotions manifest into a monstrous presence, forcing him to confront his trauma in the most grotesque and literal way possible.
Stomach It continues its festival run after premiering at the Oscar-qualifying Nashville Film Festival, Screamfest, Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Chicago Horror Film Festival, and Mórbido Fest, earning strong early reviews. Bloody Flicks called it “fear and nausea from the very beginning,” while Horror Fuel praised Klausner for creating “an eerie atmosphere and gory body horror.”
Produced by Klausner and Torey Rubin (RWBY, Zall Good) under ISOTRE Films, the film examines how grief and emotional detachment can fester until they become something monstrous.
“I became fascinated by the psychological aspects of crime scene cleaners and how you are expected to emotionally detach,” said Klausner. “This story goes to the core of the most raw and visceral parts of the human psyche and aims to connect with audiences at the deepest levels.”
Stomach It asks what happens when emotions are buried instead of healed, turning trauma into something both terrifying and cathartic.
“Drive Back” is set to open in select theaters and on digital/VOD this Friday, November 8th.
Directed by Cody Ashford, the film is from the producers of The Gallows, and has been a fan favorite at festivals this year.
In the film, comic artist, Reid and his pregnant fiancée, Olivia celebrate their new engagement at a remote cabin. But after a near car accident leaves them lost in the woods, they find themselves trapped on a hidden shortcut. Facing violent visions, lost memories, and a troubled hitchhiker, they discover a terrifying killer is hunting them and that the shortcut is darker and more personal than they realized.
The film stars Zack Gold, Whit Kunschik, Tammy Kaitz, Robert Stephenson, Madonna Young Magee, Jim Tuck, Crystal Foster.
The film is set to open in Los Angeles: Laemmle Glendale (11/8) and on Fresno: Regal Cinemas River Park Fresno (11/7), and on digital: Apple TV, Fandango at Home (US), Google Play (US & CA), Microsoft Movies & TV (US & CA) and Prime Video (US).
Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks (Peacemaker Tries Hard, Sexcastle, I Hate This Place) and colorist Vladimir Popov (Where Monsters Lie, Fearscape) team up for Wrestle Heist, a five-issue Image Comics miniseries debuting in December.
