Rites of Spring

Oh, Frightfest. How we love thee. You make traveling halfway around the world seem so very worth it! Check out the details of who will be making that journey right here!

The UK’s favorite horror festival visits its second home at the Glasgow Film Festival for the 7th year with its biggest lineup ever. From Friday, February 24th, to Saturday, February 25th, Film4 FrightFest will be screening 11 new must-see genre titles, 10 of which are UK premieres.

Another indie horror flick has found itself a home as IFC Midnight announced today that the company has acquired the U.S. rights to director Padraig Reynolds’ thriller Rites of Spring.

As a means of gearing up for its premiere on Saturday, October 22nd, at 12:00 noon at the 2011 Screamfest LA film festival, we've gotten our claws into a clip from the monster/slasher flick Rites of Spring. Pull up a chair and peel your peepers!

With the 11th annual and venerated Screamfest LA Film Festival running this Friday, October 14th through Saturday, October 22nd at Manns Chinese 6 in Hollywood, CA, we chatted yesterday with the director of one of the fest's selections, the feature Rites of Spring, and got the skinny on the slasher/hybrid, which is set for its world premiere on Saturday, October 22nd, at 12:00 noon.

Premiering Saturday, October 22nd, at 12:00 noon as part of the 2011 Screamfest LA is the much-talked about creature feature Rites of Spring, and we have your hot ticket to see the trailer right here. Dig it!

Monster movies should be a no-brainer. That's why we're astounded that this week's incoherent Creature failed so incredibly miserably. Good thing we've got some Rites of Spring imagery to make us feel better.

Screamfest LA, the preeminent horror festival in the country, kicks off its 11th annual event in Los Angeles on October 14 and runs through October 23. Festival founder Rachel Belofsky announced the first wave of this year's entries, and if I were you, I'd do my best to be in LA during those dates!

And the goodies just keep on coming for Padraig Reynolds' indie flick Rites of Spring. The official site is now home to lots of stuff to get you excited and we've got a taste for you right here!

Ah, monster movies. So close to our hearts. So dear to our souls. In a world dominated by ghost stories, vampires, and slasher flicks, it's great to revisit the sub-genre of vicious beasts who have delivered so many screams. Hopefully that's exactly what we'll get with Padraig Reynolds' indie flick Rites of Spring.

It's great to see filmmakers going back to the old school approach to movie posters instead of the trendy overly Photoshopped floating heads route. Case in point: the new artwork for Padraig Reynolds' indie flick Rites of Spring.

After getting a few details yesterday on who'd be handling the creature effects for Padraig Reynolds' Rites of Spring, which begins lensing April 12th in and around Canton, Mississippi, now comes casting news, an updated synopsis, and some artwork and photos from the project.

It's been a good two years since last we told you about the upcoming creature feature Rites of Spring, but now finally there's a bit of movement going on!

Remember that screenplay that won the Slamdance competition to get made into a film by Maverick Red, Slaughter? For a while it was a big deal, with Shawnee Smith signed to star and Victor (Return to House on Haunted Hill) Garcia on board as director. Then ... nothing.