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FrightFest 2023 Review: THORNS Is A Down & Dirty 1980s Inspired Horror

Writer/director Douglas Schulze takes horror back to a simpler time with his latest film, Thorns. A throwback to films like Alien, The Thing and Hellraiser, the low budget filmmaker appears to relish taking on the genre tropes of yore with this [...]

August 30, 2023

Podcast – Episode 37: Douglas Schulze Talks THORNS, FightFest & Low Budget Filmmaking

Douglas Schulze has been a friend of Movies In Focus since 2009, in the lead-up to the release of his David Carradine starring horror film Dark Fields – or The Rain as it was then called. Films like Mimesis: Night Of The Living [...]

August 26, 2023

Trailer & Poster: Douglas Schulze’s Latest Horror Film THORNS Looks Like Serious Nightmare Fuel

Movies In Focus has known writer/director Douglas Schulze for almost fifteen years. I first got in touch with him after he made Dark Fields (or The Rain as it was then called) way back in 2009 and we’ve kept in contact ever since. He’s [...]

March 22, 2023

Poster For New Deep Water Horror THE DARK BELOW

Douglas Schulze is a director who likes to push the boundaries of horror. Films like Mimesis and The Dark Fields show a man who understands the conventions of the genre, but who also wants to try and tackle something interesting within these [...]

June 23, 2015

Achieve Mysterious Depths With Images From New Thriller THE DARK BELOW

Director Douglas Schulze (Dark Fields/Mimesis/Hell Master) is back with The Dark Below. The mysterious film, which he produced with Kurt Eli Mayry is a ‘survival thriller that explores the fear of entrapment beneath a frozen lake’. [...]

April 12, 2015