Award-Winning Indie Slasher ‘New Fears Eve’ Sets Red Carpet Premiere Date

The buzz surrounding New Fears Eve is just getting started, and attending the premiere in person is an opportunity you won’t want to pass up. “With the red carpet premiere right around the corner and our festival run just now kicking off, I couldn’t be more excited about everyone getting to see our holiday slasher,” says Starks. “Dread Central called our masked killer The Doctor ‘a new horror icon.’ I’m keeping my fingers crossed they’re right but I’ll let future fans and viewers decide that honor.” Will The Doctor be a new horror icon? With their creepy plague doctor mask and dapper attire, they certainly have the look for it.

The cast of New Fears Eve is an easy selling point for indie-horror fans. The movie features scream queen Felissa Rose whose most iconic role is as Angela in Sleepaway Camp (1983), and whose number roles in horror films over the past few decades is well over 100 and counting. Also featured is Dave Sheridan whose appearances as Doofy in Scary Movie (2000), Ray Dobson in The Devil’s Rejects (2005), and Dillon in Victor Crowley (2017) helped solidify his impressive horror credentials. Hannah Fierman (V/H/S, Siren) and Roni Jonah (Debbie Does Demons, Easter Casket) are also featured.

New Fears Eve stars relative newcomers Lily-Claire Harvey, Turner Vaughn, and Matthew Tichenor as the three best friends at the center of the chaos. In addition to codirecting the film, P.J. Starks and Eric Huskisson are both also producers, as are Felissa Rose and Jeffrey Reddick (the creator of Final Destination). Starks, who also wrote the New Fears Eve script, has nothing but praise for his crew, saying, “The cast and crew did an incredible job with some strong performances. It’s an indie film at heart that was made to look large in scope, and I feel like we succeeded on many levels.”

By all accounts, New Fears Eve sounds like a movie best watched with a crowd. Of the movie’s film-festival debut in early May, P.J. Starks says, “The recent screening in Chicago was awesome. The audience was engaged; yelling at the screen, squirming in their seats during kill sequences, laughing out loud and a couple of deaths damn near got standing ovations. We were humbled with a lot of praise following the film, even being told it was the highlight of the festival. We capped that off with securing the win for Best Horror Comedy which validated everything we’d been told.”