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Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television’s second salvo of horror thrillers under the Welcome To The Blumhouse banner begins with Bingo Hell (Cert 15, 85 mins), director Gigi Saul Guerrero’s ghoulish yarn set in the quiet barrio of Oak Springs.
For sixty-something activist Lupita (Adriana Barraza) and her friends, the local bingo hall is a community hub where residents can socialise and trade gossip while competing to be the first person to shout “bingo!”
Mysterious businessman Mr Big (Richard Brake) takes over the hall and updates the building into a brightly lit, moneymaking enterprise.
Soon after, Lupita’s longtime neighbours begin to perish in strange and grisly circumstances.
The spunky sexuagenarian realises that gentrification is the least of her concerns because an insidious evil has taken root in Oak Springs and the only way to vanquish the malevolent presence is to fight back, with fury.
Released in tandem with Bingo Hell, director Maritte
Lee Go’s action-oriented horror thriller Black As Night (Cert 15, 87 mins) unearths bloodsucking terror in New Orleans, 15 years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city.
Fifteen-year-old Shawna (Asjha Cooper) is devastated when her drug addict mother becomes the latest victim of a menace which sinks its fangs into the vulnerable and displaced population.
The resourceful teenager joins forces with her best friend (Fabrizio Guido) and classmates to infiltrate the vampires’ mansion in the historic French Quarter.
They hope to slay the coven’s leader and return fanged acolytes to their cleansed human form.
Alas, Shawna and her posse are unaware they are blundering into a centuries-old feud between vampire factions who won’t allow a group of teenagers with handcarved wooden stakes to displace them from a fertile feeding ground in
New Orleans.
Amazon Prime Video, from October 1