Filmmaker Erik Bloomquist (Founders Day, She Came From the Woods) is back with new horror movie Self-Help, and the first teaser plays mind games with Halloween-set cult horror.

Self-Help makes its International Premiere on August 23 at FrightFest London.

In Erik Bloomquist’s Self-Help, “A young woman infiltrates a dangerous self-actualization community after her mother becomes entangled with its enigmatic leader.”

FrightFest’s description provides more details, “Members of an underground online community attend a secret weekend retreat to confront their fears and regain their sense of self. But little do Olivia, and best friend Sophie, realise her mother has become romantically entangled with its enigmatic leader. And little do any of them know that the unusual, self-actualisation methods he adopts to teach his dangerous life lessons may be deadly. Hold on tight for a close encounter group of the most twisted kind!”

Jake Weber (Medium, Dawn of the Dead), Landry Bender (Looking for Alaska, The Sitter), Madison Lintz (Bosch, The Walking Dead), and Amy Hargreaves (Homeland, 13 Reasons Why) star alongside Blaque Fowler (Halloween Ends), Erik Bloomquist (Founders Day), Adam Weppler (The Four Seasons), and Carol Cadby (Radium Girls).

The upcoming film is written and produced by Erik Bloomquist & Carson Bloomquist.

Watch the new teaser below, which establishes the Halloween setting and introduces Jake Weber’s cult leader.

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Netflix has finally announced the release plan for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, and the good news is that the film will be coming to the big screen in addition to streaming on Netflix. The bad news? Well, it looks like the theatrical release will be quite limited.

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein first comes to select theaters October 17, the streamer has announced this morning, with the Netflix premiere to follow on November 7, 2025.

No word yet on how many theaters GDT’s Frankenstein will be released in. Stay tuned.

“This is, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life. I first read Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein as a kid and saw Boris Karloff in what became for me an almost religious state. Monsters have become my personal belief system,” the Academy Award-winning filmmaker told the audience at Netflix’s recent Tudum event.

“There are strands of Frankenstein throughout my films — Cronos, Blade, Hellboy, big time on Pinocchio, and a long, long et cetera. Exploring the relationship between humanity and monsters, creator and creation, father and son, has consumed my stores again and again,” del Toro continued. “I wanted to make this film before even I had a camera, and I’ve been actively pursuing it now for over 25 years It has grown so close to me that now it’s biography.”

The film follows brilliant but egotistical scientist Victor Frankenstein, who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Oscar Isaac (Dune) stars in Del Toro’s movie as mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) as Frankenstein’s monster, Mia Goth (MaXXXine) as Elizabeth Lavenza, and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) as Dr. Pretorius.

Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (“Ahsoka”), David Bradley (Harry Potter), Christian Convery (“Sweet Tooth”), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”) round out the cast.

Del Toro’s Frankenstein is rated “R” for “bloody violence and grisly images.”

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