Spooky season is upon us, which means its one of the most exciting times to keep an eye on indie horror and today, we've got an exclusive new trailer for the latest film from The Horror Collective. Set in modern-day Salem where the locals live out their infamous history via the daily tours and witch trial recreations, Mass Hysteria stages a horror-comedy after those quotidian events go all kinds of wrong on a fateful Halloween. When a tourist dies suddenly during one of the Salem Witch Trial recreations, the crowd turns on their hosts in a hurry, …
After becoming a festival darling and Shudder streaming favorite with the knockout fantasy-horror Tigers Are Not Afraid, filmmaker Issa Lopez is heading to Blumhouse for a new supernatural-tinged tale of societal woes -- this time, mass hysteria! Lopez is set to write and direct Our Lady of Tears, a film adaptation of Daniel Hernandez's article, “The Haunting of Girlstown,” which was published by Epic Magazine and Vox. Per the press release, the film focuses on "a mass hysteria epidemic with supernatural roots, that in 2007 spread through Villa de las Niñas, an all girls, Catholic boarding school …