We have some awesome movie release news from the top folks at Shogun Films, along with a preview for our readers on what’s coming soon.
Busy UK indie production company Shogun Films, which specialises in high-concept genre movies, has a busy second half of 2025 with no less than 5 movies due for release. Let’s take a look at each one in this picture-packed preview.
HELLOWEEN
Pitched as The Purge meets The Terrifier with a Michael Myers twist, this ambitious horror-thriller is the brainchild of writer/director Phil Claydon, perhaps best known for the underrated 2009 cult gem Lesbian Vampire Killers starring James Corden. Set in 2016, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Renegades) stars as a psychiatrist growing increasingly concerned that her most notorious patient, Carl Cane (Ronan Summers) is at the centre of the terrifying ‘killer clown’ craze, despite having been incarcerated deep in the Psychiatric Prison she runs for some two decades. When investigative journalist John Parker (Michael XXX) begins looking into the idea, Cane escapes and embarks on a murderous rampage, orchestrating a ballet of blood on the streets of England. With the clock ticking to Halloween, can John and Ellen save her two daughters from Cane’s malice and avert a terrifying global uprising?
KNIGHTFALL
A high octane espionage thriller that fires on all cylinders, Knightfall sees Geoffrey Moore, son of legendary James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore, assume the role of a veteran MI5 field agent whose analyst girlfriend is unexpected dropped into a black ops arms deal raid, putting targets on both their backs as the system turns against them and they are forced to seek refuge in the rambling country house of her estranged father: legendary former spy catcher Charles Knight (Ian Ogilvy). With a squad of deadly mercenaries in hot pursuit, the unlikely trio must band together to stay alive and avert an international catastrophe. Knightfall also features British film legend Nick Moran as sinister Whitehall mandarin, Carmichael, making his third appearance for Shogun Films.
HARBINGER
Julia (Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott) barely survived her encounter with homicidal satanist Henry Decker (Peter Woodward), who was shot dead by the police while trying to kill her. Now, a ghost-hunting TV show fronted by Mike (Gary Webster) and Neal (Tony Sands) wants Julia to return to Henry’s mausoleum of a house to tell her story. But when they arrive, they find Henry’s sinister Harbinger machine – a fairground-style fortune-telling contraption that reveals their fates via Tarot cards… and all end in death! Henry managed to transfer his spirit to the machine as he lay dying in front of it, and now he wants to use it to claim six souls and return to life for another murderous rampage. Like a sinister version of the Tom Hanks film Big, the Harbinger smacks of franchise potential, and he isn’t playing for laughs.
DOCTOR PLAGUE
Something is stalking the dark streets of London, cutting a swathe through its criminal underworld. With the police blaming escalating gang warfare, detective John Verney (Martin Kemp) finds himself drawn into a sinister web of intrigue and corruption dating back even beyond the 1888 Jack the Ripper Murders. A sinister cult lurks in the tunnels beneath the busy streets of the Metropolis, murdering those deemed as sinners – and with his son abducted, John must fight a conspiracy of silence to expose the truth about the identity of the serial killer known as Doctor Plague. This punk rock thriller blends Silence of the Lambs with From Hell and boasts a wonderful supporting cast of British actors, including David Yip, Wendy Glenn, Michael McKell, Gary Webster and Peter Woodward.
PETER RABID
Following an apparent suicide, a group of the deceased’s old school friends are summoned to a remote country house for the reading of the will and are requested to spend the weekend there for a party in his honour. Reluctantly agreeing, the group of young people soon find old tnsions – and passions – rising but all is not what it seems – a forgotten schoolmate, part of a sinister cult, has lured them there to take murderous revenge – and is using a chainsaw wielding giant in a terrifying rabbit mask – to do so. A whacky slasher movie that pulls no punches, Peter Rabid is sure to become an instant cult hit.
And the busy studio is currently in production on horror movies Werewolf Hunt, The Secret of Guy Fawkes and Midnight Kiss and sci-fi/action thriller Survivor, as well as action movies Killer Instinct and Killing Season, meaning a similarly packed release schedule for 2026!
You can find out more at www.shogunfilms.com
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
