{"id":209764,"date":"2025-10-08T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/209764\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:00:09","slug":"true-crime-horror-movie-gets-halloween-release-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/209764\/","title":{"rendered":"True-Crime Horror Movie Gets Halloween Release, Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/horror\/\" id=\"auto-tag_horror_1\" data-tag=\"horror\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">horror<\/a> film centering on a real-life serial-killing grandmother is set to hit theaters later this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/epic\/\" id=\"auto-tag_epic_1\" data-tag=\"epic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Epic<\/a> Pictures\u2019 horror label Dread is set to release Dorothea in theaters on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/halloween\/\" id=\"auto-tag_halloween_1\" data-tag=\"halloween\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween<\/a> before it will be available via VOD on Nov. 4. Chad Ferrin wrote and directed the film that stars Susan Priver (Night Caller), Lew Temple (The Walking Dead), Brinke Stevens (House on Haunted Hill), Ginger Lynn (The Devil\u2019s Rejects), Brenda James (Slither), Cassandra Gava (Conan the Barbarian), Cyril O\u2019Reilly (Porky\u2019s), Ezra Buzzington (The Artist) and Robert Miano (Fast &amp; Furious).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDorothea centers on the real-life story of Dorothea Puente (Priver), an unassuming grandmother who ran a boarding house, where she drugged, killed and buried her elderly and disabled boarders in her garden in the 1980s. The film is the second in Dread\u2019s series of true-crime horror movies after this year\u2019s Ed Kemper, with Richard Ramirez set for future release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s trailer, which is exclusive to The Hollywood Reporter, can be seen below. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cDorothea is the second in our series of unflinching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/true-crime\/\" id=\"auto-tag_true-crime_1\" data-tag=\"true-crime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">true crime<\/a> films that explore the darkest corners of human nature,\u201d says Dread CEO Patrick Ewald, who executive produces Dorothea. \u201cDirector Chad Ferrin masterfully transports audiences to the era in which these horrifying events took place, capturing both the atmosphere and psychology of the time with a truly singular vision.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEwald continues, \u201cOur next film with Chad, centered on Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, will push this series even further, diving deeper into the terror and truth behind one of history\u2019s most infamous killers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A horror film centering on a real-life serial-killing grandmother is set to hit theaters later this month. Epic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,9551,22523,6842,206,40984],"class_list":{"0":"post-209764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-epic","10":"tag-halloween","11":"tag-horror","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-true-crime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}