Black Hollow Pictures represents a shift toward a more structured production approach for filmmaker Brandon Alvis.

The company is designed to develop projects that combine historical context with investigative storytelling, working across both documentary and narrative formats.

Its current slate includes Until They Are Found, which follows efforts to locate forgotten graves, shaped by a discovery tied to a Civil War hospital.

The Fear Room documents filmmaker Nathan Withers and investigator Beth Huffman as they enter the Olde Park Hotel and conduct their own investigation.

Ghosts of the Gold Rush explores accounts connected to California’s Gold Rush era.

Phantom of the Blazing Eye is a narrative set in 1875, where a young understudy investigates events tied to a reported figure associated with death.

R. Jacob Honeybrook’s “Books for the Broken” is officially out now, bringing together six stories that were previously available in digital form and giving them a shared home in one collected release.

For horror readers, that alone makes this worth paying attention to. There is a different feeling when separate pieces are pulled together under one title. You start to see the patterns more clearly. In this case, the pattern looks pretty grim in a good way.

The collection spans psychological horror and bleak crime noir. Across the book, the characters move through places that already sound unstable before anything even happens: foggy woods, neon-soaked cities, desert highways, broken memories. There are people running from old damage and people trying to claw their way toward redemption, but nobody sounds safe in here.

Honeybrook started writing in 2018 and published “April Awakening” in 2020. That story now sits inside this collection with “Devils in the Night,” “Roadkill Blues,” “New Year’s Killin’ Eve,” “When We Once Loved,” and “Thaddeus Greene’s Spooktacular House of Horrors.”

He has said this book is the result of years of hard work, and he has also been direct about how difficult the early road was. Rejection was part of that story. So was persistence.

There is another layer to the release because Honeybrook is not only a fiction writer. He also co-hosts the award-winning “Midnight Terrors Podcast” with Kevin Roche, where horror films and genre guests are part of the conversation, and he writes the “Honeycut” column for TBM Horror.

“A Cursed Man” is now available to stream for free on YouTube Movies and Tubi TV, giving more viewers access to a documentary that has already stirred a lot of interest online and across genre media.

Directed by Liam Le Guillou, the film follows a dangerous premise. While exploring witchcraft and the occult, he sets out to answer whether magic is real by asking dark magic practitioners to place a curse on him. That decision turns the documentary into something far more personal, as the experience pushes him into deeper questions about belief, fear, and reality itself.

The release comes after a solid stretch of momentum. The film’s social video content has pulled in more than 10 million views, and conversations around the experiment have continued across TikTok and Instagram. It was also an Official Selection at Dances With Films in New York.

The film is produced by Second Shot Films and RobbinsCage. Le Guillou wrote, directed, and produced the project, while Michael Steven Robbins served as executive producer. Nigel Levy is credited as story producer and Blake Horn as cinematographer.

That attention carried into platform performance as well. “A Cursed Man” reached the number one rented or purchased documentary position on Apple TV in the US and Canada, along with six other countries. It also climbed to number three across all independent films.