Indie horrors ‘The Chair’ and ‘Charlie Lives’ scare up gruesome trailers

We have two trailers below for two indie horrors, both of which feature the great Bill Oberst Jr. The Chair is a nasty, torture-porn horror, while Charlie Lives follows on from Charles Manson’s reign of terror many years later.

Directed by Chad Ferrin, The Chair stars Bill Oberst, Jr., Timothy Muskatell, Noah Hathaway, Zach Galligan, Naomi Grossman, Derrick Damions, Ezra Buzzington, Susan Eisenberg, Kin Shriner, Jacob Banser, Kyle Hester, Robert Rhine, Tomas Boykin, Christian Hutcherson. and Roddy Piper.

Synopsis:

Richard Sullivan (Timothy Muskatell) is an innocent man struggling to escape his fate on Death Row. Witnessing the murders of his fellow inmates at the hands of the prison’s sadistic and psychotic Warden (Oberst) and his crew of guards, Sullivan decides that the only way to survive is to fight back. With the body count rising, the Warden and his guards close in on Sullivan. As he matches the brutality occurring in the prison, Sullivan starts to lose his grip on reality. Memories of the childhood abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother combine with vivid hallucinations which push him to the very edge, forcing him to question his sanity at every turn.

Charlie Lives:

Bill Oberst Jr features as Charles Manson (can’t wait to see that!) in director Smiley Jay’s film. The rest of the cast includes Eileen Dietz, Alexandra Bard, Jessica McCabe, Jason Yee, Sean McNabb, Thai Edwards, Alan O’Neill, Kris Keyes, Naomi Nektare, Yann Bean, and Sandra Hinojosa.

Synopsis:

A teenage girl has to confront her haunted adoptive past when she’s captured during a visit to the old Manson ranch in the Mojave Desert by the remaining and still active family members.