On September 8th Pathfinder Pictures is bringing you two more films from their K-Horror series.
First up is Murder Take One:
A controversial thriller about a murder investigation filmed live or a reality show seeking death.
A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.
Check out the trailer:
Blood Rain Info.
The new violent action thriller, in the tradition of House of the Flying Daggers.
On an isolated island, a horrific fire and a mysterious murder break the usual way of life. The victim died in the same way as the son of an executed Catholic, so the locals are scared to death that the ghost of the dead start taking its evil toll.
Two New Releases From Brain Damage Films.
In case you missed it, Brain Damage Films has two new releases today.
In Rock N Roll Frankenstein, a music agent, his necrophiliac nephew and a burnt-out roadie with a knack for grave-robbing team to create a superstar from some of the greatest rockers who ever lived: Elvis, Morrison, Hendrix, Vicious. But things go bad when Liberace's love tool mistakenly ends up in the mix. Equipped with the head of Elvis and the love tool of Lee, a schizo relationship develops between the monster and his privates. And sure enough, people have to die!
Slices Info and Trailer.
Unable to sleep, the insomniac turns to his television to pass the time — the Theatre of the Macabre presenting its nightly anthologies. But what will happen as the line between reality and fanasy blurs?
Slices is a horror anthology film in the style of Twilight Zone and Creepshow. Five directors bring you five tales of terror.
The Exterminator, directed by Vito [B-Movie: The Making of Farmhouse Massacre] Trabucco, is very much in the style of Saw or Hostel. It centers on a big business CEO who gets kidnapped and tortured by one of his own henchmen.
The Range, directed by Lance Polland, is a period piece set in the Old West. It features three Confederate soldiers on the run who come face to face with flesheating zombies.
Turnout, directed by Lenny Lenox, is about a young couple and their friend who are hiking in the mountains when they start getting killed off by a madman,” Polland continues.
Night Scream, directed by Neil McCurry, is the tale of a bloodthirsty female vampire who stumbles upon a house full of unsuspecting college kids.
Dead Letters, directed by Steven Richards, is a yarn about a book author who still carries a torch for his dead wife, and discovers a way to reanimate her when he receives a mysterious package in the mail.
A Vampire Flick that has to be seen to be believed, Starring Tim Thomerson, Mark Hengst, Ken Foree, Lee Perkins, Tiffany Shepis, and Elissa Dowling:
A hunter dressed in black. This cowboy-hat-wearing samurai-sword-wielding Priest is on a quest for blood. Vampire blood. He’s out for revenge on a “clique” of four vampires who are traveling across the country in search of “pure blood.” The human blood stream has become polluted by drugs, alcohol, Aids, Diabetes, anti-depressants, cigarettes; anything that changes the blood even a small amount makes it undrinkable for vampires, who, like hi-performance automobiles, need “hi test” fuel (blood) in order to survive. This has started a sort of underground civil war between various groups of vampires, and vampires themselves have mutated due to the pollution of their life blood. Live Evil is what is written on playing cards left behind on the bodies of dead vampires that this mysterious Priest/Hunter leaves in his wake as he gets closer and closer to our main group of vampires. He’s out for revenge, and the real reason for this is not revealed until the very end. He’s as cold-blooded or more than the vampire he seeks, because he has to be.
The leader of the vampires is Benedict. The “oldest” of the group, he’s seen the rise and fall of the vampires and is out to protect his small family. He’s also in love with one of the two females in his group, Sydney. Sydney is a sexy but equally ravenous vampire who is becoming more and more out of control. Yael is the youngest of the group and the most enthusiastic and inexperienced; her recklessness could threaten the group’s existence. Also part of the group is the acerbic Baxter, an Irish former silent movie star, who became a vampire in order to stay young forever, only to have his career ruined when sound films came in. His bitterness and Yael’s young enthusiasm create more tension for Benedict to try to control. This clique is constantly trying to find pure bloods for food and also on the run from The Priest, who gets closer and closer to them with every mile as they travel to Los Angeles to find a Blood Dealer, Max, a man who “pushes” blood stolen from hospitals to vampire clients.
In a wild opening sequence car chase, the Priest’s car flips over and his right leg is injured so severely that he must hijack a ride from Roxy, a tough woman who doesn’t know if the Priest is just insane or if there really are vampires. As the two grudging companions get to know each other, The Priest learns that Roxy is a “pure blood” and realizes that he must do more than just seek revenge, he must not care for another human being for the first time in his life. Neither vampires nor the vampire hunting Priest take prisoners in this increasingly frenzied cat and mouse game. It’s a bloody trail of bodies, both human and vampires, that climaxes in an abandoned church in the barren desert.
Monogram Releasing is sending Live Evil out on a limited theatrical release on 300 screens in select markets starting Friday, September 18th, 2009. This will be followed by a DVD release on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 along with a VOD release that same day.
What would it be like to have the run of London with no adults around? You could live where you wanted, go where you wanted, do what you wanted... Just don't get caught or you'll be eaten.
Puffin Books is proud to announce a major Autumn release with the return of Charlie Higson - author of the phenomenally successful Young Bond books - and a gruesome, action adventure series.
The Enemy is the first title in a chilling series of books which will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. It is set in an eerie, modern-day London after a mystery illness attacks everyone over the age of fourteen. Those afflicted either die or become so crazed by disease they are little more than wild animals. Gangs of kids are left to fend for themselves, dodging the zombie adults who remain.
The Enemy opens with a North London gang of kids who have set up camp in a supermarket on the Holloway Road. The gang, lead by Arran and Maxie, have made Waitrose their home. But supplies are getting short and attacks from the grown-ups more frequent.
With numbers dwindling and little to lose, the gang is forced to leave camp and embark on an epic journey to find a better life. What they discover is a terrifyingly changed London full of horrors that include underground cannibals, rabid animals and a City filled with the rotting souls of bankers. The landmarks of London suddenly hold more interest for the kids, as they search for a safe haven. Along the way, they encounter other kids who, far from being on their side, have their own ideas on the best way to survive...
Charlie Higson says about his new series, 'Having spent five years writing straight thrillers for kids I was tempted to try another genre. I wanted to see if I could write something frightening. I thought I owed it to the children of Britain to scare the living daylights out of them. We all need to be scared. It's good for the soul. And kids need to be scared as much as adults. We all grew up with fairy tales. I don't remember any fairies in them, but I do remember child-eating ogres, child-eating witches, child-eating stepmothers, and plucky little guys getting their revenge, be they Hansel and Gretel or Jack The Giant Killer.'
The Enemy is full of unexpected twists, peril, breathless adventure and a world of unimaginable horror. It is not only a fantastic children's adventure story, but also an unforgettable portrait of a world where the adults aren't there to look after you, instead...they want to eat you.
The Enemy will be published in hardback by Puffin Books on 3rd September 2009 at £12.99
Be sure to check out The Enemy's official site to for a glimpse at its trailer and to sign up for updates!
Just in time for Halloween, Palisades Tartan is pleased to present The Butcher, their own distinctive and bloody treat. Told entirely from POV camera shots, the film is set to shock and scare audiences October 27th in video stores across the country.
A small group of people lie battered and bound on the floor of a dirty slaughterhouse covered in blood. Scared and confused, they soon learn their captors are snuff film producers and plan to torture them as creatively and heinously as possible before brutally killing them off one-by-one. Each scene is shot from either the killer or victim's point of view in order to fully capture the emotional torment of the prey and the unspeakable acts that will be perpetrated on their captive bodies.
An Official Selection of The New York Asian Film Festival, The Butcher highlights the creative talents of Lee Chang Man one of the best special make-up artists in Korea. Lee and his team have worked on over 20 features, including Palisades Tartan's Bloody Reunion, R-Point and Whispering Corridors.
Korean, with English subtitles, The Butcher is presented in Anamorphic Widescreen, with Stereo Sound. Special DVD features include an Alternative Ending, Behind the Scenes Photos and Storyboard Sketches.
Streeting two weeks earlier from Tartan is the Terror Pack! Featuring some of the most twisted and perverse horror films from France, Denmark and Japan, Palisades Tartan's Terror Pack contains a brutal collection of spine-chilling thrillers from around the world. This 3-disc box set will be haunting DVD shelf space October 13th just in time for Halloween.
From France comes Sheitan, starring Vincent Cassel (Ocean's Twelve, Irreversible) as Joseph, a creepy and mysterious man whose pregnant wife remains hidden in a large frightening house. When a group of teenagers visit the house, sex, satanic possession, and incest become the dinner topics and what follows is not for the faint of heart…
From Denmark comes the aptly named Slaughter Night. When a teenage girl loses her father in a brutal car accident she brings some friends to an abandoned mine in hopes of retrieving the last manuscript her father ever penned about nineteenth century serial killers. It's rumored one spirit with a taste for young, pretty flesh and decapitations still hunts the old mine hungering for another Slaughter Night…
Finally from Japan, is Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, a story about a beautiful bride who was grotesquely disfigured by a jealous husband. Pissed off and roaming the streets in a trench coat and surgical mask, her spirit is fond of children and punishing any who fail to find her pretty with fists, knives and one incredibly wicked pair of scissors…
All three films are recorded in their countries original language (French, Danish and Japanese) and have English and Spanish subtitles. Each title is presented in anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and DTS Surround Sound 5.1. MSRP is $39.99.
Colin - The micro-budget zombie movie that's a big hit at Cannes.
Good news has travelled fast as low-budget indie zombie movie, Colin, has caught the eye of several distributors at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Shot on a budget that
would barely buy a glass of Moet at the glitzy bash, Colin has got two Japanese distributors interested in releasing the film in a dubbed version for their domestic market.
At a festival that opened with the new $75 million offering from Disney/Pixar, it is perhaps surprising that this micro-budgeted film has piqued the interest of
distributors. Director Marc price told UK newspaper The Daily Mail, "'I'd love to have a UK or US distribution deal. I just want people to see it. I wouldn't want the film to be
picked up and end up just sitting on a shelf."
You can read the HorrorTalk.com review of ColinHERE
Festival programmers Shade Rupe and Chris Bavota announce their first collaboration: The Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film, or DRIFFF, debuting in Portland, Oregon at the Clinton Street Theater, April 24-25, and in Seattle at the historic Grand Illusion Cinema, May 8-9. Intent on rescuing genre films from premiering on video store shelves, Shade and Chris set out to unearth classic and contemporary 'cult movies' that deserved to be showcased on the big screen, and thus, DRIFFF was born. Presented by Rude Shape Productions and Oddity Cinema, DRIFFF 2009 features northwest premieres, special guest Q & As, award-winning shorts, door prizes and more gore than you can stab a stake through.
We are proud to present the northwest premieres of several feature films including David Gregory's nightmarish Plague Town (USA), Martin Weisz's Grimm Love (Germany) based on the homosexual cannibal killer Armin Miewes, Jonathan Lewis' Black Devil Doll (USA), a microbudget film with a big kick, Gadi Harel and Marcel Sarmiento's DEADGIRL, Justin Johnson and Aaron Marshall's Zombie Girl: The Movie, the Bryan "Re-Animator" Yuzna-produced anthology film, Takut: Faces of Fear (Indonesia) and Frank "Basket Case" Henenlotter's late-night 'comely' shocker, Bad Biology (USA). We will also be serving up the 1970s grindhouse classic INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (Italy), the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's latest epic.
Featured short films include Dead Bones (Switzerland) starring Ken Foree, Richard Gale's festival favorite The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (USA), Carl Morano and John Carchietta's The Pick Up, and Jason Eisener's tale of Christmas carnage Treevenge (Canada), and as a special treat, we're opening the festival with & Teller and & Teller2, two short films co-directed by Teller, the quieter, smaller half of famed magic duo Penn & Teller, and a special performance by the composers of the soundtracks for the shorts, the remarkable 3 Leg Torso, with Larold Will as a special guest performer on theremin!
Stay tuned for final films and other updates on www.deepredfilmfest.com, and be sure to drop by to meet directors Jonathan Lewis and David Gregory in Portland, and Grimm Love screenwriter T.S. Faull in Seattle.
