First images of Claudia Gerini in "TULPA", currently shooting in Rome.

Just released – first images of Italian star Claudia Gerini, in her most risktaking role to date in a film directed by her husband, up-and-coming film maker Federico Zampaglione (director of the award-winning Shadow)

In TULPA, Gerini plays Lisa Boeri, a respectable and upwardly mobile businesswoman who by night, frequents the notorious sex club ‘Tulpa’ in search of dangerous forms of pleasure. When her lovers start getting murdered in horrible ways, she tries to deal with it herself with truly nightmare consequences.

Gerini said today: “Currently in its second week of shooting in Rome, TULPA is described as a neo-giallo thriller with strong psycho-sexual tones and containing scenes of extreme violence. It’s based on a story by genre veteran Dardano Sacchetti, with a screenplay by Giacomo Gensini and Federico Zampaglione. It is produced by IDF, Giovanni Emidi and Silvia Natill. Gerini has just completed a leading role as Marie Cecile in Christopher Smith’s gritty TV mini-series Labyrinth for Ridley Scott. It will air on Channel 4 in the UK.

[Rec] 3: Genesis - UK trailer

Fans of the Spanish horror film [Rec] and it's sequel [Rec]2, will be delighted to hear that the third film [Rec] Genesis will be hitting UK cinemas May 11th.

Synopsis - Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate the most important day of their lives: their wedding. Everything appears to be running smoothly and the bride and groom and their families are enjoying a wonderful day; that is until some of the guests start showing signs of a strange illness. Before they know what’s happening, the bride and groom find themselves in the middle of a hellish ordeal, as an uncontrollable torrent of violence is unleashed on the wedding. Amidst the chaos, Koldo and Clara become separated and begin a desperate search for one another. What started off as an idyllic day quickly descends into a nightmare of the worst kind….

Here's the trailer, courtesy of eOne entertainment.

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Anthony Diblasi's CASSADAGA comes to UK DVD

THERE’S A NEW PUPPET MASTER....

CASSADAGA is the story of Lily More (Kelen Coleman - CHILDREN OF THE CORN: GENESIS), who seeks solace at the spiritualist community of Cassadaga. But instead of finding closure, she contacts something else – the vengeful ghost of a murdered young woman.

With her life crumbling all-around her, Lily races to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding the woman’s death – a task that will bring her face-to-face with a sadistic serial killer known only as “Geppetto”.

This latest horror from G2 Pictures and After Dark also stars Kevin Alejandro (TRUE BLOOD, RED STATE), J Larose (INSIDIOUS, SAW II & IV), Louise Fletcher (CRUEL INTENTIONS), Rus Blackwell (MONSTER) and is directed by Anthony Diblasi (DREAD).

CASSADAGA is released to UK DVD on DVD 16 April

View the trailer on YouTube HERE

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

Leprechaun films to be remade????

Some timely news for St Patrick's Day, the Filmofillia website are reporting that Lionsgate films are looking at rebooting the "Leprechaun" franchise ("What the bloody hell for"? I hear you cry).

The original film came out in 1993, starring diminutive actor Warwick Davis (Wicket the Ewok from Star Wars) in the title role, which also marked Jennifer Aniston's screen debut. With a budget of just $900,000, it went on to gross almost $9million, and was extremely popular on VHS, selling over 10,000 units in the US alone.

Five sequels followed, in which Davis also starred, some of which also featuring various well known B-movie and TV actors, including "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2's" Caroline Williams, "Blade - The Series" Kirk 'Sticky Fingaz' Jones and even rapper Ice-T and saw the Leprechaun terrorising various locations, including Las Vegas, a black neighbourhood and even outer space.

The last film, "Back to Tha Hood" came out in 2003, but now it seems that the current rights holders, Lions Gate Films, are looking at rebooting the Franchise and are going to be making 2 films back to back, though there's no script as of yet, nor has it been announced as to who will play the Leprechaun this time.

Lionsgate are hoping to have the first of the 2 films out by 2013, so stay tuned.

If you've not seen the "Leprechaun" films, you can read my review of part 1 "Here"

Strippers Vs Werewolves - out in May

Coming to UK cinemas. At the Silvadollaz strip club, a stripper named Justice performs a private lap dance for Mickey, a man who violates the no-touching policy ... by sprouting fangs and claws and trying to eat her!  Justice panics and takes the only option open to her, she drives a silver fountain pen through Mickey's eye, into his brain, killing him instantly. Oops!

Jeanette, the clubs owner, believes murdering customers is bad for business, so she orders the clubs bouncer to quietly dispose of the body. There the matter should end ... if Mickey hadn't been a member of a bloodthirsty and vengeful pack of werewolves.

When Mickey's corpse surfaces, Jack Ferris, the werewolves charming and vicious leader, swears bloody vengeance and sends his pack out to hunt down the killers. Little does he know, Justice is actually the fiance of his second in command, Scott.  To make matters worse, Justice bites Scott during sex and now may be infected with the curse of lycanthropy herself.

Add to the mix werewolf Barker, the masturbating man-child; Sinclair, the occultist with low self-esteem; a bevy of the most beautiful women this side of heaven and you have the perfect recipe for balls to the wall, skimpily clad, strippers on werewolves action-packed goodness. 

The film stars horror veteran Robert Englund, along with British TV actors Adele Silva, Martin Kemp, Billy Murray and pin-up model Lucy Pinder.

Strippers Vs Werewolves is a Black & Blue Production and is released in cinemas May 2012 by Kaleidoscope Entertainment.

View the trailer on YouTube "Here"

More info can be found at the "Kaleidoscope Films website"

Break - UK DVD

Indie lablem Trinity X are to give a DVD release to the graphic German ‘backwoods slasher’ BREAK on April 16, 2012.

Four young girlfriends head out to the Canadian woods for some downtime. But downtime turns to terror time when they discover a pile of intestines and a pair of severed feet dangling from a tree.

The friends begin to realise humans are the preferred prey and that they are being hunted. Armed with bows and arrows, two brutal rednecks are on the rampage and the girls’ blood-soaked battle for survival begins.

Directed by Matthias Olof Eich, this brutal game of sadistic cat-and-mouse between the sexes goes to the extreme and there are definitely no rules in this jungle.

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

The Devil Inside UK cinemas!!!!

Coming to UK cinemas this month. In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 

20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. 

When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria. 

Many have been possessed by one, only one has been possessed by many...

The Devil Inside is released to UK cinemas 16th March

Visit the Facebook page at..
https://www.facebook.com/thedevilinsideUK

Return to Wolf Creek iPad App

Building on the success and ongoing interest in the 2005 Australian film "Wolf Creek", Sharp Agency is proud to announce it has secured the license for the upcoming interactive iBook: "Return to Wolf Creek".

This interactive App will be released initially for iPad with an iPhone and Android version to follow.

The iBook will be a trip down memory lane for original fans and an introduction to those to young to see the film when first released in 2005. Sharp Agency have put together a 'never-before-seen' collection of video clips, images and documentation of props and trivia that will delight the avid horror fan and general film buff to boot.

Purchasers of the 'App' will have access to a companion website that will have a blog and the chance for users to tell their own 'Wolf Creek moment'.

A special 'ground-breaking' interactive section called 'Mick's Drawer of Screams' will give users a chance to be part of the horror film community like never before.

More info will be released as production progresses.

In the meantime, visit the official Facebook page at...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Return-To-Wolf-Creek/405029829512397

The dead invade The Horror Channel (UK)

The Horror Channel presents a double bill season of brain-munching zombie movies. Including five UK TV premieres.

Rising up from the Friday 6th of April are a putrid plethora of zombie movies, both contemporary and classic, celebrating the popularity of one of the genre’s most enduring archetypal villains. The season reflects the diverse range of metaphors these ungodly creatures represent – from the breakdown of society to our addiction to consumerism and taste for the military.

6th Apr @ 22:55 – NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD  (1968)

The season kicks off with the genre classic, George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. It’s 1968 and America watches horrified as grimy black and white news footage from Vietnam reveals the true monsters in this world – us.

6th April @ 00:50 - ZOMBIE KING (2003)

Enter a world of high camp populated by masked wrestlers, spunky tattoo babes and a legion of flesh-eating zombies as Ulysses and his bizarre masked outfit of muscle men and women investigate a zombie outbreak in a small American town. Directed by Stacey Case.

13th April @ 22.55 – STAG NIGHT OF THE DEAD (2011)  *UK TV PREMIERE

Stag nights are messy affairs at the best of times, but in this movie party tricks go beyond leaving your best mate naked on the M4 – as the Stags sign up for a dodgy game of Zombal at a shady military base. Naturally, a stripper comes along for the ride.

13th of April  @ 00:55 - CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980)

In the sleepy village of Dunwich, horror maestro LUCIO FULCI throws open the gates of Hell, unleashing a plague of Zombies, in this notorious ‘Shock and Gore’ masterpiece. 

20th April @ 22:55 – COWBOYS & ZOMBIES (2011)  *UK TV PREMIERE

The third UK TV premiere in the season is COWBOYS AND ZOMBIES, where Cowboys and Indians have to bury the hatchet in order to fight the Undead. 

20th April @ 00:35 – ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES! (2008)

A drug experiment gone wrong produces a league of bloodthirsty zombies. It is up to a small band of exotic dancers trapped in a gentleman's club to fight back. 

27th April @ 22:55 – APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD (2009)  *UK TV PREMIERE

Shot in Serbia, this ‘biohazard zombie thriller’stars the now legendary Ken Foree – who found fame in George Romero’s hugely influential Dawn of the Dead.

TV: Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138
Website : http://www.horrorchannel.co.uk

Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/horror_channel

Kill Keith on March 26th

2011's most bizarre horror film, "Kill Keith" starring British TV legend Keith Chegwin, is coming to UK DVD March 26th from Metrodome.


Checkout the trailer...



Buy the DVD from Amazon.co.uk

Visit the official website at http://www.killkeith.co.uk/

The Raven - Out now at UK Cinemas

Checkout the trailer for "The Raven" starring John Cussack. Which is out now at UK cinemas....

The Thing Begins on UK DVD & BR

The good folks at Universal Pictures UK were kind enough to send me a review copy of their upcoming release of “The Thing” prequel, which comes to disc March 26^th.

Taking place prior to the events of John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film, this story follows the exploits of what went on at the Norwegian camp mentioned in that film, as we learn how they stumbled across the alien space craft buried deep under the ice. And the subsequent events that lead up to the alien running amok, before finally being chased into the American camp at the start of that film.

 Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Kate Lloyd, an American scientist who flies in to assist the Norwegians help study the creature, only to end up leading the team in a bloody battle against it and a frantic hunt to discover which of them may no longer be human (you can read a full review of the film HERE).

The film is being released onto DVD, Blu-ray and digital download. The DVD and Blu-rays come with the following special features..

Deleted and Extended scenes.

The thing evolves – making of featurette

Fire & Ice – special effects featurette

Feature commentary track with Director Mathius Van Heijningen and producer Eric Newman.

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

Buy the UK Blu-ray from Amazon.co.uk

Snowtown "Murder" bank for sale on Ebay.

You've probably heard about the upcoming release of the film "Snowtown", which I've publicised before, which documents the true-story of Australia's most notorious serial killer John Bunting.

Well the old bank where Bunting stored his bodies, which also featured in the film, has gone up for sale on Ebay (pictured left).

You can view the listing for yourself Here.

The film "Snowtown", which stars Lucas Pittaway and and Daniel Henshal and documents Bunting's murder spree, is released to UK DVD & BR March 19th..

Visit the official UK site Here

Buy the DVD from Amazon.co.uk

Buy the Blu-ray from Amazon.co.uk