"Killer Klowns from Outer Space" - on BD, DVD & BD steelbook, 15th Sept!

In case you missed our previous news article back in July, Arrow Video is excited to announce the release of the 1988 cult classic "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", available on Blu-ray & DVD and as an exclusive Blu-ray Steelbook from 15th September.

As movie titles go, few are quite as descriptive as "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", a vivid mesh of horror, sci-fi and comedy which does exactly what it says on the tin. When a troupe of aliens who happen to resemble circus clowns park their UFO (which happens to resemble a big top tent) in small-town USA, it spells trouble for the locals. As the Killer Klowns begin kidnapping the town’s residents and turning them into sugary circus snacks, it’s up to young Debbie Stone and Mike Tobacco to save the day. If they don’t get turned into delicious cotton candy cocoons first, that is.

 

Directed by renowned special effects artist Stephen Chiodo and written and produced in collaboration with his brothers, Killer Klowns from Outer Space has gone on to become a cult classic 80s horror-romp which proudly wears its influences on its massive silk sleeves.

 

Playing colourful homage to such ’50s B-movie drive-in classics as The Blob (1958) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) while providing plenty of original shocks and scares itself, Killer Klowns from Outer Space is energetic, punk and every bit as funny as it is scary.

This new release comes loaded with a bumper crop of bonus features including an all-new high definition (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements by MGM. Alongside this the discs will also feature an audio commentary with the Chiodo Brothers, as well as a 20 minute making of feature looking at the film’s production, interviews with the makers of the film and behind-the-scenes footage.

 

Special Features
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements by MGM
• Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio Commentary with the Chiodo Brothers
• The Making of Killer Klowns – a 20-minute featurette looking at the film’s production, including an interview with the Chiodo Brothers alongside behind-the-scenes footage
• Visual Effects with Gene Warren Jr. – an interview with Charles Chiodo and visual effects supervisor Gene Warren Jr.
• Kreating Klowns – an interview with Charles Chiodo and creature fabricator Dwight Roberts
• Bringing Life to These Things – A Tour of Chiodo Bros. Productions
• Chiodo Brothers’ Earliest Films – a look back at the Chiodo Brothers’ early homemade productions
• Tales of Tobacco: A brand new interview with star Grant Cramer
• Debbie’s Big Night: A brand new interview with star Suzanne Snyder
• Komposing Klowns – interview with composer John Massari
• Deleted Scenes with Director’s Commentary
• Bloopers
• Klown Auditions
• Image Gallery
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Godmachine
• Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Starburst critic Joel Harley, illustrated with original archive stills and posters.

 

Pre-order the BD/DVD combo pack from Amazon.co.uk

Pre-order the BD/DVD Steelbook from Amazon.co.uk

 

 

 

"Video Nasty" horror comic unveils new Graham Humpries art.

Reaper Comics will release the hardcover collected edition of its universally praised horror comic series 'VIDEO NASTY' on October 15th. The title that débuted in March of this year to praise from news & review sites, horror movie creators and media academics, as well as multiple five star reviews on both the Forbidden Planet and Comixology websites, will be collected into a premium edition hardcover, as well as a VHS boxset that will contain a smaller video tape sized paperback and several collectable postcards, stickers and book mark, all packaged in a VHS clamshell box and limited to only 100 pieces.

 

Today Reaper Comics reveals the collected edition cover art by horror industry icon Graham Humphreys. Graham is responsible for producing the art for many classic horror movie posters and VHS/DVD/Blu Ray covers. He made his comic book début with "VIDEO NASTY", painting six original covers for the series and now unveils the seventh piece of art that will grace the covers of the collected editions.

All six covers for the series and the cover for the collected editions are gloriously painted by horror industry legend Graham Humphreys. Graham is responsible for some of the most iconic images in horror, including the movie posters for "Evil Dead 1&2", the first five "Nightmare on Elm Street" films, "Return of the Living Dead", "From Dusk Till Dawn" and many more.

 

How to buy - Pre-orders for the hardcover and VHS boxset are now available through www.MarioCovone.com. The hardcover  will also be available in Forbidden Planet as well as in comic stores though Diamond Comic Distribution. All six issues are still available at Comixology for digital download.

 

 

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"The Dead Hour" web series premieres new episode.

The horror anthology web-series, "The Dead Hour" has launched it's newest episode of season 3 entitled "Android Bride".

 

The episode is a horrific love story about one man's obsession for finding true love that will take him to the darkest of depths. Directed by Daniel B. Iske, written by Scott Coleman and stars Konrad Case, Illa Ridder, Tara Hinson and Melissa Holder as DJ Raven.

"The Dead Hour" is an online indie horror anthology series now in its third season. The show centres around a mysterious and sexy radio DJ who brings her audience dark and twisted stories each week.

 

The lates episode can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/thedeadhour/androidbride 

 

All webisodes from seasons 1 & 2 of the critically acclaimed series can be seen for free at http://www.thedeadhour.com.

More news, updates and behind the scenes features can be found on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/magnumpictures.

New 'Arrow' releases for this October

Arrow films have just announced their October line up of horror Blu-Rays, being released in time for Halloween

 

First off is Giulio Paradisi's "The Visitor". The ultimate excursion into B-movie madness, this 1979 cinematic oddity from schlock producer extraordinaire Ovidio G. Assonitis, director of such deliciously guilty pleasures as Beyond the Door and Tentacles, brings together an extraordinary ensemble cast in a mind-bending tale of a girl and her pet hawk.

At first glance, Katy Collins is just like any other normal 8-year-old girl – but appearances can dangerously deceptive. As it turns out, Katy is the Earthly incarnation of an ancient evil by the name of Sateen – an intergalactic supernatural entity who was vanquished many light years ago. Katy possesses tremendous powers making her capable of great destruction – powers which some are keen to eradicate, and some to harness…

A veritable cult phenomenon thanks to its recent re-discovery, The Visitor combines stunning imagery, incredible set-pieces alongside a truly jaw-dropping cast list which includes John Huston, Mel Ferrer, Shelley Winters and Franco Nero appearing as Jesus!

 

The film is released in a BD and DVD combo pack and contains the following extras..

 

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements<
• Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Interview with Star Lance Henriksen
• Interview with Screenwriter Lou Comici
• Interview with Cinematographer Ennio Guarnieri
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Erik Buckman
• Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film and more!

 

Next up is "The Incredible Melting Man", featuring the work of special effects legend Rick Baker.

When spacecraft Scorpio V returns to Earth following a mission to Saturn, two of the crew are dead and the third, astronaut Steve West, is in a critical condition. Critical, that is, until he rises from his hospital bed to bite chunks out of a nurse before escaping into the surrounding countryside. The authorities set about trying to track Steve down before he claims any other victims, but they don’t know the really bad news yet -  Steve is also highly radioactive!

The Incredible Melting Man offers up a wealth of show-stopping B-movie moments in its relatively modest running time – chief among them, the scene in which a disembodied head floats down a river only to smash messily on the rocks further downstream – but the real star of the show here is Baker’s ultra-icky special effects work which let you see the Melting Man’s transition in all its gooey, glistening glory.

The film is also released in a BD/DVD combo pack. Extras include

•High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements
• Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio Commentary with William Sachs
• Super 8 digest version of the film
• Interview with Writer/Director William Sachs and Make-up Effects Artist Rick Baker
• Interview with Make-up Effects Artist Greg Cannom
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
• Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film and more!

 

Lastly there's "Naked City".  Set in New York, in the middle of summer. A blonde ex-model is murdered in her bathtub and detectives Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and Halloran (Don Taylor) are assigned to the case. Their investigation will lead them through the entire city, from Park Avenue to the Lower East Side, culminating in a thrilling climax atop the Williamsburg Bridge.

Inspired by the work of the infamous tabloid photographer Weegee, The Naked City was the first major Hollywood production to be shot entirely on the streets of New York, making use of more than a hundred authentic locations. Both its editing and its cinematographer would earn Academy Awards, while the film itself would be recognised by the Library of Congress as one of American cinema’s most significant motion pictures.

 

As with the other films, this is a BD/DVD combo pack release. Extras include...

 

• New high definition digital transfer of the film
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation
• Original mono 1.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
• Audio commentary by screenwriter Malvin Wald
• Jules Dassin at LACMA – a 40-minute interview with Bruce Goldstein in which the director discusses his career
• The Hollywood Ten – a 1950 documentary short on the ten filmmakers blacklisted from Hollywood for their refusal to name names before the House of Un-American Activities, including The Naked City’s screenwriter, Albert Maltz
• Gallery of production stills by infamous photojournalist Weegee
• Theatrical trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring the original poster and newly commissioned artwork by Vladimir Zimakov
• Collector’s booklet containing new writing on the film by Alastair Philips, Barry Salt and Sergio Angelini, illustrated with original production stills.

 

Pre-order "The Visitor" BD/DVD from Amazon.co.uk

 

Pre-order "The Incredible Melting Man" from Amazon.co.uk

 

Pre-Order "The Naked City" from Amazon.co.uk

 

 

 



"Horns" - new UK quad poster released.

Lionsgate films have just unveiled the Main UK Trailer and Main UK Poster for Alexandre Aja's HORNS. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple and Max Minghella.

From master-of-horror Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) comes this supernatural, offbeat thriller starring beloved British actor Danielle Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Woman in Black) and the talented Juno Temple (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For).

 

Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe) is accused for the violent rape and killing of his girlfriend, Merrin Williams (Juno Temple). After a hard night of drinking, Ig awakens, hungover, to find horns growing out of his head; they have the ability to drive people to confess sins and give in to selfish impulses. Ig decides to use this effective tool to discover the circumstances of his girlfriend's death and to seek revenge by finding the true murderer.

 

Daniel and Juno lead an all-star cast with strong support from David Morse (The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker) and Heather Graham (The Hangover I&II, Boogie Nights).

 

HORNS is based on the dark fantasy novel of the same name from New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart Shaped Box) with a screenplay by Keith Burnin. Alexandre Aja, Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland and Cathy Schulman produce.

 

The film is released into UK cinemas, Wednesday, 29 October.

View the trailer on YouTube.

 

"The Pyramid" - new poster and trailer released

Twentieth Century Fox have just released the brand new trailer and poster for the upcoming horror "THE PYRAMID". Produced by Alexandre Aja and directed by Grégory Levasseur.

 

 

 

"THE PYRAMID" stars James Buckley, Ashley Hinshaw and Denis O'Hare and will be released in UK cinemas on 5th December 2014.

A KILLER RETURNS in Kathy Reichs' "BONES NEVER LIE"

Enter into an unsolved Temperance Brennan murder investigation. "Bones Never Lie", published in hardback by William Heinemann on 11 September 2014, is the gripping new Temperance Brennan novel from the world class forensic anthropologist and No. 1 bestselling author of "Deja Dead", "Monday Mourning" and "Bones of the Lost Kathy Reichs", who also inspired the hit TV series "Bones".

 

In eager anticipation of Kathy Reichs' new novel, Penguin Random House are today launching a chilling, interactive murder investigation that will be hosted on Kathy Reichs’  Facebook Page .

 

Users will be invited to delve into the cold case investigation from Monday Mourning that has returned to haunt Dr Temperance Brennan a decade later in Bones Never Lie. There will be 5 questions to answer, with a new clue appearing every few days. Each correctly answered questions counts as an entry into the grand prize draw.

 

By following clues that each lead to new vital information in the investigation, users will help Brennan back to her deadliest suspect to date…the only killer to ever get away and who has now come back.

 

Don’t miss out on the chance to win an ipad mini or a signed copy of Kathy Reich’s phenomenal new novel Bones Never Lie. Follow this link https://a.pgtb.me/1gwWTS to find out how to get involved in the investigation and enter the competition. #BonesNeverLie

 

Author Biography: Kathy Reichs' first book, Deja Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Reichs is a consultant on the TV series Bones, which features Temperance Brennan.

Visit  www.kathyreichs.com / Follow @KathyReichs / Like Kathy Reichs on Facebook

 

Pre-order your copy of Bones Never Lie here: Amazon.co.uk

 

"Edge of Tomorrow" comes to UK disc and VOD October.

Live, Die, Repeat when "Edge of Tomorrow" arrives onto Digital HD on 29th September and Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and Limited Edition Blu-ray 3D & Blu-ray Combo Pack Steelbook on 13th October, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

 

The epic action of "Edge of Tomorrow" unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world.  Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission.

 

Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.

 

Directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith), "Edge of Tomorrow" stars Oscar nominee Tom Cruise (Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire, Magnolia) and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Adjustment Bureau).

BLU-RAY AND DVD ELEMENTS

Edge of Tomorrow Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and Limited Edition Steelbook contain the following special features:
• Operation Downfall - Adrenaline Cut
• Storming The Beach
• Weapons Of The Future
• Creatures Not Of This World
• On The Edge With Doug Liman
• Deleted Scenes

Edge of Tomorrow Standard Definition DVD contains the following special features:
• Weapons Of The Future
• Creatures Not Of This World

 

Buy the UK BD 3D/2D combo pack at Amazon.co.uk

Buy the UK 2D BD at Amazon.co.uk

Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Girls & Corpses teams with TomCat Films to create new horror label

Girls and Corpses Magazine has entered into a partnership with TomCat Films to release a slate of original indie horror films. “Girls and Corpses Presents” will be displayed at the front of films approved for release and sanctioned as meeting the high standards of the worldwide newsstand magazine phenomenon, Girls and Corpses, founded by Robert “Corpsy” Rhine.

Following the labels created by Fangoria and Bloody-Disgusting.com, Girls and Corpses Presents will release four acquisitions a year to coincide with each quarterly issue of the printed magazine.  In addition to releasing on DVD and Blu-Ray, the company is in talks with major digital and online streaming companies to create a dedicated channel of content curated by the Girls and Corpses Team.

The Girls and Corpses Presents  label will be unveiled at this year’s AFM under the TomCat Films banner to foreign buyers. Girls and Corpses is sold on newsstands worldwide and is also translated into German, “The way is already paved internationally for the new film label,” says TomCat’s President, Ted Chalmers.

The first DVD release to be flying the Girls and Corpses banner, will be Unfiltered Entertainment’s Blood Rites, directed by Dorothy Booraem, who co-wrote the project with Producer Chad Haufschild.  The team previously collaborated on microbudget smash success, Wake The Witch. Blood Rites is a macabre treat inspired by Giallo, a terrifying genre popularized by masters such as Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. The film will be released via DVD in December of 2014. Blood Rites will be followed up, under the Girls and Corpses Presents slats, by The Meat Puppet, directed by Joe Valenti, a terrifying yarn featuring a host of celebrity cameos such as WCW’s April Hunter.

The team will also be producing original wraparound featurettes for each title. Chalmers and Corpsy promise to deliver content that is both “salacious and horrifying,” and will feature some of today’s hottest talent co-hosting each segment. Tera Patrick, among others, is currently attached to kick off the fun. TomCat Films just wrapped filming Aliens VS Titanic and Monster-Zilla, with Atomic Shark going into production next month.

The label also plans to jointly produce one original theatrical film for the label each year. The budgets will ranges from $1.2 million to $4.6 million. The first film on the production slate will be "CYSters," a dark horror/comedy exploring pregnancy and child birth. Girls and Corpses Productions has funded and green-lit the film, from a script by R.S. Rhine. Danielle Harris who’s last film, Among Friends, was released through Lionsgate, is in talks to direct.

Girls and Corpses Productions is also funding the completion of horror film 'Two Faced' starring Tony Todd, Daniel Baldwin, Jacqui Holland and Antwon Tanner in a Johnny Kearns film. The script by Rolo Velascoe is about a ruthless gold-digger in a gruesome tale of vanity. Produced by Ken Tayloe and Jacqui Holland of Violet Sky Productions.

TomCat Films LLC is a vertically integrated film sales, licensing and distribution company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona and affiliate locations in Beverly Hills, California, New York City, New York, and Selangor, Malaysia. Many of TomCat’s films can be seen on Netflix, InDemand, Family Video, Best Buy, Amazon and other establishments in the U.S./Canada and around the world. http://tomcatfilmsllc.com/

GIRLS and CORPSES MAGAZINE™ is an outrageous horror/comedy/art & music magazine distributed on newsstands internationally by Ingram, Diamond, PDG Annas International and also translated into German. Check out the madness here: http://girlsandcorpses.com/ 

Fright-Rags launches ltd ed "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil" apparel

Fright-Rags is paying tribute to one of the most celebrated horror-comedies of the last decade - 2010's Tucker & Dale vs. Evil - with a line of new apparel, including several limited edition pieces.

 

Eli Craig's Tucker & Dale vs. Evil stars Alan Tudyk ("Firefly") and Tyler Labine (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) as the titular friends whose vacation yields a body count when they're mistaken for murderous hillbillies by a group of college kids.

 

First up is a shirt designed by Justin Osbourn. Limited to 300 pieces, it's available on T-shirts, girl shirts and zip-up hoodies. There is an additional 200 on baseball tees as well.

 

Artists Abrar Ajmal and Tony Moore also contribute their takes on the lovable duo, along with an "Evil Ale" emblem shirt by Sam Kaufman. You can get each of these three designs on unisex or girls shirts.

 

Last but certainly not least, "GIV' ER" snap-back hats are up for grabs. These embroidered, trucker-style caps are modeled after the hat Dale wears in the film. Only 100 are being produced.

 

Pre-orders have launched on Fright-Rags.com. The limited edition  items may sell out before the pre-order period ends, so act fast if you want them. The products are expected to ship in early October.

 

Limited edition shirts and hats on sale now at the Fright Rags Website



 

 

 

 

 

 

"Woman in Black 2" - New UK trailer released.

Entertainment One is pleased to make available the first official teaser trailer of The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, starring Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine and Helen McCrory.

The film will be released to UK cinemas in 2015.

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Monster Movies - Music Video

Mark Mallman recently got in touch to tell us about his new horror themed music video "Monster Movies".

 

In this, a troubled musician finds himself kidnapped and transformed into a fire breathing Medusa. Now his only hope for survival is to lead his band of disco mummies though a macabre tribute to late 70s Glam.

 

“The goal was to make a song that could have been a hit in 1977, like a lost single. It felt important to make a video that reflected the campy sentiment of scary drive in movies.” He says.


 

His music/art experiments and retro-70s style has rocked the airwaves of countless radio and media outlets, as well as being written about by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, USA Today, Wired, NME, The Toronto Star, Chicago Sun-Times, the Denver Post and so on. Mallman continues,  "Now all I gotta do is invent a flux capacitor time machine, and start saving for a Delorean.”

 

Anyway, you can check out his video below.

Visit his website at http://www.markmallman.com/

"The Sleeping Room" - Frightfest premiere and publicity kickstarter.

After its recent crowdfunding success -  becoming the first feature film to equity crowdfund online* (using the Seedrs platform), ‘The Sleeping Room’ has now launched a Kickstarter campaign to build its audience and raise vital P&A funds.

Ahead of its World Premiere screening at this year’s Film4 FrightFest, Producer Gareth I Davies said today: “We’re really excited to be bringing The Sleeping Room to Kickstarter at this stage in its life.

So many films fail at the final hurdles of sales and distribution through lack of resources, and it really needn’t be that way. In this climate it’s logical that audiences should be the ones dictating which screens a film makes it out onto, both big and small.”

Director John Shackleton commented: “Retaining the spirit of independence through which this film was created, it now makes perfect sense for us to be the ones responsible for creating a really interesting campaign, attempting to engage with audiences across all platforms, before the film is released.”

The producers are considering their current distribution opportunities, with a view to releasing the film in the UK and US in early 2015.

View the trailer on YouTube

For more info visit the films Facebook and Twitter pages

The Sleeping Room campaign has now launched on Kickstarter at- http://thesleepingroom.com/ks

"Horns" new posters released

Lionsgate films UK are pleased to release two brand new Character Posters for Alexandre Aja's "HORNS". Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple and Max Minghella.

 

 

The film is released into UK cinemas on Wednesday, 29 October, 2014.

View the trailer on YouTube.

"Werewolf Rising" - UK DVD review

Coming to UK DVD this September. Set in the backwoods of Arkansas, the film starts with some rather unsavoury character, who’s about to commit some sort of violent assault on a young woman. But before he can do anything, his “fun” is ruined by some wild animal, which bursts out of the scrub and attacks them both.

 

Having set the general tone, we’re then introduced to the films main character Emma (Melissa Carnell – “Humans Vs Zombies”), whos returned to her childhood home in the nearby town. There she meets her old neighbour Wayne (Bryan Berry) and his nephew Johnny Lee (Matt Kopco). Though there seems to be some strange animosity between Wayne and Johnny, which is made all the stranger when Wayne hands Emma a gun to use in case Johnny comes back.

 

But Johnny isn’t the one Emma needs to worry about. Seems uncle Wayne has a bit of a seedy past himself. And to top it all off, as there appears to be a werewolf on the prowl and is looking at either killing, or turning into his own kind, as many other people that he can hunt down.

 

Borrowing bits and pieces from “The Howling”, the film starts quite well, but then seems to slow down and doesn’t really pick up again till near the end. Whilst I thought the werewolf creature was quite effective, there just seemed to be these really long periods where not much happens, with the main focus of the film being on the developing relationship between Emma and Johnny as they become friends.

 

The film more or less held my interest for its duration, but suffers badly from slow pacing. Fans of low budget Werewolf films will probably enjoy it.

 

As for the disc itself, the DVD was bare bones and did not contain any supplemental material.

 

Werewolf Rising comes to UK DVD on the 8^th September from Image Entertainment.

 

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

 

 

Michael Armstrong To Publish His Entire Screen Play Output

As part of his 'The Correct Perspective' campaign for screen writers to be entitled to the same rights and appraisal accorded to stage writers, genre movie legend Michael Armstrong will make history by being the first screen writer to publish his entire set of filmed and unfilmed screen plays in their original uncut texts before front office changes and including all missing scenes and dialogue, thereby enabling readers to experience the films exactly as he intended them for an audience.

 

Published in the same font and precise page layout of Armstrong's unique writing style, each title will be accompanied by a detailed writing history as to its sources and creative problems, front office cuts, changes and alterations, casting choices, production history and an outline of the circumstances that led to certain screen plays ending up on a screen, others being shelved, and many never actually having even been read by anyone in the industry.

 

Amongst them will be the genre classics: "Mark Of The Devil" with its missing end scene; his original 1960 screen play "The Dark" which he wrote at the age of fifteen and would later direct with imposed front office alterations under the title "The Haunted House Of Horror" in 1968; the portfolio trilogy "Screamtime" with all its episodes uncut and with his original unfilmed written links; "The Black Panther" with its numerous missing scenes; his original thirty minute screenplay of "The Image", the David Bowie short he directed; "Eskimo Nell" with detailed cuts and changes that took place during production plus his original draft under the working title, "The Movie Makers"; the little seen comic documentary "It Could Happen To You" and the missing short he directed, "The Hunt", together with the ill-fated "The Enchanted Orchestra", and Sex Pistols film, "A Star Is Dead", and many more; famous, infamous and unknown titles.

 

The first exclusive A4 hardback editions of the forty plus titles will have a strictly limited print run, black cloth cover with gold foil embossing and sewn bound pages, building over the coming months into a unique collectors' library set of Armstrong's complete written works for the cinema, with each copy signed by Armstrong himself.

 

Selected titles will also contain hitherto unseen stills, off-set photographs, and some of Armstrong's own full colour original art work, storyboards, set and costume designs.

 

The screen plays will be published by London Repertory Company to whom Armstrong has donated all royalties, with proceeds going towards their efforts to regenerate traditional repertory theatre and allied apprenticeship training in the UK.

 

Individual titles will be released in no particular order, starting with his 1982 multi award-winning classic, tongue-in-cheek parody of "Old Dark House" horror movies, House Of The Long Shadows, written specifically for the four great horror legends, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine, and directed by genre favourite Pete Walker in 1983.

 

House Of The Long Shadows is now available.  It will be followed shortly by his 1969 unfilmed horror comedy take on 50s and 60s TV Westerns: Ghost Town.

 

For further information, please visit www.michaelarmstrong.co.uk/publications

Xmoor - theatrical trailer

A new theatrical trailer has just hit the web for Luke Hyams "Xmoor" which will be receiving its premiere at this years "Frightfest".

XMOOR - Trailer from The Fyzz Facility on Vimeo.

For more info on the premiere, visit the Frightfest website.

Heavy Metal and Asylum Press join forces!

Heavy Metal and Asylum Press have joined forces to bring you Heavy metal #271--The Asylum Press Special!--a sci-fi/horror spectacular that is sure to erupt your deviant mind.

Featuring all new stories from the Asylum inmates: Steve Mannion (Fearless Dawn, Fear Agent) delivers a nod to Moebius in "Praye"r… a Fearless Dawn yarn, William Broad gives us "Priests of the Black Death" where an order of the Templars has become corrupt and power hungry…for satanism and witchcraft! Dwayne Harris (Black Powder, Amnesia) serves up the post apocalyptic action thriller "Dangerous Curves". Frank Forte and Tim Vigil (Faust, Gothic Knights) drops a sick and twisted tale entitled "Allison", David Hartman (Phantasm V, Transformers:Prime) delivers a short horror story entitled "Pond Scum" where hillbillies hunt for an illusive bog creature. 

 

Hilary Barta churns up an EC-styled sci-fi/horror piece called "Evaluation", Robert S. Rhine (Girls and Corpses) and Frank Forte (Asylum Press) knock out a tale of crazed sideshow freaks tabbed "Separation Anxiety", Elizabeth J. Musgrave (Hell Comes to Hollywood, Farmhouse) conjures an erotic robotic thriller "LUST, Lingerie and Diodes"!.  "Mutation" is a tale of demented sex in a post-nuke world by Forte and J.C. Wong. Royal McGraw and Adauto Silva invoke "Feast", after the zombie apocalypse, cities have been rebuilt… and restaurants have opened. One chef must prepare a very special meal.

 

Comics from a cast of international talent that includes: "In The Green Fairy", by Jason Paulos (EEEK!), Struggling artist Anton Goffroy finds heaven and hell in the arms of a mysterious sorceress!, "Swamp Girl" takes us back to a barbarian era where a young girl finds more than she’s looking for in a watery hole of horrors, by Frank Forte and Fabio Nahon, , "Warlash" by Nenad Gucunja (Undead Evil), Sacro Profano by Mirka and "Mother" by Mark Covell (Family Guy, Satan’s Circus of Hell).  Gallery sections include concept artist Ben Olson (The Suffering, Area 51:Blacksite) and fine artist Dave Lebow (La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Dexter TV series).  This issue is sure to please fans of the dark, the psychotic and the horror. 

 

Beautiful cover art by none other than the U.K.'s own Aly Fell (Zombie Terrors, Imagine FX).

“I’m excited to have been able to put together one of my favorite magazines,” explains guest editor Frank Forte, “everyone worked really heard to deliver an issue of Heavy Metal that will be sure to please fans old and new.”

David Hartman took a break from directing Phantasm V: Ravager to complete an all-new 4-page horror story entitled Pond Scum for the issue. David says, "I grew up with Heavy Metal. I would study the art in them for hours upon hours and there was nothing else like it out there. It was a big part of my childhood and I am honored to be a part of the magazine now."

Heavy Metal #271 can be pre-ordered at your local comic store during the month of August. Just use Diamond Ordercode: AUG141519. The issue will be on sale at newsstands early Oct. 2014.

Diamond Comics Previews gave HM #271 a “Staff Pick”http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/941?articleID=150905

Heavy Metal #271 (Asylum Press Special) can be previewed at the following link:http://asylumpress.blogspot.com/2014/08/heavy-metal-and-asylum-press-join.html

 

 

 

FREAKTOWN COMICS PRESENT: SLASHERMANIA

1983. Troubled teens from New York and Los Angeles are taken to a summer camp facility to be trained as counsellors and mix safely with other people their own age. Little do they know they are being watched by an audience hungry for sex and violence. They are the designated victims for a bizarre contest of murder and mayhem – WELCOME TO SLASHERMANIA!

Masked maniacs from across the USA, Canada, Italy & the UK compete in various categories: best Male Solo Death! Best Female Solo Death! Coitus Interruptus! Sin Punishment! Most Creative Kill! Biggest Multiple Death! The coveted Slasher of the Year award!

“And the Slashie goes to...”

Slashermania is an original graphic novel in the tradition of the classic slasher movies of the eighties. Written by Russell Hillman, with art by Ron Joseph, Jake Isenberg and Harry Saxon, and letters by Sergio Calvet.

For more details, including release dates and preview art, follow Freaktown Comics on Twitter or find them on Facebook.

Kaleidoscope to release "Sharknado 2" in the UK

From the makers of cult hit "Sharknado", comes an adventure sequel full of screams, bloodbaths and bite. The sharks are back in "SHARKNADO 2: THE SECOND ONE" – a gripping sci-fi thriller that sees the return of Ian Ziering and Tara Reid from the original.

Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering, Sharknado, 90210) and his ex-wife April (Tara Reid, Sharknado, American Pie) are flying to New York City when their plane enters the most unnatural of storms and is battered by airborne sharks.

As blood is shed and passengers are maimed in the skies, New York awakens and people spill onto the streets, unaware of the peril descending rapidly towards them. Armed with weapons and explosives, Fin realises he must risk all to save his sister’s family from the greatest of danger as floods and storms crash into the city.

 

Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment is pleased to announce the UK release of "SHARKNADO 2: THE SECOND ONE" available on UK DVD and digitally 3 November 2014.

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

Filming wraps on 'epic' space adventure "Aliens Vs Titanic"

Former adult star turned mainstream actress Bree Olson has competed filming with Robert "Corpsy Rhine (who plays the Captain of the Titanic) in "Aliens VS Titanic" for TOMCAT Films/Sterling Entertainment and directed by Jeff Leroy.

Offering only the finest amenities, the ‘TITAN 1C’ space-cruiser is considered the most luxurious star-liner ever built. Future spring-breakers on board are excited to be touring through space with some of the world’s elite.

 

When a sudden meteor storm smashes into the hull, a deadly biological alien life-form is let loose on the ship. Seeking a suitable host, the retrovirus successfully merges with some the passengers, transforming them into seemingly invincible predators with the “touch of death”. As the ship is destroyed, the surviving passengers crash on a remote planet, and they learn that one of them is “infected”. They must quickly band together before it has a chance to slaughter them all.

 

Robert "Corpsy" Rhine (who is also the Deaditor-In-Chief of Girls and Corpses Magazine) has starred in several movies for TomCat Films and Sterling Entertainment, including: Dracula's Sorority Sisters, Nazi Dawn, Revenge of The Snake Woman, Angel Of Darkeness: The Legend of Lillith (opposite Tera Patrick), Disaster Wars and Grand Auto Theft.

Bree Olson has gone from one of the most famous adult stars to appearing in mainstream projects such as "Live Nude Girls" and the soon to be released "The Human Centipede III"

Layla Pryce is a successful adult star most recently featured in The Huffington Post.

Aliens VS Titanic also stars: Kelly Decker, Brenton Jones, Jin N Tonic, Harlan Post and Wiliam Greer.

 

For more info visit the Official Website

"Evil Feed" first look trailer

Coming soon to UK VOD, The Long Pig Restaurant, known in the underground world for its cannibalistic cuisine has a new star attraction, the “Pit of Gore” where blood thirsty customers get to watch their prospective meals being tenderized as captured elite fighters are forced to battle to the death as their “Tendertainment!”

 

In the vein of Grind House cinema, "EVIL FEED" is an over the top, laugh out loud, action gore flick that’s guaranteed to make you cringe. check out the trailer below...

 

 

SLEDGE comes to US DVD and VOD.

"SLEDGE", a ‘bloody’ good horror-comedy in the tradition of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Shaun of the Dead, premieres in the US on VOD September 2nd and DVD on October 7th.

A spoof of the horror genre, and littered with nods and references to fright flicks of yesteryear, the film fixes on a psychopath who not only believes he’s in a movie and video game but that he’s the hero of this story.

“Sledge is a horror comedy that takes a loving poke to the horror classics we all grew up with”, says writer and co-director Kristian Hanson. “Adam Lynch is an original slasher who loves to talk and make jokes as he viciously mutilates the dumb campers who always return to a site of mass murders for no apparent reason.”

“The overall idea was to make a horror film that I would want to see. I love horror comedy and instead of having the typical brooding giant mute, I went for the funny and psychotic killer who always seems to be shorter than his victims. I wanted to pay homage to the greats like Jason, Freddy, Leatherface and Pinhead but put my own personal spin on it with my type of inappropriate humor. Adam Lynch is a slasher that brings the funny and the body count.”

SLEDGE is directed by John B Sovie II and Kristian Hanson, and stars Dustin Bowman, Stephanie Tupper, Rachel Cornell and Hanson as Adam Lynch.

 

View the trailer on YouTube

 

Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com

 

 

"Ninja Apocalypse" - slashing its way onto UK DVD September

DEVASTATION. MUTATION. TERMINATION - Coming to UK DVD this September...

 

Framed for assassinating Grandmaster Fumitaka (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - 47 Ronin, Mortal Kombat), Cage (Christian Oliver - Valkyrie), his brother Surge (Les Brandt - The Resolve) and the rest of the Lost Ninja Clan must battle their way through an underground nuclear bunker filled with hordes of supernatural enemies, mutants, and flesh eating zombies.

 

Pursued by Hiroshi’s (Ernie Reyes Jr. - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II) unstoppable Ninja army with orders to hunt them down. Trapped a thousand feet below the earth's crust, the Lost Clan will face hell.

 

Signature Entertainment releases NINJA APOCALYPSE on DVD and Download to Own and Rent on the 15th September 2014

View the trailer on YouTube

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

"The Pact 2" - UK Theatrical Trailer

The new UK theatrical trailer for "The Pact 2", which comes out this Autumn, has just hit the web. Check it out below...

"From Dusk till Dawn" the TV series comes to UK DVD

Cult-classic "From Dusk Till Dawn" comes to the small screen with bigger action, more gore and an expanded look at the film's characters as they embark on a frightening journey into the depths of the Titty Twister.

 

"From Dusk Till Dawn"  - Series One is centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko (DJ Cotrona "Gi Joe - Retaliation") and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard “Richie” Gecko (Zane Holtz - "Vampires Suck"), who are wanted by the FBI and Texas Rangers Earl McGraw (Don Johnson - TVs "Miami Vice") with his deputy Freddie Gonzalez (Jesse Garcia - "Avengers Assemble") after a bank heist leaves several people dead.

 

While on the run to Mexico, Seth and Richie encounter former pastor Jacob Fuller (Robert Patrick - "Terminator 2") and his family, whom they take hostage. Using the family RV to cross the border, chaos ensues when the group detours to a strip club that is populated by vampires. They are forced to fight until dawn in order to get out alive.

 

The series deepens the tone and expands the storyline of the film, adds new characters and backstories, and explores the Mesoamerican mythology behind the creatures inside the club.

 

With more excitement, and a compelling back story, the show takes us up close and personal with the vicious vampires from the 1996 film and ramps up the gore and tension whilst keeping the darkly comical tone set by the Rodriguez/ Tarantino original.

 

Already renewed for a second season, "From Dusk Till Dawn" Series One is a must for fans who like their TV shows dark and twisted.

 

Special Features on the discs include:

Audio Commentaries
Full length trailer
“Best Kills” video
On Set: Episode 1 Day 1
The Making of From Dusk Till Dawn
Behind the Scenes: on set brought to you by General Motors
Behind the Scenes: on set brought to you by Dos Equis
Character Bio Featurettes
General Motors Commercial featuring Seth Gecko
Dos Equis Commercial featuring Carlos Madrigal
Big Kahuna Commercial
“Whats in the briefcase” spot
SXSW Featurette
Q&A from Premiere at Almo Drafthouse with Robert Rodriguez and cast

"From Dusk till Dawn" - Series 1 is released to UK DVD Sept 22nd from Entertainment One.

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

"Lead Me to the Dark" - Crowdfunding campaign

Director James Twyman recently got in touch to tell us about his new vampire film "LEAD ME TO THE DARK", which is currently in production.

 

"LEAD ME TO THE DARK" is the story of AMY COLE, an investigative reporter whose life is turned upside down when her daughter LILY-MAE is struck with terminal cancer. Using ever resource she has she desperately tries to find something that can save her child, be it an untested drug, a new therapy... even a miracle will do.

 

As she searches she stumbles upon a dark and secret world that may hold the key to LILY-MAE's survival, but by the time she's done... she may wish she had let her daughter die.

 

The creatures that inhabit this dark culture are vampires, and not the ones we are used to in books and films. These cold super predators control everything from politics to trafficking, cultivating mankind to think they are free, making them easier to use.

 

They agree to turn LILY-MAE in return for the use of AMY's unique set of skills, a deal that takes AMY deeper in to the bloody, horrible and frightening world of the vampire.

 

The film is currently looking for funding to enable its completion, via its Crowdfunding Site.

 

More info on this film can be found at its official Facebook page.

 

View the teaser trailer on YouTube