Circus Kane premiering on US VOD this September

From Uncork'd Entertainment and DeInstitutionalized comes the it horror movie of fall, Circus Kane premiering on VOD 9/8.

The notorious and disgraced circus master, Balthazar Kane, invites an unsuspecting group of social media stars to the revival of his CIRCUS KANE by promising $250,000 to any of them who can make it through the night. 

Kane’s true plan quickly proves to be far more sinister as the contestants realize more than money is on the line. The group must fight for their lives to escape Kane’s demented house of horrors.

Jonathan Lipnicki (Jerry Maguire) and Mark Christopher Lawrence (Cooties) head up the cast of Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray’s fantastic frighthouse Circus Kane, on US VOD this September.

James Cullen Bressack and Zack Ward scripted, based on a story by Sean Sellars. Gerald Webb, Christopher Ray and James Cullen Bressack produce.

View the trailer on YouTube

George A. Romero Between Night & Dawn - Out 23rd October

Three films from the late, legendary horror director, George A. Romero, showing that although he might have defined zombie cinema, it didn’t define him.  There’s Always Vanilla, Season of the Witch and The Crazies, made between Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, showcase the extraordinary versatility and dynamism of this irreplaceable American auteur.  

When George A. Romero passed away in July, the film world didn’t just lose its beloved ‘King of Zombies’, but also a groundbreaking and fearless innovator who inspired not only generations of genre directors, but also experimental and guerilla filmmakers for whom he laid down the template. 

The three films collected in this box set - two early Seventies ‘lost films’ and a classic plague panic thriller - show there’s more to the legendary director than simply gut-munching ghouls. The comedy romance There’s Always Vanilla, psychological thriller Season of the Witch, and infection horror The Crazies - all filmed in and around Pittsburgh - serve to display the broader thematic concerns and auteurist leanings of a skilled craftsman too often pigeonholed within the genre; that said, The Crazies is one of his strongest horror offerings, with memorable performances from Lynn Lowry and Richard Liberty.

Romero managed to inject his films with subtle social allegories, nuanced examinations of the human condition, and just the right amount of black humour, so that they were immediately recognisable as his and his alone. The box set showcases the director feeling his way towards the mainstream and showing a formidable assurance in three very distinct genres.

This fantastic box set includes brand new restorations of the three films, a lavish 60-page booklet featuring new writing on this fascinating chapter of Romero’s career, a wealth of extras including interviews, featurettes and behind the scenes documentaries, reversible sleeves for all three films featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork, and a beautifully designed and striking slipcase featuring an iconic image of the man himself. 

Limited Edition Contents:

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard DVD presentations

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Reversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx

Limited Edition 60-page booklet featuring new writing on the films

THERE’S ALWAYS VANILLA

Brand new 2K restoration from the original negative

Brand new audio commentary by Travis Crawford

Brand new interviews with actors Judith Ridley and Richard Ricci, producer Russ Streiner and sound recordist Gary Streiner

Digging Up the Dead – The Lost Films of George A. Romero – archive interview with Romero looking at his early films There’s Always Vanilla and Season of the Witch Trailer

Trailer

SEASON OF THE WITCH

Brand new 4K restoration from original film elements

Alternate extended cut

Brand new audio commentary by Travis Crawford

When Romero met Del Toro – celebrated filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro sits down with George Romero for this candid career-spanning conversation

The Secret Life of Jack's Wife – archive interview with actress Jan White

Alternate Opening Titles

Trailers

THE CRAZIES

Brand new 4K restoration from original film elements

Brand new audio commentary by Travis Crawford

Romero Was Here – featurette revisiting The Crazies filming locations in Evans City, PA

Never Before Seen BTS footage

2016 Q&A with Lynn Lowry from Abertoir Film Festival

Alternate Opening Titles

Trailers

Pre-order the UK BD/DVD box set from Amazon.co.uk

LEATHERFACE - Horror Channel FrightFest 2017 World Premiere 25th August

The eagerly-awaited, nerve-shattering prequel to the legendary The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, exploring the chilling origin of the fearsome horror icon, from the directors of the extreme French masterpiece Inside. 

A young nurse is kidnapped by four violent teens after they escape from a psychiatric hospital, and take her on a road trip to hell. Pursued by an equally deranged, trigger-happy lawman out for revenge, one of these teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind - moulding him into the monster we now know as Leatherface.

When the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre burst onto the screen in 1974, a new horror legend was born, in the form of a mumbling, bumbling, flesh-masked, chainsaw wielding maniac - Leatherface! Seven films and untold gruesome deaths later, audiences can finally find out who lurks behind the mask - and how he got there, in this stylish, scary and blood-soaked prequel.

The directors - masters of horror Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury - are a perfect fit for the material, having shocked audiences with their 2007 gory Gallic debut Inside, described by Twitch as ‘one of the harshest, most brutal and disturbing things to hit celluloid in recent years’.  Here, the pair deliver brooding menace and nightmarish psychological horror, all the while ratcheting up the tension to the ninth degree.

With a fantastic cast - including genre favourites Stephen Dorff (Blade) and Lili Taylor (The Conjuring), as well as Game of Thrones star Finn Jones, this is a worthy addition to the Chainsaw franchise, and a thrilling examination of the genesis of a monster ranked alongside Freddy and Jason as one of the greatest horror characters ever.

Getting its world premiere on Friday 25th August at this year’s prestigious Horror Channel FrightFest 2017 in London, this is a big moment in the annals horror cinema - the unmasking of a maniac - that will have horror fans drooling with delight.

A Millennium Films production, directed by Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo from the screenplay by Seth M. Sherwood, based on the characters created by Kim Henkle & Tobe Hooper.

The behind-the-scenes team fulfilling the vision of acclaimed French directors Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo includes director of photography Antoine Sanier, production designer Alain Bainee, editors Sebastien De Saint Croix & Josh Ethier and costume designer Ina Damyanova with casting by Jeremy Zimmermann and music by David Buckley.

LEATHERFACE will receive its world premiere at Horror Channel FrightFest 2017 on Friday 25th August, and will release on DVD & Blu-ray 9th January 2018 courtesy of Lionsgate UK and Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK. 


For more infromation on this and other films at this years FrightFest, and to buy tickets, visit http://www.frightfest.co.uk/

Vestron Collectors Series - Coming from Lionsgate UK

Lionsgate UK proudly presents four newly restored Vestron Collectors Series horrors: Blood Diner, CHUD II: Bud the Chud, Return of the Living Dead 3, Waxwork on Blu-ray on 28th August.

BLOOD DINER 
Restored and remastered, this UNRATED VERSION has never been on Blu-ray! 

Grab a table at the BLOOD DINER—a cut above the rest! The Tutman Brothers run the most popular restaurant in town. Popular, that is, if you’re the county coroner! 

The “Head” chef has a real human touch with his special recipes - a killer line-up of delicacies made from human flesh! One of the most insane and over-the-top horror comedies ever made, BLOOD DINER is presented here fully uncut, restored from original vault materials, and features a buffet of tasty new supplemental features you’ll just die for!

Special Features:
AUDIO COMMENTARY with Director Jackie Kong
FEATURETTES: “Queen Kong,” “The Cook, The Uncle, and The Detective,” “Open for Business,” “Scoring for Sheetar,” “You Are What They Eat!”
ARCHIVAL INTERVIEW with Project Consultant Eric Caidin
THEATRICAL TRAILER
TV SPOTS
STILL GALLERY

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C.H.U.D. II: BUD THE CHUD

Restored and remastered and for the first time on Blu-ray! 

Kevin, Steve, and Katie are an inseparable trio of friends doing some extracurricular snooping in the school science lab when, among the test tubes and beakers, they discover a corpse! But before they can say “Abra Cadaver,” the body disappears, rolling down Route 51 strapped to a gurney. The kids need a spare stiff, and fast. 

What they find is “Bud the Chud,” a half-dead decomposing humanoid, the result of a military experiment gone haywire. When Bud sets out on a killing spree, the kids, the army, the police, and the FBI are hot on his trail, trying to save the entire town from becoming “Chudified!”

  UNRATED VERSION!
• First time on Blu-ray
• Limited edition Collector's Series
• NEW Vestron Video Collector's Edition packaging
• Restored and remastered
Special Features:
AUDIO COMMENTARY with Director David Irving
INTERVIEWS: Actor Gerrit Graham, Actress Tricia Leigh Fisher, Special Effects Artist Allan Apone
VIDEO TRAILER
STILL GALLERY

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RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3

Restored and remastered and for the first time on Blu-ray!
 

In Return of the Living Dead Part II, the chemical Trioxin turned people into flesh-eating zombies. Now, the government is trying to control these unstoppable cannibalistic killers in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3. 

When a young man uses the chemical to bring his girlfriend back to life after a motorcycle accident, she is driven to eat the only thing that will nourish her... human brains! She tries to stop her own feeding frenzy but a chain reaction has already begun, as hordes of undead are unleashed from their graves!

Special Features:
AUDIO COMMENTARY with Director Brian Yuzna, Actress Melinda Clarke, Make-Up Effects Supervisor Tom Rainone
A CONVERSATION with Director Brian Yuzna and Screenwriter John Penney
INTERVIEWS with Special Effects Artists Steve Johnson and Chris Nelson
INTERVIEWS with Production Executive David Tripet and Editor/Post-Production Supervisor Christopher Roth
THEATRICAL TRAILERS
STILL GALLERY

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WAXWORK

Restored and remastered! 

Inside the wax museum a group of teenagers are aghast at the hauntingly life like wax displays of Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and other character members of the Horror Hall of Fame. Each display is perfectly grotesque, yet each is missing one thing . . . a victim! 

Admission to the WAXWORK was free but now they may pay with their lives! One by one, the students are drawn in as objects of the bloodthirsty creatures. They are now part of the permanent collection!
 

Special Features:
AUDIO COMMENTARY with Anthony Hickox & Zach Galligan
THEATRICAL TRAILER
STILL GALLERY
FEATURETTES: “The Waxwork Chronicles” (Parts 1–6), The Making of Waxwork

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Lionsgate UK presents the remastered and restored Blood Diner, C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud, Return of the Living Dead 3 and Waxwork on Blu-ray on August 28th, 2017

Horror Channel FrightFest 2017 reveals guest-list

Kane Hodder, Joe Lynch, Adam Green, Don Mancini, Jennifer Tilly, Fiona Dourif, Barbara Crampton, Dominic Brunt, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Annette Crosbie and Steven Berkoff amongst monster guest-list.

View the event trailer...

It’s been five years since Don Mancini and Fiona Dourif raised the Empire roof with CURSE OF CHUCKY and this year they are joined by the irrepressible Jennifer Tilly for the opening World Premiere of CULT OF CHUCKY.  Also attending five years after his previous appearance will be the one and only Kane Hodder, Together with director Derek Dennis Herbert, Kane will be launching his remarkably honest and moving documentary TO HELL AND BACK: THE KANE HODDER STORY as well as supporting another returning favourite, director Adam Green, who will be here to launch his HATCHET redux.

You can’t have Green without Lynch, and ten years since they first put FrightFest on the international map with their brilliant ‘Road to FrightFest’ shorts, they are in the building, with Joe Lynch in town to big up his uber-exciting MAYHEM. And the bad boys of horror have something special planned – a live edition of their famous Movie Crypt Podcast.

Hollywood horror royalty Barbara Crampton lit up FrightFest in 2015 when she presented a record four of her latest releases and the popular icon is back with REPLACE, alongside the film’s director Norbert Keil. Barbara is also one of the NEW BLOOD mentors, alongside prolific 68 KILL producer Travis Stevens and ATTACK OF THE ADULT BABIES director and TV star Dominic Brunt. He will be joined for the film’s World Premiere by producer and actress Joanne Mitchell, and lead actress Sally Dexter. 

FrightFest has shown all of their previous movies, so it’s a special honour to welcome directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, who will be attending for the world premiere of their exceptional prequel LEATHERFACE, alongside cast members Vanessa Grasse, James Bloor and Jessica Madsen. Also welcome are director Tyler MacIntyre with his superb slasher satire TRAGEDY GIRLS and actor Graham Skipper with his directorial feature debut SEQUENCE BREAK. Another actor making his directorial debut is Jason Flemyng with his comedy horror EAT LOCALS, part of the ‘First Blood’ strand. Jason will introduce the film alongside the cast, including Annette Crosbie and Dexter Fletcher. 

Homegrown talent will be present in abundance this year. Director Christian James will introduce the world premiere of FANGED UP with cast members including Stu Bennett, Dapper Laughs (aka Daniel O'Reilly), Steven Berkoff, Danielle Harold, Dan Palmer and Aaron Crascell, DOUBLE DATE has been making a real splash on the current festival circuit and we are delighted to say hello to director Benjamin Barfoot and stars Danny Morgan, Michael Socha, Georgia Groome, and Kelly Wenham. Director Simon Rumley will do the honours for FASHIONISTA, as will director Dominic Bridges and star Mim Shaikh for FREEHOLD, Director Matthew Heaven and lead actor Oliver Towner for ACCOUNTABLE and director Tom Paton with lead actor Mike Beckingham for REDWOOD. Plus, Jake West and Marc Morris will be introducing their lovingly restored version of proto-giallo DEATH LAID AN EGG.

The FIRST BLOOD strand goes from strength to strength and all the helmers will be around, supported by their cast and crews. Aside from Jason Flemyng, there will be Louis Melville for BOOTS ON THE GROUND, Peter Stray for CANARIES, Hendrik Faller for MOUNTAIN FEVER and Michaël Boucherie for WHERE THE SKIN LIES.

And the list goes on. Internationally, Horror Channel FrightFest welcomes DEAD SHACK director Peter Ricq, DIANE director Mike Mongillo, BAD MATCH director David Chirchirillo, GAME OF DEATH co-directors Sebastian Landry and Laurence Morais-Legace, IMITATION GIRL director Natasha Kermani and star Lauren Ashley Carter, KING COHEN; THE WILD WORLD OF FILMMAKER LARRY COHEN director Steve Mitchell, LOWLIFE director Ryan Prows, RUIN ME director Preston DeFrancis, RADIUS co-directors Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, THE TERROR OF HALLOWS EVE director Todd Tucker. 3RD NIGHT director Adam Graveley, THE END? director Daniele Misischia and producers the Manetti Brothers, THE GLASS COFFIN director Haritz Zubillaga, MINDHACK director Royce Gorsuch, FREDDY/EDDY director Tini Tüllmann, OUR EVIL director Samuel Galli and INCONTROL director Kurtis David Harder.

 

In addition, we will be welcoming many producers, writers, cinematographers, special/visual effects artists and composers who will also be supporting their screenings.

PLUS, we are pleased to announce that we will be showing JACKALS, Kevin Greutert’s potent blend of horror thriller, home invasion terror and murder cult chiller. Starring Stephen Dorff and Deborah Kara Unger, this is a tense and claustrophobic experience that will shatter your nerves to the bone. Thanks goes to Tommy Alastra Productions. The film is scheduled for Saturday 25th August, 4pm and 4.30pm in the main screens at the Cineworld Leicester Square

And there’s more! Who will follow in the bloody footsteps of last year’s inaugural winner Alice Lowe? In its second year, The Screen International genre rising star award once again celebrates the work of an emerging UK genre talent, Hosted by film writer and Screen International contributing editor Nikki Baughan, this year’s five shortlisted nominees will be announced soon.

There’s also the launch of ‘The FrightFest Guide to Monster Movies’ by celebrated writer, editor & critic Michael Gingold, who will be present to sign copies of the book.  The book is exclusively on sale during the festival.

Horror Channel FrightFest runs from 24th -28th August 2016 at Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema.

Single tickets go on sale Sat 29 July at 9am and, alongside the few remaining Festival and day pass sales are available to buy online:  http://www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html

For full programme details and times go to: www.frightfest.co.uk 

IT - Official Trailer Released

Warner Bros. Pictures releases a new trailer for “IT”, as premiered at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.

New Line Cinema’s horror thriller “IT”, directed by Andrés Muschietti (“Mama”), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades.

When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries. 

“IT” will be released nationwide on 8 SEPTEMBER by Warner Bros. Pictures.

 

THE WALKING DEAD - SERIES 7 - coming to UK BD and DVD Sept

THE WALKING DEAD returns with its most shocking series to date as Negan’s savage rule forces the residents of Alexandria to their emotional and physical limits. On UK DVD and Blu-ray, which includes over two hours of featurettes plus over four hours of audio commentary and deleted scenes.  

THE WALKING DEAD’s record breaking series 7 premiere dramatically kicked off as Negan brutally forced Rick and Alexandria to fall under his will after killing two fan favourites in the highest rated episode to date. After the Saviours impose cruel and corrupt rule upon Alexandria, Rick realises that Negan cannot be reasoned with. He and his group have to prepare to go to war with the Saviours and take Negan down once and for all. 

Victory will require more than just the supplies and numbers in Alexandria and while in pursuit of more weapons, food and new fighters, Rick and the group will be tested in ways we've never seen before. They'll explore a world that is much bigger than anything they've encountered and discover new factions (The Kingdom, Oceanside and The Scavengers) that will aide and test Alexandria’s fight against the Saviours. The group will rise up and band together with new allies, but are they prepared for an all-out battle with Negan and his army? 

THE WALKING DEAD: THE COMPLETE SEVENTH SERIES and THE WALKING DEAD: SERIES 1-7 is available to pre-order now from and arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on 25th September, courtesy of Entertainment One. 

DVD & Blu-ray Special Features
- Inside THE WALKING DEAD
- The Making Of THE WALKING DEAD
- A Larger World
- Breaking and Rebuilding
- A New Chapter of Fear
- The Writers
- Top Walkers
- Warrior Women
- In Memoriam
- Audio Commentaries
- Deleted Scenes

Pre-order the Series 7 UK BD from Amazon.co.uk

Pre-order the Series 7 UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

Pre-order the Series 1-7 UK BD box-set from Amazon.co.uk

Pre-order the Series 1-7 UK DVD box-set from Amazon.co.uk

Terror lurks inside THE DOMICILE - this August

Coming to US VOD and DVD this August. Russel Brody, a one-time successful playwright, works diligently on a follow-up play that could land him back in the spotlight he so early craves. With a baby on the way, however, and a strained marriage, stress and frustration take center stage. 

When his wife accidentally stumbles down the stairs and dies from her injuries, Brody's mental state goes from bad to one of utter despair. In a bid to help his friend regain his sanity, Brody's co-writer David Stanley suggests he revisits Lucy, his former mistress. 

The ghost of Brody's dead wife awakens to the sordid details of his unfaithfulness, enraging her supernatural spirit to haunt him in every horrifying way imaginable. At first, Brody thinks he's hallucinating and hearing things in his head, the result of his state of mind and alcohol. But as things intensify, his grip on sanity quickly slips away, and he starts to go mad. 

Appearing in every shadow, and provoking him relentlessly, the ghost cranks up her onslaught, making his life a living hell. Brody reaches his breaking point when the ghost possesses his former mistress, and he's forced to confront the scorned entity -- resulting in a climax of both psychological and physical terror.

Starring Steve Richard Harris (Evil Nanny), Demetrius Stear (Death Pool), Katherine Flannery (Zombie Pizza) and Sara Malakul Lane (King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table), The Domicile from MTI Home Video, hits US DVD and VOD August 22.

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT arrives on UK DVD & BD August

Office Space meets Battle Royale as an office block is turned into a bloody arena when the staff are pitted against each other in a vicious kill or be killed game, in this top-notch horror thriller from the creator of Wolf Creek.

From writer, producer James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead [2004], Slither), director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek, Rogue) and producer Peter Safran (The Conjuring, Annabelle), comes the story about a group of 80 American employees who are tested in a twisted social experiment of bone-crunching horror! 

Belko Industries, a normally calm workplace, gets a rude awakening when a mysterious voice on the intercom orders them to participate in a ruthless game of kill or be killed in a blood-soaking battle royale at their office building in Bogotá, Colombia. 

As the terror escalates, so does the body count. Everyone is a competitor and everyday objects become deadly weapons. Let the corporate carnage commence! 

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT is a terrifying, provocative and at times hilarious thrill-ride that literally provokes the question; what does it take to survive at work?

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment release THE BELKO EXPERIMENT to UK DVD & BD 21st August.
 

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk

Pre-order the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

 

Bitten - The Complete First Series on 3-Disc DVD, 9th October

4Digital Media Presents "Bitten: The Complete First Series" on UK DVD this October.

Elena Michaels is torn between two lives: the human life she was born into... and the werewolf life she was bitten into...

Elena wants the same things most twenty-five year old women want: a stable home, a loving family, and a meaningful relationship. But unlike most women, she’ll never get these things, because her life is a little more complicated than most – being the world’s only female werewolf.

Elena was formerly a member of THE PACK, the powerful organized werewolf family that enforces a strict code of werewolf laws. Laws that ensure humans are safe among rogue werewolves, known as MUTTS. 

The Pack also makes certain that werewolf existence remains a secret, because if it ever became known that their kind existed, a fearful public would hunt them down and exterminate them from the face of the planet. Elena had broken away from the Pack, trying to re-establish a human life, but at the outset of the series she’s dragged back into the “family business”, much to her dismay. And it’s not long until all hell breaks loose...

"Bitten: The Complete First Series" comes to UK DVD 9th October.

Pre-order the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

 

New trailer and poster released for THE VAULT - in UK cinemas from 8th Sept

Francesca Eastwood, Taryn Manning, Scott Haze, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Clifton Collins Jr. and James Franco star in the action-packed supernatural heist thriller THE VAULT, in UK cinemas from 8th Sept. Check out the new poster and trailer...

In order to save their brother Michael’s life, the Dillon sisters, Leah and Vee have organized a bank robbery, but when the upstairs vault doesn’t have enough money to cover Michael’s debt, on the advice of Assistant Bank Manager Ed Maas, they drill into the downstairs vault. But the bank’s basement hides a terrible secret and before long, the Dillons have to choose whether to face the police outside or the terrible supernatural forces in the vault below.

REVEALED: Graham Humphreys' stunning artwork for Horror Channel FrightFest 2017

Horror Channel FrightFest is delighted to present Graham Humphreys’ stunning artwork for this year’s annual Bank Holiday event, the UK’s largest celebration of genre cinema, taking place at Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema between Thurs Aug 24 & Mon Aug 28, 2017.

Celebrating a return to one of FrightFest’s former homes (The Empire) and the revival of some familiar characters to the festival line up, such as Chucky, Victor Crowley & Leatherface. were inspirations behind the concept.

Graham reveals: “My image is an attempt to amalgamate the Gothic roots of horror with the 70s Monster revival that saturated the US and UK, inspiring generations of filmmakers that created some of the most successful film franchises and oddities of the last 40 years. Universal monsters meets 70s bubble gum pop. I also thought it would be fun to play with the idea of a FrightFest Phantom, the face behind the best in horror and added the scratches and dirt to make it look like old damaged film stock.”

Tickets for Frightfest are on sale now from http://www.frightfest.co.uk/

4 Horrifying new clips from BONEJANGLES!

This July, Wild Eye Releasing lets loose the next iconic movie monster "Bonejangles" and to celebrate, they have released 4 clips from the film to tease you with. Check them out!

While transporting the legendary killer Bonejangles, a group of police break down in a town cursed with monsters, and must release him to survive!

Reggie Bannister, Elissa Dowling, Kelly Misek, Jr., Julia Cavanaugh, Devin Toft, Jamie Scott Gordon, Lawrence Wayne Curry, and Hannah Richter star in a Brett DeJager film, written by Keith Melcher.

Hellraiser's Nicholas Vince to star in BOOK OF MONSTERS - Kickstarter Campaign

Six kickass women must fight off a horde of terrifying monsters at an 18th birthday party in Book of Monsters, the second horror feature film from Dark Rift Films.

Book of Monsters is a female-led, action-packed monster movie drawing inspiration from the cult horror cinema of the 80s and 90s. With sick, gory practical creature effects and a darkly comic edge, the film will be a fun, bloody and sexy trip back to a time when making it through high school was truly life or death. 

The film is seeking funding through Kickstarter and the trailer promises a unique opportunity for horror fans in which backers can decide on major story elements of the film. From choosing what monsters will appear in the movie, to deciding a character's gruesome death, the filmmakers want you to influence how the film is going to play out. In addition, everyone who pledges to the campaign gets a story credit on the end credits of the movie.

Read the official synopsis below:

“Sophie's 18th birthday party becomes a bloodbath when six terrifying monsters descend upon her house, intent on devouring the party guests and killing anyone who tries to leave.

As her school friends are torn apart and eaten, Sophie must rally a band of misfits and take up arms to send their party crashers back to hell. In order to survive the night, Sophie will face her destiny; monsters are real - and she’s the only one who can stop them.”

Book of Monsters is funding on Kickstarter until the 3rd August and features a cast full of strong, kickass women including Lyndsey Craine, Michaela Longden, Lizzie Stanton, Anna Dawson and Steph Mossman. 

Also starring is horror legend Nicholas Vince as Jonas, famous for his roles as the ‘Chatterer' in Clive Barker's Hellraiser & Hellbound: Hellaiser II as well as ‘Kinski' in Nightbreed.

This is the second feature film by director Stewart Sparke and writer Paul Butler, whose previous film The Creature Below premiered at London Frightfest in 2016 and has since been released on DVD & VOD around the world.

To make your mark on the Book of Monsters story, head over to the Kickstarter Campaign page.

You can also follow the film on Facebook or Twitter.

First trailer released for "READY PLAYER ONE"

Warner Bros. UK are delighted to share the official first trailer for Steven Spielberg's highly anticipated science fiction action adventure, Ready Player One, based on the bestseller from Ernest Cline.

Set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse.  But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance).  When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world.  When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.

Joining Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Apocalypse, Mud), Olivia Cooke (Ouija, Bates Motel), Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One, Bloodline) and T.J. Miller (Deadpool), with Simon Pegg (Star Trek, movies, Mission: Impossible) and Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, Dunkirk) round out the cast and is Directed by STeven Spielberg. 

The film is slated for release worldwide beginning 30th March, 2018, and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

New Clip released from Netflix's DEATH NOTE

Take a look at a new clip from the Netflix original film Death Note starring Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley and Lakeith Stanfield.

Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.

The Netflix original film is directed by Adam Wingard (Blair Witch, You’re Next) and stars Nat Wolff (Paper Towns), Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out), Paul Nakauchi (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End), Shea Whigham (American Hustle) and Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) as the voice of Ryuk.

Follow @netflix and @Ryuk on Twitter for more #DeathNote updates.

Death Note will premiere exclusively on August 25th to Netflix members worldwide

New UK trailer released for teen horror WISH UPON in cinemas 28th July

From the director of Annabelle and starring Joey King (The Conjuring), Ryan Phillippe (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Shannon Purser (Stranger Things) and Sydney Park (The Walking Dead), Wish Upon is a wickedly chilling story about an alluring object imbued with sinister and dangerous powers, a cautionary tale that takes the ‘be careful what you wish for’ theme to frightening new levels...

Watch the official trailer...

WISH UPON comes to UK cinemas 28th July

Netflix's BRIGHT - New Trailer and Launch Date

From the director of Suicide Squad and End of Watch, David Ayer, comes a new action-packed film starring Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, and Noomi Rapace.

Set in an alternate present-day, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds.  Ward, a human (Will Smith), and Jakoby, an orc (Joel Edgerton), embark on a routine night patrol that will alter the future of their world as they know it.  Battling both their own personal differences as well as an onslaught of enemies, they must work together to protect a deadly, thought-to-be-forgotten relic, which in the wrong hands could destroy everything.

The Netflix original film stars Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, Lucy Fry, Edgar Ramirez, Ike Barinholtz, Enrique Murciano, Jay Hernandez, Andrea Navedo, Veronica Ngo, Alex Meraz, Margaret Cho, Brad William Henke, Dawn Olivieri, and Kenneth Choi.  The film is directed by David Ayer and written by Max Landis.  David Ayer, Eric Newman, and Bryan Unkeless serve as producers. 

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The Netflix original film will be released on Netflix on December 22, 2017.  www.netflix.com/bright

New poster released for Stephen King's "IT"!

Warner Bros. release a new one sheet for IT, based on the novel by Stephen King, coming to cinemas 8th September ahead of Comic Con San Diego 2017

New Line Cinema’s horror thriller “IT,” directed by Andrés Muschietti (“Mama”), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades.

When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries. 

“IT” stars Bill Skarsgård (“Allegiant,” TV’s “Hemlock Grove”) as the story’s central villain, Pennywise. An ensemble of young actors also star in the film, including Jaeden Lieberher (“Midnight Special”), Jeremy Ray Taylor (“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip”), Sophia Lillis (“37”), Finn Wolfhard (TV’s “Stranger Things”), Wyatt Oleff (“Guardians of the Galaxy”), Chosen Jacobs (upcoming “Cops and Robbers”), Jack Dylan Grazer (“Tales of Halloween”) and Nicholas Hamilton (“Captain Fantastic”).

IT will be released to UK cinemas nationwide on the 8th September.

Annabelle: Creation - Immersive horror experience opens in London...

Warner Bros Pictures and New Line Cinema invite you to brave the ultimate scare challenge of babysitting Annabelle, the demonic doll from James Wan’s The Conjuring universe, later this month.

The immersive horror experience, conjured up by some of the creative team behind David Copperfield and featuring actual props from the hotly anticipated new film Annabelle: Creation, opening in cinemas across the U.K. on 11th August, will combine magic effects, directional sound and immersive theatre to give visitors the fright of their lives. It has been brought to life in close consultation with the filmmakers, including director David F. Sandberg.

Taking place in a creepy, purpose-built Victorian mansion on the site of the Town Hall in Stratford, East London. Annabelle’s House promises to give guests the most nail-biting twenty minutes of their lives using fright techniques prepared especially for this challenge.

Participants will initially be asked to babysit a seemingly innocent eleven-year-old girl whilst exploring the set, which is filled with genuine props from Annabelle: Creation. But it won’t be long before the long-dormant demon inside the Annabelle doll, an unholy force intent on stealing human souls, comes to life and possesses the entire house. Additional frights are being kept under wraps for this unrivalled scare experience.

Annabelle’s House will open its doors to the public in East London for a limited time from 27th July following journalist and celebrity previews. It marks the release of Annabelle: Creation, a new chapter in the Conjuring universe, which lands at UK screens on 11th August.

Thrill seekers can now apply for tickets at the Warner Bros website  

Or, visit the film's UK Facebook page
 

The experience lasts 20 minutes and is very much not for the faint of heart.

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Horror Channel celebrates FrightFest's 18th year with monstrous slate

To celebrate Horror Channel FrightFest 2017, taking place in London during the August Bank holiday, Horror Channel is dedicating thirteen nights to past festival favourites, including  six UK TV premieres: Luke Hyam’s beastly XMOOR, David Keating’s skin-crawling rural nightmare CHERRY TREE starring Anna Walton, Adam Mason’s blood-freezing home invasion thriller HANGMAN, Jason Lei Howden’s splatstick shocker DEATHGASM, Eli Roth’s notorious post-modern celebration of the Italian cannibal genre THE GREEN INFERNO and Gez Medinger’s & Robin Schmidt’s intriguing existential horror AFTERDEATH.

The double-bills, on every night from August 18th – 30th, starting from 9pm, also feature FrightFest crowd pleasing classics such as Matthias Hoene’s COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES, Tommy Wirkola’s DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS DEAD, Vincenzo Natali’s HAUNTER, Ted Geoghegan’s WE ARE STILL HERE, Kyle Rankin’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEB and Tyler Shields’ FINAL GIRL.

Full details of season in transmission order:

Fri 18 Aug @ 21:00 – XMOOR (2014) * UK TV Premiere

With their sights set on a £25,000 reward promoted by a local newspaper, American documentarians Georgia (Melia Kreiling) and Matt (Nick Blood) head to Exmoor in North Devon to film the fabled beast supposedly slinking through the remote terrain. Setting up a forest camp with an old acquaintance, the trio fix cameras to the trees and rocks, linked back to a computer nerve centre where nothing should go unnoticed. But then they discover some putrefying body parts all neatly tied up and before long they realise they are in the lair of a beast right enough, but certainly not one of the four-legged variety. 

Fri 18 Aug @ 22:40 - STUNG (2015) 

Sat 19 Aug @ 21:00 - COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES (2012)

Sat 19 Aug @ 22:50 - CHERRY TREE (2015) – *UK TV PREMIERE

Faith (Naomi Battrick) has her world turned upside down when she finds out her father is dying. When the mysteriously alluring Sissy Young (Anna Walton) becomes her field hockey coach, Faith finds a compassionate spirit and much-needed mother figure. Little does she know that Sissy is the head of a centuries-old witches' coven using the fruit of an ancient cherry tree in a secret ritual that restores life. And soon Sissy has enticed Faith into making a fateful bargain that is about to change everything…

Sun 20 Aug @ 21:00 - THE SIGNAL (2014)

Sun 20 Aug @ 22:55 - HANGMAN (2015) *UK TV PREMIERE

Arriving back from a two-week holiday, the Miller family unwittingly play host to a cold-hearted malevolent intruder who has broken into their home - and stayed there. Feeling violated, they have no idea he’s still watching their every move on surveillance cameras the meticulous interloper has secretly installed. Nor do they realise their true nightmares have only just begun.  Horrors of the everyday reach a terrifying crescendo in this disturbing twist on the home invasion thriller bound to make your skin crawl. Stars Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield and Ryan Simpkins.

Mon 21 Aug @ 21:00 - THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT (2013)

Mon 21 Aug @ 23:05 - WAZ (2007)

Tues 22 Aug @ 21:00 - THE SAND (2015)

Tues 22 Aug @ 22:50 - CHAINED (2012)

Wed 23 Aug @ 21:00 - ADRIFT (2009)

Wed 23 Aug @ 22:55 - DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS DEAD (2014)

Thurs 24 Aug @ 21:00 - HAUNTER (2013)

Thurs 24 Aug @ 23:00 - BAD MILO! (2013)

Fri 25 Aug @ 21:00 - DEATHGASM (2015) *UK TV PREMIERE

When metal-thrashing outcast Brodie (Milo Cawthorne) meets a kindred spirit in Zakk (James Blake), they start their own band Deathgasm. Soon the duo’s resentment of the suburban wasteland leads them to sheet music said to grant the Ultimate Power to whoever plays it.  But the music also summons the ancient evil entity Aeloth The Blind One who threatens to tear apart existence itself. With their classmates and family inhabited by demonic forces that turns them into psycho killers, can the wicked force be stopped devouring all mankind?

Fri 25 Aug @ 22:45 - WE ARE STILL HERE (2015) 

Sat 26 Aug @ 21:00 - TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL (2011)

Sat 26 Aug @ 22:50 - THE GREEN INFERNO (2013) *UK TV PREMIERE

Eli Roth’s long-awaited return to the director’s chair after this six-year absence finds politically attuned NYC university student Justine (Lorenza Izzo) roped into a campus activist group’s idealistic plan to travel to Peru to halt the annihilation of an endangered tribe by a corrupt construction company. But after a horrific plane crash that leaves half the radicals dead, the survivors are caged by the very tribe they were trying to help. Worse, the mountain clan are cannibals and they are ravenous. 

Sun 27 Aug @ 21:00 - AFTERDEATH (2015) *UK TV PREMIERE

Five young people wake up on a beach washed up by the tide. Where are they? What brought them there, and what are the strange creatures that surround them? All this and more will be revealed in this beautifully executed, award-winning first feature, chock full of exciting new acting talent from Gez Medinger and Robin Schmidt – future genre names to keep a sharp eye out for.

Sun 27 Aug @ 22:55 - I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (2010) 

Mon 28 Aug @ 21:00 - TRIANGLE (2009)

Mon 28 Aug @ 23:00 - SHROOMS (2007)

Tues 29 Aug @ 21:00 - NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEB (2014)

Tues 29 Aug @ 22:50 - NO ONE LIVES (2012)

Wed 30 Aug @ 21:00 - FINAL GIRL (2015)

Wed 30 Aug @ 22:50 - THE LAST EXORCISM (2010)

TV: Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138 / Freeview 70

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