The Binding - Available on UK Digital from 18th Dec

A young woman's faith is put to the ultimate test when she is forced to uncover the truth behind her husband's horrific visions in "The Binding", which comes to UK digital outlets in December.

Sarah (Amy Gumenick - TV's Arrow, Supernatural) and Bram Iman (Josh Heisler - The Bannen Way) are picture-perfect small town newlyweds. But the night after their baby's baptism, Bram confesses to Sarah that he was visited by God almighty himself. 

When it becomes clear that Bram thinks he must sacrifice their only child for the greater good. Sarah's faith and trust in her husband is shaken and she no longer knows what to believe in and who to trust. 

With her world torn apart, Sarah embarks on a desperate race for the truth - could Bram really be communing with God, or is he spiralling into violent insanity? Sarah soon learns she has no choice but to fight to the death... but for who? Her husband? Her Faith? Or her child?

"The Binding" is available to watch on Digital Download from 18th Dec.

IT comes to Disc and Digital January

You’ll float too when “IT” arrives onto 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, Blu-ray Steelbook (exclusive to HMV), and Digital Download from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. 

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

SYNOPSIS

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”), Nicholas Hamilton (“Captain Fantastic”) and Jackson Robert Scott, making his film debut.

The 4K Ultra HD disc of “IT” will feature Dolby VisionTM HDR that dramatically expands the colour palette and contrast range, and uses dynamic metadata to automatically optimise the picture for every screen — frame by frame.

Also, the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray™ discs of “IT” will feature a Dolby Atmos® soundtrack remixed specifically for the home theater environment to place and move audio anywhere in the room, including overhead. To experience Dolby Atmos at home, a Dolby Atmos enabled AV receiver and additional speakers are required, or a Dolby Atmos enabled sound bar. Dolby Atmos soundtracks are also fully backward compatible with traditional audio configurations and legacy home entertainment equipment.

BLU-RAY AND DVD ELEMENTS

“IT” 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray Steelbook contain the following special features

-Pennywise Lives! -  Who and what is Pennywise the Clown? Discover how Bill Skarsgård prepared to portray the primordial creature known as the Eater of Worlds, Eater of Children and the Eternal Child.

-The Losers’ Club - Get up close and personal with the teenage stars of “IT” as they bond together during the production, brave their deepest fears and come face-to-face with the demonic Pennywise.

-Author of Fearer - The Master of Horror unleashes everything you were ever afraid of! Stephen King himself reveals the roots of his best-selling novel, the nature of childhood fear, its effects on his storytelling and the powerful imprint It has made on his own literary universe.

-Deleted Scenes – Eleven deleted or extended scenes from the film

“IT” DVD contains the following special features:

-Deleted Scenes – Eleven deleted or extended scenes from the film

DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION ELEMENTS

On 1 January 2018, “IT” will be available to own for streaming and download to watch anywhere in high definition and standard definition on favorite devices. On 15 January 2018, “IT” will be made available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers, and on select gaming consoles.

Pre-order the UK 4k UHD Disc from Amazon.co.uk

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February releases coming from ARROW

New releases coming to the UK in February from Arrow films.

THE GRUSEOME TWOSEOME - on UK BD on 5th Feb 2018

The young women of a small-town American college have more than just split-ends to worry about… Down at the Little Wig Shop, the batty Mrs. Pringle and her socially-inept son Rodney are procuring only the finest heads of hair – by scalping the local co-eds! 

Can they be stopped before they clear the entire campus of luxuriant-haired ladies?

Also including HG Lewis’ Dracula-inspired vampire epic A Taste of Blood as a bonus feature, this is one Gruesome Twosome that’s well worth flipping your wig over!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Bonus Feature! 1967’s A Taste of Blood
• Introductions to the films by HG Lewis
• Archive audio commentaries for both films by HG Lewis
• Peaches Christ Flips Her Wig! – San Francisco performer Peaches Christ on The Gruesome Twosome
• It Came from Florida – filmmaker Fred Olen Ray (Scalps, The Alien Dead) on Florida Filmmaking
• HG Lewis vs. the Censors – HG Lewis discusses some of the pitfalls of the blood-and-guts business including local censorship and angry moviegoers
• Trailers and radio spot
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil

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

THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE -  on UK BD + DVD on 12th Feb 2018

Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante, We Own the Night), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorising Rome, he launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall, Spasmo)…

A staggeringly assured debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits that would define Argento’s filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West), this landmark film has never looked or sounded better in this new, 4K-restored edition from Arrow Video!

Blu-ray SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Video exclusively for this release
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
• The Power of Perception, a new visual essay on the cinema of Dario Argento by Alexanda Heller-Nicholas, author of Devil’s Advocates: Suspiria and Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
• New analysis of the film by critic Kat Ellinger
• New interview with writer/director Dario Argento • New interview with actor Gildo Di Marco (Garullo the pimp)
• Eva’s Talking, an archival interview with actor Eva Renzi (Monica Ranieri)
• Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp

DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Video exclusively for this release
• Standard Definition DVD presentation
• Original mono Italian and English soundtracks
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
• The Power of Perception, a new visual essay on the cinema of Dario Argento by Alexanda Heller-Nicholas, author of Devil’s Advocates: Suspiria and Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
• New analysis of the film by critic Kat Ellinger
• New interview with writer/director Dario Argento
• New interview with actor Gildo Di Marco (Garullo the pimp)
• Eva’s Talking, an archival interview with actor Eva Renzi (Monica Ranieri)
• Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp

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

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

SCALPEL - on UK BD 19th Feb 2018

In Scalpel, Robert Lansing (Star Trek, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone) plays Dr. Phillip Reynolds, a man whose daughter Heather (Judith Chapman, As the World Turns, General Hospital) has run away from home a year prior following the suspicious death of her boyfriend. When he happens across a young woman one night, her face beaten beyond recognition, the unhinged Reynolds sees his an opportunity to put his trusty scalpel to use - hatching a plan to “reconstruct” her face in the image of his missing daughter, and so claim her sizeable inheritance.

Photographed by celebrated cinematographer Edward Lachman, who would go on to serve as DP on the likes of Erin Brockovich and The Virgin Suicides, Scalpel is an exemplary slice of Southern-fried gothic, filled finally rescued from VHS obscurity in this revelatory new Blu-ray edition from Arrow Video.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original Uncompressed Mono Audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith
• Brand new crew interviews
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector’s booklet with new writing on the film by Bill Ackerman

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

DER TODESKING - on UK Dual format BD + DVD on 26th Feb 2018

The second feature film from German provocateur Jörg Buttgereit, director of Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2, Der Todesking (“The King of Death”) presents seven suicides across seven days of the week.

As a chain letter from the self-proclaimed “Brotherhood of the 7th Day” circulates encouraging its recipients to end their lives, a series of grim murder-suicides unfold. In one vignette, a young woman massacres a room of concert-goers before turning the gun on herself; in another, a man, driven to madness by some unspecified mental disturbance, repeatedly slams his head into a wall before collapsing in a pool of his own blood… These are just some of depictions of death and despair that make up the tortured fabric of Der Todesking.

Regarded by many as director Jörg Buttgereit’s most accomplished work, Der Todesking is an existential masterpiece - a powerfully haunting howl of rage from one of the genre’s most underrated filmmakers.

3-DISC DIRECTOR-APPROVED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• Director’s approved HD transfer from the original 16mm negative
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• Original Stereo Audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• Optional English subtitles
• Limited edition packaging featuring new artwork by Gilles Vranckx
• Limited edition certificate featuring original artwork
• Replica “Brotherhood of the 7th Day” Chain Letter
• Der Todesking Soundtrack CD
• Limited Edition 60-page book
DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] & DISC 2 [DVD] – ‘DER TODESKING’
• Audio commentary by Jörg Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen
• From Bundy to Lautréamont - Jörg Buttgereit in conversation with journalist Graham Rae at the 2016 Manchester Festival of Fantastic Films
• The Making of Der Todesking - vintage production featurette
• Footage from the original 1990 Berlin premiere
• Corpse Fucking Art - 1992 documentary bringing together the making of featurettes of Nekromantik,
• Der Todesking and Nekromantik 2 Der Gollob (1983, 25 mins) - short film by Jörg Buttgereit, newly transferred in HD and viewable with optional director’s audio commentary
• Two short films by producer Manfred O. Jelinski: Die Reise ins Licht (1972, 27 mins) and Geliebter Wahnsinn (1973, 7 mins)
• Still Gallery Jörg Buttgereit
• Trailer Gallery
DISC 3 [CD] – ‘DER TODESKING’ SOUNDTRACK – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
• CD featuring the complete Der Todesking score
60-PAGE BOOK – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
• Exclusive perfect-bound book featuring new writing on the film from Graham Rae and Kat Ellinger, all illustrated with new artwork and original archive stills

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

For more info visit http://www.arrowfilms.com

ANNA - coming to UK digital outlets December

Director Michael Crum's supernatural thriller Anna comes to UK Digital outlets December.

Jacob and Shawn are two unorthodox men trying to make it big on the internet as they devise a plan to steal a haunted doll from a haunted museum. After they have the doll they have planned to live seven days with the doll in a haunted house as well to set up, in their words "the most epic investigation into the paranormal realm". 

They find that most of the paranormal events happening around the doll is to women so they interview for women to help them in their investigation. This turns out to be a bust and can't get good help. Unknown to Shawn and Jacob the doll has been killing any woman that comes into the house. After nothing happens to them for awhile they decide to get help from a demonologist who ends up releasing the evil from within the doll. 

The evil commands the boys to now bring it women to kill. The boys try to use their not so bright wits against the evil as they fall into a cat and mouse game with an evil they don't know how to defeat.

Anna is released to VOD and Digital Download December 11th.

View online at Amazon.co.uk

Zed Events launch new immersive zombie experience for the holiday season.

Zed Events, who have terrified over 40,000 victims since their launch 5 years ago will lay on ‘full immersion’ zombie survival events in an 250,000 Sqft abandoned shopping mall for the holiday season. 

Each event in their Reading facility is an adrenalin and blood soaked survival horror event like no other. From arrival, the thrill seeker will be part of an unfolding story that will play out in real time.

A Zed Events experience is like being in a film, except you are not acting. The fear will be real. This is what is meant by ‘Full Immersion.’ The team use movie quality Special Effects, weapons and props (provided by Hollywood SFX artists) to achieve something that is unrivaled in live survival horror. This will be something that you will never forget. You simply turn up and take part. Everything is taken care and provided for you, you just need to survive. Sounds easy, right?

Zed Events survival experiences are rated incredibly highly, achieving five stars across the board from customers who dubbed it ‘absolutely brilliant and totally believable’, ‘to this day we think it is the best thing we’ve ever done’. A simply ‘WOW’ experience.

Got what it takes to survive the onslaught of the dead? Can you figure out the puzzles to escape the undead infested Mall? Book now at the award winning ‘Zombie Shopping Mall’!

Trailer: https://youtu.be/NL9q25LjvM8

Venue postcode: RG1 1NR (Reading)

There is parking available

You must be 16 years of age or over to take part

Check Zed Events out online 

Website: www.zedevents.co.uk

Youtube: www.youtube.com/zedeventsuk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zedeventsuk/

 

Vampariah - coming to UK VOD December

Director Matthew Abaya's feature film debut "Vampariah" comes to UK Digital outlets this December.

Mahal is a part of an elite squad of skilled hunters responsible for keeping the world safe from vampires and other creatures of the night. Her mission to rid the world of this undead threat becomes compromised when her fate intertwines with an aswang (a self-segmenting vampire of Philippine folklore) forcing her to choose sides in an age old war.

Vampariah, is available to watch on Digital Download in the UK from 4th December

View the trailer on YouTube

 

UK TV premieres on the Horror Channel this December

Christmas nightmares come early on Horror Channel, as the UK’s primary TV destination for genre fans serves up the UK TV premieres of Jason William Lee’s slick and stylish modern take on the zombie virus, THE EVIL IN US and Frank Khalfoun’s boundary-pushing crime slasher P2, starring Wes Bentley.

There are also network premieres for Adam Egypt Mortimer’s deeply-cutting supernatural revenge chiller SOME KIND OF HATE, Ruth Platt’s astonishingly bravura art-house horror THE LESSON, Travis Oates’ powerfully disturbing thriller DON’T BLINK, starring Mena Suvari ,and Glen Morgan’s gruesome BLACK CHRISTMAS, a remake of the classic 1974 seasonal slasher, starring popular scream queen Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

PLUS…LOST IN SPACE is proving a massive hit on the channel and Season 3 of the classic Sci-fi series once again transports us back to our favourite cosmic family from Tues 26th December, weekdays at 8pm.

Full film details in transmission order:

Fri 8 Dec @ 23:00 – SOME KIND OF HATE (2015) *Network Premiere

What if your past came back for you as a fully formed, physical thing that was going to kill you? Tightly wound Lincoln is a favourite target for the local high school bullies. One day he violently snaps and is sent to the Mind’s Eye Academy, a remote desert reformatory. But the harassment doesn’t stop and in despair he accidentally summons the kindred spirit of Moira, a girl tormented to suicide in the same establishment, who is more than happy to take vengeance on his persecutors.

Sat 9 Dec @ 22:45 – THE LESSON (2015) *Network Premiere

Fin and Joel are two teenage wasters running wild in an arid rural landscape. But their bad education is about to take a turn for the intellectual best as someone at the end of their tether has decided to teach both schoolboys a lesson they will never forget. A dark, claustrophobic and bloody coming of age love story with a shock final destination. Stars Robert Hands, Evan Bendall, Michaela Prchalová and Rory Coltart.

Fri 15 Dec @ 21:00 – THE EVIL IN US (2016) *UK TV Premiere

Six school friends meet up for a fourth of July celebration on a remote island expecting a harmless fun-filled weekend. One brings some cocaine along to get the partying really started. What they don’t know is the drug is actually a new bioactive compound peddled by a sadistic right-wing terrorist organisation. Anyone consuming it is then exposed to a virus causing fits of psychotic rage, mind-bending chaos and cannibalistic murder. Only Brie refused to partake and now she must fight to survive as everyone around her, including her fiancé, tries to savagely kill her. 

Sat 16 Dec @ 21:00 – DON’T BLINK (2014) *Network Premiere

Ten friends arrive at a remote mountain resort for a weekend of relaxation but find it deserted. As they attempt to discover out what happened to the other guests, they are horrified to find that they too are disappearing, one by one. Stars Mena Suvari, Brian Austin Green, Joanne Kelly and Zack Ward.

Fri 22 Dec @ 22:40 – P2 (2007) *UK TV Premiere

It's Christmas Eve. Angela Bridges (Rachel Nichols), an ambitious executive, is supposed to be at a family gathering working late. When she gets down to the parking garage, she discovers that her car won't start. Thomas (Wes Bentley), a friendly security guard, offers to help, but when he also invites her to share a small Christmas dinner he's preparing, she doesn’t realise the invitation is not optional. If Angela wants to live to see Christmas morning, she must find a way to escape from level P2 of the parking garage.

Sat 23 Dec @ 21:00 – BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006) *Network Premiere

It’s Christmas break and the phone won’t stop ringing at one sorority house, where the ghost of a killer lurks and coeds are being systematically murdered one by one. In this remake of the 1974 slasher flick, a bloodthirsty psychopath is on the loose.  Will sorority sisters Kelli (Katie Cassidy), Dana (Lacey Chabert), Lauren (Crystal Lowe) and the others escape with their lives? Jessica Harmon, Michelle Trachtenberg and Andrea Martin co-star.

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The Hammer Horror Collection from Studiocanal - four new titles coming January 2018

Celebrating 60 years of Hammer Horror, DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE, TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER, STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING and THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN Doubleplay editions released in the UK 29th January 2018

DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE 

In Victorian London, Professor Jekyll (Ralph Bates), an earnest scientist, obsessively works day and night haunted by the fear that one lifetime will not be enough to complete his research. Side-tracked from his objective he becomes consumed with developing an immortality serum. Once convinced his findings are complete, he consumes the potion only to discover that he is to become two as he turns into half Jekyll and half Hyde. 

Desperate to cover up his newfound identity he calls her his sister, but things take a turn for the worse when he realises that he needs female hormones if he is to maintain his existence. Before long he is battling with his alter ego Mrs Hyde (Martine Beswick), as a number of young girls begin to go missing in the streets of London…

Extras: New featurette - Ladykiller: Inside Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde plus more tbc

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

TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER 

In 1970s London John Verney (Richard Widmark), a renowned occult writer, is approached by Henry Beddows (Denham Elliot) to help rescue his daughter Catherine (Nastassja Kinski) from a Satanic cult. Catherine is a nun with the Children of the Lord, a mysterious heretical order based in Bavaria and founded by the excommunicated Roman Catholic priest (Christopher Lee). 

When Catherine arrives from Germany, Verney sneaks her away from her bodyguard and takes her to his apartment. The order, however, are determined to get Catherine back and use all the powers of black magic at their disposal in the ensuing battle between the forces of light and darkness.

Extras: New featurette - Dark Arts: Inside To the Devil a Daughter plus more tbc

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

 

STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING 

Brenda (Rita Tushingham), an innocent young girl, leaves her hometown of Liverpool for London in search of love. 

By chance she meets Clive (Shane Briant). Attractive, debonair and rich he seems to be the handsome Prince Charming she’s been looking for, but Clive is actually a deeply disturbed young man and his psychotic tendencies soon manifest themselves and destroy Brenda’s dreams of a fairy-tale life.

Extras: New featurette – title TBC plus more tbc   

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

 

THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN 

Young Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments. 

But when the doctor runs out of fresh body parts for his ‘research’ he turns to murder to complete his gruesome new creation. Now his monster has unleashed its own ghastly killing spree and the true horror of Frankenstein has only just begun…

Extras: New featurette - Gallows Humour: Inside The Horror of Frankenstein plus more tbc

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

In addition, BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB, DEMONS OF THE MIND, FEAR IN THE NIGHT and SCARS OF DRACULA are available now.

The Ice Cream Truck arrives on US disc

Writer-director Megan Freels Johnston’s suburban nightmare The Ice Cream Truck is out now on US DVD from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Available from Amazon, the DVD and BD comes complete with outtakes and behind the scenes featurette 'Making Murder'.

The provocative psychological thriller stars Deanna Russo (Being Human, Gossip Girl) as Mary, who moves back to her suburban hometown after her husband gets relocated for work.  As her family ties up loose ends back home, she moves into their new house alone. And although the move makes Mary nostalgic for her youth, there’s something very sinister about that Ice Cream Truck that patrols her suburb. 

The Ice Cream Truck also stars Dana Gaier (Despicable Me 3), John Redlinger (Thirst, Banshee), Emil Johnsen (Isolerad), Hilary Barraford (Go For Sisters), Jeff Daniel Phillips (31),  and Lisa Ann Walter (War of the Worlds).

Storytelling is very much in Freels Johnston’s DNA.  The granddaughter of legendary crime writer Elmore Leonard, The Ice Cream Truck screenplay was a semi-finalist in the Circus Road Screenplay competition. 

As a producer developing material for over a decade, Freels Johnston worked on adaptations of her grandfather's work and produced Sparks, the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt.  After completing a project for the USA Network, she decided to follow her passion and write and direct her own material. Her first film, 2014’s micro budget thriller Rebound, developed a cult following on VOD, was called, “Almost David Lynchian in its strangeness” by Film Threat and Rue Morgue said, the film "(was) worth watching to the end for the unnervingly realistic twist ending." 

The Ice Cream Truck is out now on US BD and DVD at Amazon.

Buy the US DVD from Amazon.com

Buy the US BD from Amazon.com

 

Psycho shower scene doc 78/52 slashes its way to DVD on Dec 11

DOGWOOF is excited to announce that the bold, stylish and incisive new documentary 78/52 – the film which pulls back the curtain on one of cinema’s greatest ever scenes – slashes its way onto DVD on 11th December.

In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the deliriously choreographed two-minute shower sequence in Psycho ripped apart cinema’s definition of horror. With a shocking combination of exploitation and high art, Alfred Hitchcock upended his own acclaimed narrative structure by violently killing off a heroine a third of the way through his film, without explanation, justification, or higher purpose. Psycho played out like a horrific prank, forcing audiences to recognize that even the most banal domestic spaces were now fair game for unspeakable mayhem.

With black-and-white film-geek reverence, director Alexandre O. Philippe breaks down this most notorious and essential scene shot for shot, enlisting the help of film buffs and filmmakers alike - including Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Karyn Kusama, Eli Roth and Peter Bogdanovich. 78/52 examines Janet Leigh’s terrified facial expressions and the blink-and-you-miss-it camera work, not just within the context of the film but also with an eye toward America’s changing social mores - revealing how one bloody, chaotic on-screen death killed off chaste cinema and eerily predicted a decade of unprecedented violence and upheaval.

Pre-order the DVD from Amazon.co.uk

 

THE CUTLASS heads to US VOD this December.

A young tourist is abducted from her family into the jungles of Trinidad by a dangerous, armed sociopath in the award-winning action-thriller The Cutlass, on VOD in the US this December from Wild Eye Releasing.

Whilst the authorities and her family attempt to find her with no success, she is forced to mentally and physically outmaneuver her captor in an effort to stay alive and escape to safety.

Lisa-Bel Hirschman, Arnold Goindhan and screen veteran Kirk Baltz (Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers) star in a Darisha J. Beresford film.

Inspired by true events, The Cutlass is “a rewarding experience worthy of multiple viewings” (RedMangoReviews) 

The Cutlass will be available digitally across the US on 12/12.

BEYOND SKYLINE - new clip released.

New clip released from forthcoming BEYOND SKYLINE, starring Frank Grillo (The Purge 2 & 3) and Iko Uwais (The Raid 1 & 2).

Get ready for intense sci-fi action adventure with Beyond Skyline, the stand-alone sequel to 2010 hit Skyline. Beginning with a new view of the alien invasion from the original film, we then move in an epic, world-spanning direction...

Starring Frank Grillo (The Purge: Election Year, Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Bojana Novakovic (Drag Me to Hell, Devil), Jonny Weston (Taken  3, Divergent), Iko Uwais (The Raid 1&2), Callan Mulvey (Heartbreak High, Batman v. Superman, 300), Betty Gabriel (The Purge: Election Year, Get Out, Westworld) Antonio Fargas (Starsky and Hutch, Foxy Brown) and Lindsey Morgan (The 100).

Beyond Skyline is written and directed by Liam O’Donnell. Produced by Greg Strause (Skyline), Colin Strause (Skyline) and Matthew Chausse

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

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

Official UK trailer for "68 KILL" released.

STUDIOCANAL is excited to announce that the exhilarating and unpredictable crime caper 68 KILL comes to DVD and Digital Download from 27th November. Check out the trailer below...

Blending quickfire thriller with bracingly visceral belly laughs, 68 KILL introduces Chip (Matthew Gray Gubler, Criminal Minds) a simple guy scraping by as best he can by flushing septic systems for a living.

Thankfully, Chip’s girlfriend Liza (AnnaLynne McCord, 90210) has her head screwed on. When she suggests that they relieve a sleazy benefactor of a stack of cash, Chip begins to see a side of her he never knew existed… or never wanted to admit.

Outsmarted at every turn by headstrong women, Chip finds himself with a gun in his hand and less than 24 hours to figure his way out of a colossal mess. 

68 KILL is a dark, violent, hilarious and psychedelic trip into Americana that has already caused a stir at film festivals and is sure to leave a satisfyingly sour taste in the mouth of any thrill-seeking film fan.

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

 

Netflix's DARK debuts official trailer and poster art.

Netflix's first German original series "DARK" debuts official trailer and poster artwork.

"DARK" is set in a German town in present day where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four families. In ten, hour-long episodes, the story takes on a supernatural twist that ties back to the same town in 1986.

Written by Jantje Friese and directed Baran bo Odar (Who Am I - No System is Safe), "DARK" is a chilling mystery-drama-series: an intricate puzzle full of twists. Slick camerawork and realistic performances enhance a textured web of curious characters, all of whom have a connection to the town's troubled history, whether they know it or not.

For more information visit: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80100172

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Frat Slasher ALPHA DELTA ZATAN Now Available on VOD

The new horror slasher feature film Alpha Delta Zatan is now playing on Amazon Video US/UK and in over 100 countries on Vimeo On Demand.

Synopsis: “In a frat house where no one can be trusted, a new brother becomes the target of a masked killer.”

The 72-minute film was directed by Art Arutyunyan from a screenplay by Armand Petri (Bayou Ghost Story). Alpha Delta Zatan stars Jeremy Winter, Jake Kidwell, Connor Field, Drake Malone and Eleaze.

“[Alpha Delta Zatan] is a fun and sexy horror film. I consider it a role reversal on the traditional sorority slasher film.” Says director Arutyunyan, who added the film features a diverse, all-male cast.

Alpha Delta Zatan will expand to additional On Demand platforms in the upcoming weeks and it's coming out on DVD/BluRay this Winter. It’s now playing on Amazon Video and Vimeo On Demand.

View the trailer below...

Watch/Download the film online at Amazon.co.uk

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Fright-Rags' CREEPSHOW Collection

The passing of Halloween can be a sad time for horror fans, but Fright-Rags continues to produce exciting horror movie merchandise all year long. The new Creepshow apparel is sure to cure those post-Halloween blues.

The Creepshow collection consists of eight new shirt designs from George A. Romero and Stephen King's 1982 genre classic, including individual tees for each of the anthology's five segments.

The Creepshow collection is in stock and shipping now from Fright-Rags.com.

While you're there, be sure to check out Fright-Rags' short film, November First. The 3-minute video shows how Michael Myers spends the day after Halloween - including a cameo from Halloween actress PJ Soles.

Mark your calendars for November 24, as Fright-Rags' biggest sale of the year launches on Black Friday. In addition to massive savings, the sale will mark the return of the popular "Tee of Mystery."

 

Dick Mass' thriller QUIZ hits UK VOD on Vimeo

Director Dick Maas’ (Amsterdamned, Saint, The Lift, Down, Prey) thriller Quiz, which was released in his home country Holland in 2012, is now available to view worldwide on Vimeo On Demand.

A famous game show host is harassed in a restaurant by a strange man, who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant.

View the trailer below...

Quiz from Dick Maas on Vimeo.

Director Dick Maas said this about the release.. 

“I’m proud to announce the worldpremiere of Quiz on Vimeo.The distribution world is changing and filmmakers can share their movies now directly with their audience through on-demand services like Vimeo On Demand, iTunes, and other platforms.
 

It is an ideal way to make lesser known movies available to the public. Quiz is the first one of my movies to appear on Vimeo and other platforms.  Killer Babes and Saint will follow. Some will be available worldwide, others in selected countries.”

Watch QUIZ on Vimeo.

APOCALYPSE ROAD comes to US VOD this December

Wild Eye Releasing runs rings around Mad Max this December with director Brett Bentman’s post-apocalyptic thriller Apocalypse Road.

Fuel up on a powerful mix of The Road and Fury Road as Apocalypse Road chronicles the tense journey of two sisters separated during a post-apocalyptic depression. A sweat-inducing story about the instinct of human survival and unbreakable bonds, the film stars Katie Kohler (Subterranea), Ashlyn McEvers (22 Jump Street), Billy Blair (Machete, Machete Kills) and Nellie Sciutto (Shutter Island). 

Following a post-apocalyptic event, two sisters are hunted down and separated by a gang of ruthless killers intent on creating their own twisted form of law and order.  The sisters must fight through this new, dangerous world to stay alive in the hopes of being reunited, and escaping to freedom. 

Written and directed by Brett Bentman, Apocalypse Road premieres on US VOD 5th December from Wild Eye Releasing.

View the trailer on YouTube.

Argento's CAT OF NINE TAILS - fully restored on BD/DVD from Arrow.

Dario Argento’s devilishly good 1971 horror mystery The Cat O’ Nine Tails starring James Franciscus (City On Fire, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) and Karl Malden (On The Waterfront, TVs Streets of San Francisco), is a brilliantly byzantine thriller that cemented Argento’s reputation as a master genre director.

Following the success of his debut feature, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, distributor Titanus tasked writer/director Dario Argento with delivering a follow-up in short order. The resulting film, granted a greatly enhanced budget and heralded in its US marketing campaign as “nine times more suspenseful” than its predecessor, was The Cat O’ Nine Tails.

This second entry in the so-called “Animal Trilogy” found Argento further refining his distinctive style and cementing his reputation as the master of the giallo thriller. Co-starring Catherine Spaak (Il Sorpasso) and Rada Rassimov (Baron Blood), and featuring another nerve-jangling score by the great Ennio Morricone (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), The Cat O’ Nine Tails remains one of Argento’s most suspenseful and underrated films.

This limited edition Blu-ray gets a superb limited edition 4K restoration, and is packed with extras, and features a new audio commentary, new cover artwork and comes with a poster, lobby cards and a lavishly illustrated collector’s booklet featuring essential writing on the film.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative

-High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
-Original mono Italian and English soundtracks (lossless on the Blu-ray Disc)
-Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
-Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
-New audio commentary by critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman
-New interviews with co-writer/director Dario Argento, co-writer Dardano Sacchetti, actress Cinzia De Carolis and production manager Angelo Iacono
-Script pages for the lost original ending, translated into English for the first time
-Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
-Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp
-Double-sided fold-out poster
-4 lobby card reproductions
-Limited edition booklet illustrated by Matt Griffin, featuring an essay on the film by Dario Argento, and new writing by Barry Forshaw, Troy Howarth and Howard Hughes 

The Cat O’ Nine Tails limited edition BD/DVD box set is released January 8th from Arrow Video.

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

Leatherface - Texas Chainsaw Prequel - on UK DVD Jan...

The maniac is unmasked in this gory, nerve-shattering prequel to the legendary classic The Texas Chain Saw 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.

The eagerly-awaited home entertainment debut of this slick, sick horror flick will have horror fans drooling with delight.

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 Chain Saw franchise, and a thrilling examination of the genesis of a monster who is ranked alongside Freddy and Jason as one of the greatest horror characters ever.

Sam Strike (We Still Steal The Old Way), Nicole Andrews (Homefront, The Penthouse), Sam Coleman (Game of Thrones), Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury (Directors of Inside, ABCs of Death) also star.

Leatherface releases on EST 18th December 2017, and on DVD 8th January 2018, courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment. 

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