Lockdown horror HOST gets Limited Edition Blu-ray - 22 Feb

The hair-raising horror hit, HOST from director Rob Savage (Britannia, Soulmates) invites you to join the most chilling Zoom call ever made, as a demonic presence haunts a group of friends in a quarantine catchup call gone horribly wrong. Fans of the affectingly contemporary, universally acclaimed Shudder Original film can expect a special feature packed Limited Edition Box Set release from Second Sight Films on 22 February 2021.

Six friends get together during lockdown for their weekly video call. It’s Haley’s (Haley Bishop – Angel had Fallen, Deep State) turn to organise an activity and instead of a quiz, she’s arranged for a medium to conduct a séance.

Bored and feeling mischievous, Jemma (Jemma Moore – Wonder Woman, Doom: Annihilation) decides to have some fun and invents a story about a boy in her school who hanged himself. 

However, her prank gives license for a demonic presence to cross over, taking on the guise of the boy from the made-up story. The friends start to notice strange occurrences as the evil presence begins to make itself known in their homes…will they get to leave the meeting unscathed or will it be the end for them all?

SPECIAL FEATURES
• New exclusive commentary by Director Rob Savage and Producer Douglas Cox
• New exclusive cast commentary
• New exclusive cast interview
• Behind-the-Scenes feature
• ‘Is There Goblins Now?’ – the original prank video
• ‘Kate Scare’ – prank video test run
• Rob Savage’s short films Dawn of the Deaf and Salt
• The Host Team Séance
• BFI Q&A with Rob Savage, Gemma Hurley, Jed Shepherd, Douglas Cox, Haley Bishop, Brenna Rangott, Caroline Ward
• Evolution of Horror interview with Rob Savage, Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd
LIMITED EDTION CONTENTS
• Rigid slipcase featuring new artwork by Thomas Walker
• Perfect-bound booklet with the original story outline and new essays by Ella Kemp and Rich Johnson
• 6 collectors’ art cards

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

 

 

ELYSIUM - Available for the first time on 4K Ultra HD February

Directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Chappie) and starring Matt Damon (Jason Bourne, The Martian, Le Mans’66) ELYSIUM will be available on 4k Ultra HD for the first time on February 8th, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) will stop at nothing to preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium—but that doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in by any means they can. Max (Matt Damon) agrees to take on a life-threatening mission, one that could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

Also starring Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs, Panic Room), alongside a strong international supporting cast, including Sharlto Copley (District 9), Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien), Wagner Moura (Elite Squad) and William Fichtner (The Lone Ranger), ELYSIUM 4K Ultra HD is beautifully presented in 4K resolution with High Dynamic Range.   It includes hours of bonus material including behind the scenes footage and a host of features.
 
BONUS MATERIALS:

4K ULTRA HD DISC
- Exoskeletons, Explosions and the Action Choreography of Elysium
- The Hero, The Psychopath and the Characters of Elysium
- The Art of the Elysium Miniatures
- Bugatti 2154
- Theatrical Trailers
 
BLU-RAY DISC
- Collaboration: Crafting the Performances in Elysium
- Engineering Utopia: Creating a Society in the Sky
- Extended Scene
- Visions of 2154 – An Interactive Exploration of the Art and Design of Elysium
- In Support of the Story: The Visual Effects of Elysium
- The Technology of 2154
- The Journey to Elysium
-- Envisioning Elysium
-- Capturing Elysium
-- Enhancing Elysium

The UK 4K UHD will be available to Pre-Order shortly from Amazon.co.uk

 

Russian sci-fi blockbuster THE BLACKOUT : INVASION EARTH - Out Now!!!!

Out now on UK Disc and Digital platforms, a top recon team step in when an alien invasion shuts down the planet, in THE BLACKOUT: INVASION EARTH.  

An unexplained phenomenon has struck the Earth. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small area in Eastern Europe is the only location that still has electricity.

When military forces venture outside, they discover a shocking truth - corpses everywhere. In stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? And how long can the last outpost of mankind endure? It’s up to a crack squad of troops to investigate, venturing into a no-man’s land to confront the threat, whatever it might be - and exterminate it at all costs!

Featuring hi-tech effects, heavy-duty military equipment, bloody bear attacks and a suicide mission to end them all, The Blackout: Invasion Earth is a thrilling and chilling, action-packed epic that sees the fate of humanity resting in the hands of a group of heavily armoured, but massively overmatched soldiers (headed by Aleksey Cahdov, star of Nightwatch), and a lone female journalist.

This is two hours of doom and destruction, intense firefights and mind-control mayhem - and a strange, leather-clad figure called Id, who holds the key to the blackout. 

Watch a Behind The Scenes Making Of on Vimeo 

Watch the Music Video for Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park’s song “Fine” on Vimeo

Buy the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk

Buy the UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk

 

 

Supernatural chiller THE HEIRESS gets global Digital release.

The Movie Partnership, in association with Old Way Film & Television, will be releasing the powerful and haunting supernatural thriller THE HEIRESS, both in the UK and across the world, excluding US and Canada Digitally from Monday 15th March.

The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.

Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, THE HEIRESS is an Old Way Film & Television production, produced by, Richard Turner, Terry Stone, Jezz Vernon & Danny Prescott. It stars Candis Nergaard (Call the Midwife, Grantchester), Jayne Wisener (Sweeney Todd, Jane Eyre), Jonny Phillips (Titanic, Outlaw King), David Schaal (The Inbetweeners, Frontier), Denise Stephenson (St Trinians, Swimming with Men), Mark Arden (Agatha Raisin, Teenage Kicks) and Flip Webster (Harry Potter, The Alienist).

It will be available to download from all major platforms including iTunes, Amazon, SKY Box Office, Sony and Google from Monday 15th March, 2021.

THE HEIRESS, is also being released on Tuesday March 16th 2021 in the US and Canada courtesy of 4Digital Media.

View the Teaser Trailer on YouTube.

Dystopian sci-fi LX 2048 coming to UK Blu-ray, DVD & Digital

In the near future, the sun has become so toxic that people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. 

 

Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future wellbeing of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.

From writer-director Guy Moshe (Bunraku, Holly), LX 2048 is a powerful, thought-provoking sci-fi starring James D’Arcy (Dunkirk, Agent Carter), Anna Brewster (Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Versaille), Gina McKee (Catherine the Great, Bodyguard) and Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods, The Good Fight).

Dazzler Media presents dystopian sci-fi LX 2048 on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital from 25th January.

View the trailer on YouTube.

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

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

 

Classic Universal Pictures Horror Films to premiere on YouTube for FREE from 15 January

This January, NBCUniversal is offering fans the chance to dive into some of Universal Pictures’ most gruesome classic films ever made on one of the world’s biggest horror YouTube channels, ‘Fear: The Home of Horror.’

 

Starting 15 January, 2021, ahead of Blue Monday, fans will have the opportunity to scare away the January blues and take a step back in time to watch an incredible array of classic re-mastered cult films for FREE including Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), The Wolf Man (1941), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

In its more than 100-year history, Universal Pictures has been considered the home of the classic monster genre, introducing audiences to an enormous array of direful oddities including vampires, mummies, werewolves and more.

Each film will premiere individually and be available to watch for seven days on the Fear: The Home of Horror YouTube channel. Additionally, during each film’s premiere week, fans will have the opportunity to add these films to their digital collection at a discounted price, allowing them to watch whenever they want, for as many times as they want!

Whether you are looking for a quick jump scare, for a collection of the most gruesome murders or just a re-watch of the most iconic scenes from the history of horror, Fear will be your final destination.  

Visit the YouTube channel.

 

PREMIERE SCHEDULE OF FILMS

15 January 2021 at 8:00pm

Dracula (1931)

The mysterious Count Dracula takes up residence in an old castle in London after arriving from Transylvania, quickly wreaking havoc, sucking the blood of young women and turning them into vampires. When eminent alienist Dr. Seward summons his old friend, the great Dr. Abraham Van Helsing from Holland to examine his ill daughter Lucy, the presence of two red marks on her throat confirms she is the victim of the phenomena that took the life of her dearest friend Mina. As further investigation discovers Lucy to be under Dracula’s hypnotic power, Van Helsing is enlisted to put a stop to the count's never-ending bloodlust.

Filmmakers:
Cast: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Edward van Sloan, Dwight Frye
Produced By: Carl Laemmle Jr., Tod Browning
Directed By: Tod Browning
 
The Mummy (1932)

As a punishment for attempting to bring his former lover back to life, Priest Im-ho-tep was buried alive. 3,700 years later in 1921 during an archaeological dig, expedition members discover a sarcophagus in an unmarked grave containing the mummy of Im-ho-tep. Back from the dead, Im-ho-tep adopts the garb of a modern Egyptian and goes in search of his former love, echoes of whose physical form he finds in expedition member Helen Grosvenor.

Filmmakers:
Cast: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward van Sloan, Arthur Byron, Bramwell Fletcher, Noble Johnson, Leonard Mudie, Katheryn Byron, Eddie Kane, Tony Marlowe, James Crane, Arnold Grey, Henry Victor

Edited By: Milton Carruth
Produced By: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Written By: John L. Balderston
Directed By: Karl Freud
 

16 January 2021 at 8:00pm

 Frankenstein (1931)

Scientist Henry Frankenstein has become alienated from his friends and bride-to-be through his obsessive determination to create life. Frankenstein has created a monster out of body parts acquired by his assistant, Fritz and succeeds in giving it life during an electrical storm. Due to a mistake by Fritz, the creature possesses the brain of a killer, and after being tormented to breaking point, the monster goes on a murderous rampage, terrorising the local community.

Filmmakers:
Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward van Sloan, Dwight Frye, Frederick Kerr, Lionel Belmore

Produced By: Carl Lawmmle Jr.
Written By: Garrett Fort, Francis Edwards Faragoh
Directed By: James Whale

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Scientist Henry Frankenstein is recuperating, believing his creation to have been destroyed in a fire, when he receives a visit from his former mentor Dr Pretorius. Pretorius wishes Frankenstein to resume his experiments, but the latter refuses. When Pretorius then discovers the monster alive and now able to communicate, he uses it to kidnap Frankenstein's wife, blackmailing him into creating a mate.

Filmmakers:
Cast: Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Una O’Connor, E.E. Clove, Lucien Prival, O.P Heggie, Dwight Frye, Reginald Barlow, Mary Gordon, Ann Darling, Ted Billings

Produced By: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Written By: William Hurlbut
Directed By: James Whale
 

17 January 2021 at 8:00pm

 The Invisible Man (1933)

While researching a new drug, Dr. Jack Griffin stumbles on a potion that can make him invisible. When he reveals his new ability to his old mentor and his fiancée, he starts to go insane. Jack goes on a violent rampage, and the police struggle to hunt him down, unable to see their target, while his mentor and former partner desperately try to devise a plan to capture him.

Filmmakers:
Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Produced By: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Written By: R.C Sherriff
Directed By: James Whale

The Wolf Man (1941)

When his brother dies, Larry Talbot returns to Talbot castle in Wales and reconciles with his father. When he takes Gwen Conliffe and her friend Jenny to a Gypsy carnival, Larry encounters a giant wolf on the attack who he beats to death with his cane. After the insistent he is left badly bitten and later discovers the wolf he killed was actually a man, the son of a gypsy who was a werewolf and who has turned Larry into one as well.

Filmmakers:
Cast: Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Evelyn Ankers, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lon Chaney

Edited By: Ted J. Kent
Produced By: George Waggner
Written By: Curt Siodmak
Directed By: George Waggner

 
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Comic duo Bud Appott and Lou Costello star as railway baggage handlers Wilbur and Chick in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur, the museum's director, Mr. MacDougal demands that they deliver them personally so they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou's friend Chick has grave suspicions.

Filmmakers:
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph, Frank Ferguson, Charles Bradstreet

Edited By: Frank Gross
Produced By: Robert Arthur
Written By: Robert Lees, Frederic I Rinaldo, John Grant
Directed By: Charles T Barton

 

THE EVIL DEAD: WITH LIVE COMMENTARY FROM BRUCE CAMPBELL -Worldwide Virtual Watch Party

 

WATCH LIVE Livestreams presents Evil Dead Watch Party: With Live Commentary from Bruce Campbell. Campbell himself will host the WORLDWIDE virtual viewing party - providing live commentary throughout on Saturday, January 23rd at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. Fans will experience Campbell’s movie memories, behind the scenes stories, anecdotes from the film, hilarious stories, and for a few lucky viewers, Bruce will even answer questions live from the chat.

“I’m excited about this project,” says Bruce Campbell. “It will be a great opportunity to safely connect with fans and allow them a closer look behind the scenes.” 

Tickets are on-sale now and can be purchased online at bit.ly/WatchwithBruce. Tickets are $25/device and VIP Tickets/device are $50 and include a limited-edition event poster that will be mailed to the purchaser.

For more info and to purchase tickets CLICK HERE.