Fright-Rags Releases New Hats & Turns '80s Classics Into Horror Movies

Just in time for summer, Fright-Rags has released a new collection of unique hats, along with "What If?" shirts that horror-fy '80s movies and reprints of several sold-out designs. 

Fright-Rags has six new hats from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (including a Wyld Stallyns cap), Escape from New York, Tales from the Crypt, and Chucky. They join previously released hats from Halloween: H20, Elvira, Tales from the Darkside, and Twin Peaks. 

Fright-Rags' "What If?" shirts reimagine three ‘80s classics as horror films: Mr. Mom as a slasher, Short Circuit as a killer robot, and Revenge of the Nerds as a zombie movie.

Fright-Rags has also restocked five fan-favorite tees: Trick ‘r Treat, Halloween, The Thing, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Evil Dead.  

Hats, "What If?" shirts, and restocks are on sale now at Fright-Rags.com.

 

 

TRANSMISSION - Proof-of-Concept Short Film - Indiegogo campaign

Brad Goodman and Jim Suthers of Zombie Bird Productions have launched an Indiegogo campaign, to fund their short Sci-Fi Horror film TRANSMISSION, which will form the basis of a full length feature.

Behind the camera, the funds raised will be used to rent equipment and pay experienced professionals to operate them. In front of the camera, your support will pay for sets, props, wardrobe, makeup (including creature makeup), and the supplies needed to keep both people and equipment running smoothly. 

They also hope to secure at least one well-known actor (TBD). 

You can listen to Brad Goodman talking about the project on the YouTube vid below...

For more info, and to donate visit their Indiegogo page.

 

Spanish psychological thriller THE OFFERING gets UK release

Sovereign film distrribution is proud to announce the UK release of acclaimed Spanish psychological thriller THE OFFERING on 30th July, in cinemas and on Virtual Cinemas and VOD.

Jan, mysterious and marked by a profound sense of guilt, tries to win back the love of his ex Violeta, who is now a psychiatrist, with a family of her own. Jan’s complex and perverse plan to reunite him with Violeta, 20 years after the events that led to their separation, will have severe consequences.

An erotic, intense and revealing adult thriller, with powerful central performances from Alex Brendemühl (Transit), Anna Alarcón (A Thief’s Daughter) and Verónica Echegui (Fortitude), winner of Best Supporting Actress at this year’s Gaudi Awards, THE OFFERING is a remarkable, gripping excursion into the human psyche and the true nature of love and obsession. 

Filled with searing love scenes and unsettling mind-games, it’s a sensual, evocative and multi-layered experience, exploring forgiveness and guilt, and the consequences of a destructive love triangle, recalling the work of provocative Spanish directors Bigas Luna (The Ages of Lulu) and Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia). 

Ventura Durall, writer and director of THE OFFERING, set up the production company Nanouk Films in 2000, to promote Catalan cinema. His feature film The Two Lives of Andrés Rabadán was recognized as the Best European Independent Film at the 2009 ECU Festival in Paris, and also received three Gaudi Awards for Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress. His 2014 documentary drama Bugarach won the FIPRESCI Award at the St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival

THE OFFERING Will be released on the 30th July, 2021. 

 

THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR - Streaming on Shudder, July

Streaming on SHUDDER this July,  THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR. A night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and his best friend, Kevin (Ezra Dewey), when they are abducted on their way home from school. 

Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even worse is the arrival of another stranger, whose mysterious arrangement with the kidnapper may spell certain doom for Kevin. 

With no means of calling for help and miles of dark country in every direction, Bobby embarks on a rescue mission, determined to get himself and Kevin out alive… or die trying. 

View the trailer below...

THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR is available to stream on Shudder from 29th July.

Visit... www.shudder.com

Psychological thriller "A PERFECT ENEMY" confirmed for UK Digital Release

Smart Dog Productions is thrilled to announce that the psychological thriller A PERFECT ENEMY will be available Digitally in the UK from 5th July.

A successful architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to Paris by a strange young woman who will not leave him alone. Missing his flight and trapped in the airport lounge he is unable to get rid of the annoying stranger. 

Although the meeting at first seems to be by chance, soon there is a turn that will transform the nature of their encounter into something much more sinister and criminal.

Based on the book by Amélie Nothomb, The Enemy’s Cosmetique, and directed by Kike Maíllo, the film stars Tomasz Kot (Cold War), Athena Strates (The Good Liar) and Marta Nieto (Madre).

View the trailer on YouTube.

A PERFECT ENEMY will be available on Digital Download from 5th July on Amazon, Google & iTunes.

TetroVideo to release MAI-CHAN'S DAILY LIFE, VORE GORE and ROT July

This July, TetroVideo will be releasing the splatter erotic japanese film MAI-CHAN'S DAILY LIFE: THE MOVIE (Japan - 2014) by Sado Satō, the anthology extreme film VORE GORE (2021) and the punk horror film ROT directed by Marcus Koch in 1999.

ROT is the first title of Tetro Underground, a line dedicated to all the underground films produced until 1999, with tons of titles never officially released before. The film comes on DVD  + Amaray + vintage looking slipcase.

The three titles will be available for pre-order on July.

MAI-CHAN'S DAILY LIFE: THE MOVIE

Mai-chan's Daily Life: The Movie is a diabolical splatter and gore comedy that takes fetish violence to shocking new extremes. The story centers on a girl who has the power to regenerate.

Synopsis: Miyako responds to an advertisement for a live-in maid, and is given a job alongside the alluring Mai-chan. The young woman quickly learns that housecleaning is the least of her duties, as the master and his wife use the maids as toys in their erotic fantasies.

Since Mai-chan possesses the uncanny ability to recover from any injury, no matter how severe, all their violent desires are indulged. Soon Miyako will find herself actively involved in Mai-chan's horrific destruction and miraculous resurrection.

Written and directed by Sado Satō, Mai-chan's Daily Life: The Movie is a splatter/erotic film based on the popular manga by Uziga Waita who supervised the film.

The film stars An Koshi, Miyako Akane, Shôgo Maruyama, Chiyoko Nameless and Soaco Roman.

VORE GORE

Vore Gore is an extreme horror anthology film about vorarephilic fantasies often connected with sexual masochism. Vorarephilia (ore vore for short) is an uncommon paraphilia characterized by the erotic desire to be consumed by, or to personally consume another person or creature.

The film features nine horror/extreme segments directed by the best international artists working in independent horror/extreme cinema and that offer a morbid vision of this atypical sexual arousal.

Vore Gore includes stories directed by Domiziano Cristopharo (House of Flesh Mannequins), Mikel Balerdi (Larva Mental), Irene Jones Baruffetti (Nightmare Symphony), Lorenzo Zanoni (Ill: Final Contagium), Poison Rouge (American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice), Emanuele Marchetto (XXX: Dark Web), Patrick Fortin (Carnival of Gore), White Gardenia (XXX: Dark Web) and Dario Almerighi (7 Sins).

Titles of the segments:
    “Mouth” by Mikel Balerdi;
    “Sweet as Honey” by Emanuele Marchetto;
    “Finger Licking Good” by Lorenzo Dante Zanoni;
    “Please, not in My Mouth” by Poison Rouge;
    “Italian Ladies Do It Better” by Irene Jones Baruffetti;
    “Infernal Gluttony 2” by Patrick Fortin;
    “Yummy Fur” by Whit Gardenia (Daniel Valient & Cherokee Nevin);
    “Stretching” by Domiziano Cristopharo;
    “The Egg” by Dario Almerighi

ROT

ROT is a punk horror film directed by FX legend Marcus Koch, the special effects artist of American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore, Circus of the Dead, We Are Still Here, Frankenstein Created Bikers and the director of American Guinea Pig: Bloodshock.

ROT is the second feature film from Marcus Koch and it's an amazing example of punk horror movies to spawn out of the 80's and 90's.

Synopsis: Sarah has contracted a deadly virus called the ROT which she got by having sex with a corpse and now she has passed it along to Muzzy, her boyfriend. Now they are slowly rotting to death and must find a way to cure themselves before they rot away into nothing, or even worse, create a massive world-wide epidemic.

The man responsible for their living death is Dr. Robert Olsen, a deranged scientist who used to work for the government's germ warfare research division.

ROT stars Billy Scam, Tiffany Stinky and Joel D. Wynkoop

For more info and to pre-order visit https://tetrovideo.com/

DUNE - On Limited Edition UHD AND BD from Arrow

Following a notorious aborted attempt by Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s, Frank Herbert’s bestselling sci-fi epic Dune finally made it to the big screen as the third film by emerging surrealist wunderkind David Lynch, featuring an all-star cast that includes several of Lynch’s regular collaborators.

The year is 10,191, and four planets are embroiled in a secret plot to wrest control of the Spice Melange, the most precious substance in the universe and found only on the planet Arrakis. A feud between two powerful dynasties, House Atreides and House Harkonnen, is manipulated from afar by ruling powers that conspire to keep their grip on the spice. As the two families clash on Arrakis, Duke Atreides’ son Paul (Kyle MacLachlan, in his screen debut) finds himself at the centre of an intergalactic war and an ancient prophecy that could change the galaxy forever.

Though its initial reception ensured that Lynch largely eschewed mainstream filmmaking for the rest of his career, Dune has since been rightly re-evaluated as one of the most startlingly original and visionary science fiction films of the 1980s. Its astonishing production design and visual effects can now be appreciated anew in this spellbinding 4K restoration, accompanied by hours of comprehensive bonus features.

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative
• 60-page perfect-bound book featuring new writing on the film by Andrew Nette, Christian McCrea and Charlie Brigden, an American Cinematographer interview with sound designer Alan Splet from 1984, excerpts from an interview with the director from Chris Rodley’s book Lynch on Lynch and a Dune Terminology glossary from the original release
• Large fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dániel Taylor
• Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproductions
• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dániel Taylor

DISC ONE - FEATURE & EXTRAS (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray™ presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original uncompressed stereo audio and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by film historian Paul M. Sammon
• Brand new audio commentary by Mike White of The Projection Booth podcast
• Impressions of Dune, a 2003 documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with star Kyle MacLachlan, producer Raffaella de Laurentiis, cinematographer Freddie Francis, editor Antony Gibbs and many others
• Designing Dune, a 2005 featurette looking back at the work of production designer Anthony Masters
• Dune FX, a 2005 featurette exploring the special effects in the film
• Dune Models & Miniatures, a 2005 featurette focusing on the model effects in the film
• Dune Costumes, a 2005 featurette looking at the elaborate costume designs seen in the film
• Eleven deleted scenes from the film, with a 2005 introduction by Raffaella de Laurentiis
• Destination Dune, a 1983 featurette originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity events
• Theatrical trailers and TV spots
• Extensive image galleries, including hundreds of still photos

DISC TWO – BONUS DISC (BLU-RAY)

• The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune, a brand new feature-length documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures exploring the making of the film, featuring dozens of new and archive interviews with cast and crew
• Beyond Imagination: Merchandising Dune, a brand new featurette exploring the merchandise created to promote the film, featuring toy collector/producer Brian Sillman (The Toys That Made Us)
• Prophecy Fulfilled: Scoring Dune, a brand new featurette on the film’s music score, featuring interviews with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro, and film music historian Tim Greiving
• Brand new interview with make-up effects artist Giannetto de Rossi, filmed in 2020
• Archive interview with production coordinator Golda Offenheim, filmed in 2003
• Archive interview with star Paul Smith, filmed in 2008
• Archive interview with make-up effects artist Christopher Tucker

The film is also available on Blu-Ray in 1080p, with the same extra features. As well as being available in a limited Edition Dual-Format UHD and BD set, exclusive to Zavvi

***EXTRAS STILL IN PRODUCTION AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE***

Pre-order the UK 4K UHD release from Amazon.co.uk

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