German arthouse horror DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES - in UK Cinemas December.

Making waves at leading film festivals across the globe and getting its UK premiere at FrightFest, DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES is a love letter to European cult cinema of the 60s and 70s and now gets its UK theatrical release in December from Fractured Visions with its digital release to follow in February 2023.

The critically acclaimed German arthouse horror from Kevin Kopacka in his feature film directorial debut, stars Anna Platen, Jeff Wilbusch, Frederik Von Lüttichau, Luisa Taraz and Robert Nickish.

When Margot inherits a run-down castle from her wealthy family, she and her husband Dieter decide to spend the night there, where their relationship and their sanity are put to the ultimate test. As time and space begin to shift around them, a reality that only exists within the walls of the eerie building is exposed.

Horrific, hallucinatory, and harrowing, DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES is a trippy descent into an entirely new dimension where everything and nothing is quite as it seems.

You’ll be wide-eyed with fear and wonder as DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES.

Theatrical release 2 December 2022 Home Ent. release February 2023

 View the Trailer on YouTube.

Xmas Horror THE LEECH - On UK Blu-Ray, December...

From Black Christmas to Rare Exports, there has long been a symbiotic relationship between horror and the season of good cheer. Now, writer/director Eric Pennycoff (Sadistic Intentions) continues this proud tradition with THE LEECH, a cautionary tale about the perils of opening your door to a stranger.

 

Father David (Graham Skipper - Sequence Break), a Catholic priest struggling to fill the pews in his church, allows a homeless man, Terry (Jeremy Gardner - After Midnight), into his home to escape the December chill. But this simple act of kindness has unforeseen consequences when Terry’s pregnant girlfriend, Lexi (Taylor Gardner - Sadistic Intentions), also decides to crash at the parochial house. 

 

Determined to save the warring couple through the healing power of God’s love, David’s ordered existence quickly unravels as he succumbs to the wicked ways of the parasitic pair. Will he pass this apparent test of faith or resort to blood-soaked, Old Testament justice?

 

Agonisingly intense and rib-ticklingly funny in equal measure, THE LEECH serves as both a festive frightmare and a microcosm of the fault lines of contemporary America. Arrow Video is proud to present this latest inductee into the Christmas horror hall of fame!

 

View the Trailer on YouTube.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 stereo soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with writer/producer/director Eric Pennycoff and producer Scott Smith
- Live Chattanooga Film Festival audio commentary
- Virtual Q&A with director Eric Pennycoff and the cast at the 2022 Chattanooga Film Festival
- Preaching to the Void – a brand new visual essay exploring The Leech and Pennycoff’s earlier films by critic Anton Bitel
- The Voice of Reason – a brand new video interview with Pennycoff and actor Graham Skipper
- Introduction and Q&A from the film’s international premiere at FrightFest 2022
- Exclusive introductions to the film by Pennycoff and Skipper
- The Making of The Leech – behind-the-scenes footage from the film set
- Rigo’s music video
- Unfortunate, The Pod and Phase II – three early short films by Pennycoff
- Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Haunt Love

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STREET TRASH: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL - Available on Amazon

DON'T DRINK THE VIPER! In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos & derelicts in mid-80's New York City, two young runaways - Fred and his younger brother Kevin - live in a tire igloo in the back of a vast auto wrecking yard. Fred takes out his anger at the world, but Kevin yearns to rejoin society and lead a normal life.

 

Threats abound on all sides: A gang of bums calling themselves the Flatbush Foot Brigade are hunting Fred for money he stole from their leader Bronson, a homicidal veteran that carries a knife carved from a human femur bone. There's also a hard-nosed cop, a vengeful Mafia don, the lecherous junkyard owner and a wisecracking doorman, none of whom are particularly fond of our unwashed heroes. 

 

But the most lethal threat is the case of Tenafly Viper wine at Ed's Liquor Store. He found the swill in the dusty basement and is selling it for a dollar per bottle. Only problem is the stuff's gone bad - real bad - and anyone that drinks it melts into a puddle of bubbly, toxic goo!

 

The brothers must overcome these obstacles - and find peace with each other - if they're to have any hope of survival!

 

For the FIRST TIME EVER... A movie-to-comics adaptation by the creators of the original cult classic monsterpiece!

 

Mike Lackey played Fred and created gore effects for STREET TRASH, often called the "Ultimate Melt Movie!" Now he's written and drawn a magnum opus that's bigger, badder and brasher than everyone's favorite Video Nasty! As a writer and managing editor for Marvel Comics, Mike contributed to Amazing Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four, The Punisher, G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian, What If?, Ren & Stimpy and Beavis & Butt-Head.

 

Roy Frumkes wrote and produced the STREET TRASH movie, and he's closely supervised the creation of this graphic novel to ensure it's every bit as outrageous to appease our rabid fans! Roy was also screenwriter for The Substitute, appeared in the original Dawn of the Dead as the Pie-in-the-Face Zombie, and produced The Meltdown Memoirs and Document of the Dead.

 

Cool Stuff About This Book:

 

- 244 pages of hilarious, hyper-detailed art rendered in glorious black & white in the tradition of Creepy, Eerie and MAD Magazine.

- See the secret origins of all your favorite bums, winos and miscreants!

- Includes a special ALL-TRUE BONUS feature, Cool Heads Prevail, chronicling how a young Mike Lackey carried rubber prop heads from the STREET TRASH set on to a commuter train and ran afoul with transit police. See Mike's actual mugshot!

- Great for fans of pervasive bad language, violence and other naughty stuff.

Reviews for the STREET TRASH movie:

"Loathsome, foul, and degrading, a treat for anyone that thinks they've seen it all." - George A. Romero

"STREET TRASH is the most offensive movie I've ever seen. It deliberately goes where no movie has ever gone before." - Tom Savini

STREET TRASH: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL is available exclusively on Amazon in both hardcover and paperback versions. 

Buy the book at Amazon.com

Dark sci-fi opus EXPIRED - Available Digitally Nov 7th

Enter an awe-inspiring dystopian future before time runs out… EXPIRED is an astounding sci-fi thriller from director Ivan Sen –best known for hit Australian noirs Mystery Road and Goldstone. This stylish, spine-tingling, neon-drenched epic stars Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and gets its UK premiere on 7 November, courtesy of Reel 2 Reel Films.

Set in a crowded and pulsating urban metropolis, our story begins with Jack (Kwanten) – a demoralised and demotivated assassin who aspires for more and struggles to define his place in the world as he moves from one assassination to the next. His monotonous days are filled with robotic lovers and a lack of intimacy – but when Jack meets soulful karaoke geisha April (Jillian Nguyen - Clickbait), life as he knows it changes forever...

As he and April’s relationship grows stronger and stronger – Jack grows mysteriously weaker. Just as Jack’s life seems to come together, it begins to fall apart – and his body begins to break down. In need of answers – about both his inexplicable present and unknown past – Jack turns to enigmatic scientist Dr Bergman (Weaving). 

Can Dr Bergman help Jack before it’s too late?

Filmed on the streets of Hong Kong and with visual comparisons to Blade Runner, Sen’s dystopian thrilling noir is beautifully shot and boasts show-stopping cinematography, as well as striking musical compositions. Packed with mystery and real-world parallels, this atmospheric thriller will have audiences gripped from the get-go.

An exquisitely crafted and striking sci-fi opus that is at once deliriously dark, and mysteriously magnetic, make sure you see it before you’re EXPIRED.

Released to UK digital platforms 7th November 2022

View the trailer on YouTube.

 

Watch the EVIL DEAD RISE - April 2023

STUDIOCANAL and New Line Cinema present a new installment in the iconic horror franchise with the first look at EVIL DEAD RISE, from writer/director Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground).

EVIL DEAD RISE stars Lily Sullivan (I Met a Girl, Barkskins), Alyssa Sutherland (The Mist, Vikings), Morgan Davies (Strom Boy, The End), Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence) and introducing Nell Fisher (Northspur).

Moving the action out of the woods and into the city, EVIL DEAD RISE tells the twisted tale of two estranged sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

EVIL DEAD RISE is produced by Rob Tapert (Ash vs Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) and executive produced by series creator and horror icon Sam Raimi and cult legend and “Ash” himself, Bruce Campbell, along with John Keville, Macdara Kelleher, Richard Brener, Dave Neustadter, Romel Adam and Victoria Palmieri.

A New Line Cinema / Renaissance Pictures presentation of a Pacific Renaissance and Wild Atlantic Pictures production, EVIL DEAD RISE is set to be unleashed in UK cinemas on 21 April 2023.

Phil Tippett's MAD GOD - Arrives on Disc and Digital, Dec

SAY YOUR prayers to MAD GOD – a dazzling, delirious, and dystopian masterpiece directed by two-time Academy Award-winning artist, animator, and filmmaker – the legendary Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, RoboCop, Starship Troopers).

The most watched Shudder premiere of 2022 – and certified fresh with a 92% rating – this critically-acclaimed and mind-blowing chef-d'oeuvre was 30 years in the making and has earned plaudits around the globe for its creative genius, cinematic originality, and inspired grit.

Having collected five awards, including Winner of 2021 Fantasia Film Festival’s Most Ground-breaking Film and Best Animated Feature and the 2021 Sitges Award for Best Visual Effects – this expertly crafted and exquisitely imagined Shudder Exclusive is now set to delight fans with its release on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 5 December 2022, courtesy of Acorn Media International.

Equipped with a gas mask and a crumbling map, the Assassin, an iron-clad humanoid, descends into a rusty, peril-laden underworld of grime, blood, tortured souls, decrepit bunkers and unsettling monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind.

As the stealthy invader meanders through the labyrinthine post-apocalyptic wasteland on a mysterious mission, going deeper and deeper into the nightmarish realm, he eventually reaches his destination… the heart of this grotesque tower of torture.  But what awaits him there?  

Crafted by the world's pre-eminent stop-motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.

The result? A striking, haunting, halogenic, and hellish stop-motion spectacle unlike any other. 

Descend into unimaginable depths and get ready to meet your maker, MAD GOD – a gorgeously gruesome cinematic frenzy that deserves every ounce of praise it receives.

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

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

 

THE DUNWICH HORROR - On Blu-ray from Arrow Video, January.

Riding high on their successful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman and American International Pictures took on that other titan of literary terror, H.P Lovecraft, in THE DUNWICH HORROR!

 

Dean Stockwell (TV's Quantum Leap) stars as Wilbur Whateley, a mysterious young man who travels from the small town of Dunwich to the library of the Miskatonic University which holds one of the only copies of the Necronomicon, a legendary book of occult lore that Wilbur hopes to borrow. 

 

Graduate student Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee - Until they Sail) falls under his malign influence and travels with him back to his home where Wilbur has plans to use her in a ritual to raise ‘The Old Ones’, cosmic beings from another dimension. But who, or what, is in the locked room at the top of the stairs? And what will happen if they get out?

 

Directed by Daniel Haller, genius art director of numerous Corman classics, this was also the first screenwriting credit for Curtis Hanson, who would later direct the multi award-winning L.A. Confidential. Newly restored by Arrow Films from the original 35mm camera negative, THE DUNWICH HORROR is among the most successful Lovecraft adaptations ever committed to film, and it has never looked better.

 

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

 

- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative

- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation

- Original lossless mono audio

- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

- New audio commentary by Guy Adams and Alexandra Benedict, creators of the audio drama Arkham County

- The Door into Dunwich, a new conversation between film historian Stephen R. Bissette and horror author Stephen Laws in which they discuss The Dunwich Horror, Lovecraft, and their memories of seeing the film on release

- After Summer After Winter, a new interview with science fiction and fantasy writer Ruthanna Emrys, author of The Innsmouth Legacy series

- The Sound of Cosmic Terror, new interview with music historian David Huckvale in which he takes a closer look at Les Baxter’s score for The Dunwich Horror

- Theatrical trailer

- Image gallery

- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Preece

 

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by film critics Johnny Mains and Jack Sargeant

THE DUNWICH HORROR is released to UK BD January 9th from Arrow Video

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