Brutal Thriller DEAD BEFORE THEY WAKE - Coming to Digital outlets.

Shepka Productions have announced the UK release of the brutal, topical thriller, Dead Before They Wake. The feature will be available to rent or own on Digital Platforms in the UK from January 27th and is available to download in the US now.

Based on true events, the film follows nightclub bouncer Alex who is hired by a retired lawyer to track down a missing teenaged girl, suspected of being snared by a trafficking ring, and to bring her home no matter what it takes. Culminating in a brutal revenge-driven showdown.

Dead Before They Wake stars Nathan Shepka (Lock & Load, The Baby in the Basket), Grace Cordell (Cara), Manjot Sumal (The Last Bus, hit BBC sitcom Scot Squad), Kareem Nasif (The Job). 

Also starring Dr Who legend Sylvester McCoy (The Hobbit trilogy, The Munsters) and Patrick Bergin (Sleeping With the Enemy, Patriot Games). The film features an original score by Academy Award winning composer Joseph Renzetti and is directed by Andy Crane and Nathan Shepka.

Check out the trailer on YouTube

 

 

 

New chiller THE BABY IN THE BASKET - Coming to Disc and Digital, Feb

Shepka Productions, in partnership with Flickering Myth, are delighted to announce the release of new chilling, gothic horror THE BABY IN THE BASKET. The feature will be available on Digital in the UK and USA, and on DVD in the UK only from February 17th.

It’s 1944 and World War Two rages on. The sisters of St. Augustine’s, a convent on a remote Scottish island, are preparing for an incoming storm. One night a cloaked figure leaves a baby in a basket and disappears, never to be seen again.

The nuns take in the boy, and agree to look after him until the storm passes when they will take the child to the mainland for permanent care. However, after a night under their watch, unsettling things begin to happen with the newest addition to the convent. Sister Agnes (Amber Doig-Thorne) suspects the child is the spawn of Satan, causing her to be locked away for fear that she's been driven mad by the isolation.

But increasingly strange occurrences lead the sisters to question their faith and everything they believe, they wonder has Sister Agnes fallen victim to the desolation of the remote island setting or was there really weight in her suspicions?

THE BABY IN THE BASKET features a stellar cast of horror favourites including Amber Doig-Thorne (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey), Michaela Longden (How to Kill Monsters), Elle O'Hara (Cara), Lisa Riesner (No Dogs Allowed) and Nathan Shepka (Dead Before They Wake). Also starring veteran British talent Annabelle Lanyon (Legend), with Maryam d’Abo (The Living Daylights) and Paul Barber (The Full Monty)..

Check out the trailer on YouTube.

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STREET TRASH [2024] - Comes to UK BD

Lightbulb Film Distribution have announced that STREET TRASH, directed by Ryan Kruger (Fried Barry), will be released on limited edition Blu-ray from February 17th.

This remimagining of the 1987 film of the same name. A group of misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.

Following the sold-out premiere at Prince Charles Cinema in London, the indie label have revealed that the double-disc will contain Kruger’s new take and the original 1987 version, plus extras.

STREET TRASH [2024] will also be available to own or rent across all major streaming and download platforms from February 17th. 

Bonus content

- Director’s Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Behind The Scenes – EPK
- Music Video 

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

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Dracula tale LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER - On Disc this February

A terrifying new addition to the Dracula legend, based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker's classic novel, THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER chronicles the doomed journey of a merchant ship ferrying 50 mysterious wooden crates from Carpathia to London. 

As they set sail, the crew soon discover they are not alone on board: at night they are stalked by a hidden passenger whose monstrous thirst for blood turns the trip into a harrowing nightmare of tension, terror, and unfathomable evil.

From acclaimed director André Øvredal (Troll Hunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe), THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER is a must-own for horror fans.

Dazzler Media presents THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD from 3 February

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

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Horror Thriller PESADILLA - Out now on Disc and Digital from BayView

BayView Entertainment, LLC have released the horror thriller PESADILLA on Blu-ray (Region FREE) in the USA and on Digital Platforms including to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video worldwide.

Synopsis:
After a house robbery fails, a group of thieves decide to try again in a house with a grieving family… but something sinister lurks in the darkness.

Delving into the themes of greed, loss, destruction, and the raw vulnerability embedded in family dynamics. Pesadilla is an unflinching exploration of brutal, unfiltered, human nature...

PESADILLA is from Writer and Director Dylan Anglin and the film stars Anthony Garcia, Mike Davis and Gavin Cade Hulberg.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

Buy the US BD from Amazon.com

View the film on Amazon Prime UK

 

 

Hammer Film’s first ever 4K restoration, CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE HUNTER, is released at UK cinemas!

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, a new 4K restoration of Hammer Film’s swashbuckling horror classic, CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE HUNTER, will be released at UK cinemas nationwide for one night only.

From 18th January 2025, the cult film will be screened at selected cinemas in major cities across the UK including Cambridge, Liverpool, Sheffield, Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh (full list below). 

Legendary creator Brian Clemens (TV’s The Avengers, TV’s The Professionals) writes and directs this stylish, revisionist Hammer Horror pitting a swashbuckling hero, his trusty assistant and a feisty young ingenue against a cunning and malevolent vampire. 

Starring Horst Janson (Shout At The Devil, To Catch A King), John Carson (Doomsday, TV’s Poirot), Shane Briant (Hawk The Slayer, TV’s The Naked Civil Servant), Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me, The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad), John Cater (The Abominable Dr. Phibes), Lois Dane (Cash On Demand), William Hobbs (Willow, The Avengers) with Ian Hendry (TV’s The New Avengers, Get Carter) and Wanda Ventham (TV’s Sherlock, TV’s UFO), Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter makes its worldwide debut as a brand-new 4K restoration from the original negative film elements.

CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE HUNTER shifted the paradigm on cinematic horror, creating a film for which appreciation has only grown over the decades – its post-modern script, stylish direction, memorable performances and folk horror mise en scène make it both of and ahead of its time. Its influence is hard to over-estimate. Fifty years after its initial theatrical exhibition, this new restoration of Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter celebrates an absolute classic of British horror whose time has very definitely come. 

Synopsis
A rash of mysterious deaths due to accelerated ageing compels Dr Marcus to summon his brother-in-arms, Captain Kronos – once a soldier but now a professional vampire hunter. As the deaths continue, however, Kronos realises that this is no ordinary vampire he’s hunting.

The Restoration
This brand-new 4K restoration was scanned from vaulted 35mm original negative elements, the resultant scans painstakingly restored to remove dirt and defects. Other issues like density or colour fluctuations were corrected and the film was then graded for High Dynamic Range to show off the full range of colour and the detail in the dark and light areas of the image. Original three-track mono audio elements were used to create a new 5.1 sound mix for theatrical presentation.

CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE HUNTER is released at UK cinemas from 18th January 2025 for one night only!

Full list of screenings:

18th January:
•    BELFAST Queens Film Theatre

20th January:
•    DUNDEE DCA

22nd January:
•    FINSBURY PARK Picturehouse 
•    CAMBRIDGE Picturehouse 
•    CAMBRIDGE The Light 
•    BIRMINGHAM Mockingbird Cinema
•    WALSALL The Light 
•    BOLTON The Light 
•    SHEFFIELD The Light 
•    STOCKPORT The Light 
•    NEW BRIGHTON The Light 
•    LIVERPOOL Picturehouse 
•    NEWCASTLE Tyneside
•    EDINBURGH Cameo
•    EDINBURGH Picturehouse
•    GLASGOW Film Theatre
•    NORTHAMPTON Film House 

24th January:
•    BRISTOL Cube

28th January:
•    MANCHESTER Home

Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter Limited Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray will be released from 27th January 2025

Pre-order now from Amazon.co.uk

 

J-Horror RAMPO NOIR - Out now on Limited Edition Blu-ray

Four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan’s celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast).

In “Mars’s Canal”, by music video director and visual artist Suguru Takeuchi, a lone man encounters the other side of his psyche beyond the reflective surface of a circular pond set in a desolate landscape. 

Japanese New Wave auteur and longtime director of the Ultraman series Akio Jissoji (This Transient Life, Mandala) harnesses his distinctive stylistic sheen in his story of a mad mirror maker, “Mirror Hell”. 

“Caterpillar” sees the singular vision of cult director Hisayasu Sato (The Bedroom, Naked Blood) at its most grotesque, in his portrait of a wounded war veteran who returns from the frontline as little more than a bloody torso, helpless to defend himself against the increasingly perverted caprices of an embittered wife. 

Finally, a famous actor is subjected to the obsessive attentions of her limo driver in “Crawling Bugs”, the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed manga artist Atsushi Kaneko (Bambi and Her Pink Gun).

Produced by the same team behind Ichi the Killer and Uzumaki, and with a cast featuring some of Japan’s top stars, including Tadanobu Asano (Maboroshi, Silence) and Ryuhei Matsuda (Blue Spring, Gohatto), RAMPO NOIR is a stylistic tour-de-force that vividly evokes the “erotic grotesque” worlds created by Japan’s pioneering proponent of horror and mystery fiction.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
• Original lossless Japanese stereo audio
• Optional newly translated English subtitles
• Brand new audio commentary by Japanese film experts Jasper Sharp and Alexander Zahlten
• Another World, a new interview with Suguru Takeuchi, director of “Mars’s Canal”
• A Moving Transformation, a new interview with Hisayasu Sato, director of “Caterpillar”
• Butterfly Queen, a new interview with Atsushi Kaneko, manga artist and director of “Crawling Bugs”
• Hall of Mirrors, a new interview with cinematographer Masao Nakabori about working with Akio Jissoji and “Mirror Hell”
• The Butterfly Effect, a new interview with Akiko Ashizawa, the cinematographer of “Caterpillar”
• Looking in the Mirror, a new interview with actor Yumi Yoshiyuki about “Mirror Hell”
• Archive stage greeting footage with the cast and directors from the Japanese premiere of Rampo Noir
• Crossing the Lens, a feature-length making-of documentary by Tatsuya Fukushima from 2006
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Insect
• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Eugene Thacker and Seth Jacobowitz

View the Trailer on YouTube.

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