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Uncork'd Entertainment Gives Birth To 'Breeder' - Out Today

Danish Horror ‘Breeder’ Sees Women Forced Into Horrible Experiments

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the Danish horror, Breeder, from Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017. Produced by Maria Møller Christoffersen (Koko-Di Koko-Da), Breeder sees women being abducted for bio-hacking experiments. One of the women, Mia, begins to work out the truth – can she escape from this nightmare? Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, the film stars Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Signe Egholm Olsen, Anders Heinrichsen, and Morten Holst. BREEDER is a superbly crafted horror film with a real-world reminder that we live in a world measured by youth and beauty. This is a film about the effects of ageing, how the world looks upon you once you do, and a miraculous cure- at a cost”, said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “I’m excited for audiences to experience the film in January”. Breeder screened at a number of leading film festivals including Sitges in Catalonia, Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Gravitas Ventures Serves Up 'An Exquisite Meal' On Demand And Digital

Let The Trailer For ‘An Exquisite Meal’ Whet Your Appetite

A sharply satirical genre-bending journey through one absurdly terrifying dinner party in modern America, An Exquisite Meal is a darkly playful Buñuelian nightmare that’s full of punchlines and twists. In the film, part thriller, part horror, part comedy, an affluent couple hosts a dinner party for friends, promising them an amazing meal. As the night goes on, uninvited guests arrive, wine flows, and dinner is strangely delayed. When the party is interrupted by a shocking diversion, one of the guests goes off on his own and discovers something unexpected about what’s being served for dinner. As identities unravel, the host tries to maintain control of his carefully orchestrated evening as the party descends into violence, bizarre sexual escapades, and the absurd. Directed by Robert Bruce Carter, the film stars Mike Jimerson and Amrita Dhaliwal, Victoria Nugent, Ross Magyar, Mark Pracht, Emily Marso, Bassam Abdelfattah, Siddhartha Rajan, and Luke Johnson also star. An Exquisite Meal will be available On Demand and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 7, 2021
Psychological Thriller 'Aftermath' Coming 2022

Psychological Thriller ‘Aftermath’ Coming 2022

One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 3, 2021
Italian Horror 'Stagefright' Coming to 4K Ultra And Blu-ray

Italian Horror ‘Stagefright’ Coming to 4K Ultra And Blu-ray

Director and master of Italian horror, Michele Soavi‘s (The Sect, The Church) 1987 horror Stagefright is being unleashed on 4K Ultra. In the film, “when a masked killer infiltrates a group of actors rehearsing overnight in an isolated theatre, the stage is set for carnage! Featuring an abundance of over-the-top kills and spills, shot with Soavi’s typical style, marvel at the mayhem as the iconic chainsaw-wielding ‘Owl Man’, delivers a blood-soaked performance for the ages.” Stagefright is at the pinnacle of 80s slashers. Michele Soavi was schooled by Dario Argento and Terry Gilliam and his beloved first feature can now finally be seen as intended, with this edition further benefiting from the director’s color grading and framing indications given during a candid interview filmed exclusively for this release. SPECIAL FEATURES – New 4K restoration – ‘Staging the Fright’ – Interview with director Michele Soavi – ‘The Theatre of Blood’ – Interview with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice – ‘The Last Performance’

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 2, 2021
Blu-ray Review: The Collingswood Story (2002)

Blu-ray Review: The Collingswood Story (2002)

Rebecca (Stephanie Dees) is more than anxious to get the hell out of dodge and take up residence in a new off campus apartment house many states away from her hometown`. Thankfully she can still keep in touch with her Juggalo townie potential love interest Johnny (Johnny Burton) via a webcam based video messaging service (more on that in a bit). Speaking of Johnny, that hombre does not trust Rebecca a single bit… thanks in part to the advice of his perpetually wasted-off-his-ass buddy Billy (Grant Edmonds and his balls), so he decides to hire an online psychic, Madam Vera (Diane Behrens) to hopefully straighten things out (an amateur Don Ho and the American antecedent to Alan Moore are also involved). Of course this all goes completely to shit, as the psychic reveals that Rebecca has just moved to the most evil place in all of New Jersey… and that’s sayin’ somethin’… Collingswood (a mere “G” away from a Dan

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DanXIII
Nov 28, 2021
'Martha Is Dead' Gets February Release Date

‘Martha Is Dead’ Gets February Release Date

Wired Productions and LKA announced at the Golden Joystick Awards that their upcoming first-person psychological thriller Martha Is Dead will be getting a February release for Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox, and PC. Set in Italy during the Second World War, Martha is Dead follows a young woman who is going through loss after her sister was found murdered after her body washed to shore near the village they live in. With the horrors of war playing in the background, players will explore the blurred lines of reality and local folklore and urban legends surrounding the White Lady. Players can explore the countryside of Tuscany, use tarot cards, take pictures and develop them in a dark room, unlock the main character’s suppressed memories through mechanical theatre sequences using marionettes, and collect newspapers and telegrams as well as listen to the radio to follow the historical events unfolding. Martha is Dead will be coming to PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox, and

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Nov 26, 2021
Something Evil Is Unleashed In 'Woodland Grey' (Clip & Trailer)

Something Evil Is Unleashed In ‘Woodland Grey’ (Clip & Trailer)

We’ve got a new clip and trailer for director Adam Reider‘s Woodland Grey which made its World Premiere at the Blood in the Snow film festival earlier this month. Written by Reider and Jesse Toufexis, Woodland Grey stars Jenny Raven, Ryan Blakely, and Art Hindle, and is produced by Arrow in the Head founder John Fallon. In the film, “A man living alone in the deep woods finds Emily, a hiker, unconscious and laying on the forest floor. He brings her back to his home and helps her get back to health so she can leave the forest and get home. After a few tense days coexisting, Emily makes a discovery. She finds a crudely built shed behind the man’s home. When she opens it, she unleashes something truly haunting. As Emily and the man come to terms with what has been released, they also attempt to find a way out of the forest which isn’t exactly what it seems.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 26, 2021
Hammer Restoring Classics And Making New Films

Hammer Restoring Classics And Making New Films

For generations, Hammer Horror has been an intricate part of the genre, delivering so many great films, including their own twist on classic monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein. Variety is reporting that Hammer Films has created Hammer Studios Ltd., the latest evolution of the iconic British film company that will not only manage Hammer’s vast library but will also be restoring their classics and creating new films. Hammer’s Tim Beddows said in a statement, “This partnership is a really exciting opportunity to merge Hammer’s amazing library with Network’s infrastructure. Whilst we work our way through restoring its entire back catalog for future generations’ enjoyment, we’re equally excited about the development of new productions from the Hammer canon.” Hammer was born in November of 1934, the brainchild of comedian and businessman William Hinds, who titled the company after his stage name Will Hammer. Since its birth, Hammer has released over 150 films, including Dracula (1958) starring genre legend Christopher Lee, The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 24, 2021
Sink Your Teeth Into The New Exclusive Clip From 'Red Snow'

Vampires Bare Their Fangs This December In ‘Red Snow’

Sink your teeth into the trailer for the indie vampire horror Red Snow, written and directed by Sean Nicholas Lynch. Starring Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, and Laura Kennon, and produced by Alrik Bursell, Red Snow centers on a struggling vampire romance novelist who must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe. When an injured bat transforms into a handsome vampire, struggling horror novelist Olivia Romo hides him in her garage to protect him from a vampire hunter. Besotted by the creature, she feeds him animal blood, but any chance of romance is soon thwarted when a gang of fellow bloodsuckers invades her home in search of their missing friend. Red Snow bares its fangs on DVD, VOD, and Digital on December 28, 2021, from 4Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 23, 2021
Your December Guide To ARROW

Your December Guide To ARROW

This December, ARROW has a gift for horror fans, a killer holiday lineup including the premiere of The Last Matinee and we’ve got your guide. December 1st releases include The Sublime Gothic: Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, cursed crumbling castles, decaying minds, and ancestral homes, mad untethered emotions and lashings of overwrought doom and mystery – we love to wallow in the sublime gothic at ARROW, and with The Mill of the Stone Women joining our ranks, this seemed the perfect opportunity for a season devoted to the wild, the tormented, the possibly haunted and the aching romance of all things deliciously dark and gothic. Titles include: Mill of the Stone Women, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Black Cat, and The Shiver of the Vampires. Also arriving on December 1st is The Dark of the Matinee, inspired by The Last Matinee. A season full of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 23, 2021

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Uncork'd Entertainment Gives Birth To 'Breeder' - Out Today

Danish Horror ‘Breeder’ Sees Women Forced Into Horrible Experiments

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the Danish horror, Breeder, from Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017. Produced by Maria Møller Christoffersen (Koko-Di Koko-Da), Breeder sees women being abducted for bio-hacking experiments. One of the women, Mia, begins to work out the truth – can she escape from this nightmare? Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, the film stars Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Signe Egholm Olsen, Anders Heinrichsen, and Morten Holst. BREEDER is a superbly crafted horror film with a real-world reminder that we live in a world measured by youth and beauty. This is a film about the effects of ageing, how the world looks upon you once you do, and a miraculous cure- at a cost”, said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “I’m excited for audiences to experience the film in January”. Breeder screened at a number of leading film festivals including Sitges in Catalonia, Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Gravitas Ventures Serves Up 'An Exquisite Meal' On Demand And Digital

Let The Trailer For ‘An Exquisite Meal’ Whet Your Appetite

A sharply satirical genre-bending journey through one absurdly terrifying dinner party in modern America, An Exquisite Meal is a darkly playful Buñuelian nightmare that’s full of punchlines and twists. In the film, part thriller, part horror, part comedy, an affluent couple hosts a dinner party for friends, promising them an amazing meal. As the night goes on, uninvited guests arrive, wine flows, and dinner is strangely delayed. When the party is interrupted by a shocking diversion, one of the guests goes off on his own and discovers something unexpected about what’s being served for dinner. As identities unravel, the host tries to maintain control of his carefully orchestrated evening as the party descends into violence, bizarre sexual escapades, and the absurd. Directed by Robert Bruce Carter, the film stars Mike Jimerson and Amrita Dhaliwal, Victoria Nugent, Ross Magyar, Mark Pracht, Emily Marso, Bassam Abdelfattah, Siddhartha Rajan, and Luke Johnson also star. An Exquisite Meal will be available On Demand and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 7, 2021
Psychological Thriller 'Aftermath' Coming 2022

Psychological Thriller ‘Aftermath’ Coming 2022

One O One Games and META Publishing are pleased to announce the upcoming psychological thriller with a horror twist Aftermath. Players will be plunged into a fragmented world that we once called home where they’ll be stalked by its new inhabitants designed by Italian visual arts master Alessandro Bavari who has worked on Alien: Covenant and Susperia. In Aftermath, players will take on the role of Charlie Gray an astronaut who returned from space to find it in a fragmented nightmare where she only has two objectives, survive and find her daughter. Aftermath will be a gut-wrenching narrative-driven game where players will have to craft using mundane everyday items and fight enemies all the while facing Charlie’s demons as she navigates what’s left of the city she called home. Aftermath will be coming in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4 and 5, and PC.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 3, 2021
Italian Horror 'Stagefright' Coming to 4K Ultra And Blu-ray

Italian Horror ‘Stagefright’ Coming to 4K Ultra And Blu-ray

Director and master of Italian horror, Michele Soavi‘s (The Sect, The Church) 1987 horror Stagefright is being unleashed on 4K Ultra. In the film, “when a masked killer infiltrates a group of actors rehearsing overnight in an isolated theatre, the stage is set for carnage! Featuring an abundance of over-the-top kills and spills, shot with Soavi’s typical style, marvel at the mayhem as the iconic chainsaw-wielding ‘Owl Man’, delivers a blood-soaked performance for the ages.” Stagefright is at the pinnacle of 80s slashers. Michele Soavi was schooled by Dario Argento and Terry Gilliam and his beloved first feature can now finally be seen as intended, with this edition further benefiting from the director’s color grading and framing indications given during a candid interview filmed exclusively for this release. SPECIAL FEATURES – New 4K restoration – ‘Staging the Fright’ – Interview with director Michele Soavi – ‘The Theatre of Blood’ – Interview with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice – ‘The Last Performance’

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 2, 2021
Blu-ray Review: The Collingswood Story (2002)

Blu-ray Review: The Collingswood Story (2002)

Rebecca (Stephanie Dees) is more than anxious to get the hell out of dodge and take up residence in a new off campus apartment house many states away from her hometown`. Thankfully she can still keep in touch with her Juggalo townie potential love interest Johnny (Johnny Burton) via a webcam based video messaging service (more on that in a bit). Speaking of Johnny, that hombre does not trust Rebecca a single bit… thanks in part to the advice of his perpetually wasted-off-his-ass buddy Billy (Grant Edmonds and his balls), so he decides to hire an online psychic, Madam Vera (Diane Behrens) to hopefully straighten things out (an amateur Don Ho and the American antecedent to Alan Moore are also involved). Of course this all goes completely to shit, as the psychic reveals that Rebecca has just moved to the most evil place in all of New Jersey… and that’s sayin’ somethin’… Collingswood (a mere “G” away from a Dan

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Nov 28, 2021
'Martha Is Dead' Gets February Release Date

‘Martha Is Dead’ Gets February Release Date

Wired Productions and LKA announced at the Golden Joystick Awards that their upcoming first-person psychological thriller Martha Is Dead will be getting a February release for Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox, and PC. Set in Italy during the Second World War, Martha is Dead follows a young woman who is going through loss after her sister was found murdered after her body washed to shore near the village they live in. With the horrors of war playing in the background, players will explore the blurred lines of reality and local folklore and urban legends surrounding the White Lady. Players can explore the countryside of Tuscany, use tarot cards, take pictures and develop them in a dark room, unlock the main character’s suppressed memories through mechanical theatre sequences using marionettes, and collect newspapers and telegrams as well as listen to the radio to follow the historical events unfolding. Martha is Dead will be coming to PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox, and

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Nov 26, 2021
Something Evil Is Unleashed In 'Woodland Grey' (Clip & Trailer)

Something Evil Is Unleashed In ‘Woodland Grey’ (Clip & Trailer)

We’ve got a new clip and trailer for director Adam Reider‘s Woodland Grey which made its World Premiere at the Blood in the Snow film festival earlier this month. Written by Reider and Jesse Toufexis, Woodland Grey stars Jenny Raven, Ryan Blakely, and Art Hindle, and is produced by Arrow in the Head founder John Fallon. In the film, “A man living alone in the deep woods finds Emily, a hiker, unconscious and laying on the forest floor. He brings her back to his home and helps her get back to health so she can leave the forest and get home. After a few tense days coexisting, Emily makes a discovery. She finds a crudely built shed behind the man’s home. When she opens it, she unleashes something truly haunting. As Emily and the man come to terms with what has been released, they also attempt to find a way out of the forest which isn’t exactly what it seems.”

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 26, 2021
Hammer Restoring Classics And Making New Films

Hammer Restoring Classics And Making New Films

For generations, Hammer Horror has been an intricate part of the genre, delivering so many great films, including their own twist on classic monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein. Variety is reporting that Hammer Films has created Hammer Studios Ltd., the latest evolution of the iconic British film company that will not only manage Hammer’s vast library but will also be restoring their classics and creating new films. Hammer’s Tim Beddows said in a statement, “This partnership is a really exciting opportunity to merge Hammer’s amazing library with Network’s infrastructure. Whilst we work our way through restoring its entire back catalog for future generations’ enjoyment, we’re equally excited about the development of new productions from the Hammer canon.” Hammer was born in November of 1934, the brainchild of comedian and businessman William Hinds, who titled the company after his stage name Will Hammer. Since its birth, Hammer has released over 150 films, including Dracula (1958) starring genre legend Christopher Lee, The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 24, 2021
Sink Your Teeth Into The New Exclusive Clip From 'Red Snow'

Vampires Bare Their Fangs This December In ‘Red Snow’

Sink your teeth into the trailer for the indie vampire horror Red Snow, written and directed by Sean Nicholas Lynch. Starring Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, and Laura Kennon, and produced by Alrik Bursell, Red Snow centers on a struggling vampire romance novelist who must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe. When an injured bat transforms into a handsome vampire, struggling horror novelist Olivia Romo hides him in her garage to protect him from a vampire hunter. Besotted by the creature, she feeds him animal blood, but any chance of romance is soon thwarted when a gang of fellow bloodsuckers invades her home in search of their missing friend. Red Snow bares its fangs on DVD, VOD, and Digital on December 28, 2021, from 4Digital Media.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 23, 2021
Your December Guide To ARROW

Your December Guide To ARROW

This December, ARROW has a gift for horror fans, a killer holiday lineup including the premiere of The Last Matinee and we’ve got your guide. December 1st releases include The Sublime Gothic: Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, cursed crumbling castles, decaying minds, and ancestral homes, mad untethered emotions and lashings of overwrought doom and mystery – we love to wallow in the sublime gothic at ARROW, and with The Mill of the Stone Women joining our ranks, this seemed the perfect opportunity for a season devoted to the wild, the tormented, the possibly haunted and the aching romance of all things deliciously dark and gothic. Titles include: Mill of the Stone Women, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Black Cat, and The Shiver of the Vampires. Also arriving on December 1st is The Dark of the Matinee, inspired by The Last Matinee. A season full of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 23, 2021
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