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Barbie (Cody Renee Cameron) arrives home to discover the world is in the grip of a corona virus outbreak via the nightly news. Unlike the corona based fun n’ games we are currently balls deep in as of the time of this writing, this particular stain turns it’s victims into diseased zombies that terrorize the land with their battlecry: “Corona!” Oh and this sinister sickness originated from Scambell’s soup factory and their bat soup… subtle this mother fucker is definitely not. Meanwhile a paramilitary unit engages the corona zombies in the wild courtesy of footage lifted from Bruno Mattei’s 1980 Italian gut-muncher Hell of the Living Dead (footage from Zombies Vs. Strippers and the actual news is utilized as well). The rest of the film is packed to the revoltin’ rafters with juvenile humor, amazingly un-politically correct nonsense, up-to-the-minute plot points (not the zombies you dumb-ass ass-dumbs… rather it’s the quarantine, precautions we must take, and news footage displayed that
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This June Monsterflix Awards will have genre fans screaming in terror with the first-ever online terror film festival which will be available all over the world. The international festival set up by filmmakers for film-makers in the hope of giving them the platform they deserve. The Monsterflix team wants to see the very best horror, thriller and science-fiction projects out there. With special guest judges that include big names in sales and distribution each project will be viewed by some of the most respectable names in the industry. Teaming up with Film-Freeway, Click for Festivals, Fest home and MoviBeta Festival we are making sure film-makers feel secure and of course find it easy to submit. As well as the obvious selections in features, short, student shorts we have the 60 second horror challenge so we hope some of the talented film-makers will grab their camera, phone and shoot something special and send it our way. June 27th and 28th fans
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Chip Gutchell (played by the film’s writer/director Tyler Cornack), who decidedly isn’t livin’ his best life… hell, he’s barely “livin'” at all; his job sucks, his marriage is the pits, and not even a new role as “daddy” has brought him any joy. Oh, and he just booked his first prostate exam. Should go easy seeing as how life is shovin’ it in dry where the sun don’t shine on the daily… And there he finds his life’s true pleasure; having foreign objects jammed up his arse six ways to Sunday… and acts on his new desire like a true champion! Well, fate has more in store for our anal-lovin’ hero as the world’s most stereotypical police detective (slick hair and drinking habit intact) named Russel Fox (Tyler Rice) who is desperate to solve a missing child case… but what does our hero and his chocolate starfish have to do with any of that? Better buckle up for that revelation
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The arcane anthology Verotika (written and directed by the legendary Glenn Danzig; he of Misfits, Samhain, and solo fame… and based on the comic books he created for his Verotik imprint) begins with an eye-opening introduction from Morella (played with loads of satanic sass by Kayden Kross), a demonic entity that first appeared within the pages of Satanika (issue number eight to be precise, with Mighty Duke Mighten on poison pencils)… shit, did I fail to mention that I’m a titanic fan of both Glenn and his comics? Following our intro we jump to an adaptation of my favorite Verotik series, The Albino Spider of Dajette (which featured kinetic, Aeon Flux-style artwork created by Eric Canete). The basics of the story goes as follows: French model Dajette makes love in her apartment with a man that is ill-prepared to handle her unique deformity… she has eyes in her tits where those good ol’ nipples should be! Said boyfriend ghosts which
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What can you do while stuck at home? Well, you can clean, you can get your taxes in order, or you can just sit and watch some free movies I found on YouTube that will entertain or give you something to laugh at! This time we have self-aware machinery, creepy trophy wives, curses, bad flights, experiments gone wrong, art to die for, serial killers, and bigfoot! Bring on the cheese! Don’t Look in the Basement (1973) Also known as The Forgotten, the film takes place at a sanatorium where the head doctor lets the insane patients run freely and act out their fantasies, what could go wrong? The Thing with Two Heads (1972) A bigoted man (Ray Milland) has his head put onto the body of a black man (Rosey Grier), both go on a journey to try to go back to get their own bodies again. The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973) This made for TV movie joins the
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Genre Distributor Terror Films has teamed with the AVOD YouTube Channel, Watch Movies Now! Terror Films has made its entire library available to Watch Movies Now which will kick off releases next week, starting with: The Bone Box (4/10), followed by Dead Body (4/17), After Dark (4/24) and The Chair (4/29). A Terror Film’s movie will be released weekly on the Watch Movies Now channel and in most cases, the films will be available worldwide. This marks yet another strategic, AVOD partnership for our company and one more step toward our continued global expansion. It’s also very important we make our films available for FREE to as many people as possible during this difficult time. Watch Movies Now is a perfect partner to achieve this goal,” stated Terror Films President, Joe Dain. Watch Movies Now is a global movie channel. This channel has over 142,000 subscribers (and growing), with more than 12 Million views per month and is the leading
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From director Peter Engert (Aftermath) comes Penance Lane, starring horror icons Tyler Mane (Halloween 1 & 2) and Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween 1 & 2). The action-packed horror film tells the harrowing story of Crimson Matthews, a hardened criminal fresh out of the joint who takes a job as a handyman in a dilapidated house; but the twisted horrors he finds inside are enough to send anyone running. So why does he stay? John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and Have Nots, WB’s Series Smallville), Daniel Roebuck (Getting Grace), William Tokarsky (Jumanji), Renae Geerlings (Halloween II), Travis Love (Black Panther) also star along with WWE Hall of Famers Booker T. Huffman and Diamond Dallas Page. Munier Sharrief, Renae Geerlings, Matt Granger, and Mikey Granger penned the script for the film produced by Mane, Geerling, Jared Safier, Michael Leavy, Steve Della Salla, and Jason Leavy. Penance Lane is be released on VOD on April 21st, 2020.
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Crimson Matthews (Tyler Mane), is one hard-ass ex-con who is trying his beastly best to turn over a new leaf. To that end he takes on a job as a handyman of sorts working in an arcane abode down Penance Lane way. As fate, and horror tropes, would have it, ol’ cray-cray Crimson discovers that demonic dwelling is home to it’s fair share of deep, dark sinister secrets… secrets the town is none to pleased to have discovered… and they’ll do anything to make sure they remain hidden in the shadows. Has Crimson traded one prison for another as the house begins to gain a hold on our hero? Let’s kick out the fuckin’ joltin’ jams of Penance Lane with some preternatural positives, shall we? First up, the cast assembled here is absolutely first rate. We get Mane (he of Rob Zombie’s Halloween remakes, and the first X-Men flick, who also produced this freaky fracas) as our oddly named hero,
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This time I’m doing something a little different when it comes to showing you free movies I found on YouTube. I was contacted by a reader asking me if I come across more films from the ’70s, well lucky for them (and you) that I was able to find some gems and will definitely try to find more as I’ll admit, these are pretty entertaining! The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) Two scientists (Steve Brodie and Barbra Hale) investigate a strange source of power in rural Wisconsin that’s slowly being overrun by spiders. The House That Dripped Blood (1971) This horror anthology film stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott, and Jon Pertwee. The film follows an investigation of an incident at a rented country house in which the real-estate agent reflects on other incidents at the house. Trilogy of Terror (1975) The film that spawned the famed Zuni Fetish Doll character that you may have seen but
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A woman (Ludovica Ferraro) is home alone one moonlit night, and happens across an arcane amulet located within a wicked wicker basket… and once said moonlight falls upon that jazzy jewelry a monster is released mirroring the one featured in the Stephen King book our heroine is reading to pass the time! Writer/director Andrea Ricca truly delivers the ghoulish goods in this creature feature-style sinister short… a short that plays out without a single, solitary word of dialog no less! Because of said lack of dialog, the film’s only actor, the aforementioned Ferraro, has to do all of the heavy lifting with her expressions and body acting alone… and to that end she is a champ; creating a believable and sympathetic heroine we can root for over the films scant five minute and change runtime. As for the creature of the piece, it’s a rather cool looking humanoid terror that is realized with surprisingly good CG for a film of
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Barbie (Cody Renee Cameron) arrives home to discover the world is in the grip of a corona virus outbreak via the nightly news. Unlike the corona based fun n’ games we are currently balls deep in as of the time of this writing, this particular stain turns it’s victims into diseased zombies that terrorize the land with their battlecry: “Corona!” Oh and this sinister sickness originated from Scambell’s soup factory and their bat soup… subtle this mother fucker is definitely not. Meanwhile a paramilitary unit engages the corona zombies in the wild courtesy of footage lifted from Bruno Mattei’s 1980 Italian gut-muncher Hell of the Living Dead (footage from Zombies Vs. Strippers and the actual news is utilized as well). The rest of the film is packed to the revoltin’ rafters with juvenile humor, amazingly un-politically correct nonsense, up-to-the-minute plot points (not the zombies you dumb-ass ass-dumbs… rather it’s the quarantine, precautions we must take, and news footage displayed that
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This June Monsterflix Awards will have genre fans screaming in terror with the first-ever online terror film festival which will be available all over the world. The international festival set up by filmmakers for film-makers in the hope of giving them the platform they deserve. The Monsterflix team wants to see the very best horror, thriller and science-fiction projects out there. With special guest judges that include big names in sales and distribution each project will be viewed by some of the most respectable names in the industry. Teaming up with Film-Freeway, Click for Festivals, Fest home and MoviBeta Festival we are making sure film-makers feel secure and of course find it easy to submit. As well as the obvious selections in features, short, student shorts we have the 60 second horror challenge so we hope some of the talented film-makers will grab their camera, phone and shoot something special and send it our way. June 27th and 28th fans
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Chip Gutchell (played by the film’s writer/director Tyler Cornack), who decidedly isn’t livin’ his best life… hell, he’s barely “livin'” at all; his job sucks, his marriage is the pits, and not even a new role as “daddy” has brought him any joy. Oh, and he just booked his first prostate exam. Should go easy seeing as how life is shovin’ it in dry where the sun don’t shine on the daily… And there he finds his life’s true pleasure; having foreign objects jammed up his arse six ways to Sunday… and acts on his new desire like a true champion! Well, fate has more in store for our anal-lovin’ hero as the world’s most stereotypical police detective (slick hair and drinking habit intact) named Russel Fox (Tyler Rice) who is desperate to solve a missing child case… but what does our hero and his chocolate starfish have to do with any of that? Better buckle up for that revelation
Continue reading →
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The arcane anthology Verotika (written and directed by the legendary Glenn Danzig; he of Misfits, Samhain, and solo fame… and based on the comic books he created for his Verotik imprint) begins with an eye-opening introduction from Morella (played with loads of satanic sass by Kayden Kross), a demonic entity that first appeared within the pages of Satanika (issue number eight to be precise, with Mighty Duke Mighten on poison pencils)… shit, did I fail to mention that I’m a titanic fan of both Glenn and his comics? Following our intro we jump to an adaptation of my favorite Verotik series, The Albino Spider of Dajette (which featured kinetic, Aeon Flux-style artwork created by Eric Canete). The basics of the story goes as follows: French model Dajette makes love in her apartment with a man that is ill-prepared to handle her unique deformity… she has eyes in her tits where those good ol’ nipples should be! Said boyfriend ghosts which
Continue reading →
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What can you do while stuck at home? Well, you can clean, you can get your taxes in order, or you can just sit and watch some free movies I found on YouTube that will entertain or give you something to laugh at! This time we have self-aware machinery, creepy trophy wives, curses, bad flights, experiments gone wrong, art to die for, serial killers, and bigfoot! Bring on the cheese! Don’t Look in the Basement (1973) Also known as The Forgotten, the film takes place at a sanatorium where the head doctor lets the insane patients run freely and act out their fantasies, what could go wrong? The Thing with Two Heads (1972) A bigoted man (Ray Milland) has his head put onto the body of a black man (Rosey Grier), both go on a journey to try to go back to get their own bodies again. The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973) This made for TV movie joins the
Continue reading →
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Genre Distributor Terror Films has teamed with the AVOD YouTube Channel, Watch Movies Now! Terror Films has made its entire library available to Watch Movies Now which will kick off releases next week, starting with: The Bone Box (4/10), followed by Dead Body (4/17), After Dark (4/24) and The Chair (4/29). A Terror Film’s movie will be released weekly on the Watch Movies Now channel and in most cases, the films will be available worldwide. This marks yet another strategic, AVOD partnership for our company and one more step toward our continued global expansion. It’s also very important we make our films available for FREE to as many people as possible during this difficult time. Watch Movies Now is a perfect partner to achieve this goal,” stated Terror Films President, Joe Dain. Watch Movies Now is a global movie channel. This channel has over 142,000 subscribers (and growing), with more than 12 Million views per month and is the leading
Continue reading →
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From director Peter Engert (Aftermath) comes Penance Lane, starring horror icons Tyler Mane (Halloween 1 & 2) and Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween 1 & 2). The action-packed horror film tells the harrowing story of Crimson Matthews, a hardened criminal fresh out of the joint who takes a job as a handyman in a dilapidated house; but the twisted horrors he finds inside are enough to send anyone running. So why does he stay? John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and Have Nots, WB’s Series Smallville), Daniel Roebuck (Getting Grace), William Tokarsky (Jumanji), Renae Geerlings (Halloween II), Travis Love (Black Panther) also star along with WWE Hall of Famers Booker T. Huffman and Diamond Dallas Page. Munier Sharrief, Renae Geerlings, Matt Granger, and Mikey Granger penned the script for the film produced by Mane, Geerling, Jared Safier, Michael Leavy, Steve Della Salla, and Jason Leavy. Penance Lane is be released on VOD on April 21st, 2020.
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Crimson Matthews (Tyler Mane), is one hard-ass ex-con who is trying his beastly best to turn over a new leaf. To that end he takes on a job as a handyman of sorts working in an arcane abode down Penance Lane way. As fate, and horror tropes, would have it, ol’ cray-cray Crimson discovers that demonic dwelling is home to it’s fair share of deep, dark sinister secrets… secrets the town is none to pleased to have discovered… and they’ll do anything to make sure they remain hidden in the shadows. Has Crimson traded one prison for another as the house begins to gain a hold on our hero? Let’s kick out the fuckin’ joltin’ jams of Penance Lane with some preternatural positives, shall we? First up, the cast assembled here is absolutely first rate. We get Mane (he of Rob Zombie’s Halloween remakes, and the first X-Men flick, who also produced this freaky fracas) as our oddly named hero,
Continue reading →
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This time I’m doing something a little different when it comes to showing you free movies I found on YouTube. I was contacted by a reader asking me if I come across more films from the ’70s, well lucky for them (and you) that I was able to find some gems and will definitely try to find more as I’ll admit, these are pretty entertaining! The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) Two scientists (Steve Brodie and Barbra Hale) investigate a strange source of power in rural Wisconsin that’s slowly being overrun by spiders. The House That Dripped Blood (1971) This horror anthology film stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott, and Jon Pertwee. The film follows an investigation of an incident at a rented country house in which the real-estate agent reflects on other incidents at the house. Trilogy of Terror (1975) The film that spawned the famed Zuni Fetish Doll character that you may have seen but
Continue reading →
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A woman (Ludovica Ferraro) is home alone one moonlit night, and happens across an arcane amulet located within a wicked wicker basket… and once said moonlight falls upon that jazzy jewelry a monster is released mirroring the one featured in the Stephen King book our heroine is reading to pass the time! Writer/director Andrea Ricca truly delivers the ghoulish goods in this creature feature-style sinister short… a short that plays out without a single, solitary word of dialog no less! Because of said lack of dialog, the film’s only actor, the aforementioned Ferraro, has to do all of the heavy lifting with her expressions and body acting alone… and to that end she is a champ; creating a believable and sympathetic heroine we can root for over the films scant five minute and change runtime. As for the creature of the piece, it’s a rather cool looking humanoid terror that is realized with surprisingly good CG for a film of
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