Starring Kayla Strada; Jaydelise Volquez; and Anna Faith, Night of the Insolent Vermin now on Bluray from Bayview Ent ( @BayViewEnt1 )


  Night of the Insolent Vermin directed by Gary DeJidas and starring Kayla Strada; Jaydelise Volquez; and Anna Faith is now available on Blu-ray from Bayview Entertainment.   A diverse group of girlfriends, and a Dominican drifter they snatched from a couple of creeps, decide to hunker down together to ride out a colossal hurricane rolling through…

Bag yourself a Free Eurocine Bluray Box Set if you sign up to Full Moon Features streaming channel today. ( @fullmoonhorror )


In the early days of VHS (oh how I miss those days) , Charles Band’s Wizard Video blazed trails and kept video store customers super happy (me included) , importing strange, unusual and exciting international horror, action and exploitation for the video rental market, some for the very first time in North America. To honor…

Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange star in MARLOWE on Blu-ray & DVD 18th September from Dazzler Media ( @DazzlerMedia )


  When private detective Philip Marlowe (played by Liam Neeson, Silence, Taken) is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, it looks like an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood’s film industry of the 1930’s and unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress…

Steve Lawson’s ‘Wrath of Dracula’, Hannaj Bang Bendz as Mina Harker sets out to settle scores with the Count. Out Now from High Fliers Films ( @HighFliersFilms )


Having (as I often like to do) gone into watch Wrath of Dracula without having watched any trailers or reading any plot details about the film, I was expecting a film I’d probably enjoy , but also expecting  to see another retelling of the Dracula story, one that I  had seen many time before, whether…

Fatboy Slim documentary RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW comes to Blu-ray, DVD & Download 25th September from Dazzler Media ( @DazzlerMedia  )


  In 2002, superstar DJ Fatboy Slim organises a free beach party for his hometown of Brighton. 40,000 ravers were expected by the seaside, but a quarter of a million turn up. Chaos ensues…   Right Here, Right Now is the real story behind dance music’s most infamous gig: illustrated through jaw-dropping archive and told by the people…

NIGHT OF THE CAREGIVER starring Eileen Dietz & Eric Roberts arrives in Theaters August 15th 2023( @EricRoberts @queenofscreams )


  ITN Studios has obtained the North American rights to the horror film NIGHT OF THE CAREGIVER, directed by Joe Cornet (GUNFIGHT AT RIO BRAVO) and produced by Alexander Nevsky (BLACK ROSE) from a script by Craig Hamann (BOOGIE BOY).  Starring Eileen Dietz (THE EXORCIST), Natalie Denise Sperl (MANK), Eric Roberts (THE DARK KNIGHT) and Cornet,…

Multi-Award Winning and Heart-Warming Documentary ‘Cats of Malta’ unveils its purrrfecttrailer and poster


Multi-award winning, heart-warming documentary Cats of Malta is now on digital download in the UK and Ireland. Directed by Sarah Jayne Portelli, most known for her work directing Daughter –starring Katherine Langford. Cats of Malta is also produced by Sarah Jayne Portelli and Ivan Malekin. Ivan is a prolific producer, director, editor and cinematographer, selected for the ‘Top 50 Australian…

Studiocanal add two brand new restorations of director Alberto De Martino’s to their blu ray library this September @StudiocanalUK


  STUDIOCANAL are adding two brand-new restorations to their ever growing physical media library, both from legendary director Alberto De Martino – the 1974 Italian exorcist film THE ANTICHRIST, a superbly sleazy and unsettling shocker, featuring an amazing score by Ennio Morricone, starring Carla Gravina (Madame Bovary), Mel Ferrer (Nightmare City) and Oscar  nominee Arthur Kennedy…

Premiere for Sean Hogan’s ‘To Fire You Come At Last’ August 26th at FrightFest ( @frightfest )


  Step back in time to 17th century rural England for a wickedly enthralling folk horror, To Fire You Come At Last, from writer-director Sean Hogan (Little Deaths, The Devil’s Business). This mini feature is an atmospheric homage to the great tradition of British supernatural television from the 1970s and gets its world premiere at FrightFest 2023 on Saturday,…

Final film for the late Tom Sizemore , Trauma Therapy : Psychosis schedules theatrical, digital, and on demand release September 1


  The very final film for the late, great Tom Sizemore (Heat, Saving Private Ryan), Trauma Therapy : Psychosis has been scheduled for a theatrical, digital, and on demand release September 1 by Quiver Distribution. Directed by Lawrie Brewster, and written by Tom Malloy and David Josh Lawrence, the film – a sequel to Trauma Therapy (2019) – sees Malloy return…

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City arriving on Digital September 11th and bluray and DVD September 25th from Universal Pictures Home Ent ( @universaluk )


Jason Schwartzman (The French Dispatch, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow, Jojo Rabbit), and Tom Hanks (Elvis, News of the World) star in the “Terrifically entertaining and lightly sophisticated” (The Guardian) comedy ASTEROID CITY, available to own with all-new bonus content on Digital from September 11 and on Blu-ray and DVD on September 25, 2023 from Universal…

First of its kind channel-surfing horror to celebrate World Premiere at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest ( @frightfest )


  Transmission, the unique and surreal horror, will have its World Premiere at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest on Saturday 26th August. Described as the first of its kind channel-surfing horror, Transmission is a twisted take on the classic horror anthologies like you’ve never seen before!    As we watch TV late at night, flipping between channels we realize that…

A blend of martial arts mayhem & zombie-zapping thrills  ‘Johnny Z’ arrives on digital on 14 August from Reel 2 Reel Films. ( @Reel2reelF )


  Experience a rip-roaring, gut-splattering zombie-fest with Johnny Z – the ultimate action-packed horror from award-winning writer-director Jonathan Straiton (Night of Something Strange). This undead, brain-splatting wild-ride walks on to UK digital on 14 August courtesy of Reel 2 Reel Films. The earth has changed beyond recognition as a violent zombie epidemic has almost completely…

Owen Wilson stars as public television painter, Carl Nargle in PAINT, available to Buy or Rent on Digital on August 7th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment


Owen Wilson (Shanghai Noon, The French Dispatch) stars as Vermont’s #1 public television painter, Carl Nargle in the droll and funny film PAINT available to Buy or Rent on Digital on August 7th. Carl Nargle, a local treasure with a soothing whisper of a voice, hosts his own painting show on Vermont public television. His art has attracted…

Spending Time With… Chaos Rising’s Patrick Cappaloff Fowler


  Chaos Rising is an epic fantasy-action film drawing inspiration from the rich and immersive Warhammer universe.  The film is a proudly independent and ambitious project from combat experts whose skills have featured in Outlander, Game of Thrones and projects by Ridley Scott. I (virtually) caught up with with Patrick Cappaloff Fowler who plays the…

10 Questions with George Baron, director of gender-bending murder thriller THE BLUE ROSE ahead of Frightfest screening ( @thepigeonshrine @frightfest )


Ahead of the World Premiere of THE BLUE ROSE, which he made whilst still at school, George Baron talks about overcoming self-doubt, the concept of ‘pastel-noir’ and the influence of David Lynch as a male role model. THE BLUE ROSE marks your feature film debut. What would you say were the biggest challenges in getting it off the…

Edinburgh Festival news: Self-Proclaimed “Best Band In The World” Otto & Astrid Rot Release Competing Solo Singles For Their Edinburgh Show


Ahead of their month-long run of performances at the Edinburgh Festival, Berlin’s prince and princess of art rock and Europop, Otto & Astrid (best known as Die Roten Punkte) have released two competing singles in an attempt to prove to one another who is the real star of Berlin’s Euro-punk-pop scene. Otto & Astrid  – who together have won a host…

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment team up with the UK’s Museum of Youth Culture to launch ‘FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOODS’ photo competition today


  To celebrate the Digital home entertainment release of SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has teamed up with the UK’s Museum of Youth Culture to launch a nationwide ‘FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOODS’ photography competition today on International Spider-Man Day! The Museum of Youth Culture – which is dedicated to the styles, sounds and social movements innovated by…

Special 4K UHD restoration of the critically acclaimed horror THE OTHERS starring Nicole Kidman out 2nd October


  STUDIOCANAL have announced the release and 4K restoration of one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of the 21st Century, The 4K Ultra HD Edition, Blu-ray and DVD will arrive on October 2ndAlejandro Amenábar’s THE OTHERS. Starring Nicole Kidman (THE UNDOING, BIG LITTLE LIES, EYES WIDE SHUT, COLD MOUNTAIN), Christopher Eccleston (DOCTOR WHO, 28 DAYS LATER, THE LEFTOVERS) and Fionnula…

DreamWorks Animation’s Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, now on Digital


  From the studio that brought you Shrek and How to Train Your Dragon franchises, DreamWorks Animation’s RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN, splashes into homes for the very first time from today ( July 31, 2023), exclusively on digital platforms nationwide where you can buy or rent movies – from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.   Directed by Academy Award nominee Kirk DeMicco…

George Baron’s genre-bending surrealist noir ‘The Blue Rose’ to receive World premiere at Pigeon Shrine Frightfest 2023 ( @frightfest )


  The film follows the one-night journey of two rookie detectives, as they set out to solve a seemingly clear-cut homicide, only to find themselves in an alternate reality of their worst nightmares. Written & directed by George Baron, the much-anticipated debut from 18-year-old Baron, stars Olivia Scott Welch (Fear Street, Panic, Unbelievable), George Baron (Wet Hot…

Enter the Clones of Bruce, an enthralling, jaw-dropping, kick-ass story of martial arts mayhem , screening at Frightfest this August ( @frightfest )


  When the world’s most famous martial artist and screen icon Bruce Lee died in 1974, at just 32 years of age, he’d completed only four films. But within hours of his funeral, Hong Kong studios began producing hundreds of unauthorised biopics, sequels, prequels and spin-offs, finding a new legion of stars whose main skill was that they…

Streaming Channel ARROW present the brilliantly bizarre and provocative pop fantasy RED SUN this August.


  In August, ARROW are proud to present RED SUN, an outstanding pop fantasy focused on the post-’68 and women’s liberation movements. Compared to a comic strip by German director Wim Wenders, it is a beautiful art-genre collision that is both brilliantly bizarre and provocative. Director Rudolf Thome was an emerging talent in the New German Cinema alongside Wenders,…

The hunters become the hunted in ‘Hunt Club’ an all-star dark-edged vengeance thriller, coming this August. ( @Elizabeth_B_T )


Award-winning British filmmaker Elizabeth Blake-Thomas helms the wildly violent and unrelenting revenge thriller Hunt Club, which takes a stark gaze at the sinister depths of toxic masculinity and sees Oscar -winning actor Mena Suvari (American Beauty) deliver an unmissable turn as the kick-ass lead. This all-star blood-thirsty action thriller gets its UK premiere this summer from Plaion Pictures and also stars…

David Ryan Keith’s hugely entertaining revenge thriller I Am Rage featuring a 5 star performance by Hannaj Bang Bendz is out now on digital and DVD ( @EvilAvidEditor @uncorkdent @BangBendzHannaj )


From director David Ryan Keith (and co written with Stephen Durham) comes I Am Rage, a  revenge thriller film from the team behind Army of One (2020), which is now out on digital and DVD release by Uncorkd Entertainment. Starring Hannaj Bang Bendz (The Man Up The Stairs and Glamour) as Erin whose trip to the countryside…