If there is one thing I didn’t like in this documentary its a short sequence at the start of the film where many people all dressed in Star Wars cosplay are all asked if they have heard of Alan Ladd Jr, they all reply ‘no’ Which drove me nuts. Why did it drive me nuts?…
Not only is influential horror host Joe Bob Briggs back with a new season of The Last Drive-In on Shudder, but he has also returned in action figure form from Fright-Rags. The horror apparel company also has other new merchandise from The Last Drive-In and Shaun of the Dead.Fright-Rags has reissued its popular Joe Bob…
Freestyle Digital Media has announced the cable, satellite and Digital HD release of the tension-ridden thriller Goodbye Honey, from director/co-writer Max Strand and co-writer/producer Todd Rawiszer. Pamela Jayne Morgan (Just Say Goodbye) and Juliette Alice Gobin (Look At Me), headline the cast in a balancing act of mistrust, fear and reliance. Goodbye Honey will be available…
High-octane adventure movie LAST ACTION HERO, starring one of the Kings of the 80s and 90s action film Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator franchise, The Expendables), is available for the first time on 4K Ultra HD on May 17 courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The super budget high profile film also stars Anthony Quinn (Zorba The Greek), Charles Dance…
Garnering critical acclaim and sparking many conversations on its premiere at Sundance 2021, A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is set for its release on Blu-ray and DVD on 10 May 2021 from Dogwoof and is available now on digital HD. The film looks at a question that has been around since the dawn…
Lightbulb Film Distribution is delighted to share the poster and trailer for new dystopian fantasy-thriller, Undergods, which will be coming to cinemas and digital download on May 17. Following its world premiere at Fantasia last year, the film went on to celebrate its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival in February. Since then, Undergods has gone on to receive two British Independent Film…
A powerful portrayal of modern teenage life that resonates with youthful energy, Beast Beast is a powerful character study of three young lives torn apart by gun violence. In a quiet suburban town, charismatic theatre lover Krista finds herself increasingly drawn to quiet new kid Nito, a talented skateboarder whose troubled home life pushes him towards…
Lionsgate UK will release WILD MOUNTAIN THYME on all major UK digital retailers on April 30th, and in cinemas in the Republic of Ireland this Summer. From Oscar®-, Tony®- and Pulitzer Prize®-winning writer and director John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck), WILD MOUNTAIN THYME captures the romance, lyricism and transcendent beauty of the Irish countryside in an extraordinary love story…
Anson Mount (Star Trek: Discovery) is a deadly assassin sent on a mission by his cold-blooded boss, 2021 Oscar-nominee Anthony Hopkins (The Father), in slick neo-noir thriller The Virtuoso. Danger, deception, and murder descend upon a sleepy country town when a professional assassin (Mount) accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic mentor (Hopkins). Given only…
Witness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in THE MAURITANIAN, available to own on Digital April 20, 2021, Video on Demand on May 4, 2021 and on Blu-ray™, DVD on May 11, 2021 from STXfilms and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Declared “triumphant”…
In the tradition of Shadow in the Cloud and Resident Evil, and from the director of The Elf and the 13th Friday , Wrong Place, Wrong Time premiering On Demand this May from Uncork’d Entertainment. An elite team of vigilantes plot to steal 14 billion dollars of laundered money from a notorious mob boss. After being double-crossed, they find refuge in the middle of…
Martial arts legend Jean-Claude Van Damme (Bloodsport, Kickboxer) takes on a deadly gang of Triad gangsters with explosive results in the action-packed, hard-hitting Wake of Death! Ex-mob enforcer Ben Archer (Van Damme) is ready to give up his life of crime and settle down to family life. But when his wife, Cynthia, attempts to help…
Shudder and FANGORIA announced today presenters at the 2021 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, premiering Sunday, April 18 at 8pm ET/5pm PT exclusively on Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. The ceremony, which recognizes outstanding achievement in horror film and television, will be hosted by actor and writer David Dastmalchian (Ant-Man and the Wasp) and…
Cult label VIPCO are excited to announce that they have acquired the latest in the Amityville franchise for UK distribution The film ‘AMITYVILLE HEX’ was directed by Tony Newton, who also wrote the film alongside Shawn C. Phillips. Appearing in the film will be Shawn C. Phillips (Ghost Shark) , Sarah Schultz( Bloodbath on 4th Avenue )…
The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor CHARLES LAUGHTON ever directed— is truly a standalone masterwork. and definitely a cinema classic in every way. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister ROBERT MITCHUM (Cape Fear, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) as a traveling preacher named Harry…
Directed by Eric Fleitas and Luciana Garraza In a post apocalyptic world with its own rules, Tisha, an assassin and organ dealer with a dark past, seeks revenge for a crime that marked her life. Starring: Nayla Churruarin, Eric Fleitas, Sofia Lanaro, Rosa Cuenya Macedo, Jose Manuel Solis Vargas, and Gonzalo Tolosa May 11, 2021
Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to first time writer-director Charles Scharfman’s crime thriller “Killer Among Us”. Directed by Charles Scharfman, the film stars Yasha Jackson (HBO’s The Flight Attendant), Andrew Richardson (Martin Eden.), Bruce MacVittie (When They See Us) and Imani Lewis (The Forty-Year-Old Version). On the 4th of July, a rookie female cop partners with a veteran detective to save…
Sensation is the second film from Director Martin Grof, following his award-winning hit Excursion. Boasting an exciting cast, the film stars Eugene Simon (Game of Thrones, Genius) & Emily Wyatt (Hurricane, Rise of the Footsoldier: The Heist). The film follows Andrew (Eugene Simon), who, while on a quest to uncover hidden truths about his family history, provides a top-secret agency with his DNA in order…
From the distributor that brought you Sator & Disappearance at Clifton Hill, Lightbulb Film Distribution is delighted to share the poster and trailer for a new claustrophobic thriller, The Oak Room, which is now available on Digital Download Following its world premiere at Fantasia, the UK premiere took place at Grimmfest in October. 2020 (one of my favourite festivals…
A budding filmmaker takes her desire to make a new film to murderous extremes in razor-sharp and shocking meta-comedy I Blame Society. When a struggling filmmaker, played by writer-director Gillian Wallace Horvat, senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, she decides to prove herself with a new creative project – dispatching…
A murderous vigilante couple tear through the city, serving vengeance to dealers of a new designer drug called Red Devil in this nightmarish dystopia where everyone seems high on something. Red Rage will be available on DVD & Digital Download from 19th April The film stars a host of British talent including Adam Deacon (Anuvahood),…
Sovereign is proud to announce the return of EFFIE GRAY, the true story of a scandal that shocked Victorian England, on 19th April in Virtual Cinemas and on VOD, and out 31st May as a special collector’s edition DVD and Blu-ray. Nineteen-year-old Effie Gray marries esteemed art critic John Ruskin, a cold and distant man who, seemingly repelled by his young bride, refuses…
Directed, written and produced by the legendary, ‘father of African cinema’ Ousmane Sembène, the film was originally made in 1968 where it won the Special Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival. The second feature by Sembène was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language—a major step toward the realisation of the trailblazing Senegalese…
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the groundbreaking Keanu Reeves sci-fi JOHNNY MNEMONIC is getting a brand new HD release on May 10th, from Vertigo Releasing. Hollywood action superstar Keanu Reeves stars in this ahead-of-its time sci-fi thriller set in 2021(!); it predicted the use of the internet, and paved the way for mind-bending blockbusters such as The Matrix and Inception. Reeves plays a futuristic data carrier with a…
Writer/Director Guy Ritchie, (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sherlock Holmes) delivered an awe-inspiring directorial masterpiece with, SNATCH – an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong, a colourful prizefighter…and a very temperamental dog. SNATCH is available for the first time on 4K Ultra HD on July 12th courtesy of Sony Pictures…
Fright-Rags has teamed with EMCE Toys to create limited edition Night of the Living Dead merchandise, which is up for pre-order for five days only. A vintage-style tin lunchbox features embossed artwork for George A. Romero’s seminal classic and a matching tin-wrapped thermos. Fright-Rags’ Night of the Living Dead Nanoforce figure set includes 13…
Clapboard Jungle, a journey following five years in the life and career of independent filmmaker,Justin McConnell as he takes us on a whirlwind home movie of sorts with his struggle to get projects from the page, to the screens. I was totally engaged from moment one of this feature length doc which not only follows…
The wild world of adolescence has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this refreshingly smart, frank spin on the teen comedy by director AMY HECKERLING (Clueless) and screenwriter CAMERON CROWE (Almost Famous)— for each of whom it kicked off a hugely successful film career. Based on Crowe’s experiences going undercover as a student at…
chiller THE NIGHT. “A terrifying twist on The Shining” – CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND “Sneaks up on viewers and delivers a knockout final act”– VARIETY You’ll be praying for check out time on 2nd April, as Vertigo Releasing announces the arrival of the fright-packed chiller THE NIGHT. After a night out with friends, an exhausted married couple, Babak (Shahab Hosseini), Neda (Niousha…
British horror The Darkness, from director Tharun Mohan (Baby, Purgatory State of Mind) is set to chill you to the bone. This darkly gripping thriller follows a young couple whose escape to Ireland becomes a deadly dance with demons, death and deception and makes its UK premiere on digital this May from Reel2Reel Films. Spanning one hundred…
BLACK BEAR is an intriguing and satirical comedic thriller directed by Lawrence Michael Levine and starring Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West, Happiest Season) Christopher Abbott (Possessor, Catch 22) and Sarah Gadon (True Detective, Alias Grace). The film launched at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film enthralled audiences and received widespread critical acclaim. BLACK BEAR…
When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city. The film stars Luke Goss (Hellboy II), Jay Mohr (SNL), JuJu Chan (Jiu Jitsu), Michael Paré (Gone), and Bill Duke (X-Men, Mandy). Im always…
Ashley Bell, Jordan Ladd, and Leslie Easterbrook star in this spring’s most unnerving new horror film. From Vertical Entertainment, and award-winning filmmaker Nathaniel Nuon, hear The Voices this April. After visiting her father’s grave, Lilly and her mother are involved in a terrible car accident leaving Lilly orphaned and unable to see. In her youth, she…
Im Not In Love, which will be available to rent and buy on all major digital platforms from 12th April. The film follows Rob (Al Weaver), in his late thirties, who needs to decide if he wants to have a baby with his girlfriend Marta (Cristina Catalina), but he’s worried that he’s fallen out of love with…
Writer-director MIKE LEIGH (Naked) reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy in his ongoing contemplation of unembellished humanity with this resonant exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships to those we love. When Hortense (RoboCop’s MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE), a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother,…
In May 101 Films are releasing the uproariously bloody UNCLE PECKERHEAD! Part insane road-trip comedy, part rock concert, part unimaginable gore-fest, Uncle Peckerhead has midnight movie written all over its bloody mangled corpse. Available on Blu-ray and across digital platforms from 3rd May, the Blu-ray includes a cast commentary and the short film Larry Gone…
This April, 2018’s THE HEAD HUNTER comes to Blu-ray. A handsomely shot, atmospheric and gory medieval horror, our Blu-ray contains two commentaries from the filmmakers and a ‘making of’ featurette.On the outskirts of a kingdom, in the shadows of a looming castle, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters. The gruesome…
On 26th April 101 Films are releasing cult 80s horror SPOOKIES (1986) on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, title 019 on the 101 Films Black Label. Produced by Michael Lee, founder of legendary video distributor VIPCO, the film’s tumultuous production history saw original co-writers/directors Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran and co-writer/producer Frank M. Farel fired, and…
Sony Pictures Virtual Reality (SPVR) and XR Games are proud to announce ‘Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever’; an exciting new VR game set in the “Zombieland” universe, releasing this Spring for Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, and later for PlayStation®VR. Inspired by light-gun games of the 90s and the racing…
Last Call follows local success story and real estate developer, Mick (Jeremy Piven) as he returns home to Philadelphia. As he begins to reconnect with the neighbourhood he grew up in and the people he left behind, he finds himself at a crossroads when forced to decide either to demolish or resurrect the family bar. The…
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