Proverbs For Monsters By Michael A. Arnzen

Book Worth Reading:

Whether or not you have read Michael Arnzen before or are already a fan of his gleefully twisted imagination, you're in for a very dark treat with this generous collection of thirty stories and thirty poems, many of them impossible-to-find or never seen before. Proverbs For Monsters offers the most delightful and disturbing retrospective of this acclaimed author's career.
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The Talisman Movie @ FullMoonDirect

Full Moon has the “Talisman” movie free to view.  The flick stars Billy Parish , Walter Jones, Jason Adelman, and Ilinca Goia and was directed by David Decoteau in 1998.


As the millennium draws near, an evil being awakens. Fused to an ancient Talisman for centuries — Theriel,  the Black Angel is summoned from his resting place to usher in the end of the world. The ghastly messenger must claim seven human sacrifices to complete the ritual and open the gates of Hell. A teenage boy and girl have been chosen to assist the angel in its deadly mission, yet they alone are the world’s only hope for salvation.

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Beyond Here Lies Nothing By Gary McMahon

Book Worth Reading:
Beyond Here Lies Nothing is the third in The Concrete Grove Trilogy.


Marc Price arrives in the Concrete grove to research a book about the “Northumbrian Poltergeist,” an infamous case from the 1970s: twins haunted by a spirit they nicknamed Captain Clickety. The media of the time were split between derision and hysteria. As Ben teases out the suppressed details of the story, he finds himself drawn to a woman whose young daughter went missing years ago during a spate of child abductions. He also finds himself investigated by a local policeman, whose private life seems tied up with events in the grove, and harassed by the father of the missing child.

Then the scarecrows appear, their heads plastered with photographs of the long-missing and the dead.
Hummingbirds flock to certain areas of the estate, as if awaiting the arrival of something... a door has been opened and a presence is about to step through. It is up to Marc to put the ghosts to rest and unravel fact from fiction. He is about to discover that the story he seeks is his own, and only he can plot the ending.

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Official Trailer For “Deranged”

Check out the trailer for “Deranged”. Directed by Neil Jones and starring Marcia Do Vales, Craig Fairbrass, Victoria Broom, Natalia Celino, Tabitha Quitman, and Pablo Olewski.


“Deranged” follows four girls who go on a bachelorette party weekend to a country house, in rural Spain. Little do they know what someone had planned for them. The real party begins when the host is mysteriously attacked and one by one, the guests find themselves in mortal danger. The race is on to uncover the killer’s identity and they must fight back or be brutally murdered.


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Press Release And Trailer For “Dead Season”

Directed by Adam Deyoe “Dead Season” will be released on DVD by Image Entertainment July 31st. The film stars James C. Burns, Scott Peat, and Marissa Merrill.


They attempted to escape the madness of the undead only to find the insanity of the living. On July 5th, Image Entertainment drops you into a gruesome zombie-infested island with Dead Season. True to the raw claustrophobic hysteria of zombie survival horror, Dead Season comes at you on July 5th On Demand. It will be released on DVD July 31st for an SRP of $27.97.


When a worldwide viral outbreak leads to a plague of zombies, two survivors flee the chaos of America to a remote island, hoping for a chance to start a new life. What they find is unrelenting horror. Beyond the hordes of the flesh-hungry undead, the other people already on the island force the pair into a fight-or-die battle amongst themselves. Armed only with crude weapons, they must descend into savagery and cutthroat tactics just to make it through each day. Packed with cutting-edge action and insane gore, Dead Season is a riveting new spin on the zombie genre!


Bonus features on the Dead Season DVD offer a feast of insights, including a juicy behind-the-scenes featurette, tantalizing deleted scenes, hearty outtakes and a tasty filmmakers’ commentary.
 

Press Release For “Creepy Crawly”

From the Press Release:
“FEAR FILM Motion Picture Studios, in conjunction with Road 8 Entertainment, will go into production of a new short film entitled “CREEPY CRAWLY” this summer in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The film will mark the first collaboration between indie horror filmmakers Robert J. Massetti and Jason Daly. Robert, best known for his films “Phobias”, “Realms of Blood”, and the FEAR GIRLS video series, will team with Jason Daly, who just completed the festival favorite horror film “Beware”.
CREEPY CRAWLY will premiere at the FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival in October and travel around the globe hitting the horror film festival circuit in 2013. A Spanish version of the film will also be shot and will premiere on a Spanish language cable station to be announced at a later date.
CREEPY CRAWLY tells the spine-tingling story of a family living on a rural farm that fights to survive an encounter with a creepy, bloodthirsty creature never seen before by human eyes.”

Twistedly Tasty Posters For “Thankskilling 2”

Love, love, love this. The first “Thankskilling” film was awesomely hilarious and fun and I am totally excited about this second installment. Check out this teaser poster for “Thankskilling 2”.
College kids are murdered pun-by-pun as Turkie brings mayhem to Thanksgiving break. Starring Chuck "Dead Body Guy" Lamb, General Bastard, and Wanda Lust. Jordon Downey is set to direct.

Teaser Poster For “Witchfinder” Short Film

A short horror film from Colin Clarke, director of Raven's Hollow and Frankenstein vs the Wolfman. From Daredevil Films. Twitter @daredevilfilms
In a small cabin in the woods... something evil is rising. A lovesick villager sets in motion a horrifying sequence of events when he seeks out a rural witch to cast a spell upon an unsuspecting village girl.

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Check Out The Teaser Trailer For “Man On The Roof”

Watch the teaser trailer for Mikel Ledesma’s “Man On The Roof”. The film is due out Halloween season 2012.


Starring Jori Gill, Chris Wilson, Tabitha Evans, Kensley Grant, Rebecca Lex, James DeWitt, Cathy Marks, Tylor West, Mikel Ledesma, Trey Suire, Michelle LeBoeuf , Melena Kiriaki, Joy Freeman-DeLeon, Nikki Bradley, Jonathon Tracy, Melissa Nassauer, Brittany Stewart, Cameron Armstrong, Kimberly Nguyen, Vaughn West, & Jon Yowell.


The story is about Jennifer and her group of friends being terrorized by a ‘man on the roof’ forcing them into a deadly cat and mouse game. “Man On The Roof” is due out Halloween season. Stay tuned for more updates.

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New Trailer For “Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal”

With all the news coming out about real life cannibalism this story has a little more meat to it now. “Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal” has released an updated trailer. The horror/comedy is about an unusual friendship. Unable to paint without inspiration, Lars accepts a teaching gig at a small-time art school in Eastern Ontario. Somehow he inherits the guardianship of the offbeat town's neighborhood weirdo, Eddie. As their unlikely friendship evolves, Lars uncovers a dark, violent secret about Eddie's nocturnal impulses, and finds himself torn between his duty to his friend and his duty to his art

New Adaptation To Stephen King’s “It”

Now when I read the book there is only one thing that described the experience for me. Scary as hell! I was 18 when I read it so old enough to know it was a fictional story and yet it scared me good. Love the book. I have since read it like 8 times and every I fear for those kids lives and stress over the shit they go through when they reunite. However the television thing was crap! Plain out should not have been done mainly because it was watered down too much.

Well now there is a new adaptation to Stephen King’s Evil Alien disguised as a twisted clown. “It” will be made into a two movie story to be directed by Cary Fukunaga. The film will be produced by Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg.


“The story follows a group of kids called the Losers Club that encounter a creature called It, which preys on children and whose favorite form is that of a sadistic clown called Pennywise. When the creature resurfaces, the kids are called upon to regroup again, this time as adults, even though they have no memory of the first battle.”

Man-I hope they do this bad boy right this time!

EXCLUSIVE: Official Teaser Poster For “Man On The Roof”

Exclusive: Check out the official teaser poster for Mikel Ledesma’s “Man On The Roof” feature film. Starring Jori Gill, Chris Wilson, Tabitha Evans, Kensley Grant, Rebecca Lex, James DeWitt, Cathy Marks, Tylor West, Mikel Ledesma, Trey Suire, Michelle LeBoeuf , Melena Kiriaki, Joy Freeman-DeLeon, Nikki Bradley, Jonathon Tracy, Melissa Nassauer, Brittany Stewart, Cameron Armstrong, Kimberly Nguyen, Vaughn West, & Jon Yowell.

The story is about Jennifer and her group of friends being terrorized by a ‘man on the roof’ forcing them into a deadly cat and mouse game. “Man On The Roof” is due out Halloween season. Stay tuned for more updates.

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Sick Chick Flicks By John Skipp

INTRODUCING THREE KICKASS LEADING LADIES FROM HADES!
Author-turned-filmmaker John Skipp unspools this twisted TRIPLE-BILL of fierce, fun, f***ed-up mind-movies for the wild at heart:
AFTERPARTY
She’s a caretaker for Hollywood’s broken-hearted. He’s a collector of artists and other lost souls.  And Death is a party that never ends, in this haunting bohemian L.A. ghost story.
THE LEGEND OF HONEY LOVE
The outrageous adventures of a beautiful barmaid who – in thwarting a psycho killing spree – becomes a national hero. And the target of every wannabe psycho killer on Earth.
ROSE
Welcome to “Rose’s Place,” a crazed cable-access/internet puppet show where the songs, skits, and rescue stations run all night long. Or at least until the zombies get in…
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Provocative in-depth commentary from John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow exploring the scripts, the filmmaking process, writers vs. directors vs. producers, and the joy of creating powerful, ground-breaking roles for women.
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Gathered Dust And Others W.H. Pugmire

Book Worth Reading:

With his first collection from Dark Regions Press, W. H. Pugmire continues his radical and obsessive reinterpretations of H. P. Lovecraft's brilliant fiction. Among the book's original pieces is the title story, "Gathered Dust," a sequel to J. Vernon Shea's "The Haunter of the Graveyard." Set in Arkham, this tale of utter strangeness concerns the legacy of Randolph Carter and a monstrous burying ground where the phantoms of the past linger so as to feed upon the living. In "Depths of Dreams and Madness" we journey to Pugmire's Sesqua Valley, wherein we find Lovecraft's artist, Richard Upton Pickman and Robert E. Howard's mad poet, Justin Geoffrey, tainted by the valley's supernatural lunacy. With "These Deities of Rarest Air," Pugmire continues his exploration of the prose-poem/vignette sequence, in a work that deliciously evokes the mystic aura of not only Lovecraft but Clark Ashton Smith as we ll. With artful decadence and a pen dipped into the dark fin-de-siècle poetry of Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire, Pugmire celebrates his beloved genre of fantastic fiction with works that only his cracked skull could conceive. Jeffrey Thomas has provided a provocative Introduction.
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Snow By Ronald Malfi

Book Worth Reading:

Todd Curry wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with his son.  But when a brutal snowstorm cancels his flight from Chicago to Des Moines, Todd and a few other stranded passengers decide to rent a Jeep and make the trip on their own.  During the drive, they pick up a man wandering through the snow, who claims to be searching for his lost daughter.  He is disoriented and his story seems peculiar.  Strangest of all are the mysterious slashes cut into the back of the man’s coat, straight down to the flesh…
When they arrive at the nearest town, it appears deserted.  Windows dark, car abandoned, fired burning unattended.  But Todd and the rest of the travelers soon learn the town is far from deserted, and that they are being watched…
And hunted.
 
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A Very Commanding Debut For “Dredd” Poster

JoBlo debuted the poster for the remake of Judge Dredd. The new version simply titled “Dredd” comes out on Sept. 21st. The film stars Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey.

"Dredd" takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot - if necessary. The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring "Dredd" to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip.

First Image From “Pacific Rim”

Check out Idris Elba in flight gear as Stacker Pentecost in Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim”.


When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.

Blazin’ Bad Ass Poster For “FDR: American Badass!”

I said it when this first came to light back in January and I will say it again. One badass cast and one badass concept! Check out the new one sheet for “FDR: American Badass!” Barry Bostwick plays FDR .Merlin plays Hitler in FDR:American Badass!, alongside genre vets Lin Shaye (as Eleanor Roosevelt), Ray Wise (as MacArthur), William Mapother (Lost),  Keri Lynn Pratt (Smallville), Deon Richmond (Hatchet), and, Kevin Sorbo as Abraham Lincoln.

FDR is bitten by werewolf sent from Nazi Germany which gives him polio. Then they discovery that it is part of a plot by a whole Nazi werewolf army. The American army go kick some Nazi wolf ass with verbal and visual hilarity.

First Details For “Man On The Roof”

Mikel Ledesma’s “Man On A Roof” has a Hitchcockian poster that inspires intense thriller rich images that flash through my mind upon seeing it. The story is about Jennifer and her group of friends being terrorized by a ‘man on the roof’ forcing them into a deadly cat and mouse game. This film is expected to see release Halloween 2012 and stars Jori Gill, Chris Wilson, Tabitha Evans, Kensley Grant, Rebecca Lex, James DeWitt, Cathy Marks, Tylor West, Mikel Ledesma, Trey Suire, Michelle LeBoeuf , Melena Kiriaki, Joy Freeman-DeLeon, Nikki Bradley, Jonathon Tracy, Melissa Nassauer, Brittany Stewart, Cameron Armstrong, Kimberly Nguyen, Vaughn West, & Jon Yowell

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My Review Of “Tinsel” Horror Short

     “Tinsel” is one hell of a Christmas Nightmare with one hell of a creepy killer twist. Directed by Mikel Ledesma the story follows Sarah who is plagued with nightmares as a child about the Tinsel Killer. Years later the nightmare becomes real and Sarah’s brother and friends fall victim in this blood soaked slasher flick.

      This is one of the coolest horror shorts with one of the best dark nightmare opening scenes I have seen in a long while. There is a seductive and disturbing energy to the film that is provided by a nice soundtrack. The special effects in “Tinsel” are as good as indie low budget horror can get. The director manages to pack a feature length gorefest into a 36 minute punch both entertaining and horror filled.
     “Tinsel” has a few things that make a horror hole poker sing out. I won’t pick at the minor oddities about this film that bothered me because there was so much intensity and awesome storytelling here to keep me entertained. This is a great short film and a killer Holiday nightmare for a fan of Christmas carnage films.

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Paranormal Clip From “Saturday Morning Massacre”

A cool indie flick that I have been excited about is “Saturday Morning Massacre”. This is a horror/comedy/gore flick that spins the cool Scooby style cartoon concept with a bit more wickedness and actual bloody deaths. How groovy is that! Directed by Spencer Parsons and starring Ashley Spillers, Josephine Decker, Jonny Mars, Adam Tate & Paul Gordon kicks off it’s film festival run at L.A Film Festival June 14th. Check out the cool clip IndieWire posted.


A team of amateur paranormal investigators struggle to make ends meet by debunking reports of supernatural incidents. With the group on the verge of bankruptcy, Nancy takes on a case involving rumors of suspicious disappearances and violent deaths linked with the abandoned Kyser schoolhouse. Discounting stories of satanic practices, the team proceeds, desperately chasing cash and the opportunity to encounter their lives’ mission – to catch a real ghost. On a tour guided by the local sheriff, the team learns of the schoolhouse’s gruesome past. Despite the sheriff’s advice to spend the night in a hotel, they decide to stay, set up their gear and prepare for nightfall. When the sun goes down, the truth comes out: the Kyser house might actually be haunted by sadistic spirits – or something even worse. Saturday Morning Massacre is a bloody parody of mystery cartoons and the consequences of meddling with the supernatural.

NSFW Poster For “Frankenstein Created Bikers”

Check out this advanced poster for James Bickert’s “Frankenstein Created Bikers”. Currently in pre-production this exploitation biker movie poster comes on the heels of the DVD/BluRay release of “Dear God No!”.

Two New “Resident Evil: Retribution” Stills

'Resident Evil: Retribution' hits theatres on 14 September. The new Resident Evil film has Alice fighting alongside a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.

Beneath The Surface By Simon Strantzas

Book Worth Reading:

Revised and expanded, the startling debut of Simon Strantzas resurfaces with tales of dark Gods and monsters of the flesh, emissaries from a world beneath our own, a world from where nightmares are born. Here, a man searches for truth in a universe that has forsaken him and pays the price for that knowledge, and a woman with out hope travels northward to find the place where her life fell to pieces and discovers of what she truly is made. They say no man is an island, no matter how much he wishes to be, but what then is that ship that sails toward him, and what pray tell is that lashed to its bow. These are tales that infect our dreams, tales of things that live beyond our understanding and watch us with malignant indifference. They are tales of grief, of loneliness, of guilt. Tales of the liminal places that separate our world from that other world, the world to which our souls are merely a gateway. Come inside and witness what resides in us all, deep down beneath the surface.
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He Waits By JG Faherty

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Currently available as an ebook and limited hardcover JG Faherty’s He Waits is out now. The limited hardcover is expected to ship Aug. 21st.

For more than 30 years, Ron Francis has been haunted by the death of his younger brother, Stu. Everyone believed Stu died when he fell into the old well, because that’s what Ron told them. But only Ron knows the real truth: Stu didn’t fall, he was dragged into the well by something with red eyes and sharp claws.

In 1980, Ron did nothing to save his brother. But when his own children suffer the same terrible fate, Ron puts his fear aside and ventures into the dark depths, determined to find them and rid the town of the evil plague living beneath it.

But down in those dark depths, Ron discovers something much more terrible than even his worst nightmares.

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Official Trailer For Mischa Barton Horror Flick

The remake for “Apartment 1303” is a 3D redo that stars Mischa Barton and Rebecca De Mornay. The film is directed by Daniel Fridell and is called a modern ghost story. It is a western re packaging of the Japanese film of the same title released in 2007.




“A modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true.”

First “Hatchet III” Image Released

Proving to my inner doubting Thomas that “Hatchet III” is really happening we have the first of what will be many gory and awesome images from the production.  The film stars  Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Derek Mears (“Friday the 13th”), Caroline Williams (“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2″), Sean Whalen (“The People Under the Stairs”), Diane Goldner (“The Collector”), Jason Trost (The FP), Zach Galligan (Gremlins) and Cody Blue Snider.


“A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces as Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.”

My Review Of Action/Horror Short “Velvet Vengeance”

Director Jeremy Campbell’s low budget horror short “Velvet Vengeance” tells the story of pure family revenge. The short follows Alice on a quest to prove once and for all that her brother’s death was the result of more than one killer. After a year of visions and dreams guided by her brother’s ghost she sets out to revisit the area where he died. Accompanied by her friends a new nightmare begins that pits her against a psycho sister act with a masked axe wielding sister as the co-antagonist.

This short film manages to convey in under 27 minutes what it takes most feature films 80 minutes to accomplish. The story sets up with the classic tragedy that sees Alice’s brother and friends killed on a trip she herself was grounded from attending. Then years later searches out answers to dreams she has over a mysterious killer in a white mask. There are moments of haunting ambience as Alice holds conversations with memories of her dead brother mixed with classic characters from the slasher genre that combine perfectly in this short but gruesomely sweet short film. The flick kept a coherent stream that normally would be hard to maintain in such a short film with so much substance. “Velvet Vengeance” managed that awesomely with only minor moments where more story would have been great. Still with such a short budget – only 500.00- Jeremy Campbell manages to tell a great story that delivers the nightmare and gore with quality results.

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Sweet Images From Super Low Budget Action/Horror Short Film “Velvet Vengeance”

Check out these images from the horror/short “Velvet Vengeance”. The project was filmed in only 5 days on a budget of 500.00. Directed by Jeremy Campbell.

 Here is the story: A young woman is faced with the tragic murder of her brother. The police swear that the murderer is dead but Alice can not shake the feeling that the killer is still alive.  Against her friends and family's best wishes she travels to the location of her brothers murder to hunt the killer but little does she know that she is the one that is being hunted.

Below are images from the premiere showing with cast and crew. I am currently reviewing the short film and will tell everyone one what I think of this horror story. So far I like the killer a lot. Nothing like an axe wielding porcelain masked psychopath.

Get Ready For “Treasure Chest Of Horrors II”

Psykik Junky Pictures has released  a press release and teaser trailer for a second installment for “Treasure Chest Of Horrors”. This anthology has pin-up Mona Scream-A-Lot as the horror host.  Check out the blood rich teaser trailer for “Treasure Chest Of Horrors II”.


Press Release:
TREASURE CHEST OF HORRORS II
From Executive Producer's James Cullen Bressack and Jarret Cohen at Psykik Junky Pictures and directors Doug Waugh, Shawn C. Phillips, and Alex Powers comes this HORROR ANTHOLOGY starring Penthouse Pet Veronica Ricci (Bloody Mary 3D) Shawn C. Phillips (Don & Murph), Joseph Frantz (CKY & VIVA LA BAM), and Miles Dougal (Detroit Rock City & Chillerama)
The anthology is hosted by Mona Screamalot (Veronica Ricci). Prepare yourself for party killers, Giant Killer Babies, Satan, A angry murderous child, A bacterial infection like no other, a murderous cross dresser and A ton of that red stuff we know you all love!
The Film is currently looking for distribution and just finished post-production.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2118760/

Trailer For “Mischief Night”

Travis Baker’s “Mischief Night” has released a trailer for it’s slasher-esque horror story. The film stars Brooke Anne Smith, Marc Valera, Nikki Limo, Erik Palladino, and Malcolm McDowell.


The night before Halloween, a teenage babysitter is stalked by a masked killer; but in an unusual turn of events, victim and victimizer begin to develop romantic feelings for each other.

Scream TV Series In The Works

MTV is set to build a television franchise based on Wes Craven’s “Scream” story. Right now Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley are shepherding the project under their DiGa production company. Based on the success of “My Psycho Sweet Sixteen” movies and “Teen Wolf” series I would say this is a guaranteed hit. However I remain only cautiously optimistic.  There is no word whether Wes Craven or Kevin Williamson will be involved, right now the production duo are seeking writers to pen the pilot script.

In The Arms Of Nightmares By Robert Dean

Book Worth Reading:

Behind the black and white snapshots of VE-Day celebrations and after the roar of the swinging trumpets dies down, a madman hunts his prey. Arthur Reilly hears jazz when he kills. Bebop is his sound of murder. He sees souls exit bodies and can speak to them. Louie Armstrong, the sparkling voice of God. Miles Davis is the blue-toned growl of the devil. After being visited by a murderous angel, Arthur is set on a path of destruction with one goal in mind: get out of town and go where passion birthed music and murder, the one place that will set his soul free: New Orleans, The City of the Dead. Until then, his life is a mess. His drinking is out of hand. Chloe, the dead French girl, continues to haunt him. Arthur’s mind is an abstract gallery of death and music—but where deviance reigns, his genius is awakened. However, as head chef at the best restaurant in town, it’s hard to keep out of the bright lights of high society—and it’s even harder to kill unnoticed.

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New Images & A Clip From “Some Guy Who Kills People”

“Some Guy Who Kills People” is getting released thanks to Anchor Bay and stars Karen Black, Barry Bostwick, and Kevin Corrigan. Expect this psycho to hit the streets on July 3rd.


Some Guy Who Kills People is about Ken Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin, who sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life.