D-RAILED Comes To DVD And Digital This August

D-RAILED comes to DVD and Digital August 6th

Sci-fi superstar Lance Henriksen (Aliens, The Terminator, “Millennium”) features in the award-winning D-Railed, on DVD and Digital August 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

The Dale Fabrigar directed horror film, currently sweeping awards on the festival circuit, also stars Shae Smolik, Frank Lammers, Carter Scott, Everette Wallin and Tonya Kay. The film was produced by Suzanne DeLaurentiis Productions (“10th and Wolf”).

A woman boards a train that derails into a lake in the middle of the night. She, along with other surviving passengers find themselves trapped within the sinking wreckage. They discover what lies beneath the surface is far more terrifying as they fight to stay alive against a deadly predator determined to kill them one by one!

D-Railed on DVD and Digital August 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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"IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE" IN THEATERS THIS JULY

IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE IN THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND ON DIGITAL JULY 19, 2019.

IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE stars Lara Rossi (“Cheat”, Robin Hood), Vladimir Burlakov (“In The Face of Crime”, “Deutschland 83”), Kit Dale (“Jack Irish”), Udo Kier (Downsizing, Melancholia) and Tom Green (Road Trip, Charlie’s Angels). 

Following the devastating aftermath of nuclear war on Earth, a former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge for mankind. Limited supplies and overpopulation threaten the survivors until Obi, the leader’s daughter, finds a map pointing to a power buried deep under Earth’s wasted surface that could save mankind or destroy it once and for all. When an old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth, they must fight an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race to save humanity.

HARLEY WALLEN’S "ETERNAL CODE" WINS BIG ON THE FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT

Harley Wallen’s (Investigation Discovery: Lt. Joe Kenda) Eternal Code starring Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 &2) , Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop), Billy Wirth (The Lost Boys), Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s Game of Death), Kaiti Wallen (Betrayed) and Vida Ghaffari (The Mindy Project) Wins Big on the Film Festival Circuit. Fresh off Vision Films buying this film at Cannes, this much anticipated film “Eternal Code” is winning big on the film festival circuit. 

Also in the cast are Erika Hoveland , Damien Chinappi, Harley Wallen, Angelina Cama (Agramon’s Gate), Calhoun Koenig (Law & Order SUV), Shane Hagedorn (Wild Faith), Ken Alter and Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs). 

Wallen is nominated as Best Director and the film is also an official selection at the prestigious Queen Palm International Film Festival Eternal Code also won best trailer at the Around International Film Festival and was also nominated for best script at the Bloodstained Indie Film Festival.

 After a revolutionary invention with great implications, Bridget (Hoveland) finds a character flaw in the company they’ve partnered with to develop the prototype that could be the fountain of youth. When she pulls the plug and step away from their original deal, she quickly realizes they will stop at nothing to get it back. After her family gets kidnapped to sway a favorable vote their hopes rely on their teen daughter Miranda (Cama) and her unlikely allies Corey, a suicidal military veteran (Chinappi) and Stephanie, a prostitute (Kaiti Wallen). 

Terror Films Teams With BingeWave For The Theatrical Screening Of Fifteen Horror Titles

Terror Films is teaming up with BingeWave to provide a theatrical experience for a slate of fifteen indie horror films, from the Terror Films’ library.

The list of films includes Terror Films’ top performers. Films to show via BingeWave:The House on Pine Street, Hell House LLC and Savageland. Also to host on BingeWave, Terror Films will bring their original titles Trace and Patient Seven. The complete list of films is shown in the promotional poster found here.

Terror Films’ President Joe Dain had something to say of the partnership. Dain said: “this is a fantastic opportunity for our filmmakers to not only have their films screened in a theatrical setting and tap into a new fan base, but it also provides a unique marketing strategy to drive more awareness and traffic to the many digital platforms these films are available on.” Soon, there will be more ways  to see the Terror Films’ slate, on the big screen.

BingeWave CEO and founder Devin Dixon also spoke of this theatrical partnership. Dixon recently said: “BingeWave is excited to partner with Terror Films in bringing horror films to a new cinematic-like experience. We envision this partnership benefiting the horror fan by creating a stronger and more vibrant film community, access to amazing content and more affordable ticket prices - especially in big cities like New York.” Horror fans will have more opportunities to see these films, in the Big Apple and beyond.

Pagan Festival Shout Out: Summer Solstice/ Litha

Marks the beginning of Summer and the longest day and shortest night of the year; celebration of the light with dancing around a bonfire. [a/k/a Old European turning-of-the-season day, Neo-Pagan turning-of-the-season day, Wiccan turning-of-the-season day, Summer Sabbat]

In northern Europe, the longest day of the year was known as Midsummer, while wiccans and other pagan groups called it Litha. People were thought to wear protective garlands of herbs and flowers to ward off evil spirits that appear on the summer solstice.The most powerful of these, was “chase devil,” known today as St John’s Wort because of its association with St John’s Day.

Folklore also holds that bonfires on Midsummer, as the solstice was known among northern Europeans, would banish demons and evil spirits and lead young maidens to their future husbands. 

Decorate your altar with summer flowers, herbs and fruits, and summer colors like yellow, green and blue. This is a traditional time for rites of re-dedication to the God and Goddess, as well as divination related to love and romance. Keep at least one candle lit throughout the day to honor the Sun, and if possible hold your Litha rituals at noon, when the Sun is at its highest point in the sky. 

Pagan Festival Shout Out: feast of Orisha Babalu Aye

Babalu Aye is simultaneously one of the most feared and revered Orishas in Yoruban tradition. Presiding over the powers of life and death, his influence was so widespread that his worship grew from a single tribe in West Benin to many tribes all along the western coast of Africa. He is the patron deity of those who are suffering from sickness or infirmity. His domain is twofold -- he can cure the sick, and send illnesses as punishment for the wicked. 

Babalu Aye's shrine is a terracotta pot adorned with cowrie shells. It is kept in a dark, quiet place where he will not be bothered, along with 18 loose cowrie shells used to communicate with him in diloggun divination. Call on Babalu Aye in times of sickness, whether to heal the sick or send those who cannot be cured peacefully to their deaths. Although he is feared for his power to give and take away illness, he is also a happy and merciful deity.

Make offerings of his favorite foods: roasted or popped corn, beans, or other grains. Rum, tobacco, or dry white wine are also appreciated. Peanuts and sesame seeds are taboo. Animals associated with him are vultures, buzzards, and other carrion birds, and his gemstones are  bloodstone, tanzanite, snowflake obsidian, and jasper.

To communicate with Babalu Aye, recite the following prayer: 

"God of the epidemics and the sick.
I pray to you now, have pity on us your children. 
Oh, glorious father, keep sickness away from my home, and protect your children from epidemics. 
Thank you my father."

Pagan Festival Shout Out: Old Slavic Kupala

Kupala Night is a Slavic celebration of ancient pagan origin marking the end of the summer solstice and the beginning of the harvest (midsummer). In the western Ukrainian Lemko region and Prešov region it was called Sobitka.

Kupalo was believed to be the god of love and of the harvest and the personification of the earth’s fertility. According to popular belief, ‘Kupalo eve’ (‘Ivan’s eve’) was the only time of the year when the earth revealed its secrets and made ferns bloom to mark places where its treasures were buried, and the only time when trees spoke and even moved and when witches gathered. It was also the only time of the year when free love received popular sanction.

Young men and women gathered outside the village in the forest or near a stream or pond. There they built ‘Kupalo fires’—a relic of the pagan custom of bringing sacrifice—around which they performed ritual dances and sang ritual songs, often erotic. They leaped over the fires, bathed in the water (an act of purification), and played physical games with obviously sexual connotations.

New Trailer- TRUE DETECTIVE'S BEA SANTOS IS "BLINDSIDED"- THIS AUGUST

TRUE DETECTIVE'S BEA SANTOS IS BLINDSIDED - THIS AUGUST

This August, True Detective's Bea Santos is Blindsided.

Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father's, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is interrupted by a shadowy threat and the safe country getaway turns into a fight for survival.

Eric Knudsen (Scream 4), Atticus Mitchell (“Killjoys”), Melinda Shankar (“Slasher”), and Paul Popowich (“Hemlock Grove”) also star.

From director Johnny Mitchell comes a terrifying, first-rate horror-thriller from Canada.

Mitchell, Brandon Tataryn and Brad Wetherly wrote the screenplay.

Blindsided on DVD and Digital August 13, 2019.

Prepare For The Apocalypse With DAY OF THE DEAD, MARS ATTACKS, & A QUIET PLACE Apparel

Prepare for the Apocalypse with DAY OF THE DEAD, MARS ATTACKS, & A QUIET PLACE Apparel

On Sale Now at Fright-Rags.com

Fright-Rags' latest releases are all about the end of the world. Whether it's at the hands of zombies, aliens, or creatures, prepare for the apocalypse with apparel from Day of the Dead, Mars Attacks, and A Quiet Place.

Fright-Rags shines light on the darkest day of horror with the Day of the Dead collection. Six shirts have been created for George A. Romero zombie classic, including new artwork, fan-favorite designs restocked, and classic poster art.

The red planet conquers Fright-Rags with the Mars Attacks collection. Three T-shirts and a pair of socks feature artwork based on the Topps trading card series, which inspired the Tim Burton film of the same name.

Silence is survival on Fright-Rags’ A Quiet Place shirts. John Krasinski's modern horror hit has received four designs, which consist of original artwork and official assets.

Day of the Dead, Mars Attacks, and A Quiet Place collections are on sale now at Fright-Rags.com.

First Trailer Released For 70’s Grindhouse Homage "MOMO: The Missouri Monster"

First Trailer Released for 70’s Grindhouse Homage, MOMO: The Missouri Monster

 A new “docu-drama” from indie film production company, Small Town Monsters, seeks to tell the true, and truly strange story of the Missouri Monster. The hair-covered, three-toed monstrosity was said to have prowled the forests of “Star Hill” near Louisiana, Missouri during the summer of 1972 where it was seen by terrified citizens for weeks. The case gained national media attention during the 70’s and remains one of the largest tourist draws for the tiny town, which sits on the banks of the  Mississippi River. The first trailer for the film debuts today and hints at the storytelling devices employed, as well as some of the fascinating interviews and locations.

The latest release from Small Town Monsters and director, Seth Breedlove, is told in narrative and documentary form. The narrative sections appear under the guise of a lost b-movie from the 70s. The horror film depicts the widely believed details of the MOMO story (said to have been inspired by Breedlove’s love of grindhouse movies and old “creature features”) and is eventually contradicted and corrected by the actual people who lived through the events. The film stars Adam Duggan and Sara Heddleston, as well as Animal Planet’s Cliff Barackman and James “Bobo” Fay with special appearances by Janet Jay and Elizabeth Saint (Ghosts of Shepherdstown).

The films director, and co-writer, Breedlove describes MOMO: The Missouri Monster as “Rashomon meets Creature from Black Lake or The Legend of Boggy Creek”.

The latest title to crawl forth from the production powerhouse behind last year’s best-selling documentary on Amazon, On the Trail of Bigfoot, is set for a late September release. A midnight premiere is scheduled at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington, Kentucky on Friday, September 6th with some of the cast and crew in attendance. The premiere will coincide with Cryptid-Con; a cryptozoology and paranormal convention celebrating its third year and featuring a number of renowned authors, television personalities, and speakers.

A grindhouse-style poster created by artist, Adrienne Breedlove also debuted today along with the films official one-sheet by Sam Shearon.

To learn more about Small Town Monsters and their past and future films visit smalltownmonsters.com

Trailer Released For Fuller & Green's "Harp Brothers"

Check out the trailer for indie horror "Harp Brothers" from Fuller & Green Productions. The film was directed by David Risotto and stars John Dugan (Texas Chainsaw Masscare), Chad Fuller, and Wynn Reichert.  

A film about America’s first serial Killers. These Brothers terrorized Kentucky and went across the state on a Killing spree. The film is loosely based on the true story of the Brothers. Filmed in Historically accurate locations.

Conspiracy Thriller "Kill Bird" To Screen At Dances With Films Festival

Joe Zanetti's conspiracy thriller "Kill Bird" is an official selection for Dances With Films Festival. It will screen on June 23nd, at 12:30 pm at the iconic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA. For information on the screening and for tickets, please visit https://danceswithfilms.com/killbird/

In search of help on a birdwatching trip gone wrong, Taylor Crane (Elysia Rotaru) comes across a remote cabin where she meets Riad Bishara (Stephen Lobo), a recluse supposedly on the run from the CIA. Paranoid and seemingly unstable, Riad soon concludes that Taylor is a government agent and holds her captive. As she struggles to escape, Taylor soon comes across a prisoner in the cabin and uncovers what appears to be a deadly cat and mouse game between U.S. government agencies. Likewise, Riad learns that she may well be working against him as a CIA plant. Their lives depend on uncovering the truth about one another before it is too late.

Elysia Rotaru (Arrow, Supernatural), Stephen Lobo (Continuum, Smallville), Aaron Douglas (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Imposters, Battlestar Galactica), and Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica, Man of Steel) star.

New Trailer And Poster For THE MUMMY REBIRTH - Out This August

A legendary villain is resurrected this August!

From filmmakers Khu and Justin Price, and starring Carter (Live Evil), David E. Cazares (The 13th Friday), Brittany Goodwin (“Murder by Numbers”) and Deanna Grace Congo (Alien : Reign of Man), witness The Mummy Rebirth this summer from Uncork’d Entertainment!

Two treasure hunters uncover a sealed tomb and awaken a mummy that has waited years to come back and wipe humanity from the face of the Earth. It’s a race against time as they try to stop the Mummy from wreaking havoc on the modern world.

The Mummy Rebirth on DVD and Digital August 13, 2019.

SCRAWL-THE COMIC BOOK THAT KILLS NOW AVAILABLE ON TVOD AND DVD

From writer/director Peter Hearn comes SCRAWL, a terrifying new motion picture experience now available on TVOD and DVD (Walmart Only).

Simon Goodman (Liam Hughes) is a 16-year boy living in a rundown seaside town. With his best friend Joe Harper (Joe Daly), they create a comic book called SCRAWL as a way to escape their reality, gain some notoriety and more importantly pick up girls.

Annie Williams (Annabelle Le Gresley), a girl who hides behind her camera and cannot forget the past gets wrapped up in the boys new world, along with Joe's sister Rosie (Ellie Selwood) and suddenly, with the appearance of a mysterious girl, Hannah (Daisy Ridley), events in the comic book start to invade their reality and situations in the comic book come to life.

At first its great, girls start to become interested in the boys, and all seems fun, but then the monsters of the comic book begin to show themselves, and the boys realize that the comic depicts a bloody great massacre at page 21.

With the help of Joes father, Frank (Mark Forester-Evans), family and friends, the boys are forced to face their horrific imagination made real. Are Simon and Joe able to change their new found reality? Only if they can rewrite death.

Featuring screen superstar Daisy Ridley (STAR WARS, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS), SCRAWL now available from Wild Eye Releasing.

Steven Soderbergh Presents PERFECT Releasing On VOD This Friday

Steven Soderbergh Presents PERFECT
A Film by Eddie Alcazar
Featuring an original score by Flying Lotus Releasing on VOD on this Friday

Dystopian sci-fi thriller PERFECT, from writer and director Eddie Alcazar, will be released on VOD with an exclusive VOD launch on Breaker.io on June 21!

PERFECT is a visually rich mind-bender starring Garrett Wareing (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Courtney Eaton (Mad Max: Fury Road), Tao Okamoto (The Wolverine) with Maurice Compte (Narcos) and Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).

PERFECT introduces Garrett Wareing as an emotionally-troubled young man. His mother (Abbie Cornish) sends him to a clinic, where modernist serenity whispers soothing promises of perfection. By planting plug-and-play characteristics directly into his own body, he is relieved of his dark, twisted visions, but his body pays the price for purity of mind. A festival favorite from writer and director Eddie Alcazar – one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film.

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"The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead" Is Set For UK Release July

The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead is set for UK release on July 22nd.

Roma’s life is changed forever by a meeting, and a kiss, with a strange young woman he meets at a lake deep in the forest. It is a meeting he soon regrets, when he falls prey to a mysterious ailment which gradually deprives him of his strength and vigor.

His bride Marina is ready to do whatever it takes to free her fiancé from the ancient curse. But is her love strong enough to break it?

Directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy

“Amityville 1974” To Begin Principal Photography November Of This Year

The Wonderfilm Media Corporation announced today that it has green lit the horror film “Amityville 1974” to begin principal photography in November of this year.

The film is based on the real life tragedy that spawned THE AMITYVILLE HORROR novel and subsequent films when Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot all six members of his family on a fateful November night. This tragedy was seared into the minds of the public consciousness by writer Jay Anson, whose book “The Amityville Horror” recounted the terror experienced by a family moving into the house in 1975 but fleeing after 28 days driven out by hostile supernatural forces. Wonderfilm’s Amityville 1974 will tell the story of the DeFeo’s horrifying murderous rampage.

Casey La Scala (Donnie Darko, The Remaining) will direct from a script he wrote. Jeff Bowler and Shaun Redick (Get Out/ Blackkklansman) will produce for Wonderfilm. Todd Garner(Tag/Mortal Kombat) will also produce. Bret Saxon and Yvette Yates will Executive Produce.

Wonderfilm’s sister company, Wonderfilm Global, will launch worldwide sales at TIFF, while currently negotiating with domestic theatrical distributors. Wonderfilm is fully financing the picture.

“We are beyond thrilled to introduce Amityville 1974. Casey has a truly unique and terrifying vision for the fright franchise and audiences will experience horror like never before with this film,” said Jeff Bowler, founding partner of Wonderfilm Media.

“This is a story that takes its jumping off point from the true facts surrounding the Defeo tragedy, but also focuses on the human drama that took place inside a family as they were relentlessly stalked by a terrifying evil .” said Casey La Scala

La Scala adapted and will produce the inspirational book “Fly a Little Higher” for Warner Brothers Studios which goes into production this year with Justin Baldoni(five feet apart) directing.

La Scala is repped by Paradigm and Ziffren, Brittenham.

Release Date Announced For Turkish Horror "45/25 Perfect Crime"

Turkish horror "45/25 Perfect Crime" is due out September 6th. The film is directed by Biray Dalkiran. Check out the teaser poster for the thriller.

Two police comissars want to find out this secret but it is a long winding mystery through the lies and dark untold secrets of social media.

New Poster Released For Upcoming Horror "Trespassers"

A new poster has been released for upcoming horror from IFC Midnight, "Trespassers". The film is directed by Orson Oblowitz and stars Angela Trimbur, Janel Parrish, Fairuza Balk, Jonathan Howard, and Zach Avery. Tresspasers arrives in theaters and On Demand on July 12th.

Two couples, each working through relationship issues, rent a gorgeous house in the desert for a sex and drug-fueled escape from reality. Sarah and Estelle are longtime best friends looking forward to reconnecting after a period apart; their boyfriends, Joseph and Victor, however, are immediately wary of one another. As tensions escalate over the course of a debaucherous night, things take an unexpected turn when a woman claiming to be a neighbor with car trouble shows up at the door. She seems harmless enough…or so they think. As the twists and turns pile up so does the body count in this stylish, blood- and neon-soaked thriller which hits with the furious force of a machete to the skull.

New Images Released For Psychological Thriller "Blind"

Check out these images from Marcel Walz's upcoming psychological thriller "Blind". The film stars Caroline Williams, Jed Rowen, Tyler Gallant, Thomas Haley, Ben Kaplan, Michael St. Michael and Jessica Galetti. It is due out later this year. 

Faye (Sarah French), a former actress lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery. She struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a personal trainer who is mute and can only communicate through his cell phone. Faye will soon realize that she isn’t as alone as she thinks.

Red Band Trailer Released For "Ready Or Not"

The official red band trailer has been released for upcoming horror "Ready Or Not". The film is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny, and Andie MacDowell. Fox Searchlight will release "Ready or Not" in theaters August 23rd.

"Ready or Not" follows a young bride (Weaving) as she joins her new husband’s (O’Brien) rich, eccentric family (Brody, Czerny, MacDowell) in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.

Terror Films To Release Ride-Share Horror "END TRIP" June 21st

TERROR FILMS has acquired worldwide rights to the chilling ride-share feature film END TRIP.

Aaron Jay Rome wears multiple hats in his critically acclaimed horror-thriller. Rome not only wrote, directed and produced the film, he also stars in the film as Brandon, a ride-share driver working for URYDE. On an otherwise quiet night, Brandon picks up Judd (Dean West). But unlike the usual pick-up and drop-off scenario, Judd explains that he recently went through a messy breakup and asks Brandon if he’d mind just driving around the city while they talk. Brandon agrees, offering an empathetic ear to Judd. As they continue to drive into the night Brandon and Judd appear to be forging a new found friendship. However beneath it all there is more to this ride-share than meets the eye and for one of them - this ride will be their last.

END TRIP has a large cast. The co-stars include: Ashley Lenz, Jaren Mitchell and Michelle West. Dean, who also produced the film with Rome, will next be seen co-starring in the Blumhouse & Universal horror film The Hunt.

TERROR FILMS has set the release date for Friday, June 21st, 2019. The film will roll out in North America on Prime Video and Vudu, initially. This release will be followed by another in the coming months, across multiple platforms such as Google Play, Vudu, TUBI TV, Roku and many more. International platforms iFlix and Horrify will also show the release, at a future date. A DVD release will take place later this year.  For now, film fans can check out the official poster and trailer, courtesy of TERROR FILMS and be sure to watch END TRIP when it hits platforms on June 21st. It may change your mind about using a ride share service.