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FEATURED RELEASES - HORROR

The Devil’s Gravestone extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
From the Blood of This City, God’s Shadow Will Be Born.

Jaq Molton was a beaming mother and devoted wife until the day she came home to find her son savagely murdered by her husband, Cale. As her despair turns to anguish and ultimately vengeance, Jaq plunges into a crusade to find her husband and impose a vicious retribution. Her relentless quest thrusts her into the depraved underbelly of Roach City, teeming with fiendish vampires and an unscrupulous society. Constantly hitting one dead end after another, Jaq appears to be fighting a lost cause, when she meets Dick, a Roach City detective, who offers her some unexpected information on Cale’s whereabouts. Through a bizarre and unraveling story, Jaq learns that her husband, a cruel and particularly feared vampire, is on a prophecy fulfilling mission that puts all the souls of humanity at risk.

Cast:
Elle LaMont (Strings)
Joe Nemmers (The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans / Late Bloomers)
Niko Red Star (Killer School Girls from Outer Space)
Grant James (Tombstone / UHF)

Horror/Thriller | HD | 92 minutes | USA | 2010

Headhunter: The Assessment Weekend extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
How far would you go to get ahead?

A motley group of business students in Berlin (Germany) sign up for Takahashi Corp.'s assessment weekend, hoping to land one of the coveted spots with the consulting company. Under the watchful eye of a company psychologist, the team-working and improvisational skills of the aspirants will be put to the test in a survival-type situation.

But nothing goes according to plan - the group arrives to find the base camp completely destroyed. Trapped in the woods with no food, no shelter and no way to communicate with the outside world, the real characters of the students come to light, as one by one, they start to lose their heads…

Film Festivals:
ShockerFest International Film Festival (USA)
B-Movie Fest (USA)
Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival (USA)
Amberg Horror Fest (GERMANY)
Phantasmagoria Film Festival (UK)
Horror UK (UK)

Thriller/Horror | HD | 93 minutes | 2009 | Germany (in English)

Live Animals extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
A ruthless entrepreneur targets young, white victims for his macabre business. Using an isolated horse barn, he sells his captives to the highest bidder. Five college friends on a vacation at a lake house are brutally kidnapped and find themselves prisoners, awaiting the auction block. Rather than succumb to a slave's existence, two of the remaining victims chance death for freedom only to discover this twisted underworld reaches further than they imagine.

World Premiere at the Hollywood Film Festival.

Winner: Best Picture, Audience Choice Award -- Memphis International Film Festival (April 2009)

Most Rights Available except United States.

DV | Horror | 85 minutes | 2008 | USA

Mad Cow extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
Mad Cow is a fast-paced, crazy comedy horror movie that dares to go where Naked Gun, Scary Movie and Shaun of the Dead feared to tread.

Mad Cow sets out to spoof the zombie/horror movie genre in a new and totally insane way, following the story of a Frankenstein-like experiment that goes horribly wrong, with hilarious results.

Cast:
Tanya van Graan (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder)
Greg Viljoen (Gandhi, My Father / Cape of Good Hope / Wild at Heart)

Comedy/Horror | HD | 90 minutes | 2010 | South Africa

Scare Zone extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
"No one can hear you scream… if they're screaming too!"

Scare Zone is Oliver's pride and joy. Sure, it's just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he's put his heart and soul into it. This year it's "Scare Zone III: the Psycho-Splatter Raw-topsy Slaughter Dungeon" where he's created an entire creepy Victorian manse featuring all of his best Scares! The dysfunctional 'scream team' learns to work together while someone - or some "thing" - is out to make the horror real.

2009 Festival Winners:
Cenflo/Central Florida Film Festival (Best Florida Project)
Terror Film Festival (Audience Favorite, Best Actress & Best Editing)
Chicago Horror Film Festival (Best Actress)
Freak Show (Best Florida Horror Film)

Cast:
Neil Brown, Jr. (Never Back Down / Fast & Furious / Battle: Los Angeles)
Arian Ash (Phone Booth / Tigerland / Out of Time)

"The idea of the Scare Zone works great. Very good job, congratulations!"
John Landis (Director of Thriller / An American Werewolf in London)

Filmed in part at Universal Studios Florida
Horror-Comedy / HD / 88 minutes / USA / 2009

Sensored extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
Words from your mouth are not lies if you believe them.

Children’s book author Wade Mixon is the kind of person everyone fears having as a neighbor. He is seemingly quiet, polite, clean and gentle. Behind closed doors, Wade is quite disturbed -- revealing dark secrets, twisted thoughts and criminal behavior.

“The great Robert Picardo gets inside the mind of a madman in Ryan Todd's unexpected, riveting mindbender that plays like a horror film but ends up being so much more. A tour-de-force for one of my favorite actors, who at last gets to carry a picture. Sarah Knowlton is likewise memorable. Timely, thoughtful and altogether engrossing. One of the year's finest indies.”
- Joe Dante (Director: The Howling / Gremlins / The Hole)

Starring: Robert Picardo (Star Trek: First Contact / Gremlins 2: The New Batch/ Innerspace / The Howling)

Horror | HD | 91 minutes | USA | 2009

Sovia: Death Hospital extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
One mistake can change many lives.

SOVIA, a nurse, makes a fatal mistake in the emergency room, killing a patient. Later that night, Sovia has a surreal, near-death experience in which the deceased patient appears & touches her shoulder. When Sovia recovers, she finds a bruise has developed at the exact place she was touched by the deceased. Unknowingly, she passes the bruise to others – who are then killed at the hands of the deceased. Sovia becomes the prime suspect in the murders and soon begins to discover the truth. Since nobody believes her, it is up to Sovia to save herself & the others.

“Sovia felt like a theatrical horror flick in every possible way. A classy horror flick with a creepy atmosphere.“ -- Slasherpool.com

Festivals:
IETFF Monte Carlo
Cairo International Film Festival
Drake International Film Festival (Caserta, Italy)
Festival of Festivals (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Thriller/Horror | HD | 86 minutes | Germany (dubbed English version available) | 2009

Spike extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
Spike is the monstrously mutated suitor who builds a forest lair in which he dwells for several years while awaiting the arrival of his “beauty” - a girl with whom he shares a history, and whom he has idolized his entire life.
The girl and a group of friends find themselves, by no coincidence, stranded in Spike’s forest. The Beast kidnaps his Beauty. Spike also injures her boyfriend and holds him hostage. Thus begins the girl’s quest to recover her ill-fated lover from Spike -- whether through reason, charm, coercion, or violence -- while her friends try to recover her.
Spike maneuvers through the dark tensions of a monster’s love and the depths to which a beauty may sink to evade it, arguably becoming monstrous herself. In the end, we must uncomfortably agree that, as Spike himself says, “There is always some madness in love.” Spike gives that madness life.

"Impressive, uniquely engaging gothic fairytale with unexpected turns." - Sean Decker, FANGORIA

"An assured and stylish mix of David Lynch and the brothers Grimm." - Callum Waddell, DREAMWATCH/TOTAL SCI-FI

BEST OF THE FEST: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SELECTION: SHRIEKFEST (LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 2009)

Thriller/Horror | Super 16mm | 80 minutes | 2008 | USA
Available on Digital Beta and HDCam.

FEATURE FILMS - HORROR

Bane extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
The day they arrived 6 billion people died. They were the lucky ones.
Katherine awakes in an underground cell with three other women. The women soon discover they are part of a gruesome experiment with no obvious purpose. One by one the Surgeon cuts a number into each woman’s skin, a four digit number, the exact time he will return to kill them. Each woman must piece together the dark secret behind Dr Murdoch’s experiment and survive the Surgeon’s nightly visitations of pain, torture and grisly murder. Is there any way to escape? What is the purpose of the experiment and who, or what, is screaming every time the lights go out?

WINNER:
BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD: LA SHRIEKFEST FILM FESTIVAL

“Bane is one of the most anticipated British indie pictures of recent years. Hugely impressive psychological character study which I can thoroughly recommend. This is simply one of the best acting performances I have seen in a new British horror movie since I started writing professionally - what, thirteen years ago” --- M.J. Simpson – UK’s leading genre critic

Fallen Angels (Not All Angels Are Guardians) extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
A grim discovery in the basement of a long forgotten prison reformatory reveals a demonic secret that cuts to the very base of mankind's struggle against sin. Beneath the west cellblock of a turn of the century prison lies a malevolent secret that has lain dormant for one hundred years - a sub-basement structure with only one entrance and one exit. When the skeletal remains of seven brutalized children are discovered inside, a CSI team is brought in to investigate. What they find may change the entire way mankind views the wages of sin, for there dwell seven fallen angels; each responsible for one of the deadly sins.

Winner - Independent Feature - The Festival of Fantastic Films (UK, September, 2007)
Winner - Best Film – Horrorfest, (UK)
Winner – Best Film – Chicago Film Festival
Selection – Screamfest

Special Effects: Bob Keen (Blade / Hellraiser / Return of the Jedi)

Starring: Michael Dorn (Star Trek / The Santa Clause 2 & 3), Bill Moseley (Halloween / Grindhouse / The Devil’s Rejects), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes / Star Trek IV).

Fallen Angels has been picked up by Warner Bros & the film will be distributed throughout North America in November. Most other rights are available.

Hellementary extended description (play trailer) (stills)

Synopsis:
An education in death.

A group of college students break into an abandoned school to investigate the strange mysteries of their small town. Years ago, a high school student named Andy apparently murdered several of his classmates. Andy was never convicted & has since escaped from a mental institution. Now the college students want to resolve the rumors but what they get instead is... an education in death.

Hot Blood Sundae (aka Ice Scream – The Remix)extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
A perverted ice cream shop owner, Ricky, boosts declining sales by renaming his shop, "Scoopettes," and markets it as an adult ice cream store. But wait - what's that? Eeeeek! There's an eyeball staring up from the Virgin Vanilla! Remember! I Scream, You Scream, We all scream for - ICE CREAM!

Bobbi Billard has over 1.4 MILLION friends on MySpace.
Akira Lane is actress and model for Playboy.

Remake of the Cult Horror Film – Ice Scream
Listed in the LA Times in 1997 as one of the best of the worst movies ever made.

Vivendi Entertainment U.S. release: August 2009
Current IMDB ranking: 5,805

Horror/Comedy | HD | 85 minutes | 2008 | USA

NyMpha extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
Sarah (Tiffany Shepis) is an American who arrives in Italy to take her vows. The convent is extremely strict as well as mysterious. Sarah begins to discover the convent’s horrific past & the nuns true intentions for her.

“NyMpha is so drenched in Catholic guilt that it made me want to confess - and I’m an Anglican agnostic. I thought NyMpha was wonderful. It’s Zuccon’s most thoughtful and mature film to date; the violence is limited and controlled, the characters are fascinating and fully rounded, the oppressive air of religious fervour is cloying and grim. Powerful, powerful stuff.” -- Mike J. Simpson: http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk

The Witches Hammer extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
Rebecca is brought back from the brink of death by top secret agency 'Project 571'. She is trained as a lethal assassin and sent on missions to kill that which she has become, a vampire. When Project 571 is destroyed by a gang of vampires, Rebecca is thrown into a quest for an ancient book powerful enough to raise the dead. Rebecca joins two priests on a journey to kill the master vampire Hugo Renoir before he can unleash the grotesque souls of the damned into our dimension. If Hugo is allowed to perform the ancient ceremony the earth shall forever pass into the realm of darkness. Along the way Rebecca must utilise her training to face Vampires, Demons and Witches all vying for the book and its awesome power.

TerrorFEST (Philadelphia) Nominated for Best Feature
South African HorrorFEST
Swansea Bay Film Festival
Swindon Film Festival
Big Bang Film Festival