Heavy metal horror hits home media early next year, as Dark Sky Films has announced a January 5th Blu-ray, DVD, and digital release for Jason Lei Howden's Deathgasm:
Press Release: Dark Sky Films announces the digital, DVD & Blu-ray release of the festival and theatrical hit, DEATHGASM. The crowd-pleasing heavy metal horror comedy comes to Digital Download, Blu-ray and DVD on January 5, 2016.
High school is truly hell in DEATHGASM. Metal-thrashing Brodie (Milo Cawthorne, Blood Punch) is an outcast in a sea of jocks and cheerleaders in a suburban wasteland until he meets a kindred spirit in fellow metalhead Zakk (James Blake). After starting their own band, Brodie and Zakk's come upon a mysterious piece of sheet music said to grant ultimate power to whoever plays it. But the music also summons an ancient evil entity known as Aeloth The Blind One, which threatens to tear apart existence itself.
The boys' classmates and family become inhabited by demonic forces, tearing out their own eyes and turning into psychotic murderers ... and that's only the beginning! It's up to Brodie, Zakk and their group of friends to stop a force of pure evil from devouring all of mankind.
Blood-soaked and outrageously hilarious, DEATHGASM features an amazing original soundtrack of fist-pumping metal from such bands as Axeslasher, Beast Wars, Bulletbelt, Skull Fist, Nunslaughter and The Wretched End. Combine that with amazing makeup effects by Main Reactor (the Evil Dead remake, TV's Spartacus), and it's an extravaganza that makes both metalheads and splatter fans drool. DEATHGASM will gush bodily fluids, rain limbs and tickle your funny bone, before tearing it out and giving you a stiff beating with it.
Pop Culture Beast's Adam Ruhl called visual effects master Jason Lei Howden's debut film a "hilarious, high-energy, blood-spattered good time." "Get ready to have your eyeballs stabbed out by cinematic greatness," raved Emperor Rhombus of Metal Sucks. Gareth Jones of Dread Centralsaid, "From the opening to closing credits, DEATHGASM is a film that never, ever, ceases to entertain." Popshifter's Brad Henderson said the film "succeeds with such finesse and heart that it will make you melt in your seat ... Horror fans are going to go nuts for this one."
About Dark Sky Films
Dark Sky Films is an independent film production and distribution label founded in 2008, working with emerging talent as well as established veterans to develop, package, produce and finance feature film and episodic television projects. Representing films from some of the most talented directors working today, such as Ti West's The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, and Jim Mickle's Stake Land, Dark Sky continues to identify original talent and projects to bring a vibrant slate of films to the world market, with such recent productions as We Are Still Here, Deathgasm, Applesauce and Cherry Tree.
To read Heather's five-star review of Deathgasm and her SXSW interview with the film's cast and crew, visit:
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