Darren Lynn Bousman and company's Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival screening tour in the U.S. will commence this August in Los Angeles. Also in this round-up: details on The Charnel House and U.S. release details for the Morituris Blu-ray / DVD.
Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival: In 2012, director Darren Lynn Bousman and his team hit the road and took Lucifer with them, bringing The Devil's Carnival film and accompanying live entertainment to cities across America. Bousman and company are now back to raise a lot of hell and a little heaven in Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival.
Featuring David Hasselhoff, Paul Sorvino as God, and Terrance Zdunich as Lucifer, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival kicks off its U.S. theater screenings tour on August 11th in Los Angeles. For tour and ticket info, visit:
"After triumphant collaborations on 2008's REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA and 2012's THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL: EPISODE ONE, cult filmmakers Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich are back with the second installment to their fantasy-musical film franchise. In ALLELUIA! THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL, Lucifer sets a plot in motion against Heaven and all hell breaks loose.
ALLELUIA! THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL stars (in alphabetical order) Victoriandustrial rocker Emilie Autumn, Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), heavy metal hotties the Butcher Babies, Chantal Claret (Morningwood), Dayton Callie (Sons Of Anarchy), Briana Evigan (Step Up franchise), Brea Grant (Heroes), David Hasselhoff (Baywatch), Kristina Klebe (Rob Zombie's Halloween), J Larose (Insidious), Mighty Mike Murga (Mini Kiss), Bill Moseley (The Devil's Rejects), Ted Neeley (Jesus Christ Superstar), Adam Pascal (Rent), rap icon Tech N9ne, Nivek Ogre (Skinny Puppy), Marc Senter (The Lost), Lyndon Smith (Parenthood), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Jimmy Urine (Mindless Self Indulgence), Danny Worsnop (Asking Alexandria) and Terrance Zdunich (Repo! The Genetic Opera).
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Terrance Zdunich with music and lyrics by Zdunich and Saar Hendelman, ALLELUIA! THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL is produced by Execution Style Entertainment and Cleopatra Music & Films."
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Details on The Charnel House: Press Release: "Callum Blue (Proof) and Nadine Velazquez (Flight, Snitch) head a cast featuring Makenzie Moss (Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs) and Erik LaRay Harvey (Bolden!, Boardwalk Empire) in Siegal Entertainment's The Charnel House feature, which began production in Cleveland this month. Producers Sandra Siegal (Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, Hysteria) and MJ Films' Mark B. Johnson (Criminal Activities, Easy A) reunite after working together previously on Miss Meadows. Director Craig Moss (Fox's Bad Ass franchise) helms a script by Emanuel Isler and Chad Israel with Executive Producer Daniel Diamond handling international distribution through his foreign sales company, Diamond Pictures. Producer Capital Fund's Warren Ostergard, Blair Hahn, and Michael Brickman are Executive Producers along with Jim Jacobsen.
The Charnel House follows Alex Reaves (Blue), an accomplished British architect who finally achieves his dream of converting the long-abandoned Fairmont Meat Company slaughterhouse into ultramodern lofts. His family and tenants will be exposed to a decades-long mystery that cannot be covered up by the building's high-tech makeover. His artist wife Charlotte (Velazquez) has devoted herself to helping her husband fulfill his ambitions and has also created the building's digital artwork. Mia (Makenzie Moss), the couple's behaviorally-challenged young daughter, is curious and lonely, but she may have chosen the wrong playmate. Devin Pyles (Harvey) is a retired military officer whose father disappeared while working at the slaughterhouse and now he's anxious to use his intelligence-gathering skills to discover the truth that the building may hold about the event that changed his life forever. Danielle Lauder, Andy Favreau, and Kate Linder will round out the cast.
Callum Blue next appears as a series lead in TNT's Proof and in films, he portrayed Andrew opposite Anne Hathaway in Princess Diaries II and was featured in Frenemy with Zach Galifianakis and Columbiana with Zoe Saldana. Blue starred in the Showtime dramas The Tudors and Dead Like Me and appeared on CW's Smallville as Major Zod. Born in London, Blue trained there at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Nadine Velazquez recently wrapped Universal's Ride Along 2 as well as the leading roles in New Line's Crawlspace, the indie feature The Bounce Back and Lionsgate's Aztec Warrior. Velasquez previously starred in Paramount's Flight opposite Denzel Washington and Summit's Snitch. On television, she was in NBC's recent Love is a Four Letter Word pilot, a regular on My Name is Earl, and she had significant arcs on TNT's Major Crimes, BET's Real Husbands of Hollywood, FX's The League and CW's Hart of Dixie.
Makenzie Moss recently starred in Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs film for Universal as the daughter of Michael Fassbender in the titular role and in Do You Believe. She also just wrapped Collusions. Erik LaRay Harvey is best known for his role as Dunn Purnsley on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
Sandra Siegal also was an Executive Producer on Voice From the Stone, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, Hysteria and Miss Meadows. Mark B. Johnson was an Executive Producer on Criminal Activities and Miss Meadows and a co-producer on Easy A. Craig Moss also directed Bad Ass, Bad Ass 2 and Bad Ass 3, among others."
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Morituris: Press Release: "Raffaele Picchio’s Banned in Italy MORITURIS Comes to the U.S. on DVD & Blu-Ray from Synapse Films This September!
One of the most talked-about films of the 2011 Fantasia Film Festival, Raffaele Picchio’s MORITURIS quickly became controversial for its scenes of extreme horror, which got the film banned in its home country of Italy. But over the years its reputation has grown into that of a new Italian horror classic, reminiscent of the works of Lamberto Bava (DEMONS) and Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE). Now, American audiences can see it for themselves in eye-popping High Definition from Synapse Films!
Two lovely Romanian girls take a trip with three Italian men to a rumored midnight rave in the middle of a dark forest. As the gang proceeds on foot to their final destination, a mysterious graveyard is discovered, a shockingly vile plot twist is revealed and bloodthirsty undead Roman gladiators rise from the dead to torture and mutilate their victims! For the two women, an already terrifying night is about to get much, much worse, as the zombified warriors hunt down the group to tear their heads off! Will anyone survive the night?
An interesting mix of old school 1980s Italian horror, with a touch of the brutality of Wes Craven’s THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, MORITURIS is an unflinching, strong, cruel and extremely violent film featuring gruesome effects from Italian SPFX maestro, Sergio Stivaletti (DEMONS, DEMONS 2, DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE, Dario Argento’s OPERA).
SPECIAL FEATURES (DVD and BLU):
MORITURIS will be released on September 8, 2015."
Tamika hails from North Beach, Maryland, a tiny town inches from the Chesapeake Bay.She knew she wanted to be an actor after reciting a soliloquy by Sojourner Truth in front of her entire fifth grade class. Since then, she's appeared in over 20 film and television projects. In addition to acting, Tamika is the Indie Spotlight manager for Daily Dead, where she brings readers news on independent horror projects every weekend.
The first horror film Tamika watched was Child's Play. Being eight years old at the time, she remembers being so scared when Chucky came to life that she projectile vomited. It's tough for her to choose only one movie as her favorite horror film, so she picked two: Nosferatu and The Stepford Wives (1975).
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