The Belgian film Cub validates the fear some of us have of spending the night in the woods. Cub on Blu-ray and DVD will hit stores on August 18th. Also: theatrical and digital release details for The Diabolical, HollyShorts Film Festival 2015 lineup, and Manos: The Hands of Fate soundtrack on vinyl.
Cub: Artsploitation Films will release Cub on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th. Directed by Jonas Govaerts from a screenplay he wrote with Roel Mondelaers, Cub stars Maurice Luijten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, and Jan Hammenecker.
"This dark, bloody, imaginative fairy tale about a camping trip that turns into deadly carnage draws on such influences as Lord of the Rings, Friday the 13th, and The Devil’s Backbone. The story follows 12-year-old outcast Sam who, along with his troop of cub scouts and their teenage supervisors, camp in woods rumored to house a mysterious and deadly werewolf. Inquisitive Sam, certain the woods are inhabited by something evil, soon stumbles upon a feral young boy and, eventually, his evil psychopathic mentor. But convincing the others of the danger falls on deaf ears, and soon ingenious traps begin to take their violent toll on the group. A wildly entertaining “killer in the woods” actioner.
Bonus features: Deleted scenes, SFX reel, Short film (Blu-only), Music video (Blu-only), Trailers"
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The Diabolical: Courtesy of XLrator Media, The Diabolical was written and directed by Alistair Legrand and will be released in theaters, on VOD, and on iTunes on October 16th, 2015.
"When a single mother (Ali Larter) and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence in their quiet suburban home, she turns to her scientist boyfriend to take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face.
Cast: Ali Larter, Arjun Gupta, Max Rose, Chloe Perrin, Kurt Carley, with Merrin Dungey and Patrick Fischler."
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HollyShorts Film Festival 2015: Press Release: "Hollywood August 3, 2015----The organizers of the 11th annual HollyShorts Film Festival are announcing today the official film lineup that will compete at the upcoming festival. The lineup includes 400 of the top short movies from almost every major continent. The festival received a record 2,200 submissions this year a festival record.
The festival will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres August 13-22, 2015. The HollyShorts Film Conference, which will feature heavy hitter panel discussions, will take place at IgnitedSpaces August 14-21.
This year’s selected horror and thriller shorts include the following:
Horror-Friday August 14 @10 pm
Polaroid-Lars Klevberg
Hag-Erik Gardner
Awakenings-Bhargav Saikia
The Smiling Man-A.J. Briones
Slut-Chloe Okuno
And They Watched-Vivian Lin
Mr. Dentonn-Ivan Villamel
The Blood Of Love-Jeff Meyers
Hush-Michael G. Kehoe
Thriller-Sunday August 16 @10 pm
The Loyalist-Minji Kang
The Ascent-Ana Soler
600$-Oriol Cardus
The Canary-Karl Herrmann
The Program-Dylan Mulick
The Pegasus Project-Aaron Wolf
Midland-Oliver Bernsen
Human Behavior-Carey Williams
Thriller program-Tuesday August 18 @7:30 pm
County State USA: Sweet Corn-Jonathan Nowak
Transference-Michaël NAKACHE
Thicker Than Water-Seung Yeob Lee
IF IT TURNS BAD, RUN!-David HOURREGUE
Hero.Traitor.Patriot-Weyni Mengesha and Eion Bailey
Day One-Leo Kei Angelos & Kristen Brancaccio
The festival’s opening night celebration lineup will be announced momentarily and will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres and OHM nightclub at Hollywood and Highland. Advance tickets, the lineup, all-access passes and the fest schedule are currently available at www.hollyshorts.com.
This year’s HollyShorts sponsors include:
All Short TV, Brickyard VFX, Color Space Finishing, Company 3, Creative Handbook, Crypt TV, Daily Motion, Dark Horse Wines, Delmay Partners, Diablo, Evil Slave, Film Radar, FilmLA, Final Draft, Greenleaf Gourmet Chop Shop, Ignited Spaces, Indi.com, Indievent, Jungle Software, Kim Ruggles Events, Law Offices of Clifford Lo Entertainment Law, Lightspeed EPS, Lyft, Mercury Production Report, Method Studios, New Media Vault, NYFA, OHM, Panavision, Philippe Catering, Pond5, Red Giant, Robertson Taylor Insurance, Script Pipeline, Shorts HD, Media Services,Simple DCP, Stage32.com, TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, The Agency-Sports & Entertainment Division, Uber, UCLA Extension, Women in Film, Zype, Hint Water, Production Hub, Monster Energy and Mama Shelter Hotels."
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Manos: The Hands of Fate Vinyl Soundtrack: Press Release: "Ship to Shore PhonoCo. announced today that - as decreed by their god of primal darkness - they have pressed the original soundtrack to Manos: The Hands Of Fate onto glorious vinyl and are now taking pre-orders for the LP, which is to be released mid-September!
The tracklisting for the album is as follows:
SIDE A:
1. Family Vacation
2. Love Inside This Magic Circle
3. Baby Do A Thing With Me
4. Adrift in a Sea of Madness
5. Caretaker
6. Decision
7. Portrait of Evil
8. Dog of Death
9. Perversion, Ignorance, Apathy
10. Tomb of Darkness
11. Torgo's Lament
12. The Search Continues
13. Prayer to Primal Darkness
14. A Strange Gait
SIDE B:
1. Uncontrollable Passion
2. A House Divided
3. Manos, Thy Will is Done
4. Chaos
5. An Unfulfilled Desire
6. The Servant Fails the Master
7. Sacrifice
8. The Futility of Fighting Fate
9. Manos Has You Now
10. The Circle of Fate
11. Forgetting You (Love Theme from Manos: The Hands of Fate)
This limited edition release features exclusive liner notes on a 4 page booklet insert by VideoScope columnist Tim Ferrante and "Manos" vocalist Nicki Mathis, and will be presented on three different vinyl formats: red and black "Master Edition" swirl, only available through the Ship to Shore PhonoCo. web store here (600 pressed, retailing at $23); brown "Torgo Edition" available in the U.S. from Light In The Attic and in the E.U. from One Way Static (600 pressed, retailing at $23); and a standard black vinyl edition available from all good record shops (800 pressed, retailing at $21). The album will be released mid-September and is available to pre-order right now!
Manos: The Hands Of Fate captured the hearts and minds of B-movie aficionados everywhere since its legendary treatment by Mystery Science Theater 3000 got it the attention it sorely missed on its initial cinema release in 1966. The wonderful lo-fi jazz score by Russ Huddleston and Robert Smith Jr. is an integral part of the movie's charm and Ship to Shore PhonoCo. are proud to announce this release as part of their roster. "Thou hast taught us, O Manos, and we hath listened! Give ear to our words, O Manos, and hear us! Hear us! Hear us!"
Follow Ship to Shore PhonoCo on: https://twitter.com/STSPhonoCo. http://instagram.com/stsphonoco. https://www.facebook.com/stsphonoco"
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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