Five cult classics, including The House on Sorority Row, are being revived on the big screen by Bloody Disgusting for their "Retro Nightmares" cinema series kicking off on September 27th. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Travel Channel's "Ghostober" programming details, the latest addition to Mezco's Living Dead Dolls line, and the Indiegogo campaign for Masters of the Grind.
Bloody Disgusting's Retro Nightmares Film Series Details: Press Release: "Just in time to kick off the Halloween season, five HD digitally remastered cult horror classics--as voted online by fans--will be coming to the big screen as part of the “Bloody Disgusting Presents Retro Nightmares” Cinema Series this fall: The House on Sorority Row, Amityville: The Evil Escapes, Amityville: It’s About Time, Sweet Sixteen, and The Convent. Tickets are on sale now at www.Retronightmares.com for theaters nationwide.
Preeminent American horror genre website Bloody Disgusting, independent distribution company Multicom Entertainment Group, Inc. and global event cinema leader Trafalgar Releasing will be rolling out three nights of good old-fashioned fun and scares every Thursday starting on September 27th, 2018, with exclusive in-theater content, including some crazy new videos produced by the gang at Attack Media, the folks behind “The Attack” show on Disney XD. Attack Media is breathing new life into three of these classic horror films by remixing each of them with hilarious re-writes, voice dubbing, and visual effects in exclusive new bonus content only found in theaters. Many of these films haven’t been shown on the big screen in decades, so now is the opportunity for horror fans to share the experience together.
“Bloody Disgusting Presents Retro Nightmares” Line Up:
Thursday, September 27th:
The House on Sorority Row (1983)
Written and Directed by Mark Rosman (Sorority Row, The Invader); Starring Katie McNeil (Monkey Shines, Sudden Death), Eileen Davidson (“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”,“Y&R”, “Days of our Lives”), Janis Ward, Robin Meloy, Harley Jane Kozak, and Barbara Harris.
What it’s about: Seven sorority sisters are stalked as they hold a guilty secret.
Before she was one of the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” or ruling daytime soaps on “Y&R" and “Days of our Lives”, Eileen Davidson starred as a sexy sorority sister with a sinister secret. She may be leaving the small screen soon as she exits “Y&R”, but here’s a chance to see Eileen’s early work on the big screen and see she’s as fierce (and ageless) as she ever was!
Special in-theater bonus content includes Attack Media’s comedic makeover of The House on Sorority Row (1983) in a five-minute rapid-fire remix presented as a classic ladies' etiquette school recruitment video.
Thursday, October 4th: DOUBLE FEATURE
Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989)
Written and Directed by Sandor Stern (The Amityville Horror), Starring Patty Duke (Valley of the Dolls, The Miracle Worker), Jane Wyatt, Fredric Lehne, Lou Hancock, Brandy Gold, Alex Rebar, Aron Eisenberg
What it’s about: The demonic forces that were lurking in the infamous house in Amityville for over 300 years escape to a remote California mansion by inhabiting a lamp.
Amityville: It’s About Time (1992)
Directed by Tony Randel (Hellbound: Hellraiser II; Children of the Night); Starring Stephen Macht (Monster Squad, Graveyard Shift), Shawn Weatherly (Police Academy 3: Back in Training), and Megan Ward.
What it’s about: Widowed father Jake Sterling brings an antique clock home to his family, unaware of its evil ties to the infamous haunted house in Amityville.
If you’ve ever been tempted to bring home something old from a flea market or garage sale, you might want to think again. These movies demonstrate that even antiques can be more deadly than they look. And at the end of the night, you can debate your friends about whether an evil lamp or a possessed clock is a more sinister home decorating choice.
Fans will also be treated to exclusive in-theater bonus content from Attack Media, as two scenes from Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989) and Amityville: It's About Time (1992) go from horrifying to hilarious when they get remixed and mashed up into a new five-minute edit.
Thursday, October 11th: DOUBLE FEATURE
Sweet Sixteen (1983)
Directed by Jim Sotos (Forced Entry); Written by Erwin Goldman; Starring Bo Hopkins (Midnight Express, The Wild Bunch, American Graffiti), Susan Strasberg, Patrick Macnee, Don Stroud, Dana Kimmell, Don Shanks, Glenn Withrow, Michael Pataki, Sharon Farrell, and Steve Antin.
What it’s about: When a teenage girl moves to a small town, she discovers each time she goes out with a boy, he is mysteriously murdered.
Ahh, the 80’s! This movie will take you back to a time where “teenagers” in movies looked like fully-grown adults. And for some men, going out with a girl who turns out to be jailbait is almost as scary as being murdered in cold blood.
The Convent (2000)
Directed by Mike Mendez (Masters of Horror; Big Ass Spider!; Lavalantula); Written by Chaton Anderson; Starring Joanna Canton, Coolio, Megahn Perry, Renee Graham, Adrienne Barbeau (Swamp Thing, The Fog, Escape From New York, Creepshow), Allison Dunbar, Bill Moseley, Chaton Anderson, Dorenda Moore, Elle Alexander, and Liam Kyle Sullivan.
What it’s about: A group of college students breaks into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.
Horror vet Adrienne Barbeau, immolated nuns, frat boys and college girls battling Satanists, plus a bit of 90’s rapper Coolio and a whole lot of gore makes for a campy yet religious pre-Halloween experience.
In addition, fans will get exclusive new in-theater content from Multicom Entertainment in a behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the filming and restoration of The Convent.
The five films in the “Bloody Disgusting Presents Retro Nightmares” Cinema Series were determined by fan votes at www.BloodyDisgusting.com. More surprises are in store for fans that attend in theaters. Stay tuned for more details on each screening event in the coming weeks."
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Travel Channel's "Ghostober" Event Details: "Creepy thrills await as Travel Channel hosts the ultimate Halloween event this “Ghostober” – a cauldron of spooky, creepy and terrifying programming that will take viewers on a fun, spine-tingling journey across America.
The goosebumps begin Saturday, October 6th at 9 p.m. ET/PT with a four-part, four-week long “Ghost Adventures” miniseries that takes the paranormal investigative team – Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley – to the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” a treacherous nautical region in the Pacific Northwest. New series, specials, and episodes continue all month long, culminating on Halloween night with “Ghost Adventures Live” – a special four-hour live investigation inside Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas Haunted Museum. With special guests, creepy objects that contain haunted histories and fan involvement, it’s the ultimate Halloween treat.
Additional premieres throughout the month include:
“Chris Jericho: Monster Hunt” (wt), a one-hour special following WWE world champion and entertainer Chris Jericho as he searches for legendary swamp creatures in Southern Louisiana.
“Scariest Night of My Life,” retelling chilling stories from victims of paranormal mayhem.
“Most Terrifying Places in America,” showcasing the nation’s most horrifying haunts.
“Haunted Live,” a weekly live and interactive ghost hunting series where viewers can help guide the investigation.
“Anchored by our mega-hit ‘Ghost Adventures,’ the entire month of October are a spooky and wild Halloween celebration with the most innovative creepy content and the biggest stars in the paranormal universe,” said Jane Latman, general manager, Travel Channel. “Between our live investigations and spine-tingling new specials, ‘Ghostober’ is not for the faint of heart. Watch only if you dare.”
Visit TravelChannel.com and follow Travel Channel’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages where the “Ghostober” party continues all month long. Fans can check out exclusive content from their favorite series, including behind-the-scenes videos, photos, and exciting giveaways. Join the conversation during live tweeting and real-time Q&A sessions with show hosts on Facebook Live including Zak Bagans and the “Ghost Adventures” crew. Amping up the fun is an all-new digital series, “Friday Night with Gunnarolla,” which follows Andrew “Gunnarolla” Gunadie as he embraces the frights and checks into spooky locations around the United States, and a new Facebook Live series that will follow James B. McDaniel, also known as Peppermint Fatty, as he recaps the week’s episodes and shares exclusive sneak peek videos from upcoming premieres, including “Ghost Adventures” and “Haunted Live.”
“GHOSTOBER” LINEUP:
NEW SERIES
SCARIEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE
Premieres Sunday, September 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
“Scariest Night of My Life” retells chilling, true stories of victims of paranormal mayhem. Each episode features three different stories of people who lived through life-changing and spine-chilling supernatural encounters that happened during the course of one terrifying night. With powerful recreations filled with twists and turns, viewers are in for an unforgettable paranormal ride. #ScariestNightofMyLife
HAUNTED LIVE
Premieres Friday, September 14 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
Viewers are invited to join the action in “Haunted Live,” a live interactive paranormal investigation series featuring the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, a team of paranormal experts that relies on a unique combination of scientific method and spiritual faith to navigate investigations. Each week, the team members will reveal a new haunted location to the public and utilize their skills, technology, and unique experiments to capture evidence of paranormal activity in a live and unfiltered paranormal investigation. Through an on-location live video stream, viewers can monitor all of the “Haunted Live” activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook Live platform and comment on any findings in real time, directing the team where to investigate next. Fans can follow Travel Channel’s social media pages for the secret location reveal each week, and visit Facebook to join a special pre-hunt Q&A with the Tennessee Wraith Chasers. #HauntedLive
NEW SPECIALS
MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM – “Special: Zodiac Killer”
One-Hour Special
Premieres Wednesday, October 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
History enthusiast and adventurer Don Wildman investigate the most notorious unsolved crime in American history – the Zodiac murders. Diving headfirst into the case, Wildman meets with a retired inspector who worked the crimes, learns code-breaking from a Zodiac cryptographer, visits a DNA lab to understand how close authorities are to catching the killer and learns a new theory on who may be responsible. #MATM
CHRIS JERICHO: MONSTER HUNT (wt)
One-Hour Special
Premieres Wednesday, October 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
WWE champion and famed author, musician and podcaster Chris Jericho has had a lifelong fascination with the unexplained. Now, he is on a terrifying mission to uncover the truth behind the fearsome swamp creatures believed to inhabit the swamps of Southern Louisiana. Wading deep into bayou country, Jericho searches for evidence of a legendary creature known as Rougarou, and a Sasquatch-like beast that roams the Honey Island Swamp. Is there a connection between these monsters? And what of the curse put on the region by infamous voodoo priestess Julia Brown in the early 1900s? Jericho encounters compelling proof from eyewitnesses, physical evidence and a startling revelation from beyond the grave. #MonsterHunt
GHOST ADVENTURES – “Graveyard of the Pacific”
Four-Part Miniseries
Premieres Saturday, October 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
In this special four-part miniseries event, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley head to the “Graveyard of the Pacific” – a treacherous nautical region within the Pacific Northwest where the freshwater of the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Here, darkness plagues both land and sea – the ocean has claimed thousands of shipwrecks and countless lives, while unexplained deaths, diseases, fires, and murders have impacted areas around the shoreline. The investigation takes the team to multiple haunted locations – from the underground tunnels weaving beneath the city of Astoria, Oregon, and the port city’s Norblad Hostel to the Fort Stevens Military Base outside of town where dangerous entities are believed to haunt various sites. The investigation culminates at the North Head Lighthouse in Washington, which bore witness to some of the most tragic shipwrecks of this watery graveyard. #GhostAdventures
GHOST ADVENTURES LIVE
Four-Hour Live Investigation
Premieres Wednesday, October 31 beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT
This Halloween, join the “Ghost Adventures” team for the ultimate Halloween night event – a four-hour, live investigation inside Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas Haunted Museum. On the one-year anniversary of its opening, Bagans and the “Ghost Adventures” crew, along with special guests, will investigate the museum that contains hundreds of haunted objects, some so frightening and powerful they can’t even be touched. It’s sure to go down as one of the most terrifying nights in paranormal history. Through an on-location live video stream, viewers can monitor all of the “Ghost Adventures Live” activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook Live platform and comment on any findings in real time. Fans can follow Travel Channel’s social media pages for exciting giveaways and join a special pre-“Ghost Adventures Live” Q&A session with Zak Bagans and the team. #GhostAdventuresLive
NEW SEASON
PARANORMAL SURVIVOR
Premieres Sunday, September 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
“Paranormal Survivor” will take you through terrifying real-life encounters with the supernatural. Hear from those who’ve faced these feared spirits – and watch dramatic recreations that lure people back to the scenes of these harrowing confrontations. #ParanormalSurvivor
NEW EPISODES
MOST TERRIFYING PLACES IN AMERICA
Premieres Sunday, September 30 at 11 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Evil lurks in every corner of the country. “Most Terrifying Places in America” takes you on a treacherous trip across the nation’s most horrifying haunts. Take a ride on the dire side as we uncover the most bone-chilling manors and inns, and visit real-life ghost towns so cursed shivers will run down your spine. Join us as we stop at the nation’s scariest attractions, which will leave you feeling like a wide-eyed, freaked-out kid again, and come along as we unearth the most frightening forests, forts, and freeways. #MostTerrifyingPlaces"
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The Living Dead Dolls: Vesper Release Details: "Living Dead Dolls Vesper
Something is aflutter this Halloween season…
Celebrate Halloween 2018 with The Living Dead Dolls: Vesper.
Vesper, translating to ‘evening’ in archaic Latin, incarnates Halloween and is ready for a night of trick or treating with her bat-inspired sweatshirt, detailed with bat ears on the hood and bat wings attached to her sleeves. Her look is complete with ‘Living Dead Dolls Halloween 2018’ logo.
Vesper features two-toned rooted hair, a jack-o-lantern candy pail that can she can hold, and striped stockings that match her ensemble.
Vesper stands 10” tall and features 5 points of articulation. She is packaged in a traditional Living Dead Dolls coffin, perfect for display.
Living Dead Dolls Vesper is available at:
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Masters of the Grind Indiegogo Details: "My name is Jason Rutherford. I am a filmmaker. My debut film SHHHH is available on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play. SHHHH is a love letter to Grindhouse cinema.
I have also contributed supplemental material on several Exploitation DVD's and Blu-rays including I Drink Your Blood, Pieces, Wonder Woman, Maniac, Campus Corpse, Malibu High, etc...
The Masters of the Grind campaign is important to me because I feel I have an obligation to finish the film for the people that are still with us and those who have passed away and the people that have been patiently waiting to see it. I also feel that most of what these guys share has never really been covered in a film or extra. The collective world that these men share even though most of them never worked with each other paints a broader picture of the story of the Grindhouse filmmaking.
Your contributions to Masters of the Grind are vital in me finishing the documentary.
The funds raised are going to:
-Acquire a workstation
-Editing Software
-Transfer Mini DV Tapes
-Narration
-Music rights/original music
-Clip rights/photo rights
-Festival Entries
-Press Materials
and the Masters of the Grind Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome, Grindhouse Releasing, and VCI have offered up some awesome perks including cool Blu-rays and DVD's including Malibu High, I Drink Your Blood, The Corpse Grinders, Satan's Cheerleaders, Massacre Mafia Style, Black Shampoo, Cannibal Holocaust, and more. All donations over $35 get the Masters of the Grind Blu-ray and One-Sheet.
If I don't complete my goal I will still finish the film somehow. I have been working on it for 17 years and am looking to get this out to the fans come hell or high water.
I feel the film is valuable because even though Masters of the Grind is about the exploitation genre. It's really about a film movement and the struggles of yesterday and how it relates to the struggles of today. I believe it was easier to make a film back then because the market wasn't as diluted and everyone and their brother wasn't making a film on their I Phone thus the world of modern Exploitation/Horror films is saturated with mediocrity.
I know times are tough so if you cannot donate you can still help by getting the word out on social media. Please tell all your friends that dig Grindhouse Films."
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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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