Horror Highlights: Exclusive Clip from BLESSED ARE THE CHILDREN, XTRO High Definition Version, THE CHURCH, HORRORMANIA ’79: MEMOIRS OF A 10 YEAR OLD HORROR FAN

Wild Eye Releasing presents Blessed are the Children!? in the vein of an old-school '80s slasher hits DVD and VOD this month. Also: Xtro Hi-Def version release details, The Church teaser trailer / release details, and Kevin Doherty's Horrormania '79: Memoirs of a Ten Year Old Horror Fan novel details.

Watch a Blessed are the Children Exclusive Clip: "In the classic tradition of the 1980’s slasher film” (Horror News), Wild Eye Releasing deliver Blessed are the Children, a Reagan-era slasher throwback that’s part Halloween, part Black Christmas, and all frights, premiering on DVD and VOD October 23.

Something sinister is following Traci and her friends – who are behind the masks!?

Traci Patterson (Kaley Ball), an adrift 20-something who's still reeling from the death of her father and her breakup with an abusive fiancé (Jordan Boyd), discovers that she's pregnant. With the help of her friends, Erin and Mandy (Arian Thigpen, Keni Bounds), she decides to terminate her pregnancy, but quickly after leaving the clinic, she begins seeing and hearing things - shapes in the corner of her eye, strange noises in the middle of the night, and ghoulish figures stalking her every move. Is it guilt or are Traci and her friends in grave danger?

Kaley Ball, Keni Bounds, and Arian Thigpen star in a Chris Moore (Perversion, Triggered) film, premiering on DVD and VOD this October."

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Xtro Hi-Def Streaming Version: "Xtro the infamous classic sci-fi horror film loved by astute fans around the world will be available for streaming in a brand new hi-def version.

Following its successful theatrical release in Japan and the Blu-ray release from Second Sight Films in the UK, which reached No. 1 on the Amazon UK horror chart, the new version lands on YouTube, Amazon and Google Play worldwide, excluding only the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.

The film has been engaging and mystifying audiences since its original release in 1982 and has been lauded as one of the best B Movies ever made.

Father Sam Phillips is playing with his family in the back garden of his idyllic English home when a bright light appears and seemingly abducts him. Three years later, the light returns and dumps a half human half alien creature. After slaughtering a couple who inadvertently stumble on it in a country road, the creature impregnates a woman who gives birth – in one of the cinemas most outrageous scenes – to a fully formed Sam. He heads to London, seeking out his family and developing a strange bond with his son. And then things start to get really weird…

The world’s No. 1 Xtro fan, Dennis Xtro Atherton, who even changed his name in tribute said:

“I have been shouting into the abyss for years about Xtro and eventually feel that people have started to come around to my way of thinking that Xtro is the most unpredictable movie ever made. Second Sight did an amazing job with the Blu-ray release making my dream come true having my favourite film in glorious HD and it looks absolutely fantastic. I am over the moon that this film is now available in many formats for more people to enjoy In the world of Xtro anything is possible…’"

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The Church Release Details: "'The Church" is a supernatural thriller about a group of church board members that try to sell a church and get trapped inside by a haunting Spirit.

"The Church” was filmed in Philadelphia, it stars Clint Howard, Bill Moseley, Lisa Wilcox, Keith Stallworth (Step Up 3, Transformers) and Ashley Williams (Human Centipede). The film is directed by Dom Frank with original music by Miles Bergma and editing by Ed Marx (Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2).

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Thechurchmovie/

Website:
https://thechurchmovie.com/"

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Horrormania '79: Memoirs of a Ten Year Old Horror Fan Novel Details: "My name is Kevin Doherty and I am a horrorholic.

My horrorholicism began back when I was a kid. Star Wars, actually, got me turned on to horror. That movie was like a drug to me and I couldn't get enough of it. I was addicted to it. I had to have everything and anything that was Star Wars. It was through the "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine that I discovered horror because they were constantly publishing Star Wars articles. By reading these magazines, I got exposed to the world of horror and gradually became captivated with the creepy films the magazine covered. The frightening black and white photographs of monstrosities, ghouls, and freaks contained within its pages fascinated me and I was hooked. Because there was such a long gap of time to pass between Star Wars 1 and the release of Star Wars 2, I found horror to fill the void.

My life as a young horror fanatic in 1979 was particularly interesting. I had one quest back then. OK, maybe two. One was to acquire a Pressman "Movie/T.V. Horror Make-Up" kit from the local novelty shop so that I could win a best-costume contest at a Halloween party where the first prize was a perm (yes, like in "permanent" - as in the hairstyle). Two, to win the affections of a really cute girl in my class who really dug guys with Afros. Well, buying something for twenty bucks when you're ten-years-old on an allowance of seventy-five cents every two weeks was an impossible task, so I needed to be inventive and had to come up with a bunch of different ways of raising that kind of cash in time for October, so I came up with all sorts of get-rich-quick schemes and what an adventure it was. So much so that I felt it was worth sharing by documenting my stories in a book.

Culled from the yellowed pages of the diaries I kept back then (dozens and dozens of Hilroy notebooks), I have assembled a novelization of my chronicles of the time when horror took over my life. I invite you to join me for a nostalgic look back to a time where Disco, roller skating, Star Wars, KISS and vampire movies ruled the cultural landscape.

WARNING: CONTAINS NUDITY!

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Amazon CA Link"