The new trailer and poster for Tom Costabile's Voodoo will put a spell on you in today's Horror Highlights, which also includes details on Brendan Deneen's upcoming horror novel The Chrysalis and acquisition news for the Steven Soderbergh-produced sci-fi film Perfect.
New Voodoo Trailer and Poster: Press Release: Press Release: "From Wild Eye Releasing comes the highly-anticipated DVD premiere of VOODOO, a “gory, unique, and utterly creepy” (Inquisitr) ride into the fiery mouth of hell, from visionary director Tom Costabile, arriving 9/11/18.
Featuring “strong lead performances and a startling twist” (L.A Times), the no-holds-barred horror jaunt has been called “groundbreaking” (DecayMag), “a modern cult classic” (BeyondtheGore) and a “must see” (RogerEbert.com).
VOODOO tells of an innocent southern girl, Dani, vacationing in Los Angeles to evade her increasingly complicated life. Once Dani arrives in Los Angeles, she learns that trying to escape her past is not as easy as she had hoped.
Samantha Stewart, Dominic Matteucci, Ruth Reynolds, Daniel Kozul, Ron Jeremy, and Lavelle Roby star in one of the best-reviewed horror films of 2017, VOODOO, making its long-awaited DVD debut this September."
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Details on New Horror Novel The Chrysalis: "Beneath the existential troubles of “adulting”—marriage, bills, mortgage, bills, pregnancy, bills—exists something darker. In the tradition of Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Cronenberg’s Shivers, THE CHRYSALIS (The hardcover, on sale Sept. 4th) exposes the underbelly of suburbia…and what really lurks in the basement of a three-bedroom Victorian on a cul-de-sac.
Forced out of New York City by rising rents and gentrification, barely-employed millennials Tom and Jenny Decker—an artist and a personal trainer—luck into an amazingly affordable, completely furnished house in the New Jersey suburbs. Jenny doesn't know there’s something hidden in the basement. Tom does. It soon has him in thrall.
The Deckers' lives are suddenly on an upswing: Tom gets a big-bucks corporate job; Jenny, newly pregnant, opens a small gym catering to moms-to-be. Despite their worries about becoming boring suburbanites, they make friends and begin to acclimate to their new life.
Tom regularly visits the basement, where his secret scrambles his senses and heightens his emotions, leaving him feeling euphoric and invincible. As his obsession with the thing in the basement grows, Jenny realizes that to save her family, she must expose everything. Before it destroys them all.
For fans of 10 Cloverfield Lane, THE CHRYSALIS is a recognizable horror story, retold for a new generation: a classic monster-in-the-basement story as well as an exploration of the dread and fright that comes with parenthood, marriage, and “growing up.” Because no one ever really wants to grow up…but sometimes acting like an adult is the only way to survive.
Brendan Deneen is the award-winning author of The Ninth Circle, as well as the graphic novels Scatterbrain, Flash Gordon: The Mercy Wars, and The Island of Misfit Toys. He is also the author of the bestselling picture book Night Night, Groot. Deneen lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughters."
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Perfect Acquired by SingularDTV: Deadline reports that Eddie Alcazar's Perfect has been acquired by SingularDTV and is slated come out in theaters this fall.
Synopsis: "A boy in a cold and stark modern house, in a vaguely science fictional world, is seduced by advertisements of perfection to install implantable characteristics directly into his body. The implants heal his dark, twisted visions, but come with a corporeal cost. He persists on applying them, hoping to reach perfection, but ultimately he discovers that purity of mind is not exactly as he's imagined.
Producers: Eddie Alcazar, Javier Lovato | Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Garrett Wareing, Courtney Eaton, Tao Okamoto with Maurice Compte and Abbie Cornish. Sci-Fi Thriller / Feature Film.
EDDIE ALCAZAR BIO: Director Eddie Alcazar was the winner of an art scholarship to AAU and named one of the 25 up and coming faces in Hollywood by Filmmaker Mag. He directed TAPIA for HBO, and FUCKKKYOUUU a Sundance-selected short scored by Flying Lotus. His latest project is the feature PERFECT exec produced by Steven Soderbergh through Alcazar’s company Brainfeeder Films."
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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