With Terror Films recently unleashing Night of Something Strange on digital platforms, we've been provided with an exclusive clip and digital trading card (one of eight that are being revealed online) to share with Daily Dead readers. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have DVD release details for Teen Wolf Season 6, Part 1, and information on Cthulhu: the Musical's Portland performances.
Night of Something Strange Exclusive Clip & Digital Trading Card: Press Release: "LOS ANGELES (July 6, 2017) Terror Films is releasing the STD infected zombie movie NIGHT OF SOMETHING STRANGE across multiple worldwide digital platforms beginning on Friday, July 7. To celebrate, they are also releasing 8 digital trading cards and 8 movie clips that will be available on select Horror Blogs and Websites.
It’s Spring Break! Five teenage friends – (who are lucky enough to have Scream Queen Brinke Stevens as their high school teacher!) - set out for the beach only to have their good times cut short when one of the group, Carrie, contracts an unusual venereal disease at a gas station bathroom. The friends get detoured to an isolated motel in a small town where the STD turns out to be something that can’t be treated by a shot of penicillin and begins turning those infected with it into the living dead.
Somewhere online there are 8 blogs or websites that have been infected with 8 digital trading cards with colorful images from the film! The first 25 Horror Fans who can collect these jpegs and repost all 8 of them on the Terror Films Facebook page will receive a code for one free download for the film on iTunes. (See details at https://www.facebook.com/TerrorFilmsLLC/).
You will also find an exclusive clip from the film awaiting you at each of these sites. Can you find them all?
NIGHT OF SOMETHING STRANGE played at multiple festivals including the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (2017) (nominated for Best Makeup & SFX), Phoenix International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival (2016) (won Best Horror Feature), HorrorHound Weekend Film Festival (2016) (won Best Special Effects – Feature/nominated for Best Feature, Best Director and Best Actress) and the Crimson Screen Horror Film Fest (2016) (won Jury Award, Best Special Effects, and Best Actor/nominated for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Produced Screenplay –Feature, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Special Effects).
As part of their new World Wide digital release model, Terror Films will be making the movie available across multiple digital platforms in the U.S., Canada, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Ireland, the U.K. and Pan-Russia on iTunes, Amazon Instant, Google Play/You Tube, Sony PSN, X-Box, Vudu, Steam, Vimeo On Demand, Roku (Free Flix Tonight, 24 Hour Movie Channel, Free Grindhouse Flix Tonight) and I Bleed Indie with an expansion set for additional domestic and international VOD and additional digital platforms in the coming months.
Official Trailer Link: https://youtu.be/uAjDWqEggL0
Digital Trading Card Checklist:
#1: SOMETHING UNNATURAL IS WAITING…!
#2: DIRK JUMPS IN TO JOIN THE FIGHT!
#3: TRANSFORMATION INTO THE MACABRE!
#4: CORNELIUS…CHANGED!
#5: I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU.
#6: PLEASE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
#7: GET HER OFF OF THE CAR!
#8: PROTECTION WON’T HELP YOU!
For more information on Terror Films, visit:
https://www.facebook.com/TerrorFilmsLLC/"
NSFW clip:
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Teen Wolf Season 6 Part 1 DVD: Press Release: "Teen Wolf Season 6 Part 1 arrives on DVD July 18 from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The DVD includes a behind the scenes look at Beacon Hills, a VFX reel and gag reel.
Storm clouds gather as Scott and the pack head into their final months of high school. However, the best days of their lives turn bleak when they lose their closest ally. Before their time at Beacon Hills comes to an end, Scott and his friends will stand alone against the growing darkness and fight to stop the destruction of everything and everyone they love.
Teen Wolf was developed by Jeff Davis (creator, "Criminal Minds") who also serves as executive producer. Additional executive producers include Russell Mulcahy ("Highlander," "Resident Evil: Extinction"), Joe Genier, Marty Adelstein ("Prison Break"), René Echevarria ("Medium," "Castle"), Tony DiSanto, and Liz Gateley. The pilot was written by Jeff Davis and Jeph Loeb & Matthew Weisman and directed by Russell Mulcahy. The "Teen Wolf" series is based on a Screenplay by Jeph Loeb & Matthew Weisman. The series is a co-production with, and distributed by, MGM, in association with Lost Marbles Productions, Inc., Siesta Productions, Inc., First Cause, Inc. and DiGa.
Teen Wolf Season 6 Part I DVD Special Features:
● Behind The Scenes of Beacon Hills
● VFX Reel
● Gag Reel
Teen Wolf Season 6 Part I DVD:
Street Date: July 18, 2017
Screen Format: Widescreen 16:9 (1.78:1)
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles English SDH / French / Spanish
Total Run Time: Approximately 426 minutes
U.S. Rating TV-14
Closed Captioned: Yes"
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Cthulhu: The Musical Puppet Show: Press Release: "After six weeks of sold-out performances in Ashland, Puppeteers for Fears, Oregon's only dedicated puppet musical horror troupe, will be bringing its original show, Cthulhu: the Musical, to Portland for performances at The Shoebox Theater July 13-15.
“We’ve always been a touring company, but this will be our first time in Portland,” says PFF Artistic Director Josh Gross. “Normally, we stick a bit closer to home since the production is so big, but we got so many requests to bring the show there that we couldn’t refuse.”
Far from the lo-fi puppet show stereotype, the production features a cast of five actors with elaborate custom-made puppets, a full-rock band, and projected multimedia backgrounds.
“It’s not quite War Horse, but it’s a lot to bring on the road,” says Gross. “But it’s always worth it when we see audiences shocked at how big a show it is.”
The play is adapted from the 1929 short story, The Call of Cthulhu,” by horror icon, H.P. Lovecraft, and tells the story of his most famous creation: Cthulhu, a giant, malevolent, octopus-faced elder god who hibernates beneath the ocean, communicating to humans through their dreams, slowly driving them mad. Though Lovecraft is not as much of a household name as writers like Stephen King or Edgar Allen Poe, he is widely considered to be the creator of the genre of gothic horror, and the creatures and themes he created are highly influential on modern literature of all genres. The story PFF chose to adapt is dark, disturbing, and totally unfit for musical comedy—all qualities that make it a perfect fit for their irreverent style.
“We are always looking to turn classic themes on their head instead of rehashing tired storylines,” says Gross. “So when thinking about what our next piece might be, I sometimes add the words, 'the musical,' to different phrases in conversation to see how people react, if it has that magic combination of familiar hook, and new twist. When I said, 'Cthulhu: the Musical,' for the first time, a bunch of heads immediately turned in my direction, and strangers started asking where they could see it. So I knew we had to do that as a show, even though the challenge of turning something so dark into musical comedy was pretty daunting. It was definitely worth it though. There was a lot of comedy to be found and this show is so much fun to perform.”
The show will be directed by Eric Solis, and with a script and original songs from playwright Josh Gross, and a new cast of hand-made puppets hand and rod, or muppet-style, puppets from master crafter Brooke Sharp. Performances will feature live puppetry, a full rock band, and multimedia backgrounds courtesy of visual artist and Production Designer, Aubry Hollingshead. It stars Rachel Routh, Eric Solis, Beth Boulay, Alyssa Mathews, and Stephen Connolly, and the band includes Moreno on drums, Will Shapiro on bass, and Josh Gross on guitar.
Run time is approximately two hours with an intermission. Complete performance dates and locations are below.
The Shoebox Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Ave., Portland
8pm – Thursday, July 13, Friday, July 14 and Saturday, July 15
Tickets available in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2976171
NOTE: Attendees should be aware that though this is a puppet show, it is NOT a children's show. The material is R-rated, and children should be brought to matinees only at parent's discretion."
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