Kino Lorber has restored George Pavlou's Rawhead Rex (based on Clive Barker's short story of the same name) in 4K quality and the Hexploitation Film Festival will screen the newly remastered film for one night only this Friday, August 25th. Also: A Dark Song's Blu-ray / DVD release details, a look at preview pages from Wolfenstein #1, Dwelling and I Know You're in There release details, and Hex, a Halloween costume party extravaganza.
Rawhead Rex 4K Screening Details: Press Release: "Hamilton, ON, August 17, 2017 – The Hexploitation Film Festival is thrilled to be premiering Kino Lorber’s brand new 4K Restoration of Clive Barker’s and George Pavlou’s RAWHEAD REX at a special, one-night-only screening at the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton on August 25 at 8:30 pm.
Adapted by Clive Barker from his Books of Blood, RAWHEAD REX has been restored from the original film negative, unrated and in 4K. Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a pagan demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. While an American historian struggles to solve the mystery to stopping the demon's destruction, Rawhead Rex goes on a bloody rampage through the countryside.
Attendees will the opportunity to win great horror prizes including prints and merch courtesy of Ghoulish Gary Pullin.
Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.universe.com/events/hxff-presents-rawhead-rex-4k-restoration-tickets-
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“Although Clive Barker has disowned the film, now is the perfect time to re-evaluate RAWHEAD REX as a cult gem,” says festival director Aaron Allen. “With this brand new 4K restoration, RAWHEAD REX’s rubber monster suits, misty fields, decapitated heads, optical lasers, and the infamous “baptism" scene have never looked better. Only the kind of cult film weirdness that could be cooked up in the 80s! You’ve never seen RAWHEAD REX like this.”
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Hexploitation Film Festival is the only annual festival and screening series dedicated to horror & exploitation genre cult cinema in the greater Hamilton, ON area.
The HXFF is a bat out of hell festival with a mission: to bring back the fun, communal atmosphere, and showmanship of going to the movies by showcasing films about monsters and maniacs that thrill, chill, and kill."
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A Dark Song Blu-ray / DVD Release Details: Press Release: "Two broken souls. An unholy alliance. The unsettling indie horror hit A Dark Songsustains an air of quiet, creeping dread, tensely building towards a confrontation with evils unknown to our earthly bounds.
The debut feature from rising horror auteur Liam Gavin, A Dark Song is available on Blu-ray on DVD September 5th, 2017 from Scream Factory in conjunction with IFC Midnight. The release also includes interviews with director Liam Gavin, actors Steve Oram and Catherine Walker, and director of photography Cathal Watters, deleted scenes, storyboards and the theatrical trailer as bonus features. Fans can pre-order their copies now on ShoutFactory.com.
Grieving Sophia (Catherine Walker) despairs over the tragic loss of her murdered son. Desperate to somehow make contact with the boy she has lost, Sophia believes her prayers are answered when she crosses paths with the reclusive Joseph (Steve Oram, Sightseers). An expert in the occult, Joseph reluctantly agrees to aid Sophia through a series of dark and forbidden rituals in order to bring her child back to the world of the living. Pushed to their physical and psychological breaking points, Sophia and Joseph make a disturbing descent into the most depraved corners of black magic.
A Dark Song Bonus Features
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Wolfenstein #1 Preview Pages and Release Details: Press Release: "On September 13, 2017, dive headfirst into the alternate universe of Wolfenstein, a world where the fascist regime won the war thanks to super-advanced killing machines and vicious robot dogs.
Written by Dan Watters (Limbo, Assassin’s Creed: Uprising) with art by Piotr Kowalski (SEX, Dark Souls) and Ronilson Freire (The Mummy), Wolfenstein #1 is an all-new comics prequel to the hotly anticipated first-person action blockbuster from Bethesda Softworks, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, which continues the adventures of B.J. Blazkowicz as he leads the resistance against an occupied America.
In Titan Comics' new series join B.J. Blazkowicz as he returns to take on the fascists in this new comic, based on the much-beloved gaming franchise. Can he stop the march of goose-stepping boots? Or will the sinister Hans Hartmann be victorious?
Check out the first look at interior art by Ronilson Freire and Piotr Kowalski below and all covers.
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9th and 10th images below are not final art:
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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