Entry to Daisyland isn't open until next year on BlackBoxTV, but you can still enjoy a ride or two while watching the teaser trailer that dropped online. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Blood Paradise acquisition news, production details for Nefarious, and The House That Never Dies: Reawakening digital and DVD release details.
Welcome to Daisyland Release Details: "The teaser trailer for the highly anticipated horror anthology series Welcome To Daisyland premiered today on BlackBoxTV, a YouTube channel dedicated to short horror films and series.
The brand new anthology horror anthology series will be launched on 1.1.19. and Directed by award-winning filmmaker Tony E. Valenzuela (Silverwood, Harper’s Globe, Green Eyed World) and soundtrack will feature music from hard rock band The Dead Daisies.
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Artsploitation Films Acquires North American Rights to Blood Paradise: Press Release: "Aspect Ratio today announces the sale of BLOOD PARADISE, the Swedish horror-comedy from producer-director provocateurs Andréa Winter and Patrick von Barkenberg, to Artsploitation Films. The deal was negotiated by Aspect Ratio’s Jordan Mattos and Artsploitation’s Raymond Murray during the American Film Market.
Artsploitation, which acquired all North American rights, plans for a second-quarter 2019 release followed by availability on home video outlets, collaborating with Aspect Ratio on a theatrical release at select venues. The picture premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Scary Movies Festival in New York and will make its International Premiere at the Molins Film Festival in Spain on November 12.
Reeling after her latest novel flops, best-selling crime writer Robin Richards (Winter) is sent by her publisher to the Swedish countryside to regain inspiration. There alone, she comes across an assortment of peculiar characters, including her driver and most obsessive fan, his explosively jealous wife, and the progressively more unhinged man who owns the farm that’s hosting her. Totally out of place in her new surroundings—for one, she is always dressed for glamorous, big-city life—Robin discovers just how dangerous these oddballs may be. Bathed in dreamy atmospherics and streaked with offbeat humor, the film pays an homage to Brian De Palma’s oeuvre and a host of fabulously chic Seventies genre pics.
Paradise marks the feature debut of Swedish electro-pop musician BABY YAGA (Winter) and German director Patrick von Barkenberg. Barkenberg, a graduate of the American Film Institute, shot the film with partner Winter at Winter’s family home in the Swedish countryside. Winter composed the haunting score and songs while producing the picture and also playing the lead role of Robin Richards.
Winter says, "Like my music, Artsploitation explores the dark aspects of ourselves but is also not afraid to embrace the campy and the bizarre. We are thrilled by the prospect of joining the Artsploitation family with our first feature. We love Ray’s visionary catalog of idiosyncratic, provocative cinema that elevates the horror genre in intriguing ways and we are beyond excited to introduce our baby to audiences in North America."
Patrick von Barkenberg (Director/Screenwriter) is a German-born filmmaker. He emigrated to the US when he received a scholarship to study directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, where he studied with Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon), Gil Dennis (Walk the Line) and Jim McBride (Breathless). His short films received the Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award, the Telly Award, the ECU Best Editing Award, the Technicolor Grant and the Fuji Grant.
Ándrea Winter (Actress/Producer/Screenwriter/Composer) grew up on a farm in the North of Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. She left home at the age of 16 to study music and singing at the prestigious Rytmus Music School in Stockholm, had a brief career as a nightclub singer and created the underground Pop Band "Tigon". She later relocated to New York City to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
About Aspect Ratio - Aspect Ratio is a consulting and sales company providing international filmmakers with distribution and programming strategies for the North American market.
About Artsploitation- Not limited to being just a genre label, Artsploitation Films presents intriguing, unsettling, unpredictable and provocative films to an audience long numbed by filmic predictability."
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Production Details for Nefarious from Ash Mountain Films: Press Release: "Ash Mountain Films have just wrapped shooting their new feature film, home invasion horror/thriller “Nefarious”.
The makers of award-winning folk horror feature “Dogged” completed a 16-day shoot on location & in the studio on the film. Directed by Richard
Rowntree and starring Buck Braithwaite, Nadia Lamin, Abbey Gillett, Omari Lake-Pottinger, Gregory A Smith & Toby Wynn-Davies, the film will now go into post-production with an anticipated completion date set for Spring 2019.
Once again penned by director Rowntree and co-writer Matthew Davies, “Nefarious” is set to be a twist on the home invasion sub-genre, and was
funded by enthusiastic supporters of the project & filmmakers through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
Synopsis:
“Sometimes, you have to turn to crime. Sometimes, it turns on you... Darren, Lou, Jo, and Mas live a meager existence on the fringes of poverty. Indebted to the criminal kingpin of their social housing development, they routinely fear for their lives. On the other side of town, the already wealthy Marcus and his mentally handicapped brother Clive receive a windfall in the form of a winning lottery ticket. When their worlds collide following a botched robbery, the would-be criminals get more than they bargained for, and will be tested to their limits in a desperate attempt to survive a predator of monstrous proportions.”
Following the successful tour of “Dogged” on the festival circuit and a physical and digital release in both the UK and North America by Left
Ash Mountain Films Ltd.
Filmed earlier this year, the production team have wasted no time in bringing their second project to the camera – and the stills look like it will offer the audience a very different kind of film this time around.
About Ash Mountain Films
Ash Mountain Films was formed in 2013 in Slough, Berkshire. Headed up by Richard Rowntree, Matthew Davies, Christopher Foulser and Lee Wignall, the company completed their feature “Dogged” in 2018 as well as having made seven short films to date. Their films have screened and
won multiple awards in the UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, and Italy among others, they operate with low budgets and high expectations. “Nefarious” is their second feature-length film, and they have a slate of further pictures in the horror genre on the horizon."
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The House That Never Dies: Reawakening Release Details: Press Release: "The sequel to the 2014 hit film The House That Never Dies and based on true events that took place at the spookiest of Beijing’s Four Oriental Haunted Houses, THE HOUSE THAT NEVER DIES: REAWAKENING debuts on digital and DVD December 4 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Starring Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Judge Dredd), Julian Cheung (The Grandmaster), Mei Ting (Blind Massage) and Gillian Chung (Ip Man: The Final Fight), the story takes place a hundred years after a mutiny by warlords in Beijing when an expert in cultural relics encounters supernatural phenomena at the mansion on 81 Chaoyangmennei Street.
Synopsis:
A hundred years after the mysterious murders of the entire Zhisheng household, a cultural relic restorer Song Teng experiences strange events at the ancient mansion. After discovering baby skeletons and weird spells, the intricate weaving of the past and present begin to emerge and reveals a haunting tale of the wrongly deceased still seeking justice from the living world.
Country of Origin: China
THE HOUSE THAT NEVER DIES: REAWAKENING has a runtime of approximately 98 minutes and is not rated. The film is in Mandarin with English subtitles.
DVD
Catalog #: WGU03033D
UPC Code: 810348030337
Pre-Order Date: 10/30/18
SLP: $24.98
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ABOUT WELL GO USA ENTERTAINMENT
Well Go USA Entertainment (www.wellgousa.com) is a theatrical and home entertainment distribution label that specializes in bringing top content, including the best in Action, Genre and Independent films from the US and around the world, to North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. As a leader in independent film distribution, Well Go’s titles can be seen across a variety of platforms, including theatrical, digital, subscription and cable VOD, packaged media and broadcast television. Well Go USA Entertainment’s corporate headquarters is in Plano, Texas, with offices in Taiwan and China.
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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