Start your morning (or afternoon) off with a Q&A with the director of Blood Moon, Jeremy Wooding. Also: a new trailer from the horror video game Until Dawn and an update on the Blood Rage Blu-ray / DVD due out at the end of September.
Blood Moon: Press Release: "Los Angeles, August 4 - Referee the ultimate showdown between gunslinger and lycanthrope when acclaimed western-horror Blood Moon hits DVD and Digital September 1 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
The old west howls when a town is overtaken by skinwalkers. Knowing they’ve got to combine forces if they want to survive the night, the passengers of a stagecoach unite with a heroic gunslinger and a couple of outlaws to battle the beastly enemy under the blood moon.
Only the second ever western to be filmed in the UK, the award-winning film stars The Woman in Black’s Shaun Dooley, George Blagden (TVs Vikings), Anna Skellern (The Descent II), and Corey Johnson (Captain Phillips). Jeremy Wooding directs from an Alan Wightman script.
A festival favorite (Blood Moon premiered at FrightFest and has since gone on to play in no less than another half-a-dozen high-profile film festivals), Blood Moon is both a unique twist on the werewolf film and a riveting update on the classic western."
"Why a horror western?
Jeremy Wooding: The script landed on my desk via producer Michael Vine. It was a gift of a genre mix, as I love westerns and horrors.
Was it ever vampires? Or always werewolves?
Jeremy Wooding: Always werewolves. That comes from the old Navajo legends that Alan Wightman, the screenwriter, wanted to draw on.
What was the last good werewolf movie, in your opinion?
Jeremy Wooding: Brothers of the Wolf, a French movie. It's a grungy but beautiful film that had a great take on the European folklore of werewolves.
Is a cowboy a match for a werewolf?
Jeremy Wooding: Always. If he's packing some silver bullets. If he isn't then he better be good with a shotgun and a pitchfork!
Why are we lucky Americans getting to see a British film first?
Jeremy Wooding: Maybe it's because the U.S. understands crazy werewolf westerns better than anyone else... Having said that, Blood Moon is out in the U.K. five weeks later."
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Until Dawn: Co-written by Larry Fessenden & Graham Reznick, the mountain cabin set PS4 slasher game, Until Dawn, is teased in a new trailer. Featuring a voice cast including Hayden Panettiere and Peter Stormare, Until Dawn is slated for an August 25th release:
"Only Your Choices Determine Who Survives Until Dawn
Eight friends trapped together on a remote mountain retreat, and they aren’t alone. Gripped by dread, with tensions running high, they must fight through their fear if they all hope to make through the night in one piece.
Play as each of the eight characters and experience fear like you never have before. Every decision you make in your terrifying search for answers could mean the difference between life and death, but for whom? Your actions alone will decide who survives Until Dawn.
Choice & Consequence – Make the impossible choices, where every decision in your terrifying search for answers could mean the difference between life and death, but for who?
Next-Gen Horror – Harnessing the power of an evolved Killzone™ Shadow Fall engine, Unitl Dawn will shock you with realistic graphics and terrify you edge-of-your-seat gameplay.
Butterfly Effect – Carve your path to survival with branching storylines that promise no two experiences will be the same. The choices you make may ripple unseen into moments of grave peril, or they may very well save a life.
Gripping Story – Immerse yourself in a truly spine-tingling story written in collaboration with famed cult writer/directors Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick."
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Blood Rage: From Facebook: "Good news! In order to meet demand, we have decided to extend the slipcase for this title to the entire first pressing of the release (3,000 UK, 3,000 US). When our U.S. site is live we will look at alternative ways to offer limited edition extras such as slipcase so do watch this space! And if that wasn’t enough, the time has come to reveal the final design for the slip box, newly commissioned AND the full specs (below!)
What do you get if you combine Thanksgiving, American TV star Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), killer 80s synths and some truly gruesome special effects courtesy of Ed French (Terminator 2: Judgement Day). Why, it’s Blood Rage of course!
Twins Todd and Terry seem like sweet boys – that is until one of them takes an axe to face off a fellow patron at the local drive-in. Todd is blamed for the bloody crime and institutionalised, whilst twin brother Terry goes free. Ten years later and, as the family gathers around the table for a Thanksgiving meal, the news comes in that Todd has escaped. But has the real killer in fact been in their midst all along? One thing’s for sure, there will be blood – and rage!
Shot in 1983 but not released until 1987, Blood Rage (re-cut and shown in theatres as Nightmare at Shadow Woods) is a gloriously gruesome slice of 80s slasher heaven – now lovingly restored (in 3 versions no less!) from original vault elements for its first ever official home video release.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
Brand new 2K restoration of the original “hard” version, transferred from the camera negative and featuring the original title card Slasher!
Nightmare at Shadow Woods – the re-edited, R-rated 1987 theatrical cut featuring footage exclusive to this version
An alternate composite cut of the feature combining all the uncut gore sequences alongside additional footage from the theatrical version [Blu-ray only]
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary with director John Grissmer
Double Jeopardy – an interview with Actor Mark Soper
Jeez, Louise! – an interview with actress Louise Lasser
Both Sides of The Camera – an interview with producer/actress Marianne Kanter
Man Behind The Mayhem – an interview with special make-up effects creator Ed French
Three Minutes with Ted – an interview with actor Ted Raimi
Return to Shadow Woods – featurette revisiting the original Jacksonville, Florida locations
Alternate Blood Rage VHS opening titles
Behind-the-scenes make-up effects gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sadist Art Designs
Fully-illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Joseph A. Ziemba, programmer for Alamo Drafthouse and author of BLEEDING SKULL! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey"
Blood Rage on Blu-ray is scheduled to come out on September 29th in the U.S. and on September 28th in the U.K.
About the Author - Tamika Jones
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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