In the era when a strong social media presence is sometimes valued as high as the car you drive or the home you live in, even retweets and the number of followers you have online can save your life. At least that's the case for a potential slasher victim on the run in our exclusive clip from the new hipster horror comedy Psychotic!
As a special treat for Daily Dead readers, you can watch the exclusive clip from Psychotic! below, and keep an eye out for the film when it's released on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, Sony PSN, and Xbox beginning January 25th, with theatrical screenings including the Nitehawk Theater in Williamsburg on the 25th, Film Noir Cinema in Greenpoint on the 26th, and Videology on the 27th. To keep up to date on the film, visit its official Facebook and Twitter pages.
"The rent is high but the body count is higher in PSYCHOTIC!, the suspenseful psychedelic slasher that follows a group of hard-partying Brooklyn hipsters as they're stalked and savagely murdered by a masked maniac known as the Bushwick Party Killer.
It's up to struggling artists Tim and Stuart to figure out who keeps killing the life of the party. Blood-soaked mayhem ensues as our heroes barely make the rent on time, search for love (in all the wrong places), and try to salvage their friendship - all while trying to unravel the mystery and stay one step ahead of the next massacre.
On the tail end of its impressive festival run PSYCHOTIC! has been lauded for its visually striking Giallo style and its blood-soaked practical effects. Winner of Best Feature at the Cannabis Film Festival, Best NY Feature at the Upstate NY Horror Film Festival and Best Actress at The Lost Sanity & Sci-Fi Film Fest.
PSYCHOTIC! was written and directed by Derek Gibbons and Maxwell Frey. The film was shot and produced on location in Brooklyn, NY by Destruction Inc Productions. The film stars Kristen Martin, Clint Keepin, Cirocco Dunlap, Maria Wojciechowski, Dani Grace, Adam Maid, Rafael Cruz, Chris Prine, Aldous Davidson and Rachel Laforest. Gibbons, Frey and Keepin also produced alongside Elizabeth Koe, and Brian Stansfield did cinematography. The film features an original score by Brooklyn-based synth duo Blazing Galaxies."
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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