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In Pictures: 'Autograph Party for Queens Of Scream'
21 October 2009 9:10 AM, PDT
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Megan Franich attending an autograph party for "Queens Of Scream" at Dark Delacacies in Burbank. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. Bianca Barnett attending an autograph party for "Queens Of Scream" at Dark Delacacies in Burbank. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. Tara Cardinal attending an autograph party for "Queens Of Scream" at Dark Delacacies in Burbank. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. Megan Franich attending an autograph party for "Queens Of Scream" at Dark Delacacies in Burbank. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. 10/18/2009 - DeeDee Bigelow - Autograph Party for "Queens Of Scream" - Dark Delacacies - Burbank, CA. USA © Albert
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[DVD News] - "In A Spiral State" DVD Special Feature Details Key Art debut
21 September 2009 4:15 PM, PDT
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Halo-8 Entertainment has unveiled the DVD box art for its upcoming film "In A Spiral State", the metaphysical, psychedelic, drug-addled sci-fi/horror film directed by award-winning filmmaker Ramzi Abed (upcoming "The New Erotic"), starring the late Gidget Gein (of shock-rock band Marilyn Manson), Bianca Barnett ("Albino Farm"), Elissa Dowling ("Dread"), Juliana Fine (upcoming "Goa"), Ofri Fuchs ("Twisted"), Adam Meir ("Waltz With Bashir"), Mae Moreno (Boys Girls Guide To Getting Down), Messy Stench (of Gwar), and Lizzy Strain ("The Devil's Muse"). The film comes to DVD on September 29th and is now available for pre-order.
The trailer is currently posted on Halo8.tv and available for easy embedding.
The DVD Includes:
- A beautifully mastered widescreen presentation of the film;
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Exclusive Hanger cover art and more indie DVD news
18 September 2009 2:54 PM, PDT
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Ryan Nicholson of Plotdigger Films gave Fango the first look at the DVD cover art for his extreme gruefest Hanger (pictured), now set to hit disc November 17 from the new Breaking Glass company on their Vicious Circle genre label. He also informed us of his plans for an official release of his underground Internet flick Torched, and passed on the art for that one as well.
Hanger stars Nathan Dashwood, Dan Ellis and Fangoria Radio’s Debbie Rochon and centers on the revenge for a botched abortion meted out by the grown-up object of that operation; we previously revealed the specs for the DVD here. Torched, previously available only on bootleg or edited discs, is fully restored on Plotdigger’s DVD, which comes out Nov. 24. The bloody saga of a nurse giving fiery payback to those who raped her will be presented in 16x9-enhanced widescreen with Dolby 5.1 Surround and 2.0 stereo soundtracks,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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Albino Farm (DVD Review)
17 September 2009 10:19 PM, PDT
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I should probably hate Albino Farm; the Mti Home Video release has all the ingredients of irritatingly shallow horror. Yet as hard as I try to push it away, I have to embrace it. I should make a disclaimer before we continue: I have a perhaps irrational enthusiasm for the foolish-travelers-meet-awesome-looking-mutants-who-eat-people subgenre. From The Hills Have Eyes to Wrong Turn 2…I love ’em all. When I learned I was being assigned a film called Albino Farm, my eyes lit up with childlike wonder.
I was disappointed. Yet I was not entirely let down.
Joe Anderson and Sean McEwen wrote/directed/produced this tragic tale of four stereotypically ignorant college kids with distinct horror personality types. Stacey (Australian star Tammin Sursok) is the kind-hearted All-American girl. Melody (Alicia Lagano) is the foul-mouthed tough chick; her apparent boyfriend Brian (Nick Richey) is the obnoxious frat-boy jerk. Sanjay (Sunkrish Bala) is the
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Audrey Quaranta)
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Albino Farm Arrives On DVD
17 September 2009 2:53 PM, PDT
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Mti Home Video's Albino Farm arrives on DVD September 22, 2009. The movie stars WWE's Chris Jericho, Richard Christy, Sunkrish Bala, Alicia Lagano, Nick Richey, Kevin Spirtas, Bianca Barnett and Duane Whitaker.
An Ozark Mountain town - with a century-old history of religious fanaticism - has inadvertently created a modern sadistic society full of in-bred misfits who prey on stray travelers. Four young college students - lured in to explore the legend of the Albino Farm - uncover its disturbing past while enduring a horrific night of horrors.
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Down on the Albino Farm
15 September 2009 2:23 PM, PDT
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Horror cinema has for some time mined folklore for inspiration, whether it be Eastern Europe’s belief in vampirism or Mexico’s love affair with the goat-sucking chupacabra. American filmmakers Sean McEwen and Joe Anderson, whose feature Albino Farm hits DVD September 22 from Mti Home Video, followed suit in crafting their backwoods fright feature.
“One of the original ideas we kept coming back to,” McEwen tells Fango on the set, “was based on an actual legend specific to southern Missouri and the Ozarks about the ‘albino farm.’ There was a good foundation for a story, but it definitely needed a lot of meat put on its bones, which also gave us the opportunity to really take the creative ball and run with it.”
To help explain the urban legend from which the film’s storyline is derived (while driving to southern Missouri on a “travel day” following the previous evening’s lightning strike,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Decker)
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Exclusive: First Look at In a Spiral State DVD Box Art
13 September 2009 10:27 PM, PDT
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Halo-8 Entertainment has unveiled the DVD box art for its upcoming film In a Spiral State, the metaphysical, psychedelic, drug-addled sci-fi/horror film directed by award-winning filmmaker Ramzi Abed. The film comes to DVD on September 29th and is now available for pre-order.
The special features will include:
- Audio commentary by award-winning filmmaker Ramzi Abed, co-creator Ken Cravens, and co-producer Eric Fleming
- Abed's short film "The Tunnel" starring Masuimi Max, Lloyd Kaufman, Mark Borchardt
- Abed's short film "The Interview"
The eclectic cast of In a Spiral State includes the late Gidget Gein (of shock-rock band Marilyn Manson), Bianca Barnett (Albino Farm, review), Elissa Dowling (Dread, review), Juliana Fine (the upcoming Goa), Ofri Fuchs (Twisted), Adam Meir (Waltz with Bashir), Mae Moreno (Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down), Messy Stench (of Gwar), and Lizzy Strain (The Devil's Muse, review).
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Official In a Spiral State Trailer and DVD Cover Art
3 September 2009 2:08 PM, PDT
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A few months ago filmmaker Ramzi Abed provided us with several stills and a teaser for his upcoming metaphysical, psychedelic, drug-addled sci-fi/horror film In a Spiral State, which is being released by cutting edge studio Halo-8 Entertainment; and today we were pointed in the direction of the flick's official trailer.
The eclectic cast of In a Spiral State includes the late Gidget Gein (of shock-rock band Marilyn Manson), Bianca Barnett (Albino Farm, review), Elissa Dowling (Dread, review), Juliana Fine (the upcoming Goa), Ofri Fuchs (Twisted), Adam Meir (Waltz with Bashir), Mae Moreno (Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down), Messy Stench (of Gwar), and Lizzy Strain (The Devil's Muse, review).
"Ramzi Abed's new film is a mindbending meditation on Hollywood self-destruction, angelic interventions, and psychedelic string theory," said Matt Pizzolo, President of Halo-8. "Ramzi has pushed the creative and dramatic envelope even farther than he did in his surrealist The Devil's Muse,
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- The Woman In Black
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Halo-8 Launches Televandalism with Pop Skull
27 July 2009 5:57 PM, PDT
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Halo-8 Entertainment has announced that Pop Skull will be its first "day and date" DVD/digital film release, timed with the official launch of Halo-8's VOD website Televandalism (in beta since 2008), which offers VOD-streaming subscriptions (all streaming titles for a total subscription of $.99 per month) or DVD-quality downloads ($9.99 each, with instructions for porting them to your TV) of films, comics, fitness/lifestyle videos, webisodes, and video games.
Pop Skull (review) will make its debut both on DVD and on Televandalism July 28, 2009. "Pop Skull is the kind of groundbreakingly different film that needs to be seen to be believed, so we want it seen by as many people as possible," said Halo-8 president Matt Pizzolo. "We know how our audience wants instant access to the newest coolest media, so we're very excited that Televandalism offers a way for us to get new films, comics, and games to our audience even
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- The Woman In Black
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'Queens of Scream: The New Blood'- book of interviews out July 2009
19 June 2009 10:39 PM, PDT
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Nvf Magazine founder David Byron recently interviewed a bunch of women (including Pretty/Scary's editor Heidi Martinuzzi) for a book on chicks in horror movies called Queens of Scream: The New Blood.
Also interviewed were Brenna Lee Roth (Killer Biker Chicks, Grind House Glory), Scarlet Salem (Killer Biker Chicks), Bianca Barnett (Albino Farm), Nicole Kruex (aka Nikki Homicide K, Zen: Hunter), Rachel Grubb (13 Hours in a Warehouse), Seregon O’Dassey (Ghost Watcher 2, False Face), Evie Effects, April Monique Burril (Chainsaw Sally), and Monique Dupree (Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned) plus a special guest appearance by former Hammer Films starlet Ingrid Pitt, whose portrayal of Countess Dracula gave a new meaning to the term Scream Queen long before it became popular for future generations of horror film fans.
The book will be out in July 2009 from BearManor Media
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The Fear Chamber: Movie Trailer and News
30 April 2009 5:21 PM, PDT
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A new grisly thriller involving some very dark subject matter is making the rounds on the horror circuit via teaser trailer and all the latest information on "The Fear Chamber," can be found here. Nightlight Films has acquired North American distribution rights for gory horror flick "The Fear Chamber." Starring veteran actor Richard Tyson, moody Rhett Giles, and scream queen Bianca Barnett the feature involves the black market organ trade that has apparently moved from southeast Asia to North American shores. Shot in 1080p at 24 frames per second the film, in a digital format, will look and feel as if shot on on a quality 35mm reel. Foreign distribution is still being sought and the first disturbing trailer for "The Fear Chamber," can be seen here.
A synopsis for "The Fear Chamber," can be found here...
A highly psychotic man hunts down young women to kill them and sell their organs on the black market.
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Albino Farm: Cast Information and Teaser
29 April 2009 10:25 PM, PDT
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WWE performer Chris Jericho is set to showcase his acting talents in "Albino Farm," a straight-to-dvd feature from distributors Mti Home Video. "Albino Farm," involves a cannibalizing family in the backwoods who have a taste for...yes, you guessed right college kids. Along with a teaser trailer the films official homepage is available and from an initial viewing the film has some religious overtones that might enlighten viewers as to why the central villains appear so pig-like. Have a look inside at all the bloody fun including cast and crew information.
A synopsis for "Albino Farm," here...
"Albino...," follows a group of college students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment when they come upon mutated, redneck cave-dwellers (Shock).
Director: Joe Anderson, and Sean McEwen.
Writers: Joe Anderson, and Sean McEwen.
Cast: Chris Jericho, Richard Christy, Tammin Sursok, Alicia Lagano, Nick Richey, Sunkrish Bala, Duane Whitaker, Kevin Spirtas, Bianca Barnett,
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Halo-8 falls "In A Spiral State"
20 April 2009 5:14 PM, PDT
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Halo-8 Falls In A Spiral State
- Indie distributor acquires metaphysical drug/horror film -
Halo-8 Entertainment has secured worldwide distribution rights to the metaphysical, psychedelic, drug-addled "In A Spiral State", the new psychological horror film directed by award-winning filmmaker Ramzi Abed ("The Devil's Muse"), starring Bianca Barnett ("Albino Farm") and Lizzy Strain ("Magus", "Delta Delta Die"). Halo-8 has slated the film for a limited theatrical run followed by a DVD release in late 2009.
"Ramzi Abed's new film is a mindbending meditation on Hollywood self-destruction, angelic interventions, and psychedelic string theory," said Matt Pizzolo, President of Halo-8. "Ramzi has pushed the creative and dramatic envelope even farther than he did in his surrealist "The...
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Halo-8 Acquires Ramzi Abed's In a Spiral State
16 April 2009 1:30 PM, PDT
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Two words that are near and dear to my heart are "metaphysical" and "psychedelic", and Ramzi Abed's new film In a Spiral State promises to be both. Along with drug-addled and mindbending. Who's making such proclamations? Who else but Halo-8 Entertainment, one of the few companies around that still manages to create and distribute daring new films.
And In a Spiral State, described as a meditation on Hollywood self-destruction, angelic interventions, and the string theory, sounds nothing if not daring. Here's a brief synopsis:
In a Spiral State portrays Los Angeles through the eyes of Daya (Ofri Fuchs), an angel who's become mesmerized by the city's interconnected yet utterly isolated inhabitants, particularly its struggling and flawed artists, frauds, drug addicts, and murderers. A second angel Gadi (Adam Meir) is unable to prevent Daya from interfering in their lives, as this empathetic angel is drawn into the frightening and twisted machinations of the city's underbelly.
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Albino Farm Official Site & Trailer
16 April 2009
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Director Sean McEwen dropped some good news on ShockTillYouDrop.com this afternoon. An official site for his upcoming survival horror film Albino Farm is up and running. Currently, you'll find a trailer and a production blog, more updates are expected soon.
Mti Home Video has picked up this indie effort - by McEwen and co-director Joe Anderson - for DVD distribution. Tammin Sursok, Sunkrish Bala, Alicia Lagano, Bianca Barnett, Nick Richey and Chris Jericho found out the cast. Albino follows a group of college students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment when they come upon mutated, redneck cave-dwellers.
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Halo-8 gets Into A Spiral State
15 April 2009 1:17 PM, PDT
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Halo-8 Entertainment gave Fango the scoop that it has picked up worldwide distribution rights to the hallucinatory independent horror film In A Spiral State, directed by Ramzi Abed. The company also let us know that the filmmaker and Spiral’s stars will be signing at this weekend’s Fango convention in La.
In A Spiral State features Bianca Barnett (right, who will also be seen this year in the Mti release Albino Farm) and Lizzy Strain (above, who appeared opposite her sister Julie Strain in Abed’s previous The Devil’S Muse as well as Delta Delta Die! and others), who will appear at the Halo-8 table at the Weekend of Horrors with the director this Saturday, April 18. Spiral focuses on an angel (Ofri Fuchs) who begins to interact and interfere with the lives of humans (both good and evil), and a second angel (Adam Meir) who attempts to stop him.
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First Trailer For The "Women In Horror" Documentary!
14 April 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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The first trailer for the Last Doorway Productions documentary "Welcome To My Darkside: Women In Horror" has made it's way onto You Tube! You can check it out below, just underneath the official press release:
"What Does Women in horror mean to you?"
Well to us at Last Doorway Productions it means how women have created and supported horror films and the genre at all levels and how they feel about the business in general.
In the past the films used to be dominated by stereotypes in a mostly male dominated genre. So let us take you on a journey into the female psyche and see how they view and create the Horror Genre.
Welcome To My Darkside-Women in Horror! A Documentary from Last Doorway Productions examines women’s roles in the horror genre. The film takes a look at women in all aspects of the filmmaking process, from the
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