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JACK THE RIPPER LIVES!

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Thanks to Synapse Films:

HANDS OF THE RIPPER

Wrap your claws around this creepy Blu-ray/DVD combo!

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Another landmark title in Synapse Films’ Hammer Films Collection! Peter Sasdy’s HANDS OF THE RIPPER!

An infant girl watches in horror as her father, the infamous “Jack the Ripper,” brutally murders her mother. Years later, the damaged young Anna (Angharad Rees) is now under the care of a fake psychic and has been forced into a career of prostitution.  At the end of a séance one evening, a woman is mysteriously killed. Dr. John Pritchard (Eric Porter) suspects Anna is the murderer but cannot understand how she could perform this unspeakable act.  Using new Freudian psychoanalysis techniques, Pritchard experiments on Anna and discovers a shocking secret: the spirit of the “Ripper” is alive and well, and might well be possessing his own daughter!  Can this evil be stopped before it’s too late?

Completely restored in high-definition and released uncut for the first time on Blu-ray in the U.S., HANDS OF THE RIPPER is a film widely recognized as one of the most gruesome Hammer horror films ever made.

 Special Features:

• THE DEVIL’S BLOODY PLAYTHING: POSSESSED BY HANDS OF THE RIPPER – Featurette
• SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF HAMMER GORE – Motion Still Gallery
• U.S. Television Introduction
• Original Theatrical Trailer and TV Spots
• HANDS OF THE RIPPER Motion Still Gallery
• Isolated Music & Effects Audio Track

Disc Info:

Directed by:  Peter Sasdy
Starring:  Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow, Keith Bell
Run Time:  85 minutes
Release Date:  July 9, 2013
Language:  English
Subtitles:  English
Aspect Ratio:  Widescreen 1.66:1
Format:  Blu-ray / DVD Combo
Region:  1 / A
UPC:  654930315293
SRP:  $29.95

Synapse Films

http://synapse-films.com/

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Thanks to Rick Fusselman:

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First announcement from Resurrected Video. A company I’m starting with a friend. Limited to 53 copies. Only on VHS. Special cover art. Hand numbered and will be signed.

First release is the 5 year anniversary edition of Holy Shit…Zombies! It is limited to only VHS and 53 copies. It will be first available at Severed this month in PA. And then available on our webstore shortly after.

 

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Episode 60 is up!

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This week we welcome back to the show special guest host Mike Haushalter to join us in boisterous discussions on the topics of the day… such as.  The pirating of Lords of Salem and the Maniac remake,  Mike Watt’s excellent new book,  What, if any, movie franchise would have benefited having no sequels, what we’ve been watching lately,  JSB’s dislike of Hobo With a Shotgun, and whatever floats into our rather empty heads.  Also, we chat about 3 new movies and answer listener questions.  So check it out.  After all, we are Abe Vigodas #1 podcast.

 EPISODE 60

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Full Moon has two more Blu-rays coming…

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Thanks to Full Moon:

 

Coming April 30th:
Two Stuart Gordon Classics on Blu Ray

 

 

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Castle Freak and Pit & The Pendulum  

High Definition, 16:9 widescreen
With amazing never-before-seen special features!

http://www.fullmoonhorror.com

http://www.fullmoondirect.com

 

BADASS DOLLS: The long wait is almost over!

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Thanks to http://www.fullmoonhorror.com

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Next Tuesday April 23rd, these amazing limited edition 9 inch resin statues will be available exclusively from FullMoonDirect.com and limited to 200 pieces each. These crazy characters will sell out fast. You saw their debut in Ooga Booga, which premiered on GrindhouseFlix last month.

“Fervid Filmmaking” from author Mike Watt

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“Fervid Filmmaking” from author Mike Watt

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Review by Tim Gross

 

There are all kinds of review books, cult books, and movie companions and sometimes it can be tough to keep up with the books that get printed, released, and so on. And these days most books review or otherwise have a tough time being relevant just for the mere reason it doesn’t have the author that everyone knows behind it or people are just watching way too much YouTube on their iPhone at this point. For me it’s neither of the two because usually my eyeballs are glued to the TV watching the latest Full Moon release or sequel to a direct to video no budget something or other. But from time to time I look for something to read, usually a movie review book and usually a Joe Bob Briggs book as I can be picky.

Very few authors interest me enough to make me want to buy their book since I spend so much time tracking down out of print copies of films like “Trick or Treats” or unrated version of “Leprechaun 4: In Space”. It’s too hard to explain, you can blame it on divorced parents at a young age, I was dropped on my head too much, or hell lets blame ADD or something else many people claim to have but don’t and just won’t admit they like the drugs that comes with the disorder? I love films period folks… So when Mike Watt told me he was putting together a book like this together my ears perked up because I always thought it would interesting of sorts since Mike and I have somewhat different interests in cinema but always have great conversations but certain films good or bad. I have always enjoyed Mike Watt the filmmaker but Mike Watt the author of a review book had to be somewhat interesting just because of his different taste in films than mine?

Well film fans Mr. Watt did not disappoint me as his book “Fervid Filmmaking (66 Cult Pictures)” brought a whole new way of how to look at certain films or should I say the “kitchen sink” films. Mike goes through the years and expands on why certain films should be looked upon differently because they threw everything aka the kitchen sink into them to get made and most were misunderstood by the movie going public, the producers, Hollywood, heck the writers themselves who wrote the scripts. But he sheds light on some films that otherwise people may never heard of and explains their odd origins as the book sucks you deeper into the behind the scenes of films that has more going on than you ever could imagine. Mike uniquely pushes you slowly into a realm of filmmaking that makes you not only watch the films but crave to sit down and rethink how you watch cinema. Whether it’s ‘All About Evil’, ‘The Bed Sitting Room’, ‘Coonskin’, ‘I Sell the Dead’, or even ‘Xtro’ he writes about in his book they all have the ability to make you laugh, cry, and scream and many different ways you could never imagine.

 

But the brilliant part of Mr. Watt’s well written book after reading it makes you wanna try to find the so called “kitchen sink” type of films or revisit them and look upon them with an open mind. Fervid Filmmaking not only proves Mike Watt has found his inner-Joe Bob Briggs but the book helps separate himself from the glut of authors like myself out there and make you enjoy and excited for his next writing project. Honestly people I never thought to myself I wanna watch the 1984 film “Nothing Lasts Forever” over the next Charles Band film for those who know me when reading this book. If anything Mike showed me that it is still ok to put down the iPhone, turn off the 60 inch HD TVs, stop taking the illegal meds, and imagine what a perfect vision of film can be when everything except the kitchen sink has been thrown into a drama, horror, thriller, or just misunderstood piece of forgotten film history is and was like. For that Mike Watt and fans of cinema books I can no doubt give this book 4 out of 4 stars!

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Published by McFarland

www.mcfarlandpub.com

 

But you can purchase the book at www.amazon.com and several other online websites.

News of a sequel to Murder-Set-Pieces

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Thanks to James Cullen Bressack

 

LOS ANGELES, CA — Fright Flix Productions and controversial cult filmmaker Nick Palumbo have begun pre-production on “MUSE,” a psychological horror film starring Samantha Mion in her film debut. Co-starring Patrick Scott Lewis (“Zodiac”), as an irascible thespian. MUSE is written, and directed by Palumbo and produced by Nick and David Palumbo along with cult filmmaker James Cullen Bressack (“Hate Crime”). Director of Photography is David Newbert (“Marfa Girl”). Principal photography begins on April 15 in Los Angeles, California. The announcement was made today by Fright Fix Productions’ President Nick Palumbo.

“I’m very excited to return to set with my follow up to ‘MURDER-SET-PIECES,‘” said Palumbo. ‘MUSE’ is something very different from me. The subject is extremely relevant. The film is a character study of a sociopathic young woman, and how loneliness and isolation pushes her further into the abyss. I believe it’s a feeling many actors have experienced and will surely relate to. With our incredibly talented production team, we are confident we’ll give thriller/horror fans something to talk about as we offer an unflinching look at the dark side of the entertainment industry.”

“Nick is one of the very few American filmmakers that isn’t afraid to lay it all on the line and make a confrontational film,” said Bressack. “His dark and visceral style is unparalleled within the genre.”

MUSE is a brutally honest and chilling story of a young actress (Mion), descending into homicidal madness. Both shocking and controversial, the film is told from her point of view, as we follow her dark odyssey through modern day Los Angeles.

MUSE is written and directed by Nick Palumbo, produced by Nick and David Palumbo and James Cullen Bressack through their Fright Flix banner.

For more information please visit: http://www.musethemovie.com/
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ABOUT NICK PALUMBO:
Well known in the horror industry for his cult horror films, Palumbo is best known for “MURDER-SET-PIECES,” the first NC-17/Unrated horror film to hit America cinemas in over 20 years. Palumbo attended film school in Los Angeles. He wrote, produced, and directed one of the most notorious horror cult films of all time: “Murder-Set-Pieces.” Shot on location in Las Vegas on 35mm and screened for its theatrical world premiere at the prestigious Sitges International Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain, it was the first unrated American horror film to hit theaters in twenty years. “Murder-Set-Pieces” was released in Europe and Asia by Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and The Weinstein Company. An edited version was released in the US by Lionsgate Films. As of 2013, Palumbo’s uncut version of the enormously controversial film is still banned in several countries.

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Horror Realm is now accepting film submissions for September’s show!

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Thanks to Rich Dalzotto

www.horrorrealmcon.com

 

Filmmakers – we’re taking submissions for our 5th anniversary fall show on Sept 20-22. You can submit a screener DVD of your short or feature film for consideration to: Horror Realm, PO Box 10400, Pittsburgh, PA 15234. No entry fees! Submission does not guarantee a screening.