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SDCC ’09: ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ DVD/Blu-ray Art Revealed, Special Screening!
With an October release date still TBD, today the official DVD/Blu-ray box art was revealed for Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat (review), probably the most anticipated horror film of the year. In addition to finding the art, below you can read about the special San Diego Comic Con screening taking place on Thursday, July 23 at 10PM. Don’t miss out!
The film features four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; and a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband.
Click either image courtesy of Aint it Cool News for some new details on the San Diego Comic Con and screening taking place next Thursday, July 23rd. The event will be hosted by Harry Knowles.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.