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After Dark Horrorfest Blu-ray Double Features!
This January marks the month of 1,000 screams with “The Best of Horrorfest” – After Dark fan favorites in High Definition for the first time as Lionsgate releases four volumes of After Dark Horrorfest Blu-ray Double Features. Each double feature volume includes two terrifying horror films along with bonus materials. The pairings include The Gravedancers and Wicked Little Things: Unrated Director’s Cut; Borderland: Unrated Director’s Cut and Crazy Eights; The Broken along with The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations; and The Graves and Zombies of Mass Destruction. Each After Dark Horrorfest Blu-ray Double Feature premieres on January 4th for the suggested retail price of $19.99.
AFTER DARK HORRORFEST BLU-RAY DOUBLE FEATURE: VOLUME 1
THE GRAVEDANCERS: Starring Dominic Purcell, The Gravedancers is an old-school terror about a group of friends who realize that dancing on graves is not all fun and games. While at a wake for an old chum, a group of friends decide to get drunk and dance on the graves, which leads to their lives being invaded by a trio of hostile ghosts. The Gravedancers was a favorite of the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* Audio commentary with Director Mike Mendez and Composer Joseph Bishara
* “A Grave Undertaking” making-of featurette with optional commentary
* “Making the Ghosts” featurette
* Original trailer with optional commentary
* Deleted scenes with optional commentary
* Storyboard galleries
*Subject to change
WICKED LITTLE THINGS: UNRATED DIRECTOR’S CUT: Recently widowed Karen Tunny and her two daughters, Sarah and Emma, move to a remote mountain home, which Karen has inherited from the family of her late husband. However, she is unaware that the home is situated near an old mine, the site of an early 20th century tragedy where many children were buried alive.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* Audio commentary with Director J.S. Cardone and Actress Lori Heuring
*Subject to change
AFTER DARK HORRORFEST BLU-RAY DOUBLE FEATURE: VOLUME 2
BORDERLAND: UNRATED DIRECTOR’S CUT: Borderland is a criminal tale of murder and ritual. The story, based on true events, blends the raw fear of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the stark reality of In Cold Blood and evokes a world soaked in paranoia, fear, and dread. Declared “a brutally suspenseful crime drama” by Variety and “a dark, disturbing gem” by Cinefantastique Magazine, the film features special effects by award-winning KNB Effects. When three Texas University students travel to a Mexican border town on the eve of their graduation, the last thing they expect to face is an ancient blood cult hell-bent on finding candidates for human sacrifice.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* “Rituales de Sangre – The True Story Behind the Cult Murder Investigation” featurette
* Audio commentary with director Zev Berman, actor Brian Presley and director of photography Scott Kevan
and producer Lauren Moews
* “Inside Zev’s Head: A Filmmaker’s Diary” featurette
* “Miss Horrorfest Contest” webisodes
*Subject to change
CRAZY EIGHTS: Six people are brought together at the funeral of a childhood friend. While settling the estate, they discover a map, which leads them on a search for a long forgotten time capsule. At the request of their dead friend, they follow the map and what they discover reawakens repressed childhood traumas and leads them on a journey through their long abandoned childhood home…a home with a terrible secret and a mysterious dead girl who will lead them to their strange fates.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* “Miss Horrorfest Contest” webisodes
*Subject to change
AFTER DARK HORRORFEST BLU-RAY DOUBLE FEATURE: VOLUME 3
THE BROKEN: The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. Attempting to discover the identity of her double, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that involves her family and closest friends, leaving her with no one to trust.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* “Miss Horrorfest Contest” webisodes
*Subject to change
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3: REVELATIONS: The latest entry in The Butterfly Effect franchise tells the story of Sam who possesses an extraordinary talent: the ability to travel through time. He can use his gift to help police solve cases, but he must never intervene with the past as it could alter the present in horrific ways. When a woman from Sam’s past begs him to help her find her sister’s killer, Sam breaks his own rule…and all Hell breaks loose.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* “Miss Horrorfest Contest” webisodes
*Subject to change
AFTER DARK HORRORFEST BLU-RAY DOUBLE FEATURE: VOLUME 4
THE GRAVES: From the creator of the legendary comics Evil Ernie and Lady Death, comes The Graves. On their last weekend together, Megan and Abby Graves are lost in a remote part of the Arizona desert where they are lured to Skull City Mine, an abandoned mine town. But they soon learn Skull City is anything but abandoned — and there’s no way out. The sisters are now prey, forced to unleash their most primitive instincts in a desperate, all-out battle for survival against unspeakable horrors — both human and supernatural.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* Audio commentary with Brian Pulido
* Audio commentary with Francisca Pulido and Adam Goldfine
* “The Graves: Behind the Screams” featurette
* “Sound Designing The Graves” featurette
* Plan to Actual
* Spot the Gnome
* Auditions
* “Vampires Don’t Exist” Music Video by Calabrese
* Producer’s trailer
*Subject to change
ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION: A conservative island community is under attack! Port Gamble, Washington is being overrun with brain eaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. A rag tag band of rebels led by Frida, an Iranian college student suspected of being an Iraqi terrorist, and Tom, a gay businessman who has returned to town with his partner to come out to his mother, tries to turn the tide and push the invading hoards of undead back. Called “the best of its type since Shaun of the Dead,” filmthreat.com states, “Zombies of Mass Destruction is a limb-shucking, eye-gouging hoot, full of both disemboweled stomachs and belly laughs.”
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*
* “Making of Zombies of Mass Destruction” featurette
*Subject to change
One of contemporary horror’s best werewolf movies is 2017’s Good Manners, and it’s finally set to receive a proper physical media release.
Icarus Films is partnering with OCN Distribution to unleash a new Blu-ray that’s now available to preorder via Vinegar Syndrome. and with a limited edition slipcover.
Set in São Paulo, the film follows Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of the city who is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
Good Manners is the second collaboration between filmmakers Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, who write and direct. Zama’s Rui Poças‘ cinematography captures this unique werewolf tale described as “Disney meets Jacques Tourneur.”
Our own Trace Thurman wrote in his review, “With Good Manners, Rojas and Dutro have made one of the best werewolf movies ever made. That they are able juggle commentaries on racism and classism while still managing to tell two deeply affecting love stories is remarkable.”
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary from film critics Shelagh Rowan-Legg and Carolyn Mauricette
- 12-page booklet with an essay by film critic Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
- Making-of short film: The Making of a Werewolf (2 mins)
- Two additional short films from the filmmakers: A STEM (15 mins), directed by Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutras, and DOPPELGANGER (24 mins), directed by Juliana Rojas
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