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DVD Highlight: Lionsgate’s ‘6 Films to Keep You Awake’
It is a rare thing when you find one good movie that goes directly to DVD, let alone two, but how about six? I started watching Lionsgate’s DVD release of 6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE, which is now available at a retailer near you, and have been blown away thus far. I highly recommend checking it out, so much so that I dug up the trailer for you guys, which you can check out over at BDTV. Six chilling tales from the best horror directors from Spain comes a 3-disc DVD set – 6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE. The compilation features the terrifying films THE BABY’S ROOM, directed by Alex de la Iglesia (COMMON WEALTH), XMAS TALE, directed by Paco Plaza (WEREWOLF HUNTER), A REAL FRIEND, directed by Enrique Urbizu (BOX 507), TO LET, directed by Jaume Balaguero (THE DARK), SPECTRE, directed by Mateo Gil and THE BLAME, directed by Narciso Ibanez Serrador (1-2-3). Special bonus features include a “Making Of” featurette for each of the six films.
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.