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V/H/S/2 (S-VHS)

Posted by EvanDickson on June 06, 2013 @ 1:52pm
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Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static—white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

From the demented minds that brought you last year’s V/H/S comes V/H/S/2, an all-new anthology of dread, madness, and gore. This follow-up ventures even further down the demented path blazed by its predecessor, discovering new and terrifying territory in the genre. This is modern horror at its most inventive, shrewdly subverting our expectations about viral videos in ways that are just as satisfying as they are sadistic. The result is the rarest of all tapes—a second generation with no loss of quality.

Halifax Comic Shop Creates ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ Comics

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Posted by Lonmonster on January 31, 2013 @ 11:46am
Category: Comics / News

The Strange Adventures comic shop in Halifax (Locations: 5262 Sackville Street and 101 Portland Street) recently teamed up with local artists in order to create an original Hobo With a Shotgun comic book, inspired by the hit Jason Eisener film. As of right now, the book is only available at the store, or directly from the creators, selling at $2.99. Maybe if demand is high enough, they’ll put it up online. READ MORE

Adjust Your Tracking! ‘V/H/S/2′ Is Coming!!!

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Posted by EvanDickson on October 31, 2012 @ 3:17pm
Category: Movies / News

The Hollywood Reporter has just dropped the news that you can expect some fresh new blood (and talent) in S-VHS (formerly V/H/S/2)!!!

Gareth Evans (The Raid; pictured above), Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project, Lovely Molly) & Gregg Hale, Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun) & Timo Tjahjanto (Macabre) are among the new talent directing segments for the franchise. Adam Wingard (You’re Next, A Horrible Way To Die) is returning along with writer/producer Simon Barrett (You’re Next, A Horrible Way To Die), the latter of which will be making his directorial debut on the film.

Per THR, “Some news perfect for Halloween: Gareth Evans, who directed The Raid, and Eduardo Sanchez, the director of The Blair Witch Project and Lovely Molly, are co-writing and co-directing segments of a second installment of ‘V/H/S’, the hit horror anthology that had people fainting at the Sundance Film Festival.”

The first movie followed a group of students hired to break into a desolate house to find a lost VHS tape, paving the way for the movie to go into a series of found-footage stories directed by up-and-coming genre filmmakers. The new movie follows a similar structure, with a pair of investigators discovering a tape while looking for a student.

V/H/S 2 is shooting in LA, Maryland, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Indonesia.

[Podcast] Double Murder: Ep 42 – ‘Street Trash’ vs ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’

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Posted by Danny! on August 02, 2012 @ 10:05pm
Category: Movies / Podcasts

Danny! and Tim have an thoughtful debate on how to best tackle homelessness in America on this month’s Double Murder! Street Trash by James Muro describes distributing a toxic, yet affordable, liquor to discerning winos that will reduce the homeless into putrid heaps of neon gore. However, Jason Eisener and John Davies have put forth Hobo With A Shotgun, which posits the theory that arming the homeless population might both reduce their numbers but help reduce crime in major urban areas. Read on to tune in to Double Murder now, and help do your part to end poverty! READ MORE

Blu-ray Review: ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’

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Posted by David Harley on July 08, 2011 @ 3:11pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

I get what director Jason Eisner was trying to accomplish with Hobo With A Shotgun. Really, I do. It revels in anarchy, contains the sort of ultra-violence that would make Alex DeLarge blush and seems to sweat sleaze from every pore. And yet, the feature length adaptation of the Grindhouse faux trailer contest winner is lacking in a way that can’t be explained away with the “…but it’s supposed to be bad!” excuse. Eisner might have had the best of intentions with his poorly plotted film loaded with bad, unfunny dialogue, but do the characters have to yell at me the entire time like I did something wrong?
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Full Red Band Trailer for ‘Hobo With a Shotgun’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 31, 2011 @ 11:23pm
Category: Movies / News

Yesterday we brought you a making-of featurette and official trailer for Jason Eisner’s Hobo With a Shotgun, his grindhouse-inspired feature arriving on VOD April 1 before limited theaters May 6, thanks to Magnet Releasing. Who knew there was a red-band trailer waiting on the wing? Inside you’ll find the full ball-to-the-wall insane trailer from the flick that’s been getting a wide range of reviews. I’ll be watching it Friday….

“A train pulls into its final station and a Hobo hops from a freight car. He has dreams of a fresh life in a new city, but finds himself trapped in an urban hell instead. A city where criminals rule the streets, landlords evict single mothers in the middle of the night, and where the city’s crime boss, The Drake, reigns supreme with his sadistic, homeless-killing sons, Slick & Ivan. Through the chaos, the Hobo comes across a shop window displaying a second hand lawn mower and a shotgun, and decides it’s time to cut the grass, make the city beautiful and start a new way of life. But after witnessing the brutality that encompasses this city, he realizes the only way to make a difference in this place is with a gun in his hand and two shells in its chamber.”
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Video Trailer for ‘Hobo With a Shotgun’ Documentary

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 25, 2011 @ 3:51pm
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Hobo With a Shotgun director Jason Eisener has uploaded a teaser trailer for Hobo With a Shotgun: More Blood, More Heart, an upcoming making of documentary from Kevin Fraser. There’s no other info, so we’re unclear if this is feature-length or something fun that will be included on the forthcoming home video release.

Already in Canadian theaters, Hobo will be available April 1 on VOD, iTunes, Xbox Marketplace, PlayStation Network and Amazon.com, and in select theaters May 6, from Magnet Releasing.
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‘Hobo With a Shotgun’ Release Dates, Trailer Competition!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 10, 2011 @ 6:38pm
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With the SXSW screenings set for Tuesday, March 15 and Wednesday, March 16, Magnet Releasing has announced that Jason Eisener’s Hobo With a Shotgun will be available on VOD, iTunes, XBOX Marketplace, Playstation Network and Amazon.com April 1; in select theaters May 6.

Hobo was the winner of the Quentin Tarantion and Robert Roderguiz’s Grindhouse SXSW trailer competition. To continue the legacy of the grindhouse cinema, the YerDead and Rhombus teams are giving you a chance to submit the next great exploitation masterpiece! You can submit right now until March 31st, 2011 at 11:59PM EST. To enter click here.

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 09, 2011 @ 4:53pm
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We just scored ourselves a bloody good exclusive that features the wrath of the Hobo With a Shotgun. You don’t want to cross him…

Jeff Proctor’s 24×36 poster for Hobo With a Shotgun was created as part of Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo’s SXSW poster collection. The Jason Eisener-directed Hobo With a Shotgun is part of the SXSW Midnighters series at the festival and follows a Hobo (played by the awesome Rutger Hauer) who finds himself in an urban hell. When he witnesses a brutal robbery, he realizes the only way to deliver justice is with a shotgun.

If you want to be one of the first people on the planet to see the film, click here for screening times and tix.

Additional posters that have been released in the SXSW poster colleciton include a “Director’s Series” for Duncan Jones with Source Code and Moon, by artist Olly Moss, and a poster for Paul, by artist Tom Whalen (see ‘em here). Keep your eye out for more SXSW posters from Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo.
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SXSW ’11: Genre-Bending One Sheet Debut for ‘Detention’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 08, 2011 @ 3:50pm
Category: Movies / News

Torque director Joseph Kahn is bringing this stylish commercial directing to this month’s SXSW Film Festival as they’ll be holding the world premiere of Detention, his slasher film that look like Scream meets Prom Night meets a SyFy original, with the Burger King’s Queen as the killer, as we previously reported.

The trailer premiered last week to a flurry of positive remarks, now we got our hands on two more stills and the official festival one sheet. “Cancel your future…”

“ ‘Detention’ tells the story of the senior class at Grizzly Lake high school. The road to graduation is never an easy one, but it’s further complicated for these students by the arrival of a slasher movie killer who has seemingly come to life. The only ones who can stop the killer are a handful of students, but they’ll have to cut out of detention if they’re to stand a chance at saving the world.” Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Parker Bagley, Alison Woods, Walter Perez, and Carrie Wiita all star.

SXSW 11: Genre Bending One Sheet Debut for Detention

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 03, 2011 @ 4:13pm
Category: Movies / News

Remember the days when you’d be watching Showtime or TMC and they’d play House, Night of the Creeps, Fright Night or even Monster Squad? There was something special about that time where movies were always engaging and fun. Maybe it was seeing someone closer to your age battling ghouls, or something else, but when I finished watching the trailer for Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block I had “that” feeling.

Inside you’ll find the trailer debut for the alien invasion horror film which stars Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, and Nick Frost in a film that follows a gang of South London teenagers defending their housing project home against an alien attack.

The pic will have its premiere at this month’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Also dig on the official website and Facebook.

SXSW 11: Attack the Block Trailer Reminds Me of When Movies Were Fun!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 01, 2011 @ 4:15pm
Category: Movies / News

With the SXSW premiere just weeks away, we just now got our hands on two gorgeous posters for Room for Tourists director Adrián García Bogliano’s Cold Sweat, which we’ve been hearing really good things about (people explode!) From Argentina, the pic premieres March 15 in Austin, Texas.

“A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. A loyal friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside two brutal murderers expect them, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives stolen from the last military dictatorship in Argentina.”

Inside you’ll find the film’s official trailer and the two new one sheets, while you can click the image for our full image gallery!

1coldswehi030111 SXSW 11: Two Arty New Posters for Cold Sweat

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 28, 2011 @ 5:38am
Category: Movies / News

Not getting enough attention leading up to its SXSW premiere is Room for Tourists director Adrián García Bogliano’s Cold Sweat, which we’ve been hearing really good things about. From Argentina, the pic premieres March 15 in Austin, Texas.

Inside you’ll find the film’s official trailer, while you can click the image for our full image gallery!

sweats022611 SXSW 11: Trailer, Poster, First Info on Cold Sweat

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 28, 2011 @ 5:19am
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Premiering at mext month’s SXSW Film Festival is Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, which stars Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, and Nick Frost in a film that follows a gang of South London teenagers defending their housing project home against an alien attack.

Gearing up for the fest, the official website and Facebook have launched, featuring your first ever look at the film, along with a crazy long synopsis. I love genre films that are targeted towards kids, some of my all-time favorite horror films were made for the youngins.

SXSW 11: Aliens Will Attack the Block in First Stills!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 11, 2011 @ 4:17pm
Category: Movies / News

Just announced as part of this March’s SXSW Film Festival, early indication was that Nicolas Goldbart’s Argentinean Phase 7 (Fase 7) wasn’t good for our audience. I think I judged way too soon.

This afternoon I made a few calls and got my hands on the official festival poster, images, a Metallica-rocking international trailer, a Dawn of the Dead-ish festival trailer, and an exclusive clip that also taps musically into Assault on Precinct 13.

From the executive producer of Paranormal Activity, Phase 7 looks like it taps into early Romero and can be described as a cross between The Crazies, Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later. We’re told Goldbart loves Carpenter and used temp music from Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing and Escape From New York.

Starring Daniel Hendler, Federico Luppi, Jazmin Stuart, and Jose “Yayo” Guridi, “Coco just moved to his new apartment with 7-month pregnant wife. When the building is in quarantined for a deadly flue. The neighbors became unexpected enemies.”

SXSW 11: Trailers, Clips, Posters, Images from Carpenter Inspired Phase 7!!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 11, 2011 @ 4:02pm
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After preeming at the London Frightfest this month, Little Deaths – a crazy new anthology featuring horrific tales from three of England’s edgiest filmmakers: Simon Rumley (Red White & Blue, Living and the Dead), Andrew Parkinson (I, Zombie, Venus Drowning) and Sean Hogan (Isle of Dogs, Summer’s Blood) – will have its U.S. premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

We just now scored this new steamy still, while inside you’ll find details on all of the shorts with some insane imagery.

SXSW 11: Smokey New Still from Little Deaths

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 10, 2011 @ 11:35pm
Category: Movies / News

It’s rare when a movie gets made the entire team behind it keep their lips sealed until a festival. I mean, it’s got to be hard not to share your creativity with the world, no?

First discovered back in May, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, which stars Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, and MyAnna Buring, was announced as part of the Austin, Texas SXSW Film Festival. No details were revealed, but we’re so on top of our sh*t we’re excited to tell you that it’s about a group of demobbed soldiers turned contract killers who run up against a devil-worshipping coven (sounds a bit like what Rob Zombie is up to with The Lords of Salem). Anyways, here’s the super secret plot crunch and first ever hi-res still:

“Beginning 8 months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer Jay, is pressured by his partner Gal, into taking a tough new assignment. As they descend into the dark, disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again – his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness.”

SXSW 11: Devil Worshippers Attack in Kill List!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 10, 2011 @ 11:26pm
Category: Movies / News

“To survive the end of the world…you must first survive each other…”

How many of you are fans of Frontier(s)? Yeah, me too. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to see Xavier Gens’ quasi-anthology The Divide, which will premiere at this March’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

Starring Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance, and LaurenGerman, “the segments include a post-apocalyptic thriller set mostly in an apartment building fallout shelter, a serial-killer thriller about a woman afflicted with “face blindness,” and a coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking out her birth mother.

German’s character is at the center of the film, set in New York, which is virtually destroyed in a mysterious explosion in the first act. Eight survivors take refuge in the fallout shelter of an apartment building, where they are menaced first by mysterious men in HazMat suits and eventually by each other.”

SXSW 11: New Look at Michael Biehn in The Divide

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Posted by Ryan Daley on February 02, 2011 @ 5:43pm
Category: Movies / Editorials

I’m not saying that the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was a complete bust, but I can’t help but feel a little bit let down. Like many B-D readers, I was all sweaty and jacked up for sure-fire winners like Red State, The Oregonian, and Hobo with a Shotgun, only to come away feeling bemused and melancholy and…well, still a little bit sweaty, I guess. Looking back, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival gave us four terrific films (The Killer Inside Me, Frozen, Buried, and 7 Days) , but we only got two truly great ones out of this year`s fest. Yeah, that`s right, two.

Still, it’s worth noting that there were more “horror films” at this year’s festival than there have been in a very long time, which has to be a good sign, right? At least it shows that they’re trying. And at the very least, I had a great time. My abiding gratitude to B-D for sending me, and of course, a special thanks to our loyal readers for all of their much appreciated comments.

Inside you’ll find my ranking of this year’s films, along with a complete breakdown of ALL the festival coverage.

Full Sundance 2011 Coverage: Ryan Daley Reflects Back on This Years Big Indie Horror Films!

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Sundance ’11 Interview: ‘Vampire’ Director Iwai Shunji

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Posted by Chris Eggertsen on February 01, 2011 @ 5:58pm
Category: Movies / Interviews

Debuting at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was Japanese director Iwai Shunji’s Vampire (review), a film about a young schoolteacher (Kevin Zegers) who develops a taste for human blood and seeks out suicidal women in online chat rooms in order to quench his unconventional thirst. B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen recently chatted via email with Shunji about the low-key movie, which veers away from the usual cinematic vampire clichés to give viewers a de-romanticized perspective on the bloodsucker sub-genre. See inside for the full interview.
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Sundance ’11 REVIEW: Enter a First-Person ‘Jurassic Park’ With ‘The Troll Hunter’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 28, 2011 @ 4:39pm
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Said to be getting a theatrical run and VOD release this coming June from Magnet, Bloody Disgusting scored an early look at the Norwegian creature feature The Troll Hunter, which premiered this past weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Just how good was it? How about crazy awesome!?

“With all of the troll roaring, people chasing, and mythological elements, ‘The Troll Hunter’ is easily the ‘Jurassic Park’ of first-person horror.”

You can click the title above for the full review or catch up on all of our previous Sundance Film Festival reviews, interviews and news here.

Sundance 11 REVIEW: Enter a First Person Jurassic Park With The Troll Hunter!

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Posted by Ryan Daley on January 28, 2011 @ 4:30pm
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One of my top 10 films of 2010 was Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw the Devil, which opens in limited theaters March 4 from Magnet Releasing.

A hard-boiled thriller, I Saw The Devil stars Choi Min-sik (Oldboy) as a psychopathic serial killer up against Lee Byung-hun as a special agent whose fiancée becomes one of his victims. Lee’s cool-headed and intelligent character in turn becomes a monster in order to avenge the killing.

Ryan Daley has chimed in with a review of his own and can be read by going beyond the break. Just how good is this thriller? Read on to find out. Don’t forget to catch up on all of our previous Sundance Film Festival reviews, interviews and news here.
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Sundance ’11 REVIEW: ‘Vampire’ Turns Ryan White With Boredom

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 28, 2011 @ 4:30pm
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Sliding under the radar during most of production was Iwai Shunji’s Japanese Vampire, which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film drained Ryan Daley of all energy.

“The ingredients for a ‘Martin’-like cult classic are certainly present…but this is one of those movies that inexplicably abandons compelling subplots in favor of boring ones. ‘Vampire’ is too self-indulgent to be taken seriously. It’s a film with a complete disregard for its audience.”

You can click the title above for the full review or catch up on all of our previous Sundance Film Festival reviews, interviews and news here.

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 26, 2011 @ 6:54pm
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Ryan Daley is continuing with his Sundance Film Festival coverage with a negative review of Jason Eisener’s Hobo With a Shotgun, which will receive a release later this year via Magnet.

“The argument could be raised that much of Hobo with a Shotgun is intentionally bad, that–as an homage to 70s exploitation–the weak acting and goofy dialogue are all part of the intended package. Sure, I considered that. Then I remembered movies like Black Dynamite and Planet Terror, flicks that held up a mirror to the 70s exploitation film with a certain degree of hipness, of self-awareness.”

Click the title above for the full review or here to read all of our Sundance reviews and interviews.