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‘V/H/S’ Team Heads ‘Southbound’ to Home Video!

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The Orchard is releasing Southbound on DVD through Sony Home Entertainment on May 17th (pre-order your copy here).

Southbound is new kind of anthology that features many of the talented filmmakers behind Bloody Disgusting’s debut V/H/S! (In the interest of full disclosure, I produced Southbound, with Bloody Disgusting being the catalyst for discovering so many talented filmmakers.)

We are still so proud of what David Bruckner and Radio Silence accomplished in V/H/S and think you’re going to love what they did here in Southbound.

In fact, one of the cooler things about the film is that V/H/S and V/H/S/2 producer and friend Roxanne Benjamin made her directorial debut in the film. Her story is about an all-female band on the road who runs into some trouble. Roxanne is also a big part of Bloody Disgusting as she was an intricate part in our massive BD Selects line. To see her go from working on Bloody Disgusting to directing a feature film nearly had me tear up. I think she knocked it out of the park visually, as well as with the talent and story. Just wait until you see how her characters segue into Bruckner’s shocking piece…

It’s a shame that Bruckner never got to direct the new Friday the 13th film. When you see his camerawork in action, just imagine what Jason Voorhees slicing and dicing campers in the 1980’s would have looked like. In fact, we nicknamed him “Bruckenstein” because he’s a mad scientist on set!

The newcomer here is Patrick Horvath, who directed the Halloween-esque indie Entrance. This time he delivers a colorful pseudo Western that ties a lot of the Southbound mythology together.

And Radio Silence… when Tom and I first saw their YouTube shorts we had our minds blown. After their quasi-haunted house segment in V/H/S they went off to make Devil’s Due for Fox. Here, they show incredible restraint and deliver massive scope and scenery, as well as plenty of blood. It was exciting watching them work on set as they’re like the Energizer Bunny on roids. They’re extremely unorthodox in their approach; I felt like we were in The Warriors, only shooting a film.

I’m pretty excited for you guys to see this because they’re as much part of Bloody as you guys are! It feels like we’ve all been growing up together.

In the film, “On a desolate stretch of desert highway, weary travelers – two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation – are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in a series of interwoven tales of terror and remorse on the open road.

Southbound was also produced by Benjamin, Chris Harding (The Guest, You’re Next), Radio Silence (V/H/S) and Greg Newman (Stake Land, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers). Executive producers are Malik B. Ali, Badie Ali, Hamza Ali, David A. Smith and Christopher Alender.

An Official Selection at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and the Scary Movies Film Festival, Southbound was released by The Orchard theatrically and digitally earlier this year. Dubbed the “‘Twilight Zone’ for the indie horror generation” (Twitch), bonus features on the DVD include Commentary, Deleted Scenes Reel, Outtakes Reel, plus Photo Gallery.

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Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Shambles Onto Blu-ray in April With Audio Commentary and Deleted Scenes

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The horror-comedy Lisa Frankenstein is headed home to physical media, with the film zombie-walking its way onto DVD and Blu-ray from Universal on April 9, 2024.

Directed by Zelda Williams and written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body), Lisa Frankenstein will also be available for a lower price on Digital beginning March 29.

Special Features include:

  • Audio commentary by director Zelda Williams
  • An Electric Connection featurette
  • Resurrecting the ‘80s featurette
  • A Dark Comedy Duo featurette
  • 5 deleted scenes
  • Gag reel

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting,” Billed as a coming-of-rage tale, Lisa Frankenstein instead offers a celebration of outcasts and weirdos.”

“It makes for a sugary sweet, almost wholesome effort held together by a trio of infectiously winsome performances,” Meagan’s review continued. She added, “As a celebration of teen girls and outcasts who just want to be loved, Lisa Frankenstein ultimately charms.”

Kathryn Newton (Freaky) and Cole Sprouse (“Riverdale”) lead the cast for Focus Features, and the new film is rated “PG-13” for “bloody images and sexual material.”

Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher), Liza Soberano (Alone/Together), Joe Chrest (Stranger Things) and Henry Eikenberry (The Crowded Room) also star.

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In Lisa Frankenstein, “Set in 1989, the film follows an unpopular high schooler who accidentally re-animates a handsome Victorian corpse during a lightning storm and starts to rebuild him into the man of her dreams using the broken tanning bed in her garage.”

Here’s the full official plot synopsis: “A coming of RAGE love story about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness… and a few missing body parts along the way.”

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