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Voodoo Horror ‘Needle’ Gets Home Video Date
A sinister machine falls into the wrong hands as Lionsgate releases Needle on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand November 29.
The supernatural slasher film stars Michael Dorman (Daybreakers), Travis Fimmel (The Experiment), Ben Mendelsohn (Knowing), Trilby Glover (TV’s William & Kate), John Jarratt (Australia), Jessica Marais (TV’s “Legend of the Seeker”) and Tahyna Tozzi (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as a group of friends tortured by an 18th century killing device. The film won accolades at the British Horror Film Festival (2010), including Best Cinematography, Best Special Effects and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Marais. The Needle DVD contains a “making of” featurette.
“College student Ben Rutherford (Dorman) inherits a strange machine with supernatural powers from his deceased father. When the device goes missing, Ben’s friends turn up dead – all having been killed in bizarre ways. With the help of his estranged brother, Marcus (Fimmel), the two discover that the machine was built for revenge, and is seeking retribution for their father’s sins.”
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.