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Shrooms Director’s ‘Red Mist’ (FreakDog) Gets DVD Date

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From the director of SHROOMS. Riveting. Raw. Relentless. What started as a harmless prank spins out of control, turning medical science into an avenging angel of death in Anchor Bay Entertainment’s Red Mist (aka FreakDog), making its DVD debut on February 10, 2009. For dangerous and depraved loner Kenneth (Andrew Lee Potts), life at the hospital where he works is a series of endless torments from a group of ambitious medical students. But when they decide to teach him “a lesson,” he ends up in a coma and practically brain dead. Guilt-ridden Catherine (Kebbel), determined to save his life, administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to the coma victim. Rather than cure him, however, it triggers a powerful “out-of-body” experience and enables Kenneth to temporarily inhabit other people’s bodies and, through them, take revenge on those responsible for his “vegetative” state.

As her colleagues are savagely picked off one-by-one, Catherine soon realizes what started as a medical miracle has now transformed into a medical monstrosity. She is forced to confront a comatose killer who moves in and out of bodies at will, getting ever closer to her as his supernatural powers increase.

Red Mist features a top cast headed by the lovely Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge 2, John Tucker Must Die!, “Gilmore Girls” and 2009’s The Uninvited with Elizabeth Banks), Sarah Carter (Final Destination 2, DOA: Dead or Alive, “Shark”), Andrew Lee Potts (“Primeval,” 1408, Return to House on Haunted Hill) and Emmy® Award-nominee Stephen Dillane (HBO’s “John Adams,” The Greatest Game Ever Played, the Oscar®-winning The Hours).

Bonus features:
Widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
The Making of Red Mist
Arielle Kebbel Extended Interview
The Red Mist cast in Northern Ireland

Red Mist is directed by Paddy Breathnach, winner of multiple awards including a special award from the American International Film Festival and three separate awards from the San Sebastian Film Festival, for his critically acclaimed black comedy I Went Down. He also directed the all-star comedy Blow Dry, which starred Alan Rickman, Josh Hartnett, Natasha Richardson and Rachael Leigh Cook, and the psychedelic shocker Shrooms.

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Dark Sky Bringing Entire ‘Hatchet’ Franchise to SteelBook Blu-ray

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Dark Sky Films has announced Dark Sky Selects, a new label “committed to delivering a meticulously curated selection of high-quality, limited edition film releases and exclusive merchandise to the collector’s market.” First up? Hatchet: The Complete Collection SteelBook.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray set collects together all four of creator Adam Green’s Hatchet films for the very first time on Blu-ray, and it’s set to be released on June 25, 2024.

Here’s the full rundown…

  • Disc 1: Hatchet
  • Disc 2: Hatchet II
  • Disc 3: Hatchet III
  • Disc 4: Victor Crowley
  • Disc 5: Exclusive Blu-ray Bonus Disc with nearly 2 hours of brand-new bonus features
    • Hatchet: Swamp Tales
    • Production Journals

You can pre-order your copy from Dark Sky Films today.

“Old-school American horror is back as Adam Green’s iconic Hatchet series returns in a blood-soaked, fully Unrated collection, uniting all four films for the first time.

“Unleashed at a time when the fun of 80s slashers had all but disappeared from the cinematic landscape, Hatchet ushered in a new era of terror with its unapologetic brutality and introduction of Victor Crowley, the modern bogeyman, who ruthlessly hunts those who dare tread into his swamp. With each installment, the stakes escalate, delivering bigger, bloodier scares and a relentless barrage of inventive kills. So gather all your pieces, because it’s time to return to his swamp and learn once and for all that some legends truly never die.”

Other films coming soon from Dark Sky Selects include The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers, and Faces of Death. Stay tuned for updates.

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