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The Intruders Cannot Be Locked Out on DVD

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Not to be confused with the myriad of other projects with a similar name… On tap right now we have the official DVD release details and artwork for the upcoming fear flick The Intruders starring Miranda Cosgrove.

From the Press Release:
An intense psychological thriller, THE INTRUDERS debuts February 24, 2015, on DVD and Digital HD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Miranda Cosgrove (“iCarly”), Donal Logue (“Gotham”), Austin Butler (“Arrow”), and Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) star in this gripping mystery that will keep audiences guessing until the very end.  The film also stars Michael Luckett (The Basement) and Jenessa Grant (“Reign”).

In THE INTRUDERS, Rose (Cosgrove), a troubled teenager with a history of mental illness, moves into a new home with her father. Soon after, she begins experiencing strange, seemingly supernatural occurrences inside her home, leaving her struggling to determine whether it’s the kids in town giving her a hard time or if it’s all in her head.

Directed by Adam Massey from a screenplay by Jason Juravic, THE INTRUDERS was executive produced by Mark Slone with Jeff Sackman and Nicholas D. Tabarrok serving as producers.

Bonus Features include two all-new behind-the-scenes featurettes:

  • The Secrets of The Intruders – The filmmakers and cast discuss the film’s story and psychological aspects.
  • Making-of The Intruders – An inside look at the filmmaking process and more.

Synopsis:
Every town has its secrets, as college student Rose Halshford (Cosgrove) learns when she and her dad (Logue) move into a musty, old house. When Rose discovers that the previous tenant mysteriously disappeared, leaving her possessions behind, she suspects her unfriendly neighbors know more than they let on. When Rose reports strange noises coming from inside the house, no one, not even her father, believes her, insisting that it’s all in her head. As Rose’s suspicions grow, she begins to fear that she may be the next victim of whatever or whoever has infiltrated her new home.

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After Dark Originals’ Housekeeping Coming to DVD

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It’s been awhile since last we reported on an After Dark Original, but lo and behold, a new one is getting set to hit DVD with a splat. Read on for the skinny pertaining to Housekeeping.

From the Press Relase:
A seemingly simple housekeeping job turns out to be bloody difficult in this creepy psychological thriller from After Dark Films. Housekeeping arrives on DVD (plus Digital), Digital HD, and On Demand March 31st from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. A student in need of money gets more than she bargained for when she takes a housekeeping job that turns deadly. The Housekeeping DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98.

Housekeeping follows Lucy (Adriana Solis), a medical student who takes a housekeeping job in order to make some quick cash. The almost-too-convenient new job soon takes a turn for the worse as Lucy’s haunting past emerges and she begins to lose her grip on reality.

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Only Six Days Left! TnT Presents Signed Chucky Doll Giveaway Deadline Approaching!

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Time is running out for those of you who’ve waited to make your purchase from TnT Presents, thus entering your name in the drawing for the awesome Chucky doll signed by Child’s Play creator Tom Holland. Six days left… tick, tock.

TnT Presents is, of course, the collaborative brainchild of horror directors Tom Holland and Tim Sullivan. The duo have paired up to offer enhanced copies of their memorable films in limited quantities for true collectors of the genre. The first TnT Presents releases were enhanced versions of Holland’s original Child’s Play and Sullivan’s A Christmas Treat. Both titles are available now on TnTPresents.com.

And, just a friendly reminder, TnT Presents has partnered up with your friends here at Dread Central to offer an amazing giveaway. Everyone who makes a purchase from TnT Presents from now through February 1, 2015, will be entered in a drawing to win an awesome Chucky doll signed by Tom Holland himself. Who wouldn’t want an stellar item like that? A crazy person, that’s who!

Hurry, stop what you’re doing now, and head over to TnTPresents.com to get your name entered into this amazing drawing. Good luck!

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About TnT Presents:
Genre filmmakers Tom Holland (Fright Night) and Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs) debuted their new entertainment company, TnT Presents, with the December launch of their first two collectible releases: limited enhanced, autographed editions of Holland’s Child’s Play and Sullivan’s A Christmas Treat.

With their new joint venture, Holland and Sullivan hope to personally connect with fans and collectors across the globe hungry for something really special from the creative forces behind their favorite films. Each TnT Enhanced Edition (built upon authorized studio releases of each title) will be personally autographed by Holland and Sullivan as well as the film’s stars–as in the case of Child’s Play, which will also bear the signatures of cast members Chris Sarandon and Alex Vincent. Each release will be limited to numbered runs of 2500 and will feature alternate cover sleeves, collectible trading pics, audio commentaries and video presentations created exclusively for these editions, a signed certificate of authenticity, and for the ultimate provenance, a 4×6 photo of Holland and Sullivan respectively autographing the exact items ordered by the customer–which can be done by visiting TnTPresents online.

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Exclusive: Roadkill Superstar Talk Turbo Kid

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Fans of cartoon violence and post-apocalyptic mayhem are in for a treat tonight in Park City, Utah, where Turbo Kid starring Michael Ironside will have its World Premiere at midnight. Also starring Munro Chambers as The Kid and Laurence Leboeuf as Apple, the strange world of Turbo Kid comes straight from the minds of the Roadkill Superstar (RKSS) collective who form like Voltron into a twisted hive mind ready to offer up a taste of crazed, kinetic, joy-inducing cinema that’s helping to define modern exploitation.

Straight outta Montreal, filmmakers Yoann-Karl Whissell, Anouk Whissell, and François Simard blast off into uncharted territory with Turbo Kid, their first full feature together after ten years of making amped up, festival favorite shorts like Bagman. RKSS talked to us about the fun-filled journey of getting Turbo Kid made and how their short film T Is for Turbo led to a full-fledged feature film.

DC: How is the Sundance experience so far for you guys? I saw Jason Eisener’s Instagram, and it looks like you guys are having a blast.

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): Oh, we are having the best time of our lives; it’s fantastic. It’s the most incredible festival we’ve ever been to.

(François): Everything is surreal. It’s incredible.

DC: Being a part of the Midnighter section, does it feel like you and the other filmmakers in that slot are having your own twisted film festival while another, more sophisticated one is taking place?

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): No, not at all. When we went to the Directors Brunch we talked with a ton of directors. We’re all creators and we’re all on the same level … it was so great. We met amazing people that have made totally different films and art, and we can all meet and have fun.

DC: So, how did you guys first get together and decide to join forces?

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): We’ve been doing shorts for ten years and we’re actually a family. Me and Anouk are brother and sister and François and Anouk have been together for 15 years. We’ve been working together for so long, we’ve developed somewhat of a hive mind. We kind of share the same brain now.

(François): Yeah, that’s the question that we get a lot. Everybody comes to us, ‘What? You made a movie and you’re still friends? How’s that work?’ Yeah, we’ve always been working like that so we want to keep … we like making movies with the spirit of making movies with friends, and we want to keep that spirit.

(Anouk): Yeah, and it’s just natural now for us to work together.

DC: For those that don’t know, could you talk about the ABCs of Death contest that started the ball rolling for what eventually became Turbo Kid?

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): Yes, ABCs of Death was super important to us.

(François): Actually, we didn’t want to be part of the contest because we’d just made one and didn’t want to bother our friends to vote for us. But we met Jason Eisener at Fantasia, and he told us we should probably participate because this contest is going to be huge. He convinced us, and the next day we were in pre-production.

(Yoann-Karl): Yeah, we finished first for the public vote, which was pretty amazing. We didn’t get into the actual feature, but that caught the eye of Ant Timpson, the producer of ABCs of Death, and he wanted to know if we wanted to transform our short, T Is for Turbo, into a feature. And, of course, we said yes. So, we had three weeks to come up with a script for the first Fantasia Film Market. We wrote it, we got in … and we started Turbo Kid.

(François): We were pretty sad that we didn’t win the contest; we thought we had a good chance. But in the end I think what we won is much bigger.

DC: It’s very interesting to me with Jason Eisener winning the trailer contest for Hobo With a Shotgun, it’s very much the same path for both of you guys.

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): It’s true! So true.

(François): He’s such a cool dude, and we’re so happy he’s on board and here with us at Sundance.

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): Yeah, he’s awesome. Jason is the best friend you don’t know you already have.

DC: He featured Rutger Hauer in Hobo in the lead, and now, for Turbo Kid, you’ve got Michael Ironside. As a group of filmmakers, you’ve both gotten two icons to go for broke in two insane movies. How was working with Michael, and was he game to do anything you asked of him?

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): Working with Michael was fantastic; it was incredible. The coolest thing is that we wrote the character for him. We were dreaming about having Michael, and we didn’t know if it would be possible. We met him by chance in Toronto, completely random.

(François): We told our producer we need to talk to him about Turbo Kid, and he just took our hands and put us in front of him and said, ‘Those guys are filmmakers, and they want to pitch you a movie.’ And she left!

(Yoann-Karl): He loved the pitch, we sent him the script, he called us back right after he read it and said, ‘I love it and want to be part of it.’ Working with him on set was amazing because, you know, Michael has done more than 200 films. He has such a vast experience. I don’t know if people know, but he’s done many jobs on set. Working with him was just amazing, and he’s an amazing human being. He’s actually the funniest dude in the world. I know people see him as the big bad guy, but he’s the funniest guy in the world.

(François): Sometimes we had to adapt because we had ideas, and he has his own.

(Yoann-Karl): Both of us worked closely to create the character with him, and it was tons of fun. We love to do that with every character and every actor. We want them to be part of the creative process.

DC: Are you all storyboarding the same way you did for your short films, and did storyboarding for stuff like Troma’s Poultrygeist help prepare you for the planning involved for a full feature?

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): Oh yeah, definitely, especially with three directors. We don’t have time to argue on set so we storyboard one hundred percent of everything. In the storyboards themselves we make escape plans in case things don’t go as planned, so everything is planned out.

(François): I went to animation school, and one thing we learned was how to do storyboards, and, yes, that’s one of our strengths.

(Yoann-Karl): We plan a lot because if you’re prepared for the work, then when the work happens, you’re ready.

(Anouk): Yeah, and even in prep it was very cool to show our team all that has to be done and all the effects that have to be prepared so everyone could see.

DC: Do you guys think that Turbo Kid could ever become animated?

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): That would be amazing!

(Anouk): A Saturday morning cartoon with Turbo Kid… but for adults!

(Yoann-Karl): Yeah, we love animation. We’re passionate about animation so, if Turbo Kid would become animation in any form, that would be the dream. That would be incredible.

(François): But if everything goes well, we also want to do a sequel.

DC: Kids definitely would be pretty messed up after watching Turbo Kid growing up. As opposed to very life-like, graphic effects work from someone like Remy Couture, for example, you guys really seem to make the violence in your films as over-the-top and unrealistic as possible. Is the more fun approach to violence that comic books and animation can bring the way you prefer to see violence on film?

RKSS (Yoann-Karl): We want to please and entertain; we want people when they leave the theater to have a huge smile on their face. Our gore, we don’t want to shock with it. It’s like a Bugs Bunny for adults.

Turbo Kid is a post-apocalyptic, BMX-powered, blood-splattered love story that follows the epic journey of an orphaned outcast reluctant to be a hero in the wasteland of an alternate future. It was written and directed by RKSS: Anouk Whissell, François Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell and stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, and Michael Ironside.

Here’s the Turbo Kid schedule at Sundance:

Monday, January 26, 11:59 p.m.
Egyptian Theatre, Park City
328 Main St., Park City, UT
Tuesday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. – TURBO27RN
Redstone Cinema 1, Park City
6030 Market St., Park City, UT
Thursday, January 29, 12:00 noon – TURBO29YD
Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City
1800 Park Ave., Park City, UT
Saturday, January 31, 6:00 p.m. – TURBO31WE
Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City
876 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, UT

Synopsis:
In a post-apocalyptic future The Kid, an orphaned outcast, meets a mysterious girl. They become friends until Zeus, the sadistic leader of the Wasteland, kidnaps her. The Kid must face his fears and journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and save the girl.

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Grindhouse Releasing a Massacre Mafia Style

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While not exactly a horror flick, how can we not report on the long awaited Blu-ray release of Massacre Mafia Style?!?!? I mean… just look at the box art!

From the Press Release
Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the definitive release of Duke Mitchell’s MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE, arriving on DVD and Blu-ray disc February 10, 2015!

Italian-American actor and nightclub singer Duke Mitchell wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this homemade answer to THE GODFATHER, self-financed with earnings from his career as the self-proclaimed “Mr. Palm Springs.” Previously known for his Martin and Lewis act with Sammy Petrillo as seen in BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA, Duke plays the ruthless son of a Mafia kingpin who blasts his way through Hollywood on a bloody crime spree. Promising “more guts, more action, more dynamite” than the Mario Puzo gangster classic, MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE delivers an onslaught of low-budget mayhem unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

“It’s a great thing for my dad’s legacy for his movie to be released on Blu-ray,” says Jeffrey Mitchell, who co-produced the Blu-ray with Academy Award-winning editor Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing.

Adds Murawski: “We have put in years of work restoring MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE and gathering an amazing selection of bonus material on Duke Mitchell. We think fans will agree it was worth the wait.”

Special Features

  • Two-disc combo pack: Blu-ray + DVD
  • Incredible new hi-definition digital restoration of the original director’s cut
  • Stunning digital restoration of the original mono soundtrack
  • Interviews with Jeffrey Mitchell, Frankie Ray, George Jacobs, Jim LoBianco, and exploitation legend Matt Cimber
  • Almost one full hour of never-before-seen Duke Mitchell home movies
  • Lost audio recording – Duke Mitchell Live in Concert, June 9, 1960
  • Bonus TV special – AN IMPRESSIONISTIC TRIBUTE TO JIMMY DURANTE
  • Extensive still galleries, radio spots, and theatrical trailer
  • Glossy booklet with rare photos and liner notes by author David Szulkin
  • Spectacular new cover painting by renowned Los Angeles cult artist Dave Lebow

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Big Eyes Actress Madeleine Arthur Joins Supernatural Episode 10.12 – About a Boy

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madeleine-arthurWe told you earlier this month that “Supernatural” Episode 10.12, “About a Boy,” includes a visit from Hansel of fairy tale fame; and now we have some casting news for the ep as a star of the film Big Eyes has signed on for a surreal guest role.

Per Variety, Madeleine Arthur (pictured), who also appeared in “The Killing” and “The Tomorrow People,” plays the teenage version of a woman named Tina, who finds herself trapped in an very dangerous situation with a now 14-year-old Dean Winchester (guest star Dylan Everett). The episode’s synopsis follows.

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“Supernatural” Episode 10.12 – “About a Boy” (airs 2/3/15)
DEAN IS TURNED INTO HIS 14-YEAR-OLD SELF Looking to get Dean (Jensen Ackles) out of the bunker, Sam (Jared Padalecki) finds a case for him and Dean to investigate – people are disappearing into thin air with only their clothes left behind. Sam and Dean suspect fairies or angels, but the truth turns out to be much more shocking – Hansel (guest star Mark Acheson), from Hansel and Gretel lore, is kidnapping people and turning them into their younger selves to placate the evil witch (guest star Lesley Nicol).

Unfortunately, Dean finds this information out the hard way after he becomes Hansel’s next victim and reverts to his 14-year-old self. Serge Ladouceur directed this episode written by Adam Glass.

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Exclusive: Michael Ironside Talks Turbo Kid

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From the brain wars of Scanners to the martian landscape of Total Recall, or dogfighting over the terrain during flight training at Top Gun, it’s fairly well-established that we – the moviegoing public – are pretty much willing to follow Michael Ironside anywhere.

Turbo Kid, the BMX-centric post-apocalyptic love letter to eighties pulp, has us now joining Ironside as the one-eyed, self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland – Zeus. Sold? Thought so. Enjoying it’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Turbo Kid looks like a blast and Ironside is very excited about his latest (soon-to-be iconic?) character.

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DC: Are you planning on attending the premiere next week? I believe you were in Park City for The Machinist back in 2004. But how many trips have you made to Sundance over the course of your career?

MI: I think I’ve made two. I actually don’t usually go out for a film unless I care about it and this one I do. This is a very kind of unique situation, this movie. The directors in this case made the film they wanted to make which is so cool. They got to do what they wanted to do. They called up, they sent me the script, I read it a couple times and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s kind of interesting.’ So, I called and talked to them on Skype and they told me what they wanted to do.

They wanted to shoot and stay true to the comic book characterization and develop the characters with the idea that they’re like … it’s almost like Shakespeare on acid in a funny way. It’s very larger-than-life but they wanted to be as realistic as possible at the same time. That intrigued me, I thought that would be interesting to attempt. Can we push the limits of what a characterization is without, you know, making it soap-operatic. I think we accomplished that.

I’ve used the word charming to describe the film, even though you’ve got arms being ripped off, blood splurging gratuitously out of the tops of people’s torsos. At one point, I disembowel a guy by tying his intestines to the wheel of a bicycle.

DC: I don’t know if I’ve seen that before.

MI: It’s not over-the-top, it’s almost operatic.

DC: So, it’s a very charming, post-apocalyptic, comic book tale.

MI: I mean charming in the sense that there’s a certain bloody innocence about this. The violence is not real violence. It really is almost like fireworks. Laurence Leboeuf who plays Apple in the film, she’s absolutely true to character the whole way through. She has eyes like a husky, almost shockingly white blue, with these black pupils. You have her and then we have this incredible, charming young man playing the lead with Munro [Chambers] and I had no idea who he was. I have a 16-year-old daughter and she goes to an all girls school and she was sitting there with five of her friends and I said I just got back from doing Turbo Kid … and I said Munro Chambers and, at one point, one of the girls I thought was having an epileptic fit, she started to shake. She got up and walked right into the flat screen TV. They’re all fans of his, he’s on “Degrassi[The Next Generation].”

DC: I’m sure you definitely have some fanboy moments like that yourself. Genre films really seem to be having a renaissance in Canada in recent years with films like Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and, of course, Hobo With A Shotgun. Have you seen a real uptick in quality horror projects sent your way? Why do you think those kinds of films are starting to get funding up there?

MI: I don’t think it’s horror films that are getting funding, I think that films that can be made with a certain budget that can be done with Canadian tax money and New Zealand tax money – and a little bit of American distribution money that doesn’t have enough involved to be able to tell the director what to do. There’s a certain amount of freedom in storytelling when the film gets made that way. I don’t think it’s just horror films, I think it’s everything, you know? Only two types of films are getting made right now: films that are under three million dollars and over seventy. You have accountants making decisions on the ones over seventy and you have, hopefully, filmmakers – grass root filmmakers – making the stuff at the bottom, at the financial bottom of the scale. Every penny that was raised for this film is on the screen. If you’re going in expecting Terminator Four or Extreme Prejudice or Star Wars, you’re not going to get that. This is more Repo Man or Buckaroo Banzai. There’s no tongue-in-cheek and no winking at the camera. [RKSS] create a kind of comic book genre film that is not shot like a comic book.

DC: You mentioned New Zealand. On the producing side, you’ve got Ant Timpson and Jason Eisener, a Canadian, involved and Road Kill Super Star behind the camera. Did all that madman, creative energy make for one of the more wild productions of your career? Did all of them come close to equaling one Paul Verhoeven?

MI: Paul Verhoeven is one of the most clinically, surgically controlled sets you’ll ever be on. Most things are boarded, shot and under his control. If you want to change something you better get to Paul about 20 weeks before he shoots it or you’re not gonna get to change it. This was not a wild film, they knew exactly what they wanted, they cast exactly the way they wanted to cast. We talked about it ahead of time. I gave them versions of what I wanted to do with the character and they told me what they didn’t want to do and I agreed. Creativity is not some wild fucking pool party, it’s not like that. No matter what, you’re still dealing with millions of dollars. You’re still dealing with these people getting their one shot. This is the film they wanted to make since they were teenagers, you know what I mean? I gotta tell you, the joy and energy … it’s not a dry set where you feel like you’re going to the salt mines. I enjoyed myself a lot. I love work. I’m one of those guys that stays on set, I’m not somebody that goes and sits in his dressing room.

DC: Since it was controlled, what was the experience like working with three different directors and how did they divvy up the directorial duties on set?

MI: I had worked with two before, I did Extraterrestrial with the two guys …

DC: Yes, the Vicious Brothers.

MI: That was kind of cool. That film I really liked a lot. I liked working with them, they were very in sync. It’s always interesting. François Simard, he looked after a lot of the talking with the crew, the physical side of the camera and the crew. And Yoann-Karl, he was much more the liaison, the person that talked with the actors and I think it had to do with language. He was much more versed in English then François and Anouk. And Anouk, she seemed to be the bridge between the two. She would pull the two together if there was any kind of discussion needed about something. They all kind of agreed, it was very amiable. They’ve all been friends since they were teenagers. It was very cohesive … there was no ego involved. Pretty much everyone was there because they wanted to be there. It was quite a wonderful experience.

DC: You’ve mentioned that there’s a lot of limbs flying in Turbo Kid. Do you actually lose any limbs in Turbo Kid? There’s been quite a few projects you’ve been on where you’ve been armless, whether its Spacehunter or Total Recall or even The Machinist.

MI: Yeah, I’ve spent most of my career losing body parts. Without giving too much away … this stays true to a comic book format, the characters and the performances stay genuine, slightly operatic without the singing thank you very much. The violence is over the top and gratuitous. That probably the only thing that would be slightly tongue-in-cheek would be the violence. It’s not realistic to violence.

If it’s an allegorical kind of storyline, I would see it as a young man being left to his own devices without human contact and how he forms a sense of aesthetics. The wasteland could be a physical wasteland or an emotional, spiritual wasteland. That’s probably getting a little too heavy for this format.

Keep your eye out for Turbo Kid if you want to get a little heavier with Michael Ironside …

Turbo Kid is a post-apocalyptic, BMX-powered, blood-splattered love story that follows the epic journey of an orphaned outcast reluctant to be a hero in the wasteland of an alternate future. It was written and directed by RKSS: Anouk Whissell, François Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell and stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, and Michael Ironside.

Here’s the Turbo Kid schedule at Sundance:

Monday, January 26, 11:59 p.m.
Egyptian Theatre, Park City
328 Main St., Park City, UT
Tuesday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. – TURBO27RN
Redstone Cinema 1, Park City
6030 Market St., Park City, UT
Thursday, January 29, 12:00 noon – TURBO29YD
Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City
1800 Park Ave., Park City, UT
Saturday, January 31, 6:00 p.m. – TURBO31WE
Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City
876 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, UT

Synopsis:
In a post-apocalyptic future The Kid, an orphaned outcast, meets a mysterious girl. They become friends until Zeus, the sadistic leader of the Wasteland, kidnaps her. The Kid must face his fears and journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and save the girl.

For more info “like” Epic Pictures on Facebook, follow Epic Pictures on Twitter, and visit Epic Pictures on YouTube. Also be sure to “like” Turbo Kid on Facebook.

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Slamdance 2015: Archstone Brings Home the Body

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Archstone Distribution has secured the rights to Body at Slamdance with plans to introduce the title to international buyers in Berlin at EFM ’15, February 5-13, 2015, as well as screening it in Cannes for the Marché.

Dan Berk and Robert Olsen wrote and directed Body. Helen Rogers, Alexandra Turshen, Lauren Molina, and Larry Fessenden star.

Synopsis:
Best friends Holly, Cali, and Mel are home for the holidays. It’s a couple nights before Christmas, and the three girls are bored out of their minds, sitting at Mel’s parents’ house. As she is wont to do, Cali suggests they go out and have some fun. Her uncle owns a mansion one town over and happens to be out of town for the holiday. Better yet, he’s given her permission to party there. Despite Holly’s reservations, the girls head out.

It’s only after hours of partying and taking advantage of the home’s many amenities that the girls discover Cali has lied to them. This is not her uncle’s house. It belongs to a family that Cali used to babysit for. And it becomes quite clear that permission was certainly never granted to party there. Holly and Mel, infuriated with Cali, immediately head for the door. Unfortunately, before they can leave, the groundskeeper of the estate arrives. The girls attempt to flee but wind up running into him on their way out. An altercation follows, and in a freak accident the girls push him down the stairs. He falls awkwardly, breaking his neck and ultimately dying.

For the remainder of the film we watch the girls slowly unravel as they decide what to do about the dead body in the living room. But covering their tracks might mean adding to the body count…

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HBO’s Westworld – First Look at Ed Harris

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Once again Entertainment Weekly nailed down a first look at an upcoming property that we’re excited about. On tap right now we have the first look at Ed Harris in the HBO series “Westworld.”

The site also spoke with producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy about what we can expect from the series:

“[JJ Abrams] called us last summer and explained that he wanted to figure out how Westworld could be remade. In that usual Michael Crichton fashion, he never wrote anything that was just a film — there was always a massive world behind it that could be mined. Lisa and I thought about it a little bit and came to the realization this had literally everything that we’re interested in in one series. We couldn’t say no.”

Harris stars alongside Anthony Hopkins, James Marsden, Eddie Rouse (Pandorum, American Gangster), Demetrius Grosse (“Justified”), Kyle Bornheimer (She’s Out of My League, Bachelorette), Currie Graham (“Murder in the First”), Lena Georgas (“Ray Donovan”), Steven Ogg (Grand Theft Auto V), Timothy Lee DePriest, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Angela Sarafyan, and Simon Quarterman.

Inspired by Michael Crichton’s 1977 film of the same name, the project, which hails from JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, Jerry Weintraub Productions, and Kilter Films, is billed as “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.

Abrams will executive produce alongside veteran producer Weintraub and Bad Robot’s Bryan Burk. “Person of Interest’s” Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote the pilot, will executive produce and direct as well. Lisa Joy co-wrote the pilot and will exec produce. Kathy Lingg will co-EP, and Athena Wickham is a producer on the Warner Bros. Television drama. David Coatsworth is set as a co-EP and line producer with Susie Ekins set as a co-producer.

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Frank Grillo to Court Stephanie

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As far as we’re concerned Frank Grillo should be in every movie from now until the end of time. That’s part of the reason we’re excited that he’s doing another horror flick! So good to have you, Frankie!

According to The Wrap Grillo is set to star in Akiva Goldsman‘s horror-thriller Stephanie, which Universal Pictures has acquired from Jason Blum‘s Blumhouse Productions and Matt Kaplan’s Chapter One.

First announced last summer, the film was written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, whose script was voted to the 2012 Blood List.

Abandoned by her parents in their remote home, Stephanie survives on peanut butter and conversations with her toy turtle, while a dark supernatural force looms in the background. When her mother and father return to claim her, the malevolent power spins out of control with Stephanie at the center.

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New Turbo Kid Clips Speed In

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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s clip, we now have another pair of ocular goodies for your peepers to feast upon. That’s right, Turbo Kid has pulled over momentarily to offer us a couple of new clips!

Turbo Kid is a post-apocalyptic, BMX-powered, blood-splattered love story that follows the epic journey of an orphaned outcast reluctant to be a hero in the wasteland of an alternate future. It was written and directed by RKSS: Anouk Whissell, François Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell and stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, and Michael Ironside.

Here’s the Turbo Kid schedule at Sundance:

Tuesday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. – TURBO27RN
Redstone Cinema 1, Park City
6030 Market St., Park City, UT
Thursday, January 29, 12:00 noon – TURBO29YD
Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City
1800 Park Ave., Park City, UT
Saturday, January 31, 6:00 p.m. – TURBO31WE
Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City
876 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City, UT

Synopsis:
In a post-apocalyptic future The Kid, an orphaned outcast, meets a mysterious girl. They become friends until Zeus, the sadistic leader of the Wasteland, kidnaps her. The Kid must face his fears and journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and save the girl.

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Infection Thriller Pandemic Shot in First Person Shooter Perspective

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Infection films have become quite popular in recent years, and there’s certainly no shortage of them headed our way. But Pandemic is setting itself apart from the pack in a big way, and we can’t help but be interested. Read on!

In a press release sent out today, Content Media announced that they’ve acquired international sales rights to the sci-fi action/thriller, directed by John Suits (The Scribbler). It’s being described as a boundary-crashing film, due to its unique perspective.

Pandemic features non-stop action from a first person shooter perspective (FPS), putting the audience in the middle of every fight whilst feeling in control of every punch thrown and shot fired. It’s a new model of action thriller for the video game generation.

Cast includes Rachel Nichols (Star Trek, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), Mekhi Phifer (Insurgent, Divergent, 8 Mile), Missi Pyle (The Artist, Gone Girl, Big Fish), Alfie Allen (John Wick, Atonement, “Game of Thrones”), Danielle Rose Russell (A Walk Among the Tombstones), Paul Guilfoyle (L.A. Confidential, Air Force One, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) and Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills, The Innkeepers).

The film is set in the near future, where a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren (Rachel Nichols) is a doctor, who, after the fall of New York, comes to Los Angeles to lead the charge in the hunt for uninfected civilian survivors.

Lauren’s objective is simple – lead her team into the field and rescue survivors. Lauren and her team: Gunner (tactical command), Denise (navigation), and Wheeler (driver), put on their anti-contamination suits, complete with cameras so their experiences can be used for research, and leave the compound. But nothing could have prepared them for the mayhem they are about to walk into.

Buyers will get their first glimpse of Pandemic in Berlin where exclusive, first time footage will be shown by the Content team.

Gabriel Cowan (Bad Milo) produced the film with Suits through their New Artists Alliance (NAA) banner with XLrator Media, which will also distribute the film in North America as the second film in its three-picture deal with NAA. Executive producers are Danny Roth and Damiano Tucci of Parkside Pictures, Michael Tadross Jr. of Tadross Media Group and Content’s Film President Jamie Carmichael.

Pandemic

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Quiz – How Likely Are You to Be Eaten By Bigfoot?

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You’re camping in the woods with your friends. The fire is crackling, the marshmallows are toasting, and life couldn’t be better. Then you hear it. A rustling in the trees. Heavy footfalls coming your way. Before you know it, you’re face to snarling face with a very hungry Sasquatch. What do you do? What. Do. You. Do.

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That’s the subject of today’s Dread Central quiz, kids. Being that I’ve seen enough movies to know that tramping around the forest is a bad idea, I’m pretty safe, but what about YOU?!?!? Tell us how you’d survive in the comments section below.

 

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Real Life Pet Sematary Cat Claws its Way From the Grave

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Cats are hearty animals, man, and you’re about to hear a tale (tail?) of one tough little sonovabitch. Bart, a young cat in Tampa, Florida was buried alive by its owner, who thought he was dead after getting hit by a car. But Bart proved everyone wrong by climbing from his own grave.

ABC reports that the cat appeared to be lifeless and the owner buried him. Five days later, the cat showed up in a neighbors yard, alive! “Bart had dug himself out of the grave and slowly made his way back home, albeit in weak, dehydrated and in need of medical attention,” explained a rep from The Human Society of Tampa Bay who is now tending to the little guy’s injuries.

The society believes he will be at home recovering soon.

Bart the Miracle Cat

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Final Alien Outpost Trailer Brings on the War

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A new trailer is here for Alien Outpost (review soon; formerly Outpost 37) for quite some time, and it much like the movie kicks ass. Look for the flick in theaters and on VOD on January 30, 2015, courtesy of IFC Midnight.

Jabbar Raisani directs. Adrian Paul, Rick Ravanello, Reiley McClendon, and Douglas Tait star.

Synopsis:
Two documentary cameramen embedded in an army unit in the most hostile place on earth, an outpost surrounded by the last remaining alien fighters (Heavies) of an invading attack force. The world may have forgotten about the Outposts, but the Heavies are planning the second invasion of Earth and the soldiers are the only ones who can stop it.

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New iZombie Trailer Keeps a Secret

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As we learned recently, The CW plans to debut “iZombie” on Tuesday, March 17th (9:00-10:00pm ET), which will necessitate moving “Supernatural” to Wednesdays; and if you’re curious about the show, a new trailer is now available.

“iZombie” Synopsis:
Rose McIver (“Masters of Sex,” “Once Upon a Time”) stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. Malcolm Goodwin (“Breakout Kings”), newcomer Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley (“One Tree Hill”), and David Anders (“Once Upon a Time,” “The Vampire Diaries”) co-star.  As one of the newly undead, Liv has devised a way to resist her baser urges to devour fresh human brains: She’s taken a job in the Seattle coroner’s office. In this appropriately dead-end job, she can secretly snack on the brains of the many Jane and John Doe corpses that make a final stop in the morgue.

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Liv remains resigned to an eternity without hope or purpose, until she realizes that with every brain she consumes, she retains a portion of that person’’s memories, and she begins to experience visions from the point of view of the murder victims. It’’s not the same as being alive again, but at least she can find purpose in her undead existence by helping to solve the murders of those who are indeed fully dead.

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Female Ghostbusters Revealed

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So it’s not set in stone just yet but Variety is reporting that Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones are all in talks for roles in the upcoming remakeboot that has fans in a tizzy.

Several sources say Jones is likely to play a government official similar to the role William Atherton played in the original. Allegedly, the plan is to land “Game of Thrones” fav Peter Dinklage for the villain role. He would play the ghost of a murderer who resurrects a ghost army based on historical characters.

Paul Feig is directing with Katie Dippold penning the script.

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Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones

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Spring Sprung in March

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Drafthouse Films has just their release plans for Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s (Resolution) new film Spring (review). Look for it in U.S. theaters and on VOD March 20th!

Benson and Moorhead directed from Benson’s script. Evil Dead star Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker appear in the sci-fi horror film.

Synopsis:
Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci, Evil Dead, Thumbsucker) is a young American fleeing to Europe to escape his past. While backpacking along the Italian coast, everything changes during a stop at an idyllic Italian village, where he meets and instantly connects with the enchanting and mysterious Louise. A flirtatious romance begins to bloom between the two – however, Evan soon realizes that Louise has been harboring a monstrous, primordial secret that puts both their relationship and their lives in jeopardy.

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Liam Hemsworth Beats Off Aliens on Independence Day

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With Will Smith officially out of the picture for Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day sequel, ID Forever, the director is zeroing in on a new leading man. According to The Wrap that man very well may be Liam Hemsworth.

The site reports that Hemsworth has the offer to star in the movie but there’s nothing else to report at this time. Emmerich is directing the sequel, in which Michael B. Jordan has also been rumored for a role.

Fox hired Carter Blanchard (Glimmer) to rewrite the script. James Vanderbilt wrote the first draft of the film, which Emmerich is producing with Dean Devlin and Harald Kloser.

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Unboxing Day: McFarlane’s 10″ Rick Grimes

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Every now and again we’re planning on unboxing some collectible for you guys to check out. They could be new… they could be old… they could be sexual in nature. Well, okay, maybe not that, but still! Just like Somerset and Mills’ special delivery to an open field… you’ll never know “what’s in the box” next!

First up is a look at McFarlane Toys’ 10″ Rick Grimes figure!

  • This highly detailed 10-inch figure features the exact likeness of the actor, taken from a full 3D scan of Andrew Lincoln
  • Figure stands approximately 10″ tall
  • Figure includes a pistol
  • Figure includes an alternate arm
  • Figure includes a rifle

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