Anthony T's Random Thoughts: Why You Should Rent or Buy "To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story"

Hello everyone, recently I did a youtube video for Anthony T's Horror Chamber urging horror fans to see "To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story". Well, this is a film that needs to be seen by everyone whether you're not a horror fan or not. So, here is why you should see "To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story".

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Go into Space with the Official Trailer for the Upcoming Sci-Fi Thriller "5th Passenger

Epic Pictures recently released the official trailer for the sci-fi thriller "5th Passenger". The film stars Doug Jones (The Shape of Water, Star Trek: Discovery, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Hellboy 2) Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Generations), Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Hitcher and Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time) and Morgan Lariah (Colony One and Chase Me Through).

"5th Passenger" hits theaters in limited release and VOD platforms on July 10th.

Press Release:

Epic Pictures will release the sci-fi thriller, 5th Passenger, produced by Scott Baker, Morgan Lariah, Mike Phillips and directed by Scott Baker. The film stars Doug Jones (The Shape of Water, Star Trek: Discovery, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Hellboy 2) Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Generations), Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Hitcher and Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time) and Morgan Lariah (Colony One and Chase Me Through).

A successful crowdfunding campaign helped bring this project to life. 5th Passenger debuted at the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival where they “celebrate powerful women taking action on the silver screen.”

“I directed 5th Passenger because it’s a film I wanted to see. It is inspired by my love of the science fiction genre, The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. All twisted storylines with principled characters thrown into extreme situations where society breaks down and their morals and values are tested.” says Director Scott Baker.

5th Passenger is set in the aftermath of an oppressive class war, Miller, a pregnant officer aboard an escape pod must struggle to survive with her remaining crew when a mysterious and vicious life form attacks, determined to become the dominant species.

5th Passenger will be on demand everywhere (Dish, DirecTV, Charter, Spectrum, Comcast/Xfinity, Verizon Fios, Cox, SlingTV, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, FandangoNOW, Google Play, Microsoft/Xbox).  

"5th Passenger": Official Trailer

Adam Rifkin's "Director's Cut" Cuts its Way to Your Living Room

Epic Pictures and Dread Central Presents recently released VOD and Home Video information for their upcoming release of Adam Rifkin's "Director's Cut. The film stars Penn Jillette, Missi Pyle, Harry Hamlin and Hayes MacArthur with cameos from Lin Shaye, Kristy Hill, Nestor Carbonell and Penn’s longtime partner, Raymond Joseph Teller.

"Director's Cut" hits VOD on May 29th and Home Video on June 5th.

Press Release:

The ultimate meta movie, Director’s Cut will be available on demand on May 29th and Home Video on June 5th

In Director’s Cut Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller) plays a disgruntled crowd funder who kidnaps the footage, and star, of the film he backed in order to create his own version starring himself. Ironically, the film was actually financed by an elaborate crowdfunding campaign that attracted over 4,500 backers. Written by Penn and directed by Adam Rifkin, Director’s Cut stars Missi Pyle, Harry Hamlin and Hayes MacArthur who are playing both themselves as well as characters in the movie within the movie and cameos include Lin Shaye, Kristy Hill, Nestor Carbonell and Penn’s longtime partner, Raymond Joseph Teller.

Director’s Cut will be playing select theaters starting May 10th, followed by a VOD release on May 29th and Blu-ray/DVD combo release on June 5th.

"Director's Cut": Official Trailer

Dread Central Presents "The Lodgers" on DVD/Blu-Ray Combo Pack

Dread Central Presents and Epic Pictures Group recently released information for the upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack release of "The Lodgers". The film stars Charlotte Vega (The Misfit Club), Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class), Eugene Simon (Game of Thrones), David Bradley (Harry Potter) and Moe Dunford (Vikings).

Special features on the DVD/Blu-Ray includes behind the scenes documentary, deleted scenes, official trailer, TV spot and trailers for other Dread Central Presents releases.

"The Lodgers" hits retail on May 29th.

To pre-order this film, you can goto: https://epic-pictures.com/merchandise/the-lodgers-2-disc-pack-dvdblu-ray.

For more information on this film, you can visit the film's official website at: http://TheLodgersMovie.com.

Press Release:

After a sold-out release of TERRIFIER, Epic Pictures’ horror label, Dread Central Presents, is coming out with a collector’s edition Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs of their elegant haunting supernatural thriller THE LODGERS on Tuesday, May 29th.

Loaded with special features, the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack includes several languages Castilian Spanish, French, German and Portuguese as well as subtitles in Latin American Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch and Romanian.

Winner of several awards, THE LODGERS had its world première at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival and was closing night feature at the 50th Sitges Film Festival. Directed by Brian O’Malley (LET US PREY) and written by David Turpin. Starring Charlotte Vega (The Misfit Club), Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class), Eugene Simon (Game of Thrones), David Bradley (Harry Potter) and Moe Dunford (Vikings)

In this gothic supernatural thriller, a family curse confines orphaned twins Rachel (Charlotte Vega) and Edward (Bill Milner) to their home as punishment for their ancestors’ sins. Bound to the rules of a haunting childhood lullaby, the twins must never let any outsiders inside the house, must be in their rooms by the chime of midnight, and must never be separated from one another. Breaking any of these three rules will incur the wrath of a sinister presence that inhabits the house after midnight. While Edward is committed to this ill-fated life, he’s becoming more unhinged due to the fact that Rachel is not. Smitten by a local soldier (Eugene Simon), Rachel grows skeptical and begins to rebel, desperate to escape the oppression and misery of their captivity.

Film Review "#Screamers"

Technology seemed to be all over the place today where you can see a film on anything like you’re laptop, IPad, TV and Roku. For “#Screamers”, this is the first time that I’ve reviewed a film where I watched a film that I’m reviewing on my smartphone. The reason I bring this up is the film features a website and somewhat deals with online privacy.

The film is about the heads of an internet company and a couple of staffers that are looking for that one big story to make there site popular. One day, a mysterious video is sent to their site that manages to become their most viewed video. They set out to find the authenticity of the video, so that they can strike a business deal with the person behind the video. What they find is something very dark and sinister at work. Now, they are caught up in a nightmare that may never be broadcasted.

Found footage films tend to be hit or miss. There have been great ones like “Paranormal Activity”, “The Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield” and very bad ones that I won’t mention since they’ve buried from my mind because they are very bad. Thankfully “#Screamers” fall on the good side of things as I enjoyed this one a lot.

One of the things that makes this good was the directing. Director/co-writer Dean Matthew Ronalds does a very good job making sure the film is engaging considering that this is dialogue driven like most found footage films are. He makes sure that the scenes have a feel to them that you’re kept in story and the group’s quest to find out the truth about the mysterious videos. It made the scenes interesting as I was into the characters and their pursuit of the truth. The other thing that makes the direction very good was the fact he makes sure his cast is engaged with the material. In found footage films, if the cast doesn’t look engaged then the film suffers as there are a lot of dialogue scenes and you the viewer have to be into the characters. Thankfully the cast looked engaged as Ronalds makes sure that he gets the performances out of his cast.

The screenplay by Ronalds and star Tom Malloy works well here. I liked how the both of them did a good job setting up everything. Whether it was the way they set up the characters to the film’s chilling end, everything is done in a way that it kept the story moving and was entertaining. It made the film an interesting watch. The other thing that this screenplay does well was the payoff at the end. For a found footage film to work completely, the payoff has to be good. While this film has no gore and holds back on the action until the end, there were a couple of scary moments and a chilling end that makes the pay off work so well.

For found footage films, this one isn’t going blow anyone away, but it’s engaging and effective enough to make this an entertaining one. This is another good release from Dread Central Presents, as “#Screamers” will make you think twice before you click on a mysterious online video again.

Review Rating: Four Stars

Prepare To Go To Hell and Back with the Kane Hodder Documentary "To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story"

Dread Central Presents and Epic Pictures recently announced that the Kane Hodder documentary "To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story" will be hitting theaters, DVD and Blu-Ray. The documentary features interviews from Hodder, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), Bruce Campbell (Ash Vs Evil Dead), Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Adam Green (writer/director of the Hatchet franchise), Sid Haig (The Devil’s Rejects), Sean S. Cunningham and more.

"To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story" hits theaters in limited release on June 28th and DVD/Blu-Ray on July 13th.

Press Release:

Dread Central Presents and Epic Pictures announced yesterday at Monsterpalooza the release dates for the upcoming documentary TO HELL AND BACK: THE KANE HODDER STORY. The film will open to a limited theatrical release on June 28th with VOD and DVD/Blu-ray coming available appropriately on Friday July 13th marking the 41st anniversary of Hodder's life-changing accident.

TO HELL AND BACK: THE KANE HODDER STORY, the first documentary film acquired by Dread Central Presents, is directed by Derek Dennis Herbert and portrays the harrowing story of famed stuntman Kane Hodder who overcame a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. In addition to his childhood, the documentary focuses on his survival of a near-death burn accident as well as his career as a genre icon that spans over 100 films and saw him kill more people on screen than any other actor.

"To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story": Official Trailer

Film Review: "Terrifier"

Usually when I decide to buy or see a film a film, I would take a look at the film’s trailer. This wasn’t the case with “Terrifier”. The two main reasons why I chose to see this film with seeing the trailer are that it starred Catherine Corcoran whom I liked from “Return to Return Nuke Em’ High” and the fact that this films was being presented on Dread Central’s new film label Dread Central Presents.

The film follows two women (Jenna Kanell, Catherine Corcoran) who leave a Halloween party to head home. While walking to their car they find out that they are being stalked by a sadistic clown known Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton). To make matters worse, their car has a slashed tire so one of the women calls her sister (Samantha Scaffidi) to pick them up. Soon, all three women will be forced to play his deadly game as they have to fight to survive before becoming Art the Clown’s latest victims themselves.

When I saw and reviewed “Red Eye” almost two months ago, I thought that it would be most disturbing film that I would see all year as it was very bloody and shocking. Well that took almost two months because “Terrifier” has taken that title as most disturbing film of 2018 as this is one of the most gruesome slashers that I’ve seen period.

One of the main things that makes this film so good was Damien Leone direction. He does a very good job making sure this action is intense from start to finish. From the way that he edits the film to the way that he and his effects teams make the scenes very gory in a disturbing way, everything is done in a way that you are shocked at what’s happening on screen. It helped give the film its intense tone. The other thing that Leone does very well is to make sure the performances are directed in a way that it keeps you interested in the film. It makes for the action to work well with the story.

For horror films to be very good, it needs a good villain. This film has it as David Howard Thornton’s performance was very menacing even though he never utters a word in the film. He’s able to make his character feel horrifying through his body language and making his character very mime like. It helps make him terrifying to watch on screen.

The screenplay written also by Leone was very shocking. One of things that help makes it work was the way that he makes sure the story has a very dark and demented tone from start to finish. He achieves that by making sure every action scene had a sinister feel to it. It helped make the both the action and the death scenes in the story feel disturbing and dark. The other thing that I liked about this screenplay was the fact the way he approaches the Art the Clown character. To give the character no dialogue and make him frightening through his look and mannerisms is what makes the character very scary and downright frightening on screen. It makes this film very shocking to watch.

This is one of those films that felt like you were watching a splatterfest and that makes a very good horror film. With its directing and terrifying action, “Terrifier” is one of the most demented slashers that will make you afraid of clowns and earns the Horror Chamber Seal of Approval.

Clown Terror Reigns Supreme as Dread Central Presents "Terrifier"

Epic Pictures and Dread Central Presents recently released information for their upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack release of "Terrifier". The film stars  David H. Thorton, Jenna Kenall (THE BYE BYE MAN) and Catherine Corcoran (RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH).

Special features on the  DVD/Blu-Ray includes Audio Commentary with writer/director Damien Leone and David H. Thorton (Art the Clown), Behind-The-Scenes Footage, Interview with Jenna Kanell. Deleted Scenes, Art the Clown Time Lapse Make-Up Video, Stills and Red-Band & Green-Band Trailers

"Terrifier" is available at their official website at:  https://epic-pictures.com/merchandise/terrifier-dvd--blu-ray-2-disc-pack


Press Release:
TERRIFIER Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack Will Kick Off Dread Central Presents Collector’s Series!

No more clowning around! After several successful VOD releases and a series of monthly theatrical event screenings, Dread Central Presents are now bringing their horror movies home, where they belong, with collector’s edition Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs, starting with Damien Leone’s 80's slasher throwback TERRIFIER on March 27th.

“We are still avid collectors of physical releases, so it is important for us that we make the films available that way,” said Dread Central Presents’ Director of Distribution, Rob Galluzzo. “We worked very closely with Damien on every aspect of the disc, including the cover artwork, the menus, and the special features to make sure we delivered a great package to fans that have been waiting for Art the Clown’s arrival. Dread Central has always been for the fans, by fans, so we know what we’d want to see and you’re going to get that with our collector’s edition discs.”

In TERRIFIER, a maniacal clown name Art the Clown (David H. Thorton) terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way! From Damien Leone, the director of ALL HALLOW’S EVE and FRANKENSTEIN VS THE MUMMY and starring Jenna Kenall (THE BYE BYE MAN) and Catherine Corcoran (RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH), experience the film that Bloody-Disgusting called “the scariest clown on screen!”

TERRIFIER will begin shipping in an all-region Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack on Tuesday, March 27th at a suggested retail price of $19.99.

Pre-orders are available exclusively through the Epic Pictures’ store at $14.99 here: https://epic-pictures.com/merchandise/terrifier-dvd--blu-ray-2-disc-pack

Below is a full listing of bonus features and content you’ll find on the disc!

Features Include:
- Audio Commentary with writer/director Damien Leone and David H. Thorton (Art the Clown)
- Behind-The-Scenes Footage
- Interview with Jenna Kanell
- Deleted Scenes
- Art the Clown Time Lapse Make-Up Video
- Stills
- Red-Band & Green-Band Trailers
- English and Spanish subtitles
- Collectible Reverse Cover Art
- All Region

Pre-orders are also available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/terrifier/id1343789417

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQCAfqSw7w

Official Trailer for the Bloody Romantic Horror Film "Nina Forever"

Epic Picture Group recently released the official trailer for their upcoming release "Nina Forever". The film stars Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry, Fiona O'Shaughnessy.

"Nina Forever" hits theaters in limited release and VOD on February 12th.

For more information on this film, you can visit the film's official website at: http://ninaforever.com/

Plot Synopsis:

A darkly comic love story. Holly’s attempt at helping Rob through his grief is not aided by his dead girlfriend Nina coming back, bloody and broken, every time they make love.

"Nina Forever": Official Trailer