An American Terror is a 2014 survival horror film written, edited and directed by Haylar Garcia (Gnaw). It stars Graham Emmons, Louise Macdonald, Brian Thompson.
A group of teenage outcasts, who have been picked on by the popular kids one too many times, hatch a plan to get revenge on their tormentors. After a night full of violent video games, drugs, and alcohol, they determine to kill their classmates at the upcoming homecoming dance.
In order to do so, they hatch a scheme to steal a cache of guns from a local trash pickup man. However, the kids uncover more than just guns. They stumble upon a torture chamber filled with unspeakable horrors…
An American Terror is available to download online via new British digital label Silversheaf Media from Amazon.co.uk
Reviews:
“While the subject matter of school shootings is not something to be made light of, when dealt with on a sophisticated and mature level, it’s compelling stuff to see play out. An American Terror treats this subject matter with respect, but also doesn’t forget to make it all engrossing and imaginative along the way.” Ambush Bug, Ain’t It Cool News
“ …darkly captivating, with strong performances by leads Graham Emmons and Louise MacDonald and haunting cinematography by Anton Fresco. It’s SLC Punk! meets House of 1000 Corpses, with a healthy dose of thoughtful and arresting social commentary.” Sean Decker, DreadCentral
“An American Terror’s final message seems to be that there are worse things than being bullied at school, like being trapped in a psychopath’s torture dungeon. While this is true in a literal fashion, it’s a pretty esoteric situation and doesn’t really have any relevance to people genuinely being bullied.” Courtney Button, HorrorCultFilms.co.uk
“An American Terror is a very modern and somewhat original movie for the genre. It’s also courageous for addressing such controversial topics and presenting them in a cautionary way. There are moments when the special effects are less than desirable…” Shawn Loeffler, Yell! magazine
“The film is great some great visuals, not a lot of gore, but when there is it’s innovative and new, the cast is great and the storyline is very well done. It shows how an experience like this can bring anyone’s value of life full circle.” Chad Armstrong, Legless Corpse
Main cast:
Graham Emmons, Louise Macdonald, Brian Thompson, Joe Abplanalp, Taylor Hulett, Nathan Green, James Miller, Jennifer Wilde, Jeff Nicholson.
‘Your blood runs cold… your heart jumps into your throat.’
Too Scared to Scream is a 1982 American psycho thriller film directed by actor Tony Lo Bianco from a screenplay by Neal F. Barbera, based on a story by Glenn Leopold. Starring Mike Connors (who also produced), Anne Archer and Ian McShane.
The film is known for its cameo line-up that includes actors such as John Heard, Maureen O’Sullivan and Murray Hamilton. The title song “I’ll Be There” was sung by Charles Aznavour.
The police investigate a string of deaths that occur in a high rise apartment building in New York City. The affable night doorman is a strong suspect…
Reviews:
“Too Scared to Scream comes across like a slightly demented TV movie but with the added benefits of some surprisingly gratuitous nudity, a fair bit of sleaze, a mountain of cheese and even a little gore thrown in too just to round things off nicely (I really can’t imagine this movie still sits on any of the star’s CVs though). So there’s plenty here to keep you entertained…” Hysteria Lives!
“My only guess as to how people passed this up is that it’s not much of a slasher and the leads aren’t anything like the dead teenagers of the era. Mike Connors was TV’s Mannix and Ian McShane was a nobody at the time (an terrific nobody). It’s also not particularly scary, which—granted—is a problem. But McShane is totally bonkers here…” Miles Lemaire, CHUD.com
“You just have to handle the well-intended yet uninspiring bridges. Minimal blood, Too Scared to Screambrings out some cheese and sleaze anyhow, with the sugar daddies, breasts and rather silly end. Leaving us with shockingly stylish Psycho-similar pieces…” Josh G., Oh, the Horror!
” …director Tony Lo Bianco builds some adequate suspense and throws in some smelly red herrings.” John Stanley, Creature Features
Choice dialogue:
Cynthia Oberman, the cleaner [Victoria Bass]: “You’re a sour-faced, down in the mouth, lowlife motherf*cker. Excuse the expression.”
Vincent Hardwick [Ian McShane]: “I have no friends lieutenant, I take my solace in my books.”
American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema is a British book by Jonathan Rigby, originally published in 2007 by Reynold and Hearn. A revised, expanded reprint is being published by Signum Books in October 2017.
Rigby also considers the genre’s great actors and directors — Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Vincent Price, to name but a few. This is the genre as it flourished from Universal’s early-thirties cycle and which culminated in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece Psycho, a film that forever changed and expanded the possibilities of horror cinema.
Friday the 13th Jason Voorhees with Sound Mega-Scale Doll
“He’s terrorized Camp Crystal Lake, the Big Apple and even the far reaches of space. Now Mezco lets you take the creepy camper-killer home.
Introducing the Friday the 13th Jason Voorhees with Sound 15-Inch Mega-Scale Doll from theFriday the 13th horror film series, Jason comes dressed in real cloth clothing modeled after his appearance inFriday the 13th Part III.
Featuring nine points of articulation and standing an imposing fifteen-inches tall, this super-sized psycho comes complete with his trademark machete and plays his iconic signature sound effect that lets you know when Jason is near.”
The Rave is a 2018 American slasher horror feature film, directed by Matthew Ward (Young Harvest; short: Thank You, Mr. Giggles), based on the screenplay co-written with Roger Jones, Brennan Eden and executive producer Conrad Fara. The plot is about a psycho clown who goes on a murderous rampage after experiencing a horrible life-altering tragedy…
The Conrad Studios production stars Paloma Paulin, Hannah Lane, Harper Dawahare and Talia Schade.
Cast and characters:
Jessica Paige York … Amelia’s Mother
Talia Schade … Jennifer – Angel; Ghost in the Family
Harper Dawahare … Lindsay
Jazz Securo … Ryder
Tim Hale … Petey
Vergena Fields … Lisa
Paloma Paulin … Lola
Logan Kidd … Dan
Kat Gore … Katrina
Wade Gawthorp … George
The Rave is scheduled for festival showings across the globe this winter.
Filming locations:
Principal shooting began September 26, 2017, in Lexington Kentucky, USA
President Evil is a 2018 American comedy horror feature film, with a mad slasher dressed as Donald Trump, directed by Richard Lowry (Apocalypse Rising; Alien Overlords; Dominion; Jessica: A Ghost Story) from a screenplay co-written with Gregory P. Wolk (Apocalypse Rising). The Giant Meteor Films production stars Christian Hutcherson, Johanna Rae and Jose Rosete.
The movie is a parody of classic slasher Halloween (1978) with a maniac dressed as Donald Trump replicating the role of seemingly unstoppable psychopathic killer Michael Myers.
Days before the November mid-term elections, three young girls who are a Muslim, Mexican and Haitian, are stalked by a deranged killer dressed as the POTUS.
Main cast and characters:
Christian Hutcherson … Sorenson / Scarborough – The Chair
The Slayer is a 2016 American slasher horror feature film written, produced and directed by former actor Reuben Rox (Return to Witch Graveyard; Screams of a Summer Day; Lurking Evil) who also stars.
The movie stars Catherine Franklin, Rachel Wise, Teresa Reed, Jade Michael LaFont, Luc Bernier, Sarah Hubbird, Ryan McKinnon, Randy Robinson.
Summer camp counsellors fall prey to the vicious killer lurking in the deserted grounds…
‘Demons long locked on the depths of the mind come out to destroy the weak and the believing!’
Point of Terror is a 1971 American psycho thriller directed by actor Alex Nicol (The Screaming Skull; The Night God Screamed; A*P*E) from a screenplay by Tony Crechales and Ernest A. Charles, based on a story by Chris Marconi and producer and star Peter Carpenter.
It was distributed in the US by exploitation specialists Crown International.
On January 31, 2017, Vinegar Syndrome release the film on Blu-ray on a double-bill with Blood Mania
Vinegar Syndrome proudly brings both of these jaw dropping classics to Blu-ray, newly restored from their original negatives and featuring their much sought after alternative TV versions (exclusive to this first pressing of 3,000 units)!
Bonus Features:
1. Bonus DVD featuring alternate TV versions for both films! (Limited to 3,000 units)
2. Region free 3-disc Blu-ray and DVD combo pack
3. Both films scanned and restored in 2k from 35mm camera negative
4. Commentary track on BLOOD MANIA with Robert Vincent O’Neill (Director), Leslie Simms (Actress) and Vicki Peters (Actress)
5. Video interview and introduction with director Robert Vincent O’Neill
6. Video interview with actress Leslie Simms
7. Theatrical trailers for both films
8. TV spots for both films
9. Promotional galleries for both films
10. Reverse cover artwork
11. English SDH Subtitles
Main cast:
Peter Carpenter (Blood Mania), Dyanne Thorne (Blood Sabbath; Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS; House of the Witchdoctor), Lory Hansen, Leslie Simms, Joel Marston, Paula Mitchell, Dana Diamond, Al Dunlap, Ernest A. Charles, Roberta Robson, Tony Kent.
Reviews:
“Rampant fashion violations, loud musical numbers, obscene checkered furniture, violent dream sequences, ratty wigs, equal opportunity nudity, saturated primary color lighting years before Suspiria, and reams of purple, sex-obsessed dialogue will keep even the most seasoned trash fanatic giddy with disbelief.” Mondo Digital
“Playing a lounge singer at a seaside dump called the Lobster House, the often shirtless [Peter] Carpenter manages a decent approximation of Tom Jones’s sweaty charisma in this lurid neo-noir that rips off The Postman Always Rings Twice and half a dozen of its contemporaries.” Stephen Bowie, World Cinema Paradise
“It’s more or less a slice of melodramatic sleaze and at the same time very much a vanity piece for Carpenter, whose struggling recording artist/stud character beds three very beautiful women during the course of the film’s soap opera-inspired shenanigans. The players drink too much, commit adultery and deceitfully murder…” George R. Reis, DVD Drive-In
” … it’s a pretty dry melodrama whose various twists and turns aren’t very effective, especially the film’s final reveal, which is eye-rollingly bad and groan-inducing, to say the least. Director Nicol throws in some stylistic flourishes here and there in an attempt to make things look interesting, and he sometimes succeeds on that level.” Oh, the Horror!
Middle of the Night is a 2017 American slasher horror feature film written and directed by David Scheinbaum. The movie stars Erika Othen, Shelly Martinez, Derek Easley and Adeana Lane.
Plot:
Cast members of a new reality TV show find themselves trapped in an old murder house with a sledgehammer wielding psychopath…
Cast and characters:
Erika Othen … Cari – Knock Knock (2007)
Shelly Martinez … Devin – The Scream (2009); P*rn Shoot Massacre; Dead Things
Derek Easley … Detective Levine – My Favorite Horror short; Zombie Geek short; Satanicus; Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark
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‘She’s alone… He’s a madman… Her nightmare is about to begin!’
The Last Victim – re-released as Forced Entry – is a 1975 American psycho thriller co-produced and directed by Jim Sotos (Sweet Sixteen) from a screenplay co-written with Henry Scarpelli. The movie stars Tanya Roberts and Ron Max.
Reviews:
“I didn’t anticipate enjoying this film and I didn’t; nor did I get anything out of it to make the watching of it worth the effort.” Fantastic Musings and Ramblings
“Poorly paced and haphazardly edited, Forced has little to recommend it (besides featuring the debut of TV’s Charlie’s Angels Roberts). Max does an okay job as the demented and mumbling Carl, but Sotos focuses on him entirely too much and the loony’s psychosis isn’t that interesting.” The Terror Trap
“The killer’s demented, misogynistic thoughts narrate most of the movie, which follows him as he rides around town in his car looking for victims. In the end he spots Tanya Roberts and holds her captive inside her own home. If you liked Maniac and have a high tolerance for tasteless exploitative trash, then you might enjoy this one.’ The Trashy Horror Charlie Show
Nancy Allen … Hitch Hiker – Poltergeist III; Terror in the Aisles; Dressed to Kill; Carrie
Brian Freilino … Peter Ulman
Vasco Valladeres … Pimp in Car (as Vasco Valladares)
Robin Leslie … Hooker in Car
Billy Longo … Charlie
Michael Tucci … Richie
Beth Carlton … Mrs. Hayes
David Kerman … Man with Dog
Frankie Verroca … Delivery Boy (as Frank Verroca)
Michele Miles … Girl on Bike
Glenn Scarpelli … Glenn Ulman
Amy Levitan … Amy Ulman
Tammy Beker … Phyllis on Phone (voice)
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Edward Theodore “Ed” Gein (August 8, 1906 – July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.
Gein confessed to killing two women – tavern owner Mary Hogan on December 8, 1954, and a Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, on November 16, 1957. Initially found unfit for trial, he was tried in 1968 for the murder of Worden and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent in a mental hospital.
The 2000 film Ed Gein (also known as In the Light of the Moon) starred Steve Railsback as the serial killer. Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007) cast Kane Hodder (best known for playing Jason Vorhees in four Friday the 13th movies and Victor Crowley in the Hatchet trilogy) as the eponymous murderer.
Gein’s father was an alcoholic who died in 1940. His mother died on December 29, 1945, at the age of 67. He was devastated by her death; in the words of author Harold Schechter, he had “lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely alone in the world.” Gein held onto the farm where they lived and earned money from odd jobs. He boarded up rooms used by his mother, including the upstairs, downstairs parlour and living room, leaving them untouched; while the rest of the house became increasingly squalid, these rooms remained pristine. Thereafter, Gein lived in a small room next to the kitchen. It was around this time that he became interested in reading death-cult magazines and adventure stories, particularly those involving cannibals or Third Reich atrocities.
On November 16, 1957, Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared, and police had reason to suspect Gein. Worden’s son told investigators that Gein had been in the store the evening before the disappearance, saying he would return the next morning for a gallon of antifreeze.
Upon searching Gein’s property, investigators discovered Worden’s decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down by ropes at her wrists, with a crossbar at her ankles. The torso was “dressed out like a deer”. She had been shot with a .22-caliber rifle, and the mutilations were made after her death.
Searching the house, authorities found:
Whole human bones and fragments
A wastebasket made of human skin
Human skin covering several chair seats
Skulls on his bedposts
Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off
Bowls made from human skulls
A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
Leggings made from human leg skin
Masks made from the skin from female heads
Mary Hogan’s face mask in a paper bag
Mary Hogan’s skull in a box
Bernice Worden’s entire head in a burlap sack
Bernice Worden’s heart in a saucepan on the stove
Nine vulvae in a shoe box
A young girl’s dress and “the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years-old”
When questioned, Gein told investigators that between 1947 and 1952, he made as many as forty nocturnal visits to three local graveyards to exhume recently buried bodies while he was in a “daze-like” state. On about thirty of those visits, he said he came out of the daze while in the cemetery, left the grave in good order, and returned home empty-handed.
On the other occasions, he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and took the bodies home, where he tanned their skins to make his paraphernalia.
Gein admitted robbing nine graves, leading investigators to their locations. Because authorities were uncertain as to whether the slight Gein was capable of single-handedly digging up a grave during a single evening, they exhumed two of the graves and found them empty (one had a crowbar in place of the body), thus apparently corroborating Gein’s confession.
Soon after his mother’s death, Gein apparently decided he wanted a sex change and began to create a “woman suit” so he could pretend to be female. Gein’s practice of donning the tanned skins of women was described as an “insane transvestite ritual.” Gein denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining: “They smelled too bad.”
Waushara County sheriff Art Schley reportedly assaulted Gein during questioning by banging Gein’s head and face into a brick wall. As a result, Gein’s initial confession was ruled inadmissible.Schley died of heart failure in 1968, at age 43, before Gein’s trial.Many who knew Schley said he was traumatised by the horror of Gein’s crimes and this, along with the fear of having to testify (especially about assaulting Gein), caused his death. One of his friends said: “He was a victim of Ed Gein as surely as if he had butchered him.”
Gein’s house and property were scheduled to be auctioned March 30, 1958, amid rumours the house was to become a tourist attraction. On March 27, the house was destroyed by fire. Arson was suspected, but the cause of the blaze was never officially solved.When Gein learned of the incident while in detention, he shrugged and said, “Just as well.” Gein’s car, which he used to haul the bodies of his victims, was sold at public auction for $760 to carnival sideshow operator Bunny Gibbons. He later charged carnival goers 25¢ admission to see it.
On July 26, 1984, Gein died of respiratory failure due to lung cancer at the age of 77 at the Mendota Mental Health Institute.His grave site in the Plainfield Cemetery was frequently vandalized over the years; souvenir seekers chipped off pieces of his gravestone before the bulk of it was stolen in 2000. It was recovered in June 2001 near Seattle and is now in storage at the Waushara County Sheriff’s Department.
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Dark Sense is a 2019 Scottish-British horror thriller feature film about a powerful psychic who is pitted against a relentless psychopath. Directed by Magnus Wake from a screenplay by Geoff Dupuy-Holder and Alistair Rutherford, based on the novel First and Only by Peter Flannery. The Encaptivate-First and Only production stars Shane O’Meara, James Robinson, Jim Sturgeon, Kim Allan...
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‘You’ll die laughing…’ The Rave is a 2018 American slasher horror feature film, directed by Matthew Ward (Young Harvest; short: Thank You, Mr. Giggles), based on the screenplay co-written with Roger Jones, Brennan Eden and executive producer Conrad Fara. The Conrad Studios production stars Paloma Paulin, Hannah Lane, Harper Dawahare and Talia Schade. Plot:
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