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FEATURED RELEASES - HORROR

Rancid extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Everyone has an Expiration Date.

Four applicants, with their own hidden agendas, are accepted by a mysterious corporation to participate in a medical experiment at an isolated testing facility.

Reviews:
"This film will blow most South African movies clear out of the water."
-- mov-e.com

"There may not be a more highly anticipated indie-horror project… fantastically creepy and uber bad-ass teaser."
-- HorrorTalk.com

Sci-fi/Thriller | HD | 92 minutes | 2011 | South Africa

 


FEATURE FILMS - HORROR

Clinic (aka Sovia: Death Hospital) in 3D extended descriptionplay trailer

Synopsis:
One mistake can change many lives.

A nurse, Sovia, makes a fatal mistake in the emergency room, killing a patient. Later that night, Sovia has a surreal, near-death experience in which the deceased patient appears & touches her shoulder. When Sovia recovers, she finds a bruise has developed at the exact place she was touched by the deceased. Unknowingly, she passes the bruise to others – who are then killed at the hands of the deceased. Sovia becomes the prime suspect in the murders and soon begins to discover the truth. Since nobody believes her, it is up to Sovia to save herself & the others.

“A classy horror flick with a creepy atmosphere.“ -- Slasherpool.com

Festivals:
IETFF Monte Carlo
Cairo International Film Festival
Drake International Film Festival (Caserta, Italy)
Festival of Festivals (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Thriller/Horror | HD | 86 minutes | Germany (dubbed English version available) | 2009

 


The Devil’s Gravestone extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
From the Blood of This City, God’s Shadow Will Be Born.

Jaq Molton was a beaming mother and devoted wife until the day she came home to find her son savagely murdered by her husband, Cale. As her despair turns to anguish and ultimately vengeance, Jaq plunges into a crusade to find her husband and impose a vicious retribution. Her relentless quest thrusts her into the depraved underbelly of Roach City, teeming with fiendish vampires and an unscrupulous society. Constantly hitting one dead end after another, Jaq appears to be fighting a lost cause, when she meets Dick, a Roach City detective, who offers her some unexpected information on Cale’s whereabouts. Through a bizarre and unraveling story, Jaq learns that her husband, a cruel and particularly feared vampire, is on a prophecy fulfilling mission that puts all the souls of humanity at risk.

Cast:
Elle LaMont (Strings)
Joe Nemmers (The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans / Late Bloomers)
Niko Red Star (Killer School Girls from Outer Space)
Grant James (Tombstone / UHF)

Horror/Thriller | HD | 92 minutes | USA | 2010

 


Headhunter: The Assessment Weekend extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
How far would you go to get ahead?

A motley group of business students in Berlin (Germany) sign up for Takahashi Corp.'s assessment weekend, hoping to land one of the coveted spots with the consulting company. Under the watchful eye of a company psychologist, the team-working and improvisational skills of the aspirants will be put to the test in a survival-type situation.

But nothing goes according to plan - the group arrives to find the base camp completely destroyed. Trapped in the woods with no food, no shelter and no way to communicate with the outside world, the real characters of the students come to light, as one by one, they start to lose their heads…

Film Festivals:
ShockerFest International Film Festival (USA)
B-Movie Fest (USA)
Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival (USA)
Amberg Horror Fest (GERMANY)
Phantasmagoria Film Festival (UK)
Horror UK (UK)

Thriller/Horror | HD | 93 minutes | 2009 | Germany (in English)

 


Live Animals extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
A ruthless entrepreneur targets young, white victims for his macabre business. Using an isolated horse barn, he sells his captives to the highest bidder. Five college friends on a vacation at a lake house are brutally kidnapped and find themselves prisoners, awaiting the auction block. Rather than succumb to a slave's existence, two of the remaining victims chance death for freedom only to discover this twisted underworld reaches further than they imagine.

World Premiere at the Hollywood Film Festival.

Winner: Best Picture, Audience Choice Award -- Memphis International Film Festival (April 2009)

Most Rights Available except United States.

DV | Horror | 85 minutes | 2008 | USA

 


Mad Cow extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Mad Cow is a fast-paced, crazy comedy horror movie that dares to go where Naked Gun, Scary Movie and Shaun of the Dead feared to tread.

Mad Cow sets out to spoof the zombie/horror movie genre in a new and totally insane way, following the story of a Frankenstein-like experiment that goes horribly wrong, with hilarious results.

Cast:
Tanya van Graan (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder)
Greg Viljoen (Gandhi, My Father / Cape of Good Hope / Wild at Heart)

Comedy/Horror | HD | 90 minutes | 2010 | South Africa

 


Psychotica (aka Nostrum) extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
One last party. One bad trip.

Rocked by the gruesome death of one of their best friends, a group of teenage heroin addicts barricade themselves in an abandoned farmhouse in order to kick the habit. Things get out of hand when the drugs they brought with them for one last 'hoorah' are more than they bargained for. They struggle to escape with their lives when one of them snaps and turns violent.

Executive Produced by Michael Klawitter (The Bone Collector)

"A grim, genuinely creepy and stylish slice of dark pulp fiction..."
Fangoria Magazine, Editor-in-Chief Chris Alexander

"Disturbing as Hell."
Don Carmody, Producer (Resident Evil: Afterlife)

Horror | HD | 80 minutes | 2010 | Canada

 


Sensored extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Words from your mouth are not lies if you believe them.

Children’s book author Wade Mixon is the kind of person everyone fears having as a neighbor. He is seemingly quiet, polite, clean and gentle. Behind closed doors, Wade is quite disturbed -- revealing dark secrets, twisted thoughts and criminal behavior.

“The great Robert Picardo gets inside the mind of a madman in Ryan Todd's unexpected, riveting mindbender that plays like a horror film but ends up being so much more. A tour-de-force for one of my favorite actors, who at last gets to carry a picture. Sarah Knowlton is likewise memorable. Timely, thoughtful and altogether engrossing. One of the year's finest indies.”
- Joe Dante (Director: The Howling / Gremlins / The Hole)

Starring: Robert Picardo (Star Trek: First Contact / Gremlins 2: The New Batch/ Innerspace / The Howling)

Horror | HD | 91 minutes | USA | 2009

 


Spike extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Spike is the monstrously mutated suitor who builds a forest lair in which he dwells for several years while awaiting the arrival of his “beauty” - a girl with whom he shares a history, and whom he has idolized his entire life.
The girl and a group of friends find themselves, by no coincidence, stranded in Spike’s forest. The Beast kidnaps his Beauty. Spike also injures her boyfriend and holds him hostage. Thus begins the girl’s quest to recover her ill-fated lover from Spike -- whether through reason, charm, coercion, or violence -- while her friends try to recover her.
Spike maneuvers through the dark tensions of a monster’s love and the depths to which a beauty may sink to evade it, arguably becoming monstrous herself. In the end, we must uncomfortably agree that, as Spike himself says, “There is always some madness in love.” Spike gives that madness life.

"Impressive, uniquely engaging gothic fairytale with unexpected turns." - Sean Decker, FANGORIA

"An assured and stylish mix of David Lynch and the brothers Grimm." - Callum Waddell, DREAMWATCH/TOTAL SCI-FI

BEST OF THE FEST: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SELECTION: SHRIEKFEST (LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 2009)

Thriller/Horror | Super 16mm | 80 minutes | 2008 | USA
Available on Digital Beta and HDCam.

 


The Unforgiving (aka I Want to Die) extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
On the outskirts of Johannesburg, a spate of killings has plagued a desolate highway. With no leads and nowhere to turn, authorities focus all their attention when two survivors turn up alive. Caught in a labyrinth of an investigation, Detective Hirsch tries to piece the puzzle together through Alice, an ex-drug addict, and Rex, a traumatized victim.

What follows is a brutal account of what happened to these to survivors. Told in an unconventional narrative structure, The Unforgiving tosses and turns between points of views and character perceptions as the film builds to its terrifying climax.

Crossing all moral boundaries, the film will leave the audience questioning what they would do to survive if their lives were in the hands of one of the most grotesque serial killers imaginable.

Reviews:
"If you're a fan of the Saw series, watch this. Solid. Not a dull moment!”
-- Bravado Gaming, Alwyn Kotze

“You'll be kept firmly on your toes. It's just plain good."
-- JHBLive, Genevieve Vieira

2010 Theatical Release in South Africa: 30 screens, 6-week run.

Horror | HD | 74 minutes | 2010 | South Africa

 


Yesterday extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
In this zombie/spaghetti western, six strangers are forced to band together and flee the city when a zombie outbreak occurs. After making camp in the middle of the wilderness - and as the zombies close in - the group realizes it’s each other they should fear.

Reviews:
“I loved the hell out of Yesterday.”
Ain’t It Cool News

“An intense movie made with real skill.”
Quiet Earth

“You can believe in Yesterday. 4 Stars.”
Jay Seaver, Efilm Critic

15 Festival Selections including:
Winner: Best Director, Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Winner: Best Zombie Movie, Seattle True Independent Film Festival

Horror/Action | 16mm | 95 minutes | 2009 | Canada