Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, is thrilled to be able to share an advance screener of the Shudder Original sci-animated horror Mad God, ahead of the film’s debut on the platform on Thursday, June 16. The film is directed by visionary and Oscar and Emmy Award-winning stop-motion animator and special effects supervisor Phil Tippett, founder of Tippett Studio and the creative powerhouse involved in such classics as RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Mad God is an experimental animated film set in a…
Author: Philip Rogers
May sees the welcome return of the Southend-on-Sea Film Festival (26-29 May), an annual celebration of movie making from across the globe. This year’s jam-packed programme is a true delight for film fans, with cinema classics, documentaries, insights into the history of Southend and an emphasis on putting independent film makers in the spotlight. The festival’s black tie curtain raising Gala night on Thursday 26 May, will see acclaimed Irish actor Colm Meaney in Southend for a screening of his compelling 2021 drama There’s Always Hope. He stars alongside Kate Ashfield in director/screenwriter Tim Lewiston’s film as successful author Jonathan Stack, who has been so obsessed with trying to…
The swashbuckling renegade flamenco rock rumba punk ‘n’ roll pioneers Gypsy Pistoleros will release a brand new single The Good, The Mad & The Beautiful in October 2022. Recorded, mixed and produced by fast-rising legend Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, Kerbdog, Terrorvision, The Professionals) at The Old Cider Press Studios, Pershore. Draper is also set to record the new album Duende a Go Go Go! in November 2022. The new material promises to be edgier, punkier and heavier side of Gypsy Pistoleros, whilst retaining the Flamenco Rumba heart and fully embracing their fiery flamenco/rumba passion, with their distinctive crossover of punk rock ‘n’ roll leanings! Gypsy Pistoleros have now moved onto the…
Trash Arts Productions and Brutalist Films are proud to launch the campaign for their latest indie horror “I Curse This Land” I Curse This Land will be Jackson Batchelors 2nd feature film after his critically acclaimed monster satire Monstrous Disunion. Synopsis: In a sleepy coastal village a curse lies waiting. Legend has it one night centuries ago when a smuggler was delivering his illicit wares, the excise men pounced. One of the villagers had betrayed him. The smuggler was caught and quickly hanged as an example but, his widow was more than she seemed, the practitioner of an ancient religion of magic and sorcery. The…
When killer alligators unleash chaos on a from the sewers of a small Louisiana town, it’s up to a local sheriff, an alligator expert, and an old gator hunter to kill the beasts. From writer/director Paul Dale, and starring Manon Pages (The Purge, Demigod), comes a limb-crunching, scaly new creature feature in the tradition of the classics ALLIGATOR and LAKE PLACID! On the day of the film’s release, the film’s cast and crew will be also participating in a free livestream of the film here. SEWER GATORS will be available on VOD, DVD, Blu-Ray, and collectible VHS on June 3 from…