GINGER NUTS OF HORROR'S NEWS BLAST 30 JAN 2018

The Campus
“The Devil Will Take Your Soul...One Piece At a Time.”​

Gas Money Pictures is the studio behind the horror thriller The Campus. Starring Rachel Amanda Bryant, this film involves Morgan’s greed, a curse and reliving death over and over again. The Campus will have its World Premiere in Hollywood, in late January. Members of the media are welcome to attend. And, a look ahead at the film’s release is hosted here.
 
In the story, Robert (Robert C. Pullman) has died after breaking a deal with the Devil. His daughter returns for his funeral, only to be drawn into a family curse.Now, Morgan (Bryant) is in a never-ending cycle of being murdered, resurrected, only to be killed again. The Campus is a genre-bending thriller ride, deftly combining sub-genres such as body horror, zombies, ghosts and monsters.
 
The Campus will also show through Video-on-demand. After the theatrical premiere on January 27th and lasting to February 1st, The Campus will be available on Amazon Instant on February 1st, exclusively. Later, the film will be available on iTunes and VUDU, at the end of February. Then, The Campus will show on home entertainment formats (DVD, Blu-ray) in April. There will be lots of opportunities to see The Campus’ thrills and chills on the big and small screen, beginning this month!

The Campus AFM Trailer #1 from Gas Money Pictures on Vimeo.

The official synopsis: Robert dies after breaking his deal with the Devil, bringing his daughter home for the funeral. Morgan arrives with the intent of ripping off the family business but soon finds herself in a never-ending cycle of terror; being brutally murdered then resurrected over and over again - each time losing another piece of her soul.


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Glasgow Horror Festival is back for 2018!

Glasgow Horror Festival is back for 2018! Expanding on our successful Halloween season horror festival, Popcorn Horror is proud to launch Glasgow Horror Festival: BITESIZE.

We know that horror is for life, not just for Halloween! Glasgow Horror Festival: BITESIZE is there to fill the long months between Halloweens, and provide a more condensed version of our annual October event. The mini-fest is set to take place in Blackfriars Bar, Bell Street on Sunday 1st April.

There’s a lot packed in a single spooky evening though, with a horror feature double bill, two shorts programs, spectacular show from Ash Pryce featuring illusions and gore, and horror raffle -  Plus opportunity to pick up Popcorn Horror merch (and, of course grab some popcorn).

As always, Popcorn Horror will be showcasing the very best of independent horror talent, films which are innovative, inspiring and horrific. Glasgow Horror Festival aims to prove that creativity and quality filmmaking do not require a Hollywood budget, and to showcase horror outwith mainstream franchises to our local audience.
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As well as the line up consisting of independent horror feature films and shorts programs, the mini-fest will kick off with Pryce’s praised show ‘Adventure’s With The Dead‘ – inspired by old school seances and horror hosts. Pryce is the creator and star of the sell out shows The Twilight Séance and Keep Calm and Scary On - as well as being the founder of Edinburgh Horror Festival. His BITE SIZE performance is a new show delving into the world of Spirit communication, ghosts, ghouls and witchcraft. Mixing a unique style of mentalism and magic, with tales of the supernatural, this show is packed with paranormal illusions both new and classic.

Join us this April 1st for an evening packed with spooks and thrills in the heart of Glasgow, surrounded by your fellow horror fans, freaks and geeks of the city.

Tickets - 

​http://bit.ly/2DhjbC0

Film submission - 

https://filmfreeway.com/GlasgowHorrorFestivalBITESIZE

Facebook Event Page - http://bit.ly/2B3xLa0

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David J. Schow   recipient of the inaugural J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award

(Photo by Timothy R. Bradstreet)

David J. Schow will be the recipient of the inaugural J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented during the first annual Splatterpunk Awards ceremony later this year. Schow is the person who first coined the term “splatterpunk,” which has been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2002. His seminal body of work includes such novels as The Kill Riff, The Shaft, and Upgunned; his nine short story collections include Seeing Red, Black Leather Required, Havoc Swims Jaded, Eye, and the 40-year anniversary volume DJStories: The Best of David J. Schow. As editor he brought us the classic Silver Scream anthology and the three-volume Lost Bloch series (celebrating Robert Bloch rarities). As scenarist he has written prodigiously for film (The Crow [with John Shirley], Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, The Hills Run Red) and television (Masters of Horror, Mob City). His non-fiction includes two books exploring The Outer Limits TV series, The Art of Drew Struzan, and Wild Hairs, a compendium of his popular “Raving and Drooling” columns for Fangoria Magazine. He can be seen on various DVDs as expert witness or documentarian on everything from Creature from the Black Lagoon and Psycho to I, Robot and King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen, and was lead researcher and commentator on the recent Outer Limits Blu-Ray set. His previous honors include the World Fantasy Award (Best Short Fiction), the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award (Book of the Year), the International Horror Guild Award (Best Non-Fiction Book), and the ultra-rare Dimension Award from Twilight Zone Magazine. Despite what the internet says, he has never won a Bram Stoker Award, and he's okay with that
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The Splatterpunk Awards were founded by Wrath James White and Brian Keene, and recognize superior achievement in the horror fiction sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror. The awards ceremony will take place August 24 through 26 at Killercon in Austin, Texas. Please visit Killer Con Austin dot com for more information

PROVIDENCE: The Shadow Over Lovecraft 

Following many successful years of work with their respective shows and companies, Dominic Allen (Belt-Up, A Common Man) and Simon Maeder (The Jurassic Parks, Licensed To Ill) are joining forces to create a fun & frightening physical comedy about the Godfather of all modern horror: HP Lovecraft.

“Life is a hideous thing.” - HP Lovecraft

Prepare to be amazed, terrified, and driven insane! Great Cthulhu may be sleeping beneath the sea, but in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft can’t get a wink.

Join the morose and miserable Howard Phillips Lovecraft, author of ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, ‘Shadow Over Innsmouth’ and other weird tales, as he contemplates the many mistakes that make up his life.
His father went mad when he was four. He suffered a mental breakdown when he was eighteen. He lived with his overprotective mother until he was thirty. He loathed seafood, loved coffee and hated immigrants. Indeed he despised anyone who wasn’t an 18th Century English Gentleman. Himself most of all. Or maybe immigrants. Lovecraft's losses were fortunately our gains as his enigmatic, tortured mind would give birth to a body of work we now consider as the foundations of the modern horror genre.

Using physical comedy, live music and all the classic horror tropes you can rattle a chain at, ‘Providence’ explores a wretched life and asks a haunting question: can any love be salvaged from one so filled with hate?

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. - HP Lovecraft

Providence: The Shadow Over Lovecraft is created and performed by Dominic Allen and Simon Maeder. Lighting Design - Ina Berggren. Sound and music - Wilfred Petherbridge. 

Simon Maeder has been creating theatre professionally since 2011. He is a Lecoq-trained, physical comedian who is best known for his work with his award winning company, Superbolt Theatre (creators of ‘The Jurassic Parks’ and ‘Mars Actually’). Outside of Superbolt he created the hiphop musical ‘Licensed To Ill’ which received 3 ‘Offie Award’ nominations and a Theatre & Technology Award. He also creates outdoor theatre with Wet Picnic and regularly gigs as a stand up comic. 

Dominic Allen is an Artistic Director of Belt Up Theatre and is the creator of 'A Common Man', his critically acclaimed solo show about Thomas Paine. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and went on to win the prestigious Peter O'Toole Prize. He has worked as an actor with Sally Cookson, Tom Morris and Les Enfants Terribles, and as a puppeteer with Finn Caldwell. His writing has been performed in the UK, USA and Australia. 

Ina Berggren freelances as stage and production manager as well as theatre technician. She has been based in London since 2008, she is originally from Sweden where she started her career before moving to the UK for family reasons. Ina went to Drama College in Sweden with focus on Stage and Lighting but will at this point have reached the level where she is today, by working in the industry for the last 10 years. She is at the moment, as well working on Providence working as technical and stage manager for Theatre Temoin, company stage manager for Superbolt Theatre and with Kane Power Theatre as stage manager. 

Wilfred Petherbridge is an award winning multi-instrumentalist and composer based in the UK. His works have been performed in Australia, Japan, India, Iceland, UK and Sweden. Having studied composition at Dartington College of Art he continued to co-found music and dance company Coegi with whom he won Stockholm Fringe Festival's 'Young STOFF' award. Between 2013-2015 he contributed to the running of the Philharmonia Orchestra's touring outreach programme iOrchestra which was awarded the Philharmonic Society's 'Audience and Engagement' award in 2015. 

LISTING INFORMATION 
Dates: 31st January - 4th February 2018
Venue: Vault Festival (The Pit), The Vaults, Leake Street, London, SE1 7NN Time: 21:15 (16:45 matinee on Saturday 3rd)
Running Time: 60mins
Age Guidance: 12+ (some adult themes)
Press Night: 1st February
Tickets: £14.50
Booking: vaultfestival.com/whats-on/providence/
Web: vaultfestival.com
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Instagram: @providencecult 

FLAY RELEASES NEW TRAILER AHEAD OF MARCH RELEASE

"Everything you could want in a Horror movie" - BTTM.co.uk

"An inventive, well-mounted and visually stunning exercise in paranormal fear" - A World of Dreams
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Long-awaited Horror fantasy Flay, from director Eric Pham, will be released 3/6 via Distribber.

Flay hails from a filmmaker who cut his teeth working VFX work on some of Robert Rodriguez’s best known films, including Grindhouse and Sin City.

The film features Violett Beane (The Flash) and Phantasm star A. Michael Baldwin. Elle LaMont (Alita: Battle Angel, Machete Kills), Dalton Gray (Lazer Team, Dumber and Dumber To), Johnny Walter, Aaron Spivey-Sorrells, Peggy Schott, Kaylee King and Noe de la Garza also star.

After the death of her mother, an estranged daughter struggles to save her brother, and those around her from a malevolent faceless spirit.

Flay available digitally 3/6 from Distirbber.

LONG-LOST JACK KIRBY THE PRISONER COMIC BOOK PUBLISHED BY TITAN

PART OF TITAN COMICS’ THE PRISONER PUBLISHING PROGRAMME FOR THE 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF FIRST US TRANSMISSION!


Titan Comics are thrilled to announce two new projects based on The Prisoner, licensed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the surreal 1960’s cult TV classic in 2018: an oversized artist edition of a lost comic book classic by comic book legends Jack Kirby and Gil Kane; as well as a brand-new comic series set in the world of The Prisoner by celebrated writer Peter Milligan (X-Statix, The Mummy) and artist Colin Lorimer (The Hunt, Harvest).


First shown on Canadian and UK TV screens in 1967, The Prisoner was co-created, written, directed and starred Patrick McGoohan (Scanners, Braveheart). Titan’s new unmissable comic collections and comic series are set to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the first US transmission in 1968.


In July, Titan Comics will publish an art-sized, hardcover collection of Jack Kirby, Gil Kane and Steve Englehart’s long-lost, previously unpublished The Prisoner comic strips based on the cult classic.


This special oversized collectors edition will contain the entire 17 page Jack Kirby strip, the first six pages of which were inked and lettered by Mike Royer, as well as 18 pages of pencils drawn by legendary comic artist Gil Kane.


In addition to reprinting these rare pages, this collection also features unmissable bonus archive material including facsimiles of the original script as written by Steve Englehart.


The Prisoner: Jack Kirby And Gil Kane Art Edition (ISBN: 97817858662878) is just one part of Titan Comics’ exciting plans for The Prisoner’s 50th Anniversary year –alongside a brand-new comic series based on the cult favorite TV series, written by Peter Milligan with art by Colin Lorimer.


Titan Comics’ new series transports readers back to the mysterious village where everyone is a number, and features six amazing covers, including Mike and Laura Allred, Jack Kirby, a Patrick McGoohan photo cover and more to be revealed.


Titan Comics’ all-new The Prisoner comics and The Prisoner: Jack Kirby and Gil Kane Art Edition will be available to order from the upcoming February 2018 Diamond Previews catalogue. Fans can find their local comic book store via www.comicshoplocator.com.


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About Titan Comics
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Titan is one of the most successful independent publishing operations in the US, with a recent six-week run at #1 in the New York Times bestseller list.


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MY LIFE IN HORROR: ADOLESCENCE: SURVIVAL HORROR PART ONE
​DOCTOR WHO - THE TWELFTH DOCTOR YEAR ONE