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Take a look @ writer/director Brooks Hunter's 2014 psychological 'found footage' action thriller "American Descent", available on Blu-ray and DVD, March 8, 2016, exclusively from Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada, starring Eva Link, Olivier Surprenant, Caeden Lawrence and Mark Slacke:

"...in 2014, 'Sergeant First Class Stephen Harris' edited and uploaded this film. It was his message to the world. A group of teenagers are sent an unlabeled DVD from a U.S. Army base in Afghanistan containing a video of a strange woman tied to a tree. It ends with a clue. The teens follow the clue to another and yet another, until what started out as a game becomes a terrifying chase into the mind of Harris.

"At the end of the line, the teen’s world comes full circle as they discover they weren't just playing a game, they were pawns in a revenge plot only a master of war could devise.

Well, this week is kind of a wash when it comes to the home entertainment shelves. While there are some releases that might interest you, this is one of barest weeks yet….then again, we are only in the second week of 2012. There are a few Mill Creek releases, including a Spaghetti Western collection and even a Synapse Films release!

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The greatest mysteries of the world’s most recognized sleuth!

The legacy of the investigative mastermind Sherlock Holmes has transcended through three centuries and appeared in books, television series, films and so much more. This deluxe 4 DVD collection includes 4 feature films and the entire 39 episode American television series featuring...

Directed by Brooks Hunter

Written by Brooks Hunter, Vincent Galvez, Geof Heintzman

Featuring Marc Alarie, Irena Angelousta, Vanessa Broze, Dany Gehshan

Okay people, I think we’ve reached a point where there is simply no more rope or duct tape left on the proverbial shelf. Seriously, horror filmmakers, the shelf is empty. Now before you head out to the garage and begin searching for electrical cords, twine, yarn or razor wire for your psychotic fill-in-the-blank to tie up some unlucky prey - please understand that the shelf metaphor extends far beyond the Ace Hardware aisle. The horror genre has always been the underachiever in the cinema class. It’s even below science fiction as far as derivative and throwaway films are concerned. Anything original that strikes a cord with an audience will immediately be “sequelized,” “homage-enized” or completely ripped-off for the next couple of decades. Horror formulas are so embedded in the collective psyche,...

*full disclosure: a DVD screener of this film was provided by the producers of Kenneyville.

Director: Brooks Hunter.

Writers: Vincent Galvez, Geoff Heintzman and Brooks Hunter.

Cast: Marc Alarie, Irena Angelousta and Vanessa Broze.

Kennyville begins strangely enough, with the voice of a drugged out female wanting to give her all to a frightened and gagged male. Her voice is almost lamenting, and her motives uncertain until she reveals what is in the syringe she carries. Everything that she believes is beautiful is contained within it. The mystery of how important this sequence ties in to the rest of the film is interesting. Viewers have to stay sharp in knowing who is who by their voice.

Otherwise, the rest of the film focuses in on the case that Patrick (Dany Gehshan) and Kelly (Vanessa Broze), two private investigators, have decided to undertake. Kim (Kelsey Oluk) has gone missing in a hick town known as Kennyville,...

It's hard to imagine a scenario more frightening than being abducted, but how about one where you watch someone you care about being abducted right in front of you? Or, even worse, when you are already investigating a kidnapping and know just how dangerous the situation is?

This is the predicament that the upcoming release Kinneyville hinges upon. When private investigators Charlie and Kelly travel to the small town of Kinneyville, Ontario, they never assume that they themselves will soon be the next victims. With Charlie attacked and helpless as Kelly is abducted and taken to realize the same fate as Kim, they woman they were investigating, the story soon takes a wicked turn.

Delving into such issues as paranoia, bi-polar disorder, brainwashing and abuse, Kenneyville looks to put a different spin on a familiar idea. Director (and writer/producer/editor) Brooks Hunter worked his own experiences into the frantic feel of Kinneyville.

Brainwashed assassins! This small town is up to some serious motives. “Kenneyville” is the new upcoming thriller by Brooks Hunter . We got a cuple stills below.

Hunter had this to comment:

“Kenneyville has numerous metaphors in it for the painful journey one must travel through while falling into serious stages of anxiety and delusional thinking. It is a fictional, fantasy world in which many of the characters, events, sets, and production design represent various stages and elements of transitioning from feeling “normal” to having the world become emotionally paralyzing. These themes stem from a very common theme in life where pain… More...

Indie horror is alive and well and 2010 proved just that. President's Day from director Chris Lamartina had a unique premise involving a serial killer dressed in an Abe Lincoln costume killing the particpants of a high school presidential election. Adam Green stepped up and did his best work to date with Frozen. Jen and Slyvia Soska turned in the one of a kind Dead Hooker in a Trunk. Joshua Grannell balanced nostalgia with a very modern story of a theater owner killing off patrons while filming it to display the deaths as the latest entries in a short film series. Outside of 2010, indie horror has brought as the Saw series, Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project. With Kenneyville, Brooks Hunter tells the story a young woman (Kelsey Olu) who goes missing. Two private detectives are hired to find her. With undercover aliases, Charlie (Dany Gehshan) and Kelly (Vanessa Broze...

Dany Gehshan is a man of many trades working as an actor and as a director. He just landed himself his first starring role in a future length film. He will be working under director Brooks Hunter's guidance in Kenneyville. He also just finished up directing producer Morgan Muscat's production of Severance starring Ash Catherwood and he has also a short film in which he stars and directs entitled Benjamin & Daniel. Here's what Dany Gehshan had to say.

So who is Dany Gehshan, and what are you all about?

I'm about art - Whether it's the painted picture, a logo, a design, or, more recently, writing a screenplay, directing a film or performing in one. There's something about the creative process that's thrilling, especially in being able to move someone to any emotion by openly sharing my own emotions through art, particularly in the case of film. It really connects people,...