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Exclusive: Anthony Alleyne directs low-budget horror film, which is the first part of a planned trilogy.

Principal photography is underway in Las Alpujarras, Spain on Sunburn, a low-budget horror feature from debut writer-director Anthony Alleyne.

Starring newcomers Ryan Tonkin, Helena Antonio and Carlos Martin, the cast also includes Ania Marson (Howl), who will feature in Denis Villeneuve’s forthcoming Blade Runner 2049.

The film follows an American backpacker who goes looking for his missing friend in an isolated Spanish village. There, he becomes entangled with an alluring but dangerous local woman.

Director Alleyne also produces for his company Born Wild with Lee Cooper, producing for his newly-formed outfit Proper Charlie, and Chiara Cardoso. Adrian Bellido is producing on location in Spain and also wrote the original story, which Alleyne developed into a screenplay.

Sunburn is the first part of a planned horror-thriller trilogy, with a further two films already in the early stages of development.

A three-week...

“Blair Witch,” the sequel to the 1999 thriller “The Blair Witch Project,” is now out in theaters. For those who enjoyed the horror film that tricked everyone into thinking it was a true story, it’s a great blast from the past. But for others like Heather Donahue, star of the original film, news of the sequel initially brought back some bad memories.

Donahue wrote a piece for The Guardian where she described how the marketing department for the first film faked her death to sell the movie and the emotions that followed as the picture got bigger and she was left in the dark.

“My obituary was published when I was 24. It’s a complicated thing to be dead when you’re still very much alive and eager to make a name for yourself,” she wrote. “ I was the girl. The girl from ‘The Blair Witch Project.’”

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Ava DuVernay is beloved for her intimate independent films (“I Will Follow,” “Middle of Nowhere”) and prestige dramas (“Selma”), but she’s about to head into blockbuster territory for Disney’s “A Wrinkle Of Time,” based on the beloved science fantasy novel by Madeleine L’Engle. The film will make DuVernay the first person of color to direct a $100 million feature, and it seems like she’s already having the time of her life in pre-production.

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Over the last couple weeks, DuVernay has been sharing photos directly to her Twitter page as she travels California and the world with her location scout team to find the perfect locales for her epic adaptation. “A Wrinkle In Time” centers around 13-year-old Meg Murry, who embarks on an epic adventure through the universe to rescue...

20th Century Fox has picked up the right to an upcoming novel called The Hunger. The film adaptation will be written and directed by Luke Scott, who is Ridley Scott’s son. He recently helmed the upcoming sci-fi thriller Morgan, which looks solid.

All we really know about the story for The Hunger at this point is that it will tell the tragic and bizarre tale of the Donner Party, which will be infused with a “Walking Dead-style twist. What is that twist? The report doesn’t say, but it’s safe to assume that zombies will be involved.

In case you’re not familiar with the Donner Party, it was a group of pioneers on their way to California who were trapped for several months in the Sierra Nevada in late 1846 and early 1847 due to a snow storm. To survive, many of them resorted to cannibalism. Only 48 of...

He may not be in "Chains," but some sturdy reinforcements can't hurt when Nick Jonas faces nature head-on in the new season of Running Wild with Bear Grylls.

People can exclusively reveal that Jonas, 23, will guest-star on the premiere this August when the star-studded outdoor adventure series returns with a spectacular, two-part season 3 opener.

The singer can be seen huddling in the snow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains as he and Grylls trek through icy cliffs and avalanche-prone mountains. And we're only a little "Jealous" of Grylls for getting to behold a shirtless Jonas as they splash through freezing waters.

He may not be in "Chains," but some sturdy reinforcements can't hurt when Nick Jonas faces nature head-on in the new season of Running Wild with Bear Grylls. People can exclusively reveal that Jonas, 23, will guest-star on the premiere this August when the star-studded outdoor adventure series returns with a spectacular, two-part season 3 opener.The singer can be seen huddling in the snow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains as he and Grylls trek through icy cliffs and avalanche-prone mountains. And we're only a little "Jealous" of Grylls for getting to behold a shirtless Jonas as they splash through freezing waters.

Greg and Vanessa Blasic are no ordinary father-daughter duo. After climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, in 2005, the pair from Rancho Santa Fe, California, made a pact to scale the highest mountains on each continent, a feat fewer than 400 people have accomplished. And after 12 years of intense training and climbing, Greg, 56, and Vanessa, 27, finally accomplished their goal when they conquered Mount Everest last month. "We help each other. I could help her when she had small problems with her stomach or nausea and she helped me with climbing skills because hers are better than mine," Greg told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Greg and Vanessa Blasic are no ordinary father-daughter duo. After climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, in 2005, the pair from Rancho Santa Fe, California, made a pact to scale the highest mountains on each continent, a feat fewer than 400 people have accomplished. And after 12 years of intense training and climbing, Greg, 56, and Vanessa, 27, finally accomplished their goal when they conquered Mount Everest last month. "We help each other. I could help her when she had small problems with her stomach or nausea and she helped me with climbing skills because hers are better than mine," Greg told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Red Hot Chili Peppers were the latest artists to cram in James Corden's vehicle to help the Late Late Show host get to work on time for "Carpool Karaoke," although the host likely regretted that decision as soon as Anthony Kiedis and Flea begin arguing about directions around Los Angeles within the first minute.

In addition to singing Rhcp tracks "Give It Away," "Under the Bridge," "Californication," new single "Dark Necessities" and a song from the musical Oliver!, Kiedis and Flea also debuted "Heemi Lheemey," a nonsensical, quasi-yodel the...

The Mammoth Lakes Film festival concluded on Sunday, May 29th with the award-winning documentary Sonita, followed by a lively, music and fun-filled awards presentation at Sierra Events Center. Over 50 films were screened over the five day fest, including premieres, presentation of the first ever Sierra Spirit Award to legendary director Joe Dante, filmmaker bonding at screenings and events, including a film fest hosted trip to Bodie ghost town. Awards, detailed below, included the presentation of the physical Orson trophy, each one with its own personality, and all created by local artist Josh Slater.

Jury Award for Feature Narrative – Bodkin Ras, a first time feature by director Kaweh Modiri. This Dutch film, shot in the remote town of Forres Scotland, caught the Jury by surprise with its intriguing blend of documentary and fiction. Its lyrical images, Poetic construction and poignant performances have indelible haunting effects that stay with the viewer. Awards:...

Courteney Cox, Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens, Nick Jonas and Lindsey Vonn have signed on for the upcoming season of NBC's adventure series Running Wild with Bear Grylls. Friends and Cougar Town alumna Cox and Olympic gold medalist Vonn will travel to Ireland with Grylls, Hough (Grease Live, Dancing with the Stars) heads to Africa, and Hudgens (Grease Live) and Jonas (Kingdom) to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Running Wild with Bear Grylls is produced by Electus and Bear…...

As one of the highest profile events on the film festival calendar, the announcement of the film selection for the Cannes Film Festival is always greatly anticipated. A broad range of cinema is always guaranteed, and this year is no exception. With Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller already known to be President of the 2016 Cannes competition Jury, we can now take a look at the feature films that will be included in the festival – which runs from May 11th to May 22nd, 2016.

Familiar names – such as Paul Verhoeven, Park Chan-Wook, Ken Loach, Sean Penn, Pedro Almodovar, Nicolas Winding Refn and Jim Jarmusch – will be among those competing for prestigious acknowledgement from the Jury, while several directorial debuts feature as entries in Un Certain Regard – from filmmakers such as Stephanie Di Giusto, Maha Haj and Michael O’Shea.

Opening Film

Cafe Society (Woody Allen)

Official Competition

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade...

Dear X-Philes, our time with Mulder and Scully must come to an end and here’s a teaser video for The X-Files season finale. The conclusion of the series’ return will air on Monday, February 22nd. Also in this round-up: details on Shudder’s first guest curator and his collection as well as a new trailer for Altar.

The X-Files Event: “Season Finale of The X-Files airs Monday, Feb. 22nd @ 8/7c on Fox!

The conclusion of Six-Episode Event Series Features Guest Stars Joel McHale, Robbie Amell, Lauren Ambrose, Annabeth Gish and William B. Davis.

Episode Information:

The investigations that Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) previously began with conspiracy theorist and web-tv show host Tad O’Malley (guest star Joel McHale) seem to have awakened powerful enemies. A widespread panic begins as people all over the country suddenly start falling gravely ill, and Scully must look within to try and find a cure.

Check out the brand-new trailer for Matthew Sconce’s new horror thriller Altar; which sees a group of old friends take a trip down memory lane in the Sierra Nevadas which ends in a bloody fight for survival. Sconce (Stricken) directed from a script he penned. Stefanie Estes, Jesse Parr, Brittany Falardeau, Deep Rai, Ancilla deValmont and Tim Parrish star as the unfortunate group of former classmates.

Altar is the terrifying story of a group of college classmates who get lost driving to a reunion campout in the Sierra Nevada mountains. After stopping for the night, they stumble onto something darker and must escape the evil they’ve unleashed. Not only are their lives in danger, but their immortal souls as well.

Altar is expected to premiere later in 2016.

Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, is being honored with a big hairy spider. A new species of black tarantula was founded in the Sierra Nevada foothills, near Folsom Prison, where Cash recorded one of his most famous albums. Aphonopelma johnnycashi was one of 14 new tarantula species discovered in the area, spider-studying scientist Chris Hamilton told the BBC. "It's a perfect name," he explains. "It fits the spider - it's found around Folsom and the males are predominantly all black, so it fits his image. I have a Johnny Cash tattoo so I was very happy that it worked out that way." As Cash himself said, "And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. One of the four beasts saying, Come and see, and I saw, and behold a black spider."...

America Lost and Found is a three film retrospective on Mubi of Peter Bo Rappmund's work. Psychohydrography (2010) starts playing on January 12, 2016, with Tectonics (2012) starting January 17 in the Us and 19th elsewhere, and Vulgar Fractions (2012) on January 26.PsychohydrographyAlong with an array of field recordings and non-diegetic aural effects, filmmaker Peter Bo Rappmund delicately integrates the sound of a skipping turntable needle at key junctures of his first feature, Psychohydrography (2010). Inspired by William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops—a 4-disc collection of tape loops from the early-80s which slowly deteriorated in real-time as the experimental composer attempted to transfer the recordings from analog to digital storage space in September 2001—the film’s unique sonic accompaniment functions in these moments as both quasi-score and thematic augmentation to what can generally be described as an observational landscape film. The correlations between Basinski’s opus, now synonymous with the tragedy of 9/11, and Rappmund...

Olatunde Osunsanmi ("The Fourth Kind" starring Milla Jovovich") has been tapped to direct "The Twisted," a thriller from Scott Free Productions' new movie division, "Ridley Scott Presents."  Osunsanmi will direct from a screenplay penned by Ari Schlossberg about a troubled child psychologist and a cameraman sent in to interview children at an isolated orphanage in Sierra Nevada following reports of strange occurrences. They expect to find reasonable causes, but when the children take a terrifying and twisted turn for the worse, the pair start to wonder if it's the adults who are actually in danger. Ridley Scott launched his new genre...

Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Tiff Bible: All the Reviews, Interviews and News Posted During The Festival Straight out of the gates at Tiff, Ridley Scott's company, Scott Free Productions, has announced the formation of a new genre label dubbed "Ridley Scott Presents..." The label's first project is set to be Olatunde Osunsanmi's thriller "The Twisted," a co-production with Verve Ventures. "We are very excited to be launching this new label with such an exciting and provocative project. The goal is to produce genre films from filmmakers who have a unique voice and a captivating vision. We hope it’s the start of many more to come," said Ridley and Giannina Scott, in a joint statement. "The Twisted" is set in an isolated orphanage in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The haunting film is penned by Ari Schlossberg ("Hide and Seek") and directed by Nigerian native Olatunde Osunanmi ("Fourth Kind"). "The.

Ridley Scott is set to launch a new genre label through his Scott Free Productions which has been dubbed "Ridley Scott Presents..."

The first project under that label is the Olatunde Osunsanmi-directed thriller "The Twisted" which will be produced alongside Verve Ventures. Scott, Giannina Scott and Colet Abedi will produce.

Ari Schlossberg ("Hide and Seek," "Lucky 13") penned the Sierra Nevada mountains-set story where strange things are happening to the children at an isolated orphanage.

Anna, a child psychologist with a haunted past, must team up with a parapsychologist and his cameraman to interview the children who are demonstrating mysterious behavior and soon start to wonder if it's the adults that are actually in danger.

Source: THR...

Freshly minted packaging and sales division Verve Ventures will launch sales here on The Twisted from Scott Free Productions’ new label Ridley Scott Presents.

Amy Beecroft [pictured] heads Verve agency’s new Verve Ventures, which packaged The Twisted and represents world sales.

Scott, whose The Martian gets its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow [Sept 11], produced the film with Giannina Scott and Colet Abedi, who developed for Scott’s company Cara Films.

Verve client Olatunde Osunsanmi will direct from Ari Schlossberg’s screenplay about a troubled child psychologist and a cameraman sent in to interview children at an isolated orphanage in Sierra Nevada following reports of strange occurrences.

Osunsanmi’s credits include the upcoming features Dark Moon for Universal and Eden for Gold Circle Films. He also wrote and directed Fourth Kind for Universal and his TV directing credits include Falling Skies, Under The Dome and Minority Report.

“I am thrilled that The Twisted is the...

Freshly minted packaging and sales division Verve Ventures will launch sales here on The Twisted from Scott Free Productions’ new label Ridley Scott Presents.

Amy Beecroft [pictured] heads Verve agency’s new Verve Ventures, which packaged The Twisted and represents world sales.

Scott, whose The Martian gets its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow [Sept 11], produced the film with Giannina Scott and Colet Abedi, who developed for Scott’s company Cara Films.

Verve client Olatunde Osunsanmi will direct from Ari Schlossberg’s screenplay about a troubled child psychologist and a cameraman sent in to interview children at an isolated orphanage in Sierra Nevada following reports of strange occurrences.

Osunsanmi’s credits include the upcoming features Dark Moon for Universal and Eden for Gold Circle Films. He also wrote and directed Fourth Kind for Universal and his TV directing credits include Falling Skies, Under The Dome and Minority Report.

“I am thrilled that The Twisted is the...

Clean-cut Disney actor who co-starred with cats, dogs, chimps and Herbie the Love Bug

Mickey Mouse apart, the figure who most represented Walt Disney Productions in the 1960s was the clean-cut actor Dean Jones. Jones, who has died aged 84, starred as the bumbling, somewhat bland, hero in five entertaining kiddie movies with animals in the title: That Darn Cat! (1965), The Ugly Dachshund (1966), Monkeys, Go Home! (1966), The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968) and The Love Bug (1968). The last of these starred not strictly speaking an animal, nor an insect, but a white Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, ostensibly owned by the unsuccessful racing car driver Jim Douglas, played by Jones.

Happily, Herbie – as the cuddly, anthropomorphic auto is christened – helps Jim win an all-important race through the Sierra Nevada mountains against his nemesis, the villainous Thorndyke (David Tomlinson) in his sleek Italian Thorndyke Special. Jones, who did...

Sneak Peek footage, plus images from AMC's 'Old West' action TV series "Hell On Wheels" and the new episode titled "White Justice", airing August 1, 2015:

"...the series focuses on 'Cullen Bohannon' (Anson Mount), a former 'Confederate' soldier, who while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad...

"...initially attempts to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War.

"...in Season 5, 'Bohannon' (Anson Mount) is hired on to work for the 'Central Pacific Railroad'...

"...and build the transcontinental railroad...

"...eastward over the 'Sierra Nevada Mountains'..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Hell On Wheels: White Justice"...

ITVBe's brand new reality TV show Life on Marbs airs tomorrow night (July 22) at 9pm on ITVBe.

The 12-part series from Lime Pictures - who also brought us The Only Way is Essex - follows "the glamorous lives of some of Marbella's most fabulous residents".

But don't call it the new Towie, implore six out of the twenty-one cast members Danni Levy, Jordan Sargeant, Bally Singh, Natalie Richardson, Cassie Rowan and Felicity Faye Kidd chatting about the show with Digital Spy.

What can we expect from Life on Marbs?

Natalie: You see lots of glamorous events. Lots of champagne, lots of dressing up and the less glamorous side as well - the bitching and backstabbing. Which Felicity is mostly responsible for...

Felicity: I think I get in trouble for spreading lots of rumours, but there have been lots of rumours spread about me. I did upset Natalie in the beginning...

Take another look @ footage from AMC's Western drama "Hell on Wheels", returning for the first half of its fifth and final season, July 18, 2015, with seven new episodes airing this summer and seven episodes following in 2016:

"...in season 5, 'Cullen Bohannon' (Anson Mount) finds himself a stranger in a strange land – the mountain town of Truckee, Calif., home to the 'Central Pacific Railroad'.

"This rough railroad town teems with thousands of workers, foreign in language, culture and traditions. Despite the challenges of corralling his new workforce, Cullen leads the Herculean effort to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada Mountains, sometimes achieving only inches a day in the race to complete the first Transcontinental Railroad..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Hell On Wheels" Season 5...

Sneak Peek new footage from AMC's Western drama "Hell on Wheels", returning for the first half of its fifth and final season, July 18, 2015, with seven new episodes airing this summer and the final seven episodes of the series following in 2016:

"...in season 5, 'Cullen Bohannon' (Anson Mount) finds himself a stranger in a strange land – the mountain town of Truckee, Calif., home to the 'Central Pacific Railroad'.

"This rough railroad town teems with thousands of workers, foreign in language, culture and traditions. Despite the challenges of corralling his new workforce, Cullen leads the Herculean effort to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada Mountains, sometimes achieving only inches a day in the race to complete the first Transcontinental Railroad..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Hell On Wheels" Season 5...

A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list will eventually be pruned down as the year progresses (Berlin may snag something in here, especially if their 2016 lineup looks anything like their landmark selection from this past January), we’re confident that we will be seeing another round of heavy hitting auteurs unveiling their latest bits on the Croisette.

Absent from the main competition in 2015 were the Romanians (Muntean and Porumboiu were assigned to Un Certain Regard) and any trace of Latin filmmakers. The 2016 edition looks to make up for lost ground. For the Romanians, a couple heavy hitting titans from the New Wave will be ready. Cristi Puiu, who previously won Ucr in 2005 with The Death of Mr. Lazarescu should hopefully be getting a competition invite for Sierra Nevada. Meanwhile, previous Palme d’Or winner...

Talent is currently being sought for the film “Altar.” “Altar” is the terrifying story of a group of former college classmates who get lost driving to a college reunion campout in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Six roles are being cast for this paid gig, and auditions will be held June 18 in Hollywood. For more details, check out the casting notice for “Altar” here, and be sure to check out the rest of our Los Angeles audition listings!

Hell on Wheels‘ fifth and final season will leave the proverbial station this summer.

AMC confirmed Thursday that the railroad drama will return with the first half of its 14-episode season on Saturday, July 18 at 9/8c. The second half will air in Summer 2016.

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Here’s an official Season 5 teaser: “Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) finds himself a stranger in a strange land — the mountain town of Truckee, Calif., home to the Central Pacific Railroad. This rough railroad town teems with thousands of Chinese workers, foreign in language,...

Sundance. Berlin. Tribeca. Cannes. Venice. Toronto. New York. Once saved for occasional weeks out of any given year, “film festival season” has now become a year-long event. Be it the aforementioned biggest of the big, or the ever growing slate of must-attend smaller festivals like Hot Docs, True/False, Stanley or Telluride, film festivals are cropping up across the globe.

But very few of them are set against a beautiful landscape quite as glorious as the Mammoth Lakes region of California.

Marking their debut this year, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will launch their inaugural lineup this week, with a hotly discussed documentary from Alex Gibney leading the way.

Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine will open the festival this Wednesday. “We are blessed to have gotten such a strong lineup this year,” says Shira Dubrovner, founder of the festival. She, along with veteran programmer Paul Sbrizzi...

The first annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will make it’s debut this week. Set in the scenic and majestic setting of Mammoth Lakes, California, and will take place May 27-31, and will open with acclaimed Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine.

The festival will present sixteen films in Narrative and Documentary Competition. I recently spoke with Artistic Director/Director Shira Dubrovner about choosing the films for the festival. She said:

“[The films] have a common thread. The one thing I did with this festival is give the full power to Paul Sbrizzi, who is a veteran at programming. He’s been programming for Slamdance for the past fifteen years, he programs for La film fest and many other film festivals in the country. I knew his artistic taste, and I know that he also has an eye for talent. He...

It’s rarely mentioned today, but Walt Disney, alongside innovating the animated feature film, was also among the pioneers of the feature-length nature documentary. 1953’s Oscar-winning The Living Desert is still one of the pinnacles of the genre — with its beautiful photography and sly editing, not to mention its gently anthropomorphized, playful depiction of animal life in the Arizona Desert. But perhaps its most remarkable quality is its easy translation of geography and science: The Living Desert opens with an elegantly animated sequence explaining how the Sierra Nevada Mountains keep moisture from reaching the desert, and there’s a comforting simplicity to it, as if Uncle Walt and his filmmakers had succeeded in turning science into fairy tale. That’s not meant as a slight: Generations of kids back then probably first learned about the wonders of nature from these films unspooling through 16mm projectors in classrooms around the country.

Silent Witness: BBC One, 9pm

Part two of two. The sniper is playing a macabre game of cat-and-mouse with the police, while the forensics team looks closer at the targets in the hope of finding a motive.

Celebrity Big Brother: Live Launch: Channel 5, 9pm

Emma Willis invites a fresh group of famous faces to move in together and have their every word and move recorded for the enjoyment of the viewing public. This latest series will have a 'twisted fairytale' theme - but which celebrities will be entering the house?

24 Hours in A&E: Channel 4, 9pm

Return of the documentary following life inside the A&E department of St George's Hospital in south-west London. Will, 13, arrives by helicopter after a serious collision with someone during a game of baseball, while pizza delivery rider Chris, 20, is brought in to resus following a motorbike accident.

Running Wild with Bear Grylls: Discovery,...

Alberto Arvelo’s Simón Bolívar epic The Liberator – Libertador starring Edgar Ramírez will represent Venezuela as the foreign language Oscar submission.

Spanish actress María Valverde, Danny Huston, Imanol Arias and Gary Lewis also star in the story of Bolivar’s fight to free South America from Spanish rule and his role in establishing the Hispanic-American republic of Gran Colombia.

Mundial handles international sales on The Liberator – Libertador and Cohen Media Group holds North American rights and will release theatrically on October 3.

The film generated close to 600,000 admissions when it opened in Venezuela on July 24. The Venezuelan committee chose the film for its “artistic and production value, staging/realisation, music and photography.”

Timothy Sexton wrote the screenplay and Ana Loehnert, Winfried Hammacher and Arvelo produced. Ramírez served as executive producer with Maria A Guerrero Rocca.

The film shot in Venezuelan locations such as Llanos de Acarigua, Parque Nacional de Canaima and Caracas, in addition...

Thanks to a somewhat suspect series of sub-genres born out of horror cinema’s tendency to descend into an exploitative pit of B-Movie mediocrity, to many the genre at large has lost its bite over recent decades. Horror fans stand shaking atop a perilous precipice, debating whether to plummet into one of James Wan’s undeniably entertaining demon infested households – littered with creepy kids and their even creepier fondness for jump-scare inducing toy antiquities – or to skip dinner and experience a Smörgåsbord of torture porn delicacies. Thankfully studios aren’t as willing to give Eli Roth money these days and this ugly trend has been somewhat curbed – minus the upcoming The Green Inferno, which, in all fairness, looks rather tasty. Also, don’t forget the wealth of found footage which lay hidden in darkened attics and dank cellars, because in an age of Hi-def, Blu-ray movies and instant streaming services,...

Stars: Robert Carlyle, Guy Pearce, Jeffrey Jones, Jeremy Davies, Neal McDonough, David Arquette, Stephen Spinella, John Spencer, Joseph Runningfox | Written by Ted Griffin | Directed by Antonia Bird

In honor of Ravenous finally being released on Blu-Ray from those magnificent madmen at Scream Factory, I thought I’d conjure up some words about one of the great, underrated chillers of the 90’s. It’s a film I’ve deemed a personal favorite amongst mixed fans of film. I’ll recommend it without batting an eye. It’s essential viewing for horror fans, period. One of the key elements to understanding why I love Ravenous, you have to understand the background of my film going history that brought me to it.

For a great period in the 90’s, I saw many films in theaters with my uncle, and when I say many, I’d say it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of a metric ton.

I have seen Ravenous at least a couple dozen times. I’ve seen it on VHS, and I’ve seen it on DVD, and now, thanks to Scream Factory, I have seen it on Blu-ray, and I couldn’t be happier. I read a scathing review of the disc before I watched it, as I’m sure some of you did, but I’ve learned that bad reviews of Scream titles are to be taken with a grain of salt. Scream have become popular now, so with all of their millions of fans, will naturally come a handful of loudmouth detractors. I watched the disc from start to finish, including all of the extras, and I can say without issue that this release is definitely a worthy upgrade to one of my favorite weird little movies. I’ve been trying to save the new Scream releases for the night before the retail date,...

Summer is officially right around the corner, which means horror DVD and Blu-rays are starting to heat up as well. This week, we’ve got several cult classics hitting high definition for the first time, another special edition set of the first three seasons of The Walking Dead,and the recent RoboCop reboot directed by Jose Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman.

As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a special Doctor Who David Tennant-themed collection being released, several indie creature features and we’re finally seeing the official arrival of the Video Nasties documentaries stateside on Tuesday. Check out all the horror and sci-fi fun you can add to your home collections this week below!

Spotlight Titles:

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (Cult Epics, Blu-ray)

Prepare yourselves… The strangest bedtime story ever told! Cult Epics brings you Death Bed, George Barry’s uniquely weird journey through a world of wind demons,...

Other projects supported by Romania’s film fund include Cristian Mungiu’s Rmd and Tudor Giurgiu’s Apropierea.

Romania’s Centrul National al Cinematografiei (Cnc) has become the latest European film fund to be raided by the ubiquitous film-maker Peter Greenaway for a future project.

Greenaway’s Walking To Paris (Mergand Spre Paris), which is being structured as a co-production between his regular producer Kees Kasander’s UK-based Cinatura, Switzerland’s Cobra Film, France’s Cdp Productions and Romania’s Abis Studio, received 291,000 Ron (€65,000) in the results of the 2013 call for projects.

Walking To Paris centres on the 27-year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi who set off a month-long trek across Europe from Romania to Paris in 1903, and will show how Brancusi’s fight for survival and many adventures during his journey influenced his subsequent work.

Greenaway had previously accessed the Croatian Audiovisual Centre for Goltzius And The Pelican Company and the Polish Film Institute for Nightwatching, while...

A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service of Santa Ana, which recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to more than $28,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1 million apiece. "I don't like to say once-in-a-lifetime for anything, but you don't...