‘Dark Night of the Scarecrow’ Returning for 40th Anniversary

On October 24, 1981, horror classic Dark Night of the Scarecrow premiered on CBS the CBS Saturday Night Movie at 9pm EST. This Sunday, the 40th anniversary of the original air date, Bubba returns.

This made-for-TV turned classic was written and directed by Frank De Felitta, and stars Academy Award nominee Charles Durning (Tootsie; When A Stranger Calls) and Emmy winner Larry Drake (Darkman; L.A. Law).

Plot:

In a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious “accidents” begin to kill them off one by one.

Original Trailer

When and where can you catch this underrated gem? Sunday, October 24 at 9pm EST.

The free linear Midnight Pulp channel is available on Samsung TV Plus (Channel 1445), The Roku Channel, Plex, Stirr (Channel 226) and on the Midnight Pulp app.  Midnight Pulp, part of the growing Digital Media Rights OTT Channels group, is available at www.midnightpulp.com, and as an app on popular mobile and connected TV devices, streaming all things strange and on demand.

Stream Your Favorite Troma Titles & More with Troma Now

In a society that demands everything be available at its fingertips at any given moment, Troma has joined the streaming service boom. If you’ve exhausted the lackluster horror category on other streaming services (not going to mention any names for “legal purposes”), a new savior is born with Troma Now.

What kind of titles can you expect to find? This service offers Hollywood classics as well as the Troma library. Browse a massive selection of films which includes titles like Maniac Cop, Killer Pinata, The Toxic Avenger series (yes, all of them) and many many more. There are new titles added every month. Some of June’s new additions include Grindsploitation 9: Revenge of the Schlock, Timemaster, Hillbilly Frankenstein From Hell, Frankie in Blunderland, Lloyd Kaufman’s Make your Own Damn Movie, In Less than Sixty Minutes and more.

Not only can you view all these awesome titles, you can also discuss them with fellow Troma fans in the forum.

Most streaming services only give you a week free to decide if you like it, but Troma Now gives you a full 30 days free. If you decide you like it (duh), it is only $4.99 a month after the trial. There are also individual titles available for purchase.

Sound like something for you? Head over to watch.troma.com and subscribe.

‘Axeman At Cutter’s Creek’ Receives Release Date

Fans of 80’s slasher films and the new films inspired by them can rejoice as #SinningWorks and filmmaker Joston “El Rey” Theney have announced a release date for their project, Axeman At Cutter’s Creek.

The film stars veterans such as Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley) and Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre). Other names gracing the credits include Elissa Dowling (Girl on the Third Floor), Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu), Erin Maria Hogan (Hold Your Breath) and NBA star Scot Pollard.

If this legend sounds familiar, it may be because you have heard its previous title, Axeman. Axeman At Cutter’s Creek will serve as a reboot to the franchise. When asked about his film, Theney had this to say,

“Axeman was a fun movie to make and I’m so appreciative of the super supportive fanbase.  But, to no fault of the cast and crew, it got rushed and we never really put our movie’s best foot forward. This one’ll include never-before-seen footage and a slicker, faster 80 minute run-time”

“What really killed me was not wrapping up the film as originally intended.  It was envisioned as a trilogy from the outset and the ending we were forced to go with painted us into a corner.  But this release of Axeman At Cutter’s Creek course-corrects the ship and is our first step to putting us on a path to finishing the franchise strong.”

Axeman At Cutter’s Creek will be released to major VOD platforms May 7, 2021. Review coming soon.

Prop Collector Tim Shockey Wants to Bring Hollywood History to Ohio

Fans of Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive may already know the name Tim Shockey, but for those of you that don’t, he is the man that restored the goblin head from the front of the Happy Toyz truck in the 1986 cult classic. Shockey debuted the newly restored goblin head at HorrorHound Weekend in Cincinnati in March of 2013 to hordes of excited fans and has been touring the country with it ever since.

I started restoring the Green Goblin head in 2011 and finished it in March of 2013. I spent nights and weekends restoring it. Less than a week after painting it we attended our first con with it. I have passionately been traveling the U.S. and Canada since March 16, 2013 sharing this great piece of movie history with fans.

I have attended 10-15 events a year. My journeys have allowed me to meet and hang out with many celebrities and to meet many thousands of fans. It has been a fantastic journey. 
I now have over 800 items in my collection. I’ve been  bringing a few of them with me on tour but I feel everyone should have a chance to see them all. If I don’t share these items with you than what good are they doing in my possession? I feel it would almost be a sin to keep them locked away in my private collection. 

 All of our events have been canceled this year so far and I want to make it where people can still get a chance to get out and see my collection. 

Shockey’s collection includes props from Scream 4, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, The Longest Yard and more. Due to Covid causing pretty much all conventions to shut down for the year, Tim has come up with a brand new idea; one that requires the help of all of you, the Hollywood Prop Museum. In said museum, you would be able to view not just the Goblin Head and all the other props normally on display at conventions, but you will be able to see the ones that he cannot bring along on the road.

Your help is needed to acquire the building that would be used to display the props (prospective building listed below). The goal amount is $60,000 which Shockey is hoping to raise via a Gofundme campaign.

For more information on TIm Shockey, his collection and mission and how you can contribute, please visit the Hollywood Prop Museum campaign.

Indican Pictures Debuts Eric Liberacki’s ‘The Lurker’ This April

The slasher film may be the most popular sub-genre in horror, but lately it seems like all most can deliver is a remake or a cheap knockoff of one of the greats. Eric Liberacki is here to rescue slasher fans with his new film The Lurker which is heavily inspired by the Golden era of slasher films.

When asked about the film, Liberacki said:

“my screenwriting always gravitated toward slasher films of that time period (’80s, ’90s).” This was the pivotal time for slashers and their many sequels. The Lurker was also a team effort: “while I was shooting the feature film the Pale Man the director, John Lerchen, gave me a copy of the script for The Lurker. After years of trying to find the right script for my thesis, I had found it.”

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The Lurker stars Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween, 2007), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story), Ari Lehman (Friday the 13th, 1980) and Adam Huss.

Synopsis:

A group of high school students, celebrating their final performance of Romeo and Juliet, begin to slowly disappear one at a time. As students and faculty begin to die at the hands of a savage killer, it’s a race against time for the cast to find the killer and escape with their lives or face their final curtain call.

Trailer:

The Lurker is available for pre-order this March and will hit DVD and digital platforms (Amazon Direct, Fandango Now, iTunes, FlixFling, Google Play, Redbox, VuDu and YouTube Movies) on April 14, 2020.

Trailer Drop for Jordan Peele’s ‘Candyman’

In 1992, a film called Candyman was released, and it made everyone think twice about urban legends and saying someone’s name 5 times. The film is a major cult classic among the exploitation and horror communities, now fast-forwarding to 2020, it is getting a “spiritual sequel” from producer Jordan Peele (Get Out) and director Nia DaCosta (Sleeping with the Enemy).

Candyman stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman), Teyonah Parris (Dear White People), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Adulting) and Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead).

Synopsis:

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

Trailer

Candyman hits theaters on June 12th

Arrow Video Presents Blood-Soaked Black Comedy, ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’

Arrow Video is proud to announce that Why Don’t You Just Die! will be making a limited theater release in several cities across the US in April. The film is the feature debut of writer/director Kirill Sokolov, and is described to be a black comedy in the vein of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright.

When asked about the film Sokolov said:

“Despite our exaggerated use of genre tropes and all the flashy effects, Why Don’t You Just Die! remains, for me, an incredibly personal and sincere story. The film’s inherent violence is the result of reflection on the realities of life in Russia, modern relationships, and societal attitudes. The gallows humor which pervades the film is the only true reaction whatsoever to all of this. The film is intended as an emotional rollercoaster, making the audience laugh, cry, and laugh again – but then immediately feel a sense of unease for having laughed.”

Why Don’t You Just Die! has received high critical praise from festivals around the world.

Synopsis:

Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend’s parents’ apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey’s attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don’t quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable – not to mention ruthless – opponent than he anticipated… and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.

The film is in Russian with English subtitles and has a run-time of 95 minutes.

Why Don’t You Just Die! will be released in select theaters in the US in April 10, 2020. The cities that will be showing the film include Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Knoxville, Ithaca, Houston, Lubbock, El Paso and Phoenix. Check local listings for theaters and showtimes.

Horror Realm is Returning to Pittsburgh This March

Convention season has started rolling for 2020, and Horror Realm will be returning to Pittsburgh, PA this year. It will be a three day event running from Friday, March 6th through Sunday, March 8th at the Crowne Plaza Pittsburgh South.

This year’s guest list is impressive; it features talent from Night of the Living Dead (1990), Night of the Comet and more. Top billed guests include Tiffany Shepis (Tromeo and Juliet), Tony Moran (Halloween), Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Tom Savini (special effects master), David Howard Thornton (Terrifier) and more.

Ticket prices for Horror Realm are lower in comparison to other conventions, especially when you take into consideration the fantastic guest list.

• Weekend Pass (all 3 days)- $40
• Friday – $20
• Saturday- $25
• Sunday- $15
• Children under 16 are FREE with paid adult admission
• One FREE single day admission available for active duty armed service members and veterans with valid ID

For more information on the event, to purchase tickets, panel schedules and more, visit horrorrealmcon.com. For instant updates, be sure to like Horror Realm’s Facebook page and follow @HorrorRealmCon on twitter.

Devilworks Reveals New Artwork & Trailer for ‘Trolls World’

Genre sales specialist Devilworks has acquired International rights to Eric Horde’s adventure fantasy, Trolls World. The film is a German production shot in English produced by Fantomfilm GmbH with Eva Habermann and Alexander König leading the production.

Synopsis:

Trolls World follows an evil troll who is accidentally brought back to life and is out for revenge for his 700 years of suffering. He possesses the body of a young woman and sets his sights on unleashing an army of trolls to take over the world.

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Samantha Richardson, President at Devilworks, said:

This is entertainment all the way; creatures, trolls, witches, legends….Trolls World is brimming with fun and adventure.

Trolls World will be launched at EFM in Berlin.

Devilworks will be exhibiting at Marriott Hotel, Suite 248 (Feb 20th – 25th).

Kickstarter Campaign Started for ‘The Mothman Legacy’

One of America’s most popular cryptids, Mothman, is getting a bookend to a trilogy with The Mothman Legacy. A trailer and a new one-sheet have been dropped to promote the film’s crowdfunding campaign. The film is the latest work of cryptid documentarian Seth Breedlove and the one-sheet artwork is from artist Christopher Shy (Godzilla: King of Monsters).

For anyone that may not be familiar with the Mothman legend, many believe the Mothman to be a 1960’s phenomenon, an omen only appearing before tragedy, and disappearing after a flap of sightings and the subsequent Silver Bridge collapse in 1967.  But what if there’s more?  What if the origins of this omen trace back much further and go much deeper than anyone realized?  And what if…the sightings never ended?

The Mothman Legacy provides a glimpse into the dark, haunting landscapes of West Virginia and includes sound clips from witnesses that were interviewed for the film.

As mentioned above, a crowdfunding campaign will be launched today, February 6, 2020, via Kickstarter. Rewards for contributing to the campaign include copies of the film on DVD and Blu-ray, posters, t-shirts and more.

Small Town Monsters made waves in 2017 with their documentary The Mothman of Point Pleasant, followed by 2019’s Terror in the Skies.  The Mothman trilogy will conclude with the release of The Mothman Legacy, set to premiere in Fall 2020.