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COMPETITION: Win Hellbender on DVD

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Hellbender - Released on 5th September And to celebrate we have a great competition for you and 2 copies on DVD to give away. Synopsis:  FRESH, RAW and bewitching indie folk horror Hellbender will grip fans with a story that has real bite, promising one hell of a ride. As unnerving and gruesome as it is beautiful and enticing, this captivating, unsettling and hellish feature will push audiences to the brink. 16-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams) lives in isolation with her mother (Zelda’s real-life mum, Toby Poser) in the quietly eerie mountains of New York State. Cut off from the outside world, Izzy is home-schooled and prohibited from leaving the house because she suffers with a rare auto-immune disease which prohibits her from being around other people. Or so she’s been told... After befriending Amber (sister Lulu Adams), Izzy questions the reality of her disease. And, when she eats a live worm as part of a teenage game, she develops an insatiable hunger for living things... The first tast

COMPETITION: Win Hellbender on DVD

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Hellbender - Released on 5th September And to celebrate we have a great competition for you and 2 copies on DVD to give away. Synopsis:  FRESH, RAW and bewitching indie folk horror Hellbender will grip fans with a story that has real bite, promising one hell of a ride. As unnerving and gruesome as it is beautiful and enticing, this captivating, unsettling and hellish feature will push audiences to the brink. 16-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams) lives in isolation with her mother (Zelda’s real-life mum, Toby Poser) in the quietly eerie mountains of New York State. Cut off from the outside world, Izzy is home-schooled and prohibited from leaving the house because she suffers with a rare auto-immune disease which prohibits her from being around other people. Or so she’s been told... After befriending Amber (sister Lulu Adams), Izzy questions the reality of her disease. And, when she eats a live worm as part of a teenage game, she develops an insatiable hunger for living things... The first tast

Neil Marshall leads FrightFest's New Blood panel

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  The search is over as this year’s New Blood participants have been unearthed and will be attending Arrow FrightFest for a special mentoring session in a Central London venue at the start of festival on Thursday 25th August where they will pitch their feature script ideas to a panel of industry professionals After a record number of submissions, eight projects have been chosen to be presented to the four mentors. They come from all over the UK and amazing imagination unleashed in their script ideas.  The grateful eight and their respective projects are Hail Santa by Jonny Grant, She Knows Why!!! by Alix Austin and Keir Siewert (AK), Caravanserai by Ayad Andrews , Crave by David Yorke, This House Is Fucked by James M. Macleod, Crawl To Me by Penelope Yeulet & Ruby Abbiss, Ovipositor by Elizabeth Parikh, and Vessel by Ellena Loughrey The successful shortlisted applicants will workshop their ideas in a group setting under the guidance of top industry professionals and genre experts.

LEGEND reveals slate of horror and action premieres for September

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Friday and Saturday nights in September on Legend are premiere-packed, headed up by the UK TV premiere of Doug Liman’s (director of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow), deadly psychological thriller THE WALL, staring John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. There are also Channel premieres for horror-mystery THE FINAL WISH, dark comedy vampire horror THE SHED, Walter Hill’s neo-noir crime thriller THE DRIVER, starring Sam O’Neill and Bruce Dern and Sam Peckinpah’s gritty action-comedy CONVOY, starring Kristofferson and Ali McGraw. Plus, IRON EAGLE II and IRON EAGLE III are on the weekend menu, both starring Louis Gossett Jr. And the popular strand THE VINTAGE VAULT continues, once again presenting double-bills of classic sci-fi and horror films every Sunday night. The season premieres on Sunday September 4th with BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the celebrated sequel to the 1931 classic with Boris Karloff reprising his role as the monster. This is paired with Christy Cabanne’s frightening chiller

COMPETITION: Win Dog Soldiers on Blu-ray

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Dog Soldiers Blu-ray - Released from 22nd August And to celebrate we have a great competition for you and a couple of copies to give away. Synopsis:  The brand-new restored version of Neil Marshall’s wickedly wild werewolf feature Dog Soldiers gets a big screen outing at FrightFest 2022 on 28 August tickets and info here and the director is in attendance too.   This follows the Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray and Standard Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray single releases courtesy of Second Sight Films. On a routine training mission in the Scottish Highlands, a small squad of British soldiers come across the bloody remains of a Special Forces team with a sole survivor. They soon discover the savage attackers are werewolves, and as the full moon rises they face a long night ahead and a fight for their lives. Special Features: A new restoration from the original camera negative approved by Director Neil Marshall and Cinematographer Sam McCurdy Archive audio commentary by Director Neil Marshall

COMPETITION: Win Dog Soldiers on Blu-ray

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Dog Soldiers Blu-ray - Released from 22nd August And to celebrate we have a great competition for you and a couple of copies to give away. Synopsis:  The brand-new restored version of Neil Marshall’s wickedly wild werewolf feature Dog Soldiers gets a big screen outing at FrightFest 2022 on 28 August tickets and info here and the director is in attendance too.   This follows the Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray and Standard Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray single releases courtesy of Second Sight Films. On a routine training mission in the Scottish Highlands, a small squad of British soldiers come across the bloody remains of a Special Forces team with a sole survivor. They soon discover the savage attackers are werewolves, and as the full moon rises they face a long night ahead and a fight for their lives. Special Features: A new restoration from the original camera negative approved by Director Neil Marshall and Cinematographer Sam McCurdy Archive audio commentary by Director Neil Marshall

Arrow FrightFest 2022 returns to London this month

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  Arrow FrightFest, the UK’s most popular horror and fantasy film festival, is back at London’s Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema from Thursday August 25 – Monday 29 August for five days of the very best of global genre cinema. With tickets starting from £15, this is one festival you don't want to miss. Celebrating its 23rd blockbuster edition with thirty-two world, twenty-two International / European and eighteen UK premieres, the world renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and this year is no exception, with seventeen countries represented, spanning five continents. The festival opens with the World premiere of THE LAIR, an action-packed gore shocker from Neil Marshall, who calls his latest monstrous creation “The Dirty Half Dozen meets THE THING”. Neil will be attending with star Charlotte Kirk and will also introduce a special 4K restoration screening of his modern classic, DOG SOLDIERS. The Closing night film is the Eu

COMPETITION: Win Monster Limited Edition Blu-ray

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Monster Limited Edition Blu-ray - Released from 15th August And to celebrate we have a great competition for you and a copy to give away. Synopsis:  Charlize Theron gives a tour-de-force performance as America’s first female serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), from director Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), that earned her accolades galore, including the prestigious best actress Oscar® in 2004. Now almost 20 years on from its original, lauded theatrical release, the film is set for the Limited Edition treatment from Second Sight Films. Based on true events, this darkly chilling, gripping drama will be released on Blu-ray in a stunning Limited Edition Box set, presented in a rigid slipcase, with new artwork by Daniel Benneworth-Gray.  It comes with a soft-cover book, featuring brand new essays and a host of special features; from brand new interviews to archive commentaries that take you behind the scenes and into the mind of a real-life Monster. Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron

COMPETITION: Win Monster Limited Edition Blu-ray

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Monster Limited Edition Blu-ray - Released from 15th August And to celebrate we have a great competition for you and a copy to give away. Synopsis:  Charlize Theron gives a tour-de-force performance as America’s first female serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), from director Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), that earned her accolades galore, including the prestigious best actress Oscar® in 2004. Now almost 20 years on from its original, lauded theatrical release, the film is set for the Limited Edition treatment from Second Sight Films. Based on true events, this darkly chilling, gripping drama will be released on Blu-ray in a stunning Limited Edition Box set, presented in a rigid slipcase, with new artwork by Daniel Benneworth-Gray.  It comes with a soft-cover book, featuring brand new essays and a host of special features; from brand new interviews to archive commentaries that take you behind the scenes and into the mind of a real-life Monster. Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron