The movie takes us for  a weekends hiking and camping to West Virginia, Mike (Josh Randall) and girlfriend Sheryl (Brianna Brown - who you might remember from Knocked Up and the 30 year old Virgin) are looking forward to a peaceful break. But the a trio of local rednecks mar the beginning of the holiday.

Sheryl goes missing. Are the rednecks to blame? Mike thinks so and heads off to search for her, eventually ending up at the cabin of a God-fearing woman who offers to help. Is she help, or is she not as helpful as she makes out to be.

This does promise to be a gruesome shocker but can it rise above the level of the average “survival horror” movie?

TIMBER FALLS is released by Scanbox Entertainment and opens at selected UK cinemas on 23rd May 2008.

Directed by Tony Giglio (Chaos) and starring Josh Randall (One Of Our Own), up-and-coming actress Brianna Brown (Knocked Up; The 40 Year Old Virgin) and Beth Broderick (Lost; Sabrina, The Teenage Witch), TIMBER FALLS does for camping and hiking in West Virginia what Hostel did for backpacking in Slovakia.

The latest addition to the increasingly popular “survival horror” genre, Giglio’s film delivers all the shocks, violence, gore and nail-biting tension that any horror fan could ever want.

Well sort of.

We have a horror movie project that is being kept in the shadows and will not die.

You can read some more about this on our movie project page HERE. Basically, originally, we were looking to raise some cash of investors, make a film and make a profit for us and investors. (yes the film industry is a business - not a charity). This all came about after talks with a couple of UK based film producers / directors that I know and did some marketing work for. We have a strong story (that should remain strong even regarding our limited fiscal means) and had a professional writer working on the script.

The problem was that  last time anything was done about it was getting on for a year ago. I am trying to get the original producer / writer back on side and then go into fund raising mode.

If anyone out there is interested (Actors, camera crew, make up - esp students looking for experience) probably the best way to get hold of me regarding this at the moment is facebook

This has been put off time and time again - and now this needs to get done.

Donna’s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life. After surviving a horrible tragedy, she has finally moved on and is enjoying her last year of high school. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns deadly, there is only one person who could be responsible…a man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive a night “to die for.”

Prom Night is on general cinema release in the UK from the 6th June 2008

Predator [Blu-ray] [1987] ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Duke, Elpidia Carrillo, and Jesse Ventura
The Cottage [2008] ~ Jennifer Ellison, Doug Bradley, Jonathan Chan-Pensley, and Dave Legeno
Timber Falls [2007] ~ Beth Broderick, Nick Searcy, Josh Randall, and Brianna Brown
Botched [2008] ~ Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee, Geoff Bell, and Jamie Foreman
Love Thy Neighbor [2007]

Seeking to utilise the reality TV format and twist it into the horror genre, much like My Little Eye, but this is rather much on a grander scale.

11 people are locked inside a war museum, and have to perform seances and summon demons for their tasks instead of the usual childish tasks on other reality TV shows. Their ultimate goal is to complete their tasks and be the last person left inside the museum, with the winner taking home a cash prize of 5 million Baht (roughly £80k), the highest amount of money ever offered on a Thai game show. It is then that the inevitable killings begin.

Starring a cast consisting of actual contestants from the real-life American Idol-style Thai TV game show, “Academy Fantasia”, the dark and disturbing Ghost Game puts a “Big Brother” meets “Most Haunted” spin on the classic “trapped in a haunted house” horror movie theme to great effect.

Ghost Game (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (£12.99) by Showbox Home Entertainment/Cine Asia on 23rd June 2008.

Marie (Anastasia Hille - The Hole, Cutting It) returns to Russia, where her mother’s dead body has been found under bizarre circumstances. She never knew her, having been adopted and brought to America as a baby. The only clue as to what might have happened is an isolated, abandoned farm in the mountains that supposedly belonged to her natural parents. Being the only next of kin, she inherits the place, but no one will take her there as the local superstitions state that the area is…DAMNED. A cycle of horror comes to fruition, as she learns the real reason she has been summoned for this perverse reunion with her past… And the brutal secret behind her family.

The Abandoned is a bloody tale that sits in the genre of ’haunted house horror’ but manages to subvert the obvious trappings with it’s shocking story and high production values.

Set for DVD release on 19 May 2008 courtesy of Momentum Pictures.

The cast headed by Karel Roden (The Bourne Supremacy, Hellboy, Blade 2) and Anastasia Hille (The Hole - one of my Favourite British Horror Films).

Videodrome - re release of the mind / reality twisting David Cronenberg movie

There is a load of real classic 30’s and 40’s horror out this week (5th May 2008)
Dracula [1931] ~ Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, and Dwight Frye
Dracula’s Daughter [1936] ~ Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, and Edward Van Sloan
House Of Frankenstein [1944] ~ Boris Karloff, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., and Glenn Strange
House Of Dracula [1945] ~ John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Jane Adams, and Martha O’Driscoll
Son Of Frankenstein [1939] ~ Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Basil Rathbone
Son Of Dracula [1943] ~ Robert Paige, Lon Chaney Jr., and Louise Allbritton
She-Wolf Of London [1946] ~ Don Porter, et al.
The Werewolf Of London [1935] ~ Lester Matthews, Henry Hull, and Valerie Hobson

Full List of horror DVDs

Not Horror But Worth A Mention

Ashes to Ashes: Complete BBC Series 1
The League Of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse

Thanks to our partners at Forbidden Planet you have the chance to win a Doomsday Poster (see here to enter comp)

Doomsday is the new movie by Neil Marshal, He of Dog Soldiers and Descent. Doomsday is a zombie, survival horror fusion, check the trailer!

Starring (among others) Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Rohna Mitra and Emma Cleasby

Additional Doomsday video and doomsday images

On the strength of the first 2 movies I feel I should mention the 3rd movie of the revived classic Universal Horror brand. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Unlike the first 2 movies this is NOT written and directed by Stephen Sommers. In the 3rd film Rob Coen takes the helm.

Brendan Fraser comes back as Rick O’Connell, John Hannah steps away from the airline adverts and returns as his brother in law Johnathan and Evelyn is recast as Maria Bello. Pity as Rachel Weisz really made the films. Arnold Vosloo (?) is also gone, this time the Mummy is Han Emperor played by Jet Li.

Stephen Sommers (director of the first 2 films) disgraced himself with the complete hash he made of Van Helsing. It could have been another acceptable action / monster movie, but instead became a complete pile of (INSERT WORD HERE)

 BTW the best movie that Stephen Sommers did was Deep Rising - time for a sequel I think.

Currently US release dates are 1st August

The plot sets out during the summer  of 1978  where Norman (Paddy Considine) and Lucy (Virginia Ledoyen) are spending the summer holidays with their friend Paul (Gary Oldman) in the north of Spain. Very much off the beaten track, they seem set for a peaceful holiday. But remembering this a horror film things take a descent into horror  when they discover a deformed girl  locked away in a cabin in the woods. Filthy and unable to talk, the girl is obviously terrified and so the couple decide to take her to the police. A group of local villagers however have other ideas and refuse to let the girl go, pursing the holidaymakers through the forest and taking them into a whirlpool of violence.

THE BACKWOODS, a dark tale of revenge set for DVD release on 19 May 2008 courtesy of Momentum Pictures.