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I Sell the Dead made a move to DVD and Blu-Ray today, with extras now available. The film stars Dominic Monaghan (Lost), Larry Fessenden (Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever), Angus Scrimm (Wishmaster), and Ron Pearlman (Dark Country) as two grave robbers who bite off too much of the supernatural to chew. Bonus features run the gamut of cast and director commentaries to making of featurettes (visual effects). A blend of the comedic, action, and horror genres, I Sell the Dead was one of the better releases from 2009. More details on this title below.

The synopsis for I Sell the Dead here:

"18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake (Monaghan) tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy (Ron Perlman). Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in...

This Tuesday, March 30th, is the long awaited DVD/Blu-ray release date of Glenn McQuaid's I Sell the Dead, and our trilogy of interviews with its cast and crew continues with the one -- the only -- Angus Scrimm, who portrays the character of Dr. Vernon Quint in the film.

Elaine Lamkin: Thank you for taking time to do this interview with me, Angus. First question – how did you find yourself playing Dr. Quint in I Sell the Dead? What was the attraction? And how would you describe the good doctor, whose exit from the film is both hilarious and well-deserved?

Angus Scrimm: In January, 2008, this ruddy-cheeked Irish fellow with a perpetual twinkle in his eye turned up at the Burbank, California, studio where Larry Fessenden was filming the infamous rant I contributed to Jim McKenney's Automatons DVD "extras." Undeterred by what he saw, he offered me the role of Dr.

Revisionist horror favorite Larry Fessenden (director of Habit, Wendigo and The Last Winter) returned to Montreal’s just-wrapped Fantasia film festival this year with two new films from his indie-horror production company Scareflix: Ti West’s incredibly atmospheric ‘80s horror tribute House Of The Devil (a smash success at Tribeca and a late but great addition to the Fantasia program; see review here) and Glenn McQuaid’s period horror-comedy tribute to British ‘60s/’70s horror classics, I Sell The Dead (another Fango rave; see here; I Sell The Dead goes into limited theatrical release this Friday and is concurrently available as a video-on-demand from IFC Films).

Fessenden was on hand with co-producer Peter Phok and first-time feature director Glenn McQuaid for their award-winning I Sell The Dead, a one-of-a-kind dark adventure film depicting the daily lives and supernatural woes of two lowlife body-snatchers, played by Fessenden himself and Dominic Monaghan...

While his directorial debut I Sell The Dead continues to hit the festival circuit, writer/director Glenn McQuaid told Fangoria Radio that he has a follow-up planned to his award-winning 18th-century graverobbing romp (see our rave review here). “The sequel is [currently] this 200-page script,” McQuaid said Friday night, sitting alongside his Glass Eye Pix producer/I Sell The Dead star Larry Fessenden for hosts Dee Snider and Debbie Rochon. “I want to revisit these great characters.”

When pressed for more details a few days later, McQuaid (pictured) gave Fango the scoop on the proposed sequel: “I’m calling it The Further Adventures Of Grimes & Blake,” he says of the project, which will topline the characters played by Fessenden and Lost’s Dominic Monahan. “It’s basically a giant undead heist movie in the vein of The Great Train Robbery! Obviously, Grimes and Blake are back, but they are mainly dealing...

Moving from passion fish to mystical seals, versatile filmmaker John Sayles' latest is a first-rate, all-ages fairy tale steeped in Irish folklore.

Adapted from Rosalie Fry's enduring juvenile story, "Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry", the renamed "The Secret of Roan Inish" is a gentle, lilting film of "The Secret Garden" variety, currently playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Given its healthy Irish brogues, low-key animatronics and absence of familiar faces, the secret of "The Secret of Roan Inish" lies in its more ambient charms.

Ten-year-old Belfast native Jeni Courtney is ideally cast as the film's central character, Fiona, a determined girl whose widowed father sends her to live with her grandparents (Eileen Colgan and Mick Lally) on a remote Irish fishing village. There, she becomes quickly acclimatized to the townsfolk and their love of imparting local mythology, particularly in regard to the "Selkie", a fabled Celtic creature that was part-woman, part-seal.

Raised to be a sensible young woman, Jeni is nevertheless taken in by the stories, convinced that they might hold the key to the whereabouts of her lost little brother, presumed to have drowned at sea. She decides to conduct her own investigation.

Sayles has anchored the rather lofty story line with a prevailing logical base that easily lures the viewer into the proceedings. The richly observed terrain is brought out to full earthy effect through Sayles' trademark gift for storytelling and crisp dialogue. Of course, he's ably assisted in his efforts by esteemed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who captures the moody Northwest Irish coast with a misty clarity.

THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH

First Look Pictures Releasing

Producers Maggie Renzi, Sarah Green

Associate producer Paul Miller

Director-screenplay John Sayles

Director of photography Haskell Wexler

Editor John Sayles

Production designer Adrian Smith

Color/stereo

Cast:

Fiona Jeni Courtney

Tess Eileen Colgan

Hugh Mick Lally

Eamon Richard Sheridan

Tadhg John Lynch

Running time -- 104 minutes

No MPAA rating

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