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John Isberg, Director of 80s throwback slasher Final Summer is the latest filmmaker to join the roster of creators lending their unique voices to apocalyptic horror anthology F’d: Tales From the End Times. In addition to Isberg, Afterlife director Ben Harl has also been attached to helm a segment.

Final Summer has been an Official Selection at numerous genre festivals Including HorrorHound and Scarefest and is a newly announced pick for this year’s Panic Fest. Final Summer stars veteran genre actor Thom Matthews, Bishop Stevens and Nora Yates.

Isberg and Harl join Holes in the Sky director Ash Hamilton, Taho Joe director Dillon Brown and Mothman’s Joshua Brucker.

Casting has begun on individual segments with Hamilton’s cast including Kayla Kelly, Chloe Franks and Robert Lasardo. Jenna Heckethorn is also among the newest additions. F’d is expected to hit film festivals later this year.

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Legendary star Robert Lasardo is set to join the cast of upcoming horror anthology F’d: 5 Tales From the End Times. In addition to Lasardo, many of the film’s leads have already been cast by actors such as Kayla Kelly, Chloe Franks, and Jenna

The film will be comprised of 5 stories all taking place on the same day in the same universe: the day the world ends. Each segment will be directed by an up and coming horror director, written by the same creative team and filmed independently in different locations across the country.

Directors already attached include Holes in the Sky director Ash Hamilton, Dillon Brown of Tahoe Joe fame and Mothman’s Josh Brucker.

The film is scheduled to shoot its respective segments in spring/summer of this year. Michael Joy and others producing.

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These days it seems like Christmas and horror go together like hot cocoa and candy canes sharpened to a deadly point, but in the long history of film, this is a relatively recent development. Of course there are a few exceptions, but before 1972, it was a rarity to enjoy a vicious Christmas at the local theater. As to why horror was not set at Christmas for so long is an interesting question. Perhaps it was considered off limits to use what many consider a sacred holiday for such dark purposes. But then, holidays of any kind, including Halloween, were rarely seen in horror films before the seventies. In those days, studios would often roll out their theatrical releases over long periods of time, and limiting the reliable market fulfilled by horror films to the small window of the holiday season was likely a risk they were unwilling to take. In the golden age of Hollywood,...

Full disclosure: I’m not a cat guy. Sorry! Nothing against them, but I’ve always preferred the company of dogs. However, I’ve always admired a cat’s sense of self, and their stubborn refusal to do anything at all unless it’s on their own terms. According to The Uncanny (1977), that would also include murder, as these kitties claw and bite their way to vengeance, and leave it to Severin Films to give them a brand spanking new Blu-ray litter box to play in.

A co-production between Canada’s Cinévidéo and the UK’s The Rank Organisation, The Uncanny was shot in Quebec and England for less than a million dollars. One may presume that a solid portion of the film was spent on acquiring Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Ray Milland, John Vernon, and Samantha Eggar for the wraparound and the three individual segments. It certainly wasn’t...

Featuring a dream cast that includes Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, The House That Dripped Blood is coming to Blu-ray on May 8th from Scream Factory, and we've been provided with three Blu-ray copies of the 1971 Amicus horror movie to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers

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Horror anthology lovers will want to mark May 8th on their calendars for Scream Factory's Blu-ray release of The House That Dripped Blood. Featuring a dream cast that includes Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, the 1971 Amicus movie's new home media release comes with a bevy of bonus features that should please horror fans, including a new audio commentary and interview:

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Vampires! Voodoo! Vixens! Victims! Terror waits for you in every room. A quartet of frightening fables is presented in The House That Dripped Blood, which comes to Blu-ray for the first time on May 8, 2018.

A Scotland Yard inspector’s search for a missing film star leads him to a haunted house. The house sets the framework for four separate tales of terror written by the author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, and starring horror icons Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pitt. All four stories center...

Giving the Brothers Grimm tale Hansel and Gretel a facelift is Curtis Harrington’s Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971), which will be released on Blu-ray / DVD on August 16th courtesy of Kino Lorber.

From Kino Lorber: “Coming August 16th on DVD and Blu-ray!

Brand New 2016 HD Master!

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)

• Audio Commentary with Film Historian David Del Valle and Film Scholar Nathaniel Bell

• Trailers”

Synopsis (via Blu-ray.com): “This is a retelling of the old tale of Hansel and Gretel, but set in England in the 1920’s. To the children and staff at the orphanage, Auntie Roo is a kindly American widow who gives them a lavish Christmas party each year in her mansion, Forrest Grange. In reality, she is a severely disturbed woman, who keeps the mummified remains of her little daughter in a nursery in the attic. One Christmas, her eye falls upon a little girl...

From the mid sixties to the mid seventies, omnibus (or anthology, or portmanteau if you’re really fancy) horror films were big business. And Amicus Productions ruled the roost. Between ’65 and ’74 they released seven such films, starting with Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (not to be confused with Dr. Tongue’s Evil House of Pancakes) and culminating with From Beyond the Grave. Today’s film lands in the middle, The House that Dripped Blood (1971) showcasing a company just starting to hit their stride with anthologies.

Popularity of the omnibus format has ebbed and flowed throughout the last 50 years; after Amicus stopped making them, George Romero and Stephen King collaborated on one of the finest, Creepshow (1982), which didn’t so much kick start a revival as have everyone afraid to compete. Throughout the late ‘80s and ‘90s there were pockets of inspiration, Tales from the Hood (1995) and of course HBO...

Here's another installment featuring Joe Dante's reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!

Four horror tales centering on haunted house. Well made and acted, an exploitable entry for general dualler markets, but rather mild for more bloodthirsty horror audience. Could have had class potential except for the title. Ok boxoffice future overall. Rating: Gp.

Its sanguine title notwithstanding, The House That Dripped Blood aims at quiet chills rather than boisterous thrills, taking the form of four horror stories of varying quality centering on an accursed country house. Production, direction and acting are of a high standard, although the stories written by Psycho's Robert Bloch lack the sensational aspects to wholly satisfy the present blood‑and‑guts horror market. In fact, were it not for the title, this could be a fairly...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 26, 2013

Price: DVD $19.95

Studio: Hen’s Tooth

Ingrid Pitt vamps in The House That Dripped Blood.

British horror legends Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and the late Peter Cushing (Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope) star in the 1970 British horror film The House That Dripped Blood, which has long been out-of-print on DVD.

Here’s the set-up: A Scotland Yard Inspector’s (John Holloway) search for a missing film star (John Pertwee) leads him to a haunted house. The house sets the framework for four separate tales of terror.

All four stories center on the mysterious fates of tenants who have leased the mansion over the years: A writer’s murderous creation comes to life; a wax figure leads to a fatal argument between two men; a young girl becomes obsessed with witchcraft; and a film star buys a cape that adds...