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Buffalo 8 Distribution has picked up U.S. rights to The Fall, a romantic drama from writer/director Shaun Hart (Del Playa).

Jocelyn Hudon stars in the feature as Lacey Huxley, a 30-year-old woman living with her grandparents in the small town of El Castillo, California, who gets a chance at love when she meets a ruggedly handsome Australian (Thomas Cocquerel) with a heart of gold. But their budding relationship is complicated by the return of Lacey’s ex-boyfriend, played by Jeremy Sumpter, and his southern belle fiancé (Cassandra Scerbo) who move to town and trigger memories and longings, from the past.

Austin-based Lunar Door produced The Fall in participation with Snakebyte Productions.

Buffalo 8, the distribution arm of producer/financier BondIt Media Capital, picked up the film ahead of the AFM, where world sales group Iuvit media sales will be pitching it to international buyers. Luvit’s AFM sales slate also...

A new episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? video series has just been released, and with this one we’re looking back at the 2010 film Skyline (watch it Here). To find out all about this sci-fi thriller, check out the video embedded above.

Directed by Greg and Colin Strause from a screenplay written by Joshua Cordes and Liam O’Donnell, Skyline has the following synopsis: Jarrod and Elaine travel to Southern California to visit their friend Terry. What should be a fun outing turns into a weekend of horror. At night, strange light signals announce an invasion of giant aliens who attack terrified people. Jarrod and his friends must use all their skills to survive the global genocide.

The film stars Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, Neil Hopkins, David Zayas, Donald Faison, Robin Gammell, Tanya Newbould, and J. Paul Boehmer.

In the years since Skyline was released,...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products released each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

My Bloody Valentine Trading Cards from Fright-Rags

Fright-Rags has released official My Bloody Valentine trading cards as part of its collection of merchandise dedicated to the classic ‘80s slasher. Cards are available in single packs for 5, factory boxes for 35, and sealed boxes for 120.

Single packs have nine cards and a sticker. Factory boxes have 80 cards, two parallel cards, two stickers, and a checklist. Sealed boxes (limited to 320) have two full base sets, two full sticker sets, two full parallel sets, two checklists, one autograph card, and one printing plate.

The Haunting of Julia 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

The Haunting of Julia will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 18 via Scream Factory.

If you were being pursued by a wily killer in the woods, could you survive? Don’t look for me alive, that’s for certain; at the first sign of trouble I would be tangled up in a bush, or drown in five inches of water. Let’s not even start on the deadly wildlife, chopping wood, making a fire, or the inconvenience of being slain on holidays. That last point is a bit of a sticky one for the protagonists of Rituals (1977), a Canadian spin on Deliverance that would probably pair better with Jeff Lieberman’s Just Before Dawn (1981). And if you’ve seen that intense shocker, you’ll know you’re in good company.

Released in Canada in July, a full year before the States, Rituals received some good notices but performed poorly with audiences, and was quickly forgotten. But time has a path to redemption, especially for films that deserve that reappreciation.

"She made me feel hope... I wanted every day to feel like that." Freestyle Dm has released an official trailer for a indie road trip dramedy titled She's in Portland, from filmmaker Marc Carlini. This first premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival earlier this year, and it also played at the Sedona, Sonoma, and Phoenix Film Festivals. She's in Portland follows two men who seemingly admire each other's lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to his demanding corporate career and his responsibilities to his growing family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke up the California Coast to find Luke's "one that got away". Through their travels and conversations, the trip takes a deeper look into life choices, acceptance, and commitment. The film stars Tommy Dewey and Ricco Ross, with Minka Kelly, Vishesh Chachra, Alexis Krause, Robin Gammell, Elaine Partnow, and François Arnaud.

Movies about the blacklist aren’t common, probably because as Robert Vaughn wrote, the period produced no happy stories, ‘Only Victims.’ Robert de Niro, Annette Bening and George Wendt give a bite of immediacy to the way the blacklist upset careers and blighted lives. Few of us would like to be publicly branded an Enemy of the People, but doing so seems to be America’s number one spectator sport.

Guilty by Suspicion

DVD

The Warner Archive Collection

1991 / Color / 1:85 enhanced widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date May 12, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 17.99

Starring: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker, Luke Edwards, Chris Cooper, Ben Piazza, Martin Scorsese, Barry Primus, Gailard Sartain, Robin Gammell, Brad Sullivan, Tom Sizemore, Stuart Margolin, Gene Kirkwood, Illeana Douglas, Adam Baldwin.

Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus

Film Editor: Priscilla Nedd

Original Music: James Newton Howard

Uncredited writer: Abraham Polonsky

Produced by Arnon Milchan

Written and...

Directors Colin and Greg Strause discuss the speedy production process of Skyline, filming in L.A., a Skyline sequel, War of the Ages and much more.

Brothers Colin Strause and Greg Strause have certainly forged an interesting path through Hollywood. After moving to Los Angeles from Chicago in 1995, they cut their teeth doing visual effects for The X-Files before moving up the ranks to features such as The Nutty Professor and Titanic. Although they are still highly in demand for their visual effects work through their company Hydraulx, the brothers have branched out into directing with the 2007 adventure Aliens Vs. Predator - Requiem.

Colin Strause and Greg Strause's second directorial effort, Skyline, is a bit of a departure for the brothers, although not in terms of the scope and masterful special effects. They shot the feature on a shoestring production budget with their own equipment, bypassing the studio system...

For years fans have been hoping that Rituals - starring Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild), Robin Gammell (Lipstick) and Lawrence Dane (Scanners) - would finally arrive to DVD. Hope was risen when Code Red teased about a release for years! ....Well it looks like some good news is finally in sight for fans of this little known horror chiller from the 80's. 

According to the Navarre Distribution Services website, Rituals will be arriving to DVD on April 5, 2011! However, you better get your copy quick. Anyone remember Final Exam or Savage Streets with Linda Blair. Those films were released by Navarre for Code Red Entertainment. However, those films became quickly discontinued and the value at times on these films shot up to $100! So if you are intent on getting a copy for your collection, you better do so soon after the film's initial release, unless you're willing to fork over that...

I'm a little late on posting the list this week (I usually hit you with it on Sunday), but didn't want to miss my next-to-last pre-Thanksgiving chance to say "Gobble, Gobble! Motherfucker!" (Thankskilling, see below) again. Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this week in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.

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Basement Jack

Karen Cook was your average high school student... until the night evil invaded her life. She would soon be known as the lone survivor of a seven-day killing spree perpetrated by a seventeen year old boy the world would come to call "Basement Jack". For the next eleven years, Karen Cook lived in fear that one day Basement Jack would be released. Then, a court hearing in 2006 found that Jack Riley had not received a...