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“Good evening, HeartShare! Long time no see!” Co-host Jim Kerr got right to the heart of the matter as he greeted the crowd gathered at New York City’s illustrious Ziegfeld Ballroom for the 2022 HeartShare Spring Gala on Monday, March 21.

Bill Guarinello, Rosanna Scotto, Michael W. Castellano, Cynthia McFadden, and Douglas P. Catalano, Esq

Due to Covid-19, it was the nonprofit’s first in-person Gala since 2019, but it more than made up for two years without one.

A celebration of the HeartShare Family, the event drew more than 400 HeartShare supporters, Board Members, corporate sponsors, partners, celebrities and staffers to a red-carpet affair with all the glitz and glamour of a Hollywood premiere beneath HeartShare’s name in lights on the Ziegfeld’s iconic marquee. The Gala was also viewed online by more than 100 virtual attendees.

Co-hosted by Emmy-winning “Good Day New York” host Rosanna Scotto and legendary Q104.3 DJ Jim...

Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Ruth Dardick | Written by Joseph Ellison, Ellen Hammill, Joe Masefield | Directed by Joseph Ellison

One of the many films that were tangled up in the video nasty debacle of the early 80s, Don’t Go In The House tells the story of Donny, a somewhat disturbed man who lives under the thumb of his overbearing and sadistic (in the sense that she likes to burn his arms on the stove) mother. That is until his mother passes away and Donny’s already disturbed psyche finally cracks. Living only with the voices in his head, Donny seeks out female companionship, only his idea of bringing a girl home to meet mother entails tying them up in his steel-walled burning chamber!

Don’t Go In the House is a film clearly inspired by Psycho, yet it shares very familiar traits with William Lustig’s Maniac and De...

To mark the release of the brand new restoration of Don’t Go in the House, out now, we’ve been given 1 copy to give away on Blu-ray.

Donny Kohler (The Sopranos’ Dan Grimaldi in a gripping central performance), a disturbed loner unhealthily obsessed with fire, comes home from his factory job one day to find his abusive mother has died. Now all alone in the large Gothic mansion he calls home and consumed in an inferno of insanity, he is finally able to fulfil his violent revenge fantasies against her. Soon, any woman unlucky enough to enter is forced to come face to face with the worst fate imaginable in the secret steel-clad chamber of death he has built in the house’s depths… Don’t Go in the House is the first Arrow Video release to feature Audio Descriptions.

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Hey everyone! We’re back with a whole new batch of home media releases that will be arriving on Tuesday, and it includes quite an eclectic array of titles that genre fans are going to want to check out. If you missed out on the previous edition, Arrow is releasing the Standard Special Edition of Legend this week which is absolutely worth checking out, and for all you cult film fans, Severin Films is showing some love to Don’t Go Into the House with their Special Edition presentation.

Kino Lorber is resurrecting Alberto De Martino’s The Antichrist on Blu-ray this Tuesday, and if you’re looking to catch up on some recent horror, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and Student Body are both being released on multiple formats as well.

Other releases for February 8th include Santo: El Enmascarado De Plata Box Set, Bloody Mary, Hiruko the Goblin,...

It’s time for the punks to meet the godfathers. The creators of SopranosCon merged with MobMovieCon for a family celebration. From July 23 to July 25, Harrah’s Resort & Casino in Atlantic City will house the boardwalk’s biggest gangster gathering since Nucky Johnson hosted the mob’s Atlantic City Conference in 1929.

“Al Capone will not be coming though,” VirtualCons CEO Michael Mota tells Den of Geek. “Those were the mobsters. I would say this would be the biggest gathering of mobster wannabes.” The Sopranos fan convention has come a long way since it was dreamed up by three gangster movie aficionados from New York, Maryland, and Rhode Island. The 2019 SopranosCon drew thousands of fans from as far as The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus. A planned expansion to MobMovieCon had to be pushed back because of the pandemic, but the organizers introduced VirtualCons...

"A murderer will kill you, a thief will rob you, but you never know where you stand with a liar." - Unknown author Relationships are built on mutual trust. Lies destroy trust. The sad thing is that even if a liar would be truthful one day, you would have a hard time believing it, unless… Enter the dark comedy Pasquale’s Magic Veal, which is about exactly these subjects. With a formidable cast featuring Vincent Pastore, Joseph D’Onofrio and Artie Pasquale as well as Dan Grimaldi and Angie Marie Muscat, writer/director D.J. Higgins takes us into the world of a relationship full of lies and dishonesty in his aforementioned short film with a surprise and thought-provoking ending. A young couple, about to tie the knot,...

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Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Ruth Dardick | Written by Joseph Ellison, Ellen Hammill, Joe Masefield | Directed by Joseph Ellison

One of the many films that was tangled up in the video nasty debacle of the early 80s, Don’t Go In The House tells the story of Donny, a somewhat disturbed man who lives under the thumb of his overbearing and sadistic (in the sense that she likes to burn his arms on the stove) mother. That is until his mother passes away and Donny’s already disturbed psyche finally cracks. Living only with the voices in his head, Donny seeks out female companionship, only his idea of bringing a girl home to meet mother entails tying them up in his steel-walled burning chamber!

Don’t Go In the House is a film clearly inspired by Psycho, yet it shares very familiar traits with William Lustig’s Maniac...

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Back in the 1980’s, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and the self-appointed morality police (spearheaded by Margaret Thatcher and Mary Whitehouse, a professional busybody) were offended by the schlocky, low-budget, extreme-horror films that had crept their way into households across the country. Their censorship efforts resulted in certain offensive films being labeled as “Video Nasties”, and restricted from viewers in the UK.

While the films overall are generally hit or miss in terms of nastiness, the debauchery of the scenes here includes stone-dildos, monkey brain consumption, and the longest rape/torture scene in the history of cinema. Be warned – the following images, videos and descriptions are not for the faint of heart. For those of you who wish to continue on, remember to keep some Pepto-Bismol close by, and enjoy.

20. Donny And His Torture Shack – Don’t Go In The House (1979)

Don’t Go In The House...

The past can come to bear on anyone unexpectedly, and that's the basis of Matthew Bonifacio's forthcoming indie dramedy "The Quitter." The film is headed to theaters next month, and we've got the exclusive trailer and poster. Starring Julianna Gelinas Bonifacio, Destiny Monet Cruz, Neil Jain, Deirdre O’Connell, Dan Grimaldi, Jack O’Connell, Erin Darke, Henry Vick, Joshua Rivera, with the director taking the lead role, and featuring a cameo by Natasha Lyonne, "The Quitter" tells the story of a former baseball player who is in for a surprise when his ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with their seven year-old daughter. And so begins his attempt to become the father he should've been all along, in a movie mixing comedy and drama in equal measure. "The Quitter" opens in New York on September 12th. Watch below.

Bronx Bombers, a new American play by Eric Simonson, is produced on Broadway by Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo, and directed by Eric Simonson. Bronx Bombers officially opened on February 6 at Circle in the Square Theatre, and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with celebrities on the red carpet before the show, including Simonson, Kirmser and Ponturo, Broadway's Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat, plus Dan Grimaldi, Dee Snider, Karen Ziemba, Natalie Roy and Rebecca Faulkenberry and Josh Segarra. Check out what they had to say below...

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Directed By: Joseph Ellison

Written By: Joseph Ellison, Ellen Hammill, & Joe Masefield

Starring: Dan Grimaldi (Donny Kohler), Robert Osth (Tuttle), Bill Ricci (Vito), Charles Bonet (Ben), David Brody (Tony), Ralph Bowman (Father Gerritty), Nikki Collins (Farrah), Johanna Brushay (Kathy), Gloria Szymkovicz (Sylvia), Louise Grimaldi (Barbara), Tom Brumberger (Alfred)

I’ve heard a lot of things about this movie and critics panned this movie when it debuted for its inherent violence and child abuse. “Don’t Go in the House” was a pleasant surprise at how good it was for a theme taken out of the Hitchcock classic “Psycho.” In the UK, the movie was immediately put on their 80s “Video Nasty” list and subsequently banned from the country entirely. The movie was released by Media Home Entertainment and Video Treasures as well as a few DVD’s in the last ten years. The disturbing...

Old Boy

Nate Parker ("Arbitrage," "Red Hook Summer") is in talks to join Spike Lee's remake of Chan-wook Park's Korean revenge thriller "Oldboy." Parker is in talks to play a doctor who works with Elizabeth Olsen's character.

Josh Brolin stars as a man who is kidnapped and imprisoned for more than a decade for unknown reasons. Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson also star. [Source: Variety]

Nymphomaniac

Udo Kier recently confirmed that he’ll be re-teaming with Lars von Trier for the director’s next project, "Nymphomaniac".

Kier's role is unknown at this point. Kier worked with von Trier on last year's "Melancholia". [Source: Dread Central]

Crossing Lines

William Fichtner, Donald Sutherland, Marc Lavoine and Genevieve O’Reilly are amongst the names to sign on for Ed Bernero's new action/crime drama series "Crossing Lines". Shooting kicks off at the end of the month in France and the Czech Republic.

The story...

Don’T Go In The House

Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Ruth Dardick | Written by Joseph Ellison, Ellen Hammill, Joe Masefield | Directed by Joseph Ellison

One of the many films that was tangled up in the video nasty debacle of the early 80s, ArrowDrome’s release of Don’t Go In The House sees the sleaze-fest released in its uncut form for the first time since VHS certification was made mandatory here in the UK. The film tells the story of Donny, a somewhat disturbed man who lives under the thumb of his overbearing and sadistic (in the sense that she likes to burn his arms on the stove) mother. That is until his mother shuffles off the mortal coil and Danny’s already disturbed psyche finally cracks. Living only with the voices in his head, Donny seeks out female companionship, only Donny’s idea of bringing a...

The whacked may strike back in the upcoming season of The Sopranos. Sources said that some of the characters killed in the HBO mob drama's first four seasons will resurface in an episode of the series next year. Vincent Pastore (aka Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero), David Proval (Richie Aprile), John Heard (Detective Vin Makazian), Al Sapienza (Mikey Palmice), Dan Grimaldi (Philly "Spoons" Parisi) and Jason Cerbone (Jackie Aprile Jr.) are said to be on board for the episode. Sources said Joe Pantoliano (Ralph Cifaretto), who just earned an Emmy for his work on Sopranos, also is expected to appear as a deal is being worked out to accommodate the shooting schedule of Pantoliano's new CBS drama The Handler. It's unclear just how these characters will be brought back to life, but sources said the episode is believed to involve a dreamlike sequence. Reps for all the actors declined comment Tuesday. A spokeswoman for HBO said the network does not comment on upcoming story lines.