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Mezco’s new Living Dead Doll of Beetlejuice, the sometimes lovable ghost with the most, will be ready for showtime between October and November of this year. Also in today’s Highlights: details on the free release of Horror Hotel The Movie on Amazon Prime and DVD cover art and release details for 6 Plots.

Mezco Presents New Beetlejuice Living Dead Doll: From Mezco: “Beetlejuice, “the ghost with the most”, is back and ready to bring his unique blend of horrific hilarity to your home.

Tim Burton’s Academy Award winning film Beetlejuice not only introduced the title character but forever branded his garishly colored, surrealistic antics into the collective minds of moviegoers. In one of the film’s most memorable scenes, Beetlejuice transforms into a highly stylized nightmare carousel. As a hellish band of bizarre creatures encircles his head, his arms transmogrify into mallets. Now, this moment is forever captured...

Writer-director Robert Mond.s debut feature The Subjects will be released worldwide on multiple platforms in October.

The thriller.s novel concept revolves around eight misfits who are paid handsomely to take part in a secret trial to test a new drug. Locked in a room for eight hours, each person discovers he or she suddenly has assumed superhuman powers.

So the tension mounts as each is forced to make a choice: to become a superhero or a supervillain.

Shot in Melbourne last July/August, the film was financed by David Redman.s Instinct Entertainment, a consortium of investors, the producer offset and the UK.s Head Gear, which cash-flowed the offset.

Instinct Distribution is releasing the film worldwide in October, with launches planned at Comic-Con in Sydney and New York and other Comic-Con events around the world.

Mond, who has written and directed numerous short films, produced with Redman,...

Admit it. If you've been to a movie theatre lately, you've thought about it. The morons with their cellphones. Texting with their stupid shortcut lingo and emoticons while you're trying to watch a movie. Wouldn't it be nice to round 'em up and bury 'em alive?

While not exactly along those lines, the new horror flick from director Leigh Sheehan, 6 Plots, brings some of that revenge fantasy to life. Check out the first details and more below. Alice Darling, Ryan Corr, Andrew Clarke, Eliza Taylor, Emily Wheaton, Joey Coley-Sowry, Damien Harrison, and Penelope Mitchell star.

Synopsis

It's the end of summer, and seven cocky senior high school friends break into a luxury beachside mansion in the sleepy seaside town of Oak Bay. The party's on. Music, alcohol, drugs - their passions run riot.

One of the seven, Brie Weisman, awakens from a drug-induced sleep. She is completely alone. Something is very wrong!

Tagline: "6 Lives, 6 Traps." 6 Plots is an Australian filmed horror feature. This is also a teen focused horror film as seven friends leave high school for fun in the sun at an isolated cabin. Here, the drugs and alcohol fuel the party while making these seven friends an easy target for a mysterious killer. Chloe awakens to find her friends missing and a strange voicing urging her on. Her friends are hidden beneath the earth and Chloe must choose who lives and who dies. Will anyone escape? This horror title has already released in Australia. However, a North American release date has not been fixed. For now, a concept poster is available with more bloody details to come, shortly. Director: Leigh Sheehan. Writer: Tim C. Patterson. Cast: Alice Darling, Ryan Corr, Andrew Clarke, Eliza Taylor, Emily Wheaton, Joey Coley-Sowry, Damien Harrison and Penelope Mitchell. *runtime is 90 mins. Source: 6 Plots at High...