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Devereux Milburn’s Honeydew is set to have its world premiere at the esteemed Tribeca Film Festival as part of its Midnight Selection. Check out the film's synopsis and official poster after a brief introduction to today's stories in Horror Highlights. Also: production details on Yoshiki Takahashi's Rageaholic and release details for both The Films Have Eyes as well as M.O.M. (Mothers of Monsters).

Honeydew Poster, Images, and Premiere Details: "See the first look at Devereux Milburn’s feverish debut Honeydew ahead of the film’s World Premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Fest’s Midnight Selection.

Honeydew is a feverish horror film set in rural New England, where strange cravings and hallucinations befall a young couple after seeking shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son.

Directed and written by Milburn and produced by Dan Kennedy and Alan Pierson, the film...

A concept poster has been released for Yoshiki Takahashi's Rageaholic. Shot in Tokyo, this thriller centers on police officer Fukama (Yohta Kawase). Fueled by anger, Fukama's arrest techniques lead to several deaths. Now, Fukama has been exiled to America, until he can get his temper under control. But, something has changed in Japan, when he returns - leading to another bout of rage. Rageaholic also stars: Ryuju Kobayashi (August in Tokyo), Manzô Shinra (Ichi the Killer) and model Aya Saiki. Developed by writer Yuki Kobayashi, more story details are available here. The official synopsis mentions the town, in which Fukama become infamous. After treatment in psychotherapy, Fukama finds this small city overly clean and sanitized. Those townsfolk who do not conform are sentenced to death. And now, Fukama's anger is fueling a desire for vengeance. Rageaholic has completed shooting. Now, a film festival run is being planned with a...

Principal photography wrapped today on Interfilm’s Rageaholic, from writer/director Yoshiki Takahashi. The picture marks the feature directorial debut of prolific Tokyo-based artist Takahashi, who is widely-known for scripting Sion Sono’s celebrated 2010 blockbuster Cold Fish.

Rageaholic, which is based on a story by Yuki Kobayashi (Death Row Family), stars Yohta Kawase, model Aya Saiki, Ryuju Kobayashi (August In Tokyo), and Manzô Shinra (Ichi The Killer). It is produced by Kazuto Morita, Yukihisa Higami, Kazunori Shibasaki, and Takehiko Ito.

Rageaholic follows Yakuza-busting police officer Fukama (Kawase), who, after allowing his overly-violent nature to get the better of him, botches an arrest and leaves several bodies in his wake. Disgraced and sent to America for psychotherapy, he returns to Japan years later to discover that the town he once cleaned up is now so clean that it has literally become sanitized – with death as punishment for those who do not conform.

Stars: Yayan Ruhian, Rirî Furankî, Hayato Ichihara, Mio Yûki, Pierre Taki, Denden, Tetsu Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Riko Narumi, Reiko Takashima, Lily Frankie, Masanori Mimoto, Shô Aoyagi, Manzô Shinra, Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi | Directed by Takashi Miike

I’m not sure if it’s from watching Battles Without Honour and Humanity or my love of the Crows Zero movies that did it, but I have to admit that I was very excited about Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse. Now that I’ve seen it, I may be a little confused but I’ll also admit to being in love with the insane little film.

Yakuza Apocalypse focuses on the story of Kageyama, a Yakuza who is ridiculed for his lack of signature tattoos down to his sensitive skin. When he witnesses the defeat of his former boss, whose decapitated head in turn bites him turning him into a vampire he turns into a vampire.

Stars: Yayan Ruhian, Rirî Furankî, Hayato Ichihara, Mio Yûki, Pierre Taki, Denden, Tetsu Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Riko Narumi, Reiko Takashima, Lily Frankie, Masanori Mimoto, Shô Aoyagi, Manzô Shinra, Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Written by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi | Directed by Takashi Miike

When considering the work of a director who often makes up to six or seven films a year, you might be forgiven for assuming that most of these would be low-key, simple productions focusing on small sets of characters. Not so in the case of Takashi Miike, the filmmaker behind such eyebrow-raising fare as the ultraviolent Ichi The Killer, zombie musical comedy The Happiness of the Katakuris and contemplative drama The Bird People in China. Never one to shirk an ambitious project for the sake of an easy life, Miike’s latest film sees him on world-ending form with Yakuza Apocalypse.

Kageyama is a low-level Yakuza thug bullied by his fellow gangsters...