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Stars: Kal Penn, Vincent Regan, Geoff Bell, John Thomson, Sam Robertson, Holly Weston, Richard Ashton, Rebecca Reaney, Matt Healy, James Oliver Wheatley, Richard Crehan, Anthony Cozens, Melissa Wells, Marc Parry, Rachel Rae | Written by Anis Shlewet | Directed by Kit Ryan

Dementamania follows a well groomed and obsessive senior software analyst Edward Arkham (Sam Robertson) who’s constantly caught between reality and his imagination, where he takes out all the anger and frustration on people like his backstabbing manager or his annoying co-workers. One morning, he meets Nicholas Lemarchand (Vincent Regan), who tells Edward that he’s a mediator, but as the hallucinations get worse for him through the day, Edward starts seeing him Nicholas more and more in unexpected places, and when security footage suggests the mediator doesn’t even exist, Edward starts to get more and more suspicious of the strange man whilst falling further and further into his twisted imagination.

Having premiered at last years Frightfest, Dementamania is set for release next month. The film, directed by Kit Ryan and written by Anis Shlewet, follows a frustrated office worker who finds himself caught between the realms of his deranged imagination and the mundane reality of his everyday existence.

Frustrated with the social injustice he faces everyday and the bureaucratic culture of the office where he works, Edward Arkham (Samuel Robertson) is at boiling point. Although a successful analyst with a leading It consultancy, years of routine have taken their toll, and the unbearable daily monotony fuels his frustration and bitterness. When Edward is stung by a mysterious bug, it results in a painful and aggressive rash which unlocks the door to a secret world inside his head causing nightmarish fantasies to manifest themselves within vivid hallucinations. As the rash spreads and threatens to envelop his entire body, his visions become...

Today we have the trailer for the upcoming "Dementamania" horror thriller, starring Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar), Vincent Regan (Snow White and the Huntsman, Lockout), Samuel Robertson (Beaver Falls) And Geoff Bell (War Horse). Check it out below. Plot: When a software analyst is stung by a mysterious bug, it unlocks the door to a secret world inside his head, causing nightmarish fantasies and vivid hallucinations. As the bite rash spreads over his entire body, reality begins drifting further and further away, and the strange effects are felt by everyone around him. The new movie is directed by Kit Ryan (Botched). A release plan has yet to be announced. Trailer:...

Stealth Indie’s Dementamania now has a teaser, you can check it out inside.

The film is directed by the award-winning Kit Ryan (Botched) and stars Samuel Robertson (Beaver Falls), Vincent Regan, (Clash of The Titans) Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar) and Geoff Bell (Rock ‘n’ Rolla) will star.

When a software analyst is stung by a mysterious bug, it unlocks the door to a secret world inside his head, causing nightmarish fantasies and vivid hallucinations. As the bite rash spreads over his entire body, reality begins drifting further and further away, and the strange effects are felt by everyone around him.

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This film fan first stumbled upon the psychological horror Dementamania back in November 2011 (Article Here). The film has since moved from development, into production and recently, the film had its World Premiere at Film4 Frightfest. Now, a teaser trailer is available for the film. The story for Dementamania revolves around the character Edward Arkham (Sam Robertson). He works in a stale office job, which threatens to put him over the edge. In his off time, Edward is stung by a strange looking bug, which causes Edward to see nightmarish visions. A rash begins to spread on his body and this character loses all sense of reality. Fans of the surreal or of horror are encouraged to take a look at the teaser trailer for Dementamania. The visuals from the clip are stunning and they incorporate all sorts of symbolic imagery. A wider released date will be announced once it is secured.

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

Written by Vikram Weet

Directed by Renny Harlin

USA, 2013

The contest between scepticism and belief in the supernatural is a reliable means of drawing out a narrative before any sort of big reveal. It’s a dynamic through which the television classic The X-Files operated, featuring the passionate Fox Mulder, who worked to convince cohort Dana Scully of “the truth.” Around this back-and-forth between two audience surrogates situates the dubious involvement of man: how much do the higher-ups truly know about what is going on, and what are they keeping from us?

Renny Harlin’s The Dyatlov Pass Incident borrows a few of these tricks. Its fictional found-footage accompanies a group of five American hikers into the Ural Mountains as they retrace the steps of nine souls who died in mysterious, real-life circumstances some 50 years ago. Hypothermia, avalanches, and other possible causes of death have since been ruled out,...

This bank holiday weekend, Empire Leicester Square is once again haunted by the annual Film4 Frightfest. Five days, three screens and a few dozen premieres, debuts, sequels and rereleases – there should be plenty to keep horror aficionados safe from the holiday sunshine.

It all kicks off with Thursday night’s premiere of The Dead 2: India, Howard & Jon Ford’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed original which screened at Frightfest 2010. As the title suggests, the zombie outbreak has bestowed itself upon India, so expect to see hero Nicholas Burton trek across some striking landscapes, albeit tailed by a zombie horde.

There are many more sequels on offer, including the return of one infamous killer doll in Curse of Chucky; V/H/S 2, a follow-up to last year’s most popular horror portmanteau; and I Spit on Your Grave 2, the sequel to a remake that left a bad taste in many a mouth.

A Field in England’s Ben Wheatley and The Raid’s Gareth Evans set to attend.

A total of 34 directors are confirmed to attend Film4 FrightFest 2013, which runs August 22-26 in London.

The guest list of directors includes Don Mancini (Curse Of Chucky), Suri Krishnamma (Dark Tourist), Bobcat Goldthwait (Willow Creek) and Adam Green (Holliston).

Also attending is Gareth Evans, who recently completed principal photography of The Raid 2 and Jason Eisener, both for V/H/S/2.

Cheap Thrills director Evan L. Katz will be at FrightFest as well as Steven R. Monroe for the world premiere of I Spit On Your Grave 2.

Blair Erickson will launch Banshee Chapter and other directors include Anthony Diblasi (Missionary), Jeremy Lovering (In Fear), Kit Ryan (Dementemania) and Christopher McBride for The Conspiracy.

The Ford Brothers will attend for their opening night film The Dead 2: India, as will co-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado for closing night film Big Bad Wolves...

A fresh crop of new images from several of the flicks playing at this year's Film4 FrightFest have come our way and we're dishing 'em right here to ya! Check out new eye candy for Cheap Thrills, Odd Thomas, The Conspiracy, and Wither.

From the Press Release:

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, is delighted to unveil its biggest lineup in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up...

From the press release:

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.

This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.

The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...

We already knew that The Dead 2: India would have its world premiere as the opening film of FrightFest 2013 and now the full lineup has been revealed, including Curse of Chucky, You’re Next, and Frankenstein’s Army:

“2013 has already been a banner year for Film4 FrightFest. What with our sell-out American Mary UK tour and FrightFest Glasgow reaching stunning new capacity heights as the Scottish rendezvous for shock-loving high society, our August Bank Holiday main event in London had better deliver the goods…

So are you ready for an spine-chilling avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, horrific home invasions, vengeance-crazed Vikings, ghostly serial killers, vicious videotapes, liquidised corpses, Swedish mesmerists, mutant armies, Argentine undead, psycho vs. psychos, dead men in black, murderous wagers, crazed Mormons, hellish car journeys, grief tourists, conspiracy theories, human experiments, Barcelona panic, premature burials, Betamax memories, Irish telekinesis, swamp slashing, devil dolls, found footage fears,...

If you've been jealous of our UK brothers and sisters in years past because of the incredible lineup offered by the Film4 FrightFest, well, you ain't seen nothing yet! Check out what they have on the menu for 2013 along with a ridiculous amount of new images from several of the films.

From the Press Release:

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, is delighted to unveil its biggest lineup in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also...

Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins? Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, unveiling its biggest (and we mean Huge) line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions. This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres. The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers, Banshee Chapter,...

The 14th edition of London-based genre festival to screen record 51 films across August Bank Holiday weekend (Aug 22-26) with ten world premieres; UK premieres include Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are [pictured].

Film4 FrightFest has announced its biggest ever lineup for its upcoming 14th edition, taking place at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square from Aug 22-26.

In total, this year’s edition will screen 51 films across three screens, while the new FrightFest Xtra strand will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the festival’s most popular films. Eleven countries are represented from five continents with a record-breaking 33 UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.

Alongside the previously announced opening film The Dead 2: India, other world premieres at this year’s FrightFest include Blair Erickson’s Banshee Chapter (produced by Zachary Quinto), Kit Ryan’s Dementamania, Cody Calahan’s Antisocial and Juanra Fernández’s For Elisa.

European premieres...

14th edition of London-based genre festival to screen record 51 films across August Bank Holiday weekend (Aug 22-26) with ten world premieres; UK premieres include Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are [pictured].

Film4 FrightFest has announced its biggest ever lineup for its upcoming 14th edition, taking place at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square from Aug 22-26.

In total, this year’s edition will screen 51 films across three screens, while the new FrightFest Xtra strand will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the festival’s most popular films. Eleven countries are represented from five continents with a record-breaking 33 UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.

Alongside the previously announced opening film The Dead 2: India, other world premieres at this year’s FrightFest include Blair Erickson’s Banshee Chapter (produced by Zachary Quinto), Kit Ryan’s Dementamania, Cody Calahan’s Antisocial and Juanra Fernández’s For Elisa.

European premieres...

It is one of the most infamous weekends in the cinematic calendar and the good folks over at FrightFest have just announced their full line up of films for their 2013 festival.

The opening and closing night films have already been announced; The Ford Brothers’ India-shot zombie film The Dead 2: India will open the festival and the Rabies team of Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado are returning to the Empire in Leicester Square two years after their auspicious debut to close with their latest, Big Bad Wolves.

The full line up can be found here but it looks like it will continue to be a truly global event. The latest film from Splice director Vincenzo Natali will play, as will the eagerly awaited Dementamania from Kit Ryan. Elsewhere horror fans will have the chance to catch up with V/H/S/2 if they haven’t already on VOD, and there is Rewind This!

Exclusive: After taking a risk and putting his career on hold for two years and having his character killed on House so he could work in the Obama White House, Harold & Kumar‘s Kal Penn has regained his stride nicely. After a stint on How I Met Your Mother, Penn has broadened his presence in TV, hosting the Discovery Channel competition series The Big Brain Theory and next month shooting the pilot for an untitled sitcom that had the working title of Ex Men. Penn will star with Tony Shalhoub in a laffer about four guys of varying ages who’ve been dumped by their mates and bond when they move into an apartment complex. He’s also booked a trio of feature films. He’s starring in The Sisterhood Of Night, playing a guidance counselor in an upstate New York town where some high school girls have formed a...

Stealth Indie’s Dementamania starts shooting October 1st in Yorkshire for 4 weeks. The film is Directed by the award-winning Kit Ryan (Botched) and is just one of the exciting films on Stealth’s Indie label.

Samuel Robertson (Beaver Falls), Vincent Regan, (Clash of The Titans) Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar) and Geoff Bell (Rock ‘n’ Rolla) will star.

When a software analyst is stung by a mysterious bug, it unlocks the door to a secret world inside his head, causing nightmarish fantasies and vivid hallucinations. As the bite rash spreads over his entire body, reality begins drifting further and further away, and the strange effects are felt by everyone around him.

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This is an early preview of a horror film that has been in development since at least early last year called Dementamania. A poster was released in 2010 and now a partial cast has been announced for the film. Starring are Chad Michael Murray (House of Wax), Christian Slater (Dolan's Cadillac) and Stephen Mchattie (Immortals) in this surreal thriller. As well, the story follows a bored office worker who is bit by an exotic bug. Soon he is hallucinating and leaving reality in favour of a horrifying new world. Kit Ryan (Botched) will direct. A few more details are below and the film's full synopsis is available at Stealth Media Group.

Director: Kit Ryan.

Cast: Chad Michael Murray, Christian Slater, and Stephen McHattie.

*no trailer available.

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Director Kit Ryan's feature debut, Botched , was a bloody tale thick with dark comedy and featured actors Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee and Jamie Murray. It took home the Best Feature prize at the New York City Horror Film Festival in 2007 and was subsequently released direct-to-dvd here in the States a few years back, so what has Ryan been up to since then? Apparently he's in development on Dementamania and we've got the story details: When a software engineer gets stung by a mysterious bug, it unlocks the door to a secret world inside his head, causing nightmarish fantasies and vivid hallucinations. As the bite rash spreads over his entire body, reality begins drifting further and further away, and the strange effects are felt by everyone around him. Early teaser art...

Earlier this week Fango gave you a look at 6 brand-new installments of Fangoria Slices featuring Japanese director Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer) discussing his new projects. Tonight we're re-introducing the series in which your favorite genre stars and creators sit down with Fangoria for exclusive interviews and insight into their lives and work - each presented in 60-second bite-sized clips. We're getting things kicked off right, with 60 Exclusive Interview clips, that you'll only find right here on Fangoria.com!

With much thanks to our friend Bill Hall, we've been mining the Fango Archives to uncover an incredible selection of rare and unreleased video from Slices first run, and we've begun filming new installments as well. The process is a time-consuming labor of love, and in the coming weeks we'll be posting further installments of Slices along with other rare video from the Fango vault.

This initial selection includes appearances by:

Elizabeth Banks - Slither,...

While the title isn’t the most original in the world, Dementamania still has a nice ring to it. The boys over at Quiet Earth discovered a bit of info on the film the other day, and it sounds too weird to pass up.

Dementamania is about a successful software engineer who’s bitten by a mysterious bug one morning in his apartment. By the end of the day he’s stuck in a world of violent hallucinations that, if the illustration on the right (done by comic book artist John Higgins) is any indication, don’t fare well for his fellow office workers.

Written by newcomer Anis Shlewet, Ronin Pictures have brought in Botched (DVD review) director Kit Ryan to direct Dementamania, with shooting set to commence in February. Hopefully we’ll hear more soon so keep your eyeballs open!

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We just found out about an insane looking new scifi horror film that's set to start lensing in February '09 called Dementamania. A kafka-esque story of violence and listening to the dark hallucinations of our unconscious mind, Dementamania was written by newcomer Anis Shlewet and will be directed by Kit Ryan of Botched fame. Here's a brief synopsis:

A successful young software engineer is bitten by a weird-looking bug in his apartment at breakfast one morning and by the end of day is trapped in a mad world of violent hallucinations.

Bitten by a weird bug? Sounds deliciously trippy no? It also sounds vaguely Gilliamesque but I doubt it'll end up going that direction. This one's definitely staying high on the Qe radar.