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Exclusive: Company is selling Lindsay Lohan-starring The Shadow Within, as well as The Harvesting and Bastard.

Los Angeles-based Archstone Distribution is introducing three titles to international buyers in Berlin.

Archstone handles worldwide sales on the Lindsay Lohan [pictured] horror-thriller The Shadow Within. Tiago Mesquita directed from Mark Morgan’s screenplay about a private investigator forced to reveal her werewolf alter-ego when faced with evil-doers.

Archstone’s Brady Bowen brokered the deal with producer Ross Otterman.

The slate includes worldwide rights on The Harvesting, about a troubled young family that retreats for the summer to Amish Country where they encounter a malevolent presence.

Bastard hails from the 8 films To Die For horror banner and was released in the Us via AfterDark. Archstone holds international rights to the story about a masked murderer on the rampage in a secluded mountain town.

Los Angeles-based Archstone Distribution has acquired international rights to the crime thriller Gutshot Straight.

Justin Steele directed the film starring Vinnie Jones (pictured), Stephen Lang, Steven Seagal, George Eads, AnnaLynne McCord, Ted Levine and Tia Carrere.

Gutshot Straight tells of a poker player who becomes embroiled in a murder plot after he encounters a mysterious gambler.

“We are excited and honoured to be working with the producers of Gutshot Straight,” said Archstone Distribution founding partner Scott Martin.

“It is a well-made film with a strong cast and we look forward to offering it at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.”

Tiago Mesquita, Ross Otterman and John Yang served as producers.

Horror network Chiller TV continues to make headway in the world of terrestrial horror themed broadcasting as they have just announced the addition of two features to their line-up of 2013-2014 original movies. Read on for details.

According to Deadline, Animal, from executive producer Drew Barrymore and her Flower Films banner, follows a group of friends stranded in an isolated cabin who find themselves hunted by a predator. Deep in the Darkness stars Sean Patrick Thomas and Dean Stockwell in the tale of a NYC doctor who moves his family to a small town only to discover a race of creatures living in the woods behind their home.

These films join the previously announced features Beneath, from director Larry Fessenden, and The Monkey’s Paw, adapted from W.W. Jacobs’ short story, to launch Chiller Films’ new multiplatform release strategy. The four titles will get limited theatrical runs via Synthetic Cinema...

Between FEARnet and Chiller TV, horror fans are pretty much set in terms of programming as both channels have beefed up and gotten a lot better over the last couple of years. Read on for the latest news coming out of the Chiller camp!

THR reports that "Terra Nova" alum Stephen Lang and High School Musical vet Corbin Bleu lead the cast of Chiller's original movie The Monkey's Paw, adapted by Macon Blair from a short story by W.W. Jacobs.

The film centers on Jake Tilton (C.J. Thomason, "Harper's Island"), who acquires a mystical "monkey's paw" talisman that grants its possessor three wishes and finds his world upside down after his first two wishes result in his co-worker Tony Cobb (Lang) being resurrected from the dead. When Cobb pressures Jake into using the final wish to reunite Cobb with his son, his intimidation quickly escalates into relentless murder -- forcing...

Actor Brad Dourif is most commonly known for his roles in genre fare such as Exorcist 3, Grim Prairie Tales, and the Child’s Play series. In more recent years Dourif has expanded his repertoire on television with roles in Deadwood and Law & Order, but that hasn’t stopped him returning to the more creepy roles with which he made his name, such as in his latest movie Death and Cremation.

The debut of director Justin Steele, Death and Cremation is from a script by Alecc Bracero and Justin Steele, and stars Dourif along with Jeremy Sumpter (Friday Night Lights), Scott Elrod, Debbon Ayer (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Daniel Baldwin (Homicide: Life on the Street), and Staci Keenan (My Two Dads, Step by Step) in a story that takes place:

In Crest Point, [where] people go about their day-to-day lives with no sense of urgency and standard stereotypes abound. There...

This is a first look at Death and Cremation starring Brad Dourif (Chain Letter), Jeremy Sumpter, Scott Elrod (Hellhounds) and Daniel Baldwin (Nine Dead). The film involves bullies and an in-home cremation service. Use your imagination and guess what happens next. The film will premiere in June, with locations dates to be announced. As well, a synopsis for the film, movie poster, and trailer are now available here. Have a look at all the bloody details as an "outcast" turns the tables on others in Death and Cremation (Death).

The synopsis for Death and Cremation here:

"In a typical American suburb filled with middle class morals, a lonely 59-year-old, Stan, contributes to society by offering cremation services from his basement. In fact, Stan murders neighbors he perceives to be social bullies. Jarod, a fatherless 17-year-old high school outcast, lands an after-school job in Stan's cremation house and the two develop...

Seeing a rather distraught Brad Dourif coming up the steps towards you with a baseball bat resting comfortably on his shoulder isn’t the most soothing of images. It does, though, make a damn fine beginning to a trailer for a film called Death And Cremation.

In the film, directed by first time feature film director Justin Steele, Dourif plays middle-aged man who performs a service to his community. He runs the local crematorium, but, more than that, he rids the neighborhood of people he deems unworthy of the life they’ve been given. Imagine the strange relationship that sparks when a 17-year-old outcast comes to the crematorium as his helper.

The film also stars Jeremy Sumpter of “Friday Night Lights” fame, Daniel Baldwin, and Scott Elrod. Ross Otterman serves as producer with Ken Hendrick, Raphael Kryszek, Daniel Aldema, and Andy Jensen Sved acting as executive producers. Tiago Mesquita is...