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Sneak Peek footage from writer/director Michael S. Ojeda's 2013 horror thriller "Avenged" (aka "Savaged"), starring Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins and Ernie Charles, available on DVD April 21, 2015 from Anchor Bay Entertainment:

"...an innocent deaf woman is brutalized by a gang of killers, who are then hunted down by her...

"...when the bloodthirsty spirit of an avenging 'Apache' warrior inhabits her lifeless body..."

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Reviewed by Jesse Miller

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Avenged (2013) Review

Director: Michael S. Ojeda

Writers: Michael S. Ojeda, Deon van Rooyen (additional dialogue)

Stars: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins

This is how it is: An attractive and deaf woman by the name of Zoe (Amanda Adrienne) is on a road trip to her boyfriend when she comes across a bunch of local yokels tormenting some Native Americans. Zoe does the valiant thing in trying to save their lives and in turn, gets captured and taken back to the local’s shack where she is repeatedly brutalized.

Yeah, it certainly sounds like your typical revenge horror-thriller, only it isn’t: Avenged takes a strange turn when our heroine is brutally killed, only to be brought back to life a few days later (expertly edited here to show the passage of time, by the way) by a local witch-doctor. The catch? She...

Who knows why it took so long for Michael S. Ojeda’s spiritual remake of The Crow to hit wider audiences, but after two long years of festival screenings and showcases, Avenged (formerly Savaged) has become a valuable example of perseverance and gritty determination. It’s not often that I’m completely taken aback by visual brutality, but credit Ojeda with knocking each redemptive slaughter out of the park when it comes to confident, 80s-style effects work. You’ve got to admire a filmmaker who relies on good ol’ fashioned practical gooeyness whenever his violent vixen screams her wicked war cry, and Avenged showcases some of the most creative bodily chaos I’ve seen in a good while. It’s I Spit On Your Grave with a Native American twist – talk about reparations!

Amanda Adrienne stars as Zoe, a deaf woman en route to a new life with her patiently-waiting lover.

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today's feature includes screening details on Avenged and Serpent's Lullaby, a new Hayride 2 trailer, concept teaser and production details for The Void, first details on short film Paralysis, and more:

Details on Q&A Screenings of Avenged: "Avenged is showing at the Arena Cinemas in Hollywood from March 6. Uncork’d Entertainment will release the critically acclaimed Avenged at Arena Cinemas Hollywood on March 6, 2015.

As part of the opening night celebrations, the 10:15 Pm screening on Friday March 6 will be followed by a Q&A with cast and crew - including star Amanda Adrienne and director Michael S. Ojeda.

A second Q&A session will be held after the Sunday March 8 6:30 Pm screening.

These two Q&A sessions are Exclusive to Los Angeles. A lethal injection of scares, thrills, romance,...

Formerly known as Savaged, this supernatural rape-revenge thriller Avenged has been acquired for U.S. release by Uncork’d and hits this March. Directed by Michael S. Ojeda and starring Amanda Adrienne, Avenged puts a supernatural lens on rape-revenge. In the film, “After a gang brutalizes a deaf girl (Adrienne), her lifeless body is inhabited by the spirit…

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We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today's feature includes release details for One Drop, a look at Evil Lurks in Innocence, a teaser trailer from The Church, a Q&A with Amanda Adrienne from the film Avenged, and much more:

Women in Horror Month and One Drop Release Details: "February is Women in Horror Month, and few women are working harder in the genre than Tricia Lee. The director of the award winning films Silent Retreat and Clean Break has been pounding the pavement to secure financing for her next film One Drop.

One Drop tells the story of Ellie, a drug addict who overdoses and wakes up in the basement of a medical facility. Everyone around her is dead, and she is suddenly nine months pregnant.

With a strong creative team including long time partner in crime,...

Stars: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Brionne Davis, Ed Fletcher, Jason Gurvitz, Daniel Knight, John Charles Meyer, Kyle Morris, Marc Anthony Samuel | Written and Directed by Micheal S. Ojeda

Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?

Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...

Revenge films are one of the gold standard sub-genres in horror, especially ones with female protagonist committing all manner of gruesome violence against the people, usually men, which have assaulted her. Director Michael S. Ojeda crafts his version a little different this time with a supernatural twist that involves the possession of a deaf, and left for dead, woman by the spirit of a Native American warrior who is seeking revenge. Ojeda doesn’t try to reinvent the genre, but instead makes a vicious and inventive film that is a recent standout in the over-saturated category.

Zoe (Amanda Adrienne) is on a road trip across the desert, making her way to an eager boyfriend, when she witnesses a young Native American man running for his life from a gang of men chasing him in a truck. Zoe intervenes, trying to get the young man into her car, but is halted...

Stars: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Brionne Davis, Ed Fletcher, Jason Gurvitz, Daniel Knight, John Charles Meyer, Kyle Morris, Marc Anthony Samuel | Written and Directed by Micheal S. Ojeda

Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?

Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...

Film4 FrightFest Glasgow 2014 has today announced a 4(!) day event to include eight World, European and UK premieres, Ti West special event and Sunday repeat screenings in the festivals biggest programme ever. From Thursday February 27th to Sunday March 2nd, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy festival returns to its second home at the Gft for the 9th year with an impressive slate of the hottest new horror films.

The line-up in full:

Thurs 27 Feb – Gft Screen 2 21:00 In Conversation With Ti West (Special event)

Nobody does nostalgia-brushed spookiness and minimalist horror like independent director Ti West, King of the slow-burn shocker. FrightFest has been there from the very start – our video label released his 2005 debut feature The Roost – and we’ve watched with pride as the Delaware-born quirky talent has grown in global genre stature through The House Of The Devil, The Innkeepers, V/H/S and now his game-changing Eli Roth produced The Sacrament.

I love a good revenge thriller as much as the next person but I'm tired of the rape/revenge thriller, especially ones that bring very little of interest or new to the table and though Savaged does play in The Crow wheelhouse with the addition of a supernatural element, it's an incessantly violent mess that only gets worse after the opening act.

Amanda Adrienne stars as Zoe, a mute woman travelling across the desert to start the next phase of her life with her fiancé. While on route she comes up on a group of hicks hunting down a pair of Indian men and being the nice woman that she is, she stops to help the victims only to find herself a victim as well - like they were just going to stop and let her get away with their prey. She eventually escapes, is killed and then [Continued ...]...

If you only judged by the first 25 minutes of the colorfully harsh new indie horror movie Savaged, you'd probably be tempted to dismiss it as yet another effectively ugly, bleak, and unpleasant "rape / revenge" movie -- but that'd be a pretty stupid thing to do. Who the hell judges a whole film on the first 25 minutes?

As a person who has a pretty short attention span for movies that wallow in rape and degradation, I was pleased to notice that Michael S. Ojeda's Savaged had more on its mind than just sexual abuse. Sure, the film starts out much like films called I Spit On Your Grave or The Last House on the Left (a pretty young woman is brutally attacked by a gang of scummy backwoods hicks), and, yes, it ends Act I with a quick, disturbing rape scene, but even at the peak of its gruesomeness, there's...

Playing as part of this year's Screamfest La is Michael S. Ojeda's brutal tale of rape and ghostly revenge Savaged, and right now we have a new festival trailer for you cats to dig on! Check it out!

Amanda Adrienne, Rodney Rowland, Marc Anthony Samuel and Tom Ardavany star.

Synopsis

While traveling across country, Zoe, a lovely deaf mute woman, stumbles on a horrific crime – a gang of rednecks slaughtering two Native American boys. Zoe’s brave attempt to save one of the boys seals her fate. She is captured, raped and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but something goes horribly wrong. The spirit of an ancient Apache warrior takes host of Zoe’s dead body. So now she walks amongst the living, hell-bent on getting revenge. One by one she slaughters the men who brutalized her,...

Savaged Trailer. Michael Ojeda‘s Savaged (2013) teaser trailer stars Amanda Adrienne, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Rick Mora, and Willow Hale. Savaged‘s plot synopsis: “Zoe, a woman who stops a group of men from hurting two boys only to find herself the brutalized victim of the murderous gang. They leave her for dead but [...]

Continue reading: Savaged (2013) Teaser Trailer: Michael Ojeda, Amanda Adrienne...

The good folks over at Raven Banner Entertainment just sent over the first teaser trailer for their latest terror tale, Savaged, and it looks to live up to the film's namesake in spades. Check it out.

From the Press Release

Toronto-based genre sales and distribution company Raven Banner Entertainment entered into a co-production deal with Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment for writer-director Michael S. Ojeda’s action-horror film Savaged.

The project, financed by Raven Banner and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC, lensed at an abandoned gold mine on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Raven Banner handling world sales.

Savaged tells the story of Zoe (newcomer Amanda Adrienne), a beautiful deaf woman who is abducted, brutalized, and left for dead by a murderous gang. When she is found by a local native medicine man, he tries to save her, but his efforts take a disastrous turn when she...

For his genre debut, up-and-coming filmmaker Michael Ojeda is ready to give viewers a revenge tale unlike anything they've ever seen before in the indie feature Savaged. Read on for the goods.

Savaged is the brutal tale of a deaf woman named Zoe (Amanda Adrienne) who is tortured and killed by a gang of racist rednecks in the middle of the desert while traveling cross-country to meet her fiancé. A mysterious shaman happens to find her lifeless body so he uses it as a way to resurrect an ancient Apache Warrior who wants to hunt down the murderous group and make them pay for the sins of their ancestors.

Co-produced and co-financed by Raven Banner Entertainment and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC and co-produced by Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment, Savaged recently wrapped production north of Los Angeles and is currently gearing up for a 2012-2013 festival run.

From time to time we all like being savaged by the people whom we love, but that's not this case here. In fact, this is a clear cut case of being Savaged in the most horrific of ways.

From the Press Release

Toronto-based genre sales and distribution company Raven Banner Entertainment has entered into a co-production deal with Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment for helmer-scribe Michael S. Ojeda’s action-horror film Savaged.

The project, financed by Raven Banner and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC, is expected to begin lensing this week at an abandoned gold mine on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Raven Banner handling world sales.

Savaged tells the story of Zoe (starring newcomer Amanda Adrienne), a beautiful deaf woman who is abducted, brutalized, and left for dead by a murderous gang. When she is found by a local native medicine man, he tries to save her,...

Toronto based genre sales and distribution company, Raven Banner Entertainment has entered into a co-production deal with Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment for helmer-scribe Michael S. Ojeda’s action horror, Savaged.

Project, financed by Raven Banner and Cart Before the Horse Productions LLC, is expected to begin lensing this week at an abandoned gold mine on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Raven Banner handling world sales.

Savaged tells the story of Zoe (starring newcomer Amanda Adrienne), a beautiful deaf woman who is abducted, brutalized and left for dead by a murderous gang. When she is found by a local native medicine man, he tries to save her but his efforts take a disastrous turn when she awakes possessed by a murdered Apache chief, hellbent on revenge.

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Raven Banner Entertainment, Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment will triple team on film production of Savaged. This title is in the early production stages with shooting expected to begin later this week. To be lensed is Zoe, played by Amanda Adrienne, a vulnerable woman abducted by "a murderous gang" (Raven). She survives the ordeal only to be used by Native American Shaman in a demonic ritual. This tale of brutality and the supernatural will then turn to one of revenge as Zoe channels an ancient Apache warrior on those who have wronged her.

Enjoy the first concept poster for Savaged right here. With more casting details to come.

Director/writer: Michael S. Ojeda.

Producers: Jason Gurvitz, Lezlie Wheeler and Michael S. Ojeda.

Executive Producers: Michael Paszt, James Fler and Andrew Hunt Jorden Fox, Jake Gelyana and Levi Fox.

Cast: Amanda Adrienne.

*shooting will take place in an abandoned gold mine near Los Angeles.