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June 12th 2018 Experience the horror comedy On Demand Everywhere June 12th, 2018 Hollywood, CA – On June 12, 2018, Epic Pictures Releasing via its horror label, Dread Central Presents will release the Norwegian vampire horror comedy movie, Vidar the Vampire, produced by Thomas Aske Berg, John Iver Berg & Fredrik Waldeland and directed …

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Fantaspoa has been bringing the latest in genre cinema to South America with their film festivals and have just announced that they're expanding into distribution. The newly announced FantasFilms will bring around 20 feature films per year to Brazilian cinemas, including Dave Made a Maze, The Ranger, Mohawk, and more:

From the Press Release: Every May and June, the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil becomes an international hub where artists, filmmakers, actors, and cinephiles from across the globe gather for Fantaspoa: South America's largest festival of fantastic cinema and the sole member of the Méliès Federation on the continent.

This year, in addition to the festival itself, Fantaspoa has announced its own distribution arm: FantasFilms.

The newly-launched company will team up with Marcelo de Souza's Mares Filmes, with plans for distributing around 20 feature films per calendar year to Brazilian cinemas. All of the films selected will come exclusively from the festival lineup.

Vidar The Vampire (originally titled VampyrVidar) has lived a long and impressive life on the major film festivals throughout the world for the past year and now hits VOD, courtesy of Dread Central Presents in collaboration with Epic Pictures – and here’s the brand-new trailer for the film!

Written and directed by Thomas Aske Berg and Fredrik Waldeland, the film stars Thomas Aske Berg, Brigt Skrettingland, Kim Sønderholm, Marit Sanden, Henrik Rafaelsen, and Espen Hana.

Vidar Haarr is a 33 year old, sexually frustrated bachelor farmer who leads a Christian, monotonous and strenuous working life on his mother’s farmstead in the Western outskirts of Norway. In a desperate attempt to break free from routine, Vidar prays to a higher power to grant him a life without boundaries. Unfortunately, his prayers are heard and Vidar wakes up one evening as the Prince of Darkness in sin city, Stavanger.

"Vidar The Vampire" (Original title: "VampyrVidar") have lived a long and impressive life on the major film festivals throughout the world for the past year and now hits VOD, courtesy of Dread Central Presents in collaboration with Epic Pictures.   Cast and crew: Starring: Thomas Aske Berg, Brigt Skrettingland, Kim Sønderholm, Marit Sanden, Henrik Rafaelsen Written and directed by: Thomas Aske Berg & Fredrik Waldeland Director of photography: John Iver Berg Editor: Tommy Enervold Jørpeland Sound: Jan Erik Hagevold Music: General Forsamling, Kriminell Kunst & Thomas Aske Berg Producer: Thomas Aske Berg Production company: UFOh! (www.UFOh.no) Synopsis: Vidar Haarr is a 33 year old, sexually frustrated bachelor farmer who leads a Christian, monotonous and strenuous working life on his mother's farmstead in the Western outskirts...

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From Norwegian filmmakers Thomas Aske Berg and Fredrik Waldeland, Vidar the Vampire has been making the festival rounds since back in 2017, and ahead of its release from Epic Pictures, you can now watch a trailer for the film that follows a religious farmer who shakes up his small town after he becomes a vampire.

Written and directed by Thomas Aske Berg and Fredrik Waldeland, Vidar the Vampire stars Thomas Aske Berg, Brigt Skrettingland, Kim Sønderholm, Marit Sanden, Ruben Jonassen, and Martha Kristine Kåstad.

Synopsis: "Lonely bachelor and farmer Vidar Haarr leads a boring existence. That is until one day he wakes up a vampire!"

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Blood-sucking vampires have been invading cinema screens for nearly a century now so it’s increasingly rare to see something truly original come out of the genre. Enter Vidar. Not only is this unfortunate creature one of the sorriest excuses for a vampire to ever grace our screens, he’s also the regrettable recipient of what has to be the most shockingly sacrilegious siring ever seen. In Vidar the Vampire, directors Thomas Aske-Berg and Fredrik Waldeland mix scenes of jet black comedy and horror with layers of pathos to put their own unique spin on the undead formula. Utilising a similar narrative structure to Interview with a Vampire we’re introduced to the life, death and rebirth of Vidar as he recounts his tale to a human witness,...

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Every October, horror fans in Los Angeles celebrate the Halloween season with diverse scares on the big screen at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival, and this year, in addition to a slate of exciting new films, the festival will honor the late, great Tobe Hooper with a special screening of The Funhouse, and Child's Play fans can also look forward to a screening of the first Chucky movie followed by a Q&A with director Tom Holland.

Press Release: Hollywood, Calif. – September 26, 2017 – Screamfest Horror Film Festival, America’s largest, and longest running horror movie festival, announces its 2017 official schedule and the second wave of its festival line up. The fest will run from Oct. 10 - 19, 2017 at the Tcl Chinese Theatres in Hollywood. Over its seventeen-year run, the female-run festival has launched careers - providing a platform for filmmakers and actors to showcase their latest work to enthusiasts and general audiences.

The list of official selections for the annual New York City Horror Film Festival to be held in late October is out! It presents a long list of awesome features which will be spiced with a long list of great short films. Focusing on the features, the list looks like: "3", Dir. Lou Simon "Close Calls", Dir. Richard Stringham "The Night Watchmen", Dir. Mitchell Altieri "Habit", Dir. Simeon Halligan "Vampyrvidar", Dir. Thomas Aske Berg & Fredrik Waldeland "Mal Nosso", Dir. Samuel Galli "Diane", Dir. Michael Mongillo "Ruin Me", Dir. Preston DeFrancis "Hostile", Dir. Matthieu Turi "Replace", Dir. Norbert Keil "The Night Sitter", Dir. John Rocco "Art Of Obsession", Dir. Ryan Andrews "Dismissed", Dir. Ben Arfmann If you wish to know more, look up: http://nychorrorfest.com/...

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Self financed sci-fi short from Norway on festival runs   Plot: A loving husband is forced to defend his homestead from alien forces after his spouse is abducted for no apparent reason. Will he be able to reunite with his darling wife?   It is producer Mikkel Brekne Munkvold in Foton4 Film, director Fredrik Waldeland and Jonas Reed who made the film. They have been working on it for two years, building most sets from trash found in garbage dumps and animal intestines fresh from the local butcher. Film stars Thomas Aske Berg along with Karin Hodne. Most of the film was shot on and off from 2015 through 2016. This on-and-off process of shooting was necessary due to the fact that the filmmakers were...

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Vidar the Vampire is a Norwegian ultra low budget horror-comedy produced by UFOh! The film is set to premiere at The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund on August 23rd, 2017 and will screen at both Fantasy Filmfest, Germany and FilmQuest, USA in September, 2017.    Original title: VampyrVidar   Cast and crew: Starring: Thomas Aske Berg, Brigt Skrettingland, Kim Sønderholm, Marit Sanden Written and directed by: Thomas Aske Berg & Fredrik Waldeland Director of photography: John Iver Berg Editor: Tommy Enervold Jørpeland Sound: Jan Erik Hagevold Music: General Forsamling, Kriminell Kunst & Thomas Aske Berg Producer: Thomas Aske Berg Production company: UFOh! (www.UFOh.no)   IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6147514/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VampyrVidar   The film is self-financed with a budet totalling approximately Usd 60.000,-.   The making of Vidar the...

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Destroy All Movies! That’s the cheeky theme to the 12th annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival, which will run on August 19-28.

Festival director Richard Wolstencroft lays out his philosophy for this year’s Muff in an excellent Director’s Statement, which is published in the fest’s program guide. He explains his provocative statement as thus:

“Destroy All Movies” can be taken as a query, a question and even a complaint about cinema itself. Most of us love movies. I still do, of course. I am obsessed by them as ever. Making, watching and showing them. But how often do we question our passion in this kind of ontological sense?

In that regard, Muff is a much more focused and scaled back event this year with less films screening, but with a tighter consideration of local talent, as well as a larger, more provocative stance as ever.

Muff has...