SMILE 2 Digital, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD Launch: “The malevolent curse from the #1 authentic horror film of 2022, SMILE, is taken to surprising new ranges in “the scariest film of the yr by a mile” (Dave Morales, FOX-TV), SMILE 2. The field workplace hit arrives for buy on Digital November 19, 2024 from Paramount Dwelling Leisure.
SMILE 2 can even be out there on Digital as a part of a two-movie assortment with the unique SMILE and can arrive on 4K Extremely HD, in a 4K Extremely HD SteelBook®, and on DVD on January 21, 2025.
Hailed as a “terrifying masterpiece” (Shahbaz Siddiqui, The Film Podcast), author/director Parker Finn’s SMILE 2 ratchets up the horror with a “razor-sharp and creative” (Meagan Navarro, Bloody Disgusting) story that takes viewers on “a wild, terrifying journey” (Joey Paur, Geek Tyrant). The movie is Licensed Recent™ with an 86% Critics Rating* on Rotten Tomatoes® and has been praised as “probably the greatest horror sequels ever made” (Jonathan Sim, Coming Quickly).
Followers who buy the movie on Digital** or 4K Extremely HD may have entry to over 40 minutes of heart-pounding bonus content material. Hear from solid and filmmakers as they break down the movie’s most intense moments; go behind-the-scenes to see how the make-up, prosthetics, and visible results carry the nightmare to life; take a look at deleted and prolonged scenes not seen in theatres, and extra!
Bonus content material is detailed beneath:
- Commentary by Director Parker Finn—Take a peek behind the smile with commentary from author/director Parker Finn as he goes by way of the gory particulars of this terrifying sequel.
- Ear To Ear—Forged and filmmakers dive deep into the SMILE universe and focus on how they introduced the director’s imaginative and prescient to life.
- The Rise and Fall of Skye Riley—Naomi Scott brings you into the cursed lifetime of popstar Skye Riley.
- Behind The Music—Take an inside take a look at the music and choreography from the movie.
- A New Smile—SMILE veteran Kyle Gallner offers perception into his character’s gory return and filmmakers break down the movie’s intense first moments.
- Smiler: A New Monster—Greater, bolder, and extra insane! Take a behind-the-scenes take a look at the grotesque monster behind the smile.
- Flip That Frown Upside Down—Meet Lewis, a buddy of Skye, and get an in-depth take a look at the ugly make-up and prosthetics behind his terrifying smile.
- Present Me Your Tooth—Discover how the filmmakers captured the uniquely horrifying automotive crash.
- Deleted and Prolonged Scenes”
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ITCH! Makes Its World Premiere at Dances With Movies: NY on December seventh: “Filmmaker Bari Kang (LUCKY, THE SCRAPPER) World Premieres ITCH!, his thrilling debut horror movie, at Dances With Movies: NY on December seventh. The gory, hard-hitting new tackle the zombie style stars Bari Kang, Olivia Kang, Patrick Michael Valley.
On this gripping story of survival, a horrific outbreak referred to as “The Itch” spreads like wildfire, turning its victims into frenzied, self- harmful shells of their former selves. Jay, a widower grappling with grief and desperation, seeks refuge in a seemingly secure division retailer alongside his estranged younger daughter. Nevertheless, the sanctuary they believed would defend them turns into a nightmarish lure, revealing that the true hazard really lurks amongst them.
With the an infection closing in and paranoia escalating inside their group, Jay and his daughter are pressured right into a harrowing battle—not simply towards the skin world, however towards the darkness in human hearts when confronted with survival. With each determination a life or demise alternative, they have to confront their fractured bond and make brutal selections to remain alive, resulting in an unimaginable climax that questions what it actually means to guard these we love.
Written and directed by Bari Kang, the tense, violent new horror movie stars Bari Kang, Olivia Kang, Patrick Michael Valley, Ximena Uribe Vargas, and Maria Ventura Lucas, and is produced by Monica De Oliveira and Bari Kang.”
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INDIE HORROR DARLING FLESH AND BLOOD RETURNS WITH A CHILLING SEQUEL AND NEWS OF MAJOR FILM DEVELOPMENT: “After a profitable (and critically-acclaimed) launch earlier this yr, White Hart Comics are again with the sequel to their indie horror hit, Flesh and Blood. Entitled Pores and skin and Bone, this 128-page authentic graphic novel gives a direct continuation of the harrowing story about cannibals wreaking havoc within the Scottish Highlands.
Set towards a backdrop of company greed and shadowy conspiracies, the ebook rapidly garnered a hungry viewers, which naturally caught the eye of the leisure world. In consequence, Flesh and Blood is now being developed as a characteristic movie by Envision Leisure, together with the BFI, beneath the watchful eye of veteran producer David Barron (the Harry Potter sequence, Cinderella, The Legend of Tarzan).
No stranger to the world of movie and tv himself, novelist and screenwriter Simon Lewis as soon as once more brings his cinematic eye to the comedian ebook web page – and continues his symbiotic relationship with acclaimed artist and comics veteran, Chris Geary, who has labored tirelessly for many years alongside luminaries reminiscent of David Lloyd (V for Vendetta) on his long-running Aces Weekly and different common UK titles.
“Chris and I first met because of a shared life-drawing class, which led us to debate our inspirations and the concept of doing one thing extra significant collectively,” says Lewis. “Now we have loads in frequent, when it comes to the tales we need to inform and the issues we prefer to depict, so persevering with this partnership with Pores and skin and Bone appeared like a pure subsequent step. We had this story in thoughts from the very starting, and it’s nice to be ready to carry it to life as properly.”
The savage Highland cannibals who terrorized her could also be lifeless, however Ruth Saran remains to be stricken by nightmares. When a crashed lorry reveals a cargo that seems to include human stays, and a masked stranger whispers, ‘It is not over,’ paranoia consumes her. Are there actually others? A compulsive search unveils conspiracies far stranger than she ever might have imagined. Supernatural strangeness and gritty conspiracy drama collide on this follow-up to Flesh and Blood, which has been in comparison with Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber’s seminal basic, Whiteout.
Pores and skin and Bone can be listed within the December PREVIEWS catalogue (DEC241921) for comedian ebook shops, alongside a reoffering of Flesh and Blood (APR241852) which can arrive in shops early 2025. However keen followers can decide up early copies of the graphic novel at Thought Bubble Pageant this weekend in Harrogate. Bringing collectively a few of the world’s biggest comics and sequential expertise, Thought Bubble is now an important appointment on the popular culture calendar and options many thrilling debuts.
Flesh and Blood will also be loved on the newly launched FABLE comics studying app for smartphones, which gives the title in its distinctive vertical-scroll format. Readers can benefit from the full story over there earlier than choosing up print variations of the unique title and its upcoming sequel.”
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ARROW Lineup Heads into the Holidays with Horror: “Arrow Video is happy to announce the December 2024 lineup of their subscription-based ARROW platform, out there to subscribers within the US, Canada, the UK and Eire. Take pleasure in a number of new titles, from rigorously cultivated curations to shorts by new expertise. For severe fanatics, ARROW gives deep dives into the tastes of filmmakers that modified the best way we see the style.
In a latest profile, the New York Instances praised ARROW and famous, “Viewers with a keenness for the esoteric can be hard-pressed to search out extra high quality bang for his or her streaming buck.”
The December 2024 lineup leads with The Final Video Retailer, streaming on ARROW within the US, UK and Eire beginning December 9. A love letter to video rental shops and the B-movie treasures that lined their partitions, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford’s debut characteristic, The Final Video Retailer, is a genre-loving blast of pure pleasure: “an actual treasure trove for style followers, each new and previous” (Kat Hughes, THN).
Because the yr involves a detailed and days get shorter, December 6 begins ARROW’s Seasons with Worry of the Darkish (UK/IE/US/CAN).
Do not flip off the sunshine!
All of the scariest issues we will think about lurk within the darkness. Creeping round within the impenetrable black, simply ready for the possibility to seize our ft as we run up the steps or soar into mattress.
Banish this terror, or perhaps make it worse, with a curated assortment of Cult movies the place what hides within the shadows is extra terrifying than something you’ll be able to consider. Shine a flickering flashlight on any of the horrors beneath and provides your self an actual Worry of the Darkish.
Titles Embody: The Monkey’s Paw, Legs, BLEEP.
On December 6, get up and stream Nightmare (US/CAN): When a homicidal psychological affected person flees an experimental drug program, he’ll go away a 5-day path of psychosexual carnage from the peep exhibits of forty second Road to the gore-soaked shores of Florida. Written and directed by Romano Scavolini, this “devastating masterpiece” (Cinefear) has been scanned from the internegative and varied overseas print sources to create essentially the most full model ever assembled.
The remainder of the December 6 lineup contains shorts and options, all centered across the animal kingdom.
Froggy (Brief) (UK/IE/US/CAN): A teenage woman with a big connection to nature is attacked by bullying classmates. A reckoning is unleashed to defend herself, and the creatures she cherishes.
Affentanz Hunter (Brief) (UK/IE/US/CAN): A hunter is on the prowl. He has his sights on a stag and his finger on the set off. However then – a crack and a smack from a faceless hooded determine. A knock out and darkness. From that second on, every little thing modifications.
Cocaine Crabs From Outer House (US/CAN): When a few intergalactic house crabs land on Earth, they encounter the one factor they did not anticipate… A duo of dumb frat boys force-feeding them cocaine! Because it seems, cocaine offers house crabs an overbearing impulse to kill! Their string of strange homicides has Detective Charlie Reese considering that one thing smells fishy… actually!
Spider Labyrinth (US/CAN): For greater than three a long time, the outstanding debut characteristic by award-winning director Gianfranco Giagni has been probably the most elusive Italian horror titles in dwelling video historical past…till now: When an American professor is shipped to Budapest to finish a mysterious analysis mission, he’ll turn into ensnared in a mind-bending net of sexual provocation, occult carnage and arachnidian havoc.
On December 9, make a journey into the ARROW archives with the household foursome that created The Deeper You Dig, Hellbender, The place the Satan Roams, and Hellhole. The Adams Household Selects debuts for subscribers within the UK, IE, the US, and CAN.
Toby, John, Lulu and Zelda shared, “We love Arrow’s wide selection of movies and had quite a lot of enjoyable choosing our personal eclectic mixture of kinds, eras, and tones right here.
From exploitation to coming of age, German new wave to video nasty; illuminating documentaries (decide your personal poison!) to Greenback Child brief; 70s sleaze and Austrian people horror; fashionable punk center finger enjoyable to modern-retro-vaudevillian… We’ve acquired a effervescent cauldron of nice picks right here – together with quite a lot of movies by girls filmmakers to observe (Julia Marchese, Jill Gervargizian, Izzy Lee) or those that set the stage a long time in the past (21 yr previous Fhiona-Louise).
Pop some corn, crack a beer, or do what you do…. and thanks for trying out our ARROW Selects!”
Titles Embody: The Stylist, Meat Pal, Basket Case.
Additionally on December 9, a pair of nice titles be part of the streamer.
The Habit 4K (UK/IE/US/CAN): Massive-name stars reminiscent of Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to vampire movies within the 90s, as did high-caliber filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael Almereyda and Jeffrey Arsenault, and up-and-comers Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro. Amid the fangs and crucifixes, Abel Ferrara reunited along with his King of New York star Christopher Walken for The Habit, a distinctly private tackle creatures of the night time making its 4K premiere on ARROW!
Philosophy pupil Kathleen (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) is dragged into an alleyway on her means dwelling from class by Casanova (Annabella Sciorra, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) and bitten on the neck. She rapidly falls in poor health however realizes this isn’t any peculiar illness when she develops an aversion to sunlight and a thirst for human blood…
Having made a big-budget foray into science fiction two years earlier with Physique Snatchers, Ferrara’s method to the vampire film is in a decrease key. Shot on the streets of New York, like so lots of his main works – together with The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Dangerous Lieutenant – and superbly filmed in black and white, The Habit sees the filmmaker on his personal phrases and at his easiest: uncooked, surprising, intense, clever, masterful.
The Final Video Retailer (UK/IE/US): When her estranged father passes, twenty-something Nyla is tasked with the factor she hates essentially the most – cleansing up his mess. Left behind are a group of VHS tapes, and with them, the burden of returning them to “Blaster Video” a time capsule to an period through which cowl artwork and a catchy film title had been king, run by Kevin, a human encyclopedia of VHS historical past and a buddy of her father. Amongst the returns is an unknown tape, a film not even Kevin has heard of. Was this the final film Nyla’s father watched earlier than he died? The thriller is an excessive amount of to withstand. However when Kevin and Nyla press play, they unwittingly activate a long-dormant curse and a sequence of basic cinematic villains are plucked from B-movie heaven and hell to be unleashed into the shop itself!
On December 13, make a journey again in time to 60s Cult (UK/IE/US/CAN).
There’s much less swinging and extra stabbing within the ARROW 60s Cult assortment, however whether or not it is horror, sci-fi or a Western you select, there can be loads of far-out thrills from this wild and artistic decade in Cult cinema.
Titles Embody: Two Thousand Maniacs, The Metropolis Tramp, Woman Morgan’s Vengeance.
Additionally on December 13, completely for North American subscribers, are a pair of blood soaked creature options.
Alien From The Abyss (US/CAN): For one of many ultimate movies of his legendary profession, director Antonio Margheriti headed to the Philippines to ship “the right ’80s Italian popcorn flick” (Mondo Digital): When environmental activists try to reveal an evil company dumping nuclear waste into the native volcano, they will as a substitute uncover graphic gore, exploding miniatures and a rampaging full-scale kaiju-style creature.
Beast From Haunted Cave (US/CAN): “Screaming younger ladies sucked right into a labyrinth of horror by a blood-starved ghoul from Hell.” So stated the unique promoting for Beast from Haunted Cave. Directed by Monte Hellman, filmed within the Black Hills of South Dakota, this characteristic is a few gang of crooks being terrorized by a nasty, spider-like creature.
On December 20, ARROW goes darkish for his or her ultimate Season of 2024 with Monochrome Insanity (UK/IE/US/CAN).
The blood does not must be pink, so that you can be scared half-dead!
Monochrome Insanity is a group of Cult movies that, whereas missing in color, are usually not missing in horror, creativeness and unforgettable thrills and imagery.
You do not have to be afraid to observe movies in black and white – however perhaps try to be!
Titles Embody: A Ghost Waits, At Midnight I will Take Your Soul, Laguna Ave.
On December 20, subscribe to see two very totally different cinematic battles on ARROW.
Brothers James Retribution (US/CAN): That is the untold Nickel and Dime Story of how two ranch fingers from Kansas grew to become essentially the most infamous duo of the Outdated West, Frank and Jesse James! When Frank and Jesse O’Kelley (Frank Powers and Justin Marmion) left their ranch to search out Their Fathers Killer Kurt Fowler (Robert Womack) it took one small lie in an enormous city to remodel them from ranch fingers into Outlaws and the remainder is historical past!
Enter The Drag Dragon (UK/IE/US/CAN): Get able to go on a Drag-Fu odyssey, stuffed with face-crunching motion, corset-busting comedy, gut-munching horror, and soul-touching musical numbers! You have by no means skilled something like Enter the Drag Dragon! This blast of true impartial cinema will go away you wobbly in your heels as you attempt to get better from the continuous thrill journey of journey, laughs, screams, and romance.
ARROW says goodbye to 2024 with two cult classics from cinema historical past on December 27.
The Lethal Artwork Of Survival (UK/IE/US/CAN): Earlier than Charlie Ahearn shot his seminal hip-hop movie “Wild Fashion” in 1982, he was straight uncovered to the bourgeoning hip-hop, break-dancing and graffiti motion, whereas taking pictures his super-8 martial arts epic “The Lethal Artwork of Survival” across the initiatives (subsequent door to his residence) within the Decrease East Facet in 1979.
Deputy Marshal (US/CAN): Wrongly suspected of homicide, a deputy marshal (Jon Corridor) devises a plan to attract all of the precise suspects out into the open and show which one in every of them dedicated homicide so as to revenue off of the approaching railroad line. Based mostly on the best-selling western novel by Charles Heckelmann.
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