Benny Loves Killing online for two weeks

Benny Loves Killing, directed by Ben Woodiwiss, will be available online for two weeks from Friday 1st May. It's part of something called the American Online Film Awards (AOFAs) and apparently you can buy a pass to see a whole bunch of such things for just three bucks.

The AOFA site doesn't sem to have any information on what or how many films are available, but even if you only watching Benny Loves Killing, that's less than two quid so pretty worth it.

"The film follows the struggles of a student making a horror film, only for her life to fall apart. A tense, claustrophobic love letter to cinema."

There's a Benny Loves Killing Facebook page and you can watch the first five minutes for free on Reelhouse.

Red Kingdom Rising available on DVD

Navin Dev's fabulous Carrollian horror fantasy Red Kingdom Rising - which I called "a hugely impressive feature debut, a visual poem reminiscent of the masters of dreamlike cinema" - is finally available to buy.

The disc is now available on Amazon.com, including 5.1 surround sound, trailers and two of Navin's award-wining short films, Red Hood and The Tree Man.

• Buy the DVD for ten bucks from Amazon
• My review of Red Kingdom Rising
• My interview with Navin Dev

Ten years of The Last Horror Movie: DVD sleeve gallery

Julian Richards' The Last Horror Movie is re-released in the UK next week in a' tenth anniversary edition' by Soda Pictures. For my money, it's a strong contender for the best British horror film of the 21st century and if you've never seen it, here's your chance to remedy that. In the next week I will be adding to my website a number of interviews I've done over the years with Julian and with the film's star Kevin Howarth. Until then, here's a round-up of VHS and DVD sleeves from the past ten years. On the top row is, left, the original VHS sleeve which matches the one shown in the film, and right, the new Soda release.

And here's the original UK trailer (with a quote by me!)

Killer clown office horror Lock In now available on VOD

Mark J Howard’s feature Lock In, which premiered at Horror-on-Sea in January, sneaked onto VOD last month without anyone noticing. The publicity calls it a ‘psychological thriller’ which is misleading (or, if it’s accurate, the trailer is misleading) because this appears to be a film about a killer clown brutally and gorily killing people in an office building using a variety of builder’s tools.

Yes, that sounds like a psychological thriller. Come on, truth in advertising please folks.

The film stars Roy Basnett, Jessica Cunningham, Steve Greenhalgh (also producer), James Thompson, Jeff Downs and Tim Paley. Make-up effects by the Funstorm Industries team of Craig Read, Jen Walker and Dave Mohammadi.

The film can be purchased for $7.99 from VHX. Find out more on Facebook or at www.lockinthemovie.co.uk. The film-makers are planning a charity screening next month somewhere in the North West in aid of Help for Heroes, details TBC.

Here's the trailer:

Lots and lots of new titles

Yesterday I did a big round-up of British horror stuff and found a ton of new in-production movies that weren't on my list, including Afterdeath (d.Robin Schmidt, Gez Medinger), Altar (d.Nick Willing), The Apostate (d.Andy Dodd) and Blood Moon (d.Jeremy Wooding).

Also Christmas Hear Kids (d.Chris Purnell), Christmas Slay (d.Steve Davis), Death Walks (d.Spencer Hawken), Discarnate (d.Rusty Apper), Disturbed (d.Nakkeeran), Drax Manor (d.Ryan Merchant), The Fort (d.Doug Cubin), Geek Undead (d.Jason Jackson), The Guest Room (d.Adi Parige) and Haters (d.Vincent Cleghorne).

Plus The Haunting of Baylock Residence (d.Anthony M Winson), The House of Him (d.Robert Florence), House of Silence (d.Lawrence Parmenter), Impurity (d.Andy Remic), Jagoda (d.Lex Hefner), Merry Z-Day (d.Ben Steele, Lily Jenkins), Monstrum (d.Jonathan Kemp & James J Powdrill), The Mothertown (d.John Williams) and The 9th (d.Nathan Codrington)

And No Reasons (d.Spencer Hawken) and Plan Z (d.Stuart Brennan) and She’s Dead (d.Nik Box) and The Snare (CA Cooper), also Starcache (d.Douglas Sannachan), Territory (d.Tom Saville, Robert Vassie), Torture (d.Jason Wright), The Unfolding (d.Eugene McGing) and A Vault of Victims (d. Anthony Brems,Maria Lee Metheringham and Will Metheringham), And Wandering Rose (d.Corrie Greenop)

And The Wine Dancers (d.Dave Lewis).

And The Wrong Side of Town (d.Craig Quinn).

All of the above began production within the past couple of years. Some have wrapped. Some are complete. A few have even had screenings but remain unreleased. I will try to feature some of them in more detail in the coming days. But you can see what a big job it is keeping track of this stuff...

Wild Eye picks up A Date with Ghosts

This recent report in the Nottingham Evening Post says that Jason Brown has signed a distribution deal with Wild Eye releasing for his debut feature A Date with Ghosts which was shot in and around Notingham a couple of years ago.

This will be Wild Eye's first British title. They have previously released some good movies including Exhumed and Caesar and Otto's Deadly Xmas.

The Glass Man on DVD at last... in South America

In today's global market, it's extraordinary how many British horror films get released abroad before appearing on UK shelves. I recently reported how Zombie Resurrection had made its debut in Japan. The Zombie King and Art of Darkness have both had German releases with no sign of a British one, while Gangsters, Guns and Zombies was available on amazon.fr before amazon.co.uk

But this really takes the biscuit. I've been wondering for some time what had happened to Cristian Solimeno's The Glass Man (starring Andy Nyman from Severance) after its premiere at Frightfest in 2011. Well, if you're desperate to see the film you can now buy it on DVD - in Argentina!

The title is Un Hombre al Limite. It's Region 4, has English and Spanish subs and will set you back about 110 Pesos. Plus postage.