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Candy Land Blu-ray from Mvd
One of last year’s indie horror standouts, Candy Land is getting a Blu-ray release on February 5 from Mvd and Roxwell Films. Special features include a commentary by director John Swab and a digital zine.
Swab writes and directs. Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Virginia Rand, Guinevere Turner, and William Baldwin star.
In her review, Meagan Navarro said “Candy Land gives a refreshing perspective through its condemnation of religion and its positioning of sex workers as protagonists. It’s a more nuanced and lived-in approach to the sleazy slasher format, and its affecting characters elevate the familiar.”
Art the Clown Doll from Living Dead Doll
Terrifier’s...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Candy Land Blu-ray from Mvd
One of last year’s indie horror standouts, Candy Land is getting a Blu-ray release on February 5 from Mvd and Roxwell Films. Special features include a commentary by director John Swab and a digital zine.
Swab writes and directs. Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Virginia Rand, Guinevere Turner, and William Baldwin star.
In her review, Meagan Navarro said “Candy Land gives a refreshing perspective through its condemnation of religion and its positioning of sex workers as protagonists. It’s a more nuanced and lived-in approach to the sleazy slasher format, and its affecting characters elevate the familiar.”
Art the Clown Doll from Living Dead Doll
Terrifier’s...
- 1/19/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of Australia.s foremost television writers, Michael Laurence, died this week on March 23rd, .2015, after a long illness. He was 79. Michael was creator and writer of close to two hundred hours of commercially successful Television. He was a gifted storyteller, probably best known for his successful series Return to Eden. He began his professional career as a child actor in Sydney radio, and was always distinguished by his mellifluent speaking voice. This together with his imposing height and dark good looks made him someone not to be ignored. At eighteen he won a two-‐year scholarship to Lamda (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art). He worked as an actor in the UK and Australia, in everything .from musicals to Shakespeare, and with all the major theatrical companies. He was a clever comedian in shows like .Black Comedy. at Sydney.s Philip Theatre. Working at the Melbourne Theatre Company...
- 3/30/2015
- by Donald Macdonald
- IF.com.au
Peter Weir’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock” is a mesmerizing film. Most who go into it know that it tells a tragic (possibly true) story with no resolution. And so it becomes a slow burn, in which the atmosphere and dread of unseen danger hangs thick in every frame.
Weir broke through on the international film scene with this surprise hit, a film that introduced the world to one of the best directors of the ’80s and ’90s. He would go on to give us more traditional and yet masterful works like “Witness,” “Fearless,” “The Truman Show,” and “Master and Commander” and yet when I hear his name, “Picnic at Hanging Rock” is the first film I think of.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
It is a defiantly bizarre, terrifying film that defies easy categorization or even synopsis. On one hand, it’s a mystery, but it’s one without a conclusion (which notoriously...
Weir broke through on the international film scene with this surprise hit, a film that introduced the world to one of the best directors of the ’80s and ’90s. He would go on to give us more traditional and yet masterful works like “Witness,” “Fearless,” “The Truman Show,” and “Master and Commander” and yet when I hear his name, “Picnic at Hanging Rock” is the first film I think of.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
It is a defiantly bizarre, terrifying film that defies easy categorization or even synopsis. On one hand, it’s a mystery, but it’s one without a conclusion (which notoriously...
- 7/15/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 17, 2014
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A group of young woman mysteriously vanish in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath in the 1975 drama-mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock put director Peter Weir (The Way Back) on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema.
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, Picnic at Hanging Rock concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing.
Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.
Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition of the movie includes the...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A group of young woman mysteriously vanish in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath in the 1975 drama-mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock put director Peter Weir (The Way Back) on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema.
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, Picnic at Hanging Rock concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing.
Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.
Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition of the movie includes the...
- 3/21/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
This article originally appeared in If Magazine #145 (Feb-March 2012).
David Maher We would.ve met about 13 years ago. We met while we were working for Fox Television Studios and we were doing a range of things from international scripted sitcoms . we produced two series of Supanova for the BBC . and anthology dramas but we were also producing the Fox format catalogue on the unscripted side.
We also produced a couple of series for Nickelodeon so we were producing a real broad range of things, reporting directly to La. And during the time we probably came to the realisation that producing Australian drama is what we really loved and that.s why we set up Playmaker. I guess we were just looking at producers that we really admired like Hal McElroy and we felt that setting up Playmaker, that there was an opportunity to be part of the next generation of Australian TV drama producers.
David Maher We would.ve met about 13 years ago. We met while we were working for Fox Television Studios and we were doing a range of things from international scripted sitcoms . we produced two series of Supanova for the BBC . and anthology dramas but we were also producing the Fox format catalogue on the unscripted side.
We also produced a couple of series for Nickelodeon so we were producing a real broad range of things, reporting directly to La. And during the time we probably came to the realisation that producing Australian drama is what we really loved and that.s why we set up Playmaker. I guess we were just looking at producers that we really admired like Hal McElroy and we felt that setting up Playmaker, that there was an opportunity to be part of the next generation of Australian TV drama producers.
- 9/6/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
SYDNEY -- In a bid to present a united industry front, Australia's four key industry guilds have come together to form a unified industry body, the Australian Screen Council, its newly elected chairman Hal McElroy said Monday. The agency said its formation heralds "a new era of unification and self determination" for the entertainment industry. McElroy, one of Australia's best-known producers, said the ASC was formally ratified at a meeting last week after six months of consultation with the industry. The formal launch was not publicized, he said, as the new body's first priority is to gather information over the next six months and "work hard in the trenches."...
- 12/5/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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