Parade Deck Films, with
sales and distributional expertise provided by the MVD Entertainment Group, has
a one-two horror punch ready for delivery on both DVD and Blu-ray. One jolt in February … the second comes in March!!!
Streeting on Feb. 17 is writer/director
Don Thacker’s award-winning skin-crawler, Motivational Growth.
Ian (Adrian DiGiovanni)
is at the end his rope. His life is a
mess. The only thing in worse shape is
his apartment (cleaning in not Ian’s long suit) and it is a place that he doesn’t
seem to ever leave. Yuck!
The breaking point comes
when his only friend, Kent, dies. That
would be really sad for any normal human being, losing your best friend, but
Kent was Ian’s television set. So he
retreats into his bathroom to kill himself and fails, only to awake to the
voice of the mold creature (voice by Jeffrey Combs) that has grown un-checked
in his bathroom.
Everything up to this
point in Motivational Growth is just the warm up. It’s Ian vs. The Mold … bring a barf bag,
you’re gonna need it!!!
Bonus features include
commentary from filmmaker Don Thacker, who is joined by actor Adrian Digiovanni
and the voice of The Mold, Jeffery Combs, plus there is a making-of featurette
and a photo gallery.
On Mar. 24 Parade Deck
Films returns with filmmaker Todd E. Freeman’s Cell Count.
Sadie Carpenter (Haley
Talbot) is dying and her husband, Russell (Robert McKeehen) is desperate to
save her, but the doctors at the hospital overseeing her care give him little
hope. So it is only natural when the mysterious
Dr. Victor Brandt (Christopher Toyne) shows up and says that he has a cure —
and indeed, he’s even a “survivor” of the same unnamed disease — that Russell
jumps at it, even if the treatment is “experimental!” Yes, we will gladly go to your clinic.
If you’ve seen Vincenzo
Natali’s The Cube, then you’ll readily identify with Sadie and Russell’s
dilemma when they awake three weeks later — having been operated on — to find
themselves trapped in “The Facility” with other patients and no clue as to where
they are or what is going on.
At first their situation
seems hopeful as Sadie seems to be better, but … and that is a very big
“but.” They mingle, at first
untrusting, with the other patients and try to sort out what has happened to
them and in doing so try to ferret-out Dr. Brandt’s real motivations. Sadie’s cure, in this case, could be worse
than her fatal disease … how could that be possible? Cell Count answers that, in spades!
Bonus features include a
behind-the-scenes featurette and filmmaker commentary.
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