Wild Eye Releasing announced two new additions to its DVD
release calendar for the fall of this year.
For genre fans it is all good news … very good news, so let’s get to it!
There’s that memorable sequence in Pulp Fiction with Bruce
Willis and Ving Rhames involving a pawn shop and some inbreds that was, well,
unique. Thoughts of murder and revenge
quickly took a backseat when Willis and Rhames were captured by Maynard (Duane
Whitaker) and Zed (Peter Greene), who were (that is past tense of course) about
as sick as they come.
Whether writer/director David Zagorski was inspired by the
spider and fly twist served up in Pulp Fiction or not, he has gone
that film one better with his 2012 indie slasher/horror flick, Killing
Brooke.
This little gem is due out DVD this coming Sept. 29 from
Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD
Entertainment Group.
From a teaser prologue we know that Vance (Colin Allen — The
Devil’s Nightmare, The God Question) is a serial killer,
but that’s just some early misdirection on the part of filmmaker David Zagorski. That bit of information sets up the tension
when lesbian honeymooners, Brooke (Alex Fandel) and Chloe (Dina Baker — The
Devil’s Nightmare) pick him up in a bar for a little three-way action.
It seems certain that he’s going to have his way with them
and then do what serial killers do. And
sure enough, he slices up Chloe and sends the terrified Brooke scurrying off
into the spooky woods. And just when
you think this is going be some riff on The Most Dangerous Game — a
hunter-and-hunted story — Killing Brooke makes a sharp Pulp
Fiction turn.
Brooke is going to be chopped up into little pieces by Vance,
but then she is miraculously rescued by the Spade family. Dagget (Ray Hryb) and his wife Darla (Kt Baldassaro)
— who just happens to be about the nicest little homemaker you could ever
imagine — save her from being murdered.
They even knock Vance loopy and make him their prisoner. Brooke is saved!!!
If Bruce Willis thought that he was saved from Ving Rhames
when he stumbled into that pawn shop, then you have some idea about Brooke’s
fate. The Spades are “spiders” and they
have not one, but two tasty “flies” to feast on.
Indeed, there is a point (or two) in Killing Brooke where you
suspect that Brooke is thinking, “I wish Vance would have killed me!”
Bonus features include a blooper reel, a behind-the-scenes
featurette and commentary from filmmaker David Zagorski.
Shifting to Oct. 27 — and just in time for Halloween — is actor/writer/director
Dave Campfield’s Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween, which is nothing short
of a Scream Queen film delight — delivered tongue firmly planted in cheek!
Any film that has Tiffany Shepis, Debbie Rochon, Monique
Dupree and Brinke Stevens in it is, by definition, a must-see … genre fans need
no introduction to these beauties. And,
this is not the first rodeo for Caesar (Dave Campbell) and Otto (Paul Chomicki)
either — Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre (2009), Caesar
and Otto's Deadly Xmas (2012) and more; it’s a regular indie film
franchise series and the aforementioned Scream Queen’s participation speaks
volumes as to just how much fun everyone is having!
You need filmmakers such as Campbell and Chomicki to come
along from time to time to let a little air out of the indie horror scene — and
big budget films for that matter — from time to time. This is for fun and everyone here is having
a grand time.
Bonus features include two commentary options — one with
Campbell and Chomicki and one with members of the cast — a booper reel, bonus
short films (not all specified at this time), but for sure, The
Son of Piggyzilla Trilogy and the Robert Z'Dar Tribute short film (dedicated to the late Robert J.
Zdarsky of Maniac Cop fame).
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