MVD Entertainment Group
has selected Oct. 23 — one week out from Halloween (which is no accident) — for
the release of a special edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack presentation of
writer/director Torin Langen’s horror anthology, 3 Dead Trick or Treaters.
The film, which is
somewhat experimental in nature, is carried by the stories, the sights and the sounds
(especially the music and the choice of instruments), but there is no dialog.
If that seems strange, so
too is the distribution pattern for Langen’s film. 3 Dead Trick or Treaters began
originally as two award-winning short films, Fondue (2013) and Malleus
Maleficarum (2014), which both worked the festival circuit.
Next, a wrap-around was
filmed featuring Holden Levack as the unnamed “paper boy” and two additional
segments were also filmed — Stash and Delivery. This was all assembled by Langen into a
coherent feature-length film, which opened at Toronto’s Blood in the Snow
Canadian Film Festival in late November of 2016 … and then it went into hiatus.
Nine months passed and
then 3
Dead Trick or Treaters launched a 2017 World Tour, playing at the Horrible
Imaginings Film Festival in San Diego with subsequent festival stops in Canada,
extensive screenings in the United States, plus the U.K., China and Singapore
before wrapping up at the MidWest WeirdFest in Eau Claire Wisconsin in March of
this year.
Langen’s “wrap-around” is
in reality a stand-alone all on its own as the unnamed “paper boy” becomes
curious when the papers he delivers at a remote cabin begin piling up. It’s a creepy place and that sets the tone
for what is to follow.
He begins to search the remote
property for clues as to what has happened to his customer and stumbles upon
what appears to be three newly-prepared graves. Curious to be sure, but even stranger are
the three notes attached – one to each grave — which he reads ... the vehicle
for the introduction of each of the anthology segments. These are insane stories; creepy … and tales
that make 3 Dead Trick or Treaters a horror anthology to look forward to
when it makes its domestic home entertainment debut on Oct. 23.
Bonus goodies include not
one, but two commentary options. The
first features writer/director Torin Langen, while the second teams Langen with
the film’s producer and actor, Eric Repke (as “Brother” in the Malleus
Maleficarum segment).
Other bonuses are deleted
scenes, storyboard comparisons, a video session with filmmaker Langen and radio
intereview with Langer and the film’s composer Stephen Schooley.
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