Indican Pictures announced this past week that
writer/director Whitney Hamilton’s Civil War saga, Union,
will be heading to the DVD marketplace on Oct. 15.
Hamilton’s Union, the
result of years of painstaking research, opened at the Birmingham, Alabama Sidewalk
Film Festival in August of 2018 (no surprise, the bulk of the filming was in
around the Birmingham area) and then worked the festival circuit for a full
year before getting a four-theatre showcase run by Indican Pictures in early
August of this year.
For the record, the ARR works out to 74 days.
Unless you had the opportunity to catch the film’s
brief theatrical jaunt or one of the festival screenings (Sedona International
Film Festival, Santa Fe Film Festival, Richmond International Film Festival, etc.),
the DVD debut on Oct. 15 will be the first opportunity to learn the secret of
Grace and Henry Kieler (played by Whitney Hamilton).
During the Civil War there were over 400 documented
stories about women serving as soldiers in both the Union and Confederate
armies. This is the story of one of
those combatants, Grace Kieler, whose brother Henry was killed and whom she
replaced as a rider with Mosby’s Rangers.
She, like others like her, were able to avoid detection, but once
wounded and on the operating table the jig was up … but being discovered was
only half of her problems.
She, acting as her brother, also agreed to help a
widow in the aftermath of the Civil War, save her farm. That required a sham marriage. And, if that wasn’t enough, Henry/Grace
Kieler also made a solemn vow to find a young boy named Harrison Walker, whose
mother was killed in a Union raid on a Confederate encampment … he became an
orphan and was lost.
Soldier, husband … and “detective” in search of a
missing boy in the aftermath of the Civil War, that’s quite the adventure for a
young woman in the 1860s!!!
In other release news from Indican Pictures this
past week, the Frightfest 2018 surprise, writer/director Kevin Chicken’s (my
gosh, is that his real name?) Perfect Skin, will
be available on DVD on Oct. 22.
London, an American abroad, a beautiful and naïve
Polish woman, sounds like the makings of a lovely romance. Romance, sure, if you like your romantic
encounters dark and sinister with a touch of torture.
Bob (Richard Brake — as “The Night King” on Game of
Thrones, plus such films as 3 From
Hell, Hannibal Rising, Doom, Water for Elephants,
etc.) is a tattoo artist who now lives in London. He enjoys his work — no, make that he loves
his “career” as a tattoo artist, it is his passion; his life. But our “artist” has a bit of bad news that
changes everything … imagine a tattoo artist with Parkinson's!
Into his circle comes the lovely Katia (Natalia
Kostrzewa — The Shadows, The Cured),
from Poland, living with her roommate Lucy (Jo Woodcock), and it is love at
first sight. It’s not the “love at
first sight” that you might be thinking, but the love of her perfect body and
moreover, her perfect complexion; skin.
What he could do to her. It becomes an obsession. It could be his last chance to take his
“art” to a new level before the disease robs him of his skills. And so, when Lucy goes off to tend her sick
mom, Bob does what any great artist would do, he kidnaps Katia and locks her
away in a cell — complete with bars — below his “Perfect Skin” studio and then
has at her … inch by inch.
Perfect Skin,
from first time filmmaker Kevin Chicken (really, Chicken?), is a total
creep-out. A horror film to be sure,
but with ink, instead of blood, and yet every bit as terrifying as any
serial-killer tale that you might imagine!!
Oct. 22, Perfect Skin on
DVD … just in time for a home viewing Halloween scarefest!!
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