Indican Pictures Tabs Feb. 4 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Chris Alonso's Not For Human Consumption

Spice, a form of synthetic marijuana, is deadly … a killer.   The story of just how deadly — in more ways than one — the distribution of “designer” drugs are plays out in Indican Pictures’ Feb. 4 DVD release of writer/director Chris Alonso’s Not for Human Consumption.

Jay (Nick Thurston — Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, First Person: A Film About Love) has just done a three-year jolt for manslaughter and is now back in the real world.   Things begin to look up for him when he is given an opportunity to have a piece of a lucrative Hookah Bar.

Meanwhile, his father, Tony (played by Michael Rispoli — Kick-Ass, The Taking of Pelham 123, Invincible, etc.), cautions him to avoid any trouble that might land him back in the joint.   Stay clean, stay sober … stay straight.

It is good advice, but when Jay discovers a stoner smoking incense in the club — because it gets you high — he hits upon a money-making scheme that seems too good to be true. 

 

They will make “Magic Flame,” but label this synthetic marijuana blend as “not for human consumption” (wink wink … nod, nod).   It will be strictly for incense burning, but of course it sells like hot cakes for illicit use and the money comes rolling in.

Based on actual events, in Not for Human Consumption it doesn’t take long for sinister forces to zero in (muscle in) on Tony and his associates with deadly results.   His girlfriend, April (Maddy Curley — Chalk It Up, Starting from Scratch), has been kept in the dark about the danger … and his father’s advice of stay clean, stay sober ... stay straight has been ignored.   Jay’s options are not looking good!!

Also on the release calendar from Indican Pictures is director Hank Leigh Hump’s terror in the woods thriller, 100 Acres of Hell, which will making the transition from its theatrical showcase run to the DVD marketplace on Jan. 28.

After opening at the New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival in March of last year, 100 Acres of Hell proceeded to work the genre festival circuit pulling in wins (Hollywood South Film Festival, New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival … and more), great reviews and audience raves.   Indican Pictures pulled off a major coup with the acquisition of the domestic distribution rights, while studio powerhouse, Liongate, only got the international markets.

For the record, a brief theatrical showcase yields an ARR of 109 days.

At the center of the story is Buck Severs (played by WWE superstar Gene Snisky — Bikini Girls vs. the Surf Wolf, Morning Star, etc.), a professional wrestler who has suffered a career-ending injury.   His buddies want to get together for a weekend of shooting, drinking and fooling around in the woods … this is not your traditional “victim pool,” these guys are packing!!

We also get a traditional warning when Buck and his buddies — Trent Masters (Jeff Swanton — By the River Rye), Morgan Childs (Ernest O’Donnell — Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Gone for the Weekend) and Bo McKeever (Jim Roof — Zombie Strippers!, House with 100 Eyes) — stop at a remote country store to stock up … don’t go anywhere near Foggy Creek or the infamous Jeb Tucker (a prologue shows us why this warning should be taken to heart) and his clan will hunt you down and kill you!!!

So where do these good ole’ boys go.   Come on, Foggy Creek of course!  Game on!!

Also of note, Indican Pictures released on DVD this past week director Barry Anderson’s The Lumber Baron, a throwback family dynasty story starring Joseph Bezenek as the wayward son who is suddenly thrown into the center of the family’s lumber business when his father is murdered.