Bayview Entertainment has tales of horror lined up for the DVD marketplace on May 31, so let’s get to it …
First up is the Brit-import from writer/director Kieron Hawkes, his 2014 debut film, Piggy (he has since shifted his directorial skills to series work, including the likes of The Mimic, Fortitude, Ripper Street and Intergalactic).
This is part horror tale, part character study and part revenge thriller. We meet Joe, just Joe (Martin Compston — Strippers vs Werewolves, Doomsday … as DI Steve Arnott in the Line of Duty television series), an office worker in London, who is socially awkward; reclusive to the point of almost being dysfunctional. A regular little milquetoast who gets through the night with a shot of whiskey, and another … and another. Up and at it the next day and no better prepared for it.
That’s your character study set up. One evening his brother, John (Neil Maskell), is beaten to death by five local thugs and grief, the horror of it, makes him snap, but what can he do, he’s absolutely terrified of the world around him.
And that’s when his childhood buddy, who we come to know as simply Piggy (Paul Anderson — The Revenant, In the Heart of the Sea, The Firm) comes knocking at his door one night with an offer to help Joe set things right. Stomp this one to death, bludgeon that one, let the blood flow, all with the help and guidance of his friend Piggy. Joe will have his pound of flesh (and more) and revenge his brother’s murder!!
We leave it to you, on May 31, to sort out if it is Joe or Piggy who is actually on the murder spree.
Also heading home on DVD on May 31 from Bayview Entertainment is director Benedict Mart’s Blood Lust, starring Matt Silver (Fear of Water, The Runner) as Dan, a writer specializing in food and restaurant reviews, who has a traumatic experience when his wife is murdered and he is left for dead.
Ah, so you are thinking revenge thriller, right? Wrong, the attack has put his job in jeopardy as he has suddenly developed a dislike of meat products, which makes him kind of a one-note food critic … the carrots were yummy, the salad well-turned, and the potatoes were done to perfection.
But this affliction is the least of his worries as he has sought solace after his wife’s death with an online relationship with the mysterious Callie (Rikke Leigh — Toast of London). She lives on a remote island in southwest England (Cornwall region) where she runs a bed-and-breakfast with her sisters Lydia (Eloise Juryeff — That Good Night) and Tess (Helen Rule — Alchemy, After Melanie). During one of these online sessions, the romantic mood is broken when a scream is heard in the background and the session is abruptly cut-off. A text message soon follows … HELP!
Off to the southwest of England goes our food critic Dan to rescue the fair maiden Callie, but is everything there as it seems? Once there, he meets her sisters and then Callie herself, it is love at first sight … but soon he is sending out distress calls to his friend Ryan (played by C. Thomas Howell) … RESCUE ME!!
Blood Lust is a lyrical horror tale that draws from Greek mythology to spin its tale of “romance” and murder.
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