Movies Anchor Bay Entertainment Label Resurrects with Puppet Horror ‘Abruptio’ and Doc ‘Dinner with Leatherface’ Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz are bringing back a new iteration of Anchor Bay Entertainment with the goal to curate a new library of films for distribution, projects that range from new release genre films, undiscovered treasures, cult classics, and remastered catalog releases. and documentary Abruptio . Dinner with Leatherface Abruptio to arrive sometime soon, with a TBA release date for Q2 this year. Abruptio was Evan Marlowe ( The Impact ). The film stars James Marsters ( House of Haunted Hill ), Christopher McDonald ( Thelma & Louise ), Hana Mae Lee ( Pitch Perfect Franchise), Jordan Peele ( Get Out ), Sid Haig ( Halloween ), Rich Fulcher ( Wonka ) and Robert Englund ( A Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise). In the film, “Les Hackel (Marsters) is a guy down on his luck who wakes to find an explosive device has been implanted in his neck. He must carry out heinous crimes in order to stay alive while trying to identify the mastermind manipulating the now twisted and strange world around him. The film is enacted entirely using lifelike puppets.” To release this fall is Dinner with Leatherface , “the anticipated documentary on Gunnar Hansen , the actor who portrayed the character Leatherface in the 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . Friends, colleagues, filmmakers, and fellow actors share personal stories and discuss the dichotomy between the maniacal chainsaw-wielding character Hansen played on-screen and the very intelligent, creative, soft-spoken man he actually was in real life.” Interviews with horror mainstays include Bruce Campbell , Barbara Crampton , Betsy Baker , Brian O’Halloran , Kim Henkel , Danielle Harris, Linnea Quigley , Kane Hodder , and Debbie Rochon . The film also features all of the remaining cast of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , the original Director of Photography, Daniel Pearl and Producer/Co-Writer Kim Henkel. Written, executive produced and directed by Michael Kallio ( The Skeptic ), he also produced the film with Lowell Northrop (“Hap and Leonard”). Dinner with Leatherface is currently in post-production through Umbrelic’s subsidiary, OutPost X. Both Zambeck and Katz are traveling to the Berlin International Film Festival to acquire additional films for Anchor Bay Entertainment, so expect to hear a lot more from Anchor Bay soon. Movies ‘Trim Season’ – A Weed Farm Gets Nightmarish in Horror Film Acquired for Summer Release A job at a marijuana farm turns nightmarish in director Ariel Vida’s Trim Season , and Variety reports today that the horror film has been acquired by Blue Harbor Entertainment for U.S. release. While no date has been set just yet, look for Trim Season to debut in theaters and on VOD this June. In Trim Season , ““Emma, jobless and searching for purpose, joins a group of twenty-somethings from Los Angeles and heads up the coast to make quick cash trimming marijuana on a secluded farm in Northern California. Cut off from the rest of the world, they soon realize that the estate is harboring darker secrets than any of them could imagine, and it becomes a race against time for Emma and her friends to escape the dense woods with their lives.” The cast includes “Scream” and Hell Fest ‘s Bex Taylor-Klaus , Starry Eyes , “Midnight Mass” and Doctor Sleep ‘s Alex Essoe , with Bethlehem Million (Kevin Williamson’s Sick ), Jane Badler (“V”, “Free Fall”), Ally Ioannides ( Synchronic ) and Cory Hart (“Fear the Walking Dead”). The cast also includes Ryan Donowho, Marc Senter and Juliette Kenn De Balinthazy. Michelle Swope wrote in her review that Trim Season is “a suspenseful, uniquely crafted story highlighting pain and sacrifice that should spark some powerful conversation around women and gender. Mesmerizing performances, an innovative story, beautiful stylistic choices, and a little bit of witchy weed make Trim Season a must-see horror film.” Vida told Variety of the acquisition, “I’m thrilled that Blue Harbor is bringing this team’s work to audiences, whom I hope resonate with our film’s themes of power, agency, friendship, and loss — as well as the stylized lens through which we sought to paint both the horrifying and the heartrending.” Aaron B. Koontz of Paper Street Pictures and Sean E. DeMott of Execution Style Entertainment produced. Paul Holbrook of Hlbrk Ent. produces in addition to Badler on behalf of MeJane Productions. Leal Naim executive produces while Cameron Burns co-produces.
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