We have 3 DVDs to give away to UNRATED readers who can answer the following;

Name the director of GROTESQUE?

Answers by email to carl@unrated.co.uk Winners selected at random - closing date for entries is 31st July. DVDs will be sent out as soon as we receive them approx 2 weeks after the DVD release.

We have 5 DVDs of the upcoming Momentum release of CRADLE WILL FALL to give away to UNRATED fans who can answer the following:

Colleen Porch starred alongside which famous American actress, model, singer in the 2008 horror thriller I KNOW WHO KILLED ME?

Answers to carl@unrated.co.uk by 31st July

Based on actual events, CRADLE WILL FALL (aka Baby Blues) , the debut feature from co-directors Lars Jacobson and Amardeep Kaleka, is a terrifying "stalk and slash" shocker with a very disturbing twist that combines elements of The Shining and Flowers In The Attic.

For a group of four young children, danger lurks in the one place they would naturally expect to be safe: their home. Even worse, it comes in the form of the one person they would instinctively look to for protection… their mother.

With her trucker husband away on the road for much of the time, a young mother struggles alone to raise her three young children and newborn baby on their secluded farmhouse. Already suffering from a deep depression, the pressure of attending to the needs of her family finally causes her mind to snap and initiates a filicidal rampage from which there is no return. Faced with the unimaginable horror of the one person he loves most in the world threatening to kill him and his siblings, 10-year-old Jimmy is forced into protecting his little brother and sister while fending off the increasingly vicious attacks from their deranged mother. As the tranquillity of his once safe home rapidly turns into a blood-drenched night of terror, Jimmy must rely on both his wits and his courage as he prepares to take on the most unexpected enemy of all in an epic and harrowing battle between mother and son.

Loosely based on the true story of Andrea Yates, a Texan mother who drowned her five young children in the bath in 2001 while suffering from post partum depression, CRADLE WILL FALL takes the premise to "slasher" movie extremes resulting in a highly suspenseful and deeply disturbing viewing experiences.

Starring Colleen Porch (I Know Who Killed Me: Transformers; Starship Troopers 2) and Joel Bryant (Valkyrie; The Heartbreak Kid) as the children's parents, the film also features a standout performance from Ridge Canipe (Walk The Line; The Bad News Bears) as the young boy who is thrown into the middle of an unthinkable nightmare.

Written by Brad Keene (The Grudge 3) and directed by Phedon Papamichael (better known as the Director of Photography on numerous Hollywood hits including Oliver Stone's W., 3:10 To Yuma, Walk The Line and Sideways), the gripping supernatural shocker, FROM WITHIN, stars Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Laid To Rest), Elizabeth Rice (Mad Men), Adam Goldberg (Zodiac; Two Days In Paris) and Laura Allen (Dirt; The 4400) in a darkly disturbing tale guaranteed to put the frighteners on fans of recent horror blockbusters such as the Final Destination trilogy, One Missed Call and The Grudge and The Ring series of movies.

A rash of suicides hits the small community of Grovetown, causing fear and panic among its residents. As those around 18-year-old Lindsay (Elizabeth Rice) continue to die gruesome deaths, she begins to distrust everyone including those closest to her and, following a spate of inexplicable events and apparitions, she becomes convinced that she will become the next victim.

FROM WITHIN (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (£15.99) by E1 Entertainment on 24th August 2009

Billed as "the cruellest Japanese splatter movie ever" (a statement that doesn’t do the film’s graphic scenes of torture and dismemberment anywhere near enough justice), GROTESQUE is a survival horror movie that makes the likes of "Saw" and "Hostel" look like "Mary Poppins" in comparison.

A girl (Tsugumi Nagasawa) and her boyfriend (Hiroaki Kawatsure) are mugged, knocked unconscious and kidnapped by an unknown assailant. They wake up to find themselves bound and gagged in a torture chamber-style basement at the mercy of a man whose only pleasure is gained from the suffering of others. So begins a slow and sustained assault during which the couple is gradually hacked, mutilated and degraded to the point where death becomes a more desirable option to living.

Relentlessly intense and explicitly graphic in its scenes of torture, sexual abuse and violence, this is definitely not a film for the easily offended, the squeamish or the faint-hearted!

GROTESQUE (cert. 18) will be released on DVD (£12.99) by 4Digital Asia on 17th August 2009.

Scheduled for release on DVD on 27th July 2009, legendary Brazilian writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marins’ EMBODIMENT OF EVIL will receive a limited theatrical run at UK cinemas from 3rd July 2009.

The sequel to "At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul" (1964) and "This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse" (1967), EMBODIMENT OF EVIL sees the sadistic undertaker Coffin Joe finally released from a prison mental ward after serving a 40-year term for kidnap, torture and murder.

On 27th July, Anchor Bay Entertainment will also be releasing a five disc COFFIN JOE DVD Box Set (£39.99) featuring nine titles: At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964); This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967); The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968); Awakening of the Beast (1970); End of Man (1971); Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976); Hellish Flesh (1977); Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978); The Strange World of Mojica Marins documentary (2001).

We’ve been kindly offered 3 DVDs as competition prizes Momentum Pictures release of ZOMBIE VIRUS ON MULBERRY STREET out on 18th May 2009.

Details of the release appeared in the news column below. Here’s the trailer

http://onlinemoviepromo.com/newplayer.php?id=2981

To win a DVD simply answer the following

In which USA state does the action on Mulberry Street take place?

Answers to carl@unrated.co.uk no later than 31st May 2009.

We’ve secured 3 DVDs of Anchor Bay’s new slasher, LAID TO REST. to give away as Competition prizes to the Unrated readers who can tell us: Name any one of the TV shows in which director, Robert Hall’s special effects company "Almost Human" supplied the SFX?

Answers to carl@unrated.co.uk with LAID TO REST in the subject line.

Meanwhile here’s some clips of the film:

CLIP 1

http://onlinemoviepromo.com/newplayer.php?id=2966

CLIP 2

http://onlinemoviepromo.com/newplayer.php?id=2968

CLIP 3

http://onlinemoviepromo.com/newplayer.php?id=2970

CLIP 4

http://onlinemoviepromo.com/newplayer.php?id=2976

Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead series) returns to the horror genre with DRAG ME TO HELL, an original tale of a young woman’s desperate quest to break an evil curse.

Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, Professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Should Christine follow her instincts and give the old woman a break? Or should she deny the extension to impress her boss, Mr. Jacks (David Paymer), and get a leg-up on a promotion? Christine fatefully chooses the latter, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her home.

In retaliation, the old woman places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell. Haunted by an evil spirit and misunderstood by a skeptical boyfriend, she seeks the aid of seer Rham Jas (Dileep Rao) to save her soul from eternal damnation. To help the shattered Christine return her life to normal, the psychic sets her on a frantic course to reverse the spell. As evil forces close in, Christine must face the unthinkable: how far will she go to break free of the curse?

Here's the trailer

http://greenroom-press.com/clients/lionsgate_films/theatrical/Drag_Me_To_Hell/movies/DMTH_theatrical_hi.wmv

The second feature from writer-director and SFX wizard, Robert Hall (Lightning Bug), LAID TO REST is an jaw-droppingly gory back-to-basics slasher movie that takes a deceptively simple plot device and uses it as the springboard for a gruesome effects-laden shocker that recalls the spirit of old school stalk-and-slash classics such as "Maniac", "The Prowler" (aka "Rosemary’s Killer") and "Black Christmas".

Best known for his current "day job" as the special makeup and effects creator for TV’s "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles", Hall’s latest feature is a gore-hound’s dream of a movie – a stylish, no-holds-barred slasher featuring some of the most graphic and blood-soaked murder sequences seen in a horror movie for quite some time.

To add to the movie’s genre pedigree, Hall has gathered together a stellar cast that includes two of his star colleagues from the "Terminator" TV show, Lena Headey (300) and Thomas Dekker (Heroes), along with Johnathon Schaech (Prom Night), Kevin Gage (Heat), Sean Whalen (Men In Black) and Richard Lynch (Rob Zombie’s Halloween).

A young woman (Bobbi Sue Luther) wakes up inside a sealed coffin with no recollection of who she is or how she got there. After escaping, she discovers that a relentless, silent serial killer wearing a chrome skull mask and a shoulder-mounted video camera on which he records his victims’ plight is responsible for her kidnapping and is now intent on stalking and killing her. Finding refuge in a nearby farmhouse owned by Cindy (Lena Headey) and Tucker (Kevin Gage) she quickly learns that she is not the only one whose life is on the line. A killer with a ferocious appetite for bloody slaughter, Chrome Skull will stop at nothing and no one when it comes to finishing what he has started.

LAID TO REST (cert. 18) will be released on DVD (£12.99) by Anchor Bay Entertainment on 4th May 2009. Special Features include: Post-mortem: The Making of Laid To Rest; Torture Porn: The SFX of Laid To Rest; Deleted Scenes; Bloopers; 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 Dolby audio options.

Following nine days of deliberations, and one previous acquittal, legendary record producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of the murder of Lana Clarkson, gorgeous B-movie star of the likes of the BARBARIAN QUEEN movies, DEATHSTALKER, THE HAUNTING OF MORELLA, VICE GIRLS and numerous TV shows that included AMAZING STORIES, KNIGHT RIDER, SILK STOCKINGS and WINGS.

Spector is likely to stay behind bars for the rest of his life following the fatal shooting of Clarkson at Spector’s Hollywood mansion on Feb 3rd 2003, when he subjected his vitim to a brutal game of drunken Russian roulette that went wrong.

Previous associates of the millionaire producer had testified that Spector was a misogynist with a history of pulling guns and "playing Russian roulette with the lives of women" while miraculous that Clarkson, star of the cult film BARBARIAN QUEEN, was the first to die.

The trial has ruined the reputation of one of the most important contributors to the music business in the 1960s, who pioneered the "wall of sound" with groups such as the Ronettes. He went on to work closely with some of the most renowned musicians of the next two decades with the likes of the Beatles and the Ramones.

Clarkson’s mother is expected to press on with her lawsuit for wrongful death in an attempt to receive compensation from the depleted accounts of Spector whose multi- million dollar accounts have been vastly reduced following the cost of the two murder trials.

Image Comics have sold the film rights to Mac Carter and Jeff Blitz’s "The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft" to Universal with the director seat potentially being taken up by Ron Howard.

The tale combines elements of Lovecraft’s life and dreams in an occult opus that has the denizens of the Cthulhu Mythos spill from the pages of an old tome to threaten humanity.

First Showing.net reports that "Mac Carter, who worked on the comic series and also directs commercials, will write the script and serve as an executive producer."

Those interested in picking up the comic should check out http://www.lovecraftcomic.com/

"A ‘zombie’ film that breaks the mould, showing more substance, thought, effort and depth than most prior productions put together" (Bloody Disgusting), director Jim Mickle’s "impressive debut feature" (Twitch), ZOMBIE VIRUS ON MULBERRY STREET comes to DVD riding a wave of critical acclaim that has seen it being favourably compared to "Night Of The Living Dead" and "28 Days Later".

It’s the heart of a sweltering summer in New York City and the residents of 51 Mulberry Street are going about their daily business in the knowledge that they are soon to be evicted from their run down building. Among them is Clutch (Nick Damici), a retired boxer waiting for his daughter Casey’s (Kim Blair) imminent return home from the war in Iraq.

Elsewhere in the city, a previously unknown rat-borne virus is spreading throughout the human population so quickly the emergency services are struggling to contain it. As day turns to night, the victims of this new plague begin to mutate into flesh-hungry creatures forcing the authorities to quarantine the island of Manhattan by sealing off all bridges and tunnels.

Back at Mulberry Street, Clutch and his neighbours have heard the news and are preparing to make a stand against any attack from outsiders, infected or otherwise, unaware that Casey is already in New York and fighting her way home through the bloody streets. What they do know is that while they are bolting doors and barring windows to keep the rodent-like zombies out, what’s left of Manhattan will be trying to find a way in.

"If you’re in the mood for a tense and terrifying claustrophobic heart attack, seek out {Zombie Virus On] Mulberry Street." – Dread Central.

ZOMBIE VIRUS ON MULBERRY STREET (cert. tbc) will be released on DVD (£12.99) by Momentum Pictures on 18th May 2009.

It has come to our attention that the USA Region 1 disc for LET THE RIGHT ONE IN has an greater horror awaiting those who check out the subtitles.

Full details can be found on the Icons of Fright website.

http://iconsoffright.com/news/2009/03/let_the_wrong_subtitles_in_to.html

1950s pin-up and bondage queen Bettie Page died on Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack nine days ago from which she did not regain consciousness, her agent Mark Roesler said.

The 85 year old former model had been in hospital for three weeks for treatment of pneumonia and about to be released when she suffered a heart attack.

Roesler went on to add that "She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," Roesler said. "She is the embodiment of beauty." Page’s career began one day in October 1950 when she took leave from her job as a New York office secretary for a walk along the beach at Coney Island where she was spotted by an amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs, who enamoured with the 27 year old’s curves asked her to pose for his camera.

In an interview for Playboy magazine in 1998 Bettie said "I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It’s just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous." In 1951, Page became a close associate of Irving Klaw and his sister Paula who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her high heeled shoes and boots, in both dominant and submissive mode.

The photos shocked much of America and several Christian groups began crusades to ban the material.

Page quickly retired from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents who waved her nude photos in her face. She also said she believed that, at age 34, her days as "the girl with the perfect figure" were nearly over.

Following several failed marriages she became a born-again Christian and worked for evangelist Billy Graham’s ministry.

A move to Southern California in 1979 brought further troubles including court apearances for assault on her landlord for which page was found not guilty. Her later years were spent selling autographs from which she continued to make a comfortable living.

Her life-story was made into a biopic in 2006 entitled THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE, starring Gretchen Mol. Her original movies are available from Cult Epics in the USA - and its these classics for which Bettie will best be remembered.

http://www.cultepics.com/erotica.html

Rene Daalder's career spans several decades and many disciplines. His six feature films include his controversial European debut “THE WHITE SLAVE,” written with his life-long friend Rem Koolhaas, and the American teen cult classic “MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH.” Expanding into popular music, Daalder received a Grammy nomination for best long-form music video, and has collaborated with artists as varied as Supertramp, The Sex Pistols, and Beck. Later he widened his focus, pioneering the use of digital visual effects in Hollywood movies and writing extensively on computers, art and architecture for MIT Press, Rizzoli and Taschen Books. Moreover, he has curated critically acclaimed art exhibits in Los Angeles and Amsterdam and a symposium on conceptual art films at UCLA.

After his critically acclaimed documentary on Bas Jan Ader, “HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE,” Daalder's current projects include the sci-fi documentary, “THE TERRESTRIALS,” about the young-20s generation, done with the active participation of the Timothy Leary Archive (now in post-production). Also in progress is an intimate portrait of architect Rem Koolhaas and a CGI animated feature utilizing the songs of The Beatles. In addition, Daalder is the creator, along with Folkert Gorter, of the remarkably successful online think tank: www.spacecollective.org dedicated to “The Future of Everything.”

NEW RELEASE October 28, 2008 - POPULATION: 1 (Two Disc Special Edition DVD) srp $24.95

When there’s only one person left, America becomes a one-man band. Cult Epics presents, “Population:1,” a film written and directed by Rene Daalder about one man’s musical send off to the world’s last empire. It is a twisted history lesson from punk favorite Tomata du Plenty (The Screamers) featuring members of Los Lobos, Vampira, the notorious El Duce (Kurt and Courtney), and Fluxus artist Al Hansen and his Grammy-winning grandson Beck, among many others.

BONUS FEATURES: DISC 1
- Full screen version of the newly restored director’s cut
- A live music video of LA punk legends The Screamers
- Unreleased tracks by The Screamers and Sheela Edwards
- Behind the scenes gallery of stills - Original and new trailers for Population: 1
- Scenes from “Mensch,” the lost prequel to Population: 1
- Palace of Variety trailer

BONUS FEATURES: DISC 2
- “Je Maintiendrai” - a provocative Hollywood spoof a la Spinal Tap
- Over 40 minutes of exclusive concert footage of The Screamers
- Rare footage of Fluxus artist Al Hansen
- Exclusive outtakes of Vampira’s final major interview
- “Punish Or Be Damned” - a tribute to Tomata du Plenty
- “Girls “ - a never before released Penelope Houston music video
- Special interview with writer/director Rene Daalder

Color. 1986. Director: Rene Daalder. (TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION) 2XDVD. 215 Minutes. Full Screen 4x3 A Cult Epics Release DVD068

Starring Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch, Kidulthood) Dead Set is a chilling new horror series in which the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. Curiously there are a few people left in Britain who aren’t worried about any of this – that’s because they’re the remaining contestants in Big Brother. Cocooned in the safety of the Big Brother house, they’re blissfully unaware of the horrific events unfolding in the outside world. Until an eviction night when all hell breaks loose…

Kelly (Winstone), a production runner working on a fictional series of Big Brother, finds herself trying to fend off the walking dead alongside her producer boss Patrick (Andy Nyman, Severance), boyfriend Riq (Riz Ahmed, Britz) and the remaining Big Brother housemates.

Over the ensuing days, in a cruel reflection of the game show they thought they were entering, the contestants fall victim one by one to the hungry masses outside. Staying alive requires crucial teamwork – which can be tricky when you’re a group specifically selected by TV producers to wind each other up.

Featuring a range of cameo appearances from Davina McCall and several former Big Brother housemates, the series is due to be broadcast on E4 between 27th-31st October 2008

DVD extras such as sneak peeks behind the scenes, a tour of the set, special effects featurettes and interviews with cast and crew, Dead Set promises to be a gripping horror bound to keep you at the edge of your seat.

The DVD hits the streets on the 3rd November.

Cult Epics have some great releases planned and one we're particularly looking forward to is a special 3 disc digipack of GITANE DEMONE - LIFE AFTER DEATH.

As well as having a strong following amongst the Goth crowd, Gitane Demone has always been acclaimed worldwide for her stylistic, jazzy vocals and songwriting skills.

After leaving the group Christian Death in 1989 Gitane pursued her own career. This rare footage (1989-1998) featured on Gitane’s first official DVD release, covers live concerts throughout Europe, fetish performances for DeMask and Skin Two, Television Interviews, and live duets with long time collaborator Rozz Williams (Christian Death).

SPECIAL FEATURES
• Limited Edition of 2500 copies includes the Bonus CD “Solitude” featuring never-before-released
Cover Songs.
• Booklet includes personal memoirs penned by Gitane Demone
• Video documentation of 2008 art exhibit dedicated to Ader’s Legacy

DVD DISC ONE
• VPRO, Dutch Television 1991
• Mazzo, Amsterdam, Holland 1989
• AT5, Dutch Television 1992
• VPRO Radio, Holland 1993
• ISC Club, Bern, Switzerland 1993
• Indie Tour, Querfurt, Germany 1995

DISC TWO
• A Heavenly Melancholy video clip 1991
• Skin Two, UK 1992
• Fetish Generation, Denmark 1995
• Dream Home Heartache Tour featuring Rozz Williams
• Christian Death featuring Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone, Astoria II, London, UK 1996
• Kato, Berlin 1998

GITANE DEMONE – LIFE AFTER DEATH (3 DISC DIGIPACK) DVD067 • $34.95 • 2XDVD/1xCD • 240 Minutes/50 Minutes • 1989-1998 • Color/B&W • Not Rated • Full Screen 4x3 • Director: Nico B, Andreas Hofman, various.

Revolver Entertainment have announced the release of a DVD box set on 6th October comprising of Jake Kennedy's DAYS OF DARKNESS, Michael Bartlett's THE ZOMBIE DIARIES and Jason Murphy's recent ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES!

DAYS OF DARKNESS, the debut directorial feature from British ex-pat Jake Kennedy (Fangoria: Blood Drive II), is an inventive, entertaining and very gory hybrid of alien bodysnatcher movie and good old zombie flick. The plot concerns a disparate group of people - mysteriously unaffected by a killer extraterrestrial bug that has infected humanity - holed up in a remote compound under siege from a horde of undead human flesheaters intent on feeding on the last of the living. As night falls, the small group of human survivors – some sick, some dying and some slowly going mad – must overcome their differences and band together to fend off the grisly man-eaters in a last stand between the living and the dead.

Hailed as 'the best UK horror film of the year' by Gorezone magazine and as 'the most realistic zombie film ever made' by Twitchfilm.com, THE ZOMBIE DIARIES presents a horrific 'cinéma vérité' view of a dystopian world in which a viral plague is causing the dead to rise. The chilling reality of what is happening is documented in three separate video diaries that reveal in graphic and uncompromising detail, the true horror of a modern-day zombie apocalypse as it engulfs the UK. Dark and frighteningly real, THE ZOMBIE DIARIES is a genuine shocker that haunts the memory long after the credits have rolled.

A hilariously titillating gorefest of terror, the horror-comedy ZOMBIES, ZOMBIES, ZOMBIES pitches a small group of strippers against a ravenous bunch of flesheaters who are descending upon The Grindhouse Strip Club in search of more than just a lap dance. Armed with just a rifle, a chainsaw, some gardening tools and their wits, the girls prepare to do whatever it takes to make sure they stay off the club's menu. Combining 1970s exploitation excesses with the gratuitous blood and gore stylings of schlockmeister Herschell Gordon Lewis (Gore Gore Girls; Blood Feast; Two Thousand Maniacs) by way of Russ Meyer (Motor Psycho; Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Vixen!), ZOMBIES, ZOMBIES, ZOMBIES is a welcome slice of B-Movie Heaven.

From Su-chang Kong, director of the critically acclaimed Korean shocker ’R-Point’, comes THE GUARD POST (aka GP506), a similarly genre-bending foray into the cinema of fear that further cements his reputation as one of the most original filmmakers working in Asian cinema today.

Combining the claustrophobic atmospherics of ’The Orphanage’ with the tense paranoia of ’The Thing’, Kong’s latest is part murder-mystery, part horror story – a terrifying tale of a group of soldiers caught up in a mysterious and haunting vortex of desperate alienation and homicidal madness.

Having already established himself as a horror director to watch with ’R-Point’, Su-chang Kong ups the ante with THE GUARD POST, a gore-drenched chiller that brilliantly plays on the primal human fear of the unknown while cleverly applying the conventions of the classic investigative thriller genre to a full-on horror story with all the necessary trappings.

The Guard Post is out on DVD on 13 Oct from Cine Asia (£15.99)

http://onlinemoviepromo.com/newplayer.php?id=2695