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Cinephobia Releasing has acquired North American rights from Visit Films to Fernando Andrés’s BFI Flare London selection Rent Free and has scheduled a June 8 release.

Andrés’s second feature after 2022 Tribeca and Outfest dramaThree Headed Beast follows best friends Ben and Jordan who, after hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers in a rapidly changing Austin, Texas.

Jacob Roberts, David Treviño, Zeke Goodman, Sarah J. Bartholomew, and Temple Baker star. Andrés, Roberts, and Baker served as producers.

Cinephobia Releasing...

Cinephobia Releasing has acquired North American rights from Visit Films to Fernando Andrés’s BFI Flare London selection Rent Free and has scheduled a June 8 release.

Andrés’s second feature after 2022 Tribeca and Outfest dramaThree Headed Beast follows best friends Ben and Jordan who, after hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers in a rapidly changing Austin, Texas.

Jacob Roberts, David Treviño, Zeke Goodman, Sarah J. Bartholomew, and Temple Baker star. Andrés, Roberts, and Baker served as producers.

Cinephobia Releasing...

Cinephobia Releasing has acquired North American rights from Visit Films to Fernando Andrés’s BFI Flare London selection Rent Free and has scheduled a June 8 release.

Andrés’s second feature after 2022 Tribeca and Outfest dramaThree Headed Beast follows best friends Ben and Jordan who, after hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers in a rapidly changing Austin, Texas.

Jacob Roberts, David Treviño, Zeke Goodman, Sarah J. Bartholomew, and Temple Baker star. Andrés, Roberts, and Baker served as producers.

Cinephobia Releasing...

Cinephobia Releasing announced today that it has acquired US rights to writer-director Michael Pierro’s debut thriller feature Self Driver. “Michael Pierro’s boldly creative thriller captivated me like few films do,” said Cinephobia President Raymond Murray. “Cinephobia Releasing is very excited to bring this daring film to American audiences this year.” On top of this announcement, we also have an exclusive clip from the film to share.

But first, read the film’s full synopsis below:

A down-on-his-luck cab driver, facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, is lured on to a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money. As his first night on the job unfolds, he is pulled ever deeper into the dark underbelly of society, embarking on a journey that will test his moral code and shake his understanding of what it means to have freewill. The question becomes not how much money he can make,...

Alexander McGregor Birrell’s homoerotic thriller Latent Image has landed distribution deals for North America, the U.K., as well as Australia and New Zealand in deals brokered by U.K. sales outfit 7&7 Producers’ Sales Service.

Latent Image — which is having its premiere market screening at the European Film Market in Berlin — stars Joshua Tonks as a crime fiction author struggling with writer’s block. Inspiration comes in in the dead of night in the form of a mysterious, dangerously handsome, stranger (Jay Clift) who offers to act out scenes for the writer’s serial-killer novel. As the night unfolds, their connection becomes intense as life begins to mirror the writer’s imagination with brutal consequences.

Raymond Murray’s Cinephobia Releasing has acquired rights for North America and the U.K., while Tony Romeo’s Bounty Films will be releasing the film in Australia and New Zealand.

Latent Image is...

Buenos Aires — Buenos Aires-based Meikincine Entertainment, one of the most active sales agents at this year’s Ventana Sur, has closed the U.S. and Canada with Cinephobia Releasing on “Sublime,” produced by Buenos Aires’ Tarea Fina and a standout at Ventana Sur’s 2021 Copia Final pix-in-post competition.

“Sublime” went on to world premiere at Berlin’s Generation 14-Plus strand this February.

In parallel, Meikincine has picked up world sales rights outside Argentina to Tarea Fina’s latest feature, “Alemania,” directed by Maria Zanetti (“Furia”), which wraps its shoot on Dec. 2.

A coming of age tale “Sublime” marks the feature debut of Argentina’s Mariano Biasin, who scored a Crystal Bear for best short film at the 2016 Berlinale Generation KPlus for “El inicio de Fabrizio.”

“Sublime” turns on Manuel, 16, as he struggles with desire, tangled relationships and a coalescing identity in a coastal Argentinian town.

“Anchored by a soundtrack played...

Cinephobia Releasing, the new genre film releasing company from Tla Releasing and Artsploitation Films founder Raymond Murray proudly announces the company’s first acquisition – the Argentinian thriller Amor Bandido directed by Daniel Werner. The film centers around a 16-year-old boy involved in a romantic relationship with his sultry high school teacher. The two go off …

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Cinephobia Releasing, the new genre film releasing company from Tla Releasing and Artsploitation Films founder Raymond Murray proudly announces the company’s first acquisition – the Argentinian thriller Amor Bandido directed by Daniel Werner.

The film centers around a 16-year-old boy involved in a romantic relationship with his sultry high school teacher. The two go off on a secret weekend holiday in the country, but the illicit love affair takes a sudden and dangerous turn when the woman’s mysterious “brother” arrives at the house. The boy’s initial annoyance morphs to fear when the situation spirals into violence.

Amor Bandido will be submitted to film festivals and its Blu-ray/streaming release date is schedule for later this year.

Title: Amor Bandido; Year: 2021; Country: Argentina; Language: Spanish with English subtitles; Running Time: 80 minutes; Director: Daniel Werner; Starring: Romina Ricci, Renato Quattordio, Rafael Ferro

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Nazi-themed Horror Film The House to be Released on DVD and VOD A Psychological Ghost Tale from the Director of Christmas Blood Artsploitation Films will release Norwegian director Reinert (Christmas Blood) Kiil’s horror film The House March 5th. Artsploitaiton Films’ president Raymond Murray said, “It may have taken a few years …

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Artsploitation Films to distribute Australian abortion horror-comedy in the Us.

UK genre sales outfit Devilworks has sold horror-comedy ‘Red Christmas’ to Artsploitation Films for Us distribution.

Director and producer Craig Anderson’s film’s Us premiere has yet to be announced, but a limited theatrical run is set for August and DVD/Blu-ray and VOD releases are scheduled for October.

The film centres on a mother (Dee Wallace) as she tries to protect her family from a deformed and vengeful intruder in the Australian outback.

Wallace, who is also a co-producer on the film, is known for her work in the horror genre (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Cujo, The Howling).

Artsploitation Films president Ray Murray said: “We are excited to release this over-the-top, deliriously entertaining genre film. With its odd anti-abortion angle, it could very well be the first horror film of the Trump era!”

Devilworks president Samantha Richardson said: “’We are thrilled to be working with Artsploitation...

In today's Horror Highlights, we have release details for Asylum of Darkness and Chupacabra Territory, a new poster for Hounds of Love, details on Ghost Brothers moving to Destination America, acquisition info on Red Christmas, and details on MondoCon 2017.

Asylum of Darkness: "'Wild Eye Releasing unlocks the doors to award-winning filmmaker Jay Woelfel's supernatural horror feature Asylum of Darkness this April.

Woelfel’s stirring cocktail of supernatural suspense and goosebump-inducing horror features a superlative cast of sci-fi and horror icons including Golden Globe nominee Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica), in one his final film appearances.

Tim Thomerson (Trancers, Near Dark, Nemesis) and Tiffany Shepis (12 Monkeys, Tromeo and Juliet, Tales of Halloween) also star in the movie, a striking, spine-tingling horror jaunt, shot in 35mm, that resembles the works of genre icons Lynch and Cronenberg.

After awakening in a mental asylum, a patient plans his escape to freedom while...

Artsploitation Films has secured the U.S. rights to "Der Bunker," a German comedy that premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. "Der Bunker," the debut feature from Nikias Chryssos, is a dark comedy set entirely within a windowless bunker housing a husband, wife and their learning-challenged son. A young graduate student soon enters the bunker to tutor the son...whom the parents are grooming to be president of the United States. Artsploitation's president Ray Murray described the film as, "So peculiar yet amazingly memorable," and said, "I felt we had to have this odd comedy. Reminiscent of the works of John Waters, David Lynch and Luis Buñuel, Chryssos creates a reality where conventional story-telling, and its accompanying logic, is left outside the steps, it will be a pleasure to present it to unsuspecting audiences!" Check out the poster below: Read More: Film Movement Picks Up Justin Lerner's SXSW Pick...

Exclusive: The distributor has announced from Berlin it has closed an all-rights North American deal for Chilean genre specialist Patricio Valladares’ action-comedy.

Artsploitation cut the deal at the Efm with producer and Valladares compatriot George Von Knorring of Chile’s Too Much Films.

Toro Loco: Bloodthirsty (Toro Loco: Sangriento) stars Francisco Melo as a vigilante who enlists the support of a young beauty, her geeky brother and a trigger-happy drag queen to avenge the murder of his son.

Valladares directed the notorious 2012 crime thriller Hidden In The Woods and the English-language remake starring Michael Biehn.

He is preparing to shoot the micro-budget English-language survival thriller Downhill in Chile this spring.

“Writer-director Valladares is an amazing talent,” said Artsploitation Films president Raymond Murray. “He imbues this fast-paced tale with memorable characters, imaginatively directed action scenes set within a modernised version of a Spaghetti Western and tops it off with a deft comedic touch.

“The film delivers...

Elijah Wood's company SpectreVision (formerly known as The Woodshed) acquired Jason Banker's Toad Road (review) a while back, and now that a release is on the horizon, we have a battery of new posters and a broken new clip!

From the Press Release

This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood's genre-themed production company SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release.

The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.

Toad Road...

Toad Road will be making its way to a limited number of theaters, along with DVD and VOD later this month and we have a brand new clip for you to watch.

“This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood’s genre-themed production company, SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release. The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.

Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception...

Toad Road will be making its way to a limited number of theaters, along with DVD and VOD later this year. The release is being handled by Artsploitation Films, along with Elijah Wood’s production company, SpectreVision, and Random Bench:

“This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood’s genre-themed production company, SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release. The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.

Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of...

Kino Lorber has signed a multi-year agreement with Artsploitation Films to become the exclusive home entertainment distributor of Artsploitation's label in the U.S. and Canada. Kino Lorber will handle distribution of all films currently in Artsploitation's catalog, as well as new releases, on Blu-Ray, DVD and all major digital platforms. Artsploitation, a relatively new distributor founded by former president of Tla Releasing Ray Murray, specializes exclusively on international films with a decidedly bold, controversial and hard to market bent, making them a pretty perfect match for similarly bold indie stalwarts Kino Lorber. Murray said, in a release, "our movies - an unpredictable mix of genre films and cutting edge international dramas - require a knowledgeable and specialized sales company and I know we found it with Kino Lorber, a seasoned expert with such films." Richard Lorber, President and CEO of Kino Lorber, added, "Artsploitation's line up is an ideal fit.

Artsploitation Films is placing its foot firmly in the horror business with the acquisition of three international horror films. Based in the City of Brotherly Love, Artsploitation has acquired Korean anthology Horror Stories , Argentinian cult creeper Memory of the Dead, and Swedish cabin-in-the-woods-meets-creature-feature Wither from the Blood Runs Cold writers.

“With this trio, we go deeper into our horror series (the other release being Hidden in the Woods). The three films here are truly edgy, stylish and creepy, each have a new delight that we hope even hardened horror fans will embrace,” Artsploitation President and CEO Ray Murray said.

Read more about the three films, straight from their press release below and watch the trailer for Wither:

Horror Stories

Synopsis:

A girl is kidnapped and is forced to tell scary stories to the serial killer who abducted her. She tells four tales…Don’t Answer to the Door: A little...

A film that I wanted to check out at Fantastic Fest was Memory of the Dead (La Memoria del Muerto). Luckily, I have a screener of the film so I hope to check it out soon. Artsploitation Films will be releasing the film along with Korea’s Horror Stories and a Swedish horror film, which may remind you of Evil Dead, called Wither. I have previously heard of Wither thanks to mrparka on YouTube. While there is no release date listed here, I have included some YouTube trailers (only Wither has English subtitles) to whet your appetite.

From the Press Release

Artsploitation Films is pleased to announce the acquisitions of three new cutting edge international horror films all by young and upcoming directors: Horror Stories, Memory Of The Dead and Wither will all be given full stateside releases by the new label based in Philadelphia. President and CEO Ray Murray...

The company that gave us Hidden in the Woods, Artsploitation Films, has just announced it has three more foreign fright features up its sleeves to lay down upon the waiting horror-hungry masses.

Horror Stories, Memory of the Dead, and Wither will all be given full Stateside releases by the new label based out of Philadelphia. "With this trio, we go deeper into our horror series," says Artsploitation President and CEO Ray Murray. "The three films here are truly edgy, stylish, and creepy; each [has] a new delight that we hope even hardened horror fans will embrace."

From the Press Release:

Horror Stories from Korea is an omnibus film which tells the tale of a kidnapped girl forced to tell scary stories to the serial killer that kidnapped her. She tells four stories all made by different directors: "Don’t Answer the Door" (Jeong Bum-shik), "Endless Flight" (Yim Dae-Woong), "Secret Recipe" (Hong...

Artsploitation Films has acquired three international horror films Horror Stories, Memory of the Dead and Wither.

All be given full stateside releases by the new label based in Philadelphia. President and CEO Ray Murray said about all three films: “With this trio, we go deeper into our horror series (the other release being Hidden in the Woods). The three films here are truly edgy, stylish and creepy, each have a new delight that we hope even hardened horror fans will embrace.”

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Artsploitation Films will release Korean anthology Horror Stories, Swedish cabin tale Wither and the Argentinean kitchen sink spookshow Memory Of The Dead stateside in 2013. CEO Ray Murray says, “With this trio, we go deeper into our horror series. The three films here are truly edgy, stylish and creepy, each have a new delight that we hope even hardened horror fans will embrace.”

In Horror Stories, “a girl is kidnapped and forced to tell scary stories to the serial killer who abducted her. She tells four tales…’Don’t Answer to the Door’ (dir. Jeong Bum-shik): A little brother and sister are home alone during the night. The door bell rings, but they're never supposed to open the door to strangers... ‘Endless Flight’ (dir. Yim Dae-Woong): A plane flying at the height of 30,000 feet; there is nowhere to run or jump from. What if you're left alone with a serial killer?...

Artsploitation Films will release Korean anthology Horror Stories, Swedish cabin tale Wither and the Argentinean kitchen sink spookshow Memory Of The Dead stateside in 2013. CEO Ray Murray says, “With this trio, we go deeper into our horror series. The three films here are truly edgy, stylish and creepy, each have a new delight that we hope even hardened horror fans will embrace.”

In Horror Stories, “a girl is kidnapped and forced to tell scary stories to the serial killer who abducted her. She tells four tales…’Don’t Answer to the Door’ (dir. Jeong Bum-shik): A little brother and sister are home alone during the night. The door bell rings, but they're never supposed to open the door to strangers... ‘Endless Flight’ (dir. Yim Dae-Woong): A plane flying at the height of 30,000 feet; there is nowhere to run or jump from. What if you're left alone with a serial killer?...

After it’s appearance at Fantasia and FrightFest earlier this year, it has been announced that Artsploitation Films has acquired distribution rights to Hidden in the Woods:

“Los Angeles, CA– Artsploitation Films is pleased to announce the acquisitions of a new Horror film Hidden In The Woods at the recently concluded Ventana Sur Film Market in Buenos Aires. Ray Murray, President of Artsploitation Films said about the film: “Hidden In The Woods is quite a different film than those we’ve previously acquired: it is a pure, deliciously gruesome horror film that, while incredibly violent, has in its heart a tale of survival against all odds. We are excited to be able to present this film to adventurous American audiences.”

Hidden In The Woods was a much buzzed about film at this summer’s FrightFest in London. According to the FrightFest promo the film is “a deranged frenzy” and contains...

Artsploitation Films said Thursday it plans to release "Gandu" -- a film banned in its native India -- for North American audiences later this year. Directed by Bengali filmmaker Kaushik "Q" Mukherjee, the indie -- the title of which is Hindi slang for "asshole" -- follows an impoverished young man through his "deliriously frantic, music-infused" dreams of becoming a rap star. "When I started the label, I wasn't sure exactly what kinds of titles I'd try to acquire. Then I saw 'Gandu,'" Raymond Murray, Artsploitation's president, said in a statement. "I left...

Artsploitation Films Announces Its First Slate Of Releases!

These Provocative Titles Will Be Released In The U.S. And Canada This Summer And Fall.

An Indian Hip-Hop Drama, a Japanese Gangster Actioner and a Violent Russian Coming-of-Age Tale are the First Three Titles of New Label.

Philadelphia, Pa (May 1, 2012) Artsploitation Films, founded earlier this year by Tla Entertainment Inc. president Raymond Murray has announced its initial acquisitions for North America. They are: Gandu… More...

More Sundance coverage

Tla Releasing has named Derek Curl head of production and development.

Tla is working with Curl's New York-based Caveat Films to produce two gay short-film compilations for release in late 2009 and also plans to produce six original gay films in the coming year.

"Tla Releasing's mission to continue developing original productions is a natural evolution of the company," Tla presidient Raymond Murray said. "Both Tla and Caveat Films are looking to bring filmmaker's stories to life and present them in various forms of entertainment, from theatrical to home video to original online content."

Upcoming projects from Tla include Spencer Schilly's dark comedy "My Pet Hustler" and Morgan John Fox's "Love in Action," a documentary about Zach Stark, who was kidnapped by his parents and sent to a gay "rehabilitation" camp.

The Tla Releasing team is attending the Sundance Film Festival.