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Forget about that romantic rubbish starring Julia Roberts.This April and May,
Monster Pictures give you a much better reason to...
PREY
LOVE
Novella McClure is an awesome
name for a movie star. Or a porn
star. This aspiring actress (played by
bleached-blonde Maggie Maddox)
wants to be the former, but keeps
getting offered the latter. Struggling
to land a role that’ll pay the rent, and
with no money, no food, and facing
eviction from her flat, Novella starts
getting nervous. And when she gets
stressed, she self-harms – not by
cutting, by eating... herself! Gnawing
away at her fingers, toes and arms,
her descent into madness and self-
cannibalism propels this disturbing
and darkly humorous shocker from
writer-director Jimmy Webber. It’s
as gruesome and grotesque as it
sounds; imagine if Frank Henenlotter
had directed the 2002 arthouse-
horror flick
In My
Skin
and you’ll have
a good idea what
to expect from
Eat
.
Guaranteed to be
devoured by hungry
horror fans on DVD
and Blu-ray on
April 22.
A mysterious stranger (Liam
Cunningham from
Game of Thrones
)
arrives in a remote coastal town,
and death follows in his wake. Dark,
gloomy and incredibly atmospheric Irish
thriller
Let Us Prey
takes its cues from
The Crow
and
Assault on Precinct 13
,
with a police station under siege from
a supernatural avenger who knows the
deepest, darkest secrets of the officers
on duty (including
The Woman
’s
Pollyanna McIntosh)
and the felons in the
cells below. Building
to a tense and gory
climax, first-time
director Brian
O’Malley puts Ireland
on the horror movie
map.
Available on
May 20
.
The Monster Fest 2014 winner for Best
Feature Film Director, Leigh Janiak’s
haunting two-hander
Honeymoon
plonks
newlyweds Paul (Harry Treadaway,
Penny
Dreadful
) and Bea (Rose Leslie,
Game
of Thrones
) in an isolated retreat, where
something is waiting in the woods. Following the appearance
of strange lights in the dead of night, and a midnight sleepwalk
in the forest, Bea begins to exhibit strange behaviour and an
aloofness that deeply troubles her husband. And like Jon Snow,
she appears to know nothing! As things get progressively
weirder – and Cronenbergian – Paul must confront the
reality that Bea may no longer be entirely human. A dark and
unsettling exploration of the loss of identity, Janiak conjures an
eerie mood throughout, but its the natural chemistry between
the two leads that makes
Honeymoon
work brilliantly. An
essential purchase on DVD or Blu-ray on
April 22
.
Move over Mick Taylor – Australia has a new horror icon in the shape of seven-foot psychopath Charlie Wilson, who legend has it still
lurks on the old family farm. Naturally this urban legend proves irresistible to a group of bored friends (including
Sharknado
’s Tara Reid),
who fall victim to this homicidal hulk in a bloody bodycount that reboots the slasher movie, Aussie style.
Charlie’s Farm
– it’s just
down the road from Wolf Creek. Out
June 17
.
Also coming in May is
Lost Soul: The
Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s
Island of Dr. Moreau
, a must-see
documentary that chronicles the behind-
the-scenes chaos that surrounded the
Hardware
director’s attempt to remake
the H.G. Wells classic in 1996.
CHARLIE’S COMING IN JUNE