Today on VOD: Carnage Park and Satanic
John Squires
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If you’re looking to head out to your local theater this Fourth of July weekend, you have plenty of options to choose from. On the horror front alone, The Shallows and The Purge: Election Year are both solid choices, but they’re certainly not the only options for us horror fans. What’s new on VOD this weekend? Let’s take a look!
First up, prolific indie filmmaker Mickey Keating takes us to Carnage Park (review) today, the new film hitting limited theaters and VOD outlets via IFC Midnight. The cast includes Ashley Bell, Pat Healy, Alan Ruck, James Landry Hébert, Darby Stanchfield, and Larry Fessenden.
It opens today in New York at the IFC Center. Look for it a week later, on July 8th, in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Noho 7.
Synopsis:
This pure-pulp thrill ride jumps between past and present as it pieces together the puzzle of a shocking crime. It’s 1978 and a bank robbery gone wrong leaves Vivian (The Last Exorcism’s Ashley Bell) the hostage of two criminals on the run. But things go from bad to off-the-rails berserk when she and her captors wind up on the sun-baked desert outpost of a deranged ex-military sniper (Pat Healy), who ensnares them in his deadly game of cat and mouse.
Rising horror auteur Mickey Keating (Pod, Darling) directs this gritty, grisly homage to the glory days of grindhouse cinema.
Another option available to you this weekend is Magnet Releasing’s Satanic, the feature debut of veteran television director Jeff Hunt (“Fringe,” “CSI,” “Nikita”). The film, starring Sarah Hyland (“Modern Family”), Justin Chon (Twilight series), Clara Mamet, and Steven Krueger, was penned by The Shallows scribe Anthony Jaswinski.
See it in theaters and via On Demand, Amazon Video, and iTunes.
Synopsis:
Satanic follows a van full of young, college-aged coeds who are visiting old Satanic Panic-era sites in Los Angeles. They end up following the creepy owner of an occult store home, only to find themselves saving a suspicious girl from an apparent human sacrifice. Only this “victim” turns out to be much more dangerous than the cult from which she escaped.
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