Artsploitation Presents MARÇAL FORES' "Animals" On DVD And VOD, NOVEMBER 12, 2013!

An unconventional coming-of-age tale, Animals is an intoxicating blend of fantasy and cold reality. Seventeen-year-old high-schooler Pol has stubbornly extended his childhood, aided in no small measure by his opinionated, drums-playing, English-speaking pet teddy bear, Deerhoof. But when he meets alluring new student Icari, the safety of Pol’s innocent imagination crumbles as he experiences his first pangs of love and sexual longing. But what will happen to Deerhoof in this new world and can Pol accept his new-found feelings? Co-starring Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock) as his perceptive teacher, this fresh, inventive take on first love is funny, often bizarre and tragically intense.

 Special Features: 

• Making of featurette

• The Bear Truth – a short film

• Animals – a short film by Marcal Fores

• Audio commentary with Director Marçal Forés and Travis Crawford

• 8-page collectible booklet

• Official Animals Trailer

Directed by:   Marçal Forés

Starring:  Oriol Pla, Augustus Prew, Dimitri Leonidas, Roser Tapias, Javier Beltrán,
                   Martin Freeman
Run Time:  94 minutes

Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language:  English, Catalan

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 :1

Audio: Catalan with English subtitles and English, 5.1 Surround

Format: DVD
Region: All-Region

Artsploitation Presents Korean Anthology Horror Stories

Artsploitation is set to release the 2012 Korean Horror anthology Horror Stories (Moo-seo-woon I-ya-gi) this Tuesday. The full press release, including the list of the film's directors can be found below. I'm only familiar with a couple of the directors, but Dae-wung Lim's slasher Bloody Reunion is great fun, and Kyu-Dong Min's Memento Mori is pretty excellent, so their inclusion is enough to get me excited.

SIX DIRECTORS FROM KOREA PRESENT FOUR

HORROR STORIES

DEBUTS ON DVD TUESDAY OCT 8, 2013!

SIX KOREAN HORROR DIRECTORS BRING YOU FOUR CREEPY STORIES IN ARTSPLOITATION'S HORROR STORIES, OUT OCT. 8, 2013!

Horror anthologies are creeping up everywhere and the Korean entry Horror Stories raises the bar with four terrifying stories (and a nail-biting wraparound tale), each one chilling enough to be its own feature. If you thought this was going to be a tame collection of teen-friendly “ghost girl” stories – think again. Horror Stories goes right for the jugular with non-stop splatter, intense shocks and riveting suspense. A high school girl is abducted and forced by a psycho to tell him the scariest tales she knows:

• Don’t Answer the Door finds a little brother and sister home alone at night and
  under siege.
• Endless Flight has a serial killer escaping police custody in the middle of an otherwise
  empty flight.
• Secret Recipe serves up a wildly macabre fairy tale about two jealous stepsisters who
  take plastic surgery to nightmarish extremes.
• Ambulance on the Death Zone is a claustrophobic zombie shocker with a paramedic and
  a mother at a standoff over her possibly infected young daughter.

An international genre festival success from Sitges to Fantasia, this is one of the best Korean horror films in years and has been called “one of the scariest Asian horror anthologies of the 21st century.” 

Special Features:
• Cast Interviews
• Trailers
• 12-page Collectible Booklet
• Reversible Cover
Directed by:  Bum-shik JUNG, Dae-woong LIM,  Ji-young HONG, Gok KIM, Sun KIM, Kyu-Dong Min
Starring:  Bo-Ra NAM, Hyeon-Soo KIM, Ji-Young KIM, Tai-Hyun ZIN, Soo-Bin BAE
Run Time:  109 minutes
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language:  Korean
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 :1
Audio: Korean with English subtitles, 2.0 Stereo
Format: DVD
Region: All-Region

Artsploitation Films Presents Toad Road

Some new posters and a teaser for the upcoming film Toad Road have just found their way into my inbox, and I thought you guys might enjoy taking a peek.

As SpectreVision and Artsploitation lead up to the theatrical premiere of Jason Banker's TOAD ROAD, a new clip from the film and two character posters are now released for your viewing pleasure. Expect more in the weeks to come!

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 displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception and reality are blurred with often frightening results. Winning the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 2012 Fantasia International Film Festival and Best Picture at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, director Jason Banker's film blends documentary footage with horror elements to create a cinematic experience like no other.

The film opens Friday, October 18th, at the Arena Cinema in Los Angeles and in New York at Cinema Village on Friday, October 25th.