PRESS RELEASES
"Designed to rob you of a good night's sleep"-Daily Variety
HART SHARP AND FANGORIA MAGAZINE REDEFINE HORROR THIS FALL WITH THE RELEASE OF
THE LAST HORROR MOVIE
Hair-Raising Thriller Hits Stores December 7, 2004 With Bloody Bonus Features Including: Deleted Scenes, Cast Auditions, Commentary With Director And More!
November 2004- New York , NY- On December 7, 2004 there will be a gory line between fiction and reality as Hart Sharp Video releases a blood-thirsty film, The Last Horror Movie. The launch title under the new Fangoria Presents: Gorezone Video Ô label, The Last Horror Movie features a realistic and chillingly suspenseful plot about Max Parry, who is determined to direct an intelligent film about murder, but actually ends up killing the victims himself. With one of the most dark and twisted characters seen on film and a unique surprise ending, The Last Horror Movie will leave you screaming for more .
Directed by Julian Richards (Silent Cry & Darklands) The Last Horror Movie stars Kevin Howarth (Don't Look Back! & Whacked ), Mark Stevenson ("The Big Breakfast") Jim Bywater (Dalziel and Pascoe: A Killing Kindness) Antonia Beamish ( Dead Creatures & Scheherazade ). The film will be available on DVD (SRP $24.98) and VHS (for rental), in an R-rated 76 minute version and an Unrated version at 80 minutes, both complete with bonus features.
Hailed by the Austin Chronicle as, "a genuinely smart screenplay by Richards and James Handel that simultaneously rubs our noses in the horror while allowing us to savor the flavor," The Last Horror Movie is a skillfully crafted work of art-intelligent and thoughtful in its suspense. Along with eliciting blood curdling acclaim The Last Horror Movie captured the Best Film and Best Actor Award (Howarth) at the New York City Horror Film Festival, and the Best Film, Best Director award at the Eerie Horror Film Festival in Pennsylvania and the Audience Award at the Malibu Film Festival.
DVD EXTRAS
The Last Horror Movie 's release to DVD offers a host of bonus features that include:
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Deleted Scenes
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Cast Auditions
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Commentary with the director Julian Richards
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Commentary with lead actor Kevin Howarth (Max Parry)
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'The Shoe Collector' short film
SYNOPSIS: Max Parry wants to kill you. No, it's not that you've done anything to deserve it; he's simply trying to make a point. By day a wedding photographer, Max uses his video camera to moonlight as a serial killer and with the aid of a homeless assistant he documents his work in the form of a snuff video diary. Max grows increasingly determined to direct an intelligent film about murder, but bloodies the line between fiction and reality by actually snuffing out the victims himself. Max is a disturbingly charismatic assassin who confronts his audience with an intense exploration of the mind of a homicidal maniac and audience culpability with viewing violence as entertainment. When he senses distaste at the realism of his brutality, he poses the obvious question "Why are you still watching?". The answer is simple enough, you know you shouldn't be and that's exactly why you are.
ABOUT HART SHARP VIDEO: Hart Sharp Video was founded in 2003 by Joe Amodei to develop, acquire, market and distribute home video and DVD product in the feature film, special interest and sports categories. Some of Hart Sharp Video's releases slated for 2004 include; Halloween on Ice featuring two-time Olympic Medalist Nancy Kerrigan; Yankeeography - Volume Two featuring contemporary heroes Lou Gehrig, Phil Rizzuto, Mickey Mantle, Elston Howard, Paul O'Neill, and Mariano Rivera; The Tale of Tillie's Dragon the award winning children's treasury and the extraordinary sports documentary The Number 2 Car featuring one of NASCAR's most charismatic individuals, Rusty Wallace. For more information please visit www.hartsharpvideo.com .
ABOUT FANGORIA MAGAZINE: Fangoria Magazine has been the world's most popular horror publication for 25 years. Fangoria is known throughout the industry as the leading authority on horror entertainment, offering the latest news, reviews and exclusive previews. The magazine has been featured in scores of movies ( Gremlins , Seed of Chucky , Brainscan , Army of Darkness ); TV shows ( The Simpsons , Amazing Stories , Goosebumps ); and all the major news shows ( Entertainment Tonight , 20/20 , Nightline , CBS Evening News , Geraldo , Showbiz Today ).
The company's national fan conventions, the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors events, have played host to such celebrity guests and genre legends as Jack Nicholson, Kenneth Branagh, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven, Peter Jackson, David Cronenberg, KISS' Gene Simmons, Sam Raimi, John Carpenter, George Romero, Clive Barker, Robert Englund, Rob Zombie, William Friedkin, Robert Rodriguez, Bruce Campbell, Christopher Lee and many more . Fangoria 's award-winning website can be found at www.fangoria.com.
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