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[brokehorrorfan]

The Shed will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 7 via RLJE Films. From producer Peter Block (Saw, The Devil's Rejects), the film is currently available on VOD.

Written and directed by Frank Sabatella (Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet), the 2019 horror movie stars Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Timothy Bottoms, and Frank Whaley.

Special features are not listed, but beware the evil within the trailer below.

Stan and his best friend Dommer have put up with bullies their entire lives. All of that changes when Stan discovers he has a murderous vampire living in his shed. Seeing the bloodshed and destruction the monster is capable of, Stan knows he has to find a way to destroy it. But Dommer has a much more sinister plan in mind.

[hocuspicus]

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

Peter Block

[freshtracksinc]

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

Peter Block , and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel

[hocuspicus]

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

Peter Block

[rosasay]

Citizenship means that I act as if this larger place were mine to create, while the conventional wisdom is that I cannot have responsibility without authority. That is a tired idea. Let it die in peace. I am responsible for the health of the institutions and the community even though I do not control it. I can participate in creating something I do not control. In the face of all the messages that the culture sends our way, we can choose to become full citizens and become a cause rather than an effect. This means we must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, the leadership we seek is ours to become. It means releasing ourselves from the grip of our ambition and deciding to care for something large enough to give greater purpose to our work and to our experience. Our culture is not organized to support idealistic, intimate, and deeper desires.

Peter Block

This is great guidance for those of the Resistance to Trumpism.

[hypable]

In the latest reboot news, 'Pumpkinhead' is getting remade

Hope you’re not tired of Hollywood’s habit of remaking old classics because Pumpkinhead is the latest to get the reboot treatment.

[film-book]

PUMPKINHEAD: Saw Producer To Remake Horror #Film http://filmbk.me/Ly1cFk

[brokehorrorfan]

Producer Peter Block (Saw franchise, The Devil's Rejects, Rambo) has acquired the rights to Pumpkinhead and is planning to film a reboot in 2017. He’s currently seeking a filmmaker to helm the project.

Block is aiming for a theatrical release, which will be the first Pumpkinhead film to play on the big screen since the 1988 original. (Part II went straight-to-video, while the third and fourth installments debuted on Syfy).

The first Pumpkinhead was directed by special effects legend Stan Winston. Block promises to honor his legacy by using practical effects as much as possible. It will share elements with the original but will not be a shot-for-shot remake.

Read on to see what Block had to say about the project.

Pumpkinhead is one of my favorite horror films of the late ’80s, early ’90s. Stan Winston sits on that Mount Rushmore of iconic filmmakers because of his creature designs, and that was his first directing effort. The creature’s great but the emotional story is wonderful as well. I got the rights to Pumpkinhead, and hooked up with a great young writer called Nate Atkins, and we developed our script, which is really solid.

There is a similarity of theme and a similarity of story. There’s a lot of Easter eggs for people who know the original — iconic shots and iconic lines that we’re going to use. But we’ve enhanced the setting, and we’ve expanded the characters somewhat, to give it a different kind of experience.

We’re just about to start going out looking for a director for it. [We need] somebody who really understands why the first one is terrific, the emotional beats of ‘Is the revenge you seek worse than whatever befell you in the first place?’ But it’s also somebody that wants to embrace what I think audiences really want these days — a really scary, fun thrill-ride. You get a lot of people who want to be in this genre because they see the commercial opportunities. I’m looking for a director who has a love for the genre and knows how to get those beats for the audience.

I am a big proponent of practical effects. That was the great thing about the original. A lot of the films I still respond to most today, it’s because of the practical effects. We think that it’s going to be a nice slow reveal, lots of scares and lots of action in the beginning, and a great creature in the end, which everybody should be able to look at and say, ‘Oh, that’s Pumpkinhead!’ It’s not like you’re all of a sudden going to find that it’s some amorphous, nebulous, CGI wispy thing. You’re going to know it came from the Pumpkinhead family lineage.