In this chilling horror anthology, timeless ghost stories are brought into the digital age, delivering a fear-filled night of terror for a group of influencers, desperate for daring content to captivate their followers and grow their fan-base…

The band of bloggers make it their mission to spend a night at the chilling Stonewall Mansion, a place shrouded in mystery and tales of terror, where they hold the ancient Japanese ritual “100 Candles”.

Encircled by the flicker of a hundred flames, the group takes turns to share terrifying ghost stories, unaware that their actions are about to evoke the spirit of the Black Countess and let otherworldly forces into this world.

As each tale unfolds, the bloggers find themselves trapped in a nightmarish game, where the only way to survive is to bring back the demons they’ve unleashed and continue the game until the last candle burns out.

Prepare yourself for a night of total terror as 100 Candles Game: The Last Possession illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche.

Gather your bravest friends, light some candles and press play, but beware, as the final candle burns out, you’ll soon learn some games are not meant to be played.

100 Candles Game: The Last Possession will have you possessed.

About 101 Films

101 Films is one of the largest independent distributors of film in the UK. Founded in 2011 it remains one of the UK’s fastest growing independent entertainment brands, having acquired over 1,000 movies. In addition to its slate of new and modern movies for all rights, 101 Films’ Black and Red physical imprint continues to reinvent, restore and re-release cult and classic films on Blu Ray. 101 Films distributes across all forms of media: physical, digital, TV, SVOD and AVOD.

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This spellbinding, terrifying period horror harks back to the days of yore where witch trials were rife and a judge could sentence a ‘guilty’ woman to instant death for any misdemeanour deemed to be in league with the occult.

Small town, England, 1575. We meet Twyla (Sarah Alexandra Marks – Kill Kane, Help), a loving wife and mother who has been falsely accused of witchcraft and faces death, should she be found guilty. Her devoted husband William (Ryan Spong – A Song From the Dark, The Remote Office), embarks on a desperate journey to hunt down the real witch and save his beloved.

In a mission fraught with fear and danger, the determined man encounters tales of malevolence through the ages and he starts to question whether the witch he seeks is even of this world. Also starring Russell Shaw (Six Years Gone, The Lockdown Hauntings).

Witch is a wickedly enthralling feature that weaves a tale of devotion and the devastating damage of the pure evil that stalks the Earth and beyond, leaving its mark on the past, the present and the future.

Beware, it’s the season of the Witch.

Witch is out now on UK Digital including to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video courtesy of 101 Films

About 101 Films

101 Films is one of the largest independent distributors of film in the UK. Founded in 2011 and acquired by Amcomri Media Group in 2016, it remains one of the UK’s fastest growing independent entertainment brands, having acquired over 1,000 movies. In addition to its slate of new and modern movies for all rights, 101 Films’ Black and Red physical imprint continues to reinvent, restore and re-release cult and classic films on Blu Ray. 101 Films distributes across all forms of media: physical, digital, TV, SVOD and AVOD.

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Paul Dudbridge’s Frankenstein: Legacy is a pleasant well-crafted look at a pursuit of  Victor Frankenstein’s’ diary of experiments in creation. This was a story element in Universal’s Frankenstein Meets The Wolf man (1943), Son Of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942).

The film opens after Victor Frankenstein passes away on a schooner in the Arctic, his diary falls into the hands of a sailor, who passes the notebook on and on until it reaches the hands of Millicent Browning (Juliet Aubrey) a rebellious scientist and noble wife of the bedridden Robert (Philip Martin Brown). Millicent is conducting basic electrical re-animation experiments with animals in fact in sequence she resurrects a malevolent CGI rat using the diary.

Millicent is trying to cure her spouse with the help of the book’s secrets of life and death. Robert does succumb to his ongoing illness after thugs from P.T. Barnum beat him relentlessly, to obtain the book. Though Millicent’s son William (Matt Barber) and daughter Clara (Katie Sheridan) disapprove of her research, they discover Millicent has brought Robert’s body to life. Still, the curse of Frankenstein’s fight against death seems to have followed the diary as the monster that rises has no soul or compassion for their father.

Frankenstein: Legacy solidly recalls the Hammer Frankenstein Cycle of films particularly the indurated Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969). It could easily have been a script for that studio back in the halcyon days subbing in Peter Cushing as it explores similar themes of a lost spouse, and the inability to recognize the newly resurrected for the original.

The actors are all top end recalling TV series like Downton Abbey, The Crown and Bridgerton. Production values of large sets with sumptuous furniture, clothing, foggy graveyards, rainy nights, and dark foreboding exteriors all work well with the flowing camera. The actors all get to do some wonderful dialogue reminiscent of domestic drama which in a sense is really what the story is about, which is one family’s experiences with the Frankenstein diary.

Frankenstein: Legacy is budget conscious as Hammer films were yet like those it pulls off an effective film world. The drawback is that some may find this picture talky and not gory yet the dialogue is wonderful.  Filled with acid digs, sentimental affection, murderous accusations, dry wit and pathos, especially when Robert (Philip Martin Brown) is telling his son goodbye as he feels it is almost the end for him after the beating he received. The actors even though they are in the Victorian time sport modern-day hairstyles which Hammer Studios and others did for the men but not the women. The effects are CGI in the lab moments, the opening ship scene, and the resurrected rat but that’s ok. The creation scene usually a big number in a Frankenstein film is wonderfully underplayed likely due to budget more to the point that the story is about the resurrected father and his family, not the thunder, lightning etc.

Frankenstein: Legacy is reminiscent of a Hammer Film without Peter Cushing, cleavage from what became known as Hammer Glamour and the usually magnificent musical score that the studio used. One could easily imagine later Hammer Studios leading man Ralph Bates in a role with Ingrid Pitt,  Veronica Carlson or Kate O’ Mara along for the ride. If you look particularly at the opening ship scene you can see glimpses of characters that look similar to Michael Ripper and others from the Hammer troupe which adds a good touch. Well worth seeing for a feast for the ears and the eyes with blood yes of course yet more like a genre film was before the jump scares and buckets of blood became the norm.

Review by Terry Sherwood

Frankenstein: Legacy is available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video in the UK thanks to 101 Films

Frankenstein: Legacy is available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video in the USA thanks to Amcomri

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THE LAWNMOWER MAN

Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is a brilliant scientist obsessed with perfecting virtual reality software. When his experiments on animals fail, he finds the ideal substitute – Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey), a slow-witted gardener. Dr. Angelo’s goal is to benefit his human guinea pig and ultimately mankind itself, but evil lurks in the guise of “The Shop”, a shadow group that seeks to use the technology to create an invincible war machine. When the experiments change the simple Jobe into a superhuman being, the stage is set for a Jekyll-and-Hyde struggle for control of Job’s mind and the future of the world.

LAWNMOWER MAN 2: BEYOND CYBERSPACE

Enter the deadly world of virtual reality, where information is the key to world domination. Picking up where the original Lawnmower Man ended, Jobe (Matt Frewer – Max Headroom) has become a hostage in futuristic hell. But when he discovers a computer chip that will give him the key to the ultimate revenge, the battle for world control begins. With stunning special effects, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace takes you into a world where only the hardwired dare to journey.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Limited edition rigid box packaging. Limited Edition Booklet: Includes Grassroots and Cyber Suits: Variations of The Lawnmower Man by Rich Johnson and This Diseased Mainframe: The Abject Horror of Bodily Digitisation in The Lawnmower Man by Andy Marshall-Roberts

DISC 1: The Lawnmower Man Theatrical Cut

• Cybergod: Creating The Lawnmower Man • Audio commentary with writer/Director Brett Leonard and writer producer Gimel Everett • Deleted scenes • Original electronic press kit with cast interviews and behind-the-scenes footage • Edited animated sequences • Theatrical trailer • TV spot

DISC 2: The Lawnmower Man Director’s Cut

• Audio commentary with writer/Director Brett Leonard and writer/producer Gimel Everett • Conceptual art and design sketches • Behind-the-scenes and production stills • Storyboard comparison

DISC 3: Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace

101 Films will release The Lawnmower Man Collection on Limited Edition Blu-Ray boxset in the UK on 10th June 2024:

Pre-order yours here:

https://101-films-store.com/collections/black-label-limited-editions/products/the-lawnmower-man-collection-1992-1995-limited-edition-blu-ray

Or here:

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Seized and confiscated under the Obscene Publications Act in the UK during the Video Nasty panic of the 1980s, Mansion Of The Doomed (aka The Eyes of Doctor Chaney & House of Blood and known variously as The Terror of Doctor Chaney and Massacre Mansion in the UK) was the first horror film from Charles Band’s Full Moon Features, the legendary B-movie studio that endeavoured to create low-budget horror, sci-fi, and fantasy films while retaining a somewhat “big-budget” feel, which led to the creation of cult classics like Trancers, Puppet Master and Demonic Toys.

Title 035 on the 101 Films Black Label, this limited-edition release includes a brand-new documentary produced exclusively for this release on Charles Band’s Full Moon Features. Enclosed in a limited-edition slipcase featuring the original artwork from the confiscated Video Nasty release of the 80s. This package also features a limited edition booklet with brand new writing on the film: ‘On Mansion of the Doomed’ by filmmaker and critic Chris Alexander and ‘The Eye is blind if the mind is absent: The legacy of ocular violence & video nasties within Mansion of the Doomed’ by writer Andy Marshall-Roberts.

Richard Basehart (Being There, TV’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) stars as the maniacal Dr. Leonard Chaney, a brilliant surgeon who compulsively kidnaps people and rips out their eyeballs, dumping their bleeding bodies into a filthy basement cage. His masterplan? To transplant these ill-gotten orbs into the skull of his daughter, who herself was blinded in a tragic accident years before.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

The Charles Band Empire – A new documentary on the career of horror legend Charles Band.

Cutting Teeth – Editor Harry Keramidas on ‘Mansion of the Doomed’.

Limited edition booklet: Includes ‘On Mansion of the Doomed’ by filmmaker and critic Chris Alexander and ‘The Eye is blind if the mind is absent: The legacy of ocular violence & video nasties within Mansion of the Doomed’ by writer Andy Marshall-Roberts.

Mansion Of The Doomed (Limited Edition) (Blu-ray) is out now in the UK and is available to order via the links below:

101 Films Store

Amazon.co.uk

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Incompetent gangsters, Frankie (Joseph McGucken – The Doireann Project), Dancer (James Farrelly) and Gaz (Darryl Carter) have successfully robbed a notorious Irish crime family, but that’s the last thing that goes right for them… Spotted making a run for it by Clare (Louise Bourke – Who We Love), the mob’s youngest sister, things take a terrifying turn for the worse.

With Clare taken hostage, one of the gang missing and another nursing a gunshot wound, the men have no choice but to lay low in the remote Irish countryside in a safe house, where their problems continue to mount… Their boss, The Chief (Owen Roe – Intermission), is concerned more about the cocaine and the cash than the safety of his crew.

Meanwhile, suspicions begin to brew among the local police, while the well-meaning next-door neighbour, Sadie (Cat L. Walsh), offers leftover lasagne and warnings about a couple that recently vanished in the area…

As paranoia takes hold and tensions flare, the situation begins to spiral out of control and the gang soon discovers that evil lurks in the most unexpected places…

With its blend of boisterous humour, blood curdling monstrous mayhem and a totally twisted narrative, you won’t want to miss this Wickedly Evil horror-comedy.

Wickedly Evil is out now in the UK on AppleTV, courtesy of 101 Films.

About 101 Films

101 Films is one of the largest independent distributors of film in the UK. Founded in 2011 and acquired by Amcomri Media Group in 2016, it remains one of the UK’s fastest growing independent entertainment brands, having acquired over 1,000 movies. In addition to its slate of new and modern movies for all rights, 101 Films’ Black and Red physical imprint continues to reinvent, restore and re-release cult and classic films on Blu Ray. 101 Films distributes across all forms of media: physical, digital, TV, SVOD and AVOD.

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England, 1875. A century after Victor Frankenstein’s doomed experiment, his journals have traded hands for decades. Stolen at knifepoint, traded in shadowy back alleys and chased by a shadowy cabal who want them destroyed. Now, in the hands of gifted scientist Millicent Browning (Juliet Aubrey), what darkness is set the befall her?

Millicent’s beloved husband (Philip Martin Brown) is desperately ill with a degenerative disease and she will stop at nothing in her determination to find a cure before it’s too late. Their son William (Matt Barber), a doctor in the local asylum, voices his concerns but she pays no heed.

When her husband kills himself, she finally snaps, disappearing into an unhealthy obsession that sees her spending every waking hour devouring the journals for answers. Driven by a desperate need to keep her husband by her side forever, she digs up his body and must find new flesh to restore him… but with her son’s suspicions increasing, will she find the bodies she needs to create her Monster?

If she can bring him back to life – what will he become in a body without a soul?

Frankenstein Legacy is a disturbing take on a twisted tale that will chill you to your very bones.

Starring:

Philip Martin Brown (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Sleepy Hollow, Peterloo), Juliet Aubrey
(Middlemarch, The Constant Gardner, Primeval), Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman, Eastenders), Matt Barber (Downton Abbey, Dracula)

About 101 Films

101 Films is one of the largest independent distributors of film in the UK. Founded in 2011 and acquired by Amcomri Media Group in 2016, it remains one of the UK’s fastest growing independent entertainment brands, having acquired over 1,000 movies. In addition to its slate of new and modern movies for all rights, 101 Films’ Black and Red physical imprint continues to reinvent, restore and re-release cult and classic films on Blu Ray. 101 Films distributes across all forms of media: physical, digital, TV, SVOD and AVOD.

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Morbidly Gruesome

‘Energetic direction by Ryuhei Kitamura, excellent practical gore effects and strong performances’

Variety

‘Ramps up the gratuitous gore along with a clever twist that blurs the line between good and evil’

Cinemalogue

Get more bang for your buck in The Price We Pay, a wickedly dark, gritty and brutal thriller from respected director Ryûhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train), starring Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, The Darkest Hour) and Stephen Dorff (Blade, Immortals). The film has made its UK debut on Digital from 101 Films.

When a pawn shop robbery goes horribly wrong and the criminals take a young woman, Grace (Gigi Zumbado – Bridge and Tunnel), hostage, things quickly go from bad to unimaginable.

Forced to go on the run, they head into the woods and as darkness starts to fall, they find a remote farmhouse and decide to take refuge. But they get way more than they bargain for…

This is no ordinary farm, it hides a sadistic dungeon and something far more sinister… And when the family return home, hellish mayhem breaks loose and it’s an all-out bloody gorefest.

Can Grace find a way to escape the clutches of true evil or will she and her captors pay the ultimate price in grisly, gripping and unrelenting thriller The Price We Pay?

About 101 Films

101 Films is one of the largest independent distributors of film in the UK. Founded in 2011 and acquired by Amcomri Media Group in 2016, it remains one of the UK’s fastest growing independent entertainment brands, having acquired over 1,000 movies. In addition to its slate of new and modern movies for all rights, 101 Films’ Black and Red physical imprint continues to reinvent, restore and re-release cult and classic films on Blu Ray. 101 Films distributes across all forms of media: physical, digital, TV, SVOD and AVOD.

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Prepare for a high-octane ride as acclaimed action star Byron Mann (Wu Assassins, The Big Short) takes the lead as an undercover operative with a dark secret who takes no prisoners with his ruthless fighting skills. He stars alongside Robert Patrick (The Protégé, Terminator 2) and Helena Mattsson (American Horror Story, Seven Psychopaths) in this all-out action feature.

When stylish and mysterious John (Byron Mann) meets the distinctly unimpressed Jane (Helena Mattsson) in a bar, he tries to win her over with tales of spies, implanted microchips and a dangerous scientist Dr. Cain (Robert Patrick), who is hunting him down. But is this tantalising tale more than mere fiction, is enigmatic storyteller John really who he claims to be and can his eager listener be trusted?

A seemingly simple story in a bar quickly takes viewers on an adrenaline-fuelled adventure into a world of super-human strength, dangerous intelligence and murky underground science organisations. Nothing is as it seems in this super slick feature.

Discover Dark Asset – an ultra-stylish blend of exhilarating espionage with a sci-fi edge.

About 101 Films

101 Films is one of the largest independent distributors of film in the UK. Founded in 2011 and acquired by Amcomri Media Group in 2016, it remains one of the UK’s fastest growing independent entertainment brands, having acquired over 1,000 movies. In addition to its slate of new and modern movies for all rights, 101 Films’ Black and Red physical imprint continues to reinvent, restore and re-release cult and classic films on Blu Ray. 101 Films distributes across all forms of media: physical, digital, TV, SVOD and AVOD.

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A new Drama-Documentary that explores two famous British ghost stories.

A team of paranormal investigators use modern techniques and advanced technology when looking into some of most famous ghost stories in and around Great Britain starting with the haunting of Borley Rectory and Pluckley Village in Kent which holds the record for most haunted village in Britain.

The Drama-Documentary stars Louisa Warren (Unhinged, Tooth Fairy, Cinderella’s Curse), Lee Hancock (Mega Lightning, The Ghosts Of Borley Rectory), Dan Jones (Ouija Hosts), Sarah Dorsett (Doll House) and is written & directed By Steven M. Smith (The Haunting Of Borley Rectory, The Ghosts Of Borley Rectory, Essex Boys: Law Of Survival, Doll House, Dead Again) and is produced by Louisa Warren and Steven M. Smith.

The film is to be released through 101 Films in UK and ITN Distribution the rest of the world this Halloween.

Steven M. Smith said, “We are so excited to release the Official Trailer for BRITAIN’S GREATEST GHOST STORIES. Exploring true ghost stories throughout the UK, we have selected the two best known in Borley Rectory and the Kent village of Pluckley.”

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