Souls Chapel will be distributed this April to the public by Deskpop Entertainment and will be coming soon to streaming and on-demand platforms as well as DVD and Blu-ray.

Written by David Daring (Published author and creator of popular game “Reign of the Red Dragon”), the film stars Brian Bremer (Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker),  Jake C. Young (Screature), Audriana Curtsinger (Unnatural) and Andrew Pierson (A Soldier’s Descent).

Synopsis:

It’s an unknown point in time. The world has moved on from what it once was Ray, a drifter, is making his way through the hills of the old Kentucky. Ray is encountered by a strange entity, that promises him gold if he returns two icons to him. After accepting the challenge, Ray finds himself in the middle of a terrible storm in which he seeks refuge in a small church known as Souls Chapel. As things begin to unfold, Ray learns that church clergy are not who they seem, and that the chapel’s grounds are cursed with a presence of dark magic. Ray must not only survive the night but complete his task and make it out alive.

True Story Lore

The legend surrounding this site tells of an alleged “REVEREND” who held services in the early 1900s. Did this happen? Was this no ordinary Reverend, and how was he directed to end up in Somerset? It can be seen. The rumor of occult religions was allegedly started here to shift to a “NEW AGE” religion. From the start, he tried to slowly turn his flock.

From the conservative believers of the area. It started simple enough, with a few rituals here and there. For example, pentagrams are drawn on the floor to evoke demons (please note the tale makes no differentials between the occult and satanists, which are two distinct and very different belief systems). Before the arson of the structure, there was evidence of sacrifices. Small animals would turn up for gifts in the unholy rituals of the church. Then nearby farm animals went missing. Soon actual human sacrifices were reportedly made.

As all this was happening, Somerset’s city began to grow suspicious of the new Reverend. Tales of this event, imagery, functional or based on some fact, became common knowledge in the area. Like most similar events, a lynch mob marched to the church and hung the Reverend from the roof beams.

This story remains a “LEGEND” of the sin and has remained in one form or another in the local areas passed down through oral history to the community.

About MTS Pictures

MTS Pictures is an independent film production company operating out of the bluegrass state of KY. We produce 1-2 indie horror films per year. We have a wide variety data base of star talent that we include in every production to increase sale value to the consumer audience. We specialize in psychological horror with direct contact to our star talents to bring new and exciting films for independent horror collectors and cinefiles.

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Jean Rollin was one of the later to become Eurocult cinema’s most misunderstood personalities. These creators imbue their personalities in their work, unlike mainstream directors. Mainstream will say they create unique stories or camera angles with the full knowledge that it all comes down to one from a studio. ​The Diabolique films team of Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger who Directed, Wrote & Produced this roughly two-hour documentary has done a solid job without being academically dry.

Orchestrator of Storms (2022) features lips and interviews with key people in Rollin’s past. The fact that he was raised among French intellectual elites, thanks to his mother Denise’s friendship with figures such as Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Jean Cocteau, and others who would go on in the world of theatre, film and art. Interestingly the aspect of the more worldly palatable French New Wave film movement is put in perspective as an opposition to the surrealist element that was going at the same time plus pepper in the social upheavals such as the 1968 student strike that evolved into something more. The atmosphere was ripe with new ideas to be formed and Jean Rollin was in the middle of this,

The film works well blending interviews with Jean’s family, including son Serge, and close family friend Véronique D-Travers. Rollin had to constantly fight for funding over the dominant French New wave which itself had to battle for money. Later Jean Rollin fell into ill health and was forced to take jobs beneath one yet for the money as in the case of working in the more, new permissive world of legalized Porn.

Jean Rollin was also a writer of books as well in the grand tradition of French literature and subversive tales. These and other factors plus interviews with stars like Brigitte Lahaie and others bring together the forgotten lonely world that Rollin worked. The drive to be recognized even within his own country was strong and now Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin (2022) brings it to perspective.

Rollins’s various vampire films along with what was known La Morte Vivante (1982) or the English: The Living Dead Girl which at the time were done in the genre world dominated by Hammer studios were in their decline. The symbolism, the eroticism that was only hinted at by Hammer due to censorship is shown in its full glory of evil, blood and sex. The Vampire becomes not unlike the sensual work of another French sensualist, the subversive figure Roger Vadim who produced a print anthology and the films Spirits of the Dead (1968) and Blood and Roses (1960).

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin (2022) is a brisk tour of the work of Jean Rollin and the people who fell within his orbit. Not to be missed at all for the sumptuous detail in visuals, and interviews with some genuine potent moments of the human side of an artist who was misunderstood. A very different and refreshing look is brought out in this film that will pull you into its narrative of the singular world of Jean Rollin.

Review by Terry Sherwood

ARROW have released Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World Of Jean Rollin, to its subscription-based platform available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.

Terry Sherwood

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