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By James Whittington, Saturday 4th December 2021

A legendary title from the Video Nasties era, Joseph Ellison's relentlessly bleak and disturbing Don't Go In The House has lost none of its power to shock in the decades since it was first censored by the BBFC and seized by UK authorities.
Donny Kohler (The Sopranos' Dan Grimaldi in a gripping central performance), a disturbed loner unhealthily obsessed with fire, comes home from his factory job one day to find his abusive mother has died. Now all alone in the large Gothic mansion he calls home and consumed in an inferno of insanity, he is finally able to fulfil his violent revenge fantasies against her. Soon, any woman unlucky enough to enter is forced to come face to face with the worst fate imaginable in the secret steel-clad chamber of death he has built in the house's depths...
Now fully uncut and making its UK high definition premiere in a brand new 2K restoration, the film that dares to ask "What if Norman Bates had a flamethrower?" is back in a definitive collectors' edition with both original and extended versions. Arrow will release the movie 7th February 2022.
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Limited edition O-card featuring newly commissioned artwork by Christopher Shy Reversible sleeve and fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Christopher Shy Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the film by Lindsay Hallam and James Flower
DISC ONE Brand new 2K restoration from the original negative by Severin Films High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of two different versions of the film: the 83-minute uncut Theatrical Version, and the 89-minute Television Version with additional scenes and alternate footage Original lossless mono audio on both cuts Optional English audio description for the blind on both cuts Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on both cuts Brand new commentary on the Theatrical Version by director Joseph Ellison and producer Ellen Hammill Archive commentary on the Theatrical Version by star Dan Grimaldi "House" Keeping, a brand new featurette by Severin Films interviewing associate producer Matthew Mallinson and co-writer/producer Joe Masefield We Went in the House, a brand new featurette by Severin Films with Michael Gingold revisiting the locations from the film, including the iconic house Playing with Fire, an archive interview with star Dan Grimaldi from 2005 Original theatrical trailers and TV spots Image gallery
DISC TWO (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE) High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of the Extended Version (92 mins) of the film, with the additional scenes from the Television Version re-inserted into the uncensored Theatrical Version Original lossless mono audio Optional English audio description for the blind Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary on the Extended Version by Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA Minds on Fire, a brand new video essay by David Flint putting the film into context Burn Baby Burn and The Burning Man, two archive interviews with director Joseph Ellison Grindhouse All-Stars: Notes From the Sleaze Cinema Underground, a documentary by High Rising Productions from 2017 interviewing exploitation filmmakers Matt Cimber, Joseph Ellison, Roy Frumkes and Jeff Lieberman
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Horror Channel is moving to a new home on Freeview, find us on channel 41 from the 25th May 2022.
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Posted in News, Thursday 19th May 2022

"They are hostile, these Sensorites, but in the strangest possible way..."
Demon Records presents a narrated TV soundtrack from the very first series of Doctor Who, The Sensorites starring William Hartnell as the Doctor.
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Posted in News, Thursday 19th May 2022

From small beginnings in 1974 as a local cinema and university event, Film Fest Gent has grown yearly in stature and is now recognised as one of the major destinations for the film industry. A vital component is the celebration of film music in the shape of the World Soundtrack Awards which honours the very best composers at work in the world of cinema.
In 2015, renowned Hollywood composer Alan Silvestri was lauded for his outstanding contribution to screen music in a career which extends over forty years. With over 100 film and TV credits he has created memorable music for many of the most revered and profitable films of the modern era including Back to The Future, ...
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Posted in News, Thursday 19th May 2022

Originally released on the 31st of July 2015, the vinyl edition of John Carpenter's classic 1981 thriller, Escape from New York mirrored the expanded CD release from 2000, with over 20 minutes of previously unreleased music plus music from scenes deleted from the final print and original dialogue highlights.
The masters for that CD were re-mixed from the original multi-track session tapes by long-time Carpenter associate Alan Howarth making it a true unmissable release.
Silva Screen Records will re-release this score on red vinyl for the first time on May 27th.
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Posted in News, Thursday 19th May 2022

Issued on limited edition white vinyl is Max Richter's emotive and minimal score to Damon Lindelof's TV series The Leftovers which is about a post-apocalyptic global event where 2% of the world's population disappears without explanation. Richter's approach explores the feelings of the protagonist's family, the Garveys, through intimate, small-scale music.
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Max Richter is a classically trained composer that defies bo...
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Posted in News, Thursday 19th May 2022

Back by popular demand having been originally released in 2013 on black vinyl, the now classic soundtrack to Doctor Who Series 1 and 2 has been repressed on coloured vinyl for the first time thanks to Silva Screen Records.
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Posted in Features, Thursday 19th May 2022

This June, Horror Channel once again journeys into the history of genre cinema with The Vintage Vault, presenting double-bills of classic sci-fi and horror films every Sunday night.
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Posted in Features, Thursday 12th May 2022

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Posted in Reviews, Saturday 30th April 2022

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Posted in News, Saturday 30th April 2022

Rob Savage's provocative new horror Dashcam will be released in selected UK cinemas on Friday June 3, by eOne and will be available for digital download from Monday June 6. Savage, who was the genius behind Host in 2020 seems to have tapped into what makes found-footage such a chilling genre and this time has turned the tension up to 11!
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Posted in Reviews, Friday 29th April 2022

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Posted in Interviews, Friday 29th April 2022

A birthday bash becomes a bloodbath when monsters escape from a supernatural storybook, leaving a group of teenagers to fight for their lives and shut the party down in the UK TV premiere of Book of Monsters on May 16th on Horror. We chatted to its director, Stewart Sparke about this fun, retro-filled fright-fest.
HC: Did you know from a young age that you wanted to be a film director?
SS: I remember first realising that I wanted to make films during one of many viewings of The Mummy (1999) on VHS in my bedroom on an old 15" TV. I became quite obsessed with the film and tried to make all my friends come over to watch it ...
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