LAUGH KILLER LAUGH COMES TO CANNES

 

'Laugh Killer Laugh' is an offbeat crime caper film that unexpectedly wins viewers over" 

- The LA Times

 

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LAUGH KILLER LAUGH

100 min. Crime. HD. 2014. Complete. 

North American Theatrical/VOD - April 24th, 2015

"'Laugh Killer Laugh' is an offbeat crime caper film that unexpectedly wins viewers over" - THE LA TIMES

"Frank Stone (William Forsyth), the steely taciturn protagonist of 'Laugh Killer Laugh,' is the sort of hard-boiled murderer that screenwriters love." - THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Forsythe's Frank is a surprisingly compelling character." - FILM JOURNAL










Cast: William Forsythe (The Rock), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Kevin Corrigan (Pineapple Express), Robert MacNaughton (ET), Bianca Hunter (The Fighter), Victor Colicchio, Artie Lange (Howard Stern, Beer League), Franky G (Saw II), Larry Romano (Donnie Brasco), Melissa McMeekin (The Fighter)

Synopsis:  
Murderous jewel thief mobster Frank Stone is a very deeply disturbed and anti social person who finds no joy or humor in anything - until he awakens from a deep coma and finds everything funny.

 

KIDNAPPED IN ROMANIA

90 min. Thriller. HD. 2015. Complete. 

Cast:  Michael Madsen (Tarantino's The Hateful Eight), Maia Morgenstern (The Passion of the Christ), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Gouchy Boy (Brick Mansions)

Synopsis:  

A couple of journalists go missing during their work assignment in Romania. 

 

 

 

 










 

FRANKENSTEIN VS. THE MUMMY

115 min. Sci-Fi/Action. HD. 2015. Complete. 

Cast:  Robert MacNaughton (E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial), Ashton Leigh (The Woodshed)

Synopsis:  

The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late. 

 

 

 

 







SELLING POINTS:
Ties into 20th Century Fox release of VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN with Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy (October 2015)

 

AMERICAN POLTERGEIST (2015)

83 min. Thriller. HD. 2015. Complete. 

Cast: Ashley Green Elizabeth (Muck), Simona Fusco (Beerfest, The Pool Boys), Luke Brandon Field (Outliving Emily, Where The Road Meets the Sun), Donna Spangler (Beverly Hills Christmas)

Synopsis:  

A group of friends move into a vacation home with a sinister past in Fall River, Massachusetts. Suspicious of the home's owner, Taryn feels a strong connection to the house and finds herself at the center of one of the most deadly poltergeists in American history.  

 

 

 

 

SELLING POINTS: 

Drafts off 20th Century Fox POLTERGEIST, starring Sam Rockwell.

Popular Paranormal-Thriller genre in the tradition of upcoming INSIDIOUS:CHAPTER 3 (June 2015), SINISTER 2 (August 2015), PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION (October 2015), THE CONJURING 2 (2016)

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Os2MFxM_I 

 

THE INSOMNIAC

94 min. Crime/Thriller. HD. 2013. Complete. 

Cast:Danny Trejo (Machete), Clare Grant (Black Snake Moan), Alimi Ballard (Fast Five, Numb3rs), John Heard (Home Alone), Keith Szarabajka (The Dark Knight, Argo) Eddy Salazar (The Extra), Romina (Silver Linings Playbook, Horrible Bosses 2). Directed by SXSW Winning director Monty Miranda.

Synopsis:  

After someone breaks into John Figg's home and takes all of his material and sentimental possessions, he develops a severe case of insomnia and learns that the people around him are not as trustworthy as they appear to be. 

Festivals:

Winner -Breckenridge Film Festival

Winner -Action On Film Festival

 

TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/73178246 
 

THE DEVICE

90 min. Sci-Fi/Thriller. 2014. HD. Complete. 


Synopsis:  

Two sisters discover a strange object of alien origin. What if the rumors and urban legends are real... that aliens walk among us, abducting people for unthinkable experiments? Sisters Abby and Rebecca are about to discover the horrifying truth when they find a harmless looking object in the woods near their family's cabin. The small black sphere is the key to a shocking mystery that will change the course of human destiny. The Device has plans for us, and this world is no longer ours. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 THE INSTITUTE

90 min. Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Christian Goodwin, Michelle Romano, Jimmy Scanlon

Synopsis:  
After his parents' death, 10-year-old orphan Nathan Perry is assigned
to Milwood Orphanage and Boarding School for Boys. Nathan becomes
a victim of unforeseen terror and unusual behaviour in the institution's feared Ward B.

Festivals:
WINNER- Best Independent Feature at Bakersfield Film Festival; WINNER-Best Lead Actress at St. Tropez International Film Festival; WINNER - 9 Awards at Cinerokom International Film Festival.
OFFICIAL SELECTION-Vegas CineFest International Film Festival, OFFICIAL SELECTION-Independent Film Quarterly Film Festival


 

THE LOVE SECTION

100 min. Comedy/Romance. HD. 2013. Complete. 

Cast: Mekihi Phifer (8 Mile, Honey, ER), Kellita Smith (The Bernie Mac Show, Kingdom Come, King's Ransom), Omar Benson Miller (8 Mile, Get Rich or Die Tryin', The Sorcerer's Apprentice, CSI: Miami), Teyana Taylor (Madea's Big Happy Family, Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming), Lawrence Adisa (Clockers), Davetta Sherwood (Back in the Day), Brian Hooks (Soul Plane)

Synopsis:  

Ali is a struggling real estate agent and ladies man who has never desired to commit to anyone or anything. 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yqeP8Wgnmk 
 

AMERICAN WITCH HUNTERS

90 min. Thriller. HD. 2013. Complete. 

Cast: Jonathan Bennett (Pawn, Van Wilder, Mean Girls), Ali Faulkner (Twilight: Breaking Dawn), Stelio Savante (Starship Troopers 3), Richard Riehle (Office Space, The Man From Earth)

Synopsis:  Two researchers try to stop a coven of witches that have taken over a small village in New England

 

 

 









SELLING POINTS:
Ties into THE LAST WITCH HUNTER, starring Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood and Rose Leslie (October 2015)

T
RAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNA5IS1Vsdk 
 

KRAMPUS - THE CHRISTMAS DEVIL

82 min. Christmas Horror. HD. 2015. Complete. 

Cast:Bill Oberst Jr. (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, The Secret Life of Bees)

Synopsis:  

Jeremy, a local police officer, pieces together the truth and realizes that his childhood kidnapper could be a creature of ancient yuletide lore, Krampus, who is the brother of St. Nick, and punisher
of children who perform acts of unspeakable evil without repercussion. Can Jeremy kill Krampus and prevent more missing children? 

 





SELLING POINTS:
Drafts off  Universal Pictures' KRAMPUS starring Adam Scott and Toni Collette (November/December 2015); and Kevin Smith's ANTI-CLAUS.

T
RAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaJMgNQBos&feature=youtu.be 
 

2035

90 min. Sci-Fi/Apocalyptic. HD.2013.Complete.

 Cast: Kyle Morris (2012: Ice Age, Gingerdead Man 3, Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation).

Synopsis: Jack Slade is a time traveler transported to the year 2035 to stop a mad scientist from turning the world into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

  

  


 

 

 

 

 

SELLING POINTS:

Ties into the theatrical release of Warner Bros. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.

  

TRAILER:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWqfrRV6Q1Q&feature=youtu.be 

  

 

LAKE FEAR

89 min. Thriller. HD. 2015. Complete. 

Cast:  Jessica Willis (The Ouija Experiment 2)

Synopsis:  

Four girls go to a cabin and lake in the woods, which is inhabited by evil. This cabin then ensnares them in a labyrinth of macabre as they must battle their way out.  

 

 

 

 

 












SELLING POINTS:
Drafts off CABIN FEVER (2015), starring Eli Roth
 

IT'S NOT A DATE

93 min. Comedy. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Eric Roberts, Nina Hartley (Boogie Nights), Leah Huebner (Superman vs. Sharknado), Cortney Palm (Zombeavers), Eliza Roberts (Animal House), Mischa Pollack

Synopsis:  

Carly, a young nurse, still living with her parents, struggles to find the perfect guy. Among a selection of bad dates, she meets Milo, a young man who seems perfect until she realizes he is not what he seems.  She comes to view him as the worst date of her life and, with her frustration at a tipping point, she takes a detour into insanity.  She kidnaps Milo, puts him through a series of bizarre humiliations, and finally, gathering her dysfunctional family and friends into her calamity, she plots how to undo her mistakes and rid herself of this bad date. 

SELLING POINTS:

Fun, sexy comedy.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwASq8o60E 

 

REMEMBER

106 min. Sci-Fi/Family. 2015. HD. Complete. 


Synopsis:  

In the year 2050, Carl's job is to protect children in a society that has suffered from a great economic disaster. Following a traumatic incident, Carl receives a series of unusual messages that challenge him to remember his past, question his beliefs and families, and lead him to play a double role that not even he himself suspects. 

 

 

 

 

 

 






 

THE NINJA - IMMOVABLE HEART

97 min. Action. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Danny Glover, Rob Baard, Cassandra Gava (Conan The Barbarian)

Synopsis: Reeve is a member of an elite covert group thought not to exist anymore, he is captured, beaten and brutally tortured, by the very Governments he used to work for. With the help of his old mentor John Carpenter, Reeve must strip away, and rid himself of the emerging demons of his past, so that he may understand the core essence of Ninjutsu, the Ninja's Immovable heart, in order to remember how and why he was captured, and what he is meant to do, before time runs out and his captors discover why he is really here. 





 

THE BURNING DEAD

83 min. Sci-Fi/Action. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Tom Downey and Danny Trejo

Synopsis: 

A sheriff must rescue an estranged family from a mountain during a volcano eruption and fight off a horde of lava-filled flesh eaters brought to life by a curse. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrJuI7-s_o

  THREE HOLES AND A SMOKING GUN
  90 min. Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete.

**STARRING JOAQUIM DE ALMEIDA (Lead Star of new Warner Bros. movie "Our Brand is Crisis" opposite of Sandra Bullock.)** 

Cast: Joaquim de Almeida Desperado, Fast Five, Behind Enemy Lines), James Wilder (Models Inc., Melrose Place), Richard Edson (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Platoon, Do the Right Thing), Rudolf Martin (Swordfish, All My Children), Zuher Khan

 

Synopsis: An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a sinister battle with his younger protege.

 

Festivals:

Winner - Best Screenplay at Downtown Film Festival 

Winner - Best U.S Narrative Feature Film - Laughlin International Film Festival Winner - Best Lead Actor (James Wilder) - Red Dirt International Film Festival Winner - Grand Jury Award - Red Dirt International Film Festival 

Nominee - Best Narrative Feature - Red Dirt International Film Festival Nominee - Best Writing in a Narrative Feature - Red Dirt International Film Festival 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bj3JHk-AA&feature=youtu.be 

 

THE OUIJA EXPERIMENT 2

90 min. Thriller/Horror. 2014. Complete. Shot in 4K.



Synopsis:  

A fun filled weekend turns deadly when a group of unsuspecting theatre goers are trapped inside, after a ravenous spirit is resurrected and released from a Ouija board. They must confront their most terrifying fears and destroy the spirit before it finds and kills them first. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ql6ONRhSA

 

INFECTED

110 min. Sci-Fi/Action. HD. 2014. Complete. 


Synopsis:  

The Virus Apocalypse has begun and has spread across the world in a matter of days. Army blockades are struggling to contain the outbreak, evacuation centres are hastily set up but as the containment fails and the world is engulfed by the undead, a disparate group of survivors find themselves struggling to survive.

 

 

Festival:

OFFICIAL SELECTION- London Independent Film Festival

 

 

 

 

 

SELLING POINTS:
Drafts off Dimension Films/Blumhouse VIRAL and PANDEMIC.

 

DAY OF THE MUMMY

90 min. Action/Adventure. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Danny Glover, William McNamara (Copycat, Chasers)

Synopsis: In hope of getting his hands on the famed diamond known as the Codix Stone, Jack Wells joins a group of archaeologists out to explore a newly discovered tomb in Egypt, that of the cursed king Neferu. When the Mummy of the king returns from the dead seeking human victims, Jack is in for the most horrifying experience of his life. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndLc64RDwZc

 

GHOST BOAT

90 min. Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Jennifer Stuckert, Olivia Aaron, Heidi Brigman

Synopsis:  
After the mysterious murder of her family, sole survivor Samantha
finds herself trapped aboard her family yacht at sea.





















  TERRITORY 8

80 min. Sci-Fi. HD. 2013. Complete.

Synopsis:  

An eight mile quarantine zone in the Nevada Desert, known as Territory 8, is the site of the world's largest man-made disaster.

Shortly after a chemical weapon explosion in the Nevada desert, two scientists find themselves confronting a sinister cover up, and a band of hostile survivors who are looking to escape the quarantined area known as Territory 8. 

 

Festivals:

OFFICIAL SELECTION-VIFF! Vegas Indie Film Fest

OFFICIAL SELECTION-Prairie Lights Film Festival

 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKR4yLNNuo&feature=youtu.be 

 

 TREASURE STATE

83 min. Family. HD. 2013. Complete. 

Cast: 
Lillith Fields (Urban Legends: Bloody Mary), Crystal Lewis, Larry Laverty

Synopsis:  
In this family-friendly adventure, two teens must put their rivalry aside and join forces
to stop notorious bandits and survive the brutal wilderness known as the Treasure State.












 

 RED DIRT RISING

93 min. Family. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: 
Burgess Jenkins
(Remember the Titans),
Bill Oberst Jr.
(Scary or Die), 
Brett Rice
(Forrest Gump),
R. Keith Harris  (Big Fish).

Synopsis: 
Based on a true story, Jimmie Lewallen and his wife Carrie experience the joys of love and marriage
alongside the tragedies of war and poverty (1939-1949). Jimmie and his friends, Bill Blair and
Fred Harb, find escape from life's challenges in racing born out of hauling moonshine on warm North
Carolina evenings and inadvertently become racing's earliest heroes.







 

MULBERRY STAINS

130 min. Thriller. HD. Complete. 

Cast: Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy, Dazed and Confused)

Synopsis:  

In this emotionally charged thriller, Harper is forced to face horrifying secrets of her childhood in order to give her daughter a better future. But how far will she go to forget the past? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHOBIA

84 min. Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Synopsis:  

An agoraphobic man trapped in his own home is plagued by a violent home-invader as well as visions of his dead wife and a shadow female figure. 

 

Festivals:

WINNER - Best Screenplay, Salty Borror International Film Festival

WINNER - Best Horror, The Queen City Film Festival

Official Selection - Puerto Rico Horror Film Festival

Official Selection - Molins Horror Film Festival (Spain)

Official Selection - Drunken Zombie Film Festival

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sCLIK4CWA

 

 

DEMON BABY

70 min. Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Carina Birrell, Bhasker Patel (Emmerdale, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), David Wayman, Cameron Jack (The Dark Night Rises)

Synopsis: 

What do you do when your biggest fear is inside you? Theo and his pregnant fiance Rose are a young couple setting out on a camper van holiday in the remote Scottish Highlands when ghostly apparitions begin to possess Rose and her unborn child. 

 

Festivals:

Winner -Zed Fest Film Festival


 

 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnksLpg3SBE

 

HOSTAGE

90 min. Action/Adventure. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: David Zayas (The Expendables, Dexter, Oz), Michael O'Keefe (Michael Clayton, Caddyshack, Frozen River), Anthony Rapp (A Beautiful Mind, Rent, Dazed and Confused)

Synopsis: 

Hostage follows four strung-out meth addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other. 

Festivals:

WINNER -  Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival; OFFICIAL SELECTION- Austin Film Festival; WINNER - Grand Jury Award at Soho International Film Festival; OFFICIAL SELECTION- Central Florida Film Festival; WINNER- Long Island International Film Expo; WINNER - ReelHeART International Film Festival
 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKD4KlntMs

 

RUN HIDE DIE

104 min. Horror/Thriller. HD. 2012. Complete. 


Synopsis:  

Five girls, one secret... Revenge stalks them in the night. An intense and twisted horror film shot in the Pacific Northwest. 

 

 

 

 

 

 









 

HAYRIDE 2

82 min. Action/Horror/Thriller. HD. 2014.Complete. 

Cast: Richard Tyson (Black Hawk Down, Kindergarten Cop), David "Shark" Fralick (The Young and the Restless), James Rawlings (The Dark Knight Rises)

Synopsis: 

Fueled by hatred, the mysterious killer "Pitchfork" is unwavering in his goal to eradicate anyone who gets in the way of his bloody agenda... 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahXDi2mY-0

 

THE BLACK HOLE

112 min. Sci-Fi/Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete. 

Cast: Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), Natalie Distler (Rescue Me), Izzie Steele

Synopsis: 

A high school musician experiences visual and auditory hallucinations as she starts to witness the collapse of space and time, leading her through a portal to a parallel universe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxzNW-8W5Es

 

  BETRAYAL

92 min. Action/Thriller. HD. 2013. Complete.

Cast: Jack Topalian (Argo, Ray Donovan), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, The Expendables) , Oleg Taktarov (Predators, National Treasure, We Own the Night) .

Synopsis: 

When the Russian mob came after his family...it became personal.

 

Festival:

OFFICIAL SELECTION-Belgrade Film Festival

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsW3BrW8MnY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUonIEonOMkdRyRCurnbqfsg 

  AWAKENED

111 min. Mystery/Thriller. HD. 2013. Complete.

Cast: Edward Furlong (Terminator 2, American History X), Sally Kirkland (JFK), Steven Bauer (Ray Donovan, Scarface), John Savage (The Deer Hunter, The Godfather: Part III), Julianne Michelle (Apartment 1303), Stelio Savante (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)

 

Synopsis:  Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.

 

Festivals:

OFFICIAL SELECTION- Palm Beach International Film Festival; WINNER - Best Narrative Feature at NYC Independent Film Festival, WINNER - Best Actress at NYC Independent Film Festival, WINNER - Best Feature at LA Femme International Film Festival

 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H1-v7-lAkQ&feature=youtu.be

  So This is Christmas SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS

115 min. Family. HD. 2013. Complete.

Cast: Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, The Expendables), Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day, Kill Bill), Lexi Ainsworth (Wild Child), Titus Makin Jr. (Glee, Castle)

Synopsis: 

Eighteen-year-old Ashley lives life in the fast lane. After a chance encounter with the handyman, she finds herself writing and directing a Christmas play for over sixty underprivileged kids. At the same time she runs headlong into her ultimate soul mate.

 

 






  
Festival:
WINNER - Audience Choice Award - Bare Bones International Film Festival, Finalist for Best Family Feature and Best Screenplay