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‘The Children’ Gets March DVD/Blu-ray Date…
Forget waiting for this in the US, Vertigo Films and Contender Home Entertainment have announced the UK DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of The Children for March 30, 2009. This British horror is written and directed by Tom Shankland (WAZ) and based on a screenplay by Paul Andrew Williams (London To Brighton). Set at Christmas, what starts as a relaxing house party for two families coming together to celebrate the festive season gradually turns into a horrifying fight for survival as one by one the children mysteriously fall ill and begin to turn against their parents with increasingly disturbing consequences. Read on for specs and art.
Extras include:
-The making of The Children
-Location Featurette
-Paul Hyatt talks Prosthetics
-Snow Set Design Featurette
-Deleted Scenes
-Tom Shankland’s On-Set Lair
-Working with Children Featurette
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.