Ghost House Underground to release horror films with music by Black Light Burns, Winds of Plague, In This Moment and Warbringer

GHOST HOUSE UNDERGROUND is back!

"We are very proud to present these films that feature the most talented, up and coming directors who work in our favorite genre. With Ghost House Underground, we have the opportunity to present these distinctive horror films to a discerning and enthusiastic audience." – Sam Raimi

“These films all embody the independent spirit of Ghost House Underground. They maintain the quality that people expect from a Ghost House release and I feel strongly that we will be seeing more from these filmmakers in the future.” – Rob Tapert

SEVENTH MOON
OFFSPRING
THE THAW
THE CHILDREN

Street Date: 10/6/09
Order Date: 9/9/09
DVD SRP: $19.98 each
Blu-ray Disc SRP: $29.99 each

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Lionsgate brings the newest Ghost House Underground releases – Seventh Moon, Offspring, The Thaw and The Children – to DVD and Blu-ray Disc just in time for Halloween. These terrifying tales are handpicked by the most trusted names in horror, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, the creative forces behind The Evil Dead franchise and Drag Me to Hell. Each title will be sold separately and will be available on October 6, 2009 for the suggested retail price of $19.98 each for DVD and $29.99 each on Blu-ray.

The films include:

SEVENTH MOON SYNOPSIS:
The film stars Amy Smart and features music video for the song “Lie,” from alternative/ hard rock supergroup, Black Light Burns.
Seventh Moon “will send chills down your spine…” (Dread Central.com). Director Eduardo Sanchez, winner of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival Award of Youth for The Blair Witch Project, “returns with a brilliantly conceived and executed supernatural thriller” (Fantastic Fest). According to an ancient Chinese myth, on the full moon of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell open and the dead are freed to roam among the living. While honeymooning in China, a young newlywed couple takes part in a sacred event that honors these spirits. Unfortunately their enthusiasm borders on mockery and their disagreeable charm ends in angry glances among the locals. As night falls, their tour guide abandons them in a desolate field. What they thought was a joke is becoming far too real as they fight to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.

*DVD/BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
· Audio commentary with writer/director Eduardo Sanchez and actress Amy Smart
· “Ghosts of Hong Kong: The Making of Seventh Moon” featurette
· “The Pale Figures” featurette
· “Mysteries of the Seventh Lunar Month” featurette
*Subject to change

CAST
Amy Smart Crank 2 High Voltage, Mirrors, Crank, The Butterfly Effect, Just Friends
Tim Chiou The Wizard of Gore, TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” TV’s “Southland”
Dennis Chan Knock Off, Kickboxer, Kickboxer 2: The Road Back

OFFSPRING SYNOPSIS:
Offspring features music video for the song “Abandoned By Time,” from Los Angeles thrashers Warbringer.
They Hunt in Packs. They Feed on Flesh. They prey on innocence. They are back with a vengeance and an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Their time has come – again. Based on the acclaimed novel and adapted for the screen by bestselling author Jack Ketchum, Offspring follows the survivors of a brutal flesh-eating clan that has re-surfaced in the once sleepy town of Dead River, Maine. The locals are in for a rude awakening when they realize it’s the same pack that the sheriff thought he killed off a decade ago. Just when they thought the nightmare was over, they’re about to discover that the fight for their lives has only just begun. The film was included in the Fangoria Weekend of Horror and Rue Morgue’s Festival of Fear.

*DVD/BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
Audio commentary with writer Jack Ketchum, director/producer Andrew Van Den Houten and producer/cinematographer William M. Miller
“Progeny: The Birth of Offspring” featurette
Webisodes
Photo gallery
Printable script
*Subject to change

CAST
Amy Hargreaves Michael Clayton, Delirious, TV’ “Law & Order,” TV’s “The Unusuals”
Art Hindle Porky’s, TV’s “Paradise Falls,” TV’s “Beverly Hills, 90210”
Erick Kastel TV’s “What About Brian,” Headspace, Casting Adrift, Ghostlight
Spencer List TV’s “Fringe,” TV’s “The Wonder Pets,” TV’s “Saturday Night Live”
Pollyanna McIntosh Land of the Lost, Sex and Death 101, Headspace, TV’s “Taggart”
Andrew Elvis Miller The Broken Hearts Club, Red Sands, Falling Up
Tommy Nelson Then She Found Me, The Ten, The Good Shepherd

THE THAW SYNOPSIS:
The Thaw features music video for the song “The Impaler” from metal outfit Winds Of Plague.
Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) stars as a renowned environmental advocate, Dr. David Kruipen, who discovers the real horror of global warming in the frightening new film The Thaw. When Dr. Kruipen discovers the carcass of a woolly mammoth in a polar ice cap, he helms a team of four bright ecology students and leads them in a research mission at a remote Arctic station. The group uncovers information beyond their wildest dreams…and nightmares…when a pre-historic parasite revives and searches for a new warm-blooded host. Now, infected, the unsuspecting students are forced to choose between a quarantine that will result in their burial ground or a global epidemic.

DVD/BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
Behind the Scenes
*Subject to change

CAST
Val Kilmer Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Déjà vu, Wonderland, Heat, Batman Forever, Top Gun
Martha MacIsaac The Last House on the Left, Superbad, Ice Princess
Aaron Ashmore The Skulls II, TV’s “Smallville,” TV’s “Veronica Mars”
Kyle Schmid The Covenant, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, A History of Violence
Steph Song War, Dim Sum Funeral, Waiting in Beijing, Everything’s Gone Green
Viv Leacock Are We There Yet?, Freddy vs. Jason, I Spy, TV’s “Psych”

THE CHILDREN SYNOPSIS:
The Children features music video for the song “The Great Divide,” from metal band In This Moment.
You brought them into the world. They will take you out. A family anticipates a Christmas filled with sledding, laughter and hot cocoa as they head to their vacation home in the secluded backcountry. The holiday cheer takes a fast turn for the worst after a mysterious flu-like virus sweeps through the kids. One by one the children become deadly. Amidst the suspicion, mayhem and murder, the parents must fight for survival against their own twisted offspring. The Children was declared “relentless, primal horror” (Guardian), a “taboo shattering movie” (Time Out), “Village of the Damned for the 21st Century” (IGN.com) and Steve Niles, author of the graphic novel 30 Days of Night says, “I will never go near a playground again!”

DVD/BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
Deleted scenes
“The Making of The Children” featurette
“Shooting on Location” featurette
“Paul Hyett Talks Prosthetics” featurette
“Snow Set Design” featurette
“Inside Tom Shankland’s On Set Lair” featurette
“Working with The Children” featurette
*Subject to change

CAST
Eva Birthistle Nightwatching, Imagine Me & You, Breakfast on Pluto, BBC’s “Trust”
Stephen Campbell Moore The Bank Job, The History Boys, Amazing Grace, Bright Young Things
Eva Sayer Dean Spanley, BBC’s “EastEnders,” BBC’s “Lewis”
Jeremy Sheffield Last Chance Harvey, Miss Conception, The Wedding Date, Creep
Rachel Shelley Gray Matters, Seeing Other People, Showtime’s “The L Word”
Hannah Tointon Just My Luck, BBC’s “Hollyoaks,” Sky TV’s “Dream Team”

MUSIC:

In This Moment
In This Moment spent the majority of 2007 touring relentlessly across the U.S. in support of their debut offering “Beautiful Tragedy.” Their undeniable buzz soon caught the attention of the Osbourne camp, which offered the band a much-coveted opening slot on the massive Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Zombie North American arena trek. Now the group is poised to take their career to soaring new heights with their aptly titled sophomore release, “The Dream,” a dynamic, hard rock opus that proves the band has matured well beyond their years.

Warbringer
In an era when vintage metal T-shirts are in vogue and bands that worship at the altar of the ‘80s are crawling out of the woodwork, Los Angeles thrashers Warbringer are cauterizing the competition with a sound that recalls all the classics, without being derivative. After their self-released EP received rave reviews, Warbringer appeared on the “Speed Kills Again!” DVD compilation and played to thrash-starved crowds across the West Coast. The band recently released their full-length debut, “Walking Into Nightmares” on Century Media Records.

Black Light Burns
Black Light Burns is an American alternative/hard rock band with industrial and gothic aspects, founded by Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit fame. The band’s recording lineup consists of Borland, Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) and Josh Freese (The Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Devo). The band’s debut album, “Cruel Melody,” was released in 2007 and future recording is on temporary hiatus due to the Limp Bizkit reunion.

Winds of Plague
An ominous cloud appeared on the horizon when the ferocious metal band Winds of Plague released their stunning slab of brutality “Decimate The Weak” in 2008. Winds of Plague now stand as one of the hottest bands in the metal genre—demonstrated by the fact that the legendary Glenn Danzig hand-picked them for his 20th anniversary tour last Fall.