GDE Snags Mick Garris’ NIGHTMARE CINEMA With Mickey Rourke and More!
Good Deed Entertainment announced today the launch of its new genre-focused label, Cranked Up Films. The new label will specialize in high-concept horror, grounded sci-fi, and speculative fiction.
Cranked Up’s slate of projects includes the much-anticipated high concept horror anthology Nightmare Cinema starring Mickey Rourke, which brings together several high-profile genre filmmakers including Mick Garris, Joe Dante, and David Slade.
The horror anthology centers on “a series of afflicted individuals who enter the eerie Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and most horrifying fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist (Mickey Rourke).”
Nightmare Cinema is a co-production with Cinelou and will premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
On top of that, Cranked Up will release its recently-acquired feature, Don’t Leave Home (review), in late 2018. The picture was acquired in partnership with Shudder, AMC Network’s genre streaming platform. Written and directed by Michael Tully, the film is “an atmospheric, unpredictable, psycho-religious horror—following an American artist plagued by an obsession with a disturbing Irish urban legend. Investigating the origin of the myth, the artist ends up in the eerie estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.”
The film stars Anna Margaret Hollyman, Helena Bereen, and Lalor Roddy and is produced by Jeffrey Allard (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Walter S. Hall, George Rush Jr. (Bill Nye: Science Guy), and Ryan Zacarias.
Also, Coyote Lake, Cranked Up’s first original production, is scheduled for a 2019 theatrical release. The dark thriller, co-written and directed by Sara Seligman, follows “an overbearing mother and her teenage daughter as they run a makeshift motel out of their home near the border of Mexico, discretely murdering the drug runners and human traffickers who spend the night. But when they are taken hostage themselves by two intruding cartel gangsters, their dark routine is interrupted and turned on its head.” The film stars Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Adriana Barraza.
“There’s no doubt that audiences are seeking out unique, fresh genre fare, and it is our intent to focus on providing those consumers with high-concept content that spans the horror, thriller, and sci-fi sphere,” stated GDE’s CEO & Founder, Scott Donley.
He continues: “We believe this new arm of the company is not only complementary to the original Good Deed brand but is in lock-step with our overall commitment to providing filmmaker-driven content to the marketplace.”
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