_After making a buzz at Film4 FrightFest Glasgow earlier this year, THE RAID will be hitting our screens this May. Now I haven't seen THE RAID yet, i am still waiting for my review disk to come in the post, but from the look of the trailer it is an action packed free for all. Check out the Synopsis below:

Deep in the heart of one of Jakarta’s most deprived slums stands an impenetrable high-rise apartment block. To most it is 30 floors of Hell to be avoided at all cost but for many of the city’s most dangerous killers and gangsters, including the area’s most notorious crime lord, it is a fortress-like safe house protecting them from the law. Even for the bravest and most experienced police officers it is considered a no-go area.

In a desperate bid to flush these violent criminals and their leader from their haven once and for all, an elite SWAT team is tasked with infiltrating the building and raiding the apartments floor by floor, taking out anyone who stands in their way. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, the SWAT members make their move and enter the block not realizing that this is the easier part of the mission. Once inside, it soon becomes terrifyingly apparent that the real problem at hand is surviving long enough to be able to get out again.

For the trailer head over to the CULT LABS website http://www.cult-labs.com/clips/the-raid-trailer Or head on over to Facebook or Twitter. Review coming soon!

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_Shameless Screen Entertainment are known for their releases of the more hardcore horror films of yesteryear and on April 23rd The will continue to supply the horror with a box-set of Sexploitation classics with a new box-set titled SHAMELESS SEXPLOITATION.

Horror, Sex Sirens, Satanic rituals & Sci-fi monsters are on the agenda in this BBFC-baiting, collectors box-set. Shameless are bring you an unadulterated, adult-rated Sinema - featuring extra footage previously only available in XXX versions.


Disc 1 – THE LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS

“You’ll die of pleasure!”

When big business decides to build a nuclear reactor on ancestral Caribbean land, it’s up to Papaya, sex siren, Voodoo priestess and blood crazed Cannibal to seduce and kill those who threaten the ancient way of life of her People… Until she meets Sara (Sirpa Lane), a journalist hungry for a lead who’ll soon be sucked into a vortex of perverse, violent carnality and Sapphic lovemaking in this Eurocult classic from the wikedly dissolute mind of sleaze&sex-maestro Joe D’Amato.

Disc 2 – SATAN’S BABY DOLL


“WHEN THE DEVIL CALLS, SHE COMES … ”

Somewhere in a castle… a self-gratifying nun looks after delicious teen Baby-Doll and her wheel-chair bound brother and rounds off her duties with torrid sex with their mother, an insatiable nymphomaniac. This mundane debauched family atmosphere is shattered when Mum is murdered by her depraved, drug-addled, husband. Barely buried in the crypt, Mum’s evil spirit possesses teen who embarks on a frenzied rampage of incestuous sex and murder. In order to prevent the slaughter of all those who stand in the way of Satan’s Baby-Doll, the nun will commit the ultimate sacrilege…



Disc 3 – THE BEAST IN SPACE

“IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU COME!”

Sci-Fi has never been so wild and depraved as it is in this sex mad intergalactic saga starring Sirpa Lane who’d previously shocked the world in the notorious art-house porno THE BEAST. She now returns in this mind-warping “space-sequel” as a woman forced to submit to the carnal lusts of an horrific space monster in a movie which defines “Trash Cinema” in a riot of space disco insanity and Sci-fi oddness replete with eye scorching special effects, mind scrambling aliens, cunning stunts and twisted eroticism.




Special Features


- Shameless Rebuild with extra footage, previously only available in XXX version

- Alternate scenes comparisons

- Mariangela Giordano Bio adapted from Alan Jones & Mark Ashworth text

- Italian Audio with optional English Subtitles for Disc 2 & 3

- The artwork of this collectible edition has been exclusively created for Shameless by top British illustrator Rick Melton.

“From our exclusive feed with Cult Labs”  http://www.cult-labs.com

The Horror Channel is famous for it's fantastic horror film seasons and April is no different. From April 6th the undead will be clawing their way on to our screens for the SEASON OF THE DEAD which will see Five zombie flicks making their UK premieres.

_  6th Apr @ 22:55 – NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD  (1968)
The season kicks off with the genre classic, George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. It’s 1968 and America watches horrified as grimy black and white news footage from Vietnam reveals the true monsters in this world – us. It was this political backdrop that spurred Romero to make his ground-breaking movie, harnessing the horror of watching a national disaster unfold on the news – before it comes knocking on your own front door.

6th April @ 00:50 - ZOMBIE KING (2003)
Enter a world of high camp populated by masked wrestlers, spunky tattoo babes and a legion of flesh-eating zombies as Ulysses and his bizarre masked outfit of muscle men and women investigate a zombie outbreak in a small American town. Directed by Stacey Case.
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13th April @ 22.55 – STAG NIGHT OF THE DEAD (2011)  *UK TV PREMIERE
A mix of ‘The Hangover’ with ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is how Neil Jones’ sexy zomedy STAG NIGHT OF THE DEAD has been described. Stag nights are messy affairs at the best of times, but in this movie party tricks go beyond leaving your best mate naked on the M4 – as the Stags sign up for a dodgy game of Zombal at a shady military base. Naturally, a stripper comes along for the ride.

13th of April  @ 00:55 - CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980)
Horror maestro LUCIO FULCI throws open the gates of Hell, unleashing a plague of Zombies, in this notorious ‘Shock and Gore’ masterpiece.  In the sleepy village of Dunwich, the dead are rising, local girls are vomiting entrails and the town misfit is about to get his brains drilled out. Will they find a way to stop the rotting hordes before everyone in town gets devoured? Flesh-splattered zombie insanity from the King of Euro-Terror.

_  (20th April @ 22:55 – COWBOYS & ZOMBIES (2011)  *UK TV PREMIERE
The third UK TV premiere in the season is COWBOYS AND ZOMBIES, where Cowboys and Indians have to bury the hatchet in order to fight the Undead.  A meteor crashes in the dusty gold-mining town of Jamestown and Mortimer, a trigger-happy bounty hunter, gets more than he bargained for when he finds the locals turning into flesh-eating zombies. Directed by Rene Perez.

20th April @ 00:35 – ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES! (2008)
A drug experiment gone wrong produces a league of bloodthirsty zombies. It is up to a small band of exotic dancers trapped in a gentleman's club to fight back. Together they must rely on their wits and skills to survive the night, and pray that they don't become victims of the flesh-eating zombies. Directed by Jason Murphy.

27th April @ 22:55 – APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD (2009)  *UK TV PREMIERE
Shot in Serbia, lending it a real political edge. Director Milan Todorovic says his ‘biohazard zombie thriller’. Was inspired by the dire ecological situation in his hometown. Definitely a film for zombie aficionados as it stars the now legendary Ken Foree – who found fame in George Romero’s hugely influential Dawn of the Dead – here he is in action as Agent Reyes.

27th April @ 00.50 – DEAD HEIST (2007)   *UK TV PREMIERE
The final UK TV premiere in the Season of the Dead blends a traditional bank heist movie with zombies, with a bit of hip hop thrown in for good measure. Directed by Bo Webb, the film stars Big Daddy Kane – one of the most influential golden age rappers, who puts in a memorable performance as Hunter – a mysterious bad boy and something of an expert on zombie scum.

 TV: Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138  www.horrorchannel.co.uk | twitter.com/horror_channel

For some horror fans Remakes are classed as the ultimate evil, with so many fanboys and fangirls out there it is hard to find a good word to be said of the likes of remakes such as A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, ROB ZOMBIE’S HALLOWEEN or even one of my highlights of 2012 PIRANHA 3D. I’m not one of these people and I am happy to say all three of the above movies entertained me a lot but it was PIRANHA 3D that I enjoyed the most. I LOVED the throwback to the old school style of camp splatter horror of the 80’s and 90’s, SO when I heard that we were getting PIRANHA 3DD I was chomping at the bit to see the trailer. Below is the very thing I have been waiting months to see and with PIRANHA 3DD hitting the big screen in April you don’t have long to wait. ALSO the Hoff in 3D!!

We love our foreign horror here at Snakebite horror, with most of our top rated films being from outside of the US and UK and it looks like we aren't the only ones. Trinity X have now acquired the German Slasher flick BREAK, a brutal cat and mouse horror thriller which follows the backwoods style of slasher.

BREAK will be hitting the shops on April 16th, and from the stills (which can be found below) i am pretty damn excited about it.

Four young girlfriends head out to the Canadian woods for some downtime. But downtime turns to terror time when they discover a pile of intestines and a pair of severed feet dangling from a tree. The friends begin to realise humans are the preferred prey and that they are being hunted. Armed with bows and arrows, two brutal rednecks are on the rampage and the girls’ blood-soaked battle for survival begins.

 Directed by Matthias Olof Eich, this brutal game of sadistic cat-and-mouse between the sexes goes to the extreme.
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 IDF have today announced that they have begun principal photography of SHADOW director Federico Zampaglione’s new film TULPA.

Claudia Gerini (THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST) stars as Lisa Boeri, a successful businesswoman who, by night, enters the notorious sex club ‘Tulpa’ in search of dangerous forms of pleasure. When her lovers start getting murdered in, to avoid a personal scandal, she tries to deal with it herself with truly nightmare consequences.

TULPA also stars Michele Placido (Romanzo Criminale) alongside Nuot Arquint (Shadow) and Michela Cescon (Sacred Heart).

Federico, who is described as Italy’s Rob Zombie, said today: “I'm very excited to start shooting TULPA, but I’m aware it’s a very difficult film to make, I need to maintain a constant creepy and oppressive atmosphere and the violence is actually very, very graphic”

_A seven-minute teaser clip, recently shown at FrightFest Glasgow, and we have been told by the boys at the fest that it was greeted with enthusiastic applause, which for Federico, following on from the international success of his first feature Shadow, increases the pressure on him.

“I have to prove myself. It's a real challenge but I’ll do my best to give new blood to the Italian Gialllo genre".

Could this be a future Film4 FrightFest title? Maybe for 2013 or even for Glasgow 2013? Time will tell but we here at Snakebite are very excited.