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Panic Button: Film4 Frightfest red carpet video & stonking Screen Daily review

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Check out this cool video featuring interviews with the main cast & director of Panic Button at its Film4 Frightfest World Premiere. SPOILER ALERT: pretty major plot spoiler occurs around 8 mins into the video –

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Pleased as punch to report that Screen Daily features a review of ‘Panic Button’ by ‘Anno Dracula’ and Empire Magazine scribe Kim Newman. The review will soon disappear behind the Screen Daily premium content paywall, but meantime you can catch it here.

“(Panic Button) addresses its subject effectively, and may prompt some viewers to moderate online habits, but works primarily as a solid horror-thriller” (Kim Newman, Screen Daily)

That’s a keeper of a quote – thanks Kim!

Check out the Comments in my previous post (scroll down) for a ton of other reviews, mostly very positive indeed.

And don’t forget, ‘Panic Button’ hits UK DVD & Blu-ray November 7th thru UK distributor Showbox Films.

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Also in November, my horror novel ‘The Lamplighters‘ will be unleashed via Samhain Horror.

My next post will include news on the Samhain Publishing horror novels line, which launches October with works from Ramsey Campbell, Hunter Shea, Krist Rufty, Brian Moreland and others.

I will have a couple of cool Samhain Horror exclusives for you in the run up to the launch, so stay tuned on this blog and at The Lamplighters Facebook Page…

‘Til next slime, take scare!

PB: DVD, BR

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Hot on the heels of my last post about ‘PANIC BUTTON’ (see Ain’t It Cool News review in previous blog entry below), distributor Showbox Media has released the DVD + Blu-ray disc artwork for the November 7th 2011 UK release.

the following extra features are listed on Amazon:

  • Trailer Gallery Trailer / Teaser 1 / Teaser 2 / Teaser 3
  • Short Film Fixed Penalty
  • Gag Reel
  • Outtake & Deleted Scenes – Outtake Jack Loses It / Deleted Scene 1/ Deleted Scene 2
  • Making of Featurette
  • Gallery
  • Blu-Ray exclusive: Panic Button documentary
Click here to pre-order the DVD 
and here for the Blu-ray (i may have to invest in a BR player especially!)
A few last tickets are available for the ‘Panic Button’ World Premiere at FrightFest tomorrow – if you’re there, be sure to say hi!

Reasons to love the 21st century: Dynamo Player

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‘On Edge’ and ‘Red Lines’, my horror shorts starring Doug Bradley, are available to watch online through various outlets (and in varying levels of quality), which has helped build an audience and garner reviews – but without any revenue for the filmmaker.

Paying audiences purchased the full DVD version with extras (thank you!) and with the advent of VOD this material was also made available for online viewing via Amazon.com – but in the USA only.

Now comes Dynamo Player, referred to as a “game changer” by Guerilla Filmmaker’s Handbook entrepreneur Chris Jones (who also offers some good follow-up feedback and advice for filmmakers here and here). Basically, this new player enables filmmakers to rent out their movies and DVD extras as online “programs” viewable by anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world willing to pay less than a couple of bucks for the privilege. It remains to be seen whether or not the profit share scheme offered by such online players will achieve enough revenue for guys like me to fund new films with the proceeds – and that’s where you come in…
If you fancy checking out ‘On Edge’, ‘Red Lines’ and extras including an exclusive 17min on-set interview with Doug Bradley, follow THIS LINK (free preview available & if you rent, all the material is yours for 7 days).

Why should you rent? Good question 🙂 Here are some FAQs:

Q. Why should I rent? I can watch these movies on YouTube right?
A. Hopefully the extra features (including that cool 17min interview with Doug Bradley) will be enough of a draw for you. The video quality is better than on YouTube. And if enough people rent, the proceeds will go toward funding a new movie (& imagine how good you’ll feel about that 🙂

Q. It’ll be a pain in the ass to pay though?
A. Nope, use your PayPal or Amazon account and you’re good to go.

Q. What if I have technical issues with Dynamo Player?
A. Get in touch with the Dynamo dudes at support@dynamoplayer.com

Q. I’d rather not?
A. Damn your eyes! I mean I respect your decision, but… damn your eyes! 😉

Let’s see if this really is an online game changer for indie filmmakers & their audiences – I welcome your comments on whether or not you’d be happy to rent this stuff online (assuming you’re not one of those kind people who purchased a DVD copy already) – and how it goes for you if you do take the plunge.

And as always, thanks for watching, wherever you are watching…