Street Date: 3/29/11
DVD SRP: $19.98 each
AFTER DARK ORIGINALS: HUSK AND PROWL
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
From the creators of the wildly successful After Dark Horrorfest series come two all-new original films sure to leave fans trembling in fear. This March, the fear hits home as Lionsgate debuts After Dark Originals: Husk and Prowl on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand. The two all-new films provide a higher quality of horror, fully developed and produced by After Dark. Husk and Prowl will both have a limited theatrical release on January 28th before slashing their way to DVD on March 29th, for the suggested retail price of $19.98 each.
HUSK SYNOPSIS
Based on the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival short, terror reigns amidst the cornfields in a supernatural game of cat and mouse. When crows collide with the windshield of their car, a young group of friends are left stranded next to a desolate cornfield. The friends seek out help from the single-standing farmhouse they see, but they quickly figure out that the only solace they have are each other when the house they have stumbled upon is actually the center of the supernatural.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*
• Audio commentary with Director Brett Simmons and Actors Devon Graye, Wes Chatham and CJ Thomason
• Behind-the-Scenes featurette
• Storyboards – *Subject to change
CAST
Devon Graye Showtime’s “Dexter,” Legendary, Scar, TV’s “CSI,” TV’s “Saving Grace”
Wes Chatham TV’s “The Unit,” W., In the Valley of Elah, The Fighting Temptations
CJ Thomason TV’s “Harper’s Island,” Transformers, TV’s “General Hospital”
Tammin Sursok TV’s “Pretty Little Liars,” TV’s “The Young & The Restless”
Ben Easter Pearl Harbor, TV’s “Undressed,” TV’s “Boston Public”
PROWL SYNOPSIS
What’s intended to be a brief escape from their small town turns deadly for a group of young friends. While en route to the city to apartment hunt, their car breaks down and leaves the friends stranded on the side of the road. They are able to hitch a ride in the back of a cargo truck but when the driver later refuses to stop, the friends realize that they are stowed away with hundreds of cartons of blood. All too quickly the truck arrives in an abandoned warehouse where they’re left as prey for bloodthirsty vampires.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*
• Audio commentary with Writer Tim Tori and Actors Courtney Hope and Josh Bowman
• Behind-the-Scenes featurette
*Subject to change
CAST
Courtney Hope Tic, Mad Bad, TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” TV’s “7th Heaven”
and Saxon Trainor Staring at the Sun, Headache, Scrambled, Conspiracy Theory
Bruce Payne TV’s “Charmed,” Highlander: Endgame, Passenger 57
Ruta Gedmintas BBC’s “Lip Service,” Miss Conception, Showtime’s “The Tudors”
Joshua Bowman BBC’s “Holby City,” 13 Hrs, TV’s “Betwixt”
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Year of Production: Husk: 2010
Prowl: 2009
Title Copyright: Husk: © 2010 Autonomous Films, LLC. All Rights Reserved
Prowl: © 2009 After Dark Films LLC. All Rights Reserved
Type: Home Entertainment Premiere
Rating: Husk: R for horror violence and language
Prowl: R for bloody violence, language and some teen drug and alcohol use
Genre: Horror
Closed Captioned: English
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Format: Widescreen
Feature Running Time: Husk: 80 Minutes
Prowl: 84 Minutes
DVD Audio Status: 5.1 Dolby Digital