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‘Pig Killer’, ‘Exorcism In Utero’, ‘Conjuring: The Beyond’ sell for Latin America

Silk Road Entertainment has announced at AFM it has licensed three genre titles to Encripta for all Latin America.

Chad Ferrin’s Pig Killer, Erik Skybak’s Exorcism In Utero, and Calvin Morie McCarthy’s Conjuring: The Beyond are all distributed in the US through Breaking Glass Pictures.

Pig Killer stars Jake Busey and Bai Ling and is based on the true story of a Canadian pig farmer who terrorised Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside district for almost two decades until his arrest in 2002.

Erik Skybak’s Exorcism In...

Stars: Stephanie Leet, Neil Green, Erik Skybak, Chynna Rae Shurts | Written and Directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy

Insidious Inferno is the latest film from Calvin Morie McCarthy and like his previous films Conjuring: The Beyond and An Amityville Poltergeist it has a title that refers to two other genre films, neither of which it has any connection to. Regular readers will also know that I didn’t have anything good to say about them. I did, however, like his last film, Pillow Party Massacre, and the trailer for Insidious Inferno definitely grabbed my attention. As a result, I was quite curious about how this would turn out.

Monica has inherited her father’s house, a house she hates as much as she hated him while he was alive. Her husband Andre tells her she has to move on from it, but he can’t get over the death of his daughter from a previous marriage.

Stars: Sebastian Bjorn, Savannah Raye Jones, Laura Welsh, Jax Kellington, Nicolette Pullen, Allegra Sweeney, Chynna Rae Shurts | Written and Directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy

We’ve already had The Slumber Party Massacre, The Pyjama Party Massacre, Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre, and even The Cheerleader Sleepover Slaughter and now writer/director Calvin Morie McCarthy has given us Pillow Party Massacre. Considering the reviews I gave his previous films I was surprised when the director sent me a screener of Pillow Party Massacre. Being the slasher fan that I am, however, I wasn’t going to question it, just hope for the best.

The film opens at a school dance where, as the last slow song plays Carter and Ashley sneak off for some time alone. But it’s a setup and ends up with Ashley getting humiliated. So humiliated she leaves the dance, and returns with a gun.

Two years later Sam,...

Silk Road Entertainment represents slate at the market.

Silk Road Entertainment on behalf of Breaking Glass Pictures has licensed three original productions and two additional titles to Taiwan’s Sky Digi Entertainment Co. at EFM.

Feature directorial debutant Erik Skybak’s horror thriller Exorcism In Utero follows a woman who must save herself and her unborn child when she is possessed by a powerful ring.

Calvin Morie McCarthy directed Pillow Party Massacre in which five female friends haunted by an ill-fated April Fool’s prank reunite two years later for a week-long summer getaway in the woods. Laura Welsh, Jax Kellington...