A couple months ago – soon after the successful theatrical release of director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear (read our review Here) – we saw the trailer for Cocaine Shark, the latest movie from prolific low budget filmmaker Mark Polonia. We already knew at that time that the movie had secured a distribution deal with Wild Eye Releasing, and now we know when Wild Eye is going to be sending Cocaine Shark out into the world. The film is set to receive a DVD and VOD release on July 11th!
July 11th also happens to be the start of the Shark Week marathon on the Discovery Channel, so this is some perfect timing.
Scripted by Bando Glutz, Polonia’s Cocaine Shark has the following synopsis: A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects.
July 11th also happens to be the start of the Shark Week marathon on the Discovery Channel, so this is some perfect timing.
Scripted by Bando Glutz, Polonia’s Cocaine Shark has the following synopsis: A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects.
- 5/25/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Who knew movie-goers had such a hunger for movies about animals on cocaine-fuelled rampages? In less than two weeks of release, director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear (read our review Here) has racked up over $50 million at the box office. In the build-up to the release of that film, a news report about New Zealand police recovering more than three tons of cocaine that was found floating in the Pacific Ocean got people talking about the possibility of a Cocaine Shark movie… and the idea was even passed along to Banks, who said, “Jaws with cocaine, I don’t see how that loses.” But as it turns out, Banks has been beaten to the Cocaine Shark idea by prolific low budget filmmaker Mark Polonia, whose own Cocaine Shark movie is so far along that it has already secured a distribution deal with Wild Eye Releasing, and a trailer is already online!
- 3/8/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
With the demise of the drive-in theater rose the behemoth home video industry – and a torch was passed from one era of low-budget directors and producers to a new batch of underfunded fringe filmmakers. These fresh faces had new technology, and a new distribution game… but a similar reckless abandon and rebellious tenacity as their b-movie forefathers.
Fright fans were introduced to a new breed of horror movies - made for tens of thousands of dollars… or thousands of dollars… or a few hundred bucks and a borrowed video camera. Unpaid amateurs / quasi-professionals made up the bulk of most casts and crews - and often, the directors and producers were quite inexperienced themselves.
Join me for a visit to the heyday of the direct-to-video, micro-budget horror movie. We’ll explore this strange new cinema of the 80s and see how it evolved through the ‘90s. (Be sure to adjust tracking for best picture quality.
Fright fans were introduced to a new breed of horror movies - made for tens of thousands of dollars… or thousands of dollars… or a few hundred bucks and a borrowed video camera. Unpaid amateurs / quasi-professionals made up the bulk of most casts and crews - and often, the directors and producers were quite inexperienced themselves.
Join me for a visit to the heyday of the direct-to-video, micro-budget horror movie. We’ll explore this strange new cinema of the 80s and see how it evolved through the ‘90s. (Be sure to adjust tracking for best picture quality.
- 3/14/2013
- by Eric Stanze
- FEARnet
Recently I received one of the coolest packages in the mail from the folks over at Camp Motion Pictures in the form of a Retro 80’s horror collection featuring five classic splatter films on DVD and also to my surprise one of the films also included on VHS all contained within a beautifully done over sized box which made me react like a little kid unwrapping a video game on Christmas morning as I quickly located my VHS player and took a magical journey back in time to my child hood. The era where all my weekends were spent digesting horror obtained from various mom and pop video stores.
The Basement (1989)
Included in both DVD and VHS format for the first time ever is a lost super 8 horror anthology from director Timothy O’ Rawe (Ghoul School), a very early Diy horror film that can be categorized as so bad its...
The Basement (1989)
Included in both DVD and VHS format for the first time ever is a lost super 8 horror anthology from director Timothy O’ Rawe (Ghoul School), a very early Diy horror film that can be categorized as so bad its...
- 8/9/2011
- by Ted Brown
- The Liberal Dead
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