Weekend Roundup: Midnight Pulp, Above Majestic, Film Movement Plus, Five Feet Apart & more!

The Original SUSPIRIA and More Giallo Cult Horror Classics Are Available on Freemium OTT Streamer MIDNIGHT PULP!

Luca Guagadnino’s remake of the 1977 Dario Argento cult classic Suspiria just set a 2018 box office record for best opening per theater before it goes wide this coming weekend. The update, which stars Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth and Chloë Moretz, is set at a prestigious dance academy, and, as in the original, involves grisly murders and the supernatural. But for genre fans interested in screening Argento’s version “considered by many to be one of the all-time best horror films,[1]” the OTT platform MIDNIGHT PULP has horror fans covered – for FREE.

Offering an expertly-curated selection of horror, thriller and cult programming, MIDNIGHT PULP is one of the few streaming outlets online offering the original SUSPIRIA, guaranteed to put an extra chill into this spooky season. In addition to this supernatural classic, MIDNIGHT PULP also offers a coven’s worth of Italian horror classics in the GIALLO collection, featuring the best of the Italian horror genre from notable directors like Argento, Mario Bava and Luciano Onetti, and viewers can choose to view on a no-charge freemium model or with an ad-free premium subscription starting at $4.99.

GIALLO Collection titles now available on MIDNIGHT PULP include:

SUSPIRIA (1977, Director Dario Argento) — A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders. Starring Barbara Magnolfi, Flavio Bucci, Jessica Harper, Miguel Bosé and Stefania Casini. (97 minutes)

BLACK SUNDAY (1960, Director Mario Bava) — A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch’s beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl’s brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way. Starring Andrea Checchi, Arturo Dominici, Barbara Steele, Ivo Garrani, John Richardson and Mario Passante. (88 minutes)

FRANCESCA (2015, Director Luciano Onetti) — Two detectives must hunt down a maniac bent on cleansing his city of impure souls. At the same time, a young girl who’d disappeared 15 years ago mysteriously resurfaces. Could these two events be connected? Gustavo Dalessanro, Luis Emilio Rodrigues, Raul Gederlini and Silvina Grippaldi star. (80 minutes)

MADHOUSE (1981, Director Ovidio Assonitis) — Julia has spent her entire adult life trying to forget the torment she suffered at the hands of her twisted twin Mary… but Mary hasn’t forgotten. Escaping hospital, where she’s recently been admitted with a horrific, disfiguring illness, Julia’s sadistic sister vows to exact a particularly cruel revenge on her sibling this year – promising a birthday surprise that she’ll never forget. Starring Dennis Robertson, Michael MacRae and Trish Everly. (93 minutes)

PHENOMENA (1985, Director Dario Argento) — A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Daria Nicolodi, Donald Pleasence, Federica Mastroianni, Fiore Argento and Jennifer Connelly. (116 minutes)

SONNO PROFONDO (2013, Director Luciano Onetti) — A stylish, lush, and lurid film from Argentina, Sonno Profondo faithfully recreates the style of Italian horror films of the 70s. After murdering a woman, a killer that is traumatized from his childhood memories gets a mysterious envelope slipped under his door. The hunter becomes the prey when he finds out that the envelope contains photos that show him killing the young woman. Starring Daiana Garcia, Luciano Onetti and Silvia Duhalde. (67 minutes)

THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE (1971, Directed by Emilio Miraglia) – A decadent English lord thinks his second wife is his first wife back from the dead. Anthony Steffen, Enzo Tarascio and Marina Malfatti star. (101 minutes)

Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972, Directed by Sergio Martino)– As a string of violent murders plagues the town, a lecherous writer, Oliviero, is visited by his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming his wife give Oliviero new inspiration. What’s Floriana’s game and who’s the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan. Starring Anita Strindberg, Daniela Giordano, Edwidge Fenech, Ivan Rassimov and Luigi Pistilli. (97 minutes).

Above Majestic | Now Available to Own!

ABOVE MAJESTIC

Available to own on October 30th and available on digital & on-demand November 13th

On September 10th 2001 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion dollars could not be accounted for within Department of Defense expenditures. The very next day the Pentagon’s budget analyst’s office was destroyed in the 9/11 attack. The mystery remains: Where are the missing trillions?

Above Majestic is a shocking and provocative look at what it would take to hide a multi-trillion-dollar Secret Space Program (a clandestine group of elite military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology also known as “Majestic 12”) from the public and the implications this would have for humanity. Viewers will be guided through take a deep dive into the origins, technologies, history, cover ups, conspiracies, testimony and research that goes beyond and Above Majestic.

Featuring some the most prominent and prolific authors, researchers, whistle-blowers and disseminators in the movement for Truth and Full Disclosure. This includes David Wilcock, Corey Goode, John Desouza, William Tompkins, David Adair, Laura Eisenhower, Niara Isley, and Jordan Sather.

Cast: David Wilcock, Corey Goode, John Desouzza, William Tompkins, David Adair, Laura Eisenhower, Niara Isley, and Jordan Sather

Director: Roger R. Richards

Distributor: The Orchard

FILM MOVEMENT PLUS November Highlights: Streaming Premieres Include EGON SCHIELE & WONDROUS BOCCACCIO

Friday, November 2

PREMIERE

EGON SCHIELE: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

On the 100^th anniversary of Schiele’s death, Film Movement Plus premieres this cinematic and award-winning bio-pic from director Dieter Berner. Young, brilliant and seductive, Schiele (Noah Saavedra) is one of the most provocative and scandalous artists in early twentieth century Vienna. His life and work are stimulated by eroticism and a Bohemian era that is quickly coming to a close. Two beautiful women drive his inspiration – his sister, Gerti (Maresi Riegner), and Wally Neuzil (Valerie Pachner), the sensual model he immortalizes in his most famous painting “Death and the Maiden.” But the outbreak of World War I threatens Schiele’s artistic pursuits and leads to his eventual betrayal of Wally, his muse and one true love in this passionate portrait of a 20^th century master (2016, 110 minutes, German with English Subtitles)

In Theaters Everywhere March 22, 2019

Friday, November 9

PREMIERE

WONDROUS BOCCACCIO

To celebrate legendary Italian director Paolo Taviani’s birthday (11/8) this month, Film Movement Plus premieres the lavish period comedy/drama based on Boccaccio’s masterpiece “The Decameron” that he directed with his brother Vittorio. Set against the backdrop of a 14th century, black plague-stricken Florence, ten young men and women escape to a country estate where they spend their days telling stories of love, fate, and resurrection. WONDROUS BOCCACCIO is a visual and poetic tribute to the stories that emerged from one of the darkest periods in Italian history, and to Boccaccio’s landmark of Renaissance literature. (2015, 120 minutes, Italian with English subtitles)

Music Video Debut: Talk About Love: Music From the Motion Picture “No Postage Necessary”

FIVE FEET APART | New Trailer with Haley Lu Richardson & Cole Sprouse

Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old…she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control – all of which is put to the test when she meets an impossibly charming fellow CF patient named Will Newman (Cole Sprouse).

There’s an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. Further complicating matters is Will’s potentially dangerous rebellion against his ongoing medical treatment. Stella gradually inspires Will to live life to the fullest, but can she ultimately save the person she loves when even a single touch is off limits?

Genre: Drama, Romance

Produced By: Cathy Schulman (The Foreigner, The Space Between Us), Justin Baldoni (Jane the Virgin, My Last Days)

Written By: Mikki Daughtry (Sleep Tight, The Children) & Tobias Iaconis (Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia, The Children)

Directed By: Justin Baldoni (Jane the Virgin, My Last Days)

Cast: Haley Lu Richardson (Split, The Edge of Seventeen), Cole Sprouse (Riverdale, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody), Moises Arias (The Kings of Summer, Ben-Hur), Kimberly Hébert Gregory (Vice Principals), Paraminder Nagra (ER, Bend it Like Beckham), Claire Forlani (Crystal Inferno, Precious Cargo)

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