POP SKULL goes Day & Date on DVD, Digital as Halo-8 launches VOD site with 99 cent subscription

POP SKULL goes Day & Date on DVD, Digital as Halo-8 launches VOD site with 99 cent subscription

- Televandalism.com comes out of beta with films, comics, webisodes, and video games -

Los Angeles, CA, July 22, 2009 – Halo-8 Entertainment has announced that award-winning psychedelic horror film POP SKULL will be its first day & date DVD/digital film release, timed with the official launch of Halo-8’s VOD website Televandalism (in beta since 2008), which offers VOD-streaming subscriptions (all streaming titles for a total subscription of 99-cents per month) or DVD-quality downloads ($9.99 each, with instructions for porting them to your TV) of films, comics, webisodes, and video games. POP SKULL will make its debut both on DVD and on Televandalism July 28, 2009.

“POP SKULL is the kind of groundbreakingly different film that needs to be seen to be believed, so we want it seen by as many people as possible,” said Halo-8 president Matt Pizzolo. “We know how our audience wants instant access to the newest coolest media, so we’re very excited that Televandalism offers a way for us to get new films, comics, and games to our audience even faster and more reliably than Pirate Bay can.”

Pizzolo goes into further detail on delivering movies via computer for viewing on TV in his recent post “There’s a bridge from the internet to your TV–Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the trolls under it” in his blog on Hollywood-2.0.

Upon its official launch July 28th, Televandalism’s offerings will include:

==Streaming (99 cents per month for everything)==

- POP SKULL psychedelic horror film directed by Adam Wingard (”HOME SICK”), starring Lane Hughes, Hannah Hughes, Brandon Carroll, Maggie Henry, written by Wingard, Hughes, E.L. Katz (”AUTOPSY”);

- IN A SPIRAL STATE webisodes (leading up to the collected DVD release September 29th) written & directed by Ramzi Abed (”THE DEVIL’S MUSE”), starring Lizzy Strain (”MAGUS”), Bianca Barnett (”ALBINO FARM”);

- GODKILLER comic book issues leading up to the “illustrated film” series debut September 28, 2009, written & directed by Matt Pizzolo (”THREAT”), illustrated by Anna Muckcracker, animated by Brian Giberson (Emmy-winning “RED BULL AIR RACE”), starring Lance Henriksen (”ALIENS”), Danielle Harris (”HALLOWEEN” franchise), Bill Moseley (”THE DEVIL’S REJECTS”), Tiffany Shepis (”NIGHT OF THE DEMONS”), Nicki Clyne (”BATTLESTAR GALACTICA”), Lydia Lunch (Richard Kern’s “HARDCORE”), Justin Pierre (singer MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK), Davey Havok (singer AFI);

- SLUMBER PARTY SLAUGHTERHOUSE: THE GAME video-game, directed by Ramzi Abed (”THE DEVIL’S MUSE”), Joanna Angel (”RE-PENETRATOR”), Matt Pizzolo (”THREAT”), Doug Sakmann (”PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST”), Kurly Tlapoyawa (”GIMME SKELTER”), starring Tiffany Shepis, Joanna Angel, Melissa Bacelar, Masuimi Max, Page Turner, Wendy McColm, Whisky, Alister Angel, Cali Nova, Morgan Mae, Daisy Sparks;

- N.Y.H.C. documentary directed by Frank Pavich, featuring Madball, V.O.D., 108, No Redeeming Social Value, District 9, 25 Ta Life;

- THREAT urban thriller directed by Matt Pizzolo, written by Pizzolo and Katie Nisa, starring Carlos Puga, Keith Middleton, Katie Nisa, Rebekka Takamizu, David R. Fisher, Neil Rubenstein;

- FITNESS FOR INDIE ROCKERS workout series starring Chaos;

- VEGAN COOKING FOR ANIMAL LOVERS cooking series starring The Hardcore Chef.

==Downloadable movies (DVD quality, $9.99 each)==

- SICK & TWISTED HORROR OF JOANNA ANGEL weirdo horror directed by Doug Sakmann;

- BIANCA BEAUCHAMP: ALL ACCESS reality-TV style documentary directed by Martin Perreault;

- PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST 2 punk slasher directed by Doug Sakmann on the Van’s Warped Tour featuring The Aquabats, The Casualties, My Chemical Romance, The Bouncing Souls, Juliya Chernetsky;

- YOGA FOR INDIE ROCKERS;

- PILATES FOR INDIE ROCKERS;

- VEGAN COOKING FOR ANIMAL LOVERS;

- N.Y.H.C.;

- THREAT;

- POP SKULL;

- YOUR MOMMY KILLS ANIMALS animal rights documentary directed by Curt Johnson featuring the story of the SHAC-7.

About POP SKULL
“Fans of experimental cinema will squirt themselves as POP SKULL is a slice of heavenly arthouse goodness… it’s kinda like GUMMO but without the gay midgets and dead cats. 4 stars” -Eric Campos, FILM THREAT

POP SKULL depicts the lonely and disjointed life of Daniel, a young Alabama pill addict, as his efforts to cope with the trials of his day-to-day life collide with the increasing influence of murderous and displaced spirits that inhabit his home. Plagued by ghosts, Daniel discovers his home holds a secret to a grisly crime… a crime he’s doomed to repeat if he can’t prevail against the forces that haunt him.

“Unlike any horror film you’ve ever seen — and ever WILL see — POP SKULL is a must-see.” -Stephen Susco, writer of THE GRUDGE

“Distinctive, visually powerful and uncompromising.” -Robert Koehler, Variety

“The film is well paced, leaving us on the edge of our seat until the climactic end.” -Mr. Disgusting, Bloody-Disgusting.com

“Equal parts Aronofsky and Tsukamoto, Wingard straddles the line between experimentation and linear narrative.” -Todd Brown, Twitchfilms.net

“Impressive.” -LAsplash.com

POP SKULL premiered domestically at the AFI Film Festival and internationally at the Rome Film Festival before playing the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, San Diego Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and New Zealand International Film Festival. It was awarded grand jury prizes at the Indianapolis International Film Festival and the Boston Underground Film Festival.

About Halo-8 Entertainment
Halo-8 Entertainment (www.halo8.tv) is a Hollywood-2.0 movie studio using bleeding-edge strategies to create and distribute daring new films and alternative-culture lifestyle videos. Recent and upcoming releases include the megapopular animated series XOMBIE: DEAD ON ARRIVAL (which Bloody Disgusting called “one of the best online animated series to date”), the award-winning hardcore-punk thriller THREAT (which Urb Magazine said “makes KIDS look like an after-school special”), the legendary NY hardcore documentary N.Y.H.C. (which Cinematical called “smashing… a terrific, well-told, engaging story”), and the upcoming mindbendingly surreal, dystopic ‘illustrated film’ GODKILLER.

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