Jessica Cameron's "Mania" To Screen in Los Angeles, Sydney and Portland - PRESS RELEASE

Jessica Cameron's sophomore film Mania continues to rack up festival awards and screenings with three new dates announced.

   Jessica Cameron's first film Truth or Dare won 34 awards throughout the course of a long and successful festival run. Mania is still fresh off its September launch at The Arizona Underground Film Festival, but it's already snagged two best picture awards at Arizona and The RIP Film Festival in Hollywood, and a best actress award at RIP for Ellie Church. Mania is set to receive its fourth award at The Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival when it wins best narrative feature at the end of November.

If you are in Los Angeles on Thanksgiving weekend, make sure to check out Mania's second LA screening at the Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival. Mania had its LA premier on Halloween night at the RIP Film Festival to a large and enthusiastic crowd. Mania screens at the LAUFF Saturday November 28th at The Complex Theater, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90036. Get your tickets here: http://laufilmfest.com/Tickets.html

Then on December 5th, Mania is set to have its Sydney premier at the Dendy Cinema Newtown as part of A Night of Horror Film Festival, the longest running horror film festival in Australia. If you are going to be in Sydney early December, you can buy your tickets here: http://www.anightofhorror.com/2015program#/mania/

 Finally, Mania is set to screen at The Portland Underground Film Festival December 4th at 8:00. A full festival pass is only $30, and there are a lot of other great films playing as well as Mania. Get you tickets for The Portland Underground Film Festival here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pdxtreme-fest-tickets- 1 (865)985-3123

 Mania is produced by Mem Ferda, who also brought us Jessica Cameron's first film Truth or Dare, which shocked audiences worldwide with its extreme, relentless violence. Mania is just as uncompromising as its predecessor, but the violence of Cameron's first film is replaced with a lesbian sexuality that is just as relentless, and just as shocking as Truth or Dare's extreme gore. Viewer discretion is advised.

If you haven't already, check out the teaser trailer for mania, which has already received over 23,000 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00HqChbfEkw

 
   
     
 
   
 

Headless 2015 - REVIEW

Here we have another blind buy of mine after hearing all the rave reviews of this indie film that was coming in.  The company that put this one together was at Horrorhound Weekend this past March and had a slew of copies for sale.  Considering this is a spin off of the movie Found that is one of the best indie horror films out there in my opinion.  This is sure t be a slam dunk, right?  It really is amazing what filmmakers are able to do with a limited budget.  I mean if you have a good story and some decent acting you got a pretty good shot.

This film takes place in 1978 and pretty much goes right into it.  To sum it up this is about a man who was abused as a child and kept in a cage and is now a serial killer that has a lot of different interests.  Namely chopping off heads and fucking the chopped off head.  He is also accompanied by a younger version of himself that directs him in his behavior.  What you are in store for is a roller coaster ride of brutality, cannibalism, necrophilia and a lot more.

To be honest with everyone it took me 3 viewings of starting it over and over to get through the whole film.  I had to tell myself to stop being such a cunt and just watch the damn thing.  The end result is that underneath everything I am about to say I really did like this movie and admire the originality of it all.  Headless is very over the top with gore but I kind of like that.  The story is fucking disturbing and demented as anything I have ever watched.  I don't even think Rob Zombie can make something this fucked up.  The main thing that bothered me was the necrophilia.  I am not a big fan of it and while it oddly went with the story of this film I just don't like to watch that.  Getting past that is what I considered to be the hardest but if you can you are in store of one hell of a ride.

I wasn't really overly impressed with the acting in Headless but it wasn't bad.  Ellie Church does a nice job in the lead and I look forward to seeing her in more films down the road.  The other performance I really enjoyed was the part of the masked killer played by Shane Beasley.  I thought he did a standout job acting with the mask on.  Just like Jason Voorhees you have to act and show emotions all without words.  That's really not an easy thing to do.

If you are looking for something different, dark and sinister I highly recommend this one.  Headless is not going to be for everyone but I can see now how it has gotten all the positive reviews.  I would have to give this one 7 out of 10 stars.