American company partners with Canadians to bring indie horror north.
Fledgling American genre film distributor Terror Films has signed a multi-picture deal with Canadian based distributor, Raven Banner Releasing with the intent to bring several key horror films to the Canadian market.
The Canadian releases will include a variety of award winning horror and thriller content from Terror Films 2016 slate. Among them are the erotic thriller GODDESS OF LOVE, haunted house flick HOUSE OF PURGATORY, doc UNEARTHED & UNTOLD: THE PATH TO PET SEMATARY, plague chiller ANTIDOTE, found footage shocker HELL HOUSE LLC and PATIENT SEVEN, an original anthology produced by Terror Films. PATIENT SEVEN stars Michael Ironside, Jack Plotnick and features segments with Amy Smart, Alfie Allen and Doug Jones.
The two companies already have a working relationship, with Terror Films handling the U.S. distribution on Raven Banner titles. THE DARK STRANGER and THE HOUSE ON PINE STREET are both due out in a wide ancillary release by early fall. While Raven Banner will oversee the distribution of Terror Films content in Canada, Automatic Entertainment will continue to act as the official foreign sales arm, placing the companys films all over the World.
Joe Dain of Terror Films negotiated the deal with Raven Banner executives, James Fler and Michael Paszt and stated: this new alliance, with a top notch distributor like Raven Banner handling our content in Canada, combined with our incredible foreign sales team at Automatic and our U.S. ancillary relationships truly solidifies Terror Films as one of the more aggressive, non-Studio distributors operating in the genre space. We now have the ability to distribute our films across multiple platforms, worldwide!
James Fler said of the newly formed relationship:, “we, at Raven Banner, are thrilled to further develop our relationship with Terror Films. Strategic partnerships with like minded companies such as Terror Films, will enable us to continue to bring quality content to the Canadian marketplace.
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