The latest twist on the horrific events surrounding the group of hungry folks known as the Donner Party, entitled Donner Pass, is getting set to come home in a couple of weeks, and we've got all the info you need right here. Eat up!
From the Press Release
Freestyle Digital Media (Fdm) has set January 17, 2012, for the Us release of Donner Pass, Arroyo Filmworks’ dark thriller that will debut on DVD, Digital Download, and On Demand. The film was directed by multi-hyphenate Elise Robertson and produced by Mouncey Ferguson with the screenplay by Scott Adams. Donner Pass will be available via Fdm’s distribution partners that include the iTunes store, Amazon, Vudu, Dish Networks, Blockbuster.com, Sony Psn, Redbox, and most cable VOD services.
Donner Pass tells the story of settlers in 1846 that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Some 150 years later,...
From the Press Release
Freestyle Digital Media (Fdm) has set January 17, 2012, for the Us release of Donner Pass, Arroyo Filmworks’ dark thriller that will debut on DVD, Digital Download, and On Demand. The film was directed by multi-hyphenate Elise Robertson and produced by Mouncey Ferguson with the screenplay by Scott Adams. Donner Pass will be available via Fdm’s distribution partners that include the iTunes store, Amazon, Vudu, Dish Networks, Blockbuster.com, Sony Psn, Redbox, and most cable VOD services.
Donner Pass tells the story of settlers in 1846 that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Some 150 years later,...
- 1/7/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
You would think a few cheapie knock-offs or maybe a historical account of the tragedy of the Donner Party in the late 1800s, would fill up our video stores, but I personally can’t recall one. Donner Pass might fit the bill. The film is getting some rave reviews from people like the screenwriter of Captain America: The First Avenger.
Here’s the plot: “In 1846 a party of settlers became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Some 150 years later a group of teens on a ski trip discover that the curse of the Donner Party still haunts those mountains when members of their group start turning up not only dead, but half-eaten. Nothing – and no one – is what it seems in this provocative dark thriller. And history doesn’t always stay in the past.”
Dread Central has the poster and press release...
Here’s the plot: “In 1846 a party of settlers became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Some 150 years later a group of teens on a ski trip discover that the curse of the Donner Party still haunts those mountains when members of their group start turning up not only dead, but half-eaten. Nothing – and no one – is what it seems in this provocative dark thriller. And history doesn’t always stay in the past.”
Dread Central has the poster and press release...
- 7/19/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
One flick we've been keeping our eyes on for a while now, Donner Pass, has finally reached completion, and we've got the early word and some brand new eye candy for you horror lovin' cats! Dig it!
From the Press Release: Arroyo Filmworks is proud to announce the completion of Donner Pass, the first feature film from Emmy award-winning director Elise Robertson. Susan Jackson (Cabin Fever), president of Turtles Crossing, has signed on as sales agent.
Featuring an ensemble cast of talented young actors alongside Hollywood veterans John Kassir (Jack the Giant Killer, Tales from the Crypt) and Eric Pierpoint (Transformers II, Holes), the story follows a group of teenagers who get snowed in near Lake Tahoe – the same spot where the Donner Party became snowbound and was forced to resort to cannibalism 150 years ago.
A legend persists that the Donner Party fell victim to an evil curse, a hunger...
From the Press Release: Arroyo Filmworks is proud to announce the completion of Donner Pass, the first feature film from Emmy award-winning director Elise Robertson. Susan Jackson (Cabin Fever), president of Turtles Crossing, has signed on as sales agent.
Featuring an ensemble cast of talented young actors alongside Hollywood veterans John Kassir (Jack the Giant Killer, Tales from the Crypt) and Eric Pierpoint (Transformers II, Holes), the story follows a group of teenagers who get snowed in near Lake Tahoe – the same spot where the Donner Party became snowbound and was forced to resort to cannibalism 150 years ago.
A legend persists that the Donner Party fell victim to an evil curse, a hunger...
- 7/19/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
A former Hollywood filmmaker-turned-missionary has been shot and killed after he was kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Scott Adam, who worked on hit 1980s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, was one of four Americans captured last Friday when their yacht was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden.
U.S. Navy SEALs had been in negotiation with the pirates to free the hostages, but discussions were halted on Tuesday when one kidnapper fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the rescuers' nearby warship, Sterett.
The pirates subsequently opened fire on the four Christian missionaries, including Adam and his wife Jean, leaving them dead or mortally wounded by the time special forces were able to board the ship, according to Navy Vice Admiral Mark Fox. The four victims are the first Americans killed by pirates in the area.
Adam, 70, worked in film and TV throughout the 1970s and '80s and served as an assistant director on U.S. shows The Dukes of Hazzard, The Love Boat and McCloud. He was also a production manager on 1985 movie classic The Goonies.
He walked away from Hollywood to dedicate his life to missionary work and spent the last seven years sailing around the world with his 66-year-old wife, handing out Bibles wherever they travelled.
The Adams were parishioners at St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California - the same church frequented by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, veteran actor Martin Sheen, and model/actress Brooke Shields.
Scott Adam, who worked on hit 1980s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, was one of four Americans captured last Friday when their yacht was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden.
U.S. Navy SEALs had been in negotiation with the pirates to free the hostages, but discussions were halted on Tuesday when one kidnapper fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the rescuers' nearby warship, Sterett.
The pirates subsequently opened fire on the four Christian missionaries, including Adam and his wife Jean, leaving them dead or mortally wounded by the time special forces were able to board the ship, according to Navy Vice Admiral Mark Fox. The four victims are the first Americans killed by pirates in the area.
Adam, 70, worked in film and TV throughout the 1970s and '80s and served as an assistant director on U.S. shows The Dukes of Hazzard, The Love Boat and McCloud. He was also a production manager on 1985 movie classic The Goonies.
He walked away from Hollywood to dedicate his life to missionary work and spent the last seven years sailing around the world with his 66-year-old wife, handing out Bibles wherever they travelled.
The Adams were parishioners at St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California - the same church frequented by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, veteran actor Martin Sheen, and model/actress Brooke Shields.
- 2/23/2011
- WENN
A California couple sailing around the world and giving out Bibles were hijacked by Somali pirates last week - then killed along with another couple as gunfire broke out between the U.S. Navy and their captors on Tuesday, according to the U.S. military.Jean and Scott Adam, from Southern California, and Phyllis Mackay and Robert A. Riggle, from Seattle, were sailing the Arabian Sea, hundreds of miles off the coast of Oman, aboard a boat called the Quest. Their journey was part of an around-the-world expedition organized by Blue Water Rallies, whose organizers say the Quest broke off from the group on Feb.
- 2/22/2011
- by Joey Bartolomeo
- PEOPLE.com
Jean and Scott Adam, the American missionaries killed today, apparently during a rescue attempt, had once worked in Hollywood, according to The Wrap.
Before devoting his life to missionary work, Scott was a unit production manager and second unit director on '80s classics "The Goonies," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Love Boat" and several made-for-tv movies.
The devout Christians have lived on their boat since 2004, dispensing Bibles, and were traveling off the coast of...
Before devoting his life to missionary work, Scott was a unit production manager and second unit director on '80s classics "The Goonies," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Love Boat" and several made-for-tv movies.
The devout Christians have lived on their boat since 2004, dispensing Bibles, and were traveling off the coast of...
- 2/22/2011
- Extra
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