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Alluring filmmaker and composer Chris Alexander is set to captivate horror fans again through several different emotional and psychological states with his upcoming horror movie, ‘Blood Dynasty.’ The director’s latest fever dream feature film has received an official release date, and it’s set to be distributed on select streaming platforms this Halloween from Castle Films. The drama’s DVD release will subsequently follow.
‘Blood Dynasty’ will be the first movie that will be distributed from the newly minted distributor. Castle Films is the brainchild of Alexander and Rapid Heart Pictures owner, David DeCoteau.
“Castle Films is in essence a label designed to release my smaller, stranger films, movies, pictures that are far more influenced by the dreamier, more sensual and esoteric genre films primarily produced in Europe in the 1970s, but tempered with a modern, singular and more abstract sensibility,” Alexander said of the partnership.
“I’m excited that Blood Dynasty will be the first release under this banner and thrilled to have the support and savvy of David to propel it forward. David lives to make movies and it’s that very drive that represents everything I love about independent cinema,” the filmmaker has also revealed.
“I launched Rapid Heart back in 1999 when I concluded my overall directing deal with Full Moon,” DeCoteau revealed. “Rapid Heart was always intended to be a boutique production/distribution company for genre movies directed and produced by me. We were never in the acquisition business at all but when my friend Chris Alexander showed me some of his wild and intense movies I thought his films should be available worldwide. Castle Films is Chris’s boutique imprint that Rapid Heart will bring into the digital marketplace. They’ll be exclusively available on Rapid Heart TV’s YouTube channel, Amazon VOD and VIMEO WORLDWIDE VOD just in time for Halloween.”
Blood Dynasty is the third in Alexander’s ‘Irina’ vampire film series, which began with 2012’s award winning ‘Blood for Irina,’ and continued with 2014’s ‘Queen of Blood.’ The character of Irina is once more reborn, as she rises from the sea to bring madness and bloodlust to a lonely young woman living in a decaying motel. Shauna Henry, Cheryl Singleton, Holly Riot and Andre Becker star in the horror movie.
Like the previous films, the vampire Irina is more of a karmic character. Irina is a dream that is constantly placed in different incarnations in different times and worlds, and represents different emotional and psychological states. Like the previous films, ‘Blood Dynasty’ is slow, hypnotic, immersive and challenging, and is driven by Alexander’s own pulsing electronic score.
For more on Blood Dynasty visit the horror movie’s Facebook page.