Clive Barker Fans Take Note:
THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN Needs Your Help!

Hi Folks!

We’ve heard from several people that Lionsgate has decided to essentially turn Clive Barker’s new film, THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN, into a straight-to-DVD release, even though we’ve also heard the final cut of the film is really terrific. This same source reports that there is growing internal pressure within the company for a wider release of this film and PUBLIC FAN PRESSURE may help to push this decision over the edge.

If you wish to see THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in all its big screen glory, here are a couple of ways to let Lionsgate know how you feel:

1) email Lionsgate investor relations at keasterling@lionsgate.com

2) email Lionsgate’s general customer contact at general-inquiries@lionsgate.com

3) call the main Lionsgate office at 310-449-9200 and express your desire to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in the theater.

AS ALWAYS, BE POLITE AND PROFESSIONAL!

For the emails, here is a sample we saw in our inbox the other day:
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Dear Lionsgate,

As a long time Clive Barker fan, I am writing you to express my strong desire to see “The Midnight Meat Train” on the big screen.
Rumors are currently circulating that the film will only be released on a limited basis and I am very concerned that I will miss my opportunity to see the most highly anticipated Clive Barker film in over a decade in all of its big screen glory!

There are millions of horror fans like myself who have been disappointed by the recent trend towards watered down PG-13 horror movies. Clive’s work represents a return to serious, thought provoking horror movies and with Ryuhei Kitamura at the helm, I am even more excited to experience this collaboration as it was intended: in a packed theater with hundreds of other horror fans like myself!

I urge you to please give this film the release it deserves!
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Good luck to all of the Clive Barker fans out there! Make sure your voices are heard before it’s too late!

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Blue collar tough Andrew White knows that in the rural community of
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A man in rural Pontiac has just signed a contract for his new book. Steven L. Shrewsbury has announced that his horror novel “HAWG” will be released as a trade paperback from Graveside Tales.

HAWG is a story about a piggish monster terrorizing a small town in Illinois. Full of gritty, rural realism and colorful characters, one learns those who dwell in Miller’s Fork are bigger monsters than the creature himself. Noted author & artist Bob Freeman designed the cover for this novel.

“I wrote HAWG to tell a simple monster tale, ” Shrewsbury admits. “I never intended for the work as a mixture of Edward Lee, Richard Laymon and Robert E. Howard, but some reviewers have said that is so. The gritty edge is pretty sharp, cutting deep and often.”

Though Shrewsbury’s previous novels GODFORSAKEN and THROUGHBRED were more in the genres of sword & sorcery or hardcore fantasy, this novel through small press Graveside Tales is a leap into horror. “My fantasy material is usually pretty strong and I’ve written horror tales for years. Though I’ve had about 350 short stories published online or in print magazines, I am very excited to see HAWG see print.”

Steven will be promoting HAWG this summer and beyond, starting at HYPERICON in Nashville. Look for his book signings in shops in Illinois soon.

In other Harvest Hill news, we will be starting the cover design around the first week of August.  It is up in the air right now whether we will illustrate this anthology or not.  This anthology, like The Beast Within, has taken on a life of its own.  It has taken on a Tales From The Crypt feel.

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Eddie “Wolf Boy” Gnash is a freak. He makes a living showing us just how much of an oddity he really is. Don’t look away in disgust though. We need Eddie to do the things he does. It reminds us just how normal we really are.

What happens when the World’s not interested in what Eddie has to offer? When his sideshow is considered mundane and commonplace, it must be time for a change. Where will all the freaks, geeks and misfits possibly fit in? There’s only one place on Earth that will accept the kind of crew Eddie runs with.

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When Vernon Hamilton loses his job and prospects for employment in Houston dry up, he moves his family to a small community in far north Texas. As the sun sets, they discover just how dark the country can get away from big city lights, and they learn the darkness of Jennings Grove isn’t like other places. It’s alive, and it hungers. Can Vernon save his family from the night in his new home? Can he even save himself?

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Renier is a port city that stands as a glorious gem on the edge of the kingdom. The people are justly ruled by their beloved Duke with the assistance of a benevolent wizard and a self-involved priest. Within twenty-four hours everything changes as a small group of strange lepers enter the port and cause a mysterious and deadly illness to rage through the city, killing most of the residents. Violent illness and gruesome death isn’t the end of the horror for the residents of Renier. Not by a long shot, as thousands of dead bodies rise from the cobblestone streets in search of living prey. Sword and sorcery battle against an unstoppable hunger as the few living residents try and escape the walls of an undead nightmare.

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