Ellefson Flims (Amped/Alliance) have announced an October 12, 2021, release date for their award winning found footage horror film Dwellers on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital.

Dwellers is a found footage horror film produced by Grammy award winning Megadeth bassist David Ellefson and written, directed and starring Drew Fortier. The film has already gained over twenty official selections from film festivals around the world, a number that is still growing. Dwellers has amassed glowing reviews while garnering a plethora of nominations and already winning 5 awards including:

Best Feature (Screamwriting Festival)

Best Director (The Thing in the Basement Horror Fest)

Best Horror Feature (Mad Monster Party Film Fest)

Best Documentary (Hollywood Blood Horror Festival)

Most Disturbing Scenes (Horror Bowl Movie Awards)

The physical release is planned to be packed with bonus features. More details to be released in the coming months along with pre-order information.

The film will also be screened virtually on Saturday, March 20th, as a part of the HorrorHound Film Festival's Midnight Madness Feature and will hold a special virtual Q&A after the screening that will feature cast members from _Dwellers_.

Ticketing information can be found here: https://horrorhound.com/News/Details/333

Dwellers has been described as being, "C.H.U.D. if it were shot like The Blair Witch Project." The film stars: Drew Fortier, James L. Edwards (Her Name Was Christa), Douglas Esper (The Nutshell) and Omar Baig (Let's Make a Movie). Also featuring cameos from the film's producer, David Ellefson, as well as former Mushroomhead vocalist, Jeff Hatrix.

The film's plot is as follows: 
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.

David Ellefson will also be making various appearances throughout the year at horror conventions and fan expos to screen Dwellers. Keep up with Ellefson's social media for more details.

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Midwestern power trio The Party After has released their newest single, aptly named “Groundhogs”, now available on all digital outlets.

With an accompanying animated video, featuring psychedelic, over-the-top visuals created by Ellefson Films and Johnny's Bros Creative Studios.

The video, directed by Thom Hazaert for Ellefson Films and Ismar Rodriguez for Johnny’s Bros, Animated by Ismar Rodriguez, and Produced by Ewar Acosta and Thom Hazaert, documents the transformation of a single groundhog's normal day, into a mind-bending trip through a wild evening in the deep, dark woods.

Says Hazaert, “The band came to me with the idea of doing an animated video, and wanting me to direct, and put together an animation and creative team to make it happen. I had previously had some discussions with my friends at Johnny’s Bros Creative Studios, an amazing animation house, about working on some projects together, so we figured this would be a great opportunity to do so. We came up with a rough concept, and they set Ismar loose on the animation, who tweaked the concept as he went, and really brought it to life.”

He adds, “As we were completing it, David and I had just launched Ellefson Films, and announced Dwellers, so I thought it would be fun to park it under that banner, and expand the scope of what we were doing over there. Even though it’s a pretty dark video, it really has nothing to do with Metal, or horror, or any of the kinda typical things I think people would expect, but it’s definitely, at times, a pretty disturbing and dark visual, that aligns perfectly with the mood of the song. Either way, the reaction has been amazing, and I’m so excited to finally release it, after sitting on it for months, waiting for, you guessed it, Groundhog Day.”

“Groundhogs” on Apple Music: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1550416869?ls=1&app=itunes

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4jQBjLkeaJGSlMqjQhxs3t?si=DFvSWrteSOS_LHO6XdOUDQ

The Party After is composed of Jared Gottberg, Derek Talburt, and Tony Bates, who had, ironically, previously played together in a now defunct group known as A Wasted Effort. When that group disbanded, the trio started releasing music under the new moniker, with their debut single “Philophobic” in February 2019, going on to release a handful of additional singles, leading up to the current release of “Groundhogs”.

Ellefson Films is a film production studio formed by Megadeth bassist David Ellefson, and partner Thom Hazaert, currently producing the upcoming found-footage horror film Dwellers, directed by Drew Fortier, making the 2021 film festival rounds. Hazaert, under his THC Films banner, has produced multiple independent features including the music business documentary Long Way To The Top, featuring members of Def Leppard, Weezer, Limp Bizkit, Nine Inch Nails, and more, as well as producing and directing special features for Shout Factory/Scream Factory, and more, with credits on special editions of Shocker, The People Under The Stairs, Return of the Living Dead, Army of Darkness, and Exorcist 3.

Johnny’s Bros Creative Studio is a Miami based Animation and Multimedia studio with several projects currently in development.

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