The long anticipated CIRCUS OF THE DEAD 2 Indigogo campaign is LIVE!! In fact, it just went live today at 08:00 CST, and it reached it's $10K goal in a matter of hours!! The campaign was updated with a new stretch goal of $30K, and as of this post, it is already over $28K! Obviously there is a LOT of excitement for this new chapter of Papa Corn and his circus freaks! Here is a message from Writer/Director Billy "Bloody Bill"Pon about the film.
CLICK HERE to back this project!!!
Director Billy "Bloody Bill" Pon brought us one of the best independent horror features I have ever seen back in 2014 with the original CIRCUS OF THE DEAD. 10 years later, he is back to bring you part 2, but he needs your help!!
The CIRCUS OF THE DEAD 2 crowdfunding campaign on Indigogo will go live tomorrow, Friday the 13th! Billy needs as many people as possible to donate on that first day to help trigger the algorithm to make it a trending campaign, and get more eyes on it. Please help Billy out, and help all us horror movie lovers out, by donating on 9/13! I don't know what the perks will be, but knowing Billy, I'm sure there will be some interesting ones in addition to the normal DVDs, Blu-Rays, etc.
If you have never seen CIRCUS OF THE DEAD, do yourself a favor and watch it asap! It is disturbing, gory, demented, and just plain fun! It's available to stream on multiple platforms including Tubi, Prime, Pluto, Freevee, Vudu, and more. Once you see this film, you'll realize why I am so excited that part 2 is in the works!
CLICK HERE to go to Indigogo.com and search for the CIRCUS OF THE DEAD 2 campaign
CLICK HERE to watch the trailer for the original CIRCUS OF THE DEAD so you can get a taste of what you will be in for with this new film
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (Orig): When young Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe) is found viciously mauled, all hell breaks loose in her small rural town. Officious postmaster Otis P. Hazelrigg (Charles Durning) leads a gang of bigots in pursuit of the suspect: her mentally challenged friend Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake). Finding him hiding inside a scarecrow, they exact brutal mob ‘justice’…only to discover a tragic mistake! Now a strange apparition stalks the land seeking each of them out, as the legend of the Scarecrow begins.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow #2: A dark terror lies just below the surface of the small-town Chris Rhymer (Amber Wedding) and her young son Jeremy (Aiden Shurr) have settled in. One day while looking for Jeremy, she comes upon a weathered old scarecrow, and realizing that is only an inert effigy, she tells it her secret for being there. Now, suddenly after forty years, a dark terror stalks the cornfields. Is it on a mission of revenge or is it protecting Chris from outside threats? The legend of the Scarecrow continues.
Again, I never knew a sequel to DNOTS existed, so this was quite a treat for me to be discovering this film for this first time! While I admit it started off a bit slow, it definitely got better as the movie went on. The film looks kind of cheaply made, and I assume it was, but it actually worked well for this film because it truly felt like a made for TV movie like the original. I remember thinking as I watched the sequel that whoever made this film must have been a huge fan of the original. They really got the look of the scarecrow to match the original, and there were many throwbacks to the first film that were a lot of fun. Well, come to find out the director of part 2 was actually the writer on the original film!
Unlike the original film, we actually see some of the kills in this film. The original's kills were all offscreen, which is not surprising since it was made for TV. I was glad to see a little more gore in part 2, although it was still light on gore compared to other films this days. I really liked the look of the scarecrow in part 2. It as very similar to the look of the original, except this time it had glowing eyes in some scenes which made it extra creepy. I also really liked the way the scarecrow moved...it was almost in a jerky manor, not fluid at all. It almost remined me of stop motion in the way the scarecrow's head moved.
While part 2 isn't nearly as enjoyable as the original, it was highly entertaining and a very nice homage to the first film. If you already own DNOTS on DVD or BD, you'll want to get this new edition not only for part 2, but the 4K release is an amazing upgrade from the previous releases. The picture is crystal clear, which I expected for the sequel, but even the original film is so clean and like I have never seen before. After seeing how good part 2 looked, I had to check out the original on 4K as well and I was in awe of how good it looked for a film that is over 40 years old.
The DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROWS DOUBLE FEATURE is available now from VCI Entertainment and contains the following Special Features:
CLICK HERE to purchase the Blu-Ray
CLICK HERE to purchase the 4K Ultra HD
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