Artsploitation Films has send us information for their upcoming DVD release of the controversial horror film "Hidden in the Woods". The film won won Best Extreme Movie at the Feratum Film Festival (Mexico). It also won Best Movie at both the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival and the Asti Film Festival (Italy).

Special features include Director Patricio Valladares at Fantasia 2012, Eight page collector’s booklet, Reversible cover and Behind-the-scenes featurette. Hidden in the Woods hits stores on 9/17.

Press Release:

Artsploitation Films, the rising American film label, continues to deliver edgy international movies to North American audiences with its second-ever horror release: HIDDEN IN THE WOODS. Based on a bizarre true story and not for the faint of heart - and also currently being remade in the U.S. - HIDDEN IN THE WOODS features extreme violence, prostitution, sexual assault, buckets of blood and even cannibalism. Deep in the Chilean countryside, Ana and Anny live with their deformed brother and are subject to their father’s perverse and sadistic whims. After a dispute with the police leaves a wake of death and mutilation, they flee and find refuge in a remote cabin hidden from society. Meanwhile, a crime lord, convinced they have stolen the massive stash of drugs their father was hiding, sends a violent pack of thugs to find them. HIDDEN IN THE WOODS is “A devious and unforgiving film….imagery that will make your soul curl…a straight-up bare knuckle bashing film of uberviolence and ultragore.” (Ain’t It Cool News)

Artsploitation’s release of HIDDEN IN THE WOODS will arrive on DVD for the first time ever on September 17. The DVD extras include an eight page booklet, a reversible cover a special look at director Patricio Valladares at Fantasia 2012 and a behind-the-scenes featurette.

HIDDEN IN THE WOODS won Best Extreme Movie at the Feratum Film Festival (Mexico). It also won Best Movie at both the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival and the Asti Film Festival (Italy). Artsploitation’s first-ever horror release WITHER, a Swedish tribute to Sam Raimi’s horror classic, Evil Dead will be released on DVD and VOD this Tuesday, August 20. South Korea’s HORROR STORIES which includes four separate stories and a terrifying wrap-around story will be Artsploitation’s third horror release on October 8. Jason Banker’s TOAD ROAD which VICE described as a frightful “hybrid documentary-feature, weaving a narrative out of the real lives of its subjects in a way that hits on greater truths than either form is capable of alone” will be the fourth horror release this fall from Artsploitation Films.

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Speaking of "Hidden in the Woods", Vallastudio Films recently send released stills for the film, which is playing at this year's Fantasia International Film Festival. It was recently announced that Blanc Biehn Productions acquired the english language remake rights for the film.

"Hidden in the Woods" will be having its world premiere on August 6th at 10:15PM at the J.A. De Seve Theatre with an addition screening on August 7th at 3:00 PM at the J.A. De Seve Theatre.

Director Patricio Valladares and producer Evelyn Belmar will be hand for the screening on August 6th and possibly on August 7th as well.

Plot Synopsis:

Ana and Anny don’t get out much, having been forcibly kept away from society for most of their lives by their abusive, drug-dealing scumbag of a father. Sharing this unhappy home is their physically deformed, mentally challenged brother who spends much of his days twitching in the shadows. One day, the siblings desperately snap, turn their father in to the law and flee for their lives deep into the mountains. How will they survive on their own in a world they’ve barely experienced or understand? That’s the least of their problems. Unfortunately for them, their dad was holding a considerable amount of drugs. Drugs that have now gone missing. This is of no small concern to Uncle Costello, the area’s resident homicidal pusher kingpin. Costello believes the girls would know where his dope is, and he and his militia of killers will tear through as many bodies as it takes to track them down. The girls know nothing, nor do they have the slightest interest in anything related to their father’s business. No matter. All they can do is continue to run, while an ever-broadening river of blood forms in their tracks behind them.

Blanc Biehn Productions announced recently that they've acquired the english language remake rights to Patrick Valladares’ “En Las Afueras de la Ciudad” (Hidden in the Woods) which will premiere at The Fantasia International Film Festival on August 6th. The film is set to star Michael Biehn (The Victim)and written by original writers and creators of the Spanish version of the film which was shot in Chile by Patricio Valladares and Andrea Cavaletto. Production on the film is set to start shooting at the end of 2012.

Press Release:

After premiering their new thriller The Victim on July 23rd to rave responses at The Fantasia International Film Festival, Blanc Biehn Productions announced they will be making the English language remake of Patrick Valladares’ “En Las Afueras de la Ciudad” (Hidden in the Woods) which will premiere at The Fantasia International Film Festival on August 6th. Michel Biehn will star in the remake which will be written by original writers and creators of the Spanish version of the film which was shot in Chile by Patricio Valladares and Andrea Cavaletto. Jennifer Blanc Biehn and Michael Biehn will produce. Production begins at the end of 2012 and will shoot on location in Chile.

“I am thrilled to be working with Patricio – I’ve been waiting a very long time for a project like this to cross my path!” says Biehn.

"Patricio is a ferocious new talent, very much like a young Peckinpah in the rough, crossed with Gaspar Noé” says Mitch Davis, Co-Festival Director of the Fantasia International Film Festival. “His style of filmmaking is the very definition of "explosive" and I can't wait to see how his feature debut plays to an audience when we world premiere it at Fantasia next week. That Michael and Jennifer fell in love with Hidden in the Woods at The Fantasia IFF as madly as we have, before the film has ever had a public screening, is, to me, a hugely exciting testament to the power of his work. “

The deal was brokered by Jennifer Blanc Biehn of Blanc Biehn Productions and Jennifer Gray at The Law Offices of Elsa Ramo. Michael Biehn will star and Patricio Valladares will direct. The remake will be a joint production for Valladares Films (Patricio Valladares and Evelyn Belmar) and Blanc Biehn Productions (Jennifer Blanc Biehn and Michael Biehn).

The Biehn’s new provocative and gritty grindhouse thriller The Victim, written, directed and starring 80’s horror/sci-fi icon Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens, Tombstone), opens exclusively in New York City on August 24th at the Quad Cinema and in Los Angeles at the New Beverly Cinema on September 7th. The Victim is A Crimson Films Release, In Association with Pegasus Productions and PMK, Distributed by Anchor Bay Films.