This epic fantasy tale, about the history of a land that never was, begins when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, it falls to people of different ilk and culture to attempt to stop him. Among those who stand against him are a daring tomb-robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer, winged assassins, and an undying guardian.
Today, the epic and tremendously violent animated fantasy film The Spine of Night is coming to DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD DVD/Blu-ray SteelBook®. We have a whopping four (4) SteelBook® copies to give away this week so if you can hold off picking one up for a couple days enter our giveaway for your chance to win a copy of the movie in the best format possible.
Our own Josh said in his review, "...it's the absurd violence that really puts this one over the top for genre film fans. Imagine the old Dragon's Lair arcade game (laserdisc arcade games? What a concept!) packed with Metalocalypse levels of violence and gore, and you'll have some idea of what you're in for. It's a glorious bloody mess of hacked-off limbs and decapitations by which it's hard not to be impressed".
The Spine of Night an all-star cast of Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Lucy Lawless (“Xena: Warrior Princess”), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult), Betty Gabriel (Get Out) and Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”). The film was co-written and co-directed by Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King.
We are going technical this time. HD video typically runs at 24 or 30 frames per second. Gelatt and King chose to animate The Spine of Night with the old-fashioned hand-drawn rotoscope animation method. How many frames per second is that usually?
When you have the answer email us here and you will be entered into the random draw at the end of the week, on Friday, February 4th at noon, PST. Entries are limited to one per household and the giveaway is open to residents of the U.S.