Award Winner TWELVE Hitting U.K. DVD Shelves

Winner of Best Film at the 2009 annual International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, the tense and bloody horror movie Twelve adds a brand new recruit to the hallowed ranks of memorable screen psycho killers that include Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Leatherface and introduces a future Hollywood Scream Queen-in-the-making in the form of impressive newcomer Emily Hardy starring in her debut feature.

Written and directed by Michael A. Nickles (Just Peck; Desert Winds) and starring familiar genre favourites Mercedes McNab (Hatchet; Angel; Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Nick Searcy (Timber Falls; The Dead Girl), Steven Brand (Mistresses; Hellsing), Jeremy Fitzgerald (Star Trek), Josh Nuncio (I <3 Vampires) and former Family Of The Year vocalist, Vanessa Long (I’m On Fire; You Don’t Mess With The Zohan), Twelve brings a sly wit to a gruesome tale that delivers plenty of gore for horror fans to get their teeth into, including an unexpected exploding head, a very unpleasant tongue removal sequence and some rather graphic scenes of human skin peeling, amongst other things.

Five years after being convicted for the abuse of a minor, Leonard Karlsson (Fitzgerald) is released from prison bearing a hideously disfigured face, the result of the routine beatings regularly handed out by fellow prisoners to those guilty of crimes against children. Scarred and barely recognizable, Karlsson conceals his wounds beneath a bizarre mask and returns to the remote, Arizona desert town in which his trial was held, determined to settle the score with the dozen jury members responsible for his incarceration.

Unaware of Karlsson’s release and of their own terrifying connection to several out of town serial killings, friends and fellow diner waitresses Claire (Hardy) and Vicki (McNab) enlighten their humdrum lives with dreams of upping their roots and moving to LA. But when an FBI agent (Brand) in town investigating the murders goes missing along with several of the local townsfolk, the two friends realize that the man whose fate they decided five years ago is about to decide theirs… and if they’re lucky, it’ll only be a death sentence.

Following the tradition of ‘stalk and slash’ classics ‘Halloween’ and ‘Friday the 13th’, Twelve adds new dimensions to the proceedings with a witty script, sympathetic characters and a shrewd killer who thinks fast, moves fast and is armed with more than just a big knife.

Twelve (cert. tbc) will be released on DVD (£12.99) by Chelsea Films on 27th September 2010.