Getting Updated on Hallowed

HM readers who have been following the progress of Rocky Costanzo's HALLOWED will be pleased to read the following updates I received from the production company.  Here's the latest:

HOME VIDEO: Barnholtz Entertainment, Inc. in Calabasas, California recently acquired the domestic (USA/Canada) home video rights to Hallowed. The DVD/PSP is expected to be released in April, 2006 through Universal Home Video.  DVD extras have not yet been announced. Producers are in talks with other distributors for international and television rights.

THEATRICAL/FESTIVALS: Hallowed will hold its World Premiere Screening in Huntington Beach, California on January 12, 2006 at the new Century Theaters. Hallowed will premier in New York City on February 15, 2006 at the Anthology Film Archives in lower Manhattan. The theatrical trailer for Hallowed starts running in Los Angeles & New York City this month.  Hallowed is expected to play other festivals in Scotland & Amsterdam this year.

For more information about HALLOWED, be sure check out the films official site, as well as reading our exclusive interview with Rocky Costanzo (director) here.

"Hallowed" is the story about a mentally disturbed man who believes he has been sent from God to take the lives of innocent people. The film is dark in nature because of its spiritual undertones, however it is not blasphemous in any way, nor does it single out any religion. It was merely done that way to invent a unique killer. Unlike your typical man-in-a-mask psycho, Gabriel's appearance is that of a clean cut, door-to-door religious man, dressed in a white-collared shirt, black tie and dark slacks... not your average killer. But Gabriel is intelligent and very dangerous and he attacks his victims at key moments.

Rosslyn Roberson portrays the chosen one, Cassie, who is vulnerable to the killer (Gabriel). Gabriel arrives at her doorstep to read her a bible passage and quickly begins to stalk her. Andrew Martin plays Cassie's boyfriend, Shaun, a college student and top athlete. He doesn't like Gabriel and is destined to keep him away from his girlfriend. But the tables are quickly turned on Shaun when Gabriel shifts his attention from Cassie to him.