Friday, March 27, 2015

“Good Family Times” Home Invasion-Horror Welcomes Matt Lasky into the Fold



Blanc-Biehn Productions and Lony Ruhman is proud to announce well-known genre actor and stunt-man Matt Lasky has joined the cast of itssupernatural psychological thriller feature “Good Family Times.”

Synopsis:
Meet Beatrice. She’s happily married, has a darling young son, and she’s a talented artist. Her home is a happy one. Beatrice dotes on her family, and they love her back. Too bad her husband and child are not exactly… alive. When Beatrice comes into some money, another family – one that’s not quite so happy – decides they’re more deserving of the dough and set out to rob her by breaking into her home under the cover of night. In the course of that one evil evening, both families soon learn the true meaning of ‘blood relations’.

Matt Lasky plays one of the home-invaders, Shasta. Shasta is unusually observant… but in spite of his ability to see danger coming, he still manages to find himself in deep trouble. Lasky’s career is on the upswing, with a role in the recent horror hit “The Purge: Anarchy”, and a featured turn in an episode of the top-rated CBS series, Scorpion (“Once Bitten, Twice Die”).Aside from “Good Family Times” look for Lasky (and our own Jennifer Blanc) in the gothichorror film “Havenhurst.”

The rest of the cast features Arielle Brachfeld (“Watch Me Die”), Jennifer Blanc (“Everly”,“The Victim”, “Hidden in the Woods”), Elissa Dowling (“We Are Still Here”), THE Richard aka Richard Cardinal (“Fetish Factory”,  “Psychophonia”), Sean Keller (“The Cartridge Family”), Aaron Kai (“Day for Night”), Nick Nicholson (“Altered Perception”), and Nikita Black (“Fembot”, “Psychophonia”, “The Lincoln”).

The main character of Beatrice is played by sexy scream queen Brachfeld, who is known for her work in genre films such as “The Haunting of Whaley House”, “Return of the Ghostbusters”, and “LOVE: As You Like It”. Arielle is actively involved in several charity organizations including The Horror Starlets, a group that fund-raises to fight breast cancer, and The Young Storytellers Foundation which encourages literacy through the arts.

“Good Family Times” is based on a story by producer Lony Ruhmann (“Psychophonia”). It is written and directed by award-winning filmmaker and cinema pundit Staci Layne Wilson (“Fetish Factory”, “The Night Plays Tricks”). “Good Family Times” is produced by Blanc-Biehn Productions (“Hidden in the Woods”), created by famed husband and wife filmmaking team, Michael Biehn (“Terminator”) and Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (“The Crow”). It is also produced by Danny Bellens, Tony DeBenedetto  (“Treachery”, “Psychophonia”, “Jacob”), Cynthia Paredes, Garrett Longley, and Jenimay Walker (“Psychophonia”, “The Lincoln”). 

Cinematographer Steve Romano, whose credits include Blanc-Biehn Productions’ “She Rises”, “The Night Visitor”, and “Altered Perception”, has also shot music videos for Beyonce (“Rocket”), Vassy (“Beautiful”), and many more.

Original score by Randy Chance, a former member of rock supergroup The Lovin’ Spoonful (“Do You Believe in Magic?”), with additional songs by up-and-coming Japanese heavy metal band, MergingMoon (“Greyen”).



THE FILM IS ALSO BEING SPONSORED BY KATY FIELDER DESIGNS
Kathy’s passion for beautiful design, quality, and fashion is evident throughout her illustrious career as a designer, creator, and manufacturer; and is projected across all aspects of her life.Since starting her first design firm, Studio Interiors in 1998, Kathy has gone on to create many successful collections tailored to the masses, including Isabella Collection by Kathy Fielder, Isabella Collection Linen Co, IbCDesign Studio, her 100% American Made brand, Harrison Mercantile as well as her namesake brand Kathy Fielder Design I Life I Style. Kathy’s design expertise is called upon every day in both the home and fashion industries to make beautiful and trendsetting product for retailers such as Neiman Marcus/Horchow, One Kings Lane and RueLa La, just to name a few. After many years of hard work, perseverance and vision, the Kathy Fielder branded products are proudly shipped worldwide. Kathy’s passionate dedication to her craft, staying on cutting edge of trends and her indisputable talent has placed her at the top of her industry, realizing her dream of providing her customers timeless designs to be cherished throughout generations.

ABOUT BLANC/BIEHN PRODUCTIONS & PRODUCERS:
Blanc-Biehn Productions is the partnership of famed actors Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc-Biehn. The pair decided to put their passion for acting and filmmaking together, creating their own production company. The duo produced and starred in Biehn’s directorial debut, “The Victim”, a grindhouse film which co-stars scream queen, Danielle Harris. The company’s other feature releases include “Treachery”, “The Night Visitor”, “The Night Visitor 2”, “Hidden in the Woods”, “The Girl”, “Altered Perception”, “She Rises”, and the horror anthology “Hellevator Man”. Look out for more releases on their slate as well as festival screenings in the near future, as well as a new list of fabulous directors being added to the roster. For more information on upcoming BBP features, please go to www.TheBBBasement.com  and sign up for news and updates. Also check out www.blancbiehnproductions.com Many projects are currently in post-production with partner, executive Lony Ruhmann.

Producer Tony DeBenedetto launched his career in 2011 with the multi-award winning independent film “Jacob”.  In March of 2014, he established his own production company, Javelina 98 Productions, Inc.  He partnered with Scott W. Perry with Slick Devil Entertainment on two projects in 2014 - a short film entitled “Once, When I was Dead” and a Web Series entitled “In Fear Of” which was awarded the 2014 Best Web Series by the Macabre Faire FilmFestival in New York.  Tony is currently working on an “In Fear Of” television pilot. He has teamed up as a producer with Blanc-Biehn Productions on several projects in the past few years.  Some of the projects included are “Treachery”, “She Rises”, “Psychophonia”, “Fetish Factory”, “Hidden in the Woods”, and most recently, “Good Family Times”.  Operating out of the Houston, Texas area, Tony is making it his mission to “Bringing you the galaxy, one star at a time.”

Producer Jenimay Walker is an actress with roots in theatre, singing, burlesque and contemporary dance. Born in the West-Island of Montreal, Canada, Jenimay’s passion for the theatre arts began in childhood. She was in The Pauline Rathbone Children's Theatre in Montreal, Ottawa school of Contemporary dance and is currently pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles, California. Jenimay has trained with top Meisner coach Jacqueline McClintock, she has studied the technique of Uta Hagen in Florida and other prominent acting teachers in North America. Jenimay’s performing career began to evolve in 2007, as she landed the role of Janis Weiss in the live musical theatre production of the cult classic 'Rocky Horror'. Jenimay played the role of Janet, for 3 consecutive years in reputable Montreal venues. She has acted in over 40 theatre shows in Toronto and Montreal and sold out performances in a popular Burlesque troupe and then as a solo performer in various events all over Canada. Shortly thereafter Jenimay moved to South Beach, Miami where she was a professional go-go/showgirl dancer in some of the most prominent venues and events in Miami, including, Liv, Set and The Ultra Music Festival. Following this, Jenimay was in two critically acclaimed short films which both went to Cannes Film Festival and many other festivals, “Serpent’s Lullaby” starring Jenimay Walker and “Ceramic Tango”. Jenimay moved to LA permanently in 2014. She has been working with Blanc-Beihn Productions in “Fetish Factory” she played ‘Rosie’ directed by Staci Layne Wilson. A principal role in “Psychophonia” as ‘Angel’, directed by Brianne Davis. A producer credit in “Good Family Times”, directed by Staci Layne Wilson. Jenimay was also in “The End of April” directed by Larry Wade Carrell. Jenimay will also be acting in “Fembot” and “The Lincoln” produced by BBP in the summer of 2015.

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