‘Mandy Lane’ Gets Dumped Again

What does an excellent horror movie have to do to catch a friggin’ break, these days?   Shot in 2006 and making it’s US debut at SXSW in 2007, ‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane’ is a film that has been getting release dates pushed back as if its actual release marked the end of the world.

Directed by Jonathan Levine, who has guest blogged for WAMG in the past, ‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane’ was last set to get a release on July 17th by Senator Distribution.   However, word comes today that Senator has pulled the film, and it finds itself in release date limbo once again.   Senator did not give any specific reasons why they pulled the film from their release slate, but rumors abound that Senator is in its finals days.   The New York-based company may be closing shop sooner rather than later.

The film got its UK release over a year ago, and, thus far, it has picked up $1.6 million worldwide.   That’s double the film’s budget, and, with all the hype it’s gotten just sitting on a shelf in some distribution companies closet, imagine what it could pull in were it to actually get a release date.

Amazing to think that ‘The Wackness,’ Levine’s follow-up to ‘Mandy Lane,’ was shot, edited, and released since his first film was completed.   Not only that, we are coming up on the one-year anniversary for the release of ‘The Wackness.’   This is getting ridiculous.

If you are one of the people out there who have seen ‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane,’ you can attest to the fact that it is a solid entry into the horror genre.   It is exponentially better than most of the crap that gets half-assed releases straight to DVD or on the Sci-Fi network.   If you happen to be affiliated with a distributor, and you are reading this, please do the world of horror a huge favor and pick this movie up.   You will not regret it.

Source: Shock Till You Drop