July 2012

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my friend, actor and filmmaker Sage Stallone, who passed away on July 13, 2012. I worked with Sage closely on two feature films (CHAOS and A PLACE TO DIE) and knew him for ten years. This tragedy will be felt for a long time, though I hope that we all can learn from his great life and loss.

March 2012

Stephen provided the narrative commerical voiceover for the upcoming HD video game release of JET SET RADIO, based on the the popular SD release of the same name, which played on Sega's Dreamcast Console in 2000.

February 2012

Stephen played the role of 'Simon' in the dramatic comedy feature moton picture, MY FUNNY VALENTINE, starring Tom Payne (Michael Mann's LUCK on HBO), directed John Bevilacqua (BOARDWALK POETS, starring Daniel Baldwin).

July 2010 

Stephen directed the award-winning musical artist Fawn's new music video for the hit dance single WISH U LOVE, which aired on MTV's Logo Channel in February of 2010 on The Click List: Top 10 Videos television series. WISH U LOVE reached #3 on The Click List: Top 10 Videos by July of 2010 after a consecutive 20 week airing.

February 2010

In February of 2010, Stephen Wozniak played the lead role of hip of rock n’ roll singer ‘Drake’ in the comedy television series pilot SILVER LAKE, directed by John Bevilacqua, writer and director of the dramatic feature film BOARDWALK POETS, starring Daniel Baldwin (PAPARAZZI, MULHOLLAND FALLS).

December 2009

Stephen directed the award-winning musical artist Fawn's new music video for the hit dance single WISH U LOVE, which premiered on MTV's Logo Channel on December 14, 2009 on the NewNowNext Music show. The WISH U LOVE muic video also made it to #6 on Logo Channel's The Click List as of march 2010. The WISH U LOVE dance single reached #6 on the Billboard Magazine Dance/Club Play Lost on December 6, 2009. Fawn's credits as a television composer include the hit primetime Emmy Award-winning series UGLY BETTY, the long-standing popular CBS daytime television series' THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and THE GUIDING LIGHT, as well as TNT's fantasy action series WITCHBLADE, amongst others.  

September 2009

CHAOS on the big screen in downtown Los Angeles on September 4th! Be There!

The controversial true crime horror feature film CHAOS will be showing on the big screen again in Los Angeles this Friday, September 4th, 2009 at The Downtown Independent Theater along with Lionsgate's MURDER-SET-PIECES, directed by Nick Palumbo.

A great deal of debate has emerged since the original U.S. national theatrical release of the gritty, realistic and truly terrifying feature film CHAOS in the fall of 2005.

Many members of the national press and viewers alike have contended that CHAOS has stirred them up in a way that few films of similarly strong nature have done in the last thirty-five years since the original release of the seminal THE LAST HOUSE ONTHE LEFT and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE of the early 1970s. 

Today, a succession of larger budget studio feature horror films with related themes have been released - such as the HOSTEL and SAW series - to either glowing reviews or an enormously growing fan base worldwide. 

Unknown to a majority of new horror and true crime audiences is that many of those higher-profile feature films arrived on the heels of the production and release of CHAOS, as well as other contemporary independent films like Nick Palumbo’s MURDER-SET-PIECES and Takashi Mike’s AUDITION, which pre-date the aforementioned popular series.

CHAOS and MURDER-SET-PIECES are amongst the very last visceral, realistic and truly devastating independent horror movies shot on 35mm in a lineage that has rarely been reawakened theatrically in recent years until now.

We invite fans and members of the press will be on hand to re-examine both of these unusual and striking films.

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STORY 

CHAOS is the harrowing story of two young women who enter an irreversible and hellish descent into the hands of wayward psychotic gang leader Eddie "Chaos" Cooper and his degenerate cohorts "Frankie," "Swan" and "Daisy." It is a story based on true events. It is a story that happens every day. It is a story that you have to see to believe. It is the story of CHAOS.

Kevin Gage (Michael Mann's HEAT, Ridley Scott's G.I. JANE), Sage Stallone (DAYLIGHT, ROCKY V), Stephen Wozniak (BEYOND THE DAVINCI CODE, HOPE RANCH), KC Kelly, Chantal Degroat and Maya Barovich star in the brutal, realistic and horrifying true-crime feature film, CHAOS. Directed and written by David DeFalco. Co-produced and co-written by Marc Sheffler (The original THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT). 

NATIONAL PRESS REVIEW QUOTES

“Don’t make the mistake of thinking CHAOS is only a horror film. Having seen it, I cannot ignore it, nor can I deny that it affected me strongly…and when CHAOS was over, I was filled with sadness and disquiet. The movie works.”

-ROGER EBERT

 “CHAOS is well-shot and convincingly acted.” 

- TV GUIDE

“This movie horrified me. CHAOS is blunt and brutal. CHAOS has done something no modern horror film has accomplished since 1973’s THE EXORCIST: Reacquaints us with our humanity. CHAOS comes at us with such unrestrained intensity that the movie doesn’t just cross the line, it leaves the line back at the horizon.”

- CHICAGO HERALD

“CHAOS is a well-crafted horror film. CHAOS is about brutality without the theatrics. CHAOS is the worst nightmare you’ve ever had. Perhaps the biggest surprise about CHAOS is the acting…pretty good performances.”

- AIN’T IT COOL NEWS

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SPECIAL GUESTS

Select cast and crew, including actor Stephen Wozniak of CHAOS and MURDER-SET-PIECES director Nick Palumbo, will be speaking live for a Q & A panel discussion between each screening, as well as will be available for press interviews on the screening night.

LOCATION

THE DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT THEATER

251 S. Main Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012 

213.617.1033

TICKETS are $10.

18+ to enter the shows and 21+ to drink alcoholic beverages.

TIMES

Brutal Cinema presents:

CHAOS 9:00PM

MURDER-SET-PIECES 11:00PM

Hosted by Nekromistress.

Both CHAOS and MURDER-SET-PIECES will follow HIPPIE MASALA, scheduled for 7:00PM as per the DIT website.

With live performances from Gravehill and a DJ set by Satan's Might.

OTHER INFORMATION

For more information about scheduling and ticket sales, visit The Downtown Independent Theater  website: 

www.downtownindependent.com. 

Also go to: www.myspace.com/brutalcinema and www.twitter.com/brutalcinema.

Look out for true horror on the big screen in early September!

Truly,

THE CHAOS TEAM

CHAOS 

THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

Dinsdale Releasing, Razor Digital

2005, Unrated, 35mm, 80Min.

Directed by David DeFalco

Written by David DeFalco and Marc Sheffler

Cast:

Kevin Gage – Eddie 'Chaos' Cooper

Stephen Wozniak – Frankie

Sage Stallone – Swan

KC Kelly – Daisy

Maya Barovich – Angelica

Chantal Degroat – Emily

http://myspace.com/themoviechaos

www.chaos-themovie.com

MURDER-SET-PIECES 

THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

Blackwatch Releasing, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

2005, NC-17, 35mm, 120Min.

Directed, Written and Produced by Nick Palumbo

Cast:

Sven Garrett – The Photographer

Tony Todd – Clerk

Gunnar Hansen – Nazi Mechanic

Cerina Vincent – Beautiful Girl

Edwin Neal – Good Samaritan

http://www.myspace.com/murdersetpieces

www.murdersetpieces.com 

August 2009

Stephen will be directing award-winning musical artist Fawn's new music video for the dance single "Wish You Love" in early September. Fawn's credits as a television composer include the hit primetime Emmy Award-winning series UGLY BETTY, the long-standing popular CBS daytime television series' THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and THE GUIDING LIGHT, as well as TNT's fantasy action series WITCHBLADE, amongst others.

March 2009

After the recent international wide theatrical release of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT re-make, produced by Wes Craven, special interest has arisen over the German DVD release of the other recent LAST HOUSE re-make CHAOS, starring Stephen Wozniak, Kevin Gage and Sage Stallone. Germany’s Sunfilm Entertainment, distributor of such feature films as THE ALPHABET KILLER (Starring Academy Award-winner Timothy Hutton and Eliza Dushku), BAILEY’S BILLIONS (Starring Academy Award-winner Jennifer Tilly) and SECRETARY (Starring Golden Globe-nominees Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader), has released a special edition German DVD of CHAOS in January of 2009. 

January 2009

Principal producing partners Stephen Wozniak and Ron Farber, of Inevitable Film Group, have teamed up with Academy Award-nominated and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and director David Mamet (THE VERDICT, HANNIBAL, RED BELT) and innovative award-winning filmmaker Michael Worth to produce the dramatic feature film, COME BACK TO SORRENTO, based on the novel by Dawn Powell. Emmy Award-winning actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman have signed on to star in this project. Production is slated for a late Summer of 2011 start date.

September 2008

Stephen recently played ‘Steve Varner’ in the gripping, realistic, day-in-the-life ensemble dramatic feature, STATISTICS, executive produced by Michel Shane (Steven Spielberg’s CATCH ME IF YOU CAN and I, ROBOT). After a limited theatrical release, STATISTICS was released on DVD in September of 2008 by Anthem Pictures.