An anthology of bizarre, fantastic and spooky tales from the past, present and future, dealing with curses, witches, perfect crime and science experiments.
STARRING: Lisette Pomerants, Jekaterina Novosjolova, Kadri Rämmeld
Read more “Eerie Fairy Tales (2019) Available September 28”When a censor is assigned to review a disturbing horror film that echoes memories of her sister’s mysterious disappearance, she begins to unravel how this sinister film might be tied to her past.
STARRING: Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley
Read more “Censor (2021) Available September 14”A possessed pair of jeans is brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy clothing company. Shipped to the company’s flagship store, the killer jeans proceed to wreak carnage on staff who are locked in overnight to set up the new collection.
STARRING: Romane Denis, Brett Donahue, Sehar Bhojani, Stephen Bogaert
Read more “Slaxx (2020) Available August 31”When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered. But is it real. Or is it just a game at her expense.
STARRING: Daisye Tutor, Emily Goss, Nicola Posener, Octavius J. Johnson
Read more “Shook (2021) Available August 17”World Premiere for the trailer of Prisoners Of The Ghostland will be Wednesday, August 11 at 10:00am PST!
From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some of the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red – the ultimate giallo movie.
One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems…
Read more “Deep Red US Trailer”A frightening tale about a group of hikers hunted by a sinister presence in the woods. Twenty years after the mysterious disappearance of an 11-year-old boy and his grandfather, a group of friends find themselves along the same trail, unaware of a long-forgotten evil lurking just beyond the tree line. What started as a week-long adventure with friends, quickly turns into a terrifying fight for survival as they come face to face with the thing that nightmares are made of.
This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “August 10, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”An agoraphobic young man (Henry), living with a Youtuber and struggling actor (Eric), hacks the webcams of young women, and suspects that one of them is a serial killer.
Read more “Tuesday, August 10, 2021: Eye Without a Face Premieres Today on VOD”After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren’t as dead and gone as he once thought.
Read more “Tuesday, August 10, 2021: The Return Premieres Today on VOD”During a winter getaway at an isolated cabin, a self-destructive young woman becomes convinced that her best friend is stealing her blood.
Read more “Tuesday, August 10, 2021: Bleed with Me Premieres Today on Shudder”From the producers of “The Haunting of Hill House”, “Midnight Mass” introduces Crockett Island, an isolated island community that experiences miraculous events – and frightening omens – following the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest.
From “The Haunting of Hill House” creator Mike Flanagan, “Midnight Mass” tells the tale of a small, isolated island community whose existing divisions are amplified by the return of a disgraced young man (Zach Gilford) and the arrival of a charismatic priest (Hamish Linklater). When Father Paul’s appearance on Crockett Island coincides with unexplained and seemingly miraculous events, a renewed religious fervor takes hold of the community – but do these miracles come at a price?
Read more “Midnight Mass | Teaser Trailer | Netflix”It’s 2047. Every human being is identified and traced by the large surveillance and censorship networks that have been developed. A few freethinkers have created an encrypted network of alternative research and information, making it harder for law enforcement to track down. Among them, a teenage girl, Serena, is secretly developing glasses to reveal vortices: doorways to other dimensions. What will this opening to the unknown unveil?
STARRING: Michel Rousseau
Read more “Vortex: The Dawn of Sovereignty (2021) Available August 10”Includes: Tarantula (1955)The researchers who thought that the Arizona desert would give them sufficient isolation for their experiments with growth hormones have a second think coming, when their travails turn a simple arachnid into a hundred-foot-tall monstrosity. Memorable sci-fi staple of the ’50s stars John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Caroll, Nestor Paiva; yes, that’s a young Clint Eastwood behind that pilot’s oxygen mask. 80 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)Classic sci-fi thriller stars Grant Williams as the title protagonist who, after exposure to radioactive fallout and chemicals, slowly but inexorably diminishes in size. Great special effects-including a fight to the death against a spider-and Richard Matheson’s literate screenplay (from his novel “The Shrinking Man”) mark this landmark genre entry; with Randy Stuart, April Kent. 81 min. BW/Rtg: NR Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free
STARRING: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Caroll, Nestor Paiva, Clint Eastwood, Grant Williams
Read more “Tarantula / The Incredible Shrinking Man (Import) Available August 13”“An explosive journey into the realm of the senses!”
In the tradition of Japanese “Pink” cinema comes this shocking, violent and sex-filled movie that caused a sensation when it was screened at the Chicago Film Festival.
The film stars former Miss Philippines, the stunning Maria Isabel Lopez, in her most revealing role ever. It’s an eye-opening example of raw and savage film making from one of its country’s most innovative directors. The film contains images of sex and violence that may disturb some viewers.
STARRING: Maria Isabel Lopez, Sarsi Emmanuelle, Mark Joseph, Myra Manibog, Pia Zabale
Read more “Silip: Daughters of Eve (1985) Available August 10”When the curtain rises, the nightmares begin in this Australian shocker. A series of violent killings plagues a stage troupe’s latest production, and a disturbed young actress who witnessed her mother’s death as a child fears she may be the murderer.
STARRING: Gary Day, Max Phipps, Jenny Neumann, Nina Landis, John Michael Howson
Read more “Nightmares (1983) (Import) Available August 13”Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their younger brother Thomas’ mysterious illness. The increasingly dangerous task of keeping him alive weighs heavy on sensitive Dwight, and as a fiercely private and close-knit family unit, Thomas and Jessie depend on him and the rituals they’ve learned in order to keep their secret. Dwight yearns for another life, but Jessie will stop at nothing to keep her family together.
STARRING: Patrick Fugit, Owen Campbell
Read more “My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2021) Available August 10”Following a virus that took the lives of most of the population, John and Michael have spent their days trying to survive and make sense of their new world. But when they meet the mysterious Karina, who has knowledge of the outside world, their friendship and everything they once knew about the virus and each other will be tested.
STARRING: Marcelle Bowman, Algernon D’Ammassa, Pablo Medina
Read more “The Last Ones (2012) Available August 10”It’s been generations since the Harkers’ great-great grandfather killed the one-and-only Count Dracula. Now the Harker brothers and their best friend Ned are a town joke—until a real vampire turns up!
STARRING: Jacob Givens, Derek Haugen, Noel Carroll, Whitney Moore
Read more “I Had a Bloody Good Time at House Harker (2016) Available August 10”A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.
STARRING: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern
Read more “The Haunting (1999) Available August 10”In a distant future, an archeologist is hunted by alien attackers and takes refuge in the ruins of a long extinct civilization. She must employ ancient technology in hopes of finding a way to fight back and escape the planet.
STARRING: Clint Beaver, Raven Ebner, Otis Johnson
Read more “Future Fear (2021) Available August 10”Camp Crystal Lake has been shuttered for over 20 years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. The camp’s new owner and seven young counselors are readying the property for re-opening despite warnings of a “death curse” by local residents.
STARRING: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon
Read more “Friday the 13th (1980) Available August 10”The gruesome story of one of Spain’s most notorious serial killers – U.S. home video premiere!
“The Frenchman” was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of Peñaflor in rural Spain in the early part of the 20th century. But Juan Andrés Aldije Monmejá was not your usual jolly inn keeper. He ran an illegal gambling den and pimped out the waitresses who worked for him, arranging abortions for them when the inevitable happened. Even though he was married to one of the richest women in town, Juan Andrés was not averse to visiting his own bordello for late night entertainment.
Deciding that there were easier and quicker ways to exploit his customers, The Frenchman started slaughtering them, stealing their money and burying their corpses in the garden at the back of his inn. As his greed increased, so did the savagery of his murderous acts. It was not long before people started asking questions.
This gruesome story of one of Spain’s most notorious serial killers was a very personal project for Paul Naschy, who wrote, directed and acts in the film alongside two of the hottest female stars of the time. This macabre tale of a “black legend” from Spain’s rural past was impossible to see for many years but is now available, fully uncut and restored, for the first time on US home video.
STARRING: Paul Naschy, María José Cantudo, Ágata Lys, José Calvo, José Nieto
Read more “The Frenchman’s Garden (1978) Available August 10”A notorious occultist named Alfred Fischer conjures up a brothel full of ravenous demons from hell in a bizarre ritual. Taking the form of beautiful women, the beasts make Fischer their slave and demand that he supply them with a steady diet of fresh prey! When Fischer hires a team of ghost hunters to investigate the paranormal activities at the old mansion, the sexy demons eagerly await feeding time and the chance to pounce on the full-course buffet of warm flesh! Features a pulse-pounding music score by Buckethead with special appearances by cult genre icons Caroline Munro (007’s The Spy Who Loved Me, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Dracula AD 1972) and Aldo Sambrell (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Golden Voyage of Sinbad).
STARRING: Sergio Jones, Caroline Munro, Aldo Sanbrell, Jane Scarlet
Read more “Flesh For The Beast (2003) Available August 10”Haunted by the darkness as she wanders through a dead city, our young, doomed heroine Angelique is stricken with hallucinatory visions as she learns the story of a cruel and loveless vampiress. Her visions are of the bizarre rituals that imprison a group of Satanic worshippers in a cycle of dying passion, and who seek to survive beyond the grave. In Angelique’s ears, only the music of the gothic atmosphere flows to augment her quest into the horror and the passion of the dead — and no voice can rise above it. A haunting, enigmatic tribute to the classic Euro-Horror works of Jean Rollin and Jess Franco.
STARRING: Larissa Anzoategui, Mera, Nathália Borioli, Renata Cáceres, Patrícia Souza
Read more “Domina Nocturna (2021) Available August 10”When Christine is attacked by a bloodthirsty creepy doll, she has to use all her imagination to distract it with horror stories. Zombies, Ghosts, Djinns, Aliens and Ghouls legends help her get through the night.
STARRING: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Ryan, Dominique Pinon
Read more “Dark Stories (2019) Available August 10”Bring out your dark side.
Built to Kill is an edgy, hyper-stylish horror anthology about people pushed, pulled, and driven to kill. An abused wife tends to the post-robbery wounds of her criminal ex-husband, when they are visited by a mysterious – and malevolent – preacher. A teenage girl lost in life finds belonging in a cult that brings out her darkest side. A man trapped in a deadly loop must lure another victim to buy his freedom. Two sisters must find a way forward and an unspeakable act is the only way to rid them of their abusive father. And a young woman buys her way, with flesh and blood, into a secret society.
STARRING: Astrida Auza, Anne-Carolyne Binette, Thomas Raft, Bo Månsson, Vivien Endicott-Douglas
Read more “Built to Kill (2020) Available August 10”When a happy young couple in the dawn of love are kidnapped by a gang of thrill-seeking strippers “The Brides of Satan”, a brutal and terrifying evening unfolds, leaving the lone heroine to stand hard against the looming forces of darkness and evil!
STARRING: Mindy Robinson, Malice McMunn, Joanna Angel, Rachel Rampage, Ellie Church
Read more “Brides of Satan (2020) Available August 10”From the fevered mind of the notorious Jess Franco (Barbed Wire Dolls) comes 1987’s Angel Of Death (aka Commando Mengele), a deranged free-fall into Nazisploitaion that takes its cues from the blockbuster 1978 shocker The Boys From Brazil and delivers the sort of delirium that fans of French genre film studio Eurocine hunger for! When an attractive pair of young Nazi hunters exploring Uruguay accidentally stumble upon the lair of the maniacal war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, they immediately live to regret it. There, deep in the sweltering jungles, Mengele has continued his hideous human experiments, torturing, murdering and mutilating nubile virgins in the name of creating some sort of master race. Soon, mercenaries, monstrosities, femme fatales and vengeful concentration camp survivors face off, with bullets and bodies flying everywhere and Mengele holding cretinous court. Written by (under the name D. Khunn) and co-directed by Franco and completed by Italian trash movie maverick Andrea Bianchi (Burial Ground: Nights Of Terror), the pair signed off on the film as Frank Drew White, apparently too nervous to take credit for making this truly daft piece of unsavory exploitation. Angel Of Death is a fast-paced slice of vintage Eurocine mayhem, with an international cast that includes Franco regulars Jack Taylor, Antonio Mayans and Howard Vernon (as Mengele) along with Robert Mitchum’s son Christopher and Shirley Knight from Franco’s equally insane White Cannibal Queen. Jump into the jungle with Jess and get ready for some prime cinematic insanity! Get ready for Angel Of Death, presented here in a beautiful, uncut master culled from the original 35mm camera negative.
STARRING: Jack Taylor, Christopher Mitchum, Fernando Rey, Howard Vernon, Dora Doll
Read more “Angel Of Death (1987) Available August 10”From director Kenta Fukasaku (Battle Royale 2, X-Cross) comes a twisted tale about six high school students faced with a life or death challenge. After receiving a mysterious message from a dead suicidal schoolmate, a group of students are instructed to meet up at their classroom at midnight! Upon their arrival, the group is confronted and stalked through the dark, maze-like school by a revenge-crazed, rodent-masked psychotic killer! Will they discover the killer’s true identity and motive? More importantly, who will survive the night? In original Japanese language with English subtitles.
STARRING: Misaki Yonemura, Hiroya Matsumoto
Read more “Black Rat (2010) Available August 10”
