A recent college graduate and her estranged high school friends return to Lantern’s Lane, the location of an evil urban legend and must fight to survive the night.
STARRING: Lisa Roumain, Brooke Butler, Ashley Doris, Andy Cohen
Read more “Lantern’s Lane (2021) Available January 11”The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet. Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode’s (Jamie Lee Curtis) trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As Laurie fights for her life from injuries from her last encounter with Michael, she inspires her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), and all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The vigilante mob then sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. Evil dies tonight.
STARRING: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer
Read more “Halloween Kills (2021) Available January 11”The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter (Brain Damage, Frankenhooker), 1982’s Basket Case is a riotous and blood-spattered “midnight movie” experience, now immortalized in a lavish 4K restoration by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Duane Bradley seems like a pretty ordinary guy. His formerly conjoined twin Belial, on the other hand, is a deformed creature who lives in a wicker basket. Arriving in the Big Apple and taking up a room at a seedy hotel, the pair set about hunting down and butchering the surgeons responsible for their separation.
Filmed on a shoestring budget against the backdrop of 1980s New York (where it played on the midnight movie circuit for over two-and-a-half years), Basket Case has clawed its way from its humble origins to become one of the most celebrated cult movies of all time.
STARRING: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
Read more “Basket Case (1982) (Standard Special Edition) Available January 11”In an attempt to bring his wife back from the grave, an ordinary man turns to voodoo and summons Kaifu, the God of malevolence. He makes a pact to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to the Earth and in return, he will become “The Zombie King,” walking the Earth for eternity with his deceased love.
STARRING: Edward Furlong, Corey Feldman
Read more “The Zombie King (2013) Available January 4”Venomous Vixens, Voodoo priests, and sex-crazed beasts are just some of the insanity you’ll witness in this compilation of trailers from mad man director James Balsamo. Let your mind bend and melt after watching one crazy trailer after another in this feature-length compilation of chaos. Never have some many trailers of James Balsamo been caged together in one film… till now! You’ll scream, you’ll moan, you’ll see monsters overgrown in Trailers Of James Balsamo.
STARRING: James Balsamo, Andy Dick, Reggie Bannister
Read more “Trailers of James Balsamo Available January 4”Ghosts in nipple rings possesing stripers to kill priests, Aztec legends, and Robot badgers are just some of the wacky subjects that will be covered in this double disc box set. See celebrities singing, mean monsters, and music videos that will surely turn your brains into mush. Watch hilarious hours of short films stacked up high! These films are packed with gore, and silliness to adore in Mind Melters 1 & 2.
STARRING: James Balsamo, Craig Muckler, Dave Brockie
Read more “Mind Melters 1 & 2 Available January 4”James and Mike get a script from the Devil and try to make the sickest horror anthology ever made.
STARRING: James Balsamo, Lloyd Kaufman, Dave Brockie, Debbie Rochon
Read more “Hack Job (2011) 10 Year Anniversary Available January 4”In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become embroiled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to terrifying encounters with an ancestral creature.
STARRING: Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy Thomas
Read more “Antlers (2021) Available January 4”Reeling from a bad breakup, Rose leaves LA and moves into her ancestral home, a massive estate filled with ornate antiques, rooms upon rooms and things that go bump in the night. Suddenly Rose begins hearing voices and seeing strange visions and soon she realizes that she’s not alone: the ghost of a long dead man walks the corridors, longing for Rose and ushering her into a world of forbidden love and spectral sensuality.
Read more “Friday, December 31, 2021: The Seduction of Rose Parrish Premieres Today on Full Moon Features”Handsomely photographed and deliciously eerie, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb follows an expedition in Egypt as they open a cursed crypt. The leader of the excavation crew decides to give the ruins to a museum, but a fast-talking American grabs the tomb for a sideshow attraction.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, December 31, 1964: The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb was released in US theaters”This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “December 28, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”A demented grab-bag of sinister cinematic tropes set in the picturesque Bavarian countryside, Venom (1971, aka The Legend of Spider Forest) spins a wicked web complete with a winsome seductress (Neda Arneric) who lures curious young men to a nasty death, all in the shadow of a Nazi-styled scientist (Terence Soall) aiming to craft an arachnid-derived nerve drug. Meanwhile, an unsavory brood of conspiratorial locals is keen on maintaining the mythos of the lethal “spider goddess,” while an undaunted artist (Simon Brent) perilously investigates. Director Peter Sykes here takes a first evocative leap into screen horror that would bear more frightful fruit with the later Hammer Studios productions Demons of the Mind (1972) and To the Devil…a Daughter (1976).
STARRING: Simon Brent, Neda Arneric
Read more “Venom (1971) (aka The Legend Of Spider Forest) Available December 28”When a fractious aristocratic family gathers at an ancestral Scottish castle, a straight razor-wielding murderer is also an unwelcome guest in Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eyes (1973, aka Corringa or La morte negli occhi del gatto), a blood-laced thriller – complete with giallo flourishes, tantalizing sexuality, a pet gorilla and an omnipresent ginger tabby – from genre filmmaker Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony M. Dawson). Singer/actress Jane Birkin plays the willowy heroine whose arrival foreshadows several unnatural deaths, Hiram Keller is the possibly unhinged lord of the manor with a cursed history, and the ensemble includes schemers with homicidal tendencies, all underscored by the shudder-inducing music of the great Riz Ortolani.
STARRING: Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller
Read more “Seven Deaths In The Cat’s Eyes (1973) (aka Corringa Or La Morte Negli Occhi Del Gatto) Available December 28”Dr. Alex Zorka (Bela Lugosi), an eccentric scientist, carries on mysterious experiments in his secret laboratory with the aid of Monk (Jack C. Smith), an ex-convict. Zorka has invented many strange and powerful weapons of warfare, including a devisualizer belt which allows him to operate without being seen, and a terrifying mechanical robot eight feet tall. He also possesses a deadly meteorite fragment from which he extracts a strange element which can induce suspended animation in an entire army. 12 Chapters.
STARRING: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Regis Toomey, Dorothy Arnold
Read more “The Phantom Creeps (1939) (12/31) (2K Restored) Available December 28”Both opulent and humanly scaled, director Vittorio Cottafavi’s Messalina (1960, aka Messalina Venere Imperatrice) is a rare Italian-made historical spectacle headlined by a solo-above-title female star, the ideally cast English-born Belinda Lee, in one of the final roles of her tragically shortened life. Playing the young beauty plucked from country life as the Vestal Valeria to enter an arranged marriage with the newly crowned Roman emperor Claudius, she ably portrays the sexual manipulativeness and raw hunger for power of the murderous empress of legend. Seducing several high-born lovers to gain political influence, Messalina learns that balancing her grasp on the aristocracy and the common folk is too much to handle, even as she longs for the affections of her true love, the ultimately incorruptible tribune Lucius Maximus (Spiros Focas).
STARRING: Belinda Lee, Spyros Fokas
Read more “Messalina (1960) Available December 28”HE’S ICIN’ AND SLICIN’!
Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald), the chiller killer is back and he’s mad as hell. An accidental lab experiment resurrected the evil snowman, but this time, the crystal killer can’t be stopped by fire, bullets or even his worst enemy, chemical anti-freeze. With revenge on his mind, Jack sets out to finish off his nemesis, Sheriff Sam (Christopher Allport), who is vacationing on a Caribbean island. Sam’s balmy paradise turns into a Winter Terrorland when Jack freezes the island and quickly ices everyone around him. No one can stop the chilling killing spree when Jack can travel as lethal liquid or fatal, frosty flakes. Just when you thawed it was safe to go back in the fridge!
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Jennifer Lyons
Read more “Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) (Special Edition) Available December 28”HE’S CHILLIN’ AND KILLIN’!
He’s got ice in his veins and he’s giving cold-blooded a whole new meaning… his name is JACK FROST. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states, serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the slayride of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over… he’s the abominable Jack Frost.
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Shannon Elizabeth, Stephen Mendel, Eileen Seeley
Read more “Jack Frost (1997) (Special Edition) Available December 28”A group of online social justice activists venture deep into the woods to uncover the truth behind a recent series of gruesome ritual murders – and to capture the person responsible. But what they come face to face with is something more deadly than any serial killer, an urban legend that is very real, and determined to make them his latest victims.
STARRING: Terry Bell, Nathanael Card, Rinska Carrasco
Read more “The Cropsey Incident (2017) Available December 28”The world has moved on, but he’s still out there. Since the 1970s he has roamed the countryside, watching…and waiting. He has been sighted several times over the last few decades and this all-new docudrama chronicles these true events that occurred throughout the Midwest. Featuring interviews and locations from the real encounters.
STARRING: Allison Scott II, Christina Marie Leonard, Karrie Bauman
Read more “Bigfoot Creek Available December 28”A Paranormal Investigation Like No Other!
Horror Icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII,VIII,IX,X, Hachet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they investigate The Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina. The Grand Old Lady Hotel is a 112-year-old, 40,000 square foot hotel with a disturbing past. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, the hotel is referred to by locals as the south’s Stanley Hotel.
STARRING: Kane Hodder, Mark A. Richardson, Amanda Hannah
Read more “Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation (2021) Available December 28”An innocent college prank turns deadly when a bevy of beautiful sorority girls accidentally shoot and kill their voyeuristic, Satan worshipping neighbor Hugo. But is he really dead? See what horrible fates await each member of the sorority when Hugo mysteriously returns from the grave seeking human sacrifices to sustain his eternal life. The innocent Kim quickly becomes the object of Hugo’s obsession once he selects her as the ideal bride for his evil, demonic master Radu.
STARRING: Tina Krause, Laura Giglio, Pamela Sutch, Deana Demko, Dave Castiglione
Read more “Sorority Slaughter (1994) Available December 28”A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
STARRING: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon
Read more “Red Snow (2021) Available December 28”After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.
STARRING: Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm, Alexander Salzberger, Krister Kern
Read more “Knocking (2021) Available December 28”A Filipino police squad suspects that a former FBI agent may be the key to solving a series of cult massacres and child sacrifices.
STARRING: Jana Victoria, Ian Ignacio, Jeffrey Quizon
Read more “Circle of Bones (2020) Available December 28”A horror triple feature from the vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)!
Help Me . . . I’m Possessed: A free-form nightmare that takes place at a sanitarium in the desert, this surrealist gem includes a psychopathic hunchback, delirious monsters, and a killer early synthesizer score.
Night Of The Strangler: A southern-fried whodunnit with murder, racial tension, and a starring role from The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz, this sweat-soaked sleazer feels like a cross between an American giallo and a trashy airport paperback novel.
Carnival Of Blood: An ominous, semi-cinéma vérité horror movie that was shot at Coney Island in NYC, Carnival Of Blood features an early role from Burt Young (Rocky), pop-art gore that would make H.G. Lewis proud, and a gloriously seedy atmosphere.
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STARRING: Micky Dolenz, Burt Young
Read more “Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare Available December 28”Inside a quaint convent, young Sister Agnes explodes with an outburst of rage and blasphemy, causing the church to send veteran priest Father Donaghue and a younger priest-on-the-rise, Benjamin, to investigate the incident as a potential demonic possession.
Read more “Agnes – Attacking the Father Clip”The final season is almost here. Take a first look at the trailer for A Discovery of Witches Season 3. Watch the season premiere on January 8.
Read more ““A Discovery of Witches” Season 3 – First Look Trailer [HD] | Premieres 1/8″With numerous interpretations of Gaston Leroux’s classic novel The Phantom of the Opera having been turned out over the years, it was only a matter of time before the slasher genre decided to take a stab at the tale – step forward 1989’s Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge!
High school sweethearts Eric Matthews and Melody Austin are so in love, but their youthful romance is cut tragically short when Eric apparently dies in a fire that engulfs his family home. One year later and Melody is trying to move on with her life, taking up a job at the newly built Midwood Mall along with her friends. But the mall, which stands on the very site of Eric’s former home, has an uninvited guest – a shadowy, scarred figure which haunts its airducts and subterranean passageways, hellbent on exacting vengeance on the mall’s crooked developers.
Read more “Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge Trailer | ARROW”The second advertising spot for The feature film There’s No Such Thing As Vampires.
Read more “There’s No Such Thing As Vampires Teaser #2”A self-styled messiah initiates a lost soul into his cult of sister-wives on an Edenic island, upsetting the delicate balance of a utopian community fixated on sin and salvation. Combining edge-of-your-seat suspense with arthouse flair, the horror-thriller follows two teenage runaways who become increasingly suspicious of the cult leader’s absolutist vision. Available March 1.
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