An obsessed fan stalks his favorite actors from the Friday the 13th films and beyond.
STARRING: Dee Wallace, Kane Hodder, Corey Feldman
Read more “13 Fanboy (2021) Available March 8”An obsessed fan stalks his favorite actors from the Friday the 13th films and beyond.
STARRING: Dee Wallace, Kane Hodder, Corey Feldman
Read more “13 Fanboy (2021) Available March 8”In the secluded town of Stoker Hills, three college students, Ryan (David Gridley, Team Kaylie), Erica (Steffani Brass, Six Feet Under), and Jake (Vince Hill-Bedford, American Fighter), find themselves in their worst nightmare when they set out to film a horror movie and are kidnapped by a serial killer. Their only hope for survival is the camera they left behind and the two detectives looking for clues in the footage.
STARRING: Tony Todd, Steffani Brass, Danny Vucci, William Lee Scott
Read more “Stoker Hills (2020) Available March 1”It’s a blind date from HELL… when awkward Maggie (Liane Curtis, Critters 2) gets possessed by the Devil! In human form, she is free to feast on the souls of any men who cross her path, as long as she doesn’t get caught by womanizer and inter-dimensional bounty hunter, Chaser (Dana Ashbrook, Twin Peaks). Featuring Lezlie Deane (Freddy’s Dead) as Maggie’s best friend.
STARRING: Dana Ashbrook, Liane Curtis, Lezlie Deane, James Daughton
Read more “Girlfriend From Hell (1989) Available February 22”Watch the skies! Aliens are invading, or already here, in this double feature, including Fire In The Sky and I Married A Monster From Outer Space.
STARRING: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott
Read more “Alien Abduction Double Feature Available February 8”EXPLORES THE FOLK HORROR PHENOMENON AND ITS CULTURALLY SPECIFIC MANIFESTATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL HORROR, FROM ITS FIRST WAVE IN THE 1970’s TO TODAY.
It’s been hailed as ”stunning” (Diabolique Magazine), ”brilliant” (AV Club) and ”mind-blowingly epic” (Film Threat), and stands as perhaps the definitive genre documentary of our time. From writer/director/co-producer Kier-La Janisse comes ”a seductive mega-text” (Indiewire) through the history of folk horror, featuring clips from over 200 films and interviews with more than 50 filmmakers, authors and scholars that explore the rural roots, occult creeds and cultural lore that continue to shape international cinema. Severin Films presents this ”astounding achievement” (Screen Anarchy) – also featuring an original score by Jim Williams (A Field In England), animation by Ashley Thorpe (Borley Rectory) and collage sequences by Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg) – that Rue Morgue calls ”an unprecedented journey into where folk horror has been, where it’s going and ultimately what it says about humanity.”
STARRING: Various
Read more “Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched (A History Of Folk Horror) Available January 25”A disillusioned famous novelist, unable to talk while recovering in his remote mountain home from major reconstructive jaw surgery, is exposed to a life-threatening secret when he receives an unexpected visit from his estranged daughter.
STARRING: Behtash Fazlali, Natalie Sharp, Blake Stadel
Read more “Wired Shut (2021) Available January 25”In a small store filled with antiques and curiosities called The Anointed Cherub, a charming proprietor convinces customers to purchase the items he feels are perfect for them. However, what they don’t know is that each item comes with a horrible consequence. An anthology film in the tradition of “Creepshow” and “Tales from the Crypt”, Triaphilia tells the story of three items that destroy the lives of the people who purchase them.
STARRING: Katie Raulerson, Jenn Nobile, Julia Wyrzuc
Read more “Triaphilia (2021) Available January 25”Directed By: Terrell Lamont
Staring: Holly Westwood
Read more ““If we stay here, we die.” Sci-fi Horror Infrared Dreams available now on VOD”Aura is a young Romanian who, while on the run from her parents, is rescued by journalist and recovering drug addict, David Parsons. After being returned to her home, Aura’s parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter, sending Aura back on the run, to David. With no one to turn to for help, the unlikely pair launch their own investigation into the killings, discovering shocking and long hidden revelations that connect the continuing murders ever closer to Aura and a terrifying secret from her past…The first US lensed film from the master of Italian horror, Dario Argento (Suspiria, Opera), Trauma was his return to classical form giallo filmmaking, offering a twist filled, labyrinthine plot, brutal and creative murders, stunning scope cinematography, and a haunting score by Pino Donaggio (Piranha). Headlined by an all-star cast including three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie (Carrie), Oscar nominees Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now) and Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), acclaimed actor James Russo (Django Unchained), and actress and director Asia Argento (The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things) in her first starring role. Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to present Trauma on Blu-ray, newly restored in 4K and debut its longest and most complete version ever, with the complete English dialogue track totally intact for the very first time.
STARRING: Asia Argento, James Russo, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Brad Dourif
Read more “Trauma (1993) Available January 25”After her attackers go free, Gaily Morton, the victim of a vicious assault, commits suicide. Her vengeful brother, brilliant robotics engineer and scientist, Dr. Albert Morton, decides to use his skills to exact vengeance, transplanting his sister’s brain into a humanoid cyborg. With bone-crushing strength and an array of built-in torture devices, Albert begins sending Gaily on a series of missions to violently do away with the men who wronged her…
STARRING: Clare Wren, Bruce Davison, Stacy Haiduk, David Naughton
Read more “Steel and Lace (1991) Available January 25”WHO PROTECTS YOU WHEN YOU SLEEP?
Nightmare and trauma. Fear and repression. Guilt and atonement. Weaving together the emotional violence of horror with the cryptic motifs of German folk and fairy tales, Arrow Video is proud to present Sleep, the debut feature from a major new talent in world cinema.
Tormented by recurring nightmares of a place she has never been, Marlene (Sandra Hüller, Requiem) cannot help but investigate when she discovers the place is real. Once there, she suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Determined to discover what happened to her, Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof), her daughter, follows and finds herself in Stainbach, an idyllic village with a dark history. What is it that so tormented her mother, and the people of Stainbach? What is the source of the nightmares she suffers? And who is the mysterious Trude that lives in the forest?
STARRING: Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Sandra Hüller, August Schmölzer
Read more “Sleep (2020) Available January 25”Determined to atone for the suffering brought upon his people during the Trail of Tears, a Cherokee elder engaged in dark magic to summon an ancient demon entity known as Retlawkoob. When the tribe awoke to find their bountiful harvest turned into rows of useless stone, they buried the elder in the fields beneath a pile of the cursed rocks; each of which bore the mark of a different bestial demon. After a flood causes the stones to resurface, six teenagers camping on the burial site unsuspectingly unleash the demonic forces. Possession consumes one camper after another, transforming them into animalistic, frenzied killing machines, voraciously feeding on the warm meat of their freshly deceased victims. As the body count grows, only the timid Mikki is left to unlock the riddles left behind by the elders and do battle with the vengeful demon Retlawkoob. Now, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow in these darkened fields…and tonight the harvest begins.
St. Louis, Missouri based writer / director Eric Stanze (The Scare Game, Scrapbook, Ratline) made major waves in the underground with this ambitious, Native American themed, Evil Dead-style demonic possession romp filmed against the backdrop of the Great Flood of 1993; a real life debilitating disaster that devastated parts of the American Midwest. Elaborate practical effects, extreme chainsaw violence, a memorable monster, and some genuine atmospheric scares helped put Savage Harvest on the map and cemented Stanze’s status as one of the most consistent and visionary auteurs working in the shot on video horror medium.
STARRING: Lisa Morrison, Ramona Midgett, D.J. Vivona, William Clifton, Rebecca Kennebeck
Read more “Savage Harvest (1994) Available January 25”Photophobic Zano, arrives in the big city for the very first time. The year is 1984 and Athens beckons. A vampire and a fine dancer, Zano, quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city. All he really wants is a “warm” girl. Strung out and down and out, he ends up at disco Zardoz, a hive of scum and villainy, where he meets Alice, a prostitute, and Peter, a Norwegian drug dealer. Lured into their shady shenanigans, the three of them will traverse mountains and descend into the core of the earth, all the way to the Kingdom of Mathousalas. Norway puts on shiny new shoes, dances the night away with colorful scoundrels and only bites when absolutely necessary.
STARRING: Vangelis Mourikis, Alexia Kaltsiki, Daniel Bolda
Read more “Norway (2014) Available January 25”THE WORLDWIDE DISC PREMIERE OF THE LOST AMERICAN FOLK HORROR CLASSIC
In 1983, acclaimed photographer Avery Crounse made his debut as writer/director with what is considered to be the seminal American folk horror film. Misunderstood by audiences and mishandled by distributors, it has remained virtually unseen until now: On the 18th-century frontier, an adulterous preacher and his followers flee to ‘the promised land’ only to enter a valley of lust, madness, pagan vengeance and hallucinatory terror. Dennis Lipscomb (Retribution), Guy Boyd (Body Double) and Kerry Sherman (Satan’s Cheerleaders) star in this ”extraordinary horror fantasy” (The Psychotronic Video Guide) restored in 4K from the original negative with more than 2½ hours of Special Features that include the answer print of Crounse’s original cut, Crying Blue Sky.
STARRING: Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley
Read more “Eyes of Fire (1983) (Special Edition) Available January 25”A group of ladies seeking the perfect faces soon realise when they conjure a demonic plastic surgeon, that no surgery comes without a price.
STARRING: Zuza Tehanu, Mia Blackman, Ricardo Freitas
Read more “Doctor Carver (2021) Available January 25”Set during the Taiwanese martial law of the 1960s, this shockingly gruesome and terrifying coming-of-age drama based on a hugely popular video game sees two classmates who go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school. This masterful debut from director and co-writer John Hsu recalls the best of Guillermo del Toro, with enough blood, striking sound design, art direction and special effects to evoke Silent Hill and other landmarks of the genre.
STARRING: Gingle Wang, Fu Meng-Po, Tse Jing-Hua, Cecilia Choi
Read more “Detention (2019) Available January 25”THEY SHALL HAVE MURDER WHEREVER THEY GO…
For his feature film debut, director Peter Maris (Ministry Of Vengeance, Diplomatic Immunity) took portions of an unfinished urban conspiracy thriller and added a new psycho-killer procedural to create what may be the most unusual/vicious proto-slasher shocker of the ‘70s: When a series of savage murders rocks St. Louis, the police investigation will lead to a deranged Vietnam vet ”who looks like a cracked-out Seth McFarlane” (HorrorNews.net), an underground organization of white-collar vigilantes, gratuitous nudity, graphic violence and an absolute masterclass in low-budget regional filmmaking. One of the very first Section 2 Video Nasties, this longtime VHS rarity – also known as Psycho Puppet – is now presented on disc for the first time ever, restored from the only known 35mm print in existence.
STARRING: Turk Cekovsky, Debi Chaney, Terry TenBroek
Read more “Delirium (1987) (Special Edition) Available January 25”Themes of family, loss and survival intersect on the thin line that separates the living from the dead in The Deeper You Dig, the latest feature written, directed by and starring filmmaking family the Adams Family (Knuckle Jack, Rumblestrips) – described as “a force to be reckoned with” (Dread Central) and “the multi-hyphenates other multi-hyphenates hope to be when they grow up” (Nightmare on Film Street).
Bogus tarot card reader Ivy (Toby Poser) and her teenage daughter Echo (Zelda Adams) are an unconventional but loving mother/daughter team. But when reclusive Kurt (John Adams) moves in down the road, a tragic accident results in Echo’s murder, causing three lives to collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt believes he can hide his secret beneath the earth – but Echo, refusing to accept death, burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won’t stay buried.
A dark, unsettling meditation on grief, survival and the brittle barrier that separates the living from the dead, The Deeper You Dig is a compelling and original entry in the canon of American independent horror.
STARRING: John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
Read more “The Deeper You Dig (2019) (Standard Special Edition) Available January 25”In the not too distant future, the crew of the spaceship Shenandoah make an unsettling discovery after landing at an archeological dig site on the Saturn moon Titan: another craft, of German origin, has already landed but its crew appears to have vanished save for hotheaded Captain Hans Hofner, who seems to be hiding something about the mysterious disappearances aboard the craft. But it’s not long before the truth is revealed, in the form of a giant, prehistoric alien which intends to eat, and absorb, the essences of all humans…
STARRING: Klaus Kinski, Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Diane Salinger
Read more “Creature (1985) Available January 25”Enid Baines, a film screener at the BBFC, has earned an unsavory reputation for being the organization’s strictest censors of violent films. Unexpectedly, Enid is contacted by Frederick North, a notorious director of exceptionally brutal, low budget horror movies, who has requested that she personally review his work for classification. While viewing one of North’s films, Enid is struck by its narrative similarities to the disappearance of her own sister years earlier. But when she finds another of North’s films which stars a woman who bares a striking resemblance to her sister, Enid’s life begins spiraling out of control, sending her on a mysterious and terrifying journey into the dark and violent recesses of her past.The acclaimed feature film directing debut of Prano Bailey-Bond, Censor is a scathing indictment of Britain’s notorious Video Nasty era, imagined as a horror film that’s every bit as brutal and twisted as the Nasties themselves. Exquisitely photographed on 35mm by Annika Summerson and featuring an electrifying score by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Vinegar Syndrome Pictures proudly presents Censor in its Blu-ray debut, with extensive bonus features including Bailey-Bond’s earlier short film, Nasty.
STARRING: Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns, Sophia La Porta
Read more “Censor (2021) Available January 25”Immediately after completing Flesh For Frankenstein, writer/director Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier created what remains sumptuously depraved Euroshocker, cunning political allegory and wickedly funny horror that obliterates the line between art and bad taste (Pop Culture Beast): Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula – Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls one of cinema’s Top 5 best Draculas – journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro of Morrissey’s Flesh, Trash and Heat). Stefania Casini (Suspiria) and Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica co-star – with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski – in one of the most unique vampire films in history (Oh! The Horror), now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative for the first time ever.
STARRING: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica
Read more “Blood For Dracula (1974) (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD – 3-Disc Special Edition) Available January 25”Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel of Super-8 film, an audiotape, and a door key. From there, the boundaries of time, space, and sexuality are erased as José is once more sucked into Pedro’s vampiric orbit. Together, they attempt the ultimate hallucinogenic catharsis through a moebius strip of filming and being filmed.
STARRING: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Helena Fernan-Gomez, Marta Fernandez Muro
Read more “Arrebato (1979) Available January 25”North of Spain, at the end of the 19th century, during the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman after it’s destroyed by a bomb. Wounded and close to death, the girl believes the woman is an angel coming to take her to Heaven. Soon, however, she discovers that this strange being has given her is the gift of eternal life by turning her into a vampire.
Read more “All the Moons – Official Trailer [HD] | A Shudder Original”From the Director of The Grudge. A group of friends unleash a curse after stumbling upon a mysterious box. To break the curse, they venture deep within Jukai Forest. It’s said that the land holds a grudge where once you enter, you can never come out.
Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Stefanie Scott, Insidious Chapter 3), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, is interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death. As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are seeing, speaking, and acting on God’s behalf, view the girls’ relationship as an abomination to be dealt with as severely as possible. The couple attempts to carry on in secret, but someone is always watching, or listening, and the wages of perceived sin threaten to become death, with the tension only heightened by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger (Rory Culkin, Lords of Chaos) and the revelation of greater forces at work. Directed by Edoardo Vitaletti.
Read more “The Last Thing Mary Saw – “The Old Lady of Bethabara” Clip | A Shudder Original”WHO PROTECTS YOU WHEN YOU SLEEP?
Nightmare and trauma. Fear and repression. Guilt and atonement. Weaving together the emotional violence of horror with the cryptic motifs of German folk and fairy tales, Arrow Video is proud to present Sleep, the debut feature from a major new talent in world cinema.
Tormented by recurring nightmares of a place she has never been, Marlene (Sandra Hüller, Requiem) cannot help but investigate when she discovers the place is real. Once there, she suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Determined to discover what happened to her, Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof), her daughter, follows and finds herself in Stainbach, an idyllic village with a dark history. What is it that so tormented her mother, and the people of Stainbach? What is the source of the nightmares she suffers? And who is the mysterious Trude that lives in the forest?
Read more “Sleep Official Trailer”Official Trailer for the Spell
A newlywed couple’s honeymoon in Iceland tragically snaps into a relentless psychotic vengeful hunt for the mysterious and elusive white van.