Month: March 2022

Scanner Cop II: The Showdown (1995) (4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray Set) Available April 26

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Sam Staziak (Daniel Quinn, Wild At Heart), the Scanner Cop, had hoped that he could resume a normal life. When other Scanners in the Los Angeles area are being attacked, literally left drained of life, Sam is forced back into action in a desperate attempt to stop a mad Scanner named Volkin who is determined to become the most powerful – and ruthless – of his kind. But as Sam sets out to put an end to the ever increasing carnage gripping the city, he also finds himself in a personal crisis after his long estranged mother reappears, and becomes the focus of Volkin’s growing rage.

Pervasively twisted and astonishingly gory, Steve Barnett’s Scanner Cop II: The Showdown does everything in its power to up the ante in terms of the Scanners’ series violence and creative death sequences, with an array of extremely grisly and often ‘explosive’ demises courtesy of special effects wizard, John Carl Buechler (Mausoleum). Vinegar Syndrome is overjoyed to bring this unforgettable final chapter in the Scanners saga to Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, newly restored from its 35mm original camera negative and featuring a brand new extended making of documentary with it’s cast and crew.

STARRING: Daniel Quinn, Patrick Kilpatrick, Khrystyne Haje, Robert Forster, Stephen Mendel

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Scanner Cop (1994) Available April 26

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Rookie cop Sam Staziak (Daniel Quinn, Wild At Heart) has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily harm…and death. To repress his abilities, he takes a medication designed to keep Scanners sane and rational and from exacting harm on others. When a mad scientist named Karl Glock (Richard Lynch, Invasion USA) begins using mind control to murder police officers, Sam realizes that only he and his unique gift can put an end to the mayhem and uncover the identity and diabolical motives of this bloodthirsty madman…

The first true sequel to David Cronenberg’s 1980 horror classic, producer Pierre David’s (Videodrome) first foray into directing, Scanner Cop, is a tense and bloody mix of gruesome body horror and action packed police thriller. Never released on disc in the US, Vinegar Syndrome proudly brings this mid 90s direct-to-video hit to Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, newly restored from its 35mm original camera negative and featuring a brand new extended making of documentary with it’s cast and crew.

STARRING: Daniel Quinn, Darlanne Fluegel, Richard Grove, Richard Lynch, Hilary Shepard

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Reform School Girls (1986) Available April 26

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The Pridemore Juvenile Detention Facility isn’t just a place for troubled teenage girls to serve their time. Instead, it’s a living hell filled with sexual depravity and violence. Jenny, a fresh inmate, becomes the de facto protector of Lisa, an innocent young girl forced to be a plaything to anyone after her body. Then there’s Charlie, a hardened teenaged lesbian who torments her fellow prisoners through brutal acts of sexual sadism. But no one instills more fear in even the toughest girls than the sadistic Edna who, with a blind eye turned by money-hungry Warden Sutter, delights in terrorizing her beautiful prisoners. However, the girls have had enough and things are about to change at Pridemore…

STARRING: Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning, Pat Ast

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The Last Sun of The Night (2017) Available April 26

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The Italian government decides to create several safe zones after a devastating war. In one of such zones, number 13, a big building has only three occupants remaining whose minds have slowly descended into madness.

STARRING: Andrea Lupia, Alessandra Mortelliti, Danilo Rotundo, Alessandro Damerini, Claudia Fratarcangeli

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Hard Rock Zombies / Slaughterhouse Rock (Blu-ray Set) Available April 26

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With the explosion of heavy metal and new wave music in the mid 1980s, it was inevitable that horror filmmakers would seize the opportunity to combine these popular musical stylings with blood and mayhem. While numerous such tie-ins were produced, none were as freaked out and gore soaked as this foot stomping duo, presented fully uncensored and newly restored on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!

A heavy metal band has been invited to appear in a conservative small town. What they don’t know is that their hosts are in fact a family of horrific and murderous mutants, whose patriarch is none other than Hitler! After being swiftly murdered, Cassie, the only non-violent member of this depraved clan, wills the band back to life. Soon the stuffy townspeople are faced with an unwelcome reckoning as the zombified musicians thrash and maim their way through the community, in the name of grisly revenge…and love!

Without a doubt one of the most original zombie films in the history of the genre, Krishna Shah’s Hard Rock Zombies is a dazzling blend of horror film and musical, filtered through experimental and arthouse cinema sensibilities. Jam packed with outrageous song and dance sequences juxtaposed with over-the-top violence and ludicrous plot twists, Hard Rock Zombies comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever, in its completely uncut composite version, sourced from the only known 35mm film elements with video inserts.

Alex, a college student, is being plagued by strange dreams in which a grotesque man commits heinous acts of torture and murder. With the help of his friends, Alex discovers that he has an unexplained telepathic link to a notorious killer who once lived on Alcatraz Island and whose bloodlust extends beyond the grave. When his supernatural experiences begin taking on real life manifestations, Alex and his friends sneak into the abandoned prison to put an end to their reign of terror, only to unwittingly walk into a bloodbath…

Dispensing with any sense of narrative logic, Dimitri Logothetis’ Slaughterhouse Rock gleefully combines tracks from new wave musical sensations, DEVO, with plentiful gut-busting gore, and touches of humor, all set in the spooky, fog filled environs of the infamous Alcatraz Prison. This thrill filled neon-nightmare hits Blu-ray from a brand new 4K restoration of its original 35mm camera negative, with its oft censored gore fully restored.

STARRING: Toni Basil, Nicholas Celozzi, Tammy Hyler, E.J. Curse

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The Forbidden Door (2009) (Special Edition) Available April 26

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With his third disturbing feature, Joko Anwar – Indonesian writer/director of Impetigore and the remake of Satan’s Slave – became one of the most daring new genre filmmakers in the world. Now discover why: As a successful young sculptor increasingly loses his grip on sanity, he imagines his wife, friends and family are all conspiring against him, begins filling his best-selling works with unspeakable human matter, becomes obsessed with brutal hidden-camera abuse videos, and inches inescapably closer towards the most horrific final act of all. Fachry Albar (V/H/S/2), Marsha Timothy (The Raid 2) and Ario Bayu (The Queen Of Black Magic) star in this “almost perfect film – eerie, terrifying and just begging to be seen” (The Focus Pull), now on disc with exclusive Special Features for the first time ever in America.

STARRING: Fachry Albar, Marsha Timothy, Ario Bayu, Tio Pakusadewo, Verdi Solaiman

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Dementia (1955) Available April 26

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An entirely unique and utterly bizarre film, John J. Parker’s Dementia is a 1950s-style foray into the mind of psycho-sexual madness. Set entirely in a nocturnal twilight zone that blends dream imagery with the cinematic stylings of film noir, Dementia follows the tormented existence of a young woman haunted by the horrors of her youth, which transformed her into a stiletto-wielding, man-hating beatnik. Accompanied by George Antheil’s sci-fi score, the camera follows a “Gamin” (Adrienne Barrett) on a surreal sleepwalk through B-movie hell, populated by prostitutes, pimps, and would-be molesters – all photographed by William Thompson (Plan 9 From Outer Space). Two years after its original release, a narration track of foreboding psychobabble (diabolically spoken by Ed McMahon) was added and the title was changed to the more sensational Daughter Of Horror. This edition presents the original cut of Dementia, digitally remastered from the 35MM negative, as well as the complete Daughter Of Horror (from a 35MM print), and the original theatrical trailer.

STARRING: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno Vesota, Ben Roseman, Angelo Rossitto

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Born Dead (2021) Available April 26

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Luna is a young embalmer with a strange passion for everything concerning death. One day, during a trip in the woods, she finds two bodies. The first one is a dead woman, the other one is a man who is still barely breathing. This gory and blood-soaked tale from Alex Visani (The Pyramid) will leave you breathless.

STARRING: Ingrid Monacelli, Edoardo Lazzari, Claudio Massimo Paternò, Corinna Coroneo, Lorenzo Lepori

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The Exorcism Of God (2021) Available April 19

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An American priest working in Mexico is possessed during an exorcism and ends up committing a terrible act. Eighteen years later, the consequences of his sin come back to haunt him, unleashing the greatest battle within.

STARRING: Joseph Marcell, María Gabriela de Faría, Will Beinbrink, Hector Kotsifakis

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Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge (1989) (Standard Special Edition) Available March 29

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For high school sweethearts Eric and Melody, love’s young dream turns into a nightmare when Eric apparently dies in a fire which engulfs his family home. One year later and Melody is trying to move on with her life, taking up a job at the new 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 who haunts its airducts and subterranean passageways, hellbent on exacting vengeance on the mall’s crooked developers.

Directed by Richard Friedman (Scared Stiff, Doom Asylum), and featuring star turns from Pauly Shore and Morgan Fairchild, Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge swoops onto Blu-ray in an extras-packed edition which proves that Arrow Video’s love for ’80s slasher fare never dies!

STARRING: Derek Rydall, Pauly Shore, Ken Foree, Rob Estes, Morgan Fairchild

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Tragedy Girls (2017) Available March 29

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Best friends Sadie and McKayla are on a mission to boost their social media fandom as amateur crime reporters hot on the trail of a deranged local serial killer. After they manage to capture the killer and secretly hold him hostage, they realize the best way to get scoops on future victims would be to, you know, murder people themselves. As the @TragedyGirls become an overnight sensation and panic grips their small town, can their friendship survive the strain of national stardom? Will they get caught? Will their accounts get verified?

STARRING: Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Jack Quaid, Kevin Durand, Timothy V. Murphy

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Sister, Sister Available March 29

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Protective and aloof Charlotte, along with her child-like and innocent sister Lucy operate their secluded country mansion as a bed and breakfast. On a cold and rainy night, Matt, a mysterious and handsome man from the city, arrives unexpectedly to rent a room, soon after taking a fancy to Lucy. As their romance grows, mysterious acts of violence begin to plague the quiet home, threatening to unearth dark and murderous secrets buried deep in the past…

Combining heavy gothic atmosphere, touches of magical realism, and elements of violent murder mystery, Academy Award nominee Bill Condon’s (Chicago, Dreamgirls) Sister, Sister is a suspense filled study of love and revenge. Starring Eric Stoltz (Pulp Fiction), Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), and Emmy nominee Judith Ivey (The Devil’s Advocate), and featuring exquisite scope photography by Stephen Katz (Messiah of Evil), Vinegar Syndrome proudly brings Sister, Sister to Blu-ray for the first time in a new 2K restoration!

STARRING: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey, Dennis Lipscomb

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Red Spirit Lake / We Await Available March 29

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One of the most visionary artists to arise from the pre-digital, shot on video underground, director Charles Pinion’s awe-inspiring features fearlessly blurred the lines between punk rock, Cinema of Transgression, avant-garde surrealism, pornography, and backyard splatter films. Saturn’s Core is proud to present two of Pinion’s most daring works with newly reconstructed, director approved restorations from the original analog master tapes.

Red Spirit Lake (1993): After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harnass the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt’s estate. A meditation on The Old Dark House replete with UFO abductions, castration, frank nudity, witchcraft, fatal fistings, and slughterous saunas; Red Spirit Lake is a cacophony of subversive hyper violence, psychotic surrealism, salacious sexual choas, and picturesque winter vistas featuring acting performances by a cavalcade of legendary Cinema of Transgression era artists and filmmakers including Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Kembra Pfahler, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and Tommy Turner as well as an insurgent soundtrack featuring music by Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, and The Lunachicks.

We Await (1996): A con artist is held captive by an unhinged cannibal family that ingests copious quantities of hallucinogenic, green fungal goo covertly harnessed from an otherworldly, sentient crystal housed in their third third floor apartment of horrors. Featuring a man who willfully chooses to be a dog, sexual stimulation via blowtorch, and a corpulent, nude and blood soaked Godzilla-sized Jesus, We Await is a shot on video, urban riff on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that slowly descends into a psycho sexual, drug-fueled, analog aurora borealis nightmare like no other. Starring director Pinion, adult filmmaker David Aaron Clark, visual artist Alyssa Taylor Wendt, and boasting a blistering soundtrack featuring music by Crash Worship, Neurosis, and Unsane.

STARRING: Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Charles Pinion, Amanda Collins, Alyssa Taylor Wendt

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On the 3rd Day (2021) Available March 29

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Cecilia (Mariana Anghileri) and her son Martin are involved in a brutal car accident. On the third day after the crash, she cannot find her son. While desperately searching along a frantic route, Cecilia suddenly finds herself caught in a brutal game of cat and mouse, carried out by a religious fanatic, whom she faces off against. To her, he’s a lunatic. To him, Cecilia is the enemy. Who will win?

STARRING: Mariana Anghileri, Arturo Bonin, Diego Cremonesi, Lautaro Delgado, Mathias Domizi

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House at the Edge of the Park (1980) (3-Disc Limited Edition) Available March 29

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ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN… EVERYTHING DID!

3-DISC LIMITED EDITION INCLUDES REMASTERED UNCUT 4K SCAN, NEW DOCUMENTARY + SOUNDTRACK CD

For his follow-up to Cannibal Holocaust, director Ruggero Deodato delivered a shocker packed with even more cruelty and controversy. 40+ years later, it remains one of the most disturbing exploitation films of all time: David Hess of The Last House On The Left infamy stars as a charismatic psychopath who, with his equally unhinged sidekick (Giovanni Lombardo Radice of City Of The Living Dead), turns a get-together of chic New Yorkers into an ordeal of class warfare and sexual violence. Annie Belle (Absurd), Christian Borromeo (Tenebrae) and Lorraine De Selle (Wild Beasts) co-star in this notorious DPP 39 Video Nasty from the screenwriters of The New York Ripper with an unforgettable soundtrack by Riz Ortolani, now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative with 3+ hours of all-new Special Features.

STARRING: Davis Hess, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo

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The Forbidden Door (2009) (Special Edition) Available March 29

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THE NORTH AMERICAN BLU-RAY PREMIERE!

With his third disturbing feature, Joko Anwar – Indonesian writer/director of Impetigore and the remake of Satan’s Slave – became one of the most daring new genre filmmakers in the world. Now discover why: As a successful young sculptor increasingly loses his grip on sanity, he imagines his wife, friends and family are all conspiring against him, begins filling his best-selling works with unspeakable human matter, becomes obsessed with brutal hidden-camera abuse videos, and inches inescapably closer towards the most horrific final act of all. Fachry Albar (V/H/S/2), Marsha Timothy (The Raid 2) and Ario Bayu (The Queen Of Black Magic) star in this “almost perfect film – eerie, terrifying and just begging to be seen” (The Focus Pull), now on disc with exclusive Special Features for the first time ever in America.

STARRING: Fachry Albar, Marsha Timothy, Ario Bayu, Tio Pakusadewo, Verdi Solaiman

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Flesh For Frankenstein (1973) (4K Ultra HD / 3-D Blu-ray Set) Available March 29

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In the annals of 70s horror, there are many iconic films. There is only one Flesh For Frankenstein and this edition will allow you to experience it as you never have before and probably never dreamed you could. This 3-disc package contains a 4K UHD (in HDR) edition of the film, and 2-BDs, one containing the NEVER BEFORE ON VIDEO original 3-D version of the film in both Digital 3-D and Anaglyph (glasses included), as well as the Flat version, plus close to 2 hours of newly shot video interviews. Deranged scientist, Baron von Frankenstein, with the help of his bizarre assistant, Otto, is determined to create a new master race, of which he will be the leader. To achieve his objective, he constructs two perfect ‘zombies’ from an assemblage of body parts, intending them to mate. Meanwhile, complications ensue as Nicholas, a farm hand, begins an affair with the Baron’s sexually frustrated wife all while searching for his missing friend Sacha, whose head and brain have been used for Frankenstein’s male “zombie”! A delectably gory and cynical social satire from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Morrissey (Mixed Blood), Flesh For Frankenstein is among the most original and transgressive interpretations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. With an exceptional cast, led by Udo Kier (Suspiria, Mark of the Devil), in what might be his most iconic performance, Joe Dallesandro (Cry Baby), Monique van Vooren (Sugar Cookies), and Italian child star Nicoletta Elmi (Deep Red), and featuring a lush soundtrack by Claudio Gizzi (Blood for Dracula), Flesh For Frankenstein became an immediate midnight and cult movie sensation. Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents this true genre classic on 4K UHD for the first time, along with its never on home video original 3-D version, newly restored from its original negative!

STARRING: Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Srdjan Zelenovic

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Death Screams (1982) (Standard Special Edition) Available March 29

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In one of the most unlikely cinematic pairings of all time, David Nelson (who rose to fame as a child star playing alongside his real-life family in the wholesome TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) directs Playboy Playmate and adult star Susan Kiger in this bodycount-heavy, long overlooked slice of Southern fried hack-and-slash – 1982’s Death Screams!

Late one night, a young couple are brutally murdered at a make-out spot by an unseen assailant, their bodies tossed into the nearby river. As the lifeless lovers drift slowly downstream, the residents of the town excitedly prepare themselves for their annual carnival, unaware that a machete-wielding maniac with a twisted grudge is lurking in their midst. When a group of teen revellers plan a late-night after party down in the local cemetery, they unwittingly set the stage for a bloodbath.

Death Screams, which was released on US VHS as House of Death (and on UK DVD with the reels in the wrong order!) oozes early ’80s regional slasher charm from its every pore, boasting an everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink final reel featuring slashed throats, bisected bodies and exploding heads. Lovingly restored from the only-known existing 35mm print, this little-seen slasher classic is ready to carve its way into the bleeding hearts of horror fans everywhere!

STARRING: Susan Kiger, Martin Tucker, William T. Hicks

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Beware! Children at Play (1989) Available March 29

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Young Glenn and his father have gone into the woods for a fun-filled camping adventure. But when dad steps into a bear trap, the pair find themselves stranded miles from civilization, with limited supplies and nothing to eat. After his dad dies, Glenn, as a matter of survival, is forced to consume his flesh. Years later, children from a nearby town begin to disappear into the woods, never to be seen again, while adults are murdered in the most savage of fashions. Could not-so-young-anymore Glenn have something to do with all the mayhem?

Shamelessly trashy and a whole lot of fun, prolific cinematographer Mik Cribben’s (The Defiance of Good) sole directorial effort, Beware: Children At Play, is a no holds barred assault on good taste, with a plethora of ultra gory and creative deaths and one of the most ridiculous endings in the history of horror cinema. Another victim of decades of poor quality VHS copies, Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to offer the world Blu-ray debut of Beware: Children At Play, newly restored from its 35mm original camera negative.

STARRING: Michael Robertson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly, Lori Romero, Jamie Kraus

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Ballad in Blood (2016) (Special Edition) Available March 29

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FROM THE CULT DIRECTOR OF CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST

For his first film in 23 years, Ruggero Deodato – the legendary director of such ItaloSleaze classics as Cannibal Holocaust, House On The Edge Of The Park and Raiders Of Atlantis – explored a different breed of butchery inspired by the Perugia exchange student murder that shocked the world: After a wild night of sex, drugs and clubbing, a young woman, her boyfriend and his dealer pal wake to find her straight-laced roommate brutally murdered. But will what happens next reveal the most horrific secrets of all? Cinemtographe.it calls Deodato’s ripped-from-the-headlines return “a disturbing thriller that’s violent, cynical and excessive,” featuring a pounding score by Claudio Simonetti (Suspiria, Demons), with 2+ hours of startling new Special Features and available in America for the time ever.

STARRING: Rebecca Di Maio, Roger Garth, Ernesto Mahieux, Carlotta Morelli

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The American Scream (1988) Available March 29

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Meet the Benzigers! They’re the average American family – two unruly teenagers, a stressed out father, and a cloying mother. They’re taking the classic American Christmas vacation, at the perfect mountain resort. But the strange residents of Wilson Creek have something else planned… something gruesome. This family trip will be a trip to hell, and no one will ever be the same again!

STARRING: Pons Maar, Kevin Kaye, Blackie Dammett

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