60 Seconds To Die (2017) Available May 24

A non-stop, heart pounding, horror anthology uniting amazing new filmmakers from across the globe to create a new dimension in Terror. Modern day Grindhouse, in the style of the most shocking and gritty movies of the 70’s will grind you up and spit you out.

STARRING: Ethan Kavanagh, Nicole Graziano, Dexter Fletcher

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#Fromjennifer (2017) Available May 24

Jennifer Peterson is having a very rough week. She’s been fired from a movie shoot; her manager just dropped her; and her boyfriend dumped her, right after releasing a sex tape of them together. But Jennifer has decided to turn things around: she hatches a plot she calls Revenge Porn Revenge, in which she plans to settle the score by filming a devastatingly elaborate video and posting it online, making herself famous in the process. But like everything else in her life lately, her revenge plot doesn’t go according to plan, and a shocking trail of carnage is left in her wake.

STARRING: Tony Todd, Derek Mears, Aaron Abrams

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Horror History: Friday, May 23, 1986: Poltergeist II: The Other Side was released in theaters

“They’re back?” The now-penniless Freeling family-Diane (JoBeth Williams), Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Carol Anne (Heather O’Rouke) and Robbie (Oliver Robbins) – flee after their Cuesta Verde tract house is obliterated by poltergeists and take refuge with Gramma Jess (Geraldine Fitzgerald). But even here, peace is not to be found. When Gramma Jess dies, Carol Anne’s telephone spontaneously rings with a call from “the other side”-from Grandma Jess! Soon a benign Indian mystic, Taylor (Will Sampson), appears at the Freeling family’s doorstep, saying he has been “sent” to protect them from the “family curse”. Another poltergeist attack and Steve decides that the family must leave. But Taylor insists that they must stay and fight the evil.

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Horror History: Friday, May 22, 1992: Alien 3 was released in theaters

Experience a more visually stunning picture in this restored version of Alien3! Three-time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver returns in Alien3 as Officer Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo’s encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial in Alien, and subsequent victor over the Alien Queen after an epic battle in the cargo hold of the military transport ship Sulaco in Aliens. After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers, Ripley discovers the horrifying reason for her crash: an alien stowaway. As the alien matures and begins to kill off the inhabitants, Ripley discovers that her true enemy is more than just the killer alien.

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Horror History: Tuesday, May 22, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “For Cryin’ Out Loud” premiered

Season 2 Episode 8

A greedy rock promoter (Lee Arenberg) plans to run off with all of the donation money that was raised and accumulated from within a series of “Save the Amazon Rainforest” charity benefit concerts, but things unexpectedly get complicated when it turns out that his hearing problems were nothing more than his own hidden conscience (voiced by Sam Kinison). To make matters worse, a greedy banker (Katey Sagal) soon blackmails the promoter. He has to get rid of her and then confesses his mistakes to a cop.

Also starring Iggy Pop as himself.

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Horror History: Sunday, May 22, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Family Reunion” premiered

Season 4 Episode 16

A man guards his sick son closely and has sole custody, while the boy’s worried mother desperately wants to be reunited with her child. Its later revealed the mother is a werewolf, and their son inherited her lycanthropy; she kills the father to reunite with her son, who has been unable to control his changes.

Written by Edithe Swensen, directed by Tom Savini, and guest-starring Patricia Tallman.

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Horror History: Wednesday, May 22, 1985: Wes Craven’s Chiller debuted on television

Corporate exec Miles Creighton dies, and is cryogenically frozen in the hopes that he can be revived. 10 years later, the procedure is a success, and Miles returns–without his soul.

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Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1976: Grizzly was released in theaters

It’s 18 feet tall, over 2000 pounds, and not content to forage through trash cans. When a killer grizzly terrorizes a state park rampaging for human prey, the ranger and his men must stop the ensuing slaughter. The most dangerous jaws on land, Grizzly was the highest-grossing independent film of 1976 and remains a cult favorite today.

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Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1971: The Cat o’ Nine Tails was released in US theaters

When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò, who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute’s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth…

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Horror History: Saturday, May 20, 1995: Mosquito was released direct-to-video

An alien starship crashes in a swamp in a U.S. national park. Some mosquitoes begin to feed off the alien corpses, causing the insects to grow to the size of vultures. These mutant insects become very aggressive, killing every human being they find. Will a few survivors fight successfully against this nightmare?

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Horror History: Monday, May 20, 1991: Omen IV: The Awakening debuted on television

The antichrist returns, this time as a little girl in this telefilm sequel, when a prominent couple unknowingly adopts the daughter of Damien from the original Omen.

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Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1988: Not of This Earth was released in theaters

Remake of the Corman classic of a mysterious alien sent to earth to replenish his world’s blood supply by feeding on human blood. It takes the unstoppable determination of a nurse and her boyfriend cop to stop this vampire alien.

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Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1988: American Gothic was released in theaters

A new tale of terror from the director of The Legend of Hell House and The Incubus.

When six young friends fly off on a weekend getaway and suddenly find themselves with engine trouble, they have no choice but to land on a remote Pacific island. Looking for shelter, they are grateful when they meet Ma and Pa and their children: an eccentric family still living in the backwoods as if it’s still the 1920s. But what begins as simple old-school hospitality becomes a terrifying race for survival when one by one, the friends start disappearing and dying horrible deaths. Fleeing the outside world many years ago, the family has created an island domain, where all strangers are sinners: and the killing has never stopped.

American Gothic features an all-star cast including Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night), Yvonne De Carlo (The Munsters), Michael J. Pollard (Bonnie and Clyde) and William Hootkins (Raiders of the Lost Ark).

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Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Passage for Trumpet” premiered

Season 1 Episode 32

A trumpet player who’s convinced he’ll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.

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