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Author: Declan Shalvey
HOW FAR WOULD YOU SINK, TO SURVIVE?
All hell has broken loose on base. As Xenomorphs swarm the rig – massacring any Weyland-Yutani personnel in sight – Batya makes a plan for an escape. With her research and family at risk, Batya must take a gamble and pursue her last option for salvation.
Read more “Alien (2023) #4 by Declan Shalvey Available July 19”#horror – #horrormovies – #CocaineCrabsFromOuterSpace – #SRSCinema – @SRSCinema –
When a couple of intergalactic space crabs land on Earth, they encounter the one thing they didn’t expect… A duo of dumb frat boys force-feeding them cocaine! As it turns out, cocaine gives space crabs an overbearing impulse to kill! Their string of peculiar homicides has Detective Charlie Reese thinking that something smells fishy… literally! But, when he explains to his Captain that crabs may be causing the grisly murders, he is quickly dismissed. Trying to back up his theory, Detective Reese seeks the help of a sea life expert, but the best local help he can find is a pet store employee named ‘Alex Bailey.’ Convinced that the detective may be onto something, the two of them find themselves teaming up in the deadly wake of the coked-out crabs!
STARRING: Various
Read more “Cocaine Crabs From Outer Space Available November 7”#horror – #horrormovies – #VisibleSecret – #RadianceFilms – @FilmsRadiance –
Spirits lurk everywhere in Ann (Boat People) Hui’s horror-comedy, Visible Secret. Instantly infatuated by enigmatic amnesiac June (Shu Qi, Millennium Mambo) who has the ability to see spirits, Peter is swept into a world where he has one foot in the past, one in the present, and somehow has to figure out which is which. Beautifully shot by legendary cinematographer Arthur Wong (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Iron Monkey), Visible Secret is a slick and sexy horror-comedy that reflects the region’s contemporary millennium-era moment in its vivid depiction of young people stranded in history, trying to get a handle on both the world around them and each other as they navigate life, love, identity and family.
STARRING: Eason Chan, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Tony Liu, Sam Lee
Read more “Visible Secret (2001) (Limited Edition Blu-ray) Available October 24”#horror – #horrormovies – #StabbedInTheFace – #WildEyeRaw – @WildEyeMovies –
During a Halloween party in a haunted house, a group of party-crazed teenagers are being stalked and massacred by a mysterious and blood thirsty maniac.
STARRING: Steve Waltz, Bill Heintz, Jared Scallions, Eric Fox, Katheryn Aronson
Read more “Stabbed In The Face (2004) Available October 24”#horror – #horrormovies – #ClownsOfHalloween – #WildEyeReleasing – @WildEyeMovies –
Over 30 years ago, Gilbert Gacy was a party clown by day… and a cannibal killer by night, until a group of parents banded together to stop him once and for all. Now, he has returned from the grave to prey on the families of those who murdered him, in this anthology of creepy clown tales.
STARRING: Dan Peters, Schuylar Craig, Breana Mitchell, Jenni Caroline
Read more “Clowns Of Halloween (2020) Available October 10”#horror – #horrormovies – #Repligator – #VisualVengeance – @VisualVenVideo –
PART ALLIGATOR… PART DEADLY WARRIOR… ALL WOMAN (well… not quite “all”)
From director Bret McCormick (The Abomination) comes one of the most screwball, brain-melting late 90s direct-to-video entries ever made. At a top-secret military facility, a group of scientists and army brass work on the “The Replicator Project” which quickly goes awry when it turns all the male soldiers into gorgeous, scantily clad nymphets, who then morph into alligators when they reach the peak of sexual excitement! Starring original Leatherface Gunnar Hansen and iconic scream queen Brinke Stevens, Repligator enjoys its first ever release on Blu-ray, with brand new interviews and insights from the cast and creators of this sexy science-fiction send-up.
STARRING: Gunnar Hansen, Brinke Stevens, Keith Kjornes
Read more “Repligator (1998) (Visual Vengeance Limited Edition) Available September 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #MayfairWitchesSeason1 – #RLJEntertainment – @RLJEfilms –
Rowan Fielding, an intuitive young neurosurgeon, discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
STARRING: Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Tongayi Chirisa, Harry Hamlin, Beth Grant
Read more ““Mayfair Witches” Season 1 Available September 26″#horror – #horrormovies – #InterviewwiththeVampireSeason1 – #RLJEntertainment – @RLJEfilms –
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia.
STARRING: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Bailey Bass, Eric Bogosian, Asaad Zaman
Read more ““Interview with the Vampire” Season 1 Available September 26″#horror – #horrormovies – #IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer – #Sony –
Haunted by the brutal murders of her friends, Julie James is struggling to lead a normal life as a college freshman in Boston. Despite her best efforts, she still can’t shake the feeling that homicidal fisherman Ben Willis is stalking her. Teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Julie gratefully accepts her roommate Karla’s invitation to join her and friends on an all-expense paid trip to the Bahamas. Their tropical getaway turns deadly, however, when Willis apparently returns from the grave to once again torment Julie and her friends.
STARRING: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, Matthew Settle
Read more “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) (4K Ultra HD) Available September 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheAbomination – #VisualVengeance – @VisualVenVideo –
TUMOROUS PLASTIC BEASTS ARE NESTING IN THE BOWELS OF THEIR VICTIMS… SOON THEY WILL HATCH… THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPING.
Deep in the heart of rural Texas, a TV evangelist exorcises a tumor from the body of a loyal worshipper, who soon coughs up the growth. Unknown to her, the cancer is actually a carnivorous life form that slithers its way into her son Cody while he sleeps, growing inside him until he is completely under its control. Now Cody must feed the beast fresh victims to keep them both alive, as the monster grows out larger and larger, threatening to feast on everyone in its path. One of the most legendary and notorious VHS releases of the video store era, Bret McCormicks’s Super 8 gorefest The Abomination enjoys its first ever release on Blu-ray with newly created bonus features and never before seen outtakes, images and more!
STARRING: Scott Davis, Blue Thompson, Jude Johnson
Read more “The Abomination (1986) (Visual Vengeance Limited Edition) Available September 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #LostSouls – #ScreamFactory – @Scream_Factory –
For 2000 years, he has feasted on pain, sown the seeds of chaos…and waited. But now, the Devil will take human form and plunge humanity into eternal darkness—unless one woman can stop him. Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) must race against time and all the of evil to convince a born skeptic (Ben Chaplin) that he’s the unwitting, chosen pawn in a shocking Satanic conspiracy that will end the world as we know it.
STARRING: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Philip Baker Hall, Elias Koteas, Sarah Wynter
Read more “Lost Souls (2000) Available September 19”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheWalkingDeadDeadCitySeason1 – #AMC –
Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
STARRING: Lauren Cohan, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, Zeljko Ivanek, Mahina Anne Marie Napoleon
Read more ““The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 1 Available September 12″#horror – #horrormovies – #TheStuff – #ArrowVideo – @ArrowFilmsVideo –
Are you eating it …or is it eating you?
The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It’s delicious, low in calories and – better still – doesn’t stain the family carpet… What’s not to like?! Well, for a start it has a life of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria…
Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn’t love The Stuff – in fact he won’t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding crawling around the fridge one night. What’s more, everyone who eats The Stuff has started acting really weird… Now, teaming up with wise-cracking industrial saboteur “Mo”, Jason must put a stop to The Stuff and the organization behind it or face a gooey, gloopy demise.
Coming courtesy of horror auteur Larry Cohen (director of the It’s Alive series and scribe behind the Maniac Cop trilogy), The Stuff is a titillating treat for the taste-buds which blends elements of films such as Street Trash with the straight-up B-movie flavor of The Blob. So grab a spoon and dig on into The Stuff – the taste that delivers… much more than you bargained for!
STARRING: Michael Moriarity, Paul Sorvino, Danny Aiello, Garrett Morris, Andrea Marcovicci
Read more “The Stuff (1985) (Special Edition Blu-ray) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #ThePack – #ScreamFactory – @Scream_Factory –
The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs—the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers.
STARRING: Joe Don Baker, Hope Alexander-Willis, Richard B. Shull
Read more “The Pack (1977) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheLatentImage – #CinephobiaReleasing –
Thriller writer Ben, struggling for inspiration, retreats to an isolated rural cabin to start on his latest novel and to escape the growing tension with his boyfriend Jamie. Working late into the night, he wakes to find a wounded man in the cabin, claiming to be a hunter whose car had broken down nearby. Intrigued and attracted to the mysterious and handsome intruder, Ben decides to secretly use him as inspiration for the antagonist in his new book, about a savage murder believed to have taken place in the very cabin he has rented. As the man begins to help him enact increasingly dangerous and detailed scenarios for the story’s captive protagonist, Ben becomes aroused by the prospects but finds himself rebuffed by a homophobic slur. Searching the man’s car, he uncovers stolen property belonging to several other young men hinting he may be a serial killer, a perfect twist for Ben’s novel. Discovering his own car sabotaged, and unable to escape, Ben enters a lethal game of cat and mouse. But it’s only when the fate of Ben’s boyfriend Jamie is revealed that Ben’s dark, erotic fantasy becomes a stark, inescapable reality.
STARRING: Joshua Tonks, Jay Clift, William Tippery
Read more “The Latent Image (2022) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #HouseIITheSecondStory – #ArrowVideo – @ArrowFilmsVideo –
FRIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE!
Another House, another horror! Following on from the original 1986 horror classic, House II: The Second Story relocates the terror to a sprawling mansion where multiple dimensions converge – all of them terrifying!
This first House sequel sees young Jesse (Arye Gross) moving into an old family property where his parents were mysteriously murdered years before. Joined by pal Charlie (Jonathan Stark), the pair soon find themselves with some unexpected guests in the form of Jesse’s mummified great-great grandfather, a mystical crystal skull and the zombie cowboy who’ll stop at nothing to lay his hands on it!
Newly restored for this deluxe Blu-ray edition, House II: The Second Story is the horror sequel that offers up even more thrills and chills than its predecessor.
STARRING: Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Bill Maher, John Ratzenberger
Read more “House II: The Second Story (1987) (Special Edition) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #GothicFantastico – #ArrowVideo –
GOTHIC FANTASTICO PRESENTS FOUR OFF-THE-BEATEN PATH ITALIAN GOTHIC HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1960S!
While groundbreaking director Mario Bava remains the most well-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s as part of a hugely prolific and popular cycle. Gothic Fantastico presents four off-the-beaten path titles from this classic period, all of which demonstrate Italy’s ability to expand genre beyond the classic literary monsters that dominated elsewhere.
Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo’s Lady Morgan’s Vengeance, a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural, as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan attempts to destroy his new bride with help from his sinister maid.
Meanwhile, the perverse influence of Poe is used to great effect in Alberto De Martino’s The Blancheville Monster, a tale of family curses and madmen in the attic, as Emilie de Blancheville returns home to her brother Rodéric and discovers her own family may be out for her blood.
Mino Guerrini’s The Third Eye features not only a very early role for Italian cult film icon Franco Nero, but a plot that borrows several elements from Hitchcock.
Finally, Damiano Damiani’s The Witch takes a more avant-garde approach, when a young historian is lured to work for an ageing woman, only to be held captive when he becomes obsessed with her beautiful daughter.
Madness, obsession and messed up families are the order of the day in these four lesser-known monochrome gems from Italy’s peak Gothic period, fully restored in 2K from their original negatives and presented alongside an array of in-depth extras.
STARRING: Gordon Mitchell, Erika Blanc, Gérard Tichy, Ombretta Colli, Franco Nero
Read more “Gothic Fantastico : Four Italian Tales of Terror Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #FlowersInTheAttic – #ArrowVideo – @ArrowFilmsVideo –
When her husband dies in a tragic accident, widow Corrine Dollanganger (Victoria Tennant, The Holcroft Covenant) takes her four children to the ancestral family home she fled before they were born. Locked away in the attic by their tyrannical grandmother (Academy Award® winner Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), it falls to older brother and sister Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams, The Goonies) and Cathy (Kristy Swanson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) to care for their younger siblings. But with their mother growing increasingly distant and erratic and a mysterious sickness taking hold, will any of the Dollanganger children survive to escape the clutches of the house’s cruel matriarch?
Originally published in 1979, VC Andrews’ novel Flowers in the Attic was a smash hit, spawning four sequels and going on to sell over 40 million copies worldwide. With undercurrents of incest and child abuse and a haunting score by Christopher Young (Hellraiser), Flowers in the Attic is a dark and chilling Gothic suspense thriller in the classic tradition.
STARRING: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson
Read more “Flowers In The Attic (1987) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #FinalCut – #KinoLorber – @KinoLorber –
An opening night selection at the Cannes Film Festival, this wacky horror comedy from Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), is a remake of Shin’ichirô Ueda’s cult hit One Cut of the Dead. It follows a director (Romain Duris, L’Auberge Espagnole) making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies. Hazanavicius milks the film’s hilarious and meta-to-the-max premise for all it’s worth, while also crafting a sly love letter to the art of filmmaking. What’s on screen unfolds in typical cheesy B-movie fashion, while the off-screen hijinks offer a celebration of the unpredictable and collaborative nature of film sets. Featuring a hysterically unhinged turn by Oscar nominee Berenice Bejo (The Artist) and serving up blood-soaked high farce par excellence, Final Cut revels in its affectionate embrace of goofy genre fun.
STARRING: Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo
Read more “Final Cut (2022) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #ElviraMistressoftheDark – #ArrowVideo – @ArrowFilmsVideo –
Elvira, the wise-cracking vamp wants to take her act from the little screen to the glitzy stages of Las Vegas. So it seems a stroke of luck when her great-aunt Morgana dies and, despite having no prior knowledge of the relative, she is a beneficiary of the woman’s will. Thus Elvira makes the journey to Falwell, Massachusetts to stake claim to her inheritance, but is disappointed when she learns that she has only inherited a dilapidated house, a poodle and a cook book, and finds the conservative folk of Falwell are reticent to welcome a sexed-up and unconventional woman like her. To compound this she is accused of being a witch! Elvira discovers the evil force in the town and finds that only she has the power to stop it’s plans.
STARRING: Cassandra Peterson, Phil Rubenstein, Larry Flash Jenkins
Read more “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheCountYorgaCollection – #ArrowVideo – @ArrowFilmsVideo –
THE COUNT YORGA COLLECTION IS A FULL BLOODED FEAST TO DIE FOR!
By the end of the 1960s the boom in Old World gothic horror had begun to wane in the face of present day terrors like the Vietnam war. In response, American filmmakers brought horror out of the past and into the present, and the classic movie monsters packed their bags and headed for the New World.
Count Yorga, Vampire was among the first to successfully transpose the classic vampire, cloak and all, to a modern day setting as the Count – played unforgettably by Robert Quarry – arrives in the United States and settles in a Southern California mansion with his mysterious “brides”. A drive-in favorite from the moment it was released, a sequel soon followed.
The Return Of Count Yorga ups the ante and sees the sardonic Count on the streets of San Francisco, his sights set on an orphanage as a potential source of sustenance.
Director Bob Kelljan (Scream Blacula Scream) delivers a one-two punch of classic cult cinema mixing chills, thrills, style, and suspense with a knowing wit that revels in the genre trappings. Presented in all new restorations by Arrow Films from new scans of the original camera negative, The Count Yorga Collection is a full blooded feast to die for!
STARRING: Robert Quarry, Donna Anderson, Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder
Read more “The Count Yorga Collection (2-Disc Standard Special Edition Blu-ray) Available September 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #ItFollows – #SecondSight –
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
STARRING: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi
Read more “It Follows (2014) (Import) (Limited Deluxe Boxset) Available September 8”#horror – #horrormovies – #MotherMayI? – #DarkSkyFilms – @darkskyfilms –
Emmett wants to sell his recently deceased mother’s house, but lingering memories of childhood abuse soon emerge when he and his fiancé Anya stay the night. Anya convinces him to take mushrooms to get him to let go. But something strange happens while they’re tripping: she starts behaving like his mother. The next morning, he wakes up sober, but she still won’t drop the act… Anya loves playing games — is this her taking it too far? Or did his mother’s spirit somehow possess her? With the most twisted depiction of a couple in crisis in which the power dynamics are ever-shifting, MOTHER, MAY I? is a psychological thriller about who we think we are and who we pretend to be.
STARRING: Kyle Gallner, Holland Roden
Read more “Mother, May I? (2023) Available September 5”#horror – #horrormovies – #NightExplorersTheAsylum – #AlliedVaughn –
A group of friends run a popular YouTube channel exploring abandoned and haunted properties. Often encountering scary activities and ghostly apparitions or so it would seem. They get an opportunity to explore a large, disused mental hospital trying to discover evidence of the afterlife. When they arrive, things start off normal, but they soon discover something evil that won’t let them leave.
STARRING: Hanna Al Rashid, Franco Lo Presti, Madeleine Claude
Read more “Night Explorers: The Asylum (2023) Available August 29”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheBlackening – #LionsgateHomeEntertainment –
Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain’t no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like A Man, Barbershop) and co-written by Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, Harlem) and Dewayne Perkins (“The Amber Ruffin Show,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), The Blackening skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
STARRING: Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler
Read more “The Blackening (2023) Available August 22”#horror – #horrormovies – #Seire – #FilmMovement –
In Korean folk traditions, “seire” is the twenty-one days after a baby is born in which they’re uniquely vulnerable to bad luck, curses – even evil spirits. Many superstitions surround these first three weeks in a baby’s life, and new mother Hae-mi carefully follows every one of them. Father Woo-jin is reluctantly willing to play along, but when he attends an ex-girlfriend’s funeral, he unwittingly opens the door to to dark supernatural dangers. Plagued by terrible nightmares, the skeptical Woo-jin gradually begins to understand the seire custom, as he is forced to unravel the mystery of what is haunting him and his family in Kang Park’s “chilling indie horror debut” (Screen Anarchy) heralding the arrival of a fresh new voice in Korean genre cinema.
STARRING: Seo Hyun-woo, Sun-young Ryu, Eun-woo Shim
Read more “Seire (2021) Available August 15”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheLegendofResurrectionMary – #AlliedVaughn –
After nearly running down a beautiful and mysterious young woman walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery, Jeff Pryce gives the girl named Mary a ride. As the pair quickly become a couple, Jeff finds himself in the middle of a murder spree. Could it be Mary and is his life in danger too , now that he has found love?
STARRING: Kevin G. Schmidt, Ian Bawa
Read more “The Legend of Resurrection Mary (2021) Available August 15”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheAbode – #DarkStarPictures – @DarkStarPics –
In the 1800s, a young, handsome native American named Talako is caught with the wife of a merciless pirate known as Redbeard, who then orders for him to be burned alive at the stake. Witnessing Talako’s execution, Redbeard’s wife Lara hangs herself. Talako’s spirit never ascends and haunts anyone who comes near the old house. Almost 300 years later, Lara and Talako meet face to face and learn that everything happens for a reason.
STARRING: Karmel Bortoleti, Ariadna Gonzalez Medina, Montana Cypress
Read more “The Abode (2023) Available July 18”#horror – #horrormovies – #Nosferatu #Frankenstein – #StreamGoMedia –
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him…. The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
STARRING: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle
Read more “Nosferatu / Frankenstein Double Feature Available July 18”#horror – #horrormovies – #Wretch – #StreamGoMedia –
In an attempt to piece together fractured memories of a drug-fueled night in the woods, three friends confront guilt, jealousy, and a supernatural presence that threatens to expose their true natures.
STARRING: Megan Massie, Riker Hill, Spencer Korcz
Read more “Wretch (2018) Available July 18”
