A family is terrorized by a Christmas demon, Jack Frost, and must learn their family’s dark secrets that link to why they are cursed. This Christmas, Jack will stop at nothing to exact his vengeance on those left in the bloodline.
STARRING: Sarah T. Cohen, Nikki Wright, Richard Kovacs, Sylvia Clegg
Read more “Jack Frost Available November 8”From Writer/Director Mike Lombardo (The Stall, Long Pig) and Executive Producer Brian Keene (award winning author of The Rising, Ghoul) comes what East Coast Horror Group called “The gut punch holiday film of the year.” White Doomsday is the story of Kelly Enck and her son Riley, weathering the end times in a bomb shelter amongst the ruin that was once the world. With Christmas eve approaching, and supplies and hope steadily declining, Kelly must make a horrifying decision that will cause her to find out just how far she would go for her child. Starring Hope Bikle, Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), and introducing Reeve Blazi as Riley, I’m Dreaming of a White Doomsday is “a bleak, thoughtful, character driven piece with an ending that will have you staggering out of the theater.” -Jeff Strand (author of Sick House and Pressure)
STARRING: Damian Maffei, Hope Bikle
Read more “I’m Dreaming Of A White Doomsday (2017) Available November 8”Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, Impetigore) is back with a terrifying sequel to one of the scariest movies ever released on Shudder.
After going through a horrifying night 4 years ago when their dead mother came back to life and took away her youngest brother, 25 year-old Rini has been living with her other two siblings and their father in a crowded cheap apartment, thinking it’s safer than living in a house by themselves. However, one day a heavy storm hits the area and the apartment becomes isolated from the outside world. Rini and her family find out that everybody’s gone. When the lights go out, an unseen menace creeps in and Rini suddenly finds herself in a life and death struggle to save her family and get out of the place alive. But something from the past has an evil plan to keep them there, for an unthinkable sinister scheme.
Read more “Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion – Official Trailer [HD] | A Shudder Original”Riding high on their successful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman and American International Pictures took on that other titan of literary terror, H.P Lovecraft, in The Dunwich Horror!
Dean Stockwell stars as Wilbur Whateley, a mysterious young man who travels from the small town of Dunwich to the library of the Miskatonic University which holds one of the only copies of the Necronomicon, a legendary book of occult lore that Wilbur hopes to borrow. Graduate student Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee) falls under his malign influence and travels with him back to his home where Wilbur has plans to use her in a ritual to raise ‘The Old Ones’, cosmic beings from another dimension. But who, or what, is in the locked room at the top of the stairs? And what will happen if they get out?
Read more “The Dunwich Horror Original Trailer (Daniel Haller, 1970)”A group of friends find their party is being crashed by a group of mysterious cat-like ghouls. To make matters worse, their school’s murderous bullies decide to show up as well.
STARRING: Darius Rathe, Beáta Imre, James Jordan
Read more “Ghoul House (2021) Available November 8”New York has a new problem in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan – Deluxe Edition. After an electrifying return from the bottom of his Crystal Lake grave, indestructible psycho-slasher Jason Voorhees ships out to visit the Big Apple and paints the town red! High school senior Rennie Wickham is in for the ride of her life – and possibly her death – when she and her classmates take a graduation cruise bound for New York City. Little do they know that crazed serial killer Jason is a stowaway who quickly transforms the teen filled “love boat” celebration into the ultimate voyage of the damned! Only a few survivors reach New York, where the bloody rampage spills into the gritty streets and subways of Manhattan in a deadly game of hide-and-seek – leading to a toxic
STARRING: Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Barbara Bingham, Peter Mark Richman, Martin Cummins
Read more “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Available November 8”What chance does a teenage girl have against a maniacal maniac with a machete? Pack your bags and return to Crystal Lake to find out for yourself…if you dare! In Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood – Deluxe Edition, young Tina Shepard possesses the gift of telekinesis, allowing her to move things and see the future, using the power of her mind. But when a devious doctor tries to exploit her ability, the gift becomes a hellish curse. Tina unwittingly unchains the merciless, bloodthirsty Jason Voorhees from his watery grave, igniting a bloodbath that ends in the ultimate showdown in strength of mind versus pure evil matter. Experience the legacy of unrelenting terror that never dies!
STARRING: Lar Park Lincoln, Kevin Blair, Susan Blu, Terry Kiser
Read more “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) Available November 8”Jason rises from the grave to wreak havoc upon a new group of unsuspecting campers in the ultra-bloody rampage Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives – Deluxe Edition. As a child, Tommy Jarvis killed mass-murderer Jason Voorhees. But now, years later, he is tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn’t really dead. Determined to finish off the infamous killer once and for all, Tommy and a friend dig up Jason’s corpse in order to cremate him. Unfortunately, things go seriously awry, and Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal murders. Now it’s up to Tommy to stop the dark, devious and demented deaths that he unwittingly brought about in this terrifying horror film that will take you to the grave and back!
STARRING: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan, Renée Jones
Read more “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) Available November 8”They thought Jason was dead. They thought he was gone for good. But it turns out, they’re all wrong…dead wrong! Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning – Deluxe Edition. Young Tommy Jarvis may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason Voorhees, is back for more sadistic slaughters. But as things spiral out of control and the body count rises, Tommy begins to wonder if he’s become the killer he fears most. Witness the true terror as Jason and Tommy battle once more in this spine-tingling descent into death and madness!
STARRING: John Shepherd, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, Marco St. John
Read more “Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) Available November 8”It’s spine-tingling horror in a whole new dimension with Friday the 13th Part 3-3D: Deluxe Edition on DVD! A carefree summer becomes a deadly nightmare for another group of naïve counselors who choose to ignore Camp Crystal Lake’s gruesome legacy. They find themselves in a bloody game of cat-and-mouse with the maniacal Jason, who stalks their every move… and ruthlessly attempts to kill them off one by one.
STARRING: Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, Richard Brooker
Read more “Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) Available November 8”Get ready for twice the terror with Friday the 13th Part 2: Deluxe Edition! Five years after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, the nerve-wracking legend of Jason Voorhees and his diabolical mother lives on. Despite ominous warnings from the locals to stay away from “Camp Blood,” a group of counselors at a nearby summer camp decide to explore the area where seven people were brutally slaughtered. All too soon, they encounter horrors of their own and the killing begins again. You’ll be at the edge of your seat for this gruesome thriller about 24 hours of bone-chilling fear!
STARRING: Adrienne King, Amy Steel, John Furey, Steve Daskewisz
Read more “Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) Available November 8”From #X writer/director Ti West and starring Mia Goth. PEARL – Now Available On Demand. #Pearl
Read more “Pearl | Alligator | Official Clip HD | A24”In this eerie thriller starring Emile Hirsch and Radha Mitchell, an actor asks a female demonologist to help him land a part, and their weekend together erupts in ritual violence.
STARRING: Emile Hirsch, Radha Mitchell
Read more “Devil’s Workshop (2022) Available November 8”Adriana is haunted by memories of a massacre that occurred months eariler. Terrified that the killer is still out there, she decides to put her mind at ease by spending a night partying at a lake house with her new friend, Tina. As the night goes on, they are attacked by an escaped convict, a copycat killer and the return of the terrifying masked killer, Damon. Bonus features include: Released in theaters., Stars Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down), Sully Erna (Frontman of the band Godsmack), and a breakout performance by Hannah Dannelly. Cameo by Michael Madson (Hateful Eight, Kill Bill Vol. 1).
STARRING: Chelsea Vale, Tom Sizemore, Robert LaSardo
Read more “Damon’s Revenge (2022) Available November 8”Based on a true story, Clara is a horror film about a 13-year old girl walled up in the family home by her father in the mid 19th-century. In modern times the haunted villa is inherited by Helen Ludovisi, the American niece of the owner. Helen and her boyfriend fly in from the States to restore Villa Clara. Before long the house’s insidious secrets, ghosts and its mysterious caretaker, David, terrify all who enter its portals.
STARRING: Michael Segal
Read more “Clara Available November 8”We follow a serial killer and his victims as they all prepare for Christmas in their own ways. This year it doesn’t matter if you have been naughty or nice, Santa is coming to town no matter what, and he knows where you live.
STARRING: Eline Aasheim, Tormod Lien, Magne Steinsvoll
Read more “Christmas Cruelty! (2013) Available November 8”From SRS Cinema’s Nightmare Fuel line – movies too extreme! Blood Cove – Deep in the swamplands of Beansboro, Indiana… a killer waits. And when a young reporter on vacation, Joanie Craven (Katie Harbridge), goes missing, it’s up to skeptical police chief Greg Fontana (Jeff Angel) and Joanie’s father Michael (Deron Morgan) to find her and bring an end to the infamous Skull’s reign of terror, which has lasted decades. Despite warnings from local town historian Walt Caruthers (George Stover), no one in the town believes the mysterious deaths are truly the work of the Skull, but he knows the truth. And he knows more blood will be shed before Fontana and Michael can find Joanie. But will she still be alive? Blood Cove 2: Return of the Skull- In the sleepy town of Beansboro, Indiana, a killer is about to strike again. Despite the best efforts from local authorities six months earlier, it appears the Skull was not destroyed in the haunted house fire as believed. Now the bloodthirsty maniac has set his sights on revenge – and the peaceful community is about to become the devil’s playground. Only Det. Dan Lockwood (Mark Dessauer) and his daughter Brooke (Autumn Hall) stand in the way of the masked madman’s killing spree.
STARRING: Various
Read more “Blood Cove & Blood Cove 2: Return Of The Skull Available November 8”A few months after the events in Escape To Black Tree Forest Chuck Peterson escapes from the Vestron Hospital For The Criminally Insane and returns to Black Tree Forest. There he meets a whole new group of teens out looking for fun on Halloween night. The cycle continues on the night no one comes home!
STARRING: Brandon Aylor, Jennii Caroline, Breana Mitchell
Read more “Black Tree Forest III (2012) Available November 8”Master filmmaker Robert Wise began his career with horror classics The Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher for producer Val Lewton. His career would go on to include westerns, thrillers, science fiction and musicals, earning him two academy awards for Best Director. In 1963 he returned to his Lewtonian roots with the classic ghost story The Haunting. In 1977 he returned once more with the supernatural thriller Audrey Rose. All Bill and Jane Templeton wish for is a quiet, peaceful life with their 11-year-old daughter Ivy. But their dreams turn to nightmares as Ivy is besieged first by terrifying ‘memories’ of events that never occurred… and then by a mysterious stranger who stalks her every move, and claims that Ivy was in fact his daughter in another life. Released in the wake of The Exorcist and The Omen, Audrey Rose is an intelligent, heartfelt drama that approaches it’s subject with an open mind and seriousness of intent that caught many off guard but typifies Wise’s previous genre forays. Sensitively played by a sterling cast at the top of their game, this underseen gem deserves a place on the shelf of any fan of classic horror.
STARRING: Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck
Read more “Audrey Rose (1977) Available November 8”Jackie (Natalie Peri) and Danny (Paul Faggione) are spending the holiday week in therapy instead of at the dinner table. Their marriage has taken a turn for the worst, and they turn to what they believe to be their only option, Amityville Couples Counselor Frank Domonico (Mark C Fullhardt), a doctor with a hidden, sinister past. He recommends an isolated cabin retreat to save their family. But once alone together, the doctor’s unorthodox approach starts to push the couple over the edge. Strange visitors, visions, and occult items haunt their stay, coming to peak on Thanksgiving Day. Little do they know that the doctor plans to end their sessions, as well as their lives, with a devilish dinner, and them as the main course!
STARRING: Julie Anne Prescott, Shawn C. Phillips, Natalie Peri
Read more “Amityville Thanksgiving (2022) Available November 8”A grouchy college professor, who thinks that anything “supernatural” must have a logical explanation, goes on vacation to a lonely coastal village. When an old whistle is found on the beach one day, the professor blows through it. Little does he know that he has just awakened a supernatural terror beyond his comprehension. This excellent British horror gem is a must. Based on the chilling tale by M. R. James. Cool. From 35mm. ALSO: The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1928) Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber. When a wayward traveler arrives at the Usher mansion, he discovers that the family members are living under the effects of a horrible curse. This short, avante garde version of the Poe classic is wonderfully gloomy in its almost dream-like presentation. Silent with music score.
STARRING: Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge, Nora Gordon
Read more “Whistle and I’ll Come for You Available November 1”It’s not often that we just go bonkers over an actor’s portrayal in a film, but Patrick Magee’s performance in What Big Eyes in our humble opinion is one of the finest acting jobs by an actor in a horror film that we’ve ever seen in the more than three-and-a-half decades of Sinister Cinema. He is AMAZING. An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers that pet shop owner Magee has been receiving and conducting bizarre experiments on wolves, searching for proof of lycanthropy in humans. His guinea pig? Himself. Like Lugosi in The Raven or Rathbone in Love from a Stranger, there are moments where the intensity of Magee’s dialogue will pass right through the TV screen and creep down into your spine. Wow! Everyone else in the cast excels as well, especially Madge Ryan as his mentally battered daughter. The final scene in this short British made-for-TV feature is very memorable.
STARRING: Patrick Magee, Madge Ryan, Michael Kitchen, Gerald James, Bill Dean
Read more “What Big Eyes Available November 1”McClure and his Coast Guard helicopter pal come upon a shipwreck in an area known as “the Devil’s Triangle.” When McClure is lowered to the ship he finds dead bodies all over the place. The only survivor is a beautiful blonde (Kim Novak), who’s in a confused state of mind. Unfortunately, a cable snaps on the helicopter’s rescue basket and McClure and Novak are stuck on the boat until the chopper can return. She tells a grisly tale of what happened. Little does McClure suspect that the evil power that caused all the deaths will soon return. Novak was forty-two when she made this film and still looked great. Creepy with many twists. Color, 16mm.
STARRING: Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Jim Davis, Ed Lauter
Read more “Satan’s Triangle (1975) Available November 1”One of the most remarkable films we’ve seen in 30 years of business. An archaeological team unearths the body of an ancient witch and pulls a stake from her rotted corpse. Soon a beautiful naked girl is found in the witch’s grave. The villagers are sure she is the ancient witch returned to life. She soon sets about bewitching men in the most erotic ways imaginable, without resorting to full-blown sex. The scenes of Mane dancing nude were intended to be mesmerizing—and they are! The film’s overall visual images are great. The blending of a classical-style score with a flowing sense of eroticism is haunting. In Finnish with English subtitles. 35mm.
STARRING: Mirja Mane, Toivo Makela, Hillevi Lagerstam, Sakari Jurkka
Read more “Return of the Witch (1952) Available November 1”Goth superstar Aurelio Voltaire and original gangsta rapper Schoolly D star in this cult camp catastrophe, where a beautiful aristocrat (Amanda Flowers) is resurrected by mad doctor Orbert Wescraft at the request of her obsessed husband (Rock N Roll legend Alan Merrill). But when she rebels against the doctor and joins a cult of the zombies planning to resurrect their evil god, pandemonium ensues! Now only her husband, two wacky journalists, a teenage girl hellbent on revenge, a stoned boy genius, and the President can save the world.
STARRING: Schoolly D, Aurelio Voltaire, Amanda Flowers, Alan Merrill
Read more “Re-Agitator Available November 1”Mitchell is the evil Baron von Weser, who has a grim collection of carnivorous plants. When a group of people vacation on his island, they soon they find themselves having to deal with his monstrosities. Watch out for his blood-drinking tree, which soon becomes acquainted with several unfortunate guests. This is a fast-moving piece of Euro-schlock. Mitchell is great as he underplays his evil role. This film has had some awful video releases in the past, but this is probably the best video copy on the market. Aka Man-eater of Hydra.
STARRING: Cameron Mitchell, Elisa Montes, George Martin, Kay Fischer
Read more “Island of the Doomed (1967) Available November 1”A sexy hitchhiker trying to get home has to survive a night of terror as a sadistic killer cannibal scouts the highway looking for fresh roadkill.
STARRING: Ely LaMay, John Barrymore, Calista Caradine, Veronica Lavery, Rocky Christopher
Read more “Hitchhiker Massacre (2017) Available November 1”Following a mysterious disappearance on a jump, a group of skydivers experience paranormal occurrences that leave them fighting for their lives.
STARRING: Kayla Adams, Matthew Holcomb
Read more “Hex (2022) Available November 1”A wounded fugitive breaks into a rundown house and finds both the owner’s skeleton and letters to his son, leading to his quest to reunite the dead.
STARRING: Cris Cunningham, Dee Ann Newkirk, TJ Maxwell, Richard Miraan, Don Bondi
Read more “The Haunting at Woodland Hills (2016) Available November 1”In a small 1800s Massachusetts town, a student of theology becomes fascinated with a dilapidated old country mansion. He soon learns the place is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young woman, whose father was responsible for her death. An arrangement has been made, though, between the ghost and the father whereby he is banned from the house in return for a ghost royalty, paid to him four times a year. This wonderful B&W gothic Euro-chiller is largely overlooked by horror film historians. It is filled with exquisitely acted scenes and atmospheric moments of underlying dread. The scene where the black-veiled ghost descends the stairs is quite memorable. Laforêt has a vague likeness to Barbara Steele and is a true beauty in her own right. Definitely recommended. Based on the classic Henry James ghost story, “The Ghostly Rental.” In French with English subtitles.
STARRING: Stéphane Fey, François Vibert, Marie Laforêt, Reine Courtois, Michael Lonsdale
Read more “The Ghost’s Royalty Available November 1”
