Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. His films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors. But his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman & John Landis all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes. Directed by Thomas Hamilton.
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Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror – Official Trailer | A Shudder Exclusive
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. An “astounding achievement” (Screen Anarchy) that Rue Morgue calls “an unprecedented journey into where folk horror has been, where it’s going and ultimately what it says about humanity.” Audience Award Winner SXSW 2021 and Fantasia International Film Festival 2021, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched has been hailed as “brilliant” (AV Club) and “mind-blowingly epic” (Film Threat) and stands as perhaps the definitive genre documentary of our time.
Read more “Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror – Official Trailer | A Shudder Exclusive”Tardy Terror (2021) Trailer
The Requin Official Trailer (2022)
The Kindred | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical Entertainment
Helen wakes from a coma to learn she was the only person to witness her father’s suicide and that she is a mother to a child she has no memory of. When Helen delves into her father’s past, she uncovers a series of child abductions from decades ago. As Helen begins to suspect her father lived a double life as a child-killer she battles with her own feelings towards the daughter she resents.
Read more “The Kindred | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical Entertainment”Catch of the Day 1 & 2 Available January 4
Crashing funerals, digging through corpses to find drugs, and busting big-breasted bad girls is all in a days work for Officer Rod Davis. See your favorite bad boy in a badge, Rod Davis as explodes his way through not one but two wacky miss adventures in Catch of the Day 1 & 2. Grab a box of doughnuts and get ready to enjoy this double disc box set!
STARRING: James Balsamo, Jake ‘ The Snake’ Roberts, Jason Mewes, Tony Todd
Read more “Catch of the Day 1 & 2 Available January 4”Friday, December 10, 2021: Hurt Premieres Today on VOD
A soldier reunites with his wife to take in the attractions at their favorite Halloween spot. But when real terror follows them home, they must fight for their lives – or become the next attraction.
Read more “Friday, December 10, 2021: Hurt Premieres Today on VOD”Friday, December 10, 2021: Agnes Premieres Today on VOD
Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
Read more “Friday, December 10, 2021: Agnes Premieres Today on VOD”Thursday, December 9, 2021: Death Valley Premieres Today on Shudder
Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.
Read more “Thursday, December 9, 2021: Death Valley Premieres Today on Shudder”Warhunt Official Trailer (2022)
The Free Fall – Official Trailer
After attempting to take her own life, a young woman must wrestle with an overbearing husband
Read more “The Free Fall – Official Trailer”The Advent Calendar “5” | A Shudder Original
Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900) has been paraplegic for the past three years. When her birthday arrives, she receives a strange advent calendar as a gift. But instead of the traditional sweets, every day reveals something different; sometimes pleasant but often terrifying, and increasingly bloody. It’s going to be a very deadly Christmas this year. Written and directed by Patrick Ridremont.
Premieres: Thursday, December 2
Amityville Uprising (2022) Available January 11
A chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster in this tense action-horror thriller. As Sgt. Dash tries to keep the peace at the local police station, the explosion unleashes a toxic acid rain.
STARRING: Tank Jones, Troy Fromin, Aleksandra Hunt, Thomas Churchill
Read more “Amityville Uprising (2022) Available January 11”December 7, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases
This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “December 7, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”The Superdeep (2020) Available January 4
In 1984 a Russian research team go below the surface to find out what secret the world’s deepest borehole was hiding.
STARRING: Milena Radulovic, Nikita Dyuvbanov, Kirill Kovbas, Vadim Demchog, Sergey Ivanyuk
Read more “The Superdeep (2020) Available January 4”Spider in the Attic (2021) Available January 4
A deadly nest of spiders lurk in the attic – And the nest is about to be awoken by a news reporter and her colleagues.
STARRING: Sarah Alexandra Marks, Chelsea Greenwood, Nicola Wright
Read more “Spider in the Attic (2021) Available January 4”My Bloody Birthday Available January 4
After a terrible childhood trauma on her birthday, Emma chooses not to celebrate it again. But when she turns 21, a friend br eaks the ritual with
STARRING: Alex D’Antona, Kateryna Korchynska, Serena P. Palmisano
Read more “My Bloody Birthday Available January 4”The Djinn (2021) Available January 4
A mute boy is trapped in his apartment with a sinister monster when he makes a wish to fulfill his heart’s greatest desire.
STARRING: Ezra Dewey, Rob Brownstein, Tevy Poe
Read more “The Djinn (2021) Available January 4”Amityville Scarecrow (2021) Available January 4
A summer camp that is about to open to unwitting guests. However, there is something evil that lurks on the land.
STARRING: Barbara Dabson, Nicola Wright, Chelsea Greenwood
Read more “Amityville Scarecrow (2021) Available January 4”Sorority Slaughter (1994) Available December 28
An innocent college prank turns deadly when a bevy of beautiful sorority girls accidentally shoot and kill their voyeuristic, Satan worshipping neighbor Hugo. But is he really dead? See what horrible fates await each member of the sorority when Hugo mysteriously returns from the grave seeking human sacrifices to sustain his eternal life. The innocent Kim quickly becomes the object of Hugo’s obsession once he selects her as the ideal bride for his evil, demonic master Radu.
STARRING: Tina Krause, Laura Giglio, Pamela Sutch, Deana Demko, Dave Castiglione
Read more “Sorority Slaughter (1994) Available December 28”Red Snow (2021) Available December 28
A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
STARRING: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon
Read more “Red Snow (2021) Available December 28”Knocking (2021) Available December 28
After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.
STARRING: Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm, Alexander Salzberger, Krister Kern
Read more “Knocking (2021) Available December 28”Circle of Bones (2020) Available December 28
A Filipino police squad suspects that a former FBI agent may be the key to solving a series of cult massacres and child sacrifices.
STARRING: Jana Victoria, Ian Ignacio, Jeffrey Quizon
Read more “Circle of Bones (2020) Available December 28”Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare Available December 28
A horror triple feature from the vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)!
Help Me . . . I’m Possessed: A free-form nightmare that takes place at a sanitarium in the desert, this surrealist gem includes a psychopathic hunchback, delirious monsters, and a killer early synthesizer score.
Night Of The Strangler: A southern-fried whodunnit with murder, racial tension, and a starring role from The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz, this sweat-soaked sleazer feels like a cross between an American giallo and a trashy airport paperback novel.
Carnival Of Blood: An ominous, semi-cinéma vérité horror movie that was shot at Coney Island in NYC, Carnival Of Blood features an early role from Burt Young (Rocky), pop-art gore that would make H.G. Lewis proud, and a gloriously seedy atmosphere.
NOTICE! These preservations were made from the only known film elements in existence. Please approach the technical quality of the source materials with empathy.
STARRING: Micky Dolenz, Burt Young
Read more “Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare Available December 28”Zombie Cop (1991) Available December 21
One Hollywood stunt rarely attempted in shot-on-video movies is the car chase, yet “Zombie Cop” spends a big chunk of its short running time attempting just such a feat, with mixed results. Voodoo rituals, fight scenes, questionable police procedure, and ample gunplay with actors using real weapons firing blanks also contribute to making this one of the most gonzo horror/action hybrids ever made. After a cop named Gill and Haitian voodoo master Doctor Death kill each other during a routine drug bust, the duo rise from the grave to continue their game of cat-and-mouse as members of the undead. Gill enlists the help of human partner Stevens in tracking down Death and putting a stop to his nefarious plans for world domination! Painstakingly restored from original Super-VHS-C camera masters with a dynamic new 5.1 surround remix, “Zombie Cop” is more arresting than ever on Blu-ray together with never-before-seen bonus materials from the Tempe vaults, three audio commentaries, and original 1991 home video presentation captured from the archival edit master.
STARRING: Michael Kemper, Ken Jarosz, James R. Black Jr., Bill Morrison, James L. Edwards
Read more “Zombie Cop (1991) Available December 21”The Vampire Lovers (1970) (Collector’s Edition) Available December 21
CAUTION: NOT FOR THE MENTALLY IMMATURE!
A diabolical female vampire ravages the young girls and other townsfolk of a peaceful hamlet in eighteenth century Europe in revenge for the killing of her fellow vampires years earlier. A rousing hunt for the vampiress ensues as a group of men follow her bloody trail of terror through the countryside. Adapted from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, this “rather erotic Hammer chiller” (Leonard Maltin) stars Ingrid Pitt (Countess Dracula), Madeline Smith (Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell) and Peter Cushing (Horror Of Dracula, The Curse Of Frankenstein).
STARRING: Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steel, Madeline Smith
Read more “The Vampire Lovers (1970) (Collector’s Edition) Available December 21”ROH (2019) Available December 21
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest.
STARRING: Farah Ahmad, Mhia Farhana, Harith Haziq, June Lojong
Read more “ROH (2019) Available December 21”“Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness” Season 1 Available December 21
Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield reunite to investigate the connection between two zombie outbreaks in distant countries and uncover a threat that will shake the nation to its very core.
STARRING: Jona Xiao, Kellen Goff, Stephanie Panisello
Read more ““Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness” Season 1 Available December 21″Jack Frost (1997) (Special Edition) Available December 21
HE’S CHILLIN’ AND KILLIN’!
He’s got ice in his veins and he’s giving cold-blooded a whole new meaning… his name is JACK FROST. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states, serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the slayride of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over… he’s the abominable Jack Frost.
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Shannon Elizabeth, Stephen Mendel, Eileen Seeley
Read more “Jack Frost (1997) (Special Edition) Available December 21”Mill of the Stone Women (1960) (2-Disc Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available December 14
Before Black Sabbath, before I Vampiri, director Giorgio Ferroni (The Lion of Thebes, Blood for a Silver Dollar) introduced audiences to period horror Italian-style with his chilling 1960 shocker Mill of the Stone Women – a classic tale of terror redolent with the atmosphere of vintage Hammer Horror.
Young art student Hans von Arnam (Pierre Brice, Night of the Damned) arrives by barge at an old mill to write a monograph about its celebrated sculptures of women in the throes of death and torture, maintained and curated by the mill’s owner, the hermetic Professor Wahl (Herbert Böhme, Secret of the Red Orchid). But when Hans encounters the professor’s beautiful and mysterious daughter Elfi (Scilla Gabel, Modesty Blaise), his own fate becomes inexorably bound up with hers, and with the shocking secret that lies at the heart of the so-called Mill of the Stone Women.
The first Italian horror film to be shot in color, Mill of the Stone Women prefigured a raft of other spaghetti nightmares, including the work of maestros Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Arrow Video is proud to present this brand-new restoration of one of the foundational titles of Italian horror.
STARRING: Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss
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