Force To Fear (2020) (Special Edition) Available December 14

IT’S KILL… OR BE KILLED!

Two kidnappers, a dealer, a group of college kids, and a killer converge in an abandoned school. Once they cross paths, chaos ensues, and it’s a race to survive the night. Starring Sable Griedel (Cryptids), Chad Bruns (10/31), Mitchell Musolino (The Barn), with Se’ Marie, April Yanko and Nexus Lyons. Written and Directed by Zane Hershberger and Chad Bruns.

STARRING: Sable Griedel, Mitchell Musolino, Chad Bruns

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The Dead Pit (1989) Available December 14

Dr. Ramzi (Danny Gochnauer), a deviant who enjoys torturing his patients, is killed by a fellow doctor and buried in the basement of a mental health facility. Twenty years later, the hospital is up and running again and a “Jane Doe” (Cheryl Lawson) arrives at the institute with amnesia. Upon her arrival, a major earthquake rocks the building and unearths the now undead Dr. Ramzi and his legion of zombie patients so he can continue his work. Starring Jeremy Slate (The Devil’s Brigade) and co-written and directed by cult filmmaker Brett Leonard (The Lawnmower Man, Hideaway, Virtuosity).

STARRING: Jeremy Slate, Cherly Lawson, Danny Gochnauer, Stephen Gregory Foster, Geha Getz

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The Cropsey Incident (2017) Available December 14

A group of online social justice activists venture deep into the woods to uncover the truth behind a recent series of gruesome ritual murders – and to capture the person responsible. But what they come face to face with is something more deadly than any serial killer, an urban legend that is very real, and determined to make them his latest victims.

STARRING: Terry Bell, Nathanael Card, Rinska Carrasco

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Crash! (1976) (Remastered) Available December 14

Before Christine, another killer car screamed down the highways looking for blood in director Charles Band’s deranged 1977 auto carnage creeper Crash! Lolita legend Sue Lyon stars as Kim, an unfortunate lass who is perpetually abused by her miserable, much older professor husband Marc (Jose Ferrer, Dracula’s Dog) who, after being left an invalid by an accident he thinks his wife caused, plots to murder his missus with the aid of a monstrous Doberman Pinscher(!). But after Kim buys him a mystical African trinket from a street vendor (played by Salem’s Lot and The Man Who Knew Too Much actor Reggie Nalder), Marc’s plans are foiled and soon the vengeful spirit of his dead wife has possessed her convertible, flipping it into a fearsome four-on-the-floor fiend! Over-the-top action, bizarre plot twists, endless car chases and enough car crashes to fill five films combined in this vintage Band-sploitation saga (shot by future The Fugitive director Andrew Davis!), presented here fully remastered and uncut and louder and meaner than ever before! Buckle up for the weirdest ride of your life!

STARRING: John Carradine, Leslie Parrish, John Ericson, Sue Lyon, Jose Ferrer

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Chicken’s Blood (2019) Available December 14

A struggling wrestler and his friends take a shortcut to the event through a corrupt town run by drugs. They quickly find themselves in the middle of a blood feud between the gang and a psychotic clown on meth.

STARRING: Donald Farmer, Chuck Conry, Korey Jordan

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Bright Hill Road (2020) Available December 12

In the aftermath of a violent tragedy, a young woman is forced to face her demons at an unusual boarding house. As she loses touch with reality, she comes face to face with the misdeeds of her sordid past.

STARRING: Siobhan Williams, Michael Eklund, Agam Darshi

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Bigfoot Creek Available December 14

The world has moved on, but he’s still out there. Since the 1970s he has roamed the countryside, watching…and waiting. He has been sighted several times over the last few decades and this all-new docudrama chronicles these true events that occurred throughout the Midwest. Featuring interviews and locations from the real encounters.

STARRING: Allison Scott II, Christina Marie Leonard, Karrie Bauman

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Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation (2021) Available December 14

A Paranormal Investigation Like No Other!

Horror Icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII,VIII,IX,X, Hachet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they investigate The Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina. The Grand Old Lady Hotel is a 112-year-old, 40,000 square foot hotel with a disturbing past. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, the hotel is referred to by locals as the south’s Stanley Hotel.

STARRING: Kane Hodder, Mark A. Richardson, Amanda Hannah

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Amityville Vampire (2021) Available December 14

A group of female campers at Red Moon Lake are slowly turned into vampires as the ancient roots of the infamous Amityville curse are revealed to hold a legacy of evil that no one imagined.

STARRING: Jose Acain, Sean Fabian Billings, Anthony Dearce

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Trog (1970) Available December 7

A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND’S LAST MOVIE – ABOUT HUMANKIND’S FIRST MISSING LINK ENCOUNTER.

The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest. Few claim to have seen these links to our primitive past. But when a wild half-man/half-ape emerges from his countryside cave, TV cameras are there to observe the event – and the ensuing terror!

People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller known as the troglodyte. To a determined anthropologist (Joan Crawford in her final film role), he’s the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he’s walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped – all after local resident Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage. In true horror tradition, the world’s Murdocks leave no doubt who the real savages are … but what will become of he who is part-man, part-monster, all Trog!

STARRING: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay

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Midnight 2: Sex, Death & Videotape (1993) Available December 10

Another SRS Retro Release!! No one will ever be able to forget the unspeakable atrocities committed one dark midnight at the Barnes farmhouse. Now, years later, Abraham (Matthew Jason Walsh), the last surviving member of the crazed family, has taken up residence in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Armed with a video camera and his various implements of death, he stalks the streets of the city to satisfy his bloodlust…searching the psyches of his victims for his perfect mate. Enter Rebecca (Jo Norcia), a beautiful young bank teller who has unwittingly come under Abraham’s deadly camera lens. With the help of a hard-boiled police detective (Chuck Pierce), she may be able to solve the murder of her best friend…or become the ultimate sacrifice in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. From writer/director John A. Russo (Heartstopper, Night Of The Living Dead) comes a suspense-filled, nightmarish voyage through the mind of a serial killer…a voyage that leads straight into the heart of Midnight 2: Sex, Death And Videotape!

STARRING: Matthew Jason Walsh, Jo Norcia, Chuck Pierce Jr.

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Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) Available December 7

While logging video tapes of decades old TV broadcasts, college graduate James is propelled into a terrifying investigation when he comes across a surreal and disturbing video clip of what appears to be an imprisoned android. Evidently the product of a mysterious broadcast signal hacking, his discovery takes a sinister dread-filled turn when James tracks down similar, previously unseen broadcast intrusions that send him on a furious and obsessive pursuit across the country. Now James must confront two very real possibilities: that the videos may be clues to a crime beyond all comprehension; and that whoever was behind them may be very aware that James is coming uncomfortably close to the truth.

STARRING: Harry Shum Jr, Kelley Mack, Anthony E. Cabral

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The Advent Calendar “Captured” | 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.

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Superhost – OFFICIAL TRAILER

Teddy and Claire are travel vloggers who run a channel called “Superhost” where they travel and share their experiences in and around vacation homes, and until recently, had become successful doing it. With a dwindling subscriber count, they find the perfect opportunity to create content that people want to see when they meet Rebecca, the host of their most recent trip. Slowly they start to realize that something isn’t right with Rebecca, and as they investigate it further, they unlock a horrifying truth. She doesn’t just want a great review…she wants something far worse.

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Demonia Trailer | ARROW

Godfather of Gore Lucio Fulci returns to the startling imagery and bloody excesses of his 70s and 80s classics for an unholy saga of demonic nuns and supernatural carnage!

When a Canadian archaeological team begins excavating the ruins of a medieval Sicilian monastery, they unleash the vengeance of a crucified coven of satanic sisters with full-on Fulci fury.

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The Last Matinee Clip – Who are you?

TERROR! SCREAMING! DEATH! COMING SOON TO THIS CINEMA!

A trip to the movies takes a deadly turn in this stylish neo-giallo love letter to classic slashers that will send your popcorn flying and have you diving behind your seat!

A cold, wet day. A declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there, hiding in the dark? When Ana takes over projection duties from her ailing father, she doesn’t expect anything worse than a broken reel or a burned-out bulb. But there’s a sadistic killer in the auditorium, and soon blood is running in the aisles as he starts picking off the audience members one by one. Can Ana and the few remaining survivors escape the murderous madman, or will they be victims of his matinee massacre?

Uruguayan director Maxi Contenti marks himself out as a talent to watch with a film that Rue Morgue calls “Visually stunning… indulgently violent!” Arrow Video is proud to present The Last Matinee. It’s a killer time at the movies!

Shatter Dead (1994) Available November 30

When the Angel of Death impregnates a mortal woman, the dead cease to die and the world becomes inexplicably populated by morose and disenfranchised zombies whose primary desire is to co-exist with the living during their never ending plight on Earth. Determined to traverse through this dystopian landscape and return home to her boyfriend, the gun-toting Susan runs afoul of a car-jacking, undead religious cult led by a mysterious zealot known only as The Preacher Man. With suicide now a pathway to eternal youth, Susan must grapple with her own mortality after discovering that her lover has gone through an ominous transformation of his own in her absence.

STARRING: Stark Raven, Robert Welles, Marina Del Rey, Flora Fauna, Daniel “Smalls” Johnson

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The Last Matinee (2020) Available November 30

It rains heavily in Montevideo on a Sunday in 1993. A particularly suspicious man enters the last screening of a horror film at a downtown cinema. The room, which is not very crowded due to the storm outside, slowly starts to get stained with blood.

Ana, the projectionist’s daughter, who has taken her father’s place just for the night, is in charge of the show. In the darkness of the cinema, the spectators fall one by one into the hands of the killer. From the projection room, Ana begins to notice that something strange is happening. A teenager and a boy who slipped into the room meet Ana as they try to escape. Together they must face this sadistic and ruthless killer to save their lives and avoid a massacre in the matinee.

STARRING: Ricardo Islas, Luciana Grasso, Franco Duran, Julieta Spinelli

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Saint Maud (2019) Available November 30

Live-in nurse Maud (Morfydd Clark) arrives at the home of Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), a famous dancer now frail from illness and trapped in her grand, isolated house. At first Amanda is intrigued by this religious young woman, who provides distraction from her failing health. Maud, in turn, is bewitched by her new patient. But Maud is not all that she seems. She is tormented by a violent secret from her past and by ecstatic messages she believes are directly from God. She becomes convinced she has been sent to Amanda not simply as a nurse, but to serve a divine purpose. As her grip on reality slides out of control, Maud’s care turns into a deadly mission to save Amanda’s soul, by any means necessary.

STARRING: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, Marcus Hutton

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Malignant (2021) Available November 30

Malignant marks director James Wan’s return to his roots with this new original horror thriller. In the film, a woman is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.

STARRING: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michole Briana White

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Blood For Dracula (1974) (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD – 3-Disc Special Edition) Available January 25

Immediately after completing Flesh For Frankenstein, writer/director Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier created what remains sumptuously depraved Euroshocker, cunning political allegory and wickedly funny horror that obliterates the line between art and bad taste (Pop Culture Beast): Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula – Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls one of cinema’s Top 5 best Draculas – journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro of Morrissey’s Flesh, Trash and Heat). Stefania Casini (Suspiria) and Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica co-star – with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski – in one of the most unique vampire films in history (Oh! The Horror), now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative for the first time ever.

STARRING: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica

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The Last Matinee Trailer | ARROW

TERROR! SCREAMING! DEATH! COMING SOON TO THIS CINEMA!

A trip to the movies takes a deadly turn in this stylish neo-giallo love letter to classic slashers that will send your popcorn flying and have you diving behind your seat!

A cold, wet day. A declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there, hiding in the dark? When Ana takes over projection duties from her ailing father, she doesn’t expect anything worse than a broken reel or a burned-out bulb. But there’s a sadistic killer in the auditorium, and soon blood is running in the aisles as he starts picking off the audience members one by one. Can Ana and the few remaining survivors escape the murderous madman, or will they be victims of his matinee massacre?

Uruguayan director Maxi Contenti marks himself out as a talent to watch with a film that Rue Morgue calls “Visually stunning… indulgently violent!” Arrow Video is proud to present The Last Matinee. It’s a killer time at the movies!

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Deadly Games Original Trailer (Scott Mansfield, 1982)

Steve Railsback (famed for his unhinged performance as Charles Manson in 1976’s TV miniseries “Helter Skelter”) is at his sinister best as a troubled Vietnam Vet in 1982’s Deadly Games a tale of madness, murder and adultery from writer/director Scott Mansfied.

A masked maniac with a penchant for a horror-themed board game is playing his own twisted game with the women of a small American town. Each time the dice is rolled, another victim meets a grisly end. Returning home to mourn the death of her murdered sister, Keegan (Jo Ann Harris) befriends local cop Roger and oddball cinema projectionist Billy (Railsback) but soon finds herself in the killer’s sights.

Originally entitled Who Fell Asleep, Deadly Games is an intriguing early ’80s slasher oddity which benefits from focusing as much on the development of its female-led cast as it does on its scenes of stalking and slashing. Available for the first time ever on disc, Arrow Video is proud to present this long-over-looked creepy gem in a brand new restoration from the recently-unearthed camera negative!

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Don’t Go in the House Original Trailer (Joseph Ellison, 1979)

A legendary title from the Video Nasties era, Joseph Ellison’s relentlessly bleak and disturbing Don’t Go In The House has lost none of its power to shock in the decades since it was first censored by the BBFC and seized by UK authorities.

Donny Kohler (“The Sopranos” Dan Grimaldi in a gripping central performance), a disturbed loner unhealthily obsessed with fire, comes home from his factory job one day to find his abusive mother has died. Now all alone in the large Gothic mansion he calls home and consumed in an inferno of insanity, he is finally able to fulfil his violent revenge fantasies against her. Soon, any woman unlucky enough to enter is forced to come face to face with the worst fate imaginable in the secret steelclad chamber of death he has built in the house’s depths…

Now fully uncut and making its UK high definition premiere in a brand new 2K restoration, the film that dares to ask “What if Norman Bates had a flamethrower?” is back in a definitive collectors’ edition with both original and extended versions.

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Steel and Lace (1991) [Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

Steel and Lace is available now on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!

After her attackers go free, Gaily Morton, the victim of a vicious assault, commits suicide. Her vengeful brother, brilliant robotics engineer and scientist, Dr. Albert Morton, decides to use his skills to exact vengeance, transplanting his sisters’s brain into a humanoid cyborg. With bone-crushing strength and an array of built-in torture devices, Albert begins sending Gaily on a series of missions to violently do away with the men who wronged her…

A twisted and original take on the rape and revenge genre, acclaimed effects artist Ernest Farino’s feature filmmaking debut, Steel and Lace, is an action and bloodshed packed early 90s, direct-to-video horror treasure. Starring Clare Wren (TV’s The Young Riders), Bruce Davison (Longtime Companion), along with genre film stars Stacy Haiduk (Luther the Geek) and David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London), Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present the Blu-ray debut of Steel and Lace, newly restored in 2K and featuring an extensive, new, making of documentary.

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Ebola Syndrome (1996) [Vinegar Syndrome 4K UHD & Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

Ebola Syndrome is available now on 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!

Kai is a violent fugitive on the run from the law. Making his way from Hong Kong to South Africa, he begins a new life working at a small Chinese restaurant. When he joins his boss on a work trip through the African savanna, he encounters a remote African tribe afflicted with the Ebola virus. After attacking a young woman from the tribe, he contracts the virus, but to his surprise, he discovers that he’s immune to the deadly disease. His ruthlessness emboldened, Kai returns to Hong Kong, thus setting into motion a blood spewing and bodily fluids oozing nightmare!

One of the most shocking and notorious Category III films, Herman Yau’s (The Untold Story) Ebola Syndrome is a delectably grotesque and darkly comedic splatter film masterwork and stars Hong Kong cult film superstar, Anthony Wong (Hard Boiled), in one of his most outrageous performances. For years almost impossible to find in its uncut form, Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to present the worldwide UHD debut of Ebola Syndrome, newly scanned and restored in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative and finally fully uncut for the first time on English friendly home video.

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