HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: February 21, 2024

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Here’s a review of this week’s comic and movie releases and premieres!

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Horrible High Heels (1996) Available February 18

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The grim story of a shoe factory owner’s descent into madness is gruesomely portrayed. Driven by perverse desires, he embarks on a horrifying spree of brutally murdering and skinning women to create high heels. What starts as an ominous plan to teach a rival a lesson evolves into a chilling series of killings, revealing the darkest depths of depravity.

Massacre Video is proud to present the global release of the notorious CAT 3 classic, “Horrible High Heels,” fully uncut and uncensored for the first time. This edition boasts a brand new 2K scan from the original camera negatives, including the infamous ‘goose scene’ that was removed from previous versions. Enhanced with newly created English subtitles, this release provides a complete and unfiltered experience of one of Hong Kong’s most extreme exploitation slashers, offering a pristine and disturbing journey into horror for audiences around the world.

STARRING: Hsiao-Lao Lin, Fui-On Shing, Dick Wei, Billy Chow

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Desert Fiends (2024) Available February 18

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Six friends on their way to a concert break down in the middle of nowhere and encounter a deranged family that lives in the desert killing anyone they come across.

STARRING: Eric Roberts, Bai Ling, Spencer Breslin

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And Then There Was Blood / Haunted Ground (Indie Horror Double Feature) Available February 18

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Seven strangers trapped in an isolated house are stalked by a werewolf in their midst./A 2-part horror anthology featuring tales of ghosts and mummies.

STARRING: Various

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Nosferatu (2024) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 18

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In Nosferatu, estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with a prospective client named Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård). While away, his new bride Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) is plagued by visions and an increasing sense of dread in anticipation of an encounter with a horrifying force beyond her control. The gothic tale of obsession is directed by Robert Eggers and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe.

STARRING: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgard, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

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Night of Wrath Available February 18

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When a group of virtuous student leaders are trapped in a haunted house by an unknown blackmailer named Wrath, they are forced to play his twisted games to keep their secrets safe from the world.

STARRING: Anson Bagley, Camrey Bagley Fox, Tiffany Gale

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Blades in the Darkness (2022) Available February 18

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An investment group invests a large sum of money into opening a sweet new bar/nightclub in a long-forgotten former communist bunker! As they go about renovating the space into a mix of punk, goth and hipster, they suddenly face a monster, hidden for decades, that is armed with blades and thirsty for blood.

STARRING: Lorenzo Lepori, Arnold Damazzeti, Manuela Arcuri, Francesco Rossini, Ilirda Bejleri

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St. Patrick’s Day Massacre (2025) Available February 18

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On a trip to Dublin to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, four friends agree to spend the night in an abandoned tavern, where they are stalked by an undead killer in search of revenge for a tragedy that occurred centuries before.

STARRING: Marta Svetek, Charlie Bond, Ayvianna Snow, Ciaron Davies

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Little Bites (2024) Available February 18

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Little Bites follows Mindy, a young widow and mother, who desperately tries to protect her daughter Alice from the grips of a fiendish, flesh eating monster named Agyar. Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to slowly feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her grandmother’s home.

STARRING: Krsy Fox, Jon Sklaroff, Elizabeth Caro, Barbara Crampton, Heather Langenkamp, Bonnie Aarons, Chaz Bono

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Constantine (2005) (4K Ultra HD Steelbook) Available February 18

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Just beneath the streets of modern-day Los Angeles lies a world of demons … and angels. Globetrotting misfit and renegade occultist John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), a man who has literally been to hell and back, enters this world to help a skeptical policewoman investigate the mysterious suicide of her twin sister in Constantine.

STARRING: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince

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Humanoids from the Deep (1980) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 18

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Something horrendous is happening in the sleepy fishing village of Noyo. An aquaculture experiment has gone very wrong and the results-fish-like humanoids are rising from the sea to spawn their vengeance.

STARRING: Ann Turkel, Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Denise Galik

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HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: February 14, 2024

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Here’s a review of this week’s comic and movie releases and premieres!

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Friday, February 14, 2025: The Dead Thing Premieres Today on Shudder

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A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.

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Siccin (2014) Available February 11

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Oznur is a young and beautiful woman who has had a platonic love for her cousin Kudret since childhood. Unfortunately, Kudret is already married to a woman named Nisa and is very happy with his life. In a fit of jealousy, Oznur resorts to performing terrible black magic to try and change Kudret’s feelings towards her, so that they can be together. However, she is not prepared for the evil consequences that this spell unleashes.

STARRING: Merve Ates, Toygun Ates, Gunes Galava

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Hell Hike 2 : Worshipers of the Worm! Available February 11

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Die Star Pictures Presents Hell Hike 2: Worshipers of the Worm! When nature calls… RUN. A year after the grueling events of the original Hell Hike, a new group of adventurers hits the trails, eager for a glow-up on their social feeds. But this time, the danger isn’t just uphill-it’s underground. Lured into a cavern glowing with eerie bioluminescence, they stumble upon an ancient cult known as the Worshipers of the Worm.

STARRING: James Balsamo

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Haunted (2017) Available February 11

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An aspiring writer pays a visit to his sister to look after her house while she is out of town, but what he finds there is more terrifying than any of the stories he writes.

STARRING: Roberto D’Antona, Michael Segál, David White

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Glitch Ditch 36 Available February 11

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Die Star Pictures invites you to the ultimate cinematic rabbit hole! Take a wild, behind-the-scenes ride into the chaotic brilliance of James Balsamo’s most insane creations! Packed with mind-melting effects, absurd antics, and enough on-set shenanigans to overload your brain, this deep dive uncovers the raw, unfiltered madness that fuels Balsamo’s bonkers filmmaking.

STARRING: James Balsamo

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The Entity Within (2022) Available February 11

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Dr. Kim Hunter is a celebrity medium who leads a team of clairvoyants that communicate with spirits. However, her reputation has been damaged by press controversies, and her star is starting to fade. One day, a person from her past comes to her with a case that brings her and the team back to her rural hometown. While helping to rid the unwanted spirits in the present, Dr. Hunter must confront the paranormal that lurks in her past.

STARRING: April Hartman, Lily Lurid, Jade Summers

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Conjuring the Genie (2021) Available February 11

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A young girl frees a demonic spirit from an amulet, and it begins possessing everyone around her. Now, she must find a way to get the spirit back into the amulet.

STARRING: Sarah T. Cohen, Nicola Wright, Megan Purvis

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Vampires (1998) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 11

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“Forget everything you’ve ever heard about vampires,” warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of Team Crow, a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. When Master Vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) decimates Jack’s entire team, Crow and the sole team survivor, Montoya (Daniel Baldwin), set out in pursuit. Breaking all the rules, Crow and Montoya take one of Valek’s victims hostage—a beautiful but unlucky prostitute (Sheryl Lee). She is the sole psychic link to Valek and they use her to track down the leader of the undead. As Valek nears the climax of his 600-year search for the Berziers Cross, Jack and the new Team Crow do everything possible to prevent him from possessing the only thing that can grant him and all the vampires the omnipotent power to walk the world in daylight.

STARRING: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximilian Schell

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Ghosts of Mars (2001) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 11

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By the year 2176, the planet Mars, long inhabited by human settlers, has become the manifest destiny of an over-populated Earth. Nearly 640,000 people now live and work all over Mars, mining the planet for its abundant natural resources. But one of those mining operations has uncovered a deadly mother lode: a long dormant Martian civilization whose warriors are systematically taking over the bodies of human intruders. Lt. Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge, Species) of the Martian Police Force is on transport assignment to bring James “Desolation” Williams (Ice Cube, 21 Jump Street), the planet’s most notorious criminal, to justice. Williams has no plans to make Ballard’s job easy. What begins as a battle of force and wits between cop and criminal soon turns into something more fundamental: a battle for human survival in the realm of the Martian warriors. It’s civilization against civilization as Ballard and Williams join forces in mortal combat with the Ghosts of Mars.

STARRING: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall

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Galaxy of Terror (1981) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 11

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In the distant future, the crew of the starship Quest is dispatched to the barren planet of Morganthus to search of the missing crew members of the starship Remus, which has crash-landed there. Instead, they encounter something far more mysterious and insidious, as the crew members fall victim to their worst fears—each one more horrifying than the last. If any of them are survive the Galaxy of Terror, they must unlock the secrets of this deadly world.

STARRING: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston

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Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 11

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A young Brooke Shields meets an untimely end in this religious-themed proto slasher par excellence from director Alfred Sole. On the day of her first communion, young Karen (Brooke Shields) is savagely murdered by an unknown assailant in a yellow rain mac and creepy translucent mask. But the nightmare is far from over – as the knife-wielding maniac strikes again and again, Karen’s bereaved parents are forced to confront the possibility that Karen’s wayward sister Alice might be the one behind the mask. Bearing influences from the likes of Hitchcock, the then-booming Italian giallo film and more specifically, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, Alice, Sweet Alice is an absolutely essential – if often overlooked – entry in the canon of 1970s American horror.

STARRING: Jane Lowry, Louisa Horton, Alphonso DeNoble, Brooke Shields

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Watch If You Dare To (2024) Available February 11

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Prepare yourself for the ultimate descent into terror with Watch If You Dare To, the spine-chilling sequel to the acclaimed Watch If You Dare. This horror anthology film brings you seven terrifying tales that will haunt your dreams and leave you questioning reality itself. Each story delves into a unique aspect of fear, pushing the boundaries of dread and suspense. Watch if you dare to.

STARRING: Megan Borkes, Nima Forghani, Tiffany Astrid

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Trapped Ashes (2006) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 11

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TRAPPED ASHES, 2006, 105 min. In the twisted tradition of classic anthology horror films such as TALES FROM THE CRYPT, CREEPSHOW and BLACK SABBATH, TRAPPED ASHES features stories of the surreal, macabre and bizarre, helmed by five of Hollywood’s most unique directors: Joe Dante (GREMLINS, THE HOWLING), Ken Russell (ALTERED STATES, THE DEVILS), Monte Hellman (TWO-LANE BLACKTOP), Sean Cunningham (FRIDAY the 13th), and John Gaeta (Academy Award winner, Visual Effects on THE MATRIX) – and produced & written by Deaf Crocodile’s own Dennis Bartok! Seven strangers (including legendary character actors John Saxon and Henry Gibson) are trapped inside an infamous Roger Corman/AIP-style House of Horrors during a Hollywood movie studio tour and forced to confess their most disturbing personal memories. In Ken Russell’s The Girl with Golden Breasts, a struggling actress (Rachel Veltri) decides to get gel implants made from reprocessed human cadavers – with monstrous results for her and her boyfriend (Jayce Bartok). In Sean Cunningham’s Jibaku, an unhappily married woman (Lara Harris) and her architect husband (Scott Lowell) have a nightmarish encounter with a dead monk on a visit to Japan. In Monte Hellman’s Stanley’s Girlfriend (Official Selection, 2006 Cannes Film Festival), two ambitious young filmmakers become unlikely friends in 1950s Hollywood: Leo (Tahmoh Penikett), writer of sadistic B-pictures like The Strangler, and a soon-to-be-famous director named Stanley Kubrick (Tygh Runyan). When they both fall in love with the same enigmatic woman (Amelia Cooke), it unleashes a decades-long mystery involving desire and celluloid. And in John Gaeta’s My Twin, The Worm, a young Goth woman (Michele-Barbara Pelletier) reveals the horrific, Cronenberg-like tale of the inhuman twin that grew alongside her in her mother’s womb. Newly scanned and restored in 4K by Deaf Crocodile.

STARRING: Henry Gibson, Jayce Bartok, John Saxon, Lara Harris

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The Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980) Available February 11

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We have more ghosts than live people, murmurs the pale, haunted mistress of the mansion of Marsh Firs (Elena Dimitrova) to a scholar of ancient folklore (Boris Plotnikov) who has arrived at her castle to research the bloody legend of King Stakh, a murdered 15th century nobleman whose spirit supposedly thunders through the local woodlands. (The Wild Hunt is a fixture of northern European folklore in which a sinister figure leads a chase followed by ghostly companions.) Part folk horror, part supernatural mystery, KING STAKH is a melancholy, chilling mixture of Terry Gilliam, Italian Gothic Horror, 1960s Hammer Films and THE WICKER MAN – and a major rediscovery for genre fans. The longer the young scholar stays in this mysterious house of shadow, gloom, madness and death, the more strange and surreal the imagery becomes: a mad widow in a white wig; a man bleeding spontaneously from his skull; a dwarf hiding in a decayed doll’s house; screeching ravens and maniacal puppet shows. Based on the novel by Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkievich, the long-unavailable KING STAKH has recently been restored from the original film elements in its extended 126 min. Director’s Cut by Deaf Crocodile and Seagull Films for its first-ever U.S. release. (In Russian with English subtitles.)

STARRING: Boris Plotnikov, Elena Dimitrova, Albert Filozov

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Cheater Cheater (2024) Available February 11

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A mysterious serial killer has violently claimed the lives of five random residents in the small town of Yakima, Washington. Then all goes silent. Five years later, a former resident, Joseph Givens, returns after trying to better himself, and shake the demons that consumed his teenage years. And almost like a trigger, his return sparks a new series of brutal crimes. Joseph is being stalked and the people around him are being hunted by a madman wearing a tattered pumpkin mask and wielding a sharp knife. Inspired by the great slasher movies of the 80’s and 90’s, Cheater Cheater delivers a suspenseful and thrilling mystery that will keep you guessing until its surprising conclusion.

STARRING: Andy Mendoza, Del Kary, Josh Hodgins

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