Senseless (2022) Available October 25

After Jason storms out on his wife following a heated argument, he avoids returning home and instead hides out in the nearby woods. But something dark dwells in the forest, an evil that entices Jason at every step; an evil that has survived by stealing souls from those lost within the dark recesses of the woods – and now it’s preying on Jason’s soul to feed its unyielding hunger. Jason must come face-to-face with the manifestation of this hounding evil, as well as his own growing darkness, if he’s going to survive the night and escape being trapped in this purgatory by the thing in the forest.

STARRING: Ryan Carter, Ella Palmer, Jackson Batchelor

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Nope (2022) (4K Ultra HD) Available October 25

Oscar® winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope. The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, Westworld) and Brandon Perea (The OA, American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. The film will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide.

STARRING: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, Steven Yeun

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The Kindred (1987) Available October 25

ANTHONY DIDN’T ASK TO BE BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD…

Academy Award®-winning screen legends Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night; Duck, You Sucker) and Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire; Planet of the Apes) star in The Kindred, a chilling tale of a genetic experiment gone wrong… very wrong! Kim Hunter is Dr. Amanda Hollins, a molecular scientist who calls on her son John (David Allen Brooks) to eliminate all evidence of her genetic experiments… most specifically her “Anthony Journals.” Dr. Philip Lloyd (Steiger), an acquaintance of Hollins who is familiar with her experiments, wants to continue her studies no matter the cost! John heads to his isolated childhood home with a group of friends to uncover his mother’s research and destroy it all. There’s something else in the house, however… something watching and waiting… a tentacled creature born from the desire to alter human evolution. It’s evil. It’s mad. It’s ready to kill! One of the best “creature features” of the 1980s, utilizing all practical special effects, The Kindred also stars Amanda Pays (TV’s “The Flash”, Leviathan) and Talia Balsam (TV’s Mad Men, Homeland).

STARRING: Rod Steiger, Kim Hunter, Amanda Pays, Talia Balsam, David Allen Brooks

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Jordan Peele 3-Movie Collection Available October 25

Three-disc set includes: Get Out (2017)Comedian Jordan Peele earned an Oscar for his screenplay for his directorial debut, an unusual and topical horror tale about Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young African American man about to meet his white girlfriend Rose’s (Allison Williams) parents for the first time. The trip to Rose’s family estate begins with some uncomfortable racial tension, but quickly turns into a fight for survival as Chris becomes the unwilling subject of a bizarre procedure that could cost him his mind. With Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener. 103 min. C/Rtg: R Us (2019)From “Get Out” writer and director Jordan Peele comes this effectively creepy chiller that finds Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o), her husband Gabe (Winston Duke), and their children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) being terrorized by horrifically violent doubles of themselves. Just who are these deadly doppelgängers, and what is their mysterious connection to Adelaide’s past?

STARRING: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke

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The Invitation (2022) Available October 25

After the death of her mother and having no other known relatives, Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) takes a DNA test…and discovers a long-lost cousin she never knew she had. Invited by her newfound family to a lavish wedding in the English countryside, she’s at first seduced by the sexy aristocrat host but is soon thrust into a nightmare of survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family’s history and the unsettling intentions behind their sinful generosity.

STARRING: Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Hugh Skinner, Sean Pertwee, Courtney Taylor

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Inheritance Available October 25

Scarlett finds that she has just inherited a cabin from her departed father who she barely remembers. Her friends convince her that a vacation is long overdue and that they should check out this gift. What was supposed to be a nice getaway turns into a night filled with carnage as Scarlett’s long forgotten uncle Drake has other plans in mind.

STARRING: Melissa Sapienza

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I, Monster (1971) Available October 25

In this adaptation of the 1886 story “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” psychologist Charles Marlowe (Christopher Lee) invents a drug that helps release the inhibitions of his patients. But when he tests it on himself, the concoction reveals a different side of Marlowe – an evil side named Edward Blake who spirals into a life of crime and, eventually, murder. His friend Frederick Utterson (Peter Cushing) suspects when grisly killings take place.

STARRING: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven, Richard Hurndall, George Merritt

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House Of Psychotic Women (Rarities Collection Collector’s Set) Available October 25

In 2012 Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, billed as “”an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.”” It soon became one of the most “”vital”” (Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog) and “”astonishing”” (Daily Grindhouse) genre tomes of all time. To mark the book’s 10th anniversary, award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Janisse now presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria, all on U.S. Blu-ray for the first time: Elizabeth Taylor stars in 1974’s Identikit as a woman who travels to Rome to find the most dangerous liaison. In the surreal 1986 Polish horror-comedy I Like Bats, a vampire discovers that love may be the cruelest curse of all. Florinda Bolkan stars in the startling 1975 amnesiac giallo Footprints from the director of The Fifth Cord. And British screenwriter and radical theatre icon Jane Arden directs 1972’s harrowing The Other Side Of The Underneath.

STARRING: Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Klaus Kinski, Jane Arden, Jack Bond

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Available October 25

I’ll show you what horror means… growls the hideous Mr. Hyde (Fredric March) as the helpless, terrified Ivy (Miriam Hopkins) cowers on her bed. And now you’ll see too, as you watch this fully restored 1932 version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s spine-chilling masterpiece. With the inclusion of 17 minutes of previously censored material, this is the definitive Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Director Rouben Mamoulian’s choice of young, handsome Fredric March (known then as a comic actor) to play the lead raised studio hackles.

STARRING: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart

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Dark Sea / Night of the Chupacabras (Double Feature) Available October 25

In Dark Sea, a strange contamination strikes a fisherman’s village, causing the fish and shellfish to mustate into creatures of insatiable bloodlust, death, and destruction. The lone Albino risks his life and his soul for the love of his life in a desperate fight for survival against the rampaging creatures in this over-the-top homage to Roger Corman’s Humanoids from the Deep.Night of the Chupacabras is a horror take on the Spaghetti Western. A feud between two families, the Silvas and the Carvalhos, provides the perfect distraction to camouflage the attacks of a bloodthirsty Chupacabra. As the familial rivals engage in combat against the sinister creature, plenty of gore is let loose as the Chupacabra leaves a trails of bloody victims in its splatter-soaked wake.

STARRING: Walderrama dos Santos, Tiago Ferri, Kika Oliveira, Mayra Alarcón, Carol Aragão

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The Count Yorga Collection (2-Disc Limited Edition) Available October 25

RESTORED! REJUVENATED! REBORN!

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 favourite 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

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Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972) (50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) Available October 25

YOU’RE INVITED TO ORVILLE’S COMING OUT PARTY… IT’LL BE A SCREAM… YOURS!!

The Set-Up: Five young kinky actors and their artistic director come to a desolate and nearly forgotten burial island, complete with a morbid history of MURDER, RAPE, CURSES and DEMONS. Alan (Alan Ormsby), the brilliant but bizarre Director of the company, has brought them to this foreboding place to dabble in witchcraft; specifically to dig up a fresh corpse and use it in a ritual ceremony which is supposed to raise the dead from their graves. The PAY-OFF: It seems as though Alan has really gathered his “”children”” here, only to play a practical joke on them and then to party the rest of the night away. However, the joke’s on Alan. His bizarre ritual ceremony really does raise the dead from their graves…only they’re in no mood to party! NOTE: “Benjamin” Clark is really “Bob” Clark, the creative director behind the hit films Porky’s, Black Christmas and A Christmas Story among others. Alan Ormsby, though he turned in what has been described as “”…one of the most obnoxious screen performances in history!””, has actually made a mark for himself as the screenwriter for such memorable films as My Bodyguard, Cat People, Karate Kid 3 and Porky’s 2.

STARRING: Alan Ormsby, Robert Philip, Anya Ormsby, Debbie Cummins, Jane Daly

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Blood Dynasty (2017) Available October 25

Vampire Irina rises again, like a ghost from her watery grave, to bring bloodlust and madness to a lonely woman living in a seaside motel in this haunting supernatural tale from the mind of indie-cult director Chris Alexander.

STARRING: Shauna Henry, Cheryl Singleton, Holly Riot, Andre Becker

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The Black Fables / Dark Swamp (Double Feature) Available October 25

A double feature of Brazilian horror films! In The Black Fables, a group of kids embark on a macabre adventure populated with supernatural characters of Brazilian horror culture — the werewolf, the witch, the ghost, the demonic monster, and a creature called the Saci. Directed and written by the biggest names in Brazilian horror: Rodrigo Aragon, Petter Baiestorf, Joel Caetano. Dark Swamp is the story of Luiz, a shy young man from a rural community, who has long yearned to declare his love for Raquel, a beautiful girl who is sought after by several other men in the region. But when strange events begin to change the face of that isolated world, terrible creatures emerge from the bowels of the mangrove, driven only to devour human flesh. Now Luiz must fight against the onslaught of swamp zombies if he’s going to save the love of his life.

STARRING: Mayra Alarcón, Ricardo Araújo, Ana Carolina Braga, Walderrama dos Santos, Kika Oliveira

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The Bat (1959) (Special Edition) Available October 25

THE BAT! WHEN IT FLIES SOMEONE DIES!

The predator has steel claws and rips his victims to shreds! But who is he? Vincent Price (House of Wax, The Last Man on Earth), stars in this thriller about a down­trodden country estate that becomes the site of a horrific murder. Prolific writer/director Crane Wilbur (He Walked by Night, Crime Wave) helms this feature, with a cast that includes Agnes Moorehead (Bewitched) Gavin Gordon (Murder by Invitation) and in her last film role, Darla Hood of the Our Gang comedies. This gallery of weirdoes is guaranteed to give you the creeps. Which of them is the mysterious killer known as “The Bat?” You’ll find out soon enough. But beware – the scream you hear may be your own!

STARRING: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead

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Cool as Hell 1 and 2 Available October 18

Rich and Benny are having trouble with the ladies, until they befriend a demon named Az. It’s a non-stop party until a soul hungry beast leaps through an open portal from the underworld and starts terrorizing the town. It’s up to Az and the boys to send the creature back to the depths where it came from, and look good, while doing it.

STARRING: James Balsamo, Tom Savini, Billy Walsh, David Naughton, Andrew W.K.

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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) Available October 18

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster is Thomas Hamilton and Ron MacCloskey’s compelling exploration of the life and career of Boris Karloff, the iconic star of such horror classics as Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Black Cat (alongside Bela Lugosi), Bride of Frankenstein, The Body Snatcher, The Raven, Black Sabbath, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Targets.

Providing unique memories of Boris Karloff the man and the legend, Sara Karloff is joined by Roger Corman (Masque of the Red Death, Little Shop of Horrors), Peter Bogdanovich (Paper Moon, Mask), Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth), John Landis (The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London), Joe Dante (Gremlins) Jack Hill (Spider Baby) and Donald F. Glut (Tales of Frankenstein), famed co-stars Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music, All the Money in the World) Orson Bean (Being John Malkovich), Dick Miller (A Bucket of Blood), Ian Ogilvy (TV’s Return of the Saint, Death Becomes Her), Stefanie Powers (TV’s Hart to Hart, TV’s The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.), Peter Asher (Peter & Gordon), Ron Perlman (Hellboy, TV’s Hand of God) and many, many more, giving this film a uniquely intimate flavor.

STARRING: Boris Karloff, Guillermo del Toro, Roger Corman, Ron Perlman, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, Stefanie Powers, Peter Bogdanovich, John Landis, Bela Lugosi Jr.

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Two Witches (2021) Available October 18

With its super-saturated color palette, tenebrous art design and electrifying soundtrack, Two Witches presents two truly terrifying conjoined tales of witchery, paranoia and terror that hark back to the gory thrills of classic Euro horrors such as Suspiria, Shock  and The Beyond.

Expectant young mother Sarah is convinced she has been given the evil eye from a mysterious blank-eyed old hag while she is dining with her bullish and insensitive partner Simon. When the couple go to visit his new-agey friends Dustin and Melissa, dark forces are unleashed after an ill-advised attempt at consulting a Ouija board to allay her fears. Meanwhile, tensions grow between grad school student Rachel and her new roommate Masha after a violent incident involving a man that the strange and impulsive young woman has brought home.

First-time feature director Pierre Tsigaridis, who also shot, edited and contributed to the film’s soundtrack, singles himself out as one to watch in a deft and unnerving depiction of unspeakable evil that truly delivers.

STARRING: Rebekah Kennedy, Kristina Klebe, Tim Fox

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Trancers (1984) (4K Ultra HD) Available October 18

MEET JACK DETH. HE’S A FUTURE COP LOST IN THE PRESENT… AND HE’S HUNTING A 23RD CENTURY MENACE IN 1985!

Get ready to see Jack Deth like you’ve never seen him before, as Full Moon proudly presents director Charles Band’s cult 1985 sci-fi action classic Trancers for the first time in glorious 4K, a sumptuous scan from the original camera negative! Welcome to Angel City, 2247. Trooper Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson Near Dark) is wiping out the last disciples of Whistler, who used his psychic power to ‘trance’ those with inferior minds, forcing them to follow his every desire. Though he’d been thought dead, he’s very much alive… In the year 1985. Whistler’s master plan – kill the ancestors of the City Council. With the Council disbanded, nothing can stop him from controlling the city. And that’s where Deth comes in. Jack is sent back in time, inhabiting the body of his ancestor. Just one problem: Whistler’s ancestor is a police detective, and he’s trancing people in 1985. With the help of a strong-willed punk girl, Lena (Helen Hunt, in her breakthrough feature film appearance), Deth must confront Whistler one final time, while the fate of time itself hangs in the balance!

STARRING: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Telma Hopkins, Art Lafleur, Richard Herd

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Tales From Deep Hell (2018) Available October 18

From the SRS Nightmare Fuel Line! Fall into deep hell and experience bizarre and bloody stories. A peep Show where one visitor wants to see more than just bare skin. A woman willing to do anything to have their beauty back. A horrifying chess game that gets under your skin and other stories full of Demons, Killers, Eroticism, Violence Madness and much more!

STARRING: Anna Maglia, Fabio Nobili, Catline Strange

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The Return Of The Living Dead (1985) (Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available October 18

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cemetery, those brain-eating zombies are back and hungry for more tasty mortals. A fiendish mix of outrageous humor and heart-stopping terror, this “”veritable smorgasbord of fun”” (L.A. Herald Examiner) delivers skin-crawling jolts, eye-popping visuals and relentless surprises! When an accident at a medical supply warehouse reanimates an army of corpses, they arise from their graves with a ravenous hungerfor human brains!

STARRING: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph

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La Llorona (2019) (The Criterion Collection) Available October 18

A country’s bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante’s transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala’s Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people’s demands for justice, he and his family are plagued by a series of increasingly strange and disturbing occurrences, seemingly brought on by an enigmatic new housekeeper (María Mercedes Coroy). With a restraint that renders the film’s shocks all the more potent, Bustamante crafts a chilling vision of a nation reckoning with collective harms and the restless ghosts of a past that refuses to die.

STARRING: María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kenéfic, Julio Diaz, María Telón

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Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror (4-Disc Limited Edition Blu-ray) Available October 18

While Mario Bava remains the best-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s. Gothic Fantastico presents four 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 tale of romance and mystery sprinkled with sadism and the supernatural – as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan tries to destroy his 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 Roderic and finds her own family out for her blood. Mino Guerrini’s The Third Eye features an early role for Italian cult icon Franco Nero and a plot that borrows elements from Hitchcock, layered with a whiff of necrophilia. 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, restored in 2K from their original negatives for the first time alongside an array of in-depth extras.

STARRING: Franco Nero, Gordon Mitchell, Erika Blanc, Gérard Tichy, Ombretta Colli

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Cure (1997) (The Criterion Collection) Available October 18

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

STARRING: Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

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The Witching Season (2015) Available October 11

Reminiscent of television shows like ‘Tales from the Darkside’ and ‘Tales from the Crypt’, The Witching Season is a five episode spine-tingling anthology of horror and suspense packed into one disc that delivers original tales of terror that capture the spirit of the Halloween season.

STARRING: James Morris

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