A group of five people are trying to hide from a terrible threat hanging over them: a mutation of the rabies virus, B249, which is transmissible to humans. There is no electricity, no communication, no military, no government. And Winter is coming.
STARRING: Gustavo Fernández Cuenca, Beatriz Toyos Barro, Mariu Ruíz Ortíz
Read more “The Winter Hunger (2021) Available October 4”As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia – a young actress who just moved to town with her boyfriend – notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street in this terrifying thriller.
STARRING: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman
Read more “Watcher (2022) Available October 4”For motorhead Danny (Joseph Almani), it seemed like the perfect getaway, heading to the secluded ranch of his uncle Bill (Michael Paré) so he could work on his vintage car. That stopped when an unanticipated and powerful earthquake hit the area, trapping him under the auto… and at the mercy of whatever subterranean horrors were now making their way to the surface.
STARRING: Michael Paré, Joseph Almani, Karlee Eldridge, Elena Sahagun, Gar-Ye Lee
Read more “They Crawl Beneath (2022) Available October 4”A group of people find their lives in jeopardy when they discover the magical tree they came for is guarded by a giant snake and other fantastical creatures.
STARRING: Bai Na Ri Su, Zai Mire, Tan Jimin, Yue Dongfeng
Read more “Python Island (2022) Available October 4”Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is back in the relative safety of civilization and sent to live in a group home where she’s encouraged to leave her past behind and start a new life. Just as Nell settles in, she is tormented by the seductive demonic presence that once possessed her. She realizes that the evil force is back with unimaginably horrific plans which could only mean that her last exorcism was just the beginning.
STARRING: Ashley Bell, Julia Garner
Read more “The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) Available October 4”Welcome to Whitewood, a ramshackle Massachusetts town that had been the site of 17th-century witch burnings. When a curious co-ed (Venetia Stevenson) with an interest in witchcraft pays Whitewood a visit at the urging of her history professor (Christopher Lee), she lands in the clutches of a coven whose leader (Patricia Jessel) is bound by a devilish pact.
STARRING: Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John
Read more “Horror Hotel (1960) (aka The City of the Dead) Available October 4”Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Vbooks.tv presents Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus Part 1.
STARRING: Cammy Michaels
Read more “Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus Available October 4”A babysitter, Cassie, finds an old TV set in the basement which pulls her into the world of The Viewer, an anonymous entity in a mask. The Viewer broadcasts seven stories of horror, from monsters under the bed and ominous stalkers, to ancient curses and personal demons in this chilling anthology film.
STARRING: Michelle Nuñez, Angie Hansen, Sarah Schoofs
Read more “Dark Tales from Channel X (2021) Available October 4”Lisa and her family meet for a wedding in the country, unaware that nearby a nest of hungry crocodiles have been living in the lake. The blood thirsty crocs soon crash the wedding, and everyone must battle the Jurassic beasts to survive.
STARRING: Mark Haldor, Sian Altman, Chrissie Wunna
Read more “Croc! (2022) Available October 4”From Academy Award®-winning director Francis Ford Coppola (1974 Best Director, The Godfather: Part II) comes the classic and chilling tale about the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian prince (Gary Oldman) who travels from Easter Europe to 19th-century London in search of human love. When the charismatic Dracula meets Mina (Winona Ryder), a young woman who appears as the reincarnation of his lost love, the two embark on a journey of romantic passion and horror. Now presented in full 4k resolution, experience this sensual gothic spectacle like never before.
STARRING: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard Grant
Read more “Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) 30th Anniversary Steelbook (4K Ultra HD) Available October 4”Meet Jerry Dandridge. He’s sweet, sexy, and he likes to sleep in late. You might think he’s the perfect neighbor. But before inviting Jerry in for a nightcap, there’s just one thing you should know. Jerry prefers his drinks warm, red and straight from the jugular! It’s Fright Night, a horrific howlstarring Chris Sarandon as the seductive vampire and William Ragsdale as the frantic teenager struggling to keep Jerry’s deadly fangs out of his neck. Only 17-year-old Charley Brewster (Ragsdale) knows Jerry’s bloodcurdling secret. When Charley can’t get anybody to believe him, he turns to TV horror host Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), who used to be the “Great Vampire Killer” of the movies. Can these mortals save Charley and his sweetheart Amy (Amanda Bearse) from the wrathful bloodsucker’s toothy embrace? If you love being scared, Fright Night…will give you the nightmare of your life.
STARRING: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys
Read more “Fright Night (1985) Steelbook (4K Ultra HD) Available October 4”This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “Weekly Horror Releases: September 27, 2022”Writer/director Onur Tukel turns in a hilarious performance as the monumentally lazy, socially oblivious, and commitment-shy Erik Sparrow, who is dumped by his career-woman girlfriend (Anna Margaret Hollyman, White Reindeer) when he rejects her rather charitable marriage proposal. Feeling lost, he turns to a disastrous string of online dates that successively eat away at his already-deteriorating confidence until a lanky vampire turns him into an undead ladykiller, with a maniacal sex drive matched only by his frenzied need to feed on blood. A collision of absurd, self-deprecating wit, and existential curiosity, Summer of Blood is a hilarious horror-comedy with a clever bite all its own.
STARRING: Onur Tukel, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Dakota Goldhor, Alex Karpovsky
Read more “Summer of Blood (2014) Available September 27”In dumpsters, in the gutters, and even hanging from hooks… the streets of Los Angeles are being littered with murdered sex workers. A sinister John with a sizable wallet is tempting desperate women into dangerous traps. If the police (Simon Di Soto, Lawrence Scott, and Susanne Smith from Night Ripper) cannot find the killer, then who will? Maybe it will be a former detective (Tommy Kirk, Babes in Toyland, Blood of Ghastly Horror). Or perhaps it will be a couple of guys (Larry Thomas, Seinfeld / Austin Powers and Guy Ecker, Night Terror / The Devil Wears White) shooting a documentary about prostitution.
STARRING: Larry Thomas, Guy Ecker, Simon Di Soto, Tommy Kirk
Read more “Streets of Death (1988) Available September 27”Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. Vbooks.tv presents The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde.
STARRING: Cammy Michaels
Read more “The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Available September 27”See topless Tiki Island women in terror, monster music videos, and watch Mark and Clark take on a maniac in a blue Ox suit! This is just the tip of the cannibal spear of mayhem being jabbed in your brain in “MInd Melters 3”! Turn down the lights and let in the frights! Possess your remote, and don’t forget to exorcise your tv after you watch “Mind Melters 3”. Directed by James Balsamo.
STARRING: James Balsamo, The Amazing Kreskin, Craig Muckler, Bob Cummings
Read more “Mind Melters 3 Available September 27”Blasted by radiation during a mission to Saturn, astronaut Steve West (Alex Rebar) returns to Earth to find out he’s been afflicted with a gruesome ailment that begins turning his body into a gooey liquid. The good news: There’s a way to slow down the melting process. The bad news: It means Steve will have to feed on the flesh of other humans. Chilling sci-fi/horror tale, with make-up effects by Rick Baker, also stars Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey; look for filmmaker Jonathan Demme in a bit part.
STARRING: Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Michael Alldredge, Myron Healey
Read more “The Incredible Melting Man (1977) (4K Ultra HD Set) Available September 27”Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire’s parents recruit one of the world’s foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth, to kidnap and deprogram her. However, once the process is underway, Ansel realizes he may not be the one in control.
STARRING: Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Ellis, Beth Grant
Read more “Faults (2014) Available September 27”A killer is on the loose in Japan. Young women are being horribly mutilated. Aki, a young woman who works as a film projectionist, is haunted by a childlike ghost. Her girlfriend Emi is a TV news reporter covering the horrible mutilations. Emi introduces Aki to Kurahashi, a married man with a haunted past. Everyone involved has a dark secret and something evil is taking control of them. They are pawns in a game being played by forces beyond their understanding. This eerie descent into madness takes us on a journey into the abyss and the terrible truth is finally revealed!
STARRING: Shiro Sano, Rie Kondoh, Shoko Nakajima
Read more “Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki (1992) Available September 27”When three couples escape to the woods together for a weekend camping trip, their idyllic vacation quickly becomes a desperate struggle for survival when a deranged, axe-wielding psychopath begins murdering them one by one. An impossible web of marital infidelities leads to a meandering mosaic of endless red herrings, deranged Nam vets, bitter office rivalries, perilous punji pits, and puffy brown plaid couches.
In the tradition of Blood Cult, Dead North is a hypnotic, SOV soap opera / slasher epic and an early, non-custom passion project from director Gary Whitson and his New Jersey based company W.A.V.E. Productions. Starring Clancy McCauley (Witchfinder), Aven Warren (Zombie Nightmare), and Terri Lewandowski (Santa Claws), Dead North continues to stupefy underground movie fans with its beguiling blend of head-scratching whodunnit, homespun gore FX, and charming regional eccentricities.
STARRING: Clancy McCauley, Aven Warren, Terri Lewandowski, Tom Beschler
Read more “Dead North (1991) Available September 27”The Cornshukker is a mythical creature who has lived simply and peacefully with Nature. But now he is besieged by urban sprawl. With nowhere else to go, he is forced to deal with varmints and outlandishly-odd townsfolk. As his food supply diminishes, The Cornshukker is confronted by the bigoted Old Man Thomas. In an act of desperation, The Cornshukker is forced to do the unthinkable. His existence is in peril, and the mysterious world he inhabits could be destroyed. Only Nature and the townsfolk will decide his fate.
STARRING: Jason Snider, Doug Hutton
Read more “The Cornshukker (1997) Available September 27”After goofball Rich accidentally decapitates his best friend Benny while trimming a Christmas tree with a machete, he’s forced to go on a quest to find God’s bong and use it to bring his friend back to life. Az the Demon and Boogar, everyone’s favorite snot, are back in this over-the-top sequel to Cool as Hell. The big-breasted, beautiful women, the bubbling buckets of blood and the bountiful bongs of bud will have you doubling over in laughter. What more could you ask for in a star-studded cameo film? It’s two-times scarier than the first one and you’ll be laughing twice as hard with Cool as Hell 2
STARRING: James Balsamo, Michael Berryman, Phil Anselmo
Read more “Cool as Hell 2 Available September 27”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.
Read more “Cool as Hell (2013) Available September 27”The scares mix with the laughs in this horror-themed entry in the enduring film series. When the members of the Diablos cheerleading squad decide to practice some of their more dangerous routines in an old abandoned school, they quickly discover that there’s a crazed killer stalking them and it’s going to take more than some pom-poms and a perky personality to stop him.
STARRING: Kerri Medders, Tiera Skovbye, Missi Pyle
Read more “Bring It On: Cheer or Die (2022) Available September 27”After the loss of their young son, Ted and Mary Hocken (Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field) opted to take their daughters and make a fresh start in a tiny East Coast island community. Unfortunately, their new town is soon beset by massive flocks of birds… that turn inexplicably and fatally hostile. Made-for-cable standalone sequel to the Hitchcock horror classic co-stars James Naughton, Jan Rubes, and Tippi Hedren; “Alan Smithee” (Rick Rosenthal) directs.
STARRING: Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field, James Naughton, Tippi Hedren
Read more “The Birds II: Land’s End (1994) Available September 27”A decade after Zombieland became a hit film and a cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited for Zombieland: Double Tap. In the sequel where the comic mayhem stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.
STARRING: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Rosario Dawson
Read more “Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) Limited Edition Steelbook (4K Ultra HD) Available September 27”Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he’s scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each other’s company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.
STARRING: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard
Read more “Zombieland (2009) Steelbook (4K Ultra HD) Available September 27”While Ted and Maxie are on a rock climbing trip to help conquer Ted’s fear of heights, they find an unknown creature in the woods. They film their adventure and their footage is later discovered and compiled by an unknown person. They went into the woods on a quest to help Ted overcome his fear of heights but instead, they discovered a far bigger threat.
STARRING: Leslie Gladney, Nathan Owen, Sreejith Nair
Read more “We Found Something (2022) Available September 27”A young mother is brutally raped and murdered in front of her own child in the woods during the Summer of 1970. Twenty years later a group of college friends head off to the same woods – Black Tree Forest to do some hiking and camping. However, Brian Mellows, the young child who was left scarred twenty years ago, has recently escaped from the Vestron Hospital
STARRING: Allison Scott II, Paul Albers, Steve Carty
Read more “Terror At Black Tree Forest (2010) Available September 27”After You Have Suffered, He Will Find You Secluded in a desolate forest, home to little more than the decaying remnants of the past, a broken family is further torn apart by a mysterious death. Adam (Gabriel Nicholson), guided by a pervasive sense of dread, hunts for answers only to learn that they are not alone; an insidious presence by the name of Sator has been observing his family, subtly influencing all of them for years in an attempt to claim them. Shot in the Santa Cruz mountains and drawing from his grandmother’s real life belief in a protective spirit that spoke to her, Sator quietly unspools a story of isolation and dread that fits firmly into the recent wave of unsettling arthouse horror. Cauldron films is honored to release the world-wide Blu-ray debut of Sator, the film Paste magazine named “The best horror film of 2021”.
STARRING: Michael Daniel, Rachel Johnson, Gabriel Nicholson
Read more “Sator (2019) Available September 27”
