With only nightmares for childhood memories, Lily returns to her family home to find out what happened to her parents. Despite the locals’ warnings of an evil presence, she crosses the threshold and discovers not all the ghosts that haunt us are dead.
STARRING: Cate O’Connor, Stefan Dennis, Perri Cummings, Shanon Kulupach, Wayne Tunks
Read more “Apparitions (2021) Available February 15”Survivors try to uncover the truth behind the evil Umbrella Corporation while battling bloodthirsty zombies in the wastelands of Raccoon City.
Witness the beginning of Evil. Raccoon City, which was once a booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
STARRING: Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia
Read more “Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (2021) (Steelbook) Available February 8”Horror Hospital is a British horror-comedy film starring Robin Askwith, Michael Gough, Dennis Price and Skip Martin. When attempts to break into the entertainment business leave him with nothing but a bloody nose, songwriter Jason Jones (Robin Askwith), decides to take a break with ‘Hairy Holidays’, an outfit run by shifty travel agent Pollock (Dennis Price). After failing to impress Jason, Pollock sends him to a pseudo-health farm, Brittlehurst Manor. On the train journey, Jason meets Judy (Venessa Shaw) who is travelling to the same destination to meet her long-lost aunt. Both are unaware that the health farm, i.e., Horror Hospital is a front for Dr. Storm (Michael Gough) and his lobotomy experiments that turn wayward hippies into mindless zombie slaves.The wheelchair-bound doctor surrounds himself with an entourage which includes Judy’s aunt, brothel madam Olga (Ellen Pollock), height-challenged Frederick (Skip Martin) and numerous zombie biker thugs. Dr. Storm also has a Rolls Royce car, fitted with a giant blade which decapitates escapees and interfering parties. Abraham (Kurt Christian) arrives at the Horror Hospital looking for his girlfriend, and is promptly hit around the head by the motorcycle zombies. Frederick, fed up at literally being Storm’s whipping boy, helps the kids escape – paving the way for the ‘70’s youth to put the final nail into the works of Dr. Storm’s scheme.This is a bizarre combination of horror and comedy and on the last night of filming, cake was served which was laced with drugs. In his autobiography, Askwith said ‘I don’t know what was put in the cake, but I ended up with a 280-pound electrician sitting on my lap and telling me he was in love with me’. Only producer Richard Gordon managed to avoid eating the cake. How’s that for a true ending to a really weird movie?
STARRING: Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Ellen Pollock, Dennis Price
Read more “Horror Hospital (1973) Available February 8”They say the ghosts of the past should stay in the past. This was the lesson learned by an out-of-work computer engineer who continues work on a dangerous project started by his deceased brother-in-law. With his marriage struggling, the deeper into the project he goes, the wider the rift between him and his wife. Problems arise when he brings back past versions of his wife in an effort to live in a happy marriage and realizes he is not the only person trying to play with the past.
STARRING: Valen Amaris, J.J. Crowne, Chuck Fonshell Jr.
Read more “Forward (2019) Available February 8”After being kidnapped, Kate Walker wakes to find herself trapped in a small chamber. She realizes she’s not the only prisoner, as nineteen others share the same fate. Hunted by demonic creatures, the group must band together if they are to escape the hellish labyrinth and survive the onslaught.
STARRING: Leah Rose, Ryan Schaufler, Tom Lodewyck
Read more “Carnivorous (2007) Available February 8”It’s The Exorcist, Italian style, in this Satanic shocker from director Alberto De Martino (Shadows in an Empty Room). In Rome, a beautiful young woman (Carla Gravina, Alfredo, Alfredo) is left paralyzed by the trauma of a horrific childhood accident. But when placed under hypnosis, she is seized by visions of her past life as a heretic and becomes a foul-mouthed seductress with a taste for perversion that leads to her defilement by Satan himself. Now, mankind’s only hope for salvation is a harrowing exorcism that will either cast out the Devil forever or open the door for the unspeakable birth of the Antichrist! Mel Ferrer (Nightmare City), Arthur Kennedy (Killer Cop), George Coulouris (Citizen Kane), Alida Valli (Suspiria), Umberto Orsini (Violent City) and Anita Strindberg (Almost Human) round out the cast of this puke-spewing cult classic, with cinematography by Eurosleaze king Joe D’Amato (Beyond the Darkness) and music by maestros Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Bruno Nicolai (A Full Day’s Work). Experience The Antichrist, also known as The Tempter, in all its uncut—and unholy—glory!
STARRING: Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, Alida Valli, Umberto Orsini
Read more “The Antichrist (1974) (aka The Tempter) Available February 8”Nocturna: The Collection brings together both award-winning films from iconic horror director Gonzalo Calzada into one ultimate collection. In “Nocturna: Side A – The Great Old Man’s Night”, Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, battling for redemption on his last night on earth. Faced with imminent death, he is forced to rethink his past, his present and his take on reality. “Nocturna: Side B – Where the Elephants Go to Die” brings a new twist to the tale as a woman narrates the final night on earth of a 100-year-old man, whom fights for redemption from his life’s misdeeds.
STARRING: Pepe Soriano, Marilú Marini
Read more “Nocturna: The Collection Available February 1”Aura is a young Romanian who, while on the run from her parents, is rescued by journalist and recovering drug addict, David Parsons. After being returned to her home, Aura’s parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter, sending Aura back on the run, to David. With no one to turn to for help, the unlikely pair launch their own investigation into the killings, discovering shocking and long hidden revelations that connect the continuing murders ever closer to Aura and a terrifying secret from her past…The first US lensed film from the master of Italian horror, Dario Argento (Suspiria, Opera), Trauma was his return to classical form giallo filmmaking, offering a twist filled, labyrinthine plot, brutal and creative murders, stunning scope cinematography, and a haunting score by Pino Donaggio (Piranha). Headlined by an all-star cast including three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie (Carrie), Oscar nominees Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now) and Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), acclaimed actor James Russo (Django Unchained), and actress and director Asia Argento (The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things) in her first starring role. Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to present Trauma on Blu-ray, newly restored in 4K and debut its longest and most complete version ever, with the complete English dialogue track totally intact for the very first time.
STARRING: Asia Argento, James Russo, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Brad Dourif
Read more “Trauma (1993) Available January 25”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 sister’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…
STARRING: Clare Wren, Bruce Davison, Stacy Haiduk, David Naughton
Read more “Steel and Lace (1991) Available January 25”Determined to atone for the suffering brought upon his people during the Trail of Tears, a Cherokee elder engaged in dark magic to summon an ancient demon entity known as Retlawkoob. When the tribe awoke to find their bountiful harvest turned into rows of useless stone, they buried the elder in the fields beneath a pile of the cursed rocks; each of which bore the mark of a different bestial demon. After a flood causes the stones to resurface, six teenagers camping on the burial site unsuspectingly unleash the demonic forces. Possession consumes one camper after another, transforming them into animalistic, frenzied killing machines, voraciously feeding on the warm meat of their freshly deceased victims. As the body count grows, only the timid Mikki is left to unlock the riddles left behind by the elders and do battle with the vengeful demon Retlawkoob. Now, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow in these darkened fields…and tonight the harvest begins.
St. Louis, Missouri based writer / director Eric Stanze (The Scare Game, Scrapbook, Ratline) made major waves in the underground with this ambitious, Native American themed, Evil Dead-style demonic possession romp filmed against the backdrop of the Great Flood of 1993; a real life debilitating disaster that devastated parts of the American Midwest. Elaborate practical effects, extreme chainsaw violence, a memorable monster, and some genuine atmospheric scares helped put Savage Harvest on the map and cemented Stanze’s status as one of the most consistent and visionary auteurs working in the shot on video horror medium.
STARRING: Lisa Morrison, Ramona Midgett, D.J. Vivona, William Clifton, Rebecca Kennebeck
Read more “Savage Harvest (1994) Available January 25”Photophobic Zano, arrives in the big city for the very first time. The year is 1984 and Athens beckons. A vampire and a fine dancer, Zano, quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city. All he really wants is a “warm” girl. Strung out and down and out, he ends up at disco Zardoz, a hive of scum and villainy, where he meets Alice, a prostitute, and Peter, a Norwegian drug dealer. Lured into their shady shenanigans, the three of them will traverse mountains and descend into the core of the earth, all the way to the Kingdom of Mathousalas. Norway puts on shiny new shoes, dances the night away with colorful scoundrels and only bites when absolutely necessary.
STARRING: Vangelis Mourikis, Alexia Kaltsiki, Daniel Bolda
Read more “Norway (2014) Available January 25”Set during the Taiwanese martial law of the 1960s, this shockingly gruesome and terrifying coming-of-age drama based on a hugely popular video game sees two classmates who go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school. This masterful debut from director and co-writer John Hsu recalls the best of Guillermo del Toro, with enough blood, striking sound design, art direction and special effects to evoke Silent Hill and other landmarks of the genre.
STARRING: Gingle Wang, Fu Meng-Po, Tse Jing-Hua, Cecilia Choi
Read more “Detention (2019) Available January 25”In the not too distant future, the crew of the spaceship Shenandoah make an unsettling discovery after landing at an archeological dig site on the Saturn moon Titan: another craft, of German origin, has already landed but its crew appears to have vanished save for hotheaded Captain Hans Hofner, who seems to be hiding something about the mysterious disappearances aboard the craft. But it’s not long before the truth is revealed, in the form of a giant, prehistoric alien which intends to eat, and absorb, the essences of all humans…
STARRING: Klaus Kinski, Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Diane Salinger
Read more “Creature (1985) Available January 25”Enid Baines, a film screener at the BBFC, has earned an unsavory reputation for being the organization’s strictest censors of violent films. Unexpectedly, Enid is contacted by Frederick North, a notorious director of exceptionally brutal, low budget horror movies, who has requested that she personally review his work for classification. While viewing one of North’s films, Enid is struck by its narrative similarities to the disappearance of her own sister years earlier. But when she finds another of North’s films which stars a woman who bares a striking resemblance to her sister, Enid’s life begins spiraling out of control, sending her on a mysterious and terrifying journey into the dark and violent recesses of her past.The acclaimed feature film directing debut of Prano Bailey-Bond, Censor is a scathing indictment of Britain’s notorious Video Nasty era, imagined as a horror film that’s every bit as brutal and twisted as the Nasties themselves. Exquisitely photographed on 35mm by Annika Summerson and featuring an electrifying score by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Vinegar Syndrome Pictures proudly presents Censor in its Blu-ray debut, with extensive bonus features including Bailey-Bond’s earlier short film, Nasty.
STARRING: Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns, Sophia La Porta
Read more “Censor (2021) Available January 25”Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel of Super-8 film, an audiotape, and a door key. From there, the boundaries of time, space, and sexuality are erased as José is once more sucked into Pedro’s vampiric orbit. Together, they attempt the ultimate hallucinogenic catharsis through a moebius strip of filming and being filmed.
STARRING: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Helena Fernan-Gomez, Marta Fernandez Muro
Read more “Arrebato (1979) Available January 25”Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies: Zombie action in the Alps: a group of young snowboarder is stuck in a remote mountain ski resort, where an all-night aprés-ski party soon turns into a hellish nightmare of zombie mayhem.
Granny of the Dead: Regular guy Ed (Marcus Carroll) awakes one morning to find that his Grandmother has become one of the living dead. While trapped in his home Ed tries to survive the day, keep his house zombie free, stay alive and save the day.
Attack of the Killer Donuts: A chemical accident turns ordinary donuts into bloodthirsty killers.
Harold’s Going Stiff: Harold is suffering from a frightening new disease that is turning him into a zombie. After an experimental new treatment fails, Harold’s condition deteriorates, and he ends up on the run from a group of violent vigilantes who are out for blood.
STARRING: Various
Read more “Zombie Collection Available January 18”A year after the death of his wife, a man enlists her sister to help bring her back.
STARRING: Jacob A. Ware|Christine Nyland
Read more “An Unquiet Grave (2020) Available January 18”Tales Of The Dim is an American animated internet horror series created by Frank Sudol (known for City Of Rott, Dead Fury, and Shock Invasion). Tales Of The Dim follows the tales of random characters who go under unfortunate events which causes them to die in horrible ways.
STARRING: Frank Sudol
Read more “Tales Of The Dim (2015) Available January 18”The last stand of the American exploitation film. In a post video store era, media consolidation has led to the censorship and near death of the independent and exploitation film industry. Joe Bob Briggs (Last Drive-in), Debbie Rochon (Toxic Avenger IV), Lloyd Kaufman, and James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) take us on an adventure that leads from the last Blockbuster video store in Bend Oregon to Troma Entertainment in New York, all in an effort to examine how history keeps repeating itself from the video store era to the modern streaming. This film is a follow-up to the award-winning VHS Massacre documentary.
STARRING: Various
Read more “VHS Massacre Too (2020) Available January 18”Bit By Bit By Bit… He Carved A Nightmare! In a quiet apartment complex in Los Angeles, a deranged handyman goes on a killing spree, savagely murdering ‘immoral’ women with the tools of his trade – claw-hammers, screwdrivers, power drills and even a deadly nail gun! But these gruesome massacres are just the beginning of this landmark epic of violence and depravity that was vilified by critics, banned by censors, and treasured by splatter fans worldwide. This is… The Toolbox Murders!
Cameron Mitchell (Blood And Black Lace), Wesley Eure (Land Of The Lost), Aneta Corsaut (The Blob), Marianne Walter (adult film star Kelly Nichols) and former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin (The Beguiled) star in this notorious sickie. Now experience one of the most shocking exploitation films of all time at its bloody best, as The Toolbox Murders has been newly scanned in 4K 16-bit from its uncut original negative, with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio, and gushing with new and archival Extras!
STARRING: Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin
Read more “The Toolbox Murders (1978) Available January 18”DARIO ARGENTO’S Masterpiece Of Terror – Uncut, Uncensored And Newly Remastered!
When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre “Stendhal Syndrome” – a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art. Trapped in this twilight realm, Anna plunges deeper and deeper into sexual psychosis, until she comes to know the killer’s madness more intimately than she ever imagined.
Horror maestro Dario Argento (Suspiria, Opera) reaches new heights of florid fantasy and Grand Guignol with this warped work of art starring Maxim Magazine’s “Sexiest Woman in the World” Asia Argento (Land Of The Dead, XXX), Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula 3D, King Kong) and Marco Leonardi (From Dusk Till Dawn 3, Cinema Paradiso). Previously edited outside of Italy, Blue Underground proudly presents The Stendhal Syndrome in a gorgeous 2K restoration from the original camera negative and bursting with Extras!
STARRING: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Read more “The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) (2-Disc Special Edition) Available January 18”A woman walks through a dreamworld, plagued by violent visions, until her reality begins to fold into itself. In Chris Alexander’s multi-media meditation on memory, isolation, identity, and bloodletting, a beautiful leather-clad humanoid (Ali Chappell) walks through a dream-world, plagued by violent visions and fragments of memories. After holing up in a monstrous home, the alien succubus flits in and out of reality, replaying the grisly murder of her doppelganger (Cheryl Singleton) while doubting her own sanity, and eventually, her existence.
STARRING: Ali Chappell, Cheryl Singleton
Read more “Space Vampire (2020) Available January 18”In one night, a red flash fills the planet’s sky, instantly paralyzing mankind into a bloody feast for the alien invaders. But there is hope, as Ral Foster wakes up to find himself unaffected. After discovering his neighbor is also immune to the red shock, they team up and set course for an underground military base. With night setting in, their chances grow slim.
STARRING: Frank Sudol
Read more “Shock Invasion (2010) Available January 18”In a career spanning four decades and encompassing virtually every genre under the sun, Mario Bava inspired multiple generations of filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton. Best remembered for his gothic horror movies, for his final feature, Shock, he eschewed the grand guignol excesses of Black Sabbath or Blood and Black Lace for a more intimate portrait of mental breakdown in which true horror comes from within.
Dora (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red) moves back into her old family home with her husband, Bruno (John Steiner, Tenebrae), and Marco (David Colin Jr., Beyond the Door), her young son from her previous marriage. But domestic bliss proves elusive as numerous strange and disturbing occurrences transpire, while Dora is haunted by a series of nightmares and hallucinations, many of them involving her dead former husband. Is the house itself possessed? Or does Dora’s increasingly fragile grip on reality originate from somewhere far closer to home?
Released in the United States as a sequel to Ovidio G. Assonitis’s Beyond the Door, Shock more than lives up to its name, proving that, even at this late stage in his career, Bava hadn’t lost his touch for terror. Now restored in high definition for the first time, the Maestro of the Macabre’s chilling swansong disturbs like never before in this feature-laden release from Arrow Video.
STARRING: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, Ivan Rassimov
Read more “Shock (1977) Available January 18”A teenage girl accidentally murders her abusive Step-Father in self-defense on Halloween night, 1988. She runs away from home, but she’s soon picked up by two unsavory men in the next county over who proceed to drug and kidnap her. She awakens in the clutches of a deranged cult deep in the woods, hellbent on sacrificing her to their God at the stroke of Midnight.
STARRING: Ronnie Angel, Clint Beaver, Rose Donahue
Read more “Runaway Nightmare (2018) Available January 18”A detective and a medical examiner join forces to solve a series of horrific murders in Victorian London – but one of them harbours a deadly secret.
STARRING: Jacob Anderton, Chris Bell, Dawn Butler
Read more “Ripper Untold (2021) Available January 18”In acclaimed director Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller, Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie, Jojo Rabbit, Old), an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma, The Queen’s Gambit). But the glamour is not all it appears to be, and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
STARRING: Diana Rigg, Terence Stamp, Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith
Read more “Last Night in Soho (2021) Available January 18”Terminally ill heiress Olga Marsdale acquires a mysterious gothic box containing a captured demon – Jack. The powerful entity within makes a deadly deal with Olga and her devoted son Edgar – deliver six victims to Jack and Olga will live. They trap several unsuspecting victims for him within the vast crumbling mansion, but can they deliver all six before it’s too late? Or will Amy, the young and innocent woman recently hired to look after the estate turn out to be more than a match for both the family and the Jack?
STARRING: Matt McClure, Mollie Hindle, James Swanton
Read more “The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2021) Available January 18”In the not too distant future, a captive woman undergoes psychological and emotional testing by her abductor. As she tries to escape, she learns that he may not be her biggest concern.
STARRING: Matthew J. Plumb, Holly Westwood, Hal Whiteside, Devin Brooke
Read more “Infrared Dreams (2020) Available January 18”
