Kill the lights. Face the mirror. Say it—Candyman. The haunting figure of collective storytelling has plagued Cabrini-Green since 1890, from Bernard Rose’s 1992 classic to Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele’s fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend.
STARRING: Various
Read more “Candyman 2-Movie Collection Available November 16”Oscar® winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural killer summoned by repeating his name five times into a mirror. In the present day, artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) moves into the neighborhood, now gentrified beyond recognition. Anxious to maintain his status in the art world, he begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, which unknowingly unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
STARRING: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Read more “Candyman (2021) Available November 16”Four young women embark on a road trip to the mountains for a weekend getaway. Unbeknownst to them, a group of deranged hillbilly misfits follow them to their secluded lakeside cabin. At first, the women appear to be easy prey for the predatory perverts until the fateful stroke of midnight when the tables are turned and all hell, literally, breaks loose! Features Tim Thomerson (Trancer and Puppet Master series) and a crushing music score by Ministry’s Al Jorgensen. This 2-disc set (Blu-ray and DVD) includes the uncut theatrical version plus the re-imagined Director’s Cut with many special features!
STARRING: Carlee Baker, Eve Mauro, Angela Bettis, Al Jorgensen, TIm Thomerson
Read more “Wicked Lake (2008) (Encore Edition) Available November 9”A new lethal, powdered drug hits the streets and its consumption is spreading a wave of crime and murder across the city! When two private detectives, James and Patricia, are hired to find a missing person named Cassidy, several clues lead them to a strange church established by the charismatic high voodoo priestess, Mama Dominique. They discover that the priestess rules a parish of punk thugs who obey her every command and distribute the viral zombie powder to create an army of subservient and blood-thirsty zombies!
STARRING: Various
Read more “Voodoo Virus Available November 9”In this controversial Spanish film from 1974, originally released in the US as Beyond Erotica, David Hemmings plays Juan, a young hacienda-owner who abuses women due to his traumatic upbringing. His late father was a sadistic tyrant who treated the women who worked on his estates as his personal property. After his father’s death, Juan begins to act out his own fantasies. His favorite “game” is to have the women dress in rabbit fur bikinis while he chases them through the jungle on horseback with a pack of dogs.
One day his latest plaything gets caught in a trap and is savaged to death by the dogs. The local people know what’s going on but are powerless to stop it as their livelihood depends on work from the estate. Juan’s mother, Louise, played by Alida Valli, tries to find a suitable replacement for the dead girl. But Juan has his eyes set on Lola, the beautiful daughter of one of the estate workers. When Lola turns him down, Juan imprisons the girl in an abandoned horse training yard and sets to work breaking down her resistance. But things do not work out the way he planned.
STARRING: David Hemmings, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal, Andrea Rau, Nuria Gimeno
Read more “It’s Nothing Mama, Just a Game Available November 9”THE LUCKY ONES DIED FIRST…
Horror master Wes Craven achieved critical and commercial success with the likes of Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street – but for many genre fans, the director’s seminal 1977 effort The Hills Have Eyes remains his masterpiece.
Taking an ill-advised detour en route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their campervan breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, the family find themselves at the mercy of a group of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills. With their lives under threat, the Carters have no choice but to fight back by any means necessary.
Following on from his notorious 1972 directorial debut The Last House on the Left, Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes stands alongside the likes of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead as one of the defining classics of American horror.
STARRING: Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, John Steadman, Peter Locke, Russ Grieve
Read more “The Hills Have Eyes (1977) (Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available November 9”Fin, a wanted criminal, hides out with an escort named Val, a demon. Val offers to make his problems disappear if he follows her rules. She has been expecting him all along and it won’t be easy to escape Val’s dungeon.
STARRING: Erik Griffin, Caitlin O’ Connor, Jeana Turner, Kyle Howard, Sufe Bradshaw
Read more “Val (2021) Available November 9”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: Fank Sudol
Read more “Tales Of The Dim (2015) Available November 9”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 November 9”A teenage girl accidentally murders her abusive Step-Father in self-defense on Halloween night, 1988. She runs away from home, hoping to hitch-hike to her Aunt Laura’s house. However, 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 November 9”Genre superstars Michael Pare (Streets Of Fire, Eddie And The Cruisers), Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare On Elm Street, Fast Times At Ridgemont High) and Empire Pictures alumni Jeffrey Byron (The Dungeonmaster, Metalstorm) join a cast of attractive newcomers in this tale of visionary Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast, who follows in his late father’s footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing work on The Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds. With the aid of his closest friends, they manage to get the machine and running…with terrifying results! Full of exciting, sensual visuals and bursting with atmosphere The Resonator: Miskatonic U is Full Moon at its most fearsome. Turn on, tune in and freak out!
STARRING: Christina Helene Braa, Amanda Jones, Michael Pare, Amanda Wyss, Dan Oliver
Read more “The Resonator: Miskatonic U (2021) Available November 9”Inspired by true events, with a surreal aesthetic and disruptive narrative that underscores the disenchantment and dangers of investigative journalism in Mexico, EL HOMBRE BÚFALO follows Eric, a young journalist in Mexico City who stops writing after he receives death threats. Obsessed with an elderly homeless man who has dementia and a mythical being who takes care of abandoned children, he decides to write again, even if it costs him his life. Since 2000, at least 133 journalists have been killed in Mexico – rated by the Reporters Without Borders organization as the most dangerous country without war in which to practice journalism, behind only Afghanistan and Syria.
STARRING: Sofia Alvarez, Verónica Bravo, Raúl Briones
Read more “El Hombre Búfalo (2020) Available November 9”A malevolent religious cult stalks a French village, kidnapping prostitutes and subjecting them to unimaginable torments under the guise of saving their souls. When a young man’s girlfriend is taken by the sect, he teams up with a mob of angry pimps to track down the maniacal, holy rolling killers and put an end to their bloody mission, once and for all. A tense, stylish thriller from the legendary French studio that brought you Zombie Lake and Panther Squad and directed by the man behind the notorious Burial Ground, Mania Killer stars exploitation movie heavyweights Bo Svenson (Walking Tall Part 2), Robert Ginty (The Exterminator) and Chuck Connors (Tourist Trap). Full Moon is excited to be presenting this obscure shocker totally uncut and remastered from the best available materials found in the Eurocine vaults.
STARRING: Bo Svenson, Robert Ginty, Suzanne Andrews, Chuck Connors
Read more “Mania Killer (1987) Available November 9”Jeffrey Dahmer is a strange fellow who tries to figure out his path in life. This horror parody bridges genres that normally don’t mix together; horror, slapstick, exploitation… well, exploitation goes with anything, but it is a challenge to include boobs when the serial killer prefers the other gender. Suffice it to say that this is a bizarre movie.
STARRING: Misty Lovelace, Peelmanm Michael, Bill Zebub
Read more “Dumb & Dahmer (2021) Available November 9”Animated parody of such horror classics as Evil Dead and The Hills Have Eyes.
STARRING: Frank Sudol
Read more “Dead Fury (2008) Available November 9”A family’s outing descends into terror when teacher Alan Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon explore an isolated coastline. An unexpected meeting with a pair of drifters – the enigmatic psychopath Mandrake and his accomplice Tubs – thrusts the family into a nightmare after the duo kidnaps them and embarks on a road trip to hell.
STARRING: Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson
Read more “Coming Home in the Dark (2021) Available November 9”On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy (Corey Taylor) and Paul (Zach Galligan) tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths that lead to a grim end for small-town residents.
STARRING: Corey Taylor, Kevin Wayne, Derek Russo, Zach Galligan
Read more “Bad Candy (2020) Available November 9”Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.
STARRING: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Wilson
Read more “The Addams Family (1991) Available November 9”A family’s outing descends into terror when teacher Alan Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon explore an isolated coastline. An unexpected meeting with a pair of drifters – the enigmatic psychopath Mandrake and his accomplice Tubs – thrusts the family into a nightmare after the duo kidnaps them and embarks on a road trip to hell.
STARRING: Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson
Read more “Coming Home in the Dark (2021) Available November 9”Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.
STARRING: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Wilson
Read more “The Addams Family (1991) Available November 9””Night of the Bloody Apes” is a remake of Cardona’s Doctor of Doom (1962), spiced with women, medical footage, women wrestling, and cheap gore shots. Female masked wrestler Lucy (who looks like the devil) beats the stuffing out of an opponent – a wrestling lady with a red costume like Catwoman. Lucy finally hurls her opponent from the squared circle and knocks her out cold. Although Lucy’s cop boyfriend tries to convince her that it’s all part of the show, Lucy can no longer handle the stress of wrestling. Meanwhile, a mad scientist (Dr. Krellman) attempts to cure his son’s leukemia by doing the first ‘ape-to-human’ heart transplant. He decides to put a gorilla’s heart into the lad and orders his flunky to ”prepare the gorilla!”. There is actual footage of a graphic open-heart surgery inserted in the ape operation scenes! This of course causes the boy to turn into a big stinky man-ape. He becomes deformed and mutated, as he sprouts excessive facial hair and takes on the characteristics of the organ’s donor, who immediately goes on a bloody rampage, tearing clothes off women and faces off men.
STARRING: José Elías Moreno, Carlos López Moctezuma, Armando Silvestre
Read more “Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) Available November 2”Starring Claude Rains (The Invisible Man, Casablanca), Heather Angel (The Undying Monster, Lifeboat) and David Manners (Dracula, The Death Kiss), The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a haunting film adaptation of the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. An opium-addicted choirmaster, John Jasper (Rains), becomes obsessed with a young student named Rosa Bud (Angel). His nephew, Edwin Drood (Manners), also holds a torch for the girl and asks her to marry him. Circumstances in their small Victorian town grow more perplexing when Drood disappears and the sordid details of Jasper’s secret life come to light. Featuring beautiful sets, lavish costumes and wonderful direction by Stuart Walker (The Eagle and the Hawk, Werewolf of London), this gripping tale remains as mysterious as ever. Douglass Montgomery (The Cat and the Canary), Francis L. Sullivan (Great Expectations), Valerie Hobson (Kind Hearts and Coronets) and E.E. Clive (The Bride of Frankenstein) round out the fine cast.
STARRING: Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, Francis L. Sullivan
Read more “The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) Available November 2”Death Lurked in His Hypnotic Eyes! In the nerve-jangling thriller The Mad Doctor, the great Basil Rathbone (The Black Sleep, The Comedy of Terrors) is Dr. George Sebastien, a smooth and sinister physician who woos, weds and murders several of his wealthy women patients for their fortunes. Aided by his demented manservant (Martin Kosleck, House of Horrors), he sets up a Park Avenue psychiatry practice and effects an apparently miraculous cure for troubled heiress Linda Boothe (Ellen Drew, Isle of the Dead), whom he makes his fourth wife. Can the suspicious Dr. Downer (Ralph Morgan, Strange Interlude) and Linda’s ex-fiancé Gil (John Howard, The Undying Monster) foil Sebastien’s schemes and save Linda before it’s too late? Rathbone is splendid as the diabolically debonair doctor in this psychological chiller from director Tim Whelan (The Murder Man, The Thief of Bagdad) and cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff (My Man Godfrey, Notorious).
STARRING: Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew, John Howard
Read more “The Mad Doctor (1940) Available November 2”A Murder a Day Keeps the Landlord Away! When six mild-mannered senior citizens are told that their old brownstone is going to be torn down, they don’t take the news lightly! Led by a pixie-faced lady (Paula Trueman, The Outlaw Josey Wales), the oldsters decide they must exert “Gray Power” and take action. After a little plotting and planning, they become an oddly lovable assortment of “hit men,” carefully getting rid of those who would attempt to disrupt their lives. This hilarious horror story from director Larry Yust (Trick Baby) will not only make you laugh, it’ll also make you look twice at that sweet old lady who lives next door! Peter Brocco (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Frances Fuller (They Might Be Giants), William Hansen (The Laughing Policeman), Ruth McDevitt (TV’s Kolchak: The Night Stalker) and Ian Wolfe (Witness for the Prosecution) round out the cast of pernicious pensioners. Beautifully photographed by Isidore Mankofsky (Somewhere in Time).
STARRING: Peter Brocco
Read more “Homebodies (1974) Available November 2”A young woman who can communicate with the dead, and the spirit of a student who died years before, team up to solve a murder, that took place half a century ago. As they dig up evidence and locate witnesses, they encounter men, women, as well as vengeful spirits, that will stop at nothing to stop them from finding out the truth.
STARRING: Jannine Weigel, Pongsakorn Tosuwann, Sa-Ard Piempongsan
Read more “The Convent Available November 2”Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah (Julia Sarah Stone) submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she’s become the conduit to a frightening new discovery. Dreams twist and nightmares come true in this mind-altering new work of science-fiction from Anthony Scott Burns (Our House) that haunts the space between wakefulness and sleep. Come True is an unforgettable cinematic dream well worth the submersion.
STARRING: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski
Read more “Come True (2020) Available November 2”The Banishing tells the story of the most haunted house in England. In the 1930s, a young reverend, his wife and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret.
STARRING: Jessica Brown Findlay, John Heffernan, Anya McKenna-Bruce
Read more “The Banishing (2020) Available November 2”For decades, obscure film collectors and lovers of esoteric cinema have sought it and now the search is over. Originally broadcast live on October 31, 1987, the “WNUF Halloween Special” is a stunning exposé of terrifying supernatural activity that unfolded at the infamous Webber House, the site of ghastly murders. Local television personality Frank Stewart leads a group of paranormal investigators including a Catholic exorcist, Father Joseph Matheson, and the prolific husband-and-wife team Louis and Claire Berger. Together, the experts explore the darkest corners of the supposedly haunted Webber House, trying to prove the existence of the demonic entities within. Did they find the horrific truth or simply put superstitious rumors to rest? Compiled from the highest-quality source material available, this blu-ray features the full program, including the original commercials that ran during the notorious broadcast.
STARRING: Paul Fahrenkopf, Aaron Henkin, Nicolette le Faye, Leanna Chamish
Read more “WNUF Halloween Special (2013) Available October 26”Experience all five films in the iconic Underworld series on Blu-Ray in the ultimate Underworld collection!
STARRING: Kate Beckinsale
Read more “Underworld Collection Available October 26”
