It’s time for fear. It’s time for terror. It’s time for retribution. The time is now!
STARRING: Dennis Lipscomb, Leslie Wing, Suzanne Snyder
Read more “Retribution (1987) Available October 26”Category: Movie Releases
A Reflection of Fear (1972) (Import) Available October 29
A disturbed young girl starts believing that there is something very sinister at work after her estranged father visits her at her mother and grandmother’s house with the woman he plans to marry.
STARRING: Robert Shaw, Sally Kellerman, Mary Ure, Sondra Locke, Mitch Ryan
Read more “A Reflection of Fear (1972) (Import) Available October 29”Old Habits Die Hard (2009) Available October 26
The Hollis Family live and run a funeral home. Allison, the Hollis Sister, goes out on dates with men and brings them home so that her brothers can kill them and have them for supper.
STARRING: Kane Hodder, Stacey Dixon, Tricia Cast, Jim O’Rear, Roger Hewlett
Read more “Old Habits Die Hard (2009) Available October 26”Killer Party (1986) Available October 26
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A PARTY TO DIE FOR!
It’s April Fool’s Day and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi believe they’ve found the perfect place to throw a party: the abandoned fraternity house where a guillotined pledge once lost his head in a hazing gone awry. But shortly after their revelry begins, the student body count starts to rise as the vengeful pledge returns from the grave and makes it a party to die for. Featuring appearances by Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000, Chopping Mall) and Martin Hewitt (Endless Love, Alien Predators) and the debut of Joanna Johnson (who would graduate a year later to her longtime best-known role on The Bold And The Beautiful), Killer Party was written by Barney Cohen (Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter) and directed by William Fruet (The House By The Lake, Spasms, Funeral Home).
STARRING: Martin Hewitt, Ralph Seymour, Elaine Wilkes
Read more “Killer Party (1986) Available October 26”Frankenstein’s Daughter (1958) Available October 26
”Look at her! She lives!”
So says Dr. Oliver Frank at the sight of his new creation, a hulking beast with the transplanted brain of a beautiful young woman. He has finally carried on the legacy of his late grandfather, the notorious Dr. Frankenstein!
The twist in Frankenstein’s Daughter (1958) is that it takes place in ”modern” Los Angeles, where teenagers are forever in swim gear. Even as news reports warn them about a female monster menacing the neighborhood, nothing stops these kids from partying by the poolside.
Fans of low-budget horror will see some familiar faces in the cast, including John Ashley, Harold Lloyd, Jr., and former Playboy Playmate of the Month, Sally Todd (just a year after her appearance in The Unearthly). For Director Richard E. Cunha, Frankenstein’s Daughter was part of a productive year where he turned out three other cult favorites: She Demons; Giant from the Unknown; and Missile to the Moon. And though Donald Murphy lacked the schlock pedigree of his director and co-stars, his thousand-watt stare makes him a perfectly evil Dr. Frank.
STARRING: John Ashley, Harold Lloyd Jr., Sally Todd
Read more “Frankenstein’s Daughter (1958) Available October 26”Franco Noir Available October 26
Following his international breakthrough with the awful dr. Orloff, director Jess Franco next delivered a startling pair of crime-thrillers that pistol-whipped European notions of film noir while lighting the fuse on Uncle Jess’ own insane aesthetic. Set in New Orleans and based on a novel by the authors of Vertigo, Death Whistles The Blues is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal, violence and revenge featuring smoky jazz compositions by Franco himself. Jean Servais of RIFIFI fame stars in Rififi In The City, a nihilistic trip through a pulp underworld of thugs, snitches, nightclub dames and black-gloved giallo-style murders. Both films – which led an impressed Orson Welles to hire Franco as his assistant on Chimes At Midnight – now feature HD scans from the original negatives for the first time ever. Bonus features include: Franco Noir ― Interview With Stephen Thrower, Author Of “Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema Of Jesús Franco”
STARRING: Various
Read more “Franco Noir Available October 26”Eye of the Devil (1966) Available October 26
Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
STARRING: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence, Edward Mulhare, Flora Robson
Read more “Eye of the Devil (1966) Available October 26”Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999) Available October 26
Before Elephant and We Need to Talk About Kevin… there was Duck! The Carbine High Massacre. The first feature of its kind to satirically chronicle the torment and isolation of two despondent teenagers and the events that led them to open fire on their fellow students and teachers. Trench coat sporting misfits Derick and Derwin spend their days surfing the internet, stockpiling an arsenal of weapons, and raising the ire of the vapid jocks, rich kids, and Bible-study girls at their high school; not to mention their self-absorbed and abusive parents. The boys are pushed over the edge after Derwin is savagely beaten and degraded by his imperious classmates. After briefly contemplating suicide, they instead return to school fully armed to enact a bloody and barbaric revenge on their victimizers as well as anyone else who has the misfortune of inadvertently crossing their paths.
Written, directed, and starring New Jersey based filmmakers William Hellfire (Upsidedown Cross) and Joey Smack, Duck! The Carbine High Massacre would quickly become one of the most controversial films of the 1990s, leading to a nationwide mainstream media frenzy and the eventual arrest and incarceration of its creators. Featuring Misty Mundae (SpiderBabe), Lilly Tiger (Infamous Bondage Murders), Pamela Sutch (Psycho Sisters), and a live performance by Nashville noise-rock legends Today Is The Day, Duck! transcended its regional SOV roots, emerging as the precursory feature to examine the hot button phenomenon of school shootings; a subject that is still as topical today as it was upon the film’s release over 20 years ago.
STARRING: William Hellfire, Joey Smack, Erin Brown
Read more “Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999) Available October 26”Don’t Breathe 2 (2021) Available October 26
In the thrilling sequel to the break-out hit, Don’t Breathe 2 reprises Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang), who has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin. He lives with a young girl and has recreated the family stolen from him by a drunk driver. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of unseemly criminals kidnaps her. Norman is forced to tap into even darker and more creative instincts in an effort to save her.
STARRING: Stephen Lang, Brendan Sexton III, Madelyn Grace, Bobby Schofield, Adam Young
Read more “Don’t Breathe 2 (2021) Available October 26”Skull: The Mask (2020) Available October 26
A mask possesses and forces those who wear it to carry out visceral sacrifices in this splatter-filled supernatural slasher.
STARRING: Tristan Aronovich, Natallia Rodrigues, David Wendefilm
Read more “Skull: The Mask (2020) Available October 26”Deep Red (1975) (2-Disc Limited Edition) Available October 26
From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some of the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red – the ultimate giallo movie.
One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems…
Aided by a throbbing score from regular Argento collaborators Goblin, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso and The Hatchet Murders) is a hallucinatory fever dream of a giallo punctuated by some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer.
STARRING: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi
Read more “Deep Red (1975) (2-Disc Limited Edition) Available October 26”Boardinghouse (1982) Available October 26
Nothing can prepare you for Boardinghouse. Jim (director John Wintergate), a psychic-gigolo who wears a leopard-print thong, rents a haunted house to “beautiful women with no ties.” From there, this unworldly slasher transforms into a sleazy, hallucinogenic maelstrom of gore, sex, chainsaws, pie fights, killer refrigerators, jacuzzis, beds that eat people, a new wave band called 33 and 1/3, and a leading lady known only as Kalassu. Boardinghouse is the first shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm and released theatrically. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are thrilled to bring the 35mm theatrical cut to home video for the first time in this 2-disc set, which also includes Psycho Killer (a previously unreleased alternate home video cut) and SALLY & JESS (the previously unreleased “family film” from the makers of Boardinghouse).
STARRING: John Wintergate, K. Alassu, Lindsay Freeman
Read more “Boardinghouse (1982) Available October 26”Beyond Darkness (1990) Available October 26
Shortly after completing TROLL 2, writer/director Claudio Fragasso and co-writer Rossella Drudi (Shocking Dark) returned to America to combine elements of The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Beyond and their own insane aesthetic for what critics – and Fragasso/Drudi themselves – consider to be their horror masterpiece: When a Satanic child killer is executed, she transforms the new home of a young reverend and his family into a portal to Hell. Gene LeBrock (Metamorphosis), David Brandon (Caligula 2) and Michael Paul Stephenson (child star of Troll 2 and director of Best Worst Movie) star in this batsh*t crazy good time (EuroCult AV) shot by Joe D’Amato with costumes by Laura Gemser, an epic score by Carlo Maria Cordio (Night Killer) and released in Italy as Evil Dead 5, now featuring new interviews produced exclusively for this edition.
STARRING: Gene LeBrock, David Brandon, Barbara Bingham
Read more “Beyond Darkness (1990) Available October 26”An Angel For Satan (1966) Available October 26
In the final film of her Italian Gothic period, the legendary Barbara Steele (Black Sunday) stars in one of the most startling erotic shockers of her entire career: When a cursed statue is recovered from a villa’s lake, a young heiress (Steele) will inflict a torrent of depraved seduction and homicidal madness on the local village. Anthony Steffen (The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave), Claudio Gora (Danger: Diabolik) and Marina Berti (Night Train Murders) co-star in a EuroHorror classic featuring Steele in all her mid-’60s glory (DVD Drive-In), co-written and directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (Crypt Of The Vampire) and scanned in 2K from the original negative – with both the Italian and thought-lost English tracks – recently discovered in a Rome vault.
STARRING: Barbara Steele, Anthony Steffen, Claudio Gora
Read more “An Angel For Satan (1966) Available October 26”The Amazing Mr. X (1948) (The Film Detective Special Edition) Available October 26
From out of the surf it came…a familiar voice…a voice that belonged to the afterlife! An atmospheric masterpiece, The Amazing Mr. X stars Turhan Bey as Alexis, a mystery man who claims to communicate with spirits. Appearing on the beach one night, Alexis easily charms a depressed widow and her sister (Lynn Bari and Cathy O\x27Donnell). The sly Alexis makes a living by separating gullible people from their money, but before this tale is over he will learn that the living are far more dangerous than the dead. Thanks to exceptional cinematography by John Alton, director Bernard Vorhaus delivers a film that oozes weird passion and sinister suspense. This is a movie that breathes right on your neck!
STARRING: Turhan Bey
Read more “The Amazing Mr. X (1948) (The Film Detective Special Edition) Available October 26”Boardinghouse (1982) Available October 26
Nothing can prepare you for Boardinghouse. Jim (director John Wintergate), a psychic-gigolo who wears a leopard-print thong, rents a haunted house to “beautiful women with no ties.” From there, this unworldly slasher transforms into a sleazy, hallucinogenic maelstrom of gore, sex, chainsaws, pie fights, killer refrigerators, jacuzzis, beds that eat people, a new wave band called 33 and 1/3, and a leading lady known only as Kalassu. Boardinghouse is the first shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm and released theatrically. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are thrilled to bring the 35mm theatrical cut to home video for the first time in this 2-disc set, which also includes Psycho Killer (a previously unreleased alternate home video cut) and SALLY & JESS (the previously unreleased “family film” from the makers of Boardinghouse).
STARRING: John Wintergate, K. Alassu, Lindsay Freeman
Read more “Boardinghouse (1982) Available October 26”Beyond Darkness (1990) Available October 26
Shortly after completing TROLL 2, writer/director Claudio Fragasso and co-writer Rossella Drudi (Shocking Dark) returned to America to combine elements of The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Beyond and their own insane aesthetic for what critics – and Fragasso/Drudi themselves – consider to be their horror masterpiece: When a Satanic child killer is executed, she transforms the new home of a young reverend and his family into a portal to Hell. Gene LeBrock (Metamorphosis), David Brandon (Caligula 2) and Michael Paul Stephenson (child star of Troll 2 and director of Best Worst Movie) star in this batsh*t crazy good time (EuroCult AV) shot by Joe D’Amato with costumes by Laura Gemser, an epic score by Carlo Maria Cordio (Night Killer) and released in Italy as Evil Dead 5, now featuring new interviews produced exclusively for this edition.
STARRING: Gene LeBrock, David Brandon, Barbara Bingham
Read more “Beyond Darkness (1990) Available October 26”An Angel For Satan (1966) Available October 26
In the final film of her Italian Gothic period, the legendary Barbara Steele (Black Sunday) stars in one of the most startling erotic shockers of her entire career: When a cursed statue is recovered from a villa’s lake, a young heiress (Steele) will inflict a torrent of depraved seduction and homicidal madness on the local village. Anthony Steffen (The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave), Claudio Gora (Danger: Diabolik) and Marina Berti (Night Train Murders) co-star in a EuroHorror classic featuring Steele in all her mid-’60s glory (DVD Drive-In), co-written and directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (Crypt Of The Vampire) and scanned in 2K from the original negative – with both the Italian and thought-lost English tracks – recently discovered in a Rome vault.
STARRING: Barbara Steele, Anthony Steffen, Claudio Gora
Read more “An Angel For Satan (1966) Available October 26”The Amazing Mr. X (1948) (The Film Detective Special Edition) Available October 26
From out of the surf it came…a familiar voice…a voice that belonged to the afterlife! An atmospheric masterpiece, The Amazing Mr. X stars Turhan Bey as Alexis, a mystery man who claims to communicate with spirits. Appearing on the beach one night, Alexis easily charms a depressed widow and her sister (Lynn Bari and Cathy O\x27Donnell). The sly Alexis makes a living by separating gullible people from their money, but before this tale is over he will learn that the living are far more dangerous than the dead. Thanks to exceptional cinematography by John Alton, director Bernard Vorhaus delivers a film that oozes weird passion and sinister suspense. This is a movie that breathes right on your neck!
STARRING: Turhan Bey
Read more “The Amazing Mr. X (1948) (The Film Detective Special Edition) Available October 26”October 19, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases
This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “October 19, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”Yokai Monsters Collection (3-Disc Limited Edition) Available October 19
From the makers of Daimajin comes a trilogy of terror ripped from the pages of Japanese folklore, with ghosts and monsters from ancient myths and legends brought to life through stunning special effects, alongside an epic, big-budget reboot of the series from a modern-day master of the macabre, now available together on Blu-ray for the first time.
In the first film in the trilogy, 100 Monsters, a greedy slumlord’s attempts to forcefully evict his tenants invite the wrath of the titular spirits when a cleansing ritual is botched, with terrifying results. The second film, Spook Warfare, tells the tale of an evil Babylonian vampire inadvertently awoken by treasure hunters, and a brave samurai that teams with the yokai to defeat the bloodthirsty demon. In the final film, Along with Ghosts (released only 12 months after 100 Monsters), the yokai are roused to defend a young girl on the run from deadly yakuza.
Decades later, none other than Takashi Miike (Audition) helmed The Great Yokai War, a loose remake of Spook Warfare that used cutting-edge digital effects to renew the franchise for a new generation. In it, a young boy is given a grave responsibility: to band together with a group of yokai to defend humanity against a vengeful and powerful demon that has sworn retribution against modern-day Japan.
STARRING: Chiyaki Kuriyama, Jun Hamamura, Tatsuo Hanabu, Ikuko Môri, Bunta Sugawara
Read more “Yokai Monsters Collection (3-Disc Limited Edition) Available October 19”The Stairs (2021) Available October 19
A frightening tale about a group of hikers hunted by a sinister presence in the woods. Twenty years after the mysterious disappearance of an 11-year-old boy and his grandfather, a group of friends find themselves along the same trail, unaware of a long-forgotten evil lurking just beyond the tree line. What started as a week-long adventure with friends, quickly turns into a terrifying fight for survival as they come face to face with the thing that nightmares are made of.
STARRING: Kathleen Quinlan, John Schneider, Adam Korson, Brent Bailey
Read more “The Stairs (2021) Available October 19”Scream (1996) (Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD) Available October 19
Neve Campbell leads an all-star cast in this iconic slasher thriller that launched the Scream franchise and breathed new life into the horror genre. After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends led by Sidney Prescott (Campbell) become the target of a masked killer. As the body count rises, Sidney and her friends turn to the “rules” of horror films to help navigate the real-life terror they’re living in. Also starring Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan and Drew Barrymore, buckle up for an irresistible killer ride!
STARRING: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox
Read more “Scream (1996) (Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD) Available October 19”Poltergeist Diaries (2021) Available October 19
After moving to an isolated cabin, Jacob Taylor vanishes without a trace. With the help of footage he leaves behind, his family members, friends and a detective try to find answers to the strange events that are centered around him.
STARRING: András Korcsmáros, Kata Kuna, Eric Roberts
Read more “Poltergeist Diaries (2021) Available October 19”Perfect Horror (2016) Available October 19
An ambitious film director, Mr. Gang, brings his crew to an abandoned factory, which is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in northern China, to shoot a horror film. Mr. Gang ignores all common sense and tells his crew that they are staying for the night, despite the warnings against doing so. What happens to them that night is more terrible than anything Mr. Gang was conceiving for his perfect horror film. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
STARRING: Zhang De Sheng, Wang Lei
Read more “Perfect Horror (2016) Available October 19”Ouija Japan (2021) Available October 19
Karen is an American housewife living in Japan who desperately wants to fit in with her Japanese community, until peer pressure forces her to play the Kokkuri-san (the Japanese Ouija) with the other housewives, unwittingly disrespecting a local deity, who sets them up to fight each other in a deadly game of battle royal. A mysterious app gets installed on their phones to aid them in their battle. It offers the women tools to fight each other, which they buy with credits. But they better be careful with their spending because when the credits run out, it’s game over.
STARRING: Ariel Sekiya, Miharu Chiba, Eigi Kodaka
Read more “Ouija Japan (2021) Available October 19”Old (2021) Available October 19
Visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly…reducing their entire lives into a single day.
STARRING: Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie
Read more “Old (2021) Available October 19”The Night House (2021) Available October 19
The Night House follows a widow (Rebecca Hall of The Town) who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets.
STARRING: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin, Vondie Curtis Hall
Read more “The Night House (2021) Available October 19”Movies For The Midnight Hour Available October 19
YELLOW APE PRODUCTIONS BRINGS YOU A MIDNIGHT MOVIE FESTIVAL LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Picture yourself at the moonlight drive-in at the end of the road or in the grimy grindhouse of your choice. Get yourself the biggest box of greasy, buttery popcorn and a giant bucket of soda – perhaps with a little something extra – and settle in for a midnight movie festival of deliriously epic proportions!
Cult filmmaker Jim Haggerty unleashes his full collection of short films! Some are scary, some are funny, some are serious, some are sexy, some are trippy, some are retro, but they’re all Movies for the Midnight Hour!
Cold Dead Hand – a girl from the wrong side of the tracks discovers something in the fridge, and more might be waiting!
Haunting Day – the long lost film everyone’s heard of but no one’s ever seen – Yellow Ape unearths the only known print of this macabre gem!
Reunion – a chance meeting between two former classmates brings to life old feelings and perhaps a second chance. What does fate have in store?
The Announcer – a hilarious and terrifying statement that society is being corrupted and usurped by materialism and greed…in the framework of a cheesy horror movie!
Housewitch – when a neglected housewife is left all alone in the new house she thinks is haunted, she’s in for a change!
The Nutcracker – creepy leftover Christmas decoration creates a nightmarish weekend for a young woman house-sitting alone…
Creature – a woman’s life seems to have descended into a white-trash circus when her trampy daughter runs off with her sleazy boyfriend…but what is that green slime in the bathtub?
Housewitch 2 – the Housewitch returns to seek revenge on the sleazy real estate mogul who sold her the haunted house!
Frank – a troubled woman accepts a date from a strange older man, not knowing what he has on his mind. A modern variation on the Frankenstein tale.
The Horny Ape – a wacky silent film like you’ve never seen! When Kitty’s husband goes hunting, she finds an escaped ape is hunting her – with love on his mind!
STARRING: Various
Read more “Movies For The Midnight Hour Available October 19”Monsters of War (2021) Available October 19
Something has awoken, and a city must work together before a giant Gorilla, T-Rex and other deadly creatures take back the planet.
STARRING: Chelsea Greenwood, Sofia Lacey, Chrissie Wunna
Read more “Monsters of War (2021) Available October 19”