A Filipino police squad suspects that a former FBI agent may be the key to solving a series of cult massacres and child sacrifices.
STARRING: Jana Victoria, Ian Ignacio, Jeffrey Quizon
Read more “Circle of Bones (2020) Available December 28”Category: Movie Releases
Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare Available December 28
A horror triple feature from the vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)!
Help Me . . . I’m Possessed: A free-form nightmare that takes place at a sanitarium in the desert, this surrealist gem includes a psychopathic hunchback, delirious monsters, and a killer early synthesizer score.
Night Of The Strangler: A southern-fried whodunnit with murder, racial tension, and a starring role from The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz, this sweat-soaked sleazer feels like a cross between an American giallo and a trashy airport paperback novel.
Carnival Of Blood: An ominous, semi-cinéma vérité horror movie that was shot at Coney Island in NYC, Carnival Of Blood features an early role from Burt Young (Rocky), pop-art gore that would make H.G. Lewis proud, and a gloriously seedy atmosphere.
NOTICE! These preservations were made from the only known film elements in existence. Please approach the technical quality of the source materials with empathy.
STARRING: Micky Dolenz, Burt Young
Read more “Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare Available December 28”Zombie Cop (1991) Available December 21
One Hollywood stunt rarely attempted in shot-on-video movies is the car chase, yet “Zombie Cop” spends a big chunk of its short running time attempting just such a feat, with mixed results. Voodoo rituals, fight scenes, questionable police procedure, and ample gunplay with actors using real weapons firing blanks also contribute to making this one of the most gonzo horror/action hybrids ever made. After a cop named Gill and Haitian voodoo master Doctor Death kill each other during a routine drug bust, the duo rise from the grave to continue their game of cat-and-mouse as members of the undead. Gill enlists the help of human partner Stevens in tracking down Death and putting a stop to his nefarious plans for world domination! Painstakingly restored from original Super-VHS-C camera masters with a dynamic new 5.1 surround remix, “Zombie Cop” is more arresting than ever on Blu-ray together with never-before-seen bonus materials from the Tempe vaults, three audio commentaries, and original 1991 home video presentation captured from the archival edit master.
STARRING: Michael Kemper, Ken Jarosz, James R. Black Jr., Bill Morrison, James L. Edwards
Read more “Zombie Cop (1991) Available December 21”The Vampire Lovers (1970) (Collector’s Edition) Available December 21
CAUTION: NOT FOR THE MENTALLY IMMATURE!
A diabolical female vampire ravages the young girls and other townsfolk of a peaceful hamlet in eighteenth century Europe in revenge for the killing of her fellow vampires years earlier. A rousing hunt for the vampiress ensues as a group of men follow her bloody trail of terror through the countryside. Adapted from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, this “rather erotic Hammer chiller” (Leonard Maltin) stars Ingrid Pitt (Countess Dracula), Madeline Smith (Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell) and Peter Cushing (Horror Of Dracula, The Curse Of Frankenstein).
STARRING: Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steel, Madeline Smith
Read more “The Vampire Lovers (1970) (Collector’s Edition) Available December 21”ROH (2019) Available December 21
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest.
STARRING: Farah Ahmad, Mhia Farhana, Harith Haziq, June Lojong
Read more “ROH (2019) Available December 21”“Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness” Season 1 Available December 21
Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield reunite to investigate the connection between two zombie outbreaks in distant countries and uncover a threat that will shake the nation to its very core.
STARRING: Jona Xiao, Kellen Goff, Stephanie Panisello
Read more ““Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness” Season 1 Available December 21″Jack Frost (1997) (Special Edition) Available December 21
HE’S CHILLIN’ AND KILLIN’!
He’s got ice in his veins and he’s giving cold-blooded a whole new meaning… his name is JACK FROST. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states, serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the slayride of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over… he’s the abominable Jack Frost.
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Shannon Elizabeth, Stephen Mendel, Eileen Seeley
Read more “Jack Frost (1997) (Special Edition) Available December 21”Mill of the Stone Women (1960) (2-Disc Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available December 14
Before Black Sabbath, before I Vampiri, director Giorgio Ferroni (The Lion of Thebes, Blood for a Silver Dollar) introduced audiences to period horror Italian-style with his chilling 1960 shocker Mill of the Stone Women – a classic tale of terror redolent with the atmosphere of vintage Hammer Horror.
Young art student Hans von Arnam (Pierre Brice, Night of the Damned) arrives by barge at an old mill to write a monograph about its celebrated sculptures of women in the throes of death and torture, maintained and curated by the mill’s owner, the hermetic Professor Wahl (Herbert Böhme, Secret of the Red Orchid). But when Hans encounters the professor’s beautiful and mysterious daughter Elfi (Scilla Gabel, Modesty Blaise), his own fate becomes inexorably bound up with hers, and with the shocking secret that lies at the heart of the so-called Mill of the Stone Women.
The first Italian horror film to be shot in color, Mill of the Stone Women prefigured a raft of other spaghetti nightmares, including the work of maestros Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Arrow Video is proud to present this brand-new restoration of one of the foundational titles of Italian horror.
STARRING: Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss
Read more “Mill of the Stone Women (1960) (2-Disc Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available December 14”The Fly 1958-1965 Trilogy (Import) Available December 10
The Fly (1958) When a scientist attempts to transfer matter through space, things go horrifically wrong and two grotesque man-fly hybrids are created. Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, the scientist desperately hopes that he, his wife and his brother can capture the other mutant and reverse the experiment.
The Return of the Fly (1959) Despite warnings from his uncle Francois, the young scientist Philippe Delambre is determined to reattempt his late father’s teleportation experiments with the help of his assistant Ronald. But Ronald schemes against Philippe and turns him into the same horrifying man-fly creature that his father had become… and with the same disastrous fate! Once again, it is up to Francois to try and make things right.
The Curse of the Fly (1965) After escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanley (Carole Gray) is rescued by scientist Martin Delambre (George Baker), the grandson of the doomed teleportation experimenter Andre Delambre. The two fall in love and marry, but Patricia quickly realises her new husband’s science experiments are as horrific as his family’s past. As she investigates further, Patricia learns the unnerving secrets of the Delambre family and has to find a way to escape them before she becomes the next human-insect hybrid!
STARRING: Richard Riley, Vincent Price, Brian Donlevy, David Hedison, Al Hedison
Read more “The Fly 1958-1965 Trilogy (Import) Available December 10”The Fly / The Fly II (Import) Available December 10
The Fly (1986) When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test it’s abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a merger of man and insect. Initially, Brundle appears to have undergone a successful teleportation, butthe fly’s cells begin to take over his body. As he becomes increasingly fly-like, Brundle’s girlfriend (Geena Davis) is horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster.
The Fly II (1989) Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson), the CEO of a research laboratory, acts as the self-appointed guardian of orphan Martin Brundle, whose father had been a researcher at the lab. Though Martin is scarcely five, he has the appearance of a 20-year-old (Eric Stoltz) because of mutant insectoid genes in hissystem. Martin grows up searching for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by the nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father’s experiments with only pretty scientist Beth Logan (Daphne Zuniga) to call a friend. Soon, the fly within begins to emerge.
STARRING: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga
Read more “The Fly / The Fly II (Import) Available December 10”Werewolves Within (2021) Available December 7
Feature adaptation of the video game where werewolves attack a small town.
STARRING: Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil
Read more “Werewolves Within (2021) Available December 7”Trog (1970) Available December 7
A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND’S LAST MOVIE – ABOUT HUMANKIND’S FIRST MISSING LINK ENCOUNTER.
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest. Few claim to have seen these links to our primitive past. But when a wild half-man/half-ape emerges from his countryside cave, TV cameras are there to observe the event – and the ensuing terror!
People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller known as the troglodyte. To a determined anthropologist (Joan Crawford in her final film role), he’s the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he’s walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped – all after local resident Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage. In true horror tradition, the world’s Murdocks leave no doubt who the real savages are … but what will become of he who is part-man, part-monster, all Trog!
STARRING: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Read more “Trog (1970) Available December 7”Midnight 2: Sex, Death & Videotape (1993) Available December 10
Another SRS Retro Release!! No one will ever be able to forget the unspeakable atrocities committed one dark midnight at the Barnes farmhouse. Now, years later, Abraham (Matthew Jason Walsh), the last surviving member of the crazed family, has taken up residence in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Armed with a video camera and his various implements of death, he stalks the streets of the city to satisfy his bloodlust…searching the psyches of his victims for his perfect mate. Enter Rebecca (Jo Norcia), a beautiful young bank teller who has unwittingly come under Abraham’s deadly camera lens. With the help of a hard-boiled police detective (Chuck Pierce), she may be able to solve the murder of her best friend…or become the ultimate sacrifice in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. From writer/director John A. Russo (Heartstopper, Night Of The Living Dead) comes a suspense-filled, nightmarish voyage through the mind of a serial killer…a voyage that leads straight into the heart of Midnight 2: Sex, Death And Videotape!
STARRING: Matthew Jason Walsh, Jo Norcia, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Read more “Midnight 2: Sex, Death & Videotape (1993) Available December 10”Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) Available December 7
While logging video tapes of decades old TV broadcasts, college graduate James is propelled into a terrifying investigation when he comes across a surreal and disturbing video clip of what appears to be an imprisoned android. Evidently the product of a mysterious broadcast signal hacking, his discovery takes a sinister dread-filled turn when James tracks down similar, previously unseen broadcast intrusions that send him on a furious and obsessive pursuit across the country. Now James must confront two very real possibilities: that the videos may be clues to a crime beyond all comprehension; and that whoever was behind them may be very aware that James is coming uncomfortably close to the truth.
STARRING: Harry Shum Jr, Kelley Mack, Anthony E. Cabral
Read more “Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) Available December 7”Amityville Cult (2021) Available December 7
After unexpectedly, and mysteriously, inheriting his estranged grandmother’s mansion, Stanley DeFeo finds himself in the small town of Amityville – surrounded by buried family secrets and a sinister plot against him.
STARRING: Chance Gibbs, Micha Marie Stevens, Tom Young
Read more “Amityville Cult (2021) Available December 7”Giallo Essentials Collection Vol. 2 Available December 21
Movies:
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Torso
Strip Nude for Your Killer
STARRING: Claudio Cassinelli, Giovanna Ralli, Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Edwige Fenech
Read more “Giallo Essentials Collection Vol. 2 Available December 21”Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Available December 14
Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, one of MARVEL’S greatest and most complex characters. In search of his next big story, journalist Eddie Brock lands an exclusive interview with convicted murderer and death row inmate Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson), who discovers Eddie’s secret and becomes the host for Carnage, a menacing and terrifying symbiote.
STARRING: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham
Read more “Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Available December 14”Venom (1971) (aka The Legend Of Spider Forest) Available December 14
A demented grab-bag of sinister cinematic tropes set in the picturesque Bavarian countryside, Venom (1971, aka The Legend of Spider Forest) spins a wicked web complete with a winsome seductress (Neda Arneric) who lures curious young men to a nasty death, all in the shadow of a Nazi-styled scientist (Terence Soall) aiming to craft an arachnid-derived nerve drug. Meanwhile, an unsavory brood of conspiratorial locals is keen on maintaining the mythos of the lethal “spider goddess,” while an undaunted artist (Simon Brent) perilously investigates. Director Peter Sykes here takes a first evocative leap into screen horror that would bear more frightful fruit with the later Hammer Studios productions Demons of the Mind (1972) and To the Devil…a Daughter (1976).
STARRING: Simon Brent, Neda Arneric
Read more “Venom (1971) (aka The Legend Of Spider Forest) Available December 14”The Spanish Chainsaw Massacre (2017) Available December 14
While touring to promote their first record, a heavy metal band break down in the desolate countryside, and must spend the night in a strange small town, populated by a family of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic maniacs – who are looking for their latest sacrifice to the patron saint who they worship. And they’ll stop at nothing until they take the band apart – piece by piece.
STARRING: Yolanda Berenguer, Hilario Blas, Pedro García Oliva
Read more “The Spanish Chainsaw Massacre (2017) Available December 14”Snuff Tape Massacre (2019) Available December 14
Brand is a unique kind of businessman, providing his clients with snuff videos. He doesn’t do the dirty work, instead hiring others to carry out the nefarious deeds. For this job, he hires two men to kidnap a girl from a local home and torture her. What unfolds onscreen is a a marathon of pain and sadism that will leave the viewer insane…
STARRING: Thomas Goersch, Navarro, Rahina
Read more “Snuff Tape Massacre (2019) Available December 14”Seven Deaths In The Cat’s Eyes (1973) (aka Corringa Or La Morte Negli Occhi Del Gatto) Available December 14
When a fractious aristocratic family gathers at an ancestral Scottish castle, a straight razor-wielding murderer is also an unwelcome guest in Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eyes (1973, aka Corringa or La morte negli occhi del gatto), a blood-laced thriller – complete with giallo flourishes, tantalizing sexuality, a pet gorilla and an omnipresent ginger tabby – from genre filmmaker Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony M. Dawson). Singer/actress Jane Birkin plays the willowy heroine whose arrival foreshadows several unnatural deaths, Hiram Keller is the possibly unhinged lord of the manor with a cursed history, and the ensemble includes schemers with homicidal tendencies, all underscored by the shudder-inducing music of the great Riz Ortolani.
STARRING: Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller
Read more “Seven Deaths In The Cat’s Eyes (1973) (aka Corringa Or La Morte Negli Occhi Del Gatto) Available December 14”The Secret of Sinchanee (2021) Available December 14
The survivor of a double murder returns home and discovers that a paranormal presence has occupied the house, haunting its sacred land.
STARRING: Tamara Austin, Laila Lockhart Kraner, Steven Grayhm
Read more “The Secret of Sinchanee (2021) Available December 14”Ripple (2017) Available December 14
Kevin takes his wife Joy to the beach for a vacation. What he doesn’t realize is that there are clowns coming out of the ocean.
STARRING: Blake Blalock, Cynthia Bonner, Ricky Brewer
Read more “Ripple (2017) Available December 14”Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997) (Extended Director’s Cut) Available December 14
Premutos is the first of the fallen Angels, even before Lucifer. His goal is to rule the living and the dead. His son should pave the way for him to return. A young man begins to suffer from visionary flashbacks – of the past lives he lived. On his father’s birthday, a case containing an old book is found in their garden, which was hidden by a Warlock in 1943. When the young man touches with the book, he mutates into a monster and awakens an army of zombies, ready to bring back the fallen Angel Premutos.
STARRING: André Stryi, Christopher Stacey, Ella Wellmann
Read more “Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997) (Extended Director’s Cut) Available December 14”Playdurizm (2020) Available December 14
First time filmmaker Gem Deger explodes on the film scene with this wildly colorful, dangerously sexy and dark-edged fantasy tale about a young man and the bizarre world he finds himself in. Demir (played by director Deger) suddenly wakes up with no memory of the past and in an unfamiliar apartment. Surrounded by balloons and an oinking pig, he scurries his way out only to be stopped by the hunky and handsome Andrew (Austin Chunn) who assures the teen that he actually lives there, with the hunk, his girlfriend and their pet pig. As he uncomfortably settles into this new reality, Demir quietly longs for his heterosexual roommate. He gets his chance when Andrew’s girlfriend Drew (Issy Stewart) ODs and they stash her body under the sofa. Demir now does everything he can to be possessed by this man, all the while ignoring the violent clues of how he got there. An intoxicating blend of fantasy, violence, passion and control.
STARRING: Gem Deger, Austin Chunn, Issy Stewart
Read more “Playdurizm (2020) Available December 14”Night: The Final Cut (2006) Available December 14
Detective Mike Jericho is changing. He stops showing up for work and shuts out the people once important to him. Now, he spends all his time hanging out with his new friends, having fun, and learning how to hunt and kill innocent people. Mike is changing; and his new friends aren’t quite human.
Detective Jimi Cannon is searching. He’s hitting the streets, fiercely looking for his best friend, Mike.
Now, Jimi must enter a world of shadows and face off – guns blazing – against an enemy that won’t die. He’ll do everything he can to save Mike, but it will take more than courage for Jimi to survive the NIGHT!
STARRING: Various
Read more “Night: The Final Cut (2006) Available December 14”Messalina (1960) Available December 14
Both opulent and humanly scaled, director Vittorio Cottafavi’s Messalina (1960, aka Messalina Venere Imperatrice) is a rare Italian-made historical spectacle headlined by a solo-above-title female star, the ideally cast English-born Belinda Lee, in one of the final roles of her tragically shortened life. Playing the young beauty plucked from country life as the Vestal Valeria to enter an arranged marriage with the newly crowned Roman emperor Claudius, she ably portrays the sexual manipulativeness and raw hunger for power of the murderous empress of legend. Seducing several high-born lovers to gain political influence, Messalina learns that balancing her grasp on the aristocracy and the common folk is too much to handle, even as she longs for the affections of her true love, the ultimately incorruptible tribune Lucius Maximus (Spiros Focas).
STARRING: Belinda Lee, Spyros Fokas
Read more “Messalina (1960) Available December 14”Loon (2017) Available December 14
When Taylor’s (Taylor Lennox) father unexpectedly passes away, he inherits all of his property, including a secluded little lake house in Montana. Soon after, Taylor and his new bride Ann (Maiah Wynne) decide to honeymoon by the lake for some much\-needed rest and relaxation. But as the two begin to settle in, things are not as serene as they thought. There’s no one around. The forest is almost too quiet and they soon encounter an overbearing neighbor named Chuck (Jeff Medley), who likes to carry around an axe…
STARRING: Maiah Wynne, Taylor Lennox, Jeff Medley
Read more “Loon (2017) Available December 14”Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) (Special Edition) Available December 14
HE’S ICIN’ AND SLICIN’!
Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald), the chiller killer is back and he’s mad as hell. An accidental lab experiment resurrected the evil snowman, but this time, the crystal killer can’t be stopped by fire, bullets or even his worst enemy, chemical anti-freeze. With revenge on his mind, Jack sets out to finish off his nemesis, Sheriff Sam (Christopher Allport), who is vacationing on a Caribbean island. Sam’s balmy paradise turns into a Winter Terrorland when Jack freezes the island and quickly ices everyone around him. No one can stop the chilling killing spree when Jack can travel as lethal liquid or fatal, frosty flakes. Just when you thawed it was safe to go back in the fridge!
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Jennifer Lyons
Read more “Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) (Special Edition) Available December 14”Jack Frost (1997) Available December 14
HE’S CHILLIN’ AND KILLIN’!
He’s got ice in his veins and he’s giving cold-blooded a whole new meaning… his name is JACK FROST. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states, serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the slayride of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over… he’s the abominable Jack Frost.
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Shannon Elizabeth, Stephen Mendel, Eileen Seeley
Read more “Jack Frost (1997) Available December 14”