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”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”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”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”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”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”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”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”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”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”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”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”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”This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “October 19, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”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”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”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”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”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”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”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 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”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”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”One morning. Fuma wakes up on the bed with his only son Ren dazzling as usual. However it is something different from the others. The place they wakes is in the deep forest. Suddenly a monster attacks them who is Japanese traditional monster known as Namahage. At the same time, a car drives into the forest not far from them. A wadding planner is taking two lovers and bride’s father to the wedding ceremony hall for the rehearsal. However loses their ways. In the meantime, the car breaks down. When two stories comes together, the story goes in a direction where it can not be predict.
STARRING: Tatsuji Sugiyama, Tomoya Mochizuki, Daiki Tanaka
Read more “Mimicry Freaks (2019) Available October 19”Still banned in the UK as one of the infamous Video Nasties, in the tradition of The Night Porter, Salon Kitty and Salo only far more depraved comes perhaps the most notorious Nazisploitation epic of them all! Daniela Levy (aka Italian TV presenter and future UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Daniela Poggi) stars as a beautiful young death camp prisoner forced into a nightmare of brutality, torment and sexual degradation. But will a Commandant\x27s vilest urge trigger her ultimate vengeance? Marc Loud (aka Adriano Micantoni of Tomb Of Torture) co\-stars in this fetid slice of filth\-strudel also known as Last Orgy Of The Third Reich And Caligula Reincarnated As Hitler now presented on Blu\-ray for the very first time and restored in 2K From the original negatives.
STARRING: Marc Loud, Daniela Levy, Maristella Greco, Fulvio Ricciardi
Read more “The Gestapo’s Last Orgy (1977) Available October 19”Melanie has just gained consciousness to discover that she is being held hostage by the Walker family so they can harvest her special skin in order to create a breakthrough skin care cream, and bloom the business; also she’s not alone..
STARRING: John Littlefield, Aimee Stolte, Tiana Tuttle
Read more “Fear Pharm 2 (2021) Available October 19”This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “October 12, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”Movies:
Train To Busan Peninsula
STARRING: Gong Yoo
Read more “Train To Busan / Peninsula (2-Movie Collection) Available October 12”I Know What You Did Last Summer: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar star with Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Johnny Galecki in this terrifying tale of a body that just won’t stay dead. After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim’s body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave, and he’s looking for more than an apology.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brandy, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Mekhi Phifer star in the screamer sequel to the blood-chilling box-office hit, I Know What You Did Last Summer. Remember Ben Willis? He’s the fisherman who killed the boy who was driving the car when it went off the road in the fatal accident that killed his daughter… he’s the man in the slicker with a hook in his hand ready to exact bloody justice… well, he’s back. It’s hard to forget a man who refuses to die.
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer: A group of teenagers is terrorized in a small Colorado town in this latest installment of the I Know What You Did Last Summer.
STARRING: Various
Read more “I Know What You Did Last Summer Set Available October 12”
