In an attempt to bring his wife back from the grave, an ordinary man turns to voodoo and summons Kaifu, the God of malevolence. He makes a pact to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to the Earth and in return, he will become “The Zombie King,” walking the Earth for eternity with his deceased love.
STARRING: Edward Furlong, Corey Feldman
(more…)Venomous Vixens, Voodoo priests, and sex-crazed beasts are just some of the insanity you’ll witness in this compilation of trailers from mad man director James Balsamo. Let your mind bend and melt after watching one crazy trailer after another in this feature-length compilation of chaos. Never have some many trailers of James Balsamo been caged together in one film… till now! You’ll scream, you’ll moan, you’ll see monsters overgrown in Trailers Of James Balsamo.
STARRING: James Balsamo, Andy Dick, Reggie Bannister
(more…)Ghosts in nipple rings possesing stripers to kill priests, Aztec legends, and Robot badgers are just some of the wacky subjects that will be covered in this double disc box set. See celebrities singing, mean monsters, and music videos that will surely turn your brains into mush. Watch hilarious hours of short films stacked up high! These films are packed with gore, and silliness to adore in Mind Melters 1 & 2.
STARRING: James Balsamo, Craig Muckler, Dave Brockie
(more…)James and Mike get a script from the Devil and try to make the sickest horror anthology ever made.
STARRING: James Balsamo, Lloyd Kaufman, Dave Brockie, Debbie Rochon
(more…)In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become embroiled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to terrifying encounters with an ancestral creature.
STARRING: Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy Thomas
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(more…)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
(more…)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
(more…)Dr. Alex Zorka (Bela Lugosi), an eccentric scientist, carries on mysterious experiments in his secret laboratory with the aid of Monk (Jack C. Smith), an ex-convict. Zorka has invented many strange and powerful weapons of warfare, including a devisualizer belt which allows him to operate without being seen, and a terrifying mechanical robot eight feet tall. He also possesses a deadly meteorite fragment from which he extracts a strange element which can induce suspended animation in an entire army. 12 Chapters.
STARRING: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Regis Toomey, Dorothy Arnold
(more…)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
(more…)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
(more…)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
(more…)A group of online social justice activists venture deep into the woods to uncover the truth behind a recent series of gruesome ritual murders – and to capture the person responsible. But what they come face to face with is something more deadly than any serial killer, an urban legend that is very real, and determined to make them his latest victims.
STARRING: Terry Bell, Nathanael Card, Rinska Carrasco
(more…)The world has moved on, but he’s still out there. Since the 1970s he has roamed the countryside, watching…and waiting. He has been sighted several times over the last few decades and this all-new docudrama chronicles these true events that occurred throughout the Midwest. Featuring interviews and locations from the real encounters.
STARRING: Allison Scott II, Christina Marie Leonard, Karrie Bauman
(more…)A Paranormal Investigation Like No Other!
Horror Icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII,VIII,IX,X, Hachet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they investigate The Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina. The Grand Old Lady Hotel is a 112-year-old, 40,000 square foot hotel with a disturbing past. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, the hotel is referred to by locals as the south’s Stanley Hotel.
STARRING: Kane Hodder, Mark A. Richardson, Amanda Hannah
(more…)An innocent college prank turns deadly when a bevy of beautiful sorority girls accidentally shoot and kill their voyeuristic, Satan worshipping neighbor Hugo. But is he really dead? See what horrible fates await each member of the sorority when Hugo mysteriously returns from the grave seeking human sacrifices to sustain his eternal life. The innocent Kim quickly becomes the object of Hugo’s obsession once he selects her as the ideal bride for his evil, demonic master Radu.
STARRING: Tina Krause, Laura Giglio, Pamela Sutch, Deana Demko, Dave Castiglione
(more…)A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
STARRING: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon
(more…)After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.
STARRING: Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm, Alexander Salzberger, Krister Kern
(more…)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
(more…)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
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(more…)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
(more…)Inspired by ‘60s soap opera “Dark Shadows” and George A. Romero’s underrated thriller Martin, producer/director J.R. Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door) ushered shot-on-video features into the mainstream with his 1991 horror-drama Kingdom of the Vampire. The gloomy tale was far from a financial or critical smash, but paved the way for a tsunami of weird, wild camcorder movies throughout the ‘90s, decades before Hollywood abandoned film for digital cinema.
STARRING: Matthew Jason Walsh, Cherie Patry, Shannon Doyle, Tom Stephan, Jo Norcia
(more…)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
(more…)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
(more…)Faced with a prolonged bitter Ohio winter in March, 1992 and a distributor release date just weeks away, producer J.R. Bookwalter (“The Dead Next Door”) had no choice but to toss out the majority of his “Humanoids From Atlantis” screenplay and have the cast and crew make it up as they went along. The result is a complete cinematic abomination that has to be seen to be believed, but strangely compelling in a meta kind of way.
STARRING: James L. Edwards, Sandra Wurzer, Christine Morrison, Tom Hoover, Arvin A. Clay
(more…)Shot over three and half days in February, 1992 for under $1,500, “Galaxy of the Dinosaurs” keeps tongue firmly in cheek as producer J.R. Bookwalter (“The Dead Next Door”) brazenly intercuts 35mm stock footage from the 1977 movie “Planet of the Dinosaurs” into this camcorder quickie shot in the woods behind his father’s Mogadore, Ohio house. The results are as outrageous as you might expect, one of several reasons the original VHS release remains a coveted collector’s item nearly three decades later. Stopping for a brief lunch break on the planet Gurgon (which looks remarkably like Earth), five innocent Zyroxans (who look remarkably like humans) encounter chaos and terror when a race of ferocious dinosaurs become hell-bent on turning their intergalactic field trip into a full-fledged fright fest! Remastered from original Super-VHS-C camera masters with additional 2020 restoration work, “Galaxy of the Dinosaurs” roars onto Blu-ray together with never-before-seen bonus materials from the Tempe vaults, three audio commentaries, and original 1992 home video presentation captured from the archival edit master.
STARRING: James Black, Christine Morrison, Bill Morrison, Tom Hoover, James L. Edwards
(more…)Army veteran Frank Mason is losing his memory and his son Tom is desperate to try anything to help his dad, including allowing him to be part of a clinical trial of the military’s latest drug for mental acuity in combat, Deimosomine. However, no one can fathom the drug’s sinister side effect: it turns people into psychopathic homicidal maniacs, and the bodies are starting to pile up!
STARRING: Gary Lee Vincent, Greg Mason, Sandra E. Williams
(more…)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
(more…)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
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