Danny loves trolling indie films online. When a voice named Control hijacks his computer, Danny is sent to an isolated abandoned mansion to unravel a mystery that could make him a millionaire.
STARRING: Luke Stevenson, Louisa Warren, Primrose Bigwood
Read more “The Haunting of Hythe House (2021) Available January 18”When an attractive young couple rents out a room in their spacious loft to an eccentric, beautiful female artist, they soon live to regret it. Slowly but surely, their seductive new tenant invades their minds, their beds, the very fabric of their lives. A sensual supernatural nightmare from writer/director Ted Nicolaou (Terrorvision, Subspecies, The Vampire Journals).
STARRING: Kelly Curran, Cole Pendry, Lorin Doctor, Austin James Parker
Read more “Don’t Let Her In (2021) Available January 18”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) (4K Ultra HD – Standard Special Edition) Available January 18”The Candyman returns to try to convince his female descendent, an artist, to join him as a legendary figure. To this end, he frames her for a series of hideous murders of her friends and associates so that she has nowhere else to turn to.
STARRING: Donna D’Errico, Brion James, Rita Taggart
Read more “Candyman III: Day of the Dead (1999) Available January 18”Our fate lies within us…A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture. Jump to winter time, and a man is investigating a mysterious monster that was found deep in a rural coal mine seven years earlier. Since that time, a mysterious plague has spread through the nearby small town, inflicting the residents with a strange mental illness. A young Shugendo, missing for some time, suddenly resurfaces, transformed, intent on exorcising the world from the monsters haunting it. Directed by indie auteur Toshiaki Toyoda (“Blue Spring”).
STARRING: Kiyohiko Shibukawa, MahiToThePeople, Issei Ogata
Read more “The Day of Destruction (2020) Available January 18”It’s time for the annual Muskie Madness” fishing contest, and the lake is packed with hopeful fishermen. It soon becomes apparent, however, that a psychotic serial killer has also decided to join the festivities. Although the police have determined that the killer is claiming his victims by landing them with giant fish hooks, no clear suspects can be found since everyone is using the exact same hook! What is the killer’s goal? And more importantly, can the murders be stopped?
STARRING: Various
Read more “Blood Hook (1986) Available January 18”A year after the death of his wife, a man enlists her sister to help bring her back.
STARRING: Jacob A. Ware|Christine Nyland
Read more “An Unquiet Grave (2020) Available January 18”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 January 11”A recent college graduate and her estranged high school friends return to Lantern’s Lane, the location of an evil urban legend and must fight to survive the night.
STARRING: Lisa Roumain, Brooke Butler, Ashley Doris, Andy Cohen
Read more “Lantern’s Lane (2021) Available January 11”The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet. Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode’s (Jamie Lee Curtis) trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As Laurie fights for her life from injuries from her last encounter with Michael, she inspires her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), and all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The vigilante mob then sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. Evil dies tonight.
STARRING: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer
Read more “Halloween Kills (2021) Available January 11”The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter (Brain Damage, Frankenhooker), 1982’s Basket Case is a riotous and blood-spattered “midnight movie” experience, now immortalized in a lavish 4K restoration by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Duane Bradley seems like a pretty ordinary guy. His formerly conjoined twin Belial, on the other hand, is a deformed creature who lives in a wicker basket. Arriving in the Big Apple and taking up a room at a seedy hotel, the pair set about hunting down and butchering the surgeons responsible for their separation.
Filmed on a shoestring budget against the backdrop of 1980s New York (where it played on the midnight movie circuit for over two-and-a-half years), Basket Case has clawed its way from its humble origins to become one of the most celebrated cult movies of all time.
STARRING: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
Read more “Basket Case (1982) (Standard Special Edition) Available January 11”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
Read more “The Zombie King (2013) Available January 4”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
Read more “Trailers of James Balsamo Available January 4”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
Read more “Mind Melters 1 & 2 Available January 4”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
Read more “Hack Job (2011) 10 Year Anniversary Available January 4”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
Read more “Antlers (2021) Available January 4”This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “December 28, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”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 28”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 28”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
Read more “The Phantom Creeps (1939) (12/31) (2K Restored) Available December 28”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 28”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 28”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 28”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
Read more “The Cropsey Incident (2017) Available December 28”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
Read more “Bigfoot Creek Available December 28”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
Read more “Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation (2021) Available December 28”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
Read more “Sorority Slaughter (1994) Available December 28”A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
STARRING: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon
Read more “Red Snow (2021) Available December 28”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
Read more “Knocking (2021) Available December 28”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”
