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This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “Weekly Horror Releases: February 27, 2024”Category: Movie Releases
Dead Kingdom Vol. 1 Available February 27
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Author: Etienne Derepentigny
When a knight returns home from battle, he finds his homeland overrun by undead zombies controlled by a mysterious wizard. But to save his missing wife, he is willing to face them all.
Read more “Dead Kingdom Vol. 1 Available February 27”Age of Demons (1993) Available February 27
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A trio of sorceresses are hellbent on offering 100 human sacrifices in order to access Hades and bring forth the age of demons. They kidnap Mitch Feinstein (Eric Matson), a satanic punk rocker with unique psychic powers, and force him to summon a demonic monster who is let loose into the world to wreak mayhem and destruction. Mitch quickly enlists his goofy brother Don (Damon Foster) and his karate club compadres to do battle with the coven’s evil henchmen. In a final ditch effort to save humanity, the brothers combine their powers to resurrect Don’s mammoth robotics class project Cybertron, who flies to the rescue and challenges the demon head-to-head in a blood soaked, laser beam battle to the death!
A brain-scrambling amalgamation of high-risk amateur kung-fu stunts, raucous punk rock, bursts of extreme gore, crude visual effects, and scads of gratuitous nudity, notorious publisher, martial artist, filmmaker (Hot Dogs on the Run), and outspoken satanist Damon Foster turned heads in 1993 with Age of Demons; his homespun, madcap SOV homage to the Asian Tokusatsu and Kyodai Hero films. Like a primitive, analog episode of Ultraman captured through the subversive camcorder lens of Hugh Gallagher, Age of Demons simultaneously revolts and charms with its blend of crude humor, hair brained homemade creature suits, and vibrant visual insanity.
STARRING: Damon Foster, Eric Matson, Butch Portillo, Anthony Houk, Rebecca Torres
Read more “Age of Demons (1993) Available February 27”Bulletproof Jesus : The Director’s Cut Available February 27
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Jesus, on a self-imposed sabbatical in the modern mortal world, is warned that the warlords of the Apocalypse are assembling their armies for the final overthrow of humankind. This Christ is a conflicted man, a master of combat and martial arts who assembles a group of mercenaries to battle the forces of Lucifer.
STARRING: Johanna McGinley, Miranda Nieman, William Lee
Read more “Bulletproof Jesus : The Director’s Cut Available February 27”Dr. Cheon And The Lost Talisman (2023) Available February 27
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Psychiatrist Dr. Cheon is a fake exorcist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. He uses his acute intuition – along with his assistant, YouTube channel, gadgets and explosives – to perform bogus exorcisms and solve cases across the country. When a new client approaches him to save her little sister from evil spirits, he accepts her case. Ready to perform his phony healing routine, he suddenly discovers he’s involved in a case more powerful than he’s ever experienced, a real one!
STARRING: Gang Dong-Won, Huh Joon-Ho, Esom, Lee Dong-Hwi, Kim Jong-Soo
Read more “Dr. Cheon And The Lost Talisman (2023) Available February 27”Camp Pleasant Lake (2024) Available February 27
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In Camp Pleasant Lake; a couple breathes life into the eerie remnants of an old campsite; unaware of its dark past. Strange occurrences haunt the camp; mirroring the tragedies of the old camp; where two decades earlier; a young girl was kidnapped and her parents brutally murdered. Amidst chilling atmospheres and long-forgotten secrets; the couple grapples with a horrifying revelation they are entwined with the camp’s history. As the shadows of the past collide with the present; Camp Pleasant Lake becomes a terrifying and suspenseful journey where the couple must confront the haunting histories of a sinister crime.
STARRING: Jonathan Lipnicki, Bonnie Aarons, Michael Pare, Robert LaSardo
Read more “Camp Pleasant Lake (2024) Available February 27”Raiders Of The Living Dead (1986) Available February 27
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THE ULTIMATE PRESENTATION WITH 4+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES! In the early ’80s, Independent-International co-founder/president Samuel M. Sherman (Dracula vs. Frankenstein) took an unfinished zombie movie by Brett Piper (Queen Crab) and began tinkering. He shot additional scenes featuring nuclear terrorists, a mad doctor, a kid (former child star Scott Schwartz of A Christmas Story, The Toy and New Wave Hookers 5 fame) who converts a LaserDisc player into a ray gun, 1930’s cowboy star Bob Allen, a roasted hamster, The Three Stooges and retired octogenarian Zita Johann (The Mummy), then added an unstoppable earworm of an opening credits song to create a drive-in epic unlike any ever experienced before or since. Raiders Of The Living Dead is now scanned in 2K from the negative of the final release version, with over 4 hours of new & archival Special Features – including two previous cuts in their entirety – that reveal the full insane saga.
STARRING: Scott Schwartz, Robert Deveau, Donna Asali, Robert Allen, Bob Sacchetti
Read more “Raiders Of The Living Dead (1986) Available February 27”The Black Mass (2023) Available February 27
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A true-crime thriller inspired by real events, The Black Mass is set over a 24-hour period in Florida during the winter of 1978. The film follows a serial killer in the days leading up to his final, unhinged rampage, providing a disturbing and terrifying look into the warped psyche of a notorious murderer, as well as the ramifications of his violence for those who fell victim to it, and for those who survived.
STARRING: Michelle Romano, Lisa Wilcox, Lew Temple, Jeremy London, Kathleen Kinmont
Read more “The Black Mass (2023) Available February 27”Santet 1 & 2 Available February 27
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Indonesia’s beloved scream queen, Suzzanna, stars in this decidedly demented duo of supernatural revenge thrillers, SANTET and SANTET 2, which boast not just over-the-top gore set-pieces, but an abundance of slimy creatures, wild plot twists, and even impromptu musical numbers! Vinegar Syndrome presents this hugely popular set of Southeast Asian horror classics on disc for the first time in the United States, both newly restored from their 35mm camera negatives!
Santet (94 min): After poisoning his wife, local gangster Bisman blames her death on the village cleric and instigates an outraged mob to burn down his hut, killing him in the process. The cleric’s wife Katemi (Suzzanna) escapes into the jungle, eventually meeting Nyi Angker, a half-crocodile half-witch who gives Katemi diabolical powers, thus allowing her to commence a bloody revenge…
Santet 2 (92 min): Katemi is trying to live a pious life in her village, but most of the villagers shun and curse her on account of her previous murderous deeds. When the mentor of Nyi Angker finds Katemi and curses her, the madness in the village starts anew as Katemi turns into a vicious tiger every night, ripping the townspeople from limb to limb!
STARRING: Suzzanna, Joice Erna, K. Arief Raduma, Busiti, Dorman Borisman
Read more “Santet 1 & 2 Available February 27”The Dead One (1961) Available February 27
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Barry Mahon was a decorated WWII fighter pilot, escaped P.O.W., manager of Errol Flynn during the actor’s sordid final years, nudie-cutie and kiddie matinee visionary, and more. And in 1960, Mahon wrote/produced/directed what is likely the first full-color zombie movie in exploitation history: Just outside of New Orleans, a plantation mistress summons her brother to rise from the dead for a bizarre low-budget voyage of voodoo vengeance, jazz piano, strip clubs, honeymoon romance, Creole horror, and natty zombie attire. John McKay (Cuban Rebel Girls), Linda Ormond, and Monica Davis (Rocket Attack U.S.A.) star in this regional rarity advertised as ‘The Greatest Voodoo Film Ever Made!’ – also released as Blood Of The Zombie – now scanned in 2K from the IP in its proper aspect ratio for the first time ever.
STARRING: John McKay, Linda Ormond, Monica Davis
Read more “The Dead One (1961) Available February 27”The Lonesome Room (2021) Available February 27
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The Lonesome Room is a one-location thriller filled with claustrophobia, heart, and a bizarre text adventure. Reed Monroe, a fairly prolific young writer, wakes up tied to a chair in a room ripped right out of one her more horrifying books, with no real way out.
STARRING: Gabby Carbon, Clare Patricia Hayes, Paige Joustra
Read more “The Lonesome Room (2021) Available February 27”The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 27
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Brilliant scientist, Professor Bernard Hichcock, harbors a secret fascination with the corpses of beautiful young women. His perverse desires are so strong that he has developed a unique serum capable of placing people into a death-like state; a drug he has decided to experiment with on his wife, Margaretha. However, after accidentally giving her a lethal dose, the doctor panics and covers up his wife’s death. Hichcock soon remarries, this time to the orphaned Cynthia, whom he brings to live with him at his isolated castle. Shortly after her arrival, Cynthia begins to experience increasingly strange and ghastly goings-on. While her new husband dismisses these seemingly supernatural occurrences, Cynthia becomes convinced that someone – or something – is lurking in the castle and her loving husband might know more than he’s letting on…
A crucial early work in the Italian gothic horror canon, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, from director Riccardo Freda (Tragic Ceremony) and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh), is a macabre period chiller which stars Barbara Steele (Black Sabbath) alongside Robert Flemyng (The Blood Beast Terror), Silvano Tranquilli (So Sweet, So Dead), and Harriet Medin (Blood and Black Lace). Graced with eye-poppingly colorful cinematography from Raffaele Masciocchi (The Ghost), Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents the UHD debut of this twisted and suspenseful classic in a brand new and exclusive 4K restoration of its original negative, and loaded with fresh extras including interviews with second assistant director Marcello Avallone and star Barbara Steele!
STARRING: Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli, Harriet Medin, Maria Teresa Vianello
Read more “The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 27”The Strangler (1970) Available February 27
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An unconventional French giallo released before the subgenre’s popularity boom resulting from filmmakers like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, THE STRANGLER centers on Émile (Jacques Perrin, The Young Girls of Rochefort), a handsome young man targeting women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to Émile’s suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective assigned to track down the killer, resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man with the assistance of Anna, a beautiful woman who believes herself to be a potential victim.
Praised as a “complex, melancholic meditation on isolation as well as a portrait of collective hysteria” by the New York Film Festival, the film equally subverts and indulges in the conventions of the giallo with unexpected beauty and refinement. Director Paul Vecchiali has been hailed as an “icon of a rebellious, reflexive, and emotionally excessive cinema” by Le Monde and celebrated for his prolific filmography and decades-spanning career as a critic, director, and producer.
STARRING: Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Eva Simonet, Paul Barge, Jacqueline Danno
Read more “The Strangler (1970) Available February 27”The Tim Ritter Collection : The SOV Years Available February 27
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For the first time ever, legendary filmmaker Tim Ritter’s shot on video filmography – everything outside his much celebrated “Truth or Dare” series – comes together on one EPIC release! This extras packed release includes: Disc 1 Twisted Illusions [Original 1985 VHS Release, includes Truth Or Dare segment] -NEW Upscaled Transfer -NEW Commentary on original cut with Tim Ritter and horror scholar Matt Hill -NEW Interview with Joel D. Wynkoop on Twisted Illusions -NEW Interview with Tim Ritter on Twisted Illusions directed by Susana Kapostasy -NEW- Stills Gallery with Tim Ritter Commentary -Trailers Twisted Illusions 2 [Original 2004 Unreleased Cut with Drive-In Ads] -NEW Upscaled Transfer -NEW! Commentary with Directors John Bowker, Joe Sherlock, Joel Wynkoop, Cathy Wynkoop, and Tim Ritter -NEW- Stills And Publicity Gallery -Bigfoot Lives Short [2003] Shot with Twisted Illusions 2 for Ron Bonk’s Red FIles -Trailers Disc 2 Creep [Original 1995 VHS Cut] -NEW Upscaled Transfer -Extras: Commentary with Director Tim Ritter -NEW: Commentary with Actor Joel D. Wynkoop and Cathy Wynkoop -NEW Stills and Publicity Gallery -NEW Interview with Cult Actor Joel D. Wynkoop -BONUS! 90 Minute Making Of Creep Feature [Blinded By The Blood 3] -Interview w/ Tim Ritter [2018] -Trailers Disc 3 Dirty Cop No Donut [Original 1998 VHS Release] -NEW Upscaled Transfer -NEW- Commentary With Director Tim Ritter and horror scholar Matt Hill -NEW- Stills And Publicity Gallery With Commentary -Vintage Publicity Interviews with Actor Joel D. Wynkoop and Director Tim Ritter -Original Trailers -DVD Promo -Dirty Cop 2.5 Rock Video by Richard Anasky Dirty Cop No Donut 2: I Am A Pig [Original 2000 VHS Release Restored) -NEW Upscaled Transfer -NEW-2023 Commentary with Director Tim Ritter -Commentary with Producer/Star Donald Farmer -NEW-Stills And Publicity Gallery -NEW! Dirty Cop 3 Viral Videos: Simon vs. Gus -NEW! Hall Of Shame Review Montage 2022 -Trailers Disc 4 Reconciled Through The Christ [Original 2005 Release] -NEW Upscaled Transfer -Vintage Commentary with Director Tim Ritter -New: Stills And Publicity Gallery with Brand New Commentary -Making Of Virtual FX With Todd Pontsler -Behind The Scenes Of Director Richard Anasky’s 2nd Unit Shoot -Trailers Extra
STARRING: Various
Read more “The Tim Ritter Collection : The SOV Years Available February 27”What Goes Around (2020) Available February 27
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A timid college student discovers that her crush could be a notorious serial killer.
STARRING: Catherine Morvell, Jesse Bouma, Gabrielle Pearson
Read more “What Goes Around (2020) Available February 27”V/H/S 85 (2023) Available February 27
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An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analog mashup of the forgotten 80s.
STARRING: Freddy Rodríguez, James Ransone
Read more “V/H/S 85 (2023) Available February 27”Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom Trilogy Available April 23
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Filmmaker Lars von Trier’s internationally acclaimed, cult classic series tells the story of a hospital built on top of the old bleaching ponds in Copenhagen, where evil has taken root and medical science faces a daily struggle with itself.
STARRING: Lars Mikkelsen, Mikael Persbrandt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Tuva Novotny
Read more “Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom Trilogy Available April 23”Friday Review: February 23, 2024
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Here’s a review of this week’s comic and movie releases and premieres!
Read more “Friday Review: February 23, 2024”Weekly Horror Releases: February 23, 2024 (Imports)
Today’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD imports!
Read more “Weekly Horror Releases: February 23, 2024 (Imports)”Bring Her To Me (2023) Available June 11
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From director Brooks Davis (THE GINGERWEED MAN), comes BRING HER TO ME, a sensual tale of supernatural terror, where reality and nightmares collide…with deadly consequences. A woman is plagued by nightmares about traveling to a dark realm and a demonic entity that awaits her arrival. With the help of a friend, she consults a dream interpreter to end the nightmares, only to find that no one is who they seem and the real horror is about to begin. JoBlo.com calls BRING HER TO ME Fun and a Good erotic horror movie and Film Threat says the film is Sexy, thrilling and creepy!. See BRING HER TO ME for yourself with someone you trust…if you dare!
STARRING: Bec Doyle, Emerson Biemchick, Kalond Irlanda, Ros Gentle
Read more “Bring Her To Me (2023) Available June 11”Bag Of Lies (2024) Available June 11
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The clock is ticking for Matt, whose wife Claire is dying of a rare bone cancer. Having exhausted all traditional healthcare options, Matt refuses to give up hope, and in his desperation, seeks from a haggard man named Al. Al offers him to The Bag, an ancient relic possessed with dark magic that can heal the dying. The Bag demands a ritual: You must light a candle, pour the blood of the person whom you want it to affect in its mouth, and you must speak your intention only once. After the ritual is completed, there are three rules to follow: Don’t talk to it. Don’t look at it. Don’t touch it. The rules may sound simple enough, but as Matt furthers down the rabbit hole, his state of mind declines as Claire’s health improves. With nothing left to lose, and little standing in his way, Matt must bear the hardships of the next three days, no matter the terror The Bag imposes on his psyche.
STARRING: Brandi Botkin, John Wells, Patrick Taft
Read more “Bag Of Lies (2024) Available June 11”Amityville Backpack (2024) Available June 11
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When the rather hapless Luther Boots buys a backpack at a garage sale, people around him start turning up dead! He begins to suspect his new accessory may be to blame, and he begins investigating. Tracking its history, he discovers it has connections back to a haunted house in a small town called Amityville… Can Luther rid himself of the cursed pack, or will the temptation for revenge ultimately consume him, and those he cares about most?
STARRING: Mike Hartsfield, Lindy Hartsfield, Paul Bradford
Read more “Amityville Backpack (2024) Available June 11”Amelia’s Children (2023) Available May 28
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Kidnapped as an infant, Edward has always felt something was missing from his life. 30 years later, he receives a call from his long-lost twin brother, and he and his girlfriend Riley embark on a journey to Portugal to meet his family. After their arrival at the family’s remote magnificent villa, Riley grows suspicious of his family when hostile neighbors reveal a sinister past. Edward soon discovers his family has a monstrous secret.
STARRING: Brigette Lundy-Paine, Carloto Cotta, Anabela Moreira
Read more “Amelia’s Children (2023) Available May 28”Katernica (2023) Available May 7
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An ambitious drama student, her actor sister, and a washed-up television director make an unlikely team of misfits when together they become caught up in a surreal nightmare journey after discovering and reading the manuscript of a legendary cursed play. Katernica was made for £1000 and is the second outstanding micro-budgeted feature film from the director of Black Lizard Tales.
STARRING: Anna Fraser, Annabella Rich, Fran St Clair, Tony Mardon
Read more “Katernica (2023) Available May 7”The Mothman Prophecies (2002) (Import) Available April 26
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After his wife dies in a bizarre car crash, a newspaper reporter finds himself in a small town, where a series of strange events may be linked to a mysterious creature.
STARRING: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, David Eigenberg
Read more “The Mothman Prophecies (2002) (Import) Available April 26”City Of The Living Dead (1980) (Limited All-Region Ultra HD) (Import) Available April 5
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FROM THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH THEY CAME… TO COLLECT THE LIVING!
From the Italian godfather of gore, Lucio Fulci, comes City of the Living Dead, a notoriously nauseating, compellingly corporeal masterpiece of apocalyptic zombie horror!
A medium has a mysterious vision of a priest hanging himself… A seemingly dead woman awakes screaming in her coffin… And in the sleepy New England town of Dunwich, a girl vomits up her intestines and a local misfit has a drill bit ploughed into his cranium… These hallucinogenic, often grotesque visions punctuate a skeletal story telling of a reporter (Christopher George, The Exterminator, Pieces) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl, The House by the Cemetery, The Beyond) who must race against time to prevent hordes of rotting corpses spewing forth from the gates of hell…
Stridently going beyond the classical stylings of his horror hit Zombie Flesh Eaters, City of the Living Dead sees Fulci eschew conventional narrative logic in favour of a delirious, oneiric mode of storytelling which stresses visuals, surrealism and atmosphere (as well as offering up bucket-loads of brains, blood and guts!). Presented here in a 4K restoration with a wealth of extras, Fulci’s gore-drenched classic can now be devoured as never before!
STARRING: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo
Read more “City Of The Living Dead (1980) (Limited All-Region Ultra HD) (Import) Available April 5”Messiah Of Evil (1974) (Standard Special Edition) Available April 2
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A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh. From Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the writers of American Grafitti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Howard the Duck, this dreamy and atmospheric film transposes the post-Night of the Living Dead zombie movie to a surreal small-town American setting, presented through gorgeous Techniscope visuals that echo the stylish European horror of Mario Bava and Hammer.
A true cult film, Messiah of Evil, which was also released as Dead People, has overcome distribution challenges to enjoy growing awareness and high acclaim after decades of word-of-mouth enthusiasm among horror cinema fans and critics around the world.
STARRING: Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang
Read more “Messiah Of Evil (1974) (Standard Special Edition) Available April 2”Perpetrator (2023) Available March 26
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Perpetrator follows Jonny, a wild and impulsive teenage girl living precariously in a town where young women continue to go missing, and the power she’s forced to unlock to survive.
STARRING: Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Lowell, Melanie Liburd
Read more “Perpetrator (2023) Available March 26”Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968) Available March 19
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Playing Bram Stoker’s infamous vampire for the third time, Christopher Lee goes fang-to-cross with the forces of good in this atmospheric, stylish film, in which each night brings the threat of death.
STARRING: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies
Read more “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968) Available March 19”The Woods are Real (2024) Available March 12
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Joba and Quincy are a wealthy Brooklyn couple who value charity above all. But when a friend returns from a country pilgrimage to challenge their bleeding hearts, they accept an invitation that will change their lives forever.
STARRING: Matt Dellapina, Campbell Scott, Chinasa Ogbuagu
Read more “The Woods are Real (2024) Available March 12”