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When Raven is sent to an all-girls boarding school, she unleashes a demon from a mysterious vintage Jack-in-the-box hidden on the school grounds. Will the students make it out alive, or will the demon claim the victims it requires to remain alive?
STARRING: Nicholas Anscombe, Isabella Colby Browne, Leona Clarke, Oli Meredith
Read more “The Jack in the Box Rises (2024) Available April 9”#horror – #horrormovies – #ItsAWonderfulKnife – #RLJEntertainment – @RLJEfilms –
After saving her town from a psychotic killer, Winnie Carruthers’ life is less than wonderful. When she wishes she’d never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe where without her, things could be much, much worse.
STARRING: Joel McHale, Justin Long, Jane Widdop, Katharine Isabelle
Read more “It’s A Wonderful Knife (2023) Available April 9”#horror – #horrormovies – #ManhattanZodiac77 – #AlliedVaughn –
A weary, alcoholic New York police detective hunts a sex-obsessed psycho who is responsible for a series of gruesome murders in and around Times Square. Two young women sharing a nearby rundown hotel room, become his next intended victims.
STARRING: Anja Belle, Greta Krauss, Helmut Pratt
Read more “Manhattan Zodiac 77 (2023) Available March 21”#horror – #horrormovies – #Possessor – #SecondSight –
An agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
STARRING: Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tuppence Middleton
Read more “Possessor (2020) (Limited Edition) (Import) Available March 29”#horror – #horrormovies – #TBlockers – #UmbrellaEntertainment –
When ancient parasites that thrive on hatred rise from beneath a small town, taking the most fearful and susceptible as hosts, a young trans filmmaker struggling to transition in increasingly hostile times for LGBTQ+ people, finds herself the only one who can sense the possessed, and rally the resistance before the horror escapes and spreads.T Blockers is equal parts gross-out comic horror and heartwarming coming-of-age story. It’s a loving homage to queer cinema of the past, a “power of friendship” comedy that centres on trans experiences, and a middle finger to the bigots of the world.
STARRING: Chris Asimos, Joni Ayton-Kent, Stanley Browning
Read more “T Blockers (2023) (Import) Available March 29”#horror – #horrormovies – #GreenRoom – #SecondSight –
A touring punk band finds themselves in a bloody fight for survival after unwittingly playing a gig at a rural venue run by neo-Nazis.
STARRING: Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots
Read more “Green Room (2015) (Limited Edition) (Import) Available March 29”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheZombieArmy – #SaturnsCore –
The Pentagon has purchased an abandoned insane asylum as a training ground for The Lethal Ladies, an elite experimental female combat unit. Unfortunately, two former psychotic inmates were left behind in the asylum’s deserted fallout shelter. One is a shock therapy-obsessed lunatic who fancies himself a psychiatrist. The other, an unhinged nymphomaniac hellbent on lethal seduction. Together, they wreak havoc by capturing soldiers and turning them into mindless zombies by means of electricity. Trapped within the subterranean catacombs of the old asylum, The Lethal Ladies must rally their troops and do battle with the flesh-ripping hordes of the living dead.
Shot in Wilmington, Delaware and utilizing a real, abandoned asylum location, THE ZOMBIE ARMY was the brainchild of former military vet turned writer / producer John Kalinowski, who harnessed local cable production talent to help realize his dream of staging a regional SOV zombie epic. Directed by local high school drama coach Betty Stapleford and featuring an amateur cast of hundreds firing live ammunition rounds, THE ZOMBIE ARMY is an outrageous eruption of exploding heads, melting faces, eyeball gouging, acid showers, gut-munching gore, and surprising nudity. Directed by a woman and featuring an oddly empowering feminist slant, THE ZOMBIE ARMYwould go on to become a ‘90s rental store and fanzine favorite that continues to bewilder unsuspecting audiences.
STARRING: Cindie Lou Acker, Jack Armstrong, Kevin Wiggins, Natalie Kidd
Read more “The Zombie Army (1991) Available March 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #WheretheDevilRoams – #YellowVeilPictures –
Follows a family of traveling sideshow performers as they traverse the harsh conditions of Depression-era America on a bloody search for eternal life.
STARRING: Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, John Adams, Lulu Adams
Read more “Where the Devil Roams (2023) Available March 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #SpanishBloodBath – #VinegarSyndrome – @VinegarSyndrome –
In the early 70s, while Italy led the charge in the production of gialli, its neighbor to the West, Spain, began churning out more and more of its own takes on the genre. With their uniquely Catalan flavor and casts, this trio of criminally-underseen Spanish gialli have all been newly restored in 4K from their 35mm camera negatives and are at last making their worldwide Blu-ray debuts from Vinegar Syndrome.
After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, the bitter and feuding members of his family gather at his large country mansion for a reading of the will. But their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing, that of Archibald’s wife, which sets into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths. One of only a handful of traditional gialli directed by Jess Franco (Venus in Furs), the improbably Louisiana-set, NIGHT OF THE SKULL (La noche de los asesinos) is a delightfully pulpy old-dark-house whodunit. (1974 / 82 min)
A notoriously harsh French judge, vacationing at a luxury resort, finds his holiday interrupted when a mysterious killer begins murdering those in and around the hotel. But what makes these killings all the more unsettling is that they’re being carried out identically to the methods used by the judge’s executed murderers. Offering a more subtextual narrative which leads to a memorably cynical and downbeat ending, Jorge Grau’s (The Blood Spattered Bride) VIOLENT BLOOD BATH (Pena de muerte) is a uniquely thought-provoking entry in the annals of Spanish gialli. (1974 / 92 min)
Derek, a handsome young Englishman, has recently moved to a Spanish seaside town. A lothario, Derek is quick to begin seducing the local women, only for a murderer to start picking them off one by one. Despite his protests of innocence, the police conclude that Derek is a sex maniac and responsible for the crimes. However, could another individual be behind the heinous killings? Remaining thematically and structurally aligned with its Italian forebears, Pedro Luis Ramírez’ (School of Death) THE FISH WITH THE EYES OF GOLD (El pez de los ojos de oro) is an engrossing, twist-filled coastal caper with plenty of murders and other macabre surprises. (1974 / 84 min)
STARRING: Fernando Rey, Alberto Dalbés, Wal Davis
Read more “Spanish Blood Bath Available March 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #ThePlaygirlsandtheVampire – #VinegarSyndrome – @VinegarSyndrome –
A troupe of five showgirls, along with their manager, are traveling through a remote stretch of countryside when their minibus gets stuck after a rainstorm. Finding refuge at the castle home of the mysterious Count Gabor Kernassy, the women make the best of the situation by continuing to practice their burlesque routines. But little do they know that the strange Count is harboring a fiendish secret and is intent on subjecting the lovely ladies to his vampiric desires…
A pioneering entry in the history of more erotically-minded Italian gothic horror, future Fulci collaborator Piero Regnoli’s (writer of Demonia and Burial Ground) sole horror directing effort, THE PLAYGIRLS AND THE VAMPIRE (L’ultima preda del vampiro) is a cheeky and charming mix of atmospheric castle chills and sexy go-go thrills. Starring actor-turned-producer Walter Brandi (Bloody Pit of Horror) along with veteran screen stars Lyla Rocco (One Step to Eternity) and Alfredo Rizzo (The Beast in Heat), and featuring striking black-and-white photography by Aldo Greci (Play Motel), Vinegar Syndrome proudly brings this delightfully offbeat drive-in and late-night TV favorite to Blu-ray for the first time, newly restored in 4K from its 35mm fine grain master and presented in both its original Italian language version and English dub.
STARRING: Walter Brandi, Lyla Rocco, Maria Giovannini, Alfredo Rizzo, Marisa Quattrini
Read more “The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960) Available March 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #AcidBathProductionsVolume12 – #AlliedVaughn –
AcidBath Vol. 12 is a collection of four of mad man director James Balsamo’s cinamaic ghost goop! The onslaught of chaos features Karate Ghost 2: Dojo Of Death, Mind Melters 17, Mind Melters 18, and Mind Melters 19! Don’t miss out on this foul phantom four-pack of James Balsamo films!
STARRING: James Balsamo, Bam Margera, Linnea Quigley, Joe Borlik, John Hennigan
Read more “Acid Bath Productions Volume 12 Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #Leviathan – #KLStudioClassics – @KLStudioClassic –
Plunge into this go-for-the-jugular sci-fi thriller starring Peter Weller (RoboCop) and Richard Crenna (First Blood) and featuring non-stop action, nerve-shattering suspense and awesome creatures by special-effects legend Stan Winston (Aliens). On the dark and forbidding ocean floor, the crew of a deep-sea mining rig discovers a sunken freighter that harbors a deadly secret: a genetic experiment gone horribly wrong. With a storm raging on the surface and no hope of rescue, the captain (Weller) and his team are propelled into a spine-tingling battle for survival against the ultimate foe—a hideous monster that cannot die…and lives to kill. Directed by George P. Cosmatos (Tombstone) from a script by David Webb Peoples (Blade Runner) and Jeb Stuart (Die Hard), Leviathan is a gripping and imaginative thrill ride that will leave you gasping for air…and clawing for the surface! Featuring Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, Michael Carmine, Lisa Eilbacher, Hector Elizondo, Meg Foster and music by Jerry Goldsmith (Alien).
STARRING: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern
Read more “Leviathan (1989) (4K Ultra HD) Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #Darkgame – #GravitasVentures – @GravitasVOD –
A police detective races to save the captives of a dark web game show, where the losers are executed via live broadcast. For the sadistic masked host, this is all part of his master plan to gain ratings.
STARRING: Ed Westwick, Andrew P Stephen, Natalya Tsvetkova
Read more “Darkgame (2024) Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #MidnightPeepshow – #DarkStarPictures – @DarkStarPics –
In Midnight Peepshow we are introduced to an unnamed Madame who owns and operates a peepshow, offering patrons a tailor-made experience wrapped around their deepest desires, fears, and sins. Tonight, it welcomes a businessman who has a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website on the dark web. He soon becomes a witness to three stories of victims that found the same website, and now the Midnight Peepshow has found him. It will only be a matter of time before he is made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of his own desire.
STARRING: Zach Galligan, Chiara D’Anna, Richard Cotton, Sarah Diamond, Jamie Bacon, Derek Nelson, Jack Fairbank. Miki Davis, Ryan Oliva, Ocean M. Harris
Read more “Midnight Peepshow (2022) Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #MindMelters27 – #AcidBath –
See a dragon kick James Balsamo in a pool, A famous pro-wrestler fights an interdimensional creature, and behold as a beautiful woman rubs crumbling muffins all over her naked body! This is just some of the insanity you will see in Mind Melters 27! Mad Man director James Balsamo, brings you another gold mine of chaos! Packed to the brim with behind the scenes footage, celebrity promos, and weird action you won’t get anywhere else but right here!
STARRING: James Balsamo, John Hennigan
Read more “Mind Melters 27 Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #MindMelters28 – #AlliedVaughn –
PIzza monsters, and the lead singer Pantera pretending to punch James Balsamo in the face, and Vampires trembling when the hear that it’s Stake night is just some of the absurdity you will see in Mind Melters 28! Celebrity promos, sinister saucy she beasts, and giants standing tall in the collection of behind the scenes footage from some outstanding Acid Bath Productions films!
STARRING: James Balsamo, Linnea Quigley, Robert Mukes, Ken Davitian
Read more “Mind Melters 28 Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #MindMelters29 – #AlliedVaughn –
Behind the scenes of killer cat mascots hunting big breasted cheerleaders in the locker rooms, stop-motion mythical creatures, and celebrity promos are just some insane moments in Mind Melters 29! Take a deep breath before you watch this collection of insanity from Mad man director James Balsamo, because this footage will take you on a wild ride from wonder to beyond behind the camera, and show you an insight on how some AcidBath Productions films are made!
STARRING: James Balsamo, G. Larry Butler
Read more “Mind Melters 29 Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #MindMelters30 – #AcidBath –
What a milestone to have 30 Mind Melters! Soak up the sexy slumber party scene before the blood thirsty beast tears the teenage tantalising flesh from their bones! This collection of behind the scenes chaos, Celebrity promos, and flame thrower action stands atop a mountain of madness from Mad Man director James Balsamo. Raise your beverage high, and toast to 30 mind melting eyes!
STARRING: James Balsamo, Eric Roberts, Noah Hathaway
Read more “Mind Melters 30 Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #MindMelters31 – #AlliedVaughn –
Get ready for tons of fun with Mind Melters 31! See genetically mutated sharks with guns in space, severed heads out of place, and naked ladies all over the place in this sinfully fast paced cinema banquet of bizarre! Man Man director James Balsamo, does it again with a collection of celebrity promos, behind the scenes footage, and pure insanity!
STARRING: James Balsamo, John Hennigan, Charles Wright
Read more “Mind Melters 31 Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheBlackDemon – #Paramount –
Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Yellowstone) stars in this edge-of-your-seat action thriller from the director of Rambo: Last Blood. Oilman Paul Sturges’ (Lucas) idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.
STARRING: Josh Lucas, Héctor Jiménez, Fernanda Urrejola
Read more “The Black Demon (2023) Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #SlasheningTheFinalBeginning – #Troma – @Troma_Team –
Five years after The Slashening, 22-year-old Madison Santangeli moves to Brooklyn to start a new life in the wake of her father’s suicide.
STARRING: Addie Weyrich, Madonna Refugia, Jean Louise O’sullivan, Lloyd Kaufman, Patrick Foy
Read more “Slashening: The Final Beginning (2021) Available February 20”#horror – #horrormovies – #horrorcomics – #comicbooks – #WeeklyReleases –
Here’s a review of this week’s comic and movie releases and premieres!
Read more “Friday Review: February 16, 2024”#horror – #horrormovies – #Nightsiren – #DarkStarPictures – @DarkStarPics –
In a remote mountain village, two sisters grow up at the mercy of their abusive mother. A terrible accident happens when the eldest, Šarlota, escapes into the woods, followed by her sister Tamara. Otyla, a Roma woman living on the outskirts of town, is blamed for the girls’ disappearance and accused of witchcraft. Twenty years later, Šarlota unexpectedly shows up in the village. As she digs into her past, the locals grow suspicious. Only a young and eccentric herbalist, Mira, is willing to befriend her. When the animals in the village start to fall ill, the locals accuse Šarlota of conjuring Otyla’s spirit.
STARRING: Natalia Germani, Eva Mores, Juliana Olhová, Iva Bittová
Read more “Nightsiren (2022) Available March 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #HerenciaDiabólica – #DegausserVideo –
When Tony, a successful businessman, receives a call informing him that he has inherited his late aunt’s vast estate, he uproots himself and his wife, Annie, from New York to Mexico City. While adjusting to and exploring their new gothic home, Tony and Annie come upon a mysterious clown doll. Although merely unnerved by the doll’s strange appearance at first, Annie soon becomes concerned as it begins turning up out of nowhere in every corner of the house. When a series of fatal ‘accidents’ occur on or near the couple’s property, with the doll always at the scene, Tony and Annie come to the terrifying realization that a sinister force has possessed it, and begin a race against time to figure out how to bring the carnage to an end!
The last film directed by the prolific screenwriter Alfredo Salazar, HERENCIA DIABÓLICA is a unique take on Mexico’s “possessed doll” sub-genre and has been hailed as the country’s answer to Child’s Play. Starring Mexican genre cinema heavyweights Lorena Herrera, Roberto Guinar and cultural sensation Margarito Esparza as the evil clown doll come to life, Degausser Video is proud to present the disc debut and first English-friendly release of this long-unavailable and much sought-after VHS rarity, which has been restored from its original master tape.
STARRING: Lorena Herrera, Roberto Guinar, Margarito Esparza
Read more “Herencia Diabólica (1993) Available March 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #BlindFaith – #VHSHitfest –
Ted Partridge is a mass murdering serial killer going around killing unsuspecting women, brutally torturing them beyond imagination. It is up to Detective William Lindsay and Psychologist Richard Stroud to try to stop this killer before more innocent people meet their maker.
Based upon the true story of Philadelphia serial killer Gary Heidnik, BLIND FAITH is an unsung late 80s regional slasher/thriller hybrid that uniquely unravels to one of the most jaw dropping final moments. VHSHITFEST is so happy to bring this movie to disc for the first time, along with hours and hours of extras that showcase the forty year career of director Dean Wilson.
STARRING: Kevin Yon, David Winick, Doris Quest, Mary Keith Roe
Read more “Blind Faith (1989) Available March 26”#horror – #horrormovies – #ISS – #DecalBleecker –
Tensions flare on the International Space Station as conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling, the American and Russian teams each receive orders to take control by any means necessary in this high-stakes space thriller.
STARRING: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr., Masha Mashkova;Costa Ronin
Read more “I.S.S. (2023) Available March 12”#horror – #horrormovies – #TheScreamingSilent – #AlliedVaughn –
Desperate to make the film that will crown him the next Tarantino young filmmaker Kurt Michaels travels 8000 miles to outback Tasmania. Lost and haunted Kurt, along with his buddy and producer Brian, becomes pawns in an ancient vendetta.
STARRING: Andrew Lindqvist, Bella MacDiarmid, Gary Brun, Whitney Boyd, Derek Pascoe
Read more “The Screaming Silent (2020) Available March 5”#horror – #horrormovies – #OneWinterNight – #AlliedVaughn –
An Orthodox Jewish mother and her daughters move to a remote town where they are targeted by the malevolent forces presiding over the area.
STARRING: Breanna Engle, Brittini Schreiber, Ariella Mossey, Isabelle Zuffrey Boulton, Genevieve Tarrant
Read more “One Winter Night (2019) Available March 5”#horror – #horrormovies – #MindMelters36 – #AlliedVaughn –
The bat beast spreads its wings under a blood moon awaiting the bloody kiss from a supple big breasted victim to feast on, in the insatiable behind the scenes footage from Mad man director James Balsamo’s From Dusk Till Bong!. Only one man with a roaring chainsaw can cut down the bat beasts and save the virgins from the blood crazed creaures! See this high voltage nightmarish masterpiece called Mind Melters 36 because it’s Sick! …And we know you like that sort of thing!
STARRING: James Balsamo
Read more “Mind Melters 36 Available March 5”#horror – #horrormovies – #MindMelters35 – #AlliedVaughn –
See vampires eat hard steel from the blade of a chainsaw, in the epic making of behind the scenes footage from Mad Man director James Balsamo’s cult favorite From Dusk Till Bong!. Mind Melters 35 makes you feel as alive as a cold blooded vampire in the hot Las Vegas desert, searching for its next victim to feast on! This movie will educate as well as tidalate your senses till your eyes melt from the awesomeness on the screen! Don’t wait to scream, watch the bloodstream now!
STARRING: James Balsamo, Tom Devlin
Read more “Mind Melters 35 Available March 5”
