Damon Romero, a has-been baseball star who now works as a security guard at an elementary school in Fox Hollow, Texas, has all but given up on life. His one silver star is Natalie Potts, the janitor who works the early shift and the girl of his dreams. But Natalie and her daughter are on the run from her abusive husband who has just discovered where they are…and he’s come to take back what is his…
Only that’s not the only cruel twist fate has thrown Damon’s way, because there is a darkness licking at the edges of Fox Hollow…an impossible void that is swallowing the town, and inside the dark there are monsters…
A tribute to Stephen King’s The Mist and Under the Dome and John Carpenter’s The Fog, The Darkness is a character driven modern adventure of cosmic horror that will have you screaming at the sky.
Fall semester is always a challenging time at Miskatonic University. All Ellen Logan wants to do is pass her classes while holding down a bad job at a New Age bookstore.
But when a former roommate jumps to her death from the university clocktower and another friend vanishes, leaving her with a mysterious book, she embarks on her own investigation. With the help of renowned professor Andrew Carter, she uncovers evidence of a murderous cult, a terrifying creature, and a ghost who knows far too much about her. To survive, Ellen and Carter must descend into the Darkness Below to stop the forces that threaten to tear their world apart.
Suspecting she might be pregnant, Samantha seeks out Vanita, an oracle, to ask whether she and Steven are even ready to have kids. During the reading, Samantha receives a vision of a man bleeding out on the ground. Learning from past mistakes, Samantha recruits Kathy’s help to track him down.
After searching for hours in the frigid winter night, the sisters come up empty. Samantha returns to Vanita for further answers and learns that the man in the vision is none other than Vanita’s brother, Oren. When the sisters enact their plan to save Oren, they discover that Vanita isn’t as innocent as she let on. Right in front of the sisters’ eyes, she stabs her brother and steals her family’s powerful amulet to wreak havoc with it.
The sisters are ready to launch into a search for Vanita, but must tend to Oren’s physical injuries, as well as some of their own intangible ones as Kathy finds Steven in a compromising situation, which erupts in the biggest marital spat he and Samantha have ever had. The sisters must pull together their emotions and trust each other if they’re going to get the amulet back. Otherwise, the world as they know it could be over.
Oracle is the seventh book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.
Trickster
Not everything is as it seems.
A carnival birthday party for a one-year-old turns terrifying when a little girl lets out a scream from within the funhouse. Samantha and Kathy rush in to rescue her, only to find a demented clown hovering over the girl, feasting on her screams. He gets away, leaving the sisters scratching their heads as to who or what it might be.
After asking around, the staff all claim that there are no clowns employed by the carnival, which doesn’t explain what the girls witnessed. To make matters worse, Kathy is pulled away after her friend has a surprising revelation about her boyfriend, Jeremy. That leaves Samantha, whose powers haven’t been working exactly right ever since she became pregnant.
As the sisters struggle to find answers, another kid is found unconscious deep inside the funhouse tent. With hundreds of children arriving at the carnival for fun and games, the clock is ticking for the sisters to find a way to stop what lurks inside. And its only a matter of time before he gets what he’s after.
Trickster is the eighth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.
Poltergeist
You never know what will follow you home.
While touring a fixer-upper they’re considering buying, Samantha and Steven both have bad feelings about the house. Samantha, who is seven months pregnant, feels a wave of energy come over her as Steven and the realtor go down to the look at the basement without her. Deciding to pass on the abandoned house, Samantha and Steven later return home without a second thought about the house.
Meanwhile, Kathy has been busy planning Samantha’s baby shower with Steven’s mother. It’s not until Steven points out Samantha’s odd behavior that Kathy begins to notice it too. As the baby shower looms nearer, Kathy is determined to figure out what’s going on with her sister before Samantha is the center of attention in front of everyone.
When Kathy and Steven consult a medium about what might be going on, they learn that Samantha is very likely possessed by a poltergeist. And with her growing baby in her belly, the evil spirit may prove impossible to exorcise.
Poltergeist is the ninth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.
Julie Golightly (Chelsea LeSage) has simple needs. A middle child and a bike messenger in New York City, she simply wants to get high, drunk, and laid, but Julie Golightly is actually Juliette Johannes, a descendent of a long line of demon hunters and the forces of darkness are not patient. See the misadventures that lead up to the 21st Century Demon Hunter novel, as Julie faces demons, a determined sorceress, vampires, werewolves, unstoppable killers, homicidal dolls, and more, all while trying to make sure she’s never sober enough to feel the hangover. It’s a lo-fi bloody romp as you’ve never seen before. With a brand new episode and new edits for the rest from writer and director, Charles D. Lincoln. Sex, Drugs, and Fire and Brimstone await!
In a dystopian future, a deadly virus devastates the planet. The greedy CEO of a tech conglomerate controls the earth from space with an iron fist, and The People’s Army, in their quest for power, don’t care who gets caught in the crossfire. One man, together with the CEO’s daughter, will use virtual reality, his cyberpunk hacking skills, and her brilliant mind to save mankind.
STARRING: Crash Buist, Lauren Senechal, Jonathan Medina
Spain’s first major horror film production, The House that Screamed is a stylish gothic tale of tortured passions and bloody murder that bridges the bloody gap between Psycho and Suspiria.
Thérèse (Cristina Galbó) is the latest arrival at the boarding school for wayward girls run under the stern, authoritarian eye of Mme Fourneau (Lilli Palmer). As the newcomer becomes accustomed to the strict routines, the whip-hand hierarchies among the girls and their furtive extra-curricular methods of release from within the forbidding walls of institutional life, she learns that several of her fellow students have recently vanished mysteriously. Meanwhile, tensions grow within this isolated hothouse environment as Mme Fourneau’s callow but curious 15-year-old son Louis (John Moulder-Brown) ignores his mother’s strict orders not to get close to the “tainted” ladies under her ward.
Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (Who Can Kill a Child?), this landmark title in Spanish genre cinema has been restored to its director’s original full-length vision for the first time.
STARRING: Christina Galbó, Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown
It’s Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Clause at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she’s forced into a battle for survival.
This Slash-Mates is a full-year schedule of the best Slasher film collection on the Acidbath Productions Campus. Featuring I Spill Your Guts, Killer Waves, You’re Melting!, AND Slice! Professor Balsamo has your seat ready, so get your Slash-Mates fix today!
STARRING: James Balsamo, Robby Krieger, Joe Estévez, Jennifer Rubin, John Hitt
A couple goes to the desert for a romantic weekend and shoots an audition for a role in an upcoming film. Their holiday quickly turns deadly as they are the target of a Cult that carries on the evil beliefs and murderous practices of the Manson Family. This Cult believes they can resurrect the ultimate object of their obsession – Charles Manson himself – through a shocking ritual of human sacrifice.
A priest, a professor and a paranormal investigator try to help a woman and her family after they unwittingly move into a haunted mansion in New Orleans.
After a businessman kills thousands of snakes in a pit while they are building a new apartment building. The people living there soon become attacked by millions of snakes with a vengeance
On an otherwise peaceful evening during her first night on the job, a lone night shift janitor finds herself in an unexpected fight for survival when she becomes the target of sinister masked intruders. As their disturbing motives become clearer, she must use her crafty instincts and barbaric violence to make it through the night alive.
The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults’ irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children’s future.
After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church’s account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.
Terror is in Store. In Friday the 13th: The Complete Series, cousins Micki Foster (Louise Robey) and Ryan Dallion (John D. LeMay) inherit their uncle’s antiques store, but have no idea they’ll be in the business of evil. It seems Uncle Lewis broke a deadly deal with Satan, and they’re paying the price. From a cursed Cupid and murderous mirror to a sinister snow globe and a wicked jack-in-the-box, the Curious Goods shop carries the inventory from hell. And they need to get it all back to secure everything in their magical vault. Enlisting the help of friends Jack Marshak (Chris Wiggins) and Johnny Ventura (Steve Monarque), the cousins embark on a relentless search for the shop’s devilish relics…all to keep darkness at bay and innocent lives safe. Featuring all three seasons and 71 episodes of the sci-fi classic, this 17-disc collection is definitely a set for thrill-seekers!
STARRING: John D. Lemay, Steve Monarque, Louise Robey
William Zito, a recently fired weather scientist, has stolen Russian research which pinpoints the exact time and location of a deadly meteor attack. If the powers that be do not attempt to evacuate nearby cities, the debris and ash from the meteor strikes will send Earth into a lengthy species-killing deep freeze known as an Impact Winter. It’s not long before Zito and his daughter, Haley, find themselves on the run from the Russians and the deadly Artemis Meteor System.
STARRING: Thom Hallum, Kristin Keith, Tiffany McDonald, Emma Grace Sanderson
When the vile James Brothers murder an innocent woman to take over her land, her dying breath places a curse on the family through a scarecrow. Years later, a descendent of the James family has taken his friends to the old cabin for the weekend. They soon find the curse and the scarecrow are still wanting blood.
STARRING: Reagan Richards, Clay Brocker, Jim O’Rear
A month has passed in my new life in this new world. I have women I care about and friends I can trust. I have gold and magic and powerful weapons.
But I need so much more. The black wizard knows I live, and he’s still trying to find me. He wants what I have.
Because I’m a threat to him now. And he knows it.
My band has wandered far from the black wizard’s tower, to a city in need of adventurers like us. There is powerful magic to be found here, dangers to be overcome, and loot to be gathered.
I’m building my strength. Because I know the black wizard will find us eventually. That confrontation is coming.
And I’m going to be ready.
Adventurer of Empyrea is an isekai fantasy adventure in the theme of classic barbarian pulp fiction, and contains graphic violence and unconventional relationships.
Millicent is taking a semester off from her studies to concentrate on her thesis about children with severe allergies, which makes her the perfect person to take care of little Johnny, a sickly, mute child who suffers from every allergy under the sun, from nickel to artificial fabric. His overbearing mother, Rebecca, is an accomplished author who is focused on her latest book release, while his dissatisfied father, Jacob, spends sweaty, shirtless days toiling away on a carpentry project in the backyard.
When a mysterious virus starts killing all adults, society is left to be governed by children living on borrowed time. After the adult population is wiped out, rival kids battle for control of an abandoned theme park. Danger lurks around every corner, and they must do whatever it takes to survive their hellish Neverland.
Join director Darren Aronofsky on Pi Day for a special IMAX screening and conversation to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking first feature Pi.
This one-day only event will include a live Q&A with Aronofsky and other special guests live from Los Angeles followed by a screening of the restored film.
The 1998 surrealist psychological thriller stars Sean Gullette as a mathematician who becomes obsessed with searching for patterns in the universe as part of a quest for meaning.
EVENT DATE: March 14, 2023 DIRECTOR: Darren Aronofsky CAST: Sean Gullette, Mark Margoils, Ben Shenkman TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3xZLIpF
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A debt-ridden teacher gets a lucky break when she inherits an abandoned lakefront inn! She takes a group of potential buyers to visit the property where the unfortunate investors discover a dark, sinister secret that threatens them all. A malignant supernatural force determined to keep them there forever!
