Another (2012) Available March 28

One classroom holds an unspeakable secret. In the spring of 1998, 15-year-old Koichi Sakakibara goes to live with his grandmother in the mountain city of Yomiyama. Soon after moving, he’s sent to the hospital because of a recurring illness. While recovering, he sees a mysterious girl in a school uniform with an eye patch. But she only leaves him with cryptic words in front of the basement morgue. After his recovery, he starts Junior High School. When he steps into the class, he sees Mei Misaki, the girl from the hospital. Her presence begins to trouble Koichi, because his classmates and teachers all act as though Mei doesn’t exist.

STARRING: Kento Yamazaki

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Bio Zombie (1998) Available March 28

Invincible & Bee are two wannabe gangsters who spend their days hanging around the mall selling bootleg DVDs. When they aren’t committing petty crimes and trying to pick up girls, the two hoodlums run errands for their low level Triad boss. When one of these errands involves them picking up their boss’s car from the mechanic, things take a turn for the two delinquents when they accidentally hit a man walking in the middle of the road. Trying to hide their crime, Invincible & Bee bring the man’s body to the mall in order to figure out their next move. Little do they know that the man has been infected with an experimental bio-weapon that has turned him into a zombie. When the man’s corpse doesn’t stay put, it’s only a matter of time before the victims start piling up and the mall soon becomes overrun by a zombie horde trapping a group of shoppers inside. Will Invincible & Bee step up to become heroes and save the day or will their slacker nature get the best of them dooming all inside?

Directed by one of Hong Kong’s most prominent action directors, Wilson Yip (Ip Man, SPL: Kill Zone), Bio Zombie is a neon-filled zombie comedy bursting at the guts with 90s flare. Featuring a cast of likable characters lead by Jordan Chan (Young and Dangerous) and Sam Lee (Gen-X Cops) as Invincible and Bee, as well as a strong supporting cast featuring Emotion Cheung (The Demon’s Baby), Angela Tong (Honour of the Gods), and Suk-Mui Tam (Fist of Legend). Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present this gory slice of 90s nostalgia on Blu-ray for the first time, restored from studio supplied masters.

STARRING: Jordan Chan, Emotion Cheung, Sam Lee

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Blood On Méliès’ Moon (2016) (2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray) Available March 28

THE NORTH AMERICAN DISC PREMIERE OF LUIGI COZZI’S FIRST FILM IN 27 YEARS! (PLUS TWO BONUS FEATURE FILMS!)

For his first narrative feature in 27 years, the legendary Luigi Cozzi (Paganini Horror, The Black Cat) wrote, directed and stars as himself in this insane supernatural sci-fi splatter mystery: When an obsessive fan’s visit triggers a brutal murder in Luigi’s Profondo Rosso store/museum, Cozzi’s phantasmagoric freakout will include vanished inventors, alternate dimensions, cursed books, lost films, bizarre pajamas and his own reputation as ‘the Italian Ed Wood’, with appearances by Lamberto Bava, Barbara Magnolfi (Suspiria), screenwriter Antonio Tentori (Cat In The Brain), best-selling author Giulio Leoni and Dario Argento. As a bonus, this collection also includes Cozzi’s charming 2018 children’s adventure The Little Wizards Of Oz and Fantasticozzi, the revealing documentary on Cozzi’s incomparable life and career.

STARRING: Luigi Cozzi, Lamberto Bava, Barbara Magnolfi, Dario Argento

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Chucky: Season Two Available March 28

Chucky is back! The notorious killer doll continues his onslaught of terror in Season Two of the hit horror series from franchise creator Don Mancini. This season finds Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) hellbent on exacting revenge against teens Jake (Zackary Arthur), Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) and Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind), as well as his ex Tiffany (voiced by Jennifer Tilly), after they successfully thwarted his murderous plot in Season One. While Jake and Devon encounter trouble as a couple at their new Catholic school, Chucky embarks on a whole new killing spree, crossing paths with familiar franchise faces along the way.

STARRING: Zackary Arthur, Teo Briones, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Brad Dourif

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Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) Available March 28

When reports of a clawed beast cause hundreds of natives to flee their Brazilian plantation jobs, the landowners send a macho trouble-shooter aptly named Rock Dean and cancer-researching doctor Andrea Romar deep into the rainforest for a steamy odyssey of dance numbers, headhunters, blowguns, grope-happy savages and one of the most infamous monsters in horror history!

From famed writer/director Curt Siodmak – scribe of The Wolf Man, I Walked with a Zombie, and Donovan’s Brain – comes perhaps the most notorious jungle shocker of the 50s: Curucu, Beast of the Amazon! Starring 50s B-movie legend John Bromfield (Revenge of the Creature), cult movie icon, Beverly Garland (It Conquered the World), alongside Tom Payne (Love Slaves of the Amazon), Vinegar Syndrome Labs offers this criminally overlooked studio produced shocker on Blu-ray for the first time, newly restored in 2K from its completely uncensored 35mm dupe negative.

STARRING: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland

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Dead Silence (2007) (Collector’s Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray) Available March 28

YOU SCREAM. YOU DIE.

Dare to unlock the deadly curse of Mary Shaw …

From James Wan and Leigh Whannell, the horror masters behind Saw, comes a thriller of relentless terror! Ever since Mary Shaw was hunted down and killed, the small town of Ravens Fair has been haunted by horrific deaths. When a local’s wife is brutally murdered, he returns home to unravel the terrifying legend of Mary Shaw and the reason why when you see her, you should never, ever scream.

STARRING: Amber Valletta, Ryan Kwanten, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Fairman, Joan Heney

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Deep Undead (2005) Available March 28

When a pair of divers go missing near The Catfish, the notorious site of a mysterious 1920s shipwreck, a tenacious news reporter Megan Flowers (Pamela Sutch) becomes determined to unravel the mysterious connection between the divers’ disappearance and the ominous nuclear power plant located on the shores of the small coastal community. When a local, close knit group of salvage divers are enlisted to search the area, the tension mounts as the shores become awash in radioactive corpses and bloodsucking, mutant vampire humanoids!

Started in 1999 but not released on video until 2005, Saturn’s Core is proud to present the definitive release of director Dave Castiglione’s elusive, shot on video, aquatic eco-horror epic Deep Undead. An homage to the underwater creature features of the 1980’s that features a cavalcade of ‘90s SOV luminaries including Pamela Sutch (Psycho Sisters), Dawn Murphy (Backwoods Marcy), Mick McCleery (Addicted to Murder), Debbie D. (Burglar From Hell), Laura Giglio (Sorority Slaughter), & Osman Karriem (Love Is a Stranger Again), Deep Undead takes a deep dive into terror with its atmospheric scares, pulsing synth score, telepathic mutant sexcapades, and hypnotic underwater videography.

STARRING: Greg Baron, Dominic Borelli, Kimberly Bowden

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The Devil’s Game (1981) (2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray) Available March 28

WORLDWIDE DISC PREMIERE OF THE ACCLAIMED ITALIAN TV ANTHOLOGY

In 1981, RAI-TV presented six hour-long films based on stories by 19th century horror/fantasy authors from such directors as Giulio Questi (Django, Kill!), Marcello Aliprandi (A WHISPER IN THE DARK) and Giovanna Gagliardo (Street Of Mirrors), starring actors that included Veronica Lario (Tenebre), Saverio Vallone (Anthropophagous) and Stefano Madia (The Devil’s Honey). But it was the mini-series’ second episode that remains its most celebrated: The final work of legendary director Mario Bava – and the debut of his son Lamberto Bava as co-director – La Venere D’ille/The Venus Of Ille stars Daria Nicolodi (Deep Red) and Marc Porel (Don’t Torture A Duckling) in an elegantly chilling tale of supernatural love. Five episodes have been sourced from broadcast masters, with Bava’s swan song restored from a 16mm print discovered in the RAI vault by film preservationists Simone Starace and the late Michele De Angelis.

STARRING: Veronica Lario, Saverio Vallone, Stefano Madia

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The Devonsville Terror (1983) Available March 28

Nearly 300 years ago, the residents of Devonsville tortured and murdered a trio of women suspected of witchcraft. However, as they burned, the condemned women swore vengeance from beyond the grave…

The Present: Jenny Scanlon has just moved to Devonsville to take up a job as a schoolteacher. While some in the community welcome her more progressive minded approach to education, the town’s older menfolk, all descendants of those responsible for the centuries old witch-hunts, become increasingly suspicious that Jenny, along with two other liberal young women are in fact agents of Satan who have returned from hell to take revenge on behalf of the executed witches. As unexplainable events involving Jenny begin to occur, old superstitions and paranoia run amok, leading to an ever increasing threat of violence… But is the long feared curse in fact coming true?

From director Ulli Lommel (The Boogeyman) comes one of the more notorious witchcraft themed horror films of the 1980s, The Devonsville Terror. Starring, and co-written by Suzanna Love (Olivia), and featuring Robert Walker Jr. (Easy Rider), Donald Pleasence (Halloween) and character actor Paul Willson (Office Space), this unnerving study in superstition, with a touch of social commentary, builds to a legendary special effects meltdown of epic proportions. Long unavailable on video in the US, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring The Devonsville Terror to Blu-ray, newly restored in 2K from 35mm negative elements and packed with brand new interviews!

STARRING: Donald Pleasence

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Eat Brains Love (2019) Available March 28

An ordinary lunch hour explodes in an orgy of spurting blood and flying organs when stoner Jake Stephens and cheerleader Amanda Blake suddenly gut-munch half their class in the school cafeteria. Afflicted with a zombie virus, they hit the road in search of a cure while outrunning Cass, a telepath charged with hunting and killing the infected. Can Jake and Amanda find love while eating their way through the national sex offender registry? The director of IDLE HANDS delivers an outrageous, gore-soaked zom-rom-com.

STARRING: Jake Cannavale, Angelique Rivera, Sarah Yarkin

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The Exorcist III (1990) (Collector’s Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray) Available March 28

Experience William Peter Blatty’s original vision of his novel Legion with this director’s cut of The Exorcist III.

For more than fifteen years, Police Lieutenant Kinderman (George C. Scott) has been haunted by the death of his friend Father Damien Karras. Now, on the 15th anniversary of the exorcism that claimed the priest’s life, Kinderman’s world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified. It’s just the beginning of a nightmare series of bizarre religious murders.

When a psychopath claiming to be the infamous Gemini Killer admits responsibility for all the murders, Kinderman is confronted with a horrifying truth that he cannot begin to explain … the man does know intimate details that only the true killer could possibly know. There’s only one problem … the Gemini Killer died in the electric chair fifteen years ago!

The Exorcist III is author/filmmaker William Peter Blatty’s vision of what followed after The Exorcist. Also included in this set is Legion, a Director’s Cut of the film long thought lost.

STARRING: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Jason Miller, Nicol Williamson

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Flesh And Fantasy (1943) Available March 28

First, a drowning during Mardi Gras leads to a bitter woman’s masked reckoning. Next, an upstanding citizen is driven to madness and murder by a palm reader’s prophesy. Finally, a circus tightrope walker is haunted by dreams of a mysterious woman and his own death.

One of the first horror anthology films made by an American studio – and two years before Dead of Night – award-winning director Julien Duvivier (PÉPÉ LE MOKO) delivers Flesh And Fantasy, three strange and at times surreal stories of the supernatural with an all-star cast that includes Edward G. Robinson (Soylent Green), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), and Charles Boyer (Gaslight), who also co-produced. Stunningly photographed by Oscar winner Stanley Cortez (The Magnificent Ambersons, The Night of the Hunter) and lushly scored by Oscar nominee Alexander Tansman, Vinegar Syndrome Labs presents the Blu-ray debut of this landmark in 1940s genre filmmaking, newly restored in 2K and featuring insightful critical appreciations along with rare archival materials.

STARRING: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck

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The Son of the Stars (1985) Available March 28

A wild and surreal outer space adventure. A mid-80s mash-up of The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan. In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board ship to search for the missing astronaut – but fate intervenes, their own ship crashes – leaving their son alone – or is he?

STARRING: Mircea Albulescu, Mihai Cafrita, Ion Caramitru

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Skarecrow : A Curse Never Dies Available March 28

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

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