This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
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Sleep (2020) Available January 25
WHO PROTECTS YOU WHEN YOU SLEEP?
Nightmare and trauma. Fear and repression. Guilt and atonement. Weaving together the emotional violence of horror with the cryptic motifs of German folk and fairy tales, Arrow Video is proud to present Sleep, the debut feature from a major new talent in world cinema.
Tormented by recurring nightmares of a place she has never been, Marlene (Sandra Hüller, Requiem) cannot help but investigate when she discovers the place is real. Once there, she suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Determined to discover what happened to her, Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof), her daughter, follows and finds herself in Stainbach, an idyllic village with a dark history. What is it that so tormented her mother, and the people of Stainbach? What is the source of the nightmares she suffers? And who is the mysterious Trude that lives in the forest?
STARRING: Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Sandra Hüller, August Schmölzer
Read more “Sleep (2020) Available January 25”Space Vampire (2020) Available January 11
In Chris Alexander’s multi-media meditation on memory, isolation, identity, and bloodletting, a beautiful leather-clad humanoid (Ali Chappell) walks through a dream-world, plagued by violent visions and fragments of memories. After holing up in a monstrous home, the alien succubus flits in and out of reality, replaying the grisly murder of her doppelganger (Cheryl Singleton) while doubting her own sanity, and eventually, her existence.
STARRING: Ali Chappell, Cheryl Singleton
Read more “Space Vampire (2020) Available January 11”Killer BBQ (2019) Available January 11
A local landmark BBQ stand becomes the focus of a dogged investigation by the tenacious new female deputy when she realizes that multiple people have gone missing from the small town. She teams up with one of the town locals whose family disappeared 30 years before; and it becomes quickly evident that they might not be able to trust anyone else in town as bloody mayhem ensues.
STARRING: Rick Foster, Steve Garrison, Jason Garrison, Keandra Vance
Read more “Killer BBQ (2019) Available January 11”Harvest of the Dead: Halloween Night (2020) Available January 11
While the police are investigating a series of gory murders, young Sally Burns and her friends are preparing for a Halloween party. As the evening of fun gets underway, unbeknownst to them, the serial killer known as “The Plague Doctor” and his infected-zombie followers are preparing to join the fun.
STARRING: Dani Thompson, David Spinx, Tim Faraday
Read more “Harvest of the Dead: Halloween Night (2020) Available January 11”The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord (2020) Available January 11
On their first romantic getaway, Michael reveals to Gabby that God is speaking through him, with a warning that she will die and go to hell before the end of the weekend, unless she believes him, repents, and worships him.
STARRING: Swayde McCoy, Jordan Grier
Read more “The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord (2020) Available January 11”Fisher (2021) Available January 11
In the small town of Eden, Tennessee, a neglected and naive teenage girl named Clara Banks has made a habit of deceiving people online for gifts, a gambit known as “catfishing.” She thinks it’s all fun and games until she hooks the attention of the wrong person. A short time later, events set into motion spiral out of control as someone begins stalking Clara and her friends. As the consequences of her actions return to haunt her, twisted messages start showing up at Clara’s home, causing her to fear for her life. Will she ever feel safe again now that the evil has come knocking?
STARRING: Lilly Leann Wright, Nasim, Jessie Bell, Mia Naipaul, Blaine Rincon
Read more “Fisher (2021) Available January 11”Dead County (2021) Available January 11
Loneliness can be a killer… It’s been weeks since Wendell has talked to anybody, and even longer since he’s seen anyone… anyone who doesn’t want to eat him. Friendship is hard to come by in the best of times, but in the apocalypse, beggars can’t be choosers. So when Wendell crosses paths with Alex, who is searching for a rumored “safe zone”, the unlikely duo work together to keep their hope of survival alive — against both the living and the dead.
STARRING: Travis Caldwell, Jovan Sherrod, Kevin McComb, Everett Lauster, Amie White
Read more “Dead County (2021) Available January 11”Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997) (Extended Director’s Cut) Available January 11
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”Lantern’s Lane (2021) 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”Halloween Kills (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”Basket Case (1982) (Standard Special Edition) 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”Amityville Uprising (2022) Available January 11
A chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster in this tense action-horror thriller. As Sgt. Dash tries to keep the peace at the local police station, the explosion unleashes a toxic acid rain.
STARRING: Tank Jones, Troy Fromin, Aleksandra Hunt, Thomas Churchill
Read more “Amityville Uprising (2022) Available January 11”Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (2021) Available February 8
Survivors try to uncover the truth behind the evil Umbrella Corporation while battling bloodthirsty zombies in the wastelands of Raccoon City.
Witness the beginning of Evil. Raccoon City, which was once a booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
STARRING: Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia
Read more “Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (2021) Available February 8”Live or Let Die (2020) Available February 8
Through an outbreak of a virus, the human race has come near to extinction. The undead walks the land and hunts the living. The very few that are left, aimlessly searching for a better tomorrow. The survivor and lone wolf Nick (Jan Bohlenschmidt) finds an old diary that contains a map, his last chance for hope to a safer sanctuary. After a bloody encounter with reckless John (Manuel Urbaneck), both get together and wander through the dead and destroyed land. Day after day it’s a hard fight of survival for their own lives until they realize that only one thing is clear: among the dead the survivors are the biggest threat!
STARRING: Jan Bohlenschmidt, Steven Mooers, Alona Hertha, Michael Valentin, Heiko Schulz
Read more “Live or Let Die (2020) Available February 8”Horror From the Tomb (1973) (aka Horror Rises From the Tomb) Available February 8
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.
STARRING: Paul Naschy, Emma Cohen, Vic Winner, Helga Liné, Betsabe Ruiz
Read more “Horror From the Tomb (1973) (aka Horror Rises From the Tomb) Available February 8”Ghostriders (1987) Available February 8
An outlaw gang hanged by a posse in the late 1880s comes back from the grave to terrorize the descendants of the posse’s leader.
STARRING: Bill Shaw, Jim Peters, Carl Young, Bill Moses, David Miller
Read more “Ghostriders (1987) Available February 8”Don’t Go in the House (1979) (2-Disc Special Edition) Available February 8
2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDES 3 REMASTERED VERSIONS + NEW SPECIAL FEATURES!
More than 40 years ago, it ignited a firestorm of outrage in America and DPP 39 condemnation in the UK. Now one of the grisliest gems of the ’80s can be seen uncut and fully remastered like never before: A shy incinerator worker (an unnerving performance by Dan Grimaldi of The Sopranos) scarred by memories of his mother’s abuse begins luring women to his childhood home for incendiary torment, including ”one of the most shocking, notorious scenes in sleaze-horror history” (Mondo Digital). Director/co-writer Joseph Ellison delivers ”an underrated classic on the same level as Maniac” (Ninja Dixon), now featuring a new 2K scan from the original negative – plus the alternate TV Version and The Extended Cut combining scenes from both – with 2+ hours of exclusive Special Features.
STARRING: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci
Read more “Don’t Go in the House (1979) (2-Disc Special Edition) Available February 8”Daddy (2003) Available February 8
A small lakefront community is being plagued by a series of bizarre sexual crimes and Sylvia Carlsen, the local Sheriff is extremely upset, as all the victims are close personal friends. Her investigation uncovers disturbing revelations about long buried secrets that could destroy Sylvia and her friends. Dead memories are reborn into grisly new realities as the villagers hide their monstrous past forcing Sylvia to confront the powers that be as well as her own inner demons.
STARRING: Selia Hansen, David Shepherd, Aaron Renning
Read more “Daddy (2003) Available February 8”Bloody Mary (2022) Available February 8
A group of friends retreat to a spa get away in the mountains as a school reunion. Once there, they play a mysterious game of BLOODY MARY. Now, they must figure out a way to survive the night before their lives are taken one by one.
STARRING: Abi Casson Thompson, Sarah T. Cohen, Antonia Whillans
Read more “Bloody Mary (2022) Available February 8”Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) Available February 8
Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.
STARRING: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley, Mel Welles
Read more “Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) Available February 8”Superhost (2021) Available February 1
Two travel vloggers check into a vacation rental with a host that will do anything for a good review.
STARRING: Sara Canning, Osric Chau, Gracie Gillam, Barbara Crampton
Read more “Superhost (2021) Available February 1”Slumber Party Massacre (2021) Available February 1
A slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill disrupts the fun.
STARRING: Hannah Gonera, Frances Sholto-Douglas, Alex McGregor, Schelaine Bennett, Rob van Vuuren
Read more “Slumber Party Massacre (2021) Available February 1”Jack And Jill (2021) Available February 1
A horror retelling of the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. A group of friends grieving a recent loss meet up with one another only to discover they are being hunted by Jack and Jill.
STARRING: Sarah T. Cohen, Abi Casson Thomspon, Sofia Lacey
Read more “Jack And Jill (2021) Available February 1”Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Available February 1
From director Jason Reitman and Ivan Reitman comes the next chapter in the original Ghostbusters universe. In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather, an original Ghostbuster, left behind. The film is written by Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman.
STARRING: Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Rudd
Read more “Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Available February 1”Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection (4K Ultra HD) Available February 1
Capture all the generation-spanning ghost-trapping and slime-fighting fun with the Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection! Go back to the beginning with the classic supernatural comedies that defined a generation: Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, featuring the superstars of the supernatural battling ghosts and other spooky foes to save the world! Then experience the next chapter in the original Ghostbusters universe with Ghostbusters: Afterlife. When a single mom and her kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the legacy their grandfather left behind.
STARRING: WolfhardMckenna Grace, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Coon, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, Jason Reitman, William Atherton, Peter MacNicol, Paul Rudd, Ivan Reitman, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Rick Moranis, Finn Wolfhard
Read more “Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection (4K Ultra HD) Available February 1”Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched (A History Of Folk Horror) Available January 25
EXPLORES THE FOLK HORROR PHENOMENON AND ITS CULTURALLY SPECIFIC MANIFESTATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL HORROR, FROM ITS FIRST WAVE IN THE 1970’s TO TODAY.
It’s been hailed as ”stunning” (Diabolique Magazine), ”brilliant” (AV Club) and ”mind-blowingly epic” (Film Threat), and stands as perhaps the definitive genre documentary of our time. From writer/director/co-producer Kier-La Janisse comes ”a seductive mega-text” (Indiewire) through the history of folk horror, featuring clips from over 200 films and interviews with more than 50 filmmakers, authors and scholars that explore the rural roots, occult creeds and cultural lore that continue to shape international cinema. Severin Films presents this ”astounding achievement” (Screen Anarchy) – also featuring an original score by Jim Williams (A Field In England), animation by Ashley Thorpe (Borley Rectory) and collage sequences by Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg) – that Rue Morgue calls ”an unprecedented journey into where folk horror has been, where it’s going and ultimately what it says about humanity.”
STARRING: Various
Read more “Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched (A History Of Folk Horror) Available January 25”Wired Shut (2021) Available January 25
A disillusioned famous novelist, unable to talk while recovering in his remote mountain home from major reconstructive jaw surgery, is exposed to a life-threatening secret when he receives an unexpected visit from his estranged daughter.
STARRING: Behtash Fazlali, Natalie Sharp, Blake Stadel
Read more “Wired Shut (2021) Available January 25”Triaphilia (2021) Available January 25
In a small store filled with antiques and curiosities called The Anointed Cherub, a charming proprietor convinces customers to purchase the items he feels are perfect for them. However, what they don’t know is that each item comes with a horrible consequence. An anthology film in the tradition of “Creepshow” and “Tales from the Crypt”, Triaphilia tells the story of three items that destroy the lives of the people who purchase them.
STARRING: Katie Raulerson, Jenn Nobile, Julia Wyrzuc
Read more “Triaphilia (2021) Available January 25”Eyes of Fire (1983) (Special Edition) Available January 25
THE WORLDWIDE DISC PREMIERE OF THE LOST AMERICAN FOLK HORROR CLASSIC
In 1983, acclaimed photographer Avery Crounse made his debut as writer/director with what is considered to be the seminal American folk horror film. Misunderstood by audiences and mishandled by distributors, it has remained virtually unseen until now: On the 18th-century frontier, an adulterous preacher and his followers flee to ‘the promised land’ only to enter a valley of lust, madness, pagan vengeance and hallucinatory terror. Dennis Lipscomb (Retribution), Guy Boyd (Body Double) and Kerry Sherman (Satan’s Cheerleaders) star in this ”extraordinary horror fantasy” (The Psychotronic Video Guide) restored in 4K from the original negative with more than 2½ hours of Special Features that include the answer print of Crounse’s original cut, Crying Blue Sky.
STARRING: Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley
Read more “Eyes of Fire (1983) (Special Edition) Available January 25”