A struggling wrestler and his friends take a shortcut to the event through a corrupt town run by drugs. They quickly find themselves in the middle of a blood feud between the gang and a psychotic clown on meth.
STARRING: Donald Farmer, Chuck Conry, Korey Jordan
Read more “Chicken’s Blood (2019) Available December 14”In the aftermath of a violent tragedy, a young woman is forced to face her demons at an unusual boarding house. As she loses touch with reality, she comes face to face with the misdeeds of her sordid past.
STARRING: Siobhan Williams, Michael Eklund, Agam Darshi
Read more “Bright Hill Road (2020) Available December 12”The world has moved on, but he’s still out there. Since the 1970s he has roamed the countryside, watching…and waiting. He has been sighted several times over the last few decades and this all-new docudrama chronicles these true events that occurred throughout the Midwest. Featuring interviews and locations from the real encounters.
STARRING: Allison Scott II, Christina Marie Leonard, Karrie Bauman
Read more “Bigfoot Creek Available December 14”A Paranormal Investigation Like No Other!
Horror Icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII,VIII,IX,X, Hachet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they investigate The Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina. The Grand Old Lady Hotel is a 112-year-old, 40,000 square foot hotel with a disturbing past. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, the hotel is referred to by locals as the south’s Stanley Hotel.
STARRING: Kane Hodder, Mark A. Richardson, Amanda Hannah
Read more “Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation (2021) Available December 14”A group of female campers at Red Moon Lake are slowly turned into vampires as the ancient roots of the infamous Amityville curse are revealed to hold a legacy of evil that no one imagined.
STARRING: Jose Acain, Sean Fabian Billings, Anthony Dearce
Read more “Amityville Vampire (2021) Available December 14”Feature adaptation of the video game where werewolves attack a small town.
STARRING: Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil
Read more “Werewolves Within (2021) Available December 7”A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND’S LAST MOVIE – ABOUT HUMANKIND’S FIRST MISSING LINK ENCOUNTER.
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest. Few claim to have seen these links to our primitive past. But when a wild half-man/half-ape emerges from his countryside cave, TV cameras are there to observe the event – and the ensuing terror!
People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller known as the troglodyte. To a determined anthropologist (Joan Crawford in her final film role), he’s the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he’s walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped – all after local resident Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage. In true horror tradition, the world’s Murdocks leave no doubt who the real savages are … but what will become of he who is part-man, part-monster, all Trog!
STARRING: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Read more “Trog (1970) Available December 7”This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “November 30, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”Another SRS Retro Release!! No one will ever be able to forget the unspeakable atrocities committed one dark midnight at the Barnes farmhouse. Now, years later, Abraham (Matthew Jason Walsh), the last surviving member of the crazed family, has taken up residence in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Armed with a video camera and his various implements of death, he stalks the streets of the city to satisfy his bloodlust…searching the psyches of his victims for his perfect mate. Enter Rebecca (Jo Norcia), a beautiful young bank teller who has unwittingly come under Abraham’s deadly camera lens. With the help of a hard-boiled police detective (Chuck Pierce), she may be able to solve the murder of her best friend…or become the ultimate sacrifice in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. From writer/director John A. Russo (Heartstopper, Night Of The Living Dead) comes a suspense-filled, nightmarish voyage through the mind of a serial killer…a voyage that leads straight into the heart of Midnight 2: Sex, Death And Videotape!
STARRING: Matthew Jason Walsh, Jo Norcia, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Read more “Midnight 2: Sex, Death & Videotape (1993) Available December 10”While logging video tapes of decades old TV broadcasts, college graduate James is propelled into a terrifying investigation when he comes across a surreal and disturbing video clip of what appears to be an imprisoned android. Evidently the product of a mysterious broadcast signal hacking, his discovery takes a sinister dread-filled turn when James tracks down similar, previously unseen broadcast intrusions that send him on a furious and obsessive pursuit across the country. Now James must confront two very real possibilities: that the videos may be clues to a crime beyond all comprehension; and that whoever was behind them may be very aware that James is coming uncomfortably close to the truth.
STARRING: Harry Shum Jr, Kelley Mack, Anthony E. Cabral
Read more “Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) Available December 7”When the Angel of Death impregnates a mortal woman, the dead cease to die and the world becomes inexplicably populated by morose and disenfranchised zombies whose primary desire is to co-exist with the living during their never ending plight on Earth. Determined to traverse through this dystopian landscape and return home to her boyfriend, the gun-toting Susan runs afoul of a car-jacking, undead religious cult led by a mysterious zealot known only as The Preacher Man. With suicide now a pathway to eternal youth, Susan must grapple with her own mortality after discovering that her lover has gone through an ominous transformation of his own in her absence.
STARRING: Stark Raven, Robert Welles, Marina Del Rey, Flora Fauna, Daniel “Smalls” Johnson
Read more “Shatter Dead (1994) Available November 30”It rains heavily in Montevideo on a Sunday in 1993. A particularly suspicious man enters the last screening of a horror film at a downtown cinema. The room, which is not very crowded due to the storm outside, slowly starts to get stained with blood.
Ana, the projectionist’s daughter, who has taken her father’s place just for the night, is in charge of the show. In the darkness of the cinema, the spectators fall one by one into the hands of the killer. From the projection room, Ana begins to notice that something strange is happening. A teenager and a boy who slipped into the room meet Ana as they try to escape. Together they must face this sadistic and ruthless killer to save their lives and avoid a massacre in the matinee.
STARRING: Ricardo Islas, Luciana Grasso, Franco Duran, Julieta Spinelli
Read more “The Last Matinee (2020) Available November 30”Live-in nurse Maud (Morfydd Clark) arrives at the home of Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), a famous dancer now frail from illness and trapped in her grand, isolated house. At first Amanda is intrigued by this religious young woman, who provides distraction from her failing health. Maud, in turn, is bewitched by her new patient. But Maud is not all that she seems. She is tormented by a violent secret from her past and by ecstatic messages she believes are directly from God. She becomes convinced she has been sent to Amanda not simply as a nurse, but to serve a divine purpose. As her grip on reality slides out of control, Maud’s care turns into a deadly mission to save Amanda’s soul, by any means necessary.
STARRING: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, Marcus Hutton
Read more “Saint Maud (2019) Available November 30”Malignant marks director James Wan’s return to his roots with this new original horror thriller. In the film, a woman is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.
STARRING: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michole Briana White
Read more “Malignant (2021) Available November 30”Immediately after completing Flesh For Frankenstein, writer/director Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier created what remains sumptuously depraved Euroshocker, cunning political allegory and wickedly funny horror that obliterates the line between art and bad taste (Pop Culture Beast): Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula – Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls one of cinema’s Top 5 best Draculas – journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro of Morrissey’s Flesh, Trash and Heat). Stefania Casini (Suspiria) and Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica co-star – with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski – in one of the most unique vampire films in history (Oh! The Horror), now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative for the first time ever.
STARRING: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica
Read more “Blood For Dracula (1974) (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD – 3-Disc Special Edition) Available January 25”This week’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases!
Read more “November 23, 2021: Weekly Horror Releases”After unexpectedly, and mysteriously, inheriting his estranged grandmother’s mansion, Stanley DeFeo finds himself in the small town of Amityville – surrounded by buried family secrets and a sinister plot against him.
STARRING: Chance Gibbs, Micha Marie Stevens, Tom Young
Read more “Amityville Cult (2021) Available December 7”Live-in nurse Maud (Morfydd Clark) arrives at the home of Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), a famous dancer now frail from illness and trapped in her grand, isolated house. At first Amanda is intrigued by this religious young woman, who provides distraction from her failing health. Maud, in turn, is bewitched by her new patient. But Maud is not all that she seems. She is tormented by a violent secret from her past and by ecstatic messages she believes are directly from God. She becomes convinced she has been sent to Amanda not simply as a nurse, but to serve a divine purpose. As her grip on reality slides out of control, Maud’s care turns into a deadly mission to save Amanda’s soul, by any means necessary.
STARRING: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, Marcus Hutton
Read more “Saint Maud (2019) Available November 30”Malignant marks director James Wan’s return to his roots with this new original horror thriller. In the film, a woman is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.
STARRING: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michole Briana White
Read more “Malignant (2021) Available November 30”Immediately after completing Flesh For Frankenstein, writer/director Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier created what remains sumptuously depraved Euroshocker, cunning political allegory and wickedly funny horror that obliterates the line between art and bad taste (Pop Culture Beast): Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula – Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls one of cinema’s Top 5 best Draculas – journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro of Morrissey’s Flesh, Trash and Heat). Stefania Casini (Suspiria) and Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica co-star – with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski – in one of the most unique vampire films in history (Oh! The Horror), now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative for the first time ever.
STARRING: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica
Read more “Blood For Dracula (1974) (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD – 3-Disc Special Edition) Available November 30”After a deadly experiment on a rat goes wrong, the mutated rat has been let loose in a city and a group of detectives are on the hunt for the beast. As the body count rises, no one is safe, and the rat is growing at a rapid pace!
STARRING: Ricardo Freitas, Amanda-Jade Tyler, Abi Casson Thompson, James Robertson
Read more “The Mutation (2021) Available November 23”After being released from an institution, a young woman (Zohra Lampert) is brought by her husband (Barton Heyman) to a Connecticut farmhouse for a therapeutic change of scenery. However, starting with the odd young woman (Mariclare Costello) they find squatting within-and allow to stay-disturbing phenomena crop up that threaten to break her tenuous grip on sanity. Kevin O’Connor, Alan Manson co-star in this chiller directed by John Hancock (“Bang the Drum Slowly”). 88 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English LPCM stereo; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; interviews; featurette; TV spots; radio spots. Region Free
STARRING: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O’Connor, Gretchen Corbett, Alan Manson
Read more “Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) (Import) Available November 26”When Ben Dollarhyde is accused of murder, saying he was possessed by a demonic force, Steven Caramore investigates his friend’s claims, setting off a chain of events that forces a young family into a terrifying battle for survival.
STARRING: Corey Johnson, Oded Fehr, Anya Newall, Alexandra Gilbreath, Aislinn De’ath
Read more “Lair (2021) Available November 23”A Hotel hallway is ravaged by a mysterious virus forcing pregnant tourist Naomi to crawl her way past other victims, crossing paths with Val – a mother separated from her daughter.
STARRING: Carolina Bartczak, Yumiko Shaku, Julian Richings, Bailey Thain, Mark Gibson
Read more “Hall (2020) Available November 23”She drained them of their manhood – and then of their LIVES! Legendary Hollywood goddess, Ava Gardner (One Touch of Venus) delivers a mesmerizing performance in director Roddy McDowall’s wickedly suspenseful tale of decadent young thrill-seekers and the sinister seductress who holds them spellbound. The top-notch cast includes Stephanie Beacham (TV’s The Colbys, Dynasty), Cyril Cusack (Fahrenheit 451), Richard Wattis (The Importance of Being Earnest) and Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous). Acting great Roddy McDowall’s one and only directorial effort. Beautifully shot in scope by Billy Williams (Gandhi). Special Features and Technical Specs: 1080p High definition presentation; NEW Audio Commentary from author and journalist Dr Adam Scovell; NEW Audio Commentary with film historians Vic Pratt and Will Fowler; NEW Interview with Ian McShane; NEW Interview with Stephanie Beacham; NEW Interview with Cinematographer Billy Williams; NEW “Tam Lin & the representations of the witch in film” Visual Essay from author Kat Ellinger; More extras to be announced!; Introduction by Director Roddy McDowall; LPCM 1.0 audio; Aspect Ratio 2.35:1; Trailer; English subtitles; Limited Edition slipcase on the first 2000 copies with unique artwork.
STARRING: Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Stephanie Beacham, Cyril Cusack, Richard Wattis
Read more “Tam Lin (aka The Devil’s Widow) (1970) (Import) Available November 26”What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios’ much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)? The answer is 1968’s The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, a fantastically phantasmagorical slice of twisted tokusatsu terror ostensibly made for children that will irreparably traumatize any child that sees it!
A young girl named Sayuri is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphanage – but trouble lurks within the walls of the large family home. Her mother is an amnesiac after a car accident six months earlier, her sullen sister is confined to the attic and a young housemaid dies inexplicably of a heart attack just before Sayuri arrives… is it all connected to her father’s work studying venomous snakes? And is the fanged, serpentine figure that haunts Sayuri’s dreams the same one spying on her through holes in the wall?
Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut and its home video premiere outside Japan, this rarely-screened, nightmarishly disorienting creepshow not only displays a seldom-seen side of kaiju auteur Yuasa, but its skilful blending of Umezu’s comics (published in English-language markets as Reptilia) arguably anticipates many of the trends seen in J-horror decades later.
STARRING: Yûko Hamada, Kazuo Umezu, Mariko Fukuhara, Kuniko Miyake, Mayumi Takahashi
Read more “The Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch (1968) (Special Edition) Available November 23”With numerous interpretations of Gaston Leroux’s classic novel The Phantom of the Opera having been turned out over the years, it was only a matter of time before the slasher genre decided to take a stab at the tale – step forward 1989’s Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge!
High school sweethearts Eric Matthews and Melody Austin are so in love, but their youthful romance is cut tragically short when Eric apparently dies in a fire that engulfs his family home. One year later and Melody is trying to move on with her life, taking up a job at the newly built Midwood Mall along with her friends. But the mall, which stands on the very site of Eric’s former home, has an uninvited guest – a shadowy, scarred figure which haunts its airducts and subterranean passageways, hellbent on exacting vengeance on the mall’s crooked developers.
Directed by Richard Friedman (Scared Stiff, Doom Asylum), and featuring star turns from Pauly Shore and Morgan Fairchild, Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge swoops onto Blu-ray in an extras-packed edition which proves that Arrow Video’s love for ’80s slasher fare never dies!
STARRING: Derek Rydall, Pauly Shore, Ken Foree, Rob Estes, Morgan Fairchild
Read more “Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge (1989) (2-Disc Limited Edition) Available November 23”Prepare for the chill of a lifetime as the master of suspense, Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone), hosts every spine-tingling episode from the complete first season of Night Gallery. Thrill to stories performed by Hollywood greats including Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis, Larry Hagman, Diane Keaton, Roddy McDowall, Burgess Meredith and Agnes Moorehead, and directed by cinematic masters like Steven Spielberg (Jaws) in this unforgettable series—available for the first time in HD, from 2K scans of the interpositives! Night Gallery: Season 1 also features top-notch direction by acclaimed filmmakers Daryl Duke (The Silent Partner), Boris Sagal (The Omega Man), Barry Shear (Across 110th Street), Jeannot Szwarc (Jaws 2), Don Taylor (The Island of Dr. Moreau) with wonderful performances by John Astin, Diane Baker, Martine Beswick, Tom Bosley, Jack Cassidy, Godfrey Cambridge, Bert Convy, Phyllis Diller, Louis Hayward, George Macready, Raymond Massey, Joanna Pettet, John Randolph, Barry Sullivan, Torin Thatcher, William Windom & many others.
STARRING: Rod Serling, Joan Crawford, Roddy McDowall
Read more ““Night Gallery” Season 1 Available November 23″Bludgeoned by an unknown assailant, popular novelist John Morlar (Richard Burton) lies comatose in a London hospital. Investigating detective Brunel (Lino Ventura) learns that Morlar believed that he had incredible telekinetic powers. A madman’s delusion? As the world is rocked by a string of inexplicable disasters, the detective starts having his doubts! Fantastic chiller from Peter Van Greenaway’s novel co-stars Lee Remick, Harry Andrews. 109 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English LPCM stereo; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; visual essy; theatrical trailer. Region Free.
STARRING: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Marie-Christine Barrault
Read more “The Medusa Touch (1978) (Import) Available November 26”In lockdown, the ghost of a notorious serial killer is back prowling for young women isolated and alone. Can paranormal experts and detectives prevent more terrorised young women from becoming further victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?
STARRING: Tony Todd, Angela Dixon, Heather Peace
Read more “The Lockdown Hauntings (2021) Available November 23”
