The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) (4K Ultra HD) Available December 10

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The #8 release in the Dark Force 4K ULTRA HD Platinum series is this 1975 cult classic, hilariously cheesy throwback to the giant-monster flicks craze of the 50s! In “The Giant Spider Invasion”, giant arachnids from outer space begin to invade Earth after a huge black hole appears in a farmer’s field outside a small town in Wisconsin. A NASA scientist deduces the invasion is the result of some sort of intergalactic gateway and devises a plan to stop the huge, hairy, creeping crawlers from devouring the local population.

STARRING: Alan Hale, Barbara Hale, Steve Brodie

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The Escapees (1981) (US Limited Edition Blu-ray) Available December 10

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Jean Rollin’s surreal detour into the Parisian underworld – The Escapees. Two young women escape from an asylum and find themselves drifting through a nightmarish world of burlesque troupes, lascivious sailors, and hardened criminals.

STARRING: Laurence Dubas, Christiane Coppé, Marianne Valiot, Brigitte Lahaie

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Cursed in Baja (2024) Available December 10

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Pirelli, an ex-lawman, travels to Mexico searching for the heir to a Los Angeles fortune, while confronting his own complicated past. But what he finds in Baja challenges him to the core.

STARRING: Aaron Behr, Barbara Crampton, Barry Del Sherman, Benjamin Hughes

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The Cat And The Canary (1927) (Special Edition) Available December 10

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Paul Leni (The Man Who Laughs) directs one of the most important and influential films in the early history of American genre cinema, which perfected the ‘old dark house’ formula and set the stage for the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. Twenty years after the death of millionaire Cyrus West, his surviving relatives are called together in a decaying mansion on the Hudson River. There, they gather to hear West’s lawyer Roger Crosby (Tully Marshall) read his last will and testament and discover that West has left everything to his niece Annabelle (Laura La Plante). That is, at least, on the condition that she is judged to be legally sane. As the family settles in for the evening, tensions rise when they are informed that a murderer nicknamed the Cat has escaped from a nearby asylum and is suspected to be somewhere on the grounds. Crosby soon disappears in mysterious circumstances, which proves to be just the first in a series of horrifying events that will punctuate a long, dark night of terror – during which Annabelle’s sanity will be called into question again and again. Based upon the 1922 stage production by John Willard, The Cat and the Canary is a perfect blend of horror and black comedy and stands at the apex of a cycle of films adapted from mystery plays throughout the 1920s. It later inspired James Whale’s The Old Dark House and has been remade several times – but never bettered. The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present this cornerstone of horror cinema on Blu-ray from a glorious 4K restoration.

STARRING: Creighton Hale, Laura La Plante

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Abruptio (2023) Available December 10

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Les Hackel hates his life. He works a dead-end job, was just dumped by his high-maintenance girlfriend, and still lives with his nagging mom. One night, he discovers a fresh incision behind his neck. His friend Danny tells him it’s a bomb, that someone has implanted one in his neck, too. And then the messages start coming in, forcing Les to carry out missions with deadly results. Les is partnered up with a series of oddball characters to commit heinous tasks. The violence escalating around him, Les pieces together the clues that reveal the horrific plans to breed a monstrous race of beings.

STARRING: James Marsters, Robert Englund, Jordan Peele, Hana Mae Lee

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Quadrant (2024) Available December 10

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Developed by scientists Harry and Meg, the Quadrant helmet allows your mind to transport you into a world where all your phobias and nightmares are real, while also granting you the strength to defeat them, liberating you from their control forever. But the Quadrant experiment is about to go horribly wrong. When Erin, a young girl who’s obsessed with Jack the Ripper uses the device to actually BECOME the Ripper, she unleashes a reign of terror, first in her mind in an AI version of old London created by the Quadrant, and then in reality, where she now stalks the contemporary city streets, seeking out victims for her blade. The only way to stop this savage new Ripper is for an even more vicious killer to enter the artificial Qudrant-verse and bring her down. What ensues is a brutal, bloody battle, murderer against murderer, both in this world and the surreal, dangerous, synthetic world of Quadrant.

STARRING: Christian Carrigan, Emma Reinagel, Kaylee Banhidy, Kaylene Snarsky

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Mother Mortis (2023) Available December 10

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When deranged and sadistic serial killer Mother Mortis (played by Jay Addamz) and his satanic cult embark on a rampage of torture, death and bizarre rituals in a bid to summon an interdimensional demon to devour this universe, only a rag-tag group of survivors can save us from destruction! Led by none other than Nomi Lucien (played by Holly Laura Platt), the sister of Mother Mortis, our unlikely band of misfits will try to put a stop to Mother Mortis and his murderous reign of death, depravity and terror.

STARRING: Jay Addamz, Kathy Griffiths, Holly Laura Platt

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The Maker Of Monsters (2018) Available December 10

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Legendary cult icon George Stover headlines a great cast in James Ian Mair’s old-fashioned monster film The Maker of Monsters. Depraved scientist Dr. Simon Vanard (Mark Dessauer) falls madly in love with the beautiful Lilly Struthers (Katie Harbridge), who shares a strong resemblance to his deceased wife. Upon realizing of Vanard’s intentions to marry Lilly, her fiance Derek Raines (James Ian Mair) attempts to thwart Vanard’s plans but falls victim to his fiendish experiments, which turn him into a hideous beast. Now, Derek must fight the urge to feast on human flesh in his quest to save Lilly from Vanard’s evil schemes.

STARRING: George Stover

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Killin’ Time Available December 10

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Members of the true-crime podcast, Killin’ Time, set out for a weekend in the Adirondacks to investigate the scene of the infamous Darien Cross cult killings from a decade ago. It was rumored that there was one survivor, who killed Darien, but his body disappeared, leaving no trace and was never recovered. The group has also brought along Ariella, the sister of the sole-survivor of the killings, for the adventure and fun. While the podcasters are there looking for good material for their podcast, Ariella is there to look for answers. However, the group is not alone in the woods; Mistress Morgan and her two evil bunnies have an agenda of their own and it is pure evil. As members of a coven, the women seek to resurrect Darien Cross so that he can continue his path of terror and destruction. Will Ariella find the answers she’s been looking for and have closure on the past? Will the coven resurrect a psychotic killer? Will the podcasters have content for their podcast? One thing is for sure; it’s Killin’ Time!

STARRING: Various

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Ghost Game (2024) Available December 10

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After discovering his girlfriend Laura’s involvement in an internet challenge to secretly live alongside unsuspecting residents, Vin persuades her to take him on her next adventure. They target Halton House, a notoriously haunted manor recently purchased by a new family. Upon entering, the thrill-seeking couple experiences chilling, unexplained phenomena. It quickly becomes clear they are not the only ones haunting the manor. As the new owner descends into madness and threatens the family, what began as a game turns deadly, forcing Laura and Vin to fight for their survival.

STARRING: Aidan Hughes, Kia Dorsey, Zaen Haidar

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Dariuss (2023) Available December 10

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The loss of a young girl… Her family…devastated. A remote house in the quiet English countryside of Essex… …each member of the family is affected and deals with such pain and loss differently. What such terrible tragedy can cause to an ordinary middle-class family is unbelievable. A hand camera, a woman, high heels, hair scalps and a child. An unspeakable, sickening and perverse cinematographic voyage of BLOOD and MADNESS… …like never seen before !!! Partially filmed with the use of ‘meta-cinema’ and ‘guerrilla filmmaking style’ to recreate a whole new shocking level of ultra-realism, where horror, underground and dark erotica blend together in a unique way… …where the author / director creates a ‘mirror effect’ story… …with no room for sanity. This is…DARIUSS !!!

STARRING: Ila Argento, Marie Antoinette de Robespierre, Sarah Isabèl

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Crust (2024) Available December 10

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Written by Sean Whalen and Jim Wald, Crust tells the story of a lonely laundromat owner, Vegas Winters (Whalen), who keeps the leftover socks from customers and uses them to clean himself. When he gets abused and weeps into the pile of socks, it turns into a creature who seeks revenge on Vegas’ enemies.

STARRING: Alan Ruck, Angela Grace Martin, BJ Mezek, Chanda Rawlings

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The Block Island Sound (2021) (4K Ultra HD) Available December 10

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Ecological and cosmic horror haunt the isolated Block Island Sound in this NETFLIX horror stunner! Synapse Films now brings the terrifying vision of the McManus Brothers to home video on the 4K UHD Blu-ray format with exciting special features! Something terrifying is happening off the coast of Block Island. A strange force is thriving, influencing residents and wildlife alike. Birds are dropping out of the sky and fish are mysteriously washing up on shore. As some residents are suffering from inexplicable emotional collapse, Harry Lynch (Chris Sheffield, The Stanford Prison Experiment) watches with dread as his father grows increasingly forgetful, confused and angry. Very, very angry! His sister Audry (Michaela McManus, Into the Grizzly Maze, TV’s The Orville), whose work in marine biology will soon prove invaluable, returns to town with her daughter and leads them all towards chilling revelations that will affect her family in unimaginable ways. The Block Island Sound is a hair-raising new horror creation from Kevin and Matthew McManus, Emmy-nominated writers and producers of American Vandal and Cobra Kai. Delivering thrills while touching on a range of the signature worries of our times, from conspiracy theories and climate change to unpreventable familial breakdowns, this film is a well-constructed puzzle box of a movie (Josh Hurtado, Screen Anarchy) that will haunt you long after it’s over. (Molly Henery, Blogging Banshee). Synapse Films is proud to present the world-premiere 4K UHD release of The Block Island Sound in a stunning presentation with high-dynamic range (HDR10) and eerie 5.1 surround sound.

STARRING: Chris Sheffield, Jeremy Holm, Jim Cummings, Matilda Lawler

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Golgotha Motor Mountain (Kindle) Available December 11

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By: Matthew Erman (Author), Lonnie Nadler (Author), Robbi Rodriguez (Artist)

Meet the Damnage brothers. Meth cookers by trade and mutant-killing road warriors by necessity in this graphic novel thriller! When a derelict chunk of a passing interstellar rock rains down on Elwood and Vernon Damnage’s meth lab in Golgotha Knob, Kentucky, their lives are turned into a body horror nightmare. Still needing to make their deliveries to the buyers, mutations or not, they set off down Golgotha Knob only to be beset on all sides by crazed addicts, cannibal police, and mutated Neo-Nazis. It doesn’t matter what waits at the bottom of Golgotha Knob for the Damnage brothers because they must ride through a cosmic hell that they’re unlikely to survive… But if these brothers do survive, they’ll finally have made enough money to start over in the beautiful utopia that is Cincinnati. Join superstar artist Robbi Rodriguez (Spider-Gwen) and the dynamic writing duo of Matthew Erman (Witchblood) & Lonnie Nadler (Age of X-Man) on a high-octane motor massacre!

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HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: December 6, 2024

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Here’s a review of this week’s comic and movie releases and premieres!

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Doll Parts : A Lovesick Tale #1 Available December 11

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By: Luana Vecchio (Author, Cover Art, Artist),

A twisted new entry in the LOVESICK universe from Russ Manning Award winner LUANA VECCHIO

MINISERIES PREMIERE

Twelve-year-old Madeleine dreads the idea of growing up. She fears becoming like the cruel older girls or facing the contempt of her devoutly religious mother. But most of all, she doesn’t want to become a target for the monsters that are out there, hiding in plain sight. However, a stomach-churning discovery forces Madeleine to confront the harsh reality that growing up isn’t a choice–it’s survival.

LUANA VECCHIO, winner of the 2022 Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, invites you back into the infernal world of LOVESICK to uncover the tragic origins of the dark web’s most infamous dominatrix. Part coming-of-age and part horror-thriller, DOLL PARTS is a must-read for both seasoned fans and newcomers to the twisted universe of LOVESICK, where youth and innocence are nothing more than meat for the cruel.

RETAILERS TAKE NOTE! Lunar accounts will receive a 2-sided freebie poster promoting DOLL PARTS on one side and JUVENILE on the other side.

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Creepshow 2024 Holiday Special #1 Available December 11

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By: Tini Howard (Author), Blake Howard (Author), Rob Williams (Author), Martín Morazzo (Cover Art), Pye Parr (Artist), Stevan Subic (Artist)

HAVE A HO-HO-HORRIFYING HOLIDAY SEASON!

A New Year’s Eve party gets fiendish as TINI HOWARD (Catwoman), BLAKE HOWARD (Punchline), and STEVAN SUBIC (The Riddler: Year One) will have you crying for your mummy in the new year!

Beloved comedian Terry Reno revisits a holiday classic, from the PETROL HEAD team of ROB WILLIAMS and PYE PARR, that quickly takes a shocking turn before a live studio audience!

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World Within the World : Collected Minicomix & Short Works 2010-2022 Available January 28

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By: Julia Gfrörer

Julia Gfrörer is quietly one of the most influential cartoonists of her generation. Emerging from the Portland scene at the height of the Obama era, her comics augured the dark times to come, using graphic sex, pitch-black horror, a hunger for exploring the past, and a line cruel as a whip to create her own unmistakable sense of millennial melancholy. Reflecting her DIY ethos, much of her work has only been available in self-published zines or independent anthologies, many of them rare or out-of-print — until now.World Within the World features 30 of Gfrörer’s short stories, culled from a decade of writing and drawing at the bleeding edge of the art form. Her tales of desire, despair, and the universal need for connection span centuries, continents, and cultures from prehistoric teenagers in love to Christian martyrs in the making to modern-day vampires on the make. Along the way her bold, confident work leads the reader to some unexpected places, whether erotica inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe or a post-apocalyptic parody of Frasier.In World Within the World, there is no distinction between the realistic and the fantastic, the psychological and the supernatural, the modern and the medieval, the mundane and the sublime — just the artist’s unflinching vision of how it feels to be human, no matter when or where.

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Glitch Ditch 20 Available December 3

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Glitch Ditch 20 Die Star Pictures delivers another round of unhinged insanity! Glitch Ditch 20 dives behind the scenes of Cheeseburger Clowns and beyond, unveiling an all-new collection of madness from James Balsamo’s wildest sets. Get ready for mutant tennis balls, topless enchanted creatures, and a cynical talking slice of pizza who’s got more bite than bark!

STARRING: James Balsamo

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Glitch Ditch 19 Available December 3

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Glitch Ditch 19 Die Star Pictures doubles down on the clown craziness! Glitch Ditch 19 gives you a front-row seat to the pandemonium of Cheeseburger Clowns, where no gag is too gruesome and no stunt is off-limits. Get ready for a twisted compilation of behind-the-scenes chaos featuring flaming sparklers in eye sockets, pies smushed in the faces of corpses, and a killer appearance from the one and only Strawberry Slaughter herself!

STARRING: James Balsamo

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Glitch Ditch 17 Available December 3

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Glitch Ditch 17 Die Star Pictures is back with another wild ride through the world of James Balsamo’s cinematic insanity! Glitch Ditch 17 cranks up the crazy, taking you behind the scenes of Balsamo’s most chaotic films yet. From mind-melting special effects to wild, unscripted moments, this compilation captures every outrageous blooper, bizarre creature, and insane on-set antic.

STARRING: James Balsamo

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Glitch Ditch 18 Available December 3

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Glitch Ditch 18 Die Star Pictures invites you to the ultimate clown-fueled mayhem! Glitch Ditch 18 takes you behind the scenes of Cheeseburger Clowns, where chaos reigns and the grease-painted madness never stops. Brace yourself for a compilation of insane footage featuring poison popcorn, grease-slathered clowns, and outrageous clown carnage!

STARRING: James Balsamo

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Glitch Ditch 16 Available December 3

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Die Star Pictures presents a mind-bending descent into cinematic chaos! Step behind the scenes and into the warped world of James Balsamo’s wackiest films. Glitch Ditch 16 is a madcap journey through production mishaps, monstrous effects, and enough outtakes to make even the most seasoned horror fan scream…with laughter! This compalation dives into the absurd, showcasing gory gags, glitchy effects, and a cast of unforgettable characters that somehow survived it all.

STARRING: James Balsamo

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Glitch Ditch 15 Available December 3

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Die Star Pictures is back with Glitch Ditch 15, an outrageous deep dive into the wildest, weirdest behind-the-scenes moments from James Balsamo’s most unhinged films! Ever wonder what happens when cannibals meet topless Hawalian skirt dancers? Or when pro wrestlers decide to throw punches at Balsamo on set? This chaotic madness gives you a front-row seat to all the insanity madcap stunts, unscripted chaos, and bizarre moments that have to be seen to be believed.

STARRING: James Balsamo

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Glitch Ditch 14 Available December 3

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Die Star Pictures invites you to dive headfirst into the mind-bending, laugh-out-loud world of James Balsamo with Glitch Ditch 14! This time, it’s all about fun as Balsamo pulls back the curtain on the most outrageous, offbeat, and hilarious behind-the-scenes moments from his fan-favorite films.

STARRING: James Balsamo

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