April 10, 2018

Disembodied (Directed by William Kersten)

  • Blu-ray
  • Principal Cast: Anastasia Woolverton, Hannah Nease, James Diederichsen, Patricia Mathews, George Randolph
  • Synopsis: The story of Connie Sproutz, a likeable young woman with the sad problem of a spore-generating deformity on her face which causes difficulties in her day-to-day life such as dissolving into a gelatinous mass anyone who is to be devoured by the neural parasite that inhabits her skull, which is empty due to the fact that she stores her brain in a jar beside her bed.
  • Tagline:Deviant. Psychotic. Demented.
  • STUDIO: http://www.brinkvision.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/BrinkVision-286175572068/
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225528/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHM8I7vMI7Q

 

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Crucible of Horror (1971) (Directed by Viktors Ritelis)

 

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Superbeast (1972) (Directed by George Schenck)

 

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The Psychopath (1966) (Directed by Freddie Francis)

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, John Standing
  • SYNOPSIS: Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of the Second World War found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses.
  • GENRE: Horror, Crime, Mystery
  • RUN TIME: 83 Minutes
  • Taglines:
    • Don’t cross the path of the psychopath, unless you’re tired of it all.
    • A New Peak in Shriek!
    • Mother, May I Go Out to Kill? [USA]
  • Studio:
  • https://www.kinolorber.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/kinolorberinc/
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060866/

 

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Red Rings of Fear (1978) (Directed by Alberto Negrin)

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Killer Gimps: Sadistic Killers, Filthy Sluts, Dirty Necrophiliacs and Evil Nazis

  • SYNOPSIS: An awesome collection of seedy underground sinister and seedy tales by notorious grindhouse film makers Jason Impey and Kieran Johnston. Witness bizarre stories unfold featuring sadistic killers, crazed gimps, filthy sluts, dirty necrophiliacs and evil Nazis where each tale pays homage to the great exploitation era of cinema.
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Gimps-Sadistic-Killers-Necrophiliacs/dp/B0788XWK7Z

 

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The Ashram (Directed by Ben Rekhi)

  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Melissa Leo, Kal Penn, Sam Keeley, Hera Hillmar, Radhika Apte
  • SYNOPSIS: Fearing for his girlfriend’s safety after receiving an unsettling message from a remote Himalayan hill station, Jamie travels to her last known location in India. After following cryptic clues to an Ashram deep in the mountains, he’s surprised to find a utopian atmosphere full of people from around the world. Devotees have come to receive the blessings of a mystical guru, attesting to his healing powers and ability to reincarnate over the centuries. Jamie also observes some strange phenomenon: one morning the mountain is on the left bank of the river, the next day it is on the right. One day the river is going downstream, the next day it’s going upstream. The Guru performs displays of power that can’t be explained. As the search for his missing lover grows increasingly desperate, he discovers that the Guru’s mystical powers may have had something to do with Sophie’s disappearance.
  • GENRE: Fantasy, Thriller
  • Runtime: 85 min
  • STUDIO: Allied Vaughn
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5596104/

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Deep Red (Directed by Dario Argento)

  • 2-Disc Limited Edition
  • Blu-ray
  • YOU WILL NEVER FORGET IT!!!
  • From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some of the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red the ultimate giallo movie.
  • One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems…
  • Aided by a throbbing score from regular Argento collaborators Goblin, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso and The Hatchet Murders) is a hallucinatory fever dream of a giallo punctuated by some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer.
  • 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
    • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of two versions of the film
    • Original Italian soundtrack in lossless DTS-HD MA mono 1.0
    • Optional surround sound remix of the Italian soundtrack in lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1
    • Original English soundtrack in lossless DTS-HA MA mono 1.0*
    • English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
    • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
    • 6 postcard-sized lobby card reproductions
    • Reversible fold-out poster featuring two original artworks
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
    • Limited Edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film, and an archival essay by Alan Jones, illustrated with original archive stills
  • DEEP RED: ORIGINAL VERSION (BLU-RAY DISC 1)
    • Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative
    • Audio commentary by filmmaker and Argento expert Thomas Rostock
    • Introduction to the film by Claudio Simonetti of Goblin
    • Profondo Giallo, a new visual essay by Michael Mackenzie featuring an in-depth appreciation of Deep Red, its themes and its legacy
    • Rosso Recollections: Dario Argento s Deep Genius the Deep Red director on the creation of a giallo masterpiece
    • The Lady in Red: Daria Nicolodi Remembers Profondo Rosso
    • Music to Murder For! Claudio Simonetti on Deep Red
    • Profondo Rosso: From Celluloid to Shop a tour of the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome with long time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi
    • Italian theatrical trailer
  • DEEP RED: EXPORT VERSION (BLU-RAY DISC 2) [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]
    • Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative
    • US theatrical trailer
    • * The English audio track on the original, longer cut has some portions of English audio missing. English audio for these sections was either never recorded or has been lost. As such, these sequences are presented with Italian audio, subtitled in English.
  • Format: Anamorphic, Limited Edition, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
  • Language: Italian
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Taglines:
    • The maker of “SUSPIRIA” now takes you on a journey through the macabre, the bizarre. . . the unnatural.
    • When was the last time you were REALLY SCARED!!!? PSYCHO? The EXORCIST? JAWS? Now there’s DEEP RED.
    • You will NEVER forget it!!!
    • Flesh Ripped clean to the Bone… And the Blood Runs Red…
    • When the Screaming starts, and the Blood begins to flow… Pinch yourself and keep repeating I’M AT THE MOVIES! I’M AT THE MOVIES! I’M AT THE MOVIES! I’M AT THE MOVIES!
  • Studio: Arrow Video
  • http://www.arrowvideo.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo/
  • DVD Release Date: April 10, 2018
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Limited-Blu-ray-David-Hemmings/dp/B079B5KHQK/
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073582/

Deep Red Original Trailer (Dario Argento, 1975) Profondo Rosso:

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April 13, 2018

Marrowbone (Directed by Sergio G. Sanchez)

 

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Truth or Dare (2018) (Directed by Jeff Wadlow)

 

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Rampage (Directed by Brad Peyton)

  • Release Date: April 13, 2018
  • Official Synopsis: Primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
  • Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman
  • Runtime: 107 min
  • Tagline:
    • Big Meets Bigger
  • https://www.facebook.com/RampageTheMovie/
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2231461/

 

 

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (Directed by Beom-sik Jeong)

  • Release Date: April 13, 2018 (US)(Limited)
  • Official Synopsis: Follows the crew of a horror web show who plan to stream live from inside the asylum. To attract more viewers, the show’s host arranges some scares for the team, but as they move further into the nightmarish old building, they begin to encounter much more than expected.
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8119752/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h0eH7MRFRs://

 

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Wildling (2018) (Directed by Fritz Böhm)

  • Release Date: April 13, 2018 (VOD)
  • Official Synopsis: The story centers on young Anna (Powley), who spends her entire childhood in a single room under the care of a mysterious man (Brad Dourif) she only knows as “Daddy.” He makes her fear the Outside by telling her of the “Wildling,” a creature with sharp teeth and claws who roams about eating little children. At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Champney (Tyler) with whom she finds a temporary home. For the first time in her life, Anna experiences the Outside, but as she begins to flourish as a young woman, a series of unsettling events unfolds.
  • Stars:  Brad Dourif, Liv Tyler, Bel Powley
  • See review here
  • Studio:
  • http://www.ifcfilms.com/category/midnight
  • https://www.facebook.com/IFCMidnight/
  • Runtime: 92 min
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5085924/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAscWuXJR4g://

REVIEWED

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Party Bus to Hell (Directed by Rolfe Kanefsky)

  • Release Limited and VOD
  • Official Synopsis: When a party bus on its way to Burning Man filled with a bunch of sexy young adults breaks down in the desert and in the middle of a group of Satanic worshippers, all hell literally breaks loose. A massacre leaves seven survivors trapped on the bus, fighting for their lives while wondering if someone or someones are not what they seem.
  • Stars:  Tara Reid, Sadie Katz, Devanny Pinn, Elissa Dowling
  • See review here
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6360872/