June 26, 2018
The Endless (2017) (Directed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead)
- Blu-Ray
- ACTORS: Callie Hernandez, James Jordan, Tate Ellington
- OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn’t find as young men, they’re forced to reconsider the cult’s beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.
- PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Following their Lovecraftian modern cult classic SPRING, acclaimed filmmakers Moorhead and Benson return with this mind-bending thriller that follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn’t as young men, they’re forced to reconsider the cult s beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.
- Language: English (original)
Subtitles: English SDH - DVD BONUS FEATURES:
- COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTORS & PRODUCER
- MAKING OF
- TRAILERS
- RUN TIME: 111 minutes
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- RATING: NOT RATED
- STUDIO: Well Go USA
- http://www.wellgousa.com/
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Ground Zero (2010) (Directed by Channing Lowe)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Mike Langer, Sahna Foley, D.L. Walker
- STORYLINE: Two professional ‘cleaners’ are hired to collect a frozen corpse located high in the mountains and dispose of it in an old warehouse, unaware the body belongs to political activist Darius, brutally assassinated by Nat-Tech Corp after injecting himself with a deadly virus. A swiftly-thawing, infected corpse in tow, they arrive at the warehouse to discover a group of amateur cleaners, a rising body count…and a rising corpse. Can the cleaners avert a global biological meltdown, or will Darius’ grave become Ground Zero? Blood-splattered and creepy, Ground Zero is a visceral new take on the zombie origin genre that will have you frozen with fear!
- GENRE: Horror, Comedy
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 97 Minutes
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- STUDIO: Bayview Entertainment
- http://bayviewentertainment.com/
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Cat Sick Blues (2015) (Directed by Dave Jackson)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Matthew C. Vaughan, Meg Spencer, Jeni Bezuidenhout
- STORYLINE: When Ted’s beloved cat dies, it causes a mental breakdown. Now he believes that the only way to bring back his pet is taking the lives of nine humans. So Ted dons vicious deadly cat claw gloves and a creepy cat mask, and goes on a murderous rampage. As the butchery escalates, a twisted romance blossoms between Ted and Claire, a young woman who has also recently lost her cat.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 101 minutes
- TAGLINE:
- All he needs is 9 lives.
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing/
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The Addiction (1995) (Directed by Abel Ferrara)
- Blu-ray (Special Edition)
- PRODUCER: Denis Hann, Fernando Sulichin
- SYNOPSIS: A New York vampire fights cravings for blood as she tries for her Ph.D. in philosophy.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
- TAGLINE:
- The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive.
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- STUDIO: ARROW VIDEO
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German Angst (2015)
- Blu-ray
- DIRECTORS: Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschal
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Lola Gave, Axel Holst, Michael Zenner
- STORYLINE: Acclaimed writers and directors Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall, Michal Kosakowski are back behind the camera with a supreme feature film, controversial, mystical and disturbing. With a “fil rouge” of old images of Berlin scariest architecture, the film is built around three tales. The first episode, tells the story of a young girl who lives alone with her guinea pig in a dirty apartment in Berlin… is she alone? In the bedroom lies a man, bound and gagged… The second episode tells about a powerful “if-only” scenario in which a young deaf-mute couple attacked by a group of hooligans. However, they are in possession of a mysterious talisman that could help them… In the last episode, a man stumbles upon a secret sex club that promises the ultimate sexual experience by using a drug made from the roots of the legendary Mandragora plant. The ecstatic experiences have horrific side effects…
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
- RATING: R
- RUN TIME: 112 minutes
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- TAGLINE:
- Three German tales of love, sex and death in Berlin.
- STUDIO: Artsploitation Films
- http://artsploitationfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/Artsploitation/
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Grave Robbers (1988) (Directed by Straw Weisman)
- AKA: Dead Mate
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Elizabeth Mannino, David Gregory, Lawrence Bockius, Judith Mayes, Adam Wahl, Kelvin Keraga
- SYNOPSIS: Nora Mae Edwards had always dreamed that a handsome and wealthy man would offer to marry her, but she never expected to find love while working the night shift at a sleazy diner. However, when John Henry Cox proposes to her within moments of their meeting, Nora can’t help but say yes. Whisked off to John’s hometown of Newbury to live in his family’s mansion, Nora discovers that her new husband’s profession is that of an undertaker and that the local death toll is disproportionately high. As the joys of marital bliss soon give way to increasingly violent nightmares, she begins to suspect that her seemingly gentle husband may be harboring a dark secret, especially when she learns that she’s far from the first ‘Mrs. Cox,’ but even more terrifyingly, that while her husband desires her body, he’d prefer it cold and dead… A darkly humorous and vaguely supernatural story of necrophilia, GRAVE ROBBERS is a gruesome black comedy about the meaning of love and lust after death. Written and directed by Straw Weisman (FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE), and the final producing effort from exploitation film tsar, Lew Mishkin, Vinegar Syndrome brings this direct-to-video rarity to Blu-ray, newly restored from its camera negative and fully uncut.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: R
- RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- TAGLINE:
- Don’t kiss me, I’m not dead…yet.
- STUDIO: Vinegar Syndrome
- https://vinegarsyndrome.com/
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Blood Theatre (1984) / The Visitants (1986) (BOTH Directed by Rick Sloane)
- Blu-ray
- STORYLINE: In Sloane’s 1984 debut, BLOOD THEATRE, an old movie house in which a massacre occurred decades earlier, finally re-opens only to be once again targeted by a bloodthirsty maniac intent on murdering anyone and everyone who makes the mistake of buying a ticket. Packed with low rent bloodshed, BLOOD THEATRE exemplifies the no-budget aesthetic Sloane relished and features the one and only Mary Woronov (EATING RAOUL) in a supporting role. Sloane’s second feature effort, THE VISITANTS, is set in the neon colored 1950s and chronicles the hi-jinx which ensue following the theft of a ray gun by a teenage boy from his bizarre neighbors who just happen to be aliens who have embedded themselves within a sleepy suburban neighborhood. Barely seen since their brief theatrical runs, Vinegar Syndrome presents the Blu-ray debuts of these off the wall, home grown pieces of jaw dropping mutant cinema, both newly restored from their 35mm camera negatives.
- This is a multiple-item set containing these film/programs:
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: R
- RUN TIME: 167 Minutes
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- STUDIO: Vinegar Syndrome
- https://vinegarsyndrome.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts2o89_x1VA
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Vigil (1984) (Directed by Vincent Ward)
- Blu-ray (Special Edition)
- ACTORS: Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr, Fiona Kay
- STORYLINE: Vincent Ward once described as the Antipodean Werner Herzog made his feature debut with Vigil, heralding his status as one of New Zealand s most distinctive filmmaking talents and paving the way for such equally remarkable and unclassifiable efforts as The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey and Map of the Human Heart. A stranger appears in a remote New Zealand farmland at the exact time a farmer accidentally falls to his death. The mysterious outsider grows close to some of the dead man s family, to the point where he and the widow become lovers. But her eleven-year-old daughter, Toss, struggling to come to terms with the death of her father as well as her impending womanhood, believes the intruder to be the devil and sets about protecting her family and their homestead. Propelled by Fiona Kay s outstanding performance by as Toss, she would earn a standing ovation when Vigil screened at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival the first time ever that a New Zealand feature played in the main competition.
- SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition (Blu-ray) presentation
- Original mono audio (uncompressed LPCM)
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Brand-new appreciation by film critic Nick Roddick, recorded exclusively for this release
- On-set report from the long-running New Zealand television programme Country Calendar
- Extract from a 1987 Kaleidoscope television documentary on New Zealand cinema, focusing on Vigil and Vincent Ward
- Theatrical trailer
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Carmen Gray
- RUN TIME: 90 minutes
- GENRE: DARK DRAMA
- STUDIO: Arrow Video
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088355/
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Dr. Jekyll And Mistress Hyde (2003) (Directed by Tony Marsiglia)
- DVD/CD
- ACTORS: Julian Wells, Ruby LaRocca, Misty Mundae
- NOTE: Collector’s Edition released on July 13, 2004
- STORYLINE: Dr. Jackie Stevenson (Julian Wells) is a controversial therapist who believes the female psyche consists of the ‘pure’ and the ‘lustful,’ and she has developed an experimental serum that will separate the two halves, thus freeing women from psychological and sexual inhibitions. Jackie tests the drug on a depressed young woman (Misty Mundae) who immediately becomes a maniacal love machine that ravishes Jackie in her office. Turned on by the encounter, Jackie decides to experience the effects of the drug firsthand, and it transforms her from a plain and mousy doctor into a stunning and sensuous vixen who craves endless erotic satisfaction. Stars Julian Wells, Misty Mundae and Ruby LaRocca Includes Behind-The-Scenes and a Bonus CD of the movie’s soundtrack.
- DVD Release Date: June 26, 2018
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-fi, Drama
- RUN TIME: 88 minutes
- STUDIO: Bayview Entertainment
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365137/
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A Taste of Phobia (2017) (Directed by Michael J. Epstein, Domiziano Cristopharo, Jason Impey, Sunny King, Sam Mason Bell and more!)
- DVD
- ACTORS: Roberta Gemma, Edwin Garcia, Michael J. Epstein, Mark Thompson-Ashworth, Karen Lynn
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- RUN TIME: 90 minutes
- STUDIO: Artsploitation Films
- http://artsploitationfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/Artsploitation/
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The Curse of the Cat People (1944) (Directed by Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Ann Carter, Jane Randolph, Elizabeth Russell, Eve March, Julia Dean, Erford Gage, Sir Lancelot, Joel Davis, Juanita Alvarez
- PRODUCER: Val Lewton
- SYNOPSIS: A lonely child lives in a dreamworld with her father’s dead first wife as a playmate.
- GENRE: Horror, drama
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 70 Minutes
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- TAGLINES:
- Strange, Forbidding, Thrilling
- The Black Menace Creeps Again !
- A tender tale of terror!
- STUDIO: RKO Pictures
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036733
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Ultimate Puppet Master Collectable Trunk
- Blu-ray
- SYNOPSIS: A detail replica of the mystical Andre Toulons travelling case from the Puppet Master franchise, Toulons Trunk is a stunning wood and metal-forged box set containing all 11 official Puppet Master films re-mastered on Blu-ray, a twelfth behind-the-scenes bonus disc, a mini Blade figure, collectible booklet and startling new cover artwork for each film!
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: R
- RUN TIME: 919 minutes
- RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2018
- STUDIO: Full Moon Pictures
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June 28, 2018
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017) (Directed by Derek Dennis Herbert)
- Release Date: June 28, 2018 (Limited Theatrical Release) VOD and Blu-ray/DVD on July 13th a Friday.)
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Kane Hodder, Mike Aloisi, John Carl Buechler
- OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: A Hollywood stuntman survives a harrowing childhood and near-death accident.
- GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
- RUN TIME: 108 minutes
- TAGLINE:
- He’s been beaten, bullied, and burned… And that’s just the beginning of his story
- See review here
- STUDIO: EPIC PICTURES
- https://epic-pictures.com/
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