November 20, 2018
High Voltage (2018) (Directed by Alex Keledjian)
Aka: Hollow Body
- DVD/BLU-RAY
- PRINCIPAL CAST: David Arquette, Luke Wilson, Allie Gonino, Ryan Donowho, Perrey Reeves, Erik Stocklin, Elizabeth Rice, Bekka Walker, Grace Bannon, R. Brandon Johnson, Chloe Catherine Kim, Josh Latzer, Andy Martinez Jr., Matt Pratt, Jim Titus
- WRITER: Alex Keledjian
- SYNOPSIS: An emerging rock band, managed by industry vet Jimmy Kleen (Arquette), strike a deal with record executive Rick Roland (Wilson). Things take a sinister turn when the band’s lead singer, Rachel (Gonino), and her mother, Barb (Reeves) are struck by lightning and killed. Rachel is brought back to life, but she is different than before. Lightning courses through her veins and she uses her new strange electrical powers to drain the life from men, turning it into electrifying stage performances, but just how far are the band willing to go to make it.
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 91 Minutes
- STUDIO: Echo Bridge
- https://www.facebook.com/echobridgehe
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905442/
- https://www.amazon.com/High-Voltage-David-Arquette/dp/B07GVXDD34/
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Malicious (2018) (Directed by Michael Winnick)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Josh Stewart, Bojana Novakovic, Melissa Bolona
- SYNOPSIS: When a pregnant newlywed suffers a traumatic event, she finds herself haunted – and connected – to a malicious entity that has possessed her unborn child.
- GENRE: Horror, thriller
- RATING: TV-MA
- RUN TIME: 91 minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Children are a gift from hell.
- It will take what’s most precious to you.
- STUDIO: Lionsgate
- http://www.lionsgate.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/lionsgate/
- https://twitter.com/Lionsgate
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6197494/
- https://www.amazon.com/Malicious-Josh-Stewart/dp/B07H5VWGWH/
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Luciferina (2018) (Directed by Gonzalo Calzada)
- DVD/BLU-RAY
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Sofia del Tuffo, Marta Lubos, Pedro Merlo, Vando Villamil, Malena Sanchez
- SYNOPSIS: Natalia is a 19-year-old novice who reluctantly returns home to say goodbye to her dying father. But when she meets up with her sister and her friends, she decides instead to travel the jungle in search of mystical plant. There, instead of pleasure, they find a world of Black Masses, strange pregnancies, bloody deaths and for the nun herself, a sexually violent clash with the Devil himself.
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 114 Minutes
- Press Release here
- Review here
- TAGLINES:
- Quien busca al diablo, lo encuentra. [Whoever looks for the devil, they might find it.]
- Seek the Devil, and He Will Come – Proverbs 11:27
- STUDIO: Artsploitation Films
- http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/Artsploitation
- https://twitter.com/artsploitation
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8072078/
- https://www.amazon.com/Luciferina-Blu-ray-Sofia-del-Tuffo/dp/B07FYS3MPL/
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Maniac (1963) (Directed by Michael Carreras)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse, George Pastell, Arnold Diamond, Norman Bird, Justine Lord, Jerold Wells, Leon Peers
- PRODUCER: Jimmy Sangster
- SYNOPSIS: A Frenchwoman persuades an American painter to help her blowtorch-happy husband escape.
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Crime
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 87 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- stalks his wife … his daughter … their lover!
- He Stalks His Prey!
- STUDIO: Sony Pictures
- http://www.sonypictures.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/SonyPictures
- https://twitter.com/sonypictures
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056219/
- https://www.amazon.com/Maniac-Blu-ray-Kerwin-Mathews/dp/B07HSK3H5N/
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November 23, 2018
Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital: Complete Series
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Andrew McCarthy, Ed Begley Jr., Diane Ladd, Brandon Bauer, Evangeline Lilly, Jack Coleman, Jennifer Cunningham, Meagen Fay, Lena Georgas
- SYNOPSIS: Stephen King presents Kingdom Hospital: the haunting 15-hour drama series developed directly for television by the award-winning best-selling master of horror.
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
- RATING: TV Series
- RUN TIME: 608 minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Check your pulse at the door.
- Where malevolence meets malpractice.
- STUDIO: Via Vision Entertainment
- https://viavision.com.au
- https://www.facebook.com/viavisionent/
- https://twitter.com/viavisionent/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324864/
- https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Kings-Kingdom-Hospital-Complete/dp/B07F9GGXNY/
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November 27, 2018
Brutality (2018)
Aka: Frames of Fear 2
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: George Stover, John E Seymore, Lindsey Cruz, Ashley Campbell
- DIRECTOR: Brad Twigg, Mike O’Mahony, Nathan Hine, Jim Roberts, John Ward
- SYNOPSIS: Join your inhuman host, Festering Frank, as he digs out from his grave to bring you five brand new tales of gore-soaked glory. Featuring gooey graveyards, mutilated mothers, sicko Santas and copulating carve-ups. Finally an anthology that will suck the remaining goodness right out of your soul.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Just when you thought it was safe to use the VCR.
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6495996/
- https://www.amazon.com/Brutality-George-Stover/dp/B07FNFJBSH/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZZwIOUOXw&has_verified=1
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Cold Ground (2017) (Directed by Fabien Delage)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Doug Rand, Philip Schurer, Gala Besson, Fabrice Pierre
- SYNOPSIS: 1976: Two journalists visit the French-Swiss border to investigate a series of cattle mutilations for a TV show. Once they arrive, the scientific team they were to meet has gone missing. Escorted by a British biologist and an American forensic investigator, they will go looking for the missing team deep in the mountains, but will find something ungodly that has stalked the alps for centuries.
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
- RATING: R
- RUN TIME: 86 Minutes
- TAGLINE: The lucky ones freeze to death.
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4144350/
- https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Ground-Doug-Rand/dp/B07FNLGS4Y/
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Ouija Death Trap (2014) (Directed by Todd Sheets)
Aka: Spiritis
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: William Christopher Epperson, Jessica Hopkins, Dakota Lassen, John O’Hara, Raven Reed
- SYNOPSIS: High school student Raven decides to reconnect with her elementary school friends Kota, William, and Jessica by bringing them to her new workplace, the legendary, and allegedly haunted, ShadowView Manor. They decide to attempt some amateur paranormal investigating, but after playing with a Ouija board, the teens discover that the stories are true and spirits they have awakened are very real.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- An experiment in terror.
- Once Inside, Stay Alive
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3573110/
- https://www.amazon.com/Ouija-Death-William-Christopher-Epperson/dp/B07FN621LG/
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Last American Horror Show (2018) (Directed by Michael S. Rodriguez)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Felissa Rose, Arch Hall Jr., Lynn Lowry, Robert Allen Mukes, Jim Van Bebber
- SYNOPSIS: Three terrifying tales to keep you awake all night: Night of the Sea Monkey, Lamb Feed and Homewrecked – a trifecta of 80s throwback terror with mauling monsters, home invasions gone haywire and stomach-turning human sacrifice. Features a cast of horror icons like Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Arch Hall Jr. (The Sadist) and Robert Allen Mukes (House of 1000 Corpses).
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8113950/
- https://www.amazon.com/Last-American-Horror-Show-Felissa/dp/B07FNCVKWC/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuPQSYk8Uhk
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The School (2018) (Directed by Storm Ashwood)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Nicholas Hope, Will McDonald, Megan Drury
- WRITER: Tessa Alana, Storm Ashwood
- SYNOPSIS: When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive the supernatural terror and face her own demons if she is to find the truth about where her son is.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller
- RATING: TV-MA
- RUN TIME: 80 Minutes
- STUDIO: Lionsgate
- http://www.lionsgate.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/lionsgate/
- https://twitter.com/Lionsgate
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6072502/
- https://www.amazon.com/School-Nicholas-Hope/dp/B07HBYLQJ6/
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The Little Stranger (2018) (Directed by Lenny Abrahamson)
- Blu-Ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter, Josh Dylan, Anna Madeley, Kate Phillips, Camilla Arfwedson, Amy Marston, Dixie Egerickx, Darren Kent, Lorne MacFadyen, Tim Plester
- WRITER: Sarah Waters, Lucinda Coxon
- SYNOPSIS: THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants – mother, son and daughter – are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own.
- BOX OFFICE: $0.4 Million
- GENRE: Drama/Horror/Mystery
- RATING: Rated R (some disturbing bloody images)
- RUN TIME: 112 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- These Delusions Are Contagious
- From small acorns, dark mysteries grow.
- STUDIO: Universal Pictures
- https://www.uphe.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/universalstudiosentertainment
- https://twitter.com/universalent
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6859762/
- https://www.amazon.com/Little-Stranger-Blu-ray-Domhnall-Gleeson/dp/B07GRLPQNY/
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Munchies / Munchie
- Blu-ray
- MUNCHIES (1987)
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Harvey Korman, Charlie Stratton, Nadine Van der Velde, Alix Elias, Charlie Phillips, Jon Stafford, Hardy Rawls
- DIRECTOR: Bettina Hirsch
- WRITER: Lance Smith
- SYNOPSIS: Archeologist Simon Watterman (Harvey Korman) discovers the Munchies while on an expedition in Peru. But Simon’s evil twin, food entrepreneur Cecil Watterman (also Korman), won’t let him enjoy his achievement. The snack food tycoon tries to abduct the Munchies to destroy his brother’s career and take over his property. These junk food junkies prove to be too much to handle as they begin to menace the residents of a small town in any way they can. Move over ghoulies, ghosts and things that go bump in the night! The Munchies are here, and they are bringing the fun with them!
- TAGLINES:
- They’re cute, they’re cuddly, and they’re out for blood.
- …Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Raid the Fridge!
- MUNCHIE (1992)
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Loni Anderson, Andrew Stevens, Jamie McEnnan
- DIRECTOR: Jim Wynorski
- SYNOPSIS: No friends. The new school sucks. And Mom (Loni Anderson) is in love with a sleazy lawyer (Andrew Stevens). Pretty bleak. That’s how life looks to ten-year-old Gage (Jaime McEnnan) when suddenly, into his world pops the magical Munchie (Dom DeLuise). Munchie is the ever-hungry and hilarious mysterious creature from another world who delivers flying pizzas and brings on the parties! With the help of Munchie and loonie Professor Cruikshank (Arte Johnson), Gage evens the score on his school’s bullies as well as his mom’s boyfriend and has the greatest summer ever!
- TAGLINES:
- Munchie just moved in… There goes the neighborhood.
- Mystical. Munchie!
- This is a multiple-item set containing these film/programs:
- Munchie
Munchies
- Munchie
- GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
- RATING: PG
- RUN TIME: 163 Minutes
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81GVAvw0YJ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMyGjQflNnc
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Screams of the Night (2017) (Directed by Steven M. Smith)
Aka: The Howling
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Maria Austin, Elizabeth Saint, Jon-Paul Gates, Hans Hernke, Tony Fadil
- SYNOPSIS: A local myth will be discovered to be true by a group of teenagers on a night out on remote farmland. Is there a bloodthirsty creature that has been wandering the land?
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 83 minutes
- Studio: Meridian Releasing
- https://www.meridianreleasinggroup.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/meridianreleasing/
- https://twitter.com/MeridianRG
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5694044/
- https://www.amazon.com/Screams-Night-Blu-ray-Maria-Austin/dp/B07KBR6BQ1/
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Armenian Haunting (2018) (Directed by Art Arutyunyan)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Vaneh Assadourian, Jay Dersahaglan, Kyle Patrick Darling, Chris Green, Tamara Grigorian
- SYNOPSIS: An Armenian-American journalist turns into an unwilling ghost hunter while researching the sudden deaths in her family and their connection to a paranormal mystery.
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 78 minutes
- TAGLINE: Denial is a Hundred Year Old Curse.
- STUDIO: Meridian Releasing
- https://www.meridianreleasinggroup.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/meridianreleasing/
- https://twitter.com/MeridianRG
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The Outer Wild (2018) (Directed by Philip Chidel)
- DVD/VOD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Lauren McKnight, Christian Oliver, Jeffrey Vincent Parise
- SYNOPSIS: After an unnatural event leaves mankind nearly extinct, a runaway girl and a rogue bounty hunter brave a dangerous wilderness to find a fabled sanctuary that can either save or destroy what’s left of humanity.
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 85 minutes
- STUDIO: Red Hound Films
- https://www.redhoundfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/RedHoundFilms
- https://twitter.com/RedHound_Films
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6958520/
- https://www.amazon.com/McKnight-Christian-Taranova-Jean-Louis-Stapleton/dp/B07HG8JYFC/