April 16
Grave of the Vampire (1972) (Directed by John Hayes)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: William Smith, Michael Pataki, Lynn Peters
- SYNOPSIS: The vampire son of a vampire seeks his father and finds him teaching a college course.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Rated PG
- RUN TIME: 95 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Father and son–related by BLOOD! ANYONE’S BLOOD!
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
- https://www.amazon.com/Grave-Vampire-Blu-ray-William-Smith/dp/B07MJMC9RH/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068658/
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Superstition (1982) (Directed by James Roberson)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: James Houghton, Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin, Larry Pennell, Maylo McCaslin, Heidi Bohay, Billy Jacoby, Jacqueline Hyde, Stacy Keach Sr., Joshua Cadman
- PRODUCER: Ed Carlin
- SYNOPSIS: A clergyman ties a house of murder to the death-by-drowning of a 17th-century witch.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 86 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- You’ll believe it just before you die…
- …you should have believed.
- The victims who died were the lucky ones.
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
- https://www.amazon.com/Superstition-Blu-ray-James-Houghton/dp/B07MM6PGQF/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084739/
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The Manitou (1978) (Directed by William Girdler)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens, John Cedar, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Paul Mantee, Jeanette Nolan, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Mantee, Hugh Corcoran, Carole Hemingway
- PRODUCER: William Girdler
- SYNOPSIS: A psychic recruits a witch doctor to get a 400-year-old Indian medicine man off his girlfriend’s back.
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
- RATING: Rated PG
- RUN TIME: 104 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Time could not stop him. Space could not hold him. Science could not destroy him. The MANITOU…it has awakened!
- Evil does not die… It waits to be re-born!
- Possession marked The Exorcist. Demonaic Pregenacy arupted Rosemary’s Baby. Warnings followed The Omen. And The Manitou has it all combined!
- In The Grisly Tradition of ‘ALIEN’
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
- https://www.amazon.com/Manitou-Blu-ray-Tony-Curtis/dp/B07MCMJVST/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077904/
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Close Calls (2017) (Directed by Richard Stringham)
- Blu-ray Special Collector’s Edition
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jordan Phipps, Greg Fallon
- SYNOPSIS: Morgan, a troubled, drug-addled teen, must deal with her crazy grandma and a psycho caller when her father leaves her home alone. As the calls keep coming in, a paranoid Morgan is forced to face some of her worst fears and inner demons when she believes everyone she knows is either plotting against her – or trying to kill her.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 120 minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Poor Morgan. Grounded and alone. With no one to talk to but herself… and the phone.
- Experience the terror in Morgan’s head. Pray she won’t pick up the phone … and end up dead.
- STUDIO: Scream Team Releasing
- https://screamteamreleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/screamteamreleasing/
- https://www.amazon.com/Close-Calls-Special-Collectors-Blu-ray/dp/B07MT1W2BT/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5817456/
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Glass (2019) (Directed by M. Night Shyamalan)
- 4K/Blu-ray/DVD/Digital
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark, Luke Kirby, Kyli Zion, Jane Park Smith, Charlayne Woodard, Marisa Brown, Rob Yang, Shayna Ryan, Adam David Thompson, Diana Silvers
- WRITER: M. Night Shyamalan
- SYNOPSIS:
- Night Shyamalan brings together the narratives of two of his standout originals—2000’s Unbreakable, from Touchstone, and 2016’s Split, from Universal—in one explosive, all-new comic-book thriller: Glass.
- From Unbreakable, Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Joining from Split are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast.
- Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
- BOX OFFICE: $107.9 Million
- GENRE: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- RATING: Rated PG-13 (violence including some bloody images, thematic elements, and language)
- TAGLINES:
- You Cannot Contain What You Are.
- Real villains are among us. Real heroes are within us.
- The World of Superheroes will be Shattered.
- It Has Begun.
- STUDIO: Universal Pictures
- https://www.uphe.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/universalstudiosentertainment/
- https://twitter.com/UniversalEnt
- https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Blu-ray-James-McAvoy/dp/B07M6S8LYH/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6823368/
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The Samaritans (2019) (Directed by Doug Bollinger)
- VOD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Keith Collins, Timothy Laurel Harrison
- SYNOPSIS: Four co-workers get together to finish a project at their manager’s home. They haven’t actually met face to face and they discover they have more in common than the new App they are perfecting. As they piece together their histories, they realize that each of them has a deadly secret that could reveal a way out or seal their fates. Their pasts have provoked a vengeful force to show them the errors in their ways. The home they have been summoned to becomes their court and their prison. Can they prove that history doesn’t repeat itself? Can they redeem themselves before time runs out? Will they figure out their fateful bond before revenge has its way with them?
- GENRE: Horror, thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 76 Minutes
- TAGLINE: No good deed goes unpunished
- STUDIO: Cinedigm Entertainment
- https://cinedigm.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/Cinedigm/
- https://twitter.com/Cinedigm
- https://www.facebook.com/TheSamaritansMovie/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5486552/
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April 22
Growing Up With I Spit On Your Grave (2019) (Directed by Terry Zarchi)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Camille Keaton, Meir Zarchi, Eron Tabor, Ron Shetler, Gunter Kleemann
- DIRECTOR
- SYNOPSIS: For the first time ever, explore the myths behind the controversial 1978 film, I Spit On Your Grave with the all new and only feature-length documentary, Growing Up With I Spit On Your Grave. Five years in the making, Terry Zarchi’s exhaustive analysis of the history of the film, packed with never before seen footage and exclusive interviews, is what every I Spit On Your Grave fan and cinephile has been waiting for! As director Meir Zarchi himself once said of I Spit On Your Grave, this movie is indestructible!
- GENRE: Documentary, Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 102 minutes
- STUDIO: Déjà vu LLC
- https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Spit-Your-Grave/dp/B07PGXBRQ1/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3559446/
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I Spit On Your Grave (1978) (Directed by Meir Zarchi) Aka “Day of the Woman”
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace
- SYNOPSIS: Four rural louts rape a New Yorker, who makes sure they could never do it again.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 111 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- After it was all over… she waited… then she struck back in a way only a woman can!
- Day of the Woman … The ultimate day of terror!
- …An Act of Vengeance
- This woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned four men beyond recognition… but no jury in America would ever convict her! I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE … an act of revenge (US 1983 re-release)
- More devastating than Deliverance!
- STUDIO: Déjà vu LLC
- https://www.amazon.com/Spit-Your-Grave-Camille-Keaton/dp/B07PKDC64M/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077713/
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