May 14
The Chosen (1977) (Directed by Alberto DeMartino)
Aka: Holocaust 2000
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Kirk Douglas, Agostina Belli, Simon Ward, Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna, Alexander Knox
- SYNOPSIS: A designer of nuclear-power plants learns his son is the Antichrist and a big fan of fission.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 102 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- He will destroy the world. No man can stop him. No man will even try. He is The Chosen.
- The nightmare will be real
- The world will be destroyed in a rain of fire. It is written.
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
- https://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Blu-ray-Kirk-Douglas/dp/B07NN68HFM/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077332/
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Eyes Of Laura Mars (1978) (Directed by Irvin Kershner)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois, Raul Julia, Frank Adonis, Lisa Taylor, Darlanne Fluegel, Rose Gregorio, Bill Boggs, Steve Marachuk, Meg Mundy, Marilyn Meyers, Michael Tucker
- PRODUCER: Jon Peters
- SCREENWRITER: John Carpenter
- SYNOPSIS: A New York fashion photographer foresees her friends brutally slain, from the killer’s perspective.
- GENRE: Mystery, Thriller
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 104 Minutes
- STUDIO: Mill Creek Entertainment
- https://www.millcreekent.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/MillCreekEnt
- https://twitter.com/millcreekent
- https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Laura-Mars-Blu-ray-Dunaway/dp/6317752974/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/
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The Devil’s Nightmare (1971) (Directed by Jean Brismee)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Erika Blanc, Jean Servais, Daniel Emilfork
- SYNOPSIS: Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins.
- GENRE: Horror, Fantasy
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 95 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Can You Be Possessed By The Devil?
- EXORCISM! The one last hope for the possessed … But this time the devil wins!
- Nothing Can Prepare You For What Happens!
- Devil’s Nightmare will leave its Mark on you!
- Seven deadly sins…seven people who committed them. Now watch them pay the consequences — sin by sin by sin.
- Would you sell your soul for a woman? He did!
- STUDIO: Mondo Macabro
- https://www.mondo-macabro.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/mondomacabrodvd
- https://twitter.com/MondoMacabroUSA
- https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Nightmare-Blu-ray-Erika-Blanc/dp/B07PRZJ443/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067592/
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Link (1986) (Directed by Richard Franklin)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp, Steven Pinner
- SYNOPSIS: A British scientist and his helper study trained chimps: Voodoo, Imp and the silent but deadly Link.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 103 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Man is no longer in control!
- For thousands of years man has enslaved the ape. Now, the tables are about to turn…
- An Experiment In Terror!
- When Man was given mastery over the beasts, someone forgot to tell…
- STUDIO: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- https://www.klstudioclassics.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorberStudioClassics/
- https://twitter.com/KLStudioClassic
- https://www.amazon.com/Link-Special-Blu-ray-Elisabeth-Shue/dp/B07P83ZXSL/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091415/
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Killing Spree (1987) (Directed by Tim Ritter)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone
- SYNOPSIS: Reading his wife’s racy journal sends a Florida man off on a manic course of mayhem.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 103 Minutes
- STUDIO: SRS Cinema
- https://srscinemastore.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/srscinemallc/
- https://twitter.com/SRSCinema
- https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Spree-Blu-ray-Asbetos-Felt/dp/B07MCXWNY2/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093346/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y1-nnSI7S4
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Happy Death Day 2U (2019) (Directed by Christopher Landon)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jessica Rothe, Ruby Modine, Israel Broussard, Suraj Sharma, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Steve Zissis, Caleb Spillyards, Sarah Yarkin, Laura Clifton, Wendy Miklovic, GiGi Erneta, Phi Vu, Tenea Intriago, Kaleb Naquin
- SYNOPSIS: Jessica Rothe leads the returning cast of HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U, the follow-up to Blumhouse’s (Split, Get Out, The Purge series) surprise 2017 smash hit of riveting, repeating twists and comic turns. This time, our hero Tree Gelbman (Rothe) discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.
- BOX OFFICE: $28 Million
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
- RATING: Rated PG-13 (violence, language, sexual material and thematic elements)
- RUN TIME: 100 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Death makes a killer comeback.
- Same Day, New Killer.
- STUDIO: Universal Pictures
- https://www.universalpictures.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/universalstudiosentertainment
- https://twitter.com/universalpics
- https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Death-Day-2U-Blu-ray/dp/B07NB8XR3K/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8155288/
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Mortuary (2005) (Directed by Tobe Hooper)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Dan Byrd, Denise Crosby
- SYNOPSIS: When the Doyle family moves to a small town in California, they plan on starting a new life… perhaps a strange choice, seeing as this new life entails running the long-abandoned Fowler Funeral Home and cemetery. The locals fear the place, and there are whispers around town that not only are the grounds haunted, but that the Fowler boy, who wore a burial shroud to hide his hideously deformed face, still lives in one of the tombs there. The Doyles discover all too soon that the gossip is true. Something lurks beneath the Fowler estate–something that raises the dead from long-forgotten graves…something that feeds upon death itself.
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 94 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- When the dead break free all hell breaks loose
- From the master of horror Tobe Hooper director of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Poltergeist”
- STUDIO: Filmrise
- http://filmrise.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/FilmRise/
- https://twitter.com/filmrisetv
- https://www.amazon.com/Mortuary-Blu-ray-Dan-Byrd/dp/B07MCW57M4/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415167/
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A Killer Awaits (2010) (Directed by Charles Peterson)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Matt Robinson, Lanny Rethaber, Sallie Glaner
- SYNOPSIS: Witnessing the murder of your father at the hands of your own drug addict mother can take its toll. Jason tries to live a normal life, but like a soldier with PTSD it’s not so easy when you’ve been traumatized to the core. When people connected to him start getting gruesomely picked off one by one, Jason battles personal demons that may be behind the reasons he’s the number one suspect in a killing spree that has even the homicide division in disbelief.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
- STUDIO: World Wide MultiMedia
- http://www.worldwidemultimedia.net/
- https://twitter.com/Distribution007
- https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Awaits-Matt-Robinson/dp/B07MTJLX8D/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbYLSCvYxMg
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The Jinx (2017) (Directed by Prince)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Kanak Pandey, Ravikant Singh
- SYNOPSIS: Paranoia and mayhem at once strikes Maya when she moves into her new apartment in India. Not even her husband seems to be able to help her wake up from this nightmare.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 118 Minutes
- STUDIO: SMG Films
- https://www.shamimediagroup.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/SMGmovies
- https://twitter.com/ShamiMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/Jinx-Kanak-Pandey/dp/B07MGJ6WJM/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6634944/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LenoOIu2BxA
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Jack Hunter’s Paranoia Tapes 2: Press Play (2018)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jennifer Nangle, Jack Saint Hunter, Brad Ryal
- DIRECTORS: Steven Daemers, Stephen Gallen, Douglas A. Plomitallo, Maurice Hooks, Brad Ryal
- SYNOPSIS: In this sequel to Jack Hunter’s PARANOIA TAPES, we join Chase to find the missing pieces of what went wrong in the events of the first film. Chase, who is another personality of Henry’s, decides to look at other Tapes that were hidden within Henry’s house. He desperately searches for answers and clues to find out who he is and if in fact, Chase is the real personality and that Henry was the psychotic one. With each tape that is played, we realize there is a bigger picture than what we realized. Featuring segments from all over the world including Belgium and Japan while also showing segments from several YouTubers who wanted to make their name in the independent found footage community. Each short was written and based on actual events. Some of the shorts shown are in fact, the real deal with no special effects or altered footage. This movie will make you forget about the first one and will make you want more from Jack Hunter and the team at Southern Sykos Productions.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 99 Minutes
- TAGLINE: On This Film, Fear Is The Reality
- STUDIO: SMG Films
- https://www.shamimediagroup.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/SMGmovies
- https://twitter.com/ShamiMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Hunters-Paranoia-Tapes-Press/dp/B07MTJLX8C/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7160284/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSVNlUV2RIk
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Jack Hunter’s Paranoia Tapes 3: Siren (2018)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jack Hunter, Grace Brandt, Celia Searles
- DIRECTORS: Annie Alfiero, Jack Hunter, Ashlee Kate Robertson
- SYNOPSIS: Join Jack Schudy and his friends in search of a local legend. As future filmmakers, they decide to make a school project based on their town’s history of horror. As they dive into the legend, things start to become more and more realistic and horrifying than they ever realized. Is this urban legend a hoax? Or is this an urban legend that cringe your every sense?
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 84 Minutes
- TAGLINE: You Can’t Always Turn Back Reality!
- STUDIO: SMG Films
- https://www.shamimediagroup.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/SMGmovies
- https://twitter.com/ShamiMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Hunters-Paranoia-Tapes-Siren/dp/B07MGJ6SY2/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7892584/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMFUCR_Q-Rc
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Jack Hunter’s Paranoia Tapes 4: Kennel House (2018)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Nathan Cox, Conor Roberts, Alison Curtis
- DIRECTORS: Nathan Cox, Jack Saint Hunter
- SYNOPSIS: Following the Paranoia tradition, join two friends on a suspenseful journey into a town legend of an abandoned house called Kennel House. While trying to make a documentary they soon realize that making a movie has a certain price… Stop recording and run!
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 78 Minutes
- TAGLINE: You Can’t Skip To The Future
- STUDIO: SMG Films
- https://www.shamimediagroup.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/SMGmovies
- https://twitter.com/ShamiMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Hunters-Paranoia-Tapes-Kennel/dp/B07MMP4FMD/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7901274/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGUnow8lyKc
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Extreme Horror Video Vault
- DVD
- SYNOPSIS: From the darkest corners of the underground comes a collection of deeply depraved tales that are guaranteed to get you crawling out of your skin. Fearless crazed killers, demonic spirits from hell, deranged perverts and satanic Santa’s are on their own mission to find the ultimate climax to get their kicks. Roll the dice, and hit 21 with this awesome anthology of horror drenched, cult cinema sickness. Watch at your own risk! Not for the Squeamish!
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 120 minutes
- STUDIO: World Wide MultiMedia
- http://www.worldwidemultimedia.net/
- https://twitter.com/Distribution007
- https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Horror-Video-Vault-Various/dp/B07MQXZHCQ/
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Don’t Look (2018) (Directed by Luciana Faulhaber)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Luciana Faulhaber, Jeff Berg, Hailey Heisick, Lindsay Eshelman, Javier E. Gomez
- SYNOPSIS: Five friends from New York City embark on a rural getaway for a holiday vacation, but they soon find themselves being targeted by a local, murderous psycho, who may have connections to the group. A modern, female-directed twist on classic 1980s slasher films.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 71 Minutes
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Look-Luciana-Faulhaber/dp/B07MK45L3C/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3070506/
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Boo! (2019) (Directed by Luke Jaden)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jaden Piner, Rob Zabrecky, Aurora Perrineau, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Dwight Henry, Jill Marie Jones
- WRITERS: Luke Jaden, Diane Michelle
- SYNOPSIS: One night, a struggling family’s true test arrives: left on their doorstep is a strange Halloween game that, as legend has it, leaves a curse on those who choose not to play. Unfortunately, that’s the choice they make — and evil spirits of all kinds are ready to make them pay.
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 91 Minutes
- TAGLINE: You’ve been chosen.
- STUDIO: Lionsgate
- https://www.lionsgate.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/lionsgate/
- https://twitter.com/lionsgate/
- https://www.amazon.com/Boo-Luke-Jaden/dp/B07PPQ9K6R/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7235038/
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Masked Mutilator (2019) (Directed by Jeff Beltzner)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: James DeBello, Glenn Hetrick, Brick Bronsky, Jeff Sibbach, Doug ‘Flex’ Yasinsky
- SYNOPSIS: In 1994, a production team in Eastern Pennsylvania brought together a group of local pro wrestlers and young actors to make a horror-action film. A quarter of a century later, the movie was finally finished: After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, a professional wrestler takes a job at a group home for youth offenders. But when a psychopath wearing a wrestling mask begins butchering the teenage residents, their rehabilitation will become a no-holds-barred battle for survival.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 78 Minutes
- STUDIO: Severin Films
- https://severin-films.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/severinfilms
- https://twitter.com/severinfilms
- https://www.amazon.com/Masked-Mutilator-Blu-ray-James-DeBello/dp/B07QLB6PS7/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9736774/
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Saint Bernard (2013) (Directed by Gabriel Bartalos)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jason Dugre, Katy Sullivan, Peter Iasillo Jr., Warwick Davis, Bob Zmuda
- SYNOPSIS: His award-winning FX career spans both grindhouse (BRAIN DAMAGE, FRANKENHOOKER, the LEPRECHAUN series) and art-house (Matthew Barney’s CREMASTER CYCLE). Now writer/producer/director Gabe Bartalos brings his own years-in-the-making vision to the screen, as an unhinged orchestra conductor named Bernard (Jason Dugre of Bartalos’ SKINNED DEEP) graphically descends into a surreal odyssey of chaos, psychosis and “f*cked-up sh*t that looks cool as hell” (Bloody-Disgusting.com). Warwick Davis (WILLOW) and notorious Andy Kaufman cohort Bob Zmuda (MAN ON THE MOON) co-star – with a performance by punk legends The Damned – in this “must-see for the truly adventurous” (UnseenFilms.net), transferred from the original negative and unleashed beyond the underground festival circuit for the first time ever.
- GENRE: Horror, Fantasy
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 99 Minutes
- STUDIO: Severin Films
- https://severin-films.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/severinfilms
- https://twitter.com/severinfilms
- https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Bernard-Blu-ray-Jason-Dugre/dp/B07QPCGWFL/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3327086/
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Quatermass And The Pit (1967) (Directed by Roy Ward Baker)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Grant Taylor, Maurice Good
- PRODUCER: Anthony Nelson Keys
- SYNOPSIS: Professor Quatermass finds dead insect men in a martian spaceship unearthed in the London subway.
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 97 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- All Earth Stands Helpless! Spawned in the depths of outer space — a monster so horrible, so vicious, so incredible — even when you see it you won’t believe it could be! (U.S. poster)
- Force more powerful than 1,000 H-Bombs unleashed to devastate Earth! World in panic! Cities in flames!
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
- https://www.amazon.com/Quatermass-Pit-Blu-ray-Andrew-Keir/dp/B07NNMJK3J/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/
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Quatermass 2 (1957) (Directed by Val Guest)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Brian Donlevy, Michael Ripper, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, John Longden, Vera Day, William Franklyn
- SYNOPSIS: British Dr. Quatermass finds a colony of pressure domes built by aliens who are taking over officials. Also known as “Enemy From Space.”
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 85 Minutes
- TAGLINE: A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!
- STUDIO: Starz/Anchor Bay
- http://anchorbayent.com/
- https://twitter.com/Anchor_Bay
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/6305807922
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050873/
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