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New Horror Releases

June 4, 2019

The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) (Directed by Daniel Farrands)

 

  • Blu-ray/DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Hilary Duff, Jonathan Bennett, Lydia Hearst, Pawel Szajda, Ryan Cargill, Bella Popa, Fivel Stewart, Tyler Johnson, Ben Mellish
  • WRITER: Daniel Farrands
  • SYNOPSIS: Based on one of Hollywood’s most chilling murder cases, this spellbinding thriller follows 26-year-old actress Sharon Tate (Hilary Duff), a rising star about to have her first baby with her husband, director Roman Polanski. Plagued by terrifying premonitions, Sharon sees her worst nightmares come to life with the appearance of Charles Manson and his deadly cult.
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated R (strong bloody violence, terror, and some language)
  • RUN TIME: 94 minutes
  • See Review HERE
  • TAGLINES:
    • Based on a True Story of one of the most Horrific Murders in History
    • Hillary Duff is Sharon Tate
    • Witness the Shocking Events through the eyes of Hollywood’s Brightest Star
  • STUDIO: Saban Films
  • http://www.sabanfilms.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/sabanfilms/
  • https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sharon-Blu-ray-Jonathan-Bennett/dp/B07QJSH74Z/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7976208/

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I’ll Take Your Dead (2018) (Directed by Chad Archibald)

 

  • Blu-ray/DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Aidan Devine, Ava Preston, Jess Salgueiro, Brandon McKnight, Ari Millen, Raffaele Brereton, Adam Christie, Tavaree Daniel-Simms, Moe Jeudy-Lamour, Matthew Mease, Michael Reventar, Megan Soo, Pastel Supernova, David D’Lancy Wilson
  • WRITER: Chad Archibald, Jayme Laforest
  • SYNOPSIS: I’ll Take Your Dead follows William who has a simple job, he makes dead bodies disappear. This isn’t something he likes to or even wants to do, but through circumstances out of his control, his little farmhouse in the country has become a dumping ground for the casualties of the gang-related murders in the nearby city. His daughter Gloria has become used to rough looking men dropping off corpses and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house. After a woman’s body, is dumped at the house, William begins his meticulous process when he realizes, she’s not actually dead. As the gang activity increases, William patches the woman up and holds her against her will until he can figure out what to do with her. As they begin to develop a very unusual respect for each other, the woman’s murderers get word that she’s still alive and make a plan to go finish what they started.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 122 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Shout! Factory
  • https://www.shoutfactory.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
  • https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
  • https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Take-Your-Dead-Blu-ray/dp/B07QBXLVPV/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7962932/

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The Man Who Laughs (1928) (Directed by Paul Leni

 

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Brandon Hurst, Cesare Gravina
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Flicker Alley, in partnership with Universal Pictures, are proud to present Universal Pictures new 4K restoration of the 1928 silent classic, The Man Who Laughs, accompanied by a newly recorded orchestral score by the Berklee School of Music. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the story centers on the extraordinary adventures of Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), whose wide and mirthless grin inspired DC Comics legendary Batman villain, the Joker. Veidt’s character has become well known to most cinephiles. Orphaned as a child, Gwynplaine is punished by the king for his father’s transgressions, by having face carved into a hideous grin. Disfigured and alone, Gwynplaine rescues a blind girl Dea (Mary Philbin), and both end up starring in a sideshow where they fall in love. Because she cannot see, Dea does not know about her lover’s tormented grin.
  • Masterfully directed by Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs marks Leni s penultimate work. Having grown up in Germany during the era of Expressionism, Leni embraces haunting characters, twisted sets, harsh angles, and deep shadows. Heralded as one of the best American silents emulating German Expressionism, The Man Who Laughs presents Leni at his creative directorial peak. Originally released silent, the film was enough of a hit for Universal in 1928 that the studio released it with a synched musical score using the Movietone sound-on-film process, presented here as a secondary audio track.
  • Part of Universal Pictures ongoing silent restoration initiative, The Man Who Laughs honors the studio’s rich film history that has spanned more than a century. The primary source element for this restoration was a 35mm composite fine grain from the Universal Pictures vault, created in 1954 from the nitrate original camera negative. NBCUniversal’s restoration team was able to stabilize and deflicker the film as well as repair scratches, warps, and dirt. The 4K digital restoration was completed by NBCUniversal StudioPost.
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 110 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Flicker Alley
  • https://www.flickeralley.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/FlickerAlley/
  • https://twitter.com/flickeralley
  • https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Laughs-Blu-ray/dp/B07PK6K31Q/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019130/

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The Last Warning (1928) (Directed by Paul Leni)

 

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D’Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Universal Pictures and Flicker Alley present Universal Pictures new 4K restoration of the 1929 silent classic, The Last Warning, accompanied by a newly recorded score from Arthur Barrow. Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon’s 1922 Broadway play of the same name, The Last Warning is based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp and centers on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim’s body goes missing, the death remains unsolved and the theater is condemned. That is, until years later when a suspicious new producer arrives to restage the play with the original cast and crew. As one of the last silents Universal produced, The Last Warning was later released as a part-talkie with roughly sixty feet of sound scenes added.
  • The Last Warning was Paul Leni’s final film before his untimely death, and a prime showcase for Universal’s 1920s leading lady, Laura La Plante. A visual artist at the peak of his career, Leni s camera never stops shifting, offering cutaways and trick shots involving nervous could-be culprits, a highly suspicious sleuth, and cast members who suddenly disappear in the darkened theater. The result is a cinematic funhouse that restlessly cross-examines the suspense of the story s stage play against the real murder mystery saga, all unfolding amid the outstanding production design of Charles D. Hall.
  • Part of Universal’s ongoing silent restoration initiative, The Last Warning honors the studio’s rich film history that has spanned more than a century. Universal’s team of restoration experts conducted a worldwide search for The Last Warning’s available elements, ultimately working with materials from the Cinémathèque française, and the Packard Humanities Institute Collection in the UCLA Film & Television Archive. NBCUniversal’s restoration team was able to stabilize and deflicker the film as well as repair scratches, warps, and dirt. The 4K digital restoration was completed by NBCUniversal StudioPost.
  • GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 78 minutes
  • TAGLINES:
    • Who killed John Woodford?
    • Hall-Marked with the Master Touch of Sure Fire Audience and Box Office Appeal!
    • The Picture of a Thousand Thrills. (Print Ad-Nashua Telegraph, ((Nashua, NH)) 6 February 1929)
  • STUDIO: Flicker Alley
  • https://www.flickeralley.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/FlickerAlley/
  • https://twitter.com/flickeralley
  • https://www.amazon.com/Last-Warning-Blu-ray-Laura-Plante/dp/B07PDTXFLD/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020080/

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The Convent (2018) (Directed by Paul Hyett)

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Michael Ironside, Rosie Day, Hannah Arterton
  • WRITER: Gregory Blair, Paul Hyett, Conal Palmer
  • SYNOPSIS: Early in the seventeenth century, a young woman, Persephone, is falsely accused, arrested and put on trial for her life. Her fate seems sealed but for the timely intervention of a stranger, the mysterious Reverend Mother, who offers Persephone not just sanctuary, but hope. For the Reverend Mother is the self-appointed leader of a small religious retreat, a secluded Priory, where she and her fellow Sisters can devote their lives to the Lord and seek atonement for their pasts. But upon her arrival, Persephone is plagued with terrifying visions and soon realizes that it’s not Salvation that awaits her, but a battle for her very soul itself.
  • GENRE: Horror, History
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 81 Minutes
  • TAGLINE: Forgive Us Our Sins
  • STUDIO: Lionsgate
  • https://www.lionsgate.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/lionsgate/
  • https://twitter.com/Lionsgate
  • https://www.amazon.com/Convent-Michael-Ironside/dp/B07QFWLKW2/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3111516/

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4 Film Favorites: Horror Classics Volume 1

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Linda Hayden, Geoffrey Keen, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward, Rupert Davies
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • A collection of four classic horror films: Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Taste the Blood of Dracula and The Mummy.
  • This is a multiple-item set containing these film/programs:
  • The Mummy (1959)
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053085/

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King of Horror 6-Film Collection

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Emilio Estevez, Maria Bello, Jonathan Jackson, David Anders, Timothy Busfield, Clayton Rohner
  • DIRECTOR: Daniel Zelik Berk, Chris Thomson, Donald P. Borchers, Mick Garris, Mikael Salomon, Stephen King
  • SYNOPSIS: A multiple-item set containing these film/programs:
  • MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE: A mysterious comet turns every machine on Earth into a homicidal rampage device.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/

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The Haunting of Borley Manor (2019) (Directed by Steven M. Smith)

Aka: The Haunting of Borley Rectory

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Zach Clifford, Rad Brown, Sonera Angel, Garry Roost
  • WRITER: Mark Behar, Christopher Jolley
  • SYNOPSIS: 1994, Paranormal Investigator, Harry Price is called in to look at the story of Borley Rectory, said to be the most haunted building in the world before it was mysteriously destroyed by fire just before WWII.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Rated R
  • RUN TIME: 92 Minutes
  • TAGLINE: Would you spend the night in the most haunted house in the world…
  • STUDIO: 101 Films
  • https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Borley-Manor-Zach-Clifford/dp/B07Q8Q6J96/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1776097/

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Clown Motel (2019) (Directed by Joseph Kelly)

Aka: Clown Motel: Spirits Arise

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Red Summer (2017) (Directed by Carles Jofre)

 

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The Cleaning Lady (2018) (Directed by Jon Knautz)

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Alexis Kendra, Stelio Savante, Rachel Alig, Elizabeth Sandy, Mykayla Sohn, JoAnne McGrath, Keri Marrone, Robert Hugh Starr, Carla Wynn, Kim Marie Cooper, Logan Garretson
  • WRITER: Alexis Kendra, Jon Knautz
  • SYNOPSIS: On the surface Alice seems like a woman who has it all: a gorgeous apartment, a booming career, a stunning physique, and a handsome boyfriend. The only problem is he’s married to someone else. Looking for a way to simplify her life, Alice hires Shelly to clean her house. As Alice begins to confide in Shelly about her illicit affair, their friendship grows… and so does Shelly’s twisted obsession with her new employer. It soon becomes clear that Shelly has motives that reach further than a normal cleaning lady. Shelly wants to cleanse Alice’s entire life and will stop at nothing until she’s done.
  • GENRE: Horror, Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
  • SEE REVIEW here
  • STUDIO: RLJ Entertainment
  • https://www.rljentertainment.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/RLJEfilms/
  • https://twitter.com/RLJEhorror
  • https://www.amazon.com/Cleaning-Lady-Alexis-Kendra/dp/B07PNK9XDG/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7044076/

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The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection

 

  • Blu-ray
  • SYNOPSIS: Kids who fell in love with the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? TV series were growing up and could now enjoy more sophisticated plots and characters, so along came the hour-long The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and what sets them delightfully and hilariously apart is the marvelous lineup of celebrity guest stars – The Harlem Globetrotters, Dick Van Dyke, The Three Stooges, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, “Mama” Cass Elliot, and Laurel and Hardy, plus the participation of other animated action heroes like Batman and Robin and Speed Buggy. It’s no mystery that you’re in for a classic good time!
  • GENRE: Childrens/Adventure/Mystery/Comedy
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 986 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Warner Brothers
  • https://www.warnerbros.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/warnerbrosent
  • https://twitter.com/Warnerbros
  • https://www.amazon.com/New-Scooby-Doo-Movies-Complete-Collection/dp/B07Q8DS9Q6/

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The Odds (2018) (Directed by Bob Giordano)

 

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