October 15

Haxan (1922) (Directed by Benjamin Christensen)

 

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Benjamin Christensen, Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan
  • SYNOPSIS: Demonic possession, inquisitional torture, ritual orgies, fair maidens losing their virginity to the Devil — All these are featured in Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, a one-of-a-kind “documentary” just as shocking today as it was in 1922. Its genesis began in 1919, when Benjamin Christensen, a filmmaker often referred to as the “D.W. Griffith of Denmark”, discovered the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century manual on capturing witches, in a bookstore. Convinced that witches still existed, the director set out to expose their persecution from medieval times to the present day. Christensen procured funding from a Swedish production company with the guarantee that he would have complete creative freedom. The director then assembled the best craftspeople and technicians possible, resulting in the most expensive Scandinavian film of its day. Unwilling to compromise, Christensen included massive amounts of nudity and gore unseen in any other film of the silent era. Audacious scenes include naked witches cavorting around a bonfire and a baby, supposedly drained of its blood, being tossed into a stew pot, all lorded over by Satan himself (played by Christensen.) Other sequences feature groundbreaking uses of optical effects and stop-motion animation. Haxan was banned for decades due to its graphic imagery and anti-religious themes. Regardless, its influence can be seen in the works of filmmakers such as Luis Bunel, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Val Lewton. Christensen himself subsequently moved to Hollywood and worked for MGM and Warner Brothers, directing the horror films Mockery (1927; starring Lon Chaney) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929).
  • GENRE: Horror, Fantasy, Documentary
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
  • TAGLINE: Benjamin Christensens stora film.
  • STUDIO: The Criterion Collection
  • https://www.criterion.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Häxan-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray-Pontoppidan/dp/B07VJWY92K/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/

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Crawl (2019) (Directed by Alexandre Aja)

 

  • Blu-ray/DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, Anson Boon, George Somner, Ami Metcalf, Jose Palma, Morfydd Clark, Tina Pribicevic, Annamaria Serda, Savannah Steyn, Jovana Dragas
  • WRITER: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
  • SYNOPSIS: When a massive hurricane hits her Florida hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him gravely injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by quickly encroaching floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the strengthening storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
  • BOX OFFICE: $39 Million
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama, Action
  • RATING: Rated R (bloody creature violence, and brief language)
  • RUN TIME: 87 minutes
  • TAGLINES:
  • They Were Here First
  • DANGER! Alligators are common in this area. They can be dangerous. They have been known to stalk prey. THEY WILL HUNT YOU
  • If the storm doesn’t get you… they will
  • Swim Like Hell
  • Watch Your Back
  • STUDIO: Paramount
  • https://www.paramount.com/
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  • https://twitter.com/ParamountPics
  • https://www.amazon.com/Crawl-Blu-ray-Kaya-Scodelario/dp/B07TMRRFS7/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8364368/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZxCfNVnS8

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Scary Movie (1991) (Directed by Daniel Erickson)

 

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: John Hawkes, Suzanne Aldrich
  • SYNOPSIS: Never legitimately distributed until this very moment, SCARY MOVIE is a joyous horror triumph starring Academy Award nominee John Hawkes. On Halloween night, big-time nerd Warren (Hawkes, channeling a mix of Buster Keaton and Crispin Glover) attends a spookhouse in a small Texas town. But is the haunted house as harmless as it seems, or has a psychotic mental patient found a new stomping ground? Shot in Austin, Texas, SCARY MOVIE combines Argento-esque neon, Freddy Krueger dreamscapes, and slapstick inspired by EVIL DEAD 2 to forge a valentine to Halloween, rubber monster masks, and chopped-off limbs. From the songs by Roky Erickson and Butthole Surfers to the surrealistic mood, this is a true discovery for adventurous horror-heads.
  • GENRE: Horror, Comedy
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
  • TAGLINE: Fear is a State of Mind.
  • STUDIO: AGFA (American Genre Film Archive)
  • https://www.americangenrefilm.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Scary-Movie-Blu-ray-John-Hawkes/dp/B07STGYHFW/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138078/

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Devil’s Revenge (2019) (Directed by Jared Cohn)

 

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The Noonday Witch (2016)

 

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The Visit (2015) (Directed by M. Night Shyamalan)

 

  • Blu-ray (basic)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn
  • PRODUCERS: M. Night Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock, Jason Blum
  • SYNOPSIS: When Becca and Tyler are sent to their grandparents’ secluded Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong stay, they quickly discover something is not right with the elderly couple. Faced with strange rules and increasingly frightening behavior, the children soon realize it will take all their wits to make it home alive. Critics rave, the latest heart-pounding thriller from the director of The Sixth Sense and Signs and the producer of Paranormal Activity and The Purge is a “deliciously creepy triumph.”
  • Special features
    • The Making of The Visit
    • Deleted Scenes
    • Alternate Ending
    • Becca’s Photos
  • GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated PG-13
  • RUN TIME: 94 minutes
  • TAGLINES:
    • No one loves you like your grandparents
    • Grandma’s Rules: 1. Have a great time. 2. Eat as much as you want. 3. Don’t ever leave your room after 9:30 pm.
  • STUDIO: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
  • https://www.uphe.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Visit-Blu-ray-Olivia-DeJonge/dp/B07VZ3V384/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3567288/

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Haunt (2019) (Directed by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ro1-pCeeg

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The Drone (2019) (Directed by Jordan Rubin)

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: John Brotherton, Alex Essoe, Anita Briem, Rex Linn, Neil Sandilands, Simon Rex
  • WRITERS: Al Kaplan, Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan
  • SYNOPSIS: This terrifying, outrageous tale takes flight as a serial killer is struck by lightning while holding his precious drone. Weeks later, the drone shows up at the home of newlywed couple Chris (John Brotherton, THE CONJURING) and Rachel (Alex Essoe, STARRY EYES). Without them realizing it, the drone films the couple and takes control of their TV, computer, security system, and car. Soon, Chris and Rachel fear that the device may be connected to them…and is out for horrific, hovering revenge.
  • GENRE: Horror, Comedy
  • RATING: Rated R (bloody violence, language, sexual content and brief drug use)
  • RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
  • TAGLINE: Your Remote Has No Control
  • STUDIO: Lionsgate
  • https://www.lionsgate.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Drone-John-Brotherton/dp/B07VW3S8WD/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7476524/

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The Witching Season (2015) (Directed by Michael Ballif)

 

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One Night in October (2017) (Directed by Christopher M. Carter)

 

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Deviant Behavior (2018) (Directed by Jacob Grim)

 

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Deadly Reunion (2019) (Directed by James Cullen Bressack)

 

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Clown of the Dead (2015) (Directed by Awi Suryadi)

AKA “Badoet”

 

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The Barn (2016) (Directed by Justin M Seaman)

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Linnea Quigley, Ari Lehman, Mitchell Musolino, Will Stout, Lexi Dripps
  • SYNOPSIS: It’s Halloween 1989 and best friends Sam and Josh are just trying to enjoy their last “Devil’s Night” before graduating high school. Trouble soon arises when the two pals and a group of friends take a detour on their way to a rock concert, finding an old abandoned barn and awakening the evil inside. Now it’s up to Sam and Josh to find a way to protect their friends and defeat the creatures that lurk within The Barn… The film stars Mitchell Musolino, Will Stout, Lexi Dripps, Cortland Woodard, Nikki Darling, Nickolaus Joshua with Linnea Quigley (Night of the Demons and The Return of the Living Dead) and Ari Lehman (the first Jason Voorhees from ‘Friday the 13th’). Featuring an original score by Rocky Gray the former member of Grammy award-winning goth/rock group ‘Evanescence’.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
  • TAGLINES:
    • All they wanted was a Halloween they’d never forget. What they got was a night they’d pray to SURVIVE!
    • On Halloween night The Legend of The Barn awakens
    • Trick-or-Treat, smell my feet… and DIE!
  • See Review HERE
  • STUDIO: Scream Team Releasing
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  • https://twitter.com/SceamTeam
  • https://www.amazon.com/Barn-Extended-Cut-DVD/dp/B06WGNKQ9W/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3390550/

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10/31 (2017)

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Jordan Phipps, Mitchell Musolino, Sable Griedel, Chard Bruns, Nick Edwards, Cindy Maples
  • DIRECTORS: Rocky Gray, Justin M. Seaman, Zane Hershberger, Johnny Holt, Brett DeJagre
  • SYNOPSISL Join Malvolia: The Queen of Screams as she takes you on a journey through the chilling depths of her Halloween Monster Marathon. Featuring five indie directors with unique Halloween stories including a stay at a haunted bed & breakfast in “The Old Hag” (Justin M. Seaman of ‘The Barn‘), a first date gone deadly in “Trespassers” (Zane Hershberger of ‘Cryptids’), a murderous roller rink party in “Killing the Dance” (John William Holt of ‘The Dooms Chapel Horror), a freak October winter storm sends tricksters and even Santa to your door in “The Halloween Blizzard of ’91” (Brett DeJager of ‘Bonejangles’), and an escaped madman continues his seasonal killing spree in “The Samhain Slasher” (Rocky Gray’s directorial debut).
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
  • See Press Release HERE
  • STUDIO: Scream Team Releasing
  • https://screamteamreleasing.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/screamteamreleasing/
  • https://twitter.com/SceamTeam
  • https://www.amazon.com/10-31-Mitchell-Musolino/dp/B079J83PPS/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6235650/

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Horror 10-Movie Collection

 

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Harrison Ford, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Naomi Watts, Renee Zellweger
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • 10 bone-chilling scares, including Friday the 13th, The Ring, The Haunting, Paranormal Activity, What Lies Beneath, The Uninvited, Graveyard Shift, The Devil Inside, The Ruins, and Case 39.
  • This is a multiple-item set containing these film/programs:
  • Friday The 13th (1980)
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080761/

 

 

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The Lingering (2018) (Directed by Derrick Tao, Ho Pong Mak)

 

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Mama (2013) (Directed by Andy Muschietti)

 

  • Blu-ray (re-issue)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nelisse, Daniel Kash
  • WRITERS: Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Neil Cross
  • PRODUCERS: J. Miles Dale, Barbara Muschietti, Guillermo del Toro
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award-nominated writer of Pan’s Labyrinth, presents this supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When the young sisters are found alive in a decrepit cabin, their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) and his girlfriend (Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) take them in. As they try to introduce the children to a normal life, Annabel (Chastain) begins to wonder if the traumatized girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.
  • Feature Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Andy Muschietti and Producer/Co-Writer Barbara Muschietti
  • Original Short with Introduction by Guillermo del Toro
  • Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Andy Muschietti and Producer/Co-Writer Barbara Muschietti
  • The Birth of Mama
  • Matriarchal Secrets: The Visual Effects of Mama
  • GENRE: Horror, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated PG-13
  • RUN TIME: 100 minutes
  • TAGLINES:
    • A mother’s love is forever.
    • They’ve come home, but not alone.
  • STUDIO: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
  • https://www.uphe.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/universalstudiosentertainment/
  • https://twitter.com/universalent
  • https://www.amazon.com/Mama-Blu-ray-Jessica-Chastain/dp/B07VXZRQ8D/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2023587/

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Killer Nun (1979) (Directed by Giulio Berruti)

 

  • Blu-ray (Special Edition)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Alida Valli
  • FROM THE SECRET FILES OF THE VATICAN!
  • Aging blonde-bombshell Anita Ekberg (La Dolce Vita, Pick-up Alley) gives a full-bodied performance as a sex-crazed sister with some seriously bad habits in the lurid cult classic Killer Nun.
  • One of the most notorious nunsploitation films, Killer Nun tells the sordid story of Sister Gertrude, a disturbed woman of the cloth who degenerates into a perverse mire of drug taking, sexual perversion, sadistic torture and murder. Joe Dallesandro (The Climber, Flesh for Frankenstein), Alida Valli (The Possessed, Suspiria) and the ample Paola Morra (Behind Convent Walls) offer spirited performances and able support to Ekberg, in this outrageous tale based on real events.
  • Boasting an incongruously classy score by legendary composer Alessandro Alessandroni (Women’s Camp 119) and stylishly rendered scenes of sex and murder, Killer Nun takes the viewer on a hair-raising journey from the heights of religious ecstasy to the depths of devilish degeneracy. Now Giulio Berruti s sleazy classic is presented in a stunning new 2K restoration with a liturgy of new extras, ready to be preyed upon.
  • SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
  • New 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative
    High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
    Uncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio
    Original English and Italian soundtracks, titles and credits
    Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
    Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
    New audio commentary by Italian genre film connoisseurs Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
    Beyond Convent Walls, a new video essay on nunsploitation and Killer Nun by critic Kat Ellinger
    Starry Eyes, a new interview with director Giulio Berruti
    Cut and Noise, a new interview with editor Mario Giacco
    Our Mother of Hell, a new interview with actress Ileana Fraia
    Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
    Image gallery
    Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Daryl Joyce
  • FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Andreas Ehrenreich and Roberto Curti, original reviews
  • GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 88 minutes
  • TAGLINE: From the Secret Files of the Vatican!
  • STUDIO: Arrow Video
  • https://arrowfilms.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Nun-Blu-ray-Anita-Ekberg/dp/B07VTWPSXZ/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078343/

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And Soon the Darkness (1970) (Directed by Robert Fuest)

 

  • Blu-ray/DVD (Special Edition)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Eles
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Brand New 4K Master! Two young British nurses bicycling through the desolate French countryside. A mysterious stranger on a lonely stretch of road. The women become separated and soon after, one of them disappears. Now the remaining girl, alone and frightened, begins an increasingly desperate search for answers among the strangely uncooperative locals. Where is her friend? Was there a murder? And as the darkness approaches, is the killer now stalking her? Pamela Franklin (The Legend of Hell House) and Michele Do trice (The Blood on Satan’s Claw) co-star in this unsettling shocker directed by Robert Fust (The Abominable Dr. Phoebes). And Soon the Darkness remains a favorite of thriller fans for its sexual menace, sinister style and one of the most quietly chilling final twists in ’70s British cinema. Original story and screenplay by Brian Clemens (See No Evil) and Terry Nation (The House in Nightmare Park) with top-notch cinematography by Ian Wilson (The Crying Game, Below).
  • Special Features:
    • Audio commentary with Director Robert Fust and Co-Writer/Co-Producer Brian Clemens, moderated by Journalist Jonathan Sothcott
    • Audio Commentary by Film Historian Troy Hogarth
    • Radio Spot
    • Reverse Art
    • Theatrical Trailer
  • GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated PG
  • RUN TIME: 99 minutes
  • TAGLINES:
    • Remember the way Hitchcock kept you on the edge of your seat…?
    • Two beautiful girls…a bright summer day…trapped in a terrifying web of shock and suspense.
    • WE PROMISE…you haven’t been so terrified since “Psycho”!
    • WE PROMISE…you will be trapped in an endless nightmare that would terrify even Hitchcock!
  • STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
  • https://www.kinolorber.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/kinolorberinc
  • https://twitter.com/KinoLorber
  • https://www.amazon.com/Soon-Darkness-Special-Blu-ray/dp/B07VGTYMKK/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065398/

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The Haunting of Hill House (2018) (Directed by Mike Flanagan)

 

  • Blu-ray (Director’s Edition)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Synopsis: Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser, Timothy Hutton
  • SYNOPSIS: The Haunting of Hill House is the critically-acclaimed, modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s legendary novel about five siblings who grew up in the most famous haunted house in America. Now adults, they’re reunited by the suicide of their youngest sister, which forces them to finally confront the ghosts of their pasts… some of which lurk in their minds… and some of which may really be lurking in the shadows of the iconic Hill House. For the first time, experience even more thrills with three extended Director’s Cut episodes featuring never-before-seen footage and go deeper inside Hill House with four exclusive commentaries from Creator and Director Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep).
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
  • RATING: TV-MA
  • RUN TIME: 569 minutes
  • TAGLINE: You’re Expected
  • STUDIO: Paramount
  • https://www.paramount.com/
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  • https://twitter.com/ParamountPics
  • https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Hill-House-Blu-ray/dp/B07WMM85Q1/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6763664/

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The Omen Collection

 

  • Blu-ray (Deluxe Edition)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST:  Gregory Peck, William Holden, Sam Neill, Faye Grant, Liev Schreiber
  • DIRECTORS: John Moore, Richard Donner, Don Taylor, Graham Baker, Jorge Montesi
  • WRITERS: Stanley Mann, Andrew Birkin, David Seltzer, Mike Hodges, Brian Taggert
  • PRODUCERS: John Moore, Harvey Bernhard, Glenn Williamson, Mace Neufeld, Charles Orme
  • SYNOPSIS: Experience the ultimate in horror with The Omen Collection, featuring all four original films as well as the 2006 remake that terrified audiences. Packed with hours of chilling special features this 5-disc set includes 1976’s The Omen (New 4K remaster), Damien: Omen II, in which Damien discovers his destiny, The Final Conflict in which he realizes his full power, and Omen IV: The Awakening, in which a demonic force returns in the form of a wicked young girl. The haunting legacy comes full circle with the 2006 version of the original classic.
  • GENRE: Horror, Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 525 minutes
  • STUDIO: Shout! Factory
  • https://www.shoutfactory.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
  • https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
  • https://www.amazon.com/Omen-Collection-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B07TPYXV95/

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Sudden Terror (1970) (Directed by John Hough)

AKA “Eyewitness”

 

  • Blu-ray/DVD (Special Edition)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Mark Lester, Susan George, Lionel Jeffries
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Brand New 4K Master! Pins You to the Edge of Your Seat! Living on the island of Malta, Ziggy (Mark Lester, Crossed Swords) is an 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination and a habit of telling wild lies. But when he sees the brutal assassination of a visiting African president by two rogue policemen, nobody will believe his story. Can Ziggy convince anybody that he is telling the truth before the psychotic cops are able to hunt down and murder the only eyewitness? This is no ordinary boy-who-cried-wolf story. Legendary director John Hough (Twins of Evil, The Legend of Hell House) packs Sudden Terror with plenty of tense style, stunning locations and startling violence. Susan George (Straw Dogs), Lionel Jeffries (The Quatermass Experiment), Jeremy Kemp (The Blue Max), Peter Vaughan (Game of Thrones), Peter Bowles (The Offence) and Tony Bonner (Quigley Down Under) co-star in this shocking and terrifying suspense-thriller featuring music by legendary British art-rock bands Fairfield Parlor and Van der Graf Generator.
  • Special Features:
    • Audio commentary with director John Hough and writer (uncredited)/executive producer Bryan Forbes
    • Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson
    • Interview with star Mark Lester
    • Sudden Terror – U. S. Trailer
    • Eyewitness – UK Trailer
    • Reversible Eyewitness Art
  • GENRE: Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated PG
  • RUN TIME: 91 MINUTES
  • TAGLINES:
    • …with the most breathless chase scene since ‘BULLITT’!
    • Pins you to the edge of your seat.
    • For some boys… playtime can be MURDER!
  • STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
  • https://www.kinolorber.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/kinolorberinc
  • https://twitter.com/KinoLorber
  • https://www.amazon.com/Sudden-Terror-Special-Eyewitness-Blu-ray/dp/B07VCMMLW1/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066420/

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The Queen of Spades (1949) (Directed by Thorold Dickinson)

 

  • Blu-ray (Special Edition)
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Anton Walbrook, Dame Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • A gambling craze is sweeping 19th-century St. Petersburg, yet a dashing Russian army captain (Anton Halbrook, The Red Shoes) is too impoverished to participate. But when he learns that an aging countess (Three-time Oscar-nominee Dame Edith Evans, The Whisperers) may hold the ultimate key to gambling riches, the desperate young officer will stop at nothing to steal the sinister secret for himself. When fortunes are won and lost with the turn of a card, will one man wager his very soul on a final twist of fate? Yvonne Mitchell (Demons of the Mind) co-stars in this brilliant British chiller directed by Thorold Dickinson (Gaslight), featuring extraordinary cinematography by Otto Heller (Peeping Tom, The Picross File) and based on the celebrated short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (The Eagle).
  • Special Features:
    • Audio Commentary by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton
    • Introduction by Martin Scorsese
    • An Analysis by Film Critic/Author Philip Horne
    • 1951 Interview with Thorold Dickinson at the British Federation of Film Societies
    • 1968 Screening Introduction by Thorold Dickinson
    • Theatrical Trailer
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 95 minutes
  • STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
  • https://www.kinolorber.com/
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  • https://twitter.com/KinoLorber
  • https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Spades-Special-Blu-ray/dp/B07VGTYB3C/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041776/

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3 From Hell (2019) (Directed by Rob Zombie)

 

  • 4K/Blu-ray/DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Sheri Moon Zombie, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Emilio Rivera, Danny Trejo, Clint Howard, Richard Brake, Daniel Roebuck, Jeff Daniel Phillips, David Ury, Dee Wallace, Dot-Marie Jones, Sean Whalen, Tom Papa
  • WRITER: Rob Zombie
  • SYNOPSIS: First there was HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. Then there was THE DEVIL’S REJECTS. Now, from writer-director Rob Zombie, comes the next blood-soaked chapter in the most violent crime saga in movie history — 3 FROM HELL. After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell…and back.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Rated R
  • RUN TIME: 111 Minutes
  • TAGLINE: The Evil Returns
  • STUDIO: Lionsgate
  • https://www.lionsgate.com/
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  • https://twitter.com/Lionsgate
  • https://www.amazon.com/Three-Hell-Sheri-Moon-Zombie/dp/B07VSJMGXP/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134742/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29bmqtJrNzU

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