November 5
Prey (2019) (Directed by Franck Khalfoun)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Joey Adanalian, Jolene Anderson, Vela Cluff, Phodiso Dintwe, Kristine Froseth, Nathan Healy, Anthony Jensen, Jerrica Lai, Logan Miller, Jody Mortara
- WRITER: David Coggeshall, Franck Khalfoun
- SYNOPSIS: This horror-thriller from Blumhouse and Director Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) turns an island retreat into a sinister bloodbath.
- GENRE: Adventure, Horror
- RATING: Rated PG-13 (violence, bloody images, terror, and brief strong language)
- RUN TIME: 85 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Don’t close your eyes.
- STUDIO: Cinedigm Entertainment
- https://cinedigm.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/Cinedigm/
- https://twitter.com/Cinedigm
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X4BNR8N/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5699928/
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) (Directed by Andre Ovredal)
- DVD/ Blu-ray/4K-UHD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Gabriel Rush, Kathleen Pollard, Gil Bellows, Javier Botet, Dean Norris, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Abrams, Mark Steger, Stephanie Belding, Natalie Ganzhorn, Jane Moffat, Divan Meyer, David Tompa, Brandon Knox
- WRITER: Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, John August, Guillermo del Toro, Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton, Alvin Schwartz
- SYNOPSIS: It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind… but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time-stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome.
- BOX OFFICE: $95.6 Million
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- RATING: Rated PG-13 (terror/violence, disturbing images, thematic elements, language including racial epithets, and brief sexual references)
- RUN TIME: 111 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Based on the iconic book series.
- STUDIO: Lionsgate
- https://www.lionsgate.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/lionsgate/
- https://twitter.com/LionsgateHorror
- https://www.amazon.com/Scary-Stories-Tell-Dark-Blu-ray/dp/B07Y9BDVZW/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3387520/
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School of the Damned (2019) (Directed by Peter Vincent)
- DVD
- GENRE: Thriller
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Michael Geary, James Groom, Daisy Aitkens, Phil Dyas, Sarah Cullum
- SYNOPSIS: When a new teacher arrives at school he finds students that are extremely well behaved and soon uncovers a special class of very young children forming a hive mind, keeping the students and teachers calm and focused with murderous results.
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 85 Minutes
- STUDIO: 4Digital
- http://4digitalmedia.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/4DigitalMedia/
- https://twitter.com/4digitalM
- https://www.amazon.com/SCHOOL-DAMNED-Michael-Geary/dp/B07W47GP8V/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10147936/
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Pickaxe (2019) (Directed by Jeremy Sumrall)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Cory W. Ahre, A. Michael Baldwin, Keefer Barlow
- SYNOPSIS: 1982: The survivors of a series of brutal killings in a small town thought mass murderer Alex Black was dead and buried after the townspeople put an end to him. But teenagers experimenting with the occult awaken the monster from his grave and he begins another rampage of terror with his favorite tool, a pickaxe. Only those who have faced him before have any chance of stopping Alex Black once and for all.
- SEE REVIEW HERE
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 87 minutes
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/Pickaxe-Tiffany-Shepis/dp/B07WJR8PB5/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10793634/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxwD7mUpsLw
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Holiday Hell (2019)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murray, Jeff Bryan Davis
- DIRECTORS: Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell, Jeff Vigil
- SYNOPSIS: A mysterious shopkeeper narrates four horror tales, each set during a different holiday.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 100 minutes
- STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment
- https://www.uncorkedentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/uncorkdent/
- https://twitter.com/uncorkdent
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7841536/
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Blood Myth (2019) (Directed by Sean Brown, Luke Gosling)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jonathan McClean, Anna Dawson, Hannah Chalmers, Matt Ray Brown, Charlie Walker McClimens, Adrian Annis, Neil Summerville, Daniel Thrace, Ian Small, Eva McGillivray, George Nettleton
- WRITER: Sean Brown, Luke Gosling
- SYNOPSIS: A journalist is drawn into a dangerous investigation of a centuries old sinister folklore surrounding disappearances with links to the occult.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 85 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Death has many faces.
- STUDIO: High Octane Pictures
- https://www.highoctanepictures.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/HighOctanePictures/
- https://twitter.com/HighOctanePics
- https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Myth-Sean-Brown/dp/B07X4CCLSR/
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Marla (2019) (Directed by Lisa van Dam-Bates)
Aka “Marla Mae”
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Lisa van Dam-Bates, Jason Stange, Katie Hemming, Travis Johnny Ware, Palmer Chase
- SYNOPSIS: When a girl goes to get an IUD implanted by a distant relative, he commits a deranged act which has deadly implications for those close to her.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 81 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Your first time with her will be your last.
- STUDIO: High Octane Pictures
- https://www.highoctanepictures.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/HighOctanePictures/
- https://twitter.com/HighOctanePics
- https://www.amazon.com/Marla-Lisa-van-Dam-Bates/dp/B07X37FLQG/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4809590/
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Kill Every Last One (2008) (Directed by William Lee)
Aka: Demons Rising
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: EJ Toxey, Becca Moore, Sylvester Person, William Lee, Harlow Keith
- SYNOPSIS: Kyle Rush (EJ Toxey) is a professional thief hired by a mysterious man known as Dr. Montorio (Harlow Keith). The scene of the crime is the Mozikel Art Museum in South Africa. The prize: a mysterious text known as the LIBER MALORUM, a book shrouded in secrecy and legend that is suspected of being able to turn the dead into supernatural killing machines. When the heist goes awry, Montorio gets away with the book and Kyle is left with regrets and a vendetta: get the book…get revenge. In a bizarre twist, Kyle is thrown into the mix with a martial arts expert and former covert operative named Matthias Locke (William Lee), who is so troubled by his past life that he has given up all violence and converted to Buddhism. When the book falls into the hands of Kyle and Matthias, Montorio reappears with The Mandrakes, a band of half-dead killers. The stage is now set for an epic around the world chase that can either save or destroy the planet.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Action
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 119 Minutes
- STUDIO: Bayview Films
- https://www.facebook.com/bayviewentertainment/
- https://twitter.com/BayViewEnt1
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WPX4DVL/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1159263/
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Gothic Harvest (2018) (Directed by Ashley Hamilton)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Lin Shaye, Bill Moseley, Ashley Hamilton, Sofia Mattsson, Carol Sutton
- SYNOPSIS: When a young woman disappears after meeting a charming stranger at Mardi Gras, her friends race to find her before she falls victim to a sadistic Southern family plagued by a centuries-old voodoo curse.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 83 Minutes
- STUDIO: Cinedigm Entertainment
- https://cinedigm.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/Cinedigm/
- https://twitter.com/Cinedigm
- https://www.amazon.com/Gothic-Harvest-Lin-Shaye/dp/B07XC9JP1K/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7657364/
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Vampiyaz (2004) (Directed by Z. Winston Brown)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Richard Carroll Jr., Lila Blake Palmer, Malik Burke
- SYNOPSIS: Jakeem is released from an eight-year stint in the slammer. His first order of business is to return to his neighborhood and exact revenge on those who put him behind bars. To his surprise, he learns that the gangsters have turned into the blood-sucking undead.
- GENRE: Horror, Crime
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 83 minutes
- TAGLINE: Brothaz in blood.
- STUDIO: Bayview Films
- https://www.facebook.com/bayviewentertainment/
- https://twitter.com/BayViewEnt1
- https://www.amazon.com/Vampiyaz-Richard-Carroll-Jr/dp/B07X1M83VS/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415348/
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Deadly Playthings (2019) (Director Mark Polonia)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Lilace Guignard, Sarah Duterte, Lily Cobb, Jeff Kirkendall, Titus Himmelberger
- SYNOPSIS: A child s mysterious doll, once home to restless and disembodied spirits, is handed down to the occupants of a new home. The doll, found hidden in the dark recesses of the basement, is adopted by a lonely, near mute, wheel-chair bound girl. Soon the loving family is thrown into a living hell. But the violent deaths and supernatural occurrences bring the doll back into contact with the one person who may be able to help its original owner. She knows what evil has taken roots within it, and ultimately what the spirit wants. It all leads to an explosive final showdown between psychic and demon, with the young girl s soul hanging in the balance.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 70 minutes
- TAGLINE: Time To Play
- STUDIO: SRS Cinema
- http://www.srscinema.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/srscinemallc/
- https://twitter.com/SRSCinema
- https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Playthings-2-DVD-Limited/dp/B07YTDXGW1/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10078894/
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Ambition (2019) (Directed by Robert Shaye)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Katherine Hughes, Sonoya Mizuno, Lin Shaye, Bryan Batt
- PRODUCERS: Phillip B. Goldfine, Yuli Masinovsky, Benjamin Sacks
- SYNOPSIS: Jude is a beautiful and intensely driven musician preparing for the biggest audition of her life…but her determination could end up killing her. As her competition begins to die in a systematic fashion, she recognizes a pattern that seems to connect her with the deaths. Is she next? Her suspicions are confirmed when she finds herself faced to fend for her life in a horrifying climax that puts into question her chances for survival and sanity.
- GENRE: Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 87 minutes
- TAGLINE: It can kill you.
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
- https://www.amazon.com/Ambition-Blu-ray-Katherine-Hughes/dp/B07W6CF53G/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5603620/
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Apprentice To Murder (1988) (Directed by Ralph L. Thomas)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara
- SYNOPSIS:
- In early twentieth-century Pennsylvania Dutch Country, young Billy Kelly (Chad Lowe, Highway to Hell) falls in with a charismatic powwower or folk magic healer, Dr. John Reese (Donald Sutherland, Don t Look Now), shunned by the rest of the community for his non-conformist beliefs. Together, they investigate the mysterious sickness that is blighting the area, which Reese believes to be the work of a sinister local hermit. But as the plague spreads and the wide-eyed Billy falls ever deeper under Reese s spell, are they doing God s work or the Devil s bidding?
- Also starring Mia Sara (Legend) and featuring a powerhouse performance by Donald Sutherland – reunited here with Don t Look Now screenwriter Allan Scott – Apprentice to Murder is a chilling and unforgettable tale of the macabre that blurs the lines between conventional notions of good and evil .
- SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
- Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original 35mm interpositive
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Original lossless mono soundtrack
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
New audio commentary by author and critic Bryan Reesman
New video interview on religious horror cinema with Kat Ellinger, author and editor-in-chief of Diabolique Magazine
New video interview with cinematographer Kelvin Pike
New video interview with makeup supervisor Robin Grantham
Theatrical trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Haunt Love
- Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original 35mm interpositive
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Paul Corupe
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Drama
- RATING: Rated PG-13
- RUN TIME: 97 minutes
- TAGLINES:
- They thought it was the Devil. The Police said it was Murder.
- Was it Magic, Murder, or Madness?
- STUDIO: Arrow Video
- https://www.arrowfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo/
- https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo
- https://www.amazon.com/Apprentice-Murder-Blu-ray-Donald-Sutherland/dp/B07X37QBKD/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094671/
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November 8
Devil’s Junction: Handy Dandy’s Revenge (2019) (Directed by Roy G. Biv)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Bill Moseley, Bill Oberst Jr., Jake Red
- SYNOPSIS: A shuttered TV studio in Detroit is haunted by a magician/ventriloquist from a 1960’s children’s show, and he’s looking for a new live (or DEAD) studio audience.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 84 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Who wants to play?
- It’s Handy Dandy Time!
- STUDIO: Midnight Releasing
- https://midnightreleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/MidnightReleasing/
- https://twitter.com/MidnightRlsng
- https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Junction-Handy-Dandys-Revenge/dp/B07WGJJGGF/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8639316/
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Ghost Story (1974) (Directed by Stephen Weeks)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Marianne Faithfull, Leigh Lawson, Anthony Bate
- SYNOPSIS: Stephen Weeks’s dreamlike chiller is the perfect definition of a cult British Horror film. Featuring Barbara Shelley (Dracula, Prince of Darkness), Leigh Lawson (Hammer House of Horror, Anthony Bate (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Beasts) and Penelope Keith (The Good Life, To The Manor Born) Soundtrack by Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 89 minutes
- STUDIO: Screen Bound
- https://www.screenbound.co.uk/
- https://www.classicfilmsdirect.com/
- https://twitter.com/ScreenboundPic
- https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Story-Blu-ray/dp/B07WNKVRQ7/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071791/
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Shaun of the Dead (2004) (Directed by Edgar Wright)
- 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital
- PRINCIAL CAST: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy
- WRITERS: Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright
- PRODUCER: Nira Park
- SEE REVIEW HERE
- SYNOPSIS:
- There comes a day in every man’s life when he has to get off the couch…and kill some zombies. When flesh-eating zombies are on the hunt for a bite to eat, it’s up to slacker Shaun (Simon Pegg) and his best pal Ed (Nick Frost) to save their friends and family from becoming the next entrée.
- Special features:
- Includes 4K UHD, Blu-ray and a digital copy of Shaun of the Dead (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details
- Features HDR10+ for Brighter, Deeper, More Lifelike Color
- Feature Commentary with Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
- Feature Commentary with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Kate Ashfield, and Lucy Davis
- Feature Commentary with Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton
- Feature Commentary with The Zombies
- U-Control: Storyboards
- U-Control: Zomb-o-Meter
- Extended Bits with Optional Commentary
- Outtakes
- The Man Who Would be Shaun
- Funky Pete
- Plot Holes
- Simon Pegg’s Video Diary
- Lucy Davis’ Video Diary
- Joe Cornish’s Video Diary
- Casting Tapes
- Edgar & Simon’s Flip Chart
- SFX Comparison
- Make-Up Tests
- EPK Featurette
- TV Bits
- Photo Gallery
- 2000 Ad Strip
- Poster Designs
- US Trailer
- UK Teaser Trailer
- UK Trailer
- UK TV Spot #1
- UK TV Spot #2
- Fright Fest Trailer
- Storyboard Gallery
- Feature Commentary with Simon Pegg & Edgard Wright
- Feature Commentary with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Kate Ashfield and Lucy Davis
- Feature Commentary with Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton
- Feature Commentary with the Zombies
- GENRE: Horror, Comedy
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 100 minutes
- TAGLINES:
- It’s just one of those days when you’re feeling a little…dead.
- Buy Milk. Ring Mum. Dodge Zombies
- Shuffling into theaters September 24th.
- A romantic comedy. With zombies.
- Ever felt like you were surrounded by zombies?
- In a time of crisis a hero must rise…from his sofa.
- Bought coffee. Called Mom. Dodged zombies.
- This September, aim for the head.
- STUDIO: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- https://www.uphe.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/universalstudiosentertainment
- https://twitter.com/universalent
- https://www.amazon.com/Shaun-Dead-Blu-ray-Simon-Pegg/dp/B07XFH5QHR/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/
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