January 7
The Lighthouse (2019) (Directed by Robert Eggers)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman
- WRITER: Robert Eggers, Max Eggers
- SYNOPSIS: From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
- BOX OFFICE: $12.8 Million Worldwide
- GENRE: Fantasy, Drama, Horror
- RATING: Rated R (sexual content, nudity, violence, disturbing images, and some language)
- RUN TIME: 109 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- There is enchantment in the light.
- Keeping secrets, are ye?
- The light has its mysteries.
- STUDIO: A24 Films
- https://a24films.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/a24/
- https://twitter.com/A24
- https://www.amazon.com/Lighthouse-Blu-ray-Willem-Dafoe/dp/B07ZLJKM2P/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/
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Girl on the Third Floor (2019) (Directed by Travis Stevens)
- Blu-ray/ DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: C.M. Punk, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks, Elissa Dowling, Karen Woditsch, Travis Delgado, Marshall Bean, Anish Jethmalani, Bishop Stevens, Tonya Kay
- WRITER: Paul Johnstone, Ben Parker
- SYNOPSIS: Bursting pipes, rotting walls, and unidentifiable slime were not what Don Koch expected when he convinced his wife Liz that he could rehab their new Victorian home himself. In over his head, under duress, and tempted by his old weaknesses, Don soon discovers that the house has its own dark, sordid history and won’t be so easy to renovate after all…
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
- STUDIO: Dark Sky Films
- https://darkskyfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/DarkSkyFilms/
- https://twitter.com/darkskyfilms
- https://www.amazon.com/Third-Floor-Blu-ray-Travis-Stevens/dp/B07Z74Q1X8/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9026184/
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Trespassers (2018) (Directed by Orson Oblowitz)
AKA: Hell Is Where the Home Is
- Blu-ray/ DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Angela Trimbur, Janel Parrish, Jonathan Howard, Fairuza Balk
- SYNOPSIS: Two couples, each working through relationship issues, rent a gorgeous house in the desert for a sex and drug-fueled escape from reality. Sarah (Angela Trimbur) and Estelle (Janel Parrish) are longtime best friends looking forward to reconnecting after a period apart; their boyfriends, Joseph (Zach Avery) and Victor (Jonathan Howard), however, are immediately wary of one another. As tensions escalate over the course of a debaucherous night, things take an unexpected turn when a woman (Fairuza Balk) claiming to be a neighbor with car trouble shows up at the door. She seems harmless enough…or so they think.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 88 Minutes
- STUDIO: IFC Midnight
- https://www.ifcfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/IFCFilmsOfficial
- https://twitter.com/IFCMidnight
- https://www.amazon.com/Trespassers-Blu-ray-Angela-Trimbur/dp/B07YMF23XW/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7284202/
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Depraved (2019) (Directed by Larry Fessenden)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux
- SYNOPSIS: The legend of Frankenstein gets a provocative modern update in the stylishly disturbing new film from indie horror master Larry Fessenden. Suffering from PTSD following his stint as an army medic, Henry (David Call) now works feverishly in his Brooklyn laboratory to forget the death he witnessed overseas by creating life in the form of a man cobbled together from body parts. After procuring a brain from an unwitting victim, his creation—Adam (Alex Breaux)—is born. But it soon seems that giving life to Adam was the easy part; teaching him how to live in a dark and troubled world may be perilous.
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 114 Minutes
- STUDIO: IFC Midnight
- https://www.ifcfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/IFCFilmsOfficial
- https://twitter.com/IFCMidnight
- https://www.amazon.com/Depraved-Blu-ray-David-Call/dp/B07YMLDKLL/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7946216/
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The Shed (2019) (Directed by Frank Sabatella)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen, Timothy Bottoms, Frank Whaley
- SYNOPSIS: Stan and his best friend Dommer have put up with bullies their entire lives. All of that changes when Stan discovers he has a murderous vampire living in his shed. Seeing the bloodshed and destruction the monster is capable of, Stan knows he has to find a way to destroy it. But Dommer has a much more sinister plan in mind.
- GENRE: Horror, Drama
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 97 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Don’t go there.
- Rage cannot be contained.
- What happens in the dark will always come to light.
- Beware the evil within.
- STUDIO: RLJ Entertainment
- http://us.rljentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/RLJEfilms/
- https://twitter.com/RLJEfilms
- Press Release: HERE
- Review HERE
- http://www.cinemamanagementgroup.com/film/the-shed/
- https://www.amazon.com/Shed-Blu-ray-Jay-Warren/dp/B07XGF1J59/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8236366/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3T_1qYbj58&t=4s
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The Specialists (1969) (Directed by Sergio Corbucci)
- Blu-ray DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Johnny Hallyday, Gastone Moschin, Francoise Fabian, Sylvie Fennec, Angela Luce, Serge Marquand, Gino Pernice, Andres Jose Cruz Soublette
- SYNOPSIS: From Sergio Corbucci, the legendary director of Django, Navajo Joe, The Great Silence, Companeros and The Mercenary comes this thrilling spaghetti western starring French music and film great Johnny Hallyday (The Man on the Train, Detective, Vengeance). Notorious gunfighter Hud Dixon (Hallyday) arrives in Blackstone, a town where his brother was wrongfully accused of robbing a bank and lynched for it. As Hud seeks revenge, he starts to discover the truth behind the stolen loot, and has to contend with an idealistic sheriff, a beautiful and seductive female banker, a corrupt businessman and a one-armed Mexican bandit, who was once his friend. Gastone Moschin (The Conformist, Caliber 9) and Francoise Fabian (Belle de Jour, My Night at Maud’s) co-star in this fully restored adventure-yarn gorgeously shot by Dario Di Palma (The Seduction of Mimi, The Oldest Profession).
- GENRE: Horror, Western, Foreign
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 104 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
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- Fierce, Scrupulous, Scientific
- When they worked, they left nothing to chance…
- STUDIO: Kino Lorber
- https://www.kinolorber.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/kinolorberinc
- https://twitter.com/KinoLorber
- https://www.amazon.com/Specialists-Special-aka-Specialisti-Blu-ray/dp/B07Z761S23/
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Wrinkles the Clown (2019) (Directed by Michael Beach Nichols)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Christopher Barcia, Trevor J. Blank, Andrew Caldwell, George Holden, D.B. Lambert, Ken Miller, Benjamin Radford, Rena Sellars, Sean Whitaker, Jarrett Wideman
- WRITER: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker
- SYNOPSIS:
- In late 2014, a low-res video of a person in a clown mask emerging from underneath a sleeping child’s bed appears on YouTube. The description below the video claims that the clown is named “Wrinkles,” that he lives in southwest Florida, and that he’s been hired by the child’s parents to frighten her for misbehaving. The video goes viral. Soon, more mysterious videos of Wrinkles scaring children appear online, along with a phone number to hire him for “behavioral services.”
- Wrinkles becomes internet lore – a whole genre of YouTube videos of kids filming themselves calling him appears online, and over a million messages are left at the number. Voicemails range from disturbing to hilarious to terrifying: parents use the number to terrify their children, kids who are obsessive fans of creepy clowns reach out to make a new friend, children threaten to inflict wildly creative violence if he comes anywhere near them. But who is Wrinkles, and why is he doing this? With incredible access to the mastermind behind the mask, Wrinkles the Clown is a cryptic and playful exploration of these questions, as well as an inside look at myth-building and the unpredictable spread of imagination in the Internet age.
- GENRE: Documentary, Comedy, Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 75 Minutes
- TAGLINE: He’s Just a Phone Call Away.
- STUDIO: Magnolia Pictures
- http://www.magnoliapictures.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/MagnoliaPictures/
- https://twitter.com/MagnoliaPics
- https://www.amazon.com/Wrinkles-Clown/dp/B07YTD2Q21/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9097270/
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Dark Light (2019) (Directed by Padraig Reynolds)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Ed Brody, Kristina Clifford, Opal Littleton, Jessica Madsen, Weston Meredith, Ben Sullivan, Gerald Tyler
- WRITER: Padraig Reynolds
- SYNOPSIS: Following her mother’s death and a painful divorce, Annie and her daughter, Emily, move back to her childhood home. At first everything seems fine but then tragedy strikes again on a foggy night when Emily goes missing from her bedroom. Annie claims that she saw something come from the darkness and take her . . . a creature. Nobody believes her. When Emily’s body is nowhere to be found, Annie becomes the prime suspect and is sent to a correctional hospital. She must now escape the hospital and return to the house to confront the creature that has stolen her daughter.
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Fear The Light.
- STUDIO: Lionsgate
- https://www.lionsgate.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/lionsgate/
- https://twitter.com/Lionsgate
- https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Light/dp/B07ZLKTNP6/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9135260/
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Savage Creatures (2019) (Directed by Richard Lowry)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Kelly Brown, Victoria Steadman, Ryan Quinn Adams
- SYNOPSIS: Two vampires realize their food source is in jeopardy when alien creatures land on earth causing humans to become rabid zombies. They must battle cannibals, gun toting nuns, aliens and the undead if they want to save the world.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 75 Minutes
- TAGLINE: Vampires. Aliens. Cannibals. Rabid Zombies. Judgement Day just went off the rails.
- STUDIO: Mill Creek Entertainment
- https://www.millcreekent.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/MillCreekEnt/
- https://twitter.com/MillCreekEnt
- https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Creatures-Kelly-Brown/dp/B07Z761FTF/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10523424/
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The Nightshifter (2018) (Directed by Dennison Ramalho)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento, Bianca Comparato
- SYNOPSIS: Stenio works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. He toils all night, but he’s never alone, for Stenio can talk to the dead. And they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stenio unleashes a curse that brings forth danger and darkness
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 110 Minutes
- STUDIO: RLJ Entertainment
- http://us.rljentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/RLJEfilms/
- https://twitter.com/RLJEfilms
- https://www.amazon.com/Nightshifter-Blu-ray-Daniel-Oliveira/dp/B07Z74Q1VH/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7986672/
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Lake Artifact (2019) (Directed by Bruce Wemple)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Catharine Daddario, Thomas Brazzle, Anna Shields, Chris Cimperman, Dylan Grunn, Rick Montgomery Jr.
- WRITER: Bruce Wemple
- SYNOPSIS: Five friends pick up a drifter on their way to a cabin in Upstate New York for a three day weekend. Upon arrival, they discover a picture of themselves posing at the cabin, which they’ve never been to; Time and space begin to function without rhyme or reason, slowly turning them against each other.
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy,
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 96 Minutes
- STUDIO: Midnight Releasing
- https://midnightreleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/MidnightReleasing/
- https://twitter.com/MidnightRlsng
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8618718/
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A Psycho’s Path (2019) (Directed by Rocky Costanzo)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Quinton Rampage Jackson, Noel Gugliemi
- SYNOPSIS: A small California desert town is being stalked by a motiveless psychopath who roams the streets killing at random. Captain Peters and his small police force are on the case, searching for his whereabouts before he kills again.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 84 Minutes
- STUDIO: Mill Creek Entertainment
- https://www.millcreekent.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/MillCreekEnt/
- https://twitter.com/MillCreekEnt
- https://www.amazon.com/Psychos-Path-Quinton-Rampage-Jackson/dp/B07Z74G6SV/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8493638/
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Inner Ghosts (2018) (Directed by Paulo Leite)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Celia Williams, Elizabeth Bochmann, Iris Cayatte, Norman MacCallum, Amanda Booth, Ana Sofia Leite, Patricia Godinho
- SYNOPSIS: Helen is asked to train two young women in the art of communicating with the dead, something she gave up 15 years ago when she lost her daughter. Today Helen is a different woman dedicated to her career in brain research. Things start to change when a visit from the other side offers her the design of a revolutionary device. But to everything there is a risk and slowly Helen’s true intentions come to light.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 89 Minutes
- TAGLINE: The key to Hell lies deep in your heart.
- SEE PRESS RELEASE HERE
- STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment
- https://www.uncorkedentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/uncorkdent/
- https://twitter.com/uncorkdent
- https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Ghosts-Paulo-Leite/dp/B07Z75ZYT9/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4177670/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNMy1izjF1U
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Dr. Cyclops (1940) (Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack)
- Blu-ray (Special Edition)
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Albert Dekker, Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, Frank Yaconelli, Billy Wilkerson, Allen Fox, Paul Fix, Frank Reicher
- PRODUCER: Dale Van Every
- SYNOPSIS: A mad doctor in Peru makes a woman and three men one-fifth their normal size.
- SPECIAL EDITION:
- From Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, the legendary team behind King Kong, The Most Dangerous Game and Mighty Joe Young, comes this early Technicolor science-fiction classic about a brilliant but deranged physicist who learns how to shrink his enemies to one-fifth their normal size! Four explorers are summoned to the remote jungle laboratory of the legendary scientist Dr. Thorkel (Albert Dekker, Kiss Me Deadly, The Killers, Beau Geste). When they arrive, they discover that his brilliant mind has been warped by radiation and decide to return him to civilization for help. But the half-blind, half-mad Dr. Cyclops will have none of that and uses his experimental body-shrinking device to stop them. Now, harmless items and small creatures suddenly become giant-sized instruments of death! The impressive use of landmark special effects, which garnered an Oscar nomination (Best Effects, Special Effects), helped make this sci-fi yarn one of the most imaginative and memorable horror-fantasy films of all time.Special Features:
Brand New 4K Master
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith
Trailers From Hell with Jesús Treviño ”
Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
Optional English Subtitles
Theatrical Trailer - GENRE: Horror, Drama, Adventure
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 77 Minutes
- TAGLINES:
- Diabolical
- The mightiest thrill picture ever made!
- Diabolical Dr. Cyclops
- The picture that was made behind locked doors!
- The thrill of the year!
- STUDIO: Kino Lorber
- https://www.kinolorber.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/kinolorberinc
- https://twitter.com/KinoLorber
- https://www.amazon.com/Cyclops-Special-Blu-ray-Albert-Dekker/dp/B07Z76Y191/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032412/
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Dark Encounter (2019) (Dorected by Carl Strathie
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Nicholas Pinnock, Vincent Regan
- SYNOPSIS: A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, her grieving family return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to a strange, inexplicable phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 98 Minutes
- STUDIO: 4Digital Media
- http://4digitalmedia.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/4DigitalMedia/
- https://twitter.com/4digitalM
- https://www.amazon.com/DARK-ENCOUNTER-Laura-Fraser/dp/B07Z7531QR/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8269120/
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Swamp Zombies 2 (2018) (Directed by Len Kabasinski)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Len Kabasinski, Mister Lobo, Alicia Seguin, Lisa Neeld, Crystal Quin
- CAMEO APPEARANCE: Baron Craze
- WRITER: Newt Wallen
- PRODUCER: Len Kabasinski
- SYNOPSIS: The hottest reality TV show in the world, “Lucky Stiffs”, is about to get even hotter. Contestants from all over the globe compete for fame and fortune by surviving challenges against each other and the show’s “stars”…zombies! There’s just one problem: a renegade contestant is trying to expose the show as unethical and the producer is grasping at straws. When all the producer’s attempts have failed, they’re left with one choice…to free Jack from a top-secret prison and send him onto the show. Jack has the skills to stay alive, and he knows a thing or two about zombies.
- GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Action
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 72 minutes
- TAGLINE: The muck just hit the fan…
- STUDIO: Meridian Releasing Group
- https://www.meridianreleasinggroup.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/meridianreleasing/
- https://twitter.com/MeridianRG
- https://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Zombies-Blu-ray-Len-Kabasinski/dp/B082PRBMN6/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7520184/
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Mermaid Down (2019) (Directed by Jeffrey Grellman)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Alexandra Bokova, Meggan Kaiser, Burt Culver
- SYNOPSIS: A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is chopped off and she’s thrown into a mental home where no one believes she is a mermaid.
- GENRE: Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 91 minutes
- TAGLINE: They Exist.
- STUDIO: Archstone
- http://archstonedistribution.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/ArchstoneDistribution/
- https://twitter.com/ArchstoneDistb
- https://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Down-Alexandra-Bokova/dp/B07TJKCB6G/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3584496/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjKuxTQoodU
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January 10
Blood Stalkers (1976) (Directed by Robert W. Morgan)
AKA: The Night Daniel Died
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Ken Miller, Toni Crabtree, Jerry Albert
- SYNOPSIS:
- DEGENERATE MEN CREATE A NIGHT OF DEPRAVED TERROR FOR TWO HELPLESS COUPLES WHO BECOME THEIR PREY… Mike and Kim and Jeri and Daniel, two couples from the city seeking a relaxing vacation in the backwoods of the Florida everglades, soon find their peaceful getaway trip is becoming a nightmare of unrelenting horror! It begins with the inhuman screams echoing throughout the dead of night, and the unearthly creature stalking the deep swamplands, but ends in a shattering nightmare all too humanly real. The warnings went unheeded… they entered blood stalker country … now they must suffer the consequences. Garagehouse Pictures proudly presents Robert W. Morgan s grisly drive-in shocker in HD for the first time ever, in a Blu-ray edition positively packed with extras! In the tradition of DELIVERANCE, this film will scare the hell out of you! You will never forget it.
- SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Audio commentary by Robert W. Morgan moderated by Jeff Stephan
- BLOODSTALKERS REVISITED 2017 documentary short
- On camera interviews w/ Robert W. Morgan
- Still Gallery
- Liner Notes by Robert W. Morgan on the making of BLOODSTALKERS The Mansion of Terror – unproduced screenplay Original
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 93 minutes
- TAGLINES:
- There is terror in the backwoods…in a place where violence is a way of life, there are many ways to die!
- This Motion Picture Will Scare the Hell Out of You!
- Spine tingling horror…haunting suspense
- STUDIO: Garagehouse Pictures
- https://www.garagehousepictures.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/garagehousepictures/
- https://twitter.com/GaragehousePic
- https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Stalkers-Blu-ray-Kenny-Miller/dp/B082JQ364K/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077245/
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