March 17

Cannibals In The Streets (1980) (Directed by Anthony M. Dawson)

AKA “Cannibal Apocalypse”

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The Dustwalker (2019) (Directed by Sandra Sciberras)

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Jolene Anderson, Stef Dawson, Richard Davies, Cassandra Magrath, Ruby Duncan
  • WRITER: Sandra Sciberras
  • PRODUCERS: Grace Luminato, Megan Wynn
  • SYNOPSIS: A spacecraft crash-lands in an isolated desert town and releases an insidious parasite that attacks the brains of all creatures making them disorientated, unnaturally strong and violent. Long-time local cop, Sergeant Joanne Sharp, yearning for city life, is determined to take her feisty younger sister Samantha and eight-year old son Simon back to the city with her. One morning she wakes to find the town without communication and, venturing into town with her police partner Luke Dawson, realizes the unexpected events are just harbingers of the horror to come. The virus is random and seemingly impossible to control. With the town now isolated from the outside worldwide by sources unknown, they eventually team up with the Alien, who mysteriously appears around town to try to destroy the remnants of his mistake. While Joanne, Luke and the towns’ people fight to save their town they realize the Alien, in its determination to destroy the virus, will kill any humans that get in the way.
  • GENRE: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 95 minutes
  • STUDIO: Gravitas Ventures
  • http://gravitasventures.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/GravitasVentures/
  • https://twitter.com/GravitasVOD
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0841F47SX/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6816388/

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Yokai (2014) (Directed by Cristobal Echevensko)

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The Nines (2007) (Directed by John August)

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Elle Fanning, Melissa McCarthy, Dahlia Salem, David Denman, Octavia Spencer, Ben Falcone
  • WRITER: John August
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) and Hope Davis (American Splendor) star in this clever, mind-bending thrill ride through the mind of an actor, a writer and video game designer who arguably controls them all.
  • The Nines consists of three short films, each featuring the same actors in different – and sometimes overlapping – roles. Together, three stories form a single narrative that explores the relationships between author and character, actor and role, creator and creation. Alternately funny and unsettling, The Nines is like a riddle where the answer is the question – How does it all add up?
  • TAGLINE: Y9u never kn9w when y9ur number is up
  • GENRE: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
  • RATING: Rated R (language, some drug content and sexuality)
  • RUN TIME: 100 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Mill Creek Entertainment
  • https://www.millcreekent.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/MillCreekEnt/
  • https://twitter.com/MillCreekEnt
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/

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Black Christmas (2019) (Directed by Sophia Takal)

  • DVD/Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes, Brittany O’Grady, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Madeleine Adams, Ben Black, Lucy Currey, Simon Mead, Caleb Eberhardt
  • WRITER: Sophia Takal, April Wolfe
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue, The CW’s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon, The CW’s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.
  • As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes).
  • Whoever the killer is, he’s about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t about to be anybody’s victims.
  • TAGLINE: Slay, Girls
  • BOX OFFICE: $18.5 Million Worldwide
  • GENRE: Horror, Mystery Thriller
  • RATING: Rated PG-13 (violence, terror, thematic content involving sexual assault, language, sexual material and drinking)
  • RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
  • https://www.uphe.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/universalstudiosentertainment
  • https://twitter.com/universalent
  • https://www.amazon.com/Black-Christmas-Blu-ray-Imogen-Poots/dp/B082BY4X58/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10481868/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTMp3oal5kg

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Mirror, Mirror (1990) (Directed by Marina Sargenti)

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Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994) (Directed by Jimmy Lifton)

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Nefarious (2019) (Directed by Richard Rowntree

  • DVD/Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Toby Wynn-Davies, Gregory A Smith, Nadia Lamin, Buck Braithwaite, Omari Lake-Pottinger, Abbey Gillett, Tony Sands, Emma Feeney
  • WRITER: Matthew Davies
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Sometimes, you have to turn to crime. Sometimes, it turns on you…
  • Darren, Lou, Jo and Mas live a meagre existence on the fringes of poverty. Indebted to the criminal kingpin of their social housing development, they routinely fear for their lives.
  • On the other side of town, the already wealthy Marcus and his disabled brother Clive receive a windfall in the form of a winning lottery ticket.
  • When their worlds collide following a botched robbery, the would-be criminals get more than they bargained for, and will be tested to their limits in a desperate attempt to survive a predator of monstrous proportions.
  • TAGLINE: Sometimes you have to turn to crime, sometimes, it turns on you…
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 78 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Gravitas Ventures
  • http://gravitasventures.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/GravitasVentures/
  • https://twitter.com/GravitasVOD
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8422628/

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By Day’s End (2020) (Directed by Michael Souder)

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Lyndsey Lantz, Andrea Nelson, Joshua Keller Katz
  • SYNOPSIS: Love is never an easy road. No one knows that better than Carly and Rina, whose relationship takes a turn for the worse after Carly decides to drop out of med school and Rina loses her job as an attorney. This forces them to move into a motel, a situation neither of them are happy with. To makes matters worse, Rina’s battles with depression have returned and Carly has decided to use what money she has left to buy a camera so she can pursue videography as a profession. Despite the cracks that are starting to show in their relationship, Carly and Rina pledge to repair what has been broken, no matter the circumstances, no matter the odds. But are they both as adamant as they say they are? Unfortunately, time is not on their side. When a pandemic disease ravaging the world appears in their city and starts turning people into crazed flesh eating machines, Carly and Rina decide to keep documenting the occurrence with their camera. Doing so, they are forced to band together like never before in order to survive.
  • TAGLINE: The only thing to hold onto in life is each other.
  • GENRE: Horror, Romance
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 73 minutes
  • STUDIO: Breaking Glass Pictures
  • https://www.bgpics.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/BreakingGlassPictures/
  • https://twitter.com/BreakingGlassPx
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082PRJ826/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4693840/

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Uncaged (2016) (Directed by Dick Maas)

AKA: “Prey”

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Bone Breaker (2020) (Directed by Nicholas Winter)

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47 Hours to Live (2019) (Directed by Patrick Johnson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvA7iDpULME

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Hanukkah (2020) (Directed by Eben McGarr)

  • DVD/Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Charles Fleischer, Sid Haig, Caroline Williams, P.J. Soles, Dick Miller, Kyle Pacek
  • SYNOPSIS: Obediah Lazarus is the son of Judah Lazarus, the original Hanukiller. In 1983, Judah terrorized NY for seven nights and was preparing to sacrifice his eight year old son, Obediah, on the eighth night. Judah was convinced it was God’s will, like Abraham and Isaac, to sacrifice his only son to God. Luckily for Obediah, police tracked Judah down and stopped the sacrifice, but Judah was gunned down in the process. Warped by hatred with no guidance, Obediah Lazarus becomes a religious extremist, intolerant of non-Jews, “bad Jews”, and those he perceives to be enemies of the Jewish faith. He is about to unleash eight nights of horror. A group of Jewish teens are getting ready to party for the holidays, but are in for a Festival of Frights. With the help of a wise Rabbi, they deduce that the murder victims have violated Judaic law and that their only chance at survival is to embrace their faith.
  • TAGLINES:
    • The Festival of Frights!
    • From the Dreidel to the Grave.
    • A Torah-fying New Tale of Horah.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 97 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Invincible Pictures
  • https://www.amazon.com/Hanukkah-Blu-ray-Charles-Fleischer/dp/B07YTF5WF1/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562146/

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Witch Hunters (2016) (Directed by Richard Chandler)

AKA “ Witch Hunt”

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Graham King, Lilith Astaroth, Tony Ramos Wright
  • SYNOPSIS: Witch Hunters descend upon a small town and make a pact with the local priest to destroy a mysterious evil. What they don’t realize, is the priest’s dark and sinister past might be the cause behind the string of grisly murders that have the town on edge, not the coven of Satanic witches they are hell bent on destroying.
  • TAGLINES:
    • Send the devil to do God’s work…
    • Beauty in death.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 80 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Chemical Burn Entertainment
  • http://chemicalburn.org/home.html
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZWBMCZ1/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3593978/

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Previews of Coming Attractions (Directed by Tony Newton)

  • DVD
  • SYNOPSIS: This is Grindhouse! More gore, more nudity, more carnage, more mayhem and more schlock than in any other trailer compilation ever made! The creator of Grindsploitation aka King of Schlock, Tony Newton, opens up his rusty film canisters to bring you an onslaught of the most Shocking, Schlocking, Blood Filled, Grindhouse Horror film trailers from the darkest depths of the underground and beyond the grave! The newest sickest Grindhouse film trailer compilations featuring cult indie horror directors from across the globe includes two additional features. Schlock O’ Rama and Trailersploitation!
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 85 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Filmlandia
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZWBFHYR/

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Landfall (2017) (Directed by Travis Bain)

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Rob Stanfield, Kristen Condon, Vernon Wells, Tony Bonner
  • SYNOPSIS: In this natural-disaster, home-invasion thriller, Dylan and his girlfriend Maisie are taken hostage in their own home during a cyclone storm by a group of gun-wielding men dressed as medics. However, this isn’t an ordinary home invasion, as the intruders carry with them a mysterious ice box with unknown content that they are guarding at all costs. The couple now find themselves caught between a deadly storm and dangerous men. Using only their wits, Dylan and Maisie must find a way to escape their captors, while also braving the lethal cyclone.
  • TAGLINE: The only things more dangerous than acts of nature are the acts of men.
  • GENRE: Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 99 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Infuse Releasing
  • https://www.facebook.com/infuserel/
  • https://twitter.com/InfuseReleasing
  • https://www.amazon.com/Landfall-Rob-Stanfield/dp/B07ZW9CWKN/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6131562/

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City of the Vampires (1993) (Directed by Ron Bonk)

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Anne Marie O’Keefe, Matthew Jason Walsh, Noel Bonk
  • SYNOPSIS: A Retro Release! A wrong turn and Sam Helling found himself lost in the city of Braddock. There he faced a terror so unspeakable that he left his own girlfriend Christine behind, trapped within its clutches. One month later, and Sam is on the edge and suicidal. It took just one night and one bad decision to destroy his entire life. Now, with nothing to lose, he is going back. His plan – retrace his steps and search for clues to Christine’s fate. Along the way he will learn who is friend and who is foe, and receive help from an unlikely source. He will be chased through the streets, the residents unwilling to help, and fall within the vampire’s deadly lair itself. And in the end, he will have to face his own fears and disbelief if he is to unlock the mystery of the dead city, and learn what really happened to Christine on that terrible night… And once he finds her, ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
  • STUDIO: SRS Cinema
  • http://srscinema.com/home/
  • https://www.facebook.com/srscinemallc/
  • https://twitter.com/SRSCinema
  • https://www.amazon.com/City-Vampires-Anne-Marie-OKeefe/dp/B07ZWBD8LD/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106576/

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Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre (2018)

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: William Hickey, Guy Rolfe, Steve Welles
  • DIRECTORS: Charles Band , David Schmoeller, David DeCoteau, Jeff Burr, Robert Talbot
  • SYNOPSIS: Drawing from nearly three decades of cinematic splatter and freakish filmmaking, PUPPET MASTER: BLITZKRIEG MASSACRE is the first chapter in FULL MOON’S BUNKER OF BLOOD, a gory “Greatest Hits” of the legendary studio’s strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new, all outrageous narrative that drives the viewer deep into the darkest, dankest madman’s macabre lair. In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high-tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of M.D.’s (that’s medical deviants) who are experimenting with human suffering. Suddenly, our shackled hero hears the call of “The Gore Collector”, a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Escaping from the lurid lab, the drifter enters the underground lair of The Gore Collector and there, the perverse programmer pops in a vile videotape and begins the process of trying to warp the man’s minds with the goriest and gruesomest moments from some of Full Moon’s most iconic film franchises in an all-out assault to the senses! Using lavishly illustrated comic book panels to bookend the twisted tale, PUPPET MASTER: BLITZKRIEG MASSACRE culls the sickest moments from the 11-film deep PUPPET MASTER series, mashing them together with macabre music and brand new moments of body-breaking mayhem. Can our hero survive the BLITZKRIEG MASSACRE? Can YOU?!?!
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 62 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Full Moon Pictures
  • https://www.fullmoonfeatures.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/Full-Moon-Features-18956686394/
  • https://twitter.com/fullmoonhorror
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081KQJMC4/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9379674/

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Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts (2018)

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Karen Black, Tracy Soggins
  • DIRECTORS: Charles Band, William Butler, Peter Manoogian, Ted Nicolaou
  • SYNOPSIS: Once more, we follow the mind-bending adventures of a nameless drifter with an impossibly high pain tolerance, who finds himself trapped in the lair of “The Gore Collector”, a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Deep within The Gore Collector’s “Bunker of Blood”, the perverse programmer subjects the man to a non-stop shock treatment of some of the goriest and gruesomest moments from some of Full Moon’s most iconic film franchises. Will he survive? DEADLY DOLLS: DEEPEST CUTS features the sickest scenes from classic flicks like BLOOD DOLLS, DOLL GRAVEYARD, DANGEROUS WORRY DOLLS, DEMONIC TOYS and more, mashing them together with macabre music and brand new moments of body-breaking mayhem.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 75 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Full Moon Pictures
  • https://www.fullmoonfeatures.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/Full-Moon-Features-18956686394/
  • https://twitter.com/fullmoonhorror
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZW8N3SV/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9377760/

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Verotika (2019) (Directed by Glenn Danzig)

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Universal Horror Collection: Volume 4

  • Blu-ray
  • SYNOPSIS: Get ready for more thrills and chills! Volume 4 of the Universal Horror Collection includes four tales of terror from the archives of Universal Pictures, the true home of classic horror. This collection includes such horror stars as Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Rondo Hatton. Boris Karloff ignites the screen as an inventor who is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies in Night Key. Bela Lugosi stars in a creepy tale of strange characters, secret passages and a murderer who masters the art of “mind over matter” in Night Monster. In The Climax, Karloff is terrifying as a mad doctor whose insane jealousy over a beautiful opera singer may drive him to murder. A giant of a man is used as an instrument of evil by a mad sculptor in House of Horrors.
  • Night Key – stars Boris Karloff
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029309/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gLcRw5h5E

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Blood Soaked (2013) (Directed by Peter Grendle)

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Penance (2009) (Directed by Jake Kennedy)

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Candy Corn (2019) (Directed by Josh Hasty)

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Amityville Island (Directed by Mark Polonia)

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