There were a lot of releases this week so it will be divided into two posts.
October 27
Attack of the Unknown (2020)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Richard Grieco, Jolene Andersen, Douglas Tait, Robert LaSardo, Tara Reid, Johnny Huang, Robert Donovan, Paul Gunn, Gerardo De Pablos, Clay Trimble, King Jeff, Rich Rendon, Johnny Molinaro, William “Bill” Connor
- DIRECTOR: Brandon Slagle
- SYNOPSIS: A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss find themselves trapped inside a county detention center as the world burns around them. They have no communication with the outside world and must band together to escape the bloodthirsty alien forces attacking them. Attach of the Unknown stars Richard Grieco (21 Jump Street, Night at the Roxbury, If looks could Kill) Tara Reid (American Pie) and Robert LaSardo (Nip/Tuck, General Hospital, CSI Miami, Gang Related, NYPD Blue).
- TAGLINE: They’re here for blood
- GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Action
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 100 Minutes
- STUDIO: Gravitas Ventures
- http://gravitasventures.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/GravitasVentures
- https://twitter.com/GravitasVOD
- https://www.amazon.com/Attack-Blu-ray-Brandon-Slagle/dp/B08CWM86NB/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8804580/
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Ouija Mummy (2019)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Brett Kelly, Joel D. Wynkoop, Jed Rowan
- DIRECTOR: Sebastien Godin
- SYNOPSIS: A young girl is possessed by the spirit of a malevolent Egyptian Goddess after she and her friends conjure the entity with a spirit board.
- TAGLINE: Evil is unwrapped.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 61 Minutes
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08B73YW28/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8834658/
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American Scarecrow (2020)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Mark Popejoy
- DIRECTOR: Steve Lustgarten
- SYNOPSIS: A secluded farmhouse harbors a decades old secret of murders at the hands of a scarecrow creature.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 71 Minutes
- STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
- http://www.wildeyereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/wild.eye.releasing
- https://twitter.com/WildEyeMovies
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08B7G5Z2N/
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No Such Thing As Monsters (2019)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Angel Giuffria, Matthew Clarke, Michaela Celeste, Georgia Crisfield-Smith, Rebecca Fortuna, Jacob Fyfe, Rohana Hayes, David Macrae
- DIRECTOR: Stuart Stanton
- WRITER: Stuart Stanton, Karen Elgar
- SYNOPSIS: A young couple escape to the woods for a weekend of fun; but everything changes when they are terrorized by a psychopathic family.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
- STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment
- https://www.uncorkedentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/uncorkdent/
- https://twitter.com/uncorkdent
- https://www.amazon.com/No-Such-Thing-As-Monsters/dp/B08DPQZZBK/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9005542/
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Teacher Shortage (2019)
DVD
PRINCIPAL CAST: Brinke Stevens, Debra Lamb, Julie Anne Prescott
DIRECTOR: Troy Escamilla
SYNOPSIS: What is supposed to be an educational and collaborative weekend professional development session for the English Department of Prescott High School instead turns into a blood soaked nightmare when a masked killer targets them.
TAGLINE: Some Are Dying to Leave the Profession!
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 86 minutes
STUDIO: Bayview Entertainment
https://www.bayviewentertainment.com/
https://www.facebook.com/bayviewentertainment/
https://twitter.com/BayViewEnt1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FP3WM8D/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8555778/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivsRzD0_QMU
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Halloween Party (2019)
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Amy Groening, T. Thomason, Marietta Laan
- DIRECTOR: Jay Dahl
- SYNOPSIS: A college student unwittingly releases terrifying entities from her school’s past via a Halloween themed computer meme.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: No Rated
- RUN TIME: 92 minutes
- GENRE: Breaking Glass Pictures
- https://www.bgpics.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/BreakingGlassPictures
- https://twitter.com/BreakingGlassPx
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GFPM92J/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6250650/
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The Black Cat (1989)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Florence Guerin, Urbano Barberini, Caroline Munro
- DIRECTOR: Luigi Cozzi
- SYNOPSIS: From Luigi Cozzi, the writer/director of STARCRASH, CONTAMINATION and PAGANINI HORROR, comes the over-the-top meta-shocker about a production company filming a new sequel to one of ’70s Italian horror’s best-known classics and the resurrected supernatural demon that may destroy them all. Caroline Munro (MANIAC), Brett Halsey (THE DEVIL’S HONEY), Florence Guerin (BLACK VENUS) and Urbano Barberini (OPERA) star in this long-unseen fan favorite, originally released in Italy as DEMONS 6. Transferred in 2k from pristine vault elements for the first time ever.
- TAGLINE: Between dreams & nightmares… between reality & fantasy… lies the terror of
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 89 Minutes
- STUDIO: Serverin Films
- https://severin-films.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/severinfilms/
- https://twitter.com/severinfilms/
- https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cat-Blu-ray-Florence-Guérin/dp/B08JF5KSH5/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096932/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCfE7TiiCY
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Shock Treatment (1973)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch
- DIRECTOR: Alain Jessua
- SYNOPSIS:
- French film legends Alain Delon (PURPLE NOON, LE SAMOURAÃ) and Annie Girardot (ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, THE PIANO TEACHER) star in the 1972 thriller from writer/director Alain Jessua (ARMAGUEDON, THE DOGS) that became a cause célèbre of international cinema.
- When a career woman (Girardot) checks into the exclusive seaside clinic of a doctor (Delon), famed for his unorthodox rejuvenation treatments, she’ll discover a nightmare of bourgeois depravities, medical atrocities and the eye-popping full-frontal nudity that sparked worldwide headlines. Robert Hirsch (HIVER 54, L’ABBÉ PIERRE), Michel Duchaussoy (MESRINE) and Jeanne Colletin (EMMANUELLE) co-star in this “political allegory fashioned as horror story”(Time Out). Released in the UK as DOCTOR IN THE NUDE – now scanned uncut in 2k from the original interpositive.
- GENRE: Horror, Crime, Drama
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 87 Minutes
- STUDIO: Serverin Films
- https://severin-films.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/severinfilms/
- https://twitter.com/severinfilms/
- https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Treatment-Blu-ray-Alain-Delon/dp/B08JF5M83V/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070827/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEmYEgM1GI
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Death Stop Holocaust (2009)
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Lisa Krenisky, Jenna Fournier, Ray Goodwin
- DIRECTOR: Justin Russell
- SYNOPSIS: Two young women, Elizabeth and Taylor, travel to their father’s summer home on a remote island for a vacation getaway. As they travel deeper into the island, a nightmare begins to unfold. An unmarked white van will not leave them be, as they begin to sink deeper into terror. It becomes clear to the women they are not welcome as a group of masked killers begin to torment, torture, and hack them to bits. What secrets does this island hold and what lengths will they go to preserve them?
- TAGLINE: For two young women, an island paradise is about to become… A nightmare of terror!
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 80 minutes
- STUDIO: Media Blasters
- http://media-blasters.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/mediablastersinc/
- https://twitter.com/mediablasters1
- https://www.amazon.com/Death-Stop-Holocaust-Blu-ray-Krenisky/dp/B08GLSVVXR/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1619636/
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Blood Feast + Scum of the Earth Double Feature
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Louise Downe
- DIRECTOR: Herschell Gordon Lewis
- SYNOPSIS:
- In Blood Feast, Dorothy Fremont is looking to throw a party unlike any other, and she gets just that when she hires the decidedly sinister Fuad Ramses to cater the event. Promising to provide her guests with an authentic Egyptian feast, Ramses promptly sets about acquiring the necessary ingredients–the body parts of nubile young women!
- In Scum of the Earth, the naïve young Kim Sherwood gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to pose for a shady photographer, and finds herself embroiled in a sinister gang ring who illegally distribute photographs of nude and abused young girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssZwqcfaXY
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 240 minutes
- STUDIO: Arrow Video
- https://arrowfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo
- https://twitter.com/ArrowFilms
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JVLBXYQ/
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Memorial Valley Massacre (1989)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: John Kerry, Cameron Mitchell, Karen Russell, William Smith
- DIRECTOR: Robert C. Hughes
- SYNOPSIS:
- Evil land developer, Allen Sangster, has just opened his latest tourist trap: the Memorial Valley Campground. As carloads of happy campers arrive for what they assume will be a weekend of fun in the great outdoors, a much more sinister presence is watching them from the nearby wilderness. When campers start turning up dead, their bodies brutally mangled, George, the head forest ranger, is tasked with finding the killer and putting an end to the bloodshed…but it seems he might know much more about the sinister killings than he’s letting on.
- Shot under the title ‘Memorial Day’ and released internationally as ‘Valley of Death,’ MEMORIAL VALLEY MASSACRE is a cheerfully absurd direct-to-video slasher featuring imaginative deaths and a wild choice for a killer. Directed by Robert C. Hughes (Hunter’s Blood) and starring John Kerry (Dolemite), William Smith (Red Dawn), and genre film icon, Cameron Mitchell (The Toolbox Murders), Vinegar Syndrome presents MEMORIAL VALLEY MASSACRE in its official disc debut, newly restored in 4K from its original camera negative.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
- STUDIO: Vinegar Syndrome
- https://vinegarsyndrome.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/vinsyn
- https://twitter.com/vinegarsyndrome
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HTKBR45/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095611/
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Spine Chiller (2019)
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Derric Hyde, Rose Stainbrook, Taylor Rhoades
- DIRECTOR: Jacob Perrett
- SYNOPSIS: Bakersfield has a curse on it. Each Halloween the Spine Chiller dance makes its way to town, causing mischief and a string of disappearances no one can explain. Follow four individuals who have been invited this year, and watch as they uncover the sinister origins of the dance.
- TAGLINE: Dance until you drop…dead!
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 72 minutes
- STUDIO: Scream Team Releasing
- https://screamteamreleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/screamteamreleasing/
- https://twitter.com/SceamTeam
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JDTRLK7/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11084682/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQGBDCSb33Q
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Cold Light of Day (1989)
- Blu-ray – Limited Edition
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Bob Flag, Geoffrey Greenhill, Martin Byrne-Quinn, Andrew Edmans, Bill Merrow, Clare King, Mark Hawkins, Jackie Cox
- DIRECTOR: Fhiona Louise
- PRODUCER: Richard Driscoll
- SYNOPSIS:
- February, 1983. Detectives are called to a residential address in the London suburbs following reports that the drains have been clogged by human remains. One of the property s residents, Dennis Nilsen a mild-mannered and unassuming civil servant is brought in for questioning, leading to the discovery of one of the most shocking and disturbing cases of serial murder ever to rock Britain.
- Offering a grim and gritty retelling of the story of Des Nilsen, often dubbed the British Jeffery Dahmer , 1989 s Cold Light of Day stars Bob Flag (the face of Big Brother in Michael Radford s 1984) as Nilsen-cipher Jorden March, delivering one of the most chilling and credible portrayals of a serial killer ever committed to screen.
- From writer-director Fhiona-Louise, Cold Light of Day which picked up the UCCA Venticittà Award at the 1990 Venice International Film Festival is a hugely underseen and underrated British effort that can stand proudly alongside the likes of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as one of the most unflinching true-crime films of all time.
- LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Limited Edition of 2000 units
Brand new 2K restoration from the original 16mm camera negative approved by director Fhiona-Louise
Original uncompressed mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary with writer/director Fhiona-Louise
Brand new audio commentary with film historians/writers Dean Brandum and Andrew Nette
Newly-filmed interview with actor Martin Byrne-Quinn
Newly-filmed interview with actor Steve Munroe
Original Cold Light of Day promo film made to raise financing for the feature
Re-Release Trailer
Two short films starring Cold Light of Day director Fhiona-Louise and photographed by Star Wars DP David Tattershall, newly restored in HD: Metropolis Apocalypse (1988, 11 mins) and Sleepwalker (1993, 2 mins)
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
Limited Edition Die-cut O-card
Limited Edition collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Jo Botting and a look at how the press reported Dennis Nilsen s real-life crimes by Jeff Billington - GENRE: Horror, Crime, Biography
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 81 minutes
- STUDIO: Arrow Video
- https://arrowfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo
- https://twitter.com/ArrowFilms
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F6RC3BX/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356476/
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