January 19
Giant from the Unknown [1958]
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Edward Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Bob Steele, Morris Ankrum, Buddy Baer, Oliver Blake, Joline Brand, Billy Dix
- DIRECTOR: Richard E. Cunha
- SYNOPSIS: Dr. Frederick Cleveland and his daughter Janet are joined by scientific researcher Wayne Brooks in the pursuit of ancient artifacts from Vargas, a giant 500-year-old Spanish conquistador. When a lightning storm interrupts their search, the team finds much more than artifacts when the long-lost Vargas returns to life, with a murderous rage and an axe to grind! With a shock a minute, Giant from the Unknown (1958) features make-up design from horror mainstay Jack Pierce, known for his work on Frankenstein (1931) and The Mummy (1932).
- BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary with Author/ Historian Tom Weaver and Guests Audio Commentary with co-star Gary Crutcher
- ‘YOU’RE A B-MOVIE STAR, CHARLIE BROWN’ – An all-new interview actor/screenwriter Gary Crutcher
- ‘THE MAN WITH A BADGE: BOB STEELE IN THE 1950’S’ – An all-new interview with author/film historian C. Courtney Joyner
- Collector’s booklet with still gallery and liner notes by Tom Weaver
- Original Trailer
- TAGLINES:
- A Hideous Monster from Beyond the Grave!
- It Came From Another World to Terrorize the Lives of Hundreds (original poster)
- A Thrill…A Chill…A Shock a Minute (original poster)
- The creeping terror had rose from the depths of the unknown!
- It came from another world!
- Terror Stalks! Half Monster, Half Man!
- GENRE: Horror, Drama
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 77 MINUTES
- STUDIO: Film Detective
- https://www.thefilmdetective.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/filmdetective
- https://twitter.com/FilmDetective
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KJ66H5B/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051654/
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Dark Show [2016]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Tim Charles, Matthew Mellalieu, Joanne McCallin
- DIRECTOR: Olivier Parthonnaud
- SYNOPSIS: The extreme sports TV series ‘X-Treme Limit’ turns into a nightmare for its latest contestants as they are ordered into catacombs and come face to face with an ancient evil force.
- GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Drama
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 79 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/B08J1SK7CM/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4024490/
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The Death Pledge [2019]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Rose Cadeau, Patrick Charlemagne, Rebecca Ciara
- DIRECTOR: Jeff Carroll
- SYNOPSIS: Members of a sorority and fraternity are forced to spend the night in an African American burial ground as part of hazing, but a long dead slave has returned for revenge.
- 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/dp/B08J1WLXWB/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7950028/
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Godforsaken [2019]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Kane Richard Blust, Jeff Bratz, Diana Castrillon
- DIRECTOR: Olivia Jones
- SYNOPSIS: Every year on the eve of Halloween, demons are set upon the earth to collect more souls. Dina, a woman in a spiritual crisis, is the only one who can stop the world’s final descent into hell.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 95 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/B08J2388R7/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10260554/
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The Hideous Bog Monster
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Andrew Baack, Tina Boivin, Herbie Savage
- DIRECTOR: James Baack
- SYNOPSIS: From the files of Boggy Creek comes… “The Hideous Bog Monster.” An escaped lunatic named Herbie flees a maximum security mental hospital to begin a killing spree through the peaceful town of Fouke, Arkansas. He is an accomplice of none other than a fourth generation of Dr. Frankenstein who is experimenting with a stolen book from the deepest and most restricted library vaults of the Vatican. Herbie, who is obsessed with the local legend of the Fouke Monster, disguises himself as the creature and brings his victims to the lab for the evil Frankenstein to continue his blasphemous and unholy work. The Vatican gets word of this and recruits its elite team of female freedom fighters (The Sisters of St. Tommygun) to travel to the small town of Fouke to retrieve the stolen book, vanquish Dr. Frankenstein and return safely. Little do they know that through the powers of black magic, Herbie has summoned a demon so powerful that it’s very existence can threaten the world. Hold on tight for a wild ride!
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 110 minutes
- STUDIO: Trionic Entertainment
- https://www.cheezymovies.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/trionicent/
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JRHP5M5/
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Toys of Terror [2020]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Kyana Teresa, Georgia Waters, Verity Marks
- DIRECTOR: Nicholas Verso
- SYNOPSIS: Just before Christmas, young Zoe, her brother Franklin and their family move into a secluded mansion with a dark past. While the adults focus on renovating the place, the bored kids find a toy chest hidden in the attic and are delighted when the toys inside magically come to life. But bizarre events soon begin to take place – events that threaten the family’s lives. As the special day dawns with gifts piled under the tree, the body count rises and the blood starts to flow. This original “scary-tale” will have the kids screaming for the holidays!
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 89 minutes
- STUDIO: Warner Bros Entertainment
- https://www.warnerbros.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/warnerbrosent/
- https://twitter.com/Warnerbros/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13316062/
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The Village in the Woods [2019]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Beth Park, Therese Bradley, Richard Hope
- DIRECTOR: Raine McCormack
- SYNOPSIS: Every village, every person, has a secret…none more so than the inhabitants of this isolated, murky village whose fate relies on the luring of two unsuspecting pawns to satisfy their appetite and determine their being.
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 85 Minutes
- STUDIO: 4Digital Media
- http://4digitalmedia.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/4DigitalMedia
- https://twitter.com/4digitalM
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LJWGCFH/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5053156/
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Spiral [2019]
- Blu-ray/DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Lochlyn Munro, Ty Wood, Aaron Poole
- DIRECTOR: Kurtis David Harder
- SYNOPSIS: A same-sex couple moves to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life as they raise their 16-year-old daughter. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood. And when they see that the folks next door is throwing a very strange party, being the new family in town suddenly feels extremely dangerous.
- GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 90 minutes
- STUDIO: RLJE Films
- https://us.rljentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/RLJEfilms
- https://twitter.com/RLJEfilms
- https://www.amazon.com/Spiral-Blu-ray-Jeffrey-Bowyer-Chapman/dp/B08HRTRDPZ/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9247314/
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The Cleansing Hour [2019]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Ryan Guzman, Kyle Gallner, Alix Angelis
- DIRECTOR: Damien LeVeck
- SYNOPSIS: Max and Drew run a popular webcast that streams “live exorcisms” watched by millions across the globe. In reality, the exorcisms are just elaborately staged hoaxes performed by paid actors. But their fortunes take a turn when one of the actors becomes possessed by an actual demon and takes the crew hostage. In front of a rapidly growing audience, the demon subjects the crew to a series of violent challenges, threatening to expose the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other unless they come clean and reveal they’re impostors before the show is over.
- TAGLINE: The perfect internet hoax just went to hell
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 90 minutes
- STUDIO: RLJE Films
- https://us.rljentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/RLJEfilms
- https://twitter.com/RLJEfilms
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KMKKVZP/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8009906/
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My Dead Ones [2018]
- VOD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Nicolas Prattes, Neusa Maria Faro, André Hendges
- DIRECTOR: Diego Freitas
- SYNOPSIS: Behind the looks of a shy film student, David hides an obscure past that is about to be revealed.
- TAGLINE: He films – He kills – He shares
- GENRE: Horror, Crime, Mystery
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 112 minutes
- STUDIO: TMA Releasing
- https://www.themovieagency.com/tma-releasing
- https://www.facebook.com/cinemadflix/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5230380/
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HNN Presents: Buddy Bebop vs. the Living Dead [2009]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Lindy Ackerman, David Alexander, Michael S. Andres
- DIRECTOR: Justin Cash Kirkpatrick
- SYNOPSIS: It’s 1956 and on the knife’s edge of town the dead have begun to rise, re-animated and un-living, a terrible side-effect of dangerous experimentation. Soon all hell will break loose in an unimaginable cornucopia of gore, violent grotesqueries the likes of which no one has imagined. An HNN Presentation.
- GENRE: Horror, Comedy
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 79 minutes
- STUDIO: Bayview Entertainment
- https://www.bayviewentertainment.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/bayviewentertainment/
- https://twitter.com/BayViewEnt1
- https://www.amazon.com/Hnn-Presents-Buddy-Bebop-Living/dp/B08NYB2BDY/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057572/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd0f9iG9VoY
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The Clown Doll [2019]
- DVD
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Sarah T. Cohen, Jon-Scott Clark, Peter Cosgrove
- DIRECTOR: Scott Jeffrey
- SYNOPSIS: After purchasing a doll, Lane’s life takes a turn for the worst when close friends and family begin vanishing.
- GENRE: Thriller, Drama
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 93 minutes
- STUDIO: ITN Films
- https://www.itnfilms.net/
- https://www.facebook.com/ITNDISTRIBUTION
- https://twitter.com/ITNFILMS
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LJSHVTN/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8066470/
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A Serbian Film [2010]
- Blu-ray/DVD – Uncut & Uncensored Edition
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Katarina Zutic, Slobodan Bestic, Ana Sakic, Lena Bogdanovic, Luka Mijatovic, Andjela Nenadovic, Nenad Herakovic, Carni Djeric, Miodrag Krcmarik, Lidija Pletl, Tanja Divnic, Marina Savic
- DIRECTOR: Srdjan Spasojevic
- PRODUCER: Aleksandar Radivojevic, Srdjan Spasojevic
- SYNOPSIS: Milos, a retired adult film actor, leads a normal family life with his wife Maria and six-year old son Petar in tumultuous Serbia, trying to make ends meet. A sudden call from his former colleague Layla will change everything. Aware of his financial problems, Layla introduces Milos to Vukmir – a mysterious, menacing and politically powerful figure in the adult film business. A leading role in Vukmir’s production will provide financial support to Milos and his family for the rest of their lives. A contract insists on his absolute unawareness of a script they will shoot. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem devised by his employer, the ‘director’ of his destiny. Vukmir and his cohorts will stop at nothing to complete his vision. In order to escape the living cinematic hell he’s put into, and save his family’s life, Milos will have to sacrifice everything – his pride, his morality, his sanity, and maybe even his own life.
- SPECIAL FEATURES
- New transfer from new 4K master!
- In Serbian/Croatian (Serbocroation) with English subtitles
- Commentary with Srdjan Spasojevic and Stephen Biro
- Commentary with Joe Lynch and Adam Green of the Movie Crypt
- Behind the Scenes of A Serbian Exhibition
- Q&A With Srdjan Spasojevic and Jelena Gavrilovi
- Q&A from Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
- Sneak Preview of ‘A Serbian Documentary’
- Trailers
- TAGLINE: Not all films have a happy ending.
- GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- RATING: Rated NC-17 (extreme aberrant sexual and violent content including explicit dialogue)
- RUN TIMEL 104 Minutes
- STUDIO: Unearthed Films
- https://unearthedfilms.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/UnearthedFilms
- https://twitter.com/Unearthedfilms
- https://www.amazon.com/Serbian-Film-Uncut-Uncensored-Blu-ray/dp/B08LNLCL22/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1273235/
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Polterheist [2018]
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Jo Mousley, Sid Akbar Ali, Jamie Cymbal
- DIRECTOR: David Gilbank
- SYNOPSIS: Two gangsters are given 72 hours to discover the whereabouts of a stash of drug money stolen by their boss. There’s only one problem…they just murdered him. Frantic to find the cash, the hapless criminals kidnap a psychic medium and force her to contact the dead gang boss. Unfortunately for them, they only succeed in unleashing an evil spirit bent on revenge.
- TAGLINES:
- Guns Gangsters Ghosts
- They got screwed by a stiff
- GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Crime
- RATING: Not Rated
- RUN TIME: 86 minutes
- STUDIO: Dark Side Releasing
- https://darksidereleasing.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/DarksideReleasing
- https://twitter.com/DarksideDistro
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KBQS929/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8262226/
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Prince of Darkness [1987]
- Blu-ray
- PRINCIPAL CAST: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, Lisa Blount, Dennis Dun, Susan Blanchard, Anne Howard, Alice Cooper
- DIRECTOR: John Carpenter
- SYNOPSIS: A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity. As the liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released the most unspeakable of horrors, Satan himself.
- Bonus Content:
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director John Carpenter and Actor Peter Jason
- Theatrical Trailer
- Sympathy for The Devil – Interview with Writer/Director John Carpenter
- Alice at the Apocalypse – Interview with Actor Alice Cooper
- The Messenger – Interview with Actor & Special Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Grasmere
- Hell on Earth – A Look at the Film’s Score with Co-Composer Alan Howarth
- Horror’s Hallowed Grounds with Host Sean Clark
- Alternate Opening from the TV Version
- Radio Spots
- Still Gallery
- TAGLINES:
- Where are you…? Christ?
- Before man walked the earth… it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening.
- GENRE: Horror
- RATING: Rated R
- RUN TIME: 101 Minutes
- STUDIO: Shout! Factory
- https://www.shoutfactory.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial
- https://twitter.com/ShoutFactory
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GNTX417/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093777/
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