Night Terror – aka Night Drive
Prebook Date: 6/1/21
Street Date: 6/29/21
Label: Scorpion
Genre: Horror
Year: 1977
Rating: NR
Runtime: 73
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Actors: Valerie Harper, Richard Romanus, Nicholas Pryor, John Quade, Michael Tolan, Quinn Cummings
TV legend Valerie Harper (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda) stars in this mesmerizing thriller about a terrorized motorist. Carol (Harper) learns that her son has been hospitalized and is in serious condition several hundred miles away. Her husband (Michael Tolan, All That Jazz) is out of town and cannot be reached, desperate to be with her son, she’s forced to start out alone on the long, barren drive from Phoenix to Denver. Very late at night and almost out of gas in an unfamiliar area, Carol notices a highway patrolman ticketing a speeding motorist, as she approaches them for directions to the nearest gas station, the officer is suddenly shot by the motorist. Carol in panic, drives off in terror—but not before the killer has seen her. The nerve-jangling events that follow are the tale of Carol’s frantic efforts to reach help—before she’s the killer’s next victim. Night Terror also known-as Night Drive was stylishly directed by television veteran E.W. Swackhamer (The Dain Curse) and features a stellar cast that includes Richard Romanus (Mean Streets), Nicolas Pryor (Risky Business), John Quade (Every Which Way but Loose), Quinn Cummings (The Goodbye Girl) and Dinah Manoff (Grease).
Bonus Features:
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Author Amanda Reyes and Author/Podcaster Daniel Budnik
Trailers
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The Love Butcher
Prebook Date: 5/4/21
Street Date: 6/1/21
Label: Code Red
Genre: Horror
Year: 1985
Rating: R
Runtime: 89
Director: Don Jones, Mikel Angel
Actors: James Lemp, Kay Neer, Robin Sherwood, Eve
Mac, Jeremiah Beecher, Richard Kennedy
Language: English
A string of murders in a posh neighborhood has the police department stumped and the local press is breathing down their necks. Strangely, nobody notices that several victims share the same gardener, a bent, elderly man with a crippled arm named Caleb (Erik Stern, Assassination). Even though all of the murder weapons are lawn care tools, Caleb remains above suspicion. Of course, it isn’t Caleb doing the killing, but rather his second personality, a confident, handsome younger brother named Lester (also played by Erik Stern) who Caleb turns into when he dons a toupee. That’s when he seduces and then slashes his employers, most of whom heap insults and derision upon Caleb as he works. Lester dons a variety of disguises to “gain entry,” employing false accents and charming patter to bed down his victims. The two personalities battle when alone, though, and one of them will eventually have to overcome the other. Richard Kennedy (Candy Tangerine Men), Robin Sherwood (Tourist Trap) co-star. Directed by Mikel Angel and Don Jones (The Forest).
Bonus Features:
Audio Commentary by Director Don Jones, Moderated by R.A. The Rugged Man
Trailers
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Scream
2K Scan from the Original Negatives
Prebook Date: 5/11/21
Street Date: 6/8/21
Label: Code Red
Genre: Horror
Year: 1981
Rating: R
Runtime: 82
Director: Byron Quisenberry
Actors: Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne,
Ann Bronston, Julie Marine, Nancy St. Marie
Language: English
In SCREAM, a group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs. It appears that the town is not as deserted as they originally thought, someone out there does not want them around and when they desperately try to escape, their rafts are destroyed. What possible hope of survival can they have now… with no chance for escape and no one around to help? Starring Woody Strode (The Professionals, Spartacus, Once Upon a Time in the West), Alvy Moore (Green Acres), Greg Palmer (To Hell and Back), Pepper Martin (Superman 2), Hank Worden (The Searchers), and Ethan Wayne (son of John Wayne). Now watch this slasher classic from a 2K scan!
Bonus Features:
2K Scan from the Original Negatives
Audio Commentary by Director Byron Quisenberry
Watch it in MARIA’S B MOVIE MAYHEM Mode with our Hostess Maria Kanellis
Theatrical Trailer
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The Being
2017 2K Scan of the Original Vault Elements
Prebook Date: 5/18/21
Street Date: 6/15/21
Label: Code Red
Genre: Horror
Year: 1983
Rating: R
Runtime: 83
Director: Jackie Kong
Actors: Martin Landau, Jose Ferrer, Dorothy Malone,
Ruth Buzzi, Marianne Gordon, Bill Osco
Language: English
A strange creature roams and kills people in the small town of Pottsville. Local cop, Detective Mortimer Lutz (Bill Osco) is on the case as the fiendish beast kills losers one by one in this classic 80s monster film! Academy Award® winners Martin Landau (Ed Wood, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room), Jose Ferrer (The Swarm, Dracula’s Dog, Blood Tide, Cyrano de Bergerac) and Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind, Basic Instinct) co-star with comedian Kinky Friedman (Record City), Murray Langston (The Unknown Comic), Johnny Dark (Repossessed), Kent Perkins (Night Patrol), and 70s sex symbol Ruth Buzzi (Freaky Friday)! Written and Directed by Jackie Kong (Blood Diner, Night Patrol). Now see this monster classic from an HD master!
Bonus Features:
2017 2K Scan of the Original Vault Elements
Audio Commentary with Director Jackie Kong
Audio Commentary with Star Johnny Dark
Theatrical Trailer
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The Strangeness
Prebook Date: 5/25/21
Street Date: 6/22/21
Label: Code Red
Genre: Horror
Year: 1985
Rating: NR
Runtime:92
Director: Melanie Anne Phillips
Actors: Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Rolf Theison, Keith
Hurt, Mark Sawicki, Diane Borcyckowski
Language: English
Bite into this rare 1980s horror film about a big and very ‘strange’ stop-motion monster in a cave terrorizing and eating innocent miners! A group of young miners venture into the Gold Spike Mine in search of gold, even after being warned by old-time prospectors to stay away. The miners proceed into the caverns anyway and soon realize that there’s no gold in these mines, but also that they’re not alone. What they find is a horrific man-eating monster sliding through the caverns looking to fill its carnivorous appetite… it’s feeding time and the miners are on the menu. THE STRANGENESS is a fun, cool independent horror feature film made years before digital video. THE STRANGENESS is also one of the last feature films to use stop-motion animation special effects! This special edition was remastered from the original 16mm vault elements.
Bonus Features:
Audio Commentary with Director Melanie Anne Phillips with Actors Mark Sawicki and Chris Huntley, Moderated Jeff McKay
Interview with Director Melanie Anne Phillips and Actors Mark Sawicki and Chris Huntley
6 Short Films by Mark Sawicki and Chris Huntley
Extensive Stills Gallery
Trailers
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Delirium – aka Le foto di Gioia
2016 HD Master
Prebook Date: 5/25/21
Street Date: 6/22/21
Label: Code Red
Genre: Horror
Year: 1987
Rating: NR
Runtime: 94
Director: Lamberto Bava
Actors: Serena Grandi, Daria Nicolodi, George Eastman, Capucine, Sabrina Salerno, Gianni Franco
Language: English
Gioia (Serena Grandi, star of Tinto Brass’ Miranda) is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia’s new admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her. Renowned Italian star Grandi, known as the Dolly Parton of Italy, leads the cast in this Giallo classic, which features George Eastman (Hands of Steel, Blastfighter, After the Fall of New York, Ironmaster) David Brandon (Stage Fright, Caligula the Untold Story, She), Daria Nicolodi (Deep Red, Tenebre, Inferno, Opera) and screen legend Capucine (The Pink Panther, Red Sun). Delirium was wonderfully directed by Lamberto Bava (Monster Shark, Blastfighter, Ironmaster) – now see this colorful Giallo in HD!
Bonus Features:
2016 HD Master
Interviews with Director Lamberto Bava, Actor George Eastman, Cinematographer Gianlorenzo Battaglia and Art Director Massimo Antonello Geleng
Vintage Interviews with Lamberto Bava, George Eastman and David Brandon
Trailers
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