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New Horror Releases

JUNE 21

The Conjuring 3-Film Collection

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Frances O’Connor, Sterling Jerins, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Madison Wolfe, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, Julian Hilliard, John Noble, Eugenie Bondurant, Shannon Kook
  • DIRECTOR: James Wan, Michael Chaves
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • The Conjuring:
  • Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. “The Conjuring” tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga), world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1457767/

  • The Conjuring 2:
  • The supernatural thriller brings to the screen another real case from the files of renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. Reprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3065204/

  • The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It:
  • “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they’d ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7069210/

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You Are Not My Mother [2021]

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracke, Ingrid Craigie
  • DIRECTOR: Kate Dolan
  • SYNOPSIS: It’s the week before Halloween. Char’s bedridden mother, Angela, has mysteriously gone missing. All that remains is her abandoned car parked in the middle of a field. When Angela returns home to their North Dublin estate the following evening without explanation, it becomes clear to Char and her grandmother, Rita, that something is amiss. She might look and sound the same, but Angela’s behavior has become increasingly erratic and frightening, as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force. As Halloween approaches, a night steeped in ancient Irish myth and legend, Char must unearth the dark secrets of her family in order to uncover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance and save her, even if it means potentially losing her forever.
  • TAGLINE: Every Family Has Their Secrets.
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Magnolia Pictures
  • https://www.magnoliapictures.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09R3LX841/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10406596/

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The Unkind [2021]

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Slumber Party Slashathon [2012]

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Asylum of the Devil [2020]

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Frostbite [2006]

AKA “Frostbitten”

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Jonas Lawes, Petra Nielsen, Carl-Ake Eriksson, Greta Havneskold, Emma Aberg
  • DIRECTOR: Anders Banke
  • SYNOPSIS: Annika, a medical doctor, and her daughter Saga move to a small town in northern Sweden to work with her idol, geneticist Professor Gerhard Beckert. However, Beckert’s sinister past in the SS soon catches up with him when a couple of pill-popping interns mistake an experimental vaccine for party drugs. Mayhem ensues as the town’s teenagers succumb one by one to the mysterious virus.
  • TAGLINES:
    • One Month ‘Til Dawn…
    • Dawn is just a month away
    • Creatures of the night, without curfew
    • Dawn is a month away
  • GENRE: Horror, Comedy
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 98 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Jinga Films
  • https://jingafilms.com/
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  • https://twitter.com/JingaFilms
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09S148TY9/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454457/

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The Cellar [2022]

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Cyst [2020]

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Room 203 [2022]

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Bloody 70’s Horror Double Feature: Mary Mary Bloody Mary + Rene Cardona’s Blood Feast

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: David Young, John Carradine, Cristina Ferrare, Helena Rojo, Anjanette Comer
  • DIRECTOR: Juan López Moctezuma, René Cardona Jr.
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary -A beautiful American artist named, Mary, who just so happens to be a vampire living in Mexico, has authorities baffled and in full investigation, after her lust for blood has left a trail of bodies across the country. Attempting to elude detection by the authorities, Mary tries to maintain a love relationship with an American ex-patriot, while still trying to satisfy her growing appetite and need for ‘human sustenance.’ Things become even more complicated and terrifying for Mary, when her vampire father comes on the scene. Wrought with his own heinous compulsions, her father is determined to stop his legacy, before it totally consumes his daughter, and he intends to do this, even if it means killing her.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074873/

  • Blood Feast -Hugo, a twisted, cat lover, who also collects weapons and other macabre objects as a pastime, uses another pastime of picking up and scoring with beautiful women, as a means to sustain his massive horde of the animals. The routine is, once Hugo brings the women home with him and he is done with them, his mute and creepy butler, Dorgo, takes over. At some point, Dorgo, slips up and angers Hugo, with this ending in Dorgo having a similar fate as the women. Hugo soon finds himself at the mercy of his angry horde, when his efforts to rid himself of his latest conquest are foiled.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069018/

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The Brain From Planet Arous [1957]

  • Blu-ray/DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, Thomas B. Henry, Henry Travis, Kenneth Terrell, Tim Graham, E. Leslie Thomas, Bill Giorgio
  • DIRECTOR: Nathan Juran
  • PRODUCER: Jacques Marquette
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • When Gor, an evil brain from planet Arous, inhabits the body of scientist Steve March, his intention is nothing less than world domination!
  • Get ready for planet Earth to be overtaken by a criminal brain from outer space! When Gor, an evil brain from planet Arous, inhabits the body of scientist Steve March, his intention is nothing less than world domination. Lucky for Earth, another intergalactic brain, Val, offers to assist March’s wife, Sally, in stopping the madness. How does Val intend to help? By inhabiting Sally’s dog! A great example of cut-rate sci-fi from the 1950s, this independently produced feature stars B movie favorite John Agar (The Mole People, Revenge of the Creature), and was directed by Nathan Juran, a master of the genre who helmed such classics as The Deadly Mantis, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
  • SPECIAL FEATURES
    • Full Color Booklet with original essay by Author/ Historian Tom Weaver
    • Full commentary track by historians Tom Weaver, David Schecter, Larry Blamire, and PLANET AROUS star, Joyce Meadows
    • The Man Before the Brain: Director Nathan Juran: an original Ballyhoo Motion Pictures production
    • The Man Behind the Brain: The World of Nathan Juran: an original Ballyhoo Motion Pictures production
    • The film will also be included in a full frame format, 1.33:1
    • Now including a special, all new, introduction by Actor Joyce Meadows!
  • TAGLINES
    • It Will Steal Your Body And Damn Your Soul!
    • Science-Fiction’s most astounding story!
    • The incredible space-brain invades a human body with its destructive evil power!
    • Fantastic! Fearsome!
  • GENRE: Horror, Adventure, Action
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 71 Minutes
  • STUDIO: The Film Detective
  • https://www.thefilmdetective.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Planet-Arous-John-Agar/dp/B09S146N3G/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050210/

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Forced Entry [1976]

AKA “The Last Victim”

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Nancy Allen, Glenn Scarpelli, Michael Tucci, Nancy Ulman
  • DIRECTOR: Jim Sotos
  • SYNOPSIS: WHERE DO YOU GO WHEN THERE’S NO PLACE TO HIDE!
  • A hair-raising suspense drama starring Tanya Roberts (‘Charlie’s Angels”, A View To a Kill), in a chilling nightmare faced by a beautiful woman forced into a life and death struggle against the demented obsessions of a psychopathic killer. The constant tension is unremitting from the first deadly encounter to the final diabolical conclusion. Definitely not for the faint-hearted.
  • SPECIAL FEATURES:
    • 88 Minute VHS Version (SD)
  • TAGLINES:
    • An Exercise in Terror!
    • Carl is the kind of man no woman ever wants to meet…but unfortunately some women do. Now it’s Nancy’s turn!
    • she’s alone…He’s a madman…Her nightmare is about to begin!
    • If it happened to Nancy, it could happen to anyone. It could even happen to you!
    • All Carl’s Women Have Three Things in Common. They’re Young, Beautiful…and DEAD!
    • Young Girls are the Choice Victims!
    • Some don’t LIVE to report it…While most teenagers won’t admit it.
    • A gruesome tale of horror!
    • Where do you go when there’s no place to hide?
  • GENRE: Horror, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated PG
  • RUN TIME: 83 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Dark Force Entertainment
  • https://darkforcesuperstore.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Force-Entertainment-158542421434304/
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VCQD953/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087282/

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Uncle Sam [1996]

  • 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Robert Forster, P.J. Soles, Timothy Bottoms, Isaac Hayes, Bo Hopkins
  • DIRECTOR: William Lustig
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • THE STAR-SPANGLED SHOCKER FROM THE CREATORS OF MANIAC COP
  • It’s Fourth of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper – killed by ‘friendly fire’ during the first Gulf War – is returned to his all-American hometown. But when Sam rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic, only his young nephew and a bitter Korean War veteran (Academy Award winner + Grammy Award winner Isaac Hayes of SHAFT and SOUTH PARK fame) can stop his red-blooded rampage. Draft dodgers, tax cheats, crooked politicians and flag-burners beware: Uncle Sam wants you… DEAD!
  • Timothy Bottoms (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW), Bo Hopkins (THE WILD BUNCH), William Smith (FAST COMPANY), P.J. Soles (HALLOWEEN, CARRIE) and Academy Award ® nominee Robert Forster (JACKIE BROWN) co-star in this zombie horror hit directed by William Lustig (MANIAC, RELENTLESS) and written by Larry Cohen (GOD TOLD ME TO, THE STUFF). Now Blue Underground is thrilled to present UNCLE SAM in a sparkling new 25th Anniversary restoration, scanned in 4K 16-bit from the original 35mm negative, with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio, loaded with illuminating Extras!
  • SPECIAL FEATURES
    • 4K Ultra HD Disc (2160p) Widescreen 2.40:1 feature presentation
    • Audio: Dolby Atmos (English); 5.1 DTS-HD (English)
    • Subtitles: English SDH, Francais, Espanol
    • Audio Commentary #1 with Director William Lustig, Writer Larry Cohen and Producer George G. Braunstein
    • Audio Commentary #2 with Director William Lustig and Star Isaac Hayes
    • Fire Stunts with Audio Commentary by Stunt Coordinator Spiro Razatos
    • Deleted Scene
    • Gag Reel
    • Theatrical Trailer
    • Poster & Still Gallery
  • TAGLINES:
    • Uncle Sam wants you… DEAD!
    • I want you DEAD!
    • It’s time to serve your country, and Uncle Sam wants you DEAD!
  • GENRE: Horror, Comedy
  • RATING: Rated R
  • RUN TIME: 89 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Blue Underground
  • https://blue-underground.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/BlueUndergroundFilms/
  • https://twitter.com/blunderground
  • https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Sam-Special-4K-Ultra/dp/B09V39HK7Y/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118025/

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Vampire’s Kiss [1988]

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals
  • DIRECTOR: Robert Bierman
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • SEDUCTION. ROMANCE. MURDER. THE THINGS ONE DOES FOR LOVE.
  • Living in the big city is enough to drive anyone bats, and the pressure of it proves too much for Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Con Air), At the peak of his career, yet in the depths of despair, his life is in turmoil until he meets Rachel (Jennifer Beals, Flashdance), the woman of his dreams. During their first night together, Rachel takes more than his heart – she takes his blood too – and from that moment on, Peter Loew believes he is a vampire. What is it about Rachel that makes him feel this way? Is she really a blood-lusting creature of the night? Or just a product of his fevered imagination? Because if it turns out he is really a vampire – then there’s more than just his life at stake!
  • SPECIAL FEATURES:
    • High Definition (1080p) presentation of the main feature in 1:85.1 aspect ratio
    • Audio: LPCM 2.0 Stereo
    • Optional English, French and Spanish Subtitles
    • Commentary with actor Nicolas Cage and director Robert Bierman
    • Photo Gallery
    • Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
    • TV Spot (SD)
    • Collectible Mini-Poster
    • Reversible Artwork
  • GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
  • RATING: Rated R
  • RUN TIME: 103 Minutes
  • STUDIO: MVD Rewind
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  • https://twitter.com/mvdentgroup
  • https://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Kiss-Special-Blu-ray-Nicolas/dp/B09SVS413F/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098577/

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A Haunting On Gabriel Street

AKA: The Sigil

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Matthew Black, Sumiko Braun, Brandon Cano-Errecart, Brian Burke, Christos Kalabogias
  • DIRECTOR: Brandon Cano-Errecart
  • SYNOPSIS: Logan Lewis and 41 others are reported dead on Gabriel Street in Los Angeles. The government quickly releases an unconvincing statement blaming exposure to a uranium source located beneath the house. Broken and confused by her brother’s death, Logan s sister and 2 friends seek answers and closure to their living nightmare. Obsessed with uncovering a possible conspiracy, they journey to the house in search of the truth, but what they find is unlike anything they ever expected. Not everyone in the house that night is dead…
  • TAGLINE: Don’t ever go in that house…
  • GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 72 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Bayview Films
  • https://www.bayviewentertainment.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/bayviewentertainment
  • https://twitter.com/BayViewEnt1
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YT8FY6G/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290749/

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Escape the Field [2022]

  • Blu-ray/DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, Elena Juatco, Shane West
  • DIRECTOR: Emerson Moore
  • WRITER: Joshua Dobkin, Sean Wathen, Emerson Moore
  • SYNOPSIS: The fear is inescapable and the suspense nonstop in this gripping horror-thriller about six strangers who suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil, and survival depends upon solving a diabolical — and deadly — puzzle.
  • TAGLINE: The hunt is on.
  • GENRE: Horror, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated R (violence and language)
  • RUN TIME: 109 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Lionsgate
  • https://www.lionsgate.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Blu-ray-Jordan-Claire-Robbins/dp/B09XCFVT3K/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11265320/

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The Initiation of Sarah [1978]

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Kay Lenz, Shelley Winters, Kathryn Crosby, Morgan Brittany, Morgan Fairchild, Tony Bill
  • DIRECTOR: Robert Day
  • PRODUCER: Jay Benson
  • SEE REVIEW HERE
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WELCOME TO HELL WEEK!
  • Satantic secrets and telekenetic terror combine in this classic made-for-TV horror movie directed by Hammer Films alumnus Robert Day (She), from a story co-written by Tom Holland (Fright Night), featuring cinematography by Ric Waite (48 Hrs).
  • Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin (Kay Lenz, House) has a secret gift: the ability to control ― and destroy ― with her mind. When Sarah goes off to college with her more outgoing and popular sister, Patty (Morgan Brittany, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat), their plans to join the most prestigious sorority on campus are scuttled by snobby president, Jennifer Lawrence (Morgan Fairchild, Phantom of the Mall). Separated from her sister, Sarah is taken in by a rival, less popular sorority, whose mysterious house mother, Mrs. Hunter (Shelley Winters, The Night of the Hunter), is harboring a secret of her own: a scheme to harness Sarah’s terrifying power for revenge. Betrayed by Patty, humiliated by Jennifer, it can only be a matter of time before Sorority Hell Week erupts in flame!
  • Making its Blu-Ray debut with an all-new restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative, The Initiation of Sarah has never looked better and comes packed with all new bonus materials.
  • SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
    • Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films
    • High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
    • Original lossless mono audio
    • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
    • Brand new audio commentary by TV Movie expert Amanda Reyes
    • Welcome to Hell Week: A Pledge’s Guide to the Initiation of Sarah, a brand new appreciation by film critic Stacie Ponder and Queer Horror programmer Anthony Hudson, co-hosts of the Gaylords of Darkness podcast, celebrating the film through a queer feminist lens
    • Cracks in the Sisterhood: Second Wave Feminism and The Initiation of Sarah, a brand new visual essay by film critic and historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
    • The Intimations of Sarah, a brand new interview with film critic Samantha McLaren looking at witchcraft, empowerment, TV movies, and telekinetic shy girls post Carrie
    • The Initiation of Tom, a brand new interview with Tom Holland on this his first film writing credit
    • Image gallery
    • Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Luke Insect
  • TAGLINES:
    • An innocent coed, a secret sorority, its bizarre rights of womanhood… Suddenly, a quiet college campus is plunged into an endless night of terror!
    • She was born with devastating psychic powers. And she’s forced to unleash them in a shocking finale!
  • GENRE: Horror, Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 96 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Arrow Video
  • https://www.arrowfilms.com/
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  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X1Z18L3/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077735/

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Edge of Sanity [1989]

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, David Lodge
  • DIRECTOR: Gérard Kikoïne
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Anthony Perkins builds upon his legendary status as cinema’s seminal psycho in Edge of Sanity, a delirious conflation of Robert Louis Stephenson’s classic horror novella ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ and Jack the Ripper’s real-life reign of terror over Victorian London.
  • When his experiments into a powerful new an aesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr Jekyll (Perkins) takes off into the night, casting aside the shackles of upper-class propriety as he disappears into the shadowy decadent demimonde of Whitechapel in pursuit of sensual pleasures under the guise of ‘Mr Hyde.’ As his wife Elisabeth (Glynis Barber) passes her time in charitable work, rehabilitating the district’s fallen women, Hyde is drawn into an escalating cycle of lust and murder that seems to know no bounds.
  • Produced by exploitation maestro Harry Alan Towers (The Face of Fu Manchu, Count Dracula) and directed with a hallucinogenic intensity by Gérard Kikoïne (Lady Libertine, Buried Alive), Edge of Sanity plunges the viewer into a labyrinth of depravity from which there is no escape.
  • SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
    • Brand new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films
    • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
    • Original uncompressed stereo audio
    • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
    • Brand new audio commentary by writer David Flint and author and filmmaker Sean Hogan
    • Over the Edge, a brand new interview with Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA
    • Jack, Jekyll and Other Screen Psychos, a brand new interview with Dr Clare Smith, author of Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture
    • French Love, a career-spanning interview with director Gérard Kikoïne
    • Staying Sane, Gérard Kikoïne discusses Edge of Sanity
    • Original Theatrical trailer
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
  • TAGLINES:
    • Beware the beast within!
    • Double the terror, double the fun
    • Anthony Perkins hasn’t been himself lately!
    • ‘Psycho’ is over the edge…
    • Perverted. Pure Evil.
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
  • RATING: Rated R
  • RUN TIME: 85 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Arrow Video
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Sanity-Special-Blu-ray-Anthony-Perkins/dp/B09X1X7JSD/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097263/

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