JUNE 13

The Pope’s Exorcist [2023]

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Witchtrap [1989]

  • Blu-ray/DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: James W. Quinn, Kathleen Bailey, Judy Tatum, Rob Zapple, Jack W. Thompson, Clyde Talley II, Linnea Quigley, Hal Havins
  • DIRECTOR: Kevin S. Tenney
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • In the attic, we have a secret sacrificial altar where the former owner, Avery Lauter (J. P. Luebsen, Witchboard) was found dead. His heart brutally cut from his body… his restless spirit rumored to still be wandering these halls.
  • In the living room, we find a team of experts (among them, WITCHBOARD’s James Quinn and Judy Tatum) assembled here at the request of Avery’s sole heir and nephew Devon Lauter (director Kevin Tenney himself), along with the sexy Ms. Ginger Kowowski (Linnea Quigley, The Return of the Living Dead) who have no inkling as to the dangers that are about to befall them as they attempt to trap the evil spectre.
  • From director Kevin Tenney (Night of the Demons, Witchboard) comes a supernatural cat-and-mouse horror show of deadly deception!
  • SPECIAL FEATURES:
    • High Definition (1080p) presentation of the main feature in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, scanned and restored in 2K in 2016 from the 35mm Interpositive
    • Audio: English LPCM 2.0 Mono
    • Optional English SDH Subtitles
    • Group commentary track with: Director Kevin Tenney, Producer Dan Duncan, Cinematographer Tom Jewett, and Actor Hal Havins
    • Interview with Director Kevin Tenney (23:36, HD)
    • Interview with actress Linnea Quigley (13:40, HD)
    • Interview with Cinematographer Tom Jewett (15:09, HD)
    • Interview with Special Effects Supervisor Tassilo Baur (17:11, HD)
    • “Witchtrap” R-Rated VHS Version (92 mins, 1.33:1, SD)
    • Photo Gallery
    • Original Trailer (2:55, SD)
    • Reversible cover artwork
    • Collectible Mini Poster
  • * Special Features May Not Be Rated, Closed Captioned Or In High Definition.
  • TAGLINE: This Time, It’s Not a Game.
  • GENRE: Horror, Action, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated R
  • RUN TIME: 92 Minutes
  • STUDIO: MVD Rewind
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  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098662/

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Bedridden [2021]

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Elizabeth Elise Gonzalez, Jose Angel Herrera, Hector Dez
  • DIRECTOR: Dakota
  • SYNOPSIS: On the evening of their anniversary, Ray is attacked and murdered by a masked assailant in a desolate motel room while his wife, Teri, is forced to watch. Teri now faces the reality of rebuilding her life as a single mom without her beloved husband. Desperate to communicate one last time with Ray, she uses a mysterious ouija board to try to reach out to the other side. Doing so opens up a portal that puts her and her daughter’s lives in danger. When her worst fears seemingly come true, Teri finds herself bedridden and trapped in a cat-and-mouse game of life and death. Bonus features include: And more!, SRS Trailers, Trailer, Teaser Trailer, Making the Music, Behind the Scenes, Commentary
  • TAGLINES:
    • Some wounds never heal.
    • The dead are restless.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 97 Minutes
  • STUDIO: SRS Cinema
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  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVRS6Y57/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13962396/

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Motorboat [2023]

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The Ones You Didn’t Burn [2022]

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Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge [2023]

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The Thing 3-Movie Collection

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, James Arness, Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley
  • DIRECTOR: John Carpenter, Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr., Christian Nyby
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Three-disc set includes:
  • The Thing From Another World (1951) The original sci-fi chiller about scientists of an Arctic outpost who find an alien spaceship and its passenger buried in the ice. When the creature is thawed out, it unleashes a rampage of horror. Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, and James Arness, in the title role, star. Produced by Howard Hawks, who reportedly had a hand in helping helmer Christian Nyby. 87 min. BW/Rtg: NR
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

  • The Thing (1982) John Carpenter’s harrowing remake of the ’50s classic centers on a snowbound research team in Antarctica that encounters a vicious, shape-shifting alien organism. Cut off from the rest of the world, paranoia and mistrust begin to set in as the men realize any one of them could be the creature. Features state-of-the-art (for their time) makeup effects and a haunting score from Ennio Morricone. Kurt Russell, Keith David, Donald Moffat, Richard Dysart, and Wilford Brimley star. 109 min. C/Rtg: R
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

  • The Thing (2011)In this spine-tingling prequel to John Carpenter’s cult shocker, the members of a multi-national science team discover a seemingly dead alien frozen beneath Antarctica. But when the creature escapes from its icy coffin very much alive, its ability to imitate humans makes it nearly impossible to find, let alone kill. Can the monster be stopped before it’s too late? Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen star. 103 min. C/Rtg: R Standard/Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; audio commentary; featurettes; storyboards; deleted scenes; extended scenes; more.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/

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Island of the Dolls [2023]

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Insidious [2010]

  • 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Barbara Hershey, Lin Shaye, Andrew Astor, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Ruben Pla, Heather Tocquigny, John Henry Binder
  • DIRECTOR; James Wan
  • WRITER; Leigh Whannell
  • PRODUCER; Oren Peli, Jason Blum, Steven Schneider
  • SYNOPSIS: This horror film is the terrifying story of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted.
  • TAGLINES:
    • What’s in that picture?
    • We need to save Dalton . . . Now!
    • The further you travel, the darker it gets
    • It’s not the House that’s Haunted.
    • Insidious Is…
  • GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
  • RATING: Rated PG-13 (thematic material, violence, terror and frightening images, and brief strong language)
  • RUN TIME: 103 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Sony Pictures
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  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYPCTJWH/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591095/

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The New Hands [2023]

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Mexico Macabre: Four Sinister Tales from the Alameda Films Vault – 1959–1963

  • Blu-ray – Limited Edition
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Abel Salazar, Rosita Arenas, Rita Macedo, Isabella Corona, Gastón Santos
  • SYNOPSIS: These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction.
  • Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman put to death for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers… by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt’s Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore’s most terrifying figures.
  • With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare English-language dub tracks – as well as a set of art cards and a fully illustrated 100-page book.
  • INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES
    • High Definition remasters for Black Pit of Dr. M, The Witch’s Mirror, The Brainiac, and The Curse of the Crying Woman
    • Original Spanish mono audio
    • Optional English mono audio dub tracks for The Witch’s Mirror, The Brainiac, and The Curse of the Crying Woman
    • Audio commentary with Abraham Castillo Flores, film programmer and curator devoted to the preservation of Mexican Horror cinema on Black Pit of Dr. M(2023)
    • Audio commentary with David Wilt, film historian and Mexican cinema specialist, on The Witch’s Mirror (2023)
    • Audio commentary and brain nibbling with Keith J Rainville, publisher of From Parts Unknown and screenwriter of Los campeones de la lucha libre on The Brainiac (2023)
    • Audio commentary with Morena de Fuego, doctor in film studies and LatAm horror specialist, on The Curse of the Crying Woman (2023)
    • Daniel Ripstein on the history of Alameda Films and his grandfather, producer Alfredo Ripstein Jr (2023)
    • Author Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro on director Fernando Méndez (2023)
    • Author Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro on director Chano Urueta (2023)
    • Author Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro on director Rafael Balédon (2023) • Memories of a Villain (2018): TV UNAM special on actor Carlos López Moctezuma
    • Mondo Macabro: ‘Mexican Horror Movies’ (2002): episode of Pete Tombs and Andy Starke’s fondly remembered British television series, providing an overview of Mexican genre cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s
    • Original theatrical trailers
    • Image galleries: promotional and publicity material
    • New and improved English translation subtitles
    • Limited Edition exclusive 100-page book with new essays by José Luis Ortega Torres, David Wilt and Abraham Castillo Flores, archival articles, and full film credits
    • Limited Edition exclusive art cards
    • World premieres on Blu-ray
    • Limited edition box set of 3,000 numbered units for the US
    • All extras subject to change
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 5 Hours, 15 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Powerhouse Films
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Mako: The Jaws of Death + Bog Drive-in Double Feature #14

  • Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Richard Jaeckel, Jennifer Bishop, Gloria DeHaven, Aldo Ray
  • DIRECTOR: William Grefé, Don Keeslar
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • NEITHER OCEANS NOR SWAMPS ARE SAFE IN THESE TWO UNDERWATER 1970’S GRINDHOUSE DRIVE-IN CLASSICS FOR ONE GREAT PRICE!
  • MAKO: THE JAWS OF DEATH: Sonny Stein (Richard Jaeckel, Starman), a Vietnam veteran, learns that he has a mystical connection with sharks after being given a medallion by a shaman. Becoming increasingly alienated from society, he develops an ability to communicate with sharks and sets to destroy anybody who harms them.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074845/

  • BOG: A sheriff (Aldo Ray, We’re No Angels), a doctor (Marshall Thompson, It! The Terror from Beyond Space) and a pathologist (Gloria DeHaven, The Thin Man Goes Home) try to catch a prehistoric monster roused by dynamite from the bottom of Bog Lake.
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077254/

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Fear the Invisible Man [2023]

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Beetlejuice / Gremlins / Gremlins 2: The New Batch: 3-Film Collection

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis
  • DIRECTOR: Joe Dante, Tim Burton
  • SYNOSIS:
  • Two-disc set includes:
  • Beetlejuice (1988) Who do two newly deceased spirits (Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis) go to when their former house/current haunt is taken over by the obnoxious Deetz family of mortals? Why, the “bio-exorcist” known as “Beetlejuice,” of course, to run the humdrum humans out! Michael Keaton is frighteningly funny as the “ghost with the most” in the hit horror comedy from director Tim Burton. Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Robert Goulet, and Winona Ryder co-star. 92 min. C/Rtg: PG
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/

  • Gremlins (1984) Sure, Gizmo, the furry little creature young Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) gets for Christmas, is cute and cuddly-until he gets wet and multiplies. And when the offspring eat after midnight, they’re transformed into vicious reptilian monsters that terrorize the citizens of the small, sleepy town of Kingston Falls. This darkly comic horror gem from director Joe Dante and producer Steven Spielberg also stars Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, and the great Dick Miller. 106 min. C/Rtg: PG
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/

  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)Here they grow again! Those hellraising hobgoblins are back in Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg’s hit sequel that combines scares and laughs. This time, the trouble-making beasties are loose and running amuck inside a TV mogul’s high-tech New York skyscraper where access to a science lab results in new-and even more terrifying-genetically altered Gremlins. Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Dick Miller, John Glover, and Christopher Lee star. 107 min. C/Rtg: PG-13
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099700/

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