New Horror Releases for August 22 to 28, 2023 August 1, 2023
New Horror Releases

AUGUST 22

Annabelle Trilogy & The Nun

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Storage Locker [2023]

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Bobbie Grace, Mike Gassaway, Meredyth Fowler
  • DIRECTOR: Ray Spivey
  • SYNOPSIS: Comic book collector Packer Stanley falls for two beautiful sisters Apollonia and Diana Leto, who run a massive underground storage facility. Wannabe-witch Apollonia has resurrected her dead father in a demonic boy and uses him to eliminate certain members of their secret society of rarities collectors. Packer seeks the Holy Grail of comics, the first appearance of “The Spyder” and is lured into the storage locker maze. There he faces off with the mutating demon to win his grand prize.
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 111 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Allied Vaughn
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBVZFJNN/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19816262/

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Brightwood [2022]

  • DVD
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Max Woertendyke, Dana Berger
  • DIRECTOR: Dane Elcar
  • SYNOPSIS: At times both surreal and frightening, this American Indie sci-fi/horror film follows a bickering couple who find themselves trapped in a confusing and dangerous time loop. The marriage of Jen (Dana Berger, “Orange Is the New Black,” “Elementary”) and Dan (Max Woertendyke) has seen better times, with Jen now barely tolerating her whiny husband. While out on a daytime jog around a lake the thirtysomething couple begin to talk about their failing marriage but soon find themselves lost as the hiking trail seems not to have an exit and they repeatedly return to the same spot. And if that is not bad enough, a silent hooded killer is tracking them down. This debut feature film from writer/director/cinematographer Dane Elcar (based on his award winning short The Pond, 2018) presents a twisting, understated film which culminates in a disturbing conclusion.
  • GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 84 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Cinephobia Releasing
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  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6YKX2R7/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14736734/

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The Night of the Hunted [1980]

  • 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Brigitte Lahaie, Alain Duclos, Dominique Journet
  • DIRECTOR: Jean Rollin
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • One of Jean Rollin’s least seen and most underrated works, The Night of the Hunted (La Nuit des traquées) finds the director moving away from his signature tales of vampirism to explore a nightmarish, dystopian world.
  • In the dead of night, Elisabeth is rescued from unknown pursuers by Robert and taken to safety. But, after she is kidnapped and taken to an austere clinic whose distressed and abused patients are suffering from progressive memory loss, Robert sets out to find her and discover what is taking place in the clinic.
  • Shot at night on a shoestring budget, with a cast mostly drawn from France’s adult-film industry, The Night of the Hunted stars Rollin regulars Brigitte Lahaie (Fascination) and Natalie Perrey (Lips of Blood) and offers a stark and melancholic take on contemporary society.
  • INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD SPECIAL FEATURES
    • New 4K HDR restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films
    • 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
    • Original French mono soundtrack
    • Selected scenes audio commentary with writer-director Jean Rollin (2006)
    • Selected scenes audio commentary with actor Brigitte Lahaie and Jean Rollin (2006)
    • Audio commentary with film expert and author Tim Lucas (2023)
    • Jean Rollin Introduces ‘The Night of the Hunted’ (1998): filmed appraisal
    • Jean Rollin on the ‘The Night of the Hunted’ (2007): the director in conversation with festival programmer and journalist Joshua T Gravel at the Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal
    • Perdues: La Nuit des traquées (2023): updated documentary on the making of The Night of the Hunted, directed by Rollin’s personal assistant, Daniel Gouyette, and including interviews with Lahaie, critic Daniel Bird, and key collaborators Jean-Pierre Bouyxou and Natalie Perrey
    • Le Pont (2023, 5 mins): short film revisiting the aqueduct seen in The Night of the Hunted
    • Newly edited archival interview with Lahaie (2023)
    • Newly edited archival interview with producer Lionel Wallmann (2023)
    • Archival interview with adult performer Alain Plumey, who acted in The Night of the Hunted and Fascination (2006)
    • Filmed critical appreciation by author and musician Stephen Thrower (2023)
    • Alternative sex scenes
    • Original theatrical trailer
    • Image galleries: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes
    • New and improved English translation subtitles
    • Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Ruairí McCann, archival writing by Jean Rollin on the making of the film, archival interviews with actor Brigitte Lahaie and collaborator Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, and full film credits
    • World premiere on 4K UHD
    • Limited edition of 10,000 numbered units (6,000 4K UHDs and 4,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US
    • All extras subject to change
  • GENRE: Horror, Drama, Mystery
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 92 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Powerhouse Films
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Night-Hunted-US-LIMITED-UHD/dp/B0C5PT7L9H/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081250/

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Queen of the Vampires [1968] – US Title

AKA: The Rape of the Vampire [1968]

  • 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray
  • PRINCIPAL CAST: Solange Pradel, Bernard Letrou, Jacqueline Sieger
  • DIRECTOR: Jean Rollin
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • Jean Rollin’s startling debut feature, introduces his unique take on vampirism, establishing the blend of surrealism, passion, and horror that would become his brand.
  • In the film’s first part, four strange women living in a decrepit château – and all believing themselves to be ancient vampires – are visited by a psychoanalyst who attempts to rid them of their apparent delusion. In the second, the Queen of the Vampires presides over a diabolical clinic, unaware that the head doctor is plotting against her.
  • With its surreal black-and-white images and riveting free-jazz score by François Tusques, the movie was released in Paris to a scandalized response during the chaos of May ’68, heralding the arrival of a major new talent in fantastique cinema.
  • This new edition also includes Rollin’s 1965 short The Far Countries (Les Pays loin) restored in 4K.
  • INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD SPECIAL FEATURES
    • New 4K HDR restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films
    • 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
    • Original French mono soundtrack
    • Audio commentary with writer-director Jean Rollin (2007)
    • Audio commentary with film expert and author Tim Lucas (2023)
    • Jean Rollin Introduces the movie (1998): filmed appraisal
    • Jean Rollin on the movie (2007): the director in conversation with festival programmer and journalist Joshua T Gravel at the Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal
    • Fragments of Pavement Under Sand(2023): updated documentary on the making of the movie, directed by Rollin’s personal assistant, Daniel Gouyette, and including interviews with key collaborators Jean-Denis Bonan, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou and Jean-Loup Philippe
    • New interview with Jean-Denis Bonan, editor of the movie and assistant director on The Far Countries (2023)
    • Newly edited archival interview with actor Jacqueline Sieger (2023)
    • Newly edited archival interview with actor Alain Yves Beaujour (2023)
    • Newly edited archival interview with actor Jean-Loup Philippe (2023)
    • Newly edited archival interview with composer François Tusques (2023)
    • Critical appreciation by author and film historian Virginie Sélavy (2023)
    • Alternative scene
    • Super 8 version: cut-down home cinema presentation
    • New 4K restoration of The Far Countries (Le Pays loins, 1965): Rollin’s second fictional short film tells of a couple lost in a maze of streets who can’t remember how they got there
    • The Far Countries audio commentary with Rollin (2007)
    • L’Itinéraire Souvenir(2018): artistic reconstruction of Rollin’s lost work from 1962 by filmmakers Victor Poucalow and Raja Tawil
    • Original theatrical trailer
    • Image galleries: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes
    • New and improved English translation subtitles
    • Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Beatrice Loayza, archival writing by Jean Rollin on the making of the film, an archival interview with the director by Peter Blumenstock, Jean Rollin’s recollections of shooting The Far Countries, and full film credits
    • World premiere on 4K UHD
    • Limited edition of 10,000 numbered units (6,000 4K UHDs and 4,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US
    • All extras subject to change
  • GENRE: Horror
  • RATING: Not Rated
  • RUN TIME: 95 Minutes
  • STUDIO: Powerhouse Films
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  • https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Vampire-US-LIMITED-UHD/dp/B0C5Q46PGH/
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062446/

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