SEPTEMBER 12

THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT [2009]

• 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray
• PRINCIPAL CAST: Aaron Paul, Sara Paxton, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Garret Dillahunt
• DIRECTOR: Dennis Iliadis
• SYNOPSIS:
• The Last House on the Left is a vicious and efficient updating of the 1972 controversial graphic shocker of the same name, produced by its original director/producer pairing of Wes Craven and Sean Cunningham.
• When athletic teen Mari Collingwood (Sara Paxton) opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family’s remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget. The two girls wind up in the company of escaped convict Krug (Garret Dillahunt) and his makeshift family of vile career criminals, who kidnap and brutally assault them before leaving them for dead. Fleeing from the scene of their violent crime during a storm, the thugs inadvertently seek refuge with Mari’s parents, anxious as to why their daughter hasn’t come home yet and primed to unleash the full forces of hell on anyone who would dare to touch so much as a hair on her head.
• Energetically directed by Dennis Iliadis from a new script by Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye, Disturbia), this remake of horror cinema’s seminal tale of bloody revenge has been described by Stephen King as “the best horror movie of the new century.”
• 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
  • Two version of the film: the original Theatrical Version (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray) and the Unrated Version (Blu-ray)
  • Original uncompressed stereo audio and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio for both films
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on both films
  • Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Zoë Rose Smith
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Eric Adrian Lee
• DISC ONE – THEATRICAL VERSION (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
  • 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the original Theatrical Version of the film
  • Exclusive new filmed introduction by director Dennis Iliadis
  • Brand new audio commentary by David Flint and Adrian Smith
  • A River of Blood, a new 31-minute interview with Sara Paxton
  • The Notorious Krug, a new 27-minute interview with actor Garret Dillahunt
  • Suspending Disbelief, a new 18-minute interview with screenwriter Carl Ellsworth
  • Reviving the Legend, a new 33-minute interview with producer Jonathan Craven
  • Look Inside Featurette, from the films original 2009 release
  • Deleted scenes
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Image gallery
• DISC TWO – UNRATED VERSION (BLU-RAY)
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the Unrated Version
• TAGLINES:
  • If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them back?
  • If someone hurt someone you love, how far would you go to get revenge?
• GENRE: Horror, Thriller
• RATING: Rated R (sadistic brutal violence including a rape and disturbing images, language, nudity, and some drug use)
• RUN TIME: 110 Minutes
• STUDIO: Arrow Video
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• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6NMXLHW/
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844708/

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ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK [1988]

• Blu-ray – Special Edition
• PRINCIPAL CAST: Cassandra Peterson, Jeff Conway, Edie McClurg, Tress MacNeille, Kurt Fuller
• DIRECTOR: James Signorelli
• SYNOPSIS:
• She’s back! Elvira, Horrorland’s hostess with the mostest, finally busts out on newly restored Blu-ray with this long-awaited, positively bursting-at-the-seams special edition of her big screen debut, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!
• Having just quit her job as a Los Angeles TV horror hostess, Elvira receives the unexpected news that she’s set to inherit part of her great aunt Morgana’s estate. Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals – amongst them, her sinister uncle Vincent, who, unbeknownst to Elvira, is in fact an evil warlock secretly scheming to steal the old family spellbook for his own nefarious ends…
• Campy, quirky and stuffed to the brim with more double entendres than your average Carry On movie, 1988’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark helped solidify the horror hostess (played by Cassandra Peterson) as a major pop culture icon, here owning every inch of the screen with her quick wit, sass, and of course, cleaving-enhancing gown!
• SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
  • Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of original film elements
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
  • Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Introduction to the film by director James Signorelli
  • 2017 Audio Commentary with director James Signorelli, hosted by Fangoria editor emeritus Tony Timpone
  • 2017 Audio Commentary with Patterson Lundquist, www.elviramistressofthedark.com webmaster and judge of US TV show The Search for the Next Elvira
  • Too Macabre – The Making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark – newly-revised 2018 version of this feature-length documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with various cast and crew and rare never-before-seen archival material
  • Recipe for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster – newly-revised 2018 version of this featurette on the concept and design of the pot monster, as well as the film’s other SFX
  • Original storyboards
  • Extensive image galleries
  • Original US theatrical and teaser trailers
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck
  • FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing by Kat Ellinger and Patterson Lundquist
• TAGLINES:
  • Elvira busts out in her outrageously funny feature film debut!
  • Here’s something you’ll want to pick up!
  • Elvira makes her Big Scream Debut in her Hot New Comedy.
  • Unpleasant dreams…
  • Here comes Elvira… there goes the neighbourhood!
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• GENRE: Horror, Comedy
• RATING: Rated PG
• RUN TIME: 96 Minutes
• STUDIO: Arrow Video
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• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084DGWL8M/
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095088/

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THE STUFF [1985]

• Blu-ray – Special Edition
• PRINCIPAL CAST: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino, Danny Aiello
• DIRECTOR: Larry Cohen
• SYNOPSIS:
• The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It’s delicious, low in calories and – better still – doesn’t stain the family carpet… What’s not to like?! Well, for a start it has a life of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria…
• Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn’t love The Stuff – in fact, he won’t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding crawling around the fridge one night. What’s more, everyone who eats The Stuff has started acting really weird… Now, teaming up with wise-cracking industrial saboteur “Mo,” Jason must put a stop to The Stuff and the organization behind it or face a gooey, gloopy demise.
• Coming courtesy of horror auteur Larry Cohen (director of the It’s Alive series and scribe behind the Maniac Cop trilogy), The Stuff is a titillating treat for the taste-buds which blends elements of films such as Street Trash with the straight-up B-movie flavor of The Blob. So grab a spoon and dig on into The Stuff – the taste that delivers… much more than you bargained for!
• SPECIAL FEATURES:
  • New High Definition restoration of the film from a brand new 2K scan of the original camera negative
  • Original stereo 1.0 uncompressed PCM Mono audio
  • Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Can’t Get Enough of The Stuff: Making Larry Cohen’s Classic Creature Feature – Documentary featuring Larry Cohen, producer Paul Kurta, actress Andrea Marcovicci, Steve Neill (mechanical makeup effects) and Kim Newman
  • Introduction and trailer commentary by director and The Stuff fan Darren Bousman (Saw II, Saw III)
  • Original Trailer
  • Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
  • Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Joel Harley, illustrated with original stills and promotional materials
• TAGLINES:
  • Habit-forming. Mind-controlling. Life-absorbing. You can never get enough of the Stuff.
  • You are what you eat.
  • The junk food movie that just eats you up.
  • Are you eating it …or is it eating you?
  • It’ll change your life forever.
  • WARNING! If you see the Stuff in stores, call the police. If you have it in your home, don’t touch it–get out. The Stuff is a product of nature–a deadly living organism. It is addictive and destructive. It can overcome your mind and take over your body, and nothing can stop it.
  • It’s smooth and creamy. I’ts low-calorie and delicious. And it kills. It’s the Stuff!
  • Enough is never enough.
• GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy
• RATING: Rated R
• RUN TIME: 86 Minutes
• STUDIO: Arrow Video
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• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AGR6RQM/
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/

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HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY [1987]

• Blu-ray – Special Edition
• PRINCIPAL CAST: Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Lar Park Lincoln, Bill Maher, John Ratzenberger
• DIRECTOR: Ethan Wiley
• SYNOPSIS:
• Another House, another horror! Following on from the original 1986 horror classic, House II: The Second Story relocates the terror to a sprawling mansion where multiple dimensions converge – all of them terrifying!
• This first House sequel sees young Jesse (Arye Gross) moving into an old family property where his parents were mysteriously murdered years before. Joined by pal Charlie (Jonathan Stark), the pair soon find themselves with some unexpected guests in the form of Jesse’s mummified great-great grandfather, a mystical crystal skull and the zombie cowboy who’ll stop at nothing to lay his hands on it!
• Newly restored for this deluxe Blu-ray edition, House II: The Second Story is the horror sequel that offers up even more thrills and chills than its predecessor.
• SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
  • Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements
  • High Definition Blu-ray presentation
  • Original Stereo and DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio Options
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Audio commentary with writer-director Ethan Wiley and producer Sean S. Cunningham
  • It’s Getting Weirder! The Making of House II: The Second Story – brand new documentary featuring interviews with writer-director Ethan Wiley, producer Sean S. Cunningham, stars Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Lar Park Lincoln and Devin DeVasquez, composer Harry Manfredini, special make-up and creature effects artists Chris Walas, Mike Smithson, visual effects supervisor Hoyt Yeatman and stunt coordinator Kane Hodder
  • Vintage EPK
  • Still Gallery
  • Theatrical Trailer and TV Spot
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn
• TAGLINES:
  • The Second Story
  • It’s getting weirder. Doom with a View.
  • Doom with a View
  • A whole new house with all new owners.
  • Frightening strikes twice!
  • Come over to my house… but don’t come alone!
  • It’s getting weirder!
• GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
• RATING: Rated PG-13
• RUN TIME: 88 Minutes
• STUDIO: Arrow Video
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• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VWL9B5/
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093220/

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FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC [1987]

• Blu-ray – Special Edition
• PRINCIPAL CAST: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Ben Granger, Lindsay Parker, Marshall Colt
• DIRECTOR: Jeffrey Bloom
• SYNOPSIS:
• When her husband dies in a tragic accident, widow Corrine Dollanganger (Victoria Tennant, The Holcroft Covenant) takes her four children to the ancestral family home she fled before they were born. Locked away in the attic by their tyrannical grandmother (Academy Award® winner Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), it falls to older brother and sister Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams, The Goonies) and Cathy (Kristy Swanson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) to care for their younger siblings. But with their mother growing increasingly distant and erratic and a mysterious sickness taking hold, will any of the Dollanganger children survive to escape the clutches of the house’s cruel matriarch?
• Originally published in 1979, VC Andrews’ novel Flowers in the Attic was a smash hit, spawning four sequels and going on to sell over 40 million copies worldwide. With undercurrents of incest and child abuse and a haunting score by Christopher Young (Hellraiser), Flowers in the Attic is a dark and chilling Gothic suspense thriller in the classic tradition.
• SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
  • Original lossless 2.0 stereo audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • New audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author, and editor-in-chief of Diabolique Magazine
  • Home Sweet Home: Filming Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with cinematographer Frank Byers
  • Fear & Wonder: Designing Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with production designer John Muto
  • The Devil’s Spawn: Playing Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with actor Jeb Stuart Adams
  • Shattered Innocence: Composing Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with composer Christopher Young
  • Production gallery of behind-the-scenes images, illustrations, and storyboards
  • The original, studio-vetoed ending
  • The revised ending with commentary by replacement director Tony Kayden
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Haunt Love
• TAGLINES:
  • They have come to a house where secrets are kept….where the future is haunted by the past…..where the innocent live in the shadow of sin…..where a dark legacy awaits to destroy all who defy it…..
  • The one truth they have yet to face is the terror no one could imagine.
  • Home Sweet Home Is Murder
  • One of the decade’s most widely read best sellers is now this year’s incredible shocker.
• GENRE: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
• RATING: Rated PG-13
• RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
• STUDIO: Arrow Video
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• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X37SJN5/
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093036/

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THE COUNT YORGA COLLECTION

• Blu-ray – Special Edition
• PRINCIPAL CAST: Robert Quarry, Donna Anderson, Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder
• DIRECTOR: Bob Kelljan
• SYNOPSIS:
• THE COUNT YORGA COLLECTION IS A FULL BLOODED FEAST TO DIE FOR!
• By the end of the 1960s the boom in Old World gothic horror had begun to wane in the face of present day terrors like the Vietnam war. In response, American filmmakers brought horror out of the past and into the present, and the classic movie monsters packed their bags and headed for the New World.
• COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE was among the first to successfully transpose the classic vampire, cloak, and all, to a modern day setting as the Count – played unforgettably by Robert Quarry – arrives in the United States and settles in a Southern California mansion with his mysterious “brides.” A drive-in favorite from the moment it was released, a sequel soon followed. THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA ups the ante and sees the sardonic Count on the streets of San Francisco, his sights set on an orphanage as a potential source of sustenance.
• Director Bob Kelljan (Scream Blacula Scream) delivers a one-two punch of classic cult cinema mixing chills, thrills, style, and suspense with a knowing wit that revels in the genre trappings. Presented in all new restorations by Arrow Films from new scans of the original camera negative, The Count Yorga Collection is a full blooded feast to die for!
• SPECIAL FEATURES:
  • Brand new 2K restorations by Arrow Films of Count Yorga, Vampire and The Return of Count Yorga from new 4K scans of the original 35mm camera negatives
  • High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentations of both films
  • Original lossless mono audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Heather Vaughan
• DISC ONE – COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE
  • Brand new audio commentary by film critic Tim Lucas
  • Archival audio commentary by film critics David Del Valle & C. Courtney Joyner
  • The Count in California, a brand new appreciation by Heather Drain and Chris O’Neill
  • I Remember Yorga, a brand new interview with Frank Darabont in which the award-winning filmmaker talks about his love for Count Yorga, Vampire
  • A Vampire in L.A., a brand new interview with actor Michael Murphy
  • Fangirl Radio Tribute to Robert Quarry, an archival episode featuring host Jessica Dwyer in conversation with Tim Sullivan filmmaker, Yorga fan and friend of Robert Quarry
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Radio spots
  • Image galleries
• DISC TWO – THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA
  • Brand new audio commentary by film critic Stephen R. Bissette
  • Archival audio commentary by David Del Valle & C. Courtney Joyner
  • The Count and the Counterculture, a brand new interview with film critic Maitland McDonagh
  • Chamber-music of Horrors, a brand new interview with David Huckvale about the scores for both films
  • Archival interview with film critic Kim Newman
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Radio spots
  • Image gallery
• GENRE: Horror
• RATING: Not Rated
• RUN TIME: 3 Hours, 10 Minutes
• STUDIO: Arrow Video
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GOTHIC FANTASTICO: FOUR ITALIAN TALES OF TERROR

• Blu-ray – Special Edition
• PRINCIPAL CAST: Gordon Mitchell, Erika Blanc, Gérard Tichy, Ombretta Colli, Franco Nero
• DIRECTOR: Massimo Pupillo, Alberto De Martino, Mino Guerrini, Damiano Damiani
• SYNOPSIS:
• GOTHIC FANTASTICO PRESENTS FOUR OFF-THE-BEATEN PATH ITALIAN GOTHIC HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1960S!
• While groundbreaking director Mario Bava remains the most well-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s as part of a hugely prolific and popular cycle. Gothic Fantastico presents four off-the-beaten path titles from this classic period, all of which demonstrate Italy’s ability to expand genre beyond the classic literary monsters that dominated elsewhere.
• Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo’s Lady Morgan’s Vengeance, a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural, as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan attempts to destroy his new bride with help from his sinister maid.
• Meanwhile, the perverse influence of Poe is used to great effect in Alberto De Martino’s The Blancheville Monster, a tale of family curses and madmen in the attic, as Emilie de Blancheville returns home to her brother Rodéric and discovers her own family may be out for her blood.
• Mino Guerrini’s The Third Eye features not only a very early role for Italian cult film icon Franco Nero, but a plot that borrows several elements from Hitchcock.
• Finally, Damiano Damiani’s The Witch takes a more avant-garde approach, when a young historian is lured to work for an ageing woman, only to be held captive when he becomes obsessed with her beautiful daughter.
• Madness, obsession and messed up families are the order of the day in these four lesser-known monochrome gems from Italy’s peak Gothic period, fully restored in 2K from their original negatives and presented alongside an array of in-depth extras.
• SPECIAL FEATURES:
  • 2K restorations from the original camera negatives of all four films
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of each film
  • Original Italian and English front and end titles on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch
  • Original lossless mono Italian soundtracks on all four films
  • Original lossless mono English soundtracks on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch
  • Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
  • Video introductions to each film by Italian film devotee Mark Thompson Ashworth
  • Image galleries
  • Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
• DISC ONE: LADY MORGAN’S VENGEANCE
  • Audio commentary by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • Video essay on the film by author and producer Kat Ellinger
  • Video interview with actress Erika Blanc
  • Video interview with actor Paul Muller
  • Audio interview with director Massimo Pupillo
  • The complete original cineromanzo, published in Suspense in April 1971
  • Trailer
• DISC TWO: THE BLANCHEVILLE MONSTER
  • Audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Paul Anthony Nelson
  • Video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison
  • Video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori
  • Opening credits for the US release of the film
  • Trailer
• DISC THREE: THE THIRD EYE
  • Audio commentary by author and critic Rachael Nisbet
  • Video essay on the film by author and filmmaker Lindsay Hallam
  • Video interview with actress Erika Blanc
• DISC FOUR: THE WITCH
  • Audio commentary by author and producer Kat Ellinger
  • Video essay on the film by author and academic Miranda Corcoran
  • Video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori
• GENRE: Horror
• RATING: Not Rated
• RUN TIME: 6 Hours, 11 Minutes
• STUDIO: Arrow Video
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