OCTOBER 17

The Blob [1988]

4K UHD/Blu-ray – Collector’s Edition

PRINCIPAL CAST: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Ricky Paull Goldin, Billy Beck, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca

DIRECTOR: Chuck Russell

SYNOPSIS: The Blob is back in this horrific tale about a vile, malignant life-form that crashes to Earth in a cozy, rural American town called Arborville. Untroubled by conscience or intellect, the Blob does only one thing—and it does it well. It eats anything and everything that moves: men, women, and children. And tonight it wants to swallow the town of Arborville. The original version of The Blob thrilled and terrified audiences back in the 1950s. Now the oozing, gooey killer is back with a whole new high-tech look. What was once only suggested now comes to life with state-of-the-art special effects in the tradition of such thrilling remakes as The Thing and The Fly.

TAGLINES:

  • Man is no longer the supreme being on this planet.
  • Scream now, while there’s still room to breathe.
  • Terror has no shape.
  • If it had a mind, you could reason with it. If it had a face, you could look it in the eye. And if it had a body, you could shoot it.
  • On his 30th birthday, he’s back: bigger, faster, hungrier, meaner, and deadlier than before…Guess he’ll have his cake and eat it too.
  • Scream now, while you can still breathe.

GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

RATING: Rated R

RUN TIME: 95 Minutes

STUDIO: Shout! Factory

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https://www.amazon.com/Blob-Collectors-4K-UHD/dp/B0CC4N168B/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/

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Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers

Blu-ray/DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Aileen Pringle, Lon Chaney, Wallace Ford, Johnny Eck, Joan Crawford

DIRECTOR: Tod Browning

SYNOPSIS: The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.

TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 2K digital restoration of Freaks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • New 2K digital reconstruction and restoration of The Unknown by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip Carli
  • New 2K digital restoration of The Mystic, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley
  • Audio commentaries on Freaks and The Unknown and an introduction to The Mystic by film scholar David J. Skal
  • New interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror
  • Archival documentary on Freaks
  • Episode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez’s podcast Ticklish Business about disability representation in Freaks
  • Reading by Skal of “Spurs,” the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based
  • Prologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947
  • Program on the alternate endings to Freaks
  • Video gallery of portraits from Freaks
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme

The Mystic [1925]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016142/

The Unknown [1927]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018528/

Freaks [1932]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/

GENRE: Horror, Drama

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 204 Minutes

STUDIO: The Criterion Collection

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https://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Mystic-Brownings-Criterion-Collection/dp/B0CC6MVKKG/

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Bad Apples [2018]

Blu-ray/DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Brea Grant, Graham Skipper, Aly Fitzgerald

DIRECTOR: Bryan Coyne

SYNOPSIS: On Halloween night, two malevolent children terrorize a young innocent couple in their home. These wicked tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night continues and subject an entire neighborhood to a Halloween they will never forget.

TAGLINE: Rotten to the core.

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GENRE: Horror

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 86 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Apples-Blu-ray-Brea-Grant/dp/B07BSLN7B1/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7091300/

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Gremlin [2017]

Blu-ray/DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Adam Hampton, Kristy K. Boone, Catcher Stair

DIRECTOR: Ryan Bellgardt

SYNOPSIS: Adam receives a mysterious box from a relative containing a creature that will kill everyone he cares about. The only way to be rid of the curse is to give the box to someone he loves. As the ominous timer on the box counts down to its end, he can only imagine the horrors that await. Does he give the box away to save his family, or unleash a monster upon humanity? He can’t destroy it. He can’t escape it. He can only give it to someone he loves…

GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 88 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/Gremlin-Blu-ray-Adam-Hampton/dp/B077PBK889/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6191390/

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Animal Among Us [2019]

DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Larisa Oleynik, Christian Oliver, Erin Daniels, Heather Tom, Jasmine Dustin, Don Frye Jr.

DIRECTOR: John Woodruff

SYNOPSIS: Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed as an animal attack, the camp was condemned, and the killer never found. But something horrific still waits in those woods, ready to kill again.

TAGLINES:

  • This is a story about a monster.
  • It’s hunting season

GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 90 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WGJJK31/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3612008/

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Redwood Massacre: Annihilation [2020]

DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Danielle Harris, Damien Puckler, Gary Kasper

DIRECTOR: David Ryan Keith

SYNOPSIS: A stranger obsessed with the unsolved Redwood murders, convinces a group of bereaved family members to venture into the wilderness in hope of proving the existence of the infamous killer. Their quest for truth sees a sinister turn of events, as the hunters become the hunted. A blood-soaked fight for survival ensues when they find that the tales told of the axe-wielding manic is very real.

TAGLINE: Death has many faces

GENRE: Horror, Mystery

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 104 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/Redwood-Massacre-Annihilation-Danielle-Harris/dp/B08DPVW683/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10473312/

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#Captured [2017]

DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Lizze Gordon, Gabrielle Romanello, Megan Medellin

DIRECTOR: Joe Homokay

SYNOPSIS: A group of privileged high school kids run an illicit chat room where they livestream their drug fueled sex parties to paying viewers on the internet. Little do they know there’s a murderous zealot on a mission to rid the internet of sin.

TAGLINE: Cleansing the Internet of all Sin

GENRE: Horror, Thriller

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 81 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0789XPPN2/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6856592/

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Pet Graveyard [2019]

DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Georgina Jane, Mike Kelson, Kate Lush

DIRECTOR: Rebecca Matthews

SYNOPSIS: A struggling student nurse assists her brother and his friends in a graveyard in a dangerous experiment called “brinking” — a ritual where it is said you can explore a region between life and death, enabling you the chance to speak to those who have passed on. However, when they return to life, a sinister force is after the group, wanting to take them back to the dark side and keep them dead.

GENRE: Horror, Fantasy, Adventure

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 99 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PPJXT82/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8444450/

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Bornless Ones [2016]

Blu-ray

PRINCIPAL CAST: Margaret Judson, Devin Goodsell, Michael Johnston

DIRECTOR: Alexander Babaev

SYNOPSIS: Emily, her fiancé, and two friends, move into a remote house with Emily’s crippled brother Zach. After spending a single night in the house Zach begins to heal, but in turn reveals a force that creates the most horrific night anyone could ever face.

TAGLINE: Only Evil Will Survive

GENRE: Horror

RATED: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 80 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072KBC9NM/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6010518/

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The Candy Witch [2020]

DVD

PRINCIPAL CAST: Jon Callaway, Abi Casson Thompson, Kate Lush

DIRECTOR: Rebecca Matthews

SYNOPSIS: Two ghost hunters are called upon a distressed family who claim they are being tormented by an evil spirit known in their local town as The Candy Witch. But as the mystery of her curse is uncovered, surprising and sinister turns are discovered around The Candy Witch’s identity. Their hardest case yet, can they solve this evil curse before more people are killed by the demonic spirit?

TAGLINE: Sweet dreams… Forever.

GENRE: Horror

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 94 Minutes

STUDIO: Uncork’d Entertainment

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08975HHM2/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10843814/

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Monsters in the Woods [2012]

DVD – Director’s Cut

PRINCIPAL CAST: Glen Plummer, Linda Bella, Kurt Mega

DIRECTOR: J. Horton

SYNOPSIS: A micro-budget movie crew ventures into the wild to film horror scenes for their unsellable indie-drama. Unexpectedly, they become part of a terrifying real-life horror movie when hunted by a large group of creatures. Survival becomes their sole mission in this thrilling and dangerous ordeal. Will they make it out alive?

GENRE: Horror

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 83 Minutes

STUDIO: Allied Vaughn

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4D9JSS/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1686902/

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