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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