MAY 7, 2024
The Church [1989]
AKA “La chiesa”
Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Michele Soavi
WRITER: Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini, Michele Soavi
PRINCIPAL CAST: Tomas Arana, Feodor Chaliapin, Hugh Quarshie, Asia Argento
SYNOPSIS: For his second feature film – and first full collaboration with co-writer/producer/mentor Dario Argento – writer/director Michele Soavi unleashes a “mind-blowing” (Bloody Disgusting), “breathtaking” (Slant) “masterwork” (DVD Drive-In), now ON Blu-ray: In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence and demonic vengeance. Tomas Arana (THE SECT), Feodor Chaliapin (INFERNO), Hugh Quarshie (NIGHTBREED), Barbara Cupisti (CEMETERY MAN) and Asia Argento co-star in this Italian horror milestone co-written by Franco Ferrini (PHENOMENA), with a Soavi-approved 4K scan from the original negative and presented in 1080p HD on Blu-ray with over 3 hours of Special Features – including new interviews with Soavi and Argento.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- The Mystery Of The Cathedrals – Interview With Director Michele Soavi
- Alchemical Possession – Interview With Co-Screenwriter/Producer Dario Argento
- The Eleventh Commandment – Interview With Co-Screenwriter Franco Ferrini
- The Ghostwriter – Interview With Co-Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti
- Lotte – Interview With Actress Asia Argento
- Here Comes The Bride – Interview With Actress Antonella Vitale
- A Demon Named Evan – Interview With Actor Tomas Arana
- Father Giovanni – Interview With Actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice
- Monsters And Demons – Interview With Special FX Artist Sergio Stivaletti
- Holy Ground – Interview With Make-Up Artist Franco Casagni
- Building The Church – Interview With Set Designer Antonello Geleng
- The Right-Hand Man – Interview With Assistant Director Claudio Lattanzi
- Return To The Land Of The Demons – Interview With Alan Jones, Author Of Profondo Argento
- Trailer
TAGLINES:
- You Haven’t Got A Prayer.
- It will make you squirm.
- In this unholy sanctuary you haven’t got a prayer …
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 102 Minutes
STUDIO: Severin Films
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094860/
https://www.amazon.com/Church-Special-Blu-ray-Michele-Soavi/dp/B0CVNLZFS4/
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The Sect [1991]
AKA “La seta”
Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Michele Soavi
WRITER: Dario Argento, Gianni Romoli, Michele Soavi
PRINCIPAL CAST: Kelly Curtis, Herbert Lom, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Mariangela Giordano
SYNOPSIS: The third feature by director Michele Soavi – his second collaboration with producer/co-writer Dario Argento – has been called “deranged” (We Are Cult), “disturbing” (Blu-ray.com) and “long overdue for reevaluation” (Bloody Disgusting). Now it can be experienced like never before: As a global satanic cabal grows in ferocity, an unwitting young schoolteacher (Kelly Curtis – sister of Jamie Lee – in her sole genre role) is chosen to deliver the ultimate evil. Herbert Lom (COUNT DRACULA), Mariangela Giordano (BURIAL GROUND) and Giovanni Lombardo Radice (THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK) co-star in “a nightmarish fever dream from a visionary filmmaker” (Good Efficient Butchery), scanned in 4K from the original negative and presented in 1080p HD on Blu-ray with over 3 hours of Special Features – including new interviews with Soavi and Argento – for the first time ever.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Sympathy For The Devil – Interview With Director Michele Soavi
- (You’re The) Devil In Disguise – Interview With Co-Screenwriter/Producer Dario Argento
- Catacumba – Interview With Co-Screenwriter Gianni Romoli
- Cult Of Personality – Interview With Actor Tomas Arana
- Owner Of A Lonely Heart – Interview With Actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice
- In The Shaded Area – Interview With Cinematographer Raffaele Mertes
- Four Times Argento – Interview With Composer Pino Donaggio
- Total Eclipse – Interview With Special FX Artist Sergio Stivaletti
- Oh Well – Interview With Set Designer Antonello Geleng
- The Birth Of Evil – Interview With Film Historian Fabrizio Spurio
- Into The Dark Well – Interview With Alan Jones, Author Of Profondo Argento
- Catacomb In The Kitchen – Michele Soavi Shows Us His Dark Basement
- Italian Trailer
- S. Release Trailer
TAGLINE: Satan has chosen his victims. The battle with evil has begun.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 117 Minutes
STUDIO: Severin Films
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100581/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVNMDLWX/
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Katernica [2023]
Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: James Edward Newton
WRITER: James Edward Newton, Paul Richards
PRINCIPAL CAST: Anna Fraser, Annabella Rich, Fran St Clair, Tony Mardon
SYNOPSIS: An ambitious drama student, her actor sister, and a washed-up television director make an unlikely team of misfits when together they become caught up in a surreal nightmare journey after discovering and reading the manuscript of a legendary cursed play. Katernica was made for £1000 and is the second outstanding micro-budgeted feature film from the director of Black Lizard Tales.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 75 Minutes
STUDIO: Rising Sun Media
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22768050/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CV4C4T2M/
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Bad CGI Gator [2023]
Blu-ray/DVD
DIRECTOR: Danny Draven
WRITER: Zalman Band
PRINCIPAL CAST: Ben VanderMey, Cooper Drippe, Lee Fealy, Maddie Lane, Michael Bonini
SYNOPSIS: Six college grads on spring break in the swamps get more than they bargained for in director Danny (WEEDJIES) Draven’s maniacal new horror comedy satire BAD CGI GATOR, the film that Fortress of Solitude calls “Pure Cinema!” The lo-fi horror nightmare begins when those rowdy youths decide to throw their school laptops in a backyard lake in an act of idiotic youthful defiance. Unbeknownst to them – and to any strain of legit science – the waterlogged computers short out and cause a local alligator to morph into a monstrous, gravity defying and insatiable CGI creature…with murder on its cheap-tech mind! BAD CGI GATOR flips the bird to all those lousy “giant monster” movies choking the market and owns its mind-bendingly bad effects. This movie bites HARD…in a good way! See it before it sees YOU!
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Commentary with Director Danny Draven and writer Zalman Band!
- Bad CGI Gator Blooper Reel
- Dead Talk Live! Podcast: Bad CGI Gator Director Interview!
- Isolated Music Score by Jojo Draven
- Cast Table Read at Full Moon Manor!
- Original Trailer
- Screams From the Basement Podcast: Director Interview
TAGLINE: Terror, rendered too cheaply…
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 58 Minutes
STUDIO: Full Moon Features
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28309395/
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Gator-Blu-ray-Danny-Draven/dp/B0CRWD74YS/
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The Terror [1963]
DVD
DIRECTOR: Roger Corman
WRITER: Leo Gordon, Jack Hill, Roger Corman
PRINCIPAL CAST: Boris Karloff, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
SYNOPSIS: A lost French Army officer receives help from a mysterious woman. She leads him to a castle, but he soon learns that the woman is the Baron’s wife who died 20 years ago.
TAGLINES:
- .. Frankenstein… Raptor… And Now… …The Terror.
- A New Classic Of Horror Comes To The Screen!
- No One Will Be Admitted While The Coffin Is Being Opened!
- There’s No Rest For The Wicked…
- “DRACULA”… “FRANKENSTEIN”… “HOUSE of WAX”… “PIT and the PENDULUM”… and now… The TERROR
- From the depths of an evil mind a sadistic plan of revenge.
- A diabolical plan of torture … inconceivable … unbelievable!
- Trapped in a Haunted Castle… There is no Escape From The TERROR
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
RATING: TV-PG
RUN TIME: 81 Minutes
STUDIO: Cheezy Movies
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057569/
https://www.amazon.com/Terror-DVD-Roger-Corman/dp/B0CRWLR4PF/
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Teddiscare [2024]
DVD
DIRECTOR: Mark Polonia
PRINCIPAL CAST: Tim Hatch, Jeff Kirkendall, Michael Korotitsch
SYNOPSIS: After his father’s death, a young man spirals into insanity and childhood nightmares that bring his fears to life. Who or what is killing the locals? Are his childhood friends alive and breathing, or is it all his imagination? Does his favorite toy, a mysterious missing teddy bear, have anything to do with it? And what exactly are the effects of a strange chemical buried in the family’s remote woods? The mind can be deadly, but toys can be killer!
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 83 Minutes
STUDIO: SRS Cinema
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29720289/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRVYSN7N/
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Amityville Bigfoot [2024]
DVD
DIRECTOR: Shawn C. Phillips
WRITER: Shawn C. Phillips, Julie Anne Prescott
PRINCIPAL CAST: Eric Roberts, Lauren Francesca, Lorelei Linklater, Trent Haaga, Tuesday Night
SYNOPSIS: The woods of Amityville… A scientist faction, whose lab formerly sat on the cursed grounds of a famous haunted house in the area, has done the unthinkable – captured Bigfoot! They conduct bizarre experiments on him; however, he escapes from their forest prison lab. On the run and enraged, the creature comes across a low budget Bigfoot movie production. Hell, hath no fury like a monster scorned as Bigfoot starts picking them off one by one in gory, gruesome fashion! Not even local bird watchers or the chemical company protestors are safe from his wrath! It’s up to two scientists to track the beast down before he wipes out the entire town. An all-star cast of Eric Roberts, Tuesday Knight, Lauren Francesca, Shawn C Phillips, Lorelei Linklater and Trent Haaga bring you one of the most hilarious, bloody and bizarre Amityville or Bigfoot movies you will have or ever will see!
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Thriller
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 87 Minutes
STUDIO: SRS Cinema
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15536618/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRVZSZ7V/
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