New Horror Releases for August 1 to 19, 2024

AUGUST 13

Demons [1985]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K Ultra HD – Special Edition

DIRECTOR: ‎ Lamberto Bava

WRITER: Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Franco Ferrini, Dardano Sacchetti

PRINCIPAL CAST: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny

SYNOPSIS: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs… A masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at the mysterious Metropol cinema. When a patron is scratched by a prop displayed in the theatre lobby, she transforms into a flesh-ripping demon! One by one, the audience members mutate into horrible creatures hell-bent on destroying the world! Can anyone escape this gory orgy of terror? Regarded by horror fans the world over as one of the greatest Italian splatter films ever made, Lamberto Bava’s Demons is not only major cinematic nightmare fuel, but also a hugely entertaining gore-fest of the highest order. Produced by Dario Argento (Suspiria, Tenebrae, Phenomena), Demons features an amazing soundtrack of 80’s rock/heavy metal music by Billy Idol, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, Accept, Saxon and MORE!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Newly remastered in 4K from the original camera negative in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Two versions of the film: the full-length original cut in English and Italian, and the shorter U.S. version featuring alternate dubbing and sound effects
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English & Italian 5.1/2.0 audio mixes on the original cut derived from the archival audio masters
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English 2.0 U.S. theatrical mono audio
New audio commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Heather Drain, co-hosts of the Hell’s Belles podcast
Audio commentary with director Lamberto Bava, SPFX artist Sergio Stivaletti, composer Claudio Simonetti and actress Geretta Geretta
Produced by Dario Argento: a new visual essay by author and critic Michael Mackenzie exploring the legendary filmmaker’s career as a producer
Dario’s Demon Days: interview with writer/producer Dario Argento
Defining an Era in Music: interview with Claudio Simonetti
Splatter Spaghetti Style: interview with long-time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi
Carnage at the Cinema: Lamberto Bava and His Splatter Masterpiece
Dario and the Demons: Producing Monster Mayhem
Monstrous Memories: Luigi Cozzi on the making of Demons
Profondo Jones: The Critical Perspective
Splatter Stunt Rock: interview with Ottaviano Dell’Acqua
Stivaletti Q&A at the 2019 UK ‘Festival of Fantastic Films’
Original Italian and English international theatrical trailers
S. theatrical trailer
Newly translated optional English SDH subtitles for the English version
Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian version

TAGLINES:

They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.
Their Evil Becomes an Orgy of Bloodshed

GENRE: Horror

RATING: Rated R

RUN TIME: 89 Minutes

STUDIO: Synapse Films

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089013/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D18TM8JS/

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Demons 2 [1986]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K Ultra HD – Special Edition

DIRECTOR: ‎ Lamberto Bava

WRITER: Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Franco Ferrini, Dardano Sacchetti

PRINCIPAL CAST: ‎ Asia Argento, David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi-Tasson

SYNOPSIS: Watching television can be hazardous to your health… and bring the end of the world! There’s a scary movie on television and the residents of a luxury high-rise apartment building have their eyes glued to their sets. Unfortunately for a young birthday girl, an eternal demonic evil is released through her TV and partygoers soon find themselves fighting an army of murderous monsters! Acid blood, demonic dogs, possessed children and rampaging zombies wreak havoc on the trapped tenants! As more and more people are infected and transformed into blood-thirsty demons, a young couple fights to survive as they try to escape hell on earth! From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes Demons 2, the sequel to the surprise horror masterpiece, Demons! Starring Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (Dario Argento’s Opera), Bobby Rhodes (Demons), and Asia Argento in her very first film role, Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2 is a jaw-droppingly gory fright-fest from the golden age of Italian splatter films! Features an amazing soundtrack of 80’s alternative/new wave music by The Smiths, The Cult, Dead Can Dance, Art of Noise, Peter Murphy and MORE!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Newly remastered in 4K from the original camera negative in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English 5.1 & Italian 5.1/2.0 audio mixes derived from the original archival audio masters
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English 2.0 true stereo theatrical mix
New audio commentary by film critic Travis Crawford
Bava to Bava: interview with Luigi Cozzi on the history of Italian horror
Creating Creature Carnage: interview with Sergio Stivaletti
Demonic Influences: Federico Zampaglione Speaks
The ‘Demons’ Generation: Roy Bava discusses a legacy in lacerations
The New Blood of Italian Horror featuring Sergio Stivaletti
Screaming for a Sequel: The Delirious Legacy of Demons 2 with Lamberto Bava
A Soundtrack for Splatter: interview with composer Simon Boswell
Together and Apart: a new visual essay on the space and technology in Demons and Demons 2 by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Original Italian and English theatrical trailers
Newly translated optional English SDH subtitles for the English version
Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian version

TAGLINES:

The Nightmare Returns
Let’s Party!
The Ultimate Horror Experience!

GENRE: Horror

RATING: Rated R

RUN TIME: 91 Minutes

STUDIO: Synapse Films

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090930/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D187XHBZ/

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Cocaine Werewolf [2024]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray

DIRECTOR: Mark Polonia

WRITER: Ford Austin, Tyger Torrez

PRINCIPAL CAST: Brice Kennedy, Jamie Morgan, Ken Van Sant, Tim Hatch, Greta Volkova

SYNOPSIS: In COCAINE WEREWOLF, cocaine, cash and a crew filming a low-budget horror movie in the eerie woods of northern Pennsylvania clash when an unexpected visit from a blood-thirsty werewolf literally enters the picture! A Gothic Industrial and Psychobilly Rock soundtrack featuring music from THE 69 CATS, PINK FAIRIES, HAWKESTREL, FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, SWITCHBLADE SYMPHONY, THE BRAINS, MIKE PINERA, HOLLYWOOD AFTER DARK and more perfectly sets the mood for one wild and crazy howling at the moon affair that DEADLINE called “a thrilling yet humorous ride”!

FEATURING MUSIC FROM:

The 69 Cats
Front Line Assembly
Pink Fairies
Switchblade Symphony
Hawkestrel
Synaesthesia
The Brains
Mike Pinera
Hollywood After Dark & more!

Bonus Materials

BLU RAY version includes exclusive “Director’s Commentary” feature not available in any other formats!”
Includes Trailers & Slide Show

GENRE: Horror, Comedy

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 79 Minutes

STUDIO: Cleopatra Entertainment

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31448377/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3JBBK5G/

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Outpost [2022]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray/DVD

STREAMING: Prime Video, Plex, Pluto TV, Roku Channel, Tubi

DIRECTOR: ‎ Joe Lo Truglio

WRITER: ‎ Joe Lo Truglio

PRODUCER: ‎ Kara Baker, Joe Lo Truglio, Joe Mortimer, Josh Bezoni, Connor Sullivan

PRINCIPAL CAST: Beth Dover, Ato Essandoh, Dylan Baker, Becky Ann Baker, Dallas Roberts

SYNOPSIS: After a violent assault, KATE asks best friend NICKIE for help escaping an abusive ex. Nic’s brother, EARL, hires Kate as a fire lookout in northern Idaho. Kate feels the peaceful solitude will help. But the trauma and isolation have other plans. She meets REGGIE, a moody widow, and DAN, an odd coworker. Kate’s brutal past plants seeds of paranoia. Her grip on reality slips. To Earl’s dismay, it also disrupts her ability to protect his tower and the town. Their partnership starts to crack. But Kate finds solace in a local hiker, BERTHA. Their bond triggers a renewal in Kate unlike anything she’s ever felt. Is it the change she always wanted, or something else – something darker?

GENRE: Horror

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 84 Minutes

STUDIO: Gravitas Ventures

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11573276/

https://www.amazon.com/Outpost-Blu-ray-Joe-Lo-Truglio/dp/B0C44DWQ28/

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Chucky: Season 3 [2023-2024]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray/DVD

CREATOR: Don Mancini

PRINCIPAL CAST: Zackary Arthur, Teo Briones, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Brad Dourif

SYNOPSIS: Chucky is back with a vengeance in Season Three of the hit series from Chucky franchise creator Don Mancini. This time, the infamous killer doll (voiced by Brad Dourif) has managed to find his way inside the White House as the new favorite toy of the president’s young son. With Chucky threatening to wreak havoc in America’s highest office, Jake (Zackary Arthur), Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) and Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) must travel to the nation’s capital and somehow find a way inside the world’s most secure house to thwart Chucky again before it’s too late.

Bonus Content:

Disc 1 – Chucky Season Three:
Deleted Scenes

Disc 2 – Chucky Season Three:

Deleted Scenes

TAGLINES:

An evil too great to play on just one network.
A new original series featuring an old friend…
A classic coming of rage story.
The second coming.
The country is chucked.

GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Drama

RATING: TV-MA

RUN TIME: 5 Hours, 59 Minutes

STUDIO: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8388390/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D67BSPQ9/

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The Hangman [2024]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray

STREAMING: Prime Video

DIRECTOR: Bruce Wemple

WRITER: Bruce Wemple, LeJon Woods

PRINCIPAL CAST: LeJon Woods, Mar Cellus, Lindsey Dresbach

SYNOPSIS: To mend their troubled relationship, a middle-aged door-to-door salesman, Leon, takes his teenage son on a camping trip into deep rural Appalachia. Little do they know of the mountainous region’s sinister secrets. A local cult has summoned an evil demon born of hate and pain, known to them as The Hangman, and now the bodies have begun to pile up. Leon wakes up in the morning to discover that his son is missing. To find him, Leon must face the murderous cult and the bloodthirsty monster that is The Hangman.

TAGLINE: Give the devil his due.

GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 90 Minutes

STUDIO: Epic Pictures

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31645789/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D18TMTSQ/

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Hillbillys in a Haunted House [1967]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray

STREAMING: Tubi

DIRECTOR: Jean Yarbrough

WRITER: Duke Yelton

PRINCIPAL CAST: Basil Rathbone, Don Bowman, Ferlin Husky, John Carradine, Joi Lansing, Lon Chaney, Jr.

SYNOPSIS: Two Country & Western singers and their manager are en route to the Nashville Jamboree but become tired and stop to rest in an abandoned mansion. Little do they know, but the basement of the old house is headquarters for the evil Madame Wong and her entourage of foreign spies. Strange things begin to happen almost immediately, and they suspect the place is haunted. However, our three heroes decide to spend the night anyway to escape an upcoming storm. Soon, (a song or two later) they settle down to get some shut-eye. But during the night the spies kidnap our female singer. Now things really get exciting as the hillbillys help capture the bad guys and foil a diabolical plan to steal a secret formula for rocket propellant. Now they’re off to Nashville, not very rested, but happy and content to participate in the more normal pleasures of entertaining the audience of the giant Nashville Jamboree.

TAGLINES:

If you’re a chicken, come with plenty of feathers and an O-OH-7 getaway car!
They’ll scare your pants off…and give you the chill of your life!

GENRE: Horror, Family, Comedy

RATING: Rated G

RUN TIME: 86 Minutes

STUDIO: VCI Entertainment

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061765/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D18SFBP5/

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The Bat Whispers [1930]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray/DVD

DIRECTOR: Roland West

WRITER: Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood

PRINCIPAL CAST: Charles Dow Clark, Chester Morris, Grayce Hampton, Gustav von Seyffertitz

SYNOPSIS: An infamous burglar and jewel thief known as The Bat plays cat and mouse with the police and terrorizes the occupants of a mansion, leased from a bank president who is in Europe. After the town bank is robbed, the Bat and a cashier named Brook, who disappeared afterwards, are the main suspects. Strange things begin to occur in the mansion, such as mysterious noises, lights being turned on and off and an ominous shadow is seen by the occupants. When a rock is thrown through a window with a threatening note telling the occupants to leave ‘or else’, the renter, Cornelia Van Gorder, and her guests, suspect the money from the robbery might be hidden there. They begin a search for a hidden room, hoping to find the stolen money but when Ms. Gorder’s guests begin turning up dead, she fears The Bat is trying to keep them from finding his ‘Stash.

TAGLINES:

“DON’T MOVE!” The World’s most cunning bad man spurns danger in a daring quest after a great fortune. You’ll laugh and gasp, throb and thrill. (Print Ad- Otsego Farmer, ((Cooperstown, NY)) 30 January 1931)
C’MON AND HAVE A SCREAMING GOOD TIME! (Print Ad-Albany Evening News, ((Albany NY)) 26 February 1931)
A Dynamic Mystery Drama Based on a Sensational Thriller
LOOK OUT! The Arch Criminal is HERE! It’ll Make Your Hair Stand Up! (Print Ad-Portsmouth Sunday Times, ((Portsmouth, Ohio)) 1 February 1931)
WHO! WHAT! WHERE! IS THE BAT? He’s Everywhere-Thrilling-Chilling Everything! There Are Laughs and Love, Too! HE’S HERE! His Sinister Influence Is Everywhere-His Whispered Warnings Will Hold You In Intense Suspense-As an Ominous Plot weaves a Weird web Around Two Young Lovers. It’s a Comedy Melodrama That Will Thrill You and Chill You-and Keep You Laughing, Too. (Print Ad-Telegraph-Herald, ((Dubuque, Iowa)) 15 March 1931)
The BAT Whispers…and no one Knows Who, or What, or Where he is. He sends his message to Warn…and like the Wind – he is gone. It’s the most satisfying entertainment you’ve ever see!) (print ad – Daily Oklahoman – Capitol Theatre – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – January 11, 1931)
A Scream High-Pitched with Terror! A Mysterious Disappearance! (print ad – Daily Oklahoman – Capitol Theatre – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – January 11, 1931)
Look out! The arch criminal is here!

GENRE: Horror, Crime, Drama

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 83 Minutes

STUDIO: VCI Entertainment

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020668/

https://www.amazon.com/Bat-Whispers-Special-Blu-ray/dp/B0CMV8WDXG/