SEPTEMBER 10
The Strangers [2008]
4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Bryan Bertino
WRITER: Bryan Bertino
PRINCIPAL CAST: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks, Laura Margolis
SYNOPSIS: After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.
- Bonus Content:
- 4K Presentation from the Original Digital Intermediate
- Presented In Dolby Vision
- The Element of Terror Featurette
- Strangers at the Door Featurette
- Deleted Scenes
- Theatrical Trailer & TV Spots
- Defining Moments: Writing and Directing The Strangers
- All The Right Moves: Kip Weeks on Playing The Man in the Mask
- Brains and Brawn: Laura Margolis on Playing Pin-Up Girl
- Deep Cuts: Kevin Greutert on Editing The Strangers
- Still Gallery
TAGLINES:
- Lock the door. Pretend you’re safe.
- We tell ourselves there’s nothing to fear – but sometimes, we’re wrong.
- Because you were home.
- Inspired By Real Events
- What are you afraid of?
- What would you do if this was happening to you?
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological Horror, Psychological Thriller
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 4 Hours, 18 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7D82FDL/
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The Stepfather [1987]
4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Joseph Ruben
WRITER: Carolyn Lefcourt, Brian Garfield, Donald E. Westlake
PRINCIPAL CAST: Terry O’Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack
SYNOPSIS: Jerry Blake (Terry O’Quinn, ABC’s Lost) is a man obsessed with having the perfect “American Dream” life—including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs, complete with an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he’s found it when he marries Susan Maine and becomes the stepfather to Susan’s 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie. But Stephanie gets an uneasy feeling when she is around Jerry with his “Father Knows Best” attitude—she can see that there is a darker side behind his cheerful exterior…Could she just be going through the typical teenager rebellion against her new stepfather, or could he be the same man who brutally murdered his family just one year earlier?
Bonus Content:
- 2024 4K Restoration
- Presented In Dolby Vision
- Audio Commentary with Director Joseph Ruben
- Audio Commentary with Actor Jill Schoelen and Filmmaker Jackson Stewart
- Audio Commentary with Film Critic Meagan Navarro
- Audio Commentary with Film Critic Kier Gomes
- Phantom of the Family: An Interview With Actor Jill Schoelen
- The Stepfather Chronicles: Retrospective Featuring Interviews with Director Joseph Ruben, Producer Jay Benson, Actress Jill Schoelen, Author Brian Garfield and Others on the Making of the Film and Its Enduring Legacy
- Trailers for all 3 Films
- Still Gallery
TAGLINES:
- Who Am I Here?
- He’s a family man with an ax to grind…and wield!
- Daddy’s Home and He’s Not Very Happy
- An All-American Family… He’d Kill For It!
- He wanted a perfect family in a perfect town. But they couldn’t measure up…neither could the others.
- Jerry Blake loves taking care of the family. Any family.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Slasher Horror
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 89 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094035/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7D983C1/
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The Primevals [2023]
Blu-ray/DVD
DIRECTOR: David Allen
WRITER: David Allen, Randall William Cook
PRINCIPAL CAST: Billy Skudder, Juliet Mills, Kevin Mangold, Leon Russom
SYNOPSIS: Deep in the Himalayas, a group of Sherpas subdue and kill a towering humanoid creature. Its remains – including a brain that appears to have undergone some kind of surgery – wind up under the supervision of Dr. Claire Collier (Juliet Mills, BEYOND THE DOOR), who believes it to be one of the legendary Yeti. Joined by her former student Matt Connor (Richard Joseph Paul), a longtime believer in the creatures’ existence, big-game hunter Rondo Montana (Leon Russom, THE BIG LEBOWSKI), and others, Dr. Collier leads an expedition into the mountains to track down more of the abominable snowmen. Their trek results in an encounter with a tribe of primitive hominids – which in turn leads to the far more frightening discovery of beings they never could have expected or imagined. Stop motion FX wizard David (BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED, PUPPET MASTER) Allen’s long-planned passion project was shelved in the 1990’s after Allen passed away from cancer. Finally completed in 2023 by Full Moon and former Allen associate Chris Endicott (AVENGERS: ENDGAME), THE PRIMEVALS is the ultimate retro-fantasy adventure, employing a wild array of arresting, 100% hand-rendered, stop-motion special effects and a rich orchestral score from composer Richard Band. THE PRIMEVALS lives!
TAGLINES:
- A Civilization Lost in Time… Invaded One Million Years Ago
- Journey to a hidden valley of incredible splendor and unbelievable terror… where the future and the past battle for the present.
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Adventure
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 91 Minutes
STUDIO: Full Moon Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9352178/
https://www.amazon.com/Primevals-Blu-ray-David-Allen/dp/B0D3FPWMS7/
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1 & 2
4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: J.D. Feigelson, Frank De Felitta
PRINCIPAL CAST: Larry Drake, Charles Durning, Tonya Crowe
SYNOPSIS:
THRILLING DOUBLE FEATURE INCLUDES BOTH THE 1981 CLASSIC HORROR FILM ALONG WITH ITS EXCITING, LONG AWAITED 2021 SEQUEL!
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981): When young Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe) is found viciously mauled, all hell breaks loose in her small rural town. Officious postmaster Otis P. Hazelrigg (Charles Durning) leads a gang of bigots in pursuit of the suspect: her mentally challenged friend Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake). Finding him hiding inside a scarecrow, they exact brutal mob “justice”…only to discover a tragic mistake! Now a strange apparition stalks the land seeking each of them out, as the legend of the Scarecrow begins.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082235/
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2021): A dark terror lies just below the surface of the small-town Chris Rhymer (Amber Wedding) and her young son Jeremy (Aiden Shurr) have settled in. One day while looking for Jeremy, she comes upon a weathered old scarecrow, and realizing that is only an inert effigy, she tells it her secret for being there. Now, suddenly after forty years, a dark terror stalks the cornfields. Is it on a mission of revenge or is it protecting Chris from outside threats? The legend of the Scarecrow continues . . .
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11806132/
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 3 Hours, 1 Minutes
STUDIO: VCI Entertainment
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https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Night-Scarecrow-4K-UHD/dp/B0CMVB7649/
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Late Night with the Devil [2023]
Blu-ray Steelbook – Limited Edition
DIRECTOR: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
WRITER: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
PRINCIPAL CAST: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss
SYNOPSIS: October 31, 1977. Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated late night talk show ‘Night Owls’ that has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs around the country. A year after the tragic death of Jack’s wife, ratings have plummeted. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other, unaware that he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America.
Special Features:
- Commentary with David Dastmalchian (Jack Delroy)
- Q&A with Directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes
- Behind the Scenes of Late Night with the Devil
Steelbook includes limited edition collectibles: Night Owl’s logo Air Freshener, Autographed photo of Jack Delory, Conversations with the Devil bookmark, and both the DVD and Blu-ray discs!
TAGLINES:
- A 1970s late night talk show goes to hell in this fiendish horror-thriller.
- The live television event that shocked a nation!
- Exorcism with a twist
- Do not adjust your set.
- Don’t adjust your set
- You don’t know what he sacrificed to get here.
GENRE: Horror, Found Footage Horror, Supernatural Horror
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 86 Minutes
STUDIO: RLJE Films
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https://www.instagram.com/rljefilms/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14966898/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7TY6C1H/
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A Halloween Feast [2024]
VOD
DIRECTOR: Guile Branco
WRITER: Guile Branco, Arthur McClen
PRINCIPAL CAST: Lynn Lowry, Julia Coulter, Guile Branco
SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional family’s lives spiral into chaos on Halloween night, ending in tragedy, and it’s kind of a funny story.
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 103 Minutes
STUDIO: Breaking Glass Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20203720/
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Wineville [2024]
VOD
DIRECTOR: Brande Roderick
WRITER: Richard Schenkman
PRINCIPAL CAST: Brande Roderick, Carolyn Hennesy, Texas Battle
SYNOPSIS: A woman who escaped her abusive father as a teen must return to settle the affairs of the family vineyard upon his death. She finds that the dark secrets she left behind have only festered and blackened over the decades, fermenting into violence and death.
TAGLINE: Some family secrets are best left dead and buried.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 100 Minutes
STUDIO: Dark Star Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21158916/
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SEPTEMBER 13
Booger [2023]
VOD
DIRECTOR: Mary Dauterman
WRITER: Mary Dauterman
PRINCIPAL CAST: Grace Glowicki, Garrick Bernard, Heather Matarazzo
SYNOPSIS: New Yorker Anna (Grace Glowicki, Strawberry Mansion) has just suffered the sudden and unexpected death of her best friend and roommate, Izzy (Sofia Dobrushin, Mean Girls 2024 ). She’s trying to handle this loss when Izzy’s cat, Booger, runs away. Anna goes on a desperate search to find him and in the process, she is bitten on the hand by the cat. She soon begins to take on feline characteristic…
GENRE: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 78 Minutes
STUDIO: Dark Sky Films
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28364917/
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Here After [2024]
VOD
DIRECTOR: Robert Salerno
WRITER: Sarah Conradt
PRINCIPAL CAST: Connie Britton, Giovanni Cirfiera, Freya Hannan-Mills
SYNOPSIS: Claire Hiller is overjoyed when her daughter Robin is miraculously revived after a fatal accident. But her relief turns to dread as Claire notices changes in her daughter, suspecting something dark has followed her back from the brink of death.
TAGLINE: She prayed for a miracle. Something answered.
GENRE: Horror, Drama, Thriller
RATING: Rated PG-13
RUN TIME: 89 Minutes
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5402714/
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