OCTOBER 29
Trick ‘r Treat [2007]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD – Limited Edition
DIRECTOR: Michael Dougherty
WRITER: Michael Dougherty
PRINCIPAL CAST: Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Brett Kelly, Quinn Lord,
SYNOPSIS: Dive into the sinister and darkly humorous world of Trick ‘r Treat, written and directed by Michael Dougherty. This anthology film communes with the spirits of classic horror portmanteaus like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, weaving together four chilling tales, all taking place during the same fateful Halloween night. Follow the secretive and disturbing life of a high school principal (Dylan Baker) who leads a double life as a ruthless serial killer; the journey of a young girl (Anna Paquin) looking for love who finds something infinitely more macabre; a group of teenagers playing a prank with disastrous consequences; and an old man (Brian Cox) confronted by Sam, a mischievous trick-or-treater with a terrifying secret. With its interwoven tales of terror and unforgettable characters, Trick ‘r Treat has cemented itself as a Halloween essential, paying loving homage to the golden age of horror comics and 80s creature features with a slick modern style sure to send shivers down the spine of any fright fiend. Get ready for the scariest Halloween of your life – and remember, always check your candy!
TAGLINES:
- Poison, Drowning, Claw, Or Knife. So Many Ways To Take A Life.
- If you don’t follow the rules tonight, you won’t live to see tomorrow.
- You better watch out, I’m telling you why. Sam is coming to town…
- They were started to protect us…
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
STUDIO: Arrow Video
https://www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo/
https://www.instagram.com/arrowvideo/
https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862856/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBJG6L67/
************* ********************* ****************
Shocker [1989]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Wes Craven
WRITER: Wes Craven
PRINCIPAL CAST: Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, Michael Murphy, Cami Cooper, Theodore Raimi
SYNOPSIS:
Master of horror Wes Craven (Scream, The Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street) directs this exciting visual treat which introduces a diabolical mass murderer who harnesses electricity for unimaginable killing powers.
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to Pinker through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon. The two dive in and out of television programs, chasing each other from channel to channel through stunning scenes of disaster, game shows and old reruns.
A blend of dazzling special effects and an electrifying soundtrack, Shocker stars actor/director Peter Berg (actor Smokin’ Aces, director Lone Survivor), Michael Murphy (X-Men: The Last Stand, Batman Returns), Ted Raimi (Evil Dead II, Candyman) and Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files, Sons of Anarchy) as Horace Pinker.
Bonus Content:
- 4K Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented In Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
- Audio Commentary with Director of Photography Jacques Haitkin, Co-Producer Robert Engelman and Composer William Goldstein
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Wes Craven
- Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Cable Guy: An Interview with Actor Mitch Pileggi
- Alison’s Adventures: An Interview with Actress Cami Cooper
- It’s Alive: An Interview with Executive Producer Shep Gordon
- No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Music of Shocker, Featuring Interviews with Music Supervisor Desmond Child and Soundtrack Artists Bruce Kulick (KISS), Jason McMaster (DANGEROUS TOYS), Kane Roberts (ALICE COOPER), and Dave Ellefson (MEGADETH)
TAGLINES:
- On October 2nd, at 6:45 a.m. mass murderer Horace Pinker was put to death. Now, he’s really mad.
- Now he’s gone really mad
- From the director of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “The Serpent and the Rainbow.”
- 100 thousand volts of terror!
- No more Mr. Nice Guy
- Mass murderer Horace pinker was put to death. Then he really got mad.
SEE REVIEW HERE
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 111 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
https://www.facebook.com/shoutstudiosofficial/
https://www.instagram.com/shout_studios/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098320/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MJJ5NC/
************* ********************* ****************
Drag Me to Hell [2009]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Sam Raimi
WRITER: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
PRINCIPAL CAST: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Ruth Livier
SYNOPSIS: Christine Brown (Alison Lohman, Big Fish, Beowulf) is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend (Justin Long, Barbarian, Jeepers Creepers), a hard-earned job promotion, and a bright future. But when she has to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment. Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead Trilogy, Darkman) returns to the horror genre with a vengeance in the film that critics rave is “the most crazy, fun and terrifying horror movie in years” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly)!
Bonus Content:
- 4K Scan from the Original DI Film Negative Approved by Director Sam Raimi and Editor Bob Murawski
- Presented in Dolby Vision
- To Hell and Back: Interview with Actress Alison Lohman
- Curses: Interview with Actress Lorna Raver
- Hitting All the Right Notes: Interview with Composer Christopher Young
- Production Video Diaries Featuring Interviews with Director Sam Raimi and Actors Alison Lohman and Justin Long
- Theatrical Trailer
TAGLINES:
- Christine Brown has a good job, a great boyfriend, and a bright future. But in three days, she’s going to hell.
- Even nice people can go to hell.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Rated PG-13
RUN TIME: 99 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
https://www.facebook.com/shoutstudiosofficial/
https://www.instagram.com/shout_studios/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127180/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MJDKQ4/
************* ********************* ****************
Crackcoon [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Brad Twigg
WRITER: Todd Martin, Brad Twigg, Gary Lee Vincent
SYNOPSIS: When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific when an innocent raccoon eats it, transforming it into a nightmarish killing machine straight from the bowels of hell. With unsuspecting campers, tourists, and residents of a mountain community all in close proximity to the epicenter, no one is safe from the monster’s unrelenting rampage.
TAGLINES:
- Crack kills.
- Just when you thought it was safe to take out the trash!
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 88 Minutes
STUDIO: Cinedigm/Cineverse
https://www.facebook.com/cineversetv/
https://www.instagram.com/cineverse.tv/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27240621/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCWMFDW2/
************* ********************* ****************
Circus of Horrors [1960]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Sidney Hayers
WRITER: George Baxt
PRINCIPAL CAST: Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur
SYNOPSIS: Legendary screen baddie Anton Diffring (The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Where Eagles Dare) plays a brilliant but deranged plastic surgeon wanted by the authorities, who flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a rundown circus. His first recruit into this three-ring nightmare is a disfigured female criminal whom he transforms by plastic surgery and trains as a high-wire artist. Within ten years he builds the circus into one of the most successful in all of Europe. But when a series of mysterious deadly “accidents” occur the continental police are alerted. They are never able to prove any crime but when the Circus of Horrors comes to England a detective sets out to unveil the bizarre and bloodcurdling truth. George Baxt (The City of the Dead) writes, Sidney Hayers (Burn, Witch, Burn) directs, and Yvonne Monlaur (The Brides of Dracula) and the distinguished Donald Pleasence (The Flesh and the Fiends) co-star in this cult British chiller which promises spectacular, towering terror. Step right up—The Grisliest Show on Earth is about to begin!
Special Features:
- 2018 UHD SDR Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle
- Theatrical Trailer & TV Spots
- Optional English Subtitles
TAGLINES:
- The Greatest HORROR Show on Earth!
- See It and Gasp!
- Spectacular Towering Terror! One man’s lust…made men into beasts, stripped women of their souls!
- For ever stranger thrills…he turned the greatest show on earth into a…
GENRE: Horror, Drama
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 92 Minutes
STUDIO: KL Studios Classics
https://www.klstudioclassics.com/
https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorberStudioClassics/
https://twitter.com/KLStudioClassic
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053717/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DH16WB1G/
************* ********************* ****************
Baby Blood [1990]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Alain Robak
WRITER: Alain Robak, Serge Cukier
PRINCIPAL CAST: Emmanuelle Escourrou, Christian Sinniger, Jean-François Gallotte, Alain Chabat
SYNOPSIS: It’s Time to Feed the Baby! It is a voracious parasite from the dawn of creation, surviving centuries in search of the one thing it needs: to be born of a human. But when this cunning creature slithers inside a sexy circus performer (voluptuous French starlet Emmanuelle Escourrou, Lady Blood), it demands gallons of fresh blood to grow stronger. Now this reluctantly expectant mommy and her chatty mutant fetus are off on a cross-country killing spree, where pre-natal care means violent carnage and the ultimate mother’s milk is Baby Blood! Also known as The Evil Within, this French shocker is now presented totally uncut and uncensored with all its infamous womb-raiding, gore-spewing and flesh-baring beautifully restored in 4K! Co-written and directed by Alain Robak (Adrénaline).
Special Features:
- 2019 UHD SDR Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Lee Gambin and Film Critic Jarret Gahan
- Includes both Original French and English Audio
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
TAGLINE: It’s time to feed the baby.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 87 Minutes
STUDIO: Kino Cult
https://kinolorber.com/collection/kino-cult
https://www.facebook.com/kinolorberinc
https://www.instagram.com/kinolorber/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096871/
https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Blood-Kino-Cult-4KUHD/dp/B0DH1666QS/
************* ********************* ****************