NOVEMBER 12
The Forest Hills [2023]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Scott Goldberg
WRITER: Scott Goldberg
PRINCIPAL CAST: Chiko Mendez, Dee Wallace, Edward Furlong, Shelley Duvall
SYNOPSIS: Haunted by nightmares and dark secrets, Rico (Chiko Mendez) descends into madness in the Catskill Mountains. Fueled by fear and isolation, as well as struggling with a strained relationship with Mama (Shelley Duvall), Rico attempts to find solace in his friendship with Billy (Edward Furlong) in an attempt to fight his demons.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Drama
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 80 Minutes
STUDIO: My Way Pictures
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19816664/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBJ2M8BC/
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Silent Bite [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Taylor Martin
WRITER: Simon Phillips
PRINCIPAL CAST: Camille Blott, Dan Molson, Kelly Schwartz, Louisa Capulet, Luke Avoledo, Nick Biskupek
SYNOPSIS: A gang of bank robbers take shelter in a motel after a Christmas Eve bank heist, unbeknownst to them they are not the most dangerous thing seeking refuge on this cold Christmas night.
TAGLINE: ‘Twas the heist before Christmas
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
STUDIO: Cleopatra Entertainment
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32631883/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D92XB2YP/
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Amityville Turkey Day [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD
DIRECTOR: Will Collazo Jr., Julie Anne Prescott
WRITER: Will Collazo Jr., Julie Anne Prescott, David Rodriguez
PRINCIPAL CAST: David Perry, Mark C. Fullhardt, Steven Kiseleski, Tim Hatch, Jen Elyse Feldy
SYNOPSIS: A turkey from hell comes home for dinner on Thanksgiving, terrorizing the film set of an indie horror film. It’s turkey time mother clucker!
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 94 Minutes
STUDIO: SRS Cinema
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26421126/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D92X2VS3/
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Followers [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: James Rich
WRITER: Zach Hersh, James Rich
PRINCIPAL CAST: Gigi James, Molly Leach, Michael Bonini, Revell Carpenter, Cole Cuomo
SYNOPSIS: As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, the past rises from the dead to claim its revenge. A year after surviving a brutal attack, a social media influencer and her friends find themselves once again in the crosshairs of a dangerous and relentless dark web cult, thirsting for retribution and willing to stop at nothing to get it.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 74 Minutes
STUDIO: Cinedigm/Cineverse
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18937782/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDTZLX2X/
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It’s Coming [2023]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD
DIRECTOR: Shannon Alexander
WRITER: Shannon Alexander
PRINCIPAL CAST: Ashley Roland-White, Javier Vega, Chris DeFlorio
SYNOPSIS: Ashley, a Brooklyn wife and mother of 5, is not used to being believed. She’s been seeing supernatural entities since the age of 11. But when malevolent spirits start threatening her children, she begins a journey to rid them from her home.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 88 Minutes
STUDIO: Freestyle Digial Media
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27371453/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKYP2DTB/
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The Invasion [2007]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray – Limited Edition
DIRECTOR: Oliver Hirschbiegel
WRITER: David Kajganich, Jack Finney
PRINCIPAL CAST: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, Jeremy Northam
SYNOPSIS: Since its first publication in 1955, Jack Finney’s classic sci-fi/horror novel The Body Snatchers has inspired numerous adaptations and created a whole subgenre of era-defining alien doppelgangers in books, film, and TV. 2007’s The Invasion was ahead of the curve, its eerily predictive shift toward a virus-like contagion more frighteningly resonant in a post-pandemic world.
A space shuttle crashes to Earth carrying an alien organism. Soon people are changing, becoming detached and emotionless. People like CDC director Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam) who is investigating the crash. Meanwhile his ex-wife, psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), sees the same behavior in a friend of their son, and a patient claims that her husband is no longer her husband. As people all across Washington D.C. become infected and the insidious epidemic spreads, Carol must fight to protect herself and her son, who might just hold the key to stopping the escalating invasion.
Produced by Joel Silver, and also starring Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, and Veronica Cartwright, this edge-of-your-seat thriller makes its debut on 4K UHD with a wealth of new and archival extras.
4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary by film critics Andrea Subisati and Alexandra West, co-hosts of The Faculty of Horror podcast
- Body Snatchers and Beyond, a new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller Nicholas
- That Bug That’s Going Around, a new visual essay exploring The Invasion as pandemic prophecy by film scholar Josh Nelson
- We’ve Been Snatched Before, an archival featurette from 2007
- The Invasion: A New Story, an archival featurette from 2007
- The Invasion: On the Set, an archival featurette from 2007
- The Invasion: Snatched, an archival featurette from 2007
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by film critics William Bibbiani and Sally Christie
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
- Double-sided fold out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
RATING: Rated PG-13
RUN TIME: 99 Minutes
STUDIO: Arrow Video
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427392/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFQWBDLD/
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark [1988]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray – Limited Edition
DIRECTOR: James Signorelli
WRITER: Sam Egan, John Paragon, Cassandra Peterson
PRINCIPAL CAST: Cassandra Peterson, Edie McClurg, Jeff Conaway, Phil Rubenstein, Larry Flash Jenkins
SYNOPSIS:
She’s back! Elvira, Horrorland’s hostess with the mostest, finally busts out on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with this long-awaited, positively bursting-at-the-seams special edition of her big screen debut, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!
Having just quit her job as a Los Angeles TV horror hostess, Elvira receives the unexpected news that she’s set to inherit part of her great aunt Morgana’s estate. Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals – amongst them, her sinister uncle Vincent, who, unbeknownst to Elvira, is in fact an evil warlock secretly scheming to steal the old family spell book for his own nefarious ends…
Campy, quirky and stuffed to the brim with more double entendres than your average Carry On movie, 1988’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark helped solidify the horror hostess (played by Cassandra Peterson) as a major pop culture icon, here owning every inch of the screen with her quick wit, sass, and of course, cleaving-enhancing gown!
4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Introduction to the film by director James Signorelli
- 2017 audio commentary with director James Signorelli, hosted by Fangoria editor emeritus Tony Timpone
- 2017 audio commentary with Patterson Lundquist, www.elviramistressofthedark.com webmaster and judge of US TV show The Search for the Next Elvira
- Archival audio commentary with actors Cassandra Peterson and Edie McClurg and writer John Paragon
- Too Macabre – The Making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark – 2018 version of this feature-length documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with various cast and crew and archival material
- Recipe for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster – 2018 version of this featurette on the concept and design of the pot monster, as well as the film’s other SFX
- Original storyboards
- Extensive image galleries
- Original US theatrical and teaser trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck
- Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by Sam Irving, Kat Ellinger and Patterson Lundquist
TAGLINES:
- Elvira busts out in her outrageously funny feature film debut!
- Here’s something you’ll want to pick up!
- Elvira makes her Big Scream Debut in her Hot New Comedy.
- Unpleasant dreams…
- Here comes Elvira… there goes the neighborhood!
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GENRE: Horror, Comedy
RATING: Rated PG-13
RUN TIME: 96 Minutes
STUDIO: Arrow Video
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095088/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFQP8SCZ/
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Apex Predators 2: The Spawning [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD
DIRECTOR: Dustin Ferguson
WRITER: Dustin Ferguson, Jennifer Nangle
PRINCIPAL CAST: Christopher Showerman, Jennifer Nangle, Traci Burr, Vernon Wells
SYNOPSIS: The action-packed follow up to the direct to video cult hit Apex Predators has spawned more shark terror. And this time the sharks are in the air! These mutated, flying Sharks wreak havoc along a California beach during an annual Volleyball tournament. While local officials want to bury the danger and the bodies on shore, it’s up to a legendary shark hunter and his accomplice to knock the threat out of the air and back to the ocean floor forever.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 70 Minutes
STUDIO: Wild Eye Releasing
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16495308/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9R1VTT5/
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Circus of Horrors [1960]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD
DIRECTOR: Sidney Hayers
WRITER: George Baxt
PRINCIPAL CAST: 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!
- Forever stranger thrills…he turned the greatest show on earth into a…
GENRE: Horror, Drama
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 92 Minutes
STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053717/
https://www.amazon.com/Circus-Horrors-4KUHD-4K-UHD/dp/B0DH16WB1G/
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Night Of The Blood Beast (1958) + Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) – Double Feature
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray – Special Editon
SYNOPSIS: Executive producer Roger Corman unleashes hideous aqua beasts and horrors from outer space in two of his most memorable thrillers. A mutant stalks the Earth when the body of a dead astronaut is used as an alien incubator in Night of the Blood Beast (1959). Equally revolting is Attack of the Giant Leeches (1958), which stars B-movie siren Yvette Vickers (Attack of the 50-Foot Woman) in a watery scare fest about massive, bloodsucking monsters. The two features were directed by Bernard Kowalski who went on to be Emmy-nominated for his television work, but they are truly representative of Corman’s world: cheap, tasteless, and extraordinarily fun!
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- full commentary tracks by Tom Weaver and ‘The Weaver Players’ for both films
- full color inserted booklet with original essay by Tom Weaver
- Recut trailers using archival film elements
- Comparison videos showing the impact of restoration
- 8mm version of Night of the Blood Beast
- All new documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
DIRECTOR: Bernard L. Kowalski
PRINCIPAL CAST: Michael Emmet, Yvette Vickers
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 122 Minutes
STUDIO: Film Masters
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051993/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053611/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D92XZLR1/
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