NOVEMBER 26
Hush [2016]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Mike Flanagan
WRITER: Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel
PRINCIPAL CAST: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco
SYNOPSIS: In this minimalist thriller from director Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep), a deaf writer (Kate Seigel) who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.
Bonus Content:
- 2024 4K Restoration Supervised and Approved by Director Mike Flanagan
- Presented In Dolby Vision
- Audio Commentary with Mike Flanagan, Actor & Co-Writer Kate Siegel, and Actors Samantha Sloan, John Gallagher, Jr., and Michael Trucco
- 2024 4K Restoration – B&W Shush Cut Supervised and Approved by Mike Flanagan
- Audio Commentary with Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel
- 2024 Shush Cut Audio Mix
- Audio Commentary with Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloan, John Gallagher, Jr., and Michael Trucco
- Commentary with Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel (Shush Cut)
- Feature-Length Picture-In-Picture Video Commentary with Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloyan, John Gallagher, J., and Michael Trucco (2016 Version)
- Interviews with Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher, Jr., Michael Trucco, Mike Flanagan, Producer Trevor Macy, and Composers The Newton Brothers
TAGLINE: Silence can be killer.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5022702/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCWDCPPS/
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Bones and All [2022]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Luca Guadagnino
WRITER: David Kajganich, Camille DeAngelis
PRINCIPAL CAST: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Kendle Coffey, Ellie Parker,
SYNOPSIS; Starring Timothée Chalamet (Dune, Wonka) and directed by Luca Guadagnino (Challengers, Call Me By Your Name), Bones and All follows 16-year-old Maren Yearly on a cross-country as she searches through dark, unseen corners of America to find a father she’s never met in an attempt to understand why she has killed a series of friends.
Bonus Content:
- 4K Presentation from the Original Elements
- Presented in Dolby Vision
- A Look Inside
- Luca Guadagnnino: The Vision of Bones and All
- Meet Lee
- Meet Maren
- Outsiders In Love
TAGLINE: Maybe love will set you free.
GENRE: Horror, Drama, Romance
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 131 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10168670/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCWCXPZH/
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Night of the Missing [2023]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Samuel Gonzalez Jr.
WRITER: Samuel Gonzalez Jr., Gigi Gustin
PRINCIPAL CAST: Meredith Thomas, Jill Awbrey, Philip Estrin, Gigi Gustin
SYNOPSIS: On a stormy Christmas eve night, a secretive, small-town sheriff gets a visit from a mysterious woman who recounts a series of bizarre stories involving missing persons. Both disturbing and unsettling, the most terrifying realization may be that the monster behind them is much closer than anyone thinks.
TAGLINE: 600,000 people go missing every year. Most are never seen again. Until now…
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 74 Minutes
STUDIO: Cinedigm/Cineverse
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27749942/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDV15MVB/
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Beezel [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Aaron Fradkin
WRITER: Aaron Fradkin, Victoria Fradkin
PRINCIPAL CAST: Bob Gallagher, Caroline Quigley, LeJon Woods, Nicolas Robin
SYNOPSIS: Three successive visitors of a New England home unknowingly step into the nightmarish realm of Beezel, an ageless witch who dwells beneath it and whose existence is intricately entwined with the earth itself. Each new occupant discovers the harrowing truth that lies within the walls of the house. Spanning 60 years, the ill-fated inhabitants succumb to a chilling spiral of tragedy. The unimaginable death of a child acts as a catalyst, unraveling their sanity and inviting malevolence into their lives. Haunting encounters, demonic manifestations, and macabre rituals drive them to the brink of madness, revealing the true extent of Beezel’s power and the depths of her depravity.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
RATING; Not Rated
RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
STUDIO: Epic Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28999532/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDRMDCPW/
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Feardotcom [2002]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: William Malone
WRITER: Moshe Diamant, Josephine Coyle, Holly Payberg-Torroija
PRINCIPAL CAST: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deaths. The only common factor shared by the victims? Each died exactly 48 hours after logging on to feardot.com.
Bonus Features:
1. NEW 2024 retrospective commentary track with director William Malone
2. NEW academic commentary with Nathanial Thompson and Troy Howarth
3. Archival commentary with director William Malone & director of photography Christian Sebaldt
4. NEW ‘Return to the Fear’ 2024 retrospective interview with director William Malone
5. NEW FearDotCom location scout
6. NEW The Making of FearDotCom
7. NEW Video Essay: The Horror of Technology (by Samm Deighan)
8. Archival featurette ‘FearDotCom: Visions of Fear’
9. Additional Scene: The Mushroom Factory
10. Booklet featuring essay by film archivist Justin LaLiberty
11. Theatrical Trailer, Production Art, and more
TAGLINES:
- Want to see a really killer website? It’s the last site you’ll ever see.
- Abandon all hope…..Access all evil……Enter Feardot.com
- com
- The last site you’ll ever see.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Crime
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 101 Minutes
STUDIO: Dark Star Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295254/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJCFQ27X/
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Bug [2006]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: William Friedkin
WRITER: Tracy Letts
PRINCIPAL CAST: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins
SYNOPSIS: Ashley Judd (Twisted) and Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) give searing performances in this skin-crawling exercise in fear and paranoia from The Exorcist director William Friedkin. Oklahoma waitress Aggie (Judd) lives a largely solitary life in a rundown motel, haunted by a tragic past and hounded by her ex-con ex-husband (Harry Connick, Jr.). But when she sparks a romance with Peter (Shannon), an eccentric drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again—until Peter reveals that he was a victim of government experimentation that left blood-hungry aphids festering under his skin. The couple begins to obsess over the nightmarish idea that they are infected by insects. A controversial, claustrophobic love story, Bug is “a minor masterpiece of tension and insanity” (The Guardian) adapted by Tracy Letts (Killer Joe, August: Osage County) from his play.
Special Features:
DISC 1 (4KUHD):
- Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary by Director William Friedkin
- 1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
- Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
- Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary by Director William Friedkin
- A Discussion with William Friedkin (28:02)
- Bug – An Introduction: Featurette (11:50)
- Theatrical Trailer (1:22)
- 1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
- Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles
TAGLINES:
- First they send in their drone… then they find their queen.
- Paranoia is contagious.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Drama
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 102 Minutes
STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470705/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJDD1916/
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Revenge of the Zombies [1943]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Steve Sekely
WRITER: Edmond Kelso, Van Norcross
PRINCIPAL CAST: John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele
SYNOPSIS: Celebrated celluloid creeper John Carradine (Bluebeard, The Black Sleep) strikes again in this undead classic made at the height of WWII. Monogram Pictures revamps the plot of its earlier hit, 1941’s King of the Zombies, as Scott Warrington (Mauritz Hugo) returns to his childhood home in the Louisiana bayou after learning that his deceased sister, Lila (Veda Ann Borg), may have been poisoned. He is shocked to discover that Lila’s husband, Dr. von Altermann (Carradine), is secretly a Nazi madman who has been perfecting a way to turn the dead, including Lila, into an army of zombies who will serve Hitler! Simultaneously spine-chilling and rib-tickling, Revenge of the Zombies was “the first movie to presume the audience knows what a ‘zombie’ is and not provide an explanation” (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia). With Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Mantan Moreland, Bob Steele and James Baskett; directed by cult-movie maven Steve Sekely (The Day of the Triffids).
Special Features:
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tom Weaver and Gary D. Rhodes
- Optional English Subtitles
TAGLINES:
- WHEN DEATH STRIKES THE ZOMBIES STRIKE! (print ad – Galveston Daily News – Queen Theatre – Galveston, Texas – October 23, 1943 – all caps)
- No power men knows can stop the mad actions of these walking dead, soulless bodies back from the grave to strike terror among the living! (print ad – Galveston Daily News – Queen Theatre – Galveston, Texas – October 23, 1943)
- DEAD MEN CAN’T DIE… but live to follow a mad-man’s will! (print ad)
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Drama
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 62 Minutes
STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036307/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJDG3G8D/
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The Ghost Dance [1982]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Peter F. Buffa
WRITER: Peter F. Buffa, Robert M. Sutton
PRINCIPAL CAST: Julie Amato, Victor Mohica, Henry Bal, Frank Salsedo
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s.
When an excavation team led by Dr. Kay Foster unearths a burial site on an American Indian reservation, the tribal elders caution them that they are bringing about great danger – for they have disturbed the resting place of Nahalla, who, legend has it, was a sadistic and feared cult leader. Ignoring these warnings, however, the team transports the body back to the museum in hopes of identifying it. Sure enough, the grim predictions soon come to pass when a young couple are found gruesomely slaughtered after a late-night lovemaking session at the museum. Unbeknownst to Dr. Kay and her team, a local medicine man has managed to summon Nahalla. Now, possessed by his evil spirit, he is stalking the shadows, intent on meting out bloody vengeance to those who have disturbed his slumber.
Arriving in 1982 just as the slasher boom was waning, director Peter F. Buffa’s THE GHOST DANCE offered a novel spin on the already then-tired slice-and-dice formula by weaving American Indian folklore into its story whilst still offering up all the requisite hacking and slashing dictated by the genre. Criminally underseen and hitherto languishing in a notoriously murky VHS transfer, Vinegar Syndrome has at long last summoned up THE GHOST DANCE for its Blu-ray world premiere, newly restored in 4K from original 35mm film elements – which finally affords viewers the chance to properly savor Fred Murphy’s (Stir of Echoes, The Mothman Prophecies) sumptuous desert photography – and offered up with a treasure trove of illuminating newly-produced special features.
Bonus Features:
1. Region Free Blu-ray
2. Scanned and restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
3. Commentary track with genre critic and author J.A. Kerswell and film and TV historian and author Amanda Reyes
4. “Looking into the Past” (25 min) – an interview with co-writer/director Peter Buffa
5. “This Is Great Stuff!” (22 min) – an interview with co-writer/producer Robert M. Sutton
6. “Dances with Ghosts” (17 min) – an interview with stunt coordinator Don Shanks
7. Reversible sleeve artwork
8. English SDH subtitles
TAGLINES:
- When you disturb the dead, you must pay the price.
- Nahalla is back from Hell … This time no one will escape
- Will take you beyond TERROR
- An evil as old as time…is searching for fresh blood! YOU MAY BE NEXT…
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
STUDIO: Vinegar Syndrome
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080787/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJCF4KPF/
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Corpse Mania [1981]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Chih-Hung Kwei
WRITER: Chih-Hung Kwei, On Szeto
PRINCIPAL CAST: Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Tsui-Ling Yu, Siu-Kwan Lau
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s.
After a defiled corpse is discovered in an abandoned building, Inspector Zhang recognizes the scene as being similar to other mutilated bodies that have been turning up in the area. Realizing that there is a deranged serial killer at large, Zhang’s investigation soon leads him to a local brothel run by the headstrong Madame Lan, which appears to be the killer’s hunting ground. While public suspicion soon falls on a recently released-from-prison necrophile, Zhang is unconvinced, believing that the killer and their motive are hiding in plain sight.
Directed by horror maestro Chih-Hung Kwei (Hex, The Boxer’s Omen), CORPSE MANIA masterfully fuses Shaw Brothers’ well-regarded dramatic period pieces with the structure and style of the Italian giallo, offering foggy streets, gelled lighting, and grisly murders perpetrated by a black-clad killer. Moving from twist to twist and sure to leave viewers squirming in horror all the way to the end, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present this essential Hong Kong horror on UHD, newly restored in 4k from its original camera negative, packed with extras, and featuring all the maggot-covered corpses one could ask for.
Bonus Features:
1. 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
2. 4K UHD presented in High-Dynamic-Range
3. Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
4. Commentary with Ming Beaver Kwei, son of director Chih-Hung Kwei and filmmaker Alan Chu
5. Commentary with film historian Samm Deighan
6. “Statistics with the Producer” – an interview with producer Lawrence Wong
7. Video interview with Lee San Yip, cinematographer on Corpse Mania
8. Video interview with Ming Beaver Kwei, son of director Chih-Hung Kwei
9. “Chih-Hung Kwei: Shaw Brothers’ Master of Horror” – a video essay by film historian and author Grady Hendrix
10. Reversible sleeve artwork
11. Newly translated English subtitles
TAGLINE: When Life Ends, The Terror Begins.
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
STUDIO: Vinegar Syndrome
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock
SYNOPSIS: The legendary Alfred Hitchcock is recognized for directing some of the most unforgettable and groundbreaking films of all time. Now, for the first time ever, six of the most recognizable films from The Master of Suspense are available together in Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds. Starring Hollywood favorites James Stewart, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak and Rod Taylor, this collection captures the most memorable moments in the career of a true cinematic master.
Bonus Content:
Disc 1 – Rear Window:
- Includes a digital copy of Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
- Features High Dynamic Range (HDR10) for Brighter, Deeper, More Lifelike Color
- Rear Window Ethics: An Original Documentary
- A Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes
- Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of the Master
- Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
- Hitchcock/Truffaut
- Masters of Cinema
- Production Photographs
- Theatrical Trailer
- Re-release Trailer Narrated by James Stewart
- Feature Commentary with John Fawell, Author of Hitchcock’s Rear Window: the Well Made Film
Disc 2 – To Catch a Thief:
- Filmmaker Focus: Leonard Maltin on To Catch a Thief
- Behind the Gates: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly (2009)
- Commentary by Dr. Drew Casper, Hitchcock Film Historian, and more!
Disc 3 – Vertigo:
- Features High Dynamic Range (HDR10) for Brighter, Deeper, More Lifelike Color
- Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life of Hitchcock’s Masterpiece
- Partners in Crime: Hitchcock’s Collaborators
- Foreign Censorship Ending
- Hitchcock/Truffaut
- Feature Commentary with Film Director William Friedkin
- Theatrical Trailer
- Restoration Theatrical Trailer
- 100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era
Disc 4 – North by Northwest:
- North by Northwest: Cinematography, Score, and the Art of the Edit
- Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest
- The Master’s Touch: Hitchcock’s Signature Style
- North by Northwest: One for the Ages
- A Guided Tour with Alfred Hitchcock
- Commentary by Screenwriter Ernest Lehman
Disc 5 – Psycho (1960):
- 4x Sharper than Full HD with High Dynamic Range (HDR10)
- The Making of Psycho
- Psycho Sound
- In The Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy
- Hitchcock/Truffaut
- Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho
- The Shower Scene: With and Without Music
- The Shower Sequence: Storyboards by Saul Bass
- The Psycho Archives
- Posters and Psycho Ads
- Lobby Cards
- Behind-the-Scenes Photographs
- Production Photographs
- Psycho Theatrical Trailers
- Psycho Re-release Trailers
- Feature Commentary with Stephen Rebello, author of “Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho”
Disc 6 – The Birds:
- Features High Dynamic Range (HDR10) for Brighter, Deeper, More Lifelike Color
- The Birds: Hitchcock’s Monster Movie
- All About The Birds
- Tippi Hedren’s Screen Test
- Deleted Scenes
- The Original Ending
- Hitchcock/Truffaut
- The Birds Is Coming (Universal International Newsreel)
- Suspense Story: National Press Club Hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel)
- Theatrical Trailer
- 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics
- 100 Years of Universal: The Lot
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 11 Hours, 53 Minutes
STUDO: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJQ42427/
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