DECEMBER 16
Afraid? [2025]
AKA “What Are Your Afraid Of?”
DIRECTOR: SkyDirects
PRINCIPAL CAST: David Ian Wood, Kendre Berry, Michael A McGrath, Nakosha Briggs, P.T. Ashlock
SYNOPSIS: In the vein of horror master Jordan Peele comes the sophomore release by Sky Palmer aka SkyDirects (Wild ‘N Out), one of the most promising, urban filmmakers of the current generation.
A group of five, daring, high school teenagers take a weekend trip to the woods for Halloween weekend. What starts of as an innocent table game called What Are You Afraid Of? quickly turns deadly. Who will survive and who will die?
Kendre Berry (Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide), Teairra Mari (Lottery Ticket), and four-time Grammy-Nominee, Mase headline the talented young cast in this fresh-from-theatrical release.
Bonus Materials
- Trailers, Slide Show & more!
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
STUDIO: Cleopatra Entertainment
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22640790/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTTM5ZPB/
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A Quiet Place – Bundle
PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD (Amazon Exclusive Edition)
DIRECTOR: John Krasinski, Michael Sarnoski
WRITER: John Krasinski, Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, Michael Sarnoski
PRINCIPAL CAST: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Lupita Nyongo, Millicent Simmonds, Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff
SYNOPSIS:
Quiet Place: A family struggles for survival in a world invaded by blind alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.
Quiet Place Part 2: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.
Quiet Place: Day One: A young woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama
RATING: Rated PG-13
RUN TIME: 4 Hours, 46 Minutes
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G364WXRT/
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The Girl Who Cried Her Eyes Out [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Eugene John Bellida
WRITER: Eugene John Bellida, Fabrizio Fante, Deborah Rickey, Tess Rickey
PRINCIPAL CAST: Hallie Ruth Jacobs, Mari Blake, Jason Schlaman
SYNOPSIS: When a group of friends sneak into a state park for a night of drinking and partying, a cruel dare brings Maddie (played by Mari Blake) face to face with the disturbed spirit of young Caroline Woodman (Hallie Ruth Jacobs of Poker Face) the forest’s legendary “Girl Who Cried Her Eyes Out.” None are safe as one by one they suffer the wrath of Caroline’s vengeance. Time is running out, and the bodies are piling up. How do they stop a 300 year old spirit that cannot be killed?
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 93 Minutes
STUDIO: All Channel Films
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23830894/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP6TFPPZ/
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Re-Animator [1985]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray – Special Edition
DIRECTOR: Stuart Gordon
WRITER: H.P. Lovecraft, Dennis Paoli, William Norris, Stuart Gordon
PRINCIPAL CAST: Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, David Gale, Jeffrey Combs
SYNOPSIS: In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Re-Animator returns in a stunning 4K restoration, bringing new life to this horror classic. Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s twisted tale, the film follows Herbert West, a brilliant yet unhinged medical student who creates a serum capable of reanimating the dead–with horrifying consequences. Blending grotesque horror and dark humor, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator shocked audiences and became an instant cult classic upon its release in 1985. This vivid 4K edition captures every gory detail of West’s obsession, inviting fans old and new to experience the film’s boundary-pushing terror like never before.
Bonus Materials
- Re-Animator at 40: A Conversation with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Brian Yuzna
- Piece By Piece: Cutting Re-Animator – A New Interview with Editor Lee Percy
- The Horror of It All: The Legacy and Impact of Re-Animator
- I Give Life: A Look Back at Re-Animator: The Musical
- Suzie Sorority and the Good College Boy: An Interview with Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
- Re-Animating a Horror Classic: The 4K Restoration of Re-Animator
- The Organic Theater Company of Chicago: A 1977 documentary featuring Stuart Gordon
- New 40th anniversary 4K UHD trailer
- Integral Version (105 mins)
- Isolated Score
- Audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and actors Graham Skipper and Jesse Merlin of Re-Animator: The Musical
- Audio commentary with Stuart Gordon
- Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, and Robert Sampson
- Re-Animator: Resurrectus – Feature-length documentary on the making of the film featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew
- Interviews with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone
- Music discussion with composer Richard Band
- The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and The Organic Theater – Director Stuart Gordon discusses his early theater roots and his continued commitment to the stage
- Theater of Blood – Re-Animator: The Musical lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult classic for musical theater
- Extended scenes
- Deleted scene
- Trailer & TV Spots
- Still Gallery
- Barbara Crampton In Conversation: The Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning 2015 interview
- A Guide to Lovecraft Cinema: Chris Lackey, host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, provides a comprehensive look at the many cinematic incarnations of Lovecraft’s work.
- Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers: Herbert West, Re-Animator actor Jeffrey Combs reads H.P. Lovecraft’s original classic story
TAGLINES:
- Lovecraft’s classic tale of horror
- Death Is Just The Beginning…
- Herbert West Has A Very Good Head On His Shoulders… And Another One In A Dish On His Desk
- It will scare you to pieces.
SEE REVIEW HERE
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 84 Minutes
STUDIO: Eagle Rock Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKX5PB5T/
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House on Haunted Hill [1959]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: William Castle
WRITER: Robb White
PRINCIPAL CAST: Carolyn Craid, Richard Long, Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
SYNOPSIS: A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people if they agree to stay overnight in a large, spooky, rented house. When you consider that the millionaire is Vincent Price, and the film is directed by Schlock master William Castle, you can bet the five guests are in for a long, bumpy night. This super shocker of the century was a smash hit upon its 1959 release.
TAGLINES:
- See it with someone with warm hands!
- The doors are locked at midnight.
- The 13 greatest shocks of all time!
- Consult your doctor! Bring your seat belts!
- First Film With the Amazing New Wonder EMERGO: The Thrills Fly Right Into The Audience!
- The 13 Greatest SHOCKS ever seen!
- Acclaimed The Super-Shocker Of The Century!
SEE REVIEW HERE
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Crime
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 75 Minutes
STUDIO: Film Masters
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051744/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX6R5D7P/
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Rabid [1977]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: David Cronenberg
WRITER: David Cronenberg
PRINCIPAL CAST: Frank Moore, Howard Ryshpan, Joe Silver, Marilyn Chambers, Patricia Gage, Terri Hanauer
SYNOPSIS: A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.
Bonus Content:
- 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented in Dolby Vision
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director David Cronenberg
- Audio Commentary with William Beard, Author of the Artist As Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg
- Audio Commentary with Jill C. Nelson, Author of Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema and Marilyn Chambers’ Personal Appearances Manager Ken Leicht
- Becoming Cronenberg: Interview with Canadian Film Historian and Author Paul Corupe
- Inside Rabid—Interview with Violet Lucca, Author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials
- Young and Rabid: Interview with Actor Susan Roman
- Archival Interview with Director David Cronenberg
- Independent Spirit: Interview with Executive Producer Ivan Reitman
- Northern Exposure: Interview with Co-Producer Don Carmody
- From Stereo to Video—A Video Essay by Caelum Vatnsdal, Author of They Came from Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Radio Spots
- Image Gallery
TAGLINES:
- A beautiful girl spreads an epidemic of horror.
- Questa femmina diffonderà più dell’amore libero! [Rabbioso]
- Pray it doesn’t happen to you.
- You can’t trust your mother…your best friend…your neighbor next door…
- One minute they’re perfectly normal, THE NEXT…[Rabid]
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 91 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076590
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRNSVCQS/
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Haunt Season [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD
DIRECTOR: Jake Jarvi
WRITER: Jake Jarvi
PRINCIPAL CAST: Ana Dragovich, Adam Hinkle, Tyra Renee
SYNOPSIS: In the lead-up to Halloween, a young woman joins the cast of a fairground haunted house but gets more than she bargained for when her fellow actors start mysteriously vanishing, one by one. She soon discovers that a masked killer is responsible for these disappearances, murdering his victims in ways that mimic the gruesome deaths of their haunt characters. On Halloween night, the brutality is taken to another level as the killer unleashes a whirlwind of violence on all who dare to enter.
TAGLINE: A masked maniac turns a suburban Halloween haunt into a nightmarish reality, turning staged injuries into real murders.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 81 Minutes
STUDIO: Dark Star Pictures
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24071398
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2HFQ8H9/
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Gingerdead Man: Murder-thon
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Charles Band
PRINCIPAL CAST: Amy Paffrath, Gary Busey, John Patrick Jordan, Robin Sydney
SYNOPSIS: A non-stop assault to your sick cinema senses as everyone’s fave killer cookie The Gingerdead Man unleashes his greatest – and grisliest – hits! Fresh from the oven and ready to sate your lust for sweet shocks, this killer collection is the ultimate clip trip of creepy cookie carnage! Join the one and only The Gingerdead Man and his perverse pals, Ebee The Evil Bong, The Gingerweed Man and more, as they rampage through the entire GDM franchise, ripping out silly ‘n’ splatterific sequences from your favorite films! It’s a sugary tsunami of blood, babes and beastly baked goods that will leave you thirsty for more, making this one MURDERTHON you won’t wanna miss! Get your friends together and dig in!
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 91 Minutes
STUDIO: Full Moon Pictures
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP736KBV/
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