MARCH 24
The Banished [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Joseph Sims-Dennett
WRITER: Joseph Sims-Dennett
PRINCIPAL CAST: Gautier Pavlovic-Hobba, Leighton Cardno, Meg Clarke, Tony Hughes, David Beelen, Steve Brekalow
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
After her brother mysteriously goes missing, Grace ventures into the dangerous wilderness to find him. As she uncovers the horrific truth of his disappearance, she is faced with a darkness which threatens to claim her as well.
Bonus Features:
1. Commentary with writer/director Joseph Sims-Dennett and actor/associate producer Leighton Cardno
2. Trailer
TAGLINE: Terror is a Place
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 96 Minutes
STUDIO: Brainstorm Media
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33050521/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL38CJ1F/
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Out Come the Wolves [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Adam MacDonald
WRITER: Enuka Okuma, Joris Jarsky, Adam MacDonald
PRINCIPAL CAST: Damon Runyan, Joris Jarsky, Missy Peregyrm
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
At a remote cabin deep in the wilderness, a weekend of hunting turns to mayhem and a fight for survival when a pack of wolves attack a man, his female best friend, and her fiancé.
Bonus Features:
1. Audio Commentary with Director Adam MacDonald
2. EPK
3. Sophie Bike Crash Pre-Vis
4. Still Gallery of Storyboards and Production Materials
TAGLINE: Now we are prey.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Drama
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 90 Minutes
STUDIO: Shudder
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4853290/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL39MCQK/
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Solvent [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Johannes Grenzfurthner
WRITER: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Benjamin Roberts
PRINCIPAL CAST: Aleksandra Cwen, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Jon Gries, Roland Gratzer
SYNOPSIS:
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An American expat joins a team of experts searching an abandoned Austrian farmhouse for historical Nazi documents that may be hidden within it. However, when they discover a secret buried deep in the home’s bowels, the team is forced to confront an ancient, insatiable evil intent on consuming them and everything they hold dear.
Directed by boundary-pushing filmmaker and actor Johannes Grenzfurthner (MASKING THRESHOLD), SOLVENT is a “horror odyssey that takes us down a path of madness and refuses to let us go” (Alejandro Turdó, Hoy Sale Cine).
Bonus Features:
1. Solvent locations featurette
2. 16-page booklet with essay by filmmaker, critic, academic, podcaster and editor Mary Beth McAndrews
TAGLINE: The Past is Never Silent.
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Drama
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 94 Minutes
STUDIO: Film Movement
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27179628/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL3PC4GM/
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Universal Classic Monsters 30-Film Collection
PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD
SYNOPSIS: From the era of silent movies through present day, Universal Pictures has been regarded as the home of the monsters. The Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection showcases all of the original films featuring the most iconic monsters in motion picture history including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Starring some of the most legendary actors including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Elsa Lanchester in the roles that they made famous, these films set the standard for a new horror genre with revolutionary makeup, mood-altering cinematography and groundbreaking special effects. Featuring hours of revealing bonus features, these landmark movies defined the horror genre and are still regarded as some of the most unforgettable characters ever to be filmed.
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 46 Hours, 4 Minutes
STUDIO: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Classic-Monsters-Complete-Collection/dp/B0DCSYVJCK/
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The Embalmer [1996]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: S. Torriano Berry
WRITER: S. Torriano Berry
PRINCIPAL CAST: Jennifer T. Kelly, Kenneth E. Mullen, Myron Creek, Tracey Owens
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
An urban legend-based slasher from acclaimed filmmaker S. Torriano Berry, EMBALMER is one of the few 1990s independent horror movies that was made for Black audiences. The story follows Chiffon, a troubled teenager with a dark past, as she and her friends run afoul of Undertaker Zach—a mortician who killed his family and turned his funeral home into an H.H. Holmes-style murder castle. Shot on 16mm film with a small budget in Washington, D.C., EMBALMER utilizes a hip-hop soundtrack, sly humor, and slasher mechanics to tell a deeper story of abuse, trauma, and the never-ending cycle of coping with pain. AGFA is honored to bring this powerful chapter of overlooked ’90s horror to Blu-ray for the first time ever.
Bonus Features:
1. Preserved from the original 1” tape master
2. Video introduction by director S. Torriano Berry
3. Q&A with Berry
4. Archival behind the scenes featurette
5. Original trailers
6. EMBALMER: EARLY CUT, a previously unreleased version
7. Short films from Berry: IN THE HOLE (1984), DAY OF THE CROW’S CALL (1986), EUPHRATES AWAKENING (1992)
8. Bonus movie: THE BLACK BEYOND (1985-92), Berry’s previously unreleased shot-on-video sci-fi/horror anthology
9. THE BLACK BEYOND news segment
TAGLINE: When the pain goes away…you’re DEAD!!
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 86 Minutes
STUDIO: AGFA
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195680/
https://www.amazon.com/Embalmer-Blu-ray-S-Torriano-Berry/dp/B0GL3D8312/
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Deadwood Park [2007]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Eric Stanze
WRITER: Jessica Seitz, Eric Stanze
PRINCIPAL CAST: Bryan Lane, Jason Allen Wolfe, Lindsey Luscri, William Clifton
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
The small community of Eidolon Crossing once boasted a flourishing economy, fueled primarily by the rural amusement park Dogwood Park. Then the child murders began. Once the bodies of multiple murdered children were unearthed on the park’s property, attendance declined and the town quickly withered into poverty and ruin. Over the course of 35 years, 26 children disappeared at the hands of an elusive murderer and the decaying amusement park was dubbed Deadwood Park by the superstitious locals. Former resident Jake Richardson (William Clifton), returns to his parents’ dilapidated farmhouse to search for answers surrounding his twin brother’s childhood disappearance. Soon the spirits of the murdered children appear to Jake, luring him back to the decrepit grounds of Deadwood Park, in an attempt to uncover the horrific and homicidal secrets buried deep beneath Eidolon Crossing.
An atmospheric juggernaut shot on location at Midwestern drive-in theaters, creaky cabins, and an actual, overgrown abandoned amusement park (replete with crumbling coasters and rusted ferris wheels), DEADWOOD PARK is a sweeping, gore-soaked, SOV folk horror epic from the visionary, Missouri based video auteur Eric Stanze (Savage Harvest, Scrapbook, Ratline). Evoking melancholic autumnal vibes, spine-tingling scares, and an overall sense of relentless dread, DEADWOOD PARK found Stanze pushing his micro-budget DIY aesthetics to dizzying new heights; culminating in a sobering, supernatural metaphor for the child mortality that proliferates in the wake of war, dystopia, and economic blight. Saturn’s Core is proud to present the Blu-Ray debut of DEADWOOD PARK, sporting a brand new restoration supervised by director Eric Stanze plus an accursed, buried chest of new and archival special features.
Bonus Features:
1. Audio commentary with writer / director Eric Stanze
2. Audio commentary with writer / director Eric Stanze & actor / producer Jason Christ
3. “Season Pass: Return to Deadwood Park” -New 2026 retrospective documentary
4. “Welcome to Eidolon Crossing: The Making of Deadwood Park” Feature length documentary from 2007
5. Post-production featurette
6. “Crew on Camera” featurette
7. Outtakes
8. Deleted Scenes
9. Music videos
10. Radio commercial
11. Wicked Pixel trailer vault
12. English SDH subtitles
TAGLINE: “When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.” Job 30:26
GENRE: Horror, Mystery
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 117 Minutes
STUDIO: Saturn’s Core/Vinegar Syndrome
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437150
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL37681M/
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Folies Meurtrières and the Films of Antoine Pellissier Set
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Antoine Pellissier
WRITER: Antoine Pellissier
PRINCIPAL CAST: Carole Chapus, Elisabeth Carou, Magali Bernard, Mireille Duruisseaud
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
A window to the spectral world, the work of Antoine Pellissier—a physician by day and horror maestro by night—is the underground answer to Jean Rollin. FOLIES MEURTRIERES AND THE FILMS OF ANTOINE PELLISSIER is a 2-disc set that presents Pellissier’s complete filmography for the first time on home video. From dreamlike slasher FOLIES MEURTRIERES to gore-soaked epic MALEFICIA, these handcrafted art-horrors from France are heavenly discoveries for discerning horrorheads. This set also includes the long-lost, uncut version of LES PROIES DU MAL (Pellissier’s first feature) and DR. GORE, a feature-length documentary from Pauline Pallier.
Disc 1: FOLIES MEURTRIERES & Early Films
Restored from original Super 8 film elements
In French with optional English subtitles
FOLIES MEURTRIERES (1984, 48 mins)
ELUE DES ENFERS (1985, 35 mins)
LES PROIES DU MAL (1982, 147 mins)
DU SANG SUR LA NEIGE (1981, 8 mins)
LE VAMPIRE CONTRE ATTAQUE (1980, 16 mins)
AU COMBLE DE L’HORREUR (1978, 16 mins)
LE REFUGE DES MANDITS (1977, 35 mins)
Bonus Features:
1. Video introduction by Pellissier
2. THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF: Archival featurette
3. Photo gallery
Disc 2: MALEFICIA & HORRIFICIA
Preserved from original tape masters
In French with optional English subtitles
MALEFICIA (1998, 102 mins)
HORRIFICIA (2021, 110 mins)
Bonus Features:
1. DR. GORE (2009, Dir. Pauline Pallier)
2. MALEFICIA: Teaser trailer
3. HORRIFICIA: Behind the scenes & bloopers
4. BLAIR WITCH KAUFMAN: Archival featurette
5. Photo gallery
6. Zine with Pellissier interview by Bleeding Skull’s Joseph A. Ziemba
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 9 Hours, 52 Minutes
STUDIO: Bleeding Skull/Vinegar Syndrome
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