MAY 12
Motel Hell [1980]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD – Limited Edition
DIRECTOR: Kevin Connor
WRITER: Robert Jaffe, Steven-Charles Jaffe
PRINCIPAL CAST: Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Paul Linke, Rory Calhoun
SYNOPSIS: You really are what you eat with Farmer Vincent’s smoked meat in this creepy horror yarn that “packs a punch and goes way beyond mere terror” (Box Office)! Vincent’s popular products contain a special ingredient that the psychotic farmer and his sister would literally kill to keep its secret for.
TAGLINES:
- You might just die…laughing!
- Checking in is easy…Checking out is Hell.
- By day they ran a motel…by night they ran amok.
- Banned in 15 Countries – The Horror Picture That Tops Them All!
- It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters
- It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent Fritters
- Visit this tasty “meating” place if you dare…
- Meat’s meat and man’s gotta eat!
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 101 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081184/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GMTTTY56/
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Cradle of Fear (2001)
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray (2-Disc Limited Edition)
DIRECTOR: Alex Chandon
WRITER: Alex Chandon
PRINCIPAL CAST: Dani Filth, Edmund Dehn, Eileen Daly, Emily Booth, Stuart Laing
SYNOPSIS: Notorious child murderer Kemper is hellbent on exacting his revenge on the people who put him away, and from his padded room in the local asylum, he commands “The Man” to slaughter the families of those responsible. Detective Nielson, who’d had his own unpleasant run-in with Kemper, is faced with an increasingly large pile of mutilated bodies and tries to make some sense of the savagery.
Bonus Materials
- 2-DISC LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITION CONTENTS
- DISC ONE – FEATURE & EXTRAS
- Some Making of Cradle of Fear
- The Special German DVD Making of Thing Something For Cradle of Fear
- Important Words
- Behind the Scenes Gallery
- Trailers
- DISC TWO – SHORT FILM COLLECTION & EXTRAS
- Alex Chandon’s Shorts Collection including:
- Chainsaw Scumf***
- Bad Manor
- Bad Karma
- Drillbit
- Night Pastor
- Bullshit News
- Film Extremes 3 Promo
- Borderline
- Shorts Behind the Scenes Gallery
- Trailers
TAGLINE: It’s Not If They Die… It’s How
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 120 Minutes
STUDIO: Unearthed Films
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291833/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCH3GJYW/
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The Screaming [2000]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray – Collector’s Edition
DIRECTOR: Jeff Leroy
WRITER: Jeff Leroy
PRINCIPAL CAST: Curt Swobel, John F. Goff, Vinnie Bilancio, Wendi Winburn, Elizabeth Barris
SYNOPSIS:
College student Bob Martin rents a room from the alluring Crystal Traum, who introduces him to her New Age religion, Crystalnetics. Soon, Bob’s health and mindset dramatically improve. But when a detective reveals a string of mysterious deaths tied to the cult, Bob uncovers the chilling truth – and must face a slew of cloaked assassins, monsters and the cults’ charismatic alien leader.
Includes the film’s original score by Jay Woelfel on CD
From veteran indie auteur Jeff Leroy (Creepies, Rat Scratch Fever) comes a razor-sharp, unapologetically bizarre takedown of a certain star-studded New Age religion. This twisted tale brims with a sense of doom, draped in shadowy femme fatales and is dripping with grotesque, gooey stop-motion creature chaos. Leroy doesn’t pull any punches, layering the film with satirical bite and underground spirit, ultimately shaping a surreal fever dream that pays homage to pulp horror while taking aim at the power and absurdity of cult celebrity.
Bonus Materials
- Includes CD soundtrack of the original score by Jay Woelfel
- Director supervised master from existing tape masters
- Commentary with Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop Magazine
- Screaming and Screaming Again: The Making of The Screaming
- Composing a Cult Classic: Music Composer Jay Woelfel
- Bonus feature: The Screaming: Reborm – director remastered alternate verison of film
- The Screaming Reborn commentary with director Jeff Leroy, producer Dave Sterling and star Vinnie Bilancio
- Image Gallery
- Original Trailer
- The Screaming: Reborn Trailer
- Visual Vengeance Trailer
- Optional English subtitles
- Visual Vengeance Trailers
- Folded mini-poster
- ‘Stick Your Own’ VHS sticker set – FIRST PRESSING ONLY
- Reversible sleeve featuring original VHS art
- Limited Edition O-Card – FIRST PRESSING ONLY
TAGLINE: When will it ever end?
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 83 Minutes
STUDIO: Visual Vengeance
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274811/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM2PWQ7K/
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Island of the Doomed [1967]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Mel Welles
WRITER: Mel Welles, Ernst Ritter von Theumer, Stephen Schmidt
PRINCIPAL CAST: Cameron Mitchell, Elisa Montés, Jorge Martin, Kai Fisher
SYNOPSIS: A group of tourists arrive to see the botanical gardens on a small island off the coast of Spain. The only inhabitants of the island are the famous botanist Baron von Weser and his two faithful servants. All of the other residents fled after a series of mysterious deaths. When the car driven by the tourists’ guide hits one of the baron’s servants, von Weser explains that the death was due to a rare and incurable disease, not the accident. That night, the guide and Cora Robinson, one of the guests, are found murdered with all the blood drained from their bodies. Is there a serial killer at large, or is it something even more dangerous? Released here on video, uncut and in its original aspect ratio for the first time, this highly enjoyable and pioneering Spanish-set horror is packed with entertaining and surprising twists and turns. Something of a lost classic, the film plays like a twisted version of an Agatha Christie story, but with gallons of gore. The movie was written and directed by actor Mel Welles, who created the role of Gravis Mushnik, in the original version of THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. In the role of Baron Von Weser, and gleefully chewing up the scenery in one of his most delirious performances, is actor Cameron Mitchell.
Special Features:
- Interview with writer/director Mel Welles.
- Audio commentary by David Flint.
- Documentary on career of actor, George Martin.
- Documentary on horror films produced in the Costa Brava area.
- Original trailer.
- Publicity Parade of still and posters.
TAGLINES:
- What Was the Terrifying Secret of the Vampire Tree?
- You’ll Never Forget…THE CLUTCHING HORROR!
- Made to Kill or Love on Command!!!
- Death Stalking Vegetation Devours Human Blood!
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 88 Minutes
STUDIO: Mondo Macabro
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059215/
https://www.amazon.com/Island-Doomed-Blu-ray-Cameron-Mitchell/dp/B0GTX1GPXB/
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Aatma – The Ghost [2006]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Deepak Ramsay
WRITER: M. Salim
PRINCIPAL CAST: Amiena, Kapil Jhaveri, Neha, Shabana Raza, Ranjha Vikram Singh
SYNOPSIS: Mondo Macabro presents AATMA – THE GHOST – Bollywood horror comes to the 21ST century!
Dr. Aman Mehra leads an enviable life. A successful and much-admired physician, he is married to the beautiful Nehra and lives with her in a splendid villa in the best part of town. Then, one night, just as they are celebrating their first wedding anniversary, the doctor and his wife are disturbed by a late night caller. Answering the door, Dr. Aman is confronted by a very serious and rather scary looking man who tells the doctor that he will perform a post mortem the next day on a man called Avinash and that he must write a truthful report about the cause of death. If not, the stranger warns Aman, terrible things will happen.
The next day the doctor is shocked to discover that the man on whom he is to perform the post mortem is the man who came to see him at 1 AM that morning. Four hours after his body was brought into the hospital.
From that point on, Aman’s charmed life turns into a nightmare as events crash around him. He finds himself threatened by gangsters who want him to falsify the post mortem report and he then discovers that the dead man, Avinash, was an expert practitioner of the black arts. Eventually Aman’s wife becomes possessed by the dead man’s avenging spirit. There is only one course of action left to him – an exorcism to free his wife from her spiritual bondage and then to tell the truth about the body in the morgue.
But will Aman have the courage to take on the forces of darkness? And will his family ever be free from the evil that has taken over their lives?
Special Features:
- Brand new 4K transfer from the film negative, digitally restored.
- Intro to the film by writer Tim Paxton.
- Original trailer.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Hindi
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 107 Minutes
STUDIO: Mondo Macabro
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989605/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSKVLRFZ/
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