OCTOBER 28
Trick ‘r Treat [2007]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD
DIRECTOR: Michael Dougherty
WRITER: Michael Dougherty
PRINCIPAL CAST: Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Brett Kelly, Quinn Lord
SYNOPSIS:
Dive into the sinister and darkly humorous world of Trick ‘r Treat, written and directed by Michael Dougherty (Krampus). This anthology film communes with the spirits of classic horror portmanteaus like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, weaving together four chilling tales, all taking place during the same fateful Halloween night.
Follow the secretive and disturbing life of a high school principal who leads a double life as a ruthless serial killer; the journey of a young girl (Anna Paquin, X-Men) looking for love who finds something infinitely more macabre; a group of teenagers playing a prank with disastrous consequences; and an old man (Brian Cox, Succession) confronted by Sam, a mischievous trick-or-treater with a terrifying secret.
With its interwoven tales of terror and unforgettable characters, Trick ‘r Treat has cemented itself as a Halloween essential, paying loving homage to the golden age of horror comics and 80s creature features with a slick modern style sure to send shivers down the spine of any fright fiend. Get ready for the scariest Halloween of your life – and remember, always check your candy!
Bonus Materials:
- 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films, approved by writer-director Michael Dougherty
- 4K Ultra HD (2160p) Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by Michael Dougherty, moderated by James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca of the Dead Meat Podcast
- Archival audio commentary by Michael Dougherty, conceptual artist Breehn Burns, storyboard artist Simeon Wilkins and composer Douglas Pipes
- Becoming Sam, an interview with actor Quinn Lord
- The Devil is in the Details, an interview with production designer Mark Freeborn
- If Looks Could Kill, an interview with director of photography Glen MacPherson
- Designs to Die for, an interview with costume designer Trish Keating
- Bark at the Moon, an interview with creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos
- Mark Freeborn Remembers Bill Terezakis, a tribute to the late make-up effects designer
- Tales of Folklore & Fright, an archival featurette with Michael Dougherty, Breehn Burns and Simeon Wilkins
- Tales of Mischief & Mayhem: Filming Trick ‘r Treat, an archival interview with Michael Dougherty on the making of the film
- Sounds of Shock & Superstition: Scoring Trick ‘r Treat, an archival featurette with Michael Dougherty and Douglas Pipes
- Tales of Dread & Despair: Releasing Trick ‘r Treat, an archival featurette with Michael Dougherty and Rob Galluzzo of the Shock Waves podcast, exploring the film’s release and fandom
- Season’s Greetings, a short film from 1996 directed by Michael Dougherty with optional director commentary
- The Lore and Legends of Halloween, an archival featurette narrated by actor Brian Cox
- School bus VFX comparison
- Deleted and alternate scenes with optional commentary by Michael Dougherty
- FEARnet promos
- Sam O’Lantern
- Storyboard and conceptual artwork gallery
- Behind the scenes gallery
- Monster Mash comic book set in the Trick ‘r Treat universe
- Trailer
- Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck
- Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by Becky Darke and Heather Wixson
TAGLINES:
- Poison, Drowning, Claw, Or Knife. So Many Ways To Take A Life.
- If you don’t follow the rules tonight, you won’t live to see tomorrow.
- You better watch out, I’m telling you why. Sam is coming to town…
- They were started to protect us…
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 82 Minutes
STUDIO: Arrow Video
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862856/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJYPPXLM/
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch [1982]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Tommy Lee Wallace
WRITER: Tommy Lee Wallace, John Carpenter, Night Kneale
PRINCIPAL CAST: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy
SYNOPSIS: A murder-suicide in a northern Californian hospital leads to an investigation by the on-call doctor, which reveals a plot by an insane toymaker to kill as many people as possible on October 31st through an ancient Celtic ritual and deadly Halloween masks.
TAGLINES:
- …and now the earth will run with blood again!
- Witchcraft enters the computer age, and a different terror begins.
- The night no one comes home.
- The Halloween horror continues.
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 99 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085636/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJMQ9JG1/
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Hush [2016]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD – Limited Edition Steelbook
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
- 4K Restoration: B&W Shush Cut Supervised and Approved by Mike Flanagan
- Shush Cut Audio Mix
- Audio Commentary with Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel
- 4K Restoration Supervised and Approved by Director Mike Flanagan
- 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 (Original Version)
- Interviews with Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher, Jr., Michael Trucco, Mike Flanagan, Producer Trevor Macy, and Composers The Newton Brothers
- Interview with Director of Photography James Kniest
TAGLINE: Silence can be killer.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 5 Hours, 48 Minutes
STUDIO: Shout! Factory
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5022702/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJMQJDL2/
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Sorry About the Demon [2022]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Emily Hagins
WRITER: Emily Hagins
PRINCIPAL CAST: Jon Michael Simpson, Olivia Ducayen, Paige Evans, Presley Allard, Jeff McQuitty
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
What’s worse than getting dumped? For Will, it’s finding out that his new place is haunted. Now faced with a quarter-life crisis and a house full of spirits, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend AND banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house.
Bonus Features:
1. New audio commentary with writer/director Emily Hagins and actor Jon Michael Simpson
2. Deleted Scenes
3. Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery
4. Theatrical Trailer
5. Booklet with new writing by film critic Amber T
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 105 Minutes
STUDIO: Shudder
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15262634/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGDVJZ3/
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Dan Curtis’ Classic Monsters
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
PRINCIPAL CAST: Jack Palance
SYNOPSIS: Widely acclaimed for having modernized television horror in the 1960s and ’70s, producer Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker) also embraced more traditional approaches. This special edition presents Curtis’s made-for-TV versions of the three foundational monsters of filmdom. Adapted by Richard Matheson (Somewhere in Time) and starring Jack Palance (Shane), Dracula was filmed in Eastern Europe and was the first film to make a connection between Bram Stoker’s vampire and Vlad the Impaler. Bo Svenson (Part 2: Walking Tall) portrays the heartbreakingly childlike monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde features a ferocious performance by Palance as the scientist who unbridles the deepest, darkest urges of the human animal.
GENRE: Horror
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 5 Hours, 41 Minutes
STUDIO: Kino Cult
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP16RCB5/
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Dead of Night [1977]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Dan Curtis
WRITER: Richard Matheson, Jack Finney
PRINCIPAL CAST: Joan Hackett, Ed Begley Jr., E.J. André, Ann Doran
SYNOPSIS: From the legendary dark minds of producer-director Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker, Trilogy of Terror) and writer Richard Matheson (Tales of Terror, The Last Man on Earth, The Twilight Zone) comes this thrilling triptych of spellbinding stories. Second Chance – After buying an antique automobile, Frank (Ed Begley Jr.) restores the vehicle to its original condition. Along with the car, Frank is suddenly transported back in time to the year 1926. Based on a story by Jack Finney (Invasion of the Body Snatchers). No Such Thing as a Vampire – Alexis (Anjanette Comer), the mistress of an old mansion, is terrified of vampires. When her husband (Patrick Macnee) calls in a friend (Horst Buchholz) to examine her, a macabre and bloody scheme unfolds. Bobby – In the dead of night, a boy (Lee H. Montgomery), thought to be deceased, surprises his despondent mother (Joan Hackett) at the family beach house, bringing her both extreme joy and overwhelming terror.
TAGLINE: Three tales of mystery, imagination and suspense.
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 76 Minutes
STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075917
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP17VV4L/
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The Cat and the Canary [1927]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Paul Leni
WRITER: John Willard, Robert F. Hill, Alfred A. Cohn
PRINCIPAL CAST: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley
SYNOPSIS: A decaying mansion and a stormy night provide the archetypal setting for mystery and chaos when a pack of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a twenty-year-old will. But before the West fortune can be handed down, the family must endure a night in the cavernous manor, unnerved by the news that an escaped lunatic is at large. So clever and stylish that it would appear to be the wellspring of all “old dark house” mysteries, The Cat and the Canary was in 1927 already a theatrical chestnut among similar popular melodramas. Even so, The Cat is a milestone of the American horror film, thanks to the ingenuity of its director, Paul Leni (Waxworks, The Man Who Laughs). One of the first film artists imported from Germany by Hollywood, Leni invigorated this stage-bound genre with Expressionist flair, transforming conventional material into a gothic visual feast.
TAGLINES:
- THE MYSTERY THRILLER OF THE STAGE FILMED WITH NEW EFFECTS (original print ad – all caps)
- COMING DIRECT to you from B’WAY!
- New York’s Smashing Stage Success that has thrilled thousands!
- The play that startled the world! (Title lobby card).
- It’s a Universal Long Run Special.
- Spooks! Thrills! Shrieks! Laughs!
- MIDNIGHT-the witching hour on the spooky old country estate. Mad mysticism unfolding before your eyes in the most sensational mystery screen play EVER produced. New sensations await you in this shivery, palpitating dramas that’ll cause your nerves to tingle- chill you as never a picture has before. A real adventure in the cinema-don’t miss it. (Print Ad-Daily Nebraskan, ((Lincoln, Neb.)) 20 November 1927)
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Comedy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 79 Minutes
STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017739/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP1B4Q96/
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Went Up the Hill [2024]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD
DIRECTOR: Samuel Van Grinsven
WRITER: Jory Anast, Samuel Van Grinsven
PRINCIPAL CAST: Dacre Montgomery, Vicky Krieps, Joel Tobeck
SYNOPSIS: In this chilling ghost story, a recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son Jack (Dacre Montgomery, Stranger Things) and her grieving widow Jill (Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread and Corsage). When the woman’s spirit inhabits each of them, the pair must grapple with the destruction she left behind while fighting for their own survival.
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Romance, Drama, Fantasy
RATING: Not Rated
RUN TIME: 100 Minutes
STUDIO: Greenwich Entertainment
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14303268/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP19P73C/
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