DVD and Blu-ray Releases: October 13, 2015
First off, how about this week’s season premiere of “The Walking Dead?” I thought it was pretty good. SPOILER: Carter sucked. That whiney turd would have just aggravated me for the rest of the season anyway. Okay, on to this week’s list…
The Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats limited edition set has been pushed back two weeks so check back for more details on that on October 27th. The packaging for that release actually looks pretty cool.
Speaking of Edgar Allan Poe, all three seasons of “The Following” drop this week in a box set. Also in our TV section is Season 3 of “Bates Motel.”
Our classics reach back 90 years to Lon Chaney’s portrayal of The Phantom of the Opera. This will be out on both DVD and Blu-ray this week. We’ve also got 1966’s Manos: The Hands of Fate seeing both formats getting released this week as well. Additionally, in no specific order, our classic releases this week contain: Nightmare, The Brood, Shakma, Neon Maniacs, The Return of Count Yorga and 1975’s Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary.
Troma fans can pick up a Blu-ray of Class of Nuke ‘Em High III: The Good, The Bad, and The Subhumanoid. I do believe this completes the Blu-ray releases for the Nuke ‘Em High series.
On a final note, as a wrestling fan myself, I will most likely pick up a copy of Pro-Wrestlers vs. Zombies. If anything, it will be nice to see one last glimpse of Roddy Piper acting ridiculous as only he could.
As usual, pleasant viewing, everyone, and stay safe while decorating your houses for Halloween. Always have a spotter.
MOVIES
2 Bedroom 1 Bath (2014)
Starring:
Michele Hicks, Eric Roberts, Dee Wallace, Costas Mandylor, Jody Jaress
Synopsis:
A young couple s dream home turns into a horrifying nightmare when the tormented spirit of a former tenant controls the couple and threatens to take their newborn baby. A frightening, and terrifying psychological tale not seen since Rosemary’s Baby .
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Before Dawn (2013)
Starring:
Dominic Blunt
Synopsis:
An estranged couple’s vacation to save their troubled relationship goes awry when they discover themselves under attack from the undead! Dominic Blunt brings out the nightmare on both sides of the camera. From Breaking Glass Pictures.
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Blackwood (2015)
Starring:
Ed Stoppard, Sophia Myles
Synopsis:
Having recovered from an emotional breakdown and infidelity, college professor Ben Marshall and his family decide to relocate to the country for a fresh start. However, he starts finding himself plagued by haunted visions and hears consistent noises in their large country house. Ben becomes convinced a murder took place in the house and/or surrounding area. He becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind it to protect his family who he believes is in great danger. Cast includes Ed Stoppard from the Pianist and Assassin’s Creed and Sophia Myles from Underworld and Transformers.
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The Brood (1979)
Starring:
Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
Synopsis:
A mad doctor tries psychoplasmic therapy on a raging woman soon to be a mother.
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Chill: The Killing Games (2015)
Starring:
Roger Connors, Bradley Michael Arner, Kelly Rogers
Synopsis:
The name of the game was to stay alive, but few players would be getting up for a second round. In the late 80’s, eight university students were found murdered in the old arts building at the local college. An anonymous source told police the students were engaged in a role-playing game, called Chill. For more than 20 years, the game would be a local legend, and no one dared play. But when Jared, a scheming college student, decides to profit off the tragedy and revive the game as a web series the new players soon discover the game is still all too real when faced with a maniacal killer. The web series premieres on the anniversary of the killings with cams rolling and a growing audience forming, the players draw their fates and begin to play the game. However, once they start discovering the bodies of a group of students hired to clean the building the day before, the players realize a real killer is on the loose. As several take cover in the main computer room, they watch the web cams in horror as other players are slaughtered one by one.
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Class Of Nuke ‘Em High III: The Good, The Bad, And The Subhumanoid (1992)
Starring:
Brick Bronsky, Lisa Star, John Tallman
Synopsis:
Welcome back to Tromaville High!!! The only school in the country with a giant nuclear rodent for mascot, detention for melting and a bikini dress code. Wanna Hall Pass? Wanna Bus Pass? Wanna Pass Gas? You won’t pass up the mind-bending special effects!
The Tromaville student body is in danger again… and it’s not of flunking. Tromaville is under attack from a subhumanoid army led by the evil Dr. Slag and his perfectly proportioned partner Professor Holt (a woman scientist with really big hair, portrayed by Lisa Gaye). On top of that, TROMIE the Nuclear Rodent is raging mad! 3 times the evil of the original! 3 times the mutated monsters of the sequel! With subhumanoid twins battling for Tromaville, more bodacious babes than ever and 3 times the nuclear meltdowns, it’s all action and excitement in Class Of Nuke Em High 3 The Good, The Bad And The Subhumanoid!
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Day 6 (2011)
Starring:
Massimo Poggio, Laura Glavan, Marina Kazankova, Ludovico Fremont, Varo Venturi
Synopsis:
Dr. Piso, a brave scientist, has been studying for years the worrying phenomenon of alien abductions, through an innovative technique of hypnosis. One of his patients, the young Saturnia, a charming aristocratic, will reveal an unexpected case, forcing him to face the shocking reality hidden for millennia behind the scenes of history…
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Fright Flick (2011)
Starring:
Chad Allen, Todd Jenkins, Richard D. Curtin
Synopsis:
Director Israel Luna (Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives) shows audiences just how cut-throat show business can be in this bloody satire of the filmmaking industry. When the air-headed leading lady of a B-grade fright flick turns up brutally murdered during the shoot, the motley members of the cast and crew find themselves at the heart of a real-life whodunit. The list of suspects is long, considering everyone on set will do anything to be on top.
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The Gallows (2015)
Starring:
Cassidy Gifford, Ryan Shoos, Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown
Synopsis:
Twenty years after an accident during a small town high school play results in death, students at the school resurrect the failed stage production in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy – but ultimately find out that some things are better left alone.
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Hyde’s Secret Nightmare (2012)
Starring:
Roberta Gemma, Claudio Zanelli, Giovanni la Gorga, Francesco Malcom, Venantino Venantini
Synopsis:
An erotic horror movie dedicated to Joe D Amato, Hyde’s Secret Nightmare combines the two genres and mixes them in equal parts. Cross-cut erotic and horror scenes are kept together by a thread of dramatic force bordering on obsession, paranoia, phobia, perversion, and lack of self-acceptance. Everything unfolds in an extreme world where sex seems the only way to attain a state of well-being.
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The Jail: The Women’s Hell (2006)
Starring:
Yvette Yzon, Dyane Craystan, Jim Gaines
Synopsis:
For his second-to-last film, the late writer/director Bruno Mattei returned to the genre that established his reputation as a true Maestro of EuroSleaze: When a group of women are sentenced to a jungle hellhole prison known as The House of Lost Souls, they’ll enter a sweaty nightmare of sadistic guards, menacing lesbians and rampant nudity. But Mattei here under his alias Vincent Dawn also packs his final babes-behind-bars saga with enough degradations, perversions, jaw-dropping violence and over-the-top performances to set all-new standards of genre depravity.
Yvette Yzon (Island Of The Living Dead), Dyane Craystan (Zombies: The Beginning) and Jim Gaines (robowar) star in this Philippines filth-fest produced by Giovanni Paolucci (Mondo Cannibal), now presented uncut and uncensored for the first time ever in America!
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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Starring:
Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Mahree, Hal Warren, Jackey Neyman
Synopsis:
Mike (Harold P. Warren) and Maggie (Diane Mahree), on a road trip with their daughter and family dog, take a wrong turn in Texas and become trapped at a weird lodge inhabited by a polygamous pagan cult.
They soon find themselves in the middle of a power struggle between caretaker Torgo (John Reynolds), cult leader The Master (Tom Neyman), and two warring factions of the Master’s wives. As the family tries toescape, the worshipers of Manos decide their fate…
Manos: The Hands OfFate, the sole directorial effort of Texas fertilizer salesman Harold P. Warren, perplexed even the most jaded Drive-In audiences and was deemed by many the worst movie ever made.
Nearly lost, the original 16mm Ektachrome film elements have been finally unearthed and lovingly restored by Ben Solovey to create the definitive version of this accidental masterpiece. There’s no other movie like Manos…
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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
Starring:
Cristina Ferrare, John Carradine, David Young
Synopsis:
Mastered in HD! A dark and stormy night begins this modern gothic tale of evil personified in Mary (Christina Ferrare, J.W. Coop, Impossible Years), a beautiful American artist living in Mexico to more easily gratify her growing lust for blood. While her horrific appetites are fueled, her life becomes further fraught with the investigation into the grisly murders, love for handsome young American ex-patriot (David Young, Double Exposure, High Risk), and by the sudden, terrifying appearance of her like-minded father (John Carradine, The Monster Club, House of the Long Shadows), intent upon satisfying his own heinous hungers as well as killing Mary before she, too, becomes totally consumed by his legacy of compulsion. As Mary continues to cut a bloody swath across the country, investigators and her pursuing parent close in the suspense and nightmarish drama gather to a final chilling confrontation. Code Red presents the first official legitimate DVD release of this 1975 cult shocker, from Juan Lopez Moctezuma, the director of The Mansion of Madness and Alucarda!
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Mosquito (1994)
Starring:
Gunnar Hansen, Ron Asheton, Steve Dixon, Rachel Loiselle, Tim Lovelace
Synopsis:
Science-fiction becomes horrifyingly real for a park full of innocent campers, as a hideous horde of mutated mosquitoes viciously attack without warning! A band of survivors flees the bloodthirsty swarm in a death-defying attempt to warn the world of the mosquito menace. Led by a brave young couple and a resourceful government agent, the group realizes their only hope is to take on the bloodthirsty bugs in an explosive final showdown!
A chilling blend of sci-fi, humor and old-school horror, Mosquito is a tour de force of terror.
Starring genre icon Gunnar Hansen (the original Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and the late, great Ron Asheton (founding member of the punk rock band, The Stooges), Mosquito is a gore-drenched tale made with traditional stop-motion and practical effects!
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Neon Maniacs (1986)
Starring:
Clyde Hayes, Leilani Sarelle, Donna Locke, Victor Brandt
Synopsis:
Mastered in HD! In the heart of San Francisco, the legions of the damned lay waiting beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. As night falls, this battalion of butchery is unleashed upon the city to carve terror into the souls of the innocent. But when one young woman named Natalie (Leilani Sarelle, Basic Instinct) escapes a bloody teen slaughter, she can t convince anyone that a rampaging army of psychotic monsters has mutilated her friends. Now haunted, hunted, and having a hard time in high school, Natalie must arm herself and her classmates for one final bizarre battle against the horror of the Neon Maniacs!
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Nightmare (1981)
Starring:
Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith, C.J. Cooke
Synopsis:
Mastered in HD! Escaped mental patient George (Baird Stafford) repeatedly suffers a graphic nightmare that depicts the axe murders of a couple making love. In Florida, a prowler stalks a babysitter – when she is attacked the youngest child she is looking after just sits and laughs… George begins a journey of brutal murder, death and destruction until the final moment of truth when his nightmares come to frightening life.
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The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
Starring:
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Snitz Edwards, Cesare Gravina
Synopsis:
A forerunner of the American horror film, and one of the most lavish productions of the silent cinema, The Phantom Of The Opera has inspired countless remakes and imitations. But none of its successors can rival the mesmerizing blend of romance and mystery that haunts every frame of the Lon Chaney original. This edition presents the 1929 theatrical version, restored from archival 35mm elements by Film Preservation Associates. It is highlighted by the Technicolor Bal Masque sequence (in which the Phantom interrupts the revelry wearing the scarlet robes of the Red Death), as well as meticulously hand-colored sequences (replicating the Handschiegl Color Process). The film is presented at two different historically-accurate projection speeds, each with two different soundtrack options. Also included is the 1925 theatrical version, which survives only in poor-quality prints, but contains scenes that were removed from the 1929 release version.
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Pro-Wrestlers Vs. Zombies (2015)
Starring:
Roddy Piper, Jim Duggan, Matt Hardy, Shane Douglas, Reby Sky
Synopsis:
Pro-Wrestlers Vs. Zombies is exactly as it sounds sports entertainment icons and local ring talent using their signature fighting styles, athleticism and anything they can get their hands on to fend off the undead. An abandoned prison is the battlefield as a troupe of professional wrestlers are booked for a private show, only to be faced with the undead. Unfortunately for the zombie nation, they aren’t just facing any group of professional wrestlers, they are facing living legends like WWE Hall of Famer Rowdy Roddy Piper, Matt Hardy, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, former ECW World champions The Franchise Shane Douglas and even Olympic medalist turned WWE and TNA World champion Kurt Angle!
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The Return Of Count Yorga (1971)
Starring:
Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder, Tom Toner
Synopsis:
The vampire count and his followers move into a mansion near an orphanage.
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The Sand (2015)
Starring:
Jamie Kennedy, Mitchel Musso, Brooke Butler, Cleo Berry, Cynthia Murell
Synopsis:
After a raging all-night party, a group of hung over twenty-somethings awakens to a beating sun and a carnivorous beach that devours anything with a heartbeat.
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Scissors (1991)
Starring:
Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox, Michelle Phillips
Synopsis:
Mastered in HD! Angie s about to step over the edge… all she need is a little help! Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Sliver) is electrifying as a woman driven to the edge of insanity in this taut psychological thriller from Frank De Felitta (The Entity, Z.P.G.). Stone plays Angie Anderson, a beautiful, emotionally fragile woman living alone in the big city. When she s attacked in her apartment building, she manages to thwart her assailant by stabbing him with a pair of scissors, but not before he vows to return. Angie s emotional state begins to weaken as she s overwhelmed by fears real and imagined. A handsome neighbor (Steve Railsback, The Stunt Man) and an esteemed psychologist (Ronny Cox, Deliverance) seem to want to help, but someone is leading Angie into a nightmare of madness and terror… and a final confrontation with her worst, long-repressed fears. Also starring Michelle Phillips (Valentino).
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Shakma (1990)
Starring:
Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers, Roddy McDowall
Synopsis:
Mastered in HD! A murderous baboon with Red ass escapes from a Florida laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a live-action Dungeons-and-Dragons-esque game. Lame game doesn’t kill them, Shakma will!!! Starring cult stars Christopher Atkins (Blue Lagoon), Ari Meyers (Kate and Allie), Amanda Wyss (Nightmare on Elm Street) and screen legend Roddy McDowall (famous Cornelius the Ape from Planet Of The Apes!), now see it in horrifying HD!
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Theatre Of The Deranged II (2015)
Starring:
Cory Jacob, Kirsty Hill, Shawn C. Phillips, Veronica Ricci, Sean Kasky
Synopsis:
Andy the Arsonist welcomes everyone to his theater of derange for a wild night of thrills, chills and spills. Andy kick’s off the night by hosting five short horror films from some of the best Horror Writer/Directors in the indie scene.
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TELEVISION
“Bates Motel” Season 3
Starring:
Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore
Synopsis:
After a blissful summer of closeness with his mother in the safe confines of their home, Norman returns to school and is flooded with fears about what really happened with Blaire Watson. Norma is forced to face the truth about Norman for the first time and turns for support to the other man in her life, Norman’s half-brother Dylan (Max Thieriot). This relationship triggers Norman’s jealousy and a new kind of love triangle erupts between Norma and her two sons. When Norma’s estranged brother Caleb (Kenny Johnson) returns to White Pine Bay, the family bond is challenged more than ever. Norma also finds herself growing closer to the enigmatic Sheriff Romero (Nestor Carbonell), while trying to protect her business and her son before fate crashes down on her.
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“The Following” The Complete Series Box Set
Starring:
Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore, Connie Nielsen, Sam Underwood
Synopsis:
“The Following” The Complete Series Box Set (Seasons 1-3)
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