DVD and Blu-ray Releases: November 17, 2015
We’ve got another fairly healthy release list for you this week, friends. With a total of 17 titles to be on the lookout for, there’s a pretty diverse range of preferences that can be covered. Hopefully this week’s list has something for you.
When it comes to classics, over half of the releases listed below are 25+ years old. A fair amount of those are some hard-to-find, shot-on-video, newly-remastered movies brought to you by Olive Films. Films like Killer Workout, Death Nurse 1 & 2, and Shock ‘Em Dead (featuring a then of-age Traci Lords) are available on DVD and Blu-ray this week. What’s awesome about these releases is how the cover artwork was made to look as though it came straight from your local video rental place circa 1988. Check them out down below to see what I am talking about.
Fans of the unofficial “best worst movie” should be pretty psyched about the Troll / Troll 2 Blu-ray coming to us this week from Scream Factory. At least it’s good for a laugh, and I’m sure that someone somewhere has created a drinking game for at least one, if not both, of the movies.
Lastly, there’s a movie dropping this week on Blu-ray that I know nothing about, but I felt that its title should at least be mentioned. Ticked Off Trannies With Knives. They’re not fully mad… but they’re pretty ticked off.
Next week, we are looking at a tentative list of 23 releases or so. This should give you a lot to think about if you’re planning on visiting your family for Thanksgiving, unless they like to discuss horror movies. If they do, well that’s pretty cool.
Pleasant viewing, fiends.
MOVIES
Bite Marks (2015)
Starring:
Windham Beacham, David Alanson, Benjamin Lutz
Synopsis:
While going cross-country, gay couple Cary (Beacham) and Vogel (Alanson) decide to hitchhike. That’s when they meet Brewster (Lutz), a sexually-confused trucker who picks the them up while delivering coffins. After a period of bad luck, the trio ends up lost and broken down in an abandoned junkyard. The nightmare is only beginning as strange noises in the back of the truck reveal the presence of bloodthirsty vampires. Mark Bessenger’s directorial debut puts a smart, sexually charged spin on the genre. With buckets of blood, humor and thrills that pay homage to bloodsucker classics, “Bite Marks” is a fast-paced, sharp-tongued horror comedy that pushes sexual boundaries.
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Cemetery Sisters (1988)
Starring:
Joan Simon, Leslie Simon, Albert Eskinazi, Irmgard Millard
Synopsis:
Sisters Joan and Leslie (Joan Simon and Leslie Simon) are no strangers to the dead. Having grown up around the family mortuary business, they have a comfortable appreciation for that fact of life. Being goal-oriented siblings, they, too, would like to start their own mortuary business. But, how? A plot to provide a healthy client roster (as well as a means of funding the enterprise) will involve multiple marriages, multiple murders and multiple corpses in the never-less-than-entertaining Cemetery Sisters.
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Cinco De Mayo (2013)
Starring:
Anthony Iava To’Omata, Linsday Amaral, Juan Bottello
Synopsis:
Humberto Valdez AKA “El Maestro” (Anthony Iava To’omata) is teaching at a small town junior college and he takes his Chicano studies course seriously … perhaps a bit tooseriously. With the exception of a lone student, El Maestro is considered by the pupils and faculty alike to be a joke and out of touch with the real world. “El Maestro” comes down with a bad case of “Aztec Blood Lust” after being fired. It’s a malady that has tragic side effects … for others. Possessed by a spirit to wreak havoc upon those who have taunted him, “El Maestro” becomes a one-man killing machine. Has an evil spirit truly possessed “El Maestro?” Or, has the pressure of entertaining on the holiday caused him to snap? Can he be stopped? To find out you’ll have to watch Cinco de Mayo … if you dare.
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Death Nurse (1987)
Starring:
Priscilla Alden, Albert Eskinazi, Royal Farros
Synopsis:
Patient care is priority number one at the Shady Palms Clinic, where patients check in but never check out.
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Death Nurse 2 (1988)
Starring:
Priscilla Alden, Albert Eskinazi, George ‘Buck’ Flower
Synopsis:
The Hippocratic Oath is clearly not required reading at the Shady Palms Clinic run by Nurse Mortley (Priscilla Alden, Death Nurse) and her brother, Dr. Gordon Mortley (Albert Eskinazy, Death Nurse, Cemetery Sisters) in this sequel to the horror film Death Nurse.
The patient survival rate is nil as the body count rises thanks to Nurse Motley, the Florence Nightingale of the cemetery set. At turns shocking and terrifying, yet filled with grim humor, Death Nurse 2 gives fans of horror films more than they could ask of the genre.
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Djinn (2015)
Starring:
Aiysha Hart, Razane Jammal, Paul Luebke
Synopsis:
An Emirati couple return home from a trip and discover that their new apartment has been built on a site that is home to some malevolent beings.
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The Haunting of Morella (1990)
Starring:
Nicole Eggert, David McCallum, Christopher Halsted, Lana Clarkson
Synopsis:
Crucified, blinded and buried…Now she’s back! Sexy Nicole Eggert (“Who’s the Boss”, “Charles In Charge”, “Baywatch”) stars as Lenora, who must fight being possessed by the spirit of her wicked mother Morella, a satanic she-wolf guilty of witchcraft, adultery and murder! With evil governess Lana Clarkson aiding in the possession, Morella terrifies her husband, David McCallum (The Man from U .N.C.L.E.), his lover, Maria Ford (Stripped To Kill 2, Burial of the Rats) and casts a satanic curse on their newborn baby that lasts an eternity.
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Killer Workout (1987)
Starring:
Marcia Karr, David James Campbell, Dianne Copeland
Synopsis:
Someone’s stabbing aerobic exercisers at Rhonda’s health club.
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The Last Showing (2014)
Starring:
Robert Englund, Finn Jones, Emily Berrington
Synopsis:
Trapped in a cinema, a young couple’s date night turns into a perilous battle for survival as a deranged projectionist (Robert Englund, A Nightmare on Elm Street) manipulates them into becoming unwilling actors in his own vicious film captured by CCTV cameras.
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Mask Maker (2011)
Starring:
Nikki Deloach, Terry Kiser, Treat Williams
Synopsis:
One lucky couple purchases a nineteenth century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. However, when they discover that the plantation home’s former residents have not left, their dream becomes a nightmare as they try to escape with their lives.
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The Rage (2008)
Starring:
Erin Brown, Andrew Divoff, Reggie Bannister, Ryan Hooks, Rachel Scheer
Synopsis:
From Director Robert Kurtzman (Wishmaster, Buried Alive), comes the highly anticipated new splatter classic. When victims injected with a rage virus escape the experimentation of a mad scientist, they become mutants and all hell breaks loose. The Rage is guaranteed to be an out-rage-ously gory great time!
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Shock ‘Em Dead (1990)
Starring:
Troy Donahue, Aldo Ray, Stephen Quadros
Synopsis:
The devil turns a loser into a killer heavy-metal guitarist surrounded by groupies.
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Splatter: Architects of Fear (1986)
Starring:
Paul James Sanders, Chris Britton, Doug Cawker
Synopsis:
Thrill to action from a battle to the death between beautiful Amazons, twisted mutants and sickening, deadly zombies sometime after WWII as you also watch from behind the scenes as brilliant special effects are constructed by demented master craftsmen, some of whom seem t be losing their grip on reality.
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Ticked Off Trannies With Knives (2010)
Starring:
Krystal Summers, Willam Belli, Kelexis Davenport
Synopsis:
When the innocent and likable Bubbles Cliquot (Summers) shows up for her nightly stage performance with a black eye, her transgender friends suspect foul play from her latest boy toy. In order to move on, Bubbles joins her friends on a triple date with charming boys. But it just so happens the blind date is set up by the transphobic creep who gave Bubbles her shiner. After luring them into an abandoned warehouse, the attacker and his two beefy minions unleash all their hatred on the unsuspecting ladies, leaving them banged and bruised, but not broken. After waking up from her coma, Bubbles enlists the aid of her friends to bring her enemies to gory justice.
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Trashology (2012)
Starring:
Laura Lee Black, Jenny Coulter, Rodney Horn, Douglas Conner
Synopsis:
A college writing assignment leads Tracy (Laura Lee Black, Preexisting Conditions) to explore her passion for film, especially the “trash” genre made infamous by John Waters. Her research leads her to the book Trashology, firing her imagination and guiding the viewer through a trilogy of horror, revenge and vigilante justice tales (The Vat, Big Debbie and Inglorious Bitches) paying homage to the man that started it all.
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White Of The Eye (1987)
Starring:
David Keith, Cathy Moriarty
Synopsis:
Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert living unhappily with his wife in Arizona.
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COLLECTIONS
Troll / Troll 2
Starring:
Brad Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Moriarty
Movies:
Troll
A San Francisco couple’s son enters a magical world to rescue his sister from a troll.
Troll 2
A little boy enters a realm of darkness to save his family from the bogyman of his nightmare.
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