DVD and Blu-ray Releases: November 24, 2015
Thanksgiving is upon us, friends. Ahhh, that time of year when you’re inundated with ruthless travel, awkward conversations with your parents, and the realization that you’re drinking your father’s Scotch only to forget just how much like your family you really are.
If you’re looking for a Queen of Blood release on Blu-ray this week, it looks like you’re out of luck. Amazon has a random version slated for release this week, but it seems more likely to have a legitimate release next week. Check back here for updates.
One of my favorites is getting a Blu-ray release this week. Fred Astaire’s last film, Ghost Story, will hit shelves this week in hi-def. What I’ve always liked best about this movie is that it feels as though it was produced much earlier than its actual 1981 release.
Check out below for the entire rundown. As always, pleasant viewing… and enjoy your turkey.
MOVIES
Apocalypse Female Warriors (2015)
Starring:
Brian Anthony, Brian Arrington, Gary Barickman
Synopsis:
After WWIII has devastated America, a fierce band of female warriors attempt to survive long enough to make it to the last habitable place on Earth. But little do they know that dictator Rollins doesn’t want her city overpopulating and has assembled a team of brutal mercenaries to hunt and eliminate any “survivors” in the wastelands. The female warriors, along with the help of a mysterious man hell-bent on avenging the death of his family, fight their way to the city walls combating mutated scavengers, wasteland renegades, and the city’s own mercenaries along the way.
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Applesauce (2014)
Starring:
Dylan Baker, Max Casella, Onur Tukel
Synopsis:
Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to call in and share their stories. And tonight, Ron Welz (writer/director Onur Tukel) is ready to share his. But soon after he confesses on the air, Ron finds a severed foot in his laundry… then a cut off finger in his mail… then worse. His life begins to unravel and his marriage begins to fall apart. Someone is tormenting him. Is it his insolent high school student? Is it his best friend? His wife? In a city like New York, there are eight million suspects and each one could have a bone to pick with someone like Ron.
Take dark comedy, mix it with noir, add a dash of horror and stir in some melodrama, and you have the recipe for one of the most original and unusual movies of the year.
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The Badger Game (2014)
Starring:
Augie Duke, Patrick Cronen, Jillian Leigh, Sam Boxleitner, Sasha Higgins
Synopsis:
It’s the twisted indie hit that’s been hailed as fun (Ain’t It Cool), intense (Horror News) and excellent all around (Indyred): When a young woman discovers that her wealthy boyfriend is married, she and three friends hatch a kidnapping-and-extortion scheme known in criminal circles as a badger game to teach him a lesson and score an easy $2 million. But they’ll soon learn certain games can quickly spin out of control…and that one seemingly perfect crime is about to go horribly wrong.
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Blood And Lace (1971)
Starring:
Milton Selzer, Melody Patterson
Synopsis:
An orphanage operator catches her runaways and freezes them for display to a head-counting social worker.
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Body Parts (1991)
Starring:
Jeff Fahey, Kim Delaney
Synopsis:
A psychologist loses his arm in an accident and gets another one grafted on, from a serial killer.
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A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
Starring:
George Buza, William Shatner
Synopsis:
It’s the season of joy, peace, and goodwill… unless you live in Bailey Downs. Last Christmas Eve, two teens came to a grisly end in a school basement. Now, one year later, a new set of horrors has come to town. As three friends explore the site of the massacre, a malevolent spirit is determined to keep them there forever. One of the first cops to the scene of the bloody murders has new complications as his seven-year-old son exhibits terrifying and violent behavior. And when a local family seeks reconciliation with an estranged aunt for the wrong reasons, they suddenly find themselves running in terror from Krampus, the demonic anti-Santa Claus. Not even St. Nick is immune to the terror as he fights back against a horde of zombie elves. This is destined to be a holiday no one will ever forget….
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Forgive Me (2015)
Starring:
Jordana Leigh, Kathy Rice, Taylor Trash
Synopsis:
A deviant rampages through a city, victimizing women after he discovers how easy it is to gain their trust. Lessons will be learned.
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Ghost Story (1981)
Starring:
Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, John Houseman
Synopsis:
Elderly men telling ghost stories are haunted by a girl they accidentally drowned 50 years before.
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Half Breed: Rise Of The Nephilim (2015)
Starring:
Diamond Troy Justice, Bad Bubba Brewer, Haley Conrad, Rachel Riggle Black
Synopsis:
CIA Operative Captain Rhodes, code name Preacher, is sent on an assassination mission to take out the head drug lord of the largest drug cartel in South America. His team is wiped out by a mysterious force before they could even reach the cartel. Captain Rhodes, the lone survivor, is suspended from the CIA because his story seems too unreal. One year later, the CIA intercepts a mysterious radio transmission while trying to obtain information about an American missionary being held hostage by the same dangerous cartel. Rhodes, now a full time preacher, reluctantly agrees to join the US Special Forces to save the hostage. He soon realizes that he faces the same inhuman force that killed so many of his men and left him seeking revenge.
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Haunting At Foster Cabin (2015)
Starring:
AnnaMaria DeMara, Kati Sharp, Jamie Strange, John Savage
Synopsis:
Sorority Sisters accidentally unleash an unholy entity. To save mankind, they must battle evil… and each other.
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Hole (2015)
Starring:
Paul E. Respass, Jim Barile, Charlotte Bjornbak, Char Frost
Synopsis:
Ed Kunkle is a convicted felon tormented by his own demons. Eve Adams is a single woman trying to cope with a tragic loss. Bodie Jameson is a homicide detective looking for answers. All three lives will intertwine with disturbing, deadly consequences.
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The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971)
Starring:
Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem, Albert Cole, John Bloom
Synopsis:
What do you get when a mad scientist grafts the head of a maniac onto the body of a giant? A true cult classic that the Los Angeles Times calls “lots of fun”! When a brilliant yet obsessive surgeon is cast out by the medical community, he takes science to a shocking new level – by grafting the head of one man onto the body of another. But his terrifying two-headed creation escapes the lab and goes on a rampage! Cult director Anthony M. Lanza (The Glory Stompers) directed the original 2-headed monster classic featuring a script by James Gordon White (The Hellcats) and James Lawrence (The Loners) and a stellar cast that included Bruce Dern (Coming Home), Pat Priest (TV s The Munsters) and broadcasting legend Casey Kasem (American Top 40). This special edition is re-mastered in HD and features audio commentary by the RiffTrax® trio and ex Mystery Science Theater 3000 legends, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett.
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The Last House (2015)
Starring:
Jason Mewes, Ezra Buzzington, Monique Parent, Lauren Walsh, Felissa Rose
Synopsis:
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a satanic trio of escaped mental patients, a young man must rescue her from a Hollywood home before their sadistic plans can be realized. Starring Jason Mewes (Clerks, Vigilante Diaries), Ezra Buzzington (TV’s “Crossbones”, The Hills Have Eyes) and Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp).
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The Mask (1961)
Starring:
Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Bill Walker
Synopsis:
After the shocking death of a disturbed patient, psychiatrist Dr. Allan Barnes (Paul Stevens) comes into possession of the ancient tribal mask that supposedly drove the young man to his doom. When Barnes puts on the mask, he is assailed with nightmarish visions of monsters, occultists, and ritual torture. Believing that the mask has opened a portal to the deepest recesses of his mind, the doctor continues to explore this terrifying new psychic world even as the mask reveals a latent violence in Barnes’ nature that threatens those closest to him.
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Natalie’s Lose Lose (2012)
Starring:
Danielle Adams, Kenyon Glover, Natalie Victoria
Synopsis:
Natalie is a young bartender trying to make her way in the world. Somehow she wakes to find herself gagged and bound to a chair. With only her wits and cunning, she must figure out who her captors are, and what do they want from her. Can Natalie save herself and figure out who these people are!
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The Pit And The Pendulum (1991)
Starring:
Lance Henriksen, Oliver Reed, Rona De Ricci, Jeffrey Combs
Synopsis:
Torquemada is enchanted by Maria’s beauty and subjects her and her husband Antonio to heinous tortures hoping to prove that his own desires for her are a result of her magic, and that she has bewitched him. With the help of Esmerelda, Maria’s cellmate and confessed witch, Maria must find the power to save her husband from Torquemada’s ultimate machine of torture: the inevitable, razor sharp PENDULUM poised over the inescapable PIT of hell.
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Ray Harker (2015)
Starring:
Jeremy Isbell, Kevin Ponder
Synopsis:
After a murder rampage at a hotel party Ray Harker begins to haunt the visions of the town’s priest. He torchers the priest’s mind and draws him deeper into the madness of a killer. When Ray Harker comes to town nobody will be left alive.
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Reichsfuhrer SS (2015)
Starring:
David B. Stewart III, Angelina Leigh, Chuck Maher, Martin Slamon, John Martineau
Synopsis:
The Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler was Adolf Hitler’s most loyal henchman and one of the most feared men of WWII. Surprisingly, he had only one problem… He had no stomach for murder! When the Reichsfuhrer-SS becomes physically ill during the execution of Russian POW’s on the Eastern front in 1941. Ruthless, careerist SS General Hans Shellenberg rats Himmler out to the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. Hitler tests his loyal Heinrich forcing him to commit the murder of a Polish prisoner named Danuta with his own hands. Thus awakening the Monster within him that will horrify the world for generations to come! Himmler may please his Fuhrer in 1941, but what awaits him after he commits suicide in 1945 is nothing less than Hell itself. See what happens when Himmler meets Erebus, the gatekeeper of Hell! See the nightmarish suffering that awaits the infamous Nazi leader who murdered millions
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Star Leaf (2015)
Starring:
Julian Gavilanes, Russell Hodgkinson, Richard Cranor, Tyler Trerise, Shelby Truax
Synopsis:
Star Leaf is a sci-fi thriller about three friends who search for a forest of extra-terrestrial marijuana hidden deep in the Olympic Mountains and find much more than they bargained for. Starring Russell Hodgkinson and Julian Gavilanes of Sy-Fy’s “Z-Nation”, the adventure begins when Tim (Tyler Trerise) introduces his girlfriend Martha (Shelby Truax) and his Afghanistan war buddy James (Gavilanes) to the legendary Star Leaf, anticipating an out-of-this-world high and the chance to cure James’s PTSD. Things start to get strange when a forest ranger (Richard Cranor) mysteriously shows up at their late-night campfire with tales of alien visitors and odd animal behavior in the forest. And when Tim and Martha break the Star Leaf code of conduct, the evil aliens guarding the plant begin to stalk them. Reality, memory, and fantasy blur for James, whose flashbacks of the war mix with his sense of the current danger. Heedless of James’s warnings, Tim and Martha walk into a trap, and James must fight for all their lives against his own inner demons and even larger forces from beyond
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Subspecies (1991) (20th Anniversary Edition)
Starring:
Anders Hove, Michelle Mcbride, Laura Tate, Angus Scrimm, Irina Movila
Synopsis:
Deep within the heart of Romania, a suppressed evil from the past has come back to haunt the present, and three young beauties have stumbled onto its path…Michelle and Lillian are two American students who have joined their friend Mara in Romania for their studies of the ancient myths and legends of Transylvania. But Myth turns into reality when the women become the object of desire of Radu, an evil vampire obsessed with making them his consorts. Radu creates an army of hellish creatures of the night-a Subspecies-to help him carry out his plan. What he underestimates are the powers of his brother Stefan, a good vampire who has fallen in love with Michelle and wants to save them all from the wrath of his brother. At the same time, Stefan discovers that Radu has murdered their father, King Vlad, and is trying to take control of the kingdom. Radu wants to break the centuries-old tradition established by the king so that vampires would only feed on animals rather than humans in order to survive. In the final showdown of good versus evil, Stefan must fight his wicked brother and the new vampires Radu has created, in his effort to save his loves and the lives of all in the kingdom.
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Voodoo Man (1944)
Starring:
Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco
Synopsis:
A mad doctor and his helpers lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
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You (Us) Me (2014)
Starring:
Hannah Kew, Christian J. Wilde, Hilary Hodsman
Synopsis:
A fledgling serial killer falls in love with a suicidal girl who, unbeknown to him, is only hanging around because she wants him to bump her off.
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COLLECTIONS
The Racetrack Murders / House in the Woods
Starring:
Michael Gough, Ronald Howard
Synopsis:
It’s a double-dose of mystery and horror!
Movies:
The Racetrack Murders
Mystery at the track! A well-known thoroughbred is slain by a rival horse owner. Soon jockeys are being murdered by a mysterious killer. Scandals, blackmail, and drugs abound in this fine Bryan Edgar Wallace krimi thriller.
The House In The Woods
When a mystery novelist moves into an old house to complete his latest chiller, he discovers that the scary events in his book are coming to life. Stars British horror star Michael Gough (Horrors Of The Black Museum, Konga), Ronald Howard, and Patricia Roc.
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