DVD and Blu-ray Releases: April 5, 2016
Well, folks, I told you we had some good stuff coming up; and I would never let you down, so let’s get right to it. First, there are a few minor discrepancies to address…
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key may have had an early release date of October 27th but is definitely scheduled for this week to have a Blu-ray and DVD release. Also, Lust of the Dead 5 initially had a release date of April 5th but is now listed as unavailable. If you find a copy, you’re welcome. If not, I claim zero responsibility.
This is a great week for people who enjoy collections. Our Collections section this week has more than a hundred movie possibilities. What’s great is that a lot of them are classics as well. Names like Vincent Price, Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anthony Perkins, and more show up below, so there’s bound to be something there that tickles your fancy.
This week also sees the second season of “Salem” dropping in our Television section. I was kind of into this show for a little while, but I lack the attention span to keep up with it in addition to other shows I’ve been watching. One day I plan on getting back into it because I thought it was pretty decent.
I’ve only just put a dent in the 27 releases this week so keep reading below. Also, the next couple weeks are still relatively stacked with releases, so be sure to keep checking back.
As usual, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
#Horror (2015)
Starring:
Chloe Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, Balthazar Getty
Synopsis:
You’ve got followers… Cyberbullying goes offline during one deadly night. Inspired by a shocking true story, #Horror follows a group of preteen girls living in a suburban world of money and privilege. But when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far, virtual terror becomes all too real. Chloe Sevigny leads an ensemble cast that includes Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, and Timothy Hutton in Tara Subkoff’s directorial debut.
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Anguish (2015)
Starring:
Ryan Simpkins, Annika Marks, Karina Logue
Synopsis:
A teenage girl is finally old enough to understand that the cause of her psychological problems is a supernatural gift that’s allowing a spirit to force itself inside her. The girl must decide whether she wants to keep fighting or succumb.
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Ava’s Possessions (2016)
Starring:
Jemima Kirke, Louisa Krause
Synopsis:
Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she is forced to attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group. As Ava struggles to reconnect with her friends, get her job back, and figure out where the huge blood stain in her apartment came from, she is plagued by nightmarish visions the demon is trying to come back.
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The Black Cat (1980)
Starring:
Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck
Synopsis:
From Italy’s own Godfather of Gore Lucio Fulci (Zombie, The Gates of Hell) comes The Black Cat, a gruesome reimagining of the classic Edgar Allan Poe tale starring Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange) and Mimsy Farmer (The Perfume of the Lady in Black).
When a young couple goes missing in a sleepy English village, Scotland Yard Inspector Gorley (David Warbeck, The Beyond) is brought in to assist on the case. But what starts off as routine investigation turns into a murder inquiry when the couple are found dead in mysterious circumstances.
Fusing a classically gothic atmosphere with the decidedly more visceral elements that are the hallmark of Fulci’s films, The Black Cat is a too-often overlooked and underrated entry in the Italian master filmmaker s canon.
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Cherry Tree (2016)
Starring:
Naomi Battrick, Elva Trill, Patrick Gibson, Sam Hazeldine, Leah McNamara
Synopsis:
Faith’s world is turned upside down after she finds out that her beloved father is dying. When the mysteriously alluring Sissy Young becomes her field hockey coach, Faith finds a compassionate spirit and much-needed mother figure. Little does she know that Sissy is the head of a centuries-old witches’ coven that uses the fruit of an ancient cherry tree in a secret ritual that restores life to the dead and dying. Offering to cure her father in exchange for a child, Sissy strikes a bargain with Faith, who suddenly finds herself pregnant with a baby that’s growing at an alarming rate. But with the clock to the child’s birth ticking down and the true intention of Sissy’s plans for humanity becoming more apparent, Faith and her father must stand together in order to save both their lives. From David Keating, the critically acclaimed director of Wake Wood.
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Creep (2015)
Starring:
Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Synopsis:
Looking for work, Aaron (Patrick Brice) comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef (Mark Duplass), his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heart- felt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure. The directorial debut of Patrick Brice and produced by Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) and Mark Duplass (Safety Not Guaranteed), Creep’s intense interplay between its two protagonists upends expectations at every turn.
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Deadly Weekend (2013)
Starring:
Sara Jean Underwood, Buster Phoenix Sampson
Synopsis:
Two young couples take one last trip to the country before they move to different cities. Unfortunately, secrets and jealousy spark the unspoken tensions between them and the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn when one of them begins to hunt the others down in a fit of rage. It soon becomes clear that not everyone is going to be coming home alive.
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The Entity (2015)
Starring:
Rodrigo Falla, Daniella Mendoza, Carlos Casella
Synopsis:
A group of students discover a terrifying “reaction video” on the internet. Their search to discover the whereabouts of the video reveal an obscure corner of cyberspace known as the Dark Web where a curse brings death to all who witness the video.
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Exit 14 (2016)
Starring:
Tom Sizemore, John Schneider, Laura Flannery, Ashton Leigh
Synopsis:
Laurie (Laura Flannery) a good-natured college student embarks on a spring break vacation with her friends Faith (Ashton Leigh), Joey (Anthony Del Negro) and her boyfriend Mick (Jamie Nocher) when they get off on the ghostly Exit 14 where they befriend a mysterious store clerk (Tom Sizemore) and are haunted the ghost story he shares with them.
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The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund (2016)
Starring:
Lee Bane, Tiffany Ceri, Judith Haley
Synopsis:
In this terrifying true story, something beyond comprehension is happening to wife and mother Anna Ecklund. Once a mild mannered churchgoer, she is now prone to bouts of violent rage with a particular anger toward religious imagery. Desperate to find a cure for Anna’s disturbing behaviour, her family calls on doctors and psychiatrists to provide a diagnosis. But when no rational explanation can be found, local priest Father Riesinger teams up with Vatican investigator Father Lamont to evaluate the case. Realising that Anna is inhabited by a malevolent entity, the priests take her to a nearby convent to perform an exorcism. But all hell breaks loose and a brutal battle between good and evil begins.
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From Parts Unknown: Fight Like a Girl (2016)
Starring:
Jenna Dwuer, Sarah Howett, Elke Berry
Synopsis:
The Outrageous Ozploitation Wrestling-Horror Mash-Up Starring Champion Kick-Boxer Sarah Howett (TV’s “Gladiators”)
After watching her Daddy die in the ring, Charlie vows to become a wrestler in his memory. But when Charlie stumbles across a secret IT department threatening to unleash hordes of zombies upon the earth, she has no choice but to take a stand and show these corporate bullies and their zombie slaves how to Fight Like A Girl!
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The Half-Life Horror from Hell, or Irradiated Satan Rocks the World! (2016)
Starring:
Sarah French, Jimmy Snuka, Christian Hess
Synopsis:
On the eve of a huge televised metal concert, a mysterious glowing monster is savagely attacking the citizens of a small town. But what connection does this creature have to the old nuclear plant, and the band, Irradiated Satan, and the local crime boss, and… the Mayor? How deep does this weirdness go? A low-level crook and his hot, recreational drug enthusiast hippie chick friend, aim to find out! With the help of the drunken town Sheriff and an eccentric Native American Shaman, they’ll encounter Satanic priests, Voodoo hoodoo, scheming incestuous step-siblings, and a radioactive menace; as they seek to uncover the truth, and save the very fabric of society as we know it!
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The Hallow (2015)
Starring:
Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton
Synopsis:
A family moves to a remote house in rural Ireland and finds themselves in a fight for survival with an ancient evil living in the secluded woods.
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The Hoarder (2016)
Starring:
Mischa Barton, Robert Knepper, Andrew Buckley, Charlotte Salt, Emily Attak
Synopsis:
Ella (Mischa Barton, “The O.C.”) sneaks off one night to snoop through her fiancée’s storage unit on the seedy outskirts of town. But deep in the lower levels of the warehouse, Ella and a half dozen storage unit customers discover there’s more than old furniture and memorabilia being locked away here. A relentless psychopath has started his own “collection,” and unless Ella and the others can survive the blood-soaked rampage of the Hoarder, and find a way out of the maze-like building, they’ll never see the light of another day. Also starring Robert Knepper (“Prison Break”); Valene Kane (“The Fall”), Charlotte Salt (“The Tudors”) and Andrew Buckley (“The Extras”).
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Lake Fear (2016)
Starring:
Shanon Sneddon, Jori Gill
Synopsis:
Four girls go to a cabin in the woods, which is inhabited by evil. This cabin then ensnares them in a labyrinth of macabre as they must battle their way out.
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Lust of the Dead 5 (2014)
Starring:
Yui Aikawa, Maki Aoyama, Asami
Synopsis:
The insane apocalyptic zombie saga continues! Watch the viral epidemic spread as the sex-crazed walking dead expand their rampage across post-nuke Tokyo! Can they be stopped? Can their perpetual lust ever be satisfied?
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Shopping Tour (2016)
Starring:
Tatyana Kolganova, Satu Paavola, Tatyana Ryabokon
Synopsis:
A group of Russian tourists go on a shopping spree to the neighboring Finland – only to be attacked by the Finnish cannibals. We focus on a middle-aged woman and her teenage son who is shooting the film, as we watch it, on his cell-phone.
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Slender (2016)
Starring:
Joel Petrie, Jyllian Petrie, Ryan Templeman, Mili Parks, Dan Schovaers
Synopsis:
Four friends, looking for a new project to work on, come across a chilling story of a woman who claims that her children were abducted by a mysterious suited man. At first, they friends dismiss the woman as crazy, but when the terrifyingly inexplicable occurs, they are exposed to the horrifying truth – that something IS out there, and it’s coming for them.
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The Tell-Tale Heart (2016)
Starring:
Peter Bogdanovich, Patrick John Flueger, Jacob Vargas, Damon Whitaker, Rose McGowan
Synopsis:
A haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Set in contemporary New Orleans, The Tell-Tale Heart is based on Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story of the same name.
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Starring:
Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli
Synopsis:
Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale The Black Cat , Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, from director Sergio Martino (Torso), weaves the key motifs from Poe s gothic yarn into one of the most sensual films from the Golden era of giallo.
Luigi Pistilli (Milano Calibro 9, A Bay of Blood) plays writer Oliviero, an abrasive drunk who amuses himself by holding drunken orgies at his grand country manor much to the displeasure of his long-suffering wife (Anita Strindberg). But this decadence is soon rocked by a series of grisly murders, in which Oliviero finds himself implicated.
Notable for giving screen starlet Edwige Fenech her first bad girl role, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, with its many unexpected twists and turns, is just as bewitching as its title would suggest.
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TELEVISION
“Salem” Season 2
Starring:
Shane West, Seth Gabel
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COLLECTIONS
25 Horror Movies
Starring:
Vincent Price, William Joyce, Anthony Perkins, Woody Harrelson, Sean Patrick Flaherty
Synopsis:
Vampires, zombies, serial killers, gore—and more! Everything your nightmares have ever imagined in this 25-movie Horror Collection. Starring horror greats Anthony Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Vincent Price and many more. Check under the bed and leave the lights on!
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30 Nightmare Movies Volume 2
Starring:
Paul Le Mat, Vincent Price, Maxwell Caulfield, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen
Synopsis:
Warning, this collection is designed to inspire nightmares of epic proportion. Gather all of your horror-movie-watching friends together for binge-worthy fun with these 30 films because no one will want to be alone when the lights go down. You will have anything but a peaceful snooze.
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Death Walks Twice: Two Films by Luciano Ercoli
Starring:
Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simon Andreu
Synopsis:
Emerging at the peak of the giallo boom of the early 70s, Luciano Ercoli s Death Walks films are two superlative examples of the genre linked by their shared casting of the stunning Nieves Navarro (billed under her adopted stage name of Susan Scott) as the lead woman in peril.
In Death Walks on High Heels (1971), exotic dancer Nicole (Navarro), the daughter of a murdered jewel thief, finds herself terrorised by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her father s stolen gems. Fleeing Paris and her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in London only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.
Returning in Death Walks at Midnight (1972), Navarro stars as Valentina a model who, in the midst of a drug-fuelled photoshoot, witnesses a brutal murder in the apartment opposite hers. But when it becomes clear that the savage slaying she describes relates to a crime that took place six months earlier, the police are at a loss – forcing Valentina to solve the mystery alone.
Offering up all the glamour, perversity and narrative twists and turns that are typical of the giallo genre at its best, Luciano Ercoli s Death Walks on High Heels and Death Walks at Midnight anticipate the super-stylized trappings of Brian De Palma s early psycho thrillers (most notably, Dressed to Kill).
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Fear the Dead Collection
Starring:
Marc Lawrence, Ben Kingsley, Bill Paxton, Mark Hamill, Burt Culver
Movies:
To Survive
Jonathan, a lone drifter, begins to take on responsibility for a group of apocalypse survivors. But will the dangers of the empty countryside kill his chance at love and family?
Slipstream
Matt Owens, a bounty hunter, kidnaps a fugitive from a law officer (Mark Hamill). To avoid detection, Owens flies into a post-apocalypse slipstream. Now he’ll have to face the law, a religious cult that holds the winds sacred, and the unknowns of the slipstream…
Rise of the Undead
The nation has collapsed, leaving a room full of strangers filled with dread and uncertainty. Venturing into the apocalyptic world without a plan, the group soon realizes they aren’t the only ones who have survived—there are zombies everywhere.
The Devil’s Messenger
The devil (Lon Chaney Jr.) sends his right-hand henchman to Earth to execute a final, apocalyptic plot: detonate a 500 megaton bomb, destroy all of mankind, and fill the chambers of hell with tormented souls.
Night Train to Terror
An unsuspecting rock band boards a train bound for nowhere, while two illustrious presences, God and Satan, swap macabre tales and discuss the fate of the train’s passengers.
The Invaders: Genesis
In this post-apocalyptic world, Officer David Orwell sets off on the run after he discovers that he’s fighting for a corrupt and deadly system.
Farm
The rural life of two brothers is upended by a deadly secret in this apocalyptic zombie thriller.
Population 2
Alone in a post-apocalyptic world, Lilith clings to the memories of love and betrayal of her past life.
The Rising Dead
Survivors of “The Plague” are surrounded by zombies in a tropical destination, relying solely on the fearlessness of their leader, John Blake, to keep them safe.
Rabid Rage
When Josh’s friend, Danny, is diagnosed with cancer, Josh feels that he needs a fun-filled trip to the woods. So, before he begins his first round of chemotherapy, Danny and a group of buddies head off to camp and party. But the party is over before it even starts when they encounter an aggressive zombie-like man, foaming at the mouth.
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Hammer Films Collection – Volume Two
Starring:
Peter Cushing, Eunice Gayson, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn, Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller, Grégoire Aslan, Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse, Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan, Donald Sutherland, Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Robert John
Synopsis:
Don’t Make a Sound or Turn Around!
For more than four decades, Hammer Films unique blend of horror, science fiction, thrills and comedy dominated countless drive-ins and movie theaters. Enjoy this impeccable collection from the darkest corners of the Hammer Imagination!
Movies:
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Peter Cushing reprises his famous role as Baron Victor Frankenstein in this horror classic. Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates and becomes Dr. Stein. Under the guise of charity work, he continues his gruesome experiments, this time transplanting Fritz’s brain into his latest creation: a normal, healthy body.
The Snorkel (1958)
Paul Decker arranges the perfect murder of his wife. Lightly drugging her into unconsciousness, he then seals the room and fills it with gas appearing to be a suicide while he hides beneath the floorboards using a diving snorkel to breath air from the outside. But he didn’t plan for his suspicious stepdaughter in this kill or be killed thriller!
Never Take Candy From a Stranger (1960)
A serious and horrifying chiller about a small town terrorized by an elderly child molester luring young girls into his mansion with sweets, but no official will stop the perverse man because of his powerful family until it’s too late.
Maniac (1963)
While vacationing in France, an American artist becomes romantically involved with an older woman, Eve, while also attracted to her teenage stepdaughter, Annette. Pulled between them, a plot is hatched to free Eve’s husband from jail but Eve has a different plan in mind.
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
Young Pat Carroll (Powers) goes to the home of her dead fiancé to meet his beloved mother, Mrs. Trefoile (Tallulah Bankhead). There, she discovers that Mrs. Trefoile is not the loving mother she had anticipated, but rather a grieving psychopath who blames Pat for the death of her son.
Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
Set in the Stone Age, this singular film has almost no dialogue – the people speak in grunts – but it is strangely effective. Focused on a tribe of cavemen, a pair of twin brothers become rivals for leadership of the tribe following the impact of a devastating earthquake.
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Paranormal Encounters Collection: Vol. 2: 45 Hauntings
Starring:
Nigel Bennett, Robert Loggia, Barbara Steele, Matt Frewer, Dan Aykroyd
Synopsis:
If it’s paranormal, you’ll find it in this collection of 45 haunting supernatural thrillers, reenactments of true stories, and movies about possession, abandoned insane asylums and bizarre experiments. When you are looking for a touch of the dark side, you can rely on this mix of television series episodes and terror movies for fearsome entertainment.
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