DVD and Blu-ray Releases: August 9, 2016
We’ve got a shorter list this week, friends – so I’m keeping this quick and painless.
First up, if you heard Raising Cain was dropping this week, sorry. The Blu-ray has been pushed back to September 13th. You Lithgow fanatics have to wait it out another month it seems.
Two Blu-rays that will be coming to your local shelves this week are Basket Case 2 and Basket Case 3: The Progeny. When I was in high school, I would refer to my acne as Belial. Then, in college, I began to refer to my beer gut as Belial. Now, almost 37 years of age, I still refer to my beer gut as Belial. What can I say? I even like my self-deprecating humor to be deflected to moderately obscure horror references.
Lastly, Gremlins and Gremlins 2 have DVD releases this week. These are not to be confused with the 2-movie Gremlins Blu-ray set that is coming out on October 4th with 2 Pop! Vinyl toys. They’re just regular old DVDs that so far have no cover art.
The rest of our release list this week is all more recent movies. As always, pleasant viewing, folks.
MOVIES
Alone in the Ghost House (2015)
Starring:
Joni Durian, Adam Scott Clevenger, Henrique Couto
Synopsis:
They dared to stay the night in the most haunted house in America. Not content with her 15 minutes of fame, reality tv star Lana and her husband begin production on a new reality series aimed at dis-proving the paranormal. Setting off on a haunted house road trip, they taunt spirits at each stop until they arrive at The Devil’s Commune, a house mired in tragedy and violence, and considered the most haunted house in America. What they find there will exceed their greatest nightmares.
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Basket Case 2 (1990)
Starring:
Kevin Van Hentenryck, Kathryn Meisle, Annie Ross, David Emge
Synopsis:
Duane Bradley and his surgically-separated twin brother Belial return in this frightfully gory follow-up to Frank Henenlotter’s original monster movie classic, Basket Case. After surviving a fall from a hospital window, the two brothers become media targets. Duane’s aunt, Granny Ruth (played by world-famous Jazz singer Annie Ross), whisks the duo away to a secluded mansion, where other freaks-in-hiding live out their days away from public scrutiny. When a snooping tabloid reporter finds the location of the mutants, Duane and his new family must stand together to keep their freedom a secret. And, in all the chaos, Belial might actually find true love!
Synapse Films is proud to present Basket Case 2 in a beautiful high-definition transfer from the original 35mm camera negative.
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Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1992)
Starring:
Kevin Van Hentenryck, Gill Roper, Annie Ross, Denise Coop
Synopsis:
After being separated again from his conjoined twin brother Duane (Kevin Van Hentenryck), Belial finds out he’s going to be a deformed daddy! Mrs. Belial ( Eve, played by Denise Coop) delivers a litter of bouncing baby monsters, but the blessed event turns into a nightmarish ordeal when the police kidnap the little critters. They should know it’s not safe to anger Belial! Attacking the cops in a climactic, gory rampage, everyone’s favorite mutant mauler stops at nothing to get his newborns back!
Synapse Films is proud to present Basket Case 3: The Progeny in a beautiful high-definition transfer from original 35mm vault materials.
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Baskin (2016)
Starring:
Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Gorkem Kasal
Synopsis:
A five-man unit of cops on night patrol get more than they bargain for when they arrive at a creepy backwater town in the middle of nowhere after a call comes over the radio for backup. Entering a derelict building, the seasoned tough guys and their rookie junior, who’s still haunted by a traumatic childhood dream, do the one thing you should never do in this kind of movie: they split up. They soon realize they’ve stumbled into a monstrous charnel house and descend into an ever-more nightmarish netherworld where grotesque, mind-wrenching horrors await them at every turn. This is one baskin (that’s “police raid” to you non-Turkish speakers) that isn’t going to end well. But wait! Things aren’t what they seem in this truly disturbing, outrageously gory, and increasingly surreal film whose unpredictable narrative slippages pull the carpet from under your feet and keep you guessing right up to the final moment. A wildly original whatsit that reconfirms Turkey as the breakout national cinema of the moment.
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Creature Feature (2016)
Starring:
Jason Vail, Tenille Houston, Libby Blanton, Chase Smith
Synopsis:
Creature Feature is five interwoven tales of terror that occur one foggy Halloween night in Georgia. A babysitter learns a new appreciation for fine art and hard lesson about the consequences of being irresponsible…and naughty!; a group of college kids stumble on the mother of all Scarecrows; two teenagers are forced to steal from the wrong cantankerous old hermit who has been known to occasionally howl at the moon; a murdered father comes back for vengeance against his gold-digging wife and traitorous children; and all of this Halloween fun is made possible by a London Gentleman known as…”Jack.”
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Dark Waves (2016)
Starring:
Nancy De Luca, David D’Ingeo
Synopsis:
Beneath the waves… secrets run deep.
Sophiane, an ex-French Legionnaire, brings his wife Jazira to a new home: an ancient tower on the open sea. One day while he is sailing, Sophiane finds three little gold nuggets and gives them to her. Soon they begin to deal with daily strange events and the couple begins to face the past that both desired to forget. Things turn out worse than they ever imagined as the gold nuggets are, in reality, gold teeth that belonged to three pirates who now rise from their watery graves to get them back.
Dark Waves is a fairy tale with dramatic undercurrents. It shows a couple whose love is tested and torn apart by a succession of strange events and recurring nightmares. Pirates, ghostly figures, sea monsters, and golden treasures all enter into the dark action. It s a world redolent of ancient myth, legends, sailors, and the siren call of the ocean.
In Italian with English subtitles.
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Gremlins (1984)
Starring:
Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain
Synopsis:
An inventor gives his son an odd little creature which multiplies into monsters which wreck the town.
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Starring:
Howie Mandel, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Tony Randall, John Glover
Synopsis:
The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from water, bright lights and, most importantly, never–never–feed him after midnight. Two survivors of the gremlins’ havoc in Kingston Falls who have moved to New York City and now work for a global conglomerate are joined by their furry little Mogwai friend Gizmo. But again the rules are broken and the gremlins are loose–this time in Manhattan, and the Big Apple will never be the same.
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The Sighting (2016)
Starring:
Kent Harper, Gill Gayle, Adam Pitman, Nathaniel Peterson, Sarina Hart
Synopsis:
One year after seven local students are inexplicably murdered at a lake house party near the Canadian border, recent high school grads Travis and his buddy Nate plan a celebratory road trip to Canada. While cutting through the woods at night, the two friends are savagely attacked by mysterious creatures and Nate is dragged off leaving Travis to run for help. After Travis efforts to save Nate end tragically, the police begin to investigate the events surrounding the deaths and question Travis claims of bloodthirsty Sasquatch-like creatures in the woods.
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Violent Shit: The Movie (2015)
Starring:
Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Antonio Zequila, Michela Foresta, Vincenzo Pezzopane, Steve Aquilina
Synopsis:
Rome is shattered by a series of gruesome murders that paint the Eternal City deep red. Italian Police Inspector Aristide D’Amato and his German counterpart Hans Ebert initiate their criminal investigations. They stumble upon the eccentric Professor Vassago – a master of myths and mysteries – who is linked to Senator Vinci – a corrupt politician – mutually driven by power and perversions. The suspicion grows that these atrocious crimes are connected with the return of one of the most heinous serial killers of our time – Karl the Butcher!
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