DVD and Blu-ray Releases: December 27, 2016
Now that everyone is recovering from the Christmas weekend, we’ve got 10 releases dropping! Our one discrepancy for the week is The Warning. It may have had a similar release back in August, and it is also showing up for this week for December 31st. Your guess is as good as mine in that regard.
We have two classics coming at us from the 1970s. The first is 1974’s The Beast and the Vixens on DVD. The second release, from 1970, is the Blu-ray for The House That Screamed.
Also hitting shelves this week are new Blu-rays for each of the four Underworld movies. If I were a betting man, I would imagine that this is being timed to coincide with the upcoming release of Underworld: Blood Wars, which will be coming to theaters on January 6th in the United States.
Keep checking back each week for the most up-to-date horror movie release list on the internet and beyond. As always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
The Beast and the Vixens (1974)
Starring:
Uschi Digard, Sharon Kelly, Jackie Giroux
Synopsis:
Filmed in 1972 at the height of the Bigfoot movie craze, The Beast And The Vixens (directed by Ray Nadeau) takes the concept one step further by having the creature capture a bevy of beautiful girls and imprisoning them in his makeshift cave while two violent thugs terrorize a group of Free Loving hippies! Voluptuous superstars Uschi Digard and Sharon Kelly (both veterans of Russ Meyer’s Supervixens) join exploitation movie stalwart Jackie Giroux in this erotic backwoods twist on the old ”Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Bigfoot” story. Includes the original ‘R-Rated’ theatrical version (presented in 16 x 9-enhanced widescreen) with optional Commentary Track, plus the special Unrated Version, and a bonus feature film: Hollywood Babylon (1972) featuring Uschi Digard as Marlene Dietrich!
The House That Screamed (1970)
Starring:
Madame Fourneau, Lilli Palmer
Synopsis:
A widow’s son tries to build his own girl at a boarding school in 19th-century France.
Kill Command (2017)
Starring:
Vanessa Kirby, Thure Lindhardt, David Ajala
Synopsis:
Set in the very near future, Kill Command follows an elite squad of highly trained marines sent on a routine training exercise to a remote island. The precise location of the island is a mystery and all communications have been cut off. Accompanying the squad on the mission is Specialist Mills, a mysterious coder whose brain is interfaced with a computer. The marines soon discover that the exercise is far from routine and they become live targets of terrifyingly advanced military robots, with Mills somehow involved in the conspiracy. Isolated and facing certain death, the soldiers must rely on Mills’s technology to survive while simultaneously working out who and what Mills really is—and whose side she’s really on.
Pet (2016)
Starring:
Dominic Monaghan, Nathan Parsons, Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Synopsis:
An introverted man fatefully reconnects with a high school classmate. When she spurns his advances, he takes her prisoner only to find that she is not what she seems.
Underworld (2003)
Starring:
Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly
Synopsis:
In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (werewolves), a shrewd gang of street thugs who prowl the city’s underbelly. No one knows the origin of their bitter blood feud, but the balance of power between them turns even bloodier when a beautiful young Vampire warrior and a newly-turned Lycan with a mysterious past fall in love. Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman star in this modern-day, action-packed tale of ruthless intrigue and forbidden passion all set against the dazzling backdrop of a timeless, Gothic metropolis.
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Starring:
Bill Nighy, Shane Brolly, Steven Mackintosh, Derek Jacobi, Tony Curran
Synopsis:
Kate Beckinsale is back as vampire heroine Selene in the highly anticipated sequel to Underworld. Underworld Evolution continues the saga of war between the aristocratic Death Dealers and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). The film traces the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes as Selene (Kate Beckinsale), the vampire heroine, and her love Michael (Scott Speedman), the lycan hybrid, try to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines. The tale of action, intrigue and forbidden love takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution. -BD Synopsis- Kate Beckinsale is back as vampire heroine Selene in the highly anticipated sequel to Underworld. As the war between the Death Dealers and the Lycans rages on, Selene (Beckinsale), the vampire warrior, and Michael (Speedman), the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Starring:
Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, Michael Sheen
Synopsis:
The prequel story traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan named Lucian (Michael Sheen) emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle against the Death Dealer army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.
Underworld: Awakening (2012)
Starring:
Michael Ealy, Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, India Eisley, Charles Dance
Synopsis:
Kate Beckinsale returns as the ultimate vampire warrioress Selene in Underworld: Awakening, the stunning new installment of the epic saga for the first time in 3D. Having escaped years of imprisonment, she finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers’ survival. Regular – Kate Beckinsale returns as the ultimate vampire warrioress Selene in Underworld: Awakening, the stunning new installment of the epic saga. Having escaped years of imprisonment, she finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers’ survival.
The Warning (2016)
Starring:
Summer Moore, Jeff Allen, Christina Pascucci
Synopsis:
Determined to get ahead in the competitive world of TV journalism, a woman investigates a local legend of people vanishing at the hands of a satanic cult but finds that she herself becomes the hunted.
When the Bough Breaks (2016)
Starring:
Theo Rossi, Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Jaz Sinclair, Romany Malco
Synopsis:
John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna (Jaz Sinclair), the perfect woman to be their surrogate – but as her pregnancy progresses, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on John. The couple becomes caught up in Anna’s deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it’s too late.
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