DVD and Blu-ray Releases: March 28, 2017
Welcome back, folks. We don’t have a huge list for you, but as always, there should be something for most of you to enjoy.
First off, the movie Lavender is slated for April 1st as a release date so you’ll have to wait a couple extra days to pick your copy up.
Up next are our classics. We’re going back to 1971 with What’s the Matter with Helen?, followed by 1981’s Venom, both coming to Blu-ray this week. Our last classic title is 1989’s Witchtrap, which will also be on Blu-ray.
An honorable mention should be given to the Wishmaster Collection on Blu-ray, seeing as the first movie is now 20 years old. The collection contains all four movies.
The rest of this week’s titles are newer releases, including A Monster Calls and Easter Bunny Bloodbath, which sounds like a great children’s title for the coming holiday. Be sure to check back weekly as the next couple of weeks are pretty active.
As usual, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
The Abduction of Jennifer Grayson (2017)
Starring:
James Duval, Nick Principe
Synopsis:
A young woman is kidnapped after spurning a man’s advances but slowly falls in love with her charming abductor, who eventually sets her free. But he may also be the serial killer the police are hunting for, responsible for several kidnappings and murders, and now only Jennifer Grayson can help them stop him once and for all.
Easter Bunny Bloodbath (2011)
Starring:
Shayan Bayat, Meghan Kinsley, Travis Turner
Synopsis:
1967, young Peter McKay’s sister is decapitated by an ax wielding maniac dressed as the Easter Bunny. Peter never celebrates the Easter holiday again… that is until we flash forward to present day 1987. It’s here, in an isolated cabin deep in the woods, Peter and his five friends enjoy their weekend away. It’s a nice few days of partying, beer and water slides. But something white and fuzzy lurks between the trees this holiday season. And it’s hacking, stomping, slashing and hopping its way down a bunny trail of severed limbs and bleeding bodies…
Lavender (2016) (April 1st)
Starring:
Abbie Cornish, Diego Klattenhoff, Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney
Synopsis:
Jane (Abbie Cornish) has always photographed old and abandoned farmhouses for as long as she can remember. It s a hobby bordering on obsession that has bloomed into a successful career. Until one day she photographs a particular house… and everything changes. A tragic car accident leaves her with severe memory loss. Strange boxes begin appearing on her doorstep with clues to a past she doesn’t remember… and a forgotten family she may have killed twenty years before. Lavender is a taut psychological thriller that bends the line between memory and madness, past and present, like a splinter in the brain struggling to escape. With the help of her husband (Diego Klattenhoff), her estranged uncle (Dermot Mulroney), and her psychiatrist (Justin Long), Jane must weave together scattered strands of memory to solve a mystery hiding 20 years in the past. But she’ll soon learn some things are worth forgetting.
Lights Camera Blood (2016)
Starring:
Alan MacKenzie, Dan Baker-Moor, Heather Russell
Synopsis:
Down on his luck and financially strapped low-budget horror filmmaker Mandalor is the laughing stock of the film community. His films are terrible, and the contrived, poorly done gore effects make them unintentional comedies of the cinema. When he presents his latest effort to sleazy exploitation film producer Gelstein of Gorrific Pictures with the hopes of getting a distribution deal, he is laughed out of the screening room. The ever-determined Mandalor, along with his trusty hunch-backed cinematographer, Rodney, sets out to do another horror film. But on their next set, as Mandalor tries in vain to direct an intoxicated and uncooperative actress, he accidentally kills her! And when he realizes Rodney captured the dastardly deed on camera, he includes the graphic footage in his film. When he screens it to an impressed and delighted Gelstein, the producer offers him a multi-picture deal to deliver more gore galore! Now a wretched plan hatches that only filmmakers with nerves of steel could carry out, along with a hatchet or a cleaver…
A Monster Calls (2016)
Starring:
Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson
Synopsis:
A stunning drama about a boy who imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Mortuary Massacre (2016)
Starring:
Kyle Morris, Carl Crew, Todd Brown, Mark McGarrey, Hart D. Fisher
Synopsis:
Mortuary Massacre is a gruesome new horror anthology that centers around Detective Giger’s debriefing of a massive slaughter on Halloween night. The local mortician tells Giger the backstories behind three particular cadavers, and bizarre secrets start to unfold as they investigate. The mortician reveals the insanity behind a psychopathic apartment manager destined for a kill-crazy rampage, a gunslinger resurrected from the grave for blood-soaked revenge, and a homicidal actor who enjoys skinning people alive! Halloween Massacre is filled with plenty of gore, tongue-in-cheek humor, and practical special effects that will please fans of 80’s slasher flicks.
Venom (1981)
Starring:
Sterling Hayden, Klaus Kinski, Sarah Miles, Nicol Williamson, Susan George
Synopsis:
Behind the drapes… Between the walls… In your bed…
A thriller to make your skin crawl!
It was supposed to be the perfect crime: The sexy maid (Susan George of Straw Dogs), a psychotic chauffeur (Oliver Reed of The Brood), and an international terrorist (the legendary Klaus Kinski) kidnap a wealthy ten-year-old boy from his elegant London townhouse. But they didn’t count on a murdered cop, a desperate hostage siege, and one very unexpected houseguest: a furious Black Mamba, the most lethal and aggressive snake known to nature. It can attack from ten feet away. Its bite brings excruciating death. And it is on the loose. Now, terror knows no antidote… and the ultimate in slithering mayhem is Venom.
Sterling Hayden (The Killing), Nicol Williamson(Excalibur), and Sarah Miles (Blow-Up) co-star in this gripping suspense thriller based on the novel by best-selling author Alan Scholefield and directed by Piers Haggard (The Blood on Satan’s Claw). Venom has been remastered in 2K High Definition from its negative and features some very real and extremely deadly Black Mambas!
What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Starring:
Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver
Synopsis:
Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters star in this stylish shocker set in 1930s Hollywood about two women who come to Tinseltown to start an idyllic new life and end up in a terrifying nightmare. Directed by Curtis Harrington (Queen of Blood, Games), this relentlessly frightening film also stars Dennis Weaver (“McCloud”), Agnes Moorehead (“Bewitched,” Dear Dead Delilah), and Yvette Vickers (Attack of the Giant Leeches, Attack of the 50-Foot Woman).
Witchtrap (1989)
Starring:
Linnea Quigley, James Quinn, Kathleen Bailey, Judy Tatum, Hal Havins
Synopsis:
For years, the Lauter House has been plagued by strange and violent occurrences. Unexplained deaths and seemingly supernatural activities have scared away all perspective tenants and buyers, but now its owners have decided to turn the old mansion into a bed and breakfast. Follow a team of paranormal experts as they attempt to remove the demonic forces and cleanse the property of all evil, through the use of a special device designed to lure in and trap evil spirits. But as soon as they arrive, the violence begins again as members of the team begin to meet increasingly bloody fates…
Director Kevin Tenney’s (Night of the Demons) Witchtrap is a gleefully gory and over the top late 80s supernatural shocker. Starring James Quinn (Witchboard) and featuring scream queen Linnea Quigley in the film’s most memorable and creative death scene, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring this outrageous cult classic to Blu-ray, totally uncut, with its long censored gore fully intact, and in a brand new director- and cinematographer-approved restoration, for the first time anywhere in the world!
COLLECTIONS
Wishmaster Collection
Starring:
Tammy Lauren, Andrew Divoff, Robert Englund, Angus Scrimm, Paul Johansson
Synopsis:
LIMITED-EDITION COLLECTION! Includes all 4 WISHMASTER movies! New illustrated art from renowned artist Thomas Hodge w/Vestron Video Collector’s Edition Packaging including O Ring. A must-have for any cult classic collector. Restored and remastered and packed with amazing special features!
Movies:
Wishmaster
A gemologist unwittingly frees an evil genie that plays deadly tricks on her friends and acquaintances.
Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
The evil Djinn is awakened once more and must collect 1,001 souls to begin the Apocalypse.
Wishmaster 3: Beyond The Gates Of Hell
The third movie, in which a Djinn tricks humans to gain his freedom.
Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled
The evil Djinn is back granting wishes and wrecking havoc in people’s lives.
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