DVD and Blu-ray Releases: April 4, 2017
Welcome to your favorite weekly horror movie release list. As it turns out, this happens to be the 100th edition of this list since I began working for the nice folks at Dread Central. Over the course of these past 100 weeks, there have been more than 1,800 titles that have come our way. So here is to another 100 weeks and another nearly 2,000 titles that give us all something to spend our money on, aside from popcorn.
Our only discrepancy to speak of this week regards The Shadows Collection, which may already have dropped in February. In any case it’s from Echo Bridge, so most of the movies contained in the collection have probably been in at least three other Echo Bridge collections by now.
One of our other collections this week, Psycho Circus, features three classic movies from the 1960s and 1970s. This Blu-ray set features performances by Jack Palance, Christopher Lee, and Burgess Meredith among others.
Our other classic this week is 1973’s Invasion of the Bee Girls. This too is also on Blu-ray, and the cover features women dressed as scantily as you would expect from a 1973 release.
There is a good handful of newer titles this week as well, including We Go On, Don’t Kill It, and A Room to Die For.
Don’t forget to check back next week. We have around 35 titles to discuss so there should be a fair amount to talk about. As always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
Devour (2005)
Starring:
Jensen Ackles, Shannyn Sossamon, Dominique Swain, William Sadler, Martin Cummins
Synopsis:
Jake Cummings is your average high school teenager, but his life is irrevocably changed when a fellow student introduces him to a video game called “The Pathway.” After submitting his information into the computer software, Jake finds that he is having visions of a half-goat/half-human creature called The Beast. One by one, his friends suffer the same fate, death by self-mutilation, always the same death.
As Jake tries to unravel the mystery, he is aided by Marisol, the young woman who cares for his crippled mother. When Jake realizes that The Pathway is the cause of the deaths, he confronts its creator, Dale Kater, a satanist. It is this encounter with Kater that reveals to Jake the identity of The Beast and puts him in a race against time to end the bloodshed and save his crippled mother.
Don’t Hang Up (2017)
Starring:
Gregg Sulkin, Garrett Clayton, Parker Sawyers
Synopsis:
While not in class, Brady and his friends spend their spare time making prank calls that they upload online to receive millions of views. As their online celebrity begins to rise, the boys escalate their pranks to a dangerous level. One evening, Brady and his best friend receive a prank call of their own, igniting a nightmare for the pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them with deadly consequences.
Don’t Kill It (2017)
Starring:
Dolph Lundren, Kristina Klebe
Synopsis:
An ancient evil is unleashed in a small Alaskan town leaving a trail of death and destruction as it passes from host to host. The only hope of survival lies with a grizzled demon hunter (Dolph Lundgren) who has faced this terror before. Together with a reluctant FBI agent he has to figure out how to destroy a demon with the ability to possess its killer.
The Evil Within (2016)
Starring:
Fred Koehler, Sean Flanery, Brianna Brown, Michael Berryman, Dina Meyer
Synopsis:
Dennis Peterson (Frederick Koehler, Death Race) is a mentally challenged teen who lives with his older brother John (Sean Patrick Flanery, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter). While John struggles between caring for Dennis and maintaining a relationship with his increasingly impatient girlfriend Lydia (Dina Meyer, Starship Troopers, Saw), Dennis finds a friend in his own reflection in an antique mirror.
But in reality, the reflection is soon revealed to be an Evil Entity (Michael Berryman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Hills Have Eyes) who is more charming, smarter and stronger than Dennis, and instructs him to do horrific things in order to ‘fix’ his brain. Tortured and confused, Dennis embarks on a murderous rampage, collecting the bodies in his basement. A police investigation, helmed by a determined social worker (Kim Darby, True Grit), targets the Petersons in an attempt to uncover the truth behind the murders.
The Institute (2017)
Starring:
Pamela Anderson, James Franco, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace
Synopsis:
Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, Isabel Porter must escape the clutches of the Rosewood Institute and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
Starring:
Anitra Ford, William Smith, Victoria Vetri
Synopsis:
A G-man finds two women have created an army of beauties who seduce men to death.
Lighthouse Keeper (2017)
Starring:
Vernon Wells, Matt O’Neill, Rachel Riley, Monty Wall, Carl Edge
Synopsis:
Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper’s cryptic warning to, ‘Always keep a light burning!’
A Room to Die For (2017)
Starring:
Jon Camping, Vas Blackwood, Christopher Craig, Michael Lieber, Natalie Parry
Synopsis:
Marcus Crowe is a failed writer who struggles with reality. His girlfriend, Jill, is desperate for Marcus to pursue a proper career. Broke, the couple find a perfect room to rent owned by an old couple, Henry and Josephine Baker, who take a keen interest in the young couple’s lives. They are shocked when told the old couple have a new born baby. Stuck in the house 24-7 Marcus spirals into paranoia and believes the old couple is spying on them. When he finds the horrifying truth behind the baby, the old couple’s real reason for renting the room is revealed.
Tank 432 (2015)
Starring:
Rupert Evans, Steve Garry, Deirdre Mullins
Synopsis:
From director Nick Gillespie and executive producer Ben Wheatley (Director Kill List, High Rise), comes this knife-edged thriller about a band of mercenary soldiers battling to escape a mysterious, unseen enemy.
On the run and with nowhere to hide, a group of soldiers and their two prisoners take cover from a mysterious enemy inside an abandoned military war tank. Whilst they try to keep the forces outside at bay, secrets are uncovered and little do they realise the real enemy is already among them, locked inside Tank 432.
We Go On (2017)
Starring:
David Bickford, Justin Carpenter, Norio Chalico, Jay Dunn, Cassidy Freeman
Synosis:
Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom (Clark Freeman) offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon – anything to prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates – a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. And along with his fiercely protective mother (Annette O’Toole), he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.
COLLECTIONS
Psycho Circus – 3 Rings of Terror Triple Feature
Starring:
Strother Martin, Jack Palance, Christopher Lee, L.Q. Jones, Burgess Meredith
Synopsis:
Step right up and experience the trilogy of terror that people are dying to see!
Movies:
The Creeping Flesh
(1973) – Color – 94 minutes Rated PG
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones unleashing a malevolent being on the scientist’s family and friends.
Brotherhood of Satan
(1971) – Color – 92 minutes – Rated PG
Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman, Ahna Capri
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town’s children to worship Satan.
Torture Garden
(1967) – Color – 93 minutes Not Rated
Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing, Robert Hutton
An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo’s fairground haunted-house attraction show.
The Shadows Collection
Starring:
Haylie Duff, Ryan Merriman, Mark Rolston, Nalita Murray, Paul Collett
Synopsis:
Share the menacing shadows with eight sinister movies where supernatural entities prowl, human monsters stalk, and imagination runs wild. With selections covering extraterrestrials to the occult, revel in the terrifying possibilities presented by a dark and stormy night.
Thriller Triple Feature
Starring:
Emily Blunt, Gillian Anderson, Halle Berry, Ashton Holmes, Danny Dyer
Synopsis:
Three Times the Terror With Hollywood’s Finest Actresses!
Movies:
Wind Chill
(2008) R – Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes
Desperate to get home for Christmas, a college student catches a ride with a strange classmate. As soon as she realizes he knows a little too much about her, the stranger decides to take a shortcut down a remote country road. Caught in a raging snowstorm, the young travelers are suddenly forced off the road by a mysterious car. Stranded, they soon realize the cold is the least of their worries.
Closure
(2007) R – Gillian Anderson, Danny Dyer
Gillian Anderson stars in this dark thriller about a couple that embarks on a violent spree after surviving a gang attack. Driving back from a posh party at a country estate, Alice (Anderson) and Adam (Danny Dyer) find themselves brutally assaulted by a group of hunters. Physically and emotionally devastated by the attack, the tables suddenly turn when they discover the identity of their attackers.
Perfect Stranger
(2006) – R – Halle Berry, Bruce Willis
When her friend’s affair with married ad exec Harrison Hill ends in the woman’s murder, investigative reporter Rowena Price vows to bring the killer to justice. Suspecting Hill of the crime, she goes undercover by posing as two highly alluring women. Engaging in a dangerous game of cat-and mouse, both Rowena and Hill begin to realize things may not be what they seem.
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