Horror Box Office – OPENING THIS WEEK: June 23, 2017
We’re back with another round-up of flicks hitting VOD and theaters in both wide and limited capacities. What’s looking to bleed through this week? Read on for details.
Click on the titles below for our full coverage on each. Check back every Thursday at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET for updates.
Kong: Skull Island (digital)
A diverse team of scientists, soldiers, and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific, as dangerous as it is beautiful. Cut off from everything they know, the team ventures into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape a primal Eden in which humanity does not belong.
Death Pool
After nearly drowning at the hands of his babysitter, a troubled young man grows up to become a serial killer with a compulsion to drown young, beautiful women. Based on true events, this conniving killer becomes a cultural phenomenon, known throughout the streets of Los Angeles.
Resident Evil: Vendetta
BSAA Chris Redfield enlists the help of government agent Leon S. Kennedy and Professor Rebecca Chambers from Alexander Institute of Biotechnology to stop a death merchant with a vengeance from spreading a deadly virus in New York.
The Bad Batch
Arlen is unceremoniously dumped in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilized society. While trying to orient her unforgiving environment, she is captured by a savage band of cannibals and quickly realizes she’ll have to fight her way through her new reality. As Arlen adjusts to life in “the bad batch,” she discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on whom you’re standing next to.
A Beginner’s Guide to Snuff
Two brothers decide to make the most convincing pseudo-snuff film EVER and decide not to tell the victim that it’s “staged.” Of course the brothers’ whole plan goes south – as they picked the wrong victim and soon find the tables turned on them! The Butcher Brothers’ latest production has already won several awards, including “Best Actor,” “Best Actress,” and “Best Feature Film” at FearNYC.
Blood Feast
Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run an American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. During these long, lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess Ishtar. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms.
After this pivotal night, Fuad begins a new life, in which murder and cannibalism become his daily bread. He starts to prepare a ritual feast to honor his new mistress, a lavish affair dripping with blood, organs, and intestines of human victims. As butchered bodies are heaped upon the Altar of Ishtar, Fuad slowly slips further into madness until he is no more than the goddess’ puppet; and she thirsts for the blood of Fuad’s wife and daughter too…
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