Zombie Desert (aka The Desert, original title: El Desierto) is a 2013 Argentinian science fiction horror film directed by Christoph Behl. It stars Lautaro Delgado, Victoria Almeida, William Prociuk, Lucas Lagré.

Plot teaser:

Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a bunker-like home with views over the post-apocalyptic landscape. They once lived in a love triangle idyll, with strong bonds of friendship, but the arrival of the zombies changed that. Ana is with Jonathan and Axel is alone, slowly tattooing his body with images of flies, while developing an almost voyeuristic obsession with the couple’s relationship. However, everything changes when Axel and Jonathan go out on an expedition in search of provisions and return to the house with a zombie that they call Pythagoras, who they keep chained and muzzled inside the house. As the dynamic of the trios relationship changes it becomes clear that their new prisoner may not be the biggest threat to their survival…

Reviews:

“Anyone who wants to make a zombie movie should watch The Desert as it’s a film that gets what the genre has always been about – the characters rather than the action. This may be one of the greatest zombie movies of all-time and it features little to no undead set pieces. Everything is told visually and the cinematography is first class. The Desert is beautiful, touching, moving, gripping and simply outstanding.” Luke Oweb, The Flickering Myth

“For horror fans who prefer the slow descent into madness as opposed to the gore of the undead, then check out The Desert. If that’s not really what you’re into, then who’s the REAL monster, huh?! It’s you. It’s probably you.” The Wolfman Cometh

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Lost Time is a 2014 science fiction horror film directed by Christian Sesma (On Bloody Sunday) based on a screenplay by himself, Kenneth Owens and Rochelle Vallese (Scar, Alien Armageddon). It stars the latter, plus Luke Goss (Frankenstein (2004), Unearthed), Robert Davi (Maniac Cop 2 & 3, Predator 2), Derek Mears (The Hills Have Eyes II, Friday the 13th as Jason Vorhees, Hatchet III), Lin Shaye (2001 Maniacs, Big Ass Spider, Insidious: Chapter 2), Jenni Blong (Ghost Whisperer), Vyto Ruginis (The Devil’s Advocate, Wishmaster 2), Chelsea Ricketts, Maria Olsen, Tonya Cornelisse, Jennifer Cortese, Todd Cattell.

Plot teaser:

Valerie has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. After the diagnosis, she is driving with her sister Melissa on a country road when the car stops and is engulfed in a blinding light. 12 hours later Val wakes up and Melissa is nowhere to be found. Months later and all sign of Valerie’s cancer is gone, but still no sign of her sister. Carter (Luke Goss), Valerie’s cop boyfriend, wants to help her but their relationship means he is pulled from the case.

Could it be an alien abduction? Valerie’s dreams and visions suggest it could be. Searching the web she finds a book about blackouts called Lost Time and meets author Dr Reed (Robert Davi), who claims to have the answers she is looking for…

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Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth is a 1992 American-Canadian horror film and third installment in the Hellraiser franchise, directed by Anthony Hickox from a screenplay by Peter Atkins and Tony Randel based on characters created by Clive Barker.

It stars Doug Bradley, Terry Farrell (Legion, Psychic Murders), Paula Marshall (Warlock: The Armageddon), and Kevin Bernhardt. It was the first Hellraiser film to be made outside the UK.

Heavy metal band Armored Saint appear in a nightclub scene. The film featured a metal-rock soundtrack and Barker directed the Motörhead video for “Hellraiser”, featuring Lemmy and Pinhead playing a game of cards.

Plot teaser:

The revelation of his own former humanity in Hellraiser II has resulted in the Cenobite named Pinhead being split into two distinct entities: His former self, World War I British Army Captain Elliot Spencer, and a manifestation of Spencer’s id, which takes on the form of Pinhead. While Spencer ends up in limbo, Pinhead is trapped, along with the puzzle box, amongst the writhing figures and distorted faces etched into the surface of an intricately carved pillar — the Pillar of Souls.

The pillar is bought by the rich and spoiled J.P. Monroe, owner of a popular nightclub called The Boiler Room. During her investigation, an ambitious young television reporter, Joey Summerskill, slowly begins to learn about Pinhead and the mysterious puzzle box. Joey is introduced to the pain the box can bring when she views a teenage clubgoer being ripped apart by the box’s chains in a hospital emergency room. Joey tracks the box and a young woman named Terri to The Boiler Room nightclub. Terri had previously stolen the box from the nightclub.

Video tape interviews are recovered from the Channard Institute of one of Pinhead’s former victims Kirsty Cotton. Joey and Terri learn through the videos about the demonic Cenobites and the power of the Lament Configuration puzzle box and that it is the only means of sending Pinhead back to Hell…

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Reviews:

“Despite its spotty pacing, schizophrenic plot veerings, and frequently unimpressive special effects, there’s still just a few tasty drops of fun to be found in Hellraiser 3 – especially if you’ve already seen episodes four through eight. The commitment to the previous entries is tenuous, but it seems clear that director Anthony Hickox and screenwriter Peter Atkins were at least trying to offer some new mythology while keeping the fans happy … Arguably the weakest of the trilogy, but still packing just enough brains and red meat to keep the Pinfans sated.” Scott Weinberg, DVD Talk

” … there is no trace of the disturbing intersection between the physical and psychological that were the backbone of the first two films, and even though Bradley plays Pinhead in all the same ways, the villain feels much different, and more hollow: he’s just a killer with outré fashion sense. He isn’t actually dangerous, any more than any given movie psycho slasher is dangerous, because he just fills a story role. The old Pinhead represented a coherent and suitably disturbing philosophy, and was an infinitely better villain as a result.” Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

“For all the blasphemies and British accent, Pinhead is just a sub-Freddy goon, and the ambiguities and perversities Barker is so fond of have been neatly tidied-up. This is the sort of picture teenagers in malls in Akron, Ohio might understand — a good horror sequel, and that’s all.” Jack Yeovil, Empire Magazine

” … sundry characters are skinned instantly, sliced with CDs, have drills or cameras rammed through their heads, smoke cigarettes from open wounds, explode in bloody chunks or distort like toffee. In the tradition of sequel-as-spectacle, this is almost as effective and crowd-pleasing a recap of basic principles as A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors (1987) or Evil Dead II (1987).” The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror

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Satanwar (aka Satan War) is a 1979 American horror film written and directed by Bart LaRue. It stars Sally Sehermerhorn, Jimmy Drankovitch, Jane August, Reggie De Morton, Michelene Alexander and The Elaine Thompson Dancers.

Plot:

Newlyweds Bill and Louise Foster move into the house of their dreams but it quickly becomes a nightmare. Goop oozes out of cabinets and coffee pots, little earthquakes keep happening, things go bump in the night, kitchen chairs keep running into Louise, and, worst of all, the Foster’s cross keeps inverting itself over and over on their wall…

Reviews:

“The first hour is slow, repetitive and deadly dull in its familiarity. Aside from one brief scene, it’s all filmed in one house. There are a hundred shots of the crucifix on the wall, dozens of the coffee pot and long scenes of the characters cleaning up messes and walking around. As for the actors, they all appear to have been dubbed in post and are terrible enough to provide a few chuckles here and there … The synthesizer music score sounds like an annoying ambulance siren and it never seems to stop.”  The Bloody Pit of Horror

“It’s Amityville Horror in a small home on a Los Angeles street. And, it is very deliberate. Just two people, most of the time. The same five or so minutes of music play constantly. All the dialog is dubbed. It is one of those films that finds a very strange, almost Night of Horror groove, and then milks it for an hour. In fact, when stuff actually happens in the final ten minutes, it’s kind of scary. Mainly because you didn’t expect anything to actually occur.” Dan Budnik, Bleeding Skull!

” … a sublimely inept attempt at an Amityville Horror rip-off, a 76 minute movie with approximately an hour of plot, followed by a 15-minute Mondo-style presentation on the satanic elements of voodoo. The film proper is introduced with narration explaining that Satan’s demons target not just the general population, but Christians as well. This is demonstrated through the sad “true” tale of Bill and Louise Foster, whose new home is so ghastly — I leave the kitchen wallpaper to your imagination — that haunting seems redundant.” Mondo 70

“if you’re into boring, droning music drowning out actors, spinning crosses and bad acting/direction, then you should spend the time necessary finding this film.  If not, you should leave Bill and Louise with the ghosts or the boogymen or something, and save your time and money on this one.|” Internal Bleeding

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As Above, So Below is 2014 American found footage horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle (The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Quarantine, Devil) from a screenplay by Dowdle and his brother Drew. It stars Ben Feldman (Cloverfield, Friday the 13th, 2009), Edwin Hodge (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Purge) and Perdita Weeks (The Cold Light of Day, Prowl). The film is being produced by Legendary Pictures and will be distributed by Universal Studios. It is scheduled for release on August 15, 2014.

Official synopsis:

Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all…

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Delivery: The Beast Within - formerly known as Delivery –  is a 2013 American found footage horror film directed by Brian Netto from a screenplay by himself and Adam Schindler. It stars Laurel Vail (The Night Caller – short), Danny Barclay and Rob Cobuzio.

The Collective have announced a limited theatrical release from May 30, 2014 with VOD available May 27, 2014.

Official synopsis:

Kyle and Rachel Massy, a young couple who agree to document their first pregnancy for a family-oriented reality TV show. The production spirals out-of-control after the cameras capture a series of unexplained events, leading Rachel to believe that a malevolent spirit has possessed their unborn child. Delivery is told through the show’s abandoned and unaired reality footage, as well as testimonials from friends, family and crew members, providing a first-hand account of the Massys’ tragic story…

Reviews:

” … makes such great use of modern day conventions and sentiments and uses those tools to take the story in different and unexpected directions. The film maintains a high level of tension and just the right amount of all out scares without going overboard. It’s engrossing and unsettling in all the right ways, and it proves that in skilled hands, the “found footage” style need not be reduced to a gimmick.” Alex Koehne, Twitch

“The final moments of this film are so intense, so frightening, and so real that even though you know it’s a movie, you’re going to be fooled by the reality of it all. The trailer below doesn’t do the film justice, as it makes the film feel like it’s a Paranormal Activity riff and while the haters will dismiss this film immediately, Delivery is more effective than the last three PA films combined. If the final moments of this film don’t affect you in some way, you must already be dead. I was hit hard by this film which feels more like a documentary than a true found footage film. The scares are intense, the mood is dire, and the people in danger are worth rooting for.” Ambush Bug, Ain’t It Cool News

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Jessabelle is an upcoming 2014 American horror film directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Ben Garant. The film stars Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter, David Andrews, Amber Stevens and Ana de la Reguera. The film was temporarily known as “Ghosts”. It is scheduled to be released by Lionsgate on August 29, 2014.

Plot teaser:

After losing her fiancé in a car accident, grief-stricken Jessie (Sarah Snook) retreats to her father’s run down Louisiana mansion, where she finds a gift from her long dead mother, and a spirit intent on killing her…

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Frankenstein Glow Putty, The Alien Glow Putty and Dracula Glow Putty was a range of three American toys produced in 1979 by the Larami Corporation for “ages 3 and up.” The glow in the dark putty came encased in a protective egg of varying colours.

Unopened sets are occasionally available via online auction sites for about $35 to $40.

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SEPTEMBER 23

Stagefright (Blu-ray): Blue Underground

SEPTEMBER 2

Deadly Weekend: Phase 4

AUGUST 26

Hell of the Living Dead + Rats: Night of Terror (Blu-ray): Blue Underground

Tree walker’s head and arm move when you remove the Blu-ray set from the base!

Buy The Walking Dead Blu-ray Limited Edition from Amazon.com

Buy The Walking Dead Season 4 Blu-ray | DVD from Amazon.com

AUGUST 19

Leviathan (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory

AUGUST 5

Phantom of the Paradise (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory

Without Warning (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory

AUGUST

The Legend of Hell House (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory

Motel Hell (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory

JULY 22

Buy All Cheerleaders Die on Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Destroy All Monsters on Tokyo Shock Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Ginger Snaps Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Godzilla vs. Megalon on Media Blasters Blu-ray from Amazon.com

JULY 15

Buy Deadly Eyes aka Rats on Shout! Factory Blu-ray + DVD combo from Amazon.com

Open Grave

Buy Scanners on Criterion Collection Blu-ray + DVD combo from Amazon.com

Buy SX_Tape on DVD | Blu-ray from Amazon.com

JULY 8

Buy Lake Placid Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from Amazon.com

JULY 1

Buy The Final Terror Shout! Factory Blu-ray + DVD combo from Amazon.com

JUNE 24

Dog Soldiers (Blu-ray/DVD combo): Shout! Factory

The Legend of Six Fingers (special edition): Bloody Earth

JUNE 17

Buy Adjust Your Tracking 2-DVD special edition, VHS/2-DVD combo from Amazon.com

Buy Blood Soaked on Wild Eye DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Dark Souls on Eagle One DVD from Amazon.com

Buy A Measure of the Sin on Brinkvision/MVD DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Psychopaths: Sex with Hostages DVD from Amazon.com

JUNE 10

Buy Huh Jung’s Hide and Seek on RAM Releasing DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Robocop on MGM Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD | DVD | HD Amazon Instant from Amazon.com

JUNE

Buy The Monkey’s Paw on Shout! Factory Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Ravenous on Shout! Factory Blu-ray from Amazon.com

MAY 27

Buy Death Spa on Gorgon/MPI Blu-ray + DVD combo from Amazon.com

Buy Ghostquake on MTI DVD from Amazon.com

Buy House in the Alley on Shout! Factory DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Patrick: Evil Awakens on Phase 4 Blu-ray + DVD combo from Amazon.com

Buy Sleepaway Camp on Shout! Factory Blu-ray + DVD combo from Amazon.com

MAY 20

Buy Bloodmarsh Krackoon on Independent Entertainment DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Box of Bigfoot: Snowbeast + The Curse of Bigfoot + Beauties and the Beast on CFS/MVD DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Camp Blood: First Slaughter on Sterling/MVD DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Cannibal Lolita + Cannibal Lolita: A Love Story (2-DVD edition) on Psycho Junkie/MVD from Amazon.com

Buy Chainsaw Killer on SRS Cinema/MVD DVD from Amazon.com

Buy House of Dust on Anchor Bay DVD from Amazon.com

Movies 4 You: Horror – The Vampire + The Bat People + The Screaming Skull + The Vampire Lovers: Shout! Factory

Buy on DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Nosferatu the Vampyre on Shout! Factory Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Sars + Sars: The Dead Plague on Psycho Junkie/MVD 2-DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Shark Attack Pack: Shark Kill + Great White Death + Shark! on CFS DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Tourist Trap on Full Moon Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Way of the Wicked on Image Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Zombie Games: The Knackery on Eagle One DVD from Amazon.com

MAY 13

Buy Cowboys vs. Zombies on Phase 4 DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Evilspeak on Shout! Factory Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Final Exam on Shout! Factory Blu-ray | DVD from Amazon.com

Buy The Zombinator on Inception DVD from Amazon.com

MAY 6

Buy Axeman on Midnight Releasing DVD from Amazon.com

Buy The Birds on DVD + Digital Copy | Blu-ray + HD Ultraviolet from Amazon.com

THE DINOSAUR EXPERIMENT: Phase 4

THE EVIL WITHIN (special edition): Phase 4

4 FILM FAVORITES: COLOSSAL MONSTER COLLECTION (JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, 10,000 B.C., CLOVERFIELD, KING KONG; Blu-ray set): Warner

4 FILM FAVORITES: TIM BURTON COLLECTION (BEETLEJUICE, SLEEPY HOLLOW, CORPSE BRIDE, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY; Blu-ray set): Warner

Buy Godzilla on Monster Island?/Godzilla vs. Gigan on Special Edition Blu-ray from Amazon.com

GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER/EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP (new special edition, Blu-ray): Kraken/Section23

GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER/GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH (new special edition, Blu-ray): Kraken/Section23

Buy on Blu-ray from Amazon.com

INGLODA: THE POSSESSION WITHIN: Hannover House

JURASSIC PARK (Steelbook Blu-ray/DVD combo): Universal

KING KONG (2005; Steelbook Blu-ray/DVD combo): Universal

MR. JONES (DVD, Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

POE: PROJECT OF EVIL: Brain Damage

666: DEVILISH CHARM: Rapid Heart

APRIL 29

Buy The Black Torment on Redemption/Kino Lorber Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Dead Shadows on Shout! Factory Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy The Demons on Redemption/Kino Lorber Blu-ray from Amazon.com

Buy Devil’s Due on Fox Blu-ray + DVD combo from Amazon.com

GAMERA ULTIMATE COLLECTION VOLUME 1

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GAMERA ULTIMATE COLLECTION VOLUME 2

Buy Blu-ray from Amazon.com

APRIL 22

Buy Ancient Demon Succubi on Chemical Burn DVD from Amazon.com

Buy Dark Satanik Magick on World Wide Multi Media/MVD DVD from Amazon.com

15 MURDERS: INSIDE THE MIND OF A SERIAL KILLER: World Wide Multi Media/MVD

Buy 15 Murders DVD from Amazon.com

GILA! (special edition): Polyscope

Buy Gila! on DVD from Amazon.com

THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW: Scorpion Entertainment

Buy The House on Sorority Row Blu-ray from Amazon.com

INSANE (special edition): Eagle One

THE LEGEND OF THE PSYCHOTIC FOREST RANGER (special edition): Level 33

LONG LIVE THE DEAD (special edition): Wild Eye

MAKING OFF: Apprehensive

PANIC BUTTON: MASSACRE AT 30,000 FEET: Phase 4

SCREAM PARK (special edition): Wild Eye

UNSEEN EVIL: Sterling/MVD

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THE VISITANT (special edition): Eagle One

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YETI: GIANT OF THE 20TH CENTURY: CFS/MVD

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APRIL 15

BLOOD SHED: Phase 4

Buy Blood Shed from Amazon.com

CAMP DREAD: Image

Buy Camp Dread on DVD from Amazon.com

DEATH DO US PART (special edition): Anchor Bay

Buy Death Do Us Part on DVD from Amazon.com

PLAYDATE: MTI

Buy Playdate on DVD from Amazon.com

RIPPER STREET: Season Two (3-DVD, 3-Blu-ray sets): BBC

Buy Ripper Street on US 3-disc BBC Blu-ray Disc from Amazon.com

APRIL 8

DEAD ON APPRAISAL (special edition): Brain Damage

Buy DVD from Amazon.com

FIELDS OF THE DEAD: Viva Pictures

Buy DVD from Amazon.com

HOLLISTON: The Complete Second Season (Blu-ray): Image

Buy Blu-ray from Amazon.com

THE JEKYLL AND HYDE PORTFOLIO + A CLOCKWORK BLUE: Vinegar Syndrome

Buy Vinegar Syndrome DVD from Amazon.com

LUST OF THE DEAD 3: Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters

Buy Lust of the Dead 3 from Amazon.com

Buy Nurse on Lionsgate Blu-ray | DVD | HD Amazon Instant from Amazon.com

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (DVD, Blu-ray/DVD combo): Paramount

APRIL 1

KING KONG ESCAPES (Blu-ray): Universal

Buy King Kong Escapes on Blu-ray from Amazon.com

KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (Blu-ray): Universal

Buy King Kong vs. Godzilla on Blu-ray from Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com

666: KREEPY KERRY: Rapid Heart

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FUTURE UNDATED
AMERICA’S DEADLIEST HOME VIDEO (special edition): Camp Motion Pictures
ANIMOSITY: Bloody Earth
AT MIDNIGHT I’LL TAKE YOUR SOUL (new special edition): Synapse
THE BATTERY (special edition, Blu-ray): Shout! Factory
BURIED ALIVE (2012): Hannover House
CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU: Camp Motion Pictures
CAULDRON OF BLOOD: Olive
COUNTESS DRACULA (Blu-ray/DVD combo): Synapse
COWBOYS & VAMPIRES (2012): Hannover House
CURTAINS (special edition): Synapse
DEADLY EYES (Blu-ray/DVD combo): Shout! Factory
DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S WAX MUSEUM OF THE HUNGRY DEAD: Wild Eye
DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS: Olive
FALLS THE SHADOW: THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (2012): Hannover House
THE FINAL TERROR (Blu-ray/DVD combo): Shout! Factory
GINGER SNAPS (Blu-ray/DVD combo): Shout! Factory
GRINDHOUSE TRAILER CLASSICS VOLUME 1: Severin
A GUN FOR JENNIFER (special edition): Mondo Macabro
HELLHOLE (Blu-ray/DVD combo): Shout! Factory
HOMICYCLE (special edition): Camp Motion Pictures
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (new special edition): Severin
HUMAN EXPERIMENTS (special edition): Scorpion
I WILL NOT DIE ALONE: Synapse
LAKE PLACID (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory
LORD OF ILLUSIONS (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory
THE MACABRE SARCOPHAGUS: Camp Motion Pictures
THE MAN IN THE MAZE: R Squared/MVD
MY FAIR ZOMBIE (special edition): Camp Motion Pictures
NOSFERATU IN BRAZIL: Camp Motion Pictures
100 TEARS (new special edition): Unearthed
PATIENT ZERO (DVD, Blu-ray): Hannover House
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Blu-ray): Shout! Factory
PHENOMENA (new special edition, Blu-ray): Synapse
POPCORN (special edition): Synapse
PROM NIGHT (special edition): Synapse
THE RETURN (1980; new DVD): Scorpion
ROOMS FOR TOURISTS: Synapse
THE SCARLET SCORPION: Camp Motion Pictures
SECRET OF THE MUMMY: Camp Motion Pictures
THE SEVEN VAMPIRES: Camp Motion Pictures
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS (Blu-ray/DVD combo): Synapse
SUSPIRIA (new DVD, Blu-ray): Synapse
TENEBRE (new special edition, Blu-ray): Synapse
THIS NIGHT I’LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE (new special edition): Synapse
THUNDERCRACK! (special edition): Synapse
VIDEO NASTIES—THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE (3-DVD set): Severin
VIOLENT SHIT Collection (VIOLENT SHIT 1-4; DVD box): Synapse
WATCH ’EM DIE: Synapse
A WEREWOLF IN THE AMAZON: Camp Motion Pictures

We are grateful to Michael Gingold’s Fangoria Chopping List for much of this info. Thanks also to Bruce Holecheck’s Cinema Arcana for altering us to some new titles sooner than we’d noticed them on Amazon! Cheers to Michael and Bruce…

Zombie Fight Club is a 2014 Taiwanese horror film directed by Joe Chen. It stars Andy On, Michael Wong, Terence Yin, Philip Ng, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Jessica Cambensy, Jack Kao, Abby Fung, Chang Han.

Official synopsis:

It’s the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime… Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny’s boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger. After the chaos has broken out, the originally kind and warmhearted chemistry teacher is now the zombie leader and has transformed into a cruel, vicious, and selfish character.

Violent activists match prisoners against zombies in a malicious killing game; the good side of humanity has seemingly all but vanished. Now that all order is lost, how will humans create a new century? A world of uncertainty awaits: The end? Hope? Or Death?

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Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals – released in the USA as Trap Them and Kill Them – is a 1977 Italian erotic horror film, directed by Joe D’Amato (Aristide Massaccesi). The film is part of a loose series of Black Emanuelle films, mostly starring Laura Gemser and directed by D’Amato, which emerged in the second half of the 1970s.

Following the global success of the softcore sex film Emmanuelle in 1974, many film producers around the world climbed on the bandwagon. Possibly because the Emmanuelle producers had the world’s worst lawyers, or possibly because copyright was rather more lax at the time, many of these films managed to use the Emmanuelle name by simply changing the spelling – in the case of Black Emanuelle and its sequels, this involved dropping one ‘M’.

While the original Black Emanuelle, made in 1975, was simply a softcore travelogue very much in the tradition of the original film, but with Laura Gemser – actually Eurasian rather than black, but that seemed close enough for 1970s audiences – in the title role. Interestingly, the same year she made Black Emanuelle, she also appeared in Emmanuelle 2. This version of the character was a photo journalist, who found herself getting into all manner of erotic adventures.

Under the guidance of D’Amato – who took over the series after Black Emanuelle 2 – the films rapidly became more and more outlandish and shocking. By 1977 – a year in which no less than four entries in the series were released, Emanuelle was investigating snuff movie rings in Emanuelle in America, violence against women in Emanuelle Around the World and even became a nun in Sister Emanuelle! These films pushed the limits of good taste – Emanuelle in America has graphic fake snuff movie footage, hardcore sex and even a woman getting frisky with a horse, while Emmanuelle Around the World had violent rape scenes and hardcore sex inserts. It was no surprise, therefore, that D’Amato would combine the series with the newly popular cannibal films spawned by Ruggero Deodato’s Last Cannibal World. We should perhaps be grateful that he wasn’t pursuing the outrage a year earlier, or we might have had a Naziploitation Emanuelle film!

In Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, Emanuelle, while working undercover at a hospital, stumbles upon a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of cannibals in the Amazon (this discovery is made when a nurse has her breast bitten off!). She decides to make an expedition to the jungle to find the tribe, taking a professor (played by Gemser’s real life husband and regular co-star Gabriele Tinti) and Susan Scott along, among others. After much erotic romping with both sexes, Emanuelle and her party are captured by the cannibals…

It’s hard to see who this was aimed at. The film has plenty of softcore sex, but it’s likely that the audience lured by the Emanuelle name would be repulsed by the graphic gore (which included graphic castration and some very poor optically created dismemberment), while horror fans would have assumed the film to simply be soft porn. However, the film has since gained a cult following, and is now seen as one of the highlights of the Black Emanuelle series. The film is now seen as a precursor to D’Amato’s sex-horror zombie films Erotic Nights of the Living Dead and Porno Holocaust.

The main theme of the soundtrack, by Nico Fidenco, was released as a seven inch single.

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Witches’ Tales - not to be confused with the 1950s comics of the same name – was a black-and-white horror-anthology comics magazines published by Eerie Publications, a New York-based company run by comic-book artist and 1970s magazine entrepreneur Myron Fass, between July 1969 and February 1975. New material was mixed with reprints from 1950s pre-Comics Code horror comics. Writer and artist credits seldom appeared, but included Marvel Comics penciler/inkers Dick Ayers and Chic Stone, as well as Fass himself, with brother Irving Fass and Ezra Jackson serving as art directors.

As with other Eerie Publications, such as Weird, Horror Tales, Terror Tales, Tales from the Tomb andTales of Voodoo, Witches’ Tales featured grisly, lurid colour covers.

We are eternally indebted to Monster Brains for posting these ghoulish cover images.

The Scarehouse is a 2014 Canadian horror film written, produced and directed by Gavin Michael Booth (To Hell, With Love). It stars his wife Sarah Booth (Werewoman TV series), Kimberly-Sue Murray (Crimson Peak), Katherine Barrell (Poe), Teagan Vincze (Dead Genesis, Fortune Cookie Prophecies), Emily Alatalo, Dani Barker, Ivana Stojanovic, Jennifer Miller, Brad Everett, Jack Ettlinger, Alex Harrouch. 

D Films will release The Scarehouse theatrically in North America and Universal will handle ancillary. D Films also handles international sales. 

Plot teaser:

When two friends open a Halloween fun house on Devil’s Night it is all fun and games until their former sorority sisters begin to arrive. These six sisters are confronted by their past as the night spins out of control…

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Tower of London is a 1962 historical drama and horror film, starring Vincent Price, Michael Pate (The Black Castle, Curse of the Undead, The Marsupials: The Howling III), Robert Brown, Charles Macaulay, Joan Freeman, Morris Ankrum (The Giant Claw, Zombies of Mora Tau, How to Make a Monster), Sandra Knight (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Blood Bath). Directed by Roger Corman, the film was written by Leo Gordon, F. Amos Powell, and Robert E. Kent, and produced by Gene Corman and Edward Small Productions. Francis Ford Coppola (Dementia 13, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Twixt) worked on it as dialogue director.

The film is a highly fictionalised account of the rise to power and eventual downfall of King Richard III of England, freely combining elements derived from the plots of William Shakespeare’s plays Richard III and Macbeth. It is also an adaptation of the 1939 film of the same name, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Price. The 1962 version contains The Battle of Bosworth scenes from the 1939 film.

Plot teaser:

Richard, the duke of Gloucester (Vincent Price), is dismayed when his dying brother King Edward IV names their brother George, Duke of Clarence as Protector to his young son and heir, Prince Edward. Richard wants the position himself, to become de facto ruler after his brother’s death. He secretly stabs George to death with a dagger bearing the crest of the Woodville family, framing the dying king’s in-laws. Richard is now named Protector. His wife Anne approves of his crime and encourages him to take the throne for himself.

After the death of King Edward, Richard tries to achieve his ends by intimidating the widowed queen’s lady-in-waiting Mistress Shore into claiming that the dead king’s two children are illegitimate. She refuses, and Richard tortures her…

Reviews:

“What’s most surprising is that a director better known for movies like Attack of the Crab Monsters and The Little Shop of Horrors actually does a pretty good job with this lowbrow reinterpretation. It shouldn’t really be a surprise, though, when you think about it. Seriously, if you strip away the blank verse and the Elizabethan grammar, England’s most famous playwright has more in common with a B-movie shlockmeister than your high school English teacher would care to admit. Sex, suicide, Satanism, child murder, torture, toilet humor… am I talking about William Shakespeare, or am I talking about Joe D’Amato?” 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting

“Vincent Price’s meltdown into tortured guilt comes at the beginning rather than toward the end as it might in any other film, which tends to tip the dramatic balance of the story the wrong way. The rest of the time Roger Corman focuses on the Grand Guignol sadism and torture set-pieces – a cage filled with rats placed on a victim’s head, a woman tortured on a rack, Richard drowning his brother in a barrel of wine. As such, Tower of London proves modestly entertaining.” Moria: Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Review

“Tower of London works as a curiosity piece foremost. It’s also a fairly solid film that’s carried by a great, smarmy performance by Price, who spends most of the time being an asshole that kills people (he’s even tricked into killing people he doesn’t want to!). Obviously, it lacks the elegance of Shakespeare, but it is one of the classier pictures Corman ever helmed.” Brett Gallman, Oh, the Horror!

“The low budget is all too apparent, and despite a transfusion of graphic violence and ghostly apparitions, Corman hits the mark only occasionally.” Gene Wright, Horrorshows: The A – Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theater

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Curse of the Undead (aka Mark of the West) is a 1959 American vampire/western hybrid film directed by Edward Dein (The Leech Woman) rom a screenplay by himself and Mildred Dein. It stars Eric Fleming, Michael Pate (Tower of London), Kathleen Crowley, John Hoyt, Bruce Gordon, and Jimmy Murphy.  The film features a theremin-heavy soundtrack score by Irving Getz and was distributed by Universal-International Pictures.

Plot teaser:

The Old West, circa 1880. In an unnamed town, young girls are dying of a mysterious wasting disease. Dr John Carter (John Hoyt) and his daughter Dolores (Kathleen Crowley) have been tending to patients for hours on end, but lost one patient an hour ago. Another patient, Cora (Nancy Kilgas), looks like she will pull through after Preacher Dan Young’s (Eric Fleming) nightlong vigil; he and the Carters are offered breakfast and coffee by Cora’s parents (Alan Reynolds, Amzie Strickland). In the kitchen, however, they hear Cora scream – by the time they get to her room, she is sprawled dead on her bed, her window open. As he kneels to pray, Dan notices two small, bloody holes in Cora’s throat…

Returning to his ranch along with Dolores, Doc Carter finds his son Tim (Jimmy Murphy) extremely upset after the actions of their neighbor Buffer, who has been doing everything possible to get his hands on the Carter property, including damming a stream on the Carter ranch and having his men assault anyone who complains. To restrain his hot-headed son, the Doc drives back into town to have a word with the local sheriff (Edward Binns). The Sheriff’s discussion with Buffer (Bruce Gordon) in the local saloon proves less than successful, however, and a black-clad stranger (Michael Pate) follows Doc Carter’s buckboard. By the time he gets home, the Doc is dead, his throat bloody…

Reviews:

” … an old-school Gothic horror film with a Western setting, made in a year more commonly associated with rampaging aliens, insane scientists, and radioactive dinosaurs. More surprising still, it is clearly the result of a well thought-out effort to combine elements from two not-obviously-compatible genres in a way that both makes good sense and comes across as more than just a ticket-selling gimmick.” 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting

“Quirky but inconsequential, Curse is one of many misguided Hollywood attempts to breathe new life into the genre after Universal discontinued the Dracula series.” Gene Wright, Horrorshows: The A – Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theater

“A neat idea which doesn’t come off, apart from the bright idea of having the campire killed with a bullet containing ‘a Thorn of the True Cross’”, Alan Frank, The Horror Film Handbook

Choice dialogue:

“A bartender’s like a free gal. She’s bait for whoever’s got a free buck, right?”

“Ah, the dead don’t bother me, it’s the living who give me trouble.”

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What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 New Zealand horror comedy film about a group of vampires who live together in Wellington, New Zealand. It was directed and written by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, who also star in the film. The remainder of the cast are: Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Rutherford, Jackie Van Beek, Ben Fransham.

What We Do in the Shadows is based on a 2006 short film of the same name by Waititi and Clement. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014.

Official synopsis:

Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) – three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts…

Reviews:

“takes pleasure in poking fun at various aspects of vampire lore, but not surprisingly (given the filmmakers), What We Do in the Shadows is more deadpan, clever, and silly than it is simple, “schticky,” or mean-spirited. And while Shadows is most assuredly a full-fledged comedy in horror clothing, fans of the darker genre will certainly enjoy how colorfully gory the movie gets during some of the best visual gags.” Scott Weinberg, FEARnet

“Some genre fans who prefer the silly to the satiric may bite, but the anemic pic isn’t remotely weird or witty enough for cult immortality. Feeling eternal at 87 minutes, the film introduces a rival gang of G-rated werewolves (“We’re werewolves, not swearwolves!”) and drags its way to the Unholy Masquerade Ball, populated by hard-partying vampires as well as zombies — the movie’s final act of desperation.” Rob Nelson, Variety

“It’s also as silly as it is smart, unloading plenty of easy gross-out gags involving gushing blood and projectile vomiting plus some token childish moments — a character audibly masturbating from inside his coffin, for example — and some the movie gets away with by having its characters act immaturely in spite of their ages ranging in the hundreds to thousands of years … There’s always a smart bit within seconds of something stupid.” Christopher Campbell, Film School Rejects

“If there is any justice, What We Do in the Shadows, will break out into the light of day as a crossover hit. This film is absolutely hysterical, came as a complete surprise to me, and even breathes life back into the withering corpse of the doc-comedy style of The Office.” Ed Travis, Cinapse

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V/H/S Viral is a forthcoming anthology horror film sequel soon to be promoted for international sales at the impending Cannes festival by Epic Pictures.

Screen Daily reports that The Collective and Bloody Disgusting will produce the latest installment of the franchise, which features segments directed by Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop (Dance of the Dead), Todd Lincoln (The Apparition), Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento (Dead Girl, The ABCs of Death) and Nacho Vigalondo. It stars Justin Welborn and Emmy Argo.

Official synopsis:

“V/H/S Viral focuses on fame-obsessed teens who unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.”

We are grateful to Fangoria for the first image from the film (above).

Joy Ride 3: Roadkill is 2014 US horror film written and directed by Declan O’Brien (Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines). It stars Ken Kirzinger (Freddy vs. Jason) as the infamous Rusty Nail.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are releasing Joy Ride 3: Road Kill on Digital HD June 3 and on Blu-ray & DVD June 17. The Blu-ray and DVD is loaded with extra features including a variety of deleted scenes, featurettes, behind-the-scenes content. They include: Pre-Vis Sequences, Road Rage: The Blood, Sweat and Gears of Joy Ride 3, Riding Shotgun with Declan: Director’s DIE-aries, Finding Large Marge and Audio Commentary.

Plot teaser:

The nightmare begins when a group of young street racers take a desolate shortcut on their way to the Road Rally 1000. But a chance encounter with Rusty soon turns deadly as he stalks, taunts, and tortures his next victims with deranged delight…

Fangoria have posted an exclusive trailer on YouTube

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Oakley Court is a Victorian Gothic country house overlooking the River Thames at Water Oakley in Bray in the English county of Berkshire. It was built in 1859 and is currently a luxury hotel. In the past, it has been often used as a film location.

Because it adjoins Bray Studios, the exterior of Oakley Court was used in the filming of a number of films including several Hammer horror films, such as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), The Brides of Dracula (1960, the main entrance was used as the entrance to Castle Meinster), Nightmare (1963, a girl’s school), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), The Reptile (1966), The Plague of the Zombies (1966, Hamilton Manor), and the Amicus horror film And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973).

It is perhaps best known as Dr. Frank N Furter’s castle (called The Frankenstein Place) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). 

Other films that have used Oakley Court as a location are: The Man in Black (1949), The Old Dark House (1963), Witchcraft (1964), Die, Monster, Die! (1965), The Projected Man (1966), Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly, (1969), The House in Nightmare Park (1973), Vampyres (1974), Dan Curtis’ Dracula (1974), The Mutations (1974). The 1976 mystery farce Murder by Death used the house for its setting.

In 2010, film critic Mark Gattiss paid a visit to Oakley Court for the ‘Home Counties Horror’ episode of the documentary series A History of Horror.

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The Vagrant is a 1992 comedy horror film directed by Chris Walas for Mel Brooks’ (Young Frankenstein; Dracula: Dead and Loving It) company. It stars Bill Paxton (Mortuary; Aliens; Near Dark), Michael Ironside (American Nightmare; Visiting Hours; Scanners), Marshall Bell (Innocent Blood; Starship Troopers), Colleen Camp (Deadly Games; Tales from the Darkside TV series), Marc McClure, Stuart Pankin and Patrika Darbo.

After brief VHS distribution, the film dropped into obscurity. Scream Factory finally released The Vagrant on DVD for the first time along with The Outing, The Godsend and What’s the Matter With Helen? in the All Night Horror Marathon collection on August 20, 2013.

Plot teaser:

Graham is a “suck-up” yuppie whose ambition is to be a senior analyst. Having purchased a slightly run-down house in an upcoming area, he is appalled by and increasingly paranoid about a vagrant that lives on the derelict land nearby. Graham’s girlfriend Judy invites the vagrant in for a sandwich which tips the young careerist over the edge, he even imagines her having sex with the homeless hobo. When pieces of people Graham knew begin appearing in his fridge, the sceptical police naturally blame him. He vainly struggles to comprehend what is really going on. As the deaths continue he starts to even doubt his own sanity…

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Reviews:

“it’s empty-headed nonsense that challenges my lifelong assumption that anything involving Paxton and Ironside would be awesome by default. The script betrays both of them and Walas, one of the era’s best effects masters, here presumably looking to stretch his legs and do something a little different.” Brett Gallman, Oh, the Horror!

“Sure to inflame the ire of homelessness activist groups for its unflattering portrayal of a psychotic derelict, The Vagrant (executive-produced by Mel Brooks, who earlier made the homeless laughfest Life Stinks) plays like an attenuated, not to mention rejected, Tales From the Darkside episode. Even a restrained (for him) performance by the always-fun Bill Paxton (Aliens), as the put- upon yuppie nerd, can’t mask the stench exuded by this moronic, ineptly directed bummer.” Doug Brod, Entertainment Weekly

“The weaker conclusion is not as strong as the first hour that’s for sure but it’s still entertaining. If the film doesn’t make you laugh it will surely make you look twice next time some bum asks you for chump change.” The Arrow, Joblo.com

Choice dialogue:

Policeman: “Sir, we cannot apprehend a citizen upon the basis of what he eats. Read the Constitution.”

Graham’s boss: “C’mon, talk some of that Czech shit, talk the Czech shit”.

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