DVD and Blu-ray Releases: September 22, 2015
Sean Brickley
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We’ve got another good week for you with 14 total releases. The Eaten Alive Blu-ray that got pushed back from last week will finally be seeing the light of day. Now everyone can watch that and say, “Wow, look at how YOUNG Robert Englund looks.”
Additionally, the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust DVD will be on shelves this week. You may remember the Blu-ray dropped for this a few weeks ago.
If you like zombies (because really, who doesn’t?), you’ll be interested in The Dead and The Dead 2 coming out as a double feature. Or if you’re into the more comedic side of undead cannibalization, you can check out George: A Zombie Intervention.
These are just a few of this week’s releases so I’ll let you explore the rest for yourself. As always, pleasant viewing!
MOVIES
Bleading Lady (2011)
Starring:
Nathan Durec, Dan Ellis, Sindy Faraguna
Synopsis:
Don is a chauffeur and a movie buff who takes his job seriously — very seriously. When his latest assignment takes him to the set of a low-budget horror film, he’s overjoyed to learn he’ll be driving Riversa Red – his favorite B-movie “Scream Queen.” While driving his beloved idol, Don assumes the role of bodyguard and turns fiercely protective, especially after learning that Riversa has a stalker. Hell-bent on protecting his queen and fueled by paranoid fantasies, Don’s usual temper tantrums go to fatal extremes. Soon he proves to be not only Riversa’s biggest fan, but her worst nightmare as well.
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Containment (2015)
Starring:
Lee Ross, Sheila Reid, Gabriel Senior, Andrew Leung, William Postlethwaite
Synopsis:
Neighbors in an apartment complex awake to find their doors and windows completely sealed shut. When strangers in hazmat suits infiltrate their building and begin snatching residents, tempers fray and fear takes over. Unable to identify the infected from the uninfected, the quarantined start questioning the authorities. Loyalties are tested to their limits as friends and families turn against each other in an adrenaline-fueled fight for survival.
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Eaten Alive (1976) (2-Disc Special Edition)
Starring:
Robert Englund, Marilyn Burns, Carolyn Jones, Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer
Synopsis:
A Louisiana hotel owner either feeds guests to his alligator or gets them with a scythe.
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Fatal Proposal (2015)
Starring:
Meredith Monroe, Jason Gray-Stanford, Damon Runyon, Catherine Mary Stewart
Synopsis:
When hotel event planner Rachel breaks up with her boyfriend John for cheating on her, she decides to go looking online for a new boyfriend. In the expanse of cyberspace, she meets a charming, wealthy man named Craig, who at first seems perfect. He’s attractive, fun, romantic, and he’s been successfully running his mother’s global real estate company while his mother, Doris travels the world. But Craig is far from perfect. He’s obsessive and controlling, and once he sets his sights on Rachel, he has no plans of ever letting go.
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George: A Zombie Intervention (2011)
Starring:
Peter Stickles, Michelle Tomlinson, Lynn Lowry
Synopsis:
Addiction can destroy lives, especially when you are a zombie like George. After eating one too many people, George’s concerned friends decide it’s their job to support him on a path to recovery. With the help of Barbra, a professional interventionist, George’s best friend Ben, ex-girlfriend Sarah, Sarah’s new boyfriend Steve and George’s sister Francine gather at George’s house to confront him. Disaster unravels as George evades his friends’ good intentions while his hunger for flesh grows stronger than ever. When the group decides to take a break from intervening, guests start turning up dead and eaten. But is George the one to blame, or does someone else in the house have a secret to hide?
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Judy: The Name for Terror (2015) (Collector’s Two-Sided DVD Cover)
Starring:
Jade Matthews, Orietta Babusci
Synopsis:
Bad things happen to bad people. That s what Ursula, the ring leader of a deranged group of street performers called The Crows, always says. For no apparent reason, the gang starts to torment Mary, a young car driver, and Judy, her dog. Mary’s only crime was not paying attention to their annoying presence. Now, the curtains of the most insane and dangerous show will rise…and fall…for Mary and Judy. This shocking thriller is in the tradition of ‘Hostel’ and ‘Saw’ and features gruesome special effects. Warning: The Crows show is not just about blood. They assure you it will be the scariest, most uncomfortable and grotesque performance you will ever see. Featuring exclusive two-sided reversible collector’s cover art.
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Lisa (1990)
Starring:
Cheryl Ladd, Staci Keanan, D.W. Moffett, Jeffrey Tambor
Synopsis:
Fourteen year-old Lisa (Stacy Keenan, “My Two Dads”, “Step By Step”) is raised by her overprotective unmarried mother, Katherine (Cheryl Ladd, “Charlie’s Angels”, Millennium) who forbids her to date until she’s sixteen. In despair, Lisa and schoolmate Wendy make up a game that consists of inferring attractive men’s phone numbers from their car IDs and giving them anonymous calls. Their latest victim is the handsome Richard (D.W. Moffett, Black Widow), with whom Lisa begins a passionate phone relationship, unaware that he’s the infamous Candlelight Killer. Suspenseful direction by cult filmmaker Gary Sherman (Dead and Buried, Raw Meat) – Lisa promises to keep you on the edge of your seat.
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The Satan Bug (1965)
Starring:
George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Ed Asner
Synopsis:
Newly Re-mastered in HD! The Message is clear: put an end to war research… or prepare for the end of the Earth. Officials have no doubt about the madman s ability to carry out his threat; they know he has access to The Satan Bug. George Maharis, Dana Andrews and Anne Frances face the terror of a death germ in this race-against-time thriller directed by the great John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). The Suspense begins at a top-secret U.S. germ warfare laboratory when containers of lethal microbe are stolen and soon after the group behind the theft proves its deadly resolve by using the weapon to completely annihilate the residents of a small town Florida community. The next target: Los Angeles… unless government agent Maharis and an elite task force can somehow prevent the City of Angels from becoming Hell on Earth. A desperate manhunt is on… the survival of the planet is at stake and the biological doomsday clock is ticking in this superior tale of organized terrorism and split-second heroics. The stellar cast includes Richard Basehart, Frank Sutton, Ed Asner, Simon Oakland and John Anderson.
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Secrets of a Psychopath (2015)
Starring:
Kari Wuhrer, Mark Famiglietti, Mia Serafino, Ty Fanning, Hilary Anderson
Synopsis:
Legendary director Bert I. Gordon (Food of the Gods, Empire of the Ants) returns!
Still living in his childhood home, Henry, aided by his older sister Catherine, sets up online dates for himself in order to finally get married. His first date with unsophisticated young Grace Borden, arrives in a cab and soon discovers that Catherine is a stern possessive woman and Henry is mentally unstable. Visions of her nudity has a traumatic effect on him.
As Grace cries hysterically, Henry and Catherine burst into the bridal chamber dressed as children, tie plastic wrap around Grace s head and suffocate her to death.
What led these stunted children to create such death traps is slowly revealed as they continue to search online for newer potential brides. Henry meets his match with a new girl named Georgette, the best friend of one of the victims.
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The Sentinel (1977)
Starring:
Cristina Raines, Chris Sarandon, Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith, Beverly D’Angelo
Synopsis:
A New York fashion model rooms in an old brownstone with creepy tenants and a basement gate to hell.
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Turkey Shoot (1981)
Starring:
Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Roger Ward
Synopsis:
In a totalitarian near future, defiant citizens are labeled deviants and sentenced to brutal behavior modification camps. But when new prisoners Anders (Steve Railsback of The Stunt Man and Helter Skelter) and Walters (Olivia Hussey of Romeo & Juliet and Black Christmas) are chosen as human prey for rich people to hunt, they will be thrust into a nightmare of depravity, dismemberment, cleaved skulls, exploding heads, lesbians with crossbows, the insane hungers of a deformed cannibal circus freak, and more.
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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)
Starring:
Hideyuki Tanaka
Synopsis:
Baron Meier Link is of a dying race, but the vampire doesn’t intend to remain lonely much longer. Abducting women in the night is common for his kind, so what’s one more? But Charlotte’s father has plenty of money, and there’s no price he won’t pay to get his daughter back. That’s why he hires D.
D is a Dunpeal, a breed rarer than that of the vampires–after all, he’s half of one. When it comes to hunting those with fangs like his own, he’s the best in the business. But that doesn’t mean he’s the only game in town. The Markus Brothers are on the vampire’s trail as well, and they’re not about to lose. It’s a race, not only between the rival Hunters, but for the vampire and his bride-to-be. But it might be more than just a job to D. Is Charlotte really a captive? Or will another Dunpeal be born to this world?
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The Woods (2006)
Starring:
Patricia Clarkson, Agnes Bruckner, Bruce Campbell, Rachel Nichols, Colleen Williams
Synopsis:
Gothic chills abound in the thriller The Woods directed by Lucky McKee (May) from a screenplay written by David Ross (The Babysitters). Amidst the splendor of rural New England sits Falburn Academy, a boarding school for young, impressionable and in some cases, troubled girls. Isolated from the outside world, Falburn sits near the woods – a sinister cluster of trees that appears to act as a protective wall. Heather Fasulo (Agnes Brucker, The Aviator) is the school’s newest student. After setting fire to a forest, rebellious Heather is sent to Falburn to provide her with a sense of stability. Heather’s increasing nightmares prove to be more than homesickness when she discovers that the woods hold a chilling and terrifying secret.
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COLLECTIONS
The Dead / The Dead 2
Starring:
Ben Crowe, Rob Freeman, David Dontoh, Joseph Millson, Meenu Mishra, Anand Krishna Goyal
Movies:
The Dead
After crashing off the coast, Lt. Brian Murphy battles for survival across the vast terrains of Africa in search for a way to get back to his beloved family. Joined by local military man Daniel Dembele, who is also searching for his son, both men join forces, all the while battling against the ever-present threat of the living dead!
The Dead 2
The Ford Brothers take their chilling vision of the zombie apocalypse to a different country and a whole new level: As the infectious epidemic spreads through India, an American turbine engineer learns that his pregnant girlfriend is trapped near the slums of Mumbai. Now, one man must battle his way across a 300-mile wasteland of the ravenous undead and into a nightmare city seething with flesh-eating madness.
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