DVD and Blu-ray Releases: March 14, 2017
Sean Brickley
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Welcome back, folks. We’ve got a bunch of titles on our list this week. I do hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you live in the northeast, you may be waiting an extra day or two to pick up your titles this week due to the impending “wrath of the unholy” snowstorm. Hopefully those on the west coast won’t drop too many spoilers on you.
First, our discrepancies. Kill Game already had a release date of January 6th, but has popped up again on my radar for this week. If you weren’t able to locate it before, maybe you can grab a copy now. Additionally, Necrophiliac: The Lustful Dead may be unavailable, so leave a comment if you find a copy.
There are a fair amount of classics coming our way. Reaching back as far as 1959 with The Man Who Could Cheat Death and as recently as 1984’s Firestarter, we’ve got you covered. Also coming our way from yesteryear as The Skull, Drive In Massacre and 1977’s Demon Seed. There’s also the Faces Of Horror collection as well.
Syfy fans will be psyched to purchase either the third season of “Z Nation.” Additionally, seasons one through three will also be available in a collection this week.
Check out the rest of the list below and as always, pleasant viewing, especially if you’re in the northeast where it looks like cabin fever might be the norm for the next couple of days.
MOVIES
American Resurrection (2010)
Starring:
Shay Baker
Synopsis:
A government experiment dealing with population control goes terribly wrong. The food chain has been altered turning the citizens of a small Midwest town into homicidal lunatics. A group of college students and a stalwart scientist rush to find a remedy before it’s too late.
Apocalypse Kiss (2014)
Starring:
D.C. Douglas, Tom Detrik
Synopsis:
Adrian, a serial killer with O.C.D. fights for his place in the media while two nomadic lesbians are getting the credit for his murders. Meanwhile, the world as they know it is about to come to an end.
Demon Seed (1977)
Starring:
Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J. Blake, John O’Leary
Synopsis:
Susan Harris is alone in the house when, suddenly, doors lock, windows slam shut and the phone stops working. Susan is trapped by an intruder…but this is no ordinary thug. Instead, the intruder is a computer named Proteus, an artificial brain that has learned to reason. And to terrorize. In “one of her finest, most vulnerable performances” (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic), Julie Christie plays Susan in this taut techno-thriller based on the Dean Koontz novel. Packed with suspense, surprise and special effects, Demon Seed follows Susan’s desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor. Then Susan learns what Proteus wants: its own child, conceived in her womb and destined for domination.
Drive-In Massacre (1976)
Starring:
John F. Goff, Steve Vincent, Douglas Gudbye
Synopsis:
It was one of the few true slasher movies to pre-date Halloween and friday the 13th, and remains the closest you’ll ever come to an actual seedy 70s drive-in experience: It’s a hot summer night in Southern California and the local passion pit is packed with patrons. But when a sword-wielding psycho begins carving up customers, it’ll unspool a grubby cavalcade of creepy carnies, peeping perverts, graphic decapitations and an ending you have to see/hear to believe. John F. Goff (The Fog), Bruce Kimball (Love Camp 7) and co-writer George Buck Flower (Back To The Future) star in this nasty slab of ’70s sleaze directed by film & episodic television veteran Stu Segall (Insatiable), now packed with all-new Special Features and restored from the original camera negative recently discovered in the ruins of the Sky View Drive-In near Oxnard!
The Drowned (2006)
Starring:
Helen Black, Vincent De Paul, Susan Hallenbeck
Synopsis:
Camp Motion Pictures DVD-On-Demand Series brings you movies previously unreleased on DVD…to DVD! A new line of professionally authored DVDs with interactive menus and extras available at Alternative Cinema.com! A gripping psychological ghost story along the lines of The Others, The Haunting and Let’s Scare Jessica To Death, The Drowned tells the story of Kate Williams, who inherits her grandmother s cottage on a remote lake. There, she encounters apparitions that seem to emanate from a submerged church where a congregation drowned over 100 years ago. But as Kate is drawn deeper and deeper into the tragic history, she finds she is ill-prepared to unravel the horror that is The Drowned!
Easter Sunday (2016)
Starring:
Robert Z’Dar, Jeremy Todd Morehead
Synopsis:
It’s been 24 years since the serial killer Douglas Fisher was executed on Easter night. This year, a group partying teenagers not only raise some hell, but literally raise the dead.
Firestarter (1984)
Starring:
Drew Barrymore, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen
Synopsis:
Quasi-federal agents hunt a man who can bend minds, and his daughter who can start fires by staring. From the Stephen King novel.
Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word (2016)
Starring:
Sean Flanery, Erin Cummings, Mike Doyle
Synopsis:
Based on an incredible true story, Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word is a terrifying tale of vengeance from beyond the grave. On Halloween night 1981, a Catholic nun is savagely murdered. In a haze of fear, the authorities in Amarillo, Texas feel compelled to solve the case quickly amidst widespread panic and lynch mob anger. Soon a suspect emerges as 18-year-old Johnny Frank Garrett is arrested and put on trial. Overlooking evidence that could have cleared his name, the jury passes swift judgment and Garrett is convicted and sentenced to death. But from the moment of his arrest until his last breath Garrett professes his innocence, and following his execution a letter is found in his cell written in a voice driven by a dark force, promising retribution and cursing the souls of anyone connected with his demise. Within weeks of his execution, Johnny’s terrifying prophecy is unleashed as a series of unexplained deaths strike down those involved in the cover-up.
Kill Game (2016)
Starring:
Joe Adler, Michael Galante, Sari Sanchez, Person Fode
Synopsis:
Kill Game is the story of a group of high school kids who amuse themselves by pulling pranks on unsuspecting students and teachers. They are all popular, good looking, the kids voted most likely to succeed. But at their core lies a cruelty and shallowness which comes with the territory of privilege. One night, a prank goes horribly wrong and a teenager is killed. The gang covers it up as a drowning accident but five years later, their lives are turned upside down when one of them is killed by a serial killer wearing a haunting Marilyn Monroe mask. It doesn’t stop there, one by one the gang is killed in manners mirroring the pranks they pulled in high school. Is it revenge? Is it karma? Is it the dead boy’s spirit coming back to avenge his death? One thing is certain…No one is laughing now.
The Love Witch (2016)
Starring:
Samantha Robinson, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise
Synopsis:
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will driver her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the 60s, The Love Witch explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.
Lung (Lung II) (2017)
Starring:
Phil Stevens, David Chopping, Angela Jane, Michael Kennedy, Samantha Coppola
Synopsis:
A nameless man wanders the city, littered with necrotic artifacts and a trail of corpses. Are his grotesque hallucinations clues to a violent past? Or are they premonitions?
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Starring:
Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee
Synopsis:
His Terrifying Secret… His Hideous Obsession… Made Him The Man Who Could Cheat Death! Dr. Georges Bonnet has figured out a way to live forever, all he needs are glands from some very unwilling donors! Anton Diffring (Where Eagles Dare, Circus of Horrors) stars as the mad doctor in this chilling Hammer Horror classic. As he struggles against the inevitable icy grip of death, the doctor begins a descent into madness that threatens to destroy the laws of nature and the lives of those he cares for the most; the only person who could stop his unholy quest is horror legend Christopher Lee (The Oblong Box). Great direction by Hammer legend Terence Fisher (Horror of Dracula) with a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster (Dracula: Prince of Darkness) based on a play by Barré Lyndon (The Lodger). Co-starring the beautiful Hazel Court (Premature Burial).
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger (2016)
Starring:
Emily Meade, Leila George, Nick Eversman, Ivan Sergei, Emma Rigby, Tori Spelling
Synopsis:
A college girl introduces her mother to her girlfriend… who happens to be a vampire.
Necrophiliac: The Lustful Dead (2016)
Starring:
Various
Synopsis:
Necrophiliac: The Lustful Dead contains the raw footage that was recovered from deceased Documentarian, Joe Newton after he had recorded the shocking and taboo lifestyle of Haydn Reef. The tapes have finally been recovered from the grizzly crime scene that took the media by storm. Joe Newton was found murdered in Haydn’s home from what appears to have been foul play. The case remains unsolved.
Paranormal Encounters: Poltergeists, Demons And Possessions (2017)
Starring:
Various
Synopsis:
The definition of “Paranormal Phenomenon” implies that the scientific explanation of the world around us is “normal” and anything that is above, beyond, or contrary to that is “para.” Once thought to exist only as folklore, urban myth or via non-scientific bodies of knowledge, now we have advanced Parapsychology employing investigative techniques and devices that prove the existence of spirits, ghosts, entities and more in the dimensions beyond. This comprehensive multi DVD set is not for those with phasmophobia (fear of ghosts), as this collection abounds with horrifying and terrifying encounters captured on video.
Epic Ghosts and Hauntings
Visit a town with coffins sticking out from under the homes as dozens of mysterious coffins are being unearthed revealing very well preserved, but strangely dressed cadavers. Below the surface of another town lie the graves of thousands of Irish cholera victims who had come over in the death ships after the Irish famine. The gravestones are starting to emerge through the grass as are the myriad of ghosts who are haunting the park and its environs.
Gateways to Hell
Various locations on the surface of the Earth have acquired a legendary reputation for being entrances to hell. Phenomena including apparitions of witches, demons, sounds of crying babies and phantom hitchhikers, one of which may have been none other than Lucifer himself. Other accounts include homes near cemeteries that have proven to be gateways to the beyond with events happening nightly. Explore these tales of death, murder, haunting and more.
The Skull (1965)
Starring:
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett
Synopsis:
The Skull once again teams up horror legends Peter Cushing (Horror of Dracula) and Sir Christopher Lee (House of the Long Shadows) in a chilling, supernatural tale of murder from beyond the grave. Based on a short story by Robert Bloch (Psycho), The Skull introduces us to Dr. Christopher Maitland (Cushing), a collector of the occult. When he is given the opportunity to purchase the skull of the infamous Marquis de Sade, he leaps at the chance. What he doesn’t know is that his friend, Matthew Phillips (Lee) is the former owner of the skull – and quite happy to be rid of it. Possession of The Skull leads to a terrifying series of nightmarish events for Dr. Maitland as he tries to keep control of his life and the of unspeakable evil bearing down upon him. Hammer horror great and Oscar-winning cinematographer Freddie Francis (The Creeping Flesh, The Innocents) directed this bone-chilling thriller with a script by Milton Subotsky (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror). The stupendous cast includes Patrick Wymark (The Psychopath), Nigel Green (The Ipcress File), Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange) and Michael Gough (The Crimson Cult).
TELEVISION
“Z Nation” Season 3
Starring:
DJ Qualls, Kellita Smith, Russell Hodgkinson
Synopsis:
With Operation Bite Mark in shambles and our heroes again on the hunt for Murphy, the fate of humanity rests not in the jaws of zombies, but in the rise of a new breed of hybrid ‘blends.’ Created and controlled by Murphy, the ever-growing army of blends is hell bent on spreading their message of “No Fear” across the land. With all new horrors like Wolf-Zombies, Electro-Shock Zombies, and the deadly Enders, Z-Nation: Season 3 has our heroes facing a new mission with even more blood-splattering fun.
“Z Nation” Season 1-3 Collection
Starring:
Tom Everett Scott, DJ Qualls, Michael Welch, Kellita Smith, Russell Hodgkinson
Synopsis:
Three years after the devastating ZN1 virus gutted the country, a group of strangers band together to transport the only known survivor of the zombie attack— Murphy — from New York to California. As humanity’s last hope to develop a vaccine, Murphy’s dark secret could seriously endanger the mission. An epic road trip filled with non-stop thrills, chills, and blood-splattering zombie fun, every episode from seasons 1 through 3 are yours to own forever (even in an apocalypse).
COLLECTIONS
Faces of Horror – 10 Movie Collection
Starring:
Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Mickey Rooney
Movies:
When A Stranger Calls
Happy Birthday To Me
Double Exposure
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer
Don’t Answer the Phone!
Scream Bloody Murder
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Savage Weekend
The Demon
The Manipulator
The Gravedigger / Tales From Beyond The Grave Double Feature
Starring:
Jesús Lloveras, Izquierdo Alexandra, Rick Gomans
Synopsis:
The Gravedigger
Deep inside a gloomy cemetery in Barcelona, the dead are coming back to life. When the local undertaker notices the unholy events unfolding before him, he embarks on a treacherous journey to hell and back as he tries to stop these bloodthirsty visitors from another dimension.
Tales From Beyond The Grave
November 2nd marks the Day of the Dead; a ghastly date on which cursed spirits rise from the grave to torment the living. Witness here, three shocking tales of violent debauchery. First, discover how far ‘loving the dead’ can really go, then observe the sinful rites of the Ouija board and finally shriek in fright at the bloodthirsty rage of a beautiful killer.
Massacre Video brings cult Spanish filmmaker, Vick Campbell’s The Gravedigger (The Undertaker, El Sepulturero) and Tales from Beyond the Grave (2 de Noviembre Dia de los Difuntos) completely uncut and together for the first time on DVD in the USA!
The Donald Farmer Collection Vol. 2: Homicidal & More
Starring:
Donald Farmer
Synopsis:
Vol 2 contains 4 shorts with intros and commentaries from Donald:
A Fistful Of Pasta – Three comical Cowboys set off on a perilous journey, climaxing in a three-way gun duel.
Despondent Yearning – A one night stand leads to romantic obsession and murder.
Homicidal – An abusive father accidentally kills his small daughter and tries to cover up the crime. This sets the stage for a violent confrontation between the killer and his wife’s boyfriend
Interspersions – Two girls are living and a hippy lifestyle in a country house, but soon the walls between reality and fantasy start to blend until no one is sure what’s really happening
76 mins. All shorts are silent but include commentary by Donald Farmer. Also includes video intros by Donald. BD-R (all BD-R’s are professionally pressed and silk screened by Discmakers).
Limited Edition, JUST 200 Will Be Sold Ever!
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