DVD and Blu-ray Releases: August 4, 2015
Welcome to August, folks. As we look forward to the Halloween season (whose fun is rivaled by the anguish of being stuck behind school buses on the way to and from work each day), there is an expected ramp-up in the amount of weekly releases. Pretty much every week from now until Halloween has at least 10 releases, and that’s lowballing it.
While we have a bunch of classics coming out on various formats over the next couple of months, this week only brings us one in the form of the 7 Movie Jurassic Collection, which contains (you guessed it) 7 movies spanning the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. Don’t fret – be on the lookout in upcoming weeks for a bunch of Hammer films, a Boris Karloff collection, double-feature sets of the Elm Street movies as well as the Friday the 13th series, and a bunch of other items from days of yore.
There are two movies this week that will appeal to our Syfy Channel fans out there: Lake Placid vs. Anaconda and 3-Headed Shark Attack. Honestly, can you really go wrong with any movie Danny Trejo is in?
There’s also the comedic horror Burying the Ex. You may recognize Alexandra Daddario from 2013’s Texas Chainsaw, the (chronologically impossible) “sequel,” as well as Ashley Greene from a highly successful saga involving sparkly vampires.
Again, keep checking back each week. The closer we get to All Hallow’s, the more we will have to tell you about. Pleasant viewing, fiends.
MOVIES
3-Headed Shark Attack (2015)
Starring:
Danny Trejo, Karrueche Tran, Rob Van Dam
Synopsis:
The world s greatest killing machine is three times as deadly when a mutated shark threatens a cruise ship. As the shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers quickly discover that three heads are much more difficult to kill than just one.
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Always Watching (2015)
Starring:
Alexandra Breckeridge, Chris Marquette, Doug Jones, Jake McDorman
Synopsis:
On the hunt for an intriguing news story, a small-town news team follows a crew inspecting repossessed houses. Inside a particularly strange house, the news team discovers a box of video tapes inside a locked closet. Sensing a story, they decide to take them back to their studio. From the tapes, they learn that the family who had lived in the house was not pushed out by the banks, but fled the house in fear for their lives. Trying to decode the story, the crew keeps seeing a faceless figure dressed in a dark suit appear in the footage that causes the videotape to scramble. Their fear mounts when this figure, The Operator as he is deemed, starts to appear in their real lives, standing quietly and always watching them. Tortured and terrorized, the three crew members must track down the mystery of The Operator before it’s too late.
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Appetites (2015)
Starring:
Bret Roberts, Lauren Parkinson, Travis Eberhard
Synopsis:
Daisy is the all-American girl next door, with a hunger for true love and an appetite for murder. For years, it’s just been her and her brother living out in the desert, hunting young men for sport – and dinner. While Daisy enjoys these games, she can’t help but yearn for something more. So, when she meets the very handsome John Doe, and they fall madly in love, Daisy can’t believe her good fortune. But it turns out John has some eccentric hobbies of his own, and now Daisy must find out if she will be his partner in crime – or his next victim.
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Burying The Ex (2015)
Starring:
Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario, Oliver Cooper
Synopsis:
It seemed like a great idea when all-around nice guy Max (Anton Yelchin, Star Trek) and his beautiful girlfriend, Evelyn (Ashley Greene, Twilight Saga) moved in together. But when Evelyn turns out to be a controlling, manipulative nightmare, Max knows it’s time to call it quits. There’s just one problem: he’s terrified of breaking up with her. Fate steps in when Evelyn is the victim of a fatal, freak accident, leaving Max single and ready to mingle. Just as Max is thinking about moving on with what could be his dream girl, Olivia (Alexandra Daddario, True Detective) – Evelyn has returned from the grave and is determined to get her boyfriend back…even if that means transforming him into one of the undead.
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Devoured (2015)
Starring:
Marta Milans, Bruno Gunn, Kara Jackson
Synopsis:
Lourdes is a young woman that works at night cleaning a restaurant. All the money she made is for her son that lives in her hometown with her mother. We know very little about Lourdes son, only that he is sick and Lourdes is working every night and sending money to help her son and find a cure for his illness. Suddenly, Lourdes starts seeing visions in the restaurant where she works, in her little apartment. These visions, her evil co-workers and her son apart from her, all this stress Lourdes out and she begins questioning herself who wants to hurt her? Or if all of whats happening is really happening or not.
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Haunted (2013)
Starring:
Jon-Paul Gates, Vivien Creegor, Laura Penneycard, Jeremy Hill
Synopsis:
Six contestants win a competition to appear on a LIVE reality TV show at a secret location in rural England. The next ten hours will be spent on a paranormal Investigation with a TV crew searching for the truth behind ghost stories that haunt an old railway station museum.
Something Evil awaits them! They will all discover the truth, that we are not alone.
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Inner Demons (2014)
Starring:
Christopher Parker, Morgan McClellan, Brian Flaherty
Synopsis:
Inner Demons follows an ‘Intervention’-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her – with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.
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Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)
Starring:
James Marsden, Billy Bob Thorton, Thomas Jane
Synopsis:
James Marsden, Thomas Jane, Piper Perabo and Academy Award® winner Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, 1996) star in this action-packed adventure set in the Alaskan wilderness. After a relentless grizzly starts to wreak havoc on a small town, the sheriff heads into the forest to find his ecologist wife but instead crosses paths with his estranged, ex-con brother. They soon find themselves on the run from the massive killer bear. The hunted become the hunters in this edge-of-your seat thriller about the power of nature and the smell of blood.
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Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015)
Starring:
Corin Nemec, Stephen Billington
Synopsis:
A town sheriff has to find a way to kill a gigantic crocodile and anaconda before they kill and destroy the whole town.
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The Last Survivors (2014)
Starring:
Haley Lu Richardson, Booboo Stewart
Synopsis:
At the edge of an expansive barren valley, all that remains of The Wallace Farm for Wayward Youth is a few hollowed-out husks of buildings. Seventeen- year-old Kendal (Haley Lu Richardson) can barely recall when the Oregon valley was still lush. It s been a decade since the last rainfall, and society at large has dried up and blown away. Kendal and the few others that remain barely scrape by while dreaming of escape. When a greedy water baron lays claim to what little of the precious resource remains underground, Kendal must decide whether to run and hide or bravely fight for the few cherished people and things she has left. Co-starring Booboo Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Max Charles (The Amazing Spider-Man, Mr. Peabody & Sherman) and genre veteran Barbara Crampton (You’re Next, Re-Animator), The Last Survivors is a suspenseful look at a futuristic world where only the most resourceful survive.
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The Nightmare (2015)
Starring:
Maxwell Schneller, Yatoya Toy, Siegfried Peters
Synopsis:
From Rodney Ascher, the director of Room 237, comes a documentary-horror film exploring the phenomenon of ‘Sleep Paralysis’ through the eyes of eight very different people. These people (and a surprisingly large number of others) often find themselves trapped between the sleeping and waking worlds, totally unable to move but aware of their surroundings while being subject to frequently disturbing sights and sounds. A strange element to these visions is that despite the fact that they know nothing of one another (and had never heard of sleep paralysis before it happened to them), many see similar ghostly ‘shadow men.’ This is one of many reasons many people insist this is more than just a sleep disorder.
The Nightmare digs deep into not only the particulars of these eight people’s uncanny experiences (through elaborate, sometimes surreal dramatizations), but it also explores their search to understand what they’ve gone through and how it’s changed their lives.
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Toolbox Murders 2 (2013)
Starring:
Bruce Dern, Chauntal Lewis, Clifton Powell
Synopsis:
Behind the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, a derelict hotel becomes the private operating room for a serial killer. With a beautiful young woman as his captive audience, the unstoppable madman hauls his living victims back to the rotting hotel where each grisly slaying is more ingenious than the last. Bruce Dern (Django Unchained), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) and Chantal Lewis (Séance) star in this heart-stopping horror that will take you inside a psychopath’s twisted imagination.
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Tormented (2015)
Starring:
Alys Crocker, Alysa King Robert Nolan
Synopsis:
Kylie Winters, a bullied and self-loathing teen, reluctantly agrees to babysit at an isolated country mansion on Halloween night. When a small boy in a pig mask appears at the door trick-or-treating, Kylie’s night transforms into a horrifying and violent cat-and-mouse game. She must go beyond what she ever thought possible if she and the children are to survive the night.
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Wyrmwood (2015)
Starring:
Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey
Synopsis:
Zombies invade the Australian Outback in this brain-splattered, Mad Max-meets-the-undead thrill ride. When an apocalyptic event turns everyone around him-including his wife and daughter-into marauding zombies, everyman mechanic Barry arms himself to the teeth, soups up his car, and hits the road in order to rescue his sister from a deranged, disco-dancing mad doctor. Bursting with high-octane car chases, crazy-cool homemade weaponry, and enough blood-and-guts gore to satisfy hardcore horror fans, Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead takes the zombie flick to bone-crunchingly berserk new heights.
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COLLECTIONS
7 Movie Jurassic Collection
Starring:
Klaus Kinski, Basil Rathbone, Don Sullivan, James Best
Movies:
The Giant Gila Monster
A mammoth Gila monster terrorizes an unsuspecting town by stomping through the streets, crushing buildings and killing at will. When a local’s kid sister is nearly slain by the giant menace, he decides to take matters into his own hands and stop the monster from wreaking any more havoc.
The Killer Shrews
As a hurricane approaches, Captain Thorne Sherman (James Best) docks at an isolated island to drop off supplies to a mad scientist and his beautiful daughter. Dr. Craigis has accidentally created a race of giant shrews that manage to escape during the storm. The only way to survive is to somehow make it off the island…
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Dr. Ted Stevens (Kent Taylor) and detective William Grant (Rodney Bell) are sent by the government to investigate a series of puzzling deaths along the coast. With evidence of radiation exposure and the discovery of a staff member on the beach, spear gun in hand, Grant suspects the Pacific College of Oceanography is involved. Has a monstrous beast been irradiated and roused from the depths of the sea?
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
When a rocket ship containing a crew is sent to Venus, the mission goes horribly wrong and another team is sent to search for survivors. Once on the mist-enshrouded planet the rescue squad encounters unusual creatures such as dinosaurs—and bizarre beings, including a half-lizard, half-man that impedes their search.
Creature
When space explorers discover a strange container on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, they release a hideous creature that has been asleep for ages—one that has a taste for human flesh. And when a rival corporation’s exploration group arrives to search for the missing men, they will learn all too quickly what has happened.
Piranha
A wildlife photographer and her brother travel to the dense and mysterious Amazon jungle and find themselves in a fearful adventure when they become a madman’s prey. But if the homicidal hunter doesn’t get them, the Amazon waters are teeming with vicious, flesh-eating piranha that will.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
In a small swampland town, people are mysteriously disappearing. Rumor has it that there is a new breed of swamp leeches that have grown to immense proportions—and when bodies are found drained of blood and covered in giant sucker wounds, the game warden (Ken Clark) gets involved.
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