DVD and Blu-ray Releases: October 20, 2015
We’ve only got 14 releases to tell you about this week, fiends. I must say it’s a welcomed respite from the past few release lists; how do they expect us to purchase 30+ scary movies and have the time to watch them all? This has nothing to do with the fact that I’m being lazy and whiney either. I promise.
The Tenderness of Wolves Blu-ray has been pushed back to November 3rd so keep an eye out for that. Additionally, Amazon has the Blu for Dead Retribution slated for December 8th, but other sites report that it dropped back in September. I’m not sure what the deal is for that title yet, but I’m fairly certain it doesn’t affect this week’s release list any further than what I’ve just informed you about.
This week also sees (a day early on the 19th instead of the 20th) Volumes 1 and 2 of the Toho Godzilla Collection releasing on DVD. Personally speaking, my favorite rendition of Godzilla was rather brief, in an American movie, and portrayed by one Bobcat Goldthwait. My least favorite Godzilla was the one who, as my friend John would put it, could catch a US military helicopter with no problem, yet found disposing of an NYC checker cab occupied by Ferris Bueller to be the most insurmountable of tasks.
Fellow fans of The Final Destination franchise will rejoice in the knowledge of a DVD release of all 5 movies. Somewhere in the great beyond, Rube Goldberg is popping a giant bowl of popcorn for himself.
If you liked either of the “Tales From the Crypt” movies, you’re in luck. Demon Knight and Bordello of Blood are both seeing their Blu-ray releases this week.
There are a few other diamonds listed below to check out as well. Pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
The Exorcism of Molly Hartley (2015)
Starring:
Sarah Lind, Devon Sawa, Gina Holden, Peter MacNeill
Synopsis:
Molly Hartley (Sarah Lind) is all grown up, but the unholy demon inside her lives on in this all-new, UNRATED sequel that takes terror to the next level! Six years after graduating high school — and discovering that a secret pact assigned her soul to the devil—Molly is suspected of murder and confined to a mental hospital, where she wreaks supernatural havoc on the staff and patients. Her only hope is an exorcism by a defrocked priest (Devon Sawa) looking to redeem himself and save Molly’s life before her hideous “transformation” is complete…but Satan has other plans!
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I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance Is Mine (2015)
Starring:
Gabriel Hogan, Doug Mckeon, Corey Craig
Synopsis:
Jennifer Hills (Sarah Butler) is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago (I Spit On Your Grave 2010). She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new life. But when her new friend’s murderer goes free and the tales of serial rapists haunt her, Jennifer will hunt down the men responsible and do what the system won’t – make them pay for their crimes in the most horrific ways imaginable. Only this time, no jury may be able to save her. Jennifer Landon (“The Young and the Restless”), Doug McKeon (On Golden Pond) and Gabriel Hogan (“Heartland”) co- star in this unforgiving, unmerciful and uncut new chapter of one of the most notorious franchises in movie history.
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Kwaidan (1964)
Starring:
Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai
Synopsis:
Japanese ghost stories from tales by Lafcadio Hearn include a samurai who wakes up with a corpse.
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The Mad Genius (1931)
Starring:
John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth, Donald Cook, Boris Karloff
Synopsis:
John Barrymore stars as a sadistic impresario who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions in this wild and wicked pre-Code drama directed by Oscar winner Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, 1943). Crippled in mind and body, half-crazed puppeteer Ivan Tsarakov (Barrymore) fulfills his dream of becoming a ballet dancer through Fedor Ivanoff (Donald Cook), whom he trains to become the world’s greatest danseur. Jealous of his pupil’s success and fearing love will thwart Fedor’s career, Tsarakov has smitten ballerina Nana Carlova (Marian Marsh) dismissed from the troupe in a cruel and ruthless act that leads to blackmail and murder. The tenth and final film John Barrymore made for Warner Bros., The Mad Genius also stars Charles Butterworth, silent-screen siren Carmel Myers and Boris Karloff in a pre-Frankenstein role as Fedor’s abusive father.
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The Oblong Box (1969)
Starring:
Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Uta Levka
Synopsis:
Newly Remastered in HD! Coffins, blood and live corpses! A gasping, gnawing, heart stopping evil lies buried in The Oblong Box. Do you dare unearth its wrath? Vincent Price (Madhouse, Twice Told Tales) and Christopher Lee (The Crimson Cult, House of the Long Shadows) are at their terrifying best as a plantation owner with a shocking family secret and a wealthy doctor desperate to continue his morbid experiments on human flesh in this Edgar Allan Poe s (Tales of Terror) classic tale of the living dead! Price returns to his English manor from an African trip with his mad, mutilated brother and buries his chained up sibling alive. When the body is exhumed, the madman somehow still alive begins a systematic search for vengeance. Co-written, produced and directed by horror great, Gordon Hessler (Cry of the Banshee, Scream and Scream Again) with top-notch cinematography by John Coquillon (Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron).
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Stephen King’s A Good Marriage (2014)
Starring:
Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, Stephen Lang
Synopsis:
Based on a short story by horror legend Stephen King, A Good Marriage tells the story of Darcy Anderson (Joan Allen, Face/Off) and her husband Bob (Anthony LaPaglia, Without a Trace), celebrating another year of a good marriage. But when a sadistic serial killer starts to spread fear and panic throughout the Northeast, Darcy unveils a sinister secret about her husband that will threaten their perfect marriage and their lives.
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Tales From the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (1996) (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray)
Starring:
Dennis Miller, Angie Everhart, Corey Feldman, Chris Sarandon
Synopsis:
Dennis Miller, sexy supermodel Angie Everhart, and Erika Eleniak star in Bordello Of Blood, another hip “frightmare” from the Tales from the Crypt franchise. Wisecracking private eye, Rafe Guttman, is on a case to investigate the strange disappearances in connection with a bordello run by Madam Lilith and her luscious vampiresses. Guttman soon discovers that he must battle Madam Lilith and televangelist Jimmy Current who are partners in a practice of bleeding their customers dry.
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Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995) (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray)
Starring:
William Sadler, Jada Pinkett, Thomas Haden Church, CCH Pounder
Synopsis:
The crypt-keeper spins the tale of demons descending upon a boarding house and its residents. From the TV series “Tales From the Crypt.”
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The Vatican Tapes (2015)
Starring:
Michael Pena, Kathleen Robertson, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, Michael Pare
Synopsis:
The Vatican Tapes follows the ultimate battle between good and evil- God versus Satan. Angela Holmes is ordinary 27-year- old until she begins to have a devastating effect on anyone close, causing serious injury and death. Holmes is examined and possession is suspected, but when the Vatican is called upon to exorcise the demon, the possession proves to be an ancient satanic force more powerful than ever imagined. It’s all up to Father Lozano (Michael Peña) to wage war for more than just Angela’s soul, but for the world as we know it.
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COLLECTIONS
12 Movie Horror Pack
Starring:
Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch, Penn Badgley, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett
Movies:
Day of the Dead
Deadtime Stories V.1
Asylum of the Dead
The Occupants
Parts Per Billion
Dead Within
Deadline
Apocalypse of the Dead
Buck Wild
Germ-Z
Death From Above
Deadtime Stories V.2
Purchase:
Final Destination Collection
Starring:
Various
Movies:
Final Destination
When a boy starts having a premonition of Flight 180 crashing, he tells his friends before they board that it is a bad idea and to not to take the flight. His friends listen to him and don’t go and soon after the plane crashes. Now since his friends didn’t get on the plane one by one they are getting killed in mysterious ways.
Final Destination 2
En route to a weekend getaway with her friends, Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) watches helplessly as a logging truck careens out of control and loses its deadly payload, setting off a horrifying chain reaction that leaves twisted metal and dead bodies in its wake – including her own.
A moment later, Kimberly finds herself still stuck in on-ramp traffic, with a line of commuters she saw die moments before trailing behind her. It was only a vision. But was it also a warning?
Shocked into action, Kimberly blocks the cars from joining the traffic on Route 23 as a young police trooper (Michael Landes) arrives on the scene. The commuters begin to honk and complain until Kimberly’s premonition comes powerfully and tragically to life before their eyes.
Death tears up the highway in a massive pile-up, with those left on the onramp narrowly escaping with their lives. But Kimberly knows it’s not over. Death won’t be cheated so easily. Now this random group of strangers, who in Kimberly’s vision were all meant to die in the freeway disaster, must join her in a thrilling race against time and their own paralyzing fear to do what all but one of the survivors of Flight 180 couldn’t – stay alive.
Final Destination 3
When a high school student fails to stop the fated roller coaster ride that she predicted would cause the deaths of several of her friends, she teams with a schoolmate, in a race against time to prevent the Grim Reaper from revisiting the survivors of the first tragedy.
The Final Destination
On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave… escaping seconds before Nick’s frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they’ve cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one–in increasingly gruesome ways–Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination.
Final Destination 5
No matter where you run, no matter where you hide…you can’t cheat death.
Or can you? In “Final Destination 5,” Death is just as omnipresent as ever, first revealing its menacing reality to a group of coworkers headed for a corporate retreat. During the bus ride, Sam (Nicholas D’Agosto) has a premonition in which he and most of his friends, as well as numerous others, die in a horrific bridge collapse. When his vision ends, events begin to mirror what he had seen, and he frantically ushers as many of his colleagues—including his friend, Peter (Miles Fisher), and girlfriend, Molly (Emma Bell)—away from the disaster before Death can claim them.
But these unsuspecting souls were never supposed to survive and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.
Purchase:
The Larry Fessenden Collection
Starring
Ron Perlman, Kevin Corrigan, Connie Britton
Movies:
No Telling
An organic-farming advocate meets a woman whose husband does weird limb-transplant experiments with animals.
Habit
Breaking up has never quite sucked like this: shortly after splitting with his girlfriend, Sam (Fessenden) heads to a party, where a mysterious woman, Anna, catches his attention. After losing each other, the pair reconnects, and Sam quickly finds himself bewitched. While Sam continues to cope with the recent death of his father, breakup of his relationship, and struggles with drinking, he increasingly finds himself lost in his relationship with the seemingly omnipresent Anna, even as their relationship moves beyond the usual kink.
Wendigo
As Kim and George (Patricia Clarkson and Jake Weber) and their son Miles (Erik Per Sullivan) drive to the Catskills to spend a weekend away, they accidentally hit a deer and are run off the road. But what seems to be a mere occurrence of misfortune marks the beginning of a terrifying journey, where myth becomes reality and an evil spirit, half man and half animal, haunts a small town…
The Last Winter
A team in Alaska is tormented by an unseen evil. After one crewmember is found dead, disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the other team members as each of them succumbs to an unknown fear.
Purchase:
The Toho Godzilla Collection Vol. 1 (October 19th)
Starring:
Takao Okawara, Ishiro Honda, Kensho Yamashita, Kazuki Ohmori
Movies:
Godzilla Vs. Destroyah
Scientists freeze a radioactive dinosaur and contend with a horde of lethal creatures formed from its cells.
Godzilla Vs. Spacegodzilla
The powers of telepathy enter the ranks of high technology in this supernatural, super-powered Godzilla adventure for the 90’s.
Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah
Nearly three years after Godzilla was driven away by Biolante, a giant UFO soars over Tokyo. Is there a link?
Godzilla Vs. Mothra
A radioactive dinosaur joins the fray between a giant moth and a monster set on destroying humanity.
Rebirth of Mothra
Miniature twins summon a gigantic moth to battle their evil sister and a demonic three-headed beast.
Rebirth of Mothra II
Two young kids inadvertently unleash a giant sea creature which is somehow strengthened from the abundance of modern-day pollution. Mothra’s keepers, the tiny twins Moll and Lora, quickly rouse the gentle giant in order to combat this latest threat to peace.
Purchase:
The Toho Godzilla Collection Vol. 2 (October 19th)
Starring:
Takehiro Murata, Hiroshi Abe
Movies:
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
2003: After four years of scrupulous preparation under the prime minister, a new invincible robot, Mechagodzilla, has now reached completion, armed with various weapons, including the most powerful gun in history that can destroy anything in the world. Akane Yashiro is transferred to join the Mechagodzilla team as an operator who controls the mechanical monster. As soon as Mechagodzilla starts on its test run, the huge shadow of Godzilla begins to rise from the depths of the ocean…The battle of the century is going to take place between Godzilla and Mechagodzilla.
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II
Built with the utmost in 20th-century technology, Mechagodzilla is the ultimate in Godzilla-busting weaponry. Fueled by a nuclear reactor and sheathed in a synthetic diamond shield, the mammoth metal robot is Japan’s greatest hope for ending Godzilla’s reign of terror. Meanwhile, on a remote island polluted by nuclear waste, a team of scientists discover a giant egg in a Pteranodon nest, and bring it home for study. When Baby Godzilla hatches, both Rodan and Godzilla return to claim the cuddly infant as their own. Will their monstrous maternal instincts cause a custody battle capable of destroying Mother Earth? Or will Mechagodzilla prove an effective eradicator, leaving Baby Godzilla an orphan for life?
Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus
Godzilla is back! This time, Japan has a new weapon: Megaguirus! Now a 3-way battle begins between Godzilla, Megaguirus and the humans beings! Will Godzilla win? Will humanity survive?
Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack
After 50 years since his attack on Tokyo in 1954, the destructive monster Godzilla has somehow returned to life to destroy the city again. Now the religious cult must call upon the three monsters, King Ghidorah, Mothra and Baragon to protect Japan from Godzilla!
Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla’s 50th Anniversary project and costliest adventure to date out of 28 films. Earth has been relatively peaceful since Godzilla was successfully buried deep in ice beneath the South Pole. Then – sometime a few years hence-several of his old nemeses return to wreak havoc on cities worldwide. A huge spaceship suddenly appears and neutralizes all the monsters in a blink. The visitors are “Xiliens,” who take human form and announce they would like to negotiate a peace treaty that would replace the United Nations with a “United Universe”. They are indeed too good to be true, however. It doesn’t take long before their nefarious real purpose is exposed – conquering Earth. Greatly outmatched, Earth officials decide to de-freeze Godzilla as man’s only hope to vanish the invaders, as well as the monsters they control. Only trouble is Godzilla is still mad at man for freezing him in the first place.
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
One year after the fight between Godzilla and Mechagodzilla, the two monsters along with Mothra face off in a conclusive battle royale.
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