DVD and Blu-ray Releases: January 19, 2016
Sean Brickley
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Unfortunately, we don’t have a huge list for you, friends. I can say with certainty that February is absolutely loaded with releases so just bear with us over the next couple of weeks.
Of the 6 releases coming to you this week, half of them are classics: Luther the Geek, Nightmare Weekend and 1990’s The Guardian.
We’ll also be seeing the release of the first season of the TV adaptation of “12 Monkeys.” This is another one I have to catch up on. I found the first episode to be pretty entertaining.
I’ll let you check out the other two releases for yourself. As always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
Dead End (2016)
Starring:
Marcus D. Spencer, Shalema Meszaro, Larry Kitagawa, Nicole R. Hughes
Synopsis:
Demons haunt Tina after she begins to open the case of the murderer who claimed the lives of school children in her town. Her devotion to the case manifests frightening paranormal activities and the spirits haunt her day and night. She reaches out to a priest who sheds light on the situation. She soon realizes she must endure terror if she is to find this bloody murderer.
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The Guardian (1990)
Starring:
Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell
Synopsis:
Yuppies with a baby hire a nanny, a druid witch who sacrifices babies to a tree.
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Hana-Dama: The Origin (2016)
Starring:
Sakuragi Rina, Nakamura Eriko, Aasda Shun
Synopsis:
From the wild imagination of director Sato Hisayasu (Splatter: Naked Blood), one of a group of directors known as the Four Devils (who made their mark in the softcore pink film genre in the late 1980 s), comes a twisted tale of revenge via plant life in the terrifying Hana-Dama: The Origin.
Bullied Japanese high school student Mizuki (Sakuragi Rina, Girl s Blood) has the ultimate revenge on her teenage tormentors in this horror-fest tinged with dark humor.
Possessed by a powerful spirit, Mizuki sprouts a mysterious flower from her head which empowers her with deadly skills to exact revenge, with bloody consequences, against the bullying classmates led by mean girl Aya (Nakamura Eriko, August In Tokyo).
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Luther the Geek (1988)
Starring:
Edward Terry, Joan Roth, Jerome Clarke, Stacy Haiduk
Synopsis:
One night, when Luther was a boy, he discovered that there was something different about him – he enjoyed the taste of blood. Following in the footsteps of others like him, Luther became a geek: a deranged man who bites the heads off of live chickens in exchange for booze or money. Now, decades later, Luther is about to be paroled from prison and is ready to return to his home town, fitted with a set of razor sharp, metal teeth, and an unquenchable thirst for human blood… Directed by Carlton Albright (The Children), Luther The Geek is a bloody and bleak rural slasher featuring gruesome gore courtesy of William Purcell (Exorcist 3) and Mike Tristano (Evil Dead 2) in what Fangoria called “the most riveting splatter film since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
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Nightmare Weekend (1985)
Starring:
Dale Midkif, Debbie Lester, Robert Burke, Debra Hunter
Synopsis:
A brilliant computer scientist has just finished work on his greatest creation: a super computer with the ability to transform the personalities of bad and disobedient people. In anticipation of sharing his work with the scientific community, the scientist invites a fellow expert to test the machine on a group of debauched young women. Little does he know that his colleague intends to use the computer to turn their subjects into bloodthirsty mutants!
Nightmare Weekend is a non-stop assault on the senses. Head explosions, gratuitous nudity and softcore sex, bikers, roller-skating, and a telepathic hand puppet named George rank Nightmare Weekend among the weirdest and most jaw droppingly absurd horror films of the 1980s.
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TELEVISION
“12 Monkeys” Season One
Starring:
Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull
Synopsis:
Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, a man from the post-apocalyptic future, James Cole, (Aaron Stanford, Nikita, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand) travels to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will decimate the human race. But as he and virologist, Dr. Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull, “Suits”, Center Stage), track the mysterious cult behind the outbreak, the “Army of the 12 Monkeys”, the effects of time travel threaten to destroy humanity’s last hope.
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