DVD and Blu-ray Releases: May 17, 2016
We’ve only got 9 releases this week, folks, so I’m going to keep it nice and short.
First off, there’s one classic movie dropping. 1965’s I Saw What You Did, featuring Joan Crawford and Leif Erickson, should be hitting your local shelves on Blu-ray. Then there’s the 4-Movie Post-Apocalyptic Collection. The relevance of this title is debatable (see also: Waterworld), but I figured what the heck.
Everything else is pretty much new, including this year’s The Witch. If you were patiently waiting for it to come out on Blu-ray or DVD, then your day has finally arrived.
The next few weeks are a bit slow, but June will definitely make up for it. As always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
Crush the Skull (2015)
Starring:
Chris Dinh, Chris Riedell
Synopsis:
Ollie and Blair are a typical fun, young couple–they just happen to earn a dishonest living by breaking and entering into upper-class homes. When their latest job goes awry, they find themselves having to pull one more last job. Unfortunately for them, the job was set up and planned by Blair’s irresponsible, unprepared, hothead younger brother, Connor. Of course, the “easy target” turns out to be anything but easy–the break-in is no problem, but the crew is immediately trapped inside, unable to break back out. As they explore the house for a solution, it becomes clear that this seemingly beautiful and innocuous home is actually a sadistic torture den, a mind-screwing maze of dead-ends and wrong turns, with an unseen killer separating them from one another and stalking them from the shadows. Ollie, Blair, and the rest of the would-be robbers now have to fight for their lives.
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Dementia (2015)
Starring:
Hassie Harrison, Gene Jones, Steve Agee
Synopsis:
A disabled war veteran is in bad hands when his family hires the live in nurse from hell in this intense psychological shocker. George (The Sacrament’s Gene Jones) is an aging ex-soldier haunted by memories of Vietnam and struggling to reconnect with his estranged son and granddaughter. But when he suffers a stroke and is diagnosed with dementia, George is left in the care of Michelle (Halloween’s Kristina Klebe), a seemingly sweet nurse with a disturbing dark side. At the mercy of a psychopath with a hypodermic needle, George becomes a prisoner in his own home, caught in a sadistic game of cat and mouse as brutal as anything he experienced in Vietnam. In his feature debut, director Mike Testin masterfully keeps the tension mounting—until it explodes in delirious violence.
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I Saw What You Did (1965)
Starring:
Joan Crawford, Leif Erickson
Synopsis:
Teens make prank phone calls and dial a man who has just killed his wife.
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I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2015)
Starring:
Jocelyn Christian, Ben Baker, Mike Edward, Harley Neville
Synopsis:
A zombie film shoot goes from bad to worse when members of the cast and crew catch a mystery illness, turning them into real zombies.
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Southbound (2016)
Starring:
Kate Beahan, Susan Burke, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Synopsis:
On a desolate stretch of desert highway, weary travelers – two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation – are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in a series of interwoven tales of terror and remorse on the open road.
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Triclops (2016)
Starring:
Erin Waterhouse, Richard Lounello
Synopsis:
A special effects-filled tribute to the classic drive-in movies of the 1950’s!
Captain Glenn Edwards’s plane crashes over the mysterious Amarok Crater. When the government covers up his disappearance, Glenn’s fiancée, Samantha, assembles a ragtag team of misfits to find out what really happened. They are horrified to discover bizarre creatures created by the rays of a radioactive meteor. But not even these monstrosities can prepare them for Triclops, a 50-ft tall, three-eyed behemoth who rules this lost world with an iron fist. Samantha believes that the colossal beast is really her missing lover, mutated beyond human comprehension. Her affection may be tragically misplaced, however, when the monster picks the beautiful girl for his next dinner…
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The Witch (2016)
Starring:
Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson
Synopsis:
A devoutly Christian family in 1630s New England, struggles to survive living along the edge of a vast wilderness. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
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COLLECTIONS
4-Movie Marathon: Post-Apocalyptic Collection
Starring:
Kevin Costner, Eric Balfour, Clive Owen, Rhona Mitra, Dennis Hopper
Movies:
Waterworld
A web-footed loner navigates a landless, post-apocalyptic Earth, chased by a ruthless gang after a woman’s young charge; original version.
Children of Men
A futuristic society faces extinction when no children are born and the human race has lost the ability to reproduce. England has descended into chaos, until an iron-handed warden is brought in to institute martial law.
The warden’s ability to keep order is threatened when a woman finds that she is pregnant with what would be the first child born in 27 years.
Skyline
It was supposed to be a simple birthday weekend in Southern California. But when sunrise arrives two hours early in the form of a haunting light from an unknown source, a group of friends watch in terror as people across the city are drawn outside and swept into massive alien ships that have blotted out the L.A. skyline. From tankers to drones and hydra-like extraterrestrials, the aliens are inescapable and seemingly indestructible. Now, it will take every survival instinct the group has to elude capture in this riveting, action-packed sci-fi adventure.
Doomsday
In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall, authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades… until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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The Night of Medusa / Slave Girls on the Moon
Starring:
Joshua Kennedy
Synopsis:
Joshua Kennedy has been inspired by vintage horror and sci-fi practically since he was born. He made his first movie, It Came from the Bathroom, at the age of five. By the time he turned sixteen, his breakout hit The Attack of the Octopus People (2011) had been released on DVD. With storylines that reference the classics and ingenious homegrown special effects, Joshua’s films appear to be from another era, and are guaranteed to bring a smile to old-school fans. A multiple Rondo Hatton Award-nominee, Joshua is currently the face of Pace University’s film program, where he crafted The Night of Medusa and Slave Girls on the Moon.
Movies:
The Night of Medusa (2016)
Exchange student Elaine Carlisle, fresh off the plane from Greece, enrolls at a university in New York. Her Old World ways quickly make her the target of the school’s fraternity. After a particularly heinous prank, one of the co-ed perpetrators ends up in the city morgue. Fearing she is somehow responsible, Elaine faces the truth she has long repressed …that she is the reincarnation of Medusa, the ancient Greek monster who can turn men into stone. Embracing her power, she will now destroy all those who tormented her…The Night of Medusa is Joshua’s tribute to his favorite film, the Hammer horror classic The Gorgon (1964). Lensed on location at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, real snakes were used to create the terrifying “Medusa” effect in actress Haley Zega’s hair.
Slave Girls on the Moon (2014)
In hopes of preventing nuclear war, brilliant (and gorgeous) female scientists Chloe Trustcott and Genevieve Fonda develop a time machine. But the device malfunctions, and Genevieve is catapulted into the far-flung year 8888. Following her colleague through the time portal, Chloe discovers a bizarre future civilization in which all healthy young women have been quarantined on the Moon. She finds Genevieve in this lunar prison, which is fiercely guarded by deranged radioactive mutants. With the help of the other nubile inmates, the girls pull off the most daring jail break of all time…Slave Girls on the Moon combines Joshua’s love of 1970’s “women-in-prison” films with influences as diverse as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Flash Gordon (1980). It won Best Comedy at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival.
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