DVD and Blu-ray Releases: September 27, 2016
Sean Brickley
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There is a pretty even distribution between newer movies and classics this week, my friends. Our only discrepancy comes with the original The Hills Have Eyes Blu-ray, which has been pushed back to October 11th.
Fans of the truly golden era of horror will be able to appreciate the Hollywood Legends of Horror Collection. We’re going all the way back to the 1930s with this one.
Also located in our Collections section this week are two double features from the 1940s, featuring the likes of Boris Karloff, Val Lewton and Tom Conway. Check out those titles below.
Following 1972’s Count Dracula’s Great Love, we get a good handful of 80s greats. This week sees Blu-rays from An American Werewolf In London to The Lady In White, or from Chopping Mall through 1988’s Slugs.
As an honorable mention, this week’s near-classic nod goes to The Mangler. This also comes to us by means of the Warner Archive Collection, and with a rather unholy trinity consisting of Stephen King, Tobe Hooper and Robert Englund it’s rather surprising this didn’t get a Blu-ray release as well.
Lastly, for all of you out there in TV land, this week sees the Blu-ray and DVD releases of TV’s “Grimm.” Dare I say that this is yet another TV show I thought was pretty good initially but just didn’t have an accommodating enough schedule to keep up with it.
Among all of this, there are a bunch of newer titles, so keep reading. We’ll see you next week and as always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
3: All Hallows Eve (2016)
Starring:
Various
Synopsis:
Three tales of terror to make your flesh creep and your heart pound. Deadly spirits, back from the grave with vengeance in mind, give fuel to these tales of supernatural horror. This awesome horror anthology includes a story adapted from the work of master horror writer Gary Brandner, author of ‘The Howling. Demons from beyond, souls seeking revenge and more for the scariest Halloween of all.
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) (Restored Edition)
Starring:
David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
Synopsis:
Re-discover one of the most gripping horror films of all time with the cult classic An American Werewolf in London Restored Edition. Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic werewolf tale in this story of two American tourists who, while traveling in London, find their lives changed forever when a vicious wolf attacks them during a full moon.
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And Hell Awaits (2016)
Starring:
Various
Synopsis:
Life on Earth is an eternal mystery, and some say it’s beyond our grasp. While some are content to live an ordinary life, others cannot accept the notion of death and will do anything to prevent their demise. Retired Lt. Arland Frye is a man who has had terrifying experiences and seen life changing horrors that led him on a dark journey into the unknown. Experimenting with Brujo magic and the occult, Lt. Frye is now on his deathbed and crosses over into another realm where the dance between life and death is a hallucinatory experience not just for him, but for those he chooses to take with him.
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Blood Diner (1987)
Starring:
Rick Burks, Carl Crew, Roger Dauer, LaNette La France, Lisa Elaina
Synopsis:
Two brothers running a diner collect body parts needed to bring an ancient goddess to life.
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Cell (2016)
Starring:
John Cusack, Samuel Jackson, Stacy Keach, Isabelle Fuhrman
Synopsis:
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
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Chasing the Devil (2016)
Starring:
Tim Phillipps, Vivian Dugré, Chris Yule, Cory Knauf, Ary Katz
Synopsis:
The mysterious suicide of Patrick McCord’s sister prompts him to enlist paranormal investigators to look into her death, and unwittingly brings the wrath of an evil entity upon them, leaving their found footage as the only survivor.
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Chopping Mall (1986)
Starring:
Kelli Maroney, Tony O’Dell, John Terlesky, Russell Todd, Karrie Emerson, Barbara Crampton
Synopsis:
Eight teens are trapped in a shopping mall with three security robots out of control.
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Count Dracula’s Great Love (1972)
Starring:
Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Haydee Politoff, Mirta Miller, Ingrid Garbo
Synopsis:
After their carriage breaks down and their driver is killed in a freak accident, a group of young women are forced to spend the night in a strange and isolated former sanatorium, which has just been purchased by the secretive Dr. Marlow (Paul Naschy). Unbeknownst to the visitors, Dr. Marlow is actually Count Dracula, and stalking the sanatorium are his recently turned vampire slaves. Soon the guests begin to be attacked by the ravenous bloodsuckers, while Dracula sets his sights on the beautiful virgin Karen, deciding to offer her his hand in marriage…
One of Naschy’s most significant roles, Javier Aguirre’s Count Dracula’s Great Love is a sensitive, complex, and surprisingly subversive Dracula story featuring expert direction, effective gothic atmosphere, and gruesome violence. Presented here in its full strength ‘unclothed’ export version, Vinegar Syndrome brings this classic piece of Spanish horror cinema to Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world, fully restored from its uncut International negative and featuring a never released feature length audio commentary track with star Naschy and director Aguirre.
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Dogman 2: The Wrath Of The Litter (2016)
Starring:
Larry Joe Campbell, Mariann Mayberry, Kimberly Guerrero
Synopsis:
Hank still enjoys the outdoors and loves to hunt. He and his wife, Dorothy, continue to live on their family farm in the rural Midwest. The picturesque autumn woodlands are a wonderful place to be. But things are not well. Unseen in the nearby forest, are a litter of grown Dogman pups, embarking on their terrifying destiny, and standing over seven feet tall. They are a bad batch. They have to be stopped.
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Exorcist: The Fallen (2016)
Starring:
Tara Marie Kirk, Rollyn Stafford, Justin Hall, Todd A. Robinson, Petra Boyd
Synopsis:
A terrifying, realistic depiction of a family torn apart by demonic possession, and the lengths they will go to in order to save themselves. When their young daughter is possessed by insidious forces, a normal American family is caught in the middle of a battle between good and evil, fighting to keep their daughter’s soul, and their bonds as a family intact until the demon can be driven away.
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First Man On Mars (2016)
Starring:
Marcelle Shaneyfelt, Gavin Ferrara, Benjamin Wood, Kirk Jordan, Sam Cobean
Synopsis:
A secret mission. A horrifying discovery. The countdown to terror has begun! Billionaire astronaut Eli Cologne became the first man on Mars, but something went horribly wrong. Infected by an alien organism on the red planet, he returned to Earth a crazed, savage monster with an unquenchable thirst for human flesh. For small town sheriff Dick Ruffman, it’s a race against time to find the man-turned-monster before he kills again in this horrifying and hilarious satire of low budget drive-in grindhouse creature features from the 1970’s directed by Mike T. Lyddon.
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Francesca (2015)
Starring:
Raul Gederlini, Silvina Grippaldi, Luis Emilio Rodríguez, Gustavo D´alessandro
Synopsis:
It’s been 15 years since the disappearance of little Francesca, daughter of the renowned poet and playwright, Vittorio Visconti. The community is stalked by a psychopath bent on cleaning the city of impure and damned souls. Moretti and Succo are the detectives in charge of finding the killer of these Dantesque crimes. Francesca has returned, but she is not be the same girl they once knew.
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Gut (2012)
Starring:
Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder, Sarah Schoofs, Kirstianna Mueller, Kailtlyn Mueller
Synopsis:
Family man Tom has seen something he can’t forget, a mysterious video with an ugly secret that soon spreads into his daily life and threatens to dismantle everything around him.
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A House Is Not A Home (2015)
Starring:
Richard Grieco, Bill Cobbs, Eddie Steeples, Aurora Perrineau, Gerald Webb
Synopsis:
Ben and Linda Williams move their family to a new town and into a dream home as a last ditch effort to save their troubled marriage. Despite the good intentions, none of the family members can shake the feeling that something isn’t quite right in their new home. Their unimaginable fears are realized when things inside the house take a supernatural and sinister turn. Ben and his family flee for their lives, but it’s too late. An ancient evil traps the family in the house’s ever-changing labyrinth. The Williams must come together as never before to fight for their family, their lives and to escape an evil more powerful and evil than they could ever imagine. Stellar performances by Richard Grieco (21 Jump Street), Bill Cobbs (A Night at the Museum), Aurora Perrineau (Jem and the Holograms, Equals), Eddie Steeples (My Name is Earl), Gerald Webb (Marvel’s Agent Carter, Battle of Los Angeles), Melvin Gregg (vine celebrity 3.7 million followers) and Emmy winner Diahnna Nicole Baxter (Scandal, Trueblood) anchor the audience to their seats making them feel the family’s terror.
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Killersaurus (2016)
Starring:
Various
Synopsis:
When a scientist runs out of funding for his life-saving medical research, he accepts an investment from a shadowy military organization to finish his work. But in return, he is forced to use his new technology to create the ultimate battlefield weapon – a full size Tyrannosaures Rex, who is ready to break free and start the ultimate battle with the human race.
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Lady In White (1988)
Starring:
Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco
Synopsis:
A widower’s youngest son turns small-town sleuth to solve a series of spooky murders in the 1960s.
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The Mangler (1995)
Starring:
Robert Englund, Ted Levine, Daniel Matmor, Jeremy Crutchley, Vanessa Pike
Synopsis:
Police and para-psychologists race against the clock to stop a demonic laundry presser that demands blood sacrifice. Starring Robert Englund (the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Urban Legend) and Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs, American Gangster). Based on a Stephen King short story from his collection, Night Shift (where two of the stories in Cat’s Eye are also from), and written and directed by horror master Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist,The Texas Chain Saw Massacre).
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Motivational Growth (2013)
Starring:
Jeffery Combs
Synopsis:
Ian Folivor, a depressed and reclusive 30-something, finds himself taking advice from a growth in his bathroom after a failed suicide attempt. The Mold, a smooth talking fungus who was born of the filth collecting in a corner of Ian’s neglected bathroom, works to win Ian’s trust by helping him clean himself up and remodel his lifestyle. With The Mold’s help, Ian attracts the attention of a neighbor he’s been ogling through his peephole, Leah, and he manages to find a slice of happiness despite his unnatural circumstances. But Ian starts to receive strange messages from his old and broken down TV set that make him realize that The Mold may not be as helpful as it seems to be, and strange characters combined with stranger events cast Ian’s life in the shadow of an epic battle between good and evil that Ian is only partially aware of.
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The Neon Demon (2016)
Starring:
Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks
Synopsis:
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
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The Sacrifice (2016)
Starring:
Elizabeth Abraham, Kourtney Adams, Venice Averryheart, Armaan Bajpai, Liz Bancroft
Synopsis:
The Sacrifice starts in Northern India, with a pregnant woman being chased and killed. From that mysterious crime, we come to America, where we meet little brothers Samir and Pran. They have come from India to stay with their relatives in Chicago. During their stay in the States, the kids don’t feel safe. They are actually constantly afraid of something unseen. Something that seems to lurk in the dark around the house. Soon enough, death will visit the new family. Nobody is safe anymore, as they face a vicious unstoppable evil that will not rest until it has achieved its mission… But what is that mission? What does it want? And who is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop it?
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Slugs (1988) (Special Edition)
Starring:
Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Phillip MacHale, Alicia Morrow, Santiago Alvarez
Synopsis:
THEY SLIME. THEY OOZE. THEY KILL.
From celebrated Spanish director Juan Piquer Simón, the man behind the truly demented slasher flick Pieces (1982), comes a terrifying tale of mutant slugs on the rampage in small-town America.
The townsfolk of a rural community are dying in strange and gruesome circumstances. Following the trail of horrifically mutilated cadavers, resident health inspector Mike Brady is on the case to piece together the mystery. He soon comes to a terrifying conclusion giant slugs are breeding in the sewers beneath the town, and they re making a meal of the locals!
Based on the novel by acclaimed British horror author Shaun Hutson, Slugs outdoes its creature feature peers by adding an extra dose of gross-out gore into the equation, culminating in one of the most squirm-inducing animal attack movies ever to slither its way across screens.
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Spirit In The Woods (2014)
Starring:
Ashley Fast, Heidi Lewandowski, Kinsley Funari, Taylor Patterson, Adrian Denzel
Synopsis:
The fate of five local college students who went missing in the infamous Spiritual Woods is finally unraveled as previously unreleased footage is made public for the first time. Long thought to be dead, the truth turns out to be much worse.
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TELEVISION
“Grimm” Season Five
Starring:
David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell
Synopsis:
At the heels of his mother’s beheading and Juliette’s “death,” Nick’s life has taken a turn he never expected. Having lost so much, Nick must now come to grips with fathering a child with his once sworn enemy, Adalind. With even more dangerous Wesen coming out of the shadows, the Black Claw uprising Team Grimm has been dreading is approaching in full force. Own all 22 episodes of “Grimm” Season Five, the most chilling season of “Grimm” yet.
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COLLECTIONS
The 7th Victim / Shadows in the Dark
Starring:
Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, Evelyn Brent
Movies:
The 7th Victim
Shadows In The Dark
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Hollywood Legends of Horror Collection
Starring:
Various
Synopsis:
Classic tales of mad passions and madder deeds! Includes: Doctor X, The Return of Doctor X, Mark of the Vampire, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Mad Love, and The Devil-Doll.
Purchase:
https://amzn.com/B01L30SDMM
Isle of the Dead / Bedlam
Starring:
Various
Synopsis:
The most celebrated star in the history of screen horror headlines these two atmospheric works filled with producer Val Lewton’s trademark mix of mood, madness and premeditated dread. Boris Karloff shares a quarantined house with other strangers on a plague-infested – perhaps spirit-haunted – Isle of the Dead. St. Mary’s of Bethlehem Asylum in 1761 London is the setting for Bedlam. Karloff gives an uncanny performance as the doomed overseer who fawns on high-society benefactors, while ruling the mentally disturbed inmates with an iron fist. Mark Robson, who edited three films for Lewton and directed five, guides both films.
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