DVD and Blu-ray Releases: January 10, 2017
Sean Brickley
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We’ve got kind another short list for you this week, friend. If you were looking for The Priests: Exorcism, it appears to have been bumped back to February 7th. Check back then for more information.
Of our ten releases this week a handful of them are from the 1980s. To start, we have 1985’s Murderlust coming to DVD. Alongside that is The Survivor Blu-ray and DVD, and the Dead Of Winter DVD, both from 1981 and 1987 respectively.
There is also a collection listed by the title of Strange Things, which has some titles from the 1980s as well. Interestingly, the cover also looks very reminiscent of the artwork from a recent 1980s based Netflix smash hit you may have heard of. That may also be something worth checking out.
Definitely check back next week as we will have more than 20 releases to go over. As always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
B.C. Butcher (2016)
Starring:
Kato Kaelin, Kadeem Hardison, Leilani Fideler
Synopsis:
B.C. Butcher is the paleo-party horror movie of the stone-ages!
When a tribe of hot cave women impart cruel, violent justice onto one of their own and leave the dead cave girl’s body tied to a tree, their fate takes a turn for the worse! Stalked by a hideously deformed, giant, pre-historic monster called B.C. Butcher, the cave women are violently destroyed one by one despite warnings by the tribe’s blind prophetess. Who will save them?
Dead Of Winter (1987)
Starring:
Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes
Synopsis:
A man in a wheelchair and his henchman groom an actress for their blackmail plot.
The Harrow (2017)
Starring:
Maggie Geha, Tom McKay, Sonya Harum
Synopsis:
Miller, a southern drifter, secludes himself in an abandoned 100-year-old slaughterhouse where he lives with visions of Gale, his dead lover. When Gale’s daughter shows up to dig up the past, they reassemble the shards of Miller’s shattered memory and are horrified at what they uncover.
Honky Holocaust (2016)
Starring:
Maria Napatov, Alex E. Edwards, J-Kori Salmon, Lucas Fleming, LaNecia Edmonds
Synopsis:
When Kendra finds herself separated from the Family, she must rely on the same individuals that she and her Family were trained to hate and kill, and finds herself forced to face reality and reevaluate the decades of brainwashing that she had undergone, if only Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton could do likewise.
Paul Michael McAlarney’s Honky Holocaust is a gruesome, brilliant and hilarious grindhouse/exploitation film exploring racism’s complex effects on society and the individual. Introducing a multitude of characters, all from different positions and perspectives on the spectrum of ideologies and attitudes toward race, Honky Holocaust insists ruthlessly and without censoring any detail that a single seed of bigotry can destroy any society from within. In true exploitation fashion, the filmmakers do so by showing rather than implying the consequences. A great homage to classic Troma movies, Honky Holocaust may be the most controversial Tromasterpiece since Surf Nazis Must Die.
Taking strong and unabashed influence from a wide variety of classic exploitation films and filmmakers such as Sergio Leone, Lloyd Kaufman, Street Trash, Jack Hill, Rudy Ray Moore, Roger Corman, and of course Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. Honky Holocaust takes the audience back to the 1960s where Charles Manson was building an army to wait out the Helter-Skelter race war and emerge from the Manson Family Bunker to conquer the world when the dust cleared. In reality, of course, Charles Manson’s plans were foiled fortunately, but in Honky Holocaust he sees them realized, and the film follows his daughter Kendra and the Manson Family out of the bunker and into the world above, 35 years after the murder of Sharon Tate. What Kendra Manson and her “Family Members” soon realize, however, is that their racist ideologies and prophecies were vastly inaccurate and toxic.
Rather than tackle racism in its infinite forms as an onlooker might perceive them, Honky Holocaust, takes the audience a step further, piercing into the minds of those affected by racism and those who possess the bigoted attitudes, and exposes the delusions, the self-fulfilling reactions, the fear, and the complacency that often fuels racist ideas even when facts contradict them to the core, all in an entertaining and thought provoking manner.
Murderlust (1985)
Starring:
Eli Rich, Rochelle Taylor, Dennis Gannon
Synopsis:
From enigmatic director Donald M. Jones comes one of the most disturbing and rarely seen serial killer sagas of the 80s: By day, mild-mannered Steve Belmont (Eli Rich of The Jigsaw Murders) is a clean-cut teacher and youth counselor at his Los Angeles church. But by night, he’s a sexual psychopath who murders prostitutes and dumps their bodies in the Mojave Desert. Ashley St. Jon (Takin It Off) co-stars in this overlooked and effective (Horrorpedia) chiller, now with an all-new audio commentary and available uncut on DVD for the first time ever.
The Summoning (2017)
Starring:
Eric Roberts, Leila Almas, Jaime Zevallos, Razaaq Adoti, Rheagan Wallace
Synopsis:
When a law student uncovers chilling secrets and places her life at risk, a bitter, rough-around-the- edges detective gets assigned to her case.
The Survivor (1981)
Starring:
Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten
Synopsis:
When a 747 crash lands in a Sydney suburb – a still-spectacular sequence that helped make this the most expensive Australian film of its time – the inferno kills everyone on board except the pilot (Robert Powell of Jesus Of Nazareth and Tommy) who emerges from the wreckage miraculously unscathed. But as a local psychic (Jenny Agutter of An American Werewolf In London) begins to communicate with the spirits of the doomed passengers, it will unlock a nightmare of madness, murder and supernatural horror.
Under the Shadow (2016)
Starring:
Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Arash Marandi
Synopsis:
Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor’s warning that the missile might carry an ancient curse, but as the frightening occurrences in her apartment escalate, Shideh realized that the malevolent force in her home is infinitely more evil and terrifying than the missiles raining down on the city.
COLLECTIONS
Crystal Lake Memories / Never Sleep Again Double Feature
Starring:
Sean S. Cunningham, Corey Feldman, Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Alice Cooper
Synopsis:
Inspired by the critically-acclaimed book, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History Of Friday The 13th takes viewers behind the mask on an epic journey into the making of the landmark horror franchise-from its humble beginnings in 1980 at a New Jersey summer camp to the blockbuster release of its 2009 “reboot.” Combining hundreds of rare and never-before-seen photographs, film clips, outtakes, archival documents, conceptual art and behind-the-scenes footage, and featuring interviews with more than 150 cast and crew members spanning all twelve films and the television series, Crystal Lake Memories is the ultimate tribute to one of horror’s most iconic and enduring franchises.
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy – Murderer. Dream Demon. The bastard son of a hundred maniacs. Any way you slice it, there can only be one man – one monster – who epitomizes those words: Freddy Krueger. For decades, he has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters and shows no signs of ever resting in peace. A Nightmare on Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp is your dream guide in this thrilling “shockumentary” that takes you deeper into Freddy’s realm than ever before, featuring exciting clips, never-before-seen photos, behind-the-scenes footage, conceptual art, publicity materials and exclusive new interviews with over 100 key cast and crew from every Nightmare, including Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Jack Sholder, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Chuck Russell, Jennifer Rubin, Renny Harlin, Lisa Wilcox, Tuesday Knight, Stephen Hopkins, Kelly Jo Minter, Rachel Talalay, Lisa Zane, Alice Cooper, Patrick Lussier, Miko Hughes, Monica Keena, Brendan Fletcher, Ronny Yu and many more. So get ready for Freddy in the definitive account of modern cinema’s eternal bogeyman and what has been called the most frightening and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history!
Strange Things
Starring:
Liam Neeson, Molly Ringwald, Mark Hamill, Joey Lawrence, Ben Kingsley, Karen Black, F. Murray Abraham, Bill Paxton
Movies:
Pulse
In today’s world of modern conveniences, everything we rely on is run by electricity. But what happens if the power we take for granted turns against us?
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
In the year 2136, Wolff (Peter Strauss), a wily salvage pilot and intergalactic bounty hunter, answers a distress signal on Terra Eleven. Agreeing to pick up three women who’ve been shipwrecked, he lands on the planet only to discover they’ve been kidnapped. Following their trail, Wolff soon encounters Niki (Molly Ringwald), a spunky orphan who agrees to guide him across the Forbidden Zone, a vast wasteland populated by plague-infested mutants. After many battles, Wolff and Niki finally reach the lair of Overdog (Michael Ironside), the planet’s half-man/half-machine ruler. Discovering the women are held captive in Overdog’s slave pens, Wolff’s rescue mission finally begins.
Krull
Journey into a mystical time and place that belongs to neither the past nor the present, where extraordinary creatures of myth work their incredible magic, and where a horrific, omnipotent Beast is the ruler. This is the planet of Krull!
Prince Colwyn sets out on a daring mission to rescue his young bride who is held captive by the Beast. But slayers and alien beings under the command of the Beast oppose him at every turn. Colwyn must first reach a faraway cavern to recover the legendary Glaive, a flying blade capable of phenomenal powers.
My Mom’s a Werewolf
A housewife finds herself transforming into a werewolf after a bite from a pet shop owner she meets. It seems the shop owner was a werewolf and has now passed along his curse to the housewife. The woman attempts to hide her transformations from her family until her daughter and the daughter’s friend learn the secret and set out to find a cure for the housewife’s curse.
The Hearse
A young woman inherits her aunt’s home and decides to stay in it during the summer after a bad divorce. The rumors of her aunt’s involvement in witchcraft and the hatred of the locals weigh heavily upon the young woman as she is trying to rest and recover. Mysterious visions of a black hearse haunt the young woman as they foretell her of possible dangers to come.
Lurkers
A woman who had a nightmarish childhood due to her abusive mother has become engaged to a caring photographer. As her wedding date grows near, some mysterious occurrences cause the woman to fear her families’ legacy. The story her mother told her about ‘lurkers’ coming to get her may be more than an old wife’s tale.
Slipstream
In the near future when the Earth has suffered an environmental disaster, a fugitive has been captured by a pair of cops with the intent of bringing him in for the huge reward. A bounty hunter learns of the capture and takes the fugitive from the officers, to claim the reward himself, and escapes with his prisoner into the slipstream, a region of howling winds that encircle the Earth, with the cops hot on his trail.
Mutant
Two brothers are traveling together on vacation and arrive in a small and unusually quiet Southern town. While trying to find out what happened to the missing citizens of the town, one of the brothers disappears. The remaining brother teams up with the local sheriff and they discover a toxic waste spill has transformed the missing people into bloodthirsty zombies, roaming the streets at night for their next victim.
Warriors of the Wasteland
In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of weary survivors is faced with a relentless onslaught from a gang of roving bandits. Into this conflict comes two men, rivals by nature, but forced to take the same side against a common foe. The survival of the human race may very well come down to the outcome of this battle!
Alien Contamination
A cargo ship from South America drifts into New York City harbor and the police board the vessel to discover what happened to the crew. Finding the crew dead, apparently from their internal organs bursting out of their torso, the police discover the reason for the crew’s deaths were some mysterious eggs in the cargo bay. Hoping to find the source of the eggs, the police officer heading up the investigation tracks down a former astronaut, who was part of a Mars mission that went horribly wrong.
Eternal Evil (aka The Blue Man)
A bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend. Learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body, the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing. Unfortunately, the man discovers while he is sleeping, his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage.
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