DVD and Blu-ray Releases: February 28, 2017
Sean Brickley
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Welcome back, friends. We have 14 releases this week, although there is one discrepancy going back to the 14th to discuss. We Are the Flesh was shown on some sites as having the 14th as a release date and on other sites as having today. I promised two weeks ago I would bring it back up again, and here you go. Hopefully you get your copy regardless.
We’ve got three classics from the 1980s coming our way this week. Slaughterhouse, The Gate and Deadtime Stories are all getting the Blu-ray treatment. Be sure to buy all three for a great high-definition travel through time.
Shut In will be coming to your shelves this week as well. I personally did not get to see this movie yet but have heard good things about it so I’d say that’s a good pick-up.
There are a bunch of other, newer titles to check out below so get to it. I will see you all again next week and the week after that and the week after that….
As always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
3 Hours Till Dead (2016)
Starring:
Vladamir Zaric, Chris Walters, Hans Potter
Synopsis:
An AWOL soldier with PTSD goes into hiding. Along with his brother and a few friends they retreat into a rural farm area unaware that the outside world has stopped functioning. On their way back to civilization, his brother is attacked and bitten by an infected farmer. The brother quickly turns into a rabid animal and lives for exactly three hours. Realizing that they are in grave danger, they head back to the forest trying to outlive the legions of the infected.
Bangin’ Vengeance (2011)
Starring:
Paula Burrows
Synopsis:
Amber Rain would do ANYTHING to be a star… but when her botched, bust-implanted boobs start talking, Amber learns that the road to success is paved in blood! Set in the seedy side of Las Vegas where everyone wants to make a buck, Amber takes revenge on all the men who wronged her. Lied to, abused, scarred… Amber Rain will have her vengeance!
BD-R (all BD-R’s are professionally pressed and silkscreened by Discmakers). Only 100 will be sold.
Child Eater (2016)
Starring:
Brandon Smalls, Dave Klasko, James Wilcox, Melinda Chilton, Jason Martin, Colin Critchley,Cait Bliss
Synopsis:
A babysitter. A missing kid. A local legend who feasts on the eyes of children. Child Eater is a nightmarish roller-coaster ride of a horror movie inspired by the fantastical tone of the 1980s. When little Lucas goes missing from his bedroom in the middle of the night, his babysitter Helen ventures out into the deep, dark woods armed only with a flashlight and a fierce determination to find him.
The Creature Below (2016)
Starring:
Anna Dawson, Johnny Vivash, Daniel Thrace, Michaela Longden
Synopsis:
During a traumatic accident whilst on a deep-sea dive in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, Olive, a gifted, young marine-biologist discovers an unearthly creature. Loosing her dream job, Olive smuggles the creature home, intent on studying it in her basement, unbeknownst to her devoted boyfriend Matt. Whilst struggling to re-adjust to landlocked life and recover from her recent trauma, Olive begins to realize that she and the creature share a symbiotic bond that drives her to carry out its sinister will. Plagued by gruesome nightmares, her fractured memories of what happened during the accident in the depths of the ocean begin to unravel and reveal an eldritch horror far older and malevolent than she could ever imagine, one which she has unwittingly set free. Olive’s obsession leads to madness as her discovery consumes her entire humanity, with deadly results for those around her.
Creepy (2016)
Starring:
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Teruyuki Kagawa
Synopsis:
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who made his name with classics Cure and Bright Future, gets back to his roots by putting the thumbscrews to the audience with his latest, Creepy. A year after a botched hostage negotiation with a serial killer turned deadly, ex-detective Koichi (Hidetoshi Nishijima), and his wife move into a new house with a deeply strange new neighbor (Teruyuki Kagawa). His old cop colleagues come calling for his help on a mysterious case, which may be related to the strange goings-on next door, in this insidiously-constructed narrative that braids plot twists on top of plot twists and shock on top of shock.
Deadtime Stories (1986)
Starring:
Scott Valentine, Nicole Picard, Cathryn De Prume
Synopsis:
Twisted tales include a medieval boy with witches, a girl in red with a werewolf, and a killer Goldilocks.
The Gate (1987)
Starring:
Stephen Dorff, Louis Tripp, Christa Denton, Kelly Rowan, Jennifer Irwin
Synopsis:
The removal of an old tree in a suburban resident’s backyard reveals a large, mysterious hole that turns out to be an underground chamber of terrifying, demonic evil.
Harbinger (2016)
Starring:
Tina Rodriguez, Joseph T. Campos, Paeka Campos, DimitriusPulido
Synopsis:
Mira Gonzaga has been having terrible dreams. As they escalate, Mira’s father moves her and her pregnant mother to a secluded ranch in the Texas hill-country. The night terrors do not end as warnings from her deceased grandmother and visions of things-to-come haunt her. When nearby fracking operations begin to infiltrate the ranch’s water supply; Mira’s parents begin to feel it’s dire effects…
Mother of All Lies (2015)
Starring:
Francesca Eastwood, Jennifer Copping, Anna Galvin
Synopsis:
Adopted teenager Sara goes in search of her birth mother Abby only to find the woman in prison for bank robbery and manslaughter. In an upcoming parole hearing, Sara helps Abby win release and decides to spend the summer with her before leaving for college. But Sara soon finds herself in danger as her mother returns to her life of crime.
The Shadow People (2017)
Starring:
C. Thomas Howell, Bug Hall, Kat Steffens
Synopsis:
Newlyweds Megan (Kat Steffans) and Andrew (Bug Hall) have just moved into their dream home with aspirations to start a family. But soon strange events start happening. Voices and shadowy figures haunt Megan, and even Andrew starts questioning his own sanity as their marriage is being torn apart. The visions grow increasingly real… and threatening; yet, Megan is unwilling to relinquish her home. When the appearance of a mysterious priest (C. Thomas Howell) unveils the truth behind their nightmare, Megan’s reality takes a desperate turn that her haunting visions never could have predicted.
Shut In (2016)
Starring:
David Cubitt, Oliver Platt, Jacob Tremblay, Charlie Heaton
Synopsis:
A widowed child psychologist lives an isolated existence in rural New England. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Slaughterhouse (1987)
Starring:
Sherry Bendorf Leigh, Joe B. Barton, Don Barrett, Bill Brinsfield, Jane Higginson
Synopsis:
Lester Bacon’s slaughterhouse has run into financial problems. Faced with the town lawyer, the sheriff, and the rival slaughterhouse owner trying to purchase his land, Lester decides to take matters into his own hands. After discovering the type of violence his hulking and mentally deranged son, Buddy, is capable of, Lester orders him to permanently dispose of anyone who conspires against them…
A late 80s video store staple, Rick Roessler’sSlaughterhouse is a gleefully bloody San Diego shot slasher featuring atmospheric and noirish cinematography along with a generous helping of creative kills. Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents Slaughterhouse in its North American Blu-ray debut, newly restored in 2k from its 35mm Interpositive and featuring the original Ultra-Stereo sound mix for the first time on home video.
Territorial Behavior (2014)
Starring:
Ronan Murphy, Bridget O’Connor, Corey Macri
Synopsis:
Bailey Rhodes, a survival instructor with over ten-years of outdoors experience, ventures into a remote area of Montana to shoot a tutorial video. There, he comes to the malicious attentions of some violent poachers, who seem to take issue with his presence there. Rhodes becomes embroiled in a desperate life or death struggle in which he discovers that the reality of survival is very different to what he’s been teaching in the classroom. Worse, he realizes there may be an even more malevolent force than these crazed hunters, lurking out there in the wilderness.
We Are the Flesh (2017)
Starring:
Noe Hernandez, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel
Synopsis:
A visionary and bizarre slice of Mexican arthouse cinema, We Are The Flesh is an extraordinary and unsettling film experience, a sexually charged and nightmarish journey into an otherworldly dimension of carnal desire and excess, as well as a powerful allegory on the corrupting power of human desire.
A young brother and sister, roaming an apocalyptic city, take refuge in the dilapidated lair of a strange hermit. He puts them to work building a bizarre cavernous structure, where he acts out his insane and depraved fantasies. Trapped in this maddening womb-like world under his malign influence, they find themselves sinking into the realms of dark and forbidden behaviour.
Mixing the graphic, powerful imagery of Gaspar Noe s Love and Enter The Void with the surreal, hallucinatory impact of Alejandro Jodorowsky, We Are The Flesh is a bizarre, psychedelic head trip, mixing intense, outrageously explicit imagery with a profound allegory on the nature of existence, to make this an unforgettable, boundary-pushing experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
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