NEW HORROR DVD & BLU-RAY RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF FEB. 22, 2015
Not a whole bunch of new releases this week but there’s some true classics coming out!! Let’s get to it!!
A CANDLE FOR THE DEVIL (Remastered Edition) (1970)
Italian-made shocker chronicles the lives of two sisters–one a strong-willed religious fanatic, the other meek and fearful–as they run a small Spanish inn. When the more forceful sibling begins slaying promiscuous female guests on holiday from England, you can bet that they won’t get a good write up in the travel guides! Judy Geeson, Lone Fleming, Blanche Estrada star. AKA: “It Happened At Nightmare Inn,” “Nightmare Hotel.” 87 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English mono; interview; theatrical trailer.
Being released on DVD on 2/24/2015
AMITYVILLE: DEATH HOUSE (2015)
This low-budget nod to the infamous spook story finds a young woman returning to the town of Amityville after her grandmother is taken ill. Once inside her home (that has very familiar-looking windows), they fall prey to a vicious haunting unleashed by an ancient witch who cursed the home at the time of her death. Stars a bright young cast; Eric Roberts appears. 80 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English.
Being released on DVD on 2/24/2015
BATTLE APOCALYPSE (2014)
It’s been a generation since a viral plague that turned its victims into mindless cannibals overran the planet. Josh (Cole Simon) and Penelope (Sara Gorsky), the last survivors of their enclave, are making their way across a desolate cityscape when they meet Abira (Tanya Thai McBride), who claims to be heading to a safe house. Will they partner with her…and if so, will they come to regret it? AKA: “Chrysalis.” 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.
Being released on DVD on 2/24/2015
CUT! (2014)
It’s a match made in Hell when an ex-convict teams up with a fledgling moviemaker to create an innovative horror movie based on the concept of scaring (and filming) real people in real situations. After one member of their “cast” winds up dead, the sickening impact of the footage convinces them that a genuine snuff film is what the public really wants. David Banks, David Rountree, and Dahlia Salem star. 101 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH); behind-the-scenes footage; deleted scenes; theatrical trailers.
Being released on DVD on 2/24/2015
FEAR CLINIC (2014)
Horror icon Robert Englund (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”) stars in this psychedelic chiller, playing a doctor who tries to help the survivors of a mass shooting overcome the fears that torment them in the wake of that tragedy. As each takes a turn in the “fear chamber”–a coffin-like chamber equipped to induce hallucinations–something terrifying begins to cross over into the outside world. With Fiona Dourif, Thomas Dekker. 95 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish.
Being released on DVD & Blu-ray on 2/24/2015
FINAL PRAYER (2013)
Vatican investigators of the paranormal are dispatched to an old British church to check out claims of a miracle. Video cameras in tow (all the better to capture the footage that will later be “found”), the team explores the darkest corners of the holy ruin…only to find that it may not be heavenly forces that are at work within. Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill, and Aidan McArdle star. AKA: “The Borderlands.” 84 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish.
Being released on DVD on 2/24/2015
GOD TOLD ME TOO (Special Edition; 4K Restoration) (1976)
Writer/director Larry Cohen delivers a controversial, way-out thriller starring Tony Lo Bianco as a New York cop trying to stop a series of bizarre sniper killings in which the shooters all say, “God told me to.” The man behind the bloodshed is a pale-skinned cultist who claims to be the product of a human-alien breeding. Sandy Dennis, Deborah Raffin, and Andy Kaufman co-star. AKA: “Demon.” 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English DTS HD 7.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, DTS HD mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; audio commentary by Cohen; interviews; photo gallery; theatrical trailers; TV spots.
Being released on DVD & Blu-ray on 2/24/2015
NEW YEAR’S EVIL (1980)
With her nationally televised New Year’s Eve punk rock party getting underway, hostess Roz Kelly takes a call from a psychopath who warns her that it won’t just be a ball that’s dropping. He intends to take a victim at midnight in every U.S. time zone, and he’s saving her for last. Should mauled acquaintance be forgot… Kip Niven, Jed Mills, Grant Cramer co-star. 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English.
Being released on Blu-ray on 2/24/2015
THE BEYOND (1981)
An unrelenting nightmare begins when a young woman (Catriona MacColl) inherits a run-down New Orleans hotel and begins renovating it. Since the hotel was built over one of the gates of Hell, her restoration of the building clears the way for monstrous evils to be unleashed, with ravenous zombies now free to roam and kill! David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale co-star; Italian gore maestro Lucio Fulci directs. AKA: “Seven Doors of Death.” Director’s cut; 89 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: Italian DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio, Dolby Digital mono, English (dubbed); Subtitles: English; audio commentary by MacColl, Warbeck; bonus footage; interviews; photo gallery; theatrical trailers; CD soundtrack; more. Three-disc set. In Italian with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.
Being released on Blu-ray on 2/24/2015
THE INTRUDERS (2015)
Still coping with the recent passing of her mother, a teenager tries to convince her disbelieving father that someone–or something–is in their house and may have been responsible for her mother’s death. Miranda Cosgrove, Donal Logue, Tom Sizemore, and Austin Butler star in this eerie suspenser. 90 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1.
Being released on DVD on 2/24/2015
ZOMBIEWORLD (2015)
Blending grisly horror and biting (ahem) humor, this low-budget thriller depicts a world gone mad in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. Watch in horror as a wave of flesh-eaters swarms across the world! Shriek in revulsion as a well-executed head-butt explodes the cranium of a living corpse! Laugh out loud when Jesus screams like a little girl! Marc Velasco, Noe Blancafort, and Zack Price star. 101 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1.
Being released on DVD on 2/24/2015
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