We have rounded up some of the latest horror/science fiction genre DVD & Blu-ray releases in the USA for the week beginning 30th August 2022.
AFFLICTION
Uncovering the truth behind his recently euthanized grandfather, film director Torsten plans the unthinkable. To relive the torturous experiments his grandfather performed as a Nazi guard, Torsten hatches a plan to put himself in the shoes of the tortured, for the sake of self-redemption and making sense of a past he had no idea existed. With two willing volunteers he gets to work in an abandoned industrial facility on the outskirts of town where things slowly spiral out of control. Formerly known as “Wail Away”.
Out now on Blu-ray from Bayview Entertainment
SATAN’S CHILDREN
Miserable living with his step-relations, runaway teen Bobby (Stephen White) made his first bad move by going home with a biker who offered him up to his gang for rough trade. Left for dead, he’s found by a group of volleyball players who kindly nurse him back to health… but the shocks continue as his rescuers turn out to be devil-worshiping cultists, who help him get even with his tormentors. Outrageously sordid mix of horror and homosexploitation co-stars Kathleen Archer.
Out now on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome
THE SHADOW WALKERS
A group of young researchers and military personnel uncover a hive of twisted, genetic mutants that stalk them from the shadows. Now these brave few must destroy the monsters that helped create–before more people are killed and devoured.
Out now on Blu-ray from Shoreline Entertainment
THE OREGONIAN
There is a place. A place where the skies are wide and the forests are thick and strange. You can lose yourself forever in these woods. You’ll meet truckers with problems and old women with strange powers. You may even make a furry friend. Just be sure to stay quiet. Spend some time with a woman from Oregon who is lost on the road and running away from her past. Now she has a chance to experience everything the grotesque Northwest has to offer, whether she likes it or not.
Out now on Blu-ray from Factory 25
BODOM
For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.
Out now on Blu-ray from Bayview Entertainment
LUX AETERNA
Part meta dig at film industry sexism, but assuredly all horror movie, Gaspar Noé’s split-screen experimental entry casts Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg as fictionalized versions of themselves-and director and lead for a fright flick about witches. As they deal with genre expectations and off-camera travails, it becomes apparent that the stake-burning climax is going to literally go to hell. Abbey Lee, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, Félix Maritaud also star.
Out now on DVD from Yellow Veil Pictures
RAW NERVE
Race car driver Jimmy Clayton is having mind-shattering visions. Over and over, he sees young women ruthlessly murdered. He tries to go to the police as a witness to the latest murder, but they think he’s crazy. An investigative reporter catches wind of of Jimmy’s tale and tries to help him put the blood-soaked pieces together. But when Jimmy’s little sister appears in one of his visions, Jimmy’s world comes violently crashing down.
Out now on Blu-ray from Culture Shock
WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR
Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her.
Out now on Blu-ray from Utopia
JACK BE NIMBLE
A gothic horror gem from New Zealand returns in a brand new 4K restoration! From the twisted mind of Garth Maxwell comes the tale of separated twins Jack (Alexis Arquette) and Dora (Sarah Smuts-Kennedy), abandoned by their parents as children and separated by adoption. Jack ends up with a sadistic family who bullies and controls him whereas Dora is raised by a quite normal family, but starts being tortured by extra-sensory powers. Both twins feel the pull to find each other again as they grow older, but violence threatens their joining from all sides.
Out now on Blu-ray from Altered Innocence
WOMAN IN THE CHAIR
An expatriate in Japan finds a ghost sitting motionless in a chair and decides to monetize his discovery by creating a ghost tourism business for the wealthy. Little did he know that the woman in the chair brings obsession and death around her spectators.
Out now on Blu-ray from Bayview Entertainment
WHERE’S ROSE
When a little girl is found after going missing, only her older brother recognizes the evil force that has returned in her place.
Out now on DVD from Tricoast Ent
ALL ABOUT EVIL
It’s been called “a riotous experience” (Horror News), “clearly ahead of it’s time” (Geekscape) and “made for lovers of horror by someone who loves the genre” (Daily Dead). Now the “demented, outrageous and hysterical” (PopOptiq) debut feature from writer/director Joshua Grannell can finally be experienced by audiences everywhere: When a mousy librarian (Natasha Lyonne of RUSSIAN DOLL) takes over her late father’s struggling movie theater, a series of grisly murders caught on camera will transform her into the new queen of indie splatter cinema. Thomas Dekker (TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES), Cassandra Peterson (ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK), Noah Segan (DEADGIRL), Mink Stole (FEMALE TROUBLE) and drag legend Peaches Christ co-star in this “huge fun nod to forgotten horror and exploitation via loads of blood and black humor” (Yell! Magazine) produced by Darren Stein (JAWBREAKER) and gushing with all-new Special Features.
Out now on 2-Disc Special Edition [Blu-ray + CD] from Severin
SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED
Early “splatter” treat follows a group of college students traveling to a desolate island in search of Bigfoot. “You’re doomed,” warns a crazy old man who knows the true horror lurking there. Do they listen? The shrieking starts when the kids meet up with a more human terror that, unlike the Yeti, is good with a hatchet. Alan Brock, Jennifer Stock, Tawm Ellis star. AKA: “Mutilated,” “Scream of the Snowbeast.”
Out now on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome
FACELESS
For his 1988 big-budget EuroSleaze classic inspired by EYES WITHOUT A FACE, director Jess Franco brought together an international all-star cast – including Helmut Berger (THE DAMNED), Brigitte Lahaie (THE FEMALE EXECUTIONER), Chris Mitchum (SUMMERTIME KILLER), Stéphane Audran (COUP DE TORCHON), Caroline Munro (MANIAC) and Telly Savalas – for a glossily depraved tale of disfigurement, dismemberment, libidinous brutes, Nazi surgeons, Parisian discos, face-ripping, throat-stabbing, eyeball-piercing and what may be Uncle Jess’ most rewardingly ambiguous ending ever. Anton Diffring (CIRCUS OF HORRORS) and Florence Guérin (CALIGULA & MESSALINA) co-star – with appearances by Howard Vernon (THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF) and Lina Romay – in this unapologetically graphic shocker, now scanned for the first time in 4K from the original negative with all-new Special Features.
Out now on Special Edition Blu-ray (1 disc), 2-Disc Special Edition [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray] from Severin
TWO UNDERCOVER ANGELS / KISS ME MONSTER
The Jesus Franco shocker “Undercover Angels” stars Janine Reynaud and Rossana Yanni as sexy sleuths embroiled in a bizarre mystery involving the disappearance of several women, a demented artist whose gruesome works resemble the missing girls, and his brutish sidekick. Adrian Hoven also stars. AKA: “Red Lips,” “Sadisterotica.” Next, Reynaud and Yanni return in the sordid “Kiss Me Monster,” posing as nightclub performers out to learn the truth behind a demented professor’s experiments on his remote Caribbean island. They encounter sexy lesbian killers and sweaty mutant bodybuilders who want to have their way with them. Hoven, Chris Howland, and Michel Lemoine also star. AKA: “Castle of the Doomed.”
Out now on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome
GIALLO ESSENTIALS – Black Edition
While the release of Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage gave rise to a glut of imitators, there was more to the giallo than just shameless copycats setting out to ape a rigid formula. This volume of Giallo Essentials celebrates the range and breadth of the genre with three lesser-seen films from it’s early 1970s heyday. In Silvio Amadio’s Smile Before Death, familicide with a sprinkling of Oedipal love is the order of the day when teenager Nancy returns home to discover the apparent suicide of her mother, and quickly comes to suspect that her stepfather and his mistress are to blame. Next, Horny priests and self-flagellating nuns abound in Francesco Mazzei’s The Weapon, The Hour, The Motive, as police commissioner Franco Boito investigates the brutal murder of a young clergyman, only to enter into an affair with the dead man’s lover. Finally, in Giuseppe Bennati’s The Killer Reserved Nine Seats, an assortment of wealthy degenerates – including Italian cult mainstays Andrea Scotti and Howard Ross – answer the summons of an eccentric nobleman and assemble in the theatre attached to his ancestral home, only to find themselves trapped in the decaying building while a savage killer picks them off Agatha Christie-style! With gory murders, wanton debauchery and left-field plot twists a-plenty, all three of these oft-overlooked gialli are restored in 2K from their original camera negatives – including brand-new, Arrow-exclusive restorations of Smile Before Death and The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive – alongside a range of in-depth bonus features.
Out now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video
CAT PEOPLE
A remake of the 1942 Jacques Tourneur horror/noir classic, Cat People stars Nastassja Kinski as Irena, a beautiful young woman who discovers love for the first time only to find that the experience brings tragic consequences. The tremendous passion of this woman’s first romantic love is so strong, however, it bypasses the chaos around her—including the extraordinary demands of her brother (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange)—as it pushes her on to her own bizarre destiny. Directed by Paul Schrader (Hardcore, American Gigolo, Affliction), this erotic fantasy about the passion and terror surrounding this first love also stars John Heard (Awakenings), Annette O’Toole (48 Hrs.), Ruby Dee (Do the Right Thing) and Lynn Lowry (Shivers).
Out now on Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [4K UHD] from SHOUT! FACTORY
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