We have rounded up some of the latest horror/science fiction genre DVD & Blu-ray releases in the USA for the week beginning 27th September 2022.
THE MUNSTERS
From writer/director Rob Zombie comes the strangest love story ever told. Lily is just your typical 150-year-old, lovelorn vampire looking for the man of her nightmaresthat is until she lays eyes on Herman, a seven-foot-tall, green experiment with a heart of gold. It’s love at first shock as these two ghouls fall fangs over feet in this crazy Transylvanian romance. Unfortunately, it’s not all smooth sailing in the cemetery as Lily’s father The Count has other plans for his beloved daughter’s future, and they don’t involve her bumbling beau Herman. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll howl at the moon as The Munsters make their way to Mockingbird Lane!
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
AFTER BLUE DIRTY PARADISE
In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed planet, a lonely teenager, Roxy, releases an assassin from the sands she was buried in. As soon as she’s free, the criminal sparks death all around. Roxy and her mother Zora are held accountable, banished from their community and forced to track the murderer down. They start a long journey pacing the supranatural territories of their filthy paradise.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Altered Innocence
MIND MELTERS 3
See topless Tiki Island women in terror, monster music videos, and watch Mark and Clark take on a maniac in a blue Ox suit! This is just the tip of the cannibal spear of mayhem being jabbed in your brain in “MInd Melters 3”! Turn down the lights and let in the frights! Possess your remote, and don’t forget to exorcise your tv after you watch “Mind Melters 3”. Directed by James Balsamo.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Acid Bath
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. Vbooks.tv presents The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde.
Out now on DVD from Wownow Entertainment
MODEL HUNGER
A former model forced into retirement exacts her revenge on young beautiful women. When her new neighbors move in, they begin to notice strange things happening, as the list of missing young women grows. The directorial debut of legendary Scream Queen Debbie Rochon and starring Lynn Lowry and Tiffany Sheppis.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Raw
COOL AS HELL
Rich and Benny are having trouble with the ladies, until they befriend a demon named Az. It’s a non-stop party until a soul hungry beast leaps through an open portal from the underworld and starts terrorizing the town. It’s up to Az and the boys to send the creature back to the depths where it came from, and look good, while doing it.
Out now on Blu-ray from Acid Bath
COOL AS HELL 2
After goofball Rich accidentally decapitates his best friend Benny while trimming a Christmas tree with a machete, he’s forced to go on a quest to find God’s bong and use it to bring his friend back to life. Az the Demon and Boogar, everyone’s favorite snot, are back in this over-the-top sequel to Cool as Hell. The big-breasted, beautiful women, the bubbling buckets of blood and the bountiful bongs of bud will have you doubling over in laughter. What more could you ask for in a star-studded cameo film? It’s two-times scarier than the first one and you’ll be laughing twice as hard with Cool as Hell 2.
Out now on Blu-ray from Acid Bath
DEAD NORTH
When three couples escape to the woods together for a weekend camping trip, their idyllic vacation quickly becomes a desperate struggle for survival when a deranged, axe-wielding psychopath begins murdering them one by one. An impossible web of marital infidelities leads to a meandering mosaic of endless red herrings, deranged Nam vets, bitter office rivalries, perilous punji pits, and puffy brown plaid couches.<P>In the tradition of Blood Cult, Dead North is a hypnotic, SOV soap opera / slasher epic and an early, non-custom passion project from director Gary Whitson and his New Jersey based company W.A.V.E. Productions.
Out now on Blu-ray from Saturn’s Core
SUMMER OF BLOOD
Writer/director Onur Tukel turns in a hilarious performance as the monumentally lazy, socially oblivious, and commitment-shy Erik Sparrow, who is dumped by his career-woman girlfriend (Anna Margaret Hollyman, White Reindeer) when he rejects her rather charitable marriage proposal. Feeling lost, he turns to a disastrous string of online dates that successively eat away at his already-deteriorating confidence until a lanky vampire turns him into an undead ladykiller, with a maniacal sex drive matched only by his frenzied need to feed on blood. A collision of absurd, self-deprecating wit, and existential curiosity, Summer of Blood is a hilarious horror-comedy with a clever bite all its own.
Out now on Blu-ray from Factory 25
TERROR AT BLACK TREE FOREST
A young mother is brutally murdered in front of her own child in the woods of Black Tree Forest during the Summer of 1970. Twenty years later a group of college friends head off to the same woods, but Brian Mellows, the young child scarred twenty years ago, has recently escaped from a local mental hospital and has returned looking to seek revenge on all who enter the forest.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
EVIL DEAD TRAP 2: HIDEKI
A killer is on the loose in Japan. Young women are being horribly mutilated. Aki, a young woman who works as a film projectionist, is haunted by a childlike ghost. Her girlfriend EMI is a TV news reporter covering the horrible mutilations. EMI introduces Aki to Kurahashi, a married man with a haunted past. Everyone involved has a dark secret and something evil is taking control of them. They are pawns in a game being played by forces beyond their understanding. This eerie descent into madness takes us on a journey into the abyss and the terrible truth is finally revealed!
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Unearthed Records
STREETS OF DEATH
In dumpsters, in the gutters, and even hanging from hooks… the streets of Los Angeles are being littered with murdered sex workers. A sinister John with a sizable wallet is tempting desperate women into dangerous traps. If the police (Simon Di Soto, Lawrence Scott, and Susanne Smith from Night Ripper) cannot find the killer, then who will? Maybe it will be a former detective (Tommy Kirk, Babes in Toyland, Blood of Ghastly Horror). Or perhaps it will be a couple of guys (Larry Thomas, Seinfeld / Austin Powers and Guy Ecker, Night Terror / The Devil Wears White) shooting a documentary about prostitution.
Out now on Blu-ray from Culture Shock
THE CORNSHUKKER
The Cornshukker is a mythical creature who has lived simply and peacefully with Nature. But now he is besieged by urban sprawl. With nowhere else to go, he is forced to deal with varmints and outlandishly-odd townsfolk. As his food supply diminishes, The Cornshukker is confronted by the bigoted Old Man Thomas. In an act of desperation, The Cornshukker is forced to do the unthinkable. His existence is in peril, and the mysterious world he inhabits could be destroyed. Only Nature and the townsfolk will decide his fate.
Out now on Blu-ray from Vhshitfest
CHRISTMASSACRE
A group of eccentric college kids, struggling to get through their hectic exams, decide to throw a holiday party, adding a Secret Santa exchange for fun. Little do they know a killer is in town and has made a special list and each one of them has a murderous present waiting for them. A throwback to classic holiday horror and slasher films from the 1970s and 80s.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
WE FOUND SOMETHING
While Ted and Maxie are on a rock climbing trip to help conquer Ted’s fear of heights, they stumble upon an unknown creature in the woods, one who does not want to be found. The couple are soon in a frenzy to save their lives as they become hunted by this ancient beast.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
FAULTS
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire’s parents recruit one of the world’s foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth, to kidnap and deprogram her. However, once the process is underway, Ansel realizes he may not be the one in control.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Yellow Veil Pictures
SATOR
After You Have Suffered, He Will Find You Secluded in a desolate forest, home to little more than the decaying remnants of the past, a broken family is further torn apart by a mysterious death. Adam (Gabriel Nicholson), guided by a pervasive sense of dread, hunts for answers only to learn that they are not alone; an insidious presence by the name of Sator has been observing his family, subtly influencing all of them for years in an attempt to claim them. Shot in the Santa Cruz mountains and drawing from his grandmother’s real life belief in a protective spirit that spoke to her, Sator quietly unspools a story of isolation and dread that fits firmly into the recent wave of unsettling arthouse horror. Cauldron films is honored to release the world-wide Blu-ray debut of Sator, the film Paste magazine named “The best horror film of 2021”.
Out now on Blu-ray from Cauldron Films
BLOOD OF THE CHUPACABRAS
Double Feature Blu-ray includes the shot on video horrors Blood of the Chupacabras (2003) and it’s sequel Revenge of the Chupacabras (2005). BLOOD: A group of local townsfolk are led by a treasure hunter into a nearby mine in search of gold but encounter a vampiric Chupacabras monster. REVENGE: A detective in search of a missing college student is lured by a madman into the lair of the fabled Chupacabras monster.
Out now on Blu-ray from Visual Vengeance
THE BIRDS II: LAND’S END
After the loss of their young son, Ted and Mary Hocken (Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field) opted to take their daughters and make a fresh start in a tiny East Coast island community. Unfortunately, their new town is soon beset by massive flocks of birds… that turn inexplicably and fatally hostile. Made-for-cable standalone sequel to the Hitchcock horror classic co-stars James Naughton, Jan Rubes, and Tippi Hedren; “Alan Smithee” (Rick Rosenthal) directs.
Out now on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome
THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN
Blasted by radiation during a mission to Saturn, astronaut Steve West (Alex Rebar) returns to Earth to find out he’s been afflicted with a gruesome ailment that begins turning his body into a gooey liquid. The good news: There’s a way to slow down the melting process. The bad news: It means Steve will have to feed on the flesh of other humans. Chilling sci-fi/horror tale, with make-up effects by Rick Baker, also stars Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey; look for filmmaker Jonathan Demme in a bit part.
Out now on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome
BRING IT ON: CHEER OR DIE
The scares mix with the laughs in this horror-themed entry in the enduring film series. When the members of the Diablos cheerleading squad decide to practice some of their more dangerous routines in an old abandoned school, they quickly discover that there’s a crazed killer stalking them and it’s going to take more than some pom-poms and a perky personality to stop him. Kerri Medders, Tiera Skovbye, and Missi Pyle star.
Out now on DVD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
ZOMBIELAND
Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he’s scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each other’s company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.
Out now on Limited Edition Steelbook 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP
A decade after Zombieland became a hit film and a cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited for Zombieland: Double Tap. In the sequel where the comic mayhem stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.
Out now on Limited Edition Steelbook 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Jennifer Love Hewitt (from TV’s “Party of Five”) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (Scream 2) star with Freddie Prinze, Jr., Ryan Phillippe and Johnny Galecki in this terrifying tale of a body that just won’t stay dead. After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping theirvictim’s body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave,and he’s looking for more than an apology. From the writer of SCREAM.
Out now on 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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