We have rounded up some of the latest horror/science fiction genre DVD & Blu-ray releases in the USA for the week beginning 13th December 2022.
THE LAST SLAY RIDE
When a group of indie filmmakers are ripped off by a crooked distributor, they set out on a mission of revenge, but quickly find themselves facing off against literal bloodsuckers in what becomes the ultimate battle of good vs evil featuring filmmakers, vampires, loan sharks and more! The Last Slay Ride is a holiday themed comedy/horror starring Elissa Dowling (Girl on The Third Floor) and Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist).
Out now on Blu-ray from Vipco
13 TRACKS TO FRIGHTEN AGATHA BLACK
After a tragic event, a sheltered young woman seeks the comfort of some long-forgotten scary story records from her youth. The specter of losing her family home and a string of crimes in her neighborhood propel her toward a dark obsession with the frightening tales. Eerily, they begin to reveal occult truths and hint at a violent, inescapable fate. Like a disease, the stories begin to infect others who enter her world, creating disturbing encounters that bring her to the threshold of terror.
Out now on Blu-ray from Vipco
CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE
There’s a hairy humanoid beast lurking in the Louisiana swamps, but only trapper Joe Canton (Jack Elam, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST) has seen it and lived to tell the tale, and the other residents of Oil City, Louisiana don’t talk about it. But that’s not about to stop intrepid grad students Pahoo (Dennis Fimple, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES) and Rives (John David Carson, EMPIRE OF THE ANTS), who are determined to track down the Bigfoot-like creature. Defying local sheriff Billy Carter (Bill Thurman, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW), the duo trek deep into the wilds of Black Lake, and a series of frightening encounters make it clear the monster is no mere legend. Following in the (big) footsteps of THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK and similar docudramas, 1976’s CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE is a fictional Sasquatch saga, albeit one inspired by real reports. With a colorful cast, also including Dub Taylor (THE WILD BUNCH), and plenty of rural atmosphere courtesy of cinematographer Dean Cundey (HALLOWEEN, JURASSIC PARK), scripter Jim McCullough Jr.-who also co-stars-and director Joy Houck Jr. Bring touches of humor and humanity that complement the mystery of the monster, and the terror of it’s attacks. A longtime late-night TV favorite, CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE now roars onto Blu-ray and DVD with a boatload of special features!
Out now on Special Edition Blu-ray and Special Edition DVD from Synapse Films
DEVIL TIMES FIVE
A group of psychotic children (including future teen idol Leif Garrett) escape from their transport bus and terrorize the countryside. Part of the Alpha Video “Retrograde” collection featuring retro cover art.
Out now on DVD from Alpha Video
JOE VAMPIRE
A centuries-old vampire (Mike Christopher from George Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’) is resigned to his curse until he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Erin Cline).
Out now on DVD from Alpha Video
THE DEATH OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
Several European underground directors turn the ancient rules of mankind inside out in this shocking and gore-soaked interpretation of God’s laws for man from the Bible. The world is ending, and the 10 commandments are dying. From director Davide Pesca (Suffering Bible, Night of Doom, Evil Nun).
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Raw
TRULY, MADLY
After her husband’s untimely death, a devout religious mother becomes dangerously obsessed with her gay son and his group of friends, leading to misfortune and murder. From director Brian Dorton (The Horror Network, Crazy Fat Ethel).
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
ZOMBIE EXORCISM
The house of god is the starting point for the zombie apocalypse when three siblings gather at a funeral and witness the awakening of an ancient evil that spawns an army of the dead. Forced to hide in the labyrinth of deep catacombs under the church, the siblings must fight their way out to safety while trying to send the dead back to their graves in this non-stop zombie action thriller.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Raw
AMITYVILLE THEATER
After the death of her parents, Fawn inherits an old theater in the town of Amityville. While investigating the building, she and her friends uncover an ancient evil hiding within.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
RED WATER
RED WATER – Four friends jump into shark-infested waters after arriving at a popular diving site. Stranded and unable to return to their boat, they must devise a plan to survive or become the next meal for the shark that’s waiting for its chance to strike.
Out now on DVD from Itn
THE SIERRA NEVADA MURDERS
When high profile serial killer Micah Anders dies in prison, a sudden and renewed interest arises in investigating the crimes he committed 10 years prior in an isolated area of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
MEDUSA
For pious young Brazilian friends Mariana (Mari Oliveira) and Michele (Lara Tremouroux), days were for rehearsing the pop-song paeans they’d deliver in church. Nights, though, were for leading their friends in a masked vigilante pack-and assaulting women they deemed immoral. When one of those attacks leaves Mariana facially scarred, however, she’ll have a wrenching confrontation with her actions, in Anita Rocha da Silveira’s statement stunner.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Music Box Films
DOLL KILLER
Halloween 1987. A serial killer is on the loose, and is leaving behind dolls at each crime scene, baffling police and the media. Stephanie, a doll restoration expert, now finds herself stalked by the mysterious Doll Killer, but she will soon find out there is something more sinister and supernatural behind all the killings. From cult director Dustin Ferguson (Amityville in the Hood, Nemesis 5).
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
LA PETITE MORT
They are no more than 10 hours away from summer, sun and beaches. Simon (ANDREAS PAPE), his blind girlfriend Nina (INES ZAHMOUL) and vivid and fun loving Dodo (ANNA HABECK) are on their way to Mallorca. Having to change planes in Frankfurt gives them enough time for a sightseeing tour through the city. After being robbed by a stranger (MARTIN HENTSCHEL) they coincidentally end up in the “Maison de la petit mort” a place where sick and twisted games of a perverted high society take place. Lady Boss Madame Fabienne (MANOUSH) and her psychopath “daughters” Dominique (ANNIKA STRAUSS) and Angelique (MAGDALENA KALLEY) run the club where brutal torture, thrill kill murders and the deranged fantasies of incurably sick minds are daily business. Will there be any chance for an escape…?! YOU’LL FIND OUT IN “LA PETITE MORT”!
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Unearthed Films
HOUSE CALL
When 16 year old Mariam’s little brother gets sick while she babysits, she calls the family doctor to make a house call. But when the doctor ends up dead, the children face a night of terror as a group of criminals descend on the home and the children are forced to defend themselves in any way possible. Based on the short story by award winning horror author Ty Schwamberger.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
THE BLOODY MAN
Special Edition Blu-ray includes slipcase, folded poster and bonus features. Following the death of his mother, a young boy’s obsession with a comic book she gave him called The Bloody Man summons the ancient monster from it’s pages, who stalks him and his family until they unite to end his reign of terror. Starring Tuesday Knight and Lisa Wilcox from the original Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Out now on Collectors Edition Blu-ray from Wild Eye Releasing
THE BLOODY MAN
Following the death of his mother, a young boy’s obsession with a comic book she gave him called The Bloody Man summons the ancient monster from it’s pages, who stalks him and his family until they unite to end his reign of terror. Starring Tuesday Knight and Lisa Wilcox from the original Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
REWIND OR DIE!
A group of six friends from around the world descend upon an old abandoned house in the French countryside. Soon, they discover an old VCR and a stack of VHS tapes, all filled with vintage horror movies. But what begins as a fun way to pass time quickly becomes deadly as each VHS tape spawns horrors from the movies on them and into reality, and the friends now must struggle for their survival. VHS is not dead… you are!
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
HALLUCINATION
When Bill travels to Ibiza to visit his friend Denny, he falls in with a group of expats who spend their days sleeping and their nights turning on. Under the guidance of Eric, the self proclaimed “guru” of the group, Bill and Denny find themselves experimenting with various drugs and opening their minds with LSD. After Bill’s mother cuts off his allowance, Eric uses his drug cocktails to put him in a suggestive state and convince him to rob a wealthy antiques dealer so that they all can continue their hedonistic life style. Based on true events, this cautionary tale of drugs was one of the first films to deal with the influence of LSD. Starring stuntman and sculptor George Montogomery, Danny Steinmann (director of Unseen, Savage Streets and Friday the 13th V) and directed by Edward Mann (Cauldron of Blood), Hallucination aka Hallucination Generation is snapshot of wasted youth and an era gone by. Available here for the first time on Blu-ray in two versions: the original black and white version and an updated sepia tone version featuring color psychedelic FX along with a group of curated, drug related extras.
Out now on Special Edition Blu-ray from Diabolikdvd
PIRANHA WOMEN
From the fevered mind of indie exploitation movie guru and Emmy award winning director Fred Olen Ray (HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS, SIDESHOW, THE BAY) comes this ferocious Full Moon thriller. It’s a movie that bites in all the best ways! When Richard James becomes suspicious of his girlfriend’s new experimental medical treatment, he grows even more concerned when she suddenly vanishes. In his frantic search for her, he discovers a secret society of beautiful women, all medically altered by the mysterious Dr Sinclair. They’re something less than human. They’re PIRANHA WOMEN! Get ready for the aquatic teeth-tit exploitation epic, filled with hot women, mad science, maniacal conspiracies and monstrous mammaries!
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Full Moon Pictures
FREEZE
On a rescue mission to the North Pole in 1905, to retrieve an old friend and his lost expedition crew, Captain Mortimer and his crew are set upon by bloodthirsty fish-creatures, leaving the survivors stranded in a frozen wilderness being hunted down. This product is an authorized manufactured on demand DVD-R.
Out now on DVD-R from 4 Digital
NIGHTMARE SYMPHONY
Frank is a stressed-out director, trying to complete a seemingly doomed horror film called A Peacock’s Tale. Between ongoing arguments with the scriptwriter and producer, Frank faces his own existential crisis and is plagued by terrible nightmares and paranoia. Life begins to imitate art, it seems, when those involved in the film production are butchered by a mysterious masked figure. Can Frank still differentiate between reality and the brutal killings that are based on the movie’s script? Nightmare Symphony is a loving tribute to the films of Lucio Fulci and the Italian Giallo. Starring Lady In White’s Frank LaLoggia, written by Antonio Tentori (Fulci’s Cat in the Brain) and directed by extremists Domiziano Cristopharo and Daniele Trani, this “elegant, stylish and sadistic” horror-thriller also features an amazing soundtrack by Antony Coia and is enhanced by Fabio Frizzi’s original theme of terror.
Out now on Special Edition Blu-ray from Diabolikdvd
DON’T F*** IN THE WOODS 2
Special Edition Blu-ray includes slipcover, folded poster and Bonus features. Following the arrival of a mysterious woman, a group of camp counselors partying before the summer season begins must face off against parasitic monsters that are attracted to sexual activity. The anticipated follow up to Shawn Burkett’s 2016 DTV hit.
Out now on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from Wild Eye Releasing
DON’T F*** IN THE WOODS 2
Following the arrival of a mysterious woman, a group of camp counselors partying before the summer season begins must face off against parasitic monsters that are attracted to sexual activity. The anticipated follow up to Shawn Burkett’s 2016 DTV hit.
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
RESURRECTION
Outwardly, Albany pharma exec and single mother Margaret (Rebecca Hall) seemed to have a disciplined grip on a ordered existence. That would unravel as she found herself smart-stalked by David (Tim Roth), the teen-years abuser who’d subjected her to the truly unspeakable in asserting his dominance-and whom she’d risk family, sanity, and life to be finally rid of. Incendiary thriller also stars Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, Angela Wong Carbone.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from IFC
CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR MASSACRE
A holiday craft fair is ground zero for a coven of Satan worshipers who stalk and kidnap a group of locals in their attempt to create a ‘Satanic Nativity’ with occult spells and grisly slayings. The first horror movie in decades from legendary genre director Max Raven (a/k/a Bret McCormick) (The Abomination, Tabloid, Repligator).
Out now on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing
MANIAC DRIVER
A deranged taxi driver appears to be randomly stalking and killing various young women on the streets of Tokyo. His descent into madness follows a personal tragedy that has since left him in search of a worthy victim to satisfy his own bloodlust and possible death… But is anything as it seems? Framed by a vibrant retro 80’s soundtrack and flashy psychedelic colors, Japan’s top adult stars (Saryu Usui, Iori Kogawa, Ai Sayama, among others) are portrayed as lascivious victims in this stunning gory, neo-giallo from cult director Kurando Mitsutake (GUN WOMAN, KARATE KILL).
Out now on Special Edition Blu-ray from Diabolikdvd
SLASH/BACK
It was the Summer Solstice on Baffin Island, and Inuit fishing hamlet teen Maika (Tasiana Shirley) and her restless crowd were desperate for anything to break the monotony. Regretfully, they’d get their wish-as blood-craving, victim-possessing alien entities make their way toward the town, and the girls take up arms in hope for it’s survival. Director Nyla Innuksuk’s intriguing genre spin also stars Alexis Vincent-Wolfe, Chelsea Pruksy, Nalajoss Ellsworth, Frankie Vincent-Wolfe.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Image Entertainment
EVIL – Season 3
Say your prayers and freshen up on your science because Evil returns for a third season. There is plenty to take in including Kristen and David’s escalating attraction, creepy toys, some new demons, and the return of everyone’s favorite night terror, George. This 3-disc collection comes with all 10 episodes and deleted scenes.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from CBS
GHOSTWATCH
BANNED FOR A DECADE!
The BBC gives over a whole evening to an ‘investigation into the supernatural’. Four respected presenters and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind ‘The most haunted house in Britain’, expecting a light-hearted scare or two and probably the uncovering of a hoax. They think they are in control of the situation. They think they are safe. The viewers settle down and decide to watch ‘for a laugh’. Ninety minutes later the BBC, and the country, was changed, and the consequences are still felt today.
Out now on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from 101 Films
SMILE
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
Out now on 4K ULTRA HD + Digital Code, Blu-ray + Digital Code and DVD from PARAMOUNT
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (3-Film Collection)
Prepare for a trilogy of pure terror with this collection of films from the Silent Night, Deadly Night series. In Better Watch Out!, it’s a very bloody Christmas after Ricky Caldwell, the notorious “Killer Santa Claus,” awakens from a six-year coma with one thing on his mind: murder. In Initiation, a reporter’s investigation into a mysterious death leads her into the clutches of a cult that’s chosen her as its new queen, and The Toy Maker stars entertainment legend Mickey Rooney as a toy maker whose creations display some very human — and deadly — tendencies.
Out now on Blu-ray + Digital from Lionsgate
SILENT RUNNING
In 1968, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) contributed to the ground-breaking special photographic effects of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Four years later, he stamped his own indelible mark on the science fiction genre with his mesmerizing directorial debut – Silent Running. In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet’s former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern, The ‘Burbs), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship’s three service robots. Featuring a captivating central performance by Dern, visual effects that rival anything in 2001 and a powerful ecological message, Silent Running is a haunting and prescient sci-fi classic that resonates even more strongly today than it did at the time of it’s original release.
Out now on 4K ULTRA HD from Arrow Video
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