We have rounded up some of the latest horror/science fiction genre DVD & Blu-ray releases in the UK for the week beginning 9th January 2023.
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
From David Cronenberg, the master of body horror, comes a beguiling new tale. As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed…Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Out now on DVD from Vertigo Releasing
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 nightmares…that 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.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Mediumrare
THE DUNWICH HORROR
Riding high on their successful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman and American International Pictures took on that other titan of literary terror, H.P Lovecraft, in The Dunwich Horror!
Dean Stockwell stars as Wilbur Whateley, a mysterious young man who travels from the small town of Dunwich to the library of the Miskatonic University which holds one of the only copies of the Necronomicon, a legendary book of occult lore that Wilbur hopes to borrow. Graduate student Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee) falls under his malign influence and travels with him back to his home where Wilbur has plans to use her in a ritual to raise ‘The Old Ones’, cosmic beings from another dimension. But who, or what, is in the locked room at the top of the stairs? And what will happen if they get out?
Directed by Daniel Haller, genius art director of numerous Corman classics, this was also the first screenwriting credit for Curtis Hanson, who would later direct the multi award-winning L.A. Confidential. Newly restored by Arrow Films from the original 35mm camera negative, The Dunwich Horror is among the most successful Lovecraft adaptations ever committed to film, and it has never looked better.
Out now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video
WOLF MANOR
During filming of a British, low-budget horror movie, the cast and crew begin disappearing. As the full moon rises, the werewolf strikes, and the nightmare begins.
Out now on DVD from Lightbulb Film Distribution
DON’T GO IN THE HOUSE
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
A legendary title from the Video Nasties era, Joseph Ellison’s relentlessly bleak and disturbing Don’t Go In The House has lost none of its power to shock in the decades since it was first censored by the BBFC and seized by UK authorities.
Donny Kohler (The Sopranos’ Dan Grimaldi in a gripping central performance), a disturbed loner unhealthily obsessed with fire, comes home from his factory job one day to find his abusive mother has died. Now all alone in the large Gothic mansion he calls home and consumed in an inferno of insanity, he is finally able to fulfil his violent revenge fantasies against her. Soon, any woman unlucky enough to enter is forced to come face to face with the worst fate imaginable in the secret steel-clad chamber of death he has built in the house’s depths…
The film that dares ask the question “what if Norman Bates had a flamethrower?” is back in a fully uncut 2K restoration and packed with insightful bonus features.
Out now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video
THE MUMMY RESURRECTION
When an infamous “cursed” Egyptian sarcophagus falls into unscrupulous hands, an attempt to resurrect the mummified princess within it unleashes pure evil.
Out now on DVD from HIGH FLIERS
THE LAST MATINEE
TERROR! SCREAMING! DEATH! COMING SOON TO THIS CINEMA!
A trip to the movies takes a deadly turn in this stylish neo-giallo love letter to classic slashers that will send your popcorn flying and have you diving behind your seat!
A cold, wet day. A declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there, hiding in the dark? When Ana takes over projection duties from her ailing father, she doesn’t expect anything worse than a broken reel or a burned-out bulb. But there’s a sadistic killer in the auditorium, and soon blood is running in the aisles as he starts picking off the audience members one by one. Can Ana and the few remaining survivors escape the murderous madman, or will they be victims of his matinee massacre?
Uruguayan director Maxi Contenti marks himself out as a talent to watch with a film that Rue Morgue calls “Visually stunning… indulgently violent!” Arrow Video is proud to present The Last Matinee. It’s a killer time at the movies!
Out now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video
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