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New Horror DVD & Blu-ray Releases: June 23rd, 2015

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3:33 AM: THE WITCHING HOUR – DVD

After two years in prison, John Spinelli is a free man. Upon his release, he moves into a halfway house known as ”Wellhome” which is notoriously overrun with looney tenants and strange occurrences that happen at 3:33 AM. John simply wants to get on with his life, stay clean and get his life on track, but he quickly becomes entangled in a mysterious web of bizarre murders. As he grapples with his mad mix of macabre neighbors, John realizes something evil governs his new neighborhood. Every night, outside his window, lights flash and strange noises come from the house next door which has a dark and sinister past. Can he convince authorities he is innocent of the murders? Or will he wish he was back behind bars?

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ABOVE US LIVES EVIL – DVD

When an accident takes the life of their young boy, his family moves and finds a picturesque location seemingly ideal for a new beginning. Little do they know that something is amiss in their new neighborhood as creepy neighbors and strange occurrences begin to distract their daily life. Slowly they realize that there is something much worse than their memories and guilt dwelling within the house. The attic harbors an ancient evil so strong it confronts the family’s deepest fears and drives them against one another and the new dream home soon becomes a house of unspeakable horrors.

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THE AMITYVILLE THEATER – DVD

Following the tragic death of her parents, Fawn Harriman had counted herself lucky the day she inherited an abandoned playhouse in the small town of Amityville. With her sights set on a new life in the theater, she invites a group of friends to join her there for a weekend adventure that will ultimately lead them into the terrifying clutches of an ancient pact between the mysterious locals and a malignant presence that haunts the theater. As the stranglehold of evil grows ever tighter, Fawn’s teacher races to Amityville in a desperate attempt to rescue the imperiled party, and put an end to the town’s terrifying legacy once and for all.

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BOUND TO VENGEANCE – VOD – FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH

Bound to Vengeance is a gritty revenge thriller about a young woman, Eve (Tina Ivlev), who fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.

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CAPTURED – DVD

With the term finally behind them, six medical students set aside their university worries and head off into the countryside away from the hustle and bustle of city life. However what should be a relaxing road trip soon develops into a fight for survival. Trapped in the mountains, with no contact to the outside world, they soon realise the rustle behind them is getting closer and the tingling sensation of being watched is growing ever so stronger. With escape seeming less likely, the friends are faced with the question, will they survive or is it just a matter of time before they’re Captured? A riveting tale about six friends fighting for survival in the tragic wake of a lost love.

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THE CRAVING – DVD

Chef Ronnie is a charming celebrity chef who thrives and shines in her everyday life as owner and proprietor of Diabla Pica; a trendy Spanish tapas restaurant in San Francisco. Leading a double life, Chef Ronnie cooks internationally award-winning meals by day and her nights are spent in ways too gruesome to fathom. As Chef Ronnie and Diabla Pica’s reputation scorch up the top social circles; San Francisco’s murder count hits a record high. Being haunted by her past, in the form a vengeful lover, and being caught in the seductive cross fire of an increasingly serious relationship; Chef Ronnie has bitten off more than she can chew.

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DEAD WOMAN’S HOLLOW – DVD

Based on a shocking true crime that took place on the Appalachian trail. Two female students set off for a camping trip into the Pennsylvania woods – but they are hunted, shot and left for dead by a mountain man after he discovers they are lesbians. A local sheriff soon begins to piece together more unsolved disappearances and murders on the trail, but can he act in time to stop more killings.

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DOG SOLDIERS (2002) – BLU-RAY

A group of soldiers dispatched to the Scottish Highlands on special training maneuvers face their biggest fears after they run into Captain Ryan: the only survivor of a Special Ops team that was literally torn to pieces. Ryan refuses to disclose his mission even though whoever attacked his men might be hungry for seconds. Help arrives in the form of local girl who shelters them in a deserted farmhouse deep in the forest…but when they realize that they are surrounded by a pack of blood-lusting werewolves, it’s apparent their nightmare has just begun!

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GHOUL – DVD

GHOUL is a supernatural horror film involving the real life story of the Soviet Union s most violent serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo. Three Americans travel to the Ukraine to film a documentary about the cannibalism epidemic that swept through the country during the famine of 1932. After being lured deep into the Ukraine forest for an interview with one of the last known survivors, they quickly find themselves trapped in a supernatural hunting ground.

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HORSEHEAD – DVD & BLU-RAY

*Read the iHorror review of Horsehead*

Haunting and horrific, surreal and shocking, HORSEHEAD is a new horror-fantasy that pays tribute to the classic European shockers of Dario Argento and Mario Bava while also remaining a unique film with its own vision, delivering unforgettable images that both disturb and enchant. Director Romain Basset’s tale follows beautiful young Jessica as she returns to her family s countryside estate for her grandmother s funeral. Haunted by recurring nightmares of a horse-headed monster, Jessica attempts to put her studies of lucid dreaming to good use, as she semi-consciously navigates through this dream landscape, trying to discover the secrets behind this sinister apparition. But Jessica must also cope with a hostile mother, and the growing realization that the death of her grandmother was actually a suicide triggered by the woman s past traumas and visions.

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THE HULK BLOOD TAPES – DVD

From the director of Hold Your Breath, Jailbait and 12/12/12. Five friends set out on a road trip to see their favorite band Hulk Blood play a reunion show – but they never got there. What happens along the way will change the course of their lives forever as they are lost, stranded – and ready to do anything to survive the night.

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JURASSIC PREY – DVD

After a botched bank robbery, a group of thieves clash with police and others while trying to hideout at a remote lake cabin, but unknown to them all, a recent mining explosion has unearthed a prehistoric T-Rex beast, who is the perfect hunter, and is very hungry. Now, they must all band together and fight to stay alive as this Jurassic predator hunts them down one by one, piece by piece.

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LUST OF THE DEAD 5 – DVD

The insane apocalyptic zombie saga continues! Watch the viral epidemic spread as the sex-crazed walking dead expand their rampage across post-nuke Tokyo! Can they be stopped? Can their perpetual lust ever be satisfied?

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MEET ME THERE – DVD & BLU-RAY

A journey of self-discovery becomes a quest for survival as Ada (Lisa Friedrich, Least Favorite Love Songs) and Calvin (Micheal Foulk, Zero Charisma) encounter the darkness of the past and the unexplainable evil of the present in a town where the only visitors are the ones who’ve come to die. Featuring Dustin Runnels (WWE’s Goldust) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother), this intense character study and exploration of sexual trauma will have you covering your eyes and keep you guessing until its final minutes.

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SATAN’S WIFE (1977) – DVD

Four young and beautiful women join a Satanic cult surrendering their will and bodies entirely to the Devil himself. Years later when they’re older women, Carlotta, starts to lose control of her 13 year old daughter Daria, who starts to develop strong powers of her own, aware of her powers and with extreme devotion to The Devil she starts speaking and behaving in strange ways like casting spells and harming people with no remorse whatsoever. And her powers seem to increase exponentially every single day. In her desperation, Carlotta and some of her friends enlist the help of a priest with a crisis of faith to help them perform a strange ritual that will hopefully vanquish the evil out of Daria once and for all.

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SILENT RETREAT – DVD

Janey is sent to a silent meditation retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it are brainwashing women to be quiet and submissive, and if she breaks the rules, she’ll discover what lurks beyond the trees…

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SNUFF REEL: WHEN DEATH BECOMES ART

Snuff Reel tells the story of a highly educated and obsessive Art student who will stop at nothing to create the masterpiece she wants. Kirsty Ruler (Kristy Hopkins) uses and manipulates her friends with extreme wild fantasies that promise to make them feel the ultimate pleasure, but the ecstasy of this pleasure brings each participant very close to death. However these fantasies are no longer enough to subdue the deep twisted urges that begin to take control of Kirsty. It is up to Detective Beckett (Maria Lee Metheringham) to solve and put a stop to the string of murders in the small town of Ravenspurn…even if it means becoming the art herself.

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The Tall Man Funko Pop! Is a Reminder of the Late Angus Scrimm

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The Funko Pop! brand of figurines is finally paying homage to one of the scariest horror movie villains of all time, The Tall Man from Phantasm. According to Bloody Disgusting the toy was previewed by Funko this week.

The creepy otherworldly protagonist was played by the late Angus Scrimm who passed away in 2016. He was a journalist and B-movie actor who became a horror movie icon in 1979 for his role as the mysterious funeral home owner known as The Tall Man. The Pop! also includes the bloodsucking flying silver orb The Tall Man used as a weapon against trespassers.

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He also spoke one of the most iconic lines in independent horror, “Boooy! You play a good game, boy, but the game is finished. Now you die!”

There is no word on when this figurine will be released or when preorders will go on sale, but it’s nice to see this horror icon remembered in vinyl.

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Director of ‘The Loved Ones’ Next Film is a Shark/Serial Killer Movie

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The director of The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy is going nautical for his next horror film. Variety is reporting that Sean Byrne is gearing up to make a shark movie but with a twist.

This film titled Dangerous Animals, takes place on a boat where a woman named Zephyr (Hassie Harrison), according to Variety, is “Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. The only person who realizes she is missing is new love interest Moses (Hueston), who goes looking for Zephyr, only to be caught by the deranged murderer as well.”

Nick Lepard writes it, and filming will begin on the Australian Gold Coast on May 7.

Dangerous Animals will get a spot at Cannes according to David Garrett from Mister Smith Entertainment. He says, “‘Dangerous Animals’ is a super-intense and gripping story of survival, in the face of an unimaginably malevolent predator. In a clever melding of the serial killer and shark movie genres, it makes the shark look like the nice guy,”

Shark movies will probably always be a mainstay in the horror genre. None have ever really succeeded in the level of scariness reached by Jaws, but since Byrne uses a lot of body horror and intriguing images in his works Dangerous Animals might be an exception.

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PG-13 Rated ‘Tarot’ Underperforms at the Box Office

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Tarot starts off the summer horror box office season with a whimper. Scary movies like these are usually a fall offering so why Sony decided to make Tarot a summer contender is questionable. Since Sony uses Netflix as their VOD platform now maybe people are waiting to stream it for free even though both critic and audience scores were very low, a death sentence to a theatrical release. 

Although it was a fast death — the movie brought in $6.5 million domestically and an additional $3.7 million globally, enough to recoup its budget — word of mouth might have been enough to convince moviegoers to make their popcorn at home for this one. 

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Another factor in its demise might be its MPAA rating; PG-13. Moderate fans of horror can handle fare that falls under this rating, but hardcore viewers who fuel the box office in this genre, prefer an R. Anything less rarely does well unless James Wan is at the helm or that infrequent occurrence like The Ring. It might be because the PG-13 viewer will wait for streaming while an R generates enough interest to open a weekend.

And let’s not forget that Tarot might just be bad. Nothing offends a horror fan quicker than a shopworn trope unless it’s a new take. But some genre YouTube critics say Tarot suffers from boilerplate syndrome; taking a basic premise and recycling it hoping people won’t notice.

But all is not lost, 2024 has a lot more horror movie offerings coming this summer. In the coming months, we will get Cuckoo (April 8), Longlegs (July 12), A Quiet Place: Part One (June 28), and the new M. Night Shyamalan thriller Trap (August 9).

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