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New Horror DVD & Blu-ray Releases: July 21st, 2015

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AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: BOUQUET OF GUTS AND GORE

Two women are abducted by a group of snuff filmmakers and brought into a Hellish nightmare of unmistakable brutality, viciousness and destruction that will leave every viewer shocked, amazed and awestruck. A love letter to ultra gorehounds the world over. The American Guinea Pig Series is about to begin.

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BLACK SABBATH (1963) – DVD & BLU-RAY

One of the great horror anthology films of all time, and Mario Bava’s personal favorite of his works, Black Sabbath solidified the director’s reputation as Europe’s maestro of the macabre. In The Telephone… a woman is haunted by menacing phone calls from a former lover. The Wurdulak stars Boris Karloff (The Crimson Cult) as a vampire hunter whose family is stalked by the wandering spirit of an undead ghoul. A Drop Of Water involves a nurse who steals a ring from a corpse – not realizing the curse that is carried with it.

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DARK WAS THE NIGHT – VOD – FRIDAY, JULY 24TH

Maiden Woods is a remote and quiet town of decent hard-working people, but something stirs in the dark woods surrounding this isolated community. After a logging company decimates an area of the forest, a rash of increasingly violent and unexplainable events transpires. Sheriff Paul Shields (Kevin Durand) and his deputy (Lukas Haas) struggle to confront their own personal demons while facing down a new breed of raw terror that is possibly older than humanity itself… and much, much hungrier.

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HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD – DVD

The Roaring Twenties end in a SCREAM when the first talking movie debuts. The world’s biggest female silent movie star, Rose Pettigrew, goes on a killing spree when she loses her studio contract, murdering her friends and co-stars – Tubby Fitzgerald, the comedian, Erik Burke, the horror icon and Sonny Barnes (ERIC ROBERTS), the cowboy – before taking her own life.Rose’s mansion has stood empty for decades, but when two realtors Reese and Danni finally buy the house to remodel and sell it, they discover that there are more than skeletons in the closets.Haunted by the ghosts of a time long ago, the girls quickly find that they have been cast in a nightmare that will never end.

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HOUSE ON THE HILL – DVD

Based on a true story, House On The Hill is a true crime account with strong horror elements, chronicling the outrageous 1980s murder spree of serial killer Leonard Lake, who would target, kidnap, rob and kill people – and even whole families. Private investigator Paul Kale locates the only survivor of Lake’s killing spree, who is living in seclusion years after her escape from the Lake’s ‘sex slave’ compound. She and Paul reluctantly team up to uncover the fate of a woman who disappeared into Lake’s house of horrors. In the process, Sonia recounts her experiences and relates the murder and abuse she witness, where Lake and his accomplice would force her to video tape the kidnappings and killings.

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I, MADMAN (1989) – BLU-RAY

Gothic nightmares collide with gritty realism in this “stylish horror thriller [that] pulls you in and makes you pay attention”, (Los Angeles Times)! After a spine-tingling paperback catches the imagination of bookstore clerk Virginia, she seeks out the author’s second book, I, Madman. But once she opens the cover, its eerie tale of obsessive love comes to life, catapulting a disfigured, scalpel-wielding killer from the world of fiction onto the streets of Hollywood with one demented goal: to win Virginia’s love, one murder at a time!

jokeTHE JOKESTERS – DVD

The Prankmasters are an internet sensation a la Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew, who decide to take it to the extreme for their series finale. When the leader of the group, Ethan, announces that he is getting married and leaving the group and the pranks behind, the rest of the members decide to pull off one final stunt that turns into a Cabin in the Woods nightmare on their friend’s honeymoon. What happens next is a descent into terror.

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MADHOUSE (1974) – DVD & BLU-RAY

Newly Re-mastered in HD! Masters of macabre Vincent Price (Tales of Terror), Peter Cushing (The Creeping Flesh) and Robert Quarry (Count Yorga, Vampire) give terrifying performances to die for in this diverting little chiller. When horror star Paul Toombes’ fiancé is brutally killed, he loses more than this job… he also loses his mind. But twelve years after suffering a nervous breakdown, the washed-up horror legend (Price) agrees to do a TV-series based on his old screen creation, the monstrous Dr. Death . Soon the cast and crew of the series begin dying in ways similar to the deaths the characters suffered in the actor’s old movies. Editor Jim Clark (Marathon Man) directed this top-notch horror classic based on the novel by Angus Hall (Qualthrough).

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THE MEAT PUPPET – DVD

Andrew Drew Shelton appears to have it all… Looks. Money. Women. But behind that charming smile lies an unimaginable evil. An abusive childhood has turned him into an impulsive, delusional sociopath who has developed an insatiable appetite for beautiful women’s flesh. As the bodies pile up and a gung-ho detective starts stalking him, Andrew descends deeper into madness. His obsession with one woman might be the only chance to stop him from serving up his next victim. Or will she fall prey and become the next main course?

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THE ORPHANAGE – DVD

After his parents’ death, 10-year-old orphan Nathan Perry is assigned to Milwood Orphanage and Boarding School for Boys. Nathan becomes a victim of unforeseen terror and unusual behavior in the institution’s feared Ward B, unleashing a sinister evil within him that no one could have anticipated, and no one can control.

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REMINISCENCE: THE BEGINNING – DVD

There are worlds, there are humans and there are Others. But there is only one Time which is the border between worlds. What if time breaks down? Slovakian physicist Michaela (Miska), discovers a new fact on magnetic fields and time-breaks, after her long researches. According to her calculations she found that every six years, intersections in the planets coordinates, causes temporarily gravity fields in the solar system. These gravity fields break the time for a very short period and can make a gateway to a black-hole. The estimated coordinates of one of these gravity fields that will occur on the earth, will take place in a town called Cesme in Turkey. To examine this event, Michaela (Miska), and her boy friend took a trip from Slovakia to Cesme. What they will face, is much more then what they expected.

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SHARKNADO: THE STORY BEHIND THE PHENOMENON – DVD

Take a ride into the Sharknado frenzy with a film geared to entertain while exploring how a Syfy creature feature become a unimaginable franchise and surprise phenomenon capturing the zeitgeist. With such a ridiculous name and premise, the low-budget movie about a shark-filled tornado destroying Los Angeles , Sharknado, was considered career suicide. However, when the SHARKNADO film finally premiered on SyFy, a social media conversation exploded, and news outlets ran with it. As a result, the film, cast and filmmakers were catapulted into the pop culture stratosphere! Why? How? Can filmmakers create lightning in a bottle again and again?

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STARVE – DVD

While researching an urban legend on feral children, three friends find themselves trapped in an abandoned high school, where they are confronted with an evil more sinister than the legend itself.

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VAMPIRE JOURNALS (1997) – BLU-RAY

I am God’s most desolate creature…a vampire with a mortal’s heart. I destroyed the one who spawned me and I have sworn to destroy her entire bloodline…the ones who stole me from the warmth of the sun. For centuries I have traveled the Earth, hunting my master’s master – ASH, the music lover. I found him in Bucharest, stalking an innocent concert pianist named SOFIA. She led me to his lair, a nest of decadence. Each moment I delayed brought her closer to eternal damnation.

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS – DVD & BLU-RAY

Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane – like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

Also out today: 5-Movie Horror Pack Volume 6, 5-Movies Big Box of Horror, Classic Horror Four Pack, and Paranormal Encounters Collection.

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Another Creepy Spider Movie Hits Shudder This Month

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Good spider films are a theme this year. First, we had Sting and then there was Infested. The former is still in theaters and the latter is coming to Shudder starting April 26.

Infested has been getting some good reviews. People are saying that it’s not only a great creature feature but also a social commentary on racism in France.

According to IMDb: Writer/director Sébastien Vanicek was looking for ideas around the discrimination faced by black and Arab-looking people in France, and that led him to spiders, which are rarely welcome in homes; whenever they’re spotted, they’re swatted. As everyone in the story (people and spiders) is treated like vermin by society, the title came to him naturally.

Shudder has become the gold standard for streaming horror content. Since 2016, the service has been offering fans an expansive library of genre movies. in 2017, they began to stream exclusive content.

Since then Shudder has become a powerhouse in the film festival circuit, buying distribution rights to movies, or just producing some of their own. Just like Netflix, they give a film a short theatrical run before adding it to their library exclusively for subscribers.

Late Night With the Devil is a great example. It was released theatrically on March 22 and will begin streaming on the platform starting April 19.

While not getting the same buzz as Late Night, Infested is a festival favorite and many have said if you suffer from arachnophobia, you might want to take heed before watching it.

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According to the synopsis, our main character, Kalib is turning 30 and dealing with some family issues. “He’s fighting with his sister over an inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend. Fascinated by exotic animals, he finds a venomous spider in a shop and brings it back to his apartment. It only takes a moment for the spider to escape and reproduce, turning the whole building into a dreadful web trap. The only option for Kaleb and his friends is to find a way out and survive.”

The film will be available to watch on Shudder starting April 26.

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Part Concert, Part Horror Movie M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Trap’ Trailer Released

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In true Shyamalan form, he sets his film Trap inside a social situation where we aren’t sure what is going on. Hopefully, there is a twist at the end. Furthermore, we hope it’s better than the one in his divisive 2021 movie Old.

The trailer seemingly gives away a lot, but, as in the past, you can’t rely on his trailers because they are often red herrings and you are being gaslit to think a certain way. For instance, his movie Knock at the Cabin was completely different than what the trailer implied and if you hadn’t read the book on which the film is based it was still like going in blind.

The plot for Trap is being dubbed an “experience” and we aren’t quite sure what that means. If we were to guess based on the trailer, it’s a concert movie wrapped around a horror mystery. There are original songs performed by Saleka, who plays Lady Raven, a kind of Taylor Swift/Lady Gaga hybrid. They have even set up a Lady Raven website to further the illusion.

Here is the fresh trailer:

According to the synopsis, a father takes his daughter to one of Lady Raven’s jam-packed concerts, “where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.”

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Trap stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills and Allison Pill. The film is produced by Ashwin Rajan, Marc Bienstock and M. Night Shyamalan. The executive producer is Steven Schneider.

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Woman Brings Corpse Into Bank To Sign Loan Papers

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Warning: This is a disturbing story.

You have to be pretty desperate for money to do what this Brazilian woman did at the bank to get a loan. She wheeled in a fresh corpse to endorse the contract and she seemingly thought the bank employees wouldn’t notice. They did.

This weird and disturbing story comes via ScreenGeek an entertainment digital publication. They write that a woman identified as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes pushed a man she identified as her uncle into the bank pleading with him to sign loan papers for $3,400. 

If you’re squeamish or easily triggered, be aware that the video captured of the situation is disturbing. 

Latin America’s largest commercial network, TV Globo, reported on the crime, and according to ScreenGeek this is what Nunes says in Portuguese during the attempted transaction. 

“Uncle, are you paying attention? You must sign [the loan contract]. If you don’t sign, there’s no way, as I cannot sign on your behalf!”

She then adds: “Sign so you can spare me further headaches; I can’t bear it any longer.” 

At first we thought this might be a hoax, but according to Brazilian police, the uncle, 68-year-old Paulo Roberto Braga had passed away earlier that day.

 “She attempted to feign his signature for the loan. He entered the bank already deceased,” Police Chief Fábio Luiz said in an interview with TV Globo. “Our priority is to continue investigating to identify other family members and gather more information regarding this loan.”

If convicted Nunes could be facing jail time on charges of fraud, embezzlement, and desecration of a corpse.

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