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TERROR IN THE AISLES - The fan-favorite 1984 theatrically-released compilation film featuring some of some of the greatest horror hits of all time – is finally getting its own standalone Blu-ray release before this Halloween on October 13th! A roller coaster ride through the most terrifying...

UK's Hammer was at an interesting point in its history in the fall of 1963, when it released Don Sharp's Kiss of the Vampire. An Extremely prolific production entity going back to 1935, hitting sci-fi in the early '50s, and then making the leap (to the chagrin of UK censors) into horror in 1957...

For fans of lycanthropy, and who isn't a fan of lycanthropy, a film far more violent and in one's face than the Universal horror films of the past. Based upon the novel The Werewolf of Paris by black-listed writer, Guy Endore, it became one of the more notorious Hammer Horrors, decimated by...

Our love for Hammer Films continues with an upgraded version of 1962’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA starring Herbert Lom & Michael Gough. Coming soon to Blu-ray from us in an all-new definitive edition! Details we have currently are as follows: • National street date for North America (Region A)...

Get ready for another round of old school chills and thrills. The UNIVERSAL HORROR COLLECTION VOLUME 6 (Can you believe it??) is coming to Blu-ray on Aug 25th. Volume 6 includes four tales of terror from the archives of Universal Pictures, the true home of classic horror. Boris Karloff stars as...

Set sail this Summer and cruise the deadly seas on the GHOST SHIP – the gruesome 2002 thriller (with an unforgettable opening scene). Coming to Blu-ray from us in an all-new definitive Blu-ray release! Details we have currently are as follows: • National street date for North America (Region...

SCREAM FACTORY PRESENTS IDLE HANDS Starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, and Vivica A. Fox COLLECTOR’S EDITION ARRIVES ON BLU-RAY™ MAY 12, 2020 FROM SCREAM FACTORY™ The Devil will find work for idle hands to do … so what happens when he chooses the laziest teen slacker in the world...

Our love for Hammer Films continues with an upgraded version of 1962’s THE KISS OF THE VAMPIRE--coming soon to Blu-ray from us in an all-new definitive edition! Details we have currently are as follows: • National street date for North America (Region A) is 7/14. • This is being presented as a...

She Wanted Only To Find Her Brother Alive … Be Careful What You Wish For. WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST comes crashing to Blu-ray for the first time this Summer! After Colonel Glenn Manning survived an experimental plutonium blast that triggered his mutation into a seventy-foot giant, everyone...

Get inked this Summer with the terrifying 1981 controversial thriller TATTOO. Coming to Blu-ray for the first time in North America! A tattoo artist (Bruce Dern, The Hateful Eight) kidnaps a model who has become his obsession. Maud Adams (Octopussy) gives a riveting performance as the woman of...

A creepy combination of Stephen King and underground terror comes to life in 1990’s horror show GRAVEYARD SHIFT, coming to Blu-ray for the first time in North America. When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths. The link between the killings is the...

1976’s eerie psychological thriller THE TENANT is coming to Blu-ray for the first time in North America. Roman Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a quiet, timid file clerk increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new apartment. Adding to his paranoia are the building's...

“A terrific cast and crisp writing.” Los Angeles Times “Funny and honest in equal measures” TheWrap STANDING UP, FALLING DOWN Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital March 31, 2020 from Shout! Studios A poignant comedy that will resonate with anyone who has ever battled regrets, Standing Up...

April Fool's Day, a 1986 teen thriller, which in some odd ways could be a low-budget pre-curser to Knives Out, is a fan favorite. Somehow, I've never understood the attraction, but regardless, Scream Factory's new Blu-ray via Paramount is a very nice Blu-ray, with nary a problem in sight...

Swim for your life this Summer as ORCA comes hunting on Blu-ray for the first time in North America! Sleek, intelligent, beautiful ... and hell-bent on revenge. Producer Dino De Laurentiis (King Kong, Ragtime) and director Michael Anderson (Around The World In 80 Days, Logan's Run) join forces...

Get ready for another round of old school chills and thrills. The UNIVERSAL HORROR COLLECTION VOLUME 5 is coming to Blu-ray on June 16th! Volume 5 of the Universal Horror Collection includes four tales of terror from the archives of Universal Pictures, the true home of classic horror. A...

“It’s Dark, Clever, Nasty as Hell.” said Fangoria of 2009’s THE HILLS RUN RED. Today we announce that the underrated slasher film favorite is coming soon to Blu-ray for the first time on June 16th! You heard the story. The one about the goriest, bloodiest splatter flick ever, the one made in...

THIRTEEN GHOSTS – the gory 2001 remake of the William Castle original – is coming to Blu-ray this Summer in an all-new definitive Blu-ray release! Details we have currently are as follows: • National street date for North America (Region A) is 6/9/2020 • This is being presented as a...

Michael McDowell, George Romero, Stephen King and Arthur Conan Doyle present a terrifying anthology of fear with 1990’s TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE—which is coming to Blu-ray this Summer! Details we have currently are as follows: • National street date for North America (Region A) is...

Those adept at knot-tying will recognize the subject of the title. https://www.animatedknots.com/clove-hitch-knot-rope-end The IFC film, released via Scream Factory has me befuddled, and that doesn't occur too often. As directed by Duncan Skiles, Clovehitch is a neat little thriller of the...

Scream Factory is once again gracing our home theaters with another entry in their Universal Horror Collection. This time, Volume 4, which hits some high points in the series. Most interesting, for me, was the inclusion of The Climax, a 1944 Technicolor Boris Karloff production, one of only...

Yesterday we announced an upcoming Hammer Films Blu-ray In May with Frankenstein and with Peter Cushing. Well, today we have yet another one! 1973's FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL makes its Blu-ray debut in North America on May 19th. Is Baron Frankenstein truly dead? That's precisely...

Murders in the Rue Morgue, as directed by Robert Florey, was a February 1932 release, which places its production in 1931. Let's put things in historical perspective at Universal at the time. Dracula was shot in 1930, and released in February of 1931. Frankenstein would have been produced...

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Vice Squad, a 1982 film, directed by Gary Sherman, isn't normally something that I'd suggest people purchase for viewing. For me, it's a reminder of what certain sections of Hollywood were like, back in 1981-82. But it really hasn't met the test of time. But for true cinephiles, the...

Mention the name of Val Lewton to any fan of the cinema, and you'll generally receive a knowing smile or nod, as he was one of the unsung B picture heroes of the 1940s at RKO. Between 1942 and 1946, he was the man behind a series of horror/thrillers that are little gems of his field. Nine of...

While most cinephiles think of Hammer for their horror productions in the 1950s and '60s, taking our beloved creatures, and delivering them in shocking colour, the company had successes in the '50s in the sci-fi vein, beginning with films such as Four Sided Triangle. In 1955, the first of their...

Scream Factory, via their license with Universal, has released Universal Horror Collection Volume 1, and there will be additional offerings. And that would be a very good thing. Little needs be said about these four films - The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), The Invisible Ray (1936), and...

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I'm a huge Val Lewton fan. There's never been anyone quite like him for intelligent, atmospheric horror. Scream Factory's new Blu-ray of Robert Wise's (his second film in the series, after The Curse of the Cat People) 1945 The Body Snatcher, has everything going for it. Boris Karloff Bela...