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October continues to be good for horror connoisseurs. This week, horror icon Hannibal Lector gets the Blu-Ray treatment in the form of Red Dragon. Other notables include Blu-Ray releases of the third film featuring the Frog brothers, Lost Boys: The Thirst and one of the best killer doll movies ever, Magic starring none other than Anthony Hopkins. Yes, Hopkins fans are undoubtedly doing cartwheels. And for the B-movie lovers out there, The Asylum’s Mega Piranha is swimming to a store near you…in 1080P. Check out the rest of the week’s releases below.Horror In Your House
October 11th, 2010
BRAIN DEAD – Vicious Circle Films
A mismatched group of people find themselves in a secluded cabin in a small town. They must band together to fight off alien zombie creatures that have a penchant for spraying black goop into their victims brains. Directed by Kevin Tenny (Night of the Demons and Witchboard).
CARNIES – R2 Films LLC
In 1936, during the Great Depression, a traveling sideshow sets up shop to mystify yet another dustbowl town with freaks and illusions. When a sinister force begins taking the carnies’ lives one by one, Detective Ellison (Reggie Bannister) is put on the case.
COFFIN ROCK –MPI Home Video
An Irish drifter, Evan (Sam Parsonson), becomes madly possessive about a lover and a child. Jess (Lisa Chappell) and Rob (Robert Taylor) are a happily married couple beset by only one nagging problem: they are unable to get pregnant. After a drunken fight, Jess wanders off and into the arms of the loner Evan. Evan has other plans and suddenly one night of infidelity produces a stranger at the door and perhaps, even in her belly — that tests not just their marriage but their ability to survive.
CRUCILBLE OF TERROR – Severin Films
His name was Mike Raven, the popular Pirate Radio DJ and known occultist whose spectacularly failed attempt at ‘70s horror stardom marked one of the most bizarre careers in British movie history. And in his most infamous role of all, Raven stars as an insane sculptor whose obsession with the perfect female form leads to a nightmare of sex, sorcery and slaughter. Melissa Stribling (HORROR OF DRACULA), Ronald Lacey (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK) and Me Me Lay (THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER) co-star in this still-sordid shocker transferred in startling HD from the only known uncut 35mm print in existence.
DARK LURKING – Cinema Epoch
At Outpost 320, located one mile beneath the earth, the researchers make a critical error and something has now gone terribly wrong. All communications are gone, all means of escape destroyed and an extremely dangerous horde of ancient creatures is on the loose after a doorway to an unspeakable evil has been opened.
THE DIRECTOR’S CUT – Big Bit Ent.
Pain Is Temporary. Film Is Forever. A bloody black comedy set in the harsh Australian outback, The Director’s Cut tells the tale of a tyrannical director attempting to shoot his first feature film on a farm in the middle of nowhere. When people start dying, he has to decide which is more important: his crew or his film.
DOGHOUSE – MPI Home Video
Pitting a minibus full of single men on retreat to help one of their number through a rough divorce against a town full of women driven mad by an airborne toxin that affects only the fairer sex, turning them into violent, bloodthirsty fiends who prey upon their menfolk.
LOST BOYS: THE THIRST (Blu-Ray/DVD) – Warner Home Video
As the lost boys and girls of San Cazador prepare to party under the Blood Moon, an alpha vampire conspires to turn these unsuspecting ravers into an army of undead. The only thing that stands between him and the annihilation of the entire human race is the infamous vampire fighting Frog Brothers. Armed with double-barrel holy water balloon launchers and multi-arrow crossbows, Edgar (Corey Feldman) and Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander) join forces to kick some blood-sucker butt in this latest high-energy, action packed adventure in the Lost Boys franchise.
MAGIC (Blu-Ray) – Dark Sky Films
Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) is Corky, a painfully shy, failed magician who finds overnight success as a ventriloquist. His brash, foul-mouthed dummy, Fats, becomes a huge nightclub hit. With his star on the rise, talent agent Ben Greene (Burgess Meredith) arranges an important shot at national TV. But the pressure of failing the network’s required physical sends Corky into a panic. With Fats in tow, he flees the city to a nearly-deserted resort in the Catskills run by the love of his youth, Peggy Ann Snow (Ann-Margret).
MICAH SAYS: This is my pick of the week. I feel kinda guilty for not already owning it in some form or another. The best killer doll film of all time?
CHARLIE: MY NAME IS EVIL – Lions Gate
Charles Manson’s lust for blood left not only a trail of victims across Los Angeles, but also his minion’s lives shattered. Leslie, a former cheerleader and prom queen, is one such follower of the serial killer. During her murder trial, one of the jury members, Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, finds himself falling in love with the dangerous woman charged.
MEGA PIRANHA (Blu-Ray) – Platinum Disc
A mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha escape from the Amazon and eat their way toward Florida.
MICAH SAYS: It’s rumored that Paul Logan kicked fish for 2-3 hours a day in preparation for his role in this film.
RED DRAGON (Blu-Ray) –Universal Studios
Retired FBI agent, Will Graham, is called back to duty to stop another serial killer with the help of Hannibal Lector.
MICAH SAYS: Ahh, that damned “Tooth Fairy” killer. I remember being pleasantly surprised by this thriller when I caught it in theaters.
S&MAN (SANDMAN) (Blu-Ray/DVD) – Magnolia Home Entertainment
When cult-favorite horror filmmaker JT Petty ventures into the dark world of underground horror, things don t exactly go as planned. As he examines the comparison between filmmaking and voyeurism within the horror genre, he uncovers a collective of filmmakers, deviants, and self-professed possible murderers. The most notorious underground film series he discovers is called S&MAN, produced by the unassuming and creepy Eric Rost.
SCULPTURE – Camp Motion Pictures
Haunted by dark images from a repressed past, struggling artist Ashley Steele (Raine Brown) returns to her childhood home following the death of her parents. Accepting a commission from a well-known art dealer (Alan Rowe Kelly), she enlists body-builders as models and enthusiastically embarks upon the project. However, her fragile, new-found confidence cannot withstand her brother’s obsessive behavior or her accelerating visions of childhood trauma. As a childhood friend (Misty Mundae) reaches out to help, Ashley spirals down a path of unspeakable horror, mutilation, and murder.
This week kicked off with the release of hippo horror movie Hungry at home, and four more horror movies have arrived for at-home viewing as we head into the final weekend of June.
Here are the new horror movies that released on Friday, June 26, 2026!
The Halloween season can no longer be contained to the months of September and October, with “Summerween” becoming a thing in recent years. Essentially, it allows for Halloween to bleed into the warmer Summer months, and the first ever Summerween movie has arrived.
The Asylum released Summerween onto Digital outlets today.
In the film from writer/director Ryan Ebert, “On Summerween, a former circus clown escapes a mental institution to return to his abandoned mansion and hunt the teens partying there.”
Cole Chapleski, Chase Breithoff, Logan Roe, Sophia Sabol, and Clint Morrison star.
Director Ryan Ebert is the man behind a string of recent indie horrors we’ve covered, including Shark Side of the Moon, The Jolly Monkey, Jurassic Reborn, and Predator: Wastelands.
A witchy coming-of-age story from Dark Sky Films, Camp is now playing in select theaters.
Check your local listings to find a theater near you.
Camp is from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin).
“Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.
“As Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”
The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.
Producers Tyler Perry and Jason Blum have joined forces for Peacock Original Strung.
The film is now streaming only on Peacock.
“A talented violinist takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family. As she becomes entangled in their opulent world, unsettling secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question her safety, her dreams, and even her sanity.”
Malcolm D. Lee (Scary Movie 5, Space Jam: A New Legacy) directs from a script written by Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers).
Chloe Bailey (“Swarm“), Lynn Whitfield (Jaws: The Revenge), Lucien Laviscount (“Scream Queens”), Anna Diop (Us), Coco Jones (Vampires vs. the Bronx), Langley Kirkwood (“Banshee”), and Romy Woods star in Peacock’s Strung.
Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits brought a new coven of witches to the big screen earlier this year, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, released by IFC and Shudder.
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”
The film is an adaptation of playwright Lily Houghton’s stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die. Alloway and Houghton co-adapted.
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