Kino Lorber’s horror/sci-fi Blu-ray releases are on the light side for April with only 3 new titles coming out, but they are 3 awesome titles. There’s Shadows in an Empty Room, which is part of their Scorpion Releasing partnership and is currently only $15.99 on Amazon, and then there’s Journey to the Seventh Planet and Panic in Year Zero. Panic in Year Zero was directed by Ray Milland, who also co-stars with Frankie Avalon. This is the title I can’t wait to pick up, although the others interest me greatly as well.

In addition to these 3 titles, Kino Lorber are also releasing a number of war/adventure movies and 3 animation sets this month. You can read all about those over at Villain Smash.

Journey to the Seventh Planet
It’s the year 2001 and most of the solar system has been explored by spacemen with the exception of the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus. The United Nations sends a five-man international team to check Uranus out. There, they are confronted by the “Being”, whose mysterious brain cuts to the inner thoughts of the explorers and causes their thoughts to appear as mirages. Uranus is soon filled with a bevy of beautiful girls thought up by the spacemen. to go along with some quicksand, a one-eyed rodent and a really mean giant centipede…

Shadows in an Empty Room
An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.

Panic in Year Zero
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be first casualties. Not one to give up, he holds up a store for supplies and hides the family in a cave.