Shout! Factory held a panel tonight at the San Diego Comic Con where they announced several future titles that they have in the works. I hope you all have your wallets ready or at least have a good standing credit so that you can buy all of these because there’s pretty much not a bad title in the list!
Below is all the movies that Shout! announced at their panel and on Twitter. They include such gems as Black Christmas, Slumber Party Massacre II, Bubba Ho-Tep, Dreamscape, Willard, The House That Screamed, and two films from the legendary David Cronenberg!
If we know anything about Shout! Factory and their horror arm Scream, it’s that they’re passionate about delivering the best product imaginable so that fans feel like every penny was worth it. I know that I haven’t gotten anything from them that I felt didn’t meet my expectations.
To Live and Die in L.A.
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Willem Dafoe, William Peterson, John Panknow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro
Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down a vicious criminal. Then, one of them is killed and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost. After that, the hunt becomes an obsession and the law he once swore to uphold becomes meaningless to him. (Source)
Dead of Winter
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
The House that Screamed
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown
Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that he must wait for a girl “just like his mother”. Meanwhile, girls are “running away” (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found. (Source)
Slumber Party Massacre II
Director: Deborah Brock
Starring: Crystal Bernard, Jennifer Rhodes, Kimberly McArthur
Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can’t get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.
Slumber Party Massacre III
Director: Sally Mattison
Starring: Keely Christian, Brittain Frye, Michael Harris
After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends predictably show up to scare them, but a stranger from the beach is also seen lurking around the house. Soon the group begins experiencing an attrition problem. (Source)
Dead Ringers
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Rabid
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.
Dreamscape
Director: Joseph Ruben
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.
Poltergeist II
Director: Brian Gibson
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O’Rourke
The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don’t seem to be over.
Poltergeist III
Director: Gary Sherman
Starring: Heather O’Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen
Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a highrise building, and the supernatural forces that have haunted her previously follow her there.
Black Christmas
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
Willard
Director: Daniel Mann
Starring: Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke
A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
Ben
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O’Connell
A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce
Elvis and JFK, both alive and in nursing homes, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy.
