Home Video
Horror In Your House Morphs into Tears
This morning B-D’s Tex Massacre sent us in this week’s Horror In Your House, which features all of the horror DVD release for this week, December 9th, 2009. Although it’s a pretty small list, there are a few indie films that are definitely worth checking out.
Horror in Your House
12.09.2008
By: Tex Massacre
ANAMORPH: Genius (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)
Willem Dafoe stars as a detective drawn into a gruesome case in this intense psychological thriller. Haunted by the killings, he soon finds himself confronting his own deadly past. With each slaying, the investigation takes a different, darker turn. And the nearer he’s drawn to the murders, the closer he could become the ultimate victim – or take the fall for the crimes.
TEX SAYS: This one has a pretty solid cast, including everyone’s favorite scene-chewer Peter Stormare! You might want to give it a go, or just spend your money on THE DARK KNIGHT blu-ray like I am!
BLITZKRIEG: ESCAPE FROM STALAG 69: Wild Eye
Keith Crocker’s sprawling, gore-splattered homage to Nazisploitation movies pits a truckload of USO girls against a band of bloodthirsty Nazi butchers at the most wicked POW camp in the Third Reich, Stalag 69 – where the prisoners band together to leave alive, or on a slab!
CHAMBER OF HORRORS/THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU: Warner
Terror abounds in this 1966 double feature that stars two of the genre’s most sinister villains. Famed for its “Fear Flasher” and “Horror Horn” gimmicks in its theatrical run, CHAMBER OF HORRORS stars Patrick O’Neal as a killer who replaces his hand with set of terrifying tools. As the title villain in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU, Christopher Lee kidnaps the daughters of the world’s foremost scientists and demands that the men build him a death ray.
TEX SAYS: Previously available as a Best Buy exclusive, this twofer along with the other one below, are now available to the masses. Rejoice!
CIRCULATION: Cinema Epoch
Ana is on her way to visit her new boyfriend when her ex-husband attempts a vicious kidnapping resulting in a car accident. Ana crawls out of the wreckage and walks down the highway towards the nearest town. Gene, an American tourist vacationing in Baja, stops to pick her up. Ana soon finds that her world is not the same. The hotel where she was supposed to meet her boyfriend is in ruins and the people that inhabit it seem more animal like than human. Later that night she has a disturbing nightmare that introduces her to her animal self. She dreams of moths and caterpillars intertwined with human limbs and body parts. She wakes up more confused and shaken, but her journey continues until she learns to embrace her animal self.
CRAIG: BrinkDVD
Craig is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from the loss of both his parents in a disastrous fire. Aside from his childhood friend, Cliff, he loses everyone he knows in one devastating blow. And Cliff, isn’t much help, he has his own problems to deal with.
TEX SAYS: Kim Sønderholm directs this new release. The Danish filmmaker previously gave us the excellent compilation DVD: THE HORROR VAULT earlier this year. His two entries in that set were uneven, but perhaps this feature-length film will allow him to shine.
DIE ZOMBIEJAGER/MURDER ISLAND: Regain Records
DIE ZOMBIEJAGER–In a not too distant future Gothenburg Sweden has been invaded by zombies. The Police are powerless and a team of German Zombie Hunters is called in to solve the problem and clean up the city. On their way through the streets of Gothenburg they run into everything from Italian assassins to Swedish reporters on the wrong side of the barricades while trying to figure out what is causing the epidemic.
MURDER ISLAND–Six Teenagers…One Island…Many Ways to Die…It’s summer. A group of teenagers decide to go on a camping trip. They drive far up in the country until they find a small place where they can rent canoes for a cheap price. The group paddle for a long time before they find a perfect island to set up camp on. They have sex do drugs and drink alcohol. The next morning they notice that one of them has disappeared. They split up looking for her but that proves to have horrifying consequences.
THE FALLING: S’More
Amidst the remains of his broken life, police officer Grayson Reed is about to be thrown into a feud between the armies of Heaven and Hell. His closest friend has fallen victim to a drug habit, his sister refuses to acknowledge their relationship and he faces a world mired in chaos. As faith ends in the world around him and he tries to pick up the pieces of his own life, Reed will be faced with a horrible choice that could ultimately decide the fate of the world.
IT!/THE SHUTTERED ROOM: Warner
This double feature of 1960s horror films delivers star power along with the shocks. Gig Young and Carol Lynley are a young couple investigating a sinister secret in their inherited New England home in THE SHUTTERED ROOM (1967), an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation that also stars Oliver Reed. Then, creepy London museum curator Arthur Pimm awakens the golem, a centuries-old demonic clay figure, to do his bidding in 1966’s IT!
100 TEARS: Anthem
Mark and Jennifer are two daring tabloid reporters, seeking out a bigger better story, which leads them into the bizarre world of a serial murderer known only as “The Teardrop Killer”. Hot on his bloody trail, they begin to piece together the things that make him tick, eventually finding themselves fighting for their very lives, deep within his cavernous house of horrors.
TEX SAYS: Writer/Star Joe Davison and Director Marcus Koch give us another killer clown movie…and you all know how I feel about clowns!!!
Scream Factory brought Frank LaLoggia’s 1988 Halloween movie Lady in White to Blu-ray several years back, and now Vinegar Syndrome gives the film a 4K Ultra HD upgrade.
Vinegar Syndrome’s Lady in White 4K release is available now and shipping now!
Watch the trailer below and grab your copy from Vinegar Syndrome today.
This limited edition 4-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray x 3 set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Dylan Haley), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 8,000 units. It is only available on their website and at select indie retailers.
The full Special Features package includes…
- 4-disc Set: 1x 4K Ultra HD (High Bitrate BD100) / 3x Region A Blu-ray
- 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
- Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
- Presented in three versions: 126-min Pre-Release Director’s Cut (UHD+BD), the 118-min Extended Home Video Cut (BD), and the 113-min Theatrical Cut (BD)
- New group commentary track with writer/director Frank LaLoggia, alongside actors Lukas Haas, Joelle Jacobi, and Len Cariou for the Pre-Release Director’s Cut
- New commentary track with Frank LaLoggia, moderated by Scott Neumyer for the Extended Home Video Cut
- New commentary track with authors Emma Westwood and Stephen A. Russell for the Extended Home Video Cut
- Archival commentary track with Frank LaLoggia for the Extended Home Video Cut
- “Learning How to Fly” (10 min) – an interview with actress Karen Powell
- “A Snapshot in Time” (9 min) – an interview with actress Lisa Taylor
- “Human Touches” (6 min) – an interview with actress Lucy Lee Flippin
- “Still Relevant” (16 min) – an interview with actress Rose Weaver
- “75% Listening, 25% Editing” (9 min) – an interview with editor Steve Mann
- “Welcome to Willowpoint Falls” (6 min) – a location featurette hosted by Benjamin Scrivens, founder of Fright-Rags
- “Dream Talking: Looking Back” – a visual group commentary for the Pre-Release Director’s Cut with Frank LaLoggia, and actors Lukas Haas, Joelle Jacobi, and Len Cariou (103 min)
- Deleted Scenes with introduction and optional commentary by writer/director Frank LaLoggia (36 min)
- Behind-the-scenes footage with introduction and optional commentary by writer/director Frank LaLoggia (16 min)
- Extended behind-the-scenes footage (73 min)
- Introduction from the 20th anniversary dvd release
- Promotional ‘industry sales’ trailer (7 min)
- 40-page perfect bound book with essays by film historians Molly Henery, Mark H. Harris, and Heidi Honeycutt (limited edition only)
- Multiple radio spots
- Theatrical trailer
- Multiple TV spots
- Workprint trailers (7 min)
- Still gallery
- Reversible sleeve artwork
- English SDH subtitles
1962. Nine-year-old Frankie Scarlatti enjoys a homespun childhood in a rustic Western New York town. The entire community gets into the spirit of Halloween, but then two bullies prank Frankie by locking him in his school cloakroom, leaving him trapped for the night. Alone and afraid, his slumber is interrupted when the ghost of a little girl appears, and Frankie witnesses the specter of her murder by an unseen assailant. Later, while recovering at home, the girl’s ghost appears to him again. With help from his older brother, Frankie begins investigating the circumstances of her death. He soon discovers that her murder was one of several unsolved crimes connected to a local child-killer. As the town’s bucolic veneer fades and long-buried secrets and tensions bubble to the surface, all of the clues to the mystery seem to point towards a huge mansion inhabited by a reclusive woman known as “The Lady in White.”
A nostalgia-driven ghost story wrapped within an intricate murder mystery and coming-of-age drama, writer-director-composer Frank LaLoggia’s passion project Lady in White remains one of the most beautiful and original American horror films of the 1980s. Featuring acclaimed actors Alex Rocco (The Godfather), Len Cariou (Executive Decision), and Sydney Lassick (Carrie, The Unseen), it boasts the first starring role by Lukas Haas (Mars Attacks, Inception) as well as breathtaking photography by Academy Award® winner Russell Carpenter (True Lies, The Lawnmower Man). Vinegar Syndrome is honored to bring this genre masterpiece to 4K UHD, newly restored from its original 35mm camera negative and presented in three versions: its pre-release director’s cut, its extended home-video version, and its original theatrical version, along with an abundance of both new and archival extras.
Paul Lê wrote here on Bloody Disgusting back in 2023, “Over the years, fans have described this film as gateway horror, but they liken it more to The Watcher in the Woods than, say, Hocus Pocus or Casper. There are chilling moments that warrant its PG-13 rating.”
You must be logged in to post a comment.