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Yikes. If you were looking for some new horror to grind your teeth on this week, you’re sh*t out of luck. This is one of the smallest editions of Horror In Your House to date featuring less than a handful new horror titles. You can see what is now available at a retailer near you by reading on.
Horror in Your House
March 24, 2009
By: Tex Massacre
BEAST: Cinema Image
Several people, cursed to turn into monstrous feral beasts, find themselves pursued through Germany by unknown, violent forces. Alex, who has been estranged from his family returns to confront certain “issues.” Aside from his day-to-day woes, his biggest trouble is that he transforms into a violent, feral beast – and he’s been given this curse by someone in his family. Meanwhile, another “beast” named Tim is being pursued across the German countryside. These similar people with different stories intertwine, the body count mounts, and a shocking truth is revealed in their wild, blood-soaked showdown.
CZECH CHILLERS (VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS, WITCHES’ HAMMER): Facets
During the dark days of Communism, Czech directors sometimes turned to horror and fantasy to spin tales of girls bewitched by evil forces and innocent victims tortured by inquisitors — but it wasn’t always monsters from the past that they were talking about! This unique Facets 2-Pack offers two tales of terror from the other side of the Iron Curtain. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS finds a young girl strangely affected by a pair of enchanted earrings, while WITCHES HAMMER takes us deep into the demented psyche of a witch hunter.
GREEN RIVER: Vanguard
Haunted by her sister’s mysterious disappearance many years ago at Green River, Charisma Kavanagh returns to silence her ghosts and make peace with the past. In her search for closure to this disturbing part of her life she returns to the family cabin with her wary friend Allison Chase . Tension grows between the two friends, as Allison’s own erratic behavior helps to intensify their suspicion of an ominous local man, Jack Walker. Pained with the untold truth of the vanishing of her sister and Allison’s escalating paranoia; will Charisma ultimately be forced to choose between her friend and a stranger? Some things may be better left undiscovered
LATE BLOOMER: Bone House Asia
Sumida, a young man confined to a wheelchair, drinks his life away in alcoholic splendor with his friend, Take. He is unable to speak, except through an electronic voice box. He is the object of pity among his friends and disgusting to those who don t know him. When a young girl temporarily becomes his caregiver to fulfill a school assignment, he mistakes her harmless flirtation for love. Her rejection of him sends him on a downward spiral of anger and revenge.
LOCUSTS: THE 8TH PLAGUE: Image
Watch the skies… and run! Terror is breeding at a remote Midwestern government facility, where top-secret lab experiments have resulted in genetically-engineered locusts able to devour the flesh from any humans in their path. When the swarm escapes, a determined researcher heads a team to stop the menace before it consumes the world!
SNAKEHEAD TERROR: Image
Mutated Snakehead fish become deadly predators in a small Northeastern town when they become capable of moving on land, with a small population becoming its newest food source. With the help of the Department of Natural Resources, the local sheriff (Bruce Boxleitner) investigates the killings and searches for his missing daughter, last seen on a lake with her friends. Packed with relentless monster action on water and dry land, Snakehead Terror proves you could be next on the menu!
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.”
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