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Welcome to this week’s edition of Horror in Your House. Adam Green’s splatterfest Hatchet headlines a Blu-ray heavy week of studio releases. Tobe Hooper’s classic horror flick, Poltergeist also gets the Blu-ray treatment along with 2005’s creepy swamp mansion flick, The Skeleton Key. There is even something for the old school horror fans, a collection of Hammer Horror films released by TCM and Turner Home Ent. Anything catch your eye this week?
Horror In Your House
September 6th, 2010
CONVICT 762 – Echo Bridge Entertainment
After a navigational error leads a spaceship off-course into an asteroid field, the all-female crew is forced to stop and re-fuel at a penal colony. But upon landing, it’s clear something isn’t quite right–it’s eerily silent. There’s been an uprising, and no one is alive except for a terrified captain babbling about convict #762. A convict who has managed to slaughter everyone. A convict who is looking for a way off the planet…
DARKNESS (aka TMA) – Vicious Circle Films
Weary of his rock-and-roll lifestyle as a successful musician, Marek (Ivan Franěk) takes time off to live in the country home of his childhood so he can pursue his hobby of painting. After being haunted by strange noises and vivid childhood memories, Marek soon senses he’s living in the midst of a dark presence. From the Czech Republic.
GROWTH – Anchor Bay
In 1989, a breakthrough in Advanced Parasitic Development at the Cuttyhunk Island Research Facility led to a mysterious outbreak that killed most of the center’s staff and the island’s residents. Twenty years later, a young woman who fled the original epidemic has returned with a group of friends to sell her family’s property. But a new breed of parasite may have evolved and survived. They are fast moving. They can slither into, or out of, any orifice in the human body.
HATCHET [Blu-ray] – Starz/Anchor Bay
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
MICAH SAYS: The Evil Dead last week, now Hatchet. My Blu-ray collection is growing; my bank account is not.
POLTERGEIST [Blu-ray] – Warner Home Video
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they “kidnap” the youngest daughter.
PULSE [Blu-ray] – Weinstein Company
Horrifying supernatural events consume the life of Mattie (Kristen Bell) once she receives an e-mail from her friend begging for help from beyond the grave. Her investigation of the mysterious e-mail leads to unexpected answers and terrifying conclusions. Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used the technology as a doorway into ours. Now, the connection made can’t be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they’ll get in. You’ll be infected and they’ll take from you what they don’t have anymore – life.
MICAH SAYS: Remember this one? It was easy to forget. It’s features Kristen Bell’s acting and Wes Craven as a co-writer in a remake of the Japanese film, Kairo. And it’s, uh, not good.
THE SKELETON KEY [Blu-ray] – Universal
Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans, The Skeleton Key stars Hudson as Caroline, a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman’s ailing husband in their home… a foreboding and decrepit Gothic mansion in the Louisiana delta. Caroline beings to explore the old mansion, armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door, she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret.
TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILM COLLECTION: HAMMER HORROR – Turner Home Ent.
Films include: Horror of Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, The Curse of Frankenstein, and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.
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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