Up this week, the Blu-Ray/DVD release of boob and blood-filled Night of the Demons remake. Psycho and The Rocky Horror Picture Show turn 50 and 35 respectively and both are celebrating with special anniversary edition Blu-rays. Other notables include the surprisingly awesome Predators and the goreiffic Japanese film, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. Don’t you just love October?

Horror In Your House
October 18th, 2010

AHHH! ZOMBIES!! – Level 22 Entertainment

In this hilarious twist on the classic zombie tale, we see the world through zombie eyes when a barrel full of toxic goo transforms four friends in to the walking dead, and suddenly, it seems every one else has gone mad. In the most unique zombie story in years, the zombies embark on a bumbling quest to find the “Truth”, completely unaware of their rotting undeadness. After all, zombies are people too.

ASSUALT OF THE SASQUATCH – Synthetic Cinema Int.

When a merciless bear poacher is caught and arrested deep in the woods of a state park, he and his truck are taken to a neglected precinct in the heart of a dying city. Unbeknownst to the authorities, the impounded truck holds a deadly cargo in the form of the legendary Sasquatch! Now, stuck in an unfamiliar world, the creature will let nothing and no one stop it from coming face-to-face with the unscrupulous man who ruthlessly ripped it from its environment.

BIKINI BLOODBATH CHRISTMAS – Blood Bath Pictures

Bikini Bloodbath Christmas follows the adventures of recent college graduate Jenny (Rachael Robbins), who joins the American workforce by earning a living at Mrs. Johnson’s (Dick Boland) Bikini Bong Shop along with her several gorgeous friends. As luck would have it, Jenny and friends accidentally resurrect the infamous Chef Death during a visit to the graveyard. Chef Death – who terrorized Jenny and her finds the bikini-clad friends in the previous two films – crashes Mrs Johnson’s Christmas party…and the bloodbath begins!

COLIN – Walking Shadows

Our hero Colin is bitten by a zombie; he dies and returns as one of the undead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse. Through his encounters, we learn who Colin was and more pertinently, what he has now become. Including a broad daylight zombie versus human street battle, an epic housebound siege and bags of gore. Two disc special edition available.

DOLLA MORTE – Wild Eye Releasing

Masterpiece of Lo-Fi Madness and Satanic Silliness! So disgusting and so demented – it had to be filmed with dolls! Nothing and no one is sacred in a this special re-release of Bill Zebub’s long lost and out of print experiment in delirious doll destruction.

THE DEMON – VCI Entertainment

Cameron Mitchell, star of Mario Bava’s seminal giallo/slasher Blood and Black Lace (1964) and The Toolbox Murders (1978), plays Colonel Bill Carson a private investigator with psychic powers who is hired by a couple whose daughter was carried off into the night by an inexplicable outline of unknown terror. The Mother (Moira Winslow), who herself left to die, pleads with Mitchell after the police have turned up nothing. Can the psychic investigator find the daughter and stop the demon from adding to his killing spree? Digitally Remastered & Restored. Uncut widescreen version.

GIALLO (YELLOW) – Maya Home Entertainment

In Italy, an American woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears the worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.

MICAH SAYS: The latest (in a long line) uninspired Dario Argento flicks.

HORNO – SRS Cinema

Life imitates art when several sex crazed, flesh eating zombies, crash a film shoot about a zombie outbreak spread by sodomy.

KILLERS FROM SPACE – Film Chest

A scientist monitoring atomic tests, killed in a plane crash, is revived by aliens so he can spy on the tests and help them conquer the world. DVD purchase comes with a free shirt.

THE LOST TRIBE – Image Entertainment

On a remote tropical island, an archeological team unearths a prehistoric secret so dangerous that none of them will live to reveal it. Then, when a group of friends is shipwrecked on the island, they discover the terrifying truth about what the scientists found – it’s very much alive, freakishly strong and has a taste…for humans. Stars Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Pumpkinhead)

THE MAZE – Monarch Home Video

Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along.

MIRRORS 2 (Blu-Ray/DVD) – 20th Century Fox

When Max, a recovering addict, takes a job as a night time security guard job at his father’s department store, he begins to see visions of a young woman in the store’s mirrors. Unsure whether his visions are side effects of his prescription sleeping pills or actual reality, he begins to look deeper into the source of the images in the mirrors. When employees of the store turn up dead and Max is a suspect in the murders, he must expose the girl’s connection to a scandal within the department store’s walls in order to prove his innocence and put a stop to the spirits in the mirrors.

MICAH SAYS: While I can’t comment on Mirrors 2 (yet), you may have heard the Blu-Ray comes complete with a copy of the original Korean film, which is quite enthralling.

MONSTER A GO-GO – Film Chest

an astronaut about to be launched into space is being prepped for his galactic voyage with doses of “radiation repellent.” But, unknown to anyone else, the doctor begins utilizing a version of the formula previously tested only on animals. As the mission ends and the space capsule parachutes back to earth, it crash-lands in a nearby field and the astronaut aboard disappears. Is there a connection between the missing man and a monster wreaking havoc in the area?

NIGHT OF THE DEMONS (Blu-Ray/DVD) – Entertainment One

Angela (Shannon Elizabeth) is throwing a decadent Halloween party at New Orleans’ infamous Broussard Mansion. But after the police break up the festivities, Maddie (Monica Keena) and a few friends stay trapped behind. Trapped inside the locked mansion gates, the remaining guests uncover a horrifying secret and soon fall victim to seven vicious, blood-thirsty demons.

MICAH SAYS: Thoroughly enjoyable throwback horror featuring tons of boobs and blood. Director Adam Gierasch manages to honor the original and does so without selling his soul to the CGI gods. Pick of the week.

PREDATORS (Blu-Ray/DVD) – 20th Century Fox

Robert Rodriguez presents Predators, a bold new chapter in the Predator Universe. Adrien Brody stars as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors mysteriously brought together on a jungle planet. But when these cold-blooded human “predators” find themselves in all-out war against a new breed of alien Predators, it’s the ultimate showdown between hunter and prey.

MICAH SAYS: Makes up for all the sup-par sequels and stupid “VS. Aliens” garbage.

PSYCHO (50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Blu-Ray) – Universal

One of the most shocking films of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is now available on Blu-ray featuring perfect picture, a newly created 5.1 audio track and bonus features that take you beyond the movie! Join the Master of Suspense on a chilling journey as an unsuspecting victim (Janet Leigh) visits the Bates Motel and falls prey to one of cinema’s most notorious psychopaths – Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Named #1 on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills list, this notorious film has become a cultural phenomenon.

THE PSYCHO LEGACY – Shout! Factory

The Psycho Legacy follows the indelible filmmaking legacy left by the Psycho movies and unravels the screenwriting, casting and directing of all the movies, examining their undeniable longevity and success. Interweaving ultra-rare and never-before-seen interview footage of Anthony Perkins and dozens of interviews including Robert Loggia, Olivia Hussey, Henry Thomas, Diana Scarwid, Tom Holland, Hilton Green, Mick Garris and many more, The Psycho Legacy is the first documentary to unite and explore decades of Psycho movies in one place, revealing surprises and insights into what is considered the grandfather of modern horror.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (35th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-Ray) – 20th Century Fox

Fasten your garter belt and come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab! It’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show Special Edition, a screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decadent morsel.

SCREAM DREAM – SRS Cinema

One of the girls in a rock band is fired from the band. She is, in reality, a witch, and possesses the body of the girl who replaces her in order to take revenge on the rest of the band.

TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: COMPLETE SERIES – Paramount

This 30-minute horror/fantasy anthology series follows in the vein of The Twilight Zone. Each week presents another standalone story of horror fantasy, and/or science fiction. Some episodes are gruesome; a few are of a lighter comedic style. Like many such shows, Tales adapted the work of famous genre authors of the period such as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Clive Barker.

VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL (Blu-Ray/DVD – Funimation Productions

The deranged genius behind Tokyo Gore Police is back with a chilling new flick that’s re-writing the hallowed history of the horror genre. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is the terrifying story of two classic monsters re-imagined as super hot – and extremely lethal – Japanese school girls. Gore rules supreme in this blood-cake cavalcade of carnage chosen as the winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 NY Asian Film Festival.