Here are some to the horror DVD/Blu-Ray releases for June 4th!
One wintry night, pals Robin and Monica are making their way to a Christmas party when they re carjacked by a gang of crooks recently escaped from the local penitentiary. With the two young women taken as hostages, things take an even darker turn when their vehicle plummets down an abandoned mine shaft, trapping them underground with the dangerous crooks – and a mutant cannibal.
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne (French pop star Vanessa Paradis) produces third-rate gay erotic cinema. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down. Shot on 35mm and featuring a killer retro score from M83, Yann Gonzalez’s KNIFE+HEART is an ultra-stylish and blood-soaked ode to ’70s-era De Palma, Argento, and Friedkin.
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In a post-holocaust world, one woman (Marta Alicia) relies on computer fantasies to entertain herself, but a glitch sends her to a far-off wasteland to deal with monsters called Crawlers. She is saved by a young rebel (Bruce Campbell), but the pair are later captured and brought underground by the Crawlers. There, an overlord called the Seer (Angus Scrimm) presides over the kingdom and tries to make life miserable for his captives.
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When a lonely teenager (Edward Furlong) orders the latest interactive video game, the high-tech wizardry penetrates his subconscious, where his darkest impulses lead him through a deadly maze of murder, deception and desire. Pursued by homicide detective (Frank Langella) and prodded by the trickster (T. Ryder Smith), he is torn between the worlds of good and evil, of reality and fantasy and, ultimately, life and death.
I’ll Take Your Dead follows William who has a simple job, he makes dead bodies disappear. This isn’t something he likes to or even wants to do, but through circumstances out of his control, his little farm house in the country has become a dumping ground for the casualties of the gang related murders in the nearby city. His daughter Gloria has become used to rough looking men dropping off corpses and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house. After a woman’s body, is dumped at the house, William begins his meticulous process when he realizes, she’s not actually dead. As the gang activity increases, William patches the woman up and holds her against her will until he can figure out what to do with her. As they begin to develop a very unusual respect for each other, the woman’s murderers get word that she’s still alive and make plan to go finish what they started.
Clown Motel follows a group of ghost hunters, coming from an old ghost town and a bachelorette party, returning home from Las Vegas. When the groups meet up, by mistake, they’re left to discover if the motel is really abandoned and haunted by the souls, of the clowns, that once lived there.
A young woman enlists in an underground game of pain endurance in the hope of winning the million dollar prize. She soon learns the real opponent is the man who’s running the game, as he employs horrific methods to manipulate and defeat her.
Based on the classic short story by Stephen King, CHILDREN OF THE CORN is a longtime horror favorite that has spawned eight sequels and many imitations.
On the surface Alice seems like a woman who has it all: a gorgeous apartment, a booming career, a stunning physique, and a handsome boyfriend. The only problem is he’s married to someone else. Looking for a way to simplify her life, Alice hires Shelly to clean her house. As Alice begins to confide in Shelly about her illicit affair, their friendship grows… and so does Shelly’s twisted obsession with her new employer. It soon becomes clear that Shelly has motives that reach further than a normal cleaning lady. Shelly wants to cleanse Alice’s entire life and will stop at nothing until she’s done.
During the 17th Century a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
1994, Paranormal Investigator, Harry Price is called in to look at the story of Borley Rectory, said to be the most haunted building in the world before it was mysteriously destroyed by fire just before WWII.
A group of friends travel to Mallorca to enjoy an idyllic summer. Unfortunately, their search for sun, beaches and fun only leads them to the most inhospitable place of the island. This will be the beginning of their nightmare.
A plague envelops the earth, decimating the population and leaving one man still alive: scientist Robert Morgan (Vincent Price, ”House of Wax”), who exhibits a strange immunity to the deadly disease. The rest of the earth’s people slowly turn into bloodsucking vampires and Morgan must use all of his knowledge to survive their onslaught. Based on Richard Matheson’s classic novel ”I Am Legend” and remade twice (Charlton Heston’s THE OMEGA MAN and Will Smith’s I AM LEGEND), THE LAST MAN ON EARTH remains a horrifying film that influenced the creation of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD plus countless imitations. Bonus Feature: A collection of Coming Attraction trailers for other Vincent Price classics.
The young doctor-oncologist receives an offer she can t refuse an invitation to a prestigious medical conference in Geneva. There will be a competition there between the greatest medical minds from around the world. But for a victory in this competition the doctor needs the biggest tumor ever seen. For the sake of victory she is willing to do anything, including killing her own patients! However even that may not be enough for her to win, and she will face a gruesome choice in order to take home the top honors. Tumors 3: Doctor Nightmare is not a direct continuation of the previous two parts shot by Alex Wesley, but a new interpretation of the monstrous story with new experiences, horrors, and, of course, with new victims.