Survival horror PITFALL - Out now on Digital and coming soon to Disc!

Tense survival horror PITFALL is out now on Digital platforms and will be released to Blu-ray and DVD from 20th July

 

Synopsis:
After a young man gets separated from his friends in the woods, he falls into a 10 foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through his leg and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident...

With an ace cast including Marshall Williams (Glee), Alexandra Essoe (The Pope's Exorcist), Richard Harmon (Final Destination: Bloodlines) and Mixed Martial Arts legend Randy Couture (The Expendables), PITFALL is directed by James Kondelik.

Dazzler Media presents PITFALL out now on Digital platforms and on Blu-ray and DVD from 20th July

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Icelandic vampire comedy THIRST - Coming to UK Streaming Platforms

Somewhere in the frozen darkness of Reykjavík, something very old and very hungry has been waiting. For a thousand years, Hjörtur has lurked in the shadows — a gay vampire of considerable sass, and very specific appetites…

Meanwhile, Hulda is having the worst week of her life. A drug addict freshly released from police custody following her brother’s suspicious death, she has nowhere to go and no one to turn to — until she meets Hjörtur. In what he almost certainly considers a friendly gesture; the ancient vampire resurrects her dead brother.

It does not go well.

Now the two unlikely companions find themselves on the run — from a fanatical cult in purple tracksuits, a rogue detective, and the steadily mounting consequences of a thousand-year-old monster who simply does not know when to stop. The blood flows freely. The body count rises cheerfully. And somewhere in the neon-lit, gore-soaked chaos, an unlikely friendship is forged.

Some friendships are worth dying for. Repeatedly.

THIRST is a campy horror comedy from Iceland with award-winning special effects and a larger than undead performance from Hjörtur Sævar Steinason as our lovelorn vampire. It’s destined to become a cult classic.

View the Trailer on YouTube

Available on UK & Eire Streaming Platforms including Prime Video, BFI Player, Peccadillo Player from 22nd June 2026 

 

DANZA MACABRA VOLUME 5: THE SPANISH GOTHIC COLLECTION BOX SET - Coming from Severin

Severin Films today announced the forthcoming release of DANZA MACABRA VOLUME FIVE: THE SPANISH GOTHIC COLLECTION. 

 

With their fifth installment of “an essential series of Euro-Gothic tastiness” (Mondo Digital), Severin returns to the cemeteries, catacombs and cobwebbed castles of Spanish cinema for an all-new exploration of Gothic Horror excellence with 4 uncut classics on 5 discs

In the North American Disc Premiere of 1964’s STRANGE VOYAGE, director Fernando Fernán Gómez crafts a macabre true-crime shocker featuring a poignant performance by none other than Jess Franco. The disturbing 1971 drama EXORCISM’S DAUGHTER is presented in its complete U.S. Version – now featuring the infamous orgy sequence – as well as the original Spanish Version LAS MELANCÓLICAS, both on disc for the first time ever. 

THE DRACULA SAGA is 1973’s grisly reinvention of vampiric damnation from the legendary León Klimovsky, uncut in North America for the first time ever. And in 1985’s acclaimed THE TURN OF THE SCREW, controversial director Eloy de la Iglesia adapts Henry James’ classic novella with a startling psychosexual twist. Each film in this collection has been scanned from original camera negatives or archival 35mm prints, with 10+ combined hours of new audio commentaries, video essays, interview featurettes and more. 

DANZA MACABRA VOLUME FIVE is now available for pre-order at The Severin Webstore. 

In addition, all four previous volumes of DANZA MACABRA will be available for 50% off SRLP through June 8th.

Disc 1: STRANGE VOYAGE (1964)

 

In 1964, renowned novelist, playwright and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez directed his most controversial film, “a truly remarkable” (Cinemagavia) gothic horror black comedy based on a shocking true crime, condemned by government censors upon its release and featuring a surprisingly poignant performance by none other than Jess Franco: In an old dark house on the outskirts of a rural village, a matriarch cruelly bullies her two childlike adult siblings. 

But when dread leads to murder, will repression and deceit bring about the most depraved acts of all? Carlos Larrañaga (THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION), Tota Alba (STRANGE LOVE OF THE VAMPIRES), Lina Canalejas (BLOOD HUNT) and María Luisa Ponte (EUGENIE) co-star in this “masterpiece of artistic subversion” (The Postmodern Pelican), now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative with over 2 hours of new Special Features.

Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Dr. Adrian Smith, Co-Author Of Norman J. Warren: Gentleman Of Terror
- A 'Rara Avis' Duo – Ángel Sala, Head Of Programming At The Sitges Film Festival, On Fernando Fernán Gómez & Jess Franco
- The Multifaceted Mind Of Fernando Fernán Gómez – Filmmaker Helena de Llanos On The Work And Legacy Of Her Grandfather
- Facing The Sun: STRANGE VOYAGE's Promise Of Broken Dreams – Video Essay By Andy Marshall-Roberts, Host Of The Nasty Pasty Podcast
- Trailer

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 92 mins
Audio: Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1


Disc 2 – 3: EXORCISM’S DAUGHTER (1971)

What was deceptively marketed in North America as an EXORCIST rip-off is in fact one of Spain’s most unsettling genre films of the ‘70s: Driven to madness by a horrific childhood trauma, a young woman (Analía Gadé of IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE) is committed to a brutal insane asylum from which there may be no escape. 

Francisco Rabal (SORCERER, DAGON), Espartaco Santoni (THE FEAST OF SATAN) and Helga Liné (THE VAMPIRES NIGHT ORGY) co-star in this “disturbing” (Mondo Digital) gothic drama written and directed by Rafael Moreno Alba (DREAM KISS), presented in its original Spanish Version LAS MELANCÓLICAS scanned in 4K from the original camera negative plus the complete U.S. Version (also known as THE HOUSE OF INSANE WOMEN) with additional footage – including the infamous inmate orgy sequence – now sourced from an archival 35mm print, with over 2 hours of new Special Features.

Disc 2: Spanish Version + Special Feature
- Trailer

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 111 mins
Audio: Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Disc 3: U.S. Version + Special Features

- Audio Commentary With Matt Rogerson, Author Of The Vatican Versus Horror Movies And Fulci’s Inferno: Faith In The Films Of A Horror And Giallo Auteur
- A Film That Stands Apart – An Appreciation By Ángel Sala, Head Of Programming At The Sitges Film Festival
- Madwoman In The Attic: EXORCISM'S DAUGHTER And The Female Gothic – Video Essay By Kat Ellinger, Author Of Daughters Of Darkness

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 96 mins
Audio: English Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Disc 4: THE DRACULA SAGA (1973)

 

From famed director León Klimovsky (THE NIGHT OF THE WALKING DEAD, THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK) comes the daring gothic shocker hailed as “one of the most original vampire films in Spanish horror cinema” (Cine Maldito): When Dracula’s pregnant granddaughter (Tina Sáinz) and her upstanding husband (Tony Isbert of TRAGIC CEREMONY) arrive at the Count’s castle, it will birth a nightmare of profane seduction, ancestral damnation and inconceivable vampiric carnage. 

Helga Liné (THE LORELEY’S GRASP), María Kosty (NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS) and Narciso Ibáñez Menta (THE BEAST MUST DIE) co-star in this “bizarre Spanish gem” (Bloody Pit of Horror) co-written by Emilio Martínez Lázaro (CAKE OF BLOOD) and Juan Tébar (THE LEGEND OF BLOOD CASTLE), now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative with over 2 hours of new Special Features.

Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Rod Barnett And Troy Guinn, Film Historians/Co-Hosts Of NaschyCast
- Klimovsky's Vampires – An Appreciation By Ángel Sala, Head Of Programming At The Sitges Film Festival
- The Spanish Hammer: The Rise And Fall Of Profilmes – Interview With Profilmes Production and Sales Executive Lluís Ferrando
- Inheritance As Horror: Blood, Tradition And The Gothic In THE DRACULA SAGA – Video Essay By Kat Ellinger, Author Of Daughters Of Darkness
- Trailer

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 92 mins
Audio: English Mono, Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English SDH, English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Disc 5: THE TURN OF THE SCREW (1985)

 

From Eloy de la Iglesia – writer/director of such controversial classics as CANNIBAL MAN, THE GLASS CEILING, NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM, NAVAJEROS and EL PICO – comes the startling 1985 adaptation of Henry James’ classic novella of gothic horror: After dropping out of seminary, a spiritually conflicted young man (Pedro Mari Sánchez of CREATION OF THE DAMNED) is hired to teach a pair of wealthy orphans in their remote seaside mansion. 

But when he begins to believe that the estate is haunted by the ghost of the previous cruel caretaker, it will unlock an ordeal of lost innocence, forbidden desire and immoral terror. Queta Claver (THE PRIEST) co-stars in this provocative shocker – “a thoughtful drama with shades of SALÒ” (Beyond Boundaries) – now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with over 3 hours of new Special Features.

Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Matt Rogerson, Author Of The Vatican Versus Horror Movies And Fulci’s Inferno: Faith In The Films Of A Horror And Giallo Auteur
- Repression And Tragedy – An Appreciation By Ángel Sala, Head Of Programming At The Sitges Film Festival
- One In Four Hundred – Interview With Actor Asier Hernández
- The Role Of My Dreams – Interview With Actress Cristina Goyanes
- Head Full Of Phantoms – Video Essay By Xavier Aldana Reyes, Author Of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration And Cultural Adaptation
-Trailer

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 118 mins
Audio: Spanish/Basque Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Available to Pre-Order from The Severin Webstore

Darkly comic STEPHANE and Cult slasher KILLER PARTY - Coming to Disc from Arrow

Underrated horror gems STEPHANE and KILLER PARTY are being released to Disc this August from Arror Video...

STEPHANE

Skilfully blending elements of Mark Duplass’ Creep with 1992’s Man Bites Dog, alongside mis-matched buddy movies such as The Cable Guy, STEPHANE is a darkly comic thriller set in the world of amateur film-making that is as bleakly funny as it is disturbingly twisted.

When Tim (Bastien Garcia), a committed and aspiring filmmaker, encounters the eccentric Stéphane (Lucas Pastor), it seems like a match made in heaven. Stéphane claims to be an experienced SFX supervisor and stuntman who quickly impresses Tim with his home-made pyrotechnics. 

The two men decide to embark on a journey to Stéphane’s private island to film an ambitious World War II epic, along with Stéphane’s acquaintance, a selective mute refugee actress named Bianca (Eva Gregorieff). But as Tim and Stéphane’s movie-making odyssey develops, it soon becomes apparent that neither of them may be what they claim, and tensions quickly escalate.

Part found-footage, part sinister thriller and part self-reflexive black comedy, Stéphane is punk filmmaking at its finest, right up until the final, chilling post-credits scene.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
• Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Brand new audio commentary with co-writer/directors Timothée Hochet & Lucas Pastor, recorded exclusively for Arrow Video in 2025
• Eight never-before-seen deleted scenes with optional commentary by co-writer/directors Timothée Hochet & Lucas Pastor
• Original trailer
• Arrow Video trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Beth Morris
• Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by Sean Hogan and Jennie Kermode

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk

KILLER PARTY 

William Fruet, the director of Canuxploitation classics The House by the Lake, Spasms, and Funeral Home, cordially invites you to a party to die for!

The sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi are throwing an April Fool’s party and they’ve found the perfect place to hold it: the abandoned fraternity house where a pledge once lost his head in a hazing ritual gone horribly wrong. Partying turns to panic when it transpires that the dead pledge had a penchant for occult practices and his evil spirit returns to wreak its revenge.

With a script by Barney Cohen (Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter), and a cast that includes cult icon Paul Bartel (Piranha, Eating Raoul), Killer Party is an underrated slasher classic that deserves a place on the shelves of any 80s horror fan!

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
• Original lossless mono audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by film critic Stacie Ponder
• Campus Gentleman, an archival interview with actor Ralph Seymour
• Head of the Class, an archival interview with actress Sherry Willis-Burch
• Fool's Night, an archival interview with writer Barney Cohen
• Racing to the Party, an archival interview with composer John Beal
• Unholy Diver, an archival interview with special make-up effects artist Gordon J. Smith
• Dressed to Possess, an archival interview with production designer Reuben Freed
• Killer Initiations, a brand new visual essay by film critic Alexandra West of The Faculty of Horror podcast
• Slasher Party, a brand new visual essay by film critic Mike Muncer of The Evolution of Horror podcast
• From Burbank It Came: White Sister and Killer Party, an archival featurette
• Image gallery
• Collector's booklet featuring new writing by film critics Alison Lang and Amanda Reyes
• Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch 

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk

 

 

 

COLD PREY TRILOGY - Limited Edition BD Box Set coming from Second Sight

Second Sight Films brings the chills Norwegian style as COLD PREY TRILOGY is the latest classic horror collection to get the Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set treatment this July, complete with the obligatory outstanding slew of special features.

The must-have collector’s set is presented in a stunning slip case with brand new artwork and spectacular special features including new interviews and commentaries with cast and filmmakers, a 120-page book full of new essays and much more and is released on 6 July 2026. Please see the full list below.

For years many people have disappeared in the Norwegian mountains, were they unfortunate accidents or is there something far more sinister lurking in the snow?

In COLD PREY (Fritt Vilt) from director Roar Uthaug (Tomb Raider, Troll) we’re introduced to five friends – Jannicke, her boyfriend Eirik and friends, Mikal, Ingunn and Morten – who head to the mountains of Jotunheimen, for a fun-filled snowboarding trip. But when Tobias falls and breaks his leg, they find themselves cut off with no phone reception and seek refuge in an abandoned building, to wait for help.

Little do they know, a mysterious, brutal serial killer known as the Mountain Man stalks the snow-covered landscape in search of victims and when the slasher finds them, it’s murderous mayhem in the mountains. Will any of them make it out alive?

Mats Stenberg’s chilling sequel COLD PREY II follows on from the fear-filled first feature and Mikkel Brænne Sandemose’s COLD PREY III takes us to the 1980s where a group of teenagers visit an abandoned hotel in the Norwegian woods and find themselves hunted by the psychotic chiller killer.

COLD PREY TRILOGY-  Limited Edition is guaranteed to give you the shivers with this ice-cold killer Nordic slasher collection.

COLD PREY Special Features
• A new audio commentary with director Roar Uthaug and actor Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
• This is the Vibe: a new interview with director Roar Uthaug
• Draw the Process: a new interview with actor Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
• Alternative Ending
• Behind the Scenes
• The Visual FX of Cold Prey
• Car Scenes Bloopers
• Short Film: Mountain Rose Runs Amok
• Short Film: An Evening in the Green
• Music Video: Bloodlights "One Eye Open"

COLD PREY II Special Features
• A new audio commentary with director Mats Stenberg
• A Blessing and A Curse: a new interview with director Mats Stenberg
• Dissociation: a new interview with actor Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
• Stepping Aside: a new interview with associate producer Roar Uthaug
• Behind the Scenes
• Bloopers
• Extended / Deleted Scenes

COLD PREY III Special Features
• A new audio commentary by Christer Andresen and Phillip Escott
• Behind the Scenes

Limited Edition Contents
• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal
• 120-page book with new essays by Matt Donato, JA Kerswell, Justin LaLiberty, Paul Lé’s Ariel Power-Schaub and Nathaniel Thompson
• Five collectors' art cards

Pre-order the Limited Edition BD Box-Set from Amazon.co.uk 

 

Robert Englund and Richard Brake appear in PINOCCHIO: UNSTRUNG - In UK Cinemas, July

Altitude Entertainment is thrilled to announce PINOCCHIO: UNSTRUNG will be unleashed in UK cinemas from 24th July.  Set to have its UK Premiere in June at this year's Raindance Film Festival, where it's been nominated for four awards, including Best UK Feature and Best Performance in a UK Feature for Richard Brake, the feature is a frightening new take on Carlo Collodi’s classic novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. 

The latest addition to the Twisted Childhood Universe films (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey), PINOCCHIO: UNSTRUNG. Geppetto (Richard Brake) introduces his grandson, James, to a magical doll called Pinocchio. Unaware of his naïve nature, James introduces his new friend to the world, resulting in the doll going on a crusade to eliminate all things bad under the guidance of the sinister Cricket (Robert Englund).

From writer and director Rhys Frake-Waterfield (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey) and producer Scott Chambers (Bambi: The Reckoning, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare), PINOCCHIO: UNSTRUNG stars Richard Brake (Barbarian), Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Cameron Bell in his feature debut. 

PINOCCHIO: UNSTRUNG is the latest addition to the Twisted Childhood Universe, which includes Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and its sequel, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, and Bambi: The Reckoning.

Watch the trailer on YouTube.

PINOCCHIO: UNSTRUNG will be in UK cinemas from 24th July 

 

 

 

BloodStream Releases Found-Footage Slasher Series GAME

As announced by Fangoria, BloodStream acquired exclusive distribution rights to GAME001, GAME002, GAME003, GAME004, and GAME005, a graphic horror film series directed by the anonymous filmmaker known as Playgame Tipplayer, whose concealed identity mirrors the brutality and anonymity embedded in the series itself.

All five films will debut on June 1, 2026, exclusively on BloodStream as a subscription-only release, before expanding to additional platforms on August 1, 2026.

"BloodStream is committed to releasing violent, uncompromising, forward-thinking new films that aren’t available anywhere else," says BloodStream Programmer Heidi Honeycutt. "We want to push boundaries, and the GAME series is another step in that direction. I hope horror fans appreciate access to something this gruesome and unapologetically exploitative."

Anyone can wear the mask. I just never take mine off. You think you’re watching me, but I’m watching you. Nothing is real. And even if you think it is, how would you ever know? It’s all content. At least we know we’re playing the game.

Playgame Tipplayer is the anonymous filmmaker credited solely with the GAME franchise, though no verified record of their existence has ever been found. Online speculation describes them as everything from a failed content creator to a collective identity used by multiple people hiding behind a single name. Their work obsessively explores performance, surveillance, clout, identity, and the psychological collapse of living as permanent content for invisible audiences. Whether Tipplayer is an artist, a troll, a myth, or simply another player inside the GAME itself remains unresolved.

The GAME series drops viewers into a fractured slasher scenario built around two female hikers who encounter a masked killer in a remote forest. The perspective shifts across victims, perpetrators, and recorded viewpoints, folding acts of filming, sharing, clout building, and watching directly into the violence itself, and the reason any of the films seem to exist.

Blending widescreen footage with vertical phone video and distorted lens imagery, the series creates a disorienting visual field where everyone is a “subject”. The result is a relentless loop of performance and consumption.

The GAME movies contain intense violence, strong language, and nudity, and are intended for adult audiences.

About BloodStream
BloodStream is a horror-focused streaming platform hosting thousands of genre titles, from horror classics and international gems to new independent features and shorts, built as a dedicated home for fans and creators of genre cinema.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

More information: https://home.bloodstreamtv.com/