Holiday themed horror-comedy THE LAST SLAY RIDE - Available on Prime

VIPCO & BayView Entertainment celebrate the holiday season with the horror-comedy THE LAST SLAY RIDE, now available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video in the UK and USA. Also available on other streaming platforms worldwide.

Synopsis:
When a group of indie filmmakers are ripped off by a crooked distributor, they set out on a mission of revenge, but quickly find themselves facing off against literal bloodsuckers in what becomes the ultimate battle of good vs evil featuring filmmakers, vampires, loan sharks and more!
 
THE LAST SLAY RIDE was Written and Directed by Jason Hawkins and stars Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist), Elissa Dowling (Girl On The Third Floor) and Lukas Verri-Singer.

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

View the film on Amazon.co.uk

View the film on Amazon.com

THE LAST SLAY RIDE is also out now on Blu-ray (Region FREE) in the US from Amazon.com

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Anthology horror THE MONSTER MASH available on Amazon Prime Video

Anthology horror film THE MONSTER MASH is out now from BayView Entertainment and is available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video in the UK and USA. Also available on other streaming platforms worldwide.

Synopsis:
An anthology throwback to the glorious days of Creature Features that dominated television sets across America. Dr. Freudstein, along with his sidekick Ludwig fumble to create a bio-mechanical experiment all while hosting “The Monster Mash Triple Feature Show.” 

THE MONSTER MASH features 3 gruesome mini horror films: Whispering Hollow Road – A dark shadowy noir with a monstrous twist, The House – A modern gothic tale of lycanthropy, Homebound Horror – A grimy grindhouse tale of revenge of extraterrestrial proportions.

The film was Directed by Richard Terrasi and Kevin Losani and stars Michael Gentile, William Kozy and Cherry Fu.

THE MONSTER MASH has gained much praise from festivals including winning at these festivals:

Horrors4You Film Festival – Winner – (Best Screenplay – Best Director),
Bloody Horror International Film Festival – Winner (Favorite Creature Feature),
The Strange Days Horror Fest – Winner – (Best Of The Fest Award)

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

View the film on Amazon.co.uk

View the film on Amazon.com

Ghost buddy comedy THE CIVIL DEAD - in select UK cinemas and on Digital, January

Bulldog Film Distribution presents THE CIVIL DEAD, in select cinemas and On Demand, 19th January

Clay is a loner photographer who enjoys a mundane life with his artist wife Whitney in Los Angeles. After Whitney advises Clay, who has been creatively stagnant and unemployed for months, to go out and be productive while she’s out of town and not to “just lay in the living room and drink beer”, Clay happens upon his long-lost friend, Whit. After a night of catching up, Whit discloses an unsettling secret to Clay, which puts a strain on his marriage and causes him to question his own sanity…

Directed by and starring Clay Tatum with co-writer and star Whitmer Thomas (Glow), THE CIVIL DEAD is a hilariously offbeat lo-fi slacker take on the ghost story which won the Audience Award and was nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the prestigious Slamdance Film Festival and had its UK Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2023.

THE CIVIL DEAD is in select cinemas and on demand 19 January 2024

View the Trailer on YouTube.

British Folk Horror LORD OF MISRULE - On UK Digital, January

From the director of "Orphan: First Kill" comes the chilling British folk horror LORD OF MISRULE, which comes to UK Digital Platforms, January. 

Rebecca Holland has recently taken over as vicar of a rural English village. When her young daughter Grace goes missing at the local festival, the villagers and local police join in a desperate search. 

However, the closer they edge towards finding Grace, the more secrets emerge from the village’s dark past. Soon, Rebecca must decide just how much she is willing to sacrifice to rescue her daughter from the grip of evil. 

Starring Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey), Ralph Ineson (The Green Knight), Matt Stokoe (The Hunt for Raoul Moat) and Evie Templeton (Life After Life), LORD OF MISRULE is directed by William Brent Bell (Orphan: First Kill) from a script written by Tom de Ville (Urban Gothic).

Signature Entertainment presents Lord of Misrule on Digital Platforms 8th January

View the Trailer on YouTube.

 

Cult Classic HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM - on Blu-ray and Digital Next Year!

A new restoration of the 1959 horror film on Blu-ray and DVD, and making its UK Digital debut, HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM, starring Michael Gough and directed by Arthur Crabtree (Fiend Without a Face), marked the first film in the “Sadian Trilogy”, followed by the Hammer favourite Circus of Horrors and Michael Powell’s infamous Peeping Tom - introducing cinema audiences to a more shocking and salacious brand of onscreen horror.

A series of grisly, macabre murders sweep London and leave Scotland Yard completely baffled. Bancroft, an evil crime journalist, is hypnotising his assistant to commit murders using items curated in his own personal “Black Museum” - inspired by the infamous real-life collection of weapons and torture instruments used by criminals. Using these murders to fuel his own crime stories, Bancroft delights in the Yard’s embarrassment.

Experience fear beyond belief in this gruesome British horror treat that features a splendid lead performance from the estimable Michael Gough (star of horror gems including Trog, Horror Hospital and The Skull), with a cast that also includes Shirley Anne Field (The Damned, Peeping Tom) and June Cunningham (The Small World of Sammy Lee).

Originally shown in the new filmmaking format ‘Hypno-Vista’ (‘It actually puts YOU in the picture - can you stand it?’), HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM was a box office hit, and can count Martin Scorsese among its fans - the director got the film inducted to the New York Museum of Modern Art.

HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM is available to buy on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from 15th January 2024, and available to pre-order now.

INCLUDED WITH HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM:

- BRAND NEW Interview with novelist and critic Kim Newman
- BRAND NEW Audio Commentary with Kim Newman and writer/editor Steve Jones
- Hypno-Vista Introduction
- Original Trailer
- B&W Lobby Cards Gallery

The Blu-ray edition comes with an exclusive set of four collector’s art cards

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

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

French horror INSIDE set for Limited & Standard Edition Blu-ray release, February

Dare you go INSIDE, Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s ‘brutally affecting’ and deeply disturbing French feature? The film is set to strike stomach-wrenching fear into audiences once more, 15 years after its originalrelease in 2007 as Second Sight Films announce a brand-new Inside Limited Edition Blu-ray Box set release on 5 February 2024 complete with a host of fantastic new special features.

Following a car accident that leaves her husband dead, expectant mother Sarah (Alysson Paradis – The Childhood of Icarus) is left to prepare for her impending birth alone while grieving her terrible loss. 

But when a stranger (Béatrice Dalle – Betty Blue, Night on Earth) turns up at her house on Christmas Eve, things take a terrifying, unimaginably twisted turn… as the deranged intruder will stop at nothing to take her unborn baby.

The INSIDE Limited Edition box set is presented in a stunning rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal and includes a 70-page book with new essays. The special features include: new audio commentaries by Anna Bogutskaya and Elena Lazic, brand new interviews with the writer/directors Maury and Bustillo, and many more. 

Go deep INSIDE this welcome new addition to the family collection.

Special Features
- New audio commentary by Anna Bogutskaya
- New audio commentary by Elena Lazic
- First Born: a new interview with co-writer/directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury
- Labour Pains: a new interview with actor Alysson Paradis
- A New Extreme: a new interview with producer Franck Ribière
- Womb Raider: a new interview with cinematographer Laurent Barès
- Reel Action: a new interview with stunt coordinator Emmanuel Lanzi
- The Birth of a Mother: Jenn Adams on Inside

Limited Edition Contents
- Rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal
- 70-page book with new essays by Chad Collins, Kat Ellinger, Annie Rose Malamet and Hannah Strong
- 6 collectors' art cards

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

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

 

 

THE DEVIL COMES TO KANSAS CITY - on UK Digital this month

Ben Gavin (Super 8) stars as a mild-mannered farmer whose past as a brutal mercenary is unleashed after his wife is killed and his daughter kidnapped, in the brutal crime thriller THE DEVIL COMES TO KANSAS CITY.

SYNOPSIS: An attorney with a military past hunts down the gang who killed his wife and took his daughter.

THE DEVIL COMES TO KANSAS CITY is an uncompromising, wildly entertaining slice of neo-noir with a wicked supernatural twist, written and directed by Michael P Blevins (Digging to Death). Perfect for fans of Taken, Constantine and True Detective.

Also starring Jim O’Heir, famous for playing Jerry in Parks and Recreation, and Kirk Fox (Reservation Dogs) as the Devil THE DEVIL COMES TO KANSAS CITY is available on digital platforms including Google, Apple TV, Sky and Amazon from 18 December

View the Trailer on YouTube.

Brutal British seaside slasher PUNCH - On UK Digital, January

Andy Edwards’ seaside slasher packs a PUNCH as the petrifying puppet is brought to life to terrorise the tourists and the locals of Hastings in this wickedly wacky new feature that’s been dubbed ‘one of the best slasher flicks to come along since Terrifier’ by GBV Reviews.

Following its FrightFest premiere this year, the brutally bloody British horror gets its digital release on 22 January courtesy of Miracle Media.

There’s no clowning around as Mr Punch stalks the seaside town – merrily battering with his baton to the sound of his maniacal laughter, causing death and devastation in his wake.

Bloody brutal Brit seaside slasher sees a pulverising puppet relentlessly terrorise Hastings’ youths but what does he want and are more sinister forces at work? 

Ambitious student Frankie (Alina Allison – Cuttlefish) has returned to her hometown to visit her troubled Mum, Julia (Kierston Wareing – Fish Tank). But with her mum’s creepy new man, Elton (Jamie Lomas – The Wind That Shakes the Barley), on the scene, she can’t wait to leave the Kent coast for good and see the world.

Set for a final night of fun with her pals before she goes on her merry way, it’s party time… but a night of dancing quickly turns to gore galore and the young locals are about to get more than they bargained for when an old folk tale becomes all too real.

Mr Punch is on the prowl and the fearsome pulverising puppet won’t stop until he’s done his worst, but who is he, why is he creating chaos on the shores and could there be more sinister forces at work?

As the carnage escalates, can Frankie survive the brutal bashings and the twisted truth?

Pulling no punches with its gruesomely graphic violence, this end-of-the-pier slasher will fill you with fear: That’s the way to do it.

On UK Digital 22 January

View the Trailer on YouTube.

 

Cult British Sci-fi DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS - On UK Blu-ray, January

A new restoration of the 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS, Directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds and Adrienne Corri comes to UK Disc and Digital, January.

One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world!

A famously economical film, Devil Girl From Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio time when another project finished ahead of schedule.

With a cast including the magnificent Patricia Laffan (Quo Vadis) as Nyah, and genre favourites Adrienne Corri (Vampire Circus), and fifties scream queen Hazel Court (The Masque of the Red Death), the film was shot by Jack E Cox (who filmed Hitchock’s The Lady Vanishes and Blackmail), with a score by prolific composer Edwin Astley, the man behind the catchy theme tunes to TV series The Saint and Danger Man.

Featuring the striking female Martian costume designed by Ronald Cobb, and a giant robot running amok, DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS is a bona fide cult classic that Starburst magazine says “is as iconic as they come”.

INCLUDED WITH DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS:

- BRAND NEW Interview with novelist and critic Kim Newman
- BRAND NEW Audio Commentary with Kim Newman and writer & journalist Barry Forshaw
- Stills gallery

DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS is available to buy on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from 15th January 2024.

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

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

 

Anne Rice's MAYFAIR WITCHES: Series 1 - On Disc & Digital, January

Prepare to be bewitched by Anne Rice’s MAYFAIR WITCHES: Series 1 – a rich tale of power, destiny and the enduring legacy of a family with extraordinary mystical abilities, which comes to Blu-ray and DVD on the 8th January 2024. Each episode will also be available to purchase on Digital 24 hours after its transmission, courtesy of Acorn Media International.

This enchanting new series showcases a stand-out cast including Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus), Tongayi Chirisa (American Horror Story), Harry Hamlin (Mad Men), Beth Grant (Donnie Darko) and Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) and breathes fresh life into Rice’s acclaimed novels, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, which includes Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.

Rowan Fielding (Daddario) is a passionate and intuitive young neurosurgeon whose life is about to change forever. Compelled by the loss of her adoptive mother to constantly question where she came from, Rowan is full of questions and as strange, inexplicable things start to happen around her – her search for the truth only intensifies.

Learning that she has supernatural abilities is only the beginning and as Rowan discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of powerful witches, she must grapple with the truth about who she really is and contend with a dark force that has haunted her family for generations.

Travelling to New Orleans to claim her legacy, Rowan soon learns that her newfound powers could have very dangerous consequences. Torn between life as she knew it and her seductive new powers, Rowan must distinguish good from evil and decide which side she’s on.

The spellbinding, gorgeously gothic series is exec-produced by Mark Johnson (El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie), Michelle Ashford (Operation Mincemeat) and Esta Spalding (Masters Of Sex) and marks the thrilling second instalment in AMC’s Immortal Universe franchise.

Visually mesmerising, Anne Rice’s MAYFAIR WITCHES is a tantalising, enthralling, seductively supernatural thriller that will cast a spell over audiences.

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk (available to pre-order soon).

 

Supernatural horror-thriller BAGHEAD - in UK & Irish cinemas, 2024

STUDIOCANAL and The Picture Company today release the official trailer for BAGHEAD, a supernatural horror-thriller from the producers of IT and Barbarian, starring Freya Allen (The Witcher) and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse).

Following the death of her father, a young woman (Allen) inherits a run-down pub and discovers a dark secret within its basement - BAGHEAD - a shapeshifting creature that will let you speak to lost loved ones, but not without consequence.

Directed by Alberto Corredor and adapted from the festival favourite short film of the same name, BAGHEAD also stars Ruby Barker (Bridgerton), Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake), Saffron Burrows (You) and Julika Jenkins (Dark).

BAGHEAD is produced by STUDIOCANAL and The Picture Company and will be released in UK and Irish cinemas in 2024.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

 

Horror-Comedy STITCHES comes to Digital and Disc

VIPCO & BayView Entertainment will release the sock puppet horror-comedy film Stitches on Blu-ray (Region Free) in the USA and on EST/VOD/SVOD Digital Platforms worldwide on 26th December 2023 and will arrive on AVOD Digital Platforms worldwide on 27th February 2024.
 
“It’s the first feature-length sock puppet Horror/Comedy. It was filmed in its entirety with one director/cinematographer and two actors/puppeteers controlling up to 40 puppets over the COVID-19 pandemic in a two-bedroom appartment. Featuring a soundtrack compiled of local LA musicians, including Spectre Jones.”
 
Synopsis:
A sock puppet horror/comedy sure to put you in “STITCHES!” On a week-long vacation, Mary and friends travel to a remote cabin. 

Once they discover the origins of an Evil Witch, all is not as it seems! Forget the weekend— they may not survive the night! With an all-puppet cast, Stitches is a one-of-a kind movie to knock your socks off!
 
STITCHES was Directed by Ian Goodwin and stars Alyse McCammish, Logan Bernard and Dylan Kay.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

Visit the Vipco Website and Facebook and Twitter pages.

Pre-order the US BD from Amazon.com

 

90s Supernatural Horror STIGMATA - Limited Collector’s Edition BD & DVD

Capelight Pictures & Altitude Film Distribution have announced that the captivating 90s supernatural horror, STIGMATA, will be released in the UK on a special 2-Disc Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray & DVD from 11th December.  
 
Directed by Rupert Wainwright, the 1999 occult thriller features an outstanding cast of Oscar winner Patricia Arquette, Golden Globe winner Gabriel Byrne and Oscar Nominee Jonathan Pryce with an tremendously dark score from The Smashing Pumpkins frontman, Billy Corgan.
 
A lost soul has just received the wounds of Christ… and a shocking message that will alter history.

Frankie Paige (Arquette) has absolutely no faith in God. All of that changes when she suddenly begins to suffer the Stigmata – the living wounds of the crucified Christ. Frankie’s miraculous bleeding comes to the attention of the Vatican’s top investigator, Father Kiernan (Byrne). 

But when Cardinal Houseman (Pryce), discovers that Frankie is actually channeling an extraordinary and provocative message that could destroy the Church, he's convinced that she – and the force possessing her – must be forever silenced.

Determined to stop this deadly conspiracy, Kiernan risks his faith – and his life – to save her and the message that will change the destiny of mankind forever.
 
STIGMATA will be released exclusively as a 2-disc Limited Collector's Edition MediaBook, with the main film on Blu-ray and DVD as well as extensive bonus material.

Bonus Material

- 2-Disc Limited Collector's Edition Mediabook, the main film on Blu-ray and DVD and a 24-page booklet.
- Audio Commentary with director Ruper Wainwright
- Holy Rites: Making of "Stigmata"
- Deleted Scenes
- Alternate Ending
- Theatrical Trailer

This 2-Disc Limited Collector’s Edition of STIGMATA will be available from 11th December

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