VIPCO & BayView Entertainment celebrate December with 4 new Horror releases

VIPCO & BayView Entertainment are celebrating December with not 1, but 4 new horror releases.

13 TRACKS TO FRIGHTEN AGATHA BLACK

Synopsis:
After a tragic event, a sheltered young woman seeks the comfort of some long-forgotten scary story records from her youth. 

The specter of losing her family home and a string of crimes in her neighborhood propel her toward a dark obsession with the frightening tales. 

Eerily, they begin to reveal occult truths and hint at a violent, inescapable fate. Like a disease, the stories begin to infect others who enter her world, creating disturbing encounters that bring her to the threshold of terror.

View the trailer on YouTube. 

13 TRACKS TO FRIGHTEN AGATHA BLACK is out now on Blu-ray and Prime Video from VIPCO & BayView Entertainment.

Buy the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk.

 

THE LAST SLAY RIDE

Synopsis:
The holiday themed comedy/horror THE LAST SLAY RIDE starring Elissa Dowling (Girl On The Third Floor) and Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist) is out now on Blu-ray from VIPCO & BayView Entertainment.

When a group of indie filmmakers are ripped off by a crooked distributor, they set out on a mission of revenge. 

But they 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!

View the trailer on YouTube.  

THE LAST SLAY RIDE is out now on Blu-ray and Prime Video from VIPCO & BayView Entertainment.

Buy the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk. 

 

THE SALAMANDER HOUSE

Synopsis:
A famous Italian-American writer of horror novels comes to Puglia to spend a few days in an old house on the coast.  The real estate agent tries to convince the writer to buy it, but he only wants to spend a few days there hoping to find inspiration. 

The history of the house begins to manifest itself with hallucinations, which the writer notes as ideas for his novel.  He then meets some locals who tell him the story of a cult, that came to the house in the 1970s to build a temple dedicated to the Satan. 

The writer will very soon discover that the cult is still there and that he is only a tool driven by evil.

View the trailer on YouTube. 

THE SALAMANDER HOUSE is out now on Blu-ray and Prime Video from VIPCO & BayView Entertainment.

Buy the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk. 

 

SCREAMS FROM THE SWAMP

Synopsis:
When Angela’s husband and son die in hospital after a car crash, she takes it upon herself to seek justice against the doctor who operated on the pair. Desperation and obsession lead Angela into a paranoid state, dissociating her from reality. 

She follows the doctor day after day: behind the anonymous facade, the man hides a parallel life of depravity and murders committed together with his colleagues. Discovering these new horrors, Angela turns to dark otherworldly forces to find the strength to eliminate the killers. 

This decision leads her into a spiral of violence and hallucinations, where pleasure and fear intermingle but ultimately there is a high price to pay.

View the trailer on YouTube. 

SCREAMS FROM THE SWAMP is out now on Blu-ray and Prime Video from VIPCO & BayView Entertainment.

Buy the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk.


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A Mammoth New Year on the ARROW player, this January...

Key highlights this January on the essential, alternative streaming service ARROW include a double helping of martial arts mayhem starring the incomparable Sonny Chiba, a definitive collection of films by Swedish director Lukas Moodysson, a diptych of Paul Joyce documentaries, one portraying a Hollywood legend and the other dissecting gender, alongside much more...

 

Also presented in January, The Executioner, and The Executioner II: Karate Inferno. Fists flurry and blood flows as legendary cult director Teruo Ishii (Shogun’s Joy of Torture, Horrors of Malformed Men) joins forces with martial arts legend Shin’ichi ‘Sonny’ Chiba in this bone-crunching double whammy of classic karate exploitation from Toei.

 

Seasons in January include: RAVENOUS CANNIBALS, with titles including Offspring, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death and The Hills Have Eyes; THE FIRST TIME featuring a host of film from legendary, cult and breakthrough directors; ADAM EGYPT MORTIMER SELECTS, the indie American director curates a season filled with cult classics, ranging from Branded to Kill to The Testament of Dr Mabuse.

 

ALSO SHOWING: Reel Women, a revealing documentary on women working in film; Marlon Brando: Wild One, an examination of the craft of the iconic star, narrated by professionals of the film industry, and much more… 

 

Watch the January sizzle reel...

JANUARY RELEASE CALENDAR

New Titles – From January 6

- The Executioner
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

New Titles – January 13

- Reel Women

New Titles – From January 20

- Marlon Brando: Wild One

New Titles – From January 27

- Show Me Love (aka F**king Amal)
- Together
- A Hole in My Heart
- Container
- We Are the Best!
- Lilya 4-ever
- Mammoth

Where to get it

The Art of Cult. Head to ARROW and start your 30-day free trial. Available on the following Apps/devices: Xbox, Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV; iOS devices, Android TV and mobile devices, Fire TV (all Amazon Fire TV Sticks, boxes, etc), and on all web browsers at www.ARROW-Player.com.

Subscriptions are available for £4.99 monthly or £49.99 annually

MAIKA MONROE stars in nerve-shredding thriller WATCHER out 6th February

Mediumrare Entertainment announces the award-winning thriller WATCHER is being released on DVD and Blu-ray on 6 February 2023. 

Julia (Maika Monroe - It Follows) joins her husband (Karl Glusman - The Neon Demon) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building, who seems to be looking back at her. 

Soon after, while alone at a local movie theatre, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes certain she’s being followed  - could it be the same unknown neighbour? Meanwhile, a serial killer known as The Spider stalks the city. Plagued with lurking anxiety, is she imaging things, or are her ever-mounting fears warranted? 

The debut film from Chloe Okuno is a sleek, remarkably assured thriller that puts a thoroughly modern spin on Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window. Featuring a superb cast including Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman and Burn Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises), WATCHER was nominated for awards at Sundance and SXSW festivals, and won Best Feature at this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival.

With the forbidding Bucharest locations, a wonderfully atmospheric score by the brilliant Nathan Halpern (Emily The Criminal), and the tension escalated almost unbearably in the creepy and brutal climactic scenes, WATCHER is a sleek, superb thrill ride of a film.

Extras include:
- Audio Commentary by Director Chloe Okuno and Editor Michael Block

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

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

Spanish horror THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED - On UK BD this March, from Arrow

Spain’s first major horror film production, THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED is a stylish gothic tale of tortured passions and bloody murder that bridges the bloody gap between Psycho and Suspiria.

 

Thérèse (Cristina Galbó) is the latest arrival at the boarding school for wayward girls run under the stern, authoritarian eye of Mme Fourneau (Lilli Palmer). 

 

As the newcomer becomes accustomed to the strict routines, the whip-hand hierarchies among the girls and their furtive extra-curricular methods of release from within the forbidding walls of institutional life, she learns that several of her fellow students have recently vanished mysteriously. 

 

Meanwhile, tensions grow within this isolated hothouse environment as Mme Fourneau’s callow but curious 15-year-old son Louis (John Moulder-Brown) ignores his mother’s strict orders not to get close to the “tainted” ladies under her ward.

 

Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (Who Can Kill a Child?), this landmark title in Spanish genre cinema has been restored to its director’s original full-length vision for the first time.

 

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• Brand new 2K restoration from the original negative by Arrow Films

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of the 105-minute uncut version titled The Finishing School (La Residencia), and the 94-minute US theatrical version titled The House That Screamed, via seamless branching

• Original lossless English mono audio on both versions, and lossless Spanish audio on the uncut version

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing on both versions, and optional English subtitles for the Spanish audio

• Brand new audio commentary by critic Anna Bogutskaya

• This Boy’s Innocence, a previously unreleased interview with actor John Moulder-Brown

• Archive interview with Mary Maude, from the 2012 edition of the Festival of Fantastic Films

• All About My “Mama”, a brand new interview with Juan Tébar, author of the original story

• The Legacy of Terror, a brand new interview with the director’s son, Alejandro Ibáñez

• Screaming the House Down, a brand new interview with Spanish horror expert Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, discussing the history of the film and its director

• Alternative footage from the original Spanish theatrical version

• Original trailers, TV and radio spots

• Image gallery

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch

 

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Shelagh Rowan-Legg and double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch

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

TetroVideo present Four More extreme film releases for December

This month, TetroVideo is proud to announce the releases of four extreme films. Starting today, it's possible to pre-order the highly anticipated italian film about necrophilia TETROMANIAC: CONFESSIONS OF A NECROPHILE GIRL (2022) by Domiziano Cristopharo; the shocking Spanish films THE GIRL WITH THE CUTTER/GOLGOTA (2021) by Mikel Balerdi; the Canadian extreme film THEORIE DE LA RELIGION (2010) by Frédérick Maheux and the german disturbing drama film VOYAGE TO AGATIS (2010) by Marian Dora.

All of them come in a Limited Mediabook edition (DVD + Booklet) and are available for pre-order on TetroVideo and Goredrome official websites.

TETROMANIAC: CONFESSIONS OF A NECROPHILE GIRL

Directed by Domiziano Cristopharo (House of Flesh Mannequins, Red Krokodil), CONFESSIONS OF A NECROPHILE GIRL is an erotic and disturbing drama film that is part of the TETROMANIAC series by TetroVideo (the shocking film series about the real stories involving criminals and serial killers) and is inspired by the true story of the American necrophile Karen Greenlee, played by Angela del Regno. 

TETROMANIAC: CONFESSIONS OF A NECROPHILE GIRL comes in a Ultralimited Mediabook edition (Cover A and Cover B): numbered DVD + 20-page Booklet + Slipcover (limited to the pre-order customers), with English, German and French subs.

Synopsis: Karen relives the most important moments of her life through a video diary: from childhood to her first love, to the scandal about her sexual attraction for corpses.

Lorenzo Fedele (Vore Gore), Dario Almerighi (Me and the Devil), Vincenzo Paliasc, Daniele Arturi (The House Guest), Alvia Reale (Tales to tell in the Dark), Chiara Pavoni (Xpiation), Andrea Autullo (Baby Gang), Paolo Di Gialluca (7 Sins), and Mario De Lillo also star.

In the 1970s, the 20 years old Karen Greenlee worked as an apprentice embalmer at a funeral home in California. In 1979 she stole the hearse to have sex with the corpse of a 33 years old man. The woman was found days later with a long written confession where she admitted her strong sexual attraction to the corpses. She also confessed to having sex with 20 to 40 other bodies of young men.

In 1987, after a detailed interview, she changed her identity and moved to another city.

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

VOYAGE TO AGATIS 

VOYAGE TO AGATIS  (Reise nach Agatis) is a disturbing drama film written and directed by Marian Dora, the german filmmaker known for directing Cannibal and Carcinoma.

VOYAGE TO AGATIS  comes in a Limited Numbered Mediabook edition (Cover A and Cover B): DVD + 20-page Booklet, with French, English and Italian subs.

Synopsis: Rafael and Isabell, a wealthy couple of perverts, lure a prostitute to a seemingly innocent yachting cruise. Unfortunately, the girl will end up humiliated and violated. But, is this the end of her desperate nightmare?

Thomas Goersch (Carcinoma), Tatjana Lommel and Janna Lisa Dombrowsky star.

View the Trailer on Vimeo.

THE GIRL WITH THE CUTTER/GOLGOTA 

THE GIRL WITH THE CUTTER and GOLGOTA are two medium-length films available in a double feature release in collaboration with Goredrome. Both films are directed by the spanish artist Mikel Balerdi, best known for his feature debut Larva Mental.

THE GIRL WITH THE CUTTER and GOLGOTA come in a limited Mediabook edition (DVD + 20-page Booklet), with English, French and Italian subs.

THE GIRL WITH THE CUTTER (51 min.) is an experimental art film and it’s inspired by a true story.

Cofi Valduvieux plays a tormented woman who battles the urge to cut herself. She spends her time fighting voices, having visions of a demonic version of herself and trying to figure out the best way to harm herself. With her mental suffering mounting, things start to escalate. 

GOLGOTA (26 min.) is a film about extreme body art with a very pronounced sexual component. The film is told through a series of title cards per hour. It’s 6 hours in the life of Wendy, a woman with multiple paraphilias and who has no limits.

THEORIE DE LA RELIGION 

THEORIE DE LA RELIGION is the debut film by Canadian director Frédérick Maheux (Art/Crime, Ana).

The film is available in a Limited Mediabook edition: numbered DVD + 20-page Booklet +  Slipcover (limited to the pre-order customers), with English, French and Italian subs.

This canadian extreme film presents 67 minutes of sexual violence committed against an inflatable doll.

Synopsis: a man finds himself alone with that obscure object of his desire. She is stunning and he will do everything that brings him pleasure. Hidden from prying eyes, in the confines of his apartment, he initiates an erotic ritual that will quench his unmentionable sadomasochistic desires. He intends to make her suffer because she is not of flesh and bone but rather plastic... Because dolls, simulacra devoid of life, make the best slaves.

Ffej, Serge De Cotret and Frédérick Maheux star.

These and other titles are available to order from TetroVideo and Goredrome.

 

 

Haunting Mystery THE ANCHOR - Streams Dec 20, only on Screambox

A nightly news anchor attempts to solve a cryptic murder in THE ANCHOR. The haunting South Korean mystery streams December 20 exclusively on Screambox.

Writer-director Jung Ji-yeon’s thrilling feature debut stars Chun Woo-hee (The Wailing), Shin Ha-kyun (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), and Lee Hye-young (Boys Over Flowers).

Sera, a nightly news anchor, receives a distressing phone call from a mother saying that a man is going to kill her and Sera is the only one capable of solving her murder. When she discovers that the caller is real, Sera digs deeper into the case to reveal the shocking truth.

“THE ANCHOR is a prime example of creativity within the genre," says Brad Miska, Managing Director of Bloody Disgusting. “As Screambox continues to grow we are able to find incredible titles like this and introduce these filmmakers to an entirely new audience.”

THE ANCHOR will join Screambox’s growing library of unique horror content, including Terrifier 2, Pennywise: The Story of IT, Masters of Horror, 13 Nights of Elvira, Satan’s Little Helper, History of the Occult, and Toxic Crusaders.

View the Trailer on YouTube. 

Screambox is available on iOS, Android, Prime Video, Roku, YouTube TV, Samsung, Comcast, Cox, and Screambox.com. For a limited time, new users can subscribe for only 99 cents a month for the first 3 months. 

Visit Screambox.com/offers/scream99 to start screaming.

 

 

Mind-bending Horror THE HARBINGER - On Digital Platforms, January.

This horror is the stuff of nightmares. When her oldest friend is plagued by horrific nightmares from the beyond, Monique (Gabby Beans - House of Cards) is forced to travel to NYC. 

On the first night of the visit, Monique learns the dreams are contagious – and so is the HARBINGER, the plague mask-wearing demon who not only feeds on its victims’ souls, but warps reality itself to remove any trace of their existence.  

THE HARBINGER is written and directed by Andy Mitton (The Witch in the Window) and also stars Emily Davis (The Plagiarists) and Raymond Anthony Thomas (Shutter Island).

The film had a brilliant reception, smash-hit European Premiere at the August 2022 FrightFest in London and was similarly well received at the Mayhem Festival in Nottingham in October, making top recommendation lists of multiple genre outlets including The Dark Side Magazine and Dread Central, with it being compared to the nightmarish delights of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street.

View the Trailer on YouTube.

You can read my review of the film as part of my coverage of the Mayhem Festival HERE.

FrightFest Presents and Signature Entertainment releases THE HARBINGER on Digital Platforms 23rd January