New Month has arrived and with that new movies will be coming as well. This week a bunch of goodies come in to kick off the month of Decemeber so let’s take a look shall we…
A horror-thriller where puppets portray real people, weaving a nightmarish tale of murder, mind control, and impending doom. Evan Marlowe, 2023.
Les Hackel hates his life. He works a dead-end job, was just dumped by his high-maintenance girlfriend, and still lives with his nagging mom. One night, he discovers a fresh incision behind his neck. His friend Danny tells him it’s a bomb, that someone has implanted one in his neck, too.
Space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station.
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark (William Hopper) and his wife, Christine (Nancy Kelly), dote on their pig-tailed daughter, Rhoda (Patty McCormack) — as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove (Evelyn Varden). But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter’s darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda’s dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Stylish thriler set in a Renaissance Italian mansion, about a series of the murders that may have been committed by the disembodied hand of a recently deceased tyrannical pianist. Peter Lorre, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Florey, 1946.
A cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways to hell, becomes a malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifixions, brutal whippings, eyeball impalements, flesh-eating tarantulas, throat-shredding demon dogs and ravenous bloodthirsty zombies in this cult classic from legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci.
A double shot of classic Sandler!
Intriguing action film written by John Carpenter which apparently acted as a template for the later Die Hard about double crossing thieves and a supercar. Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton. 1986.
In this folk horror, a family of fishers face strange phenomena which may be influencing the patriarch of the family in violent ways. Chris Sheffield, Michaela McManus, Neville Archambault, Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus, 2020.
Something terrifying is happening off the coast of Block Island. A strange force is thriving, influencing residents and wildlife alike. Birds are dropping out of the sky and fish are mysteriously washing up on shore. As some residents are suffering from inexplicable emotional collapse, Harry Lynch fights for his family’s survival against mysterious, and deadly, forces.
During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad. Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Martin Scorsese, 1972.
Wonderfully goofy cult horror that gave the world the acronym C.H.U.D. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers). John Heard, Daniel Stern, 1984.
THE VALACHI PAPERS (1972) – The cold-blooded, no holds barred, adaptation of Joseph Valachi’s explosive testimony while in prison that exposed unthinkable mob activity in the United States.
THE STONE KILLER (1973) – Crime drama about a tough New York cop who discovers that a gangster is planning a massacre; revenge for a shootout which introduced non-Sicilian elements to organized crime.
BREAKOUT (1975) – A Texas bush pilot is hired by a woman to help break out her husband who is imprisoned in Mexico on a framed charge that was engineered by his Grandfather.
HARD TIMES (1975) – Walter Hill’s directorial debut is a raw, bare-knuckled view of street brawlers starring Bronson as a quiet but brutal fighter supported by a chatty and sly promoter played by James Coburn.
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. Elem Klimov, 1985.
Gretchen leaves America to live with her father, who has moved to the German Alps with his new family. After arriving, Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret about her own family.
In the not-too-distant future against a backdrop of advanced undersea technology, a group of scientists and Navy personnel discover they are in an underwater Alien rip-off. Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer, Nia Peeples, Sean S. Cunningham, 1989.
Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes go head-to-head in this classic sci-fi/action blockbuster from Joel Silver, the producer of Die Hard and The Matrix. With a script co-written by Daniel Waters (Heathers, Batman Returns) and a supporting cast that includes Denis Leary, Benjamin Bratt, and Sandra Bullock in her breakout role, Demolition Man is an awesome mix of action and humor!
Working New Year’s Eve at a hotel in Hollywood, Calif., the new bellhop, Ted (Tim Roth), has no idea what’s in store for him. Left alone to tend to the guests, Ted soon finds himself in completely over his head. Between a domestic dispute and a demented entourage, spell-casting witches and destructive children, Ted has little hope of making it through the night in one piece. As he tries to maintain order and save his own life, the unlucky bellhop encounters one deranged guest after another.
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich), a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
Wild, horror-comedy adventure about a bored yuppie who gets caught in supernatural chaos, battling bizarre creatures when he calls a late night party hotline. Steven Kostanski, 2024.
Starring Peter Cushing. An anthology of four short horror stories revolving around a British antique shop and its mysterious owner. Kevin Connor (1974)
Archaeologists working on Native reservation unleash a sadistic spirit who possesses a local medicine man and uses him as a tool to seek revenge against the white man. Peter F. Buffa, 1982.
The #8 release in the Dark Force 4K ULTRA HD Platinum series is this 1975 cult classic, hilariously cheesy throwback to the giant-monster flicks craze of the 50s! In “The Giant Spider Invasion”, giant arachnids from outer space begin to invade Earth after a huge black hole appears in a farmer’s field outside a small town in Wisconsin.
A psychic in a small town uncovers dark secrets while helping solve a murder, facing terrifying visions and dangerous suspicions. Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Sam Raimi, 2000.
Japan has barely recovered from the Second World War when a gigantic peril emerges off the coast of Tokyo. Koichi, a deserter traumatised by his first confrontation with Godzilla, sees this as an opportunity to redeem his conduct during the war.
The undisputed “Godfather of Gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs) heads up this twisted horror/gore anthology, marking the last film work of this celebrated genre master. Segments include “Attack of Conscience”, “GOREgeous”, “Gory Story”, and “The Night Hag”, culminating in a celebratory swan song for the infamous director of some of the most iconic and satirical gore films ever made!
Desperate to make some money so she can move into a new apartment, college student Samantha Hughes (Jocelin Donahue) takes a mysterious babysitting job. When she arrives at the house, Mr. Ulman (Tom Noonan) mentions a full lunar eclipse and explains there is no child, but that Samantha will be watching his mother instead. After exploring the sinister-seeming house, Samantha soon comes to realize that her employers are hiding a horrifying secret and have plans to use her, dead or alive.
When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge. From the director of The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Jee-woon Kim, 2010.
Camille Keaton (What Have You Done to Solange’, Tragic Ceremony) stars as Jennifer Hills, a young and beautiful career woman who rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge in some of the most unforgettable scenes ever shot on film.
Wildly entertaining mix of dark comedy and crime thriller. Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Martin McDonagh, 2008.
Starring Sam Neill and Jürgen Prochnow, an insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer’s books have on his fans is more than inspirational. John Carpenter (1994)
The story revolves around a murderous neighbourhood gang, a poor village with unlikely heroes and an aspiring gangster’s fierce journey to find his true self. The martial arts choreography is supervised by Yuen Woo-ping. The film was a co-production between Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese companies, filmed in Shanghai.
Get ready for a wild ride! A sexually rapacious Asian goddess known as the “Queen of the South Sea”, possesses the body of a young female skin diver. Armed with an AK47 and an endless supply of bullets, this murderous Lady Terminator takes to the streets on a revenge filled rampage ….
Its like Kill Bill – but with oodles of sex. This combination of Asian black magic and western-style shoot ’em up is one of the key cult movies of the 80’s. Even the jaded patrons of 42nd street were shocked to see how the lustful Lady T dispatched her victims…!
While waiting for the next fuel truck at a rural Arizona rest stop, a traveling knife salesman delivers a half-hearted sales pitch to the owner of the diner. As two suspicious men arrive, their distinctive car is recognized as one seen fleeing a bank heist. Willing to protect their bloodstained money and ready to eliminate witnesses, the Mexico-bound robbers are forced to make an uneasy truce in this dire hostage situation when others arrive. As tension builds, the knife salesman makes a fateful decision that will change his life forever.
During the final days of Slobodan Miloševic’s Serbian rule, a student named Marko (Mihajlo Jovanovic) becomes desperate to make a film. Finally getting a job as an adult film director, he runs afoul of the mob and needs to get out of town fast! Assembling a traveling “porno cabaret,” Marko and his new friends ride though the countryside in a van performing sex acts for peasants and farmers.
1980 TV miniseries based on the Ray Bradbury novel which follows Earth’s 21st-century colonization of Mars. But the mission quickly unravels—first due to hostile Martians, then from the self-destructive behaviour of the Earthmen. Rock Hudson, 1980.
Claymation tale of a lonely Australian 8-year-old who begins to write to an obese 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York City in order to get answers her parents refuse to give. Toni Collette.
Suprisingly clever & funny direct-to-video about a mercenary who switches sides to defend island natives. Dolph Lundgren, Charlotte Lewis, BD Wong, Perry Lang, 1994
Peter O’Toole. A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show, but can the shows writer keep him sober enough to go on air. Richard Benjamin (1982)
In a tense battle for survival, a mother and her sons fight off an evil force that threatens their home in this psychological horror from the director of Haute Tension. Halle Berry, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Alexandre Aja, 2024.
They work by day, take a full schedule of classes all night and somehow find time for study and an occasional date. Women in the evening curriculum at Boston’s distinguished Wendell College do a lot to get ahead in life. But there’s someone who will go to even greater heights. Someone will do anything to get a head. A killer whose m.o. is the ritualistic decapitation of victims makes terror a required course at Night School, directed by Kenneth Hughes (Casino Royale) and starring Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds; After Dark, My Sweet) in her screen debut. Leonard Mann plays the homicide lieutenant assigned to the puzzling case. He has hunches, not clues. Suspects, not evidence. And a rising body count. Finals are coming early this year at Wendell. And for those who don’t make the grade, heads will roll.
A man finds drug money, sparking violent chaos as a hitman and sheriff pursue him in 1980s Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, 2007.
In this delirious, disgusting and delightfully fun “GWAR meets kid film”, a couple of kids meet an alien overlord who’s too serious to take seriously. Matthew Ninaber, Kristen MacCulloch, Rick Amsbury, Steven Kostanski, 2020.
Brian De Palma’s (Scarface, The Untouchables) classic musical cult comedy Phantom of the Paradise blends elements of The Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and Faust, paving the way for his later hits. In it, a disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace.
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it’s soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret — one that is both inexplicable and shocking.
The complete Prom Night Collection!
Scientists create a helmet that lets users face their fears, but the experiment spirals out of control, unleashing nightmares. Shannon Barnes, Christian Carrigan, Charles Band, 2024.
Developed by scientists Harry and Meg, the “Quadrant” helmet allows your mind to transport you into a world where all your phobias and nightmares are real, while also granting you the strength to defeat them, liberating you from their control forever. But the Quadrant experiment is about to go horribly wrong.
Atmospheric 30’s horror about a reporter investigates a series of murders linked to a mad scientist who returns from the dead. Humphrey Bogart, Vincent Sherman, 1939.
French thriller, never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting – a violent lesson for three wealthy married men. Coralie Fargeat (2017)
Obsessed with living up to her dead father’s legacy a young sheriff finds her mettle tested when locals are found ripped to shreds. Michael Biehn, Ryan Coonan, 2024.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious final film, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
It’s Christmas time and an evil multi-millionaire accidentally hits his head, only to be convinced by a fiendish elf that he is Santa Claus.
A family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue. Howard R. Cohen (1981)
It’s Garbage Day! After his parents are murdered, a tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior. Charles E. Sellier Jr. (1984)
Welcome to Camp Arawak, where teenage boys and girls learn to experience the joys of nature, as well as each other. But when these happy campers begin to die in a series of horrible “accidents”, they discover that someone – or something – has turned their summer of fun into a vacation to dismember.
YOU KNOW THE DRILL. Put on your PJs and say your prayers…it’s time for one nightmare of an all-nighter with a double dose of slashtastic cult classics: The Slumber Party Massacre and Slumber Party Massacre II! In The Slumber Party Massacre, Trish (Michele Michaels) invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they’ll never forget—or survive—when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill. And in the freaky follow-up Slumber Party Massacre II, Courtney (Crystal Bernard) is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc…only to find that (bad) dreams really do come true when the murderous monster is reincarnated as an evil rocker.
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers) falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels (Nancy Travis) and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer — “Mrs. X” — wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.
In the small South American town of Porvenir, four men on the run from the law are offered $10,000 and legal citizenship if they will transport a shipment of dangerously unstable nitroglycerin to an oil well 200 miles away. Led by Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), the men set off on a hazardous journey, during which they must contend with dangerously rocky roads, unstable bridges, and attacks from local guerillas. The four fight for their lives as they struggle to complete their dangerous quest.
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly Watt (Jill Wagner) and boyfriend Seth Belzer (Paulo Costanzo) decide to check into a motel. On their way, they’re carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis Farell (Shea Whigham) and Lacey Belisle (Rachel Krebs), who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. Along the way, they encounter an increasingly terrifying horde of parasites, and if any of them intend to survive, they’ll have to outsmart the deadly organisms.
In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways – eighteen-year-old Fred (Mike Lackey) and his younger brother, Kevin (Mark Sferrazza) – live in a tire hut in the back of an auto wrecking yard. Life is hard, but the most lethal threat to the boys is the mysterious case of “Tenafly Viper” wine in Ed’s liquor store window.
Following the success of Dr No and From Russia with Love, Bondmania swept the globe and initiated a cycle of Bondsploitation movies, including Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers, who began producing tales of intrigue, espionage, and grand theft in the mid-1960s. Eureka Classics presents three of their best in this special-edition set: The Golden Buddha, Angel with the Iron Fists and The Singing Thief.
Lurid, gory crime story in a which the members of failed heist reunite for revenge. Tony Todd, Noah Hathaway, Sonny Chiba, Andy Mackenzie, Mark Hamill, 2012.
Jessica Harper (PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, PENNIES FROM HEAVEN) stars in this horrific tale of a young student who uncovers dark and horrific secrets within the walls of a famous German dance academy. Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA comes to home video from Synapse Films in an exclusive new 4K restoration from the original uncut, uncensored 35mm Italian camera negative with the original 4.0 English mix.
Roman Polanski’s cult classic about a bureaucrat who rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, 1976.
Using state-of-the-art technology and materials from the BBC and Imperial War Museum, filmmaker Peter Jackson allows the story of World War I to be told by the men who were there. Life on the front is explored through the voices of the soldiers, who discuss their feelings about the conflict, the food they ate, the friends they made and their dreams of the future.
One of the most beloved and widely-quoted films of the decade directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Taratino – newly remastered. Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, 1993.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe, Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor. David Lynch (1990)
And there we go. Hoping the movies arrive on Thursday!
