June 23, 2008 Releases
THE CHILLING: Shriek Show/Media Blasters
Universal Cryogenics is doing a booming business in freezing the bodies of the recently dead in the hopes of defrosting them later when science has discovered a way to cure what ails them. Things are going well until the storage facility loses its power during a storm, threatening their frozen clients. To make matters worse, a lightning strike causes the bodies to revive as homicidal zombies. What has the cryogenic lab been doing to its customers to cause this kind of change, and can they stop the zombies before their rampage goes out of control?
CURSE OF THE WEEPING WOMAN: J-OK'EL: Maverick
The terrifying legend of J-ok el just might be true! While searching for his missing sister George learns the haunting details of the J-ok el legend (La Llorona); a woman who drowned her own babies centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children as her own.
THE DEMONS AMONG US: Troma
Joe Melton moves to the country for some peace and quiet. But shortly after arriving he discovers a dark presence so disturbing that it could mean the end of the world as we know it. The Demons are among us. As the small town of Miranda Falls is slaughtered like cattle the devil rises from his prison deep below the earth s surface. Only Joe and his talking axe can save us but he’s completely lost his marbles! When the horror reaches its bloody climax you better pray there is a God!
DESERT OF BLOOD: Rivercoast
For thirty-five years, something evil lay buried beneath the sands of Mexico--until a hapless treasure hunter digs up more than he expects, releasing the mysterious, handsome, and deadly Luis Diego from his desert tomb. Finally free, Diego seeks to exact vengeance on those who nearly destroyed him all those years ago, including the woman he once loved, Sarita. Diego's revenge, however, is unexpectedly interrupted when he falls for Sarita's niece, Maricela. He sees in her a second chance--a chance to defeat the darkness inside him and to lead a normal life. But torn between the love in his heart and the evil in his soul, Diego soon discovers that his thirst for blood cannot be denied. With a growing rage, Diego succumbs to his wicked hunger and resumes his quest for vengeance, determined to leave nothing in Mexico but a desert of blood.
DRAINIAC: Shock-O-Rama/POPcinema
Julie Ashbrook and a group of friends have taken up residence in a deserted old house while they clean it up for a planned restoration. Strange and inexplicable occurrences involving water is just the beginning as gruesome death-by-plumbing takes its toll on the terrified inhabitants. Drip by steady drip the fleshless entity begins to take shape and Julie and her friends soon come face to face with the bloodthirsty monster in all its aqueous evil - an ancient water demon that wants to tear them apart!
EASTERN HORROR (10 movies, 5 discs): BCI
- ROBO VAMPIRE—A dead narcotics agent is brought back to life by an experimental procedure that transforms him into a human-android hybrid.
- DEVIL’S DYNAMITE—The Androidbot returns to battle an army of bloodthirsty vampires out to protect the evil empire of a ruthless drug lord.
- MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE—A circus magician journeys through a nightmarish netherworld in order to rescue his kidnapped daughter from the clutches of supernatural forces angry over his dabbling in the magical arts.
- COUNTER DESTROYER—Working on a film script in an old haunted house, a screenwriter accidentally unleashes an army of the undead, including a robot-vampire and a Freddy Kruger-like creature with deadly scissor-hands.
- SATAN’S SLAVE—Infused with Islamic iconography, this is a tale of a family curse that raises the dead.
- CORPSE MASTER—An evil sorcerer fights against a Taoist priest, who uses a baby vampire to battle the undead.
- VAMPIRE RESURRECTION—A group of tourists on holiday at a remote island discover their night time entertainment hosts are unholy bloodsuckers. It s safe to say that this vacation package sucks! Thrills, chills, and laughs come in the tradition of Mr. Vampire.
- DEVIL SHADOW—A thriller to rival the giallo greats! Wan Di is a cartoonist whose two characters, Ugly Kid and Big Devil , are inspired by his childhood past. As a youngster, he lived in a slum and was beaten and abused by his mother. Then one day, she is found brutally murdered. Now the killer is contacting Wan and letting him know her murder was about him.
- CALAMITY OF SNAKES—A construction team discovers a massive nest of snakes and kills most of them, despite warnings from the foreman s wife. Led by a giant boa constrictor, the surviving reptiles take revenge on everybody in the building! This is one of the most gruesome films ever! Sam Jackson is safer on the plane!
- DEVIL’S BOX—Filmmaker Tang, played by Simon Yam, is experiencing bizarre accidents on his film set with scaffolding falling and people getting hurt. Then, when trouble follows him home, it becomes apparent that he s haunted by ghosts. Things go too far and Tang decides to fight back. A Hong Kong giallo style film!
AN EROTIC WEREWOLF IN LONDON: Seduction Cinema/POPcinema
Get ready for a hot hair-raising adventure as Misty Mundae and her delicious co-stars Julian Wells Darian Caine Anoushka Ruby LaRocca and Zoe Moonshine transform An Erotic Werewolf in London into a lycanthropic ultra-erotic epic. Anoushka plays a luscious blonde werewolf living in London who a la An Interview with a Vampire meets up with a reporter to relate her tragic tale and tell her story once and for all to the world. Anoushka’s bite has recently turned doe-eyed American beauty Misty Mundae into a fellow female werewolf whose metamorphosis into sexual predator is triggered by arousal and ultimately orgasm.
THE EYE 3: Lionsgate
Some believe that our world is one of many that our existence is merely an intersection between countless dimensions - known and unknown. We run into strangers we don't see hear tunes we don't hear. Most of us remain ignorant but there are always those who are a little different they would risk everything to find the truth if not the thrill - that is to see the other side - just once in their lives. In the world of psychics despite widely different rites and practices there exists a single mutual; void - the Rite of Eight - the last and most powerful resort to make contact with the spiritual world. No one seems to know its origin but no one doubts its authenticity because just like any other unsolvable myth those who go there have never returned to testify.
GINGERDEAD MAN 2: THE PASSION OF THE CRUST: Full Moon
Young Kelvin Cheatam has just inherited his father's fledgling movie studio. After a string of unsuccessful box office bombs the passionate young producer has been struggling to keep the place from closing down for good. Desperate for another hit movie he quickly puts several outrageous genre films into production. Little does he know...that Cheatam Studios is about to get more action than he ever imagined as the deranged cookie murderer known as The Gingerbread Man is about to crash the studio lot and leave behind a trail of bloody murder and hilarious mayhem. Terror still has never tasted so good!
HELL'S GROUND: TLA
Pakistan s first splatter flick in the tradition of
Friday the 13th and
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre delivers spine-tingling thrills when an attractive group of teens pile into a van that runs out of gas in the middle of a dark mysterious forest. Their ghoulish nightmare begins when rotting fresh-eating zombies and a decapitated head-toting screaming banshee-like hitchhiker begin to terrorize them at every turn. But when a mysterious figure dressed in a blood-drenched burqa appears sporting a medieval weapon dripping in gore even the teens prayers won t save them from a night of savage demented horror.
KILLER'S MOON: Redemption USA
Killer's Moon is Britain's answer to
I Spit On Your Grave...only sleazier. Produced in the late seventies it mixes lurid scenes of rape with
Clockwork Orange Droog style menace drugs and dollops of ultra violence all of which combined make this a true 'video nasty'. Centered on four drugged-up escaped prisoners whose only purpose in life is to 'loot kill and rape' and who in true exploitation style seek refuge in the nearest girls school Killer's Moon starts off mired in sleaze and stays there. Full of gratuitous sexual violence a three-legged dog and some truly repellent dialogue this film is not to be missed.
(To be continued...)