August 26, 2008 Releases
ARTIFACTS: Lionsgate
Kate Warner is a woman in her late twenties who runs her own startup business. A workaholic, Kate has recently left her boyfriend Mike (Scott) to focus fully on work. Out of nowhere, each of her friends is murdered by duplicate versions of themselves. Kate soon finds out that all the victims had a metallic “artifact” implanted in their chest. Knowing that she is the next target along with her ex-boyfriend, the two will have to reunite in an attempt to join forces and stay alive.
THE BLACK HOUSE (1999): Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having accidents. And if he s not careful, he might be next.
CANNIBAL TERROR: Severin
When a pair of criminal knuckleheads and their busty moll kidnap the young daughter of a wealthy tycoon they foolishly choose to hide in a local jungle infested with ferocious cannibals. What follows is a mind-roasting exercise in atrocious acting gratuitous nudity and gut-munching mayhem by a ravenous tribe of flesh eaters who inexplicably sport comb-overs and Elvis sideburns.
DANTE'S INFERNO: TLA
Hell goes animated as apocalyptic graphic novel artwork and eerie Victorian toy theater converge in this subversively satiric update of a literary classic. Reinterpreted with the use of intricately hand-drawn puppets and stunning miniature sets, this bizarre travelogue narrated by Dante, a hard-living hoodie-clad twenty-something, will take you on a gritty, violent tour of hell that bears a disturbing resemblance to our own world.
DEVIL HUNTER: Severin
King Of EuroSleaze Jess Franco takes on the 80s Cannibal genre and delivers a jungle sickie like no other! When a safari of sexy babes and violent boneheads ventures into native-crazed wilderness Uncle Jess unleashes a deluge of relentless nudity dubious anthropology and his own brand of cut-rate carnage.
GIMME SKELTER: Burning Paradise/Halo-8
What if Charles Manson's illegitimate son decided to follow in his father's footsteps and start his own "family?" They've come to town on a mission... they are going to kill as many people as they can in one night.
HARD GORE (
SINISTRE, HOUSE OF CARNAGE; 2-disc): SRS Cinema
- HOUSE OF CARNAGE: This is the bizarre and tragically gruesome account of what happened to two young friends one summer afternoon in the rural areas of Pennsylvania. Here in these woods, they were stalked by a menacing ax welding manic and his demented family a bizarre cannibalistic clan with blood on their mind and mission to bring demon babies into the world. Their only chance to live is to escape from the HOUSE OF CARNAGE.
- SINISTRE: Director/writer/editor Ronnie Sortor (RAVAGE) presents this film about three criminals whose bid to pull off the perfect heist goes horribly wrong. First, one of the three is shot during the robbery, leaving the young couple, Simon and Lisa, to fend for themselves. The two decide to separate and rendezvous in a deserted house. Simon arrives first, and proceeds to spend the night there, waiting for Lisa. During the night, Simon comes face to face with the dark presences of an axe murderer and his victims, who attempt to claim him as one of their own. An ultra low budget gore film, SINISTRE is an entertaining and inventive combination of the crime/slasher/zombie film.
HOME SICK: Synapse
Bill Moseley (
THE DEVIL'S REJECTS) stars as a smiling maniac named Mr. Suitcase . With a briefcase full of razorblades, he crashes a homecoming get-together for Claire (Lindley Evans) and forces the partygoers to identify people they hate. Soon, a black-hooded supernatural killer is loose killing each person identified by the teens and the terrified friends realize they may also be viciously murdered because Tim (Matt Lero) awkwardly joked that he hated everyone at the party, too! As the corpses pile up and the body parts fly, the kids enlist the help of a crazed chili loving militia man who can give them the weapons they need to stay alive!
KILLER'S DELIGHT (a.k.a.
THE DARK RIDE; special edition): Shriek Show/Media Blasters
Detective DeCarlo is convinced that the murders of six young women are the work of one psychopathic killer. The search for the killer of the girls, all of whom were hitchhiking, makes a thrilling police drama. The meticulous police work, the excitement of the chase, the frustration of chasing a killer who flaunts his murders under their noses, and the heart-stopping conclusion, are the ingredients that make killer's delight top class in the police/suspense genre.
NUDE FOR SATAN: Redemption USA
A man who seeks help for an injured women at a gothic castle finds it inhabited by their darker halves and a sex-craved arachnid with a taste for stockings and sadomasochism. This is Italian gothic with dollops of seventies style chock-a-block with lesbianism, whippings, black magic and dubious haircuts. A truly jaw-dropping horror/exploitation film from one of the most prominent directors of Italian sleaze cinema.
PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION: Anchor Bay
Writer/director Don Coscarelli reunites A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury and Angus Scrimm for the final shocking chapter of the most unique series in horror movie history! As The Tall Man’s unholy harvest reaches its crescendo, Mike, Reggie and Jody will converge across portals of time and dimensions of the undead to uncover his startling secrets. Flying spheres will be unleashed. Ice cream vendors will reload. But will the ultimate nightmare end where it all began?
PSYCHO KICKBOXER / CANVAS OF BLOOD: Shock-O-Rama/POPcinema
- PSYCHO KICKBOXER: Left for dead after the brutal murder of his father and fiancée, up-and-coming kickboxer Alex Hunter embarks on an odyssey of vengeance. Coached by a wheelchair bound Vietnam Vet, Alex is transformed into an avenging streetfighter - a one-man vigilante and skull-crushing killing machine known as The Dark Angel. Using controlled fury and a hunger for revenge to seek retribution against low-life criminal scum, Alex must elude a beautiful journalist eager to unveil his identify while destroying an army of inner city assassins.
- CANVAS OF BLOOD: Armed with a bizarre mechanical appendage, Vietnam Vet Paul Hanover begins a bloody quest to avenge his daughter’s botched surgery. Using the Special Forces skills he learned in Nam, he turns his enemies into grisly works of art that baffle the police while offering clues to his identity.
RESURRECTION MARY (2007; special edition): Anchor Bay
On a dark and creepy road, teenager Jeff Pryce nearly runs down a beautiful, yet mysterious young girl walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery. Jeff offers to give her a ride and by the time he drops her off, a mutual attraction is obvious. But Jeff's life begins to spin out of control shortly after he asks "Mary" to be his date at Homecoming -- as one by one, his friends are brutally murdered. Having spent time in juvenile hall, Jeff becomes the prime suspect. Who is Mary? Why is everyone around him dying? And will Jeff's desperate measures to clear his name put him face-to-face with the real killer?
SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM: Criterion
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 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy 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.
SKINNED ALIVE (a.k.a.
EAT YOUR HEART OUT): Lionsgate
In the heart of New York City, men are dying in very violent ways. They are being torn up, ripped apart and then eaten. The only connection between the victims is that they all die after hiring a prostitute. Jeffrey is a sad and lonely man searching for love in the city. Socially awkward and fearing rejection, he finds companionship with prostitutes. In a bizarre twist of fate, he and his latest hire fall madly in love. The only problem is that his new girlfriend is feeding on the men of New York City, and there is a lunatic hunting her down. Caught in the middle, Jeffrey, who only wanted to love and be loved, must now decide how much he is willing to accept in the name of true love.
VAMPIRE DIARY: Monarch
London's trendy neo vampires wear fake fangs and heavy makeup during their decadent weekend exploits. While making a documentary about these Goth scene fanatics, filmmaker Holly meets the highly enigmatic and beautiful Vicki who claims she is a real-life vampire. What Holly doesn't know is that her new soul-mate has more than her share of dark secrets to reveal and a limited amount of time to get what she desperately needs.