February 24, 2009 Releases
AN ANGEL FOR SATAN/ THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH: Midnight Choir
- THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH: A woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her older daughter knows the real reason is the lord's sexual desire for her. She confronts him and also killed. The daughter mysteriously returns from the dead and gets revenge.
- AN ANGEL FOR SATAN: Sculptor Roberto arrives in a small village to restore an ancient statue. He meets Harriet (Barbara Steele) who bears an amazing resemblance to the statue. Upon complete restoration of the statue, Steele begins to take on the psychotic traits of the woman upon whom the sculpture was based - a much-feared sorceress.
THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Blu-ray): Blue Underground
In his first film as writer/director, Dario Argento single-handedly created the giallo genre and instantly emerged as the filmmaker critics worldwide hailed as 'The Italian Hitchcock.'
BLACK ICE: SRS Cinema
Evelyn is a young woman beginning her journey into the world of love and sexual relationships. Her first time is unlike anyone's ever before, ending in bloodshed and carnage! Confused and misguided in her relationships by her close friend Chris, Evelyn finds herself sinking deeper and deeper into her growing fantasy and neglecting the rules of reality...and as a result the bodies start piling up!
BLOOD, BOOBS & BEAST/ NIGHTBEAST: Troma
BLOOD, BOOBS & BEAST tells the compelling story of Don Dohler (1946-2006), whose movies have been called everything from 'oddly brilliant' to some of the 'worst films'; of all time. Despite his critics, Dohler managed to get international distribution for all 9 of his sci-fi and horror films, as well as TV syndication for his first film.
CRIPPLED CREEK: S'more
Three young women, overjoyed at getting away from their hectic lives, go into the woods on a camping trip to a family cabin. As they enter the forest, the local ranger warns them about an old hermit who lives in the woods, and their joy soon turns to terror as the 3 girls realize that the forest contains other dangerous secrets. The gruesome murders begin and we realize the victims are little more than food for this watcher in the woods.
CYCLOPS: Anchor Bay
It is the pinnacle of the Roman Empire, a time of mighty gladiators, lusty women, and a ferocious one - eyed monster that slaughters those foolish enough to enter his forest domain. But the corrupt Emperor Tiberius has a plan to please the bloodlust of the people: Capture the creature and unleash him in the arena against his condemned slaves, including wrongfully imprisoned general Marcus Romulus.
DARK AWAKENING: S'more
Ray Ryan is a successful advertising executive with a new promotion, a nice home and a beautiful fiance. But underneath it all is a dark secret. Ray's nightmares are giving way to visions of his abusive father, unlocking a suppressed violence he's unable to control. When Ray brutally assaults a man in a parking lot, it leads to an investigation by an aging detective with an interesting past.
EPITAPH: TLA
Set in a small Korean hospital, the place is a labyrinth of haunted corridors and the stage for frightful events: a medical student is inexplicably drawn to a beautiful dead girl; a troubled child is tortured by bloody visions of her dead parents; and a married couple find themselves investigating a series of gory murders.
FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET: Mya Communication
Roberto is a young handsome drummer. For the last week he has been stalked by a mysterious guy with dark sunglasses. Roberto decides to put an end to this and follows his stalker in a deserted theatre. He confronts the man and accidentally kills him. At the same time, another mysterious stalker, with a weird mask, appears and takes pictures of the accidental murder. For Roberto and his girlfriend Mina, it's the beginning of a nightmare.
THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY: Fox
Molly Hartley hopes that with her mother locked away in a mental ward, she can forget the violence of her family’s past and start over. She has found a new life, a new school and a new boyfriend. But when her secret past and haunting nightmares continue, Molly fears she has inherited her mother’s psychosis.
HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL 50th Anniversary Edition: Raunchy Tonk
Johnny Legend presents a 50th Anniversary Edition of the classic William Castle film! Vincent Price stars as a millionaire who invites a group of people to spend a night in his house. If they survive the night they’ll get $10,000. But will they?
THE LAIR: The Complete Second Season: Liberation
In the first season of "The Lair," when the bodies of young nameless men were turning up dead with grisly wounds to their necks, the trail lead an ambitious young journalist to explore a private gentlemen s club christened THE LAIR. There a devilishly attractive group of vampires waited to test the limits of the flesh. Season two picks up where one left off.
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT: MGM/Fox
A quartet of criminals--a distorted version of the nuclear family--kidnaps a pair of teenage girls and proceeds to ravage, rape, torture, and finally brutally murder them in the woods, unwittingly within walking distance of their rural home. The killers take refuge in the girls' own home, but when the parents discover just who they are and what they've done, they plot violent retribution.
NIGHT OF THE JACKALS: Phoenix
Thinking her last mission was completed, Special Ops Assassin, Kera Moore retires and weds. Her last target, a crazed former US chemical weapons engineer, survived the hit and has brought his final batch of US financed neurotoxin with him. But this is not your typical poison, as it turns its victims into ravenous vampire-like zombies, also known as the Jackals.
RED SANDS: Sony Pictures
As continuing battles rage in a war-torn country, a unit of U.S. soldiers is dispatched to seize and control a strategic road that runs past an abandoned stone house. En route, the soldiers discover an ancient stone statue hidden deep within an ancient ravine. Using the relic for target practice, they destroy it, unwittingly releasing a vengeful supernatural force that is about to wage a horrifying war on them.
REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE: Redemption USA
This surreal fairy-tale from acclaimed French horror director Jean Rollin follows two gun-toting nymphette schoolgirls as they stumble upon a lair of vampires. Almost devoid of dialogue, the story unfolds into a orgy of torture, rape, nudity and lesbianism.
THE SADIST: Raunchy Tonk
Three people stopping at a deserted desert gas station are taken hostage and terrorized by psychopathic thrill-killer Charles A. Tibbs and his mute girlfriend Judy.
SCORPION WITH TWO TAILS: Mya Communication
Joan Barnard has recurring nightmares of ancient Etruscan sacrifice rites. She is an expert in Etruscan language and her husband Arthur is an archaeologist studying Etruscan tombs in Italy, but there is something more: in her nightmares she can see exactly the tomb where Arthur is working without having ever been there, and she foresees her husband's death. Shortly after, Arthur is killed with his head twisted!
SCOURGE: Lionsgate
An ancient evil has reawakened and is rapidly infecting the unassuming town of Harborford, Washington. Every six hours it feeds on a new victim before it has to find a new host. Everyone can see what it does, but no one knows what it is. To stop it, they'll have to find it first...
SUCCUBUS: THE DEMON: Redemption USA
A shocking horror movie, Succubus marks the first US release from Finnish film company Blood Ceremony. The story follows Henri, a widower so feverishly obsessed in searching for answers to his wife's death that he turns to the occult for clues, with diabolical consequences.
SWEENEY TODD/ CRIMES IN THE DARK HOUSE: Raunchy Tonk
- SWEENEY TODD: Mr. Slaughter proceeds to "polish off" his unwary customers who are then carved into tasty meat pies and sold on the streets of London.
- CRIMES OF THE DARK HOUSE: Mr. Slaughter hammers a spike into the skull of a nobleman, then assumes his identity and embarks on an orgy of lechery, sadism, murder and mayhem.
THE WHIP AND THE BODY/ CONSPIRACY OF TORTURE: Midnight Choir
- WHIP AND THE BODY: In this creepy gothic shocker from Mario Bava, a sadistic, ghostly Christopher Lee tortures the lovely Dahlia Lavi, his brother's wife and father's mistress.
- CONSPIRACY OF TORTURE: Set in 17th Century Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle and sexually abuses her as well.
WINDCROFT: Vanguard
After the death of his father, John and his new wife, Diane, arrive to claim the estate. But John’s father bequeathed to him more than just the family farm, and he is forced to face a heritage of madness and violence. As John’s past consumes his mind with increasing intensity, Diane finds friendship with his childhood sweetheart, Mindy. Soon old feelings are rekindled, family ties are tightened to a noose, and Mindy’s own secrets crack the very foundation of house and home.