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Blu-ray Review: Versus (2000)

Two escaped prisoners make their way through the woods, and soon meet up with a gang of over-the-top Yakuza and the woman they have kidnapped. Unbeknownst to them, the forest is home to the 444th portal to hell (the Portal of Resurrection to be precise), but the learn soon enough as a slight misunderstanding leads to some bodies hittin’ the floor… but they sure as shit don’t stay there! Prisoner KSC2-303 (Tak Sakaguchi) and The Girl (Chieko Misaka) escape the initial zombie fracas and flee deeper into those wicked woods but soon that verdant landscape is lousy with the walking dead, and escape may be impossible for our heroes and their gangster pursuers (not mention their occult-minded boss and the assassins he employs)! I’m not going to lie to you cats n’ creeps, Versus is a straight up mother fucking masterpiece! Ryûhei Kitamura (along with co-writer Yudai Yamaguchi) created the “all killer, no filler” (a real miracle considering this film

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DanXIII
Jan 10, 2021
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Horror Comedy ‘Happy Times’ Coming To Blu-ray

Artsploitation Films will be releasing the decidedly raucous horror-comedy Happy Times this February. In the film, an Israeli American couple invites friends and family over to their Hollywood mansion for a Shabbat dinner party. But a deadly mix of alcohol, inflated egos, inappropriate lust, and raging jealousy turns the sedate affair into a cauldron of murderous mayhem. Filmed with a mix of English and Hebrew, this Jews Behaving Badly story stars Israeli actor Michael Aloni (Out in the Dark, Netflix’s Shtisel), Shani Atias (Ten Days in the Valley, “Shameless”), Guy Adler (The Angel, Big Bad Wolves) and Israeli TV star Liraz Chamami (“Manayek”, “Unchained”, “Asylum City”, “Malkot”). Directed by Michael Mayer (Out in the Dark), the film is an Israeli American co-production. Happy Times is set for a home release on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming on February 9, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 9, 2021
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‘Sky Sharks’ Is Finally Landing On Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital!

After first being announced back in 2016, Sky Sharks is finally getting a Digital, DVD, and Blu-ray release via Dark Sky Films. Set “75 years after World War II, an arctic research team discovers the Himmelsfaust, a colossal Nazi Warship thought to be long lost. Within they find Third Reich’s base for a weapon like no other: Sky Sharks. Jet-propelled, artillery-equipped, aeronautical, and manned by an army of undead elite Nazi soldiers, these flying beasts were created to prevent the downfall of the Third Reich. But now they seek revenge and claim their final victory – taking down the whole world with them in the process if they can…” Directed by Marc Fehse and co-written by A.D. Morel, Sky Sharks stars Tony Todd (Candyman), Naomi Grossman (“American Horror Story”), Robert LaSardo (Death Race), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (The Man with the Iron Fists 2), Amanda Bearse (Fright Night), Lar Park-Lincoln (Friday the 13th VII), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Travis Love (“The Walking

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 9, 2021
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Watch The Universal Monster Collection For Free On YouTube

Odds are, you’ve probably seen all of the classic Universe Monster movies, but if you haven’t or want to rewatch them now’s your chance. Universal is releasing the collection on YouTube this month and you can watch them FOR FREE! Beginning Friday, January 15th, the movies will be heading to the Fear: The Home of Horror YouTube channel, with each film being available to watch for one week, NME reports. January 15, 2021 (8pm GMT) Dracula (1931) The Mummy (1932) January 16, 2021 (8pm GMT) Frankenstein (1931) Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) January 17, 2021 (8pm GMT) The Wolf Man (1941) The Invisible Man (1933) Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) We are hoping to hear an announcement soon that the remaining films of the collection will be released in the following months.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2021
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‘The Woman In The Window’ Sets Its Sights On A Netflix Release

20th Century Studios was set to release director Joe Wright‘s (Hanna, Darkest Hour) new suspense thriller The Woman in the Window back in May but like a horde of other movies, it got delayed. Now, a new release date has been announced but the movie but it will no longer be heading to theaters, instead, it’s coming to Netflix sometime in the first half of this year, EW reports. Entertainment Weekly quotes Wright as saying: I’m very interested to see how people respond to the film and I can’t wait for its release,” Wright told Entertainment Weekly. “What I hope people will take away from this is a sense that our own fears can incarcerate us. And this is a story about a woman who manages to overcome her own fears, and leave them behind her.” In the film, listed as a psychological suspense thriller, an agoraphobic child psychologist befriends a neighbor across the street, only to see her own

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2021
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Indie Horror ‘Capture Kill Release’ Now Out On Digital And VOD

, Directors Nick McAnulty and Brian Allan Stewart‘s intense indie horror Capture Kill Release is now out on VOD and On Demand on Amazon, iTunes, Google, and on Tubi and more, from Midnight Releasing Starring Jennifer Fraser, Farhang Ghajar, Jonathan Gates, Rich Piatkowski, and Christina Schimmel, the film centers on a couple plotting to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it, but things turn ugly when one of them decides not to go through with it. Written by Nick McAnulty, Jennifer Fraser, and Farhang Ghajar, Capture Kill Release is produced by Nick McAnulty, Brian Allan Stewart, Ainslee Kennedy, and Graham Rogers. Executive producers include Nick McAnulty, Brian Allan Stewart, Ainslee Kennedy, and Graham Rogers. Mitchell Stacey provided special effects and makeup for the film.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2021
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New Details And More Surface For ‘The Forever Purge’

Details surrounding The Forever Purge, the last film of the franchise, have begun to emerge including the new release date and details about its plot. THR reports that according to its sources, the movie “takes the Purge out of its usual metropolitan setting while still dealing with class and race issues in the way the previous films have.” The Forever Purge‘s first image debuted earlier today over at Total Film. They also report that the movie will take place after the events of Election Year and will center on Adela (Ana de la Reguera) and Juan (Tenoch Huerta), who finds solace at a Texan ranch, having fled a drug cartel in Mexico. But things “go awry when a group of outsiders decides to keep purging beyond the allotted time when people can break any and all laws.” The Forever Purge stars “True Detective’s” Leven Rambin, as well as Will Patton, Cassidy Freeman, Ana de la Reguera, and Tenoch Huerta. The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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‘Annihilation’ Director Back With New Film ‘Men’

Alex Garland has made quite the name for himself in the horror genre with films like 28 Days Later, Ex Machina, the sci-fi horror Annihilation, and Hulu’s series “Devs.” Now he’s back with a new film which he not only wrote but will also direct. Titled Men, the movie is from A24, the same distributor that released Ex Machina in 2014, Deadline reports. Word is, Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) and Rory Kinnear (“Penny Dreadful”) are currently in talks to star. All we know about the plot so far is that the film centers on a young woman who goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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James Wan’s ‘Malignant’ Scores A Hard “R” Rating

Horror heavy hitter James Wan‘s new horror film Malignant was supposed to hit theaters back in August but found itself another victim of the pandemic like many other films, but it’s on its way and has just scored an “R” rating for “Strong horror violence, gruesome images, and for language.” The plot details for Malignant are still being kept quiet. Wan does have a comic that is titled Malignant Man, but there has been no word if the two are connected. We do however know that the movie is part of the Giallo sub-genre, which usually features scenes of excessive violence and blurs the lines between art and exploitation cinema. Maddie Hasson, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Abel, Ingrid Bisu, George Young, Michole Briana White, and Jacqueline McKenzie star. Wan is directing and producing under his Atomic Monster banner. Akela Cooper and JT Petty penned the script based on a story by Wan and Ingrid Bisu. In Wan’s Malignant Man comic, “granted

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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Michael Myers Is Ready For More In New ‘Halloween Kills’ Image

We’ve got a treat for fans of David Gordon Green‘s Halloween, a brand new image from the sequel Halloween Kills, which Green has promised will have “twice the thrills and ten times the kills” of 2018’s Halloween. In the image shared by Total Film, Michael Myers looks like has sustained a bit of damage during his battle with Laurie in the 2018 movie, but that won’t stop him from dropping more bodies while hunting her down. Gordon Green recently Total Film, who shared the image in their latest issue, “It’s one thing to be afraid of the Bogey Man, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house. But what we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia. What happens when fear goes viral? You can’t just stick your head under the covers anymore.” Green continued, “When we made the last one we wanted to find a way for someone who’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021

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Blu-ray Review: Versus (2000)

Two escaped prisoners make their way through the woods, and soon meet up with a gang of over-the-top Yakuza and the woman they have kidnapped. Unbeknownst to them, the forest is home to the 444th portal to hell (the Portal of Resurrection to be precise), but the learn soon enough as a slight misunderstanding leads to some bodies hittin’ the floor… but they sure as shit don’t stay there! Prisoner KSC2-303 (Tak Sakaguchi) and The Girl (Chieko Misaka) escape the initial zombie fracas and flee deeper into those wicked woods but soon that verdant landscape is lousy with the walking dead, and escape may be impossible for our heroes and their gangster pursuers (not mention their occult-minded boss and the assassins he employs)! I’m not going to lie to you cats n’ creeps, Versus is a straight up mother fucking masterpiece! Ryûhei Kitamura (along with co-writer Yudai Yamaguchi) created the “all killer, no filler” (a real miracle considering this film

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 10, 2021
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Horror Comedy ‘Happy Times’ Coming To Blu-ray

Artsploitation Films will be releasing the decidedly raucous horror-comedy Happy Times this February. In the film, an Israeli American couple invites friends and family over to their Hollywood mansion for a Shabbat dinner party. But a deadly mix of alcohol, inflated egos, inappropriate lust, and raging jealousy turns the sedate affair into a cauldron of murderous mayhem. Filmed with a mix of English and Hebrew, this Jews Behaving Badly story stars Israeli actor Michael Aloni (Out in the Dark, Netflix’s Shtisel), Shani Atias (Ten Days in the Valley, “Shameless”), Guy Adler (The Angel, Big Bad Wolves) and Israeli TV star Liraz Chamami (“Manayek”, “Unchained”, “Asylum City”, “Malkot”). Directed by Michael Mayer (Out in the Dark), the film is an Israeli American co-production. Happy Times is set for a home release on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming on February 9, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 9, 2021
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‘Sky Sharks’ Is Finally Landing On Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital!

After first being announced back in 2016, Sky Sharks is finally getting a Digital, DVD, and Blu-ray release via Dark Sky Films. Set “75 years after World War II, an arctic research team discovers the Himmelsfaust, a colossal Nazi Warship thought to be long lost. Within they find Third Reich’s base for a weapon like no other: Sky Sharks. Jet-propelled, artillery-equipped, aeronautical, and manned by an army of undead elite Nazi soldiers, these flying beasts were created to prevent the downfall of the Third Reich. But now they seek revenge and claim their final victory – taking down the whole world with them in the process if they can…” Directed by Marc Fehse and co-written by A.D. Morel, Sky Sharks stars Tony Todd (Candyman), Naomi Grossman (“American Horror Story”), Robert LaSardo (Death Race), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (The Man with the Iron Fists 2), Amanda Bearse (Fright Night), Lar Park-Lincoln (Friday the 13th VII), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Travis Love (“The Walking

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 9, 2021
Horror Fuel

Watch The Universal Monster Collection For Free On YouTube

Odds are, you’ve probably seen all of the classic Universe Monster movies, but if you haven’t or want to rewatch them now’s your chance. Universal is releasing the collection on YouTube this month and you can watch them FOR FREE! Beginning Friday, January 15th, the movies will be heading to the Fear: The Home of Horror YouTube channel, with each film being available to watch for one week, NME reports. January 15, 2021 (8pm GMT) Dracula (1931) The Mummy (1932) January 16, 2021 (8pm GMT) Frankenstein (1931) Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) January 17, 2021 (8pm GMT) The Wolf Man (1941) The Invisible Man (1933) Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) We are hoping to hear an announcement soon that the remaining films of the collection will be released in the following months.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2021
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‘The Woman In The Window’ Sets Its Sights On A Netflix Release

20th Century Studios was set to release director Joe Wright‘s (Hanna, Darkest Hour) new suspense thriller The Woman in the Window back in May but like a horde of other movies, it got delayed. Now, a new release date has been announced but the movie but it will no longer be heading to theaters, instead, it’s coming to Netflix sometime in the first half of this year, EW reports. Entertainment Weekly quotes Wright as saying: I’m very interested to see how people respond to the film and I can’t wait for its release,” Wright told Entertainment Weekly. “What I hope people will take away from this is a sense that our own fears can incarcerate us. And this is a story about a woman who manages to overcome her own fears, and leave them behind her.” In the film, listed as a psychological suspense thriller, an agoraphobic child psychologist befriends a neighbor across the street, only to see her own

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2021
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Indie Horror ‘Capture Kill Release’ Now Out On Digital And VOD

, Directors Nick McAnulty and Brian Allan Stewart‘s intense indie horror Capture Kill Release is now out on VOD and On Demand on Amazon, iTunes, Google, and on Tubi and more, from Midnight Releasing Starring Jennifer Fraser, Farhang Ghajar, Jonathan Gates, Rich Piatkowski, and Christina Schimmel, the film centers on a couple plotting to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it, but things turn ugly when one of them decides not to go through with it. Written by Nick McAnulty, Jennifer Fraser, and Farhang Ghajar, Capture Kill Release is produced by Nick McAnulty, Brian Allan Stewart, Ainslee Kennedy, and Graham Rogers. Executive producers include Nick McAnulty, Brian Allan Stewart, Ainslee Kennedy, and Graham Rogers. Mitchell Stacey provided special effects and makeup for the film.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2021
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New Details And More Surface For ‘The Forever Purge’

Details surrounding The Forever Purge, the last film of the franchise, have begun to emerge including the new release date and details about its plot. THR reports that according to its sources, the movie “takes the Purge out of its usual metropolitan setting while still dealing with class and race issues in the way the previous films have.” The Forever Purge‘s first image debuted earlier today over at Total Film. They also report that the movie will take place after the events of Election Year and will center on Adela (Ana de la Reguera) and Juan (Tenoch Huerta), who finds solace at a Texan ranch, having fled a drug cartel in Mexico. But things “go awry when a group of outsiders decides to keep purging beyond the allotted time when people can break any and all laws.” The Forever Purge stars “True Detective’s” Leven Rambin, as well as Will Patton, Cassidy Freeman, Ana de la Reguera, and Tenoch Huerta. The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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‘Annihilation’ Director Back With New Film ‘Men’

Alex Garland has made quite the name for himself in the horror genre with films like 28 Days Later, Ex Machina, the sci-fi horror Annihilation, and Hulu’s series “Devs.” Now he’s back with a new film which he not only wrote but will also direct. Titled Men, the movie is from A24, the same distributor that released Ex Machina in 2014, Deadline reports. Word is, Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) and Rory Kinnear (“Penny Dreadful”) are currently in talks to star. All we know about the plot so far is that the film centers on a young woman who goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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James Wan’s ‘Malignant’ Scores A Hard “R” Rating

Horror heavy hitter James Wan‘s new horror film Malignant was supposed to hit theaters back in August but found itself another victim of the pandemic like many other films, but it’s on its way and has just scored an “R” rating for “Strong horror violence, gruesome images, and for language.” The plot details for Malignant are still being kept quiet. Wan does have a comic that is titled Malignant Man, but there has been no word if the two are connected. We do however know that the movie is part of the Giallo sub-genre, which usually features scenes of excessive violence and blurs the lines between art and exploitation cinema. Maddie Hasson, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Abel, Ingrid Bisu, George Young, Michole Briana White, and Jacqueline McKenzie star. Wan is directing and producing under his Atomic Monster banner. Akela Cooper and JT Petty penned the script based on a story by Wan and Ingrid Bisu. In Wan’s Malignant Man comic, “granted

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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Michael Myers Is Ready For More In New ‘Halloween Kills’ Image

We’ve got a treat for fans of David Gordon Green‘s Halloween, a brand new image from the sequel Halloween Kills, which Green has promised will have “twice the thrills and ten times the kills” of 2018’s Halloween. In the image shared by Total Film, Michael Myers looks like has sustained a bit of damage during his battle with Laurie in the 2018 movie, but that won’t stop him from dropping more bodies while hunting her down. Gordon Green recently Total Film, who shared the image in their latest issue, “It’s one thing to be afraid of the Bogey Man, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house. But what we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia. What happens when fear goes viral? You can’t just stick your head under the covers anymore.” Green continued, “When we made the last one we wanted to find a way for someone who’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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