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Blu-ray Review: Satan’s Slave (1982)

So the basics of Satan’s Slave are as follows: Mawarti (Diana Suarkom) kicks the bucket leaving behind her son Tomi (Fachrul Rozy), her daughter Rita (Siska Widowati), and her asthmatic servant Mr. Karto (I.M. Damsyik)… as well as her business obsessed hubby Munarto (W.D. Mochtar). That’s all fine and dandy, if a touch sad, but what really kicks things off is that Tomi keeps seeing mommy dearest walkin’ around in ghost form, which leads to a visit to the local fortune teller who explains he needs to get some black magic in his life fuckin’ pronto if he wants to survive the supernatural shenanigans to come. As if on cue the new housekeeper, Darminah (Ruth Pelupessy), arrives on the scene and man-o-man is she ever one shady character. Before long folks start dyin’, the dead rise and walk the earth, and our heroes are going to need every arcane art and holy text offered to them to survive the outre

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DanXIII
Jun 20, 2020
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Portland Horror Film Festival Announces Its Terrific Virtual Edition Lineup

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a new trend of film festivals going virtual this year. Portland Horror Film Festival, the Pacific Northwest’s premiere horror genre film festival, is the latest fest to announce that it is offering a virtual version, and as a selection and awards judge on the fest’s film jury, I can tell Horror Fuel readers first-hand that the quality of fright fare selected for this outing is high, indeed. Best of all, you can partake of the terror from anywhere in the United States! Horror fans can dig into a selection of more than 60 short and feature films during the 6-night event, beginning June 10th with the first shorts block and a preview of the festival’s upcoming features. The terror continues June 17–21 with more shorts and feature films from around the world. Following is the official press release from Portland Horror Film Festival: In the midst of this pandemic, some businesses are finally starting

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Joseph Perry
Jun 4, 2020
'Black Phone' And 'The Wretched' Filmmakers Team Up For 'Room 429'

Indie Horror ‘The Wretched’ On The Brink Of Breaking ‘Black Panther’s’ Record At Box Offices

IFC’s witchy indie horror The Wretched (review) is nearing a record fifth week at the top of box offices, a record that hasn’t been made since Black Panther premiered. From Brett Pierce and Drew Pierce, the writing-directing team behind the zombie cult hit Deadheads, comes a new tale of terror, The Wretched. John-Paul Howard (Hell or High Water) stars as Ben, a rebellious teen who has been sent to stay with his father (Jamison Jones) for the summer. One night he notices a creature lurking outside his home and follows it to his neighbor’s house. As he begins to watch the house he notices something strange. An evil force, a witch, is at work and it is erasing the memory of the children it encounters. Jamison Jones, Zarah Mahler, Kevin Bigley, and Blane Crockarell also star. While most studios have delayed and rescheduled releases, IFC Midnight is continuing to release movies as scheduled, with Drive-Ins leading the way for indie

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 3, 2020
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Chattanooga Film Festival Features Vampires, a Sacrifice-Seeking Mask, and Other Horror Galore in Its 2020 Virtual Edition

The Chattanooga Film Festival, known and loved by horror and genre film fans for its eclectic cinematic fare and incredible special events, has announced a breathtaking lineup for its virtual edition, headed to a computer near you next week! The May 22–25 event is a doozy, with film offerings such as the world premiere of the Brazilian shocker Skull, science fiction/horror outing The Beach House, and vintage 1970 nugget Hollywood Horror House, to name but a few. Some of the special events include Joe Dante receiving the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Joe Bob Briggs hosting a talk with filmmaker/producer Mick Garris on the making of Stephen King’s pandemic classic The Stand. Following is the full press release from Chattanooga Film Festival, which is well worth poring through! The Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF), along with its presenting sponsor Gunpowder & Sky’s ALTER and media partner Bloody-Disgusting.com, are thrilled to announce their innovative lineup of features, panels and live events set

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Joseph Perry
May 14, 2020
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Shudder’s Hit Series “Creepshow” Arriving On Blu-ray and DVD This June

Shudder’s original series “Creepshow” continues to smash ratings on the streaming genre service. Soon you can get your copy of season one on Blu-ray and DVD, from RLJE Films. The six-episode first season of the horror-comedy from showrunner Greg Nicotero (“The Walking Dead”) stars Tobin Bell (Saw franchise), Adrienne Barbeau (Escape From New York), Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”), Cailey Fleming (“The Walking Dead”), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator), Scott ‘Kid Cudi’ Mescudi (Bill & Ted Face the Music), DJ Qualls (“The Man in the High Castle”), Bruce Davison (X-Men), David Arquette (Scream franchise), Dana Gould (“Stan Against Evil”), and Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”). “Creepshow” Season 1, based on George A. Romero’s 1982 horror-comedy classic, is still the most fun you’ll ever have being scared! A comic book comes to life in a series of twelve vignettes over six episodes, exploring terrors from murder to the supernatural and unexplainable. Haunted dollhouses, werewolves, murderous goblins, villainous trick-or-treaters, the dead, and medical marvels are just

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 12, 2020
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Movie Review: ‘The Wretched’ Makes Witches Scary Again

From Brett Pierce and Drew Pierce, the writing-directing team behind the zombie cult hit Deadheads, comes a new tale of terror, The Wretched. John-Paul Howard (Hell or High Water) stars as Ben, a rebellious teen who has been sent to stay with his father (Jamison Jones) for the summer. One night he notices a creature lurking outside his home and follows it to his neighbor’s house. As he begins to watch the house he notices something strange. An evil force, a witch, is at work and it is erasing the memory of the children it encounters. We get a few witch movies every year, but most often they lack that special “Jene sais quoi.” That’s not the case with The Wretched. The movie makes witches scary again. In fact, she’s downright terrifying. And damn, she looks great! Special effects company Bitemares Inc. did an absolutely incredible job. The whole film features amazing effects. And we see things we’ve never seen

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 1, 2020
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Movie Review: Vivarium

You would think that a brand new subdivision would be an ideal place to start a future, but that is not the case in Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium. When a young couple, played by Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, enters a real estate office they get more than they bargained for after finding themselves trapped in a neighborhood. Unable to leave until they raise a mysterious child, the couple finds them fighting for their lives and their sanity. Vivarium is unlike any movie I’ve ever seen. The way Finnegan and co-writer Garret Shanley manipulate your emotions is both subtle and clever, leaving you with an undeniable uneasy feeling in your gut as the story plays out. Imogen Poots is the heart of Vivarium. I was so impressed by her performance. She captured her character Gemma’s every emotion so well and made the movie feel real. You really could almost feel her pain. Poots has fantastic range. Eisenberg’s crotchety character Tom was

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 27, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: When the Wind Blows (1986)

Although When the Wind Blows opens with a rousing ditty by none other than David Bowie himself, you can forget any tight-trouser magic dancin’ from this lil’ nuclear number… Geezers James (John Mills) and Hilda spend their old days doin’ old people shit in their cozy abode in the British countryside. What kind of old people shit you may ask? Why reading the newspaper, listening to the radio… hey, speaking of this mass media, James decides he should pick up some pamphlets regarding how to save one’s ass when the nukes come raining down as the international outlook is looking rather cloudy… mushroom cloudy, as that aforementioned media let’s us know! After reading those loony leaflets, James goes about following all of the patently ridiculous plans detailed within and ends up fuckin’ up their house but good. Long story short, the bombs fall, the advice was right shit, and our heroes realize surviving may have been quite the elephant sized

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DanXIII
Apr 24, 2020
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Some More 70’s Cheese You Can Watch On YouTube Right Now!

What can you do while stuck at home? Well, you can clean, you can get your taxes in order, or you can just sit and watch some free movies I found on YouTube that will entertain or give you something to laugh at! This time we have self-aware machinery, creepy trophy wives, curses, bad flights, experiments gone wrong, art to die for, serial killers, and bigfoot! Bring on the cheese! Don’t Look in the Basement (1973) Also known as The Forgotten, the film takes place at a sanatorium where the head doctor lets the insane patients run freely and act out their fantasies, what could go wrong? The Thing with Two Heads (1972) A bigoted man (Ray Milland) has his head put onto the body of a black man (Rosey Grier), both go on a journey to try to go back to get their own bodies again. The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973) This made for TV movie joins the

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Capt McNeely
Apr 9, 2020
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Cheesy 70’s Goodness You Can Watch On YouTube Right Now!

This time I’m doing something a little different when it comes to showing you free movies I found on YouTube. I was contacted by a reader asking me if I come across more films from the ’70s, well lucky for them (and you) that I was able to find some gems and will definitely try to find more as I’ll admit, these are pretty entertaining! The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) Two scientists (Steve Brodie and Barbra Hale) investigate a strange source of power in rural Wisconsin that’s slowly being overrun by spiders. The House That Dripped Blood (1971) This horror anthology film stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott, and Jon Pertwee. The film follows an investigation of an incident at a rented country house in which the real-estate agent reflects on other incidents at the house. Trilogy of Terror (1975) The film that spawned the famed Zuni Fetish Doll character that you may have seen but

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Capt McNeely
Apr 7, 2020
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