Tuesday, August 21 releases-
Basic How-to Halloween Makeups: Tempe
Tempe DVD presents 20 unique, easy-to-apply makeups, all created from materials found around the home and in local costume shops. Professional Hollywood makeup artists introduce you to some of their secrets, explained in easy to understand, step-by-step detail! Don't settle for the same old boring Halloween masks -- impress your friends and be the life of any costume party! Makeups include: Zombie, Pumpkin-Head, Lizard, Witch, Cat, Exorcism Victim, Vampire, Alien, Burn Victim, Frankenstein s Monster, Mummy, Creature, Old Man, Phantom, Gargoyle, Robot, Swamp Creature, Evil Clown, Dracula and Ghastly Ghoul.
Scare your parents. Astonish your friends, become the next Tom Savini just in time for Halloween. This should be a pretty fun disc.
Borderline Cult: Lionsgate
After three ruthless serial killers team up in the Mexican border town of Juarez, hundreds of women are abducted, tortured and murdered.
Ulli Lomell is back. I know it seems like only weeks have passed by since his last film. But I promise you he’s getting better. This one has an actual location (outside of a room, a bar or as in his last flick…a vacant warehouse). The man is branching out. Let’s embrace that for a moment!
Dexter:
The First Season: Showtime
During the day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial employee in the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's crime lab, but his meticulously crafted life masks his true nature. In reality Dexter is a disciplined and murderous psychopath, and he slakes his blood lust at night by carefully killing the serial killers he tracks down during the day.
This is hands down the best serial that Showtime has ever put together, and that comes from a monster fan of Dead Like Me.
Exorcism: Deimos/BCI Eclipse
Enraged by his wife's infidelity, a dead man's spirit returns as a vengeful demon which takes possessed his daughter after she becomes involved in witchcraft. The girl turns into a drooling, obscenity-spewing, homicidal maniac, prompting a call to be placed to a expert in demonology who could possibly purge the demon from her body.
…more Paul Naschy eurotrash from the gang at BCI. You know you love it!
Frankenstein vs. The Creature From Blood Cove: Tempe
Near an isolated beach on the California coast, in a laboratory of horror three renegade scientists have resurrected Frankenstein's long-dead monster. . . the legendary, indestructible corpse has come back to life yet again! At the same time, they've biogenetically engineered a half-man, half-fish abomination, intending to use both brutes as weapons in the worldwide fight against terrorism. However, disaster strikes when the chemical brainwashing used to control the terrifying beasts fails - instead of stopping terror, these invincible fiends spread terror!
Director William Winkler’s homage to Atomic Films of the 50’s melded with the Universal Classics of the 30’s is absolutely brilliant. But don’t take my word for…actually…do.
Malicious: Lionsgate
An anonymous encounter with a dangerously beautiful stranger turns a college athlete's comfortable world around in this seductive thriller. After an uninhibited encounter with mysterious Melissa (Molly Ringwald, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES), Doug (Patrick McGaw) returns to his loving girlfriend Laura (Sarah Lassez), but Melissa has other plans. Believing she loves Doug, despite his rejection, she ingeniously chips away at his idyllic life, stopping at nothing, not even murder, to get her revenge. But when Melissa focuses her deadly sights on Laura, Doug must take matters into his own hands and end her obsession once and for all.
Night of the Sorcerers: Deimos/BCI Eclipse
NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS provides classic 1970s horror with its terrifying tale of a clan of voodoo zombies, deep in the jungles of the Congo, who attack a team of scientists and use their young women for chilling rituals. After the zombies claim the women, they turn them into crazed vampiric creatures, who again rise in a gory cycle of destruction to look themselves for other young women to transform.
If you love Spanish director Amando de Ossorio (TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD), then you’ll want to check this one out. If you don’t…you won’t.
The Rising Dead: York
War breaks out worldwide. In desperation world leaders engage Biological weapons, which quickly mutate and cause the dead to rise. The epidemic spreads faster that any one could imagine. The only safe place for the few remaining humans to survive is a nuclear fallout shelter, but getting there is the problem. A Special Forces agent is assigned to escort America s leaders to the location, but the plane crashes a few miles short of their destination. Caught in a tropical setting, those that survive are pitted against hordes of flesh eating zombies. A battle ensues, but when the end is near will humanity prevail, or will mankind fall to the rising dead?
Rob Zombie 3-Disc Collectors Set (
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS): Lionsgate
Includes HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS (Unrated version) and Bonus disc including "30 Days in Hell - The Making of THE DEVIL'S REJECTS."
All the same stuff that you already own is getting a reissue just in time for the August 31st release of Zombie’s Halloween.
Toho Triple Feature Pack (
MATANGO, THE MYSTERIANS, VARAN): Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters
THE MYSTERIANS: After a Japanese town is totally destroyed the military arrive to investigate. They encounter a giant robot that is decimating everything in its path. VARAN: During an excursion to research an unusual butterfly in the mountains of northeastern Japan two explorers are mysteriously killed. The natives of the island blame the deaths on their God “VARAN” who becomes enraged at the sight of humans. MATANGO: After a yacht is damaged in a storm and stranded on a deserted island the passengers; a psychologist his girlfriend a wealthy businessman, a famous singer, a writer, a sailor and his skipper take refuge in a fungus-covered boat.
Welcome to the Grindhouse -
DRAGON PRINCESS / KARATE WARRIOR: BCI
This Sonny Chiba double feature includes DRAGON PRINCESS: When Yumi was a child she witnessed her father Kazuma ambushed by a Nikaido, and his thugs, who wants control of the karate world. He spares his life on the condition that he leaves Tokyo. Blinded in one eye, Kazuma flees to New York City with Yumi and trains her himself so she can one day return to Japan and get revenge. KARATE WARRIOR: Sonny Chiba arrives in a town where 2 gangs are at war with each other. Sonny pits the 2 gangs against each other in an all-out battle of flying fists and kicks.
It’s all the Sonny Chiba anyone can handle on one disc—actually two discs if you count the set below…
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SISTER STREETFIGHTER / THE BODYGUARD: BCI
This Sonny Chiba double feature includes THE BODYGUARD: This stylish revenge thriller explodes when Chiba launches a one-man war against the Mafia in a non-stop action thrill ride. SISTER STREETFIGHTER: Koruy Lee (Tina Long in the dubbed version) is the sister of a missing undercover cop who was trying to bring down a brutal drug lord. Pressed into service by the police, Koryu travels to Hong Kong to find her brother.