Hello, dear readers! November is officially upon us, as well as a new week of Blu-ray and DVD releases, which means it’s time to make some room for more horror and sci-fi to fill your home entertainment shelves. One of this writer’s favorite indie genre movies of the year, Come True, is getting released to both Blu and DVD this week courtesy of Scream Factory, and Kino Lorber is showing some love to a pair of classic thrillers as well: The Spider Woman Strikes Back and The Mad Doctor. Other releases for November 2nd include The Banishing, Pig featuring Nicolas Cage, and The Spore.
The Banishing
From acclaimed genre director Chris Smith (Creep) comes the true story of the most haunted house in England. A young reverend, his wife and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret. When a vengeful spirit haunts the little girl and...
The Banishing
From acclaimed genre director Chris Smith (Creep) comes the true story of the most haunted house in England. A young reverend, his wife and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret. When a vengeful spirit haunts the little girl and...
- 11/1/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
No, it’s not a the-day-after sequel to The Lost Weekend, but a class-act mystery-horror from 20th-Fox, at a time when the studio wasn’t keen on scare shows. John Brahm directs the ill-fated Laird Cregar as a mad musician . . . or, at least a musician driven mad by a perfidious femme fatale, Darryl Zanuck’s top glamour girl Linda Darnell.
Hangover Square
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1945 /B&W / 1:37 Academy / 77 min. / Street Date November 21, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Faye Marlowe, Glenn Langan, Alan Napier.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Film Editor: Harry Reynolds
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
Written by Barré Lyndon
Produced by Robert Bassler
Directed by John Brahm
Here’s a serious quality upgrade for horror fans. Although technically a period murder thriller, as a horror film John Brahm’s tense Hangover Square betters its precursor The Lodger in almost every department. We don...
Hangover Square
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1945 /B&W / 1:37 Academy / 77 min. / Street Date November 21, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Faye Marlowe, Glenn Langan, Alan Napier.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Film Editor: Harry Reynolds
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
Written by Barré Lyndon
Produced by Robert Bassler
Directed by John Brahm
Here’s a serious quality upgrade for horror fans. Although technically a period murder thriller, as a horror film John Brahm’s tense Hangover Square betters its precursor The Lodger in almost every department. We don...
- 11/28/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Chamber of Horrors
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
1940 / B&W / 1:33 / Street Date March 21, 2017
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Leslie Banks.
Cinematography: Alex Bryce, Ernest Palmer
Film Editor: Ted Richards
Written by Gilbert Gunn, Norman Lee
Produced by John Argyle
Directed by Norman Lee
Near the turn of the century a struggling war correspondent named Edgar Wallace began churning out detective stories for British monthlies like Detective Story Magazine to help make the rent. Creative to a fault, his preposterously prolific output (exacerbated by ongoing gambling debts) soon earned him a legion of fans along with a pointedly ambiguous sobriquet, “The Man Who Wrote Too Much.”
A reader new to Wallace’s work could be excused for thinking the busy writer was making it up as he went along… because that’s pretty much what he did. He dictated his narratives, unedited, into a dictaphone for transcription by his secretary where they would then...
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
1940 / B&W / 1:33 / Street Date March 21, 2017
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Leslie Banks.
Cinematography: Alex Bryce, Ernest Palmer
Film Editor: Ted Richards
Written by Gilbert Gunn, Norman Lee
Produced by John Argyle
Directed by Norman Lee
Near the turn of the century a struggling war correspondent named Edgar Wallace began churning out detective stories for British monthlies like Detective Story Magazine to help make the rent. Creative to a fault, his preposterously prolific output (exacerbated by ongoing gambling debts) soon earned him a legion of fans along with a pointedly ambiguous sobriquet, “The Man Who Wrote Too Much.”
A reader new to Wallace’s work could be excused for thinking the busy writer was making it up as he went along… because that’s pretty much what he did. He dictated his narratives, unedited, into a dictaphone for transcription by his secretary where they would then...
- 4/17/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
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In 1932’s Chandu The Magician, Edmund Lowe plays the titular wizard. What famous boogie man plays his adversary?
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- 1/23/2017
- by TFH
- Trailers from Hell
Fox’s first official monster movie is a terrific-looking but mostly flat mystery that tries its utmost not to be a horror film at all. It’s a head scratcher that will interest fans of the expressive John Brahm, and help completists scratch another werewolf film off their gotta-see lists.
The Undying Monster
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1942 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 62 min. / Street Date December 13, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher, Heather Thatcher, Aubrey Mather, Halliwell Hobbes, Alec Craig, Holmes Herbert, Eily Malyon, Charles McGraw.
Cinematography Lucien Ballard
<Film Editor Harry Reynolds
Original Music Emil Newman, David Raksin
Written byLillie Hayward, Michel Jacoby from a novel by Jessie Douglas Kerrruish
Produced by Bryan Foy
Directed by John Brahm
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
After the heyday of Universal horror in the first half of the 1930s, horror pictures went on the decline for over twenty years.
The Undying Monster
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1942 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 62 min. / Street Date December 13, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher, Heather Thatcher, Aubrey Mather, Halliwell Hobbes, Alec Craig, Holmes Herbert, Eily Malyon, Charles McGraw.
Cinematography Lucien Ballard
<Film Editor Harry Reynolds
Original Music Emil Newman, David Raksin
Written byLillie Hayward, Michel Jacoby from a novel by Jessie Douglas Kerrruish
Produced by Bryan Foy
Directed by John Brahm
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
After the heyday of Universal horror in the first half of the 1930s, horror pictures went on the decline for over twenty years.
- 11/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
After last week being rather quiet on the home entertainment front, November 22nd is looking to make up for some lost time with a ton of great genre Blu-ray and DVD titles coming our way on Tuesday. This week, Scream Factory is showing some love to another David Cronenberg classic, Rabid, and Arrow Video is resurrecting the cult film C.H.U.D. in HD for their brand new Special Edition Blu-ray.
Lionsgate is putting out a pair of Vestron Video Collector’s Series titles—Return of the Living Dead 3 and C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud—that horror fans will undoubtedly want to add to their home media collections. And for all you William Friedkin fans out there, Shout Select has put together a stellar Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of To Live and Die in L.A. that is absolutely worth owning.
Other notable releases for November 22nd include Intruder,...
Lionsgate is putting out a pair of Vestron Video Collector’s Series titles—Return of the Living Dead 3 and C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud—that horror fans will undoubtedly want to add to their home media collections. And for all you William Friedkin fans out there, Shout Select has put together a stellar Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of To Live and Die in L.A. that is absolutely worth owning.
Other notable releases for November 22nd include Intruder,...
- 11/22/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
In this episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the weeks of, July 5th and July 12th 2016.
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News Arrow Academy: October Titles Arrow Video: October Titles Scream Factory: Carrie, Child’s Play Olive Films: Olive Signature Kino Lorber: Hangover Square, The Undying Monster Warner Archive: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Man in the Wilderness (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19331) Mill Creek: Miami Vice & Knight Rider, + Hammer Double Features Hammer Horror – 8 Film Collection Flicker Alley: New Cinerama Titles Links to Amazon
7/5
Absolution The Adderall Diaries Blood and Black Lace Boy & the World The In-Laws Only Yesterday Suture Swinging Cheerleaders Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7/12
Belladonna Of Sadness Carnival of Souls Everybody Wants Some Van Gogh Green Room Invisible Invaders Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang Lego...
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News Arrow Academy: October Titles Arrow Video: October Titles Scream Factory: Carrie, Child’s Play Olive Films: Olive Signature Kino Lorber: Hangover Square, The Undying Monster Warner Archive: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Man in the Wilderness (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19331) Mill Creek: Miami Vice & Knight Rider, + Hammer Double Features Hammer Horror – 8 Film Collection Flicker Alley: New Cinerama Titles Links to Amazon
7/5
Absolution The Adderall Diaries Blood and Black Lace Boy & the World The In-Laws Only Yesterday Suture Swinging Cheerleaders Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7/12
Belladonna Of Sadness Carnival of Souls Everybody Wants Some Van Gogh Green Room Invisible Invaders Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang Lego...
- 7/13/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The icon-establishing performances Marilyn Monroe gave in Howard Hawks’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) are ones for the ages, touchstone works that endure because of the undeniable comic energy and desperation that sparked them from within even as the ravenous public became ever more enraptured by the surface of Monroe’s seductive image of beauty and glamour. Several generations now probably know her only from these films, or perhaps 1955’s The Seven-Year Itch, a more famous probably for the skirt-swirling pose it generated than anything in the movie itself, one of director Wilder’s sourest pictures, or her final completed film, The Misfits (1961), directed by John Huston, written by Arthur Miller and costarring Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift.
But in Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) she delivers a powerful dramatic performance as Nell, a psychologically devastated, delusional, perhaps psychotic young woman apparently on...
But in Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) she delivers a powerful dramatic performance as Nell, a psychologically devastated, delusional, perhaps psychotic young woman apparently on...
- 4/11/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
We previously told you about Phil Nichols' upcoming stage production of Frankenstein at the Country Playhouse in Houston, Texas, and now we've gotten word that he also has a Frankenstein film project in the pipeline with the working title The Sick and Twisted Tale of Frankenstein.
Phil was kind enough to send over some preliminary artwork for The Sick and Twisted Tale of Frankenstein: The Undying Monster along with pictures of the finished sculpture of the facial prosthetic for both the stage and film projects. When we inquired whether showing off the sculpt might be a bit of a spoiler, Phil replied, "The look of the Creature really isn’t the surprise in the feature—the Bride will be!"
The Sick and Twisted Tale of Frankenstein is the first movie Nichols and his sister, Melissa, are doing through Facades FX Films. They are currently in the script and early pre-production phase.
Phil was kind enough to send over some preliminary artwork for The Sick and Twisted Tale of Frankenstein: The Undying Monster along with pictures of the finished sculpture of the facial prosthetic for both the stage and film projects. When we inquired whether showing off the sculpt might be a bit of a spoiler, Phil replied, "The look of the Creature really isn’t the surprise in the feature—the Bride will be!"
The Sick and Twisted Tale of Frankenstein is the first movie Nichols and his sister, Melissa, are doing through Facades FX Films. They are currently in the script and early pre-production phase.
- 4/24/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The week ends. Come laugh along with what you missed!
Trailers
On Monday, July 4, John Landis celebrated his independence by letting us know Heaven Can Wait.
On Wednesday, July 6, Mick Garris regaled us with The Palm Beach Story.
And on Friday, July 8, Allan Arkush brought along an all-time favorite with His Girl Friday.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the site, we rounded up the latest and greatest in the ongoing coverage of our monumental new DVD.
We brought along The Undying Monster in another edition of Stills We Love.
In other recurring features, Randy Fuller continued recommending wine, this time with a Notorious side.
We told you of the Tfh-fueled storm that’s coming to Cinefamily and brought word of the Don’t Knock The Rock festival’s return.
Joe got very informational when he started to tackle the misinformation that’s out there regarding the transfer of The Little Shop of Horrors...
Trailers
On Monday, July 4, John Landis celebrated his independence by letting us know Heaven Can Wait.
On Wednesday, July 6, Mick Garris regaled us with The Palm Beach Story.
And on Friday, July 8, Allan Arkush brought along an all-time favorite with His Girl Friday.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the site, we rounded up the latest and greatest in the ongoing coverage of our monumental new DVD.
We brought along The Undying Monster in another edition of Stills We Love.
In other recurring features, Randy Fuller continued recommending wine, this time with a Notorious side.
We told you of the Tfh-fueled storm that’s coming to Cinefamily and brought word of the Don’t Knock The Rock festival’s return.
Joe got very informational when he started to tackle the misinformation that’s out there regarding the transfer of The Little Shop of Horrors...
- 7/10/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
We loves stills. And The Undying Monster.
You can’t go wrong with a werewolf picture, even when it’s one that’s a shameless knock-off of the Universal classic, recasting The Wolf Man as The Undying Monster in a classic pose your monster-loving pop subconsciousness is going to find awfully familiar.
Look:
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John Howard (maybe) strikes a classic pose on a foggy set. Indeed, Lucien Ballard’s atmospheric photography and John Brahm’s fluid direction do a lot to hide the B-picture origins of 20th Century Fox’s attempt to imitate The Wolf Man. I saw this on tv during the 50s long before the Universal pictures hit the tube and thought it was pretty cool. There’s a curse on the Hammond family, who live in a big manor house on the moors and are being knocked off by..something fuzzy.
Brahm, in...
You can’t go wrong with a werewolf picture, even when it’s one that’s a shameless knock-off of the Universal classic, recasting The Wolf Man as The Undying Monster in a classic pose your monster-loving pop subconsciousness is going to find awfully familiar.
Look:
Click for the massive version.
John Howard (maybe) strikes a classic pose on a foggy set. Indeed, Lucien Ballard’s atmospheric photography and John Brahm’s fluid direction do a lot to hide the B-picture origins of 20th Century Fox’s attempt to imitate The Wolf Man. I saw this on tv during the 50s long before the Universal pictures hit the tube and thought it was pretty cool. There’s a curse on the Hammond family, who live in a big manor house on the moors and are being knocked off by..something fuzzy.
Brahm, in...
- 7/5/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
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