NEW YEARS EVIL (FEB 24TH)
Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has announced the complete list of supplemental features to be included on its upcoming Blu-ray release of Emmett Alston’s New Year’s Evil (1980).
A Different Kind Of New Year’s Resolution.
Diane “Blaze” Sullivan, the host of a nationally televised punk-rock show on New Year’s Eve, is receiving calls from a mysterious killer who tells her of his plans to off someone at midnight in each of America’s major time zones… and she will be the last.
Starring Roz Kelly (who played Pinky Tuscadero on Happy Days), Kip Niven (Magnum Force), Grant Cramer (Killer Klowns From Outer Space), Louisa Moritz (Death Race 2000), Taaffe O’Connell (Galaxy Of Terror) and Teri Copley (We Got It Made), New Year’s Evil injects an “intimate and refreshing viewpoint into what was once a tired old scenario” (Andre Dumas, The Horror Digest)…and then takes you on a non-stop thrill ride of unmitigated terror!
Special Features:
- Brand new HD transfer of the film
- Audio commentary with Director Emmett Alston
- The Making of New Year’s Evil documentary featuring new interviews with actors Kip Niven, Grant Cramer, Taaffe O’Connell and Director of photography Thomas Ackerman
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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STARRY EYES (FEB 3RD)
MPI and Dark Sky Films will release Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch’s Starry Eyes on Blu-ray early next year. The horror film stars Alex Essoe, Noah Segan, Pat Healy and Amanda Fuller.
Synopsis: Determined to make it as an actress in Hollywood, Sarah Walker (Essoe) spends her days working a dead-end job, enduring petty friendships with other struggling artists and competing actors, and going on countless casting calls in hopes of catching her big break. After a series of strange auditions, Sarah lands the leading role in a film from a mysterious production company. But this opportunity comes with some bizarre conditions that will transform her both mentally and physically into something beautiful… and altogether terrifying.
Entertainment Weekly’s Clark Collis called Starry Eyes “a skillful combination of occult thriller and Cronenbergian gruesome-fest. Essoe gives a star-making performance.” “One of the best horror films of the year. … Brilliant and brutal,” said Meredith Borders of Badass Digest. “Terrifying,” said Time’s Michael Roffman. “If David Lynch and David Cronenberg came together to craft a gory, psychological mindbender, it might be Starry Eyes.”
Special features include:
- Commentary with writer-directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer and producer Travis Stevens
- 10 deleted scenes
- Music video by the film’s composer, Jonathan Snipes
- Alex Essoe’s audition video
- Behind-the-scenes photo gallery
- Theatrical trailer
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THE GHOUL (LATER IN 2015)
British distributors Network Releasing have revealed that they are planning to add to their Blu-ray catalog director T. Hayes Hunter’s film The Ghoul (1933), starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Ralph Richardson, and Dorothy Hyson. The release is expected to arrive on the market later this year.
Synopsis: In an eerie, fog-shrouded London, an ancient curse has been unleashed…and a reign of terror is about to begin! Horror movie legend Boris Karloff is unforgettable in this “blood-curdling” (Motion Picture Herald) thriller that brings to life the classic tale of the mummy!
On his deathbed, famed Egyptologist Professor Morlant (Karloff) instructs his assistant to bury him with an ancient jewel he believes will grant him eternal life. But soon after he’s entombed, the sacred treasure is ripped from his hand by a mysterious grave robber. Now, filled with fury, Morlant rises from his crypt as a grotesquely decaying mummy determined to avenge the theft…and destroy everything in his path!
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ZOMBIE KILLERS: ELEPHANT’S GRAVEYARD (FEB 3RD/MAY 5TH)
Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray edition of B. Harrison Smith’s Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard, starring Billy Zane, Dee Wallace, Mischa Barton, Felissa Rose and Brian Anthony Wilson. The zombie thriller is being released as a Best Buy exclusive on February 3rd, and via other retailers on May 5th.
Synopsis: The rural town of Elwood has always been a “bubble” against the backdrop of an organism-based epidemic where infected humans don’t die, instead they roam to spread the infection in a grisly, horrific way. Those who escape must survive—by any means necessary. But at what price? In the film, the “Zombie Killers” are a small band of young adults, trained by military vet Seiler (Zane), who have sworn to protect the town and aim for the head if anything threatens Elwood’s last survivors.
Bonus features include:
- Bloodbath and Beyond
- The Look of Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard
- Behind the Scenes
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FEAR CLINIC (FEB 10TH)
Anchor Bay Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Robert Hall’s horror film Fear Clinic (2014), starring Robert Englund, Kevin Gage, Thomas Dekker, Fiona Dourif, Brandon Beemer, Bonnie Morgan, and Stone Sour and Slipknot lead vocalist Corey Taylor in his acting debut. The release will be available for purchase on February 10, 2015.
There are no special features listed on the current press release.
Co-written by Hall and Aaron Drane, the film is based on the critically acclaimed and fan favorite 2009 FEARnet.com series. When trauma-induced phobias begin to re-emerge in five survivors a year after their horrifying tragedy, they return to the “Fear Clinic,” hoping to find the answers they need to get cured.
Dr. Andover (Englund), a fear doctor who runs the clinic, uses his “Fear Chamber” to animate their fears in the form of terrifying hallucinations. However, the good doctor soon begins to suspect that something more sinister may be at work, something that yearns to be more than just an hallucination…
