Feature Category: Competition

To celebrate the release of DOGMAN starring Caleb Landry Jones – out March 11th on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital – and we have a pair of Blu-rays up for grabs! To be in with a chance, just read on and enter below…

The latest film from Luc Besson – the visionary filmmaker The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita and the Transporter series – DOGMAN won the Graffetta d’Oro for Best Film at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. It’s extraordinary, intense and heartfelt – everything you’d expect from the unique and uncompromising mind of Besson.

Caleb Landry Jones (Cannes winner for Best Actor for Nitram) stars as Doug, a troubled man who finds salvation through his canine friends. The cast also includes Jojo T Gibbs (Fresh), Christopher Denham (Billions), Clemens Schick (Das Boot), and Marisa Berenson (Barry Lyndon).

Featuring an emotive score by Besson’s longtime collaborator Éric Serra (Léon), and exquisitely filmed by Colin Wandersman (Pandemonium), DOGMAN features production design by César award winner Hugues Tissandier (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec).

Think Taxi Driver meets Lassie, DOGMAN, inspired by a shocking real-life story, is a wonderfully styled excursion into the wild world of dog-loving Doug, packed with deliriously exciting set pieces, brutal moments of violence and, of course, an irresistible cast of loveable mutts.

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The gross-out horror/comedy Eating Miss Campbell is available to buy on Blu-ray, and we have one copy and a T-shirt to give away to one lucky reader! Just read on and enter below…

The film, which has wowed festival audiences, focuses on a Goth, vegan student at Henenlotter High who gets involved with her English teacher and finds herself developing a taste for human flesh. This biting satire on the problems facing the school system in the US and other issues, this relishes every opportunity to offend and push boundaries. Naturally, we loved it.

Written and directed by Liam Regan (My Bloody Banjo), the movie wears its Troma influences on its sleeve and is as wild and wonderfully disgusting as anything Uncle Lloyd Kaufman has released.

The film stars a host of genre favourites, including Lyndsey Craine (How to Kill Monsters), Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence), Vito Trigo (My Bloody Banjo), and Lloyd Kaufman himself.

The limited edition release (only 2,500 available, all signed and numbered by the director) is packed with bonus features, including a documentary, commentary, outtakes, B-roll, raw behind-the-scenes footage and much more. The first pressing includes a slipcover by Tricia Zimic (Surf Nazis Must Die! – her first cover for a Troma movie in 30 years!), and sleeve art by Mila K.

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It’s only available directly from the filmmaker from March 4th via refusefilms.com

V/H/S/85 arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital on March 4th, courtesy of Acorn Media International, and one lucky reader can win a copy of the Blu-ray. Just read on and enter below…

Dust off your leg warmers and rewind to the year 1985 for five uniquely twisted tales directed by David Bruckner (V/H/S), Scott Derrickson (The Black Phone), Gigi Saul Guerrero (El Gigante), Natasha Kermani (Lucky), and Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn). Giving nostalgia a bloodstained makeover, this series delves deep into the dark and dangerous underbelly of the decade.

In David Bruckner’s Total Copy starring Jordan Belfi (Nefarious) and Kelli Garner (The Aviator) – the wraparound story that holds the anthology together – a narrator presents a made-for-TV documentary following a group of scientists studying an unusual slime-covered entity named Rory. What is he, and more importantly, what can he do?

In Mike P. Nelson’s No Wake, seven friends head out on the road for a fun camping trip. Ignoring signs that they should avoid the water, a group of them decide to take a boat out on the lake, but it’s not long before their leisurely boat ride turns into a nightmare as they discover the water harbours unexpected and ominous secrets…

In Gigi Saul Guerrero’s God of Death, a Mexican news report is interrupted by a catastrophic earthquake, leaving only the cameraman alive. When a rescue team discovers him, they soon realise that escaping the wreckage is the least of their worries…

In Natasha Kermani’s TKNOGD, we meet a performance artist convinced that the world has replaced God with the “God of Technology.” In her quest to awaken this deity using virtual reality, a lethal creature from the unknown unexpectedly confronts her.

In Mike P. Nelson’s Ambrosia, a family hosting a party for their teenage daughter, Ruth, discovers they’re celebrating something far more sinister than a birthday. With the police closing in, it’s not long before the night turns into an all-guns-blazing bloodbath.

In the final segment Scott Derrickson’s Dreamkill, starring Freddy Rodríguez (Planet Terror), Dani Deetté (The Winter Soldier) and James Ransone (It: Chapter 2), a series of a series of brutal taped crimes lead the police to a mind-shattering conclusion.

Get ready to rewind your reality and fast-forward into frights with V/H/S 85, a gory, gruesome collection of sinister stories just calling to be devoured by horror hounds.

Special features include Uncut Super 8 Footage of Dreamkill • Uninterrupted Cuts • Film Commentary.

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V/H/S/85 is released on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital on March 4th.

We’ve teamed up with Severin Films to give one lucky ready a chance to win a copy of Bad Biology on 4K UHD Blu-ray. Just read on and enter below…

After a 17-year break in filmmaking, splatter maestro Frank Henenlotter – writer/director of Frankenhooker, Brain Damage, and The Basket Case Trilogy – returned with the most graphic, transgressive and jaw-droppingly depraved black comedy shocker of his career… Bad Biology.

Now this wickedly warped feature gets a re-birth from Severin Films in a Special Edition Box set, which includes the film in its newly restored version, scanned in 4K from the camera negative.

This dual 4K UHD and Blu-ray release comes complete with a slew of brand-new special features and gets its UK bow on February 26th, 2024, and will also be released on standard edition Blu-ray.

Jennifer, played by singer Charlee Danielson, is a homicidal nymphomaniac who spontaneously births mutant babies, while in another part of town Batz (Anthony Sneed – Chasing Banksy), has a monstrous penis, with a mind of its own, to contend with. In a city ruled by pleasure and pain, will the two made-for-each-other freaks deliver the ultimate orgasmic horror?

Eleonore Hendricks (Daddy Longlegs), radio host Rude Jude and director James Glickenhaus (The Exterminator) co-star in ‘one very entertaining seriously batshit film’, produced and co-written by underground hip-hop hero R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn, with insane special effects by Gabe Bartalos (Skinned Deep).

Frank Henenlotter’s ball-busting freak fest should-be seen to be believed!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Disc 1: 4K UHD

• Commentary With Director Frank Henenlotter, director of photography Nick Deeg and actor Anthony Sneed
• Archival commentary with Frank Henenlotter and producer R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn

Disc 2: Blu-ray

• Commentary with Frank Henenlotter, Nick Deeg and Anthony Sneed
• Archival commentary with Frank Henenlotter and producer R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn
• Spook House – Interviews with Frank Henenlotter and R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn, production coordinator Michael Shershenovich, Nick Deeg, retired detective David Henenlotter and production manager Chaz Kangas
• In The Basement With Charlee Danielson – A brief, completely off-kilter interview with the elusive Miss Charlee Danielson and a Basketball
• Deeg and Sneed – A Conversation between Nick Deeg and Anthony Sneed
• Swollen Agenda – Interview with make-up effects artist Gabe Bartalos
• Beyond Bad – Behind the Scenes of Bad Biology
• F*ck Face – Photographer Clay Patrick McBride runs around the director’s apartment filming guys making their ‘O Face’
• SUCK – A wonderfully twisted short film by Anthony Sneed
• Legendary Loser – Music Video by R.A. The Rugged Man
• Thorburn Image Gallery – publicity pics, behind-the-scenes shots, video covers and death pic

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Bad Biology is released on 4K UHD Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray on February 26th. You can pre-order your copy here.

We’ve teamed up with Severin Films to give away a copy of the notorious ‘video nasty’ Nightmares in a Damaged Brain on 4K Blu-ray. Just read on and answer the question below to enter…

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain remains one of the most reviled, controversial and misunderstood genre films of the 1980s. Now ‘the most repulsive, degrading and horrifying movie ever made’ (NY Daily News), can be experienced like never before, as Severin Films presents a brand new Special Edition, which comprises of two-discs, including a never-before-seen restored version and more than five-hours of brand new special features. This must-have box set will be available from February 26th 2024, alongside a standard edition Blu-ray.

Baird Stafford (Dog Tags) gives an enduringly disturbing performance as a seriously disturbed, homicidal patient who escapes from a psychiatric hospital, during an experimental drug programme. What follows is a mind-blowing trail of psychosexual carnage, which takes the maniac from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the shores of Florida, causing unimaginable slaughter and chaos his wake.

Written and directed by Romano Scavolini, this devastating masterpiece can now be experienced like never before, following its painstaking restoration process which involved scanning from the internegative and multiple foreign print sources to create the ultimate version.

The set includes an in-depth feature – Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant – that explores the salacious career of the mysterious British filmmaker and distributor, who was the only supplier to be sent to prison for releasing a what was dubbed a video nasty, following the UK release of the film; this joins a slew of fascinating extras, see full list below.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Disc 1: 4K UHD

• Audio Commentary with star Baird Stafford and special effects assistant Cleve Hall moderated by Lee Christian and David DeCoteau
• Audio Commentary with producer William Paul
• Trailers

Disc 2: Blu-ray

• Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant
• Audio commentary with Baird Stafford and Cleve Hall moderated by Lee Christian and David DeCoteau
• Audio commentary with producer William Paul
• Kill Thy Father and Thy Mother – Interview with director Romano Scavolini (71 mins)
• Dreaming Up A Nightmare – Featuring former president of 21st century distribution Arthur Schweitzer, actor/unit production manager Mik Cribben, Production Supervisor Simon Nuchtern, Florida producer/special effects artist William Milling, uncredited editor Jim Markovic and archival interviews with actor Baird Stafford and special effects artists Edward French and Cleve Hall
• The Nightmare Of Nightmare – interview with erroneously credited special effects director Tom Savini
• Legendary Loser – Music Video by R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn
• Deleted scenes
• Image Gallery – publicity pics, behind-the-scenes shots, video covers and death pics
• Trailers

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Nightmares in a Damaged Brain is released on February 26th. You can pre-order it here.

Seminal horror franchise V/H/S takes us back to the nineties with its fourth wicked instalment, V/H/S/94, which will have you taped to the telly. This acclaimed Shudder Original (we called it the best V/H/S yet) promises more hair-raising, old-school entertainment and gruesome good fun with this new collection of bone-chilling tales of found footage terror. V/H/S/94 arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital on February 26th, 2024, courtesy of Acorn Media International, and we have a copy to give away to one lucky reader. Just read on and enter below…

The year is 1994 and when a mysterious VHS tape is found, a ruthless police SWAT team raid a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy… all will be revealed in the creepy compendium of horrors that follow.

The twisted tales are written and directed by an impressive line-up of horror talent, including Simon Barrett (You’re Next) and Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes For Us) and newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows, and Chloe Okuno.

In Chloe Okuno’s Storm Drain, a reporter (Anna Hopkins, The Expanse) and her cameraman enter a drain to capture footage of a legendary creature known as The Rat Man, who has reportedly been spotted in the city’s sewers. Once down there, they soon get way more than they bargained for…

In Simon Barrett’s The Empty Wake, a young woman named Hailey is assigned to host the evening wake for a man named Andrew Edwards, but there’s a strange request: that Andrew’s casket be filmed for the whole night. What exactly is Hailey in for?

In Timo Tjahjanto’s The Subject, a deranged but skilled scientist, Dr James Suhendra, wants to create a successful mechanical-human hybrid and has started kidnapping humans to use as guinea pigs. Can they escape before falling victim to his violent experiments?

Finally, in Ryan Prows’ Terror starring Christian Lloyd (The Handmaid’s Tale), a white supremacist extremist group known as the First Patriots Movement Militia is plotting to blow up a government building and take back America… but at what cost?

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V/H/S/94 is released on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital on February 26th, 2024. You can read our review here and pre-order now.

We’ve teamed up with Second Sight Films to give one lucky reader a chance to win the new limited edition Blu-ray box set of the cult French horror film Inside. Just read on and enter below…

Following a car accident that leaves her husband dead, expectant mother Sarah (Alysson Paradis – The Childhood of Icarus) is left to prepare for her impending birth alone while grieving her terrible loss. But when a stranger (Béatrice Dalle – Betty Blue) turns up at her house on Christmas Eve, things take a terrifying, unimaginably twisted turn… as the deranged intruder will stop at nothing to take her unborn baby.

The Inside Limited Edition box set is presented in a stunning rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal and includes a 70-page book with new essays. The special features include: new audio commentaries by Anna Bogutskaya and Elena Lazic, brand-new interviews with the writer/directors Maury and Bustillo, and many more. Please see the full listing below. A Standard Edition Blu-ray will be available on the same date that includes the special features.

Special Features

• New audio commentary by Anna Bogutskaya
• New audio commentary by Elena Lazic
• First Born: a new interview with co-writer/directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury
• Labour Pains: a new interview with actor Alysson Paradis

 
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Inside is available on limited edition Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray from February 5th. You can order your copy here.

Studiocanal release a pair of cult classics this week, Devil Girl from Mars and Horrors of the Black Museum and we have a bundle featuring both films on Blu-ray to give away for one lucky reader. Just read on and enter below…

Devil Girl from Mars

A new restoration of the 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film Devil Girl from Mars, directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds and Adrienne Corri.

One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world! .

A famously economical film, Devil Girl from Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio time when another project finished ahead of schedule.

With a cast including the magnificent Patricia Laffan (Quo Vadis) as Nyah, and genre favourites Adrienne Corri (Vampire Circus), and fifties scream queen Hazel Court (The Masque of the Red Death), the film was shot by Jack E Cox (who filmed Hitchock’s The Lady Vanishes and Blackmail), with a score by prolific composer Edwin Astley, the man behind the catchy theme tunes to TV series The Saint and Danger Man.

Featuring the striking female Martian costume designed by Ronald Cobb, and a giant robot running amok, Devil Girl from Mars is a bona fide cult classic that STARBURST says “is as iconic as they come”.

Devil Girl from Mars is available to buy on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital from January 15th.

INCLUDED WITH DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS:

– BRAND NEW Interview with novelist and critic Kim Newman

– BRAND NEW Audio Commentary with Kim Newman and writer & journalist Barry Forshaw

– Stills gallery

The Blu-ray edition comes with an exclusive set of four collector’s art cards.

Horrors of the Black Museum

A new restoration of the 1959 horror film on Blu-ray and DVD, and making its UK digital debut, Horrors of the Black Museum, starring Michael Gough and directed by Arthur Crabtree (Fiend Without a Face), marked the first film in the ‘Sadian Trilogy’, followed by Circus of Horrors and Michael Powell’s infamous Peeping Tom – introducing cinema audiences to a more shocking and salacious brand of onscreen horror.

A series of grisly, macabre murders sweep London and leave Scotland Yard completely baffled. Bancroft, an evil crime journalist, is hypnotising his assistant to commit murders using items curated in his own personal ‘Black Museum’ – inspired by the infamous real-life collection of weapons and torture instruments used by criminals. Using these murders to fuel his own crime stories, Bancroft delights in the Yard’s embarrassment.

Experience fear beyond belief in this gruesome British horror treat that features a splendid lead performance from the estimable Michael Gough (star of horror gems including Trog, Horror Hospital, and The Skull), with a cast that also includes Shirley Anne Field (The Damned, Peeping Tom) and June Cunningham (The Small World of Sammy Lee).

Originally shown in the new filmmaking format ‘Hypno-Vista’ (‘It actually puts YOU in the picture – can you stand it?’), Horrors of the Black Museum was a box office hit, and can count Martin Scorsese among its fans – the director got the film inducted to the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Horrors of the Black Museum is available to buy on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital from January 15th.

INCLUDED WITH HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM:

BRAND NEW Interview with novelist and critic Kim Newman

BRAND NEW Audio Commentary with Kim Newman and writer/editor Steve Jones

Hypno-Vista Introduction

Original Trailer

B&W Lobby Cards Gallery

The Blu-ray edition comes with an exclusive set of four collector’s art cards.

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You can buy Devil Girl from Mars and Horrors of the Black Museum here.

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season One hits Blu-ray and DVD on January 8th, and we have a copy of the Blu-ray to give away to one lucky reader! Just read on and enter below…

Prepare to be bewitched by Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season One – a rich tale of power, destiny and the enduring legacy of a family with extraordinary mystical abilities, which comes to Blu-ray and DVD on January 8th, 2024, following its transmission on BBC Two – which begins tonight. Each episode will also be available to purchase on digital 24 hours after transmission, courtesy of Acorn Media International.

This enchanting new series showcases a stand-out cast including Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus), Tongayi Chirisa (American Horror Story), Harry Hamlin (Mad Men), Beth Grant (Donnie Darko) and Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) and breathes fresh life into Rice’s acclaimed novels, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, which includes Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.

Rowan Fielding (Daddario) is a passionate and intuitive young neurosurgeon whose life is about to change forever. Compelled by the loss of her adoptive mother to question where she came from constantly, Rowan is full of questions and as strange, inexplicable things start to happen around her – her search for the truth only intensifies.

Learning that she has supernatural abilities is only the beginning and as Rowan discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of powerful witches, she must grapple with the truth about who she really is and contend with a dark force that has haunted her family for generations.

Travelling to New Orleans to claim her legacy, Rowan soon learns that her newfound powers could have very dangerous consequences. Torn between life as she knew it and her seductive new powers, Rowan must distinguish good from evil and decide which side she’s on.

The spellbinding, gorgeously gothic series is exec-produced by Mark Johnson (El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie), Michelle Ashford (Operation Mincemeat) and Esta Spalding (Masters Of Sex) and marks the thrilling second instalment in AMC’s Immortal Universe franchise.

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Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season One is released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 8th, 2024.