Scream Factory is releasing a new Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of John Carpenter’s 1998 movie Vampires on September 24, 2019. New Time to Kill Some Vampires – an interview with composer/director John Carpenter, producer Sandy King Carpenter and cinematographer Garry B. Kibbe New Jack the Slayer – an interview with actor James Woods NewThe First Vampire – an interview with actor Thomas...
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John Carpenter’s Vampires – USA, 1998 – reviews and Blu-ray news
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A Bucket of Blood – USA, 1995 – reviews
‘Murder is his masterpiece’ A Bucket of Blood aka The Death Artist is a 1995 American comedy-horror feature film about a busboy that becomes a celebrated artist using models that he has secretly killed. Directed by Michael McDonald from a screenplay co-written with Brendan Broderick (House of the Damned), based upon the original screenplay of the 1959 movie of the same name by Charles...
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Not of This Earth – USA, 1995 – reviews
‘They’ve crossed the galaxy in search of our blood.’ Not of This Earth is a 1995 science fiction horror feature film directed by Terence H. Winkless (Nightmare City 2035; Ladykiller; The Nest) from a screenplay by Charles Philip Moore (Demon Wind; Twisted Nightmare), based on Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna’s script for the 1957 original. The movie stars Michael York...
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Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy – USA, 1998 – reviews
Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy aka Bram Stoker’s The Mummy is a 1998 American supernatural horror feature film about an ancient mummy that is awakened and takes revenge on everyone in an old mansion. Directed by Jeffrey Obrow (The Kindred; The Power; The Dorm That Dripped Blood) from a screenplay co-written with Lars Hauglie and John Penney, loosely based on Bram Stoker‘.
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Carnival of Souls – USA, 1998 – reviews
8216;Enter at your own risk!’ Carnival of Souls aka Wes Craven Presents Carnival of Souls is a 1998 American horror feature film and a very loose remake of Herk Harvey’s 1962 film of the same name. Co-directed by Adam Grossman (Sometimes They Come Back… Again) and Ian Kessner from a screenplay written by the former, the Trimark Pictures production stars Bobbie Phillips...
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Bride of Re-Animator – USA, 1990 – with must-see Dead Meat ‘Kill Count’ video
8216;Date. Mate. Re-animate.’ Bride of Re-Animator is a 1990 American science-fiction horror feature film produced and directed by Brian Yuzna (Society; Return of the Living Dead III; Necronomicon; The Dentist and sequel) from a screenplay co-written with Rick Fry and Woody Keith. The film is a sequel to Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985) and was belatedly followed by Beyond...
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Actor Sid Haig has died
Actor Sid Haig, best known for his role as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects and 3 from Hell, has passed away aged eighty, his wife Susan L. Oberg has revealed via Instagram. Sid Haig – born Sidney Eddy Mosesian, July 14th, 1939 to September 21st 2019 – was a California-born actor of American and Armenian heritage. His roles included acting in...
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Candyman: Day of the Dead – USA, 1999 – reviews
Candyman: Day of the Dead aka Candyman 3: Day of the Dead is a 1999 American horror feature film directed by Turi Meyer (Alien Express; SleepStalker) from a screenplay by co-producer Alfredo Septién [as Al Septien] (Leprechaun 2), based upon characters created by Clive Barker. The Aurora Productions movie stars Tony Todd, Donna D’Errico, Jsu Garcia, Wade Williams, Alexia Robinson and Lupe...
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The Damned – Black is the Night: The Definitive Anthology – album
Black is the Night: The Definitive Anthology is a thirty-nine track album by British punk-goth-psychedelic rock band The Damned, to be released on BMG in the UK on 1st November 2019. Herer’s the blurb: “Legendary band The Damned were the first UK punk band to release a single back in 1976. Along with the Sex Pistols and the Clash, they helped to spearhead the punk movement in the UK.
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Body Parts – USA, 1991 – reviews and with Blu-ray news
Body Parts will be released on Blu-ray by Scream Factory on January 28th 2020. Special features will be announced nearer the release date. Our previous coverage of the movie is below: ‘The transplant was a success. Then the donor came to take it back.’ Body Parts is a 1991 American horror thriller feature film directed by Eric Red (scripter of The Hitcher; Near Dark.
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Skinner – USA, 1993 – New Blu-ray review plus a slew of other review quotes/links
8216;He’ll get under your skin’ Skinner is a 1993 American slasher horror feature film directed by Ivan Nagy (The Hitchhiker TV series) from a screenplay by Paul Hart-Wilden (Wolf Town; Alone; Living Doll). The 5 Kidd Productions movie stars Ted Raimi, Ricki Lake, David Warshofsky and Traci Lords. Review: Best known for his comedic roles in his brother’s iconic Spider-Man...
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Universal Soldier – USA, 1992 – 4K Ultra HD release announced
8216;The future has a bad attitude’ Universal Soldier is a 1992 American science-fiction action feature film about two dead soldiers who are brought back to life twenty-five years later. Directed by Roland Emmerich (Godzilla; Independence Day and sequel; Ghost Chase) from a screenplay written by Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch and Dean Devlin, the movie stars Jean-Claude van Damme...
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Nightbreed (1990) New Arrow Video Limited Edition Blu-ray released in the UK!
In the UK, Arrow Video has just released two versions of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: the studio-approved theatrical cut and the reconstructed, reinvigorated director’s cut, for the ultimate nightmarish viewing experience. High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of the 120-minute director’s cut, transferred from the original camera negative, and the 102-minute theatrical cut...
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Jack-O – USA, 1995 – reviews
Jack-O is a 1995 released American horror feature film about a murdered farmer who has returned from the dead to avenge himself. Directed by Steve Latshaw (Return of the Killer Shrews; Death Mask; Biohazard: The Alien Force; Vampire Trailer Park) from a screenplay written by producer Patrick Moran (Cheerleader Massacre 2; Dire Wolf; Dark Universe), based on a story by executive producer Fred Olen...
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Pet Sematary II – USA, 1992 – Scream Factory Collector’s Edition Blu-ray news
Further to their announcement at ComicCon in February, Scream Factory has revealed that they will be releasing a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of Pet Sematary II (or Pet Sematary Two on the sleeve) on February 25th with new cover art by Laz Marquez (above – original artwork on the reverse, of course). Scream Factory has confirmed the following: National street date for North America...
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Skinner – USA, 1993 – reviews of new Blu-ray and interview with writer Paul Hart-Wilden
8216;He’ll get under your skin’ Skinner is a 1993 American slasher horror feature film directed by Ivan Nagy (The Hitchhiker TV series) from a screenplay by Paul Hart-Wilden (Wolf Town; Alone; Living Doll). The 5 Kidd Productions movie stars Ted Raimi, Ricki Lake, David Warshofsky and Traci Lords. Review: Best known for his comedic roles in his brother’s iconic Spider-Man...
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Marabunta aka Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! – USA, 1998 – reviews
Marabunta is a 1998 American horror feature film about flesh-eating South American ants attacking people in a small Alaskan town. It has also been released as Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! Directed by James Charleston and [uncredited] producer George Manasse (Blue Sunshine; Squirm) from a screenplay written by Linda Palmer and Wink Roberts, the Producers Entertainment Group movie stars Eric Lutes...
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Sid Haig – actor
Sid Haig – born Sidney Eddy Mosesian, July 14th, 1939 to September 21st 2019 – was a California-born actor of American and Armenian heritage. His roles included acting in Jack Hill’s blaxploitation films of the 1970s, films of varying budgets made by the likes of Roger Corman, George Lucas and Eddie Romero before finding a new audience specifically in the horror genre after his...
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Village of the Damned – USA, 1995 – reviews
Village of the Damned is a 1995 American science-fiction horror feature film about women in a small town giving birth en masse to strangely gifted children.
Directed by John Carpenter (Ghosts of Mars; They Live; The Thing; Halloween) from a screenplay written by David Himmelstein, Steven Siebert (uncredited) and Larry Sulkis (uncredited), based on John Wyndham‘s novel ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’ and the screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, Wolf Rilla and Ronald Kinnoch for the 1960 British Hammer Films production.
The Alphaville production stars Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Meredith Salenger and Mark Hamill.
Reviews [click links to read more]:
“I would still say Village of the Damned is lower end Carpenter, but lower end Carpenter is better than your average movie. It delivers more questions than answers and Kristie Alley is super boring, but there’s a fantastic score, some sincerely creepy moments and you get to see Mark Hamil baptize some kids, so it’s not all bad.” Bloody Disgusting
“Stranded in the midst of a gruesome decade which witnessed a massive erosion of the skills that had served him earlier in his career, director John Carpenter (who has admitted that this was a for-hire project) is unable to generate anything resembling suspense or even basic narrative fluidity…” Creative Loafing
“Carpenter doesn’t seem all that interested in making an effort to distinguish this remake from the original; it’s remarkably stodgy and literal in its “updating.” No interesting subtext underpins it and transforms the material, while the suspense is woefully inadequate (it’s remarkable how slow and tedious the movie plays…” DVD Drive-In
“Still, fans and students of Rilla’s spare 73-minute film, with its measured British tone and Twilight Zone quality […] likely will be bored with Carpenter’s remake. The trademark glowing eyes from the first film are now in color like shining marbles and seem rather silly.” San Francisco Gate
“If Carpenter is any way lucky, people will one day simply forget that he ever made this misbegotten turd of a third-rate television film. What? The Village of the Damned isn’t a TV movie of the week? Sh*t, then the film is even worse than what it seems to be: a low-budget rent-payer filmed primarily because the television rights to the newest Stephen King snoozer haven’t yet been ironed out.” A Wasted Life
“The main problem I have with this film is that it’s really uneventful until the third act. The finale is gripping and engrossing but the events leading up to it are fairly dull. The picture does feature a reasonable cast, most of whom were in their prime at the time of release. So, the fact that we’re spending time with people we don’t hate makes it slightly more bearable…” Wicked Horror
Cast and characters:
- Christopher Reeve … Doctor Alan Chaffee
- Kirstie Alley … Doctor Susan Verner
- Linda Kozlowski … Jill McGowan
- Michael Paré … Frank McGowan
- Meredith Salenger … Melanie Roberts
- Mark Hamill … Reverend George
- Pippa Pearthree … Sarah, George’s Wife
- Peter Jason … Ben Blum
- Constance Forslund … Callie Blum
- Karen Kahn … Barbara Chaffee
- Thomas Dekker … David McGowan
- Lindsey Haun … Mara Chaffee
- Cody Dorkin … Robert
- Trishalee Hardy … Julie
- Jessye Quarry … Dorothy
- Adam Robbins … Issac
- Chelsea DeRidder Simms … Matt
- Renee Rene Simms … Casey
- Danielle Keaton … Lily (as Danielle Wiener)
- Hillary Harvey … Mara, 1 Year
- Bradley Wilhelm … David, 1 Year
- Jennifer Wilheim Jennifer Wilheim … Mara / David, 4 Months
- George ‘Buck’ Flower … Carlton
- Squire Fridell … The Sheriff
- Darryl Jones … Highway Patrolman
- Ed Corbett … Older Deputy
- Ross Martineau … Younger Deputy
- Skip Richardson … Deputy
- Tony Haney … Doctor Bush
- Sharon Iwai … Eye Doctor
- Robert Lewis Bush Robert Lewis Bush … Mr Roberts
- Montgomery Hom … Technician
- Steven Chambers … Trooper #1
- Ron Kaell … Trooper #2
- Lane Nishikawa … Scientist
- Michael Halton … Harold, Gas Station Attendant
- Julie Eccles … Eileen Moore
- Lois Saunders … Doctor at Clinic
- Sidney Baldwin … Labor Room Physician
- Wendolyn Lee … Nurse #5
- Kathleen Turco-Lyon … Nurse #3
- Abigail Van Alyn … Nurse #1
- Roy Conrad … Oliver
- Dan Belzer … Sam, Young Husband
- Dena Martinez … Cindy, Young Wife
- Alice Barden … The Woman at Town Hall
- John Brebner … The Man at Town Hall
- Ralph Miller … Villager
- John Carpenter … The Man at Gas Station Phone (as Rip Haight)
Filming locations:
California and New Mexico
Technical credits:
- 98 minutes
- Audio: DTS-Stereo | DTS | Dolby SR | Dolby
- Aspect ratio: 2.39: 1
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Sleepwalkers – USA, 1992 – reviews
Sleepwalkers aka Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers is a 1992 American supernatural horror feature film directed by Mick Garris (Nightmare Cinema; Bag of Bones; Psycho IV; Critters 2; et al) from an original screenplay by Stephen King. The Columbia Pictures production stars Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick and Alice Krige.
Plot:
Charles Brady and his mother Mary are Sleepwalkers — nomadic, shapeshifting energy vampires who feed off the lifeforce of virgin women. Though they normally maintain a human form, they can transform (partially or fully) into human-sized bipedal werecats (presumably their natural form) at will. They are considerably more resilient than humans and have powers of both telekinesis and illusion.
Their one weakness is cats, who are not only able to see through their illusions but whose claws are capable of inflicting severe to fatal wounds upon them. They also maintain an unnatural mother and son relationship…
On November 6, 2018, Scream Factory released Sleepwalkers as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray:
Buy Blu-ray: Amazon.com
- New Audio Commentary with director Mick Garris and actors Mädchen Amick and Brian Krause
- New Feline Trouble – an Interview with director Mick Garris
- New When Charles Met Tanya – a conversation with actors Mädchen Amick and Brian Krause
- New Family Values – an Interview with actress Alice Krige
- New Feline Trouble: The FX of “Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers – interviews with special make-up effects creator Tony Gardner and prosthetics designer Mike Smithson
- Behind-The-Scenes Footage
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spots
- Still Gallery
- New cover artwork by Devon Whitehead
Reviews [click links to read more]:
“While it suffers from slow pacing and little character development, it’s further hindered by a weak script but I’ve always had a soft spot for it … it’s a film which tries its best to humanise its monsters and make us care for them, whether or not it’s successful in doing that depends on how much you like your horror combined with elements you find in a daytime soap…” Static Mass Emporium
‘The plot doesn’t make a lick of sense. Who’d a thought, a story involving a much-too-intimate mother and son, nomadic feline shape-shifters, a yard full of cats, and life-force sucking vampires (oh, the irony!) that look like giant hairless moles would turn out so terribly.” High-Def Digest
“If you don’t like a healthy dose of weird in your horror, then you’ll probably spend most of the time wondering what the hell you’re watching, and if you’re a cat lover, I would warn you that Sleepwalkers are not, and the movie proves that pretty explicitly. But, if you’re ready for a bit of an oddity, then I’d definitely say that you should give Sleepwalkers a visit (or a revisit).” Daily Dead
“Sleepwalkers starts out in fine form, as a serious, grim, involving horror film about the last two survivors of a species doing what they must to survive, Krige is incredibly sensual as the half-crazed mother […] “devolves into a campy disaster…” John Kenneth Muir, Horror Films FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Slashers, Vampires, Zombies, Aliens, and More
“Its highlights rival the creme de la creme of the cinematic cheese-and-corn buffet. Someone is stabbed in the eye with a corkscrew. Someone is stabbed through the ear with a pencil. Someone is stabbed in the back with a boiled ear of corn. And the script. My god, the script. The script is so achingly bad, so wondrously inept, that it sent me into transports of unadulterated joy.” Black Cat Reviews
“The biggest problem with the movie is its script, written by King himself, which leaves a lot of questions unanswered and eventually becomes more amusing than anything else. One of the biggest mistakes made by the script is that it just glosses over the whole mythology of the Sleepwalker race, which is an area that is just begging to be explored.” Horror Digital
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“King’s script meanders through pointless chitchat scenes. Unless something is blowing up or bleeding right in front of director Mick Garris’ camera, he doesn’t know how to photograph it. At one point, he tosses in close-ups of knees.” Mike Mayo, The Horror Show Guide, Visible Ink Press, 2013
Cast and characters:
- Brian Krause … Charles Brady
- Alice Krige … Mary Brady
- Mädchen Amick … Tanya Robertson
- Lyman Ward … Donald Robertson
- Cindy Pickett … Helen Robertson
- Ron Perlman … Captain Soames
- Jim Haynie … Sheriff Ira Stevens
- Dan Martin … Deputy Andy Simpson
- Lucy Boryer … Jeanette
- Glenn Shadix … Mr Fallows
- Sparks … Clovis
- Stephen King … Cemetery Caretaker
- John Landis … Lab Technician
- Joe Dante … Lab Assistant
- Clive Barker … Forensic Tech
- Tobe Hooper … Forensic Tech
- Frank Novak … Deputy Sheriff
- Rusty Schwimmer … Housewife
- O. Nicholas Brown … Officer Wilbur (as Nicholas Brown)
- Richard Penn … State Policeman
- Ernie Lively … Animal Control Officer
- Bojesse Christopher … Crawford
- Lucy Boryer … Jeanette
- Judette Warren … Carrie
- Stuart Charno … Police Photographer
- Mark Hamill … Lt. Jenkins (uncredited)
Filming locations:
Los Angeles, California
Technical details:
- 91 minutes
- Technicolor
- Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1
- Audio: Dolby
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