A Slew Of Clips From Next Tuesday’s WITCHBOARD & NIGHT OF THE DEMONS Releases From Scream Factory!
January 30th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Next Tuesday, Scream Factory hits one out of the park with its releases of Kevin Tenney’s 80s horror classics Witchboard and Night Of The Demons. I’ve already reviewed Witchboard (HERE) and you’ll be able to read my Night Of The Demons review very soon. To tide you over until then and until next Tuesday, Scream Factory has provided me with some clips from these two gems. These all come from the bonus material found on these glorious releases. Also, its not too late to pre-order these titles, and I’ve provided links to do so after all the fun clips and pics. So, don’t delay, act now! Haha Continue reading ‘A Slew Of Clips From Next Tuesday’s WITCHBOARD & NIGHT OF THE DEMONS Releases From Scream Factory!’
Universal Studios is finally releasing two classics from their extensive vault in April. Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity and Orson Welles’ Touch Of Evil will both make their long overdue debuts on Blu-ray on April 15. Its kind of a bummer it takes classics like these so long to make the jump to the format, but they don’t seem to be much of the priority anymore and the more years tick by the further they tick from being of relevancy to general customers. But, when stuff like this finally does roll around, it’s very exciting for us collectors and film history appreciators. Both films will come in special edition type versions with multiple commentaries, features and two cuts of the film for Touch Of Evil. Below are the studio supplies the proper specs of the titles and you can pre-order now by clicking the Amazon link! 
I have some thrilling news for you all in regards to Anchor Bay’s upcoming Blu-ray and DVD release of the Starz Original mini-series The White Queen, which will be released on a three-disc Blu-ray with Digital HD Ultraviolet and DVD set on February 4th. I don’t know about you, but I’m usually a sucker for these Starz shows! Based on Philippa Gregory’s series of best-selling novels, The White Queen is a vivid re-telling of the classic War of the Roses family feud (York vs. Lancaster) from the viewpoint of the women involved. The set contains all 10 gorgeous episodes of the drama, plus a bountiful supply of bonus features. Check out the series’ synopsis and trailer below as well as find out how you can win one of two Blu-ray sets we have to give away! 
Coming at you next month, from Phase 4 Films and XLrator Media is JAMESY BOY. This true story features notable acting vets James Woods, Mary Louise-Parker and Ving Rhames. It also sports the little Farmiga (Taissa) and a Black Eyed Pea (because everybody loves them). This seems to be the tale of a street thug who does some time and turns his life around inside the big house. I suppose what interested me in this is that I’ve always been a fan of James Woods and I’m also a big fan of Mary Louise-Parker. One can only hope this is a nice touching drama that is at least a solid story that is able to separate itself from many films that follow this common storyline and theme. There is no pre-order yet available for this title, but I’m sure one will appear very soon. It comes out the 25th of next month. Keep on reading for box art, the plot synopsis, cast list, a trailer and some other spec details regarding this release from Phase 4 Films and XLrator Media! 
You know you want to sing along, right? Well that’s good because all I heard were yeahs! So here’s the deal. More than 2000 theaters nationwide are staged to showcase the all-new sing-along version of Disney’s Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning big-screen adventure Frozen, which I regretfully have not seen as of yet, beginning Jan. 31, 2014. But if you can’t wait another minute, check out the video below for a sneak peek of the fun. On-screen lyrics and a magical bouncing snowflake will accompany select showings; moviegoers can check local listings for showtimes and theaters. And in the meantime, place your pre-orders 
Let’s face it, besides the Aliens box set years ago and the Universal Monsters one, in my opinion this may be one the greatest Blu-ray packages ever assembled, even though it’s repackage (although with a new transfer on the first film) of an earlier set. One may expect me to say that of the Star Wars Saga set put out a few years ago, but let’s admit the facts. There’s only one stinker in the Rocky franchise where there’s three in the Star Wars universe, right? Well, to be fair, they didn’t suck. But they weren’t that great either! Haha. So all in all, the story of Rocky and the films that follow in the franchise mean so much to me personally that I don’t think words can ever accurately describe my love and affinity for them. So I’ll let the press release below do the rest of the talking for this February 11th Blu-ray release! 
When you bill something as a Sundance Horror Sensation or one of the best horror movies of the year, people tend to take notice. At least I do! So that’s why when my favorite PR person over at Anchor Bay sent me this email today I know I had to not only get news of this Blu-ray release up on the website as soon as possible, but also that of the film’s domestic trailer and theatrical poster (same as Blu-ray cover art). You see, before In Fear‘s March 11th release on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD, the movie will also get treated to exclusive U.S. theatrical engagements too. Check out the trailer and full press release below. Enjoy! 
Let’s face it. Escape Plan is the tag team hardcore action moviegoers of my generation have been dying to see happen on the big screen ever since the big guns of the 80’s. With the exception of Arnold’s brief scenes in The Expendables series, Escape Plan truly marks the first time Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have starred together in the same film. I don’t know how you feel about it, but that’s one massive production in my opinion with both of those hulking names thrown together in the same ring. So nevertheless, since I missed the press screening last year, I have been drooling with anticipation and anxiously awaiting for this “action” flick to come out on the Blu-ray format, like a dog waiting for its master to come home from a hard day of work, just to get a first hand look at their onscreen chemistry together, outside of The Expendables franchise. Now the real question is whether or not I was disappointed in it? I’ll get to that more in a few minutes, but for now let’s talk about everything Escape Plan. You down with that? 
Well, this is exciting if you’re a Troma fan. I tend to be, but a lot of the time I have to be in the right prepared mindset for a night of Troma goodness. I’ve seen the original Class Of Nuke ‘Em High and rather liked it. I even made a zombie short film in high school that referenced that title called Class Of Zombie High. Oddly, as much as I did enjoy the first one, I never made my way to see the sequel. Well, if I’m to be reviewing this one, I’m gonna have to brush up and finally visit this one. Return To Nuke ‘Em High, Vol. 1 marks the return to the director’s chair for Troma head honcho Lloyd Kaufman. I hope he’s not too rusty and can deliver some of the extra campy, super goofy goodness that rocked the straight-to-video market back in the hayday of Ma and Pa VHS rental stores. The film makes its Blu-ray debut (in a groovy green case and stellar poster art) on March 18. Below, Anchor Bay and Troma deliver you the dirty deets as well as a pre-order link. 
Here we go again. Brandon with the zombies. This one is a comedy actually touting the term “Zom-Com” in its promo materials. Zombies apparently come from the Chupacabra in this tale. Millennium is selling this as a buddy comedy with zombies thrown into the mix. Let’s just hope either the comedy or zombie kills work in this or I could be in for a brutal experience. The cast in the film has a bunch of people whose names don’t strike me as familiar, but I’m very familiar with a lot of the shows and movies they’ve been apart of. So I’m sure it’ll be an “oh yeah, that guy” type experience when we get introduced in this film. Buck Wild comes out on glorious Blu-ray on March 18, so get your pre-order guns ready and pull the trigger. Below the studio provides you with all the pertinent details as well as a plot summary! 
I can’t tell you how excited I am about this early retail announcement that just dropped in my mailbox courtesy of our Magnolia Home Entertainment PR person. Thank you! The reason for my excitement is because of the fact that my girlfriend has been asking to see this one ever since she saw the trailer for it on iTunes last year. For some reason or another we kept putting off watching this film, but that will all be forgotten history come this March as Magnolia has announced a March 4th Blu-ray release date for Last Day on Mars. Check out the full press release below for more information on this release! 
There is a lot of anticipation building for Maleficent, the live-action take on the Sleeping Beauty story, told from the perspective of it’s infamous villain. I have liked what I have seen so far and now there is a new trailer, with a nice addition that seems quite fitting for the vibe of the film. Here’s what Disney had to say: A never-before-heard Lana Del Rey rendition of “Once Upon a Dream” was unveiled as part of a 90-second sneak peek of Disney’s Maleficent during the 56th Annual Grammy Awards® on Sunday, January 26. Maleficent releases in U.S. theaters on May 30, 2014. Continue on to check out this sneak peak learn how to download the song.
When I was growing up, Ouija boards were a terrifying thing. It wasn’t like today. More and more people believed in just not messing with them as they were tools of witchcraft and made people uneasy just seeing them. Originally titled “Ouija”, Witchboard was the horror film that came along and played on all of those fears. It’s a film that when I saw it as a kid just kind of confirmed with me not to ever f*%$ with one of the boards. It was that kind of supernatural element that got under your skin with just a thought even well after the film’s credits have rolled. Yes, The Exorcist had used the board as a factor in the film, but Kevin Tenney’s film wanted to make the board an entire focus on its horror and not just and one and done kind of thing. Oh and did I mention that Witchboard also stars 80s super hottie and co-star(along with Dave Coulier) of America’s Funniest People Tawny Kitaen! 
One of the best things about The Past, writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s follow up film to 2011’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, A Separation, is that it makes me want to see all of Farhadi’s previous films. Once again working with a fairly straight-forward, reality-based premise as the subject for a drama, Farhadi is certainly proving to be one of the best voices in film, when it comes to examining familial relationships. What makes this impressive is how gripping I have found his films to be, despite being incredibly limited as far as any sort of flashiness is concerned. With The Past, there are no broad characters, the film has almost no music or score whatsoever, and the film’s stakes are entirely personal to the specific people involved. Still, The Past was another standout from 2013, as it is so great at being the film it is trying to be.
Wow! I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally get the official word that Hunger Games: Catching Fire is just around the corner on the Blu-ray format with a release date of March 7th! I can’t even recount all the times I tried to catch this one theatrically after missing the press screening in my area of this feature. Now I can just sit back and relax because the month of March will be here rather soon and I for one can’t wait. These cold temperatures suck! LOL. So without further ado, I’m pleased to share with all our readers here the official press release below of this Blu-ray release courtesy of one of my favorite studios, Lionsgate. Make sure you pre-order this title over 
Universal’s Machete Kills represents everything that’s wrong with Hollywood, sexploitation, extreme gore, bad dialogue, ridiculous plot and action sequences…you name it. But why do I love it so much?! Because it’s so much God d@mn fun if you let it be! That’s why! If you can’t let go and have a fun time with a Machete flick, then you’re a corpse! Loosen up. Let go of everything that makes sense in life. It’s perfectly acceptable to rip someone’s intestines out, jump out the window with them in tow and swing from them to the below building floor. Totally realistic! Right? Wrong! But who the hell cares?! This is Machete and this is the Austin’s prodigal son, Señor Robert Rodriguez writing and directing these flicks. If you can’t respect that harmonious blend, then I have no reason to deal with you anymore. Move along. I’m sure there’s a Muppets review or two here on the site for you to look at. 
