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Blu-ray Review: Mean Man: The Story of Chris Holmes (2021)

Chris Holmes, the legendary guitarist on the first four studio releases from 1980’s shock-rockers W.A.S.P. (whom I bet more than one of you horror hounds out there were major fans of), and he of the vodka-drenched pool-set interview in Penelope Spheeris’ documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years gets the solo spotlight in the latest Blu-ray release from Cleopatra (along with MVD Entertainment); Mean Man: The Story of Chris Holmes! Immediately we learn Chris is alive and well (a miracle in and of itself), married, living in Southern France, and touring with his latest band Mean Man (for which he performs vocal and guitar duty). As we follow the band on tour we get to see a great slice of “life on the road”… but of course stories are soon told of Holmes’ tumultuous days in W.A.S.P., and his near constant battles with frontman Blackie Lawless (who both screwed him over constantly, and got him on

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DanXIII
Jan 30, 2021
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New Uncut Version Of ‘No Reason’ Being Released

Today, Unearthed Films announced it is releasing a new version of German director Olaf Ittenbach’s 2010 gorefest No Reason, uncut and off a new scan of the master, and with new features and bonus material. “NO REASON has never looked better,” said Stephen Biro, President and Founder, Unearthed Films. In the film, engulfed by anguish, and trapped inside an allegory of torment and carnage, Jennifer’s (Irene Holzfurtner) soul seeks the path of awareness and enlightenment. A harrowing journey into the pits of Hell where one woman’s quest for redemption in the afterlife is tested to the most extreme limits. Unearthed Films describes Olaf Ittenbach as “one of the most prominent splatter directors to come out of Germany. Originally a practical effects artist, Ittenbach got behind the camera to direct some of the most extreme films, including the 2010 release of No Reason.” No Reason is set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on May 11, 2021. Extras on the new

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
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Shudder’s Critically Acclaimed Horror ‘Host’ Coming To Blu-ray & DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Host from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host, which is Certified 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes was shot remotely during quarantine and features groundbreaking scares, stunts, and surprises, all filmed by the actors in their own homes. The project was commissioned, written, produced, and will be released in under three months. Host is the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). Watch as “six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
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Blu-ray Review: Tales of the Uncanny (2020)

Director David Gregory (Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau) sets his sinister sights on the wicked world of arcane anthologies with his latest documentary effort; Tales of the Uncanny, which comes to us on Blu-ray courtesy of those crafty lil’ minxes o’er at Severin! Gregory, along with author and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies Kier-La Janisse, take a chronological journey through the putrid plethora of anthology-style fright flicks that have tickled the fiendish fancy of horror hounds world fuckin’ wide… from the silent era, to the truly suburb Amicus flicks of the shockin’ seventies (and the pictures created by Milton Subotsky after the legendary studio folded), to television (The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, et al.), to Creepshow and it’s descendants… all is paid heed (though some all too briefly, such as one of yours cruelly’s fav anthology films; Joseph

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DanXIII
Jan 27, 2021
Horror Fuel

Get ‘Freaky’ This January On Digital, Blu-ray, And DVD!

Get Freaky this January! The hit body-swap horror from Blumhouse is headed towards its home release! From the twisted mind of writer-director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, the Paranormal Activity franchise), comes a horror-comedy about a killer, a high school senior, and the brutal truth about surviving high school. In the film, “Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton, Blockers, HBO’s Big Little Lies) is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of “The Butcher” (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries. “When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever.” Celeste O’Connor Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Misha Osherovich, The Goldfinch),

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 19, 2021
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Blu-ray Review: Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)

Family Portraits: A Trilogy Of America is an arcane anthology, so let’s see what each story has to offer our eerie eyeballs before we get a lil’ of that sweet, sweet overview action, shall we boils n’ ghouls? The first story up is Cutting Moments: As is the way of suburbia in Anytown U. S. of fuckin’ A., a wife and mother (Nicca Ray in a solid performance that runs the gamut from doubt to absolutely batshit purpose) plays homemaker while her sicko of a hubby (Gary Betsworth) is playin’ the Chester the Molester bag with their young son. Our heroine gets the idea that she should be the one getting her husband’s attention so she starts to try and bring him around with a lil’ make-up, a sexy dress, some self-mutilation… you know, the usual stuff. Well, this is a pitch-dark way to kick tings off and let me tell ya cats n’ creeps this one does indeed shock

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 15, 2021
Horror Fuel

A Killer Hides Amongst A Group Of Explorers In ‘Red Woods’

Head into the wilderness this February for Red Woods and watch as things go very wrong for a group of explorers. A group of urban explorers “gathers in Pennsylvania’s Redstone County Forest aiming to capture footage of abandoned houses and tell their stories. But these “house chasers” get more than they bargained for when, after a series of grisly discoveries, they become the subjects of a different kind of story… one in which they are the ones being chased. Trapped in a swathe of woods so remote there’s only one way in or out, they quickly discover that there is evil in their midst. One among them has devised an insidious plot to construct a tale of terror using his victims’ own footage. With cameras rolling, they must navigate a killer’s “playground” of destruction, because their escape is not part of his script.” Red Woods, written and directed by Nicholas Danko, stars Michael Barnett, Jacquelynn Ware, Brian E. Stead, Jennifer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 11, 2021
Horror Fuel

A Dark Entity Is Let Loose In Supernatural Horror ‘Host’

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has announced the release of the supernatural horror film HOST from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host marks the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). In Host, six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high school who hanged himself. By doing this, Jemma inadvertently invites a demonic presence to cross over. Soon the friends begin noticing strange occurrences in their homes as the evil spirit begins to make itself known, and they all realize this night

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 29, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Hunter Hunter Is A Dark Horror Thriller Done Right

When I sat down and hit the play button to watch writer-director Shawn Linden’s Hunter Hunter I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I got was a great, truly dark film about family and desperation. The film centers on a couple, Joseph (Devon Sawa) and Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Reneè (Summer H. Howell) living off the grid in the remote wilderness. They make their money by trapping so when a wolf begins to steal the animals in their traps they set out to hunt it down. When they stumble across the wolf eating an arm they realize there is another killer (Nick Stahl) lurking in their own backyard. First off, let me give a warning to animal lovers, Hunter Hunter is going to be a bit hard for you to watch. Just cover your eyes when you have to though because the movie is worth it. Hunter Hunter is a dark, tension-filled, gripping tale and at some points

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

HBOs “The Undoing” Coming To Blu-Ray

Nothing stays hidden. Warner Bros. Entertainment has just announced the Blu-ray and DVD release of the limited thriller “The Undoing: An HBO Limited Series,” based on the 2014 novel, “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The series is from Emmy®, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning director Susanne Bier (“The Night Manager”, Bird Box) and the Emmy® -winning creator of “Big Little Lies,” David E. Kelley. It stars Emmy®, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Nicole Kidman (HBO’s “Big Little Lies”) and Emmy® nominee and Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winner Hugh Grant (“A Very English Scandal”). “The Undoing” follows Grace (Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Grant), who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 8, 2020

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Blu-ray Review: Mean Man: The Story of Chris Holmes (2021)

Chris Holmes, the legendary guitarist on the first four studio releases from 1980’s shock-rockers W.A.S.P. (whom I bet more than one of you horror hounds out there were major fans of), and he of the vodka-drenched pool-set interview in Penelope Spheeris’ documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years gets the solo spotlight in the latest Blu-ray release from Cleopatra (along with MVD Entertainment); Mean Man: The Story of Chris Holmes! Immediately we learn Chris is alive and well (a miracle in and of itself), married, living in Southern France, and touring with his latest band Mean Man (for which he performs vocal and guitar duty). As we follow the band on tour we get to see a great slice of “life on the road”… but of course stories are soon told of Holmes’ tumultuous days in W.A.S.P., and his near constant battles with frontman Blackie Lawless (who both screwed him over constantly, and got him on

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

New Uncut Version Of ‘No Reason’ Being Released

Today, Unearthed Films announced it is releasing a new version of German director Olaf Ittenbach’s 2010 gorefest No Reason, uncut and off a new scan of the master, and with new features and bonus material. “NO REASON has never looked better,” said Stephen Biro, President and Founder, Unearthed Films. In the film, engulfed by anguish, and trapped inside an allegory of torment and carnage, Jennifer’s (Irene Holzfurtner) soul seeks the path of awareness and enlightenment. A harrowing journey into the pits of Hell where one woman’s quest for redemption in the afterlife is tested to the most extreme limits. Unearthed Films describes Olaf Ittenbach as “one of the most prominent splatter directors to come out of Germany. Originally a practical effects artist, Ittenbach got behind the camera to direct some of the most extreme films, including the 2010 release of No Reason.” No Reason is set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on May 11, 2021. Extras on the new

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

Shudder’s Critically Acclaimed Horror ‘Host’ Coming To Blu-ray & DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Host from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host, which is Certified 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes was shot remotely during quarantine and features groundbreaking scares, stunts, and surprises, all filmed by the actors in their own homes. The project was commissioned, written, produced, and will be released in under three months. Host is the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). Watch as “six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 29, 2021
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Tales of the Uncanny (2020)

Director David Gregory (Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau) sets his sinister sights on the wicked world of arcane anthologies with his latest documentary effort; Tales of the Uncanny, which comes to us on Blu-ray courtesy of those crafty lil’ minxes o’er at Severin! Gregory, along with author and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies Kier-La Janisse, take a chronological journey through the putrid plethora of anthology-style fright flicks that have tickled the fiendish fancy of horror hounds world fuckin’ wide… from the silent era, to the truly suburb Amicus flicks of the shockin’ seventies (and the pictures created by Milton Subotsky after the legendary studio folded), to television (The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, et al.), to Creepshow and it’s descendants… all is paid heed (though some all too briefly, such as one of yours cruelly’s fav anthology films; Joseph

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 27, 2021
Horror Fuel

Get ‘Freaky’ This January On Digital, Blu-ray, And DVD!

Get Freaky this January! The hit body-swap horror from Blumhouse is headed towards its home release! From the twisted mind of writer-director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, the Paranormal Activity franchise), comes a horror-comedy about a killer, a high school senior, and the brutal truth about surviving high school. In the film, “Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton, Blockers, HBO’s Big Little Lies) is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of “The Butcher” (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries. “When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever.” Celeste O’Connor Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Misha Osherovich, The Goldfinch),

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 19, 2021
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)

Family Portraits: A Trilogy Of America is an arcane anthology, so let’s see what each story has to offer our eerie eyeballs before we get a lil’ of that sweet, sweet overview action, shall we boils n’ ghouls? The first story up is Cutting Moments: As is the way of suburbia in Anytown U. S. of fuckin’ A., a wife and mother (Nicca Ray in a solid performance that runs the gamut from doubt to absolutely batshit purpose) plays homemaker while her sicko of a hubby (Gary Betsworth) is playin’ the Chester the Molester bag with their young son. Our heroine gets the idea that she should be the one getting her husband’s attention so she starts to try and bring him around with a lil’ make-up, a sexy dress, some self-mutilation… you know, the usual stuff. Well, this is a pitch-dark way to kick tings off and let me tell ya cats n’ creeps this one does indeed shock

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 15, 2021
Horror Fuel

A Killer Hides Amongst A Group Of Explorers In ‘Red Woods’

Head into the wilderness this February for Red Woods and watch as things go very wrong for a group of explorers. A group of urban explorers “gathers in Pennsylvania’s Redstone County Forest aiming to capture footage of abandoned houses and tell their stories. But these “house chasers” get more than they bargained for when, after a series of grisly discoveries, they become the subjects of a different kind of story… one in which they are the ones being chased. Trapped in a swathe of woods so remote there’s only one way in or out, they quickly discover that there is evil in their midst. One among them has devised an insidious plot to construct a tale of terror using his victims’ own footage. With cameras rolling, they must navigate a killer’s “playground” of destruction, because their escape is not part of his script.” Red Woods, written and directed by Nicholas Danko, stars Michael Barnett, Jacquelynn Ware, Brian E. Stead, Jennifer

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 11, 2021
Horror Fuel

A Dark Entity Is Let Loose In Supernatural Horror ‘Host’

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has announced the release of the supernatural horror film HOST from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural. Host marks the feature directorial debut of Rob Savage who co-wrote the film with Gemma Hurley (Shoot for the Moon) and Jed Shepherd (Multiplex). The film stars Haley Bishop (Angel Has Fallen), Radina Drandova (“Pickled Eggs”), Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Caroline Ward (The IMAX Nutcracker), Emma Louise Webb (“The Crown”), and Edward Linard (Golden Years). In Host, six friends hire a medium to conduct a séance during lockdown for their weekly Zoom call. Jemma decides to pull a prank and makes up a story about a boy she knew in high school who hanged himself. By doing this, Jemma inadvertently invites a demonic presence to cross over. Soon the friends begin noticing strange occurrences in their homes as the evil spirit begins to make itself known, and they all realize this night

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 29, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Hunter Hunter Is A Dark Horror Thriller Done Right

When I sat down and hit the play button to watch writer-director Shawn Linden’s Hunter Hunter I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I got was a great, truly dark film about family and desperation. The film centers on a couple, Joseph (Devon Sawa) and Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Reneè (Summer H. Howell) living off the grid in the remote wilderness. They make their money by trapping so when a wolf begins to steal the animals in their traps they set out to hunt it down. When they stumble across the wolf eating an arm they realize there is another killer (Nick Stahl) lurking in their own backyard. First off, let me give a warning to animal lovers, Hunter Hunter is going to be a bit hard for you to watch. Just cover your eyes when you have to though because the movie is worth it. Hunter Hunter is a dark, tension-filled, gripping tale and at some points

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

HBOs “The Undoing” Coming To Blu-Ray

Nothing stays hidden. Warner Bros. Entertainment has just announced the Blu-ray and DVD release of the limited thriller “The Undoing: An HBO Limited Series,” based on the 2014 novel, “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The series is from Emmy®, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning director Susanne Bier (“The Night Manager”, Bird Box) and the Emmy® -winning creator of “Big Little Lies,” David E. Kelley. It stars Emmy®, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Nicole Kidman (HBO’s “Big Little Lies”) and Emmy® nominee and Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winner Hugh Grant (“A Very English Scandal”). “The Undoing” follows Grace (Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Grant), who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 8, 2020
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