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Hello, dear readers! Now that June is pretty much right around the corner, we have one last round of horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases to look forward to to finish out the month of May first. This week, Scream Factory is giving both Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U the 4K treatment, and Vinegar Syndrome is resurrecting Bill Hinzman’s FleshEater in 4K as well. The new aviation thriller Row 19 is making its way to both Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday, and Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People is coming home on both formats this week, too.

Other May 31st home media releases include Wicked World, Video Murders, The Conjuring Universe 7-Movie Collection and Back From Hell.

FleshEater 4K

While assisting on a dig, a construction worker accidentally destroys the final resting place of a demonic zombie, rousting him from his unholy slumber, and reigniting his taste for human flesh.

Black Sabbath are expanding their masterful Vol. 4 album, home to fan favorites “Snowblind” and “Changes,” with several discs of rarities and previously unreleased music for a super deluxe reissue, out February 12th.

The box set, which comes either in four-cd or five-lp packages, contains 20 never-before-issued outtakes, live recordings, and the original album remastered.

The bonus material includes six outtakes, including an instrumental version of “Under the Sun,” all of which engineer Steven Wilson has mixed for the release. It also includes alternate takes of several songs with false starts and fly-on-the-wall studio dialogue.

When Zakk Wylde came up with the idea for Zakk Sabbath — the Ozzy Osbourne guitarist and Black Label Society frontman’s all–Black Sabbath tribute group — he had a master plan.

“If any of the guys in Black Sabbath get a gambling problem and go broke, then this band could actually give them more gambling money,” he says. “When Black Sabbath went out on ‘The End’ tour, they signed contracts with promoters that they’ll never tour again, so we devised Zakk Sabbath so we could eventually do, ‘Zakk Sabbath,...

Jean-Paul Gaster still remembers the moment he realized the first heavy-metal band were playing jazz.

Growing up near Washington, D.C., the drummer — who for nearly 30 years has brought a loose-limbed swagger to the rhythms of esteemed hard-rock band Clutch — would sit with his father and watch live concerts on public television. Performances by big-band jazz greats Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa made a particularly strong impression on him.

A few years later, heavier sounds came onto his radar via bands like Black Sabbath and Zz Top. At first, Gaster...

Before the world recognized Black Sabbath as heavy-metal forefathers, the band members wrote a song that gave them the chills.

“We knew instantly that ‘Black Sabbath’ was very different to what was around at the time,” guitarist Tony Iommi says of the piece that gave the group its name.

“We always wanted to go heavier than any other band,” bassist Geezer Butler says.

“I thought the song would be a flop, but I also thought it was brilliant,” drummer Bill Ward says. “I still think it’s brilliant.”

“When we...

When Black Sabbath entered the studio to record their monumental first album in 1969, guitarist Tony Iommi faced a serious setback early in the session.

After tracking the first song, “Wicked World,” the pickup went out on his favorite guitar, a Fender Stratocaster he’d heavily modified to accommodate the thimbles he had to wear on his fretting hand after he’d lost his fingertips in a freak industrial accident. “In them days, you couldn’t go, ‘Oh, I’ll go and get another one from the guitar shop,’ or get somebody to bring one over,...

Fresh off an around the clock marathon editing and sound mastering session, director Barry J. Gillis has unveiled the first trailer for his forthcoming horror flick, House of Many Sorrows, which stars Ginger Lynn Allen, Tom Malloy, and Kim Sonderholm. The film tells the story of a group of guests in a country inn who begin disappearing and dying, after a mentally unstable man takes over his terminally ill mother’s bed and breakfast operation.

Laurence R. Harvey of The Human Centipede fame, also makes a special appearance in the movie which is shrouded in mystery. Says director Gillis:

Laurence does make an appearance in the movie, and I am overjoyed with his performance, but that is all I can tell you at this time.

Barry J. Gillis is previously esponsible for bringing the world Things (1989) starring Amber Lynn; Wicked World and The Killing Games. House of Many Sorrows is...